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By Zach Gase
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The Seneca County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution to approve projects and amounts for the Community Development Block Grant at a meeting Tuesday.
The county had its second public hearing Tuesday, and the commissioners finalized details involving CDBG applications.
For the county's Allocation Program in which the county is receiving $114,000 to use on up to three projects the commissioners selected projects in Fostoria, Bloomville and Bettsville.
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In other business, the commissioners received four bids for the Chip Seal Program for 2013. The engineer's estimate for the program was $616,926, and the lowest bid was $534,916.14 and the highest bid was $572,021.12.
The bids were referred to Zimmerman.
In new business, the board approved:
A supplemental appropriation of $12,000 for the ambulance service fund for 2013.
A supplemental appropriation of $44,530.66 for the Bascom construction fund.
A supplemental appropriation of $120 for the poll worker training grant fund.
A supplemental appropriation of $1,030 for the annexation petition fund for 2013.
A supplemental appropriation of $410 for the recorder equipment fund for 2013.
A supplemental appropriation of $150 for the delinquent real estate tax fund.
An appropriation adjustment of $120.74 for the FY13 community corrections fund.
A resolution setting 10:30 a.m. June 27 at the Commissioners' Office as date, time and location to receive sealed bid for the SEN-CR14-1.69 superstructure replacement box beams.
Fostoria is to receive $9,500 to install handicapped accessible doors in the city's municipal building. Bloomville is to receive $40,000 to make street, curb, sidewalk and drainage improvements. Bettsville is allotted $47,500 for a culvert replacement.
The county has also applied for two competitive set-aside grants Critical Infrastructure and Neighborhood Revitalization worth up to $300,000 each.
The commissioners selected street improvements in New Riegel for the Critical Infrastructure grant and street improvements, sidewalk improvements and a demolition in Fostoria for the Neighborhood Revitalization grant.
Also at the meeting, the commissioners discussed helping to facilitate an open meeting for Bascom residents who are looking for contractors to hook up their homes to the new sewage system.
County Engineer Mark Zimmerman said at a previous commissioners' meeting that landowners could pay up to $5,000 for inspections and installation fees.
Commissioner Fred Zoeller said this meeting could connect homeowners with contractors and potentially save the residents money.
Commissioner Holly Stacy said the open house for the plant that Zimmerman previously spoke about could be a good time for the meeting.
Zoeller also said Seneca Industrial and Economic Development Corp.is searching for a replacement for President and CEO Rich Focht, who is retiring at the end of the year.


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If the super computers that some blame for Wall Street's recent wild swings were used to trade aircraft, it's likely they would be programmed to buy right now. But aircraft purchases and sales still occur the old-fashioned way, which can involve deal-stalling high emotions and conflicting personalities.
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If your idea of vacationing in Hawaii includes staying in a Honolulu high-rise and roaming through the "lifestyle" shops lining the Waikiki Beach Walk, allow me to suggest an alternate vision: exploring an entrancing island called Lãna'i, only 20 minutes from the glitz and the gaggle.
October 1, 2011
Each of the major companies in the fractional-share business claims to be number one at something, the point being that it is the smartest choice for you. We investigated some of these claims–all of which we found on the providers' Web sites–to see how well they stand up to scrutiny.
October 1, 2011
One of the first things you hear about when you begin using business aviation in the U.S. is the mysterious but important distinction between Part 91 and Part 135 operations. Many people still think about the difference in simplistic terms: Part 91–good; Part 135–bad. The facts are considerably more complicated.
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You can get it at the coffee shop, on your smartphone, even in coach on an airliner. So why is it so difficult to get Wi-Fi on the jet you charter? One reason is that most chartered aircraft still lack broadband access.
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Even many of the world's savviest travelers have yet to discover pristine Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, two sleepy but thoroughly enchanting islands 15 miles south of Newfoundland. They swirl in fog and mystery and boast the anomaly of being France's last foothold in North America.
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Providing you with the best information available on business jet travel is by far our most important goal here at BJT. As we work our way through meeting after meeting, draft after draft and plan after plan, what motivates us is helping you get the most out of private air transport.
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As the PC half of a mixed marriage, I usually don't pay attention to Apple products. So I was nonplussed to find myself harrumphing along with so many others after the debut of the iPad in April of last year. "Doesn't do anything any other tablet can't do," I thought.
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Quality Education in the Benedictine Tradition
Saint Vincent College Department of Criminology, Law, and Society will host a Mock Trial Closing Arguments Competition for students from eight Westmoreland County high schools from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, December 7 at the Fred M. Rogers Center. They will present closing arguments to a panel of judges for a fictitious legal case that will be decided by a volunteer jury. Area attorneys and non-attorneys from the Saint Vincent community will serve as judges. The program is under the direction of Bruce A. Antkowiak, counsel to Saint Vincent College, professor of law, and director of the Criminology, Law, and Society Program. "The purpose of the competition is to provide a realistic setting for students who may be considering a career in law or criminology to practice their legal presentation skills, to observe other top students who participate in mock trial programs, and to have an opportunity to meet and learn from some of the area's top legal experts," Dr. Antkowiak explained. "We look forward to welcoming other students, parents and interested area residents to Saint Vincent for this special educational program." The competition is free and open to the public. For information, contact Dr. Antkowiak at 724 805-2940.


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Week after week of consistently low scores haven't spelled the end of the road for Dancing with the Stars competitors Andy Dick and Sharna Burgess. But is their time finally up?
The actor and his pro partner scored just 17 points for their rumba on Monday night's all-Latin show, putting them at the bottom of the leader board below soap star Ingo Rademacher and his partner, Kym Johnson. Burgess even spoke out in anger against the judges for their harsh critiques.
But their fans have saved Team Dick before. Did they do it again? Read on to find out who was sent home on Tuesday's elimination show ...
The three couples in jeopardy were Ingo and Kym, Andy and Sharna and Jacoby Jones and Karina Smirnoff, who earned 27 points for a salsa judge Len Goodman called "first rate."
Len was right – Jacoby and Karina were declared safe. The couple leaving the competition are Andy and Sharna.
"It's been the best," Andy said through tears. "The fact that we're here on week seven is amazing."
Though he was emotional and acknowledged that his stint on DWTS has been very meaningful in his recovery from addiction, Andy still cracked a joke, teasing Carrie Ann Inaba for giving him a score of five points on Monday.
And his partner was also grateful for the experience: "I couldn't have a had a better first season as a pro," she said.
Dancing with the Stars: Who's Heading Home?
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Distinguished educator Judy Elliott's plan for improving the Buffalo Public Schools reads something like an indictment of top school administrators for the consistent failure of the system.
Central office administrators are out of touch with what happens in the classrooms, she wrote, and they rarely leave City Hall to visit schools. They either ignore requests for help from the schools or fail to respond adequately.
And decision-making for everything from staffing to budgeting has been happening in City Hall – not in the schools, as it should be, Elliott wrote in her report, which the state Education Department released to The Buffalo News on Wednesday.
"Buffalo City School District is a centralized system that provides little school autonomy," she wrote. "The structure of governance has historically yielded poor student outcomes. Priority school principals uniformly voice that they are disconnected, unguided and unsupported due to a lack of service and support from the central office."
State Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. formally approved Elliott's plan in a letter dated Tuesday. He noted that the district has until the end of October to submit a district comprehensive improvement plan, which is expected to incorporate Elliott's recommendations.
