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LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — In the upstairs of the Livingston Manor library, a group of young newspaper publishers sits around a table. In front of each is a laptop. This is the weekly Monday meeting for Manor Ink, a "library-based, youth-led newspaper" in Livingston Manor.
Barbara Gref, one of the mentors of Manor Ink, is talking to two teenagers who are working on an article that has no headline. Gref spurs some creative thinking: "What are some of the plants that the article talks about?" Gem Helper, the writer, lists Japanese knotweed and Japanese honeysuckle. Brandon Sparkman has an idea. "Japan attacks us with plants," he suggests.
Such a scene is common in a newsroom, where coming up with headlines can be a difficult but also creative process. The young writers at Manor Ink are happy to throw out ideas and collaborate with each other. Sparkman was sitting with Helper and editing the article that she wrote about invasive species. Gref, a journalist, oversees the 12-member group along with other mentors Chatral A'dze, Carolyn Bivins, Maria Bivins, Marge Feuerstein, Peggy Johansen, Joe Koerner and Amanda Watts. The young journalists do everything from pitching story ideas and writing articles, to selling ads, to taking photographs, with the mentors helping them along the way.
Manor Ink celebrated its first birthday in June. After a year of putting out monthly publications, Gref said they have grown. The paper started out with eight pages and is now up to 16. They are seeing more revenue from ads. They have a website, which is managed by Leif Johansen, a 15-year-old. They are collaborating with the library, local organizations and people from the town, and because of this collaboration were named "Non-profit Innovation of the Year" in Sullivan County, and received grants from the Lazare and Charlotte Kaplan Foundation and the Nicholas B. Ottoway Foundation. Gref said, "The support of the town has been tremendous. People are very happy to have this vehicle for information."
People are happy because up until a year ago, Livingston Manor had no community newspaper, after having lost both the community and school newspapers. Gref said this created a "news desert," which is a term that's being widely used across the nation meaning that a community is dry of news. "Places that aren't so ritzy are in the news desert," said Gref. "It's becoming common; we have small places where the newspapers are being shut down." Manor Ink stepped in to bring some life into the desert, and to preserve and promote local news.
The free newspaper is distributed to many places in Sullivan County, with most going to Livingston Manor. "We're very dedicated to Livingston Manor," said Gref. "In fact, if we can walk to the story we're really happy." She adds that the team does go to other places, such as Bethel Woods, and the Shandelee Music Festival, and will go to the New York State legislature after receiving an invitation from Aileen Gunther. "People are very supportive," said Gref, "because it's young people and they want them to have those experiences."
Currently, the youngest on board is 11 and the oldest is 17. Some of the kids have been there since the beginning and others are just starting out, including Mia, who was there for her first meeting. Tyler Young will be a senior at Livingston Manor High School in the fall. At the meeting he was working on his monthly column about the town board meeting. His favorite story was when he interviewed the head photographer for Rolling Stone Magazine, Barry Wolman. "I remember my first interview," said Young. "That was scary. I did all the talking."
Helper, 14, and Sparkman, 16, along with Young, have an interest in music. When asked if he wanted to pursue journalism, Sparkman said, "No. I'm just here for fun," and said his first passion is music and that he plays "plenty" of instruments. Young chimed in, "He can play anything you give to him; just put it that way."
Helper will be moving to New York City soon and hopes to attend La Guardia High School of Music & Performing Arts. Helper writes a monthly column about character traits, and is working on one about honesty. "I find that writing articles also helps you write a bunch of other stuff," she explained. "I write a variety of things; I write books and poems, I'm actually starting a screenplay, and I write songs."
The many interests and talents of the smart young staff of Manor Ink lend to the creative, informative and attractive newspaper. The articles range from reviews, to stories about farms, to town news, to Bob Marley lyrics. Ongoing features include the Fun Page of Happiness and the Century Club, in which a staff member interviews someone who is 80 years or older (the first was 102). Leif Johansen, who started the Century Club, said the elderly people he interviews are doing really well for their age. "I interviewed a 96-year-old woman who is probably more active than all the other people I've interviewed combined."
The June issue of Manor Ink commemorated its first year with a letter from the editors. They wrote, "We all believe our first articles were a major stepping stone for us," and that, "their grades in English have improved, sometimes drastically." They ended with, "This is a proud moment, and we hope only to keep expanding." Congratulations to Manor Ink. Visit www.manorink.com [1].


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Mildred Brown
Mildred Brown, 93, of Buckhannon, died Wednesday, March 27, 2013, in St. Joseph's Hospital in Buckhannon.
She was born July 9, 1919, at Burnsville, a daughter of the late Hayward Troy and Blanch Kuhl Harper.
On July 20, 1947, she married Harry Junior Brown, who preceded her in death Nov. 6, 2010.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by one son, Terry Lambert Brown; three sisters, Mabel Singleton, Glennis Postelwait and Betty Jean Harper; two brothers, Wilbur and Stanley Harper; and one granddaughter, Dinah Hoover.
She is survived by two sons, Harold Shepard and wife, Patty J., of Beverly and Jerry Fred Brown and wife, Deloris, of Sutton; one daughter, Loretta Jean Hoover and husband, William H. Jr., of Weston; two grandsons, David A. Shepard of Huttonsville and Christopher Brown of Craigsville; seven granddaughters, Sonya Penson of Montrose, Barbara Carroso of Elkins, Pamela Duffield of Frametown, Amy Gray of Gassaway, Melissa Knight of Tallmadge, Ohio, Norma Jean Lopez-Flores of Harrisonburg, Va., and Anita Joann Channing of Weston; and 21 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Brown was a cook for Upshur County Board of Education at East Main Street School. She was a member of Retired School Employees.
Friends will be received today from 5 to 8 p.m. at Poling-St. Clair Funeral Home. A funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home with the Rev. Martin R. Hoover officiating. Burial will follow in the K of P Cemetery at Burnsville.
Online condolences may be made to the family at www.polingstclair.com. Poling-St. Clair Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

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Mayor David Cann and Councilwoman Mary Canales were present. Councilwoman Nadine Garner was out of town.
An interlocal agreement is at the heart of the dispute. The Austwell City County interprets the agreement to say the drainage district would maintain all of its ditches while the drainage district contends only three ditches under an earlier version is what the agreement refers to.
Austwell City Attorney Hal George said he would not feel embarrassed to argue that "all of the ditches" means all of the public ditches in Austwell and not some.
However, Cann and Dwight Mutschler, who acts as an intermediary for the city, both agreed the drainage district has not done any work in eight years except for a little weeks ago after Mutschler visited the district's meeting.
"(They) were there for two weeks, Then all of a sudden it stopped," Mutschler said.
"I am here to say, it would be to our benefit that we have an opportunity – the landowners in Austwell – to withdraw from the district," he said.
Mutschler suggested that the tax property owners pay to the drainage district would be used to contract for ditches to be maintained.
George said Austwell should not be obligated to any indebtedness to the district to proceed with withdrawing from the district.
He also said the city should seek property owners's signatures to petition for withdrawal.
He said Austwell or the drainage district has the option to withdraw from the interlocal agreement. A 45-day waiting period begins after notification of withdrawing from the interlocal agreement.
But the council agreed to wait until all of its members were present to proceed.
In other business, the council approved the purchase of 125 T-shirts commemorating the town's anniversary.
A logo was approved that says, "All is well in Austwell."
The T-shirts will be on sale at City Hall and funds from the sales go into the park account.
Also, Austwell Volunteer Fire Department representative Donnie Denton announced the Austwell annual Fourth of July festivities will be June 28 and feature a fish fry, live auction, dance and fireworks.
Cann announced that Refugio County Commissioner Rod Bernal's Precinct 4 crew would be working on McDowell Street next week.
Cann also warned residence of the town's animal ordinance that provides for two dogs and two cats for residence.
