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College Street
H1N1 Primer
A week into Middlebury's first semester, Doctor Mark Peluso, the director of the Parton Health Center at the College, appeared as a guest on Vermont Public Radio's noon-hour news program Vermont Edition.
The topic was swine flu, and at the outset of the interview, Vermont Edition host Jane Lindholm asked Peluso how Middlebury had been planning for a possible pandemic.
"We've been planning for a pandemic event for several years," said Peluso. "We started by planning for a lethal pandemic event, something much more severe and something we're not facing right now. And over the past year, we've been working on a nonlethal pandemic event. We've been working with the Department of Health and following the CDC guidelines to adapt our unique situation—with respect to housing our students—to those guidelines."
Since it broke onto the global scene last spring, swine flu, or the H1N1 virus, receded from the front pages of North American newspapers and the lead spot of nightly newscasts this summer, but the story never really went away. Reports from the Southern Hemisphere, where it was winter and thus the traditional flu season, showed that H1N1 could, indeed, reach pandemic status. And with early reports of H1N1 outbreaks on campuses that opened their doors in August (more than 2,000 reported cases at Washington State University, 500+ at Cornell), H1N1 has become the hot topic this fall—on college campuses and beyond.
So, how has Middlebury planned for potential infections on campus?
As long as the virus remains a relatively nonlethal event, the College has instituted a self-isolation policy. If a student presents symptoms of an influenza-like illness, he is asked to contact both the Health Center and his Commons office. (Students can also contact the Health Center if they are very ill or have questions about how best to care for themselves.) In most cases, healthy roommates will be moved to separate living quarters, while the sick student is isolated in his dorm room, usually for about three to five days. The Health Center believes that social isolation will help limit the illness's spread and reduce the number of infected people in the community. Limiting the spread of the virus takes on critical importance when thinking about protecting those who are considered at risk for complications of H1N1 infection.
Who is considered at risk for complications of H1N1 infection?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define at-risk, college-age students as being those who have chronic pulmonary, cardiovascular, hepatic, hematological, neurologic, neuromuscular, or metabolic disorders; students who have immunosuppression; pregnant women; and students younger than 18 who are receiving long-term aspirin therapy.
Will students be able to get vaccinated?
It's expected that the vaccine will be available in late October, early November. Students designated as being in a high-risk group will be given priority.
What happens if the virus mutates and/or turns lethal?
In the event of widespread fatalities across the country as a consequence of H1N1 infection, the College would shut down. All students have been required to have an evacuation plan, detailing where they will go and how they will get there, if Middlebury closes, and the College has plans to use its vehicle pool and area transit outlets to transport students, if needed. Peluso said that the campus could be shutdown in 48 hours, but stressed that such a scenario is unlikely based on how the virus has behaved thus far.
At the conclusion of the VPR interview, Peluso was asked if thoughts of H1N1 were keeping him up at night. His response was reassuring: "Not at all. It used to. But not anymore. We have well-thought-out plans in place for the disaster that we don't think will happen, but we're ready for if it does. That would be the more lethal pandemic event. And we have a good plan in place for the nonlethal event. Being prepared is a nice place to be in."


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Have HVAC Questions? Ask an HVAC Expert for Answers
a the time of install the guy said he checked the line with putting nitrogen in. does that still mean that its still not clean???
and why the sudden change with putting more freon in??
i really appreciate this there is just too many bad tech out there
could the new coil or condenser jeopardized already from that
i'll tip you @the end.
if this procedure gets done right (start from beginning evacuate etc and clean) should I I still worry about the soft soldered joints and leaking? I just found out that it is now shooting cold air again. When you say burnt out compressor does that mean complete failure or will it work again.
Since, we had the line leak tested for 24 hours with no leaks. Once reconnected with now braised joints it was again leak tested as a whole. Result--no leaks. Then system was vacuumed for 4 hours, recharged with new freon. The gauge continues to read too low on the low side. The system is working right now with cool air showing 55 degrees or less out of the vents but what is causing the low pressure readings.

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A. Those albums with black pages were common during the early 1900s, and people often wrote in them with opaque white ink. "Black scrapbook paper is not the best choice for photo storage," says preservation expert and blogger at The Practical Archivist Sally Jacobs. The paper's high acid content can make it brittle over time.
The glue your mom used may be acidic, too. "Even so, it would be unwise to try to deconstruct the scrapbook," advises Jacobs. That's because you can lose important caption information, and separating glued-together paper is a risky move best done by a professional archivist.
Jacobs recommends inserting acid-free, buffered tissue between the scrapbook pages. ("Regular-thickness paper would make the book too thick by the time you finish," she says.) Buffered paper contains alkaline ingredients, which will help neutralize the acids in the black paper and slow their migration to the album's contents.
Then, to protect the book against light and dust, store it flat in an archival drop-front box in a size as close as possible to the dimensions of the scrapbook.
You can purchase archival tissue and boxes from suppliers such as Archival Methods, Gaylord Brothers,
and Light Impressions.
"Bring out the scrapbook and show it off to anyone who wants to see it, but tuck it away somewhere safe the rest of the time," Jacobs says. That means in a house that's cooled in the summer and heated in the winter, ideally in an interior closet to reduce temperature fluctuations. Avoid attics and basements.
You're on the right track in wanting to visually preserve the pages. The problem with using a built-in flash is that you can get a glare from shiny surfaces, such as a glossy photo or anything metallic, in the book.
"If the scrapbook doesn't have anything reflective on the pages, you might get away with the digital/flash camera,? says Family Tree Magazine's photographer Al Parrish. "But it would probably be safer to use some sort of available light, such as outside on a cloudy day, with the camera white balance set to Auto." Parrish also highly recommends a tripod.
You could try doing this yourself, and if you're unsatisfied with the results and you can afford it, hire a professional photographer to shoot the book.
Learn more about how to preserve your family's precious heirlooms in our webinar recording Heirloom Preservation Made Easy: How to Clean, Store and Display Your Family's Keepsakes, available as a download from ShopFamilyTree.com.


