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"The group has remained pretty solid, which says to me that there is a real interest and commitment to stay involved," said Lisa Tindal, executive director for Mental Health America of Aiken County.
Mental Health America and The Aiken Center, an addiction services provider, organized a meeting in May to look at the possibility of restarting a suicide prevention coalition locally.
Representatives of the Aiken County Public School District, Aurora Pavilion Behavioral Health Services, Aiken County Sheriff's Office and a number of nonprofit organizations showed up. Also present were Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton along with suicide survivors and those who had lost loved ones to suicide.
There have been monthly meetings ever since. The group has an official name, and its members have worked together to come up with core values and mission and vision statements.
The coalition's goal is to eliminate suicide in Aiken County through education and collaboration. Last year, there were 35 suicides compared to 19 in 2011, according to the Aiken County Coroner's Office.
Tindal said the coalition is getting ready to examine what sorts of suicide prevention programs and efforts already exist in Aiken County.
Providing services to the elderly is another priority.
"There doesn't seem to be a whole lot being done to address the problems of seniors who struggle with depression and may think about suicide," Tindal said.
The organization's members plan to recruit medical doctors, pharmacists, psychiatrists, religious leaders, teenagers and caretakers for the elderly.
However, "we want the coalition to be open to anyone who wants to come along with us and try to make a difference in lowering the number of suicides," Tindal said. "We have some people who have lost someone to suicide, and they are strong voices."
For more information, call Tindal at 803-641-4164.
Dede Biles is a general assignment reporter for the Aiken Standard and has been with the newspaper since January 2013. A native of Concord, N.C., she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Lowering the probability some idiot is going to assault an elementary school *with a gun* at the expense of eliminating the ability of every American (except military and law enforcement) to protect themselves is not a worthy trade in my perspective.
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I'm more comfortable with many good armed people, at the risk of some armed bad guys, than all law abiding citizens being unarmed and a few armed bad people along with all of the unarmed bad people.
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Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians account for large and growing shares of the economy and population in Minnesota. Immigrants (the foreign-born) make up 7.3% of the state's population, and 45.9% of them are naturalized U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote. "New Americans"—immigrants and the children of immigrants—account for 4.3% of all registered voters in the state. Immigrants are not only integral to the state's economy as workers, but also account for tens of million of dollars in tax revenue and consumer purchasing power. Moreover, Latinos and Asians (both foreign-born and native-born) wield $13.8 billion in consumer purchasing power, and the businesses they own had sales and receipts of $4 billion and employed more than 22,000 people at last count. At a time when the economy is still recovering, Minnesota can ill-afford to alienate such a critical component of its labor force, tax base, and business community.
Immigrants and their children are growing shares of Minnesota's population and electorate.
- The foreign-born share of Minnesota's population rose from 2.6% in 1990, to 5.3% in 2000, to 7.3% in 2011, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Minnesota was home to 388,839 immigrants in 2011, which is more than the total population of New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 45.9% of immigrants (or 178,569 people) in Minnesota were naturalized U.S. citizens in 2011—meaning that they are eligible to vote.
- Unauthorized immigrants comprised roughly 1.6% of the state's population (or 85,000 people) in 2010, according to a report by the Pew Hispanic Center.
- 4.3% (or 126,034) of registered voters in Minnesota were "New Americans"—naturalized citizens or the U.S.-born children of immigrants who were raised during the current era of immigration from Latin America and Asia which began in 1965—according to an analysis of 2008 Census Bureau data by Rob Paral & Associates.
Roughly 1 in 11 Minnesotans are Latino or Asian.
- The Latino share of Minnesota's population grew from 1.2% in 1990, to 2.9% in 2000, to 4.8% (or 257,186 people) in 2011. The Asian share of the population grew from 1.8% in 1990, to 2.9% in 2000, to 4.0% (or 216,270 people) in 2011,[xiv] according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Asians comprised 2.0% (or 56,000) of Minnesota voters in the 2008 elections, and Latinos accounted for 1.3% (or 35,000), according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
- In Minnesota, 86.3% of children with immigrant parents were U.S. citizens in 2009, according to data from the Urban Institute.
- In 2009, 88.3% of children in Asian families in Minnesota were U.S. citizens, as were 90.3% of children in Latino families.
Latino and Asian entrepreneurs and consumers add billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs to Minnesota's economy.
- The 2012 purchasing power of Minnesota's Asians totaled $8.4 billion—an increase of 994% since 1990. Latino buying power totaled $5.4 billion—an increase of 965% since 1990, according to the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia.
- Minnesota's 11,371 Asian-owned businesses had sales and receipts of $2.4 billion and employed 16,950 people in 2007, the last year for which data is available. The state's 5,002 Latino-owned businesses had sales and receipts of $1.6 billion and employed 5,970 people in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Survey of Business Owners.
Minnesota's diverse immigrant population adds hundreds of millions of dollars to the state's economy.
- In the Twin Cities metro area, 138 immigrant-owned businesses created 386 new jobs and spent $5.6 million on payroll, rent, and supplies in 2002, according to a study from the University of Minnesota.
- More than 1,000 Mexican-American businesses operated in Minnesota, generating an estimated $200 million in sales; while Latino workers employed in south-central agricultural industries added nearly $25 million to the local economy, according to a 2004 report by the Minneapolis Foundation.
