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Police: Teen cited after drinking party in PittsfieldJune 17,2013Police: Teen cited after party
RUTLAND A local teenager was cited for possession of marijuana after police raided an alleged underage drinking party on Upper Michigan Road in Pittsfield on Saturday around 1 a.m., according to Sgt. Thomas Mozzer of the Vermont State Police.
Mozzer said police issued five civil violations for possession or consumption of a malt beverage
Andrew Drake, 18, of Rutland City, was suspected of drinking but wouldnt identify himself, police said.
Drake was taken into protective custody and Mozzer said police found he was in possession of a small amount of marijuana.
According to the press release, Drake was taken into criminal custody but still wouldnt identify himself. He was taken to the Rutland jail and held on $5,000 cash bail.
While being processed, Drake identified himself.
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Guess it's better than being headless...
Fun, simple necklace I designed for a Halloween party. Easy and affordable to make.
(Entry in the play with clay contest, vote if you like it!)
Step 1: Stuff
Black Sculpey Polymer Clay
20 gauge Red Copper Wire (in the jewelery making section)
Cookie sheet or glass bake ware
Dinner Knife
Device of flattening (I used a highlighter)
Waxed Paper (or silicon baking mat if you have one)
Round nose pliers (or other needle nose pliers)
Step 2: Knead & Roll
Knead that ball of clay for 2 minutes, until it is nice and soft and flexible.
This would be a good time to preheat your oven to 275 degrees.
Now lay out your baking mat, or sheet of waxed paper
Roll the clay out into a snake, then roll flat with your Highlighter (or whatever device you have chosen)
I try to aim for the width of a quarter and about that thickness.
Don't worry about being perfect, little deviations and deformities just make it more fun.
Step 3: Slice and Dice
Use the knife to gently lift the clay off the rolling surface.
One at a time place the strips on top of each other in an"X"shape and press lightly on the center.
As for the nail polish, you might not find it to be tacky until it's hot outside, or you might have something that is water based. They don't put that on the label, but perhaps the companies are getting wiser about fumes. I don't think they make water based nail polishes, but I'm really not sure. If your project starts to get tacky after a while, you can put a water based coating over it, and it will seal. Unless you have fibers stuck to it, there's no need to sand it first.
And the little guy is ADORABLE! haha.
My niece and I had alot of fun pulling pranks on my uncles and aunts with a little fake blood we found.
I know what I'm doing for Halloween now....
halloween puns aside it should probably be stated a bit more clearly the importance of the hook easily releasing should it get caught on... well... anything. there's nothing wrong with the design above (im not having a go) i can just see someone scrunching up the wires for them to get caught and the necklace lives up to its name (sans the "formerly"). Kiddies: never ever ever secure wire round your neck. Its darwinian :P
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Ingredients and Preparation
Large uncooked shrimp, peeled and deveined
¾ pound
1 teaspoon
Cayenne pepper to taste
Red onion, cut into ½-inch pieces
Metal skewers, or wooden ones soaked in water for at least 20 minutes
Corn, husked
1 ear
Olive oil
1 teaspoon
Mixed greens
3 cups
Avocado, cut into ½-inch cubes
White wine vinaigrette or Italian dressing
¼ cup
1/8 teaspoon
Freshly ground pepper to taste
1. Directions
2. Toss shrimp with paprika and cayenne pepper. Thread shrimp and onion pieces on separate skewers. Brush corn with oil.
3. Prepare grill. Grill onions and corn about 5 minutes, or until cooked through. Meanwhile, grill shrimp about 2-3 minutes per side until cooked through.
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This 4.5-mile section of the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail, a reclaimed, nearly 100-year-old scenic highway, winds along bluffs overlooking the Columbia River Gorge. At the end of the car-free portion, Old US Highway 30 offers more miles of peaceful, lightly used roads. Also try Bicycle Sundays, Canada Road, Belmont, California; Weekends on Beach Drive, Washington, DC.
A Bike Path
Check out West Orange Trail, Winter Garden, Florida
Ride this rail-trail from Killarney Station (where you'll find bike rentals, snacks, and restrooms) 5 miles into Winter Garden. Grab lunch at one of the town's picturesque cafés, or keep riding—the path continues for another 22 miles around Lake Apopka just noting that this doesn't describe any scenery at all, except for a lake with a long history of pollution problems. This might be great, but we should at least make a case that that's so, right? If not, there are others out there, like the one the runs from DC to Pittsburgh. Also try Cumberland River Bicentennial Trail, Ashland City, Tennessee; Fred Meijer Berry Junction Trail, Muskegon, Michigan.
A Park Road
Check out Fort Hunt Park, Alexandria, Virginia
The ruins of subterranean concrete barracks are the only evidence of the park's 100-year-old military history. Today, the tree-lined 1.25-mile road (with a separate car lane) makes for an ideal initiation for new cyclists. In spring and summer, park rangers offer free learn-to-ride classes. Also try Bear Creek Park, Houston; Ault Park Drive, Cincinnati.


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Health Insurance Is Bad for Your Wealth
National health insurance is not so healthy.
by Lance Thompson
During the second presidential debate of this campaign, Senators McCain and Obama were at pains to explain the merits of their respective health plans. Obama seeks to bring all people under one plan to capitalize on economies of scale. McCain plans to bring market forces to bear on medical costs by giving consumers a tax credit to apply toward any medical plan they choose. Though McCain's plan is marginally more sensible, neither addresses the root cause of high medical costs, which is medical insurance.
Imagine a small community of twenty or thirty people. In this community there are two doctors. Each charges his patients for each service as it is rendered. The doctors are roughly equal in skill and experience. Obeying the law of supply and demand, the doctor who charges less for his services gets more business, and thus forces the doctor who charges more to lower his prices to compete for that business.
An entrepreneur in the community decides to start his own business. He tells people that none of them can be sure when a costly medical visit will be required, and that none of the other members of the community are responsible enough to put money aside for such an emergency. But he offers an answer–medical insurance. Instead of paying the doctors on the occasion of requiring medical service, residents pay the medical insurance provider a fixed amount each month, allowing them to add medical costs to their monthly budgets. When a medical service is required, the insurance agent will take money out of the funds he has collected and pay for the service.
Several consequences result from this arrangement. Since medical costs are the same to the patient whether he uses them frequently or infrequently, demand for medical services increases. Since medical costs are the same to the patient whether he avails himself of elaborate procedures or simple, he chooses the more elaborate. Since medical costs are the same to the patient, whichever doctor he chooses, each doctor may raise his rates without fear of competition from his colleague. The two doctors, wishing to maximize the revenue from their practices, can raise rates without driving away business.
The insurance agent, however, wishes also to maximize his own profit, and seeks to reduce the amount of money he pays for medical services. He may try to force the health providers to lower their rates, but he is dependent upon them for his livelihood. The doctors can in return threaten to cease providing services, which would put the insurer out of business as well.
