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Been building a pc controlled mixer with digital pots controlled via USB.
Got the pcb up and running but it had a very high frequency on the output signal. Couldnt work out where it was coming from.
Anyway I plugged the mixer into my amplifier and it sounded ok.
Next thing I knew my amplifier burst into flames. Silly me had a cardboard box with parts on top of the open amplifier and it started to burn. So threw it outside and turned off the amplifier.
Turned the mixer back on again and still there was the high frequency.
I turned off my light in disgust and was about to walk to my pc when I noticed the high frequency on the scope had gone.
It then hit me the lamp is fluorescent and has an oscillator inside it which had been interfering with my mixer. The mixer then passed this high frequency to my amplifier which had cooked it.
Doh !
Yep, welcome to the real world of electronic noise.
Over in the guitar amp forums we regularly have guys writing in to complain their amp makes a steady ticking sound. We tell them to stop putting their cell phones on top of the amps.
Don't feel bad, we have all been bit by some environmental noise source at some time.
Many years ago as a repair tech we had a problem with a VCR where the drum servo would lose lock and take off.
Cause was eventually found to be a radio transmitter (radio amateur) down the road.
It's a good thing you were home!!
Ham Radio
My dad is a "ham"; back when I was a teenager, I could hear him loud and clear in my speakers in my room. My stereo system was totally tuned off and not really that close to the cables, transmitter or antenna.
** Might want to pick up some hard hats for the shop....chuckle
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Sure all that whiz-bang IMAX 3D looked good in James Cameron's 15-minute preview of Avatar, but for my money The Dark Knight's IMAX filmed segments are still the best use I've seen of the IMAX format. It sounds like maybe Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan agree because AICN says the sequel may be shot entirely in IMAX.
We're not talking gimmicky IMAX digital or IMAX 3D or any of that, but real IMAX, with the ridiculously expensive and hard to use cameras usually reserved for eye-popping documentaries on the Grand Canyon. If you saw The Dark Knight in IMAX then you know what a difference that can make. This is no small feat. Working with IMAX is a very difficult and time consuming process. The results are stunning, but it takes time and it's insanely expensive. Of course if you're the guy who made The Dark Knight then you damn well deserve all the time and money in the world to make the sequel.
Great as this sounds, I do have one slight misgiving here. Part of the reason the IMAX work on The Dark Knight was so stunning, was because of the way Nolan used it to contrast clauterphobic indoor scenes with expansive outdoor shots. You'd go inside a building and the film would switch to regular format. You'd step outside into a car chase or an aerial shot and he'd switch to IMAX, giving the city of Gotham and this huge, expansive, impressive feel. Shooting the whole thing in IMAX you lose that, but if given the chance to experiment I suspect Nolan can come up with an even better way to use it.
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I don't think your rant is warranted! You must not be so hard on yourself. I love this! The background and the mood of it! Its great! Too much self criticism could stunt your creativity so ... go easy on yourself!
I love your little rant there:) however the picture is really nice !
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Very soon, Dean Lawrence E. Mitchell's passport will be so full, it'll need new pages, and the law school he leads has a rapidly growing study abroad program to show for it. By Jan. 1, the number of schools with which Case Western Reserve University School of Law will have student exchange agreements should total 20, Mr. Mitchell said, up from four when he became dean in June 2011. Mr. Mitchell expects the school's partnerships to total at least 24 and likely 27 by the end of the academic year — and he thinks the latter number would surpass that of any other law school in the country. The exchange agreements allow Case Western Reserve to send up to two law students a year, for a semester each, to the foreign schools and to send faculty, too, as the opportunity arises. The foreign schools are welcome to do the same. Theoretically, if the exchange programs materialize and fill up, the school ought to be sending 50-some students abroad per year, Mr. Mitchell said. In comparison, Case Western Reserve's law school sent 11 students to five foreign law schools this year. "We're globalizing this law school really fast, which is really good for Cleveland, too, I think," Mr. Mitchell said. "It's really good press for Cleveland abroad. "It would be very hard to be an effective lawyer in the 21st century in almost any practice of law without encountering some dimension of international practice, whether that is international law, or clients with an international problem, or having to deal with a foreign lawyer in some context," Mr. Mitchell added. "If our students don't have the exposure and cultural competence to work in this environment, they're going to be behind." The law school's focus complements the university's strategic plan to enhance its international character. The near-term goal, Mr. Mitchell said, is to have enough partnerships so that any student who wants to can study aboard. The longer-term hope is to have enough agreements that Mr. Mitchell can ask the faculty to require a semester abroad of students, he said.
India on the map
By the end of the calendar year, Case Western Reserve's law school should have exchange agreements executed with 12 schools in Asia, seven in Europe and one in Canada. And, in the spring, Mr. Mitchell will travel to India, where the top five law schools have agreed to sign on, he said. Susan Prager, executive director and CEO of The Association of American Law Schools, said she's heard anecdotally that a number of schools are expanding or initiating study abroad programs. The real question, though, according to an official with the American Bar Association, which accredits law schools, is how much actual exchange of students and faculty will occur. "It is a lot of formal agreements to sign, but what I don't know is whether anybody is actually going," Barry Currier, interim consultant on legal education for the ABA, said of Case Western Reserve's growing number of exchange agreements. Mr. Mitchell doesn't anticipate full participation right away. But as those who participate share their experiences, the program will grow, he predicts. "This is a new program, and relatively unusual in legal education," he said. "All new things take time to flower. "It is also my expectation that, as we already have, we will begin to attract more students who want to participate in this program, and I think that's a very good thing for our law school," Mr. Mitchell said.
Cost vs. benefit
The ABA's Mr. Currier agrees it's helpful for aspiring lawyers to experience other cultures and legal systems, but said the benefits must be weighed against the added costs for students at a time "when legal education is not cheap most places." Concerns about increasing students' costs also were raised by officials with the University of Akron School of Law and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. The University of Akron's law school doesn't have an active study abroad program at present, and Cleveland-Marshall suspended its study abroad in Russia last summer because student participation was lacking. "We're operating in a period of contracted resources, so we have to be careful about the way that we're using those resources," said Craig M. Boise, dean of Cleveland-Marshall. And, he noted, almost every law school advertises and offers study abroad programs to other schools' students — for a price. "There's no shortage of opportunities for students to go abroad," Mr. Boise said. "Our concern is how popular are study abroad programs going to be when legal educations are so expensive and there are fewer jobs available? I think you're going to see a decline in demand for study abroad programs." Case Western Reserve students aren't required to add to their debt, though, Mr. Mitchell said. Participation is an option, not a requirement. "True, students have to buy a plane ticket, and arrange room and board, but the latter typically are arranged with the help of administrators at our partner schools and can often be less expensive than in Cleveland," he said. "So, there is no meaningful additional cost short term, and, we believe, a significant advantage over the longer term." Already, he said, Case Western Reserve's law school is seeing a return on its investment. It includes an increase in the quality of its foreign graduate students and more requests from students from other law schools to become visiting students at — and pay tuition to — Case Western Reserve to take advantage of the program. Also, "there's reputational ROI," Mr. Mitchell said. "We are a well-known quantity among the top schools in China. That means a lot," he said. "That's kind of spreading our name and our reputation around the world."


