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I REMEMBER MAMA by John Van Druten
Script-in-Hand series: Women of the Year
Sunday, March 3, 2013
2:00pm @ Plaza Branch
Performed here by the Metropolitan Theatre Ensemble, Mama is based on Kathryn Forbes' fictionalized memoir of growing up with a loving family of Norwegian immigrants in San Francisco in the early years of the 20th century. First produced on Broadway in 1944 (Marlon Brando originated the role of young Nels), the play offers no earth-shaking dramatic fireworks, yet it became an American classic for capturing the family's small joys, sorrows, and aspirations. I Remember Mama became a hit 1948 film and spawned a popular television series that ran from 1948 to 1957.


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Sleight of Hand
In this exhibition, Myers explores the concept of "value" through transformation utilizing the language of metalsmithing and the methodology of the consummate craftsman. For her exhibition at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, the artist presents two bodies of work: Disposable Series and Aluminum Series. Myers's Disposable Series includes objects modeled after different styles of "takeout" food containers. Each object is hand fabricated using sheet metal and then plated in sterling silver. The patterned surface on the objects is created from recycled metal re- claimed from "found" manufactured silver-plated serving trays engraved and stamped with decorative motifs. The most recent artworks in this series take this transformation a step farther by manipulating or "unfolding" the form of the Chinese takeout box to highlight a method of construction unique to this type of disposable container. Aluminum Series is comprised of dimensional metal constructions for the wall and several fabricated metal sculptures. These works are all hand fabricated from thin aluminum flashing that the artist forms and manipulates like ribbon or paper, but, unlike these materials, her sculptures have the structural strength and integrity of metal. The paradox between materials, process, and context is an approach often employed by the artist as she surveys modern life—what we consume and how we consume it—both literally and figuratively. Myers's works demonstrate a sophisticated wit. They are exquisitely constructed and stunningly beautiful. These attributes contrast with their mundane subjects, presenting fascinating sculptures that ask each of us to consider the detritus of our daily lives—what we consume and what we throw away—and what we hold of value.


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May 22, 2006
You asked for it, and we brought it back: "Dumb and Dangerous Driving".
Thanks to your e-mail suggestions, News 12's Kristen Cosby hit the streets and caught some of our best stuff yet on camera.
How much time do you think you spend in the car?
We all spend so much of lives behind the wheel, and bad driving is just plain annoying...and dangerous.
That's why this story focuses on that commute to work.
Sometimes it truly seems so much of life is on the highway.
It starts in the early morning hours as we commute to work.
Neighbors in the Forest Lake subdivision off Fury's Ferry Road e-mailed us about their struggles just getting out of the neighborhood.
They say drivers coming out of the West Lake subdivision directly across the street block their right turns on green.
And they can't always turn on red because so many cars are driving on Fury's Ferry.
"They don't stop when it's an orange light or a red light. They just pile out and completely stay out there, so you have to wait through another light to get out," says Forest Lake resident Russell Oglesby.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for our cameras to catch a pile up.
A black Camry couldn't get out, and the West Lake cars kept going on red.
We tried to maneuver the intersection ourselves in our news Jeep. When the light was green, the West Lake cars kept coming through.
We didn't make it out onto Fury's Ferry until the light turned red.
We asked a few West Lake drivers if they could mind their manners.
"Ever realize you're doing that when you're coming out on a green light?" we asked one driver.
"Not at all," was the response.
"Ever realize you're doing that?" we asked another driver.
"Probably. I'm sure I do," the driver said.
"Kind of hard to avoid?" we asked.
"Yeah, there's so much traffic from both sides."
After you get out of your neighborhood, a common part of the morning commute is to stop for a cup of coffee or tea and maybe some breakfast. One popular spot for many Augustans is Washington Road near I-20. Dunkin Donuts is on one corner, Starbucks on the other. And the morning traffic combined with the popularity can create a real mess.
Many drivers must have been in a real rush for their caffeine. From inside our news Jeep, we caught several cars turning into the one-way exit out of Starbucks.
Then a van pulling a trailer barreled in and turned around in the road between the two restaurants.
So we had to ask...Why?
"I didn't notice," the driver said.
"Didn't notice that it was one way?" we asked. "Kind of could cause a safety problem, see the arrow?"
"Kind of a little confusing," the driver said.
"Going to fix it for next time?" we asked.
"Yeah," the driver said.
"Thank you."
"Maybe they should make a better sign," the driver added.
However, the signs there are pretty clear.
They're also well posted outside of Dunkin Donuts. The parking lot curves in one direction and it says "Do Not Enter" on the backside.
Yet, we caught a red sports car zipping in.
That driver also says the signs are hard to see.
"I didn't even notice it."
"Didn't notice it at all?" we asked.
"I was in a hurry to meet those guys."
"You could hit someone, this is a congested area," we said.
"Yeah, it is."
This guy and all the drivers we confronted said they will be more observant next time.
We sure hope so.


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Police: Man Slaps Baby, Causes Brain Damage
Published: Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 11:47 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 11:47 a.m.
LARGO | A man is facing child abuse charges after police say he shook and slapped a baby, causing severe brain injuries that sent the child to the hospital.
Justin Thomas Arthur Friend, of Largo, had sole care of the baby during the afternoon of Dec. 15, when the abuse took place, according to an arrest report. At some point, he removed the baby from a crib and repeatedly shook the child and slapped the child's face.
The baby was taken to All Children's Hospital on Dec. 22 after being found unresponsive, the report said. A medical examination revealed the baby suffered bleeding on the brain, retinal hemorrhaging and strained ligaments in the neck.
Friend, 23, admitted during questioning that he shook and slapped the child, police said.
He was booked Wednesday in the Pinellas County Jail on charges of child abuse-aggravated battery with great bodily harm, battery, tampering with a witness and several unrelated traffic offenses. He was held without bond.
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Published: Monday, November 26, 2012 at 7:46 a.m.
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HENDERSONVILLE — Charles L. Lane, 91, of Hendersonville, N.C., passed away November 16, 2012, at his home.
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On the south side of the bridge there are the remains of two caravansaries. I did not locate the western one of them, which according to my guidebook is the more important, but in a bad state. The eastern one supposedly is in a better state, well, this is it. It was thought to be built by unbelieving tradesmen and hence was called the "kafirbina" (building by unbelievers). Indeed Genoa had a trading post in Misis.
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Richard Limeburner explores the extreme parts of the world that puts the Ball Watch "accuracy under adverse conditions" motto to the ultimate test. As an oceanographer & deep sea recovery expert, Limeburner makes frequent trips to the frigid zones of Antartica, where temperatures reach as low as 660 degrees celsius and turnadoes sweep the the vast ice land at 320 km an hour. In the freezing tundra, Richard conducts sensitive studies about animal responses to climatic changes. His tests that track ice motion and measure salinity require accurate timetelling from a hardy watch. In his three years of working in the Antartica, Ball Watch has been Richard Limeburner trustworthy companion. His other preoccupation takes Richard and Ball Watch diving into the depths of oceans to search for and recover sunken ships and lost American submarines. The daring and enduring spirit that accompanies Richard Limeburner in his extreme vocations makes him an honorary member of Ball Watch Explorer's club and testifies to the brand's outstanding performance in the harshest conditions man dares to face. For the different collections of Ball Watch fine chronographs, visit Shreve & Co. in Portland, Oregon.
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High School: Played at Waxahachie High School for head coach Steve Howell...as a senior, Jackson hit .451 with seven doubles, two triples, three home runs and 38 RBI…played her first two seasons at DeSoto High School and was named first team all-district both years, team MVP as a freshman and won the team Golden Bat Award as a sophomore…after moving to Waxahachie, won the District 16-4A Newcomer of the Year award…as a senior, she earned First Team All-District 16-4A honors and was First Team All-State as a utility player while leading her team to a 23-13 record.
Personal: Born Jamise Ronae Jackson on April 30, 1992, in Dallas…parents are James and Jackie Jackson…plans to major in communications.


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Smart Start welcomes new board members
Published: Thursday, July 4, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 1:51 p.m.
Smart Start of Henderson County has new board members for the 2013-14 Board of Directors.
They are Angie Alley, Dusty Campbell, Tara Ledbetter, Susan Lee, Kirsten Lovo, Jenny Pace, Rebecca Poplin and Tricia Stauffer.
