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Echo Chamber Project Receives A $55,000 GrantSubmitted by kentbye on Fri, 2007-01-05 19:45. About | EchoChamberProject
I'm happy to report that through a series of connections that The Echo Chamber Project has received a $55,000 grant for the next year of operations. Below is the text of the four-page grant that I submitted to the foundation, who prefers to remain anonymous.
I am also pleased to report that I have made it past the first round of the Knight Brothers 21st Century News Challenge competition, and am in the process of submitting a full proposal.
The Echo Chamber Project explores collaborative investigative filmmaking by using new media technologies as well as a repository of original video interviews with journalists and scholars. It is a project that details the limitations of American journalism while at the same time embodying innovative solutions through collaborative media production. In short, it is an independent filmmaker's "YouTube" combined with "Wikipedia" for serious journalism.
Radical innovation is needed in order to discover both sustainable business models for hard-hitting investigative journalism as well as new ways of maintaining influence and audience attention with trustworthy content. The Echo Chamber Project explores the two key trends of Online Video and Tapping into Collective Intelligence through Citizen Participation.
Continued below is a brief overview of the history and scope of the Echo Chamber Project, as well as a funding request for a total of $55,000 for the next year of operations...
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Breaking Radio Silence with a Quick UpdateSubmitted by kentbye on Tue, 2006-11-14 18:28. EchoChamberProject
I just wanted to break the four-month radio silence here on the blog to let folks know that I intend on releasing some alpha-level collaborative editing functionality with the 15 journalist interviews.
I'm addressing some bugs and getting things ready to start having some folks help filter, tag, edit and sequence together sound bite segments. More details soon...
Echo Chamber Project's Collaborative Editing Demonstration at VloggerconSubmitted by kentbye on Thu, 2006-06-15 16:07. About | demo | EchoChamberProject | KentBye | Software | Vlog | Vloggercon
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This is my demonstration of the collaborative editing workflow for The Echo Chamber Project during the Politics and Social Change Session during the first day of Vloggercon. Total run time is 9:15.
This software demonstration is at the prototype phase, and I'm transitioning to a private alpha and then a public beta over the next couple of months.
Please sign up as a user if you're interested in getting more involved with the project as it evolves.
More background information can be found in this post: Iterative Media: Treating Collaborative Media Like Open Source Code
Iterative Media: Treating Collaborative Media Like Open Source CodeSubmitted by kentbye on Wed, 2006-05-17 14:25. About | Collaboration | Editing | opensource
The second day of the Beyond Broadcast Conference split into smaller working groups, and I attended the "Iterative Media: Treating Media like Open Source Code" session with about 30 other people.
The idea was to draw parallels between open source software development and the trend towards interactive and participatory media.
The Echo Chamber Project has been very much influenced by the open source production model, especially after watching the Revolution OS documentary about the free and open source movements -- as well as reading Eric S. Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Here is some of the discussion that came out of session as to how it relates to The Echo Chamber Project:
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Video: Media, Politics & Social Change: An Overview of The Echo Chamber ProjectSubmitted by kentbye on Wed, 2006-05-10 09:46. About | Activism | EchoChamberProject | Journalism | Politics | trends | Vlog
This video provides explains how the media fits into political and social change and specifically addresses the following questions:
* How is the Press supposed to Work?
* How and why does the Press act like an Echo Chamber?
* How is media changing?
* What does it mean that the "news is becoming a conversation"?
* Will these new media changes affect the nature of politics?
* How does The Echo Chamber Project fit into all of this?
Featuring: Amy Goodman, Lawrence Grossman, Jim Lobe, Jonathan Landay, Richard Sambrook, Jay Rosen, Dan Gillmor, Jeff Jarvis, Doc Searls & Merrill Brown.
You can subscribe to the Interview Audio here or browse it here.
Additional interview transcripts are here.
Sign up as a user here.
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Building a Theory of Collaborative SensemakingSubmitted by kentbye on Wed, 2006-03-22 19:00. Collaboration | Communications | IntelAnalysis | Journalism | KM | newmedia | Theory
Using new media technology to make the filmmaking post-production process more collaborative has uncovered some interesting theoretical insights. It has introduced some constraints that have allowed me to abstract some broader concepts that can be applied to journalism and collaborative sensemaking.
Below I explore some of the parallels between Collaborative Filmmaking, New Media Technology, Journalism, The Intelligence Cycle, Knowledge Management Pyramid and the Scientific Method...
* Constraints Can Be Good
* Scaling Up Complexity with Folksonomy Tags & Playlists
* Towards a Theory of Collaborative Sensemaking
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Technology Audio: Conversation with Sean Coon about The Echo Chamber ProjectSubmitted by kentbye on Tue, 2006-03-07 16:32. CommunityAudio | newmedia | trends
Listen to a conversation that I had with Sean Coon, who is a web developer and consultant that got in touch with me after listening to a good number of my interview and community podcasts. We had an hour conversation talking about some of the trends in new media as well as where The Echo Chamber Project is headed.
Sean is very excited about the project from both a technological and political view, and so I look forward for having him get more involved as the project evolves. He also recently moved to Greensboro, North Carolina where the local newspaper has been actively involved in integrating blogging and citizen journalism into their local coverage -- listen to this interview with Lex Alexander for more details.
I should also note that there will be three main end products with the Echo Chamber Project:
[1] The 90-minute documentary that focuses on the media performance during the build-up to the war;
[2] An annotated multimedia experience of the entire archive of material that supplements the film and provides a proof of concept for how new media technologies can make the press more collaborative and inclusive of many different perspectives; and
[3] The open source tools and methodologies that were used to create the other two end products.
The majority of the interview audio that I've released so far has been focused on the second end product. These interviews are more solution-oriented and forward-looking, and the interviews average around 15 minutes each.
Soon I will also be releasing the audio from the interviews that focus on the preformance of the media leading up to the war in Iraq. These interviews illuminate the problems and limitations with the media, and average around 50 minutes each.
In this conversation with Sean, I mention a speech that former New York Times ombudsman Daniel Okrent gave where he mentions that the three biggest issues that people wrote in and complained about were: Accuracy, Bias and Arrogance. I talk about how collaborative media could potentially address each of these issues.
