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SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Track-goers this year will be able to wager with smart phones, iPads and similar devices anywhere on racecourse grounds, thanks to a new WiFi network.
The $175,000 system's 50 access points provide complete coverage, one of several new features at Saratoga Race Course, whose 2012 season begins Friday.
New York Racing Association officials, on Wednesday, also showed off the track's new food and beverage venue, including a craft beer garden, near the Carousel Restaurant.
"The goal is to make it easier for fans on-track to place wagers," NYRA spokesman Dan Silver said of the new WiFi system.
The change means people won't have to leave their table, whether it's in a fine dining restaurant or the backyard picnic area, to make a bet.
The convenience is expected to produce an increase in handle, although NYRA doesn't have specific projections, Silver said. Handle -- the amount people wager -- has already been up this year during the winter Aqueduct Racetrack meet, and the recently-concluded spring-summer Belmont Park meet.
Saratoga is the first NYRA track to have free WiFi.
Silver said it's unclear yet whether NYRA will also install it at Belmont and Aqueduct. He said he's unsure if any other U.S. tracks have free WiFi.
"You can build wireless networks for any size venue," said Rebecca Douglas, of Latham-based Deep Blue Communications, which installed the system.
The network introduces a new FastBet Mobile platform for betting, fans with existing NYRA Rewards accounts may use the system to bet that way.
NYRA Cash Cards will be available and can be loaded at any voucher window throughout the track. Additional deposits and any withdrawals can be made at any window. After wagering, people may keep their account balance on the NYRA Cash Card or cash out at any teller window.
"We also encourage track patrons to utilize our network to engage in social media by sharing their day at the races experience with friends and family," NYRA President and Chief Operating Officer Ellen McClain said.
One of the track's most visible changes is a new food and beverage area, in and around the Carousel. The craft beer garden will have 12 different varieties to choose from, located next to a new music tent where bands will perform.
"We've never sold craft beer before," said Steve Travers, NYRA vice president for hospitality and customer service. "There's a lot of beer connoisseurs out there. This is a place they can come."
Each 12-ounce beer will cost $5.
Two local vendors, Hattie's Chicken Track Shack and Shirley's Restaurant, will have new spaces inside the Carousel. Four other vendors will be lined up outside -- Mac Truck, Carolina Barbecue Co., Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream and a pizza shop. Moe's Southwest Grill will also be in the Carousel area.
The site is just inside the reserved seating gate, on Union Avenue, just east of the main gate.
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LagavulinSingle Malt Whisky
Part of the triumvirate of heavily-peated southern Islay malts, alongside Ardbeg and Laphroaig, Lagavulin was officially founded in 1816 by John Johnston (although illicit distillation is said to have been carried out on the site since the mid-eighteenth centrury) and has been the Islay representative of Diageo's Classic Malt selection since 1987.
The histories of Lagavulin and Laphroaig have been closely tied together, with Laphroaig said to have been founded by the son of the founder of Lagavulin. They were both called Johnston, you see. People talk.
After Laphroaig's Donald Johnston (the afore-mentioned son of John Johnston) fell into a vat of boiling whisky by-products in 1847, Lagavulin's Walter Graham leased Laphroaig and ran both distilleries until the young Dugald Johnston (Donald Johnston's son) was ready to take over Laphroaig. However, a generation or so later, around the end ofthe 19th Century, the two distilleries got into an unseemly and very litigious scrap after Laphroaig tried to get out of an existing agency agreement to sell their whisky to Lagavulin for the latter's blends (which included White Horse, invented in 1890 by Lagavulin's then-owner Peter Mackie). This resulted in a string of court cases.
After the agency had finally run out in 1907, and with Laphroaig refusing to renew it, Lagavulin got the hump and blocked off Laphroaig's water supply, necessitating another return to court to sort out the rights. Laphroaig won this round, only for Lagavulin to pinch their distillery manager the following year and set about trying to create copies of Laphroaig's stills in a bid to make a spirit that would taste exactly like Laphroaig. Fortunately, this attempt was not successful and today relations betweeen the two great distilleries are rather more cordial.
Lagavulin is almost exclusively matured in ex-bourbon casks, meaning its fiery, uncompromising smoke and salted fish character comes storming out of the glass unhindered. It has converted untold numbers of people to whisky-drinking and remains the firm favourite of countless malt fans worldwide. Allocations of the standard 16 year-old are never adequate to satisfy demand for the product, resulting in frequent shortages. To ameliorate this difficulty, Diageo also release a cask strength 12 year-old almost every year, along with the vintage-dated Distiller's Edition, which has been finished in sweet Pedro Ximinez sherry casks and has won numerous awards in its own right.
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Islay has been cradle to many things, early Christianity for one. But it is in malt whisky distilling that this fertile island, some twenty miles by twenty-five, has found its modern vocation. Here, in the still mainly Gaelic speaking community around Port Ellen, on the island's south eastern shores, twelve men today craft pungent, dark Lagavulin™, made on this historic site at least since 1816.
The sea has shaped everything here. A narrow fringe of mica schist and hornblende provides coastal relief from the Dalradian quartzite of the hills above, providing Lagavulin with its romantic bay and the offshore island of Texa.
Above all, Islay means peat. Miles and miles of peat bog in the west of the island provide the raw material whose influence so characterises the south eastern Islay malts, of which Lagavulin™ is perhaps best known. Lagavulin's™ richly peaty process water runs down the brown burn to the distillery from the Solan Lochs in the hills above the distillery. Though it shares a coastline with two neighbouring distilleries, former owner Peter Mackie took pains to ensure that Lagavulin shares its water with no-one. Rights over the water course and the surrounding land were hotly contested in his day; his persistence secured Lagavulin's legacy.
The barley used to distil Lagavulin™ is malted at nearby Port Ellen and has a strong peat "reek" - it has perhaps twenty times as much exposure to peat smoke as a typical Speyside, Cragganmore. Fermentation of the barley is a slow process, too. Between 55 and 75 hours are taken for the full peat-rich flavour of the locally-malted barley to come through.
The four stills at Lagavulin, two of them pear-shaped in the style inherited from Malt Mill, take this peaty wort and give it all the time and care it deserves. Following the original practice, Lagavulin™ receives the slowest distillation of any Islay malt - around five hours for the first distillation and more than nine hours for the second is the norm. This long distillation is often said to give Lagavulin™ the characteristic roundness and soft, mellow edges that devotees rightly prize.
There's nothing rushed about Islay, nor is there about Lagavulin™; before being bottled, the malt spends sixteen unhurried years breathing the sea-salt air of Islay, mainly in refill European oak casks kept in traditional white-painted warehouses by the sea shore.
Long fermentation, long distillation and long maturation together ensure that Lagavulin develops all of its long, rich, peaty character. It's is a spirit that likes to take its time. The definitive Islay malt demands nothing less.
"An Islay classic. In the peatiness typical of the island, this is the most powerfully, intensely, dry. It also has smoke, salt and seaweedy, medicinal notes, though those characteristics are more evident in some of its neighbours." Michael Jackson, whisky writer and expert.
Lagavulin distillery
Islay came late to law and order. It was well into the 19th Century when arrangements to collect duty here finally fell into line with those applying elsewhere in Scotland and legal distilling became the norm.
As early as 1742, there were perhaps ten illicit stills operating at Lagavulin. In 1816 local farmer and distiller John Johnston founded the first legal distillery, within view of Dunyvaig Castle, once the stronghold of the Lords of the Isles.
A year later Archibald Campbell founded a second, which seems later to have traded under the name Ardmore. After Johnston's death the two were united, when Glasgow-based Islay malt merchant Alexander Graham, to whom Johnston had been in debt, acquired Lagavulin for the princely sum of £1,103 9s 8d.
Graham improved the buildings and his successors, James Logan Mackie & Co., carried on the business successfully. Lagavulin went from strength to strength. Alfred Barnard, visiting in 1887, commented that "There are only a few of the Scotch distillers that turn out spirit for use as single malt whiskies, and that at Lagavulin can claim to be one of the most prominent."
