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Now to the story of an Augusta woman who put an abusive relationship in her past. But Jennifer Remeta did it in a way she never expected. News 12 shows you how a caring canine turned Jennifer's life around, and what she's doing to let others know about it.
Jennifer Remeta's four-legged friend is the reason she can stand on her own two feet.
"Through all these changes, Abby remains my steadfast companion," Jennifer said.
Six years ago, the two met at a pound. Abby was a sick scared dog without a home. Jennifer had a home she didn't need.
"I was in an emotionally abusive relationship at the time, the guy I was with I guess, he was just one of those people that made himself feel better by talking down to other people," Jennifer said.
Unexpected friends, Jennifer adopted a baby. Little did she know, courage came with her.
"Just the fact that she was sitting beside when I went home that day literally gave me the strength and support I needed to walk out you know, pack my stuff and get out," Jennifer said.
And in came a new life for Jennifer. She recognized all the things she was good at. One of them is writing. Her feelings and experience of meeting Abby now sit in a short story called "Lady Abigail" as part of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
It was what happened one July afternoon that set the story of Lady Abigail into motion. Jennifer sat down at her computer ready to write, Abby got down put her head on her knee and then the words just started to flow.
"I just kinda looked down at her and just started writing. She just kind of inspired me," Jennifer said.
And now Jennifer hopes the 1,000 words will be an inspiration for others.
"I know there are other people out there who are struggling through the same thing, or just struggle with being alone," Jennifer said.
A lifetime change that Jennifer always pauses to think about.
Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul came out at the end of September. Jennifer's story is one of many in the book. It can be found in almost all bookstores.


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A couple of weeks ago, at a very large event in Brussels, I sat and watched several government officials, from the US and EU, debate innovation policy. This sounds very grand, but what they actually said, to paraphrase, was "we want to stimulate innovation by spending money and protecting intellectual property".
Driving innovation—but which way?
At an FFII meeting last week, I realised what governments have been thinking. Patents = innovation. This seems obvious but it took me a while to grasp. Governments actually believe that more patents means more innovation. The number of patents has grown tremendously over the last decades. The amount of innovation also appears to have grown tremendously over the last decades. But, I wondered, what is the cause, what is the effect, and what is our perception of the two? Let me tell you what I think.
First, I think innovation has nothing at all to do with how much money is spent or how well IP is protected. Most innovation comes from the simple economic principle of specialisation. That is, as Adam Smith pointed out a long time ago, the basis of all wealth. We specialise, we compete, and we trade. And we innovate in order to do these better.
How can you pay people to specialise, compete, or trade? The concept is ridiculous, and indeed, in my twenty-five years of writing software for money, I've not once seen research grants actually prodding people to do anything except get better at asking for research grants. There is competition for grants, remember.
Paying grants and subsidies for research is like feeding animals. Yes, you can raise a huge herd of tame sheep like that, but the real action happens in the wild, and you cannot feed wild animals without turning them stupid, fat, and lazy.
I'm not suggesting that our (cough cough) government-funded researchers are stupid, fat, or lazy, but... well... it's all relative.
What government can do to promote innovation is to lower the cost of communications, to increase the size of the market, lower taxes, and remove barriers to competition. Then, I believe, you actually have to tie people down and hack their arms off if you want to prevent innovation. And no, I'm definitely not promoting arm-hacking. It is a figure of speech.
Software is special
So, if patents (software patents in specific but all patents in general) do not promote innovation, what do they do?
As far as I can see, the relationship between innovation and patents would apply to all industries, but software is special for a couple of Very Big Reasons. First the rate of innovation in software is several orders of magnitude greater than in any other industry, because it is a self-hosting technology. Improvements in normal industrial products do not automatically improve the processes that produced them. But if I build a faster compiler, this lets me compile my compiler faster. Secondly. software is the basis for our entire modern service economy. We are all software users and the rate at which we depend on a flourishing and open software industry is increasing all the time.
Any slowdown in the rate of software innovation is a serious threat to our modern economy. So, when I hear, for instance, a large software firm admit that software patents make it impossible to produce new standards today, this does two things. One, it scares me. Two, it tells me that software patents are having a real effect on innovation.
Boom times
I'll sketch what I believe are the eight stages of the software innovation and patent boom and bust cycle.
- First stage: software comes into its own as a domain of technology. Up to about 1980, software was still seen as a branch of mathematics. By 1985 this was no longer the case.
- Second stage: large software manufacturers convince the patent offices to change the definition of "subject matter" so that software becomes patentable. In the USA, this happened in the early 1990's. In the EU this happened informally, through half-licit legal interpretation.
- Third stage: large patent holders push for software patents to be granted more easily, and patent offices start to grant patents on non-software methods, mainly business methods. In the USA this happened from 1999 onwards, and in the EU more or less in parallel with software patents. Governments, seeing the boom in patents, rub their hands with glee, thinking this is the precursor to a new golden age.
- Fourth stage: specialist patent firms understand that soft patents (software and method patents) are an excellent opportunity, and start to invest massively in these patents. This happened in the USA and EU more or less at the same time, from 2000 onwards. Again, the growth in patents impresses everyone except the engineers and specialists who are actually involved in innovation, who start to get very concerned.
- Fifth stage: patent holders, who represent a new and wealthy propertied class, lobby for better enforcement of their patents, no matter how trivial or obvious, once granted by the patent offices. The enforcement happens through the courts. In the EU, patent owners lobby for EU-wide standards on enforcement. In the USA, national enforcement was never an issue. In the EU, it is the burning issue today.
- Sixth stage: software patents start to attack the process of innovation and people panic. Discussion starts about whether this was all such a good idea, and how to raise the quality of software patents. The USA has started to enter this debate, and the EU has been wallowing in it, largely thanks to the FFII, for years.
- Seventh stage: legislators understand, too late, that there is no way to separate the bad software patents from the good. Any filter or gate or barrier that lets through good software patents (if such animals exist), also lets through an infinite horde of bad ones. Industry starts to clamour for a general ban on software patents. In the USA and EU, we are several years away from this.
- Eighth stage: legislators are faced with the task of undoing everything that has happened since stage two. I don't want to speculate on how this can even be done. Can software patents, once granted, be revoked without creating incredible outcry?
In the meantime, we have a period of at least ten years in which innovation in the software world is effectively dead. Programmers will, of course, continue to program. But the open market will die. Small numbers of monopolies will replace the current software industry. Open source may well get patent exemption, but this would be as good as a declaration of war on small commercial software firms.
Overall, it is a tragic and bleak picture of the future.
Ripping their necks out
I will now try to give you an analogy for this scenario. In the 1980's, scientists studying the population curves of snowshoe rabbits and foxes (ok, it was lynxes but no-one except Canadians and Scots knows what lynxes are) in the Canadian north, found the populations went up and down in cycles. Basically, rabbits breed faster than foxes, so a rabbit population can grow in one season much faster than the fox population, stopping only when they reach the limit their grassy ecosystem can support. The rabbits have a great first couple of years, but then the fox population catches up, and suddenly there are too many predators for the rabbits. The rabbit population crashes, and a little later, so do the foxes.
What I'm saying is that innovation is rabbits, and soft patents are foxes. Software patents eat innovations. They hunt them down, jump on them, bite through their necks, rip their bodies to shreds, and feed them to their young. It's really like that, but with more violence.
