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On Forest Lane, an 'ugly' skirmish over a wall covered in a groovy mural that dates back decades
As famous walls go, it doesn't rank high on any list — somewhere below the Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the Western Wall and Croatia's Wall of Ston, let's say. But in Northwest Dallas, we'll take what we can get. And since 1976, the guh-roovy Forest Lane brick-wall mural between Rosser and Midway Roads has been all ours — the graffiti deterrent that became a neighborhood's own slice of public art thanks to some concerned W.T. White art students armed with sketches, paintbrushes and a whole bunch of far-out-man.
Jill Farrer's brother Kevin was one of those W.T. White Longhorns, which is why she can be found most evenings kneeling in front of the wall, retouching faded memories with a small paintbrush as car whiz by. Every day she goes to work; every night, she paints till it's too dark to see.
"I feel very connected to it," she said Wednesday evening. Farrer lives nearby, in Farmers Branch, but her mother still lives even closer, in a house off Marsh Lane. She remembers when the wall was off-white, decorated with off-color graffiti left by the Forest Lane cruisers in the mid-1970s. "I want the wall to be restored. Now that I've started working on it and met so many cool people, I don't want to stop. It's really neat."
But there are others, much to her chagrin, who disagree and want the mural vanished.
Over the years, there have been various efforts to save and restore the mural, including a 1992 complete redo that took three years to finish and a 2011 touch-up following Brent Herling's unwelcome addition of a SpongeBob SquarePants, which he says now was just a silly thing meant to cover some gang tags until he could give the wall a proper do-over. That stunt put Herling at odds with the folks behind the original wall.
In recent weeks he's been spearheading his own makeover with the help of area residents and passers-by, Farrer among them. You could see them out there every weekend: tykes on trikes, lifelongers and other friendlies with paintbrushes. As a result the mural looks almost brand-new — bright and crisp, no longer a fading shadow of a bicentennial-year icon easily taken for granted between stoplights. In fact, it may look a little too good.
"I've tried to duplicate the colors," says Herling. "Some folks thought the green was too dark and the original blue background was lighter. I've tried to make amends with some of the people who think the colors are off. I've also tried to pick all the colors in gloss so you can pick up the images from a distance."
But in recent days, says one member of the Glen Meadow Estates Home Owners Association, an "ugly" war has broken out over the mural, sparked by two men living behind the wall who want it painted beige and covered with bushes — erased, eradicated. On Nextdoor.com, Danny Scott calls the mural nothing less than a "HIDEOUS EYE SORE" that "detracts from the value of our neighborhood." His comments have led to a lengthy and often heated back-and-forth over the merits of the mural — and just who owns the wall, be it the city or the county or the respective homeowners living behind it.
Herling says it belongs to the county, and holds up as proof a 1967 document showing the property upon which it was built was gifted to Dallas County by the Glen Hills Developers responsible for its original construction. Scott, a real estate broker, maintains it's his property, and that he can do whatever he wants to his section of the wall. He maintains that if he wants to keep it plain, that's his right, and admonishes Herling for the "inconceivable degree of hubris and irony [it takes] for you to accuse anyone of defacing property."
The fight has reached Dallas City Hall.


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|Contexts and Comparisons
|Chapter 5 - Renaissance Literature
Medieval feudalism presupposed that God had vested earthly power in the members of noble families, the kings and lords who owed loyalty to Him and to whom in turn their social dependents were expected to entrust themselves. However, the bloody history and complicated political arrangements of the Italian states, where feudalism never took root, belied the medieval ideal. Lacking a framework that placed a premium on loyalty and cooperation, dukes and princes instead competed fiercely with each other.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), often called the first modern political scientist, wrote two major books that forced people to reconsider how states really were governed. Like so many of the great Renaissance figures, Machiavelli was a classical scholar. In the Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius, which draws on the Roman historian known as Livy (see pp. xx), who praised the free institutions of Republican Rome (5th and 6th centuries B.C.), Machiavelli looks back at a moment when an ideal form of government seemed to have flourished on Italian soil. In the Discourses, he points to the glories of the democratic past to underscore the shortcomings of the present.
The present is the subject of Machiavelli's better known work, The Prince, a book based not on history but on his own unhappy experience as bureaucrat and diplomat in the service of the Republic of Florence. When the Medici family overthrew that republic in 1512, Machiavelli--as Dante had done two hundred years earlier--went into exile. Dedicated to one of the Medicis, The Prince is a book of advice to the non-hereditary ruler of the sort which flourished in unsettled Renaissance Italy.(1)
Machiavelli's book illustrates the benefits of practicing pragmatic ruthlessness to cement the right to rule. Because he did not preach godly morality in government, Machiavelli's name became synonymous with diabolical plotter. Like Galileo, whose version of astronomy was unacceptable to the Church, Machiavelli's version of government was considered so objectionable that his works were condemned and placed on the Church's Index of Prohibited Books.(2) Condemned or not, Machiavelli's descriptions were so clear that he was, and still is, read by all courtiers, rulers, and students of political science.
In the following passages, translated by Luigi Ricci and revised by E. R. P. Vincent, Machiavelli instructs the would-be prince on the importance of adjusting oneself to actual political situations. Human nature does not, in other words, act as a God-given constant. Our own intelligence can determine the way we present ourselves to the world.
From Chapter 18: In What Way Princes Must Keep Faith
How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation.
You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second. It is therefore necessary for a prince to know well how to use both the beast and the man. This was covertly taught to rulers by ancient writers, who relate how Achilles and many others of those ancient princes were given to Chiron the centaur(3) to be brought up and educated under his discipline. The parable of this semi-animal, semi-human teacher is meant to indicate that a prince must know how to use both natures, and that the one without the other is not durable.
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this precept would not be a good one; but as they are bad, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them. Nor have legitimate grounds ever failed a prince who wished to show colourable excuse for the non-fulfillment of his promise. Of this one could show how many times peace has been broken, and how many promises rendered worthless, by the faithlessness of princes, and those that have been best able to imitate the fox have succeeded best. But it is necessary to be able to disguise this character well, and to be a great feigner and dissembler; and men are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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. . . it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.
