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I have a MSI k7t266 pro 2 ver 2.0 motherboard in my tower I just got a little while back from a friend for very cheap. I have had shit computers all my life and want to get into a real good system. I am wondering if this board would be good to use and upgrade or if I am better off finding a newer one. It has a AMD athlon XP processor and I know the boards from 2002. Anyone have a link to a real nice motherboard I could look into getting? Is this one kinda out of date to where I should use it as a backup computer? I am looking for a multi use device. Something that supports heavy gaming too.
to start off, yeah that boards really old, i wouldnt bother puttin too much into it.
i built a new system couple months ago, and i used this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00..._ya_oh_product for my MoBo. great performer, plenty of extra's, and at about $230 you really do get alot of board for the money. used a i7-920 proc, 6gb corsair dominator and threw it in a Cooler Master HAF full tower. easiest build i have ever done... ever! and ive built quite a few machines.
i also put two geforce gtx260 core 216's in SLI. and couple months later, the only problems i seem to be having are the beta 64-bit video drivers with basically open beta OS (windows 7 RC 64-bit). super fast and rips through everything. i did a benchmark with HL2 at 1920x1200 all video settings at max and averaged 160+ frames per second.
little pricy i know, but i take my computers seriously heh. hope it helps ya in any way.
Any info helps, thank you. I have been into computers but never bothered getting to into building them. Now I have the time and getting the money and parts I feel like having some fun with them. I just spent the good half of a day figuring out why my computer was over heating to 70C. I figured it out and the comp I have has a smart fan 2 in it. Who ever used this had it plugged in and thats it. This fan comes with a harness for a temp probe and a harness for a potentiometer to control the fan speed. None of these came with the machine and the fan was running to low. I had to hook a switch to it to control the speed. The fan can blow 75.6 CFM at 5600 rpm. When its going full speed sounds like a turbo.
there is the computer i built, full specs and pics. i have since added a WD Velociraptor 300gb 10k rpm HDD, and a seagate 1.5tb hard drive. and really debating on getting this fan controller http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811992004
im a bit up on the higher end, before the hard drive upgrades i believe i spent about $1400, and that was reusing 2 hard drives, 2 optical drives and a sound card. skip a video card and use a single one will drop a couple hundred off.
im gonna go on again about the case i got, the Cooler Master HAF 932. i love it. it is big, bulky and heavy, but room for anything and everything, a cut out for heatsink backplates and easy cable routing behind the motherboard tray. this was by far my easiest build, and when i added these hard drives i had to remove 1 of the video cards to get back at the SATA ports, and even all that was super easy and took me seconds to do.
any other questions on components feel free to ask and ill be glad to help, computer building is one of my favorite things in the world heh.
Athlon XP will NOT support heavy gaming :\ I used to run an Athlon adn the highest I could get mine to run would be at 2.1ghz (stock 1.8). Go with a newer board. I just got a board that will support up to a quad core CPU (has a Celeron D in it now) for around $100 CPU included.
sorry for the late reply, i didnt see the post.
honestly now a days you can purchase a system from one of the major PC compnaies for cheaper then you can build it on your own
I got an intel i7 CPU and 9gb of DDR3 ram, a 1gb ATI video card not really built for gaming but it flies doing nearly everything else and most games run on it just fine.
Hmm, question about "mother boards".
Well, from what I understand, two boards, male and female, get together and have a baby plank. From there, the female board turns into a "mother" of this baby plank, thus resulting in a "mother board".
I hope this helps.
(I know nothing about computers)
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Samsung PropelCompareSamsung Propel A767 is a slider with landscape display and full QWERTY when opened. Although it has similar design to the I620 it is not a smartphone. It features 3G, 1.3MP camera, stereo Bluetooth, microSD slot, music and video player.+ View Specs
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Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60Compare6.5 reviewThe nuvifone G60 is the first phone by Garmin-Asus. Its design utilizes a large 3.5-inch touch screen and no hardware keys on the body. The nuvifone G60 is equipped with a GPS receiver, Wi-Fi support and a 3MP camera.+ View Specs
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Pantech BreezeComparePantech Breeze is designed to be easy to use and is advertised for its large numeric and navigation keys and the three extra one-touch quick call buttons. It is quad-band world phone, with VGA (640x480) camera, Instant Messenger and phonebook capacity of 500 entries.+ View Specs
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LG XenonCompare6.5 reviewLG Xenon offers a sliding form factor with a full QWERTY keyboard, 2 megapixel camera, A-GPS, an accelerometer, and a proximity sensor.+ View Specs
6.5LG Xenon
Nokia 2660CompareNokia 2660 is a dual-band GSM clamshell. It features 65k color STN display, Bluetooth, FM Radio, WAP browser, Organizer and speakerphone+ View Specs
Nokia 2660
Palm CentroCompare8 reviewThe GSM variant of the Centro has the same design as the CDMA/EV-DO version, so is one of the small Palms. It is quad-band GSM/EDGE phone with touch-sensitive display, Palm OS and featutes 1.3-megapixel camera, microSD slot and Stereo Bluetooth.+ View Specs
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Nokia 6085CompareThe affordable 6085 has mediocre displays and VGA (0.3-megapixels) camera, but in the rather stylish clamshell form it packs slot for memory card (microSD), Stereo Bluetooth, and email client. It is quad-band GSM/EDGE phone capable of global roaming+ View Specs
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Sony Ericsson C905aCompare8 reviewSony Ericsson C905a is the first Cyber-shot in slider form-factor, and the first with 8-megapixel resolution. It also features GPS for Geo-tagging, WiFi and has TV-out.+ View Specs
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Pantech C630ComparePantech C630 is a quad-band GSM candybar featuring 262k color TFT display, 1.3 MP camera, stereo Bluetooth, microSD slot for memory, MP3 player and Speakerphone.+ View Specs
Pantech C630
Nokia 6650CompareNokia 6650 is 3G-enabled clamshell running on Symbian S60. It has integrated GPS for navigation, QVGA internal display and color external one, keys for controlling the player and microSD slot.+ View Specs
Nokia 6650
Samsung SGH-A237CompareSamsung SGH-A237 is a quad-band GSM clamshell. It features 65k color TFT Display, VGA Camera, Bluetooth, MMS messaging and Organizer.+ View Specs
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LG INCITECompare5 reviewLG INCITE is a global GSM/3G phone with Wi-Fi, GPS for AT&T Navigator and 3 MP camera. It has WQVGA 240x400 pixels display and is running Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional with personalized interface (with a menu resembling the Vu's one).+ View Specs
Samsung Propel ProCompare8 reviewLike the Propel, Propel Pro is a slider with full QWERTY keyboard when opened, but it is a smartphone, running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard operating system. It features color display, microSD memory slot, music player and organizer.+ View Specs
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BlackBerry Pearl 8120CompareBlackBerry Pearl 8120 is the Wi-Fi capable variant of the Pearl, using the same design of the popular phone but adding Wireless LAN capability. It also improves on the multimedia functionality, adding 3.5mm standard stereo jack for headphones and video recording capability to the camera.+ View Specs
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Pantech Matrix ProCompare7 reviewPantech Matrix Pro is a dual-slider phone that opens in portrait mode for numeric keypad and in landscape for full QWERTY. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard OS and features 3G support, 2-megapixel camera, QVGA display and GPS.+ View Specs
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Sony Ericsson W580Compare6.8 reviewSony Ericsson W580 is a quad-band GSM slider dedicated to music. It features 262k color QVGA TFT display, 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth with A2DP support, FM Radio with RDS and Memory Stick Micro M2 slot for memory.+ View Specs
6.8Sony Ericsson W580
Nokia 2610CompareNokia 2610 is an entry-level phone with 65 color display and support of MP3 files as a ring tone. It features WAP internet browser and has built-in speakerphone. 2610 operates in dual-band GSM networks+ View Specs
Nokia 2610
LG CU400 / CU405CompareLG CU400 is 3G-capable clamshell phone with integrated antenna. It has a couple of displays, VGA camera (CU400 only) that can capture QVGA video, multimedia players and Bluetooth. The quad-band GSM can work in the whole world, but its 3G is states-only+ View Specs
Motorola RAZR V3Compare8 reviewMotorola V3 is a quad-band roaming GSM phone. At only 0.54 thin, it is the slimmest phone on the market and sports 64k TFT display, VGA camera, Bluetooth, polyphonic ringtones, J2ME, streaming multimedia and 3D graphics engine.+ View Specs
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Samsung SGH-A227CompareSamsung SGH-A227 is an entry level GSM clamshell featuring 65k STN main display, MMS messaging, WAP browser and Alarm clock.+ View Specs
