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For lovers of Historic Hotels
Today this baroque building complex is a conglomerate of seven narrow, interconnected buildings and discernable as a hotel in the Belle Époque style. The Hotel Wilden Mann was extended in the 19th century and another floor added. It is considered a prominent witness of the history of tourism in Lucerne. The guest book includes illustrious names in world politics, show business and culture.
For lovers of Typically Swiss HotelsToday's Wilden Mann occupies what were once seven separate houses in the picturesque medieval town centre of Lucerne.
The earliest written record of the establishment is dated 1517 describes it as a "Pinte", meaning a house without a licence; indeed, not until 1726 was the Wilden Mann able to call itself a tavern.
The entire complex now counts as impressive testimony to the history of tourism in Lucerne.
Despite being a conglomerate of seven different houses, the hotel is still a recognizably Belle Epoque structure which blends in perfectly with the historical architecture surrounding it.
Hotel details
- - Radio in all rooms
- - Telephone in all rooms
- - T.V. in all rooms
- - Mini bar in all rooms
- - Room with bathroom
- - Especially quiet rooms
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Central location
- - Historical building
- - Lift
- - Public restaurant
- - Open deck/garden restaurant
- - Vegetarian restaurant
- - Light foods/diet
- - Whole foods cuisine
- - Public parking spots
- - Pets allowed
- - conferences/seminars
- - Meeting room
- - Near train station
- - Near bus stop
- - Member SHV
- - Wi-Fi available (free)
- - Internet access available in rooms (free)
The Romantik Hotel Wilden Mann is ideally and quietly located in the historical old town of Lucerne; close to the pedestrian zone, 200m from Lucerne's most attractive landmark the Chapel Bridge, a few steps from shopping area and business district, just 8 minutes walk from train station and lake.
Excellent romantic hotel. Near to downtown with good options for sightseeing. Stylish Hotel.


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Greeley Plato's Closet celebrates Earth Day every day
Plato's Closet of Greeley announces it celebrates Earth Day, every day. This year, the day is April 22. Jill Farver, owner of the local resale clothing store, puts the principles of Earth Day to work every day by buying gently-used, current style clothing and accessories and re-selling it to teen and 20-something guys and girls at up to 70 percent off original retail prices.
"We thought that Earth Day was a perfect time to remind local fashion lovers that they can 'live green,' look great and have fun too," Farver said in a news release. "At Plato's Closet of Greeley, teens and twenty-somethings can bring in clothes they no longer wear to sell, and then walk out with hot fashions that look expensive but totally fit their budget. It's a win/win approach for their wallets and the environment, too."
Nationwide, Plato's Closet stores bought nearly 50.4 million items from customers last year, making those items available to new shoppers and putting about $160 million back into the pockets of the sellers, the release stated.
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When it looked as though the Curve's 15th home opener was headed for extra innings Thursday night at Peoples Natural Gas Field, Harrisburg's Jose Lozada delivered a gift to the 3,647 fans in attendance.
Appropriately, it was right to a man named Gift.
With the tying run on third and one out, Lozada hit a sharp grounder to Gift Ngoepe, who started a 6-4-3 double play that ended the game and gave Altoona a 5-4 win in its home opener.
"I just stay calm no matter where it is in the game," Ngoepe said. "I don't get hyped up because it's the ninth inning. I just took it as a normal ground ball, and once they call the out, you can jump around and celebrate."
The double play capped a good night for Ngoepe, who homered among his two hits. Despite going 2-for-3 Thursday, Ngoepe is hitting just .167 through the first seven games.
"Gift has occasional power," Curve manager Carlos Garcia said. "I saw that last year, and today he came through with a big run. He has to concentrate more on putting the ball in play and cut his swing down a little bit, but today he was huge for us."
The Curve staked starting pitcher Casey Sadler to a 4-0 lead through three innings.
Andrew Lambo, playing in his first game since hitting for the cycle in Akron on Tuesday, had a two-run single in the bottom of the first inning. Jarek Cunningham doubled the lead with a two-run homer in the third.
"Jarek is healthy this year," Garcia said. "The fact he's healthy and able to play at 100 percent is a big reason he's able to put up a good fight at the plate. He's making solid contact."
Cunningham missed a month last season with a wrist injury but finished Thursday's game a triple shy of the cycle. He also drove in two runs and scored two more.
It turned out that Altoona needed each and every one of those runs.
Anthony Rendon got Harrisburg on the board in the fourth inning with a home run just over the outstretched arm of Lambo in left. Sadler allowed two more runs before leaving after six innings. The right-handed starter improved to 2-0 with a 3.27 ERA.
"Casey is a competitor," Garcia said. "He maintains his composure on the mound, and he's going to do a great job for us. He's going to be a good one."
The Curve improved to 4-3 and will have prized prospect Jameson Taillon on the mound tonight as Pittsburgh Steelers pro bowl center Maurkice Pouncey comes to Peoples Natural Gas Field.
"It's good to be back home after a six-game road trip," Garcia said. "To get the first win in the way we did, it was special."
Through the first seven games, six of Altoona's regular starters, Mel Rojas Jr., Cunningham, Matt Curry, Lambo, Alex Dickerson and Adalberto Santos are hitting at least .290. Santos didn't play Thursday after leaving Tuesday's game with an injured quad.
"We got a good team of guys," Ngoepe said. "If we put everything together like we did tonight, and in the previous games we won, we could go all the way."
Game recap
Key player: Jarek Cunningham finished 3-for-4 with a home run, double, two RBIs and he scored two runs.
Key play: Luis Sanz got Jose Lozada to ground into a double play with the tying run on third to end the game.
Key stat: Through seven games, the Curve already have nine homers.
How they scored
Bottom 1st: Jarek Cunningham doubled. Matt Curry singled. Both scored on Andrew Lambo single (2-0).
Bottom 3rd: Mel Rojas Jr. doubled. Cunningham homered. (4-0).
Top 4th: Anthony Rendon homered. Steven Souza Jr. singled, scored on Destin Hood groundout. (4-2).
Top 5th: Rick Hague doubled, scored when Brian Goodwin grounded into a double play. (4-3).
Bottom 6th: Gift Ngoepe homered (5-3).
Top 9th: Hood walked, scored on Hague single. (5-4).


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The Stetson Women's Lightweight 4+ and Men's Open 2- rowing teams will be competing at the 75th Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta this weekend on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pa.
"These two boats have been solid competitors all spring and they have been working very hard to gain more fitness and more finesse in their boats," Stetson head coach Mark Wilson said.
Championship season is in full swing and May is Championship Month for rowing. Currently conference and regional championships are mostly over and for the Hatters the Dad Vail Regatta is a chance to compete on a national stage. Many other Division I programs will be vying for 16 slots in the NCAA Championship but for the Hatters that will not be a reality until next year.
"This year has been a great year for the Hatters with lots of new focus and renewed dedication to work," Wilson said. "Some athletes have accepted the challenges and others have not, which is fine. These athletes have certainly risen and are very excited to be still racing this spring. Rowing is a sport that demands a lot out of individuals and out of friendships and I am really proud of the entire team."
The Varsity Lightweight 4+ comprised of Dee Grahame, Alicja Duda, Tori Teter, Kiara Urena and Cox Madeline Briggs has been a great example of dedication to each other. The five team-members came together in early March when others on the squad opted to leave and they have not looked back.
"We have a great group of very motivated young women in this boat and I am so very proud of them," Wilson said. "They respect, support, and would do nearly anything for each other."
Earlier in the season the Lightweight 4+ raced visiting teams from the north and were competitive but not really fast. At the FIRA state championships the event was cut, forcing them to row as a Varsity 4+ second team. However, at SIRA they came out charging and finished a respectable third place and earned a bronze medal. They are racing this weekend against some very quick teams. The field of Light 4+'s includes: Brock, Bryant, Bucknell, Florida, Fordham, Lafayette College Crew Club, Liberty, MIT, Middlebury College, Oklahoma City, Penn State, Pitt, Stetson, SUNY Geneseo, Temple, and Tulsa.
"I expect this to be a very fast event and will be very pleased to have the women finish in the top 12," Wilson said. "Many teams have a lightweight component and these are all great schools, so all the women can do is continue to be positive, sit tall, and race strong."
The Men's Pair of David Nutting and Michael Sigrist have rowed together more this season than any other pair in the field of 36 boats.
"I have seen these men go really fast and they row well so we will just hope they have a good heat draw and can get through the preliminary races clean and quick," Wilson said. "The focus is to go in to each race like it is their last and race to move on to the finals. David and Mike are two hard working guys but they will be racing much heavier teams, so they will have to row really well and clean to make it to the finals. I have confidence that if they row their absolute best, good things can happen."
