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West Lavington historians Lyn Dyson and Richard Matters are appealing for information about a First World War soldier whose name was omitted from the village war memorial.
The two have produced a book, Lives Remembered in West Lavington, which they are launching this Saturday at West Lavington village hall, based on the lives of the men whose names appear on the war memorial.
During their research, they found three men who should be commemorated were not. These names were added and Mrs Dyson managed to trace families for two of the men, but she cannot find any relatives of Pte Percy John Nash.
She said: "He was born in West Lavington in 1887, the son of George Nash, a general labourer from Devizes, and his wife Jane Warman.
"Sadly, Percy's mother died shortly after giving birth, and Percy was sent to live with a nurse, Mary Smart, at 2 Romains Yard, New Park Street, Devizes. In these circumstances it was quite rare for the baby to survive, but with great credit to all concerned, Percy did."
Percy's father George went to live with an uncle in Swindon, where he probably worked at the railway works. He got married again, to Emily Carter, in 1895, and had two more children.
Percy went to live with his father and step mother. Percy's half-brother was Albert Nash, born in 1896. He may have married Dorothy Burns in 1918 and had a son Clifford and daughter Audrey. Percy's half-sister, Caroline, was born in 1898. Caroline may have married Charles Maynard in Basingstoke in 1922.
In 1911 Percy was working as a baker in the Rhondda.
Percy served with the 1st Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, and was killed in action at Fresnoy on May 8, 1917. He is remembered on the Arras memorial, but has no known grave.
Mrs Dyson said: "Percy left a will, and in 1918 probate was granted to a widow, Sarah Annie Nash, of 73 New Park Street, Devizes. I have been unable to find a marriage for Percy."
Mrs Dyson would like to contact any relatives of Percy. If you can help, call her on (01380) 813943.


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Fanny By Gaslight
Anthony Asquith
Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Stewart Granger
US DVD: 15 May 2012
VCI's deal with the Rank Collection has resulted in many British classics hitting DVD recently, and here are two examples of WWII-era escapism from major directors.
The 1939 programmer The Arsenal Stadium Mystery is an early assignment for Thorold Dickinson, who promptly made the excellent first version of Gaslight and later one of the most voluptuously visual British films of the 1940s, The Queen of Spades. It's shot by Desmond Dickinson (no relation), who went on to such British classics as the Laurence Olivier Hamlet, The Rocking Horse Winner and The Importance of Being Earnest. So I've long wished to see this little whodunit, and now here it is in an amazingly crystalline print.
It moves at a jolly pace to solve the murder of a soccer player (or football as they call it) in the middle of a match. A few nicely evocative shots include a beautiful-but-dead blonde stretched across a bed, which always brings out the best in directors and cameramen. Leslie Banks is the eccentric CID inspector who plays with different hats and rehearses a police show with men in tutus. A couple of scenes cock a snoot at Hitler. While it's all very pleasant once you get past the opening reel of soccer antics (and it opens with a newsreel, like Citizen Kane but not really), it's at best a mildly cheeky lark that doesn't quite promise the dazzling talents of the future.
Thoughtfully, somebody at VCI added optional subtitles; this might be useful with some English accents. Less happily, the transcriber has so many misheard lines, I had to turn them off to avoid the distracting nonsense. In one speech, "much anticipated" becomes "not participated" and "Gaumont British News" becomes "government of British news."
With the war in full swing, Gainsborough Pictures made a killing with costume dramas. These were semi-sexy tales of scandalous women and dashing men, and one such example is Fanny By Gaslight. It's not enough that poor Fanny (Phyllis Calvert) is orphaned when a sadistic and dissipated nobleman (James Mason, curling his lip something fierce) pushes her step-daddy, who runs an ill-famed establishment for gentlemen's entertainment to Fanny's innocent ignorance, to his death under a horse. Oh no, it's only then that her troubles begin.
In the wake of the scandal, Fanny travels through as many households as David Copperfield, uncovering the mystery of her birth and finding her life haunted at every turn by this same scoundrel, who seems to be responsible for everything bad that ever happens to her. Can she find love with hardworking Stewart Granger, whose family disapproves of Fanny's low-class (yet secretly high-class) origins? Honestly, we can't say. As directed with assurance by no less than Anthony Asquith, it's well-mounted balderdash whose ambiguities may reflect wartime uncertainties about the future and the evolution of class and gender roles. If you will.
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It is only during these strange times of holiday cheer that we begin to feel comfortable enough to actively spread love and happiness. Let us maintain this positive momentum for the following 364 days of the year as well. For any time of the year, here are some ideas that I find most important to consider whenever we are giving gifts or doing someone else a favor.Continue reading
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If this recent compilation is any indication, very little has changed in the land of the self-indulgent (and deluded) cinematic short.
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Like the onset of hormones, Cam Archer's Wild Tigers I have Known mixes a heady swirl of daydreams and stripped-down self-awareness.
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Today's officially the first day of summer, but Cedarburg is already in full swing of summertime activities. The town has been bustling all week with the Plein Air Painting Competition. It's so much fun to stroll around the historic district and peek over the shoulders of artists portraying beautiful Cedarburg. The artists must complete a painting from real life outside during certain hours. After the competition, paintings are displayed in the Cultural Center, and then offered for sale. This is a favorite event for many of us here at the Inn, and we display many past entries in our Gathering Room.
Of course, this weekend is Cedarburg's biggest event of the summer: Strawberry Festival! The local berries are ripe and the Cedar Creek Strawberry Blush is ready to pour. Festival-goers who stroll up and down Washington Avenue will be able to enjoy artisan and merchant shopping, live music, family fun and of course strawberries everywhere! It looks like the weather is going to cooperate for a glorious festival.
The fun doesn't end after Strawberry Festival, though. Coming up we have the Rotary Music Festival, the Fourth of July Hometown Celebration, the Architectural Treasures Tour, and the Ozaukee County Fair. And there's lots of ongoing events in Cedarburg during the summer. Friday mornings bring the Farmer's Market and Friday nights bring the Sounds of Summer free outdoor concerts. Summertime is fun time, let's get out there and enjoy it!


