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Neshaminy State Park
Neshaminy State Park is along the Delaware River in lower Bucks County. The park takes its name from Neshaminy Creek, which joins the Delaware River at this point. The park's 339 acres include picnic areas, a swimming pool, and a separate children's spray park. Boating access to the Delaware River is provided at the marina.
Hiking - Picnic Pavilions - Swimming - Boating - Fishing
Seasons and Hours: The park is open every day of the year, sunrise to sunset. Day use areas close at dusk. The park office is open specific hours. The pool and other areas are open specific seasons and hours. Contact the park office for facility seasons and hours.
Picnic Pavilions: Neshaminy has three picnic pavilions that may be reserved up to 11 months in advance for a fee. Unreserved picnic pavilions are free on a first-come, first-served basis. Call toll-free 888-PA-PARKS to reserve a picnic pavilion.
Swimming: The main pool and children's spray pool are open from the Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day. Regular hours for weekends and holidays are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, unless otherwise posted. Lifeguards are on duty when the pools are open. 215-245-8499 (seasonal)
For their safety, all children ten years of age or younger must be accompanied by a person at least 14 years of age. Children without such supervision will be asked to leave the pool.
Swimming is prohibited in the Delaware River from Neshaminy State Park.
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Boating: unlimited hp motors permitted
Neshaminy Marina
Motorboats must display a current boat registration. Non-powered boats must display one of the following: boat registration; launching permit or mooring permit from Pennsylvania State Parks, available at most state park offices; launching permit from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission laws apply. Complete information on boating rules and regulations in Pennsylvania is available from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Web site.
Fishing: A variety of warm-water fish species can be found in this stretch of the Delaware River and Neshaminy Creek. Common species are largemouth and smallmouth bass, muskellunge, catfish and various panfish. The park is also popular in the spring for the annual run of striped bass, American shad and herring.
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission laws apply. Complete information on fishing rules and regulations in Pennsylvania is available from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Web site.
Hiking: 4 miles of trails
Logan Walk: This is the original drive to the former Robert Logan Home, which has been removed. The tree-lined walk is used by visitors for numerous recreational activities and serves as a park service road. The walk is paved and ADA accessible.
River Walk Trail: The River Walk Trail follows the shoreline and gives views of the river with its boating traffic, and also explores the tidal marsh. The River Trail Inner Loop explores the interior of the park and is a great way to discover animals and plants.
The River Walk Brochure compares the past to the present, and describes some of the river inhabitants like sturgeon, shad and eel. Puzzles help children explore the estuary, river and tidal marsh. This self-guiding brochure is available at the park office.
Playmasters Theatre Workshop: he playhouse, on State Road, offers entertainment throughout the year. www.playmasters.org
Access for People with Disabilities
If you need an accommodation to participate in park activities due to a disability, please contact the park you plan to visit.


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Making noise in the blogosphere with beer.
Ralph Gant has not received any gifts yet
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I have not done many blogs lately but I have a new addition to my Ten Beer blogs, Ten Beers over 10%, I thought it might create some interest.
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I have only had one new beer in the last week and it was one from a new country for me, in fact I haven't had many beers at all from the Caribbean. So I will put them all together here now.
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ASHLAND — David Sturner hasn't slowed down for the second-ranked Southern Oregon University basketball team, and the Cascade Conference hasn't stopped showing love.
Sturner is the CCC's men's basketball player of the week for the second time in December, the conference office announced Monday.
In a performance Saturday that was more routine than extraordinary, the senior registered 24 points, 12 rebounds, three blocks, three steals and three assists to help the Raiders (12-1 overall) eke out a 93-92 win over No. 23 Cal Maritime.
In going 9-for-13 from the field, Sturner buried the go-ahead 3-pointer with seven minutes remaining, and with just over a minute left made consecutive buckets to seal SOU's 10th straight win.
Sturner, a 6-foot-8 center, ranks sixth in the NAIA in rebounds per game (10.6) and 16th in field-goal percentage (61.0). He also shoots 46.7 percent from 3-point range to average 16.8 points.
The double-double against the Keelhaulers was his ninth of the season and sixth in SOU's last seven games. He's gone for 20-plus points and 10-plus rebounds four times.
SOU's big men have hogged the conference's last three weekly honors. Eric Thompson won last week and Sturner was picked on Dec. 2.
The Raiders are on the road Friday and Saturday for key CCC tilts at Eastern Oregon and College of Idaho.
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try 1
verb (tries, trying, tried)
- I tried to be a sales executive, a sailor and even got married to try and fit into the role of a good wife.
- So we though we would give it a try and much to our surprise from the very first time that we tried to grow these blood vessels it worked.
- She tried to make herself fall asleep so she could try and forget the situation she was in.
- There are many tried and tested methods that have been used in Europe before.
- Parents will be able to try different sorts and if they like them can buy their own stock.
- Please bear in mind that I have seen a lot of therapists who try different kinds of therapy.
- The first two attempts had failed and the third attempt was my last chance to try for a baby.
- Sheila is determined to rebuild her family and the couple are already trying for another baby.
- Existing advice is for pregnant women and those trying for a baby is not to eat large amounts of the species because of concerns over mercury.
- She decided to enroll at and compete for UCLA in the fall, instead of trying out for Canada's team that will compete at the World Championships in late October.
- Simon was so good, in fact, that he went on to compete at the national level before trying out for professional teams, although his eyesight, of all things, kept him from making the grade.
- Natalie is trying out for the school team on January 22.
- We tried the apartment, but after that we didn't know where to call.
- He tried the house, but we were not home.
- At his front door, a somewhat buxom blonde lady with very high heels and a very short skirt was trying the front door lock.
- He tried the door again and discovered that it wasn't locked, just a little stuck.
- She tried the windows but they were also locked and when she threw things at them they didn't even crack.
- As cricket has discovered the game has to be approachable and rain delays try the patience of everyone.
- She tried my patience sometimes, but equally I probably didn't give enough of a chance.
- After a year of sustained eyebrow raising and boomerang pints, they now no longer try my patience or my vocal chords.
- Sam was duly tried and convicted on the conspiracy count but the Appellant was not called as a witness at that trial.
- Within two days, both men were tried, convicted and sentenced to two years' jail.
- The soldiers were subsequently tried by a regimental court martial and acquitted.
- The actions were consolidated and the judge agreed to try preliminary issues which are the subject of this appeal.
- The information is invalid and as such this Court has no jurisdiction to try the issue arising therefrom.
- This I have done and I have told him that I can see no reason why I should not continue to try the case.
- Then he built a big fire and skinned the bears, and tried out the fat and poured it into a hollow in the ground.
- Then after they had cut it up, she tried out the fat and made a great quantity of oil from the bear.
- He tried out the fat and made lard.
noun (plural tries)
- It just took me a few weeks and just a few tries to accomplish all that.
- Then my foot slipped off on only the second move of my third try.
- Otherwise why would they have come back for a second and a third try?
- Even if the idea seems strange, give it a try, as you have nothing to lose, but only to gain.
- I didn't even know if asking her was a good idea or not, but I'll give it a try and see what happens.
- It was getting excellent reviews there, so I decided to give it a try.
- We can find out about games played, tries scored, goals kicked, brothers and fathers, referees, captains and so on.