These new members bring experience and expertise to the leadership of the nonprofit. Smart Start is a local partnership providing opportunities for young children in the county to succeed by improving the quality and availability of child care, increasing access to and use of health services, and supporting, educating and advocating for children ages birth to 5 and their families.
Outgoing board members are Linda Charping, Renay Knapp, Terry Maybin, Tina Morgan, Kathy Revis and David White.
The Board of Directors held a meet-and-greet June 27 at the Dandelion Eatery, allowing the directors to meet, ask questions and share information about Smart Start. The Dandelion at 127 Fifth Ave. W. in Hendersonville is part of a new job training program created by Mainstay to seed and feed human potential to build safe, self-sufficient families.
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Capt. Bernard D. Cole, USN (Ret.), teaches at the National War College in Washington, D.C. Cole's previous books include The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy in the Twenty-First Century, which was selected for the Navy Reading Program. He earned a PhD in history from Auburn University and lives in Alexandria, VA.
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As many of you have noticed, there was a substantial problem this weekend with prices being changed in Heroes of Gaia, with packages previously costing $100 suddenly only charging players $0.10 (1 kred). This pricing change was not intentional, and in fact Snail Game had nothing to do with it. It was unfortunately due to a security exploit on our (Kongregate's) side. We have added substantial security measures to ensure that this never happens again, but unfortunately some damage was done over the weekend to a few games, Heroes of Gaia included.
While it's true that games do have great sales every once in a while, 99.9%-off probably should have been a clue that something was wrong. A few users decided to go crazy with this situation, one user literally purchasing that package over 1000 times (thus gaining $100,000 worth of HoG Points for only $100) and quite a few people purchasing this package hundreds of times. As far as we can tell, no one alerted us as to the problem – it was only discovered this morning by Snail Game.
Quick actions had to be taken to control damage and triage until the facts could be sorted out, which is why a number of accounts were banned. We are not intending to ban anyone on Kongregate's side – while you should have known that something was amiss, this was not criminal and none of you were the hacker responsible. Instead, we're going to try to figure out the fairest solution possible.
The fact is though, with nearly $1,000,000 worth of points illegitimately flooded into the game over the weekend, the game's economy is substantially messed up for these servers. We're working with Snail Game to figure out, both technically and logistically, what can be done and what would be fair to as many people as possible.


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Since my daughter firmly believes that the Three Wise Men arrived in Bethlehem bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and buckeye balls, tradition mandates that every year for the holidays, I make these chocolate peanut butter candies which bear resemblance to the real deal.
You don't have to be a Buckeye to enjoy these little balls of chocolate peanut butter bliss, but if you are, you'll love them even more!
1 stick (8 TBSP) butter, room temperature
2 cups smooth peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups powdered sugar
18 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 TBSP shortening
Cream butter, peanut butter and vanilla together in mixing bowl. Slowly add in powdered sugar until all is incorporated and the dough sticks together nicely. Form dough into 1" balls and place on cookie sheet lined with wax paper. Place cookie sheet in freezer while preparing the chocolate.
In double boiler, melt chocolate and shortening. Stir until smooth. With a toothpick, dunk each peanut butter ball into the chocolate, leaving just a little bit of the peanut butter ball uncovered. Place back on cookie sheet. Allow chocolate to firm. Store Buckeyes in a covered container in the refrigerator.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Silicon Valley's hot streak on the initial public offering market continued Friday with Marin Software, the second area software company this week to find eager investors and a rising stock price in its debut.
The cloud marketing software company priced its stock $1 higher than expected, at $14, and increased the number of shares it sold, just as the previous two Silicon Valley companies to go public this month. In the end, Marin sold 7.5 million shares in an offering that founder and CEO Chris Lien described as "substantially oversubscribed," for a total take of $105 million and an initial valuation of about $425 million.
When Marin shares hit the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol MRIN just before 7 a.m. Pacific time Friday, investors pushed those numbers even higher, with the initial trade going for $18.95, a 35.4 percent increase. Shares hit a high of $19.95, an increase of 42.5 percent, within minutes but soon calmed down; the stock closed at its lowest price of the session, $16.26, 16.1 percent higher than the IPO price.
Lien called the experience "exciting, humbling and very gratifying" Friday morning from New York, where he celebrated the IPO on the NYSE trading floor. "We've been building the company for seven years and this is a milestone in the development of the company, and we're extremely excited about the future," he added.
The San Francisco company follows Model N in its NYSE debut: The Redwood City software company debuted Wednesday and found gains of as much as 43.6 percent after also pricing higher than its proposed range and increasing the size of its offering. Earlier this month, Redwood City cleantech company Silver Spring Networks, a lightly regarded candidate for an IPO, also offered more shares at the last minute and found strong gains in its first day on Wall Street.
The success of Silver Spring Networks has opened the floodgates for an IPO market that has been unable to find stasis in the wake of Facebook's fumbled IPO and an uneven market roiled by politicians' gamesmanship on the "fiscal cliff." Eight companies were expected to debut this week. Record highs for the Dow Jones industrial average -- despite Congress' inability to rework the drastic budget cuts left over from the "fiscal cliff" by the March 1 deadline -- have emboldened banks and investors.
"If the IPO window opens, you jump through it ASAP ... (it) can shut anytime and without warning," Sam Hamadeh, founder and CEO of PrivCo, which follows private companies and the IPO market, said Wednesday.
Marin Software operates in a sector that has been popular on the IPO market through all the turmoil -- cloud enterprise software -- and Lien said that demand was elevated for software-as-a-service, or SaaS, companies throughout the process no matter the market conditions, mentioning the strong performances of Salesforce, Workday and smaller cloud companies.
Marin offers a twist on the standard cloud enterprise model with its software, which helps companies manage and track the effectiveness of its digital advertising. While most SaaS companies charge a recurring fee to access their software, Marin charges its customers a percentage of the media managed on the platform. Lien pointed out that other companies -- including Demandware, which had a successful IPO almost exactly a year ago -- use a similar model, giving the company comparable public companies.
More important, the CEO said, is investors' knowledge of online advertising's importance and growth potential: "Although our revenue is slightly less predictable than a strict license-based model, its leveraged to the growth of online advertising spend, which is an upward trend."
"We sit at an extremely strategic position between advertisers and publishers, and can help them further optimize their online advertising," he added.
Marin's approach has generated strong revenue growth, but the company has lost millions since founder and CEO Chris Lien established it in 2006. Revenues have increased from $7.5 million to $19 million to $36.1 million to $59.6 million in the last four calendar years, but the company has a total net loss of $64.5 million in those four years, including $26.5 million in 2012. Lien said that the company is spending a great deal now so that it can reap the rewards later, and expects to break even in 2015 with profitable years following.
Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/mercbizbreak.


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Definition of pantheism in English:
noun[mass noun]
1A doctrine which identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.
Example sentences
- Here, life is presented as purely immanent to itself and without a lapse into transcendent views of nature such as pantheism and animism.
- Similarly, students could study, as part of their understanding of Western monotheism and Eastern pantheism and non-theism, different ideas about how the metaphysical acts upon and manifests in the physical.
- I think they also feel threatened because this starts to get close to the more democratic religious beliefs of pantheism, wherein the divine becomes manifest in every-thing.
2The worship or tolerance of many gods.
Example sentences
- Archaeological evidence suggests the same, indicating that only later did mankind degenerate into idolatrous pantheism.
- However the overwhelming majority of classical Jewish thinkers in the past 500 years have categorically refused to choose between pantheism and monotheism.
- He preached a strict monotheism, opposed both to the secular morality of educated Chinese and to the pantheism of popular religion.
- Example sentences
- A Manichean who believes the world is essentially evil will draw radically different moral lessons than a pantheist who finds God present everywhere in his creation.
- Because of his ecstatic effusions on nature, Shelley is sometimes labeled a pantheist.
- The original inhabitants of Oman were pantheists, worshiping various goddesses and gods.
- Example sentences
- This educated man explained that the local spirits are theoretically subject to a supreme god, the sun, but that paganism is pantheistic rather than incipiently monotheistic.
- Low mysticism is immanent, relies on a sort of pantheistic organicism; high mysticism is transcendent, depending on gods / God that is beyond.
