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Kichler 3326TZ
Willowmore Single-Tier Mini Chandelier with 3 Lights - 72" Chain Included - 19 Inches Wide
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Product Features:
- Fully covered under Kichler's limited warranty
- Fixture housing is constructed of steel - ensuring years of reliable performance
- Features a bell shaped glass shade
- Fixture sends illumination in a downward direction
- Mini single-tier fixture design adds elegance to any room
- 72" adjustable chain included - optional extension chains offered upon checkout
- Bulbs are not included with this model - Upon checkout bulbs will be offered
- Ultra secure mounting assembly
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- Height: 18.5" (measured from top to bottom of fixture, excludes chain length)
- Overall Height: 90.5" (maximum measurement top to bottom of fixture with provided mounting hardware)
- Width: 19" (measured from left most to right most point on fixture)
- Number of Bulbs: 3
- Bulb Type: Incandescent or Compact Fluorescent
- Wattage Per Bulb: 100
- Location Rating: Dry / Inside
- Bulb Base - Medium (E26): The E26 (Edison 26mm), Medium Edison Screw, is the standard bulb used in 120-Volt applications in North America. E26 is the most common bulb type and is generally interchangeable with E27 bulbs.
- Compatible Bulb Types: Nearly all bulb types can be found for the E26 Medium Base, options include Incandescent, Fluorescent, LED, Halogen, and Xenon / Krypton.
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Kichler has been an industry leader in the lighting industry for nearly a century. They believe that products you choose for your home should not only exceed functionality, but transform your spaces into truly inspired settings. Each product and style by Kichler is developed with award winning craftsmanship and unmatched quality. And with a wide variety of lighting fixtures and ceiling fans, Kichler's collections deliver distinctive beauty throughout the entire home.
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Monday, 1st October, 2012, 07:25 AM #1
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New Legend and Lore is up! Magic Systems as DM Modules
The new Legend and Lore is up and Mearls discusses taking a modular approach to spellcasting. It sounds like rather than assigning a spellcasting system to classes, the goal is to allow DMs to determine which magic systems are used when building their campaign settings. The DM will be able to choose between spell points, vancian, and other systems like casting as a 3e sorcerer.
If correct, this is, in my opinion, the best news to date about the playtest. I like spontaneous casting from 3e (including the spontaneous divine casting variant from Unearthed Arcana).
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Definitely interesting and sorta groundbreaking. Would be amazing if they can pull it off.
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So much yes.
I like how it's gone from wizards using only the vancian spell system, to Arcane Tradition giving you elements of other spell systems, to having the Vancian system incorporate different recharge rates, to maybe Arcane Tradition letting you completely switch to different spell systems, to why not make it a DM option independent of class. Aside from the idea itself, it really shows the merits of the feedback-iteration cycle. I'm glad they're listening to us.
In terms of the idea itself, I love it. It solves the problem much like Specialties do--i.e., an easygoing DM will just let you pick whatever you want, but a DM with a vision for how he wants it to work can have it work the way he wants (substitute "group" for "DM" as necessary).
I also like how it preserves the identity of the spell--so you can have a magic item that gives you extra spells, and any spellcasting class can use it, because a spell is a spell.
(this guy called it... or maybe that's where they got the idea? )
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I'm not quite as optimistic as I have some reservations about modules, but if they can successfully pull it off, then it'd probably work just fine.
I just have reservations about the "can."
Monday, 1st October, 2012, 09:18 AM #5
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I am glad they finally came to this conclusion instead of trying to shove every possible hodgepodge class concept under one class. I was not looking forward to the Traditions with how each one was going to vary so much.
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I really really dislike this idea.
My hope is that it's (a) restricted to wizards and maybe clerics, since warlocks and sorcerers are cool as they are and very tied into their respective spellcasting mechanics, and (b) something they stick in a sidebar, so a beginner can pick up the wizard class without arguing with the DM.
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I will quote myself from a thread that proposed doing just this:
This appears to be the approach - which is subtely different to 'choose a magic system for your game'. To me, having a default system is critical.Many people are calling for more tactical combat options, such as a grid, and a return to standard/move/minor actions. I'm sure some people would like to see the return of weapon damage type vs. armour type mechanics. There are probably some people that find attack vs. AC too simple, and want a complex maneuvering, thrusting and parrying system.
Should we give them a dedicated combat chapter, and let the players and DM decide which system is being used? No. We use the simplest and most straightforward system as the core, and then we offer modules that describe these more complex scenarios - some of which might be available immediately with the publishing of the PHB, some of which might come later. I think that this has been accepted as a reasonable proposition.
So why do something special for magic? Why not have the simplest possible core mechanic for spellcasting - a unified mechanic, the same as for physical combat - and then discuss alternatives in a module that may or may not be available immediately?
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I also really don't get the focus the article places on the DM. I mean, obviously the DM gets to approve classes and races and such, but should every wizard player really have to prepare a sales pitch for his preferred casting method?
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Good for them. I'm glad.
Now they can get on with their modularity plan without having to try to make everything they design become the core ideas of the game. D&D isn't mana or spell points or slotless or classless. D&D has an identity of it's own and really needs to stay true to that identity or it's not D&D any more, it'd be just another RPG with the D&D logo plastered on it.
They did that already and look where it got them.
If they continue along the path they seem to have gotten side tracked by they will be in the same position they were in when they started this endeavor. A hand full of people will be playing D&D whatever and the rest of us will be doing the same thing we were doing before they announced Next.
The difference is that I have brand new copies of the original game and that makes me happy.
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The sorcerer and especially the warlock are very interesting classes right now. But I really can´t imagine the warlock beeing affected greatly by how the wizard uses spells.
The sorcerer however is no 3.5 sorcer. You could take the wizard and give him the sorcerer mechanic and now you have a 3.5 sorcerer. You could as well take the new sorcerer and give him traditional vancian magic give him a different origin and now you have something like the bladesinger (a fighter mage)
And the cleric could made true vancian again if you like. (Now he uses a cool hybrid between vancian and 3.5 sorcery!)
So my favourite version of 5e would give each class a distinct spellcasting mechanic, which all are based in the same system. And on the DM part, you could allow a single class to import a magic system from another one...
it seems as if we start getting true modularity!

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My favorite sub-genre of Science Fiction is Cyberpunk.ReplyDelete
I never used to read Fantasy, but now, my Favorite sub-genre of Fantasy is "New Weird" which is generally darker than what I always thought of as Fantasy. It leans toward Lovecraftian horror, and I mean that in a good, fresh, revitalizing way.
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One of 40s Hollywood's most sparkling and sophisticated comedies (later to be re-made as the Cole Porter musical High Society). A rich heiress, about to be married for the second time, changes her mind in more ways than one. An all-star cast includes James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.