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LG InvisionCompareThe third mobile TV phone of AT&T is the smallest in the U.S. to offer this feature. It also has 1.3-megapixel camera, microSDHC memory slot, Stereo Bluetooth, Music Player and Organizer.+ View Specs
LG Invision
Pantech MatrixCompare7 reviewPantech's Matrix is equipped with a 1.3 megapixel camera, and supports quad-band frequencies for GSM/EDGE and dual band for 3G speeds. The phone is also complimented with a microSD slot, MP3 player, XM radio and AT&T Navigator.+ View Specs
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Motorola V365CompareMotorola V365 is a tri-band GSM phone in clamshell design with dual displays. The built-in VGA camera can capture video on the 5MB memory or move it to a microSD card. The phone supports multimedia players, email, and internet+ View Specs
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Pantech DuoComparePantech Duo is a dual-slider phone that opens in portrait mode for numeric keypad and in landscape for full QWERTY. It runs on Windows Mobile 6 Standard OS and features 3G support, 1.3-megapixel camera and QVGA display.+ View Specs
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Sony Ericsson W350Compare6 reviewSony Ericsson W350 is a flip phone, with music buttons when closed and standard keypad on the inside. It is 0.4"/10mm slim device with basic functionality, available in a few color variants.+ View Specs
6Sony Ericsson W350
HTC Touch ProCompare9 reviewHTC Touch Pro is the successor of the TyTN II, or a Diamond with a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard. It has similar specs to the latter, including VGA display, WiFi, GPS and 580 MHz Processor.+ View Specs
9HTC Touch Pro
Sony Ericsson W760CompareThe W760 is the first Sony Ericsson with GPS, comes with software for navigation and fitness applications, and is is also the first Walkman with global 3G support. It has stereo speakers, stereo Bluetooth, 3.2-megapixel camera and FM radio. It features the third version of the Walkman player, with SenseMe, ShakeMe and Motion Sensor, which is also used for gaming. Preloaded the phone comes with a few 3G games, including Need For Speed.+ View Specs
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Pantech C610ComparePantech C610 is a GSM clamshell featuring 262k color TFT display, 1.3MP camera, A-GPS, microSD slot for navigation, stereo Bluetooth and music player.+ View Specs
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Samsung SGH-A737CompareSamsung SGH-A737 is a slim slider quad-band GSM with HSDPA support. Its 15mm thick body packs a 1.3 megapixels camera, Stereo Bluetooth, and microSD slot for memory.+ View Specs
Samsung SGH-A737
LG CE110CompareLG CE110 is a dual-band GSM Clamshell featuring 65k color TFT display, Bluetooth 2.0, VGA Camera, Calendar and Speakerphone+ View Specs
AT&T QuickfireCompare5 reviewAT&T Quickfire is a quad-band GSM slider with QWERTY keyboard. It features QVGA 262k color touch display, 1.3 MP camera, stereo Bluetooth, GPS, Music player and microSD slot.+ View Specs
5AT&T Quickfire
Samsung EternityCompare7 reviewSamsung Eternity is a quad-band GSM with HSDPA support. It features 262k color touch screen, Mobile TV, 3 MP camera, GPS, stereo Bluetooth, microSDHC card slot and Music player.+ View Specs
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Samsung BlackJack IICompare8 reviewSamsung BlackJack II has similar form-factor to its predecessor, with 2.4" landscape QVGA display and full QWERTY keyboard on the front side. It upgrades it with Windows Mobile 6 Standard (instead of 5), built-in GPS, 2-megapixel camera (instead of 1.3) and tri-band UMTS/HSDPA which would allow for 3G global-roaming.+ View Specs
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Nokia 2320 classicCompareNokia 2320 classic is a dual-band GSM candybar. It fetures 65k color TFT display, Bluetooth, Organizer and Speakerphone.+ View Specs
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Nokia MuralCompare8 reviewNokia Mural is 3G-enabled sleek clamshell for AT&T. It has a QVGA internal display and color external one, keys for controlling the player and microSD slot.+ View Specs
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LG CP150CompareLG CP150 is a simple quad-band GSM clamshell. It features 65k color TFT display, WAP browser, Instant messaging, Speakerphone and Organizer.+ View Specs
Samsung EpixCompare7.5 reviewSamsung Epix is the AT&T version of the i780, a slim candybar with square touch display and QWERTY keyboard. It is quad-band GSM and tri-band UMTS/HSDPA phone with Wi-Fi, GPS and 2MP camera. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system and 624MHz processor.+ View Specs
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LG Shine CU720Compare6.5 reviewThe US variant of the LG Shine slider is a quad-band GSM with UMTS for 3G. It has similar design to the original one but replaces the 3-way scroll with standard 5-way joystick. The Shine has 70MB of memory expandable via microSD slot, features QVGA display, 2-megapixel camera and Stereo Bluetooth.+ View Specs
6.5LG Shine CU720
Pantech SlateCompare7 reviewPantech Slate is said to be the world's thinnest device with a QWERTY keypad. It is a quad-band GSM and features 1.3MP camera and Bluetooth.+ View Specs
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AT&T TiltCompare9.8 reviewHTC Kaiser comes as replacement of the TyTN and adds GPS to its features. Unique is the form-factor, which reminds of the Shift - the UMPC of the brand. Unlike it, Kaiser is WM6 Professional phone with QVGA display, 3-megapixel camera, microSD slot for memory and QWERTY keyboard. It runs on 400 MHz Qualcomm processor and operates in quad-band GSM and tri-band UMTS (HSDPA 3.6mbps) networks.+ View Specs
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Yes - that could very well be.
True, but my point is that he's got a broken vertebrae in his neck and we both know that's the first thing that went through his mind when he found out.
IMHO still frame photos, and watching the play over, and over again in slow motion only makes Chara out to be a monster, and gives ammo to those who believe he intentially tried to injure Pacioretty by ramming his head into the "turnbuckle".
When ya watch it in "normal" speed I am of the opinion the 2 players were fighting for the puck (both had their heads down, and were whacking away at the puck) while skating as fast as they could; just that things went bad as Chara rubbed Pacioretty along the boards, and taking their forward momentum into play - he unintentially rode him into the stanchion.


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What thing (law, practice, etc.) most infringes on our right to carry?
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> What thing (law, practice, etc.) most infringes on our right to carry?
February 20, 2007, 07:16 PM
Just like the title says.... What law (or other 'thing') is the greatest infringement on our right to carry?
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February 20, 2007, 07:28 PM
Illinois State Law
February 20, 2007, 07:31 PM
Judges who can not or will not understand the constitution.
February 20, 2007, 07:48 PM
two things, the ultra loose interpretation of 'intrastate law' juxtaposed with ''the good of the people' and 'to promote the general welfare' . these are horribly used against us. Also , believe it or not , the 16th amendment is literally used as a catch all by the government , to do what they think is ' fair and equitable,' between two or more parties, or to stop that which is harmful, or they deem harmful, to them, also known as federal government.
Baba Louie
February 20, 2007, 08:18 PM
Criminals using firearms for evil intent and the ensuing laws/ordinances passed which are devised to add more weight and time to the offender's sentence once they're caught and tried.
Remember the line from the movie Tombstone where newly appointed Marshall Virgil Earp tells the crowd, "I'm not saying you can't own a gun. I'm not saying you can't carry a gun. I'm only saying you can't carry a gun IN TOWN!"
Ordinances like that aren't passed due to the law abiding citizen's actions, are they?
February 20, 2007, 08:22 PM
How about the far left liberal wing of the Democratic Party?
What could infringe more than that?
February 20, 2007, 08:32 PM
rino's are just as bad if not worse.
February 20, 2007, 08:35 PM
For me, as a practical day-to-day matter, the greatest limit on my RKBA is my employer's policy. Can't carry at work, can't carry to and from work. That's a lot of "can't carry" in my week.
February 20, 2007, 09:09 PM
rino's are just as bad if not worse.No major argument there. It's just that the Democrats are more organized and vehement about obliterating the Second Amendment. I tend to think the RINOs are a bit more indifferent.
February 20, 2007, 09:19 PM
For me, as a practical day-to-day matter, the greatest limit on my RKBA is my employer's policy. Can't carry at work, can't carry to and from work. That's a lot of "can't carry" in my week.
That's my biggest problem!!! It's annoying because my company's rule states that guns cannot even be locked in your car on company property. I still carry everyday and keep it in my car.
How about the far left liberal wing of the Democratic Party?
What could infringe more than that?
Yep. The liberal left is the biggest opponent to the Constitution itself.
February 20, 2007, 09:33 PM
February 20, 2007, 09:35 PM
1. Finding clothes that meet my needs, and still allow me to carry.
2. My wife doesn't like it.
February 20, 2007, 10:04 PM
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
As much as I love the 2A, the Framers have caused us a century of greif because of the way they worded this ammendment. Half the gun-control laws on the books are based on the fact that "well regulated" does not mean today what it did in the 1780's.
