text:
Spaying, neutering pets an essential choice
It's a given … all pet owners must take responsibility for their animals, and that includes offering a safe and warm home, food and water and daily exercise.
But there's also the spaying and neutering issue, and it's only right that we, as responsible pet owners, don't add to the pet overpopulation problem.
Today is the anniversary of Spay Day USA, so it's the perfect time to stress the importance of spaying and neutering.
With the growing numbers in pet ownership – some 74.8 million dogs are owned in the United States, while almost 90 million cats belong to someone – thankfully, many veterinarians and volunteers throughout the United States know the importance of spaying and neutering, and Spay Day USA, a Doris Day Animal Foundation national campaign, was created.
The day serves as an attempt to save the lives of homeless animals through the spaying or neutering of pets and feral cats.
Pet owners who neglect their dogs and cats by letting them run loose and refusing to have the animals spayed or neutered are a burden on their communities through the overcrowding of streets and neighborhoods and, ultimately, shelters with helpless, homeless animals.
Statistics show that two unaltered cats and all their descendants can theoretically number 420,000 in just seven years, while two unaltered dogs and all their descendants can theoretically number 67,000 in six years, according to information provided by the Humane Society of the United States.
Anyone visiting area dog pounds and animal shelters knows the many unwanted pets waiting to be adopted.
Statistics have proven that most of these animals won't go to a new home and will be put down, as an estimated 5 million cats and dogs are killed in shelters every year.
Unfortunately, some pet owners are reluctant to spay or neuter their animals, but animals as young as 6 months old can safely undergo the procedures, according to any veterinarian.
For pet owners who cannot afford to have their animals spayed or neutered, many shelters, including some in the Ohio Valley, will provide financial assistance for the surgery. Help is only a phone call away. Remember, it's a pet owner's responsibility to help reduce the number of homeless animals – period.
Keep in mind, too, that anyone pondering adopting a pet should think long and hard about properly caring for an animal. Bringing home a puppy or kitten and deciding a few months later that the responsibilities are just too great means another homeless animal in already overcrowded shelters and pounds.
Our pets provide unconditional love day in and day out, so it's only right that they deserve our attention.


text:
Partial demolition of building is by design
WHEELING – West Virginia Northern Community College's future student center building has appeared bare bones lately – but that's by design, a college official said.
Once home to Straub Hyundai, the Market and 16th streets structure will be shored up with additional steel to allow for the creation of a second story, which is where the student center will be located. The first and original floor will be home to a new Barnes & Noble bookstore.
Steve Lippiello, WVNCC chief financial officer and vice president of Administrative Services, said officials realized from the start that much of the existing building would have to be removed before adding to it. This process has made the building appear to only have four corners and a rear wall during construction.
"We had to take a lot out of the interior to structurally prepare the building. The steel added will support the second floor," he noted. "It was a bit more cost efficient to do what we're doing. … It was all part of the plan to make sure we properly reinforced it to support the second floor."
The project also includes renovation of the nearby Straub Honda building into the college's Applied Technology Center. Lippiello said the overall $3.88 million project is on schedule with the ATC building expected to be complete in March or April and the bookstore/student center to be finished in May or June. The college purchased the Market Street parcels for $1.05 million from the Ohio County Development Authority. The OCDA had previously completed a land swap of sorts with Straub, which moved its car dealership to property at The Highlands.
The Applied Technology Center will house the school's industrial maintenance, heating ventilation and air conditioning, and other classes. Both buildings are situated near the college's main B&O Building and its renovated Education Center, which was a former grocery warehouse.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Dordt College News
Defender Golf At Whispering Creek
October 7, 2013
Meet… Morningside is hosting an Invite on Tuesday, October 8 at Whispering Creek in Sioux City, Iowa. Dordt last competed in this event in August 2011.
Participants… Dordt along with Dakota Wesleyan, Northwestern, Midland, Hastings, Briar Cliff, Concordia, Mount Marty and Morningside will all send golfers to the event. Several schools will have multiple teams entered in what is the final tune-up before concluding the Fall season next week at the GPAC Qualifier #2.
Last Time Out… The Dordt College Defender men's golf team scrambled to a sixth place finish in the two day Palace City Classic hosted by Dakota Wesleyan on Friday and Saturday, September 27 and 28.
Dordt totaled a 613 and was led by Madison Moss with a 149. Moss finished 12th in the 63 man field. Connor Rothert had a 152 and was 19th. Nathan Middel had a 153 and Trey Hugen a 159. Micah Roos was Dordt's fifth golfer and had a 162.
Northwestern's Neil Malenke had a 140 to win the event. Hastings won the event by one stroke over Northwestern. Lakeview Golf Course was set up par-72 and 6,700 yards.
Last Time On This Course… The Dordt College men's golf team placed seventh in the initial invitational of the fall hosted by Morningside College at Whispering Creek in Sioux City, Iowa on Wednesday, August 31.
Dordt was led by Ryan Kamp's 73 on the par-72 set-up which was good for a fourth place tie. Brandon McCracken shot a 79 and Madison Moss and Derek Dreise each shot 83. It was Moss's first collegiate golf meet.
Morningside won the team event with a 298. Dordt's 318 was good for a sixth place tie on the 6872 yard course.
The Lineup… This Fall has been a very competitive one as players vie for spots at the GPAC Qualifying Events. Madison Moss has a 75 average in six rounds played and Connor Rothert's average is 76.2 in six rounds. Nate Middel is at 77.7 in six rounds played and Derek Fox has a 79.5 average in four rounds played. Micah Roos has a sub-80 average in five rounds played at 79.8 and three other players are hovering around the 80 mark. Jon Holwerda and Trey Hugen are at 80.5 and 80.7 respectively and Rees Beaver's average is 81.5.
After This… Dordt will conclude the 2013 Fall season on Monday, October 14 at Firethorn in Lincoln, Nebraska in GPAC Qualifier #2.
Media Access: Download Word Version | High Resolution Image: 1


text:
Right at Home is always looking for qualified individuals in our offices and in our clients' homes. If any of our available positions interest you, please don't hesitate to submit the requested information.
A homemaker/companion provides for the maintenance of a safe and clean environment. Performs various housekeeping tasks, meal preparation and companionship activities for clients in their residences.See position details and apply »
Personal Care Assistant/Personal Attendant/Nurse Assistant
Provides various personal care and related paraprofessional services in accordance with an established plan of care. Provides for the personal needs and comfort of patients in their homes.See position details and apply »
Give us a call.
We're always available to discuss your particular situation and needs. Just call us at the number below. We're here to help however we can.
601-426-6333Contact Us »
From the Blog
Alzheimer's Complicates the Holidays; Keeping Aging Loved Ones Safe During WinterDec 01, 2016 Read Full Entry »
Can Table Tennis Help Prevent Falls?Nov 29, 2016 Read Full Entry »


text: A-1 Self Storage in Cypress, CA offers convenient access to your unit 7 days a week! We provide the longest access hours in the area, and feature 24 hour access on select units. Be sure to check out our 24 hour rental/payment kiosk! You can rent a unit or make a payment any time.


text:
Shumlin wants $20 million more for mental healthJanuary 02,2013
The Associated Press
MONTPELIER — An additional $20 million in mental health spending is among a list of mid-year budget adjustments the administration of Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin is proposing to lawmakers.
Finance and Management Commissioner Jim Reardon said Wednesday the federal government is expected to pay more than half of the increase under the joint federal-state Medicaid program.
Some of the new costs have arisen as the mental health system retools after flooding from Tropical Strorm Irene closed the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury. Changes include new or expanded state psychiatric services at the Brattleboro Retreat, Fletcher Allen
Health Care and the Rutland Regional Medical Center.
Meanwhile, budget writers are grappling with an $11 million downward adjustment in the state's revenue forecast.MORE IN This Just InNEWBURY Police said somebody stole booze and change from a Welch Road residence. Full StoryBRATTLEBORO Six people were displaced by an apartment fire on South Main Street Saturday morning. Full StoryMANAMA, Bahrain Drawing the U.S. Full Story
- Most Popular
- Most Emailed


text:
All Madison schools made passing grades in new, more stringent report cards released by the state Department of Public Instruction.
Most Wisconsin schools meet or exceed expectations in the testing.
The report cards of more than 2,100 public schools released Monday assign scores of between 0 and 100 based on student achievement, student growth in reading and math, graduation rates and closing of achievement gaps between different groups of students.
More than 85 percent of schools meet or exceed expectations.
Only 76 schools failed to meet expectations, the lowest possible ranking.
In Madison,the three elementary schools with the highest ratings were Lapham, Franklin, Marquette.
Madison middle schools with the highest scores were Hamilton, O'Keefe and Spring Harbor. Middle schools with the lowest scores were Blackhawk, James Wright and Sherman.
Lindbergh, Hawthorne and Sandburg elementary schools had the lowest ratings.
Madison East and LaFollette high schools were the two lowest ranked high schools in Madison. Madison Memorial was got the highest score of the high schools.
Madison East was the worst among all schools in the district with a score of 55 out of 100.
No Madison school failed to meet state expectations, something the Madison Metropolitan School District said it's proud of.
"We feel really good about all of our schools," said MMSD Interim Superintendent Jane Belmore. "The high performing schools will definitely be places where we can see what we can learn, and if there are things we can learn from those schools to do from other schools."
Parent Gina Richardson has a 6-year-old son who attends Sandburg Elementary School. Although Sandburg Elementary fell near the bottom of Madison's scores, Richardson said the report card may be overlooking important factors.
"Sandburg is about 47 percent (students who speak English as a second language), and the test is only given in English. So the fact that we scored really low is really non-relevant because almost half of our students don't speak English as a first language," Richardson said.
"It's bigger than one measure. So there are a lot of measures in there, and it's important for us to look at those measures with a different lens for each school," Belmore said.
In Rock County, most of the Janesville School District schools are "meeting expectations," meaning they scored between a 63 and 72 percent.
According to the reports, the worst school ranking was at Wilson Elementary School with a 61.8 percent, meaning it "meets few expectations."
And the best school in the district, Kennedy Elementary School, received a ranking of 86.3 percent meaning it "significantly exceeds expectations."
In the Beloit School District, officials said the district's seven schools are meeting or exceeding expectations.
Merrill Elementary School had the lowest score in the district with a ranking of 56.4 percent, meaning it "meets few expectations."
Beloit Memorial High School received only 58.5 percent.
Morgan Elementary School had the highest score with 81.3 percent, giving the school an "exceeds expectations" rating.
Gov. Scott Walker praised the news but said too many schools are failing.
State Superintendent Tony Evers said the new report cards are designed to be a better and more comprehensive way to measure the effectiveness of schools in preparing students for college or work.


