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Volume 9, Number 4 - Summer 1986
THE PAST IN REVIEW . News items from the TANEY COUNTY REPUBLICAN, published in Forsyth, Missouri, beginping November 28, 1895 with a subscription price of $1.00, in advance. The date of the paper precedes the news items appearing in that issue. (Notes Errors in reporting or printing were made, just as in current newspapers.)
October 5, 1899
Calvin, the seven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. KINYON, died Friday.
October 12, 1899
A sad bit of news comes from Kirbyville The death of John OLIVER, Dovie his wife, and one child, all occurred last Friday from typhoid.
November 2, 1899
John MACKEY, merchant at BradJ.eyville, died Sunday night. By his death, Taney County has lost a highly respected citizen and the Republican party, a staunch supporter.
November 9, 1899
H. F. DISBROW disposes of his flouring mill property to Messers, J.C. PARRISH, S.W. BOSWELL, I. H. ARNOLD and A. L. PARRISH. The new proprietors have secured the services of L · H. REYNOLDS, one of the best millers in Southwest Missouri The mill will be throughly overhauled and new and additional machinery will be added as the occasion demands. During the dry weather next summer the old dam will be torn out and a more modern and desirable one will be built. Mr. DISBROW will seek a new location outside the county and perhaps the state. During his stay here he made many warm friends.
November 16, 1899
The Chadwick Hotel, lately opened by Mr G~C. WHARTON, will be found a very desirable place to stop.
The partnership existing between J .C. JOHNSON, Sr., J.C. JOHNSON, Jr. and B. F. DAVIDSON in the general merchandise business, at Kissee Mills, has been dissolved and all debts contracted by said firm will be paid by J. C. JOHNSON and Son, who will continue the business.
November 23, 1899
After a journey of 36 days by wagon, Mr. Levi NEISWENDER and family, his sonin-law, G~.A. OUTLAND and wife, arrived here from Paulding County, Ohio last Saturday. Mr. NEISWENI)ER was here last August and purchased the James GRAVES farm four miles northeast of Forsyth. Mr. OUTLAND will look up a location in this county and go into the grocery business as he has already had several years experience in that line.
Mr. H. F. DISBROW has purchased a flouring mill in Alma, Kansas, and expects to move his family there soon.
November 30, 1899
Johnson BOLES keeps an excellent hotel at Chadwick.
December 7, 1899
Mrs. Martha HENDRIX, mother of Mrs. J.W. HUGHES & Mrs. J. C. JOHNSON, Jr., died at the home of her eldest daughter, Mrs. A. G. ADAMS at Garrison, on Nov. 30th. She was about 50 years of age. and leaves a husband and nine children. Burial was near her home in Douglas County.
A.BECKER, T. K. BUFORD, P. S. HENEY, Perry HARPER, Ecith KING, John ROWE, J. W. TAYLOR, and M.B. WHITLEY.
D. F. McCONKEY, Postmaster
December 28, 1899
Johnson BOLES sold out his hotel business at Chadwick to Mr. C. C. WHARTON, proprietor of the Chadwick Hotel.
January 4, 1900
John GIMLIN, son of George GIMLIN of lower Swan, was accidently shot in the
left wrist Tuesday morning and the arm had to be amputated.
January 11, 1900
Travelers Attention! I have put in a new boat and rigging at the old and well-known Longs Ferry site on White River. This ferry is located on the best and traveled road between Chadwick, Lead Hill and Yellville, Arkansas. You will always find a man at the helm. W. L. PHUMPHREY
February 1, 1900
Beaver Items: The twins born to Mrs. John C. CLARK, survived only one day and night. They were buried on the farm where the Clarks reside.
February 22, 1900
Frank GLADSON died at home of Mrs. Ellen WOOD, in east part of town Saturday, of typhoid fever, aged 33 years, 6 months, and 8 days. Deceased lived in and around Forsyth for 25 years · He leaves a wife and two children.
March 8, 1900
Thomas NASH, aged about 17 years, died at the home of his father on Bull Creek, of pneumonia.
April .5, 1900
Mrs. Polly A. CLINE, aged 76 years, six months, died at home of her youngest son Jas. P. CLINE~of Charity, Missouri. The deceased was mother of four boys and two girls; R. W. CLINE, one of the boys lives in Forsyth. Deceased and her husband, Isaac P. CLINE, moved from east Tennessee in 1852 to Missouri where they entered government land in Dallas County, where they lived until death. Jas. P. CLINE will attend to estate.
April 12, 1900
John GIBSON died of Pneumonia fever at his home near Swan on April 4th. He was 31 yrs, 2 mos & 21 days, just in the prime of life. He was honored and respected by all who knew him and he left a wife and two small boys.
April 19, 1900
Jimmie. the 12 year old son of U. C. and and Adelaide CROSS, and a grandson of J. C. JOHNSON, died on April 9th of whooping cough and pneumonia.
April 26, 1900
Dr. F. V. BALDWIN has placed a new ferry boat on the White River, just a few yards below the Tolerton ferry, and expects to have it in operation after he secures a license from the county court. Messrs. W. P. HENSLEY and A. J. BREEDON built the boat and did a very creditable job.
May 17, 1900
Swan Items: The Improvised Mining Company of St. Joseph, Missouri is sinking a shaft on the Burger land and though but a few days at work, were 25 feet deep at noon Saturday.
Another Old Veteran Gone? Lysander H · JENNINGS died Tuesday 15th of May. He was born in Virginia Nov. 13, 1823 and located in this vicinity October 1832, and since that time he has been an honored citizen of Taney County. He married Mary A. BROWN, Sept. 7, 1848 and reared a family of five daughters and three sons, all of which survive him: Mrs. J.B. BOSWELL; Mrs. R.K. HOWARD; Mrs. J.C. PARRISH; Mrs. C.H. GROOM; Miss Mattie JENNINGS; Horatio S. JENNINGS; Jesse M. JENNINGS and Thomas F · JENNINGS are the children of above marriage. All reside in Taney County except H.S. and Jesse M. Mrs. J. U. WYATT of this county, and Z. D. JENNINGS of Stone County are sister and brother of deceased. The wife of the deceased died five years ago. Mr. JENNINGS served his country in the Civil War in Capt. GALLOWAYs Greene County, Missouri Home Guards, and his grandfather, Thomas JENNINGS was a Revolutionary soldier.
May 31, 1900
Mr. E. B. WRIGHT, who lived four miles above Branson on the river, died Sunday the 27th. Mr. WRIGHT was about 83 yrs. of age and was an old and respected citizen of Taney County.
