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- 2664 - The earliest date the microbrains of Velara III would consider for re-opening communications with the Federation. (TNG: "Home Soil")
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A fun place in a message board to go to - especially with friends you can flame.
The Winged Vampire's Retreat was a cool Ezboard to go to. I always went to the Battleground forum. Too bad it closed down. Ezboard is shitty now anyways.
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A place where the only thing there is flaming. An example is Urban Dictionary.
This flame battleground is verybaised. I'm not Wapanese, but if I show one sign that I like anime, I get offensive entries written about me.
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This is a discussion on Help with CPVGEN sources for TurboDOS system? - Protocols ; On 2008-05-05, Mark Hobley wrote: : PC Pete wrote: : :> Thanks again for your involvement. It's good to know Kermit is still :> very much a live project! : : I like kermit. It is a pity about the ...
On 2008-05-05, Mark Hobley
: PC Pete
:> Thanks again for your involvement. It's good to know Kermit is still
:> very much a live project!
: I like kermit. It is a pity about the restrictive licencing that makes
: the source code effectively read-only, unless patches are used.
: The project would probably be a lot more active, if it was under an open
: source licence that permits free modification of the source code and
: distribution of modified versions.
: There is a gkermit package which is distributed under GPL, but this does
: not contain connection establishment facilities. If gkermit supported
: connection establishment, it would be great.
You probably know the history. Kermit was "free software" long before there
was Open Source (TM), FSF, or GPL. In the 80s and into the 90s, it was a
truly massive worldwide cooperative effort to cover every known computer and
operating system and you can see the results on our FTP site:
It started as means to solve a local problem at Columbia University -- how
to interconnect and share files among PDP-10s (DEC-20s), IBM mainframes,
CP/M microcomputers, the then-brand-new IBM PC, and shortly thereafter
the Macintosh and 4.2BSD Unix, and this we did pretty much in-house as a
our job. Since we were paid to do it, we were glad to share, and we
received a lot of other stuff developed elsewhere in the same spirit and
everybody benefited.
Other sites began contributing Kermit versions of their own for VMS,
PDP-11s, lots of different CP/M and DOS variations (in those days there
many DOS's, not just one), Data General, Honeywell, LISP machines, you name
it, and pretty soon we were spending more time dealing with platforms that
didn't even exist at Columbia than we were supporting Columbia's own user
community, which was (to tell the truth) a lot of fun. But Columbia didn't
see the point in paying us to do things for the outside world and advised us
to shut down the Kermit Project and move on (this started as early as 1984).
That did not appeal to me, so in 1986 I proposed hiring a dedicated staff to
be paid from income received from fees we would charge for shipping the
software on magnetic tape and by selling books. This worked OK for some
years but once the Internet removed the need for sending tapes through the
mail, we needed another source of income to keep the project alive and thus
was born Kermit 95.
Well, here we are 27 years later and the business aspects -- order
processing, charging, invoicing, dunning, budgets, reports, forecasts,
spreadsheets, and all the rest -- take up so much time that there is little
opportunity for development, plus, as you say, the restrictive license puts
people off who might otherwise be interested in contributing to the
I would like nothing better than to take Kermit Open Source, but Columbia
will not fund an Open Source project. If I could identify a stable source
of funding for, say, 5 years, I would do it in a flash. But the bottom line
is, the Kermit Project must be paid for, one way or another and these days
the only viable income stream seems to be license fees. It can't be done by
selling support contracts (we have tried that in the past) or coffee cups or
I've approached numerous corporations and came close a few times, but
something always happens at the last moment (usually it's that the key
person vanishes without a trace, or the corporation itself, like DEC).
I keep trying. This too takes a fair amount of time.
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Hi, I work on application which should be connected with fiscal printer (to print fiscal receipts).
I need some kind of fiscal printer simulator (virtual fiscal printer) to test application, because I have not a "real" one.
On this web page
I find this: "Device Simulators
The SDK includes a number of device simulators that allow application developers to develop and test their applications without the physical peripheral in hand during integration testing."
My question is: CAN I USE THAT SIMULATORS IN PURPOSE OF TESTING SOFTWARE WHICH IS NOT EMBEDDED IN DEVICE? If answer
is yes please give me some directions about usage of fiscal printer simulator.
If you know-recommend some fiscal printer simulator please post.
Thanks for understanding
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I am not aware of any device simulators for fiscal printers, but I do understand the value of simulators in general. We will consider this a suggestion for future releases of POS for .NET.
Terry Warwick
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Skip to comments.RNCs delegate count shows Gingrich ahead of Santorum (Stand down, Rick!)
Posted on 03/08/2012 5:47:11 PM PST by VinL
Rick Santorum may have won more primaries but the Republican National Committee's current delegate count shows former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has more bound delegates than Mr. Santorum in the race for the party's presidential nomination.
Frontrunner Mitt Romney has earned 339 delegates to the August nominating convention in Tampa, Fla., or more than the rest of the field combined, according to a chart the RNC sent to its members on Thursday.
Mr. Gingrich is second with 107 delegates, topping Mr. Santorum's 95 delegates and the 22 delegates pledged to Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.
Winning the nomination will take 1,144 delegates.
Press reports have put Mr. Santorum in second place based on projections about how delegates will be allocated in some of the caucus states where voters have cast their ballots, but where the actual delegates won't be decided until later, at county, district and state conventions.
Delegates have yet to be fully awarded in Iowa, Colorado, North Dakota, Minnesota, Maine and Washington. Mr. Santorum won the first four of those contests, while Mr. Romney won the other two.
Mr. Santorum and Mr. Gingrich are battling to be the conservative alternative to Mr. Romney in the race, and Mr. Santorum says his victories in seven primaries and caucuses gives him a leg up.
Mr. Gingrich, meanwhile, has won just two primaries Georgia and South Carolina. But both those states bind nearly all their delegates to support the Primary winner.
Meanwhile Mr. Santorum has notched close wins in places such as Oklahoma, where he collected 14 delegates for his victory. But the Sooner State awards its delegates proportionately and so Mr. Romney and Mr. Gingrich earned 13 delegates each, making Mr. Santorum's victory gains him almost no ground on his rivals.
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A collection of country club blueblood Washingtonian leeches with creepy pulled back wives.
The sooner their ranks are purged, the better.
Well, if you call whining like a little girl about not getting called on "fighting," then I guess you're right, Santorum is a fighter.
"Funny, I didn't see Santorum campaigning much in Massachusetts, Nevada, or Vermont. Maybe he was afraid to campaign in those states, and just wanted to have a ready excuse for losing them?"
Seriously? How'd Newt do in those states?
I watch some freepers post spam detailing all of Santorum's legislative mistakes, bonehead quotes, etc and am gratified no one has yet made a similar one for Newt - it would be easy to do as it would for any politician. At least not one that I've seen.
Its not helpful and frankly not very smart.
I really wish these two guys could get together and decide about one stepping down. Heck, the bigger man should just offer to be the VP for the other and then together make a run at Mitt.
I am having difficulty trying to figure out where you take that to say "FNMA is a model organization" ~ did you vote for Romney or something?
Regarding a Moonbase, I think we need a Moonbase ~ a REAL High Frontier that will create an American hammer over the Earth.
And a federal jobs program for kids? If you mean youth 16 to 29, they currently have something like a 75% unemployment rate in most communities. I suggest SOMETHING should be done before I start up my Red Armband Program ~ 'cause I intend to get rich on their need for political action of a positive nature.
Not well - but the point, which you're apparently not capable of grasping, is that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If it applies to Newt for not campaigning in states he wasn't doing well in to begin with, then the same must apply to Santorum.
