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Just because you have a historic home doesn't mean you can't have modern-day conveniences, such as a nice home entertainment system. Take this Asheville, NC, house, built in the early 1900s and designed by Richard Sharp Smith, one of the architects of the famous Biltmore estate.
This house is considerably more homey than the Vanderbilt digs, and this family room is a pleasant place to sit for a conversation or to read a book. But to use it as a full-blown home theater system? That required some creativity.
The first challenge confronting electronics installation company Harmony Interiors of Asheville, NC, was locating the right spot for a video screen and seating. With bay windows on one side and an open area on the other, the only logical place for a screen was in front of a window on another wall.
Harmony built a soffit to hide a pull-down 92-inch Draper screen, and constructed a false beam to hide the Sony LCD projector. That would preserve the room's timeless, period look. After all, says Harmony's Scott Varn, "When you're dealing with a house that is truly historic, the last thing you want to see is the technology."
However, placing speakers and wiring everything together through old-time plaster-and-lath walls was another challenge altogether. Harmony decided on tiny cube-like Bose speakers that could mount to the walls and be painted to match, thereby making them as inconspicuous as possible. An equipment rack would go in a closet in an adjoining space, in back of the left wall of the family room.
The projector wiring ran through the false beam and right into the closet, and one of the rear surround speakers was nearby for easy wiring, but what of the front speakers and the right-side surround speaker? The front speaker wires were routed through the new soffit and down into a basement space and to the rack, bypassing the plaster-and-lath walls. And the right surround channel wire was routed behind some door trim and into the basement. A Bose Acoustimass subwoofer even fires up from the basement through a floor vent in one corner. The screen didn't need to be wired, because it is pulled down manually. (A touch of the past, perhaps?)
A Control4 system automates things so that music or movies can be called up on-demand from hard drive-based media severs. The temperature and security cameras can also be monitored from the big screen. "The last problem to solve was the lighting," says Varn. "There were no overhead lights, so antique lamps are used, but they could not be dimmed. The Control4 system came to the rescue with plug-in lamp modules that allow lights to be dimmed individually or as scenes."
Finally, the reflective acoustics of the room were softened with heavy drapes and tapestries on the walls, keeping this space nice and cozy—and historic.


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There are three pools of memory in the microcontroller used on avr-based Arduino boards :
Flash memory and EEPROM memory are non-volatile (the information persists after the power is turned off). SRAM is volatile and will be lost when the power is cycled.
The ATmega328 chip found on the Uno has the following amounts of memory:
Flash 32k bytes (of which .5k is used for the bootloader) SRAM 2k bytes EEPROM 1k byte
The ATmega2560 in the Mega2560 has larger memory space :
Flash 256k bytes (of which 8k is used for the bootloader) SRAM 8k bytes EEPROM 4k byte
Notice that there's not much SRAM available in the Uno. It's easy to use it all up by having lots of strings in your program. For example, a declaration like:
char message[] = "I support the Cape Wind project.";
puts 33 bytes into SRAM (each character takes a byte, plus the '\0' terminator). This might not seem like a lot, but it doesn't take long to get to 2048, especially if you have a large amount of text to send to a display, or a large lookup table, for example.
If you run out of SRAM, your program may fail in unexpected ways; it will appear to upload successfully, but not run, or run strangely. To check if this is happening, you can try commenting out or shortening the strings or other data structures in your sketch (without changing the code). If it then runs successfully, you're probably running out of SRAM. There are a few things you can do to address this problem:
To use the EEPROM, see the EEPROM library.

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School police raise concerns about equipment, guns, training
Some members of the Boston School Department's police force believe they might be unprepared to respond to a mass shooting like the one in Newtown, Conn., because they cannot carry guns and lack bulletproof vests and adequate training to defuse such a situation.
School police also could encounter challenges in summoning armed officers from the Boston Police Department because their decade-old radio system prevents them from communicating directly with the city's police force or Emergency Medical Services, said a lawyer representing some officers.
School police would have to call their own dispatchers, who would then contact Boston police for armed backup — a relay of information they contend could cost precious minutes in saving lives.
"They don't have the proper tools to confront the things that they might confront in the school and indeed the things they confront every day,'' said Alfred Gordon, a Boston lawyer who represents the ranking officers in the school police force. "Would we be prepared to face something like what happened in Newtown? I don't know. I wish we could say with ultimate authority that we are, but I don't know.''
City officials have reassured parents that their children are safe in school. But Matthew Wilder, a School Department spokesman, said Superintendent Carol R. Johnson is planning to look into equipping school police with bulletproof vests and into whether it makes sense for the school police's radio system to be connected directly with that of the Boston Police Department.
School police, who are trained to conduct emergency lock-downs of buildings, have long sought the authority to carry guns, but Johnson and Mayor Thomas M. Menino oppose the idea.
In a statement, Johnson said: "While I think there is always more we can do to make our schools even more secure and safe, I don't believe arming our school police officers is the answer, and neither do the parents I've spoken with. We must do all we can to secure our buildings while at the same time making our schools welcoming and nurturing environments.''
Since the late 1970s, the School Department has operated its own police force, which replaced state and city police who stopped patrolling the hallways as racial tensions — sparked by court-ordered busing a few years earlier — began to ease.