The team departed DeLand Wednesday morning and will begin racing on Friday morning. Schedules and results are posted at www.regattacentral.com and the event website is www.dadvail.org


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quote: Gaming? Okay you're using myopic arguments again to make your point.
quote: The biggest game of the year in 2011, Elder Scrolls Skyrim, doesn't even have an official Mac version. Still. Yes more and more games on Steam have OS X versions, but there's always that very good chance a huge title could pass you by, with your only resort being to Boot Camp into Windows if you want to play it.
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Richard Koeppel's obsession began at age twelve, in Queens, New York, when he first spotted a Brown Thrasher, and jotted the sighting in a notebook. Several decades, one failed marriage, and two sons later, he set out to see every bird on earth, becoming a member of a subculture of competitive bird watchers worldwide all pursuing the same goal. Over twenty-five years, he collected over seven thousand species, becoming one of about ten people ever to do so.
To See Every Bird on Earth explores the thrill of this chase, a crusade at the expense of all else—for the sake of making a check in a notebook. A riveting glimpse into a fascinating subculture, the book traces the love, loss, and reconnection between a father and son, and explains why birds are so critical to the human search for our place in the world. BACKCOVER: "Marvelous. I loved just about everything about this book."
—Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman
"A lovingly told story . . . helps you understand what moves humans to seek escape in seemingly strange other worlds."
—Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak
"Everyone has his or her addiction, and birdwatching is the drug of choice for the father of author Dan Koeppel, who writes affectionately but honestly about his father's obsession."
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In Akron, three high-ranking administrators split their time – and their salaries – with nearby districts.
In Ken-Ton, an elementary school will close next year in what's likely to be the first of a series of school consolidations there.
And the West Seneca schools have pulled millions of dollars out of their reserve fund over the years to supplement state aid and property tax revenues in the budget.
In this second year under the state's tax cap, some schools may add another strategy: ask voters to approve budgets with the maximum tax increase allowed under the cap.
Only about half the local districts did so last year. Most asked for less of a tax increase than they were allowed under the cap.
"If a school is going to maintain itself, it has to get that tax cap money," said Rick Timbs, who runs the Statewide School Finance Consortium.
Last year, a dozen of the 27 suburban school districts in Erie County proposed budgets that included tax levy increases that were lower than those allowed under the tax cap. Half of the 10 school districts in Niagara County did so.
Only two districts in Erie and Niagara counties – Holland and Niagara Wheatfield – proposed tax levies that exceeded their tax caps.
When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo unveils his state budget proposal later this month, local school officials expect to hear him announce plans for a state aid increase of about 3.5 percent, slightly smaller than this year's increase.
School officials tend to frame that as a cut, even though that would actually equate to more money for schools than they got this year.
At an informational session Saturday, dozens of school board members and several school officials got some financial advice from Timbs, a former Erie 2 BOCES superintendent.
He urged local districts to set their levies as high as possible under the cap.
"Schools have to shoot for their maximum tax cap," he said. "The problem is that costs are escalating at a faster pace than the state's willingness to increase resources."
Plenty of board members and school officials vowed to lobby state legislators and the governor's office to increase aid to schools. It may be popular to take a hard line on school spending, but eventually, the tides will turn, some said.
"I'm not just going to accept the fact that I can't change Cuomo," said Bob Dana, vice president of the Ken-Ton School Board. "He can't do it without the votes. I would think somewhere along the way, he's got to change."
At the moment, though, in the absence of a larger increase in state aid, schools must either look for ways to spend less or generate more revenue either by raising property taxes or dipping into their fund balance.
Last year – the first year that schools proposed budgets under the state's tax cap – many school districts submitted budgets that included tax levies that fell below the amount they could have collected under the cap, he told them. (Although it's referred to as the 2 percent tax cap, a variety of exemptions are factored in, and the actual size of the cap varies significantly from one district to another.)
"People did not collect $112.9 million they were entitled to under the tax cap, mostly because they were afraid," Timbs told school board members at Saturday's session, which was sponsored by the Erie County Association of School Boards and underwritten by Turner Construction and Harris Beach.
In some districts, school officials say they have been drawing from their fund balances in recent years to avoid major cuts in programs. But now, their fund balances are running low.
West Seneca has cut positions through attrition, one board member said, but has relied heavily on its fund balance to stave off major cuts.
"We were $7 million short in state aid last year, and we made it up in fund balance," said Jan Dalbo, a longtime West Seneca School Board member. "We were hoping the state aid picture would improve, and it hasn't."
Now, the district has $500,000 left in its fund balance, she said.
West Seneca has offered a $35,000 retirement incentive in the hopes of realizing more savings. The response has been good, Dalbo said. It remains to be seen exactly how much of a savings it will yield.
The Akron schools have cut about 20 teaching positions in the past three years, according to David Penn, a School Board member there.
"I'm just fired up – frustrated and irritated, because I'm in a district that has cut over the past three years," Penn said. "We've cut so many things. We've gutted staff. I have a son in first grade and another 10 months old. What's going to be left for them?"
His district now shares three administrative positions with other districts: the business administrator is shared with Oakfield-Alabama, and the buildings and grounds director and transportation director are shared with Clarence.
"Those things, they save among them maybe $150,000, which when it comes right down to it, is a drop in the bucket," Penn said.
Ken-Ton, one of the region's largest school districts, has taken cost-cutting steps in the past few years that it might not have taken had it been getting more state aid, Superintendent Mark Mondanaro said.
For instance, voters last year approved a measure that requires more students to walk to school in an effort to save money on transportation. It passed overwhelmingly.
"People would not have voted 3-to-1 five years ago to extend the mileage (limits)," he said. "And would we normally be having a school consolidation conversation if this fiscal crisis hadn't happened? Perhaps not. So there are some good things that have happened."
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WASHINGTON – Here are the votes of New York's two senators on key legislation last week. There were no key votes in the House.
OFFSETTING COST OF SANDY RELIEF – The Senate rejected an amendment sponsored by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, to the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act. The amendment would have offset the $50.5 billion cost of funding programs for recovery from Hurricane Sandy by cutting discretionary spending over the next nine years by 0.49 percent.
Lee said the offset was needed to avoid adding to the debt and potentially impairing the government's ability to fund future disaster relief programs.
An opponent, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said: "We should not insist on budget offsets as a prerequisite for helping disaster victims in this country."
The vote, on Jan. 28, was 35 yeas to 62 nays.
Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D, N; Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D, N.
FUNDING SANDY RELIEF – The Senate passed the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act sponsored by Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky. The bill would provide $50.5 billion in supplemental appropriations to fund recovery and relief efforts for the communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
A supporter, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., said the bill was needed to provide critical relief to those hurt by Sandy and would "help our citizens, both as individuals, businesses and communities, rebuild their lives."
An opponent, Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., said the bill contained wasteful spending and was not offset by spending reductions elsewhere, adding to the already elevated federal debt.
The Jan. 28 vote was 62 yeas to 36 nays.
Gillibrand, Y; Schumer, Y.
SECRETARY OF STATE – The Senate confirmed the nomination of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., as secretary of state. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who succeeded Kerry as chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, said Kerry "will need no introduction to the world's political and military leaders and will begin Day One fully conversant not only with the intricacies of U.S. foreign policy but with the understanding of the nuanced approach necessary to effectively interact on a multinational stage."
Menendez described Kerry as a "tireless and most convincing advocate for addressing global climate change and supporting the transition to a clean energy future."
The vote, on Jan. 29, was 94 yeas to 3 nays.
Gillibrand, Y; Schumer, Y.
DEBT LIMIT AND SPENDING CUTS – The Senate rejected an amendment sponsored by Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, to the No Budget, No Pay Act that would have required increases in the debt limit over the next 10 years to be accompanied by legislation to reduce spending by an amount equal to or greater than the amount of the debt limit increase.
Portman called the amendment "a commonsense way to address the debt limit debate today and in the future, if this body is going to be serious about getting Washington's spending and debt under control."
An opponent, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., said: "This amendment could allow the minority of 41 senators to dictate the fiscal policy to the majority" by requiring a three-fifths majority to override its provisions.
The vote to table the amendment Jan. 31 was 54 yeas to 44 nays.
Gillibrand, Y; Schumer, Y.
BUDGETING AND AUTOMATIC SPENDING CUTS – The Senate rejected an amendment sponsored by Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, to the No Budget, No Pay Act that would have reduced spending levels from previous-year levels by 1 percent every 90 days in the event that Congress fails to approve appropriations bills before the start of the fiscal year.
Portman said the amendment would ensure "no significant disruption, no crisis for citizens, no furloughed employees, no rush to approve a last-minute budget deal" after a fiscal year has begun, while also applying pressure to Congress to pass appropriations in a timely manner.