"There's a rooster running around town that no one seems to know who it belongs to. It's against our ordinance because of our water wells," Cann said.


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NORTHFIELD Clare F. McMahon died peacefully in her sleep on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013.
She was born Dec. 9, 1926, in Barre, the youngest daughter of John J. and Helen (Finn) McMahon.
Clare attended St. Monica Graded School and graduated from Spaulding High School in 1945. She lived in Barre until 1999 when she moved to Northfield.
Clare was a member of St. Monica Catholic Church in Barre and the Catholic Daughters of America. Her faith was important to her and brought her comfort.
She worked for the state of Vermont Highway Department as a traffic records clerk for 33 years and retired in August 1979. After her retirement, Clare traveled more extensively.
Clare loved travel whether by bus, trains, planes or automobiles and often talked of the adventures. She traveled throughout the United States to see family and friends, and her travels brought her to Ireland and Europe as well.
Family was an important part of Clares life, and she enjoyed hearing and sharing their accomplishments. Clare enjoyed music and took piano lessons as an adult. Often she played the piano for her mother and visiting family. She took great pride in her accomplishments with the piano. She also enjoyed reading the newspapers and keeping up with ongoing events, word puzzles, knitting and baking.
She had a vast network of friends which she maintained contact with over the years. In her retirement, Clare participated in Project Independence in Barre for many years before her move to Northfield.
Clare is survived by her sister Margaret M. McGuire, of Rutland. She was predeceased by her parents and sister Elizabeth LeClaire. She is survived by Elizabeths children and their families: Anne Donnelly, of Lawyersville, N.Y., and family, Helen Lacey, of Arizona, Margaret Peg LeClaire and family, of Waldport, Ore., Jane Ducharme and family, of Whidbey Island, Freeland, Wash., David LeClaire and family, of McCall, Idaho, John LeClaire and family, of Anchorage, Alaska, Kay Beaubien and family, of Manitou Springs, Colo.; and Margarets children and their families: Maureen McGuire, of Newport Center, Sheila Johnson, of LaGrange, Ill., Kathleen Dolan, of Troy, N.Y., Monica McGuire, of Ranson, W.Va., Thomas McGuire, of Granby, Conn., Barbara McGuire, of Rutland, and Michael McGuire, of Rutland.
Her family would like to thank the staff at Mayo Manor and Mayo Health and Rehabilitation for the care and support provided to Clare while she lived in Northfield.
Calling hours will be Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, at Guare and Sons Funeral Home from 3 to 5 p.m.
There will be a Mass of Christian burial on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, at 1 p.m. at St. Monica Church, Barre.
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A few weeks ago, David Wong wrote this excellent article about landmark moments in video games that make playing them a worthwhile experience. But if you look carefully, you'll notice something: Not a one of them was about multiplayer. In fact, though we write about gaming often at Cracked, none of us seem to have any positive opinions about the multiplayer aspect. Now, there's an easy explanation for that: We're all socially stunted, misanthropic bastards who hate our fellow man as much as we fear his almost assuredly superior physical strength.
But shit, that hasn't kept literally everybody on Xbox Live from multiplayer gaming. And you know what? Despite the fact that I honestly may never enter a match again, I look back on my history in gaming and have to admit that some of the most fun I've ever had was due to multiplayer. But amidst that drunken retrospection, I noticed something odd. Was it just the whiskey dementia twisting my memories again, or was I on to something?
Was every truly great multiplayer game I've ever played completely and totally broken?
Let me show you what I mean:
4Grand Theft Auto IV
I love sandbox games: You give me a city and free license, and I'm all set for an afternoon or 40. I'm not picky about the environment or the atmosphere, I'll steal whatever -- car, spaceship, horse cart -- and I will ramp that shit into the police station and run away laughing while my truck/skiff/stallion burns. That's all I want: The ability to destroy small parts of society without all that pesky walking. Luckily, we've had some great ones lately: Saints Row 3 understands fun like possibly no other game in history. Around the time they give you the actual Burt Reynolds as a partner, a gaggle of remote mines and a speeder bike like in Return of the Jedi, you can't help but give them all of your money and maybe, just maybe ... a little piece of your heart. Just Cause 2 built a gigantic, remarkably varied country ... and then let you tether a man's face to a jet and air-surf all the way across that nation and into a skyscraper like some sort of terrorist Teen Wolf.
Source.Stiles is whipping around behind it like a meat windsock.
And then there was Grand Theft Auto IV.
I have some conflicting opinions about GTA IV: I think everybody should own it, because what Rockstar accomplished with the living, breathing city they built is a feat that transcends gaming and ventures into science fiction territory. It's just too bad they layered an irreparably broken game on top of it. The controls were awful, the missions were lifeless and repetitive, and they generally seemed to lack any kind of creativity or imagination with which to fill their staggering technical achievement. Just a tip, guys: Next time you build a rich and believable environment, remember that we can already jump into a beat up old Bonneville and drive our fat cousins to the bowling alley. That is not the realm of fantasy; that is the realm of New Jersey on a Saturday night.
Source."Welcome to a rich fantasy world, cousin! Now, let's pick up my wife's blood pressure medicine and fall asleep watching soap operas!"
And yet, despite itself, GTA IV possessed what might have been the most fun multiplayer mode of any current generation game. So what was so ingenious about this new and novel mode?
They didn't do a damn thing. They gave the player a Grand Theft Auto city and allowed multiple players in the same space. The end. No objectives, no scores, no penalties -- just you and a dozen of your friends, all with infinite lives, set loose in the most dynamic landscape built in video game history.
That's the definition of fun: Just let us do whatever we want, whatever it is, with no rules, and we'll make up our games along the way. Whether that's just an endless, pointless brawl; hanging out and exploiting one of the many glitches (like launching cars from the infamous swing set); going garbage truck jousting; or my personal favorite, playing Hello Copter, where the entire point of the game is to steal a helicopter, hover just above one of your oblivious co-players and then bail out, shouting "Hello, Copter!" just as your body smashes into the pavement next to them, followed a split second later by an exploding helicopter.
Source."GREETINGS, HELICOPTER! Shit, did I do it wrong?"
But a complete absence of objectives or rules does not normally make for a good gaming experience. Don't believe me? Just go out on any playground and tell the kids you've thought up a new game called "playground" and the object is to "be on the playground they're already on." Then step back and smile at the confused blinking. A good game is a thing you can win; it's a set of rules for you to master and operate within. It's like Rockstar already knew that the objective-based games they included in GTA IV would be too glitchy and awkward to play, so they threw up their hands in frustration and said "You do better!"
And you know what? We God damn did.
3Bushido Blade
When I was a kid, I loved fighting games best. Street Fighter II was my fucking jam -- why, I once came in "best non-Asian in competition" at the local arcade's round robin -- but I played every other major entry in the genre, too, all the way up to the Guilty Gear series. Then that game let me kill a transvestite nun with an electric guitar solo, and I knew it was all downhill from there. I haven't played since.
Although maybe that's more due to online multiplayer replacing in-person multiplayer: That switch, from personal to digital, raised a whole host of problems. Not the least of which was the inability to punch your friends in the arm after defeating them, or to simply look deeply into their eyes when you tell them to suck it. That eye contact was important, you know; how else could they see into your soul and know -- truly and fundamentally understand at a cellular level -- that you really, really, really thought they should suck it?
Or maybe it was because, with every match being against an international, limitless player base, you were most likely to wind up going against the people who played the game the most (and were therefore transcendentally better than you). When every match both begins and ends with the same 12 billion hit unblockable super combo, and your only recourse is to reverse uppercut cancel at the 14 5/6 second point --after the teabagging animation ends but before the curb stomping animation starts -- it starts to not be as much fun anymore.
