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Lead-tin interconnects, like the ones seen on this Intel "Prescott" processor, are a thing of the past. (Thumbnail and image source: Chipworks)
Intel is taking the next step in environmentally friendly products
Intel Corporation
announced on Tuesday
that the future of its microprocessors will be lead-free and environmentally friendly. This follows a big tech industry shift towards products that are more environmentally friendly. The shift will begin with its line of "green" 45-nanometer high-k metal gate (Hi-k) processors, which includes the next-generation Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad and Xeon processors.
Lead is mainly used in a variety of micro-electric "packages" and "bumps" that attach the Intel chip to "packages", which are then wrapped around the chip and used to connect it to the motherboard. Package designs include pin grid array, ball grid array, and land grid array, and will all be 100 percent lead-free.
With the introduction of 65nm
, Chipworks -- a company that reverses engineers chip packaging -- discovered that Intel
silently transitioned
from lead-tin solder-ball interconnects to plated copper pillars. Since then, all 65nm Intel processors no longer use lead for interconnects.
"Intel is taking an aggressive stance toward environmental sustainability, from the elimination of lead and a focus on greater energy efficiency of our products to fewer air emissions and more water and materials recycling," said Nasser Grayeli, Intel vice president and director of assembly test technology development, Technology and Manufacturing Group.
Lead, which can cause neurological damage in humans if ingested, was used in electronics for decades due to its electrical and mechanical properties. Intel produced its first lead-free flash memory product in 2002, and began shipping products with 95 percent less lead than previous chips in 2004. The remaining 5 percent was replaced by a tin/silver/copper alloy in the first-level interconnect, the solder joint that connects the silicon die to the package substrate.
In February 2003, the European Union adopted the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive. The directive mandated that all electronics sold must be near lead-free by June 2006. Special clauses protected microprocessors from utilizing some lead in their design, but AMD and Intel both opted to go lead free before the call to action date anyway.
Production on the Intel lead-free 45 nanometer high-k processors,
, will begin in the second half of this year.
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Dauphin Kings 3 - Brockville Braves 2
DAUPHIN, Man. – Two down, four to go for the Dauphin Kings at the 2010 RBC Cup.
Shane Luke scored twice to lead the offence and Mitch Czibere had the eventual game-winner late in the second period as the Kings held on for a 3-2 victory over the Brockville Braves on Monday night in a battle of the last two unbeatens at the National Junior A Championship.
The win ensures the Kings (2-0) get to the halfway point of the round robin on top of the standings, while the Braves (1-1) drop into a three-way tie for second with Vernon and La Ronge after their first loss.
It took just 4:08 for Dauphin to ignite the capacity crowd of 2,170, as a shot from Ryan Dreger snuck through Braves netminder Justin Gilbert and Luke was there to poke home the loose puck for his first goal of the tournament.
But the vaunted Brockville power play went to work shortly after and Braves captain Shayne Thompson pulled the East Region champions even, blasting a shot through a screen and past Kings goaltender Joe Caligiuri for his team's eighth power play goal in two games.
After a back-and-forth opening 10 minutes of the second period the Kings started to take control, and were finally rewarded when Luke snapped a shot from the face-off dot over the glove of Gilbert to restore Dauphin's one-goal lead at 2-1.
Czibere pushed the lead to two for the first time when his hard shot got through Gilbert and sent the Kings to the dressing room with a 3-1 lead after 40 minutes.
The Braves got back to within one quickly, with Shayne Stockton converting just 40 seconds into the third period, and pressured for the tying goal, outshooting Dauphin 13-7 in the final frame, but could not get the tying goal past Caliguiri, who made sure his team's home-ice winning streak reached 16 games.
The Braves will have Tuesday off before facing Vernon in a marquee round-robin match-up on Wednesday afternoon (2 p.m. CT), while Dauphin faces their ANAVET Cup rivals, the La Ronge Ice Wolves, on Tuesday night (7 p.m. CT).

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- What is RSS
- How is it useful
- How does it work - subscribe to a feed
- Feed reader applications
- External feed reader filters
- Similar programms
- Useful links
- ArmA related feeds
What is RSS¶
Really Simple Syndication - wikipedia
To cut it short some source offers some sort of information stream as a so called feed.
It can be used as alternative to email notification or check your x-tens sites for new blog
posts, release posts, forum thread or post, wiki edits or code changes.
In other words a different way saving you tons of time!
How is it useful¶
DevHeaven and several other community sites like OFPEC, AH, AA.info, AA.de offer feeds.
The later can notify you about news or forum items.
- For the complete site
- or per project (subscribe to multiple rss feeds to pick what is important for you)
- Learn from the activity view (the current active filter creates a custom rss feed) about
- new forum threads/posts
- code commits
- new tickets/ticket changes
- new wiki pages/wiki edits
- project news
- new files
How does it work - subscribe to a feed¶
In general you need an application, either standalone or you can use the browser for it.
This topic is part of the next section.
- In the top address bar on the right side there is a star. This allows you to add bookmarks
for the current page and will turn orange when the page is already bookmarked.
To the left of this, if the page has RSS feeds, a orange square icon will appear to indicate
that feeds are available. By clicking you can subscribe to the feed, by any of your readers.
- The alternative is an atom link present on the DevHeaven pages at the very end.
Feed reader applications¶
Firefox itself only provides very basic feed monitoring ability, via Live Bookmarks.
Yet there are many great addons out there that provide more advanced feed access.
Note: To avoid slowdowns with many feeds (20+), you need to download at least FF 3.1 beta.
The Overview page really sums up brief very well with textual and picture description.
- Install brief
- Save all of your feeds to a folder called feeds among the other bookmarks.
- Make brief read your feeds
- Open brief (see second item of the workflow).
- Open the brief options (tools icon in the top left of the 'page').
- Switch to the second tab called 'feeds'
- Select the folder where you feeds are located in / save to.
- In lower right you see the current number of unread posts. Mouse hovering shows the detailed
list of item (name and count posts).
- CTRL LShift A opens brief as a new tab. Alternatively press the button left to the address bar.
- It is recommended to use brief as a 'task list'.
This means removing done or no longer of interest items out of are of immediate attention.
- By default the unread list has the focus.
- If the selected item is not of interested or the single feed item is enough,
mark read the item either via pressing M, LMB DblClick on the item description or the button.
- If you want to view the full web page for the context or to add your thoughts,
click Enter or item header (first line) to open the given page in a new tab (see note below).
- Brief will save item by default indefinitely. There are different ways to remove them, if needed.
- You can also search the stash of item in the search box in the top left - quick access via *.
- You can make brief look for new items by clicking on the top left icon (two green spiral arrows).
Set the automated cycle time for brief to check in the main options.
Basically the most important thing is to keep it organized (remove complete site feeds and
mark items read no longer of interest) as well as do not get waiting for new item addicted.
Open brief options again.
- Main
- Reduce cycle time if needed.
- Tick: Open brief in a new tab
- Tick: Open items in new tabs
Advanced topics and tweaks:
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Enable current item highlighting by press Q once (toggle)
- You can bookmark post via B or by clicking on the star in the top left of the item.
Below the unread category, you find the bookmarks.
Pressing B or clicking the star again to remove the item from the bookmarks.
- You can use J/K to scroll the items. Arrow up/down for the categories.
- You can check the key shortcuts in brief options - Display too.
- You can set a delay for checking each feed
- Customizing appearance of feeds
- RMB->properties on a subscribed feed to change the individual checking for updates cycle
No experience present. Please share yours!
Standalone applications¶
No experience present. Please share yours!
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Overall pretty much the same as FF + brief combo.
Matter of perspective:
Standalone with more options vs less integrated and features available via external filter combination.
- Configuration (filters, interval of checking per feed).
- Good key-shortcuts.
- CommitMonitor like notification (configurable per feed again).
- Fast.
- Nice UI.
- Item list with full item text via full/web view (Alt 3).
- The ratings feature might be useful.
- Internal browser or call external browser.
- Free.
Internet explorer¶
No experience present. Please share yours!
External feed reader filters¶
- No account needed.
- No privacy statement (-).
Feed Rinse¶
You need to create an account at the start to configure your filters.
Recommend to use in combination with Brief to filter items of yourself from DevHeaven.
- Create account.
- Login.
- Add the atom URL of the activity view for all projects or your project(s) of DevHeaven.
- Modify filter of the feed to block the post if any of the following conditions are met:
author contains YourDevHeavenNick.
- Save.
- RMB click on the feed icon and copy link location.
- Add new rss feed to your app (ie Brief).
For multiple feeds to filter repeat the whole story.
- Unlimited Number Of Source Feeds.
- 500 Filters Overall.
- Only 5 Channels - mix multiple incoming to one outgoing.
- Keyword Filtering.
- Tag Filtering.
- Author Filtering.
- Isolate Filter By Title/body.
- Opml Import / Export.
- Opml Reading List.
- Bookmarklet.
- Regular Expressions.
- Profanity Filtering.
- Free.
Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor.
Pretty advanced and still easy system. Very much recommended for advanced use.
Learn How to Build a Pipe in Just a Few Minutes
Similar programms¶
Home site
ZapTXT Version 2. What's New
ZapTXT is a free service that lets you monitor one or many RSS or Atom feeds for a set of keywords that interest you. We will monitor the feeds for you, and send you a notification whenever one of your feeds matches your criteria. You can choose to receive these notices via: * Email * Mobile device (SMS) (US and CA only) * Instant Messenger (Skype, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, GTalk, LiveJournal's LJTalk) People use ZapTXT to monitor newspapers, blogs, classifieds, jobs, events and millions of Web sites that support RSS. Click here to learn more about what people are doing with ZapTXT.
Useful links¶
- RSS tool overview (bit outdated). It also features RSS Tools, Resources, Readers.
- CyberNotes: Best Firefox Feed Readers
- 6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds
ArmA related feeds¶
Armed Assault Info¶
Bohemia Interactive¶
Configure the desired filters in the top right menu (changeset, wiki, etc), apply and
get the atom link at the page end:
- News
- By navigating to individual projects at DevHeaven,
project-specific news or activity feeds can be added to your news reader.
- General - latest item from each depot
- Addon Depot
- Editors Depot
- Intel Depot - News
- Missions Depot
- Forum