An opponent, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., said that by cutting agency funding by 1 percent, the amendment would establish the framework for many draconian budget cuts if Congress doesn't pass appropriations.
The vote to table the amendment Jan. 31 was 52 yeas to 46 nays.
Gillibrand, Y; Schumer, Y.
SPENDING PRIORITIES AND THE DEBT LIMIT – The Senate rejected an amendment sponsored by Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., to the No Budget, No Pay Act that would have required the government to prioritize paying debt obligations and Social Security, disability and survivors' benefits, as well as paying the salary of active military members, in the event that the debt limit is reached.
Toomey said the amendment "would take a little bit of the drama and the risk and the uncertainty and the potential damage to the economy off the table and allow us to have an honest, sensible discussion about how we are going to get spending under control."
An opponent, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said the amendment would "result in a lot more worry in the markets, not more confidence" by creating uncertainty about how government spending will proceed if the debt limit is reached.
The vote to table the amendment Jan. 31 was 53 yeas to 45 nays.
Gillibrand, Y; Schumer, Y.
SENDING MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO EGYPT – The Senate rejected an amendment sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to the No Budget, No Pay Act that would have prohibited the provision of F-16 aircraft, M1 tanks and various other military equipment to the government of Egypt.
Paul said, "I think it particularly unwise to send tanks and our most sophisticated fighter planes to Egypt at a time in which many are saying the country may be unraveling" under a government that may be hostile to the U.S. and to Israel.
An opponent, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said the prohibition "would be rupturing a decades-long partnership and denying and squandering our influence with the leaders of one of the most important institutions in Egypt."
The vote to table the amendment Jan. 31 was 79 yeas to 19 nays.
Gillibrand, Y; Schumer, Y.
DEBT CEILING AND THE BUDGET – The Senate passed the No Budget, No Pay Act sponsored by Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich. The bill would suspend the debt ceiling by authorizing the Treasury Department to issued debt until May 19 and would require Congress to adopt a budget resolution by April 15 in order for members of Congress to continue receiving their pay beyond that date. A supporter, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said: "Failure to pass this bill will set off an unpredictable financial calamity that would plunge not only the United States but much of the world back into recession." An opponent, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said the bill did not offer "a long-term solution to the debt ceiling or our fiscal predicament" of rising debt and elevated deficits, and continued a trend of unsustainable short-term budgeting.
The vote Jan. 31 was 64 yeas to 34 nays.
Gillibrand, Y; Schumer, Y.
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Before Dhaka Collapse, Some Firms Fled Risk
Wal-Mart and Levi Strauss Were Among Retailers That Backed Away From Bangladesh's Multistory Garment Factories
The garment factories producing clothes in the building that collapsed last week in Bangladesh were running a risk that some companies in the retail industry had already decided was too great to bear.
Before the Rana Plaza building crumbled last week, killing 430 people in the country's worst apparel-industry accident, retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT 1.97 % and Levi Strauss & Co. were backing away from factories run by multiple tenants in buildings erected several stories high. Safety experts say those buildings pose bigger risks than low-slung factories with single tenants.
The death toll raises questions about why those factories continued to attract business from other apparel companies, and has revived a debate within the industry about the safety of such facilities. Sears Holdings Corp. SHLD 4.18 % , which hasn't been linked to clothes made at Rana Plaza, said it is re-examining the dangers posed by multilevel factories or factories operated by multiple owners.
The rethinking, if it takes hold, could be a blow to many of the garment manufacturers in Bangladesh, where a scarcity of open land and power made multistory factories particularly common. Already, the country is losing garment orders after a spate of industrial accidents and political turmoil, in a trend that could hobble its economy and open the doors for other Asian exporters to boost their sales to the U.S. and Europe.
Statements by companies since the Rana Plaza collapse have made clear that even before the accident outside the capital city of Dhaka, Western brands were getting cold feet over Bangladesh. Safety concerns grew after a fire in December at Tazreen Fashions Ltd.'s factory outside Dhaka killed more than 100 people.
The Walt Disney Co. DIS 1.15 % , the world's largest licenser, told licensees in March that they could no longer manufacture its branded merchandise in Bangladesh. The move was part of a larger effort to shift the production of Disney-branded goods out of what it considers countries where factories run a high-risk of safety problems, including Bangladesh, Pakistan and Venezuela.
Boxes of sweatshirts with Disney characters bound for Wal-Mart stores were found at the Tazreen factory. Wal-Mart, Disney's authorized licensee, said a supplier had moved the products to Tazreen for storage. Both Disney and Wal-Mart said the companies hadn't authorized the movement of products to the factory.
Other retailers, such as Target Corp. TGT 1.42 % and Nike Inc., NKE 0.94 % have also said they have reduced the number of factories they use in Bangladesh. Regular political protests and strikes ahead of elections next year have further disrupted business, and buyers have begun redirecting orders to neighboring India, Bangladeshi exporters said.
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association estimated last month that the $20 billion-a-year industry had lost $500 million in orders in part to Indian rivals.
To attract foreign investment and help foreign firms avoid garment-export taxes, Bangladesh's government set up special economic zones in Dhaka, the capital, and surrounding cities. The incentives worked: The number of garment factories rose to 5,400 in 2012, up 30% since 2005, according to the Bangladesh manufacturers' association.
But greater Dhaka has become one of the world's most populous and fastest-growing megacities, driving up the price of land and straining the country's electrical, power and gas systems.
The shortage of land and a propensity for flooding in Bangladesh has prompted many factory owners to build up, rather than out.
Not all multistory factories are unsafe, of course. Those built to permit specifications and building codes are lower risk, retailers said. "Some multilevel structures are perfectly safe, and others are unsafe," said Luca Biondolillo, a spokesman for Italian retailer Benetton, whose brands were found in the rubble of the Rana Plaza. The company said a one-time order at the factory was completed weeks ago and that none of the companies there is a supplier now.
But it can be difficult to know whether the rules were followed. Many factory owners who couldn't afford to build new buildings because of the high cost of land and limited access to utilities converted hundreds of residential and other buildings into makeshift garment factories to keep up with the demand from Western retailers, labor groups say. Additional floors often are hastily added without reference to fire and other building codes, monitors say.
Buildings are further taxed by generators that are needed to cope with frequent power outages, retailers and auditors said. Rana Plaza, for instance, operated with five large generators. Shortly before the building collapsed last Wednesday, there was a power cut, and all the generators started up, according to the initial findings of a government inquiry committee.
The Tazreen factory fire and other disasters have highlighted the risks of using such facilities. Levi Strauss no longer produces garments in multistory facilities that have factories with different owners in the building. The company wants to be sure safety policies are consistent throughout the building, a spokeswoman said.
Wal-Mart said that in 2010 it began asking its suppliers to phase out production in factories housed in multistory buildings that were shared with other factories or commercial shops. But following the November fire at Tazreen, where clothes made for Wal-Mart were found, the retailer issued a stricter set of supplier guidelines on safety requirements for Bangladesh.
Suppliers found to manufacture goods bound for Wal-Mart in multilevel buildings shared with other factories or shops are now deemed high risk and are removed from the retailer's list of authorized suppliers, the company said in a letter to suppliers in January.
"There is a need for heightened attention to the risks specifically related to building structure in Bangladesh," Wal-Mart said in the letter.
J.C. Penney JCP -0.32 % is also phasing out the use of factories within multi-use buildings, a process that is expected to be completed in Bangladesh later this month.
Garments make up 80% of Bangladesh's total exports, and other Asian producers are aiming to benefit as buyers look elsewhere. A.S. Sakthivel, chairman of India's state-backed Apparel Export Promotion Council, said he hoped India would be able to draw about $1 billion in garment orders away from Bangladesh. Cambodia also sees an opening.
"With the recent incidents, it's possible that external pressure will be so high that they'll have to shift," said Ken Loo, secretary-general of Cambodia's Garment Manufacturers Association.
But Bangladesh is the region's lowest-cost producer by far, exerting a powerful draw. The minimum wage in Bangladesh is $37 a month, compared with $61 in Cambodia, and $150 in coastal industrial provinces of China, according to Sourcing Journal, a trade publication that compiled the data using government information.
As a result, the cost of cutting and making a dress shirt is $1 to $1.50 in Bangladesh, compared with $3 to $4 in China, according to industry sources.
—Ben Otto, Joanna Sugden and Christina Passariello contributed to this article.