So the insurer seeks relief on the other side–from the insured. He must either raise the rates of insurance or limit access to the health services covered. In the first event, the consumer, who can exert no pressure on the costs of health care, must pay more. In the second instance, the consumer may not be able to gain access to certain services at any cost.
More importantly, the health care expenditures of the small community, which once supported two doctors whose prices were kept down by competition, now supports two doctors and an insurance agent who are free of market pressures, and can raise their rates at will.
Likewise, in the larger world we live in, Americans' health care expenditures must not only support health care providers, but also a vast, multi-billion dollar health care insurance industry. This industry does not provide care, produce medicine, or perform medical procedures of any kind. It is merely a processor of fees, but the hundreds of thousands of people and hundreds of companies which provide health insurance or administer managed care are all part of America's health care costs.
The appeal of medical insurance is that each person is protected from extraordinary health care bills, and instead pays a set amount each month. But if such bills are inevitable as an individual ages, and all patients will eventually need expensive care, then the insurance agency must charge enough so that those costs can be passed on to each customer. Thus the insured will still fully pay those costs, in addition to an amount which pays for the vast insurance industry, and allows that industry to make a profit.
If only a limited percentage of health care customers will require expensive care, then those who will not require such care will be subsidizing those who will, and health care for those people will be an unnecessary expense. And if healthy lifestyle choices such as diet, exercise, and environmental factors can reduce the chances of requiring expensive medical services, then Americans would be better off incorporating those choices in their lives, and opting out of paying insurance premiums inflated by those who do not make those choices.
Eliminating health insurance and managed care, and allowing Americans to pay for their health services as required will eliminate the cost of a vast industry from health care bills and further reduce costs by allowing the free market and competition to keep prices down. Doctors who provide better care will be able to charge more; those with lesser qualifications will be forced to charge less. Access to health services of all kinds will be guaranteed, with those who require the highest level of service compelled to pay the highest prices.
Nationalizing health insurance, as Obama advocates, or finding new ways to pay for health insurance, as McCain would like, will fuel the continuing increase in health care costs and reduce the array of services available to health consumers. This is the path both presidential candidates have chosen to follow. It is a placebo whose psychological benefits are certain to wear off shortly after the election.
http://www.lowdowncentral.com/feature-article/2008/10/13/health-insurance-bad-for-your-wealth.htmlLance Thompson writes for LowDownCentral.com


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Japan House
Thanks to the generosity of the state of Florida and many friends and partners, the Japan House has become a reality on the University of West Florida campus. This building has an authentic tatami room and a Japanese tea room, as well as a Japanese viewing garden.
The Japan House provides:
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Savery Named Faculty of the MonthPosted Jan. 2, 2013
Carol Savery, Ph.D. candidate in the School of Communication Studies, was named Faculty of the Month for November 2012 by The Black Squirrel Chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary. The award is part of the chapter's Of The Month program, which is designed to recognize leaders and outstanding students on campus.
Savery was nominated by Alyssa Galmish, a senior communication studies major. Galmish was a student in Savery's Gender and Communication course and commends the professor for her "dedication and thoughtfulness."
"I believe Professor Savery deserves the Institution Faculty/Staff of the month of November award because of her attempt to truly connect with her students and take an interest in their development, not only in the classroom, but in other classes and their personal lives," Galmish wrote in her nomination.
"Valuing the student not just as a pupil, but also as a young and hardworking adult has made Professor Savery truly stand out among others," Galmish added.
According to Galmish, Savery arrived early to class and stayed after to continue conversations with her students. She connects with the students via email, sending supplementary assistance and constantly answering questions.
"During class, Savery encourages students to relate to the information we learn to our own lives," Galmish said. "She continually asks each student about his or her progress within and outside of her class and attempts to connect with students by telling stories and jokes about her own life growing up in Canada and experiences with gender and communication."


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Still hot
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Tommaso began life as a stray cat on the streets of Rome until he was rescued by a wealthy widow. The 94 year old had no children, according to ABC News. So when she died last month, she left her entire fortune to the cat. That's $13 million.
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- Price stability and monetary policy effectiveness when nominal interest rates are bounded at zero (2003)
- This paper employs stochastic simulations of a small structural rational expectations model to investigate the consequences of the zero bound on nominal interest rates. We find that if the economy is subject to stochastic shocks similar in magnitude to those experienced in the U.S. over the 1980s and 1990s, the consequences of the zero bound are negligible for target inflation rates as low as 2 percent. However, the effects of the constraint are non-linear with respect to the inflation target and produce a quantitatively significant deterioration of the performance of the economy with targets between 0 and 1 percent. The variability of output increases significantly and that of inflation also rises somewhat. Also, we show that the asymmetry of the policy ineffectiveness induced by the zero bound generates a non-vertical long-run Phillips curve. Output falls increasingly short of potential with lower inflation targets.
- Imperfect knowledge, inflation expectations, and monetary policy (2003)
- This paper investigates the role that imperfect knowledge about the structure of the economy plays in the formation of expectations, macroeconomic dynamics, and the efficient formulation of monetary policy. Economic agents rely on an adaptive learning technology to form expectations and to update continuously their beliefs regarding the dynamic structure of the economy based on incoming data. The process of perpetual learning introduces an additional layer of dynamic interaction between monetary policy and economic outcomes. We find that policies that would be efficient under rational expectations can perform poorly when knowledge is imperfect. In particular, policies that fail to maintain tight control over inflation are prone to episodes in which the public's expectations of inflation become uncoupled from the policy objective and stagflation results, in a pattern similar to that experienced in the United States during the 1970s. Our results highlight the value of effective communication of a central bank's inflation objective and of continued vigilance against inflation in anchoring inflation expectations and fostering macroeconomic stability. July 2003.


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Not sure if this is accurate but they might have the assh@le
Authorities ID suspect as Saudi national in marathon bombings, under guard at Boston hospital - NYPOST.com
Not sure if this is accurate but they might have the assh@le
Authorities ID suspect as Saudi national in marathon bombings, under guard at Boston hospital - NYPOST.com
"Shakin' it over here, boss"
Albeit this story hit 8 years ago, still could be related. Makes you wonder, regardless.
Boston Terror Plot Suspect in Custody | Fox News
Published January 22, 2005
One of the 13 Chinese nationals allegedly involved in a terror plot against Boston was in custody and being questioned by authorities on Saturday, FBI sources told FOX News.
Authorities were interrogating Mei Xia Dong about her involvement in a possible terrorist plot (search) against Boston that was made public in an FBI report Friday. Airport and transit authorities responded to the report by boosting security — adding patrols, activating radiation detectors and posting pictures of some of the suspects.