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The College Football Playoff and the Allstate Sugar Bowl
Thursday, November 21, 2013
This year is the final year of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and this year's Allstate Sugar Bowl, the 80th edition of the annual college football classic, will be played on Jan. 2, 2014. The game will feature the champion of the Southeastern Conference, unless that team finishes in the top two in the BCS Standings, against an at-large team from the BCS pool.
Every Game CountsThe new playoff preserves the excitement and significance of college football's unique regular season where every game counts.
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More RevenueThe popularity of the new format will increase revenue for all conferences and independent institutions.
Conferences Manage the EventThe FBS conferences will manage the College Football Playoff. All 10 conferences are members of the new entity-CFP Administration, LLC. University presidents and chancellors from all 10 conferences and Notre Dame form the Board of Managers and will govern the administrative operations, with commissioners and athletics directors (the Management Committee) managing the event. A small staff in the playoff's office in Irving, Texas, will carry out the detailed responsibilities.
Participants in the New Year's Bowls (Fiesta, Cotton, Peach)The participants in these three bowls will be made up of displaced conference champions and the top-ranked champion from a non-contract conference. Highest-ranked available teams will fill any other berths.
Championship Game SitesThe first College Football Playoff Championship Game will be played in Arlington, Texas, at Cowboys Stadium on Jan. 12, 2015. The sites for the remaining championships are still to be determined.
PrinciplesThe management committee has charged the selection committee to select the teams using a process that distinguishes among otherwise comparable teams by considering:
Voting ProcessThe voting process will include a series of ballots through which the committee members first select a pool of teams to be considered, then rank those teams. Individual ballots will be compiled into a composite ranking.


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GSA Official Reed Honored by Washington Business Journal
May 6, 2008
Contact: Shaunta Johnson, (202) 501-1231
WASHINGTON — The Washington Business Journal's new list of 25 Minority Business Leaders features just one federal executive: Tony Reed, Regional Administrator of the U.S. General Service Administration's (GSA) National Capital Region (NCR).
"I'm not surprised that Tony would receive this award," said GSA Acting Administrator David Bibb. "Tony and our excellent NCR workforce have done an excellent job supporting the federal workforce, helping area small businesses, and maintaining hundreds of government-owned buildings and historic properties."
Reed was applauded for his leadership of NCR's 1700 employees, and a move aimed at increasing federal contracting opportunities for area small businesses. One of his first initiatives was to help raise awareness of socioeconomic programs by realigning the region's Small Business Utilization Center. The small business center now has a voice in planning acquisition strategies, advocating for set-aside contracts, and helping minority firms by breaking out portions of large contracts.
Reed oversees a real estate portfolio of 93 million square feet of space that includes more than 880 government–owned and leased facilities that house nearly 300,000 federal workers. He also partnered with Bowie State University on a project that helped students learn about the federal government's procurement processes.
The Journal considered leaders in industries ranging from engineering to event planning before announcing its list of minority business leaders at an April 11 luncheon at the Gaylord Convention Center at National Harbor. More than 650 attended the event.
GSA provides a centralized delivery system of products and services to the federal government, leveraging its enormous buying power to get the best value for taxpayers.
• Founded in 1949, GSA manages more than one-fourth of the government's total procurement dollars and influences the management of $500 billion in federal assets, including 8,600 government-owned or leased buildings and 208,000 vehicles.
• GSA helps preserve our past and define our future, as a steward of more than 425 historic properties, and as manager of USA.gov, the official portal to federal government information and services.
• GSA's mission to provide superior workplaces, expert technology solutions, acquisition services, purchasing and E-Gov travel solutions and management policies, at best value, allows federal agencies to focus on their core missions.


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What a stacked card. As good as I've seen in any sport in a long time
What a stacked card. As good as I've seen in any sport in a long time
Great line up, I'd put my money on Kharitonov because he can knock you out or sub you from anywhere, all he has to do is fight sensibly and keep his chin down because there are a few solid punches there.
There won't be any subs because it's a kickboxing tourney as far as I know. Personally I have Ghita winning it but I might have a flutter on Zimmerman as an outsider.
Is semmy no longer the perennial favourite?
'Go read a fucking book, you piece of shit.'
So they are going to have a 16 man kickboxing tournament (so 15 fights) PLUS MMA fights?!?!?!?!
Fuck. If that is the case I am going to really have to stalk up and soda for that show.
Sherdog.com - The number one MMA site on the web today!


