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Prissy Clerks performed at the Are You Local? showcase
Prissy Clerks win at Vita.mn's Are You Local? bash
One was a hair-tossing, crowd-surfing hard-rock band whose four brawny members looked as if they rock the weight room as mightily as they do their amps. Another was an innovative, rowdy rapper who -- with his large, Dayglo-attired live ensemble and black-lit stage -- looked as if he were the hip-hop answer to a head shop poster rack. And then there was the rather bookwormy, immobile band that sort of looked like a laid-back staff at any Minneapolis coffee shop.
With sharply hooked songs and coolly off-kilter guitar jams, though, the Prissy Clerks more than made up for their (in this case) glaring lack of stage antics and took top honors at Vita.mn's Are You Local? contest Friday night at 7th Street Entry. The coed indie-rock quintet got to play a second set in the First Avenue Mainroom right after winning Friday. They will go on to play the Vita.mn day party at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, on March 16.
Prissy Clerks leader Clara Salyer, 19, at once beamed with pride and showed her nervousness as her band walked out as the announced winners. They were greeted mostly by cheers but also to a minor chorus of boos from fans of runners-up the Japhies, who were chanting their band's name before the winner was revealed. Nothing like a rock show turning into a high school jock rally.
The Japhies certainly had the livelier stage show. Frontman Reed Wilkerson jumped atop the crowd at the end, and bassist Matt Homan banged a floor tom in the center of the crowd during the "Black Diamond"-like "Runaway."
Rapper Xavier Marquis' set was arguably even wilder. His various backup/hype vocalists jumped around Marquis in their neon face paint, and his surprisingly metallic band pounded away, coolly mashing up Silversun Pickups' "Lazy Eye" in the set highlight "Maybe Something."
But the judges narrowly favored the less-flashy Prissy Clerks, who had their own peculiar visual charm. Their babyfaced singer/guitarist and her accordion-squeezing partner Emily Lazear, 18, made for a cute front line while the older male members stayed to the back, looking very workmanlike. They excitedly but steadily breezed through their Mainroom set despite the chaotic circumstances. The Clerks especially won over the crowd with the swirly-guitar-laced, shoegazer-pop closer "No Sir."
The best thing about the whole night was the fact that the bands were so vastly different, a trait that carried over to the rest of the Mainroom lineup. Fort Wilson Riot opened the show with its quirky, drum-machine-accompanied indie-pop, followed by the sweet, walloping garage-punk of Pink Mink. The Blind Shake made a big impression with its hard-blasting, two-guitar noise-punk. Peter Wolf Crier took a semi-maniacal tear through frazzled art-rock off last year's album "Garden of Arms."
Transplanted indie-rapper Astronautalis delivered his first full Mainroom set to close out the night. It seemed like a fitting end, as he emphasized the Twin Cities scene's anything-goes qualities -- especially during his freestyle set -- and brought out a high-profile pal from the new hood, Sims. It truly felt like he intended to answer the "Are You Local?" question.
"I'm so damn happy I moved here," Astronautalis said several times as he noticed that most of the crowd stuck it out to the end. Yes, even some of those disgruntled Japhies fans.
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Howler disses Minneapolis scene
Jordan Gatesmith, frontman of the international buzz band Howler, took some public digs at his hometown last week via the U.K. press. Speaking on the Guardian's "Music Weekly" podcast, he responded thusly when asked about the Twin Cities music scene: "Screw 'em."


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"All that's written about her being lonely is just ridiculous. I didn't spend time with Jen because she was famous or successful. I've been down that road before. It usually means trouble with a capital T. It was because of the conversation that first time we spoke. She's genuine, sincere and charismatic."
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Matsuoka, A, Huot, Y, Shimada, K, Saitoh, SI, Babin, M (2007). Bio-optical characteristics of the western Arctic Ocean: implications for ocean color algorithms. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING, 33(6), 503-518.
AbstractGlobal ocean color algorithms designed to estimate chlorophyll a concentration (chla) are not accurate at high latitudes. Although a regional Arctic OC4L algorithm was designed to be applicable to high northern latitudes, its applicability remains uncertain. To examine these issues, we investigated the light absorption coefficients of phytoplankton, non-algal particles (NAP), and colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) and remote sensing reflectance, R-rs(lambda), covering most of the western Arctic Ocean. A higher pigment packaging effect was identified relative to that at lower latitudes. The CDOM absorption dominated and accounted for 76% of the total non-water absorption at 443 nm and did not covary with variations in chla. This absorption is significantly higher than those in other marine environments. We also examined the backscattering coefficient of particles obtained from the inversion of R-rs(lambda) and found that it covaried well with variation in NAP absorption. Our evaluation shows that when turbid waters (R-rs(670) > 0.00042 sr(-1)) are excluded, the performance of the OC4L is good and much better than that of the sea-viewing wide field-of-view sensor (SeaWiFS) OC4V4 and the moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) OC3M (root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.13, 0.21, and 0.22, respectively). The reason why the OC4L performs well despite strong CDOM absorption is discussed.
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Based on the phenomenal Oscar-winning movie that captured the hearts and imaginations of a generation back in the 90s, Ghost is a timeless fantasy about the power of love.
Adapted for the stage by Bruce Joel Rubin from his own Oscar-winning screenplay for the film, the amazing special effects and dazzling staging are by the multi award-winning Paul Kieve (Inner Magic Circle member) and Tony Award-winner Matthew Warchus.
With a score by rock legends and Grammy award winners, Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard (Michael Jackson and Alanis Morrisette) and featuring the unforgettable Unchained Melody, Ghost is a rollercoaster ride of romance and comedy with dazzling state-of-the-art staging.
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Walking back to their apartment one night, Sam and Molly are mugged, leaving Sam murdered on a dark street. Sam is trapped as a ghost between this world and the next and unable to leave Molly who he learns is in grave danger. With the help of a phony storefront psychic, Oda Mae Brown, Sam tries to communicate with Molly in the hope of saving and protecting her.