From Chapter 25: How Much Fortune Can Do In Human Affairs and How It May Be Opposed
It is not unknown to me how many have been and are of the opinion that worldly events are so governed by fortune and by God, that men cannot by their prudence change them, and that on the contrary there is no remedy whatever, and for this they may judge it to be useless to toil much about them, but let things be ruled by chance. This opinion has been more held in our day, from the great changes that have been seen, and are daily seen, beyond every human conjecture. When I think about them, at times I am partly inclined to share this opinion. Nevertheless, that our free will may not be altogether extinguished, I think it may be true that fortune is the ruler of half our actions, but that she allows the other half or thereabouts to be governed by us. I would compare her to an impetuous river that, when turbulent, inundates the plains, casts down trees and buildings, removes earth from this side and places it on the other; every one flees before it, and everything yields to its fury without being able to oppose it; and yet though it is of such a kind, still when it is quiet, men can make provisions against it by dykes and banks, so that when it rises it will either go into a canal or its rush will not be so wild and dangerous.
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I would point out how one sees a certain prince to-day fortunate and to-morrow ruined, without seeing that he has changed in character or otherwise. I believe this arises in the first place from the causes that we have already discussed at length; that is to say, because the prince who bases himself entirely on fortune is ruined when fortune changes. I also believe that he is happy whose mode of procedure accords with the needs of the times, and similarly he is unfortunate whose mode of procedure is opposed to the times.
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I conclude then that fortune varying and men remaining fixed in their ways, they are successful so long as these ways conform to circumstances, but when they are opposed then they are unsuccessful. I certainly think that it is better to be impetuous than cautious, for fortune is a woman, and it is necessary, if you wish to master her, to conquer her by force; and it can be seen that she lets herself be overcome by the bold rather than by those who proceed coldly. And there, like a woman, she is always a friend to the young, because they are less cautious, fiercer, and master her with greater audacity.
- What kind of behavior is foxlike and why is it sometimes necessary, according to Machiavelli?
- How are theatrical gifts useful to a prince?
- "Fortuna" was a Roman goddess. What attitudes toward women are spawned by the view that "fortune is a woman"?
- Machiavelli suggests that fortune, like a woman, will prefer "the bold" and "the young" to the cautious and the restrained. What are the consequences of thinking about women in this Machiavellian way?
(1) The title refers to the leader of a state, not necessarily to the son of a royal house.
(2) Actually, Machiavelli preferred the republican government memorialized by Livy; and he thought it better to have stability and order under the rule of even a tyrannical prince than chaos of the sort brought upon Renaissance Italy by ambitious foreigners.
(3) A centaur was a mythological
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Artist: Geto Boys
*phone rings*
[hello, could I speak with, bushwick bill? ]
Hello, this is bushwick, motherfucking bill
[yes sir, I'm calling to inform you that you have been drafted
The united states military]
The unites states wants me for what? hahahaha
[excuse me sir]
[bushwick? ]
Hahaha, yeah yeah yeah, hey what's up?
[you need to contact your nearest recruiting office immeadiatly
I see your not hip to what's happenin'
I don't give a fuck about you and all that bullshit you stressin'
Fuck a war
To explain, let me kick it to you a little something like this:
(bushwick bill)
Motherfuck a war, that's how I feel
Sendin' a nigga to a dentist to get killed
Cause two suckas can't agree on something
A thousand motherfuckers died for nothing
You can't pay me to join an army camp
Or any other motherfuckin' military branch
Of this united goddman states of this bitch america
Be a soldier, what for?
They puttin' niggas on the front line
But when it comes to gettin' ahead, they put us way behind
I ain't gettin' my leg shot off
While bush old ass on t.v. playin' golf
But when you come to my house with that draft shit
I'ma shoot your funky ass bitch
A nigga'll die for a broil
But I ain't fightin' behind no gaddamn oil
Against motherfuckas I don't know
Yo bush! I ain't your damn hoe
The enemy is right here g, them foreigners never did shit me
All of those wasted lives
And only one or two get recognized
But what good is a medal when your dead? tell uncle sam I said
Chorus x2 (willie d)
I ain't goin' to war for a shit talkin' president
[fuck fuck fuck a war]
(bushwick bill)
In vietnam a lot of niggas died young
P.o.w.'s got hung
What the fuck do I know about a grenade
All I know is the (? ? ? ? ) in my 12 gauge
And what if that pin gets stuck?
Several more casualties show up
This shit remind me of a drive-by
More motherfuckers die by accident than on purpose, why?
Cause they don't know what they doin'
They see if the coast is clear and they start persuin'
And that's when that booby trap springs, boom!
Blow a motherfucker to smithereens
They send a sucker to your folks, lookin' stupid
Tellin' them you died in the line of duty
Or your ass is missing in action bro
Tryin' to be a damn hero
They bring your folks that duffle bag
The only shit they wanna see is that doggy tag
Hopin' that the worryin' will cease
And your ass will be home in one damn piece
But my mom ain't gotta worry about that there
Cause I ain't dyin' in the middle of nowhere
Another statistic, a body in a drawer
Man! mother fuck a war!
Chorus x2
Your lucky that I ain't the president
Cause I'll push the fuckin' button and get it over wit
Fuck all that waitin' and procrastinatin'
And all that goddamn negotiatin'
Flyin' back and fourth overseas
And havin' lunch and brunch with the motherfuckin' enemy
I'll aim one missle at iraq
And blow that little piece of shit off the map
Yeah, I wouldn't give a fuck (? ? ? ? )
Cause I'm tired of payin' these high ass gas prices
Only the rich benefit, it'll be a cold day in hell before I enlist
To eat shit out a can like a worm
And everyday wear the same damn uniform
(? ? ? ? ) breakin' on my funky ass feet
Skin crawlin' cause I ain't took baths in weeks
Not knowin' if I'm comin' home or not
And if I do, I'll probably be shell shocked
I couldn't get a job just a free burial
You know how uncle sam treat it's veterans
Absolutely no respect
Get a plate in your head, lose a leg, you might get a check
Or a gaddamn star, you can have that shit
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I love the food network but I was always hungry after my shows were over. I would crave whatever I saw on TV. I had to stop the torture!!!
Avoid mindlessly watching the Food Network, and other food oriented shows on TV. I always find myself heading for the kitchen when these shows are on! Only watch with purpose, don't turn it on just to have it on.
While shopping at Trader Joe's, I noticed a red pepper and artichoke tapenade. I was trying to find something to substitute for traditional mayo on a sandwich. The only thing I knew of "tapenade" is that I had heard it on the Food Network. Turns out it is a tasty substitute for mayo and only 20 cal.
To keep my interest put the TV to a funny show even cartoon network so I laugh & enjoy it


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The members of the Madison Firemen's Mutual Benevolent Association, Local No. 74, is composed of career firefighters who serve our community 24 hours a day. Since its inception in 1958, the Madison F.M.B.A. has provided fire protection and emergency services to our residents and neighbors.