- The action was fast moving and skilful, enterprising and well judged and both sides produced two tries and two penalty kicks.
- While he was off the pitch the Giants scored two tries and a drop goal took their lead to 15-12.
- In the four games leading up to the season finale, Brown missed six of 11 tries plus three extra points.
- If the Packers plan to win their 10th game in 11 tries against the Niners, they'll have to control the ball with the running game.
- Philadelphia converted one of every three third-down tries.
Is there any difference between try to plus infinitive and try and plus infinitive in sentences such as we should try to (or try and) help them? In practice there is little discernible difference in meaning, although there is a difference in formality, with try to being regarded as more formal than try and. The construction try and is grammatically odd, however, in that it cannot be inflected for tense (e.g. sentences like she tried and fix it or they are trying and renew their visa are not acceptable, while their equivalents she tried to fix it or they are trying to renew their visa undoubtedly are). For this reason try and is best regarded as a fixed idiom used only in its infinitive and imperative form. See also and (usage).
I (or he etc.) will try anything once
- Used to indicate willingness to do or experience something new: Rosie was willing to try anything onceMore example sentences
- 'I will try anything once,' she declared, and proved it in her eighties by flying on Concorde, taking a trip in a helicopter and ascending in a hot air balloon.
- I like everything, and I will try anything once, but for the most part I go for a simple style with clean lines.
- While I haven't been exposed to a lot of exotic places or foods, I am just not a very picky eater and I will try anything once.
not for lack (or want) of trying
- Used to express that considerable effort has been exerted even though success has not been attained: the band never quite gets it together, but it's not for lack of tryingMore example sentences
- Those commitments that I haven't been able to keep, it's not for lack of trying.
- I still haven't won a round, but it's not for lack of trying.
- He may not be a household name, but that's not for lack of trying.
try conclusions with
- see conclusion.
try something (on) for size
- Assess whether something is suitable: he was trying the role for sizeMore example sentences
- It was a different kind of acting, because the feelings were real, but it was like the two of them were trying the feelings on for size, like clothes to see if they fitted, and to see if they suited them.
- Asked how he feels about one hack's overwrought description of him as 'the feathercut prince of the blues ', he frowns, repeats the phrase slowly and inquisitively as if trying it on for size, then quickly changes the subject.'
- So perhaps we shouldn't take it too seriously, but try these statements on for size.
try for white
- South African historical (Under the apartheid system) attempt to pass oneself off as a white person by assimilating oneself into a white community: he tried for white but was rejected and took on an African identityMore example sentences
- It started in the 1960s and spilt over into the 1970s, a time when white-skinned people 'of mixed descent' consciously tried for white to acquire a privileged position in South African society.
- He recalled that when he went off to college he "tried for white," aping the manners and attitudes of the English and Afrikaners; rejected, he turned instead to the solace of black consciousness.
- She takes the audience on a sweeping journey from their childhood when they 'tried for white' by playing with white kids on the beach, to helping Patty confront the sacrifices she would have to make to be with the man she loved.
try one's hand at
- Attempt to do (something) for the first time, typically in order to find out if one is good at it: a chance to try your hand at the ancient art of drystone wallingMore example sentences
- He even tried his hand at drawing in an attempt to capture the movement of the situations he found fascinating, but later realised that the camera does a better job, he says.
- We intend to buy a rundown property: it's something we have always fancied trying our hand at - a blank canvas on which to make our mark.
- Now he is trying his hand at more formal history.
try it on British informal
- Attempt to deceive or seduce someone: he was trying it on with my wifeMore example sentences
- "He's trying it on with me but he's got a 7 months pregnant girlfriend!"
- The line manager should not be 'trying it on' with workers - that is sexual harassment.
- 7.1Deliberately test someone's patience to see how much one can get away with.
try one's luck
- see luck.
try me
- Used to suggest that one may be willing to do something unexpected or unlikely: 'You won't use a gun up here.' 'Try me.'More example sentences
- If they do not take me as serious, they have to try me.
- You can't tell me because I wouldn't understand it,' he replied sarcastically, 'Why don't you just try me.'
- I think my life has given me plenty of understanding, so try me.
Phrasal verbs
try something on
- Put on an item of clothing to see if it fits or suits one.Example sentences
- First I went through the racks of clothing and tried them on.
- Like with any piece of clothing, you really need to try jeans on to see how they work.
- Some male customers felt uncomfortable when women were there as they were trying things on.
Middle English: from Old French trier 'sift', of unknown origin. Sense 1 of the noun dates from the early 17th century.
From Old French trier 'to sift', source also of trial (early 16th century). In rugby an act of touching the ball down behind the opposing goal line has been called a try since the 1840s. It got its name because a try gives the scoring side the right to try to kick a goal. The cliché try anything once, dates from the 1920s. The British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham (1879–1961) is generally credited with 'You should try everything once except incest and morris dancing', but the composer Sir Arnold Bax reported a similar comment in a 1943 autobiography.
Words that rhyme with tryally, Altai, apply, assai, awry, ay, aye, Baha'i, belie, bi, Bligh, buy, by, bye, bye-bye, chi, Chiangmai, Ciskei, comply, cry, Cy, Dai, defy, deny, Di, die, do-or-die, dry, Dubai, dye, espy, eye, fie, fly, forbye, fry, Frye, goodbye (US goodby), guy, hereby, hi, hie, high, I, imply, I-spy, July, kai, lie, lye, Mackay, misapply, my, nearby, nigh, Nye, outfly, passer-by, phi, pi, pie, ply, pry, psi, Qinghai, rai, rely, rocaille, rye, scry, serai, shanghai, shy, sigh, sky, Skye, sky-high, sly, spin-dry, spry, spy, sty, Sukhotai, supply, Tai, Thai, thereby, thigh, thy, tie, Transkei, tumble-dry, underlie, Versailles, Vi, vie, whereby, why, wry, Wye, xi, Xingtai, Yantai
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ECE Focus Area: Software Engineering
Software engineers apply the principles of engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate software, computer systems or anything that contains software.
Depending on the courses selected, completion of the software engineering area coursework can provide additional understanding of topics in formal methods of software design, high performance computer architecture, operating systems, database systems, and network communication.
Software engineers are employed worldwide in industry, government, non-profits, education, healthcare, and self-employed. They work as analysts, architects, developers, testers, technical support, managers, educators, researchers, patent lawyers, and consultants.
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Hopefully someone here can help me. I am using the skills blade twist and lightstream. So my question is why does a spell that increases atk by 24% +209(lightstream) do more damage than a skill that increases atk 34% +199(blade twist)? LS usually does about 900-1000 and BT usually does 600-700. Also I am not using BT first, which lowers D, then using LS. Please help.
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19 April 2011
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So cute! :) You look very pretty in the first picture! and what a nice location!ReplyDelete
what a cute bunny! westlake looks gorg!ReplyDelete
bao bao looks so funny :) very cute!ReplyDelete
great location on the first picture!
much love from germany!
Vintage & Vanilla, Darling!
It's nearly winter here in Australia and it's so cold and rainy :(
I would give anything to be back in LA right now
wow you look stunning in the first pic!ReplyDelete
n the rabbit look sooo pretty:))
i love reading your blog!!
Im so in love with your bunny he's just gorgeous!ReplyDelete
I think you'd like this blog too http://dailybunny.org/ you should send in a pic of Bao Bao!