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EMERYVILLE, CA -- Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc. and Joh. A. Benckiser (Ludwigshafen, Germany) have announced an agreement under which JAB will acquire Peet's for $73.50 per share in cash, about $1 billion in total. Peet's board of directors has unanimously approved the accord.
In addition to JAB, Chicago's BDT Capital is participating in the transaction as an advisor and minority investor. The transaction is structured as a one-step merger, with Peet's as the surviving corporation. It is not subject to a financing condition and is expected to close in approximately three months, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory and shareholder approvals.
At the close of the transaction, Peet's will be privately owned and will continue to be operated by the company's present management team and employees. The company will keep its headquarters in Emeryville and its roasting plant in Alameda, both in the San Francisco Bay area.
Peet's Coffee & Tea was founded in 1966 in Berkeley, CA, by Alfred Peet, an early tea authority who pioneered specialty coffee in the U.S.
Joh. A. Benckiser, the investment vehicle for the Reimann family of Germany, is a privately held group focused on long-term investments in premium consumer-goods brands. Its portfolio includes a majority stake in beauty products manufacturer Coty Inc. (New York City and Paris) and a minority investment in DE Master Blenders 1753 (Utrecht, The Netherlands), formerly the Douwe Egberts unit of Sara Lee.
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Hi mates… I'm starting this thread for us to share so other good things we can do, beside work…
TV series are one the thing that I enjoy my self watching, my best are:
1- Lost
2 – Prison Break
3 – I'm steel watching: Supernatural, Nikita and the new serie "Arrow"
1. Walking Dead
2. Breaking Bad
3. Dexter
Not a particular order but try these: Boardwalk Empire, Homeland and Falling Skies
1. Breaking Bad
2. Prison Break
3. Flashforward (shame on you ABC for cancelling that)
Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Game Of Thrones, not in any particular order either.
In no particular order:
Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Sons of Anarchy.
2 Broke Girls, Desperate Housewifes, Falling Skies, Two and a half Man (with Charlie Sheen), Lost. Not in any particular order.
My latest favorite is Person of Interest. You guys should really give it a try. It's created by on of the three Nolan brothers and simply is an amazing series. Had high hopes for Arrow but so far, it's not that great.
I also like Dexter,BB,community
Dexter, Spartacus, Arrow, Breaking bad.
1. Spartacus
2. Legend of the Seekers
3. Robin-hood
I enjoy adventurous epic series… I love the word 'Legendary'.


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and a bottle of laudenum in my posession.
I mean - of COURSE I will wait until i'm at least 38 weeks to use them, but I want to see my baaaayyybeeee!!!! I'm uncomfortable and I has the sads because I feel fat! Boo hoo me!!!
I also have zero world view, access to to excellent medical care, and the perspective of a one-eyed gnat.
DON'T JUDGE! I didn't post this here for negativity! If you can't be supportive, JUST DON'T COMMENT.


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If you've ever thought about venturing into beekeeping, "Homegrown Honey Bees" can tell you what to expect.
The book, billed as "an absolute beginner's guide," was written by Alethea Morrison and illustrated with photos by Mars Vilaubi. They're husband-and-wife beekeepers from Massachusetts who share their challenges, failures and successes to help others get started in beekeeping ventures of their own.
Morrison is clearly a beekeeping cheerleader, but she doesn't try to make the hobby sound simpler than it is. The book covers the basic how-to's and answers questions such as how often you can expect to be stung, how much money you'll spend and how much time you'll need to devote to beekeeping.
The book is written in a conversational style, with humor, I've-been-there wisdom and plenty of encouragement. "Homegrown Honey Bees" sells for $14.95 in softcover.


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it didnt look like it said cops to me but i guess. it needs ALOT of work cuz the c an p is hideous
it didnt look like it said cops to me but i guess. it needs ALOT of work cuz the c an p is hideous
meep meep.
The middle of the M is a little goofy looking, but pretty straight overall
I read it as "cops", HMMM that's just me. or maybe POTS.
your name is fun to say, MEEP MEEP
Your M is a little off, but it's refreshing to see something new. your E is too normal and bland(for a throwie), I've might have seen that E more times than my own dick. And don't make your P bigger than the rest! woop.
crits on my 2 letter?
I know cors ^
lookin good, put it up
First Off You Know What It Is If You Heard Drake
Making Ho's Wobble Like A Bridge In An Earthquake
Milk- fucking niiiiice M.
I finally got a bit of inspiration and tried a bubbly style, first attempt so advice is really appreciated (i'll fix the second e so lines aren't showing)
ive youre going for bubbly you should round out the T more. and that N need serious work. the bottom legs are too stubby.
I do participate in Acts of Graffiti/vandalism. Not only do i condone such acts, but i encourage them.
i really like the t.
veser, work on those letters in the book a bit more homie..
that looks like a dope place to paint though
and thanks big blue!
damn milk boxx that shits nice
roc city and buffalo pm me


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Murder suspect behind bars
(Cleveland) United States Marshal Pete Elliott and Regional Director Todd Ishee of the Adult Parole Authority announce the arrest of one of northern Ohio's most wanted violent fugitives.
On Wednesday October 23rd 2013 Deputy United States Marshals and members of the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task arrested Julius Webster age 27, on Knollwood Drive in Parma, Ohio.
Webster was wanted for the robbery and murder of 31-year-old Curtis Leon Marks Jr from August 29th, 2013. The murder took place outside of a bar on the corner of 70th and Superior Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Additionally, Webster was wanted by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office for escape, the Adult Parole Authority for a parole violation and is a suspect in two separate homicides in Canton, Ohio. Webster was a founding member and leader of the Heartless Felons Street Gang and had been previewed on multiple occasions throughout multiple cities as the United States Marshals Fugitive of the Week. The task force has been pursuing Webster endlessly for the last two months.
U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott said, "Great team work by the Deputy United States Marshals, The Canton Office of the FBI, the Adult Parole Authority and all members of the Task Force led to the capture of this violent fugitive. Our streets are much safer today due to the fact that these officers and departments partnered together and never stopped pursuing Webster ending his run as one of northern Ohio's most wanted".
Adult Parole Authority Regional Director Todd Ishee said, "We are very proud to be partners with the Marshals Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force. Together our men and women of the Task Force are making a tremendous difference every day riding our streets of many violent fugitives. Partnerships are what brought Webster to Justice."
Anyone with information concerning any wanted fugitive can contact the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force at 1-866-4WANTED (1-866-492-6833). You may also anonymously text in a tip by texting the keyword "WANTED" and your tip to TIP411 (847411), or you can send a web tip at the following webpage http://www.usmarshals.gov/district/oh-n/index.html. Reward money is available and tipsters may remain anonymous.
he Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force – Cleveland Division is composed of the following federal, state and local agencies: U.S. Marshals Service, Cleveland Police Department, Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office, Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority Police Department, Euclid Police Department, Lakewood Police Department, Ohio Adult Parole Authority, Ohio State Highway Patrol, Social Security Administration - Office of Inspector General, Solon Police Department, and the Westlake Police Department.
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Queen scores as Tornados falls to Wolves in SAC openerFebruary 17, 2012
Brevard plates a run on wild pitch in loss to Newberry on Friday
Newberry, S.C. - Cody Queen came around to score on a wild pitch, giving the Tornados their first run of the ball game, but backed by a five run fourth inning and a strong pitching effort by Josh McElwee, Brevard fell to Newberry on Friday evening at the Smith Road Complex in the South Atlantic Conference opener, 8-1.
Eric Renegar, Zack Merriken and Christian Christopoulos all recorded hits for the Tornados (3-4, 0-1 SAC), but McElwee drove in four runs in support of his own pitching performance and Hunter Cox was a perfect four-for-four from the plate to give the Wolves (3-5, 1-0 SAC) the edge in the teams' first SAC competition of the season.
Newberry plated runs in both the bottom of the first and the second as McElwee singled in Andy Vogel and Robby Scraggs top put the Wolves on the board with one out in the inning. Matt Gaine brought in the third Newberry run in the bottom of the second inning, hitting into a double play, but Alex Kirby came around to score to increase the Newberry lead.
Newberry broke the game open in the bottom of the fourth as Cox brought home Kirby with a one-out single to left centerfield and McElwee and Scraggs brought in two runs apiece with a pair of singles to put Newberry up 8-0.
The Tornados ended the shutout bid in the top of the sixth inning as Queen reached on a fielder's choice. A grounder off the bat of Randy O'Dell moved Queen over to second, before Tarron Robinson reached on a walk to give Brevard two runners on with two outs. A wild pitch drifted far enough away from the Wolves catcher, allowing Queen to score from second base for the Tornados first run of the contest.
The Tornados were unable to mount a comeback in the final two innings in falling in their SAC road opener to Newberry.
Brevard and Newberry continue their three game weekend series tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. for the first game of their scheduled doubleheader. The start time of the contest was moved up due to weather concerns for late Saturday afternoon.