PRESIDENT: David Carey
STATE DELEGATE: Kyle Wickman
RECORDING SECRETARY: Sean Norek
TREASURER: James Blair
The Madison F.M.B.A. provides support to many local charitable, educational, and youth organizations. In addition we provide monetary assistance to programs within the Madison Fire Department that are not funded by the Borough. We have been able to provide assistance to a wide variety of organizations. Some of these organizations include the Madison Public Library, Madison Little League, Madison Soccer Club, Touchdowns for Tommy, Madison Huddle Club, the Feel a Smile of a Child Cancer Program, and the Scholarship Fund which annually awards a scholarship to a graduating Madison High School student. We have also been able to provide support to other professional organizations such as the Worcester Firefighters Memorial Fund, Police Unity Tour, and the New Jersey State F.M.B.A. to name a few.
was first organized and established on December 11, 1897, at the first F.M.B.A. Annual convention which was held in Jersey City, NJ. At that seemingly uneventful gathering, whereupon only six original member locals - Jersey City, Paterson, Hoboken, Newark, Trenton and Camden, united to incorporate under the banner of the F.M.B.A., birth was given to a new era in the history of the career fire service in New Jersey. In retrospect, it is, at best difficult, to estimate if our founding fathers possessed full awareness of the time enduring significance and the tremendous positive impact this organization was destined to have upon its members, their families and the general public throughout the decades to follow. Given that particularly industrious point of our society's growth and development, the time was perfect to organize such an association. And organize they did. By 1907, less than a decade from its inception, local membership doubled from six to twelve locals, with total membership increasing to 1,157. Today with 116 Fire and EMS locals on its roster, the New Jersey State Firemen's Mutual Benevolent Association proudly maintains an active membership of over 6,000 career personnel.


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These days the whole world is progressing towards the web. From small businesses to big firms to online schools, universities etc., all are pushing hard to make a big online impact because this is almost free advertisement for their brand and results in it reaching a wider range of audience than using other manual ways to do so.
One big aspect of Website Design is a "Mobile Version" of the website because these days mobile phones with internet facilities are becoming too common and thus everyone wants to remain connected to their favourite websites on the go.
Today, we'll be discussing some key aspects & techniques that a web developer/designer must follow to have a clean & professional looking mobile version of any website. So let's get started!
Note: Oh, by the way if you are looking for some mobile app design inspiration, visit this mobile app roundup with excellent UI experience.
Mobile interfaces are usually small and so a developer has to adjust in pre-defined dimensions. To start with, below is a layout of a very basic "mobile-website".
Let's discuss the different elements of the layout above:
One of the main things in the layout. You should try to make it as attractive as you can but at the same time take care of its size. Make sure that the size doesn't exceed 2 KBs of size because images always take forever to load on mobile networks and you don't want your site to load incompletely for different people!
One of the most important things in the design. No matter what, you need to have the links to main pages/places/things on your website on this bar and this should always be at the top. As you know, typing on most mobile devices using the small QWERTY or the virtual QWERTY keypads is not easy to work with at all. Therefore, creating a thorough navigation for your website is a key aspect to making your website mobile friendly.
This is the main thing on your mobile website. People actually come to websites on their mobile devices just to view the content. So make sure that you don't make any single change to your content for mobile devices otherwise you might just end up losing a user.
While on Mobile Devices, people are usually on the go, so they don't really have much time to view content. As a solution to this, you should cut down your content to some major value points but at the same time you should provide your user with a Link to the main article containing all of your content. (If you have an active blog then you can ignore this as you can't really cut down content for each post separately every day!!)
We all know that images in content are a must. But in the mobile version of your website, you should make sure that you don't have much graphics because most mobile phones would take forever to load heavy images. So use images and graphics as little as possible, only where contextually relevant.
And if you do wish to put images on your mobile website, it should be in .JPEG or .GIF or .PNG format as these files are pretty much light-weight. Plus make sure to compress your pictures to avoid zooming. And one more, today nearly all current devices display images, however, users may browse with the images turned off. So always use the ALT text property for the images which is a recommended practice. Also, you must properly size your images to avoid a situation where the reader/visitor has to zoom into the image to see it properly.
There's an old saying, "A Man is not recognized by the clothing he's wearing but by the condition of his shoes!" This goes true for many websites. I always see blogs, marketing websites etc. OVER-LOADED with "garbage and dirty" Hyper-links in Footer. Like me, many others don't like it and on mobile websites where the screen size is small, this could be one thing where you could lose a client or a reader. So make an attractive Footer!
So if you want your applications/website's mobile-interface going successful, you should lay focus on its Layout. It should just be error-free as "Web-Browsing on Mobile Devices" will be the next big thing.
This is one thing where many new mobile-interface developers hesitate. Below are some tips that can help remove that hesitation:
Use proper code and make sure that its 100% valid because most mobile browsers aren't as good as their PC (Personal-Computer) counterparts so you should make sure that it's valid.
It's not always easy to discover how your layout will look on all mobile browsers as there are far too many mobile devices used for web browsing and to track them all can be a big pain. One way to address/bypass this problem is the use fluid layouts that will automatically adjust to the screen size.
To accomplish this avoid setting widths in pixels and use percentages or ems instead. For instance, instead of:
width: 400px;
width: 100%
width: 1.0ems
You can find more about the fluid mobile layouts and also download some pre-built ones by going to this link: Perfect multi-column CSS liquid layouts – iPhone compatible
You can always target various mobile devices for better user-experience. For example, for targeting users browsing your site using Handheld devices you can use this in your website's <head>:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="handheld.css" type="text/css" media="handheld"/>
You can find more about these media types at this link: W3.org – Media Types.
For your mobile website to go successful, don't use Javascript or Flash or any other of those fancy scripts available out there. Because majority of mobile devices fail to interpret these and end up either freezing the device or just doing something stupid!
If you really want to use these then should give your user a Polite Option so that your user knows what his/her mobile handset is loading and opening up (and if anything goes wrong, it's their fault and not yours because you already warned them).
This is one thing that almost everyone should take care of! Don't fill up your mobile page with ads. And this is not only for the mobile page but also for the original website.
It's an old saying, "One rotten Apple in a basket makes all others dirty". It goes true for these websites which are full of ads. These websites don't care about User-Experience but only care about the money that comes into their pockets (because CPM is high on mobile devices).
