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It looks like Agenda Computing will claim victory in the race to produce the first PDA that runs Linux out of the box and can be purchased by consumers. Unless delayed (again), consumer versions of the VR3 should begin shipping May 21st, 2001, with three colors to choose from.
A few different developer's editions of the VR3 have been available since November of 2000, for those willing to put up with alpha and beta quality software. These units are functionally identical to the commercial VR3 models, except for their blue-and-white translucent color scheme, and on earliest models, slightly different internal designs.
The VR3 is the smallest of the three Linux PDAs we're looking at in this series, on many scales. It is lighter than the iPAQ or the Yopy, weighing only 4 ounces, and it's physically smaller at only 3.1" by 4.4" (7.8cm by 11.3cm). It's also the least expensive, with the consumer version costing $249 US.
On some scales, however, being smaller isn't best. The VR3's display has the lowest resolution of the three, at only 160 by 240 pixels, 16-bit gray-scale. Think of the display as the same size, physically as well as in resolution, as the new Palm m100/m105 models, except with renderable space on the VR3 where the fixed Graffiti writing area exists on the Palm.
For the CPU, the VR3 uses the NEC VR4181 MIPS-based chip, a 32-bit processor running at 66 MHz. Both the developer and initial consumer models are equipped with 16MB of flash memory, and 8MB of regular RAM. A future model, the VR3r, is expected with additional RAM available, although when such models will actual appear may be the subject of more than a few betting pools.
User input is by way of a stylus on the touch-sensitive screen, which also includes a thin row of seven "soft buttons" at the very bottom of the input area. There are also seven physical buttons around the device (including power), plus a handy switch inside the stylus storage chamber. The VR3 wakes up when the stylus is removed, and returns to sleep when it is re-inserted.
Previously in this series: Linux on Your PDA
From your view, what are the advantages of running the Linux OS on your PDA compared to Palm or PocketPC?
Digital Io can be accomplished by way of the IrDA port, or a regular RS232 connection exposed by way of a cable plugged into the interface port on the bottom of the device. This port also has a proprietary interface which Agenda Computing have not yet documented, but plan to "in the future."
The device also has mono audio record and playback ability when a microphone and/or set of headphones are plugged into the audio jack. A piezo buzzer is used for normal audio generation needs. As an interesting extra feature, the VR3 includes a "Consumer IR Port" -- a high-intensity IR LED intended to allow remote control of consumer multimedia devices such CD Players, from distances much beyond normal beaming range.
Overall, the VR3 feels nice and natural in the hand, although those used to the Palm's textured plastic say that the smooth plastic finish of the VR3 is a bit different. One physical design feature I really like on the VR3 is the fact that the battery compartment cover, holding 2 AAA batteries, screws closed. I once lost an entire trade show's worth of contacts because of the Palm's insecure battery cover, so I really appreciate this feature.
When you first turn on an Agenda VR3, or reset it, it will take about a minute before it's ready to be a PDA. Fortunately, going through a full boot sequence is a rare requirement, as the device is in suspend mode most of the time, immediately available when the power button is pressed.
During the boot process, a full Linux 2.4.0-test9 kernel and OS environment is launched. The very first thing which runs is a boot-loader called PMON, that is the VR3's rough equivalent to the BIOS and LILO boot steps of a PC. Interactive control of PMON, along with upgrading the Linux images, is covered below.
Assuming PMON doesn't receive notice otherwise, it will transfer control to the installed Linux kernel, passing in which device to use as the root partition as a parameter. On the screen you'll see a console display, in a very tiny font, of the process of a Linux boot sequence.
After about 30 seconds, a screen calibration tool will appear, and the boot sequence will halt until the stylus has been pressed at five locations on the screen. Once completed the console display returns for a couple of seconds, and then a wonderful sight appears: the familiar cross-hatched pattern and X cursor of a launching X Windows system!
It takes a few more seconds for vrwm, the default window manager to initialize itself, and then the LaunchPad runs. This is a icon-based browser for launching applications, similar to the application icon view on the Palm OS. The LaunchPad is optional, and can be exited to save memory.
At all times, applications can be launched by selecting one of the soft buttons at the bottom of the display. On the far left is the Agenda logo which brings up a menu of applications. The other buttons launch applications directly, and by default bring up Contacts, To Do, Schedule, Notes, the Calculator.
The last soft-button on the VR3 is the Keyboard icon, on the far right of the button bar. It is special in that it launches (or hides) the virtual keyboard application, which also includes the handwriting recognition engine used for the VR3, recd. The character input engine is based on Xscribble, and is covered below.
For those interested, see the RecdInvestigation and HWRProjectPage in the AgendaWiki.com site for much more information on the subject.
The list of included applications on the VR3 is impressive, and covers most of the functionality provided by a Palm. In short form, the applications included (as of 2001.05.15) are:
E-Mail, Faxing and IR-Remote applications are all planned for free download after June 2001.
In addition, there are several games included with the VR3. The Ace of Penguins suite of games by D.J. Delorie is installed, providing Solitaire, Freecell, Golf, Merlin, and several others. There is also a Tetris clone, a Mines clone, Checkers, and a pretty impressive Space Invaders type marching game called Aliens.
Under the System menu are the usual control interfaces for Contrast, setting the Date and Time, adjusting power-usage functions (when to power off, battery state). The Network application lets you establish connections to other devices, covered further below.
One entry under the System menu of particular interest is the StatusBar application. When launched, it opens a thin window at the top of the display and shows current time, battery condition and the name of the currently focused application. The StatusBar can also display the list of opened windows (or at least, most of them), and let you switch between them easily.
The other entry in the System menu of particular interest to geeks is
the Terminal. When selected, a shell will pop up. A real, honest
to Unix
/bin/sh shell! With a
$ prompt and everything.
Type in
bash, and you're greeted with
A fairly complete set of command-line tools are included, many provided by Busybox 0.48. This package emulates several common commands, but as of version 0.48 vi was not one of them. And in fact, an editor is not provided on the default installation, although cat and sed are always an option for those seriously determined.
Most, but not all of the GUI programs run in full screen mode. Checkers, for example, opens a window only big enough for itself. This reveals an exciting property -- X Windows decorations and widgets! Drag bar, Window close and minimizing -- it's all there. Folks, we're really running X Windows!