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Why is this not starting from top?

I have the code as above. As you can see there is only one div. But why doesn't the div start form the top of the browser(Why is the yellow background seen at the upper-margin?) I know a way to fix using margin-top:-10px; but is that the best way?
This should be posted in the CSS forum

Why is this not starting from top?

I would also advise you to keep your css files separate.
Good luck
Tried that one as well. It is also not working.
p.s. : I didn't know it was posted in the General Discussion Area. Any way to transfer this thread to the CSS forum
Guess the admin will do it.
That's because you need to include a position: element to use the Top: element.
Thanks. Now that I see the left and right of the div, the same problem persists. Is there any way to fix the left and right sides as well?
Browsers apply a default margin inside the window that is about 10px. You can remove this default margin with the following:
body {margin:0;}
negative margins are not appropriate and positioning sounds like it is unnecessary, too. body {margin:0} should do the trick.
Thanks man. That worked out well for me.
Try setting the body to margin:0; then delete the margin-top from the div. hope I helped and works out.
If you are not using a reset stylesheet, then your your css will use the browsers default margins and padding. Try this:
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Count yourself lucky if you've found photos of forebears in military attire. When you know what to look for, those portraits can lead you right to your ancestors' military service records. Susan Ferrell uncovered this portrait in her family photo collection, and she hopes the uniform will provide the necessary clues to produce a positive identification. Because such a wide variety of uniform designs appeared over the years, interpreting military images can be difficult. But Ferrell can find answers by following a few steps — and you can use the same procedure to identify your own military portraits.
Ferrell should start by establishing a time frame for the image, based on the photographic method. This picture's a paper print, which means it dates from the mid-1850s or later. A photographer's imprint could narrow the time frame by revealing the artist's name and place of business. Using old city and photographer directories, Ferrell could then determine when he operated his studio. Unfortunately, this image lacks an imprint, so she'll have to rely on costume clues instead.


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The highest award in the national home-brewed beer competition is the Ninkasi, named for the Sumerian goddess of beer.
Brewing was once women's work, first for high priestesses and then a routine part of keeping house.
Women around the country, including Utah, are increasingly returning to the roll of "brewster." They're still a minority of home brewers, but their numbers are slowly rising.
"I started noticing a large amount of women coming in to buy beer supplies, and that got me excited," said Jamie Burnham, manager of the brew supply store Beer Nut. In response, she created the women-only brewing group Hop Bombshells last year.
"Advertising companies have done a disservice to us," she said. "You think of the Bud commercials and it's girls in tight tank tops and wet T-shirts. While there are those people, the majority of it is intelligent women from different backgrounds that are really just enjoying the craft."
Another women's beer group, the Utah chapter of Barley's Angels, educates women about beer. Members take field trips to breweries and hold tasting events, such as the recent sold-out beer and chocolate pairing.
That kind of education is needed, Burnham said. "There's such a social stigma that girls are only supposed to drink light beer or fruit beer or wine."
But girls can like stouts and porters, too. Or at least they might, if given the chance to explore beer styles.
And they can make them, as well.
Brewing contests • Before 2009, it was illegal to brew beer or make wine at home in Utah. A University of Utah law student realized his hobby was illegal and sought a change in the law. The proposal failed in 2008, but HB51, sponsored by then-Rep. Christine Johnson, passed a year later.
Not long after, the state's first home-brewing competition, sponsored by the Beer Nut, was held and about 130 people submitted 330 entries.
The fifth annual Beehive Brew-Off, an event sanctioned by the American Homebrewers Association, takes place Sunday, Aug. 4. Burnham expects 800 to 1,000 entries.
A second sanctioned home-brewing competition, The Bier Brauen, will take place Sept. 20-21 as part of Grace Lutheran Church and School's annual Oktoberfest celebration. (See box for details.)
Gary Glass, director of the American Homebrewers Association, based in Boulder, Colo., was involved in changing Utah's law. Utah had been one of a handful of states that maintained Prohibition-era regulations against home brewing. As of July, all 50 states allow home brewing Alabama and Mississippi were the last holdouts. While lawmakers in those Southern states viewed the making of alcohol in moral terms, Glass said Utah lawmakers recognized allowing home brewing could lead to business development.
"The majority of people who are starting breweries in this country are home brewers," he said, noting that membership in the national association has exploded from 9,700 in 2005 to more than 38,000 today. The growth coincides with several trends: the millennial generation turning 21, a boom in craft beer and an interest in supporting local farmers and food artisans.
"You take that one step further, you're home brewing," he said. " You're not going to get any more local than that."
Beer queens • Many of the Hop Bombshell members plan on entering the local competitions. Becky Nix, who is still deciding which of her brews to enter, started experimenting more than five years ago in part to avoid paying Utah's high liquor taxes. The scientist by day has now devoted her basement bathroom to beer brewing and has a beer fridge with four taps pouring her beers.
"I use it to try to get my friends to come over so I don't have to drive," she jokes. "Now it's at the point that it's more fun to brew it than to drink it. It's just fun to be able to build things."
She joined Hop Bombshells because she didn't have any beer-making girlfriends and likes teaching what she knows about the craft.
Tiffany Steele, who won a silver at the California women's-only Queen of Beer contest last year, is entering a bitter ale she made last year in the Old Ale category. She started making beer with her husband after they bought themselves a Mr. Beer kit.
She joined Hop Bombshells to find like-minded friends. "It was a good way to get ladies together that love beer. There's a lot of us out there, but we're overshadowed by our partners."
Brewing is like baking to Emily Park, an assistant pastry chef who loves to play with beer flavors. She's made a honey basil beer, and she's entering a cherry red ale this year, made with cooked-down cherries.
The 29-year-old doesn't expect to win, but that's not the point. She wants to make better beer.
"It takes time and patience," she said, "but the best things always do."
New home brew contest
The Bier Brauen is Utah's newest home-brewing contest. It is sponsored by Grace Lutheran Church as part of its two-day Oktoberfest celebration. The emphasis is on German-style brews, although other beers will be accepted for judging. Entries accepted the first two weeks of September.
Where • Grace Lutheran Church and School, 1815 E. 9800 South, Sandy
When • Sept. 20-21
Details • gracelutheranoktoberfest.com or 801-572-6375


