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Q&A: Luanne Rice
The best-selling author discusses her 29th novel, "The Silver Boat"—and prepares for an April 8 appearance at Madison bookstore R. J. Julia.
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The book really does have any extraordinary sense of place. When you're reading it, you're always very conscious of where you are and the characters' relationship to where they are. I know one of your mentors was Brendan Gill of The New Yorker, who was, among other roles, the magazine's architecture critic. Did he teach you anything about writing with the keen skill you have for portraying physical and emotional landscapes?
It's so interesting because he and I were both native Nutmeggers: Brendan grew up in Hartford. I sent some stories to The New Yorker when I was really young, about 18, and somehow one of them landed on his desk—maybe because someone noticed that I was also from central Connecticut. He invited me to New York City and told me I "had to" move there: "Connecticut is a wonderful place to grow up in but all writers need to live in New York." I took his words really seriously.
It's interesting that even though I've lived in New York for such a long time, I still feel these connections to Old Lyme. It's sometimes easier to write about an experience from a distance in space and time—it's almost as if when you're in it, it's right there and all around you, but when you're away from it, it's conjured up in this almost mystical way. I can feel my feet right this minute on the rocks of the beach, and can smell the black walnut and sassafras trees and the salt air. I mean, it's so vivid when I'm not there. I'd say Brendan encouraged that.
His mentorship wasn't so much about actual writing; it was more about living as a writer. He saw me as a babe in the woods, which I totally was, and introduced me to New York City's literary world.
In the book Dar, the protagonist, is a graphic artist. Was there some special reason you chose that career for her?
My guitar teacher loves graphic novels. He really introduced me to reading and enjoying them. Then, along the way, my niece—who's a really talented artist and writer—decided to go to graduate school to become a graphic novelist. She was definitely my technical consultant on this book. But I just find it a very interesting and magical way of telling a story.
At the beginning of this interview, you mentioned that the three sisters theme is something you've returned to more than once, and there's always more to tell. What makes The Silver Boat stand apart from the other stories?
That's such a rich question. Being one of three sisters is a singular experience, and when you meet another three sisters person, there's an instant connection. There's an archetypal dynamic that even as I've gotten older I recognize. It serves me in my writing—it's not that I write about my three sisters and me; I write about something bigger and deeper. Even though my sisters and I are not always in close contact, that relationship is one of the most important in my life. I was talking about this with an analyst the other way, and she said that Freud never really acknowledged how important the sibling and sister relationship is in people's lives. As children, the three of us shared the same bedroom. We spoke a language that other people didn't speak. And I could know at a glance what the others were thinking.
I remember this moment in high school where we'd been at the beach, and had come back to New Britain—I think we'd been in Old Lyme for a fall weekend—to go to school. It was a beautiful, beautiful day, and we needed not to be at school. My mother taught in the New Britain school system, so she and the three of us were in the car. I was driving the car, and my middle sister was the first to be dropped off at New Britain High. And she just got out of the car and said to me, "See you later." And I knew exactly what she meant. My sister and I dropped my mother off at her school, then swung back and picked my middle sister up at the exact same spot and headed back to the beach. That's how we were. That's never going to leave me. But I don't write about sisters in the same innocent way I might have when I first started out. There's now an accumulated life experience that now works its way in.
You first had a poem published—in the Hartford Courant—when you were only 11. What do you remember about that?
I remember assuming that all you had to do was write a poem and someone would print it! My mother submitted it. I was just this passionate, avid writer, and reader as well. I never wanted to be a writer; I never thought of it as an ambition. It was just who I was and what I did.
The poem appeared in Malcolm Johnson's column "The Singing World," which was just a wonderful place for poets. I'd read it all the time and be just touched and amazed by the poetry that appeared there. When I was 14, they reprinted the poem on a full page in the Courant's Sunday magazine, with a photo of Constitution Plaza at Christmas—which is what the poem was about.
It's interesting because I'm reading Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford now, which is about Edna St. Vincent Millay—she was the oldest of three sisters; and had a mother who was a writer and a poet who submitted her early work for publication. I just had such recognition reading and thinking what that must have been like for my mother. My mother was a writer too, and she originally submitted her own poem to the newspaper at the same time she submitted mine. When the magazine reprinted it, she told me, "You know, I also sent a poem about Constitution Plaza at Christmas, but they chose yours because it was so good." I don't think I realized until much later how poignant that was. It actually pains me to say it, because it makes me think about what a writer she was and how she really gave it up to be mother to the three of us. She was very torn between her life as an artist and her life as a mother. But she chose to be more the mother than the writer.
I was going to ask what the biggest challenge of writing is for you, and whether you think women writers have challenges that are different from men's.
I grew up with a woman who . . . I would fall asleep every night to the sound of her typewriter. When she was finished with what she had to do, the last thing she did was to write, to work on her own poems and short stories. That made such a deep impression on me. I'm the type of writer who makes it not only the first thing of my day, but in some ways the only thing. I'm not sure how conscious a choice it was with me, not to be a mother.
It's funny . . . recently, previews began on this play that I'm involved with—it's at the Geffen Playhouse, called In Mother Words. I'm the stepmother in it; I wrote a piece called "My Almost Family." It addresses how I never had children of my own. I just feel that you have to give everything to something. I don't seem to be someone who can split that up. So, I've given everything to writing, and I don't regret that—I don't have my own children; I have nieces and stepchildren I adore. But I get up in the morning and go straight to my work. I've always done that. Probably, one of my biggest challenges is the Internet was invented. I really love the solitude and continuity of going straight from your dreams to your work of fiction that's underway. But it's hard now, because there's the temptation to check email and Facebook. For a while that really got in my way, but I've gotten back into my normal routine.
The thing about being a woman writer—it's sort of inescapable—I feel like we get characterized, we get pigeonholed in "women's fiction." I don't object to it; I feel as if . . . I mean, I've talked about it with other women writer friends, we feel we write what we write, not with a particular audience in mind. I feel lucky that many women readers have found me and I speak to them.
I imagine being put into a niche is frustrating.
I try not to let it be. I have this outlook that's worked for me, which is to keep everything between me and the page. I don't read reviews; my publishers don't send them to me. I don't want to know about marketing strategies. I feel like all I want to do is write. There's a great book I read when I was pretty young called The Writer on Her Work. There's an essay in it by Mary Gordon about how women are categorized as "watercolor painters" and men are categorized as "important" oil painters.
Interesting she should use those distinctions, because some of the most important male artists were watercolor Impressionists. So the lines are blurred in reality.