Now, the government official responsible for Rabbit Production, who comes for a couple of months to monitor the rabbit population, sees that the rabbits are breeding wonderfully (he's obviously not an Australian), and the foxes too. He sees that the more foxes, the more rabbits! It's amazing! He goes off and starts a fox farm, releasing even more foxes into the wild, because he's jumped to the conclusion that rabbits generate spontaneously from foxes. Correlation and causation are two entirely different things, but the rabbit man does not understand this.
And our large software firms, who are buying patents as fast as they can. What are they? Well, imagine very large, very juicy, and very, very stupid rabbits, who have found nothing better to do than help the government official breed foxes...
You can hardly be angry with Big Software. The bigger they come, the harder they fall.
I originally wrote this story on my blog, in April. I'll be posting a third article in this series on software patents in the next few days, about what is happening right now in Europe.
Demonstrate infringement
Perhaps one idea might be for all GPL coders to itemise all the patents (especially the ridiculous ones) that their software infringes?
One could categorise all the software patents in terms of frequency in the field and help coders figure out which of them they've infringed.
As GPL source agglomerates it would build up an ever longer list of infringed patents.
That way if these non-coder hand-wringing innovation enthusiasts could see how farced-up their thinking was, they might think twice.
Not least, they might realise precisely how much infrastructure would have its plug pulled. It shouldn't just be a case of drip-drip litigation and extortion as the patent holders pore over the source code of each victim.
If we're not careful Europe will want to catch up with the highly innovative US and also legislate software patents.
Re: Demonstrate infringement
>Perhaps one idea might be for all GPL coders to itemise all the patents (especially the ridiculous
>ones) that their software infringes?
Not a prudent move—ask a lawyer and they'll tell you. Under the US system, if you don't know which patents you infringed, then you can use that as a defence that the infringement wasn't wilful. So if you do know which ones you infringed, then that makes the infringement worse.
A few years ago the FSF, I think it was, sponsored a study to find out which patents were likely to be infringed by free/open-source software. The consultants they hired came up with a list of about 200. But that was all we were told—just the number, not the details. Because if anybody involved in those projects found out which exact patents they might be infringing, then bang goes their chances of defending a lawsuit.
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Minnesotans also know what lynxes are. :-)
I worry a lot about this, and it's hard to imagine that lawmakers will ever understand the nuances of the subject, or see the harm that is being done, until it is much harder to undo.
Maybe with this new Democratic congress in the U.S., we can lobby that free software (that is, software that meets the free software definition) should be excluded from patent considerations. Argue it from the public good and watching out for the little guy angle. Stress that it would benefit the poor and disenfranchised. It would be an easy thing for them to grant, costing no money.
Pete Ashdown (founder of XMission) would've been a great choice. We would've had the side benefit of getting ride of Orrin Hatch, one of the worst lawmakers with respect to technology and consumer rights.
However, since I don't live in Utah, I couldn't vote for him.
In 1995, Newt Gingrich wrote in his introduction to Alvin and Heidi Toffler's "Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave":
"The reality is that transformation is going on everyday in the private sector among entrepreneurs and with citizens who are inventing new things and creating new solutions because bureaucracy doesn't stop them."
It's important to court both major parties in the United States. There are intelligent Republicans who understand where the future is leading us. We (meaning geeks and free software enthusiasts and free software businesses) need to find out who they are, and work closely with them to help them craft intelligent, forward-thinking (that's a phrase they love) policy.
Mr. Gingrich's quote sums up exactly how we need to approach the Republicans. We need to convince them that software patents increase bureaucracy, which in turn inhibits "innovation" (a word that has been co opted by marketers and breathless tech journalists).
Right. I was playing off the Democrats as the defender of the meek theme, but I agree it's going to take some convincing of people on both sides, with different emphasis for each.
I've been thinking about a letter writing campaign with my senators and representative, and maybe trying for a meeting with some staffer or the congressperson myself. Two of the three are Republicans. Not sure if this would be effective in the least, but I guess I could print the letters here or at my own blog so it wouldn't be wasted effort.
Some interesting thoughts about what the election might mean for some "freedom" issues at http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/709.
Big software corps not rabbits
The big corps are more like big, cannibal foxes. They figure to eat both rabbits and other foxes until in the end they'll have eaten most of the rabbits and all the other foxes, at which point they'll be this huge, landscape-dominating mutant fox, ruling the barren wasteland. They imagine that when that happens they can maintain a few rabbits in a hutch to keep themselves fed.
It's a matter of metrics (bad ones)
Submitted by Chris Barnard on 9 November 2006
Politicians and public servants want to put simple numbers on everything so that they can show how successful they are. You can count patents. The trouble is, counting patents is NOT a good measure of innovation. I wonder is there an effective measure of innovation?
There are metrics, if anyone wanted to count them
Here are some ways of measuring innovation over different periods/geographic areas:
- Amount of VC investment
- Number of researchers and engineers
- Number of new small firms
- Investment in R&D by firms
- Number of publications
- Number of new projects (in free software ecologies)
- Number of new standards under development
- Number and size of industry events (trade shows)
- Number of trademarks sought in high-tech sectors
All these are measurable using modern techniques such as cluster sampling - you take (e.g.) twenty random areas and sample every single firm in that area.
However the patent industry largely drives the debate and it works hard to promote its own studies, which are typically based on interviews with "stake holders", i.e. patent holders. To my knowledge, no-one has done a proper study to measure innovation vs. patents. It would be a ground-breaking piece of research, and I'm willing to bet that the results would show a "rabbits and foxes" pattern, in any given industry.
Such a study could also be conducted on historical data, in industries that were heavily patented in the past.
Politicians, driven by the easy rhetoric of the patent industry, make the sins of confusing correlation with causation. Only a few of the above indicators actually has an effect on innovation. Perhaps publications, and number of researchers and engineers.
My thesis is that innovation comes simply from specialisation and competition, the main drivers of all economic activity. I.e. to get more customers for my bakery, the best way is to specialise, i.e. focus on a particular type of bread or cake, and then innovate, i.e. make that better (and cheaper) than anyone else around.
So the best way for governments to drive innovation is to create bigger markets (so that more people can buy my bread), to remove barriers to competition (so that cake making is not a protected monopoly) and to make communications cheaper (so I can exchange recipes with others).
Patents that cover underlying principles rather than specific products, which includes all software patents, are a barrier to competition, so are bad for innovation. Patents on bread or cake recipes would be catastrophic for innovation and competition in the bakery industry.
Perhaps the US patent system is one of the causes of America's loss of competitiveness, falling from 1st place to 6th place last year.
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"Perhaps the US patent system is one of the causes of America's loss of competitiveness, falling from 1st place to 6th place last year."
See this is why we have to get Europeans to legalize software patents. That way their economy will be as hobbled as our is!


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The Government of South Africa has just adopted, via government policy, a FLOSS approach to software development for government systems. FLOSS is FOSS with Libre added.
I stumbled across this news item the other day and see that a lobbying process for FOSS adoption had been underway by a number of groups including the Open Source Centre of The Meraka Institute. The mission of the Open Source Centre is to facilitate and catalyse the process of changing the dominant culture from one of passive consumer of proprietary solutions, developed in the first world, to one of proactive producer of appropriate innovative solutions, tailored to the local needs. This will result in a Southern Africa based digital commons (Meraka) - an enabler for localised FLOSS, open content and related resources. Through the lobbying of this organization and others including Sangonet (one of very few NGOs in Africa involved in the field of information communication technologies) the government joined the movement!
