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As a photographer, Judith uses her camera as a way of connecting with her husband, who has Alzheimer's, and to create awareness of the disease. Judith believes that arts education programs give those living with Alzheimer's an opportunity to use the abilities they have, while also helping caregivers to connect with the patient in a stimulating environment.
2010 marked the launch of SEPIA (Seniors Exploring Photography, Identity and Appreciation), a program designed for seniors who traditionally would be unable to experience MOPA, including those with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. SEPIA provides photography workshops, exhibition-related tours and outreach talks targeted for seniors in nursing homes and assisted living centers. Through SEPIA, MOPA is contributing to a national dialogue on creativity and aging. Make a donation.


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Pub Crawl: Luna
Updated 3:27 pm, Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Address: 6740 San Pedro Ave.
Bar hours: Doors at 8 p.m., music at 9:30 Wednesday- Saturday. Closed Sunday.
Phone: (210) 804-2433
Web: lunalive.com
Noise, cost: varies, low
Snapshot: If you're aiming to hear jazz, soul, rhythm and blues or indie pop shows in an intimate, unpretentious nightclub, then Luna is your spot. After grabbing a cocktail at the bar, patrons can snag a table near the stage, take to the small dance floor or snuggle into a dimly lit booth to enjoy the tunes.
Who goes there: The relaxed atmosphere draws a diverse crowd including young hipsters and older locals, all of whom appreciate good live music.
Behind the bar: You can get beer here, but cocktails are the house specialty. Rotating nightly drink specials offer $3.75 Crown Royal Whisky, Tito's Handmade Vodka, Jack Daniel's whiskey or Bacardi rum. Or mix it up with a tangy $7 concoction known as the Hypnosis, made of Hpnotiq, Jose Cuervo Gold, Blue Curacao and sour mix. Mixed drinks are served in 16-ounce mason jars so listeners don't have to break their musical reverie as often for another round.
Soundtrack: The venue has a constant influx of live shows, many featuring Austin artists such as The HiDefs, the soul-filled side project of Mingo Fishtrap's rhythm section, playing Friday.
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Munchies: The nightclub keeps your tummy from grumbling by dishing up free snacks, including chips and queso, chili or jambalaya.
The skinny: Shows on Wednesdays and Thursdays are open to all ages. Cover for the 21-and-older weekend shows is usually $8-$10. Bring a laid-back attitude and prepare to jam.

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Adopted October 26, 2006, Revised February 23, 2012
The Orrville Public Library is a stand-alone library located in a small town of 8,500 people. The Library's official service area is the Orrville City School District. The school district has a population of approximately 11,000 and covers 26 square miles.
The Library was instituted in 1925 when 600 books were moved into a vacant room in the high school. The current 25,000 square foot facility was the result of a major renovation begun in 1999 and officially opened on July 5, 2000. There are currently about 75,000 volumes in the collection.
The Orrville Public Library is highly valued and greatly used by the Orrville community. For the past twelve years, the Hennen's American Public Library Rating Index (HAPLR) has consistently placed the Orrville Public Library among the top ten small libraries in the nation that serve communities with populations of 10,000 to 25,000. While the Orrville City School District contains less that 10% of the population of Wayne County, the Library consistently circulates 22% of the library materials used by county residents.
The Wayne County Public Library, which is composed of a main library in Wooster and branches in Dalton, Shreve, Rittman, Creston, Doylestown, and West Salem, is the largest public library entity in the county. Fredericksburg Library operates independently in southern Wayne County.
Though Orrville Public Library serves a small town, the Library offers rich resources through membership in CLEVNET. The CLEVNET Consortium, which began in 1982, is composed of 37 library systems (100+ library buildings) in 10 counties of northern Ohio. Combined holdings top 10 million items and include access to 100 electronic databases. The consortium, which Orrville Public Library joined in 1985, offers an integrated library system (currently SIRSI), technological support, electronic databases in addition to those offered through OPLIN, training, and innovative services (KnowItNow, downloadable eMedia, and wireless access.)
The Library uses a delivery service to transport library materials to and from different libraries every weekday, Monday through Friday. Twice annually, the circulation staff evaluates the delivery system to make sure that patrons are receiving requested items in a timely fashion.
When CLEVNET's collection is insufficient to patron needs, materials from library collections throughout the country can be acquired for Orrville Public Library patrons through InterLibrary Loan Service.
Collection Analysis
Each library collection is a unique reflection of the interests and needs of the community it serves. Orrville Public Library staff listens to its users in many ways.
- Staff members who order library materials work on the floor daily helping patrons. Staff know what questions are asked and what materials are used.
- Staff compiles monthly use statistics for all parts of the collection to analyze usage patterns and evaluate collection needs.
- All the questions asked at the Information Desks are noted. A record is made as to whether the Library's collection had the resources to answer the question, what additional resources were required, and whether more materials should be sought to add to the collection on the subject in question. These notes are reviewed every month by department heads and the Director.
- Patron suggestions are recorded and passed to the selection team.
Materials Selection Criterion
In order to invest the Library's funds wisely in its efforts to serve the needs of the community, the following criteria are considered:
- Existence of authoritative published reviews
- Accuracy of information
- Quality of treatment
- Objectivity
- Timeliness or permanence of value
- Popular interest or demand
- Extent to which the subject is already represented in the Library collection
- Extent to which the subject is already represented in the CLEVNET consortium holdings
- Readability or literacy style
- Social significance
- Reputation of the author and/or publishers
- Cost
- Availability of same or similar material elsewhere in the area
- Physical durability, attractiveness, and other format characteristics
- Media format, i.e. hardback, paperback, CD, e-book, etc.
- Inclusion in standard bibliographies
Collection Maintenance Criterion
In order to maintain a vital, current collection that meets the needs of the community, examination and evaluation of materials is an ongoing process. When library materials lose the value for which they were originally selected, they should be withdrawn. An item is considered for discard when it is:
- Obsolete, misleading, or outdated
- Worn beyond use
- Damaged
- No longer circulating and/or used for reference purposes
- One of many copies of a formerly popular title
Space availability and low circulation over a period of time are other factors that influence the withdrawal decision. Discard does not necessarily mean the book is not good, simply that its use for our community is done or very limited.
Gifts, including memorial items, are subject to these withdrawal and replacement policies.
Donations of materials in any format must meet the criteria used for selection before being added to the collection. Memorial and gift books must also meet selection criteria, including necessity to the collection. The Library reserves the right to accept or refuse conditions placed upon gifts of materials or funds.
Juvenile Collection
Juvenile fiction includes board books, picture books, easy readers, and juvenile chapter books. This collection serves all ages with a primary target audience of birth to 12 years. Collection size is limited due to space restrictions. Within the collection, space is allocated according to community need.
Juvenile non-fiction includes informational materials for all ages. Targeted ages for this collection are birth to age 12. Collection includes biographies as well as reference materials. Extra consideration is given to topics covered by the curriculum of Orrville City Schools. Every effort is made to provide topical materials on a variety of reading levels with emphasis on the curriculum guided grade levels.
Juvenile magazines are ordered based on reviews and community requests. Magazines must reflect the diversity of the community. Magazines are discarded after 30 months or shorter timeframe if they are not circulating. Second copies of popular magazines may be added. Magazines include comic books appropriate for age 12 and under. Graphic books not in comic book format are included in fiction or non-fiction.
Juvenile videos are purchased based on reviews and community interest. Budgetary considerations do not permit purchase of all videos that would be appropriate and useful. Video requests by teachers from Orrville City Schools are given serious consideration. Rated videos must be rated "G" to be selected for the Children's Department. Videos that are not rated must be appropriate for children aged 12 and under. Consideration will be given to adding videos that are not available to patrons from other sources. Non-fiction videos, as well as older fiction videos, often fall into this category. The department will replace popular titles as budget permits. The department may circulate DVD and other formats as per the community need.
Audiobooks will be selected on the basis of reviews (of both print and audio versions), as well as the interest of the audiobook user community. Collection is limited by space available and funding. Audiobooks in the juvenile collection must meet the same criteria as print materials for the juvenile collection. The Children's Department will maintain a collection of audiobooks on CD.
Young Adult Collection
Orrville Public Library maintains a Young Adult collection consisting of a small group of non-fiction, a small collection of graphic novels, an extensive collection of young adult fiction, an express collection of music CDs, and a small collection of audiobooks. Target audience for this collection is grades 5 – 9. Because our collection is used by a younger audience than in many libraries, our selection must correspondingly reflect that age group.
- Young Adult non-fiction is a small collection of materials which specifically addresses the needs and interests of this age group.
- Graphic materials are judged on content and appropriateness of illustrations.
- Music CDs reflect the most current and popular music for young adults, using reviews and patron requests. All music must be appropriate for 9th grade and younger.
- Audiobooks are recordings of popular Young Adult paper titles.
- Young Adult fiction is selected based on reviews, interest to our patrons, and suitability for our target age group.
Adult Collection
The adult fiction collection consists primarily of popular best sellers, classic works of literature, inspirational, mysteries, westerns, and science fiction. Guided by our mission statement, titles are selected on the basis of reviews in professional journals, existing collection, and patron demand. Fiction circulates well and multiple copies to fill requests are purchased as the budget allows. We strive to maintain a collection that is both current and broad.
Adult non-fiction consists of books to cover a wide range of information needs by patrons ranging from middle school/junior high age students through adults. All subjects are covered with special emphasis on school assignment topics, do-it-yourself information, lifelong learning, and pleasure reading in the non-fiction genres. The size of this collection is fairly static. On-going weeding and ordering are used to maintain a current and broad collection.
The large print collection provides popular material for our visually impaired patrons. The collection includes bestsellers, mysteries, family reading, westerns, biographies and non-fiction. Selection is guided by the same criteria used for regular print fiction and non-fiction
The music collection consists of the CD format. Other formats may be added as per community demand. Categories include Classical, Jazz, Pop, International, New Age, Show, Country, and Inspirational. Currently, the most heavily used collections are the Country and Inspirational so ordering is weighted a little heavier in those areas. Space limitations dictate no growth in this collection.
The adult audiobook collection consists of both fiction and non-fiction works in the current available formats. Guided by our mission statement, titles are selected on the basis of reviews in professional journals, existing collection, and patron demand. Audiobook format has changed over the past several years and is expected to continue changing. Audiobooks continue to grow in popularity and we strive to maintain a collection that is both current and broad on CD and other formats as per community need.
The adult video collection is comprised of DVDs and includes both fiction and non-fiction titles, thereby providing contemporary high-interest materials, supplying information for lifelong learning, and supplementing the educational needs of school-aged children.
- The DVD collection has a limited lifespan and is expected to become obsolete within the next five years. Currently, demand is very high for this format and it is being actively purchased for the collection. This area of the video collection will continue to grow over the next several years, but eventually taper off and diminish as new formats for this medium become available. It is unknown how new formats will affect the Library as far as physical storage is concerned, but the Library may still maintain videos in the format of choice for the community.
Reference and Local History Collection
The Reference book collection is designed to allow staff to answer questions on the telephone or in person that require an authoritative source with a quick turnaround time. Encyclopedias, almanacs, business directories, dictionaries, and legal information are just some of the areas covered. This collection is quickly becoming obsolete as more and more sources become available through databases and websites. The reference budget has been reduced each of the last several years and will continue to drop.
Local History items are purchased if they relate to the Orrville community. As there are not a lot of items that fall into this category, just about everything published is added to this collection. This collection does include microfilm of the local newspapers, which keeps the cost of maintaining this collection rather high.
The Orrville Public Library subscribes to approximately 125 titles to serve the needs of a variety of age groups and interests. The Library's selection criterion is applied equally to periodical selection. Titles are evaluated annually using circulation statistics and new magazine titles are considered.
Thousands of periodicals are now offered full text in our online databases which offer easy keyword and Boolean search options. In general, the values sought from hard copy periodicals have changed from research to enrichment and entertainment.
All issues are circulated for one week.
Local and representative national newspapers are purchased within budget and space limitations. Microform files of newspapers are acquired as funding allows.


