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Quality Education in the Benedictine Tradition
Nov. 14, 2012
A Saint Vincent College billboard has been recognized in an international competition for marketing and communication professionals. The MarCom Awards, administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, is an international competition that honors excellence and recognizes the creativity, hard work and generosity of marketing and communication professionals. Garnering more than 6,000 entries annually, it is believed to be the largest competition of its kind. Suzanne Wilcox English, vice president for marketing and communications at Saint Vincent, expressed appreciation to Jim Wasylik of West Media and George Fetkovich of Apollo Design for their work in the design and placements of the board. Fetkovich is a 1980 graduate of Saint Vincent. "The billboard very simply promotes one of Saint Vincent's important assets, our new Dupré Science Pavilion, where every SVC student takes at least one course," she said. "We are proud of our strengths in the traditional arts and sciences as well as our emphasis on excellent teaching, which prepare students for success in a competitive global environment." The billboard, which won a Gold Award, is illustrated with a photographic mural of the new $39 million state-of-the-art Sis and Herman Dupré Science Pavilion. The photo was taken after sundown by Pittsburgh architectural photographer James Schafer. It is headlined, "Ready for Your Future." Boards are located on I-76 West (Pennsylvania turnpike near Donegal), on U.S. Route 30 East and on the Homestead High Level Bridge approaching the Waterfront Mall. The MarCom Awards is a creative competition for any individual or company involved in the concept, writing and design of print, visual, audio and web materials and programs. The MarCom competition has grown to the largest of its kind in the world with about 6,000 entries per year.
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The overwhelming majority of public school teachers in Ohio are good men and women who are dedicated to educating children. But as with any profession, there are a few bad apples.
Finding them and doing something about them - with emphasis on ensuring misdeeds do not harm children - is the mission of the state education department's Office of Professional Conduct.
During the past few years, the agency's workload has increased dramatically. During 2005, the office handled 4,770 referrals in cases of possible misconduct by public school personnel. But last year, the number was 8,068.
Although the 2012 total was down slightly from 2011, the unmistakable trend has been upward. That should concern Buckeye State residents.
Teacher misconduct can involve a variety of actions, ranging from mishandling money on up to harming children. Most cases referred to the state do not involve harm to students.
State officials say the higher numbers are for a variety of reasons and do not necessarily reflect increased misbehavior by educators. For example, changes in background check rules and in the number of criminal offenses, even those outside school, requiring action against teachers were cited.
It appears Ohio is doing a better job of policing those who work in public schools. But there are a few glaring exceptions.
One occurred earlier this year, when the North Fork school district near Columbus fired a high school assistant principal just six months after hiring him. That happened after North Fork officials learned the man had been fired from his previous job at a Columbus school, for having "sexual contact" with a fellow teacher and sending sexually explicit notes to her - using students as couriers.
Why weren't officials at the North Fork district made aware of the man's record before hiring him?
In some ways, it appears getting away with misconduct is much more difficult for an educator in Ohio. That is a good thing. Clearly, however, officials at both the local and state levels have some work to do to make the system less susceptible to mistakes.

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The most exciting thing I got to do today was laundry. There is no teachable moment in this (that I know of) (we shall see) nothing more, nothing less.
I packed up the kids' warm weather clothes and made room for jeans and sweaters. Found a ton of garbage under my bed. (Literally, garbage.) (Like tissues and tags and broken happy meal toy stuff, not anything nasty!)
But, nothing exciting under there, like maybe I hoped I'd find, to make this day monumental. No money. No missing lovey Ivy's been looking for.
There was nothing on TV or netflix that I wanted to fold to. There was plenty to do or read or clean but I didn't feel like any of it was any fun. Even knitting. The mail came and even it was boring. Blah.
Related to my day/life: Ivy always climbs into my laundry baskets. (empty or full.)
Also, I can never find my laundry baskets come laundry gathering time. Where in the world do they all go? Did they run off with the match to every single pair of Gray's new socks? Oh, bother. They are probably in the backyard tied to Carter's skateboards. With my "good" yarn.
I mope around and fuss with another sink full of dishes and a constant leaky faucet and try to spice up our day with music and whipped cream on our drinks. Gray says, I love hanging out with you, Mommy and I think- he calls this hanging out?
My mundane life and feeling like a nobody and no fun and yet to them... well, you know.
To them I am not a nobody That's for sure.
[I find it. It's dull somedays, so I have to shine it.]


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Source: Reuters
quote: While I don't agree with you that they should be spying.. but i do agree that without China the US would be fishing out of the toilet to look for its next meal.
quote: What amazes me is the arrogance and just total lack of understanding toward china by the average US citizen.
quote: and you have alienated the majority of the planet
quote: be it pretty bais from time to time.(in some articles that are some how political or made political)
quote: Split to the bone NEW YORK - Who are wondering why the U.S. is so divided into two camps, they should enjoy a night zapping behind the TV. There are two different worlds shown. Even a night political humor during the traditional and very venerable Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner by the Fox News channel (right) and MSNBC (left) is as falsely charged as it gets.For the event, where John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, the first speakers were, came President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney from their political comfort zone in order to help raise money for Catholic charities. Al Smith, the Catholic governor of New York who once was the first Catholic presidential candidate.Tradition dictates that the guests of honor at funny way what plague punches together handing, but themselves take the grain. The latter is not the best feature of politicians and makes the White Tie dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York so special.Romney the ball rolling and set the tone:,, Nice to walk around in clothes that we wear at home always. "A reference to his wealth. Another nice:,, Joe Biden is not here. This is unfortunate, who always laughs at least. "A good-natured pitch below the belt to the vice president. Politically convenient:,, My help and support is my wife Ann, who President Obama is Bill Clinton. "Have you counted them? I have three jokes Romney told. Of bias must be no, we are not Fox News or MSNBC! So here the three merry notes of Barack Obama. At the opening applause:,, Please go to your seat. Before you know it screams Clint Eastwood against you. "That obviously hit on the conference of the Hollywood star at the Republican Convention in which he told an empty chair that Obama would be sitting, talking. And his poor first debate on his wedding took place. ,, I have at least learned that there are worse things than that day gift you forget. "And number three: 'It's nice to be in New York. I bought some in a few stores. Romney has a few shops bought. "In short, both men put their best foot forward, no doubt helped by professional copywriters and pranksters. On Romney you could see that he felt uncomfortable. A successful joke, he looked somewhat furtive. I thought that was something charming have. This was despite his 65-year suddenly looked like a boy, even do he never really belonged to the most popular in his class, and was now, to his own surprise standing in the spotlight.And what made it MSNBC? ,, You can see that Romney dose not mean it. He looks like he is stabbed from behind, but it does not wane show it. "It was true that Obama looked more confident. But I found his smiles also not always true. And what made it Fox? The president was arrogant because he was there with his show business friends who he likes to visit and loves to play golf. This was of course followed by a clip with images of the golfing president instead of hard work rather on the green state.And who won now? Romney or Obama? That didn't mater to me last night. It is a blessing for the country two days after a fierce debate both ruffs bombard each other with humor. I don't see that happening in Tehran or Islamabad, to name but a few places to mention, not so fast.
quote: I mean really do you think in your mind the US is seen as a highly respected country that has no history of international crimes and never seen as having double standards? Please open your eyes.
quote: Time to face facts the US and Chinas paths will be forever linked and using China as a scapegoat for all your domestic problems is unbelievably short slighted.


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Source: Inside Line
quote: Too bad the US Government wasn't smarter in investing OUR money.
quote: He said the luxury sports cars, which sell for about $100,000 each, were insured and company doesn't expect the loss to have a material impact on its business.
quote: "It makes it more of an exclusive,"
quote: bad karma