text:
Betty P. Campbell, age 93, of Sharpsburg
Ms. Betty P. Campbell was born in Samson, Ala. on Jan. 24, 1920 and passed away at home peacefully on Feb. 6, 2013.
As a teen, she played the guitar and sang on the radio. At the age of sixteen, she married Porter Campbell and a year later had a son. Then three years later, a daughter was born and her family was complete.
She and her husband, Porter owned and operated Campbell's Restaurant in East Point, Ga. After their divorce in 1964, Betty obtained her optician's license and became an optician for Digby's Optical Center in Atlanta. A few years later, she continued her career as an optician and manager of Eckerd Optical Center in Riverdale where she retired in 1987.
After her retirement she took a short break, and then went to work for Belk Department Store in Newnan where she enjoyed five more working years. She even did some modeling there, which she really enjoyed, but her greatest satisfaction came from helping people, and giving them a warm, friendly welcome. She always had such a gift for being a hostess, which was a great asset to her employers, as well as her family.
She is a member of Flat Creek Baptist Church in Fayetteville.
She was preceded in death by her son, Carl C. (Van) Campbell and is survived by her daughter, Connie Campbell Bratcher and her husband, Ron Sharpsburg, grandchildren, Barry R. Bullard, Rhonda Metcalf and husband, Tom, Carla Murakami, Angela Bratcher Cusick and husband, Pat; 7 great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of Parrott Funeral Home with Dr. Jerry Cross officiating. Interment will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.
Those wishing may sign the online guestbook at www.parrottfuneralhome.com. The family will receive friends two hours prior to the service at Parrott Funeral Home and Crematory, 770-964-4800.


text:
Riverview Ranch LLC
DescriptionThe Grouse Creek Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) is located on the Nevada - Utah Border and west of the Grouse Creek Road, southwest of Grouse Creek, Utah. Running from the north to the south is a ridge of mountains starting about 5800 feet in the north, rising up to 6700 feet, the highest point of the Unit, then decreasing in the south to 5700 feet. There are two major creeks that cut this unit from west to east. There is the Tom Cabin Creek ranging from 5800 feet in the west to about 4900 feet in the east. Similarly, the Dairy Valley Creek in the north ranges from 5900 feet in the west to 5000 feet in the east. The east one-third of the Unit is less mountainous than the western two-thirds.The most common elevation is 5100 feet but ranges from 4900 feet to 6900 feet with an elevation difference of 2000 feet. Fifty-one percent (51%) of the CWMU elevation ranges between 5400 feet and 6400 feet an elevation difference of 1000 feet.
The Grouse Creek Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) is a combination of three (3) land cover types. To the east is the Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland (48). To the west is Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodland (37), and in between these two are smaller areas of Great Basin Xeric Mixed Sagebrush Shrubland (49).
One of the Grouse Creek Cooperative Wildlife Mangement Unit (CWMU) nearest weather stations, GROUSE CREEK (423486), is about 8.4 km northwest from the northwest edge of the CWMU. GROUSE CREEK has forty-nine (49) years of records, 1959 - 2008. During the FALL (September, October and November) the average precipitation is 2.25 inches, but it can be as high as 4.42 inches or as low as 0.60 inch. During the 91-day FALL period, 16 days will experience greater than or equal to 0.01 inch of precipitation, 7 days of greater than or equal to 0.10 inch, or 1 day of the greater than or equal to 0.50 inch of precipitation. Snowfall during the FALL averages 3.6 inches but can be as high as 21.0 inches. FALL temperature at GROUSE CREEK averages 46.0 degrees F. but can be as high as 97.0 degrees F. or as low as -12.0 degrees F. During the FALL, 54 days will be below freezing (32 degrees F.) and 1 day above 90 degrees F. This map is provided for general reference only and does not constitute a legal hunt boundary. The Division does not guarantee access to any private or public land. Hunt unit boundaries may include private property or other excluded areas.
Hunts on this boundary
|Hunt #
|Antlerless elk
|Any legal weapon
Hot subjects
Getting involved
Reaching us


text:
view full screen
Black & White Dot Post Earring
Style: 570088129
Out of Stock
Earring designed with four jeweled variations of our signature black and white couldn't be more versatile or timeless.
- Post back. Just under 1" top to bottom.
- Petite pavé crystals, black and white faceted glass cabochons and stones. Rhodium-finish metal.
- Custom designed exclusively for WHBM. Handcrafted with nickel-free and lead-free metal.
Read more… Read less…


text:
Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials--Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy. The series features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science and digital image processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, electron microscopy, and the computing methods used in all these domains.
Researchers in electrical engineering, optical science and technology, materials science, image processing, and mechanical engineering


text:
My DD- born in late February was sleeping (mostly) through the night in May. She would go down about 8:30 or 9 and sleep until 3, nurse, and then sleep until 6 (when I had to take her to the sitter). She would then sleep until 9 or so at the sitter's.
In June, school got out, so I was able to nurse on demand all day, etc. At that point, she would go down at 8:00 or 8:30, sleep until 6:00am, nurse, and then sleep again until 9 or 10. She would occasionally wake to nurse in the night, but maybe only once a week.
Fast forward to August 25 (1st day back to the sitter). Starting that day, she reverse cycled. She refused the bottle entirely, but was happy most of the day. We have been seven straight weeks now. She is at the sitter's from 7:00am until 4:00 pm. She generally consumes four ounces of EBM in that time along with a lunch of oatmeal/fruit mixed with EBM. She then nurses every hour or so when we get home (some for comfort) and then nurses no less than three times in the night. I have not had more than three hours of straight sleep in seven weeks, and there seems to be no end in sight. The big problem is that I have to go to school and be a functional, pleasant, driven, organized, and thoughtful person.
We have tried a modified version of co-sleeping, but we only have a double bed in a very small room, my DH is very unaware of his surroundings while sleeping, and when I do allow her in bed, she nurses and wakes more frequently. We do better when I take her to the couch and end up laying there together. Much of the time, we start out the night with her genuinely needing to nurse for nutrition, but then she is needing comfort as we go through the night. I enjoy that I am able to provide that for her, BUT I need to be able to put a happy face on in the morning- getting only three or so good hours a night does not do that for me. Also, I have concerns that since I teach a room full of third graders I will end up getting sick more often due to the level of fatigue that I chronically have because of this.
Any suggestions for getting her to begin consuming some more calories in the day time?
Any suggestions for getting her to wake a reasonable number of times between 8 pm and 6 am like say twice?
At this point, I have resigned myself to the fact that this is a very short time in both her and my life, but it would be nice to stutter less, focus more, etc.


text:
No Hidden Fees - No Credit Card Surcharges - Low Shipping Rates
Images shown may not be an exact representation of the actual product.You may contact us if you have questions about the exact specifications of this item.
Reliability. Where and When it Counts! The Colt New Agent 9
The Colt New Agent model, in 9mm, offers the power and protection of a full sized pistol in a compact, lightweight carry model. Small, lightweight, accurate and reliable with a snag free design trench sight, the New Agent is able to withstand everyday wear and frequent extensive use.
The Colt offers the power and performance of a full-sized pistol in a compact, lightweight carry model. Small, lightweight, accurate, and reliable, it is able to withstand everyday wear and frequent practice sessions.
Very light recoil due to the 9mm cartridge. A fablous concealed carry pistol, with the real world capability to get through a tough situation.
• Series 80 firing safety system
• Double diamond slim fit grips
• Skeletonized aluminum trigger
• Enhanced black anodized aluminum frame w/beveled mag well
• Snag-free trench-style sights
• Front grip strap serrations, slide serrations for positive grip
• Captive recoil spring system
• 3'' barrel
• Magazine Capacity: 8 rounds
Once we have a copy of their license, we can ship the gun to your local dealer, you then drop by their place, fill out the required paperwork/background check, and take the gun home. We can walk you thru the procedure and help you locate a qualified dealer- just call or email for more information.
Our customers generally find this process quite easy and we will help thru each step.
Impact Guns is the gun shop for all your shooting needs. We offer a wide selection of firearms, including: handguns, shotguns, rifles, ammunition, rifle scopes and optics, as well as collectible machine guns and other NFA/Class 3 guns. Impact also services the needs of law enforcement and military with our wide variety of tactical weapons and accessories. Shop online through our 256-bit Secure Sockets Layer encrypted online gun store 24 hours a day!


text: I had way too much milk. It would spray across the room, soak through breast pads in minutes, etc. I felt discouraged because my daughter would gag, choke and scream at the breast. I had a WONDERFUL midwife that was very patient with me and my daughter, trying everything. We finally had to bring in a pump. I would pump a tiny bit so the let down wasn't so bad, then feed her that, then put her to breast. If I pumped for 60 seconds each side I would get a minimum of EIGHT ounces. I found it helpful to let gravity help to and we laid down to nurse. I used the little cup and pump for about 3 weeks. Now 16 months later, we are still nursing and I love it. So it was well worth the initial work and frustration!