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delivery to the Qualified End-user, a measuring station properly
equipped with meters and other measuring equipment satisfactory to
Transporter, by which the daily volume of gas delivered by the FT-
GS Shipper to each of the Qualified End-users receiving service
under the provisions of this Section 5 can be accurately
determined. The quantity of gas to be billed under the IT
Agreement pursuant to which the Qualified End-user's gas is being
delivered shall be the Dekatherm equivalent of the quantities of
gas measured by such meters of the FT-GS Shipper, corrected to the
basis of measurement specified in this FERC Gas Tariff. The FT-GS
Shipper shall deliver to Transporter on or before the fifth day
after the close of the billing month a statement accompanied by
charts and calculations or other statements as mutually agreeable
showing the volume of interruptible gas delivered each billing day
to each such Qualified End-user during the billing month.
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FT-GS Agreement for the requirements of the Qualified End-user
theretofore served under the IT Agreement between the Qualified
End-user and Transporter, consistent with the provisions of this
Section 5, the FT-GS Shipper shall give Transporter at least 5
days notice prior to the Month for which the FT-GS Shipper desires
to transport such gas; provided, however, that the FT-GS Shipper's
election will not increase the FT-GS Shipper's Maximum Daily
Transportation Quantity for firm service under Transporter's FT-GS
Rate Schedule. Thereafter, the FT-GS Shipper may not re-elect to
transport gas under its FT-GS Agreement for the Qualified End-user
for at least 12 Months, and such re-election shall then be subject
to the approval of Transporter in the same manner as though the
Qualified End-user had not theretofore received gas under the
provisions of this Section 5.
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associated with rendering transportation service pursuant to this Rate
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multiplied by the applicable fuel and loss retention percentage shown
on the effective Notice of Rates and Other Tariff Rate Changes of
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Thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world together with Palestinian Christians converge on the Old City of Jerusalem to celebrate the Holy Week of Easter.
Holy Week festivities in Jerusalem begin on Palm Sunday, one week before Easter Sunday, with a pilgrim procession from the Mount of Olives to the Old City.
The Palm Sunday procession follows the same path that Jesus took on his triumphant return to Jerusalem. Two thousand years ago, Jesus rode on a donkey as followers laid palm branches along his path. Today, pilgrims march on foot, waving palm fronds and olive branches.
On Good Friday, pilgrims retrace Jesus' procession toward his crucifixion along the cobble stoned Via Dolorosa. This reenacted march along the Stations of the Cross features many of Jerusalem's most historic Christian sites.
During the Via Dolorosa procession, pilgrims can be seen carrying large wooden crosses and reciting prayers at each of the fourteen Stations of the Cross.
Their procession begins at the Sanctuary of the Flagellation, where Jesus was scourged and judged, and ends at the Church of Holy Sepulcher, where Jesus was stripped of his garments, nailed to the cross and died.
According to Catholic and Orthodox Churches, Jesus was buried in the chamber of the sepulcher and later resurrected from there, making the Church of the Holy Sepulcher a focal point of the modern day pilgrimage. Protestant denominations believe Jesus was buried in the nearby Garden Tomb.
The "Light" Celebration takes place on the Greek Orthodox Holy Saturday at the Holy Sepulcher, and spreads to all the Palestinian towns and villages. It commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the Holy Light.
The Greek Orthodox Patriarch fasts all day that day to celebrate this feast. He prays near the Tomb from early morning until 2:00 pm when the light appears.
In Bethlehem, Beit Jala, and Beit Sahour, the "Light" is received at St. Elijah's Monastery on the road between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and it then is taken in a procession to the churches in Bethlehem, Beit Sahour and Beit Jala where believers would be waiting for it in order to start their celebrations.
On Easter Sunday, pilgrims and Palestinian Christians celebrate together. Special masses, vigils and services are held throughout the Old City, including more than twenty separate masses conducted within 24 hours at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Christians in Bethlehem hold candlelight prayers at the Church of the Nativity.
During Easter week, Jerusalem's Old City accommodates the six Christian sects who are represented in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher: Roman Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Egyptian Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian Orthodox.
The Eastern and Orthodox churches follow a different calendar than the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. This year, the Roman Catholic and Protestant celebrate Easter Sunday on April 8th, while the Eastern and Orthodox churches have their celebration on April 15th.
This natural scheduling difference often helps reduce territorial tension in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The Church also gives each denomination its own space and separate schedules for permitted prayer times.


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In Reply to: Save the baby...... I have some!! posted by jenny on July 03, 2003
: Hi,
: I just bought a bottle of "save the baby" It still had the medicine in it in the original box with the direction slip. I have never heard of it and I thought it was really neat as a collectable. How old do you think it is?? I would love more info, Thanks
For your sake, I hope you find out how old it is before drinking any.
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Creator Blog
Announcing our new YouTube Creators Site
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Creators tell us they want one central place to keep up with the latest news, creator events, and platform updates from YouTube. The original Creator Hub launched just over a year ago was a first step in bringing together all our creator-facing programs, news and information. Now we're taking this resource to the next level with the launch of the revamped
YouTube Creators Site.
The completely refreshed design was developed for creators, with creators. The first thing we did was take a deep look at how creators were using the original hub and optimized our design to better support their user journeys. Then, we brought in creators into our design process to get their feedback on what they liked, and what could be improved. The end product offers more up-to-date information in a refreshed design that we hope will make it much easier for creators to explore and take advantage of all the resources available to them.
From checking the latest news on our Twitter feed, to staying up to date with our blog, we hope this redesign helps creators at all stages to get inspired, engage and thrive on YouTube.
We've added new sections, including detailed information about our Partner Management program, so that creators understand how to get the support they need at every step of the way. We've also surfaced an interactive widget that indexes content from the YouTube Help Center and makes it available across the Creators Site.
To celebrate the launch of the new Creators Site, we're releasing Master Class -- a new series of videos from the Creator Academy. The series is designed to help creators grow their audience by learning about an important range of topics. From analyzing and growing your channel to building a business on YouTube.
We're really excited about these launches and hope they can provide the resources you need to grow your audience on YouTube.
Alejandro Oropeza
Global Head of Marketing Communications
Even more reasons for creators to love the YouTube Studio app
Friday, September 22, 2017
Creators live life on-the-go. Even with packed schedules, you still find the time to create amazing videos, manage your channel and engage your communities. At YouTube, it's our job to make your lives easier. That's why we designed our mobile app with you in mind. Many of you have told us that it's indispensable to your YouTube journey, including top creators like
who said: "Studio is where it's at. I love it, I live by it!" Today we're giving the Creator Studio app a refresh. Not only will it be called YouTube Studio moving forward but we're also releasing many new features that you've been asking for, including:
Scheduled Posts:
We know your fans eagerly await your videos. Now you'll be able to schedule posts right from your phone so you can set it and forget it. Pick the time, date, and video type (private, unlisted or public).