Boston school police, a unit of 55 officers and 20 supervisors, cover all middle and high schools around the city and operate on a $3.9 million annual budget.
The Boston Police Department also assigns a unit to schools that is trained to deal with active shooters. The unit has 13 officers, three detectives, and one supervisor, and they wear bulletproof vests and carry firearms, mace, and batons. But the primary responsibility of patrolling the halls falls on school police.
Should a gunman attack, Boston school police are the first line of defense, Gordon said.
"They disarm students regularly,'' he said. "There but for the grace of God you've never had the type of tragic event that you had there in Connecticut. But these officers are constantly facing students with everything from small knives to guns in school. They don't have any similar weapon either defensive or offensive to deal with that, but yet they're expected to, and indeed do, keep the schools safe.''
On average, Boston school police confiscate one or two guns a year and more than 300 sharp-edged objects, according to School Department data.
So far this school year, they have confiscated 124 knives and other sharp-edged objects and one firearm, which was found at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester.
If they were to encounter a gunman, Boston school police would immediately order a lock-down. That could prompt teachers to hide students in closets or corners of a classroom, as they did in Newtown.
Just three days after the Newtown shooting, an incident outside the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester suggested a serious lapse in school security.
A staff member wrongly let two young men inside through a side door — rather than the school's front door — to watch basketball tryouts. School police told them to leave, but they returned with two other young men and got into an argument with a male student outside the gymnasium, threatening him with a firearm, according to a city police report. City police were called, and the four young men ran off.
Police tracked down one of them on a nearby street and found a firearm in a backpack.
Boston school police are currently negotiating a new contract with the city. Gordon, who is representing ranking officers in the contract negotiations, declined to comment on the matters under discussion. But several school police officers, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said that a new contract should provide for better equipment.
School police said many of them rely on Motorola radios that are eight to 12 years old and get poor reception in some parts of the schools.
Three years ago, Gordon said, school officials agreed to let officers carry mace but on the condition that the city create policies and procedures around its use. Officers are still waiting for officials to draft those policies, he said.
Wilder said the School Department will look into writing those policies and procedures.
Practices differ in other urban school districts.
In Brockton and Springfield, school police officers, who are paid by the school administration, are armed and have direct radio communication with EMS and other police officers.
School police officers in Brockton have been armed for at least 20 years, said Captain Wayne Sargo, head of operations at the Brockton Police Department.
"Some people don't like the idea,'' he said. "But I think more so, it puts people at ease. They feel better. I hear from parents that when they see a police car in front of the middle school they like seeing the car because they feel their kids are very safe.''
Kevin Quinn, president of the National Association of School Resource Officers in Alabama, said most school police officers around the country carry weapons, and called the unarmed school police in Boston "unique.'' He said Boston school police, because they do not carry guns, would not benefit much from being trained on how to confront an active shooter.
"So much of the course is responding and going after an active shooter,'' Quinn said. "The primary focus of active shooter response is find the threat and neutralize it. If you're not armed you can't do that.''
But some Boston parents prefer that school police be unarmed, worried that gunfire even by a trained professional could end up hitting an innocent bystander.
"The less guns the better,'' said Bill Elsbree, a Jamaica Plain father of twin girls who attend the fifth grade at the Curley K-8 School, which has a school police officer. "The school is packed with kids. They are headed in all directions. Lord knows where bullets might end up.''


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For Obama, a foreign policy win
President Barack Obama finally has something solid to celebrate on the foreign policy front.
Obama became the first American president in 34 years to speak directly with his Iranian counterpart, at the end of a week otherwise consumed with this staredown with House Republicans over the looming budget and debt ceiling deadlines.
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In a White House briefing room statement that focused on his refusal to negotiate with Republicans on his signature health care law, Obama touted the progress his team has made negotiating on Syria and the opening of talks with Iran, the nation's nemesis for two generations.
( VIDEO: Obama on phone call with Iranian president Rouhani, first in over 3 decades)
"While there will surely be important obstacles to moving forward, and success is by no means guaranteed, I believe we can reach a comprehensive solution," Obama said.
He continued: "The very fact that this was the first communication between an American and Iranian president since 1979 underscores the deep mistrust between our countries, but it also indicates the prospect of moving beyond that difficult history."
The 15-minute call, conducted through interpreters, fulfills for Obama one of the most controversial pledges of his 2008 campaign: an offer to speak with an Iranian president without preconditions.
It followed the White House effort to put the leaders in a room together at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York earlier this week. The White House said then that they offered the Iranians an open-ended offer for Obama and Rouhani to speak, but Iranian domestic politics made it "too complicated" for the two to meet.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama, Rouhani speak by phone)
But on Friday afternoon, the Iranians alerted the White House that Rouhani would like to speak with Obama by phone, according to a senior administration official. The two leaders spoke at about 2:30 p.m. ET, the official said.
Rouhani scooped Obama on news of the call by minutes, announcing the news on his English-language Twitter feed just before Obama addressed reporters in the White House briefing room.
In a series of tweets, Rouhani offered a readout of the historic call, the first between leaders of the two countries since 1979.
The White House noticed Rouhani's tweets, a senior administration official told reporters Friday afternoon, and said it welcomed his engagement with the English-speaking world.