- He then preached against their pantheistic idolatries and urged them to repent.
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- The followers of Kant have selected now one now another doctrine from his ethics and combined therewith various pantheistical systems.
- Toland was an atheist who had falsely attributed pantheistical opinions to Moses.
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- Here the totality of all the separate beings are sometimes seen pantheistically and spiritualistically as comprising the cosmic Superbeing.
- A friend of mine, a Catholic, views God almost pantheistically, as the sum of the physical laws of the universe, and uses quantum mechanics as a "god idea" so to speak.
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SANTA CLARA -- Lost in the awe of Colin Kaepernick's athletic ability is how good of a quarterback he is, new 49ers receiver Anquan Boldin said.
"From the outside looking in, you hear about how athletic he is," Boldin said. "A lot of times, the quarterback aspect gets overlooked. I think if people have a chance to play with him or see him up close, they'll understand how good of a quarterback he actually is."
Boldin has always been known as the type of a receiver who can make plays even if he's covered.
"He makes it very easy on quarterbacks," Kaepernick said of Boldin. "He's a very savvy guy. He's played a lot of games, knows what the defense is doing and knows where the weak spots on the defense are."
That would seem to mesh well with Kaepernick's ability to scramble and keep plays alive.
"With Colin, the play is never dead," Boldin said. "You just have to keep that in the back of your head. Even if the defense has a great call on you or it looks like the play is broken down, he has a knack of getting outside the pocket and being able to find receivers."
The duo is still in the process of building their quarterback-receiver relationship and some of that will likely need in-game scenarios to develop.
"That is just a trust thing," Boldin said. "I think the more you do it and the more the receiver comes through for you, the more you trust him. We haven't been in that many situations where we could work on it.
"As a receiver, my thought is, every time a quarterback throws the ball to you, the more times you complete the pass the more confidence he'll have in you."
Kaepernick said developing that bond is crucial.
"That's the most important thing," Kaepernick said. "If a receiver and quarterback aren't on the same page, there's no play you can draw up that's going to work out well."
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STATE BRIDGE — In the hierarchy of Colorado fishing vessels, the dory remains king of the big rivers, with rubber rafts ruling the technical whitewater and various iterations of motorized bass boats decked with trolling motors, swivel seats and live wells claiming the throne on still-water lakes.
But for those seeking a reasonable Jack-of-all-trades, a surfboard — of all things — is quickly carving its way into the niche previously held by canoes and kayaks.
We're not talking surfboards in the traditional "hang 10" sense. Rather, it's the seemingly ubiquitous stand-up paddle boards, or SUPs, that have blown up in Colorado over the past five years and are now finding their way into the freshwater angling community.
To read this article in its entirety, go to http://www.denverpost.com/outdoors/ci_21258689/stand-up-paddleboards-provide-greater-access-anglers?IADID=Search-www.denverpost.com-www.denverpost.comtarget="_blank">http://www.denverpost.com/outdoors/ci_21258689/stand-up-paddleboards-provide-greater-access-anglers?IADID=Search-www.denverpost.com-www.denverpost.com


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You have a unique medical history. Therefore, it is essential to talk with your doctor about your personal risk factors and/or experience with scleroderma. By talking openly and regularly with your doctor, you can take an active role in your care.
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About 15 parents listened to the facts on tuberculosis and how the East Stroudsburg Area School District is handling a confirmed case of the disease at its North Campus.
District Superintendent Sharon Laverdure said she could not comment on the status of the East Stroudsburg High School North student who contracted the disease, or on who has been tested for tuberculosis at the school following the discovery.
The district and the Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed last week that a student at the school had contracted the disease. The district then held a 90-minute meeting for parents Saturday to let them know how the situation was being handled.
Most of the meeting was spent explaining the disease, the changes in treatment that have taken place over the years and how the district has responded.
Officials from the Department of Health also were at the meeting, but did not return a call for comment Monday.
One thing Laverdure said they expressed was that the disease is contracted only from prolonged, persistent, close contact. She said the department then identified those who needed to be tested, mostly people who were in class or on the school bus with the student.
Laverdure said the district's maintenance staff already was in a rigorous cleaning cycle to combat flu season, and is not doing any extra cleaning.
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When Amanda Wingrove's 11-year-old son Logan was diagnosed with Asberger's syndrome, a form of autism, at the age of 9, she didn't know where to go for help.
Today, she's not only found a support group but is lending her support to it by organizing the 2014 Yard Sale for Autism Saturday at the Oak Grove Recreation Center on B.F. Goodrich Road. The sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Part of the proceeds will go to the support group, which has provided a lifeline for many parents with children on the autism spectrum.
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Logan Wingrove, left, and his mother Amanda Wingrove, right, sorting through donated items for the 2014 Yard Sale for Autism, which will be held Saturday.
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Abbi Snipes, 17, checks out one of the items that was donated for the ACSO Yard Sale for Autism, which will be held this Saturday.
"There's nothing in this area," said Beth Eddy, secretary for the Autism Center of Southeastern Ohio, Inc. regarding the lack of available help and information on autism.
Wingrove found out about the Washington County support group through Eddy, who started the group with Tammy Hanger, the parent mentor for Washington County. Eddy, whose 12-year-old son Kraven was diagnosed with autism at 18 months old, joined ACSO in 2009.
After attending the support group for several months, Wingrove became a board member last November and is now the chair for the ACSO 2014 Yard Sale for Autism.
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- What: 2014 Yard Sale for Autism.
- When: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
- Where: Oak Grove Recreation Center.
- For information: Amanda Wingrove, 538-9336.
The sale will feature indoor and outdoor spaces for vendors, who are provided two tables with set up and tear down included. Vendors are required to pay a $35 fee but get to keep the proceeds they gather from the sale. The fee is split with $20 going to the renovation of the Oak Grove Recreation Center and $15 to the group's account. There is still room for more vendors, Wingrove said.
Community members are also encouraged to donate items for the yard sale, she said.
The group is currently in need of both item donations for the sale itself and food donations for the event's snack bar. They have been provided water from the ParMar corporation, buns and ice from IGA and boxes and bags from Giant Eagle.
The yard sale is also in need of extra volunteers.
"Anybody who wants to volunteer can come. We'll need help getting everything ready on Friday evening then all day on Saturday," Wingrove said.
Proceeds from the sale will go into the WASH support group account, which provides child care funds for the parents during the group's meetings and funds for the respite events that the group organizes for the families. Clothing donations will be given to the Gospel Mission Food Pantry.
The event has been held before at Ewing School. Because of the change in location, Wingrove believes there's been a decrease in awareness about the sale.
While this is the fourth year that the yard sale has been scheduled, it is not established as an annual event, which both Wingrove and Eddy expressed their desire to change.
"It's not our most prestigious event, but it's an essential one," Eddy said.
Wingrove explained that she joined ACSO and the support group because of its efforts to raise awareness.
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The Redwood County Recycling Center hosted a pesticide container collection this past week, and during the two-day event held in Redwood and Renville counties several semi trailer loads of containers were dropped off.
According to Doug Bunting of the Redwood County Recycling Center the container collection resulted in 20, 1,200 pound bales. That means nearly 24,000 pounds of pesticide containers are now being recycled due to this recent collection.
Those bales are sent to Container Services Network in Greenville, South Carolina where they are ground up and made into drain tile.
Brian Sams of the Redwood County Recycling Center said the pesticide container collection is held once each year, because the pesticide jugs can't be mixed in with other plastics due to the fact they once contained chemicals.
Sams said Bunting and the rest of the recycling center crew, including Kelly Schunk, Jared Amberg, Lucas Dolan and Michael Schulte, did a fantastic job during the collection.
Sams called the collection an important service, as it allows for the collection of those high-quality plastic containers that can be recycled rather than just thrown away.
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Joseph Illidge interviews "G.I. Joe" and "Green Arrow" artist Will Rosado about drawing comics for Marvel and DC, and commercial advertising.
Check out an exclusive first look at Tim Sale's "Detective Comics" #37 variant and covers for "Earth 2: World's End" #9 & "Batman Eternal" #35.
Batman creators including Marv Wolfman, Chris Burnham, Brian Buccellato and more celebrated the Dark Knight's anniversary with fans in Long Beach.
