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A special note from Mary: I'd like to thank you for being such a fun and supportive audience. It's been my pleasure to blog with you over the past five years. It is now time for me to move on to new adventures. Although I must bid you farewell, I leave you in the capable hands of HGTV.com editor Kayla, who will be keeping you updated on the latest Blog Cabin developments. Kayla loves furniture with a history, her cat, D'Artagnan, and crafting with lots of glitter. If you read HGTV's Design Happens blog, then I'm sure you recognize her — check out her posts here. Now, let's hear from Kayla for her very first post!
Wow — talk about a warm introduction! Hi, everyone. I'm so happy to join the Blog Cabin community and interact with you all about the soon-to-be stunning home you're going to get to know inside and out. I've always had a view of the Smoky Mountains from my window, so I've loved seeing past homes get a taste of mountain life, too. When it comes to location, I'll always have a soft spot for Blog Cabin 2009's Asheville, N.C. surroundings. Design-wise, I find myself going back to the vintage-chic, waterfront home from 2011. I just want to cozy up with a glass of wine in that great room. Before we dive into this year's home, let's reminisce and get to know each other. From the first home in Kinzel Springs, Tenn. to this year's Atlantic, N.C. residence, what's your favorite Blog Cabin?
Now, let's get right down to business. Thinking caps on. Here's your first clue to uncover the location of Blog Cabin 2014. Take a look at the water, wildlife, foliage … what are they telling you? My lips are sealed, but I'm ready to see those comments!
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Australian shares lose ground as concerns about global growth prospects weigh on big miners such as BHP and Rio Tinto.
4.33pm: That's about it for the Markets Live blog for today and for this week. Here's hoping you enjoy a safe and happy Easter break. Here's the evening markets wrap. Please rejoin this website at 9.30am AEST on Tuesday when Markets Live resumes.
4.30pm: The Aussie dollar, meanwhile, is hovering at about $US1.031. It's also buying 84.8 yen, 78.4 euro cents and 64.8 pence.
Here's a comment about the dollar's outlook:
In late February, the Australian dollar was sitting just above 108 US cents before clocking up five consecutive weekly falls.
The chief currency strategist at Westpac, Robert Rennie, says the decline in the value of the dollar compared with the greenback is a sign that people have changed their mind about the level of investment in Australia (there's roughly $912 billion worth of projects in the pipeline).
''We've reached the peak. The way that we think about Australia is going to change," Rennie said.
''In think this year, and increasingly in the last few weeks, we've started to see signs of minds beginning to shift. The market is beginning to say, 'I don't think that that $912 billion is going to get any bigger, in fact, I think it's going to start getting smaller. We're going to start to revise down our investment expectations, and putting off investment'."
4.19pm: Major stocks to move today included BHP, off 0.9 per cent, and Rio Tinto, which shed 1.7 per cent. Fortescue lost 1.5 per cent and Qantas dropped 2.4 per cent. CBA added the most to the index, rising 0.3 per cent to close back above the $50 mark (at $50.06.)
4.16pm: Material stocks had another weak day, losing just under 1 per cent, while consumer discretionary stocks fell 0.9 per cent and financials about 0.1 per cent. Energy stocks rose about 1 per cent, while utiliities added 0.5 per cent.
4.14pm: The All Ords, meanwhile, have ended the day down 16.8 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 4402.1 points.
4.12pm: ASX200 has closed the week, down 14.3 points, or 0.3 per cent for the day, at 4319.6 per cent. The index's weekly loss, by the way, is about 0.35 per cent.
4.01pm: Local share prices just settling now. Looking like a middling effort for the ASX200, compared with the wider region. Japan's main indexes fell, but only about 0.3 per cent for the day. Correction: mainland Chinese stocks rebounded strong after recent falls - gaining two per cent or so after markets reopened following a holiday.
3.54pm: The dollar's decline this week includes increased expectations of a rate cut on May Day by the RBA.
Markets are rating the likelihood of a 25 basis-point cut next month as about a 90 per cent chance.
3.46pm: Actually of more interest is the dollar. It's up a bit today, trading at about $US1.03.
For the week, though, it's off about 0.9 per cent at this stage, marking five consecutive weeks in a row of declines.
That losing streak, by the way, is the longest since June 2006 - in other words, longer than at any time during the global financial crisis. (To be sure, some weeks during the GFC saw far steeper falls than during the current streak.)
3.33pm: Into the last half hour of the trading week, and the ASX200 looks to be headed for a loss of about 0.5 per cent on the day - and for the week.
3.22pm: While Michael Pascoe remains upbeat, there are other signs that all is not so rosy in the economy. Such as:
The number of company collapses hit a record high in February as businesses continued to suffer lagging effects from the global financial crisis.
And Queensland and Western Australia experienced high levels of companies going bust despite the resources boom in those states.
Accounting firm Taylor Woodings, a specialist in restructuring and corporate recovery, today released its analysis of insolvency data for February 2012 from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
Taylor Woodings said the number of company collapses more than doubled to 1,123 in February 2012 - the highest monthly insolvency figure on record - from 518 in January 2012.
3.12pm: BusinessDay's Michael Pascoe reckons the Reserve Bank has altered course this week, as he notes in this piece:
RBA's subtle slap at Solly. Here's a taste:
Overlooked in the understandable concentration on the Reserve Bank's Tuesday promise to cut interest rates on May 1 was a subtle slap at the Solly Lews of the nation: demand has been going gangbusters.
Tuesday's must have been one of the RBA's more interesting board meetings as it saw an important change in the key determinant for setting monetary policy - a switch from concentrating on demand to looking first at output.
Despite being clearly spelt out in the governor's brief post-meeting statement, it's a change that has passed largely unremarked.
3.01pm: The top business story today by readership is this one on ANZ's Phil Chronican likening bank executives' worth to that of rock stars or champion of sport.
As BusinessDay's Chris Zappone notes, the comments have triggered a response from across the ditch:
A New Zealand union has lambasted the ANZ Bank executive who compared bankers' high earnings to those in sports and entertainment, saying society ought to fight income disparity between bosses and workers.
"Most Australians and New Zealanders know that it is the disparity of income between these corporate leaders and their workers that is the problem," said FIRST Union finance secretary Andrew Casidy.
"Banks are making profits in the billions," said Mr Casidy. "It's time the rock stars of banking checked out the real world their staff and customers have to live in."
2.49pm: This item just in from BusinessDay's Eric Johnston: QBE defends its capital raising as retail investors miss out. Here's a taste:
QBE has insisted it attempted to favour retail investors under a $600 million capital raising despite many smaller shareholders this week left scrambling for stock.
The comments came as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission this week warned that it may toughen laws if such shareholders are repeatedly disadvantaged in raisings.
QBE pushed ahead with its capital raising under a share purchase plan, a mechanism that limits capital raisings to the proportion of shares held by existing shareholders.
2.40pm: Embattled businessman Ben Polis has stepped down as the chief executive of EneryWatch as the controversy surrounding his racist, sexist and offensive comments on Facebook intensifies.
His resignation comes as yet another energy retailer, TRUenergy, reveals that it has suspended its association with the business indefinitely following what it said were ''completely inappropriate'' comments about Aborigines, Asians, women and Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the 30-year-old's Facebook page.
2.24pm: Oil has recovered in Asian trade after sharp overnight losses triggered by a larger-than-expected jump in US crude stocks, analysts say.
New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate crude for delivery in May, gained 49 cents to $US101.96 per barrel while Brent North Sea crude for May settlement is up 33 cents at $US122.67.
2.16pm: Gold has edged up in trade today after two days of heavy losses, but investors remain wary of the precious metal after the US central bank dashed hopes for more monetary stimulus, while a weakened euro also weighs on sentiment.
Spot gold is up 0.2 per cent to $US1622.99 an ounce, off a near three-month low of $US1611.80 hit in the previous session.
2.05pm: A survey by super fund SunSuper has found "owning a big house in the suburbs" is well down the list of priorities for modern Australians.
The survey asked 1300 respondents spanning generations X and Y and baby boomers to name their "great Australian dream".
Only nine per cent of respondents listed "a big home in the suburbs", placing it in equal third place alongside having a good job and winning lotto.
Financial independence at retirement (37 per cent) was by far the most popular 'dream', followed by early retirement (13 per cent).
1.56pm: Easy Forex senior currency dealer Tony Darvall says he expected the dollar to bounce back during today's session but the rally was brief.
"The Australian dollar is very weak (and) looks like it will head lower. There seems to be a new bout of risk aversion coming from the Spanish bond yield increase," Mr Darvall says.
"Today, it looks like the recovery has been done with that high at the 102.80 US-cent level that we were up to earlier in the day and we're going to test the low from last night which is around 102.40 US cents.
"If we break that low, it is likely the Aussie will head down to 101.80 US cents. That's a bigger level of support and that is more likely an area where we will stage a recovery."