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Augusta, GA---"Children will be children," said Lashonna Avery. She was not mad one day after a female student took a comb to her son's head...drawing blood. It happened at Tubman Middle School where Lashonna happens to be a teacher.
"It could have been more serious, but it wasn't," said prinicpal Dr. Wayne Frazier. The school officer charged the student with felony aggravated assault.
"I don't think it was assault it was just a scratch,"said Lashonna. "We doing something that's blowing something way out of proportion," said Dr. Frazier.
"Regardless...no one has the right to put hands on other people," said Dr. Dana Bedden. "People make poor decisions during the day, and there are consequences for it," said Bedden.
It looks as if this could have been avoided. This isn't the first time that same student has been in trouble. A fight back in April involving knives sent her before a tribunal and landed her in-school suspension. Some how she ended up back in class.
"At this point I'm not that bent out of shape by the mistake. I'm upset that a mistake resulted in injury to another student...while a minor injury it still should not have happened," said Dr. Bedden.
"I hate that it happened. It shouldna happen, but we can't undo it, and I need to move on, and we need to move on," said Dr. Frazier. This...as one young man sits at home on the mend. "Trust me he is ok. If he wasn't...you would know," said Lashonna.
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Lynda Ellen (Brake) Martin, 72, of Shawnee, passed away Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, in Shawnee.
Service will be 10 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 4, at New Hope Cowboy Church in McLoud with Pastor Randy Reasoner officiating. Burial will follow at Dale Cemetery under the direction of Cooper Funeral Home of Tecumseh.
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A while after dinner on an early summer evening while watching TV in the living room I heard my mother call me from the front door. She was pointing to the low skyline and what I witnessed threw me for a loop and haunts me to this day. There above in the low skyline was a couple of objects in a semi-circular formation gliding slowly in a way I never witnessed before or since. Their formation was too perfect and there was absolutely no sound or exhaust of any kind emitted. Initially my thoughts were I was looking at a helicopter formation except we did not hear any sound whatsoever. And their shape was unlike any plane or jet I ever saw. Their shape from the rear was hard to pinpoint but was slightly circular possibly oval(the years gone by have diminished my exact remembrance of their shape). There was a slight reddish and dim white glare or haze from the rear which appeared to cover most of the rear of these objects and hindered your ability to pinpoint their shape exactly. My mother was speechless and I heard my neighbors children scream "mom dad UFO". When our neighbors father came to their front porch he looked up and said "holy s**t" he told his son to go get the camera fast. The formation was gliding not flying(if that makes any sense)and seemed to be in no rush to get somewhere. My heart was pounding through my chest and I remember asking my mom what did she think. She replied something to the affect of I think their goddam UFO's. We lived within four miles of the former DOW Air Force Base in Bangor Maine(was de-commissioned in the late sixties to early seventies)and reopened as an Air National Guard base until this day. So we witnessed jets and various military aircraft flying over our houses every day. Also the Bangor airport is on the Air Guard base. The Air National Guard Base in Bangor Maine is a major radar sight(Over the Horizon to be exact) so I've always wondered if these UFO's were picked up by that radar. I must also add that I served three years in the US ARMY(1994-1997) as a Stinger missile crewmember and as such had to be certified to identify multitudes of aircraft. Never saw any aircraft before or since like those that summer day. Unfortunately no pictures were taken that I am aware of because it was over so fast and we were literally stunned. I am only interested in finding out if this was witnessed by anybody else that evening or was it possibly reported. I was afraid of not being believed so I did not report this incidence.
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Pleasanton-based Workday has appointed as its chief financial officer a former executive with Palo Alto-based VMware, the business software companies said Wednesday.
Mark Peek will join Workday as its new chief financial officer in June. Peek is currently co-president and CFO at VMware. In 2007, Peek helped VMware conduct an initial public offering.
Privately held Workday was co-founded by PeopleSoft veterans David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri.
Earlier this year, Bhusri said that Workday was considering an IPO for sometime in 2012.
A Workday IPO could raise as much as $500.
Workday sells cloud-based software for human resources, payroll and financial management.
In October, Workday landed late-stage venture financing that totaled $85 million. The round was led by new investors, including T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Janus Capital Group Inc., and Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment company of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos.
In addition to his executive responsibilities at VMware, Peek previously was chief accounting officer at Amazon and an audit partner at Deloitte.
Contact George Avalos at 925-977-8477. Follow him at twitter.com/george_avalos.


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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
July 16, 2003
Twenty Solar Cars Now Racing Along Historic Route 66
The American Solar Challenge is now underway! Teams of students from 20 universities are racing their solar-powered cars along 2,300 miles of historic Route 66. The road race began in Chicago and winds its way down to northern Texas, then across the desert Southwest, ending in Los Angeles on July 23rd.
Although 30 teams had entered the race, 10 failed to pass safety and qualifying tests, narrowing the field to just 20 solar cars. Kansas State University earned the pole position in the race after driving 526 miles on a closed course in the qualifier race. See the DOE press release.
As of Tuesday evening, July 15th, the University of Minnesota held the first-place spot, followed closely by the University of Missouri-Rolla, Kansas State University, and the University of Missouri-Columbia. Throughout this year's race, daily reports from the road, race standings, photos, and videos will be posted on the American Solar Challenge Web site. Race positions have been shifting rapidly in this year's close race, so be sure to follow along!
Future contenders in the American Solar Challenge are having their own day in the sun-actually, a whole week-as the Dell-Winston Solar Challenge is now underway. Open only to high school students, the Dell-Winston Solar Challenge began in Round Rock, Texas, on Tuesday and will run east for eight days and 1,500 miles, ending in Cocoa, Florida. This year, only one car is racing in the "classic" division, and four cars are competing in the "open" division, which allows the use of high-efficiency solar cells (within cost limits) and hub-mounted motors. Like the American Solar Challenge, the Dell-Winston Solar Challenge Web site features daily updates of race standings, photos, and videos, and also includes a GPS-based system that displays the cars' locations in real time.