text:
The city and the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation has begun the process of reissuing a critical environmental permit that's needed before construction of the city's $5.3 billion rail project can resume.
On Friday, a public hearing was held by the Department of Planning and Permitting regarding a special management area use permit (SMA) that would cover nearly 1.3 miles of the 20-mile-long elevated train, as well as a storm water outfall drain line and culvert leading from the project's maintenance and storage facility near Leeward Community College. About 25 people attended the meeting at Keehi Lagoon Memorial Park, but at least a half dozen of those in attendance were HART or city officials.
"The fact that no one testified in opposition today in any way, shape or form, I think bodes really well for the project," said HART Executive Director Dan Grabauskas. The SMA permit helps ensure the rail line and other projects don't create environmental hazards as part of the Coastal Zone Management Program, which receives strict oversight from both federal and state agencies.
"Those resources would be recreational resources, beaches, environmental resources such as coastal eco-systems, and cultural resources," explained Art Challacombe, DPP's deputy director, who acted as the hearing officer at Friday's meeting.
The process of obtaining an SMA permit requires approval from the Honolulu City Council and is expected to stretch into September. It's the second time the city and HART are applying for the permit, after the Hawaii Supreme Court vacated a similar permit issued in 2011.
In a ruling last August, the high court ruled HART failed to complete an archeological inventory survey along the entire rail route from East Kapolei to the Ala Moana Shopping Center, thus invalidating the SMA. Once a second public hearing regarding the new SMA application wraps up at the Filipino Community Center on Monday, DPP must await approval of the rail project's AIS from the State Historic Preservation Division, before forwarding its permit recommendation to the City Council.
"We foresee recommending approval with conditions," Challacombe told KITV4, while refusing to say what those conditions might be.
It's expected the SMA will face little to no opposition among members of the City Council, which remains decidedly pro-rail. Of greater concern to rail planners is another possible redo that could delay construction of the project for years, or perhaps even jeopardize its completion.
On Aug. 15, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled a hearing to decide if HART and city officials adequately studied alternatives to rail in the project's environmental impact statement.
"The court has within its ability to render any kind of decision," said Grabauskas.
However, the head of HART remains confident the 9th Circuit's three-judge panel will rule in favor of keeping the rail project's EIS intact, since Judge A. Wallace Tashima threw out 20 of 23 counts filed by rail opponents last November. Tashima is a member of the appeals court in San Francisco.
"That should give us hope (and) a high degree of confidence that his colleagues on the remainder of the court will look at what his decision was, and back that up," said Grabauskas. "If he does, then we're in great shape."
Environmental permit could be just the first redo for rail
The city and the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation has begun the process of reissuing a critical environmental permit that's needed before construction of the city's $5.3 billion rail project can resume.
Copyright 2013 by KITV All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text:
Institutional & Media Relations
The Office of Institutional and Media Relations (IMR) manages communication and media relations for Bluefield State College and the Office of the President. Institutional & Media Relations publicizes College faculty, staff, and student news, programs, and events within the context of a broader strategy of institutional communications, and seeks to secure media coverage of College events, programs, and achievements. The Office produces official news releases for the College and promotes stories directly to news media, handles crisis communication, and helps to coordinate key institutional events. The IMR Office is located in Conley Hall, room 200.
Individuals and organizations interested in utilizing the Office of Institutional and Media Relations to publicize an event or activity are encouraged to contact the office, preferably at least six weeks in advance of the event. This lead time will facilitate planning and scheduling methods for promoting the event.
What We Do
· IMR oversees official communications, public relations, and crisis communications at the College
· IMR coordinates the release of official communications for the College
· The IMR director is the official spokesperson for the College when dealing with media requests
· IMR schedules and coordinates messages on the Bluefield campus electronic marquees, all-users e-mail requests, and BSC Alert text messages
· IMR produces "The Bulletin," an e-newsletter to the College community, the "Blue & Gold" BSC magazine, and the BSC Annual Report
· IMR assists in the planning and coordination of events involving media
· IMR serves as a resource for media outlets seeking faculty and staff experts for news stories
Staff Information
· Jim Nelson
Assistant to the President/Director of Institutional and Media Relations
(304) 327-4103
Emergency Notification
The Office works with the College's leadership and the Office of Public Safety to coordinate timely notification to the college community in the event of an emergency that poses a threat to the health and safety of students, employees, and/or guests on campus. Emergency Notification Procedure
Speakers Bureau
Maintained by the Office of Institutional and Media Relations, the Faculty & Staff Experts Guide is a database of BSC employees and their areas of expertise. Members of the media wishing to contact a specific faculty member are asked to contact the IMR office, which will coordinate a meeting or phone call if the faculty/staff member is available. Faculty and staff wishing to join the list or update their information should e-mail email@example.com
The "Blue & Gold"
The "Blue & Gold" is the Bluefield State College magazine, highlighting achievements, developments, and news involving BSC alumni, students, faculty, staff. It is published twice annually and includes a mailing list of BSC alumni, employees, supporters, state and national policy makers and community leaders.
Have a story idea for the BSC magazine, the "Blue & Gold"? Contact us at the telephone numbers and e-mail addresses above. You can view the "Blue & Gold" online.
Government Relations
IMR facilitates the College's interactions with legislative and government bodies. This includes collaborating with the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission on state legislative relations, staying informed of recent or proposed legislation, and assisting faculty, staff, and students who seek to be informed of, and engaged in, the political process.
Issues Management
IMR provides input in dealing with issues that are of a sensitive nature to the College and the general public.
Community Relations
IMR serves as a contact point for civic and business organizations, distributing information about the College and directing inquiries to the proper individuals.
Media Relations
The Office develops and maintains contact with the news-editorial departments in print and broadcast news media at the local, state, and national level, providing story suggestions on a regular basis. In addition, media inquiries are initially directed to this Office for referral or answer.
General Advance Publicity
IMR provides advance news releases and requests for coverage about pending campus events, including workshops, lectures, theatrical performances, concerts, and special information by the university. Individuals and organizations interested in utilizing the Office of Institutional and Media Relations to publicize an event or activity are encouraged to contact the office, preferably at least six weeks in advance of the event. This lead time will facilitate planning and scheduling methods for promoting the event.
Institutional Announcements
IMR prepares news releases about key administrative and institutional changes, including appointments, promotions, and other information of interest to the general public.
To request publicity from external news outlets for students' honors and awards, send details in writing about the honor or award to Jim Nelson.
Announcements of new programs or changes in policies are initiated by the administrator with immediate oversight.
Internal Communication
Ongoing internal communication with the campus is facilitated through The Bulletin, e-mail, publications, and other appropriate channels. The office also maintains contact with the student newspaper, The Bluefieldian.


text:
Community organizations in metropolitan San Jose may become community partners of departments, faculty and student "community learners." The Center for Community Learning & Leadership and its programs facilitates and supports these partnerships.
Visit the Who, What, How, and Why pages ofOrganizatons to learn more about community learning and partnerships.
Examples of Community Learning
College of Business
Management information Systems:
Student design software training programs for nonprofit staff and for teenagers in schools and community centers
College of Education
Special Education:
Students studying special education are paired with special needs children to provide tutoring, assessment and language intervention
College of Engineering
Civil Engineering:
Students learning about wood structures design footbridges for the Los Gatos Creek Trail
College of Social Science
Communication Studies:
Students learning about organizational and small group communication conduct analyses of nonprofit organizations' communication strengths/challenges and propose strategies for improving communication patterns; students in another class conduct workshops on communication related topics for teenage and adult clients in various agencies
College of Social Studies
Environmental Studies:
Students learning about environmental impact assessments provide community education on planned local energy projects
College of Applied Science and Arts
Students provide ESL tutoring and coach elders in preparing citizenship exams


text:
Police said a 48-year-old Madison man fought off a home invasion late Friday.
At about 11 p.m., Madison police responded to a report of an armed home invasion in the 7000 block of Watts Road. The victim told police he was inside his residence when the two intruders forced entry and confronted him with a handgun, demanding money.
According to the report, the victim said he armed himself during the incident with a firearm, which caused the suspects to flee.
The suspects were described as black men both wearing black hooded sweatshirts and blue jeans, the report said.
No firearms were discharged during the incident, police said.
Madison police said the investigation is ongoing but the incident does not appear to be a random act.