Uh, what do you consider an entitlement?
Really? You believe Rick's a fighter? I hope you're right - someone needs to fight. I still don't think he can articulate his positions, and when he'd have to fight against Obama, what would he do?
Don't think so- they bought have to stay in- if not, Romney and the Gop-e steam rolls them one on one.
I sincerely believe Rick could win against Obama. He was just on CNN and did a great job of articulating his positions and of using the opportunity to expose Romney's lies on Obamacare. I can't see the future and we've certainly had our heads pushed back under the water every time we try to come up for air but I think Rick's the real deal.
I will be there/fighting for my conservative.
"is that what's good for the goose is good for the gander"
Newt's goose is cooked. The poster was making excuses for Newt because "he didn't campaign" - no excuses were being made for Santorum in that regard, therefore the precedent in the groundbreaking case of Goose v. Gander does not apply.
I can consider an entitlement any time the government is said to "owe" people or organizations and can't be undone. Everything from government bureaucratic positions, NPR/Pbs funding, corporate welfare, agricultural subsidies (redundant in most cases with corporate welfare), all funding of NGO's, welfare and anyone who gets a check from Uncle Sam that didn't involve doing any work in that pay period. (BTW, Medicare, Medicaid and SS are entitlements when you have gotten more out than you paid in).
At the point you want others to pay for your stuff, its an entitlement (heck most government JOBS could be called entitlements under my definition, lol)
I have one question for you, Would you vote for either Mitt or Rick, if they were the nominee?? Or would you not vote and give Obama a vote??
Hmm ~ your check is no longer in the mail.
I agree. If either drops out some of their support will go to Romney. The only hope for an other-than-Romney result is for Gingrich & Santorum to start winning winner-take-all states. Otherwise they will keep falling farther behind. If Gingrich+Santorum > Romney+Paul, then they can make a deal. Otherwise, I think it's Romney's game.
Where will the family value voters go if Rick exits???
If this is a serious question, I find it hard to believe.
It's not like Newt is some sort of devil worshiper! The man is now happily married and attends church. He is a sinner. So are those family values folks. No one is above anyone in the SIN department. Real, honest, living the life Christians know all about it. Real and honest people stumble, fall, and then seek repentance.
Newt is not FOR anything that values voters would be against. He's pro-life, pro-marriage, and pro-family. He wants a strong America which will enable families and religious institutions to survive. One of his main planks is to stop the persecution of Judeo-Christian heritage and values.
What else do people want? Newt is real, flawed, and brilliant. Would MUCH rather have such a person in the WH, as he understands hard times and might just have a bit of humility built into HIS character!!
Sure, he gets the delegates, but who wants to be a Romney delegate after such a debacle.
Virginia's primary proved conclusively that Mitt's support is remarkably thin, and not enough to get out the vote in a real election.
Money isn't all you need to run. You need peeps and he hasn't got any.
" Newt cant beat Romney one on one- neither can Rick. Romney has too much money and institutional power. " ——
Vin, I'm glad you lay the truth out there. It is a fact.
I have known this also for weeks, but clung to hope, which led to prayer, and that somehow this cycle was so very different that the truly daunting events and the present facts could be reversed, that Republican voters would wake up and see the machine fix in place.
What is left is to pray that ALL three candidates can mess with Romney long enough to GET US TO CONVENTION, so that we will have earned a hearing of our complaints there, a seat at the table, and be in a position to offer up the delegate war as our bono fidis!
Alone, none of these candidates against Romney have a prayer, and We The People, the instance one drops out, are silenced and dismissed, left with nothing but theater.
The Establishment is in no real panic and that is quite telling, but for Barbara Bush, of course. But the Establishment knows exactly how this ends because we have failed to unite in time to overwhelm.
Santorum will NEVER be the nominee, one on one.
Newt will NEVER be the nominee, one on one, maybe period.
Ron Paul will certainly NEVER be the nominee by any math.
IMHO, Rick and Newt are unlikely to allign because Rick is so naieve, but as you said, to have a prayer they MUST together get radical and present a united front against Romney at all costs, for us to have a prayer to change the party apparatus, agenda and defeatism of RINO leadership.
I am certain Newt knows this and has tried with smoke signals to confer with Santorum, but Rick is small picture and mostly for Rick, and runs on just enough grandiosity and battle drama to blind him to any need for unity. This is not a sign of wisdom.
We can not be demoralized but instead must push for a united front, and in a serious rebellion against the Establishment, rather than push for one to get out.
Now, the truth is out there.
How cool would that be?
A million-armed-man march on Tampa, FLA.
Metaphorically, of course.
Excellent Rita, you're quite a gifted writer.
The RNC starts at your local precinct and county level. There's a committee in every county in the USA. When was the last time you were at one of the meetings and voted?
It's nearly a perfect direct democracy.
And don't give me that crap about being too busy...gotta work for a living...kids...etc. That's the same for darn near everyone else at the local VFW or County Auditorium.
Oh, they accept donations of both money and time at every stinkin' one of them.
When was the last time any of you showed up at the local meeting?
Actually that is a minimum of two questions, perhaps three.
I will vote for the GOP nominee, whomever he or she is, on November 6th, because the prime directive is the removal of the Obama Administration, lock, stock and barrel. Period. End of story.
I have no use for those who say "I won't vote for so and so in the general", because the fate of the entire nation is at stake in a very real way on Nov. 6th.
Before the nominee is selected, I will fight for my candidate, which is Newt. After the candidate is selected, I will fight for them and AGAINST Obama, that is how critical this election is.
No one can afford to sit this one out.
Personally, after Nov. 6th, I would love to see a third party arise, like the Tea Party, for conservative values.
But if Obama is re-elected because a bunch of folks who should know better sit the election out, pouting, it will no longer matter--the second American Civil War will follow, as the Marxists in power will be unstoppable, and true patriots will have to respond in a way that has not been necessary since 1861.
oh, my gosh. This is so perfectly summarizing where everything is right now. I have just felt, in all my little contacts and universe, and prayers, that people are deepening at this moment, or trying to, and reaching to understand that we have to deal with reality, even if it hurts. And you are out there in the vanguard.
I want to send this around to my little "troops" tomorrow if that is okay because it is written so simply and so clearly, and I won't or shouldn't have to explain anything further. I will gladly credit you, if you tell me how I should name it. thank you for being brilliant at the moment we are all needing brilliance.
That's sort of the plan. Exit polls after the Ohio primary demonstrated a lot of moderates and liberal Democrats came out to vote for Romney.
I suspect that is what the RNC wants and has promoted Romney: to sway Democrats dissatisfied with BHO2.
Just saw Newt on GRETA, and I am pretty sure he said the same thing we are discussing. I would have to catch it on a rewind, but he is definitly convention bound for a purpose, and it includes hoping to short Romney on delegates.
The odds for change rise or fall with holding delegates from Romney.
The man invented how to score big. He knows.
Just hope we don't fail to get the message.
ONE of these guys has GOT to stand down or we have to choose between Obama and Obama Lite.
Newt winning enough delegates could give him some negotiating power at the convention. The establishment needs to be sent a clear and resounding message. How many times will we be forced to vote for a watered down rino? and to be honest...I also consider RS to be weak on many fiscal and social issues after viewing his record.
Let's make Mitt sweat!
Rewind here. :-)
YOU are too kind.
Couldn't care less if you credit me, just get the word out what the facts are, as VinL advanced first.
It was VinL who was the "vanguard" (a nice word, btw) and dared tonight to answer a poster with the truth, and the facts on the ground.
Once he led, I followed suit.