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The Mets are offering one-hour tours of Citi Field on non-game days starting May 28. Here's your chance to feel like a Mets player and see the clubhouse and luxury suites, take a stroll on the warning track, and visit the bullpen and dugout, among other areas. At $10 a ticket, it's not a bad deal. Plus, there's free parking.
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The New York Mets today announced the launch of Citi Field Tours, offering fans a guided behind-the-scenes look at their home, including the Mets Clubhouse, Dugout and the Mets Hall of Fame & Museum. Group Tours begin Friday, May 28, and regular Tours start Saturday, May 29, to kick off Memorial Day Weekend.
Tickets can be purchased at Mets.com/tours or by phone at (718) 507-TIXX. Citi Field Tours are free for Season Ticket Holders making advance reservations with the Mets Ticket Office at (718) 507-TIXX. In-person ticket sales start Thursday, May 27, at the Citi Field Advance Ticket Windows located outside the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.
Fans will tour the press box and productions areas, visit the Empire and Sterling Suites, step onto the field on the warning track (weather permitting), visit the Bullpen, take photos in the Mets Dugout, and see the Mets Clubhouse. The one-hour tour will conclude at the Mets Hall of Fame & Museum.
Individual tickets are $10 for adults, and $7 for children 12 and under and senior citizens 60 and over. Tickets for groups of 10 or more purchased in advance are $8 for adults, and $5 for children 12 and under and senior citizens 60 and over. (Internet and phone orders are subject to service fees.) Thursday and Friday tours are only available for groups. Saturday and Sunday tours are open to individuals, plus groups with advanced reservations. Additional ticket information including a schedule of Citi Field Tour dates is available online at Mets.com/tours or by phone at (718) 507-TIXX.
"We are launching Citi Field Tours to provide our fans with a behind-the-scenes experience of Citi Field," said Dave Howard, Executive Vice President, Business Operations, Mets. "We've had great interest from our fans since opening the ballpark last year, and we are delighted to be able to provide them a closer look at their team's home."
Saturday and Sunday tours depart every 30 minutes, beginning at 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. from the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. Complimentary parking for all tours is available in the Citi Field Official Lot (Lot G), with the entrance on 126th Street off of Roosevelt Avenue.


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Amid the dodging, honking and close calls of everyday driving, it may be easy to embrace the conventional view that Salt Lake City drivers are bad. Actually, they are about average and getting better, according to a new study by Allstate Insurance.
Drivers in Salt Lake City and West Valley City combined because they share many ZIP codes ranked No. 63 among the nation's 200 largest cities in the annual Allstate America's Best Drivers Report. That's an improvement of nine spots from the previous year.
The report says the typical driver in the two Utah cities will be involved in a crash every 10 years, which is essentially even with the national average.
"Our local drivers are making great progress toward keeping America's roadways safer," said Gail Howells, an Allstate agency owner in Salt Lake City.
But watch out if driving in Washington, D.C. The nation's capital ranked in last place for the sixth year in a row. Typical D.C. drivers are involved in an accident about every 4.8 years, twice as often as the national average.
It was joined on the bottom of the rankings by Baltimore; Providence, R.I.; Hialeah, Fla.; and Glendale, Calif.
Fort Collins, Colo., was named "America's Safest Driving City" for the third time in the study's nine years. Drivers there are involved in an accident every 13.9 years on average. Other cities atop the overall rankings were: Boise; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Brownsville, Texas; and Madison, Wis.
Allstate said the top cities for their size were: Phoenix, for cities with more than 1 million people; Denver and Lakewood, Colo., for cities between 750,000 and 1 million; Tucson, Ariz., for cities between 500,000 and 750,000; and Mesa, Ariz., for those with fewer than 500,000.
The study is based on property claims filed with Allstate over a two-year period.
Allstate said that about 70 percent of vehicles involved in auto claims are considered drivable, indicating most crashes occur at low speeds in stop-and-go traffic. "But it's important to keep in mind that even lower-speed accidents can have serious outcomes," said Mike Roche, Allstate's senior vice president of claims.
The company also released numerous suggestions that it said help reduce crashes. They include: allowing plenty of time to reach your destination; getting directions to where you are going; keeping a safe distance, especially around large vehicles; and staying alert and especially looking out for pedestrians and children.


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I've posted on here a few times about my toddler. This cannot be a normal skill set. Today I was doing laundry. I keep the basement skeleton key locked to limit his antics. I finished up my last load at around 7pm and put the key in it's normal spot (in a lidded butter container on the second shelf of my high cupboards). I absolutely know that's where the key was - it's the only master key I have for the house so I am super careful about putting it back. I also don't put it away when he is in the room so he doesn't see it go there. Fast forward a bit and I put my toddler to bed. We do our normal routine, a book, some hugs - the only departure was I had put a diaper on him right about an hour earlier so and it was still bone dry so I left it for the night. I lock him in his room and though I normally leave the key to his room in the lock in case of emergencies, the trash goes out tonight and that's the key for all the upstairs rooms so I put it in my pocket after I unlock the other rooms to gather trash. I then go downstairs and finish with the trash, grab it from the laundry room, bundle it all up, take it outside....all very boring. I go back upstairs about 30 minutes later and my bedroom door is closed, weird. This is where I cannot believe what is going down...
So in my room is my toddler. He's removed the towel covering a small spot that the air conditioning unit leaves open (not a big deal since I leave the damn room locked). He is throwing my jewerly out the window. What the ever-loving fuck! He was skeleton key locked in his room. There is almost nothing in his room. He has a dresser, a mattress, a handful of brio tracks + a car, and a lamp. He has a few things up on book shelves, but there is no longer any possible way for him to get to them. It's his "safe" room. I try not to lose my shit and I relock him in his room. I grab the flashlight out of the kitchen and check the master lock key (gone and the butter dish lid on another shelf where I would never put it). I go outside and all of the mail in my room is in the bushes (and it's raining for extra fun) and a bunch of my jewelry is now decorating the bushes. Not costume jewelry. Like a sapphire necklace and matching earrings type jewelry. I get as much as I can since it's totally dark and rainy. Including....the master house key sitting in the mud. The best I can figure he must have gotten the key in the time it took me to walk the last laundry basket upstairs and smuggled it in to his room using his diaper (he did this once with a sharpie) and then used it to get out of his room.
This level of planning cannot be normal for a kid who is barely 2.5. Does anyone else have a kid who is even remotely like this? My other mommy friends tell stories about kids getting into flour or rearranging DVDs, not making premeditated jail breaks. I sound like a lunatic who doesn't properly prevent mischief when we are swapping mommy tales, but damn he was skeleton key locked in his room!
The master key is now relocated using a sticky hook on a wall with nothing near it that I have to stand on my tip toes to get to. I'm missing several pieces of jewelry. My bills are all soggy.
I need a drink.