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ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf Reports from Capitol Hill: Since we called out Sen. Mitch McConnell yesterday for not giving Uncle Ted Stevens a send-off speech, it is only fair to point out that today, the seventh-longest serving Senator and recently convicted felon, who just yesterday conceded his quest for reelection, received a two hour tribute and a standing ovation from both sides of the aisle during his last speech on the Senate floor.
Stevens lost his re-election effort Wednesday to Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, bringing the Democratic net gain in the U.S. Senate to 7 seats.
On the floor of the Senate Thursday, the Alaska Republican was called a model of service and a moral example for the body by GOP Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky.
"I have found Ted Stevens to be the most straightforward, honest senator I have ever worked with," said Bunning.
Sen. Larry Craig talked about riding in a cab in Alaska to Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. Craig, the Idaho Republican who will forever be linked with the airport in Minneapolis and did not seek reelection because of the legal problems he encountered there, said of Stevens, "As we round the curb and pull up to exit the cab, I look up, and there is your name. And I said, oh, my, Ted's got an airport," said Craig. "That's neat."
The cab driver told Craig to give his best to Uncle Ted in Washington. That said, Craig is why he calls Stevens "Uncle Ted."
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., chimed into the tribute adding, "I think its fair to say that no senator in the history of the us has ever done more for his state than Sen. Ted Stevens," as Sen. Robert Byrd, R-W.Va., yelled "That's right! That's right!" from right across the aisle. "Alaska would not be what it is today if it were not for him," McConnell said of Stevens, ignoring Byrd.
When it was his turn to speak, Byrd, the longest serving Senator who speaks hunched over his desk, reading from a binder, said, "Politics is a rough business. Lots of Highs. Lots of lows. After long time in politics, there comes a time to stand that the point of it all is helping people. Ted Stevens has helped a lot of people."
Even Nevada Democrat and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid weighed in on the conversation.
"Although Senator Stevens flew in World War II with the flying tigers in the Senate, he will be known as a lion," said Reid.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, called Stevens one of the "greatest men I've ever met" and said the stain will ultimately wash away from Stevens and his legacy, which before Stevens' legal troubles had more to do with helping steer tax dollars to Alaska, rights for native Alaskans, fighting to open the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, and his quirky fascination with the Incredible Hulk.
"I always loved -- loved that when he wore the incredible hulk tie," said Hatch. "I always got a big kick out of it. I even liked his crankiness because there was always a little smile behind that. he never held a grudge against anybody and he was always willing to lend a helping hand and to give good advice. and, frankly, I admire him so much. Ted, I believe this cloud will be lifted from you. and it should be."
Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-HI, who has also served longer than Stevens and is one of the few remaining World War II veterans left in the Senate said, "The events of recent weeks have been less than pleasant and at times dismal and heartbreaking," referring to Stevens convictions and loss. "But to my friend I say stand tall, Ted, because you have every good reason to do so. your good and courageous service to our nation is part of our history. It can never be obliterated."
Stevens spoke too, calling the Senate, where he has served for 40 years, his second home and acknowledged the regret he feels about leaving.
"I really must pinch myself to fully understand that I'm privileged to speak on the floor of the united states senate. coming from a boyhood I had I could never even have dreamed to be here today. and home is where the heart is, Mr.. president. if that is so, I have two homes one is right here in this chamber; and the other is my beloved state of Alaska. I must leave one -- leave one to return to the other."
A pit stop along the way will be appealing his conviction in September on seven felony counts for hiding gifts on financial disclosure forms and hopefully for Stevens staying out of the Big House.
"I look only forward and I still see the day when I can remove the cloud that currently surrounds me. That's it, Mr. President 40 years distilled into a few minutes. I close by saying and asking God bless Alaska and our governor, God bless the United States of America and our president, and god bless the senate and every member of this body. I yield the floor for the last time."


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In accordance with its mission to disseminate and extend knowledge, to foster the free exchange of ideas, and to provide effective support for its teaching, research, and public service functions, it is the policy of the University of Wisconsin System to afford broad access to information technology resources 1 for university 2 students, faculty, and staff for use in fulfilling the university's missions, and for appropriate university-related activities.
Access by Individuals
Access to information technology resources carries with it the responsibility for ensuring that the use of these resources is primarily for university purposes and university-related activities, and for maintaining the integrity and security of the university's computing facilities. In the interest of making the use of information technology resources a natural part of the day-to-day work of all members of the university community, incidental personal use is tolerated. However, one should use non-university sources of e-mail, internet access, and other information technology services for activities of an extensive or recurring nature that are not related to university purposes. For the security of the information technology system, individuals having access to information technology resources must take reasonable care to ensure that unauthorized persons are not able to use their access to the system.
Dissemination of Information and Official Documents
Information technology resources are a dynamic mechanism for the free exchange of knowledge, and it is desirable for the university to foster the robust dialogue that results from the use of the resource, and to encourage students, faculty, and staff to participate in that dialogue Those exchanges that reflect the ideas, comments, and opinions of individual members of the university community must, however, be distinguished from those that represent the official positions, programs and activities of the university. Students, faculty and staff using information technology resources for purposes of exchanging, publishing, or circulating official university documents 3 must follow institutional requirements concerning appropriate content and style.
The university is not responsible for the content of documents, exchanges or messages, including links to other information locations on the internet or world wide web, that reflect only the personal ideas, comments, and opinions of individual members of the university community, even where they are published or otherwise circulated to the public at large by means of university information technology resources.
Inter-institutional Cooperation
During times when they are away from the University of Wisconsin Institution where they are enrolled, students may benefit from the ability to use the information technology resources of another University of Wisconsin campus. To the extent possible with available resources, each University of Wisconsin System Institution should allow access to its information technology resources by students taking distance education and other courses from other University of Wisconsin System Institutions.
Limitations on the Availability of Information Technology Resources
The university's information technology resources are, by nature, finite. All members of the university community must recognize that certain uses of university information technology resources may be limited for reasons related to the capacity or security of the university's information technology systems, or as required for fulfilling the university's primary teaching, research, and public service missions.
Privacy and Confidentiality of Electronic Documents
No information technology resources can absolutely guarantee the privacy or confidentiality of electronic documents. University of Wisconsin Institutions should, however, take reasonable precautions to protect electronic documents containing private and confidential information, and to assure persons using university information technology resources to transmit e-mail or electronic documents that the university will not seek access to their messages or documents except where necessary to:
- Meet the requirements of the Wisconsin Public Records Law, or other statutes, laws, or regulations 4;
- Protect the integrity of the university's information technology resources, and the rights and other property of the university;
- Allow system administrators to perform routine maintenance and operations, and respond to emergency situations; or
- Protect the rights of individuals working in collaborative situations where information and files are shared.
University of Wisconsin System Institutions may choose to establish more detailed procedures for determining when access to electronic documents will be sought by the institution. As encryption products become more readily available, institutions may also wish to make them available to information technology users as appropriate to protect privacy interests.
Other Limitations on Use of Information Technology Resources
In addition to the general principles set forth in this policy, the use of information technology resources may be affected by a number of other legal and ethical principles. While it is not possible to list all potentially applicable laws and regulations, the following are particularly likely to have implications for the use of university information technology resources:
- Ethical standards of conduct for the appropriate use of one's university position and university resources are established for faculty and academic staff in Chapter UWS 8, Wisconsin Administrative Code, and for classified staff in Chapter ER-MRS 24, Wisconsin Administrative Code.
- Chapters UWS 14 and 17, Wisconsin Administrative Code, establish standards and disciplinary processes relating to academic and nonacademic misconduct by students, including prohibitions on disruption of university activities, damage to university facilities, harassment, and similar matters.
- Chapter UWS 18, Wisconsin Administrative Code, governs conduct on university lands, and applies to all members of the university community. Chapter UWS 21, Wisconsin Administrative Code, regulates the use of university facilities.
- Section 943.70, Wisconsin Statutes, defines and prohibits certain computer crimes.
- Chapter 11, Wisconsin Statutes, restricts the use of state facilities for political activities by state employees.
- The federal copyright law applies to materials published or circulated through the use of computing resources.
- The federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act restricts access to personally identifiable information from students' education records. Students, faculty and staff are responsible for understanding and observing these and all other applicable policies, regulations and laws in connection with their use of the university's information technology resources.
University of Wisconsin System Institution Responsibilities
In order to assist members of the university community in fulfilling their responsibilities with respect to use of information technology resources, each University of Wisconsin Institution shall disseminate this policy, together with guidance, as to any specific campus policies affecting the use of information technology resources.
Failure to Comply with Information Technology Resource Policies
Failure to adhere to the provisions of this policy may result in the suspension or loss of access to university information technology resources, appropriate disciplinary action as provided under existing procedures applicable to students, faculty, and staff, or civil or criminal prosecution.
To preserve and protect the integrity of information technology resources, there may be circumstances where the university must immediately suspend or deny access to the resources. Should a student's access be suspended under these circumstances, the university shall inform the student immediately and shall afford the student an opportunity to respond.. The university shall then determine whether disciplinary action under Chapter UWS 17, Wisconsin Administrative Code, or some alternative course of action, is warranted and shall follow the procedures established for such cases.
1 Information technology resources include computers, software, e-mail accounts, internet access, and similar computing tools.
2 "University" is used in this document to refer to the University of Wisconsin System and its institutions.
3 Official university documents are those which purport to speak for the university and its official programs and departments, such as policy documents, official forms, curriculum information, institutional statistics, and departmental home pages on the world-wide web.
4 The electronic records of university employees are subject to disclosure in accordance with the Wisconsin Public Records Law. Student records, including electronic documents, are protected against disclosure by the Family and Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which restricts access to personally identifiable information from students' education records.
History: Res. 7461 adopted 6/6/97.
See Also:
UPS Operational Policy WE 4, Use of Information Technology Resources
SYS 1030: Information Security: Authentication
SYS 1031: Information Security: Data Classification
SYS 1032: Information Security: Awareness
SYS 1033: Information Security: Incident Response
SYS 1034: Information Security: Acceptable Use
[UW System Administrative policies are included for reference and are separate from Regent Policy Documents adopted by the Board.]