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5 Baffling Uses of Sex Toys That Prove Humanity Is Doomed
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I'm not a robber, so for me to speak to this with any degree of authority is maybe not entirely sincere. I don't routinely hold up trains or monocled gentlemen as they depart the theater whilst twirling my mustaches and then fleeing to my hilltop lair, where I can count out my Krugerrands and pay peasant folks to disrobe to my Victrola music while I laugh in a mirthless fashion at their discomfort. Not routinely.
Still, my knowledge of robbery is extensive enough to know that, generally, one wields a threatening weapon and demands valuables at the threat of bodily harm. However, in this case, a man used a vibrator to rob a bookie, which seems like it's several kinds of mistake all at once.
For what it's worth, the vibrator was concealed in a bag and he was pretending he had a gun, but if that's your plan of action, you could just as easily have a fork in that bag, or a shower head, or the TV remote. Why he chose a vibrator we may never know, but the paper says it was a Rampant Rabbit vibrator, which, for those not all up to date on battery-powered schlong designs, looks a lot like an electric toothbrush with a penis head and a tiny, rubber rabbit suffering from osteoporosis attached to the side about two-thirds of the way down the shaft, all doubled over and sad looking. It's not particularly gun-like.
The robber got away with more than $1,000 but was caught not too long afterward, since a customer at the bookie's just watched him run away and told police where he and his vibrator went. So justice was served and all that, and, still, after all that, no one thought to ask him why he was using a battery-powered jiggle stick in place of literally anything else.
#1. Massive Blood Loss Sally
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This is the story of how sometimes a fun experience, like playing marbles or enjoying a nice piece of cheese, or spelunking a loved one's nether chasms with a vibrator, can turn into something absolutely horrifying. So your marble rolls into a mud puddle, your cheese has mold on it, or the vibrator curiously transforms itself into a voracious, carnivorous, Saw-inspired tool of blood-craving insanity that only operates within the confines of a vagina. A vagina!
So one afternoon (it could have been evening but I like to think this was a nooner--it feels right), April Bonjour and her boyfriend were going to have some sexings. Was her boyfriend inadequate? A limp noodle? Tired from eating all that cheese? Who knows. They chose to use a toy to enhance their fun, however. And it did not work. Instead, Bonjour was all "Hello!" when she felt a sharp pain in her lady domain. Her boyfriend removed the offending toy and what followed was like that scene in The Shining when Wendy watches the elevator open and gush a veritable river of blood out into the hallway. Did you know that if you watch that scene closely you can sort of almost see a body in all that blood falling out of the elevator? But wasn't the set a miniature set, and, if so, is that a miniature body? Think about that for later, it's totally irrelevant. Although since we're here just now, try to imagine if Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall really had a kid. Wouldn't it look like Steve Buscemi? Moreso than the kid they cast in the movie, anyway? Just a thought. Ponder it.
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What was the deal with that guy dressed like a dog, anyway?
What is relevant is that Bonjour freaked right the fuck out, as you may expect you would do when you insert tab A into slot B expecting orgasm C and instead end up with blood clots D, E, and F, plus blood geyser G. That's a whole alphabet of "oh shit."
Bonjour briefly thought maybe she had just started her period so she decided to strap on a pad and wait Aunt Flo out. By the time she'd gone through every pad in the house and was bleeding even more heavily she decided it was time to hit up a hospital. Ladies, let this be a lesson to you: If you quite unexpectedly have about 10 periods in a row, in one afternoon, just go to the hospital.
At the hospital Bonjour required blood transfusions, and, as you might expect, she sued the company that made the vibrator because sexual blood bath is rarely anyone's desired outcome from using a sex toy. Alas, my search for an outcome in that case proved fruitless, but I like to think she was awarded half damages with a jury deciding she and her boyfriend were partly to blame, maybe as a result of him falcon punching it into her snatch or whatever. I don't know. How the hell does a vibrator do that to you, anyway?


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Joe Wilson of North Charleston wears a gold medallion around his neck that says, "Joe Wilson, gospel singer."
So he seemed like a good man to ask about the pounding rhythm and repetitive, almost guttural vocals of the Swanee Quintet, which had the crowd swaying on the lawn of Riverfront Park Sunday afternoon.
Clad in apricot blazers and black slacks, the group from Augusta, Ga., was getting down at Project L.O.V.E.'s 19th annual Gospel Fest.
"That's what you call 'doing the drive,' " said Wilson, a member of Greater Joy Tabernacle. "You gotta be willing to sweat and work out to do the drive."
The drive is a hallmark of black gospel music, but it's influenced all kinds of music.
"Music brings together all different colors," Wilson said.
The headliners Sunday were Martha Munizzi of Orlando, Fla., a Grammy nominee and the first non-African American to win a Stellar award; and Joshua Rogers, a Greeleyville native who won "Sunday Best," BET's reality singing competition.
More than 3,000 people filled the park Sunday afternoon, enjoying perfect weather, music, food vendors and inflatable kids' attractions.
The goal was to bring families together, according to Creola Washington, who founded the festival in 1994.
"This is the time to celebrate the strengthening of the family, on Resurrection Day," she said, referring to Easter. "It's a time where families can interact with each other, other parents can interact with other parents, children can interact with other children."
DiAngelo Brown of North Charleston was watching his 4-year-old son enjoy one of the jump castles.
"We just came out here for my son to have a little fun," he said.
That's what it's all about, bringing families together, Washington said.
"We look at how the family unit has diminished in so many ways," she said. "To have a strong family in this day and time, in this generation, is a jewel, something to cherish. Strong families make strong communities."
Besides organizing the annual festival, Project L.O.V.E. organizes family choirs and holds workshops in schools.
Shona Chandler of Summerville and her 4-year-old daughter were looking forward to the fireworks at dusk.
"It's just for the family fun," Chandler said. "It's nice for all the families to come out."
Lakesha Brown of North Charleston was standing on the lawn listening to music with her children, Jasmine Hornsby, a fifth-grader at Goodwin Elementary School, and Eric Brown, 13, an eighth-grader at Jerry Zucker Middle School.
"Families don't do this enough," she said. "This is the kind of thing you wish would come more often."
Reach Dave Munday at 937-5553 or twitter.com/dmunday.


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The Diddyz are the most awesome trio comprised of mur, rum and mru. They have the same diddyness in one of them as the rest of the world... Thay hail from Down under (yo mum)
Damn, did i just walk past a diddy or Diddyz? I feel so unbleivably honoured!!!!!!!
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Squeegle is an urban term used to describe the roof of your mouth. As the term of the roof of your mouth is commonly unknown many people simply refer to it as a squeegle.
I just ate something really hot and it burned my squeegle.
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A type of hug that involves first squeezing the recipient, followed by a short pause, then a rapid and somewhat violent jiggling back and forth.
I haven't seen her in a while, and she almost broke my neck with that squeegle.
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The act of someone poking, stabbing, shanking, hugging, or remotely touching you as a surprise. Having to squeek followed by a small giggle afterwards as such the "Pillsbury Dough-boy/girl" status.
After not seeing him for a few weeks, I surprised glomped him- turning out he was the wrong person; he still Squeegled anyway.
de AngelenaLuu 25 Ianuarie 2008
A peculiar but beautiful creature. It is native to central Europe and to certain parts of suburban New Jersey. Two squeegless mate for life and tend to get along very well. They tend to be strange parents, messing with their children. They lead a rather sedentary lifestyle though they are apt at providing for their family groups.
No, YOU are my squeegles and I love you squeegles
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EAST LIVERPOOL - A Columbiana County Port Authority board member questioned why repairs to their office building were being undertaken before a final decision had been made on the structure's future.
Speaking at Monday's board meeting, Tim Weigle said he was surprised to learn repairs had been authorized to the north wall of the former Patterson Industries building, which has served as the port authority's home since the 1970s.
At the board's October meeting, Weigle talked about whether it was worth repairing the 100-year-old building because of deterioration problems a recent study estimated could take up to $300,000 to address.
As chairman of the building and grounds committee, Weigle said he was under the impression the board was going to discuss the matter further before taking any action, which is why he was surprised to see work had begun on repairing the building's north wall.
None of the other board members seemed surprised as port authority CEO Tracy Drake explained he used his emergency powers to hire a company to begin repairing the crumbling brick wall because its deterioration posed a safety hazard to vehicles going to and from the back of the building and to Heritage-WTI, which is also located behind the building.
"First and foremost, we didn't know how stable the wall is. We didn't want to be in a position where it would collapse," he said.
Drake hired Cowan Masonry of East Liverpool to perform the work for $92,000.
Weigle thought the board was going to decide whether it was worth putting any more money into the building before taking action that could result in the port authority relocating elsewhere.
"I hope we're not spending money we shouldn't be spending on this building," he said.
Drake said his thinking is the emergency repair work will buy them the additional time needed to make an informed decision on the fate of the building rather than be rushed into making a decision.
Weigle was attending his last meeting as a port authority member. He was recently elected county commissioner and intends to resign from the port authority before taking office as commissioner in January.


