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Saturday 18 April 2009 is Record Store Day. A day when music lovers come together, celebrate and show some affection (by actually buying something) for their local and independently run record shop.
RSD began in the US in 2007 but has spread internationally since, so you've little excuse for not taking part. The likes of Eagles Of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes (he's the Ambassador, actually), Paul McCartney and Jack White are all lending support (more on that here), which, in this age of downloads, piracy and Amazon.com, is useful.
A major highlight, of course, is the abundance of music released exclusively for the occasion. And if you're in any way a collector of limited edition pieces, unreleased rarities and long-lost live tracks, you'll be in vinyl heaven.
Below are MusicRadar's top picks â not that your local store will have them all (they have to pick and choose what they order) â but if you do come across one or two, buy them both. Happy browsingâ¦
20 cool Record Store Day exclusives (in alphabetical order)
1. Black Kids - Wizard Of Ahhhs 10"
Band's debut hype-making demo on a physical format for the first time
2. Booker T - Warped Sister/Reunion Time 7"
As in Booker T And The MGs â featuring Drive By Truckers and Neil Young on lead guitar!
3. Camera Obscura - French Navy/The World Is Full of Strangers 7"
First track comes ahead of album release, second is previously unreleased
4. Cursive/Ladyfinger - Split 10"
Features four songs: two new, two previously unreleased on a picture disc
5. The Dead Weather - Hang You From The Heavens 7"
First release from Jack White's new band, and a first for Third Man Records
6. The Decemberists - The Rake's Song/East India Lanes 7"
The b-side is an unreleased rarity
7. Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows/Dirty Rotten Shame 7"
Features a previously unreleased track
8. Elvis Costello/Jenny Lewis - Carpet Baggers/Go Away split 7"
Available for the first time in the US
9. Flaming Lips/Black Keys - Borderline/Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles split 7"
Two great bands, one vinyl
10. Flight Of The Conchords - Pencils In The Wind/Albi The 7"
Both exclusive new tracks
11. Loney Dear/Andrew Bird - Split 7"
Comes with a hand silk screened cover
12. Lykke Li/Perro Del Mar - After Laughter/At Your Best split 7"
Both are previously unreleased covers
13. Pavement - Live in Cologne 1997 LP
A previously-unreleased show in Germany
14. Sonic Youth/Beck - Pay No Mind/Green Light split 7"
Sonic Youth covering Beck and Beck covering Sonic Youth
15. Sonic Youth/Jay Reatard - Hang Them All (Jay Reatard)/No Garage (Sonic Youth) split 7â³
Another split, another RSD exclusive
16. Bruce Springsteen - What Love Can Do/A Night From The Jersey Devil 7â³
Comes in clear sleeve with 3"x5" photo
17. Thermals/Thao - Get Down Stay Down split 7"
Two artists, four unreleased tracks
18. Vetiver - Wishing Well/Pay No Mind 7"
Two non-album tracks from oft Devandra Banhart cohorts
19. Tom Waits - Live From The Gillterdome split 7â³
Recorded live in Atlanta and Edinburgh
20. Whiskeytown - San Atone/Great Divide 7"
Two unreleased tracks from Ryan Adams' old band
Next page: even more highlights
More Record Store Day highlights
Ben Harper - Shimmer And Shine/Spanish Red Wine 10"
Chicha Libra & Dengue Fever - Primavera En La Selva/Genjer Genjer split 7"
Cold War Kids - Live At Fingerprints EP
Dandy Warhols - Remix CD (you can download it here)
Def Jam â History Of Def Jam 4xLP
Depeche Mode - Wrong/Oh Well 7"
Domino Records â Blood On The Tracks compilation LP
Bob Dylan - Dreaming Of You/Down Along The Cove (Live) 7"
Gaslight Anthem - Live From Park Ave 10"
Gomez - Airstream Driver/Edit 7"
Graham Coxon - In The Morning etched 10"
Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others/He Hit Me (Live on KCRW) 7"
Guided By Voices â Hold On Hope LP reissue + 3 bonus tracks
Iron & Wine â Live CD
Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song/Standing In The Shower Thinking 7"Jesus Lizard â 9x7â³ Box Set
Leonard Cohen - The Future/Suzanne (Live) 7"
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams/Motor City Is Burning â 7"
Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin/Guilty Cocker Spaniels 7"
My Morning Jacket - Celebración De La Ciudad Natal (Live at Ear X-Tacy & Louisville Waterfront) CD + 2×10â³
Nickel Eye - Dying Star/Brandy Of The Damned (Featuring Wale) - Mark Ronson Remix
Oasis - Falling Down Remix LPObits - I Can't Lose/Military Madness - 7"
Queen â First EP reissue CD
Radiohead - 10â³ vinyl EP reissues
Silversun Pickups - Pikul 12â³
Slayer - Psychopathy Red 7"
The Smiths - The Headmaster's Ritual/Oscillate Wildly 7"
Rivers Cuomo - Live At Fingerprints CD/DVD
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Teacher sentenced for sending inappropriate texts
LITTLE VALLEY – A former Salamanca City Central School District science teacher will spend six months in jail for sending inappropriate texts to an underage female student.
Shane Riethmiller, 40, of Dunkirk will also be placed on probation for five years after leaving jail, and already agreed to surrender his teaching license as part of his guilty plea.
Riethmiller was charged with first-degree disseminating indecent material to minors and third-degree sexual abuse to satisfy an indictment after a January 2012 investigation found that he had sexual contact with a female student. The incidents occurred from October-December 2011 in Salamanca when Rieth-miller intentionally used a computer to initiate or engage the minor in communication which invited or induced the minor into sexual contact with him.
Riethmiller resigned from the school district in September after initially being placed on paid leave. As a tenured teacher, he was then allowed to return to the district as an employee in the district office where he would not be in contact with students, before he submitted his resignation.
Later that month, Robert Breidenstein, district superintendent, explained the district's decision to bring Riethmiller back to work, saying tenured teachers in New York state retain rights to their position, pay, retirement and other benefits while they are out on leave.
"Tenured teachers keep these rights when an investigation and formal charges are still pending. Similarly, the school district retains the right to reassign that person if it's something that we can accommodate," Breidenstein said at the time. "We felt that we could do that and still maintain the appropriate level of separation between Riethmiller and the students that may or may not have been impacted by his alleged behavior."
Before working in Salamanca, Riethmiller was a chemistry teacher at Fredonia Central School and girls' soccer coach.

