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Christmas came early for tree farmers as sales increased an estimated 10 percent this growing season.
"It seems like sales are up, with our local choose and cuts and also at our retail lots," said Joe Freeman, a local tree grower.
Travis Birdsell, the extension agent for agriculture, also called 2012 a success.
"It seems to have went well," said Birdsell. Although its not an official number, Birdsell estimated sales were up by as much as 10 percent from talking to local tree growers.
Birdsell said sales numbers can ofter be misleading and have varied interpretations. Year to year increases are sometimes statistical fluctuations. Although, one thing that can't be argued is the upward trend of increasing sales over the past three years.
With the economic downturn, Ashe County experienced a 10-year low in tree sales in 2009, according to Birdsell.
However, sales have been trending upward since then.
"The trend in the past couple years has been up," said Birdsell.
Also, Ashe County experienced a unique combination of warm weather in winter with high rainfall in summer that allowed for "an extremely good cutting season, except for Superstorm Sandy," said Birdsell.
"Christmas trees in Ashe County have had almost ideal weather conditions for this growing season," said Birdsell.
These prime conditions for growing Christmas trees are important to the economy of Ashe County, because the Christmas tree industry contributes more than $60 million annually to the county's economy.
Ashe County tree farms also help drive the local economy by hiring workers. Christmas tree farms provide over 700 local jobs year round and over 2,000 jobs during the tree harvesting season.
In spite of the successful year, tree growers may face difficult problems heading into 2013.
Before Congress acted on Tuesday, the estate tax was planned to return to a $1 million unified credit and 55 percent vs. the $5 million and 35 percent in place today.
This means after the death of a tree grower whose farm's total assets are over $1 million will be taxed 55 percent of their assets.
According to Judy Bare, most of the large local tree farms are worth more than $1 million. A large estate tax could force farms to sell their land in order to pay, and land is a vital asset for tree farms.
"Farmers already have to pay taxes on their land and equipment - why should they be taxed again?" said Bare.
The fiscal cliff agreement passed on New Years Day would maintain the $5 million unified credit, with the rate increasing to 40 percent. This five percent increase will still impact farmers across the nation, but not as many in Ashe County.
Bare also said farmers feel constant pressure to protect and conserve the environment from environmentalists who are "always up in arms about pesticides and fertilizers.
In spite of these upcoming challenges, Christmas tree farming has become a mainstay industry in Ashe County, and should have continued success in 2013.


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BOONVILLE - The Rams continued their recent surge up the standings in style Thursday night.
Starmount plated a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh to battle back and stun Yadkin County rival Forbush 3-2 in Boonville to win for the sixth time in its last seven Mountain Valley Conference contests.
Heading to the seventh down 2-1, the Rams got to Mason Doub twice in the frame to walk off past the Falcons.
Starmount picked up the win despite only managing four hits on the night. Luke Shore paced the offense with a pair of hits and a run scored, while Ben Combs and Caleb West rounded out the base hits.
West, Combs and Jeremy Whitaker provided the base-scoring hits for the Rams.
Whitaker dazzled on the mound, silencing Forbush's potent offense for five stellar innings. The senior scattered three hits in the game, allowing just two runs, while throwing just 70 pitches.
Tanner Mathis earned the win with two shutout innings of relief, allowing one hit and striking out three. Doub picked up the tough-luck loss for the Falcons, despite striking out 10.
Forbush, which came in riding a seven-game win streak in league play, only managed four hits on the game and turned in its lowest scoring output of the run in support of Doub. The Falcons averaged nearly eight runs a game during the streak, but were silenced by Starmount's pitching staff.
Leadoff hitter Bryson Lee collected two of the four hits, while Ben Temple and Brad Dzeskewicz added RBI doubles on the night.
With the win, the Rams moved up the league standings with an 8-6 mark. Forbush dropped to 9-4 with the loss and fell three games behind front-runner Wilkes Central (12-2) in the race for the 2A crown.
The Rams return to action Tuesday night on the road against 1A-leading Alleghany, while the Falcons take on Elkin.