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I want to openly thank Nancy Pelosi for her letter to dear friends of mine asking for a donation to the "Democratic Matching fund Challenge" for which their fat cat friends pledge to match all donations during the month of February.
It was a scathing letter denouncing what she called the "Republican Tea Party" (naturally full of untruths).
Now it happens that my friends are staunch Christian, conservative, Republicans and they were greatly affronted by it. They wanted to donate but instead of giving to Nancy, they made a very generous donation to our Mifflin County 9-12 Tea Party group for which I want to thank them and ask Nancy to keep up the good work.
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"What's behind you doesn't matter." - Enzo Ferrari
It's hard to start a column about a good weekend of racing with an obituary, but that's where we find ourselves.
But if the person I'm going to talk about was here, he'd be pounding out the column on his typewriter. The undisputed dean of motorsports journalism, Chris Economaki, died last Friday. He was out front as a singular leader in a field with a thousand leaders and a man to whom all others went.
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He saw his first race at age 9, and started selling copies of National Speed Sport News at 13 making a penny a piece. He would rise to be its owner, publisher and editor. For the older crowd, especially, he may be best remembered for his coverage of auto racing, anywhere it was occurring, for ABC's Wide World of Sports. It didn't matter if it was the Southern 500 at Darlington, a rally in Africa or a Figure 8 race at the now-defunct Islip Speedway in Long Island, N.Y. More notable than the locations sometimes was his delivery, a constant staccato beat of knowledge and history about auto racing.
The term legendary is bandied about these days for anyone who spends more than a day at an occupation. But you could reduce the "Legendary" field if you put the metrics of Economaki's career down as a marker. From those days selling those race papers to owning the company, there are no other figures in auto racing that truly spanned the pre-war years to after WWII, up to today's media coverage.
And Economaki was there as the voice, sometimes lonely, looking to bring forth the exciting post-WWII years of auto racing onto the national stage. More to the point he did. Winter is coming, racing is winding down and if you ever wondered why you know about NASCAR, IndyCar Racing, USAC and Formula 1, or racers like Jeff Gordon, Lewis Hamilton, Mario Andretti, Dario Franchitti or a guy named Art Cox out of Anderson, Ind., who won the Figure 8 race at Islip in 1965, you can do no better than to read the Economaki autobiography, "Let Them All Go!" written with David Agrabright and remember a legendary career of a very singular man who did more for auto racing than anyone.
A little history this weekend if you were watching the NASCAR Nationwide Series at Dover. Darrell Wallace Jr. became the first African-American since Wendell Scott at the, now lost to nature, Savannah Speedway in 1962, to win a NASCAR pole. Half a century seems a little bit long in my book.
Meanwhile in the wide world of 410 Sprints, this weekend at Williams Grove a good many prayers were answered all the way around. For the fans, there was more racing in two nights than you'll see at some tracks in half a season with B and C Mains and Dashes to determine starting positions. Fifty-five cars lined up Friday, and 54 returned on Saturday presenting a who's who of 410 talent. The DNQ fields for Friday and Saturday were as talented as the qualifiers.
The new driver of the CJB Motorsports No. 51 ride that Fred Rahmer has just left after 6 years, road warrior, Paul McMahan, proved his worth with a win on Friday night making him suddenly a full-fledged member of the Pennsylvania Posse. That's almost better than the purse money and the trophy. Finally, for those non-Posse fans who believe in a level playing field and other silly forms of alchemy, Danny Schatz pulled one out for the Outlaws on Saturday scoring a record fifth National Open Title.
All of which means that the big three Outlaw races at the Grove next year will be even bigger. After years of subservience to the Posse, the Outlaws had an unusual string of luck this year and won more than they lost. This is largely uncharted territory much as you see on ancient maps that declared areas Terra Incognito or in discussions of what will happen when the Earth changes magnetic poles again. Yeah, I know, you think I'm kidding, right? Go up to the Grove or Lincoln Speedway this weekend and say to someone, "So how about that Danny Schatz? One heck of racer, huh?" Good luck with that.
Couldn't get enough 4 Cylinder action at the Small Car Nationals at Hagerstown, just head up to the scenic Path Valley Speedway this Saturday. Otherwise if you want racing you'll need to head to the Grove or Lincoln. Another track to check out on the big season ending races will be Susquehanna Speedway Park, just east of Harrisburg, Pa. The time-saving secret to getting there is to take 581 to 83.
They have racing right up to Nov. 10. After that its six weeks to 410 racing in Australia, followed soon by the Rolex Series at Daytona on to Volusia Park in Florida, the Daytona 500, the Icebreaker at Lincoln on Feb. 23, then the opener at Hagerstown on March 16. Tickets are on sale now.


text: Mary Ann Yates was noted for her refined elegance and majestic bearing. James Boaden wrote that she approached the statues of antiquity in the solemn composure of her attitudes. (Dictionary of National Biography). Note the extravagant dress (spread with "panniers"): at this time there was no attempt at historically plausible costume for actresses, who just adopted current highest fashion. Historical costume for Shakespeare on the London stage started with Charles Macklin's Macbeth of 1773, for which he entered in plaid scarf, tartan stockings and tunic; but by Act II Macbeth was wearing modern breeches while Mrs Hartley was still dressed throughout in a hoop skirt, like Mrs Yates' Lady Macbeth here.


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6 Reasons The Guy Who's Fixing Your Computer Hates You
By my calculations, about 96 percent of all computer repairs are done, not by the local computer guy or the Geek Squad, but by The Friend Who is Good With Computers. Often that friend is nothing more than an average computer user who knows how to look up error messages on Google, but it doesn't matter -- once they become known as TFWIGWC, they will get the call every time something goes wrong. And they will fix it, probably for free, because TFWIGWC pities you.
Still, any time a bunch of TFWIGWCs get together and share their computer repair horror stories, you learn that there are certain things their "customers" do that make them want to ram their head through a wall.
So, before I touch your computer, friend who may or may not do me a favor in return for this free repair job, here's what you should know:
#6. Future Computer Problems Are Not Automatically My Fault
This computer is yours. You know exactly who has used it. It is in its current condition without any outside interference, especially from me. I, on the other hand, am about to spend several hours of my own time trying to get it back into the condition it was in before you or someone you love screwed it up. So, two months down the line if I get a call from you, saying, "That program you installed messed up my computer." I will beat you until it causes hydrogen fusion. Or at least I will imagine myself doing it.
This is how it's gonna go down, chief.
See, the vast majority of the computers I fix are broken because of some bullshit the owner has installed, like Weatherbug, or some program that changes their cursor into an amusing animated kitten. Or, they've been playing some online flash game that just funnels in malware as fast as their connection and processor will allow. While fixing your computer I will explain all of this, and talk about how an entire industry of malicious free downloads thrives purely because so many Internet users are trusting souls like you. You believe all men are good at heart, especially on the Internet, so no amount of antivirus warning popups will convince you that the people distributing "Wild Bill's Poker Roundup" for free want anything but the best for you.
So, I go through and strip out the malware and toolbars and Trojans, then install protection like Malwarebytes or something like it to help block this type of deceptive shit in the future. Then, two months later, I get that call:
"Yeah, I don't know what you did to my computer when you were here but it's so slow now that I can mow the lawn waiting for it to check my email. I need you to undo whatever you did."
At this point I will drive over, again, imagining myself slamming the owner's dick in his own laptop. Five minutes after I arrive, this exchange will occur:
"Wait, where's Spybot? The program I told you to leave on there?"
"I uninstalled that. It was messing up my computer. It wouldn't let me play any of my games."
But at least you have this fake scanner.
Yes, it was Spybot. Not the programs that I told you would cause the exact problems we're looking at right now, you impossible dipsh- "Wait, where's the antivirus?"
"Oh, I got rid of that, too. My cousin was downloading music, and it wasn't letting him open the files, so we had to get rid of it."
"Sure, sure. Now, this is going to seem like an odd request, but for this next step, I'm going to need you to take out your dick, and lay it on your laptop's keyboard."
Anywhere around the "G" key will do just fine.
#5. Expect One More Person for Dinner
"Wow, I didn't think it would take that long," you'll say as I'm into hour two, removing eight months' worth of stupid bullshit from your hard drive. "Is it going to take much longer?"
Yes. It's going to take much longer. Much, much, much longer. Probably. See, the thing is, I have no way of knowing how long it's going to take me to find the problem. That's why before I came over here, I canceled all of my plans for the rest of the day.
The only reason I'm not punching you in the neck right now is because I know this ignorance isn't your fault. Despite owning a computer and probably using one at work, much of your knowledge comes from Hollywood, and Hollywood hasn't got the slightest goddamn clue what they're talking about. In movies, everything from hacking the Pentagon to creating Kelly LeBrock can be done in one flurry of keystrokes.
Oh, that reminds me, we're going to need some bras.
In real life, the same symptoms could be the result of any of three billion different problems. Especially when the symptom is that the computer is "slow." Or when the thing you're complaining about only happens once every two days, and never when I'm around. If it's a result of the malicious software and other bullshit I was just talking about, remember that it's specifically designed to be hard to remove.
Half the time I'm going to wind up Googling for other people who've had the same problem, because none of the standard spyware removal tools will do it. Half the time, my search will take me to a message board and I'll find this:
User: ComputerGuy
Posted: 8.1.11, 10:24 PM
Subject: Trojan, Malwarebytes and Combofix Don't Detect It
Body: (Exact description of the same problem we're having)
User: Admin
Posted: 8.1.11, 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: Trojan, Malwarebytes and Combofix Don't Detect It
Body: (Request for more information, OS, HijackThis logs, etc)
User: ComputerGuy
Posted: 8.2.11, 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Trojan, Malwarebytes and Combofix Don't Detect It
Body: Never mind, I fixed it.
User: Admin
Posted: 8.2.11, 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: Trojan, Malwarebytes and Combofix Don't Detect It
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You might notice me becoming steadily more frustrated as this process repeats itself eight or nine hundred more times. And you're making it worse by being the kid in the back seat who's constantly asking, "Are we there yet?!" I want to make it clear: I have no problem whatsoever bending you over my knee and spanking your ass until you shit blood. Go find a movie to watch, and I'll let you know when it's fixed.
#4. Assigning Blame Is Not a Priority
The subject of who is to blame for your screwed up computer is sure to come up. There are a couple of reasons -- one, some people, usually douche bags, live in a world where everything is somebody's fault. The computer can't just break. Somebody has to have broken it. Nothing "just happens," right?
But other times it's just that whoever's computer I'm working on wants to make sure I know that they didn't screw it up. It's, "I told my son not to install that Firefox thing." Yes, Firefox broke your computer, not the 27 "free screensavers" websites that each came with their own toolbar, or the hundreds and hundreds of sketchy porn sites.
"Yeah, but you were shopping on eBay the other day!"
But the focus here should not be on blame -- I don't want to hear how stupid your wife is. It needs to be on repair and preventative action, so that we don't have to go through this again. And by "we" I mean "I." And, the thing is, there's a good chance you're not going to want to hear why your computer is actually in this condition. At least not from me. Let me talk to your son in private, and you'll be a much happier person. I've tried the direct route with parents before about their teenage son's porn use, and how he's not old enough to know to keep to the reputable porn sites, and it never, ever ends well.
"Bobby?! He wouldn't do that. He's a good kid."
"Yep. He's also a teenage boy with a volcano full of dick-related hormones that require an outlet."
"OK, what's the cup fo- OH MY GOD!"
"I know my son, and he wouldn't. Maybe a hacker did it."
"Yes. A hacker, out of the blue, decided to break into your computer and place temporary files onto the system in the hopes that a repairman would see them and then report them to you. Evil hackers have it in for your son, and this is by far the best way to do it."
But even that isn't as bad as when there is no kid involved at all. Then I have to figure out which spouse has the poop fetish. Saying the wrong thing to the wrong person can cause an instant rift in a marriage. But saying nothing at all means that the activity will continue the second I pull out of their driveway. And a month later, I'll be getting the blame for the computer's relapse. "You know, eBay sure does have a lot of popups for shemale porn sites these days."


