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I want to monitor an intranet site and wrote a loginscript. However I need the script to do something and return a value to confirm that the site loaded.
The script so far:
$username ="xxxx";
$ie= new-object -com internetexplorer.application;
$ie.visible = $true;
$ie.Document.getElementById("username").value = $username;
$ie.Document.getElementById("password").value = $password;
while ($ie.busy -eq $true)
start-sleep -milliseconds 1000;
So now I need some function to confirm that the site loaded, I tried select-string to check for a word on the site but it didn't work.
Thanks in advance...
$webClient = new-object System.Net.WebClient$data = $webClient.DownloadString($url)
After that code, you do better to have a time to load dom object.If script try to getElementById before read dom object, error will happen.
sleep(a few sec) or function(cheek to read object that you need)
The problem with this site is that it allways need authentication so when you run
You get a 401- unautherized . Even if the script has logged in and loaded the site it calls a new object and need a new authentication. Thats why I need something that can read diectly off the site.
I can add that the login is a IE win32 dialogbox
when you authenticated with your previous script, then the page is loaded into IE, so why not query for the page content?
This returns text, and you can then check if it is what you expected it to be.
Note that IE behaves differently when User Account Control is enabled. It then may change objects based on whether the loaded webpage is Intranet or Internet, and your script may loose control.
Another interesting approach to solve this is to use the old com object Shell.Application:
$shell = New-Object -com Shell.Application
This line accesses any open IE instance:
PS > $shell.Windows() | Where-Object { $_.Document.GetType().Fullname -eq 'mshtml.HTMLDocumentClass' }
This way, you can also automate the content, and this works even for web sites that you manually launched and logged into manually. It does not apply to your login project, but assume there is a webpage that requires complex login, and once logged in you would like to automate things. You could manually open the web page in IE, log in, and then access this instance by script and automate whatever you want.
Thx for the great reply!
$ie.document.body worked like a charm, I'm trying to find a property(?) that doesn't give me so much data back. My best attemp after some google so far is $ie.document.documentelement.innertext , allthough a way to only get the header or footer would be perfect.
The script works as it is and now ends a long string of attempts! So I thank you all for sharaing your knowledge.
Great that it worked!
You should try PowerShellPlus eventually. This IDE gives you intellisense-like help for object properties so it is easy to see what methods and properties any given object provides.
Holy crap, Powershell Plus is the s**t. All I have to do now is become a MS MVP so I get a license for free :)
Thx for the Powershell Plus tip, that is the best tip I've got in ages!
I'm a newbie Powershell, so this site and your advice are very helpful. I've used your way to access any open IE instance, but I can access an open Chrome or Firefox browser by this way.
Please tell me know how to do it with Chrome browser. Many thanks!
this was answered in another thread. You can only access IE browsers this way.
Used teh above example to log in to a webpage. Gets so far then a pop up appears asking for "User name" and "Password" with a button "OK" to complete the login.
The line below should be able to populate the "username" in the pop up but is that only if that is the correct element name?
$ie.Document.getElementById("Username").value = $username;
How can the element names of the pop up be determined from a 3rd party site so the fields can be filled in correctly as guessing the elementid is not right?
Making sense? Using ie explorer. Think is a really basic error I'm making.
Error message below
You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.At C:\powershell\power_ie_test.ps1:19 char:28+ $ie.Document.getElementById <<<< ("Username").value = $username; + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (getElementById:String) [], RuntimeException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull


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Greetings, everyone. We're currently in the process of planning a new media lab for our English department. We have a budget of about $50,000, though there are hints that we could get more if we could make a compelling enough case. At any rate, the lab's purpose will be to give students the chance to produce some really outstanding new media projects. These will likely range from website production to simple digital videos and on to fully interactive media (e.g., flash movies, videogames).
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You might find my story "Switching Art Students to GNU/Linux" helpful -- it's at http://business.newsforge.com/business/06/03/09/2238246.shtml?tid=37
Some of the comments there are quite negative, but I'm finding that everything's going really well for the students who have been using free software in my classes.
Wow, that's a great article, Leete. Thanks for sharing.
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Hello Matt,
I used to work in the newspaper industry (financial newspaper in Belgium (Flanders)) as a support engineer and the main focus there was on the proprietary tools like photoshop, quarxpress, Indesign dreamweaver amongst others on mostly heavy Mac machines (while mostly solaris was used as a back-end) for prepress ,graphs workflow etc...Up till now these are the main tools used in the newspaper industry (as far as the belgium situation is concerned)only the edp (IT) departement used to work with linux and some open source tools
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Following the lead of "Occupy Wall Street," demonstrators in Oakland and Berkeley rallied in the rain Monday against widespread unemployment and what they call corporate greed.
The Oakland demonstration drew about 500 people to Frank Ogawa Plaza in misty, cloudy conditions downtown.
Tatiana Fu- aau, a 21-year-old Oakland resident and junior at St. Mary's College of California, was one of the younger protesters. She said she was disappointed that more young people didn't join the gathering, despite the Columbus Day holiday.
"I think (protests like these) are part of an effective strategy, but at the end of the day, a rally like this isn't enough because everyone is coming together for the same cause so it doesn't change anything systemically," Fuaau said.
In Berkeley, about 35 demonstrators were out in the rain in front of a downtown Bank of America branch for the Occupy Berkeley gathering. People carried soggy signs about class warfare and economic inequity, but like the gathering in Oakland, the rally was peaceful and no arrests were made.
Mary Ann Uribe, a retired Berkeley attorney, said she came out to support the protester's message "that 99 percent of the people are being controlled by 1 percent of the wealthy is absolutely true. It's great to see people organized on this issue and say, 'we're not going to put up with this anymore.' "
Monday's protests followed the Occupy San Francisco demonstration in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco last week and Occupy San Jose at City Hall on Sunday.
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MORAGA -- Matthew Dellavedova pauses between bites of lunch to think of an answer.
School recently reconvened in Moraga and the reigning West Coast Conference player of the year has returned to campus after a summer spent as part of the Australian national team that reached the quarterfinals of the London Olympics.
"It was awesome," Dellavedova said. "It was one of my dream goals, ever since I was a little kid. To be able to go to the Olympics and represent your country, it doesn't get any better than that."