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This is awesome. As someone who suffers from brain-to-finger communication errors, I am constantly noticing little errors in posts I make from my iPhone and it drives me nuts that I can't edit them right after. This is not a huge update, but it's a significant one and should have happened a long time ago.
Facebook for iOS will soon let you edit posts and erase those embarrassing mistakes
Post editing is something us regular Google+ users take for granted, but finally Facebook is getting on board with it too. Rolling out initially on the web and in the Android application, Facebook users can now begin to edit their posts once they've shared them, offering the chance to erase those – potentially embarrassing – mistakes. Support for iOS is on the way soon according to TechCrunch:
Soon you'll be able to edit all posts and comments from the web, Android, or iOS. To edit posts, you'll be able to click the down arrow in the top right of one of your posts and select 'Edit Post' to change the text, then click "Done Editing"
No-one really knows why it's taken Facebook so long to get around to this, but then, it's not as if the to-do list down in Palo Alto will ever be particularly small. Perhaps the strangest part to Facebook's post editing is that the original post and any other revisions will still be visible should your friends check your posts edit history. Which some could suggest negates the feature in the first place.
We'll take a better look when iOS support comes our way, but if this scratches a particular Facebook itch you had, let us know in the comments.
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Facebook for iOS will soon let you edit posts and erase those embarrassing mistakes
i kinda wish they would focus on the issue of Facebook Message not receiving notifications from the the Facebook app itself, i dont like having both the Facebook and Messaging app installed to just get the notifications when someone messages me.
I remember reading somewhere (long time ago) that Facebook didn't offer post editing because there were huge concerns regarding "bait 'n switch" situations: post one thing, get responses/likes, then edit the post to say something completely different. More than likely not a positive change, I'm guessing.
That may also explain why original posts are still available for viewing, even after editing.
Useful for the occasional brain fart; the "your/you're, to/two/too, than/then, there/their/they're" idiots won't even bother.
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if you need to make a change in the iOS app before this update happens, you can already copy the comment you just posted, delete it, then paste it back again and edit it.
Just don't do what I did 10 minutes ago, and paste it back into the wrong comment thread!


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By Maj. Donna Miles, USAAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 15, 1998 Fido could turn out to be a deminer's best friend.
As part of the Defense Department's effort to come up with better ways to detect land mines, DoD's most cutting-edge research agency is working to mimic one of the most reliable detection methods ever found -- the dog's nose.
Dogs have a highly developed sense of smell that has long been used to track down fugitives and missing children and to identify drugs and explosives. They've also been used by contractors in Bosnia to help detect mines.
So why not enlist more canines into the force? Regina Dugan of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said dogs, as efficient as they may be in detecting mines, have limits, too. They generally can't work much more than 30 minutes at a time without getting fatigued and, just like people, they're affected by weather and other environmental factors.
And no matter how well-trained dogs may be, she said, they're only as good as their handlers, who sometimes inadvertently send mixed signals that taint the results.
Dugan is trying to develop an "electronic dog's nose" that offers all the capabilities of the dog, without the drawbacks. If successful, the three-year, $25 million research program could revolutionize mine detection techniques.
The problem with current techniques, Dugan explained, is that they don't single out characteristics unique to land mines. As a result, they set off a lot of false alarms. Ground-penetrating radars, for example, identify changes in the electrical properties of soil and can be falsely tripped by rocks and tree roots. Metal detectors can be affected by metal debris present wherever humans have been. Infrared sensors look for buried objects, but they can be triggered by vegetation, shadows and changing moisture levels in the soil.
Dogs, on the other hand, can be trained to identify the characteristic unique to land mines and other ordnance -- the scent of explosives. And the dog's sense of smell is so refined, Dugan said, that it can differentiate between two very similar odors, reducing the likelihood of false positives.
Putting this capability into a piece of equipment is no easy task. Dugan said the electronic dog's nose will have to identify and respond to the specific odor of land mines and fit in a small, lightweight, power-efficient package that's sturdy enough to survive field use. In a major milestone toward that goal, prototype sensors are scheduled for field tests this fall at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
Once developed, Dugan said the technology could have a whole range of other military and commercial uses. For example, it could be programmed to "smell" contaminated diesel fuel, chemical warfare agents in the atmosphere, volatile chemical compounds in the home, and even tainted foods.