As with most PDA devices, there are two ways of inputting data into the VR3 -- a virtual, on-screen keyboard, or handwriting recognition (HWR). When the Keyboard soft-button is pressed, a 50 pixel high by full width window will appear at the bottom section of the screen which is where all input actions are performed.
The window will contain one of two virtual keyboards (one for letters and the other numbers/symbols), or four small square writing areas, the first for upper case characters, the next for lower case, the third for numbers, and the last for symbols. Any already open windows will move or resize themselves to make room for the keyboard window.
To switch between the three input modes, there is a small button in the lower right hand corner to toggle between them. Starting with Letters, the button is labeled "123" and takes you to the number and symbol's input display. There the button is labeled "hwr", and leads to the handwriting section, where the button is labeled "abc".
How good is the handwriting input functionality? Not too bad, but not perfect. There are still some letters that I cannot reliably input, such as B and D, it always thinks are H. Also, there are some Graffiti strokes which I like to use, but which it doesn't recognize at all (like the backwards F and V.)
The good news is that work is under way to improve the HWR, and the results seen only in the last few weeks have been quite impressive. Don't even bother trying to use the HWR included with the original developer versions. Also, since the HWR engine is itself open source and takes classifier data in known (and modifiable) formats, I know I can add the missing strokes myself -- I just haven't been frustrated enough to do so yet.
Those interested in researching this topic further should look at the RecdInvestigation and HWRProjectPage on the Agendawiki.com site.
No Linux installation is complete without the ability to bring up network connections, and the Agenda VR3 environment doesn't disappoint. From the menu or LaunchPad, selecting Network brings up a list of connections: MS Direct Cable Connect, Modem to Internet, and Direct Serial.
To establish a PPP connection between your Linux desktop and the VR3, just connect them with the serial cable, and enter the following in a root console on your desktop:
/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 10.1.1.2:10.1.1.3 noauth nodetach novj
debug local
This assumes you've plugged the serial cable into the first port. If not, change ttyS0 to be appropriate. Then, on the VR3, select the Direct Serial connection and press the on-screen Start button. The VR3 and your desktop should negotiate a connection, with both sides reporting success.
At this point you can telnet to the Agenda VR3 from your desktop, and establish an interactive console session with your handheld. Haven't you always wanted to be able to do that?
The root password is, by default, "agenda". The regular user
account which is used for the PDA applications, "default", has no
password set. You can log into the VR3 as either user, and if you
log in as default, you can execute the usual
su and answer the
challenge to become root.
How do you transfer files from and to the device?
I'm not joking.
To copy a file to the default home directory, execute something like this:
rsync somefile.txt 10.1.1.3::vr3/home/default/
Lastly, since the VR3 is running a full X Windows, you can also import and export your displays. On a console on your connected desktop, type in:
xhost +10.1.1.3
In a console on your VR3, enter:
export DISPLAY=10.1.1.2:0.0
Then, in the same VR3 console, launch one of the GUI applications, and watch it open its window on your desktop! You can also do the opposite, and run applications on your desktop that are displayed on your VR3. This can, in fact, be an excellent way of testing GUI design on the VR3 during development, without using the full cross-development tool chain.
While the ability to telnet and rsync in and out of the machine is incredibly useful and powerful, it also makes for a pretty serious security risks if ever connected to a hostile networking environment. I personally never intend to make my VR3 a full "peer" on the Internet. It will instead be a well-protected host behind NAT and firewalls (just like all my other important computers).
Installing a new version of the Linux Kernel and/or the root file-system involves flashing the appropriate blocks of memory with binary images. These are available from the Agenda FTP site, or you can compile and build your own. As of the date of publication, the latest versions are known as Matrix, and are release-to-manufacturer candidates.
Thanks to a tool called
vrflash, written and maintained by Jeff Carneal, downloading and flashing new images is a piece of cake. Versions exist for
both Linux and Windows -- see Carneal's pages
for both versions.
Since the documentation included with vrflash is so complete, I won't bother
suggesting command line options here. I will, however, strongly suggest you
read, and then complete, the instructions included in the
doc/pmon-protect-unprotect.txt file. You wouldn't want your VR3
to be a brick, now would you?
I encourage you to upgrade to the latest versions of both the kernel (
vmlinux-???.binary) and root (
root-???.cramfs) images. Agenda has made significant improvements have occurred in only the last few weeks prior to publication of this article, and I suspect, new and improved images will be available on an ongoing basis.
The boot process of a VR3 is a bit like that for a PC, but instead of a BIOS and LILO, we first encounter the PMON facility immediately after a boot. Sending any character in the VR3's serial port within 3 seconds of a reset will result in an interactive session with PMON.
In addition to burning new file systems into flash memory, PMON can
be used to change the default Linux boot parameters. For example,
issuing the command
$linux console=ttyS0,115200 at the
PMON> prompt results in the boot console messages
being redirected from the VR3's screen out to the serial port.
Before the
vrflash utility was available, VR3 users had to interact with
PMON directly every time they wanted to upgrade their systems. Fortunately,
that's no longer needed, but PMON can be a very handy tool to know
about, being the equivalent of LILO on a PC.
Documentation for PMON
is available at the developer's site.
The Agenda VR3 is an interesting product, from several perspectives. For a Linux geek, it is a relatively inexpensive way of getting a real Linux environment running in a PDA form factor. While executing shell commands in a tiny console using HWR or a virtual keyboard has limited practical uses, I personally find it more enjoyable than Solitaire during boring meetings ...
For Agenda Computing using Linux means they've been able to deliver a full PDA product without paying anyone a software license fee. Based on their projections of unit sales of 500,000 and 750,000 units for this and next year, the savings in licensing expenses could be in the millions of dollars. This is money which would have had to come from the end-consumer in the form of higher prices, making their product less competitive. This money would have also flowed right out the door to someone else.
In light of this, it's pretty easy for Agenda to justify employing a few hackers of their own to bring all the pieces together, and fill in any missing components. In a testament to Agenda's commitment to the open source community, the Personal Information Management (PIM) application suite developed by them has been released under the GPL. This has actually been ported to the Familiar environment for the iPAQ.
Now, being real life, in addition to the positives, there are also a few negatives with the VR3.
Probably my biggest concern is with the amount of regular RAM memory available -- 8 Megs is awfully minimalist, particularly when you're running a full Linux and X Windows environment. And when the VR3 runs out of memory, applications can slow to a crawl, or the entire environment can fall out from under you.
