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Ben Jervey | April 10, 2014
By Ben Jervey • Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 12:52
It's a busy week in the campus fossil fuel divestment movement.
A "sit in" by students at the Washington University of St. Louis enters its third day today. The protestors have camped out underneath their campus's Brookings Archway since Tuesday, demanding that the school cut ties with Peabody Energy — the world's largest private coal company — and its CEO Greg Boyce.
Boyce was named to WU's Board of Trustees in 2009. One year earlier, Peabody gave the university millions of dollars to help create the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization. (Along with Arch Coal, who also kicked in, the investment was roughly $5 million.)
According to Caroline Burney, a senior at Washington University, the sit-in only became necessary after many other attempts for dialogue with the school's administration were exhausted. Burney writes:
Peabody Energy CEO Greg Boyce also holds one more distinction: member of the Washington University Board of Trustees. Since Boyce was placed on the board in 2009, students have been actively organizing against Peabody Energy's presence on campus. We have demanded that Boyce be removed from the Board of Trustees and that the University change the name of the "Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization," a research entity to which Peabody and Arch Coal donated $5,000,000. We have met with the Chancellor – multiple times. We have dropped banners at coal events, peacefully disrupted speeches by Greg Boyce on campus, marched through campus and taken our demands to Peabody's headquarters. We have protested with residents from Black Mesa, collected signatures for the Take Back St. Louis ballot initiative and rallied with the United Mine Workers in their fight against Peabody.
But, five years later, Boyce is still on the board, the name of the Clean Coal Consortium remains unchanged, and Chancellor Wrighton continues to stand behind Peabody Energy. Indeed, just this week he emailed us saying, "your opinion that peabody energy behaves in an 'irresponsible and unjust manner' is not one that I share." The Administration has successfully used a "deny by delay" process by holding town hall meetings and developing task forces around renewable energy and energy efficiency while ignoring the role that coal plays on the campus.
In a powerful editorial for Student Life, the independent newspaper of Washington University of St. Louis, staff writer Aaron Hall echoes the students' frustrations, and lays out the stakes of the action:
So what can the divestment movement do to cut Wash. U's affiliation with this robber baron? The answer is that it has done as much as it can so far. It has the public's attention and has made clear actions to open dialogue with the administration. Unfortunately, the board of trustees keeps Wash. U.'s financials well-hidden from the eyes of its students. So the divestment movement's first goal is to increase financial transparency so we can see to what extent Peabody funds our school. Secondly, it requests that Boyce be removed from the board of trustees, primarily for the blatantly unethical worker treatment that occurred under his leadership. What does it take for the administration to address this civil and reasonable request? If a sit-in isn't enough, then I don't know what is.
Here's video of the sit-in by Student Life, the student newspaper of Washington University of St. Louis.
Meanwhile, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, student and alumni advocates for divestment at Harvard University have been joined by a powerful faction: their teachers. On Thursday morning, nearly 100 faculty members published an open letter to President Drew Faust and the University's Fellows, expressing frustration with the president's dismissive statements on divestment, and demanding that the University "divest, as soon as possible, its holdings in fossil fuel corporations."
Divestment is an act of ethical responsibility, a protest against current practices that cannot be altered as quickly or effectively by other means. The University either invests in fossil fuel corporations, or it divests. If the Corporation regards divestment as "political," then its continued investment is a similarly political act, one that finances present corporate activities and calculates profit from them.
You can read the letter in its entirety here.
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Washington University has one of the best chemical engineering departments in the country. How it ranks, I haven't a clue. It's up there. I'm going to guess that coal companies have funded many research projects to clean up coal. Especially since Illinois Basin coal is a messy mess. From getting sulfur and metals out before burning to putting a concrete plant on top of the discharge stack to convert products of combustion into synthetic concrete. (it really doesn't go at the tippy top of a stack - exhaust is stack-fitted down to the plant)
Coal has been recognized to mess up the air as well as cook the planet. It's been what, 44 years since the Clean Air Act? One would think Peabody funded research should have figured out a way to make coal as clean as a whistle by now. I know. I know. Basic research is a continuum and not time dependent. But for the love of god, man, push something, anything out of the lab that's viable.
So I'm guessing The Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization is sort of like our favorite hydraulic fracking institutes scattered throughout the oil and gas patch tied to universities. Quasi university affiliated institutes to pull in mostly soft science, liberal arts, communications and public policy departments who are desperate for funding. For the express purpose of, "getting the good word out." And to shield consortia members and the university like, "hey, CCCU isn't directly affiliated with WU or Peabody. They do what they do and has nothing to do with us."


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Justin Forcier, an associate in the Delaware office of Eckert Seamans, prepared this overview.
Key Issue Addressed: Fees imposed for bad faith litigation as well as for failure to preserve text messages and other mishandling of ESI. In re: Shawe & Elting LLC, C.A. Cons. No. 9661-CB (Del. Ch. July 20, 2016).
Background: This decision is the latest in a series of decisions involving a deadlock between 50/50 owners Elizabeth Elting ("Elting") and Philip Shawe ("Shawe"), who are also co-CEOs of TransPerfect Global, Inc. ("TPG" or the "Company"). Previous decisions involving this litigation have been highlighted on these pages.
With facts that seem to spring from a John Grisham novel, Shawe was accused of surreptitiously monitoring Elting's phone calls, emails and communications between her and her counsel, hacking into her computer, and hiring a former employee to break into her office to take photographs and steal documents. The two co-CEOs were former sweethearts who met in college before forming their global company that has annual revenue of a few hundred million dollars per year.
Elting also accused Shawe of deleting files from his laptop, and otherwise failing to preserve ESI; "accidentally" destroying his phone; and lying in interrogatory answers, and while giving deposition and trial testimony.