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Friday, 06/16/1995
Walnut Creek Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC
Soundcheck: Caravan, Three Little Birds, Free, Funky Bitch, Jam
Set 1: Halley'sHalley's Comet > DwDDown with Disease > Esther > Ya Mar, Cry Baby Cry, It's Ice > MMGAMOIOMy Mind's Got a Mind of its Own, Dog Faced Boy -> Catapult > SOAMeltSplit Open and Melt
Set 2: Runaway Jim -> Free, Carolina, YEMYou Enjoy Myself[1], CoilThe Squirming Coil
Encore: Bold As Love
[1] Boyd Tinsley on fiddle.
· Oye Como Va and Lovin' You teases in You Enjoy Myself
· Charge! tease
Noteworthy Jams: It's Ice, Split Open and Melt, Runaway Jim (highly recommended), You Enjoy Myself
Average Song Gap: 13.31
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Boyd Tinsley (Guest)
Notes: Halley's Comet was preceded by "Charge!" teases from Trey. Dog Faced Boy was preceded by several false starts of Split Open And Melt by Fish. YEM featured Boyd Tinsley on fiddle for a portion of the jam and included Oye Como Va teases. The YEM vocal jam contained a Lovin' You (Minnie Riperton) quote from Fish.
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This show was part of the "1995 Summer Tour."
Actually like the Carolina, too, crowd of course is awfully into it.
And then the YEM, great YEM. Boyd smokes the fucking thing, Trey fillets it, Mike finishes the thing off, eerie vocal jam... Great second set. Five stars.
Though I can't speak for the rest of the show, fuck, that Jim is nuts.
I loved this show. 1st set was all killer no filler. Halley's opener sets a damn good tone for the night. Cry Baby Cry?? Sweet. Really special for me as I got shut out of the White Album and was very very bitter about it. Melt is my favorite set closer too, it just really leaves you in high spirits going into set break.
2nd set is known for the killer 35 minute Jim. I was pretty shocked to hear it in the 2nd set I don't think I had ever heard of that happening before. I was blown away by the YEM though. It's always nice for a sit in on a jam vehicle and Boyd fit in nicely...


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Buffett's Berkshire Shares Top $200,000 for First Time
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Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares jumped above $200,000 on Thursday for the first time, yet another milestone for the gigantic conglomerate run by Mr. Buffett. The stock is up 13% this year after rallying more than 30% last year.
Berkshire, which has wide exposure to different sectors of the economy, is benefiting from an all-round improvement in job, housing and consumer spending numbers, as well as strong corporate profits at many of the companies in which it owns stakes. That has pushed the shares up even higher after it reported strong second-quarter operating earnings two weeks ago.
Shares recently rose 0.8% at $201,204, giving Berkshire a market value of about $327 billion, according to FactSet.
Mr. Buffett has long resisted any urge to split the stock. For many years, he argued that lower-priced shares would prompt short-term, speculative trading in his stock. Berkshire's Class A shares are by far the highest-priced stock in the U.S. market. Second on the list is Seaboard, an agricultural and transportation company, which sports a stock price of about $2,883.
These days, however, Berkshire also has Class B shares. Mr. Buffett introduced them in 1996 to prevent fund managers from setting up a mutual-fund like structure that would sell slices of the company in smaller pieces. He then split the stock in 2010, when he used Berkshire shares to help pay for the $27 billion acquisition of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
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In March, Berkshire's market capitalization topped $300 billion for the first time. The company now finds itself in the top five most valuable companies in the U.S., trailing just Apple, Exxon Mobil, Google and Microsoft Corp.
Despite the sharp rise in Berkshire shares, Mr. Buffett signaled clearly in his latest annual letter he thinks the stock is still cheap. Per-share book value, a measure of assets minus liabilities that is Mr. Buffett's preferred yardstick for measuring net worth, has risen 5.6% since year-end 2013, standing at $142,483 a Class A share as of June 30.
The billionaire investor has said Berkshire will buy back stock if their price falls below 1.2 times book value. But at the current level — about 1.41 — and given how enthusiastic the market is about Berkshire, that number seems unlikely to budge downward anytime soon.
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A trial date has been set for the accused murderer of an elderly couple in the Ivy Bend area of Morgan County.
With a change of venue approved in March 2013, a Laclede County jury is scheduled to hear the case against Ronald Blowers on Feb. 17, 2015. A pre-trial conference has been scheduled for Jan. 5.
The Morgan County man is facing two counts of murder in the second degree, two counts of armed criminal action, one count of burglary in the first degree and resisting arrest by fleeing.
On Dec. 7, 2012, murder charges were filed against Blowers, then 25, following an investigation by the Morgan County Sheriff's Department after Wayne and Mable Wells were discovered dead at their home on Oak Hill Rd., Stover, on the morning of Dec. 4.
Blowers pleaded not guilty to the murder charges in January 2013.
Autopsy results indicated the Wells — Wayne, 82, and Mable, 71 — died as a result of blunt force trauma but suffered other wounds as well. The murders are believed to have occurred between dusk and 6 p.m. Dec. 3.
Evidence from the scene as well as information obtained from Blowers during questioning led to the charges against Blowers.
A pipe found near the Wells' home was believed to be one of the weapons used. A footprint was also found at the scene.
Blowers was first arrested on the evening of Dec. 4, after running from police when they went to question him about a stolen pistol. His residence on Sunset Rd. was located about a mile from the Wells' home.
As officers approached Blowers, the probable cause statement filed by the sheriff's department said that he brandished a knife at officers while in his driveway and began stabbing himself, telling officers "I did not mean to do it" before running into the woods and leading police on a lengthy foot pursuit. During the incident, Blowers refused to drop the knife and continued to stab himself. "He spontaneously denied killing 'those' people," according to the probable cause statement.
After being captured by police, Blowers was initially taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
In an interview Dec. 6 at the Morgan County Sheriff's Office, Blowers admitted to being present at the Wells' home during the commission of the homicides and admitted to using a pipe, knife and screwdriver to inflict injuries on the victims, according to the probable cause statement.
Blowers was also in a single-car accident Dec. 3 around 6:15 p.m. on Ivy Bend Rd. at Hillview Rd. near the Wells' residence. The Missouri State Highway Patrol responded to the crash and found Blowers to be the operator of the wrecked red Ford Explorer.
According to the Highway Patrol arrest report, he was cited at 7:22 p.m. for Driving While Intoxicated and Careless & Imprudent Resulting in an Accident. He was transported to University Hospital in Columbia for treatment of moderate injuries.
Page 2 of 2 - According to the probable cause statement for the murders, neighbors in the vicinity of the Wells' residence told police that they recalled seeing a sports utility vehicle matching the description of Blowers' vehicle speeding away from the area.
The sheriff's office treated the crime as a burglary turned homicide from the first when the murders were reported after the body of Mable Wells was discovered by a friend.
The couple were fairly isolated at the time of their murders being some of the few winter residents in the immediate vicinity of their home on the Lake of the Ozarks.