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GOP Justifying the Rollback of the PressSubmitted by kentbye on Tue, 2006-02-28 11:06. Journalism | MediaCriticism | newmedia | Politics | trends
For the past couple of days, the Drudge Report has been running excerpts from Bill Sammon's latest book "Strategery" [sic]. Today's Drudge top headline was "Bush Cheers Decline of Mainstream Media, Rise of Alternative Press" -- which provides further validation to the trend that I elaborated in this video: Government Bypassing the Press.
Sammon interviewed Bush and a number of senior advisors about the pre-election "Memogate," where Bush claims that CBS explicitly "conspired" to harm his campaign. Drudge writes that "Memogate has helped accelerate the decline of the mainstream media, generally defined as CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times and other establishment news outlets."
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Technology Audio: Kent Bye's Collaborative Filmmaking Presentation at Ritual Roasters, San FranciscoSubmitted by kentbye on Wed, 2006-02-22 15:02. About | Collaboration | CommunityAudio | Editing
Listen to a presentation that I gave at Ritual Roasters coffee shop in San Francisco's Mission District on January 3rd, 2006. (Length: 25:28)
Chris Messina announced this meet-up with this blog post and submitted this announcment to Upcoming.org, and there were about a dozen people who showed up to listen to this brief presentation. Jennifer Myronuk recorded the talk, and I was interviewed by Geek Entertainment TV in a piece that should be airing sometime in the future. Update 4/10/06: Here's the episode.
Here are some blog reactions from Andy Kaufman & Irina Slutsky and some photos from Tara Hunt and EFF's Jason Schultz.
This is a more general overview of the collaborative filmmaking schematic, and I'd recommend listening to the presentation while looking at the flowchart shown below.
You can also listen to a similar presentation that I gave at the Open Media Developers Summit in early January here.
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Technology Audio: Kent Bye's Collaborative Filmmaking Presentation at Open Media Developers SummitSubmitted by kentbye on Wed, 2006-02-22 14:49. About | Collaboration | CommunityAudio | Editing
Listen to a presentation that I gave at the Open Media Developers Summit on October 21st, 2005. (Length: 25:01)
This is a fairly technical overview of the collaborative filmmaking schematic, and I'd highly recommend listening to the presentation while looking at the flowchart shown below.
You can also listen to a similar presentation that I gave in San Francisco in early January here.
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Pettus Elementary School students earning all A's for the sixth six weeks were named to the honor roll. They are:
First grade — Angelina Bridge, Lainey Cline, Debra Daugherty, Jocelyn Reyna and Elias Timbs.
Second grade — Jared Bates, Ryan Brinkkoeter, Robert DeLeon, Dustin Flores, Caitlynn Foley, Heirabella Gomez, Jensen Laughlin, Kaylee Launius, Raeann Martinez, Rowdy Siddon and Victoria Walker.
Third grade — William Cline, Michael King and Emily Pena.
Fourth grade — Soledad Cuellar, Aidan DelBosque and Jillian Mills.
Fifth grade — Shanna Duran and Ryan Nail.
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School
TJES students earning all A's for the sixth six weeks were named to the honor roll. They are:
First grade — Priscilla Arredondo, Joshua Arroyos, Angelo Barrera, Lila Campbell, Jason Cano, Darrien Chapa, Christopher DeLeon, Trinity Gonzales, Arianna Hernandez, Imelda Jaure, Austin Keller, John Madrigal, Bennett Martinez, Nicholas Martinez, Vanessa Mendez, Alizen Moreno, Jaydene Munoz, Marcus Perez, Carla Portillo, Roger Quaid, Roslynn Ramirez, Alyssa Ryckman, Tiler Sexton, Julianna Sifuentes, Brooklyn Villanueva and Ezekiel Villegas.
Second grade — Anyah Diaz, Aleya Flores, Seliana Garza, Colin Gomez, Alexis Hernandez, Jordan McCaffrey, Emily Mechell, Christianni Munoz, Jordan Padron, Alberto Rodriguez, Isaiah Salinas, Alisha Selby, Anissya Suniga, Jozannah Suniga and Alberto Valadez.
Third grade — Davynn Cruz, Elijah Flores and Marc Munoz.
Fourth grade — Harley Deal and Emily Reese.
Fifth grade — Jamie Nail, Rayanna Perez, Paul Pint and Austin Rabe.

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your game threads rule. lets go knicks, clean the cats' cage!
Gallinari and Stoudemire were at it again Saturday.
The duo combined for 70 points - 45 after halftime - in a 124-115 win against the struggling Los Angeles Clippers.
It was like a video game, Stoudemire said after scoring a season-high 39. The positive from this is that were on a three-game winning streak and our chemistrys now starting to come together. We showed how good we can be and what it takes to win, and were showing winning qualities. Weve just got to keep it going.
Stoudemire averaged 29.0 points on .608 shooting from the field, 9.5 rebounds and compiled eight blocks, leading the Knicks to a 3-1 week on a four-game west coast road trip. The Knicks' captain posted a point/rebound double-double in each of New York's three wins during the week and scored a season-high 39 points while adding 11 boards in a victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night.
New York is just 1-4 at MSG, largely due to its inaccuracy from beyond the arc. The Knicks are hitting an NBA-worst 26.0 percent of their 3-pointers at home, while theyve knocked down 38.9 percent on the road.
Theyre 5-0 when they hit 40 percent or more from 3, and 1-8 otherwise.
Stoudemires production has been consistent regardless of venue, but that hasnt been true for his teammates.
Felton, who will be facing the Bobcats (5-8) for the first time after spending his first five seasons with Charlotte, is averaging 19.3 points and shooting 50.4 percent on the road as opposed to 14.2 points and 41.3 percent at home.
Gallinaris differences have been even worse. Hes averaged 25.4 points and hit 43.2 percent of his 3-pointers in his last five road games. In the Knicks five home games, hes averaged 12.8 points and shot 25.0 percent from beyond the arc.
Not sure how many of you boys know, but Raymond was destroyed by Jameer Nelson in the first round of last year's ECSF.
Michael Jordan had seen enough to last him a lifetime, and pointed to the exit without, basically, saying a word.
This had to have a profound effect on Raymond. In the video below, his frustrations are easily spotted.
This is as an emotional game as Felton's had since he left college.
Composure. That, IMO, is paramount. The MSG crowd are ravenous for a victory after a 1-4 start at home. This team has the tools, the will and the savvy to pull out a victory. Whether or not we come through will come down to cohesion, composure, desire and belief in one another on the floor.