"Detective Comics" #35 begins a guest arc by Ben Percy & acclaimed artist John Paul Leon that puts Batman on a plane with dozens of dead bodies.
Acclaimed artist Jock has donated artwork from his time on "Detective Comics" to an auction benefitting a 2-year-old with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Robin replaced by... The Riddler? Find out what happens 5 years from now in Buccellato, Hepburn & Richards' "Detective Comics: Futures End" #1.
Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato discuss the fantastic elements of their first arc on "Detective Comics," which laid the groundwork for the rest of their run.
The 1970s put the Dark back into the Dark Knight, and Mark Evanier, Neal Adams, Denny O'Neil and more gathered in San Diego to look at the pivotal decade.
This week, the Lumberjanes, Rocket Raccoon, secret agent Dick Grayson and more vie for the title of Cover of the Week.
Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato keep uncovering new secrets in the current "Icarus" arc of "Detective Comics," on sale July 9.
"Detective Comics" co-writer Brian Buccellato discusses the book's Futures End" one-shot, how it's related to the Annual and the enigma of the Riddler.
This week, logo treatments and silhouettes rule as "Constantine," "The United States of Murder Inc." and "Detective Comics" all make the grade.
From "Eternal" to "Batgirl" and all across Gotham, Gail Simone, James Tynion IV, Greg Pak and more take a tour of the Dark Knight's world.
New "Detective Comics" writer/artist Francis Manapul stopped by the CBR Tiki Room at WonderCon to discuss his take on Batman and more.
DC Comics' themed variant cover months continue in July for Batman's 75th Anniversary, including a "Detective Comics" cover by Jim Steranko.
Robert Venditti, Francis Manapul, Cliff Chiang & Bernard Chang gathered at WonderCon 2014 to discuss the biggest upcoming developments to the publisher's New 52 line.
At Emerald City, "The Losers" co-creator Jock discussed his process and his long career in artistic design including comic books, film, movie posters & more.
Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato's "Detective Comics" #30 is a strong debut for the creative team and "one of the best looking books at DC."
Robbery outside St. Charles, Missouri, comic shop triggered school lockdown! Manapul and Buccellato talk "Detective"! Bendis returns to Cleveland! Plus more!
The former "Flash" team of Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato discuss their artistic approach to "Detective Comics" and their crime-centric take on Batman.
"The Flash" creative team of Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato races into their first issue of "Detective Comics" as a new drug hits Gotham's streets.
The Scarecrow makes his move in "Detective Comics" #28, the latest chapter in writer John Layman's "Gothtopia" storyline.
Bestselling author Brad Meltzer discusses the first entries in his line of children's books: "I am Amelia Earhart" & "I am Abraham Lincoln."
What was your favorite part of DC Comics' historic "Detective Comics" #27 celebration issue?
Batman celebrates his 75th Anniversary in style with "Detective Comics" #27, "one of the best ever anniversary issues of its kind."
DC Comics has released a look at Brad Meltzer and Bryan Hitch's story from the oversized "Detective Comics" #27 anniversary issue.
Brad Meltzer discusses revisiting the very first Batman story with Bryan Hitch for the 75th-anniversary issue. Plus: an exclusive first look at Jim Lee's cover for "Detective Comics" #27.
On the Christmas Eve installment of "DC All Access," DC co-publisher Dan DiDio unveiled Frank Miller's cover for "Detective Comics" #27.
"Batman: The Dark Knight" writer Gregg Hurwitz has announced that the series will conclude with issue #29.
Editor Mike Marts explains how Brad Meltzer's origin, Snyder & Murphy's future Robin and Frank Miller all play a role in "Detective Comics" #27.
Artist Sean Murphy has revealed an initial sketch for the first black Robin, debuting in the oversized "Detective Comics" #27. UPDATED with comments from Scott Snyder.
"Gothtopia" creator writer John Layman spoke with CBR News about crafting a shinier, happier Gotham City in the January-launching Bat-book crossover.
DC Comics' January solicitations reveal "Gothtopia," a new Bat-book based story starting in John Layman & Jason Fabok's "Detective Comics" #27 story.
Batman group editor Mike Marts discusses plans for the upcoming "Detective Comics" issue #27 anthology issue, featuring stories from Batman luminaries Frank Miller, Scott Snyder, Paul Dini and more.
Brian Buccellato and Francis Manapul reveal their plans for their "Detective Comics" run, beginning next year, and their film noir inspired take on the World's Greatest Detective.
"Batman" writer Scott Snyder headlines the creative team for "Batman: Eternal" – a new weekly DC Comics series debuting in 2014, while joinign Frank Miller and others for "Detective Comics" #27.
Batman's final confrontation with The Wrath is nearly here. Check out an advance preview of "Detective Comics" #24 by John Layman and Jason Fabok courtesy of DC Comics, on sale Oct. 2!
Courtesy of DC Comics, CBR presents an exclusive preview of "Detective Comics: Harley Quinn" #23.2 by Matt Kindt & Neil Google. Witness Harleen Quinzel's first tango with the Joker on Sep. 11!
John Layman took a ride in the CBR Golf Cart at Comic-Con International to discuss recent and upcoming developments in "Chew," his approach to "Detective Comics" and more.
Summer means sun, vacation and in the comic book world -- annuals. This week ROBOT 6's J. Caleb Mozzocco looks at DC's recent annuals for "Animal Man," "Batman," "Superman" and more.
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and why code based on your imagination when you can rip off someone else's code for free (free as in free beer)?
I code because I want to. Often, there simply isn't anything else out there that does exactly what I want, or it'll be too much trouble sifting through thousands of applications to find that one perfect match. I code for fun, to explore my thoughts and to write them down in a form computers and people can understand.
Instead of locking up the source code beyond customization or forcing me to rewrite everything from scratch, open source gives me a fantastic jumping-off point for my own applications. Open source helps me be more creative by letting me quickly get to the interesting part, playing with concepts without having to write my own framework or scaffolding. At the same time, reading other people's code teaches me so much about how people solve similar problems and use available tools. Their code inspires me to do better.
Open source development is like standing on the shoulders of giants, and that's one of the reasons why I'm so thankful to the open source community for all the help they've given me over the years.
彼らは猫が木に登っているのを見た。 They saw a cat climbing up the tree.
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One of John's batchmates is helping organize http://web.mit.edu/peso . Tina de Jesus - Laforteza.
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CHAMBERSBURG — Pennsylvania State Police received a report at 10:40 a.m. Nov. 28 that at Smith and Wesson .375-caliber Magnum revolver was stolen from 3353 Interchange Drive. The revolver was described as being stainless steel with a wood pistol grip.
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VIENNA - Community members and business leaders joined forces Saturday for the grand opening of the new Peoples Bank branch at 1102 Grand Central Ave.
"We're very much excited for our sixth Wood County office," said Peoples Bank president Chuck Sulerzyski. "This branch is being used as a guide for us for our future branches."
The new 4,200-square feet facility offers all banking services of the other Peoples Bank branches with a 24-hour drive-up ATM and drive-thru banking as well as a community room and the valley's first public electric car charging station.
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Officials with Peoples Bank, the City of Vienna and the Chamber of Commerce of the Mid-Ohio Valley participate in the ribbon cutting of the new Vienna branch in front of Sam's Club on Saturday morning. From left are Vienna City Councilman Paul Thornton, Michael Fitzpatrick with Peoples Bank, Vienna branch manager Elysia Atkinson, Peoples Bank president Chuck Sulerzyski and chamber president Jill Parsons.
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Maryann Hollis, executive director of the Humane Society of Parkersburg, smiles as she cries in appreciation of winning the $10,000 Charity Giveaway on Saturday during the grand opening celebration of the new Peoples Bank location at 1102 Grand Central Ave., Vienna.
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Peoples Bank president Chuck Sulerzyski speaks in Vienna Saturday.
"You have built a banking institution unlike any other in the area," Vienna City Councilman Paul Thornton said. "You are making banking fun."
During Saturday morning's grand opening ceremony, bank official Patrick Bryan named the Humane Society of Parkersburg as the winner of the $10,000 Charity Giveaway.
"It's a thrill," said Maryann Hollis, executive director of the humane society, through tears of excitement. "This shows us that the community is behind the humane society and I can't thank those who voted for us enough."