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South Side StoriesEmbedded in the concrete of South Side's city steps are testimonials of teenage mischief, steel mill toil, and townie haunts. This is a neighborhood where parking chairs mark territory and "paradise" is one turn off of 26th Street. Tami Dixon's play based on interviews with real Pittsburghers is an audience favorite. Matt Morrow directs.01/08/2014 - 01/26/2014Location: Hamburg Studio, City Theater, 1300 Bingham St, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Saturn String Quartet with clarinetist Alex JonesThe Saturn String Quartet (members of the Roanoke Symphony) and clarinetist Alex Jones of the Aeolian Winds of Pittsburgh in Mozart's Clarinet Quintet K. 581, and Brahms Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115. These quintets are arguably two of the greatest classical chamber pieces.01/09/2014Time: 7:00 pmLocation: Laughlin Music Center, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Saturn String Quartet with clarinetist Alex JonesThe Saturn String Quartet (members of the Roanoke Symphony) and clarinetist Alex Jones of the Aeolian Winds of Pittsburgh in Mozart's Clarinet Quintet K. 581, and Brahms Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115. These quintets are arguably two of the greatest classical chamber pieces.01/10/2014Time: 8:00 pmLocation: Strand Theater, N. Main St, Zelienople, PAwebsite
15th Annual Twelfth Night Gala A stylish masqued ball with sumptuous cuisine, delicious libations, and a performance by Chatham Baroque with special musical guests. 01/11/2014Time: 7pmLocation: Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Penn Ave., E. Libertywebsite
Saturn String Quartet with clarinetist Alex JonesClarinet Quintets by Mozart and Brahms. 2:00 pm at St. Paul United Church of Christ, W. Union St., Somerset, PA. 5:15 pm at St. Joseph's Parish, Dorseyville Rd., O'Hara Twp, PA.01/11/2014Time: 2:00 & 5:15 pm
Beethoven on the Bluff - Violin/Cello IBeethoven wrote sonatas as true duos for two star soloists and contain some of his most entertaining and profound writing. Pianist David Allen Wehr welcomes PSO Concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley and Principal Cellist Anne Martindale Williams for the Violin Sonatas #4 and #5 "Spring", and the two cello sonatas of Op. 5.01/12/2014Time: 3:00 pmPNC Recital Hall, School of Music, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
StuckIt all began when Floyd got his kite stuck in a tree... He throws his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws his other shoe and that gets stuck along with…the cat, a ladder, a pot of paint, the kitchen sink, an orangutan and a whale, among other things! With original music and audience participation, this new story by Oliver Jeffers is produced by the team behind Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and The Way Back Home. (50 minutes, ages 3-10) 01/12/2014 - 01/19/2014Location: 6 locations, 9 showswebsite
Henry Doktorski, accordionHenry Doktorski is one of the leading concert accordionists in the United States and a recognized figure in international classical accordion circles.01/12/2014Time: 2:00 pmCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Saturn String Quartet with clarinetist Alex JonesClarinet Quintets by Mozart (K. 581) and Brahms (Op. 115). 12:30 pm at Faith United Methodist Church, W. Chapel Ridge Rd, Fox Chapel, PA. 4:00 pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Washington Rd., Mt. Lebanon, PA01/12/2014Time: 12:30 & 4:00 pm
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Man accused of pushing over grave markers bound over to grand jury
January 10, 2013
LISBON — A man accused of pushing over many grave markers at Springhill Cemetery in Wellsville was bound over to the Columbiana County grand jury when he appeared in Municipal Court Tuesday. Jacob ....
When you find him guilty, instead of fining him that pads your paycheck, sentence him to do community service at that very same cemetery to clean up the cute little mess he made.
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Friday, April 4, 2014
"Daddy, Daddy, I want to!" squealed 2-year-old Katie in the Sunday afternoon sunshine.
She was one of four children scurrying around the tilled rows of earth in the backyard; it was time to plant the family's vegetable garden.
Working in the garden has become a family tradition since starting it last summer. John Lange purchased a home in Summerville three years ago and it was last year he and girlfriend Anna Smith decided to try something new.
"A couple of my friends have gardens and we didn't know anything about it, but we figured we'd give it a shot," Lange said.
With their kids in tow – Lange's daughter Katie, and Smith's children Evan, 12, Madeleine, 6, and Vivian, 3 – they planted squash, zucchini, tomatoes, okra, radishes and cucumbers.
Although the heavy rains put a damper on the growth last summer, the garden was a hit with the family.
"The whole thing was an experiment, but our best accomplishment was the pickles," Smith said. "We had so many [cucumbers] we couldn't eat them all."
It's not that they didn't try though – according to the parents, some of the vegetables, in particular the cherry tomatoes, never made it into the house because the kids ate them all while harvesting.
The family spent the entire summer dining on homegrown vegetables, making fresh salsas and homemade pickles, and giving away produce to friends and family.
But the best part of the garden, Lange said, is how easy it was to construct.
He said it cost the couple no more than $100, between buying seeds, fertilizer, manure and other garden tools.
Their secret weapon, Lange said, was the Flower Barn in Walterboro.
"They told us when to plant, where, how deep... . We stayed and talked with them for one-and-a-half hours. It's a 40 minute drive there, but worth the trip."
Since discovering the small shop full of knowledgeable growers, the couple said they avoid going to corporate garden and home improvement stores.
They have plenty of tips for new gardeners based on their learning experiences, including keeping a sprinkler in the yard and having an outdoor cat around to chase off rodents. The couple also said they prefer to plant from seed instead of buying starter plants – "they taste so much better," Lange said.
Lange also recommends borrowing or renting a tiller, which will speed up the weeding process and make it easier to create raised rows for the plants.
Evan, who was planting seeds in the rows with his fingers at the time, explained it's important to have raised beds for the crops so their roots have a place to grow. It also helps protect the plants from drowning in heavy rains.
He said watching the plants grow is his favorite part of the garden.
"And last year we made pickles, those were the best."
The girls said they love the garden too: Madeleine and Katie said the flowers are their favorite, and Vivian loves to play in the dirt.
This year wildflowers and sunflowers are joining the crops, in addition to last year's array of vegetables plus eggplant, corn, garlic and onions.
Madeleine said she's most looking forward to eating the corn, and Evan said he wants to try the radishes.
"The kids have the best time out here," Smith said.
Lange agreed, "I'd rather have them out here than inside all day."
After the summer harvest is over the family grows a fall garden too, with vegetables such as carrots, sweet potatoes and potatoes. They also want to try pumpkins.
"I have 1,000-acre dreams on a half-acre lot," Lange joked.
The couple said their dream is to buy a large piece of property on the Edisto River and make a huge garden.
But until the dream comes true, the family will continue growing in their backyard and encouraging others to gardening, too.
"It's so easy, it doesn't matter what size yard you have," Lange said. "Anyone can do it."
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Pregnancy is a time of joy, excitement and nervousness for many women. Want to ensure your pregnancy is the healthiest it can be? Here are some tips to help you on this wonderful journey!
The best thing you can do for you and your baby is to get good prenatal care. Your doctor will give you guidance on your body changes that will occur. He/she can also answer questions so you will know what is normal and what is not.
Eat a healthy diet and take daily prenatal vitamins. A growing baby requires certain nutrients. Calcium, folic acid and iron are the three must-have nutrients during pregnancy, especially during the time of conception. Your baby's brain and spinal cord develops within the first month of pregnancy so proper vitamin intake is essential. Also, be sure to speak to your doctor for guidance on foods that are not to be eaten while pregnant but do try new things – you may discover that your taste for certain foods has changed. Pregnant women should also add 300-500 calories a day to their diet.
Stay physically fit. Physical activity helps to keep the heart, bones and mind healthy. You should get up to 30 minutes a day of physical activity. Try a prenatal yoga class – it will help you learn how to breathe deeply and relax, which will help you during the labor and delivery process, and keeps you limber and flexible. You may even make some new friends and create a sense of community with other moms-to-be. Be sure to consult your doctor before starting a new exercise routine.
Do not smoke or drink alcohol while pregnant. This may sound like common sense, but many women think it's okay to "sneak" one or two here and there. There have been some studies that show a glass of wine or a beer during pregnancy is okay but we encourage you to err on the side of caution. A cigarette is not only harmful to your health, it could also affect the health of your baby. Second-hand smoke is equally as dangerous. If you live with a smoker or your family members smoke indoors, be sure to avoid that environment. Remember, when you drink alcohol or inhale smoke, so does your baby so be sure to keep your baby safe from the effects.
Register for baby-preparation classes. There are many classes available to help families prepare for the arrival of the little one. Classes include topics such as baby CPR, diaper changing, breastfeeding and introducing pets to newborns. Most classes are free of charge or are available for a small fee at Roper St. Francis Healthcare. Take advantage of these opportunities so you are trained and prepared when your baby arrives.
If worried, call. When you are pregnant, do not hesitate to call your doctor or midwife if something is bothering or worrying you. Hair loss, weight loss, excessive weight gain… these are a few things that worry moms-to-be but can easily be addressed. Remember, your doctor is there to help you so if you have any questions, be sure to call him/her. Sometimes physical changes can be signs of a problem.