The NYK are a highly capable team. Great players and depth. We can beat the Bobcats.
Gallinari VS Wallace
Gallo's been playing with his thinking cap on. Drawing fouls, timely cuts and passes, he's been fantastic. But come game time, he'll be under some serious defensive scrutiny. Wallace is a defensive stalwart and has been selected to the NBA's All Defensive first team. He also has an epic athletic edge on Gallo. A big test for our new found 3rd option and most clutch performer.
Perhaps Charlotte will be better served by playing at New Yorks up-tempo pace on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Bobcats 73.2 field-goal attempts per game are the leagues fewest, but they seemed invigorated running the floor with Phoenix on Saturday.
It helped that the Suns didnt have Steve Nash(notes). Charlotte took a season-high 87 shots and hit a season-best 57.5 percent, getting the first triple-double in franchise history from Stephen Jackson(notes) (24 points, 10 boards, 10 assists) to lead the way to a 123-105 win.
We knew that we could attack the rack and be aggressive, and we knew if we played defense we could beat these guys, said Jackson, whos averaged 26.0 points and hit 51.4 percent from 3-point range in his last four games.
Jacksons two trips to MSG with Charlotte havent been as memorable. He shot 36.6 percent as the Knicks won each meeting by four points behind 26.5 points per game from Wilson Chandler(notes).
your game threads rule. lets go knicks, clean the cats' cage!
Hopefully the Knicks aren't to ****y after a winning streak. I keep bringing it up, but look what happened at Philly a while back. Go get this win NY!
F*** Yeah! F*** Yeah! Bring It Oooooooooooooooooooonnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Home and away series. Let's get the Home part sorted.
"We've suffered enough"...Stephen A. Smith
As much as I want to buy into the positives, I have a feeling the Knicks lose this one based on past performance... heres a list of reasons why i suspect this:
Felton and Gallo were in a sweet zone out West, look for them to come back down to earth.
Knicks have been struggling at home.
Knicks can't handle success win 2 lose 6 in a row.
STAT has a tweaked ankle and Turiaf is a little banged up.
While this game may not seem important, I think it will be a great gauge of where this team is mentally. I hope I am wrong and Amare and Felton have stressed the importance of getting wins early in the season, as Knick win here would indicate some progress in the team's "culture."
This could be a trap game but I think as long as Wilson and Gallo put in decent games and Stat stays feed in the paint (they have no one to stop him) we'll find a way to take this one.... and hopefully start changing the culture around ^^^
" It's a new era for the Knicks "
They no longer have Felton (we do), who if I recall correctly torched us whenever he played against us.
We should be able to win. Let's get a nice home win, we haven't had one of those in a while. If the Knicks want to make the playoffs they need to be able to win games against teams of comparable skill level at home, so let's win this one.
Knicks will most likely lose at least one of the two games. Knicks have not proven they have changed one bit. The 3 games won were against scrubs and they still almost loss. Knicks can only win if they're hitting their 3 pointers which is not a mark of a good team. It's so funny how having a meaningless win streak has everyone riled up thinking the Knicks are suddenly a new team. This happens every year. I will need to see much much more before I get all excited.
awesome game thread loco ochos! one of best ever!
looking forward to the **** spidering his way thru Charlotte's web,
and Feltip giving it to his old team in spades.
i predict amazing game from STUD and a
spectacular laundry folding performance from Mrs. Fields.
go ny go ny go!


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Hi I want to do a triathlon this year and also to lose 2 and a half stone. Just started running (well walking then running) my legs really hurt and this has stopped me continuing in the past... thought I couldn't run because it hurt too much..... but I have just found out that the pain mostly goes away after 5 mins which is great. I run really flat footed and looks a bit daft but hey I will perservere. Any tips?
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Go and get fitted for some suitable shoes asap! You should be filmed on a treadmill for this
Posted over 5 years ago in reply to James76
freezing cold bath after running also helps with the stiffness. and plenty of stretches before and after (check out RTS's blog on stretching for tips).
Posted over 5 years ago in reply to Bunsy
I've looked it up on the internet and my problem is heel strike I have just done a little run to try out the technique suggested and it feels much better running now yeah !!!!!
Posted over 5 years ago in reply to Mutley
Def think about getting Gait analysis done , and the right running shoes , i did this last week cant believe the difference it has made ...feels like im running on air .
good luck with the Triathlon ..
Posted over 5 years ago in reply to gymrunner
Mutley, found any good sites for triathlons? I also would like to do a/some triathlons but struggling to find events, thanks KK : D
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Athlete of the Week: Troy Wilson
Troy Wilson, a talented basketball player from Lyme has been lighting up the scoreboards all season.
Wilson scored 35 points and 5 boards in a win over LaFargeville.
Because of his talent, Troy Wilson is the Watertown Savings Bank 7News Athlete of the Week.
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text: I started going back to work a few days ago. Before I went back to work, my DD would sleep 4 and 3 hours at a time at night. Now she is up every 2 hours. She reluctantly takes a bottle during the day. She has to because I am away from her for 9 hours. But only takes 2 bottles. Maybe three but one of them is small. THe other 2 are close to 4oz. I think maybe she is doing all of her eating at night so she doesn't have to eat as much during the day. She is still sleeping and I don't mind being up to feed her that often. I was just wondering if anyone else has gone through this and is it healthy for them.


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Game 162
The winning streaks, the losing streaks, the come-from-behind wins, the thrills and the heartbreaks all have led to this–White Sox Game 162.
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It's sad to see it all come to a close. It'll be intersting to see where all of the impending FAs wind up. Personally, I am rooting for AJ to wind up in the D.


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- Title
- Quantum-rod dispersed photopolymers for multi-dimensional photonic applications
- Author(s)
- Li, Xiangping; Chon, James W. M.; Evans, Richard A.; Gu, Min
- Abstract
- Nanocrystal quantum rods (QRs) have been identified as an important potential key to future photonic devices because of their unique two-photon (2P) excitation, large 2P absorption cross section and polarization sensitivity. 2P excitation in a conventional solid photosensitive medium has driven all-optical devices towards three-dimensional (3D) platform architectures such as 3D photonic crystals, optical circuits and optical memory. The development of a QR-sensitized medium should allow for a polarization-dependent change in refractive index. Such a localized polarization control inside the focus can confine the light not only in 3D but also in additional polarization domain. Here we report on the first 2P absorption excitation of QR-dispersed photopolymers and its application to the fabrication of polarization switched waveguides, multi-dimensional optical patterning and optical memory. This fabrication was achieved by a 2P excited energy transfer process between QRs and azo dyes which facilitated 3D localized polarization sensitivity resulting in the control of light in four dimensions.