- More than 16,000 Asian-Indians living in Minnesota accounted for $500 million in consumer purchasing power, paid $5.2 million in real estate taxes and $2.3 million in rent, and owned 400 companies that employed more than 6,000 people, according to the same report.
- Minnesota was home to 60,000 Hmong, whose businesses generated an estimated $100 million in revenue, according to the same report.
- Minnesota is home to the country's largest Somali population, which numbered roughly 15,000 people as of 2002. Somalis in Minnesota accounted for $164 million in buying power and owned 600 businesses as of 2006.
Immigrants are integral to Minnesota's economy as workers.
- Immigrants comprised 8.6% of the state's workforce in 2011 (or 254,573 workers), according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Immigrants accounted for 8% of total economic output in the Minneapolis metropolitan area as of 2007, according to a study by the Fiscal Policy Institute.
- Unauthorized immigrants comprised 2.1% of the state's workforce (or 60,000 workers) in 2010, according to a report by the Pew Hispanic Center.
- If all unauthorized immigrants were removed from Minnesota, the state would lose $4.4 billion in economic activity, $2.0 billion in gross state product, and approximately 24,299 jobs, even accounting for adequate market adjustment time, according to a report by the Perryman Group.
Unauthorized immigrants pay taxes.
- Unauthorized immigrants in Minnesota paid $68.6 million in state and local taxes in 2010, according to data from the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, which includes $12.5 million in state income taxes, $8.1 million in property taxes, and $48 million in sales taxes.
- Were unauthorized immigrants in Minnesota to have legal status, they would pay $81.7 million in state and local taxes, including $51.3 million in sales taxes, $21.7 million in state income taxes, and $8.6 million in property taxes.
Immigrants are integral to Minnesota's economy as students.
- Minnesota's 12,735 foreign students contributed $319.2 million to the state's economy in tuition, fees, and living expenses for the 2011-2012 academic year, according to the NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
Naturalized citizens excel educationally.
- In Minnesota, 33.2% of foreign-born persons who were naturalized U.S. citizens in 2011 had a bachelor's or higher degree, compared to 29.4% of noncitizens. At the same time, only 20.6% of naturalized citizens lacked a high-school diploma, compared to 33% of noncitizens.
- The number of immigrants in Minnesota with a college degree increased by 82.3% between 2000 and 2011, according to data from the Migration Policy Institute.
- In Minnesota, 79.1% of children with immigrant parents were considered "English proficient" as of 2009, according to data from the Urban Institute.
- The English proficiency rate among Asian children in Minnesota was 74%, while for Latino children it was 84.8%, as of 2009.
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The business, which provides specialized services and infrastructure for biotechnology companies, will consolidate its headquarters in expanded space in Bethesda and build on lab and biorepository operations in Frederick. The company now has about 80 workers.
Precision is committed to an extensive growth strategy largely focused in Maryland, COO Chad Clark said in a news release. The business secured $150 million in private equity financing to support acquisitions and development earlier this year.
To assist with expansion costs, the state is offering a $750,000 conditional loan, while Montgomery County kicked in a $200,000 conditional grant and the city of Frederick approved a $50,000 conditional loan. Precision is also eligible for state and local tax credits.
Precision, which formed last year and also has an office in Cambridge, Mass., is the most recent venture launched by entrepreneurs Ethan Leder and Mark Clein. The pair formed a similar business in Bethesda, United BioSource Corp., which once employed about 1,600 researchers before being sold to Medco Health Solutions in 2010 for about $730 million.
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Arizona Sports' 2013 Year in Review: Biggest Story of the Year
Note: This is part of a series of posts you'll see over the next week or so on ArizonaSports.com. We had a panel of 16 voters, including all of our on-air personalities, cast votes in several categories like Athlete of the Year, Team of the Year, Coach of the Year, Best Moment of the Year and many others.
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There were plenty of stories that pegged the Arizona Sports meter in 2013.
After four long, arduous years, the Phoenix Coyotes finally secured new ownership when the NHL Board of Governors approved the sale of the team to IceArizona in August.
In head coach Todd Graham's second year, the Arizona State Sun Devils clinched the Pac-12 South and hosted the conference championship game in Tempe.
But according to the staff here at Arizona Sports, the state's biggest sports story was the Arizona Diamondbacks' season-long "feud" with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
It started in April when D-backs managing general partner Ken Kendrick made national headlines after forcing L.A. fans seated behind home plate to change out of their Dodgers garb.
In June, the two teams played a game of "basebrawl" at Dodger Stadium that featured five hit batsmen, six ejections and eight suspensions.
The next month, former All-Star D-backs' outfielder Luis Gonzalez was "snubbed" by Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig after the 2001 World Series hero tried to engage him in conversation about their shared Cuban ancestry.
And the pi�ce de r�sistance: the Dodgers' impromptu pool party at Chase Field after clinching the National League West crown in September.
The Dodgers laughed off a couple of the incidents, claiming that the Puig-Gonzalez meeting was blown out of proportion and that their Caddyshack-like bum rush of the Chase Field pool was not a show of disrespect, but rather a pure act of celebration.