At the Wells' residence, police found a door had been pushed or kicked in and the home was in disarray. Mable and Wayne Wells were found dead in separate rooms.
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I got a chance to play this course today and definately recommend it to everyone! The park is beautiful and very well maintained, not to mention the overviews of the river from the park. The course incorporates a good mix of elevation changes, open spaces and wooded holes. Lots of pins tucked into the woods with fast greens. From the shorts there are plenty of birdie and ace runs, and from the longs your going to need more than just the traditional right handed hyzer. Big thanks to K.C. and all the others who helped get this course in the ground. If you havent played it yet it's worth the drive to try it out!
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The Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory (VCCTL) project develops and integrates state-of-the-art computational materials science tools into a user friendly software interface that can be used by industry to expedite the development, testing, and quality control of cement and concrete materials. The simulation programs and software interface are being developed by NIST within a consortium of industry partners.
The intended impact of this project is to enable a rapid and convenient virtual computing environment for evaluating and optimizing cementitious materials. Substantial savings in time, materials (purchase and disposal), human resources, and money can be achieved by reducing the number of physical tests performed on concrete by private industry.
In January 2000, a NIST-led industry consortium was formed to develop a Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory (VCCTL). VCCTL is led by the Materials and Construction Research Division within the Engineering Laboratory, along with the High-Performance Computing and Visualization Group in NIST's Information Technology Laboratory (ITL). The core of the virtual lab is a computer model for the simulating the hydration and microstructure development of cement-based materials that is based on 15 years of research at NIST. Much of this research is described in an electronic monograph available at http://concrete.nist.gov/monograph.
Now entering its 13th year, the VCCTL consortium continues to conduct computational research and experimental validation to improve the predictive ability of the software. This research leads to enhancements and additions to the base models and user interface, based on the specific interests of the consortium members.The purpose of VCCTL software is to provide a platform for a virtual testing laboratory that can be used by concrete scientists, engineers, and technologists to explore the properties of cement paste and concrete materials. With this software, the user can
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Statement of Mark David Bateman: Electronic Edition, by Mark David BatemanTable of Contents
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"Penetration of building material Hydrogen Cyanide" (177-183)
48. Pages 177 - 183 also appeared in the van Pelt Critique (pages 10/11) and the van Pelt Critique 2 (pages 19 - 21).
49. In his witness statement Rudolf supports his conclusions about the "Penetration of building materials by Hydrogen Cyanide" by referring the reader to the following documents:
- (i) Page 179: Rudolf relies on a table headed "Cyanide concentrations in selected plaster samples taken from the Walls of the Birkenau delousing chambers". This is footnoted 444 ("The Rudolf Report, Theses and Dissertations, AL 2001"). This footnote might suggest that the table was based upon new data. However, this same table appeared in the van Pelt Critique, where it was footnoted 3 ("Das Gutachten. Gutachten uber die Bildung and Nachweisbarkeit von Cyanidverbindungen in den 'Gaskamern' von Auschwitz, Cromwell press, London 1993), and where it had a hyperlink to www.vho.org/d/rga/rga.html (also a direct link to "Das Rudolf Gutachten") (see MDB 4 tab 13). The reader of the Van Pelt critique was directed to chapter 4 of Das Gutachten, where a larger version of the table in the witness statement is to be found (chapter 4.3.3 Table 16). It appears that, by changing the reference for the same table in his witness statement, Rudolf masked the fact that the data was contained in his own report from 1992/1993 and available since that time.
- (ii)Page 180. FN 441 in the witness statement refers to a 1971 publication. The same source was given in the van Pelt Critique 2 (FN48), but there an additional source was cited as Rudolf's own Report ("See my report about the physical data of HCN, note 3, chapter 2.5 (www.vho.org/D/rga/hcn.html#eigen); that hyperlink takes the reader to Chapter 2.1 of the Rudolf Report, which included table 3 "Physikalische Größen. von HCN" and is footnoted 102: see MDB 4 tab 14). FN 102 is the 1971 publication footnoted in the witness statement at 441. The short point is that although Rudolf made clear in the van Pelt Critique and the van Pelt Critique 2 that he was referring to his own earlier Report as a source, when he used the same material in his witness statement, he deleted that reference. It appears that Rudolf was masking the fact that the same material had been published by him in his own earlier report.
- (iii)Page 180. Although the argument at C in the witness statement appeared in the same terms in the van Pelt Critique, the witness statement omits a footnote reference to be found in the van Pelt Critique. After "...highly porous materials, comparable perhaps to sponges" the Van Pelt Critique has FN 50 ("See my report about an analysis of the porosity of cement and lime mortar, note 3, chapter 25 (www.vho.org/D/rga/zement.html, which refers the reader to Rudolf's 1993 Report). The hyperlink leads straight to chapter 23.2 of the Rudolf Report (see "MDB 4" tab 15). Rudolf again omits a reference, cited in his Critique, which shows that he is relying on his 1993 Report in making his witness statement.
- (iv) Page 182: FN 444 refers to the "Rudolf Report 2001". This is misleading as to the date. The same point was made by Rudolf in the van Pelt Critique 2, where it has the footnoted 51 ("Cf the pictures in my report, op.cit (note 3) chapter 126.96.36.199 (vho.org.D/rga,/prob_22.html).) As stated above, note 3 was a reference to the 1993 Rudolf report. The hyperlink leads to chapter 18.104.22.168.(see "MDB 4" tab 16). It appears that Rudolf has again omitted a reference showing that the witness statement is derived from his own 1993 Report.
- (v)Page 182: FN 445 refers to a 1992 publication.
50. Whereas at page 182 of the witness statement Rudolf states "Prof Roth, who, after all, is a professor of chemistry, must know all these facts, and one can only assume that Professor Roth felt the need to attack Leuchter in order to avoid being attacked himself but that he does nor alter the fact he has changed his evidence preferring expediency to truth...". In his van Pelt Critique at page 12 he less neutrally states "This must be known to Prof Roth and one can only wonder why he spreads such outrageous lies. And he is lying, I am dead sure about it".
51.From the above material, it appears that Rudolf has tried to give the impression that material contained in his witness is new when, in fact, it is not. It should be borne in mind that Rudolf sought to emphasise the easy availability of his 1993 Report at an earlier stage. At page 16 of the van Pelt Critique Rudolf stated that "In van Pelt's report, the name Germar Rudolf is not mentioned. According to his statement during the Irving/Lipstadt trial, he has heard about my report, but he never saw it. He obviously never tried to find it. It is freely accessible on the Internet since the end of 1997, and every search engine spits out my name and my report on the very first lines. ..."
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After the first screening, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Indiewire, Hitfix and other media wrote about its guerilla style of filmmaking. The reason for all the attention is a question that will certainly occur to viewers: What will Disney executives think about "Escape from Tomorrow"?