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- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Micro-Photonics
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- Optics Express, Vol. 17, no. 4 (Feb 2009), pp. 2954-2961
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- 2009
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- 0205 Optical Physics; 020503 Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy; 020504 Photonics, Optoelectronics and Optical Communications
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- 2-photon; Absorption; CDSE; Crystals; Data storage; Emission; Glass; Nanocrystals; Polymer; Shape control
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- 1094-4087
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- Copyright © 2009 Optical Society of America. Published version of the paper reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. This paper was published in Optics Express and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.002954. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
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The Muscular Dystrophy Association needs summer camp volunteer counselors to assist young people with neuromuscular diseases.
Volunteer applicants must be male, at least 16 years old and able to lift and care for a young person between ages 6 and 21. Volunteers will help campers with daily activities and assist with recreational activities.
The MDA summer camp will be held June 8-13 at Ceta Canyon Camp and Retreat Center in Happy, Texas.
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Originally Posted by xniinjutsuu
chiyoooooooo basama shes the one in the coffin ...the only one that can beat sasuke ...i spended so much time on this and finaly found out !
you're wrong. Captain capslock was in the coffin and he will shift madara to hell.
Originally Posted by AgentKage305
But this thread isnt serious. I can't believe I actually opened it.
Any chance to increase your post count! hey newbie?
Originally Posted by Toby Uchiha
you're wrong. Captain capslock was in the coffin and he will shift madara to hell.
Oh no not Captain CAPSLOCK... everyone with lowercase letters in their names is gonna get their snotbox rocked. O.O :flaw:
I think someone slipped Jager in your apple juice.
Don't worry, Jager bombs are the shit.
lmfao! this is so funny. lol
Although it's not very likely, but it could be
who knows?
Its the cadberry bunny i know it!
Hahaha Lol guys i was just jokin around xD...was bored so decided to make this thread for fun and see ur reactions but wtv u can close this shit now ;}
lmao at whoever thought this thread was serious
I can't believe I actually read this lol
y00z guyz is st00pid. da dude in da last c0ffin is.....
dig a grave and take a dive
y'all *****s posting in a troll thread
..............your joking, right?
Close troll thread please.
Baki Kirby.
Originally Posted by WoWvsNaruto
somone link the chapter of all the coffins?
and where does it say shes his sister?
and where did you get the idea of her having Sharingan powers... beyond Madara's powers
and how would a Coffin (her dead body) scare Madara? its just her dead body. even if Kabuto put Zetzu into her. she would go on Rampage against the Shinobi, not on Madara, cuz Zetzu is inside her.
Who could Possible scare Madara. it would have to be somone who would could Ruin the plan by, talking to the Shinobi or that one person who could bring Madara down to a Sane level.
close family member of friend
As dumb as this theory is you are even dumber.
1.it wouldn't be her dead body it would be her spirit in a random dead body just like all the others.
2. it's a reviving the soul of the dead jutsu not putting a zetsu in a dead body jutsu retard.
3. kabuto would have control so if he wanted chio to attack Madara she would.
you are so F**king stupid lol
Originally Posted by eViL sKiNnY bOy
Close troll thread please.
Baki Kirby.
Shut the hell up. you have n o right to tell someone else they shouldn't post something or that they should close the thread you F**king noob. so what if its a troll thread if you don't like it don't post or better yet don't read it.
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Mother Nature granted Goliad a perfect weather day for the 2013 Goliad County Fair Parade on March 16 in downtown Goliad.
With a new route, new lineup and 45-plus entries, the parade kicked off at 10:30 a.m. without a hitch. The Grand Marshal this year was Louis Rodriguez, who was named the Anne Kohler Outstanding Citizen at the Annual Chamber Banquet last month.
The Mayor's Trophy was awarded to the South Texas Wheel Spinners & Crank Twisters Antique Tractor Club.
The Judge's Trophy was awarded to Cripple Creek Cattle Company.
The award for traveling the furthest to participate went to the South Texas Travelers who came from Raymondville.
Following are the other awards:
First-Place commercial entry: It's a Small World Nursery School
Second-place commercial entry: Dairy Queen
First-place chamber of commerce entries – Chisholm Trail Roundup Queen's Court
Second-place chamber of commerce entries – Yoakum Chamber of Commerce.
First-place marching/mounted unit – La Bahia Trail Riders
Second-place marching/mounted unit – Bar IV Paint Horse Ranch
First-place noncommercial float - Presidio La Bahia Chapter –Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Second-place noncommercial float- Al Amin Shrine Temple of Corpus Christi
First-place best-decorated car/truck – Goliad Lions Club
Second-place best-decorated car/truck – South Texas Travelers
First-place youth organization – Miss Goliad and her Court
Second-place youth organization – Victoria Livestock Show Queens
Thank you to all of the entries in this year's parade.
We would like to thank judges Bridgette Postel, Maria Ruiz and Sophia Wilson and the many other people who made this event possible: Mike Moore, Michael Martinez, Fannin Street United Methodist Church, City of Goliad, County of Goliad, Judge David Bowman, Sheriff Kirby Brumby, EMS Goliad, Mayor Jay and Stephanie Harvey, Mary Ashton, Jimmy Schulze, Mark Hilbrich, Eula Pfenninger and the Goliad Advance-Guard.
Special thanks to Mayor Jay and Stephanie Harvey and Tony Kutach for their contributions to the judge's gift bags.
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October 5, 2010 | by George W. | Breaking News, Sports | 2 Comments
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When Barry Sanders retired from the NFL in 1999 football fans collectively shook their heads. Sanders was at the top of his game and just walked away, so it seemed.
Fear not Sanders fans, we've got another one. Enter Barry Sanders Jr. The former Detroit Lions great's son runs a lot like his dad for Heritage Hall (Okla.) High School and now he's looking to figure out where to head to college.