Analysis: The court first reiterated that Delaware follows the "American Rule" and courts do not generally award attorneys' fees for the prevailing party in litigation. However, an exception to that rule exists when the losing party acted in bad faith. The court clarified that the purpose of the award is not to provide the prevailing party with a fee award as a matter of right, but instead to avoid abusive behavior in the future and preserve the integrity of the judicial process. And any claims of bad faith must be based on clear evidence and is normally "only applied when the party in question displayed unusually deplorable behavior."
First, the court found that Shawe intentionally sought to destroy evidence he was judicially ordered to make available. The expedited discovery order that the court entered explicitly gave Elting the right to conduct forensic discovery on Shawe's computers, phones, and other devices. Instead of complying with the order, Shawe twice, and without counsel's knowledge, deleted files from his laptop. First, a total of 19,000 files were deleted prior to Shawe creating a mirror image of it—all but 1,068 were recovered. Those deleted files were directly relevant to the litigation. Second, Shawe deleted 22,000 more files from his laptop. However, the court found that Shawe did not intend on deleting those files permanently because he deleted them after creating the mirror image. However, the court still found that the deletion of those 22,000 files was improper, because it was an attempt to "sneak one past his computer expert, who had just been hired." This is sometimes referred to as spoliation.
Second, the court found that Shawe recklessly failed to safeguard information on his cell phone. Shawe frequently communicated with TPG employees through text messages. Although the court was less than convinced that Shawe's phone was "accidently" submerged in a plastic cup of Diet Coke, it found absolutely zero credibility in Shawe's explanation that his assistant (Campbell) threw the phone away innocently. The court stated, "Campbell's story of having such a 'visceral' reaction to seeing rat droppings in his office desk drawer that he spontaneously threw out the phone is so preposterous that it is not even recounted in Shawe's own brief."
Furthermore, the court observed that Shawe is the co-CEO of a company that specializes in e-discovery. He had a wealth of resources available to him that could attempt to fix his phone. Instead, he trusted it with Campbell, whose only experience with data recovery is that his own phone fell in a toilet once and worked fine after it dried. Once Campbell was unsuccessful in his attempt, the phone sat in his desk drawer and was then thrown away. The court found that this action by Shawe at least amounted to a reckless failure to safeguard information.
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As a remedy, the court considered three factors: "(1) the culpability of the spoliating party; (2) the degree of prejudice suffered by the aggrieved party; and (3) the availability of lesser sanctions that could both avoid unfairness to the aggrieved party and serve as an adequate penalty to deter such future conduct."
To start, the court shifted all reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses (including experts) Elting incurred in bringing the motion for sanctions to Shawe. However, the court found that an additional sanction was appropriate because Shawe's behavior "significantly complicated and permeated the litigation." Therefore, 33% of Eltings attorneys' fees and expenses that were incurred until the decision was rendered for the trial on the merits were also shifted to Shawe.
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Speaker Fiona Simpson today revealed she had received correspondence from the Crime and Misconduct Commission in January and was referring Ms Bates based on the watchdog's advice.
"On 20 February 2014, I received correspondence from the Chair of the Crime and Misconduct Commission,'' she said.
"This correspondence included prima facie documentary evidence that the Member for Mudgeeraba read material from a third party into the parliamentary record which was known to her personally to be incorrect.
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It is understood the matter relates to a letter Ms Bates read in Parliament from her son in which he states "at no stage did my mother employ me, nor did she ask anyone to give me a job". However, it is believed the CMC obtained emails Ms Bates wrote to at least one minister suggesting her son for a position during its investigation of former Transport and Main Roads director general Michael Caltabiano.
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In celebration of Samuel and World Down Syndrome Day.…
"My name is Rowena Hinojosa. March 21, 2016, was the 11th anniversary of World Down Syndrome Day. Not only do I want to help make people aware of how people with Down syndrome play a vital role in our lives and communities, I'd also like to brag a little.
My husband and I have two children (adults now), of whom we are very proud. Our youngest, Samuel, is 23 and was born with Down syndrome; he was also born with a congenital heart condition, very common in babies with Down syndrome.
Samuel has had many great opportunities throughout the years, such as being the Junior Announcer at a San Jose Giants game, throwing out the first pitch at a San Jose State Spartans baseball game, being the keynote speaker at the 2014 Santa Clara County Office of Education Fall Parent Conference, the keynote speaker at the 2015 Via Ball, and one of the valedictorian speakers at his post secondary graduation in 2015. As great as these opportunities were, his biggest achievements to us are that he now has two part-time jobs.
In 2014 when the Levi's Stadium was being built some folks at his post secondary program through the Santa Clara County Office of Education asked us if we would mind if he applied to work at the stadium. We said yes, of course! In his post secondary program they worked with him on filling out an application to work at the stadium, going through the application with him, and what to expect in the interview process. Low and behold, he was called in for a second interview. My husband took him to that interview in June 2014 and they left with Samuel being a new employee of Centerplate at Levi's Stadium. He works in one of the exclusive clubs and loves it. The accompanying picture is of Samuel after working 13.5 hours at Super Bowl 50.
This past December, unbeknownst to my husband and myself, Samuel decided he wanted another part-time job in addition to the one he has at the stadium. So he posted this desire on his Facebook page. Someone we know works at Summer Winds Nursery in Cupertino and saw his post. That person knew that Summer Winds were going to be hiring sometime in January so he called to let Samuel know this. Samuel took in an application to the nursery, along with his resume; near the end of January he had an interview. In February he was hired and started working at Summer Winds four days a week.
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I've got a couple of newbie questions for the group. So far I've been using a 24" wide ccf pad. Its worked ok so far, but I feel like I have to sleep with my arms folded across me and me legs straight to stay warm. I'm considering making my own SPE type thing or a DIY 3/4 underquilt. I can't afford one from the cottage guys as they are almost $200 or more.
I know some of the 2/3 underquilts like the yeti don't insulate the head area. Are there others that do? Is it that there is a problem sealing up the end? I ususally don't carry a pillow. I just fold over my sweatshirt once and use that. I'm not sure that would be enough if the head area wasn't insulated.