Dellavedova wasn't just a member of the team. He started all six games for the Boomers in London, averaging 7.3 points, 3.8 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. His best moment likely wasn't even a statistic, as Dellavedova set the screen that freed former Saint Mary's star Patrick Mills to hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to beat Russia.
And then there was the quarterfinal matchup against the United States. Australia lost 119-86, but only trailed by 2 midway through the third quarter and Dellavedova acquitted himself well against the likes of Chris Paul and Kobe Bryant.
It wasn't the first time Dellavedova found himself across from NBA-level talent. As a member of the Boomers in 2011, Dellavedova participated in games against France and Spain. That meant playing against the likes of Tony Parker and the Gasol brothers.
"Last year's experience was really good for me as well," Dellavedova said. "Playing against Tony Parker and the Spanish national team and things like that. I think it was a step up, so it was a good experience to play against them."
Dellavedova said his best non-basketball memories from London were walking with Australia in the opening ceremonies and getting a chance to watch Jamaican star Usain Bolt win the 200-meter dash.
But, with that over and classes back in session, Dellavedova is taking time to enjoy a simple lunch break. He grabbed a quick meal from the school cafeteria, munched while he stopped by McKeon Pavilion to do a round of interviews, then headed promptly back to the library to do some studying.
The typical college life for an atypical college athlete.
Dellavedova remains the same old kid as he enters his senior season. Of course, that isn't to say things aren't different from when he first joined the Gaels in 2009.
But the shine of stardom hasn't changed Dellavedova. He's back for his senior season, looking to put a cap on a career that should finish among the best, if not the best, in school history.
He'll do so with the same unassuming qualities he's always had.
That includes getting to know new teammates, while at the same time beginning to plan for how the Gaels will adjust to the loss of important pieces in Rob Jones, Clint Steindl and Kenton Walker II.
It's a work in progress at this early date, with practice time limited and new students focused on adjusting to school.
"Each team develops its own sort of identity throughout the season. You can't have it developed by now," Dellavedova said. "Our goal definitely is to win conference again and then do something in the (NCAA) tournament. We know it's going to be hard to win conference again but that's our goal, so that's what we're working toward right now."
But leading has always come naturally, and Dellavedova's got plenty of time to figure it all out.
For now, he's content to soak in the atmosphere as he readies for one last go-round with the Gaels.
"Last year, after the season, I was driving into school and it was a nice day and I thought when I eventually go off to wherever, I'll miss this," Dellavedova said. "Just driving into campus. It's such a nice place. All the people here are really cool and that's what makes the place special."


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To the editor: This was regarding an article in the Times-News on March 1 about Medicare paying $5.1 billion to bad nursing homes.
This amount was paid in the year 2009.
Is there no such thing as inspectors or bookkeepers that are supposed to oversee and check their reports?
Not only are residents often going without crucial help, how is a person to know which nursing home is honest and doing the right kind of elderly care?
We have the Internal Revenue Service checking on our income taxes. Why not put a czar in charge of inspecting skilled nursing homes?
Maybe they could bring into government some much-needed money.
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To the editor: The month of February was designated as Black History Month. Carter G. Woodson, the father of black history, organized the first Negro History Week. Later it was extended to a month.
Woodson, the son of former slaves, taught himself to read between back-breaking jobs in the fields. He financed his formal education by working in coal mines. He admonished blacks that if a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the world and stands in danger of becoming exterminated.
I challenge every black child to dream not just during a designated month but every month. Every dream is a goal with a date on it; if you can conceive it, believe it, you can achieve it.
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World Music Development will find out how much good you can do with one concert today in Breckenridge.
The nonprofit organization has a vision to create global peace and elevate life, one community at a time, through music. To this end, World Music Development has partnered with Boulder's Conscious Alliance and Hope for Children of Africa to bring Gift of Gab, of Blackalicious fame, to the Riverwalk Center in Breck tonight.
"I love the music of Gift of Gab, since he includes very conscious lyrics in his music that are very meaningful," said Saam Golgoon, of World Music Development, in an email. "He talks about world issues and problems. He is also a very humble man."
The goal of the concert is threefold: to raise awareness for World Music Development, to raise money for the Conscious Alliance and to collect musical instruments for distribution through Hope for Children of Africa.
"Conscious Alliance deals with hunger and youth empowerment right here in Colorado and the U.S.," Golgoon said. "We want our actions and events to show that not only do we work with organizations whose mission deals with issues in foreign countries, but we deal with issues right here in our own state and country, as well. We work locally and globally."
A portion of the ticket sales to tonight's Gift of Gab concert will be donated to the Conscious Alliance. Anna Taylor-Copeland, program manager for Conscious Alliance, said the group serves communities all over the nation, but one of the nonprofit's main targets is collecting food and goods for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
"We built an emergency food pantry there, and we take a big Penske truck up there with food and goods we've collected about once a month to keep it all filled," she said.
The money raised from today's concert will be used for travel and distribution costs to get a donation of skateboards to the people of Pine Ridge.
"It's one the poorest communities in the nation," Taylor-Copeland said. "The average income is about $6,300 per year, unemployment is between 80 (percent) and 85 percent, it has extreme economic isolation and the life expectancy there is only 47 years for men and 52 for women.
"We helped put in a skate park in October 2011, so were looking at doing more projects like that for healthy outlets and resources for the youth up there because they don't have much going on right now."
Taylor-Copeland said the cause should be an important one to Summit County because many people are unaware of the extreme poverty within our own nation, and it's crucial to give to and care about keeping people in the U.S. fed and healthy.
"We see all of this extreme poverty in other nations, so it's important for people to give back and help these communities that are kind of tucked under the rug" she said.
Hope for Children of Africa will be collecting musical instruments at the concert to deliver to the Gbarnga (pronounced Bonga) Community Learning Center, currently under construction in Bong County, Liberia.
"Anyone who brings a used music instrument, which can be a harmonica even, will get a $5 discount on the ticket price at the door," Golgoon said. "Individuals who have purchased a ticket in advance who bring in an instrument will receive a gift from us which will be either a double disc compilation CD of independent artists from across the U.S. or an original art work by local Alma artist Cat Roberts."
Golgoon said World Music Development has partnered with Hope for Children of Africa for a couple of small fundraisers in Alma the past eight months, and the partnership makes sense since the organization deals directly with war affected children in Liberia.