Plus, ever since the 1980's we've had this whole dang "collective right" meme floating around. :uhoh: See my sig for the way I feel about that. :barf:
Bazooka Joe71
February 20, 2007, 10:09 PM
The dumb-ocrats....Oops, I mean democrats.:D
February 21, 2007, 10:34 AM
WE allowed this to happen people. Blame anyone else you want, but the ultimate blame lays firmly upon our shoulders.
Compare the reaction of gun rights supporters with those who supported and worked for changes in civil rights law, slavery or women's suffrage. We have been largely passive - afraid to take a stand because we're more worried about possible additional restrictions.
This is a mess of our own making.
Outlaw Man
February 21, 2007, 10:41 AM
Arkansas's restrictions on places you can carry. My last state representative always put up a good fight trying to get those restrictions removed. Unfortunately, they redrew the boundaries and I'm no longer one of his constituents. :(
February 21, 2007, 10:48 AM
Honorsdaddy -
Well said. Sad, but true.
Wesson Smith
February 21, 2007, 10:51 AM
My initial response would be the fact that there are any
restrictions at all, but that's wishful thinking. :(
That aside, I'd have to say that it would be the
"in plain sight" at all times carry restriction inside a
motor vehicle. Fortunately (in Ohio) that restriction
was legislated out, and becomes law in March.
The other would be that (again in Ohio) I have to
pull my vehicle over and lock my carry weapon in the glove
box everytime I am approaching a school zone. Absolute
rubbish. :fire:
February 21, 2007, 12:51 PM
metal detectors...
February 21, 2007, 01:01 PM
The mindset of our current "culture" is the direct and deliberate result of decades of systematic misinformation, disinformation, information denial, and moral grooming by embedded socialists in our education system.
Until you fix that, the problem will persist.
If you're taught, from childhood, to fear something because it's evil and dangerous, there is much to unlearn before any progress is made.
Fix education.
February 21, 2007, 01:32 PM
Indeed, HonorsDaddy & ArfinGreebly.
I think it's high-time to go from the state skirmishes and into the federal theater.
The couple holdout states will lockstep.
It's time to go mainstream.
February 21, 2007, 01:33 PM
Especially when they are combined.
These are the two things that the anti-gun proponents use to their greatest advantage.
An example of ignorance: Putting a sign up indicating "no guns are allowed" will prevent someone with ill intent from coming in and shooting people inside.
An example of emotion: "Anyone you walk by in a mall might be carrying a gun and could just pull it out and start shooting people."
An example of both combined: "Just think about the risk to our children with all those people carrying concealed guns in playgrounds and parks. We must ban guns from parks and playgrounds."
February 21, 2007, 02:20 PM
I call it "The McDonald's education system".
Tasty and for the masses. But ultimately lousy for you.
February 21, 2007, 03:20 PM
Ignorance and emotion
Exactly. That is called liberalism.
WE allowed this to happen people. Blame anyone else you want, but the ultimate blame lays firmly upon our shoulders.
Compare the reaction of gun rights supporters with those who supported and worked for changes in civil rights law, slavery or women's suffrage. We have been largely passive - afraid to take a stand because we're more worried about possible additional restrictions.
This is a mess of our own making.
It is a very different fight. In those other cases, people were fighting to GAIN rights. We HAVE the right and it is being slowly taken away.
...if you drop a frog into boiling water, it will jump for its life. However, if you put a frog in a pot of cool water and slowly raise it up to a boil, the frog will sit still until it dies. (This is ONLY what I have heard to be true)
P.S. The original question was really asking "what thing". Education is a good one. Saying "all the people who vote against gun rights" is a little obvious. We can't simply will them to change, so... What thing causes them to be like that, or what thing have they imposed that we need to stop?
February 21, 2007, 04:06 PM
Ignorance and emotion aren't exactly the exclusive property of the left.
I think the problem is that the average person doesn't really care about gun rights one way or the other. They don't deal with guns, are content not to probe any farther into the issue than "guns are dangerous", and are fine with restricting their availability. And why wouldn't they be? It doesn't affect them, so they might as well err on the side of "caution". Just like cigarettes. No one gets up in arms or considers right and wrong when the government taxes the holy bejesus out of smokes. After all, cigarettes are bad. If their makers get screwed a bit, no big deal.
People seem to think that we should make laws based on what makes "reasonable sense", not on what's right or wrong or has anything to do with the Constitution. Some kids got shot last week? Let's put our heads together and see if we can make some rules to fix that. Violates our rights? That's not really important. We live in a very organized, safe society that doesn't need to stick to those quaint old ideas. Let's not get bogged down in the past when we could be making the world safer.
February 21, 2007, 04:15 PM
Campers, we need to quit knee-jerking and calling anything we don't agree with "liberal."
That really hacks off those of us who consider ourselves "liberals."
I think that the biggest problem we have is education. And the folks we NEED to educate shut down when they hear crap like that.
People desire safety. And when a gay atheist minority artist hears that you, with your guns, are fundamentally aligned against him, he wants your guns to go away. Because he's scared of him. Conversely, if you welcome him, without using all sorts of "conservative" rhetoric, to a "public safety and personal protection course," he's there.
WE are our own biggest enemy. If there are a hundred normal accepting folks out there, and one fellow with a klucker sticker on his mud truck, a confederate flag t-shirt, and an NRA hat on, guess which one is the loudest...
February 21, 2007, 04:38 PM
Aye bogie,
Liberal is a scam. Another robbed term that was twisted by far-leftist insurgents and wielded to attempt to bestow upon themselves the personage of the old and true meaning of Liberal.
Don' call 'em what they want to be called. Call 'em what they are.
February 21, 2007, 05:16 PM
Crappy thin belts and pants with too small belt loops seem to be the biggest infringement on my carrying.
I Love Texas :D
Brian Dale
February 21, 2007, 06:23 PM
For me, that would be Wisconsin's total prohibition of concealed carry by non-LEO citizens.
{Ev'rybody Sing:}
Reds to the Left of me,
Fudds to the Right,
Here I am, building an AR or two...
(I'm not spending time or money on the right carry piece, holsters or belts, so I spend them on rifles, shotguns and big revolvers. These things are good, but they stay at home)
Yeah, TexasSIGman, I'd love some things about Texas, too.
February 21, 2007, 07:30 PM
Fear , and the relief that scared people feel when Mommy the Government says " There , there. I'll make it better. We'll take all the guns away from the scary men. You'll be just fine."
Daddy the Free Citizen needs to say : " I'm sorry you were scared. Be stronger, there is no other way to deal with scary men. Mommy can't help you. It's time to grow up."
February 21, 2007, 08:02 PM
Honors daddy, You are exactly right, rights not exercised are lost. We as civil rights activists need to start having marches, etc. Yea I know, they will come and arrest you for that in some places(D.C., Chicago, NYC etc),
Not if we can get 1, 2, or more thousands to March. Look at the illegals, look at the million man march, with those numbers, no one could stop us.
Afterwards, we can sit back and say"See 3,000 people with guns and not a single incident". (though I wouldn't put it past leftists to sabotage it)
Bogie, I agree with the liberal part of your synopsis, but not the other to some degree. While as distastefull as I find anyone who would wear a kkk t shirt, I still say they have a right to wear it as much as a Malcom X t shirt, La Raza t shirt or a gay pride t shirt.
I don't think it is fear that motivates a lot of the antis as much as intolerance, in spite of the fact all they teach is tolerance. It seems they only want to tolerate what they believe in.
February 21, 2007, 09:33 PM
Ignorance and emotion aren't exactly the exclusive property of the left.
You are right. I was kinda poking fun at the majority of the antis' beliefs.
I think that the biggest problem we have is education. And the folks we NEED to educate shut down when they hear crap like that.
I get frustrated because, it seems, those same people shut down when you try to talk and reason with them as well.
I have a friend at work, who is NOT anti-gun (he likes them). However, even he has said to me....
"carrying a gun gives ANYONE a tough-guy attitude" When I asked, he confirmed that he means "every single person" will get a bad attitude when carrying.
"carrying a gun is asking for violence"
"I don't trust myself to carry"
"I don't see myself ever needing a gun"
I don't agree with the first 2 statements. The last 2 are his own feelings, which are fine with me. Just passing this on.
February 21, 2007, 10:24 PM
In a larger, broader sense, Statism is the biggest thing standing in our way. Yeah, it's brought down on us largely by the Democrats, but lately (in the last 60 of so years) the Repubs have been nearly as bad.
In a more local and practical sense, it is the large percentage of workplaces who don't allow concealed carry.
They're both pretty nefarious, but I'd have to say that the workplace restrictions are the more sinister and oppressive.