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Job Title:UI Designer
Job Location:Warehouse company/ Gaza Strip
Duration of contract: One Month (Full Time)
Palestine Information and Communications Technology Incubator (PICTI), is an independent Palestinian organization based in Ramallah with a branch in Gaza. PICTI has been created through the initiative and support of the Palestinian Information Technology Community. PICTI's mission is to support Palestinian ICT entrepreneurs in developing their innovative business ideas and contributing towards the revitalization and sustainable growth of the ICT sector in Palestine.
Warehouse for Information & Communication Technology Ltd, well known as ICT-Warehouse is a turnkey software and business solution provider. Established in 2011 to steer customers through the next generation of business innovation powered by technology with state-of-the-art business automation, software development and consultation services. it delivers high-end IT services in thearea of Mobile and Application Development, Cloud Computing & Big Data solutions as well as Knowledge Management tools like ERP, CRM and CMS.
PICTI with Warehouse for Information & Communication Technology Ltd,are seeking talented individual/ freelancerto work with Warehouse as an early stage company incubated by PICTI under a Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) funded project entitled: "Economic Recovery in the Gaza Strip: Promoting Choice, Resilience and Dignity- Phase II". This project aims to increase participation in user-driven market systems for female and male small and medium-scale producers, processors and entrepreneurs in the Gaza Strip.
The Early Stage companies' competition is a new competition targeting ICT firms (5 firms) and aims to support them by incubation services to develop their startup products.
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PICTI is considering the selection of a highly qualified UI Designer to create amazing user experiences. The ideal candidate should have an eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UI skills and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts, and transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities:
-Collaborate with product manager to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
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-Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
-Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
-Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to project stakeholders
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-Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards
Qualifications & skills:
-Demonstrable UI design skills with a strong portfolio.
-Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps.
-Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, or other visual design and wire-framing tools.
-Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for rapid prototyping.
-Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction.
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I just developed an application in Paradox 11 and now I want to sell it, but the only way to ensure security and prevent people to copy the application, is by setting a due date when the included forms report the end of the granted use. Can someone tell me how to assign a unique code to every person that want to buy the product, having in mind that I will sell it through an specialized vender who will allow people to sownload the software.
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Michelle Obama is officially sporting a new hairstyle just in time to commemorate her 49th birthday and for now the bang haircut has some applauding the first lady whilst others (yours truly) are wincing in painful disbelief.
Since she first entered the White House, Michelle Obama has been sporting a loose and flowing style with her hair tied back but with aspirations for a more sophisticated look the first lady has opted for razor sharp cut which emphasizes her facial features. The NYT's for one has already christened her haircut as the 'Karlie' as a homage to supermodel Karlie Kloss.
So far the response to Mrs Obama's new do' has been positive, with thousands of Twitter users agreeing in unison that they 'love' her new bangs.
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Crazy Star Ravichandran unveiled the teaser, which was appreciated for its presentation and editing.
Ravichandran said he came because he believed Sudeepa is giving something good to the Kannada film industry.
"I will be there wherever good things are happening in the industry," said Ravichandran. "I have been watching Shashank grow as a director. Some of my producers had wanted him to direct me in a remake. But Shashank said he didn't want to direct a remake. I respect his decision.
"I think Shashank was not able to meet the fans' expectations with his last film Jarasandha," added Ravichandran. "I want him to correct himself and move on from the disappointment. I promise you he has made a very good film this time."
Shashank said he had spoken to Sudeepa almost two years ago about this project. "I took a lot of time scripting Bachchan and later writing the dialogues. I used to meet Sudeepa regularly and get his inputs," he said.
"We have three heroines - Bhavana, Deepa Sannidhi and Parul Yadav - along with four villains. Jagapathi Babu is playing a special role in the film."
He promised Sudeepa's fans that they can look forward to an intense film that has a lot of scope for Kannada's Prince of Performance.
Sudeepa said he had liked two of Shashank's earlier films and was eagerly looking forward to working with him.
"Shashank has done a wonderful script for Bachchan. What I wanted in the form of an exciting script has been given to me. Even the making of the teaser has impressed me very much," said Sudeepa.
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Jemarl Baker, one of the stop boys basketball players in the state, said Thursday night that he will remain at Roosevelt of Eastvale for his senior season and not transfer to Mater Dei, as had been speculated.
"Roosevelt is home," Baker said in a Twitter direct message interview. "I've always loved the school and I didn't want to have to move away from home before I go off to college."
Baker, a 6-4 shooting guard who has committed to Cal, is ranked by ESPN as the No. 6 overall player in California and No. 15 at his position in the U.S.
As a junior, Baker averaged 16 points per game and helped lead Roosevelt to a spot in the CIF-SS Open Division playoffs.
Two weeks ago, reports surfaced and were confirmed that Baker had checked out of Roosevelt and registered at Mater Dei. But when asked at that time if he was transferring to play for the perennial powerhouse Monarchs, Baker said he had not decided.
"Just being able to finish what I started at Roosevelt is what determined my decision," he wrote Thursday night, "and being able to talk with coach (Stephen) Singleton about what I wanted to improve on in this upcoming year."
Last week, Baker scored 20 points and won the Most Valuable Player award for leading his travel ball club, Earl Watson Elite, to the championship of the elite 17-under division at the Fab 48 Tournament in Las Vegas.
Baker is a prolific 3-point shooter with NBA-distance range. Last season, Baker had 30 points in a season-opening tournament victory over Westchester, he had eight 3-pointers in an early-December loss to Chino Hills, and he buried a buzzer-beater in double-overtime to stun Fairfax in the Southern California Regional first-round Division I playoffs.


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Encyclopedia of Machine Learning
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Connections Between Inductive Inference and Machine Learning
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Inductive inference is a theoretical framework to model learning in the limit. Here we will discuss some results in inductive inference, which have relevance to machine learning community.