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KoA: Reckoning - Visionaries Q&A: Ken Rolston
Catching up on a couple of items, here's a community interview with Ken Rolston from the Amalur website:
"visionaries" …ffs! and i LIKED KoA, thought it was a very good game, better than nwn, but not quite up to bethesda standards but pretty damn good for a fable clone anyway… the frickin questions, if they'd been any more softball, they'd have been on cable news. i'm surprised "what kind of tree" didn't come up. no questions about LEVEL LOCKS WTF WERE YOU THINKING!? ok i'm finished ^^;
I enjoyed KoA a great deal for the first 25 or 30 hours; then the game entered a phase of overwhelming (almost mind-numbing) tedium… I literally couldn't bring myself to launch the game and throw those damn chakrams another 3,000 times. Which means the devs (including Rolston) failed with world-building.. with keeping my interest. I know others here played much further in the game and enjoyed it for what it was, but I don't think I could ever even consider buying another KoA game, if it was designed the same way.
Good interview… I've finished KoA and didn't enjoy it much! In my opinion It wasn't a solid RPG because of its poor dialog system (lack of freedom), H&S combat system etc. KoA wasn't the game I'd expect but a good one. In spite of its positive reviews I don't like this kind of games anyway and never purchase Rolston's next game unless he transforms his game completely.
Ken the Visionary!
I like it.
Visionary?! What a load of #$%^&… :)
It makes me think of Tom the Visionary from Newsradio. Real far out guy, into computers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyPpg0l1jMA#t=93s
I love Ken Rolston. There's interviews I've watched with the guy that had me laughing my ass off at how crazy he is. I think he did a great job with Reckoning.
Yes, we know there isn't an RPG you don't love. ;)
I'm glad for these guys that they enjoy almost everything that comes out. I'm a little more discerning, but I end up playing less new games because of it. Which is okay with me, because it leaves my money free for other interests. There is good and bad in being picky!
As far as Ken Rolston being a visionary: I wonder how he feels now that Skyrim and Reckoning have both come out. Ken left Bethesda to pursue his own vision of what makes a great crpg. He was able to pit his skills against that of his old company and they were lacking; at least economically/critically. If Ken is a visionary, what does that make Todd Howard and crew? Oh yeah, rich :D
I don't have time (or a desire) to play everything. :)
I don't love every rpg, I just don't believe there is ultimately a black and white for what is good as an rpg to me.
I meant North America. Since you seem to love everything by American or Canadian developers while rarely giving any praise to European developed titles.
Well, suffice it to say you are misinformed, I play most of the european games….I just don't kiss their ass and give them a pass for shoddy work if it is there. Like risen 2 for instance, it's fun, but clearly inferior in it's engine and graphics. (Note I didn't say it was a bad game I bought it after all).
No, instead you give developers like Bioware a pass for garbage like DA2. :)
And no, Risen 2's graphics are not inferior. The outdoor environments are some of the best looking I've ever seen in a game.
Hey I gave Piranaha Bites a pass on Gothic 3. Anyways, technically DA2 was superior to Risen 2 in the Graphics department. Not saying in game play mind you.
I only support the big companies though, just ask basilisk games and spiderweb;) I don't really need to defend myself though so whatever.
Well I can only assume that "technically" superior doesn't mean that it actually looks better. :)
I've not played Risen but I hope it's a graphic style more like Skyrim than Reckoning. I'm not too big into the comic book graphic style. How do female humans look in comparison to Skyrim? Can I play a female? I prefer looking at women when I play instead of dudes :D
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Grammar Bite: Making Media Agree
Subject-verb agreement is a deceptively easy grammar rule: a single subject gets a single verb, and a plural subject gets a plural verb. Yet deciding when a noun is singular and when it's a plural is harder than it looks. In "Making Subjects and Verbs Agree," I outlined 10 subcategories of subject-verb agreement, noting that Amy Einsohn lists 25 subject-verb agreement rules in her Copyeditor's Handbook.
You'd think 25 rules would be enough.
The Media Problem
Amy recently shared with me a list of nine more rules she's identified and didn't have room for in the newest edition of The Copyeditor's Handbook. This one jumped out at me:
Media. In Latin, media is a plural noun (the singular is medium). In English, media is sometimes treated as a singular noncount noun ("The mass media has ignored the issue"), sometimes as a plural noun ("The media have been complicit in ignoring the issues").
Some of you are already shaking your heads. "Media is the plural of medium. It's never a singular noun." Certainly, that's still the case if we're talking about "an intervening substance through which something else is transmitted or carried on," as American Heritage Dictionary, 5th edition (AHD5) defines it, such as photography, painting, and sculpture.
But that's not the sense that English speakers are torn over. Rather, it's the sense of "a means of mass communication, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, or television" (AHD5). No one denies this meaning; it's whether in this sense media should be singular or plural. And as usual, the answer depends on whom you ask.
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AHD5 advises against treating media as a singular noun, noting that only 38% of its Usage Panel would use do so. However, this is a change from the fourth edition, which did not allow media (meaning the news industry) to be used as a singular noun at all.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage agree that using media as a singular noun would generally be regarded as an error, except perhaps in the advertising field where the term seems to have originated.
However, several other dictionaries accept media as a singular noun. In addition, Garner's Modern American Usage states that media, "as a shortened form of communications media — is increasingly used as a mass noun. While that usage still makes some squeamish, it must be accepted as standard." Garner puts this change at stage 5 of his Language Change Index: "fully accepted." He does draw the line at medias, however.
Usage in the Wild
I hate when my favorite resources argue: how can I choose between AHD and Garner's? Sometimes the answer is to see what other writers and editors have decided.
I searched for media has and media have in Google News and Google Books for the period January 1, 2000–October 18, 2011. Perhaps unsurprisingly, usage of the two constructions was almost evenly split:
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All of this brings us right back to Amy's rule: sometimes media is a singular noun and sometimes it is a plural noun. It's a word whose usage is in flux. Until it settles down — if it does — either usage is correct, depending on audience. MWDEU notes that many people still recognize media as plural in a way that they no longer do with data. Know your audience. Using media as a singular noun in advertising, news, business, and casual writing is acceptable. Using it in academic and other formal writing may not be.
MWDEU reminds us that "media and medium are English words, even if naturalized, and are no longer subject to the rules of Latin." Given the evidence, I'd say media is finding its form within English rules.


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Tanabe told FishbowlDC that the release date for the book is currently summer 2014. Even though the book, unlike her first one, isn't about politics and journalism, she said it isn't "devoid" of either. "It's hard to totally leave what you know," she said.
Also unlike her debut novel, which was loosely based on her former colleagues at Politico, Lot 24 will be steamier. "There's also lots more sex!" Tanabe said. "Because art is just sexier than journalism. Say what you will about Politico, but the place isn't exactly buzzing with sexual tension."