Becoming a first-time parent – or welcoming a new addition to your family – can be overwhelming. The best tip of all is to rely on your doctor and his/her guidance. The advice and direction they can provide will help you through the transition, help to keep your baby healthy and safe, and help to keep you healthy, too.
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The horrors of war and volunteering (Day 3)
13 October 2006
by Mark Snelling
"During the emergency, we didn't talk that much about the war. Now that it has ended we have got on with life and we are ready to do it all again," he says. But beyond the tales of courage and bravery, Hicham is certain that he and many other volunteers have paid a heavy price for the work they did.
"I've reached a situation where I feel that I have no emotions, that's the first time that this has happened." Volunteers as young as 19, he says, now form part of a new generation of Lebanon's youth who have not just heard stories of the horrors of war; they have experienced it for themselves.
"The people we carried were suffering from all kinds of injuries, but most of them were first degree burns. I'd say about 20 percent of them died on the way to hospital." His sense of numbness - a text-book symptom of post-traumatic stress - mingles with anger. "Now there is a whole new generation that has lived through war and it will take 50 years before there is another that hasn't."
Like so many of his compatriots, Hicham feels that the conduct of the war has left many questions, but no answers. "You can ask 'why war'?" he says. "But most importantly, why civilians?"
Driving through the southern suburbs of Beirut, which saw some of the heaviest bombing, I truly struggle to imagine the kind of hell on earth that was unleashed here. Tightly packed tower blocks give way to the gaping expanses where whole city blocks were atomised. Dust, ashes and the assorted detritus of man-made destruction are all that remain.
Tens of thousands fled the most heavily bombed areas, seeking sanctuary with relatives, either outside the city or in safer neighbourhoods. At the Lebanese Red Cross Emergency Medical Services centre in the southern suburb of Mreijeh, I meet Fatima Hussein. She and her family stayed in their apartment, which is in the same building as the centre, calculating correctly that they would be safe there.
Some 4,000 families in the area, including Fatima's, received rice, sugar, oil, kitchen equipment, blankets and hygiene products. On top of that, ambulance crews filled their vehicles with food after they had dropped patients at the hospital and brought it back.
"We were like a family with the Red Cross," says the 17-year-old. "Without them we would have found it very difficult." Another neighbour, Howayda Abu-Abbas, described the Lebanese Red Cross presence using an Arabic idiom, "hajar ala hajar", which translates literally as "a stone on a stone". It's what happens when you bridge a gap, she explains.


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First the waterfront starts booming after decades of delay. Then it's the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, suddenly burgeoning after a long gestation period. Now – hold onto your hats – there is movement on the Peace Bridge front. On Saturday, eight houses on Busti Avenue were demolished to make way for a new customs plaza that could clear the way for a new bridge that would fulfill a goal that dates to the 1980s.
The eight vacant and decrepit houses were torn down less than 24 hours after a federal judge put an end to years of legal wrangling over the structures, which preservationists wanted to protect for their historical value. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy ruled that while the homes "may have some historic value, they are also unsafe and crime-ridden." He refused to grant a preliminary injunction to protect them and, with that, the houses came down.
It was the right decision. In fact, it was the only decision. The plaza needs to be expanded, though not as much as originally planned, and the houses were no longer worth saving. Neighbors of the blighted properties were also thrilled.
With demolition of the houses, the Bridge Authority should be able to move more quickly on expansion of the plaza and creation of a buffer zone between it and neighboring homes. Once that is done, all that remains is to build the new bridge.
That's the reverse order of the original plan, but the Peace Bridge Authority abandoned the bridge-first plan because the scope of the original plaza project required federal money and intensive reviews. By scaling down the project, the authority was able to fund it without federal assistance, easing the process along.
The plan now is to seek federal assistance in the construction of the bridge, which was originally to be funded by the authority. Issues related to air quality in the neighborhood, tied to backed-up traffic and idling trucks, have yet to be resolved.
In the larger sense, it has taken too long to get to this point in the construction of the new bridge, which has become emblematic of Buffalo's inability to get things done. But in another sense, progress has come at an opportune moment, placing an exclamation mark on the new story that Buffalo is writing on the waterfront, at the Medical Campus and around Larkinville.
That story is one of progress, of developing important assets that have gone unexplored for too long and of accomplishing the goals we set out to achieve. If Buffalo was led to believe over the years past that its efforts went nowhere, it is learning something new and valuable today.


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A close colleague of mine here at Catholic Charities and I were recently having a conversation about the movies – and in particular the increasingly realistic depiction of violence in film. As it turns out, she and her mother had recently been off to see the picture "War Horse", and – it being a Disney release – she was astonished at the very graphic depiction of the horrors of the warfare in the First World War – so accurate was the physical violence that she said she spent most of the second third of the movie covering her eyes. I had told her that I had felt a similar reaction when watching both the depiction of the Allied beach landing in the film "Saving Private Ryan", as well as the brutal assault on the Vietnamese villagers in the Vietnam war era drama "Platoon"; the emotions both films stirred in me were visceral – so close did the scenes appear to mirror the actual horrors of real war and violence that the victims of conflict experience in real life. While my colleague was very upset about the graphic depictions of violence in film today – wishing instead to return to the depictions of wartime in the old Hollywood movies where the characters who were shot merely fell down on the spot in a bloodless demise – I have to admit that I am somewhat torn on this point. That today's Hollywood glorifies gratuitous violence in a frankly pornographic way is without question; however – to the degree that the violence that is depicted in film accurately portrays what those who are the victims of that violence actually experience – I think that it may be important to portray these atrocities in and honest and even perhaps graphic way in order to bear witness to what our fellow human beings have experienced, in the hope that the cry of "never again…War no more…" may one day be realized.
In the similar way, upon it's release Mel Gibson's depiction of the events of the Easter Triduum – "The Passion of the Christ" – was met with a clamor of criticism for, amongst other things, what was an unusually graphic depiction of the violence that Jesus Himself experience at the hand of the Roman authorities on Good Friday on the way to Golgotha and at His crucifixion. I went to go see this movie when it came out, and I have to tell you that – though again I did have a very visceral reaction to the violence committed upon Jesus' person in the film – I believe Gibson's portrayal was probably pretty accurate to the brutality that Jesus actually experience on that first Good Friday. I mean, let's face it, the Roman Empire – the world's economic, political and military giant of the time – ruled most of what was the known globe not because they were the world's most efficient administrators, although efficient administrators they certainly were, but instead because they were brutal enforcers of their own Imperial prerogative. Crucifixion – after all – was the method of capital punishment that the Romans used to terrorize the local occupied population into docility and as a warning to discourage non-cooperation with Roman rule, as such its victims experienced a death that was particularly slow, painful, gruesome, humiliating and public. Many depictions of the Crucifixion of Jesus sanitize the horror of what He actually must have experienced: what Gibson's film did was strip away decorum from the event to make us honestly confront the pain and anguish that the Prince of Peace actually experienced. In this sense, I think that Gibson – a talented film-maker despite his bizarre and disturbing personal behavior – should be commended for producing a film that makes we Christians confront the true cost of the price that Jesus paid out of love for us that first Good Friday.
I think that Gibson's portrayal of Christ "gets it right" in another way too – one that is often overlooked because of the graphic nature of the content of most of the film. The part of the movie that I like most is literally the last two minutes of the film : the part that begins with a black screen depicting the interior of the tomb where the disciples of Jesus have laid his lifeless body after the Crucifixion. Slowly, a bright light begins to creep from the lower right to the upper left hand corner of the screen casting it's glow over the bare walls of the enclosure until it comes to illuminate a body-length pile of linen laying flat on a rough hewn stone platform; the camera then pans out and focuses on Jesus, who now sits upright next to the linen on the edge of the platform – eyes closed. As the music crescendos, Jesus opens his eyes and stands, the camera then focusing on the nail hole piercing his palm; Jesus is still for a moment, steadies Himself, and then takes his first step (click here to view clip). The step that is depicted is not a hesitant meander as we might take when waking up from a deep sleep upon first getting up out of bed, but instead is a hearty stride: Jesus move quickly out of the camera's vision, up out of the tomb serious and purposefully – He is Risen, and clearly on the move.
I like Gibson's portrayal so much because it depicts Jesus upon His Resurrection not as some friendly ethereal spirit making brief appearances to the disciples almost as an actor in a movie would make a cameo, but instead as a real corporeal person – on the move with places to go and people to see…. obviously a man with a mission. And honestly, with the kind of purposeful life that Jesus had lived on Earth, what other type of behavior would we expect of Him upon His Resurrection? After all, this was a Man who during His Earthly ministry continually helped the blind to see, deaf to hear, the lame to walk, cured the sick, fed the multitude, placed his own body between the crowd and the woman caught in adultery to prevent them from stoning her. All throughout His ministry, Jesus lived the life of an itinerant – always on the go to places He was expected, and even to places where he was not expected – preaching the Good News to the poor, liberty to captives, recovery of sight to the blind, and freedom to the oppressed. With a life dedicated so utterly to helping others wherever and whenever he encountered them, why would we expect Jesus to behave any differently after His Resurrection?