If the district does not incorporate her recommendations, district officials will have to explain why. The improvement plan is subject to King's approval.
Elliott's report focuses largely on the district's 28 "priority schools" – the newest designation for schools among the 5 percent lowest-performing in the state.
She articulates the problems that plague the district and outlines 39 steps designed to address those problems. Most of those steps involve providing training, reviewing data and providing written communications regarding specific issues.
Superintendent Pamela C. Brown said that she collaborated with Elliott on the report and that the two of them drew many similar conclusions after talking with school principals and others in the district.
"I think we're transitioning from a former approach to a different approach," Brown said. "We are acting on what we learned in our previous experience helps a district improve. … The things identified in the action plan are things that need to be addressed. Definitely, we are focusing on providing support more at the school level. Definitely, we are making data more accessible to people throughout the district."
Elliott's plan calls for a restructuring of the district to move decision- making out of City Hall and into individual schools – and to reform the central office to make that office more functional.
One of the key goals in the plan calls for establishing "a coherent, talented leadership team and organization at central office that is accountable; data-driven; and able to provide immediate, responsive service and support to priority schools."
Elliott points out that budgeting in the district is centralized, meaning in part that federal funds targeted to help certain students often do not follow those students to their particular schools. Her report also found that student placement is a major concern. Some schools end up with "inordinately high numbers" of students who are not native English speakers – and those schools are unable to provide those students with the support they need.
"At the time of this report, there was an absence of coherent, consistent communication to schools," Elliott wrote. "Schools report they do not know whom to call or email for support, and when they do, it is reported that often there is no response."
She said criterion schools – those that require students to meet certain admissions requirements – do not have any seats reserved for open enrollment. Because of that, priority schools end up with a disproportionate number of students who lack credits, have lower skills and often have behavioral problems.
Central office administrators rarely use data to inform their decision-making, Elliott wrote. Often, their use of data is limited to sending principals a link to their building's data on the state Education Department website.
Elliott also found:
• No principal meetings were scheduled for 2011-12, and there generally is "a lack of written direction and communication to principals." However, a plan is being developed to conduct principal meetings this year.
• "There is little evidence of support and supervision of classroom instruction." Professional development sessions are not aligned with the needs of each school. There is no method in place for schools to share best practices.
• In some priority schools, there is "a lack of appropriate services available to students with disabilities."
• Career and technical programs in the district are underenrolled.
• Principals have historically not been involved in decisions regarding who will be hired to fill teaching or administrative positions in their schools. Brown recently told principals that will change.
• Principals do not have "the autonomy or resources to tailor expenditures to the needs of their schools."
• Student absenteeism is a pervasive problem that requires a multi-agency effort at the city and county levels to effectively address it.
Elliott based her plan on visits to each of the priority schools; conversations with central office administrators; and a series of meetings, calls and email exchanges with the superintendent from Aug. 6 through Sept. 20.
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What do you get when you mix the temptations of Las Vegas, plenty of alcohol and seven strangers? The new season of The Real World!
Meet Nany, Adam, Michael, Naomi, Dustin, Leroy and Heather. These seven strangers have been picked to live in a suite in Sin City's Hard Rock Hotel and Casino for season 25 of MTV's trailblazing reality show, the network confirms to PEOPLE.
"Everything in Vegas is on a grander scale, and that comes through loud and clear this season," MTV says in a statement. "Romance among the cast members is at an all time high, and as secrets each cast member has brought with them are revealed, those relationships will be challenged and tested."
An exclusive first look at the new season of The Real World: Las Vegas, which will premiere in March, shows all the fun – and drama! – you'd expect from the city: pool parties, nightclubs, gambling, sex, fights, and destroyed hotel rooms.
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Welcome to New York: Uptown Brasserie
By Marcus Samuelsson | May 31, 2013
When it comes to food while traveling, we should never compromise. When traveling the globe for work or pleasure, we end up eating at some of the best places—some people even seeking out certain destinations because of their cuisine. Yet why can't airports offer an amazing meal while you are en route to your vacation? Why are we forced to eat only fast food or prepackaged sandwiches when we are on business trips with three, four or five different destinations? Not only have we come to expect that airport food will be overpriced, tasteless and junk, but we have accepted it. The new terminal at JFK is bent on breaking that mold.


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on November 16, 2012 - 9:45 PM
LOCKPORT – City Judge Thomas M. DiMillo fined the owner of a two-unit dwelling $10,000 Thursday for building code violations.
CGB Construction of Palmer Road, Ransomville, never sent anyone to appear in court to contest the charges that it was illegally allowing tenants to live on the third floor of 318 Church St. City codes bar third-story occupancy of a residential property unless there is a fire escape.
Deputy Corporation Counsel Matthew E. Brooks said an attorney for the mortgage holder on the property came to court once or twice, but no one from CGB ever showed. DiMillo said the landlord was in effect convicted by default and had been in violation for at least 10 months.


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With an unknown number of minnows, smallmouth bass and other species of fish killed because of MarkWest Energy's natural gas liquids spill last month, cleanup of the site continues.
"We are making progress with the necessary repairs and are on track to begin operations of the line in the next few weeks," said MarkWest spokesman Kevin Hawkins.
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Kathy Cosco said her department cited MarkWest for "conditions not allowable in the waters of the state." She said it initially was difficult for officials with her office to fully examine the Rocky Run area in Northern Wetzel County where the liquid was released, noting the area was filled with "vapors."
West Virginia Division of Natural Resources District 1 Fishery Biologist Frank Jernejcic said an unknown number of fish died in Rocky Run, a tributary of Fish Creek, as a result of the spill.
"We never will know exactly how many were killed," said Jernejcic, noting the DNR will use the wildlife composition of a comparable "reference stream" to estimate the number of dead fish.
Denver-based MarkWest processes and transports dry methane natural gas, as well as liquids - such as propane, ethane, butane, pentanes - for producers such as Magnum Hunter Resources, Antero Resources, Gulfport Energy, Noble Energy and several others.
MarkWest has invested $2.2 billion into pipelines, processing and fractionation plants in the Utica shale area of Eastern Ohio. The company also processes gas in West Virginia at the Majorsville site in Marshall County, as well as the Mobley site in Wetzel County.
Cosco said it appears a landslide affected the pipeline, which then ruptured. She said the spill involved "wet gas" or a "liquid gas" and that many natural gas liquids - byproducts of natural gas drilling such as propane, ethane, butane, pentanes and others - can vaporize when their liquid forms come in contact with water.
"MarkWest continues to remediate the site in a controlled, measured manner with full transparency and cooperation of the regulatory agencies," said Robert McHale, another spokesman for MarkWest, when asked about the spill.
McHale said the company has removed the spilled flammable liquid from the broken pipeline, purifying it with nitrogen. He also said MarkWest has installed erosion control devices to prevent any further slippage.
Cosco said the pipeline remains out of service as MarkWest tries to move in to clean up the slip.
"The slip is in a challenging location, so MarkWest has been removing affected soils from the slip and stockpiling them on a lined area for remediation," she said.
Cosco said the flow of Rocky Run is being pumped around the slip material, which is partially obstructing the stream channel. She said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved this activity.
"They obtained approval from Division of Water and Waste Management for a water treatment system to remove contaminants from water running out of the slip material into the stream," she added.


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And that's no easy task, considering one of the battling divas is wearing a blonde and pink wig.