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Mark Lynch's NPR program Inquiry interviewed me on my new book, Black & White Cinema: A Short History.
You can see what Mark wrote above as an introduction to the interview – it was a fun session, and Mark always asks all the right questions – plus, he knows what he's talking about, so it's always a pleasure to converse with him. Inquiry comes from WICN, the New England NPR station, and Mark Lynch really does his homework – and it shows. There's really no need to say anything further – just click here, or on the image above, to go to the interview, and listen for yourself – it runs about 30 minutes, which absolutely flew by.


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More Countries to Gather for Posidonia 2008
Posidonia has set another milestone in its 40 year-long history by registering the highest number of participating countries than any other international maritime event for its 21st edition, to be held in in June.
In addition to an increase from participating companies from established maritime nations, companies from the Central American Republic of Honduras, , Luxemburg and are making their Posidonia debut this year further increasing the total number of participating countries to almost 80, setting a new show record and reiterating the event's status as the world's most international shipping trade fair.
And this year's event is also inching closer to yet another landmark for the most national pavilions ever fielded at Posidonia with Romania, Argentina, Sweden and Honduras bringing the total number of national pavilions to 22, confirming the event's truly global appeal and increasing commercial credentials as the ultimate business-making forum for the world's shipping community. Looking eastwards, Posidonia 2008 has already confirmed the strongest exhibitor participation from Asia and the Far East than any other major trade shipping event held in Europe or , testimony to the show's unique positioning as the world's most sought-after maritime forum.
Participation from Asian exhibitors for this year's edition has grown in accordance with the region's increasing wealth.
Over 300 Asian exhibitors have confirmed their presence at the Athens International Exhibition Centre this summer, nearly three times the number that attended the 2000 event. A third of them will come from and 62 from , with and together accounting for 50% of 's total Posidonia 2008 exhibitor participation.
Traditional Posidonia independent participants Tsuneishi and Cosco will this year be joined by 's STX with its own standalone pavilion as 's shipbuilding sector flexes its muscles in its bid to impress the burgeoning spending power of the Greek shipping powerhouses, which control the world's biggest tanker fleet and almost a fifth of the overall industry's dwt.
Posidonia 2008 is sponsored by the Ministry of Mercantile Marine, The Aegean and Island Policy, the , the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping, the Union of Greek Shipowners, the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee, the Mediterranean Cargo Vessels Shipowners Union, the Association of Greek Coastal Shipping Companies and the Association of Greek Passenger Shipping Companies.