Owner Peter Mackie became famous throughout the whisky world as the creator of the famous blend, White Horse. A man driven by the Victorian work ethic and so nicknamed by his staff "Restless Peter", he was continually planning fresh ventures, one of which the famous "traditional" Malt Mill distillery opened alongside Lagavulin in 1908 and closed in 1960.
Today's Lagavulin™, winner of Gold Medals at nine International Wine and Spirit Competitions and the 1993 Ian Mitchell Trophy as best 'Special Edition' Single Malt Scotch Whisky, is acclaimed by writer Jane MacQuitty as "gloriously rich, smoky, iodine-scented".
Lagavulin™ is a powerful yet wonderfully rounded pleasure. Its recently described "awesome power and marvellous complexity of flavours" are enjoyed by a small but growing band of malt lovers, for whom this big, dark, intense character just is malt.
"Restless Peter" can rest easy at last....
Character and Style of Lagavulin
- Seaweed
- Tar
- Clove
- Wet wool (wet dog)
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Penn State launches Accelerated RN to B.S. in Nursing at four sites
In 2010, the Institute of Medicine recommended 80 percent of the nursing workforce hold at least a bachelor's degree by 2020 to meet the demands of an ever-changing health care system. To help Pennsylvania nurses achieve this education goal, Penn State is offering an Accelerated RN to B.S. in Nursing program at four locations this fall: Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus; Penn State Greater Allegheny; Penn State DuBois; and Penn State Learning Center in Lewistown.


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STRIKER Sam Vokes was the overall winner at Burnley's end of season supporters' awards last night, but Kieran Trippier said the accolade could go to any one of his team-mates in their promotion-winning year.
Player of the year awards from 12 of the 13 supporters' club branches were spread between Vokes, top scorer Danny Ings, captain Jason Shackell, right back Kieran Trippier, goalkeeper Tom Heaton and wide man Scott Arfield.
Vokes came out on top with five votes, with Ings and Shackell – who were both named in the PFA Championship team of the year – scooping two each.
It came as no surprise to Trippier that the awards were so spread out.
"You could have named all of our team," said the right back, who was also included in the PFA XI, for the second year in succession as Burnley boasted a trio for the first time.
Trippier, who scooped the club player of the year prize ahead of top scorer Jay Rodriguez in 2012, was voted player of the year by the West Yorkshire Clarets.
"The awards could have gone to anyone. The lads have all been brilliant this season.
"Danny Ings and Jason Shackell both deserve it, Scott Arfield is a real contender for player of the year in my eyes, and Dean Marney has been brilliant this year too," continued Trippier, who was voted player of the year by the West Yorkshire Clarets branch.
There were two other awards on the night, with Clarets legend Ian Britton receiving recognition from supporters clubs combined.
In the year that Burnley went UP to the Premier League, Britton was honoured for his contribution for keeping the club IN the Football League in 1987 and his goal against Orient on the final day of that season, when the Clarets needed to win to avoid the drop.
The 59-year-old former Chelsea midfielder, who is battling cancer, scored the decisive goal in a 2-1 win.
Upon receiving his award last night, an emotional Britton thanked supporters for the gesture and wished manager Sean Dyche and his players all the best in the Premier League.
"They totally deserve it," said Britton of promotion.
Ticket office manager Elaine Clare also received the Janice Fretwell Memorial Trophy.
But the final award of the night went to the team, presented to manager Dyche, his backroom staff and players for Burnley's promotion season, equalling and breaking club records along the way.
Dyche said: "The award means a lot to us and the club. It means so much because people like you count.
"Wherever we travel there are always Clarets knocking around.
"We know how much you care for the club."


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Jan 03, 2013 15:48 PM
Gregorius: I think they let Pennington handle SS duties while Gregorius gets a couple months of at-bats in AAA. Only has 48 games of experience there.
Jan 03, 2013 17:36 PM
Do you think Wheeler will come up sooner than what would be normal because the Mets want to keep him away from the launching pad in Las Vegas?
Jan 03, 2013 15:51 PM
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think a #2 starter, which I believe Trevor Rosenthal is quite capable of becoming, is more valuable than a wipe-out 7th-inning reliever, which his performance at the end of last year suggests he may already be. The question is: does it interfere with his development into the former role if he's pressed into season-long major-league service in the latter one? I don't know, but if it does, he'll start the year in the minors, as St. Louis has made it clear that they'd like him to be a starter.
Jan 03, 2013 17:08 PM
I know there are examples of prospects pitching out of the 'pen in their first season or two and then moving into the rotation when there is more of a need. I think organizations have different philosophies, though. Maybe the Cards don't want to mess with his development. On a less competitive team, I'd think that would more likely be the case. Since they are clear contenders in the NL, maybe they say, "We have a much better chance to win our division with him in a setup role in 2013' and then worry about building up his innings again over the winter.
Jan 03, 2013 17:26 PM
Is Hechavarria going to start the season in Miami?
Jan 03, 2013 19:38 PM
What about Hudson with DBacks? Is he out for good?
Jan 03, 2013 20:37 PM
Recovering from Tommy John surgery. Could return in 2nd half.
Jan 03, 2013 21:38 PM
It's really quite unfortunate that the Phils aren't willing to platoon Ruf and Howard. I know it sounds crazy, but Ruf mashed lefties last year, and Howard hasn't hit lefties well since Little League. As it stands now, I think you've got Revere in center, Dom Brown in right, and Mayberry in left, with Ruf on the bench. Quite frankly, I'd rather see Ruf out there in left as we know what Mayberry can do, and it's not that impressive. I know his defense would likely be among the worst in the league, but it's not like Pat Burrell and Raul Ibanez exactly lit it up for a decade straight.
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HOUSTON - A man was found dead in the parking lot of a southwest Houston sports bar early Tuesday.
Houston police said the body was found outside Cube's Sports Bar in the 9600 block of Bissonnet about 6 a.m.
Detectives said the man got into an altercation with four people during a New Year's Eve celebration. The four people were kicked out, but they stayed in the parking lot until the man left the bar, police said.
The man was attacked when he got into the parking lot, investigators said. He was shot multiple times, officials said.
The victim's name has not been released. Detectives said he was 34 years old.
"The parking lot was full when this incident occurred," Sgt. Warren Meeler said. "We know there are a lot of witnesses."
Police said they were trying to get in touch with the owner of the bar to see if anything was caught on surveillance video.
Investigators said this was the second slaying at the sports bar in the past two months. In November, a man was fatally shot after an argument spilled into a parking lot. A suspect has been arrested and charged in that case.
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The Net Post wondered what he was doing next and he said he really didnt know. If ever there was a player who requires a sense of direction, firm guidance, encouragement and the right decisions being taken about his career, it is Evans, who is a fine talent that, unless something positive happens soon, one fears will drift out of the game and be lost to it, which would be a terrible sin.


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We almost lost against the Vikings last week for being too conservative and predictable in our play. Playcalling in the third quarter lost this game for us. We came out and started playing not to lose instead of to win. I had a bad feeling about the game when we were 3rd and 20 and went with a WR screen.
There were a lot of issues in this game, but I really think if we would trust #12 and let him run the show until he shows he can't, we would score more points. I told my son when the screen was called that I thought we would lose the game because of being conservative in the second half.
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Can you tell me what`s on my tongue? I`ve developed white lines on the top and sides of my tongue. Some of them form complete circles and some don`t. Some connect with each other and some don`t. It almost looks lacey. Usually, the areas inside the white lines become smooth. The taste buds seem to disappear. Eventually, it will go away. The taste buds will return and in a few days it will move to other parts of my tongue and start all over. It doesn`t seem to hurt, but I can`t find anything to make it any better. I do know it`s not Thrush.
Based on your description of the morphologic changes on your tongue, I would presume that you have a condition known as "geographic tongue" or "benign migratory glossitis" or "erythema migrans". These are descriptive terms for a condition that affects the top of the tongue and the cause is unknown. Many texts will describe an association with elevated Candida carriage and in some instances yeast can be detected, but in many individuals yeast can be detected without these classic presentations.