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Children showed some serious flower power when they won a gardening competition.
The West Hendon Community Garden Club was commended in housing agency Barnet Homes' annual competition, Finest Flowers.
Young members spent months planting flowers and weeding the area outside the newly refurbished West Hendon Community Centre.
Their club was set up after Elizabeth Fitzgerald, who lives in West Hendon, began gardening in the area and noticed children taking a keen interest.
She said: "The children come in and out and do gardening bits when they can. But it is marvellous to see young people getting stuck into gardening and making the community look so inviting."
The judging panel is made up of staff and tenants, who had a tough time with this year's gardening entrants.
The Barnet Group's chief executive Tracey Lees said: "The competition gives people a real platform to take pride in their homes and the surrounding areas.
"It makes a real difference to our communities and Barnet Homes appreciates the efforts that our residents make to create these beautiful gardens. Thanks and well done to all our residents who entered this summer."
"I am also thrilled that the gardening competition has encouraged a new generation of younger gardeners who will be part of shaping the community in the future."


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Today is the anniversary of the Rangers' Canyon of Heroes parade, and all that noise in lower Manhattan, and Mike Keenan being serenaded with "Four More Years" chants (and he wouldn't last four more weeks), and Mike Richter turning to Mark Messier amid the wild scene on Broadway and saying, "I wish we could get a flat tire so we could stay here a while."
That was when New York showed the world how to celebrate a championship.
And, naturally, it was also the day that O.J. Simpson rode in a white Bronco in the infamous low-speed chase that kicked the Knicks' NBA final game into a picture-in-picture square on the screen.
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(WBIR-Knoxville, Tenn.) The Winter Olympics will dominate NBC programming for two weeks beginning Friday. To celebrate the arrival of the games, 10News is hosting the WBIR Torch Relay.
The event is as a fundraiser for United Way of Greater Knoxville. Many torchbearers are sponsored by Knoxville businesses.
Thursday, more than 50 relay participants will help carry the flame from The University of Tennessee campus to the WBIR Studios. It should take more than three hours for the 14-mile trek.
The torch relay will begin at 12:45 p.m. under the UT Torchbearer Statue and make appearances on Kingston Pike, Sutherland Avenue, Market Square, Gay Street, and Broadway Avenue before arriving at WBIR around 4:15 p.m.
Check out the relay route. If you see the torch on Thursday, snap a picture and upload it to Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #WBIRTorch. Your picture may be featured on wbir.com .


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OHIO — The Ohio High School Board took action on the following items at its meeting Sept. 24:
• Accepted the treasurer's report. Superintendent Sharon Sweger said the district is not tying money up in investments due to the low interest rates. Board President Harold Albrecht said the high school has its money in the First State Bank of Van Orin.
• Heard the high school enrollment increased by one student to 33 from last month's 32 students.
• Approved the salary percentages of faculty and staff shared with the grade school.
• Approved the application for Recognition of Schools.
• Tabled review and approval of the FY '12 audit report until October.
• Approved the itemized Salary Compensation Report.
• Heard the tuck-pointing is completed.
• Discussed repairs to the breaker box in the boiler room. Sweger said the district is due for its next 10-year life safety survey in 2015.
• Heard an update on the new breakfast program. Sweger said 175 meals were served in August, with an average of five high school and 15 grade school students eating each day. Melissa Lesley has volunteered to serve the breakfasts. "It seems to be going real well," Sweger said.
• Heard petitions are available for the April 9, 2013, school board election. The seats of board members Carol Debruhl, Tim Snodgrass, Brock Kaecker and Robert Gonigam are up for election to new four-year terms. Each petition must contain 50 valid signatures. Petitions must be returned between Dec. 17 and 24. Sweger said the office would be open from 3 to 5 p.m. Dec. 24.
• Heard volleyball is going well, and there are four boys out for football.
• Heard 70 students and their families attended the PTO open house.
• Approved Adam Spencer as cross country coach.
The next regularly scheduled meeting will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 22 in the school library.