In order to make the best of what's available, the Agenda team have recently implemented XIP in the kernel. This is eXecute in Place, and means the application libraries are executed directly from their flash memory locations, rather than being copied to regular RAM. This has improved things significantly, such that it's now possible to have all the applications running at the same time. (You just know regular users are going to do that!)
I have been told by Agenda that a later model, the VR3R, will have more on-board RAM. Considering how inexpensive RAM is now, I really think 32 megs should have been the first design target, particularly how constrained some applications might be in low memory environments. (Another arm-chair engineer!)
Another issue has to do with the interfacing and expandability or rather the lack of it. Until the proprietary interface on the sync port is documented, the only way to interface to the unit is via IrDA or RS232 serial. This is certainly good enough for most PDA uses, but some people are wanting more, like PCMCIA, 802.11, or even Bluetooth.
Again, I think this was conscience design decision on the part of Agenda Computing, which is targeting the VR3 as a PDA, and not as some power user's mobile hacking platform. With a unit as small as the VR3, offering advanced expansion options is difficult and somewhat expensive.
Also, some functionality is simply missing. One critical example is that the unit cannot currently wake itself up if it's suspended. This is a problem if the Schedule program can't inform you have a meeting in 10 minutes. Agenda Computing reports this wake-up ability will not be ready until June 15th.
On the usability, reliability and stability fronts, the VR3 looks like a good contender. With the addition of the XIP kernel, the VR3 has become much more trust worthy as a PDA, staying responsive without requiring a reboot for several days of regular (on-off-on-off) PIM usage. However, it's still not at the 99.9% of Palm (but then, neither is Windows CE).
And, one last down-side: the desktop Sync software for Windows isn't finished yet and won't be until the first week in June. This means anyone buying the VR3 as a PDA to use under Windows before those dates will be missing a major component to the whole equation.
One could argue Agenda Computing might be releasing the VR3 too early. And, frankly, I couldn't recommend the VR3 to Jane Consumer PDA user who just wants some stable PIM apps and the ability to IrDA data between co-workers -- not just yet. Maybe in another month or two, after everything settles out and other people have had a chance to find the bugs. But now, today (2001.05.17), I'd recommend a Palm m105.
To a geek or developer, on the other hand, I think the VR3 is a platform worth having a serious look at. The price-point is such that it can be simple to justify its deployment at specialized and targeted applications. Porting of apps, so long as they fit within the constraints of such a small display size, cannot get much easier. It's Linux and X!
At first, Agenda plans to sell the VR3s (the three consumer models and the developer model) via their website at www.agendacomputing.com. The developer model will be available while supplies last. The consumer models will also be available at www.thinkgeek.com, and will be available via retail outlines over the coming months.
This roll-out plan is optimal for the transition to a deployed, consumer product. The more technical users will be the largest group to buy the units online, which will help find and fix any outstanding bugs in the system. It should also result in a marketed increase in the number of VR3 users who are porting and developing applications, increasing the selection for the next wave: retail users.
Being the first in a market is rarely a guarantee that the market is simply there for the taking. Agenda will no doubt face competition from others who think they can do it better or cheaper, or both. So long as it runs Linux and X, and we can port our apps between them, what do we care?
If the manufacturers want to compete to offer us better, cheaper products, great! As developers and consumers, we simply take advantage of it. Since it's an open platform, we know we can develop for it and become dependent on the platform without being told, "Oh, sorry. You need to buy this now."
Only time will tell which platform(s) will take off, and which won't, and who will be manufacturing them. Agenda Computing and the VR3 are certainly going to be one of the early players -- it will be interesting to see how they and the market adapt to each other.
One of the most important indicators for future success of a platform is the activity of independent developers and users. The Palm platform would have been a dead story years ago if there weren't so many developers producing so much software for the devices.
Thus, it is a great sign to see how much material is already available on the Internet for VR3 users and developers. A strong independent developer community already exists for the VR3 platform, and is growing. The list below is by no means complete, but is a good selection of what is available.
Agenda Developer Zone Official development site, hosted by Agenda Computing. Hosts CVS and FTP servers with kernel and apps.
Agenda Software Repository (ASR)
Database of software for the Agenda devices. As of 2001.05.15, there were just under 100 applications listed, with several new entries added each week.
Help Page: My Agenda
An independent site run by Andrej Cadilnik. It has extensive documentation on the devices, including how to protect PMON from being overwritten.
Based on the UseModWiki system, is a user created/edited/updated site containing useful information for Agenda users and developers.
Linux VR
Repository for kernel and tools targeted at VR MIPS processors.
Agenda Community Portal
Slashdot-like news site for Agenda-related info. Not terribly busy, but worth visiting once a week.
Today's Agenda
Another news site. Old articles worth skimming over for interesting links and software.
Apologies to anyone whose site was left out -- there were many to choose from.
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CNBC reports a plane has hit the World Trade Center in NY. No details...
Apparently 3 floors of the building are engulfed in flames and smoking.
If this is terrorism . . .
Truely terrible!
MSNBC is showing video now. It looks really bad.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République!
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Prayers going out to the people in that building.
Anyone know how occupied the top 20 floors are?
Is the "Window's On The World" restaurant in this one?
Holy $#!+ !! So where did it go then?
Haven't heard anything about the ground yet, but there's got to be havoc there too!
OMG!!!! Huge explosion out the side!!!
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It was a glimpse into the mind of the man behind the Manti Teo hoax and the motivation that led him to deception.
"This was a love affair," said Dr. Phil McGraw during a Thursday interview on the Dr. Phil Show.
"As twisted and confusing as it may be, yeah," said 22-year-old Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.
Tuiasasopo publicly admitted he was the mastermind who created "Lennay Kekua," the fake online girlfriend that football star Manti Te'o would call "the love of his life."
"I just found out that everything I believed to be my reality wasn't a reality at all," said former Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o on Couric's show last Thursday.
"I think the Internet invites people, because of anonymity, to feel they can stretch the bounds of personal responsibility," said Psychologist Dr. Marvin Acklin.
He said Tuiasosopo created what's called an 'Avatar,' an imaginary character often created in an online game of deception, these days called Catfishing, and all played under the cloak of the internet.
"It's a con. We have a whole class of criminals that make a living doing cons," he said.
"Did you assume this identity to get money?" asked Dr. Phil.