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The spirit of Labor Day has always had a special meaning for us, both as individuals and as American citizens. From a young age, both of us were raised with the importance of meaningful work in life. Roy's mother always said, "If you want something, roll up your sleeves." Siegfried always believed that "hard work, commitment and perseverance were the keys to success." It was these values that laid the foundation for this great country and made it a place where "Nothing Is Impossible" – the perfect place for two young magicians and dreamers from Germany. When we first arrived in Las Vegas, the desert town was very young and Siegfried missed the trees of his Homeland. So after the show, Roy went out to our land, often with a tiger, lion or his dogs as moonlight companions, and planted trees, one at a time. Soon a dozen became a hundred, and hundred more and more… Today, Siegfried has his own Bavarian forest just outside his doorstep. It is the same with life: we work hard to plant and care for our young dreams and soon they will become the magical reality you imagined. And remember" Nothing Is Impossible."
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I like this move a lot!!
The Reds picked up Sean Casey's option for 2006, locking up the first basemen not only for this coming year, but the following. He deserved it after the breakout season he had in 2004.
Casey had a career year. Not only did he hit .324, but he struck out a miniscule 36 times, while walking 46 times. He came within one RBI of joining Adam Dunn with 100 Runs and RBIs for the season.
When his contract ends, he'll be 32, and we should get a good indication at that point as to whether he's keeping up his torrid pace, or whether he's beginning to decline. But anytime you have a player with a .915 OPS, you want to tie him up as long as you can.
….some Reds news.
It appears Austin Kearns short third base tryout in the Instructional League was a success. So this should squash any rumors of Hinske coming to Cincinnati, right?? RIGHT??!!!
Wrong. I think it's part posturing, to downplay the Reds needs. Wouldn't we love to see Hinske at third, so we could put Austin back in his rightful spot in the outfield? I know injuries have been a factor in his short career, but he's a heck of an outfielder.
And I've seen first hand the Eric Munson third base experiment. So far, he's past the two year mark and he's still not making the progress the Tigers would like. In fact he lost his starting spot to, gulp, Brandon Inge??
So let's figure a deal with Toronto and get Hinske. I know he's tapered off quite a bit from his rookie year, but he'd still be better then anything we have.
It's over and done with. The Boston Red Sox did it, and ended an 86 year World Series drought.
And if you're only as good as your last game, then you're only as good as your last prediction. If you read this blog, it should have come as no surprise that the Red Sox swept their opponents. If you placed a wager on my advice, send me an email and I'll let you know where to send my cut.
Next it's the awards announcements. No Reds should be given serious consideration, however, Adam Dunn should get a few points for MVP, and I wouldn't mind seeing Dave Miley get a few votes for manager of the year.
If things go as planned, we have only two more baseball games left in the 2004 season.
The Red Sox have the Cards on the ropes, and they can land the knock out blow tonight. But, this Red Sox team has had it's share of errors, and now it's going to have to either throw stone hands David Ortiz out in the field, or sit him, because we're in St. Louis, and there's no DH.
It's Derek Lowe vs. Jeff Suppan. The Michigan native can make up for a lackluster season by throwing a gem tonight. And it seems like last year when Suppan bested Roger Clemens in game 7 of the NLCS.
There is nothing going on with the Reds. A few of their guys are playing well out in Arizona, but other then that, it's pretty quiet. Here's some good stuff on the AFL.
Enjoy baseball while you have it. Because pretty soon, it will be loooooong gone (thank you Mr. Harwell)!!!
Alright, I have to read things a little more closely. Pedro is throwing tonight, not Mr. Lowe.
Who's your Daddy!!?? Who's your Daddy!!??
It's hard to tell exactly when the curse ended. Was it game seven of the ALCS, or was it game four? Or was it when Pedro proclaimed that the Yankees were his daddy, in effect freeing George Herman Ruth's ghost from the confines of Fenway Park with a smile on his face.
My World Series prediction is plain, and it's simple. With the monkey (aka, Yankees) off their back, the Red Sox will sweep the Cardinals. This is going to be a short and sweet series. There will be no controversy or fluke plays. The Red Sox are going to kick the Cardinals butt.
For the first time in three weeks, I'm in town for the weekend. And I'm looking forward to sitting down for some sweet baseball. Go Red Sox!!!!!
We'll start with an easy one.
Johnny Bench is listed as the second best catcher of all time in Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. The fourteen time all-star and two time Most Valuable Player truly had an astounding career. Not only did he hit 389 career homeruns, and drive in 1,376 runs, but he also racked up ten gold gloves.
But this isn't a debate about careers. How did Johnny Bench do in 1975 compared to Lance Parrish in 1984? Let's take a look at some of Bench's statistics.
Runs – 83
Homeruns – 28
RBIs – 110
Average – .283
Slg. – .519
Runs Created – 99
Batting Runs Above Replacement – 53
Field Runs Above Replacement – 47
Equalized Average – .308
Wins Above Replacement Player – 11.0
The only thing that prevents a complete sweep is Lance Parrish's five extra homeruns. But that's not nearly enough to make up the difference. Johnny Bench didn't finish fourth in the MVP voting for nothing.
This one was a fat pitch waiting to get hit out of the park. Johnny Bench wins hands down.
Score Card – 1975 Reds 1, 1984 Tigers 0
And don't forget to help us out with our little fund raiser. It might take the simulation to convince Brian who's better.
And you can read Brian's response over at Tigerblog. He took his beating like a man.
How could I be so stupid?
I mean, my favorite team is the Cincinnati Reds. My website is the Reds Cutting Edge. The Reds aren't very far from the Red Sox.
So I'm now proclaiming the "Curse" is dead. I'm not only jumping on the bandwagon, I'm leading the charge.
I'll tell you, last year's playoffs were good. But this year's might be even better. We'll see what happens in the series, but the Red Sox comeback is simply incredible. Mind boggling. It defies logic. It's like all the planets are in their correct alignment.
No longer do I think the Sox are doomed to fail. A championship in 2004 is their destiny.
The Cards and Astros square off here in a few minutes. I'm rooting for the Cards. I did pick them way back when to be the NL's sponsor in the Fall Classic. Plus, I don't want Brian to be right. He's so smug when he's right. I mean, he doesn't even brag, because he "expects" to be right.
Can hope actually be a bad thing?
Even I have to admit, Red Sox fans have it tough. I whine about the Reds not doing anything since 1990, but that was a mere fourteen years ago. The Red Sox haven't seen a championship in, let me do the math, whole criminy, 86 years. Not that they haven't been close.
But it's those close ones that hurt the most. Carlton Fisk gave them hope in 1975 with his extra inning game 6 homerun. They had hope in 1986 when they were a strike away from winning the World Series, only to have it slip through their fingers. And then there was last year. I think Pedro knew who his daddy was well before this past September.
Now we come to 2004. The Red Sox have already made history by forcing a game seven while down 3-0. They actually have a chance to comeback against their archnemesis. But, they won't.
I don't believe in the curse, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Anyone who's a Red Sox fans believes in the curse. They'll tell you this morning the Red Sox are finally going to take it to those Yankees, but deep down, they know the truth.
The Red Sox are going to lose.
And you can blame David Ortiz for getting your hopes up. He pretty much carried the Sox through games four and five, giving them their "chance." Had they lost in four or five games, it probably would have been a lot less emotional. But now we have a game seven. It's down to one game. It's win or go home. But I'll say it again.
The Red Sox are going to lose.
I'm sorry. I'm just trying to dampen the pain you'll feel tonight. I'm not sure how it's going to happen. It might be a dramatic bottom of the ninth, three run walk off homerun by some role player like Tony Clark. Or, it could be over by the third inning with a 8-0 score. But for the second straight year, or is it 86 straight years, Red Sox fans will be disappointed.
Oh yeah, and the Cards will even up the series with the Astros.
Well, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon may still love Tom Gordon. He gave up two runs in the eighth to his former team, and the game is now going into the eleventh. I wonder what the record is for the longest series in number of minutes?
Well, I'm back. The Championship Series' are still going on.
So what's happening with the Reds? What did I miss while being in farm country, aka, Des Moines, Iowa? The answer is, "not much," so this will be short.
JD Arney is working on a super cool Red Organization Depth Chart. Be sure to check it out.
Brian told me we've now raised just over a buck in our drive to prove the other wrong. Help out the cause!!!!!
4-4, bottom of the eleventh, and 0-0 in the top of the fourth (only one hit in the Astros/Cards game). If the World Series provides for more entertaining baseball then the ALCS and NLCS, baseball fans are in for a treat.
I'm back to Des Moines in an hour to finish up my project. Be sure to check out Reds Daily for all your Reds needs.