The night's most memorable contestant was Lazaro Arbos. As he entered the audition room, one thing became immediately clear: the 21-year-old from Naples, Fla., had a severe stutter. Arbos, who emigrated from Cuba when he was 10, told viewers that he had few friends growing up due to his speech impediment.
But something magical happened when he began to sing. His stutter vanished and he gave a moving performance of "Bridge Over Troubled Water." As the judges unanimously put him through to Hollywood, Arbos dissolved into tears.
Equally inspiring was Mariah Pulice, a 19-year-old restaurant hostess from Darien, Ind. The last two years have been difficult for Pulice, who told judges she was recovering from anorexia. "If there was no music," she said, "I would not be alive." After singing the Beatles' "Let it Be," the judges were unanimous in their praise. "I really, really, really felt that song coming from you," said Minaj.
Carey agreed: "You touched me," she said. "I know what it's like to have to sing through tears. I'm proud of you."
But it wasn't all drama and emotion. Minaj started a baffling trend of asking handsome singers if they had a girlfriend. (She also managed to charm the shirts off of a couple of them, although you get the feeling they were happy to show their abs on national TV.) "You have a hole in your pants," she told one contestant. "Why are you looking?" he shot back.
And poor Keith Urban. Sitting between Minaj and Carey, he found himself in the crossfire. "I feel like a scratching post," he said at one point, before repeatedly banging his head on the table.
The judges found a lot of talent in Chicago. All told, 46 contestants were put through to Hollywood. The competition will head to Charlotte, N.C., next Wednesday.


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on November 8, 2012 - 7:47 PM
LOCKPORT – A Bewley Parkway man who pleaded guilty to his third alcohol-related driving charge in two years was accused Thursday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas of minimizing the extent of his drinking problem.
"You still don't get it," Farkas told Brian C. Lenhart, 25, at his sentencing for felony driving while intoxicated. Lenhart had told a probation officer in a presentencing interview that he thought he might have some problem with alcohol.
"Honey, you are an alcoholic. You have a real drinking problem," Farkas told Lenhart. Because she didn't want Lenhart to lose his job, Farkas sentenced him to four months of weekends in jail, five years' probation, 60 hours of community service, and fines and fees totaling $5,520.
Lenhart pleaded guilty to the felony for a June 1 arrest in the Town of Lockport. He had been convicted of DWI in that town April 26.


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In online gaming, "randoms" refer to random people in a server who aren't your friends, clan- or guildmates.
"Yesterday I was playing with randoms. They didn't use voice chat so we lost."
מאת Compizfox 30 באוקטובר, 2013
A term used to define a new person. The new term for noob, generally used by online gamers and in gaming forums. On D2jsp.com, a random is a person thats new and only +1's topics for posts. This also can define users that are not liked by other more popular users, TheElite, JUVAHOLICS woof woof , and Spdwar can be randoms on Pvp east.
Lajo is such a random for locking all those threads
מאת GhostNYC 12 בפברואר, 2008
That random condom you have in your wallet, glove box or your room, with no idea where you got it, or how long it has been there.
Person 1: "Dude, why is there a cherry condom in here?"
Person 2: "I dunno, it's a ran-dom."
Person 2: "I dunno, it's a ran-dom."
מאת captaincauliflower 23 באפריל, 2010
(adj.) capricious, impossible to understand logically, vain or foolish. Often used to describe a choice no one would prefer, if he or she was thinking clearly.
Friend #1: What? Your high-school English teacher made your class study King Lear for your Shakespeare play and learn all about old age and inheritance struggles? Hey instead, you could have been reading Romeo and Juliet and learning about teenage stuff like bleeding love, unreasonable parents, irresponsible advisors, and roving gangs of testosterone-fuelled hotheads!
Friend #2: Well yeah, her choice was pretty random...we told her so, but she wouldn't listen to us! It was a long two months....
Friend #2: Well yeah, her choice was pretty random...we told her so, but she wouldn't listen to us! It was a long two months....
מאת liv4mntns 16 בספטמבר, 2009
MGO term = Randoms refer to when making a survival or tournament team in Metal Gear Online and you play with people who you and your fellow teammates are not familiar/don't know anything about...
Aw man I keep getting owned in tourny when i play with randoms. Let's recruit some people for our clan so that we play with people we know
מאת vertoxz 14 ביוני, 2009
irrelevant, unexpected, unusual. or for a more technical definition, selected on no particular attributes.
i can't think of any. here, i will insert the word random.
מאת four, five 5 במרץ, 2006
Something irrelevant. Randomness or surrealness can be humurous. Some beleive using "random" words such as CHEESE or CHOCOLATE MILK is funny.
not random: flying sandwiches!!!!!
random: a boy in orange suspenders marches up to you at lunch, grabs a hostess cupcake from his tray and mashes it in his eye.
random: a boy in orange suspenders marches up to you at lunch, grabs a hostess cupcake from his tray and mashes it in his eye.
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PEPPER PIKE - Tiffany Buchinger and Danielle McQuade each turned in double-doubles Tuesday as Tiffin beat Ursuline, 29-28, 25-15, 25-20.
Buchinger tossed up 43 assists and came up with 11 digs for the Dragons (7-12) while McQuade doubled up with 14 kills and 14 digs.
Mohawk graduate Maureen Kurtz hammered 10 kills and Sabine Stadler lined nine.
Jordan Jenkins chipped in a match-high 24 digs and Molly Warren registered nine.
TU loses grip on golf crown
ELYRIA - Tiffin led after the first two rounds and halfway through the third, but just couldn't hold on.
Grand Valley State and Ferris State's golf teams charged past the Dragons Tuesday to go 1-2 at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic League Championships at Elyria Country Club.
Grand Valley State trimmed 13 strokes off its second-day score and 33 of the opening round tally on the final day, using a 278 to finish with an 880.
The runner-up Bulldogs clipped TU, 889-891, using a 295-300 advantage on the last day to drop the Dragons to third.
Just 10 strokes separated TU's golfers.
Andrew Bolinger's 223 (74-80-69) led the Dragons, with Tyler Maranville (77-72-75) carding a 224.
Luke Schlicher (81-68-77) had a 226, Jon Klein (74-72-83) turned in a 229 and John Tidenburg (78-76-79) added a 233.
HU rally falls short
ADA - Heidelberg rallied from two games down to draw even in its Ohio Athletic Conference match against Ohio Northern. However, the Polar Bears took the decisive fifth game for a 25-14, 28-26, 21-25, 20-25, 15-11 victory.
Heidelberg (16-8, 4-3 OAC) had four players hit double figures in kills led by Marian Bevington who slammed 18. Amber Welfle had 16, Jacki Street 13 and Jamie Kluding 10. Rachel Ferguson dished out 37 assists while Calvert graduate Alexa Frank added 23. Defensively, Tessa Benanzer had 28 digs. Kluding chipped in 13.
ONU's Bascom helps beat 'Berg
Nate Bascom found the back of the net twice and assisted on a third Ohio Northern goal as the Polar Bears came into Mayer Field, and left with a 5-0 victory. Keegan Ross, Jeremy Barnes and Stephen Perkins also added goals. Ross, Barnes and Cameron Johnson tallied assists as Ohio Northern (15-2, 6-0) remained unbeaten in Ohio Athletic Conference play.
Heidelberg (8-6-1, 3-2-1 OAC) managed just one shot against Ohio Northern. Matthew Stevens made three saves in goal.