1.49pm: One of EnergyWatch's key clients has dumped the site in the wake of racist and offensive remarks made on Facebook by co-owner Ben Polis, writes Mark Hawthorne.
Momentum Energy — owned by Hydro Tasmania — this afternoon terminated its relationship with EnergyWatch. Another electricity supplier, TruEnergy, is also believed to have ended its relationship.
1.40pm: Bit of a distraction. If you'd heard of Melbourne radio station MTR, you're probably in a minority.
Anyway, the right-of-centre radio station was pulled off the air about five weeks ago after dismal ratings. The owners had blamed a poor signal for its failure to inject its Sydney style of talkback radio into Melbourne and win a profitable audience.
Well, belated good news - MTR has finally had its application for a stronger signal approved. Bit late, but.
(And yes, Fairfax Media, publisher of this blog, was a competitor of MTR's.)
1.25pm: Here's a view of the Aussie share market:
"We've got a market here which is still hesitant. Value does exist within our equity market, it's just that we've got a lack of confidence out there that the earnings upside is actually sustainable," said Shaw Stockbroking dealer Jamie Spiteri.
"Some of the funds that have been invested here within Australia just haven't been delivering return in recent times. Cash has been preserved over the last 6-9 months and market performance has validated those actions of just ensuring you preserve capital, before you look for growth opportunities," he said.
1.17pm: This news may help push Aussie stocks a bit higher, given the focus from investors on China:
China's fast-growing services sector expanded again in March as business confidence hit an 11-month high, a private sector survey of firms said on Thursday.
The seasonally adjusted HSBC Services Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) stood at 53.3 in March, down slightly from February's 53.9, but signalling healthy growth with the new business sub-index extending an unbroken run of expansion to 40 months.
Still, activity below the index's long-term average implies that pro-growth policy support remains needed.
The upbeat survey echoes China's official non-manufacturing PMI which delivered a reading of 58 for March when it was published on Tuesday with a revised methodology that saw February's index revised up to 57.3 from 48.4 under the old calculation.
1.10pm: Meanwhile, this just in from Reuters:
Australian buyout fund Pacific Equity Partners is considering raising its $711 million offer for services company Spotless Group after securing the bulk of its funding, four sources with direct knowledge of the deal said.
PEP is in the final stages of due diligence on Spotless and may raise its offer a touch to secure board recommendation for the bid, said one of the sources, all of whom declined to be identified as matter is confidential.
Three of the sources said PEP has secured more than $500 million in leveraged loans to back the deal, which has been in the works since late last year.
Spotless has maintained it will not back an offer below $743 million, or $2.80 a share, compared with PEP's last offer of $711 million, or $2.68 a share. Spotless shares were trading 0.8 per cent lower at $2.38 in recent activity.
1pm: Bit of a plug - so avert your eyes now. If that doesn't offend, read on:
Price war combatant Coles is offering soldiers a 10 per cent Easter discount.
The supermarket giant will give the discount on groceries to anyone with a valid Department of Veteran Affairs card or defence personnel card from Thursday to Monday, April 9.
Coles managing director Ian McLeod said the discount was a small gesture of thanks to all those that were serving or had served Australia, and have had to be away from their families over holidays.
The discount is not available on tobacco, alcohol or gift cards.
Will Woolies, or anybody else match it. (Note Metcash is getting rid of 10 per cent of its staff as the supermarket wars heat up.)
12.49pm: Re that earlier blog note about ASIC and Hancock Prospecting, it's worth noting that BusinessDay's Michael West had a good look at this issue a couple of weeks back.
In case you missed it then: Rinehart company fails to file accounts may be worth a read.
12.43pm: May not be what you want to think about as we head towards the Easter long-weekend break but work should resume for most of us (and this blog) on Tuesday.
Here's a look at what's ahead next week, according to AAP.
Jobs data for March and Ten Network's first-half earnings - both scheduled for release on Thursday - look like being the highlights.
12.35pm: Looks like we're back in charted waters, so to speak (see graph above). Meanwhile, this just in from ASIC:
In late 2011, Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd, and related entities, applied to ASIC for relief from having to lodge financial reports, including company accounts, for a range of periods, as required by Chapter 2M of the Corporations Act.
ASIC declined these relief applications on 2 March 2012.
This decision is now subject to an application for review before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT).
ASIC does not intend to make further public comment on this issue pending the review of its decision.
(Hancock is owned by Gina Rinehart, the largest single shareholder in Fairfax Media - publisher of this blog.)
12.30pm: Bit of a backward look at ASX performance in March:
The value of ASX-listed stocks, measured by the All Ordinaries Index rose 0.7 per cent in March, ASX figures show.
This trailed gains in other markets, including Japan (up 3.7%), the US (3.1%) and Germany (1.3%). But outpaced Hong Kong (down 5.2%) and the UK (down 1.8%).
During March the number of cash market trades on ASX was 2% lower than the same time last year, while the total value of trading was 24 per cent below last year.
Also in March 2012, total capital raised including scrip-for-scrip raising totalled $4.5 billion, this was down 46% on the $8.3 billion the same time last year, the ASX figures show.
12.22pm: Seems like our charts have gone into some sort of pre-Easter hibernation. Apologies while we work on waking them up.
Speaking of Easter, here's a Small Business item looking at how the long weekend is good for many small businesses, but especially so if people pay cash rather than use eftpos: Payment delays to pinch at Easter.
12.12pm: Just because it's bad news, doesn't mean you can't laugh at it. (Or: who said economists lack humour?)
Commenting on the poor Spanish debt auction overnight, NAB's senior economist Spiros Papadopoulos wrote this in a note to clients this morning:
"Barcelona and Real Madrid may be giving the Spanish some joy in the Champions League, but the Spanish outlook is very Messi."
11.59am: Looking at some market numbers, at this time last year - the final day before the Easter long weekend - the ASX200 closed on 4913.8 points (Thursday 21st April, 2011).
Right now it's sitting on 4288.4 points: about 625 points off.
11.52am: This just in from BusinessDay's Eric Johnston:
Bond issues by Australian banks and other companies surged during March, reaching $39.1 billion, according to Deutsche Bank figures.
This was up 42 per cent issued in March last year and a hefty 60 per cent from February 2012, reflecting some recovery in global credit markets from the end the year.
This was also the highest monthly issuance volume since January 2010 when $28.8 billion was issued with falling credit costs drawing out pent up demand.
Banks led March issues with 67 per cent of total issuance or $26.3 billion, Total corporate issuance in March was $7.1 billion, versus $6.1 billion in February and $1.6 billion in January.
Corporate deals included $3.3 issue by by Rio Tinto, $1.2 billion by Telstra, $500 million by Woolworths, $500 million by Wesfarmers, and $400 million by Goodman.
11.44am: It's a sea of red among the market indices. Gold stocks are down 2 per cent, miners are down 1.8 per cent, financials and industrials are down 0.8 per cent, and the consumer discretionary index is down 1 per cent.
11.37am: A poor start for the last trading day of the week - and it's getting worse. As the graph above shows, stocks are heading down - the ASX200 has fallen 44.6 points, or 1 per cent, to 4289.3.
11.28am: The competition watchdog is expected to announce its long-awaited decision on pay TV provider Foxtel's takeover of regional rival Austar next week.
Austar says the ACCC has indicated it will make its decision on the $2 billion takeover on April 10.
Austar shareholders have voted in favour of the proposed takeover on March 30, despite the ACCC not having yet given its approval for the deal which was originally announced in May 2011.
The ACCC had delayed making a decision, pending further discussions with Foxtel.
Should the ACCC approve the takeover, the parties will head to the Federal Court on April 13 for approval and the transaction would be completed on April 16.
11.15am: This morning's poll shows the majority voters - 41 per cent - expect the market to close more than 1 per cent lower. The next largest group - 27 per cent - said the ASX200 would close between 0.5 per cent and 1 per cent lower.
But there are some contrarians out there. Eight per cent of voters think the market will close more than 1 per cent higher. Contrarians, optimists, or other?
11.08am: The big banks have followed the market lower:
- CBA is 0.42% lower to $49.69
- ANZ is 0.74% lower to $22.84
- NAB is 0.36% lower to $24.70
- Westpac is 0.54% lower to $22
- Macquarie Bank is 0.93% lower to $28.76
11am: IG Markets analyst Cameron Peacock said the US markets had weakened over the last two days as commodity prices fell and fears heightened over European debt.
''Given we're so tied to commodity prices with BHP, Rio and Fortescue - that's the major reason we've come off,'' he said.
10.54am: National Australia Bank is understood to be in talks with regulators on a potential debut Sharia-compliant bond offering as the issuer seeks to marry local regulations with such deals' Islamic requirements.