Answer: They won't like it. The film is a dark, funny tale of a bizarre trip framed by the underlying weirdness of the Happiest Place on Earth. And corporate Disney is probably going to take a look at the movie's swipes against Disney icons and try to ban it from public view.
"Right now we're just waiting to see what comes next," director Randy Moore said Sunday after a screening in Salt Lake City.
The film revolves around Jim (Roy Abramsohn), who learns he has been laid off but hides that fact from his wife and two kids during their last day at Disney World. By way of distraction, Jim becomes obsessed with two French teenagers and begins stalking them from ride to ride. He also descends into brief moments of madness on various rides (fans of "It's a Small World" who see this film may never view that ride the same way again.
Moore said it took him three years to make "Escape from Tomorrow," which involved intense planning with actors and crew in their hotel rooms in order to shoot at Disneyland in Anaheim and Disney World in Florida without getting thrown out of the parks. They never were, but that isn't the real challenge: Fireworks may ignite if Moore ever gets distribution for his movie. As film critic Drew McWeeny wrote in his review for Hitfix.com, "All I know is Walt Disney's lawyers are probably climbing onto helicopters and planning a raid on Park City right now."
The movie is filled with Disney iconography and logos that are surely trademarked, from Mickey's ears to shots of the EPCOT dome and Disney park characters. Even the opening credits are partially written in Disneyesque fonts. Moore did not get one lick of permission from Disney to put them in his movie, and may very well not need them. But that's all up in the air until a Disney executive sees the movie.
"I'll just say that it didn't start out that way," Moore said about making such a risky movie. "I didn't envision it the way it is now. I thought of it more as a small project, something I was just going to do with my friends, and it grew and grew from there.
"I'm not a lawyer, and I said to myself that if I start to go into the legality of what's going on here - if I think about it - then it's going to affect my creative decisions," he added. "I made it a point not to let that enter my head until now."
Moore said he still doesn't want to worry about it.
"I don't want a helicopter of lawyers coming down on me," he said. "But right now there isn't much I can do but just try to meet people at the festival and enjoy [it]."


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American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who make their way through one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. Chronicling the boys' divergent paths from kindergarten through high school graduation at Manhattan's Dalton School, this provocative, intimate documentary presents complicated truths about America's struggle to come of age on issues of race, class and opportunity. An Official Selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. A co-production of Rada Film Group, ITVS and POV's Diverse Voices Project. Part of American Graduate: Let's Make It Happen, made possible by CPB.
"Brewster and Stephenson's film is destined to be a classic of the genre – an engrossing exploration of race, education, and expectations featuring strong, personable characters who the viewer feels connected to immediately." - Documentary Channel
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Sarah Childress Polk received an education traditionally available only to the most privileged young women of her time. When she was 14, Sarah and her sister undertook a month-long, 500-mile journey on horseback from Tennessee to North Carolina to attend the Moravian Female Academy, one of the best girls' schools in the country. Her studies went well beyond the traditional education young girls received to include Greek and Roman literature and world history. These academic pursuits provided her with a worldview that enhanced her political discussions.
Sarah devoted her married life to husband James K. Polk's political career, organizing his campaigns, writing speeches, handling his correspondence and developing a network of valuable political friendships. She read major newspapers and magazines, and marked articles she felt most important, leaving them on a chair outside the President's office for him to read.
As First Lady, Sarah Polk instituted many changes in the White House. She and her husband opened the White House twice a week to all visitors for evening receptions and personally greeted those who attended. In the summer, the Marine Corps Band played once a week on the lawn for visitors. She also oversaw the refurbishment of the White House, including the installation of gas lighting.
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Mrs. Polk served as President Polk's private secretary in the White House, the only First Lady to have acted in that capacity. The reverse depicts her working in the White House in support of her husband's career.
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Changes eyed in door-to-door mail delivery
Published: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 11:09 a.m.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service wants to end door-to-door delivery for new homes in favor of curbside service and neighborhood cluster boxes.
A House panel is considering legislation that would take that one step further, phasing out door-to-door delivery for nearly all Americans.
The proposal is part of a broad reform effort designed to cut costs at the cash-strapped agency by up to $4.5 billion a year. The Postal Service had a $16 billion loss last year.
In a change the Postal Service began in April, people moving into newly built homes will receive curbside or neighborhood cluster box service.
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A North Carolina man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to attacking his estranged wife with a hammer after she rejected his proposal that they reconcile.
Sixty-nine-year-old Raul H. Garcia was sentenced Monday by an Allen Superior Court judge who gave him 218 days' credit for time served in the Allen County Jail. Garcia had previously pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery.
The Journal Gazette reports police say Garcia came to Fort Wayne from North Carolina in July so his wife could sign divorce papers, but instead asked if they could reconcile.
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HUNTINGTON, N.Y., Jan. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- In a unanimous decision issued yesterday, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York upheld a July, 2012 ruling by Suffolk County Surrogate's Court Judge John M. Czygier Jr. against BNY Mellon and its co-fiduciaries in the ongoing battle over the alleged mismanagement by BNY Mellon of the multi-million dollar estate of Norman Mercer. Mr. Mercer, a renowned sculptor and international businessman, died in his East Hampton home in November of 2007 at the age of ninety-one.
In 2012 BNY Mellon tried to seek the removal of the court-appointed guardian of Norman Mercer's great grandson, grandnieces, grandnephews and unborn heirs. Judge Czygier had appointed the guardian, known as a guardian ad litem, nine months earlier to protect the children's financial interests in an estate accounting battle between BNY, its co-fiduciaries, and Mr. Mercer's sons.
Judge Czygier had made the legally mandated appointment of the guardian in order to protect the interests of all of the underage and unborn beneficiaries of Norman Mercer's Will. The executors of the Mercer estate, BNY Mellon, Carol Mercer who is Norman Mercer's fourth wife, and Martin D. Newman filed a petition in Surrogate's Court to remove the court appointed guardian.
Norman Mercer's sons David Mercer and Howard Mercer argued passionately to have a court-appointed guardian remain in place to protect their father's infant and unborn heirs. Judge Czygier ruled against BNY and its co-fiduciaries in July of 2012. BNY, together with its co-fiduciaries, appealed that ruling.
In its ruling yesterday the Appeals Panel unanimously found that Judge Czygier had acted properly in denying BNY Mellon's motion to remove the court-appointed guardian ad litem.
In a lawsuit currently pending in federal district in New York, Howard and David Mercer accuse Martin Newman and BNY, under the direction of Joseph Samulski, the Chief Fiduciary Officer of BNY Mellon Wealth Management, of initiating, approving, and aiding Carol Mercer's alleged illegal invasion of the corpus of trusts established by Norman Mercer in a scheme to loot the trust's assets.
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Qosmos has announced new milestones in the detection of encrypted traffic and in protocol signature coverage. Qosmos latest software can accurately classify traffic encrypted with SSL/TLS (e.g., Google, Facebook, WhatsApp), P2P traffic (e.g., BitTorrent, MuTorrent, Vuze), and Skype, while preserving the privacy of communication content. These new classification techniques mean that traffic optimization, policy enforcement, and user experience are largely unaffected by encryption. In respect wit...