"The population that I'm most concerned about and that the president of Liberia has asked us to help with the most is the young adults who survived the 15-year war but weren't able to go to school," said Nancy Wood, co-founder of Hope for Children of Africa. "They're illiterate, underserved and disconnected."
Wood said anything to do with music, art or dance programs seems to do a phenomenal job with improving the literacy skills of these detached Liberian youth and reconnecting them with their culture.
"It was a way to engage them in that culture in Liberia," she said. "We collect musical instruments and art supplies, along with books - it gets youth connected with the program and allows them some self-expression. It heals them."
Hope for Children of Africa is collecting simple, easy to transport instruments to pass along to the youth of Liberia, along with about 5,000 books collected from Colorado libraries, Wood said.
"Harmonicas, drums, anything to do with African drums," she said. "Nonelectric, simple instruments, like flutes or worldly instruments to connect with other nations, too. Simple and easy to learn kind of musical instruments that are smaller; I don't want tubas because they're a little harder to transport."
Wood said finding support in Summit County for her organization's work isn't difficult because the community is genuinely interested in getting involved.
"Our local community, the people who have a life they enjoy, are really generous," Wood said. "They think globally; they aren't as caught up in their day to day lives because they are happy with their lives. ... These used books and used musical instruments mean so much to those kids because they make the connection that people in America know about us and care about us."
Golgoon said World Music Development's mission is important to him personally because he was born and grew up in Iran until the age of 14.
"I experienced war first hand during the Iran/Iraq war," he said. "I have experienced air raids first hand, and I do not wish that upon any child or human being. Since my move to the U.S. at age 15, I have made many wonderful friends through music. This is where my passion lies. I truly believe that music is the universal language that brings people together and can put their differences aside."


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King has been the voice of Islanders Men's Basketball for all but one year of the program's history, serving as the play-by-play broadcaster and the host of the weekly coach's show. He was the team's public address announcer in 1999-2000 and has also done PA for the Islanders in baseball, softball, volleyball, tennis and cross country in his time working with the program.
The Corpus Christi native previously worked with local radio station KSIX as a sports talk radio host, also selling advertising for the station, from 2004-12. He has also worked with the Corpus Christi IceRays hockey team in doing public address work and in-game promotions at their home contests.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Insect Control and Cotton Disease Research Unit
1a.Objectives (from AD-416)
Isolate and identify genes involved in the biosynthesis of phytotoxins involved in pathogenicity of fungal pathogen in cotton.
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
Phytotoxins that may be involved in the pathogenicity of fungal wilt pathogens that affect cotton yield and quality will be investigated. Specifically, the genes that control their biosynthesis or expression will be identified. The fungal compounds currently being considered for investigation are expected to be derived via a polyketide synthase. This will be confirmed using 13C-labelled feeding studies using singly and doubly labelled acetate under conditions that foster rapid production of the metabolites under investigation. Methods that suppress biosynthesis will also be determined. mRNA will be extracted from mycelium and a pair of degenerate primers corresponding to conserved regions of the ketoacyl synthases (KS) domain of the PKS genes will be used to amplify the KS domain of the PKS genes form the extracted mRNA. The expected base pair will be cloned and transformed into E. coli cells. Plasmids will be isolated from the transformed cells and the inserts sequences will be identified. Once PKS genes are substantiated based on the sequence homology to known fungal KS domain sequences, a pair of primers will be synthesized based on the cloned sequences. mRNA isolated at various incubation periods under both metabolite suppression and induction conditions will be used as a template in RT-PCR to analyze the expression profile of the PKS genes corresponding to the cloned fragments. This will enable us to identify the clones involved in metabolite biosynthesis.
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Yaakov Ariel, Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000. (2000)
Yaakov Ariel's Evangelizing the Chosen People dances through a minefield. Examining missions to Jewish people in (and from) American Christians, Ariel sensitively renders both sides of a history more accustomed to harsh polemics. On the one side, he examines the institutional histories and theological motivations of Christian missions to the Jews. On the other, he attends to the Jewish responses to those missions—which were far more varied than many people might like to admit. Ariel's book advances two important theses: 1) dispensational premillennialism provided the fuel in the engine for American evangelical missions to the Jews, 2) in surprising ways, missions have shaped Jewish-Christian relations in America. In Ariel's estimation, dispensational premillennialism was the primary motivator of American missions to the Jews: it offered frameworks for Christian understandings of Judaism and Jewish people, and instilled in many Christians an urge to convert "Israel." In dispensational theology, the Jewish nation has an important role to play in earth's Last Days: those who remain alive after the Great Tribulation will convert en masse to Christianity and usher in Christ's millennial kingdom. Thus, Jews hold an ambiguous place in dispensationalism: they need to convert to Christianity, but they are fundamentally different from all other people and have a special role to play in God's future plans. This twin emphasis on specialness and difference, Ariel argues, has created a number of paradoxes in Jewish-Christian relations. The Christians who worked the hardest to convert Jews often became ardent supporters of Zionism and nationalist projects in Israel. Because they thought Israel had a special past and future, missionaries learned much about Jewish life and became ambassadors to other Christians on behalf of Jewish culture and religion. Such missions have made it possible for Christian groups like Jews for Jesus and Messianic Judaism to emerge and to be welcomed into the evangelical fold. Because of the dispensationalist character of missions to the Jews, Ariel argues, today in America there are Christian congregations who celebrate Jewish ethnic heritage, churches where teenagers read the New Testament at their bar mitzvahs.
This book is heavy going. Ariel builds his case by carefully tracing the histories of many important missionary institutions, moments in mission history, Jewish responses to Christian missions, and twists in the story of Jewish-Christian relations. Most non-specialists will probably have a hard time appreciating the significance of this work—some sections seemed repetitive and dull, piling detail after detail about dispensationalist missionary organizations. But for those willing to move at Ariel's pace, the book proves rewarding. Careful and sensitive, this book takes its subjects very seriously even as Ariel's sense of humor shines through: "If the association between evangelical missionaries and Jewish Orthodox scholars was amazing, the encounter between the Southern Baptist missionaries and the Canaanites was almost in the realm of the unthinkable" (151). This encounter "in the realm of the unthinkable" connected a conservative Southern Baptist missionary with the hippest edge of the Israeli avant-garde on the issue of the separation of synagogue and state. Though his interactions with Israel's cultural elite, that missionary helped to forge a new language for Christianity: converts started calling themselves meshichi ("messianic") instead of the more familiar term notzri ("Christian") (155). Later in the book, Ariel carefully shows how this language became central to the self-understandings of Jews for Jesus and Messianic Judaism in America. Though he calls them "new religious movements" (222), Ariel notes that adherents think of themselves as "ur-Christians," having special affinity with Jesus and his disciples. Reversing a long history of responses to missions, these groups see conversion to Christianity as a way of connecting with their Jewish roots, of finding "authentic" Judaism and Christianity (198). The chapters on Jews for Jesus and Messianic Judaism would make for great discussion in an upper-level undergraduate class.