The thesis is pretty simple but it deals with the universe of factors in this election, from my point of view.
Share away, whatever way you wish. You are welcome to clean up my word misfires also! Ha!
Thank you! YOU do plenty! :)
If you apply the williard rule, williard had to carry michigain because he grew up and was born there. Newt was born and grew up in Pa, so he needs to carry it.
I just managed to catch bits and pieces of it... but his message was Endurance, a big-picture, long-road focus. It would make me feel better if I could know how much of this alliance is being stoked behind the scenes. Did you catch it when he said, "it's all a game" - candidates calling on each other to get out? He is just holding his cards close, not a blink.
Somebody needs to talk Santorum into doing something else, he's the one basic shot we have at losing this thing in November.
Many of the "unbound" delegates simply aren't chosen yet, but the process will lead to them being chosen as people project. It's not like they are free. It's like their election is next month, but the outcome is already set in stone.
Pretending otherwise is just silly.
Of course, I understand why Gingrich supporters want to play that game — he's only won two states, and they happen to both be primaries so their assignments are done.
The Gingrich folks were also using the "who got more votes" argument — until the day their candidate stopped being the one with more votes.
If Rick Santorum dropped out, Romney would be our nominee. Gingrich has no chance of capturing more than half of Santorum supporters. If Santorum had dropped out after Newt's disastrous showing in Florida, Romney would have swept February and the primary season would be over. Newt wasn't competitive anywhere until Super Tuesday, and then was an also-ran in half the contests.
He could rise again, and if he does, more power to him. But if he needed Santorum to drop out so that people felt forced to support Gingrich, he wasn't going to win anything anyway.
The message was certainly sent but was it received?
Get real? reality has little to do with these threads.
There was a story that was going to be told after Super Tuesday. It was based on Newt sweeping the south, and rising again in places like Ohio and winning Alaska.
Oddly, he fell flat on his face everywhere but Georgia.
But the story must be told anyway. So even though there hasn't been a SINGLE state where Newt came in 2nd where Santorum's votes would have put Newt into first place, the Newt folks still argue that Newt's problem is Santorum.
And even though Newt has a SuperPac that has been given 20 million dollars, they still complain that Newt's problem is Santorum getting too much of the "conservative money".
I failed to ping you at 84.
I always forget to do that! When I mention another poster..just,dang!
Wish people would give up that idea ~ it's just so wrong.
Yes. If Rick Santorum cannot win his home state, he probably should quit. If that happens, Romney will be the nominee anyway, whether Rick continues or not.
There are 457 unbound delegates going onto the floor in Tampa by design. They are essentially "the Party".
A candidate has to win only about 685 bound delegates and the party can push them over the top.
However, if you read the article and understand it you'll see it's an imminently fair process and count method.
IF you have 685 and another guy has 604 and another guy has 505...you have a brand new hose race on the convention floor.
Folks, you want D R A M A?
Read about the '76 GOP Primary. It's was the last GOP primary to go to the convention floor.
Millions of us dropped to the floor weeping when it was over.
Or the grand fight on the floor of the Cow Palace in '64 when Goldwater won on the first ballot. There were fist fights in the aisles!!
Now imagine these things in the modern TV/Internet era.
Simply wow.
You must be listening in some alternative reality, because Santorum's campaign has not, and will not, ask Gingrich to quit, and Santorum has publicly stated that he will not call on Gingrich to quit.
The guy who runs a SuperPac supporting Santorum called on Gingrich to quit. That's not part of the Santorum campaign.
In the end they look like political prostitutes.
Some of the votes you noted in your list are certainly questionable. Some of them were just political swapsies.
This is one of the reasons Obama voted "present" so terribly many times!
So true, it's like a cult. These believers think Newt was "attacked" and brought down from his throne. Truth is, Newt attacked and people didn't like the side he showed. But whatever, as long as everyone's happy with Romney who am I to protest.
So true, it's like a cult. These believers think Newt was "attacked" and brought down from his throne. Truth is, Newt attacked and people didn't like the side he showed. But whatever, as long as everyone's happy with Romney who am I to protest.
Please, study the party rules. Look at party history.
They be breakin' them cellphones on they haids!
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Mass: Back to cooler and wetter days, but be thankful for normal
Be thankful for normal, even if it's not sunny and warm, says Cliff Mass, KPLU's weather expert and a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington.
"The interesting thing about this spring is it's been really normal. It's really normal to have some periods where it's above normal and below normal," says Mass, adding he's not quite a prophet of doom; maybe the "prophet of deterioration."
This weekend, we can expect the weather to be "pretty much normal," says Mass.
This past week was one of those warmer-than-average periods, but the return to normal is under way, says Mass, with clouds pushing in from the Pacific.
"We were way over normal this week, you know, by 5 or 10 degrees," Mass says.
By Saturday, we can expect temperatures in the 50s to low 60s with a chance of rain showers.
Even with the return of cooler and wetter days, this spring is shaping up rather nicely, even if it isn't above-average, says Mass.
"After two years of cold, drizzly, wet springs, we are seeing normality for a change," he says. "The average over the whole spring so far is almost right-on."
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The weekly KPLU feature "Weather with Cliff Mass" airs every Friday at 9 a.m. immediately following BirdNote, and repeats twice on Friday afternoons during All Things Considered. The feature is hosted by KPLU's Science and Health reporter Keith Seinfeld. Cliff Mass is a University of Washington Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, a renowned Seattle weather prognosticator, and a popular weather blogger. You can also subscribe to a podcast of "Weather with Cliff Mass" shows.


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SALEM -Salem Parks Commission member Ken Schrom suggested an idea of building stockades in the parks, possibly as a form of punishment for those who spraypaint graffiti and vandalize property.
Schrom raised the issue under new business at the commission meeting Wednesday night, saying he loves to read the history of the country and also liked to read about what they did to people who broke the law.
He said he's wanted to "build stocks in both parks" since he's been on the commission. He said people in town are getting "sick and tired" of the people spraypainting and vandalizing.
He said he already talked to Mayor John Berlin about the idea and if all three of the commission members agreed, it could go to the attorney of council, which would be the city law director. Schrom said the city would have to find a way to implement it.
"The city of Salem could do this on their own and bring back the way we treated people in the 1700s," Schrom said, adding he's just throwing the idea out there.
Commission Chairman John Panezott said there's just too many things they would run into legally.
In talking about the use of the stockade during colonial days, Schrom said "the idea was to put somebody out there and embarrass them to tears...everybody gripes about lawbreakers but nobody talks about what to do. We don't have laws that really dig into your spinal column."
Commission member Terry Hoopes said he didn't think the American Civil Liberties Union would care for the idea, then quipped, "are we going to have dunking and flogging next?" He said it would fall under cruel and unusual punishment.
"Yours is a rather novel idea, but I don't think it would be good for the park," Hoopes said.
Panezott said the idea should go to a lawyer first, then Schrom suggested just putting the stockades in the parks for something historical. No action was taken.
Under continued business, Parks Director Steve Faber reported council will likely take action on the new salary for the recreation supervisor's position during the first meeting in January. Last month, the commission called for an increase in the starting wage for the position which has remained unfilled since last June after the supervisor retired. Anyone new hired into the position would revert to step one on the pay scale, which was set at $7.87 per hour, an amount less than what a lifeguard makes.
Since the position is supervisory and considered second-in-command to Faber, he suggested an increase to $10.87 for the starting wage, with step 2 at $11.30 an hour and step 3 at $11.63 per hour. The commission agreed and the Finance Committee of city council agreed to recommend the increase for an ordinance before council.
The commission also agreed previously to be part of the proposed performance audit, which would look at how departments in the city operate and whether they could make changes for cost-savings.