February 21, 2007, 11:23 PM
The biggest threat for gun owners or supporters of 2A rights is BEING REASONABLE. Our schools teach that guns are evil, just like tobacco, drugs, warfare, etc. The passivity of the American voter will be the death of 2A rights as we know them now. The passive American is being lead by the liberal socialistic Democratic Congress without stenuous passive Republican objection.
February 22, 2007, 12:41 AM
February 22, 2007, 01:45 AM
Shooter, a lot of what your bud's saying is basically what the shrinks call "transference." Which means that the "subject" is transferring his feelings to others... Not exactly bad, but not good either... Your friend should maybe be around friends a lot (be supportive, okay?), and your friend also needs to realize that helping someone else is not a bad thing, even if a bad person is injured.
There are FAR too many "anti" gun people who think that carrying seems to make someone either invincible (yeah, uh huh...), or feel invincible.
Yeah. Some folks will get an attitude on.
Those _same_ folks aren't going to pay a lot of attention to society's laws, because they do not feel that they are obligated to them.
So, _how_ will keeping guns away from dumbnuts attitude-boy encourage safety? Because, he +will+ find them... and he'll then turn around, and HARM a DISARMED population.
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Rep. Jon D. Fox
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to our Gold Star Mothers who have suffered the terrible losses of their sons and daughters for the defense of our nation. These young men and women were in the prime of life, full of hope and youthful promise, when they died defending their country and preserving our freedom.
Their loss was and is heart-breaking for the families and friends left behind. And--enjoying the long period of peace and freedom that these young American service men and women bought so dearly--we are in danger of forgetting their great sacrifice.
But there is one group of fine Americans who are uniquely able to make sure that the rest of us do not forget. They are the Gold Star Mothers. Each one lost a child who died in the military service of our country during this of war.
I am proud and grateful that we have a strong and active group of Gold Star Mothers in the Delaware Valley region including the 13th District of Pennsylvania which I represent in Congress.
The cast of ``Reflections'' is composed of students from Erdenheim Elementary School in Springfield Township, Montgomery County and students from Upper Dublin High School from Fort Washington, Pennsylvania as well as students from Thomas Edison and Olney High Schools in Philadelphia. The play is a retrospective of our patriotism and a testament to the sacrifices our country has asked of its mothers.
The Play was written, produced and directed by one of my constituents, Vietnam Veteran Frank ``Bud'' Kowalewski. I commend his tireless work in offering our young people the opportunity to honor lost lives, and teaching them the nature of valor and patriotism. The play strives to educate the nation on the sacrifices made by Gold Star Mothers. I congratulate the cast on their achievements in reminding us all the true reason we celebrate Memorial Day in America.
On May 21st, 1998, the cast, dressed in historical period costumes, will accompany a local Gold Star Mother on a trip to Buffalo, New York. There, the cast will perform with students from Riverside High School in their Memorial Day Assembly. This production--``Reflections Going Home''--is dedicated as a Mother's Day Card Gold Card to all Gold Star Mothers.
Previously, the troupe has traveled to our nation's capital where they laid a wreath at the Vietnam War Memorial on the National Mall and were honored by Congress just last year.
The Gold Star Mothers are part of a group that had its roots in the first great conflict of the 20th Century--World War I. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed that service flags would be displayed at homes that had family members serving the country. Blue Stars were displayed for each family member in the Armed Forces. And, as the war progressed and casualties mounted, the stars were turned to Gold Stars to represent each service member killed defending our country.
The Gold Star Mothers were officially organized in Washington, DC, in 1929. But one does not have to be a formal member of the national organization to be a Gold Star Mother. The standard for entering this revered group of Americans is much, much higher and more difficult than simply joining an organization. One must have had a child who made the supreme sacrifice for our country. It is a non-profit, non-political organization which was first organized by 25 mothers in June 1928 an was incorporated on January 5, 1929. In 1936 Congress--in a joint resolution--designated the last Sunday in September as Gold Star Mother's Day. In 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt further recognized the day.
These Gold Star Mothers, perhaps better than anyone else, know the agony that comes from caring for, nurturing, and raising up a child only to see that young life lost just as it is beginning. But these fine Americans deserve the greatest admiration, thanks and respect from all of us and I find it remarkable that this group of courageous women is that they refuse to allow their grief to become the victor. Instead, they chose to channel their pain and suffering into productive work to benefit veterans and the community at large.
These ladies whose loved ones did not make it home devote themselves to caring for and helping those who did. In a supreme act of love and concern for others, many Gold Star Mothers dedicate themselves to helping the children of other mothers, children who survived war. Gold Star Mothers assist in all manner of ways. They visit veterans' hospitals to help service people there. They take part in patriotic observances that help all of us remember the sacrifices that bought our freedom.
But the Gold Star Mothers did not stop there. They wanted to expand their opportunities to assist veterans and their families and sought a Congressional Charter so they could work in veterans' hospitals throughout the country. Their charter was granted in 1984 and outlines the objectives and purposes for which they were organized including; (1) assisting all veterans and their dependents in claims to the U.S. Veterans Administration, (2) inspiring respect for our flag, the Stars and Stripes, (3) encouraging a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and Union; and (4) perpetuating the memory of those whose lives were sacrificed in our nation's wars.
I salute the Gold Star Mothers of the Thirteenth Congressional District, the entire Greater Philadelphia area and the Nation as a whole. Starting with just 25 members, Gold Star Mothers grew quickly and today has members from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. All of us should be grateful that our Nation produces men and women with the courage and dedication to make the supreme sacrifice so that we might be free. We should be thankful too that our Nation has mothers whose courage and compassion help make those sacrifices worth it and--in the most special way--make sure that the memory of those who died for our country lives on.
God bless the Gold Star Mothers. We humbly offer our tears, humility and gratitude as a nation. We pray there will be no more lives unnecessarily lost and no more tears. God love and protect all of our brave soldiers in this great Nation.
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About six years ago, Jim and Peggy Jones were looking to downsize from their large Mesa home on a 5-acre lot.
Peggy's real-estate agent showed her a new-construction house that had only one catch: It was already under contract with another buyer.
Jones fell in love with its Valley views, intricate stonework and Tuscan-inspired aesthetic, which at the time was newer in the area. She was beside herself. "I couldn't sleep, because I thought, 'That's what I was looking for!' " she recalled.
A few weeks later, the home, built by Paramount Custom Builders in Mesa, ended up back on the market when the original contract fell through.
"We felt like it was meant to be," said Jones, who loves the way the house settles into what feels like a peaceful, private hillside, even though they have nearby neighbors.
The Joneses' home is one of four Las Sendas neighborhood homes on this year's Mesa Hidden Gems luxury home tour. Last year, the tour raised $18,000 for youth arts and education programs at the Mesa Arts Center.
Inside, the home has soaring ceilings and rounded rooms that were a departure from the Territorial styles Peggy Jones was used to seeing. In the great room, she found dramatic dark-red curtains to showcase the 14-foot ceilings without covering any of the homes' beautiful views.
The kitchen is one of many rooms that showcase intricate stonework, especially around the commercial stove. Across from the kitchen is a wine room, and just outside it is a formal dining room with a round, coved ceiling.
"It's a nice home for entertaining," Jones said, adding that there's plenty of room for her four children and seven grandchildren when they visit.
In several shallow wall niches throughout the house, Jones commissioned paintings of Italian scenery. Her favorite is a Monet-esque flower garden below a Tuscan village, but other scenes include a lavender field and an Italian fountain.
The outdoor spaces were another big draw. The Jones' backyard looks out at a rock waterfall just above a private putting green. A path curves up the hill to a seating area around an outdoor fireplace.
From here, Jones said she loves the views. At night, through the great room's tall windows, you can see Mesa's downtown lights.
If there was anything Jones wasn't sure about, it was the infinity-edge pool and spa in the front yard. Jones said her children thought it was an odd set-up, but they have all since admired the views of the pool from their south-facing windows.
They also found a place for a prized bronze roadrunner sculpture perched at the pool's edge.
Overall, Jones said the three-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot home was the perfect choice.
"The home is really livable," she said. "We use everything."
Jim and Peggy Jones' home is one of four Las Sendas neighborhood homes on this year's Mesa Hidden Gems luxury home tour.