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It's tough to root against either fighter. Both are passionate pugilists who work hard, compete carefree, and leave it all in the Octagon. Their clash won't be Diego Sanchez vs. Gilbert Melendez v 2.0 but fans can count on some gutsy exchanges and closely-contested scrambles on the mat based on each being particularly fired up. Miller is coming off a controversial decision loss and could be fighting for his job after dropping 3-of-4 fights, while Ogle is an Englishman with a chance to entertain his own. Ultimately, Miller's range and technique on the ground should make the difference in the match-up and deliver him a win. / PREDICTION: Cole Miller def. Andy Ogle via Submission
Fans were spoiled last weekend with UFC 166 thanks to the lineup's lengthy list of high-profile competitors. While UFC Fight Night 30 doesn't boast anywhere close to the same star-power, that doesn't mean the show won't be equally exciting. Such should certainly be true when it comes to the evening's undercard action, as the prelims feature a tilt between two talented females, a handful of TUF alumni, and a few U.K. products out to entertain their own in England. (Photos by USA Today Sports Images)
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OXNARD, Calif. – It doesn't appear as if Phil Costa will have to put up a fight to keep the starting center job.
His competition keeps getting hurt.
Mackenzy Bernadeau might have been the guy, but the Cowboys just want the free-agent addition to focus on guard after he recovers from hip and knee surgeries.
Bill Nagy or Kevin Kowalski could have had a shot at it, but they both look like long shots as they nurse ankle injuries. Nagy is probably out for the rest of training camp after suffering a high ankle sprain during the first practice. Kowalski is still out indefinitely with an ankle injury that sidelined him for all of the offseason workouts.
David Arkin, the fourth-round guard who was inactive for every game as a rookie last season, played some center during Tuesday's practice. The results weren't pretty. He was part of a handful of botched center-quarterback exchanges.
There are some decent options on the open market. That includes two unsigned centers who were starters last season: ex-Buccaneer Jeff Faine and ex-Ram Jason Brown.
A source said the Cowboys are aware of the options outside of the current roster, but they don't feel a sense of urgency to bring in another center.
"You try to create competition certainly for a spot on a team – a guy trying to make a team, have a spot on the team, have a role or be a starter on a team," coach Jason Garrett said. "You try to do that as best you can, but for Phil Costa, it's pretty competitive for him every time he breaks the huddle and has to go against our defensive linemen. That's a competitive environment we're similarly trying to create."
Even that is too easy for Costa right now, with Pro Bowl nose tackle Jay Ratliff out indefinitely due to a foot injury.


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Ken if you need to tan fish you can use LIQUA CURE which is
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Ken , The zinc sulphate s a tanning compound. You can also tan animal hides with it, though I not sure how well it works. I've mounted fish that were tanned with zinc sulphate and they mount up quit nicely. You get very good color retention and you can keep the skins in the tan for extended periods with no ill effects. I wish I could help you on the formula for the tan but I'm not sure what the ratios are. Hopefully someone out there will help you out on that. Bob C
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Cruise walkabout thrills fans
Tom Cruise braved thousands of screaming fans at the premičre of his latest film Mission: Impossible 2.
The Hollywood actor did a 25-minute walkabout, greeting crowds and signing
autographs in London's Leicester Square.
The actor, who turned 38 on Monday, wore shades as he happily exchanged words with bystanders, many of whom were chanting his name.
About 3,000 people turned up for a glimpse of Cruise, who is expected to make about Ł70m for his return role as Ethan Hunt, much of it through a profit deal on the film's takings.
Cruise said he was delighted to meet so many fans.
The actor did all the stunts for the picture himself and said it was "all part of the challenge" of the film.
"It added to the suspense if people could see it was really me. Some of it's nerve-wracking, but I felt confident," he said.
Other guests at the event included Cruise's co-star Dougray Scott, Gladiator actor Russell Crowe and Oscar winner Angelina Jolie.
Pregnant British actress Thandie Newton - Cruise's love interest in the film - also appeared, prowling the crowd in a flowing purple gown.
Also at the screening were broadcaster Chris Evans, and singers Ronan Keating and Kylie Minogue.
Model Caprice delighted waiting photographers by turning up in a revealing leather top and leather flared and tasselled trousers over high-heeled leopard print boots.
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In today's modern society respect for members of our senior community seems to have reached an all-time low - especially with the recent spate of house burglaries and attacks on members of the elderly community.
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Whether it is an attack on the elderly or murder, we have witnessed how the judiciary are handing down very lenient sentencing for crimes that deserve much more punishment.
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Sept. 19: Chargers make run at convention-stadium design
Sept. 25: The U-T community editorial board Q&A with Mark Fabiani
Sept. 26: Chargers stadium week in review: Collision
Could the idea succeed here? Has it worked anywhere else? Would San Diegans want to pay for any part of it?
The Chargers are calling for a civic conversation about the pros and cons of rejecting expansion plans for the San Diego Convention Center in favor of building the team a new stadium with convention space in East Village.
Yet the debate had barely begun in the news media when the most influential players clammed up.
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, convention center spokesman Steve Johnson and Sanders' stadium point man, Fred Maas, declined to comment for this story. Mike McDowell, spokesman for San Diego's hoteliers, did not respond. And Chargers special counsel Mark Fabiani said he's not ready to give details for the general concept, which he proposed last month.
"It's time to have the discussion, but nobody wants to convene the discussion," said Tom Lemmon, business manager for the San Diego County Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO.
The impasse, at least in public, reflects a showdown between powerful business and political forces vying for funding that has become much more limited in recent months. The competition pits a group that generates money for the city — the convention center and hoteliers — against a football team with a passionate following.
"We think you can do both projects separately," said mayoral spokesman Darren Pudgil. "We think the convention center should proceed as planned."
David Glanzer, spokesman for Comic-Con International, the convention center's biggest draw, said his group would be happy with a contiguous expansion of that facility. Stephen Cushman, who is shepherding the convention project, said the Chargers' plan "is not what our customers desire."
But Cushman also said not to mistake his position as opposition to a new Chargers stadium. He said his family has bought Chargers season tickets since the 1960s and is made up of big-time fans. He emphasized that he hopes the team will find a stadium solution in San Diego instead of Los Angeles, where AEG is moving ever closer to breaking ground for a new football venue.
"My two daughters and my wife will personally hold me responsible if (the Chargers) leave," Cushman said, noting that a large Chargers banner hangs from his home's garage.
Among those hoping for a broader debate are county Supervisor Ron Roberts, who has discussed with city officials the idea of county involvement in a stadium financing plan, and Lorena Gonzalez, head of the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, whose workers would benefit from any big project.
"We don't want to cut off any possibility of something happening with the Chargers," she said. "We'd like to see proposals, not rush into something, and get the best possible deal for the city and the community and for all of the residents, not just hoteliers."
Roberts said a stadium with convention space is an idea worth exploring even if the site is "divorced" from the convention center. He also acknowledged the difficulty of pitting one civic project against another.
"Just like we can't impose a solution on the Chargers, we can't impose a solution on the people who are bringing in conventions," Roberts said.
Plans to add 422,500 square feet of space to San Diego's 1.8 million-square-foot convention center are estimated to cost $500 million to $550 million, and hoteliers are considering whether to raise hotel taxes to cover part of the expense.