Panezott said they've always bragged about how the parks department personnel and commission are good stewards of taxpayer money, but this could give proof to it. He said it could also show them something they don't see.
In the area of maintenance, Schrom asked if they were getting the equipment ready for spring. Faber said maintenance personnel have cleaned out under the decks of the mowers and greased some parts, but the mowers aren't taken apart like they were in the past. He said it's a matter of mechanical know-how that they don't have that they had before. He said they're currently focusing on removing low limbs from trees.
The commission entered into executive session for personnel, with no action to be taken.
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I could forgive alot of flaws with this disc just to finally have CotC2 at a relative bargain price, but this authoring error is unforgiveable. Especially since this is not the first time that Echo Bridge has made exactly the same mistake... Their release of Silent Night Deadly Night 3 (in a set with Slaughter High & 2 other films) was butchered in exactly the same firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-21048905474250145.post-22306542166660690112011-04-10T00:26:21.883-04:002011-04-10T00:26:21.883-04:00I have that Children of the Corn II boot. Good to...I have that Children of the Corn II boot. Good to know it's the same shitty transfer so I wouldn't bother looking for a copy.Starmummyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-21048905474250145.post-39015981277630453462011-04-09T15:50:58.689-04:002011-04-09T15:50:58.689-04:00They even use the phrases on the Final Sacrifice b...They even use the phrases on the Final Sacrifice bootleg DVD's cover. "From the Producer of Hellraiser III" "The Ultimate Adult Nightmare"

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International Congress of Leibniz-University, Hannover, and the University of Technology of Berlin
Berlin May 4th -5th, 2012
Deadline for papers: EXTENDED TO October 15st, 2011
The second half of the 19th century was the time of the dramatic changes that were taking place in the multinational empires of the Romanovs, Habsburgs and Ottomans: the continuing development of the state, industrialization, a revolution in transportation, and the growth of the cities resulted in a surge of mobility among their inhabitants. During this time, the new, mobile elites soon became essential actors of change. They contributed towards negotiating anew the relations between centre and periphery as well as the relations between state and society.
In the course of their professional careers, men of different professions were employed at several places of an empire, and they often circulated through various imperial provinces. Their biographies were imperial biographies, for in a number of ways they were connected to the imperial structures within which they had risen. Their professional paths were characterized by the constraints and possibilities of the new era, but also by the continued restrictions of the respective imperial constitutions. Furthermore, to a high degree their self-designs reflected this imperial framework, as it was there where they processed their experiences of cross-empire mobility.
In the course of their careers they became experts of the foreign, of remote areas and of the heterogeneity of the empires. They most intensively experienced the contradictions between the local realities and the demands of the state, they developed concepts and practices for overcoming them, and they propagated fundamental reforms of state structures. Thus, increasingly they became pressure groups for reorganizing the empires.
At the same time, these mobile cohorts acted as effective representations of their empires in those local spaces of encounter where they were active. These groups represented the face of the empire to the indigenous population. After all, how else than in the shape of these visible, inter-space actors could the empire as a communication horizon reach the many fragmented local milieus?
Not least, these experts formed milieus of their own, which were characterized by the respective mobility patterns, by mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion as well as by the career logics of their professional branches. Their careers as well as their trans-local circulation reveal the new opportunities and scopes of action in times of change, just as their continued restrictions and new limitations.
Thus, such imperial biographies allow for a new approach viewing the people who experienced the empire as a part of their life courses. Ideas of the imperial context as well as reform concepts become obvious, which are based on personal experiences made in the course of years of service, professional work and life at the peripheries of the empires. Furthermore, dealing with imperial biographies allows for analyzing those state structures as enforcing, making possible or preventing the mobility of imperial actors. And not least, this will contribute to researching the empires in question from a comparative actors" perspective.
We call for papers with a (collective-) biographic approach on mobile experts from these three empires, primarily concerning the following fields of activity:
State officials, MPs or ministers
Technological elites (city planners, architects, engineers, hygiene or statistics experts)
Members of the armed forces
Academics (both professors and students) as well as clergymen
Entrepeneurs, lawyers and physicians
Writers, journalists or authors of travel reports
The following, interconnected issues are of particular interest for us:
1) Mobile experts as a dynamic factor for the change of mainland empires
Everywhere where mobile elites appeared, the heterogeneity of empires became visible. At the same time the former put them into question, by transgressing traditional boundaries while transfering experiences and expectations from old contexts into new ones. Furthermore, not seldom they formulated far-reaching concepts for overcoming the traditional variety of nations and religions in the empires, which was considered archaic. To what extent did the confrontation between the experts and local representatives trigger productive differentiation processes? In which cases did their actions increase local potential for conflict, and which dynamics did result from this? To what extent did they themselves initiate change? Which pressure could they exert on local or central decision-making authorities?
2) Imperial mobility patterns, career paths and elite circulation
Each of the various empires as well as the individual professional branches developed their own patterns of social and spatial mobility. Age and experience, but also the origin of experts, influenced the places where they were employed as well as their professional circulation. Which principles of rotation were valid for which professional branches, how did the protagonists" cultural capital influence the course of their careers? Was the empire the horizon for a career, or was occupation in another state desirable and possible? Which cross-empire transfers happened among the various experts?
3) Imperial images, loyalties and identities of mobile elites
Mobile elites worked at the interfaces of centre and periphery, state and society. Their activities led to an interaction of the state"s expectations, local situations, professional functional logics, but also of the experts" own ambitions. What were the experts" (overlapping) loyalties to dynasties, to their nations as well as to their religious groups, and how did this change in the course of their careers in the imperial provinces? Which identification offers were made by the imperial elite and its professional sub-systems, such as public officials or the officer corps, but also the caste of engineers or the academics? Which ideas of the imperial context and which ways of perceiving problems did they develop from the experiences made at the various stations of their careers? How did they try to communcate these to a broader public?
The languages of the congress will be German and English. Very good skills of one of these languages as well as at least sufficient passive skills of the other one are a prerequisite for participation. Under the condition of funds granted, expenditures on travel, board and lodging will be taken over by the organizers. There is the intention to publish the contributions to the congress.
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This past year has seen a series of environmental disasters. Three hundred thousand without potable water in West Virginia. The contamination of the Dan River by Duke Powers toxic coal ash and arsenic releases. And less reported, a massive toxic waste spill from a pipeline owned by Texas-based Apache Corp that killed every plant and tree in a 1000 acre area of Alberta. Pipeline leaks and spills are nothing new, we just rarely hear about them.
You dont have to Google search very far to find a long mind boggling list of spills, resulting in massive contaminations. Those include the Yellowstone River spill that saw a severed Exxon Mobil Corp. pipeline release 63,000 gallons, A NuStar Energy LP pipeline that spilled 4,200 gallons of anhydrous ammonia into the Missouri River in Nebraska, and an Enterprise Products Partners LP pipeline that released 28,350 gallons of gasoline into the Missouri River in Iowa. To say or think that any pipeline is not a real threat to Americas water resources is to be blind to the reality and facts.
The fact is, installers have been digging up parts of the new southern segment of the Keystone Pipeline that only recently have been installed. Little reported or mentioned by proponents of the pipeline is the fact that the existing leg of the Keystone has spilled more oil in its first year than any other first-year pipeline in U.S. history .