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Thursday, July 4, 2013
For what seemed liked the 100th consecutive day of rain in Charleston, the "Camp Can Do" Tuesday morning schedule at St. Christopher was interrupted. The 35 campers participating in outdoor festivities ran for shelter when the next perpetual batch of showers rolled through.
The children, ages 6-17, didn't seem to mind. Smiles didn't fade. Laughter didn't subside.
I pouted. I tried to look for the Space Needle, because surely this must be Seattle.
The campers' attitudes, ones of resiliency, were a minority throughout Charleston. I suppose they're used to being different from the majority.
Camp Can Do is a week-long experience for burn-injured child victims. They played in a mud pit, went kayaking, tried their luck at fishing and went to the Seabrook Island beach every day.
It's a chance for them to let their guards down. "The first day, they're shy," said counselor and former camper Kelsey Normandin. "But, by the second day, they're sharing their stories and having a great time."
Normandin, 20, was severely burned on her upper right arm, chest and underneath her chin when she was 2 years old. She said she was trying to get Ramen Noodles out of a pot of hot water. Normandin had six surgeries in 10 days at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Understandably, she remembers nothing of the ordeal. She attended Camp Can Do annually until she reached the cut-off age.
Then she became a counselor. Now, she's making plans to attend MUSC Nursing School. "It definitely gives kids a sense of comfort knowing that they don't have to hide anything," Normandin said. "They talk to each other about their stories. I know I used to feel (self conscious). Coming here really helped."
When you're young, being different is considered a path not worth traveling. Kids can be brutal. Some of the campers had visible scars and others didn't. Let's clear up any disagreements right now: they're all beautiful.
Wendell and Clarissa Lesueur, brother and sister counselors, are like Normandin. They both were campers years ago. Wendell was part of the first year's group in 1997. Clarissa came in 2003.
At 9 years old, Wendell threw a gas can on a fire pile in an accident that left his face burned and his younger sister's right arm and right side of her stomach burned. "She used to be afraid of fireworks," he said. "Now, she's good."
This is the first year both have returned to Camp Can Do as counselors. Wendell lives in Fayetteville, N.C. but said he hopes to make this an annual visit to help with the camp. "With me being burned on my face, I was shy because I felt out of place more than anything," he said. "But at the same time, I just felt like this is a place where you can have fun. Everything is taken care of."
Clarissa expressed similar sentiments. "It's called Camp Can Do to let kids know they can do anything they put their minds to," she said. "They're not singled out, because everybody here is burned."
The Lesueurs had other motivation to make a difference. Firefighters from all over the state also assist Camp Can Do and develop personal relationships with the kids. Louis Mulkey, one of the fallen firefighters from Charleston 9, became close with the Lesueurs. Mulkey was a Summerville High School assistant football and basketball coach.
"Even outside of camp, we stayed in touch," Wendell said. "I wanted to come back and be that role model."
He paused for a second. Firefighters ate ice cream with campers less than 20 feet away. "Just like he was to me," he finished.
Campers attend the five-day camp at no charge. You can't put a price tag on smiles anyway. Funds are provided by the MUSC Children's Hospital Burned Children's Fund. The firefighters, counselors, MUSC Children's Hospital staff – they're all volunteers.
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Creating a patch
From Joomla! Documentation
An important part of creating a patch for Joomla! is ensuring that you're managed to create everything properly. As a standard all patches should be created in the root of your Joomla! instance. This way when we come to test it we don't need to work out what directory the file you're trying to change is in or modify your patch file to work properly on our local system. This can be a problem because if your patch only changes one file, there may be one file with that name. For example we recently received a patch for a file called banner.php. There are five different files in Joomla! called banner.php, so we then need to try and work out which file is being referenced in this particular case.
Creating a patch on the command line
For Linux/Mac users, using the command line is often the quickest way of creating a patch. Depending on how many changes you've made to your local install you might have a few different changes. The best method for avoiding this is to have a clean Joomla! check out from SVN and then make your changes to this. Then in the root of the Joomla! instance, execute the following command:
svn diff > file.patch
You need to ensure that only changes you have made are in the file and not any other irrelevant changes. If you can't do this you should specify the files that you changed to be part of the patch:
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Make sure you are in the Joomla! root directory, not in the directory of the files (you will see folders like libraries, administrator, plugins, components, modules, etc).
Creating a patch using Eclipse
If you've got Subclipse and Eclipse you can check out a new project from the Joomla! SVN (which ever branch/release is relevant to your bug) and then use this to create a patch file. Keep in mind that by default Eclipse creates patches that includes the entire path to the files, which isn't what we want. Presuming you created a new project using the checkout from SVN and used the root of a Joomla! instance, you should be able to create a valid patch easily.
To create a patch, select the files you have changed and then right click on one of them and select "Team > Create Patch". The first screen asks you where you want to put the file: the clipboard, into the filesystem or in the workspace. Typically you'll want to create it somewhere in the filesystem. I personally use a patch folder where I keep all of the patches that I make. You should also notice at the bottom of this screen the list of files that will be included in this patch. If you have included files you didn't want to, you can deselect them here. If you are missing a file from this list you will need to reselect your files and add them.
Once you have worked out where you are going to put the patch and that you've selected the right files, click "Next" to continue. If you click "Finish" here your patch will be created incorrect so it is important that you click "Next" here. In this area select "Project" and then click "Finish" to create the patch. Doing this will ensure that your patch file is created properly.
Creating a patch using NetBeans
You can use NetBeans IDE to create patch files too. There's a video that explains how to create a patch for Joomla! with SVN: http://www.vimeo.com/11981229.
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5 Reasons Humanity Desperately Wants Monsters to Be Real
You believe in monsters, whether you know it or not -- and I'm not even talking about the two-thirds of Americans who believe in demons and demon possession, or all of us who for a couple of weeks thought the Miami cannibal attack was the beginning of a zombie apocalypse (deny it all you want, but I know how hard it was to find shotgun shells that week). No, I'm talking about the monsters that live in your brain.
They are the reason we go see scary movies, and why we obsess over the most gruesome, face-eating news stories. These monsters are an important part of who we are and, by the way, are quite a bit more terrifying than the thing you only thought lived under your bed when you were a kid.
Note: I have written a novel that addresses this subject in the most ludicrous way possible and it is on shelves now. Also note that if you click your mouse anywhere on this page, there's a good chance you'll accidentally order it.
So to understand our obsession with monsters, we have to start with the fact that ...
#5. We All Have at Least One Category of People We Think of as Monsters
Let's say you are convicted of a crime and the judge sentences you to be parachuted naked into a populated area of someone else's choosing. It can be anywhere on Earth, but in the name of leniency, the judge allows you to pick one city or region where you won't be dropped. What's your pick? What's the one place you know you'd have no chance of getting out of alive? Detroit? Somalia? Think about it, we'll come back to it in a moment.
So, if you picture Japan in your mind, this is what you see:
Right down to the bunny ears. Don't lie. But if we were in 1943 America, you'd see this:
And that's not a person. That's a monster. That thing doesn't have a mother. It doesn't feel human compassion. It's not even the same species, and we shouldn't feel bad about incinerating a couple hundred thousand of them with bombs, any more than we'd feel bad about fumigating some cockroaches. I know that poster looks like ancient history to you, and that your grandparents look very naive for buying into it. But here's what I grew up with:
Even his hair is a weapon.