So my suggestion, just don't fill it up with ads! "Just don't make your page with colourful ads."
- MAKE A DEDICATED APPLICATION CLIENT (if necessary)
Yes! You read it correctly. If you have a really high user-base, make a dedicated application targeting various mobile interfaces. Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Yahoo and many other big-companies have done this and this is why they have been so successful. If you make an application for specific handsets then you no longer have to care about all the Fancy scripts etc. because you can then enhance the application your own way (you can't change the mobile browser but definitely your own application).
You must have seen those Fancy Website builders out there, haven't you? Well, now we have websites which help you create websites for mobile interfaces as well!
For users who use WordPress as their platform, there are many free as well as paid plugins available out there. Some of them are listed below:
4. MobilePress
So we have pretty much gone through all the aspects and the techniques of "Mobile Website-Designing". If you have any questions about anything regarding "Mobile Website Designing" then feel free to point that out in the comments!


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Working parents need more support: Hawa
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Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) leader Francois Legault, here campaigning in his hometown of Ste. Anne de Bellevue Wednesday, promised to give working parents five paid days off to look after a sick child, much as provincial civil servants do, if elected
The Coalition Avenir Quebecois (CAQ) and the Liberals both unveiled new concrete family-friendly policies designed to help support overburdened working parents during last week's campaigning in advance of the Sept. 4 vote.
One day after Liberal leader Jean Charest announced he would commit $100 per elementary-school-aged child in public schools to offset the rising costs of school supplies, Coalition Avenir Quebecois (CAQ) leader Francois Legault said his party would extend five paid days off to all parents of young children in order to look after them in the event of an illness or injury.
Legault, who took few questions in his visit to his hometown of Ste. Anne de Bellevue Wednesday morning, told The Chronicle the policy would bring taxpayers' rights into line with those of civil servants, already entitled to five paid days off to look after a sick child.
"I think working families need to be supported. Civil servants already get the time off inQuebec, and by law, workers are entitled to 10 unpaid days off," he said. The five paid days would be subtracted from the 10 unpaid days off, the CAQ leader confirmed.
The CAQ's Jacques Cartier candidate, Paola Hawa, a sitting Ste. Anne de Bellevue city councillor – and a working parent herself – said she has seen how a sick child can play havoc with a regular work schedule.
"We can see families being ripped apart by parents not being able to be there for their kids, which runs counter to the notion of healthy families," she said. "Currently, if a child is sick, the parent has to make quick arrangements or stay home from work, and that's not optimal," Hawa said.
Parents also got a break at the federal level Wednesday, when the authorities introduced changes to employment insurance that will allow parents up to 35 weeks of paid benefits while looking after a sick child. Currently, parents are only entitled to six weeks of such benefits.
Liberal Jacques Cartier incumbent Geoff Kelley said Charest's proposal – which is reported would cost the province about $45 million annually is a good start for helping parents parents struggling to make ends meet.
"I'm a little distant from it now, but I remember the days when we had four and maybe even five children in elementary school at once, it would get a little expensive to fill those long lists that get sent home from schools, just to underline the importance of education and getting kids a good start I school," he said. On the same day, Charest doubled the budget of a provincial homework-aid program, pumping the fund up to $40 million – a move that will help restore some work-life balance for parents and students.
"The more homework that can get done before the child arrives home from school, the better. Increasingly, we see modern couples that both work and have to juggle getting homework done," Kelley added.


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Off the Record July 2012
Posted on August 1, 2012 by Dana
Off the Record is back! After a short break, Bridget and Jeremy are back, interviewing audience members and performers on July 26th–the one night of the year we had both a show AND a storm so vicious and crippling to the people it descended on that it got its own name (a name I now forget, but I feel like it may sound like "sriracha"). At any rate, Bridget and Jeremy are back, full force. And we couldn't be happier. Stoked, I believe, is the appropriate word.This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.
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Steve Jobs has created a new big apple of his own. Many analysts opined that Microsoft was to always be king. They may have to take a share of the forbidden fruit themselves. In search of better appliances users have turned to Apple, making it bigger than Microsoft. 9 out of 10 computers still run Windows. The difference is in the hardware.
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The launch of the iPad is a case in point. The Wired iPad app sold 24,000 copies in the first twenty four hours. Poetic reality. Business insider was way off the mark for predicting a sale of 3,000 copies in that time. But this sale is testament to a larger truth, that of Apple.
The iPad was launched in Australia to a fan frenzy following. In fact hundreds of prospective buyers descended to Australia. 400 Apple maniacs chose to be the first, rather than wait for the online order to arrive. In the first month the Apple has sold a million tablets. Estimates say that seven million more will be sold this year.
In Europe the American $499 price tag is reflected as 499 Euro for the same (What is it in Japan?). Meanwhile, interestingly, the success of Apple is spawning a disgust (for giant corporations) in much the same way Microsoft did.
Perhaps it is the robotic marketing machine of Apple. The way they have created a cult, see – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1282082/SIMON-MILLS-Why-I-hate-Apple-infuriating-cult-making-people-smug-bores.html.
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Firearm and Explosives Background Checks Involving Terrorist Watch List Records
GAO-09-125R: Published: May 21, 2009. Publicly Released: Jun 22, 2009.
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This report formally transmits a briefing in response to a Congressional request. Specifically, Congress requested that GAO update our January 2005 report entitled, Gun Control and Terrorism: FBI Could Better Manage Firearm-Related Background Checks Involving Terrorist Watch List Records, GAO-05-127 (Washington, D.C.: Jan. 19, 2005). Under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and implementing regulations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and designated state and local criminal justice agencies use the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to conduct checks on individuals before federal firearms licensees (gun dealers) may transfer any firearm to an unlicensed individual. Also, to assist the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the FBI conducts NICS background checks on individuals seeking to obtain a federal explosives license or permit. Under current law, there is no basis to automatically prohibit a person from possessing firearms or explosives because they appear on the terrorist watch list. Rather, there must be a disqualifying factor (i.e., prohibiting information) pursuant to federal or state law, such as a felony conviction or illegal immigration status. In response to the request, this report addresses (1) the number of NICS background checks involving terrorist watch list records, the related results, and the FBI's current procedures for handling these checks and (2) the extent to which the FBI has taken action to collect information from NICS background checks involving terrorist watch list records and share this information with counterterrorism officials to support investigations and other counterterrorism activities.