"No. I never wanted anything," said Tuiasosopo.
"It just seemed like a guy trying to get close to Manti either for money or notoriety," said Alema Te'o, Manti's uncle, after he met Tuiasosopo before the USC game against Notre Dame.
Teo's uncle and others accused Tuiasosopo of seeking financial gain -- the motivation of most romance scammers and cyber criminals.
Acklin said he's skeptical of that, but has a deeper concern for those willing to deceive at any cost.
"We use the term psychopath or sociopath to describe somebody who acts without a conscience," he said.
"I'm so confused. I'm so lost," Tuiasosopo told Dr. Phil.
Acklin said the motivation, the mind-set of a man such as Tuiasosopo, may take years to unravel.
Criminal or just Confused.
We may never know.
"I think remains to be seen, because the Internet is a world where there's an invitation to do that," said Acklin.
"What I went through was real. The feelings, the pain, the sorrow. That was all real. That's something I can't fake," said Te'o.
Investigators say romance scams, in particular, are on the rise. The con on Manti Te'o never turned to money, but investigators say most do.
Prosecutors are about to launch a brand, new unit to battle cyber crimes.
KITV4 talked with the man leading the fight to stop them, and others, who cheat, prey, and pretend to love.
"He fell in love with this, let's say, this character," began Dr. Phil McGraw on the Dr. Phil Show on Thursday.
"In a lot of these cases, especially in the romance scams, they start out very innocent," said Chris van Marter, who is a deputy prosecutor, and the head of the white collar crimes unit at the prosecutor's office.
"I love you so much. Sweet dreams," said what appeared to be a woman's voice on one of the voice messages to Manti Te'o.
Her name was Lennay Kekua.
She was 22-year-old Ronaiah Tuiasosopo's made-up woman.
She would soon to become Manti Te'o's fake online girlfriend.
He said she was easily accessible on line but strangely elusive in person.
"I guess I wasn't paying attention," said Te'o in an interview with Katie Couric the week before.
"The bottom line is fraud works," said van Marter.
He said Tuisasosopo's love-stung story is the type of scheme often linked to 'easy money.'
"He would tell me he loved me, and he had feelings for me," began a woman we called "Ann" during an interview in 2010.
In less than three weeks,"Ann's" fake online love tricked her out of $11,000.
"I realized I was sending money to someone who wasn't there, that wasn't real," she said.
"They think they're smarter that everyone else. They don't think they're going to get caught. If they do they don't think the consequences will be significant. For some it's a challenge. It's fun," said van Marter.
The number and cost of cyber crimes has exploded in recent years.
In 2011 alone: The Internet Crimes Complaint Center received more than 300,000 complaints and U.S. victims lost more than $485 million.
"We get about 100 complaints per month that involve either Hawaii victims or suspects. That's just complaints reported online," said van Marter.
He said add complaints to police and financial institutions, and combined, that's still only about one in seven of the people actually getting scammed.
"I poured so much in to it," admitted Tuiasosopo to Dr. Phil.
"It's the enormous amount of time it takes to undo the damage, the frustration and the stress," said van Marter.
But Hawaii laws are changing.
In July 2012, lawmakers double penalties for cyber and white collar crimes and added two new laws to penalize "sexting" and require out-of-state companies to honor Hawaii search warrants and subpoenas and release electronic and cell records during an investigation.
"It's been hard. It's been difficult," said Te'o.
Van Marter is preparing to head the first Cyber Crimes Unit at the Prosecutor's Office - armed with an extra $136,000 grant for a new investigator.
It is a shift in resources for a serious problem targeting even the most unexpected victims.
"The deception wasn't only with Manti. It was our entire family," said Te'o's mother.


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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size ¼ recipe
Calories 100
Calories from Fat 15
Total Fat 2 g
Saturated Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 5 mg
Sodium 135 mg
Total Carbohydrate 16 g
Dietary Fiber 1 g
Sugars 8 g
Proteins 5 g
Vitamin A 30% DV
Vitamin C 150% DV
Calcium 10% DV
Iron 2% DV
Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Servings and Times
Servings 4
Preparation Time 30 minutes
Cups of Fruits and Vegetables Per Person: 1.0
Ingredients and Preparation
Filling Ingredients
Spicy Low Fat Cucumber White Sauce Ingredients
Ingredients Measures
Green bell pepper, diced 1/2 cup
Red bell pepper, diced 1/2 cup
Yellow bell pepper, diced 1/2 cup
Sweet onion, diced 1/2 cup
Mushrooms, sliced 1/2 cup
Canola oil 1 tablespoon
Ready-made crepes 4
Ingredients Measures
Fat-free milk 1 cup
Cornstarch 2 teaspoons
Parmesan cheese, finely grated 2 tablespoons
Cucumbers, diced 1/2 cup
Cayenne pepper 1/8 teaspoon
Canola oil 1 teaspoon
- In a large saucepan, heat oil and sweet onions until translucent and aromatic.
- Add mushrooms, salt and pepper and cook thoroughly.
- Add all of the bell peppers and cook slightly. Be careful not to overcook or they will lose their crispness.
- Fill and roll the crepes.
- To make sauce, heat a medium-size pan over high heat. When hot, add the oil.
- When the oil is hot, add the cucumbers and quickly sauté just to soften slightly.
- Remove from the heat and set aside.
- Prepare white sauce by mixing together milk, cornstarch, parmesan cheese, and cayenne pepper in a saucepan.
- Cook slowly, over low to medium heat, stirring frequently until sauce is semi-thick and smooth.
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CONSOL Energy (NYSE:CNX) and CNX Gas, its wholly owned subsidiary, presented $50,000 to the Bluefield State College Foundation during the 2011 Bluefield Coal Show. The gift is the second installment in CONSOL Energy's commitment to contribute $150,000 for the establishment of the endowed CONSOL Energy Scholarship in Engineering Technology at Bluefield State College. Pictured, from left, during the presentation ceremony are Frank Hart (Dean/BSC School of Engineering Technology & Computer Science), Karen Harvey (BSC Director/Institutional Advancement & Planning), Jack Richardson (CONSOL Energy vice president of Central Appalachia operations), Roger Owensby (BSC Assistant Professor and Department Head/Mining Engineering Technology), and Rocky Malamisura (CNX Gas General Manager of Drilling and Development).