On the 22nd of February the South Africa Government approved a policy and strategy for the implementation of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in government. All new software developed for or by the government will in future be based on open standards and government will migrate all current software to FOSS.
What I think is fantastic about this is not just the move towards FOSS by government, but that they've listened to the lobbyists. Sounds strange that I'd say that since government and lobbyists go hand in hand in general, but here you have lobbyists fighting for an issue which has no mega corporate structure behind it, but is a movement supported by volunteer labour, non-proprietary orientation, collaboration and a very democratic spirit. It's a little inspiring that it worked.
On that note it also interesting to see what's happening FOSS wise in Europe as well and last fall the European Union released a report the "Study on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU"
The summary results of that study include that FOSS is growing quickly in Europe and the market share for FOSS systems is higher in the EU than in the US, that public sector organizations in the EU are heavily embedded with FOSS but may be soon overtaken by Asia and Latin America, that Europe is the leading region for collaborating FLOSS software developers, and leads in terms of global project leaders.
I think the policy suggestions by the group responsible for the report are worth noting.
- Avoid penalising FLOSS in innovation and R&D incentives, public R&D funding and public software procurement that is currently often anti-competitive
- Support FLOSS in pre-competitive research and standardization
- Avoid lifelong vendor lock-in in educational systems by teaching students skills, not specific applications; encourage participation in FLOSS-like communities
- Encourage partnerships between large firms, SMEs and the FLOSS community
- Provide equitable tax treatment for FLOSS creators: FLOSS software contributions can be treated as charitable donations for tax purposes. Where this is already possible, spread awareness among firms, contributors and authorities.
- Explore how unbundling between hardware and software can lead to a more competitive market and ease forms of innovation that are not favoured by vertical integration.
This continuing movement towards supporting free software (as in open) is very exciting and an adoption by governments of these policies could have a profound effect on how software is developed, distributed, used and who benefits.
This is great!
If only the folks in the United States could make as intelligent a decision....
South Africa will not regret this. The only ones who will regret it are Microsoft and their army of MCSE's that want to suck money out of that country over to Redmond.
I hope to see a mass of South African teachers, tech administrators, etc. on the K12LTSP mailing list!
Right again Anonymous!
Can't agree more.
Great things are going to occur
to South Africa's IT industry. Free software is all about allowing the user to empower themselves as well as encouraging the free flow of information.
Since a Free Software solution is unlikely to be completely adequate for the people's requirements, the government would have to hire the services of a solution provider, and the government would most likely hire the services of local companies thus, money would stay within the country as opposed to relying on foreign companies to provide solutions. Local businesses are most likely to understand the government's requirements and are probably more suited to solving problems that are unique to their own government.
IT companies are free to learn from and contribute towards the existing pool of freely available knowledge. This can lead to an improvement to a company's reputation, experience and expertise; just by drawing upon available knowledge and releasing the resulting solution to their users. People will also need to be trained to be able to provide these solutions and so, the local education industry would also need to be able to provide for this.
All this finally leads to a stronger overall economy as the result of allowing users to empower themselves as well as allowing information to be shared.
I completely agree. I think the main benefit of free software is freedom, rather than cost-cutting, which usually seems to be the only benefit governments talk about when promoting "open source" (especially here in the UK).
GNU - free as in freedom
I often feel the freedom we discuss is somewhat different than the freedom espoused by the White House :)


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First, I want to say that this software is what I was looking for. For a long time I tried to find something to stream from my Mac to PS3 WITH SUBTITLES without reencoding. That's great.
Well, I have a big library of .MOV container files in iTunes with my movies and TV Shows. These .MOV are containers pointing to .AVI and .SRT in another folder. It's in iTunes just to be organized.
When I try to play them in PS3, the MEnconder crashes and quit... If I try to play directly the .AVI file with subtitles, it works fine.
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Hendersonville High School cross country and track and field coach Adam Chacon went on a missionary trip to Honduras with a group from his church in 2009.
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After seeing the the struggles and poverty people in the Central America republic go through daily, members of Chacon's church (Grace Community Church) began a non-profit called Honduras Fountain of Life.
"The non-profit the church began has been going on for awhile now. It's a non-profit Christian organization that supports a school and orphanage in Taulabe, which is a small village in Honduras," Chacon said.
He said the group is currently trying to raise enough funds for a medical facility
Each year, the group holds fundraisers to raise money for the group's mission efforts. Chacon, who is vice president of the group, is in charge of one fundraiser he knows plenty about: The Race for the World 5K, which is now in its fourth year.
This year's event will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 24 at Jackson Park. The cost is $10 for runners for ages up through 17 and $15 for adults. All proceeds go to Honduras for Life.
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Date Expectations (ころがれ!恋するドンファン! Rollout! Loving Donphan!) is the 22nd episode of Pokémon: Advanced Battle.
Episode Plot
The gang is on a ship to Pacifidlog Town. May already plans to get there and take the final ribbon. They are near an island, but a mistake causes the ship to stop. May asks Carlos, the man who transported them, if they'll get to the island soon enough. Carlos tells them that he'll ship onto Donto Island. Carlos tells them it will take some hours before he can get the ship running again, so May is displeased by those words. The only way to get to Pacifidlog Island soon is to get the ferry on the other side of Donto Island before the night. May has little choice but to get there.
As they are here, they might as well check the surrounding area for Pokémon. A Donphan rolls to them. Ash remembers Phanpy evolves into Donphan, remembering his own. Donphan charges and the heroes move aside before getting hit. They spot more and Brock believes they are performing their love dance, a sign of affection from a male to female. Another Donphan rolls and comes back, so Pikachu uses Thunderbolt to protect May. Since it is a Ground type, it has no effect, so Ash tackles May to protect her. They go away from the Donphan group to be safe. They spot another, much friendlier Donphan, but they run away as more Donphan come rolling to them. As they rest for a while, Ash sends Corphish, to use a Water attack to protect them. Brock sends Mudkip as well.
From a hill, Team Rocket spots the Donphan. Meowth thinks that their boss would use them for bowling, though they would smash the building. He thinks he would use it as massage or transportation, but James is skeptical. Jessie tells them they need to capture it, in either case. They spot a Donphan running away and soon are flattened by a group of them. To heal them, James sends Chimecho. Chimecho uses Astonish to scare Meowth and Jessie, so they begin to fight with James for "not training it well". The gang spots some Donphan and spot another one rolling to them, so Mudkip uses Water Gun and Corphish Bubble Beam on it. However, it bashes itself on a rock.
Brock gets the first aid kit and heals Donphan. The heroes apologise for the rudeness and see a shiny, brown Donphan. The male Donphan seems in crush and rolls to impress her. Team Rocket orders their Pokémon to stop Donphan so they may capture them. They spot some rolling, so Wobbuffet comes to use Protect, but is blasted off and the Donphan roll over Team Rocket. Jessie asks Chimecho to use Healing Bell, but they get hit by Astonish instead. The heroes walk to a valley and they spot the Donphan Brock healed and rolls to the shiny one. However, more Donphan roll to impress the shiny one. The Donphan gets attacked and loses, so the heroes encourage him not to give up.