The name "geographic tongue" is a descriptive account that the lesion looks like a rugged coastline on a map. The other term also describes the nature of this lesion: "benign" or not generally harmful; "migratory" or ever changing its location on the tongue; and finally "glossitis" or tongue inflammation.
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ARLINGTON -- Kevin Matthews, the 33rd overall pick in the 20011 First-Year Player Draft, is scheduled to pitch in an extended spring training game this week. It will be a significant step for the left-hander.
Matthews has been dealing with an impingement in his left shoulder since the beginning of Spring Training and has been about three weeks behind the other Minor League pitchers. The Rangers are building Matthews back up in the hopes of getting him back to Class A Hickory.
The 20-year-old was 3-4 with a 4.38 ERA in 15 starts and four relief appearances for Hickory last season. He is one of several key pitchers who are still in extended spring training in Arizona.
Left-hander Martin Perez, who has been sidelined for a month because of a broken left arm, threw long toss on Tuesday and could throw in the bullpen on Thursday. He is probably a month away from being back to full strength and endurance.
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2010 Archive
Saturday 2nd Jan Bridge 30Offloaded materials and store cabin on site, Heavy snow conditions.
Sunday 3rd Jan Bridge 30. More materials offloaded, Rails removed from bridge and loaded away. Dug out ready for track slew.
Track slewed over at North side of bridge.
Mon 4th Jan Closure rails to install, Track to be packed and crosslevelled prior to access of KIROW Crane.
Sunday 17th Jan Bridge 20 Newtondale Redecking work. 6 Volunteers and 2 Staff cleared the ballasted roadway and removed the rotting sleepers. Newly cut 22ft BH rails were placed over the gap and then new stone placed to cover.
Br 20 is a pipe underbridge with 2 pipes concreted in place. All scrap materials recovered back to yard.
Sunday 24th Jan Br 18 Newtondale Gabion basket installation. P staff started the job off slewing the track over then uplifting 2 panels for machine access.
Work carried on all week digging out the bank and placing / filling baskets.
Tony from Clarkes on the digger in the warmest place.
Sunday 31st Jan Br 18 Newtondale Gabion basket installation. 18 baskets placed and secured making 49 now in place with 34 filled with stone. Very cold all day with 2 inch of snow lying. Work again carrying on through the week. Hopefully track back in towards the end of the week.
Sunday 7th Feb Br 18 Newtondale Clip up track, Broach Fishplate holes and plate up. Cut in closure rails.
Wed 10th Feb Realign crane track at Br 30 site. Photo by Nick Carter added to gallery.
Sunday 14th Feb Newbridge yard work. Relocation of stores to mezzanine store.
Sunday 21st Feb Yard work.
Friday 26th February Work continuing on MACAW and Shark ballast plough.
Saturday 27th Feb Was this the last paper load from Poppleton as we know it? See photos on PWay gallery.
Sunday 28th Feb Bridge 30 Relay. 3 length track uplift, strip components, load to train, level bed and relay 1 1/2 length "new" concrete F27 sleepers and rerail 1 length with new FB113 rail, clip and plate up. Using newly returned to service Plasser crane 81516
See video page for film clip. Photos added to gallery.
Sunday 7th Mar Bridge 30 Relay. 3 length track relaid. Photos added to site. Using a mix of full time staff and volunteers.
Friday 12th March. Grampus 991840 moved to shed. Rubble removed, all flooring and securing bolts removed. All doors freed off and dropped, end doors removable channels removed and freed off as well.
Sunday 14th Mar Bridge 30 Relay. 3 length track relaid. Video footage added to site. Using a mix of full time staff and volunteers.
Sunday 21st Mar Bridge 30 Relay work completed. See photos on gallery from Nick Carter.
Midweek work also being done on site throughout the week.
Sun 28th Mar Yard work.
Sat – Mon 3rd – 5th York Model Railway show information stand. No planned railway as work Easter wekend.
Thurs 8th April All PW staff and volunteers on NYMR thank you Pullman diner for Br 30 works.
Fri 9th April Wagon work with Nick Carter at Newbridge 09.00 CANCELLED LAST MINUTE NOW SUNDAY
Sun 11th Apr Yard work Newbridge plus wagon work. Work continued on the Shark with repanelling the NE corner completed.
Just needs a few finishing jobs now and a coat of paint or two on the new timber.
Other work included welding up an extended point drive rod, template work on the Grampus and breaking up the
box van.
Sun 18th April Bridge 30 digging out manholes.
Sun 25th April Bridge 30 drainage work.
Fri 30th April Wagon work on Shark completed marked as ready for traffic, Painting on LNER Brake van 246710.
Sun 2nd May Bridge 30 Drainage work. Wagon work on Grampus with further weld repairs and MACAW axleboxes.
Sun 9th May Bridge 30 Drainage work.
Sun 16th May Grosmont headshunt digout sleeper beds in headshunt prior to resleepering work.
Sun 23rd May Grosmont headshunt resleeper with concrete sleepers.
Fri 28th May Wagon work Brake van fit new stepboards.
Sun 30th May No details received.
Fri 4th Jun Completed fitting new stepboards to east side of Brakevan.
Sun 6th Jun Grosmont MPD Headshunt resleepering. Or possible fencing at Fen Bog following fire damage.
Tues 15th Jun Evening scrap train 18.00 ex Newbridge Pick up bridge sections from Br 30
Sun 13th Jun NO WORK PLANNED
Sun 20th Jun Evening scrap train 15.00 ex Newbridge
Sun 27th Jun Grosmont headshunt resleeper with concrete sleepers.
Tues 29th Jun Evening scrap train 18.00 ex Newbridge
Sun 4th Jul Evening scrap train 18.00 ex Newbridge Collected concrete sleepers from Darnholm – Br 29 area
Sun 11th Jul E 246710
Fri 16th Jul Wagon work on LNER Brake van E 246710
Sun 18th Jul Levisham Stone blowing (originally planned as MPD)
Fri 23rd Jul Wagon work Repairs to LNER Brake van.
Sun 25th Jul Newbridge
Sun 1st Aug Grosmont MPD
Fri 6th Aug Newbridge work on LNER Brakevan E 246710. corner pillar repair and removal of salvageable planking.
Sun 8th Aug Grosmont MPD headshunt.
On sunday the PW dept finally completed the resleepering and rerailing of the headshunt at the mpd. In fact we should also add the lengthened headshunt as I think there is now an additional 60ft of track installed.
All work was carried out in house with use of the crane in liason with signalbox between trains.
All the old timber sleepers have been removed for disposal and replaced with concrete sleepers uplifted from the Bridge 30 relay.
All that remains is for the ballast production facilities on the railway to produce enough ash to ballast it,(Come on cleaners get those barrows moving) the gangs both staff and volunteer to work through the siding and jack and pack it to level, install a buffer stop, pick up the scrap sleepers and rails and if you are really lucky the tamper might put a finished top and line on it. But that is still to be decided upon as tampers usually work with ballast and not loose ash.
Apparently powers that be have decreed ash and not stone ballast, something or other about costs.
Fri 13th Aug Newbridge wagon work
Work today involved breaking out of heaving concrete at the N end of the LNER Brake van. Heaving caused by rust action on top of the frame members. The whole floor has been cleared with frame top surfaces needle gunned. A new piece of plate will hav to be welded in to repair a wasted area. Nick C has continued with recovering and moving T+G planking on the east side of the van. This means that any new timber will be in one area only, rather than trying to insert single planks. Also the threshold timber beam has been removed on the east side due to rot. This will be replaced in conjunction with a new section being spliced into the adjoining corner post. See photos in gallery. These show the current state of progress with painting, the amount of old brakeblocks that came out of the floor and the state of the underfloor area.
Sun 15th Aug Newbridge days / Gerry Tamping Sun Night
On the board – Yard work with relocation of stores from east side of shed.
Also plate wagon 932267 has been placed in shed for timber flooring repairs. Grampus may have a start made on shotblasting outside.