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little Bao Bao is soooo cuuuute *_*ReplyDelete
Love your action shot...you look too good. Cuteness at Bao Bao.ReplyDelete
Your profile in the top picture is stunning and Bao Bao is adorbs. I don't know how you keep from gobbling him all up.ReplyDelete
awww, he's sooo cute! I miss my little floppy ear bunny. They are so sweet.ReplyDelete
ahhh! he's so cute I almost can't handle itReplyDelete
Bao Bao looks like he is praying on the last pic...so cute!ReplyDelete
So Cute!ReplyDelete
Arent you so happy you got him!?
The washing kills me too.....cuteness overload!ReplyDelete
Bao Bao is too adorable!ReplyDelete
And your picture is so gorgeous! Is that in Westlake Village?
omgsh he is so cute!!!!!!!!!! ahhhhReplyDelete
He is so adorable!! OMG I Love the last Bao Bao picture.ReplyDelete
He is just so precious!!! LOVE him! Try to capture him grooming on video and put it on you YT channel!ReplyDelete
omg. you are so insanely gorgeous. i love these pictures. so adorable. So happy I found your blog. I'm a new follower, I hope you will as well. I started my blog a little over a month ago. It's all about celebrity fashion from the point of view of an LA stylist. Stop by to see multiple post a day on all the latest celebrity fashion news and check out pictures from the fall/winter preview I attended yesterday in Beverly Hills. xoxo. Would love your support. xoxoReplyDelete
The weather looks gorgeous and he is the cutest little thing I've ever seen! xReplyDelete
Baobao is so adorable!!!ReplyDelete
You look gorge I love your dress!
Haha no I wasn't planning on going to crown and crumpet (I've been about a half dozen times already) but if your going I would go just so I could meet you haha are you up to the bay?
Bao Bao is TOO cute for words hun! Love the pics of him-awwwwwwwww!!! :)ReplyDelete
Glad you are enjoying the gorge weather-quite rare for this time of year but we are having it too here in the UK (not that I am complaining one bit)! ;)
Gorge top as well lovely xxx
Hi! I like your blog! I follow you some time ago. Bao Bao is so cute! I have too a rabbit his name is Felix. Please visit my blog www.piensaenchic.comReplyDelete
Regards from Spain
Bao is too cute! I love your shirt and hair in the picture!ReplyDelete
Omg he is so cute!!ReplyDelete
Wow that is such a beautiful place...ReplyDelete
Bao is soo adorable!
This may sound weird/creepy, but you seem like such a kind and sweet person!ReplyDelete
I've read your post on Shau Shu passing and your posts with Bao Bao and you seem to care for them so well and truly love them! I bet they were/are super happy to have you as an owner. :)
Love your blog posts there always the bestReplyDelete
little bao is killing me he's so cute!!!! I want to cuddle up with himReplyDelete
LOVE LOVE LOVE YOR HAIR!! PLEASE DO A TUTORIAL!! :D :D :DReplyDelete
you look amazing in that picture Alex!ReplyDelete
And bao is the cuttest thing ever!
aww, so adorable!ReplyDelete
xx Allie
OMG!! You look so pretty and i love your hair!! Do you have the tutorial to do the same look by myself?? Thanks and xxReplyDelete
Awww such a cute bunny, bet he's more well behaved then mine :)ReplyDelete
You look beautiful!ReplyDelete
Bunny is so cute!
I adore your bunny! Bunnies are my fave animal of all time... so incredibly adorable. And I would die to have a glass of wine on a deck overlooking water like that - gorgeous!ReplyDelete
xoxo J
Hey girl! Its been a long time since I've commented, but I love this post! Where is your shirt from? I recognize your clutch from H&M. Bao is adorable. So glad you were able to find such a great little pet. Hope all is well!ReplyDelete
Lots of love!
Is that restaurant called zen on the westlake lake? I grew up right by there but now live in north hollywood. But I LOVE that restaurant! I am a recent follower and really enjoy your picks for fashion, especially on make up because I have a hard time choosing sometimes! I'll be ordering jewelry soon! Bye :)ReplyDelete


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NEWBURGH — The City of Newburgh will hold an Antique & Collectible Flea Market from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Oct. 21 at Unico Park on the Newburgh Waterfront.
The event is a fundraiser for the 25th annual International Festival, which will take place over Labor Day Weekend 2013.
Vendors of good quality vintage, antique or collectible items are welcome for the admission price of $25 per 10-by-10-foot space. Applications will be available on the city website, cityofnewburgh-ny.gov, or by calling 569-7354 or 569-5429.
"We hope to make the 25th annual International Festival an extraordinary event," said Deputy Mayor Regina Angelo.
Visitors to the Flea Market will also have a chance to tour the privateer Lynx, which will make a return visit to Riverfront Marina by Billy Joe's Restaurant from Oct. 18-21.
For information on tours, visit privateerlynx.org or call 866-446-5969.
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News 12 11pm / Monday, June 9, 2014
COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW) -- Riding a bike on a busy road can be dangerous, but a new road project will help cut some of the risk.
By the time all the work is done, Old Petersburg Road will have four lanes with medians, sidewalks, and bike lanes.
News 12 talked to bike riders and homeowners along the River Watch Extension Project. It will take another three years before the project is done, but people living in the area are already getting excited about what it means for them.
Riding a bike can be fun, but it's also risky on busy roads.
"Cars don't mix with bikes too well," Dennis Lam told News 12 as he geared up for his 26 mile ride.
Lam rides with a group every week around Augusta, but they don't take any chances on Old Petersburg Road, which is closer to his Columbia County home.
"Right now, if you drive down that road, there's no shoulder. There's nothing there. You ride off onto the ditches. So, the bike lanes will give us a little more safety for bikes and for cars," he said right before he hit the bike pedal.
It will cost more than just the 30 million dollars the DOT will pay to finish the project that will also bring four car lanes, medians, and sidewalks. It's costing homeowners like Becky Goodbee their yards.
"The loss of about 11 trees. We are already having significant noise impact that's going to increase over the next several months, but I'm hoping that in the end it will be worth it," she said as she looked at what's left of her yard.
Columbia County's Director of Engineering says the work on River Watch will be worth it for drivers and riders.
"For areas around us it's going to open up traffic flows. Washington Road is the main way to get from Augusta to Columbia County. Right now, that's the only way to get from Evans to Downtown Augusta," he told News 12.
Even though Goodbee's yard will shrink, she still says the project is a good idea.
"Safer traffic flow and more barriers between us and the road, even though we lose some of our yard," she said.
It also means a bike lane to keep riders like Lam safer and closer to home.
"More cyclists are going to use that, and it will tie in the rest of Columbia County," he said.
The 35 million dollar project is supposed to be finished by April 2017. It will widen Old Petersburg Road from Baston Road to Old Evans Road.
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most likely a video from another site stolen like they have been doing with Joe's videos.
Is he having a BJ. or a wank?
Had she been the one who split ? I bet cause otherwise you wouldn´t have released a private video with her face to be seen all over the world. You´re really a nice guy Buddy, thank God she split with you ....
Hey girls everywhere, you wanna keep licking the bottom with your tongue like his ex wife did here. He was jerking it in her mouth but she made it good with those extra licks under the head. Dang, that's good.