Source."Stop complaining, n00b, you totally have a six millisecond opening before he moves his foot." -The comments section
But Bushido Blade was the direct opposite of modern fighting games: It was based entirely around one hit, one kill moves -- all of which were possible with the right training, patience, honed skill, or random sneeze/thumb spasm. The game was massively innovative, and featured some entirely new concepts for the fighting genre, like realistic, accumulative body damage (you slashed the tendons in their knee and they couldn't run; a hit to the arm would take away their ability to execute certain attacks). Bushido Blade even featured linked stages, meaning that you could sprint off the right edge of the screen and emerge on the left side of the next stage. In theory, this would make for the most dramatic, realistic sword-fighting game possible. In practice, this made for the longest, most absurd, bloody game of tag in history.
The second anybody started losing (or if they just thought you were funny when you were mad, and didn't really have any place to be that day), they would turn and sprint away, leaving you no choice but to follow. This led to every "deathmatch" being comprised mostly of two dudes in bathrobes jogging equidistantly for 40 minutes straight. Eventually, the fleeing party would get hung up on the corner of a bridge or a pole of bamboo or something, and you chopped them in the back of the head. They died instantly, the next round began, and repeat. It was infuriating.
Source."EXERCISE HIM!"
And that's why it was so much fucking fun: No matter how skilled you got at the game, the playing field was no more than slightly in your favor. The absolute and undisputed master of Bushido could only ever have a marginal advantage over a determined stroke victim or an excitable little girl, which may sound shitty, but it meant that you always had opponents who felt like they had a shot and wanted to play. That shit was invaluable, because 99 percent of fighting game matches end with somebody throwing the controller down and saying "This is stupid, I don't want to play anymore." And without a live opponent on the other end of that controller, sitting in a dark room watching a heavyset Japanese guy power-fist a little British girl until she passes out is somehow nowhere near as fun as it sounds.
Source."I mean, sure, I'll masturbate to it, but I'm not going to like it."
It was an utterly broken, unbalanced, unmanaged mess of a fighting game, but you always had a line waiting to play it, and every single match ended with screaming swears and wild cheers.
Because, while Bushido Blade's marathon foot-chases were mostly boring and aggravating, the end was always worth it, when either you got the vindication of finally mowing down that little bastard with a well-placed swing, or they'd get bored and unexpectedly turn to fight. Either way, it was 40 minutes' worth of boring buildup that always ended with one minute of pure, unbridled, bloody excitement.
And Bushido Blade invented that formula six years before Battlestar Galactica came out.


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The mad inventor from the James Bond movies, Q, is real. Only there are lots of him, and they have a lot more money at their disposal. In the real world, they're called DARPA -- the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Never heard of them? You should have -- they're responsible for some of the best technology (the Internet) and the worst (Agent Orange) produced in the last 50 years. Their job is to dream up the craziest shit possible and make it real. And, since they're exempt from several government hiring and spending laws, they're not shy about thinking outside the box. Way, way outside.
Some of what they're working on right now includes ...
5Creepy Robot Hummingbirds and Space Planes
If you want a plane to get to where the bad guys are without being noticed, you have several options: You can make it fly really, really high and really, really fast (as is typical with spy planes), or you can get creative. DARPA has utterly insane plans to do both.
"We've finally weaponized the doorstop, men."
First we have FALCON, or Force Application and Launch from Continental United States (we hope they pay their acronym guys really well). The FALCON program is mainly focused on the X-41 CAV -- an alien-looking, cone-shaped "near-space" plane that can go 13,000 miles per hour (which is 20 times the speed of sound).
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This is either a 3-D model of it or an official DARPA bicycle seat.
If you don't understand what 20 times the speed of sound gets you, how about this: It can go anywhere in the world, and photograph or kill anyone, in an hour or so.
But DARPA is also capable of thinking small -- the kind of small that is somehow creepier than a magical instant-death murdership.
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"An estimated 80 percent of conversations go unrecorded. DARPA can fix that."
That's why they're also looking into something they call micro air vehicles, like the Shrike, which basically looks exactly like a kid's RC copter and is built primarily for spying and reconnaissance. So, really, it is an RC copter, with an iPhone taped to it.
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Ta da!
And if that sounds unimpressive, don't worry -- they're also developing the much smaller and much creepier NAV -- the Nano Air Vehicle. One day you might find one hanging around your neighbor's bird feeder.
Yes, we're talking about a tiny robot hummingbird that can spy on terrorists (and maybe you). The whole thing is less than 6 inches tall and lighter than an ounce, and as demonstrated by the image on the project's page, it will fool absolutely everyone ever.
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This is part of DARPA's ongoing effort to create ...
4A System to See Everything, All the Time
Sure, we have spy satellites. But they're still limited -- you have to wait for them to pass over the area you want to photograph, for instance, and your targets might be doing their business indoors. No, if you want to see your enemy in real time, you need to get sci-fi on that shit.
So let's start off with their giant supervillain space blimp.
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Above: When nerds get Defense Department contracts.
ISIS (Integrated Sensor Is Structure) is essentially an inflatable surveillance outpost. It hangs out in the upper atmosphere and has the ability to take high-res battlefield photos, even at night. And they will be able to get one up anywhere, any time -- it can be deployed within a matter of hours. Also, it's totally self-sustained, thanks to a solar energy and hydrogen fuel cell combo, and it doesn't require any kind of input from the ground. It can pretty much cruise around forever.
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This balloon will outlive you.
And while that's fairly practical, another project called Combat Zones That See (CTS) is just as creepy as it sounds. Remember in The Dark Knight when Batman used Gotham's cellphones to try to track the Joker, and Morgan Freeman got really pissed off at him? Imagine something like that, only using every camera in an entire city instead of just cellphones. That's CTS.
Basically, it uses municipal and other outdoor video and a computerized logic routine to track objects from camera to camera. CTS is intended to be able to primarily track vehicles in war zones, but that hasn't stopped privacy hounds on the Internet from pointing out that it could easily be used to track American citizens right here. Kind of makes you want to never leave the house.
Oh, wait, they've got something for that, too. First is HIBR, or Harnessing Infrastructure for Building Reconnaissance. Basically, DARPA wants to be able to map the insides of buildings, using RF signals like a kind of sonar (wait, wasn't that also in The Dark Knight? What the fuck?). And yes, there's even speculation that the technology could be used for real-time tracking of people inside the building, with an early prototype that can see through up to a foot of concrete.
If that makes you want to retreat to your underground bunker in Montana, well, don't bother. DARPA is also working on GATE, or Gravity Anomaly for Tunnel Exposure, which can detect tunnels and underground bunkers. It's a sensor attached to low-flying aircraft that detects subtle changes in gravity and makes maps of the world underneath our own.
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Carabajal was challenged this year by first-time council candidate Benjamin Rey "Benny" Puente. In Ward 4 Dunn and her opponent, Domingo V. Salinas, Jr., were both newcomers to city politics.
Carabajal, who has been mayor since he was re-elected to the council two years ago, had a total of 98 votes. Most of those, 36, were cast by personal appearance during the early voting period. He also had 21 mail ballots in his favor, 13 electronic ballots during the early voting and 28 votes on election day.
Puente managed to receive a total of 39 votes. Of those, 20 were cast on election day. Only seven of his votes were cast by personal appearance during the early voting period and he received only three mail-in votes. Puente also received nine electronic votes during the early voting period.
Dunn had a total of 118 votes to 98 cast for Salinas.
Salinas had Dunn beaten on election day with 47 votes to Dunn's 39.
But Dunn won handily during the early voting, receiving 26 mail-in votes to Salinas' three. The gap was not as wide in personal appearance early voting. Dunn finished with 35 of those votes to Salinas' 29.
Salinas won 19 electronic votes during the early voting period and none on election day. Dunn received 17 electronic votes during the early voting period and one electronic vote on election day.
City Secretary Barbara Treviño announced the results in the City Council chamber at City Hall just before 9:30 p.m. Saturday. The polls had been closed since 7 p.m.