Subscriber Count Card:
Creators frequently tell us how much they love checking their subscriber count to see how many people have become
, or whatever you may call your fans. For a long time, you could only easily do that on desktop. Now, we're adding a prominent subscriber count card right at the top of your YouTube Studio app dashboard so you can check up on that subscriber love anytime and anywhere.
In the coming months, we're going to continue to make the app better and roll out even more updates, such as allowing you to use
creator hearts
and pin comments straight from the app.
Building on beloved features
We hope the new features above build on the many of the reasons you love using the app already, including:
Actionable Insights:
Our analytics insight cards provide simple and easy ways for you to understand your channel stats and suggest ways you can grow your channel. You'll also get links to education resources based on your channel needs to help you bolster your skills. Did one of your videos experience a sudden spike in views while you were out? With our on-the-go insights, you'll receive a personalized message when a significant event happens on your channel and tips on how to make the most of what's happening on your channel. We'll also be doubling down on adding more helpful tips to grow your channel in the YouTube Studio app very soon.
Custom Thumbnails:
An engaging thumbnail can make all the difference. As one of the most requested features for the app, you can upload your own thumbnails for videos from your mobile device.
With over 1.5 billion logged-in users a month, we want to give you the best tools to reach them — and do it on your own time. The continued improvement of the YouTube Studio app is all part of a greater effort we announced at VidCon to
build better creator tools
across desktop and mobile. We hope you join the millions of creators not only using YouTube Studio, but improving it for other creators out there too.
Jacquelle Amankonah Horton, Product Manager
YouTube Studio app
A new way to earn money with YouTube Gaming
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Starting today, we're opening up a new way to earn extra money on your channel and better help you connect with your fans on YouTube Gaming: sponsorships!
With sponsorships, fans can purchase digital goods directly from your channel and support you via monthly recurring payments of $4.99 USD (
local pricing applies
). Sponsors get cool insider perks, such as a custom badge for live chat that will help them stand out from the crowd and custom emoji. These badges and emoji are designed by you for your fans. As you gain more sponsors, you will unlock more emoji to be used on your channel. You can upload and use these in real-time as you pass
sponsorship milestones.
Sponsors also get access to sponsors-only live chat and immunity from
slow mode
. You'll also be able to set up additional perks through 3rd-party services, such as on-stream alerts that you've received a new subscriber via
or an exclusive
sponsors-only server where fans can connect and chat together.
Throughout our early tests of YouTube Gaming sponsorships, we've seen some incredible successes. For example,
makes most of their channel revenue via sponsorships and Super Chat.
Rocket Beans
earned 1,500 sponsors in their first day. And ONE_shot_GURL's monthly
celebratory wall of sponsors
is getting so full, it's running out of room.
Sponsorships are broadly available to all
eligible creators
on the YouTube Gaming app. So if your channel is eligible, you can enable it yourself today at
and immediately begin growing your sponsorship base. We'll also be testing out another version of sponsorships with a handful of non-gaming creators on the main YouTube app. Check out
Lauren Fairweather's
Que Diabos'
channel, and sign up
if you're interested in trying it out for your channel.
Whether your channel is still new or you've been a creator for years, we want you to be successful, and sponsorships is part of a wider effort to help build your business on YouTube. As we focus on growing your revenue through YouTube Red, Super Chat, and now sponsorships, we're bidding farewell to a service we launched in 2013 called
paid channels.
This service offered monthly subscriptions for some channels, but with less than 1% of creators using it today, it never achieved popularity with creators or users.
Between all the trials, raids, and meteor strikes, the gaming community on YouTube continues to grow. We're excited to see how your creativity with sponsorships can help you both build stronger communities and bigger businesses.
Barbara Macdonald, Product Manager, recently live streamed
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
YouTube Live: faster, easier and more accessible
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Whether it's
solar eclipses,
NBA superstars
the hottest music artists
pro gamers,
creators donating to charity,
or the
world's most famous giraffe
, creators use live to connect with fans during the moments that matter. In turn, we are committed to making live content creation easier and more accessible. That's why we're excited to share some new improvements launching today.
Real-time interaction
We know how important it is to be able to immediately engage your fans during live streams. Thanks to ultra-low latency, now you can.
Enabling ultra low-latency
makes it possible to stream video with just a couple seconds of latency, so you'll be able to answer fan questions and get viewer input during your "
Let's Plays
" faster than ever before. It's easy to set up and doesn't require any special software or encoders to work.
New tools to make live chat moderation easier
Live chat messages play a key role in creating connections between you and your fans. We want to help you shape the tone of your conversations on YouTube, so we are excited to introduce new chat moderation tools:
Inline moderation
lets you quickly moderate your chat feed by simply pressing and holding the "alt/option" button on your keyboard to pause the chat feed. Once the feed is paused, you can hover over messages to remove or approve them with a single click. Don't forget you can also
delegate a moderator
for your live chat, giving people you trust the ability to remove, flag or hide messages.
Hold potentially inappropriate messages for review
By opting-in, chat messages identified by our system will be held from posting on your streams, then you decide whether to approve, hide, or report them (just like you can with
. Best part is, as you review more messages the system will get better at identifying the types of messages you want to hold for review. If you want to block certain words or phrases, you can
do that too.
Shared hidden user lists
lets your moderators use the same hidden users list across comments and live chat. And in the future hides will work in both live chat and comments, regardless of where you take that action.
Stream more easily from iPhone and iPad right to the main YouTube app
Thanks to Apple's ReplayKit, you can already live stream directly from many popular apps on YouTube Gaming. Now we're bringing the feature to the main YouTube app so you can live stream your painting from
your race from
Asphalt 8,
your MOBA gameplay from
and more from any app that supports ReplayKit. You'll also be able to use your phone's microphone and front-facing camera to add your own video and audio commentary to the stream.
Regardless if you're streaming your summer vacation shenanigans from your mobile phone or a battle royale of your favorite game from your desktop, we hope these new tools help you do more with YouTube live and deepen the connection with your viewers.
Kurt Wilms, YouTube Live Product Lead
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A new YouTube look that works for you
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Cross-posted from the
YouTube Blog
When YouTube launched 12 years ago, it was a single website that supported one video format, 320x240 at 4:3 aspect ratio. Fast forward to today, and YouTube lets you watch any combination of SD, HD, 4K, 360, 3-D, and live video on nearly every device with an internet connection – from desktops to phones, tablets to TVs, game consoles, and even VR headsets.
We've also introduced apps and services that give you new ways to watch and get even closer to the content and creators you love. Music fans, gamers, and TV lovers each have unique experiences specifically tailored for their favorite content with
YouTube Music
YouTube Gaming
YouTube TV
. For families looking for the best way to watch together, we launched the
YouTube Kids
app. And for fans who want an uninterrupted, ad-free experience, and exclusive original content from creators, there's the
YouTube Red
To put it simply, YouTube's evolved … a lot. And we're not even close to done. Over the last few months we've started releasing updates and will continue to throughout the rest of the year. When all is said and done, we'll bring a new level of functionality and a more consistent look across our desktop and mobile experiences.