Just for the record, I'm american :)
i wish she sucking my cock all day and night, she so good.
i would have never let her be my ex wife,she is stunning xxxxx
hell ya she left... because he couldn't get it up!
Never. Ever. In a million billion years is that his wife.
a prostitute from hungary, not his wife.


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DEXTER -- Martha Ann Powell Cooper, 75, died July 22, 2008, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
Born Jan. 4, 1933, in Dudley, daughter of the late Clarence Edward and Lettie Jane Hutchcraft Powell, she had lived in St. Louis for many years and moved to Dexter in 1980. She was of the Pentecostal belief.
On Nov. 6, 1963, in St. Louis, she married Robert Vernon "Coop" Cooper, who preceded her in death on Dec. 3, 2002.
Survivors include: five sons, Thomas Ready of Ark City, Kan., Donald Ready of Nashville, Tenn., Charles Powell and Robert Cooper of Dudley and Edward Cooper of New Albany, Ind.; five daughters, Charlotte Diane Turner of Calvert, Ala., Frances Powell of Fisk, Charlotte Mae Kitchen and Carolyn Jordan of Morehouse, Lynn Hunsaker of Dexter; four brothers, James Powell of St. Paul, Minn., Henry Powell of Bernie, Albert Powell of Piedmont and Bill Powell of Fulton; three sisters, Sylvia Rogers and Faye Seeber of Licking and Elizabeth O'Conner of Dexter; and 40 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
One daughter, Joyce Webb; two brothers, Gene and Thomas Powell; and two sisters, Kaye Martin and Cloeatus Upchurch, also preceded her in death.
Visitation is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter, where services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday. The Rev. Kenneth Biggs of Dexter will officiate.
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WHILE almost all Zimbabweans welcomed the switch to the multi-currency regime, effectively making the US dollar the main currency for shopping in the country, the lack of coins has been a nuisance and in some cases has meant prices are higher than they need be. Using US banknotes for most cash transactions but with South African rand coins to make change, at the rate of R10 to US$1, has helped but has created other distortions, largely because the rand-dollar rate is not fixed and because there are not always enough rand coins.
At times, when the rand is worth more than 10c, coins vanish as people realise they can "buy" a rand coin for 10c, but use it in South Africa to buy more than 10c worth of goods. At the other extreme, as at present, there is a profit to be made in the other direction, which helps availability, but still does not create stable change, or adequate change.
Many shops and suppliers, to their credit, have ignored the lack of proper change when pricing items. This means someone doing the monthly bulk shopping can benefit from those US$4,95 specials since by the time everything is added together there is still less than US$1 in change to sort out on the total bill. But this does not help the person wanting to buy just one item. There is a tendency for some products to round prices off to the nearest dollar, or to ask people to buy more than one item. And many of us are tired of having a tube of sweets or a piece of chewing gum added to our shopping.
There have been studies on importing adequate quantities of US coins, just as we import the banknotes. But the high mass and low value of coin imports mean that the import costs can be higher than the actual value of the coins, which means very few would be willing to use them if they had to pay full value.
Now the RBZ wants to regularise everything. It is planning to float a bond for US$50 million to import coins that would be tokens for US cents in denominations from 1c to 50c.
Other countries that use the US dollar for their ordinary internal commercial transactions have done the same. The local coins are obviously backed by real US dollars in accounts, which the RBZ plan appears to automatically implement with the bond issue, and considering the small value of coin transactions the fact that they are tokens rather than real US coins does not matter.
For many years, and this might even still be the case legally, coins were not valid payment for sums over trivial amounts. Shopkeepers could take coins for more than the limit, but they were not obliged to do so.
This stopped someone bringing in suitcases of coins to buy things in a shop. Similar rules now would stop any nonsense of people trying to make money out of having enough change in Zimbabwe.
The RBZ plan has one extra benefit. By sinking cash into US denominated coins it will help persuade the rumour mongers that when the Government and RBZ see no alternative at the moment to keeping the US dollar as the standard commercial currency they mean what they say.
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Texas Tech Honors College "3+3" Early Admission Program
The Law School, in conjunction with the Texas Tech University Honors College, offers a "3+3" Early Admission Program. Under this program, honors students in good standing who are working toward the B.A., B.S., B.F.A., B.M., or B.G.S. degree in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the College of Arts and Sciences, or the Honors College may gain early admission to the Texas Tech Law School by completing a minimum of 100 semester hours of coursework (three years) in their undergraduate college and then completing three years of coursework at the Law School.
These students can receive a baccalaureate degree and Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in a minimum of six years as opposed to the traditional seven years of study. Students must apply during the fall semester of their third year (or during the fall semester of a year in which they are classified as juniors) and must take the LSAT by December of that year. The Admissions Committee applies the same standards and procedures for "3+3" applicants as those received under the traditional admission process.
To be eligible for admission under this plan, students must meet the following criteria:
- Have an undergraduate GPA of at least 3.5.
- Have a LSAT score that places them in the top half nationwide.
- Have a SAT score of at least 1300 or an ACT score of at least 29.
- Be enrolled in the Texas Tech University Honors College and be making satisfactory progress toward a Visual and Performing Arts, Arts and Sciences, or Honors College degree (B.A., B.S., B.F.A., B.M., or B.G.S.) consistent with the regulations established by the colleges.
Of the minimum 100 semester hours of undergraduate work, at least the last 30 must be completed in residence at Texas Tech. This minimum will apply to transfer students from other higher education institutions, provided they have satisfactorily completed the work outlined in the freshman and sophomore years or its equivalent. (Note that the Honors College residency requirement generally calls for a minimum of three long semesters of work at Texas Tech for Honors graduation.)
The minimum 100 hours of work must satisfy all graduation requirements for the B.A., B.S., B.F.A., B.M. or B.G.S. degree in the home college at Texas Tech, with the exception of requirements in the minor (for students in the Honors College or the College of Visual and Performing Arts who do not have a minor, the hours will be applied toward elective credit). Students must also complete the minimum requirements for an Honors College designation as outlined in the Honors Student Handbook.
To earn the baccalaureate degree, the applicant for a degree under this plan must submit an official transcript from the Texas Tech School of Law after completion of the first year of law school. Evidence of successful completion of the first year of law school coursework (totaling 29 hours) will substitute for the 18 hours required for the minor and any electives needed (totaling up to 11 hours) for the baccalaureate degree.
For students in the College of Arts and Sciences, the total number of credit hours from outside the college (including those transferred as non-Arts and Sciences credit) and the credit hours from the School of Law applied to the baccalaureate degree cannot exceed 30. For students with a major in the Honors College or the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the 30-hour limit applies to courses from outside the students major degree program that do not satisfy a Texas Tech Core Curriculum requirement.
Any student selecting the "3+3" Early Admission Program option should plan carefully in consultation with an Assistant or Associate Dean of the Honors College and the home college at least one year prior to beginning professional school. Also, due to the unique nature of the law school application process, students are strongly encouraged to meet with the Assistant Dean for Admissions at the School of Law at least two years prior to the desired start date for law school.
Students wishing to pursue the "3+3" program must file a degree plan with an appropriate major and a law minor at least one semester prior to beginning their law school coursework.