Snorunt comes out and freezes the ground with Ice Beam. Ash wants to see Snorunt attack with Ice Beam more, but seems to fail, so Ash sees he will have to work on the attack. Snorunt proves that he's wrong and freezes the ground more and the Donphan trip over due to slippery ground. The shiny Donphan goes away, seeing other Donphan to the ground. Ash tries to get Snorunt back, but it goes away. Team Rocket has planned to dig a hole to capture Donphan. They spot the Snorunt, who freezes them with Ice Beam. The gang are surprised and move away, so the Donphan blast off Team Rocket. The gang runs away as more Donphan roll to them. However, they seem to have split up.
They begin to search for the others. They see the last boat to Pacifidlog Island, so Ash decides May should go alone, as Ash will find Brock and Max, as there won't be another chance for May to get the last ribbon for Grand Festival. May tells him she'd love to, but cannot. She remembers her promise to her mom, Caroline, that she'll protect Max. They spot the last boat going, so May begins to cry, but thanks Ash for supporting her and she tells him to find Max and Brock. Max and Brock search for Ash and May and see the Donphan with the bandage. The Donphan shakes its head when Brock asked if he found his love. Ash and May also search and find the shiny Donphan and give it food. They also tell her that they met another Donphan who loves her.
The Donphan with the bandage comes to the shiny one and the gang reunites. The Donphan with the bandage performs its love dance. He crashes a tree, but continues performing, but is tackled by another Donphan. However, Donphan tackles every other male Donphan around. The shiny Donphan is amazed and performs as well. However, both are captured by Team Rocket. May is quite furious, as she blames them for being the problem she is not in Pacifidlog Town. May sends all her Pokémon. Beautifly uses String Shot, pulling the Donphan to it. Bulbasaur uses Razor Leaf, setting the Donphan free. Skitty uses Double Slap, hitting Team Rocket. Combusken uses Fire Spin, burning Team Rocket. To blast them off, Donphan rolls out to Team Rocket.
The gang thanks the Donphan and May wishes them to be happy. Everyone sees there is no other boat left. Ash tells Max and Brock she wouldn't leave without Max, as her promise bound her. However, they do spot Carlos, who takes them to Pacifidlog Island. During their ride, May promises to herself to get the 5th ribbon.
- The episode name is a pun on "Great Expectations", a novel written by Charles Dickens.
- Mime Jr., Weavile and Lucario have been inserted back into the intro, even though they are Generation IV Pokémon.
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Published: Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 1:00 a.m.
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IESTA KEY - Siesta Key's beach was added by TripAdvisor to its 2013 Travelers Choice Beaches Awards list, beating out other world-renowned beachfront destinations across the globe.
1 - K'anapali Beach, Lahaina, Hawaii
2 - Siesta Beach, Sarasota
3 - Gulf Islands National Seashore, Pensacola
4 - Fort De Soto Park, Tierra Verde
5 - Lanikai Beach, Kailua, Hawaii
6 - Wailea Beach, Wailea, Hawaii
7 - Assateague Beach, Virginia
8 - La Jolla Cove, La Jolla, Calif.
9 - Laguna Beach, Laguna Beach, Calif.
10 - Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve, Honolulu, Hawaii
1- Rabbit Beach, Lampedusa, Italy
2 - Grace Bay, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos
3 - Whitehaven Beach, Airlie Beach, Australia
4 - Baia do Sancho, Brazil
5 - Flamenco Beach, Culebra, Puerto Rico
6 - Playa de las Catedrales, Ribadeo, Spain
7 - Lopes Mendes Beach, Ilha Grande, Brazil
8 - Horseshoe Bay Beach, Bermuda
9 - Eagle Beach, Aruba
10 - Rhossili Bay, Swansea, Wales
The local beach is ranked second on a list of the Top 10 beaches in the U.S., and No. 16 on the Top 25 beaches in world, the popular travel website said Wednesday.
Travelers voted on TripAdvisor.com, which offers hotel reviews, photos and travel advice for vacation destinations worldwide.
"For those planning their summer vacations, spring break trips, or just looking for a weekend escape from the winter doldrums, take inspiration from TripAdvisor travelers that have visited these beaches and given them the highest levels of praise," Barbara Messing, TripAdvisor's chief marketing officer, said in a written statement.
The designation is the latest in a string of accolades for Siesta Key Beach, which Stephen "Dr. Beach" Leatherman touted in May 2011 as the nation's top beach in an annual ranking, based on 50 criteria that includes sand texture, nearby amenities and whether smoking is prohibited.
Ka'anapali Beach in Lahaina, Hawaii, was voted the top beach destination in the nation in the TripAdvisor survey.
Other Florida beaches represented were the Gulf Islands National Seashore, in Pensacola, and Fort De Soto Park, in Tierra Verde.
All three Florida destinations also made TripAdvisors' listing of the Top 100 beaches in the world, which included destinations in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere.
"These beaches provide some of the finest spots around the globe to enjoy water activities, sun and sand," Messing said.
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First, the quality of information. The old adage 'garbage in, garbage out' is as true today as ever. Over recent decades, storage capacities have grown exponentially and prices have shrunk equally dramatically, the benefits gleaned from information have grown relatively slowly. During this time the expressions data warehousing and data mining were coined, on the path towards what today we call 'big data'. In theory the cheap and easy availability of storage should mean that all data that might possibly be useful is now captured. The reality has been that turning it into something really useful—information, knowledge, wisdom, rather than just bits and bytes of data—still requires a lot of effort.
So give smart people some good business intelligence (BI) tools and they should be able to extract value? Again, in theory, yes, and a good number have had some success with BI tools as the industry has grown and evolved.
Yet two significant problems still remain; the need for specialists to work on the data and the ability for the business to really take advantage of the insight unearthed.
The former has led to the promotion of the role of 'data scientist' as a modern day information hero. This is generally a step in the wrong direction and back towards the old days of dealing with the high priests of the mainframe. Things have moved on, IT has become a tool of the masses, not the select few.
There is nothing wrong with nurturing special skills for better management and understanding of data. Most organisations have been pretty lax in their data architectures and management standards over many years. Duplicate databases of customer records in different departments, gaps in security and privacy controls and a lack of metadata describing what belongs to what are all pretty common challenges that many a data scientist would relish tackling.
However, building and managing data is one thing, taking advantage of it is quite another.
To be put into practice, the outputs of business intelligence require line of business knowledge to work out if they are relevant. They also need to be delivered in the most timely fashion to the place of greatest need and to any individual involved. This implies that it is best if it is the people directly involved in the business process, right at the time they need to make a decision, and in a form that they can readily use.
This is where mobile technology can now make a real difference. Not only portable but also desirable, and so carried everywhere, making anything it has access to available in a timely manner. There are constraints based on physical size, capacity and connectivity but, increasingly, well designed applications take all this, and more, into account.
Not only does this mean delivery 'to the fingertips', but with the consumer-led surge of interest, awareness and adoption, mobile devices have become very user friendly. This started with nice graphics and touch screen interfaces, but goes much further. Sensory information is captured which develops into a contextual awareness of location, proximity and orientation. Knowledge of the individual means this can further be personalised, ensuring that the technology does not at all get in the way of understanding and using the core applications or data.