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New ambigram: Nihal
October 9, 2009 § 4 Comments
My friend, Hartosh (I had written previously about his mathematical novel here) and his wife Pam, recently had a baby boy. This ambigram is of his name: Nihal
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Do one which reads pinky upside down…that would be funny, though unfair. Here's another idea: do pamtosh which reads nihal upside down.
oh, i like this, but as a challenge, shouldn't the ambigram be in the original script that the name belongs to? 😉
i REALLY like this one


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Issue No.09 - September (1974 vol.23)
pp: 967-970
L.G. Delcaro , Istituto di Elettrotecnica e di Elettronica, Universit? di Trieste
A method for transposing large matrices stored on external storage devices allowing direct access is proposed. The method can be applied both to square and nonsquare matrices and it is particularly suitable when the number of rows and columns of the matrices are products of many factors.
Disk-computer data transfer times, external storage devices, fast Fourier transform, interchanging operation, matrix transposition.
L.G. Delcaro, G.L. Sicuranza, "A Method for Transposing Externally Stored Matrices", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.23, no. 9, pp. 967-970, September 1974, doi:10.1109/T-C.1974.224062


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OFSC Enables Interactive Digital Signage with Intel® Processor
Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Enables Interactive Digital Signage for OFSC
High Performance and Remote Manageability of Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processor Underpin Interactive Digital Signage Solution
• Enhance sales promotion for food service companies
• Digital signage unit for display of high quality images
• Improve Maintenance efficiency of digital signage unit
• 3rd generation Intel Core vPro processor
• Kinect* for Windows* (Microsoft)
• Windows Embedded Standard* 7 (Microsoft)
• Interactive digital signage (Open Foodservice Systems Consortium)
• Integration of motion sensors with interactive digital signage
• Implementation of high-performance digital signage units
• Improved efficiency through use of remote management functions
• Prevention of unauthorized access to digital signage units
• Optimization of digital signage operations through use of embedded OS
Testing of Interactive Digital Signage using Kinect for Windows
The Open Foodservice Systems Consortium (OFSC) is a consortium of food service businesses and IT vendors that seeks to standardize information systems and the infrastructure that underpins business operations. Its aim is to help the industry progress by developing interconnection standards for equipment and systems in response to the requirements of its food service company members.
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Laurenza Duet
Published: Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 12:11 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 12:11 p.m.
Laurenza Adams Duet, 92, a native and resident of Galliano, died at 6:50 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to funeral time Friday at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Golden Meadow. Mass will be 11 a.m. Friday at the church, with burial at Hebert Cemetery in Galliano.
She is survived by one son, Raleigh Duet and wife, Rose Marie; one daughter, Barbara Eymard and husband, Steve; six grandchildren, Mitchell Duet, Mark Duet, Lisa St. Pierre, Angie Roman, Tammy Eggart and Ken Eymard; eight great-grandchildren, Branden St. Pierre, Paul, Lindsey, M.J., Mason, Justin Duet, Bailey and Amryn Eymard; three sisters, Eva Smith, Fredda Orgeron and Rosemary Pitre.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Morris Duet; her parents, Hennessey and Alcida Adams; and three brothers, Fred, John and Jackson Sr. Adams.
She was a parishioner of Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church.
Falgout Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Donate Now To Claim Your $299 Web Appointment System
It's back-to-school time in the United States, and we want to lessen the pain of the transition with a deal you simply cannot refuse. Here's how it works. Every fall we solicit contributions to Nerd Vittles so that we can keep the lights on for another year. We try to reward our readers with great deals whenever we find them but especially during donation season. So this one is especially for you, our loyal readers! You'll find a PayPal Donate button just to the right. It works with every major credit card whether you have a PayPal account or not. For everyone that makes a contribution to Nerd Vittles this month, we'll forward a portion of your contribution to Ward Mundy & Associates, an organization we know and love, to purchase on your behalf a fully licensed copy of hitAppoint to run on a server of your choice. Ward Mundy & Associates already has purchased an unlimited distribution license to hitAppoint. We hope you'll consider running hitAppoint with PBX in a Flash or the Incredible PBX because, over the next few months, we'll be writing a new module for hitAppoint that lets you add Telephone Reminders and Client/Patient Confirmations when the software is run on PBX in a Flash systems. Who knows? We may even get energetic and write a module to let folks schedule appointments using their Plain Old Telephone.
What's the Catch? Sorry. There isn't one other than our assumption that you're a loyal Nerd Vittles reader. We obviously have no way to check. Just make a donation to Nerd Vittles this month and patiently await an email from us telling you how to download your software. If you're a long time reader of Nerd Vittles, you already know about our previous contributions to the open source and shareware communities. And today is no different even though this is commercial software. Yes, the Little Mrs. is not going to be happy. So there goes the new house... again.
Can I Pass the Software On? No. Your copy of hitAppoint will be licensed just to you or the entity making a donation to Nerd Vittles. And it's for use on a single server. This is the identical commercial software product that can be purchased from the hitAppoint web site for $299.
What Are Typical Uses for hitAppoint? The hitAppoint web site lists a number of real-world examples of how hitAppoint is being used. These include scheduling of medical appointments, fitness and wellness appointment scheduling, piano or guitar lessons, tutoring appointments, photographic services scheduling, workout class appointments, hair salon scheduling, carpet cleaning services, and almost any other trade or profession that involves scheduling of people's time or facilities.
