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January 27, 1998
Release # 98-058
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Nancy Sales Co. Inc. of Chelsea, Mass., is recalling about 4,100 bean bag crab toys. The toys' seams can separate and allow plastic pellets to be released, presenting an aspiration hazard to young children.CPSC and Nancy Sales Co. Inc. are not aware of any injuries involving these toys. This recall is being conducted to prevent the possibility of injury.The bean bag crab is made from red velour fabric. Its body, measuring about 4 inches wide, is filled with plastic pellets and has plastic black eyes. Attached to the crab's body are five pairs of stuffed legs that extend the crab to about 10 inches long. The crab has a sewn-on label that reads in part, "NANCO ... CHELSEA, MA...MADE IN CHINA." A tag attached to the toy at the time of sale describes the characteristics and habitat of the "Rock Crab."
Arcade and gift shops nationwide sold the toys from January 1997 through October 1997 for about $6.Consumers should take these toys away from children immediately and return them to the store where purchased for a refund. For more information about this recall, consumers should call Nancy Sales Co. Inc. at (800) 626-2947 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. EST Monday through Friday. U.S. Customs alerted CPSC to this hazard.
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So remember way back when when I talked about being a tourist in my own state? I finally was able to cross off one of those places!
This past August, my company held its annual retreat in Oakhurst, which is in the middle of nowhere California but also a mere hour and a half from…dun dun dun…Yosemite National Park!
The house was lovely and we had a great time (even after I abandoned the mister with my coworkers for half a day so I could play golf with a few other coworkers). But I was so excited to take a side trip to Yosemite and I was only slightly disappointed.
Don't get me wrong; the park is absolutely gorgeous. I just couldn't get around how beautiful everything was and I kept remarking about how I just wanted to take pictures of everything. The entire park is postcard-worthy. But you can't live behind the view finder so I eventually packed the camera away so I could actually enjoy the park.
We walked around for a bit and then rented bikes and rode from one end of the park to the other. I made jokes about the bears, we saw a mountain lion run across our path a safe distance away from us, I marveled at how the wild squirrels were so much smaller than their Ann Arbor cousins, and I tried to lobby the mister into trusting the general public to not steal our rental bikes so we could hike towards Mirror Lake and get a peek at Half Dome. It didn't work.
So what could possibly be so disappointing? There were no waterfalls. When we got to the park, we found a ranger who informed us that due to the dry winter, the waterfalls were not falling. And if there were any water, it would only be a trickle.
Cue sad panda.
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Beautiful but still, no waterfall. Granted, Yosemite Falls is usually dry during the summer anyway, but the others were supposed to be somewhat active but were not due to the dry winter. While I did not get to see the waterfalls I always wanted to see, I'm very glad we still made the trip out to the park just for the sake of being at the park. Definitely an experience I am grateful to have had.
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A Honolulu Police Department major indicted earlier this year in a federal extortion case was arrested by the FBI at his Waianae home Monday night accused of intending to distribute the drug crystal methamphetamine.
Carlton Nishimura was indicted in February by a federal grand jury. He is accused of conspiring to accept bribes from illegal gambling operators in exchange for steering officers away from certain gaming rooms.
The FBI said it raided his Waianae home with a search warrant Monday night, discovering more than 200 grams worth of meth they believe Nishimura intended to distribute.
Investigators returned Tuesday evening with a drug-sniffing dog.
Agents could also be seen searching the yard of the Moelua Street home in the Pokai Bay Village subdivision with a metal detector.
They also poured through a packed garage.
Neighbors said they noticed lots of unusual traffic Monday night, but thought Nishimura was having a family get together.
"One car parked in front of our house, since around 10 o'clock in the morning," said Lucita Galano.
She said she heard people in the back yard until almost midnight.
Another neighbor who did not want to be identified described Nishimura as a nice and friendly man.
He said Nishimura's parents were long time farmers in Waianae Valley.
The man said Nishimura is divorced lived alone, although his adult son and daughter sometimes came to visit.
An FBI affidavit said its agents also found plastic baggies with meth and meth residue, three digital scales and other items that were consistent with drug distribution inside Nishimura?s home.
The affidavit was filed by an FBI agent who said he has been investigating Nishimura since 2008.
When Nishimura, a 30-year HPD veteran, was indicted earlier this year he was assigned to the legislative liaison office of the police department which lobbies state lawmakers and members of the city council on HPD?s behalf.
Sources said he's now working in the Community Affairs division on leave with pay.
Under HPD?s union contract, police administrators can place officers accused of wrongdoing on up to two months of unpaid leave, but officers have to be returned to paid leave after that until they face administrative discipline that can range from a written reprimand to suspension to firing.
The Feb. 18 indictment charged Nishimura conspired to obtain money from an illegal game room operator in exchange for what federal prosecutors said was "the performance and non-performance of office police acts."
The indictment said the alleged extortion happened between April 2004 and March 2006 when Nishimura was a captain in the urban Honolulu district.
Federal prosecutors also said Nishimura tried to convince a woman to lie about her conduct to the FBI after she routinely carried money between an illegal game room operator and Nishimura in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
The indictment also charged Nishimura with lying to FBI agents.
His defense lawyers filed court papers in recent weeks attacking the credibility of the key prosecution witness in that case, alleging that the witness admitted giving false grand jury testimony about Nishimura.
Sources said the witness is Nishimura's ex-girlfriend.
Sources told KITV4 News that Nishimura faced an internal affairs investigation at HPD while he was still a captain, but he was cleared of wrong doing and later promoted to major by former Police Chief Boisse Correa.
He previously headed the Criminal Investigation Division overseeing investigations of all kinds of crimes including murders, rapes, robberies, thefts and assaults.


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Roundup: Hughes sharp in Yankees victory over Oakland
NEW YORK Phil Hughes pitched eight shutout innings of four-hit ball for his first win of the season, and the New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 4-2 on Saturday.
Chris Stewart and Lyle Overbay homered against Bartolo Colon, sending the As to their only loss in the right-handers six starts this year. Hughes (1-2) struck out nine and outpitched his former New York teammate for his first victory since Sept. 20 against Toronto.
Travis Hafner and Brett Gardner each had an RBI single for the Yankees, who bounced back from a 2-0 loss to A.J. Griffin in the series opener Friday night and improved to 7-2 on their 10-game homestand.
Oakland has dropped 10 of 15 after opening the season 12-4. The As, who had won six of eight against New York, are 13-3 against AL West teams and 4-11 vs. everyone else.
Hughes, hit hard while losing his first two starts of the season, turned in his fourth consecutive strong outing of at least six innings and no more than two runs allowed. And this one was probably the best of the bunch.
The 26-year-old right-hander shut down an Oakland offense that began the day leading the majors in runs (164) and extra-base hits (105). He walked two against a team that entered with 142 bases on balls 25 more than any other team.
Hughes threw 82 of his 118 pitches for strikes. Shawn Kelley gave up a leadoff single in the ninth and Oakland scored twice with Mariano Rivera on the mound in a non-save situation before he finished the six-hitter.
Showing late life and plenty of zip on his fastball, Hughes struck out five in the first three innings and induced a double-play grounder in the fourth. He retired Jed Lowrie with two on to end the fifth and fanned Yoenis Cespedes with a 93 mph fastball to begin the sixth.