Recent innovations in some applications and services shift 'ease of use' into 'fun to use' with the introduction of another consumer-oriented concept, gamification. No longer should using an application feel like a chore (no matter how well designed the look and feel of the interface), now the whole experience is designed to be engaging and immersive in a manner somewhat akin to a game or puzzle or the visual renderings often favoured by Hollywood films such as Minority Report. It might sound a little frivolous, but in reality the driver behind it is to further improve the usability and ultimate value that can be achieved.
Mobile provides this pervasive and friendly access, but being able to take advantage of intelligence on the move still requires something more than a high performance and connected gadget.
This is where further trends are aligning with mobile at the edge and the potentially vast and fast filling warehouses of data storage, to deliver directly relevant and applicable intelligence to the business process—the cloud and service delivery.
Now the full power of the network and available resources can be harnessed consistently and uniformly, anywhere. Mobile technology has 'democratised' access (anyone, anytime, anywhere on anything), and cloud-based services ensure more data sources can be combined, collated and continually refined and then contextually channelled right to the point of need.
With smarter business intelligence that correctly exploits the pervasive edge and intelligently taps into the seething mass of available data, smart people can make smarter decisions. Mobile use for many may have started off being about increasing responsiveness as if speed of reply was all that mattered, but what it can now deliver is greater relevance, clarity and accuracy.


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AVON, Colorado - The five candidates running for three open Avon Town Council seats agreed on just about everything Thursday evening in a forum hosted by Ruggs Benedict owner Roger Benedict.
The candidates gathered at the Avon council chambers for the informal forum that lasted about an hour. There were eight people in attendance, including Benedict, to hear what the candidates had to say about their qualifications for the role.
Benedict asked three questions:
1. Tell me about yourself and your qualifications.
Matt Gennett
After 13 years living in the valley, with about 10 in Avon, Gennett said he has worked for Eagle County, the town of Vail and the town of Avon. His planning background and government experience make him qualified, he said, especially as the town seeks some kind of resolution with the Village at Avon project. He said he's dedicated to the town and wants to serve, and is interested in focusing on making Avon more pedestrian friendly.
Jake Wolf
Avon Elementary music teacher Jake Wolf has lived in and out of the valley for 15 years and has toured with various bands before settling down to teach. He said his outside-the-box thinking can bring different perspectives to the town and hopefully make it a great town. Wolf points to his experience with event planning as one reason he could be an asset, citing the town's need to generate more sales tax revenue.
John Minervini
A former Autozone executive, Minervini moved to Avon about six years ago from Memphis. He loves the town and is serving his second term on the planning and zoning commission. Because of his experience working on the Village at Avon matter for the past year, and because he is someone who likes to complete tasks he has started, he said he could bring valuable experience to the town.
Jennie Fancher
Fancher points to "valuable life and work experience" that would help her in serving the town of Avon. She has lived in the county for 20 years, of which the last 12 she has spent in Avon. She has experience working for metropolitan districts in both Eagle-Vail and Beaver Creek, and thinks that experience would be helpful for the Town Council.
Buz Reynolds
With 12 years experience on the Avon Town Council, Buz Reynolds still has work he wants to complete. He has lived in Avon for 37 years - his mother helped develop the area working for Benchmark Properties and his father also served on the Town Council. Reynolds spent 13 years on the planning and zoning board, too, and has also served as mayor.
2. What's the single most important thing you'd like to accomplish as a council person for the town?
(Every candidate answered that the Traer Creek/Village at Avon development and litigation is the most important issue facing the town.)
John Minervini
The Village at Avon issue won't simply go away, Minervini said. Whatever ends up getting approved still needs a great deal of focus, and Minervini thinks he has what it takes to "hammer out" the details. Because he is someone who completes tasks, he said, he hopes to work on council to "complete this huge task."
Jake Wolf
Wolf agrees Traer Creek is the biggest issue, but talked more about what the money spent on litigation in the matter is taking away from the town. He said he hopes there's a better path to coming to an agreement with the developers - a path that will free up money and time wasted on litigation for other town improvements.
Matt Gennett
The town can't afford to miss anything with regards to the Traer Creek development, Gennett said. He, too, said the town has focused so much on the project that it has missed out on other opportunities. He points to the Northside Kitchen and Walgreen's as "good steps to building the fabric of the community up." While Traer Creek is the most obvious issue, Gennett said the root of the problem for Avon is economic development.
Jennie Fancher
Reinventing the town of Avon is what Fancher calls the town's biggest issue - in addition to Traer Creek, she said. She said the town needs to find a short-term solution with Traer Creek without creating a long-term problem. She also said the town should help businesses grow and should create an "overall design standard" as the town works toward creating a user-friendly, walkable community.
Buz Reynolds
The main job of the council "is to budgetarily run the town of Avon," Reynolds said. He said the town must stay within its limits, adding that the litigation with Traer Creek has been a "big drain." Traer Creek is a 40 -to- 80-year commitment for the town and Reynolds said the council has to protect the people of the town. He added that more special events in the community should be a priority in order to bring in more revenue.
3. What other things, if you could look toward the end of your term, would you like to see accomplished?
Jake Wolf
Wolf envisions an Avon with a better sense of community. He wants to get children and families more involved in the town through events that bring people together, such as contests for things like tree decorations around the holidays.
"We want Avon to be a destination place - we don't want it to be a doormat," Wolf said. "It can be a world-class gateway, it just needs some creativity and some more heart in the heart."
Matt Gennett
Gennett wants the town to focus on some realistic goals it could accomplish in time for the 2015 World Alpine Ski Championships. When the world is watching, he said Avon needs to put on its best show as the base of Beaver Creek. He thinks Avon could be a destination special enough to compete with Vail, Minturn or Edwards. By hitting benchmarks and goals set by the town leadership, Gennett said Avon can become a more "cohesive, connected place."
Buz Reynolds
"If I'm going to dream, I'm going to dream big," Reynolds said, adding that he wants to see Traer Creek developed and wants that area to truly become a part of the Avon community. He also would love to see light rail through the valley during his time, but recognizes that's a big dream. Making Avon more pedestrian-friendly is also a goal, but "build out at Village at Avon is pretty darn important right now."
Jennie Fancher
Fancher doesn't want "fiscal fear to stop us from moving forward." She said the 2015 Championships will be here soon and the town should take that opportunity to showcase itself. Fancher wants to diversify the town by bringing in more businesses that will help drive sales tax revenues. "Let's grow and thrive," she said.
John Minervini
In addition to the Village at Avon, Minervini said the town's budget is critical right now. He wants town revenues to grow and said he'd be a "personal ambassador" in trying to bring more businesses and organizations to Avon. He wants to build up the pedestrian mall and also hopes more special events in town could help it grow.
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The taxes imposed upon the American people by the Obama-led government is leading a naive populous inexorably away from a successful capitalistic country to one of mediocrity.
The Republican House of Representatives seems unable or incapable to impede this trend.
The Senate is impotent.
The president's view seems to convey a wish that we should join the world's commonality and be more like a third world country.
He has had no experience in managing any sizeable organization, let alone one the size of the United States. The "czars" he appoints to advise him on the affairs of government lack similar experience and simply follow his socialistic modeled trends.
Should this continue we will find our selves trapped in a country far different than that imagined by our founding Fathers.
Hopefully we will soon elect a President who is committed to reversing this trend and put us back on the track that had produced one of the most successful nation in the world.
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TRACY - In four months, motorists going through Tracy will be happy with improvements, including widening, of Grant Line Road between MacArthur Drive and Paradise Road.