The two teams meet at Salt River Fields to open Cactus League play in February and will travel to Australia to open the season with a two-game set in Sydney in late March. We'll see if the biggest story of 2013 carries over into the new year.
Here's how our panel voted:
Tyler Bassett: D-backs/Dodgers rivalry
Dan Bickley: ASU hosting Pac-12 Championship Game
Jon Bloom: Coyotes ownership saga ending
Dave Burns: Cardinals acquire Carson Palmer
Jarrett Carlen: Dodgers' celebration in Chase Field pool
Dave Dulberg: D-backs/Dodgers rivalry heats up
Doug Franz: Coyotes being sold and kept in Glendale
John Gambadoro: Justin Upton traded to Atlanta
Bryan Gibberman: Cardinals firing Ken Whisenhunt and hiring Bruce Arians
Adam Green: D-backs/Dodgers "rivalry"
Craig Grialou: Dodgers celebrating NL West title in Chase Field pool
Vince Marotta: D-backs/Dodgers season-long "feud"
Carter Nacke: Coyotes FINALLY finding an owner
Jules Tompkins: ASU winning Pac-12 South
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By Nabeel from Pakistan on 2012-07-02 15:38:47Things I liked:Power, Looks, Accuracy, Adjust-ability, Muzzle break/Silencer, Trigger, Sling, Is there anything left??
Things I would have changed:The included bipod is plastice not metal (as posted on PA specifications)and is not much of a use unless it was fitted with a more sturdy spring which would provide reasonable clamping power. If only the stock would be in Turkish Walnut :D
What others should know:I did not purchase from PA, I'm from Pakistan & I got an optima 3-9x44e scope with the package along with an extra scope stop. i am 6f 3" and 94 Kgs, and this gun gives me a workout. It is not for kids, it is for strong adults as it is long, heavy and got a fair bit of kick, and takes a fair amount of cocking effort. I haven't scoped my gun yet, have shot at least 70 pellets through it without making a single bit of adjustment to the installed fiber optic sights and out of the box this gun is DEADLY accurate and powerful. We do not have access to the whole JSB, H&N, Crossman pellet lines. The pellets available to us are H&N wadcutters, Gamo pro magnum, Gamo match, and Gamo pointed. I used Gamo pro magnum pellets with good result, tighter groups (2 cm x 3 cm) at 10 yards open sights. H&N wadcutters are lighter, produced 1.8cm x 3.75 cm groups at 10 yards with open sights with occasional flyers and atleast 3 pellets producing a louder than usual crack. It is imperative that you use artillery hold for best results. So far I am VERY pleased with my purchase.
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By RONALD from USA on 2012-03-02 15:59:07Things I liked:Fills like a solid rifle and I believe the power is as described.
Things I would have changed:Trigger does not live up to claims. It does not seem to matter where you set the screws on the trigger there is very little change on the lbs of of pull. The trigger seems to be set around 4lbs and I could not get it to change. The screw was already turned all the way clockwise when I got the rifle( as much reduced pull as possible). Unscrewing the screw which should cause a higher pull does not seem to do so. Screwing it back in all way makes no difference either. Same thing with stage 1 pull screw. I am shooting Beemen Kodiaks, which have worked very well for me in the past in other air rifles, which only provides a 1.5 inch grouping at 10 yds so not very accurate. At 10 yds with my other air rifles I have groupings smaller than a dime.
What others should know:I have not had the rifle out side for further yardage shooting but disappointed in accuracy at 10 yds. Even with the claimed recoil suppressor the gun kicks like most of the piston rifles I have shot before. I took the scope stop block off so I could move the scope mount to the very back of scope rail. Even with mount screws tighten very tightly the scope mounts slip because of the recoil. I had to put the scope block back. FYI, I am using a much more expense scope than the one that came with the gun.
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The Stand (still reading - I like to have a few things going at the same time)
And watched - all movies of the above, (including the little-seen but truly-great The Night Flier), Rose Red, Storm of the Century, Kingdom Hospital, Sleepwalkers, and the Creepshows. Whew!
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A 45-year-old Aiken man was detained for shoplifting on Sunday after he tried to take a generator and an air compressor from a store on Whiskey Road without paying.
A 38-year-old Aiken man was detained for driving under the influence on Monday after he was seen driving recklessly on Pine Log Road.
Three unknown people fled the scene after trying to shoplift a shopping cart full of merchandise at a Richland Avenue store on Sunday. The individuals left the shopping cart and fled the store in a silver vehicle after being confronted by a store employee.
Vandalism was reported on vending machines at Aiken High School on Friday.
A utility trailer was reported stolen from Lorraine Drive on Monday.
A vehicle was reported stolen from Gayle Avenue on Monday.
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A burglary was reported at a home on Deep Run Road in Aiken on Monday. Prescription pills were reported missing.
A television was reported stolen from a home on Poplar Springs Road in Aiken on Monday.
A gun was reported stolen from an unlocked vehicle on Woodland Drive in North Augusta on Monday.
An Aiken woman reported on Monday that someone made an unauthorized transaction on her bank card.
An additional burglary was reported on New Morgan Lane in North Augusta on Monday.
Vehicles were reported stolen from Grace Hurst Road in Gloverville, Wheat Road in Aiken and Jefferson Davis Highway in North Augusta.