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(Bluefield) -- CONSOL Energy (NYSE:CNX) and CNX Gas, its wholly owned subsidiary, presented $50,000 to the Bluefield State College Foundation during the 2011 Bluefield Coal Show. The gift is the second installment in CONSOL Energy's commitment to contribute $150,000 for the establishment of the endowed CONSOL Energy Scholarship in Engineering Technology at Bluefield State College.
"We are pleased to deliver this, our second installment of $50,000, for the scholarship we endowed last year at Bluefield State College," said Jack Richardson, CONSOL Energy vice president of Central Appalachia operations. "CONSOL Energy and its CNX Gas Virginia operations division have a long standing relationship with Bluefield State College."
Buford Myers, vice president of CNX Gas Virginia operations, agreed, adding, "Our companies have provided internships, scholarship funds and have hired Bluefield State College graduates for many years. At CONSOL Energy, we've collaborated with the college on various projects and educational programs, to include developing a class in petroleum well drilling systems with the school of engineering technology in which CNX Gas Virginia division employees served as instructors."
Both Richardson and Myers are graduates of Bluefield State College and both have spent their entire careers with CONSOL Energy.
The CONSOL Energy gift represents the largest corporate gift in the 116-year history of the college, according to Roger Owensby, assistant professor and department head/mining engineering technology. "CONSOL Energy's endowment is particularly timely, because of the number of deserving students who aspire to careers in the energy field," Owensby said.
Frank Hart, dean of the BSC School of Engineering Technology & Computer Science, added, "CONSOL's support of engineering technology students spans almost 40 years. About 100 students have benefitted from their scholarships, and more than 60 have been employed by CONSOL Energy in its coal or gas operations." BSC graduates employed by CONSOL Energy have also contributed to the scholarship as a means of assisting upcoming professionals following in their footsteps.
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This week's tip is literally a tip. Well, actually an overtip.
Most of our meals, my husband and I cook and eat at home. But I have an elderly mother-in-law who has a few fast food favorite cravings, so I'm almost daily in a drive-up somewhere around town. Maybe it's a referendum on my cooking, but that's a subject for another time.
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I have a truffle list. I realize that the more popular checklist of life-experiences-to-achieve-before-I-die has been The Bucket List, but I decided rather than an itemization of once in a lifetime experiences, I would make an effort to give myself a sweet indulgence on a regular basis. A chocolate truffle is not a necessity or a huge experience, but what a rich, delightful interlude for a journey. Now I seek out little pleasures for my truffle list, and even the exercise of the search has increased my awareness and enjoyment of life's simple blessings.
By: Coco Duckworth on November 10, 2012 - 12:06pm - Add new comment
A friend of mine received this complaint letter from her 11-year-old son. Logan May is the 6th grade son of Kim and Gentry May, owners of Nobox Creative, an Amarillo-based advertising, marketing and public relations firm.
Kim posted Logan's letter on Facebook, and after my initial chuckle, I was very impressed with the instinctive wisdom of this young man.
Here are a few of the smart business communication rules Logan included in his correspondence:
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Early Termination
Current Rates: http://www.peacecorpswiki.org/ETrates
Peace Corps Manual Section 284 establishes the policies and procedures governing the circumstances under which a Peace Corps Volunteer's service may end prior to the completion of service date. An ET occurs when Volunteer "cannot or should not remain in service until his or her completion of service (COS) date." The most current report available is the FY 2009 ET Data Summary. Currently, out of 100 volunteers who begin their service, about 35 will Early Terminate sometime before their completion of service. (Source: "Early Termination in the Peace Corps", Appendix A )
There are four types of early termination:
- Resignation: A resignation is a decision made by a Volunteer that he/she no longer wishes to continue in Peace Corps service.
- Medical Separation: If a Volunteer has or develops a medical condition that Peace Corps cannot medically accommodate or resolve within forty-five (45) days, the Volunteer will be medically separated. This decision is made by the Office of Medical Services (OMS) in consultation with the Peace Corps Medical Officer and, if needed, appropriate medical consultants.
- Administrative Separation: Pursuant to the Peace Corps Act, 22 USC 2504(i), the service of a Volunteer may be terminated at any time at the pleasure of the President. The authority of the President to terminate service has been delegated to the Director of the Peace Corps. Accordingly, the Director, or anyone to whom the Director delegates such authority, may separate a Volunteer at any time purely at the discretion of the deciding official and as otherwise expressly provided herein.
- Interrupted Service: A Volunteer may be separated with interrupted service status if the Country Director determines that circumstances beyond the control of the Volunteer make it necessary for the Volunteer to leave his or her present assignment.
Rough Estimate
A back-of-the-envelope calculation can be done as follows: Peace Corps currently accepts about 5,000 volunteers per year. If no volunteer leaves early then after 27 months a total of 11,250 volunteers should be serving right now (27 months * 5,000 per year) - from those volunteers just beginning service to those just ending. Any volunteers who ETed during that time would make the number smaller. If 10% of the volunteers have ETed then the 11,250 number would be 10% less; if 50% ETed then the 11,250 number would be half, etc. According to the Peace Corps website there are currently 7,500 volunteers serving around the world right now. This means about 3,750 volunteers out of the 11,250 total possible have Early Terminated, equaling 33%. (3,750 volunteers who ETed out of 11,250 total) This is consistent with more precise estimates.
Determining ET Rates
Before 1981, Peace Corps used the V Year method, standing for 'Volunteer-Year'. It is the number of ET's by an average volunteer during one year of service. Since most volunteers successfully complete their service, which is longer than one year, this number would be a "fraction of an ET". If the V-Year ET Rate was 0.20 (per year) we would expect about 2 volunteers out of 10 to ET per year, or about 1 volunteer out of 10 in a six-month period.
In 1981, at the request of the General Accounting Office, the agency's Office of Special Service began to report Volunteer attrition, using the Cohort Method. This method addresses the question: 'If X number of people enter Peace Corps service during a given time period, how many actually complete their service?"
A cohort is defined as all trainees who enter on duty during a Fiscal Year (i.e. the Class of FY90), and the cohort attrition rate as the percent of Volunteers and Trainees within a cohort who do not complete service (e.g. 29% of the Class of FY90 did not complete service). Cohort attrition is also referred to as 'class of' attrition rate (where 'class of' refers to all trainees entering on duty during a Fiscal Year).