The mathematical/theoretical area called Inductive Inference, is also known as computability theoretic learning and learning in the limit (Jain, Osherson, Royer, & Sharma, 1999; Odifreddi, 1999) typically but, as will be seen below, not always involves a situation depicted in (1) just below.
$$\begin{array}{rcl} \textrm{ Data }{d}_{0},{d}_{1},{d}_{2},\ldots \mathop \to \limits^{{\mathop{\rm In}\nolimits}} M\mathop \to \limits^{{\mathop{\rm Out}\nolimits}} \textrm{ Programs}{e}_{0},{e}_{1},{e}_{2},\ldots.\end{array}$$
Let \(\mathbb{N} =\) the set of nonnegative integers. Strings, including program strings, computer reals, and other data structures, inside computers, are finite bit strings and, hence, can be coded into \(\mathbb{N}\). Therefore, mathematically at least, it is without ...
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This is the new Ford C-Max, set to debut in Frankfurt next week to do battle with the Citroen C4 Picasso and Renault Scenic.
Like its French rivals, it'll be available in five- and seven-seat guise. The car you're looking at here is the five-seater: the bigger C-Max will feature slightly different exterior styling and sliding rear doors.
The C-Max is based on the latest generation of Ford's C-segment platform, which will also underpin the next Focus and Kuga.
Though tech details are scarce, Ford has confirmed that the C-Max will get a new 1.6-litre 'EcoBoost' direct injection petrol engine, and plenty of exciting electronic flim-flammery including semi-automatic parallel parking and a blind-spot detection system.
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Creech's 48 points lift Jenkins to region finals
STANTON – Whitney Creech, whose prodigious scoring has raised the roofs of gyms throughout the mountains this basketball season, has lifted Jenkins' girls into the 14th Region finals for the first time since 1997 and given them a shot at their first region title in 40 years.
Creech, a 5-foot-9 senior, poured in 48 points Friday night to lead Jenkins past host Powell County 67-58 in the region semifinals. The Cavaliers will play Leslie County Saturday night with a trip to the Houchens Industries/Sweet Sixteen on the line.
Leslie County beat Breathitt County 64-56 in the first semifinal Friday night.
Creech, who came into the game averaging 50.3 points, had 23 in the fourth quarter against Powell County, including 14 of 18 free throws.
"This is something every competitor dreams of," Creech said. "Survive and advance, and get a chance in the finals. If we can (win Saturday), it'll be a big story. It'll mean a lot to me, my team and everybody in Jenkins."
Cavaliers Coach Ashley Addington said her seniors have been together seven years, hoping to make a run at a region title.
"I don't think anybody believed we'd make it to this point, but I knew we had a special group. We've got six seniors, hometown girls who were born and bred there, and stayed there. They wanted to prove to everybody we could do it. We've got one more game, and we believe we can do it."
Alexis Stambaugh had 14 points for Jenkins, which had to hold on in the closing minute when things got dicey after two starters fouled out.
Powell County pulled to within 62-58 with :24 left when it fouled Jenkins' 4-foot-10 seventh-grader Ariana Bentley. Since the Leslie County defender grabbed Bentley's jersey, an intentional foul was called.
Bentley hit the first of two free throws, making it 63-58, and the Cavaliers got the ball. Creech wound up making two more free throws, stretching the lead to 65-58 and all but icing the victory.
"She had ice water in her veins!" Creech said of Bentley's clutch free throw.
"It was a real grind tonight. We were struggling offensively, and I didn't shoot the ball very well (14 of 33). But we found a way to win, and that's the important thing."
Addington saluted WKU signee Creech, who's closing in on 5,500 career points, for leading her team to within one win of the Sweet Sixteen.
"This young lady is something special," she said.
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If you're looking to start a subscription box in the coming year and you want to know what you're up against, start here. These businesses are beyond trendy — they're trendsetters. We've compiled the most inspirational subscription boxes that are doing all the right things. Whether it's the precise palette in their packaging, or their imaginative items, you'll want to be taking note. We'll tell you just what sets them apart, and what can be optimized, so you can be ahead of the game while you're prototyping yours.
Food52 has truly capitalized on one of those "aha" moments. The only thing folks use more than salt and pepper in the kitchen is — you got it — olive oil. Their "Adopt an Olive Tree Gift Box + Subscription" caught our eye because it's clever and stylish, but that's not all.
From a business standpoint, their layout needs a major shout out. Notice how on the product page, they've smartly laid out all of the necessary information. Our favorite touch is the ability to select either a Single Gift Box, or a Year's Subscription – not always easy to implement on a technical level. And when you select either option, the photo responsively changes.
The product details are also accessible and extensive – origin, sizes, material. Shipping charges are mentioned upfront, and the customer easily has enough information to make an informed decision, all on one page.
The subscription includes:
- One 3-liter can of fresh, single-harvest extra virgin olive oil produced on a family-run, organic farm;
- A ceramic olive oil cruet with funnel, made by Puglian artisans, to decant your oil;
- An adoption certificate for your tree, detailing where your olive oil came from;
- And a handmade wooden gift box.
They also have an equally practically balsamic subscription. Check it out!
Homegrown Collective
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
– William Morris
Homegrown Collective seems to have a little of each of the above going on. And we dig it.
Each of Homegrown's "Greenboxes" is professionally and seasonally curated to help you get the most out of "growing" at home and helps you greenify your every day in the most satisfying ways. Homegrown delivers the convenience of growing greener and a little more self sufficient straight to your door every month. What does that look like?
Detox kits, natural skin care kits, DIY soap making — the concept is rock solid. Home remedies and DIY project materials that all lean heavily toward eco-conscious? Yes please!
Beyond that, here's what struck us: the price is right; 4 options including month-to-month and prepaid options; shipping is upfront, and free; and a clever one-page checkout to boot.