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This is only a typical example of a hundred or thousands of others like or similar to this one. It makes little difference. We are referring to that big thing that is the outside part of the system and houses controls, fans, compressor motors, etc. Of course, strictly speaking, the above example may not really be just a condensing unit, but rather a "self- contained" air conditioning system needing only duct work and a thermostat to be complete. But for the moment, let's call everything outside "the condensing unit". Of course, there are other types of condensers with water cooling, etc., but we will confine ourselves to the air cooled types. The first thing you will see when you look at a condenser is that it has a large opening for a fan assembly to circulate lots of air. This motor may require oiling semi-annually and you will be better off if you blow out of it or off it the accumulation of oily dirt and debris periodically. This dust may work its way into the bearings or bushings and shorten the life of them. Any type of compressed air is suitable for this. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO TO WORK ON ANYTHING? LET'S LOOK AT OILING SOMETHING: To oil the motor, you will need to TURN OFF THE POWER supplying this unit. I do not mean to turn off the thermostat or unplug the heater and I don't mean you need to pull the breaker in the electrical service panel to the house. I mean very clearly that you must kill the incoming power to this specific device. If you don't trust yourself to turn off the power to the condensing unit only, then maybe it is a good idea for you to kill power to the whole house. But that still doesn't mean that you don't need to follow the same precautions given below. Most all newer installations have some sort of disconnecting device on the wall near the condensing unit, but many do not and you will have to go to the electrical service panel of the house and turn off the breaker or pull or unscrew the fuses for the OUTSIDE UNIT. This will usually be a double in size breaker or two fuses. Some are what is called three phase and will have a TRIPLE wide breaker or THREE fuses. You can look at the nameplate on the outside unit and determine this. It will say something like: 230/1/60 or 208-230/3/60. This would mean that it is 230 volts, single phase, and 60 cycles per second electrically supplied. Or, it may be the 3 phase. Your life may depend on this act, so make certain the OUTSIDE UNIT has no 230 volts powering it when you work on it. If the disconnecting device has a pull-handle, pull it down to disconnect it. BUT, DO NOT TRUST THAT THIS HAS DONE THE JOB OF KILLING THE POWER. Open it up and look to see if the little knife blade-like levers have actually pulled away from the electricity. Now that you have done all this and have confidence that the outside unit has no high voltage electricity in it any more, let's take additional precautions. (1) Turn off the thermostat. This improves the odds that even if electricity is still in the outside unit it may not get to you because a relay in it will remain inactivated. (2) Open the cover or door on the outside unit to get to the CONTROLS inside it. You really need a volt/ohm meter or other voltage measuring device to try to determine if you can find ANY electricity. Look, also, to see if just maybe there might even be TWO electrical circuits coming into the unit. (3) Now, finally, we will test a "last resort", but foolproof way to make sure beyond a doubt that the electricity is not there. Insert a screwdriver (with a well insulated handle for you to hold) into the controls and "short" some of the big wires one at a time to the cabinet (grounding) to see if you get a flash of blinding light and arcing. Don't laugh. This may save your life. (3a) DO NOT DO THE FOLLOWING UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. If you are really comfortable with electricity and understand it, just by-pass the above screwdriver act and simply touch THE BACK of one of your fingers to some wires one at a time while you keep the other hand firmly in a pocket. I state THE BACK of the finger because if there were to be electricity there, then your muscles would contract and instead of you grabbing the wire your finger and arm would only slap the heck out of your chest. All the above precautions may seem excessive. I assure you they are not. If you intend to do anything with air conditioning you will always need to follow all of the above precautions every time. Never cut corners with electricity and respect it highly. TEST IT. Then test it two or three OTHER WAYS just to verify that test really worked. Even professional people can make mistakes and do get hurt or loose their lives working with electricity. So you be EXTRA careful. The air conditioners contain enough current potential to kill you (and ten other people holding on to you). Don't take chances. IF YOU CAN'T FIGURE HOW TO TURN OFF THE ELECTRICITY, THEN STAY OUT OF THE UNIT! If you still want to oil the condenser motor, locate it in:


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In this nod to the good work of our inbound marketing partners HubSpot, we've collected some of the latest statistics concerning paid search marketing, known commonly as Pay-Per-Click (PPC), to make some predictions about its future in 2013 and beyond.
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A Crash Course in PPC
PPC is perhaps one of the best known but least understood forms of internet advertising. In short, search engines allow advertisers to bid against each other for prominent positions in search results for certain keywords. These results are different from the organic, unpaid results, so named because they occur relatively naturally if you ignore Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
Providing you choose the right keywords, bid the right amount and manage your campaign correctly, its an efficient way to increase your search engine visibility and drive clicks to your landing pages.
Common PPC platforms include Google AdWords arguably the most popular purely because Google is the number one search engine and Bing Ads. They all work in more or less the same way with bids based on how much an advertiser is willing to pay per click (Cost Per Click, CPC) or thousand impressions (Cost Per Mille, CPM). Anyone that has ever set up a traditional ad on Facebook or LinkedIn will be familiar with this concept, and vice versa click here for a guide on how to do it on LinkedIn.
8 Interesting PPC Statistics
- Global spend on search advertising rose 15% in Q1 2013, year-on-year, spurred on by a 62% jump in click-through rates (CTR) and 21% increase in clicks compared to 2012. [Kenshoo Global Search Advertising Trends, 2013]
- US spend on PPC increased 24% in the same period, while in Europe it dropped 4% and 11% in the UK. [Kenshoo Global Search Advertising Trends, 2013]
- CPC telling us how much advertisers are paying for clicks, which generally increases as PPC uptake rises rose 7% in Q1 against the previous quarter and 23% year-on-year. [Covario, 2013]
- CTR a measure of how many people that view an ad actually go on to click it for ads paid to hold the top position, more than doubled from an average of 4.8% in 2011 to 11.1% in 2012. [SearchLaboratory.com, 2013]
- A 2012 survey of 1,915 marketers showed that 48% use PPC in their online campaigns. 32% of those said it was very effective, while a further 56% marked it as somewhat effective. [B2BLeadBlog.com / MarketingSherpa, 2012]
- Only 6% of Google and Bing users click on a paid search result, compared to the 94% that go for the organic, unpaid results. This is based on a sample of 1.4 billion searches by 28 million UK users in 2011. [GroupM UK and Nielsen / Econsultancy, 2012]
- Paid results account for 64.6% of clicks for keyword searches that imply high commercial intent. [WordStream / MarketingProfs, 2012]
- 45.5% of Google Search users cant identify paid results if not clearly listed in the sidebar on the right-hand side of the page. [WordStream / MarketingProfs, 2012]
What Does it All Mean?
From the statistics we see that while organic search remains as ever king, driving the overwhelming majority of traffic to websites (94% organic vs. 6% PPC), the decline in the use of PPC by advertisers that we saw in 2011 is reversing or has reversed already.
Lets not forget, Google alone fields 100 billion search queries per month or 1.2 trillion per year an announcement it made in August last year. Thats not quite an indicator of how much traffic is generated, but its safe to assume that each search drove at least one click, equating to 6 billion visits per month.
It would also seem that the small percentage of search users that actually click on paid ads is increasing, tracked closely by how much advertisers are spending per click (this of course varies between campaigns and for different keywords). In March this year, SearchEngineLand.com declared an end to declining CPC when reporting on a paper from Covario confidence in PPC is clearly on the up again.
Why the bucked trend? Apparently its all to do with changes made to how paid results are displayed on Google, specifically. Gone are the blue-boxed, Sponsored Links; with us now are pale yellow boxes with results that look very similar to their organic cousins. Also, it is now possible to include preview text, social stats and sitelinks, which along with a clever ad title will make the paid result look nearly identical to an organic one. This goes a long way to explaining the last statistic in the above round-up the 45% of users who just cant tell the difference any more.
Further, the statistic that reveals that 64% of PPC traffic is generated for search terms of "high commercial intent" i.e. the intent of a search user to buy something online, shows that there is some inclination towards PPC in such instances. Why this is exactly is hard to say it could be that Google has given advertisers more options for displaying information to grab the attention of consumers such as discount offers and eye-catching prices. It could also be that the 54.5% of search users that do recognise paid results understand that they often lead to landing pages with attractive offers.
Could it be that internet marketers have improved their tactics to the extent where consumers now recognise a higher quality of destination page from paid links compared to organic? How many times have we scrolled past the major retailers like Amazon, and the Wikipedia entries, and clicked on an organic result only to land at a poorly designed or irrelevant website, or a spam one that's been cleverly SEO'd? Finally, PPC ads are often used by companies which can't compete with the usual major players on SEO alone for particular products, therefore providing some consumer choice in the PPC realm. We see evidence of this in the main picture of this article for the search term "swivel chair" the organic results are dominated by Ikea and Wikipedia thanks to SEO, while AdWords shows us links to Officefurnitureonline.co.uk and Dwell.co.uk.
In Conclusion: Looking Forward in 2013
Whether or not users will become wise to the yellow sponsored ads remains to be seen, but it seems likely that PPC will increasingly blend itself into organic as Google strives to keep it fresh and attractive to advertisers.
Add to the fray a new form of PPC that emerged last year product listing ads (PLA). So far we've only written about text ads, but in 2012 Google introduced product listings with images (see picture) and they've already caught up with text-only PPC for CPC spend. Bing is following suit by releasing its own paid product listings this year. This report from SearchEngineLand.com in April AdWords Product Listing Ad CPCs Close In On Text Ads explains the numbers in some depth.