Robinson Cano opened the bottom half with his 344th career double, tying Mickey Mantle for eighth place in Yankees history. He later scored when Hafner blooped a single well beyond a drawn-in infield.
That made it 3-0 and ended the afternoon for Colon (3-1), who gave up six hits over 5 1-3 innings his shortest start this season. The 2005 AL Cy Young Award winner, who pitched for the Yankees in 2011, has walked only one in 37 1-3 innings this season.
Eduardo Nunez tripled off Chris Resop in the seventh and scored on Gardners two-out single.
Stewart, batting ninth, led off the third with a drive to left for his sixth major league home run. Overbay sent Colons first pitch of the fifth into the second deck in right for his fifth of the season.
One day after Adam Rosales hit a leadoff homer for the As, John Jaso nearly duplicated the feat. His drive was caught by a leaping Ichiro Suzuki at the right-field fence.
Josh Reddick made a similar play for Oakland in almost the same spot against Gardner in the third.
Reddick went 0 for 3 with a walk and an RBI. He has one hit in his last 22 at-bats and is 0 for 33 in 11 career games at the current Yankee Stadium.
NOTES: Oakland put OF Chris Young (strained left quadriceps) on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to April 30, and recalled OF Michael Taylor from Triple-A Sacramento. Taylor is likely to get playing time against left-handed pitching, manager Bob Melvin said. ... LHP Andy Pettitte (3-2, 3.86 ERA) starts Sunday for New York against RHP Dan Straily (1-0, 6.35) in the series finale. The 40-year-old Pettitte was roughed up by last-place Houston in a 9-1 loss Monday. He earned his first major league win against the As in June 1995 and is 11-6 with a 3.35 ERA in 21 starts against Oakland. ... Chris Nelson started at 3B in his Yankees debut and went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts. Nelson was acquired Wednesday night from Colorado for a player to be named or cash, adding depth to New Yorks injury-ravaged infield. ... Yankees OF Curtis Granderson was hit by a pitch in the upper right arm at extended spring training in Tampa, Fla. Granderson, rehabbing from a broken right forearm, stayed in the intrasquad game and said he was fine. It was going to happen one of these days, he said. Granderson had two singles in four at-bats and played all three outfield positions. The slugger broke his arm when he was hit by a pitch from Toronto LHP J.A. Happ in his first at-bat of spring training on Feb. 24.
Mariners 8,
Jays 1
TORONTO Dustin Ackley hit his first career grand slam, Michael Saunders homered twice and the Seattle Mariners roughed up Cy Young knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, beating the struggling Toronto Blue Jays 8-1 on Saturday afternoon.
Seattles offensive outburst was welcomed by right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma, whod received just one run of support in his previous three outings. He pitched seven sharp innings to win for the first time in four starts.
Pitching on an extra day of rest as he attempted to overcome neck and back soreness, Dickey lost his third straight start. He allowed six hits, including a season-high three home runs. He walked two and struck out five.
Dickey (2-5) was booed by the crowd of 35,754 after Raul Ibanez hit a one-out triple to center in the sixth and scored on Kelly Shoppachs double. As the runs piled up, some fans responded with chants of Go Leafs Go for the NHLs Maple Leafs, currently in the playoffs against the Boston Bruins.
Iwakuma (3-1) allowed one run and five hits. He walked three and struck out five, lowering his ERA to 1.61. Yoervis Medina pitched the eighth and Oliver Perez worked the ninth for the Mariners, who have won seven of their past eight meetings with Toronto.
Saunders homered on Dickeys second pitch of the game, the second leadoff homer of his career, then added another solo shot in the fifth. It was the fourth multihomer game of his career and his first this season.
Saunders added an RBI double off Brett Cecil in the ninth and finished 3 for 5 with three RBIs.
Ackley connected on a 3-2 pitch in the fourth, immediately after Dickey (2-5) had loaded the bases with back-to-back walks to Ibanez and Shoppach. The blast to center was Ackleys first homer of the season.
Dickey lost consecutive starts only once during his NL Cy Young season with the New York Mets in 2012. His last three-start losing streak came in July and August of 2011.
It was a bad day all around for the Blue Jays, who even appeared to lose track of the number of outs and were slow to come off the field after Kendrys Morales struck out to end the fifth.
Toronto has lost four straight and has been outscored 25-3 since Tuesdays 9-7 comeback win over Boston. A season-worst 11 games below .500, the Blue Jays have lost 14 of 18 overall.
Blanked by Felix Hernandez on Friday, the Blue Jays struggled to get anything going against Iwakuma, finally snapping a 23-inning scoreless streak on Munenori Kawasakis sacrifice fly in the seventh.
Indians 7,
Twins 3
CLEVELAND Scott Kazmir earned his first victory in three seasons, Nick Swisher homered in his first at-bat since missing three games with a sore shoulder and the Cleveland Indians beat Minnesota 7-3 Saturday for their sixth straight victory.
Kazmir (1-1), a two-time AL All-Star who pitched in an independent league last season, allowed two runs in six innings. It was his first win since beating Tampa Bay on Sept. 19, 2010, while with the Angels.
The left-hander, who allowed eight earned runs in 8 1-3 innings in his first two starts, struck out seven.
Swisher, who hadnt played since Monday, homered off Kevin Correia (3-2) in the first. Jason Kipnis, who had three hits, also homered in the inning and added an RBI single in the second.
Cleveland has won six straight for the first time since winning seven in a row April 26-May 3, 2011.
Rookie outfielder Aaron Hicks, the Twins top prospect, hit his first major league home run to lead off the fifth, clearing the 19-foot wall in left field.
Kazmir on 53 games for the Rays from 2005-09 before his career his career was derailed by arm injuries. He was 9-15 for the Angels in 2010 and appeared in only one game in 2011 before being released.
Kazmir pitched for Sugar Land in the Atlantic League last season, going 3-6 with a 5.34 ERA in 14 games. He signed a minor league contract with the Indians in January.
Reds 6, Cubs 4
CHICAGO Todd Frazier and Devin Mesoraco each had a sacrifice fly in Cincinnatis four-run eighth inning, and the Reds rallied for a 6-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.
Cincinnati had just one hit in the decisive rally, but took advantage of another woeful outing by reliever Carlos Marmol to secure its first winning road series of the season. The Reds held on for a 6-5 victory in the opener on Friday when Darwin Barney struck out with the bases loaded to end the game.
Alfonso Soriano hit a pair of two-run homers for the Cubs, who have lost four of five. It was Sorianos 31st career multihomer game.
Shin-Soo Choo homered on the first pitch of the game. Jeff Samardzija went on to pitch six effective innings for Chicago.
James Russell got three outs before Marmol (2-2) came on to begin the eighth with a 4-2 lead. It was Marmols 453rd relief appearance with the Cubs, snapping a tie with Lee Smith for the franchise record.
The erratic right-hander marked the occasion by walking Zack Cozart on four pitches, walking Joey Votto on a full count and hitting Brandon Phillips to load the bases with no outs.
That was enough for manager Dale Sveum, who replaced Marmol with Hector Rondon. The crowd of 36,455 showered Marmol with boos as he made his way to the dugout.
Jay Bruce hit an RBI single and Frazier followed with a fly ball to right, tying it at 4. After Xavier Paul was walked intentionally, pinch-hitter Jack Hannahan walked to force home a run and Mesoraco, another pinch hitter, sent another fly ball into right field to give the Reds a 6-4 lead.