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By Steve Elliott
Hemp News
With the rest of the United States moving toward relaxing the
marijuana laws, Indiana seems to be bravely marching into the past. The
Hoosier State's penalties for marijuana are getting tougher after Gov.
Mike Pence requested -- and got -- stricter laws for low-level cannabis
The bill, HB 1006, still has at least one committee hearing, then it goes to the full Senate for a vote, Skywolf Neal Smith of Indiana NORML told Hemp News
on Wednesday. It could be changed in committee or on the Senate floor;
if there are significant changes, it will have to go back through the
House for approval of the Senate changes, Smith said.
The increased penalties come as part of an overhaul of Indiana's
criminal sentencing laws; possession of anything over about one-third of
an ounce of marijuana is now a felony in Indiana. Pence said last week
that he believed the bill would "send a message that the state is "tough
on drug dealers."
Another part of the new law would require that felons -- which, of course, now include low-level pot possession defendants -- serve at least 75 percent
of their sentences, up from the 50 percent or less that inmates might
now serve if they earn good time and education credits while in prison.
Why on earth would a state increase the penalties for cannabis, when the entire country is moving in the other direction? Two words, according to Grizzard at The Daily Kos: private prisons.
The private prison lobby makes big campaign contributions to politicians, in order to secure harsher penalties, The Daily Kos
reports. Those private correctional companies need warm bodies inside
those cells to turn a profit -- and they can actually put people to work
inside the prisons, in a form of legalized slave labopr.
Marijuana offenders, according to Grizzard, are "just the sorts of
people these prison profiteers are looking for. They're mostly
non-violent people who will comply. They can be put to work without much
The private prison company called GEO Group -- one of the largest
such companies in the United States -- has spent more than $3 million in
direct campaign contributions, most of that going to Republicans.
GEO specifically contributed $12,500 to the 2012 Mike Pence campaign,
making the private prison company one of the Governor's top 30
The group has also thrown money at Republican Brian Bosma, Speaker of the Indiana House, who has been quoted
as saying "As an entry drug, I think marijuana is more powerful than
it's given credit for. I know some states have taken that step (to
legalize it), but I don't find it advisable at this point."
When GEO built a 2,416-bed prison in New Castle, Indiana, the state
signed a contract guaranteeing the for-profit prison company that 90
percent of the beds would stay filled.
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Air New Zealand Flight 901
Most of the wreckage of Flight 901 remains on the slopes of Mount Erebus. This photo, taken on the 25th anniversary in 2004, shows part of the DC-10's upper fuselage skin with entry door and cabin windows. Part of the opposite side skin, with door missing, is still attached (top left).
|Accident summary
|28 November 1979
|Controlled flight into terrain
|Mount Erebus
Ross Island, Antarctica
77°25′30″S 167°27′30″E / 77.425°S 167.45833°ECoordinates: 77°25′30″S 167°27′30″E / 77.425°S 167.45833°E
|257 (all)
|Aircraft type
|McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30
|Air New Zealand
|Flew from
|Auckland International Airport
|Christchurch International Airport
|Flying to
|Auckland International Airport
Air New Zealand Flight 901 was a flight that operated from 1977 to 1979. The flight did not stop in Antarctica. It was a sightseeing flight to Antarctica. It was supposed to loop between Auckland, New Zealand, and Antarctica.
The flight's route had been changed without the crew's knowledge shortly before the plane took off. Because the weather conditions of the Antarctic were so bad (severely limiting visibility), and the crew believed they were following the original flight plan-the plane crashed straight into Mount Erebus. None of the 257 people on board the plane survived the crash.The original investigation showed it was the pilot's fault, but people protested and it led to an inquiry into the crash.The conclusion was the accident was caused by a correction made to the route the night before the disaster,and they failed to inform pilot Captain Jim Collins and co-pilot Greg Cassin.


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When you access a website on your smartphone, your cellular carrier, network operator, and government all know you accessed that website. If you're in a country that blocks websites, like China, you may not even be able to access certain websites. Tor allows you to browse anonymously and bypass web censorship on your desktop. Orbot brings Tor to Android, so you can do the same from your smartphone.
Whether you're connected to a cellular data connection or Wi-Fi, Orbot works the same. Like the Tor browser bundle for PCs, it connects to the Tor network and allows you to browse the web anonymously.
How Anonymous is This, Really?
We've covered how Tor works in the past, so read our introduction to Tor and our explanation of how Tor's onion routing works for more in-depth information.
In a nutshell, Tor uses onion routing to disguise your location. When you access a website, you don't connect directly to that website — you pass your encrypted data packet to an intermediary node, which encrypts the data and passes it to another node, and so on until it reaches the exit node. The exit node decrypts the data and sends it to the destination, which sees you as being at the exit node's location. The website talks to the exit node, which encrypts the data and sends it back through the nodes until it reaches you. Your data won't take the same path every time, but will go through different nodes.
In practice, it's very difficult for the end service to determine your location when you're using Tor to browse anonymously. It's also practically impossible for people monitoring your Internet connection to see what you're doing — all they see is encrypted data. They may be able to deduce you're using Tor, but they won't be able to see what you're doing with Tor.
Why Would You Want to Do This?
If you're a dissident in a country like Iran, this means that the government can't track you down for posting information critical of them. It also lets you bypass web censorship and access websites, which is particularly useful in countries like China that censor the Internet. If you're in the US or anywhere else in the world, this means that your web browsing won't be linked to you and stored in a massive database thanks to PRISM and similar programs.
In the past, this functionality was restricted to people using Tor on their computers. However, you can now connect to Tor on Android so you can use Tor while mobile. In addition to preventing your cellular provider, network operator, and government from snooping on you, there are other advantages to having mobile Tor access. For example, you can use Twitter on Android over Tor. Some authoritarian governments have blocked access to Twitter so pro-democracy protests wouldn't be able to get the word out, but Twitter on Android could be set to use Tor. Twitter would remain accessible even if a government blocked access to it.
Connect to Tor With Orbot
Orbot is the most important piece of this puzzle. This Android app connects to Tor and creates a local proxy that other apps on your smartphone can use, allowing them to connect through Tor.
Setting up Orbot is easy. Just install the app, open it, and walk through the setup wizard.
If you have root access on your smartphone, Orbot can function as a transparent proxy. In other words, it can automatically force all network traffic to go over Tor. If you do this route, bear in mind that some apps could leak your real IP address. To really browse anonymously, you should use a browser that's designed to hide your IP address. If you don't have root access, that's fine too — you can still use Orbot with Orweb and other apps.
Long-press the Orbot icon and Orbot will connect to the Tor network. The icon will glow green when connected to Tor.
Browse Anonymously With Orweb
Editor's Note: since this article's publication in July 2013, it's been revealed that Orweb is vulnerable to real IP disclosure, and as such is not ideal for protecting your privacy. Tor's official blog confirms this.
To launch Orweb from within Orbot, just tap the globe icon at the top of the Orbot screen. Orweb will open and display a message saying it's connected to Tor if everything is working properly. You can now use the Orweb browser to browse anonymously.
Other Orbot-Enabled Apps
Orbot can also be used as a proxy for other apps. Any app that supports proxies could theoretically send its traffic over Orbot's Tor proxy. However, Orbot contains a list of other apps that can be configured to work with Orbot. For example, you can use Gibberbot to chat securely, the DuckDuckGo app to search over Tor, browse with Firefox for Android and the Proxy Mobile add-on, or set Twitter's proxy to "localhost" and port 8118.