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ThermageCPTTM is one of Niranlada's non-surgical skin tightening procedures for loose skin, giving you a smoother and more youthful appearance. Because there is no surgery involved, you will experience virtually no downtime and should be able to resume normal activities immediately following the treatment.
This treatment works by delivering radio-frequency energy in a form of heat into the skin, which causes immediate tightening of collagen. New collagen then forms over time, resulting in additional tightening. With no special care needed after treatment, most patients can return to their daily routine right after the treatment. Redness or minor swelling may occur but should disappear quickly. ThermageCPTTM received clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration in July 2002
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A Game Played on Grass
Art by Bob AulWillie Mays had the catch. Bobby Thomson had the shot heard 'round the world. Me, I had the greatest two innings of the Pomona Elks Tournament ever played under the influence.
In 1978, I was the centerfielder for Pacific High School of San Bernardino's Pirates. Well, "was" might be the wrong word. Sometimes I was. Most times I wasn't.
Pacific wasn't a sports powerhouse (except in wrestling, where coach Tony Finazzo managed to dig up these little Latino guys who weighed 29 pounds so we'd outscore opponents by virtue of forfeit), but we did excel over other schools when it came to one thing: substance abuse. Rumor has it a campus poll found 80 percent of Pacific students used marijuana; the other 20 percent were probably home sleeping it off when the poll was taken. If Cameron Crowe had visited Pacific when he was writing Fast Times at Ridgemont High, he would have found more Jeff Spicolis than he could count.
At Pacific, you were either a "soc" (short for social, the in crowd); a "low life" (likely the offspring of Hell's Angels, which was founded in nearby Fontana in 1950!); or one of those weird kids who got good grades, voluntarily went to bed by 10 p.m., and attended church on Sunday and some other day of the week. I fancied myself a soc. They had the best-looking chicks. All the jocks were socs. And I fancied myself a jock.
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After Mays announced his retirement, I became the first Giants fan in history to switch allegiance to the Dodgers. LA had that infectious team in the '70s with Ron Cey, Davey Lopes, Bill Russell and the player I admired most: Steve Garvey. The Popeye-forearmed first baseman said he believed his body was his temple, so I did, too. He sprayed singles to the opposite field, so I did, too. He took shit from Don Sutton, so I did, too.
Before the wife-beating allegations, the children fathered out of wedlock and-the worst transgression of them all-the trade to the Padres, Garvey stood for everything good and pure about baseball, America and Brill Cream. Someday, I would live up to the Garvey standard, I reckoned. But for now, Pacific already had someone who seemed to embody those positive characteristics. I would name this buffed, drop-dead-handsome, natural athlete by name, but he would probably sue me, kill me or both. Let's just call him Dirk Storm.
Through one of my friends-the brother of a card-carrying soc-we managed as sophomores to weasel into a mythical soc party. About to join the fraternity of jocks, I excitedly swung open the door. I found total bedlam. The Tubes' "White Punks on Dope" blared on the hi-fi. The starting middle linebacker and the captain of the basketball team were hunched over a coffee table rolling a joint. Our quarterback was setting up to pass a cold beer can across the room to the campus Farrah Fawcett look-alike. And there was our athletic Adonis, Storm, with a smoking bong in one hand as he screamed-puffs of smoke escaping his lungs every time he opened his mouth-along with Fee Waybill into a Radio Shack walkie-talkie: "White punks on dope. White punks on dope. White punks on dope. White punks on dope."
My whole world was turned upside-down. There were no Steve Garveys in this room. More like Steve Howes. And when in Rome . . .
By the time the Pomona Elks Tournament of 1978 rolled around, I was a strong-armed senior with a bat like Bert Campaneris and wheels like Burt Bacharach. The starting centerfielder could hit for more power and run like the wind, but he wanted to be the catcher. The catcher was made for that position, but those guys tend to take a beating, so the starting centerfielder would get innings behind the plate. I'd step into center on those occasions. But a strange thing happened at the tourney: we had a chance to win.
It was spring, before league play began, and a particularly wet year. Perhaps it was the slick fields or travel fatigue from making up so many games or whatever, but the Pirates managed to knock off a few teams in the early going. Our biggest test would come against Edgewood High School. The team from eastern Los Angeles County had won the state 3-A baseball championship the previous year. Pacific was 4-A-technically a bigger school, but in many sports, 3-A programs used us as tune-ups for their real competition. If we could somehow knock off Edgewood, we'd play for the Elks' championship.
Before the big game, our coach let it be known that should our starting centerfielder wind up behind the plate as catcher, he'd put into centerfield a pitcher who could hit the cover off the ball, outrun anyone on the field and throw out baserunners at will. The coach was obviously taking no chances, but I was crushed.
Before getting on the bus for the ride over to Mount San Antonio College for the game, I joined a buddy-who would have been playing second base if not for an injury-in his car for a little "pre-game." We consumed beer and bud, turning his Nova into a smoke-filled chamber of drowned sorrows.
"Fuck, there's no chance in hell I'm gonna play today," I fumed.
"Me, neither," my buddy added. "Is that pipe out?"
I was in no condition to play in the tournament, but I was probably fine for winter ball in the Dominican Republic. My red eyes and I eventually made it into the dugout to catch the day's ballgame. We managed to stay close to Edgewood for six innings-shocking even ourselves. And then the real shocker came.
"Coker," the coach barked. "Next inning. Centerfield."
Holy shit! You know those under-the-breath snickers you hear in classrooms when someone goofs big-time in front of the teacher? Imagine that amplified 10 times, and you've pretty much got the sound the players on the bench made after the coach announced his unexpected defensive move. I think someone actually pointed me toward center.
Mount San Antonio actually had tournament games going on two baseball diamonds facing each other. There was no fence, so a centerfielder would line up practically side by side with the centerfielder facing the other game. If anything got past you, a blind, one-legged batter could easily score.
Edgewood's hitters had been knocking the shit out of the ball all day. My first inning out there, a guy launched one that sent me beyond the other game's centerfielder, yet I made the catch. The next guy hit it further, and I still managed to grab it. In two innings, I made four or five putouts just by running down all these surface-to-air missiles. I contend to this day that it was just good, solid defensive baseball. My teammates would beg to differ. They still tell tales of me being totally blitzed, throwing my arm into the air willy-nilly and the ball somehow plopping into my glove. I also had one of our team's few hits, a chopper that eluded the extended arms of Edgewood's first and second basemen-a Garvey-esque, opposite-field single, I maintained; fucked-up Coker being late on the ball, my cackling teammates shot back.
Screw 'em. All I know is my play kept our team close going into the final inning. But before I could supply any game-winning heroics, the coach yanked me before my turn at bat in the top of the ninth. Perhaps he had gotten wind of my pre-game activities. We wound up losing 3-2 when, with a man on third, the coach called a squeeze play and the runner was tagged out at the plate. We'd never even practiced the squeeze before. Some players bitterly surmised he purposely threw the game because he was tired of making all those trips to rain-soaked Pomona.
Indeed, the Pomona Elks Tournament of 1978 may have begun the unraveling of the mighty Pacific High Pirates. We'd compiled a 5-1 record heading into Pomona. Resentment over the squeeze play, player bickering, and guys up and quitting midseason caused us to finish the season 8-8.
Or could it have been the team's rampant drug use after that tournament?
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Outgoing Independent TD Michael Lowry has lost his bid to stop his prosecution on tax offences but has pledged to appeal the decision.
Mr Lowry is due to go on trial at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
He is charged with deliberately filing an incorrect tax return and filing incorrect returns in relation to corporation tax as well as failing to have proper books of account.
The charges arise from a €372,000 payment made in August 2002 to an Isle of Man trust account.
An Appeals Commissioner found last year that Mr Lowry had no personal income tax liability arising from that payment.
Mr Lowry claimed the decision to put him on trial could not be justified in the light of that decision.
Mr Lowry also claimed there had been an interference with his right to a fair trial due to unprecedented interference with his case by the media.
And he claimed the transfer of his trial from Tipperary to Dublin was a fundamental breach of his rights and punished him for being a successful TD.
However, in his ruling, Mr Justice Seamus Noonan said the reality of the case was that it was an attempt by Mr Lowry to challenge the DPP's decision to prosecute him when the time to do so has long since passed.
He said to make his case, Mr Lowry had to adopt the device of claiming the continuation of his prosecution was now unlawful while accepting the decision to prosecute was lawful.
He said Mr Lowry was unable to identify any point in time after the prosecution commenced when it became unlawful.
The judge said Mr Lowry had failed by a wide margin to demonstrate anything remotely improper in the conduct of the DPP in this prosecution.
He said Mr Lowry's many complaints about "state actors, organs of the media and alleged co-conspirators" were notable for the fact that none of these were before the court and none were the responsibility of the DPP.
Mr Justice Noonan said Mr Lowry had raised a "plethora" of issues, many of which were "irrelevant" but had conspicuously declined to engage with the transaction that lay at the heart of this case.
He said Mr Lowry's case was based on a multitude of arguments which were, in many instances, ingenious and even superficially attractive but were in truth devoid of any substance or merit and ultimately built on a foundation of sand.
He dismissed the application.
Lawyers for the State said the Appeals Commissioner had found Mr Lowry had no personal liability for tax when an assessment was raised on a very specific basis.
They said the process was still in train and an assessment could be raised by Revenue on a different basis.
In a statement this afternoon Mr Lowry said "I will be appealing today's decision to the Court of Appeal and if necessary to the European Courts. I wish to confirm both I personally and my company are in possession of tax clearance certificates".