But most importantly, Dugan said, she can envision a day when the electronic dog's nose becomes almost standard-issue for ground troops deployed in high-threat areas.
"They may for the first time have the truly unparalleled mine detection capability offered by the canine," she said, "without the four-legged furry creature."


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Why not available in the us, that's bs. I want free stuff too....
Apple announce 12 days of Christmas, free downloads for the UK
Apple has launched its 12 days of Christmas promotion in the UK, an iTunes offer where Apple gives away a different free download each day. The download can be a song, music video, app, book, TV episode or even a complete film.
The promotion starts on December 26th and runs for 12 days. Each free gift will only be available for 24 hours. Apple also has a dedicated 12 days of Christmas app that is available today so you won't miss any of the give aways that start on the 26th. The app is a universal binary, so is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and ipad.
No news on availability in other countries yet but we are sure it will be coming soon!
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Apple announce 12 days of Christmas, free downloads for the UK
The Twelve Days of Christmas are the festive days beginning Christmas Day (25 December).
If you want free apps in the US, try Freeappaday.com, freeappcalendar.com, appventcalendar.com, or many of the other free app distributors out there that already do this. No need to whine about not getting free stuff.
Oh and something happened to Donny's link but just in case anyone needs it, you can copy and paste this:
In the US, thanks to sleazy marketers and advertisers, the twelve days of Christmas has erroneously described as the 12 days before Christmas, when in every Christian sect it's the 12 days after. The marketers simply want to get everyone excited about buying stuff for Christmas so they run specials and badly title them "12 days of christmas shopping spectacular" or something else equally awful to entice buyers to come into the store. Don't believe it.
It´s available in Norway too :)
Considering the United States' behavior (as revealed by Wikileaks) I'd say they don't deserve free products from Apple. :)
There's a bunch of things that the US gets that we don't in the UK. Netflix for example. So we get this and you don't. That's the end of the story.
i tunes very good.
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Leila Lomashvili, Ph.D., assistant professor in English and Humanities at Shawnee State University, attended the Locality and Directionality at the Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Conference at Stanford University in California.
The topics at the conference are highly debated in the linguistics community.
"It is one of the most important conferences of the year in the field of linguistics featuring a number of experts from all over the world," said Lomashvili.
Lomashvili teaches linguistics, English as a Second Language (ESL) and composition courses at SSU. She is from the country of Georgia and created a poster on the Georgian language, a southern Caucasian language for the conference.
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Ethan's 6 mth review of his therapies is today. I dread these things because I always hear things I don't want to...even though he is doing very well. I look at him every day and am amazed at what he does and how far he's come and then I'm reminded on paper that he is still behind. Don't get me wrong...I'm just grateful every second that he is here with me. It's just hard to hear that he's not where he's supposed to be yet. To me...he is a genius! I don't like when people tell me otherwise! ;-) I think we will get some good news in that he has finally passed his physical therapy goals...gross motor skills is his major delay so this is really good. I'll update on the meeting later. Thanks for letting me vent!
The meeting went fairly well. I heard the things I didn't care to, but also a lot of positive. Ethan completed his PT goal, which was to sit unassisted and begin bearing weight on his legs. The PT actually upset me a few weeks ago by saying that Ethan may not walk til he's 4. Then the next week he started standing and now the PT is saying 6 mths, which would make Ethan 2 1/2. I love how he always proves them wrong. He met part of his communication goal, which was to communicate using signs, gestures and imitation. He does the gestures and imitates but is not using actual signs. He did not meet his feeding goal because he is not interested in food at all. The neonatologist tells me every time we see her that he will eat when he wants to and she is not worried. He is definitely still behind is the bottom line. But then I look at his adjusted age (19mths) and take off another 5 mths (how long he was intubated before getting his trach) and I think he is doing amazing. A doctor told me once that I should not worry at all as long as he continues to make progress...and he does. When he was first diagnosed with the Periventricular Leukomalasia and brain bleeds, we had no idea where he would be right now. And Cerebral Palsy was a huge concern. So far there has been no talk of the brain damage causing major issues and no talk of anything except delays because of his rough start in life and the amount of time he was hospitalized. So I will celebrate the fact that I can kiss him goodnight every night and be happy that he's here! Thanks for the support ladies!!