Oil expert, energy advisor to former President George Bush and writer Matt Simmons said water would be the next oil. Before his untimely death, he had begun a national campaign to call attention to our water resources at risk. As we have seen recently, controlling and protecting water resources around the country is an ongoing battle, from drought riddled California, to the outrage by local residents in South Carolina when a mega farm was given license to withdraw almost a billion gallons a month from the Edisto River. Allowing our national waters surface, aquifer and groundwater to become contaminated with well known poisonous and carcinogenic wastes will create a national crisis. We should be considering where our clean water will come from once we have allowed our sources to become undrinkable. Ask the people of West Virginia if you dont think this is possible.
Tar sands oil contains some of the most toxic and carcinogenic chemicals known, such as ammonia, benzene, cyanide, phenols, toluene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, arsenic, copper, sulphate, and chloride. Installing yet another large pipeline, when existing ones have well documented histories of breaking and leaking, across, through, and over the heartland of Americas main aquifers, is madness. One of the worlds largest aquifers, the Ogallala, that supplies water for millions of acres of corn, wheat and soy production in Americas heartland, lies in the path of the XL Pipeline. Thousands of farmers in Nebraska, who know whats at risk, have protested and said no to its passage through this most important area of Americas agriculture.
And what is this pipeline for? For jobs? A few thousand jobs at best is expected and certainly not permanent ones. To lower the price of gasoline? An outrageous and easily provable lie. Any finite product like oil will only increase in cost in a world greedy for more oil, and the production of tar sands oil is very expensive. To lower our dependence on foreign oil? Another lie. All oil goes into the global market and gets sold globally. Tar sands oil will not belong or be controlled by the U.S. Those who try to tell you it will come to the U.S. are lying or at best spinning the truth. No impact on the environment? See above.
From the BP Gulf disaster, to the Freedom Industry poisoning of Charlestons drinking water, to Dukes latest criminal negligence and contamination of the Dan River, its apparent corporations and the lax government in charge cannot and do not protect our precious diminishing clean water. It time we put an end to our real addition: the addiction to dirty, dangerous and life-threatening toxic industries that are polluting our planet and making it uninhabitable. We need a Manhattan project-type commitment to a future of clean energy, moving rapidly away from energy sources that threaten the water we drink and the air we breathe. Instead of being worried about our dependence on foreign oil, we should be worried about our dependence on oil at all. We should be weaning ourselves now from this finite and dirty energy source, one that now requires we rip up and destroy the worlds great boreal forests, destroying habitats, species, wetlands, and water sources, and sickening the people who live around them. We are America. We could be a shining example of the worlds energy future through innovation and development of clean energy. Instead we are continuing and promoting the old, dirty ways that have no future. What a sad statement and legacy to leave our children and grandchildren.
Susan Corbett is chair of the South Carolina Sierra Club, which aims to preserve the states ecosystem and resouces.


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LEBANON, Pa. -- North Cornwall Township Police say the body of the 75-year-old woman reported missing on Friday has been found. She has been identified as Margaret Schwartz.
Chief Todd Hirsh says Schwartz's body was located Sunday afternoon in the Swatara Creek, about a mile south of Harper's Tavern in East Hanover Township, Lebanon County.
The Pennsylvania State Police were investigating the scene where the body was discovered, according to Hirsh.
An autopsy was performed on Monday and the cause of death was ruled as drowning.
Police say Schwartz's vehicle was found early Saturday morning in the area of Harper's Tavern and Swatara Creek Inn along state Route 934 in Lebanon County.
Saturday a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter assisted in the search of the Swatara Creek but was unsuccessful.
Police say they were assisted on Saturday by the Fort Indiantown Gap Fire Department and their boat, but due to recent rain, the Swatara Creek was high, flowing fast and very murky. Searchers could not see below the water's surface.


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UN Deputy Secretary-General Warns Against Delaying Action on Climate Change
6 October 2008: In her remarks to the Second Committee of
the General Assembly, taking place in New York, US, UN Deputy Secretary-General
Asha-Rose Migiro underlined that Africa is the region that faces the greatest
challenges, in particular in the context of climate change and the food and oil
Noting the lack of sufficient funding to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals, she underscored the costs of delaying action, in particular
in mitigating and adapting to climate change. Migiro stressed the need for
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|dummy in the truck bed, Fireman's challenge, Appomatox, VA
the lie of the stethoscope, is just
cause you hear the beat, don't
mean there is music
whole cities are built on less
& run by men inside, while out
we wait for a riff
of deliverance, but all we got
was backwoods banjo bent. laugh, it will
make you feel
'In God we Trust' is
still on the dollar? well most,
or vice verse, i surf
sunLight, off lips
of erupting volcanoes
nature abhors a vacuum,
so does my cat & yet
all the air sucks out the room at
'no new taxes'
HALLELUJAH, -yah or -iah
(oh yeah)
to the echo of, 'we'll just take
your deductions,'
(insert campaign ad-thumb up, my smiling face)
& meth rots teeth,
had a lady once
tell me she didn't know it'd show
on the test, if she drank it
there is that---
keep the koolaid
on ice, i NEVER inhaled
either (cough, cough)
it's an urban myth people die
because they have no health-
care, someone, anyone
if i have offended, not to worry
47% of you don't matter anyway
oh heck, let's just round that up
enough to star
the spangled banner
(no one is taping this
are they?)
if you don't understand, you weren't
meant to (my staff will issue
a statement to retract
whatever i say today anyway--
to those that do[nate])
but be sure to VOTE
(as often as you can)
for me
just be sure to bring
proper ID(s)
(insert long disclaimer no one reads anyway
and my name - BIG strong & Bold)
fine print: this political (re)mix tape
will self destruct in 19 days
or as soon as the final tally
of the election.
This poem was paid for by FriendsOfResponsibleMasticationOfRealBrainSells, ForMorBS for short...ok, so really it is posted for OpenLinkNight @ dVerse Poets --- where you will find much better poetry than anything i can drivel on the page...anyone ready for election day to be beyond us? Well, in the meantime, write something poetic and bring it at 3 pm EST.
This is what happens when i take the senior government students on a field trip to the campaign headquarters of both parties---and I am not allowed to make comments or ask questions. Ha.


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Years of leaks, rumours, guesswork and quite a few lies-for-attention were put to bed last week, as Amazon revealed the Amazon Fire Phone, a little smartphone friend for the successful Kindle Fire tablet series.
Most of the pre-launch excitement from phone nerds quickly disappeared, though, when Amazon's boss revealed the pricing strategy for the phone's US launch. There is no 'free with Prime' option many had hoped for; it's a high-cost, high-end model, priced similarly to the top-drawer Samsungs and HTCs of this world.
Those hoping for stellar performance on a tiny budget from the delivery logistics specialist were disappointed, while many others were simply confused by Amazon's baffling head-tracking tools that surely won't add much to the phone -- or the buying stuff from Amazon -- experience.
As is commonplace on the internet, no one was particularly happy about anything.
The price may very well be wrong
Beneath a report on the Guardian, reader Naa27 is already predicting some heavy discounting due to the Amazon Fire Phone's hefty launch price, posting: "The Fire tablets worked because they were cheap. Not sure why anyone would pay a premium for this. The specs aren't anything to shout about and benefit of the added features are arguable. Be surprised if this succeeds - though less surprised if a huge price cut happens early on."
And Phaser isn't exactly a fan either, bemoaning the lack of the core Android apps that arrive pre-loaded on the army of other Google-based phones it's competing with, saying: "I really do not like Fire OS from trying it on tablets, and this is very expensive for what it is, while missing best in class services like YouTube and Google Maps. None of the other stuff feels very significant to change my mind on that."
Rakbeast had a business plan for Mr Bezos, but it's not a particularly kind one: "They are the least strategic company around, financially successful due to their dodgy tax dealings and their only strength is the online store. They would be best placed buying Argos, instead of making a damn phone."