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Farmers' market ending season
BRIMFIELD – Hitchcock Free Academy Farmers' Market will wrap up the season on Saturday.
Fall fruits, squash, gourds, potatoes, lettuces, maple products, pumpkins, honey and other locally grown and home-made items are still available in abundance.
The market is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.. Vendor's tables will be available for half-price, $10 each.
For more information, call (413) 245-9977 or visit www.hitchcockacademy.org.
Better wildlife and nature photography
BELCHERTOWN – Photographer Gary Melnysny will present his program "12 Tips for Successful Wildlife and Nature Images" at the Quabbin Photo Group monthly meeting Nov. 26 at the Quabbin Visitor's Center, off Route 9.
The meeting is open to the public.
The group meets at 7 p.m. for refreshments followed by a brief business meeting. Gary Melnysny's program begins at 7:30.
For more information, call Elaine Darr-Morton at (413) 323-9212 or email firstname.lastname@example.com .
Animal tracking for all ages
MONSON – Join renowned local naturalist Kevin Kopchynski and The Trustees of Reservations on Dec. 8 from 10 a.m. to noon for "Family Fun Day: Animal Tracking & Sign Search," an all-ages outing of pre-winter exploration.
Participants will be looking for tracks and signs of resident critters, snow or no-snow.
Meet at the main parking lot of Peaked Mountain Reservation on Butler Road (off Lower Hampden Road). There is no charge for trustees members. A $10 donation is suggested for non-members.
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WEST WINDSOR — Like a true ace, if you don't get West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School's Paul Balestrieri early, good luck getting to him after that.
The Ewing baseball team learned that lesson firsthand this afternoon.
After the first 11 pitches Balestrieri had thrown, the Blue Devils had parlayed two hits, a hit batsman and a walk into a quick two-run lead.
It was lights out from there.
The Cornell University-bound right-hander proceeded to retired 14 of the next 15 batters he faced, and the Pirates' offense came to life in an eight-run fifth inning en route to a 10-2 victory.
"In the first inning, all I had was my fastball," Balestrieri said. "None of my breaking or off-speed pitches were working. They were all in the zone. All they were doing was timing it up and putting the bat on the ball. In the later innings, even if I wasn't getting outs with the slider, I was at least able to get in their heads with it, because I was able to throw it for a strike."
Balestrieri went the distance, yielding just two hits and two earned runs.
He struck out eight and issued two walks.
From the time he allowed a two-run single to Justin Dempsey in first until Darren Basich singled with one out in the sixth, he faced the minimum, allowing a walk in the third to Basich, who was promptly erased on one of two double plays the Pirates turned on the afternoon.
"Our defense played great the entire game," he said. "Not only were they making plays that we need to make, but making plays that we didn't need to make too, like the double play. They did a great job helping me out."
Balestrieri helped his own cause at the plate by going 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
Clean-up hitter Mark Sitek went 2-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs, and Pete Carman also contributed a pair of RBIs.
"We know we can hit, and that inning showed it," Sitek, a right fielder, said.
"We just have to keep that confidence up there at the plate going forward."
With the game tied at 2-all going to the bottom of the fifth, WW-P South broke the tight affair wide open by sending 12 batters to the plate, using eight hits — seven singles — and two sacrifice flies to throw an eight-spot up on the scoreboard.
Sitek laced an opposite-field, two-run double to key the frame.
"I'm looking to just put the ball in play and hit it to the outfield," Sitek said of his approach. "I was really just trying to keep the ball low. We hit some fly balls early that stayed up, so I just wanted to try and hit it on a line to the outfield or hard on the ground."
After an uneven offensive start to the season, the Pirates are hopeful that the 10-run outburst will be key going forward, especially as they travel to Father John D'Onofrio Field this afternoon for a much-anticipated showdown with undefeated Notre Dame.
"It's a big one," Balestrieri said of the meeting with Notre Dame.
"We're definitely excited for it. Hopefully we'll be able to come out and keep the little hot streak we have going with the bats. Hopefully we can put the bat on the ball and score more runs than they do."
Contact Kevin Maloney at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at kevmaloney33.
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WW-P South (5-3) 100 180 x—10 11 0
2B — E: Mike Salvatore; W: Paul Balestrieri, Mark Sitek. RBI — E: Justin Dempsey 2; W: Balestrieri 2, Sitek 2, Pete Carman 2, Matt McCann, Pat Boyle, Kevin Schattin, Danny Borup.
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WATCH: That Time Shia LaBeouf Emailed A Pic Of His Penis For A Job
When he's not picking fights on Twitter with Lena Dunham, being accused of plagiarism, or warding off cease and desist letters, actor Shia LaBeouf is bragging about the time he emailed a photo of his penis to film director Lars von Trier.
While promoting his new film Nymphomaniac, the 27-year-old
douche bag actor said: "The first info we got — and I'll never forget this because my entire team reacted with such fear — the first request from the production end, not Lars, was for pictures of my penis."
He continued, "Lars goes, 'Send him the letter. The letter was, 'Are you game?' I guess the first test was, 'Let's time how long it takes this motherfucker to send his dick over the internet. It was like 20 minutes. They were like, 'All right, kid's ready.'"
Nymphomaniac is rumored to be over five hours long and is being released in two parts this spring. We can't say we'll be waiting in line to buy tickets, although we'd love to add Shia's penis pic to our list of celebrity nude selfies.
Check out LaBouf's full interview below… Or just fast forward to the parts where he talks about his penis. (1:37 and 8:33).
And he still got the part?
I must confess I am at a complete loss to understand why Hollywood actors line up to work in a movie by Lars von Trier, who is the biggest windbag in the business, making overlong movies about overodd people. He's had famous actresses walk zombie like through 3 hour epics on one set and long after he drives home a point goes on and on and on beating us over the head with it. He is the most boring Scandinavian filmmaker since Bergman. Both are boring boring boring.
@jmmartin: Well, his movies are a lot more interesting than your comment. So there's that.
Von Trier doesn't follow the American film formula which I think makes his movies interesting.
I love Von Trier's 'Melancholia'. I can't help it – it's beautiful and creepy all at once.
Not quite sure why Queerty is calling Shia a douche bag. Did I miss something? I think he's hot, in a scruffy sort of way, and I'm a fan. What's up with that Queerty?
Couldn't they have just watched the Sigur Ros video where he gets full frontal naked?
@Harley: Do a quick Google search for Shia + plagiarism.
The guy is a major douchnozzle.
@Harley: My only complaint is that they didn't use "giant douche bag":
On the Transformers franchise: "There are a lot of people that liked the second one, but I hated it. I just didn't enjoy it. I thought we missed the mark. I got confused, I couldn't see what the fuck was going on, you know with certain robots… I couldn't decipher what was happening. There were storyline paths that I just wouldn't have gone down." Transformers had storylines?
On dropping acid to be method for The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman: "There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that (electric) chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to." (Note: Sean Penn didn't die that way in "Dead Man Walking" and Shia's character in the film didn't drop acid – he took ecstasy).
On his mom: "Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother. She's an ethereal angel. Nobody looks like that woman. If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds."
On Justin Bieber: "He's got this presence like Buddha. He's like the young prince. Bieber is bomb. He's like a 16-year-old Frank Sinatra."
On the 'alleged' plagiarism: "Authorship is censorship Should God sue me if I paint a river? Should we give people the death sentence for parking violations- You'll not only have less parking violations but less DRIVERS".
More than eight minutes I don't have to spare for this plagiarizing douche bag.
Like it or not, Von Trier's films are one thing. But Hollywood's overrated bad boy LaBouf is a total train wreck. He needs to be put out for a premature retirement.


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I have always been intrigued by decay, rust and peeling paint. I see these things as work of art especially when you isolate them and move in close. This shot is of peeling paint that was coming off in large pieces. It had dimension, texture and it makes you stop and look. I worked this image on the iPad using Snapspeed.
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It's quite a fun looking shot, makes me thinking of shark skin🙂


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Leslie Rule is an author of three nonfiction books on ghosts, and two novels, as well as numerous articles published in national magazines, including Reader's Digest. Her books of true ghost stories are "Coast To Coast Ghosts", "Ghosts Among Us", and her latest, "When The Ghost Screams True Stories of Victims Who Haunt". Leslie is also a photographer and has been taking images of killers for her mother (true crime author Ann Rule) since the age of seventeen.
- Coast to Coast Ghosts: True Stories of Hauntings Across America
- Ghosts Among Us
- Kill Me Again
- When the Ghost Screams
- Whispers from the Grave
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The University of Colorado Colorado Springs, located on Austin Bluffs Parkway in Colorado Springs, is one of the fastest-growing universities in Colorado. The university offers 39 bachelor's degrees, 20 master's and five doctoral degrees. UCCS enrolls about 11,300 students on campus annually and another 2,000 in online programs.