Let's start with the YouTube mobile app, which is getting a bunch of new features:
Clean new design
: We've made the header white to let content take the lead and moved the
navigation tabs
to the bottom of the app so they're closer to your thumbs. We also added new
Library and Account tabs
that give you easy access to what you're looking for.
Videos that move with you
: One of the things we're working on is bringing gestures to YouTube. Earlier this year, we
a gesture that allows you to double tap on the left or right side of a video to fast forward or rewind 10 seconds. Give it a try! We already see billions of double taps per day. And I wanted to give you a sneak peek at another gesture I am really excited about. In the coming months, we'll experiment with a feature that lets you jump between videos with a simple swipe of your hand: just swipe left to watch a previous video or swipe right to watch the next one.
Watch at your own pace
: Users love that they are able to speed up and slow down the playback of a video on desktop, and we're excited to bring this feature to the mobile app today, so you can enjoy videos at whatever speed you prefer.
Adapt to any video, beautifully
: We've also been experimenting with new ways to display all videos in the best possible way. Soon, the YouTube player will seamlessly change shape to match the video format you're watching, such as vertical, square or horizontal. That means you'll always get the best viewing experience automatically – including vertical videos with no black bars on the sides!
Browse and discover while you watch
: We recently added a feature that lets you view a row of suggested videos while you're watching in full screen. We're also working on transforming the area below the player so you can browse videos in totally new ways.
Looking beyond the YouTube app, we've also been
on a new desktop design. And thanks to all the positive feedback, we're now excited to make it available to all our users around the globe starting today! Our new look applies
Material Design
to YouTube and delivers a fresh, simple and intuitive user experience that lets content shine – because there's nothing more important than the creators and videos we all love to watch. My favorite feature of this new desktop design is Dark Theme, which turns the background dark while you watch for a more cinematic look.
The bright red cherry on top of this update sundae is a refreshed
YouTube Logo and YouTube Icon
. Designed for our multi-screen world, the updated Logo combines a cleaned up version of the YouTube wordmark and Icon, creating a more flexible design that works better across a variety of devices, even on the tiniest screens. Why's it more flexible? When room is limited (say on a smartphone) you can use the brightened up Icon as an abbreviated Logo, which will be seen more easily and read more clearly. You'll see the new Logo and Icon roll out across mobile and desktop today, and across all our other apps and services soon.
We know this is a lot of change, but we want to make clear that there's one thing that stays the same: YouTube's mission. We're here to give people a voice and show them the world – no matter what device they use.
Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer, recently watched "
YouTube: What will you watch next?
Expanding the ability to appeal more videos
Monday, August 7, 2017
YouTube has always been a place for creators around the world to tell their stories, make connections and earn money. We care about users, creators and advertisers and have, for over a decade, strived to balance and align their interests. In the
last few months
we spent time addressing concerns from advertisers around where their ads are placed. With new
controls and guidelines
implemented, many creators have seen their earnings return to normal as advertisers resumed their campaigns. As a part of these recent changes, however, some videos were classified as not suitable for all advertisers, limiting the number of ads served on those videos. There was also no ability to directly appeal in Video Manager. Over the next few weeks, we plan to roll out new icons that will give you a more detailed understanding of how each and every video on your channel (or channels) is monetizing as well as the ability to appeal if you think a video is misclassified. We want our systems to get better and better—and every appeal helps:
Indicates videos that can earn money from the broadest set of advertisers and from YouTube Red. No change from today.
Indicates videos are still eligible to earn money in YouTube Red, but will have limited or no ads because the video has been classified as either not suitable for all advertisers, or has been fully demonetized because we believe it doesn't meet our
advertising guidelines.
Indicates videos that will receive no revenue from ads or YouTube Red. This might be because of a
copyright strike
Content ID claim
, or
Community Guidelines strike
You can always use our
monetization troubleshooter
to see what actions you can take on your video. The status of your appeal will now be in blue text below the monetization icon. If your appeal is successful, more ads may be served on your videos.
When this feature is available in your account, you will see a notification in Creator Studio. It's important to note that the revenue being earned by your video is not changing with this launch. Instead, this update gives you a more detailed understanding of whether your video has been identified as not suitable for all advertisers and provides the chance to appeal in Video Manager. As always, you can also go into YouTube Analytics to see your revenue report for any video.
Remember, if after reviewing the
advertiser guidelines
, you think your video is suitable for all brands and audiences, you can
or get
help by following the instructions in our help center. We hope this update helps you better understand how best to create and monetize your content for YouTube's 1.5 billion monthly users.
The YouTube Team
From creation to community: creator updates from VidCon 2017
Saturday, June 24, 2017
With creators flying in from all over the world to meet one another, celebrate what they've accomplished, and get in some quality time with their fans, VidCon is one of our favorite events of the year. Aside from being just plain fun, it gives us a chance to show you what we've been working on at YouTube. In fact, just today we presented a bunch of new ways we're hoping to support creators' growth on the platform and now we want to tell you too.
Sneak peek at YouTube Studio Beta
Many of you use YouTube Creator Studio on desktop to help manage your channel. And while the current site has some useful tools (that won't be going anywhere), we've decided it's time to rebuild Creator Studio from the ground up. The new experience will be called YouTube Studio (easier, right?). It's gonna be awesome, and we hope you'll help us make it even awesome-r by joining our beta.
The overall plan with YouTube Studio is to let you do more in less time. The design will be refined (like… a lot), and we'll add a number of new features that creators have already been asking for. A smart inbox that houses personalized suggestions for engaging with fans, collaborating with creators, and more is only one of a series of features we're working on. And we're going to need your help to make them better!
If you're interested in being one of the first people to try out the beta, you can
sign up here
. The fact is, no one knows YouTube better than creators, so we want you to be the ones to tell us what's working, what's not quite working, or what you think is missing.
More love for comments
The relationship creators develop with their community is what makes YouTube unique. And since comments are such an important way for you to connect with your fans, we're working hard to make them better – and your feedback's already been a huge help.
First up, a few months ago we
a new feature called creator hearts. With just one click, you can now heart a favorite comment and show some love to the person who wrote it. You can also pin comments you like to the top of your feed to be sure that all your fans can see them. And we've seen that viewers love this kind of personal attention--they open these notifications at a rate that's 3x higher than regular ones. We've also made it easier to manage the tone of the conversations on your channel thanks to a
series of tools
that let you delegate moderation to trusted members of your community, as well as a beta feature that automatically holds potentially inappropriate comments for your review.
Finally, we're working on a new approach to comments that can help your fans get even more out of your channel. We call them comment topics, and they give viewers a way to browse comments according to (you guessed it) the topics being discussed. It's a great way to automatically highlight what's unique and interesting about the conversations on your channel. It's also totally optional, so if you don't feel like having comment topics, don't worry, you can disable them or delete individual topics.