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Hey, this is how my day is going. Caught an earlier train than usual, but it was slow and completely packed, including idiots on the phone. No prob. Still plenty of time for a brisk walk to the Garden. But I get there, still early, and the World's Most Terrible Elevator is backed up, and when I finally have a chance to get on, two elderly women with walkers showed up, so I let them on and waited an additional 15 minutes for the next one. Still no problem, plenty of time. So I get to the press room, check my email, still have about seven minutes to make the two-minute walk to hear Torts pre-game. Only, as me and Jim Cerny make the climb through the stands, about 200 parents from an afternoon kids game get up at the same time and clog the only two entrances that lead to the lockerrooms, so the two-minute walk takes about six minutes. Then we get to the press conference room and the door's locked, and as we knock nobody answers for another minute or so. Oh, and the press conference began about 5-10 minutes early.
Short story long, I missed the start of the presser.
But here's the immediate news:
Callahan, they're saying, is out 6-8 weeks. That could change upon further exams, etc.
Martin Biron starts in goal; Tortorella called it a no-brainer, and expects Lundqvist will start the next two.
Nobody is being called up at the moment, mostly because they don't believe anybody's ready and because after Saturday the schedule gets pretty well spread out until after the holidays, but that could change after tonight's game, and certainly once the January schedule begins.
Prospal is not expected back until mid-January. Again, that's an estimate.
Boogaard is now day-to-day, but Tortorella is worried about his conditioning.
And, obviously, Drury will take Callahan's spot on the Anisimov-Dubinsky line and on the PK.
Back with quotes in a bit.
Oh, and my day is a piece of cake compared to some of the writers coming back from Pittsburgh, one of whom had to fly to Philly, get stranded and threatened by the airline personnel, and rented a car, drove to LaGuardia to get his car, then drove into Manhattan. My day was a lot more relaxing than that.


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Judge appoints Pittsburgh law firm as Centax receiver
A court-appointed receiver expects soon to begin distributing to municipalities and school districts $27 million in back taxes collected by a tax collector that went out of business.
Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge Christine A. Ward appointed the Pittsburgh law firm of Campbell & Levine to act as receiver for Central Tax Bureau of Pennsylvania.
Attorney Paul J. Cordaro said in a statement that the goal is to oversee "an orderly wind-down of Centax's business."
Kristen Michaels, a spokeswoman for the law firm, said there's no definitive timeline for when the money would go to taxing districts.
Centax, based in Bridgeville, collected local, earned-income taxes for 12 counties until Act 32 took effect in January. The law combined the duties of municipal tax collectors under one agency hired by a committee representing the county or taxing district.
Centax collected mercantile taxes, real estate taxes, water and sewer fees and other taxes for municipalities.
School boards and municipalities said this summer that Centax fell woefully behind on distributions.
"We did take a brief look at the firm when they ceased operations," said Mike Manko, spokesman for District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. "It has been the past practice with these types of situations, if Judge Ward believes there are any indications of improper conduct she will let us know."
Robert Villella, president and chief reorganization officer at Centax, blamed the delays on computer vendors and said the company was working to catch up.
Cordaro said Centax closed on Sept. 21, before the company could complete transfers to successor tax collectors.
At least two vendors sued Centax in Allegheny County for unpaid bills, and more than a dozen municipalities and tax committees sued Centax for back taxes.
The receiver will liquidate Centax's assets. Ward barred creditors from filing claims against Centax, Cordaro said.
Bill Vidonic is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-380-5621 or email@example.com.


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Seth MacFarlane Saw Your Boobs + More Memorable Moments from the 2013 Oscars
From the Seth MacFarlane opening number that wasn't (thanks to Captain Kirk) to Adele's stunning performance of "Skyfall," here are all the best moments from the 2013 Oscars. Congrats to all the winners!
-Lucia Peters
My big complaint about the Oscars in recent years is that a tradition has developed wherein the fun stuff has been cut in the name of saving time. While I understand this—award shows are impossibly long most of the time—it also means that they've become unspeakably boring. Yes, this year's show may have been a whopping three and a half hours long; but thanks to the vision of its producers, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, it was one of the more entertaining Oscars presentations we've seen in a while. Of course, if they could be this entertaining and still clock in at under three hours, that would be the best of all words, but eh, can't have everything.
Anyhoo, in case you missed it, as always, we watch the show so you don't have to! From an unexpected cameo in the opening number to Adele's show-stopping performance of "Skyfall," here are the 14 most memorable moments from the 2013 Oscars. Check out the full list of winners here, and congratulations to everyone—whether they won, lost, or were just along for the ride!


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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Call Patrick Cleary a hero and he'll drop his head, close his eyes and holler an anguished "NO!"
Then, the Army veteran, who has served as a volunteer at the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman since it opened in 2000, will explain his aversion to that tag.
"I was a Cold War vet. I didn't do nothing. I never saw any combat. Nobody shot at me, and I never shot at anybody," said Cleary, 77, of Cleveland.
"Let's just say that I'm a dedicated volunteer who realizes I've lived a charmed life right up to now," he added. "You should be talking to the mothers and fathers of those guys who are brought back in bags. Those are the heroes. I'm no hero."
But his military service still means enough to this son of a World War I doughboy to do whatever he can to ease a family's burden in burying a veteran. So far, that effort has involved some 450 trips to spend 4,099 hours at the cemetery, racking up 36,000 miles on his six-year-old Mustang and burning more than $8,000 in gas.
Cleary is among about 50 volunteers, all veterans or their spouses, augmenting the cemetery's 13-person staff, according to Mark Polen, who handles program support for the cemetery.
"We could not even begin to do what we do without them," he added. "These people come out in the deepest, darkest depths of winter and don't complain. They do it because they care, they understand why we're here, and because they think it's important to show respect to their fellow veterans."
Cleary's own service started when he volunteered for the draft in 1955 after graduating from West Technical High School and wound up serving as an Army Signal Corps cryptographer -- coding and decoding messages.
One of the most memorable messages came across his desk in early November 1956, when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest, Hungary. "That was an exciting thing," Cleary recalled. "I knew about it before the president."
After his stint with the active-duty Army and Reserves, Cleary spent 38 years working as a communications technician with AT&T. He and his wife, Mary, raised four children.
When a stroke temporarily sidelined a guy who concedes to a lingering love of the Army and a passion for keeping busy, he answered a newspaper ad seeking volunteers at the new Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery.
Cleary said his first eight years were spent largely on office work, helping families get the necessary documentation for veteran burials and working with area funeral directors to schedule arrangements.
He joked that the cemetery's first director advised him, "Patrick, as long as you don't bury anybody in the parking lot, just do your thing."
He also helped families choose inscriptions for their government-provided headstone. One request was for "No Regrets" on the marker. Cleary recalled, "I thought, 'What does he mean, "No Regrets"? Coming or going?' So I just wrote it up. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that it was a great life."
Cleary later transferred to duty at the cemetery's information booth at the cemetery entrance.
"I do what I can to put people at ease," he said. "I know it helps, because a lot of them come into this vast cemetery and don't know what it is they're supposed to do."
At times, Cleary's duty can be sad and sobering when he knows one of the vets being buried. That once included his own brother.
But the rewards are ample compensation, according to Cleary, who said the volunteer work helped him get through anxiety and depression while recovering from his stroke. And more.
"The thing about the cemetery, it gives me back more than I could ever possibly give it," Cleary said. He explained that it gives him "the feeling of helping somebody in their moment of ultimate distress, helping them get to a certain place in dealing with this terrible sorrow."
Not hero material -- in his own eyes.
Yet perhaps heroic enough to those who rely on Cleary at a time when it matters most.
Information from: The Plain Dealer, http://www.cleveland.com


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PASADENA, Texas - A Texas man is giving up his bed for 72 hours to live inside a Dumpster.
Lang Cassidy volunteered to live in the bin with only his Bible and a 6-foot sign asking for donations. He started his mission on Thursday to help the homeless.
According to our Houston affiliate, KHOU-TV, Cassidy set a goal to collect 600 items for the needy. The 50-year-old was brought to tears by all the support.
"You know, I wanted this to be big and God's going to make it big for me," says Cassidy, "This is great."
Donation after donation, Cassidy's message has spread across the community. People have stopped by to give food, blankets and clothes.
Cassidy, who works for a homeless outreach, will give the donations to the homeless around the city starting Tuesday. More than the donations though, Cassidy hopes his message will inspire others to pay it forward.
"When they see someone who is in the Dumpster, you know, they realize there are people out there who are like this and just willing to give the jacket or shirt of their back," Cassidy said, "It's awesome."
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Children learn that "copycat" is a term of abuse the first time they are punished or ridiculed for trying to replicate a friend's work – or style – at school. In business, however, imitation can be a virtue, as Rocket Internet has discovered.
Newly endowed with $400m from billionaire Len Blavatnik and Kinnevik, the Swedish investment company, Rocket should now be able to launch even more companies into cyberspace. But Rocket, known and often criticised for cloning others' internet successes in new territories and then selling them, needs to beware the old maxim "up like a rocket, down like a stick". Read more