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"We've watched him use social media to communicate over the course of the last several weeks," the official said. "I think it's a welcome development. President Rouhani's efforts to reach out to people in the United States and around the world … is a positive and constructive step."
Obama, Rouhani said, told the Iranian president that if the two can "make progress on #nuclear file, other issues such as #Syria will certainly be positively affected."
Rouhani's Twitter feed said that he responded that he is hopeful "there is a way to rapidly solve the matter."


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Harry Houdini, the famed escape artist, is getting a four-hour miniseries exploring his life on History.
The channel announced the miniseries was greenlighted Monday with Oscar winner Adrien Brody set to star as the master performer and "House of Cards'" Kristen Connolly as his wife, Bess.
According to History, the miniseries will follow Houdini's entire life, from his beginnings in poverty to his eventual status as internationally famous magician and escape artist. (Fans of Comedy Central's "Drunk History" got a recap of the end of Houdini's life in a recent episode.)
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Production on the miniseries is expected to begin this fall with Oscar-nominated director Uli Eidel behind the camera, working from a script by Nicholas Meyer. Meyer is an interesting choice as writer, since Houdini was a contemporary of Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle and Meyer is famous for writing the Doyle pastiche "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution."
History had had a fair amount of success recently with its miniseries "The Bible" and "Hatfields & McCoys" becoming ratings successes.
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NFL Playoffs — Wild-Card Weekend Preview
The wild-card round of the NFL playoffs begins this weekend, with two games in each conference. Winners from this Saturday and Sunday will advance to next weekend's divisional round. Here's a preview of this weekend's NFL playoff action:
Saturday, January 5
Cincinnati Bengals at Houston Texans
Reliant Stadium, Houston; 4:30 p.m. (ET) on NBC
AFC South champion Houston (12-4) hosts Cincinnati (10-6) in a rematch of teams that played in last year's AFC wild-card round, a game won by the Texans. A Super Bowl contender for most of the year, Houston lost three out of its last four games; Cincinnati has won seven of their last eight contests.
The Texans' Arian Foster was the AFC's second-leading rusher in 2012. His 15 touchdown runs were the most in the NFL. Houston would like to avoid putting quarterback Matt Schaub in obvious passing situations. He has been sacked 12 times in his last four games, while throwing just one touchdown pass. The Bengals finished third in the league with 51 sacks, including 12.5 by Geno Atkins and 11.5 by Michael Johnson. Cincinnati was sixth in the league in total defense, but just 12th against the run, allowing 107.2 rushing yards per game.
Quarterback Andy Dalton leads the Bengals offense, but he has five interceptions against four touchdowns in his last five games. Dalton's favorite target is receiver A.J. Green, who had 97 receptions for 1,350 yards and 11 touchdowns this season. Cincinnati running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis is questionable due to a hamstring injury. The Texans rank seventh overall in total defense, but 16th against the pass, yielding 225.8 yards per game through the air. Houston finished tied for fifth in the NFL with 44 sacks, including 20.5 by league-leader J.J. Watt.
Minnesota Vikings at Green Bay Packers
Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wis.; 8 p.m. (ET) on NBC
NFC North champion Green Bay (11-5) hosts Minnesota (10-6) in an instant rematch of teams that played a 37-34 thriller won by the Vikings last Sunday. The setting could factor into the game, which shifts from last week's climate-controlled dome at Mall of America Field in Minneapolis to the vaunted "frozen tundra" of Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
NFL rushing champ Adrian Peterson, who ran for 199 yards against the Packers in the season finale, is the centerpiece of the Vikings offense, but quarterback Christian Ponder's play could be more crucial to the outcome of this game. The Packers finished fourth in the NFL with 47 sacks, and they tied for eighth with 18 interceptions. Green Bay had just one sack and no INTs against Ponder in last week's loss. Packers safety Morgan Burnett picked off two Ponder passes in a 23-14 win over Minnesota in Week 13. Green Bay expects safety Charles Woodson to return on Sunday after missing nine games due to a broken collarbone.
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was the NFL's top-rated passer in 2012. He threw five touchdowns and just one interception in two games against the Vikings defense. Rodgers was also sacked an NFL-high 51 times during the season. Green Bay hopes to get wide receiver Randall Cobb back from injury for this week's game. The Vikings defense tied for fifth in the NFL with 44 sacks, but they had just 10 interceptions, tied for 27th in the league. Minnesota cornerback Antoine Winfield left Sunday's game with a broken hand.
Sunday, Jan. 6
Indianapolis Colts at Baltimore Ravens
M&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore; 1 p.m. (ET) on CBS
A year removed from the worst record in the league, Indianapolis (11-5) will visit AFC North champion Baltimore (10-6) for the first round of the playoffs. Colts head coach Chuck Pagano will direct his team against a Ravens defense he coached from 2008 through 2011. Baltimore offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell served as head coach of Indianapolis from 2009 through 2011. The Ravens have lost four of their past five games, while the Colts have won five of their last six contests.
Indianapolis rookie quarterback Andrew Luck was third in the AFC with 4,374 passing yards in 2012, but he tied for the conference lead with 18 interceptions and he was sacked 41 times. The Ravens defense is not as fierce as it has been in years past, but it still allowed just 21.5 points per game. Veteran linebacker Ray Lewis, who just announced that he would retire after this playoff run, could return from a triceps injury for Baltimore.