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Emily Thorne, the show's lead character, has consistently awesome style. We love this textured white, cap-sleeve dress that she's wearing in this scene—and especially the matching envelope clutch that she paired with it.
You can take the girl out of New York...
NYC transplant Zoe Hart settles in Alabama, but that doesn't mean Bilson's character takes on the southern style.
Here, she rocks a paisley-printed top, red pants and stilettos, and a mini red crossbody bag.
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Osage Beach Police Department officers, medical and fire department personnel responded to a two-vehicle accident about 11:20 a.m. July 12 at Osage Beach Parkway and Passover Road.
The crash occurred as the driver of a 2004 Dodge Neon, Amber Simpson 20, Washington, Mo., failed to stop for a red light and hit a 1994 Jeep Cherokee driven by 20-year-old Mackenzie Manzer from Camdenton who was making a left hand turn. The impact caused the Jeep Cherokee to go onto its side.
Initially serious injuries were reported; however, both drivers refused medical treatment.
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Chinese artists coming to WNC
Conductor, cellist to perform with Brevard Philharmonic on Nov. 10
Published: Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 1, 2013 at 2:06 p.m.
Two guest artists from China will join the Brevard Philharmonic for "A Tchaikovsky Afternoon" at 3 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Porter Center for Performing Arts at Brevard College.
The concert will be led by guest conductor Zhonghui Dai, chief conductor of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor of the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra. The program features "Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33," and the Symphony No. 4, op. 36 in F minor. The concert will open with Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture."
The soloist for the Variations will be Jiapeng Nie. He and the conductor met when the cellist was a student in China, but this will be the first time the two have performed together.
Zhonghui is professor of trumpet at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and has performed at the National Performing Arts Grand Theatre concert hall, Beijing Concert Hall, Forbidden City Concert Hall, Peking University and most major venues in China. He has conducted and given master classes in the United States, France, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
The conductor studied at the International University in San Diego and the School of Music at the University of Southern California and was awarded a fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, where he studied and collaborated with Seiji Ozawa and Simon Rattle. The conductor comes to North Carolina at the invitation of Brevard Philharmonic music director Donald Portnoy, who last year led master classes at the Central Conservatory.
Jiapeng studied in his native China, at the Morningside Music Bridge international music exchange in Calgary, Canada, the Höchschüle für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, Germany, and the International Great Mountains Music Festival & School in South Korea. He has performed with orchestras throughout the world and lives in Germany.
Jiapeng recently performed with the acclaimed pianist Bruno Canino at the Emilia Romagna Festival in Italy, with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra and did several concerts with a piano trio in Beijing.
"Variations on a Rococo Theme" is the closest Tchaikovsky ever came to creating a concerto for cello. The 1876 work is connected to the composer's love of Mozart, but with 19th-century Russian sensibilities.
The work consists of a main statement of the theme followed by seven variations, with progressive expansion and evolution of the theme's structure. The piece makes equal demands on the cello for rapid, virtuosic passages and singing, tender phrases, and masterfully balances the interplay between cello and accompaniment.
The complex first movement opens with the motive, a fanfare sounded first by the horns and bassoons and then by the trumpets, and the movement continues to develop new themes and modify the motive.
The second movement is melancholy with an initially subdued second theme rising from the clarinet and bassoon. The playful third movement has a colorful wind trio with frenzied piccolo outbursts.
The "Fate" motive returns in the final movement, which includes a theme based on a Russian folk song that escalates and turns into the fanfare. Tchaikovsky chooses to overcome "Fate," and the music triumphs over oppression as the symphony wraps up in a cacophonous close.
The concert opens with the Brahms overture, which he created as a musical thank-you to the University of Breslau for awarding him an honorary doctorate.
Known for his sense of humor, Brahms based the piece on student drinking songs.
Tickets are $30 or $35. Call 828-884-4221 or visit www.brevardphilharmonic.org for tickets or more information.
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SAN FRANCISCO—A television consultant claims that former Vice President Al Gore and others at Current TV stole his idea to sell the struggling network to Al Jazeera.
Los Angeles resident John Terenzio is demanding more than $5 million in a lawsuit quietly filed in San Francisco Superior Court Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges that Terenzio brought the idea of approaching Al Jazeera to Current TV board member Richard Blum in July. The lawsuit says Blum agreed to present Terenzio's plan to other board members and Gore.
Terenzio says he believes Gore turned down the proposal at that time.
Al Jazeera announced on Jan. 3 that it planned to buy Current TV for $500 million. Terenzio said that was the first he heard of the sale and alleges he is entitled to compensation.


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UPDATE -- April 1, 2011
On Saturday, April 2, 2011, beginning at 7:30AM, in an effort to keep participants safe during the Springtime Tallahassee Road Race and Parade, the Tallahassee Police Department will limit vehicle traffic along Monroe Street from Apalachee Parkway to Seventh Avenue. Motorists not attending these events are encouraged to seek alternate routes in an effort to avoid delays.
The following streets will be closed:
Beginning at 7:30AM, Monroe Street, from Apalachee Parkway to Tennessee Street is scheduled to be closed for the runners in the Springtime Road Race. It will reopen once all the runners turn onto Call Street.
Beginning at 6:30AM, Monroe Street from Seventh Avenue to Brevard Street is scheduled to be closed for parade staging.
Beginning at 10:00AM, Monroe Street from Brevard Street to Gaines Street is expected to close for the parade.
From 6:30AM-6:30PM, Duval Street from Pensacola Street to Park Avenue will be closed.
Eastbound Tennessee Street detours north on Duval Street to 6th Avenue. Continue on 6th Avenue to Thomasville Road, turn right then veer left onto Calhoun Street and continue to Tennessee Street.