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United Communications Partners Inc (UCPA) shares are moving today on volatility 7.27% or 0.0002 from the open. The OTC listed company saw a recent bid of 0.0024 and 331648 shares have traded hands in the session.
Tackling the stock market may involve many different aspects. Investors may at times feel like they are on a wild ride. Sometimes there are extreme highs, and sometimes there are extreme lows. Figuring out how to best deal with fluctuations can help the investor's mindset. Investors who are able to keep their emotions in check might be one step ahead of the rest. Being able to identify emotional weaknesses can help the investor avoid tricky situations when things get hairy. Keeping the stock portfolio on the profitable side may involve making decisions that require emotional detachment. When emotions are running high, it may impair the rational decision making capability of the investor.
Taking a deeper look into the technical levels of United Communications Partners Inc (UCPA), we can see that the Williams Percent Range or 14 day Williams %R currently sits at -53.33. The Williams %R oscillates in a range from 0 to -100. A reading between 0 and -20 would point to an overbought situation. A reading from -80 to -100 would signal an oversold situation. The Williams %R was developed by Larry Williams. This is a momentum indicator that is the inverse of the Fast Stochastic Oscillator.
United Communications Partners Inc (UCPA) currently has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of -74.96. Active investors may choose to use this technical indicator as a stock evaluation tool. Used as a coincident indicator, the CCI reading above +100 would reflect strong price action which may signal an uptrend. On the flip side, a reading below -100 may signal a downtrend reflecting weak price action. Using the CCI as a leading indicator, technical analysts may use a +100 reading as an overbought signal and a -100 reading as an oversold indicator, suggesting a trend reversal.
The RSI, or Relative Strength Index, is a widely used technical momentum indicator that compares price movement over time. The RSI was created by J. Welles Wilder who was striving to measure whether or not a stock was overbought or oversold. The RSI may be useful for spotting abnormal price activity and volatility. The RSI oscillates on a scale from 0 to 100. The normal reading of a stock will fall in the range of 30 to 70. A reading over 70 would indicate that the stock is overbought, and possibly overvalued. A reading under 30 may indicate that the stock is oversold, and possibly undervalued. After a recent check, United Communications Partners Inc's 14-day RSI is currently at 45.35, the 7-day stands at 49.94, and the 3-day is sitting at 61.69.
Currently, the 14-day ADX for United Communications Partners Inc (UCPA) is sitting at 19.67. Generally speaking, an ADX value from 0-25 would indicate an absent or weak trend. A value of 25-50 would support a strong trend. A value of 50-75 would identify a very strong trend, and a value of 75-100 would lead to an extremely strong trend. ADX is used to gauge trend strength but not trend direction. Traders often add the Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) to identify the direction of a trend.
Investors will most likely be looking ahead to the next round of company earnings reports. As the reports come in, all eyes will be on the companies that post wide margin earnings beats or misses. Many investors will be closely tracking which way analyst estimates are being adjusted right before earnings. This may provide some insight on how good or bad the numbers for the quarter are likely to be. Investors might want to take a look at their holdings after the earnings reports to make sure that nothing extremely odd is occurring after crunching the numbers.


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I now do all my Flash development in Flex Builder 2. No exceptions. But I still use another installation of Eclipse for other types of development (ColdFusion, Java, HTML, JavaScript, etc.). Yesterday, I ran into a situation where I needed to embed a small Flex application in a custom HTML page, so tried installing CFEclipse into Flex Builder 2, and it seems to work perfectly. It's not guaranteed to work, and I supposed it could break in the future, but for now, I'm a very happy developer.
Update: I should qualify that I'm talking about the standalone version of Flex Builder 2. The plugin version will definitely work with CFEclipse.


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Your gift to help a hardworking entrepreneur will double in impact thanks to a generous World Vision partner.
Yeshi is from Ethiopia. She has 2 children. She needs a loan of $125 to buy an ox for farming.
Yeshi is from Ethiopia. She has 2 children. She needs a loan of $125 to buy an ox for farming.
Mother of two, Yeshi is diligently working hard to provide for them with the income she earns from her small farm. She would like to buy oxen to plow her farm, but due to a shortage of funds she has not be able to. Yeshi explains, "If I get a loan, I can start another business like planting vegetables in my garden."
With a loan from World Vision, Yeshi will be able to buy oxen, plant her farm, and provide her customers with high quality produce. The increase in Yeshi's income will enable her to provide her children with the basic things they need and allow her to participate in other income generating activities.
The Agriculture business sector covers all farming and livestock activities. Some entrepreneurs request loans to help in securing supplies and equipment. Others want to buy more animals to breed or purchase feed and medicines. The majority of our loan clients live in rural communities where agriculture is already understood as a business model. It is for this reason that approximately 50% of our loans are in the agricultural sector.
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The highest priority in the Wonchi ADP is to increase crop and livestock productivity so that farmers can feed their families and generate income. With additional income, they are able to pay for healthcare and education for their children, greatly improving their quality of life.
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Thank you for investing in the power of hardworking people like Yeshi through World Vision! These funds are now available to help other entrepreneurs in Yeshi's community.


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Urban Decay Goes to Oz With Gorgeous 'Oz the Great and Powerful' Makeup Palettes
'Oz the Great and Powerful' makeup palettes from Urban Decay? Yes please!
-Lucia Peters
Remember that Oz the Great and Powerful OPI nail collection that we're so excited for? Well, we've got ANOTHER Oz-tastic cosmetics line to look forward to: Urban Decay's Oz the Great and Powerful makeup palettes!
According to People, the edgy cosmetics company will be releasing two gorgeous palettes inspired by Michelle Williams' and Mila Kunis' characters in the film, Glinda and Theodora (AKA the Wicked Witch of the West), on January 25. Each palette comes fully equipped with eight eye shadow shades including two eye shadow duos, a travel-size 24/7 Glide-On Pencil, a Super-Saturated High Gloss Lip Color, and a handy how-to card to help you create the perfect look. Glinda's good witch colors are purples, blues, and peaches, while Thoedora's wicked witch shades include browns, charcoals, and greens—plus, of course, a bright red lip gloss. Oh, and did we mention how amazing the packaging is? Both palettes come in a keepsake tin covered in stunning Oz the Great and Powerful artwork. Love!
Read Things We Can't Wait For: OPI's Great, Powerful + Gorgeous 'Oz' Nail Polishes
About the palettes, Urban Decay's founder, Wende Zomnir, told People, "Every detail, from the gold eye shadow pans to the shade names, all somehow ties back to the film. We wanted you to be able to create the looks of Glinda or Theodora from the film using these palettes, but also explore other aspects of their characters through some of the other shades inside." The longtime indie company was recently bought by L'Oreal, an acquisition which has had some die-hard fans up in arms; if this fabulous collab is any indication, though, it looks like good things are in store for the future.
The palettes will retail for $49 each; pick up one for yourself at ULTA and Macy's stores or online at sephora.com, ulta.com, macys.com, beauty.com, or urbandecay.com starting on January 25. There's no place like the makeup counter, there's no place like the makeup counter…
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.