The Ravens' Ray Rice was sixth in the AFC in rushing with 1,143 yards; he also caught 61 passes out of the backfield to lead all conference running backs. Rice and reserve Bernard Pierce could challenge a Colts defense that ranked 29th in the league against the run. Indianapolis forced just six fumbles, tied with Baltimore for last in the NFL. Colts linebacker Robert Mathis, who leads the team with eight sacks, was named to his fifth Pro Bowl.
Seattle Seahawks at Washington Redskins
FedEx Field, Landover, Md.; 4:30 p.m. (ET) on Fox
The two hottest teams in the NFC will meet when Seattle (11-5) visits NFC East champ Washington (10-6). The Seahawks have won five games in a row, but the Redskins have reeled off seven straight victories. Seattle finished 8-0 at home, but 3-5 on the road.
Rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III helped reshape the Washington offense this season, but rookie running back Alfred Morris led a Redskins running attack that ranked first in the NFL with 169.3 rushing yards per game. Morris was first in the NFC with 13 rushing touchdowns. Seattle finished fourth in the league in total defense and allowed an NFL-low 15.3 points per game. Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman had eight interceptions in 2012. The Seahawks will be without cornerback Walter Thurmond, who was placed on injured reserve with a hamstring injury.
Seattle rookie quarterback Russell Wilson was nearly flawless in his last eight games, throwing 16 touchdown passes and just two interceptions. Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch finished third in the league in rushing with 1,590 yards. Led by ageless linebacker London Fletcher, the Washington defense ranked fifth in the league against the run, but 30th versus the pass. The Redskins picked off 21 passes, tied for third in the NFL.
[Stats and schedule via NFL.com]


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What is a radiator fan clutch and where is it located?
The radiator fan clutch is an important, but often overlooked part of your vehicle's cooling system. Most automobiles have either electric cooling fans, or a fan mechanically driven off the front of the engine to help air flow through the radiator. A radiator fan clutch is found on the fans that run off of the engine. This system is used primarily in trucks, SUVs, and rear-wheel drive cars where the engine is mounted longitudinally. In these cases, a fan driven off of the front of the engine can blow air onto the radiator to cool it.
In these engines, the radiator cooling fan is attached to the water pump by the radiator fan clutch. In some systems, known as non-thermal fan clutches, when the water pump spins, the cooling fan spins. So these types of fan clutches react to speed. In the more sophisticated thermal fan clutch there is a thermostatic spring that controls fluid flow to engage and disengage the fan clutch from the water pump.
Thermal fan clutches use a bimetallic spring, much like what's in the thermostat in your house. This spring opens a valve that allows silicone fluid to flow from a reservoir, and the fluid engages the clutch when the temperature in the engine rises above the fan clutch's engagement temperature setting. This in turn fully engages the cooling fan, thus drawing in a higher amount of ambient air through the automobile's radiator to lower the temp. As things cool down in the engine and the air temperature decreases, the fluid returns to the reservoir and the clutch disengages, causing the clutch to "slip" on the water pump and the fan to slow down. This process keeps the engine at its normal, optimal running temperature—warm but not too hot—and conserves energy since the engine does not have to fully drive the fan. If the fan ran constantly, it would use up power from the engine.
While there are only two types of radiator fan clutches, thermal and non-thermal, there are a few different designs. You may hear the terms standard, heavy duty, and severe duty when talking about fan clutches. Each type is made for specific applications only and provide for varying levels of performance benefits, etc. If your vehicle has an engine that has greater than 360 cubic inches of displacement, has air conditioning, or you tow or haul, then a heavy duty fan clutch is used. A severe duty fan clutch is correct for vehicles with heavy duty cooling and/or air conditioning, and can replace a light duty clutch with no modification needed. A standard duty clutch is intended for smaller displacement engines that are not running A/C. There are also electric fan clutch assemblies available. These types of fan clutches, as you might have guessed already, are electrically activated and are used only for specific applications as well when a replacement is needed. It is important to note that replacing your original fan clutch with the wrong replacement can result in a number of problems, including full blown failure of the fan clutch, so make sure you are getting the right one for your vehicle.
How do I know if my radiator fan clutch needs to be replaced?
There are a number of issues that can cause different problems with your fan clutch assembly. Over time, the fluid can deteriorate or leak, which can increase the slippage. This will make the fan run slower than it should, which can lead to engine overheating, especially during idling. It is also possible for the thermal valve to wear out, which could also result in increased slippage.
The opposite situation can also occur, and predictably cause the opposite problem. If the radiator fan clutch becomes stuck engaged, then overcooling may occur. Poor performance or poor gas mileage can be symptoms of overcooling. If overcooling happens during the winter, you may find that when you run your vehicle's heater the air is not as warm as it was before. The bearings that connect the radiator fan clutch to the water pump could also become too loose or seize, causing too much slippage or too much engagement and the associated problems described above.
One way to check for problems with the radiator cooling fan clutch is, with the engine turned off, to try to turn the radiator fan by hand. If you can spin it more than a full rotation then there may be too much slippage. If you can't budge it, it's seized to the water pump. In either case, the cooling fan clutch will need to be replaced. If you see a greasy build up, or fluid leaking out of the fan clutch assembly, this is also a sign that it needs to be replaced.