The project requires approval from the City Council — which will discuss the financing options Monday — as well as two-thirds of the city's hoteliers and the California Coastal Commission. Cushman said the hoteliers could vote by year's end, but there is no timeline for making a presentation to the Coastal Commission.
Sanders and the Chargers have long said any timeline for a new stadium should include a November 2012 public vote on a financing proposal, but recently have said they might miss that target. The vote would fall in Sanders' final month in office.
Building a football stadium with a retractable roof in East Village is projected to cost $800 million, excluding $150 million already budgeted to clean up and move a bus yard and other tenants at a 15-acre site east of Petco Park. The stadium site is about six blocks from the convention center.
Veteran architect Dennis Wellner, whose Kansas City-based firm, Populous, is working with the Chargers, acknowledged that separate convention facilities in San Diego may leave "everybody a little dissatisfied."
"It's not easy," he said. "Ultimately, it gets worked out."
Wellner said six blocks would feel relatively walkable if the area were redeveloped as an overall sports and entertainment district. He said the Chargers haven't given him a deadline for creating renderings of the combined stadium-convention-center concept.
The major elements of a stadium with convention space are a roof, a rollaway floor, retractable seats and additional meeting space within the facility, likely near the end zones so the team could sell premium sideline seats.
On Sept. 19, Fabiani told the Union-Tribune's community editorial board that elements of what the Chargers envision for shared stadium space can be found at venues in Gendale, Ariz., St. Louis and Atlanta.
Most of all, Fabiani mentions Indianapolis as the prime example of how stadium and convention uses can be paired successfully.
The Indianapolis Colts play at Lucas Oil Stadium, about two football fields from the Indiana Convention Center. The venues are connected by an enclosed, climate-controlled walkway, and those tunnels also are attached to 12 hotels.
Fabiani's comparison isn't perfect because of that reason, said Leonard Hoops, president and CEO of the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association.
"I don't know if you're talking apples to apples," Hoops said. "From a meeting planner's perspective, if they're in the building and they walk the block and a half to Lucas Oil Stadium, it's like they never left the building."
As for the practical effect of using the Colts stadium for trade shows, Hoops said one benefit is that a retractable roof allows essentially unlimited vertical space. One drawback, he said, is that getting electricity to booths on the field leaves an assortment of power chords stretched across the floor.
Chris Gahl, a spokesman for the same association, called the Colts "the most important tenant" of Lucas Oil Stadium but said the team accounts for only 13 percent of its use.
"You can make sure that you have both slices of the tourism pie," Gahl said. "You can have your home game and fit in conventions who want to monopolize your downtown."
What about scheduling? National Football League seasons are announced a year ahead of time. Major conventions are booked five to seven years in advance.
Gahl said that hasn't been much of a problem. He said what helps is that a single entity — the volunteer Capital Improvement Board — manages both facilities and maintains a single online calendar for bookings.
Hoops said the NFL, the team and convention officials agree each season to set aside some dates for weekend events other than football. He declined to say how many dates that is, calling the information proprietary.
Previously, Hoops worked in the San Francisco convention industry, a city with convention facilities across the street from one another.
He said it's not ideal and that many meeting planners opposed the concept before construction. But he also said San Francisco is "such a strong brand" that people adapted to the new format.
For now, the San Diego City Council is turning to another Bay Area city — San Jose — as a potential model for its convention center.
On Monday, council members will consider amending San Diego's municipal code to give hoteliers the chance to create a Convention Center Facilities District, as San Jose did in 2009, to expand the city's convention center.
It's estimated that such a district could contribute $29 million to $33 million a year to service debt on the bonds that would be issued to finance construction, a revenue stream that the Chargers would like to tap.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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A team of University of Arizona astronomers has produced the clearest visible- light pictures of stars and an exoplanet ever taken, using an adaptive-optics system to take out the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere.
They did it with a broken and repaired secondary mirror that is programmed to reshape itself to compensate for turbulence caused by the atmosphere.
The team, led by astronomer Laird Close of the UA's Steward Observatory, used a "repurposed" mirror that had been broken before it could installed at the UA's Large Binocular Telescope.
They took it to the high, dry Las Campanas Observatory in the southern Atacama Desert in Chile and installed it above the 6.5-meter (21-foot) primary mirror of the Clay Magellan Telescope, one of twin telescopes at the site whose mirrors were cast at the UA's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab.
The combination of a prime site, a superbly functioning telescope and an adap tive optics system that worked as well as their models predicted, allowed them to take "the highest-resolution images ever taken on a telescope," Close said.
The system resolved images down to 0.02 of an arcsecond, the diameter of a dime seen from 100 miles away, Close said. The apparent size of the moon, for comparison, is about 2,000 arcseconds across.
The team published its first science results Wednesday in Astrophysical Journal, based on data from an observing run in late 2012 that focused on the Orion Nebula (M42).
"To be honest, I was very skeptical that we would be able to do this," said Close. "The National Science Foundation rejected it two times. They said it's not going to work." Close eventually won $3 million in awards from the NSF to complete the work.
Their first target was the brightest star in the system, Theta 1 Ori C, actually known to be two stars but never before seen in a visible image.
When they "closed the loop," using the adaptive secondary system to take out the aberrations caused by the Earth's atmosphere, it appeared clearly as two stars.
"It was exciting," said Close, although photos posted on the team's website show a serious-looking bunch observing the results.
Jared Males, a NASA Carl Sagan Fellow who was in charge of doing computer simulations of the system and creating the software to make it work, said he did not have time to celebrate.
"It was like 'OK, it works.' I was just frantically trying to make sure the data was storing."
Males stayed up long past the others once the system was functioning, Close said. "I finally get this thing to look at the stars I wanted to look at for years. I wasn't going to sleep," Males said.
Males, who earned his doctorate on the project, was recently selected as a Sagan Fellow for his work on VisAO. He plans to use his three-year stipend and research budget to perfect the VisAO technology and use it to look for Jupiter-sized planets in the habitable zones of their stars. "I have about 20 good candidates," he said.
Males has already taken photographs of one of them with the visible-light system. The scientific paper on it won't be published until later this year, but preliminary results have already been presented at astronomical conferences.
The unpublished exoplanet work is "probably the most exciting work we're doing," Close said.
The results are a culmination of work done over the past 20 years by astronomers at Steward, working with partners at Arcetri Observatory in Florence, Italy, Close said.
Adaptive optics systems they developed are available on the MMT Telescope on Mount Hopkins and on the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham.
The earlier systems work in longer wavelengths in the near infrared. Close said his VisAO is the first time UA astronomers have used adaptive optics to look "in the blue" — the shorter wavelengths visible to the human eye.
"The big step forward is the shorter wavelengths. It allows us to make even sharper images. We can get some of highest resolution images possible," said Phil Hinz, director of Steward's Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics.