text:
It's a bird, it's a plane, no it is Guido Van Rossum and the App Engine Team. After cranking through writing an instructional application this weekend using Google App Engine, I have to say I am really impressed. In fact my exact thought are "Holy $!ck, this is awesome!
If you haven't heard about Google App Engine yet, in a nutshell, Google has opened up their infrastructure to the masses in the form of a Python API. If you are a Python developer this is obviously a very significant development as it means you can easily hit the ground running. If you come from another language such as PHP, Java, Ruby, or Perl, there is no reason why you can't get started in a day or so in writing applications in Python. Python is quite easy to learn if you already know another language, and it has a deserved reputation for being one of the easiest languages to learn period.
In this article, we are going to "crib" some of the documentation for Google App Engine, and then proceed to actually build an application using the SDK. There is a live version of the application for this article that you can view here:Greedy Coin App Engine.
First off let's take a look at some of the exposed Developer API's:
Each application is subject to a set of resource quotas that control how much CPU, Bandwidth and storage space it can consume.
It can handle sudden spikes in traffic by ramping up demand. If the quota is exceeded you will get 403 errors.
You can reference more here: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/quotas.html
You can launch a Django application using a WSGI handler, but a few modifications will need to be made. You can reference them here:
By default Google App Engine lets you share your application with anyone with a Google Account. You can restrict this to access to only Google App domain accounts though.
Python has a sweet logging module, and Google App Engine directly integrates with it by allowing you to log 5 levels of severity. These logs get funneled to the Administration Console at:
You can reference more here:
You can also view a debug log by attaching a ?debug to the end of a URL path.
You can download many sample applications here by doing a svn checkout:
There is a custom version of Django's form validation framework that works with the Google datastore.
This means it is easy to write forms that validate data correctly.
Flexible, schema-less object database, perhaps influenced byZODB to some degree, but apparently also in the spirit of JQuery and FBQL.
SELECT * FROM Story
WHERE title = 'App Engine Launch'
AND author = :current_user
AND rating >= 10
ORDER BY rating, created DESC
One gotcha is that the Datastore does not support joins, as this is one of the performance bottlenecks with a Relational Databases. In my opinion this API is one of the hidden Gems of the Google App Engine API.
Reference: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/datastore/overview.html
Building an Application: Greedy Coin Changer
Recently I wrote a blog post about a Greedy Coin Changing Algorithm. I decided to take that command line tool and convert it into a Google App Engine application for this article. This happens to be the way I tend to write a lot of small web applications, which may be weird for some people, but I happen to be a command line tool kind of guy.
Before we get started I wanted to point a couple of things out. First, this tutorial has a fully functioning application you can play with, along with the source code. If you are "uber" , you might just want to check it out of svn and use it as boiler plate for your own creation. At the bottom of this article in the references section there is a link to the application and the subversion repository where you can check out the source code.
Second, this is more condensed, pragmatic version of a tutorial than you will find at the official Google App Engine Website. You might want to refer to that link, again in the references section, if you want to refer to it for some of the items we cover, as it does a great job of covering things in great detail. This tutorial is really a "backwards first" tutorial, so if you have trouble understanding this tutorial, come back to it after you finish the official one. From here on out, any download or link mentioned will be available in the Resources section at the bottom.
There were approximately 10,000 beta accounts given out for Google App Engine, so if you didn't get lucky like me, you can still develop using the SDK offline, and then when it is opened up you will be already to go. First you will need to download the SDK, and then you only need to follow three steps to get a helloworld application working:
Step 1:
create a helloworld directory and create a file named helloworld.py inside of it:
print 'Content-Type: text/plain'
print ''
print 'Hello, world!'
Step 2:
inside of helloworld create a file named app.yaml that looks like this:
application: helloworld
version: 1
runtime: python
api_version: 1
- url: /.*
script: helloworld.py
Step 3:
Next you just need to run the dev_appserver.py script by either giving the full path to your directory or just a "." if you are in the directory. This is how it looks for me when I run it from inside of the actual directory.
dev_appserver.py .
If you navigate to: http://localhost:8080/ you will see your hello world application in action. That is all there is to getting started with developing an application. As you will see in a bit, the API is incredibly powerful, so writing an application with GAE can be trivial.
Now that we have helloworld out of the way, let's crack open the source code for our instructional application and break it down. At this point you will need to check it out from subversion, and then change into the directory to run the sample code. Again to run the application you just need to type:
dev_appserver.py .
I would leave this running in a terminal window as it will automatically figure out when you make changes. In another window in your favorite text editor open up change.py. This one file does most of the work of our application, and here it is for posterity:
#!/usr/bin/env python2.5
#Noah Gift
import decimal
import wsgiref.handlers
import os
from google.appengine.api import users
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext import db
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template
class ChangeModel(db.Model):
user = db.UserProperty()
input = db.IntegerProperty()
date = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)
class MainPage(webapp.RequestHandler):
"""Main Page View"""
def get(self):
user = users.get_current_user()
if users.get_current_user():
url = users.create_logout_url(self.request.uri)
url_linktext = 'Logout'
url = users.create_login_url(self.request.uri)
url_linktext = 'Login'
template_values = {
'url': url,
'url_linktext': url_linktext,
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'index.html')
self.response.out.write(template.render(path, template_values))
class Recent(webapp.RequestHandler):
"""Query Last 10 Requests"""
def get(self):
collection = []
#grab last 10 records from datastore
query = ChangeModel.all().order('-date')
records = query.fetch(limit=10)
#formats decimal correctly
for change in records:
template_values = {
'inputs': collection,
'records': records,
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'query.html')
class Result(webapp.RequestHandler):
"""Returns Page with Results"""
def __init__(self):
self.coins = [1,5,10,25]
self.coin_lookup = {25: "quarters", 10: "dimes", 5: "nickels", 1: "pennies"}
def get(self):
#Just grab the latest post
collection = {}
#select the latest input from the datastore
change = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM ChangeModel ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 1")
for c in change:
change_input = c.input
#coin change logic
coin = self.coins.pop()
num, rem = divmod(change_input, coin)
if num:
collection[self.coin_lookup[coin]] = num
while rem > 0:
coin = self.coins.pop()
num, rem = divmod(rem, coin)
if num:
collection[self.coin_lookup[coin]] = num
template_values = {
'collection': collection,
'input': decimal.Decimal(change_input)/100,
#render template
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'result.html')
self.response.out.write(template.render(path, template_values))
class Change(webapp.RequestHandler):
def post(self):
"""Printing Method For Recursive Results and While Results"""
model = ChangeModel()
change_input = decimal.Decimal(self.request.get('content'))
model.input = int(change_input*100)
except decimal.InvalidOperation:
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'submit_error.html')
def main():
application = webapp.WSGIApplication([('/', MainPage),
('/submit_form', Change),
('/result', Result),
('/recent', Recent)],
if __name__ == "__main__":
As a backwards first tutorial, lets start by looking at either the version running at http://greedycoin.appspot.com, or your development version at http://localhost:8080/. There is a pumpkin colored theme that has two floating boxes, on the left is a form that lets you input change, and on the right there is a navigation box. These pretty, or ugly, colors, and layout are just a combination of django templating and CSS. The django templates can be found in the main directory, and the css I used is found in stylesheets. This really has little to do with Google App Engine, so I will just refer you to Django templating reference material if you are not familiar with them.
Now that we have covered this, let's actually get into some Google App Engine specifics. If you notice the "Login" link in the right navigation box, it is made possible by the clever user authentication API. Here is what that actual code looks like:
class MainPage(webapp.RequestHandler):
"""Main Page View"""
def get(self):
user = users.get_current_user()
if users.get_current_user():
url = users.create_logout_url(self.request.uri)
url_linktext = 'Logout'
url = users.create_login_url(self.request.uri)
url_linktext = 'Login'
template_values = {
'url': url,
'url_linktext': url_linktext,
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'index.html')
self.response.out.write(template.render(path, template_values))
There is a class that inherits from webapp.RequestHandler and if you define a get method you can make a page that checks to see if a user is logged in or not. If you notice the few lines at the bottom, you will see that the user information gets tossed into the template system and then gets rendered to the Django template file index.html. What is incredibly powerful, is that it is trivial to leverage the Google User Accounts database to create authorization for pages. If you look at the code above it is as simple as saying:
user = users.get_current_user()
if users.get_current_user():
I would suggest fiddling around with this code and trying to add code that only shows up for authenticated users. You don't even need to understand how things work, you could just use the existing conditional statements to do something.
Now that we a vague understanding about authentication, lets get into the powerful stuff. The Datastore API lets you store persistent data and then retrieve it throughout your application. In order to do this you need to import the datastore, as shown in the above code, and then also define a model like this:
class ChangeModel(db.Model):
user = db.UserProperty()
input = db.IntegerProperty()
date = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)
With that simple class we can now create and use persistent data. Here is a class in which I use Python API to the Datastore to retrieve the last 10 changes made to the database, and then display them:
class Recent(webapp.RequestHandler):
"""Query Last 10 Requests"""
def get(self):
collection = []
#grab last 10 records from datastore
query = ChangeModel.all().order('-date')
records = query.fetch(limit=10)
#formats decimal correctly
for change in records:
template_values = {
'inputs': collection,
'records': records,
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'query.html')
The two most important lines are:
query = ChangeModel.all().order('-date')
records = query.fetch(limit=10)
These pull the results out of the Datastore and then "fetch" 10 records in a query At this point, a simple thing to do for fun, would be to experiment with with this code and to try to fetch more records, or to sort them in a different way. This should give you some immediate and fun feedback.
Believe it or not, we are about done with our reverse tutorial. The last bit of code to look at is the main function: Looking closely you might be able to guess that each of the URLs corresponds to a class we defined in our change.py file. At this point, I would recommend trying to tweak the names of URLS by changing the parts of the application that depend on a URL, this will give you a good idea of how things get routed around.
One of the more interesting aspects of Google App Engine is the inclusion of a very simple WSGI-compatible web application framework called webapp. A large and critical portion of this framework is based on a slightly modified version of Webob, a third party library created by Ian Bicking. Webob "provides objects for HTTP requests and responses", and has been under constant development by Ian over the last few years. As a side note, the Pylons web framework uses Webob as well. One slight modification that occurred with Webob is that the actual Response object was replaced with a custom Response object within the GAE webapp framework.
While the default web framework is a hybrid creation that Google engineered, it is also possible to run some of the popular Python frameworks, such as Pylons, web.py, and Django. There is also some talk of getting Zope 3 and Grok to work on GAE this summer, and this may develop at the upcoming Google I/O event. In addition, although Django templates are included, it is also possible to run a very popular fork of Django templates called, Jinja, as well as Mako and possibly a development version of Genshi. Please see the resource section for links to some of the projects, and special hacks.
If this tutorial got you interested in writing the next MySpace or Facebook with Google App Engine, then you might want to consider attending the Google I/O Event. I will be attending the Google I/O Event on May 28th and 29th in San Francisco, and am very excited to go. I was fortunate enough to score a phone interview with Tom Stocky, who is a Senior Product Manager at Google, and he had this to say about the Google I/O event.
"Google I/O is for developers interested in being part of the next generation of web apps," said Tom Stocky, senior product manager at Google. "It's the one time this year that we'll have the engineering teams working on developer products all in one place, engaged with the community."
This article glossed over quite a few of the details of making a basic application, so if you feel it went too fast, then make sure you go through the complete official tutorial. Once you get done with that, come back to this code and take a look again to get some ideas, or just steal the fancy "pumpkin" CSS.
At this point in the article I get to give my opinion of the Google App Engine. I would rate it a 9.5 on a scale of 1-10. The environment just fits my brain, and I have no problem with developing complex applications with exactly the tools I was given. It might be nice to get a few more options for templating, and such, but it was a slam dunk for me. In fact I am so excited about building App Engine applications, I might need to hide my expresso machine for a bit. Feel free to contact me with questions, or hopefully consulting offers to work on a crazy App Engine project.
Live Greedy Coin Tutorial Application
Source Code via SVN
Google App Engine Getting Started Guide
App Engine SDK Download
Django Templates
Ian Bicking Home Page
Pylons Web Framework
Jinja templates
Mako templates
Noah Gift is the co-author of Python For Unix and Linux by O'Reilly. He is an author, speaker, consultant, and community leader, writing for publications such as IBM Developerworks, Red Hat Magazine, O'Reilly, and MacTech, and Manning.
Return to ONLamp.com.
Copyright © 2017 O'Reilly Media, Inc.