In the mean time, detours will be the order of the day as work is done on one of Tracy's major thoroughfares.
Grant Line Road is scheduled to be closed from MacArthur Drive to Paradise Road from Tuesday through Sept. 30 to allow for the work.
Residents and people going to businesses on Grant Line and Chrisman roads north of the Union Pacific Railroad lines will be granted access.
For most motorists, the detour goes north onto Pescadero Avenue between MacArthur and Paradise.
For more information, contact Tracy's engineering division at (209) 831-6400 or visit thinkinsidethetriangle.com.
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Part of U.S. Capitol Closed After Asbestos Scare
The House side of the U.S. Capitol was closed briefly due to concerns about asbestos Thursday morning, and a stairway and a room remained off limits.
The House has pushed back the start of its Thursday session to noon from 10 a.m.
A senior House Democratic aide said the spill involved asbestos that was exposed when work was being done.
The U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement: "The East Grand Staircase on the House side of the U.S. Capitol Building from floors 1 through 3 and room H-324 will remain closed until further notice. The rest of the House side of the U.S. Capitol Building will return to normal operations, including tours of the U.S. Capitol."
A tweet from an ABC reporter at the Capitol:
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Pro Action recently released the July 29 menu for its Senior Nutrition program.
The program, designed for seniors ages 60 and older, serves Steuben and Yates counties.
The menu includes orange juice, spaghetti with meat sauce or chicken salad sandwich, green beans, fruited jello, Italian bread and skim milk.
A list of locations where meals are served can be found online at proactioninc.org.
Voluntary donations will be accepted to maintain the program. The suggested donation amount is $3 for seniors 60 and older. There is a $6 charge for people younger than 60.
For more information, call 607-776-4310.
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PHOENIX -- Bob Melvin had never heard the story of Dan Otero's circuitous route to the A's organization until a few days ago. Even in the wild world of baseball transactions, it's one for the annals.
Designated for assignment by the Giants on March 26 last year, Otero was claimed on waivers by the New York Yankees. The pitcher grabbed a flight to Tampa, Fla., the next day, but while he was 40,000 feet in the air, the Yankees changed their minds and designated him for assignment.
"I got off the plane and had all these voicemails and text messages that I'd been DFA'd again," Otero said. "I was thinking, 'Now what do I do?' So I sat in Tampa for two days and then the A's claimed me, and I flew back (to Arizona)."
Melvin grimaced as he heard the tale.
"Wow, that's not fair," the manager said. "I hope he at least got the miles."
Nope, but Otero got something better -- a real chance. The A's promptly shipped him to Triple-A Sacramento, where he posted absurd numbers as the River Cats' closer -- 0.99 ERA, 15 saves, one walk in 271/3 innings.
Even with a well-stocked bullpen, those eye-popping numbers earned the 29-year-old right-hander a promotion to Oakland on June 14, even though Melvin wasn't exactly sure how Otero would be used.
"He was the last guy in the bullpen and a guy we were looking at more for length or earlier in games," Melvin recalled.
But from the moment he took the mound with Oakland, Otero was almost as reliable an out machine as he was in Sacramento. Pitching primarily in the sixth and seventh innings, he quickly became a conduit to the late relievers. In 33 games, he posted a 1.38 ERA with just six runs allowed in 39 innings, and he walked just six.
Moreover, he didn't allow a single home run with either Sacramento and Oakland, and adding in 121/3 innings he pitched with the Giants in 2012, Otero still hasn't allowed his first major-league homer even though he's thrown 511/3 innings.
In short, he was found money for Oakland, and golden at that. As for Otero, he went from not knowing whether he had any kind of baseball future to pitching in the American League Division Series by year's end. He made appearances in four of the five ALDS games, threw 52/3 innings and didn't allow a run.
"That's what everybody dreams of, right?" Otero said. "It was a very tumultuous beginning to a very gratifying ending, to say the least."
So how does an effective control specialist guy who doesn't give up home runs get designated twice in three days? Otero wishes he had an answer.
"It was hectic," he said. "I wasn't with a team. I was bouncing back and forth. It was tough on my wife, who was pregnant at the time. It was tough on my parents and all the people who have supported me. But you know what? It was a neat experience to go through and now I embrace it, because it gave me a new opportunity. I just never wish it on anybody."
Manager Ned Yost is from Dublin, and he added bullpen coach Doug Henry (Hayward) last season. This year, Dale Sveum (Pinole) was hired as the third base coach and Don Wakamatsu (Hayward) as the bench coach.
All four once played on the legendary E. Bercovich travel team, and Sveum, Henry and Wakamatsu played together. Yost is about 10 years older than his three coaches but is glad to be surrounded by familiar locals.
"It's great, because when we go home, everybody knows how to get to Casper's (hot dogs)," Yost joked.


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Brevard insurance agent charged with embezzlement
Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 6:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 6:15 p.m.
An insurance agent from Brevard was arrested and charged Wednesday with two counts of embezzlement after state investigators say she accepted nearly $440 in cash premium payments that were not applied to customers' accounts.
N.C. Department of Insurance criminal investigators say Holly Ann Small, 38, of 115 McMinn Ave., accepted $439.95 in payments from policyholders between April 4-5 at the Henderson County office where she worked. Investigators say she did not apply the payments to the customers' accounts.
"The funds were never located and the agency owner had to pay the missing premiums so that neither customer experienced a lapse in coverage," according to a news release from the NCDOI.
Small was arrested March 27 by the Transylvania County Sheriff's Office. Bond information was not available.
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Another UF basketball player to transfer
Published: Monday, May 6, 2013 at 7:11 p.m.
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GAINESVILLE - Freshman guard/forward DeVon Walker has been granted his release to transfer, Florida coach Billy Donovan announced.
"DeVon has a bright future, and we hope for the best for him wherever he chooses to go," Donovan said.
Walker, who played in 25 games and scored 20 points, grabbed 17 rebounds and blocked four shots, said, "I've grown a lot this year, and I'm grateful to coach Donovan, the staff and my teammates at Florida for everything."
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MILPITAS -- Less than six months after an eye-popping initial public offering, security software company FireEye sold millions of new shares for more than four times the price of its IPO, bringing the company and its stakeholders more than $1 billion.
"We have an opportunity in front of us, and as long as you keep reading the headlines of companies being compromised, our mission is not accomplished," Chief Operating Officer Kevin Mandia said Friday.
FireEye announced Thursday evening that it was pricing 14 million shares at $82 apiece in a secondary offering that will put $457.7 million in the Milpitas company's coffers and ship $690.3 million to early investors and stakeholders such as CEO David DeWalt and venture investors. The company sold its first batch of shares in September 2013 for $20 apiece, taking in $303.5 million, but the stock price nearly doubled in its market debut and has steadily risen since, moving as high as $97.35 this week.
The $1 billion acquisition of Mandia's security startup, Mandiant, has been one of the big drivers for Wall Street's FireEye enthusiasm, as it paired Mandiant's ability to respond to data breaches with FireEye's groundbreaking threat-detection technology.
"The Mandiant acquisition was a game changer because it really morphed FireEye into a pure end-to-end, next-generation security method," FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives said Friday, calling it "a one plus one equals three equation."
Ives increased his price target on the stock from $90 to $105 after the secondary offering was originally announced this week, and explained in a Friday phone interview that the company is one of the most desirable stocks in the hot cybersecurity market because its technology trumps rivals.