The money will go to the society's low cost spay and neuter clinic, the S.P.O.T. Clinic, which is currently under construction at 503 29th St. in Parkersburg, Hollis said. S.P.O.T. is an acronym for Stopping Pet Overpopulation Together.
Ground was broken on the clinic earlier this month with completion planned for July and operations beginning in September.
The public was encouraged to vote for their choice of four local charities who should receive the $10,000. Between January and March more than 53,000 votes were cast online, Bryan said.
The three other charities - Camden Clark Foundation Cancer Center, Friendship Kitchen and the Salvation Army of Parkersburg - each received $1,000 from the bank.
Along with the charity winner announcement, food and family games including inflatables were available throughout the day at the location as part of Saturday's grand opening.


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UA team part of breakthrough research on Parkinson's disease
Scientists have identified chemical compound that may help fight it
Published: Friday, October 25, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, October 25, 2013 at 12:32 a.m.
A team of scientists including researchers at the University of Alabama has identified a chemical compound that helps enhance a brain cell's ability to combat the effects of blocks formed by a protein linked to Parkinson's Disease.
The collaborative research was led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology biology professor Susan Lindquist, along with researchers at UA, Harvard University, Purdue University and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
For UA biological sciences professor Guy Caldwell, one of the co-
authors of a paper about the research in the Oct. 24 online edition of the journal Science, the effect of N-aryl benzimidazole, or NAB, in the cells of Parkinson's patients is analogous to how a detour works on roads where traffic is blocked.
UA biological sciences professor Kim Caldwell, Guy Caldwell's wife and research partner, and Michelle Thompson, who earned her doctorate at UA in 2012 and is now a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Arizona, were also among the co-authors of the paper.
Cells have many moving parts, Guy Caldwell said. In neurons, those moving parts involved small sacs of liquid and proteins called vesicles, which must be trafficked to the right positions in the cell, he said.
Alpha-synuclein, which builds up in the neurons of Parkinson's patients, basically forms a block that interferes with the trafficking of proteins and vesicles in cells, he said.
Symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease include tremors in the extremities, slowed or impaired mobility and speech problems.
While the exact causes of the disease are unknown, Caldwell said the blocks formed by alpha-synuclein tend to be found in Parkinson's patients in formations called Lewy Bodies, conglomerations of proteins that form in brain cells.
"NAB kind of activates a system, a protein called Nedd4, that helps form a detour around the roadblock. It basically will begin the process of targeting the things that were blocked by alpha-synuclein," Caldwell said.
In a separate paper published in Science in 2006, Caldwell and the other researchers showed alpha-
synuclein was forming the blocks in the neurons.
The earlier work led to a $4 million 2008 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Collaborative Innovation grant to a five-person team led by Lindquist and including Caldwell. The grant funded the group's research that led to the discovery of NAB's potential application.
The grant program is designed to bring researchers together to attack a problem as a team, Caldwell said.
Studies began in Lindquist's lab, where hundreds of thousands of compounds were tested with yeast cells that had been engineered with human alpha-synuclein.
From there, the most promising compounds were sent "downstream" for validation in labs working with more complex organisms such as worms and rats.
The most promising compounds were sent from Lindquist's lab to the Caldwells, who continued the work using a species of nematodes, a microscopic round worm.
Caldwell said his lab serves as a bottleneck between the yeast models and rat models used by the research team at Purdue, where the compounds discovered to be the most successful are sent for further testing.
The compounds forwarded by the Purdue lab are sent for testing using human cells.
A companion paper to be published in Science details the research team's use of induced pluripotent stem cells, a Nobel Prize-winning technique for reprogramming skins cells to other types such as neurons, to evaluate the effects of NAB in human cells.
The research shows NAB appears to protect the dopamine-producing neurons from the effects of alpha-
synuclein blocks, Caldwell said.
"That's the closest thing we can get to checking it in a patient outside," he said.
The research will continue as Caldwell and the others work to better understand how Nedd4 works and NAB's effects.
The ongoing work will include an exploration of molecules similar and related to NAB to discover whether they prove to be better targets for the research, Caldwell said.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi Cheer and Dance Teams will be hosting a cheer and dance clinic prior to the start of the Islanders women's basketball game on Saturday, Feb. 15, at 1 p.m., against Oral Roberts at the American Bank Center.
Registration begins at 10 a.m. with the clinic set to begin at 10:30 a.m. and continue until 1:00 p.m. Participants will be given two free game tickets (one child and one adult) and will be invited to perform at halftime of the Islanders women's game.
Dancers, dance teams, cheerleaders and cheer teams are welcome to attend. Previous experience is not required and will be fun-filled for all ages pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.
Cost is $35 and those registered by Friday, Feb. 7 will receive an Islanders tshirt. Click HERE for registration packet. Registration tables will also be set up the day of the event in the concourse area of the American Bank Center.
Parents are encouraged to arrive early for the game and to watch their child become an Islanders Cheerleader for the day.
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'Scandal,' Season 2, Episode 13, 'Nobody Likes Babies': TV Recap
The First Family is showing off their new baby. But after the cameras leave, all the not-so-happy couple can talk about is their possible divorce.
Fitz stops by to see Olivia. And by seeing her we mean make out with her. "We belong together," he tells her. He tells her to wait for him. He's got some divorcing to do. And a country to run. That too.
Is Olivia going to have to wait four more years for this dude? Thank heaven for the twenty-second Amendment.
After the credits, Olivia and her people are trying to answer the question: If Hollis wasn't the person trying to kill the president, who was? Somebody else paid money to pull off the attack.
There must have been a second payee.
Could it have been the cancer-ridden, dying Justice Verna? She was apparently bent out of shape by Olivia's affair with the president. But when Olivia confronts her, she realizes she can't turn her in without exposing all the dirty laundry of Fitz's campaign. And there's lots of dirty laundry in Fitz's campaign–at least several loads.
Olivia tells her team. They get to work looking for more information.
Verna dies after complications relating to liver cancer. The president is the last one at her side.
The First Lady confronts Cyrus. If he goes public with the divorce, she'll go nuclear and tell the world about the president's affair with Olivia. And she might even run for office.
Cyrus's husband James is being pumped by David for more information about election-rigging. But Olivia's team is listening in–and they make plans to grab a memory card with proof of the election misdeeds on it.
Cyrus and James have a conversation about the scandal. They both strip down to prove neither is wearing a wire. James is a bit more hirsute than you might expect, or want to see–especially on my big-screen HD TV which I'm now strongly reconsidering. Cyrus admits to his spouse that he stole the White House. He also declares that he would have made a great president except for the fact he's short, gay and not so great-looking. He says getting Fitz elected was his only shot at power, so to make it happen, he cheated. "I've already lost enough," he says.
The baby monitor interrupts the naked heart-to-heart. We're hoping this couple makes it, but things aren't looking so good. James suggests that he's going to tell all to the grand jury.
Abby finds out that Olivia was involved in breaking up her relationship with David. She storms out and goes back to him.
Cyrus plays his last card and calls the hit man who was out to knock off Hollis.
Abby goes looking around David's place.
Cyrus begs James not to go to the authorities. He refuses. Cyrus's hit man approaches, but he calls him off before he kills James.
James appears before David's grand jury, but decides not to tell him anything. James says he used to be a journalist, now he's a stay-at-home dad. David is furious, but he's getting nothing.
David shows up at Olivia's office looking for his memory card with all the evidence. He thinks Abby has stolen it. He tells her they're through. After he leaves, Abby reveals to everyone in Olivia's office that she did in fact steal the card. She's just put herself in the running to be Olivia's employee of the year.
Olivia cut loose her Senator boyfriend. "I don't want normal and easy and simple….I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing extraordinary love."
In this, she probably has a lot in common with Rihanna.
"Love isn't supposed to hurt," Olivia's about-to-be-Ex tells her.
He's gone. They're done. She's free to be a presidential mistress again. Shine bright like a diamond, girl.
Everyone goes to Justice Verna's funeral.
Olivia tells Fitz she'll wait for him, though, I have to say, Olivia never struck me as the I'll-wait-for-you-kind.
He tells her he changed his mind.
But what changed it?
In a flashback, as we see Fitz's eulogy for Verna, we also see her deathbed confession to the president. She tells him she was the one who sent the woman to kill him–and that his whole team helped rig the election.