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First of all, I didn't say add routes, I said add NAT rules, they're two different animals...
Other question I had was - Are you using public IP's on the inside of both m0n0walls?
-----Original Message-----
From: Kristian Shaw [mailto:monowall at wealdclose dot co dot uk]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:09 PM
To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Two m0n0walls that connect LAN via WAN?
Windows uses ICMP for it's traceroute, but you may be seeing UDP 137 traffic
as it tries to resolve the hostname for each hop using DNS and then NETBIOS
if that fails.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Giesler" <roland at thegreentree dot za dot net>
To: "Jewell, Michael" <mjewell at law dot umaryland dot edu>
Cc: <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Two m0n0walls that connect LAN via WAN?
> On 11/9/07, Jewell, Michael <mjewell at law dot umaryland dot edu> wrote:
>> I'm thinking you need to add nat rules to allow one side to connect to
>> the other.
> If I need to add rules, then which rules? Remember, all traffic
> leaves a network via the default route. The SP (at the hub) routes
> traffic to LAN2 and the rest to the internet and vice-versa. So even
> if I add some kind of route, what do I put in the route? There is
> only one gateway and that is by default the route to use.
>> Or you could set up a site-to-site vpn from 1 m0n0 to the other m0n0,
>> this would bridge the 2 networks so they could talk without the nat
>> rules.
> I have tried an IPSec tunnel, but the results are similar.
> I have now done some more testing here is what has transpired:
> 1. Windows (!!! aaaarg!!!) does not do tracert the way FreeBSD (and
> *nixes I would guess) does. FreeBSD used UDP on some large port
> number 334510 and increases this for each hob by one. Windows on the
> other hand uses UDP on port 137! With FreeBSD I can tracert all the
> machine on each side without a problem, without any other routers.
> So I gave up on the tracert from windows (since it's pretty much a
> waste of time, it appeared) and moved on to checking the logs for what
> happens when I attempt to browse the one LAN from the other.
> Here it gets really freaky:
> Of course windows attempt to use netbios, so I disabled the filters I
> have on the LAN port that block Netbios (as below)
> TCP * * * 135 Block NetBIOS
> TCP * * * 137 - 139 Block NetBIOS
> TCP * * * 445 Block NetBIOS
> But the logs keep showing that the traffic back from the server I'm
> attempting to browse is being blocked:
> 19:58:57.774503 LAN 172.16.4.2, port 445 41.206.xxx.xxx, port 6256 TCP
> 19:58:57.774462 LAN 172.16.4.2, port 139 41.206.xxx.xxx, port 6257 TCP
> 19:58:54.812054 LAN 172.16.4.2, port 139 41.206.xxx.xxx, port 6257 TCP
> 19:58:54.809788 LAN 172.16.4.2, port 445 41.206.xxx.xxx, port 6256 TCP
> So I added a specific rule on the LAN port to allow specifically
> traffic to the address that the windows machine is attempting to reply
> to (and is being blocked although I disabled the rules that block
> netbios!)
> * LAN net * 41.206.xxx.xxx * Allow all traffic to blah Router
> * LAN net * 172.16.3.0/24 * Allow all traffic to blah
> It doesn't make one ounce of difference! ??
> Why? I have disabled the automatic blocking of private IP ranges on
> the WAN port, but that cannot be teh problem since the logs clearly
> show that the LAN port is blocking NETBIOS port traffic from the LAN.
> Is there something I'm missing somewhere?
> Roland
>> -Mike
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roland Giesler [mailto:roland at thegreentree dot za dot net]
>> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 10:18 AM
>> To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
>> Subject: [m0n0wall] Two m0n0walls that connect LAN via WAN?
>> I have two LANs that must be connected to each other via a WAN link
>> from/to each LAN. The link is provided by the same network provider on
>> both ends. So I have:
>> LAN1 <--> m0n0 <--> WANRouter1 <-----> NetworkHUBofSP <----->
>> WANRouter2 <--> m0n0 <--> LAN2
>> LAN1 uses 172.16.3.0/24 and LAN2 uses 172.16.4.0/24 and the SP has
>> added routes in the NetworkHUB that will route traffic between the two
>> network. This works and can be confirmed by being able to tracert and
>> ping the remote site's hosts (various PC's) from the WANRouters on
>> each end.
>> I have a default route set on each router, back to the NetworkHUB
>> (public IPs) and the infrastructure is provided by means of a VPN, so
>> the traffic is encrypted.
>> Just so I don't have a mistake in my setup I have created a rule at
>> the top of my WAN rules list in each m0n0 that says to allow all
>> traffic from all networks to all ports on all networks. (Not a good
>> permanent idea, but at least it rules out the possiblity of some
>> obscure error in my setup I think)
>> Now the problem: I can ping/traceroute to the LAN port of both m0n0's
>> from the other network, but I cannot do the same with the two windows
>> domain controllers that are on this LAN's. Is there some special
>> requirement to get the windows server to respond to pings/traceroutes
>> from the WAN? Their default gateways are correct and they respond
>> just fine to pings/traceroutes fromt the locally attached m0n0walls?
>> Maybe I'm doing something else wrong here? Something I'm not taking
>> into consideration?
>> thanks all
>> --
>> Roland Giesler
>> Green Tree Systems cc, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Mary Jo Salcido
Cotton Flowers
Four teens struggle with the dysfunction and dangers that lurk in the dark corners of their privileged world in this drama. Thrown together on a school project, Brit (Keila Collins), Sophie (Giovanna Marie), Todd (Kevin Lyon) and Andy (Kelcy Edmondson) seem to have little in common. But all four believe they're ready to handle anything life throws at them -- until they end up dealing with some very adult situations without parental support.


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Aliph's Jawbone Prime Is One Chic Bluetooth
Behold the Aliph Jawbone Prime. In the world of basic, boring and predictably silver Bluetooth earpieces, it stands out in more ways than one. The sleekly designed Jawbone Prime is available in several electric and eclectically named colors: Lilac You Mean It, Frankly Scarlet, Drop Me A Lime, and 'Yello! It's not all about fun colors, it's also about function. This earpiece touts its ability to drown out all background noise while allowing you to have a seamless and uninterrupted conversation. The earpiece is designed to barely touch your face, and as the name suggests, lightly grazes your jawbone. It detects your voice instantly and has discreet buttons to turn the device on and off. Find it online right now for $129.99. This product cannot, however, do much about the fact that no matter what, people still look hilarious and cannot be taken seriously when they're talking into Bluetooths. [Wall Street Journal]


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Nurture you inner artist with a sampling of workshops at working artists' studios in Hudson on Jan. 25.
For the first time, four downtown Hudson art studios will open their doors so participants can explore their creativity while working side-by-side with professional artists. Host artists for this day-long event are Karen Koch, Dana Giel-Ray, Shannon Casey and Mary Catherine Haneline.
Classes will run throughout the day at each space at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., giving participants a chance to visit each studio. Each class lasts about an hour; small class sizes provide plenty of one-on-one instruction. Space is limited at all locations, so pre-registration is suggested. Drop-in students admitted space permitting. Students should sign up with the individual artists. For contact information on all four artists, visit the Contact Us page at www.ArtStudioinHudson. Class fees are payable to the individual instructors.
Participating studios and classes include:
Karen Koch of Life Needs Art will lead classes in inspirational journaling at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. at her studio at 220 N. Main St., above the Little Red Wagon. Participants will use paint, calligraphy, collage and more to design a journal page that taps into goals and dreams. Koch said it is a great way to get in touch with and chronicle new potential in the New Year. Cost is $15. For more information, visit www.lifeneedsart.com.
Dana Giel-Ray, BFA, of Bellabor Art Jewelry, also at 220 N. Main St., is a jewelry designer who specializes in working with chainmaille. Class members will learn the basics of working with this intricate jewelry technique where metal rings are woven, while making a pair of earrings. Cost of $25 includes materials and use of equipment. Classes will be 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. and are suitable for adults and high school age students. For examples of Giel-Ray's work, visit www.bellabor.com.
At Shannon Casey Studio, teens and adults can experiment with a sampling of materials throughout the day at her studio at 70 W. Streetsboro St., Suite 105 (Hudson Commerce Center). Casey will instruct in the use of a different medium at each class. Choose from Basics of Drawing at 10 a.m.; Figure Drawing at noon; Exploring Color with Paint and Pastel at 2 p.m. and Mixed Media at 4 p.m. The cost is $15 per class, which includes supplies (and model fee for Figure Drawing). To learn more, visit www.shannoncaseystudio.com.
National artist and art educator Mary Catherine Haneline will host two classes in her studio at 156 N. Main St., upstairs Suite 5 (above the Grey Colt). At 10 a.m. and noon, she will teach Family Studio Painting, a specially designed class that lets parents and children learn together. The class will explore and create individual landscape paintings in acrylic. Cost is $15 per person.
At 2 and 4 p.m, Haneline will teach "Art and the Mona Lisa." Teens and adults can learn to create that perfect portrait or landscape by using mathematical skills. Haneline said she will address the topic of many people being intimidated by perspective and figurative art. Class fee is $15. Haneline holds a BFA in Art, and a M. Ed in Instructional Design. Her work can be seen at http://mary-c-haneline.artistwebsites.com.
Open Studio classes are a chance for participants to step out of their comfort zones and explore their creativity in some actual working artists' studios.
"We're excited about the chance to team up with one another for this joint venture. The wide range of classes will give the community a chance to try a variety of media," Casey said.
"If exploring your artistic gifts is on your bucket list, then Saturday, Jan. 25 is the art day for you," Giel-Ray added.