What could use a tweak? When checking out Previous Boxes, you can't get a photo enlargement without being redirected to their Subscribe page. They're clearly trying to showcase their recent mention in People magazine and get you to buck up and sign up, but this prevents customers from getting a closer look at the individual products featured in previous subscription boxes, and can be frustrating from a UX standpoint.
Bespoke Post
At first glance, this site seems predictable enough. High-end products in neutral tones? Check. Imported and small-batch so your sleepover buddies know you're extra classy? Double check. But what they're doing right can be summarized in a single picture:
The same amount of attention to detail has gone into the product page as into the product itself – and that's the key to a successful subscription box. The content is thoughtful, the images are crisp, and the specifics, like dimensions, are all at hand.
An improvement here is a bit of a hack for increasing conversions. We mentioned it first in this article on Quick Wins to Optimize Your Checkout.
Bespoke Post serves both the US and Canada, yet only displays pricing in USD. If they added some simple Javascript for identifying geolocation, they could show CAN prices aswell, saving their customer time in calculating costs.
This level of thoughtfulness goes a long way with customers, and builds the necessary trust for subscription retention.
Winc takes curation a step further. Their finely-tuned survey is formulated to discover your tastes, and more importantly, how they can cater to them. When it comes to wine, one size doesn't fit all, so of course they ask about your preference in other areas – do you like bold flavors? Are you adventurous? This goes well beyond your basic "red or white?", and the generated results are impressive.
However, Winc's Wines page is in serious need of some categories, or a faceted navigation system. The user is expected to scroll down row by row where categories range from champagnes to blends to Malbecs, not to mention a diversity of regions. If the customer knows what kind of wine they're looking to add to their box, they have to go through each one, instead of a simple selector at the top of the page. This kind of functionality would be a vast improvement to the UX.
Teak and Twine
In our previous article on Ways to Increase Profits for your Subscription Box, we mentioned the importance of packaging as a visual storyboard for your brand. Teak and Twine's branding and packaging is off the hook. Their palettes are thoughtfully crafted, subtle, and customer-specific. This is an extension of the products they choose to include in their gift box, and gives the sense that the brand is refined, and elevated.
There is a little something to be desired, however. Teak and Twine jams all of their necessary information after the product page, on the cart page, in a series of small paragraphs. This includes shipping information, special instruction fields, processing, and more. This information would be way more effective in a tab view on the product page itself, or disperse throughout their checkout. This is likely because their ready-made Shopify template doesn't support that kind of customizability. This could create some serious confusion with customers.
Yes, now the behemoth — FabFitFun. Unless your Instagram feed is exclusively election memes or awkwardly-sitting dogs, you've probably seen some fresh-faced beauties slingin' this subscription. And with good reason.
What is this site doing right? Besides the great value on their full sized products, they display their social proof directly on the landing page. FabFitFun understands that in order to convince someone to sign up — and keep a subscription customer for that matter — you need to build trust.
Speaking of which…they also boast free shipping centrally on the home page!
…Oh wait, are you from Canada, Alaska, or Hawaii? Just kidding, shipping isn't free. Cough, sorry guys.
This sort of simple hiccup is considered a dark UX pattern (not to mention a huge turn off to customers), and should be avoided at all costs.
We hope you've taken away a few things going right for these established subscription businesses, and noted that even the trendiest and most established subscription boxes need a tweak here and there. Did we miss any of your fave subscription sites? Post them below!


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To fix the problem, the global Bitcoin community has begun backing a controversial solution known as Bitcoin Unlimited. This initiative is essentially a software upgrade to the blockchain that eliminates any cap imposed on the amount of data it could process. Another solution is SegWit, which uses a different method to verify transactions.
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Workers may be sent home without pay. A judge calls it a "catastrophe."
By Jamal Thalji and Colleen Jenkins, Times Staff Writers
Published February 21, 2008
Judges across Florida say the state's budget crunch will shutter courthouses for weeks this spring as thousands of court employees are sent home without pay.
At risk, they say, is a halt to all civil litigation for those weeks, such as foreclosures and divorces. All that would be heard is priority family law cases and critical criminal proceedings.
"It's going to be a catastrophe," said Hillsborough County's Chief Judge Manuel Menendez.
But in Tallahassee, where lawmakers are faced with making even deeper cuts across state agencies in the coming year, sympathy is scarce. The court system had ample warning this was coming and should have planned accordingly, leaders say.
"If the money's not there, we can't spend it," Sen. Victor Crist, R-Tampa, said Wednesday, a day after the chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court asked Crist's budget committee to intervene. "And it's not there."
It's Florida's worsening economy that is pitting the two branches of government against each other. The Legislature held a special budget-cutting session in October to cope with a drop in state revenue.
The state court system took a 2 percent hit then. But Gov. Charlie Crist also ordered state agencies to not spend 1 percent of their budget each quarter in case additional cuts were needed.
Sen. Crist, who is not related to the governor, said the judiciary was asked months ago to voluntarily hold back 4 percent of its budget "in case the money doesn't come in."
Now, it looks like it won't. A new revenue estimate next month is expected to show the state's tax collections are lower still than what was predicted in the fall.
The state Supreme Court estimates that to absorb a 4 percent cut or $16.9-million, circuit courts would need to send workers home for 22 days; county courts for 58 days.
In Pinellas and Pasco it would affect 244 employees; in Hillsborough that number would be 240. The number for Hernando County court employees wasn't available Wednesday.
"I'm pleading for the life of a branch of government," Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis of the Florida Supreme Court told senators Tuesday as the state's 20 chief judges flooded the Capitol for a day of lobbying. "In essence, you are destroying a branch of government."
But Sen. Crist said falling state revenue and the judiciary's "poor fiscal management" are to blame.
Crist said that his Senate Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations Committee tried to shield judges from the brunt of budget cuts and that judges were warned these cuts could be coming.