Sun 22nd Aug Grosmont MPD headshunt
Sun 29th Aug Bridge 18 realignment work and wagon work.
Fri 3rd Sept Wagon work on Grampus 991840. Fabrication of new steel floor sheets, completion of underframe repaint and start made on repaint of body. Manufacture of wood inserts for end door channels.
Sun 5th Sept
Fri 10th Sept Wagon work on Grampus 991840, continuation of steel floor prep work, Lettering and attention to couplings.
Sun 12th Sept Lift and pack Grosmont siding.
Fri 17th Sept Wagon work on Grampus 991840, Erect Gradient board at Farworth, resume work on LNER Brake van.
Sun 19th Sept Fence repair work Br 28 – 29 Darnholm
Fri 24th Sept Wagon work
Sun 26th Sept Yard work – Pickering station survey.
Fri 1st Oct Wagon work
Sun 3rd Oct Fishplate oiling Goathland
Fri 8th Oct Wagon work – LNER Brakevan E 246710 completion of fitting new timber into corner posts, start made on repainting into Bauxite livery. Grampus 991840 placing of 4th of 5 steel floor sheets and start made in trimming and welding into place.
Sun 10th Oct Fishplate oiling Goathland
Fri 22nd Oct Place new gradient board at Raindale and reposition 13 1/2mp to correct location. Photo on project page.
Wagon work – LNER Brakevan E 246710 Cement in 1/3 of North end verandah encasing the scrap brake blocks again.
Sun 24th Oct Fishplate oiling bridge 28 Darnholm. Gerrys last weekend shift. 5 Volunteers plus 4 from the SVR working in frequent lashing hail showers, we managed to realign about 7 pairs of joints and shimmed and oiled a couple of pairs of joints.
Before conceding defeat to the elements about 16.15.
Thurs 4th Nov Pegging out for resleepering work at Raindale. PW offloading cabin and digger with 12t crane. Then removing and replacing signal 18 at Levisham for S+T Dept. Approx 24ft long and buried about 7 ft in the ground. Gopher returned from SVR.
Some photos of today on the gallery.
Sunday 7th Nov Plate oiling Br 31 – 32 with Martyn Cannings. Shed and yard work Investigation of Plough planking.
Fri 12th Nov Wagon work. LNER BV 246710 Painting, T+G planking and removal of E side footboards.
Sunday 14th Work cancelled last minute.
Friday 19th Nov Work on LNER BV 246710 continued with painting and profiling of 2 new new footboards.
Saturday 20th Nov Martyn Cannings unloaded the new roof trusses for Pickering station roof – see photos.
Sunday 21st Nov Plate oiling Beckhole – Greenend with Martyn Cannings. Wagon work on Grampus Welding continued.
Friday 26th Nov Wagon work
Sunday 28th Nov Plate oiling Beckhole – Greenend
Sunday 5th Dec Cancelled due to weather conditions
Midweek Class diesel was fitted with mini snowploughs and did a plough run over the length of the line, photo by Martyn Cannings.
Sunday 12th Dec Yard work
Friday 17th Dec Wagon work CANCELLED
Sunday 19th Dec Yard work
Sunday 26th Dec You can take a day off its Christmas.
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Environment/software: IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool
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Virtual images are popular because they allow developers and administrators to rapidly and consistently deliver user environments; with ever-increasing popularity, though, comes some new costs, such as the efforts involved in creating and managing these images. The IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool helps users build more flexible, reusable, multi-purpose virtual images through a modular approach.
With ICCT, a user defines an operating system environment, then defines such additional software as app servers and development tools ... in other words, providing the components for the virtual image. Next the user defines input parameters and a set of configuration actions for the virtual image. At this point, the ICCT builds the image and automatically wires the user-defined configuration actions into the image's activation framework.
The user can deploy the image using the IBM Cloud, WebSphere CloudBurst, or Tivoli Provisioning Manager; he can pass in unique input parameters to which the configuration actions have access, resulting in a virtual image that automatically configures itself based on the requirements defined by the deployer.
Here is a roundup of knowledge resources on the IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool:
- How to "freeze-dry" cloud environments and deliver them consistently. You can use virtual cloud images as a means to improve software delivery within data centers; this developerWorks article shows you how.
- A view from the clouds: ICCT. WebSphere CloudBurst evangelist Dustin Amrhein introduces you to the ICCT tool.
- This webcast walks you through how to use the ICCT tool. (06:33)
- A view from the clouds: Taking an ICCT bundle to a usable image. Dustin Amrhein shows you more on how to use the ICCT to create customized virtual images.
- Get the ICCT tool. Download it here.


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After a maddening search for the MVP Ion thread I finally realized that the original Ion thread became the MVP Disc Sports thread stickied at the top of the equipment page. This has left DGR without a thread dedicated exclusively to this wonderful little putter...Until now!
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After more than a decade, San Bernardino County's emergency proclamation stemming from the devastating bark beetle infestation in the San Bernardino Mountains has come to an end.
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously authorized the termination of the county's local emergency status, which was proclaimed on Sept. 24, 2002, at the peak of a bark beetle infestation spurred by years of drought. The status had been renewed monthly ever since.
Emergency funding for the county, however, will not officially cease until June 30, said Peter Brierty, assistant chief of the San Bernardino County Fire Department.
The infestation killed more than 1 million pine trees in the overgrown forest and fueled the Old Fire in October 2003, which burned more than 90,000 acres in the San Bernardino Mountains.More than 6 million acres of California forest were threatened by bark beetle infestations at the height of the crisis in 2003, when then-Gov. Gray Davis proclaimed a state of emergency for San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties.
The San Bernardino National Forest is the most popular and populated forest in the U.S., with $8 billion in residential, business and infrastructure risk, Brierty said.
"When the bark beetle hit, it had this overabundance of trees and it just had a field day," Brierty said.
Each tree bred thousands of the bugs - so many that despite each being half the size of a grain of rice, they could be seen in swarms, Brierty said.
"We just saw tree after tree dying and then, eventually, thousands of trees dying," he said.
The emergency proclamation enabled the county to receive $59 million in federal and state funding for tree removal and expedited environmental review processes, Brierty said.
In addition, utility companies and community action groups dug into their pockets to help in the efforts to protect mountain residents from the threat of fire danger.
Southern California Edison contributed $200 million for the removal of dead trees, Brierty said.
More than a decade of tree removal and efforts by public safety agencies and mountain residents to stabilize the forest has paid off.
"The forest is green," Brierty said. "We don't have the bark beetle die-off anymore."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Fielder reflects on childhood times with Francona
DETROIT -- One of the most frequently played highlights when Prince Fielder signed with the Tigers a year and a half ago was the footage of a young Fielder hitting batting practice from a Tigers coach named Terry Francona.
As Francona sat in the visitors office at Comerica Park on Friday, he could vividly remember those sessions.
"I remember he didn't pick up the balls," Francona said. "I said, 'Hey, man. I don't care how far you hit them. You've got to pick up the balls.' We had a good laugh about that last spring. ... I remember just thinking that no 12-year-old should be able to hit a ball that far."
Fielder didn't dispute the accusation.
"I was terrible at picking those up, just like my youngest one is," Fielder said.
The great thing about hitting batting practice from Francona, Fielder said, was that he's left-handed. Perhaps it was the early seasoning that helped him handle left-handed pitching well in the big leagues.
Fielder joked that he hasn't grown much taller since then. Of course, a close look at the highlights show Francona had hair on his head back then, too.
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Click here, or on the image above, to see the trailer for this remarkable film.
"When you talk about The Swimmer, will you talk about yourself?"
"On a sunny early autumn day, the camera runs along the autumnal forest of an affluent suburb in Connecticut. The running is that of Ned Merrill (Lancaster), a seemingly successful, appealing and popular middle-aged advertising executive, clad only in swimming trunks. We never learn where he has arrived from. He walks out of the woods and into the backyard of some old friends sitting by their swimming pool. He chats with them, then he has a sudden idea: he tells his friends he intends to "swim" home across the county by dropping in on friends' swimming pools which form a consecutive chain leading back to his house. He dives into the pool, emerges at the other end and starts his journey.