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The purpose of the black homepage is not to save energy, but to raise the awareness of the world's environmental problems. Most people will be surprised to see Google's homepage so radically different and will start to wonder if it's a good idea to imitate Google's blackout. Sometimes small actions make a difference, but in this case the key is elsewhere.
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My husband and I, both veterans, returned in 1999 to Viet Nam with a bike tour. In Hue, we hired two cyclos, bicycles with big seats welded on front, and set off for the Kim Long district.
Thirty years ago, I was stationed in nearby Phu Bai, and spent days off at an orphanage in Kim Long run by Vietnamese nuns from a French missionary order. It was surely long gone, flattened by bombings or disbanded by the government, but I wanted to walk the area, to revisit the ghost of a place I remembered too well.
Paul's driver spoke only Vietnamese. Mine, Sing, had learned English as a South Vietnamese Army soldier; after two years of "re-education," cyclo-pedaling was one of the few jobs the government permitted him to hold.
We jogged and lurched over the broken street and, after some time, into a dog-eared neighborhood, past dusty slap-up stores selling cigarettes and silk paintings, past cowed and threadbare dogs, past ragged children squatting in dirt dooryards, to a blue-painted metal gate.
Inside was a tidy courtyard. Healthy-looking children darted about, laughing. A fat dog trotted by, obviously a pet. Everything looked new, clean: bright blue slides, swing sets, climbing bars, a pink plastic ball.
A private school?
It was certainly not my orphanage, with its naked, peeling walls and hoards of hungry Amerasian children. Where I'd fed babies who were little more than living skeletons; where a gaggle of white-habited nuns held hundreds of precarious lives together against the war. Where donated toys didn't last because the kids had no idea what to do with them.
Only the main building looked vaguely familiar. I snapped a picture and turned to leave, when Paul spotted a Vietnamese nun.
He flagged her down, and Sing told her that I'd been here thirty years ago. She smiled and corralled us all into a small room, insisting in French that we sit–assez, assez!–at a table. Before we could demur, she'd summoned a second, older sister, who produced cups of home-made yogurt and little glasses of a caramel-colored, very tasty home brew.
The sisters assured me, through Sing, that this was indeed my orphanage. The buildings I had known in 1969 were gone, except for the nuns' home and that main house, now a hospital for handicapped youngsters.
I glanced outside at the kids playing in the sunlight. The very feel of the place was so profoundly different now. It was like a breath held too long had been released; there was joy and play, and time for more than survival.
There are many orphans, and many children at the hospital, said the older Sister, Soeur Chantal. The government gives no support, so her missionary order begs help from overseas–from France, Australia, the US, Canada—
From us.
Nothing was said. Not directly. But Paul and I were sipping wine at 10 in the morning with two cyclo drivers and a pair of nuns, and those nuns were–I have no doubt at all–thinking what nuns so often think:
God Works in Mysterious Ways.
They toured us through a new building, where a young woman cheerfully fed children who appeared to have cerebral palsy; they sat in hand-built chairs with attached tables and headboards to help them hold their heads erect. It did not escape me that the chemicals we Americans had left in the soil very likely made these chairs, this care, this entire hospital necessary.
The sisters led us out again into the sunlight, and posed with us for pictures in a yard full of the most beautiful children I'd seen in 30 years. I told myself that, if I sell my book, I'll donate a percentage of the profit to the place.
And that was how I became a supporter.
They have a website that explains much more than I can in this brief column:
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The bars and restaurants of the Emerald Coast are a popular destination for locals New Year's Eve celebrations. Below are several specials offered this year for the 2013 kick-off.
Address: Above Bud & Alley's Restaurant, 2236 East County Road 30-A, Seaside, Fla.
Specials: $20 cover if not dining, champagne toast and party favors for all.