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While DevOps promises a better and tighter integration among an organization's development and operation teams and transforms an application life cycle into a continual deployment, Chef and Azure together provides a speedy, cost-effective and highly scalable vehicle for realizing the business values of this transformation. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Yung Chou, a Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, will present a unique opportunity to witness how Chef and Azure work tog...
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The Internet of Things can drive efficiency for airlines and airports. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Shyam Varan Nath, Principal Architect with GE, and Sudip Majumder, senior director of development at Oracle, will discuss the technical details of the connected airline baggage and related social media solutions. These IoT applications will enhance travelers' journey experience and drive efficiency for the airlines and the airports. The session will include a working demo and a technical d...
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Between the mockups and specs produced by analysts, and resulting applications built by developers, there exists a gulf where projects fail, costs spiral, and applications disappoint. Methodologies like Agile attempt to address this with intensified communication, with partial success but many limitations. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Charles Kendrick, CTO at Isomorphic Software, will present a revolutionary model enabled by new technologies. Learn how business and deve...
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Developing software for the Internet of Things (IoT) comes with its own set of challenges. Security, privacy, and unified standards are a few key issues. In addition, each IoT product is comprised of (at least) three separate application components: the software embedded in the device, the back-end service, and the mobile application for the end user's controls. Each component is developed by a different team, using different technologies and practices, and deployed to a different stack/target –...
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Last week the Rolla Public Library partnered with the Missouri Geological Survey and Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to provide programming for families and youth at the library as part of the library's summer reading program, "Dig Into Reading."
The theme for the week of June 3 was Digging for Hidden Treasure and had events for everyone.
On Monday, June 3, geologist Vicki Voigt and Hylan Beydler, information officer with the Division of Geology and Land Survey of Rolla, provided a program appealing to all rock hounds called Minerals in Everyday Life.
Participants learned that a cellphone contains several minerals among other interesting facts. Attendees also had the opportunity to view and handle items containing minerals.
On Thursday, June 6, families were invited to attend the Rock Road Show. Geologist Neil Elfrink was on hand to identify rock and mineral samples that families brought from home.
Families had the opportunity to create their own rock collecting boxes made from pizza boxes donated by Pizza Hut and Pizza Inn.
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GoIslanders.com caught up with Assistant Coach Geoff Grawn off the court with a Q&A:
GI: What does it mean to be a part of the Islanders women's basketball family?
GG: For me, it means success and to be a part of a winning tradition, doing everything right, doing things that Coach Chadwick wants us to get done, but mainly success.
GI: What are you most looking forward to this season?
GG: To get back on the winning track.
GI: What is one word to describe yourself?
GG: Anal retentive
GI: Growing up who was your sports idol?
GG: Brett Favre
GI: Favorite arena/place to coach in?
GG: American Bank Center
GI: What is your favorite quote?
GG: "Speak kind words, hear kind echoes."
GI: What is your favorite sport to watch other than basketball?
GG: Football … Packers for sure.
GI: Biggest sports icon or celebrity you have ever met?
GG: I haven't met a lot of them, but Tom Izzo was one of them. I enjoyed meeting him and working his camp.
GI: Favorite place to eat on the road while recruiting?
GG: Which Wich, if the place we go has a Which Wich.
GI: What is one random fact about you that most people don't know?
GG: My wife and I are expecting our first child in November.
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Adphoto is an advertising photography and digital imaging company. My parents established it 33 years ago. It's Good Stuff.
We'd like to develop the stock photography side of our business. For that, we need the ability to search for images and give clients thumbnails before pulling out the original images from our archives. The Digital Asset Management for Photographers book recommended a hard-disk based archive, but I wanted to make something work without disrupting the office (or my spare time) too much. =)
Right now, we use a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to keep track of CDs and their contents. Our digital librarian is in charge of assigning numbers to CDs and describing the contents of the CD using keywords and phrases. When someone asks for stock shots with a certain keyword, she searches her Excel file and then physically retrieves the CDs in order to make thumbnails. Our previous digital librarian started filing copies of pictures in a directory tree arranged by subject, but this was not accompanied by metadata, and it was hard to keep up to date.
Our librarian has been experimenting with iView Media Pro and Extensis Portfolio. After some poking around, I found out how to do offline indexing in Extensis Portfolio. That would allow us to index thousands and thousands of CDs while keeping thumbnails on the hard drive. iView also has this feature, so we just need to play around with it and see which interface we like best.
My Adphoto goals for the next two weeks (I have to go back to Canada in two weeks!) are to:
- Improve and document the workflow for digital images
- Transfer the website to another host (must meet Luis Buenaventura)
- Contract out the redesign of the website and the development of a Flash portfolio viewer (might be able to do the Flash portfolio viewer myself if I can find a good photoblog script)
Improving the workflow would include:
- File and folder naming conventions to support quick indexing and retrieval
- How to index images
- How to retrieve images for comps
- How to retrieve images for use
This will be fun. Hectic, but fun.
I'd love to hear about any questions, comments, suggestions or links that you might have. Your comments will not be posted on this website immediately, but will be e-mailed to me first. You can use this form to get in touch with me, or e-mail me at [email protected] .


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Although there are approximately ten varieties of kiwi fruit, the ones found in the market are generally the large, egg-sized, sweet, green kiwi. However, a less common gold kiwi is also available. Sweeter and a little smaller than the green kiwi, the gold kiwi can be identified by its bronze skin and its bright yellow fruit inside.
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Ex-ESPN president will speak at UA on Thursday
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TUSCALOOSA | A former ESPN president will discuss the cultural importance of sports during a
question-and-answer session Thursday on the University of Alabama campus.
George Bodenheimer will speak at 4 p.m. at the Ferguson Theatre. The event is free and open to the public.
Bodenheimer served as the cable sports network's president from 1998-2012. He is now executive chairman of ESPN Inc. and has spent more than 30 years working for ESPN.
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Bike Hugger is visiting Shanghai for the Intel Developer Forum. We'll ride, meetup, and blog the mobile social. The plan is to meet at the Shanghai International Convention Center to start with routes, stops, and locations TBD.


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Plans hatching at Plymouth State University's new business incubator
By Warren Johnston
Valley News
Sunday, December 8, 2013
(Published in print: Monday, December 9, 2013)
A dozen or so local, state and federal officials packed tightly into the foyer of the gleaming new Enterprise Center on Bridge Street in Plymouth last week, waiting to tour the building.
Mark Scarano, chief executive officer of the Grafton County Economic Development Council, had just enough room to make opening remarks and head the group in the right direction to start exploring the $2 million facility, the latest of the state's five business incubators.