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Health officials urge vaccination as flu cases increase
Confirmed cases double from last week
Confirmed flu cases in Wisconsin have nearly doubled in the last week as area health officials continue to urge people to get vaccinated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have called the outbreak an "epidemic." The latest numbers indicate more than 4,200 cases have been confirmed across the state, according to the state Department of Health Services. The number is up from approximately 2,800 last week.
The numbers are already far above last year's count, which reached about 2,000 total.
Dean Clinic and University of Wisconsin Health have both shifted staff to cover an uptick in requests for the flu vaccine. Both locations say they have ample supply and are still encouraging others to come in.
Milwaukee health officials noted the flu has not reached a critical level, but they will continue to monitor the illness closely. Officials added that area emergency rooms have seen tripled numbers compared to past years.
Pharmacies such as the Greenfield Pick N' Save have seen increased business since Christmas, with individuals coming in to purchase Tamiflu and other medicine.
Near Rhinelander, school officials said at least one in five children have reported both respiratory and stomach bugs. Parents have reportedly kept their students home as a protective measure against the sickness that appears to be going around.
Wisconsin police have also taken extra precautions to avoid the flu. Green Bay police handed out masks for officers to wear this week when dealing with individuals who may have flu-like symptoms. Deputies in Brown County did the same.
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Intel Corp. has demonstrated its highly-anticipated code-named Larrabee graphics processing unit at Intel Developer Forum 2009. The device was rendering well-known Enemy Territory: Quake Wars ray-tracing demo in real-time. The demo was not interactive, so, it was impossible to say anything about performance of Larrabee. Moreover, the company remained tight-lipped on Larrabee time-to-market schedule, but promised to integrate this GPU into its processors in the future.
"What we are showing you here is an application that demonstrates some of the flexibility of Larrabee. It is running on the Larrabee Software Development Vehicle, so this is the early silicon. And it's also got some other Intel goodness in it. It's got an Intel Gulftown CPU," said Bill Mark, senior research scientist at Intel labs advanced graphics research.
This is the first time when Intel shows off working Larrabee graphics processors. The company claims that the main advantage of Larrabee is its ability to program the whole rendering pipeline, something, which is not possible even on latest DirectX 11 graphics processing units. Perhaps, this is why Intel has chosen to show off a rather outdated ray-tracing demo during the first public showcase of Larrabee, but not a modern video-game that takes advantage of DirectX 10.1/11.
"What makes Larrabee unique is you get a fully programmable rendering pipeline. So this lets you, in addition to standard DirectX, OpenGL, you can also implement customized rasterization pipelines and, maybe even more interestingly, things like voxel rendering and ray tracing," said Mr. Mark.
Intel has been stressing for about two years now that Larrabee can be programmed the same way as a central processing unit, which indisputably adds flexibility, but is likely to be used only by a handful of programmers, simply due to the fact that modern video game consoles – for which the vast majority of games is developed and from where they are ported to personal computers – cannot offer the same functionality as Larrabee.
"For programmers, what is interesting about Larrabee is not just the flexibility but also the ease of development. So, let me just give you a specific example of that here. You see there are some moving objects in this scene – there are some helicopters – which is traditionally difficult in a ray tracer. But what we have done here is we rebuild some of the key data structures, every frame, on Larrabee using a form of parallelism called task parallelism. So, what this is really showing is that you can do the same kind of things you do on a multi-core CPU but with even more parallelism," explained the senior research scientist.
The world's largest chipmaker earlier said that the first Larrabee GPU will be released in the first half of 2010 and then early in 2010. This time the company did not outline any more release timeframes, but confirmed plans to integrate Larrabee graphics core into central processing units going forward. According to unofficial information, the first CPUs to feature Larrabee graphics cores will be Haswell processors due in 2012.
"We are super excited with the progress of Larrabee, both inside the labs, where we've been busy working away on silicon for some time, and outside, where you guys know we have a whole bunch of SDKs out there. […]. And we will be incorporating this into a future CPU at some point," said Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of Intel architecture group.


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Governor proposes $3.75M for UW Carbone Cancer Center
Money will be used to develop new molecular imaging technology
Gov. Scott Walker has announced a budget proposal of $3.75 million for the UW Carbone Cancer Center to accelerate the development of and access to new molecular imaging technology.
Walker made the announcement while traveling the state Thursday. He said he thinks the investment will encourage other groups and businesses to financially back the state's fight against cancer.
The governor's budget proposal supports the creation of the Wisconsin Oncology Network of Imaging Excellence, along with funding imaging research related equipment and expansion of the Wisconsin Oncology Network. State funding is contingent on state Department of Administration approval of a plan to obtain a fundraising match.
"We believe this will take the next step forward in terms of this new component of Imaging Excellence in part of the network statewide," Walker said.
Cancer is one of Wisconsin's deadliest health problems. The American Cancer Society said nearly 30,000 Wisconsinites were diagnosed with cancer in 2010 or about 81 people every day.
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I am loving my new Rockboxed Sansa Fuze and have learnt how to make playlists within the Fuze, done successfully no probs.
I have done a search with no luck, but is there a program that can make a playlist on a windows 7 64 pc so i can make the playlist on the pc and just then drag it to the playlist directory in the Fuze.
I downloaded a freeware program called 'Playlist Creator' and i made a M3u playlist and dragged it into the 'Playlist Catalog' in the player, I created the playlist by bringing up the music directory ie the Sansa L Drive (this is where all my music is on a external SD card), but although the songs are showing on the playlist they do not play when the playlist is selected in the player ???
Any help would be really good, because it will be hell of a lot of work to make all my playlists internally without a Pc.
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did you save that m3u playlist to the PC and then drag it over (as mentioned in para 2)? or did you save it direct to the Fuze? The direct save should work.
However, I am not a Rockbox user, or a Playlist Creator user. But m3u files seem to work better if they are not moved around.
I am work so i don't have access to my pc now, I am sure i just searched within the program and selected the playlist catalog within the K drive (internal drive) of the Sansa Fuze and saved it directly to it, i didn't drag anything across to the fuze ????
Any software that can create a .m3u playlist can create playlists that work on a Rockboxed player. That includes every music management program I've ever used. Winamp, MediaMonkey, foobar2000, you name it. Even broke down ole Windows Media Player gets the job done.
Trying to create a playlist and then drag and drop it onto the player usually doesn't work. A playlist is a list of the paths to the files you want to include in the list and a playlist made that points to files on the computer can't work. It *can* work if the file/folder structure on the PC are the exactly same.
If there's any difference in folder structure any file paths that aren't correct will cause the files that aren't properly referenced to not play. If you use the files on the Fuze to create the playlist the paths should be right and the playlist works.
Things change some when you include files from the external card. Rockbox sees the external card as <microSD1> instead of a drive letter. There's a few workarounds. The simplest I know is to store the playlists on the external memory. That makes the playlist refer to the correct locations and they should work. Another is to use a simple find and replace with a text editor. You replace the drive letter for the external card with <microSD1> and the playlists work when you store them on the internal drive in the Playlists folder.
A form of find and replace is what marc2003's setup here does automatically with foobar2000. It looks more complicated than what it is. It's pretty easy if you take it step by step. One of the nice parts is that if you assign drive letters to the player and any cards you use it only has to be done once. I've assigned "J" to all my players and "K" to all my cards.