The City Council is schedule to canvass the results and swear in the winners at its meeting at City Hall at 6 p.m. Tuesday night.
The only other candidate facing an expiring term this year was Councilman John Govella Fulghum. He ran unopposed this year in Ward 2, where he filed just minutes before the filing deadline after it became obvious that the incumbent in that ward, Santiago "Jimbo" Martinez would not be seeking re-election. He has been serving in Ward 4.
Three positions also are expiring this year on the Beeville Water Supply District's Board of Directors. But those three candidates, Jim Crumrine, Ronald "Buddy" Hardy and Bill Stockton ran unopposed.


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Agnes de Lawrence (de Washington) MP (c.1340 - c.1406)
Agnes de Washington married Edmund Lawrence, son of John Lawrence and Elizabeth Holt, circa 1369.1,2 Agnes died after 1406.1 In 1406 Simon, formerly a servant of Robert de Washington, released all hi...
Agnes de Washington (le Gentyl) MP (c.1300 - 1346)
Alice Washington (Strother) MP (1732 - 1795)
Alice Sandys (Washington) MP (c.1610 - 1679)
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Amy Washington MP (deceased)
Amy Washington (Pargiter) MP (1514 - 1564)
Amy Partiger widow Thompson (d 06 Oct 1564, dau of Robert Partiger. 2nd wife of Lawrence Washington, 1st of Sulgrave (b c1500, d 19 Feb 1584). There were also marriages of Sir Humphrey Wingfield Wingfi...
Amy Curtis (Washington) MP (1600 - 1636)
Amye Curtis of Islipp, in the Co. of Northampton widow, 27 June 1636, proved 19 November 1636. Family Links Spouses/Children: Philip CURTIS Catherine CURTIS Links
Ann Stith (Washington) MP (c.1765 - 1824)
Parents: Father: Lawrence ( Laurence ) Washington b: 31 Mar 1728 in Bridge's Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia &Elizabeth Dade b: in Albion Estates, Virginia Children Needham W. Stith Putn...
Ann Washington MP (1593 - 1635)
Ann Mary Bryan (Washington) MP (1814 - 1864)
Ann Thompson (Washington) MP (c.1726 - d.)
Ann Washington of Colchester b. abt 1626 Married abt 1747 William Thompson b. abt 1722 Clerk of Court, Westmoreland Co. VA. (2) Children James Thompson b. abt 1748 m. abt 1773 Dinah James...
Anna Maria Thomasina Blackburn Washington MP (1817 - 1850)
Walnut Farm was purchased by Anna Maria's mother for them. Sources Anna Maria Thomasina Blackburn WASHINGTON (AFN:12Q1-KZH) FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 [S289] Blackburns...
Anna White Washington (Constable) MP (1813 - 1893)
Anna Dandridge Washington (Buchanan) MP (1833 - c.1880)
Anna Maria Washington MP (1851 - 1927)
Anna Maria Washington (1851-1927) was the last Washington born at Mt. Vernon. Sources Stella Pickett Hardy, "Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy o...
Anna Maria Thornton (Washington) MP (1788 - 1816)
Anne Washington (Pope) MP (1635 - 1669)
The Lineage of George Washington Written and researched by Margaret Odrowaz-Sypniewska Anne Pope was born in 1635 in Westmoreland County, Virginia [ SIC: St. Mary's County, Maryland ] They lived at...
Anne Gist (Washington) MP (c.1622 - 1642)
George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, collected and edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890). Vol. XIV (1798-1799). 1/17/2016.
Anne Washington MP (1761 - 1824)
Anne Washington (de Francis) MP (c.1530 - d.)
Anne Charlemagne Wright (Washington) MP (c.1654 - 1697)
Anne Washington was born ca 1662 in Bridge's Creek, Westmoreland County, VA, daughter of Col. John Washington and Anne Pope. She died March 1697 at Great House Point, Westmoreland Co., VA. In 16...
Anne Aylett MP (c.1726 - c.1773)
Note: ! (1) "Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of America" (Burke's Peerage Ltd., London, 1st ed.) p.48. Half-Brothers and Sister of President Washington. (2) "Virginia Vital Recor...
Anne Washington (Lewyn) MP (1598 - 1645)
Anne Washington (Steptoe) MP (1737 - 1777)
Children Ferdinand Washington b: 1767 in Harewood, Berkeley County, Virginia George Steptoe Washington b: 17 AUG 1773 in Harewood, Berkeley County, Virginia Lawrence Augustine Washington b: 11 ...
Capt. Augustine Washington, Sr. MP (1694 - 1743)
Augustine Washington (November 12, 1694 – April 12, 1743) was the father of the first U.S. President George Washington. He belonged to the Colony of Virginia's landed gentry and was a planter an...
Col. Augustine Washington, Jr. MP (1720 - 1762)
Note: ! (1) "Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of America" (Burke's Peerage Ltd., London, 1st ed.) p.48. Half-Brothers and Sister of President Washington. (2) "Virginia Vital Recor...
Bailey Washington MP (1731 - 1807)
A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor # A121936 Notes Bailey Washington's father, Henry, was married to Mary Butler, the daughter of John Butler and Anne Bayneham. Anne ...
Bailey Washington MP (1754 - d.)
Added per DAR's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood, published 1895 stating he was " patriot member of the House of Burgesses"
Billie Frances Garner (Washington) MP (1920 - d.)
Birth: Sep. 21, 1920, USA Death: unknown Family links: Spouse: William Bryan Garner (1922 - 2005) Burial: Carolina Memorial Gardens Creedmoor Granville County North Carolina, USA Edit V...
Booker T. Washington MP (1856 - 1915)
Booker Taliaferro Washington (5 April 1858 – 14 November 1915) was an African-American educator, author, orator, advisor to Republican presidents, and black political leader. He was the dominant...
Bushrod Washington, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court MP (1762 - 1829)
Favorite nephew of President George Washington. In 1802, upon the death of his aunt, Martha Washington, he inherited Mount Vernon and a part of the estate. Also mentioned in his father's will. Bush...
Bushrod Corbin Washington MP (1790 - 1851)
Sources Bushrod Corbin WASHINGTON (AFN: ST95-QX) FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19 Findagrave
Butler Washington MP (1716 - 1716)
Died in infancy. Sources: 1. Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, non-profit organization founded in 1853 by Ann Pamela Cunningham. 2.National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior.
Catherine Lewis (Washington) MP (1724 - 1750)
Cousin of George Washington Catherine Washington was born on 11 Feb 1724/25. She died on 19 Feb 1749/50 at age 25. Parents: Maj. John Washington and Catherine Whiting Married on 18 Oct 17...
Catherine Washington (Whiting) MP (c.1694 - 1744)
Catherine Washington MP (1739 - d.)
Parents: Townshend WASHINGTON of Green Hill b: 16 Sep. 1705 & Eleanor Lund. Married to her cousin John Washington of St. Paul's Parish, d 1782, son of Henry (1695-1747). Sources Some Pr...
Charles Augustine Washington MP (1791 - 1811)
Col. Charles Washington MP (1738 - 1799)
DAR Ancestor #: A121948 (see attached document) Children: 1. George A. WASHINGTON b: 1763 2. Samuel WASHINGTON b: 1765 3. Frances WASHINGTON b: 1763 4. Mildred WASHINGTON b: 1777
Christian Scott Washington MP (1820 - 1820)
Sources Christian Scott WASHINGTON (AFN:12Q1-KPT) FamilySearch™ Ancestral File v4.19
Coral Washington (Wiggins) MP (1920 - 2011)
Birth: Dec. 1, 1920 Oxford Granville County North Carolina, USA Death: Sep. 30, 2011 Oxford Granville County North Carolina, USA OXFORD - Coral W. Washington, 90, of Oxford, died Friday, Sept. 30, ...