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PERSHORE Swimming Club sent an eight-strong squad to the City of Birmingham open meet, claiming three gold medals, three silvers and two bronzes.
William Gearey, 11, lowered existing Midland qualifying times and set personal bests while winning the 50-metre backstroke (35.37 seconds) and 50m freestyle (29.38).
Gearey added silvers in the 100m freestyle (one minute 04.56 seconds) and 200m individual medley (2.43.08) as well as a bronze in the 200m breaststroke (3.07.59).
He also swam pbs in the 100m butterfly and 200m freestyle.
Patrick Heeks, 10, secured another Midland qualifying time with gold in the 200m backstroke (2.49.62).
Heeks also grabbed bronze in the 100m butterfly (1.27.81) and was close to another district time in the 100m freestyle.
Tamara Marsden, nine, took home silver in the 400m freestyle in 7.20.33, knocking 25 seconds off her pb.
She produced pbs in the 200m and 50m breaststroke, 200m individual medley and 50m freestyle.
Alexandra Barry, 10, had a string of pbs, including the 50m butterfly, 100m backstroke, individual medley, butterfly and freestyle and 400m freestyle.
Isobel Cumming, 11, opted to swim the longer distances, setting a new pb in the 800m freestyle.
Charlotte Downey, 11, smashed pbs in the 50m backstroke, 400m, 100m and 50m freestyle and 200m breaststroke, individual medley and backstroke.
Amelia Gearey, nine, clocked a big pb in the 200m backstroke and impressed in the 50m breaststroke.
Naomi Marsden, 11, notched pbs in the 100m and 50m freestyle and 200m and 50m breaststroke.


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Tapestry and denim jacket
Fitted jacket made with tapestry and denim fabrics.
Pattern or design used: My Own Design - Carolina Soma
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To all those with critisisms (sp?) If you cannot voice your opions with some tact - then don't.
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I'd really love to hear about how you made it, if you used a ready made pattern or if it is self drafted, of maybe you used a pattern as a basis and altered it into your own design? No matter how, thanks a lot for the inspiration! I might not make a jacket any day soon, but you made me really feel like creating, you got my creative juices flowing by using those little denim pieces!!! :)
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Unlike alot of costumers I did NOT keep too much scrap when I moved, but a costumer I worked with on a movie, said keep the denim you cannot buy it by the yard like that, now I know HOW I shall use it, as trim and not as the entire skirt.
Lavender 123 should be on broadway, modeling AND designing. marvelous quality of work here, I have to take my time, to really get where some of you are.
my designs are A work my tailoring NEEDS work.
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While it's true that some unconventional combos work better than others, it all comes down to your definition of "better" and that depends on many variables, including personal taste.
Please, consider entering this in the Burda new-pattern competition that I just read about on this site. The shape is lovely, and I would *definitely* be interested in knowing more about your process! Bright Blessings!
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You should really meditate on WHY you mix fabrics. This piece needs some more consideration.
Good try on the construction though, the design factor leaves a lot to be desired.
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Day 1: 17,500 attendees, 12,800 health care professionals and 2,000 presented papers. The ADA Conference has started!
This year the 67th scientific sessions are taking place in Chicago. They just started, and I am writing to you from the press room at the convention at the McCormick Place Convention Center in downtown Chicago right on Lake Michigan. A couple of people told me that this is the largest convention center in the world, and I believe it. The ADA needs the space for the throngs of diabetes professionals who are here from all over the world.Already on this first day of the convention that runs through Monday the ADA press office tells me that more than 16,000 people are here and registered. And the convention will only begin in a few minutes as I write...
Day 2: New information, old friends and A1C.
This year what is exciting me the most is the exhibits of new and continuing products to help those of us with diabetes. More than 4,000 exhibitors are here to show off 231 exhibits. Of these, the most exciting for me so far has to be the exhibit of A1C testing. The booth for the Metrika home A1C test, called the A1CNow, offered us immediate A1C results, and I took advantage of the offer yesterday during the second day of the convention.
Day 3: Talking about incretins
While Chicago is in fact hardly as windy as my hometown of Boulder, Colorado, I was blown away not only by the shear size and efficiency of the Second City, its other and more appropriate moniker for this still first-rate city. Beyond that, a powerful presentation at the end of the third day concluded my active participation in the convention and was a real blow-out for me. Novo Nordisk hosted the presentation, which it billed as an interactive discussion about the incretins, which include the GLP-1 mimetics and the DPP-4 inhibitors. These are the two newest classes of diabetes drugs. Only one drug in each class is available yet: Byetta is the first GLP-1, and Januvia is the first DPP-4.