She also tells him she's going to the feds–she owes that to his father.
That's the last straw. You can mess with a man's election, but once you start pressing those father buttons, it's on. Fitz takes away Verna's oxygen.
The words that I will remember from this episode are spoken by the First Lady and give the show its title "Nobody Likes babies." This is a show that doesn't like babies, or un-bloodstained hands, or purely virtuous motives. When this show first came on the air, it seemed like it was going to be a kind of 21st century "West Wing,"' delivering the message that politics can get dirty, but there are still good people in government, and causes worth fighting for, and Santa Claus lives at the North Pole blah blah blah.
Now the protagonist of this show is an election thief, the president is a murderer, and his chief-of-staff and First Lady use babies to get their way and manipulate their spouses and the public. They don't like babies. Nobody likes babies.
This show has taken a rough turn. I think I like it this way.
What's your take? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
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- Tuned Pale Ale Tuned Pale Ale is a product that explores the musical affordances in everyday objects and promotes social spontaneity. While drinking beer, people become musically encouraged and often start making music with objects around them. 2010 Industrial Design, Interaction Design, Packaging
- Seeing Sound T-Shirts Seeing Sound shirts are your favorite songs visualized. In this first series, any song or sound file is used to generate a 3d CAD file that is then used to inform the 2d graphic. Currently available in limited runs. 2010 Graphic Design, Fashion, Textile Design
- Proposal Book Proposal to a very big company based on a RFP for a very large construction project to build their new headquarters campus. 2012 Graphic Design, Print Design
- Phonographic Adapters These adapters for playing 45s are designed with DJs in mind. Magnets keep the pair together to form a sphere when not being used and prevent losing one. This form also makes it easier to change records quickly and leave the adapter on the turntable. 2010 Industrial Design, Product Design
- Glass Bench This bench is inspired by Frank Gehry's proposed Guggenheim Museums for Abu Dhabi and New York. The flowing glass form speaks to the surrounding environment and transcends its basic function of seating without calling too much attention to itself. 2010 Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Landscape Design
- DJ stats This is a work in progress attempting to map the worldwide DJ community. Although the history of this culture is relatively young, there are very rich data sets that are both intriguing and useful. 2010 Graphic Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design
- Space Box proposal SpaceBox® is a flexible building solution for temporary and semi-permanent applications. At the time of this project, they were only being used in Europe but were looking to expand into the U.S. market and specifically targeting university scenarios. With six weeks to work, we focused specifically on the actual site and placement of the units. This plan was not implemented but the research and strategic planning did inform other plans that have been developed or are currently under construction. 2012 Architecture, Industrial Design, Landscape Design
- Penn Center Wayfinding This proposal brings unity to this group of buildings through careful observation to clarify navigation in this district. 2010 Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Information Architecture
- Honor Box This is an entry for a competition to redesign the honor boxes for twelve locations in downtown Philadelphia. 2010 Industrial Design, Interaction Design, Branding
- Unlevel Unlevel is a small and unpractical design object used for measuring the world with a new perspective that is just slightly off. 2010 Industrial Design, Crafts, Product Design
- Pitch Control Pitch Control is a product informed by many years of record collecting. The slight pitch allows for records, books or magazines to lean naturally and prevent warping. 2010 Furniture Design, Product Design, Industrial Design
- Paper Tube Chair This chair was made using paper tubes from the textile and shipping industries, resulting in an environmentally conscious modern design that is very strong, light- weight and 100% recyclable. 2010 Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Crafts
- Metal Table This was a series of upcycled tables that were recovered from a local company that made quality garments and uniforms for the service industry and even the US military. 2010 Industrial Design, Furniture Design
- One Pound Stool The 1 Pound Stool is inspired by surfboards and spray foam insulation. These foams are very light weight, rigid and dimensionally stable. An exterior layer of veneer compliments the qualities of the foam and gives the stool strength for even an adult. 2010 Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Product Design
- Strapped Stool Reclaimed polyester strapping from the shipping industry is the only material used to create this design. 2010 Furniture Design, Industrial Design, Interaction Design
- Tuned Gig Buckets This product is about reinterpreting common archetypes and how to enhance their affordances as an instrument. 2010 Industrial Design, Product Design, Interaction Design
- Remember The Future This is an installation about memory and history. 2010 Fine Arts, Installation Design, Exhibition Design
- Sound Tiles This is project was a collaboration with a recording studio that needed more sound dampening. The concept here is to record the unwanted ambient sounds of a space and translate that into a desirable object that is both visually intriguing and functional. 2010 Industrial Design, Interior Design
- Building With Sound This research project, still in development, is based on a theory that more harmonious music will translate to a more stable structure and vice versa. 2010 Music, Industrial Design
- Generation Drum This is a concept for drums where each drum's sound is a direct descendent of the drum before it. 2010 Music, Industrial Design
Bullets Kill
This started as an inside joke between me and a creative director. If you've ever set up large documents for publishing that have a lot of bulleted lists, you can relate. So, this is for all of you graphic designers, desktop publishers and typographers out there.
Of course, there's also a double meaning here to remind people that bullets, actual bullets, do kill. 2012 Fashion, Graphic Design, Typography
- Pain In My Neck .org PainInMyNeck.org is an experiment in HCI with a sole intention of heightening the user's awareness of how digital interfaces have a physical affect on us. It incorporates some cool programming and is blocked on Internet Explorer because we feel that is a more painful experience than even the worst neck pain. 2011 Interaction Design, UI/UX, Web Design
- Bikers Revenge This concept deals with safety, awareness and space for urban cyclists from an aggressive, rather than passive, point of view. 2010 Industrial Design, Product Design, Interaction Design
- FREE FOOD! In a total financial collapse people will need to become more resourceful and adopt different methods of getting food. In urban environments there is less access to wild game and edible plants however there is more than people realize. 2010 Graphic Design, Advertising, Philanthropy
- Don't Slip On Love This public art project is a compilation of many small interventions of simply placing squares of grip tape with hearts in the center. 2010 Installation Design, Exhibition Design, Industrial Design
- Rubber Wall This proposal for an urban park questions the semantics of what a wall is and our perception of material. 2010 Architecture, Interaction Design, Industrial Design
- Art Pieces that I would not consider design 2012 Fine Arts
- Study Models These are just some models that were done to just study form and techniques. Some of them were just for fun and others helped to inform other projects. 2010 Industrial Design, Crafts, Architecture
- Business cards Business cards laser cut & etched on standard black mat board that displays a humble simplicity and clarity in the levels of information showing knowledge of processes, love for music and sense of humor. 2009 Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Branding


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At 10:52 p.m. on a recent Tuesday, Andy Cohen was preparing to host his weeknight talk show on Bravo, "Watch What Happens Live," when a text message arrived.
Though the 20-seat studio has a monthlong waiting list, he had set aside two tickets for a friend. But now the friend was canceling just minutes before going live.
"It didn't happen," the friend wrote. "Dinner going long."
At 9 a.m. on a recent Monday, Paul Wilmot, a public relations executive in New York, was meeting a colleague at a cafe. After he waited for a half-hour, an email arrived from his breakfast date, saying he was on his way.
Not long before that, Leandra Medine, the 23-year-old fashion blogger behind Man Repeller, sat down at a restaurant and waited for her three friends. As she nursed a glass of wine, she glanced down at her phone to learn, via text, that all of her friends had bailed.
Random missed connections? Not quite.
At the last minute
Texting and instant messaging make it easier to navigate our social lives, but they also are turning us into ill-mannered flakes. Not long ago, the only way to break a social engagement, outside of blowing off someone completely, was to do it in person or on the phone. An effusive apology was expected, or at least the appearance of contrition.
But now, when our fingers tap our way out of social obligations, the barriers to canceling have been lowered. Not feeling up for going out? Have better plans? Just type a note on the fly ("Sorry can't make it tonight") and hit send.
And don't worry about giving advance notice. The later, the better. After all, bailing on dinner via text message doesn't feel as disrespectful as standing up someone -- or as embarrassing.
Those with social-driven ambitions and hyper schedules seem to be especially prone to this. And it is practically endemic among those in their 20s and younger, who were raised in the age of instant chatter.
"Texting is lazy, and it encourages and promotes flakiness," Cohen said. "You're not treating anything with any weight, and it turns us all into 14-year-olds. We're all 14-year-olds in suits and high heels."