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Transformers 2. Worst writing I've seen since "Plan 9 From Outer Space." Supposedly, the writers of the screenplay were paid 8 MILLION for it, when the dialogue rarely exceeds anything past: LOOK OUT! or OH, NO! NO! THESE DECEPTICONS® ARE GOING TO STEAL THE ENERGY OF THE SUN AND DESTROY THE EARTH!!! NOT ON MY WATCH!Why? Why pay those guys so much? My pet turtle could write this! Whose fault was it? Was it the writers for making this?? The actors for tainting the lines further? The director for altering them as he wished? Was it the paycheck? The ability? The stress?
Writing is certainly a difficult task. Just writing a next sentence on here is tough. I have to make it flows and the motive to get bored and stop is too strong. I can only continue with the back-in-my-mind knowledge that I won't get another chance to write later. The same goes with brainstorming.
My own form of writing tends to follow a rather specific format. When I get my idea, either for a entire film or simply a single scene, I first have to identify the basic tenets of the scene, test it out with dozens of different options, and then finalize the specific timing, camera angles, and lines. If it doesn't work out yet, then I try again. I hate shopping (unless it's for toys) but my whole process can compared to trying on a shirt. First I measure, then I decide the style, and finally I decide the color and pattern. A relaxing, quiet, and interesting environment helps. Teneting is done in my room, optioning is done while riding my bike or walking the D.O.G., and then I finalize in the shower. (Mom, if you're reading this, now you know why I spend so much time doing either, so don't get mad at me for it anymore.) If I don't feel satisfied with the scene yet, then I simply start anew the next day. This usually works out pretty well.But the problem still remains: I'm a nonprofessional writer. How do I know that what I'm writing is actually good? Ed Wood Jr.(director of aforementioned worst film ever) loved his stuff and I love mine. So how do I assure myself that what I'm making is good?
There's a bit of hope for me. Even established writers like Rob Reiner(The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery) have their bad days (North). As my "All About Filmmaking" book says, "No director is Midas. Nobody can turn a single movie into gold with just their touch." So if the big guys can't do it, what chance do I have? The only way I can ensure a successful script is this: demand perfection. I learned this by looking at my drawings and doodles. I make a sketch, I think it's pretty good, I put it away. When I take out several months later, I am so overcome with disgust at all its flaws that I have to stop myself from sneaking it into the barbecue and cooking it into something looking far more delectable that it did when it was intact and tasting half as good as it looks.The whole thing can be compared having an itch. So if there's a little flaw in the script that bothers me, I have to scrape it out, because I know that the longer I leave it there, the more it's going to bother me until I can't stand it. But this actually a good thing! As Orson Scott Card assures me, if something you've written before bothers you when you read it later, that's good because it means you've IMPROVED!
One example: for an film adaptation of Metroid, you need to explain: How did the Space Pirates manage to conquer the most technologically advanced race alive? The 2002 Metroid manga went with this solution: The Pirates use a micro black hole to bypass the planetary shield and enter. Since the Chozo have idealistically shunned weapons in favor of peace (including programming their bodies to be unable to attack in any manner), they cannot fight back, and since they are so few in population thanks to infertility from old age, they are easily conquered. I hated this option because:1. The Chozo are way too easy to conquer. Programming your body so it can't fight even in self-defense? No weapons at all? No cloning in order to rebuild the fertile population? Didn't one Chozo at the meeting where they decided this ask: "Hey, isn't this a little suicidal?"
2. The Space Pirates ended up being more advanced, even though this should be impossible. Even though the Chozo are supposed to be the most advanced, throughout the entire comic, I did not see a single example where the Chozo could do something that the GF and the Pirates could not do better.
3. It's terrible science and completely unrealistic. A micro black hole to suck away the shield? Another who understands how black holes really work is going to wonder why the black hole of such strength didn't suck away the planet too or the ships that happened to be RIGHT NEXT TO IT. That and the afore-mentioned infertility scenario, which makes no sense at all.
4. At an earlier point in the manga, it's mentioned there had been a previous Pirate invasion several years earlier. How did they get through the shield? And why did they lose there but not here?
So I had to invent another answer, one which would actually sound plausible to a nut like me who was pushing himself too hard. So here is my solution.The Pirate bypass the Chozo planetary shield by hijacking a Federation navy fleet and pretending that their own fleet has been captured by them so that the Chozo allow the Pirate ships to pass through their planetary shield, thinking that they are being held prisoner. The Pirates's plans once inside are to destroy the planetary shield generator and then call in the remaining battleships to bombard the planet. Land invasion would be suicide, as conquering the entire planet would take years and the Chozo have far more superior weaponry.
Their ship is sabotaged(thanks to a 14-year-old Miss Aran) and they are easily rounded up and held hostage. But what the Chozo don't know is that while that force was there, they planted a mysterious plant that, when it grows up years later, is examined for study by Mother Brain but proceeds to plants a virus into her and the rest of the Chozo Aurora network, causing her to malfunction and turn rampant, giving them complete control over all of Zebes's defense systems. With the shield down, the Pirate fleet above proceeds to orbitally bombard any remaining points of resistance, and the invasion of Zebes goes quickly and easily.It's not fun having to iron out absolutely EVERYTHING that bothers you. There's always the temptation to go with route A and just have more fun creating. But I hate being itchy. So I'll scratch 'till my skin peels away LIKE A BANANA!!
What about those times when my brain is completely dry and I simply can not think of an answer? My solution: watch movies. Somebody is going to have faced a similar scenario at some point and if you're going to borrow, you might as well borrow from the best. And even if you don't get what you're looking for, you'll at least have the energy and rush to start writing anew.
How do I know when I've succeeded? I know I like the scene when I keep playing it over and over in my head thousands of times, simply because it's so fun to watch. I look forward to the day when I'll be able to create it FOR REAL. And you guys are more than welcome to come and watch it when it'd done.
But some of you guys have your stories to write too. Don't expect to hit gold with every try and without hard work. But we'll go along carving our statues and I look forward to seeing you guys's Davids.
Upcoming List1. The Bug on Peter Jackson's Shoe=X
2. The Stork Brings Idea's Too?=X
3. The Gruel of Writing=X
4. But It's Real Life!=X
5. Child Actors
6. *Maybe* It's Bad.
7. I Have Seen the Future and It's Just Like Now.
8. How Faithful must An Adaptation Be?
9. I've Got Something New Here!
10. I Fell In Love!(Again!)
11. Why *WOULD* I Want To See My Own Movie?
12. Studio Executives Are Your Friends
14. Batteries Not Included.
15. Scathing Tell-All-Autobiography
16. For a Clownfish, He's Not Really That Funny
17. Revisionist History
18. Actors: Someone You Hire Because You Can't Do It Yourself
19. I'm In 3-D!
20. Beethoven's 33rd Symphony.
21. He's So Hot.
22. Movie Critics Are Your Friends
23. Warning: Not a Role Model
24. MPAA Does not PAAss
25. Remember, Grandma is Watching
26. Blue Screen Blues
27. I Wasn't Invited to the Oscars(But I Still Love Myself)
28. The Dreadful Flying Dove!
29. Take My Hand, Harry.
30. Racism and Cinema: Then And Now
32. I Still Live in That Yellow Submarine
33. I Loved You. I HATE YOU!!!!
34. If I Were a Rich Man
35. Kodak Won't Help you Here
36. What's With the Envelope?
37. Reach For the Stars!!!
38. Duhn Duhn Duhn DUHNNNNN!!!!
39. You Gotta Have HEART!!!!!
40. Who Ever Heard of a Good Third Movie?
41. Remake: THE SEQUEL!!!


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I oversee all land development and home building operations (marketing, sales, advertising, balance sheet and P&L managment,product design, construction, land development) for central Tx division of the DR Horton CO (largest builder in US).
Undergrad degree: Economics
Favorite class in college: Undergraduate: Abnormal Psychology; MBA: Corporate Finance
Changing majors: Nine years after completing my undergraduate degree, I went back and earned a second major in Economics (BA).
Graduate degree: MBA (University of Texas at Austin)
College to career: My first degree in Psychology did not have much to do with business. Initially, I thought it was a wasted degree and four years of my life, but it turned out that I use Psychology and people skills almost every day to encourage, motivate, teach, inspire and move people from where they are to where we need them to be. Concepts taught in behavior modification and CBT (cognitive behavior therapy) have actually proved to be quite useful in the process. As an example, an employee that is good but has temporarily lost focus, stuggling personally or perhaps become negative is encouraged to shift focus away from what they don't like about their personal or professional life and focus instead on what they are grateful for in their family and what they truly enjoy about their work. So, by helping them see their irrational or negative focus they often find new hope and energy and usually re-engage as an employee. My path was graduating in 1978 and working 8 years in real estate brokerage, then going back to school for three years (Economics, '87 and MBA, '90). After graduation, I worked with a private home building company in Austin, was promoted to sales managment in '94, and became the president 5 years later. I've been in that position for nearly 12 years. Formal education opened up countless doors for me. I highly recommend graduate school in business or whatever your discipline - an undergraduate education is a starting point, but not enough in today's fiercly competitive environment.
Career influences: The main influence on my career was a simple decision I made back in 1986 to go back to school because I was tired of doing commercial and residential real estate brokerage. I decided I either wanted to run a public company or work in investment banking on Wall Street and knew either way that I'd need the MBA. It started with a decision - getting clear on what I wanted to do with my career and what I didn't want.