Is it Full-Featured? You bet. It's one of the best in the business. That's why we chose it! Here's an overview of hitAppoint functionality in the latest release:
- Appointment packs
- Multiple seats at a time if needed
- Customer can request/cancel appointment
- Provider can create/accept/reject appointment
- Manage past appointments
- View appointments during any time period
- Color for appointment status
- Customizable automatic confirmation emails
- Export to Outlook, iCal apps, Google Calendar
- Export to Excel or any CSV-capable software
- View apptmt by customer, provider, location
- Day appointments visual view
- One screen print view
- Review appointments before scheduling
- Configure service, location, provider, time
- Move appointment to another location
- Reassign appointment to another provider
- Reschedule appointment to different time
- Custom additional fields for appointments
- Recurring Appointments
- Paypal integration
- Authorize.Net integration
- SagePage integration
- Accept offline payments at your office
- Configure to allow registered users only
- Require customer email validation
- Require admin approval for new customer
- Additional information fields for customer data
- Search for customers by any field
- View customer appointment history
- Use of customer database from other apps
- Temporarily suspend users
- Assign provider to any service and location
- Flexible availability schedule for providers
- Specify individual time off
- Variable duration and pricing for sessions
- Lead-in and lead-out times
- Flexible availability for every service
- Configure providers and locations for service
- Define when advance booking is possible
- Define when appointment cancellation is possible
- Flexible availability scheduling by location
- Configure services and providers by location
- Tailor look and feel with themes
- Integrate with WordPress
- Integrate with Joomla
- Multi-language support
Prerequisites. Here's what you'll need on your host machine which could be either Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X:
* Apache web server
* PHP (version 4.1 or greater or PHP 5)
* MySQL 3.23 or greater
* phpMyAdmin (strongly recommended)
In the Windows world, the easiest way to get everything you need is to install WampServer 2. With Mac OS X, we'd recommend XAMPP. For Linux, all you need is PBX in a Flash. If you plan to run hitAppoint in a hosted environment (e.g. WestNIC, LunarPages, BlueHost), we'd recommend you choose a provider that includes cPanel. This makes it easy to set up your MySQL database and credentials. The three providers we've listed all provide the necessary software to run hitAppoint, and we've used all three of them with good results. The three are ranked in our order of preference.
Downloading & Installing hitAppoint. If you're installing this on a PBX in a Flash server, it's incredibly simple and takes less than a minute. Log into your server as root and issue the following commands. Then skip down to the Running Setup section below:
cd /root
wget http://pbxinaflash.com/hitappoint.tgz
tar zxvf hitappoint.tgz
For those not installing hitAppoint on a PBX in a Flash server, download the hitAppoint software from the link that was provided in the email from us. The link changes regularly so download it as soon as you receive your email confirmation. Unzip the file in the root directory of your web server so that hitAppoint can be accessed using a web browser pointed to:
Step #2 is to create a MySQL database and user with permissions to manage hitAppoint.
On cPanel hosted systems, there will be a MySQL Databases option. Choose it and create a new database called hitappoint. This will actually create a database called nerd_hitappoint where nerd is your cPanel account name. Now add a new username and call it hitappoint as well. Then choose a very secure password for this username. Then click the Create User button. Finally, move to the Add User to Database option and specify nerd_hitappoint as the database and nerd_hitappoint as the user (using your own cPanel account name obviously). Then click the Add button.
On systems with phpMyAdmin, use a browser to open the application. Click on the Privileges option in the center column. Then click Add a New User. For Username, choose Use Text Field and enter hitappoint. For Host, choose Local and it will default to Localhost. For Password, choose Use Text Field and enter a very secure password twice. In the Database for User section of the form, choose the radio button marked "Create database with same name and grant all privileges." Now move to the bottom of the form and click the Go button.
Now you're ready to configure hitAppoint to use your newly created MySQL database. Use your favorite editor to open db.rename_it.php in the new hitappoint directory on your web server. Change the default entries so that they look like the following but use your actual password instead of yourpassword for the MySQL user account you created:
define( 'NTS_DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define( 'NTS_DB_USER', 'hitappoint');
define( 'NTS_DB_PASS', 'yourpassword');
define( 'NTS_DB_NAME', 'hitappoint');
If you're on a hosted platform, don't forget to add your prefix (e.g. nerd_) to both the DB_USER and DB_NAME entries. Then save your changes and rename db.rename_it.php to db.php.
Running Setup. You're almost finished with the installation. Using your favorite browser, call up the following page and follow the prompts:
When you finish running the setup procedure, delete setup.php in the /hitappoint directory.
Language Support. hitAppoint has been designed to support multiple languages. Unfortunately, it has not yet been translated into
German, French, and Spanish. The entire translation process takes only an hour or so. If you are fluent in both Spanish and English, please drop us a note, and we'll walk you through the translation procedure. In addition, we'll share your handiwork with the rest of the hitAppoint community.
Getting Started. After you've downloaded and installed the software, review the hitAppoint Getting Started Guide for instructions on configuring the software to meet your needs. Here's an example of what you can create in less than 10 minutes. And, as you can see, integrating the live application into existing web sites, forums, or blogs takes only a couple minutes. Feel free to make some sample entries. We won't bill you. 😉 Enjoy!
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8 Responses to "Donate Now To Claim Your $299 Web Appointment System"
Does/will this integrate with PIAF?
Wondering if it has or will have the ability to make calls according to the appointments and play a pre-recorded message…?
[WM: Stay tuned. 🙂 ]
WM: What is the minimum donation amount accepted for this software. 😉
[WM: We have faith in our readers' generosity… most of them, anyway. No restrictions or catches.]
Offer still valid?
[WM: Absolutely.]
Still valid?
[WM: You bet.]
Is the offer still good for WEB APPOINTMENT SYSTEM?
[WM: Hasn't been updated, but you're welcome to the original one under the original terms.]
Is this still a valid offer? How quickly does one get the appt. system once they've donated?