Not that he is above it, either.
"I'm a victim of it, and I do it, too," he said.
Avoiding discomfort
Digital flakiness seems to apply equally to last-minute plans and engagements booked way in advance. Ashley Wick, the founder of Wick Communications, a firm based in New York, organized an intimate dinner this fall to introduce a designer she represents to about 10 editors. Invitations were sent out two weeks earlier, but that afternoon almost half of the confirmed attendees canceled via email.
"Offline rules of etiquette no longer seem to apply," Wick said. "People hide behind email or text messages to cancel appointments, or do things that feel uncomfortable to do in person."
The face-to-face consequences of being a flake have all but disappeared. If the unpleasantness of having to disappoint a host or dinner date was one reason commitments were honored in the past, technology has rendered that moot.
"People don't feel bad shooting someone a text to cancel, but no one would ever pick up the phone and say, 'Let's have dinner next week because I want to go to this party instead,' " said Danielle Snyder, 27, a founder of the jewelry line Dannijo. "But when you say it out loud, you realize how bad it sounds."
Adding to the guilt-free canceling is the assumption that we're glued to our smartphones, which means that people often wait to the last moment to send regrets.
"They'll automatically think I've seen it because they sent it," said Jason Binn, the founder of DuJour magazine. "People cancel meetings or change plans by shooting me a text, an email, even a tweet."
Sociologists have coined a term for these freewheeling, mobile-lubricated social interactions: micro-coordination. The term was created by Richard Ling, a professor of communication at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Before cellphones, he said, people made plans based on prearranged times and places, whereas now we can micro-coordinate, or adjust plans according to real-time events, be it a traffic jam or a late night at the office.
"The mobile phone has made that kind of coordination much more nuanced," Ling said. "We might have three or four different things going on at once, and one thing might fall apart, or another thing might come through, so there's a basic indeterminacy we live with now."
Micro-coordination is perhaps most evident among teens and 20-somethings, a generation that grew up using instant messaging and texting for everything, from homework to hooking up.
Rachel Libeskind, a 23-year-old artist, is constantly navigating her social circles from her iPhone. She finds that she will triple- or even quadruple-book plans on weekend nights, knowing there's only a 60 percent chance she will engage in any of them.
"People will text me, 'Let's do something this week,' and I'll have three or four plans laid out for the week, and on average, more than half of them fall through," she said. "The social plans I make are always changing, always shifting."
'Not that rude'
Moreover, it's not considered boorish when her peers abandon one another.
"Because there is very little at stake in terms of having these plans, it's not that rude," she said. "It's implicit because that's how everyone is operating."
While it may offend etiquette experts, micro-coordination does offer certain benefits.
Caught on Instagram
"Most people celebrate the ability to change plans or fluidly manage plans," said Scott Campbell, an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, who specializes in mobile technology. "We don't have to pick a place, or even a time. We can just make it happen in real time. Lots of folks get excited by that."
For writer Derek Blasberg, there is one glaring downside to being a tech-enabled flake:
"If you text a friend that you can't make dinner because you're feeling sick, and then a picture of you dancing on a bar shows up on someone's Instagram feed, you just got caught," Blasberg said. "With the rise of social media and technology, it's harder to use little white lies to get out of things."


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If you had a terribly hip Southern grandma who trained at the Cordon Bleu, she might serve you something like the ham and cheese appetizer at Sissy's Southern Kitchen and Bar. A dollop of well-dressed ham salad, another of a tangy chowchow and a scoop of pimento cheese that would put Auntie Elma's to shame, the trio comes to the table on a dainty flowered plate with a tower of impossibly light biscuits. Taken with a Sazerac cocktail or a glass of Champagne, it's a starter to sit back and savor.
The plate exemplifies the aesthetic at Sissy's, which Lisa Garza opened two months ago in the former Hector's on Henderson space. Garza, who made a splash back in 2008 on The Next Food Network Star when she was co-owner of Suze, doesn't look anything like a grandma. But she does have style, and she brings to the table the Delft china and heirloom lace sensibility of summers spent on her grandparents' Iowa farm, along with culinary tastes spawned from a childhood love of Julia Child's cooking show.
Her dining room has polished good looks, understated Southern grace and a sense of fun. A long, inviting marble-topped bar runs down one side; on the back wall hangs a collection of vintage plates and deer heads. An ample screened porch offers more seating.
You might spot Garza at the door, or maybe not; in any case, though some of the recipes are hers, it is executive chef Jeffery Hobbs doing the fine work in the kitchen.
Even when prepared well, crab cakes tend to blur together. But at Sissy's, the plump, golden cake chock-full of sweet crabmeat is elevated by a sophisticated little salad of fines herbes (tarragon, chives, parsley and chervil) and paired with a tangy sauce gribiche.
The dish is smartly conceived — the warm crab cake plays well off the cool, bright salad, and the creamy yet lively sauce pulls it all together. But it's also beautifully executed. Hobbs' cooking is more about finesse than flash.
Presented in a canning jar, pickled gulf shrimp come with gently spiced saltines, quite lovely. Deviled eggs hit their mark, their carefully cooked whites charged with smooth, mustardy filling and topped with a spot of cod roe.
Even better are the chile fried gulf oysters. Their sauces — one a Southern take on chimichurri, the other a mayo spiked with red pepper — each add a different smart fillip, one bright and zingy, the other smooth, rich and creamy; both complement the hot, crisp, luscious oysters.
I thought I'd be chomping at the bit, impatient to sink my teeth into the fried chicken that has had tout Dallas raving from the moment Sissy's opened, but those starters are so good.
The moment of truth comes at last, after a long, unexplained wait between courses. No matter. Highly seasoned, crisply coated and fried to a dark, honeyed brown, the chicken is terrific. Under the crunchy coating, the meat, whether dark or white, is juicy and flavorful. Succulent, even.
If it were the only main course on offer, I'd be happy to eat at Sissy's any old time.
However, there are quite a few other interesting dishes, which presents a problem. How can you not order the chicken?
I have solved it. Order what intrigues you on the menu, and get some fried chicken for the table. Two pieces will set you back $11. Or you can order a 10-piece bucket for $20. You will have a bite or two — or a piece — at dinner, and then you will weep with happiness the next day when you find the bonanza in your fridge. Convince your dining companions that it's for your children, or your neighbor's children, or whatever is necessary to prevent them from absconding with it themselves.
But do try some other dishes. There's a beautifully pan-seared striped bass napped in a butter sauce boosted with crab and chives, or plump quail that benefits from a bath in juniper brine; it comes with a fine version of hoppin' John. The chicken-fried steak is no less distinguished than its feathered friend. And I love the smothered pork T-bone. Studded with mushrooms and finished with bourbon, its caramelized onion gravy is rich and generous, but lets the flavor of the chop shine through — unlike so many sweet pork sauces. A creamy cornbread pudding sets it off just right.
Not everything rocks. One night confit collard greens were so spectacularly good I felt I had to get the recipe. Another night, the greens were dried out. The hominy in a maque choux that accompanied roasted redfish was hard and clunky.
The desserts disappointed, too, including a gorgeous Alabama Lane layer cake that tasted of lots of undissolved sugar, and a chocolate cake that was not, actually, "better than sex." Best were the simple sweet-potato tart and buttermilk-pecan pie.
In fact, the bar menu is lots of fun; the cocktails are well-mixed. Sparklers figure big on the wine list, and there's a quartet of aperitifs made with Moët et Chandon Impérial. There are punches (including an excellent bourbon and blood orange number and a disappointingly watery tequila sipper), a trio of tea drinks spiked with vodka and an impressive collection of single-malt scotches.
The wine list offers about three dozen reasonably priced whites and reds — more than half available by the glass as well as the bottle, plus a couple of rosés. The selections work well with the food, though it would be nice to see some Texas wines among them.
There is a small problem when it comes to reservations. One weeknight I tried to book a table at 7, only to be told my choices were 6:30 or 8:30. My guests and I hustled and made it there at 6:30. The restaurant was no more than a quarter full, and did not get busier as the evening progressed. Why couldn't they take us at our preferred time? The assistant manager couldn't explain. On a weekend night we were led to the porch. We'd reserved in advance, but were told others had specifically requested the tables inside. We were allowed to wait at the bar for a table we preferred, but the whole thing was clumsily handled.