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The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Community Bankshares, Inc., Cornelia, Georgia, a registered bank holding company, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Banking Commissioner of the State of Georgia.
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Barbecue-Flavored Tofu Nuggets
This is so simple that it barely qualifies as a recipe! But it is invariably a huge hit, and makes believers out of tofu skeptics. It can be served as a simple protein dish on the dinner plate, or as a hot appetizer with cocktail toothpicks. Of course, if you use VegKitchen's recipe for Quick Vegan Barbecue Sauce, this becomes more than a 3-ingredient recipe, but since I've never found a prepared BBQ sauce I've been too impressed with, I like to take the few extra moments to make my own. more→
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O.R.A. is an open call for proposals. Italian and foreign artists can apply with no restrictions on age, thinking, technique or any other factor. The prize encourages the participation of artists of all levels.
The jury of O.R.A. is composed by 16 professional galleries, art spaces and art centers interested in discovering new projects to be exhibited. They take part of the jury also five curators: the president of the jury Alberto Zanchetta, director of Museo di Lissone in Milan, and four other curators among the most active in Italy for the promotion of emerging art.
Each of the 16 galleries in jury, located in the most important Italian areas for contemporary art, will choose one artist to realize a solo show. The exhibition can be a prelude to a long-lasting collaboration (many of the artists who won the prize in past editions, now work permanently with the galleries that rewarded them). The galleries choose freely and autonomously their own winners and are just required to select artists with whom they had never had previous work relationships. All the exhibitions will open within the 2015-2016 exhibition season.
O.R.A. undertakes to put in contact artists and gallery owners without interfering or claiming anything into their professional relationships. O.R.A. leaves the greatest freedom of management between the artist and the gallery. All the exhibitions will be managed directly between the gallery and the artist in every respect (period, duration, works selection, etc). The staff of O.R.A. will just oversee the following simple rules: (1) galleries must choose their winning artists complete freedomly, but (2) thet can not choose artists with whom they had some form of previous collaborations; (3) galleries can not ask artists for economic contributions or fees. The communication of the exhibition will be organized by each gallery according to its own general policy. All commercial transactions regarding sales are handled directly between the gallery and the winning artist.Transports costs are meant to be covered by the artist, but O.R.A. offers a little reimbursement.
Besides communicating each exhibition through its own channels, ORA will offer a refund of 100 Euros to the winning artists to partially cover transport costs.
The commission of five curators, headed by Alberto Zanchetta, will select a group of artists as deserving. The curators will vote freely for an unlimited number of artists. All the names of the artists who score at least 3 points will be published on our website. The vote of the President of Jury counts as 2 points, while the vote of the other curators counts as 1 point each.
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The school district provides transportation for students living within the city limits of Iowa Falls. Important notes about in-town transportation include:
|Pick-up locations for kindergarten through eighth grade students are at Julia O'Neal, Oak Park, Bliss Ave, Sunset Addition, River Oaks, Pineview Elementary School, Rock Run Elementary School, Intersection of Sherman and Depot and Intersection of Fremont and Manor.
|Flexibility to make adjustments to in-town pick-up points if conditions warrant.
|In-town busing for high school students may be available upon request and room availability.


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Scott F shared this chart showing how higher income and higher standardized test scores correlate:
I think there is a simple explanation for this phenomenon: when you have to work two jobs trying to make ends meet, or work a very tiring job for little money, the odds are that you will not have the time or energy to read to your children. And lots of research indicates that being read to as a child is a crucial determining factor in educational progress and success later in life. If you are wealthy you may work long hours to accomplish that, but you will pay someone else to read to your children. This is, I am sure, not the whole explanation, but it certainly is part of it.
The injustice in this is obvious, particularly as this situation is self-perpetuating. I would love to see churches, charities, libraries and/or the government take an interest in developing programs to guarantee that all children are read to. That might make a real difference in addressing some social inequities.
Having said that, apparently we need poor, ugly people to serve as good spouses, and just make up the contingent of nice, unselfish people in society. At least, that's the conclusion that two articles in Time draw (HT John Gardner).


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Hello! I am a newbie here, and would very much like to ask for advice - Alzheimers is a frightening world, trying to do everything right for my mother-in-law but not knowing how.
My Mum-in-law is in hospital after having a second fall in 3 months. She broke her hip on Xmas eve, and was allowed home after 2 months. Sadly she fell again in the early hours going to the commode after being at home for a short while, and has another fracture tho not as severe. She's not too bad with the Alzheimers, well, she wasnt. She was able to follow a conversation, even though she didnt remember it after a couple of minutes, but always ready to laugh and join in. Since being in hospital, she's got worse - I suspect due to being given tramadol, oramporph, codeine and para's 4 times a day. We've asked the nurse to reconsider her medication because she's just 'not there'. Talking about people who are long gone, many sentences made of just random words - she also doesnt recognise her son anymore and thinks he's someone else. This is a rapid decline in just 12 days.
Do you think these meds are making her worse? The hospital seem to have no training in Alz, and just dose her up until there is little of her personality left. She already has curvature of the spine and it always aches, so am worried that when she's asked if in pain, she will always say yes, and they are dosing her up too much. She's also wetting herself because she's so away with the fairies that she forgets to ask the nurse to use the toilet - and going to the loo was never a problem at home, apart from needing some help to get there.
Also, without meaning to take to mickey out of you all, but how do you chose a home? Mum in law is looked after by her hubby, and although we pop around a lot, hubby is struggling. He had a stroke on Sat night, and is also now in hospital. We think its time for Mum to go into a home, for at least a few months while we look after dad, although he wont be happy for her to go into a home, he's a very proud man. I just dont want to make a mistake as you hear so many horror stories over care homes, and she's so vulnerable. The hospital are trying to discharge her at the moment so need to find somewhere.
Thanks so so much for reading this, I appreciate anything you can tell me. Its all very new, and we're at a loss.


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Type: Creature - Fish Illusion
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Rarity: Rare
Artist: Greg Staples
Number: 61
Power / Toughness: 4/4
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Old Chief Joseph Gravesite
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Raising Victor Vargas
Victor (Victor Rasuk) is a Latino kid who fancies himself as a bit of a lothario around the ghetto. But when word gets out that he's been romancing a fat girl in the apartment upstairs, his credibility as a stud is thrown into question. To shut everyone up, he finds himself a hot new girlfriend, Judy (Judy Marte), the tough neighborhood beauty. Peter Sollett directs this indie hit, which was a favorite at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.


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Charlottetown Gaudet's Auto Body Islanders Morgan MacLean, left, tries to avoid the tag of Hub City Brewers catcher Mike Ivey during New Brunswick Senior Baseball League action Tuesday, June 10, 2014.
It took a while, but the Charlottetown Gaudet's Auto Body Islanders broke a four-game losing streak with a 2-1 extra inning victory Tuesday over the Hub City Brewers in Charlottetown.
Isles pitcher Brody MacDonald whacked a opposite field single to left with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning to drive home Sean Corcoran from third base as the Islanders (5-5) improved to .500 in the New Brunswick Senior Baseball League.
MacDonald also earned the win. He relieved starting pitcher Jake Beck in the sixth frame.
"I was just looking to make contact. I don't get many at-bats," said MacDonald, who earned his first win of the season. "We got off to a good start, but hit a rough patch lately. This will get us going on a run, hopefully."
Charlottetown outhit Hub City 11-4 including triples by Jeremy MacKinnon and Dylan McKenna and a lead-off double by Corcoran in the bottom of the ninth.
But the Brewers (2-5) had answers, including relays started by outfielders Ryan Ballack in the first inning and Jolin Benoit in the fifth inning to nab Islanders runners at the plate and preserved a 1-1 tie.
Hub City starter Luc Daigle went five and two-thirds innings before giving way to reliever Juan Ortiz in the sixth. Ortiz (0-1) was tagged with the loss.
"(MacDonald) hit a good pitch. We had a one-pitch, two-out situation. it was good game. They won this one," said Hub City catcher Mike Ivey, who wasn't concerned it might be a demoralizing loss for his squad. "Not at all. It's still early. We pitched well, played very good defence. We had our chances and that's all you can ask for."
Islanders pitchers combined for eight strikeouts while walking two. The Brewers staff struck out four, walked four and hit four Islanders batters with pitches.
The Islanders next game is Thursday in Chatham against the Ironmen (3-3). Game time is 7:30 p.m.
On Saturday, Charlottetown hosts the Moncton Mets at Legends Field in Summerside. Game time is 7 p.m. and all Summerside and area minor ball players wearing their team jersey will be admitted free.