[WM: Depends upon the size of the donation. 🙂 Seriously, the offer still stands, and we try to get back to contributors within a reasonable period of time. Can't give you an exact number of hours or days because it varies depending upon our travel and work schedules.]
I am going to donate and try this system. I hope it's still valid 🙂
[WM: Donate away.]
Nerd Vittles,
Am I too late to make a donation? Are you offering any new services/programs for the coming new year?
Thank you,
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When running a ubuntu or debian based distro, it is sometimes required to do same manual updating with the apt-get tool . I run the following command almost on a daily basis on my desktops and servers.
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Hello world!
Finally, i created a blog just for myself and all things around me… This has been spinning around in my mind for a very long time. And today i felt the need to create one. The domain name was already in my possession for quite some time. Hopefully i'll be posting some nice stuff here in the future 🙂


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The World; How Many People Has Hussein Killed?
By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: January 26, 2003
IN the unlit blackness of an October night, it took a flashlight to pick them out: rust-colored butchers' hooks, 20 or more, each four or five feet long, aligned in rows along the ceiling of a large hangar-like building. In the grimmest fortress in Iraq's gulag, on the desert floor 20 miles west of Baghdad, this appeared to be the grimmest corner of all, the place of mass hangings that have been a documented part of life under Saddam Hussein.
At one end of the building at Abu Ghraib prison, a whipping wind gusted through open doors. At the far end, the flashlight picked out a windowed space that appeared to function as a control room. Baggy trousers of the kind worn by many Iraqi men were scattered at the edges of the concrete floor. Some were soiled, as if worn in the last, humiliating moments of a condemned man's life.
The United States is facing a new turning point in its plans to go to war to topple Mr. Hussein, with additional American troops heading for the Persian Gulf, while France and Germany lead the international opposition. But the pressure President Bush has applied already has created chances to peer into the darkest recesses of Iraqi life.
In the past two months, United Nations weapons inspections, mandated by American insistence that Mr. Hussein's pursuit of banned weapons be halted, have ranged widely across the country. But before this became the international community's only goal, Mr. Bush was also attacking Mr. Hussein as a murdering tyrant. It was this accusation that led the Iraqi leader to virtually empty his prisons on Oct. 20, giving Western reporters, admitted that day to Abu Ghraib, a first-hand glimpse of the slaughterhouse the country has become.
In the end, if an American-led invasion ousts Mr. Hussein, and especially if an attack is launched without convincing proof that Iraq is still harboring forbidden arms, history may judge that the stronger case was the one that needed no inspectors to confirm: that Saddam Hussein, in his 23 years in power, plunged this country into a bloodbath of medieval proportions, and exported some of that terror to his neighbors.
Reporters who were swept along with tens of thousands of near-hysterical Iraqis through Abu Ghraib's high steel gates were there because Mr. Hussein, stung by Mr. Bush's condemnation, had declared an amnesty for tens of thousands of prisoners, including many who had served long sentences for political crimes. Afterward, it emerged that little of long-term significance had changed that day. Within a month, Iraqis began to speak of wide-scale re-arrests, and officials were whispering that Abu Ghraib, which had held at least 20,000 prisoners, was filling up again.
Like other dictators who wrote bloody chapters in 20th-century history, Mr. Hussein was primed for violence by early childhood. Born into the murderous clan culture of a village that lived off piracy on the Tigris River, he was harshly beaten by a brutal stepfather. In 1959, at age 22, he made his start in politics as one of the gunmen who botched an attempt to assassinate Iraq's first military ruler, Abdel Karim Kassem.
Since then, Mr. Hussein's has been a tale of terror that scholars have compared to that of Stalin, whom the Iraqi leader is said to revere, even if his own brutalities have played out on a small scale. Stalin killed 20 million of his own people, historians have concluded. Even on a proportional basis, his crimes far surpass Mr. Hussein's, but figures of a million dead Iraqis, in war and through terror, may not be far from the mark, in a country of 22 million people.
Where the comparison seems closest is in the regime's mercilessly sadistic character. Iraq has its gulag of prisons, dungeons and torture chambers -- some of them acknowledged, like Abu Ghraib, and as many more disguised as hotels, sports centers and other innocent-sounding places. It has its overlapping secret-police agencies, and its culture of betrayal, with family members denouncing each other, and offices and factories becoming hives of perfidy.
''Enemies of the state'' are eliminated, and their spouses, adult children and even cousins are often tortured and killed along with them.
Mr. Hussein even uses Stalinist maxims, including what an Iraqi defector identified as one of the dictator's favorites: ''If there is a person, then there is a problem. If there is no person, then there is no problem.''
There are rituals to make the end as terrible as possible, not only for the victims but for those who survive. After seizing power in July 1979, Mr. Hussein handed weapons to surviving members of the ruling elite, then joined them in personally executing 22 comrades who had dared to oppose his ascent.
The terror is self-compounding, with the state's power reinforced by stories that relatives of the victims pale to tell -- of fingernail-extracting, eye-gouging, genital-shocking and bucket-drowning. Secret police rape prisoners' wives and daughters to force confessions and denunciations. There are assassinations, in Iraq and abroad, and, ultimately, the gallows, the firing squads and the pistol shots to the head.