And now… making money
Over the last few months we've been really happy to hear that creators are using (and liking!) our new monetization tool called
Super Chat.
Designed to let you interact directly with your fans even more, Super Chat also represents a totally new way to make money on YouTube. Here's how it works: during live streams, fans can purchase highlighted chat messages that stand out from the crowd. And over 65% of channels that use Super Chat have more than doubled their income during live streams. Super Chat's already available for creators in 21 countries and today we're adding
17 new countries
to that list!
As you can tell, there's a lot going on in the world of creator product updates – and a lot of it is thanks to you! We promise to keep working hard, and we hope you'll keep helping us make YouTube the best place for you to share your voice, see the world, and connect with the communities that matter to you.
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Heart of Phippsburg turns green
Post office is running with solar panels, thermal converters
December 20, 2009
Steamboat Springs — It may be hard to tell, but the small building along Colorado Highway 131 in the middle of Phippsburg is on the cutting edge of the green movement.
Owner Rob Hawkins retrofitted the 40-year-old building that houses the Phippsburg post office and Reflections Salon and Spa with more than $59,000 worth of energy-saving appliances and alterations, finishing in November.
Hawkins said the building was heated with coal when he bought it in 2006 but that the particulates in the air left an unhealthy haze.
An architect who has worked on green residential building projects in the Yampa Valley, Hawkins first switched over to a propane heating system. When he heard about a grant to go green, he took the transition several steps further.
At first, he installed fluorescent bulbs, compact fluorescent bulbs and thick insulation. In June, Hawkins applied for a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Energy Assistance Program to change the building over to solar power. The REAP grant covered 25 percent of the cost of the project, or $14,875.
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Maria Conner, officer in charge of the post office, said the building, built in 1970, was originally the Iacovetto plumbing supply store owned by Ray and Louise Iacovetto.
To convert the brick-sided building, Hawkins first had to remove the old coal stoker in the basement. In its place are three 80-gallon tanks for solar thermal exchange tanks, powered by cylindrical units on the roof. Once the water inside reaches 140 degrees, it begins circulating through pipes in the building to provide in-floor heat.
Also on the roof are south-facing solar panels that generate electricity. Hawkins said that since they began operating in late November, the system has generated 247 kilowatt-hours of electricity and has eliminated 420 pounds of carbon emissions.
Hawkins said he heard about the grant in a presentation by the USDA Rural Development office and that without the federal assistance, the project may not have been as fully developed as it is now.
"Without federal incentives, I don't think I would have done as much as I did," he said.
He also will get a tax break of as much as 30 percent on the project. The project was installed by JCN Metal Works, Emerald Mountain Energy and Acme Consulting, he said.
Hawkins said the monetary savings of the changes aren't immediately known because he hasn't had a bill for a full month yet. Because he's plugged into the Yampa Valley Electric Association's grid, he will get paid for any energy produced and not used by the building.
Although cloudy days hamper the efficacy of the system, Hawkins said that overall, the change was worth it.
"It's been a lot of work, but I think it's going to be good," he said.


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Yes, my main account is still $lowking. I apologize about this, but I forgot the password to my account. Luckily it is auto-logged in on my iPad... So in situations where I need my computer-- like I did today, for instance-- I will be using this account-- $lowking2. I will be using it very infrequently, but I just thought you guys should know.


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I am working in Spring 3.2.0 RC1 with the new MVC Test framework. One issue I was having was getting JsonPath to work correctly.
For example:
It kept giving me the error code of "java.lang.AssertionError: No value for JSON path: test". I finally debugged and did research to find out that it is missing a few dependencies in order to use jsonPath.
The dependencies it needs are the ones below.
The question is: Are we supposed to have to include those dependencies in order to get the Spring MVC Test with JsonPath to work? Or are they supposed to be packaged within Spring 3.2.0 RC1?
For example:
The dependencies it needs are the ones below.
<dependency> <groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId> <artifactId>json-path</artifactId> <version>0.8.1</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId> <artifactId>hamcrest-library</artifactId> <version>1.3</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency>


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11-11-11 11:11:11
I just the number on my Google Friends widget on the side bar …
11-11-11 11:11:11
I just the number on my Google Friends widget on the side bar …
You should have had the air conditioning on to get it to 11.1 degrees C.
Has anyone checked on Harold Camping?
I liked this related quote: "If it seems like the 2012 mythology was thought up by people on drugs, it's because it was."
Apparently the "Mayan calendar" believers think that 11/11/11 is some sort of profound "synchonicity".
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/11/111111-is-date-tied-to-mayan-apocalypse/?test=faces#ixzz1dQM7A4oS
I think I've been sleep deprived and staring at my computer screen typing papers for too long today already. When I first saw that picture, I thought someone was trapped inside of it. Wow…just wow…
I'm amazed you were actually able to get the seconds correct with the delay a lot of cameras have. Even my new 4s has an annoying 10th of a second delay.
It has been very easy dating documents today!!/!!/!!
But alas, it really isn't 11/11/11, but 11/11/2011 (in the US and Europe). 11/11/11 took place 2000 years ago (when Someone very special was walking the Earth). February 22, 2222 should be interesting, but I doubt that I will be here to witness it firsthand.
It is too bad that the temperature was not 11.1 degrees C. That would have made the above picture perfect. ;)
Oops, sorry. I didn't see the first comment before writing mine.
"Through my fault,
through my fault,
through my most grevous fault."
And Three Dog Night told us that 1 is the loneliest number.
Random Friar: Not today, it isn't!
Here's an oddity about today: if you add your age to the last two digits of the year you were born, you get either 11 or 111.
Sorry, I meant an oddity for today, not "about"!
Well, at least we're past June 6, 2006..:P
Ok, who ruined the perfect count of comments (11)? Now we need to stuff the combox with another 80+ to get back to ones with 111. Alternately, Fr. can strike this comment and the one before and freeze it into place at 11… I'm game!
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SALT LAKE CITY, July 22 (UPI) -- The desert woodrat of the Mojave desert in the Western United States subsists almost exclusively on poisonous plants -- plants that would, in equivalent amounts, make most other animals extremely ill. But the woodrats is perfectly content to fill its stomach with the leaves of the creosote bush, totally unaffected by the toxic resin that coats the plant's foliage.
Scientists have previously isolated liver enzymes as a key for other herbivores that digest toxic plants, but researchers suspected microbes in the gut also helped mammals break down poisons. A new study by researchers at the University of Utah proves as much.
In lab tests, woodrats were not able process creosote leaves after antibiotics mitigated the beneificial gut microbes. Likewise, woodrats raised in captivity and unadapted to the consumption of creosote were able to eat the poisonous leaves after being gifted specific transplanted microbes.
The study -- published in the journal Ecology Letters -- suggests mammals previously incapable of eating poisonous leaves can acquire tolerance.