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Botanical: Citrus sinensis
Family: Rutaceae (citrus/rue)
Orange Peel is one of the greatest sources of vitamin C on earth and should not be left out of your diet as a natural and potent way to enhance your immune system and ward off invasive infection. It is an old and reliable digestive, but important new research has demonstrated promising potent antioxidant activity.
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Orange Peel is the ripened rind (which sometimes becomes more potent with age) of the Orange and is a particularly rich source of vitamin C. Contrary to popular belief, the Orange is not native to China. Although its descendence is not exactly known, its origins appear to be in northern and northeastern India, and it was well-known in China and Indo-China as a medicine in the first century A.D. Orange Peel is still used in China today (Citrus sinensis) in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as an ingredient in different drugs. There is a great deal of current research being conducted lately with respect to Orange (and Lemon) Peel and its powerful constituent, d-limonene, a cyclic monoterpene that causes G1 cell cycle arrest, but thus far, no conclusions have been drawn, and further research is needed. (You may wish to check the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center site for further information about cancer research and d-limonene). The fruit known as the Seville Orange was first brought to Europe by the Moors in the ninth century and grown in the Arabic realms of Spain and Sicily; sweeter Oranges came to the continent later with Portuguese traders. Columbus introduced the Orange to the West Indies, and the fruit was well established in Florida before 1565. Oranges were growing in California by 1800. The smallish trees grow in well-drained soil in sun with ample moisture in warm climates and do not transplant well. They are susceptible to many different insects and fungal diseases and are also quite sensitive to frost. Orange happens to be the most imported fruit in international commerce, both as a popular and most nutritious food on its own, but also as an ingredient in candies, marmalades, herbal medicine, cosmetics, soaps, perfumes, aromatherapy, etc. Orange Peel is one of the most important sources of vitamin C on earth (the Peel contains more than the pulp), and is also rich in citric acid and d-limonene. Other constituents include p-synephrine, pectin, volatile oils, hesperidin, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin A.
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June 2-6
• Auditions – For new members of the Annapolis Valley Honor Choir for the next school year. Auditions for Junior Choir (Grade 5 to 8) and Senior Choir (Grade 8 to 12) at various locations. Details on the AVHC website, www.avhc.ca.
June 5
• Meeting - North Alton Hall general meeting, 7 p.m. All welcome.
June 5-6
• Radiothon - Health in Harmony event. 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Valley Regional Hospital lobby.
June 6
• Yard Sale Drop-Off - Kings Kikima Grannies yard sale, drop off items 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the L'Arche Hall (across from the Wolfville Fire Hall).
June 7
• Crib Tournament - at the Kentville Legion, registration 12:30 p.m., play at 1 p.m. upstairs, $20 per team.
• Dance - Kentville Legion, 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. Must be 19 and over, bar, kitchen available. Music by Big Deal.
• Lobster Dinner – 4-7 p.m. at Ryan Lockhart Park, New Minas. Takeout orders only, picnic tables sat up. Tickets, $20, must be purchased in advance at the village office or for credit card payment, 681-6972. Proceeds to New Minas Splash Park.
• Breakfast – held by Team Sobeys Greenwood Relay For Life Team, 7-10 a.m. at the Kingston Lions Hall. Freewill offering.
• Yard Sale – 8 a.m. at the North Alton Baptist Church. Miscellaneous items, plant sale, bake goods. Proceeds for church work.
• Yard Sale - Kings Kikima Grannies yard sale, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the L'Arche Hall (across from the Wolfville Fire Hall).
• Yard Sale - Avonport Baptist Church yard sale (rain or shine) 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Plant sale, bake table, barbecue, canteen. Rentals $10, call 542-0996. Proceeds for church projects.
• Yard Sale - Stoney Hill Baptist Church, Lockhartville, 8 a.m. to noon.
• Variety Show – 1-4 p.m. at Meadowview Development Centre, Brooklyn Street, Kentville. Canteen available, freewill offering. Proceeds for hall upkeep.
• Breakfast - Hantsport and District Lions Club breakfast, 7-10 a.m., at St. Andrew's Anglican Church Hall, Hantsport. $6 per person, six to 12 years $3, five and under free. Proceeds for Lions community service programs
• Plant Sale - Taoist Tai Chi 12th annual plant sale, 107 Canaan Ave. Shrubs, perennials, annuals and vegetables for sale.
• Yard Sale - 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Held by West Kings District High School's Me to We club, Hwy # 1 Auburn. Table rentals $10. For reservations call 847-4440. Proceeds from rentals, canteen and other activities going towards building a school in Africa.
• Breakfast – Black Rock Community Centre, 8-10 a.m. Freewill offering, sponsored by the Jolly Workers Sewing Circle
June 8
• Blue Grass - West Brooklyn Church Gospel, 7 p.m., with The Next Generation. Refreshments to follow.
June 9
• Gardening - Valley Gardeners Club meeting 7:30 p.m. in room 2101 at the Kingstec campus of NSCC, Kentville. Keith Fuller will speak on soil enhancement.
June 10
• Soup Luncheon - Orchard Valley United Church homemade soup and dessert luncheon, noon to 1:15 p.m., at the Orchard Valley United Church, New Minas. $7.50
June 11
• Volunteer Night - annual general meeting and volunteer appreciation night, 7 p.m., at the Waterville and District Fire Volunteer Department
• Meeting - Valley Women's Business Network meeting, 7-9 p.m., at King's Riverside Court (upstairs), 125 Webster St. Presenter: Rashana, Helping You Help Yourself. Free to VWBN members and their first-time guests. $5 at the door for returning guests.
June 12
• Karaoke – 7-10:30 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 098, Kingston. Free admission.
• Jam Session - North Alton Hall, 7-10 p.m. Door prize, 50/50 and lunch. Donation at door.
• Memory Walk - Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia Walk with a Purpose 11th Annual Alzheimer Memory Walk. Registration 9:30 a.m., Wolfville Nursing Home. Barbecue and auction follows the walk at Earnscliff and Main Street. Pledge sheets available at Cochrane's Pharmasave, Wolfville or Wolfville Nursing Home. Info: 542-2429, email@example.com
June 13
• Concert - at the Berwick Royal Canadian Legion, doors open at 8 p.m., show at 8:30 p.m., must 19 and older. Kitchen Party, The Hupman Brothers, Caleb Miles, $10 at the door
• Fun for Kids - Billtown Kids Fun Zone, 7-9 p.m., at the Billtown United Baptist Church
• Mock Jail - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the front parking area of the Port Williams Community Centre. Lock up someone for $1 per minute. Call 542-3321 for pick-up any time after 8 a.m. Port Williams and District Lions Club fundraiser.
• Guest Night - Kentville & Area Women's Connection, roast beef dinner 6:30 p.m. at Berwick Lions Hall, $18. Speaker and music: Barbara Raynes; feature: Michelle Parker. 678-5522 by June 8 for reservations
June 14
• Kentville Legion Breakfast - River Street, 7:30-10 a.m. Adults $6, children 12 and under $3
• Valley Trekkers Walk - explore the trails of Mickey Hill Pocket. Meet at the Park (Exit 22 off Hwy 101, south on Hwy 8) around 9:30 a.m. for walking at 10 a.m. Info: 532-2503 or 765-0906.
• Kentville Legion Dance – 9-12 p.m., $6 per person, must be 19 and over, bar and kitchen available. Music by Rte 12
• Kingston Legion Dance – 9 p.m., music by Big Deal, $7 each.
• Masonic Breakfast – 7:30-10:30 a.m., Masonic Hall, Berwick. Adults $6, children $3, wheelchair accessible.
• Village-Wide Yard Sale – Port Williams, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.; rain date June 15. Flea market: 8 a.m.-1 p.m.; car show noon (registration 11 a.m.); chicken barbecue 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; children's parade 2 p.m. from the Feeds 'n Needs parking lot; community supper 4:30-6 p.m. at community centre, freewill offering
June 15
• Father's Day Roast Beef Supper - at the Forties Community Centre, New Ross. Doors open at 4 p.m., serving at 4:30 p.m. Adults $11, ages five to 12 years $5.50, under five $2.50
• Hymn Sing - 7 p.m., Wolfville Ridge Baptist Church, featuring Next Generation. Refreshments and fellowship to follow.
• Community Flea Market - 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Seaport Square Professional Centre. Info: any member of the Port Williams and District Lions Club or call 542-3432 or 542-3933.
June 20
• Meeting - KCAGoG will host a celebration of their work followed by the annual general meeting, 2-3:30 p.m., at Just Us café in Grand Pré. Refreshments. Info: firstname.lastname@example.com or 542-2363.
• Prime Rib Dinner - at the Berwick Lions' Hall, 6 p.m. Ticket $20 (table $200). All proceeds benefit facility improvements at Hardwood Lake Girl Guide Camp, Lake Paul. Tickets: Sara Keddy, 538-9191 or firstname.lastname@example.com; or Jen Hall, 678-8700 or firstname.lastname@example.com; or Wilsons Pharmasave
June 21
• Breakfast - The Good Neighbour Club, 7-10:30 a.m., at the Centreville Community Hall. Freewill offering.
• Ticket Auction - 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Hall's Harbour Fundy View Community Centre, Hwy. 359. Tickets 20 for $1. Snacks and refreshments available. Draw starts at 2 p.m., must be there to win. Info: firstname.lastname@example.com
• Valley Hope Classic - second annual Wheel/Walk/Run 5/10 km at Kentville Memorial Park (tennis court area). Race kit pickup 9:30 a.m., race at 10:30 a.m. Register online at The Running Room under events before June 1 $18, after June 1 $20. Family rates available. Lots of Prizes. Proceeds go to Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Nova Scotia (SBHANS).
June 22
• Chinese Auction - Western Shore and Area Improvement Building. Doors open 9 a.m., draws at 2 p.m. All new items. Proceeds for the Special Needs Programs of Norwood Lodge #135, New Ross.