Westbound Tennessee Street will detour north on Gadsden St. to 7th Avenue. Continue to Bronough Street, turn left and continue to Tennessee Street.
Tallahassee, Florida -- March 29, 2011 --
Springtime Detour information April 2, 2011
Eastbound Tennessee St. detours north on Duval St. to 6th Ave. Continue on 6th Ave. to Thomasville Rd. turn right then veer left onto Calhoun St. and continue to Tennessee St.
Westbound Tennessee St. will detour north on Gadsden St. to 7th Ave. continue to Bronough St. turn left and continue to Tennessee St.
Southbound Monroe St. will turn detour east at 6th Ave. continue to Magnolia Dr. turn right and follow Magnolia Dr. back to Monroe St.
Northbound Monroe St. will detour west at Gaines St. to Railroad Ave. follow Railroad (Macomb St. & Old Bainbridge Rd.) to Tharpe St., turn right and continue to Monroe St.
Westbound Apalachee Parkway drivers who wish to go south on Monroe St. should turn left at Magnolia Dr. and follow to S. Monroe St. Drivers wishing to head north should take the Franklin Blvd. exit continue to Tennesse St. then detour north on Gadsden St. to 7th Ave. continue to Monroe St.
Spring is in full bloom in the Capital City and what better way to celebrate than with a festival and parade? Springtime Tallahassee kicks off on April 1st with a Downtown GetDown. The fun continues on April 2nd with a grand parade and a day full of festivities in the downtown parks.
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So, after lots of kerfluffle, Elizabeth Moon is no longer invited as Guest of Honor to WisCon.
And, rather quickly, Juan Williams is no longer employed by NPR.
Some people are crying about free speech and all that, but that's silly. If an avowedly feminist, anti-racist, and progressive/left/whatever convention doesn't want to honor somebody who posted what seemed to lots of folks (including me) an Islamophobic and blazingly ignorant screed ... that seems like a fairly predictable outcome, one that maybe should have even happened sooner. It's not like Moon had been invited as guest of honor to the Newt Gingrich Sing-a-long -- it's WisCon! (And as Nick Mamatas points out, this is not the first con to disinvite a GoH.) She's welcome to attend WisCon if she wants, she just can't do it as a guest of honor.
With Juan Williams, NPR doesn't want to pay a guy who says he's scared of Muslims when they get on planes. NPR's not destroying his freedom of speech; they're deciding who they want to spend their money on. (And Fox News promptly gives him $2 million -- they, too, are deciding who they want to spend their money on.)
If my posting this causes the White Supremacist Sci-Fi Convention to decide not to make me a guest of honor in the future, that's okay. And if Fox News decides not to hire me, I'll understand. Really.
There are plenty of discussions of both of these topics happening all over the place (e.g., the WisCon News blog), if you're looking for more depth and chat about it all -- I particularly liked Cat Valente's post on Moon and Ta-Nehisi Coates's on Juan Williams.
21 October 2010
A Comment, Briefly
posted by Matthew Cheney
Labels: controversies
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Could someone please provide a link to the original Moon post, since I haven't read it?ReplyDelete
I happen to live in a country with a large Muslim population - Germany - and it's a complex, difficult situation here too, in part of course for different reasons.
Here's the original post.ReplyDelete
I'd thought I linked to something that linked right to it, but nope. If anybody knows of a good collection of links that shows the development of the discussion, I'd love to know about it. I looked around for some, but didn't have time to do a thorough search.
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STOCKTON - Authorities recovered a man's body from the Stockton Deep Water Channel on Saturday after a fisherman found it west of Morelli Park, police said. The fisherman flagged down a San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office boat about 12:25 p.m.
The decedent was described as a Latino or Asian male in his 20s, police said. He had been in the water for several days, officers said. There were no obvious signs of foul play, but the case is being investigated as suspicious, authorities said.
STOCKTON - The San Joaquin County Metro Narcotics Task Force served search warrants at eight locations in Stockton and Tracy on Friday in raids that resulted in three arrests and significant seizures of drugs, money and guns, authorities said.
The task force served the warrants with assistance from SWAT teams from the Stockton Police Department and the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office, officials said. Authorities searched six locations in Stockton and two in Tracy, including four Stockton warehouses. They seized 11 guns, 600 marijuana plants, more than 30 pounds of processed marijuana and more than $50,000 in cash, officials said.
Jason Elola, 37, of Tracy, and Daniel Deluca, 30, of Stockton, were arrested on suspicion of multiple crimes, authorities said. Erika Lopez, 32, of Stockton, was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment.
STOCKTON - A man was shot while working on his car about 10:10 a.m. Saturday in the 9200 block of North West Lane, police said. Two men approached the victim and fired multiple rounds, striking him once in a leg.
The victim was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The shooters were described as Asian who wore gray hooded sweatshirts and fled in a white Honda, police said.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
1a.Objectives (from AD-416):
Evaluate the efficacy of mating disruption delivered by puffers, targeting navel orangeworm infesting walnuts in Butte, Glenn, and Tehama counties. As part of this effort, determine the baseline populations of navel orangeworm in selected orchard blocks and the efficacy of current sanitation and/or other cultural practices.
1b.Approach (from AD-416):
Currently, there are 600 acres of walnuts participating in a mating disruption program targeting codling moth (Cydia pomonella) and an additional 200-400 acres will be added this year. Blocks with high and low navel orangeworm pressure will be selected and optimal puffer placement and supporting treatment regimes will be determined. Damage by navel orangeworm throughout the growing season will be monitored. Baseline studies to determine the level of sanitation will be performed in these orchards and the relationship between walnut sanitation and navel orangeworm infestation quantified. Populations will be monitored throughout the study using virgin-baited female traps provided by ARS. Growers, PCAs, and farm advisors will be trained in proper puffer installation, monitoring protocols for traps, lures, and canopy counts. Data will be pooled from the puffer demonstrations and emailed to participants on a timely basis.
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"Top Chef" fan favorite Casey Thompson has made her San Francisco debut with Aveline, a luxurious restaurant inside the recently-renovated Warwick Hotel. Thompson's focus is on farm-fresh, imaginative, often romantic versions of French and California classics.