All the signs point to PPC as a form of internet advertising with plenty of life left in it. However, the overriding advice is to seek the advice of PPC / Search Engine Marketing (SEM) professionals who will help you decide whether its right for your campaign, bid for keywords on your behalf and set up all the technical aspects.
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Dear Experts
What is the difference between Reference Infoobject and Template Infoobject.
TEMPLATE InfoObject :
new infobject is just the replica on template infobject. All properties of template infoobject are virtually copied.
Reference InfoObject :
The new InfoObject has the technical linkage to reference InfoObject.
the new infobject has no stand alone master data table or attribute table.
it uses the tables of reference infoobject.
0SOLD_TO ( sold to party) NEW INFOBJECT.
Reference Infoobject:-In case of Reference IO v can not change the Properties of the Ref infoobject.
Template Infoobject:- Here we can change the Properties of the Temp Infoobject.
That is the main Difference between these two.
Template infoobject: When you create infoobject As considering 'Infoobject B' as a template object; all the properties of infoobject B would be used to create Infoobject A such as attributes, data type specfication etc. of infoobject B. But note that you have only created Infoobject A based on infoobject B. You need to load the master data for infoobject A.
Reference infoobject: When you create Infoobject A considering 'Infoobject B' as a reference object; along with all the properties of infoobject B, entire master data of Infoobject B is also considered for infoobject A.
You don't have to do any seprate master data loading for infoobject A. Whatever data loads you do for Infoobject B, same data is available for infobject A. Understand one thing, if Infoobject A is reference infobject of infoobject B then you can't make any direct modification to properties of A, you have to modify Infoobject B for that purpose.
Hope it helps.
Nilima Rodrigues
Thanks For your Reply,
>Using Template we can copy the properties and able to edit those properties
>Using reference we can copy the properties (description, display, text selection, relevance to authorization, person responsible, constant, and attribute exclusively, are also maintained with characteristics that are based on one reference characteristic.), *We can not able to edit properties*
Plz clarify
Hi Manikanta,
Your understanding is correct.
CHeck this thread as well:
Nilima Rodrigues
Yes Mani u r right...
Hi Mani,
Template IO: A template Info Object copies the technical properties like length,attributes,size of the another Info Object.A Template info Object as its own master data table,SID,domain and master data.
Reference IO:A reference Info Object just an alias or other name of the copied object it will not have any master data table and attributes of its own it just points to the object from where its copied.
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Woman found wandering in Franklin identified
Woman with limited communication skills found wandering Tuesday
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Police in the village of Franklin said a woman found wandering early Tuesday morning has been identified.
A news release from the department said the woman pictured above was found wandering in the area of South 76th Street and Rawson Avenue.
At approximately 4:40 a.m., officers responded to a business in the 7600 bock of West Rawson Ave to investigate a report of a woman who appeared disoriented and possibly lost.
They believe she may have a cognitive disability which limited her communication with police.
Authorities sent an email at 1:10 p.m. stating that she has been identified and that her family has been contacted.
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Water to Whiskey 5K Fun Run with Willies Distillery's Annual Spring Pig Roast
Five kilometer race starting on the Madison River and finishing at Willies Distillery
Sign up & Tiered Entry Fee:
March 1: $15 March 2: $18 Race Day: $20
The Gold Miner's Trail – Ennis to Virginia City
Bike: 14 miles; Run: 7 miles
Sign up & Tiered Entry Fee:
March 1: $50 March 2: $60 July 1: $70
The Highest Road Marathon on Planet Earth
26.2 mile and 13.1 mile road races at over 9,000 feet above sea level
Sign up & Tiered Entry Fee:
|March 1: $80
|March 2: $90
|July 1: $100
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The Second Longest Downhill Road Marathon on Planet Earth
26.2 mile and 13.1 mile road races with a net drop of 3,651 feet
Sign up & Tiered Entry Fee Full
|March 1: $80
|March 2: $90
|July 1: $100
|March 1: $60
|March 2: $70
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Montana's Greatest Olympic Distance Triathlon
Swim: 1,200 yards; Bike: 23 miles; Run: 6 miles
Sign up & Tiered Entry Fee:
March 1: $80 March 2: $90 August 1: $100
The Madison River Run will be in its 21st year in 2016. For many years, it was a local fun run that generally attracted 50 to 60 runners from Madison County and the rest of Southwest Montana. It is still a local fun run and it still attracts runners from Southwest Montana, but this is just the beginning.
The Madison Duathlon (bike/run) started out as a natural expansion of a good idea (i.e. the Madison Marathon), but it quickly became a good idea on its own. It has grown in popularity every year from the inaugural race in 2012. Many duathletes who have competed in the Madison Marathon say they had more fun on the duathlon.
Since the inaugural race over Labor Day Weekend in 2008, the Madison Marathon has grown by leaps and bounds. It has joined the ranks of American marathons that sell out each year. We have hosted runners from at least 40 states and several countries. Nearly one-half of the runners come from outside of Montana which is pretty good considering we have just 200 slots open.
The Big Sky Marathon is the result of our success with the Madison Marathon. We held our Inaugural race in 2015 to appease marathoners from around the world who were screaming for a double in Montana. To non-marathoners, this is completely counter-intuitive. Afterall, why would you host a second marathon immediately after one of the most difficult marathons in America?
Like the duathlon, the Madison Triathlon was intended to be an extension of a good idea. It became, however, a good idea on its own as well as the genesis of the Madison Trifecta Sporting Series. Do all three! If you do all three events (the duathlon, marathon, and triathlon) in a single summer, you will be a T.B.A.
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Black marble snuffbox, associated with Frederick the Great of Prussia
About 1765
Black marble, gold and hardstones
Museum no. Loan:Gilbert.422-2008
The decoration of this box places it within the group of boxes associated with Frederick the Great of Prussia. While not set with diamonds, as are many others within this group, its encrusted hardstone flowers parallel those on the more lushly decorated box in the Louvre, Paris, and the engraved gold work is strikingly similar to that of the chrysoprase and mother of-pearl boxes, also found in this selection of boxes from the Gilbert Collection.
This oblong-shaped snuffbox comprises of eight panels of black marble encrusted with bouquets of hardstone flowers. The panels are gold bordered with scrolls, shells and foliage decorated using a hammer and a sharp tool in a method called chasing.


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U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, called for regulation on electronic cigarettes and the reconsideration of a "safe harbor" provision that would stop private tobacco companies from challenging public health laws in a conference call Wednesday.
One in five Ohio deaths are caused by tobacco use, Brown said.
Brown said because the tobacco industry is losing 400,000 to 500,000 of their customers per year, it needs to find more customers to maintain its profit, and without regulations are not selling their product to children.
"Our efforts to stop the No. 1 preventable cause of death in the world are again being undermined by big tobacco (companies)," Brown said. "In order to replace the more than 400,000 customers it loses each year to tobacco related deaths, Big Tobacco has fought to weaken anti-tobacco laws and market new products to children."
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Executive Director Susan Liss said tobacco companies' marketing programs have increased.
"The tobacco industry is using abusive trade lawsuits to challenge tobacco control laws around the globe, and we need to ensure these life-saving policies are protected," she said. "The jump in youth e-cigarette use comes as marketing for e-cigarettes has skyrocketed and e-cigarette companies are increasingly using the same tactics long used to market regular cigarettes to kids. ... It's time for the (Food and Drug Administration) and the states to take action to protect our kids."
Brown called on the FDA to regulate electronic cigarettes and prohibit their sale and marketing to children. Since the e-cigarettes are not subject to federal laws, companies are permitted to sell e-cigarettes to minors, use fruit flavors that appeal to children and advertising on television and radio. Because of this, e-cigarette use has doubled among middle school and high school students in the last year, according to a report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC also said e-cigarettes could be a gateway to traditional smoking.
Brown urged the FDA in April to issue regulations on e-cigarettes, including restricting the sale, distribution and marketing to children.
He also spoke about the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact and wanted the Obama administration to reconsider a provision that would protect American tobacco-control efforts from trade challenges and lawsuits. The administration has stopped promoting a "safe harbor" provision that would limit efforts by private tobacco companies to challenge public health laws against tobacco use.
"We can't allow tobacco companies a back door," he said.


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List's photographic development illustrates a move from the German "new objectivity" to photo journalism. His early works strike the viewer as sensual expressions of a love of forms, whereas his later works show a close portrayal humanity in all it's exuberance and vitality.
Influenced by the European Avantgarde, Herbert List made still life photos, inspired by surrealism. When he left Germany for political reasons in 1936, he worked as a photographer first in Paris and London, and later in Greece.
In Greece he was trying to capture the myth of Greek antiquity by playing with light and shadow: the trademark of his compositions. List portrayed both antique statues and the bodies of young men, in a highly sensual and erotic way.