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On the education front in Gentilly, Walter M. Kimbrough will be inaugurated as Dillard University's seventh president Oct. 19 at 9:45 a.m. in the Lawless Memorial Chapel in Georges Auditorium.
The Rev. Jim Wallis, a New York Times best-selling author, public theologian, speaker and international commentator on ethics and public life, will speak Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. in Georges Auditorium.
Wallis recently served on the White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and currently serves as the vice chair of the Global Agenda Council on Values of the World Economic Forum. He has authored many books and frequently appears on radio and television as a commentator. He has taught at Harvard University and currently teaches a course on "Faith, Social Justice, and Public Life" at Georgetown University.
Also planned is a musical extravaganza, "A Taste of New Orleans" featuring Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter Ledisi and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra led by the trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis who will join the Dillard University Choir. The event will be held Oct. 18 at 8 p.m. in Georges Auditorium.
The Rev. Walter L. Kimbrough, the father of President Kimbrough, will deliver the keynote message during a worship service Oct. 20 at 10 a.m. in Lawless Memorial Chapel. Walter L. Kimbrough is the pastor of Columbia Drive United Methodist Church in Decatur, Georgia.
All events are free and open to the public. Seats are on a first come basis.
Summit set
The City of New Orleans Mayor's Neighborhood Engagement Office will host the second annual New Orleans Neighborhood Summit Nov. 16 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the University of New Orleans Lindy C. Boggs International Conference Center.
The event's theme is "Working Strategically with Government." Community leaders and residents will work together to deepen relationships. Workshops, panel discussions, and one-on-one informational booths will be featured. To register, call the Neighborhood Engagement Office at 504.658.4980.
Making a difference
Elected officials, businesses, community groups and individuals who are making New Orleans neighborhoods great places to live may be nominated for the Neighborhoods Partnership Network's Trumpet Award. Winners will be featured in the November/December issue of the NPN's The Trumpet online newsletter during The Trumpet's release party Nov. 13. Nomination forms by October 31st to Rachel D. Graham at email@example.com.
Lights on after school
Pentecost Baptist Church will host a "Lights on After School" event on Oct. 17 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the church, 1510 Harrison Ave. This event is being held to continue to provide quality after school programs to youth in New Orleans, specifically the Pilotland neighborhood.
For more information please contact Rev. Lionel Davis Sr. 504.491.3215.
Salvation Army Day
Cate Newton of the Gentilly Terrace neighborhood was successful in arranging a Salvation Army Day for Gentilly Terrace. The pick-up date is Oct. 26 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Residents should place items that would like to donate at curbside and marked bags "Salvation Army." Trucks will be traveling along streets for pickup. Addresses need to be on a schedule. Email addresses to Leslie Bouie at firstname.lastname@example.com
Denise Walter McConduit write about the Gentilly neighborhoods, to send in information to the column email email@example.com


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"Murder is the acid test of dislike. Black people pass with flying colors. Black people will kill each other rather quickly, and over the most simple things. The things are so inconsequential to a life that you know black people aren't really killing themselves over these things. They're killing themselves because they don't like each other."
-- Ralph Wiley in his 1991 essay "Who Black People Don't Like."
Acclaimed sportswriter and cultural critic Ralph Wiley died in 2004, but I'm guessing a report released this week by a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University wouldn't have surprised him. According to the report, the nation's murder rate among black teenagers has been climbing since 2000 as the murder rate among white teenagers has stayed about the same.
The 1,142 murders black teenagers committed in 2007 was up 34 percent from the 851 murders black teenagers committed in 2000. The number of murders committed by white teenagers during that same period increased 1.5 percent, from 539 to 547. This, as the nation's overall murder rate has held steady or gone down.
The New York Times story discussing professor James Alan Fox's report quoted a sociologist who wondered about the effects of a worsening economy and spending cuts on crime control. The story also gave space to conservative criminologists who attribute the rise to dysfunctional black families. A Midwestern police chief says that after Sept. 11, 2001, homeland security took precedence over domestic crime fighting.
There's truth in all those claims, but none of them gets to an important point: that self-hatred still rages across much of black America, or, as Wiley wrote in the very first line of his essay, "Black people have a high tolerance for everybody except themselves."
In that sense, the murder epidemic in so many black communities is symptomatic of a spiritual sickness. It arises out of the destructive belief that black lives are dispensable, utterly meaningless, and that neither destroying one nor being destroyed in return is really that big a deal.
Though he used to be a police officer, it's clear that the Rev. John Raphael of New Hope Baptist Church believes that the city's disturbingly high murder rate won't be cured with police work by itself. The Police Department should be doing a better job investigating crimes and making arrests before retaliatory murders are committed, but even if investigations were to be improved, they could only be conducted after crime are committed. It's Raphael's aim to reach this city's would-be murderers before they commit the crime, to teach them both to recognize their own self-worth and that murder is wrong.
You wouldn't think that last point would have to be taught. However, murder fits in nicely with some people's code of ethics. To them, murder is the acceptable and appropriate response to real or perceived disrespect, not to mention the appropriate response to past murders.
In response to such thinking, Raphael has a single word response: "ENOUGH." That single word is printed on the baseball cap he wears, and he's printed signs with that word around the city. On Sunday, he began yet another prayer and fasting vigil on the neutral ground on Claiborne Avenue. In doing so, he is continuing his ministry as a modern day John the Baptist: standing in a Central City neighborhood that has become far too wild and urging the criminal element to repent.
"I'm looking for ideas," he said, "because I don't want to be trying something just for the sake of trying something. One thing, though. I do believe in the power of prayer."
We should all pray that he's successful, that there's a miraculous breakthrough in 2009 and that young black men and boys who haven't already done so discover the joy that comes from loving themselves.
Jarvis DeBerry is an editorial writer. He can be reached at 504.826.3355 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Detección de objetos y anotación de imágenes en el iPhone (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-02-25)
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Open Access[ANGLÈS] This project is about object detection on a mobile device like iPhone. The iPhone tool allows users to take pictures, annotate them with bounding boxes and object tags and uploading the data to the server. With ...
Measures and meta-measures for the supervised evaluation of image segmentation (IEEE Computer Society Publications, 2013)
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Open AccessThis paper tackles the supervised evaluation of image segmentation algorithms. First, it surveys and structures the measures used to compare the segmentation results with a ground truth database, and proposes a new measure: ...
Object recognition in urban hyperspectral images using binary partition tree representation (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012)
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I show last date August 23 too, but I think that is the last time anyone has posted. No action on this board.
Thanks for confirming - I had feared that I had done something to the Yahoo setting for this board.
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The Dental Directory, a full service dental dealer in the UK, will be funding a new chair in dentistry. The new chair is going to be at the University of Warwick, and its funding comes while the Dental Directory celebrates its 40th year of operation.
The University of Warwick is considered to have one of the best medical schools within the UK, including the Warwick School of Dentistry. The funds provided by the Dental Directory will be added to other funds coming to the University of Warwick as a part of its


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A couple of years ago, PHL started publishing RNAV departure procedures for most of the departure fixes. I believe these were used briefly but standard still seems to be the PHL 8 with the RNAV's not even being used at all.
I read in another forum that these procedures were suspended indefinitely due to a possible conflict with the HOLEY intersection that ATC frequently uses to hold LGA arrivals.
My question is, does anyone else have any more information on this, and when we might see these procedures used again? You have to think that USAirways is screaming to get these procedures reinstated as they do save fuel, plus with the airplanes flying on such a tight route, in thoery this should give ATC more airspace to play with in an area where airspace is at a premium.