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CBQ Makes Bullish Cross Above Critical Moving Average
Written by: CanadaStockChannel.com
In trading on Wednesday, shares of BRIC Index Fund
CBQ-T crossed above their 200 day moving average of $23.81, changing hands as high as $23.92 per share. BRIC Index Fund shares are currently trading up about 1.2% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of CBQ shares, versus its 200 day moving average:
Click here to find out which 9 other Canadian stocks recently crossed above their 200 day moving average »
Looking at the chart above, CBQ's low point in its 52 week range is $21.77 per share, with $26.94 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $23.83.


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When it comes to celebrating Valentine's day most people reach for the usual things, like chocolate, flowers and a candle light dinner at home.
But as always Il Salviatino dares you to think bigger, welcoming you and your beloved one with a special Package valid from 11th to 19th of February. May that be a triumphant beginning to what will be an unforgettable romantic getaway.
This year's St. Valentine Package includes, besides accommodation in De Luxe Room with breakfast "à la carte", a romantic dinner for two and a 30 minutes couple massage.
Although it will be hard to want to leave the hotel even for a minute, we advise you to do so and explore the city of Florence which is on its own very romantic.
A golden sunset in Ponte Vecchio gazing at Arno river, a sip of Tuscan's fine wine, and a quick stop in one of the top Florentine Chocolatiers could provide you lovely memories to treasure for a lifetime.
It is said that originally St. Valentine in Italy was celebrated by young lovers in ornamental gardens enjoying music and poetry reading. It could be pleasant to take a few hours of your time to visit Pitti's Palace and stroll into the Boboli's Gardens, to have a little taste of what this day could have been like so long ago.
Trusting your fine taste Il Salviatino welcomes you, with a glass of Champagne, to an Aphrodisiac Dinner for two to be served on the February 14th , with a tailored menu created by our Chef Carmine Caló.
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Welcome to Think Barry e-New Class notes for July!
"Class Notes" gives you the chance to share your personal and professional accomplishments with the Barry community. We want to hear from YOU! Send news of jobs, weddings, births, degrees, vacations, or anything else you'd like.
In addition to appearing in this newsletter, Class Notes are also included in Barry Magazine.
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Julie Juliano is sorry to report the passing of Judy Brogen. "She was greatly admired by us in the Nursing Department…going to class during the day and working night and weekends to pay her way through college…and always with a smile on her face. It did not go unnoticed. I feel privileged to have been her classmate."
Georgia Ann Bicknell is still working at the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute as an Education Technician. She finished her Masters degree in Education through Jones International University online and is ABD on her dissertation in Education with Grand Canyon University also in Education. Georgia Ann hopes to finish her doctoral work next year and is active in the Barry Space Coast Alumni Association.
Maria Dusenbery has completed her credentials to become a Parish Nurse and hopes for ministry to grow in Florida and Michigan.
Andy Muccino has been promoted to Associate Athletic Director as well as holding Head Athletic Trainer and Sports Medicine Instructor titles with Gray Stone Day School near Charlotte, NC. Andy and his wife Jill also welcomed son, Callen David in 2011, joining sisters Delaney (4) and Norah (3) in the household.
Anthony DeSantis, BS '96, MS '99, and Michelle DeSantis '98 will be celebrating their 14th wedding anniversary in November. Anthony completed his Ph.D. in Conflict Resolution and Analysis from Nova Southeastern University in 2011. After working 10 years at Nova Southeastern University, Anthony was hired as the Associate Dean of Students at the University of Florida. Michelle completed her MBA in Accounting from Saint Leo University in 2012 and is working as an Accounting Manager for Haven Hospice. They moved to Gainesville, FL in 2010 but always stay connected to the friends they made during their time at Barry University. Go Bucs!!
Cami Green Hofstadter just published her book: "THE FOREIGN CONSULS AMONG US: A GUIDE TO CITIZEN DIPLOMACY". To be credible players in the global community all of us must learn to be "goodwill ambassadors" like the foreign consuls among us. This Guide shows how to partner with them in our efforts to promote effective citizen diplomacy. Website: www.aboutconsuls.com
Anne Shaver has obtained her license in social work and started working as a medical social worker at her community hospital. Anne is supervising interns from her local college and MSW interns working at getting licensure. Anne and her husband are raising and preparing to adopt their 21 month old granddaughter, Kendra.
Deborah Reato, MS '06 has been named Director of Veterans Success at Georgia Gwinnett College. In addition, she was awarded the University System of Georgia's African-American Male initiative Award and has established the college's Elite Scholars Program.
In Memoriam:
Mary Dwyer Honebrink '47
Mary Jane Mills Renaurt '49
Cilia Vallejo Bach '51
Judith Brogren '62
Beverly Eberly '62
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About the Author: Luke Forgerson serves as DipNote's Managing Editor.
This week, President Barack Obama embarked on a ten-day trip to Asia. The trip began in India, where the President promoted the U.S.-India Partnership on Open Government and addressed a joint session of the Indian Parliament. The President also addressed university students in Indonesia, participated in the G-20 Summit in South Korea and gathered with other leaders for the APEC Summit in Japan.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton concluded her travel to Asia and the Pacific with a visit to Australia, where she met with Foreign Minister Rudd, underscored the importance of U.S. trade, and held a townterview with Australian youth.
The President and Secretary joined Americans around the world in honoring our veterans. President Obama spoke to U.S. troops and veterans at the U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan in South Korea, and we at the State Department saluted the Marine Security Guards who serve at U.S. diplomatic missions around the world.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul observed Veteran's Day with U.S. Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Lindsey Graham and Kirsten Gillibrand in a ceremony hosted by Ambassador Karl Eikenberry. Embassy Kabul also released photographs of Ambassador Eikenberry's visit to Nimroz. With this visit, Ambassador Eikenberry has now been to all 34 provinces of Afghanistan.
In Afghanistan's Helmand province, we saw a multinational effort advancing education, governance and development. The United States also awarded Ball State University a grant to assist Kandahar University, and a partnership between the Afghan and U.S. governments will use renewable energy to bring light to Kabul's street lamps.
In Washington, Secretary Clinton announced budget assistance for the Palestinian Authority, and she met with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in New York. The Secretary also commented on the Iraqi government coalition agreement, which she called "a milestone in the emergence of the new Iraq and…a testament to the determination of the Iraqi people to build their own democracy."