Live Entertainment: Bobby Moore and the Rhythm Acres playing from 10 p.m. – 1 a.m.
Phone: (850) 231-5900
Address: 63 Defuniak Street, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.
Specials: There will be a $5 cover charge and drink specials (Jägermeister shots $3.50 and "Jager Bombs" $5.50). There will also be dining specials.
Live Entertainment: Hotel Oscar starts playing at 9 p.m. and DJ DP will play in between sets.
Phone: (850) 231-4102
Address: 3031 Highway 30A, Seagrove, Fla.
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Live Entertainment: Watch all of the bowl games, restaurant opens at noon.
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Address: 70 Hotz Avenue, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.
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This is "Locals Weekend" for Charleston-area patrons of the Spoleto Festival USA. The cost of many tickets will be reduced by 10 percent or 20 percent, and two-for-one tickets are available for select events. Transaction fees will be waived.
The two-day sale runs 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday at the Charleston Visitors Center, 375 Meeting St.
The Visitors Center is the new location for the Spoleto Festival's ticket kiosk, which will remain open daily through the run of the festival, which starts May 24.
The Locals Weekend offers are avaialble only for in-person sales. For more information, visit www.spoletousa.org.
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We keep being told about all of the "sound scientific practices" that we must follow to keep our river healthy, that for 30 years organizations have been working to "improve, stabilize and protect Vermont's rivers and tributaries." I have lived with this river as company for 40 years and now I am asking, "Does our river look better to you as a result?" Now it is time to face the fact that perhaps scientifically the experiment was successful but in reality the patient is dying.
We keep being told that the river must flow naturally. I think we lost the "naturally" part. For decades before the 1970s, the roads were sanded in the winter and then for a short period of time in the spring machines went into the river and took out most of what we put in. Fair enough. The river bottom was smooth rock, you were actually hard pressed to find anything along the river that would constitute a "beach," but wonderful places to swim in cool water, work on your tan, or stand while fishing were everywhere. Pretty much if you could see the river, you could find a place to enjoy it.
Then we stopped dredging. I confess that it made sense to me when we were told by the environmental groups that diesel in the river coming from when we dredged was not good for the river. I voted to stop dredging. With all the wisdom of my two-plus decades, I didn't think about what would happen to those tons of sand and gravel that we put on the roads every winter if we didn't take them back out in the spring. Year after year for decades we failed to remove what we put in and slowly it simply filled up the riverbed. Where else was it possibly going to go? Science tells us that if the river is deep, it will be narrow. If you fill up the depths, it will widen and become shallow. That is just what we are seeing.
We used to dive out the window of the Warren covered bridge and never touch bottom. Now you can cross the water there without getting your knees wet! We used to dive off the very high rocks at Warren Falls and the shocking part was not the impact, it was that the water was so cold it stopped your heart and so clear that you could see those old mill parts. Still, even diving from such a height you had to swim down to touch them. And who remembers the annual inner tube regatta, when dozens of us would ride from Warren to Moretown in antique bathing suits without ever getting out of the tubes. Our butts were frozen from the cold water even though it was held in August, but the water was over our heads most of the way and it only took a few hours to get through three towns! We used to canoe between towns all summer then. Now we have to pray for enough water just to run a short paddling course for the triathlon in April with no paddling after that anywhere.
One of the effects of these scientific practices we are told is to encourage good habitat for fish. I love to fish! When I moved here 40 years ago we used to dive into the cool, dark green fast-flowing water and actually look around for the fish. Then we could climb back out, grab our rods and the fishing was usually good. Now you are very hard pressed to find a "keeper" in this river. They keep stocking it, but the water is too shallow, warm and sluggish for the fish to survive. Is that an improvement that this science has brought us?
We keep being told that we must let the natural river flow where it wants to go. We lost the "natural" part when we gave ourselves permission to dump tons of sand and gravel into the river every year! There is nothing "natural" about that. So I recently spent an entire afternoon watching all the youtube videos that I could find on the subject of river systems. There are plenty, a whole afternoon of them. They clearly show problems with digging holes in a river, but there is no mention of the repercussions of dumping tons of sand in one!