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Good quality and nice detail. Goes with American Indian or western art decor.
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The 60th Utah State Legislature adjourned March 13, 2014. Below are some of big victories for small business during the two-year session.
Stopped Mandatory Minimum Wage Increase
NFIB stopped a bill that would have increased the minimum wage rate in Utah to $10.25 an hour and would have tied future increases to the Consumer Price Index every year after. If the CPI went down, however, the minimum wage would stay the same.
Lowered Unemployment Insurance Tax Rate by 2 Percent
Since 2012, NFIB was instrumental in lowering the rate from 9.4% down to 7.4% and was able to maintain the reduction for this year. This gives incentives to business owners to grow and invest more in their business and employees.
Lowered the Tangible Personal Property Tax
NFIB helped create an exemption for purchases of $1,000 or less and eliminated the tax for businesses with $10,000 or less of business personal property
Defeated Proposed Increases in Gas and Water Taxes
NFIB helped defeat measures to increase the sales taxes on gasoline and water. Proposed increases were stopped in their originating committees thanks to intense lobbying from NFIB.
Stopped Plan to Broaden Sales Tax
NFIB stopped the extension of sales tax to additional services, such as bookkeeping, haircuts, and legal fees.


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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — While car thefts have plummeted in New York, a federal class-action lawsuit claiming an upstate auto dealer's former anti-theft program was misleading and nearly useless is moving ahead. The program was similar to those still sold by some other dealers.
New state crime data show motor vehicle thefts dropped from just more than 51,000 in 2001 to about 20,000 last year, similar to the national trend credited largely to technology making new cars harder to steal and stolen vehicles easier for police to find.
The suit against Fuccillo Automotive Group seeks to recover the $295 "Auto Theft Security Discount Guarantee" Heidi Seekamp got with her Hyundai Elantra in 2007 and similar payments by others.
The company says the window-etched identification numbers help deter theft, though they've discontinued the program.


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Business owner helps boy with CMT disease
© Thomas Becker - Amherst Daily News
Businessman, Cody Firth is encouraging the community to help him in his cause to bring the Noiles family to Toronto.
AMHERST - Eight-year-old Michael Noiles is a huge sports fan. More often than not, though, Noiles has to admire his love of sports from the sidelines rather than the ice, court or field.
Noiles was born with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, which affects the nerves outside of the brain and spine. Because of the disorder Michael is limited to the type of physical activity he can participate in that many of us take for granted.
On June 17, Noiles is expected to travel with his parents to Montreal for an appointment to see specialists, the trip will be mostly funded by Shriners Hospitals. Hoping to make the trip memorable for their son, Mike and Juanita Noiles hope to travel to Toronto to see a ballgame and do some other fun activities, but it comes at an extra expense.
After hearing their story Cody Firth, owner of Snipeshow Sports (a sporting goods shop) approached the family and asked if he could help.
"I was touched by the whole story because growing up I was always a sports fan and I could play any sport I wanted and there was nothing stopping me. A lot of time people take for granted what we actually can do. Whereas this fella has no choice," Firth said.
This past season the Cumberland County Amherst Pharmasave Peewee AA Ramblers took Michael on as the 18th member of the team. He may not have been able to play but he was very much a part of the team.
Michael knew every sense of the word teammate, as he filled his teammates water bottles, picked up their sticks and sharpened their skates.
Shortly after the season ended Firth was approached by the Peewee team. They were having their annual year-end party and wanted to honour Michael with a gift from the shop. Rather than letting the team buy the gift, Firth decided to donate it.
A few days later, Mike and Juanita, came to the shop looking to purchase a Blue Jays - Jose Bautista jersey for Michael. Firth didn't have the right size in stock but insisted he'd find one and donate it to them.
Firth said if a team of 11 and 12-year-olds can come together and look beyond the disability and accept Michael as one of their own than why can't local businesses.
"I went home that night and knew I wanted to do something and help out the little guy."
Through his Facebook page and word of mouth, Firth created a charitable fund for the Noiles family so they can travel to Toronto from Montreal and experience some of what the city has to offer.
"The money we get, I'm going to donate back to them to make it more of a family trip and to make it something memorable. It's definitely not easy on him and the family, they're trying to be as positive as possible. It's a way to get away from everything and just enjoy," he said.
People nowadays seem to overlook this kind of stuff and it's unfortunate, he said.
"Small communities can come together."
Firth encourages everyone to donate.
"If I can help make his trip memorable, I will."
Michael's mother, Juanita, said her family is grateful for everything Firth is doing for them.
"It's wonderful considering he hasn't even met Michael. I just wish more people in the world were like him."
Juanita said she's amazed by the Firth's selflessness at a young age.
"As young man starting his own business I'm sure he has other things to worry about considering he's a new business owner."
The support from the community makes the tough journey a little easier, she said.
"I'm very thankful for the support of this community, they have supported us a lot through different things. I'm overwhelmed with gratitude and thankfulness."


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The Louisiana Public Service Commission cannot seriously argue that it can objectively police companies that spend thousands of dollars wining and dining most commissioners and their staff. Regulators in most other states know such coziness creates a conflict of interest -- or at least the appearance of a conflict. That's why most states ban members of utility oversight boards from taking meals or other gifts from industries they regulate.
Louisiana's PSC, however, has been reluctant to impose such a ban -- even now that a majority of commissioners say they support it. They need to back up their talk and approve the ban at their next meeting.
The measure failed last month in a 3-2 vote, with only Comissioners Lambert Bossiere III and Foster Campbell voting in favor of a ban.
At a PSC meeting Wednesday, however, Commissioner Jimmy Fields said he was ready to reverse his position, seemingly guaranteeing the ban's passage. But this time Mr. Bossiere joined the perennial free-meal proponents, Commissioners Jay Blossman and Pat Manuel, in voting against placing the ban on the meeting's agenda.
Mr. Bossiere said he supports ending the free meals but wants an exception so that commissioners and staff can go to educational and industry conferences without breaking the rules. Mr. Fields said his proposal included that exception.
"Nobody wants this change more than I do, " Mr. Bossiere said of the ban. Then he should have voted to put the issue on the agenda.
A ban is the only way commissioners can regain the public's trust. Even after it was revealed that companies spent $50,000 entertaining PSC members in 2002 alone, the commission passed only meek reforms. The freebies continued to the tune of $28,000 spent by companies in the past five years on food and beverages.
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Murbro Parking, Inc. will pay $125,000 to compensate Syracuse for underpayments. The parking garage operator was accused of stealing by Mayor Stephanie Miner in 2012.
Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said it was not a criminal act.
"It appears to be sloppy bookkeeping on the part of Murbro and, really, lack of oversight by the people in city hall," said Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick. He said it was not a criminal act.
Shannon O'Connor, an assistant corporation counsel for Syracuse, has said the city may still seek a civil lawsuit against Murbro.
Readers left mixed reactions to the news in the comments. Here's a sampling of what they had to say.
From lightless: Nice strategic move by the City. It has inadequate records to make a definitive claim against Murbro, so call it a crime, and shift the costs of the investigation on to the County budget. Let the crime investigators determine a crime happened and then cry foul and sue.
Only, there was no crime, and the City has to cover its oversight failures with a lawsuit against a vendor?
From DefendOurselves: LAZ Parking NY/NJ (could not find a locally based company?), which operates three other city garages, had no comparison of the usage rates during the same years, wonder why?
Would it not be fantastic if the city / county would investigate all those OFFICIAL CARDED vehicles which occupy public street parking METERED spaces!
From xeodtech: So we contract to a private company so that its more cost effective for the city and the tax payers. Less record keeping etc... No we have put in place a whole system for tracking long term tenants and collecting the money directly from them. This takes time and probably significant man power by the city. So the question is what does Murbro provide? Is it still cost effective for the private company to manage?
From Cricket: If I were Murbro Parking I would threaten to sue Syracuse Mayor Stefanie Miner for slander, contract cancellation under false pretense, etc. Given that the DA found sloppy bookkeeping on the part of the city Murbro has a better case than anything any of the inexperienced kiddies Miner hired to act as city attorneys could try to muster up in court.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Ryan Hunter-Reay was better in the second practice than he was in the first, claiming the fastest practice time of the day as drivers prepare for Sunday's running of the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama.
The 2013 champion of the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama clocked a fasted lap of 1:08.8470 or 120.267 mph in the morning session. In the afternoon, he was quicker at 1:08.7836 or 120.378 mph.
"The track was good - this is quite a bit hotter than we're used
to here at Barber," he said. "It takes some getting used to and the track
conditions have certainly changed, but we've tested here quite a bit.
Combined times from today's Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama practice is provided by Barber Motorsports Park.
"We tested here in the offseason and we definitely can't get enough of Barber," Hunter-Reay continued. "It's going to be a little bit hotter (Saturday) and the track temp is going to go up, so we'll look at what we did her last year preparing for qualifying."
Sebastien Bourdais moved up from eighth in the morning session to the second-fastest time of the day. He was clocked at 120.120 mph or 1:08.9311.
"We know how slick this place can be when it gets hot and how much tire degradation can be a factor," Bourdais said. "We come here (in March) and test for two days and it's drizzling and it's British weather in the 50s, no wind, and the track is awesome - and the car feels great and it's super fast."
The Frenchman said conditions were much different today, saying the track was 125 degrees and winds were gusty.
"You're like, 'Is this the same car?' You're two seconds slower and you're P1. And that's interesting," he said." I think it's very difficult to anticipate what might happen. The track might not pick up any speed at all and it's getting very slick out there. We'll see what happens."