FBI agents were looking into an uncorroborated tip that 16 people — 13 Chinese nationals, two Iraqis and one other person whose nationality was not released — might be planning an attack.
If the saudi had anything to do with it, he will be lucky to survive the night.
Regardless will be interesting to see how it develops and the spin put on it.
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
-Benjamin Franklin
"If the Good Lord wanted me to use percussion caps I reckon the river beds would be full of 'em for the takin"
Old flintlock shooter I met at the range.
In this day and age it is easier to stay stupid than it is to stay ignorant. I have had the misfortune to have encountered many informed idiots
So are we in for more bs commercials from the saudi's about how they are are friends, like they paid for after 911?
this area looks safe lets gather around here and hope no one has a suicide vest
seriously get out of the area
It takes an idiot to do cool things. That's why it's cool.-Haruko
maybe the suicide zappers didn't show? --it is monday ain't it?--
I'm from Boston and I didn't know anything about it until I got in at about 4:45.At that time the stats were 2 dead 28 injured.Our disgrace of a governor was on tv telling people that he talked to the president and he was promised help from every government agency needed.I started to wonder how long it would take to link it to guns somehow and then all of the sudden at 5:10 a reporter said the the mayor of Danberry CT. had just tweeted that the last mile of the Boston marathon had been dedicated to the victims of Sandy Hook and that some of the parents had been sitting in the vip seats near the finish line.I haven't bothered to turn the tv back on since.
Wolf Blitzer got in on the right wing tea party bashing. People ae still fuckin bleeding and they are doing this?!?!?
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Attacking Hawks Dominate Tomcats
Wagner Scores Seven
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GREENVILLE, PA – Ryan Wagner, ranked 13th in the nation in goals per game, connected for seven, added two assists and had game-high nine ground balls for Hilbert College as they dominated Thiel College in their 17-6 victory March 23. The Hawks outshot Thiel 2 to 1 (57-28), won the ground ball (51-35) and faceoff (18-25) battles as they improved to 4-1 this spring. Pat Lunderman (Niagara Falls, NY/Niagara Wheatfield) earned another victory in net playing every minute of each game for Hilbert this season.
Wagner (Orchard Park, NY/Canisius) opened the scoring at 14:09 in the first quarter and proceeded to hit the back of the net two more times before the 10 minute mark. The Hawks led 7-3 after one session with four different players contributing. Hilbert continued to attack the goal in the second period outshooting the Tomcats 17-5 yet they only outscored Thiel by one goal (3-2).
Thiel regrouped after half time and played somewhat even with the Hawks, even though the visitors padded their lead with three more goals. The hustling Hawks continued to win ground balls in the final quarter extending their lead to 17-6.
Josh Baker (Hamburg, NY/Frontier) had 13 shots which earned him two goals as well as three assists; Nick Kieffer (Lee Center, NY/Rome Free Academy) picked up seven ground balls and two goals along with winning nine of 13 face-offs for the day. John Jewett (Gowanda, NY/Gowanda) and Greg Zitnik (Blasdell, NY/Frontier) had almost perfect placement on net as they were 2 for 4 (Jewett) and 2 for 3 (Zitnik) goals off shots.
Hilbert continues to roll through their independent league schedule as a first year Division III sport. The Hawks host La Roche College on March 26. The original site location is Hilbert's campus, although that site may change. Please follow the website for any change in location. (http://www.hilbert.edu/athletics/men/lacrosse)
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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Celebrating another Grammy-winning, globe-trotting, mind-blowing year for Chick!Continue Reading →
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[ Video ] Stanley tells Chick the story of his very first gig (excerpted from the Music Magic with Chick Corea podcast).Continue Reading →
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Chick took home Best Instrumental Jazz Album for Trilogy and Best Improvised Jazz Solo for "Fingerprints" from Trilogy.Continue Reading →
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Stevie surprised the audience by hopping on stage for two tunes.Continue Reading →
Chick's friend and music attorney of many years passed on Saturday. Peter was in the corner of the world's greatest artists, representing Miles Davis, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Bob Marley and so many others.Continue Reading →
Paco's moving on leaves a gigantic hole in the musical life of this world which his friends who have been inspired by him must fill with even more creativity. Paco inspired me in the construction of my own musical world as much as Miles Davis and John Coltrane, or Bartok and Mozart. I will dedicate…Continue Reading →
Chick honored his longtime friend and musical compatriot Herbie Hancock as Herbie received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honor. Chick played with an all-star band, including Wayne Shorter, Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland.Continue Reading →


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Soon after Elizabeth Perkins and her daughter Emily arrived in Aiken from Roanoke, Va., for a horse show, someone recommended Betsy's on the Corner for lunch – the downtown restaurant that recently won one of the preservation awards from the Historic Aiken Foundation.
Emily has seen old pictures of drugstores and small restaurants that look a lot like Betsy's.
"It's good and neat to go back, like an adventure to the past and bringing it into now," Emily, 14, said.
Betsy Simons knows about the past, she said with a smile. She and four siblings grew up on a farm in Saluda, and her oldest sister cooked for the family, followed by the next sister and then Betsy, the youngest of the girls.
Fred Parkman, her brother and 12 years older, studied to become a pharmacist and returned to Saluda to open a drugstore and pharmacy.
"He had a soda foundation with snacks, and I grew up as a soda jerk," Simons said while taking a short break on Wednesday. "There also was a little restaurant, too, called Winn's, with the juke boxes on the tables. I wish I had those juke boxes. The highlight then was Pat's Department Store and the lunch counter, where we could get vegetable soup and cornbread and blueberry cobbler."
Let's just say that Simons found her own past and her future, too, at the same time last year. At Betsy's on the Corner on any day, one can get, for example, soup, burgers, chicken and egg salad, the Blue Suede Special, Rose's fried chicken, baby lima beans, mashed potatoes with gravy, corn muffins and chicken and dumplings to die for. Yet, earlier this week, the special was a chicken and asparagus wrap, chicken tenders, mozzarella and pesto on a grilled wrap.
After leaving home years ago, Simons did go on to get a degree in home economics and arrived in Aiken in the mid-1970s as a Clemson extension agent. Then she joined the staff at Aiken Electric Cooperative in the area of energy and conservation. She did some microwave-based cookbooks when the devices were becoming more popular.
She later ventured into a children's clothes business and after spending several years at home with her daughter Whitney, Simons became a Realtor, and still is.
Yet, her interest in cooking hadn't gone away and she enjoyed preparing meals for friends. And sure enough, they invariably gushed about her chicken and dumplings and encouraged her to open a restaurant.
"I was looking to make a change," Simons said, "but I kept saying it wouldn't be a restaurant. I knew what a tough business it was."
Yet, perhaps an ice cream store might work, say with a small snack counter with soup and chicken salad. But, that wave of nostalgia emerged and when Simons decided to lease the former restaurant at the corner of Laurens Street and Barnwell Avenue, "It kind of took off a little bit bigger than I planned."