That was what a "Russian" was in my mind -- cold, emotionless, violent, soulless, inhuman. As a school kid in 1984, I'd have pushed the nuclear button myself. I had seen Red Dawn, I knew it was us or them. So let's go back to our question: What's the one part of the world you don't want to drop naked into? Maybe the darkest, poorest parts of Appalachia, where the inbred Deliverance rapists live?
"Buck up, friend. This is an important part of our culture!"
Or maybe it's the most brutal parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where (as we saw in District 9) there are gangs of AK-47-wielding cannibal warlords:
Fortunately for you, you won't be dropped into any of those places. No, the judge has decided you'll be shoved into one of the radical Muslim anti-American demonstrations going on right now:
If you plead guilty now, you will be allowed to tape up your genitals.
Now, I'm not calling you a bigot, that's not the point of this. It's not your fault that you're scared of all of those people, and that you think they lack any kind of human empathy or rationality. It's not their fault that, in many cases, they're equally scared of you, or what you represent. For you see ...
#4. Hate Gives Us a High Similar to Cocaine
There is a scene in the movie Pulp Fiction that explains almost every terrible thing happening in the news today. And it's not the scene where Ving Rhames shoots that guy's dick off. It's the part where the hit man played by John Travolta is talking about how somebody vandalized his car, and says this:
"Boy, I wish I could've caught him doing it. I'd have given anything to catch that asshole doing it. It'd been worth him doing it, just so I could've caught him doing it."
That last sentence is something everyone should understand about mankind. After all, the statement is completely illogical -- revenge is supposed to be about righting a wrong. But he wants to be wronged, specifically so he'll have an excuse to get revenge.
We all do. It's in our genes. And once you come to terms with that, a whole lot of ugly things about the world start making sense, the dick of your illusions blown off by the shotgun of truth.
Think about the worst fight you were ever in. Now think about the last time you did cocaine. Did you ever notice how similar the rush was in both instances (maybe you couldn't tell, if both of those things happened on the same night). It's basic biology -- we mentioned before an experiment where scientists found that angry cursing soothes physical pain. It doesn't mean that someday they'll prep you for surgery by injecting you with motherfuckers; it means that when we get angry, our body releases the painkiller norepinephrine. It makes perfect sense -- the emotion we call "anger" or "hate" is a part of our evolutionary fighting instinct, so to prepare us for the battle, it pumps us full of anesthetic to block the pain and releases the pleasure chemical dopamine to ease our fears about fighting the tiger/tribesman/drunken Red Sox fan who is threatening us. Incidentally, these are the same two chemicals that are released when you smoke crack.
Quite simply, hate gets you high.
"I'm about to trip my goddamn beard off."
The science behind it is fairly new, but it explains so much, from wars to the confrontational dick at the office, from racism to the crazy girlfriend/boyfriend who is constantly trying to pick fights or create "drama." You are a biological machine built to hate, and you got that way because your ancestors killed off everyone who wasn't. Rage made you strong, and that strength let you win. This is why so much of society is built around controlling and suppressing it.
So what does this have to do with monsters? Here's a hint:
#3. Society Controls You by Manipulating Your Hate Addiction
Jesus, that's a depressing headline. I don't want this article to seem like it's coming off as cynical -- after all, the rocket that took us to the moon ran entirely on hatred of communists. Here, let me lighten the mood with this picture of a couple hundred people dying horribly in a nightclub fire:
That is of course the aftermath of the infamous Bali terror attacks in 2002, where a car bomb detonated near a club full of Australian tourists. The victims were just dancing and laughing and having a good time when Muslim fundamentalists decided that the best way to get the world behind their cause was to make those innocent, joyful tourists die horribly in flames.
Look at that picture. Think about the victims inside. Think about the perpetrators watching it burn, listening to the screams, smugly confident that the act would somehow get them into heaven. How does it make you feel? What does it make you want to do to them?
OK, now how does it make you feel when I tell you that the image above is not of the Bali bombings, but rather the completely accidental nightclub fire that happened a year later in Rhode Island, in which a hundred people died due to a malfunction of pyrotechnics set off by the band Great White?
Which up to then everyone thought was a Spinal Tap-style parody band.
Well, shit. That's a buzzkill, isn't it? Despite the fact that the people died in the exact same way, and that far more people die in careless fires every year than in terror attacks, it just doesn't set off the same fireworks in your brain. Imagining hunting down and killing those terrorists makes me want to charge out of my front door wielding a shotgun and a vengeance erection, with Drowning Pool blasting in the background ...
... but when I imagine charging out the door to advocate for stricter fire safety standards for public performances in small venues, I find myselfIiiiiiithnnnnnnnnnnnnbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbmmmm ...
Sorry, I fell asleep on my keyboard there. So why does one tragedy make me want to do a Liam Neeson on the Arab world, while an identical tragedy barely registers? Because I've been trained like one of Pavlov's dogs to react a certain way -- not to danger, but to monsters. And the fuckers who blew up that nightclub were monsters.
I can't be convinced otherwise because long, long ago, the people in charge figured out that the easiest and most reliable way to bind a society together was by controlling and channeling our hate addiction. That's the reason why seeing this ...
... on the news makes us mumble "That's sad" and maybe donate a few bucks to the Red Cross hurricane fund, while this ...
... sends us into a decade-long trillion-dollar rage that leaves the Middle East in flames. The former was caused by wind; the latter was caused by monsters. The former makes us kind of bummed out; the latter gets us high.
And addicts are very easy to control, if you know how to manipulate their supply. Don't take my word for it. Let's see if you can name which genocidal world leader said this:
"Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind ... that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests."
That was, of course, Bill Pullman as President Thomas J. Whitmore in Independence Day. What does it take to unify humanity and let us get past our "petty differences"? A devastating invasion by space monsters. The same thing that got Captain America and Tony Stark to work together in The Avengers. The same thing that got the various warring clans of Scotland to band together behind William Wallace in Braveheart. It's right there, in all of our most popular movies: a war against unspeakable, inhuman evil is the only thing that makes us unite and put our differences aside.
"If it wasn't for the aliens, I totally would have dropped the N-word by now."
And if that singular, despicable monster doesn't exist, we'll create it. We have to.
Or, to quote another leader who rallied his people when things looked their darkest:
"As a whole, and at all times, the efficiency of the truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy. The more uniformly the fighting will of a people is put into action, the greater will be the magnetic force of the movement."
At the risk of this getting taken out of context in the week I'm trying to sell a book, I think we can all agree that Adolf Hitler was right. As were all of the experts who came after him who said the same thing.
On one hand, I'm not saying anything new here -- all of this was a major theme of 1984, as well as Van Halen's earlier albums -- but on the other hand, people keep falling for it. The crackhead knows the drug is bad for him, but that doesn't mean he doesn't still freaking love crack.
Now, I'm typing this on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and the above is going to attract conspiracy theorists to the comments claiming that George W. Bush arranged the attacks in order to give the country the mindless monster it needed to rally against. But the process of creating the monster doesn't have to work that way. You don't remember the spy plane incident in April of 2001? The tense international standoff after an American spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet in Chinese territory, killing the pilot? That came on the heels of an election where Bush promised he would get tough on China. If bin Laden hadn't come along, we had another cold war cued up and ready to go.
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Blackmagic Design yesterday released an update for its $345 Hyperdeck Shuttle 2 recording device enabling recording of Apple ProRes HQ files.