In summary, from February 2004 through February 2009, FBI data show that 963 NICS background checks resulted in valid matches with terrorist watch list records; of these matches, approximately 90 percent were allowed to proceed because the checks revealed no prohibiting information and about 10 percent were denied. Regarding FBI procedures for handling these checks, in response to a recommendation in our January 2005 report, the FBI began conducting all NICS background checks involving terrorist watch list records in July 2005--including those generated via state operations--to ensure consistency in handling. Moreover, in April 2005, the FBI issued guidance to its field offices on the availability and use of information collected as a result of NICS background checks involving terrorist watch list records to help support investigations and other counterterrorism efforts. In April 2007, the Department of Justice (DOJ) provided legislative language to Congress that would give the Attorney General discretionary authority to deny the transfer of firearms or the issuance of a firearm or explosives license or permit when a NICS background check reveals that the purchaser is a known or suspected terrorist and the Attorney General reasonably believes that the person may use a firearm or explosives in connection with terrorism. A related bill was introduced in the 111th Congress and is currently pending (H.R. 2159). Neither DOJ's proposed legislative language nor the related bill include provisions for the development of guidelines further delineating the circumstances under which the Attorney General could exercise this authority. In October 2007, we reported that agencies that use terrorist watch list records to screen for potential terrorists use applicable laws or other guidelines as a basis for determining what related actions to take, if any, such as the criteria that are used for determining which subjects of watch list records should be precluded from boarding an aircraft. Further, Homeland Security Presidential Directive 11 requires that terrorist watch list records be used in a manner that safeguards legal rights, including freedoms, civil liberties, and information privacy guaranteed by federal law. Guidelines delineating how the Attorney General could use any new authority would help DOJ and its component agencies (1) provide accountability and a basis for monitoring to ensure that the intended goals for, and expected results of, the screening are being achieved and (2) ensure that terrorist watch list records are used in accordance with requirements outlined in the Presidential directive. In response to our questions, DOJ was noncommittal on whether it would develop guidelines if legislation providing the Attorney General with discretionary authority to deny firearms or explosives transactions involving subjects of terrorist watch list records was enacted.
Matter for Congressional Consideration
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: In January and February 2013, members of Congress introduced the "Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Criminals Act of 2013" (S. 34 and H.R. 720). The bills provide the Attorney General with discretionary authority to deny the transfer of a firearm or the issuance of a firearm or explosives license or permit when a background check reveals that the purchaser is a known or suspected terrorist and the Attorney General reasonably believes that the person may use a firearm or explosives in connection with terrorism. The bills, if passed, would require the Attorney General to issue guidelines describing the circumstances under which such discretionary authority could be used, in which case our matter for Congressional consideration would be implemented. As of October 15, 2014, the bills had not moved past the committee stage. Members of Congress introduced similar bills in 2009 and 2011, which also did not move past the committee stage. Given the passage of time since GAO made the matter for Congressional consideration in 2009, and the remaining uncertainty about whether Congress would address it, GAO is closing this matter as not implemented.
Matter: If Congress moves forward with legislation that provides the Attorney General with discretionary authority to deny the transfer of a firearm or the issuance of a firearm or explosives license or permit to the subject of a terrorist watch list record, Congress may wish to consider including provisions that require the Attorney General to establish guidelines delineating under what circumstances such authority could be exercised.
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U.S. Parole Commission:Number of Offenders under Its Jurisdiction Has Declined; Transferring Its Jurisdiction for D.C. Offenders Would Pose ChallengesGAO-15-359: Published: May 28, 2015. Publicly Released: May 28, 2015.
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There never was an "official" 39 star U.S. flag. However, flag manufacturers betting on early sales misjudged in 1889 by believing the two Dakotas would be admitted as one state and the others would be delayed until after the 4th of July. Both Dakotas, Montana and Washington were made into states in November, 1889 and Idaho was admitted July 3, 1890! So any 39 star flags in existence were probably made in the fall of 1889 (see below).
At any rate, as collectors know, there are a few 39 star flags around and they are real collectors items. I have been searching for one for years! Also there are unofficial 42 star flags in existence, made before July 3rd 1890, betting Congress would wait until after the 4th to admit Idaho.
There is a photograph (of a photograph) of a 39 star flag in the July, 1959 National Geographic, pg 119. The caption reads,
"This 39-star Banner Legally Never Existed. The maker of this 1889 flag gambled on the possibility of Dakota Territory entering the Union without companions. He lost: Congress divided the Territory and admitted Montana, Washington, and Idaho as well. Senator Frank Case of South Dakota views a picture of the flag and its owner, Harold L. Rutland, a Union, New Jersey, teacher (page 117)."The article, "New Stars for Old Glory," on page 117 gives a more complete version of the story mentioned in the caption.The flag with the thirteen stars and stripes represented the thirteen original colonies.
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This design was featured on e-bay as a 38 star flag, but apparently, someone
miscounted the stars.
Clay Moss, 15 March 2007
image by John Ayer, 23 April 1999
A thirty-nine-star United States flag with small flags of thirty-eight nations (labeled) around the border. Boleslaw and Marie-Louise d'Otrange Mastai's book _The Stars and the Stripes_ shows an example on page 162. The caption says, "The 'International Flag,' patented in 1875 with an unofficial total of thirty-nine stars in its constellation, is notable not only for its canton--which contains six vertical 'rows,' three with small stars and three with large stars--but also for its border of small flags of the nations that were to attend the United States' hundredth birthday party." The header (but there are no grommets) bears the inscription, "PATENTED DEC 28, 1875." Colorado was admitted to the Union as the thirty-eighth state in August 1876, becoming the "Centennial State," and apparently the designer of this item guessed that Dakota Territory would become a state at about the same time. In fact no more states were admitted for more than a dozen years. Evidently not all thirty-nine star flags date from around 1889!
John Ayer, 23 April 1999
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The McNamara Flag - so-called from the name of its original owner, Matthew McNamara - is notable for the triads of stars in each corner of the canton. It also boasts an unofficial count of stars: thirty-nine.
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GHSA Softball: County lineups seeking Elite 8 berths
By DOUG GORMAN
East Coweta, Northgate and Newnan's softball teams share the same goal.
All three open the second round of the state tournament today in best-of-three series with hopes of advancing to next week's Elite 8 in Columbus.
If Northgate (27-7) hopes to get back to the Elite 8 and possibly win a second-straight state title, they will have to get past Effingham County (20-14), this year's Region 3-AAAAA champion. But the No. 2 state-ranked Lady Vikings are the favorites to advance with victories in eight of its last 10 games.