"Mammals acquire microbes during birth, through contact with their mother's vaginal and fecal microbes," explained lead author Kevin Kohl. "Other possible places to get microbes include leaf surfaces, the soil or feces that woodrats collect from other animals."
The study has significant implications for agriculture. As natural food sources become more scarce in the arid lands of the West, domestic animals like sheep and cattle could potentially benefit from gut microbes that help them digest toxic plants.
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By Taylor Short
Killeen Daily Herald
COPPERAS COVE – Hundreds of students flooded the gym at Hettie Halstead Elementary School on Thursday to learn about various professions at the first Career Day.
Teachers corralled each cluster of students into the gym and around to each of the 11 tables where local professionals spoke to kids, hoping to spark interest in their industries.
"And they need to know why they do reading, math and writing because someday they'll use it in a real life application. They're never too young to start thinking about it," said counselor Becky McDonald, pointing to a group of bright-eyed kindergartners. "They're just like, 'Wow!'"
Copperas Cove patrol Officer Doug Ellis, who is also the high school resource officer, unfolded a bullet-proof vest and showed a dozen students a shiny set of handcuffs and how they work.
He told the students how the skills they learn in class today will carry over into the real world.
"You don't just write tickets, you have to also write reports," Ellis said before displaying his ticket book, sending students' flailing hands toward the sky. "Oh no, you don't want tickets. They cost money."
Fourth-grader Donna Manning said she would be interested in police work if she doesn't get her dream job as a professional dancer.
Ellis said giving children a goal to look forward to later in life could help them in school now.
"It's also good that they can see what we do because they watch "Cops" on television and they may have a misconception of what we actually do," he said.
A few tables over, H-E-B employees let students pipe globs of green and pink icing on a white cake as others crowded around mascot H-E-Buddy, a giant paper bag full of groceries.
Fourth-grader Alexandra Garcia said while she still wants to become a veterinarian, she liked learning that the company is 105 years old and that the name stands for H.E. Butt.
Another fourth-grader, Jasir Copeland, said he enjoyed the free goodies from the H-E-B table also but still wants to play professional football like his favorite player, Brandon Jacobs.
Across the gym, representatives from the Coryell County Farm Bureau spun cotton in a gin. Smart & Thompson All Electric employees let students flip switches, lighting bulbs and sounding alarms.
Nurse practitioner Brenda Krause, who teaches nursing at Central Texas College, and her assistants passed out rubber gloves and stethoscopes to students and showed them how to find heartbeats.
She said it's important to inspire children early about the career because nurses are in such high demand today.
"Hopefully, we can teach them what a nurse does so that when they come to the doctor, they're not so scared," Krause said. "If we can get them now and keep them, that's the biggest goal."
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Rafael Nadal ease past Andy Murray 6-3 6-2 6-1 in Paris on Friday afternoon.
The 'king of clay' showed his prowess by breaking the Scotsman's serve at the first time of asking who appeared to completely run out of steam.
The British number one struggled to come close to testing Nadal as he lost the second set having won just seven points on the Spaniard's serve after the first two sets.
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SEOUL — On a sidewalk in central Seoul recently, Lee Mi-il and several other older South Koreans took turns at a microphone, calling out what seemed like an endless list of names. They began in the morning and continued through the night, one faceless name after another — 83,000 in all — ringing out and melting into the cacophony of the capital city's busiest district.
A few young pedestrians paused at this unusual demonstration. But most paid little attention.
The scene could have stood as a metaphor for Ms. Lee's struggle of more than a decade.
Since 2000, she has campaigned to generate more interest in the fate of tens of thousands of South Koreans believed to have been forcibly taken to North Korea during the Korean War six decades ago. She has been demanding that the government negotiate for the return of those who might still be alive and the remains of those who are not. The government has never made that issue a priority in the times it has sat down with North Korea, treating her campaign as a distraction from what it considers a more important task: persuading the North to abandon its nuclear weapons.
But Ms. Lee, 62, is not giving up, and recently she has scored some victories against what she calls "a gigantic darkness and forgetfulness."
"We shout our fathers' names because our society no longer remembers them," she said during an interview in her office, where one wall is covered with the black-and-white photos of people thought to have been abducted during the war, including her own father. "We hope that they will hear us and know that they are remembered."Continue reading the main story
During the 1950-53 war, North Korea took away tens of thousands of South Korean civilians, mainly civil servants, educators, writers, judges, Christian pastors and businesspeople. Nearly all were men. Some appear in South Korean textbooks for their roles in building the young Korean state as it emerged from Japanese colonial rule. According to family accounts and the government, the North Koreans often seemed to have a clear idea of which individuals they wanted to move to the North, apparently to bolster their own professional ranks for reconstruction after the war or, in other cases, to neutralize enemies, such as members of anti-Communist, right-wing groups.
When Ms. Lee's father, a factory owner in Seoul, was taken away, she was 18 months old and ailing. A spinal injury left her with a warped back.
When she speaks, her voice is little more than a raspy whisper. But a smile seldom leaves the face of this woman, only 135 centimeters tall, or 4 feet 5 inches.
"During air raids, mother said I screamed endlessly in the underground shelter," she said. "That ruined my vocal cords."
When the U.S. military signed a truce with North Korea in 1953, prisoners of war were exchanged, but civilian abductees were excluded. Their fate and their women's sorrow lived on in a once popular song:
Hands trussed with a steel wire, my love looked back as he was dragged away, barefoot and limping,
Even if it takes 10, or 100 years, please return home alive.
But under Cold War-era dictatorship in the South, the women were barred from staging street protests. They were kept under surveillance out of fear that North Korea might send back their relatives as spies. Often their sons were taken in for interrogation by counterintelligence agents looking for any evidence of treason.
As the years passed, many older people abandoned hope of ever striking a deal with the North, and younger generations have been eager to move on. Many families gave up on their relatives as dead or feared that activism on their behalf might only endanger them in the North.
Ms. Lee, who is divorced with no children, was running a nursery in Seoul in 2000 when she determined to break that long silence.
That year, President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea and Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader, held the first intra-Korean summit meeting. When their governments later arranged reunions of families separated by the war, abductees were once again excluded. In the subsequent years, South Korea provided billions of dollars in aid, hoping that would encourage more humanitarian gestures by the North. But Pyongyang has not released any information about the missing South Koreans or allowed communication with their relatives, insisting that any intellectuals from the South who ended up in the North did so voluntarily. It calls Ms. Lee's campaign "a grave political provocation."
"They never admit kidnapping because that would be admitting a crime," Ms. Lee said. "They just hope we'll all be dead soon and this will all be forgotten."
In 2000, she shut down her nursery and established the Korean War Abductees' Family Union, bringing together 700 families.
In 2002, her group found a 1952 government document listing 83,000 South Koreans as kidnapped, a preliminary wartime compilation that officials had previously denied existed. It was gathering dust, uncataloged, in a government library.