I watched the experiments scientists ran about digging holes in the river, and the residual effects of that. Not pretty or functionally useful. Clearly with the mess we have made of our river, digging holes here and there is not the answer. But what if while we have all these machines in the area we go in and remove gravel until we get down to that smooth rock bottom all over the place? Do it everywhere at once so we don't make the holes in those videos. We could get back down to bottom everywhere at once statewide, and then we could go back to the practice of removing what we put in. Every year.
We had nearly as much rain decades ago as we have now, but we did not have flooding on the order that we have it now. What used to be called a "hundred year flood" has happened twice in recent memory! Makes perfect sense. Where the river used to move fast over smooth rock with plenty of room to expand when necessary, now it has to slug along pushing tons of particulate matter through what used to be expandable space. Particulates slow the flow so that the water can't get out of its own way! Finally the poor dear has to puke the upsetting junk in its system up onto the fields and into our houses like a sick child.
What is so hard to understand about this? In every natural environment you pack out what you take in! Why is this different? If we could get rid of the stuff that we have dumped annually for all these decades all at once, get back down to that smooth rock bottom we know is there, the river would be free to move as it needs to, expand when it has to and, who knows, we might even see some decent fishing again!
If I were king, I would send all the diggers we have around right now into the river to liberate that rock bottom all at once! Clean out all the gunk in one big haul. I bet we could hear the river sigh with relief from space as it became clear, deep, narrow and fast moving, rich with oxygen again. Scientific experiments have produced some miraculous improvements in our lives, but not all experiments work out well. Can anyone honestly say that our shallow, warm fish-less river is better for the treatment it has had at our hands for the last three decades? I, for one, am for getting back to looking at the river and the basic practicality of seeing how to interact with it so we can live in peace and it can be healthy.
We need to undo the damage that we have inflicted on our river. Only then can we let the river run cool, fast and full of fish wherever it naturally needs to go.
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Eva Nell Wilkins was born October 8, 1926 in Soper to Ruby and Lucille (Mote) Sinks. She went home to be with the Lord April 16, 2011 in Antlers at the age of 84. Eva lived in this area for the past seven years. She enjoyed watching westerns and wrestling. She especially loved spending time with her friends and family. Eva was preceded in death by her parents: Ruby & Lucille Sinks; brothers: Willie Sinks and James Sinks; grandchildren: Wesley Michael Kellogg, Thomas Ray Wilkins and Tametha Lawon Burnett. She is survived by three sons: Rube John Wilkins, Thomas Wilkins and Travis Wilkins; two daughters: Virginia Diggins and Eva Jewel Baze; grandchildren: Cindy Ripka, Angie Ripka, Michael Boyett, Jimmy Boyett, Mindy Boyett, Kenny Wilkins, Tammy Marston, Travis Wilkins and Anthony Wilkins; great grandchildren: Rachael Largent, Jennifer Largent, Krystle Largent, Ray Largent, Wesley Kellogg, Josh Kellogg, Magan Kellogg, Dakota Kellogg, Morgan Kellogg, Jordan Kellogg, Jayden Kellogg, Angelina Kellogg, Hannah Kellogg, Zakkry Johnson, Chanceton Tipton and Cheaci Tipton; great-great grandchildren: Issiac Clark, McKinley Clark, Aaliyah Fuller, Dylan Kellogg, Hailey Johnson, Hayden Johnson, Bryson Boyett, Jordan Boyett and Riley Parker Boyett; two brothers: Rueben Sinks and Charles Sinks; three sisters: Zella Wade, Alfie Harmer and Mary Belcher; many nieces and nephews; as well as many other relatives and friends that will miss her dearly. Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at the Mills & Coffey Chapel in Antlers with Reverend Bill Daniels officiating. Musical selections included: "Amazing Grace," "In the Arms of an Angel," "My Mama's Love," "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and "My Angel." Pallbearers included: Rueben Sinks, Charles Sinks, Travis Wilkins, Kenny Wilkins, Dennis Allensworth and Charlie Baze. Interment followed at the Antlers City Cemetery. Family and friends may send online condolences at www.millscoffey.com [1].