The three-story, 9,000-square-foot Plymouth incubator, a partnership between the council and Plymouth State University, joins facilities in Manchester, Keene and North Conway, and the Dartmouth Regional Technology Center in Lebanon, which is one of the largest business incubators in New England.
It is the result of a lengthy collaborative effort between public entities and private investors, and is another key piece in the strategy to create new businesses and jobs in Grafton County, Scarano said.
"We wouldn't be here without the great support of our congressional delegation and from the Economic Development Administration, which provided much of the funding we needed," Scarano said, with a nod to EDA Regional Director Willie Taylor, who was getting a first look at the nearly finished building during Wednesday's tour.
When Taylor was last in Plymouth, in 2011, the facility was in the planning stages. He toured the abandoned shell of the old Richelson's Department Store, which still stood on the corner site. The 1937 cornerstone from the old building is now embedded in a wall in the foyer of the new Enterprise Center. A plaquecommemorating the remarkable history of the founder of the store, a Jewish immigrant who, as a young man, escaped from Imperial Russia along with his younger sister, will soon be mounted under the stone, Scarano said.
Before the EDA will provide funding, a project must fit basic requirements: It must be a collaborative effort; the businesses and jobs created have to fit in the global economy; the environmental impact of the building has to be minimal; and the project has to help reposition jobs in an area that has suffered some sort of economic setback, such as industry closings or agriculture downturns, Taylor said.
"This project fits all those criteria, and you should be very proud of it," he told the tour group and members of the Plymouth Regional Chamber of Commerce, who were meeting in the building. "This is the kind of project that our funding is set up to help."
Studies have shown that the Economic Development Administration gets some of the highest returns from investments in incubators. When they are tied to institutions, such as Plymouth State and Dartmouth College, they are even more successful, Taylor said later.
The building had 12 funding sources, with the EDA providing the largest share, $781,000. Some $700,000 more was raised from private businesses through the New Hampshire tax credit program, Scarano said.
Since opening in October, the center, which is structured to help startup software, accounting, defense and security firms, has leased all of the space available to three software firms, said the center's executive director, Michael Tentnowski, who also teaches at Plymouth State's College of Business Administration.
A new round of funding is scheduled to kick in after the first of the year, and the money will be used to complete the building during the first quarter, making room for six to eight new companies that are on a waiting list, Tentnowski said.
The businesses typically remain in incubators for 36 months before they are ready to move into permanent facilities.
Companies in the Plymouth Center will likely follow that pattern, he said.
The high-tech, highly secure facility also has a small, black-walled, sound-deadened room with one-way glass that allows students and other observers to watch meetings without disturbing the participants, Scarano said.
"The contractors call this the 'creepy room,' " he said during the tour.
The center has created seven new jobs thus far, and the facility also is functioning as a place for business monitoring and business education for professionals. A recent workshop attracted 230 participants from 35 companies from the Plymouth community outside of PSU, Tentnowski said.
The largest and the most successful part of the entrepreneurial picture in the region is the Dartmouth Regional Technology Center in Lebanon's Centerra Park, which Taylor and other officials visited later in the day Wednesday.
Originally built in 2006 and expanded in 2012, the 54,000-square-foot building, a partnership among the Grafton Development Council, the North Country Council and Dartmouth College, has provided at least 250 jobs and has helped launch about 35 companies, Scarano said, adding that the project was primarily funded through the Economic Development Administration.
Standing in a second-floor conference room overlooking the glass atrium in the center of the expanded building, Taylor and the other touring officials looked down on a first-floor courtyard with patio tables and chairs, and then through the surrounding glass walls into the laboratories of GlycoFi Inc.
Although GlycoFi is now a successful biotech company owned by Merck & Co., the firm's presence in the incubator makes the Dartmouth Regional Technology Center financially sustainable, said Gregg Fairbrothers, founding director of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network, which oversees the incubator.
GlycoFi is one of the incubator's big success stories, along with the biofuel company Mascoma Corp. and Adimab, which is developing yeast-based antibody technology.
Biotech companies generally stay in incubators from five to seven years, Fairbrothers said.
Adimab and Mascoma grew and built or bought buildings nearby, but GlycoFi decided to move back to the DRTC after the company was purchased by the international pharmaceutical firm, which was fortunate for the incubator. Having a permanent tenant in half the building helps subsidize the startup biotech companies in the other half, Fairbrothers said.
"We are working to see that the efforts of the DRTC are helping to develop companies that will develop and grow and stay in the area," he said.


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The Sessh, an Eagle-based band comprised of members of Frogs Gone Fishin,' The Big Motif and Royal Peeps, brings its New Orleans-inspired funk along with elements of electronica, jam and rock to three20south tonight.
Members include Cristian Basso on bass, MIDI bass and vocals, Trevor Jones on guitar and Jeff Jani on drums.
Basso has performed with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bo Diddley, and Lifetime Grammy Achievement winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee, Leo Nocentelli of The Meters.
He credits Diddley for inspiring him to pursue the MIDI bass, which is used as both a MIDI instrument - generating low-end sounds and FX - and to trigger production changes during live performances. A blend of vintage and MIDI tones creates the sound the band calls "Sessh Sauce."
The Sessh came together in 2011. Since then, it has supported artists including Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Boom Box, JJ Grey and Mofro, The Pimps of Joytime, Particle and Tea Leaf Green. For its first Breck performance as a group, The Sessh promises "music for music lovers" and "a lot of dance music."
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Preliminary work on a $1.6 million project to upgrade the intersection of Acme, Pike and Jefferson streets in Marietta could begin this fall, with completion scheduled in 2014.
Members of Marietta City Council's streets and transportation committee were updated on the project this week.
"The final design plans will be completed March 1, and preliminary legislation approving the project for (Ohio Department of Transportation District 10) will be ready at the next regular city council meeting on Feb. 7," said Councilman Denver Abicht, D-at large, who chairs the streets committee.
The project includes upgraded traffic signals, additional turning lanes, new signage, and new Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant sidewalk ramps, he added.
ODOT District 10 engineer Alan Craig said the city engineer's office produced the plans, and final tracings are under way.
"On May 6 we'll send those plans to our central office in Columbus where a bid package will be prepared," he said. "We currently have an Aug. 1 sale date for bid openings on the project."
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Changes coming to Acme, Pike and Jefferson streets:
The intersection of Acme, Pike and Jefferson streets is scheduled for $1.6 million worth of improvements, including traffic signal, signage and turning lane upgrades.
Preliminary work on the project could begin this fall, but major construction is expected to begin in the spring of 2014.
The improvements will include the widening of Acme Street from the Riverview Credit Union property to Pike Street in order to develop dual left turns onto Pike Street at the intersection.
The project is being financed through the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Wood, Washington, Wirt Interstate Commission.
Source: ODOT and City of Marietta engineering office.
Craig said once that occurs it usually takes about a month to bring a contractor on board.