Cohort ET Rates tend to be at least double the ET reported by posts using the V Year chart method. While these latter rates (V-Year) are essential for budget calculations purposes, they provide an incomplete picture of overall attrition. Unlike the V Year chart method used by posts to calculate T and V ET Rates, the cohort method provides a complete picture of attrition because it follows people over their full tour (meaning, for most Volunteers, a 24 to 27 month period).
In the early 2000's, Peace Corps switched formulas to an Annual Method in reported ET data. The 'ET Rate' using the annual method is the number of PCVs/Ts who separated from the Peace Corps during the fiscal year divided by the total number of trainees and volunteers who served at any time during the fiscal year. Thus, an individual who served for one day and another individual who served for the full fiscal year are counted equally for the denominator of the fraction. This method addresses the question: 'Of the n total number of individuals who served at any time during a given time 12-month period, how many early terminate in that same time span?"
Because the different methods in reporting ET data use different data and calculations, care must be taken so as not to inappropriately compare the two. As the Cohort Method spans over a twenty-seven month period (or more) while the Annual method is strictly a twelve-month period, the results do not lend to comparability.
Comparison Between Methods
|V Year
|Cohort Method
|Annual Method
|before 1981
|1981 - early 2000s
|used currently
|roughly half of Cohort value
|"complete picture of attrition"
|roughly half to a third of Cohort Value
|FY 1990: 29% ET Rate
|FY 1990: 13% ET Rate
| Meaning: 29% of all volunteers who
entered service in FY 1990 ET'ed
sometime before their COS date
| Meaning: 13% of all volunteers who
served any portion of the fiscal year
of 1990 ET'ed within that year
Converting Between Methods
Since an exact conversion can only be made with raw data, the following will be an approximate conversion between the two methods based on the following assumptions:
- Every year had the same number of volunteers who started service in that year - in other words, every Cohort group was the same size.
- Within a given year volunteers entered Peace Corps service randomly between January 1st and December 31st .
- Full service was exactly 27 months.
- Those who Early Terminated did so randomly, anywhere from one day of training to right before their anticipated COS date.
These assumptions make every cohort identical and every year identical. While it may be an idealized model, for its simplicity it gives a reasonably accurate conversion from one method to the other.
Roughly, for every 2% away from 10% the Annual Method is the Cohort method will be 5% away from 30%. For more information on the derivation of the conversation chart presented here, see the report Annual and Cohort Early Termination Rates
Current ET Rates
Latest report: FY 2009 ET Data Summary
- PCVs/Ts : all Peace Corps Volunteers on Duty in FY2009
- ET: Early Terminations (RS+MD+AD+IS)
- RS: Resignations
- MD: Medical Separations
- AD: Administrative Separations
- IS: Interrupted Service
- RS/ET % : Percent of Early Terminations that were resignations
- Annual ET%: ET rate currently used by Peace Corps
- Example: 10.0% of all volunteers worldwide who served any portion of the fiscal year of 2009 ET'ed within that same year.
- Cohort ET%: Estimated Cohort Rate ("Out of 100 volunteers") [1]
- Example: The worldwide annual ET rate (10.0%) is roughly equivalent to 29.2% of volunteers ET'ing sometime before their COS date.
Historical ET Rates
Historical ET Rates depends on which formula you used in calculating them. Prior to 2000 Peace Corps used the Cohort Method in calculating ET Rates, and Historical ET Rates were reported using the same method. Since then, Peace Corps has switched to the Annual Method and recently published Historical ET Rates have presented data to correspond to the current method.
|The Historical ET Rate using the Cohort Method. A cohort is defined as all trainees who enter on duty during a Fiscal Year (i.e. the Class of FY90) and the cohort attrition rate as the percent of Volunteers and Trainees within a cohort who do not complete service.
Example: 29% of all volunteers who entered service in FY 1990 ET'ed sometime before their COS date.
|The Historical ET Rate using the Annual Method is the number of PCVs/Ts who separated from the Peace Corps during the fiscal year divided by the total number of trainees and volunteers who served at any time during the fiscal year.
Example: 13% of all volunteers who served any portion of FY 1990 ET'ed within that year
For a more complete table of volunteer numbers from 1961 to 1970, using the statistics from the table above, see here. Estimates of current numbers are given below.
| Number of volunteers
arriving that year (est.)
| Number of volunteers
serving at any moment (est.)
| ET rate
(Cohort, est.)
Because the different methods in reporting ET data use different data and calculations, care must be taken so as not to inappropriately compare the two. As the Cohort Method spans over a twenty-seven month period (or more) while the Annual method is strictly a twelve-month period, the results do not lend to comparability. Care must be taken in comparing ET Rates reported from documents using different formulas for measuring ET Rates.
Spreadsheet data using the Cohort Method
Reports using the Annual Method
- 2009: FY 2009 ET Data Summary
- 2008: FY 2008 ET Data Summary
- 2007: FY 2007 Quantitative Early Termination Report
- 2006: FY 2006 Quantitative Early Termination Report
- 2005: FY 2005 Quantitative Early Termination Report
- 2005: FY 2005 Quantitative Early Termination Report (Appendices)
- 2005: Resignation Reason Report (January 2005 - December 2005)
Reports using both the Annual Method and Cohort Method
Reports using the Cohort Method
- 1999: Report on Early Terminations May 1999
- 1997: Early Termination Work Group Progress Report, March 1997
- 1996: Peace Corps Report on Early Termination FY90-FY96
- 1995: Reasons for Early Termination of Peace Corps Service; A Pilot Study to Improve Data Collection (Dec 1995)
- 1992: FY1992 Report of Early Termination Statistics
(Note: All documents were obtained from Peace Corps, by request, using the Freedom of Information Act and are in public domain)
See Also
- ET Summary by Will Dickinson and Michael Sheppard, January 2009
- Inspector General Reports
- Early Termination in the Peace Corps Michael Sheppard, Michigan State University


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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size ½ of recipe
Calories 237
Total Fat 8 g
Saturated Fat 1 g
Sodium 301 mg
Total Carbohydrate 8 g
Dietary Fiber 1.5 g
Protein 33.5 g
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Boneless, skinless chicken breast halves 2 (6-ounce)
Salt 1/8 teaspoon
Freshly ground pepper to taste
All-purpose flour 1 tablespoon
Water 2 tablespoons
Olive oil 2 teaspoons
Small carrot, chopped 1
Shallot, minced ½
Scallions, sliced 2
Dried tarragon 2 teaspoons
Reduced-sodium chicken broth ¾ cup
- Season chicken with salt and pepper. Set aside.