You haven't had crab cakes until you've unwrapped a steamy box, decorative ribbon and all, of Thompson's hearty crab macarons. Truly brilliant.
Aveline is the Dallas native's first solo restaurant and the culmination of Thompson's experiences, including her recent years in Napa Valley helping wineries pair up with local farms. Aveline replaced the Tenderloin hotel's former eatery, La Scene. Also new: The European, a swanky, 40-seat bar specializing in craft cocktails from barman Adam Wilson, a veteran of Beretta. While the bar is sexy and masculine, the restaurant is demure and feminine, from the soft, button-tufted seating and neutral tones to the hexagonal Carrera marble tiles and dramatic, 300-bottle wine wall. It divides the restaurant and the open kitchen, which features a chef's counter, so you can see the culinary team, including sous chef Blake Askew and pastry chef Kaley Laird, hard at work.
We started with the crab macarons ($17), thick, meaty cakes presented in a candy box. Instead of blending the crab mixture with breadcrumbs, Thompson seared these beauties like sandwiches. Not only was the presentation genius -- who doesn't want a gift from the chef? -- but it worked on a technical level, too: The cakes stayed warm and benefited from the brief time they spent in hiding.
Another starter, the Vegetable Garden ($16) was vibrant and flashy, its colors catching my eye from across the 60-seat dining room: Chicory and piles of pureed black turtle beans looked like patches of dirt, from which radishes and peas grew amid swirls of mustard cream. I longed to ditch my fork and let my fingers "walk" around the paths.
Silverware was a must for the yolk beignet ($25), a savory, dome-shaped beignet topped with a sliver of Wagyu beef and a thin slice of lardo. When we cut into the pastry, which was sitting in a shallow bowl of fresh spinach and trotter sauce, a poached duck egg oozed its golden yolk, binding the flavors. Wow. We had similar love for the vegetarian favorite of the night, Fazzoletti ($19), delicate pasta handkerchiefs swimming in sweet corn pudding that was balanced with savory lime butter. Tempura squash blossoms provided texture and crunch.
The crunch continued with Thompson's fried chicken ($26), an upscale take on the Korean variety. It came with bright, pickled vegetables, including cauliflower, ginger and micro carrots, dots of red pepper sauce and kimchee powder, a dehydrated, ground version of the fermented pickled cabbage. The three pieces had all the crispiness and juiciness you want from this classic dish without even a hint of oil. Loved it.
The steak lovers at our table ordered the American ($36 per serving) and Japanese ($31 per ounce) Wagyu, seared on the outside, medium-rare throughout and beyond tender. If you haven't had Japanese Wagyu, it is an altogether different meat experience, so melt-in-your-mouth marvelous that the texture is more akin to seafood than beef. It was accompanied by uni mousse, which elevated the cuts even more. But, honestly for the price, the American version, with its whipped mushrooms and pickled onion, was equally exquisite.
Our only dissatisfaction was with dessert. We ordered the Batter Bowl ($13), a throwback to childhood, when we'd lick the brownie bowl clean. Here, the chocolate "batter" -- a blend of cashew, prunes, white bean, sweet potato, dark chocolate and hazelnut -- was tasty, but anticlimactic. After a meal of such delicacy, pastry chef Laird's puree reminded me of something I'd make my picky 3-year-old to trick him into getting some nutrients. I'd actually kill for that recipe. But it wasn't the proper end to one of the most well-crafted, sophisticated meals I've had in recent memory.
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WHERE: 490 Geary St., S.F.
CONTACT: 415-345-2303; www.avelinesf.com
HOURS: 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays-Thursdays; until 11 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays
CUISINE: New American
VEGETARIAN: Several options, including fazzoletti with roasted corn pudding and squash blossoms, and a vegetable "garden" of turtle bean, chicory "soil," radish top and mustard seed cream
BEVERAGES: Inventive, craft cocktails from The European bar as well as a comprehensive beer and wine program with a focus on artisanal producers from California and France
RESERVATIONS: Strongly recommended
NOISE LEVEL: Loud
PARKING: Street parking
KIDS: Fried chicken
PLUSES: Creative, romantic spins on Cali cuisine by a "Top Chef" alum
MINUSES: Dessert missed the mark
DATE OPENED: June
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Friday, Dec. 28, 2012
WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) -- As a convicted felon, he wasn't supposed to have access to the guns he used to kill two firefighters and wound two others in a Christmas Eve ambush near Rochester, N.Y. And now, authorities are disclosing how William Spengler allegedly got those guns.
They are charging a woman with acting as a "straw purchaser" -- posing as the buyer of the guns, when they were actually going to go to Spengler.
Dawn Nguyen is facing state and federal charges. They're connected to the purchase of a semiautomatic rifle and a 12-gauge shotgun that Spengler had with him Monday morning when firefighters responded to a fire he had set. After killing two firefighters and wounding two others, Spengler took his own life.
According to a federal prosecutor, Nguyen told the seller of the guns in June of 2010 that she was the true owner and buyer -- but she was in fact buying them on behalf of Spengler.
When she was interviewed hours after the shootings, she told police that she had bought the guns for personal protection and that they were stolen from her.
Police say she later admitted she bought the guns for Spengler. And they say that's consistent with a suicide note that was found near his body.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Two road playoffs wins are in the books, setting up one highly anticipated trip to Seattle in the 49ers' bid for a Super Bowl encore.
Safety Donte Whitner, like many, saw this coming. Last month, Whitner predicted: "We understand that it's going to come down to going to Seattle and winning."
The fifth-seeded 49ers won Sunday's divisional-round game 23-10 over the No. 2-seed Carolina Panthers to clinch a spot in next Sunday's NFC Championship game against the top-seeded Seahawks.
"We are the two teams that everybody was looking at from the beginning," quarterback Colin Kaepernick said of the 49ers and Seahawks. "It's going to be a knockdown, drag-out game."
It'll be the 49ers' third NFC Championship game in three seasons, having lost at home 20-17 to the New York Giants two years ago and won 28-24 at Atlanta last season.
The 49ers (14-4) haven't won since 2011 at noisy CenturyLink Field, where they got outscored 71-16 in their past two regular-season visits. But they did beat the Seahawks 19-17 in their most recent meeting, Dec. 8 at Candlestick Park.
"Long story short, we know them, and they know us," linebacker NaVorro Bowman said. "This is (for) the Super Bowl. Everything is on the line."