But Menendez said judges were led to believe that they would receive a significant chunk of that money back this spring and spent accordingly to cover salaries.
The chief of the Pinellas-Pasco circuit, Judge Robert Morris Jr., said the senator is mistaken about another aspect of those "holdbacks." Judges were warned to hold back on costs - not salaries.
Lewis told Crist's committee Tuesday that salaries make up 87 percent of the Florida judiciary's budget. So if the Legislature wants to cut the judicial budget in the last quarter of the fiscal year - April, May and June - then that's where the money is going to come from.
First, this caveat: Judges' salaries won't be affected. The cost of running court buildings is paid for by counties.
But judges say everyone who helps them do their jobs will be affected. That means judicial assistants, magistrates and mediators. That means no hearing officers to handle traffic court or child support hearings, no case managers to navigate family court, even the district courts of appeal will have to shut down.
"We're just people," Morris said.
That's not what Crist, a Tampa Republican, thinks. He said his staff calculated the judiciary can cut that out of the last quarter of this year's budget without furloughing anyone. The money can come from maintenance, operations and contracts, Crist said. His committee is expected to discuss the issue again in a meeting today.
The senator said the judges' threat to furlough state workers "is a ploy to create a groundswell to oppose the Legislature."
Everyone will have to sacrifice, warned State Senate President Ken Pruitt.
"I'd rather be furloughed one day a month and keep my job," said the Port St. Lucie Republican, "than have somebody who's my workmate lose their job."
But some jobs, the judges say, are too important to lose for even a day.
"They say the wheels of justice turn slowly," said Hernando Circuit Judge Daniel Merritt Sr., chief judge of the 5th Circuit. "This would bring it to a halt."
Times staff writers Steve Bousquet, Shannon Colavecchio-Van Sickler, John Frank and Jennifer Liberto contributed to this report. Jamal Thalji can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (727) 869-6236.
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Energy assessment of the residential building stock in Turkey
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
mechanical engineering
Géza Pattantyús-Ábrahám Doctoral School of Mechanical Engineering
Thesis supervisor:
Tamás Csoknyai
Location of studies (in Hungarian): Building Services and Process Engineering
Abbreviation of location of studies: EPGET
Description of the research topic:
a.) Antedecents:
EnergY assessment of residential building stocks have been a major issue in Europe to
establish a scientific background for policy planning. Such analysis have been caried out for
many Eu_countries, but for Turkey only minor steps have been made.
b.) Aim of research:
The objective is the energy assessment of the residential building stock in Turkey based on
existing statistical data and by developing a building typology and analyse model buildings.
Furthermore, energy saving and CO2 mitigation potentials are also to be assessed,
b.) Tasks, main items, necessary time:
1. literature review on other countries;
2. literature review ont he Turkish building stock;
3. development of building type matrix;
4. statistical data collection;
5. development of model buildings;
6. building modeling;
7. national level extrapolation
Necessary time: 3 years
c.) Required equipment:
special equipment not needed, but data purchase may be necessary.
d.) Expected scientific results:
As a result a more accurate picture will be aquired about the energy performance of the
Turkish building stock.
f.) References:
[1] Csík Árpa,Tamas Csoknyai: Defining energy- and cost-saving potentials and their
application in optimal building refurbishment, ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND
MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (ISSN: 1582-9596) (eISSN: 1843-3707) 13: (11) pp. 2771-2780.
[2] Csoknyai Tamás: Energy consumption and CO2 emission of buildings built with
industrialized technology: the case of Debrecen and future trends, ADVANCED MATERIALS
RESEARCH (ISSN: 1022-6680) (eISSN: 1662-8985) 899 (2014): pp.16-23. (2014)
[3] Sara Hrabovszky-Horváth, Tamás Pálvölgyi, Tamás Csoknyai, Attila Talamon: Generalized
residential building typology for urban climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies: The
case of Hungary, ENERGY AND BUILDINGS 62: pp. 475-485. (2013)
Number of students who can be accepted: 1
Deadline for application: 2016-10-19
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American actress, producer, author, television director and singer-songwriter, best known for her TV series "Party of Five,"1995 and for the two horror flics, "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Originally a singer, she has put out an album, "Bare Naked" in 2002, along with a comedy-thriller, "The Tuxedo."
The daughter of a medical technician and a therapist (divorced when she was six weeks old), Jennifer has one older brother. Her film work began with TV commercials and guest roles in various series. After years of apartments, she and her mom, whom she considers a "best friend" moved into a five-bedroom home in the San Fernando Valley in 1998.
In late 2005, Hewitt began dating Scottish actor Ross McCall after he made an appearance on her show Ghost Whisperer. They became engaged in November 2007, while vacationing in Hawaii. People magazine reported that Hewitt called off their engagement in late 2008. She subsequently dated her Ghost Whisperer co-star Jamie Kennedy from March 2009 to March 2010. Hewitt began dating her The Client List co-star Brian Hallisay in March 2012. In June 2013, Hewitt announced that she and Hallisay are engaged and expecting their first child together.
- lover relationship with Cronin, Rich (born 30 August 1974)
- lover relationship with Daly, Carson (born 22 June 1973)
- lover relationship with Mayer, John (born 16 October 1977)
- Work : New Job 1995 (TV series started)
- Financial : Buy/Sell Property 1998 (Bought home)
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 2002 (Musical CD released)
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001349/bio gives under Trivia: "Born at 10:48 PM CST". This was found because Lepoivre quotes it.
Astrology Weekly gives same data.
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SUPER stopper Shay Given has thanked the Boro fans for their "fantastic" support during his impressive loan stint on Teesside.
The short-term signing of the experienced keeper proved to be a masterstroke by Boro boss Aitor Karanka as the Irishman played a huge part in helping Boro move away from the danger zone and up the Championship table.
The 37-year-old kept eight clean sheets in 10 games including five consecutive shut-outs as Boro got much-needed wins under the belt during the Christmas period.