East Coweta (29-3-1) will also be a huge favorite to return to the Elite 8 State Tournament in Columbus coming into today's second-round Class AAAAAA series against Colquitt County (17-14). The Lady Packers finished third in Region 1-AAAAAA, but knocked off South Cobb in a three-game first-round series on the road last week.
Newnan (19-13) faces the biggest challenge of the three local teams. The Lady Cougars travel to play Kennesaw Mountain (27-3-2), the top-ranked team in Class AAAAAA.
Northgate, which won the Class AAAA title a year ago, has moved up to Class AAAAA this season and comes into the second-round after sweeping Harris County at home last week.
The team's only losses have come to state-ranked opponents or in the Region 4-AAAAA tournament, where Northgate finished third. Last year's Lady Vikings placed fourth in the region only to capture an eventual Class AAAA championship.
All four state qualifiers from 4-AAAAA are state ranked, each advancing through the first round. Region champion and No. 1 state ranked Union Grove hosts Houston County, No. 4 Whitewater travels to former region rival Jones County and No. 8-ranked Ola travels to 2-AAAAA champion Greenbrier.
Northgate faces an Effingham lineup that bumped off Evans 8-4 and 4-2 in last week's first round. In last week's sweep of Harris County, Northgate had to rally in game one before posting the win.
The Lady Vikings have used two pitchers this season a senior Carleigh Myatt and junior McKenzie Peace have divided their time in the pitching circle.
Northgate has also played some long ball this season with Andie Martin and Jena Pealor hitting home runs during the postseason.
In the first-round last week, the Lady Indians swept Newton 10-2 and 12-0.
East Coweta, which is ranked in fourth in the Class AAAAAA poll, enters the second-round of the Class AAAAAA state tournament on a roll. The Lady Indians haven't lost a softball game since back in August and are riding a 24-game winning streak.
"We're getting to the point where we need to be at our best every game," said East Coweta head coach Franklin DeLoach following last week's sweep. "From here on in we're going to be facing tough opponents. They won't be anything like [last week]. We've got to be ready for that."
Senior pitcher Megan Chocallo allowed one hit outside the infield dirt in a two-game sweep of Newton last week while getting in about 100 pitches in between a doubleheader sweep that took eight innings to finish.
Timely hitting and fielding have helped East Coweta set its sights on making a run at the team's first state title.
Colquitt County advanced with its sweep of South Cobb last week. The Lady Packers knocked off the Lady Eagles 5-2 and 7-4 to set up its date with the Lady Indians.
Newnan made short work of Luella in last week's first-round game, winning 9-0 and 6-2.
The Lady Cougars face a Kennesaw Mountain team that has shutout 16 opponents this season including three in their last four games.
In last week's first-round sweep of Coffee County, Kennesaw Mountain beat the Lady Trojans 11-0 in the second round.
Newnan made quick work, however, of Luella in what was a confidence booster for the Lady Cougars with a first-round sweep. The team outscored the Lady Lions 15-2 and held a lead through the entire two games of the series while now two victories away from returning to Columbus after a year's absence.
"That's what we talked about afterwards," Newnan head coach Carrie Gilmore said following last week's victories. "We'd like to get back there. That would be special."
Second Round , Best of Three Series
Class AAAAAA
• Colquitt County (17-14) at No. 4 East Coweta (29-3-1), 4 p.m. (DH)
• Newnan (19-13) at No. 1 Kennesaw Mountain (27-3-2), 5 p.m. (DH)
Class AAAAA
• No. 2 Northgate (27-7) at Effingham County (20-14), 4:30 p.m. (DH)
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It's Time to Stop Digital-on-Digital Crime
The 2011 IAB Networks & Exchange Marketplace kicked-off with a stage full of powerhouse industry authorities. Randall Rothenberg, President & CEO of IAB, wasted no time putting out the call to stop the fighting over margin scraps and focus on reducing complexity, assuring quality, and putting consumers (and marketers) first. Our industry is not only about science and data—but about art and craft as well, he said. We must get past the marketplace confusion caused by the presence and growth of networks and exchanges and truly think of ourselves as stewards of brands, focusing on how brands and publishers can do bigger, better business—together. Before leaving the stage, Randall also called out the IAB Data Usage & Control Primer as a valuable resource to be used across the industry.
The dynamic team of Marleta Ross, Director of Global Prepaid Interactive, American Express, and Joanna O'Connell, Senior Analyst, Interactive Marketing Professionals, Forrester Research, took us behind the scenes of a brand marketer's thought process in working with ad networks. Ultimately, said Marleta, technology hasn't changed the role of a marketer. Her goals remain the same, but the environment in which she has to reach those goals is changing drastically. What does she need from networks and publishers? Help reaching those goals with technology that will add value to what she already has—not the same systems with slightly different features—but technology that will differentiate what she's doing.
Case studies in audience buying kept attendees fully engaged after the second round of marketplace learning sessions in the late afternoon. Five teams of brands and ad technology providers—a DSP, SSP, a network and an exchange—shared real-world examples of how they work together to find audiences and do bigger, better business through audience targeting, predictive segmentation modeling, and more—with impressive results. Featured campaigns improved client ROI by 823% in one case, 571% in another, and increased conversions rates 8x for an e-commerce advertiser. One common theme that carried across all the case studies—marketers care about brand safety controls and transparency.
In the final session, moderator Jay Sears stumped the agency trading desk panel by asking them to play a game of word association. As he named major players in the space—Google, Yahoo!, DoubleClick, Microsoft—panelist Teri Gallo, Vice President, Marketplace Development, Cadreon; Neeraj Kochhar, President, Varick Media Management; Brian Lesser, Senior Vice President, General Manager, Media Innovation Group; and Kurt Unkel, Senior Vice President, VivaKi Nerve Center, cautiously shared their straight-forward insights and opinions. Responses included "fantastic brand," "evolving," "disappointing," "workhorse." They also reemphasized the need to minimize complications throughout the digital industry.
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Scott Walter, a Georgetown University graduate, is bemused by the controversy that erupted at Notre Dame over the discovery that a member of the school's governing board had donated to a pro-abortion group. (The Notre Dame board member ended the controversy by resigning.) At Georgetown, he points out, Melissa Bradley (class of 1989) sits on the governing board of the university's alumni association, and also on the board of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. Until now, the apparent conflict in her affiliations has drawn no public comment.