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By now, we're all familiar with the privacy trade-off inherent in using the Web, particularly with sites like Facebook or Twitter or Google. There is no free lunch; if you don't pay for things they give you with money, you end up paying for them with your data.
In most cases, though, there are things you can do to obscure, withhold, or fictionalize your personal information. You don't have to log into iGoogle to run a search; you don't have to give Facebook your real name, no matter what Mark Zuckerberg tells you.
But 'social deals' sites like Groupon are a different story. They collect even more information than a Facebook or a Google, and there's no anonymity option; you want the deals, you have to fork over your actual identity, along with your credit card info.
[See also: Caught naked on Facebook – again! ]
One key difference is that, unlike most Web sites, Groupon offers items of tangible value – usually radical discounts on stuff you might be interesting in buying or trying. And all they want in return is your soul. What's wrong with that?
OK, just kidding. Groupon doesn't want your soul. They just want your soul's address, its credit card and contact information, age and gender, birthdate, and social media interactions. They want information about your soul's friends, especially if you or your soul have bought Groupon deals for them as gifts.
They also want to track and store the location of your soul's mobile phone. That last bit is new, the result of changes to the Groupon privacy policy the company issued over the weekend.
Install the Groupon mobile app, and it may feed you deals based on where you happen to be standing at the moment. If, for example, you're loitering outside a shiatsu parlor that works with Groupon, offers for half off on a foot massage may suddenly pop up on your phone.
Privacy geeks have been talking about this kind of thing for years. It's now finally happening. The implications can get nasty quickly; as the laws now stand, any private entity that tracks your location can sell that data to anyone else, and must hand it over when ordered by a court.
Of course, you have to install the Groupon app and say Yes to have this tracking take effect. But you don't have to be actively using Groupon or to accept a deal for them to collect your location information; Groupon has access to it whenever they want. (They would need to, in order to send you deals.) Per the new privacy policy:
… if you use a Groupon mobile application and your mobile device's settings allow it, we may collect Mobile Location Information from your device. Our application may be designed to collect information even if you are not logged into the Groupon application or the Sites…, if the settings on your location-aware device allow us to receive Location Information, we will collect that automatically.
How often will Groupon ping your location? Good question. The privacy policy is totally mum on that score.
How long will Groupon store this data? Though the new policy doesn't address location data specifically, it does plan to hold onto your personal information for as long as you use the service. Again, the privacy policy:
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services and to maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting purposes.
There's more. Groupon has broadened its definition of "personal information" to include your habits and interests, a la Facebook, and it's reserving the option to combine that information with other data it obtains about you from third parties. Can you say "data mining"? I knew that you could.
First, kudos to Groupon for even notifying its users of the privacy changes. Not all companies do. Many just leave it up to users to check the privacy policies periodically – and who, aside from privacy nerds like me, ever does that? (Though the conspiracy theorist inside me has to wonder why they chose to send the notifications out on a Saturday near midnight.)
Second, kudos again to Groupon for offering up a clear summary of the changes to its policies, along with the legalese. It's as if they've been reading my blog.
As for the rest, though, a big fat raspberry. Groupon is tracking mobile users' locations, unless they tell it not to, and apparently storing that information indefinitely. That's never good. The potential for abuse is enormous.
I've asked Groupon to clarify what is and isn't in its new policy, and will update this post if they reply.
ITworld TY4NS blogger Dan Tynan never met a penny he wouldn't pinch – but even his stinginess has limits. Visit his eHumor site eSarcasm or follow him on Twitter: @tynan_on_tech.


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Hidden away in a castle in central Spain in the 1960s, the scarlet-clad Octavia conducts her mad experiments and tortures unwary visitors! Real Old-School artwork by Hoffman! Three collected issues from the original sold-out series.
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How to Write Effective Search Engine Optimisation - SEO - Articles for Your Blog
With the recent release of Google Caffeine, frequently updating informative, quality content to your website has never been more important. Regularly adding fresh content effectively increases not only the visibility of your website, but also assists with boosting your natural search engine rankings.
A perfect way to take advantage of this is to utilise a blog on your website and upload articles on a regular basis. This enhances the authority of your website and plays a major role in achieving top rankings for competitive keyword phrases. However, sometimes the hardest part of initiating the article writing process is gaining the inspiration or the article idea to start the ball rolling. Here are some article development and writing tips to make the process easier.
Creating Your Article Topic
The first task when writing an SEO article for your blog is to identify a high impact article topic. It is best to make your article topic short, snappy and appealing. Here are some ideas for topics ideal for your blog:
- Lists: '5 Ways Google Caffeine will Effect SEO'
- How To's or Tutorials: 'How to Optimise Your Website for SEO'
- Case Studies: 'Analysing Website X's Online Conversion Strategies'
- Anecdotal, Experiences or Review
Once you have identified your topic and defined what areas your article will address, it is time to build the content. In doing this, there are some basic "do's" and "don'ts" to keep in mind to construct an informative article.
7 DO'S for Your Blog Article
- Inform, Educate or Offer Free Advice
The purpose of articles on your blog should be to inform and educate people on a particular area of your industry or service. Through sharing this knowledge you further build your authority online setting yourself up as an industry leader.
- Deliver on your Promise
Always ensure that your article covers all areas of the topic first initiated in the article lead-in paragraph. It is important to deliver on your article information promises.
- Make Your Article Message Concise
The ideal article length for your blog is a minimum of 500 words and a maximum of 750. Longer articles are not necessarily better. Make sure your article is accurate, educates and is concise in conveying your message.
- Stay Focused
To assist keeping your reader's interest, use short paragraphs which address only one idea, topic or concept at a time.
- Ease of Read
For ease of read, utilise bullet points and numbered lists. This breaks up the article content and allows people to scan-read your article; taking from the article the key areas of importance or relevance.
- Separate Your Information
The use of subsections within your article with subheadings allows people to identify the areas of importance. This also splits up the article content making the information easier to read.
- Include Internal Links In Your Article
When writing your article, make sure to include two to three high search volume keywords relevant to your business. Utilise these keywords to enhance your website's internal linking structure; linking to the relevant service pages within your website.
4 DON'TS for Your Blog Article
- Plagiarise Content
Make sure your content is original. Your article must not contain any material that could be considered defamatory, libellous or infringing on legal rights of others.
- Duplicate Content
To avoid duplicate content when referencing within your article, do not use any more than 5 lines of quoted or sourced material.
- Promote or Sell Your Services
Avoid writing articles on your blog that promotes or sells your service or products. The main purpose of your article should be to inform and educate.
- Direct Your User Away From Your Website
Do not include links within your article that directs your user to click away from your article or website. You should focus on keeping your readers on your blog or reading further about your business and service offering
It is a great idea to get your team involved in writing articles on a regular basis. Not only will you have regular articles to upload to your blog, but you will also further build the credibility of your team with potential and existing clients.
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Google-Zero is a search engine that helps save energy. Using the technology of search for Google ™ (albeit without any direct association with the brand), the results are presented with the same effectiveness and speed with which the North American brand is recognized in all parts of the world. The concept of Google-Zero is based on saving energy on presentation of results in a dark background and white letters entirely so that the monitors of computers, mobile phones and other artifacts of navigation online saving the most possible energy, and greater autonomy and of course, helping the environment.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Google-Zero,The eco-friendly search engine
Posted by [V] at 11:24 AM
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2 comments:
- Luís Humberto Teixeira said...
The eco-friendliness of Google-Zero depends on the monitor you use.
If you understand Portuguese, you can check out my post about this subject at http://vamos.mudaromundo.com/2007/12/21/google-zero/
If you're more at home with English, then go to Techlogg and read Darren Yates' conclusions (http://techlogg.com/content/view/360/1/) and suggestions (http://techlogg.com/content/view/367/)
- December 22, 2007 at 4:26 AM
- Francis Bell said...
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- November 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM
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Essex County, New Jersey, Residents To Benefit From Verizon Wireless Network Expansion
MORRISTOWN, NJ — In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for residents and commuters in Essex County, Verizon Wireless, operator of the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network, has expanded its network with two new cell sites.
The new Essex County cell sites will improve network coverage and capacity in the following areas:
- In Belleville, along Franklin Street, Franklin Avenue and Bloomfield Avenue near the Belleville-Newark border
- In Newark, along Route 78 between Lyons Avenue and Bergen Street
Verizon Wireless invested $2 billion to enhance its New York Metro area network and more than $37 billion across the nation in the past seven years to stay ahead of the growing demand for the company's voice, data and mobile entertainment services, like VZ NavigatorSM, which provides audible turn-by-turn directions; V CAST Mobile TV, offering eight broadcast quality mobile television channels; and V CAST Music which allows customers to download full songs directly to their V CAST-capable wireless phones and Microsoft® Windows® XP-based PCs.
"Reliable networks are not built overnight," said Charles Hand, president of the company's New York Metro region. "Our New York customers are among the most demanding and tech savvy in the nation and Verizon Wireless continues to efficiently invest in network enhancements to deliver the reliable and innovative services customers want. Better yet, Verizon Wireless is the only major carrier with a 30-day network Test Drive pledge that pays for calls if a customer isn't satisfied and switches to another carrier."
Verizon Wireless now serves 62.1 million customers nationwide.
Verizon Wireless's high-speed third generation wireless broadband network has been enhanced with EV-DO Rev. A technology. This enhancement allows customers who use the company's flagship business data service, BroadbandAccess, to interact with Web-based applications, download music over-the-air, access to e-mail, everyday corporate data, the Internet, and more at speeds that are eight to nine times faster than before. For example, BroadbandAccess customers with Rev. A compatible devices can now expect average download speeds of 600 kilobits per second (kbps) to 1.4 megabits per second and average upload speeds of 500-800 kbps, which means customers can download a 1 megabyte e-mail attachment the equivalent of a small PowerPoint® presentation or a large PDF file in about eight seconds and upload the same sized file in less than 13 seconds.
Nationally, Verizon Wireless' real-life test men and women drive 98 specially equipped vehicles nearly one million miles each year on Interstate, U.S. and state highways as well as major roads and surface streets in high-population areas, based upon U.S. Census counts, to confirm that voice calls and data connections are successful on the first attempt and stay connected. Vehicles are equipped with computers that automatically make more than three million voice call attempts and more than 16 million data tests annually on Verizon Wireless' network and the networks of other carriers.
For more information on Verizon Wireless, please visit www.verizonwireless.com.
*Editors Note: Test Man Ride-Along Program To set up an interview and ride-along Test Drive with your local Verizon Wireless test man or woman, please contact Kimberly Ancin 845-429-3839.
About Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network, serving 62.1 million customers. The largest U.S. wireless company and largest wireless data provider, based on revenues, Verizon Wireless is headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 67,000 employees nationwide. The company is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD). Find more information on the Web at www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.####