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Topic: So Where is THe MIracle now for The Miracle Man????
I need to vent, thank you. Teddy went in for his Ureter stent change. Most of you know his cancer crimped the right ureter and he has to have a stent that needs to be changed like every 2 months. The Urologist informed me that he could barely get the new stent in as there is "something" on both sides of the inner ureter wall (very hard) that is almost blocking the stent from being put in. Some of this was there in October but there is a lot more now. OK,So, I am thinking he had a PET Scan less than a month ago all was fine. LAB work is fine. What the heck could it be? Scar tissue? Inside the ureter? From where? Does it or cancer grow that fast? The urologist wants a scan and thought the radiologist could do it during the cyber knife next week. I decided to have the CK doctor call the Urologist. Waiting to hear from that call. Sorry, I am just feeling bummed out as this poor guy just can't seem to catch a break! I know, attitude. Well right now my attitude has up and left! I will be better tomorrow!


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"What do you think would [have] happen[ed]... if the media learned, if
George Bush announced, that he was having 23 executive orders to limit
the authority of Planned Parenthood?" NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell
posed to Neil Cavuto on the February 10 edition of his eponymous Fox
Business Network program. The media, of course, would be predictably
outraged, the Media Research Center president noted, and yet, when
President Obama announced his executive orders related to gun control,
the media applauded the president for his efforts to go around Congress.
"Nobody, but nobody" on ABC, CBS, or NBC have "explored it from the
standpoint that [Obama] is usurping power" and treading on a
constitutional right.

"Look at the recess appointment[s]," Bozell added, which the president
announced early last year and have been since deemed unconstitutional by
the unanimous panel of a federal court. "This goes to show the chutzpah
of these people."

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YOUNGSTERS can sing-a-long to one of the most popular animated films of all time at Merry Hill's ODEON cinema.
ODEON Kids will be hosting a sing-a-long version of smash-hit children's adventure Frozen from today (Friday August 15 until Thursday August 21) at Odeon Dudley (Merry Hill).
The Oscar-winning film, which tells the charming tale of two sisters (voiced by Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel), skated its way to the top of the box office charts to become one of the biggest flicks of last year.
James Morris, general manager at Odeon Dudley (Merry Hill), said: "We're thrilled to be hosting an event like this, allowing kids the opportunity to get together and sing-a-long to one of the most popular animated films of all time.
"Frozen truly captured the hearts of young film fans and fun screenings such as this, at pocket money prices (£2.50 per ticket), mean families have another opportunity to see this fantastic film on the big screen."
ODEON Kids handpicks films for little ones - with screenings usually taking place on Saturday and Sunday mornings in term time and seven days a week during school holidays.


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HP dv6500t: A "Minivan" Notebookby Jarred Walton on 6/22/2007 1:00 PM EST
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Procurion - Sunday, June 24, 2007 - linkHaving bought a Sager after a LOT of research(and an RMA'd Ferrari-Acer, lol, not the car) I question the quest for extreme resolution. My laptop has a native 1900x1200 screen which I consider unuseable on a 17" screen....1024x768 puts a LOT of info on screens and I wonder why the preoccupation with "ultra resolution"? If this is a casual use/business use type of laptop, those high rez settings aren't necessary at all. Either that or my 40-something bespectacled eyes just ain't cuttin' it anymore...:) Reply
strikeback03 - Monday, June 25, 2007 - linkPersonally, I consider 1024x768 the bare minimum - I can't fit as much on the screen as I like. My Thinkpad has a 1400x1050 15" screen that I consider about perfect. As mentioned, the good thing is that both 1024x768 and 1600x1200 are available in the same screen size.
On a side note, Lenovo still has T60s with Flexview IPS screens - we just bought one for work. They might not want to send one out for review though as word has it that the T61 will not be available with Flexview and will be hard to get with a 4:3 ration screen at all. Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, June 24, 2007 - linkI don't have a huge problem with the resolution - it's *okay* - but it would be nice to have options. Regardless, the quality of the display is not at all good compared to a lot of other recent laptops. Ideally, users should be able to choose from more than one screen config, but that's often limited to more expensive notebook models. Running Windows Vista, I feel 1280x800 is cramped, 1440x900 is passable, and 1680x1050 given enough room to make me happy. Then again, I run a 30" desktop LCD at 2560x1600.... :) Reply
Procurion - Monday, June 25, 2007 - linkPoint taken about the need for some options rather than "one size fits all"-as a matter of fact my post was inspired because my needs/resolutions are different than, say, yours. As you and several other authors here have pointed out in the past, for the costs involved it is beyond me why the manufacturers put some really awful screens out there on their laptops....After opening a laptop up and booting it, what is the first thing that makes an impression? And you have to look at it every time you use the damn thing? LOL... Reply
legoman666 - Saturday, June 23, 2007 - linkYou know... you could get rid of all the problems with your benchmarking programs not working on Vista by simply uninstalling it and installing Windows XP instead. My sister (not a big computer person) just bought a new laptop. The FIRST thing she and I did when it arrived was uninstall Vista and put XP on it.
JarredWalton - Saturday, June 23, 2007 - linkWhich requires finding drivers for the chipset and slipstreaming them onto an XP CD. There's no floppy drive with this laptop. Anyway, like it or not, 95% of new PCs are going to be coming with Vista installed most likely, and I would say the number of people that plan on wiping the drive and installing XP instead is going to be very limited. Reply
legoman666 - Sunday, June 24, 2007 - linkWhat do you mean you'd have to slipstream the chipset drivers into the windows installation? I've isntalled windows countless times on many different machines and I have never had to do such a thing. I just isntall windows normally, then once it's installed, I install all the drivers. It really isn't difficult... Nor would you need a floppy drive unless you plan on installing windows onto a RAID array. I don't mean to sound rude or anything, but neither of those arguments are really valid. Although, the bit about people not uninstalling Vista in favor of XP is probably true... Reply
JarredWalton - Sunday, June 24, 2007 - linkI booted up off of the XP CD (see, I really did try to install XP), but because the hard drive is SATA XP apparently wasn't able to see it. I got the dreaded "No hard drives detected" error message, and that was pretty much it for my XP attempt.
See, the BIOS lacks any options to set/change the SATA mode and so it appears to be running as an AHCI SATA drive. That setting generally requires drivers on a floppy in order to work (in my experience). HP isn't selling the laptop with XP, and they don't intend to support such a configuration. That being the case, why spend time trying to work around a limitation in order to test something most people aren't planning on using?
If you want a laptop with XP, you'd be far better off purchasing a laptop that comes that way. There are still plenty of those available. Reply
NoGodForMe - Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - linkJarred is correct about slip streaming the drivers to boot XP. I have created a guide with step by step instructions to installing XP on the DV6500T. I can run XP or Vista. This laptop is a good all around performer. Not the fastest, but does everything needed and is really great with XP on it. I installed Tribes2 and UT2K4 and I've got the integrated X3100, plays both of them great.
Here's my guide. This would be a good idea for the Macbook Pro, or the Asus G1S.
The key to my guide is that it's step by step with links to all drivers. Would be nice if someone did this for VMWare player, parallels, and bootcamp. Reply
Vidmar - Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - linkJarred,
I just purchased a number of Gateway 155C convertibles (tablet pc) for my office. As you said XP won't install because of the lack of an appropriate SATA driver. But it's so easy to slipstream these SATA drivers into your XP build using nLite. I had a working XP install CD in less than 10 mins!
In any case as other have said a look at lower weight laptops and tablet PCs would be nice to see. Take a close look at the Gateway 155C; it's a very good design.
JarredWalton - Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - linkFunny you should mention the E-155-C.... :D Reply
Fant - Friday, June 22, 2007 - linkSeems HP shipped you a badly specced machine. They should have used a 5400rpm drive and the nvidia graphics chip as well as the extended 6-cell. All three would have improved your benchmarks. Out of curiousity, did you use a clean vista build or the out of the box vista build that hp supplies with loads of extras installed? Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, June 23, 2007 - linkHP's install, minus a bunch of software that I didn't want running. Although, when I ran SYSmark 2007, I ahd to do a clean install first. (Now you know why the lack of GbE was annoying - image a HDD over 100 Mbit and I averaged 3 MB/s instead of 12 MB/s with GbE. Not sure why, but Acronis only manages to use about 25% of the Ethernet bandwidth.) Anyway, I like to make the testing close to "real world", and most people don't buy an HP, Dell, Gateway, etc. notebook only to install their own operating system. (Businesses are different story, but let's not go there.)
I actually don't think that the configuration they sent was all that bad. It may not perform as well in benchmarks, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of people get way too hung up on benchmark results. Do you want a faster hard drive, or do you prefer having a bit more storage? There is no right answer, although personally I would generally go with one of the 120-160GB 7200 RPM laptop drives if possible. As for the battery, they did send me the 12-cell for testing, and the only thing I really would like to know is the capacity of the extended 6-cell. The basic 6-cell is a 47 WHr, so if they extended capacity is 65 WHr it would increase battery life by about 35-40%. I'm trying to get an answer from HP about the capacity of the other 6-cell offering. Reply
Fant - Saturday, June 23, 2007 - linkI have a dv6500t with the extended 6-cell. I havent done any formal testing but I probably get just under 3 hours with the HP Recommended / Balanced Power Plan in Vista and a bit over 3 hours when using the Power Saver Plan. I did notice that the cpu seems to stay at the lower speed with the Power Saver Plan but seems to stay at the higher speeds with the HP Recommended / Balanced Power Plan even when I am not doing much cpu intensive tasks. Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, June 23, 2007 - linkCan you check the battery and see what the rating is? Usually it will say something like "10.8V ~= xx WHr". I want to know the Watt-Hour rating. I'm not sure why, but the notebook I have almost never runs at minimum CPU speed. Weird. Reply
hubajube - Friday, June 22, 2007 - linkI was waiting to read on how this laptop performed when watching HD DVD's. I'm interested in buying this for my wife for her to use as a work laptop but at the same time I'd like to use it as a HTPC. Oh well guess I'll have to spend the money to find out. :( Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, June 22, 2007 - linkYeah, they didn't send the HD-DVD version. I'm not sure if the 8400M GS is required for that or not - maybe X3100 can do enough to handle it (but I doubt it). Anyway, we've tested 8600 cards with HD-DVD, and I don't see why the 8400M wouldn't handle it fine. Problem is, the display is still pretty poor, especially when you consider that video overlay can have a color correction profile applied. Reply
shady3005 - Friday, June 22, 2007 - linkI was gonna consider this laptop but was turned off by the lack of gigabit ethernet. Dint know about the horrible display at that time. So i was waiting for an upgrade to this laptop but sadly none came.
Then I set my eyes on the new Macbook pro. Just 500$ higher that top dv6500t config but worth every extra penny. Amazing display , much lighter , thinner , sexier and CPU (2.2Ghz) and Graphics (8600GT M) upgrade with much better battery life.
Please review the new MacBooks with Santa Rosa ..... I would like to hear how awesome they are .. Reply
crimson117 - Friday, June 22, 2007 - link
So disappointed, in fact, that there will be no charts on this page -- and you know how much we love charts!
I lol'd pretty good at this one :) Reply
BPB - Friday, June 22, 2007 - linkMaybe I missed it, if so please excuse me, but I think you simply used the ABG wireless setup. I was wondering how well the N wireless works, and how well it talks to other N devices such as my Belkin N1. My wife's HP works quite well with the Belkin N PCMCIA and router, but for our next notebook I'd like to have the N built-in. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, June 22, 2007 - linkThey shipped the notebook with an ABG adapter (test setup on page 7). Of course, I don't have an N network right now anyway... GbE all the way, baby! Reply
nsparadox - Friday, June 22, 2007 - linkHey Jarred,
You wrote the entire article in the passive voice. Could you please try to write in the active voice?
crimson117 - Friday, June 22, 2007 - linkI would prefer the future perfect voice. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, June 22, 2007 - linkCan't say I was necessarily 100% awake while writing it. Sorry if it was too passive for you. Perhaps in a perfect future I will manage to rewrite things better, maybe? Reply
bldckstark - Friday, June 22, 2007 - linkThanks for the article guys, I am sure many other AT readers appreciate the work you hav put in on notebooks recently.
I would like to see some more tests done on what I like to call "real world" notebooks. The ones I see most people buying for mobility purposes. These usually have 10 - 13" screens and have everything this HP has except the horrid battery life.
I just bought my wife a Lenovo notebook with a Vista business, Intel C2D, 2GB ram, DVD burner, 3 USB 2.0, 1 Firewire, Express card slot, flash memory reader, webcam, fingerprint reader, 6 cell battery and a 12.1" screen for only $1250 after rebate. This one gets 255 minutes of battery life and weighs only 4.4lbs with the 6 cell.
A friend at work has a 10" screen notebook that gets over 8 hours of battery life. He carries it around like a pad of paper all day.
I know several people with convertibles that love them, and they all have 12.1" screens.
My point is that if it has a 15.4" screen it is really a DTR, and should be outfitted like one. Not like a high mobility at the same price, worse battery life, and 50% weight increase. Please try to squeeze some of these into your testing in the future. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, June 22, 2007 - linkWe actually have a smaller Tablet PC that we're in the process of reviewing. I think part of the problem is that companies are afraid we'll tear into the lappys that don't have great gaming performance or whatever. Hopefully, we'll be able to do more ultraportable laptop reviews in the future.... Reply