But Karanka was unable to tie Given down until the end of the season during the frantic final hours on deadline day last month.
Now, the Republic of Ireland great will head back to his parent club Aston Villa after he makes his final appearance in a Boro shirt when they face Leeds United on Saturday.
But he will head back to the Midlands with happy memories of his time back in the North East, where he also played for Sunderland and neighbours Newcastle United, and has thanked the Boro fans for welcoming him with open arms.
"It's a huge thanks from me for the way they have made me feel welcome," said Given.
"There is always a little bit of trepidation before you settle into a new club.
"I have been here a short time but they (the fans) have been fantastic to me personally and the team as a whole."
While Given's form helped Boro march up the table and within touching distance of the play-off places, firing blanks at the other end of the pitch has proved the problem for the club in recent weeks.
Since Emmanuel Ledesma hit the net in the 1-0 win at home to Charlton Athletic on January 18, Given has kept another three clean sheets but Boro have been starved of success in front of goal, not scoring in more than 500 minutes.
But the keeper is urging the Boro fans to keep believing and supporting the team until the season is out.
He told the club's website: "The lads need that support until the end of the season.
"As I've said before if they can get behind the team and get some victories there's no reason why we can't push on and move up the table.
"You never know and the fans have to keep believing, we are all trying hard to get the team back in the Premier League."


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Sunday 23 May 1926
It was Sunday, under the sign of Gemini. The US president was Calvin Coolidge (Republican).
Famous people born on this day include John Knowles and Georges Bartoli.
It's the Old Army Game, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1926
while Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos was one of the best selling books.
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- Lebanese constitution is established under French mandate.
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Kyrgyz police quash protest, say foil coup
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By Olga Dzyubenko 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
BISHKEK (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Kyrgyz troops
fired tear gas on Friday to drive protesters from a
key state building, foiling what the government said
was an attempt by supporters of the ousted president
to regain power.
Acting President Kurmanbek Bakiyev blamed the riots on
followers of his predecessor Askar Akayev, who fled
into exile after a coup in March, and said he would
personally defend his government "with a gun in my
hands if necessary."
The Central Asian nation of 5 million has been
unstable since Akayev's ousting, and was further
jolted by an uprising last month in neighboring
Uzbekistan, where troops killed hundreds of
demonstrators in the town of Andizhan. Dozens of
refugees fled to Kyrgyzstan.
Police in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek drove the
protesters out of the government building and chased
them through nearby streets, shooting in the air and
firing tear gas.
The protests were sparked by the exclusion of would-be
opposition candidate Urmatbek Baryktabasov from
running in presidential elections next month.
Electoral officials said he is a Kazakh citizen and
hence ineligible.
"The republic has the strength to halt activities
aimed at harming our citizens. If there are such
attempts, they will get a forceful response," Bakiyev
told reporters after a closed parliament discussion of
the events.
"Today's events were organized by people close to
Akayev," said Bakiyev. Parliamentary deputies linked
Baryktabasov to Akayev's son-in-law, who is wanted by
Kyrgyz police keen to investigate his business
The crowds had dispersed by evening, although around
half the city center's shops were closed, their owners
scared of a repetition of the looting that followed
the March coup.
Around 1,000 soldiers and police ringed the main
government building. Hundreds of civilians in pink arm
bands volunteered to defend the building and sat
behind its high fence.
"All these misguided people, and there were 5,000 of
them if not more, have been thrown out of the city. We
have detained around 300 of them," Acting Interior
Minister Muratbek Sutalinov told Reuters outside the
White House.
"An attempt was made to seize the government buiding
and probably state power in the country as a whole,"
he said.
The head of the central electoral commission,
Tuigunaaly Abdraimov, told reporters the riots could
complicate the July 10 presidential polls, which
Bakiyev is overwhelming favorite to win.
Bakiyev pledged that he would not allow the government
to be overthrown, and the vote would go ahead as
"I will not run away ... And I will defend this
government with a gun in my hands if necessary. I know
how to use a gun," he said.
(Additional reporting by Dmitry Solovyov)
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Tetro Rouge Trailer (2015)
"The hunt is on." 26 March 2015 Adventure, Sci-Fi
Tetro Rouge is a post-apocalyptic adventure tale in which Skye, a young survivor, inherits a mysterious map from her late father. Pursued by a group of deadly mercenaries, Skye runs into Tetro, a shady drifter with a dark past. Together they set off on a race to find humanities future. The hunt is on. Hunted by the power-hungry fanatic Hector and his group of deadly mercenaries looking to restore order to what's left of humanity, Eric soon realizes that he is unable to complete his task. With his last breath he hands Skye a mysterious map containing the secret to humanity's future. Torn between her need for revenge and a quest to fulfill her father's dying wish, Skye meets Tetro, a shady drifter with a dark past who joins her on a search for salvation. The hunt is on when Skye, Tetro and Hector set off on a perilous race to the edge of the map in search for humanity's last chance.
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One of the most surprising phenomena to hit the world of video games over the last decade has been a series of games based on lego. Perhaps most famously associated with the 'Lego Star Wars' games, the franchise has become hugely successful against all the odds. Now, with the games seemingly set to go on for many years into the future, lego is about to make its way into the cinema with a 3D animated movie.
'The Lego Movie' would scarcely have been believable a few years ago, but the commercial success of the television series has ensured that we are about to see it in multiplexes all over the world. The animators involved have a big challenge on their hands; deliver something as slick as the biggest productions of Disney and Pixar, yet retain the humour and lo-fi look of the video games.
Thus, although the entire world which the characters populate in 'The Lego Movie' naturally enough looks as if it has been constructed from lego, in actual fact the whole construct is based on rather sophisticated 3D animation. Actually constructing the sets from lego would have been far too prohibitive in terms of cost, so the animators turned to computing techniques instead.