According to reports, Sanders Jr. has narrowed down his choices to his father's alma mater Oklahoma State, followed by Alabama, UCLA and Florida State.
Whichever school gets him is going to not only have one of the more electric high school players to come out in recent years, but one of the best bred. Video after the jump. Read More


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Miley and Ted's adventureOctober 19,2013
Although Hannah Montana vs. the Calgary Stampede sounds like the billing for a WWF championship, it is merely the two currently brightest stars in our heady, instant gratification Universe — Miley Cyrus and Ted Cruz — vying for the spotlight, proving, at least in her case, that no publicity is bad publicity. Perhaps she wins the day largely because her career decisions loudly hitting rock bottom don't threaten the rest of the country with fiscal collapse.
When Cyrus shook her posterior at the MTV VMA awards, the clueless gasp from baby boomers was reminiscent of their blue-haired grandparents' outrage at Jim Morrison's faulty belt buckle, "Oh, the horror." The Canadian-born, Harvard-educated poster boy for "A Mind is a Terrible thing to Waste," Cruz elicits gasps from his GOP cohorts with a single-minded, narcissistic focus on a presumed 2016 presidential run at the expense of everyone else in the party. His ego makes Chris Christie seem like a Buddhist monk.
While Miley is twerking and Ted is tweaking, both seem on the road to self destruction, if not self delusion. Somewhere Andy Warhol is smiling. Although neither Cyrus or Cruz was obscure to begin with, her boundary-stretching performance in August and his scorched earth freshman year have increased their visibility to the point of an absurdist omnipresence. When was the last time you opened a newspaper, checked out a website or had an office conversation where one or the other didn't pop up?
While he's targeting the Affordable Care Act and Barack Obama, Cruz's attacks have focused most of the attention on him rather than the issues. He took the Senate floor for 21 hours, reading — and misinterpreting — "Green Eggs and Ham," while achieving nothing beyond the spotlight. The end result is a Republican party in the nadir of polling numbers, the bulk of their concentration going toward how to remain in office rather than governing the country.
Abandoning her good-girl image, Cyrus writhed her way into America's consciousness with most of her clothes off, a giant foam finger lasciviously fondling anything within reach and a tongue that appeared to have been borrowed from Gene Simmons of KISS. Cyrus has a new song and video called "Wrecking Ball." Cruz is singing the same old tune, content to be a wrecking ball,
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Macross Erasers!
Posted 31 January 2010 - 04:08 PM
The detail is amazing on these little things. I just need to straighten them out. The Valk is about 1/100 scale, and you can use extra parts to rebuild it into fighter mode. (Mine's missing a wing, though.)
Anyone else got any of these?
Posted 31 January 2010 - 05:16 PM
Are there more available?
Posted 31 January 2010 - 06:53 PM
I think a couple members here might have a few, but I don't have links to any of their coverage.
Posted 31 January 2010 - 06:54 PM
I think a couple members here might have a few, but I don't have links to any of their coverage.
That's a damn shame... I wouldn't mind having a set myself...
Posted 01 February 2010 - 04:26 AM
I remember a similar set of Orguss erasers which were in pretty bad shape yet were still going for a pretty penny around ten years ago in a shop in London.
Also, I wonder if the same kind of mini erasers were the ones included as mini-gashapons in that "Macross Vending Machine" toy from yesteryear..?
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Posted 05 February 2010 - 10:28 AM
I remember spending lunch money on vehicle shaped erasers at the bookstore in grade school. I would have lost my mind if they had these.
anyway nice find, hope you're enjoying them.
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Posted 15 February 2010 - 05:11 PM
And here's one of the tiny Armored Valkyrie erasers. Look at all the detail!
I had to give the Regult a boiling hot bath to get it to return to its original molded shape. It won't stand for long without drooping & falling over, though. So displaying it like that for any real length of time without some sort of prop rod is out of the question.
Edited by AcroRay, 15 February 2010 - 05:11 PM.
Posted 26 January 2011 - 09:03 AM
These would be a great compliment to those!
Posted 13 February 2011 - 10:09 PM
To give you a background on eraser toys, if you don't already know, three toy companies made eraser toys for Macross (this is vintage toys, not including modern toys which Bandai released in 2002): Seika Note, Ohsato, and Takatoku. Ohsato eraser toys are the most prolific, having at least 17 different releases. Takatoku eraser toys are more challenging to find and only came in five releases. Seika Note eraser toys are really hard to find and were only released in small bagged versions as far as I've been able to find. Takatoku and Ohsato mostly released eraser toys in three sizes; large, medium, and small. Seika Note only released medium sized toys. At first glance they would appear to be from the same molds, but upon closer examination, they are obviously totally different sculpts. I always meant to sit down and document the differences (for people trying to identify loose ones) but its a really daunting task.
Okay, first pic. From top left to right:
1. Ohsato Special 1 - Macro Dagurasu & Battroid Set SDF-1, Glaug, Regult, Tomahawk, Defender, VF1J Battroid, Armored Battroid. This set comes with a lot of eraser toys. Its also the only place you can get the large eraser SDF-1. The box is a bit beat up, but the eraser toys have only been taken out once.
2. Ohsato carded VF-1J and Regult. These carded eraser are pretty rare. I have seen at least 2 others, not pictured here, but they were not for sale. These have one large eraser toy and one medium eraser toy.
3. Ohsato carded VF-1J Armoured Battroid and VF-1J. Similar to above.
4. Ohsato Gattai Robo Series Pt. 1 - Battroid Set -Battroid VF1J, Armored VF1J, Tomahawk, Defender. Has the same 4 large toys as the Macro Dagurasu set, but different colors and different box. Box is a bit beat up, but the toys have only been removed once.
Bottom left to right:
5. Takatoku Macross Vending Machine DX - VF1J Battroid, Regult, Spartan, 12 various 1/320 capsule eraser toys. These are fairly common and this one isn't in the greatest condition. The box is pretty worn, but everything inside is good. If you collect eraser toys, these came with random toys in each box, so you might have to collect a few sets to get them all.
6. Takatoku Macross Variety Bag Spartan & Defender. This is a really rare set of eraser toys. No one knew about its existence until about 3 years ago when a couple showed up on YJA. Its not a "bag" as indicated, but rather a box of eraser toys. It has two large toys and a bunch of medium toys.