Young Legislative Fellows from 17 countries spent the week learning about government and the democratic process in Washington, D.C., and the State Department's historians offered concluding thoughts on the U.S. experience in Southeast Asia, 1946-1975. Elsewhere, American diplomats helped advance development in Paraguay's Northern Zone, highlighted American photography in New Delhi, and joined other governments' officials and NGO leaders in Bangkok to underscore a shared commitment to countering corruption, a message made clear at the G-20 Summit in Seoul. U.S. diplomats also met with their counterparts from other governments to address combating piracy off the Horn of Africa.
Secretary Clinton addressed another centuries old scourge: slavery. In an op-ed published in newspapers around the world, Secretary Clinton renewed her call for an end to human trafficking. She called trafficking -- modern slavery -- "an affront to basic human dignity in the United States and around the world."
Assistant Secretary Eric Schwartz called for migrants to be treated with human dignity and respect as the international community addresses migration policies in the 21st century. Under Secretary Maria Otero, after meeting with NGO leaders and activists who are addressing persecution of people based on sexual orientation, reminded us that "human rights are gay rights, and gay rights are human rights." The State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom addresses human dignity and respect in the context of how U.S. foreign policy can promote religious freedom. The Office carries out its mission through a variety of means, including the publication of an annual report.
The State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) seeks to help protect the lives and interests of U.S. citizens abroad. We saw this firsthand as U.S. diplomats made a consular call in Bhutan, where they took citizen services into the Himalayas. U.S. citizens can sign up for the CA Bureau's Smart Traveler Enrollment Program to stay connected and informed while they are traveling or living abroad.
As the week concluded, people around the world celebrated the release of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Earlier in the week, the White House and the State Department issued statements on Burma's November 7 elections and joined others in calling for Aung San Suu Kyi's release. Upon her release, Secretary Clinton said:
"…Aung San Suu Kyi has endured enormous personal sacrifice in her peaceful struggle to bring democracy and human rights to Burma, including unjustified detention for most of the past twenty years. …We urge Burma's leaders to break with their repressive policies and begin an inclusive dialogue with Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratic and ethnic leaders towards national reconciliation and a more peaceful, prosperous, and democratic future."
Palgye in South Korea writes:
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and, Our remaining two years and the possible contemplation of the coming four years and I think action is needed.
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Susan C. in Florida writes:
I really like "The Week in Review". I am not always able to read all the postings and this overview helps me keep up with what has been going on. As I read through this week's review, I could not help but think what an incredible amount of good President Obama and Secretary Clinton are trying to accomplish. I want to say to both of them that there are many of us "out here" that appreciate what they are doing. Don't be discouraged, many of us believe in what you are doing and are still hopeful!!


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Stagecoach State Park sets the stage for great
recreation in the lush Yampa Valley by Steamboat Springs. Vistas and views are
backdrops to the 820-acre reservoir providing renown lake and river fishing.
A year-round destination, the park also makes a great base to
explore the variety of sports and attractions of the area. An array of
activities await with boating, fishing, hiking, picnicking and
Winter is especially quiet, offering trails for snowshoeing and
cross-country skiing to those seeking a less commercial experience. In summer,
water sports enthusiasts enjoy the many ways to recreate at the
Off-season and weekday visits are wonderfully serene,
providing great opportunities to take pleasure in the land, water and nature
without the crowds. Cabin fever in the winter can be relieved by camping in one
of the four electrical sites maintained just for winter
Stagecoach State Park is a great place to hold base camp when
exploring the many outdoor opportunities around the park such as the Flattops
Wilderness Area and Sarvis Creek Wilderness Area.
The area has a rich cultural history, beginning with the Ute and Shoshone Tribes using the area for hunting, gathering and making stone tools. French trappers and traders began using the valley in the 1700's and paved the way for mining and cattle and sheep ranching, which continues today. The park was also a stop on a Stagecoach Line running from Toponas to Steamboat Springs. The Stagecoach Line went out of service around 1907.
Stagecoach State Park requires pre-inspections for Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) prior to launching any vessel on the reservoir. A vessel with a valid seal and receipt may launch outside the scheduled inspection hours by logging in at the boat ramp. Summer 2015 Schedule is as follows: the Morrison Cove ramp will be open Friday afternoon - Sunday evening with the ANS Inspections Station open for limited hours within this period. Please contact the Park Office for scheduled opening hours. Boats requiring an inspection will need to launch from the Marina Ramp between 8 AM and 8 PM when the Morrison Cove inspection station is closed.


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Jamie's Coconut Cake
- Basic 1-2-3-4 Cake with coconut milk:
- 2 sticks butter, at room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 cups sifted self-rising flour
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Filling:
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 cup sour cream
- 4 tablespoons milk
- 1/2 cup flaked, sweetened coconut
- 7-Minute Frosting:
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar or 1 tablespoon white corn syrup
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup water
- 2 egg whites
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2 to 3 cups coconut, flaked and sweetened
- Artificial holly, optional garnish
- Cake:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour 3 (9-inch) cake pans.
Using an electric mixer, cream butter until fluffy. Add sugar and continue to cream well for 6 to 8 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour and coconut milk alternately to creamed mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Add vanilla and continue to beat until just mixed. Divide batter equally among prepared pans. Level batter in each pan by holding pan 3 or 4-inches above counter, then dropping it flat onto counter. Do this several times to release air bubbles and assure you of a more level cake. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until done. Cool in pans 5 to 10 minutes. Invert cakes onto cooling racks.
Stir together sugar, sour cream, milk, and coconut in a bowl until well blended. Add first cake layer onto pedestal. Using the wrong end of a wooden spoon, poke holes approximately 1-inch apart until entire cake has been poked. Spread a third of filling mixture on cake layer. Top with second layer, repeat process. Top with last layer and repeat process again.
Cook's Note: As each layer is stacked, stick them with toothpicks to prevent cake from shifting.
Place sugar, cream of tartar or corn syrup, salt, water, and egg whites in the top of a double boiler. Beat with a handheld electric mixer for 1 minute. Place pan over boiling water, being sure that boiling water does not touch the bottom of the top pan. Beat constantly on high speed with electric mixer for 7 minutes. Beat in vanilla. Frost the top and sides of the cake. Sprinkle top and sides of cake with coconut. Garnish with artificial holly, if desired.
Recipe courtesy of Paula Deen
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Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen
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If you want to know how to create a table with an AUTO_INCREMENT attribute on a field, you can check out the Column Definition and AUTO_INCREMENT Clause manual pages.
The purpose of this tutorial is to explain the 2 methods that can be used to insert values within a table that has an AUTO_INCREMENT column.