If you have root access and set up a transparent proxy, other apps should theoretically work with Orbot — but you're safest if you use apps specifically tested to work properly with Tor.
Bear in mind that Tor is significantly slower than a standard connection for browsing, as the routing process adds some overhead. However, if you need to browse anonymously or bypass web censorship, this reduced speed is a small price to pay.
Do you have any other tips for using Tor on Android? Leave a comment below!
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April 10, 2012
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
President/ Statutory Representative Director: Tsuneo Murata
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. recently decided to expand the production capacity of its high-frequency inductors*1, which are used in smartphones and other small communication devices. We are therefore working to start production at Okayama Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and the production of these inductors at a multiple number of production bases will help diversify the company's risk.
Murata has been turning out high-frequency thick-film chip inductors in both the 0603 and 0402 sizes at the Miyazaki Plant of Fukui Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and now production is to be stepped up in order to meet an increase in demand.
In a related future move, in October 2012, Okayama Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is to commence production of the 0603 inductors that are the focus of high-volume demand.
Figures for the combined production capacity of the two plants will register a 4.6-fold increase or so over October 2011 and a 1.8-fold jump or so over April 2012.
Along with the adoption of more and more functions in smartphones and other small communication devices, and with the ever-growing sophistication of these functions, the demand for high-frequency inductors that combine a compact size with a high Q*2 continues to expand at a rapid pace. To meet this demand, Murata aims to continue to boost its production capacity and diversify its risk by producing these components at multiple bases in order to ensure stable supplies.
We use our own unique thick-film printing system*3 for our high-frequency inductors, and the design of these inductors is ideally suited to high-frequency circuits. Our customers have been using them more and more, and they have urged us to step up our supply capabilities. Given our determination to ensure that stable supplies of our inductors will continue, we will be moving quickly to boost our production capacity and add a new production base. By so doing, we are constructing a setup that will certainly eliminate any concerns that our customers may have about our ability to provide them with stable supplies well into the future.
|Company name:
|Okayama Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
|77 Fukumoto, Oku-cho, Setouchi-shi, Okayama, Japan
|April 1992
|¥480 million
|Production lines:
|Ceramic raw materials, chip monolithic ceramic capacitors, multilayer devices
|Hideo Sakamoto, President, Statutory Representative Director
|Yoshimi Nakano, Member of the Board of Directors
|No. of employees:
|Inductors create many different effects by causing interactions between electricity and magnetism. Together with capacitors and resistors, they are basic components in electronic circuits, and are also known as coils. In terms of their main applications, they can be divided into two categories: signal-type inductors and power supply-type inductors. "High-frequency inductors" belong to the signal-type category and are inductors that are used especially in RF circuits, for example. In circuits that convey electrical signals, they are mainly used for frequency matching and as filters. Power supply-type inductors play noise suppression, smoothing and other roles in circuits that supply power to semiconductors.
|"Q" refers to the quality factor (or Q factor) . It is a measure of the sharpness of resonance. The higher this factor, the lower the loss in the high-frequency regions, and the better the inductor.
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|This is a technology used to form microscopically small wiring patterns with a high level of precision by drawing on a photolithography technology that employs thick-film paste. This system has made it possible to achieve a high Q factor while maintaining impressively small dimensions.
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Predatory lending lawsuit dismissed
Ruling may affect Miami Gardens' similar suit against big banks
Miami Times staff report | 7/17/2014, 9 a.m.
Miami Gardens' lawsuit accusing major banks of predatory lending was dealt a potential blow last week when a federal judge dismissed similar complaints by the City of Miami, which accused Bank of America and Citigroup of causing the city's tax base to plummet by creating a foreclosure crisis in minority communities.
Judge William Dimitrouleas ruled that the city had no right to sue the banks for its economic losses. In addition to ruling that the statute of limitations on the cases had expired, Dimitrouleas dismissed the city's claim that the banks had "unjustly enriched" themselves because the homes were subject to benefit from municipal services.
Dimitrouleas who presided over both cases, dismissed the complaints against Bank of America and Citgroup on last Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. Another lawsuit by the City of Los Angeles was also thrown out.
The city claimed the banks violated the 1968 U.S. Fair Housing Act by targeting minority communities with high-interest loans. Those sub-prime mortgages triggered a collapse in the housing market that sent the country into a major economic recession that severely crippled global markets.
Despite the hardships, Dimitrouleas ruled banks were not liable for the city's losses.
"The City's complaints of decreased tax revenue and increased municipal services are 'so marginally related to'" the Fair Housing Act that the city had no grounds to sue, Dimitrouleas wrote.
Many Blacks were among those who lost their homes due to bank foreclosures. Residents and government officials from the City of Miami watched as property values plummeted leaving the city with a towering debt.
The City of Miami responded by filing separate lawsuits on Dec. 13 against three of the nation's largest banks, claiming they defrauded Black borrowers into receiving mortgages they couldn't afford through discriminatory lending practices. These practices, the city claimed, resulted in damaging foreclosures.
The City of Miami was represented by the law firm of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP. The City of Miami Gardens filed similar lawsuits against JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup on July 2. Unlike Miami's cases, three different judges are presiding over the City of Miami Gardens' lawsuits.
Officials from the City of Miami Gardens did not respond to an email seeking comments on this story before press time.


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Definition of cholecalciferol in English:
One of the D vitamins, a sterol that is formed by the action of sunlight on dehydrocholesterol in the skin. Deficiency of this vitamin affects calcium levels, causing rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. Also called vitamin D3 (see vitamin D).
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- Both groups received cholecalciferol and calcium carbonate oral supplementation.
- The kidney is involved in the first step in metabolism of cholecalciferol to calcidiol, the form in which it is stored, and the liver in the final conversion to the active hormone calcitriol.
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Climate denials have reached a fever pitch in the past few weeks. Anti-science screeds have littered the pages of the major newspapers and dominated talk radio.
From a New York Post editorial called "The EPA's Climate Con" to a Rush Limbaugh show in which he says "Al Gore...ought to be subject to being sued" because global warming is a "hoax," commentators have been trashing documented scientific evidence.
What I found most alarming about this trend is the fact that the media coverage and political debate so often take these rants at face value.
The scientific consensus confirms the dangers of climate change. Yet rarely are climate deniers called on to cite fact-based, peer-reviewed evidence for their rebuttals.
Instead, they spout unsubstantiated claims that fly in the face of climate data compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Academy of Sciences, the Pentagon, the National Intelligence Council, and the CIA.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu characterized this trend in a recent interview: "If you look at the climate skeptics, I would have to say honestly, what standard are they being held to? It's very asymmetric. They get to say anything they want." (See multiple examples at MediaMattwers.)
Inadvertently, Marc Morano, one of the driving forces behind denier website Climate Depot, identified the right's key strategy. At the Accuracy in Media Awards at the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference, Morano said climate change is "a political movement. It is not a scientific movement."
But Morano and his cronies don't get to classify what constitutes scientific fact according to their likes and dislikes. I am happy to engage in a political debate about which policies will most effectively solve global warming. But there is no debate about the fact that a third of the Arctic's perennial ice has vanished in just 30 years or that the past decade was the hottest on record.