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I couldn't work out how to get the extention into foobar So back to Playlist Creator 3.6.2
If anyone that uses Playlist Creator 3.6.2 can tell me how I can save the playlist file to L/<microSD1>/MUSIC then I think it would work, unfortunatly Playlist Creator only lets me select L/MUSIC as the location of where the playlist will point to the music files ??
Here's how to install a foobar2000 component. Once foo_utils is installed and configured you just follow the rest of the directions by marc2003 if you want to use foobar2000.
I was never able to get the other program you mention to work in conjunction with Rockbox. Hang in there, someone may know to get the program you want to use to change how it writes it's file paths. You might also get in touch with the author and see if they have any tips on how to change the save paths.
There's tons of things I don't know about different software so I've worked with the ones I could get to work reliably and simply. Before marc2003 wrote the guide I referenced, I used foobar2000, XMPlay, Winamp or MediaMonkey to create a standard .m3u playlist and saved it in the Playlists folder. After that I opened the .m3u file in a text editor and used the find and replace function to correct the file paths to <microSD1>.
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I got it to work, the first link I could not get the Foobar extension thing to work, Foobar is the one !!! Thank you Skip252 and a very excellent big thank you to Marc2003 - Respect !!!!
Now I just have to work out how to save a back up of the playlists on the Pc, I am sure that is simple though
Glad things worked out. I think I thanked marc2003 for that tutorial at the time but let me add my respect to yours now. That set of directions has saved me hours of fiddling around correcting file paths. Thanks again, marc2003.
Now that you have this working you may want to look into making playlists on the player itself easier. I found that changing the virtual keyboard helped me quite a bit. The default keyboard was too crowded and the font was too small for me to use easily. More on changing the virtual keyboard here.
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Hello all again,
Loving everything about Rockbox on my fuze, again thank you to all the great help this forum has given me , but the time has come to upgrade the external memory to a 64bit micro card, what I would really like to know is;
1. if I can just make a straight copy of my 32bit micro card to the 64bit card and will all the playlists still work (the playlist are created via foobar as m3u8) or do I need to make new playlists again?
2. Also if I was to copy .flac files 'of the same songs' to replace the .ogg file to the new 64bit card (for example swap the same source .ogg songs with .flac) would I need to do a new playlist for the .flac files or will the present playlist created using the .ogg files work for flac? for example does the playlist need the ogg/flac file information to recognise that song or does it recognise it by just the song title etc if it is the same song but encoded to a different file format?
(apologies if I have made it sound complicated what I wish to do ?)
If all you do is transfer the files and place them in the same way on the larger card there's no need to make any changes to your existing playlists. The file path to the external card will be the same when Rockbox looks for them and the playlists work the same way. I have multiple cards that use the some of same playlists and I switch them out with no problems.
If you change the files from .ogg vorbis to FLAC you need to update your playlists. Rockbox will be looking for the original ogg files that no longer exist and won't substitute the FLAC file in an attempt to make the playlist continue to work.
Updating the playlist can be done easily using just about any text editor. In Windows you can use Notepad to open the playlist and then Edit=>Replace All... to replace all the instances of "ogg" with "flac". That points Rockbox to the files that are in place instead of instances of files that no longer exist.
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Thats great Skip252 thank you very much, i was worried no one would see the post because I was the last poster previous in this thread
No big deal. Just so you know, whenever you add a post in a older thread it bumps it to the top for just that reason. If you just edit a older post that won't bump it up so it's best to post new if the thread is more than a day or two old.
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This week has been highlighted by
continuing concerns about the state's budget crisis and its potential
effects for our schools, meetings with federal officials in
Topics for this message include the following:
General State Aid Payments
In response to the state's financial problems, speculation has considerably increased concerning the future of the 23rd and 24th GSA payments.
There are two issues – the amount of the payments and the timing of their distribution. The current GSA appropriation is $22 M short and we have asked for a supplemental appropriation to meet the full state obligation. If that request is not approved by the legislature and Governor, the final or 24th payment will be pro-rated to 83%.
By statute, the 23rd and 24th payments are to be made in July, but the Governor can advance them. The previous two Governors advanced one or both payments and we have briefed the current Governor's budget director of the need to continue that process. We will continue to advocate for this when the Governor's education staff is named.
Your support for these positions would be helpful. Meanwhile, we will keep you informed about developments as they occur.
NCLB Discussions with Federal Officials
State Board Chairman Gidwitz and I met on Tuesday,
January 21, with USDOE Under Secretary Dr. Gene Hickok and our respective
staff to discuss the development of an Illinois accountability system that will
be consistent with NCLB requirements and meet our own state and local needs.
This lengthy discussion gave us a chance to focus on issues of particular concern
to our state and to clarify important components of the NCLB requirements.
Our basic request to the USDOE staff was to take
I was pleased to report to the Assessment and Accountability Task Force on Wednesday, January 22, that the federal officials seemed to appreciate the differences among the states and the need for flexibility in shaping our response to NCLB. We are now moving forward within the context of these discussions.
Assessment and Accountability Task Force
Wednesday's lively and productive discussion among Task Force members resulted in a number of important decisions, most of which will be transmitted to the State Board for action in the next few weeks.
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The information we recently shared with you about the
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In fact, this program will begin with the spring semester of 2003 and will require
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teacher in your district and/or if you know of potential candidates.
The new programs are being offered in high need areas such as Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, Business, Spanish and Industrial Technology. Candidates for the program must hold a bachelor's or graduate degree and have five years of experience directly related to the content they wish to teach, pass the Enhanced Basic Skills test and the relevant content area tests, pass a criminal background check and have an assured internship site.
Information Meetings: Alternative Learning Opportunities Program
In early January, we sent all school districts an application for State Board approval of Alternative Learning Opportunities Programs (ALOPs) that serve students in grades 4-12, who are experiencing academic difficulties. Application information is available on our website (http://www.isbe.net/learnoppt/). Districts may apply for approval of programs that have not yet started or of existing alternative programs that they wish to convert to ALOPs. Districts whose programs are approved as ALOPs will be eligible for implementation and supplemental grants and, under certain conditions, to receive General State Aid for a program calendar that varies from law in the number of school days or the length of the school day.
The application for approval is due no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 14, 2003.
To assist you in preparing your application, we have scheduled two informational meetings. I would appreciate your sharing this notice with the staff members who are completing the ALOP Application for Program Approval.
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For more information about the information meetings or ALOPs, contact Evelyn Deimel at 217/782-0083.
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Sponsored by the Illinois Department of Public Health, Division of Injuring and Violence Prevention, the Illinois Injury Prevention Coalition and the Illinois Public Health Association, the meetings will focus on rural school injury prevention, gangs, hate crime, methamphetamine lab awareness, rural suicide prevention, the Think First injury prevention curricula, agricultural safety and other relevant topics.
The training sessions will be held be held as follows.
March 27, 2003 April 23, 2003
Registration forms will be available beginning in February at http://www.idph.state.il.us/about/ohw.htm or by contacting the Illinois Department of Public Health at 217/522-5687. Registration will be $35.
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PELLA—The Central College women's soccer team earned the No. 5 seed in Saturday's Iowa Conference tournament first round and visits No. 4 Wartburg College at Waverly, while the men's team earned the No. 6 seed and visits No. 3 Luther College at Decorah.
Game time is 3 p.m. for the men and 5 p.m. for the women.