Hinz, who recently combined the two giant 8.4-meter eyes of the LBT and its adaptive mirrors, said Close's results are "sharper resolution than anything the LBT has accomplished."
"One of the things it has shown us how to do is to really fine-tune a system to work at shorter wavelengths." He said he plans to use those new techniques on the LBT.
"This is a great example of the long-term investment we and the Italian group have made in this technology," Close said.
Close and his graduate students moved to Florence for a year to test the system, pairing it with a wave-front sensor developed by their Italian partners. The wave-front sensor sites a nearby guide star and measures the atmospheric turbulence, then sends messages to the deformable secondary mirror to adapt its shape.
In Florence, the team lived together in a big house with Close, his wife and two children to save money.
"The project was severely underfunded," said Close. The big savings came when the group found it could repurpose the "shell," a thin high-tech mirror built for the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham.
Originally, it was a 36-inch mirror, only 1.6 mm (about six-thousandths of an inch) thick, with 672 computer-controlled acutators capable of changing the shape of the mirror 1,000 times a second to compensate for atmospheric turbulence.
It was broken only on the edge, and technicians at Steward Observatory cut it to produce a mirror about 33.5 inches in diameter with 585 actuators.
Charles Beichman, director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech, called the breakthrough "a fabulous direction for adaptive optics."
"We started out doing it in the infrared, and the race now is to push down to shorter wavelengths. A combination of bigger telescope primary mirrors and shorter wavelengths is needed to image planets orbiting stars, he said. "You really start to buy improvements in your ability to resolve two stars together or get rid of the light of a star and be able to see a planet."
A second paper published Wednesday, authored by UA graduate student Ya-Lin Wu, used the VisAO to record light from ionized hydrogen gas being blown away from two smaller stars by the more massive Theta 1 Ori C.
A third paper, whose principal author is UA doctoral student Kate Follette, examined the silhouette or dust disk around another star in Orion.
"The result that's exciting to us is to find out how the mass of this disk changes as you get farther out. This is actually the holy grail for people who study dust around objects," said Close.


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San Francisco noise-pop outfit Deerhoof release their 11th full-length LP, Breakup Song, on September 4th. The album closely follows on last year's Deerhoof vs. Evil, and if early preview "Fête D'Adieu" is any indication, it marks an even bolder excursion into pop territory.
The track finds singer Satomi Matsuzaki declaring herself "as tough as a robot on the dance floor" over a stuttering guitar groove. "We went for the Keith-Richards-joins-ABBA vibe on this one," drummer Greg Saunier tells Rolling Stone.
In a statement, Saunier described Breakup Song as "a sensational record of Cuban-flavored party-noise-energy music" and concluded, "If you want to go dancing or do karaoke with Deerhoof, you don't have to ask twice."
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9/6 Raleigh, NC – Memorial Auditorium
9/15 Denver, CO – Hi-Dive
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9/23 Minneapolis, MN – Mill City Nights
9/24 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
9/25 Denver, CO – Hi-Dive
9/27 Garden City, ID – Visual Arts Collective
9/28 Seattle, WA – The Vera Project
9/29 Portland, OR – Branx
10/1 San Francisco, CA – Slim's
10/2 Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
11/3 Dallas, TX – The Prophet Bar
11/5 Houston, TX – Walters
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11/9 Orlando, FL – The Plaza Theatre
11/10 Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club
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The lawsuit claims Walmart is responsible for the June pile-up because the driver of one of its tractor-trailers, who allegedly slammed into Morgan's limousine, had not slept in over 24 hours.
It says the retail giant should have known the driver's commute of 700 miles (1,125km) from his home in Georgia to work in Delaware was "unreasonable".
"As a result of Wal-Mart's gross, reckless, wilful, wanton, and intentional conduct, it should be appropriately punished with the imposition of punitive damages," the complaint says.
Morgan suffered a broken leg and broken ribs in the June 7 accident, which flipped the Mercedes limo he was riding in on to its roof and caused a chain-reaction crash involving four other vehicles.
The 30 Rock and former Saturday Night Live star had been receiving treatment in a rehabilitation centre, but was released on Saturday.
His spokesman Lewis Kay said Morgan will continue his recovery at home with an "aggressive outpatient programme".
Sixty-two-year-old comedian James McNair, who went by the name Jimmy Mack, was killed in the New Jersey Turnpike crash.
Two other limo passengers were also injured. Both are named as plaintiffs in Morgan's lawsuit.
Walmart responded to the lawsuit with a statement, saying: "Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out" to all involved, including Mr McNair's friends and relatives.
"We are deeply sorry that one of our trucks was involved. As we've said, 'cooperating fully in the ongoing investigation.
"We know it will take some time to resolve all of the remaining issues as a result of the accident, but we're committed to doing the right thing for all involved."
Truck driver Kevin Roper, 35, has pleaded not guilty to death by auto and assault by auto charges.
Federal transportation safety investigators said Roper was driving 65mph (105kph) in the 60 seconds before he struck the limo van.
The speed limit for that stretch of the turnpike is normally 55mph (89kph), but had been lowered to 45mph (72kph) due to ongoing road work.
Investigators concluded that Roper had been on the job for about 13-and-a-half hours at the time of the crash.
Federal regulations allow truck drivers to work up to 14 hours, with a maximum of 11 hours behind the wheel.


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Girl-hating teen killer was disturbed virgin with ammo to massacre 400
KILLER virgin Elliot Rodger had enough ammo to slaughter 400 as he went on his murder spree, police revealed last night.
The British-born student murdered six and injured 13 in a California bloodbath, twisted revenge for his rejection by women.
Detectives said if he had not been surrounded by armed police he would "without doubt" have continued.
Rodger, 22, had vowed to "kill 50 or more" in a 141-page manifesto titled My Twisted World.
He planned to turn a girls' sorority house into a bloodbath to hit back against "all the women who have rejected me and made my life a misery".
Police found a print-out of his murder manifesto in his apartment in the Santa Barbara suburb of Isla Vista, near LA, on Friday night.
"What is very apparent is the severe extent of how disturbed Mr Rodger was"County Sheriff Bill Brown
County Sheriff Bill Brown said Rodger embarked on his rampage armed with three powerful 9mm semi-automatic handguns – two Sig Sauer P226 pistols and one Glock 34 Longslide pistol.
He had permits for all three – purchased at three different California gun stores – despite being diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, before moving from England to the US with his parents when he was five.
Rodger's family lawyer admitted the student had been undergoing psychiatric care and had "multiple therapists".
Sheriff Brown said his office received a request from a relative on April 30 to check Roger's welfare but his two deputies ruled he posed no threat.
The sheriff said: "What is very apparent is the severe extent of how disturbed Mr Rodger was."
His father, Hunger Games assistant director Peter, blamed "irresponsible politicians" for not doing more on gun control.
He killed his first three victims – all men – in his apartment up to 24 hours before he began his drive-by shootings.