Any sukuk, or the Islamic form of bonds, must secure prior approval from Australian regulators, particularly the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission
(Wikipedia says: "Since fixed income, interest bearing bonds are not permissible in Islam, Sukuk securities are structured to comply with the Islamic law and its investment principles, which prohibits the charging, or paying of interest.")
10.49am: BHP Billiton has fallen 1.4 per cent to $34.25 and Rio Tinto has lost 2 per cent to 65.03 after gold prices hit a three-month low and copper fell more than 3 per cent, its most in nearly two months.
10.43am: Tokyo stocks have opened 0.84 per cent lower after a poor bond auction by debt-ridden Spain sparked new worries over the eurozone.The Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange opened down 82.49 points at 9,737.50.
''Worries over the eurozone resurfaced overnight,'' said Tachibana Securities operating officer Kenichi Hirano.
''However, capital liquidity remains ample in the market, which supports stocks' performance, as tightened policy measures are unlikely,'' he told Dow Jones Newswires.
10.39am: Shares have accelerated early losses, down now about as far as the futures market was pointing. the All Ords was 0.8 per cent lower. The ASX200 was also 0.8 per cent lower.
10.35am: Insurance Australia Group, Australia's top car and home insurer, said its 49 per cent-owned Malaysian associate has received regulatory approval for the proposed acquisition of Kurnia Insurans (Malaysia) Bhd.
The deal, which was announced to the market late last year, would make IAG's associate, AmG Insurance Berhad, the market leader in the Malaysian motor insurance market.
IAG, which wants to double gross written premium contribution from Asia to 10 percent by 2016, has not disclosed the acquisition price, but said last year it would fund its share of the deal from internal resources.
10.29am: To the better performed companies on the ASX200:
- Dart Energy - up 1.69%
- Aristocrat Leisure - up 1.57%
- Goodman Group - up 1.44%
- Charter Hall Group - up 0.9%
- Telstra - up 0.6%
10.25am: To the early movers. Here are the worst performed companies on the ASX200 so far today:
- Intrepid Mines - down 6.76%
- Integra Mines - down 6.12%
- Perseus Mining - down 5.65%
- Harvey Norman - down 3.85%
- Paladin Energy - down 3.81%
10.18am: All but one sub index is trading in negative territory today. Telecomms are 0.5 per cent higher. Among the others:
- Materials - down 1.3%
- Consumer discretionary - down 0.67%
- Health - down 0.55%
- Industrials - down 0.38%
- Energy - down 0.37%
10.12am: In early trade, the All Ordinaries index is 24.8 points lower, or 0.6 per cent, to 4394.1, while the benchmark S&P/ASX200 is 22.5 points lower, or 0.5 per cent, to 4322.4.
10.05am: Early take - Stocks down 0.3 per cent as the ASX opens.
9.55am: European Central Bank President Mario Draghi is controlling word inflation.Analysis of the statements issued by the ECB shows that the opening statements Draghi delivered after the central bank's monthly policy-setting meetings have averaged 1,422 words since he took office on Nov. 1.
That includes a low of 1,128 words at yesterday's briefing and marks a decline from an average of 1,870 words his predecessor, Jean-Claude Trichet, used in his final six months at the helm of the Frankfurt-based central bank.
In the US, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, who began giving press conferences last year, used 1,971 words to explain the central bank's monetary policy thinking in January.
Six months into his new job, Draghi indicated yesterday that he's already under pressure to limit his remarks.''I've been told I should give short answers,'' he said after responding to a reporter's question.
9.49am: Westpac New Zealand senior market strategist Imre Speizer said the Australian dollar held up well despite the overall market negativity.
''The reason why the Aussie dollar and the Kiwi dollar didn't fall a lot is that the Aussie has suffered quite a bit of selling in the last few days,'' Mr Speizer said from Auckland.
''So, I think it's approaching selling fatigue on the day. I'm thinking you might get a little bounce (in the next couple days). Something between $US1.03 and $US1.035 should be the extent of it.''
But Mr Speizer said he expected the Australian dollar to head down towards parity with the greenback over the coming weeks.
''It broke some key levels over the past two days and it looks like it will head lower in the weeks ahead,'' he said.
9.44am: The Aussie dollar weakened with yesterday's trade balance data and hasn't recovered. It was recently buying $US1.0275, down from a high of $US1.0375 early yesterday. The ANZ is now forecasting a possible slide through parity:
- After failing to sustain rebounds above $US1.04, AUD/USD is at growing risk of a grinding slide to $US1.0125 or even 99.50 US cents.
9.41am: Looking at the ECB's decision to keep rates at 1 per cent, the ANZ says today the bank appears to be ''reorienting monetary policy back to a more traditional approach, with policy focusing on maintaining price stability''. The note added:
- President Draghi noted that medium-term inflation risks would be addressed in a "firm and timely manner."
- A significant deterioration in euro area economic and financial market conditions would be required for the ECB to consider easing monetary policy further but equally they are not in a hurry to implement an "exit strategy" from its ultra loose policy settings.
9.37am: Also in Europe, The European Central Bank held its key interest rates steady, as expected on Wednesday, leaving borrowing costs at historic lows amid new signs the eurozone is in recession.
The ECB's policy-setting governing council voted to leave the rate for its main refinancing operations unchanged at 1.0 per cent at its regular monthly meeting here, brought forward by one day owing to the Easter holidays.
9.35am: Looking first at the main offshore news this morning, a disappointing auction of Spanish debt sent a shiver through global markets as investors contemplated a return of the eurozone debt crisis.
Markets were rattled overnight when Spain's Treasury sold just 2.59 billion euros ($US3.408 billion) of bonds that mature in 2015, 2016 and 2020, at the lower end of the range of 2.5-3.5 billion euros it had hoped for and at much higher rates.
"Spain is back in the eye of the storm," said Soledad Pellon, analyst at IG Markets, adding the bond sale was an "absolute failure."
9.32am: Some housekeeping first up. The local sharemarket is closed tomorrow for the Good Friday holiday so there will be no Markets Live blog. We'll be back on Tuesday.
For a full look at this morning's business news, check the need2know and the business press digest. Meantime, here are the morning's key markets links:
- SPI futures are 37 points lower at 4312
- The $A is lower at $US1.0270
- In the US, the S&P500 fell 1.02% to 1398.96
- In Europe, the FTSE100 fell 2.3% to 5703.77
- Gold fell $50 to $US1622 an ounce
- WTI crude oil fell $2 to $US102.01 a barrel
- The Reuters Jefferies CRB Index fell 1.86% to 304.96
9.30am: Good morning folks. Welcome to the Markets Live blog for Thursday.
Contributors: Thomas Hunter, Peter Hannam, Peter Litras
This blog is not intended as investment advice
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New eatery finds home on Hickory
Heather Dorris, the general manager at Denton's new Rusty Taco, is determined to make the right taco.
"We have a barbecue taco with extra sauce," she says as she puts together one of the restaurant's signature tacos during opening day June 3.
Before becoming the general manager at Rusty Taco, Dorris was the executive chef at the Fort Worth Boat Club for two months and spent time as a sous chef at the Stoneleigh Hotel in Uptown Dallas and the Sheraton Market Center.
She has been around the kitchen for a long time and made it official, she said, when she graduated from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Dallas in October 2010. In May 2012, she was named one of four top Rising Star Chefs in the Dallas Food & Wine Festival contest when she competed against 18 chefs from around North Texas.
Before she decided to join the Rusty Taco team three months ago, Dorris spent eight hours at a Rusty Taco in Dallas and watched the entire work process.
"The way they do their food is fresh, and that is exactly what I did when I was a cook," she said. "I love being a chef and being a cook. I want to impact people and this is way to do it. The customer here gets to see everything. It is perfect."
Dorris is among 34 employees who now work at the restaurant.
"I am overwhelmed that I have talent like her working with us," said Conner Cupit, owner and CEO of Greenbriar Restaurant Holdings LLC, which owns the restaurant on East Hickory Street.
Cupit said the idea of bringing Rusty Taco to Denton began three years ago. He began having discussions with Rusty Fenton, founder of the popular Dallas chain, to find a location in Texas, and he waited until the right location came along.
"We were really blessed to have the opportunity to get this piece of property in addition to the primary building to do this patio," Cupit said. "For us to do something like this, and the city allowing us to do this, makes all the difference."
The 1,800-square-foot restaurant is at 210 E. Hickory St., in the former location of Ramen Republic. The space was remodeled inside and out, including a 1,000-square-foot patio.
Cupit said when he went to the city to explain his concept, he described it wanting to create a place that would "feel like your favorite pair of broken-in blue jeans. … It has to have a little swagger to it, and it has to be comfortable."
That includes live music, a 65-foot picnic bench on the patio, and a menu of tacos for $2.50 and under. The patio also has 60-inch television screens, and pets are allowed to hang out with guests there.
"The patio experience is extremely important to us," Cupit said. "This is the first of its kind in the Rusty Taco collection of restaurants."