A vehicle break-in was reported on Railroad Street in Warrenville on Monday.
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Does it change the actual file (meaning that song will be at the lower bit rate even when you play it through iTunes)? Or, does it just create a lower-bit rate for your iDevice?
Tip: How to get more apps and media onto your iPhone and iPad
Have a rather large iTunes library and curious how to still get it all your apps, games, movies, music, TV shows, and podcasts onto your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad? Fret not, w're going to show you a neat little trick to help cut down the size of your music and fit more of everything else... after the break!
Built right into iTunes is a feature that automatically converts your higher bit rate song (256kbps is the current standard) to 128kbps for optimized transfer to your iPhone and iPad. Music lovers might not want to risk any loss of quality but for most people the difference is not distinguishable and the storage savings are significant. Here's what to do:
- Plug your iPhone and iPad into iTunes
- Select "Convert Higher Bit Rate Songs to 128kbps AAC"
- Sync
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Note: if you have a large iTunes library it might take a long time to do the initial conversion (my 495+ song took about an hour) but it only happens the first time and when it's done you'll have tons of space for videos, apps, or anything else (I saved about 3.4GB!)
Bonus tip: With iTunes 10, if you just select the "convert" box, the memory display bar will automatically adjust, so you can see how much space you'll be saving before hand and can decide if it's really worth it to you.
It's too bad they don't offer this for video! If you try it out, let us know how much space you saved and if you have any questions, leave them in comments!
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Tip: How to get more apps and media onto your iPhone and iPad
I appreciate the fact that you guys are trying to provide great tips from beginners to expert level, but how can someone with no knowledge of 'bit rate', 'kpbs' understand the whole importance of this.
I think maybe providing links at the bottom of your articles as a 'wiki' section to some of the terms used will even further educate new comers of these devices.
Thanks for the tip.
doesn't that ruin the audio quality, i get 300+kb/s for a reason
It creates a device-only lower quality version only when transferring/syncing. The tracks on your computer are unaffected. The first sync after checking the box is slow as it does every track on your phone. After that, just anything new you add. If you regularly change your phone's library then it will make each sync a bit slower.
I just spent 80 bucks upgrading to 256mbps. This is gonna suck!
I did this last year and it did save a lot of space... and since 99% of the time the music I listen to from my iPhone is through the standard Apple white ear buds the reduced sound quality was acceptable. But I remember there being some problem -- like it not syncing certain files that it couldn't convert or something like that... I want to say it might have even been podcasts... so I went back to the regular files. I might try it again though -- maybe whatever problem I had has been fixed with the iTunes upgrades since then...
my suggestion, run the 128Kbps the first time before you go to sleep. In the morning, the ipad is 100% charged and all the music is copied.
ZumoCast, baby. ZumoCast.
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Thats a terrible idea!!! Ill take my Apple Lossless, thanks.
Worthless tip.....
Can't get this to work. My iTunes crashes every time I try to sync after selecting the AAC selection. No biggie. I'll just go back to the way it was.
This sounds like a great tip. I'll have to give it a try. For the comments about streaming, remember that if you do it on 3G you're paying for more data. If you're paying $5 more per month for unlimited, that's $60/year (or $120 for a two year contract). Streaming is cool, but it's expensive. Personally, I don't stream anything unless I'm on wifi, and I get by fine on the 200MB plan. I save $15/month ($180/year) over unlimited.
Its not necessary to have my whole library with me on the go. Do you really listen to 3.5gb worth of music on your morning run/walk?! Sync a playlist or two.
My 2500+ songs are gonna take a while it seems, but saved 10gb......
haha, I bet half you people banging on about 320kbps being your "minimum" haven't even done an ABX test.
For what it's worth most people can't tell the difference between 320kbps MP3 & 160kbps when using AAC format.
For what it's worth I have all my 2,000+ CD collection ripped to Lossless, but use 160kbps AAC on my iPod and iPhone.
When I ABX tested myself I couldn't tell the difference between ALAC & 160 AAC often enough to justify wasting the space, even at 160 my music collection takes 140GB of my 160GB Classic.
I dare you to ABX test yourself and you may be more than a little surprised at what differences you "think" you hear and the actual truth.
Can I do this using a different computer (instead of using my own?). I am away from my computer for a while but want to try this, if I used my boyfriend's laptop would it make a difference? I just need my iPhone right...
OK. First, I don't understand the need for storing so much music on your device in the first place. 495 songs?? At +/- 4 minutes per song, that's 33 HOURS of music. Make albums, and sort your stuff. It is far faster to change out albums than go through all this. I have all my collections that way, and I carry what I feel like at the time. Get bored? A quick sync and a have a new set up. It is NOT a contest to see who has the most junk on their phone. 2500+ CD's?? Give me a break. Bet you can't name half of them.
Anyone saying the difference can't be heard. Nonsense. What headphones are you using?? The Apple ones? MAYBE some skullcandies? Thought so....
Try listening to some 128Kpbs material on some UltimateEars TripleFi's. You CAN hear the difference.
How many know how audio compression works?? Parts of the audio a computer thinks you or I can't hear are chucked from the recording. Sure, if you're using garbage headphones you can't tell. Try listening to 128kbps material on a decent 2-ch setup and then tell me it's "the same".