Yesterday morning, I took part in what for me has become part of my annual Good Friday observance – with about 500 or so others I participated in the 30th Annual Pax Christi Metro New York Good Friday Way of the Cross. Similar in many ways to other "Ways of the Cross" or "Via Crucis" that take place all over the United States every year (click here to view list) – themselves all based upon the centuries old tradition in the Church that recalls journey that Jesus took from his condemnation by Pontius Pilate to the place of His Crucifixion on Golgotha in Jerusalem known as the Via Dolorosa – the Pax Christi Way of the Cross begins at 8:30 a.m. across from Holy Family Church (the United Nation's Parish) in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza and proceeds over the course of about four hours along 42nd Street to conclude at Holy Cross Church directly across from the Port Authority Bus Terminal; along the way, participants take part in re-enacting contemporary Stations of the Cross where there is reflection on both Jesus' Passion as described in the Scripture, as well as how suffering is experienced by those marginalized in our world today including: children, the poor, the hungry, refugees and immigrants, victims of racism and human trafficking, of bullying and gender discrimination, those condemned to die and those denied the opportunity to live. The Pax Christi Stations end a bit differently then the traditional 14 Stations (which end with Jesus laid in the tomb); instead, the Pax Christi Stations conclude Scripturally on a hopeful note with a 15th Station in anticipation of Jesus' Resurrection, and the actual Way of the Cross concludes over at the Port Authority Bus Terminal with walk participants actually doing what Jesus Himself would have done by distributing food to those who are hungry.
It is elements such as these that have always made the Pax Christi Good Friday Way of the Cross such a spiritually meaningful Good Friday observance for me. I think that the linking together of contemporary suffering with the redemptive suffering, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ shows those who pass by and witness the Walk that what we Christians do on Good Friday is not commemorate some historical event that took place going on over 2,000 years ago, but instead is to celebrate an on-going reality that has as much redemptive power and relevance in our own world today as on that first Good Friday in Jerusalem in A.D. 29. By publicly witnessing our faith and belief in this reality, we turn 42nd Street into a place of prayer – bringing the presence of Christ to places as expected as Churches – and as unexpected as the Port Authority Bus Terminal; by feeding the hungry we show that Christ's feeding of the multitude did not end on a hill in Palestine two millennia ago, but continues today – here and now – in our own city. By making the Way of the Cross through the cross-roads of the World, we are public witnesses to the fact that the Tomb is indeed empty, and that Jesus IS Risen and still – to this day – on the move!
A Blessed Easter to you all, and may each of you encounter the Risen Christ in places both expected and unexpected this Easter Season.


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LOVES PARK — Rockford Bishop Muldoon High School and St. Thomas High School Classes of 1949 will celebrate its 65th class reunion at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 13 at Ciao Bella, 6500 E. Riverside Blvd.
Dinner will be served. Cost varies depending on dinner.
For information: 815-229-9255.
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joust, on 08 May 2012 - 02:09 PM, said:
Do you need to actually first take the thermistor out of the circuit board and only then measure its resistance or you think the method mentioned the following link (the reply by Moby (Mike Diack)) is just as good?
Do you have pictures of the itech internals? More specifically of the four thermistors?
Thank you
Posted 30 August 2012 - 03:25 PM
To test out the SMPS thermal sensors:
First, get access to the SMPS control board: This board is located beneath the EMI filter board (The EMI module is the top most board when the cover is removed). Be careful when removing the EMI module!
Then remove the control card. It is the long card (6" x 2"), with a multipin header on the bottom middle edge. It is also aligned with the power rail connector.
Note: The reason I remove the control card is that the sensors' load are 'connected' to the control card and can cause misreadings.
On the main board locate the thermistor's connector; The other end leads to the thermistor, located on the SMPS heatsink.
Now you can test the thermistors via the connector! Cold, both should read the same, around 20K. If one of the components is way off then both thermistors will need to be replaced.
Hope this helps! Let me know if you still need the pictures!
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Posted 18 October 2012 - 12:07 PM
What you have surrounded in red is the USP3T (network) card!
The SMPS is located to the left of the picture, under where the metal grill is located.
There are a few screws to remove the grill and to get to the EMI board. Underneath the EMI board is the SMPS module.
CAREFULLY remove the EMI module; Notice the paper isolator stuck to the grill. CAREFULLY rmove the paper isolator. Once the EMI module is removed, then you now have access to the SMPS. Note: The side flaps of the isolator should be re-positionned between the heatsink and smps gate drive cards, to prevent the smps gate drive cards to short out on the heatsink.
The thermal sensors should now be visible, located on the far side of the heatsinks, in front of the fan. Two pair of wires run from the sensors to two connectors on the board. You can now measure the sensor at the connector. I suggest to remove the controller card so that the measurement isn't influenced by the impedance of the controller card. It should be arounf 20K ohms.
I would highly recommend that an experienced tech take a look at the unit. No offense!
I hope this helps!
Posted 18 October 2012 - 02:55 PM
The thermistors values were 7.54K and 6.88K. If I understand correctly they should measure in the 7K neighberhood.
I measured the values on the two small white, two wire connectors:
Posted 19 October 2012 - 08:51 AM
There's a long board next to the two round blue discs (PTC: positive temperature coefficient resistor) to the right of the pictures. This is the smps controllor card. Among other things, it manages the temperature and fan control via the smps and bca sensors. Since the sensors are connected to the card, by removing the card you will have a better view (measurement) of the sensors. They should measure around 20K with the controllor card removed.
On the bca side, you will have to remove the front-end cards to better measure the bca sensors.
Note1: PTC: resistance is normally low (6 ohms) and its resistance will increase while the component heats up; usually applied instead of a fuse! Also, used in soft start circuit;
Note2: If the PTCs should measure normal and the fans 'modulate' (somewhat evenly!) with the power going though the output module, then I would say that the sensors are pretty good! A bad sensor will continue to modulate the fans at high speed even if the power to the output modules is removed.


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Thursday, March 14, 2013
James L. Heyward Jr. was booked in the Charleston County Jail, Wednesday afternoon, for a probation violation, according to Charleston County bookings reports.
The 48-year-old Mount Pleasant man was arrested by the Department of Probation Parole and Pardon Services, per the report, and his bond was set at $80,000. As of Thursday morning, Heyward remained as a "current" inmate.
Heyward is linked to Heyward's Automotive Body Shop, a former Mount Pleasant business that was located at 905 Simmons Street. The phone number of the business has been disconnected.
According to a public records search, Heyward has appeared as a defendant in 76 charges in circuit court dating back to 1987.
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Kansas City police and the Missouri Highway Patrol said they have responded to two separate crashes on Interstate 29, one of which involved a pedestrian who died.
Investigators said a pedestrian died on the highway south of 64th Street. The other crash, in which there was at least one injured person, happened north of the other scene.
Police said the pedestrian, a woman in her 30s, was walking across the highway when she was hit by at least two vehicles. Police said that both drivers have been cooperating with the investigation.
Rush hour traffic in the area was slowed as police closed two lanes of the highway.
The name of the woman who died has not yet been released. Police haven't said why she was on the highway.


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OLEAN – With 37 seconds left in the game, Dayton had taken a 13-point lead and looked to cruise to its 11th straight Atlantic 10 win.
But St. Bonaventure wasn't ready to roll over.
They created turnovers, hit free throws, got offensive rebounds, sunk three-pointers and went to the rim.
It wasn't quite enough for the Bonnies as No. 14 Dayton escaped with a 67-63 win in front of 503 at the Reilly Center on Thursday night. But for the first time this season, the Bonnies played a complete 40-minute game throughout the lineup, generating genuine hope in Olean.
"That looked like a Bonaventure basketball team," coach Jim Crowley said. "Whether it was effort or making the extra pass or spacing or covering up for each other on defense ... I thought it was the first time in a while we played the game hard. We didn't worry about the scoreboard. We just played the game hard."
Thursday was a rematch of last year's Atlantic 10 title game, which Dayton won, 56-53, in Philadelphia. While the Flyers have a 23-1 record, are 11-0 in the A-10 and have a national ranking of 14, the Bonnies have struggled to find consistency, falling to 9-17 overall. At just 2-9 in the conference, they are in danger of not even qualifying for the A-10 tournament.
On paper, this had the makings of a blowout. The Bonnies, however, had other ideas.