7. Takatoku Macross Robo Case rubber toys - 1/160 VF1J Battroid, 1/160 Regult, 1/320 Spartan, Small erasers: Valkyrie Fighter, Regult (2), Tomahawk, Armored Battroid VF1J, Glaug, Monster (2), Defender, Fighter Pod, VF1J Battroid. These are kinda common, though most people don't realize that there are actually 3 different Robo case sizes. This is the medium sized canister and most common. The smallest sized case is the hardest to find.
8. Ohsato carded VF-1J Battroid and Tomahawk. This one is a bit different from the other carded ones in that it features two large toys.
Top left to right:
1. Ohsato Gattai Robo Pura No. 1 - VF-1J, No.2 - Armored Battroid, No. 3 Glaug, No. 4 Tomahawk. This is a full set. These are jointed and articulated large sized eraser toys. They are pretty funky looking when assembled, but that makes them cool. They come unassembled. The Glaug and Tomahawk are very rare.
2. 2 Ohsato Special Box sets ("Korekushon Keshigomu"). These are small boxes that have 5 or 6 random small eraser toys in them. These eraser toys are common loose, but more rare in the box.
3. Ohsato Collectible Eraser envelopes box. This is the box only. I found it at Kimono My house in California a while back. The toys were all sold out of it, but the box was cool and I figured I would eventually find the envelope toys by themselves, but never did.
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4. Seika Note bagged small eraser toys, Monster, Glaug, Spartan, VF1J Battroid, SDF-1, Defender. These are pretty rare in my opinion. While easily confused with the Ohsato releases to the right, the Seika Note eraser toys are distinctly different with their brighter colors and individually labeled baggies complete with box art for each mecha.
5. Collectible Erasers set ("Korekushon Keshigomu") VF1J Battroid, Armored Battroid, Glaug, Regult, Spartan, Tomahawk, SDF-1, Defender. These are fairly common as far as eraser toys. There are two different baggy labels (yellow and blue). The toys come in a variety of colors and I was looking at collecting one of each color and label (I know, Im obsessed). The box (to the right) is in good condition.
Edited by Totoro242, 13 February 2011 - 10:06 PM.
Posted 15 February 2011 - 09:12 PM
The silver VF-1S was a chase I believe or maybe a mail-in....
The black chrome figure is an armored VF-1J....chase or mail-in...also note the SD Misa and Minmei...not in the catalog so I assume they are either a chase or mail-away.....the VF-4 is a nice addition to the set...
If anyone knows if there were others from either of these 2 sets let me know!
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Posted 21 April 2011 - 04:41 AM
The sculpts on these little guys & gals are really amazing. The Super Real Type ones make beautiful small sculptures in their own right - if they were usually bent and contorted into unnatural poses.
The medium-sized Spartan that was included in the collection I obtained was bent, and I boiled/heated & reformed it. The adjusted pose lasted for several months, but then slipped back into the drunken tilt it started with... :-(
I got a couple of those SD decals in a couple of Gundam erasers a friend sent me during the same period the Macross ones came from. Never got any of the Macross SD's unfortunately.
That Nosjadeul-Ger is up to something objectionable, I think!
Edited by AcroRay, 21 April 2011 - 04:43 AM.
Posted 21 April 2011 - 07:33 AM
He just saw a Queedlun Rau walk by
That Nosjadeul-Ger is up to something objectionable, I think!
Posted 02 June 2011 - 06:47 PM
Mk I:
Mk II:
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Posted 06 January 2013 - 09:43 PM
Old school Macross-style!
Posted 15 June 2013 - 07:06 PM
New Ohsato Macross rubber/eraser figurine find....SDF-1!
Posted 15 March 2015 - 08:54 AM
Box full-o' vintage Ohsato rubber goodness....
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Posted 09 April 2015 - 08:30 PM
That sounds awesome!
Did they look like any of these? Think these are unlicensed.
Posted 26 January 2016 - 06:51 PM
Latest acquisition for the Macross Ohsato Collection.....
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- The effects of different kinds of move in differential evolution searches
- Author(s)
- Montgomery, James
- Abstract
- In the commonly used DE/rand/1 variant of differential evolution the primary mechanism of generating new solutions is the perturbation of a randomly selected point by a difference vector. The newly selected point may, if good enough, then replace a solution from the current generation. As the replaced solution is not the one perturbed to create the new, candidate solution, when the population has divided into isolated clusters large moves by solutions are the result of small difference vectors applied within different clusters. Previous work on two- and 10-dimensional problems suggests that these are the main vehicle for movement between clusters and that the quality improvements they yield can be significant. This study examines the existence of such non-intuitive moves in problems with a greater number of dimensions and their contribution to the search|changes in solution quality and impact on population diversity over the course of the algorithm's run. Results suggest that, while they frequently contribute solutions of higher quality than genuine large moves, they contribute to population convergence and, therefore, may be harmful.
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Mubarak Trial Resumes In Egypt
By Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson • Sep 5, 2011
In Cairo, the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is scheduled to resume Monday. On the first day that testimony is expected, the judge has banned cameras from the courtroom. Mubarak is accused of ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising earlier this year. The 83-year-old denies the charges.


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Markets jump on hopes for European actionBy JACK EWING
The New York Times | April 24,2013The beleaguered eurozone remains stuck in recession, according to data published Tuesday, but stock and bond markets rallied because the news raised expectations that the European Central Bank would cut interest rates as early as next week.
A closely watched survey of business managers showed that the eurozone economy was still declining and that the German economy could take longer than expected to emerge from recession.
Germany has served as the main counterweight to economic malaise elsewhere in the eurozone, and a continued slowdown there could delay a recovery on the entire Continent.
Still, markets cheered the pessimistic outlook because of expectations it will prompt the European Central Bank to take action when it meets next week. On Tuesday, the Hungarian Central Bank brought its rates down a notch, to 4.75 percent.
The French stock market index ended with a gain of 3.6 percent, while the interest rate on its 10-year sovereign bond hit a record low of 1.706 percent. Other major European stock indexes also recorded sharp gains while bond yields fell.
U.S. stocks were up about 1 percent in afternoon trading, and the 10-year Treasury bond yield touched 1.645 percent, the lowest intraday level since Dec. 12. Separately, the Dow Jones industrial average skidded more than 150 points briefly before recovering after the Twitter account of The Associated Press was hacked and a fake tweet about an attack on the White House was posted.