- Mix flour and water into a thin paste. Set aside.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add carrots, scallions, and shallot, and cook 2-3 minutes. Push vegetables to the sides of the skillet, add chicken breasts to the middle, and sprinkle vegetables and chicken with tarragon. Brown chicken breasts 2-3 minutes on each side.
- Pour in chicken broth continue cooking 5-6 minutes. Whisk in flour mixture, and cook 1-2 minutes, until sauce becomes slightly thick.


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#113832 - 10/18/03 09:31 AM tintinnabulation
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"It was drowned in the tintinnabulation of the gong, which sounding again with great fury, there was a general move towards the dining-room; still excepting Briggs the story boy, who remained where he was, and as he was; and on its way to whom Paul presently encountered a round of bread, genteelly served on a plate and napkin, and with a silver fork lying crosswise on the top of it."
I have been under the impression that this word was coined by Poe, but he may have gotten it from Dickens.
#113833 - 10/18/03 09:44 AM Re: tintinabulation
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Loc: Vermont
well the Poe usage is attributed to 1831, and Dickens would have only been 19.
edit a little further research makes me think that 1831 might be a bit early for Poe as well... someone who actually knows something could chime in anytime here..._________________________
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#113834 - 10/18/03 11:43 AM Re: tintinabulation
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Dear etaoin: Are you sure of Poe's dates? Site I found says he was only about three years younger than Dickens:
Best known for his poems and short fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston, Jan. 19, 1809, died Oct. 7, 1849 .
Dickens was born in 1812.
The Raven and Other Poems (1845)
Edgar Allen Poe: The Bells
Date: c1845
Poe lived in the Bronx for number of years, and his house can still be visited a few blacks from Fordham, on the Grand Concourse. You could not hear the bells of University Church there now - the din of the Bronx is too great, and since the Church was only built in 1845, its bells would have had to have had a dramatic effect on Poe. Still, stranger things have happened
Dombey and Son (1846-8)
Dear etaoin: Looks as though your comment is well founded.
But only by a rather small margin. I had a lot of trouble locating date for Dombey and Son. Can't be sure the date give is correct, but think it probably is. I had fun searching.
#113835 - 10/18/03 04:24 PM Re: tintinabulation
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OED1 does list Poe's 1831 usage as the earliest for tintinabulation but it also lists tintinabulant, tintinabular, tintinabulary, tintinabulism and tintinabulous at various dates between 1767 and 1827 and tintinabulum, a small bell, at 1398.
#113836 - 10/18/03 10:41 PM Re: tintinabulation
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with Faldage's references, it looks as if maybe they both got it from somewhere else. or developed it separately. would they have known each other's works?
the biographical info I had came from http://www.biography.com_________________________
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#113837 - 10/19/03 12:19 AM Re: tintinabulation
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my parents had an apartment in the bronx, the building bore a placque, noting that 'Poe's cottage' now located across the street in a park, was orginally located there. (i know poe's cottage very well, too!)
the site was about a half mile away from the fordham chapel-as the crow flys-- (i know all the bronx well, but especially that area, and the FU campus. i actually met my ex husband at a service held in the chapel!) Fordham U is in valley/edge of small plain, (the eastern end is less than a half mile from the bronx river) Poe's cottage was on the beginning of the 'kingsbridge cresant' a cresant shaped highland, that marks the highest point of the land. (the highest point of the cresant is the now the site of a VA hospital)
as a child, i could here the chapel bells, (especially in the winter) even though, at that point in time, there was an elevated train between our house and the Fordham campus! I didn't hear them all the time, but then they didn't chime on the hour, as the local church(Our Lady of Mercy) bells did, but only on special occations.
As kids,we commonly cut through the campus (there was a passenger tressel bridge over the metro north tracks that mark the western edge of the campus) to get to the botanical gardens.(the wrought iron fencing of the RR station was bent, to allow student quick access to the station the northern end of the station was quite close to the quad and dorms.)
i am not surprized Poe would have heard the chapel bells._________________________
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By Liliana Castillo, Freedom New Mexico
When Joannie Spear goes to a garage sale, she's mostly looking for resale value. She never thought she'd find her personal holy grail.
Originally from Hawaii, Spear visits garage sales every Friday and Saturday morning in Clovis looking for items to sell on eBay.
"I look for odd items, things people bought and got tired of," Spear said. "To me, it's still worth something."
Spear also collects anything from Hawaii, especially paintings of a Hawaiian artist, which dominate a wall in her Hawaii room at her home.
"One day, I found a print of a hula dancer by this artist, one of those 20-by-30s, a big one. I walked up to this garage sale in Clovis, New Mexico and found it. Framed in rare koa wood in mint condition," Spear said, disbelief in her voice as she described it. "And it was signed. I couldn't believe it."
For Elsie Shirley, the awe-factor is similar, but she doesn't collect anything in particular and doesn't look for resale value.
"I like to find things, like if my kids need something or I need something." Shirley said from her Portales home. "Sometimes you find a good buy and some days it doesn't pay you to waste the gas."
Even though garage sales never guarantee a find, Shirley said there's more to it than the shopping.
"I get to see people I wouldn't normally get to see. And if something is old, I get to hear where it came from or who made it or how old it might be," she said. "And that makes it really neat."
Shirley said she never expects much when she goes out early Saturday mornings in Portales from one garage sale to another. But its always nice, Shirley said, to come across something that makes her say "Oh my gosh, look."
For Shirley that something was an old quilt.
"I love quilts. It was in really good shape and I could tell it was around for a long time. I bought it for a dollar," she said. "I don't know the family or the women that made it, but I will hang on to it."


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Move over, food trucks. Mobile stores are going to need some parking space.
"[The mobile Ghetto Vintage] was definitely inspired by the food truck craze," said Ghetto Vintage owner Josh Harden.
Ghetto Vintage is an online business that operates out of a 3,000-square-foot Whitehall warehouse and sells retro men's T-shirts on eBay. The mobile Ghetto Vintage — a silver trailer complete with a framed Burt Reynolds portrait — debuted at Summer Flea earlier this month.