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he doesn't want anybody but her // luke brooks.
Mr Player
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- Published: 14 Sep 2014
- Updated: 14 Sep 2014
- Status: Complete
Alex, is the definition of a Good Girl. She gets the good grades to fit her title and she's never once stepped out of line. Luke, is the definition of a Bad Boy. He has the looks to fit his title. He plays the girls hearts as though he was on a football field to fit his label. And he is route cause of any trouble. You'd think that these two opposites would never associate themselves with each other and no one expected this to happen but in Health Class they are allocated to be partners. Will she end up doing all the work by herself? Or will she spend all her time with him and have a little bit of the Bad Boy rub off on her? Copyright © Obey_Janoskian 2013-2014
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Well I went on a 3 day solo hunt last weekend. Saw a lot of legal bucks (15) and a couple of them were big 4 points. I put four separate stalks without releasing a single arrow. The weather was nasty, hail and rain most of the time. The wind was my worst enemy. Every time I thought I had figured it out and setup my stalk, I would get within 100 yards to find the wind on my neck and the bucks running up and over the nearest ridge. I tried everything I could, with no luck. One of my stalks on a nice 4 point and 3x4 took me 4 hours and when I finally got into position and they got up from their beds to feed the wind swirled and they were off. All this said it was a great experience and I learned a lot, AGAIN, from all the stalks. Just wished I had been able to seal the deal. Next time right?
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On Thursday, October 27, Special Collections will host an open house showcasing Civil War resources from the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection. The open house will run from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Rhinehart Room on the 4th Floor of Belk Library and Special Collections. Come see maps, books, letters, and other historic materials documenting the American Civil War, 1861-1865. Special Collections is holding this open house in celebration of North Carolina Archives Week [1], October 24-29, 2011.
A guide to many of our Civil War collections is available in the Civil War Subject Guide [2].
To learn more about Special Collections, visit us online [3], email firstname.lastname@example.com [4], or call 828-262-4041.
Pictured: Beginning of letter from Robert Beall to sister-in-law Nealie Harper, Feburary 1861. Part of the Collection 392. Harper-Beall Papers, 1826-1959 [5] in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection.


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HSBC Arena was buzzing with excitement on Saturday but not only for the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. Hundreds of fans from the Western New York and Southern Ontario areas flocked to downtown Buffalo for the Sabres first-ever Draft Party and the largest sale in the Sabres' store history.
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HACKETTSTOWN, NJ -- Mars Chocolate North America reports that Rick LaBerge has joined the company as vice-president of sales. He will oversee the strategy and execution of its retail management, customer account teams, field sales and customer development.
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University announces six Fulbright grant winners
The University of South Carolina will be represented abroad by six Fulbright Scholars conducting research and serving as English teaching assistants. This year's six Fulbright recipients are Matthew Thomas Caine, Emilee L. Duck, Benjamin Forney, Patrick Leon Hankins, Wesley Moore, and Veronica Sue.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to "increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries." Fulbright Program participants, who are chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential, have the opportunity to study, teach or conduct research.
Caine, a doctoral student in the Choral Conducting program at the School of Music, earned his undergraduate degree in church music from Birmingham Southern College (2003) followed by a master's in music education from Samford University (2004) and a master's in choral conducting and vocal performance from the University of South Florida (2007). He has been a member of the Concert Choir, the Graduate Vocal Ensemble and a graduate assistant in the Choral Department. He also is director of music at Grace United Methodist Church in Columbia. He will study the music of Todor Popov, a Bulagarian composer whose music has not been performed widely in the West. Caine summed up his hopes for his Fulbright year by saying, "I am very excited to have the opportunity to study the choral music of Todor Popov, most of which has never left Bulgaria, and then to begin sharing this wonderful music with audiences in the United States," he said.
Duck graduated from the South Carolina Honors College in May with a double major in English and German and was a member of Delta Phi Alpha, Germany National Honor Society, and a recipient of the Cooper Scholarship. She also is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In spring 2007, she received the J. Gordon Belser English Department Award and Scholarship as well as the Gerda Jordan German Department Award and Scholarship. Last summer, she taught English in Germany and will build on that experience as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Germany. "Over the past four years, I have really found a home at USC, both personally and academically — truth be told, I'm not quite ready to pull up my roots yet. I know, however, that my experiences here have prepared me for the adventure at hand, and I am thrilled beyond belief to have the chance to teach, learn, and write in Germany," she said.
Forney graduated from the South Carolina Honors College with a degree in English and has been an academic tutor for student athletes as well as a contributor to the Garnet and Black and The Lettered Olive. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was a Palmetto fellow and a University scholar. Forney will teach English in a South Korean middle or high school next year. "Living in Korea and witnessing their culture will be an incredible experience. The skills I'll learn and the connections I'll make will be invaluable resources as I begin my career," he said.
Hankins, a Carolina Scholar, graduated in May from the South Carolina Honors College with degrees in chemistry and German. He is a recipient of the Hiram and Lawanda Allen Scholarship for Excellence in chemistry award and the Victor Laurie Chemistry Scholarship, which recognizes undergraduate research and participation in the USC American Chemical Society Undergraduate Affiliates and its programs. He has taught German in a Columbia elementary school and freshman chemistry at USC as a teaching assistant, and been a Magellan Scholar. "During my stay in Germany I hope to truly fulfill the role of a Fulbright ambassador and to foster greater understanding between Germans and Americans," he said. "I will miss my friends and family, but I know that this coming year will be full of adventures and new experiences."
Moore, a 2008 magna cum laude graduate of the university, majored in German and minored in art history. At Carolina, he was a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, taught German in a practicum at the Montessori School in Columbia, was an architectural researcher for the City of Folly Beach, the South Carolina Preservation Committee, and an intern for the chief curator of art at the S.C. State Museum. This past year, he volunteered at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D. C.
Sue, a December 2008 graduate of the university with a degree in biology, was a member of the South Carolina Honors College and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At the university, she participated in the Globally Thinking Program, the Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands and served as a supplemental instructor. She was a Palmetto fellow and received a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study Spanish in Costa Rica. "I am so honored to live, learn, and teach in South Korea during the upcoming year," she said. "This is an extraordinary opportunity for cultural exchange, and I am so grateful to Fulbright and to the USC Office of Fellowships/Scholarships. Without them I would not have made it this far." In addition to her Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to South Korea, she has been accepted into the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET).
This year's recipients bring the number of USC Fulbright winners to 46 since the Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs was established in 1994. Dr. Kenneth Perkins, a professor of history, and Ms. Margaret Perkins, a fellowship coordinator in the Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs, have served as the University's Fulbright Program Advisors this past year.
For more information about the Fulbright Program, contact the Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs at 777-0958, or visit www.sc.edu/ofsp.
Fulbright scholars
- Matthew Thomas Caine
- Emilee L. Duck
- Benjamin Forney
- Patrick Leon Hankins
- Wesley Moore
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There are 32 sleeps before the Queensland Unlock the Past Expo begins and there is a great program (see side bar for further details)
Apart from the wide range of presentations by great speakers and the variety of exhibitors at the Expo a fantastic resource is the Research Help Zone (RHZ).This is where you can bring that brick wall problem and a number of experts in their area of research will try and help solve your problem.This gives you a chance to show your problem to a range of very experienced researchers which is not something that happens everyday.
So with 32 sleeps to go there is plenty of time to prepare to talk to the range of experts available!
Kerry Farmer will be available at the RHZ and you can't find a better person to ask about convict records and much more. Carole Riley will also be available and she has a lot of knowledge icluding information on New South Wales and also land records. Eric Koppitke will be available to talk to about German research and trying to tie down your ancestor's place of origin in Germany. I will be there for general research, brick wall problems, English research and more.
And don't forget the expertise of the exhibitors: Judy Webster, a specialist researcher on records at Queensland State Archives will be on her stand answering questions. Steinar Johansen will be available to talk about Scandinavian research.
There is a wide range of expertise available at the Library and Archive stands as as as all the Society stands.
I have had the pleasure of helping people with their brick wall problems for a number of Expos now and it is great fun and there have been a number of happy dances performed!
One thing I have noticed though, is that a number of people are not getting the maximum benefit from their consultations. This is perhaps because they did not realise the Research Help Zone (RHZ) existed and did not come prepared.They came and mentioned they have a problem but can't remember a date or who married whom particularly when you have a few generations with the same or similar names. This makes it very difficult to provide the appropriate answers that would work to explode that brick wall.
So how do you prepare for maximum success?
1. First work out what the problem is: perhaps a marriage you can't find, an ancestor that has disappeared, you can't pinpoint where they originated etc
2. Determine what information you already have.
3. Determine what documentary evidence you have, a birth certificate, a marriage certificate etc
4. Determine where you have already looked, what you found including negative findings.
5. Write down this information and put it together so that when you ask your question of the RHZ you will get the maximum benefit.
So with 32 sleeps to go there is plenty of time left to organise those problems and documents, bring them along so we can all do the Genealogy Happy Dance with you!