Luther win shuffles seeds—The Central men's soccer team (9-8-1 overall, 2-5-0 conference) was already the No. 6 seed, but a Luther (13-5-0 overall, 6-1-0 conference) double-overtime win Tuesday forced a repeat of the 2012 Nos. 3- and 6-seed matchup.
It is Central's 12th consecutive trip to the conference tournament and the 13th overall. The Dutch made a dramatic tourney run last year, defeating Luther in a shootout after a 0-0 game and knocking off second-seeded Dubuque in overtime in the quarterfinals before falling in the finals to No. 1 Loras, 2-1. Central has a 6-10-3 tournament record overall. Central leads the all-time conference tourney series with Luther 1-0-1—its win was in 2010 as the No. 4 seed.
The Norse defeated the Dutch 1-0 Saturday at Decorah. The teams battled the wind—which gusted over 20 mph—and Luther scored the game-winning goal midway through the second half with the wind at its back. The Norse led in shots (17-3), shots on goal (7-2) and corner kicks (6-1).
Dutch forward Aleksandar Glavas (junior, Loves Park, Ill., Guilford HS) is tied for second in the league in points (25), tied for second in points per game (1.39), third in goals (10), third in goals per game (0.56) and tied for third in assists (5). He is also tied for second in game-winning goals (4). Goalkeeper Tim Maggard (senior, Los Angeles, Calif., South Torrance HS) is third in saves (58).
Central is also the least-carded team in the league with eight yellow cards.
Dutch draw Knights—The Dutch women (12-5-2 overall, 3-3-1 conference) finished the season two points back of Wartburg (7-10-1 overall, 4-3-0 conference), forcing a reciprocal trip in the Nos. 4- and 5-seed matchup. Central is making its ninth conference tourney appearance and its third in a row. The Dutch reached the semifinal round last year and have an all-time tourney record of 4-8.
Central and Wartburg last met in the conference tournament in 2007. The two teams played to a 1-1 tie, but the Knights advanced on penalty kicks. Wartburg leads the all-time conference tourney series 2-1-1 with wins in 1998 and 2004. The Dutch recorded their win in the 1995 third-place game. Central has a 4-7-1 tournament record overall.
The Knights defeated the Dutch 2-0 Oct. 12 at Pella. Wartburg scored on a rebound in the first half and with less than four minutes remaining in the second. Central led in shots (13-12) and corner kicks (7-6), but trailed in shots on goal (5-4). The Dutch also had three shots inside the box sail high.
Following the loss to Wartburg, Central was 3-1-1—its only loss coming at the hands of league champion No. 23-ranked Loras—and outscored its opponents 12-5.
Forward Alayna Bailey (senior, Des Moines, Hoover HS) leads the league in points (41), points per game (2.16), goals (19) and goals per game (1.00). She is also tops in game-winning goals with five. Goalkeeper Sydney Lunardi (freshman, Bettendorf, Davenport Assumption HS) is second in the league in shutouts and save percentage.
As a team Central leads the league in points (146), goals (55), goals per game (3.06) and shutouts (10)—a school single season record.
Bailey is tied for second (Allison Cupples, 2000) for goals in a season at Central—two behind all-time leader Heather Allbee (1998). Bailey is also second in career goals with 47—five behind Tori Rittman (2004-07)—and tied for second in career points with 101—21 behind Rittman. Coach Mike Kobylinski is first on the all-time wins list at Central with 34 over three seasons (34-17-5). The Dutch matched the 2012 and 1999 teams with a school record 12 wins.


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"[People] are connecting, forming networked communities that allow them to rapidly share information and self-organize into powerful interest groups. Companies will have to be more responsive to customer needs and demands if they want to survive."
From The Connected Company, by Dave Gray
Communities exist to further the common objectives of their members. And many of the most transformative innovations in history have focused on network technologies that connect communities in new and constructive ways. Highways, railroads, planes, telegraph and telephone service, radio, television and the Internet: all examples of networks enabled by new technology. All of which expand or improve the ability of communities to communicate more easily and achieve shared goals.
What is explicit in any idea of a network is its connections. And in every case, the more connections there are, the more useful a network becomes. This is commonly known as "the network effect." A social network's value, for example, scales exponentially, because you can have groups of many different sizes as well as more individual participants.
While many networks give us the means to connect more effectively, none has changed how we live, learn, work and play more quickly—and some say, more profoundly—than the Web. This is partly because it has collapsed so many different media into one source, letting us read, listen, watch, play, talk, sell, buy, work, publish and broadcast all in the same space. But, even more importantly, it is because the Web lets us create and nurture our own networked communities, rather than simply relying on the ones provided by governments, utilities and corporations.
The tools now widely available on the Internet allow us to create and maintain connections that can be both personal and global, and touch on every level in between. This allows groups to define the ways in which they can interact—and succeed—more than ever before. On the Internet, data about a group's resources, combined with information about the interactions between members, can drive technological change. Networks have grown from technologies that enable stronger communities to technologies that are strengthened by community. This creates a virtuous cycle, amplifying both the usefulness of shared network services and the role that community can play in their development.
Networked communities: moving from push to pull
In the book, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion, authors John Hagel III, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison point out that turning passion into success requires what they call pull. They define this as "the ability to draw out people and resources as needed to address opportunities and challenges … to harness the forces of attraction, influence and serendipity."
In a Harvard Business Review blog post about the release of the book, the authors summed up this point nicely, saying simply, "Companies need to refocus technology innovation on providing tools to amplify the efforts of communities of practice to drive performance improvement."
"Pull" is excellent shorthand for the ability of communities to create networks around the ideas and objectives they share. Rather than waiting for a centralized technology to come along—think of railroads, highways, radio and TV—groups can reach out and take advantage of services and resources that allow them more freedom, more flexibility, more connections, more ways to configure their networks.
This makes sense, given that in order to "pull" together resources, a group will always prefer more flexible resources that fit within its needs and means. Building a successful community is hard enough work without having to engage in work-arounds and someone else's rigid requirements. There hasn't been much of a choice, though, until the last decade or so, because technology itself defined what a community could accomplish with it.
A good (and fairly stark) example is the difference between how video was shared prior to the Web and the "pull" resources available now. Go back before the early '90s, and you had one option if you wanted to share a piece of video footage with a large community: television. You either had to own a TV station or convince one to air your piece—both very tricky and resource-intensive options. In the absence of those choices, you could possibly mail videos to your members. Either way, unless you could get your whole group together in one room to watch something, sharing video required complex, expensive and top-down network technologies.
Now, though, sharing video can be essentially free, painless and instantaneous. And the resources can be pulled together in a variety of ways: on a YouTube channel, via e-mail, on a file-sharing service such as Dropbox, on Facebook, directly from phone to phone. From a community-building standpoint, this means that "video" has gone from a network technology outside the reach of most groups to a tool that can be easily worked into a variety of applications, environments, events and resources.
That philosophy, though, is something that requires more than just a set of easily configurable hardware and software tools. The authors go on to say:
"... equating [pull] with technology misses some significant elements. ... Scalable pull platforms depend on the definition and adoption of standards and protocols for interaction, [some of which] simply focus on helping people and companies connect more flexibly when the need arises. ... At the center of pull, remember, are people."
This means we need to think differently not just about how networks can impact our communities, but how our community efforts may change the technology we're using. A look at the growth of the most successful companies on the Web today provides some insight into the platforms on which this new environment is being built.