As the esteemed Dr. George Woodwell, the founder of the Woods Hole Research Center, and long-time NRDC trustee wrote to Joe Romm, "The climatic disruption is not a theory open to a belief system any more than the solar system is a theory, or gravity, or the oceanic tides, or evolution." Woodwell has been studying climate change for more than 30 years and started testifying about it before Congress back in 1988.
Even if deniers feel entitled to disregard the IPCC's entire 2,800 pages of documentation because of two errors and a few botched citations, they still must contend with voluminous evidence compiled by America's leading research institutions.
Back in 1989, then-President George H. W. Bush decided to get to the bottom of the climate change debate. He initiated the U.S. Global Change Research Program -- one of the most exhaustive undertakings in the annals of scientific inquiry. It was a 20-year study commissioned by Congress and conducted over the course four administrations -- two of them Republican and two Democratic.
The agencies included NOAA, NASA, the Pentagon, the National Science Foundation, the Department of State and eight others. Their findings were released last June and here is how the report begins:
"Observations show that the warming of the climate is unequivocal."
That's right. The report is based on observation, not on conjecture, political views, or ideology. The report goes on to say, "The global warming over the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases."
These are definitive conclusions from the best research agencies in the world. They reflect scientific truths, not political interest groups.
Saying the Earth is flat doesn't make it so. Nor does ignoring climate change make it go away. Still, we haven't heard the last of the deniers. Now that clean energy and climate legislation is moving through the Senate and has the backing of the White House, we will likely hear more talk of "hoaxes" and "cons." The fossil fuel industry, which has the most to gain by delaying climate action, is eager to amplify these false claims.
But next time you hear them, email, call, or write to the journalist or politician and demand to know where they get their facts from. If their standards are higher than the IPCC's then they should be happy to share their evidence.
And when you want to get the truth behind the counterfeit theories, visit this great Union of Concerned Scientists' Fact Checker site, where real climate scientists assess questions through the lens of science not politics.
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Scottish firefighters are still battling a massive blaze that broke out in the Glasgow School of Art today, threatening to destroy one of the country's most iconic buildings, as well some of the work inside. Luckily, no injuries have been reported.
The fire was apparently started by a projector which exploded in the basement of the school's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building soon after noon, according to the BBC. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service reported that it was working with school staff to try to salvage significant works of art that are stored in the building. The extent of the damage is not yet clear.
'I think we've lost it' - architecture expert on Art School fire: http://t.co/UK5oxVmACQ pic.twitter.com/ny7ecFK2EW
— STV Glasgow (@STVGlasgow) May 23, 2014
Seniors in the building were getting ready for their end of year degree show, which was slated to take place in the building. One second-year student told the BBC that "I was helping one of the fourth years set up their exhibit and suddenly the alarm went off. We didn't think it was anything but we had to go out and then we saw smoke coming out and realized that it was really bad." He added of the students' work, "all that effort is gone, everyone's work on that side of the building is ruined. Even if it didn't catch fire it will be damaged extensively. The degree show next month is pretty much bust now, it's sad."
Dramatic helicopter shot of Glasgow School of Art fire today http://t.co/GZ5g7iVfJE pic.twitter.com/9qrf4hwCg0
— Herald Picture Desk (@HeraldPictures) May 23, 2014
Many contemporary British artists studied at the school, which also serves as a major tourist attraction. The incident is a devastating one for the artistic community:
Loss of the Glasgow School of Art is tragic but the years of student work that is destroyed is devastating. #gsoa
— Cameron Sinclair (@casinclair) May 23, 2014
"Even archive & library will be gone" - continuing coverage of devastating @GSofA fire http://t.co/ai6V1gUbNu pic.twitter.com/lANSUJVKX6
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 23, 2014
"I never thought I could feel so emotional over a building." Mumsnetters react to Glasgow School of Art fire: http://t.co/69oP9NKbea
— Mumsnet (@MumsnetTowers) May 23, 2014
Glasgow School of Art board of trustees chair Muriel Gray issued a statement on the sad event, saying:
Today is a really black one for the GSA, but I cannot thank the fire brigade enough for the speed with which they came and their commitment to contain and extinguish the fire. Fortunately there have been no fatalities or injuries. I am so proud of the staff and students and how everyone has pulled together. We are thankful to all the Glaswegians who turned up to comfort students and to friends from across the world for their messages of support.
Iain Connelly, president of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, said "It is too early to talk about what happens now, but the architectural profession in Scotland will do anything it can to help in any way." We'd be surprised if other organizations don't follow suit.


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They get a lot of requests here at Don Schmid Auto Salvage.
"I've had people come in here for tires, wheels, glass, a little piece of tubing," Aaron Epp said.
But the Does It Work crew wanted something else from Aaron. We wanted to break a car window and cut a seat belt in order to test the "resqme."
The commercial says the "Resqme tool will help you get out of your car during a vehicle emergency." The makers say this light-weight tool is supposed to "slice through jammed seat belts with its sharp steel blade and break windows with its spring-loaded spike."
We bought one online for $10.95.
That does not include shipping and handling.
"It doesn't seem like it will cut a seat belt or shatter glass," Aaron said.
Pushing his doubts aside, Aaron puts on his safety goggles and gloves, and gets in the driver's seat of a 1993 Mazda 626. Aaron removes the safety pin and tries to slice the seat belt. It wasn't as easy as it looked in the demonstration clip. So, he switched how he was holding it and the direction of the blade.
"That did it," Aaron said.
Now it's time to break some glass. The instructions say you should use the "Resqme" on the side of the window.
Initially, Aaron tries hitting the window quickly with the tool. But, the directions say to apply a steady pressure. When he does that, the car window shatters in place.
"I can see the tint on it holding it together," Aaron said.
The tint keeps the glass from falling out of the door. However, it takes little effort to bust through.
"Yep, that's easy," Aaron said.
Aaron says most car windows will react to the "Resqme" like this one did.
"Most cars nowadays have some kind of tint on it, whether it looks clear or not," Aaron said.
We wanted to test the "Resqme" on a newer vehicle with darker tint, so we found a 2004 Chevy Impala.
Aaron takes a seat and starts the test. He was able to bust through in eight seconds.
Does it work?
"Yes it does," Aaron said.
The key to breaking a window with this device is using steady pressure of at least 12 pounds. The makers suggest attaching it to your keychain or visor-- or loop it around your rearview mirror or headrest.
Resqme: Does It Work?
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It wasn't exactly a case of "jailbirds to lovebirds," but George Gates still gets a kick out of telling people that he and his wife, Gloria, met in the slammer.
"Of course, people always look at me as the possible criminal," George says, laughing.
And while the location of the Niles couple's meeting is technically correct -- the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas -- it's not like it sounds, Gloria says.
"I was a retired school administrator who was substitute teaching English as a second language (at Elmwood). A friend at Milpitas adult school got me interested in subbing, although I have to admit I was a little hesitant about working at the jail facility. But I ended up subbing there for about three years.
"And George was a substance abuse teacher there. We first met over the copy machine."
Was it love at first sight? "Well, it was for me, anyway," George says. "I wasn't sure she even noticed me at all."
Indeed, Gloria admits she wasn't interested because she wasn't available at that time. So George put the notion of romance out of his mind.