The trio, one of whom was Rodger's room-mate, were stabbed to death in frenzied attacks.
"It was like a scene out of the worst horror movie," one cop said.
He then tried to get into the nearby Alpha Phi college sorority house.
When the girls inside ignored his "loud, aggressive knocking" he shot three women outside, killing Veronika Weiss, 19, and Katie Cooper, 22. The third woman survived. Rodger's sixth victim, student Christopher Michael-Martinez, 20, was shot dead outside a delicatessen.
Rodger then began firing indiscriminately at pedestrians from his BMW as he fled cops.
After mowing down two cyclists, he crashed and shot himself in the head as police moved in.
Seven injured victims last night remained in hospital. Two were described as still being in a serious condition.
Rodger had warned in his manifesto: "On the day before the Day of Retribution I will start the first phase of my vengeance, silently killing as many people as I can.'' He vowed his retribution in videos he posted on You Tube and other social networking sites.
"I'm 22 years old, and I'm still a virgin. I've never even kissed a girl," said Rodger, pictured by the Millennium Wheel on a trip to London.
"If I can't have you girls, I will destroy you," he said laughing.
Rodger's dad Peter, who studied at Maidstone College of Art before moving to Hollywood, said his family was "experiencing the most inconceivable pain".
"Our hearts go out to everybody involved,'' added the director, who once lived in a renovated squat in Camberwell, south London.
His sister Jenni, 55, who lives in Cazals, south-west France, urged Barack Obama to tighten gun control laws.
She said: "He was a sick kid, seriously mentally disturbed. And yet he was able to get hold of guns. What kind of a society allows this?"
Rodger's grandmother Lois, 89, from Smarden, Kent, saw him in November when she visited California.
"My grandson was a very sick boy,'' she said.


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Obviously not premium quality but pretty cheap. Worth a shout I thought.
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PSA £0.03 brake cable
Obviously not premium quality
Beg to differ, I find their gear cables to just as good as anyones
ooh cheers just bought 10
Hateful things. You have to snip the "other" nipple off and hope the wire doesn't start to fray before you insert it into the outer.
for 3p each I can deal with that. Ta OP.
Another 10 here, ta for the heads up.
Hateful things. You have to snip the "other" nipple off and hope the wire doesn't start to fray before you insert it into the outer.
Wrap some electrical tape around the cable, about 5mm from the point where you are going to cut it. (Really tightly)
Cut the cable,
Insert the 5mm end into the outer
Remove the electrical tape.
Continue to thread it through the outer.
(If you are not using one continuous run of outer, you will have to re-tape the end for each section of outer)
Wonder how many folk will actually get the cables.
Bought 30! I've an excellent pair of Park Tool side cutters that will snip these cleanly.
10 for 30p, should last me a while
What's a brake cable?
"MTB" doesn't say mtb/road pic shows the dual ended ones tho.....need spare road don't need mtb....hmmm.
10 for 30p, should last mebased on the number I've used in the last 5 years. Still, can't hurt to stock up!
a whileforever
not working anyway, no option to add to basket
Sold out ?
Gone now
They soon stopped that one.
Hateful things. You have to snip the "other" nipple off and hope the wire doesn't start to fray before you insert it into the outer
This won't happen if you spin it in the direction that the wire is wound in while pushing it through the outer
Follow up: mine arrived this morning, Royal Mail tracked 48. They are MTB cables, barrel nipples only, no pear on the other end, so no snipping to do. Little bag of Tangfastics in there too! Cheers Wiggle, if you're watching, and I'll be back next time I need something bigger and the price is in the right ballpark.
Re cutting the cable, cut then cover in cheap super glue, no problems at all then.
Is it just me that finds it a bit selfish that folks decided to snap huge numbers of these PSAs up, rather than let other folks benefit as well. Its like the bite valve the other day that folks were buying x 10 just cause they were cheap...
Not selfish at all. Deals are always around. You have to be quick to get your bargains
Agree if you're not going to use them. I have 3 kids on bikes, all rear brake cables need changing annually due to bad routing/design, plus my town bike, and my BB5 braked winter hack, the wife's bike and the two kids bikes I need to service and sell as they're outgrown now. I was a bit disappointed they weren't dual nipple cables as the roadie on the turbo needs attention too. Should have bought more...
I'd have thought we had all learnt from the Halfords High 5 debacle. In many of these instances someone has misplaced a decimal point and the site appears to be selling ridiculous bargains. A PSA will appear on here and every other cycling forum in the world, and every chancer will order enough to last a lifetime/make a killing on fleabay. Then a sold out sign will appear, then a load of folk will get "sorry, we can't honour your order, here's a refund" emails from wiggle/halfords, whoever, and then three or four pages of debate here on whether they are utter **** for not bankrupting themselves over a pricing cock-up, and funnily enough no-one actually gets five XTR chainsets for a tenner. Whodathoughtit?
My kids will all be getting new brake cables in their bikes. Could have done with them having the pear ends on them as none of my bikes use the drum style.
I look after the kids bike fleet for the school.
If anyone has bought far more than they need I'd take some off you.
Pretty sure they are all barrel type.
I'm still waiting for either my cables to arrive or some sort of notification from Wiggle that the order has been cancelled... anyone else in the same limbo?
If you have not heard anything from Wiggle, I would guess the order has been put on backorder. You can check this in your Wiggle account.
So, yes. Limbo.
Yes, just thought of checking Wiggle order status! It's 'Awaiting Processing'. Not sure I'm any the wiser...
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Matthew and Amanda Dotson, the parents accused of starving their 2-year-old son to death, are being held in protective custody at the Roane County Jail.
Sheriff Jack Stockton said the situation was out of concern that they might be harmed by other inmates.
"It's our job to protect them," he said.
The Dotsons were booked into the Roane County Jail late Tuesday.
They were indicted by the Roane County grand jury this week for first-degree murder in the death of their son.
The Roane County Budget Committee voted 3-0 to recommend the 2012-13 school budget to the County Commission, but school officials may want to continue following the situation until the budget process comes to a close.
After the unanimous vote and after Director of Schools Toni McGriff and school business manager Eric Harbin left the June 14 meeting at the courthouse, the committee continued to scrutinize the school budget.
Commissioner Steve Kelley even indicated he might propose a change to the $69.4 million plan before it goes to the county commission for a vote.
Outgoing Roane County Director of Schools Toni McGriff said Gwen Johnson will be the first principal of the new Dyllis Springs Elementary School.
Johnson had been serving as the principal of Oliver Springs Elementary School.
McGriff said Kendra Inman, who had been principal at Dyllis Elementary School, will be the assistant principal at the new school.
Dyllis Elementary closed after the 2011-12 school year.
The new school, which was part of the system's $32 million building program, is scheduled to open for the 2012-13 school year.
Pick Tennessee Products tour will come to the Harriman Farmers Market on Wednesday, June 27.