At first Ned gets warm welcomes as he meets old friends. These are mostly upper middle-class, well-to-do people with homes in the upscale outer suburbs. However, there are hints that Ned has been away for up to two years, and he brushes off any questions about himself. Each stop brings him face to face with some aspect of his life. The first one is with his youth when anything was possible, while the last one exposes the current collapse of his family life and where everything seems lost.
As the day wears on and Ned sees those who have been closer to him more recently, the welcomes begin to sour. Ned's proud boasts about his wife, daughters and home are met with strong mixed feelings, jeers, suspicion and even anger – especially from women. In one backyard Ned meets a 20-year-old girl who, years ago, had babysat his daughters. She leaves with him, at first thrilled to do so owing to an unspoken crush she had for him in her early teens. But when Ned rather clumsily tries to woo and kiss her, she flees. He carries on with his "swim," dropping by the pools of sundry other friends as it slowly unfolds that his life has somehow gone quite wrong.
He crashes a party at one pool. While he is allowed in at first, Ned is thrown out when he has an outburst after spotting a hot dog wagon he had once bought for his daughters, but which had recently been sold in a white elephant sale. He then shows up at the backyard pool of Shirley Abbott, a stage actress with whom he'd had an affair several years earlier. She is still feeling bitter and hurt. When Ned tries to rekindle things, this poolside meeting ends very badly for both of them.
As the day ends, Ned winds up in a crowded public swimming pool where he runs across and is shamed by local shopkeepers to whom he still owes money for unpaid grocery and restaurant tabs. When some of them comment about his wife's overall snobbish attitude and his out-of-control daughters' recent troubles with the law, he doesn't want to hear it and angrily flees. As the sun goes down, a shivering Ned at last staggers up a rocky hill, shoves open a rusted gate and walks through an overgrown garden with an unkempt tennis court. A thunderstorm begins as Ned knocks on the front door of a locked, dark and thoroughly empty house, whereupon he breaks down on the front stoop and weeps."
Based on a short story by John Cheever, this deeply affecting film was shot in and around Westport, Connecticut, in the summer of 1966 when star Burt Lancaster was 52, and features Cheever in a bit part as one of Ned's "neighbors" roughly halfway through the film. It's an uneven film, but ultimately tells more about the truth behind the surface of East Coast suburbia that nearly any other work of its kind.
The Swimmer is also something of a patch job, since director Frank Perry departed near the end of filming, and Burt Lancaster even plowed some of his own money into the film to finish it, but despite its somewhat compromised origins, the film is deeply affecting, and more than a little unsettling. Indeed, the film's ending is so downbeat and enigmatic that Columbia Pictures, the film's distributor, didn't know how to handle the film, and shelved it until May 15, 1968, when the film finally went into general release.
After Frank Perry's departure, the film was finished by the late, and deeply talented Sydney Pollack, though the film is signed by Perry alone, and Perry's wife, Eleanor, scripted the film from Cheever's story. Shot in the blazing summer, the film's visuals are dominated by the green of well manicured lawns shaded by huge trees, conveying both the affluence and indolence of its characters.
The final scene, in which Lancaster, at the gate of his empty house, breaks down weeping, is almost unbearably poignant, as he contemplates the ruins of his home, his family, and his life. As the film's tagline asked, "when you talk about The Swimmer will you talk about yourself?" More than just about any other film, The Swimmer captures the essential emptiness of the American Dream; the house, the family, the facade that all too easily crumbles.
It's deeply affecting and committed filmmaking, and remained Lancaster's personal favorite of all his films. As his character, Ned, observes rhetorically near the conclusion of The Swimmer, "nothing's turned out – nothing's turned out the way – I thought it would. When I was a kid, I – I used to believe in things. People seemed happier when I was a kid. People used to love each other. What happened?" Life happened, with all of its unexpected twists and turns. And some get crushed by it, like Ned Merrill.
Here's the text of Cheever's original, horrific ending, which the film superbly – and faithfully – translates to the screen: "The place was dark. Was it so late that they had all gone to bed? Had Lucinda stayed at the Westerhazys' for supper? Had the girls joined her there or gone someplace else? Hadn't they agreed, as they usually did on Sunday, to regret all their invitations and stay at home? He tried the garage doors to see what cars were in but the doors were locked and rust came off the handles onto his hands. Going toward the house, he saw that the force of the thunderstorm had knocked one of the rain gutters loose. It hung down over the front door like an umbrella rib, but it could be fixed in the morning. The house was locked, and he thought that the stupid cook or the stupid maid must have locked the place up until he remembered that it had been some time since they had employed a maid or a cook. He shouted, pounded on the door, tried to force it with his shoulder, and then, looking in at the windows, saw that the place was empty."
This is a disturbing, enigmatic film – and essential viewing.
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I truly believe that SLU offers students something more just than academics, athletics, or extracurriculars activities. Students who graduate from St. Lawrence bring a separate set of leadership skills to the table, which they've learned during their years here.
Why Canadian Studies? Canton's close proximity to Canada puts us in ideal location to study the nation. My first Canadian studies course was taken as a first-year student to fill a diversity requirement. From then on, I was hooked! I loved learning about a culture that paralleled the US in development, but maintains a "uniqueness" in culture and government. The similarities and differences provide plenty of interesting material to delve into, and studies of Canada can often be related to studies of other cultures.


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One retail grocery chain may be able to do what several states have been trying to do through legislation—require food containing genetically modified ingredients to be labeled. Whole Foods Market announced last week that it would require all GM food sold in its stores to be labeled. Whole Foods Market is the first grocery chain to make such an announcement.
The new labeling requirement would be put in place within five years, said A. C. Gallo, president of Whole Foods. He claimed that the move was inspired by consumer demand. "We've seen how our customers have responded to the products we do have labeled. Some of our manufacturers say they've seen a 15 percent increase in sales of products they have labeled," Gallo told The New York Times.
All 339 Whole Food stores in the United States and Canada would be included in the new labeling requirement. Its seven stores in Britain already label products that contain GM ingredients.
The announcement comes within four months of voters rejecting a GM labeling bill in California that would have required all products that contained GM ingredients to be labeled within the state. This would have essentially forced all food manufacturers to rewrite their food labels. Since the Proposition 37 was defeated in November 2012, other states have tried picking up the mantle through various bills with varying success.
Whole Foods' announcement was met with opposition from the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which issued a statement. "These labels could mislead consumers into believing that these food products are somehow different or present a special risk or a potential risk," Louis Finkel, GMA's executive director of government affairs said in a statement, the New York Times reported.
The Biotechnology Industry Organization also issued a statement against Whole Foods.
"BIO fully supports the voluntary labeling of products to meet specific demands of consumers in the marketplace. But BIO does not support attempts to label food in a way that is misleading or that confuses consumers – for example, by suggesting that there is a difference in safety or nutrition between biotech food and organic food, when there is none," BIO announced in a statement.
Proponents of requiring food manufacturers to label GM ingredients approved of Whole Foods' announcement and called the move a "game changer."
"Whole Foods is doing the right thing for consumers by giving them more information about what is in their food," said Gary Hirshberg, chairman of Stonyfield Farm and board chair of Organic Voices. "We urge other business leaders to work with us to give every American the same right as consumers in 62 other countries. More than 90 percent of Americans want the right to know whether their food contains GE ingredients so that they can make the best choices for their families."


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The AXAF name contest attracted 6,000 entries from fifty
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entries we received presented our panels with a challenging task.