You know what you never hear in the edit bay? "This looks too much like film, can we make this look less filmic?" John Burkhart reports
Jonny Elwyn tries out the multitude of new editing tools in the public beta of Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 12 and gives us the lowdown from an editor's point of view.
There's so much interest in Blackmagic's Cinema camera that we're bringing you updates as soon as we get them
If you're one of the people who's preordered a Blackmagic Cinema Camera, unless you're very lucky, you will probably have noticed that you don't actually have one yet. RedShark, in common with the rest of the world's media, is eagerly awaiting the arrival of a camera to put through its paces.
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While it may not grab the attention like other Blackmagic camera releases, Simon Wyndham reckons that new footage from the forthcoming Micro Cinema Camera proves it to be a very interesting proposition indeed.
It looks like the Blackmagic Cinema Camera is moving closer to production, after all the delays caused by the blemishes on the sensor glass
We're at NAB today - it starts in a few hours, and the first meeting for us is the BMD press conference. It's exciting and with good reason: you can expect some VERY big announcements that will shake the industry to the core
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Ghost Town
"Ghost Town" takes the M. Night Shyamalan movie," The Sixth Sense" and stands it on its head. The tagline for the film says it all; "He sees dead people ... and they annoy him." After a near death experience, Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) finds he has the ability to see dead people. The dead want his attention so that they can close out the incompleteness in their lives and move on. Pincus is a very good dentist but very inept as a human being and the type of character Gervais plays well. The role of a competent loser suits him. His sudden ability to see the dead doesn't leave him impressed nor does it fill him with fear. Instead, it seems to annoy him. He would much rather be left alone to be the perfect loser.
One particular ghost however manages to work his way into Pincus's life to get him to patch up his relationship with his wife and destory the new one she is developing. At first he reluctantly agrees but then there is something about the wife that motivates and intrigues him and he begins to pull out of his shell. The film is not going to bring you big laughs; just a lot of small ones. The story is amazingly funny. I have to wonder sometimes what the story would have been like if Pincus had accepted the task of fulfilling a hit man's last contract.
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Mary Margaret "Margie" Adams, 90, Cresson, died Wednesday in Charleston, S.C.
She was born in Cresson, daughter of the late Joseph and Annie Marie (Abrams) Phelps.
Surviving are three children: David Scott (Dorothy) of Goose Creek, S.C., Linda Wyland of Cresson and Virginia Lee King (Tony) of Charleston, S.C.; 18 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.
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She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard R. "Dewey"; a son-in-law, Gerald F. Wyland; two infant children: Mary and Robert; and a brother, Albert and wife, Laverna.
Margie retired as a librarian at St. Francis College, Loretto, with more than 20 years of service. She loved to play golf, bingo and cards, read and go gambling.
Friends will be received from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Charles M. Kennedy Funeral Home, Cresson. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, at Basilica of St. Michael, Loretto, Monsignor Timothy Swope as celebrant. Committal will be in the church cemetery at the convenience of the family.
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It has been an exciting week to witness creativity in the works in Richmond, Virginia. 44 juried artists from around the US descended on Richmond to "paint what they see" from the city's sidewalks, alleys, public spaces, gardens, historic neighborhoods as part of Plein Air Richmond 2013. Residents and visitors noted the artists with their easels, palettes, and works in progress all around Richmond. Here at the William Miller House Bed and Breakfast, we have had the opportunity to host two of the artists.
These dedicated, disciplined artists are up and out in the city painting early in the morning. They grab a cup of coffee and a muffin to go while the innkeepers are still snoozing in their bed! Some evenings they could be found capturing the evening light. They had very long days, exploring, painting, and learning about the city. Each day a specific area or attraction has been featured:
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Friday was a half-day at Wilton House Museum while they spent the afternoon getting ready for the gala event at the Brazier Gallery, where the finished paintings were seen for the first time and were available for sale. Proceeds for the event benefit the Richmond Symphony!
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Trevor Cody Nunes and Sharmea Antwanette Farmer applied for a marriage license on April 24, 2013, and were married April 24, 2013, in Evans.
Jeremy Ross Harden and Kayla Marlee Dinkins applied for a marriage license on March 7, 2013, and were married April 20, 2013, in Appling.
Alicia Cawley, Jessica Creagan, Allison Frazier, Madison Fogarty, Nolan Holbrook, Sydney Hughes, Drew King, KeiAwnna Locke-Primus, Alexa Matthews, Bailey McCorkle, Devin McNair, Audrey Nunn and Allyson Runyon.
MacKenna Allsup, Tristan Beaty, Megan Fogarty, Braidon Frost, Trinity Hayton, Serenity Johnson, Isaac Kang, Gavin Knox, Kacie Linaweaver, Tamya McCord, Trenton Meadows, Kelvin O'Conner, Troy Pittard, Amyah Powell, Brianna Sewell, Angele Tegnama and Jerry Woods.
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Laura Baker, Piercen Bogolea, Nova Cole, Emma Douglas, Thomas Guido, Christian Truelove, Audrey Baker, Garrett McKinnon, Manna Philip, Adora Thangjam, Tara Dzin, Ansley Gibson, Aidan Blair, River Good, Avery Miller, Ashlyn Newcome, Mira Ryu, Nika Shekastehband, Kathleen Sneed, Jake Abrahani, Victoria Garcia, Dominique Lizama, Cooper Parrish, Anusha Subramanian, Armaan Walia and Jason Xu.
Kitten adoptions
• Kingdom Learning Academy, 4804 Technology Drive, Martinez, will accept applications for its summer enrichment program through Monday, June 3. Call Dora Webb at (706) 691-4967.
• Gospel Water Branch Baptist Church, 703 Furys Ferry Road, Evans, is holding a summer enrichment program for ages 4-14 through July 19. Call (706) 860-7091.
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BELVIDERE — The Boone County Council of Aging will hold a 40th anniversary dinner at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Belvidere Community Building, 111 First St.
The event will feature performances by Dale Rhode and the Crossroads Band, as well as a silent auction, door prizes and a dessert auction.
Cost: $30. For information or tickets: 815-544-9893.
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on February 20, 2013 - 9:11 PM
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ALBANY – In the wake of continuing anger by gun owners over his new restrictions on gun ownership, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is offering a fig leaf to hunters: cheaper state licenses.
The governor on Wednesday announced a drop in the annual hunting license from $29 to $22. People who fish will see their state license fee drop from $29 to $25 and the license will be good for 365 days, instead of just the season in which one was obtained.
The plan will be included in 30-day amendments to the governor's 2013 state budget plan, which will be unveiled today. Cuomo is also due in Buffalo today for an 11 a.m. appearance at City Honors School as part of his statewide tour promoting his budget proposals.
Cuomo, who has seen his popularity dip in part because of the state's new gun control law, has been insisting for weeks that his goal is not to harm law-abiding hunters. He repeatedly has noted how he owns a shotgun and has hunted. On Wednesday he suggested dropping the fees has nothing to do with the new gun control law, but was a problem that came to his attention two years ago.
"This is big business for the state," Cuomo said of the $8.1 billion fishing and hunting industry in New York. Nearly three million people have hunting and/or fishing licenses in the state.
The plan also streamlines the "somewhat bizarre" system of licenses with different combinations and fees depending on the specific type of hunting or fishing activity. Nonresident hunting licenses also will drop, from $140 annually to $100.