She's still amazed by the Foundation's Adaptive Use Award, presented in January by the organization's awards committee chairman, Robert Stack. He and others on the committee sought nominations for the various awards and presented them to the Foundation Board for members' approval.
"The conversion of the property really has seemed to bring that end of town to life," Stack said. "Adaptive use is basically for that specific purpose – to take something that is not working and adding value to the downtown. That got my eye."
Simons, too, is thrilled by the location and the building, which is owned by Steve Black, the Screenprint Factory owner next door.
"I wanted to recreate my childhood, and it really worked out," Simons said.
The terrazzo flooring under the old carpet is the same as the old pharmacy in Saluda. The tables and stools came from an Ohio company that specializes in retro furnishings, and she was able to find the tin ceiling from another firm. The seats, already in the building, look great after upholstering. Even the milkshake machine is wonderfully ancient and efficient, purchased at the antique shop Singing Hills in North Augusta.
In addition to the Southern and modern cooking, Simons also has egg cream on the menu – a classic Northern drink that has delighted a lot of retirees and visitors from the colder climates and has won over the South Carolina natives.
Simons surely received her favorite compliment from her daughter Whitney, who is scheduled to start dental school at the Medical University of South Carolina in the fall.
"I come here almost every day," Whitney said. "I love it and wouldn't go anywhere else."
STAFF PHOTO BY ROB NOVIT In 2012, Betsy Simons opened her popular retro restaurant, Betsy's on the Corner, in downtown Aiken. The restaurant was awarded by the Aiken Historic Foundation in January for its success in adaptive use.×
STAFF PHOTO BY ROB NOVIT Whitney Simons enjoys spending time and eating lunch at her mother's restaurant, the award-winning Betsy's on the Corner.×
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NCAA Releases APR Data
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University's combined varsity athletic teams have an Academic Progress Rate (APR) score of 975 according to data released today by the NCAA.
The APR is based upon eligibility and retention of student-athletes over a four-year period. The NCAA uses the APR as an assessment of real-time academic success.
WVU's average APR score of 975 is up one point from last year's average, up seven points from 2010, up 11 points from 2009 and up 19 points from 2008. WVU's score of 975 is higher than the NCAA's overall four-year APR average score of 973.
For the 2010-11 academic year, West Virginia had three teams with perfect 1,000 scores: gymnastics, rowing and men's soccer.
Any student-athlete receiving athletic aid in a varsity sport can earn up to four points per year for being academically eligible and remaining enrolled in the institution. A team's APR is the total points earned on the roster divided by that squad's total possible points, multiplied by 1,000.
Teams must achieve a 900 multiyear APR or a 930 average over the most recent two years to avoid immediate penalties (involving the possible reduction of practice time and access to postseason competition). The current four-year APR scores for WVU's varsity teams (2007-08 to 2010-11): baseball 946; men's basketball 979; women's basketball 981; cross country 996; football 953; gymnastics 995; rifle 992; rowing 971; men's soccer 989; women's soccer 991; men's swimming 960; women's swimming 973; tennis 978; indoor track 989; outdoor track 989; volleyball 973; and wrestling 928.
"I am pleased that our average score continues to climb each year and certainly thrilled that our average score ranks higher than the national average," says Director of Athletics Oliver Luck. "I want to congratulate the gymnastics, rowing and men's soccer teams for their perfect scores in 2010-11. Overall, our teams continue to make good academic progress, and our 975 APR score is strong."
All 17 teams exceeded the 900 four-year score, and no WVU team will receive APR academic penalties from the NCAA.
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More on Apple ditching Google for iOS maps
Rumors have been spreading for a while now that Apple would use iOS 6 to replace the Google mapping data in the Maps app with Apple's own solution. About a month ago iMore told you why -- to start removing Google's hooks in iOS and the information and revenue they generate from iOS users. Now the Wall Street Journal adds more fuel to that fire.
Apple has been hatching the plan to evict Google Maps from the iPhone for years, according to current and former Apple employees. The plan accelerated as smartphones powered by Google's Android software overtook the iPhone in shipments.
In the short term, Google will lose some ad revenue and miss out on data about what local businesses people are searching for—which it uses to pitch retailers on buying certain ads. Longer term, it is likely to hurt Google's ability to generate map-related revenue, according to former Google employees.
The WSJ pretty much recapitulates a lot of what we said back in May, but with a lot of background, including Apple's desire for StreetView, which took a while to get Google to agree to, and turn-by-turn, which Google never agreed to. Likewise, they cover Google's desire for more branding and Latitude integration, which Apple refused.
Most interesting is the information on Apple's Geo Team, which worked on features to compete with Google, and built Apple their own geocoder
Apple quietly launched its geocoder last fall inside its latest iPhone software. It has remained all but unnoticed outside a small circle of software pros.
Since Apple released its own geocoder, every time iPhone users open its map app, it is Apple's technology that translates their position, not Google's. Software developers can also use a version of the Apple technology, CLGeocoder, to build apps that let users, for instance, tell their friends what neighborhood they are in or search for nearby eateries.
Beyond geocoders and fancy rumored effects like 3D, Apple will have to offer mapping every bit as good as Google did, or they risk significant pushback. Likewise, Google may now choose to release their own Google Maps app in the App Store, complete with all the features they wouldn't give Apple, like turn-by-turn, and Apple wouldn't take, like Latitude, as well with their more recent technical innovations, like vector-based maps.
Apple is expected to reveal the new Maps app alongside iOS 6 at WWDC 2012 next week in San Francisco. Google has since announced their own maps event for this week.
May the best maps win.
Source: WSJ
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More on Apple ditching Google for iOS maps
Should be interesting. Time to make more popcorn.
Agree that Apple's mapping engine will need to be better than Google's. It really needs to be better than OpenStreetMap, though OpenStreetMap is fine for non-critical locations such as in iPhoto.
If Apple wants to put the hurt on Google, they just might ban all mapping apps that don't use Apple's data engine and tiles. If they don't go that far, then Apple could let users choose between the Apple solution, Google's, and Microsoft's Bing Maps.
I have been surfing online more than 2 hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.
It is pretty worth enough for me. Personally,
if all site owners and bloggers made good content as you did, the internet will be a lot more useful than ever before.
my site: apple 3g iphone
Something needs to be done. The present google maps experience on the iphone kind of sucks compared to the competition. It isn't that iOS lacks for 3rd party nav apps, but we need voice turn by turn, autorouting integrated into iOS. As it is, i barely use google maps.
That said, i'll always have a need for a preloaded maps nav app like navigon. Especially if Apple's version is limited or doesn't even include nav functions.