Let's assume we have the following table with one id field that has an AUTO_INCREMENT field and a VARCHAR name field:
CREATE TABLE auto_tbl(id INT AUTO_INCREMENT, name VARCHAR);
You can insert values in this table by either specifying the column name (id) and putting the value NULL (or null) in the values section or by omitting the id column completely when specifying the column names that will be inserted.
INSERT INTO auto_tbl VALUES (NULL, 'AAA'); INSERT INTO auto_tbl (id, name) VALUES (NULL, 'AAA'); INSERT INTO auto_tbl (name) VALUES ('DDD');
Optionally, you can insert multiple sets of values by just separating them with ",". As you can see, the same above rules for the AUTO_INCREMENT column apply.
INSERT INTO auto_tbl VALUES (NULL, 'AAA'),(NULL, 'BBB'),(NULL, 'CCC'); INSERT INTO auto_tbl (id, name) VALUES (NULL, 'AAA'),(NULL, 'BBB'),(NULL, 'CCC'); INSERT INTO auto_tbl (name) VALUES ('DDD'),('EEE');
Important! If you don't set the value to null or NULL and insert values manually, then the AUTO_INCREMENT seed is not updated. This may lead to unique constraint violation errors if the AUTO_INCREMENT column has an UNIQUE constraint or is a PRIMARY KEY. For more information, check out Step 3 from Unique Constraint Violation Error.


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Absolutely Horrible News For Pandora
If I was advising the company, here's what I would tell it do ... yesterday (!):
- Backtrack on the Internet Radio Fairness Act considerably.
- Push the annual subscription option, but find some way to incentivize it.
- Cultivate additional revenue streams immediately.
I've got to be 100% honest here.
I feel awful about writing this article.
After having had the chance to meet Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren in person and on the phone over the last year, I came to admire the guy even more than I did before we connected. He's an incredibly bright visionary and one hell of a person to boot.
I have come to know a small handful of people at Pandora. Again, all excellent folks. But I have got to call it like I see it. I can't keep quiet just because I like an individual or a group of people.
Quite frankly, outside of Netflix (NFLX) , I have not seen a company take a more abrupt turn for the worse in a long time.
Most negative turns develop over time. Think Research in Motion (RIMM) , Microsoft (MSFT) and what we might be witnessing with Intel (INTC) .
In these typical cases, you look in the rearview mirror and point to a historical signpost where a decline began and intensified to a point where it would have taken a Herculean effort to prevent a hard landing.
That's what happened at RIM. That's what happening at Microsoft. And that's what might be happening at Intel.
While you can't call Pandora a company in decline -- it continues to show consistent and impressive growth in almost every key metric -- you can certainly liken it to a company in peril from a strategic standpoint.
I cover what ends up Part One of this somewhat bearish case in Is Pandora Panicking? Should Investors from mid-October.
At that point, I maintained a long-term bullish stance.
Now, I simply cannot be a bull unless Pandora makes profound changes to its approach in the fight over music royalties.
Here's why I am worried.
On Thursday, a large collection of musicians -- about 125 of them -- signed an open letter to Pandora opposing the Internet Radio Fairness Act.
This is the bill working its way through Congress that would put Pandora's royalty rate more in line with Sirius XM (SIRI) satellite radio, cable television and other entities/mediums that license music. Right now, Pandora pays anywhere from roughly 50% to 65% of revenue in royalties, depending on the quarter. For example, it pays about six times more than Sirius XM.
The artists who decided to speak out against the bill are major names. We're talking everybody from Katy Perry to Rush to Billy Joel to Blondie to Jackson Brown to Alabama to Bryan Adams to KISS to Sheryl Crow to Vince Gill to Maroon 5 to The Pointer Sisters to ... you get the point.


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Butterflied Asian Chicken
- 1 whole roasting chicken
- 1/4 cup Chinese five-spice
- 1 tablespoon ground ginger
- 1 cup hoisin sauce
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon pre-minced ginger
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe. For the Chicken:
Remove neck, giblets and cut away excess fat from 1 whole roasting chicken. Take a pair of kitchen sheers and cut along both sides of backbone to remove it. Turn chicken skin-side up and press down between the breasts to break the keel bone. This will allow the chicken to lay very flat on grill and cook quickly.
In a small bowl, combine the Chinese five-spice and ground ginger. Sprinkle liberally over all sides of chicken. Set aside.
In a small pot over medium-high heat, combine the hoisin sauce, rice vinegar, pre-minced ginger (from a jar) and the brown sugar. Bring to a boil for 3 minutes before using.
Set up outdoor or indoor grill on medium heat. Oil grate when ready to start cooking.
Place chicken on preheated grill. Flip after 15 minutes and glaze top. Turn and brush every 15 minutes until internal temperature of the thigh is 180 degrees F, about 45 minutes total. Transfer to cutting board and let it rest 5 minutes before cutting.
Sprinkle the chicken with sesame seeds and serve.
Recipe courtesy of Sandra Lee, 2008
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Recipe courtesy of Patrick and Gina Neely
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Tru-Flight Barrels BLOW OUT
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announce the Barrel Blowout sale on Tru-Flight barrels in a wide variety
of lengths, threads, and styles. These are brand new, high quality
barrels for your Tippmann markers, Cocker standard threaded markers,
and a large number of classic models as well.
How big is this sale? Try 76% off, give or take.
Barrels that we formerly sold at $25 or more are now on sale around $6, including Tru-Flight Quiet Barrels for the Tippmann A5 and Model 98. We have two piece Spyder threaded Tru-Flight Quiet Barrels for $8, and a 20 inch Tru-Flight Milsim Quiet Barrel for $10.
This is the perfect time to pick up a backup barrel, a barrel to experiment on if youre into do-it-yourself modifications, a special length barrel, an upgraded barrel for your backup marker, or a brand new replacement barrel to breathe new excitement into an older marker. Lots of players keep an inexpensive barrel on hand for special projects, experiments, or truly custom builds, and you can make that barrel a Tru-Flight Quiet Barrel for about six bucks.
These barrels are far superior to most stock barrels and incredibly inexpensive during the Barrel Blowout sale. They are available for modern and classic Tippmann guns, Spyder threads and Phantom threads, Angel threads and VM68 threads, and even Automags.
Tru-Flight barrels were made with precision boring to quiet each shots report at the muzzle, and to provide optimum accuracy by dissipating the turbulence at the muzzle. Several models feature rifling, several are two-piece designs, and we have lengths from compact out to 20 inches. You can buy a full range of barrels for many models for less than the cost of one recent production barrel!