Under criticism from the federal government, the Cuomo administration also is agreeing to pay more for Medicaid expenses for programs to treat people with developmental disabilities. Washington has complained that New York for years has essentially overbilled the federal government for certain Medicaid expenses. State Budget Director Robert Megna said the state will now pay $500 million more in the coming year to pay the correct funding level and change a formula the state has used for more than 20 years.
"It's been an ongoing dispute. This would basically reconcile the rate to the level the federal government believes is appropriate," Cuomo said. About $120 million of the amount will come from cuts from the state agency that cares for developmentally disabled people.
On another front, the budget amendments also will include a plan to require certain gas stations in "strategic" locations to be pre-wired to be able to run generators in an emergency. The plan, paid for with federal money, will reimburse station owners up to $10,000 for the pre-wiring; they then must be able to secure a generator within 24 hours of an emergency to ensure the flow of gasoline does not come to a grinding halt, as it did downstate during Hurricane Sandy. The purchase or rental of a generator, if an emergency is declared, must be covered by the gas station.
Howard Glaser, Cuomo's state operations director, said the plan will affect about 6,000 gas stations that are located in hurricane evacuation routes or within a half-mile of any highway exit. The pre-wiring is needed so that generators could be more quickly installed in an emergency. The plan also would affect all new gas stations regardless of location.
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A perjorative nickname for MSNBC host Keith Olbermann
Bathtub boy got slapped by his NBC bosses
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Bathtub Boy hides in the bathtub instead of discussing anything controversial about liberals.
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It means 2 cheer up, get ur self 2gether, stay up.
They stole the ducter sir!!!
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Buck up means to basically grin and bear it, kinda like sayin "get over it" only more nicely. It's especially used in the south and often in small towns.
Mark was complainin about the rain ruinin the huntin trip and his dad said "it'll be ok, just buck up"
by libbylee2487 April 23, 2005
To rise to a challenge, to do something others are unable to
"You need to Buck Up and get back on that horse."
"Buck Up and go talk to her."
"Buck Up and go talk to her."
by DonJuanBurrito August 21, 2005
To take responsibility, get over and move on.
learn to buck up
by Tonka567 February 11, 2013
being strong!
tell people the way it is!
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I have best friend that i can buck-up to!
...we ALL need that,huh?
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by LisAnne Becotte` June 09, 2005
to play rock, paper, scissors when a tough decision has to be made.
who takes the last slice of pizza? alright buck up: one, two, three, shoot.
by grimkey June 21, 2006
To challenge someone by getting in their face and disrespecting them with belligerent comments or trying to stare the them down.
I was laughing at this guy behind this one dude and the dude thought I was laughing at him so this nigga had the nerve to BUCK UP to me and I had to lay his ass down.
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Members of Congress who voted for tax increases approved last Tuesday apparently thought keeping the nation headed down the slippery slope toward economic collapse was an acceptable alternative to......
And this is why Capito is replacing Rockefeller next election!!!
Dems must go before they completely destroy our free nation, rights and all.
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iPad and AppleTV for Wireless Presentations
(Enrollment closes 6pm the day before this workshop)
Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:00am - 10:50am @ e-Learning Training Room
Category: Tools Seats Available: 7
Format: Hands-on Delivery Method: Real-time Delivery System: Classroom
Instructors: Larry MacPhee
Think of the many ways you could improve your teaching if you were freed from the lectern computer and able to walk around your classroom while wirelessly presenting from your iPad. What if you also had the option to let students share their work on the big screen? Sure, you can do presentations with�Keynote�or browse the web with Safari or Chrome, but there's also a growing library of�iBooks�and over�225,000�free and low cost apps to choose from. Check out a handful of the thousands of apps�designed for education. All you need is an iPad 2 or newer, an inexpensive AppleTV and a projector.


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Virtually all science fiction that involves intergalactic travel or convenient travel between planets in our own solar system revolves around faster than light travel. One problem with many theories for faster than light travel is the proposed methods would violate Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
Two physicists from Baylor University have theorized what they believe to be a method of faster than light travel that would not break the Theory of Relativity. Einstein's Theory of Relativity states that objects accelerating to the speed of light require an infinite amount of energy.
The physicists -- Gerald Cleaver and Richard Obousy -- have theorized a new idea for faster than light travel that involves manipulating dark energy to propel a spacecraft. According to Space.com the universe -- in theory -- moved faster than light for a short time after the Big Bang, propelled by dark energy which represents about 74% of the mass energy budget in the universe. Space.com goes on to say that, 22% of the mass energy budget consists of dark matter and what remains of the mass-energy budget in the universe being made up of stars, planets and other things we see.
Some current evidence supports the theory that the fabric of space-time can expand faster than the speed of light. This is said to be because the reality which light travels is expanding itself.
The Baylor physicists took a recent idea in string theory to devise a method of manipulating dark energy to accelerate a spaceship based on the Alcubierre drive. The Alcubierre drive works on the principle -- in theory -- that expanding space-time behind a ship and reducing space-time in front of the ship would result in propulsion at faster than light speeds.
Cleaver said, "Think of it [faster than light travel] like a surfer riding a wave. The ship would be pushed by the spatial bubble and the bubble would be traveling faster than the speed of light."
It is believed that 10 dimensions exist, with six of them being largely unknown. M-theory suggests that hypothetical one-dimensional strings vibrate in yet another dimension. Cleaver and Obousy theorize that manipulating the dimension the strings vibrate in would alter dark energy in height, width, and length to permit a spaceship to take advantage of dark energy's effect on the universe.
Cleaver told Space.com, "The dark energy is simultaneously decreased just in front of the ship to decrease (and bring to a stop) the expansion rate of the universe in front of the ship. If the dark energy can be made negative directly in front of the ship, then space in front of the ship would locally contract."
While the whole theory hardly sounds simple, one of the greatest problems is the amount of energy required to propel a ship using this method. The physicists estimate that to move a small ship -- measuring approximately 33-feet x 33-feet -- would require energy equivalent to the entire mass of Jupiter.
Cleaver continued saying, "That is an enormous amount of energy. We are still a very long ways off before we could create something to harness that type of energy."
quote: Dark matter is never just 'ordinary matter' that we haven't yet observed.
quote: Astronomers Image Red Dwarf Star, One Type of Dark Matter...There are two types of dark matter, however.Some, like the newly imaged red dwarf star, represents regular old matter wrapped up in hard-to-spot packages -- cold, dim stars that aren't readily observable with present technology...Truly exotic dark matter, on the other hand, is thought to be made of invisible particles that have yet to be detected. ...
quote: 'Groundbreaking' Discovery: First Direct Observation of Dark Matter
quote: The problem is that there are two kinds of 'dark matter'... Now, we have one term to express two very different ideas.
quote: 2. Aren't most physicists generally skeptical about string theory?
quote: The Trouble With Physics
quote: Sadly there are major political factors involved and you are basically kissing your career in physics goodbye if you badmouth string theory.