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RARITAN TWP. -- Antoinette McGeechan died on Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Country Arch Care Center, Union Township. She was 96.
Born in New York City, she was a daughter of Frederick and Margaret McDermott Burgert. She had formerly resided in Pelham, N.Y. for over 40 years, moving to Annandale in 1996 and Raritan Township in 2003.
She was a homemaker.
Her husband, Cornelius, died in 1995.
Surviving are two daughters, Ann Pyzik of Raritan Township and Margaret Walker and her husband, Thomas, of Little Egg Harbor; nine grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Services: Mass of Christian burial on Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Immaculate Conception Church, 316 Old Allerton Road, Annandale. Interment following in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y., under the direction of the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, 147 Main St., Flemington. Calling hours are private.
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2014 is set to be a perfect storm that will flatten out the unnatural boundaries between data, devices and development. By the end of this year, developers will evolve to become the 'one-stop' shop to fluently translate business needs to the web. At the same time, the productivity gains realized by tooling advances will allow the developer to enmesh themselves further in strategic business decisions, increasing the importance of their role in the success of every modern business.
While these seem like bold statements, this has been a path developers have been marching toward for years. With the advent of Agile development, developers have been pushing the industry continuously to iterate and improve how productive the development process can be. This is how dynamic languages such as our own Groovy language came about—where developers are given massive head starts on development projects by reducing the amount of scaffolding code to set up the app and providing powerful processing primitives that accelerate development of scripts. This is why the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) outlined the requirements for HTML 5 to become a unifying concept for change, ironing out how developers deal with disparate devices, graphics, and storage, while layering in modern personalization requirements like geolocation. Simply put, our aim is to make the developer more powerful and productive across an IT landscape littered with a huge variety of data types and devices.
While these improvements individually are helping improve the developer experience, this year also will mark the snowball effect of broader trends in the industry to standardize and fuse development processes. The industry as a whole is motivated to come together and broadly solve some of the biggest challenges for the developer, placing the developer more at the center of business and making their job easier at the same time.
So, without further ado, let's take a look at the key predictions for change we at Pivotal see for the developer this year:
I started playing with Java back when 1.0 first came out in '96. Like all good ideas (technologies), it feels like it's died and resurrected many times since then but I'm glad to hear that it's back once again – let that phoenix and all other great ideas keep burning to reinvent themselves :-) Thanks for sharing your insights in this beautifully positive & dev-friendly article!


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Finance Director Tom Lijana spoke to City Council on Thursday, where he reportedly told members that delinquent income tax payments cost Detroit $155 million a year.
May 13, Detroit Free Press: No one believes the city can collect all of the delinquent taxes, Lijana said, but an effort is under way to use state and federal tax databases to identify residents who owe money.Lijana's statements come as Bing is looking to balance the 2011-12 fiscal year budget and eliminate the city's deficit -- coincidentally estimated at $155 million -- within five years.
The city, he added, just started mailing tax bills to some of the offenders.
"It's a huge revenue opportunity for us," Lijana told the council during a hearing on Mayor Dave Bing's plan to eliminate the deficit by 2015.
The mayor traveled to Lansing late last month and asked legislators to help him acheive both goals by rewriting a series of laws -- including one allowing the city to exceed the state cap and charge a 2.5 percent income tax -- originally written to benefit a city with a population of at least 750,000.
Census figures released earlier this year pegged Detroit's population at only 713,777.
Democratic state Reps. Harvey Santana and David Nathan, who both represent portions of the city, on Tuesday introduced separate amendments that would extend Detroit's special allowance for income and utility taxes by lowering the population requirement to 500,000.
The legislation appears to be a logical way for the state to help Detroit without providing a handout. As Republican Rep. Ken Yonkers of Caledonia put it earlier this week, it's "an opportunity for them to tax themselves and replace the revenue they lost because of the population decline without asking the state for more money."
As it stands, Detroit residents pay some of the highest taxes in the state. At least those who bother to file.


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6.10.2012 - 10.02.2013
Robert Gober
Curator: Nikola Dietrich
For this exhibition, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst reconstructs a work the American artist Robert Gober created specifically for its ground floor hall: the installation Split Wall with Drains (1994–95). The piece stands at the center of a show dedicated for the most part to works by Gober held by the collections of the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung and the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation. After the major survey exhibition held at the Schaulager, Basel, in 2007, this eminent oeuvre, in which replicas of domestic objects such as washbasins, fireplaces, and drains, effigies of body parts, and reproductions of specific spaces with institutional or religious connotations play a central part, will be presented to the public in a new exhibition produced once again in close collaboration with the artist.
The motif of the drain to which Gober returns here appears early in his work: starting in 1989, he designed a number of simple but individual plugholes, had them cast, and then installed them directly in the walls of exhibition spaces (Drains). The drain marks the boundary between light and darkness, between what is visible and what is concealed, between inside and outside.
The installation may be read as an allegory of transition, precisely revealing the spots that are invisible as such. Unequivocal categories of inside and outside or above and below that would offer orientation in space have been abandoned. What emerge in their stead are unfamiliar zones with newly delineated boundaries in which the realm of bodily experience is central. Yet even when beheld from a distance, the sculpture commands the entire room, vaguely and uneasily suggesting both a film set and a crime scene.