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Transcend Information, one of the world's top makers of memory modules, this week unveiled its first memory sticks with thermal sensors aimed at servers and workstations. Thermal sensors will memory reliability, efficiency, and overall system stability when coupled with platforms that support monitoring of temperatures as well as real-time adjustments of memory speed.
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Look, I get it. I was gone an entire 7 days. I've done Europe a total of three weeks in my life and I've only been in places where the water is drinkable and people mainly know English, even if they refuse to let on to that fact.
So when I say "World" here, I mean my very tiny portion of exploration. "World" is relative.
Traditionally I've enjoyed often moving locations, lands, homes. The year I spent back in Houston as an adult, taught me the value of community. My lesson that year showed me however much I hated living in the flat, humid land, I still met enough people to miss. I felt nearly grateful for this fact: A place is made up primarily of the people who occupy it.
It is in this vein I travel and recount my stories accordingly.
It's been said a thousand times, but finding your tribe, your people, is critical. I believe there is a tribe for each of your personas. The people at EECI are my tribe. They are my geeky, hilarious, nerdly, drunk tribe. And I can not tell you how much I adore them all.
Like brothers.
Brothers who buy you beer.
*Leevi Graham helps code while Low looks on.
These people are giving, smart, and kind. They are funny, sarcastic, and punchy. These are my kind of people. We can talk families, code, business. We can laugh loudly and sing even more so. And the next day we can sit down and problem solve as a team.
If only we saw each other daily, what a productive team we would be. Or a very very drunk one, I'm not sure.
When asked "What do you want to be when you grow up, little lady?" I never would have said, "I'd like to market a small company and an amazing software product that enables people to publish on the web!"
I think I said I wanted to be a ballerina.
My what a long way I've come.
The magic, it is there. After hours, well in to the night, we find a space to share bits of ourselves the sunlight doesn't see. We share stories of children and dreams and business and goals.
Maybe we even cry for a minute, just a minute, because we're safe.
It's not unlike other conferences people with similar interests attend. It's just that this is our space, the unique space of code and logic and sarcastic joy. It's un-commercialized, it's raw, it's pure. It's real, still.
I love its realness.
Fans and Figures share notes of success. There is no clique one better than another. We help each other push forward in our careers.
I wish the mom community could do the same, asking nothing in return except the joy of knowing you were part of something bigger than yourself.
*Amazing people in the same room: Veerle and Geert, Greg Wood of Erskine, and Kenny Meyers.
So, then, what did I learn while traveling? What did I come to think of about Holland?
It's more than the realization that the world truly is smaller than we think. It is more than knowing the food is better, the culture is open, the bikes are abundant. No, it is much more than celebrating the 3 October with a motley crew of nerds.
It is a sense of home. That… that is what I learned this year in Leiden, a town I've spent a total of five days in. Because these nerds are my home, however cheesy that makes me.
**Totally related: I'm doing a liver cleanse as mandated by my Doc starting tomorrow. Care to witness the thrashing of teeth and gnawing of cuss words? Veggies and a protein shake only for ten days. The price I pay for good beer. Totally. Worth. It.
You make me cry! I missed EECI and those crazy boys and girls. Last year was so great; I was high from it for months. Bravo to the EllisLab community for keeping it real.
By Mrs. Camacho on 2010 10 10
I went with my husband for a work trip to Heidelburg. Well, they told us it was Heidelburg, but his boss booked us at a hotel in Leiden. And then made my husband work 22 hour days and stranded me in Leiden without a car. Or any knowledge of the transportation system. One day I rode the tram into Heidelburg, but I couldn't figure out how to pay, so I broke the law. Another day I went to the grocery store and bought a bunch of Febreze because I couldn't figure out where to do laundry and our clothes were starting to smell. I watched a bunch of late night Sumo wrestling. I paced our room and talked to myself. But I have fond memories of our trip. And I think I would have liked the town if I'd had anyone to show me the ropes, or even talk to. Your version of Leiden sounds much more fun.
By Lora Lynn on 2010 10 10
Spent the whole post nodding in concurrence, then flinching at the photos.
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There's been lots of questions around yesterday's 100% GPL and WooThemes announcements, and three forum threads worth of discussion. Sorry it's taken me some time to respond, it's been a day full of meetings, and I asked the team to leave me the threads! So just read through most of the commentary and hopefully I'll manage to answer most of the main questions. I've closed the other three threads to try to centralise, but in case you want to find/read them, they were:
100% GPL Option, 100% GPL & Author Exclusivity, and WooCommerce themes flood. OKie, so here's my summary of Q&A!
Exclusivity & 100% GPL
Essentially the concepts of 'Exclusivity' and '100% GPL' are separate and distinct things:
(1) Exclusivity is an agreement between an author and Envato where the author says "I won't sell the same items somewhere else". The author is saying that irrespective of what license they are offering the items under (regular, ext, or 100% GPL).
(2) Licensing completely under the GPL (or otherwise) is an agreement between the author and the buyer saying what rights the buyer will be getting. In the case of the 100% GPL that includes many rights, such as the right to redistribute or resell.
What is tricky is that theoretically the buyer can use GPL to sell the item somewhere else making the item no longer exclusively available through ThemeForest. This is an important consideration that authors need to factor in when choosing to use the 100% GPL option. My own personal opinion is that licensing under the 100% GPL option is something of a philosophical decision. If you do it, you have to be comfortable with the idea of giving up a certain amount of control.
To be honest I'd like to believe that no marketplace worth their salt would allow someone other than the creator of a theme or plugin to sell it. Certainly at ThemeForest we would prohibit anyone trying such a thing.
Our exclusivity programme is an important part of selling with Envato and has helped us create the unique set of libraries we have today. I don't believe the 100% option is going to end up undermining the overall library exclusivity because I think most people are fair and sensible, and I have a lot of respect for our competitor marketplaces out there. There are exclusive authors who want to use the 100% GPL option, and they are free to do so, but must comply with the obligations it sets out (i.e. don't sell the same items elsewhere).
What is Envato's Preference – 100% GPL or Not?
The choice of licensing completely through the GPL or not, belongs to you – the theme or plugin author. A few people thought that because we are promoting this launch that we are, or will be, favouring the 100% GPL option. This isn't the case at all. With any launch we usually do some promotion. My intention in publicising the feature and choosing a launch partner is purely to encourage more authors, particularly those who have shied away because of licensing options, to join us here at ThemeForest! As I mentioned in the other thread, in retrospect I really should have promoted a homegrown author too! So I'm going to find someone to add in when we run our newsletter story.