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Principles underlying the experiential and the logical structures of the nominal group in Portuguese
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-16861
URL: http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2008/1686/
(2008) The 19th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop
Dokument 1.pdf (261 KB)
Linguistik , Portugiesisch , Nominalphrase
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nominal group , description of Portuguese , translation studies , English—Portuguese contrast
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This paper presents a description of the Portuguese nominal group both for its experiential and logical organizations and carries out a contrastive study of English and Portuguese nominal group features. Halliday & Matthiessen (2004) state that the nominal group can be seen as a multivariate structure (experiential), in which elements play different functional roles and as a univariate structure (logical), generated by iteration. Consequently, the most comprehensive form to approach how the nominal group is organized is to look at these two structures at the same time. In order to do so, a corpus was collected based on the socio-semiotic processes typology (see Herke-Couchman, 2006) and nominal group elements were annotated. The analysis was carried out and patterns of functions and relations were retrieved. It was possible to identify features of elements taking part in the experiential and logical structures of the nominal group as well as their functional configuration. In the contrastive study with English, it was possible to understand how these systems differ when more delicate investigation takes place. Results indicate recurrent grammatical features and lead to a possible description of the nominal group in Portuguese — i.e., the elements that compose it as well as how they are functionally organized.
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Xname - Noise_Objects in Public Space - event
Friday April 8th , 5.30-8.30pm – Free – all welcome
Xname completes her residency at Access Space with an artist talk, a performance of the Noise_Objects, a screening of a video documenting the residency and a Noise_Objects jam with other artists who came to her workshops.
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Xname - Noise_Objects in Public Space (video)
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Noise_Objects Workshops - free - all welcome
Thu 31 March 12 noon-3pm, Fri 1st April 2pm-4.30pm, Sat 2nd April 12noon-5pm
Collect your old toys and any other interesting scrap material which stimulates your imagination and join us at Access Space next week..
…We will build a series of sculptures made of recycled material, simple electronic components and basic micro circuits. These objects, powered by solar panels, will be animated by the diy electronic devices we will embed in their bodies.
You will learn about electronics, art, green energy and the creative use of public space.
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At the recently christened JetBlue Park, where the Boston Red Sox go for spring training and to escape March storms of baked beans, Fort Rock emerges as the largest rock festival to hit Southwest Florida. The fest is the brainchild of the production gurus from 99X, Danny Wimmer Presents, and AEG Live, fortifying fans of hard rock, punk, and heavy metal with a lineup of multiplatinum-selling, fist-pumping giants sprawled across the Main Stage and the Jägermeister Second Stage.
The Lineup
The Offspring – California skate punkers best known for hits such as "Come Out and Play," "Self Esteem," and "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)"
3 Doors Down – Multiplatinum postgrunge rockers behind "Loser" and "Kryptonite"
Stone Sour – Grammy-nominated alternative-metal band featuring members of Slipknot
Papa Roach – Grammy-nominated nü-metal superstars known for "Scars" and "Last Resort"
Volbeat – Multiplatinum Danish band blends metal, punk, and rockabilly in set featuring tracks from their latest, Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies
In This Moment – Female-led California alternative-metal band seen at Ozzfest and the Uproar Festival
Escape the Fate – Million-selling posthardcore band from Las Vegas with emo leanings
Device – New industrial-metal side project from Disturbed frontman David Draiman
Pop Evil – Melodic postgrunge Michigan outfit behind the hit "Boss's Daughter"
Otherwise – Las Vegas alternative rockers responsible for the grassroots smash hit "Soldiers"
Mindset Evolution – Midwestern hard-rock five piece featured on the Vans Warped Tour
The Offspring – "Self Esteem"
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Joe Francis takes 'Girls Gone Wild' companies into bankruptcy to keep from paying Steve Wynn
Notorious smut peddler Joe Francis has a brilliant idea to keep his Girls Gone Wild empire out of Steve Wynn's clutches following a multimillion award in a defamation suit against Francis: Joe just put his empire of barely legal flesh into bankruptcy. Just in time for spring break, too!
The Wall Street Journal reports that Francis put GGW Brands LLC and its affiliates into Chapter 11 protection Wednesday in California, listing a $10.3 million debt as disputed. Wynne as awarded $7.5 million by a jury in 2012 after suing Francis first for an outstanding $2 million gambling debt, then for defamation after Francis told the court that the casino-resort owner deceived its customers. Francis also said that Wynn "said he would hit me in the back of the head with a shovel and bury me in a hole in the desert" for not paying his debt, so Francis required a restraining order. …Full Story


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Econ Grad Student Wins NSF Funding
When Megan Fasules told her father, a medical doctor, that she was going to get her PhD in economics, he laughed. "He always joked that he wanted another doctor in the family," Fasules says. "He just wasn't expecting this kind."
Fasules began her doctorate at American University in 2010, and she knew she wanted to focus on the intersection of health and economics. "There's a lot of change going on right now," she says. "Health economics is a newer field, and there's still work to be done there."
Deciding on a dissertation topic that blended the two fields ended up as a combination between her interest and background in health and her work with her advisor, Professor Mary Hansen. Hansen is working on a pilot program that aims to digitize one percent of all US bankruptcy records.
As Hansen's research assistant, Fasules started seeing a connection between bankruptcy records and individuals on Medicare. "A lot of individuals have medical debt," she says. "Observing that kind of bankruptcy debt gave me some real ideas. I wanted to analyze how health insurance affected medical debt, and I thought it would be great to be able to use the data we were collecting on bankruptcy."
Hansen praises Fasules for her take on her research. "Megan has taken a very wise road to her PhD: she took an enduring interest of hers and melded it with an interest of her advisor," says Hansen.
While she's got a great start on her dissertation, she knew she needed to collect more data. She applied for and recently received the National Science Foundation's Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for economics for $23,000. "Getting the grant is a huge honor," says Fasules. "The National Science Foundation is telling me my research is of interest to someone other than me, which is very exciting."
Over the next year, she'll travel to archives in Boston and possibly another city where she will take photos of relevant bankruptcy records from 1961 to 1973, then will have them sent to a vendor in India that will enter the data into a spreadsheet for her. Once her data collection is complete, she'll look for relationships between the implementation of Medicare and individual bankruptcy records. "This is a perfect experiment, because prior to 1966, when Medicare was instated, people over age 65 rarely had effective health insurance," Fasules says. "Medicare was the first attempt at compulsory health insurance in the US."
Lately, she's been reading up on the history of Medicare and how it has changed since its inception. "I think they had good intentions," she says. "I hypothesize the program is a good thing in terms of personal bankruptcy, since we see a decline in bankruptcy rates after Medicare was implemented." She has found that generally, once Medicare was implemented, income did increase for the average petitioner.
Fasules has seen some aberrations in her data, though. Medicare increased the personal bankruptcy rates in states with large proportions of elderly individuals. "But my data only includes 11 states so far," she says. "Once I have included all 50, I'm hoping that the aggregate data will prove my initial theory."
Though she is looking at state-level aggregate data to analyze bankruptcy rates, she is most closely concentrating on Maine and Maryland to analyze other aspects of bankruptcy that are affected. "Maryland is part of the pilot program Professor Hansen is doing, and of the states available at the archives Maine has the highest proportion of elderly living there during the period I wanted to study," Fasules says. She'll take about a year to complete her research and dissertation.
Hansen sees her student's research as vital to the healthcare debate. "Megan's research will contribute to the development of the health economics field, to our understanding of the links between social insurance and economic outcomes, and to policymakers considering the impact of new healthcare laws," she says.
Fasules isn't sure where her dissertation will take her, but she's happy to be a part of the conversation. "My topic is very relevant today. President Obama has said that he's trying to get health policy implemented so that people don't have to declare bankruptcy if they're sick," she says. "And I definitely think that our health system has to change. I'm not sure how, but I look forward to trying to figure that out."


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Employees from Motorola had a wonderful time creating patriotic "No Sew" blankets for Soldiers' Angels at a recent event in Chicago. Special thanks to the Motorola Foundation for sponsoring this amazing event! The blankets will be distributed by Soldiers' Angels "Angel" volunteers to veterans at the Jesse Brown VA in Chicago. Click here to see all of the photos from the blanket event.
September 22, 2017
No one understands the true price of freedom made by our military heroes more than our Gold Star Mothers and Families. Each year, the last Sunday in September is a day set aside to recognize their grief, their sacrifices, and their strengths. If you are a Gold Star Mother or Family, we honor your sacrifice and thank you for your service. If you know a Gold Star Mother or Family, please take time today to recognize them. Learn more about Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day.