"I did help her with the Xerox machine though," he says. "We gradually became friends."
Gloria eventually did become available; the two had their first date in 2007, then married in 2010.
"We have a lot in common," Gloria says. "Despite the fact that we came from different parts of the country, different cultures. He is a Caucasian from New Hampshire, and I am a Filipina-American from the Central Valley. It was just by chance that our lives even intersected. We have gone through so much together, supporting each other each step of the way, and we're so grateful we have each other in this stage of our lives."
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The companies that plan to develop the new resort and racetrack on part of the old Concord property have applied for about $200 million in tax breaks. The Sullivan County Industrial Development Agency has listened to the proposal and now plans on doing an analysis of the costs and benefits before holding a public hearing and then acting on the request.
Thompson Supervisor Tony Cellini is in favor of granting the request. Developer Louis Cappelli had a similar arrangement before he ran into trouble getting the financing he needed for his Concord project. "What was good for one should be good for another," Cellini said.
Except that what was good for the taxpayers in one case might not be so good for them in another, which should be more of a concern than what is good for the developer.
Cappelli made it clear that he could not move ahead with the project and get funding without the tax breaks. As it turned out, even with them his project came to an abrupt halt.
The developers who now are asking for this consideration are in a very different position. They have said from the start that they had the money to proceed, and they made a strong case that they were committed to developing the property, building hotels and a water park, restoring the Monster golf course and relocating the racetrack from its home in Monticello to the new property.
They said they would do all of this regardless of the state's actions on expanding casino gambling or the likelihood that they would get one of those casino licenses should they become available.
Tax breaks are designed to lure businesses that might locate elsewhere or to help those already in a community expand. In this case, the developers are here, and they have repeatedly said that they have the money to finish their plans. So why should the county give them this special treatment when that money might be better spent on luring others or helping others already in the county expand?
At the very least, the county should make sure that, should the developers get a casino license — with all of the added revenue it would bring — the IDA would be able to share in that good fortune.
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Investments: Closed-ended vs open-ended
If simplicity wins out over complexity, why do so many fund managers have funds on both sides of the argument? Stoakley at Schroders says the answer is straightforward. "Because the marketplace demands that some people want an investment trust and some people want a unit trust. It's purely because of market demand," he says.
Adding to that, Stoakley says the notion investment trusts are going to find more success once the RDR is implemented is perhaps wishful thinking given how much more popular OEICs have proved. "There's this big view that investment trusts could grow massively beyond the RDR, but I'm not seeing it that way," he says.
Ultimately, his view is investment trusts will perform well over one time period with specific market behaviours and open-ended funds will perform well over another time period.
Scotland at Principal Investment Management says his firm uses investment trusts sparingly because of the issues that liquidity, discounts and share price fluctuations cause. "If you have different clients with the same strategy but are investing at different times, they aren't getting the same price point," Scotland says. However, he concedes that there are some applications where they work very well, such as less liquid asset classes like infrastructure (as mentioned earlier).
The verdict
It has long been said investment trusts produce superior performance to open-ended funds and the results in this article appear to suggest this fact. But it is not as clear-cut as some may suggest, so any notion a closed-ended fund will outstrip its open-ended counterpart by a wide margin would be false. In fact, the results found in this survey show investment trusts only performing better some of the time, and certainly not all of the time.
As fees become less of a factor and managers make moves to ensure their funds are as liquid as possible, it seems the primary differences will be related to management style and the vagaries of the market. Looking at the way the funds examined in this article performed, the results are so close to each other in many cases to render them almost negligible. When choosing between an investment trust or an open-ended fund, the decision should be less about which is supposed to produce the best returns and more about the quality of management, the need for access to a specific asset class (an investment trust may work better for specific markets) and the overall suitability of that particular investment.


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LOS CABOS: India has urged the IMF to move quickly on quota reforms, a day after it agreed to contribute $10 billion to the fund's crisis management programme.
"...progress in quota reform is proceeding more slowly than raising resources. I recognise that there are practical reasons why the quota reform agreed in 2010 will not be completed by the end of 2012, but it must be done expeditiously thereafter," said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, at a session on strengthening financial architecture and the financial system at the G-20 summit on Tuesday.


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Definition of triac in English:
A three-electrode semiconductor device that will conduct in either direction when triggered by a positive or negative signal at the gate electrode.
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- The microcontroller assures control of switch means, such as triacs, switches and relays, and ensures that braking is effectuated regardless of the phase in the power cycle of the alternating current.
- A second triac or the like is connected between the intermediate point of the winding and the terminal of the voltage supply to which the first triac is connected.
- A lamp module is similar, but has a triac instead of a relay and will respond to dimming commands as well as on or off commands.
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Here are the latest freeze related closings and cancellations
Published: Monday, January 27, 2014 at 11:24 a.m.
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All curfews have been lifted.
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The Valentine Bridge remains CLOSED until determined safe for vehicular traffic.
Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government offices will open and all TPCG related services will resume on Thursday.
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The Los Angeles Lakers will start the 2012-13 season as the favorites to win the NBA championship in 2013.
Talk about pressure.
Las Vegas oddsmakers peg the Lakers at 5-2 to win the crown next June, ahead of defending champion Miami (9-2) and runner-up Oklahoma City (9-4). Chicago and San Antonio are both at 10-1 to win it all.
In the course of just a few days this summer, the Lakers went from being playoff castoffs to legitimate contenders, thanks mainly to the arrival of Steve Nash and Dwight Howard. The four-team trade that sent Andrew Bynum to Philadelphia and brought D12 to L.A. was a game-changer for Los Angeles, especially considering that premier power forward Pau Gasol was not uprooted and remains with the Lakers.
Yet, being a championship-looking team on paper and actually going onto the court and achieving that are two vastly different realities. The Lakers will be hard-pressed to get to another finals and ultimately win their 17th world championship.
The Lakers will encounter numerous roadblocks, both real and imagined, along the way to a title. They will need hard work, tremendous coaching, career years from role players and luck to get to the NBA's promised land.
In a recent poll conducted by L.A. Times beat writer Mark Medina, an overwhelming 91 percent of respondents predicted that the Lakers would win the championship this season.
A lot of pieces must fall into place for that to happen. Let's take a look at the obstacles that could impede the Lakers' march to victory next June.


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Tottenham Hotspur fans have 24 hours to save famous pub
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A pub popular with fans of Premier League football team Tottenham Hotspur has 24 hours to be saved.
Last year, developers bought The Antwerp Arms in Haringey from owners Enterprise Inns - with the intention of turning it into housing.
But The Antwerp Arms Association is fighting to preserve the pub - which sits within 200 metres of Spurs' White Hart Lane stadium - by buying it.
The group of local residents has the right to buy the establishment - but the deadline to make a purchase comes tomorrow!
Though The AAA has raised £106,240 so far, group treasurer Ian McLaren claims that another £20,000 is needed to save the pub.
Mr Mclaren said: "It's vital that we save it. The Antwerp Arms is the only pub in the area and is a brilliant location, between Bruce Castle Park and the football ground. Locals and Spurs fans all need the pub."
Ellie Kershaw, the trust's secretary, said: "The Antwerp Arms is a nice, friendly pub that is not only important to us on match days but hugely important to the community overall."
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