Can I replace a radiator fan clutch myself?
Replacing the radiator fan clutch will require some time, some effort, and a specialty tool called a fan clutch wrench. The fan clutch wrench provides leverage to help remove the central nut from the fan clutch. You will need to remove the entire cooling fan assembly in order to replace the fan clutch. Since you will be working near the radiator, be careful not to damage the radiator fins, since that could cause overheating.


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If you see error code c00cee04 when you try to visit Xbox Live, there may be a problem with Xbox Live or with files stored on your Xbox 360 console.
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Error code c00cee04 contains the following message:
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Status code: c00cee04
If you get this message and error code, it may mean that Xbox Live is undergoing system maintenance or that system files on your console are temporarily corrupted.
To resolve this problem, try the following solutions:
Solution 1: Try again later
Wait a few minutes and try again. Xbox Live might be unavailable due to system maintenance. To check the status of Xbox Live, go to Service Status and look in the "Service Status" section for a notice that Xbox Live is down.
If you still experience the problem, try the next solution.
Solution 2: Clear the system cache on your Xbox 360 console
Clearing the system cache on your console will remove temporary files and data, such as game updates, system update installation packages, and gamer pictures of your friends.
Note Clearing your system cache does not remove the following:
To clear your system cache:
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How do you explain football to someone who has never heard of it?
You don't, you give them a ball.
Football is brilliantly absurd in how it manages to turn a simple and accessible game into such an amazing spectacle. This June will see the World Cup come to Brazil and the biggest show of the year will be shared by literally billions of ecstatic football fans world wide, all hoping this will be their year to celebrate! Read more…


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Middlebury Union High School, Mount Abraham Union High School, Vergennes Union High School and Otter Valley Union High School all held their graduation ceremonies last weekend. Smiles, laughter, tears and music filled the air as the class of 2011 walked across the stage. To catch a glimpse of the seniors' final high school moments, explore the slideshow below.
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Trent Campbell, Lee Kahrs and Keith Darwin photographed the graduations.
Supporters of Vermont's successful push for health care reform this past legislative session championed the single-payer system toward universal care based on the belief that "health care is a right, not a privilege." In a similar vein, Gov. Peter Shumlin and our legislative leaders must embrace the notion that "strong community hospitals are also a right, and not a privilege for the state's largest and wealthiest communities."
ADDISON COUNTY — Slugging Middlebury Union High School junior catcher Mattea Bagley repeats as the Independent's Softball Player of the Year and headlines the 2011 Addison Independent Softball All-Star Team.
At least two athletes from each of the four local teams are recognized here after a season in which Mount Abraham, Otter Valley, MUHS and Vergennes probably didn't finish as well as hoped, but all still accomplished something positive.
MIDDLEBURY — The state's top Democrats converged on Middlebury this Tuesday to exhort the party faithful to keep pressing for a single-payer health care system, the foundation for which was laid during the 2011 legislative session.
MIDDLEBURY — Nine young athletes won multiple events, and all the Mary Hogan Elementary School 5th- and 6th-graders were exposed to the sport of track and field on June 6, when the Middlebury school held its annual track meet on a sunny Monday.
The school's physical education teachers run the annual meet, both to give all the older students a chance to learn about track and field and to give some the opportunity to shine.
MIDDLEBURY — The rain came steadily down but spirits were consistently high as friends and relatives of the 140 Middlebury Union High School graduates packed the Memorial Sports Center on Saturday to watch the MUHS class of 2011 receive their diplomas.
Six members of the graduating class shared the honors for having the top grades — two valedictorians and four salutatorians. Each was given the chance to address the crowd.
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The Brunswick Community College women's basketball team lost back-to-back road games last weekend and may have lost one of its few remaining players to injury.
Tiara Brodie twisted her knee during Saturday's 84-72 setback at Wilkes Community College and did not play in Sunday's rematch, which Wilkes won 58-53.
Brodie, a freshman guard from Goldsboro, joined the team earlier this month after sitting out the first semester. But she played in just two games before re-aggravating a knee injury that has required surgery in the past.
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I reached it🎉
I reached the 50 followers milestone. Now just to finish my 50 follower special composition. I can't promise when it will be done but right now I'm halfway through it.
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I reached the 50 followers milestone. Now just to finish my 50 follower special composition. I can't promise when it will be done but right now I'm halfway through it.
Hey all, i'm trying hard but can't find any sheets music of Ehrling music. Does anyone know where i could find it ? "Ocean champagne" or "Dance with me" would be the bests ! Thx in advance !
Hi what's up guys. Please check my first arrangement https://musescore.com/user/28650932/scores/5621198
Tell me what do you think about it and give me some advices
I have auditions coming up and I need a few songs that I can look into to start playing. Sophisticated Lady is the current piece I'm playing, but I'm curious as to what other classic jazz songs feature the bari sax.