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Dell Inspiron 1555 doesn't recognize our router or any of the other 8 connections in our neighborhood, but other computer in the house does.
Yes, the F2 button to select a wireless connection is on :-)
Will not recognize a direct connect using the ethernet cable (still "no connections available")
ipconfig gave me this:
LAN adapter Local Area connection: media disconnected
Ethernet adapter Local Area connection: media disconneted
Tunne 1 adapter Local Area connection *13: media disconnected
Tunne 1 adapter isatap. {lots of numbers and letters}: media disconnected
Tunne 1 adapter isatap. {different numbers and letters}: media disconnected
Device Manager gave me this:
Network adapters
Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet <General> This device is working propertly (ha!) <Advanced> Network Address (radio button) Not Present
Intel (R) WiFi Loink 5100 AGN <General> This device is working properly (ha! again) <Advanced> Each property has a value
How do I get this machine to once again realize that there is a router in the house?!?
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Laptop no longer recognizes available wireless connections(10 posts)
Dell Inspiron 1555 doesn't recognize our router or any of the other 8 connections in our neighborhood, but other computer in the house does.
btibbs70, Hi. I am actually working on a laptop with almost the exact same problem; it indicates the WiFi icon on the lower right but when you click on I click on it I get something like " connections available..".
This is a DELL as well, Vostro model.
Will try some stuff out and will post back to let you know the results.
Had this problem on a HP laptop. Turned out that the WiFi hardware in the laptop was broken. I fixed the problem with a $20 WiFi dongle. Best is to take a dongle from the same manufacturer as your router - Netgear in my case.
They have these cute little mini dongles now. They hardly stick out from the USB port.
This seemed to solve the problem:
start-->programs-->accessories-->'right click' command prompt and 'click' "RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR"
Then run this command:
netsh winsock reset
Restart your PC.
@CompWiz, Did you get that solution from here? Just wondering. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357
Hi Guys.
Just a reminder... that if you are copying from another source, always check out copyright, and at the very least, give the link credit....
Thank you all who took the time to read and post.
After looking on the 'Net for Broadcom and Intel WiFi drivers, I uninstalled them both.
I was short on time, so I bought a Netgear N150 adapter. WooHoo it works!
Will try the "Run As Admin" suggestion later when I have the time to take the 'puter in for a user repair in case I mess up :-)
Thanks again for your time and responses.bt
I have had this happen to one of my older asus laptops before. The internal wireless adaptor was causing the entire computer to crash so I disabled it.
Now I am using a small usb wireless adaptor key and it works fine. Suggest borrowing or buying one to check out the problem.
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U.S. Justice Department announces expanded rights for gay married couples.
After spending the past five years observing the Obama administration, it has become easier to recognize when they are troubled, pinpointing the source of their troubles, however, is another matter entirely.
Most agree the worst week of the Obama presidency was when he was forced to come clean about the Obamacare LIE 'if you like your plan, you can keep it, period'. Topping the week in which Obama lost the American people's trust would prove difficult to surpass in terms of bad, but last week came pretty close.
In case you missed it, several reports were published painting a clear picture of President Obama's failed domestic policies. The January jobs (or lack there of) report revealed far fewer were created than the anemic amount economists had predicted while the Congressional Budget Office report explained how Obamacare's effect on lost employee hours equates to approximately 2 million jobs lost.
Thank goodness you can keep your healthcare plan if you like it…..
Adding salt to the wound, emails released from 'I plead the fifth' Lois Lerner place into question Obama's assertion 'there is not a smidgen of corruption' surrounding the IRS targeting Americans with differed political views than those of the current regime. Remind me again why one pleads the fifth?
Trey Gowdy Takes on Obama's Assertion 'Not a Smidgen of Corruption' Claim
The proverbial nail in the bad week coffin was delivered Saturday in the form of a Gallup poll, where Obama's job performance approval rating sank to a dismal 39%.
The culmination of bad press clearly concerned the Obama administration as the Alinsky Rules were promptly placed into high gear in an effort to distract Americans from the train wreck that is the Obama administration.
According to CNN, Attorney General Eric Holder announced
"The U.S. government will recognize same-sex marriages as equal to traditional marriages in all federal legal matters, including bankruptcies, prison visits and survivor benefits"
Holder went on to diminish the civil rights movement by comparing it to the war being waged by the LGBT movement for marriage equality, equality like cake baking enforcement and conjugal visits, by saying:
"Just like during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the stakes involved in this generation's struggle for LGBT equality could not be higher. As attorney general, I will not let this Department be simply a bystander during this important moment in history".
While I do not mean to diminish the importance of marriage being maintained as between a man and a woman, nor the administration's blatant disregard for the Constitution and 10th Amendment, I believe it important to focus on why the announcement was made Saturday, and what they hope to gain.
The left, and in particular the Obama administration, understands its opponents. They recognize which buttons to press in order to achieve a desired response from its enemy, gin up support from its base and gain coverage from its allies in the media.
The administration is convinced it can generate a crisis long enough to distract the American people from the second worst week of the Obama presidency. A week complete with big government economic failures resulting in the longest recession recovery in history and the lowest labor force participation rate since the seventies, big government policy failures where you can't keep your plan, your doctor and in 2 million cases-your job, period and presidential approval ratings swirling the drain in the thirties with a dash of phony AP, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, IRS, NSA, and Rosen scandals.
Given Holder's announcement strikes at two sacred conservative ideals; the sanctity of marriage, and the Constitution, it seems the Obama administration's concern is showing. The question is, will you be distracted?