Winning on the road has been the 49ers' survival method, from their 23-20 wild-card win at Green Bay to Sunday's comeback at Carolina. Never in 49ers history had they previously played back-to-back road playoff games.
And never in NFL history had a coach reached conference championship games in each of his first three seasons, not until the 49ers' Jim Harbaugh adamantly did so Sunday.
"This is a tournament, much like playground basketball: Winners stay and play; those that lose go home," Harbaugh said. "We're gonna keep playin'."
Harbaugh drew the football equivalent of a technical foul (unsportsmanlike conduct) during Sunday's turning point against the Panthers.
The often-animated coach rushed onto the field seemingly in protest when officials ruled that Vernon Davis did not make a 1-yard touchdown catch in the end zone's back right corner. According to Harbaugh, he actually pointed out the game clock was still running and stealing seconds from the first half's final minute.
"We needed those seconds on there," said Harbaugh, figuring they would need time to make another attempt at the end zone.
However, upon replay review, officials ruled it a touchdown by Davis, putting the 49ers ahead 13-10 with five seconds left before halftime.
With their defense posting a second-half shutout, the 49ers' lead swelled to 20-10 on a 4-yard touchdown run by Kaepernick, who keyed that third-quarter drive with a 45-yard completion to Anquan Boldin to the 2.
Boldin came through repeatedly on the afternoon and finished with a game-high eight catches for 136 yards. Michael Crabtree, who didn't play in the 49ers' 10-9 loss to Carolina in Week 10, chipped in with three catches for 26 yards, including a leaping 20-yarder on the touchdown drive just before halftime.
"That catch Crabtree had over the middle, that was amazing," said Davis, whose only catch came six snaps later in the end zone. "That was the motivation, especially for me. I was, 'It's time to go.' "
The 49ers pushed their lead to 23-10 with 7:35 remaining when Phil Dawson made his third field goal of the game, capping a 13-play drive that chewed up nearly eight minutes. Frank Gore put the 49ers in Dawson's range with a 39-yard run, doubling Gore's output up to that point.
After winning their previous two games on Dawson field goals as time expired, the 49ers cruised to Sunday's finish line, even attempting a last-minute pass on a fake punt. Whitner put a stop to the Panthers' comeback hopes earlier when he intercepted a Cam Newton pass at the 49ers' 9-yard line with 4:22 remaining.
Not long after, Whitner was at his locker, reflecting on last month's Seattle-or-bust premonition and scouting out the 49ers' next task.
"Everyone has to man up, and we can't let the crowd bother us," Whitner said.
Stopping running back Marshawn Lynch, Whitner said, also will be crucial if the 49ers, 31/2-point underdogs, are to pull off the upset.
"We need to take him away and make the quarterback (Russell Wilson) beat us," Whitner said.
Neither the Packers' Aaron Rodgers nor the Panthers' Newton proved capable of doing that the past two Sundays. As a result, the 49ers are still on the NFL's playoff playground.
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.
AFC: New England at Denver, noon CBS
NFC: 49ers at Seattle, 3:30 p.m. FOX
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Vernon Davis' divot -- proof he dragged left foot in end zone corner -- gave S.F. the halftime lead.
Times Cam Newton was sacked (five) or hit, not counting shots taken beyond the line of scrimmage.


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Es estupendo que con una sola pulsación, desde el botón derecho del ratón, se pueda crear un disco ·dmg del archivo. Lo deposita al lado y a continuación la aplicación se apaga. Estas funciones NO las tiene Utilidad Discos del S.O. Mac.
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It's great that a disk ·dmg file can be created with a single click, from the right mouse button. Lays it on the side and then shuts down the application. These functions do not have Mac OS Disk Utility.
arundel: I'm not aware of any problems with cleanup when segmenting or creating. If you can find a way to reproduce the behavior that you describe, please report it to [email protected] Which menu command do you think should be a button, and in which window would you like to see that button?
I agree with the previous post. FreeDMG is... free and with it you may create encrypted disk images.
Or then use Disk Utility, that comes with Mac OS X. You can find it in the Utilities folder, inside the Applications folder.
I'd recommend FreeDMG... which is free.
Very helpful, certainly, but I'm noticing that it handles super-large archives (20GiB+) poorly when creating/splitting, especially if it fails (no cleanup, invisible mount). And the menu options for going to customize presets confuse me every(!) time. Why no button? Buttons are nice and only rarely cause global destruction.
DropDMG is a lot easier to use that Disk Utility. I just drop a folder on it and I have a dmg file. No muss, no fuss, no clicking, menu scrubbing, nothing. It's just done.
Great utility for anyone making release-level disk images. Nice to have for personal use as well, but mostly suited for creating images you'll distribute.
We're using it for our software now and plan to use it for all other projects in the future.
Personally, I prefer to save my $15, and continue to use Disk Utility.


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Irene Dittbenner, 90, of Morgan died Sunday, November 4, 2012 at Gil-Mor Manor in Morgan. Funeral services were held Wednesday, November 7, 2012 from Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Morgan with burial in the church cemetery. Arrangements were with Nelson-Martin Funeral Service of Morgan. E-mail condolences may be sent via www.nelsonmartinfuneralservice.com.
Irene Ida Elnore Dittbenner, the daughter of Albert and Maria (Flugge) Luepke, was born October 17, 1922 in Echo. She was baptized November 26, 1922 and confirmed May 24, 1936, both at Peace Lutheran Church in Echo.
Irene grew up in rural Echo and received her formal education at District 18 rural school. Following her schooling, Irene moved to Minnea-polis. She worked as a nanny in Minneapolis and in the Morgan area.
On September 11, 1941, Irene married Leonard Dittbenner at Peace Lutheran Church, and they made their home in Eden Township, Brown County, where they farmed. They retired from farming in 1980 and moved into Morgan.
Irene was an active member of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Morgan where she taught Sunday school and held all the offices in the Women's Guild. She belonged to card club and was the last living charter member of the Eden Homemakers Club.
Irene was also active in the Gil-Mor Auxiliary. She loved gardening, needlework and spending time with family and friends.