As a backround, my 2-ch setup consists of a $2,000 Pioneer Elite Amp, $700 Pioneer Elite player, and a $1,400 pair of Definitive Technology towers. The analog interconnects are a ~$70 set of Monster L/R RCA's and the speaker wire is Audioquest. Compressed audio is painfully obvious....
toddfromalbes; you're obviously a music techy and that's why you can notice the difference - us 'normal' people (meaning not into music techincally) cannot tell the difference!
That is all.
Yea, I'm an audiophile.
Still a terrible tip.
You guys a wild, he's just offering a tip, take it or leave it! Good tip in my opinion, I actually did this a few weeks back just messing around in iTunes 10 and it saved me about 3GB as well. Can't really tell a difference in the audio output through head phones and through the audio output in the car. If you need space and aren't ready/willing to by a new phone yet, good trick.
I wouldn't let any compressed material near my main system, that's reserved for vinyl.
I pipe lossless music to any room in my house using my SONOS system.
The only time I listen to compressed music is either via the 160GB Classic wired into my car, or on my iPhone whilst at work. Neither of which I feel the need for lossless quality. Lossy is fine for me in those situations.
Yes I can tell the difference, but as I've said after doing a few ABX tests the ability to have all my music library in the car for instant selection meant I needed it compressed, and 160kbps gives me that ability without too much quality loss (not enough for me to worry about in car/at work).
I don't think anyone said there was no difference, I'm quite aware of how audio compression works, but a lot of people who kid themselves they can hear the difference between 320kbps and anything lower in a normal listening situation are
Even in the car I can tell easily the difference. Alpine amp feeding an upper end, albeit a tad older, Boston Acoustic component set.
My life is audio, no matter where it is I guess lol I can't imagine ever listening to a lossy recording.
Hello -
Can the music on my iPhone be converted on-device through iTunes, or do I have to delete the songs on my iPhone, then reload them on with them being converted during the latter sync?
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I must confess to feeling slightly horrified by a conversation I had recently with my son.
He is 11 and was in the throes of declaring redundant the Power Ranger accoutrements with which his 4 year old brother is so passionately obsessed. "They are so old fashioned!" he remarked, in a bid to strike another brotherly blow to the self-esteem of his sibling (as you do).
Now I may be over-thinking this (as is my tendency) but this remark left me in a dilemma. Should I point out that Power Rangers are actually, from my perspective, a new-fangled concoction, barely older than last night's dinner? Should I tell him what a REALLY old toy looks like? Or would my attempt to educate my son just backfire on me? I decided that the latter was most likely, since he has only been on the planet for 11 years himself he would undoubtedly struggle to relate to my assertion that a decade is a very short existence for a toy. Moreover, I suspected that my protest would serve only to put further distance between our generations and simply render me, in the eyes of my son, an old codger/has-been.
So I kept my mouth shut and went about my business.
I am indeed now so old that I have actually forgotten some of the toys which I played with as a young'un. I can evidence this with the following. I found this letter to Santa which I wrote as a small child of perhaps 5 or 6 at a guess, which my mother had kept safe and intact for almost 40 years. Gotta love a mother's love, eh?
As you can see, the letter details a short and specific list of items I would be requiring for Christmas that year. Jack in the Box – check. Dolls' house – check. Katy Copy Cat……….WTF?!! This is when I realised that there are just some things you are too old to recall. I confess that I had to Google Katy to see who or what she had once been and why I might have so desperately wanted to have her. I discovered that she was a small, blonde dolly. Not particularly beautiful or princess-like, but that she possessed a special skill. Katy sat at a desk and held a full-sized pencil apparently. If her owner took a pencil and wrote something, Katy had the ability to copy her owner and write too. Now, I was pretty impressed even today by this kind of technology, so it's little wonder I was enthralled in 1973. I remain dubious about her levels of accuracy, of course, but I guess I'll never know.
Here is the lovely Katy Copy Cat, sans desk. I am convinced Santa never obliged – how could I have forgotten her otherwise?
This delightful piece of nostalgia led me onward…..what were the toys I DO remember then? I shall relate….
My first memories of are playing Marbles. A simple bag of glass marbles could entertain my brother and I for hours! There were so many variations of games, most of which I lost to my older brother, but we seemed to be constantly on our knees in the hallway or out on the back yard smashing each others' 'marleys' out of the way.
Then there was Tiddly Winks. And Monopoly – ever-enduring. At one point we had a 'Blockbusters' board game which made us howl with laughter when any one asked for a 'Pee please Bob' (you really had to be there). Cluedo and Scrabble of course came out at Xmas, and the moth-eaten Happy Families deck of cards was a family fave.
Since I was a 'girly' girl, much of my formative years was dominated by dolls. After the lamentable demise of my one true best friend Barbara (a silver-haired angel of a dolly whom I truly adored) – she sadly had her face eaten off by the dog, I turned my attentions to Pippa dolls. Barbie was simply too big and cumbersome, so I threw myself into Pippa World and managed to acquire tens of them, all with different coloured hair and glamorous outfits. Since I was handy with a needle and thread, I used to spend hour upon hour transforming bits of old fabric into incredible outfits for the Pippas to change in to. I held fashion shows and played schools, acted out my own soap operas and even cut off the hair of some dolls to make them into boyfriends (the odd felt-tip pen helped to create an authentic 5 o'clock shadow to complete the make-over).