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Apple sells three million Wi-Fi iPad 4s and iPad minis in three days
Apple has just announced that it has sold a staggering three million Wi-Fi-only iPad and iPad minis over the opening three days of sales. The figure of three million has not been broken down between devices so includes both the iPad 4th generation and the iPad mini. It does not include cellular iPads which may have been pre-ordered but won't ship for another couple of weeks. The three million figure eclipses the last opening weekend figures of just 1.5 million Wi-Fi units sold of the new iPad (third generation). Apple PR offers the following quote from CEO Tim Cook:
Customers around the world love the new iPad mini and fourth generation iPad. We set a new launch weekend record and practically sold out of iPad minis. We're working hard to build more quickly to meet the incredible demand.
The iPad and iPad mini are currently available to buy in 34 countries with many more countries to follow later in the year.
Demand for the iPad mini has certainly exceeded supply with all models now available from Apple with a two week delivery period. It would have been really interesting to see the figures broken down between iPad and iPad mini; if I had to guess I would say the iPad mini would make up a huge part of that figure.
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Apple Sells Three Million iPads in Three Days Wi-Fi Only Models of New iPad mini & Fourth Generation iPad Double Previous First Weekend Sales
CUPERTINO, California—November 5, 2012—Apple® today announced it has sold three million iPads in just three days since the launch of its new iPad® mini and fourth generation iPad—double the previous first weekend milestone of 1.5 million Wi-Fi only models sold for the third generation iPad in March. The Wi-Fi + Cellular versions of both iPad mini and fourth generation iPad will ship in a few weeks in the US and in many more countries later this year.
"Customers around the world love the new iPad mini and fourth generation iPad," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "We set a new launch weekend record and practically sold out of iPad minis. We're working hard to build more quickly to meet the incredible demand."
The new iPad mini features a stunning 7.9-inch Multi-Touch™ display, FaceTime® HD and iSight® cameras, ultrafast wireless performance* and an incredible 10 hours of battery life**. The new fourth generation iPad features a gorgeous 9.7-inch Retina™ display, new Apple-designed A6X chip, FaceTime HD camera and ultrafast wireless performance.
Both iPad mini and the new fourth generation iPad with Retina display are available in 34 countries including the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and the UK, and will be available in many more countries later this year, including mainland China. Demand for iPad mini exceeded the initial supply and while many of the pre-orders have been shipped to customers, some are scheduled to be shipped later this month.
Pricing & Availability iPad mini with Wi-Fi comes in either white & silver or black & slate, and is available in the US for a suggested retail price of $329 (US) for the 16GB model, $429 (US) for the 32GB model and $529 (US) for the 64GB model. Fourth generation iPad with Wi-Fi models are available in black or white for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model and $699 (US) for the 64GB model. Both iPad mini and fourth generation iPad are available from the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple's retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers.
iPad mini with Wi-Fi + Cellular and fourth generation iPad with Wi-Fi + Cellular will be available in the US on AT&T, Sprint and Verizon in a few weeks. iPad mini with Wi-Fi + Cellular will be offered for a suggested retail price of $459 (US) for the 16GB model, $559 (US) for the 32GB model and $659 (US) for the 64GB model. Fourth generation iPad with Wi-Fi + Cellular for AT&T, Sprint and Verizon will be offered for a suggested retail price of $629 (US) for the 16GB model, $729 (US) for the 32GB model and $829 (US) for the 64GB model. Additionally, iPad 2 is available at $399 (US) for the 16GB Wi-Fi model and just $529 (US) for the 16GB Wi-Fi + 3G model where they are sold now.
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Apple sells three million Wi-Fi iPad 4s and iPad minis in three days
I gather that it is a combination of factors that need to be balanced:
1) Production limitations - Only so many (hundred) workers with only so many hours in the day. And only so much supply of materials.
2) Market reaction - Should we make 3 million or 2 million? Big question. Unclear answers. (FWIW, my local Best Buy still has a good number of the higher storage capacity mini's in-stock...as of a couple days, ago.)