On its Web site, her group posts videotaped interviews with the aging wives and mothers whose firsthand accounts of the war would otherwise be lost with their deaths.
Last year, after seven years of lobbying by her group, lawmakers passed a bill mandating the first government investigation of wartime kidnappings. In August, the government panel confirmed 55 men as kidnapped. More such rulings are expected during its four-year inquiry. To Ms. Lee, the official recognition was a first step toward establishing a "systematic war crime" by North Korea.
According to South Korean government estimates, Communist troops and militias killed between 59,000 and 122,800 South Korean civilians during the war.
South Korean troops and police officers carried out similar massacres of their own people suspected as leftists, according to recent government investigations. It remains unclear how many people were killed in mass executions in North Korea. However, during their short-lived advance into the North, U.S. and South Korean troops discovered mass graves of civilians, including women and children, apparently killed in haste by retreating Communists.
Also unclear is what happened to those South Koreans taken to the North.
Kim Yong-il, who was abducted and then escaped North Korea during the war, said that 600 of the 3,000 South Koreans he was forced to join in a "death march" did not make it to Pyongyang, falling victim to hunger, disease and aerial bombings.
"Young people must know that the prosperity they enjoy today is built upon the sacrifices of these forgotten people," Ms. Lee said. "Forgetting is ingratitude, the worst sin."
This year, a few cabinet ministers began wearing blue lapel pins in the shape of the forget-me-not Ms. Lee's group is distributing as part of its awareness campaign.
She has also taken her campaign to the United States, where some Korean families emigrated to escape political surveillance and poverty at home. They are appealing for a U.S. congressional resolution for the return of their relatives from North Korea.
"Although we are grateful to the Americans for defending our nation during the war, we are disappointed with their failure to free those kidnapped people during the armistice talks," Ms. Lee said. "Many of the families are now American citizens. So it's an American issue."
When her group staged a name-reciting rally in April, Ms. Lee's mother, Kim Bok-nam, 89, was the first to take the microphone. With a trembling voice, she started with the name of her own husband, Lee Seong-hwan, who, if he were still alive, would be 91.
Ms. Kim never remarried. Two of her three daughters emigrated to the United States, but she and Ms. Lee remain in the old family house.
"Mother believes that if father returned, he would come to this house," Ms. Lee said.Continue reading the main story


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BRISBANE Roar defender Jade North has called for match officials to come down hard on rough play in his side's semi-final against Western Sydney Wanderers after Adelaide United's "disgraceful" weekend antics.
North is still fuming three days after Brisbane's 2-1 win over Adelaide at Hindmarsh Stadium, slamming the Reds for their brutal tactics.
The Socceroo was particularly fuming about the wild tackle from Reds substitute Tomi Juric on Roar midfielder Luke Brattan late in the second half.
Thankfully for the Roar, Brattan has been cleared of serious knee and calf injuries, and is fit to take on the Wanderers at Parramatta Stadium in Friday night's grand final qualifier.
But North was fully aware of how lucky Brattan was to not have suffered a career-threatening injury.
"It was a horrible tackle ... disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful," North said of the Juric foul that earned the Reds striker a yellow card.
"He could have broken his leg."
The Reds hinted before the game that they would get physical in a bid to unsettle the Roar, but North felt it went too far.
"I don't know where their tactics came from the other day, but to try to kick lumps out of us was not right," he said.
"Obviously they were going nowhere and that was their tactics to try to take us out. It's not football.
"Adelaide really have to sort themselves out. There's a lot of problems there.
"Adelaide thought kicking lumps out of us was going to slow us down, but it obviously didn't.
"Hopefully the referees will be on their game this weekend for both teams. All we ask for is a fair result."
When told of North's comments, Adelaide United captain Eugene Galekovic tried to play down the spiteful clash.
"You get those comments here and there," Galekovic said.
"There were two boys who got injured that were accidental, the third one, yeah, it wasn't a great challenge but there was no intent to hurt anyone.
"The way the game panned out, it was a tough game."
While Brattan trained with the team at Ballymore today, Brisbane's star import Thomas Broich did not.
Broich suffered a heel injury in the win over Adelaide, but that was from accidental contact from Reds' import Jeronimo Neumann.
Scans cleared Broich of serious damage, but the Roar won't make a final decision on his fitness until Friday.
"He's a tough character and from all reports he's looking good," North said of Broich.
"(But) we can't just rely on one player. It's not just about individual players, it's about a team.
"I'm confident. We've got a lot of talent here."
Broich later told reporters he was "pretty confident" of playing.
"I'm still struggling a little bit but I hope to do some jogging in the afternoon (and) see how it reacts to that," Broich said.
"This is the time of the year that you really want to play. It's just so exciting to be a footballer right now."
Fullback Jack Hingert, another weekend casaulty, is out for the remainder of Brisbane's finals' campaign due to ankle ligament damage.
- with Reece Homfray
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I'm trying not to hate him too much… But we are going to see Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Actor's Express tonight (now through July 26th.) I, for one, can't farking wait it is all I can think about, just get through 8 more hours girl, 8… more… excruciating… hours.
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I have had some successful finishes this week. I finished Pixie's Fruit Loop!
Look at it blocking in the morning sunshine. Is this the cutest thing ever or what?
The yarn is hempathy (a hemp/cotton/modal blend) and even thought it is a little splitty (but only when you're ripping- arrrrrgh) it knits like a dream! The lace looks more like a watermelon than a strawberry (oops, too many repeats.) This is a pattern I test knit for Miss Pixie (the designer of the Country Kiddie.) Be on the look out for it for sale on her website and through Ravelry as well!


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The globalization led to the reengineering of security-related aspects and concepts, calling forward the need to develop and conceptualize a new paradigm for security. Furthermore, the typology of conflicts has changed. History offers enough examples that failure to cope with the caracteristics of new conflict environment can drive to undesired results, to say the least.
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Unable to bid for a national record in her signature event because of an entry error, La Costa Canyon junior Kendyl Stewart instead broke the oldest girls section record in her final high school meet.
Stewart (49.77) shattered the 100-yard freestyle mark set in 1989 by Alison Terry (50.56) of USDHS before adding her third straight title in the 100 backstroke (54.61) in the Division I finals at Del Norte High on Saturday.
The entry error prevented a bid in the 100 butterfly for Stewart, who owns the section record in that event. Next year she will focus on Olympic Trials preparation.
"Because I missed the 100 fly, I wanted to do something special in the 100 free to make up for it," said Stewart, who also came within sixth hundredths of a second of the 100 back mark.
One of the oldest boys records, also from 1989, fell as well as Rancho Bernardo junior Trent Williams (1:37.77) broke the 200 free mark set by Mira Mesa's Mike Picotte in winning that event for the third straight year. Williams also claimed a repeat title in the 100 free (45.48).
"I'm honored to break that record," Williams said. "There's a wall of champions at RB, and I wanted to get on it. I worked hard, and I'm bigger and stronger this year."