I just started playing alto sax last week for a summer program and I think all in all it's an easy instrument to start off on (maybe because I have been playing clarinet for 3 years). But I am still struggling with holding it. It's very heavy and sometimes my thumb is swollen from holding it. My friend who has been playing alto sax for 4 years says my sax is bigger than hers. I'm sure its alto because my music teacher gave it to me and I can't switch it out for a different one. Does anyone have any tips on how to hold the sax? Thxxx and I appreciate it- Flutinetist ^~^
Did any of y'all create horrible pieces of music the first time you joined Musescore?
alto is better
Mine is my rondo for a sonata collab
If you don't know already, I am now almost at 50 followers. Currently I have 39 followers so just 11 more and I will have reached the 50 follower mark. I had maybe like 4 followers 2 years ago. So clearly, I'm doing something right. My most recent score called The Storm just brought me 2 more followers. I suppose they followed me hoping to someday see the entire suite that I plan on The Storm being a part of. That suite I call Weather Music. Maybe I should compose another part of the suite for that 50 followers mark, upload it when I reach 50 followers, and then whenever I have finished the suite, upload it in its entirety.
If you want to listen to what I have so far of The Storm, here it is:
It just so happens that I have been getting rain for 3 days straight here in Ohio.
Update 1: 6/18/2019
Oh my goodness, 4 followers in a single day. That is a record for me, I am now at 43 followers. I don't know if the follower milestone or finishing the composition will come first. If the follower count does come first, that's fine. I'm not pushing myself to finish the 50 follower composition.
Update 2: 6/19/2019
Wow, 5 followers in 1 day. I don't think I will finish my 50 follower composition before I reach 50 followers. Often my composition process is slow, so don't be surprised if a week has passed and I still haven't finished the composition yet. I will get it done when I get it done. I emphasize quality over quantity with my compositions.
Update 3: 6/24/2019
I'm just 1 away from reaching the 50 followers mark. As for the composition, I'm about halfway through composing it.
A friend and I are seniors in high school and we have a band. I play alto saxophone and he plays drum set. We have played at basketball games, in school concerts, and background music at various school events. Our next (and possibly last) performance is going to be at our graduation, so obviously we want it to be our best performance yet. Our problem is we cannot seem to find a good song/songs to play. We are looking for something fast, upbeat, and fun. Somewhere between 3 to 15 minutes would be perfect. Some of the songs we have played before include: Shipping Up To Boston, Megalovania, Blue (Da Ba Dee), 300 Violin Orchestra, Harder Better Faster Stronger, Eye Of The Tiger, ect. Hopefully that gives you a good idea of the type of music we enjoy playing.
Any song suggestions would be very helpful. Also, if you have any other places I could post this question please let me know. Thanks in advance for any suggestions anyone gives.
The local music store here, Groth Music (Also the biggest music store in Minnesota) has three different professional tenor sax models for sale, at least that's what shows on their website. If they have more, I'll look into it. For now, I just want to know if there are opinions.
The options are:
Selmer Paris Professional Model 54JU Tenor Saxophone
Selmer Paris Professional Model 84 Tenor Saxophone
Yamaha YTS-82ZII Custom Z Tenor Saxophone
Btw, I'm leaning towards the Custom Z because I want one with black lacquer so I can look cool at school :P
I was wondering what the most common saxophone variant is, whether is be soprano, alto, tenor, or baritone. Can you tell me your type.
I know I do.
I will update this weekly
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Group is created today! Woohoo! *confetti and stuff falls from sky*
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Eek! I forgot to do this yesterday. The group is already dying, so uhh… :o
@Jaybird1 is one of the first truly active members, I told him I would give him a shoutout here, so here you go :P
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I haven't updated this in a while, this group is blowing up now...
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Holy cow, this group is blowing up. 8 members in 4 days, wow...
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Hmm...Starting to die again...
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Welp...I was wrong...
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I was very wrong, this group is really blowing up, welp
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Again, welp
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So I had to kick a member (Indy500) for spamming a link to an unsecure website. Sorry, but spam for no purpose is not tolerated.
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Okay then, I don't know what to say
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Okay then, I started a discussion trying to get to 1k comments, and I thought it would fail. As I am writing this, Lizzapie, Mnmwert, Vash Hartman, and myself are spamming to get it to 1k. It's already at like 150 or something (every 2 minutes I refresh and I have 10+ notifications lol)
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So this group is now closing in on 100 members, but we need more discussions!
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Wow, 5 more members till 100!
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Woohoo! 100 Members!
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This group is starting to die
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Now the member count has capped out at around 1 member per day, BUT this is a random group, and I didn't really expect it to be this active.
Looking for some good pieces to play over the summer, Any Suggestions?
I can't decide if I should switch to Baritone or Tenor Sax, or if I should stay an Alto Sax. Can you help me decide
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I am looking for some translation for alto sax of following songs:
Conan the Barbarian - Recovery
Stan Bush - On my own alone
Jerry Goldsmith / Rambo - It's a long road
Or any songs of basil poledouris.
If any can help out that would be great !
A lot of cool sax players out there, but what is your favorite one and why? What is the particular thing that makes it special for you? what distinguishes him from others?


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- Two women wed on a flight from Queenstown to Auckland
- Same-sex marriages became legal in New Zealand on Monday
- Fourteen countries now allow same-sex couples to marry
- New Zealand is the first to do so in the Asia Pacific region
The poster at the end of the montage is written in the colorful, uneven handwriting of children, but its message is clear.
Three kids stand with the sign that reads, "Please marry our Mums."