3) Inventory rotation - I'm sure there's a better term for this but I've read that Apple is very good at not having a lot of unused inventory sitting in a warehouse, collecting dust. And that is apparently a factor in their very high profits. I'm no expert in such things, but that's the impression I got from the writer.
So, finding the balance between these factors is probably a little tricky.
wow production is such a bitch for apple...
so little workers that have to work 70 to 80 hour per week for .20 an hour
I have no idea how apple can make so many products...
4) News, blog, reputation, and stock market reaction. With Apple's 6-year run of success, fair or not, it *will* be a story when they release an "event" (as opposed to a "hobby," e.g. Apple TV) item that does not sell out.
There is very little for Apple to gain in immediately selling 4 million of a 5 million inventory, vs 3 million of a 3 million inventory, and a lot for them to lose, especially when signs suggest they will pick virtually all of the extra million in sales two weeks later.
We are trying to build an iPad Mini Mobile Lab for our elementary school. The mini is an affordable option compared to the big guy. If you would like to help us out, we are trying a Crowd Tilt Fundraiser. We appreciate your support! If not, please share out our link so we can make this happen. Thanks :)


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Step 1: Materials
1.) Low-cost briefcase (found at Ross - DRESS FOR LESS!) I bet they have these at Wal-mart too.
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5.) Effects Pedals (whatever you got)
Step 2: Assemble
"Velcro is a brand name of fabric hook-and-loop fasteners. Its consists of two layers: a "hook" side, which is a piece of fabric covered with tiny hooks, and a "loop" side, which is covered with even smaller and "hairier" loops." Read up more on Velcro
Thus, when you look at the Velcro you bought from your craft store, you will find two sides that stick to each other, the hook and loop sides. The other sides of the Velcro are like stickers and can adhere to other surfaces permanently.
1.) Cut strips of your "hook" Velcro into squares that fit onto the bottoms of your guitar pedals. Attach the Velcro to the guitar pedals using the sticky side of the Velcro
2.) Cut strips of your "loop" Velcro into longer strips and stick them to the bottom of your briefcase (on the sticky side of course) as depicted in the image.
Great job! I agree looking "professional" is the industry's way of getting musicians to often spend more money than they have, by buying trinkets and gadgets that are not really needed. When a little ingenuity goes much farther and is easy on the budget, and keeps the neurons firing. DIY !!!!
I forgot to mention I built a system very much like this, but flipped the briefcase upside down, so the edges of the case are lower on the pedal "base".
The transformer Keen mentions with a single 115/230 VAC primary and nine secondaries can be found at the Weber Magnetics site for $25. This particular transformer is purpose-built for pedalboard power supplies. They are very helpful, and are happy to sell them by post. Weber also carry other useful components.
I have no connection with either R.G. Keen and his excellent GeoFex web site (lots of information about effects pedals and circuits), nor with Weber Magnetics, other than having used Keen's "Spyder" supply design, and building it with Weber's transformer, and being satisifed with the performance of both.
1.) Designing your own pedal board is in the spirit of this website.
2.) I am a professional guitarist and the definition of "professional" is quite subjective in the music industry. My custom pedal boards and DIY equipment draws a lot of attention and sets me apart from other guitarists in my city (Atlanta).
Since the first couple of comments I have been developing a home-made power supply for these boards. Cost in parts will be about $20, where the AC-AC wall transformer is the most expensive part at $10. I will post an instructables within the next 2 weeks on how to assemble it. I might even include a PCB!
here you go is 25$ cheap enough it works great no hum and more convinent than a powerbrick
as far as i can tell you can run multiple 9v pedals off of one brick if there low enough milliamps
one note on jumper cables: people spend hundreds of dollars on pedals, i know, theyre expensive, and im broke because of it. but when you buy an effects dont wire it up with cheap cabes!! you will never know how great your effects sound until you run GOOD cables in your board. i recently bought the Geore L Pedal Board Kit and i cant say how much it improved my overall sound. i am actually playing a lot now with no effects, just because "perfectly, sparkly clean" is an effect unto itself.
anyway i will post pics of mine when its done.