Dallas-based Jones Baker Interiors & Architecture designed the restaurant, and Benge General Contracting of Rowlett worked on the project. Sean Starr of Denton's Starr Studios painted the signs. The project took about six months to complete, Cupit said.
"It looks totally different to me on the inside," said Julie Glover, the city's economic development program administrator. "The design makes a huge difference to how the whole strip looks now."
The previous tenant, Ramen Republic, spent about two years at the same corner, Glover said.
"It was empty for a long time about 10 to 15 years ago," she said. "It used to be a cash register store at some point, and it was also an antique store. There was not a lot of foot traffic there."
Cupit, originally from Longview, has a total of 15 years of restaurant experience. He says he began like everyone else — working tables — as a 16-year-old.
He went on to study business, earning a bachelor's at Baylor University and a master's at Southern Methodist University. His business background includes working at Brinker International and PepsiCo Frito-Lay.
Cupit said Rusty Taco has been so well received in Denton that he's already adjusted the business hours. He said he likes the town's feel, from the people he has been able to hire for his first franchise location, to the community he is now able to serve.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. has a 12-year-old niece who could continue the Earnhardt legacy in the sport.
And that means that Karsyn Elledge, whose mom is Earnhardt's sister, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, will get opportunities to succeed.
That, in turn, will prompt doubters to question whether she deserves any of the rides she gets.
Several drivers, such as Joey Logano, had family support for their early years in racing and some even carry that all the way to Cup. Such support has attracted criticism from detractors who claim that they were handed their opportunities in racing and didn't earn them.
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The debate cropped again recently when Logano was criticized by an angry Tony Stewart after their confrontation at Auto Club Speedway March 24. Stewart called Logano "a little rich kid that has never had to work in his life."
Earnhardt Jr. also has faced such criticism while trying to follow in the footsteps of one of the most popular and accomplished drivers in the history of the sport. Earnhardt Jr. has often recounted how his father made him work hard and earn most of his opportunities.
Elledge has been quite successful in go-karts and runs the No. 3 made famous by her grandfather, Dale Earnhardt Sr.
"Talent speaks for itself," Earnhardt Jr. said. "Hopefully she's talented enough. No matter what your background, what your path is to where you are, if you have talent, you belong and you earn respect through that talent.
"If you're really good at your job and really good at what you do, it won't matter how you got there."
Earnhardt isn't worried about the doubters as much as he wants his niece to treat people the right way.
"If we have the opportunity years down the road and she's chosen to seek out driving racecars as a career, I would support her as much as I can, but I'd be just as hard on her as anybody, especially about how you treat people, how to get people to rally around you and just how you treat people with respect," Earnhardt Jr. said. "That's really important to me."


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I know that it's been months since the incident that shook the Pacer's franchise, but I can't help my incessant fuming. I understand that the NBA wants it's credibility back, but isn't this a little extreme?
Ron Artest's agressive nature is what made him who he is in the NBA! His strong, forceful ways are what made him 2003-04 defensive player of the year. In addition, Ron Artest is what would have made the Pacers a strong championship contender.
If people don't believe me, look at last years record!!! Amazing!!! Granted we were knocked off by the Pistons, but hey, I think thats what brought Reggie back.Sure, this has been talked to death, But I can't help it.
I think that we should start a bring ron back petition, it probably won't help, but at least we can say we did something!
By the way..... Another Question, would u have changed what happened even if u knew that that would mean Reggie wouldn't be scoring and playing as well as he has been?
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Last year I began running Talk with the Experts sessions (hour long live chat sessions) and the subjects were varied.
I'd love to know what kind of subjects you'd be interested in hearing about this year, so that I can source some experts in those fields.
I'd like to hear about getting into the industry, what is required, what to do to prepare. I would also love to hear about grid systems.
Sweet - thanks for your input. I'll add those to my list.
No, thank you!
I hope they'd be a section where experts would update us on seo strategies both on and off-page seo, what's working and what's not.
I like to hear to the information on foreign exchange. .......
Since I've started to look into android app development (not HTML5, but the android SDK (Eclipse)), I would love to have an expert session about that.
You might need to visit another forum for that.
An 'Talk with Experts' session on: Web Accessibility would be a wonderful idea, since I know it's a very popular topic on the SPF. Though a lot of people are too afraid to ask questions or have misconceptions, or are ignorant on the topic thus it would be an ideal 'topic' to cover if you can hunt down some good communicators and web accessibility advocates and veterans to join in the potential live discussion.
^ I can already think of a few people to ask to invite as experts for such a talk... some great new people have recently been added to the HTML Editors for HTML-A11Y.
I think possibly a good topic could be, how to get non-PHP open source stuff running on hosters? Most hosters say they only support PHP and whenever anyone wants to try using Ruby or Python or Perl they run into trouble getting their necessary modules and permissions set up. Usually there are tricks to it some people know of, like Pythonistas sometimes can get away with running their app in a virtualenv, where pip can install packages without needing root permission.
That's very interesting too :agree: And knowing those tips will be great too
So here's another suggestion @HAWK;
A hosting session for newbies and also a more advanced session to explain these little techniques to get the right configuration for your python or Ruby when you don't have the right permissions to install your modules
There is a bunch of great suggestions here everyone. Much appreciated. I'll get onto sourcing some experts!
Any news when this will kick off?
I want to know about the off page work of SEO and what are the activities that is done and how to do? where to do?In complete details so that we can do it and increase the ranking of my sites.Thanks a lot in advance...
Yup, next up is Responsive Web Design with Craig Sharkie - that will be later this month.
i want to hear about networking business.
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An incandescent Miguel Herrera on Sunday night accused Arjen Robben of being a cheat. The Mexican manager also insisted that his team had been eliminated from the World Cup through a refereeing conspiracy.
"Today it was not a wonderful goal that put us out, it was bad decision by the referee, an invented penalty," Herrera said. "It seems to me that the reason we were eliminated was the man with the whistle.
"Although their first goal was good and came from a mistake on our part, the game was heading to extra time. But if the referee invents a penalty of that size, you leave the World Cup after circumstances not created by you. And Robben dived three times for penalties that didn't exist. He should have been cautioned. If you do that to the guy who tries to cheat, then he can't cheat again."
Fouled: Dutch striker Arjen Robben is tripped by Rafael Marquez of Mexico. Photo: Getty Images
It was Robben earning the penalty in the game's final moments that took Holland through to the quarter final. The Dutch playmaker admitted that he had dived earlier in the game when the referee waved played on after he had fallen outside the Mexican area.
"It is something I shouldn't have done," he told Dutch television. But he was clear that there was contact from the Mexican captain, Gabriel Marquez, in those dying moments. Replays suggest he was right.
"That one was a penalty," Robben said. "But the other in the first half was a dive. I must apologise."
Officials separate Herrera and Dutch captain Robin van Persie. Photo: Reuters
His apology was not sufficient to placate Herrera, who could be seen pushing Robin van Persie, the Dutch captain, during a confrontation at the final whistle. The Mexican claimed that this was the third time his team had suffered from poor refereeing at the competition, and suggested there was an obvious cause.
"When they send a referee from the same confederation where your opponents come from, what do you expect," he said of the Portuguese official Pedro Proenica. "The least we can hope is that this gentleman now goes home just like us."
Herrera's counterpart Louis van Gaal, however, preferred to see the victory as a consequence of his players' fitness and fighting spirit as they overcame the most punishing of conditions. Plus his own tactical nous.
The schedule.
Van Gaal happily admitted that he had used the opportunity of the officially sanctioned drinks break midway through the second half to issue tactical instruction. "I moved to plan B," Van Gaal said of his changes in approach as Holland chased the game.
"And yes I did that in the cooling break. That's a clever way of benefiting from these breaks."
However, he appeared non-plussed when Klaas-Jan Huntelaar stepped up to take the critical penalty.
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Klaas-Jan Huntelaar of the Netherlands scores a penalty. Photo: Reuters
"We have a sequence, an order for penalties and to be honest I expected Robben to take it," the Holland coach said. "But we know Klaas-Jan takes penalties at his club. Robben said to him do you want to take it. Klaas Jan doesn't need more encouragement. He is very cool."
Which is not a description that could apply to Herrera, a man fraying in the heat of a last-minute defeat at the World Cup.
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There is no shortage of commentators calling for the demise of this market, but here it is hitting intraday highs following a poor Philly Fed number. I will repeat what I've written so often lately: Don't turn bearish until there is price action to support that position. It is a mistake to keep trying to anticipate a top.
Breadth is very strong at better than 3 to 1 positive and there's good action in chips, homebuilders, retail and a number of other groups. There isn't any standout momentum, but Apple (AAPL) is back in the green and buyers are obviously anxious about missing more upside....127 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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My wife wants to make a DVD for her sister, for her birthday, of a photo slideshow with music. I don't have Windows Vista, but a friend said I could make the DVD on Vista. I have Windows XP.