"I'm saying that they probably thought they'd blow us out by 30 points," junior forward Doris Ortega said. "We didn't get the win but I'm proud of my team. When we were down 10 or 12 we could have rolled over and this season we have in certain games. But tonight we didn't and that's great to see."
"You can feel the difference when play hard for a full 40 minutes rather than just half a game," said Alaina Walker, who had a game-high 17 points.
The difference, Crowley said, has come in practice. There are players who are leading and others who are following. The results were demonstrated in the game, when the Bonnies held the best shooting team in the conference to 32.8 percent (22 of 67) from the floor.
"That doesn't happen by accident. That happens by preparation," Crowley said.
On the flip side, the Bonnies, who had a poor-shooting first half, came out in the second hitting 53. 8 percent (14 of 26) and knocking down 5-of-10 from three-point range.
And that left Dayton coach Jim Jabir dissatisfied with his team's performance.
"St. Bonaventure deserved to win," Jabir said. "I'm not pleased with our team in any way."
The Flyers controlled the glass in the game, grabbing 20 offensive rebounds and scoring 24 second-chance points. Ally Malott had a double-double for the Flyers (12 points, 11 rebounds) while Andrea Hoover had 13 points.
Four Bonnies scored in double figures. Walker's 17 came on a 6-for-10 night from the field while hitting 5-of-7 from the free throw line. Doris Ortega scored 12 with seven rebounds. Emily Michael added 12, all on three-pointers, while Katie Healy had 11 points, eight rebounds and four blocked shots.
While there were plenty of positives for the Bonnies to take out of the game, Crowley will assess the real value as the rest of the season winds down.
"I'm sure I'll get the moral victory question," Crowley said in his post-game opening statement. "I don't know the right way to phrase it. It becomes a victory of some kind if we understand that when we play that hard, this is what can happen."
The Bonnies are at George Washington on Sunday.
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The Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) mission is to ensure the Nation sustains a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent through the application of science, technology, engineering, (ST&E) and manufacturing. In the next 20 years, the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile will be sustained and modernized through vigorous surveillance, assessment, life extension and dismantlement efforts. In addition, progress will be made in modernizing the physical infrastructure that will evolve from a post-World War II/Cold War era nuclear weapons complex into a more efficient 21stcentury NSE with less environmental impact. To deal with the changing face of nuclear deterrence and more-widely dispersed nuclear knowledge, the Office of Defense Programs (DP) also ensures the United States maintains excellence in nuclear science and technology that is second to none. This central mission is referred to as Stockpile Stewardship and Management. The DP office utilizes an overarching guide for execution of NSE mission with the annual Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (SSMP).
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. � The Rev. Robert Jeffress has changed the way he talks about homosexuality from the pulpit.
The pastor of the 11,000-member First Baptist Dallas Church hasn�t stopped preaching that homosexual sex is sinful, but he no longer singles it out for special condemnation. Now, Jeffress says he usually talks about homosexuality within �a bigger context of God�s plan for sex between one man and one woman in a lifetime relationship called marriage.�
�It would be the height of hypocrisy to condemn homosexuality and not adultery or unbiblical divorce,� he said, explaining that the Bible allows divorce only in cases of adultery or desertion. He also includes premarital sex on that list.
The pressure to change the way homosexuality is addressed in evangelical churches is increasing as mainstream support for gay and lesbian issues increases. This support is especially strong among young adults, and researchers say they don�t expect this group to become more conservative on the issue as they get older.
In a 2011 survey by the nonprofit Public Religion Research Institute, 62 percent of adults between 18 and 29 years old said they supported gay marriage and 71 percent supported civil unions. Among adults 65 and older, those numbers were 31 percent in favor of marriage and 51 percent for civil unions.
Asked about the perception that �religious groups are alienating young people by being too judgmental about gay and lesbian issues,� 69 percent of the younger group agreed with the statement.
Another recent poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that nearly 20 percent of adult Americans now describe themselves as unaffiliated with any specific religion. The problem for evangelical churches is apparent.
�Evangelicals have been sobered by studies that show people are dropping out of church in droves,� said Bill Leonard, dean of Wake Forest University�s Divinity School. That has affected how they relate to marginalized people, including gays and lesbians.
�I�m amazed at the changes, the softening of the rhetoric to be more compassionate,� Leonard said. �There�s a realization that the idea of �love the sinner, hate the sin� comes across as pretty cold.�
Demographics isn�t the only force driving changes in the evangelical response to gays and lesbians. As it becomes safer for gays and lesbians to come out of the closet, it becomes increasingly more likely that evangelicals know gays and lesbians personally, researchers say.
�Over the last five to 10 years, evangelicals have been faced with the issue even more poignantly as their sons and daughters come out of the closet,� Leonard said. �It has become more difficult to dismiss �those people.��
Justin Lee, founder of the Gay Christian Network, is one of those children.
Like most evangelicals, Lee grew up believing that the Bible was to be taken pretty much at face value, but in wrestling with the realization that he was gay, he has found a more nuanced way to read Scripture. Now he works to foster understanding of gays and lesbians within evangelical institutions.
�I do hear from church leaders and pastors who say, �I already know where I stand, but how can I be more loving and gracious to the gay community without compromising my convictions?�� Lee said. �There are a lot of things I say, but chief among them is that the more you listen to people and ask about their lives and stories, the more you are able to show grace and love, even if you don�t agree.�
Jeffress, who has gay and lesbian members in his church, tries to be compassionate and understanding.
He said he is open to the possibility that sexual orientation has a genetic basis that cannot be cured or prayed away.
�I think we were too quick to dismiss the possibility of a genetic predisposition,� Jeffress said.
But that hasn�t altered his belief the Bible teaches that acting on homosexual desire is sinful, and he feels it is his responsibility to talk about it with his congregation.
�We cannot pick and choose what parts of God�s word we are called to share,� he said. �God gave it to us, not to hurt people, but to help people.�
But Jeffress said he was concerned that some other evangelical pastors were shirking this responsibility.
�My sense is that people are just avoiding the subject, by and large,� he said. �They are so bent on trying to add to the numbers of their churches that they don�t want to disenfranchise new members or be characterized as unfriendly.�
Atlanta pastor the Rev. Louie Giglio seems to have taken that approach. After withdrawing from giving the benediction at president Obama�s inauguration ceremony because of controversy over a past sermon in which he said same-sex relationships were sinful, Giglio downplayed the significance of the remarks.
In his withdrawal letter, Giglio did not say he had changed his views on homosexuality, but instead noted how old the sermon was and stated, �Clearly, speaking on this issue has not been in the range of my priorities in the past 15 years.�
David W. Key Sr., director of Baptist Studies at Emory University�s Candler School of Theology, said it is the pastors who are de-emphasizing homosexuality who are attracting more members.
�It�s a free-market system,� he said, noting that there is no evangelical equivalent of the pope to enforce a certain doctrine.


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After many rumours and great anticipation BMW has revealed its all-new 2012 3-Series at an event in Munich. Codenamed F30 the new model is the sixth generation of BMW's luxury sedan. Since 1975 the 3-Series has sold more than 12 million units and has become the benchmark in its segment. So the stakes are high for this new model.
In terms of size the new 3-Series has grown by 93mm in length and the wheelbase (50mm) and track (37mm-47mm) have also seen increases. The design remains familiar and similar to the outgoing model but with noticeable progressions. There's a sharper and longer character line running from the front wheel guard through to the rear tail-light and there's a higher, coupe-like rear deck with an upwards flick to the boot lid. Facial changes include a larger twin-kidney grille that meets the headlights for a more continuous appearance.
Inside the larger body allows for 15mm more legroom and 8mm more headroom for rear seat passengers. Cargo capacity in the boot is also increased but despite the larger body, numerous weight saving measures mean the new 3-Series is 40kg lighter (depending on version). Continue reading "2012 BMW 3-Series – Officially Unveiled" »


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A manhunt expanded across the state Tuesday for a violent Miami fugitive who escaped his cross-country escorts in the parking lot of a Grapevine Wal-Mart after stabbing one of them with his eyeglasses.
Multiple local law-enforcement agencies, as well as the U.S. Marshals Service and officers from the Miami-Dade police department who've flown to Texas, are tracking 41-year-old Alberto Morales, a violent sex offender. Till last night he was looking at 10 years in a Nevada prison. Now, say authorities, he'll be charged with "everything," including the attempted murder of a police officer and escape.
Following his escape around 11 p.m. Monday at the Wal-Mart at 1601 W. State Highway 114, the Texas Department of Public Safety has added Morales to its most-wanted fugitives list, and a reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information leading to his capture. Grapevine police say Morales may have also stolen a 2008 white Ford SUV, with Texas plates 19ZJW8, from a nearby Irving motel. It's being referred to as a "vehicle of interest." There was a handgun inside.