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NIEHS and Autism Speaks Partner to Find Answers
On September 8, the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and Autism Speaks organized a brain-storming meeting in North Carolina entitled "Autism and the Environment: New Ideas for Advancing the Science". Researchers, scientists, and parent advocates from within and outside the field of autism were invited to participate. Over the course of the day, the group's objective was to share novel ideas and unique perspectives in identifying and overcoming the primary obstacles to progress in the field of environmental health research in autism. From these discussions the group was charged with identifying the best opportunities for accelerating research aimed at understanding the role the environment plays in the risk for autism. What made this meeting unique from others is that autism researchers with expertise in the unique challenges of discoveries in this disorder were invited together with experienced, senior researchers in other disorders with known genetic and environmental risk factors. This included schizophrenia, Parkinson's Disease, and breast cancer. For example, Dr. Caroline Tanner described the sequence of scientific discoveries that led to the conclusion that Parkinson's Disease has both environmental and genetic causes, and how researchers are using this information to better understand how the two interact. Dr. Tanner commented that, like autism, Parkinson's Disease is associated with gastrointestinal problems, noting that such problems often occur before the onset of the motor problems that are characteristics of this disorder. Other scientists pointed out how both epidemiological evidence and basic science discoveries have suggested that early immune system challenges, such as maternal influenza, can influence fetal brain development, resulting in an increased risk for schizophrenia. Another feature of the discussion was the broad, inclusive nature of environmental factors under consideration, as well as how basic science and epidemiology can work together in parallel, rather than sequentially, to identify and validate suspected environmental targets.
The meeting was broadcast live via webcast and a summary report will be shared with the public and the NIH Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee for further consideration and comment. Ultimately this report will offer guidance in setting priorities in future environmental research in autism. Some of the suggestions included taking advantage of a variety of existing epidemiological studies the use of newer technologies for data collection of personal environmental exposures – such as sensors that can be worn on the body that are currently under development. Existing epidemiology studies that may not currently include autism as an outcome may be able to be built upon by adding autism as an outcome and gathering additional information on exposures of particular interest In addition, representatives from the National Toxicology Program presented approaches using bioinformatics and high throughput technologies to quickly screen for a variety of environmental exposures of interest. Because autism is complex, the assay may not be simple, and the group stressed the importance of basic research in science to help inform the process. This includes high quality, well designed research in cell biology, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and genetics. Genetic research will continue to be essential to better understand how individuals with certain genotypes may be vulnerable to specific environmental exposure and to provide clues into the biological systems that are affected in autism. The new findings in genetics with regards to copy number variations are going to be essential to identify biological pathways that may be affected by specific environmental exposures.
As autism is a disorder with multiple symptoms and multiple etiologies, both big and small ideas, short and long term projects were identified for further consideration. Please check the Autism Speaks website for updates on this meeting and plans to follow up on the ideas presented. More information about the agenda and the participants can be found here. We will post a link to the full meeting once it is available.


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Molino Glass Pre-coolers use vibrant colors and are hand made by the experts at the Molino glass studios.
Hand blown from heavy duty Pyrex they are made to the 14.5 standard joint size, this enables them to not only fit the range of Molino Bongs but also other 14.5 pieces (Roor bongs and others).
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BPHS was established in 1918 by the Chinese community of Baguio to provide learning opportunities for Filipino—Chinese children. It is a non-profit, non-sectarian and service oriented community school. To date, it continuous to be the center of Chinese education in the City of Pines.
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Rodman & Renshaw has upgraded PharmAthene (AMEX:PIP) to "market outperform," with a new 12-month price target of $7, from "market perform," after a Delaware court judge issued a final judgment with "favorable economics" to PharmAthene in its dispute with SIGA Technologies. Shares of PharmAthene closed at $1.56 on Friday.
Last September, the court ruled that SIGA breached its obligation with PharmAthene to negotiate in good faith for the smallpox drug, ST-246, to be used in case of a biological attack. The judge asked both parties to define their interpretation of net profits, which are to be split 50-50. Since SIGA and PharmAthene could not reach common ground, the judge made a decision for them.
Analyst Elemer Piros estimates that PharmAthene could derive more than $150 million in royalties from the initial 1.7 million-treatment course contract that is in place between defense agency BARDA and SIGA. "In our calculation, a further $965 million could be collected, if the government orders an additional 12 million courses," he added.
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Advanced and
Fast collision detection library.
Written by Igor Kravtchenko, Copyright (C) 2015
What is OZCollide?
OZCollide is a fast, complete and free collision detection library. It provides a very ease of use C++ API especially focused on performance and functionalities for real time applications such as video games. OZCollide doesn't just provide yes/no collision queries between standard primitives. It is a full, functional, performant, stable and cross-platform library to be used instantly into your pipeline production providing tons of collision methods up to the object serialization itself. OZCollide is based on AABB tree implementation. See the next section for more informations.
What are the features of OZCollide?
- Supports for polygon soup, not just triangles as other libraries but
real n-gons soup allowing performant indexation of convex and concave
- Different structures to best match the nature of collisionable entities: n-gons, AABBs and spheres
- Large number of native API primitives to provide all kind of standard queries: sphere, ellipsoid, AABB, OBB, triangle, point, line and frustum
- Swept collision detection to detect the exact moment of collision of movable primitives (LSS) whatever their speed
- Supports for static collision detection on a given time as well
- Query for simple collision (true/false) or complete list of intersections
- Triangle/AABB, Triangle/OBB, Triangle/Sphere collision and intersection detection
- Line/Line, Line/Box, Segment/Triangle intersection detection
- Sphere/Box, Sphere/Line, Sphere/Frustum, AABB/OBB, ...
- ... really tons of methods for all your needs
- Radix based "Sweep'n'prune" for large number of movable entities
- System of cache with temporal coherence to greatly speed up access of collision resolution
- User callback to "take hand" when a collision occurs
- User value on leaf to hold any personal data
- Built-in AABB trees builder to automatically build collision trees and monitor the result
- Native IO serializer (up to you to use it or no) based on IFF (Interchange File Format) with 'reading-from-memory' capabilities
- Cross-platform, works on Windows, Linux and Macintosh, in fact any platform supporting VisualStudio 6/7 or gcc
- Native IO data access Class to not care about FPU internal format (IEEE754 compliant or not), endianness or anything
- Support for PCH (Precompiled Header) or not
- Highly optimised code and algorithms
- Can be used as a static or dynamic library
- Released under the LGPL license
- Ease to use, documented, stable and very performant
- ...and much more!