Corbin Washington MP (1765 - 1799)
Corbin Washington was born 1765 In Bushfield, Westmoreland, Virginia and died 10 Dec 1799 in Bushfield, Westmoreland, Virginia. Parents: John Augustine Washington (1736-1787) & Hannah Bushrod. from...
Elizabeth Washington (Jordan) MP (1660 - 1735)
Elizabeth Jordan-[3807] . BIRTH: Mentioned in father's will as Elizabeth Washington. MARRIAGE: Granted administration with brother and husband Richard Washington on 15, 9ber 1687 (Deed Bk. 4, p. 149)...
Elizabeth Heritage Washington (Cobb) MP (1780 - 1848)
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Elizabeth Armand (Washington) MP (c.1551 - d.)
Elizabeth Heritage Knox (Washington) MP (1808 - 1890)
Elizabeth Conrad Washington (Bedinger) MP (1793 - 1837)
MARRIAGE: 24 Sep 1810, Shepherdstown, VA to John Thornton Augustine WASHINGTON Children include Lawrence Berry WASHINGTON +Daniel Bedinger WASHINGTON Virginia Thornton W...
Elizabeth Mewce (Washington) MP (c.1595 - c.1676)
Born: 1595, Sulgrave Manor, Northamptonshire, England Died: Abt 1676 about age 81 Marriage: Francis MEWCE, of Holdenby in Northampton on 26 May 1615 in St. Mary Le Strand, Middlesex, England Notes ...
Elizabeth Lanier (Washington) MP (1684 - 1761)
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Elizabeth Storke (Washington) MP (1758 - d.)
Elizabeth Rolfe (Washington) MP (1614 - 1633)
Additional Curator's Notes: There is a possible wife and child BEFORE Thomas Rolfe returned to Virginia. The Pocahontas Society has accepted this theory. The proponents of this theory claim the birth...
Elizabeth Washington (Light) MP (c.1547 - 1590)
Robert Washington married twice, firstly, in 1565 to Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Walter Light (Lyte) of Radway Grange, and a descendant of the Villiers family. The marriage is recorded in the or...
Elizabeth Williams (Washington) MP (1717 - 1761)
??? Is this the same Elizabeth Washington who married Nathaniel Williams in 1738, d/o John Washington & Catherine Whiting...or is this Elizabeth another??
Elizabeth Shirley (Washington) MP (1650 - 1693)
Elizabeth Washington (Lund) MP (1705 - c.1778)
Children include Robert b: 25 June 1729 in Green Hill, VA married Alice Strother Laurence (Lawrence) b: 4 MAR 1739/40 in Green Hill, VA married Catherine. Lund Of "Hayfield.". placed in charge ...
Elizabeth "Betty" Washington MP (1733 - 1797)
Betty Washington Lewis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elizabeth "Betty" Washington Lewis (June 20, 1733 – March 31, 1797) was the only sister of George Washington to live to adultho...
Elizabeth Legge (Washington) MP (b. - 1688)
Elizabeth Rumbold (Washington) MP (c.1636 - d.)
Baptized: 17 Aug 1636, Tring, Hertfordshire, England. Married (unknown) Rumbold. Notes ... Item I give and bequeath unto John Washington, William Washington, Elizabeth Washington, Margare...
Elizabeth Washington (Macon) MP (c.1729 - c.1760)
Parents: William Macon b: ABT 1700 Married: 1 DEC 1747 in "Mount Prospect," New Kent Co., VA to Warner Washington b: 22 SEP 1722 in Bridges Creek, Westmoreland Co., VA, as his first wife; he ...
Elva Mae Hopkins Slaughter (Washington) MP (1907 - 1986)
Birth: Sep. 20, 1907 Death: Dec. 3, 1986 Burial: Bullock Cemetery Stem Granville County North Carolina, USA Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: Georgia Record added: Jun 02, 2007 F...
Emily Veazey (Washington) MP (deceased)
Eugenia Scholay Washington MP (1838 - 1900)
Eugenia held Membership #1 in the Daughters of the American Revolution. Decendant (great-granddaughter) of Col. Samuel Washington, brother of Geroge Washington. Daughter of William Temple Wahington a...
Evelyn Odell Washington (Goss) MP (1916 - 1971)
Birth: Dec. 3, 1916 North Carolina, USA Death: Apr. 25, 1971 Creedmoor Granville County North Carolina, USA Daughter of Robert & Vera Chappell Goss. Family links: Spouse: George William Wash...
Floyd Washington MP (1930 - d.)
Frances Washington (Bassett) MP (1767 - 1796)
Notes The orphaned children of Charles Washington's oldest son, George Augustine Washington, and of Martha Washington's niece Frances Bassett Washington Lear, were named George Fayette, Charles Aug...
Frances Washington (Gerard) MP (1628 - 1677)
"Frances Gerrard, daughter of Dr. Thomas Gerrard and his first wife, Susanna, daughter of Justinian Snow, one of the founders of Maryland and Lord Baltimore's factor in the Indian traders, married, fir...
Frances Washington MP (1613 - d.)
Frances Washington (Curtis or Browne) MP (1588 - 1658)
Fredi Washington MP (1903 - 1994)
Fredericka Carolyn "Fredi" Washington (December 23, 1903 - June 28, 1994) was an accomplished dramatic film actress, most active in the 1920s- 1930s. Fredi was a self-proclaimed Black woman, who chos...
George Steptoe Washington, Jr. MP (1806 - 1831)
George Fayette Washington MP (1790 - 1867)
from Findagrave George Fayette Washington was born In Mt Vernon, Fairfax, VA on Jan. 17, 1790 and died Sep. 6, 1867 in Frederick, VA. He is buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester City, Virgini...
George Washington MP (c.1762 - 1781)
George Augustine Washington MP (c.1763 - 1793)
A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of SECOND LIEUTENANT. DAR Ancestor #: A121961 Another nephew, George Augustine Washington, son of the 1st President's younger brother C...
George Washington MP (1817 - 1905)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Washington (August 15, 1817 – August 26, 1905) was the founder of the town of Centralia, Washington. He is remembered as a leading African American...
George Thomas Washington MP (1936 - 1999)
Birth: Jul. 31, 1936 Granville County North Carolina, USA Death: Jul. 28, 1999 Durham Durham County North Carolina, USA CREEDMOOR -- GEORGE Thomas WASHINGTON, 62, a resident of 1729 Northside Road,...
George William Washington MP (1913 - 1982)
Birth: Dec. 5, 1913 Virginia, USA Death: Aug. 13, 1982 Durham Durham County North Carolina, USA Family links: Spouse: Evelyn Goss Washington (1916 - 1971) Children: George Thomas Washington ...
George Washington MP (1836 - 1909)
George Steptoe Washington, MP (1771 - 1809)
Birth: 1772 Death: 1809 Captain 8 VA Infantry. He was the nephew of President George Washington. Several transcriptions of letters written by the President to his nephew exist. Family links...
George Washington, 1st President of the USA MP (1732 - 1799)
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Washington served as a general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies during the American Revolution, and later...
Gertrude Penna (Washington) MP (1927 - d.)
Gregory Washington MP (1606 - 1606)
Hannah Washington (Lee) MP (1765 - 1802)
Sources: Bolton, Charles Knowles. Marriage Notices 1785-1794 for the Whole United States: Copied from the Massachusetts Centinel and the Columbian Centenial. Salem, MA: E. Putnam, 1900. Stratford...
Hannah Bushrod MP (1738 - 1801)
Hannah Bushrod was born about 1738 in Bushfield, Westmoreland Co., VA. She died in 1804 in Bushfield, Westmoreland Co., VA. parents: John Bushrod & Mildred Corbin Married on 14 April 1756 t...
Hannah Washington (Fairfax) MP (c.1729 - 1804)
Harold Russell Washington MP (1925 - 2009)
Helen W. Nevils MP (1915 - 2000)
Birth: Oct. 24, 1915 Granville County North Carolina, USA Death: Dec. 3, 2000 Wake Forest Wake County North Carolina, USA CREEDMOOR - HELEN Nevils DAGUE, 85, a resident of Hillside Nursing Center i...