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Rafter a partner in $180m golf course
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Former tennis star Pat Rafter has swapped his racquet for golf clubs and has become a partner in a $180 million residential golf course north of Newcastle.
The two times US Open champion, who retired in 2002, has become a substantial shareholder in the 400 allotment Pacific Dunes golf residential community at Port Stephens.
The project is being jointly undertaken by the publicly listed Babcock & Brown, the Port Stephens Golf and Country Club Pty Ltd and the Citta Property Group, which is also development and project manager.
Head of Babcock & Brown global real estate Michael Maxwell said Rafter would play a valued role in delivering the partners' vision for Pacific Dunes.
"Pat of course is much more than a sporting hero," he said.
"He's an outstanding national ambassador, who brings real commitment and passion to all that he does whether that is charitable, community or business interests."
Pacific Dunes is set on a 135-hectare site in the heart of Port Stephens.
The residential community incorporates an 18-hole championship golf course with residential packages.
Buyer interest at Pacific Dunes has been markedly strong in recent months with over 75 per cent of the latest released home sites selling out.


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Well, another awesome year has passed, and another nine lucky riders have graced the cover of our magazine. Check out all of Ride's 2011 covers right here along with the stories behind them as told by the photographers themselves. Enjoy, and don't forget to subscribe for 2012!
While you're at it, take a look back and check out all the 2010 Ride BMX covers and the stories behind them…
Issue 170 – January/February 2011
Drew Bezanson, photo by Jeff Zielinski.
I really don't need to state the obvious and go into how crazy this truckdriver is. Dennis Enarson broke the cherry on this gap with a tailwhip in Nike's Writing On The Wall. And a few years later, when we started shooting Drew's interview, this spot was on Drew's radar, so he talked to Dennis about the gap, and besides some "you got that" reassurance, Dennis also told Drew to bring a broom because the runway was rocky. So after the 2010 Dew Tour finals in Las Vegas, Drew, Fat Tony, and I packed all our bikes, gear, and bodies into a small rental car and drove to Phoenix, Arizona. After driving all day and finally arriving at night, Drew didn't waste any time and still managed to fire out a banger gap-to-wallride that same night. And things weren't any different once we got to the ditch the next day. After sweeping away a small desert's worth of sand from the landing and runway, Drew walked up the hill, took a few run-ups, and then jumped down it, he then followed that up with a straight 360 (which everyone thought was more than good enough and we even questioned if he needed to bother with truck), but Drew was there for the truckdriver, so and he walked back up the bank and without much of a delay, he made sure everyone was ready and he did it. The overwhelming feeling of relief that Drew conquered it first go, and walked away totally unscathed, and of course the sheer shock of witnessing that insane move had everyone yelling and screaming hysterically. After our celebrating calmed down, Drew mentioned that although it was really scary, he had so much time in the air that he felt like he could've done even more than a truckdriver. And as crazy as that sounds, you have to remember that is Drew Bezanson we're talking about. —Jeff
Camera Info: Canon 1D Mark II, 70-200 lens, ambient light.
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A good article that avoids the romanticism that overwhelms many people when they start a fish and chip shop/catering business. It can be both risky and overwhelming, and if not correctly insured - devastating.
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The Senate recently approved the third and last reading of Senate Bill No. 78 for the increase of the minimum wage of house helpers, or "kasambahays." The said bill will provide additional benefits for helpers, once signed into the constitution by President Noynoy Aquino.
Introduced by Senator Jinggoy Estrada states that the minimum wage should be a minimum of P2,500 for house helpers in Metro Manila, a minimum of P2,000 for helpers in chartered cities and first-class municipalities and a minimum of P1,500 for those helpers employed in third-class municipalities.
Employers are required to pay for their house helpers' SSS (Social Security System), Philippine Health Insurance Commission (Philhealth), Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG) and Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC) benefits.
To guarantee that these are fulfilled, the Kasambahay Bill requires a contract between the employer and employee in a language intelligible to both. The contract should not exceed two years, as well as indicate the working hours and rest days for the household helpers.
"All human beings, no matter their station in life, should be accorded full dignity and guaranteed full respect for human rights," said Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile. "Most house helpers endure abuse in the hands of their employers. This bill not only ensures the rights of our helpers, but will also protect them from being maltreated."
SOURCES:• December 13, 2010. "Senate OKs higher wages for house helpers," Ph.News.Yahoo.com • December 13, 2010. "Senate OKs kasambahay bill on 3rd reading," GMANews.TV


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Posted Friday March 22, 2013 11:50 AM GMT
He was mercilessly ridiculed by Russell Brand for wearing a purity ring at the MTV Video Music Awards a few years back, and now Joe Jonas is supposedly the star of a new sex tape.
According to a report, the "Burnin Up" rocker and his girlfriend Blanda Eggenschwiler turned on the camcorder and got crazy while in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the Jonas Brothers' concert tour in South America recently.
The footage is said to contain Joe and Blanda "drinking, doing drugs, and engaging in sex using a number of sex toys and BDSM devices."
But Joe's rep vehemently denied the existence of such a video- "There is no truth or validity to this story. It is completely false."
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But want to point out, that I have found 3 X that my e mail address has been used by Spam Senders.
In other words, I have received e mails from myself, with the PP having a whole lot of other e mail addresses, often from the same Server.
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Cavs lose to Pelicans 100-89
The Cavs ended their 5 game home stand on Tuesday night by losing to the New Orleans Pelicans 100-89. The loss gave the Cavs a 1-4 record on the home stand that was suppose to be a part of the schedule the Cavs would use to start a playoff push.
The Pelicans went on a 16-0 run to end the first half and the Cavs never recovered. The Cavs shot 41% from the field while allowing the Pelicans to shoot 52%. Anthony Davis led all scorers with 30 points and added 8 blocks for New Orleans. Cavs rookie Anthony Bennett scored a career high 15 points and tied a career high with 8 rebounds. Kyrie Irving led the Cavs with 23 points. The Cavs will be at New York on Thursday to take on the Knicks.
Arnie Hamilton
WTAM Sports