I am not very familiar with collision/intersection algorithms. I just want to implement some kind of collision for say, my particles system. Is that would be hard with OZCollide?
No. Actually it is a matter of maybe 1 hour or 2 if you do not know yet the API.
No words. How is it working in practice?
You give to OZCollide your geometry defined by a set of points and a set of polygons. The library build for you a tree and return a pointer to it. Your particles are points that define lines when moving. Just invoke a query on that tree with these lines and you obtain your moments of collision if any. It is a matter of some lines of code and lighting fast.
What about a caracter player moving in a 3d world?
Same thing except here you would prefer to represent your caracter by a box, a sphere or a capsule to better fit its shape. Note that if you decide to use the swept detection algorithm you do not have even to worry about the velocity of your movable entities. Collision will always be detected even on a low machine with a limited number of FPS.
How fast is OZCollide?
OZCollide has been already used successfully to solve collision detection of hundreds of movable entities inside world geometry represented by tens of thousands of triangles and it never exceeded 5% of total CPU on an old PIII-700Mhz. Also, OZCollide is "memory-friendly" and avoid allocation as much as possible preferring large chunk of memory at once (that is also limits memory fragmentation) which is especially appreciable for consoles development.
Can I freely use OZCollide in my commercial program?
Yes and no. OZCollide is released under the LGPL license.
However, please note that OZCollide can be only used as a DLL (non-static). For a commercial project with a FreeBSD license (that allows static library), please contact me. The fee is about 195 € for an unlimited use with no restriction.
Is OZCollide demands for any due or so?
Absolutely not as soon used only for students, universities and so on. OZCollide is maybe one of the largest detection library used around with ~8000 download per day. Please just read the LGPL license condition. Any contribution is ofcourse greatly appreciated.
Who are using OZCollide?
Many video games companies have now opted for OZCollide, for its ease of use,
performance. It also now referenced as a standard by students,
universities, indie games and cross-platform capabilities. It's also used in medical research and astronomy.
Where can I download OZCollide?
Last stable version is available here: ozcollidelib_1-1-2.zip.
Older versions?
Just there:
Is there any tutorials or documentations?
There is an online documentation.
However please note that *everything* is not obviously documented but the API is pretty straightforward and you can understand most of the methods simply by reading the header files.
You can start to have a look at some example of code here.
Don't hesitate to write me for any question, suggestion or feedback:
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The Hijab Challenge
That's the problem with journalism. You've got to keep the Muslims happy," a nail technician at Gulf Coast Town Center said to me.
We had been discussing my major – journalism – when her remark cut the conversation short. It also sparked my determination to bring the Hijab Challenge to Florida Gulf Coast University.
The Hijab Challenge encourages U.S. women to experience Islamic culture by wearing a traditional scarf for one day to one week. Muslim women wear these headscarves to cover their hair and necks when in the presence of most males to whom they are not related.
There are many misconceptions in the United States about Muslims and their culture. In a country that is supposed to be built on freedom from religious oppression, Muslim women in particular tend to feel the brunt of discrimination. Displays of modesty and devotion to principle are often mistaken for cultural oppression or extremism.
According to the Muslim Women's League, the proper term for the headscarf is hijab. It can be tied in a variety of ways, depending upon the woman and her interpretation of modesty as described in the Quran, the central religious text of Islam.
I chose to tie my scarf in a waterfall style that covered my hair and neck. During the week of the experiment, I alternated between pink and purple hijabs. Before I knew it, I began accessorizing.
I found myself taking great pride in the way I looked. My hair, neck and chest (all things I usually left exposed) disappeared beneath the folds of my scarf and I began to appreciate the simplicity of leaving only my face visible. My conservative clothing and hijab were the polar opposite of my typical style. To my shock, I felt empowered.
Tiara Brown, an FGCU junior who also took part in the experiment, experienced similar feelings of empowerment.
"So many people told me how beautiful I looked," Brown said. "But I felt more beautiful, which I didn't expect."
As the week progressed, Brown and I, though acting individually, shared many experiences while wearing the hijab.
On the first day of the experiment, I walked to a lecture on campus and saw a student with whom I had attended high school. We are still friends and talk frequently. As I passed him in the hall, we locked eyes. At first I felt confident he would walk up to me to say hello. But as we made eye contact, his face showed no recognition of who I was, and his eyes snaked away from mine as he walked by.
I couldn't believe he didn't recognize my face. After all, it was the only thing exposed.
Brown had a similar experience on her second day. FGCU junior Sam Robinson looked her in the eyes, and although they had met in the same spot countless times, Robinson did not recognize her.
Editor's Note
What would possess a young Jewish woman to don the garb of a Muslim woman?
For Kalhan Foley Rosenblatt, it was an attempt to see the world through the lens of another culture.
"I'm a big supporter of Israel but I'm an even bigger supporter of peace and understanding," says Rosenblatt, who wore the traditional Muslim headscarf, the hijab, for four days last October. Her friend, Tiara Brown, of New Port Richey, joined her in the experiment for 2 ½ days.
The goal of the project, known as the Hijab Challenge, is to give non-Muslim women the opportunity to experience the world as Muslim women do.
Dressed in their hijabs, the FGCU juniors visited Target and Marshall's in Gulf Coast Town Center, strolled the halls of Southwest Florida International Airport, attended classes and dined out with friends. Brown led a campus tour.
As Rosenblatt recounts, there was plenty of material for a story as people peppered them with questions, teasing and, in some cases, taunts.
Brown found that generally honors and graduate students tended to be more supportive than younger students. Both women discovered that it was easier talking to strangers than friends about their outfits and motivations.
Two months later, friends were still commenting about it in person and on Facebook.
Looking back, both women view it as a valuable experiment, one that changed their perspectives and those of many with whom they came in contact.
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New York Times best-selling author Adriana Trigiani tells local writers to have confidence in their writing at the 11th annual Jambalaya Writers' Conference on Saturday at the Main Library in Houma.