Outside trading rooms, though, the data was not likely to inspire joy. In Germany, for example, prolonged recession could present a problem for Chancellor Angela Merkel as her party campaigns to remain in power in elections this autumn.
The Flash Germany Composite Output index, issued by Markit, a research firm, fell to 48.8 points in April from 50.6 in March, a six-month low. A reading less than 50 is considered a sign that the economy is likely to contract.
For the eurozone as a whole, the corresponding index was unchanged at 46.5, confirming that the region remained in a rut.
In addition, economic activity in Spain declined 0.5 percent in the first three months of 2013, the Bank of Spain said Tuesday, suggesting that one of the eurozones most troubled economies was unlikely to start growing again until next year.
In France, the Markit output index rose to 44.2 in April from 41.9 in March, indicating that the pace of decline was slowing in the eurozones largest economy after Germanys. But that tidbit of good news was clouded by a drop in the separate INSEE indicator of French business climate.
Analysts said the decline in optimism among German managers might be the result of a slowdown in the pace of growth in China, which in recent years has become one of the most important markets for German products like automobiles and machinery.
Even if Germany is merely treading water, that is still bad news for the rest of the eurozone. The German economy has played a crucial role in compensating for the swath of economic woe that runs from Cyprus to Ireland by way of Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
The German economy may not be as strong as we thought, Marie Diron, a senior economic adviser to the consulting firm Ernst & Young, said by email.
Members of the governing council of the European Central Bank have hinted recently that an interest-rate cut could be nigh. Mario Draghi, the ECB president, said earlier this month that policymakers were ready to act.
The new data raised expectations that a cut in the benchmark interest rate, already at a record low of 0.75 percent, could come when the central bank meets May 2.
It is also possible that the ECB could look for other ways to ease a credit crunch in countries like Italy and Spain. Draghi has often complained that low official interest rates have not benefited companies in the troubled countries because banks remain too reluctant to lend.
It is no longer a matter of if but when the ECB will be cutting rates, analysts at Nomura said in a note to clients Tuesday.MORE IN National / World BusinessNEW YORK Its not just the musical Hairspray that will air live on NBC tonight. Full StoryOXON HILL, Md. Far from the Las Vegas Strip, MGM Resorts International opens its $1. Full Story
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Schwan's Food Service, Inc., has introduced its LiveSmart Schools portfolio of products, all of which are consistent with the newly proposed USDA School Meal Rules, as well as the HealthierUS School Challenge (HUSSC) guidelines. The new products, representing more than 50 SKUs, reflect a 50 percent expansion in the company's product lineup. "This is Smart Food for Smart Kids and is the most significant product expansion we've done in more than 35 years, which clearly ...
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Stocks Close Mixed as Coach, IBM Underscore High Valuations, Netflix Impresses
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- U.S. stocks finished on a cautious note Wednesday, with the S&P 500 just managing to eke out gains, as corporate earnings reports came in mixed.
The S&P 500 was up just 0.06% to 1,844.86, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.25% to 16,373.34. The Nasdaq was higher by 0.41% to 4,243, buoyed by gains in Apple
as Carl Icahn tweeted that he has been buying additional Apple stock over the past two weeks.
"Given the mixed bag in earnings and some disappointments, investors are really in a wait and see mode before making any additional commitment to the asset class," said Lon Erickson, the Santa Fe, New Mexico-based money manager at Thornburg Investment Management. Thornburg oversees about $90 billion.
was surging more than 14% to $380.62 after exceeding Wall Street's fourth-quarter EPS and revenue expectations. The company surpassed 33 million domestic streaming subscribers during the period.
tumbled 6.11% to $49.34 after missing fourth-quarter earnings per share estimates by five cents at $1.06. Same-store sales plummeted 13.6%.
Norfolk Southern
popped 5.01% to $93.15 after posting a fourth-quarter earnings increase of 24%, topping estimates.
IBM IBM shed 3.28% to $182.42 after the company on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat expectations, but revenues that came in light. Upbeat software and cloud performance helped offset the continued drag from its hardware units.
Markets closed mixed Tuesday after lackluster results for companies such as Travelers
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Holmen, WIS. - Project LIVE, or Life-long Independence and Vocational Education, is a program in the Holmen School district which started last year for special education students between the ages of 18 and 21.
The purpose of the program is to help transition young adults with disabilities into life after high school.
As part of that program, students learned how to ride different forms of public transportation, but the students didn't have a way to travel together.
So, the friends and families of Project LIVE spent the past year fund raising.
With the help of the Holmen School District, the program director was able to purchase a bus.
"You can't be a life experience program by being limited with our location," said Nicholas Slusser, Project LIVE program director. "With this bus we have the freedoms... if something comes up on a whim we have the ability to go now. And that's extremely exciting for us because the world is full of opportunities, and now we're able to go and experience them."
The van cost $65,000. The family and friends of the program raised $54,000, and the district paid the rest.


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Youth in Chile played a key role in helping their communities following the earthquakes earlier this month.
Chilean youth were among the first to help their communities after the deadly magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck their area April 1.
Nearly a million people were evacuated from the coastal regions after the quake that killed six and generated a seven-foot tsunami. People in affected areas have felt more than 140 aftershocks, including a magnitude-7.6 quake late April 2. A number of those leading evacuation and recovery efforts were youth.
Just one week before the initial quake hit, dozens of youth participated in a World Vision emergency preparedness training session in Alto Biobio, a particularly earthquake-prone area of the country.
They developed skills in areas such as basic medical aid and rescue techniques, spiritual care and counseling, and emergency communications, among others. World Vision partners with the Red Cross, local governments, police, military, and firefighter services to provide professional-level training for the volunteers.
To ensure the youth get the support they need after training, World Vision partners with their churches and community groups. This creates a network that allows them to communicate quickly with their church or community leaders, local first responders, and World Vision response teams when disaster strikes.
As an emergency unfolds, the volunteer first-responders communicate with authorities, help neighbors, and sometimes work with World Vision staff to distribute relief supplies or provide emotional support for affected children and families. They also educate their communities on how to better prepare for the next one, too.
While their newly acquired knowledge meant the teenagers were among the first to leave their homes and lead others out during the quake's aftermath, professional first-responders praised them for acting quickly on evacuation calls.