text:
Cheats and Walkthroughs(59)
Quantic Dream co-CEO and Heavy Rain writer/director David Cage has gone back and forth on releasing a playable demo for his upcoming epic. In our interview with Cage from last week, however, the developer confirmed there will be a playable demo for Heavy Rain. At the moment, Cage and his team are figuring out what will be the most appropriate scene to represent the game.
"We are currently working on a demo, which is a real challenge," said Cage. "Finding one scene that can convey what we are trying to achieve with Heavy Rain is something really difficult. If we show an action scene, some players will think that this is what Heavy Rain is all about, and it is the same thing if we show an exploration scene. The problem is that each scene of the game offers contextual game play, which is something very difficult to explain and convey in a single demo. Demos are often a double-edge thing: if you don't release one, players may think that you have something to hide."
Cage is obviously thinking long and hard about how he chooses to represent Heavy Rain's vertical slice, acutely aware of the consequences of releasing a demo that backfires. Despite these fears, Cage reiterated the importance of having a demo for gamers unaware of his work.
"We also know many good games that ended up not being massive hits because the demo could not convey the quality of the game behind it," he said. "Because Heavy Rain is a new concept and since many gamers will want to check what it is before buying it, we will be releasing a demo. We just need to find the best scene for it."
Have something to share? Have a news tip? E-mail me. You can also follow me on Twitter.


text:
"The strangest discoveries can end up saving lives… like the discovery that skin could be grown in a dish."
So starts this inventive 16 page comic that tells a story of stem cells from lab bench discoveries to working therapy.
Visit our Hope Beyond Hype page to read the comic and learn more about stem cell clinical research. Or check out our toolkit page for information about using the comic in the classroom.


text:
I am pleased to introduce the sixth publication in the Innovations in Education series: Innovative Pathways to School Leadership. This series, published by my Department's Office of Innovation and Improvement, has already identified concrete, real-world examples of innovations in five important areas: public school choice, supplemental educational services, charter schools, magnet schools, and alternate routes to teacher certification.
As we approach the third anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act, early evidence shows that America's schools are meeting the challenge of moving our students toward proficiency in reading and math. The people most responsible for this progress are the leaders of our schools, who play a critical and important role in developing a vision for a high-quality education for every student and in implementing and supporting a learning environment that is developed and shared by key stakeholders. No Child Left Behind puts enormous pressure on these leaders to increase student achievement and close the achievement gap. We want to ensure that they are provided with the tools and training they need to succeed in this endeavor. This guide is dedicated to them.
As readers may know, my father was a school principal, and my mother a librarian. They taught me the importance of education-to individuals, and to communities. I have been proud to honor their examples by serving as superintendent of the seventh-largest school system in the nation, and now as secretary of education. But I never forget that the most challenging—and rewarding—leadership roles in education are on the front lines in the schools.
We know from decades of research and common sense that a strong school leader is an indispensable ingredient for school improvement. Yet, for too long, we have been satisfied with preparation programs that often lack rigorous standards and a coherent, systemic approach for recruiting, preparing, and supporting school CEOs. However, that is changing. A consensus is forming across political and ideological perspectives that our nation needs to tap new sources for school leaders, as well as support the talented educators already in the system.
We are still in the early days of this movement to create innovative, effective pathways to school leadership. In fact,while many states have made great progress in tearing down the barriers that keep talented individuals out of the teaching profession, similar barriers remain largely in place for potential school leaders. Nevertheless, even undercurrent constraints, entrepreneurial school districts, states, higher education institutions, and others have developed promising programs that draw new talent into leadership roles and provide job-embedded preparation and support to ensure the success of these leaders in today's schools.
This guide highlights six of these programs. They are a diverse set—rural and urban, focused on traditional public schools and on charter schools, and so forth. But they all have a few things in common: an unrelenting commitment to program rigor and quality; a clear vision of strong school leadership; a cohort structure that encourages candidates to support one another throughout their careers; and a culture of continuous improvement. Most of these programs are relatively young. While they have not been in place long enough to have extensive data proving their effectiveness, they do appear to have some promise for success. It is our hope that these pioneering programs will provide ideas and strategies that help to strengthen school leadership preparation and professional development efforts.
Those of us at the federal level will continue to keep an eye on these promising programs and root for their success and replication. We will also continue to encourage and promote the efforts of those who are in schools and on the front lines, doing the difficult but exhilarating work of fulfilling the promise to leave no child behind.
Rod Paige
U.S. Secretary of Education
December 2004


text:
Connect with us:
These dagger shaped beads are an excellent choice for seedbead embellishment or to add some dimension to your jewelry designs. Beads measures 3mm x 10mm.
Sold on strands of 100 beads.
Made in the Czech Republic.
Tell A Friend
Your Price: $4.39/str.
Qty: str.
Availability: In Stock
Customers who bought this item also bought:
This product has not yet been reviewed.
Please login or register to write a review for this product.


text:
Theme parks
Québec has set aside a generous helping of pure, unabated fun for families looking to combine education with entertainment. Theme parks across the province imaginatively recreate the living conditions and industrial practices of bygone days, while zoos where local and exotic species cohabit delight both the young and young-at-heart.
I heart theme parks!
Some sites invite visitors to step back into rural or logging camp life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Site de la Nouvelle-France (Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean), spectacularly located on the Saguenay fjord, takes visitors back even further to the very beginnings of New France.
Wildlife and other creatures
The many sites where you can get acquainted with the local fauna include Parc Oméga, between Montréal and Gatineau, whose animals roam freely in a wooded habitat; Refuge Pageau (Abitibi-Témiscamingue), where orphaned or injured creatures are rehabilitated before being returned to the wild; the Bioparc de la Gaspésie in Bonaventure and the Aquarium in Îles-de-la-Madeleine.
The Montréal Biodôme is housed in the former Velodrome, a cycling arena built for the 1976 Montréal Olympic Games by French architect Roger Taillibert.
Plan your stay
Village Innusit enr.
Region: Mauricie
City: Lac-Édouard
Theme attraction
Parc Oméga
Region: Outaouais
City: Montebello
Zoo / aquarium
Huron Traditional Site ONHOÜA CHETEK8E
Region: Québec City and Area
City: Wendake
Theme attraction
Site patrimonial Cité de l'Or / Village minier de Bourlamaque
Region: Abitibi-Témiscamingue
City: Val-d'Or
Theme attraction
Village miniature Baillargeon
Region: Chaudière-Appalaches
City: Notre-Dame-des-Pins
Theme attraction
Village forestier d'antan de Franquelin
Region: Manicouagan
City: Franquelin
Theme attraction
Village historique de Val-Jalbert
Region: Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
City: Chambord
Theme attraction
Falcon Environmental Services
Region: Laurentides
City: Mont-Tremblant
Zoo / aquarium


text:
As a result of higher oil prices and the Energy Policy Act of 2005, there has been a renewed interest in development of unconventional hydrocarbon resources which include oil shale and tar sand. Utah contains significant resources of both commodities in the eastern half of the state.
Oil Shale occurs in the Uinta Basin, primarily within the BLM Vernal Field Office. Over 70% of oil shale occurs on public lands. Three areas comprising over 550,000 acres have been classified as leasing areas with a total resource estimate of greater than 31 billion barrels of oil.
Presently, Utah is evaluating a Research, Development, and Demonstration lease for oil shale on 160 acres at the site of the White River Oil Shale Mine that was developed on a lease that was issued during the prototype oil shale leasing program in the 1970's. The proponent, Oil Shale Exploration Company, proposes sequential development of the site that could lead to reopening the mine. The process being evaluated in Utah involves mining of the oil shale and above ground retorting. The other proposals in Colorado propose an in-situ process that will heat the shale underground to allow the oil to be produced conventionally. If the company can demonstrate viability of commercial operations on the site they may be able to expand their lease to 5,120 acres after additional environmental review. Commercial oil shale leasing could begin within 2 years following completion of a Programmatic EIS Impact Statement and development of regulations as required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.


text:
My lo is a great nurser but doesn't really ask anymore. She is excited to nurse in the morning but the rest of the day, I just offer at our normal times. I often wonder what would happen if I didn't but I don't want this to end too soon. Is this ok to just offer to her at certain times?
She usually nurses at 7 am, 9 am, noon, 3 pm, 5:30 pm, and bedtime. The 7 am and 5:30 ones are pretty short, maybe 10 min long. Does this sound like she wants to wean and I just keep making her do it? She is still only getting lunch and dinner of solids, we still haven't mastered breakfast yet.


text:
The average cost for a Engine Overheating Diagnosis is between $88 and $111. Labor costs are estimated between $88 and $111. Get a personalized estimate based on your location and specific car. Estimate does not include taxes and fees.
Engine Overheating Diagnosis Cost for Jeep Cherokee
Engine Overheating Diagnosis Estimate (National Average)
Validated estimate range for national average.
View Estimate Details
Parts & Labor Breakdown
Labor: $88 - $111
Estimate does not include taxes and fees.
Best Practices
You should not drive a vehicle with an engine that is running hot or overheating. The engine damage from overheating can be severe, so at the first sign of overheating, get the vehicle in to the shop to have it diagnosed. If it means having it towed, then do so. It will be much less expensive than a new engine!
Regular inspection of the coolant hoses and water pump drive belt, and periodic replacement of the coolant thermostat, can help prevent engine overheating.
Common Symptoms
Whenever an engine has been overheated, there's a possibility the head gasket has been damaged. Therefore, as part of this diagnosis, it's important that the shop checks for signs of a leaking head gasket before recommending or replacing any parts.
Last step before receiving your estimate:
* Estimate for all Jeep Cherokee model years. Get a more accurate price by entering in your year.