So, my question is...
Can I make a DVD, which is playable on a home DVD player (such as hooked up to your TV) on XP Movie Maker, or can I do it with Windows Vista Movie Maker, or neither?
The key is that I want to make a DVD that plays just like one you buy at Blockbuster. I made a DVD like my wife wants to make, for my parents 5-6 years ago, but I had a special program for it. If I can do it with Vista or XP Movie Maker, like would be so much easier.
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Luke Donald is one of the best golfers in the world. He's won a lot of the big events, seems to enjoy his life and his Twitter is one of the few fantastic ones on tour.
And because of that, he occasionally says something he didn't want. Like on Saturday, after a bad bounce on the final hole forced him to make bogey on the par-5 18th that was redesigned before this year.
Donald complained after about it, but it was the mis-direct message that had people laughing.
"Gil Hanse is a cock," Donald tweeted before immediately deleting it.
I wasn't sure I could love Donald more, but this might do it.
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One year ago Sunday a gunman opened fire while Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was holding a "Congress on Your Corner" event at a shopping center. She was shot in the head, one of 13 who were wounded. Six others were killed. Tucson is remembering the day with memorials, a candle-light vigil and dozens of other events. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Ted Robbins about the day's services.
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text: Live Life Fully: Do you feel like you should be more grateful? By Linda Arnold November 26, 2011 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- With all the emphasis around the Thanksgiving season, you may have stopped to ponder your blessings. Or, you may be so busy during this holiday period that it's hard to find time to ponder much of anything!I've often wondered why our feelings of gratitude can be so fleeting. You know, like when we have the flu and all we want is to get our health back. The first few hours of feeling better, there's a feeling of relief, and then we plunge right back into our preoccupied thoughts and "to do" lists. What's up with that?It's likely because of homeostasis, the body's tendency to return to its natural state. Remember that we're wired with the fight-or-flight response. This likely came in handy during prehistoric times -- maybe not so much now. Or, definitely in different degrees. There aren't as many saber-toothed tigers around, but stresses come in lots of sizes and shapes. And I believe that's a reason we return to a guarded state.Still, it would be nice to have those "heart space" feelings of gratitude last a bit longer, while diminishing the endless chatter inside our heads. Generally, this chatter revolves around the past or the future. And that means we're missing the present. So, if you find yourself continuously thinking about something in the past -- or jumping ahead to plan every detail of the future -- stop and bring yourself into an awareness of gratitude. That will bring you back to the present moment.Research has shown that we can benefit greatly from showing gratitude. According to "Psychology Today," being grateful for what we have and expressing thanks directly to a friend or colleague has a significant and lasting effect on well being and happiness.Psychologist Sonja Lyubominsky, author of "The How of Happiness," has empirically measured these effects and has quantified how much happier acts of gratitude make one feel and for how long. It turns out that maintaining a gratitude journal for only one week makes one noticeably happier even three months later when compared to a control group.Author Ran Zilca notes that we also benefit from reading and learning about the things others are grateful for. Scientists think the reason for this phenomenon is that knowing about others' gratitude inspires us to cultivate an optimistic attitude and to feel more positively about the future.So, if you start to feel guilty because you're not being grateful, just turn it around. Realize it's a mini wakeup call to be aware of those blessings in your life. But don't beat yourself up about it. It's healthy to experience a range of emotions. And you don't need to add guilt on top.Guilt is actually fear turned inward, and there's enough fear going on in the outer world. If you or your loved ones are going through a crisis, take solace. Go ahead and wallow in your pain. Cry on someone's shoulder -- or into your pillow -- if you need to. Not that I (or anyone else) needs to give you permission. Sometimes it's just helpful to hear someone acknowledge the pain.It's all a matter of perspective, anyway. Whatever we're going through, there are always examples of those going through worse things. It's all relative, though. (Or maybe it is our relatives!) We've all heard of the "attitude of gratitude." While we can't always choose the events in our lives, we can choose our reactions to the events. That in itself can give us more of a feeling of control. And feeling out of control is often at the heart of our discontent. Three simple steps sum it up:1) Be grateful2) Read and learn about others' good fortune3) Immerse yourself in the gratitude stream And if you're not "feeling the love" during this season, you can change your perspective to thanksLIVING. What a difference one letter makes!Linda Arnold, MBA, is a certified wellness instructor and chairwoman/CEO of The Arnold Agency, a marketing communications company specializing in advertising, public relations, government relations and interactive marketing. Reader comments are welcome and may be directed to Linda Arnold, The Arnold Agency, 117 Summers St., Charleston, WV 25301, or emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 New leaders begin to emerge for Marshall football 2 Derek Redd: Marshall thinks outside the cable box for broadcasts 3 Philanthropist Betty Schoenbaum of Shoney's fortune turns 100 4 Former State Police captain now chief in Winfield 5 Preston County delegate Tony Lewis dies


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NAPA — If rookie TJ Carrie keeps it up, his days of being under the radar are over.
It happened again Monday at Raiders training camp, when Carrie perfectly played a corner route by Andre Holmes during a passing drill, lightly flicking the ball away in the end zone.
Lightly recruited despite playing on a big stage locally for De La Salle High and lasting until the seventh round of the NFL draft out of Ohio University, Carrie has made a habit out of doing something in each of the first four days of practice that has turned the heads of coaches and teammates.
When Raiders coach Dennis Allen looks at Carrie, he sees Chris Harris, an undrafted free agent from Kansas in 2011 who ended up starting and being named the Broncos breakout player of the year when Allen was defensive coordinator.
"Nobody really knew anything about him, then every day you go out there and he's making a play that catches your eye," Allen said. "You really don't think a whole lot about it until it's day three, day four, day five, day six and he continues to make plays."
With second-year player DJ Hayden sidelined with a stress fracture, Carrie is getting plenty of work. He has a ways to go to be a starter, but Carrie is showing a knack for being a slot corner behind Carlos Rogers and is a candidate to return punts and play on special teams.
"I think the main goal of any rookie is to make the team, and part of that is trying to help the team in all ways possible," Carrie said. "I come in every day knowing I haven't earned anything and knowing I have something to prove every day. That keeps me motivated."
Carrie has leaned heavily on running back Maurice Jones-Drew, who also went to De La Salle and grew up in Antioch. Jones-Drew played with one of Carrie's brothers in high school and knows the family.
"Typically you see offensive guys stay with offensive guys and defensive guys stay with defensive guys, but he's really taken me under his wing and showed me the ropes on how I should be attacking the game each day," Carrie said. "He's helped me with the playbook, what I should do to take care of my body. I feel it gives me an edge."
Jones-Drew reached out to Carrie not long after the Raiders selected him with the 219th overall pick.
"We come from the same high school, same city, same area," Jones-Drew said. "I've been through some things in my career, and I just try and let him learn from my experience, on the field and off."
Cornerback Chimdi Chekwa, playing as a first-team outside cornerback in the nickel defense, is impressed with how Carrie has handled his business.
"He surprised me a little bit," Chekwa said. "He came in with a lot of knowledge of the game, and he has the physical attributes to do anything on the field."
At 6-foot, 204 pounds, Carrie was first team All-MAC punt returner and third team on defense. He defensed 36 passes in his career, had three sacks and forced two fumbles. How he wound up at Ohio at all is a mystery to longtime De La Salle defensive coordinator Terry Eidson.
Carrie didn't play at De La Salle until his senior year because of a medical issue but made an instant impact after receiving clearance. In a 37-31 win in the CIF Division I state championship game against Centennial, Carrie scored on a 5-yard run, caught a 28-yard touchdown pass and set up another touchdown with a 45-yard interception return.
Eidson began working the phones and got nothing but silence in his home state.
"He had a fantastic season for us and was unbelievable in the state game," Eidson said. "He was a good looking athlete. He had speed, he had size, he had everything. I kept calling people, and I was shocked he wasn't recruited by any of the California schools. It was a steal for Ohio to get him.'
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Washington, D.C. – On December 17, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Associate Administrator Mark Feierstein will deliver opening remarks at the Atlantic Council Headquarters to announce the book launch of USAID "The Future Can't Wait." This event is organized by the Atlantic Council and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.
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AzkabanRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
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The Chesapeake Bayhawks of Major League Lacrosse (MLL) announced today that they have partnered with Severn Savings Bank for the 2012 MLL season. Severn Savings will be known as the "Official Bank of the Chesapeake Bayhawks.
The partnership between the Bayhawks and Severn Savings began in 2011 and has grown significantly for the upcoming season. Both organizations pride themselves on active community involvement and giving back to those in need. It is Severn Savings' stated mission to enhance the community by investing in the climate, culture, commerce and people of the Chesapeake Bay region. The Chesapeake region isn't merely a market, it's their home and community is at the center of all that they do at Severn. The Bayhawks organization is led under the same guidance by owner
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"The Bayhawks are proud to partner with Severn Savings Bank," Kelly stated. "Severn Savings and the Bayhawks have the same mindset when it comes to investing into and being a part of our community and we look forward to a long term relationship with them."