Irene is survived by her sons Don (Lori) of Willmar, and Ken (Laurie) of Morgan; grandchildren Kevin (Jenny) Dittbenner, Katie (Loren) Swenson, Kristen (Nick) Bents, Adam (Jodie) Dittbenner, and Drew Dittbenner; great-grandchildren Noel and Abby Dittbenner, Faith and Ella Swenson, Mallory, Tyler, and Walker Bents, and Madison Jo and Lauren Dittbenner; and her sister Cordelia of Yakima, Wash.
She was preceded in death by her husband Leonard in 2008; her brothers Ted, Otto, Ernest, Herbert, Gerhold, and Helmuth; and her sisters Ernestine, Leona, Verna, Dora, and Doris.
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A Spartanburg woman was jailed on neglect and assault charges after police say she poked a child in the face at her home on Wednesday.
Ashley Nikita Belton, 30, of 442 Beacon St., was charged with third-degree assault and battery and two counts of neglect of a child/helpless person, according to online jail records.
Capt. Regina Nowak said an investigator and a victim's advocate went to Belton's home to speak to her about a prior domestic violence incident. When officials arrived, Belton was passed out and one of the children let the officers in, according to an incident report.
An officer heard Belton ask the children which of them let the officers into the home, the report states. One of the children was seated next to Belton on the couch, and Belton poked the boy on his head and temple. Belton was "loud and belligerent" while officers were present, according to the report.
After Belton's arrest, the children were turned over to their grandmother. Belton remained at the Spartanburg County Detention Facility on Thursday on an $11,000 bond.
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RICHMOND -- Linda Fountain arrived home from work Dec. 6 to find a fire truck in front of her house and the roof of the house engulfed in flames.
Her first panicked thoughts were about the safety of her 28-year-old disabled daughter, Amy, who was being looked after by her caregiver.
After Fountain scrambled out of her car, a neighbor who was standing by calmed her fears, telling her that the caregiver had been able to move Amy out of the house shortly after the fire started in the kitchen.
It wasn't until after she was reunited with her daughter and the fire crew had doused the flames that Fountain's thoughts turned to a less-pressing but still important issue: Where were she and Amy going to live?
That question is still unanswered, although neighborhood groups and businesses have pitched in to help with some of their expenses, including laundry and meals, while Fountain looks for a new home.
The house on Fran Way that they had lived in for eight years sustained enough fire and smoke damage that it will be uninhabitable for months.
Mother and daughter are staying in a hotel while Fountain, 48, searches for another rental in her off hours from her job as a legal assistant and office manager at Rubicon Legal Services in Richmond. Their 12 days of housing benefits from the Red Cross have run out, and Fountain said she is paying $500 a week for a hotel room with a small kitchen.
Although Fountain says she can afford $1,500 a month in rent, she and Amy need a special place.
Amy was born with a cyst on her brain that resulted in permanent brain damage. She has limited communications skills and needs 24-hour care and assistance with bathing. She's also diabetic, Fountain said.
"We need someplace with a wheelchair ramp," she said. "Some of the stuff we have run into is, like, on the fourth floor. When you find something-wheelchair accessible, it's way up in price."
Fountain's neighbors and co-workers have started a fund to help her restore the personal possessions lost in the fire and provide some of the $3,000 or more that it will take to move into a new rental.
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Donations to help the Fountains can be sent to Mechanics Bank, 3884 San Pablo Dam Road, El Sobrante, CA 94803. Checks should be made payable to Fire Fund for the Fountain Family.


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It's set for Jan. 19, from 4 pm- 8 pm at the John F. Hill Grange Hall, 1412 State Road (Route 103) in Eliot.
Dance to lively music by the Seacoast Ceili Band. Grab a friend, put on your dancing shoes. Irish tunes will set your toes to bouncing, your face to grinning, and your heart to pattering to an Irish jig. Come to dance, listen to live music, laugh with friends, and make new friends.
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Published: Monday, September 9, 2013 at 1:10 p.m.
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BATON ROUGE — George Strait will headline the 2014 Bayou Country Superfest as part of the final leg of The Cowboy Rides Away Tour.
WAFB TV reports the fifth edition of the fest will be expanded to three days and nights, May 23-25, instead of the traditional Saturday and Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend.
The George Strait concert on May 23 will include another major country superstar still to be revealed.
The Bayou Country Superfest in Baton Rouge will be held at LSU's Tiger Stadium.
The complete music lineup and ticket information for the 2014 Bayou Country Superfest will be released on October 29.
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a rare, for the time, wedge kicks the second set off, before poor heart gets the crowd romping again. the mango song is well played before they drop into the oh so rare brother. trey plays really well on this brother. contact was played "mexican love style," and this one is worth giving a listen. normally caspian anores the piss out of me, but after killing for a set and a half, they can play their caspain. yem closed this one out in style. gordon was hot, and this one was appropriately explored before coming to a close. after all the crap they had already kicked out, they gave this kansas crowd a camel walk>coil encore taboot.
this show provides a great collection of well-played versions of rare and lesser played phish songs. the second set is good, but the first set is sooo damn good that you don't get that typical increase in intensity between first and second set. i must say, this could be the best first set the boys ever played. i'm thinking this one, halloween 96, dayton 97, 2nd night hampton 97.. hmm there's a few more up there but off the top of my head, i can't think of a first set i like better.
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With the start of school and everyone resuming their normal routine, now is the time to schedule your regular doctor's visit. Given the craziness of summer, health is often an afterthought -- but now is the time to make it a priority.
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and the best way to prevent these devastating diseases is to proactively get a check-up. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men in the U.S., and The American Cancer Society predicts that approximately 238,590 new cases would be diagnosed this year. For women, approximately 22,240 cases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed this year and the disease ranks fifth in cancer deaths among women.
With more than one million people in the U.S. diagnosed with cancer each year, finding new treatments is a priority to many people. This fact was confirmed last month by a survey we commissioned on America's health views, concerns and progress. It found that approximately 86 percent of Americans believe that developing cures for more forms of cancer should be one of the top national health priorities, and the biopharmaceutical industry is working toward this objective. There are more than 90 medicines in development for the treatment of prostate cancer and approximately 64 medicines in development for ovarian cancer.
When it comes protecting yourself against health challenges like prostate cancer and ovarian cancer, the best defense is a good offense. Take the time today to call your doctor and be proactive about your health. For prevention tips, check out the Women Against Prostate Cancer fact sheet and the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition's tips.


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