text:
{the natural numbers between -5 and 4}
Would it be no solution or something?
What is the equation for:
two-thirds of the way from -11 to 5? And what is two thirds of the way from -11 and 5?
How do you solve something like this:
x(x-2)=0 if the domain is all natural numbers?
A={a,1,2,3} List all of the subsets of A.


text:
Grier Table Lamp
- Summary
A glittering mosaic of pale green glass cloaks our lamp's vase-shaped base. Crafted by hand, each lamp displays unique variations. A clear Lucite finial anchors the off-white drum shade.
- Base finished in hand-applied celadon-colored glass.
- Topped with an off-white textured fabric drum shade and round Lucite finial.
- On/off switch on socket.
- Rubber tabs on the underside protect tabletops.
- Dimensions & More Info
- Overall: 15" diam., 27" high.
- Base: 5 3/4" diam. x 16" high.
- Shade: 15"diam. at bottom (13" at top).
- Harp: 8" high.
- Weight: 6 lb.
Additional Information
- Bulb (1): 150W max.; type A (not included)
- UL-certified.
- Title 20-compliant lamp: ships to CA addresses with a CFL bulb.
- This product is intended for use in the United States and Canada and is built to United States electrical standards.
- Made in China.
- Use & Care
- Do not exceed specified wattage.
- Wipe clean using a soft, dry cloth.
- Avoid using harsh chemicals and abrasives as they may damage the finish.
- Shipping
Shipping Information
This item will be shipped directly from the manufacturer and is not eligible for rush shipping. Please allow up to two weeks for delivery.
Shipping Rates
The shipping rate varies depending on your order total and shipping destination. View Shipping Options and Charges.
Return Policy
At Williams-Sonoma, we take great pride in the quality and craftsmanship of our products. Attention to design, materials, safety and construction are our priority. Upon receipt, please inspect your purchase and notify us of any damage; we will arrange for a prompt replacement.
If within 30 days, you are dissatisfied for any reason, you may return your purchase for a refund of the merchandise value. An original receipt or gift receipt is required for all returns and exchanges. Returns with a gift receipt will be refunded in the form of a Merchandise Credit for the amount indicated on the gift receipt. Returns with original receipt will be refunded in the original form of payment, cash and check refunds over $100 will be issued as a company check (may take 14 business days from time of request).
For all cutlery returns (knife sets, single knives, cutting boards, knife sharpeners, and knife storage) please contact us at 888.922.4108 to initiate the return.
We cannot accept returns on monogrammed, personalized, special-order items, custom upholstery, food, items shipped direct from the vendor, or on items damaged through normal wear and tear. Final sale items ending in .97 or .99 cannot be returned.
For returns of items purchased from your Williams-Sonoma Gift Registry, we will gladly provide a refund or exchange for the merchandise within 90 days of your event or within 90 days of purchase, whichever date is later. View Full Return Policy.


text:
This A list singer/celebrity has always been edgy and overtly sexual. It is interesting that her current boyfriend says the singer refuses to perform oral sex. She says it is gross.
Lady GaGa
Gaga is not sexy or punk or trendy, she's a 12 year old playing dress up.ReplyCancel
Will that sucks or blows…ReplyCancel
I bet she doesn't think so when someone's sucking her d"ck.ReplyCancel
Something tells me she would have sucked dick if it helped her last shitty album sell more.ReplyCancel
Gaga ain't sexy. She probably sucked so much dick to get her record deal, and to get tracks for her first album, she can't stand to look at it anymore.ReplyCancel
There's one thing she is different than her idol Madonna. Madge would never refuse to blow a dick.ReplyCancel
Ooooh. I wanna see that!ReplyCancel
@Dexamyl! Good Grief LMAO!ReplyCancel
Wheres the Count?—we have horny women here in reveal No. 2ReplyCancel
Hey @Dexamyl! What's up?ReplyCancel
Dexamyl would you like to live in a beach in Florida?? :))ReplyCancel
Usually the quiet ones are the most kinky….the ones who talk all about how sexual they are, they are the conservative ones!ReplyCancel
Eros, that was Samantha on "Sex And The City". She said that WAAAAY before there was ANY stupid Housewife show!ReplyCancel
Thanks, Freya!
The other girl is wearing underwear though, isn't she?
I am sure Taylor Kinney can get anything he wants.ReplyCancel
Come on Gaga. Strap on that Poker Face and take one on the chin…before someone else WILL…ReplyCancel
Here I am Derek.
Chicks who won't suck dick are lez or in denial of being lez. If you are attracted to the opposite sex, then you are attracted to and love their parts.
Only other reason for hating giving oral, BJ or munchin box, is you are a completely selfish lover, who takes no joy from giving your partner pleasure.
Either way, broad would quickly be my ex girlfriend. Any chick above 18 and still scared of peckers and jizz aint gonna be any fun. 99% chance of dead fish sex.ReplyCancel
I think her boyfriend is cute. I don't know much about him, but he seems low key and they don't go together in my book.
He'll easily find someone else to meet his needs.
And AKM, I have a few friends that are with you. I mean agree with your "friend".ReplyCancel
@AKM: I have heard of chicks who don't like their pussy ate, but never had an encounter with it.
I have 2 theories:
1) Some chicks just love the in/out of dick so much. Broads can be a Rubik's Cube when it comes to getting them off. Some are all about the clit and to others could careless about it, and cum from gettin stroked.
2) Psychological reasons. Maybe clit stimulation reminds them of past abuse. Maybe they are control freaks who don't enjoy going instinctual when their clit is stimulated. Maybe they got Good Girl complex and think sex is only OK if they don't enjoy it.
You don't have to post your friend's answer, but ask her this: When you masturbate, is it all in/out or is it vibe/fingers on the clit? If it is just in/out, tell her to get a vibe and work it on the clit until she comes and see if that changes anything.ReplyCancel
Coumt some guys are no good at it at it. I had an experience like that. You want to pat their cheek and say its ok honey. But what youre forced to do to get out of it is fake an o so everybody can extricate themselves with some dignity. I have no patience for those things. God bless the poor sclubs that keep at it like soldiers. Practice makes perfect boys! 🙂
Just have your game together before you get at me is all I ask lol
On the same token, I bet guys probably have a plethora of bad bj stories and good ones too.ReplyCancel
@Eros: I feel so bad for dudes who can't tell the difference between a fake and a real orgasm.
If a broad fakes w/ me, I just write her off as full of shit, take care of my biddness, and get out. If I'm not doing something you like, tell me what you like. Try blowing smoke up my ass, then please forget my phone #.ReplyCancel
Here is a HEISENFAVE scene on oral…
Adding on to Count's list on why some ladies like giving but not receiving:
(3) Uncomfortable with themselves and what they want. Given the constant slut shaming, body scrutinizing and vag shaming in our culture, some ladies are not so comfortable with the idea of someone's face mashed all up in our bidness. And…Ya can't really blame em but hopefully they will learn to love their hot pockets as the grow the fuck up and realize how awesome it is to have a pussy
(4) Met a couple ladies who didn't like it just cuz they were super duper subsReplyCancel
She's gross.ReplyCancel
Never be pushy.ReplyCancel
Gaga looks like she's kissing her thigh. Gagme is a fauxbisexual 4 shock value and fan base only. Her tongue was nowhere near her puss. Gagme is oatmeal with a record deal and bad wardrobeReplyCancel


text:
Quality CareFind out why Mayo Clinic is the right place for your health care. Make an appointment.
Meet the StaffFind a directory of doctors and departments at all Mayo Clinic campuses. Visit now.
Research and Clinical TrialsSee how Mayo Clinic research and clinical trials advance the science of medicine and improve patient care. Explore now.
Visit Our SchoolsEducators at Mayo Clinic train tomorrow's leaders to deliver compassionate, high-value, safe patient care. Choose a degree.
Professional ServicesExplore Mayo Clinic's many resources and see jobs available for medical professionals. Get updates.
Give to Mayo ClinicHelp set a new world standard in care for people everywhere. Give now.
Mayo Clinic offers appointments in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota and at Mayo Clinic Health System locations.
Subscribe to Housecall
Our general interest e-newsletter keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics.
Mayo Clinic in Minnesota has been recognized as one of the top Cancer hospitals in the nation for 2016-2017 by U.S. News & World Report
Breast reconstruction is a surgical procedure that restores shape to your breast after mastectomy — surgery that removes your breast tissue to treat or prevent breast cancer. Breast reconstruction with flap surgery is a type of breast reconstruction that involves taking a section of tissue from one area of your body and relocating it to create a new breast mound.
Breast reconstruction with flap surgery is a complex procedure performed by a plastic surgeon. Much of the breast reconstruction using your body's own tissue can be accomplished at the time of your mastectomy. However, you'll need a second operation to achieve a correctly positioned, natural-appearing breast or to perform nipple reconstruction.
Mayo Clinic does not endorse companies or products. Advertising revenue supports our not-for-profit mission.
Check out these best-sellers and special offers on books and newsletters from Mayo Clinic.
Any use of this site constitutes your agreement to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy linked below.
A single copy of these materials may be reprinted for noncommercial personal use only. "Mayo," "Mayo Clinic," "MayoClinic.org," "Mayo Clinic Healthy Living," and the triple-shield Mayo Clinic logo are trademarks of Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
We comply with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information: verify here.