Overseas readers should know that Argos is a mainstream household goods shop, where men go to buy last-minute presents for family members and shower curtains. That is therefore perhaps meant as a bit of an insult.
Heading for trouble
On The Register, things were as cynical as usual. Reader R11 won't be trying the Fire Phone out no matter how much it's discounted to by Q2 of 2015, scoffing: "Moving your head a lot is typically uncomfortable. Try tilting your head and keeping it at an angle for a minute. To me at least, this user interface sounds exhausting at best, and downright painful at worst."
He finished his exclusive hands-nowhere-near-it review with: "I really can't think of a worse way to navigate a phone than moving my head."
Reader JDX came back with some facts, or at least some authoritatively-typed words that appear like they might be proper facts, explaining how bodies work with: "People move their head constantly when interacting with the real world or talking to people. Whereas sitting still with a fixed, unblinking stare at your screen is proven to be bad for your health."
And besides, it's all about the apps anyway, as reader Joe K put it: "One of the main reasons that WinPho fails for most people is the lack of app store. Amazon's app store is like a random scattering of apps, some you've heard of, most you won't have, and whose only criteria is their devs who decide to give some money to Bezos."


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Body found in home had been stabbed, police sayUPDATED 5:29 PM MDT Jul 25, 2013
Police have acquired warrant, searched homeVideo Transcript
LATE BREAKING DETAILS TONIGHT ABOUT A BODY FOUND INSIDE A NORTHEAST ALBUQUERQUE HOME OVER THE WEEKEND. POLICE NOW SAYING THE MAN WAS MURDERED--AND THAT'S NOT ALL! ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER MIKE SPRINGER JOINS US LIVE FROM THE 10-THOUSAND BLOCK OF RALPH AVENUE NORTHEAST, WHERE IT HAPPENED. SHELLY, THE BODY WAS FOUND RIGHT HERE IN THIS HOME BEHIND ME. AND NOT ONLY ARE POLICE SAYING THE MAN'S BODY HAD BEEN IN THIS HOME FOR DAYS BEFORE ANYONE CALLED 911. BUT POLICE NOW SAYING HE WAS STABBED. ALBUQUERQUE POLICE SURROUNDED THIS HOME AT 10 THOUSAND BLOCK OF RALPH AVE NORTH EAST SATURDAY. THE BUSY SCENE DREW OUT SOME NEIGHBORS OUT OF THEIR HOMES EARLY IN THE MORNING TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON. I saw the flashing lights. I looked out the window and saw the yellow police tape and the police cars were there POLICE SAY A FAMILY MEMBER OF SOMEONE WHO LIVED HERE CALLED 9-1-1. POLICE TELL US THE FAMILY MEMBER WAS CONCERNED SOMEONE MIGHT BE DEAD INSIDE OF THE HOME. WHEN POLICE GOT THERE, THEY FOUND THE BODY OF 59-YEAR-OLD ROBERT RIECKHOFF. POLICE SAY HE HAD BEEN STABBED. POLICE AREN'T SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT A SUSPECT OR MOTIVE. we spoke to the mail carrier who says he had noticed the mail piling up here for about a week. He said last tuesday or wednesday he noticed a note on the door saying we went to the mountains IT ALSO SAID THEY WENT TO WORK THINGS OUT. POLICE ARE NOT SAYING IF THAT NOTE HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE STABBING NEIGHBORS TELL US REICKHOFF HAD BEEN LIVING AT THE HOME WITH A WOMAN. POLICE SAY THE COUPLE HAD BEEN TOGETHER FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS. ONE NEIGHBOR WE SPOKE TO LIVES JUST A FEW DOORS DOWN FROM THE HOME. HE'S BEEN HERE FOR 10 YEARS. HE DIDN'T KNOW THE COUPLE BUT HE SAYS HE'S NOT SURPRISED BY WHAT HAPPENED. it's just a bad neighborhood. I try to be very careful AGAIN, POLICE HAVE NOT SAID ANYTHING ABOUT A MOTIVE OR ANY SUSPECTS. NO ONE IS FACING ANY CHARGES AT THIS TIME. LIVE FROM NORTH EAST ALBUQUERQUE, MIKE SPRINGER, KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS POLICE TELL US, THEY DID GET A WARRANT AND SEARCH THE HOME; BUT THEY'RE NOT SAYING WHAT THAT SEARCH TURNED UP, IF ANYTHING AT ALL.
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Lopping the top off the pawpaw tree
Monday, November 8, 2010
Lopping the top off the pawpaw tree
What do you do when you can no longer reach to pick the pawpaws on your tree? You lop off the top! I find the thought of this proceedure quite scary, as I dont want to lose this tree, and if you are not careful and allow moisture to get into the top of the stem then the entire trunk will rot. I have a few other pawpaw trees starting up, but often they succumb to a virus and dont make it past a few feet tall. This one is large, healthy and very prolific.
This is predicted to be a very bad cyclone season and so high pawpaw trees will often get knocked down by strong winds. Cutting it down could actually protect the tree, and you can see the tree is ready for this - there are already side branches forming. I need to get it done before the wet season really starts....
Ooh.... first I need to research some recipes for using up green papaws :)
commonly called procrastination!
OK all set.... down she comes! Hubby cut it off with a saw and I stood by with the broom to knock it away so that it didnt fall on his head.
A clean and dry empty tin can will prevent rainwater from entering the exposed cut.
I wonder how long it will be until we get some more pawpaws? well, it is done, and I now have to find uses for 14 pawpaws - well 10 as four already went to neighbours. Some of the pawpaws have a little yellow so I will leave those on the potting table and see if they ripen over time.
I see there are some flowers so I am sure we will soon see some new little pawpaws forming within arms reach.
Here you can see the hollow stem and imagine the disaster it would be if we got some rain inside the stem!
Off to stir my green pawpaw chutney :)
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The CHOICES program was launched in April of 2011 during Student Showcase. We held our first annual ethical case study competition and offered an Ethics Bowl led by students enrolled in a philosophy class. Required elements of the CHOICES program are being implemented in stages over the next three academic years, thus ensuring that every first-year student who entered William Peace University in the fall of 2011 will participate in all required components of the program by the time of graduation. This enables us to collect two years of longitudinal summative data on students who have participated in the program prior to submitting the five-year follow-up report to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. A brief summary of each year is provided below. Implementation details are found in Chapter 6, Actions to be implemented. A detailed timeline that includes student learning outcomes, implementation strategies, responsible parties, assessment and resources is located in Appendix E.
Year 1, 2010-2011: Planning and Launch Planning Activities 2010-2011.