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So, having had healers stress out, underperform, get angry and all sorts of things on this fight, I am just going to outline a few different ways that we have done it on 10 man that may be able to help you - whether you have a perfect group or a non ideal group.
Basic fight outline
Baleroc will do more and more damage as the fight goes on, and to compensate for this, the tanks get more and more health (from Blaze of Glory). To keep up with these huge health and damage increases, healers will get healing buffs by building stacks of Vital Spark, which you get from healing dps who stand next to a crystal with debuffs of Torment building up.
Vital Spark - This is the buff you get from healing tormented people (looks like a mote of fire). Has numbers which go UP as you heal the tormented people. For each 3 stacks of torment that your heal target has, you get 1 of Vital Spark. So if your target has 12 torment, you will get 4 vital spark.
Vital Flame - This is the buff it switches to when you start healing the tanks (whoever has Blaze of Glory - and this buff looks like a Primal Fire) and lasts for 15 seconds (so you can't build any more Vital Spark until this goes away)
Torment - This is the debuff you get from being closest to the crystal. It turns into Tormented once you step away. Healers stay the hell away from the crystal or you will get this and then Tormented which stuffs up your healing BIG time!
Tormented - This debuff is what you get after Torment drops off and lasts for 40 seconds. Once you get this you can't tank the crystal again or you will go splat!
3 strong healers (eg 3 paladins)
One way that worked for us was a rotation (ie 3 group rotation) so healer 1 heals tank first, then calls swap then healer 2 goes, etc. The beginning was always a bit heavy so we got two healers on the tanks first and then call a switch at about 20 seconds so that the other healer who was healing the crystal person would switch over. Hopefully it wouldn't be while the crystal person was at high stacks or they would go splat from lack of heals.
Note that when I say strong healer I mean a fast stack builder :)
Note that when I say strong healer I mean a fast stack builder :)
1 strong healer, 2 not so strong healersThis was healed as a 2 group rotation - with the paladin as 1 group and the other 2 as another group. That worked quite well. Make sure you start with the 2 healers on the tanks while the other healer quickly grabs some stacks.
3 not so strong healers
The two stronger healers were put on swaps, with the weaker healer put on healing the crystal person full time, and switching to tanks if they needed topping up. This worked quite well. The crystal person could get a lot of stacks that way and their healing would look uber. This way also made sure the dps didn't die. Because there was no pressure to build stacks for the crystal person they could just heal the crystal tank and then switch to tank whenever they felt like it and then go back to the crystal once the tank was topped up without worrying they still had the vital flame buff on and should be healing the tank and wouldn't be getting any stacks of vital spark. I think this is also a good method when you have dps that seem to drop quicker when tanking the crystal eg. mages, rogues as they will live longer with the extra heals.
Obviously my favourite people to heal tanking crystals are the warlocks with their soul link and demon armour, and shadow priests with dispersion. Druids are not too bad with barkskin. But warriors, rogues and mages.... iceblock does nothing, and I don't think you can cloak the debuff off if you stuff up your rotation.
Resto Druid healing tips:
So good luck for your Baleroc attempt! I hope this post helped someone, it was nice to get it off my chest ;)
Resto Druid healing tips:
- I start with 3 LBs on Decimation tank and try to keep them up for the whole fight.
- I have 3/3 Nature's Bounty so when I am crystal healing I put a rejuv on each tank and also on the crystal target, and nourish spam the crystal target, and Regrowth when I have OOC proc, and swiftmend for when they have high stacks
- Jasyla recommends Tree form and spamming regrowth to get stacks, so if you want to start with that to get your stacks up that's fine, don't forget to innervate after!
- It's OK to throw some hots on the crystal target to keep them alive when you're healing tanks!
- Stack haste if you can for this fight! Make your warlocks give you DI.
So good luck for your Baleroc attempt! I hope this post helped someone, it was nice to get it off my chest ;)