So, no we're not suddenly going to start only promoting, featuring, talking about 100% GPL authors. There's no hidden agenda to try to get authors to go one way or the other. Now the option is here, it's here as just another part of the Marketplaces.
Do WooThemes get the usual 33%?It's important to us that we have a fair and open approach to things like rates. The vast majority of authors are on the standard advertised rates. Beyond those we do in fact have a Special Rates policy which we added to the knowledgebase some years ago.
We give out these kinds of rates pretty rarely, and as the KB article explains, they are used to kickstart new initiatives, or help us grow into new categories and niches. So for example when we launched PhotoDune we contacted a number of very high profile stock photographers and negotiated individual rates for each to ensure that we entered that marketplace with a competitive starting library.
These agreements are on a case by case basis, and they vary depending on how big we think the category or initiative will be, how much value the author would be bringing, how hard it will be to accomplish the same things with a different route (like a seed competition, marketing spend, or commissioning of content). The agreements have additional clauses that those authors agree to as well which other authors don't have.
In the WordPress theme space, we've used special rates a few times. Kicking off 100% GPL is indeed one of those times, so yes WooThemes is not on the standard rates table. Another instance was when Frameworks looked like they were going to be big, and we negotiated with a couple of authors of leading WordPress Frameworks and landed two (though one has since departed!)
Anyone can apply for a special rate, but we do them very rarely, and only when there's some serious merit or purpose. From memory, there's been maybe five or so in the last year across all the marketplaces. In every instance they tie into a particular push, initiative or launch.
The only reason we go beyond the standard rate is in order to grow the Marketplaces. Ultimately this benefits everybody, and the cost of giving up some of our standard rates is one that Envato wears like we do other marketing and launch costs.
Did WooThemes go through the usual review process?
Aside from the release timing, yes they did. But from what I understand we didn't do a super job of it!
Release timing is something we occasionally do for bulk imports or for a particular launch. Again this doesn't happen very often. A good example is once we brought in a few hundred vectors all at once to open a new subcategory on GraphicRiver. That time we did a bad job of the import and they really swamped the browse pages. We've gotten better these days happily – though I think there were still a couple of kinks to iron out. Our aim is to get a bunch of stuff in quickly, on a coordinated day, with minimum disruption to regular authors. It's harder than it sounds!!
In terms of the other pieces of the review process, from what I understand we seem to have missed some things that we catch in review normally. There was a normal process of submission, soft rejections and so on. I've chatted with Jarel our Review Manager who is investigating what went wrong and starting a re-review of the WooThemes items.
This definitely is not a case of different rules for different authors. If anything we were trying to be really extra standard. It is really bad when a high profile author seems to get favourable treatment. This isn't what is happening, this was a much simpler case of us not doing our best work.
Unlike the special rates policy, there is no special review policy! We sometimes rush things through, but all items are supposed to get the same inspection and quality look over. Consistency is important, and hard. Again Jarel and his excellent review team are investigating and re-reviewing.
Whew so that was a lot of stuff. I'm sure I must have missed some burning question, so will try to revisit tonight to keep an eye on the threads!
Overall, I think we did a great job of getting community opinion on the new feature, building and delivering a good solution to the problem, and everything seems to be working on that front. In hindsight I think we could have done better on the whole launch partner side of things, picked someone from our own community as well, done better on reviewing, and been a bit clearer about what was happening.
We'll work hard to do a better job of those next time! Thank you for raising all the great questions, hopefully this post answers most of them!
Hi Collis,
One question that I've seen asked that I don't think is cleared up here is to do with selling stock in stock. Recently you changed licensing and made it so that authors could not bundle CondeCanyon plug-ins into their WP themes. If they wanted to do so they had to make private arrangements with the plug-in owner, outside of the marketplaces. Obviously if CC authors switch to full GPL then this won't be the case any more.
Without a marketplace policy of not allowing this, then I worry you'll have a race to the bottom with authors bundling 'hundres of dollarz $$$' worth of plug-ins with their theme as a selling point.
Also, on a seperate point. I think your 'home-grown' author should be DesignCrumbs (jake). His themes are now 100% GPL and he was the driving force behind the change.
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Also, on a seperate point. I think your 'home-grown' author should be DesignCrumbs (jake). His themes are now 100% GPL and he was the driving force behind the change.
+1 that motion.
So, woothemes as non-exclusive author is get special rate which is more than 33% and we think its really not fair.
If you are talking about photodune, we understand since photodune is new site in the time you give special rate to the author.
We are talking about themeforest here on the year 2013 and I don't think you need to "kickstart new initiatives" for themeforest marketplace. Also woothemes themes is not comes into new category and niche.
This is just our opinion, other than that we are welcome woothemes on themeforest though…
thank you for answering, I have a couple of observations.
for "Exclusivity & 100% GPL": what I understood is that the author, if is exclusive, can't sell the item on other marketplaces. Also, if someone buy that item and then try to upload it on this marketplace it will get rejected. But nothing stop that buyer to sell the theme on a different marketplace. At the same time, the exclusive author can't sell the theme by himself on other marketplaces while every other person in the world can do it.
Off course the only option for the author is to sell that theme on many marketplaces as possible so to have the maximum return for his work but at the same time he needs to lie to envato about this. I'm not sure why the author needs to respect a business partner who is ok with everybody else selling his work but not for him. I don't like it but is the best option for "me" as the creator.
Said this, I'm not selling my items under this new gpl option any time soon.
for Do WooThemes get the usual 33%? envato is free to do whatever deal they want. absolutely. but is somewhat strange when they chose partners who the next moment they stick a knife in their back (you don't need to answer to this – just my impression), instead of choosing authors who were loyal to the company and the marketplace. Maybe a less tolerant against external people and more close to the community? But forced love is not possible so I can understand.
for Did WooThemes go through the usual review process? this is important for us authors. I'm perfectly aware that any decision made by envato doesn't need to be explained and this includes the review process. But having the impression that the review system is fair is very important. This was another example that confirmed what I believe for some time about the review system. There was some other personal examples in the past, one being that writing comments like the one I'm writing now will make your items harder to get accepted.
A final note. The new gpl license should be separate from the main regular one. This is more about preventing further confusion of people buying items under regular license and then acting like they are gpl.
also it will help searching for gpl themes only using some functionality of "sort by license" or "hide any item that is not gpl" option.
keep up the good work. what are the chances to get a marketplace new design for the envato anniversary at the end of summer?
and what about creating a monthly meeting with the community on the forum once a month (or two) where we can speak about different problems or just chat about stuff?
to prevent authors asking all type of questions not related with the main problem of the day.