After the end of the war, List's pictures bore witness to the downfall of the national socialist regime and the destruction the conflict had left behind. These photographs, like the photographer's work in Greece, show a certain aesthetic of ruin.
In the beginning of the fifties List's visual language moved from still lives and architectural shots to human subjects. This milestone in his career encompasses several portraits of famous actors and directors, painters and sculptors, authors and musicians of his time including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Vittorio de Sica.
Last year, WestLicht Schauplatz für Fotografie presented the first extensive exhibition of photographs by Herbert List in Austria.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The Grace Bible College men's basketball team won its 15th consecutive game and another National Christian College Athletic Association Division II title with a 68-65 win over Florida-based Southeastern University on Saturday at Central Bible College.
The Tigers have now won five titles, the first two coming in 1995 and 1996. Their next title was in 2006, followed by titles in 2009 and this year.
"I've won three titles in five years here at Grace Bible and it's been great," Grace Bible coach Gary Bailey said. "The guy I faced Friday night, Central Bible coach Kirk Hanson, has been here for 30 years. I'm glad I didn't have to wait 30 years to win three national titles."
Junior Allen Durham, a former Wyoming Park standout, led Grace Bible (28-10) with 18 points and 11 rebounds.
Senior Brandon Herlein, a Cadillac native, chipped in 12 points, and sophomore Ryan Krombeen (Calvin Christian) had eight points, seven rebounds and three assists.


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WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein almost certainly has used the absence of international scrutiny to rebuild Iraq's arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, two former chief U.N. weapons inspectors suggested Tuesday.
"He is clearly doing it again," Richard Butler told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Those views were echoed by his predecessor, Rolf Ekeus. "There is no conclusive evidence that Iraq has decided to terminate any of its weapons programs," Ekeus said.
Ekeus led the U.N. Special Commission for Iraq between 1991 and 1997; Butler was the executive chairman from 1997 to last June.
The commission had worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency to oversee the destruction of Iraq's biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and missile programs. Weapons inspectors from both agencies left Iraq in December 1998 ahead of U.S. and British airstrikes, launched to punish Iraq for failing to cooperate with the inspectors.
Butler, known for his outspoken and confrontational attitude toward Baghdad, said he doesn't hold out much hope that a new panel created by the United Nations will have any more success. He predicted Iraq would refuse to cooperate with the new team and "we will again have an Iraq crisis on our hands."
Butler also said President Clinton should appeal immediately to Vladimir Putin, Russia's newly elected president, and propose an aggressive U.S.-Russian campaign against the development of weapons of mass destruction by countries like Iraq.
"No vetoes, but the great powers standing together," Butler said.
The new arms inspections panel, the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, was created in December to replace the Special Commission.
Hans Blix, the director, said earlier this month that he wants Baghdad to give his arms experts free access to suspected weapons sites - suggesting it would help bolster Iraq's claim that it does not have such weapons.
Iraq has said it has destroyed all of its prohibited weapons, meeting U.N. requirements to have sanctions lifted.
But both Ekeus and Butler said they doubted this. Ekeus said the new weapons inspectors must make sure they have the most sophisticated equipment available.
Butler said he would like the United Nations to create a powerful "U.N. Council on Weapons of Mass Destruction" that would police weapons proliferation.
They testified as the Senate committee held another in a series of hearings on the dangers of the spread of nuclear weapons. Tuesday's session dealt with Iran and Iraq. The CIA has said both countries have weapons programs, and that Iran's is the more advanced.
"For both Iran and Iraq, the status quo is unacceptable," said Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
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By Debra Collins, Family therapist
My second-grader does not want to go to school. She tells me there is a group of girls who constantly tease her and keep her away from her best friend. They tell her best friend not to play with her and make her choose sides. My daughter tells me that these two girls tease her so much that her whole class joins in or laughs at her.
It is unacceptable that your daughter does not want to go to school because of peer difficulties. The behavior you described is getting much media attention and is now being labeled as "relational aggression."
Relational aggression is usually used to describe bullying and teasing behavior in female adolescents, but it can and often does begin much earlier. There are many sociological and psychological theories about why this occurs. I think these are valid explanations, but much of this behavior is not a new phenomenon.
Children have a difficult time navigating relationships and often resort to inappropriate conduct to either get their needs met or to obtain control. They are learning how to interact with people who are the same and different from them. Adults need to be good models and teachers for acceptable behavior.
Speak with your daughter's teacher to see how she handles these issues in her classroom. Many things occur on the playground that are not evident in a structured classroom, so make sure the teacher is aware of your daughter's difficulties. There is not a one-time fix for these problems and it is difficult for a child to deal with this on her own.
It is important that the school, parents and students make having good relationships a part of their school community. Ask if there is a school counselor who can introduce a program into the school's curriculum. If not, you may want to engage your PTA into making this issue a priority. A good book for young children, that can easily be adapted into lesson plans, is How to be a Friend by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown. For more information on relational aggression read Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher and Ruth Ross and Queen Bees and Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman.


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A Simpler Debt-Equity Test
Thomas Greenaway
KPMG International, LLP - Boston, MA Office
Michelle L. Marion
April 6, 2012
Greenaway & Marion, A Simpler Debt-Equity Test, 66 TAX LAW. 73 (2013)
It is usually a straightforward tax question: is an advance of capital to a business debt or equity? But in some cases the question gets harder to answer, mostly because of the tangled multi-factor test we use. Long ago most tax practitioners gave up trying to clean up the process of answering hard debt-equity questions. But recent developments show the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), practitioners, and courts moving towards a simpler way to decide these cases in the form of a single question: Did the parties to the transaction reasonably expect the funds would be repaid in full? The article discusses the development of recent debt-equity caselaw on structured financing arrangements including Pritired, Castle Harbour, Hewlett-Packard, Schering-Plough, PepsiCo, and the Scottish Power cases.
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An elaborate exhibit featuring Santa Cruz County received a Silver Medal at the California State Fair in Sacramento last week. The exhibit was among 30 County displays that were shown at the State Fair.
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Sleep problems associated with aging may be caused by changes in hormone balance, according to a new study in Switzerland (Pagani L et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011;108[17]:7218-7223). Human sleep-wake cycles drift earlier and earlier as individuals age, which can lead to interrupted and less restful sleep and more frequent daytime napping.
The investigators found that when skin fibroblasts from 18 young and 18 elderly individuals were grown in bovine serum, they had the same internal circadian cycles, but when the cells were grown in human sera from older individuals, their biological clocks shifted to reflect the disrupted sleep patterns of the elderly.
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Texas A&M Forest Service has transformed a landing area near Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport into an aerial base for firefighting operations.
At least two single-engine aircraft, Airtractor AT802-Fs, have been assigned to cover the region and assist ground crews battling any blazes that crop up, said Troy Ducheneaux, regional coordinator. On Thursday, two similar aircraft were in Abilene to help with a fire in Reeves County near Fort Stockton.
Pilot James Daniell of Bastrop, La., was busy Thursday checking over his cockpit in case he was called to respond.
"The aircraft is a dream to fly because it does a wonderful job in close quarters," he said. "It really helps in areas where you may not have ground personnel yet, in rugged terrain."
The regional firefighting base is staffed by at least two pilots, a coordinator and four or five crew members who run a fire retardant plant, Ducheneaux said.
Pilot Jim Watson said air crews usually receive a dispatch from the Forest Service on air-to-ground radio frequencies and then coordinate their aerial attack with an incident commander on the ground.
Ducheneaux said aerial firefighting requires close coordination between ground crews and pilots to avoid buildings and other structures and to ensure air crews drop retardant exactly where it's needed.
"They will call in where that fire is at with GPS coordinates, and once the aircraft are getting over the scene, they will coordinate with that incident commander to develop a plan, where they want those aircraft to drop that retardant," he said.
The planes, he said, carry a nontoxic fire retardant mixture of salt and phosphorous that creates a barrier coating between the fire and grass, trees or other potential fire fuel.
"These aircraft will carry 800 gallons when then they are topped off of retardant," he said. "It creates a protective coating that keeps that fire from eating into those fuels."
The mobile crews, Watson said, respond wherever they're needed.
"We're a national resource that's moved around to different sites as fire danger increases," he said. ""We can respond to just about anywhere in Texas from here ... We'll be here as long as they need us."


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— TrevorGet a Park Passport. It's an inexpensive souvenir, and a good reminder of your visit. Our family loves to collect them.
During the 1890s, scientists rediscovered what the Lakota Sioux already knew - bones preserved in one of the most complete Miocene mammal sites in the world. However, as a place, Agate is so much more. The landscape surrounding the fossil beds has been a site of change for millions of years.