"Our commitment to the area in which we live and work is a major part of who we are as an organization,"
Alan J. Hyatt, Severn President and Chief Executive Officer, said. "The Chesapeake Bayhawks is an energetic organization bringing family friendly entertainment and community service to our area. We are excited to have our local team partnering with another local team and proud to be the official bank of the Bayhawks."
As part of their partnership, Severn Savings will be featuring the "Severn Savings Save of the Game" which will highlight the best stop in the goal. The bank will also host the Kids' Zone inflatable fiddle stick field and co-brand fiddle sticks as a giveaway for Youth Night vs. the Charlotte Hounds on June 9
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BWW TV: Inside ELF's Opening Night Curtain Call!
ELF returns to Broadway this holiday season at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th Street). Performances began on Friday, November 9, 2012. The production plays a limited engagement of 9 weeks for the holiday season through Sunday, January 6, 2013. BroadwayWorld's Randy Rainbow was there for opening night anad we bring you footage from the first curtain call below!
Produced by Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures in association with Unique Features and Jujamcyn Theaters, ELF stars Jordan Gelber as 'Buddy,' Leslie Kritzer as 'Jovie,' ' Tony® Award nominee Mark Jacoby as 'Walter,' Michael Mandell as 'Store Manager,' Adam Heller as 'Mr. Greenway,' Valerie Wright as 'Deb' and Mitchell Sink as 'Michael.' The production also stars Tony® Award winner Beth Leavel as 'Emily,' and "Seinfeld" star Wayne Knight as 'Santa.'
Based on the beloved 2003 New Line Cinema hit, ELF features a new score by Tony® Award nominees Matthew Sklar (Music) and Chad Beguelin (Lyrics) with a book by Tony® Award winners Thomas Meehan (The Producers, Hairspray) and Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone). ELF is directed and choreographed by Tony® winner Casey Nicholaw (The Drowsy Chaperone, Monty Python's Spamalot).
ELF is the hilarious tale of Buddy, a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa's bag of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole. Buddy is raised unaware that he is actually a human, until his enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth. With Santa's permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father and discover his true identity. Faced with the harsh reality that his father is on the naughty list and his step-brother doesn't even believe in Santa, Buddy is determined to win over his new family and help New York remember the true meaning of Christmas. This modern day Christmas classic is sure to make everyone embrace their inner ELF.
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Release Date: March 8
I have a feeling we're not in 1939 anymore.
Sam Raimi, the visual stylist behind the original Evil Dead and the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films, aims his cyclone directly at the heart of a cinema icon. Set before the events of the Judy Garland classic Oz sees James Franco as a circus huckster whisked from Kansas to Oz, where he will eventually become the renowned wizard.
Since we all know the ending, I'm sure the fun lies in discovering just how the dastardly Franco finds his way behind the curtain. Here at PopMech we're looking forward to eye-popping CG effects with a dash of steampunk design. And flying monkeys, naturally.
Release Date: April 26
Say what you will about Tron Legacy's plot and dialogue, it sure looked cool. Now director Joseph Kosinksi has teamed up with some different writers (Michael Arendt of Toy Story 3 and William Monahan of The Departed for an adaptation of a comic book that no one has read.
The story is set in the future after some terrible disaster, and scientists are extracting recorded information from disabled drones, looking for clues into their battle against the mysterious Scavs. We don't want to give too much away but we will say that the white spacesuits look very impressive. In the teaser, you'll see Tom Cruise making his ultra-serious face, and you'll also see some amazing shuttlecraft zooming about Earth, packed with computer displays that stand up against those found in Cruise's Minority Report.
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TORRINGTON -- Doris passed away peacefully on Saturday April 3 at Litchfield Woods surrounded by her loving family. She was the wife of Paul MacDonald, her devoted caregiver and love of her life. Doris was born on Jan. 9, 1938 to Frank and Margaret (Dzanda) Ragalye in Torrington.
She attended Harwinton schools and graduated from Torrington High School. She worked at Torin Manufacturing and at CVS where she will be remembered as "the greeting card lady". She loved traveling, especially, to the Cape and Maine and the casinos. She was also very proud of her grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, Doris is survived by her three children: Lynn Rapsilber and her husband Vernon, Karen MacDonald and Gary MacDonald; her grandchildren: Garrett and Griffin Rapsilber; Krista Kaseoru and her husband Ivar and Matthew Lamson; Mariah MacDonald and Hayley MacDonald. She is also survived by her sisters: Helen Richard, Ann Horoschak and her brother Frank Ragalye and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her sister Margaret Chiappa and brother John Ragalye.
Calling hours will be Wednesday April 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Phalen Funeral Home, 285 Migeon Ave. Torrington. A service will be held on Thursday April 8 at 10 a.m. at the funeral home followed by burial at Hillside Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to: The Doris MacDonald Nursing Scholarship c/o Torrington Savings Bank 235 Dibble Street, Torrington, Ct. 06790 or to the Make a Wish Foundation: 126 Monroe Turnpike Trumbull, CT 06611.


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Dawn Saugen, the former PTA treasurer convicted of embezzling more than $35,000 from the Vargas School Parent Teacher Association, was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in county jail and three years of probation.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kurt Kumli also ordered Saugen to seek psychological counseling and to refrain from any paid or volunteer work involving financial matters, according to Deputy District Attorney Paola Estanislao.
"It's the best thing that we could ask for," said Maria Dulay, the former PTA president who discovered the thefts.
Saugen's attorney, Jerome Mullins, had sought only probation for his client. As part of the deal, a forgery charge was dropped and Saugen agreed to pay the Sunnyvale school PTA restitution, which was set Wednesday at $37,345.72 .
Mullins did not respond to requests for comment.
From last summer through January, Saugen used PTA funds to purchase gift cards from popular retailers such as Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target and Nordstrom.
Saugen, 38, was ordered to begin her jail sentence Jan. 2. With credit for good behavior, she could be released after four months.
— Sharon Noguchi, staff


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Shah backs Vince for England call
6:00am Monday 26th May 2014
6:00am Monday 26th May 2014
OWAIS Shah has backed James Vince to bat his way into the England team.
Vince shone with a 38-ball 68 in Hampshire's latest T20 Blast win away to Middlesex on a day that saw England humbled by Sri Lanka.
Shah, who also starred with an unbeaten 49 from 26 balls, believes there is no better batsman in the country on current form.
He said: "I've played against James for a few years, he's a talented guy who didn't quite put up the numbers in the longer form of the game often enough to be considered for the next level.
"But this year he's really been on fire in all forms, especially in four-day cricket and he looks a world-class player. There are some middle-order places up for grabs and I think he's as good as anyone in England right now, the way he's striking a cricket ball."
Former Middlesex batsman Shah will play for Hampshire against his most recent county when Essex visit the Ageas Bowl on Friday.
But that is the last game of his three-match deal. With Michael Carberry and Glenn Maxwell expected to be available for Kent's visit a week on Thursday, his future beyond this Friday is uncertain.
"I'm desperate to play more so hopefully I'll get the nod to hang around a bit more," he said.
Shah, who has played for several T20 sides on many continents, has been impressed with Hampshire in helping them to two wins in three days.
"Hampshire have a very good formula going with a new captain setting his standards very high and we're following his lead," he continued.
"They're very well drilled, they swear by a formula that works for them and are going from strength to strength.
"All the good teams I've played for have a similar pattern; people are assigned a particular role and they do it well and Hampshire do that. Everything falls into place."
Shah, who made an unbeaten 17 from 22 balls at Sussex on Friday night, batted more fluently yesterday. "I realised I had to play second fiddle on Friday," he said. "You can't hit ball in the middle very day of the week, you have to be able to adapt. "The wicket [at Merchant Taylors' School] was OK for T20 cricket but we batted very, very well."
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Topic: Maine Coast Sea Vegtables/medicinal/botanical
Certain sea vegatables fight cancer cell growth and detox radioactive exposure.
Jeff G.
Link: www.seaveg.com
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Por favor publique sus preguntas en Español y un intérprete le va responder.
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A new discussion board experience is coming this September!
After 10 years, we're upgrading our discussion board to a new modern system. The new forum will be easier to use, mobile-friendly and loaded with new features! We'll be taking all of the existing posts and users over to the new board, you won't have to do anything. If you have any questions, we've started a thread here to discuss.
Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Discussion Board → Complementary & Alternative Treatments - CAM → Maine Coast Sea Vegtables/medicinal/botanical
Certain sea vegatables fight cancer cell growth and detox radioactive exposure.
Jeff G.