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Apparently, the world is coming to an end.
Or maybe it's just the TV world. With the presidential campaign promising the end of the political world as we know it if one or the other candidate gets elected on the one hand and the new TV season chiming in simultaneously with the apocalypse-de-jour on the other, it's getting hard to tell.
And now with zombies on the left and aliens on the right comes NBC's new series, "Revolution," foretelling a world without power in which on day one cars stop, planes fall out of the sky, governments topple, and militias rise.
And then things really start getting bad.
Naturally, I was concerned. If the world really is about to end, I'd appreciate getting the memo.
I mean I might take my social security early. Or stop worrying about my 401K. Or take a more long-term view of paying my electricity bill.
The possibilities are endless. I mean who wouldn't order the most expensive thing on the menu if he knew the bill would never come.
So in that spirit, I leaned over to my wife during breakfast recently and asked if she thought the end of the world was imminent.
"You mean before lunch?" she said. "I doubt it."
"In that case we'd better load the dishwasher. Ditto the laundry and taking out the trash. You're sure about this no end to the world thing? There seems to be a lot of talk to the contrary."
"Come to think of it," she said. "I believe I did read somewhere about the Aztec calendar foretelling the apocalypse."
"I thought that was the Mayan?"
"Mayan so," she said, thereby coining the first Mayan joke in centuries. "Still I don't really think that running our lives on the basis of a 5,000-year old prophesy from a primitive civilization before cable TV really makes a lot of sense. I prefer to take my advice from Dr. Phil."
"Very sensible," I said. "Making major life decisions based on advice from TV personalities who don't know you is an excellent plan. That's why I always avoided three-hour cruises. Think of what Gilligan would say."
"What makes you think the world is about to end anyway?" she asked.
"The television page. It used to only be the serial rapists, murders, and terrorists on the police shows. But these days prime time is chock full of vampires, space invaders and giant cockroaches crawling all the way to the local news."
"At least reality kicks in then" she said.
"Yes and no. It's true there are no zombies, unless you count some of the newscasters with their smiles plastered on. But there's global warming and impending pandemics, and Iranians with nukes. Who wouldn't think the world was coming to an end?"
"So what should we do?" she asked.
"Here's a thought," I said. "Let's turn off the TV and avoid the news. Let's rip up our calendars, make ourselves a sandwhich and hold the Mayan malaise, which has now beome the second Mayan joke in centuries.
"And what then?" she asked.
Then we take the dog for a walk in the woods and try to live each day as if we're going to live forever."
And what if the world really comes to an end?" she asked.
"Then at least we'll die happy."


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The MFJ259 doesn't give you the resistive part of the impedance when the SWR is not equal to 1:1. From the tests I have done with it , I think it is giving you the total impedance. In the mnual, they imply that at minimum SWR reading, you can read the resistance, but this is not true, if that SWR is far away from 1:1. As you measured, you can have a 3:1 SWR and read 40 ohms on the meter. This says that the equivalent impedance of the circuit being measured is 40 ohms. It doesn't tell you anything about the actual resistance or reactance of the load. The SWR is defined in term of reflection coefficients, not in terms of resistance ratios, or in terms of equivalent impedance ratios. In your case, you have a circuit with high reflection coefficients (caused by high reactance). Also when the meter reads minimum SWR, this is not necessarily the exact resonant point. Minimum SWR doesn't always coincide with zero reactance. It is usually close but not exact. When I was using the MFJ259 and needed to know the actual R+jX, I used to take a variable cap or a variable inductor and put in in series with the load being measured, set the MFJ to the frequency I wanted, tune the cap or inductor for minimum R. This will tune out the reactance of the load and let you measure the actual resistive part at this frequency. To get the reactive part, I would measure the cap/inductor on a bridge and calculate the reactance of the load. A lot more trouble than using the MFJ259B, but if it's all you got... Jerry, K4SAV Tom Osborne wrote: > Hi all > >I just put up a 160 meter inverted L and the antenna is resonant after >tweaking about 1850. It shows a resonant SWR of almost 3 to 1, but on the >MFJ 259, is shows a resistance of around 40 ohms at the resonant point. I >have about 70 feet vertical and the rest horizontal. The only thing is >that up in the tree, it is about 6 feet from the 80 meter inverted V. >Would that make it so bad? > >This antenna has LOTS of radials. I also have 3 40 meter verticals, and I >tied the 3 of the radials from the 160 inverted L to the hub each of the 40 >meter radials, so there is probably 3/4 mile or more of radials. > >I know that it is not good to have a perfect 1:1 SWR on a vertical if it is >playing right. With the 40 ohms of resistance, it seems as though it should >be 1:5:1 or so. I could live with that---but 3:1? What's happening. 73 > >Tom W7WHY > > >_______________________________________________ > >See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless >Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any >questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA. > >_______________________________________________ >TowerTalk mailing list >firstname.lastname@example.com >http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk > > > _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA. _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list email@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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Here's a look inspired by this soft colored baby blanket. I used Claire's pastels for the patches. The base color is Ancient Jade which was a dead-on match to the blankett base. I sponged lilac, yellow, blue and apricot as patches with eyeshadow applicator and "stitched" with pearl white nail art pen.
The finish is soft like baby powder due to sponging. I didn't want to put glossy top coat over it. Might add a matte top later.
It's a quick free-hand look so to some extent it reminds me of kids watercoloring LOL
Back to more defined and vibrant style next time :)
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Prosecutor to Represent County in Mall Road Case
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – The Belmont County Prosecutor's Office will represent the county in legal matters involving the Mall Road/U.S. 40 connector road project following an act by county commissioners Thursday.
Commissioners voted 2-1 to substitute the county prosecutor's office as the county's legal representation in place of the Columbus law firm of Isaac Wiles, which previously was retained by the county. Commissioners Mark Thomas and Matt Coffland voted in favor, while Ginny Favede voted in opposition.
Favede has favored hiring private legal counsel for matters pertaining to the connector road , saying there are "too many people involved in this case that have something to gain for it to not be viewed as a conflict of interest."
She and former commissioner Chuck Probst voted in November to retain the Isaac Wiles firm.
"The move to hire Aaron Glascow (attorney with Isaac Wiles) to represent the taxpayers of Belmont County was the best decision for the board," she said.
On Nov. 20, Glascow filed a motion with the Belmont County Common Pleas Court asking the court to examine its 1999 ruling directing Lou Stein and Home Pro Enterprises to pay for the construction of a connector road from U.S. 40 to property owned by Stein adjacent to the Ohio Valley Plaza. No development was ever started on the land, and the road projected was never initiated by Stein.
The Ohio Department of Transportation is now asking Belmont County to transfer $1.9 million to start construction of the connector road that would begin near the All Fore One miniature golf course along U.S. 40, then extend west of the Ohio Valley Plaza behind Sam's Club and wind behind the Lowe's Home Improvement store. It would link up with a roadway being constructed behind the Ohio Valley Mall by the Cafaro Co., owners of the mall, and an ODOT project to extend the new highway to Mall Road.
Thomas initially made a motion at a commission meeting on Monday to withdraw the county's motion in the lawsuit. He added the Isaac Wiles law firm has billed the county $8,981 since taking the case in November.
Favede, though, told him it was a "responsible use of taxpayer dollars" to make certain "a party other than the county" wasn't responsible for constructing the road, and that it was important be involved in the matter.
On Thursday, Thomas amended his motion to eliminate the private legal representation in the lawsuit, and substitute the Belmont County Prosecutor's Office.