Moving beyond services
In May 2011 at the D9 Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt commented that a "Gang of Four" is ruling technology today: Google itself, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. He said that these four companies are "exploiting platform strategies" to create enormous value for both shareholders and consumers.
In his book, The Age of the Platform, Phil Simon describes the value of a modern platform as follows:
"[Platforms] bring together like-minded individuals who often share surprisingly similar goals. Together these individuals make up the most powerful component of any open project: the community."
The focus for these companies is no longer on creating services and features based on specific tasks. Instead, people are given tools, opportunities and incentives to connect around shared goals and create networks that make sense for them. This allows any company, government organization, academic disciplines—any group, really—to achieve new and surprising results.
A key differentiator of platforms, continues Simon, is that they allow organizations to connect to other networks. "Platform thinking," he explained in an interview with NextSpace, "is different because other platforms evolve in unexpected directions. It's less about having an intractable five-year plan and more about seeing what happens."
Looking at how the "Gang of Four" developed their strategies provides a good start in understanding how today's technology can promote networking and creative community. In each case, what started as a centralized "push" service evolved into a set of modular tools and resources that any community can use to "pull together" a network of their own:
Google began life as a search engine. One of many, it's worth noting. For its first few years, Google was entirely unprofitable and many wondered how it would find the revenue to succeed … or even survive. When it began offering paid search advertising, Google took the first step toward allowing users to create their own networks. Instead of offering case-by-case banner advertising (the norm for the Web up until then), Google allowed its users to assume almost all roles of the advertising workflow. Based on usage accumulated over billions of searches, advertisers could set their own budgets and prices, choose the search terms that most interested them, and even put Google ads on other websites—a strategy almost unheard of until then. At the same time, Google began offering other end-user services such as Gmail and Google Docs in order to help end users succeed in a Web-based environment (and stay in range of Google ads). From there, Google moved into becoming a publishing partner for blogs (Blogger), videos (YouTube), maps and eventually apps (the Android Market). In the academic sphere, the Google Books and Google Scholar services provided more refined tools for researchers and students. All of these services allowed end users to connect to buyers, partners, co-workers and audiences in ways defined by their goals.
Apple began its recent renaissance with something most brands only dream of: an absolutely fervent and dedicated community of users. But for many years, its products and services were the antithesis of platform thinking, as Apple steadfastly refused to work with outside partners. Though its fans loved Apple products for their design, there were many fewer ways for others to "pull" Apple into their lives and workflows. This kept Apple's market share relatively low when compared with the widely distributed networks of Microsoft-compatible systems. With the birth of the iPod and iTunes, Apple began to reach out to new partners, specifically music producers. The trend continued as the iPod Touch and iPhone brought app developers and wireless carriers into the fold, leading Apple to quick dominance in the smartphone market. By treating the iPod and iPhone as platforms for development and content delivery, Apple leveraged the goodwill and zeal of its community into a global technology powerhouse.
Facebook began as a network for connecting students at specific universities. Over time, it not only became "the social network" for anyone, regardless of educational affiliation or age, but a place to create, monitor and promote community activities. Fan, interest group, company and cause pages all grew up as Facebook's features expanded to include scheduling, file sharing, photo and video updates and ubiquitous sign-in for other services. In addition, Facebook opened itself to be a development platform for apps and games, and also provided its own apps for other sites and networks to use. The most important of these may be the Facebook sign-on service, which allows people to authenticate themselves on any other site, blog or service using their Facebook identity.
Amazon may exemplify the transformative aspects of this new strategy more than any other company. At each step of its growth, Amazon took its existing services and externalized them in ways that allowed its customers and partners to build their own networks. In order to be a great online bookseller—its original service—Amazon needed great, online retail resources. Once it had built those for its own use, it turned around and sold them to anyone who wanted to build a Web store. It then did the same for its affiliate, publishing and enterprise computing (cloud) programs. Amazon also exemplifies the power of specific data to provide positive network effects to the community when looped back into services. Every search and purchase doesn't just improve Amazon's process for the individual buyer—it fuels the analytics behind "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" and "Frequently Bought Together" links. Participation on the network ends up improving the technology itself.
By making resources and tools widely available, these companies encourage users to create their own networks, connecting communities around the processes, data and people that make the most sense for them. The genius of this strategy is that it recognizes and leverages the chief difference of the Internet when compared to earlier technological innovations—that there is no center of the network. Or, rather, there are as many centers as there are users willing to define new hubs around which to aggregate the resources and relationships most important to them.
These giants of the Web succeeded by balancing the centralization of resources and data with flexible tools that allowed their users to "pull" features and benefits into their own networks. While acting as nodes on the networks of these technology giants, communities function as the hubs for their own members. This allows the driving forces of any group or community to provide network effects on several levels. When any local member has the tools it needs to succeed, that reinforces the value of the community for all participants, driving additional usage. And when the network itself is used more, it delivers value up to the larger hubs, making them more useful for the members of many communities.
Your Personal Networks
Networks no longer have to be centralized around technology, but can aggregate based on community. And, as networks expand, they can connect many communities and multiple networks as well. While connecting the work and resources of one community, a network can also become a node from which other networks can draw value.
Unlike earlier communications and transportation technologies, there is no need for users to work within the constraints of a top-down system of distribution, publishing or broadcasting. In fact, the large "gravitational hubs," as Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Vice President & Chief Strategist, calls them, succeed precisely by externalizing many aspects of their features, data and communities. This allows other communities, groups and individuals to achieve network effects without having to build or maintain the infrastructure itself.
Any person or community can now go from simply using service-based network technology to establishing their own networks of interest, with their goals and values at the center. And as certain network tools, features and tactics prove more (or less) successful, those data provide a strategic asset for the community itself: actionable knowledge.
We have met the networks, and they are us
What we're beginning to see on the Internet now is the facilitation of new, community-specific networks that support unique goals. They are accomplishing this through "pull" resources, using services provided both by major Internet hubs and other partners. Unlike the "Gang of Four," these new networks aren't companies selling or leveraging their own technology, but communities that concentrate use and data around interests, goals and values.
How do you create a network that maintains a balance between the specific goals and values of your community while embracing as many open, connected platforms as possible? Looking at the most successful network hubs provides some suggestions:
Be intuitive. Describing "The Gang of Four," Phil Simon says that " … their products and services are extremely intuitive … Simplicity, elegance, and ease of use spur the adoption of products at the individual level. This, in turn, drives network effects." The ability of any member of a community to feel as if he or she is contributing to its overall success is extremely important. Being intuitive also means being able to connect to the networks your users are already employing on behalf of their communities. If a group is already using a platform service that you can connect to your network, it makes it much easier for them to engage with you, too.
Be data-driven. Lorcan Dempsey says that, "A major attribute of both Google and Amazon is how they squeeze as much value as they can from the data they have, and the value of that activity increases with the volume of data." His shorthand for this attribute is simply, "make the data work harder." This means championing standards, helping to provide ways to translate between data formats and connecting appropriate sources of authority back to the network. Dempsey goes on to say that data must also be used to "configure the network," influencing services and analytics, such as those we saw in the example of Amazon's "More Like This" features.
Be human. In many cases, as the authors of The Power of Pull pointed out, strategy isn't just about technology. Opportunities to expand a community's network often rely on personal relationships and real-world partnerships. The technology and data may carry the burden of the actual work—but a handshake may pave the way more effectively than hundreds of hours of programming and development.