"By that time it will be around Sept. 1, just before the annual Ohio River Sternwheel Festival takes place, and we have a policy not to close lanes on area roadways at that time," he said. "So the contractor may not be able to begin any major construction until the following year, although he could begin some preliminary work this fall."
Complete road closures are not anticipated, but some traffic lanes will have to be closed during the construction period in 2014.


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Wilson: Raiders savor 1st victory
Gaitan Rodriguez took a step back from the ring of Red Raiders and let his team have its moment. It had been a long, long time coming.
The seven losses this season prior to Friday night's 21-0 blanking of Kennedy has been only part of the story. There's a lot more than football here. Since the last taste of victory over Watertown last Thanksgiving there has been a perfectly awful off season and a new coach.
You bet this one tasted good. So Rodriguez, the first-year coach and former Red Raider himself, let the players have their moment and just smiled the big smile of a guy on a good night rebuilding a program.
"It feels great," said Rodriguez. "I just wanted to take a moment and let them celebrate. They're maturing as a football team and it is fun to stand back and watch them act like little kids."
Torrington's 6-foot-1, 260 lb. lineman Ernie Tracy admitted this one had a special feel to it.
"It's been a rough season the last seven weeks, this is good for the program," said Tracy. "Since the off-season we've been taking hits, we lost a coach, we have a new coach and new program. This has been a long time coming.'
All of the attention is on the field now and the Raiders showed the Eagles (1-7) a team that is progressing. The defense pitched a shutout while stopping Kennedy repeatedly inside their own territory.
On the other side of the ball, Torrington showed a diversity with a large dose of efficiency. Rugged sophomore Tyler Marens rushed for 119 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries. Quarterback Connor Finn threw for 193 yards (14-for-19) with Nate Manchester (6-54), and Desmond Langs (6-93) providing reliable and dangerous targets.
Torrington came close in a loss to Holy Cross a week ago. This time an improving team got over the top.
"You are seeing a maturing team," said Finn. "We're getting more comfortable with game experience at the varsity level. We're getting our whereabouts and getting to know what it is like."
The Raiders may have sealed this one up early if not on the scoreboard in the head. Kennedy took its second possession down to the Torrington 9-yard line only to be stopped four times on running plays without getting a yard.
Kennedy coach Chris Sarlo saw the impact on his team.
"In the red zone (Torrington) stiffened up," said Sarlo. "You could see the deflation (in our team) from failing that close. We were not able to score and it burst our bubble. For all intense and purposes the game was over in the first quarter."
Torrington still had to get on the board and they did that after stopping Kennedy. The Raiders went 91 yards on 12 plays highlighted by a couple of passes to Nate Bresson (20 yards) and Langs (2 for 45 yards) and capped off with an 18-yard scoring strike to a wide open Nate Manchester in the right corner of the end zone.
With Kennedy offering no passing attack, it became a matter of Torrington adding some insurance and that came in third quarter. In an impressive time-consuming drive. Torrington took the opening kickoff of the second half and went 75 yards in 12 plays with Marens going in from a yard out. The drive took six minutes.
After a Kennedy fumble the Raiders upped the lead to 21-0, going 30 yards in five plays with Marens going in from three yards out.
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Whole Foods Market, the national grocer coming soon to Frisco, is now accepting applications for employment.
The store is set to open in late spring, and is looking to hire more than 100 team members.
Positions are available in produce, grocery, meat and seafood, bakery, specialty, prepared foods, whole body, customer service and retail support. The company said it is seeking "foodies, outdoor enthusiast, entrepreneurs and people wanting to work for a high-energy, positive and mission-driven company."
Part-time and full-time positions are available, and company benefits are available based on service hours and include a grocery discount and ongoing growth and education opportunities.
Positions are posted online for two weeks, and application dates and deadlines vary.
Currently, there are two postings, one for the store data administrator and one for specialty team leader. Assistant team leader and department buyer jobs will be posted Feb. 24. Applications for cashier and other team member positions will be available March 3.
Interested applicants can also receive real-time updates and learn more about what's happening behind the scenes on the store's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/WholeFoodsFrisco. Whole Foods Market Frisco is located at 261 Lusher Court, Frisco, CO 80443.


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I have made the transition from Macdraft (which kept crashing disastrously) with relief.
QCAD has a different concept which took a little learning but I am now becoming quite adept (and it hasn't crashed once!).
However, I am having problems printing.
My drawings generally have two layers;- one is a template with fixed information and drawing references, date etc, whilst the other is the drawing itself. When printing, the template seems to rule and is scaled to fit the paper size. This means that generally, the drawing itself does not fit the paper size available and the detail is lost. I need to scale the template or the drawing so that they both make best use of the paper size available.
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KUWAIT CITY (WOMENSENEWS)--If Salwa Al-Jassar wins an election on May 17, she could become one of the first women to win a place in Kuwait's 50-seat National Assembly.
But the 49-year-old Al-Jassar emphasizes that a woman's right to run for office--legalized just three years ago--and her ability to do so are two different things.
A standard qualification for any politician in the heavily clannish process, she says, is membership in one of the country's prominent families.
And for the 28 women running in this election--which will replace a government dissolved by the emir in March--that's doubly true.
"My family's support will take care of 70 percent of my campaign since I come from an elite but a traditional family of Kuwait that has the social power," Al-Jassar said in a recent interview in her office in Hawally as she fixed her black headscarf on her Persian blue shalwar suit. "If a family does not support, then voters' common argument is why should we support?"
Her husband and brother are managing her campaign, which in accordance with Kuwaiti law restricts flyers and posters on the street but allows them as newspaper ads or at campaign headquarters.
Al-Jassar, chair of the nongovernmental Women Empowerment Center in Al-Yarmouk, said she prepared for more than five years for this run to represent the second constituency, a prosperous central metropolitan area of Kuwait City.
She wants to join the National Assembly because she feels women should be involved in the decision-making process.
Family Strength
The U.S.-educated professor of education at Kuwait University, whose resume includes a stint on the committee for women's affairs in the previous parliament, says her family--among the traditional elites here--is her best political asset. And, in this, she doesn't see herself as so unusual.
"I ask why Mr. Clinton stands beside Hillary Clinton during her speeches," she says, referring to the presidential candidate. "It is because if you want to appear strong, you have to be strong from within; within your family."
Fatima Al-Abdali, a journalist, environmental engineer and activist for women's rights, is running to represent the first constituency, which is located largely in the eastern part of Kuwait City.
"Family plays the highest role," Al-Abdali agrees. "If they are supportive, they can attract others."
The Kuwaiti work force is 32 percent female, according to 2001 statistics from the United Nations Development Program, and female literacy is 91 percent, which is the highest among Arab nations. But the strong customs of the country pose a barrier to women's political entry and advancement.
Diwaniyas are a prime example.
Traditionally these were tents with pillows that served as the office from which the emir, or head of state, would address citizens' concerns. Today they are buildings throughout the country--commonly with exquisite interiors--where Kuwaitis gather in their free time to talk, watch television or play cards.