The children are 9-year-old Javarn, 7-year-old Maycee and 6-year-old Mikaere, and their moms are Lynley Bendall and Ally Wanikau.
The women, who have been together for some 14 years, got married Monday -- the day same-sex marriage became legal in New Zealand.
The couple exchanged vows aboard a flight from Queenstown to Auckland, the carrier Air New Zealand said on its Facebook page. The airline chose Bendall and Wanikau from entries that came from around New Zealand.
"Getting married on a plane ... Wow!!! Imagine that for news at school!" read other posters the children held up in the winning video entry.
New Zealand's parliament voted in April to legalize same-sex marriage, making it the first country in the Asia Pacific region to do so.
A double wedding was held Monday at the Rotorua Museum in the city of the same name.
"It has been a really positive celebration," said museum marketing manager Joanna Doherty, adding there were no protesters outside. "It was lovely."
About 90 invited guests and members of a radio station crew that put on a competition for the all-expenses-paid wedding were on hand as Rachel Briscoe and Jess Ivess and Richard Rawstorn and Richard Andrew exchanged vows.
The museum only this year began hosting weddings and other private functions.
"I think the museum is traditionally seen as old-fashioned ... but we just wanted to be seen as a place that welcomes everybody," Doherty told CNN. "It is everybody's history that gets told here."
Including New Zealand, 14 countries now allow same-sex marriage. Of those, nine are in Europe.
The Netherlands was the first, in 2001, and it was later joined by Belgium, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Portugal, Denmark and France. Argentina, Uruguay, Canada and South Africa are the non-European countries in the group.
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Michael Brambley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Cindy Regnier, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The 2012 ACEEE Summer Study was the 17th biennial ACEEE conference on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. A diverse group of professionals from around the world gathered at this preeminent meeting to discuss the technological basis for, and practical implementation of, actions to reduce energy use and the climate impacts associated with buildings. Presentations and discussions related to the theme, "Fueling Our Future with Efficiency." Global activities related to building energy efficiency and sustainability had been receiving increased attention worldwide in recent years, in order to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, while also having been addressing the problems of energy security and resource depletion. To progress towards an energy-efficient and sustainable future, the pace of investment in, and implementation of, energy use reduction strategies must be greatly accelerated. Well integrated government and utility programs, codes and standards, technologies, integrated design processes, operation practices and financing sources need to be further developed and cost-effectively implemented, while addressing behavioral factors and workforce development needs. A new generation of multi-disciplinary practitioners, researchers, and policymakers need to be educated and quickly deployed to solve the closely-coupled energy efficiency and climate problems that we face. The 2012 Summer Study allowed for the sharing of ideas and for the engagement in dialogue with leading thinkers, visionaries, and luminaries in the field, while providing the experience of the magnificent natural setting of Asilomar.
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Welcome to the Earth Day Blog Carnival
This post is part of the 2012 Earth Day Blog Carnival hosted by Child of the Nature Isle and Monkey Butt Junction. Each participant has shared their practices and insights of earth friendly, environmentally conscious, eco-living. This carnival is our way to share positive information and inspiration that can create healing for our planet. Please read to the end of this post to find a list of links to the other carnival participants. Happy Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day! I've been looking forward to Earth Day this year because it's the first time Vivi--at almost four years old--understands the word Earth and what it means to protect it. I'm certain my children's understanding will grow and change with age, and I'm looking forward to sharing my knowledge and passion for environmental stewardship with the girls over the coming years.
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I have prepared Vivi for what it means to make a garden, first by sowing seeds and then by using our community garden as a source of education for both of us. I highly recommend taking your kids to your community garden if you have one. Ours is tended by the members at least twice a week, on Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings. They are happy to answer questions about the project and even give general gardening tips. I've been known to bend the ear of a gardener or four about my plans for a backyard garden, and they are just as sweet and patient as they can be with novices like myself.
Even more than the talks and planting of seeds, I think the best way to instill a sense of conservationism in my children will be to give them lots of time outdoors to explore, experiment, get dirty, and watch the plants grow. Although it was by accident that we are having to do all this repotting, Vivi adores every second of the event, loving nothing more than mixing compost and soil together in a big pot. Digging is a beloved activity, with no specific purpose in mind other than to put shovel to soil. Recently she found a millipede, named it Giggle, and carried it with her everywhere in a plastic cup. She talked to it and genuinely loved it as a best friend for several hours before reluctantly returning it to the dirt. Oh, the tugging of my heartstrings!
When I taught summer camp, I adored my nature classes, when I had the brief opportunity to instill in my campers a lasting love of nature. I'll never forget the children with autism I taught; one non-verbal camper who had never smiled nor made eye contact with me in weeks of interaction did both for the first time as he pulled a carrot out of the ground. No words are necessary to convey to joys of gardening; they are self-evident.
If you have older kids, I think a great idea for an Earth Day project is to find a way they can give back to their community. Friday, April 20th was Global Youth Service Day, and the projects continue through today. As a camp counselor-in-training, I spent what felt like an eternity one summer (perhaps it was only a day or two) creating a switchback trail in the woods to prevent erosion. Although it was seventeen years ago, I remember the feeling of pride I had on the project's completion as though it were yesterday.