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The Wilmington OH humanesociety is the largest and most recognized organization around the world that fights for animal advocacy. In the United States alone nearly 11 million people are registered supporters of the Wilmington Ohio humanesociety. These individuals donate over 100 million dollars a year to support this organization. This money is used to ensure the protection of animals.
The main benefit of the Wilmington OH humanesociety is this fact. Every year they raise hundreds of millions of dollars that they use to start campaigns to target and to put a stop to various animal cruelties including but not limited to factory farming, organized/criminal animal fighting, puppy mills, wildlife abuse, and finally the fur trade.
Another added benefit for those individuals involved in the animal care business is the fact that the Wilmington Ohio humanesociety publishes a bi-monthly magazine known as "Animal Sheltering." This magazine is directed toward animal shelter professionals.
This benefit also crosses over to all Wilmington OH humanesociety members. The Wilmington Ohio humanesociety provides each and every one of their members with written material on a regular basis. This material documents new issues and current debates in regards to animal abuse.
The main benefit of the Wilmington OH humanesociety is education. Apart from educating professionals and their members on animal awareness they have a high profile website that more and more people around the world make use of in order to acquire the latest information and details into animal rights. Supporters can also use the Wilmington Ohio humanesociety website to make donations.
Getting the message of animal rights out is made easier with the Wilmington OH humanesociety and is one of the main reasons for their popularity. Another benefit due to their exposure is the fact that they get their message noticed even more because celebrities around the world began taking part in commercials wherein they spoke out against animal cruelty. These same celebrities today speak regularly at conferences and also make use of social media in order to further the agenda of the Wilmington Ohio humanesociety.
Though the largest Wilmington OH humanesociety in the world is located in the United States of America, nearly every country around the world has a Wilmington Ohio humanesociety or a like organization.
Another benefit of the Wilmington OH humanesociety is the way that they work with their supporters to stop animal cruelty. Apart from researching and discovering cruelties to animals on their own, the Wilmington Ohio humanesociety relies on their supporters to point out areas wherein they feel that the rights of animals are being harmed. Every day the Wilmington OH humanesociety receives calls, emails, and written letters wherein their supporters point them out to individuals and organizations that are abusing animals or may be abusing animals.
These supporter notices have assisted the Wilmington Ohio humanesociety in putting a stop to numerous animal abuse cases around the world. They have also assisted in aiding the Wilmington OH humanesociety in being able to get various laws passed that further protect animal rights and the ways that animals are cared for and raised when it comes to food.
Though there are numerous organizations both for-profit and non-profit, the Wilmington Ohio humanesociety is the largest and most recognized animal protection society in the world, and continues to grow in popularity due to their success and work around the world.


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A few years ago, Michael G. Imber, FAIA, was approached about working on a large development. His firm designs primarily high-end custom residential and has since its inception in 1992, so Imber thought carefully before accepting the offer. "We had this opportunity to get involved with New Urbanism and we ultimately felt it wouldn't diminish our design quality," he says. "Custom work is still the mainstay of our business, but this job helped diversify the scope of projects we design."
That initial collaboration led to other offers. The firm's portfolio now includes custom and production residential, urban planning, civic, and commercial buildings in such locations as Colorado, Costa Rica, Maine, Mississippi, Scotland, and Spain. It's that range of project size, type, and location that Imber believes will carry them through this recession. He also expanded by launching an interior design division in 2003. Mohon–Imber Interiors "is the busiest it's ever been," he says.
While several custom clients have put projects on hold, others are taking advantage of the lull to build now, while talented people are available. "As for our development work, our partners are continuing more slowly or laying the groundwork for projects planned for two or three years from now," Imber explains. He adds that "internationally, our projects don't seem to be impacted, but everyone is more cautious."
The firm is still cutting back as a precaution. Imber says he's always had a conservative approach to spending and a solid cache of reserves, but recently the office instituted a hiring freeze and canceled the annual staff retreat. "We never expected the entire country to suffer like this," Imber says, "but we hope our diversity will carry us through."
age of firm: 17 years
firm specialty: High-end residential and traditional neighborhood design
staff: 13 (2005); 17 (2008); 17 (2009, projected)
total revenue: Withheld
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It would be very useful to have sg3_utils and sdparm in the next release.
The sg3_utils package consists of various programs for sending SCSI commands to devices. They can also be used with devices which are not native SCSI, e.g. USB or Firewire drives. I'll mention a few of them here, but more are described at the URL above.
For data recovery or forensics in particular, sg_dd is extremely useful. sg_dd is one of the few imaging programs which can create sparse output files. Using that option reduces the disk space occupied by the image file. Depending on how "full" the source drive is, you can sometimes save tens or hundreds of gigabytes compared to a plain non-sparse image file (as would be created by GNU dd). Especially when imaging to a slow device such as a USB hard drive, this can save a lot of time. In fact, in most cases it makes sense to use sg_dd in preference to dd, if the destination filesystem supports sparse files.
sgm_dd, sgp_dd - variants of sg_dd which use memory-mapped I/O and POSIX threads respectively. Though these don't support sparse file output, in some cases they may give higher performance than GNU dd.
sg_format - low-level format drives
sg_read_long - read raw sector data (data + ECC). This command can be used to recover partial data from otherwise unreadable sectors (i.e. sectors which dd and other imaging programs cannot read at all).
sg_reassign - used to remap (bad) sectors
sg_raw - send user-specified SCSI commands. Potentially useful for doing vendor-specific stuff like firmware upgrades.