I WANTED a Tiny Tears – never got one. I also WANTED a Girl's World – never got one of those either. Do you remember Girl's World? It was a plastic 'bust' of a girl's head with long hair that you could pull to make it grow. It came with a make-up kit so that you could practice make-overs (a term that didn't exist in the UK in 1975). My mother thought they were vulgar, so I had to go begging.
We did have an Etch a Sketch and a Spirograph, though. My brother was all about Matchbox cars, which he neatly displayed in a plastic suitcase specially made to hold them. He also loved Thunderbirds and his prize possession was a large Thunderbird 2, which he played with incessantly.
When we ventured outside there were skipping ropes (mine rarely left my side) and the school playground was awash with little girls reciting skipping rhymes as they double-dutched with pieces of washing line wire. Our neighbours had Space-Hoppers (jealous) and I had plastic roller skates which you strapped on over your shoes (and in my case broke your wrist wearing). There were Tonka trucks and Chopper bikes and radio-controlled boats which we attacked the ducks with at the boating pool.
But the toy to end all toys came into our family home in around 1976. Loosely termed a 'computer game' the Telstar was a revolution. It was just about the most exciting thing we kids had ever seen. Until we actually came to hook it up and play with it, that is. It essentially required the disconnection and reconnection of just about every electrical appliance in the house ( this is the perspective of a then-9-year-old to be fair) and when it did come on to the screen, was spectacularly underwhelming. A single green line appeared down the centre of the screen and a tiny ping pong green dot entered from stage-left – game on! Two players had to move their green 'paddles' (a green line) to hit the ball back to their opponent. Yep, that was basically it. When you were bored (didn't take long) you disconnected the street's power supply again and put Tiswas back on.
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Most often, an application may just need to override a template (see Template Loading) so that a certain control renders differently. Or, an application may need to add a new template to an existing theme. Other times, you might want to create an entirely new theme, perhaps because you are building a rich set of unique and reusable templates for your organization.
There are three ways to create new themes:
The xhtml theme provides several good examples of the "wrapping" technique. The simple theme renders the basic control. The xhtml theme "dresses up" many of the controls by adding a header and footer.
Wrapping is a great way to augment the basic HTML elements provided by the simple theme.
One benefit of object-orientated programming is that it lets us "design by difference." We can extend an object and code only the behaviour that changes. Themes provide a similar capability. The subdirectory that hosts a theme can contain a
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parent entry can be added to the property file to designate a theme to extend. The ajax theme extends the xhtml theme using this technique.
An extended theme does not need to implement every single template that the Struts Tags expect. It only needs to implement the templates that change. The other templates are loaded from the parent template.
UIBean provides few special parameters which can be used to build a new template (they are already used in
xhtml and
css_xhtml theme):
templateDir - current value of templateDir parameter, see Selecting Template Directory
theme - used theme, see Selecting Themes
template - name of the template file to use (i.e. text)
themeExpansionToken - special token used to indicate to search for a template also in parent theme (when used with
<#include /> directive)
expandTheme - tells internal template loader mechanism to try load template from current theme and then from parent theme (and parent theme, and so on)
expandTheme parameter allows to override only some parts of the theme's templates, e.g. css.ftl. You can define a new theme (set theme.properties) and override just single file.
${parameters.expandTheme} is a recurrence which tells ThemeManager to load template from current theme and then from parent theme (defined in theme.properties) and so on.
Please also notice that the ThemeManager builds list of possible templates based on current theme and inherited themes (/template/custom/textarea.ftl, /template/xhtml/textarea.ftl, /template/simple/textarea.ftl). This is also true for templates which are loaded via ${parameters.expandTheme}.
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Contemporary Christian artist Eddie Bismyname travels the United States to spread the message, "You are not alone."
The singer – also known as Eddie B with his current hit "Not Alone" – will be in Aiken County this weekend.
He will perform today at 7 p.m., at the Driven by the Spirit Motorcycle Ministry in Clearwater and on Sunday at 10 a.m., at Aiken Technical College.
Audiences can expect a sermon, worship and rock 'n' roll to blues music, he said.
"I want to teach them to, instead of just having a moment with God, to pursue an encounter with God," Eddie said.
The faith-based artist found Jesus during a crossroads in his life.
"I finally turned to Christ in an empty church," he wrote in his biography. "I knew I was dying, and nobody could help me."
He struggled and rose. Eddie is now married and has six children, he said.
"My wife is beautiful," he said. "It's awesome."
She is also a singer, though focusing more on praise music.
Eddie visits prisons and high schools, giving away CDs.
"They love the music, so its to be able to reach them spiritually when we aren't there," he said.
His also mentioned that the families with relatives that are incarcerated are suffering just as much.
"They do time, as much time as (the prisoners) do," he said as another reason for the giveaway. "I felt like so many people feel like they are alone," he said. "They are not alone. God is here for us."
Eddie also has written three books and pastors at Conviction For Christ Ministries in New Mexico.
Both concerts are free.
For more information, visit bit.ly/15ZX464 or www.eddieb.net.
Stephanie Turner has a hand on all areas of production for the Aiken Standard. She graduated in July 2012 with a journalism degree from Valdosta State University and lives in Evans, Ga.