Capt. Henry Washington MP (1694 - 1748)
Captain Henry Washington (John, John, Lawrence ) was born about 1694. He died on 22 Oct 1748. Notes: His will names his trusty friends, Laurence Washington, Cadwallader Dade, and John Washington,...
Col. Henry Washington MP (c.1615 - c.1664)
Henry Washington was baptised on 21 March 1615 and was buried 9 Mar 1664, Richmond, Surrey, England. Parents: son of Sir William Washington and Anne Villiers. Married Elizabeth Pakington, d...
Henry Augustine Washington MP (1750 - 1825)
Henry Washington MP (1760 - d.)
Isabel Washington Powell MP (1909 - 2007)
Isabel Washington Powell, who gave up the nightclub and Broadway stage to marry Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and become a much-loved figure in uptown society, died on May 1. She would have turned 99 on M...
Jakob, Freiherr von Washington MP (c.1778 - 1848)
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Dr. James Augustus Washington MP (1803 - 1847)
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James Washington MP (1693 - 1766)
Updated from MyHeritage Match via sister Faith Barker (born Washington) by SmartCopy : Sep 18 2014, 12:22:41 UTC
James Augustus Washington MP (1845 - d.)
Jane Washington MP (1722 - 1734)
Jane was born either in 1721 or 1722. She died either 1/17/1734 or in 1735, in either Wakefield, VA, or Pope's Creek, VA. Sources: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, non-profit organization founde...
Jane (Jenny) Washington MP (1759 - 1791)
Jane Washington was born on 20 Jun 1759 in Bushfield Plantation, Westmoreland Co., VA and died 16 Aug 1791 in Sweet Springs, VA. She was also known as Jenny. The Will of George Washington, Mount Ve...
Jane Washington (Brockless) MP (1838 - 1907)
Jane Washington (Elliott) MP (1763 - d.)
Jane Washington MP (1598 - d.)


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It was established in September 2004, replacing the Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products' Working Party on Herbal Medicinal Products, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 and Directive 2004/24/EC, which introduced a simplified registration procedure for traditional herbal medicines in European Union (EU) Member States.
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As a festival-goer of ten years experience who has been to Glastonbury four times and sampled the delights of Reading, Leeds, V and the Isle Of Wight on several occasions I really don't see why all of the media attention this year is concentrated on the perceived lack of appeal of a certain Shawn Corey Carter, aka Jay-Z.
The feeling in much of the media and across numerous festival forums seems to be that Jay-Z isn't Glastonbury headline material, and this alone accounts for the festival failing to sell out on the first day of ticket sales for the first time in years.
However, it really can't be as simple as that, can it? Jay-Z is a huge worldwide star and one of the biggest names in hip-hop, itself the most commercially successful musical genre in the world today. He isn't a Glastonbury headliner in the Radiohead or Coldplay mould, but the music policy at the festival has always been the most eclectic of the mainstream events.
The Sunday climax of 2007's festival saw such diverse artists as Shirley Bassey, The Who and The Marley Brothers amongst the acts performing on the Pyramid Stage, and nobody seemed particularly perturbed. In fact, from where I was standing and admittedly through a fairly inebriated haze, despite the diabolical weather, everyone looked like they were having a hell of a good time.
Indeed, the near-biblical meteorological conditions at the last couple of festivals have probably had a great deal more impact on ticket sales – although selling 100,000 tickets at £155 a pop on the first day is hardly a disaster – than Jay-Z has. I'm sure it also hasn't helped that fellow headliners Kings Of Leon and The Verve are also playing the V Festival and T In The Park this summer.
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For more on Glastonbury 2008, check out this Guardian blog, or visit the festival's official website for current ticket information.
Ultimately though, most Glastonbury veterans will tell you that it's about much more than just the music. And despite an innate dislike for hippies, I'm inclined to agree. It's a vibe thing, man. Or more specifically, it's a refreshing lack of corporate advertising without a cynical bar token scheme in sight. You are also unlikely to see people having bottles of water or apples confiscated by fascistic, paranoid security guards as you might at some of the summer's other big outdoor events.
If a few lightweights have been scared off by the rain and the mud and a rap star then that's fine, we'll still have a good time without them. Karma definitely owes me some sunshine this year, though…
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Despite the unfortunate outcome of Friday's rubber game against the Marlins, I loved hearing Kevin Burkhardt's insight about what goes into Mets third base coach Chip Hale's preparation for both team defense and base running.
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Finally, A Series Win!…
Confidence restored…
After the series opener loss to the Detroit Tigers,
I was a bit dismayed. The Yankees, the
team that started the year on a consecutive series win streak, hadn't won a
series since late July after splitting a four game set with the Royals in
Kansas City. They returned to the Bronx
and promptly lost a disappointing game to the Tigers with Detroit ace Justin
Verlander looming the next day.
Fortunately, the Yanks beat Verlander and went on
to the win the next two games afterwards to take 3 of 4. The wins were definitely part of the Robinson
Cano Show as he homered in the three consecutive wins. Also, the bat of Curtis Granderson has come
to life since the adjustments he made with hitting coach Kevin Long. I was not an immediate believer in Austin
Kearns, but he has steadily begun to make an impact. With Alex Rodriguez nursing a sore calf and
Lance Berkman on the DL, it was imperative for some of the lesser known guys on
the roster to begin carrying their weight.
It couldn't have happened at a better time as the Yankees are trying to
stave off the Tampa Bay Rays who they were tied with at the beginning of today's
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With September right around the corner, I am
concerned about pitching. The only
certainty is ace CC Sabathia. With A.J.
Burnett, you're never really sure what you are going to get. Javier Vazquez has been pitching poorly
lately with reduced velocity. Dustin
Moseley is never going to overwhelm you, and Phil Hughes is rapidly approaching
an innings limitation. Andy Pettitte
remains on the DL after a setback, so there are a series of question marks with
the starting rotation. It is fortunate
that the bullpen has begun to gel with Kerry Wood, Joba Chamberlain, David
Robertson and Boone Logan pitching very effectively. The long men, Chad Gaudin and Sergio Mitre,
have performed well in their roles. The
Yankees certainly have the bats to win the division, but I obviously have less
confidence in the pitching. If healthy,
they'd be among the league's elite. But
in their current state, I'd have to give the advantage to the Tampa Bay
Rays. As for the Red Sox, I can only
hope that Josh Beckett and John Lackey continue their season-long
struggles. With their injuries this
year, it's amazing that they've remained within striking distance so they are
certainly a threat as the page gets ready to flip to September.
But for now, all is well in the Bronx. If the Yankees can get on a roll and win a
few series over the next couple of weeks, they should be in great shape for the
stretch run despite their issues and challenges.
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For now, all IS well in the Bronx. We're in a tight race and I expect things to change daily, but wouldn't it be sweet if the Yanks could pull away and have a relaxing September?
And I saw that A-Rod has gone on to the DL…welcome to MY world!!! It will be an interesting run to the finish…will that last series in Boston in October be meaningful? I say YES!!!😉


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I say Beat Konducta should...
#1.) Come through Detroit for an EP, or as an ode to "Motown" Soul/Techno/Dilla
#2.) Go to Brazil
#3.) Travel throughout East Asia ex. Japan, China, Korea
And, or #4.) {Do a 'Continental/World' series of volumes, like Beak Konducta World Wide", instead of single cities or countries, unless the country is exceptionally good, but unmentioned places shouldn't be overlooked at all either, like diggin' for loops. ST should make the series regional type like, with a specific or focused theme, also too, yet still allowing diversity in the LP's theme as whole through the component pieces and make up of the LP. } *ex. "BEAT KONDUCTA TRAVELS THROUGHOUT AFRICA"
......Give me props! LOL! ST/Madlib where's my money!?! LOL! Do I get a prize?!?...Seriously though, thanks ST fam' for staying true to yourselves, and the people called your fan base!