"I have a feeling of satisfaction because what we are doing has real impact in the lives of the children, youth, families, and communities," says Fabiano Franz, World Vision's disaster response leader for Latin America. "Especially because we can contribute to their protection and resiliency in the face of adversity."
More than 12,000 community leaders and youth in 14 Latin American countries have trained as first-responders with World Vision since 2012, including about 3,000 Chileans.
Disaster response leaders note a genuine desire among Latin American youth to break free from a sense of entitlement that has kept them from serving their communities.
"They don't want to be the listeners anymore," Fabiano says. "They want to participate. This really brings them some purpose. We provided them the space to grow and to participate."
During the weekend-long training session, World Vision leaders helped participants understand their sense of calling through Bible devotional time, establishing the biblical basis for serving their communities as first-responders.
"It has to do with the heart, with helping our neighbors, to make count what God has given us and help our neighbors — love our neighbors," says Gonzalo Mena Santoval, 22, of Granada, Nicaragua, who used to be sponsored through World Vision and went through emergency responder training in 2013. "The best way to do that is to develop communities — to take care of and protect them before any disaster."
Western Central and South America are prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, in particular. Rather than wait for someone to tell them what to do, they want to make sure those closest to them are prepared for the next emergency, which, in some cases, helps save lives.


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Their small headquarters was overwhelmed by the droves that voted early in the fall election. Even higher numbers are expected in the 2008 presidential election, when Swain County Election Director Joan Weeks predicts more than half the ballots will be cast during early voting.
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs just more convenient,ŌĆØ Weeks said.
Early voting used to be only for those with special circumstances, such as elderly people who couldnŌĆÖt stand in line on Election Day or people with out-of-town jobs. But in 1999, state lawmakers opened early voting to everyone. ItŌĆÖs grown in popularity ever since.
Staffing individual precincts for three weeks during early voting isnŌĆÖt possible ŌĆö instead voters cast their ballots at the county election office.
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County commissioners suggested the election board could move into a building located at the recycling center. The election board discussed the idea at its monthly meeting last week. On one hand, they would have plenty of space, plenty of parking and good handicapped access. It would also have high visibility.
ŌĆ£ThatŌĆÖs probably the most frequented place in Swain County,ŌĆØ said John Herrin, an election board member.
ŌĆ£They can always throw their garbage out when they come to see us,ŌĆØ Weeks said.
The building at the recycling center currently houses EMS and dispatch. Both are slated to move into the new jail and sheriffŌĆÖs office when itŌĆÖs finished, supposedly a year from now. The election office canŌĆÖt wait until then to move in, however. The election season officially kicks off in February 2008 with the candidate sign-up period.
ŌĆ£To be ready for 2008 we would have to move this summer to make sure everything works,ŌĆØ Weeks said. That means dispatch and EMS would have to squeeze up a bit during the overlap.


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The CAMT, Loveland divorce
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That's essentially what we were told a few days back when the bombshell exploded in Loveland.
I'm referring, of course, to the news that the Colorado Association for Manufacturing and Technology was walking away from the effort to revitalize the old Agilent Technologies plant. CAMT's plans were "not aligned" with the plant owner's vision, the organization said.
CAMT wasn't doing this alone. Its partner in helping companies commercialize promising technologies is that little space and research agency known as NASA.
Oh. My. Goodness.
We were told that stepping into the void is a Longmont-based consulting firm, DA2, headed by David Lung, who for $10,000 a month in taxpayer dollars will try to leverage his own NASA contacts to, among other duties, lure companies to what is now being called the Rocky Mountain Center for Innovation and Technology.
The owner of the old plant, Kentucky-based Cumberland & Western Resources, assured us all that NASA's role in the project would come "in a more focused, more robust fashion than ever before."
Details, however, were scant, as they have been ever since Cumberland & Western stepped into the picture last year to acquire the campus.
The company has no website and its owner, Brad Kelley, the former owner of a discount tobacco company, has declined to be interviewed.
Earlier this year, his representative in our region, Bill Murphree, not only turned down the Business Report's request for an interview with Kelley, but he strongly suggested that writing about Kelley might have negative consequences for Cumberland & Western's interest in doing business in Northern Colorado. "Brad likes to be very private," Murphree told us in a phone interview in January. "He's just the source of capital for the project, he's not really involved in it. … The less you write about Brad, the more supportive we are going to be of the Northern Colorado area."
Oh. My. Goodness.
Loveland's economic development chief, Betsey Hale, downplayed the significance of the CAMT withdrawal, saying it centered on a disagreement over how many tenants should fill the plant.
Hale said smaller tenants would have ended up paying too much to lease space under CAMT's vision of filling the plant with "hundreds of companies." The plant, she explained, would have to be reconfigured to accommodate so many companies. Those changes would have driven up the cost of rehabbing the plant and driven up rents so that few companies would have been able to afford to move in.
OK. That sounds plausible, I guess. But it sure begs the question of why we didn't hear that from the very beginning. Surely, Cumberland & Western would have reached that conclusion during its due diligence, so why allow city officials to spend month after month talking up CAMT and its tech-transfer deal with NASA and how that agreement would give the old plant the leg up?
Anyway, it appears Cumberland & Western prefers fewer, larger, anchor-type tenants. That's fine, too, I guess, so long as it can find them. But it's considerably more complicated and costly for larger companies to uproot and relocate. A lot of healthy companies wouldn't bother, so what's left? Ailing corporations looking to cut costs?
Like Cumberland & Western, Loveland also made sure to stress that NASA has said it looked forward to working with the city in its pursuit of "economic vitality."
As promising as that sounds, there's nothing special about it, because NASA has spent years doing just that with communities across the country.
It's critical to note that CAMT's withdrawal from Loveland doesn't mean it has given up on the notion of setting up an aerospace and tech park somewhere in Colorado. It's now looking for a location closer to the Denver-Boulder region.
Once those doors open, you have to wonder which location the most promising tenants might prefer.
Put yourself in a hypothetical tenant's shoes. Would you pick Loveland, whose consultant has a contract that expires at the end of the year? Or might you prefer to hitch your company's fortunes to an operation that has CAMT's stamp of approval, along with a formal contract with NASA to do tech-transfer work together?
Oh. My. Goodness.
Allen Greenberg is the editor of the Northern Colorado Business Report. He can be reached at 970-232-3142 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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