Happily, the servers have charm and poise; they're good at making things right.
And with food that appealing and service so warm, a glitch here and there is easily forgiven.
Sissy's Southern Kitchen and Bar (4 stars)
Price: $$-$$$ (appetizers, soups and salads $6 to $22; main courses $11 to $24; desserts $5 to $9)
Service: Charming, personable and casual, yet professional. The reservation desk has issues to work out, though.
Ambience: Lisa Garza's dining room has style, grace, polished good looks and a sense of fun. The screened porch might be nice in fine weather, but it feels a little like Siberia.
Location: 2929 N. Henderson Ave., Dallas; 214-827-9900; sissyssouthernkitchen.com
Hours: Monday-Saturday 5 p.m. to midnight
Credit cards: AE, D, MC, V
Wheelchair accessible: Yes
Smoking area: On the small patio in front of the restaurant
Alcohol: Full bar. A concise, well-chosen wine list offers sparkling wines and Champagnes, a couple of rosés and a page of whites and reds, many available by the glass as well as the bottle. Nothing from Texas, though. The still wines top out at $64.


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Three Reasons Not to Ignore the Obama Budget
For years now, the conventional response to any presidential budget has been to declare it "dead on arrival," or sometimes "dead before arrival." Today's partisan gridlock guarantees that much of President Obama's new budget will be somewhere between attacked and ignored on Capitol Hill. Veteran budget wonk Stan Collender describes this year's White House budget as "more dead on arrival than most."
That's all undoubtedly true. But it doesn't mean one should ignore the whole Obama budget. Here are three reasons why:
The annual appropriations dance. Unlike past years, Congress already has agreed on a ceiling for annually appropriated spending, which account for about 30% of all federal outlays. In the 1,438-page Budget Appendix the White House explains in excruciating detail how it would divvy up that $1.15 trillion. Congressional appropriations committees won't take all the White House recommendations, but they won't ignore them either. And, remember, one of the few things that Congress really does have to do this year is to pass appropriations bills.
The earned-income tax credit. Republicans and Democrats don't agree on much these days, but there is a widening consensus that it's foolish to limit the benefits of earned-income tax credit – which supplements the earnings of low-wage workers – to families with children. Some influential Republicans- — including Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida (here) and former Bush adviser Glenn Hubbard of Columbia University (here) – agree with the president that it makes sense to offer childless workers an incentive to work even at very low wages, and for the government to supplement their paychecks a bit.
Now, they don't agree on everything. Sen. Rubio would pay for this by paring EITC benefits to working-poor families; Mr. Obama would, instead, raise $60 billion over 10 years by boosting taxes on partners in private equity funds (as House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp would in his new tax-reform plan) and on some high-income self-employed workers. But the common focus on aiding low-wage workers without children suggests that when the next tax bill comes along, something for them will be included.
Tax reform. It's not imminent, but both sides are putting more details on the table and that's a necessary step towards actually doing something someday. Mr. Obama's budget repeats his proposals to limit the value of itemized deductions to upper-income taxpayers (whose get more of a dollar tax break because they are in higher tax brackets); Mr. Camp proposed to do much the same thing. Yes, Mr. Camp is expected to surrender the chairmanship of Ways & Means, but his tax reform proposals will be a benchmark against which future GOP tax reform plans are measured. The Michigan Republican also would finance tax cuts for individuals by raising revenues from businesses, a move that many Democrats would be happy to emulate.
And in a new wrinkle, the Obama budget offers Democrats a huge incentive for pursuing corporate tax reform: He says the transition to a new corporate tax code would bring a temporary windfall of $150 billion over four years from taxing foreign earnings that the Treasury expects firms to bring home, repealing the last-in-first-out method of accounting for inventories and revamping acceleration depreciation. Instead of using that moneyto make corporate tax reform revenue-neutral over the 10-year budget window, the president suggests devoting it to investments in transportation infrastructure. See p. 9 of this document.
David Wessel is a contributing correspondent to The Wall Street Journal and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
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I have a new 40" bravia and when I stream from any media server including PS3media server, the resolution comes in as the actual resolution, instead of up-converting to 1080p.
When I try to use the "wide" button on the remote which I assume is a zoom like feature, it tells me the feature is not available.
I tried messing with ps3media server's settings with no luck. How can I get it to display any resolution video file as full screen?
this is an AVI file that has a lower resolution than 1080p


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Getting too nosy?
ACLU: Guidelines on license plate scanners are needed
July 24, 2013
They are just two small boxes mounted on a handful of local police vehicles, but they have the capability to scan and store the license plate number and location of hundreds of vehicles per minute....
@Tessie..."Capt Waite looking unprofessional". Before I commented I looked at some of your other posts. You obviously don't know this man very well because he is the most professional police officer this city has ever seen. But like I said, I looked at some other comments you have made and clearly chalk all of them up to ignorance. Truth be told, a day (or 2) at the beauty shop wouldn't hurt you either.
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The ACLU needs to find something better to do. They are seriously sick people.
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It is always,you do not like this, you must have something to hide, well, my total contempt for the police state we are truly living under, will not be hidden, those same ilk that detest my concern for civil liberties are the ones that tell me we live in a free nation, pffffft, the word is clue, get one......
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That is one of the nastiest and most unprofessional looking police officers I've ever seen! Shave your face, get a hair cut and show a little pride in yourself, your uniform and the city you represent!
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Let's get even more phobic, can anyone guarantee that you haven't had a gps microchip implanted on you during a doctor visit? How about your TV, hmmmm, maybe you are being observed while you watch TV. Who knows where the "big eye" is located at home, work and public shopping.
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Oh yeah, I forgot the topic. Big brother can monitor anything and everything you do. It is certainly an invasion of privacy and I do not support it at all. It's not new folks. The FBI and CIA have been doing it for years and years, big city P.D.s have been doing it a long time too. Trickle down means that Marietta and Belpre now have it. I don't like that recorded information is available to law enforcement anywhere in the U.S.
They can't read our thoughts yet.
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It appears Capt. Waite needs to go to the barbershop. Looking very unprofessional.
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So, everyone will know everything...so...all cancelled out, no?
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I have no issues with police doing this. I have nothing to hide and think this is a good idea. I will not sit around anticipating what can happen in the future with these techniques. Life goes on.
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It is alarming that they will be keeping the data collected. This really does mean that Big Brother is watching. I would remind everyone of what Ben franklin said, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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This aint about just drugs ya'll....they will be monitoring you too.
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They forgot to mention that all the data is uploaded to the FBI/NSA daily as agreed when they took the grant money.
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Well at least the police used the grant money well.The meth heads are going to hate the new machine that can test the air around a property to see if meth is being made there.
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Franklin county? - Sounds like they're able to track the dealers going back and forth....Which is okay for me. However, there could be a moment when police show up at our door and ask why our vehicle was "scanned" near the scene of a crime and next thing we know, the police are knocking on our doors and embarrassing us by making the neighbors gawk.
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Sounds good in theory, but when an "Edward Snowden" works his way into the data system, anything can and WILL happen. Before it is over, Putin will know your favorite bar, grocery store, and where your girlfriend lives.
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This will not end well. DON'T TREAD ON ME!
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This does NOT render the vehicle immune to speed radar,stop light and speed cameras.They use the visible spectrum of light.Plate readers use a diff method.
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Be,not worried at all....now.
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Obama's administration has given the NSA the go ahead to monitor all your phone call and emails. The post office is taking a picture of every piece of mail that is delivered to your house. You're worried about your blocking your license plates which you bought from the State? LOL
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and Marietta College cruiser appears to have them installed as well..should they be collecting my data...and what happens to it?
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this is a double edged sword, i have no problem with the system but i think at the end of the day all info that was gathered should be dumped.
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also not mentioned in this article..your governers vehicle has I/R blocked plates, and the state issues I/R blocked plates as well.So if no big deal,why are I/R blocked plates produced and issued?
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and the folks whom have nothing to hide,yet dont believe in gov databases buy $24 worth of clear I/R blocker and install it over the plate while remaining legal.Ohio laws prohibits anything that blocks visibility.I/R is not in the spectrum of visual light and the film is clear.
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All of you who have something to hide must be shaking in your boots. The rest of us just smile.
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