Great Job on Beat Konducta 5-6!!!
DILLA Happy Birthday!


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A treasure trove of rarities, oddities and tech "firsts" has been brought together -- including an experimental 17th century mechanical calculator, a 108-year-old telephone and an incredibly rare, headline-grabbing Apple 1 computer -- to be sold at auction Friday in Cologne, Germany.
This portable copying press was devised by legendary English steam-engine inventor James Watt. The copying apparatus, consisting of metal damping box, pressure plate and special moistened copying paper, was housed in an elegant brass-bound mahogany box.
Three hundred years before the birth of Steve Jobs, the French philosopher, physicist and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, was designing the world's first mechanical calculator, the "Pascaline."
Like many experimental technologies, though, the Pascaline was expensive and rather unreliable.
This image shows a 1905 L.M. Ericsson & Co. desk telephone, known as the "coffee grinder" for its circular shape and distinctive lithographed decoration.
An 1895 Ford typewriter with filigree copper grille. The invention of typewriters in the mid-19th century changed the face of professional writing. The QWERTY keyboard is still the most common modern-day keyboard layout.
The Apple Lisa, from 1983, was produced for only one year, and was one of the world's first mouse-controlled computers. It is now extremely rare.
Basking in the limelight at the auction will be one of just six surviving functional Apple 1 computers. The original Apple was the first computer to be built by the California-based technology company.
The SCELBI-8H was built around the first Intel 8-Bit microprocessor, and fell within the budget of an average person. It was available either assembled or in kit form. It was regarded as one of the first truly "personal computers."
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July 17, 2013 —
Proposed zoning changes to parcels in the river corridor were discussed at the Delaware Town Board meeting on July 10, with some disagreement regarding the regulations that will govern the parcels. Gerald Euker, chairman of the planning board, said the changes were proposed because some of the parcels in the corridor were split between two districts: the Delaware River District (DR) and the Rural District (RU). Several of them are to be rezoned so that they will now exist entirely in the RU.
Property owner Buck Moorehead noted that the DR has eight special uses that could be created on the properties, while the RU has about 40 special uses and includes such uses as "Manufacturing and Industry" and "Natural Resources Processing."
Euker said that uses for the parcels, or portions of parcels that are located within the river corridor, must still be compatible with the River Management Plan (RMP).
Moorhead said the guidelines in the RMP are discretionary at some level, as they're not regulations.
But, said Euker, they are guidelines "which are going to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis by the planning board."
Moorhead suggested several times that uses for RU properties that are situated within the river corridor should be better defined. He said, "We clearly don't want Manufactured Home Sales. Why is that even here?"
Former candidate Steven Lundgren asked why the parcels were moved entirely into the less restrictive zone rather than the more restrictive zone.
Euker said, "Because we don't agree with making something more restrictive than it was before."
After the meeting, Moorhead said that his concern was that someone could go to the planning board and request to create one of the less compatible uses allowed in RU, and that use might not be addressed in the guidelines in the RMP, which were created in 1985. Or, he said, "the planning board could choose to say, we think it still is in substantial conformance with the RMP because it's discretionary; the guidelines are not regulations. And they might approve something, and there would be a battle over it between the town, the Upper Delaware Council and the National Park Service."
Supervisor Ed Sykes said he was in favor of scheduling a special meeting of the board to adopt the zoning changes, which include more than just the parcels in the river corridor, rather than waiting until next month's meeting. However, the town has not yet received the review of the proposed changes from the Sullivan County Department of Planning.


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By Greg Allen • Nov 7, 2013
Originally published on November 7, 2013 5:11 am
Nearly 30 years ago, William Potts hijacked a plane to Cuba. He is scheduled to be in court in Miami on Thursday. It's the first time he's been in the U.S. for nearly three decades.


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By Karl Terry: Freedom columnist
I've been considering moving to a "working cattle ranch" in Ribera after broadcast icon Don Imus invited me (and anyone listening to his show) to come farm sustainably on his 4,000 acre Imus Ranch for Kids with Cancer Thursday.
This past week the I-Man, as he's been known on radio, interviewed David Kirby, author of the book "Animal Factory." Apparently the book is all about the evils of so-called factory farms or concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
Imus has a long history of being able to quickly move an author up the New York Times bestseller list with an interview followed by frequent follow-up on-air promotion by the broadcaster whose show airs on WABC-Radio in New York and other affiliates as well as Fox Business on television.
The attack of agriculture strictly based on the size of the operation, with anything bigger than what Farmer Jones and his two sons can accomplish with a 16-hour day of manual labor termed as corrupt and evil is nonsense in my view.
Why would we be surprised that agriculture is going to evolve in the direction required by the American consumer?
We continually search the supermarket shelves for bargains: Who has the best price on milk? Why can't we get good ground beef for $1.29 a pound anymore?
We've forced farmers to be competitive and Farmer Jones had to adapt to a bigger operation or move to town and get a job.
Having worked as a newspaperman most of my life, I've watched fellow journalists light into a story about the evils of corporate farms and food processing facilities with a zeal to change the way our American food chain works by holding producers and processors to higher standards.
Actually, all they've accomplished is tighter regulation that assures the family farm can never maintain a toehold in the competitive landscape.
I wish it weren't so, but I fear that local agricultural sustainability may have slipped into the realm of pipe dream. I remember an outfit in Colorado that organized as a non-profit to explore the possibilities of sustainable agriculture. I just chuckled to myself every time I drove by and saw those poor old Tibetan yaks they had imported into their pasture.
They located their test farm on one of the most expensive plots of land in the state not far from a resort. They welcomed volunteers and school children out to the farm but it floundered financially despite millions in backing.
If we had the support of a non-profit organization behind us such as the one in Colorado or the one Imus operates in Ribera, we could produce wonderful organic food that would taste great.
I'm betting that if I take Imus up and moved out to his ranch to grow grass-fed beef, beans and squash he won't be there to bail me out financially.
Who knows, he may want me to plow my plot with mules.
No, Imus and his wife are vegetarians and serve the kids they host at the ranch a vegan diet. That's not too typical of a "working cattle ranch."
Out here in eastern New Mexico and West Texas, we live closer to the land and not too far removed from the family farm.
Like lots of other people I know, I'll raise a garden because I like the way fresh stuff tastes and I might even buy a locally raised beef for the freezer.
But I'm not going to kid myself that I won't continue to be a slave to the supermarket.
I like good food but I'm not going to pay more than necessary and I'm sure not going to be reading "Animal Factory."


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Earliest N. European vessel found. Remarkable features: double horns at bow and stern, similar to Scandinavian rock art images. Keel plank a hollowed log, upper strakes joined laced lapstrake. Thwarts for rowers. Built around 350 BC (established by relative dating/ comparison of weapons styles associates and C14 2 samples:370 &390 BC) in the Baltic region, used likely for raiding, then sacrificed (?) in a bog on the island of Als, Denmark. Discovered (in fragments)1880-1889 by peat cutters. 1915 museum official Jens Raben hears of it. Excavated 1921-22 by Gustav Rosenberg. Reassembly by Fr.Johannesen. Exhibited at National Museum in Copenhagen 1921-mid 60s. Re-conserved replacing alum with PEG 400 1960s-80s. Reconstructions attempted beginning 1971. 1986 reexcavated bog area, found. 2 new wood samples for C14 dating. 1986 New exhibition built. 1995-1999 seaworthy replica Tilia Alsie built.