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Bromley, St Peter & St Paul
Ancient Parish church.
Rebuilt 1948-57 after bombing.
The church was much altered from its 14th c. works but bombing in 1941 left only the tower of Kentish flints. The new church built in 1948-57 by J Harold Gibbons is of gothic style. Some of the original brasses remain although damaged, including Richard Thornhill 1600.
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Kwang Oh
Kwang W. Oh serves as an Associate Professor at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY at Buffalo) where he leads Sensors and MicroActuators Learning Lab (SMALL) (http://SMALL.Buffalo.edu or http://MicroTAS.org). He received his B.S. degree in physics from Chonbuk National University, Korea, in 1995. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering (http://www.BioMEMS.uc.edu) from University of Cincinnati in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Prior to joining SUNY at Buffalo, he worked at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Korea (http://www.sait.samsung.co.kr), where he developed micro-PCR and LOC platforms for clinical diagnostics. He has an excellent record of publications with more than 86 technical papers, including two review papers on microvalves (J. Micromech. Microeng. 16, R13–R39, 2006) and microfluidic circuits (Lab Chip, 12, 515–545, 2012), three book chapters, and 24 patents. He is serving as a Cochair of the Symposium Section of Micro & Nano Fluidics, NanoTech 2012 (Santa Clara, Calif) and NanoTech 2012 (Washington, DC) (http://www.techconnectworld.com/Nanotech2012/sym/micro_nano_fluidics.html). His current research focuses on microfluidic networks, droplet-based microfluidics, 3D cell culture platforms, microvalves and actuators, and microfluidic applications for terahertz spectroscopy, platelet aggregation, and metamaterials. His research is extensively funded through NSF (National Science Foundation), NYSTAR (The New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation), KIST (Korean Institute of Science Technology), and UB (University at Buffalo).
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They say numbers never lie. Well, D.C. United is on a 5-game unbeaten streak, winning three of those matches. The Black-and-Red has 11 points, sitting in third place in the east after beating the first place team in MLS by a score of 4-1.
"It's big for our confidence," Assistant Coach Chad Ashton said. "The game changed on the red card. To that point, we could've been a little better. To put a big number up against a team that is top of the table in the entire league is big for us."
Fabián Espíndola, far and beyond the man of the match, scored two beautiful goals and had one crafty assist, all worth the replay button.
- Watch: D.C. United beats FC Dallas 4-1
"Unbelievable," Ashton said through a smile. "Just a big time performance. You can't say enough about how much he created. He filled up the box score, and he probably deserves a couple more lines in there because I thought he was just incredible. Hats off to him, just an incredible performance."
Let's rewind for a minute. FC Dallas opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Mauro Diaz finds the back of the net on a pretty piece of pattern play. Then, Zach Loyd gets his second yellow and is sent off; Dallas goes down to ten men. What happens next was magic.
Let's go goal-by-goal, shall we?
First, Espíndola finds Nick DeLeon, who passes to Eddie Johnson out wide. Johnson's run is worth noting here. As Espíndola cuts in, Johnson pulls wide. DeLeon finds his feet, Johnson whips in a great cross, and Espíndola buries it.
"He's doing a lot of little things," said Ashton of Johnson's performance. "People want to get on him for not scoring, but he had a fabulous ball on the first goal. He's such a handful on anything that is played out of the back. It allows us to start attacks higher up the field, which is huge."
Feeling a small tweak in his hamstring, Johnson's night ends in the 50th minute, and Conor Doyle comes on.
"He brought great energy to the game," Ashton recalled. "He helped with our possession. He helped get their backs off the ball. He works super hard. It helped us start our attacks higher because of his defensive relentlessness."
Moving on to goal number two. Jeff Parke does a great job to head the ball back across the box, Doyle gets his laces on it and Chris Seitz is forced to make a save, but there's too much power behind Doyle's strike to catch it. The ball bounces out to Bobby Boswell, who puts his head down and drives the ball into the back of the net.
"Bobby and Jeff were big time on set pieces, keeping things alive for us. Bobby did a great job with the goal, but Jeff and Bobby were solid all game," Ashton said.
This is fun—next.
Espíndola makes two Dallas defenders look silly, drawing them towards him with patience on the ball, then slipping between the two. He picks his head up and finds Sean Franklin, who calmly flicks the ball into the lower right corner with one perfect touch.
"That's why we went out and got all these guys. We know what they are capable of when they hit their ceiling and play to their potential. There's no stopping them. Sean is one of those guys," explained Ashton. "He had a great goal, beats the guy to the spot and a nifty little touch. He and Nicky were a handful on that side all game."
And last, but certainly not least.
Chris Rolfe, whose addition to this team has been huge, finds Espíndola who volleys it home with one touch, to which the commentator said, "Okay, this is just getting out of hand now."
No sir, D.C. United was in complete control of the night. Fabián Espíndola made sure of that.


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Unemployment Rate For St. Cloud Metro Area Drops Nearly 1%
ST. CLOUD – The unemployment rate in the St. Cloud metro area dropped nearly a full percent last month.
The latest numbers from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development have the April unemployment rate at 6.6% — down from 7.5% in March. It's our lowest unemployment rate for April since it was at 5.5% in April of 2008.
We're also even with the state's unemployment rate, which is also 6.6%. And we're much lower than the national unemployment rate of 8.7%.


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My son just asked if we had any Ellios Pizza (we did not) and then VOILA, a new Ellios Pizza coupon is available.
These are very regularly 2/$5 at Shaw's and most stores, so $2 after coupon. Occasionally we can find a better deal so let me know if you do.


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Sonia Peres, wife of Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, was reported Tuesday to be in stable condition at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, after suffering a heart attack Monday.
She was reported to be resting, fully conscious, in the hospital's intensive- care unit.
The foreign minister, who had been in Spain on an official visit, cut short his trip to return to Jerusalem. He was lunching in Madrid with his Spanish counterpart, Foreign Minister Javier Solana, when he received the news. He left immediately and was at his wife's bedside by midnight.
Physicians said Sonia Peres was out of danger but would probably remain in the hospital for a few days, for further tests and observation.


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Vanessa Traina and Morgan Wendelborn's Perfect Apartment
We weren't sure what to expect when we were invited to the opening of THE APARTMENT on Soho's Greene Street last night, but color us impressed. THE APARTMENT is a stunning space that looks like, well, an apartment, but everything is for sale (even the bathtub!). The new retail space was curated by Vanessa Traina and Morgan Wendelborn along with set designer Carl Sprague. The trio brought out an impressive list of friends including Alexander Wang, Lazaro Hernandez, Jack McCollough, Joseph Altuzarra, Kate Young, Joanna Hillman, Anne Christensen, Sally Singer, Stefano Tonchi, Reed Krakoff, and Zachary Lynd for flowing Louis Roederer champagne to toast the new place. The space will change on a seasonal basis and includes everything from furniture to fashion spread out through a dining room, kitchen, living room, bedroom, and closet. THE APARTMENT plans to host events such as lectures, workshops, screenings, and dinners starting this month. Not in Manhattan any time soon? THELINE.com is selling everything in the place.