But even in the app shootout iMore did, navigation could be made easier UI wise, sharing locations, etc. I still hear from many nontechies who can't seem to use a GPS app. It'll be interesting to see Apple's take on it.
1) Apple has earned the chance to wait and see, but this is a huge risk dumping Google, who is the best solution out there (IMHO). Their data needs to be equal or better than Google, and their search needs to be in the same ballpark. (Earlier example was searching for Dave & Busters vs Dave And Busters vs Dave&Busters -- Google handles that perfectly, most competitors do not. Apple cannot afford regressions here.)
2) Should Google author one, Apple absolutely should allow a separate Google Maps app in the App Store. Keeping it out would serve no purpose other than to shield the internal Maps team from the competition they are going to need to get better, and get better in a hurry. I would like to see them really face the challenge head-on, and allow users to pick mapping apps, but I cannot see Apple doing that.
3) To supplant Google Maps as completely as Apple wants, Apple needs some facilities that extend beyond just iOS. One of the reasons Google Maps took off is that Google made it very, very easy to use Google Maps in one's own application, and to layer one's own services on top of it, regardless of your platform (desktop native, mobile native, web). Vanilla OpenStreetMap alone will not cut it on this front.
Why would Apple want to accomodate Google at this point? You need to play with the maps on Android and see the many functions Google is denying you access to just because they can. Google maps on iOS is absolutely nothing special it's a basic map with streetview. Apple would be totally right to make google eat the same crap they have been feeding iOS users for years.
Allowing a Google Maps app is not about accommodating Google, it is Apple throwing the gauntlet down and inoculating themselves against politics and laziness. Gruber put it one way, but Paul Graham's original put it best:
An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work. And it's not fun for a smart person to work in a place where the best ideas aren't the ones that win.
Microsoft lost 10 years of good recruits because talented engineers did not want to work for a place where politics often won out over technical solutions. Apple can absolutely exercise its power to block a Google Maps app. Short term, they might even think it smart. Longer term, that sort of protectionism will bite them.
To me it is similar to the Flash argument. Why would Apple, with their vast resources, want a default app to rely not only on a third party, but the competition? Adobe had its chance, couldn't deliver (so much so that eventually even they abandoned mobile Flash) so Apple said screw you, no Flash. At iPhone 1, they needed Google. Then Android hit, Google started dragging their feet and not delivering key functionality to iOS ( their prerogative) and Apple started working on their own solution.
Apple has constantly and consistently shielded their new apps from
Competitors for YEARS. hell to be honest there's NO non-webkit browser even NOW except "proxy browsers.". What makes you think apple won't block google or that google
Will even chance wasting money on
Development only to get rejected?
This is indeed a disaster for anyone living outside the USA and frankly a huge step back for everyone inside the US unless Apple literally steals Google's Database. Google maps is full of billions of contributions from users, people who entered their shop's info in personally in order to assist people in finding their places of business. That is something Apple can NEVER duplicate, and shop owners aren't going to just run to enter their data in apple's doubtless CLOSED system.
Unless Apple literally does something magic here, this is the tipping point and the iPhone 4'll be the last Apple item I ever buy.
Oh, and don't expect Apple to let Google post their own Maps app especially in the first year. Duplicating functionality. And who even knows if Google WILL make an app? How long did it take them to get on the crappy Gmail wrapper that wasn't even going to be blocked?


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(Release: February 29, 2012) - Two students at Hagerstown Community College recently found employment at local pharmacies. Blanca Quezada, of Hagerstown, and Jeffrey Cook, of Clear Spring, are pharmacy technician majors who recently completed student internships at nearby pharmacies, which, in addition to their coursework, helped to provide them the necessary skills and on-site job training needed for their employment.
"By completing HCC's pharmacy technician program, these students had a chance to learn about the theoretical basis of pharmacy practice and gain experience in compounding and preparing IV solutions before they began their internships," says Elaine Ashby, professor, biology/chemistry and pharmacy technician program coordinator. "Our students have had good luck finding jobs and employers have told me that they appreciate how well-trained our students are."
Quezada, 18, interned at Meritus Medical Center, Robinwood Home Care Pharmacy, and Potomac Pharmatech in Williamsport. Quezada says that the most
rewarding part of her internship was being able to have hands-on experience and getting an idea of what her career would be like as a pharmacy technician. Quezada received her pharmacy technician certificate in December 2011 and will go on to complete her associate's degree in chemistry. She is currently employed at the Meritus Medical Center inpatient pharmacy.
Cook, 42, also interned at Meritus Medical Center, Robinwood Home Care Pharmacy, and Potomac Pharmatech. Cook says that his favorite part of the internship was learning the different aspects of pharmacy and gaining experience in retail, institutional, and long-term care pharmacy practice. Cook will receive his pharmacy technician certificate in May 2012. After graduating, Cook plans to enroll in HCC's new pre-pharmacy program with the ultimate goal of attending pharmacy school after he completes his associate's degree. Like Quezada, Cook is employed at the inpatient pharmacy at Meritus Medical Center.
"We are incredibly proud of the success of these two students," says Ashby. "Both Blanca and Jeff have had excellent internship experiences and their preceptors have spoken about how well-trained and intelligent they are. I think both students have a great future ahead of them."
To learn more about HCC's pharmacy technician program, go to www.hagerstowncc.edu/academics/divisions/math-science/phr. To learn more about HCC's internship program, go to www.hagerstowncc.edu/student-services/internships-clinical-education.


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The new iPad confirmed to run hotter than last model [Update: Apple statement]
Anecdotal suspicions that the new iPad operated at a noticeably higher temperature than the iPad 2 have been backed up now that someone has pointed an infrared camera at the thing to see what's up. After running GLBenchmark for five minutes, the new iPad ended up being much hotter than the iPad 2 - 33.6 degrees Celsius versus 28.3 degrees Celsius. The processor is likely to be the source of the additional heat, particularly the additional graphics processing units in this model.
The extra heat isn't getting to the point where new iPads are shutting down, but I would be worried about using it for an extended period of time on a hot day. Considering the new iPad is only marginally thicker than the last iPad, and they're cramming a whole lot more battery and processing power in there, it's no surprise that things are getting a little toasty inside the new iPad.
Have you been having issues with heat? Be sure to let us know about your experience with the new iPad's temperature in the forums!
Update: Apple has issued a statement on the issue to The Loop:
The new iPad delivers a stunning Retina display, A5X chip, support for 4G LTE plus 10 hours of battery life, all while operating well within our thermal specifications," Apple representative Trudy Muller, told The Loop. "If customers have any concerns they should contact AppleCare.
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The new iPad confirmed to run hotter than last model [Update: Apple statement]
Thanks for pointing that out... By the way, you left the period out after each one of those sentences. But who is paying attention since you are perfect... I don't know what is worse... grammar trolls or people who post "first."