Agate is a place of interaction, reflective of both the natural and cultural realms. It has been a meeting place between weather and sediment; the exchange of ideas and memories between cultures; and a site for present generations to make contact with the past. It's a place where tangible reminders of these interactions are present everyday. The weathering of sedimentary rock, bones becoming visible in cliffs, and the gifts presented to James Cook by the Lakota Sioux are all reflective of the strong natural and cultural relationships of the Agate landscape.
So, Agate is more than fossils; it is a cultural landscape that has evolved over millions of years and reflects many players; from early mammals roaming the valleys and hills, to nomadic nations of the plains, and later tales of life in the American West.


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My Pros and Cons of Co-SleepingNaomi Odes
Like Monica, before I had a baby, I never imagined I'd be co-sleeping. In fact, I scoffed at those who did. Perhaps I should've added that to this list. However, I've found that for a part of every night, co-sleeping has been beneficial, if not necessary in order to get some extra sleep.
Even though I do it, and there are things I love about it, I'm not someone who would only co-sleep and not use a crib. This is just how it's worked best for me. There are lots of benefits, but there are also some challenges. Below I'll list some of each:
Pros of Co-Sleeping
1. It's Cozy. Cuddling next to my warm baby is one of the best things ever. Seriously.
2. It's really easy for nightfeeding. I just lean in and he latches on.
3. I fall back to sleep easier after feeding than when I have to get up, take Fuzz out of the crib, sit down and feed, stand up, put him back in the crib, make sure he's asleep, and then go back to bed.
4. I love being woken up in the morning by a hand grabbing my nose and a little voice saying: "ah Dah!" followed by a big smile.
5. I love to watch Fuzz asleep next to me.
Cons of Co-Sleeping
1. Fluffy comforters and pillows are off limits for now.
2. Three people in the bed can get a little cramped, especially when mysteriously, the smallest one takes up the most space.
3. Even though I fall back to sleep easier, I wake up a LOT more, either for two minute feedings, or because Fuzz rolled over onto me, or grabbed my arm, or snorfled loudly, etc.
4. There can be a LOT of two minute feedings.
5. I worry about bonking Fuzz in the head with my elbow, which I've done more than a few times. (Although, thus far, it hasn't bothered him in the slightest; it's me who feels guilty).
What are your experiences with co-sleeping? Do you have any pros or cons to add?


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By KEITH J. O'CONNOR
Barring any unforeseen hurricane barreling up the East Coast, the Johnson Girls are expected to open the 2009 uNi Coffeehouse Concert Series on Saturday night.
Ed Brown, longtime organizer of the popular folk concerts held at the Unitarian Universalist Society Meetinghouse in Springfield, is hoping for clear sailing when it comes to Saturday's concert.
"The Johnson Girl were scheduled to appear at our coffeehouse in December but were snowed out," he said.
It was 12 years ago at the Mystic Sea Music Festival, where Bonnie Milner and Joy Bennett were standing next to one another at a concert, that the Johnson Girls was born, deriving their name after a net hauling song collected from African-American fishermen off the coast of Florida.
"We were sitting in the back as we typically do listening to an all-male chantey group when we looked at each other and said, 'It's time, we can do this,'" said Bennett.
"So we got together with some close friends and started what we didn't know would become such an amazing journey," she added.
Formed in 1997, the Johnson Girls made their singing home port at South Street Seaport in New York City. Since then they have headlined at major sea music festivals in the United States from Mystic, Conn. to San Francisco, Calif., as well as internationally in Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Portugal.
In addition to their extensive repertoire of sea chanteys and work songs of many traditions including African-American, Canadian, Caribbean, Irish, French, and Italian, the group performs songs from the inland waterways and fisheries, sensitive renderings of haunting ballads and laments.
"We like to perform songs that people might already know, but also those that are more unusual," Bennett said.
Among the many songs the Johnson Girls intend to share with their audience on Saturday night will be "Mary, Come Join the Religion."
"It has a very polyphonic sound, almost hypnotic, and is a unique work shanty that was used by sponge fishermen in the Caribbean," Bennett said.
"In 1938, a blight killed off sponges, but the song survived," she added.
The singer noted their many polyphonic songs offer "a great opportunity for audiences to sing a long, and if you're not a singer and just a listener, that's okay, too."
Bennett said they also plan on performing "One More Day" for their uNi audience.
"It's a shanty that would have been sung just before the end of the voyage, about how crew members had just one more day before they would be paid for their hard work," Bennett said.
In addition to Milner and Bennett, the Johnson Girls also feature Alison Kelley and Deirdre Murtha.
The Johnson Girls have three Folk Legacy compact discs, including "The Johnson Girls" and "On the Rocks," which have received rave reviews in the leading American and British publications covering folk music, including Sing Out! and Dirty Linen. Their newest, "Fire Down Below," was just released.
Event: uNi Coffeehouse Concert Series featuring the Johnson Girls
When: Saturday, 8 p.m.
Where: uNi Coffeehouse, Unitarian Universalist Society Meetinghouse, 245 Porter Lake Drive, Springfield
Cost: $15 at the door
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Empire Records Remix: Special Fan Edition
When Lucas gets the responsability to close the Empire Records shop ("open 'till midnight") he finds papers in his boss Joe's drawer that would indicate that the shop will soon be taken over by a huge music stores concern. He takes the 9.000 dollars in cash and goes to Atlantic City, trying to win enough money together to save the store and at first he even succeeds; he doubles the money with one bet. However, luck doesn't keep lasting and the next bet makes him loose everything he has. The next day, everyone comes to work as usual but pretty fast everyone knows what has happened and while things go on as usual, it becomes quite clear that everyone working in the store has his or her own problems.
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We did spot quite some compression errors in certain scenes but for the rest everything is ok with good contrast and level of detail, nice color usage and no edge enhancement.
The soundtrack disappoints a bit as we would have thought the rear speakers to be really coming into action with the music but all in all they remain pretty quiet, making things a little less atmospheric than they could have been. Front and center speakers are well-used on the other hand and dialogues are very clear and understandable. The subwoofer hardly ever comes into action.
Little extras as we only get a couple of music videos, some deleted scenes, a cast & crew overview and the theatrical trailer
Empire Records isn't your everyday comedy but a movie that rather unexpectedly tells the story of several youngsters that struggle with their problems during an average day at the music story they work. Really good acting and a good storyline make this movie shine
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This painting is from the Akbarnama. The Akbarnama was commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar as the official chronicle of his reign. It was written by his court historian and biographer Abu'l Fazl between 1590 and 1596 and is thought to have been illustrated between about 1592 and 1594 by at least 49 different artists from Akbar's studio. After Akbar's death in 1605, the manuscript remained in the library of his son, Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) and later Shah Jahan (r.1628-1658). The Victoria and Albert Museum purchased it in 1896 from Mrs Frances Clarke, the widow of Major-General John Clarke, who bought it in India while serving as Commissioner of Oudh between 1858 and 1862.


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Deadline Now: Toledo Public Schools
Friday, May 6, 2011
Toledo Public Schools are facing a crisis and a challenge like no other in their history. On one hand, they are struggling with declining enrollment and less funding. At the same time, local leadership is attempting to radically restructure the system. Superintendent of Toledo Public Schools Jerome Pecko and Jim Gault, Chief Academic Officer for the system, are Jack Lessenberry's guests this week.
Here are Jack Lessenberry's Final Thoughts for this edition of Deadline Now:
Not long ago there were stories that about a wave of young suburbanites moving back to Detroit. I asked the area's leading demographers how significant this was. His answer was: Not very.
"Yes, you can create gentrified areas of the city," he told me, "but the only people you're going to be able to attract are the newly wed and the almost dead." The reason: The schools.
Detroit Public Schools, once one of the proudest systems in the nation, are now a ghastly failure. They have been losing ten thousand students a year, and for good reason. They are failing in every possible sense of the term, from test scores to financial accountability. They are now run by a state-appointed emergency financial manager, and with few exceptions, the only parents who put their kids in these schools are those without any choice.
The collapse of public education in Detroit has consequences beyond failing a generation of students. Cities like Detroit and Toledo desperately need to attract new business and industries if they are ever to regain their former prosperity. But it is going to be well-nigh impossible to attract any middle-class families to move into town unless you have public schools in which people can have confidence.
Toledo Public Schools are not in any way as troubled as those in Detroit. But they have problems, and things have been getting worse. If something isn't done to arrest their decline, it may soon be almost too late. Superintendent Pecko has proposed some bold plans that may well be worth a try. But he and his staff can't save or revive the schools by themselves. Toledoans have to do it.
Toledo has to decide that a vibrant, successful school system is worth whatever that takes, and whatever it costs. That's partly because our children deserve better lives, and also because this town cannot possibly revive without excellent public schools.
We, and the schools, likely face an interesting few years.
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