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Political candidates set up their own diwaniyas. Often these are huge air-conditioned outdoor election tents along major thoroughfares where candidates mingle with voters, who often partake of free buffets.
But despite the central role of diwaniyas in the political culture, female candidates cannot enter them unless they are accompanied by men.
"Although I work with men, I cannot go to diwaniya alone since women aren't supposed to," said Al-Abdali.
If women do manage to breach the all-male National Assembly it's questionable how much influence they could have in a political system bogged down by power struggles, resignation of governments and frequent dissolution of parliament by the emir, who controls the appointment of the prime minister. The latest dissolution is the fifth since Kuwait's independence from Britain in 1961.
The Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union says Kuwait's rank is among the lowest worldwide with regards to the percentage of women in ministerial positions at 6.7 percent. In 2005, Kuwait appointed Massouma al-Mubarak as its first female cabinet member as planning minister and minister of state for administrative development affairs.
In 2006, 27 women also ran for parliament in the first election open to female candidates but none managed to win.
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Tribal politics are another factor hindering women's entrance to the male-dominated political realm.
Although it's not legal, tribes and sects often hold their own nominating processes to ensure against vote-splitting in the official election.
"These tribes take women in buses and ask them to choose their male candidate," said Al-Abdali. To withstand the pressure, she says a woman needs a strong faction holding together around her.
To curb tribal politics, the National Assembly in 2006 reduced the number of electoral districts to five from 25. The idea was to make fewer, bigger districts that would dilute highly local tribal allegiances and make candidates more responsive to voters' needs.
Now voters cast their ballots for their top four candidates and the top 10 candidates in each district wins a seat.
But women's rights advocates say the reform makes it harder for women to break in. In the smaller districts of the past, women would have run in smaller fields, which would have improved the mathematical odds of success.
In the larger district system, however, fields are larger and the female-to-male ratio is lower, reducing women's chances in a society deeply skeptical of women's right to run government. Focus group studies conducted by Freedom House have found that many Kuwaitis think it is un-Islamic to elect female leaders.
Aisha Al-Rushaid, a political activist, journalist and a businesswoman in her 40s, ran for parliament in 2006, the first year it was possible for women to participate. She made a name for herself by breaking the social prohibition against women going to diwaniyas alone. As part of her failed bid, she says she campaigned alone at diwaniyas throughout Kuwait City.
This time, after the hate mail and defaced campaign posters of her previous effort, Al-Rushaid has chosen not to run again.
Instead, she is trying the more typical route for women: selection, not election.
"I am not running for elections because they are thinking of selecting me as a minister," Al-Rushaid said.
Sharmeen Akbani Gangat received her master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in New York City. Prior to Columbia, she was a radio producer with United Nations Radio in New York. In March 2008, she traveled to Kuwait to cover this story.
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It doesn't take a math major to see that something isn't adding up when it comes to conventional four-year bachelor's degrees.
Public-college costs have skyrocketed over the past five years, bringing the total average annual price of an in-state education to $17,860, according to the College Board. Private-college costs are even more alarming, approaching $40,000 a year. Students who have borrowed to pay those prices are entering into the workforce with an average of $26,600 in student debt, and many are carrying much more.
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More bad news: The unemployment rate for bachelor's degree recipients between the ages of 20 and 24 is 5.9%, lower than the national unemployment rate but a discouraging statistic for those who assumed a degree would result in an immediate paycheck. With the costs high and the return uncertain, not a few parents and policymakers are asking whether a four-year college degree is worth the time and the cost.
But the prospects for someone entering the labor market sans a bachelor's degree are far worse. The unemployment rate for recent high school grads is a whopping 27%, and career options are disappearing fast. Nearly four of every five jobs destroyed in the recession were held by workers with a high school diploma or no diploma at all. The lifetime earnings for a bachelor's recipient are about $1 million more than for a high school graduate.
By 2020, the percentage of jobs that don't demand a post–high school credential will shrink to 36%, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. "Employers are requiring more education at the entry level," says Andrew Hanson, an analyst for the center. "They won't accept you if you don't have some sort of postsecondary credential or award."
So where does the high school graduate with no desire to attend Flagship U and even less desire to flip burgers end up? That's what Jo Holland wondered when she graduated from high school without "the urge to go to college like all my peers," she says. Holland worked at a hostel in Chile before enrolling in college-level Spanish courses in England. She was unmotivated by her coursework and returned home to the Washington, D.C., area without a degree. Then she found an event-management course at a local for-profit college. The coursework appealed to her artistic sensibilities and, at $275 per class, it was reasonably priced. Holland completed her classes in less than five months and landed a gig at a local event-décor company.
If, like Holland, you are looking for an alternative to the traditional four-year degree at a residential college, you can find certificate or degree programs that will get you into the working world faster, cheaper or both.
1. Pick Up a Certificate
Almost 30 million jobs in the U.S. pay $35,000 or more and don't require a bachelor's degree, according to the Georgetown center. But that doesn't mean your education can stop after high school. Most middle-wage jobs -- $35,000 to $75,000 a year -- in fields with increasing demand, such as health care, information technology and public services, require some form of post–high school certification.
Professional certification is an affordable way to increase your employment potential or enhance your value to employers once you are on the job. And the earnings boost a certificate provides isn't anything to scoff at. In fact, more than one-fourth of those holding postsecondary licenses or certificates earn more than the average bachelor's degree recipient, according to Harvard University's 2011 "Pathways to Prosperity" report. Says Hanson, "It's increasingly becoming a matter of which occupations or industries you go into as opposed to, say, level of education."
You can find certification programs through community colleges, for-profit schools or corporate programs; they'll vary in price, length of study and academic prerequisites. For instance, becoming a certified nursing assistant typically requires coursework at a community college plus clinical hours at a health facility and a passing score on a certifying exam. To earn an information-technology certificate from the Microsoft IT Academy (one of a number of industry-related certifying programs), for example, you'd complete Microsoft-approved classes at an educational institution, such as a community college, then take exams that test your proficiency with Microsoft products. (See information on the Microsoft program.)
Jay Soelberg, a 20-year veteran of the IT industry, is earning a certificate to buff his career credentials after recently losing his job. He is working his way independently through a Cisco Networking certification. Even though he's found another position, losing his job persuaded Soelberg to add a specialty to his résumé. He passed his first test in October and is working toward his second. Because he chose to study independently, instead of through classes, his costs are minimal. So far, he has spent only about $800 on books, videos and testing fees. He says of the certificate, "It shows an employer that I can hit the ground running instead of needing a mentor."
2. Get an Associate's Degree
Holders of associate's degrees are in increasing demand in today's workforce. In fact, employers are planning to hire one-third more associate's degree earners this year than last, according to Michigan State University's 2012–2013 "Recruiting Trends." That will far exceed the increase in demand for bachelor's degree holders.