I think the whole point is this new group of writers need to proof read a little more instead of seeing how fast they can get an article up on the web, even me are catching mistakes! To be taken as a site to set the bar this type of writing needs to stop.
MATH is important people... i saw another article posting that this was an "18% increase"
Really? 28.3 C > 33.6 C is NOT 18%.
I'm not even Asian... it's literally around 1.7-1.9 % Increase give or take... LESS THEN 2% INCREASE in heat!
iMore, i'm surprised you guys are even "Airing" this article.. i'd figured the BUCK Stops here with over sensationalized INCORRECT Articles.
Where's all the blogs on the net writing news of all the Faults of the millions of Android products? Where are they?
I love you guys, but I Expect this kind of Poison and DRIVEL from Android Blogs. this is blatantly false and incorrect.
Actually, it comes out to 18.7%. Not sure what being an Asian has to do with it... I just commented on grammar trolls and now here I am being a math troll... back to work I go...
You are looking at an absolute temperature, which is why changing the scale to kelvin gives you a lower number. The room temperature in kelvin is probably ~293 K, the ipad 2 is ~301 K, and the new ipad is ~307 K. So the temperature rise is 8 K vs 14 K or a 60% rise in temperature above ambient.
That's not how temperature works, though. What you're saying is something akin to saying Chicago is 18% farther away than Hong Kong. That statement is meaningless if there is no reference point. The only valid reference point as far as temperature goes is 0 K, or -273 C. Using 0 C as your reference is simply as meaningless as using, for instance, 15 C, which would give you an increase of about 71%.
That is, unless you're talking about a homologous temperature, which is a normalized scale of temperature based on the stability window of a particular phase of a material, for instance liquid water or solid iron, expressed as a fraction of said homologous temperature, but since you're not a physicist or materials scientist, you probably don't care.
My reply was a response to the statement that the difference between 33C and 28C was not 18%. It is, regardless of how temperatures work.
The reference point was clearly stated, Celsius degrees. Dragging Kelvin into this just to try to prove the point is silly. The experiment was done in Celsius, and not Kelvin. Even Apple uses Celsius not Kelvin.
BTW, Celsius, as you well know, is not completely arbitrary, so your comparison to the 18% in distance is just deceitful.
The 18% figure remains silly, however, regardless of what units of temperature are used (C, K, or F). By your reasoning, the percent degree by which the new iPad runs hotter depends on what units are used -- that's rather ridiculous. Saying that the new iPad runs 18% hotter should not be a unit-dependent statement.
There are two reasonable reference points to use here:
a. 0K (-273C) is reasonable because that's the 0% point for any form of heat.
b. Room temperature is reasonable because that's the reference point relative to which the iPad's heat will increase from (this is probably the more reasonable reference point).
Celsius in this regard is indeed arbitrary since neither the freezing nor boiling temperature of water is relevant to an iPad's heat output -- the comparison to Chicago being 18% further was reasonable.
The hotspot location could be a reflection from a light source, these measurements should be made with the lights off. It would also be important to note the ambient room temperature to calculate the temperature rise, it looks like it may be a 10 degree rise on the new iPad vs a 6 degree rise on the ipad 2.
I would recommend anyone taking these measurements to turn off the lights, and use the averaging tools on their FLIR to calculate the temperature.
Just walk into an Apple store, pick up one of the new ipads and you can tell right away that it is running hotter. That was my first reaction as soon as I picked it up. I didn't need someone to take temps or showing me glowing pictures with an infrared camera. I have an ipad 2 and the new ipad is running hotter. Only thing matters is if you are able to cope with the heat while holding it in your hands or not. 18%, 6%, 60% blah.
I don't deny that the new iPad is hotter, it is very clear from the image. I'm only saying that the temperatures are probably slightly lower than the ones mentioned in the article. If you look at the hotspots they appear to be reflections of an overhead light while the image was taken, which affects the temperature results posted. (This is all while ignoring any issues due to emissivity of the rear surface of the ipad).
Overhead light? lol. Reflected light does not come into play there at all, since it is an infrared camera, measuring HEAT. The only way an overhead light could affect it is if it was close enough to increase temperature in that one small spot, or a concentrated light beam. Clearly not the case.
(28.3/33.6 x 100)-100=15.8 degrees
Sorry I meant percent
Thankfully I don't have that problem after I hit 3gb, thanks AT&T
The fact of the matter is that it is Hotter than what people are normally experience. Beside the new screen, I think Apple fail to deliever on this new iPad. I don't really care the exact percentage of heat increase. Hotter and Thicker are not improvements. Yes, I am very much disappointed.
I'm always blown away, despite how predictable this probably is, when people post about how x is not a problem, at all. Maybe it's not a problem on your machine, but until you get reliable stats, you don't know enough to make such claims.
My iPad New runs warmer than my iPad Classic ever did but not enough to be problematic, unless it's in direct Florida sunlight (which is inadvisable for any iPad for an extended period). That said, I'm not going to tell an adult stranger that he's wrong when he says that HIS iPad runs so hot that it's uncomfortable to hold.
It really is a dick move.
Re: "The extra heat isn't getting to the point where new iPads are shutting down, but I would be worried about using it for an extended period of time on a hot day."
I've read otherwise. Reportedly, some are displaying a message that the iPad needs to cool down and then they shut down.
Its like saying the Core i7 runs hotter than a Core 2 Duo, or the newest GPU runs hotter than the last GPU. Its expected when you have more powerful hardware of any kind, in this case both the GPU and the higher res screen (the LEDs generate abit of heat. feel the back of an iMac that's been running for awhile).
I'm sorry but anyone who freaks out on this doesn't know a DARN thing about even the basics of computer hardware. Plus, their ignoring the majority of laptops out there that can get very hot when doing something intestine, like a game.. But sadly there's enough people out there to buy a story on this if the media wanted to sell this to get viewership, which I know they will...
The extra heat isn't getting to the point where new iPads are shutting down,
Don't be too sure. At least a few anecdotes have rolled in of precisely this. A summary, on theatlantic.
It is impossible for anybody to say these are indicative of a larger problem yet; if it is we would/will see lots more of these stories as the weather warms up, especially in California, Texas, and Florida.
If somebody wants to send an iPad 3 to me in San Diego, I would be happy to engage in field research and report if my experience on a sunny day matched that of Elliot Kroo.
For science, of course.
I'll gear this review to 2 types of people: current Zune owners who are considering an upgrade, and people trying to influence between a Zune and an iPod. (There are other players worth considering out there, like the Sony Walkman X, but I hope this gives you enough info to make an informed choice of the Zune vs players other than the iPod line as well.)
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Thursdays at 10:30, Boonville Community Public Library will have Preschool story time for ages 2-5 year olds. This will consist of stories, songs, and crafts. Call 367-7737.