That will be nice.
AFAIK GPL allows redistribution, reselling I am not so sure… You can only sell what you own. One could of course provide services around a plugin priced cheaper than the original author but then that is a valid open source business model…. Another potential threat is why would someone pay to get which they can legally find for free? But experience has shown that these people were not the market in the first place. In fact allowing free copying has helped indie musicians a lot, the same applies for software.
I have one question: Why would an author use 100% GPL for his/her item?
I thought about it but i just can't find a reason… Is it only when you want to show your support for this license?..
I mean i really do not like the fact that anyone could buy an item and start reselling it and i think many others don't like it as well – so why? why would someone use the 100% GPL option?
ps. This is not complaining why this option is here now, but i wonder why a person would use it?
ChapterThemes said
I have one question: Why would an author use 100% GPL for his/her item?
this is an interesting question.
a starting point in understanding the philosophy behind gpl and free software in general is this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
Thanks for the clarification. The special rates are not a problem for any fellow author here since it doesn't affect the competitiveness of items. But a mild compromise on review process can make huge difference since the deal here is not about 1 theme but entire bulk portfolio. The strict review system is one of the powerful/respectful asset of these marketplaces and hope it wont be diluted due to special cases.
ChapterThemes said
I have one question: Why would an author use 100% GPL for his/her item?
No high selling author in his own mind would use 100% GPL. But i can see this becoming a popular trend for authors with less sales, just like Jack said in another thread.. Authors that do not have high quality items or authors with items that do not sell could opt for the 100% GPL license and advertise their items as "unlimited use".
However, a lot of buyers here come for the quality so i'm not sure if this would be a bit hit on major players.
But at this point we cannot be sure about anything.. Only time can tell..:)


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Three incidents in 2012 capture our learning:
• During a peer mentor training workshop at UCT the facilitator got somewhat frustrated by the lack of enthusiasm generated by his best efforts. The answer to his eventual question proved to be pivotal: "As students we always have to read handbooks and workbooks and prepare for tuts and class. To expect us to add just another session of the same kind to the already hectic schedule of first year students just means that Studietrust is becoming boring. First year students sometimes just want to chill a bit."
• During an individual face-to-face meeting with another student on the same campus our mentor was told the following: "I am a peer mentor on my res floor and in my academic department. So I actually belong to many communities here at varsity. But Studietrust is my most important community as I feel part of its drive to change people's lives."
• The third encounter was on the NMMU campus. One of our bursars cried for most of the first semester individual consultation. Her father's business went bust and they lost all they had. The upheaval eventually had the consequence that she did badly in some of her B Com Accounting subjects and as a result was excluded from the CA stream. When our senior mentor returned for the second semester personal consultations, the student's eyes were bright and shining. What happened? "It all started during the orientation workshop you presented on our campus in January. You told us to take charge of our own destiny. I stopped blaming my circumstances. You also introduced us to practical skills we could master in the process. I studied the Studietrust peer mentor manual and applied each and every part of it, from goal setting to time management to stress management, and I can tell you – it works! I became more productive, using my time better. I planned every week beforehand and even every day. I used the best time of the day to plan and used lists that I followed meticulously. I passed all my exams in June, so well that I was welcomed back into the CA stream. Please tell all your students that they have no excuse – everything is available. They should just follow your advice!"
On the basis of these three encounters (representing data saturation around these issues) we revised our mentor and support programme according to the following principles:
• Each gathering facilitated by Studietrust must take the form of an energising event. Students must leave with a sense of having been uplifted by the experience and that they belong to a community of mutual inspiration and care.
• The peer mentor programme must be based in this sense of belonging. We learned the basics of community building from Symphonia (www.symphonia.co.za), an outfit with whom we share a passion for possibility and education. Their methods are based in the work of Peter Block.
• The skills workbooks and manuals are available as resources on our student portal. We know that using them will be beneficial to our students and we will tirelessly remind them of that.
♦ Counselling support
Our policy is that we are not a professional counselling outfit although we do make use of registered professionals for our campus visits. We will also train our administrators and mentors in lay counselling from 2013. We refer students in need of more intensive counselling to professional counsellors on campus. Some of our donors also make available to their bursars access to the wellness programmes of the company. When students accept the bursary they are asked for consent that Studietrust may alert a counsellor if we judge that there is such a need.
♦ Academic support
Here, too, the policy is that we do not engage in subject-specific tutorials or one-on-one interventions. These facilities are available on campuses and our job is to make sure that students at risk do make use of what is offered by the universities.
We do, however, offer holiday seminars to bursars sponsored by donors who are willing to foot the bill for this added intervention. We started with winter seminars in 2010 for students on a Sasol Inzalo Foundation bursary. We partner with the Ukuqonda Institute (www.ukuqonda.co.za) in offering a curriculum that does not pretend to be "extra classes" in Maths and Physics. Called "Threshold Concepts in Maths, Science and Technology" this intensive week-long programme exposes students to problems that they must solve with their own resources. The emphasis is on critical thinking and problem solving and the effect is remarkable. First year students fresh from the brutal "Hero to Zero" experience (or from 81% in matric Maths to 18% in the first university Maths test) regain their confidence and sense of self and return to university with a new determination and resolve to master the new challenges. The academic curriculum during the holiday seminars is interspersed with soft skill offerings with an emphasis on fun and creativity – many of our students associate doing their best with not having fun and just sitting in front of their books, which could become unproductive.
♦ Research and Evaluation
Our mentor and support programme is constantly evaluated and researched, as it is our aim to develop a successful model that can be replicated. Our principal partner in this is the Sasol Inzalo Foundation. Some presentations of results in this regard are already available online:
• Vosloo, MM & Blighnaut, S 2010. "From Hero to Zero … and back? The journey of first year access students in mainstream programmes. "http://www.assaf.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Vosloo-Blignaut-Hero-to-Zero.pdf
• Human, C et al 2010. "Strategic and conceptual challenges experienced by first-year students while attempting to solve problems that require mathematical modelling." http://www.assaf.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Zuki-HumanEtAlProblemSolvingMathModellingOct2010.pdf
• Vosloo, M, Hofmeyr M & Letlape, M 2012. "Supporting tertiary access for disadvantaged students: Lessons from the Sasol Inzalo Foundation's bursary programme." Supporting tertiary access for disadvantaged students
♦ Exit Strategy
In 2010 the Studietrust Board adopted the bridging of the second gap – that between university and the world of work – as core business. We ran a pilot work readiness workshop in 2012 and are currently preparing a programme that will include making available to our bursars a network of entities that could facilitate vacation work and experiential learning opportunities, work readiness skills and eventually a talent management platform.