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Thursday, August 1, 2013
PFC Wade Rollings, 38, of Sangaree, moved to the area from Illinois just one week before Hurricane Hugo moved into the area.
He was 14.
A graduate of James Island High School, he is married and the proud father of a little boy he and his wife have recently adopted.
He didn't begin his adult career in law enforcement however. First, he tried the Navy, for which he was a [radar] Jammer Operator on an aircraft carrier, gave it four years and decided it wasn't for him. He then worked a variety of jobs until, about eight years ago, he joined the Summerville Police Department Reserves.
"I wanted a stable career and to make a difference," Rollings says.
He gave three years to the reserves and when offered a full time position, he said "Yes! ... where do I sign?" He has never looked back.
He is actually carrying on family traditions – his dad retired from the Chicago Police Department and his father-in-law is a retired North Charleston Police officer.
His brother is career Army – military police.
Rollings graduated from the police academy, has done a nine-month stint undercover in narcotics, is a specific skills instructor, is certified in public speaking and effective classroom teaching and has taken numerous courses in narcotics including operating undercover, recognizing various narcotics, etc.
He has been recognized as Officer of the Year for going above and beyond to help a family in need.
He has some interest in the K-9 program and hopes to become a supervisor. He is senior officer on his patrol team and a field training officer for new recruits.
He is leaning toward crime scene investigation, he said.
"I love to process crime scenes," he explained, "and I am the one percent who really likes paperwork."
But he also loves being on the road and the camaraderie amongst those on patrol.
"Every day is different, there are no two calls the same," he said.
When off duty, he spends time with his son. Although he never had a passion for fishing, he is working on that because his boy likes to fish.
He does, however, enjoy hunting especially for turkey.
Another passion is history and science. He enjoys the history and military channels. (He studied history at the University of Maine.) He also likes science fiction.
He likes to skate and loves hockey – "Go Black Hawks!" – and remembers nostalgically the season tickets to the Chicago Black Hawks games his dad used to get.
He likes to spend time with his wife and go bike riding with his wife and son.
He shares his home with three cats, two dogs and an every-changing variety of temporary creatures – his wife is a veterinary technician.
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Euler found four whole numbers such that the sum of any two of the
numbers is a perfect square. Three of the numbers that he found are
a = 18530, b=65570, c=45986. Find the fourth number, x. You could
do this by trial and error, and a spreadsheet would be a good tool
for such work. Write down a+x = P^2, b+x = Q^2, c+x = R^2, and then
focus on Q^2-R^2=b-c which is known. Moreover you know that Q >
sqrtb and R > sqrtc . Use this to show that Q-R is less than or
equal to 41 . Use a spreadsheet to calculate values of Q+R , Q and
x for values of Q-R from 1 to 41 , and hence to find the value of x
for which a+x is a perfect square.
The diagram illustrates the formula: 1 + 3 + 5 + ... + (2n - 1) = n² Use the diagram to show that any odd number is the difference of two squares.
Find the frequency distribution for ordinary English, and use it to help you crack the code.
If a sum invested gains $10\%$ each year how long will it be
before it has doubled its value?
If an object depreciates in value by $10\%$ each year how long
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Why aren't these two answers the same?
Is there a rate, used for both gain and depreciation, for which
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With the numbers he's putting up for a second straight year and his impressive all-around skills, Allen Robinson soon will have to start thinking about whether he will give up his final season at Penn State and enter the NFL draft.
There's still a lot of time left since he has half of his junior season remaining, but Nittany Lion fans should enjoy Robinson's exploits while they can because No. 8 very well might not be around next year to carry the offense as he's done so far this year.
"That's something I'm not even thinking about right now," Robinson said of leaving early for the NFL.
Pro scouts have thought about it, and they rate Robinson highly among receiving targets for the 2014 draft. Here's how some draft sites see Robinson:
n No. 4 receiving prospect and projected second-round pick by nfldraftscout.com
n No. 6 receiving prospected and projected second-round pick by CBSSports.com
n No. 13 receiving prospect and projected second- to fourth-round pick by walterfootball.com
That last projection would be a bit scary to Robinson since dropping all the way to the fourth round wouldn't be worth leaving school early. But if he's widely viewed as a second-round pick, Robinson might not be able to pass that up.
"I definitely feel like he's playing better than he was last year," PSU safety Malcolm Willis said.
Robinson has 38 catches for 621 yards and five TDs through five games, putting him well ahead of pace to surpass last year's totals of 77 catches, 1,013 yards and 11 TDs.
The 6-foot-3, 210-pounder has the size, speed, athleticism and route-running ability that should allow him to step in and be a factor in the NFL right away, whenever he decides to turn pro.
"His expectations for himself are greater than anybody else's," Willis said. "He's definitely performing at a high level."
Robinson got a scare in Saturday's loss at Indiana when he fell hard on his back trying to make a catch in the end zone and was on the ground for a minute.
"Just a little sore; nothing too drastic," he said.
Robinson has a lot to look forward to this week against Michigan since he's a native of that state.
"They really didn't have too much interest in me," he said of the Wolverines during the recruiting process.
One of his high school teammates, sophomore linebacker James Ross III, plays for Michigan, and Robinson knows several members of the Wolverines.
"I'm good friends with James, but that's not something I'm going to get too caught up into," he said.
There are other things he can get caught up in, including trying to help the Lions bounce back from a disappointing loss to the Hoosiers.
"We have a lot of leadership on the team, so just trying to make sure we have extra focus on some of the things we didn't do too well [last week]," he said.
Bouncing back
This is the kind of week, after a disappointing loss, where team leadership is vital. Willis said there hasn't been a lot of yelling or anything like that for extra motivation.
"Nobody likes to lose, and it's not that we've been hitting harder or practicing any harder than what we have," Willis said. "We know as a team we need to do much better, and we go into practice every day knowing that's what we need to do."
One way Willis, a senior, tries to lead the younger players in the secondary is to pull them aside individually.
"I just take them to the side and tell them, 'You have to have a short memory,'" he said.
Michigan memories
Willis said he attended a Penn State-Michigan game at Beaver Stadium when he was being recruited and recalled how "it definitely impacts a young kid like I was, and it definitely stays with you a long time."
"Penn State versus Michigan has always been a big-time game," he added, "and I'd be lying to you to tell you that it wasn't."