Crumlin-Pedersen, O. and A. L. Trakadas, Hjortspring: A Pre-Roman Iron-Age Warship in Context. Ships and Boats of the North, Volume 5. Roskilde, The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. 2003. Randsborg, K. Warfare & Sacrifice in Early Europe Aarhaus university press, Cambridge U. Press, DK/UK 1995. Kaul, F. Da våbnene ta. Hjortspringfundetog dets baggrund. Copenhagen National Museum of Denmmark/Nyt Nordisk Forlag, 1988. McGrail, S. Ancient Boats in N.W. Europe. Longman Group UK, New York, 1987. Westerdahl, C. Crossroads in Ancient Shipbuilding: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology. Roskilde 1991. Rieck, F. and O. Crumlin-Pedersen. Bade fra Danmarks oldtid. 1988 Randsborg, K. (1995). Hjortspring: Warfare & Sacrifice in Early Europe Jensen, J. The Hjortspring Boat Reconstructed. Online at http://hjortspring.dk/wold/index_en.htm accessed 9/10/10. Jorgensen, A. N. Maritime Warfare in Northern Europe: Technology, organisation, logistics and administration 500 BC - 1500 AD. Studies in Archaeology and History. Copenhagen, The National Museum. Papers from an International Research Seminar at the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, 3-5 May 2000. Ship Terminology quick reference: p.206-8. In Crumlin-Pedersen, O. (1997). Viking-Age Ships and Shipbuilding in Hedeby/Haithabu and Schleswig. Schleswig, National Museum of Denmark. Internet sources: http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/index.php?id=1323&L=1 http;//hjortspring.dk/wold/index.en.htm


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'Probing' NASA
Schiff to have space agency chief explain laptop file theft
By Kevin Uhrich 02/28/2013
NASA is doing its best to downplay the loss of 40,000 personnel files — highly personal data about its past and present scientists and engineers — that were contained in a laptop computer stolen on Halloween from a car parked near the space agency's headquarters in Washington, DC.
Not surprisingly, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden did not personally return messages regarding the Pasadena Weekly's story last week on the lost files, which in November agency officials initially estimated to be four times fewer than the number of files they are now saying were actually lost that night.
Speaking for Bolden, Michael Cabbage, NASA's news and multimedia director, insisted the situation is under control.
Even though NASA has a history of computer security breaches dating back to 2007 and 2008, when the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said the agency had reported 1,120 "security incidents," and that same GAO report revealed that in 2009 a NASA center reported the theft of a laptop computer that contained some 3,000 unencrypted files regarding arms traffic regulations and wind tunnel tests for a supersonic jet, Cabbage maintains there is nothing to worry about.
"There is currently no indication that any of the personal information on the laptop has been used for fraudulent purposes as a result of this incident," wrote Cabbage, adding the computer contains no other types of "sensitive" information, like that lost in 2009.
Unfortunately for Bolden, a retired Marine Corps major general and a former astronaut whose vision for NASA has clashed sharply with that of the Obama administration, that may not be good enough for Congressman Adam Schiff of Burbank. A moderate Democrat and former federal prosecutor, Schiff's district before last year's state-mandated redistricting included Pasadena, home of Caltech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is owned by NASA and managed by Caltech.
Calling the theft of this laptop "deeply troubling," Schiff said he will be asking Bolden during budget hearings beginning Monday what, exactly, is being done to better secure the personal information of agency employees.
"Revelations that the number of employees whose information was disclosed is growing are especially distressing, as it appears that NASA had little idea what was on the computer that was lost," Schiff wrote in an email to the Weekly.
The Halloween computer theft came nearly two years after the US Supreme Court ruled in NASA's favor in NASA v. Nelson, so named for lead respondent Dr. Robert Nelson, a 34-year space scientist with JPL who, along with 27 other JPL workers, sued NBASA and Caltech to stop implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive #12, or HSPD-12. President George W. Bush's 2004 directive requires all federal workers — including contract employees at JPL, like Nelson and his colleagues — to submit to highly intrusive background investigations or be fired.
Nelson and the other respondents argued that NASA did not need intimate details about the lives of its contract employees. The group further said that once NASA had such information, the agency would be incapable of securing it.
On Tuesday, Cabbage said Bolden "has ordered a complete review of this incident and a report on the agency's progress to better protect its information technology systems, including laptop computers." In addition, Cabbage wrote, "NASA's inspector general is investigating the theft of the laptop in cooperation with local authorities."
Schiff said Bolden will be appearing before the Commerce, Justice, Science subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee next week, and "I intend to probe what NASA is doing to assist those whose data has been compromised, and to better secure its employees' data in the future."
After the 2009 incident, in which NASA "lost" a computer containing information about arms trafficking and wind tunnel tests, the agency was required to encrypt its laptops, according The New York Times, but not all of the agency's laptops had been adjusted by the time of the Halloween theft. And the job is still not finished.
Over the past year, Cabbage said NASA has encrypted 99.7 percent of all of its computers.
"As a result of the latest laptop theft, NASA accelerated the completion of the whole disk encryption effort, working overtime to encrypt more than 32,500 laptops. The remaining computers that have not been encrypted may be granted waivers exempting them from encryption because they contain no data and are considered spares or unused," Cabbage wrote.
NASA-issued laptops without whole disk encryption software are no longer allowed to be removed from NASA facilities. In addition, Cabbage said, employees are being directed to review information contained on their own computers. Along with that, NASA is offering credit monitoring services to those affected by the breach.
Unfortunately for all of us, said Schiff, "This is a problem that goes way beyond NASA, and I am greatly concerned about the government's information security as a whole. As a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, I have spent a great deal of time over the past few years immersed in the cyber threats to the United States from China, Russia and elsewhere. And, at a time when the government should doing more to secure our networks, we are faced with the prospect of indiscriminate budget cuts that will inevitably weaken information security and our ability to detect and repel hackers."
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Misty Jordan would be notable simply for her ability to get up at 5 a.m. without coffee, but as co-host of The Power Morning Show on Power 107.5, her story gets more intriguing daily.
"I make appearances at gas stations all the way up to hosting parties with Lil Wayne," she said
In advance of Power's anniversary party, Jordan discussed life on and off the air.
I went to 10 schools in 12 years, so I never really grew up in a neighborhood. So I was always meeting new people all the time. So I'm kind of happy that I did because now meeting people is kind of second nature to me.
I actually started off in television. I worked at ABC 6 and Fox 28 for years. I started off working teleprompter, and then I worked in promotions. I did Chyron for a while, and then I ended up reporting.
I worked both jobs for a while. I was just a workhorse. If I worked 70 hours a week, I thought, "This is vacation!"
I recently met President Obama ... He was very down to earth, and Michelle was gorgeous, and she had flats on. I didn't realize she was that tall.
Lil Wayne was a little shy. I think LL Cool J was a little shy. Nicki Minaj was not as friendly as I thought she would have been.
I'm a big holistic healer. I don't believe in medicine, so I drink natural American ginseng. I'll take a little scoop of that, and I'll use lemon drops and put them in my tea.
I'm a reality show junkie. If it's reality and it's on TV, I'm watching it, period. I don't care how awful it is.
I'm probably the most random person in the studio. One day I was on Facebook and this girl was doing a handstand, and I thought it would be great if we all challenged each other to do handstands.
In TV, when you're interviewing someone, you listen for their natural sound bites, so you don't interject — you just listen. In radio, you're having a conversation, so I can jump in and say, "Yeah, you're right," and I can jump in and say, "Girl, you better shut up!"


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What's with all the fat jokes?
If there is one thing that bothers me it's that! Why is he considered fat and why is he always poking fun at himself about it? I was watching some reruns of the NASCAR Championship week in Vegas and every time he came on camera there was some type of fat or food joke?
It seriously bothers me to think that fans and others could be that shallow and now he goes along with it? I'm a sucker for older men (he's not that much older than me but still...) and I certainly don't think he's fat. What did I miss? If you have any way of providing some form of divine enlightenment, please feel free. I'm completely dumbfounded.


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