"Their detection capabilities are as advanced as any out there in determining and quantifying threats to networks," Ives said.
Network breaches have been a hot topic in the media of late, with retail giant Target discovering a data breach during the holiday-shopping season that left information on up to 110 million customers exposed to hackers and California Attorney General Kamala Harris announcing this week that 300 California businesses and government agencies had been attacked in the past two years, exposing 20 million customer accounts.
"There's nothing, in my opinion all that unique about the Target breach," Mandia said, adding, "There's not just one company breached right now, there's hundreds if not thousands."
With the capital raised in its secondary offering, Mandia said FireEye will look to expand its security offering to more small and medium-size businesses, which Mandia said "are sitting ducks for these targeted attacks," and will also continue to morph their platform to fit the needs of a changing Web.
"We've got to go where the bad guys go," he explained. "If the cloud is where everybody starts putting their data, we're going to have to have a way to safeguard that. If the bad guys are going to mobile, we already have a platform to safeguard that."
"We have to continue to grow this company as we set out to secure cyberspace," Mandia added.
Ives predicts that FireEye will continue to look at acquisitions, just as it used almost half of the cash obtained in its IPO to purchase Mandiant, in a deal that also involved stock.
"Over the next 12 to 18 months, I could see them making larger acquisitions," Ives said. "I think they're going to be very strategic about who they acquire. DeWalt is as good as any CEO out there in terms of identifying the right deals at the right time."
DeWalt was one of several stakeholders selling stock in the offering, divesting nearly 500,000 shares from his holdings of more than 5 million. Among the other selling stockholders were founder and Chief Technology Officer Ashar Aziz, who sold more than 1 million of his total of more than 10 million shares; and Palo Alto venture-capital firm Norwest Venture Partners, which sold about 10 percent of its 20.8 million share stake.
FireEye shares declined Friday to more closely mirror the offering price, falling 9.5 percent to $81.04.
Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/jowens510.


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Stark County remained under a flood warning until 11:30 a.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
Several waterways in the county were in danger of flooding Monday morning, data from the U.S. Geological Survey showed. The water level in the Tuscarawas River in Massillon was at 11.5 feet; flood stage is 14 feet. The water level of Nimishillen Creek at North Industry was at 5.2 feet at 7 a.m. after cresting at 9.34 feet Sunday morning, slightly above flood stage, according to the National Weather Service.
The flooding is a result of the ground being wet, which makes it difficult for the water to recede, according to the weather service.
There was a 50 percent chance of rain for Canton before noon Monday.
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Milli & Fink is run by an Angela Purdy, one of our lovely ex-students from Brisbane. Since graduating Ange has worked at a few studios and has been very busy freelancing for herself.
Recently, Ange created a range of Tshirts with some of her very own gorgeous illustrations. I thought these were worthy enough of a shout out!
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Deer Lodge has been renovated, many of the architectural features from the original buildings have been restored including the original hand hewn log structure. The Mt. Fairview Dining room is known as one of the best dining experiences in the Canadian Rockies, offering outstanding Rocky Mountain Cuisine. Deer Lodge is the proud recipient of the Award of Excellence given by America's leading wine and sprit authority, The Wine Spectator.The Caribou Lounge boasts magnificent views of the Victoria glacier and surrounding mountains while serving fine dining cuisine in a more casual atmosphere. Deer Lodge is ideal for guests wishing to experience a unique rustic Lodge with first class cuisine and amazing scenery. In the summer months enjoy glorious walks or hiking around the lake and surrounding area. During the ski season, Deer Lodge offers a complimentary shuttle bus to and from the Lake Louise ski hill.
Heritage room is located in the newer wing of the Lodge and have modern amenities. With either one king bed or two double beds and private balcony. The Heritage room is the largest room type in Deer Lodge. It has an area of approximately 485 square feet. Features a private bath, down duvets and pillows, and in room safes. The Heritage and Tower rooms have a telephone, coffee maker and hairdryer.This lodge room is compact and cozy and have one double bed, two single beds or one double and one single bed with private bathroom.
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Our 2012 Annual Report included a month-by-month "Year in Review" section. Here is the third quarter excerpt.
Gifford's first in a summer-long series of concerts in the park is led by Dick Ellis and the South Royalton Band.
Experienced certified nurse-midwife Ellen McAndrew returns to Gifford, expanding midwifery care to the Twin River Health Center in White River Junction.
Anesthesiologist Dr. Nazek Shabayek joins the surgery team. She previously practiced for more than 25 years in Tennessee and Connecticut.
Gifford holds the 1st Annual Randolph Antique and Artisans' Fair in the park.
A Babysitter's Training Course in The Family Center teaches youth how to be safe, responsible, and successful babysitters.
With the addition of Gifford nurse practitioner Sheri Brown, the Gifford Health Center at Berlin begins offering family care in addition to midwifery, orthopedics, podiatry, and soon neurology.
Family nurse practitioner Andrea LaRosa joins the Sharon Health Center sports medicine team.
A "Home Alone and Safe" course in The Family Center helps children ages 8-11 be better prepared for home-alone situations.
A one-night CPR class is offered to family and friends of infants and children, with subsequent classes in November and February.
The seventh annual Last Mile Ride, held on the third Saturday in August, raises $54,000 for end-of-life and advanced illness care. The ride, which this year also includes a 5K, attracts 225 motorcyclists, 60 runners/walkers, and 20 cyclists.
Free classes are offered and soon a support group starts for the state's many home caregivers.
Healthier Living Workshops – free six-week classes for the chronically ill – are offered through the year at Gifford. A new workshop focuses on chronic pain.
Chiropractor Dr. Andrea Kannas joins the Sharon Health Center's sports medicine team.
Certified Diabetes Educator and Registered Dietitian Jennifer Stratton strives to help those on a budget better grapple with eating healthy during a free talk titled "Eating Right When Money's Tight". The talk is followed up with visits to the grocery store and local food shelf, where Stratton offers hands-on shopping tips.
The medical center once again ends its fiscal year on budget and having met its state-approved operating margin. It is the 13th consecutive year of fiscal success. This feat is unique to Gifford and representative of its teamwork and commitment to care.


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These two little lekythoi with their unusual shape and original decoration, created by the same potter and decorated by a single painter, form a pair, which is also very rare. They belong to the small group of vases known as "anacreontic".
In the archaic period, the Greek elite were looking to the East for new models. Writers such as Sappho, Alkaios, Mimnermos and Anacreon, to name but a few, vied with each other in praising the life of luxury and finery of eastern aristocrats whom they claimed rightly combined the twin privileges of birth and politics. Lydians were the perfect embodiment of this way of life and thought. Therefore Anacreon, the first exponent of this ideal, declared himself to be "Lydopatheis", afflicted with acute "Lydopathy", as we might say today. This Lydopath wore long flowing robes, favoured gold jewellery and elaborate hairstyles. He used copious amounts of perfume, drank wine, enjoyed music and everything that stimulated the senses.
The decoration of "anacreontic" vases refers to this world. Produced approximately between 530 and 470, they depict men in long, unbelted robes, wearing earrings and a type of turban known as the mitra. They wear either boots made of soft skin or sandals. They often carry a parasol and a Lydian lyre, the barbiton. At a first glance this attire appears to be feminine. Moreover three vases of this type bear the name of the poet Anacreon. They were therefore thought to represent Anacreon and his merry companions. In actual fact, the costume is not effeminate, but Lydian. The dress and accessories hark back to an eastern aristocratic ideal which Anacreon championed and which the Greeks aped at their banquets.