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GLAAD announced the nominees for its 24th annual media awards. Presentation of awards takes place on March 16 in New York, April 20 in Los Angeles and May 11 in San Francisco.
Among this year's nominees are Frank Ocean, Adam Lambert, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, ParaNorman, Cloud Atlas, Keep the Lights On, The New Normal, Smash, Modern Family, How to Survive a Plague and The Amazing Race.
In the category of Outstanding Film — Wide Release, the nominees are Cloud Atlas, ParaNorman, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Your Sister's Sister.
Outstanding comedy series recognizes five shows from network TV — The New Normal (NBC), Glee (Fox), Go On (ABC) Modern Family (NBC) and Happy Endings (ABC).
Outstanding TV movie or mini-series is all cable — American Horror Story: Asylum (FX), Hit and Miss (DirecTV) and Political Animals (USA).


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Ya boys are practicing today here in D.C. so I'll head over there and post some audio after I finish catching up on the sleep I (we all) lost Wednesday night into Thursday morning. Then we'll have our Live Chat at 2 p.m., so be here to discuss Game 3, Game 4, or whatever.
Couple more thoughts:
1) After Game 3, after John Tortorella praised Ryan McDonagh at his press conference, I saw a couple of Canadian media types giggling. Then I heard what they were laughing about: "Scott Gomez!" Which is, you know, pretty funny.
2) I've spent some time in these playoffs talking up team execs, scouts and all sorts of hockey people, some of whom I haven't seen in a long time, since I left the beat back in '02. And you know what pretty much everyone of them, right across the board, says? That they're unbelievable impressed with the way the Rangers play, with how hard they make it for every opponent every night. And mostly, how good a coaching job John Tortorella (and Mike Sullivan) have done in getting so much out of so many guys. And you can go right down the list of players who contribute to this Rangers team who might not contribute nearly as much, if at all, under other coaches and on other teams.
3) I also heard a good story maybe you've heard before, but I hadn't. Seems NBC's bench interviews — which are uncomfortable at best when Torts is involved — haven't all aired. There was one during the season when the bench interviewer asked Tortorella about his team's slow start. And Tortorella, I was told, went into an F-bomb rampage about how maybe the start had something to do with NBC forcing the start of the game to be delayed, as usual. That never made it to TV. I also wonder if that might have had something to do with the fine for his later F-bomb during his Skid Crosby-Evgeni Malkin tirade.
4) Did you see the goal Brian Elliott allowed to Mike Richards last night? Well, they're calling it an awful goal, and it definitely was. But that goal is by design now. Goalies who go to their knees are extremely vulnerable to bad-angle shots because, by going to a knee, the goalie creates angles off of which pucks can carom, and most of those angles can only cause caroms in one direction — toward the net. I'm actually still surprised, if not shocked, that more forwards haven't figured this out, and haven't launched more shots from near the end line toward these butterfly goalies' feet.
5) I think Braden Holtby would be ripe for a couple of those, if the Rangers figure it out. And maybe the TV analysts will figure it out one day, too.
6) Since some of you asked, that was Jeff Gorton seated next to Glen Sather in the skybox Wednesday night. CBC had a camera on Slats and another on George McPhee throughout the overtime(s). Some good reactions were the result.
7) Oh, I forgot to tell you, I finally watched the new DVD — "Road to Victory" — about the '93-94 Rangers. It was outstanding, IMO. Some of you will be getting copies as prizes for the predictions contest. They got some really good stuff out of the key guys from that season, exceptional stuff from Brian Leetch and Eddie Olczyk and even Mike Keenan. And the fans they chose to play big roles were fabulous. One guy tells about how, after Game 5 against the Devils, he put all his Rangers jerseys, etc., in a cardboard box and put it on the back lawn, next to a can of lighter fluid, and he promised himself he would burn it and never root for the Rangers again if they broke his heart that time. They also found the "Now I Can Die In Peace" guys. I highly recommend it.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children with even slightly elevated blood lead levels are less likely to be ready to read when starting kindergarten, according to a new study.
Lead has been shown to affect school performance, but what's important in this study is "looking at even fairly low levels of lead exposure and still finding significant impacts on kindergarten reading readiness," said Marie Lynn Miranda, a professor at Michigan State University, who was not part of the research.
The authors of the study call for greater efforts in preventing children's exposure to lead in the first place.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2012 lowered the blood lead level threshold at which doctors and parents should take action from 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter to five micrograms (see Reuters report of May 17, 2012 here: reut.rs/JPN9rH).
About one in 40 kids in the U.S. has levels above five micrograms per deciliter, according to Mary Jean Brown, chief of CDC's Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch.
The new findings are "important because reading readiness at the beginning of kindergarten indicates that children are or are not ready to pursue schoolwork," said Pat McLaine, the lead author of the study at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. "And if they're not ready, there's a lot of remedial work that goes on that the school district then has to take care of."
The researchers used data from a Providence, Rhode Island Public School District partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Health that included 3,406 children who started kindergarten between 2004 and 2006.
About one out of three of the kids failed the reading readiness benchmarks. This means they didn't meet goals such as knowing their letters well.
McLaine and her colleagues found that kids with higher blood lead levels were less likely to have met the reading readiness goals.
Among the 217 children with levels over 10 micrograms per deciliter, 49 percent met the literacy benchmarks.
In comparison, 62 percent of the 1,098 kids with levels between five and nine, and 68 percent of the 2,091 kids with levels below five met the benchmarks.
In addition, the researchers report in the journal Pediatrics that compared to kids with levels below two, children's literacy scores progressively dropped as blood lead levels got higher.
For instance, children with a blood lead level of three micrograms per deciliter scored 3.3 points lower on the literacy test than children with levels below two, and kids with a level of eight micrograms per deciliter scored 9.3 points lower on the 102-point test.
"I would say that if parents have children with a blood lead level below five, they should not assume that everything is fine," Miranda told Reuters Health.
One way to approach the problem could be to have CDC lower its threshold for action even more, said Miranda, but it could also be through pediatricians and families being aware of the hazards of lead and taking steps to fix it before it becomes a problem.
The CDC's Brown would not comment on the study, but said, "because we can't find a safe blood lead level means we have to do primary prevention, which means controlling or eliminating levels before they have a high blood level."
Lead was removed from paint in 1978, but children may be exposed to it in older homes. The CDC recommends that adults make sure kids don't eat peeling paint chips and keep them out of older homes undergoing renovation.
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Great Issues in Energy Symposium: Climate
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth presented the first Great Issues in Energy Symposium held on the Dartmouth campus.
Climate change resulting from burning fossil fuels and other human activities is widely thought to be underway and accelerating. Many anticipate catastrophic consequences if we do not make large changes to limit our impacts on climate. Motivating and enabling such change, however, represents a major challenge for both public policy and technology, and is thus a topic of intense debate and research in multiple intersecting societal and intellectual domains.
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- Dr. James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
About the Speakers
Jason Grumet has 20 years of experience working at the intersection of science, policy, and politics and was a senior advisor to the Obama campaign on energy and environmental issues. As president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, Jason oversees development of substance-based, bipartisan solutions through constructive argument and principled compromise in the areas of national security, health care, energy, transportation, and agriculture. Under his direction, the National Commission on Energy Policy released an influential report "Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America's Energy Challenges" in 2004. Jason is a frequent witness at Congressional hearings and has made appearances on NBC News, CNN, MSNBC, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and National Public Radio. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and his Juris Doctorate from Harvard University.
James Hansen is one of the world's leading climate scientists with dozens of papers on the subject in top-tier journals. For over two decades, he has been active in understanding and projecting potential human impact on climate, as well as bringing these impacts to the attention of the public. A member of the American Academy of Science, Dr. Hansen is the recipient of many distinguished awards including the Leo Szilard Lectureship of the American Physical Society, Dan David Prize Laureate, Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Medal of the World Wildlife Fund, Riger Revelle Medal of the American Geophysical Union, John Heinz Environment Award, and the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Achievement Award. He holds a Ph.D. in physics, M.S. in astronomy, and B.A. in physics and mathematics, all from the University of Iowa.