Link: www.seaveg.com
jeff- thanks for the info! i am going to puerto penasco in 2 weeks- i will bask at the ocean and eat all sea veggies i can get my hands on- i switched to sea salt awhile back cuz i heard it was better- taste the same too!
Hi Becky,
Your quite welcomed. You enjoy puerto penasco. Vitamin D from the sun is good in small doses. Don't forget your sun Lotion. Ha! Sea salt good move. Also no microwaving food in or covered plastic containers even if they say micro wave safe. Just added this as I was just reading some new John Hopkins update. I guess Dioxins can expell from the containers while being microwaved. So take a bowl and plate if your going to use the hotel nuker!
Have Fun!
Jeff G.
tahnks! what about paper plates?
Ha! It did say not to use paper towels to cover your food in the nuker but didn't mention paper plates. Chemicals are use to make both soooooo? I guess you probally should take a set of good chinaware, I mean corningwear or what ever. I wonder if we should stop using toilet paper, the world would have fun if that word got out.
Jeff G.
I eat them regularly. My strong second to Jeff's microwave cautions.
I looked on the John Hopkins website and there was a section where they deny association with the microwave dioxin link email. Here's the link to that page, http://www.jhsph.edu/dioxins
Also on the page was a link to helpful guidelines to safe practices with the microwave, in which I found interesting information that I wasn't aware of.
Another link lead to some information about phthalates:
There is another group of chemicals, called phthalates that are sometimes added to plastics to make them flexible and less brittle. Phthalates are environmental contaminants that can exhibit hormone-like behavior by acting as endocrine disruptors in humans and animals. If you heat up plastics, you could increase the leaching of phthalates from the containers into water and food.
Question: What about cooking with plastics?
Answer: In general, whenever you heat something you increase the likelihood of pulling chemicals out. Chemicals can be released from plastic packaging materials like the kinds used in some microwave meals. Some drinking straws say on the label
i have already started using corning! thanks for the link
Peter (from Vermont)
I'm relatively new to this site. I was diagnosed with CC on 3/11/08, one day after sustaining a pulminory embolism. Since the CC call, I've been in a tizzy (like most on here either are or were).
I've been told I have an inoperable situation (my tumor is 7 cm), but am going to go for a second opinion.
I've read almost every post on this site, and took note of your's in a discussion about taking chemo.
If I recall, you said you were 59, had taken chemo, but as of April of '07,
you had decided to forego any more chemo and carry on, seeming hopeful to get one more good summer out of life.
Now I've seen your post from Feb. of this year, and wonder how you're doing? And if there's anything else besides chemo (diet, supplements, etc.)
that you are utilizing?
From what I've read on this site, it's probable I'll have to be making a decision about chemo very soon. I'm older (66) and as I said, my tumor is large, so maybe an initial dose of chemo would shrink it and allow for a longer chemo-free life, than if I would just say no to chemo from the outset.
I don't think you're a doctor, and I apologize big time for seemingly placing you in a position where you might think that your opinion could be detrimental to my future. Rest assurred, I am responsible for my decisions
and your opinion would be valued but perhaps not followed. Again, I will
make my own decision.
Thanks for reading this, and I would truly appreciate your views.
And , in fact, if others on here would like to add comments, they too would
be deeply appreciated. Thanks.
Peter (again)
I meant to ask when this was first posted, but I got lazy! what do you do with the sea vegetables, what recipes do you use them in and how do they taste? Is the flavor so strong that my husband would object to having them in "normal" food or is it something we can all eat together?
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SCSU Hockey to Play This Weekend Without Hanowski
The St. Cloud State men's hockey team will play without one of their top players Ben Hanowski this week against 6th ranked North Dakota. Hanowski took a hard hit against Minnesota State-Mankato on October 27. Hanowski's injury has not been disclosed and he was re-evaluated this week. Head coach Bob Motzko wouldn't disclose the injury but it's suspected to be head related.
Motzko suggested that the earliest the Hanowski could return would be the series against Minnesota-Duluth on November 23-24 but he'd be happy to have Hanowski back by Christmas. Hanowski has 3 goals and 2 assists in 5 games for the Huskies this season.
SCSU is 5-3-0 and ranked #15 in the latest USCHO.com poll. The Huskies will host #6 North Dakota at 7:37 Friday night and 7:07 Saturday night.


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Bob Hentzen recently wrote to the CFCA headquarters from the road in Chile. You can see the full update on his Facebook page.
Fortified by the conviction that God lives, we walk deeper and deeper into the Atacama Desert, known as the driest place on Planet Earth, and we stay there day and night.
We have found that in a 24-hour period, the temperature can change by 50, even 60 degrees.
Cars, trucks and buses speed through this desert like itís something to be feared and avoided. In high winds, their wake can literally blow us off the road.
We embrace our vulnerability.
Our small steps in the immensity of the Atacama may not seem like much. Yet down deep, in the very fiber of our being, we know that we are advancing toward something of incalculable worth: the 6,000 struggling CFCA families in the area of Valparaiso, Chile, and the community of compassion among ourselves that it will take to get us there.
Let me assure you that you are very much a part of all of this. Know of our love.
April 29, 2011
In other news, the Christian Science Monitor recently reported on Bob and Walk2gether. Check it out!


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Hotel Playas de Guardamar
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Its 504 rooms (18 of them mini-suits) are decorated on a modern style with light furnishing and fully equipped with hair dyer, satellite television, direct telephone, safe (optional) and balcony.
A big buffet restaurant with international and mediterranean service. Spacious enough with easy access to the main services. This hotel provide a wide range of facilities: spacious lounge, conference room, bar/cafeteria and dancing area, ample restaurant with buffet service, Pool bar (summer only).
Swimming-pools for adults and children, gym, games room, shopping gallery and hairdresser, garden and playground for infants. There is a mini-spa, which is free and opened from 15th September to 31st May).
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Services and terms: Hotel Playas de Guardamar
Standard Room Services
- Air Conditioning
- Safe
- Satellite TV
- Hairdryer
- Telephone
- Television
- Telephone with Direct Dial
Accommodation facilities
- Lift
- Bar/Café
- Meetings Room
- Children's Playground
- Garden/Terrace
- Hairdresser
- Restaurant
- 24 hr Room Service
- Spa
- Shops
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- Gym
- Games Room
- Swimming Pool
- Sauna
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Location: Hotel Playas de Guardamar
This comfortable hotel lies in Guardamar del Segura, in the first of buildings facing the wonderful beach of Costa Blanca. It is situated directly by a nature park with sand dunes and pine a pine forest. Restaurants, bars and public transport links may be found in the surrounding area.


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New students begin final preparations for college
New students begin final preparations for college
Members of the class of 2017 at Penn State New Kensington begin the final preparations for their college careers with the second and third days of the annual academic and campus orientation program.
Known as New Student Orientation, the three-day program is a series of sessions spread out over the summer and designed to give first-year students the tools necessary to make a smooth transition into University life. Incoming students meet with staff, faculty and peers, and they participate in activities designed to help them adjust to life at Penn State.
The program provides students with a basic understanding of what will be expected of them at Penn State and how their particular abilities and interests may fit with one or more of the University's majors. The first day of the program was formerly call FTCAP (First-year Testing, Consulting and Advising Program).
-- Day One featured five sessions in June and July. New students were required to attend one of the sessions where they planned a course schedule, registered for fall classes and received general campus service information. Families were encouraged to participate to get acquainted with the campus, its policies, procedures and services. Topics of interest for parents were "Partnering with the University" and "Billing and Financial Aid."
-- Day Two, Wednesday, Aug. 21, brings together all new students for the campus tradition of orientation prides. Each student is assigned to one of six pride groups headed by an orientation leader who is an upperclassman. As a pride, students attend interactive workshops to learn about academic procedures, electronic resources, and extracurricular activities. Faculty will lead discussions on the summer reading assignment, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," by Stephen Chbosky. The author will be on campus in September to talk about the book.
-- Day Three, Thursday, Aug. 22, includes the Academic Convocation, Pride Olympics and meeting faculty and current students in their chosen fields of study. The convocation is a formal ceremony led by Chancellor Kevin Snider. Faculty and staff, replete in their academic robes, officially welcome students to the campus. Reuniting the six prides, the Olympics gives students the opportunity to compete in a variety of challenges that encourage teamwork and leadership. It also gives the newcomers another opportunity to mingle with fellow freshmen. The final two days of the program were formerly known as Pride Days.
Orientation concludes with a maritime journey of Pittsburgh's three rivers. The annual evening cruise aboard the Gateway Clipper brings together nearly 400 freshmen from the Penn State campuses of Beaver, Greater Allegheny, Shenango and New Kensington. As the new semester dawns, the freshmen will join upperclassmen Aug. 26 to begin working toward their bachelor's and associate degrees.
For more information on orientation, visit http://www.nk.psu.edu/StudentLife/nso.htm.