September 19, 2017
A special guest blog from Disability Benefits Help with information for wounded veterans receiving disability benefits. Did you know that you are potentially eligible for Social Security benefits? While the two programs are both offered by the US government, each has its own technical eligibility criteria. Fortunately, a VA disability approval can go a long way towards your Social Security disability approval. Learn more about the differences and how to find out if you can qualify.
September 19, 2017
Our country has been hit hard by the recent hurricanes. First Hurricane Harvey and now Hurricane Irma... millions of our fellow citizens have been affected by these disasters, and many of them are veterans. Individuals who have fought for our country are now in need of someone to fight for them. What's worse? Another storm is forming as we speak... and we still have weeks left of hurricane season. We need to come together now and help the veterans affected by Hurricane Irma and future hurricanes.
Can you fight for the veterans who have so gallantly fought for you?
September 18, 2017
We are excited to announce that our Adopt-A-Family Program is officially open for 2017 registration! Through this unique program, sponsors can 'adopt' a qualified military or veteran family for the holiday season. The sponsor will then provide gifts for the children as well as a grocery gift card or prepaid credit card for them to purchase their holiday dinner and trimmings. As of today, the program is open for military and veteran families to register for support and open for individuals/groups/businesses to register to 'adopt' families. Click here for full details on the Soldiers' Angels Adopt-A-Family program.
September 15, 2017
This week is National Suicide Prevention Week. We encourage you to take some time and learn the warning signs and how to reach out for help. Nearly 30,000 Americans commit suicide every year and about 18% of those suicides are veterans. In fact, roughly 20 veterans commit suicide every day nationwide. Learn more now-- it might just save a life.
Recently, we brought you the story about Soldiers' Angels 'Angel' volunteers Supporting the Education of Girls in Afghanistan and now we have some exciting updates! We also wanted to take the time to highlight some of the Angels who have helped in a big way and tell some truly touching stories of how communities have come together to provide these girls with the tools they need to learn. Read the latest news about the Angels helping in Afghanistan here.
A special guest blog highlights some valuable tips on how to help children deal with the grief of losing a loved one. This important life lesson can often be very difficult for parents to teach their children, but these tips will help you and your child navigate the turbulent waters of grief.
The 9/11 tragedy affected every American in a different way. For Soldiers' Angels founder, Patti-Patton Bader, whose son was deployed to Afghanistan shortly after the war began, September 11th inspired her to provide support for the people fighting overseas. Read the full story here.
Registration is now open for those interested in becoming an official Halloween Candy collection site for the 2017 Soldiers' Angels Treats for Troops Program. Treats for Troops is a program in which local businesses, traditionally but not limited to dental offices, agree to accept excess Halloween candy from kids in exchange for goodies. Through the Soldiers' Angels Treats for Troops program, businesses can register to serve as a collection site for this program. Not only will you be serving the community by buying back candy and removing it from the mouths of children, but also serving our service members, wounded heroes, and veterans. For families with too much candy in your home, this is your opportunity to support a good cause, allow your kids to earn prizes, and receive a tax deductible receipt for your donation. This year, our goal is to collect 17,000 pounds of candy for our service members and veterans! Click here to learn more about Treats for Troops or to register as an official collection site.
Let's come together this holiday season and show our deployed service members and veterans how much we appreciate them! Soldiers' Angels Holiday Community Partner Program works specifically during the holiday season to provide cards, letters, and stuffed stockings for our troops and veterans. As combat deployments have drawn down many charities, including Soldiers' Angels, have discontinued the acceptance of holiday cards and letters to the troops- the volume of cards and letters exceeded our distribution abilities. While most charities will not, Soldiers' Angels will continue to accept your holiday cards and letters from our Holiday Community Partner members only! Each card and/or letter must be placed into a stocking filled with goodies for our troops and veterans. Soldiers' Angels will deliver your stockings to a deployed service member or veteran patient. Registration for this unique holiday program is now open. Learn more or register to pledge stockings here.
Deployment can be extremely stressful for military families when it coincides with the birth of a child. The Soldiers' Angels Operation Top Knot team primarily focuses on supporting families at home while they are separated from their deployed family member. They do this by shopping for (and making) baby items for their expecting family. Each new or expectant mother receives a virtual shower from angels across the country. Much of what is sent is actually handmade by our talented angels! Learn more about this unique team and all they ways they help welcome the newest military family members.
The situation in Texas is dire. Thousands of people are in need of assistance to escape the rapidly rising flood waters and devastation left behind from Hurricane Harvey. Emergency crews and volunteers from around the country are en route to provide much-needed assistance... and the rain just keeps coming. Soldiers' Angels is collecting donations to help support all veterans affected by this historic hurricane. Proceeds will help provide basic needs for veterans and their families. Many of these families have lost everything. We need to pull together now to show our support. Can you help us support veterans on the Texas coast affected by Hurricane Harvey?
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Heterotopias of the Cold War
In this lecture Visiting Professor Dr. Xenia Vytuleva will discuss
the urban phenomenon of Soviet Secret Cities ZATO, it's correlation to
the concept of "human geography", and how these "realized utopias" reflected the socio-political and aesthetic discourses of the Cold War.
Lasting one fifteen-millionth of a second, the double lightning flash
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki precipitated an official carte blanche to
establish a new, utopian and secret format of Soviet urbanity. Nameless,
not plotted on any map, even blurred on Google Earth, Soviet secret
cities, or ZATO, were sites of highly secretive military and scientific
research and production. Inspired by ideal cities, based on perfect
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Staging Tips
These staging tips from Ana Hitzel, who owns Accent Positives in Corona, could also be used to help homeowners be more comfortable in their house even before they think about selling it.
Get rid of clutter: You can, and should, live more efficiently. More is not necessarily better. Most people have too much stuff. Just getting rid of items or furniture can transform a room. "Most people don't have to move in an instant. Find storage solutions now. Plan ahead and start boxing things up. You'll be ready to move or you'll realize you don't need these things anyway and just get rid of them," she said.
Consider repositioning furniture and accent pieces or even using them in different ways: You've looked at your dining room a certain way for 10 years, but placing a chair here and moving a painting there may give you a whole new updated look. There's no need to buy more. Use what you have.
Keep it clean: You'll enjoy your space more.
Update when you can: You'll be able to enjoy the house, but when you plan to sell the changes you make will catch buyers' eyes. Stagers can help homeowners target areas in the home that need the most improvement such as painting or updating bathrooms while staying within your budget.
For the first time in a long time, the housing market is healthy. Home sales are brisk. Sellers are competing for buyers. In some cases, it can be a bit of a jungle out there, so having an edge matters.
That's where staging comes in. Staging is a strategic marketing tool designed to show a property in its best possible light. Professional stagers and many realtors believe in the power of this technique no matter the market — potential buyers can see all the possibilities and sellers can get top-dollar and a quicker sale.
According to the Real Estate Staging Association, professionally listed staged properties simply look better; spend 73 percent less time on the market; typically sell for more money; end up on buyers' "must see" lists; are viewed as "well-maintained;" and have fewer concessions requested of the seller.
Individual stagers set their own fees, but a typical staging cost is about $2,500. It should be considered a cost of doing business or an investment that sellers might recoup when the house sells.
But not everyone is a fan of staging. Wil Herring of Baxter Wellington Real Estate, who is president of the Inland Valleys Association of Realtors, said staging is not necessary.
"The market is strong because there simply isn't enough inventory out there," Herring said. "Some sellers are getting 10 to 20 offers for their properties. And properties asking less than $300,000 are going quickly, so right now, at this moment, I don't think staging is necessary in order to help sell your property. That may change in six months, but then again, the market is always changing."
Would staging help you sell your house? Put yourself in the shoes of a potential buyer. Given about the same location and asking price, if House X is clutter-free, clean, updated and nicely decorated, and House Y down the street isn't any of the three, which house do you think has a better chance of selling? It might come down to a simple gut feeling on the part of the buyers.