Thank you for stopping by the 2012 Earth Day Blog Carnival! Please relax and take time to read these other great eco-living posts:
- You are a Child of the Earth - Using the Earth as their classroom, Patti from Canadian Unschool teaches her 4 children their spiritual connection to the Earth and she accepts that loving the Earth can get really, really messy.
- Cutting Out Paper - Jorje of Momma Jorje shares how she went from curiosity and concern to actually cutting out the use of paper towels in her household. She is proud to be "greener" as each Earth Day passes.
- The World is Brown - Debra Ann Elliot of Words are Timeless believes in keeping the Earth green, but because so many people inhabit the Earth it is turning brown because people aren't doing their part by reducing, reusing, and recycling.
- 7 Child And Eco Friendly Activities To Honor The Earth (Plus Some Environmental Books For Kids) - Jennifer at Hybrid Rasta Mama shares her favorite books that help children become more aware of the importance of respecting and caring for Mother Earth. In addition, she hosts a guest post outlining seven child and eco friendly activities to honor the earth.
- 5 Ways We Teach Our Children To Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle - Valarie at Momma In Progress shares a few tips for encouraging young children to care for the earth.
- Little Changes - Big Results - Meegs at A New Day talks about how sometimes it's the little decisions and changes that can lead us to find big results, and how she's baby-stepping her way to a more environmentally conscious lifestyle.
- Inspiring the Next Generation - aNonyMous at at Radical Ramblings hopes to inspire her daughter to live a green and sustainable lifestyle, in the same way she was inspired by her high-school science teacher, and talks about the changes her family are making towards this vision.
- Eco-Friendly Cleansers: Safe For the Environment, Healthy For Every Body - Rebekah at Liberated Family writes about safe and natural alternatives to toxic, household cleaning products..
- Lightening My Footprint with Cloth Nappies (Diapers) - Christine at African Babies Don't Cry shares the biggest eco-choice she has made so far, and why she is so passionate about it.
- Clutter Free for a Cause - At Living Peacefully with Children Mandy's penchant for decluttering and simple living cuts down on consumerism, taking less of a tole on the Earth.
- Eco-Parenting: Homemade Bug Spray - Kerry at City Kids Homeschooling shares a homemade bug spray recipe that helps her family to enjoy the natural world while taking precautions against bug bites.
- Let the Scales Fall From My Eyes...Just Not Too Quickly - Kelly at Becoming Crunchy talks about the discomfort of no longer being able to live in denial over how her choices affect the world around her.
- Fostering Love of Earth - Justine at The Lone Home Ranger instills a love of nature in her daughters by embarking on their first backyard vegetable garden together.
- Being in Nature - Carrie at Love Notes Mama knows that just being in nature is more than enough.
- 5 Ways to Pass Down Environmental Values to Your Children - Charise at I Thought I Knew Mama shares how easy it can be to instill environmental values in your children.
- Viva Portlandia - Amy at Anktangle writes about the place she lives and loves in: Portland. She describes the ways this green city makes it easy for her family to take care of our earth, and also the steps she's taking to further lessen her family's environmental impact.
- Conspicuous Conservationism - Jenn at Monkey Butt Junction examines the phenomenon of eco-conscious behavior as a status symbol.
- Time for Radical Sustainability - Terri at Child of the Nature Isle ponders how she can model a truly sustainable lifestyle for her children and raise them in a way their environmental consciousness is as natural as breathing!
Editor's note: This post was shared with Frugal Friday, Your Green Resource, Frugal Days, Sustainable Ways, Seasonal Celebration Sunday and Natural Parenting Group's Monday Blog Hop.
Image Credit [top pic of signs]: Robbins Farm Community Garden.


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I have now shared all the research that I currently have on the Sharp family in North Carolina. I will continue to update past posts as I gain any new information from readers of this blog or other sources. I will keep this blog active to share information and receive feedback from you. As I stated in the introduction, I created this as a changing history to be modified by inputs from others through the web. I invite you to take a look and let me know what you think. This is an update of the summary post first done in September, 07. There have now been over 15,000 pages views of this blog.
Look in the categories on the right side to find information on the Sharps, Powells, Parkers, Winbournes, and Hares, as well as information on Southern food and travel and general genealogy issues.
I will continue to post on general genealogy issues on ocassion and share any new information on the Sharps. I also invite you to my other genealogy blog, the Ives Family History Blog. My grandmother Gladys Sharp married Sumner Albert Ives joining the two families. Thanks for your interest, Bill Ives


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Police shoot, injure teen car theft suspect inside Jacksonville, Fla., airport parking garage
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Police shot a teenager and arrested another suspect while investigating a car theft inside a rental car return area at Jacksonville International Airport in Florida.
The shooting happened Wednesday afternoon. Police tried to stop the vehicle after tracking it to the parking garage at the airport. When they tried to stop it, the driver rammed two police vehicles and another car.
The Florida Times-Union (http://bit.ly/17xj5Pi ) reports an officer shot at the car as it drove away. Police found the vehicle in an apartment complex and arrested a 27-year-old and the 17-year-old, who was shot in the ankle. Police didn't release their names and say they are still looking for a third suspect.
There were not many bystanders in the garage. But police say they fired shots because public safety was at risk.
Information from: The (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union, http://www.jacksonville.com