The meet also produced girls records in the 50 free by San Pasqual senior Chandra Lukes (23.21) and in the 200 medley relay by Torrey Pines (1:46.31).
Lukes, who missed last season because of a knee injury, trimmed three-tenths of a second off her own mark set in the prelims.
"I could have been a little faster," said Lukes, who also placed second (50.52) but ahead of the old mark in the 100 free. "But I had my best times, so I'm definitely happy."
Torrey Pines set the 200 medley relay mark with a team that included senior Allison Paris and junior Allison DeParalta from the 2009 unit that held the old record (1:46.72).
The Falcons won both the girls and boys team titles.
Torrey Pines sophomore Kelsey Kafka contributed to the girls 200 medley record and had two individual wins (200 IM and 100 breast).


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On Nov. 9, the North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) began its two-day 2012 Draft Horse Show, at the Freedom Hall Coliseum on the Kentucky State Fairgrounds. The classes included halter and performance competitions, with several for juniors, including a youth showmanship competition.
The NAILE Draft Horse Show features mostly Belgian, Percheron and Clydesdale breeds, with some Shires in halter and hitch classes. Show Superintendent Brian Westerfeld said there are two types of competition at the NAILE show: the halter classes and hitch classes.
Halter class judges look at a horse's conformation while the horse is led by a handler with a rope. Elements of conformation during the judging include the animal's head, feet, legs, neck, height and more. Also, the halter classes are divided along the lines of breed, age and sex of the horse.
Hitch classes, Westerfeld said, are judged according to the horse's performance under hitch (pulling show wagons). Further, he said these are divided into several categories, including cart (one horse driving), team classes, a "unicorn" class with three horses, a four-horse class and the two six-horse classes.
Especially pleasing to the general public these days are the two open entry six-horse hitch classes.
"Six gleaming one-ton horses create a spectacle as they stomp into the arena as one, outfitted in patent leather and chrome harness, pulling the historically restored freight wagons. Crowds can literally feel the earth tremble as the massive hitches pass by!" states the North American Six-Horse Hitch Classic Series (NASHHCS) website, which is not currently associated with NAILE.
The Louisville show once operated the six-horse-hitch classes under Classic Series rules, but dropped the format a few years ago. A feature of the Draft Horse Classic Series rules is that six-horse hitch teams accumulate prize points for winning at events throughout the United States and Canada, which apply toward a final championship show.
James Rudolph has been the committee chair for all equine events of NAILE for several years. He said halter classes and the cart classes were held on the first day this year and in the afternoon there was one of the two six-horse events. Saturday was restricted to hitch events only.
Explaining a variation of the classes, Rudolph said, "All of the carts have two wheels and the hitches all have four-wheel wagons … The carts are single horses, whereas the hitches all have teams."
The NAILE committee scheduled the crowd-pleasing six-horse hitches on both Friday and Saturday. Rudolph said, "We are examining going back to the Classic Series, which is an accumulation-type show where they use the points that they win here for a final championship at year end."
Harold Workman, president and CEO of the Kentucky State Fair board, is top director of the annual NAILE. Although retiring, he plans to remain part of the draft show as a board member.
"There is a financial requirement to be considered in joining the Classic Series," Workman said, "but I think for us, it is worth it. When we were a part of the Classic we would have up to 12 six-horse hitches, but since then participation has dropped.
"They like to get the points," he explained, of the draft horse owners.
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Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Ohio
I had renters who did not pay rent for 5 months who have moved out but left some of their personal items. What are my rights as for disposing of these items? They have been vacated for 27 days. The last contact I had with them was on Feb. 11th and they said they were going to come the next day to get their items and pay back rent. They have not made any attempts to pay or retrieve their property since then. My main question is can I sell these items to recover lost income from lack of rent payments and if so when can I do this and is there any notice I need to give to the previous renters. Thank you
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If you can still contact the tenants via telephone or mail then I would do that so that you can make one more attempt to return their items. If you are certain that the tenants have abandoned the items then you can do with them as you please. However if you are wrong in that determination, the tenants may come back and sue you for the value of the lost items. If you are seeking to collect against the tenants, you should sue them, get a judgment and then proceed with collection against the tenants.


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This is a very good year nationally for running backs and no one has impressed more over the past two years than Lacey (Wash.) Timberline's Jonathan Stewart. One thing we could never figure out was why the talented ball carrier wasn't getting any love from the two Los Angeles schools- USC and UCLA, when the rest of the Pac 10 was all over him. That has since changed and a new school has jumped in the mix for Stewart.
At 5-10, 225 pounds, Stewart is a power runner with very good speed. He was the MVP at the Nike Camp in Oregon for the second year in a row after running a 4.52 in the 40, jumping 36 inches in the vertical and did 29 reps on the bench. On film, Stewart's compact frame and running style reminds us a lot of current UCLA running back Maurice Drew in how quick he hits the hole, how powerful he runs and in his ability to run inside or outside.
Stewart has offers from most of the Pac 10 and is also hearing from Tennessee, Ohio State, Notre Dame and Michigan.
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"USC was at my game last week, that's the first interest they have showed in me," Stewart said. "Coach (Todd) McNair, the running back coach was there and then he called me yesterday to let me know they were going to start recruiting me very actively. I had a pretty good, not my best game but I did all right. We beat our area rivals 26-24 and I rushed for 210 yards and a touchdown.
"Right now, I'm focusing on about seven schools right now. They would be Oregon, Washington State, Ohio State, Cal, Tennessee, Notre Dame and USC. I haven't set up any of my visits yet but my mom and I were just talking about taking an unofficial visit to Washington State for a game in the next few weeks. I'll probably set my official visits up sometime late in the season. Right now, my plan is to take all five of my trips but everything is in Gods hands. If I take my first visit and feel strongly that God wants me there, I'll commit on the spot and won't think twice about it. I'm not going to over analyze anything, just going to follow God and I know he'll direct me to the right place."


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Buffalo Brewfest will become 'street festival' in Cobblestone
Buffalo Brewfest will have new digs and a new feel this year. The Aug. 8 craft beer festival is heading to Illinois Street in the Cobblestone District. It will go on rain or shine.
It previously had been held at First Niagara Center. Organizers made the change to turn it into a "street festival," perhaps reminiscent of the annually successful Allentown Art Festival.
More than 50 craft beers from local and regional brewers will be available, and live music is also scheduled.
"So much is happening in the Cobblestone District and the area around it like Canalside and HarborCenter, we thought it would be a natural fit to host the Buffalo Brewfest here," said event co-chair Sam Savarino in a press release.
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ST. PAUL (WCCO) — A top Republican in the Minnesota House lost his committee chairmanship, and a female staffer was transferred, after he admitted to a sexual relationship with her.
Republican Rep. Steve Smith, of Mound, was removed as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the Ethics Committee after the relationship was revealed.
GOP sources confirm the incident in August and cite "personal issues" for the demotion.
The female staffer was re-assigned to another committee and no longer works at the House.
Representative Smith did not return our call for comment.