Pamela Bartholomew, agritourism and farmers markets coordinator for the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, announced that Harriman will host one of the tour stops that stretch across the state.
"There will be free recipe cards and a drawing for a Pick Tennessee Products basket filled with more than $150 worth of delicious products," said a release from Bartholomew.
By MIKE GIBSON
For Kingston parks and recreation director Rick Ross and his crew, the July 4 holiday begins on July 6.
July 6 of the preceding year, that is.
Once the curtain dropped and the din faded on Independence Day 2011, Ross and his staff set out in earnest planning this year's celebration.
"We're always tweaking," Ross said.
"How can we make little improvements? More parking? Can we put pesticides in the places where people sit?"
Bryan Adams, owner of Tattoos by Bryan of Harriman, recently presented the Harriman Fire Department with a $500 donation.
The donation was given in support of the department's fundraising efforts to purchase a four-wheel-drive universal transport vehicle.
The UTV, a specialized vehicle, is to be used during inclement weather or other extreme rescue situations.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on June 29 at Poland Hollow Road and Hwy. 70 in Roane County.
The checkpoint will take place from 11 p.m. to midnight.
Recognizing the danger presented to the public by intoxicated drivers, troopers will concentrate their efforts on vehicles being operated by intoxicated drivers.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol has found these sobriety checkpoints to be an effective means of enforcing DUI laws of Tennessee while ensuring the protection of all motorists.
Salem Baptist Church, Ten Mile, will celebrate its 135-year anniversary with special activities June 30 and July 1.
The church was established in 1877 and has opened its doors for weekly services consistently for these 135 years.
Pastor Ted Clower said he and the congregation invite former pastors and members to share in the celebration services.
The Saturday service will begin at 4 p.m.
Breakin' Ground, a group of young singers and instrumentalists, will provide music for the service.
Michaela Grubb, a 2012 Roane County High School graduate, was recently awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Council of Catholic Women at Blessed Sacrament Church, Harriman.
Grubb, daughter of Blessed Sacrament parishioners Melissa and Ralph Grubb of Kingston, graduated with a 4.093 grade-point average. She plans to major in music therapy at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville.
Ranked fifth in her graduating class, Grubb was active in church, school and community projects.
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Asbury Chapel United Methodist Church, Rockwood, will have its vacation Bible school from 6 to 8 p.m. June 24-27 in the church at 1717 Eureka Road. Classes are available for ages 2-12; the week will kick off with a Sunday night cookout.
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(AP) - The Minnesota attorney general has filed lawsuits against two more foreclosure consulting companies which allegedly charged struggling homeowners big upfront fees, then failed to deliver on promises to save their homes. The lawsuits were filed Thursday against IMC Financial Services and American Financial Corp., which does business as National Foreclosure Counseling Services. Both have offices in Florida.
Robert Dallavia is a director of National Foreclosure Counseling Services. He denies the allegations, and claims the lawsuit was filed without investigation and to generate publicity for prosecutors.
Messages seeking reaction from IMC Financial were not returned.
Attorney General Lori Swanson alleges that both companies charged upfront fees, which is illegal under Minnesota law.
With the latest lawsuits, Swanson has now sued 12 foreclosure consulting companies.
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On Friday at 7:00 p.m. through Monday at 12:00 am, expect single lane closures on eastbound Suitland Parkway from Alabama Avenue to Meadowview Drive for underground utility upgrades. One lane of traffic will remain open during the work period.
The Nike Women's Half Marathon will be held on Sunday and cause the closure of roads. The following roads/locations will be closed at the specified times below:
6:00 am to 12:00 pm --
Maine Ave at ramp to 395 south
15th Street between Independence Avenue and Maine Avenue
Independence Avenue between 15th Street and 23rd Street
Rock Creek Parkway from 23rd Street to Virginia Avenue
Ohio Drive from 23rd St. to Inlet Bridge
East Basin Drive
West Basin Drive
Haines Point
Memorial Bridge and Memorial Circle (reopened at 9:30 a.m.)
4:00 am to 12:00 pm
Parkway Drive
Virginia Department of Transportation officials say that there will be HOV lane closures on I-95/395 this weekend. From Friday at 11 p.m. to 9 a.m. Saturday, VDOT will close the HOV lanes from the Washington D.C. line to Dumfries, just south of Exit 152 (Route 234.
Lanes will head south Saturday morning through 2 p.m. when they will then reverse and head north.
Here is the weekend schedule for times and direction of the I-95/395 HOV lanes:
Friday night April 25 from 11 p.m. to 9 a.m. Saturday morning April 26:
HOV lanes closed from the D.C. line to Dumfries, Exit 152, Route 234
Saturday April 26 from 9 a.m. to 11p.m.:
HOV lanes open from Dumfries to just south of the Franconia-Springfield Parkway
HOV lanes closed between the Franconia Springfield Parkway and Turkeycock (Edsall Road)
HOV lanes open from Turkeycock (Edsall Road) to the Washington D.C. line
Saturday night April 26 from 11 p.m. to 9 a.m. Sunday morning April 27:
HOV lanes closed from Dumfries, Exit 152, Route 234 to the DC line
Sunday April 27 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.:
HOV lanes open from Dumfries to just south of the Franconia-Springfield Parkway
HOV lanes closed between the Franconia Springfield Parkway and Turkeycock (Edsall Road)
HOV lanes open from Turkeycock (Edsall Road) to the Washington D.C. line
HOV facility open in its entirety by 2 p.m. heading north.
VDOT says Sunday night, the shoulder widening project will be implementing a full road closure of I-95 north prior to exit 156, near the Truck weigh station. Multiple lanes will begin closing at 10:30 p.m. before the road is closed completely after midnight to allow for overhead sign structure placement. All lanes will reopen by 4:30 a.m. Monday.
Click here for more info: http://www.virginiadot.org/projects/northernvirginia/i-95_auxiliary_lane_and_shoulder_safety_improvements.asp
Officials with the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office say several events this weekend may cause traffic delays.
On Saturday, a 5k race beginning at 7:30 a.m. at Freedom High School will follow Riding Center Drive, Fortitude Terrace, Justice Drive, Neighborly Lane, Mandolin Street, Pelican Street and Talent Street. The event is expected to end at 9:30 a.m.
A parade will also take place on Saturday at Park View High School starting at 8 a.m. The event will travel the access road and will end at Sterling Middle School. The event will be over by 9:30 a.m.
A similar parade will take place in Ashburn at 10 a.m. on Saturday. The parade will begin at St. Theresa's Catholic Church and will travel from Windmill Drive and ends at Greg Crittendon Park.
Expect increased traffic in the area of the Village Center Plaza in Aldie for an event that will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, say officials.
A parade in Hamilton, Va. on Saturday will begin at 11 a.m. from the Hamilton Safety Center and end at the west-end of town.