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Driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. comes motoring down pit road amongst a sea of stock cars under caution, and Bernal and his fellow Roush-Fenway pit crew teammates leap into action.
Bernal said if the over-the-wall gang can change four tires, gas up Stenhouse's No. 6 Ford Mustang and make any necessary adjustments in 13.7 seconds or less, Stenhouse will have a great chance of improving or at least maintaining his track position. And that can be the difference between winning and losing.
"If you think about it, it could come down to you losing a race and costing the company thousands and thousands of dollars," Bernal said. "You don't want to be the one who makes that mistake."
The 2003 Holland High School graduate serves as a tire carrier at Roush-Fenway. He is the one who sprints around the right side of the car with the tire, gets it to the tire changer, then makes sure the worn tire gets back over the pit wall. Bernal has fueled up the car, too.
In addition, he also works in the team's fabrication shop during the week, building bodies for the team's Sprint Cup cars, including series points leader Carl Edwards and 2003 champion Matt Kenseth.
It has been an exciting spring for Bernal, who is in his first season working with Stenhouse. NASCAR's new rule that prohibits Sprint Cup regulars such as Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch from competing for a Nationwide championship has given Nationwide regulars such as Stenhouse a better shot at the title.
Stenhouse is tied for first place with Justin Allgaier through eight races.
"I came down here about five or six years ago, and it has been a real long road, but it is definitely worth it," Bernal said. "At that time in my life, I was trying to figure out what I was going to do. I loved racing, and it was blowing up at the time. I did some research and figured out how I could be involved in it. I attended an automotive tech school, and next door, there was a pit crew training school. I ended up joining that.
"They have an eight-week program, and you get invited to an advanced program if you are capable. Recruiters from big organizations come by, and I got picked up by Roush-Fenway."
Friday's race at Richmond is the ninth on the Nationwide's 34-race schedule. The travel can be a grind for pit crew guys such as Bernal, who has a young family. Bernal and his fiancee, Amanda Elliott of New Hampshire, will be married June 10, and they have a daughter, Neveah.
The most challenging part of his job, though, is the physical demands and the cardiovascular and weight training it requires. Bernal has always been an extreme sports type of guy. He enjoyed snowboarding while growing up, and he participated in national bicycle road races.
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"We train like you would never believe," Bernal said. "We have an ex-Jacksonville Jaguars trainer coming in to train us, and he wears us out.
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Provides the means to enable communication between on-farm process computers of stationary and mobile agricultural equipment or machinery, and management computers. Specifies an Agri-cultural Data Interchange Syntax (ADIS) to exchange data electronically. It implies that the syn-tax is not intended for real-time data exchange.
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Disease Pressure Service provides farmer the information on elevated risk of a crop (etc) disease. DPS alarms may be used e.g. to trigger a spraying event. The purpose of the data transfer is to get a weather nowcast for the Disease Pressure Service internal processes. The applicable actors are Advisory Service (Disease Pressure Service), Intermediator (Weather Service) and Field (Parcel).
Weather Service Provider provides weather information (e.g. nowcast) in GeoTIFF format through a Web Coverage Service interface. The actual weather data variable values are stored into metadata of a returned GeoTIFF image. Lightweight ESB like service was implemented between Disease Pressure Service and Weather Service to a) convert the WCS interface into more convenient SOA interface with XML message exchange and to b) eliminate the need to implement image metadata manipulation routines into the Disease Pressure Service server side code.
Used standards/de facto standards: GeoTIFF, WCS, ESB, SOA, XML, REST
More on SOA: https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/jsp/publications/PublicationDetails.jsp...
More on REST: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-restful/
Interface provides XML message exchange capability for Disease Pressure Service (DPS) when requesting weather information (nowcast) from Weather Service Provider's (WSP) Web Coverage Service interface. The sequence begins with getNowcast action request (within a XML message) from the DPS to the lightweight ESB Service (ESBS) implement. The parameters (coverage) include the coordinates of the area the weather info is requested, weather variables needed and the timestamp of the sample. ESBS parses the request into a valid WCS request format (URL) and passes it to the WSP. The WSP response input stream (GeoTIFF image) is read by ESBS and the image metadata is applied utilizing Apache Sanselan class libraries. The valid parameters are extracted from the image metadata, parsed into a XML and passed to the DPS as a response.
The DPS and the ESBS services are implemented using Java EE (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/overview/index.html). In order to implement GeoTIFF metadata reader you need to download and install e.g. Apache Sanselan (used in this implement) class libraries ( http://commons.apache.org/sanselan/download_sanselan.cgi).
Disease Pressure Service uses a SOAP client for message exchange with ESB Service (REST implement). The DPS's weather request (XML message exchange) triggers an event where the Weather Service Provider's Web Coverage Service interface is called. The method is using basic Java .io and .net class libraries (InputStream is = url.openStream() where the url is an object from a class URL created passing WSC service url to the constructor). The beauty of the Apache Sanselan is that it can read the image metadata directly from the input stream (metaData = Sanselan.getMetadata(is, null)). The Sanselan metadata container type is an array list (ArrayList <Object> al = new ArrayList() , al = metadata.getItems()). The XML messaging between DPS and ESBS is currently using proprietary format but a possibility to use e.g. AgroXML is investigated.
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text: The Chinese Pavilion at the Missouri Botanical Garden is just one of many great subjects to photograph. There are so many areas that are easy to walk past and this is one of them. I had forgotten about this part of the garden and stumbled upon it during my last trip. This photo is an HDR image but I tried to keep the original feeling of the subject. It was a bright day and the clouds hadn't moved in yet so HDR helped overcome some of the harsh shadows I was getting in the shots. If you're ever in St. Louis, the Missouri Botanical Garden is a must see! Don't forget to stop by and check out the Chinese Pavilion and garden.


text: Monday Morning's Local News from KWGS By John Durkee • Jun 10, 2013 ShareTwitter Facebook Google+ Email Listen Listening... / 6AM local newscast In the local news: The summer heat envelopes northeast Oklahoma this week. Mayor Bartlett pushes his public safety tax. Safe rooms in all Oklahoma schools would cost $200-billion. That is a third of the overall state budget.


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According to the Law of Supply and Demand, as the price of a good rises, demand for the good will fall. Turns out, the law holds true for the price of a "bad."
Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS ) analyst Arjun Murti recently famously predicted that oil could cost as much as $150 to $200 by the end of this year. His take on the situation: Buy shares of ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP ) , Halliburton (NYSE: HAL ) , and El Paso (NYSE: EP ) . Predictable.
Also predictable: a report out of the Transportation Department this morning. Shocked by the high gasoline prices that come with pricier oil, U.S. drivers spent 4.3% less time on the road in March, driving 11 billion fewer miles than last year -- the steepest year-over-year decline ever recorded in public records. So it seems the Law of Supply and Demand still works. The price of oil went up, and demand for it went down.
In related news, Ford (NYSE: F ) confessed yesterday that the cost of fuel is depressing demand for its fuel-thirstiest vehicles -- SUVs and large trucks -- and will postpone its promised profits in fiscal 2009. (Similar rumbles have been heard from Ford archrival GM (NYSE: GM ) .)
Foolish takeaway
Many credit the spike in oil prices to surging demand for cars -- and the fuel to run them -- from India and China. But this Fool wonders whether Supply and Demand is a merely local law, or an international one. If the latter, I have to think that the rising cost of oil will force down demand for both cars and gasoline. And not just here, but everywhere.


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Morgan Smith, a Birmingham-Southern College musical theater graduate who recently came back to Birmingham to star in "Sweet Charity" at Red Mountain Theatre Company, has been nominated for a major theater award in Boston.
Smith is nominated for a 2011 BroadwayWorld Boston Award in the category of Best Actress in a Musical -- Large Theater. That's for her work in the musical "The Marvelous Wonderettes." Her competition includes four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald in "Porgy and Bess," which is headed to Broadway.
For more information, or to vote for Smith, you can go the BroadwayWorld Boston site.