text:
Content caching is one of the most common optimization techniques used in web applications, and it can be implemented easily. For example, you can use a custom JSP tag--let's call it
<jc:cache>--to wrap every page fragment that must be cached between
<jc:cache> and
</jc:cache>. Any custom tag can control when its body (i.e. the wrapped page fragment) is executed, and the dynamic output can be captured. The
<jc:cache> tag lets the JSP container (e.g. Tomcat) generate the content only once, storing each cached fragment as a JSP variable in the
application scope. Every time the JSP page is executed, the custom tag inserts the cached page fragment without re-executing the JSP code that generated the output. A tag library developed as part of the Jakarta project uses this technique, and it works fine when the cached content doesn't need to be customized for each user or request.
This article improves the technique described above, allowing the JSP page to customize the cached content for each request or user, using the JSP 2.0 Expression Language (EL). Cached page fragments can contain JSP expressions that are not evaluated by the JSP container, the custom tag evaluating these expressions each time the page is executed. Therefore, the creation of the dynamic content is optimized, but the cached fragments can have pieces of content that are generated for each request using the native expression language of JSP. This is possible with the help of the JSP 2.0 EL API, which exposes the expression language to the Java developer.
Content caching is not the only option. For example, data extracted from a database can be cached, too. In fact, data caching can be more efficient, since it stores the information without the HTML markup, requiring less memory. In many situations, however, content caching is easier to implement. Let's suppose you have lots of business objects producing some complex data, using significant CPU resources. You also have JSP pages that present the data. Everything works well until one day when the server's load suddenly increases, which requires an urgent solution. Building a caching tier between those business objects and the presentation tier can be a very elegant and efficient solution, but it could be much quicker and easier to modify the JSP pages, caching the dynamic content. Changes in the application's business logic usually require more work and more testing than simple editing of the JSP pages. In addition, there are fewer changes in the web tier when one page aggregates information from multiple sources. The problem is that the cache sometimes needs to be invalidated when the information becomes stale, and the business objects better know when this happens. Therefore, when choosing to implement content caching, data caching, or another optimization technique, you have to take into account many factors, which are sometimes specific to the application you are building.
Data caching and content caching do not necessarily exclude each other. They can be used together; for example, in database-driven applications. Data extracted from the database and the HTML that presents the data can be cached separately. This is similar to using some sort of templates, which are generated on the fly using JSP. The techniques based on the EL API discussed in this article show how you could use the JSP EL to insert the data into the templates for presentation.
Every time you implement a caching mechanism, you need a way to store the cached objects, which are strings in the case presented in this article. You could use an object-caching framework, or you might implement a custom caching solution, using Java maps. JSP already provides the so-called "scoped attributes" or "JSP variables," which offer the ID-object mappings needed by the caching mechanism. It doesn't make sense to use the
page or
request scopes, but the
application scope is a good place for storing the cached content, since it's shared by all users and all pages. The
session scope can also be used when you need one cache per user, but this isn't very efficient. The JSTL tag library can be used to cache content, using JSP variables as in the following example:
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<c:if test="${empty cachedFragment}">
<c:set var="cachedFragment" scope="application">
The cached page fragment can be outputted with:
What happens if the cached fragment needs to be customized for each request? For example, if you want to include a counter, you need to cache two fragments:
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<c:if test="${sessionScope.counter == null}">
<c:set var="counter" scope="session" value="0"/>
<c:set var="counter" value="${counter+1}" scope="session"/>
<c:if test="${empty cachedFragment1}">
<c:set var="cachedFragment1" scope="application">
<c:if test="${empty cachedFragment2}">
<c:set var="cachedFragment2" scope="application">
Then, you can output the cached content with:
${cachedFragment1} ${counter} ${cachedFragment2}
It is much easier to cache the page fragments that need customization with the help of a specialized tag library. As already mentioned, the cached content can be wrapped between a start tag (
<jc:cache>) and an end tag (
</jc:cache>), while each customization is represented by another tag (
<jc:dynamic expr="..."/>) that outputs a JSP expression (
${...}). The dynamic content is cached with JSP expressions that are evaluated each time the cached content is outputted. You'll see how this is implemented in the following sections of the article. The counter.jsp page caches a page fragment containing a counter that is incremented each time the user refreshes the page:
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="jc" uri="http://devsphere.com/articles/jspcache" %>
<c:if test="${sessionScope.counter == null}">
<c:set var="counter" scope="session" value="0"/>
<c:set var="counter" value="${counter+1}" scope="session"/>
<jc:cache id="cachedFragmentWithCounter">
... <jc:dynamic expr="sessionScope.counter"/> ...
Related Reading
Head First Servlets and JSP
JSP variables are easy to use and are a good content-caching solution for simple web apps. The lack of control over the cache's size may be a problem, though, if your application produces large amounts of dynamic content. A dedicated caching framework would provide a more robust solution, allowing you to monitor the cache, limit the cache's size, control the caching policy, and so on.
JSP containers (such as Tomcat) evaluate the expressions from the JSP pages using the EL API, which you can use in your Java code, too. This allows you to work with the JSP EL outside of your web pages, for example, in XML files, text-based resources, and custom scripts. The EL API is also useful when you want to control when the expressions from a web page are evaluated or when you build expressions programmatically. For example, cached page fragments can contain JSP expressions for customization and the EL API will be used to evaluate and reevaluate those expressions each time the cached content is outputted.
The example application (see Resources below) provided with this article includes a Java class (
JspUtils) that contains a method named
eval(), which takes three parameters: a JSP expression, the expected type of the expression's value, and a JSP context object. The
eval() method gets an
ExpressionEvaluator from the JSP context and calls the
evaluate() method, passing the expression, the expected type, and a variable resolver that is obtained from the JSP context. The
JspUtils.eval() method returns the value of the expression:
package com.devsphere.articles.jspcache;
import javax.servlet.jsp.JspContext;
import javax.servlet.jsp.JspException;
import javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext;
import javax.servlet.jsp.el.ELException;
import javax.servlet.jsp.el.ExpressionEvaluator;
import java.io.IOException;
public class JspUtils {
public static Object eval(
String expr, Class type, JspContext jspContext)
throws JspException {
try {
if (expr.indexOf("${") == -1)
return expr;
ExpressionEvaluator evaluator
= jspContext.getExpressionEvaluator();
return evaluator.evaluate(expr, type,
jspContext.getVariableResolver(), null);
} catch (ELException e) {
throw new JspException(e);
Note that
JspUtils.eval() is basically a wrapper around the standard
ExpressionEvaluator. If
expr doesn't contain
${, the JSP EL API isn't used, since there are no JSP expressions.
The JSP tag library needs a Tag Library Descriptor (TLD) file that specifies the names of the custom tags, their attributes, and the Java classes that handle the custom tags. The jspcache.tld file describes the two custom tags. The
<jc:cache> tag has two attributes: the
id for the cached page fragment and the JSP
scope where the content should be stored. The
<jc:dynamic> tag has only one attribute, which should be a JSP expression that must be evaluated each time the cached fragment is outputted. The TLD file maps the two custom tags to the
CacheTag and
DynamicTag classes, which are presented in the following sections:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee web-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
The TLD file is declared in the web application descriptor (web.xml), which also contains an initialization parameter that indicates whether the cache is enabled or not:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee web-app_2_4.xsd"
<jc:cache> Works
For each occurrence of the
<jc:cache> tag in a JSP page, the JSP container creates a
CacheTag instance, which is prepared for handling the tag. It is the responsibility of the JSP container to call the
setParent(), and
setJspBody() methods that
CacheTag inherits from
SimpleTagSupport. The JSP container also calls a setter method for each attribute of the handled tag. The
setId() and
setScope() methods store the attribute values into the private fields, which are initialized with default values in the
CacheTag() constructor:
package com.devsphere.articles.jspcache;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.jsp.JspContext;
import javax.servlet.jsp.JspException;
import javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.SimpleTagSupport;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
public class CacheTag extends SimpleTagSupport {
public static final String CACHE_ENABLED
= "com.devsphere.articles.jspcache.enabled";
private String id;
private int scope;
private boolean cacheEnabled;
public CacheTag() {
id = null;
scope = PageContext.APPLICATION_SCOPE;
public void setId(String id) {
this.id = id;
public void setScope(String scope) {
this.scope = JspUtils.checkScope(scope);
setScope() method calls
JspUtils.checkScope() to verify the value of the
scope attribute, which is converted from
String to
public class JspUtils {
public static int checkScope(String scope) {
if ("page".equalsIgnoreCase(scope))
return PageContext.PAGE_SCOPE;
else if ("request".equalsIgnoreCase(scope))
return PageContext.REQUEST_SCOPE;
else if ("session".equalsIgnoreCase(scope))
return PageContext.SESSION_SCOPE;
else if ("application".equalsIgnoreCase(scope))
return PageContext.APPLICATION_SCOPE;
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"Invalid scope: " + scope);
Once the
CacheTag instance is prepared to handle the tag, the JSP container calls the
doTag() method, which obtains a JSP context with
getJspContext(). This object is casted to
PageContext in order to call
getServletContext(). The servlet context is used to obtain the value of the initialization parameter that indicates whether the caching mechanism is enabled or not. If the cache is enabled,
doTag() tries to get the cached page fragment, using the values of the
id and
scope attributes. If the page fragment hasn't been cached yet,
doTag() uses
getJspBody().invoke() to execute the JSP code wrapped between
<jc:cache> and
</jc:cache>. The output generated by the JSP body is buffered in a
StringWriter and is obtained with
toString(). At this point,
doTag() calls the
setAttribute() method of the JSP context to create a JSP variable that will hold the cached content, which may contain JSP expressions (
${...}). Those expressions are evaluated with
JspUtils.eval() before the content is outputted with
jspContext.getOut().print(). All of these actions take place only if the cache is enabled. Otherwise,
doTag() just executes the JSP body with
getJspBody().invoke(null) and the output is not cached:
public class CacheTag extends SimpleTagSupport {
public void doTag() throws JspException, IOException {
JspContext jspContext = getJspContext();
ServletContext application
= ((PageContext) jspContext).getServletContext();
String cacheEnabledParam
= application.getInitParameter(CACHE_ENABLED);
cacheEnabled = cacheEnabledParam != null
&& cacheEnabledParam.equals("true");
if (cacheEnabled) {
String cachedOutput
= (String) jspContext.getAttribute(id, scope);
if (cachedOutput == null) {
StringWriter buffer = new StringWriter();
cachedOutput = buffer.toString();
jspContext.setAttribute(id, cachedOutput, scope);
String evaluatedOutput = (String) JspUtils.eval(
cachedOutput, String.class, jspContext);
} else
Note that a single call of
JspUtils.eval() evaluates all
${...} expressions, since a text containing multiple
${...} constructs is an expression, too. Each cached fragment can be processed as a big JSP expression.
isCacheEnabled() method returns the value of the
cacheEnabled flag, which is initialized in
public class CacheTag extends SimpleTagSupport {
public boolean isCacheEnabled() {
return cacheEnabled;
<jc:cache> tag allows the page developer to choose the IDs of the cached page fragments. This opens the possibility to cache a page fragment that is shared by multiple JSP pages, which is helpful when you reuse the JSP code, but this also requires some naming convention to avoid conflicts. If you want to avoid this side effect, you can modify the
CacheTag class to include the URL within the ID automatically.
<jc:dynamic> Does
<jc:dynamic> tag is handled by an instance of the
DynamicTag class, whose
setExpr() method stores the value of the
expr attribute into a private field. The
doTag() method builds a JSP expression, adding the
${ prefix and the
} suffix to the value of the
expr attribute. Then,
doTag() uses
findAncestorWithClass() to find the
CacheTag handler of the
<jc:cache> element that contains the
<jc:dynamic> tag. If the ancestor isn't found or the caching is disabled, the JSP expression is evaluated with
JspUtils.eval() and then its value is outputted. Otherwise,
doTag() outputs the unevaluated expression:
package com.devsphere.articles.jspcache;
import javax.servlet.jsp.JspException;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.SimpleTagSupport;
import java.io.IOException;
public class DynamicTag extends SimpleTagSupport {
private String expr;
public void setExpr(String expr) {
this.expr = expr;
public void doTag() throws JspException, IOException {
String output = "${" + expr + "}";
CacheTag ancestor = (CacheTag) findAncestorWithClass(
this, CacheTag.class);
if (ancestor == null || !ancestor.isCacheEnabled())
output = (String) JspUtils.eval(
output, String.class, getJspContext());
Analyzing the above code fragments, you'll observe that
<jc:cache> and
<jc:dynamic> cooperate in order to implement a solution that is as efficient as possible. If the cache is enabled, page fragments are buffered together with the JSP expressions that are generated by
<jc:dynamic> and evaluated by
CacheTag. If the cache is disabled, the buffering is not necessary and
<jc:cache> just executes its JSP body, letting
DynamicTag evaluate the JSP expressions. It is useful to disable the caching, especially during development when the content is changed and the JSP pages are recompiled. Of course, the caching should be enabled in a production environment.
Content caching is a very easy way to improve the performance of your web applications. This article focused on customizing the cached content for each user or request, using the JSP Expression Language. The simple tag library presented throughout the article is suitable for small web apps and could be enhanced for medium ones. If you develop large enterprise applications, you should consider using a framework that provides a better caching mechanism than the use of the JSP variables, but you'll probably still find useful the customization technique based on the EL API.
Andrei Cioroianu is the founder of Devsphere and an author of many Java articles published by ONJava, JavaWorld, and Java Developer's Journal.
Return to ONJava.com
Copyright © 2009 O'Reilly Media, Inc.