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Firmware Engineer - Body Controls
About Tesla
Palo Alto, California-based, Tesla Motors uses proprietary technology, world-class design, and state-of-the-art manufacturing processes to create a new generation of highway capable electric vehicles. We utilize an innovative distribution model based on Company-owned sales and service centers. This approach allows us to maintain the highest levels of customer experience and benefit from short customer feedback loops to ensure our customer needs are fulfilled. We believe our operational infrastructure provides us with a competitive advantage compared to traditional automobile manufacturers.
The Role
We are looking for a highly motivated individual to design and implement firmware designs specifically for vehicle body controls. Reporting to the Body Controls Firmware Manager, the firmware engineer will belong in a team dedicated to designing and implementing body controls for the next generation Tesla vehicles.
The right candidate will be highly organized and confident with an ability to implement requirements for projects within set deadlines, as well as assisting the body controls team with a range of activities. You will also be cooperating with the body controls hardware team as well as other departments in order to achieve a successful outcome.
This full time role requires the flexibility of being able to support the development team out-of-hours when necessary.
- Determine functional feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
- Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, state machines, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
- Prepare and implement solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
- Improve operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.
- Update job knowledge by keeping up to date with development tools, programming techniques, and development equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks.
- Provide information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.
- Accomplish engineering and departmental goals by completing related objectives as needed.
- Develop firmware solutions by studying information needs; conferring with the team; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the firmware development lifecycle.
- Develop a secure interface to the vehicle, including immobilizer functionality, entry security, user identification and ECU security.
- Degree in Software / Electrical Engineering and with experience working with embedded systems
- Design of embedded systems written primarily in the C language
- Experience in writing and understanding technical specifications
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work in an extremely fast-paced environment.
- Experienced real-time design
- Security algorithms, cryptography etc, wireless technologies, specifically LF, RF, Bluetooth / BLE
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For Who: Underwater clean-up for scuba divers and snorkelers in the community, JDL Dive Club, and JDL Staff. Shoreline clean-up for younger kids or non-divers.
Meet: Divers meet at Kailua Pier ready to dive. Please pick up any gear you may need at Jack's Diving Locker town location prior to going to Kailua Pier.
Gear Donation and Rental: Jack's Diving Locker will donate 1 free tank rental per diver and ½ off rental gear (BCD, Regulator, Weights, M/S/F) for divers doing the clean up.
Buddy Up with Friends: Please make dive buddy arrangements and transportation to the pier for the clean up on your own. This is not a guided JDL Dive Club activity for adults. Not a guided dive unless under 18.
Junior Divers who are not diving with parents please call for reservations to dive with a professional guide. Cost: $55 plus gear rental and tax. Waivers must be signed by parents in advance. Good event for school community service hours.


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Alsum Griller Russets from Alsum Farms & Produce, Friesland, Wis., have gone pink in honor of October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The pre-washed, individually foil-wrapped russets traditionally come packed four to a tray.
During October, the tray will be pink.
The idea came from a retailer who contacted Alsum about building product offerings that highlight breast cancer awareness, said Heidi Randall, Alsum's marketing manager.
The suggestion meshed with the grower-shippers' long-standing efforts to give back to the community.
"I think most people, if they haven't personally been affected by breast cancer, they know a family member or friend who's been affected by it," Randall said.
Alsum Produce will donate a portion of the proceeds to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, New York.


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Facebook & Twitter. They seem to be quite popular.
I would submit a couple of articles about your site to ezine article directory. This will get your site noticed and get you some traffic.
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There's a lot of ways - spread it through social networking sites like facebook, twitter, friendster, myspace,etc.; through social bookmarking sites; forum sites; directory sites; article directories; and other online indexers out there.
Dear Blog posting, or forum posting. are the method to promote your product or facebook, LinkedIn and twitter are always the next better option.
You can submit your site in forums, bookmarking, directory, classifieds
Best way to make people use your site is to promote it on Webmaster forums, Seo forums, do a little blog commenting and promote it on Facebook, Twitter and other Social Media. But my oppinion is that for a Social Bookmarking forum posting is best.
Write articles and submit them to relevant article directories, use your bio and resource box to direct people to your new Social Bookmarking website. By doing this way you will make people to be aware of it.


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GParted is the the partition editor application that comes with MEPIS 6.5, 7.0 and 8.x (it replaced QTParted in older versions).
It is used for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for MEPIS, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). Particularly useful is the Gparted Live CD.
Using the program
- Select the drive you want to reparition from the dropdown box in the upper-right corner.
- If the drive is mounted you need to select unmount first (or swapoff if the partition is used as swap)
- Right click on the partition or blank space and choose the desired action: "resize/move", "delete", or "format to" and choose a format type from the drop down menu.
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Then, I thought, wait... does that mean I have to actually post photos of myself wearing workout clothes? (Insert cold sweat and panic attack here.) Can we just use the cute model lady from their website and say she's me? You guys know I don't really work out, right?!
I try to run when the weather's nice (which is something like 10 times a year here)
but the rest of the year my "workout" is: "walking" the dog, "running" and "shuttling" the kids to and from the bus stop, "running" errands, "working" in my art studio,
and "sitting on my butt" in front of the computer.
I agreed to be an ambassador for the following reasons:
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I can layer their bras and tanks with my everyday tank tops and I'm planning
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Third Annual Bison Festival Hosts Six Bands to Fundraise for Buffalo Restoration Project
QUITAQUE— Caprock Canyons State Park invites the public to celebrate and support the official bison herd of Texas and its 1000-acre habitat at the Third Annual Bison Festival fundraiser on Sept. 28.
Held to raise funds to help restore the Texas State Bison Herd to its historic range at the park, the event celebrates the cultural and natural history of the Panhandle with the remnant of the great Southern Plains Bison that once roamed the Great Plains by the millions.
"The goal is to have a 'semi' free ranging herd within the boundaries of the 14,000 acres of Caprock Canyons State Park," Park Superintendent Donald Beard said. "Once the restoration work is completed, the herd size should be around 200 or so. Just imagine driving through the canyons and seeing a herd of bison grazing on the hilltops or down in the river."
Beard said the money that is raised by the festival provides funds that are directly spent on restoration work such as fencing, invasive plant eradication, prairie grass restoration and other bison related items.
The festival will kick off with the Buffalo Stampede 5K/1K color run, an arts and crafts show, and wrap up with a six-band music festival with Texas' own nine-time Grammy Award-winning Western-swing band Asleep at the Wheel.
The craft show will include artisans who will be selling everything from jewelry to furniture made out of mesquite. The show will open at 10 a.m. and continue throughout the afternoon until 6 p.m.
At 2 p.m., the music festival will begin and feature bands such as Casey Berry and the Live Texas Mosquitoes, Zac Wilkerson, Brandon Adams & the Sad Bastards, No Dry County, Caleb Allemand and the 9 Volt Band and close with Asleep at the Wheel. There is no seating, so bring chairs and blankets, or purchase a folding chair at the event.
Tickets can be purchased in advance for $20 at the park, online through TicketRiver, or at the gate the day of the event for $25.
During the festival, visitors will be able to donate directly to the Texas State Bison Herd Restoration project or purchase merchandise to support prairie restoration efforts. Donations can also be made online by visiting www.caprockpartnersfoundation.com or by calling (806) 455-1441.
The festival is being held at the Quitaque Cotton Gin on FM 1065, a quarter-mile south of Quitaque.
Beard said the bison were released into the 700 acre restored prairie in the front of the visitor's center in September 2011, including the Lake Theo area. He said the visitor's response has been extremely positive.
The First National Bank- Quitaque, the Texas Bison Association and Ray Lee Equipment are helping to support the event.
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