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USA, 1963, 119 Minute Running Time
Programs: Contemporary World Cinema, The Watching HourLanguage: English
DIRECTOR: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred HitchcockEditor: George TomasiniScreenwriter: Evan HunterCinematographer: Robert BurksPrincipal Cast: Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright
Primarily known for her roles in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie, Tippi Hedren is a true Hollywood legend. Hitchcock discovered her in a television commercial for Sego, a diet drink. She was the very essence of the sophisticated, self-assured, cool-blonde sex appeal that made many of Hitchcock's leading ladies famous.
Ms. Hedren has since appeared in nearly 50 films, and she makes cameo appearances in two new feature presentations during the festival—Free Samples and Jayne Mansfield's Car. In addition, we are proud to present a special screening of the The Birds, where Ms. Hedren will be presented with the Mayor's Award for Career Achievement.
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The Macintosh's original family gathered Saturday night to celebrate the 30th birthday of Apple's iconic personal computer. Like any family reunion, it was cheerful, and occasionally tearful, and there was always the looming presence of the patriarch, Steve Jobs, who couldn't be there.
The celebration, dubbed "Mac@30," took place at the Flint Center in Cupertino, the same one where Jobs first introduced the game-changing computer to the world on Jan. 24, 1984. There was no Jobs hologram as some wished for and no appearances by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak or its current CEO, Tim Cook.
No, this was about the people whose presence on that stage in 1984 was the Mac itself. People like Bill Atkinson, Daniel Kottke, Andy Hertzfeld, Larry Tesler, Jerry Manock, Bruce Horn, George Crow, Caroline Rose, Steve Capps and Rod Holt. All of them, plus a few more, represented the 100-plus members of the original Macintosh development team in a pair of panel discussions about the Mac's prehistory and its development.
Bill Fernandez, Apple's employee No. 4 and the man who introduced Woz and Jobs to each other, served as emcee. Mike Markkula, employee No. 3 and Apple's second CEO, received a token of appreciation at the event -- a bronze sculpture of a Mac being held aloft by six arms with a plaque dedicated to him on its base.
"It's a great honor to be part of this celebration," Markkula said. "The world is a different place today because of the magic of the Macintosh user interface. You changed the world, and it's wonderful that you did."
And there was the original Mac itself, which sat on a table on the stage throughout the event. Its tote bag -- identical to the one Jobs had it in for the 1984 speech -- on the stage in front of it.
Capps, a programmer who, with Bruce Horn developed the Finder, started the machine and replicated the Mac's original "insanely great" introduction from 30 years ago when the computer "spoke for itself." Jobs' original intro was accompanied by Vangelis' "Chariots of Fire" theme; Capps used an iPhone to play the song into a microphone onstage.
Hundreds of people joined the party at the Flint Center, with people coming from as far away as Poland, South Africa and Australia. There were former and current Apple employees, with a lot of gray hair and T-shirts to show for it, entrepreneurs looking to gain insight on how to create a revolution and just plain ol' Macintosh fans who wanted to share the moment. Even John Sculley, the CEO who was at Apple's helm when Jobs was fired, was in the audience.
There were "home movies" -- in this case, videos of the 1984 introduction and a later demo featuring members of the development team from the Boston Computer Science. Everyone got to laugh at the facial hair and early '80s fashion sense. Fernandez talked about the debate over how to spell "Macintosh." Would it be McIntosh or Mackintosh? It was close. "I have a sweatshirt that says, 'Mackintosh,' " he said.
Steve Hayden, co-creator of the famous "1984" Super Bowl commercial while he was with the giant advertising firm Chiat\Day, showed that spot and several others while recounting how the Mac's impact even stretched to its marketing. "Steve Jobs gave us a six-word brief on the Macintosh," Hayden recalled. "Stop the world in its tracks."
As the development team gathered on stage for a crowded reunion photo, it was easy to forget that they were brought together by a product and a job that had some of them working 90-hour weeks. But clearly, all this passion points to it being something more.
Atkinson, who developed MacPaint and HyperCard, might have summed it up best.
"It wasn't working," he said. "We were making art."
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CHAR-KOOSTA Newspaper of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation VOLUME 13 Number 12 THE HUNTING MONTH OCTOBER 16, 1984 KERR SETTLED: Tribes to get more money and license, but A "historic agreement in principle" between the Tribes and the Montana Power Company was announced at the Oct 5 quarterly meeting in Pablo to a crowd of about forty people Pending fine tuning and FERC The name Char-Koosta is derived from Chief Charlo's and Chief Koostatah's names. They were the Tribes' last traditional chiefs. approval, the agreement calls for: • A 50-year joint license between the two competing applicants with MPC controlling the dam for the first 30 years, then turning it over to the Tribes for the remaining 20 years. • During the first 30 years, MPC will pay the Tribes $9 million a year in quarterly installments due in advance of each quarter's operation The $9 million will be increased each year based on the Consumer Price Index. • At the end of the first 30 years, the Tribes will pay MPC its net investment in the facility which will be the original cost of construction plus subsequent improvements, minus de-preciatioa • MPC will train Tribal members to operate the dam so the transition period will go smoothly • MPC will "wheel" the power over its lines for the Tribes. • A court case about adjusting the annual rent since the license expired in 1980 will be dismissed • Should FERC not act on the agreement within six months of its being filed, it "self destructs" and negotiations will begin again or the case will go to court The announcement of the agreement, settled Oct 4 in Missoula was made at 11 am by Fred Houle, Jr., who read a news release signed by Joe Felsman Reaction to the deal was quietly positive "Fm thrilled with the news," said Tinka Di Pasquale, Polsoa "The news should brighten people's outlook because we' re finally doing something on our own" Members of the Natural Resources Department congratulated the Council for its wise decision, and Dr. Al (Concludes on page three) Tribal Health grant to finance alcohol program 10 10 00 I 00 LO o éi i O 3 3 The big news at the St Ignatius Community Action Team meeting Sept 26 was the announcement that the Tribal Health Department has agreed to grant the St Ignatius school $15,000, according to Mary Herak, alcoholism program planner. Herak said the bulk of the grant money is earmarked for educational programs and equipment Nine major educational events are being planned, most of which will be open to the entire Reservation community. In addition, a K-12 multi-media drug abuse prevention curriculum called "Here's Looking At You, Two" will be purchased as soon as a planned revision is completed. It will be supplemented with tvvo other prevention curricula "Children Are People", a K-6 program and the Four Worlds Curriculum a (Concludes on page two)
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Beginning this school year, Michigan children entering kindergarten or transferring into a new Michigan school district are required to get a chickenpox vaccine. You must show proof of vaccination or natural immunization.
Some physicians think the vaccine should go beyond younger kids.
"It's important to immunize those kindergarteners or toddlers, but what's even more important are the adolescents, college students or even adults and immunize those people. Regardless of age, if you haven't had the chickenpox, you should get vaccinated," Dr. Dean Sienko, Ingham County medical examiner.
The Ingham County Health Department and your primary care physician offer the vaccines.
Chickenpox is responsible for 11,000 hospitalizations and 100 deaths nationwide. The older you are when you get the chickenpox, you raise your risk for developing complications.
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