text:
|The 26th Alaska State Legislature, 2009 - 2010
Salmon Product Develop. Tax Credit
|Signed Into Law! Chapter 102 SLA 10
Sponsored by Rep. Bill Thomas
Co-Sponsors: Rep. Wilson, Rep. Austerman, Rep. Edgmon, Rep. Muñoz, Rep. Gara, Rep. Harris, Rep. Herron, Rep. Kerttula, Rep. Tuck, Rep. Petersen, Rep. Millett, Rep. Crawford, Rep. Johnson, Rep. Johansen, Sen. Hoffman, Sen. Stedman, Sen. Dyson, Sen. Menard, Sen. French
"Relating to the salmon product development tax credit; and providing for an effective date by amending an effective date in sec. 7, ch. 57, SLA 2003, as amended by sec. 4, ch. 3, SLA 2006, and by sec. 4, ch. 8, SLA 2008."
Posted: March 11, 2010 : v26-LS1473\R
House Bill 344 extends the deadline for salmon processors in Alaska to receive a salmon product development tax credit. The program allows applicants to claim a credit on their annual fisheries business tax for 50% of the purchase costs of eligible equipment. Credits received may not exceed 50% of a taxpayer's annual tax liability. Under current law, processors can claim the credit for the property first placed into service by December 31, 2011. This bill would extend the program's sunset date to December 31, 2015, allowing processors ample time to continue their long-range investment planning.
# # #
Share |
Home |
Press |
Representatives |
Committees |
Bills |
Archives | RSS | Subscribe | Terms | Press Staff | Help


text: August 2, 2010—Featured in a new "roll call" of life from 25 key ocean regions, marine oddities oscillate, swim, and skitter to an ocean "chorus." The animals are all on the Census of Marine Life's newly released species inventory of 25 key areas of the world's oceans. Each area averages more than 10,000 known forms of life, including jellyfish, octopus, sharks, and crustaceans.


text:
hi! deepak here
could any buddy tell me how to read messages from mobile phone through computer programe ?
can any one post me that code
by T.S.DEEPAK » Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:58 am
Address: 388-A , Road no 22, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad AP, INDIA-500033
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.tutorialspoint.com
Keep up on our always latest technology tutorials, articles and news. Enter your e-mail and subscribe to our newsletter.


text:
Home » Western Saddles & Tack » Western Saddles » Simco Basket Floral Saddle
Simco Basket Floral Saddle
Code: 207100
Only $749.00
Quantity in Basket: None
No Additional Freight Charges Added!
Genuine Ralide Quarter Horse Tree!The Simco Premier series features a handmade premium quality leather saddle made in the USA at an affordable price. The Simco Basket Floral is made with top-quality skirting leather and deep basket and floral tooling on a genuine Ralide Quarter Horse tree.
Drop Ship Saddles are shipped directly from the manufacturer to your door! The manufacturer normally ships in stock saddles within 3 or 4 working days.
Basket Empty
Top Deals
Special Offers & Coupons
Category Bestseller


text:
First of all, I know the word over my shoulder is one you've probably not seen before. I hadn't either until recently. But when you combine local and investing you get locavesting and that's an idea upon which rests much of our future.
Locavesting is also the name of a new book by author Amy Cortese who just happens to be in town for Forward Community Investment's Annual Investor Breakfast Wednesday morning, preceded by a reception Tuesday evening. The discussion is all about local investing opportunities, something about which FCI knows a thing or two, and Cortese will talk about "how a small shift in investment away from multinationals towards locally-owned enterprises can reap enormous economic and social benefits for individuals, their communities and the country."
This is all especially relevant right now because the Madison region is growing more and more locally-owned enterprises every day. It is, as Cortese says, about putting your money where you live. And we think that's a good place for it to be.


text:
Catskill trout season opener slated
March 6, 2013 —
LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — The Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum (CFFCM) will host its 2013 Trout Season Opener with a cast of celebrities including Joan Wulff, CFFCM Trustee Don Trump Jr. and son, actors Rip Torn and Olek Krupa and New York State Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther on Saturday, April 6. The event will be held on the Willowemoc Creek just upstream from the CFFCM bridge at 9:30 a.m.
Afterwards, a hot cup of Agnes Van Put's soup will be served at the museum and guests are invited to view this year's new exhibits, including one about Northwest Pacific Steelhead and their impact on Great Lakes fisheries and another featuring vest accessories over the years.
At 11 a.m. tours of the new Wulff Gallery and the Catskill Rodmakers Workshop will be offered. Bamboo Mike Canazon and the Bamboo Crew will host a bamboo rod casting clinic.
A fundraising luncheon will be held at 1 p.m. in the new building. Reservations are required.
Contact 845/439-4810 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Hello ZBrushers! We have a great treat for you! Our latest thread featured on the Top Row at ZBrushCentral is filled with fantastic creatures, sculpted anatomy, and time-lapse videos showing ZBC artist jjvdb15's beautiful and efficient sculpting techniques! With pages and pages of posts, this is one to keep visiting for more great insider tricks and creative inspiration!
View jjvdb15's thread at ZBrushCentral.


text:
Take Action
Click here to see our current campaigns and take action to protect human rights, reform U.S. policy and stand up for justice.
There are many ways to take action to support communities in Latin America and the Caribbean that are struggling for peace and justice. Witness for Peace can help you get active by participating in our current campaigns, joining a travel delegation to Latin America, organizing a rally in your own community and much more.
stay up to date with our campaigns through email, please sign up for our
online activist network -- you'll receive urgent updates and action
alerts from Witness for Peace.
For information on employment, internship and volunteer positions, click here.
For information about donating to Witness for Peace, click here.


text: Emily Grimes Bio: I am an Independent Consultant- District Manager with Arbonne International who also teaches 2nd grade. In my free time I work with the youth and children at First Christian Church in Lufkin. I'm also involved in assorted projects with the Jr league. I enjoy the company of good friends and what goes [Read More…]


text:
White Sox Skid Reaches 6, Will Try Again Tomorrow Night (Sound Familiar?)
2 Comments
He strikes out so often that I'm starting to feel we're paying him to do that. Where are those 45 home runs and 120 RBI? Still waiting, Adam.
– Anders (The Hitless Wonders)
I'm starting to get comfortable in this rut. That worries me.
And, that picture of Adam Dunn is sadly evocative of the current state of affairs on the south side.
Watching the Dandelions Grow