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People gather around the statue of civil rights leader Martin Luther... Fotografia de notíciasCerimónia,Direitos Civis dos Negros,Direitos Humanos,EUA,Efígie,Estátua,Evento,Evento Anual,Horizontal,Martin Luther King Jr.,Pessoas,Política,Washington DCPhotographer JOE KLAMARCollection: AFP 2013 AFPPeople gather around the statue of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. at the MLK Memorial on the occasion of Martin Luther King Day on January 20, 2013 in Washington. King is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. AFP PHOTO / JOE KLAMAR (Photo credit should read JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)


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The Bucs' 200-yard freestyle relay team of McKenzie Landman, Sarah Snider, Katja Lindfors and Stephanie Shantz settled for a 23rd-place finish, as they touched the wall in 1 minute, 42.55 seconds — just two-tenths slower than their seed time. The top seven relays moved on to Saturday's finals.
In diving, Grand Haven junior Chloe LaLonde couldn't crack the top 20 competitiors that advanced to the semifinal round, as she finished in 26th with a score of 150.75.
Spring Lake also couldn't break into Day 2 of competition, as they competed in the Division 3 finals at Eastern Michigan University.
The Lakers' 200 medley relay was the first to compete and the team of Jaylen Adkins, Audrey Gleason, Olivia Kuhn and Sophia Kleinheksel took 24th in a time of 2:01.17.
Later, Ellen Hyde, Kleinheksel, Roxane Strobel and Adkins placed 21st in the 200 freestyle relay at 1:47.33.
In diving, Lakers' sophomore Paige Rubleski placed 16th with a score of 141.30 in the preliminary round, which helped her advance to the semifinals. There, she fell two spots in the standings, with a score of 210.90.


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Notebook: Josh Robinson returns to his comfort zone on the outside
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Josh Robinson never felt what coaches said he would.
A candid Robinson reflected Thursday on his sophomore season in the NFL, one that presented extraordinary challenges in learning a new position as slot cornerback.
"I remember that's something [former Vikings DBs] coach Joe Woods told me, you'll start feeling things," Robinson said. "I never felt nothing. See people in the end zone and I'm like, 'Man, this is stupid.'"
Robinson was rated as one of the worst cornerbacks by ProFootballFocus.com last season before he fractured his sternum in a November loss at the Seattle Seahawks. While rehabbing his chest, Robinson has also fought through a hamstring pull and other ailments that have limited him this offseason.
But the Vikings have still mixed him into the first-team defense alongside Xavier Rhodes and Captain Munnerlyn during this week's mandatory minicamp.
Robinson, along with Derek Cox, are considered the top candidates for the team's third cornerback in nickel situations.
However, this time Robinson will be back on the outside.
"I was happy. I didn't know exactly what it was going to be coming into this year, when I finally heard I'd be outside, I was ecstatic," Robinson said. "[Slot corner] is a thing you really got to feel, get a feel for it and you can really do it and excel in it. And Captain has proven that."
The Vikings signed a proven nickel cornerback in Munnerlyn to fill the Antoine Winfield role after failing with Robinson last season. But that doesn't mean Robinson is a failure at cornerback.
First-year head coach Mike Zimmer sees plenty of promise in the 23-year-old Robinson, who figures to excel in a defense that gives him similar responsibilities from when he was at the University of Central Florida.
"He's still got some technique work he's got to work on, but I thought he did a great job out there [Thursday]," Zimmer said. "He's still a young guy that's learning."
The Vikings have worked Munnerlyn, sixth-round pick Kendall James and Shaun Prater as the team's slot cornerbacks this offseason.
But would Robinson ever want to give it a go again?
"No, not even a little bit," Robinson said.
'Not going to tell anybody'
The Vikings quarterback competition is 'legitimately' open, or at least that's what Mike Zimmer said this week.
Knowing he'll have to eventually peg a starter, Zimmer has a time when he'd like to do that.
"But I'm not going to tell anybody," Zimmer said.
Matt Cassel and Teddy Bridgewater have taken the lion's share of throws in team drills during this week's minicamp. Zimmer sees no issue with starting a rookie, though the quarterback position brings more pressure than any other for a young player.
"I've never had a problem playing young guys," Zimmer said. "We've had guys that when I was in Dallas we drafted high and started the first day we walked in. We've had several guys in Cincinnati. Geno Atkins played a ton. Carlos Dunlap played a ton his rookie year."
Minicamp roundup
• The Vikings wrapped up their final practice until late July on Thursday with the last minicamp walkthrough. The team will be off for five weeks until a July 24 report date to training camp.
• Zimmer said the Vikings hosted 13 former players/coaches during recent practices, including Matt Birk, Steve Hutchinson and Jerry Burns. Said Zimmer: "I want our players that played here to feel like they're always going to be welcome here. The ones who have played here in the past, I want them to always feel it's welcome to visit. I want this to be a family."
• Matt Cassel continued to take first-team reps, followed by Teddy Bridgewater and Christian Ponder. Counting up 11-on-11 throws per quarterback on Thursday: Bridgewater (25), Cassel (22) and Ponder (12).
• Audie Cole took snaps at middle linebacker for the first time in front of media on Thursday. Cole had typically filled in for Anthony Barr, who missed OTAs to finish school, on the strong side in first-team defense.
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Does EV archive/reject multiple journal messages with same MessageID?
This was partially answered in some of the other posts, but it isn't very clear to me. I get confused about duplicate archiving and SIS. Getting to the question, does the second message to the same Journal mailbox with the exact same MessageID that was archived earlier (i.e., same message metadata/header/content etc.,) get archived or rejected by EV saying that it already archived this message?
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In general terms items are hashed ... and if the hash is the same, then the items are the same... and they are SISed depending on the sharing settings on the vault store.
For the journal archive there is an added mechanism which relates to waiting for additional journal reports before a journaled item is processed. Take look for 'journaldelay' - a registry key - which explains this a bit more.
The item will be archived and an index entry will be created, so essentially it's a duplicate
Large parts of the message like the attachment will be sis'd
If this happens in the same journal mailbox, the journal reports should be combined and only one item gets archived
However if it's two different journal mailboxes then two different items will be archived
Thanks. I did not realize that there may be other possible scenarios to my question and it is certainly good to be aware of these.
Let me elaborate more on my specific case:
- Email 2KB (not subject to SIS) sent to Journal mailbox A on Date1 and got archived in EV
- Same email (with same MessageID, although unsure if it is going to result in same hash as I am unsure on what attributes the hash is computed on) sent to Journal Mailbox A on Date 2.
Assuming it resulted in the same hash, does the second mail get archived in EV or rejected?