Ana Hitzel owns Accent Positives in Corona. Much of her work is done in Riverside County as well as the desert communities.
"Staging is marketing. You want your house to stand out in a crowd," said Hitzel, who retired from the military before embarking on her new career. She is also a wife and mother of four children. She likes order. And she says she has the objective buyers' eye that a homeowner may not.
"I always tell my clients, think about when you first walked into your house," she said. "What struck you and convinced you to buy the house? What did you notice? Think about that and that will help you, but sometimes you need someone else looking at it. I take what I do seriously. This is my job, but I am also honored that someone trusts me enough to help them.
Suellen Lassetter of StageRight Home Staging and Redesign in Upland says it also helps sellers accept the idea they have decided to sell.
"Once you've decided to sell your home, you have to start detaching from it, which can be difficult to do. That's where I come in," Lassetter said. "You have to start looking at your home as a commodity. You have to decide whether you just want the house sold or do you want the possibility of selling it faster and for more money? It really doesn't matter what the market is like. Statistics prove that staging a house works."
Lassetter has some accessories, plants, towels and lighting fixtures of her own that she uses, but for the most part, she rents furnishings. Some homes have too much furniture or it is outdated and no longer fits the style of the houses. Others have too many things all over the place that serve no purpose and simply come across as clutter. The goal, she said, is to have the house look move-in ready.
Lassetter's own experiences have been helpful. Early in her marriage, the family moved six times in 10 years.
"We lived in a Texas tract home and I went to see the model home for that tract. I copied what they did," she said. "I've always liked interior decorating and now I enjoy the best of both worlds, staging and decorating. Very few people live in their house the way they would have to do to show it. I tell people what they might not want to hear, but need to hear."
Selling a house involves marketing, merchandising, psychology and design, she said.
A house that "shows" well and is priced well will sell, and sell quickly, according to the experts. And timing can be everything. First impressions count, even from the moment a potential buyer drives up to a house. When a house first goes on the market, it usually receives a lot of interest from real estate agents and the buying public. That's the time to strike. Once that first wave of interest passes, time can become an enemy for a seller.
Homeowner Kathy Hoffman-Crudge said staging has been a dream, which she hopes will translate to a quick and profitable sale for her 1,000-square-foot home in Monrovia. The asking price for the three-bedroom, one-bathroom Craftsman bungalow is $569,000. The house has been on the market for a couple weeks, but Hoffman-Crudge said she's still glad it was staged.
"In putting our home up for sale, we were looking for ways to enhance the potential out of our little house," said Hoffman-Crudge. "It is a cozy home built in 1896 with little rooms and a slightly awkward floor plan. We have rented it over the last eight years and have found that tenants fall in love with the place. We hoped that staging the home would help others see how cozy the house can be."
She hired Lassetter to work her magic in the vacant house.
"Vacant houses take twice as long to sell," Lassetter said. "Many people think that an empty room lets potential buyers see what the room could look like, but empty rooms actually make the space look smaller."
She brought in room furniture to match the charm of the home.
"What you want to do is eliminate as many of the negatives as possible and point out all the good things, all the possibilities, about a house," she said.
Within a matter of days, Hoffman-Crudge said Lassetter was able to work her magic on the unique house.
"She filled each room in the house with comfort and style," Hoffman-Crudge said. "Besides the beautiful furniture, she added many special touches like books, candles and pictures on the walls. We are very happy with the result."


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Microsoft will be releasing the preview version of Windows 8.1 sometime today. This date is significant as it is exactly eight months since desktops, laptops and tablets with Windows 8 went on sale. Microsoft hopes to fix many of the gripes people have with the latest version of the company's flagship operating system. This is critical PC sales are in decline and having an OS that nearly everyone complains about is certainly not helping the situation. The headline changes in Windows 8.1 include bringing back the Start Screen button, 50:50 split screen modern UI multitasking and the ability to boot to desktop. We aren't sure when the download links will go live, but they will likely be enabled at the start of Microsoft's BUILD conference, which kicks-off today at 9am PT in San Francisco. Microsoft is also expected to debut the Surface Mini tablet at the show as well. Stay tuned for more info!
Windows 8.1 brings together everything you do – from new mobile apps for your business, to Office productivity work, to searching and browsing, to accessing all your data from anywhere.Your Windows experience works across all your devices – from the best business tablet, to a thin and light notebook, to your high-performance workstation or all-in-one, whether you are at home, in or around the office, or working on the road.
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Reviewed By: Larry Lansdowne on 6/11/15
Heavy, Waterproof, quick Mount/ Release, Worth it
Rear pannier with roll closure; QL2.1 system; PVC coated polyester fabric; integrated inner pocket; large reflectors; shoulder strap for carrying; for rack diameters up to 16mm.
Height: 16.5"
Width: 12.5"
Depth: 6.7"
Volume: 2,441 cu. in.
Weight (Pair): 4.2 lbs
Color: Yellow/Black
Reviewed By: Larry Lansdowne on 6/11/15
Heavy, Waterproof, quick Mount/ Release, Worth it
Reviewed By: Kathy on 11/2/14
These panniers hang on to my rear bicycle rack, no fear that they will fall off. Fast and easy to clip on and off, too. Best bit is that where they clip onto the rack is adjustable so that even a person with size 13/euro size 50 feet didn't rub heels on panniers with every pedal stroke. Lots of space for groceries. The inside is coated and slightly sticky, and there are no other pockets, so plan to use additional bags (the thin ones from the grocery store?) to manage your gear. The shoulder strap has just a thin plastic bit to keep the bag on your shoulder, so plan to at least pad it some if you will carry it off the bike very far. No plastic stink. I'd buy them again.
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The Ortlieb Backroller Classics are probably the most common pannier I see in Portland and for good reason. The Ortlieb's have a durable, smart design. The dismount system is top-notch, they really take no extra time to take off or put on your bicycle. These panniers are also 100% waterproof, which is very important for the Pacific NW. I love that there is no rain cover, the material that the bag is made from is water proof. The Backroller Classics sport a roll-down top which I like. On the plus side you can leave them open when it's not raining and you can really pack a lot in there - perfect for grocery runs. Because of the roll-down top, you also have more flexibility packing smaller loads down securely. On the downside it does take longer to pack your load in, and it does take a little time to get a feel for how to pack it. I think there are two major design flaws that keep the panniers from being perfect. The lack of an outside pocket is an annoyance in the rain if you need to lock your bicycle up. I commute to school and having a wet lock in the same compartment as books and papers is just a bad idea. I have to bungie my U-lock to my rack or bring a little cloth to wipe it down which is a bit annoying. My other complaint is that the shoulder strap that comes with this is just a joke. During the winter it's not so bad because I have a jacket to provide cushioning, but in the summer wearing a t-shirt, the strap really hurt my shoulder. Ortlieb should really spend the extra $1 it would take to manufacture a more comfortable shoulder strap. However since they choose not to that means I have to buy 2 new straps for this summer. Kind of a bummer. Overall, these bags are incredibly solid despite their minor flaws. For the price I'm not sure they can be beat.


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Astros to host '42' screenings for UYA players
BOSTON -- The Astros and Major League Baseball will play host to two private screenings of the new Jackie Robinson movie "42" for youngsters from the Urban Youth Academy, the first of which will take place Saturday in Houston. The participants will get free movie tickets and food while in the theater.ci
The Astros Foundation is also planning a second screening later in May with another group from the UYA, as well as a group from the Astros Community Leaders program, for whom the Astros Foundation and its partners have refurbished baseball fields in a number of low-income neighborhoods.
Participants in both programs, which cater specifically to disadvantaged youth, will discuss the film with Astros personnel and share their own experiences and reactions after the film. The movie details Jackie Robinson's battle to break baseball's color barrier.
"'42' brilliantly depicts not only the proudest and most powerful event in baseball history, but also a watershed moment in American history and the civil rights movement," Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement. "This film is a profound way for all of us throughout Major League Baseball to educate our next generation about Jackie Robinson's vital impact on our nation."
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.