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Cider Beta 2 : Feature walkthrough
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"Cider" is the codename for the WPF designer in Visual Studio 2008. This screencast covers some of the new features in Cider and walks you through building a small application to apply the features.
This part 1 in a 2 part series, part 2 is available here: Cider Beta 2 : Styling a WPF application with Blend and Cider
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It's official: Developer and former gubernatorial nominee Carl P. Paladino is a member of the Buffalo Board of Education. He won't be one of the board officers, but he doesn't need a title to stir things up.
He's continuing his pledge to try to get rid of Superintendent Pamela C. Brown and challenged the nominees for president and vice president of the board at Monday's reorganization meeting.
The board ultimately named at-large board member Barbara A. Seals Nevergold as the new board president. She said her first order of business as president is to improve the board's "cohesiveness" and build stronger relationships among the members.
Asked whether she believes she'll get along with Paladino, she said, "I can work with him. I can work with many people."
Paladino, who represents the Park District, joins the board with incoming members Theresa Harris-Tigg, representing the East District, and James M. Sampson, representing the West District.
Nevergold said she hopes that the media's fixation with Paladino won't overshadow positive news coming out of the school district.
Improving communication with the public and encouraging more transparency is a key priority, Nevergold said. She added that she hopes to launch some community listening tours and wants to combat "the perception of being secretive" – a reputation that has dogged the district for years.
Nevergold, a longtime educator, was first appointed to the board in December 2011 as the at-large member to replace Christopher L. Jacobs when he was elected Erie County clerk.
She said Monday that she does not support removing Brown as superintendent and does not accept the idea that most Buffalo public schools are failing. The district has a strategic plan to improve student academics, she said.
"This is not the time to turn around and undo what we're trying to do," she said.
Though it was rapidly apparent that Nevergold had the votes to win the president's position Monday, Paladino decided to keep things interesting by nominating board member Sharon Belton Cottman as president, much to her surprise.
Cottman's dislike for Paladino is well-known. When he was elected to the seat in May, she said Paladino and the other two incoming board members should receive mandated School Board member training before they took their seats in July.
When told that Paladino and the other new members couldn't receive that training before they'd been officially sworn in, Cottman had suggested that Paladino "get some remedial training in advance."
Cottman declined his nomination Monday and said later that she would not allow him to make her the butt of his jokes. That didn't stop Paladino, who said he believes in competition.
"I picked Sharon because I think she has a unique talent for rolling her eyes," he said.
New board member Harris-Tigg nominated herself as vice president for student achievement and won the seat with eight votes. Cottman abstained.
The board was split on who to name the board's vice president for executive affairs. Cottman nominated North District board member Jason M. McCarthy, while Paladino nominated newcomer Sampson.
McCarthy won the seat in a 6-3 vote, with board members Paladino, John B. Licata and Harris-Tigg voting against.
While the Board of Education's reorganization meeting took center stage Monday, it wasn't the only news to come out of the school district.
Many school district observers have been awaiting the superintendent's announcement regarding the reorganization of the district's central office staff, which was touted as a way to "streamline" the administration and save the district money while providing superior support to schools.
At a Monday morning news conference, Brown presented 25 slides, including nine flow charts with no comparative information, no names, and no summary on how the multitude of personnel changes affect the district's bottom line. Although the flow charts are color-coded, no legend was provided at the press conference to help anyone piece together what the personnel changes meant.
Brown said her reorganization changes, including eliminating some vacant positions, so far have saved the district $1 million. She also said 30 positions have been eliminated through retirements, attrition and also roughly a dozen layoffs. It wasn't clear whether that's a result of Brown's reorganization or general cuts to the 2013-14 budget.
Though Brown had described the reorganization as a way to "reduce excessive high/mid level management positions," interim Deputy Superintendent Mary Guinn said the central office is expected to see a net increase of five positions.
Some positions are being consolidated as part of the reoganization, but it's unclear how this affects the district's total number of central office administrators. Attempts by The Buffalo News to further clarify this information after Monday's board meeting were unsuccessful.
Brown is apparently eliminating a chief of staff position but adding an "executive assistant to the superintendent." She's also apparently replacing the district's main lawyer, expanding the finance and registration offices, and changing a number of other job titles.
The human resources director is now "chief of talent management." The district's three community superintendents – central office administrators who directly supervise the district's 50-plus schools – have each been renamed "chief of school leadership."
To provide better support for the schools, Brown said she added a fourth chief position so that each of the four school leadership chiefs will supervise fewer schools and be able to provide better school support than they can now.
Brown was expected to name a new, permanent deputy superintendent as part of her reorganization but said Monday that a national search for a permanent deputy is continuing. Brown is also looking for a new chief of public relations, but that position currently remains vacant, as well.
News Staff Reporter Jill Terreri contributed to this report.
For more information about the district reorganization, visit the School Zone blog at www.buffalonews.com/schoolzone
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mvcConf 2 - Ashic Mahtab: CQRS and Event Sourcing with MVC 3
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The session will briefly cover what CQRS and event sourcing is and what benefits they provide over traditional architectures. We will then build a simple ASP.NET MVC 3 application that will use CQRS and Event Sourcing. We will use Ncqrs to provide the underlying platform and see how CQRS and Event Sourcing simplifies software design, improves scalability and maintainability and how they fit into an ASP.NET MVC application.
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Fantastic video... thank you. I've been trying to get started with CQRS, but never understood how all the parts work together. This clarified it a lot.
One question: I want to write a multiplayer game (text-based, turn-based) and I need a timer (the players have a limited time to decide on their move). I can probably figure out a way to generate commands each seconds, but how do I use the framework to retrieve all the appropriate aggregates that are supposed to handle the "clock tick" command? I can't wrap my head around this. (I understand how a command will retrieve one aggregate, but I will have multiple ongoing games, and all of them need to find out if the move time has expired.)
Great video. Nice simple example, and it would be useful to have it for download!
Awesome! Very inspiring, made me thing different about all software I wrote in the last few years.
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Erie businesses to send cookies to troops overseas
Buying Girl Scout cookies? Think about buying an extra box for our troops.
Three area businesses will be selling cookies and sending donated boxes to local men and women serving overseas.
Cookies will be available beginning Feb. 17 at Pony Express, 1903 W. Eighth St., Presque Isle Superette, 3108 West Lake Road, and the Pittsburgh Inn, 3725 West Lake Road.
Cash donations are also welcome to help pay postage costs.
The businesses in recent years have sent 2,043 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to local troops.


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I know this isn't a popular view, but I'm absolutely thrilled that September is here. I love fall almost as much as I love winter. Apples, soup, pumpkins, crisp air, cool temperatures, wool sweaters, clogs... simply marvelous.
Crafty Goals for September
- make 2nd green baby mitten
- seam and block green and blue baby sweater
- finish baby quilt (I'm halfway done with the hand quilting, then I need to add the binding)
- make 2 log cabin pillows
- make quilted bag
- felt 2 booga bags
- put together fabulous knitflix swap package for my swap buddy
- quilting class: Amy Butler's Charm quilt. It's going to be BEAUTIFUL, baby. I love Amy Butler's fabrics, and I can't wait to make some things from her new book.
- remember to go to Quiltology to meet Amy Butler when she's in town
- get my hands on some of that darling Heather Ross gnome fabric. Most of my online sources are out of the blue version.
- learn to knit socks!
For me these are fairly lofty goals. I'm spending a week in Italy in the middle of the month, so that will make them even more of a challenge!
Friday, September 01, 2006
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- Karin said...
You have a busy month ahead of you!
I agree--I love fall and winter. Summer...only thing I like about summer is the baseball.
- Rebecca McKinley said...
I love fall, too! The colors are incredible, and there is something so comforting about the idea of harvest. I love all seasons - especially winter, though! Where I live, fall is almost over. It lasts about a day. And as I am in Utah right now, I am still seeing summer - not much of those golds and reds and browns will be left when I get back. I guess I will have to find it in my yarn! :)
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At 3:08 p.m., a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located 21 miles west of Fort Morgan. In the event of a tornado, the National Weather Service recommends to take cover. Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building and avoid windows. If in a mobile home, a vehicle or outdoors, move to the closest shelter and protect yourself from flying debris, the Weather Service advises.
A severe thunderstorm warning for south central Weld County and north central Adams County was also issued until 3:15 p.m., with a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for all Weld County until 9 tonight.
During a severe thunderstorm watch or warning, the National Weather Service recommends that people go indoors early and stay indoors. Lightning can strike even when the storm is as far as 10 miles away. While indoors, avoid using electronics or corded phones.