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Ryan Scott Ottney
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As the gun control issue heats up, it astonishes me to see the number of unbelievably misinformed opinions. The first, and most egregious, is that this kind of legislation goes too far and wants to take your gun away. That is absolutely not true. Unless you're a mentally unstable violent criminal hoarding weapons of war, your guns are probably safe.
The new laws, issued by an Executive Order of the President (more about that in a moment), do not limit the right of law-abiding citizens to own guns for protection, collection or for sport. What it does is limit access to high-powered military assault weapons and high-capacity magazine clips. The average citizen has no need for weapons of war, just like the average citizen doesn't need to drive through town in an M1 Abrams army tank. One of the weakest arguments is that citizens won't be able to protect themselves against attackers. I guess that would be true, if we lived in the Middle East and your home was being invaded by 57 armed insurgents. But against the everyday pill head, you're probably fine with an over-the-counter Walmart handgun.
There's a ridiculous new commercial by the NRA that calls Obama a hypocrite because he has armed security, but (according to the NRA) he doesn't think you should. First of all, the President of the United States is a much bigger target than most of us. Secondly, the Secret Service is issued a Sig Sauer P229 .357, and you can still legally buy comparable protection for yourself. The ad is intentionally misleading to make it seem like the President is taking away your guns and arming himself. False.
The new gun laws also try to enforce background checks, just to be sure the person buying a gun doesn't have a criminal record or a mental instability that might make them dangerous with such a weapon. Guns are far more dangerous than cars, and we heavily regulate motor vehicles and who can, and cannot have a drivers license.
And speaking of that word "regulation," let's look at the Second Amendment that is being tossed around here. People like to remind us that we have the right to keep and bear arms, and we certainly do, but there's a part before that they always forget to mention. It actually reads, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Yes, you have the right to keep and bear arms, but only within a "well regulated Militia." These new laws aren't designed to take away your rights. If they were, they would have been a lot deeper and gone after all guns and gun owners, legal or not. This is just a way to regulate them to take better steps to be sure the wrong people don't get the guns. Meanwhile, law abiding citizens like you and I can still buy guns legally and qualify for a CCW at locally-owned shops like Lock Stock & Barrel and The Gun Shop, in New Boston.
And also yes, there are going to be people who slip through the cracks or buy guns illegally. It's not a perfect system, and nobody with a brain thinks this will completely eliminate the gun problem in the United States. That's naive. Criminals don't follow laws. It's in their job description. What these new measures do is just try to be more proactive and more careful who gets a gun.
What's the worst that can happen to you, the law-abiding citizen? You have to wait an extra day to get a gun, or you can't buy a weapon like the one they're using in Afghanistan? Wow, how mildly inconvenient.
According to the FBI, in 2011 there were about 12,000 murders in the United States, and more than 8,000 of them were gun-related. I won't even get into the number of other crimes involving the use of guns. Shouldn't we at least try to make people safer and prevent another Sandy Hook? Another Aurora? If it reduces gun deaths, or crime in general, by even 10 percent, won't that be worth it? If you say no, I dare you to say that to the face of someone who lost a loved one to gun violence.
These are common sense steps to keep people safer, signed into law by the issue of an Executive Order because the President likely knew he would never get it passed through Congress because the NRA spends a lot of money lobbying politicians and marketing a message of fear to people. I also love how people are attacking his use of Executive Order, as if it's some dictator's policy that only Obama has taken advantage of. In fact, according to the National Archives, with 144 to date, Obama has filed fewer Executive Orders than any President since 1933. Even one-term presidents like Bush 41, who signed 166. George W. Bush signed 291, Bill Clinton signed 364, and Ronald Reagan signed 381.
It's a Presidential privilege that each of them have used throughout history.
I don't want to take away your guns. I know that's what you'll glean from this piece anyway, despite every word in this column spelling out quite clearly the exact opposite statement, because most people made up their mind about me after the first sentence. So I'll say it again. I do not want to take away your guns! But I do agree with legislation that tries to take guns away from dangerous and unstable people who aren't capable of owning or using them safely and responsibly.
So what do you think of the new gun legislation? Let us know online at Portsmouth-DailyTimes.com and your comments may be featured in a future edition of the Daily Times.
Ryan Scott Ottney can be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 287, or email@example.com.


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Robert Leroy Brumfield, of Antlers, passed from this life on December 12, 2011 in Durant at the age of 72. After graduating high school, Robert left Antlers to move to Texas where he worked in the construction industry. He served in the U.S. Army in the early 1960's as a medic in Korea. After several years working in and around Dallas, TX., he returned to Antlers in the early 1980's, where he lived until his death. Robert was preceeded in death by both of his parents, 1 son, 2 sisters and 1 brother. He is survived by 2 sons, 3 grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild, 2 sisters, 7 nephews and 1 neice. No services will be held.
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- "Soft'' transverse expansion and flow in a multi-fluid model without phase transition (1997)
- Abstract: We study transverse expansion and directed flow in Au(11AGeV)Au reactions within a multi-fluid dynamical model. Although we do not employ an equation of state (EoS) with a first order phase transition, we find a slow increase of the transverse velocities of the nucleons with time. A similar behaviour can be observed for the directed nucleon flow. This is due to non-equilibrium e ects which also lead to less and slower conversion of longitudinal into transverse momentum. We also show that the proton rapidity distribution at CERN energies, as calculated within this model, agrees well with the preliminary NA44-data.