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SIKESTON -- It will be a totally different experience for those looking for spooks at the Sikeston Jaycee Rodeo Grounds this year.
"This year, we changed the name to the Haunted Acres and did away with the hayride," said Kris Eastwood, who is co-coordinating the event this year. "It's now more of a walk through, allowing people to interact more with all of the scenes."
The Haunted Acres begins tonight and continues Saturday and Oct. 26 at the rodeo grounds. Admission is $10 per person, and those who bring a can of food to donate will receive $2 off their ticket price, with a limit of one can per visitor. Hours are 8 p.m. to midnight each night.
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It has been only on several occassion that I got back to KL in the right mood and I believe this time is the one and I seriously need it if I want to do well in my MLC paper. I've already submitted the application form and feeling rather nervous about it. Anyway, now that I'm back in KL, I'm feeling the right mood is there...everything seems right this time around and I'm gonna do it.
Things have yet to change much for me but I believe I'm going to make the right decision and do things in a better way. I want to focus on my dreams and I'll make it a reality.
Well, the photo was taken while on the way to KL with my housemate, Wai Ping...a very quiet but brilliant girl. A good friend to mix with. In a way, I thank God for the people that are around my life because these people have been a constant inspiration.
The journey ahead is a long one but I'm back here in the right mood and I'm going to make it right!!


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Green Jobs Proponent Hilda Solis Picked for Labor Secretary
President-elect Barack Obama promised he would create jobs thanks to a clean-energy revolution. Now he's named the Labor Secretary to do just that.
California congresswoman Hilda Solis has reportedly been tapped to head the Labor Department. A member of the House environment and commerce committee, and the House select committee on energy independence and global warming, Rep. Solis' signature legislative achievement was the 2007 "Green Jobs Act."
That bill, signed into law as part of the broader 2007 energy act, provides federal money for "green collar" job training, "such as energy efficiency retrofit and service, green building construction, and solar panel installation." Rep. Solis figures green-job training could create as many as 3 million new jobs in the next decade. Other studies touted by the Obama administration talk of up to 5 million green-collar jobs.
Among Rep. Solis' admirers is green-jobs evangelist Van Jones.
If Rep. Solis is confirmed, it will bring the Labor Department within the orbit of the administration's energy and environment team. At the same time, it will mean that energy and environment team has an even stronger California flavor.


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VIDEO: Aikman's ex-wife tries to play the "Troy" card
Early on Monday, Rhonda Jordan Aikman, was arrested for public intoxication. The ex-wife of former Dallas Cowboy Troy Aikman can be heard in the video below pleading with Murphy police to just take her home and avoid an arrest. The video was obtained by TMZ.
"If you do this, it will be on the TV and it will hurt, it's gonna hurt Troy. It's gonna hurt me. Is that what your goal is?" she is heard saying.
She was booked into Collin County jail Monday on a public intoxication charge and released the same day on a $269 bond. She was charged with the Class C misdemeanor by Murphy police, according to county jail records. Rhonda and Troy Aikman divorced the last year.


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CARUTHERSVILLE - Carbon monoxide was ruled as the cause of death for two children.
Preliminary reports from an autopsy conducted at Mineral Area Hospital in Farmington on the bodies of 1-year-old twins Alexus Shiann Johnson and Bradley Ryan Johnson found the children died due to a large amount of carbon monoxide in their system, Pemiscot County Sheriff Tommy Greenwell reported.
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Investigators with the Missouri Fire Marshal's office, Division of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Missouri Highway Patrol Division of Drug and Crime Control, Caruthersville Police Department and the Pemiscot County Sheriff's Department have ruled the cause of the blaze as accidental. Reportedly the fire was caused by an electrical heat source.
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In my second year teaching third grade, a remarkable portion (two-thirds) of my class began the year with reading levels well below end-of-second-grade benchmarks. So I was shocked to see one of my students pick up Harry Potter in the library. I was even more surprised to find him reading Harry Potter. It was a powerful moment in which I learned the power of motivation in improving children's reading skills.
Jim Trelease offers statistical support for the conclusion to which I came:
"Students from lower income families tended to have lower [reading] scores, but when they were highly engaged (motivated) readers, they scored higher than students from the highest income levels who were poorly engaged readers and very close to the most engaged middle income students. Thus, high reading engagement is capable of vaulting the lowest SES [Socio-Economic Status] student to significantly higher scores and overcoming family culture. Motivation (which pushes frequency) is therefore a critical factor in elevating the at-risk readers" (The Read Aloud Handbook p95)
Motivation is no less important in parents than with children. So it is of utmost importance that parents find children's literature that they love to read aloud with their children. For parents who didn't grow up with great literature, or who are strapped for time to find good books, or simply can't afford them, what can be done?
In addition to presenting literacy milestones from Reach Out and Read (a fantastic organization that promotes early literacy) and the Department of Education to help parents understand what to expect from their children, tumblon recommends great books for each stage of development so that parents don't have to search or buy. They can simply check them out from the local library.
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Cooper, Andreychuk to Visit Chase Branches Tomorrow Afternoon
Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper and former Lightning captain Dave Andreychuk will appear as the featured guests at Chase Bank locations in the Tampa Bay area on Tuesday, August 27. Fans will have the chance to meet Cooper from 4-5:30 p.m. at the Chase branch located at 4601 W. Kennedy Blvd. in Tampa, while customers can meet Andreychuk from 4-5 p.m. at the Chase bank located at 10391 Big Bend Road in Riverview. Chase became the official bank, credit card, financial services partner, ATM provider and community partner on March 14, 2013.
In addition to customers having the chance to meet Cooper and Andreychuk, fans are encouraged to stop by a Chase bank to find out how they could get tickets to the Lightning's 2013-14 home opener against the Florida Panthers on October 10 at the Tampa Bay Times Forum.