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Saint Barnabas Community Programs, Classes and Support Groups for January 2014 have been announced.
Perinatal Bereavement Support Group
Jan. 9; 7:30-9 pm
Saint Barnabas Medical Center, 94 Old Short Hills Road, Livingston
A group for those who have experienced a loss during pregnancy or the death of a newborn. Free; registration required: 973-322-5745.
Mindful Eating: Be Your Own Nutrition Guide
Jan. 14; 11 am
Saint Barnabas Wellness Institute at Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC MetroWest
760 Northfield Avenue, West Orange
Reducing processed sugar in the diet is an excellent first step in improving one's health. This yoga and nutrition interactive workshop led by Stacey Pinke, MS, RD, Siegler Center for Integrative Medicine at Barnabas Health Ambulatory Care Center, will explore the hidden sugars in one's diet, the harm these sugars can cause in the body and how to reduce or eliminate these sugars from the foods we eat. Free, registration required: 973-322-5620.
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) for Insomnia
Jan. 15; 7 pm
Saint Barnabas Wellness Institute at Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC MetroWest
760 Northfield Avenue, West Orange
Gary Goldberg, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, will discuss the Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) for Insomnia and how it gets people back to sleep without medication in a relatively short period of time. Free, registration required: 973-322-5620.
Free High-Risk Lung Cancer Screening
Jan. 21; 11:30 am- Mount Olive Senior Center, 204 Flanders Drakestown Road, Budd Lake
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. It is most curable when diagnosed at an early stage. The Saint Barnabas Lung Cancer Institute is offering a free low-dose CT screening program for individuals 50 to 74 years of age who are at high-risk for developing lung cancer to identify abnormalities earlier. If you are a current or former smoker, learn if you are eligible for this life-saving test. Please note, the test is not preformed at this event. If eligible, the test will be scheduled at Saint Barnabas Medical Center based on your availability. Registration is not required. To learn more: http://tinyurl.com/sbmclci or 973-322-6644.
Evidence-Based Tools to Quit Smoking
Jan. 29; 6:30 pm - Mt. Olive Public Library, 202 Flanders Drakestown Road, Budd Lake
One of the hardest addictions to shake is smoking – but quitting is the best decision you will ever make. Whether you've tried to quit smoking before or are thinking about it, join Roland Romano, LPC, CTTS, RRT, the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Saint Barnabas Lung Cancer Institute, to get advice on what really works. Registration is not required. To learn more, call 973-322-5767.
Stimulating Thoughts! Applications of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease and Other Neurological Disorders
Jan. 30; 7 pm
Saint Barnabas Wellness Institute at Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC MetroWest
760 Northfield Avenue, West Orange
Learn more about Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) therapy, an FDA-approved treatment for Parkinson's disease. from Adam Lipson, MD, FAANS, Union County Neurosurgical Associates. Free, registration required: 973-322-5620.


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Arizonans are continuing to shop — at least for the time being.
New figures from the state Department of Revenue show retail sales in January of $3.71 billion. That is a nearly 5.4 percent increase over the same month a year earlier — and more than 16 percent higher than two years ago.
"This a nice solid month performance in retail," said Dennis Hoffman, an economics professor at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. And it follows what was a fairly lackluster December where year-over-year sales increased by just 3.7 percent.
Hoffman said January appears to have been a particularly good month for the sale of cars and trucks, with a double-digit increase. But he said a better indication of economic health is that the sale of durable goods, things like home furnishings, where year-over-year sales are up by more than 20 percent.
Hoffman said that Arizonans should not look for similar large annual increases in the coming months.
He said there were signs of a thaw in the economy last spring, with some boost in purchases at that time. Hoffman said it will be hard to maintain double-digit increases over those levels.
But he said something more than statistical issues may result in less-than-spectacular sales increases over the next few months.
"The headwind right now is $4 gas," he said. The more that consumers have to spend filling up their vehicles, the less they have for other items.
Hoffman said the wholesale price of gasoline is now in the $3.50-a-gallon range. He said that is being pumped up largely by speculators, with no indication of increased demand.
And he said it could get worse if there is some development in Iran that would slow the flow of Middle East oil.
But even in that situation, Hoffman said one sector of the economy may still do well.
"People are probably still going to be buying cars because you probably want to get rid of that old fuel-inefficient junker," he said. And he said that certain major purchases also are likely to remain unaffected.
"If you need a new washing machine or refrigerator, or want to fix up the house, typically gas prices are not going to deter you from doing that," Hoffman said. "But the real thing to watch going forward is whether the price at the pump will put a damper on some of that budding consumer enthusiasm we're seeing here."


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Stephen Colbert on helping the poor
January 31, 2012 - Andrea Johnson
Since I don't get cable, I'm not all that familiar with the comedian Stephen Colbert or his show "The Colbert Report," though I've thought he was hilarious when I have seen clips of his work.
Apparently Colbert also has a more serious side. One of my Facebook friends posted a quote someone has attributed to Colbert that I think should inspire some soul searching: "If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." Colbert is apparently a practicing Catholic and CCD teacher, which I would guess has some impact on his private political views, which are probably those of a typical progressive liberal Catholic concerned with social justice causes. The Facebook quote sounds like it could have been delivered by a priest during the homily at Sunday Mass.
Colbert isn't a serious political candidate, but his remark addresses a lot of the themes that are going to come up again and again as we move into the full swing of the presidential campaign season.
More people are poor now than were four years ago. Even in North Dakota, which is experiencing unprecedented prosperity, there are more people who are hurting financially, struggling to find housing or pay for necessities in communities where prices have skyrocketed. All over the country the Occupy Wall Street protests have been ongoing.
What does it really mean to help the poor? Does it mean welfare or programs that assist the poor to buy health insurance? Would the poor be better helped if we focused on helping them to help themselves and how should that be done? Should such help come from private resources or does the government have an obligation to assist its citizens? Can the country afford to provide federal assistance to the poor given the state of the national economy? It may not be as simple as saying "We just don't want to do it." In some cases, maybe it's "We want to help, but we don't know how or we just can't do it." In other cases, it really means we don't want to help, particularly when the poor are particularly despised or unadmirable. But based on what I remember, it was those most despised, the least worthy, that Jesus would have walked among.
Whatever your political slant, though, Colbert's comment is worth some consideration.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The No. 7 Davenport women's soccer team makes a brief return to DU Turf Field for the lone match of the week as they host Madonna Saturday at noon. While the Panthers look to stay on top of the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference standings, they will also be looking to set a new school record by winning their 12th straight match. Fans can catch the match on the Davenport Athletics Network with Gene Halbert on the call.
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Date: Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013
Kickoff: Noon
Location: Grand Rapids, Mich. (DU Turf Field)
Internet Coverage: Live Stats/Video
Announcers: Gene Halbert (Play-by-Play)
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The Panthers are
coming off a pair of victories with different outcomes. DU couldn't hold on to
a 1-0 lead with 45 seconds left in regulation but Lizzie Paul helped the
Panthers escape with a 2-1 double overtime win at crosstown foes Aquinas last
Wednesday. Three days later, Paul was on the spotlight again as she recorded
her fourth career hat trick to lead DU to a 4-0 victory at Indiana Tech. With
the five goals tallied on the week, Paul broke the single-season record for
points last Saturday at Indiana Tech, which was previously held by Paige Eli
with 33 last season.