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The Cancer Drug Coverage Parity Act is Introduced
On April 26, Rep. Brian Higgins introduced the Cancer Drug Coverage Parity Act, H.R. 1801, with 14 bipartisan co-sponsors! In one month, we have doubled our co-sponsors, giving us a great starting place to take this legislation all the way to the floor. "For patients living with cancer across the country, this bill will mean one less thing to worry about. They will no longer have to decide between the best treatment and financial stability, and can focus on what really matters: beating their cancer," said Meghan Buzby. Read More
May Advocates of the Month: The Joyce Family
Christy Joyce, diagnosed with myeloma in 2008, decided to get involved in the Postcards for Parity Program "because it seemed horribly unfair that people are being denied access to lifesaving drugs." And when the Nevada woman asked her family to complete postcards for their legislators, her husband and three kids all asked if they could get involved too. On May 10, Christy visited the State House with her family to testify in support of SB 266. Read More
We left off last month with a win for parity in Oklahoma and a flurry of activity in many states. This month we are hoping to add two more wins, bringing the total to 25 states to pass parity bills. Email your legislators and I know we can get there. Read what you can do for the next two wins…


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Name: Kayla Bates
School: Bishop Guilfoyle
Age: 18
Grade: Senior
Sport: Basketball
Athlete of the week achievement: Bates scored 10 points in the Lady Marauders' 47-26 PIAA Class A first-round victory over Johnsonburg.
Season update: Bates averages 10.2 points per game for the 25-2 Lady Marauders, who play Serra Catholic in the second round on Wednesday.
Coach Mark Moschella's quote: "Kayla has shown great leadership the entire year. She is just doing an excellent job running the offense for our team."
Favorite teacher: Senora Brumbaugh
Favorite subject: Math
Favorite movie: "Pitch Perfect"
Favorite food: Seafood
Favorite song: "Recover" by Eli Young Band
Outside interests: Shop-ping, hanging out with friends
Favorite professional team: Pittsburgh Steelers
Favorite college team: Mount St. Mary's
Pro athlete most admired: No preference
Best athlete I ever played with: Alli Williams and Halee Adams
Best athlete I ever competed against: Sierra Moore from Delone Catholic
Most influential person on my athletic career: My parents and my brother
Proudest athletic achievement: Winning the state title my freshman year being runner-up my sophomore year and being named last year's Altoona Mirror Player of the Year.
How I got my start in basketball: "Dad got me involved when I was 5 or 6 years old."
Future goal: Go to college, play basketball and have a successful career


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Dear Santa,
Please bring a community college for Snyder County and any other Pennsylvania community that needs one. For this wish, we need progressive leaders who believe an educated workforce is more important in bringing good paying jobs for Pennsylvania workers than tax-free industrial parts that offer minimum wage jobs with no benefits.
Santa, Pennsylvania taxpayers desperately need a constitutional amendment passed to legalize a floating (adjustable) rate graduated personal income tax to prevent budget shortfalls and surpluses. The present flat rate (3.07 percent) personal income tax penalizes the poor and rewards the rich.
School districts, local and county governments should be able to levy the same tax in order to eliminate their unfair property taxes and bring them into the 21st century, too.
With private hospital, medical and prescription drug costs increasing so fast, the Affordable Care Act really needs to be amended to permit a public (government) option as an alternative source for healthcare needs.
For this wish, Santa, members of congress will need to put aside their partisan differences on the present law and also allow Medicare to purchase large quantities of prescription drugs from other countries, if necessary.
My final wish is the most urgent, an end to disease, hunger and all wars. Santa, you're a can do guy, and can do people are needed to grant these Christmas wishes.
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on November 21, 2012 - 11:45 AM
A 17-year-old Gibson Street youth has been indicted on murder and attempted murder charges stemming from two shootings in August that left one man dead and a teen age girl paralyzed, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
Damone Lewis faces a maximum prison term of 50 years to life in prison if convicted. He remains in custody without bail.
Lewis is charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon for the Aug. 8 fatal shooting of Jeremy Thomas, the District Attorney's Office said.
Thomas, 23, was shot in the head and chest and died of his wounds two weeks later in Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo police said.
Thomas, the city's 29th homicide victim of the year, was gunned down as he was walking in the second block of Sumner Place at about 5:20 p.m.
Witnesses told police he was shot by a black male riding a blue and white bike and wearing a white T-shirt and black shorts.
The grand jury also indicted Lewis on attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the Aug. 30 shooting that paralyzed a 15-year-old Angelica Soto on Wood Street, the office said.
That shooting occurred at about 9:50 p.m. near the intersection of Walden and Wood avenues on the Far East Side.
The teenage victim was hit several times in the upper body, police said.
District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III credited Buffalo police Detective Brendan Kieffer and New York State Police Senior Investigator Kevin Kendall, both of whom serve on the U.S. Marshall's Service Violent Fugitive Task Force, for apprehending Lewis.
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During her first red carpet appearance since her cheating scandal broke, Kristen Stewart barely alluded to the rift in her personal life.
She was greeted Thursday evening at the Toronto International Film Festival by hoards of enthusiastic fans yelling, "Kristen, I love you!" and cheers of support.
When asked how she was doing, Stewart, 22, said merely, "I'm fine," according to the Associated Press.
Stewart, without referring to the scandal, told Reuters the support from fans was "amazing" and said she was thankful "to know that everyone is here."
Otherwise, the actress, who was promoting her new film On the Road, stuck to questions about the movie. During a Q&A after the screening, Stewart said playing the emotional side of her character, Marylou, was the most difficult thing about the role. "She loved so openly – and that's hard," said Stewart.
As for Pattinson, after his appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards, he spent a low-key night at Soho House in West Hollywood with his Twilight costar Ashley Greene and other pals.
Pattinson was tucked away in the farthest corner of the hotspot with his friends crowded around him so he couldn't be bothered.
"He was smiling and really enjoying himself, chatting to his friends," an observer tells PEOPLE. "He [seemed] committed to having a night out with close, trusted friends and he didn't break away from the comfort of them."
Kristen Stewart Says She's Doing 'Fine'
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text: Among the top priorities for the Bicentennial Initiatives campaign are flexible, inviting and innovative new facilities for the visual arts and theatre at Hamilton. Spaces in which students can explore and create, teachers can lead and engage, and alumni and the community can share in the life of the imagination. Why new facilities? Why these disciplines? Why now?


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SATA is the most common bus interface on desktops and on many servers, so it's important that you know some basic concepts about it, from the always informative Wikipedia:
Serial ATA (SATA) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. Serial ATA replaces the older AT Attachment standard (ATA; later referred to as Parallel ATA or PATA), offering several advantages over the older interface: reduced cable size and cost (seven conductors instead of 40), native hot swapping, faster data transfer through higher signalling rates, and more efficient transfer through an (optional) I/O queuing protocol.
Revision 1.0a was released on January 7, 2003. First-generation SATA interfaces, now known as SATA 1.5 Gbit/s, communicate at a rate of 1.5 Gbit/s, and do not support Native Command Queuing (NCQ).
Second generation SATA interfaces run with a native transfer rate of 3.0 Gbit/s, and taking 8b/10b encoding into account, the maximum uncoded transfer rate is 2.4 Gbit/s (300 MB/s). The theoretical burst throughput of SATA 3.0 Gbit/s is double that of SATA revision 1.0.
Serial ATA International Organization presented the draft specification of SATA 6 Gbit/s physical layer in July 2008 and ratified its physical layer specification on August 18, 2008. The full 3.0 standard was released on May 27, 2009. It runs with a native transfer rate of 6.0 Gbit/s, and taking 8b/10b encoding into account, the maximum uncoded transfer rate is 4.8 Gbit/s (600 MB/s).
In short they are usually referred as:
SATA revision 1.0 – 1.5 Gbit/s – 150 MB/s
SATA revision 2.0 – 3 Gbit/s – 300 MB/s
SATA revision 3.0 – 6 Gbit/s – 600 MB/s
So which revision are you using on your computer ?
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