All planning activities were completed by June 30, 2011 including:
- Design of the CHOICES implementation strategies
- Identification of assessment strategies and tools
- Design of Student Orientation (summer and fall sessions)
- Development of learning activities for PSS 100 course
- Development of training programs for student leaders including Resident Assistants, Student Government Officers and President's Ambassadors
- Design of an information sharing and marketing program
- Appointment of a CHOICES Implementation Team to oversee the QEP implementation
Launch Activities 2010-2011
- The QEP was launched on April 14, 2011 at our annual Student Showcase event with the following activities: Opening Ceremony introduction of the QEP topic, Ethical Case Study Competition, Ethics Bowl, and CHOICES logo cups
- In May, we implemented training programs for faculty and staff teaching PSS 100
Year 2, 2011-2012
- Implemented Orientation programming related to CHOICES - July and August, 2011
- Collected baseline data related to student learning outcomes - July and August 2011
- Implemented marketing strategies - July 2011 through June 2012
- Provided training related to CHOICES for student leaders - August 2011
- Provided professional development to faculty for ethical case study development and use of the ethical reasoning rubric - August 2011
- Implemented PSS 100 course for all incoming first-year students - August 2011
- Collect assessment data from first-year students related to Student Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3 - ongoing throughout the year
- Finalize all CHOICES elements of PSS 300 course - by June 30, 2012
Year 3, 2012-2013
- Continue all strategies implemented in 2011-2012
- Train faculty teaching PSS 300 - May 2012
- Implement PSS 300 - August 2012 (the course will be offered primarily for transfers at this point with entering first-year students from 2011 taking the course during the 2013-2014 academic year)
- Finalize all assignments related to CHOICES for PHL 400 and ENG 400 lab - by June 2012
Year 4, 2013-2014
- Continue all strategies implemented in 2011-2012 and 2012-2013
- Train PHL 400 and ENG 400 lab faculty - May 2013
- Implement PHL 400 and ENG 400 lab - August 2013 (entering students from the fall of 2011 planning to graduate in 3 years will take PHL 400 and ENG 400 lab during the 2013-2014 year; those planning to graduate in 4 years will take the course in the 2014-2015 academic year
- Collect posttest assessments - April 2014 (and ongoing every year thereafter)
During the 2013-14 (students entering in 2011 and graduating in three years) and 2014-15 years, we will have our first graduates from William Peace University that have participated in the CHOICES program. By the time our five-year report is due to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, we will have two years of longitudinal data for students who completed all of the required elements of our program.
Appendix E outlines a comprehensive timeline related to implementation and assessment of the CHOICES program as follows:
- column one shows the student learning outcomes (SLOs)
- column two shows the relevant implementation strategies to achieve the SLOs and the academic years during which each strategy will be first implemented (with continuing implementation each academic year thereafter)
- column three shows the person responsible for each portion of implementation or assessment
- column four shows the resources needed to implement the strategies and assessment
- column five shows assessment measures


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Digital History
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Recommendation:5 of 5
Digital History is a comprehensive multimedia resource for American history. The site does an excellent job utilizing technology to provide resources for history students. The variety of information and media are exceptional. The site originated in 2004 and still contains a few components that are 'under construction.' However, the site appears to be frequently updated and added to.
From the website: "This Web site was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and is supported by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University of Houston. "The materials on this Web site include a U.S. history textbook; over 400 annotated documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library, supplemented by primary sources on slavery, Mexican American and Native American history and U.S. political, social, and legal history; succinct essays on the history of film, ethnicity, private life and technology; multimedia exhibitions; and reference resources that include a searchable database of 1,500 annotated links, classroom handouts, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive including speeches and book talks by historians and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images. The site's Ask the HyperHistorian feature allows users to pose questions to professional historians."
Possible uses:
Social Studies teachers can utilize this site for a variety of resources. Online exhibits, an interactive timeline, lesson plans and teacher resources, primary documents and multimedia resources are just a few of the many attributes of this site. Teachers can find a specific activity, movie, e-lecture or resource to use with their curriculum or have students use this site to research an American history topic.
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a long way into something, very involved, mixed up in, stuck in; usually something bad.
i'm knee deep in shit here, i haven't got a clue how to do this.
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usually ends with the words "in shit"
I dont have time to deal with you assholes, cause I'm knee deep in shit!
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Generally deeper that "ankle deep", but always less than "Up to here!"
I sunk that in knee deep, and cracked my nitty nizzle.
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In trouble.
Oh man! I forgot to do my (Insert important task)! Boy am I in knee deep!
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to be in knee deep means to be in a situation to a great extent, generally "knee deep in trouble". It can also be literally knee deep, for instance "knee deep in he dead" from DooM.
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In a lot of trouble
California is knee deep with Arnold Schwartzenegger running things.
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burried into something, can't get out of the situation or do not want to get out of the situation
I was "knee deep" in some fine ass when my Nextel goes off.........
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OXFORD – By the end of this year, new exhibits should be in place to tell the life story of one of the town's most esteemed residents.
Malone Design and Fabrication of Decatur, Ga., whose clients include the Hoover Dam visitors center and Disney World, is creating the exhibits for the L.Q.C. Lamar House.
Lamar was a professor, attorney and planter in Oxford who went on to become a congressman, U.S. senator, secretary of the Interior and Supreme Court justice.
He wrote Mississippi's Ordinance of Secession and served the Confederacy in numerous roles, but he was included in John F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage" for his role in reunifying the nation after the Civil War.
"The man was very diverse, very complete," said Oxford-Lafayette County Heritage Foundation President Bill Russell. "He has the most public service, certainly, of anybody in this state and probably matches anybody in this country."
Several of Lamar's personal items and some of his family's furniture have been added to the house, which the Heritage Foundation had restored from its dilapidated state several years ago.
While volunteer docents have furnished details about Lamar's life and historical significance, the new interpretative exhibits will enable visitors to learn at their own pace about his family, oratory, public life and reconciliation efforts.
Each room's theme – family life, public life, post-war reconciliation and oratory – was researched by a different scholar, including University of Mississippi history professors Harry Owens and David Sansing, Ole Miss Provost Emeritus Gerald Walton and historian Jack Lamar Mayfield, who is a Lamar descendant.
"The exhibit components will carry the story of Lamar within the context of his times," said Darlene Copp, who is working on the project for the Heritage Foundation. "The focus will be on him and his career, but the context will be the times he lived in."
Some aspects of the exhibit will reflect on such elements as slavery and freedmen and the cotton economy. One panel will be about fighting and the South's Code of Honor. Not only did Lamar hit a U.S. marshal during a federal trial, but he also was involved in a congressional brawl spawned by the fatigue and frustrations of a late-night session, but which ended with a legislative breakthrough.
"We're trying to design it in a way that will appeal to different audiences – from the academics at the university to Civil War buffs to people just looking for something to do while they're visiting Oxford," Copp said.
A statue of Lamar, which has been in storage for months, will be placed on the house grounds this fall, as soon as the completion of a base and the onset of milder weather allow.
Inside the 800-pound bronze creation, built slightly larger than life-size by Taylor sculptor Bill Beckwith, will be a document dear to the 19th-Century statesman and law professor.
"Everywhere Mr. Lamar went, he carried a copy of the U.S. Constitution," Russell said. "We thought it appropriate that he still have one with him."
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There's been a major move by major game companies to have online passes for their games and often consequently adding a multiplayer component to previously single-player only series.
And EA has just stated that it has no plans for single-player only releases in the near future. All recent greenlit projects will include multiplayer elements.
Many gamers have complained about multiplayer taking away from their single-player or that multiplayer is useless in single-player franchises like Bioshock and Mass Effect.
Strangely enough for those people, I actually like Bioshock 2's and Mass Effect 3's multiplayer. I felt more immersed in the world and felt like I'm contributing to it. Mass Effect's Galaxy at War stats especially reflect the game state. Assassin's Creed had the multiplayer explore the Templar side of the Animus, which I appreciated though felt could be made even more immersive.
Overall, I feel multiplayer designed with universe in mind can be a great addition. The issue is the potential loss of quality in the single-player. For Bioshock and Mass Effect, I had seen no loss.
For Assassin's Creed, however, I can say that the single-player experience seemed shorter but I can't be sure if it's due to the addition of multiplayer. Since multiplayer had been done concurrently by another team entirely, I'd blame the shorter length on the one-year development time given to Brotherhood and Revelations. Taking that into account and that there has been no true loss of quality in either side, Assassin's Creed has persisted remarkably well.