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The 5 Biggest Bedroom BuzzkillsLori Garcia
Your bedroom is supposed to be a haven o'
rest hot sex, but for many folks, it's just another room that happens to contain a bed.
If you've ever wondered what (or who) is to blame for your lukewarm sex life, Redbook offers up these 5 common bedroom habits responsible for ruining our collective sex lives – check them out after the jump!
Little bedfellows: Of course your kids want in your ginormous bed, but there's a time for everything. Reserve your snugglefests for mornings and keep your kids out at night. Joel Block, a sex therapist and author of Sex Comes First: 15 Ways to Save Your Relationship Without Leaving Your Bedroom says, "By the time the kids go to sleep, couples are just about done." True dat. Stick to a consistent and reasonable bedtime with your kids to allow for quiet time together as a couple when the lights go out.
Antisocial media: Most of us are guilty of going to bed with our Facebook friends and Twitter followers, even if only figuratively. Kick your friends and followers out of bed in favor of the person right next to you. We promise the world won't stop turning.
Over accessibility: We get it, you're connected. Whether by text or email, you can always be counted on for expeditious replies to urgent matters on everything from boyfriend trouble to email forwards. Unless you have legitimate reason to be on-call, step away from the mobile devices. That funny email and autocorrected text can wait.
Serious talks in bed: My husband is famous for this. We can go all day with light and airy convo only for him to hit me with, "Hey, you think we should try to refinance the house?" once we're in bed. Hey, you think we can talk about this another time? Dr. Block suggests saving heavy convo for daylight hours outside the bedroom.
Too much good TV: TV is just. so. good. And thanks to the DVR, it's even better with an endless stream of recorded awesomeness paired with the ability to zip through commercials. Dr. Logan Levkoff, a sexologist and host of Café Mom's Mom Ed: In the Bedroom suggests keeping the DVR outside the bedroom and setting limits on TV watching. Sure thing, right after this episode…
I'm four for five on this list but only because I'm not a fan of the elbow boob jabs that come from kids in my bed. So this is what I'm gonna do, I'm going to try like hell to break these bad bedroom habits and get back to you with my progress. I can't promise a steamy sex diary, but I can promise an update. Stay tuned.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE - The latest volume of Tahoe Magazine - 2012-13 Winter Edition - was published last week and is now available at various newsstands around Lake Tahoe and Truckee.
The 164-page magazine - a joint publication among the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza, Sierra Sun, Tahoe Daily Tribune and Lake Tahoe Action - is full of in-depth feature stories and jam-packed with information for locals and visitors about the region's resorts, nightlife and dining options and much, much more.
Whether you're looking to learn more about some of our local athletes, to learn about some of the region's amazing recreation options or some insight into what's new this year at our 14 downhill ski resorts, Tahoe Magazine has it all.
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Mark Aug. 31 on your calendar for another NSB Waterfront Loop event: The Food Truck Bazaar will line the beachside's scenic Flagler Avenue from 5-8:30 p.m., that Friday.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A couple hundred people showed up for the 16th annual Holiday Charity Ball at the Brannon Center to help support Habitat for Humanity, the Council on Agings Meals on Wheels and the NSB Caps Scholarship Fund.
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Funeral service for Howard A. Roberts, age 85, of Edgewater, who died Sunday, May 16, 2010 at Bert Fish Medical Center, New Smyrna Beach, will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, May 22 at Settle-Wilder Chapel, New Smyrna Beach. Burial will follow at Sea Pines Memorial Gardens, Edgewater. Calling hours will be 6:00-8:00 p.m. Friday at Settle-Wilder's Chapel.


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The 7 Most Common CGI Screw-Ups (Explained)
If you've watched movies in the past 10 years, you've probably at some point complained about horrible CG, because you movie viewers are ungrateful little jackanapes.
Every time CG goes well and blends seamlessly into the movie (I bet you didn't know it was used in Brokeback Mountain), people rave about the amazing acting performances and the wonderful storyline and maybe the great soundtrack, and every time it goes wrong, everyone talks about how CG is terrible and is ruining movies.
I'm not joking, watch the video.
But that's OK, whatever, it's a job, nobody says thank you to accountants and insurance underwriters either. I can't brag to anyone about having worked on The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, but it put food on the table. But you know, as long as we're criticizing crappy CG, I thought maybe you'd like to know more about the details of how each terrible disaster unfolds behind the scenes, and more importantly, who to point fingers at.
Here's some of the more common complaints:
#7. Skin Looks Like Plastic
One of the creepier CG sins is to make skin look like plastic. This was only one of many many things wrong with the Scorpion King character above, who actually only appeared in scorpion king form in The Mummy Returns and not in any of the three movies actually named The Scorpion King, because Hollywood likes to confuse us. (Yes, it had two direct-to-DVD sequels. No, nobody watched them.)
When moviegoers say skin "looks like plastic," it can mean a few things. Sometimes they mean faces are rigid and motionless, as if they were made of hard plastic like some kind of creepy doll, which is usually a rigging problem, which I'll talk about later. Sometimes they mean the skin has the texture of plastic, like their face has been shellacked.
Sure, this was 11 years ago, but let us note that the Rock lent his face to this hilariously shameful visual effect the same year that the first Lord of the Rings movie came out.
They hadn't reached their full potential yet (Gollum comes along in the later movies), but clearly, plastic-Rock-head-pasted-on-monster was not "the best you could expect from CG at the time" by any means.
One of the (numerous) things they would do to make Gollum look much, much less like a bad video game character than the Scorpion King was to make his skin not look like frickin plastic. The person responsible for this is the person who writes the shaders. When a character is modeled, or "sculpted" in 3-D, at first it has no color. When modelers show their work for approval, it usually looks like a statue made of dull gray clay.
In fact, freelancers will sell models at this stage. This one is going for $275 on TurboSquid:
A shader writer is a person who writes a program that tells the computer how to "paint" the model -- not just what colors, but how shiny or dull, how bumpy or smooth, how transparent or reflective it is, depending on a bunch of factors, like whether it's facing you or you're looking at it at an angle. Lots of science.
Skin is made of a lot of layers, so it's really complex, and they were really far from figuring it out back when Toy Story was made, for example, which partially drove the decision to make the movie about a lot of plastic toys and not about humans with skin.
The big breakthrough was a thing called subsurface scattering. Read that linked tutorial if you want to find out more about it, but basically, it accounts for light bouncing around through all the layers of the skin so your character stops looking like the picture on the left and starts looking like the picture on the right:
When they finally figured this out, they used it on Gollum, The Incredibles and everything else. Any skin that looks like plastic today doesn't have the "we don't have the technology" excuse anymore. Some asshole is dropping the ball or skimping on the budget.
#6. Character/Vehicle Looks Retarded
In the case of Anaconda 3, I mean this literally. The snake looks like a snake that was born, through no fault of its own, with significantly impaired cognitive function compared to other snakes.
Now, Anaconda 3 clearly had a budget of about five dollars, and for most people, that's reason enough why the CG would suck. But that makes it sound like all the problems are technology problems, like they couldn't afford computers good enough to magically make a snake that is shaped like a snake, for example. Technology and money are needed for a lot of things, like complex shading and rendering of skin and water and that kind of thing, but it doesn't take money to make a snake shaped like a snake, it just takes a person who knows what a snake looks like.
Not like this.
There's a couple of people who might have dropped the ball. One is the art design team, who usually draw up 2-D drawings of the characters they want to make for the film. These drawings get handed off to modelers, who then "sculpt" the characters in 3-D on the computer. Their finished product is the gray-clay-looking models pictured in the previous entry.
The art team might have drawn a shitty snake, or the modeler may have bungled the attempt to create a 3-D model out of it or, considering the movie we're talking about, both of them were probably the same person, the director's nephew who just got out of animation school or something along those lines.
Sometimes the blame goes a bit farther up, as there is usually a chain of command that has to approve the art team's designs, as well as the resulting models. Here's a couple of widely reviled vehicle designs courtesy of Star Wars Episode I and Star Wars Episode III:
There's nothing wrong with the execution by the modeling team -- they are very well done and realistic-looking models of stupid vehicles. The drawings were shown to the art director and the VFX supervisor, and probably went straight to the director/producer -- I don't have time to look up who that was -- and he approved it.
Ang Lee's The Hulk is going to come up a lot, because it was a VFX abomination, but one of the biggest complaints was about the unrealistically bright green skin on the title character (Jennifer Connelly). People heap a lot of scorn on the VFX team from ILM (Lucasfilms' award-winning Industrial Light & Magic) for this, but what they don't know is that their original tests had more toned-down, realistic versions of the green Hulk skin, but when they showed them to the director -- again, I don't have time to look up who directed Ang Lee's The Hulk, but you can probably find it on IMDb -- he nixed it and said, "No, it needs to be more green!"
The director's word is law, so they have to do what he says, and now everyone thinks ILM's VFX team doesn't know what skin looks like. Now people think Rhythm & Hues' team (on 2008's The Incredible Hulk) is just smarter than them.
ILM's 2003 Hulk is on the left, obviously, and R&H's on the right.
The lesson is that if you have a director or art department with no taste, there is not a thing the dozens or hundreds of CG artists can do about it, except follow orders and make the awful things.
#5. Looks Like It Was Done in Photoshop or MS Paint
Well, while we are talking about Ang Lee's The Hulk, why not set your eyes on these beauties.
This scene actually happened in a big budget blockbuster done by ILM. Seriously, watch it. He really has that white outline around him and he really freezes in midair like he is in the end credits of an '80s sitcom, while the fire moves behind him.
I get that Ang Lee was trying to imitate the look of a comic book in the movie -- it's pretty clear from the millions of distracting, terrible split-screen effects he put in every other shot. Unfortunately, I don't think he understands that comic books have a lot of still poses because they are, you know, drawings, and not because comic book fans like all their action scenes to be a series of frozen poses. Comics fans are actually very happy about watching their heroes come off the paper and move around.
Another gem from the same movie:
Did you say to yourself, "That looks like a Photoshop filter"? Because it looks like a Photoshop filter. I think it might literally be one. I did not do anything to that image, it is a direct screenshot from a movie that cost $137 million to make. Have a closer look.
When you see this in a movie done by ILM or some otherwise respectable VFX house, there is only one explanation. The director has gone insane.
The director is always the final word on VFX, and this absolute power means they can take a group of professionals responsible for things like Jurassic Park and direct them to apply a Photoshop filter to a scene where Nick Nolte inhales gas from a vacuum hose. You usually don't see the consequences of such a drastic gap between a team's knowledge of VFX and a director's almost negative knowledge of the same because you usually don't take a guy who directs historical dramas about repressed societies and tales of longing and make him absolute dictator of a Marvel comic book movie.
(I assume for Brokeback Mountain, they reduced his level of input on VFX dramatically, because the sheep all look like sheep.)
But seeing the problem at its extreme in The Hulk kind of makes you think about how many other movies you might have been blaming the VFX team or "bad CG" in general for when the director or supervisor just happened to be an idiot.
#4. Characters Move Like They Are Floating or Spastic
I never watched Blade II, I've only been referred to it for "some of the worst CG ever," and those people did not steer me wrong. It's the herky-jerky animation in particular that really stands out, which obviously you can't see in a still photo, so you'll have to watch the clip (check out the beginning and 2:12):
The person to point and laugh at here is the animator. After the character has been designed and the modeler has built the model, it's the animator's job to move the model around and make it run or jump or have facial expressions or, in the case of Blade II, bend and snap erratically like an unevenly weighted slinky dog.
Blade II came out the year after Jurassic Park III (skip to about 1:30) ...
... which contained raptors that moved like real animals. But again, animation isn't a technology or budget thing. Things like gravity and mass and acceleration and human anatomy haven't changed for, I don't know, like 6,000 years, since the earth was created. People have understood how to re-create it through moving drawings since the beginning of the 20th century.
Being able to animate is like being able to draw. It's about observation, study and talent. Having a low budget might mean you get bad animation only in the sense that you can't hire good animators, but there's no computer magic to animating a back flip correctly, just a guy (or girl) who knows what a back flip looks and feels like. There are cheap one-man movies with amazing animation (that one got him hired by Pixar) and expensive blockbusters with beautifully rendered, but spastic, characters.
That's why I'm calling out Jumanji, even though it was made in 1995. That might excuse the monkeys' fur and faces looking fake, and them not blending well into the scene, but it doesn't explain why the monkey coming out of the store with a monitor looks like a stormtrooper from a 1930s newsreel:
While we're here, also enjoy some American Werewolf in Paris (try 5:14 to 5:29):
I know it's hard to focus on the bad animation when there are so many other things wrong with this clip, but if you watch it enough times you'll pick it out or maybe become suicidal, one or the other.
And finally, I don't have a video to link to, but maybe a screenshot of this Star Wars Episode I scene will bring the memories flooding back:
Just like money can't buy you good dialogue, it can't buy you natural animation either.