There will be some increased traffic on Saturday on Sugarland Run Drive for an event at Meadowland Elementary School that runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
An event in downtown Leesburg will close King Street between North Street and Loudoun Street as well as Market Street between Church Street and Wirt Street beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. The streets will remain closed until Sunday at 10 p.m.
A 5k race in Leesburg will affect Catoctin Circle and Harrison Street from 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. on Saturday.
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7 Techniques To Use The Method Of Loci
At the World Memory Championships, participants have been able to memorize hundreds of random digits, a shuffled pack of playing cards or names of numerous strangers in less than an hour. Do these people have an exceptional brain we can only dream of?
Surprisingly enough, good memory is available not only to preordained few. As Ed Cooke, a competitor from England, has stated, "What you have to understand is that even average memories are remarkably powerful if used properly." A cultivated memory is acquired by training your mind with effective techniques and one of those is the memory palace. In this post we will teach you the most important steps to build your own one.
What is a Memory Palace? – The Concept, Origin & Benefits
Method of Loci
Known as a journey method, memory palace is a widely used memory aid that helps you create a place in your mind to store information. The method is also referred as loci, which derives from Latin locus, meaning place.
The concept of memory palaces is deeply rooted in the fact that we are good at navigating and remembering places. In addition, we remember better when we put the content to be memorized into a context, when we transform it into something familiar and meaningful to us.
Ancient Greece
The memory palace is one of the most sophisticated memory techniques and dates back to Ancient Greece. Simonides, a poet, attends a banquet that ends tragically: the hall collapses leaving everyone buried under the ruins. The destruction deprives people of any possibility of recognizing the bodies.
Here is when Simonides, the lucky survivor, comes to help. He recalls where each person has been sitting at the banquet. Since then, the memory palace technique has been used widely to train and discipline human memory.
Everyday Life Examples
Joshua Foer, a science journalist, who attended the World Memory Championships to cover the news, ended up registering as a competitor for the following year. The result was shocking. He won the competition and is now the author of world best seller "Moonwalking with Einstein" published in 33 languages.
Scott Hagwood, a four-time U.S. memory champion, uses featured luxury houses to accomplish various memorization tasks. Dr. Yip Swee Chooi, another memory contest champion, has memorized a 57,000-word dictionary by using his own body parts.
Memorization is a skill to be used not only in competitions. It has been proven amazingly effective in various spheres of our life. Memorizing a poem or your next business speech, a list of words for your foreign language lesson or a list of goods to be bought in the supermarket, multiple telephone numbers or dozens of new recipes ─ all can be handled easily once you know how to create and use memory palaces.
Build a Memory Palace – 7 Steps
So, how does it all work? To succeed in building and using memory palaces, you should choose a place you are very well familiar with, identify locations you want to store information in, explore and reuse your palace and make the memorization as unusual as possible.
1. Pick a Place You Know Well
Especially if you are a beginner, choose a real place: your house, office, a church, a store, or a park. It can be as large or as small as you wish. Decide on a whole building or select a separate room or location. You can travel from museum halls to boards of cruise ships, from gym to beauty salons, from a concert hall to a sports stadium, from a waterfall to your city center… Simply make sure the place is imprinted in your mind, so that you can remember many details without much effort. The more detailed and spacious the place, the more information you can store in that mental space.
2. Define a Route
To make memorization easier, you need to create a certain route that will lead you from one point to another in the memory palace. For example, you can decide that you will always enter your palace from the front door, or you will consider objects to your right then turn to those to your left. Defining a route is especially effective if you need to memorize a list in a certain sequence. This may apply to memorizing a list of events or objects, certain dates for your History class, main points in your next speech, etc.
3. Identify Storage Locations
If your memory palace represents a route itself (for example, your drive to your favorite supermarket) you should decide which objects will serve as storages. These could be houses along the road, statues, trees and plants, road signs, etc. In a building, these could be shelves, curtains, boxes, furniture, and electronic devices, among others. The takeaway here is to create distinct storages for your information, so that you will not mix them up.
4. Explore and Memorize Your Memory Palace
An effective way to do this is to visit and revisit your memory palace. Visualize every single detail possible: objects, smells, colors, sizes, and materials the objects are made out of. Go on adding sounds and movements. See the brightness of the light and feel the weather outside as you open the window.
5. Store Manageable Information in Each Place
After observing and memorizing your palace, it's high time to start using the mental space. Start small. Especially if you are a beginner, you need to play with as much information as you can handle. Put information that should go together in one place and make sure you determine a separate place for the next data. For instance, if you are preparing for an exam, you can place each exam topic in a separate room, and attach an image to each of the bullet points you want to remember.
6. Make Memorization Memorable!
The more extraordinary and unusual your associations, the better! Think of absurd situations and connections that will force the information to stick in your memory. Imagine spaghetti rolling out of the keyhole of your door, your favorite cartoon heroes coming out of the oven of your kitchen, pictures on the walls talking and moving, your favorite rock group singing on your bed, etc. Place gigantic animals or objects into tiny spaces. Play with words and associations; make them funny, crazy, weird, even dirty – it is the key to memorization that lasts.
Let's assume you need to deliver a speech on benefits of taking massive open online courses. Pick your house as your memory palace. If you want to start with the point that online courses enable students to socialize with thousands of peers worldwide, you can imagine Mark Zuckerberg with a Facebook T-shirt at your front door. Attach your first point to this image.
Now walk into the corridor and meet your boss on a black horse to remind you that passing online courses creates opportunities for finding a better job. Then look up at the picture on the wall and see your teacher of the Spanish language graciously dancing flamenco. This is your hint that online courses are an effective way of improving foreign language skills.
You can continue this journey endlessly and add as much information as you wish. Remember, memorization becomes easier when there are extraordinary associations and vivid visualization.
7. Use, Reuse and Build New Palaces
No matter how well you know your palace, keep on visiting and using it. If you have memorized a speech to be delivered and you no longer need the same place, place something else in the same location (you are already familiar with nitty-gritty details of the place!). When you start, you had better use places you are familiar with, but as you proceed, it is encouraging to build new palaces – the hotel you have stayed in, your friend's house or room, your relative's summer house, etc.
Using memory palaces has a number of undeniable advantages. It helps to access locations any time we want, take any direction needed, recall a concrete sequence, add information between pieces of data, and feel the "distance" between different points. What else do we need to master the information we want to memorize?
How to Build a Memory Palace – Summary
Memory palace is a priceless tool to help you feel the power of storing unlimited amount of information in your mind with little effort. When you memorize, you not only train your memory but also explore how your memory works. Most importantly, you find out the true potential of your mind.
Building memory palaces and using them is not about getting rid of your gadgets and relying exceptionally on your memory. It is about training your brain to be able to perform surprisingly better in any task, both in professional and personal settings.
If you curious about a course that will teach you the techniques in more detail you may consider checking out the Become a SuperLearner 2 course. This class will explain and teach you both reading improvement and memory tactics.
Sources & further reading: Mind Secrets | Wikipedia


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