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January 1st – March 31st 2013, The American Red Cross will be having "Building a Better Blood Supply" promotion. Plan to donate and you will have a chance to win a $1,000 gift card from a home improvement store. The need for blood is constant. The Red Cross relies on Donor's to fulfill needs for them. Call 336-416-4016.
ART for ARK Lynne Karinen Art will be displayed at Bliss, Becky's Dog Grooming, Diana's Book Store, Harry's, Heaven's Scent, Chill, Fiddle's, Midtown Barber Shop and Slightly Askew for silent auction. 20% of proceeds will be donated to The Ark. There will be cards at each place for the bids. For more information call 827-0033.
The Habitat for Humanity Restore at 102 East Market St. Elkin, will now be open Tuesday's through Saturday's from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed on Sunday's and Monday's. Gladly, accepting new or gently used furniture, appliances, construction materials, and household goods. Donations pickup is available for larger items by calling the ReStore at 526-4663.visit www.UYVhabitat.org/home-shoppe to see what's new at the store. Proceeds go to support the housing ministry of Upper Yadkin Valley Habitat for Humanity.
SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY: The Clingman Medical Center Board members are pleased to announce the second annual scholarship opportunity for a local student/applicant showing an interest in the medical field. The ideal candidate will have already shown a vested interest by studying toward and/or working in some medical related field. The Medical Board is interested in a candidate that has shown a high moral and scholastic aptitude; one that has shown by experiences and interest in helping his/her community and fellow man. Deadline for this year's application is March 15, 2013. Applications are available at all local high schools, community colleges, and The Clingman Medical Center in Ronda, NC.
Students/Staff of West Yadkin School have been earning free technology Equipment and Cash by Participating in the FundingFactory Recycling Program. They collect empty cartridges, cell phones, small electronics, laptops from the community and send the waste products to FundingFactory in exchange for their choice of technology and recreation products or even cash. Companies wishing to participate in the Fundraiser may drop off products at West Yadkin Media Center. Call Lisa Wright 336-468-2526 or visit www. FundingFactory.com or call toll free 1-888-888-8237 for more information.
March 1
• 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. NC Cooperative Extension will have a class "Moving with Diabetes-What You Need to Know" at the Reeves Community Center Kids Klub Room Lower Level) in Mt. Airy. To reserve your spot, call 336-401-8025.
Children's Story Hour at the Elkin Library will be Dinosaurs.
March 2
Deadline for Registration for Spring Soccer. Ages 4-13 as of July 31, 2012. Registration at the Elkin Rec Center. Cost $30-Elkin Residents; $45-Non- Residents. Call 336-794-6477.
Registration Deadline for Run and Kick Soccer. Age 3 by December 31, 2012. Cost $15-Elkin Residents; $20-Non-Residents. Call 336-794-6477.
March 5
Make reservations for the Celebration and Supper Program for the New Hope Pregnancy Care conversion to a medical clinic at Family Life Center in Yadkinville.
March 8
Children's Story Hour at the Elkin Library will be Flying High.
March 9
• 6:00 p.m. New Hope Pregnancy Care will have their annual Banquet and will be celebrating New Hope Pregnancy Care Conversion to a medical clinic, offering limited ultra sound services. Held in the Family Life Center of Yadkinville United Methodist Church. Celebration Supper and Program provided. No Charge. Doors open at 5:45 p.m. Make reservations by March 5th, Call 336-679-7101 or go to firstname.lastname@example.com.
• 12:00 p.m. Destination FFA Cattle Sale at Mt. Airy Stockyards in Mt. Airy. Registered and Commercial Cattle Sale, Breeding Bulls, Angus/Hereford/Charolais/Simmental/sim-Angus. Open Heifers, Bred Heifers, Bred Cows, Bred gilts, Feeder Pigs, Breeding Gilts, Cow/Calf Pairs. All commercial cows must be examined SAFE in calf or be nursing a calf. Commercial cows must be sound, less than 8 years old. Contact 336-363-4639 or 276-692-8108.
March 15
Children's Story Hour at the Elkin Library will be St. Patrick's Day.
March 22
Children's Story Hour at the Elkin Library will be Easter Morning.
Deadline Registration for TBall and Machine Pitch Baseball. Ages 5-8 as of April 30, 2013. Registration at the Elkin Rec Center. Cost $20-Elkin Residents; $40-Non-Residents. Call 336-794-6477.
Deadline Registration for Kinder TBall. Age 4 as of April 30, 2013. Registration at the Elkin Rec Center. Cost $15-Elkin Residents; $20-Non-Residents. Call 336-794-6477.
March 29
There will be no Story Hour at the Elkin Library.
March 31
•10:00 a.m. Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Elkin will have a Community Easter "Son-Rise Celebration" at Elkin High School Dixon Auditorium. Message by Pastor Danny Dodds, special music and a nursery will be provided. Everyone Welcome. www.PHBCElkin.com.
April 5
There will be no Story Hour at the Elkin Library.
April 10
• 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. NC Cooperative Extension will have a class "Coping with Rain" at NC Cooperative Extension in Dobson. To reserve your spot, call 336-401-8025.
April 12
Children's Story Hour at the Elkin Library will be Hats Off!
April 19
Children's Story Hour at the Elkin Library will be Happy Birthday.
April 26
Children's Story Hour at the Elkin Library will be Sunflower Day.
April 27
• 7:30 a.m. The 3rd running of the Habitat Hammer,5K Run/Walk through downtown Elkin Kick off. Registration at the picnic shelter at the Rec Center. The free kid's fun run is at 7:30 a.m. and the race begins at 8a.m.Awards, door prizes, food, and fun for a great cause. All proceeds to go toward homebuilding in our community. For more information call 336-526-2277 or visit Upper Yadkin Valley Habitat for Humanity.
May 1
• 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. NC Cooperative Extension will have a class "Spring into Action-Managing Highs & Lows" at The Reeves Community Center-Kids Klub Room, Lower Level. To reserve you spot, call 336-401-8025.
May 3
Children's Story Hour at the Elkin Library will be Birds of a Feather.
• 6:00 p.m. Relay For Life For the Surry Foothills community (walk for cancer) will be at Elkin High School. The time to register is now! Come out and support a worthy cause. For more information call 276-728-8939 or go to www.relayforlife.org/surryfoothillsnc.
May 10
There will be no Story Hour at the Elkin Library.
May 17
Children's Story Hour at the Elkin Library will be Meet Pete the Cat.
May 24
Children's Story Hour at the Elkin Library will be Flower Power.
June 12
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. NC Cooperative Extension will have a class "Decoding Fat: Is it Good or Bad?" at The NC Cooperative Extension in Dobson. To reserve you spot, call 336-401-8025.
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So long as the feds are into deficit spending, a few more dollars tossed South Carolina's way ought not make a big difference.