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quote: Also, is it just me, or are these new slew of cars dropping the horsepower ridiculously low? 74 hp on the combustion engine? My little plastic Kia Rio has enough trouble accelerating to highway speeds and it's around 104 hp.
quote: Toyotas recent problems have soured the brand for me
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quote: So... the patent situation right now is:A) Create something innovative and incredible that an entire industry must use = you are legally obligated to license it under FRAND terms.B) Patent something obvious = embargo all devices which make use of the concept.
quote: Nobody is obliged to seek FRAND status for any particular invention or patent, it is done wholly voluntarily. The reason a company might offer a design or patent for FRAND status is one based unsurprisingly on commercial calculation, if your design is adopted as a FRAND standard then it is likely that it's use will become widespread across your industry...
quote: But Tony, you're missing the fact that Apple refused to pay Motorola for its FRAND patents.
quote: Apple are currently taking legal action
quote: But Apple was never offered a patent under the FRAND system.
quote: Unlike what the uninformed Jason Dick says
quote: When I am stating facts
quote: Apple wanted to preserve their (very normal) right to challenge the validity of the patent in the first place, not a 'provision to later prove them invalid' - which is very misleading.
quote: Apple apparently made an offer to license the patent on FRAND terms going forward. But the matter was complicated by the fact that Apple's agreement included a clause that would allow it to try and have the patent invalidated if Motorola tried to seek damages for past infringement over and above the agreed FRAND rate. Apple is in fact contesting the validity of the patent in suit in another federal court in Germany. Obviously it doesn't want to have to pay for infringing a patent that might not be valid. Unfortunately, the issue of past infringement of standards-essential patents hasn't previously been addressed in the relevant cases in Germany. As Motorola's legal team successfully argued, if a patent is infringed without a valid license, there should be some punishment in the form of monetary compensation. While competition law may require patent holders to honor FRAND agreements and offer a license going forward, the court agreed that past infringement should be treated differently.
quote: No you don't - that's like saying let's agree to pay x amount of something, but wait till I rule it invalid so you get nothing period.
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Caving is a tricky business and takes a lot of preparation. In addition to arming yourself with coveralls, helmets, lights, ropes and supply of the good batteries, you have to be ready to do a fair amount of scrambling, stooping, crawling and squeezing through tight places. But in addition to its challenges, caving has its rewards when you uncover thousands of years of geologic history. Unfortunately, many of these subterranean museums have been vandalized. That's why veterans of the underground are tight-lipped about their location. Host Marianne Eaton joins members of the Vermont Cavers Association in Rutland County for a trip underground to explore one of Vermont's deep treasures.