- A fast hybrid approach to air shower simulations and applications (2003)
- The SENECA model, a new hybrid approach to air shower simulations, is presented. It combines the use of efficient cascade equations in the energy range where a shower can be treated as one-dimensional, with a traditional Monte Carlo method which traces individual particles. This allows one to reproduce natural fluctuations of individual showers as well as the lateral spread of low energy particles. The model is quite efficient in computation time. As an application of the new approach, the influence of the low energy hadronic models on shower properties for AUGER energies is studied. We conclude that these models have a significant impact on the tails of lateral distribution functions, and deserve therefore more attention.
- A micro-canonical description of hadron production in proton-proton collisions (2003)
- A micro-canonical treatment is used to study particle production in pp collisions. First this micro-canonical treatment is compared to some canonical ones. Then proton, antiproton and pion 4 pi multiplicities from proton-proton collisions at various center of mass energies are used to fix the micro-canonical parameters (E) and (V). The dependences of the micro-canonical parameters on the collision energy are parameterised for the further study of pp reactions with this micro-canonical treatment.
- A Microscopic calculation of secondary Drell-Yan production in heavy ion collisions (1997)
- A study of secondary Drell-Yan production in nuclear collisions is presented for SPS energies. In addition to the lepton pairs produced in the initial collisions of the projectile and target nucleons, we consider the potentially high dilepton yield from hard valence antiquarks in produced mesons and antibaryons. We calculate the secondary Drell-Yan contributions taking the collision spectrum of hadrons from the microscopic model URQMD. The con- tributions from meson-baryon interactions, small in hadron-nucleus interac- tions, are found to be substantial in nucleus-nucleus collisions at low dilepton masses. Preresonance collisions of partons may further increase the yields.
- An introduction to mini black holes at LHC (2007)
- Relying on the existing estimates for the production cross sections of mini black holes in models with large extra dimensions, we review strategies for identifying those objects at collider experiments. We further consider a possible stable final state of such black holes and discuss their characteristic signatures. Keywords: Black holes
- Analysis of reaction dynamics at RHIC in a combined parton/hadron transport approach (1999)
- We introduce a transport approach which combines partonic and hadronic degrees of freedom on an equal footing and discuss the resulting reaction dynamics. The initial parton dynamics is modeled in the framework of the parton cascade model, hadronization is performed via a cluster hadronization model and configuration space coalescence, and the hadronic phase is described by a microscopic hadronic transport approach. The resulting reaction dynamics indicates a strong influence of hadronic rescattering on the space-time pattern of hadronic freeze-out and on the shape of transverse mass spectra. Freeze-out times and transverse radii increase by factors of 2 3 depending on the hadron species.
- Anisotropic flow at RHIC : how unique is the number-of-constituent-quark scaling? (2006)
- The transverse momentum dependence of the anisotropic flow v_2 for pi, K, nucleon, Lambda, Xi and Omega is studied for Au+Au collisions at sqrt s_NN = 200 GeV within two independent string-hadron transport approaches (RQMD and UrQMD). Although both models reach only 60% of the absolute magnitude of the measured v_2, they both predict the particle type dependence of v_2, as observed by the RHIC experiments: v_2 exhibits a hadron-mass hierarchy (HMH) in the low p_T region and a number-of-constituent-quark (NCQ) dependence in the intermediate p_T region. The failure of the hadronic models to reproduce the absolute magnitude of the observed v_2 indicates that transport calculations of heavy ion collisions at RHIC must incorporate interactions among quarks and gluons in the early, hot and dense phase. The presence of an NCQ scaling in the string-hadron model results suggests that the particle-type dependencies observed in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate p_T are related to the hadronic cross sections in vacuum rather than to the hadronization process itself, as suggested by quark recombination models.
- Anisotropic flow in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions (2000)
- A sign reversal of the directed flow parameter v1 in the central rapidity region in Au+Au collisions at s = 200 AGeV is predicted. This anti-flow is shown to be linked to the expansion of the hot matter created. In line with this observation the predicted elliptic flow parameter v2 of various particle species is linked to the mean free path of these particles.
- Antibaryons in massive heavy ion reactions : importance of potentials (1995)
- In the framework of RQMD we investigate antiproton observables in massive heavy ion collisions at AGS energies and compare to preliminary results of the E878 collaboration. We focus here on the considerable influence of the real part of an antinucleon nucleus optical potential on the ¯p momentum spectra. Pacs-numbers: 14.20 Dh, 25.70.-z
- Are we close to the QGP? - Hadrochemical vs. microscopic analysis of particle production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions (1997)
- Ratios of hadronic abundances are analyzed for pp and nucleus-nucleus collisions at sqrt(s)=20 GeV using the microscopic transport model UrQMD. Secondary interactions significantly change the primordial hadronic cocktail of the system. A comparison to data shows a strong dependence on rapidity. Without assuming thermal and chemical equilibrium, predicted hadron yields and ratios agree with many of the data, the few observed discrepancies are discussed.


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