Harden has had the 1968 wagon for about five years. He once took it on a seven-month road trip out west. Mind you, it still had green shag carpet on the walls at the time.
After seeing how well Columbus responded to mobile food services, Harden decided to renovate the trailer to sell his T-shirts and other vintage men's accessories.
"I wasn't 100 percent convinced that a retail spot would work for us," Harden said, because his stock changes on a daily basis and is full of unique items. "This makes it easier for the customer to find us and see what we have."
He's not alone. The trend of making mobile versions of stores — and medical spas and designer boutiques — is gaining speed in Columbus. Here are three you can venture inside this weekend.
Three mobile stores to try this weekend
Ghetto Vintage
What: This online business hits the road with $10 T-shirts from the '70s and '80s, plus belt buckles, boots and ties in a renovated 1968 Avion trailer.
Where: Ohio Food Truck Festival at the Ohio History Center, 800 E. 17th Ave., North Side
When: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 25-26
Mobile Global Gallery
What: In a remodeled bookmobile, shoppers will find fair-trade jewelry, accessories and crafts, as well as fair trade coffee, which they can put over ice.
Where: At its debut at Urban Scrawl 6. You'll also likely see it at the upcoming Hot Times festival. 400 West Rich, 400 W. Rich St., Franklinton
When: 12-10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25; 12-6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26
Thread on Wheels
What: The designer fashion boutique Thread on Grandview gutted and redesigned a 31-foot-long 1972 Airstream and loaded it with goodies from the store. Shop high-end women's clothing, shoes and accessories in a charmingly low-end setting.
Where: Grandview Hop near the boutique's brick and mortar location; 1306 Grandview Ave., Grandview. Or at the Ohio Food Truck Festival on Sunday; Ohio History Center, 800 E. 17th Ave., North Side
When: Grandview Hop 5:30-9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25
Ohio Food Truck Festival from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26
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By Dave Wagner
Eastern New Mexico University women's basketball coach Dan Buzard, hospitalized recently in Albuquerque due to a brain tumor that turned out to be cancerous, is scheduled to undergo gamma knife radiation treatments perhaps as early as next week.
Buzard, who has been staying with his in-laws in Albuquerque since being released from the hospital on July 30, said he will meet with a radiation doctor today to determine when the procedure will begin and how long the treatments will last.
The type of radiation treatment Buzard will undergo is a relatively new procedure called Gamma knife which allows doctors to zero in more precisely on the diseased area while sparing healthy areas surrounding it, according to www.webmd.com.
Surgery removed about 70 percent of the tumor after Buzard was hospitalized. He said the decision was made to go with radiation over another surgery to try to get all or most of the remaining tumor.
"We hope to get 95-99 percent of the tumor," he said.
Buzard, beginning his third year as ENMU's head coach after 13 years as a grad assistant and then full-time assistant to Wayne Moore, hopes to be back sometime in the fall, perhaps for the start of the season in November.
ENMU athletic director Mike Maguire said Monday night that in the event Buzard isn't ready by the start of the season, assistant coach Dustin Klafka would become the acting head coach and Moore would come out of retirement to serve as the assistant.
"Dustin does a great job; he'll be able to handle things," Maguire said. "I contacted Wayne and asked if he'd be willing to help if Dan's not able to start things out, and he said he would."
Maguire added, however, that he hopes Buzard can return to work sooner than later.
"We're hoping he'll be back for the season," Maguire said. "At this point, we'll just wait and see what happens."
Buzard said Monday that he's felt much better since the surgery to remove part of the tumor.
"I feel better than I've felt in six months," he said. "If I felt this way all the time, I wouldn't do any radiation. But we have to do something to get (the tumor) out of there."
He said between his doctors, the people at ENMU and well-wishers, he's had a strong support system.
"It's just a matter of the people (who are) working with me and around me are awesome," Buzard said. "I couldn't ask for anything better."
A benefit account for Buzard has been set up at Wells Fargo in Clovis and Portales. Donations can be made at either location and will go directly to the family, according to Lisa Dunagan of the Clovis office.


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A military police officer accused of helping her husband hide his half-brother's corpse will stand trial.
Shannon L. Remus, 26, was bound over for trial in Dane County Circuit Court on Thursday.
Remus is charged with being party to the crime of hiding a corpse.
Detectives said she denied involvement in the death of 27-year-old Matthew Graville last summer, but interviews and court testimony confirmed she knew about the death and where Graville was buried.
Her husband, Jeffery Vogelsberg, 28, formerly of Mazomanie, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse. Prosecutors said Vogelsberg tortured and eventually killed Graville in Wisconsin last summer. Dane County prosecutors said Remus helped organize the burial.
Graville's body was not found until early November. Graville had Asperger's syndrome, an autism-spectrum disorder.
Vogelsberg and Remus were arrested in Washington state and extradited to Wisconsin to face charges.


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A deductible is the portion of the claim that you pay yourself before your California car insurance policy begins paying for losses, injuries, or damages. For instance, if you're involved in a car accident with $10,000 worth of damages, and you have a $500 deductible, you would pay the first $500 of the claim and the insurance company would pay the remaining $9500. This is why California car insurance policies with higher deductibles have lower premiums. If you have an accident that involves $500 or less, you would pay the entire amount out of pocket.
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Liability insurance is the coverage you purchase in case you cause damage to other people's property or injuries to other people. You are not covered for damage to your own car or for your own injuries. When you are quoted a policy for the bare minimum California car insurance, it's usually for liability insurance alone. Many other states also require liability insurance in order to drive on their roads.
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Insurance companies try to set their prices by predicting the chances of an accident occurring in the future. In order to set prices more fairly, they charge higher premiums for people who are more likely to make claims. They use your prior driving record as a guide to setting your policy premiums. They also count speeding tickets and other moving violations against you when setting your premiums.


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Central Banks Act To Avert Banking Crisis
By Jim Zarroli • Nov 30, 2011
The major central banks of the world moved Wednesday to prevent a banking crisis in Europe. They're providing more liquidity to the European banking system in hopes that big banks there will remain solvent and continue to make loans. The coordinated move by the central banks sent stock markets soaring. But it will not even begin to fix Europe's fundamental economic problems.


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Some of the events we will run will be free while some will involve a fee if there is an admission or facility charge to whatever venue we will be going to. However, there will NEVER be a Meetup group membership fee! We won't nickel and dime members to make money out of them.
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