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Today on "NewsOne Now[1]," Roland Martin got real about finances with "Washington Post" financial columnist, Michelle Singletary[2]. They talked about economic slavery and freedom.
"Debt makes you a slave," Singletary insisted. Many people, especially before the housing loan meltdown, thought they were wealthy because they could leverage lines of credit to buy material things, They had a rude awakening when their property values evaporated.
Bucking conventional wisdom, Singletary even cautioned listeners against taking on student loan debt they can't afford. Some may view it as "good debt," but you still need to factor it into the bigger picture of your financial health. Instead of trying to take on a lot of debt, "Make different choices, so the damage you do take on isn't as much," she warned.
Do you agree? Listen to the full exchange with Roland Martin below, before you decide, and tune in to "NewsOne Now" with Roland Martin weekdays at 10 a.m. EST.
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M&T Bank Corp. made the most government-backed small-business loans in Western New York during October, but Five Star Bank lent more money under the program.
A month into the federal government's 2013 fiscal year, Buffalo-based M&T posted 19 loans under the U.S. Small Business Administration's primary loan guarantee program, accounting for 36 percent of all loans in the district that includes both Buffalo and Rochester.
Five Star Bank, the main subsidiary of Warsaw-based Financial Institutions, came in second, with 13 loans; followed by Evans Bancorp's Evans Bank, with five; First Niagara Financial Group's First Niagara Bank, with four; and KeyCorp's KeyBank and Lyons National Bank, with three each.
But Five Star lent more dollars, with $3.61 million to M&T's $2.41 million. JPMorgan Chase & Co. was third in dollars, with a single loan for $1 million; followed by First Niagara, with $541,000; and KeyBank, with $500,000.
In all, 11 banks made 53 loans for $9.39 million under the SBA's 7(a) program, which provides government guarantees of up to 85 percent of the loan amount.
Additionally, M&T made three loans for $2.04 million under the agency's "504" program for purchases of real estate or other fixed assets. Bank of Castile also made a loan under that program, for $349,371, while Bank of America Corp. made a loan for $163,750.
By type of borrower, M&T made three loans for $860,000 in all to exporters, while Five Star lent $2.5 million to a single exporter. And M&T provided two loans totaling $141,000 to businesses owned by military veterans, while Five Star made one for $500,000 and the New York Business Development Corp. made one for $255,000.
Small-business lending activity has been somewhat lackluster nationwide since the financial crisis and subsequent recession began, with the exception of a period of about a year when federal economic-stimulus incentives – such as fee waivers and better terms – triggered a spike in lending through the SBA. That surge returned to low levels as soon as the incentives expired, as lenders remained reticent about extending credit, while small-business owners refrained from borrowing and putting themselves in debt because of economic uncertainty.
Conditions have improved, and banks say they are increasing small-business lending, as well as the availability of new products and services for small businesses in areas such as retirement plans, online banking and insurance sales.
In fact, 13 major U.S. banks, including M&T, collectively have increased their small-business lending so far this calendar year by more than $11 billion already – more than half of the industry's three-year commitment with the SBA, according to the Financial Services Roundtable, a trade group. M&T alone nearly quadrupled its commitment for this year, with $196 million in additional lending since last year.
But banks still aren't doing as good a job in serving their business customers as well as they do consumers, according to J.D. Power & Associates. The California-based market research firm found that satisfaction with banks among small businesses is much lower than for retail banking customers, despite the higher value that business customers offer to banks. M&T was ranked highest among local lenders in the study of 25 large banks nationwide, followed by Key, Citizens Financial Group and Bank of America, but M&T was also the only one ranked above the average.
Confidence among small-business owners is still languishing, according to surveys. Earlier this month, the National Federation of Independent Businesses said its survey found no new job creation among small companies in October.
"October, not unlike the last several months, proved to be another weak job creation month," said NFIB Chief Economist William C. Dunkelberg. "Pessimistic uncertainty within the small-business community continues to dampen hiring plans."
And a quarterly survey by Barlow Research Associates, a consulting firm specializing in the small-business market, found that optimism among small- and middle-market businesses has declined to the lowest point since late 2010, after an uptick earlier in the year. Pessimism is stronger among smaller companies, with $100,000 to $10 million in sales, particularly in the Northeast. And job and capital spending expectations are also weaker.
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The site allows you to enter your email
address and receive more information on the phone and its
availability. The site also notes
that the phone is coming April 29.
The Droid Incredible will pack quite a
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a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 8GB of internal storage (plus a microSD
slot for extra storage), an 8MP camera, 3.7-inch AMOLED display
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HTC, the maker of the Droid Incredible,
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smartphones in the future – HTC's hardware prowess and the
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adversary for Apple's headline-grabbing iPhone.
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Verizon has just made the Droid
Incredible official. The device will be priced at $199.99 after a
$100 mail-in rebate. The Droid Incredible can be pre-ordered online starting April 19. You can catch the full press release here.
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on November 12, 2012 - 11:51 AM
Some years back, I was at the gym on the eve of a day that had become pretty special to me. In another row of lockers, I heard two guys talking and one asked the other if he had the day off. "You doing anything on Memorial Day?" he asked.
I intruded just long enough to add a correction. "It's Veterans Day," I said, "not Memorial Day."
A disembodied voice came back, "Whatever, dude."
Whatever indeed, I thought.
For some, Veterans Day is just a day off; a day away from the classroom or the office. For others, it's a trip to the mall and shopping special sales. For others, it's the sound of little flags snapping in the wind as accompaniment to the mournful wail of "taps." After all, the day is set aside to bring the unseen and unknown sacrifices of those who have answered a call most don't even hear into the forefront of our collective national conscience. It is good that we do that as a nation. We all need to honor even if we can't recall, relate or remember.
But for those who do recall a past of blood, death and fire, it really is a day of "whatever, dude." For those who have endured the pain of war and inflicted that pain on those our country called the enemy, a national day of reckoning is all well and good.
The truth is, however, that each combat soldier has his own personal "Veterans Day." Those days are not celebrated or shared. They recur in the mind on that special anniversary; that indelibly etched day when the reality of war burns its psychic scar onto the mind, body and soul.
It could be the day when war claimed a friend. It could be the day when the pressure of your finger on the trigger took the life of another human being. It could be the day when you felt the white hot searing of metal tearing into your flesh.
Whatever it was, it was yours and yours alone: to remember, to relive and to revile. Verily, every day of the year is probably a personal Veterans Day for those who have walked in a world of fear and loneliness and sudden death.
Our patriotic holidays are collective. On those days, we hope that we can impress the nation with some hint of what it really means to have served. It's a well-intentioned gesture that usually falls short. We can't really know what it is like to risk life and limb simply because your country deems it necessary.
So the nation will bow its collective head while the flags snap and the bugle sounds. But when the last notes have drifted away over the fields, the heads will come up and life will go on.
Personal Veterans Days are much different. They don't involve crowds or speeches. They are not celebrated, but rather are endured alone, in silence, with a tear and a drink to keep one company in the shadow of remembrance.
"All is well, safely rest … God is nigh."
Stephen T. Banko III served two combat tours of duty in Vietnam and has worked in government service for more than 30 years.


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COLUMBIANA - The city's mayor doesn't agree with a statement made by the man seeking his position in the primary election.
David Spatholt said councilman and candidate for mayor Bryan Blakeman's comment that the city hired Lance Willard as manager over 25 others who scored "higher" on the civil service commission test isn't correct.
Blakeman had said at a recent council meeting he didn't agree with the hiring based on the fact that Willard had not even passed the scoring test.
Each applicant was scored based on their experience, education and other criteria, and only those with a score of 10 or 12 were considered for the position.
Willard was one of roughly 70 to apply and competed for the job with one other city employee, police Chief Tim Gladis.
Spatholt had previously said Gladis and Willard were given interviews because they deserved that right as city employees.
He said Blakeman's statement that 25 people "scored higher" isn't correct, because none of the applicants were ranked.
"He made it sound like they ranked them. They just scored them," he said.
He explained that once the civil service commission scored the applicants, the resumes were forwarded to the selection advisory committee, which consisted of himself, councilman Lowell Schloneger, (now former) councilman Bob Bieshelt and civil service commission member Rick Noel.
The resumes were then narrowed down and nine people were chosen for interviews, he said.
In the meantime, however, two of the nine accepted jobs elsewhere, leaving seven applicants for interviews.
"When we were done interviewing we couldn't come to a conclusion and we brought it down to three names and we had a second interview with those three ... he (Blakeman) was only involved in the second interview," Spatholt said.
Blakeman confirmed he was only present for the second interview. He said he knew there was difficulty coming to an agreement.
He said it was Ted Andrzejewski who was being considered during an executive session on Jan. 22 and that council had agreed, by 5-1 to hire him, but the decision was not finalized.
He and councilman James King and Bieshelt were shocked and disappointed when Andrzejewski was not hired on Jan. 29. The vote was split 3-3 among council with Schloneger, Tom Ferguson and Mary Calinger against, and Spatholt casting the deciding vote to go with Willard instead.
Schloneger has said more than once that there was never a consensus and that statements made "by some on council" do not represent the entire council.
When asked to respond to Schloneger's comment, Blakeman said it was true because it was Schloneger who refused to compromise during the Jan. 22 executive session.
"I said, 'Let's remove Bob's pick, remove Lowell's pick and rally around Noel's suggestion,'" Blakeman said.
His reasoning was because Noel does no hiring within the city and "wouldn't have a stake in it."
Blakeman said recently that he stands by his comment, and reiterated again that Willard wasn't in the group of applicants who scored a 10 or 12, and also wasn't even in the group who scored slightly below that.
Noel disagreed.
"There was no ranking. We took some of the categories they (council) were looking at and gave them (applicants) some points based on that. There was no ranking," he said.
He went on to say that the scoring system wasn't even a requirement for the hiring, but was simply a "tool" used to help narrow down the selection process.
With 70-some applications, council wouldn't have the time to interview that many people, he noted.
The scoring system was "just to give us a feeling for what we felt that the city was looking for. I don't think it was the only criteria .... The scoring was just a way to give an initial first blush look at how the council may want to look at the information," he said.
He declined to verify whether he had suggested Andrzejewski during the process.
Civil Service Commission member Patricia LaLonde also declined to comment.


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Individuals Freed from Modern Slavery Care Kit Collection
Human trafficking is one of the largest criminal industries in the world. It is also a rapidly growing problem in the United States. Each year, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children in America are subject to forced labor and sexual exploitation.
The CWU Center for Leadership and Community Engagement (CLCE) is asking everyone to help survivors of human trafficking by donating care kit items Feb. 20 through March 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student Union and Recreation Center (SURC) tabling area on the first floor.
Useful items to donate include: shampoo, conditioner, soap, lotion, shavers, cotton swabs, tampons, toothbrushes and toothpaste.
All collected items will go to Juneteenth Central Washington and the Genesis Project, both of which are organizations dedicated to helping survivors of human trafficking.
For more information contact the Center for Leadership and Community Engagement (CLCE) at 509-963-1850, firstname.lastname@example.com or www.cwu.edu/leadership-engage.
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