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The DSU degree programs taught in New Castle County will move into its new home on Kirkwood Highway by July 1, a location that will enable the University to expand its offerings in the state's northernmost county.
The DSU Board of Trustees made that a priority during its May 6 special meeting as it authorized the University to spend up to $2 million to be used to renovate the former U.S. Army Reserve Center it has acquired at 3931 Kirkwood Highway (just east of Del. 7).
That decision means that DSU will permanently move out of its current Wilmington site located at 621 Market St., where the institution has been based since circa 1993. DSU first offered classes in New Castle County when it was loaned some space at Howard High School in Wilmington in 1990.
A few years ago, the federal government identified the former U.S. Army facility as a surplus building that could be designated for educational purposes. With the 43,000-square-foot building up for grabs, DSU applied for the property. The U.S. Department of Education awarded the property in June 2011.
Soon thereafter, the University established a Kirkwood Planning Task Force to study the possible academic uses of the building while the U.S. Army transitioned out of its possession of the building.
As a result of the work of the Task Force, the University's Master of Business Administration (MBA), Social Work and Sport Administration master's degree programs offered at the Market Street site will be transferred to the Kirkwood property beginning in the 2013-2014 school year. DSU also plans to establish five undergraduate programs at the new location in the 2014-2015 academic year – Hospitality Management and Tourism, Criminal Justice, Integrated Studies, and Math Education, as well as a certified program in Food Preparation/Nutrition.
The U.S. Army turned over the Kirkwood property to the University in early 2013. The University expects to complete a Phase I renovation project – which will create six classrooms, remodel the lobby, upgrade the road entrance and parking lot, install a fire alarm system and code compliant HVAC and electric, as well as create ADA-compliant restrooms and renovate the building's north wing – in time to be in operation at the new site on July 1.
While Phase I will be designed to accommodate the more than 80 students currently enrolled in New Castle County, a Phase II project will commence later to renovate and modernize the remaining areas of the building.


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Here's how RW members rated this race (154 votes).
In short: What running is all aboutIn full: Spring time running in the countryside. Lovely course with enough hills to keep you working but not take it out of you too much. Weather was perfect this year too.Pity some runners had to spoil it and upset locals by peeing in public. It seems some people have to be told how to behave in public. Date of review: March 10, 2008
In short: Nice course and good organisationIn full: Well done and thanks to all at Gloucester AC for putting on a good race. Nice scenic and undulating course that wasn't too tough, and thankfully the wind wasn't as bad as expected.Date of review: March 4, 2008
In short: first ever 20 mile runIn full: the organasion was fine but for us slow ones at the back the last 3 miles were compleatly on our own if there had been a problem we would have been stranded untill the sweeper court us up. if there was one. was good training for london though. i did not see any unhappy locals only one lady who came out of her house to ask what was going on then said we must all be mad. dont think i will do it again i dont like more than half marathon distance but works well for london prep and that is a one of thing for me! was very pleased to think that i did it thought.Date of review: March 4, 2008
In short: Just right!In full: Lovely low key event. My first ever 20 miler,thanks to this event I would not hesitate doing it again. Friendly marshals, enough drink stations, nice t-shirt.Date of review: March 3, 2008
In short: Weather conditions made for a quicker and more pleasant run this yearIn full: Didn't make the last 3 miles any easier though. Very pleased to have shaved b9 minutes off last year's time. Good marshalling. It was quite a warm day and I had to stop to take enough water to get me to the next station without getting dehydrated. I had no problem with cars but could see from body language it was something of an irritant for locals trying to go about normal Sunday morning business. A local was remonstrating with the registration desk about runners urinating near a kid's playground and a runner berated for wearing an MP3 player prior to start.Still a great prep for London.Date of review: March 3, 2008
In short: Not bad at all!In full: Perfect weather, lovely scenery! Sorry to hear that some people had some trouble with the locals, didn't experience that myself. I knocked 10 mins 43 seconds off my 2006 time so I was chuffed! My friends and I even considered driving up from Sodbury to do one of our Sunday LSRs up there!Date of review: March 3, 2008
In short: ImpressiveIn full: Excellent training race for the FLM and pretty hard to fault really. Route was scenic and generally flat (although the few hills seemed to get steeper on the second lap..), well organised and suitably challenging. Thanks to the friendly marshals and others, personally I found the stroppy woman mentioned by another runner to be quite amusing as she berated all and sundry at the start like a group of naughty schoolkids. Nice t shirt too, makes a change not to be walking around like a billboard.Date of review: March 3, 2008
In short: Worth it just for the t - shirtIn full: Very glad I did this, the right distance at the right time (before London). The t-shirt from this race is the best ever - nice design, no ads, something I will be proud to wear.Great parking facilities, altho I felt like I had nearly done 20 miles walking to and from the car park to HQ & start etc.Its the 3rd race on the course this year which might explain the organisers concerns about the residents. If all the marshalling points had a bin (and runners were told this), there might be less need for people to chuck their bottles and gel wrappers by the roadside or into fields.Looking forward to next time!Date of review: March 3, 2008
In short: Exceeded expectations In full: Injured last weekend so everyone (including me) said "take it easy". I planned on an easy sub 3.00 and manged sub 2.4o.I thought it was a good course and the runner who remarked about the "rules". One of them was don't use the start area as a toilet- hadly unreasonable!Some cars were taking it a bit quick around the lanes but it was good to slow tractors and horse boxes down - and I kept to the left throughout!Well done Glos ACDate of review: March 2, 2008
In short: AverageIn full: Should be please by this race as it was a pb, but left feeling that i wish i'd gone somewhere else. Stroppy Woman at race HQ and some strange runners trying to take on the motorist!! odd really.Date of review: March 2, 2008
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I'm going for it again. Hoping the training goes a bit more smoothly and Paul doesn't leave me in a cloud of dust at 22 miles this year
See you there Keir. You joining the fun SJ ??
Entries open, this is good news. I am definitely going to be there, injury problems have now all cleared, and I am well into my training for a May marathon. After my demise at 24 miles at Abo last year, it will be time to get some payback.
See the banter has already started
Paul, you know you want to.
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