Miami and Grapevine police tell the same story concerning Morales' escape: Monday night Jaime Pardinas and David Carrero, members of the Miami-Dade department's extradition unit, were transporting the 41-year-old prisoner from Florida to Nevada, where's due to be incarcerated following a sexual battery conviction.
He is scheduled to serve that 10-year sentence concurrently with one in Miami, where, authorities say, he pleaded guilty to several charges, among them armed burglary, kidnapping, aggravated battery and sexual assault with a deadly weapon.
Miami-Dade Police Director J.D. Patterson said Tuesday that Pardinas, a 28-year veteran of the department, and his partner David Carrero, a seven-year veteran, were transporting Morales from Miami to Nevada via commercial plane, with a scheduled layover in Houston. But Patterson said the prisoner became "very agitated and … erratic" during the plane ride.
"He began bumping his head against a passenger's seat," Patterson said, "crazy, unusual things that disrupted a lot of the flight."
The plane landed in Houston, said Patterson, at which point the officers were told Morales couldn't finish the flight to Nevada. Grapevine police spokesman Sgt. Robert Eberling says, "They landed in Houston and drove to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to meet another detective from the Miami-Dade Police Department."
So the officers "made an effort to transport him by rental car," said Patterson. During that drive to Las Vegas, he said, they stopped at the Grapevine Wal-Mart — "to use the restroom," according to a Miami-Dade release. That's when Morales, who was in the rental car and who had been shackled to a belly band, somehow managed to stab Pardinas several times in the chest and back.
Eberling said it appears Morales "broke the earpiece off his own eyeglasses and was able to stab the detective in front of him. That's an indication of how desperate he was to escape." And officers say no shackles were found at the scene or nearby.
Patterson said renting a car to transport a convict cross-country is "out of the ordinary, but to continue their trip they had to do something." He said Miami authorities were informed of their change in plans, per standard guidelines.
"But we really don't know all the details about what happened and how the incident occurred and how they reacted," Patterson said. "Our officer's in the hospital recovering, the other one's safe and we're doing everything we can to apprehend Mr. Morales."
Pardinas underwent emergency surgery at Parkland Tuesday morning, and he's said to be in serious but stable condition. His family has flown to Dallas from Miami.
Meanwhile, schools in Grapevine, Colleyville and neighboring cities are on "soft lockdown" during the manhunt. And residents are being left messages warning them of the "dangerous wanted fugitive" on the loose, per a voice mail being left with folks living in Trophy Club.
Police say Morales is 5-foot-7, weighs 175 pounds, has brown eyes, brown hair and is of Cuban descent. According to the Department of Public Safety Morales has "a tattoo of a Native American on a horse on left shoulder and upper left arm," as well as scars on his left hand, left arm and nose.
Grapevine police say he was last seen fleeing on foot in gray shorts and an all-white hoodie. He's still believed believed to be on foot and in shackles.
"He's prepared to do anything," said Eberling.
Staff writer Mia Castillo contributed to this report.


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Ida Murphy's neighbors saw her Thursday night as she walked from her Northampton Street home, decorated with red bows and Christmas wreath, over to Fillmore Avenue.
"Hi, Miss Ida," they called to the woman, beloved on her street for her devotion to the neighborhood's children.
The 54-year-old grandmother was headed to the market around the corner and just a couple of blocks up Fillmore to get some juice.
No one could have anticipated the tragic sequence of events that soon followed: A traffic stop over a minor violation at Fillmore Avenue and Best Street, about a half-mile away, led to a police officer firing his weapon, a suspected drunk driver accelerating his SUV and crashing into three light poles, one of which toppled onto Murphy, killing her instantly.
"This whole situation is just so crazy," said her daughter, Kinyatta Murphy, trembling as she spoke.
On Friday, homicide detectives and investigators with the police department's Internal Affairs Division were still trying to piece together how the routine traffic stop went so horribly wrong.
Authorities said two officers with the department's housing unit pulled the SUV over about 6:45 p.m. at Fillmore and Best, along the south edge of Martin Luther King Park.
The driver was identified as Issac C. Parker, 48, of Briscoe Avenue.
According to Department of Motor Vehicle records, Parker had two convictions for driving while intoxicated in 2006 in Erie County – one in September and another in October – and his driver's license had been revoked.
The officers who stopped Parker suspected he was intoxicated. Some sort of argument followed, and one of the officers leaned into Parker's vehicle to try to turn off the ignition and put the transmission into park.
But Parker hit the accelerator and sped north, and an officer was dragged a short distance.
One of the officers discharged his service weapon once, according to Buffalo Police Chief of Detectives Daniel J. Richards, although it wasn't immediately clear which one fired.
Parker's vehicle sped north on Fillmore through the park and went out of control, crashing into a parked car and several light standards, including a traffic light.
One of the poles hit Murphy, at Fillmore and Riley Street. She was either on her way to or had just left Pikes Peak Market at 1318 Fillmore, according to police and witnesses.
Both Murphy and Parker were pronounced dead at the scene. Parker died of a gunshot wound and Murphy, blunt force trauma, according to Erie County medical examiners. Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda, who said the officers did not pursue Parker as he sped away, called the incident a "tragic situation. This lady was standing on the sidewalk."
The officers were placed on administrative leave, which is a routine practice for police involved in shootings.
Derenda said investigators were still awaiting further test results to determine Parker's blood-alcohol level and whether Murphy had been hit by Parker's car before the pole fell on her.
One of the officers was treated Thursday night for non-life-threatening injuries in Erie County Medical Center, Richards said.
Friday afternoon, Murphy's daughter remembered her mother as a kind and generous woman who doted on the neighborhood children. "She loved kids," Kinyatta Murphy said. "That was just her. She had a way with people."
Ida Murphy grew up in Mobile, Ala., before moving to Buffalo. She was a mother of three children and had four grandchildren.
Murphy was known for rounding up the neighborhood kids from Northampton and Riley streets and taking them to the park, the public pool and the Buffalo Museum of Science.
"She didn't care whose kids they were," she said. "She'd take anybody."
Friends also mourned the loss of a kindly neighbor.
They said she was an active member of Antioch Baptist Church, across the street from where she died. She volunteered at the church's food pantry and also the True Bethel Church's clothing pantry. "She was a beautiful person," said Fredean Honeycutt.
At the spot she died, mourners decorated a chain link fence with Teddy bears and flowers.
"I love you. I will miss you," someone wrote on a card attached to the fence.
A vigil in her honor was being planned for 6 p.m. Sunday at her church.
On Briscoe Avenue, neighbors recalled Parker, the driver, as a good person who lent a hand to seniors who lived on the street and who regularly displayed American and Marine Corps flags at his home, though he didn't talk about any military service.
Parker was employed as a clerk at Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Bailey Avenue, according to Jill Cieslik, who lives across the street, and an ex-neighbor who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"He was an awesome neighbor," said Cieslik, who described Parker as a homebody.
Cieslik and Dennis Brown, whose girlfriend has lived across the street from Parker for many years, said Parker liked to drink beer and they knew he didn't use a car for many years because of previous drinking-and-driving charges. But they assumed he had gotten his license back because he recently resumed driving.
"He'd be OK for a while," Cieslik said, but then he would start drinking heavily again. "You could tell when he was doing well, and when he wasn't, by the maintenance [of his house]."
The shooting incident marked the third case this year in which a Buffalo police shooting has ended with a fatality:
• On Aug. 1, Charlene M. Fears, 38, who had a history of mental illness, was killed by an officer when she lunged at him with a pair of butcher knives in a home on Esser Street. Police had been called after Fears stabbed her 4-year-old grandson. The boy, Roderick "Manny" Geiger III, died after being taken to Women & Children's Hospital.
• On May 27, John A. Sordetto, 25, of Buffalo, a parole violator, died after being shot by an officer when he apparently went for the officer's gun holster during a scuffle on Tonawanda Street. An investigation showed that Sordetto was high on cocaine. An Erie County grand jury cleared officers of wrongdoing in the incident.
News Staff Reporters Stephen T. Watson, Matt Gryta, T.J. Pignataro and Dale Anderson contributed to this report.
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|Intermediate to difficult
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|June - October
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|Braunwald, Bächialp, Leuggelen, Schwanden
Leave Braunwald on a gently inclining route until you hit zum Unterstafel of the Braunwald Alp. A trail that winds through flowering meadows and through sparse forests winds up at the Bösbächi ("bad stream" in the local dialect). Then hike through an imposing morane before you sight the lake. The lake is surrounded by beautiful pastures. Then descend along a steep route touching the Leuggel Stream, the Schwächeten Stream, and the Steini Stream and wind up in Leuggelen. Cross through Aenneteggen and the historic village center of Thon and then wind up in Schwanden, at the bottom of the Linthal Valley.
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