Bill Woodard
Alumni and Public Relations Specialist


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Note: Most user interface tasks can be performed in Edge Classic or the New Edge experience. For an overview, getting started topics, and release notes specific to the New Edge experience, see the docs.
Track network performance
Mobile Analytics is now App Monitoring and content about Mobile Analytics is deprecated. For documentation related to these features, please see App Monitoring content, such as Monitoring network performance.
For information on migrating to App Monitoring, see Migrating from Mobile Analytics to App Monitoring.
Poor network performance can lead to an unsatisfied user experience and is often perceived by the user as a failure in the mobile application. So it's important to examine the performance of the network and identify bottlenecks.
Mobile Analytics gives you many ways to examine the performance of your network. You can get an overview that displays the number of requests made by your app, a count of errors, and the response time for the requests. You can also get a more specific focus on network performance. For instance, you can examine the network performance for specific carriers (such as AT&T or Verizon), or network types (such as 3G or 4G), or by versions of your app.
You can track trends visually in graphs and drill down to see in-depth data.
With this information, you can identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks, and in that way improve the user experience with your app. For an example, see Investigate issues in your mobile app.
Displaying network performance data
To display network performance data for your app, select Analytics in the main menu of the Mobile Analytics portal. Then select Network Performance in the left navigation menu. This expands the Network Performance menu item and opens the Overview. Make sure that the application shown in the Application drop-down menu on the Overview page is your app. If not, select it in the drop-down menu.
Here are the various ways you can view network performance data. For each view, you get:
- A graph that plots network performance data for given points in time during a specified time period.
- A summary table of the network performance data over the time period.
- A table that lists the raw network performance data over the time period captured for each point in time.
|Network performance view
|What it displays
|Number of network requests, number of network errors, and response time.
|Number of network errors.
|Response Time
|Response time for network requests (in milliseconds).
|Slow Response Time
|Response time above 2 seconds for requests.
|Errors by Network Types
|Number of errors for each network type (such as 3G, 4G, and Wifi).
|Response Time by Network Types
|Response time for each network type (in milliseconds).
|Slow Response Time by Network Types
|Response time above 2 seconds for each network type.
|Errors by Carriers
|Number of network errors by carrier (such as AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon).
|Slow Response Time by Carriers
|Response time above 2 seconds for each carrier (such as AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon).
|Errors by App Versions
|Number of errors for each app version.
|Response Time by App Versions
|Response time for each app version (in milliseconds).
|Slow Response Time by App Versions
|Response time above 2 seconds for each app version.
|Errors by Config Overrides
|Number of errors for each configuration specified for your app. This can include default configurations, beta test configurations, and A/B test configurations.
|Response Time by Config Overrides
|Response time (in milliseconds) for each configuration specified for your app. This can include default configurations, beta test configurations, and A/B test configurations.
|Slow response Time by Config Overrides
|Response time above 2 seconds for each configuration specified for your app. This can include default configurations, beta test configurations, and A/B test configurations.
Selecting a time period to display
Select the time period for the display by selecting one of the following buttons:
- 1h. The previous hour. This is the default.
- 3h. The previous three hours.
- 6h. The previous six hours.
- 12h. The previous twelve hours.
- 1d. The previous day (24 hours).
- 1w. The previous week (7 days).
For example, here is the Overview for an app over the previous hour.
Here is the Response Time view over the previous day:
Displaying a time comparison
You can also display a view that compares network performance data for the currently selected time period with the same period yesterday or last week. You do this by checking a "Compare with" checkbox above the graph. For example, if the current view is for an hour, you can compare the network performance data with the data captured for the same hour yesterday, or the same hour last week. Here is a display that compares response times by network types for the previous hour with the same hour yesterday:
Look for network types, carriers, or device configurations that are particularly slow or for which performance is degrading over time.
If you select a "Compare with" checkbox, the summary displays two rows, one for the current period and one for the previous period. The row for the previous period indicates the percentage difference between the previous and current period. For example, a value of -10% in the row indicates that the value for that metric was 10 percent less than for the current period. A value of 5%, indicates that the value for that metric was 5 percent higher than for the current period.
Examining the network metrics raw data
Below the graph and the network metrics summary, you'll see a table that lists the data captured for each recorded point in time over the current time period. The data for each recorded point in time covers one or more network requests to a specific URL for a specific network type and carrier. The columns of the table list the following information:
- Timestamp. The time stamp of the data capture.
- URL. The URL of the web service for the requests.
- Response Time. The response time for the requests (in milliseconds).
- Errors. The number of errors in response to the requests (such as 3G, 4G, and Wifi).
- Platform. The platform for the device (such as iOS or Android).
- OS. The platform version for the device (such as iOS 6 or Android 3.2).
- Model. The device model (such as Apple iPhone 4g).
- Network Type. The type of the network (such as 3g, 4g, and wifi).
- Carrier. The carrier (such as AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon).
- App Version. The version of the app.
- Conf Type. The app configuration (such as Default or Beta test).
The raw data can be very valuable in isolating performance bottlenecks. For example, by looking for slow response times and their corresponding URLs, you can determine which web services are performance inhibitors.
Each of the table columns is configurable. By clicking the down arrow next to a table column heading, you can sort the data in a column by ascending or descending order, group the data in the column, or remove or re-add a column from or to the display. Seldom used columns are hidden by default. The Platform, OS, Model, App Version, and Conf Type columns are initially hidden. You can make any of those columns visible by clicking on the down arrow, then selecting Columns, and checking the checkbox for the appropriate column.
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Tag Archives: Jen Liu
Unstable States, New Constitutions
Over the next year we will pursue parallel narratives under the framework Unstable States, New Constitutions in our first long term feature. Through this itinerary we aim to study our increasingly global instability as a method of learning and unlearning the present and gather the constellations and speculative forms rising from this constant state of crisis. We ask: Can this unprecedented moment of dissolution also be an opportunity for rearticulation and rearrangement?
For the month of September, guest editor Samuel Hertz has assembled a group of artists/theorists whose work focuses of re-imagining ideas and forms of perception. He asks: Is there a sensible way to speak about perception as a political act? Are there methods of performance that identify and enact new political and global sensitivities? What does a focus on perceptive practices add to conversations about re-thinking institutions, senses, sexualities, ecologies, and aesthetics?
- Is the act of painting a polite refusal against the instrumentalization of labor and knowledge? https://t.co/q2FasdaOBf@temporaryreview4 days ago
- Continuing our feature on the politics of perception, guest editor Samuel Hertz's sonic take on (bad) weather: https://t.co/gW0gkDB07r@temporaryreview1 week ago
- Sisters Academy is a school in a world and society where the poetic mode of being is at the center of all action. https://t.co/rdACgd0uYU@temporaryreview1 week ago
- Yan Jun interviews himself about absolute music no. 2 from guest editor Samuel Hertz on the politics of perspection https://t.co/sBwyyVRXlY@temporaryreview2 weeks ago
- Call for Submissions: Temporary seeks proposals for upcoming features on rural practices + "instituent" forms. https://t.co/YDyjmgAFFd@temporaryreview2 weeks ago
- June/July/August 2017 on Temporary Art Review - https://t.co/CnC9akH5bD
- In March, Musee du Capitalisme, Museum des Kapitalismus and Museum @OfCapitalism gathered in Berlin by @sarritahunn https://t.co/2qZtQFRQBD
- Continuing our series on Russian spaces is a profile on the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art https://t.co/zMnNPXQNWq @garage_mca
- Eunsong Kim (@clepsydras) considers Jimena Sarno's current show, home away from, at @welcometolace https://t.co/zhXkdCOuDY
- Press Press with Iris Lee, Jenna Porter and Shan Wallace on "A Tender Thing" arts practice as self-care https://t.co/2wqdwkiBUS@temporaryreview2 months ago


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Greater Annandale Community Dialogue to be Held
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Dec. 1, 2003
Greater Annandale Community Dialogue to be Held Dec. 10
The Fairfax County Community Resilience Project and the Fairfax County Department of Systems Management for Human Services invite residents in the Annandale area, including the surrounding Springfield, Alexandria, Falls Church and Burke areas, to attend an interactive multicultural community dialogue. The dialogue is entitled "Many Roads, One Community" and will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 10, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Thomas Jefferson High School, 6560 Braddock Road, Alexandria.
The dialogue has been organized by representatives of different faith groups in the community and will be facilitated by George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Residents from different ethnic, faith and cultural backgrounds will explore how to build a stronger and more resilient community for today and the future. Questions to be addressed include: Since Sept. 11, how has your community changed? What do we want to understand about one another? How can we build one resilient community?
The event is free and open to the public and you
can register through the close of business on Wednesday, Dec. 10. To
register, for more information or to request reasonable ADA
accommodations, call the Fairfax County Community Resilience Project at