The animation team involved in 'The Lego Movie' have opted for a largely CG animation based solution to deliver the sophisticated 3D animation effects which appear in the movie, and have also mixed in some real lego as well. Co-director Chris Miller addressed some questions about the film's animation technique directly on Twitter, and stated that using computer-drawn 3D animation allowed 'The Lego Movie' team to utilise the same techniques as some of the biggest and most popular animated films, while retaining the unique look of the film.
In order to create a lego universe that was authentic to not only casual viewers but also fans of the kids' plaything, the team behind 'The Lego Movie' literally spent hours playing with actual lego, including building models of even large-scale vehicles such as a pirate ship. The early trailers certainly suggest that this has paid off as the animation and visual effects involved in the movie are extremely pleasing.
While this movie will doubtless attract a captive audience among people who enjoyed the video games, it also seems certain that those fascinated with animation will particularly want to see this film in order to check out the unique 3D animated world which has been created to bring this movie to life.
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Reflections at the Intersection of American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic Life
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Black at Gettysburg
What was it like to be an African American at Gettysburg in 1863? As Kevin Levin points out, many of them, like Abraham and Elizabeth Brian, were not present during the battle. The Brians and their family fled the town when they heard that Lee and his army were approaching.
Read Levin's essay about Gettysburg's African Americans at the History News Network. Here is a taste:
Four months later Abraham Lincoln paid a visit to Gettysburg to dedicate a new cemetery for those Union soldiers, who "gave the last full measure." His brief address called on Americans to see the war through to its end in the name of a "new birth of freedom." By then a number of black residents from Gettysburg and the surrounding region had returned and like others struggled to put the pieces of their lives back together and return to some sense of normalcy. Others chose not to return at the risk of what might happen if Confederates chose to push north again. An unknown number never returned to the area. The feint echoes of their voices should serve as a warning to those of us who in the early afternoon of July 3 will gaze out on the undulating fields between Cemetery and Seminary Ridge with a child's imagination of what might have been. We would do well to remember that the ebb and flow of the two armies leading to and from Gettysburg rippled through the surrounding countryside. For the unknown number of African Americans rounded up by the Confederate army, who called Gettysburg and the surrounding region home, Union victory mattered little. For them a new birth of freedom would have to wait just a little longer.
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Florida State Seminoles quarterback Jameis Winston has emerged as one of college football's elite players just halfway into his redshirt freshman campaign, and he and the No. 3 Noles face another big test Saturday at home against the No. 7-ranked Miami Hurricanes (8 p.m. ET, ABC).
What has made Winston so successful so soon (hint: his receiving corps has helped), and is there anything the Canes can do to slow him down? I broke down tape of Winston's play in search of answers to both questions.
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Last week Fox News host Bill O'Reilly revealed that Georgetown Law student and contraception advocate Sandra Fluke, perhaps known for her ill-advised portrayal by conservative talker Rush Limbaugh, had secured the services of SKDKnickerbocker, a public relations firm with offices in Albany, N.Y., New York City and Washington, D.C.
The public relations firm has close ties to President Obama, with one of its managing directors being former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn. But Fluke isn't the only high-profile client the firm has represented in recent days.
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As first reported by Betsy Rothstein of FishbowlDC, SKDKnickerbocker was involved with the initial rollout of the HBO film "Game Change," a film which has been criticized by many on the right for its negative portrayal of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
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Canadian singer/songwriter, Darrelle London, will be performing at the River Run Centre in Guelph on January 25, at 8 p.m.

London grew up on a hobby farm in Acton, and feels a connection to the local music scene.

London has toured North America, with stops at Lilith Fair, Canadian Music Week, Hollywood's legendary Troubadour Club, and over 35 colleges and universities. She is now touring in support of her release, Eat A Peach (Bandwidth/EMI) which features 12 original piano-pop tunes. London was honoured to have the opportunity to write three songs for Eat A Peach with one of her idols, Chantal Kreviazuk.

Kreviazuk says, "she (London) sings from her heart, and her gentle, unique approach to music is so special, it is a pleasure to be immersed in."

London's radio single, Fine, earned her the title of Bell Media Emerging Artist (May 2012).

Tickets for the River Run concert are available at www.riverrun.ca or 519-763-3000. Follow her on www.darrellelondon.com


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Re: Does anyone have information abt. Orlando Coleman
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Re: Does anyone have information abt. Orlando Coleman
Bill 1/18/09
Thank youto all who helped me out. Thanks to Mark and Billfor sharing.
Orlando Elisher b. 1853 has been found, and accounted for.
He married Mary Margarett Jane "Jennie"McDole (not McDale) on July 18, 1880.She was the daughter of Daniel (McDowell) McDole and Mary. They were married Jul 18, 1880 Lenawee Co. Mi.
Frankie their son died by 1887.
George Wm. died 1943 . (Not sure where as of yet). Jane, (Jennie) is found livingwith her son Geo. Wm. in the 1900 census Pike Co. Fulton Co. ,so we know Orlando died before 1900.
I am still working on the Joseph Coleman family.If anyone has any questions. I will try to help you out.
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In a word ... NO!
Awful-that full length zipper in back is the pits. Looks tacky & just try sitting on that all evening! Hate it.
I didn't start out to collect diamonds, but somehow they just kept piling up.-Mae West
love it.
i have a blue one that looks quite like this one, wear it all the time
Hate the color - reminds me of the 80's. Dress is bad too.
Normally, I would love this, but that's a bit too many buttons for my liking also.
Like it!
I didn't start out to collect diamonds, but somehow they just kept piling up.-Mae West
^ lol
Looks very unflattering
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It looks cheap and amateurly designed.
Not crazy about the buttons at all, but I love the rest of the jacket.
They're nice. I'm not bowled over by them, but they're okay.
Would never wear it because it draws emphasis at the butt area and it's too wide on the shoulders, I'd look like a linebacker. But it's pretty.
Also, holy crap, that model has stick thin arms, it's gross!
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