These qualities aren't meant to be exhaustive or proscriptive, but directional. In each case, though, they point out that a successful network needs to provide ways to multiply the activities and assets of individual contributors at every stage. It can't just be an amalgamation of resources. The "net work" done by the community must be greater than the sum of its parts. And, as much as possible, work done on the network should be reused to improve the data, results and analysis of future iterations.
Libraries at the center of knowledge networks
"A truly useful, transformative platform creates opportunities for people to form networks around common goals."
So says David Weinberger, author of Too Big to Know and Everything is Miscellaneous, and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto. "A platform view for libraries," he continues, "provides a better starting point for rethinking the role of libraries in a connected age."
In a September 2012 article for Library Journal, Weinberger spelled out some of the ways in which a platform strategy makes sense for a library seeking to form networks around useful goals. In a follow-up conversation with NextSpace, Weinberger added, "Traditionally, libraries have been seen as portals for access to materials and services. Which is crucial, of course. Where platforms differ from portals, though, is in the opportunity for emergence.
"By opening up as many connections as possible," he continues, "platforms encourage the creation of unpredictable yet important results. New art, ideas, inventions, realizations … all kinds of things … are both created on the platform, and then fed back into it for others to use."
Phil Simon points out that libraries are already creating networks in ways that are extremely valuable outside the traditional realm of library service. "A library's physical presence alone—having places for study and meetings and lectures—gives it access to an asset that 99 percent of online companies don't. Connecting in some way with those who share similar goals provides a wealth of opportunities to develop a strong library platform."
Libraries have been—and still are—centers of knowledge and resources for tens of thousands of communities. They are the hubs across which networks of learning connect millions of users and all kinds of scholarly activities. But on the Web, more groups than ever before share this trait: the ability to concentrate resources around specific goals. While still excellent examples of self-reinforcing, virtuous networks, libraries now co-exist with many other networks—ones that are providing ever more "pullable" services in ways that provide flexible benefits to various communities of learning.
In the second part of our story, "Libraries at the center," we'll explore the ways in which libraries are concentrating data from many sources and providing the foundation for Web services and networks. And we'll examine the next step in this evolution: how libraries, by working together, can create more opportunities for "pull."
ISSUE 20 contents
- Index
- President's Report
- From community to technology ... and back again
- Moving to meta-services
- Gates Foundation, OCLC continue partnership for library staff development
- First Global Council President from Asia Pacific shares his thoughts
- Exploring shifts in user engagement
- OCLC maps the future of cataloging, discovery and interlibrary loan
- How Kindred Works ... works
- We live in a networked world
- WorldCat statistics
- Updates
About the Author
Andy Havens
Andy Havens is OCLC's Manager of Branding and Creative Services. He is Managing Editor of OCLC's NextSpace magazine, leads the OCLC Cooperative Blog team and is "head tweeter" for the @OCLC Twitter account. He frequently works on the writing, editing, design and production of OCLC Membership Reports, white papers and symposium materials.


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Following is a list of websites for additional information about the Peace Corps and Guyana and to connect you to returned Volunteers and other invitees. Please keep in mind that although we try to make sure all these links are active and current, we cannot guarantee it.
A note of caution: As you surf the Internet, be aware that you may find bulletin boards and chat rooms in which people are free to express opinions about the Peace Corps based on their own experience, including comments by those who were unhappy with their choice to serve in the Peace Corps. These opinions are not those of the Peace Corps or the U.S. government, and we hope you will keep in mind that no two people experience their service in the same way.
General Information About Guyana
These sites contain general information on countries around the world, look for Guyana and obtain general background notes on history, social, cultural and political background, maps and geographical information.
U.S. State Department website publishes background notes and periodic travel advisories for countries around the world. Guyana and learn more about its social and political history .
Allows you to search for statistical information on United Nations member states.
Source of current and historical information about countries worldwide.
Website providing comprehensive, reliable, and independent travel information
Latin American Network Information Center
The World Wildlife Federation's Latin America and Caribbean programs
Connect With Returned Volunteers and Other Invitees
This is the site of the National Peace Corps Association, made up of returned Volunteers. On this site you can find links to all the Web pages of the "friends of" groups for most countries of service, made up of former Volunteers who served in those countries. There are also regional groups who frequently get together for social events and local Volunteer activities.
This site is hosted by a group of returned Volunteer writers. It is a monthly online publication of essays and Volunteer accounts of their Peace Corps service.
Peace Corps Volunteers in the field and returned Volunteers who are affiliated with the Master's International program at Michigan Tech make regular submissions to this site, including synopses of technical projects and links to technical resources that may be helpful to Volunteers in the field.
Travel around Guyana
Region 4
Online Articles/Current News Sites About Guyana
The site of the Guyanese Embassy in Washington, D.C.
The site of the Guyana Chronicle, a Guyanese newspaper
Recommended Books
- Abrams, Ovid. Metegee: The History and Culture of Guyana. NY: Eldorado Publications, 1998.
- Mangru, Basdeo. The Elusive Eldorado: Essays on the Indian Experience in Guyana. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005.
- Kempadoo, Peter Lauchmonen. Guyana Boy. Yorkshire, UK: Peepal Tree Press, 2nd edition, 2002.
- Watson, Dennis, and Christine Craig (eds.). Guyana at the Crossroads. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1992.
Books About the History of the Peace Corps
- Hoffman, Elizabeth Cobbs. All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960's. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Rice, Gerald T. The Bold Experiment: JFK's Peace Corps. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985.
- Stossel, Scott.Gutsman Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004.
Books on the Volunteer Experience
- Dirlam, Sharon. Beyond Siberia: Two Years in a Forgotten Place. Santa Barbara, Calif.: McSeas Books, 2004.
- Casebolt, Marjorie DeMoss. Margarita: A Guatemalan Peace Corps Experience. Gig Harbor, Wash.: Red Apple Publishing, 2000.
- Erdman, Sarah. Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village. New York, N.Y.: Picador, 2003.
- Hessler, Peter. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. New York, N.Y.: Perennial, 2001.
- Kennedy, Geraldine ed. From the Center of the Earth: Stories out of the Peace Corps. Santa Monica, Calif.: Clover Park Press, 1991.
- Thompsen, Moritz. Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1997 (reprint).


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Emerging payments are beginning to gain traction among community banks. Many community banks are investing in emerging technologies such as mobile payments and electronic person-to-person (P2P) payments as a way of offsetting lost revenue. The 2011 ICBA Community Bank Payments Survey found that 14 percent of community banks surveyed offer mobile payments services, an 8 percentage point increase over 2009. Additionally, another 47 percent planned to offer mobile payments to consumers by 2013 (an increase of 20 percentage points over 2009).
While more community banks already offered electronic P2P payments (27 percent offer, 33 percent planned to) and consumer RDC (25 percent offer, 20 percent planned to)in 2011 than mobile payments, the overall growth rate by 2013 (according to the 2011 findings) might be slower than mobile.
Keywords: Mobile payments, person to person payments, P2P
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JMU Poet-Tree Reading
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 4:00 PM
4 p.m.
Edith J. Carrier Arboretum
Reading and dedication held at JMU's Poet-Tree, the willow by the pond. Celebrate National Poetry Month and Earth Week with nature writing. Bring your own or someone else's poem to share, then leave it in the poem catcher. For information, contact the Furious Flower Poetry Center at (540) 568-8883; free.