So I'd say the true trouble comes in tacking on a mode late in development or having the same team develop both modes. Better planning is needed for multi-mode games to ensure quality across the whole package.


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The Panhandle will be well-represented during this week's Texas Girls Coaches Association all-star games in Austin, with three area volleyball and basketball players participating on their respective teams.
Hereford senior Lauren Beville is on the volleyball 4A-5A West all-star team, where she joins the best in the state at 7 p.m. today in Austin. Beville was supposed to be joined on the team by Amarillo High senior Tori Campbell, but a broken finger will keep her from seeing the court tonight.
TGCA all-star games
What: Texas Girls Coaches Association all-star basketball and volleyball games
Where: Tony Burger Center in Austin
When: Volleyball plays tonight, 1A-3A teams at 5 p.m., followed by 4A-5A at 7 p.m.
Basketball plays Thursday, 1A-3A teams at 5:30 p.m., followed by 4A-5A at 8 p.m.
"We were just crushed to learn that she wasn't going to be able to play," said TGCA executive director Sam Tipton, a Gruver High School alum. "But the Panhandle area is still going to have a great showing down here."
Former Bushland volleyball coach Makesha Maupin will coach the 1A-2A-3A West all-star team at 5 p.m.
The courts belong to the basketball girls Thursday, where Canyon senior Kelsey Murgel and Palo Duro senior LaTasha Tubbs will play with the 4A-5A North all-star team at 8 p.m. and Gruver girls basketball coach Rod Been leads the 1A-2A-3A North all-stars at 5:30 p.m.
The TGCA all-star games are part of the organization's 57th annual Summer Clinic. The volleyball and basketball games will be played at the Tony Burger Center.
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The donkaphants are continuing to favor laws benefiting the wealthy and corporations over the best interest of the American people.
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Current Electoral College Reform Efforts Among the States
Robert Bennett
Northwestern University Law School
May 6, 2011
ELECTORAL COLLEGE REFORM, Chapter 12, Gary Bugh, ed., Ashgate Publishing, 2010
Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 11-57
The chapter discusses various recent reform efforts at the state level, with special emphasis on the National Popular Vote Movement and the move to get a uniform state law forbidding "faithless" electors. The discussion includes an exploration of the political tensions in particular faced by proponents of those two reform efforts.
Keywords: electoral college, national popular vote, faithless electors
Date posted: May 9, 2011 ; Last revised: June 22, 2011
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Political pundits agree that President Obama's debate performance was far better than his first; however, most say it won't make much of an impact with voters.
Greg Sargent, with the Washington Post, said the debate was a boost for the president.
"This race will still be the dead heat tomorrow that it was yesterday, but Obama made big strides towards turning things around tonight," he said.
But Fred Barnes, with The Weekly Standard, said he didn't think it would help the president's campaign.
"That Obama was stronger last night doesn't mitigate the dire effects of the first nationally televised clash with Romney on Oct. 3," he said.
And Jeff Greenfield, with Yahoo! News, said the debate won't make a difference for those whose minds were changed by that first debate.
"While it's clear that Obama's performance will revive the enthusiasm of his supporters, it seems unlikely that it will cause those impressed by Romney to reconsider," he said.
Ron Fournier, with the National Journal, summed up the views of many analysts.
"Democratic and Republican partisans will find reason to celebrate the debate but it likely did nothing to reshape the closely fought race," he said.
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1. Where was Andrew
Jackson most likely born?
2. How did Jackson's
oldest brother die?
3. Jackson killed
how many people in duels?
4. Jackson conducted
his first military campaign against which Indian tribe?
5. Who nominated
Jackson for the Presidency in 1824?
6. Jackson's execution
in Florida of two men from which European country helped start
an international incident?
7. How many bills
did Jackson veto?
8. Whom did Jackson
nominate to be minister to Britain?
9. Which U.S. President
almost censured Jackson?
10. Jackson grew
up in what part of South Carolina?
11. Put these pieces
of legislation in chronological order: Bank Bill, Force Bill, Maysville
Road Bill, Tariff of 1832.
12. In what setting
did Jackson and Vice President Calhoun publicly exchange views
on nullification?
13. How many times
did Jackson marry his wife?
14. What was the
group of Jackson's unofficial Presidential advisors called?
15. Jackson's government
spent fifteen million dollars fighting which Indian tribe?
16. What year was
the first major Tariff of Jackson's administration passed?
17. Why was Jackson
wary of credit?
18. Jackson served
as governor of what territory?
19. How many times
was Jackson officially censured?
20. Jackson recognized
what independent nation in 1837?
21. How many years
after Jackson's first Senate censure did the Senate expunge that
22. Why was Jackson
nicknamed "Old Hickory"?
23. How much was
Jackson fined for contempt of court in New Orleans?
24. Whom did Jackson
nominate to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
25. Which state threatened
to secede during the Nullification Crisis?
26. The Nullification
Crisis happened because of what bill?
27. After surviving
the Nullification Crisis, Jackson got an honorary degree from what
28. Jackson beat
which popular Tennessee governor to be major general of the state's
29. What did Jackson
announce in December 1834?
30. Jackson contracted
what disease while in a British prison camp?
31. Who beat Jackson
in the election of 1824?
32. How much of the
nation's loans did the Second Bank control at its peak?
33. Who ran against
Jackson for the Presidency in 1834 on the National Republican ticket?
34. The U.S. Senate
censured Jackson for what in 1834?
35. Whom did Jackson
accuse of a "corrupt bargain" after the election of 1824?
36. Why did the government
pay Jackson $2,372 in 1844?
37. The Senate rejected
which of Jackson's nominees to punish Jackson for the Bank fiasco?
38. Jackson upheld
the Supreme Court's decision to stay the execution of an Indian
by what state?
39. Jackson imposed
what treaty on the Seminoles?
40. How many times
did the Tennessee legislature nominate Jackson for the Presidency
before he won it?
41. Jackson forced
France to repay what debt?
42. In order to preserve
financial responsibility, Jackson asked Congress to do what?
43. Jackson's policy
of Indian removal led to what tragedy during Van Buren's presidency?
44. Jackson first
used what Constitutional tool?
45. Jackson resigned
from what position to run for President in 1824?
46. Jackson avenged
the failed nomination of Roger Taney as secretary of the treasury
by appointing him what?
47. What do Presidential
candidates Andrew Jackson, Samuel Tilden, and Al Gore all have
in common?
48. Jackson holds
the distinction of being what?
49. What was Jackson's
estate called?
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Last week, the Houston City Council unanimously passed an exemption to city regulations, allowing supermarkets to sell beer and wine next to schools and churches to encourage grocers to locate in neighborhoods that lack access to fresh, healthy food.
These so-called "food deserts" are common in Houston and cities nationwide. Without Houston's rule change, grocers – which industry experts say must offer beer and wine to be competitive – could not operate within 300 feet of churches and most private schools, or within 1,000 feet of public schools.
University of Houston researchers have estimated 26 percent of Harris County residents, slightly above the national average, lack access to healthy food, with most living in low-income areas. Studies have linked food deserts to diet-related diseases, as well as higher food prices for residents.
Today, The Atlantic Cities website reports how poverty makes people sick. The article, Poverty is Literally Making People Sick Because They Can't Afford Food, focuses on a Health Affairs paper that studied people who went to the hospital for low blood sugar.
The basic idea is that people struggling to make it paycheck-to-paycheck (or benefits-to-benefits) might run out of money at the end of the month—and have to cut back on food. If they have diabetes, this hunger could turn into an even more severe health problem: low blood sugar. So we should expect a surge of hypoglycemia cases at the end of each month for low-income people, but not for anybody else.
Here's the link to the article.