The Palmetto State thinks its residents' right to vote should be protected, perhaps more so than their Social Security numbers and other personal information, but that's another matter.
To help guard against potential voter fraud and ensure a person who casts a ballot at the polls is, in fact, the person he claims to be, South Carolina enacted a voter ID law.
People can – and certainly have – go back and forth about the intent of the law.
South Carolina certainly has a tainted history when it comes to voting rights, but every effort was taken to ensure this new law does not disenfranchise the poor, the elderly or minorities.
The law was rejected by the U.S. Department of Justice under the premise it violated a portion of the federal Voting Rights Act. DOJ apparently is unaware the Palmetto State has progressed fairly well beyond the Jim Crow days.
We're not perfect, mind you, but the majority of the residents and those in power really don't have a problem with letting every properly registered voter fulfill his duty, right and obligation to cast a ballot.
Simply, the new law provides proof a voter is who he claims to be, just as a photo ID is used to establish proper identification in financial transactions, such as check cashing.
Anyway, the state sued the federal government because of the DOJ's rejection of the law.
And won.
Now, $3.5 million later, the state hopes to recoup some of its financial burden brought on by the suit.
Three judges who presided over the state's suit said the feds are obligated to pony up.
As much as we hate to see that national deficit spending number keep soaring, we agree and think the feds should come off the money soon, and for more than the $90,000 Attorney General Alan Wilson was seeking; after all, if the Justice Department had not treated the state as though it was stuck in 1965, the lawsuit would not have been necessary.
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Hi everyone!
I have been a Stephen King fan for 20 years. I finally picked up the Dark Tower series and read every book one after the other in about three months. Yesterday, I turned the last page of book 7. It was 1:30 in the morning and I put the book away with the most haunted, heartbroken feeling I have ever felt from reading fiction.
It's my opinion that Stephen King has cheated his fans. In fact, last night, I thought of throwing the books of his that I own in the garbage and renouncing ever being his fan. And this is coming from a twenty year die hard!
That's how much I hated it.
Let me share with you why I thought he cheated his fans...
1) Stephen King's strength as a storyteller is in using a literary tool called 'indirect conflict' to drive his stories. By conflict I don't mean 'fighting.' By conflict I mean 'change.' That is, something changes...you don't know what happened or why...you only see the effect of the change. Therefore, you keep turning the pages to find out WHY everything is happening. By using this technique as a storyteller, the writer asks his readers to trust him that the unknown cause is important. And as a storyteller, it is important that he doesn't violate that trust!
Examples of Stephen King's indirect conflict would be:
CELL - people who use their cell phones all of a sudden turn into violent zombies on day. You don't know why it happened or exactly what happened. You keep turning the pages to find out why. Same with KASHWAK = NO - FO. You know it means something important but you don't know what it means or why. So you keep reading to find out why. By using this technique, Stephen King is asking us to trust him and it is important that he doesn't violate that trust!
You find this technique used in most of his stories...Sun Dog (why is the camera doing this? where is the dog from? why is this happening?), Library Policeman, Langoliers...the list goes on.
I read through 1 thin book and 6 fat ones just to find out that Roland has been to the Tower again and again and again, forgetting it everytime he passes through the top of the Tower. I enjoyed all the action, falling in love with Eddie Dean and the gang, I was sad over what happened to Susan Delgado. And all of this...just to find out that everyone's work in helping Roland find the Tower lead to him just repeating everything from the desert all over again.
I started off not knowing what the Tower was or why the quest was important. I put my trust in King's use of indirect conflict. And this is what I get.
I am interested in what others thought. You hated it? Why? You loved the end and can offer a better way for me to see it? Let me know.
If Stephen King wanted to turn the Dark Tower into the ultimate horror story, he did it by ending the series this way. This was a scary ending. I will give him that.
Anyways, that's all I have to say for now. Thanks for hearing me out.


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A bomb threat was called into the Moncks Corner courthouse at around 8:15
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The courthouse was cleared by 1 p.m.
"It's business as usual, we didn¹t find anything," Moon added.
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With October being ASPCA's Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month, the Twin County Animal Shelter continues to improve ways to find homes for animals and to lower its euthanization rates.
Over the last year, the Twin County Animal Shelter has started working with the Wythe County Humane Society and the Twin County Humane Society, transferring many adoptable animals to them that are then placed within the community or other support and rescue groups. Those partnerships have helped the Twin County Animal Shelter cut its euthanization rate almost in half.
"Working with them we are seeing lower euthanizations rates. We used to have numbers upwards of 85 to 95 percent at times for dogs," said Galax City Manager Keith Barker. "In August (our euthanization rate) was 53 percent, in July it was 53 percent and in September it was 45 percent. It has been a tremendous change up there."
Barker said the animal shelter has also waived adoption fees for the two humane societies. Every dog that is brought into the animal shelter also receives vaccinations for both distemper and parvovirus upon intake to try to prevent future issues. Money has also been budgeted to have better separation between kennels for disease control, Barker said.
"The biggest thing we have done is starting to work with the agencies to transfer animals to them. Our staff is working hand-in-hand with them and letting them know when they think we have some adoptable animals," Barker said. "We are also obligated under state law to hold animals for a minimum of five days without a collar and 10 days with a collar. We are trying to lengthen that as much as we can, holding them for longer periods of time to try to promote the adoption of animals and trying to improve our euthanization rate."
Additionally, the City of Galax will pay up to 50 percent of the spay or neuter fee to any Galax citizen that adopts a cat or dog, up to $50. Similarly, the Town of Hillsville is offering a PetSmart grant in 2012 that allows up to 500 Hillsville residents to have their cats and dogs spayed or neutered for free.
The Twin County Animal Shelter is open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 1-5 p.m., where animals can be viewed. A posting for each animal explains whether or not they are adoptable.
"We do have to hold some for a certain time. It will have a date posted at each kennel letting people know when they can be adopted and if they are available now," Barker said. "It's very easy. There is a $15 adoption fee and they are mandated by law to have the animal spayed or neutered so we don't repeat the overpopulation issue. We are trying to make it as affordable as we can and improve the outcome for these animals."
Animals available for adoption can also be viewed at www.twincountyhumanesociety.org or on the Twin County Humane Society's facebook page.
"That group does a tremendous job. We transferred 15 dogs to them in July, 20 in August and 34 in September," Barker said. "And I would just encourage people to be responsible pet owners. It can become an overwhelming process, but honestly if people would spay and neuter their pets we would really see the numbers trickle down a whole lot more."


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Enjoying a huge reach advantage is not the only reason Jones has not often been tested by the world's best at 205.
I do see what you are saying in that his skill levels are not virtuosic yet. It is fair to say that he will only get better with time and he is not near the level he can one day reach. A man's level of talent in any field is infinite, it is up the person to master anything that they spend their time with.