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SFBC Phone Bank
- When
- Wed., Jul. 6 | 5pm-8pm
- Where
- SFBC HQ, 833 Market St, 10th Floor
From SFBC:
Got the gift of gab? Are you a current or former member? Volunteer to phone bank with the SFBC! No cold calling, just simple reminders to friendly lapsed SFBC members that their membership is expired. Come share in the fun. The more the merrier! We provide dinner and good company. Contact email@example.com.


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Hello. I'm returning after struggling with severe OS and OALD issues 2 years ago w/ #1. (I could pump more than 10oz per breast per pumping session.) I was hoping for the best w/ #2 but it appears I am going to continue to have issues. I really hope that I can fix this early on as I was in so much pain that I could hardly hold my baby due to the pain for most of my maternity leave for #1.
I gave birth 5 days ago and my milk came in on the 3rd day. By the 4th day, I was unbearably engorged and today is even worse. I really couldn't sleep last night due to the pain.
It is probably important to note that I have had to use a nipple shield this time around due to the fact that my nipples are now very flat after the trauma they endured w/ #1. My baby latches on and eats well w/ the nipple shield while I have not been successful without it due to lack of ability to keep an erect nipple and size of my breasts.
I am not pumping at all. I'm planning to try to suffer through this engorgement in hopes of reducing the amount of time needed to correct the issues. Last time, I did a lot of pumping to first soften the breast and then after to empty the breast at the suggestion of ped and OB and I think it caused a lot of the issues I had. I leak heavily on the non-nursing side each time I nurse (I fill a 2 oz Milkies Milk Saver in about 5 minutes after I start nursing).
I am only using one side per feeding. My baby eats every 2-3 hours. I don't think I could increase the time in the blocks at this moment.
I would appreciate any suggestions or feedback you might have. Also any ideas on how long until I should feel some relief?
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Stocks Gain, Housing Stocks Sink
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Major U.S. stock markets rose Friday and the S&P 500 closed the week in positive territory after shrugging off a brief dip on a weak new-home sales report.
The S&P 500 added 0.39% to 1,663.50. The index increased 0.46% for the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.31% to 15,010.51. The blue-chip index slipped 0.47% for the 5-day trading period. The Nasdaq booked a 0.52% gain to 3,657.79. The tech-heavy index jumped 1.52% for the week, despite having shut down trading on the Exchange for three hours Thursday after a rare technical malfunction.
"The market is in this mode of trying to figure out what interest rates are going to be and when tapering is going to happen," said Randy Frederick, managing director of active trading at Charles Schwab.
Autodesk was the top performer Friday on the S&P 500 as B. Riley & Co. upgraded the software company to "Buy" from "Neutral." Shares surged 7.7% to $38.91.
Stocks tied to the housing industry were among the worst percentage performers Friday on the S&P. Vulcan Materials
The Census Bureau said Friday that new-home sales for July plummeted to 394,000. Economists expected sales to fall to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 490,000 in July. June sales were revised to 455,000 from 497,000.
The latest housing market release follows upbeat existing-home sales data earlier this week that showed sales rising to a three-year high to a greater-than-expected seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.39 million for July. Economists warn the level of existing-home sales may have been lifted by the rush of potential buyers into the market to lock in lower mortgage rates.
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen is expected to chair panel discussions at the annual Kansas City Fed symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo. on Friday. Investors will remain focused on potential clues on the Federal Reserve's stimulus tapering timeline. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is not joining the event this year.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury was jumping 20/32, diluting the yield to 2.816%. Gold prices surged $25 to settle at $1,395.80 an ounce on the back of poor new home sales as the yellow metal intraday came within 10 cents of reaching the key technical level of $1,400.
Moody's Investor Service said Thursday said it was reviewing whether it will continue to assume the U.S. government will bail out the nation's largest banks when setting its bond ratings. As a result, the agency said it could cut bond ratings for four of the nation's largest banks, and is uncertain whether other firms will also face the prospect of downgrades.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 1, 2007
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced expanded solutions for its High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) test platform that are designed to reduce development costs and provide accurate test results. The solutions address four sectors: source testing, sink testing, media physical layer evaluation and protocol test.
Agilent's expanded HDMI test platform includes the E4887A HDMI TMDS signal generator platform, which provides every configuration the ability to test combined and separate jitter tolerance compliance and characterization testing.
"We have the knowledge and history of developing tools that focus on the physical, data-link and protocol layers of HDMI," said David Churchill, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Network and Digital Solutions Division. "And, Agilent is an active member of the HDMI Organization, so we're constantly abreast of the standards and compliance issues facing our industry. This keeps us poised to help our customers and partners meet the opportunities and challenges presented by HDMI."
Many Authorized Test Centers use the Agilent HDMI test platform. Two additional companies recently selected the Infiniium oscilloscope with Agilent's HDMI 1.3 Compliance Test Specification (CTS) to easily and rapidly isolate problems, measure data and determine whether device tests have passed or failed:
Additional information about Agilent's HDMI test platform can be viewed at www.agilent.com/find/HDMI. High-resolution images are available at www.agilent.com/find/HDMI_images.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 19,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $5.0 billion in fiscal 2006. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.
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What's Going on in the News Today: A News Rap-up
August 8, 2008. Posted by David Tallacksen.Add new comment | Filed under: Baba Israel, beat, hopster, jazz musician, News, news rap
Beatboxer, hip-hopper and jazz musician Baba Israel takes a look at what's going in the world today with this news rap-up.
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Obama heads on the road
Will he be embraced by the globe?
A world stage debut, full of risk and debate
Obama reacts by draining a 3-point swish with soldiers in Kuwait
I guess he can't miss
In France, Sarkozy greets him with a kiss
Proclaims himself a "citizen of the world" in Berlin
200,000 gather to observe him
Flags waving instead of burning
Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan, West bank, and Britain, he's on a roll
Back in the US a nine point climb on the poll
In this race, he's got a head start
While McCain rolls slow with Bush senior in a golf cart
Obama's a rock star
McCain in a new add calls him a pop star
Comparing him to Paris Hilton and Brittany Spears
Iraq who will step up whose got the upper hand
Oops, white house employee emails, Malaki backs Obama's exit plan
16 months fact or fable?
Now Bush and McCain move closer to the timetable
Obama's Iran policy
Bigger carrots and bigger sticks?
Or sweet bread and whips?
Summer Olympics in Beijing
Mongolia locusts potentially plaguing
Leading to mass exterminating 550 square miles
Of infestation their spraying
Pollution curbs on cars, factories closing
Athletes in masks prepare for air exposing
Phelps controlling media moguling
Selling super Speedo swimwear on prime time showing
In Colombia hostages held by Farc
Rescue mission how did the plan go?
In a helicopter a team of elite commandos
Landed undercover would it work?
Commandos decked out in Che shirts and jeans
Subdued the guards and rescued fifteen
Politicians and American contractors
Looks like there'll be a movie deal
With Hollywood backers
Back in the US the place we call home
Are you worried about the safety of your loan?
the government got your back
and the back of Freddie Mac
Big brother with the biggest credit card
14 digit limit time to start spending yall!
What's money in when it's the trillions
Lets just raise the debt ceiling
You know make it a little higher
This is America but what happened to Budweiser?
Bailed out by the Belgians lets get it clear
Now Stella is American for beer
produced by Simon Rentner