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THE MAN BEHIND THE SPAN: One way to gauge your impact as a citizen of this world is the length of time between your death and when you become the answer of a trivia question.
Question: Who was Gerald Desmond, of the bridge fame?
Answer: Desmond was a Long Beach City Council member and city attorney. He was not a trivial man, but a lifetime of service to the public and the community doesn't guarantee immortality. You're darned lucky if you get a bridge, and only a little less lucky if that bridge stands for fewer years than your own short lifetime.
Tuesday, after the iconic Gerald Desmond Bridge has stood more than 44 years, Port of Long Beach officials are breaking ground on a new, even larger span to replace it.
Desmond was a Long Beach councilman in the 2nd District, serving two terms from 1954 to 1960, and he followed that as city attorney from 1960 to early 1964, winning his first attorney term by almost a 2-1 margin and the second unopposed.
He died in January 1964 after a long and stoic battle with liver cancer. He was 48 and left a wife, Virginia, and five children, born in five-year intervals.
Desmond died beloved, and grieving city officials wanted to honor him in some way and, well, there was this bridge being built to connect Long Beach with Terminal Island - to replace the pontoon bridge that had served that purpose for 25 years. What better way to honor the man?
It was not an inappropriate gesture. As city attorney, Desmond had worked hard in obtaining tidelands funds for the city - funds that would go a long way toward paying for the bridge's construction.
Desmond was more than just an office holder. He was a career Long Beacher. Born in town in 1915, he attended Poly High and Long Beach City College, where he met his future wife (who had attended Wilson High).
Virginia was born in Panama, where her father worked on the canal. She told an interviewer in 1982 that she and her siblings were sickly and the family moved to Long Beach for its healthy climate when she was 6.
She accompanied her husband to Cambridge, where he studied at Harvard Law School. After passing the bar, he was offered a job with the U.S. Attorney's Office, which he turned down so he could enlist in the Navy during World War II, where he served as a fraud investigator in the States.
After the war, the Desmonds returned to Long Beach, where Desmond opened a private law practice, while being perpetually involved in all manner of civic endeavors.
He worked, as president of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce to get Veterans Stadium built. As president of the Long Beach Recreation Commission, he was active in supporting the establishment of El Dorado Park on the wild and sprawling Eastside. He was commander of the Alamitos Bay post of the American Legion, the Exalted Ruler of Long Beach Elks Lodge 888 and president of the LBCC Alumni Association.
He worked not just to acquire tidelands money but also to solve the associated subsidence problem that was causing the harbor lands to sink into the sea and Signal Hill to deflate like a balloon.
You look at it that way and you feel that maybe a lousy bridge wasn't good enough.
At Desmond's funeral at St. Matthew's Church, he was eulogized by virtually every Long Beach officeholder, including Mayor Edwin Wade and City Manager John Mansell, who said, "The personal loss I feel upon the death of Gerald Desmond is beyond description... He was one of the most dedicated, courageous and able persons to serve this city."
The bridge that bears his name was declared officially completed in a dedication ceremony attended by more than 200 invited guests on June 6, 1968. Virginia stood on the bridge between two fluttering flags and watched proudly as her son, 16-year-old Gerald Desmond Jr., tightened the last bolt into place.
You might've missed the story on the bridge opening, it was way deeper in the paper that carried the front-page headline about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
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LONG BEACH - State Superintendent Tom Torlakson this week unveiled his new Career Readiness Initiative designed to lower dropout rates and improve career readiness by promoting career technical education in high schools.
"The ongoing budget crisis and an 18 percent dropout rate mean we have to take action to help our students - and our state's economy," Torlakson said in a statement. "Career technical education is a proven way to ensure more of our students, especially those who are deemed `at risk,' succeed after high school."
The initiative stresses the need to increase student engagement through career- themed training in California Partnership Academies - small learning communities within larger high schools in which students follow a multiyear program focused on career and technical skills.
California currently has 500 such academies, serving 3 percent of all students in grades 10 through 12.
The initiative includes strategies for increasing the number of CPAs within high schools and recrafting high school curriculum to include career-readiness components. Reports show that 95 percent of seniors participating in CPAs go on to graduate, compared with 85 percent of their peers.
The Long Beach Unified School District last fall earned special recognition for its CPAs from the Linked Learning Alliance, a statewide coalition of educators, policymakers and leaders.
CPAs in Long Beach Unified include Poly High School's Pacific Rim Academy as well as Jordan High School's Aspirations in Medical Services Academy and its Architecture, Construction and Engineering Academy or ACE, two programs at Millikan High School and one at California Academy of Mathematics and Science.
In 2010, the ACE Academy at Jordan High became the first of two programs statewide to earn a special certification from Linked Learning.
Founded in 2007, ACE prepares students for entry-level jobs, apprenticeships, technical and trade certification programs, community college and university options.
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It's not every day that the worlds of fashion, feds and technology intersect, but we live in unusual times: The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is launching a new line of apparel and accessories under the brand name "Rain Heat & Snow," playing off USPS' unofficial motto "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
Following quarter after quarter of billion dollar losses and declining mail volume, the agency has pledged to find new ways to generate revenue. So why not fashion?
"This agreement will put the Postal Service on the cutting edge of functional fashion," said Postal Service Corporate Licensing Manager Steven Mills in a statement. "The main focus will be to produce Rain Heat & Snow apparel and accessories using technology to create 'smart apparel' -- also known as wearable electronics."
The letter carriers won't be going at it alone -- the agency is partnering with The Wahconah Group, a Cleveland-based apparel company, to launch the new line, which USPS officials hope to see in department and specialty stores in the future.
The product line will first feature men's apparel, with plans to launch a women's line as well.
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That's sick! Congrats... I have 2 little girls myself and I am already claiming that when they are 18 and 16 you will all read about me on the front page of the Atlantic City Press because i'm probaly gonna have to smoke some fool...That being said...get ready to be stooooooooked. Best feeling ever.
Congrats Man!!!!
I got 3 girls my self ages 7, 5, & 1 and they are all treasures to me . I am gonna get the two older girls a cpl liquid shredders this summer and let them have at . The took to spnges all last summer so I gotta get them on boards this year LOL
i have two girls, 5 and 2. The 5 year old is already trying to stand on an oversized boogie board without any instructions. Matt, 3 kids? Damn, two is enough for me!!
Congratulations Zach and family :)
If ya need any help naming Surf Princess we'll be glad help ya out :eek:
congrats, zach! it's a gremmie! :D
personally, if i found out was about to be a father, i'd be more like :eek::eek: then :D , but that's just me at this point in my life
Congratulations !!!! Let the fun begin. :p
congrats zach. don't know you but i get the sense you'll be a great dad. (just try not to share all of your knowledge with her at once. you might blow her mind:D)
lou reed said it best:
it's the beginning of a great adventure...
Congrats dude!
Congrats man. Just had a boy 3 weeks ago, so it's still fresh. Word of warning:
People take joy in your misery. You will never be so annoyed by "so how's the baby sleeping". One thing I've learned, tell them your baby gets up only 1 a night and is on a schedule. It'll piss 'em off cause they weren't so lucky. Everyone's got advice (like I just gave you). Some's helpful, most isn't. Most will come naturally.
Secret tip. Heating pad set on medium or low or whatever placed under the bassanet covers will buy you hours of sleep. She will argue. But try it one time and you will win her over. Babies like heat. That's all the more I'll bestow.
Good luck and remember to breathe!


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