The context here is that we are working on migrating EmailXtender to EV and due to an issue with the migration software, we need to remigrate some of the items that were already migrated and archived in EV back into EV and trying to figure out how EV would behave.
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Graul's In Parkton Holds Cookout To Benefit Erika Brannock
May 11, 2013 10:36 PM
PARKTON, Md. (WJZ) — Residents come out to support a Baltimore County native, injured in the Boston bombings.
Graul's Market in Parkton held a cookout Saturday to raise money for Erika Brannock's medical costs.
Brannock had to have her left leg amputated below the knee and surgery on her right leg.
Graul's donated 10% of sales and all proceeds from the event to Erika.


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"Don't quit. You've got to keep busy and active."
William Karnes was born in 1911 in Chicago. His mother died when he was five, and he was raised by two aunts. Because of poor health, he didn't begin school until he was eight. The delay didn't hold him back, however, as he finished at the top of his elementary school class. He completed high school in three years, again at the top of his class. Karnes attended the University of Illinois and graduated with a degree in business administration in 1933. He went on to earn a law degree from Northwestern University. His first job after law school was working as a clerk for Beatrice Foods, earning $110 a month. Within 16 years after joining the company, Karnes was president and chairman. By the time he retired in 1976, he had built Beatrice into the largest, most profitable foods-oriented company in the United States.* Deceased


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In letting contracts for the performance of any job or service, all agencies, departments, institutions, and other entities of this state and of each political subdivision of this state shall give a three-point bonus preference to service-disabled veteran businesses doing business as Missouri firms, corporations, or individuals, or which maintain Missouri offices or places of business.
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In implementing the provisions of subsection 3 of this section, the following shall apply:
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In making purchases for this state, its governmental agencies or political subdivisions, the commissioner of administration shall give bidding preference consisting of a ten-point bonus on bids for products and services manufactured, produced or assembled in qualified nonprofit organizations for the blind established pursuant to the provisions of 41 U.S.C. Sections 46 to 48c, as amended and in sheltered workshops holding a certificate of approval from the department of elementary and secondary education pursuant to section 178.920 if the participating nonprofit organization provides the greater of two percent or five thousand dollars of the total contract value of bids for purchase not exceeding ten million dollars.
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It can not only be used to make interesting desktop wallpaper, but also it can be used to make pictures for my web site. I love the alpha channel image exporting feature. Save me a lot of time!
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Every once in a while you have to improvise.
Last week Chris and I threw an engagement party to celebrate our upcoming marriage (only 1 year away!). He volunteered to go get beer and wine. I stayed behind, rolled up my sleeves, preheated the oven, and decided to make two very simple things for our guests: cake and cookies. I even sinned a little and bought a cake mix. Because it was 7 PM the night before the party, and I didn't feel like slaving over the stove for more than 2 hours.
I started with the cake. I whipped it up, threw it in the pan (it was only a one layer cake), and popped it in the oven. Took it out, let it cool a little, then turned it upside down to shake out the cake.
Shake it out…
It was stuck. Very stuck. Not just like a little piece of the bottom of the cake was left on the pan. It was like my Pam had suddenly transformed into super glue and was holding onto my cake for dear life. So I sighed, starting humming tunes to the Sound of Music (because how can those songs not make you happy?) and scraped the cake into a bowl. I furrowed my brow and thought, "Well, hey, this isn't so bad. I'll just make a trifle…or something?) And admist my flustered cake failure, I posted on Facebook that people were going to get a trifle, not a cake at the party.
Then it was Amanda to the rescue, who piped up and said "Why not make cake balls?"
She's my friend for many reasons, this being one of them.
So I took my crumbled cake, whipped up some frosting, and made some cake balls. And they were a hit! :) If your cake ever sticks to the pan, this is one easy solution to the problem.
Cake Balls
Makes 30 cake balls
- 1 pkg cake mix (mine was for a single layer cake)
- 1 can of frosting (or 1 recipe of your favorite frosting)
- 1 bag melting chocolate (I only had chocolate chips, so I used both white and semi-sweet chocolate chips)
1. Bake the cake according to package directions. Let cool. Then crumble into a large bowl. Add the frosting and mix. You may need to use your hands for this.
2. Form the mixture into individual balls, then place them on a pan lined with parchment paper. Stick in the fridge for at least an hour, preferably overnight. If you're pressed for time, you can also stick them in the freezer.
3. Melt your chocolate according to package directions. Dip the balls into the chocolate to coat (using either a toothpick or a spoon). Place back on parchment paper. Place in fridge overnight and take out the next day when it's time to serve them.
My Two Cents: This recipe is so versatile. Funfetti your favorite cake? Do it. Strawberry? That sounds fun. You can make cream cheese frosting, buttercream, regular vanilla sugar, or whatever exciting frosting recipes you have up your sleeve. Alternately you can use your favorite canned frosting.The possibilities are endless.
I highly recommend using melting chocolate for this. Chocolate chips don't melt very well, so the cake balls end up being a little clumpier–and you end up with a more chocolatey coating. But hey, this wasn't my application to pastry school, and if you're in a pinch, they'll work.
Have fun! These are great for parties :)


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Supreme Court ruling must end AWPR challenges
Today's Supreme Court ruling giving the green light to construction of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) must mark the end of challenges to the project, according to local MSP Maureen Watt.
The Scottish Government approved plans for the construction of the AWPR almost three years ago in December 2009, but the start of work on the project has been delayed following concerted legal objections by a handful of protestors.
Having had objections twice thrown out of Scottish courts, today's judgement means that the UK Supreme Court has also rejected the protests raised by Roadsense.
Commenting, SNP MSP Maureen Watt who convenes the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee and in whose constituency much of the planned bypass will be built said:
"Residents of Aberdeen and the wider region have been crying out for this project to go ahead for years, so I know that this judgement will be extremely welcome.
"These protestors have had their day in court, not once but three times, and must surely now accept that the road should proceed. I would hope that they will quickly make a public statement confirming that their obstruction is at an end.
"The SNP Government has stood by its commitment to build the AWPR despite the legal challenges it has faced, and today's judgement should mean that we can now move towards construction.
"When it is complete, the bypass will ease congestion in Aberdeen and improve journey times for businesses and individuals across the North East. It is a vital piece of missing infrastructure and the concerted efforts of a handful of protestors to derail it have frustrated thousands of people up and down the North East.
"Today's judgement should mean that at long last, focus can now move to construction and delivering this essential project for the North East of Scotland."