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Gauthier embraces technology as chamber prez
GUILDERLAND — Erika Gauthier has been named president of the Guilderland Chamber of Commerce.
Gauthier has been acting as the interim president since October, when Kathy Burbank stepped down to become the executive director of Community Caregivers.
"I am happy I get to continue my work through some new initiatives we have been working on the last few months," said Gauthier.
Before becoming the acting president of the chamber, Gauthier was the program and membership manager, a position she had held since 2009.
She previously worked with the Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce, the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce, and the Guilderland Public Library. She has a bachelor's degree in political science and public relations from the State University of New York College at Oswego and is currently obtaining her master's degree in business administration from Excelsior College.
Gauthier said the big push in the chamber right now is to step up its technological aspects.
"We just started a Google Indoor Maps partnership, so people can virtually go inside a business and see what it's like," she said.
The chamber also recently launched a mobile application, still in the testing phase, which will allow people to electronically respond to events, access members, and explore member-to-member discounts.
"We're going to play with it a little bit more," said Gauthier. "There are lots of options."
Membership has gone down, she said, but noted that declining membership was an issue for all chambers, across the county.
"We are all trying to reinvent ourselves and find new and better ways to help our members," Gauthier said.
The Guilderland Chamber currently has about 500 member businesses.
One reason for the decline could be related to the Affordable Care Act preventing the chamber from providing health insurance to small businesses, but, Gauthier said, the Guilderland Chamber of Commerce still has it's ACA navigator grant, allowing it to assist businesses and individuals with enrollment.
"Open enrollment is closed, but people can still enroll if they have a qualifying event," she said.
Gauthier also said that, while membership hasn't been growing, she believes the members who have stuck with the chamber for as long as they have will remain members for years to come.
"Most people don't see the value in face-to-face networking anymore," said Gauthier. "We're trying to lure younger, start-up businesses in by improving our technology."
One of Gauthier's first actions as chamber president was to announce the 2014 Town and Chamber award recipients.
Winners were nominated by community and chamber members and selected by a committee consisting of town officials, chamber members, and the chamber's annual dinner committee.
The Town Beautification Award Winners are:
- The Westmere Fire Department, for best overall remodel of the new firehouse;
- Tractor Supply Company for new construction;
- The Recovery Sports Grill for best renovation;
- Dave and Busters for "worth a tour"; and
- M&T Bank with a special Green Award for its new, energy-efficient building.
The Chamber Award Winners are:
- Brian Clark, of the UPS Store, for Small Business Person of the Year;
- Lisa Giruzzi, of Transformational Conversations, for the Chamber Champion Award, for her tireless support of the Guilderland Chamber;
- Sports and Spinal Wellness Center for the Best Place to Work;
- Troy Miller, of CM Fox Realty, for the Award of Merit; and
- The Lynnwood Elementary Parent Teacher Association, for a special Community Project Award, for its new playground.
The awards will be presented at a dinner on June 11 at the Pinehaven Country Club.


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On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 00:31, Heikki Linnakangas > <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote: >> That is somewhat compensated by the fact that tuples that are accessed more >> often are also more likely to be in cache. Fetching the heap tuple to check >> visibility is very cheap when the tuple is in cache. >> >> I'm not sure how far that compensates it, though. I'm sure there's typically >> nevertheless a fairly wide range of pages that have been modified since the >> last vacuum, but not in cache anymore. > > Would it make sense to re-evaluate the visibility bit just before a > page gets flushed out from shared buffers? On a system with no long > transactions, it seems likely that a dirty page is already all-visible > by the time bgwriter (or shared buffers memory pressure) gets around > to writing it out. That way we don't have to wait for vacuum to do it > and would make your observation hold more often. This has been suggested before, and, sure, there might be cases where it helps. But you need to choose your test case fairly carefully. For example, if you're doing a large sequential scan on a table, the ring-buffer logic causes processes to evict their own pages, and so the background writer doesn't get a chance to touch any of those pages. You need some kind of a workload where pages are being evicted from shared buffers slowly enough that it ends up being the background writer, rather than the individual backends, that do the work. But if you have that kind of workload, then we can infer that most of your working set fits into shared buffers. And in that case you don't really need index-only scans in the first place. The main point of index only scans is to optimize the case where you have a gigantic table and you're trying to avoid swamping the system with random I/O. I'm not saying that such a change would be a particularly bad idea, but I'm not personally planning to work on it any time soon because I can't convince myself that it really helps all that much. I think the real solution to getting visibility map bits set is to vacuum more frequently, but have it be cheaper each time. Our default autovacuum settings vacuum the table when the number of updates and deletes reaches 20% of the table size. But those settings were put in place under the assumption that we'll have to scan the entire heap, dirtying every page that contains dead tuples, scan all the indexes and remove the associated index pointers, and then scan and dirty the heap pages that contain now-dead line pointers a second time to remove those. The visibility map has eroded those assumptions to some degree, because now we probably won't have to scan the entire heap every time we vacuum; and I'm hoping we're going to see some further erosion. Pavan has a pending patch which, if we can work out the details, will eliminate the second heap scan; and we've also talked about doing the index scan only when there are enough dead line pointers to justify the effort. That, it seems to me, would open the door to lowering the scale factor, maybe by quite a bit - which, in turn, would help us control bloat better and get visibility map bits set sooner. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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text: Happy April Ladies and Gentleman!!! How do you like my cruel April Fool's joke!!! I am making everyone check in the day after EASTER!!! How much worse can it get. Ok well I stayed the same this week. I think that is not to bad since I have not been on points since this Mcdonald's thing started. At least it is almost over!! I only need 6 more toys. Gotta love my DH. He informed me Saturday that he wanted to know when I was going to start counting points again because I have been off them way t long for no good reason!! HE said he would ask me everyday if he needed to to make sure I was staying on points. I told him Monday so I guess that is today huh!! So I have to be good!! How was everyones Easter????? Did you manage to stay out of those chocolate bunnies?? Ok everyone have a great weeek and drink that water and excercise!!! Happy WISHing Holly


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One of the more recognizable veteran names on our current list of unrestricted free agents, Josh Howard is still looking for a chance to join an NBA roster, writes Jeff Caplan of NBA.com. According to Caplan, Howard has been working out in Dallas, staying in shape while he waits for his next opportunity.
"I'm just waiting for the opportunity to get on a team," Howard said. "My agent has been staying in contact with teams and continues to communicate with those teams. It's a waiting game."
With teams focusing on cutting rather than signing players over the last couple weeks, there haven't been many opportunities out there for Howard. However, with the regular season underway and some teams already being hit by injuries, veterans like the former Mav may begin to look more appealing in the coming weeks. For his part, the 32-year-old says he's motivated by the fact that he remains unsigned.
"I look at it as motivating," Howard said. "It's never a disappointment. I look at my career and if it were to end today I can say honestly that I was one of the best players in the league for a while. I made it to the Finals, but you know my goal is to win the Finals and I want another opportunity. That's my drive in me still and my competitiveness. I'm not ready to stop playing. I'm staying aggressive and hoping a team picks me up."
Earlier in the offseason, Howard received interest from the Knicks, Spurs, Sixers, and Timberwolves, among other teams, but those clubs moved on to other options, meaning new suitors could arise once we get a few weeks into the season.


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XO Cognacs - Napoléon
A Napoleon, or X.O (for Extra Old ), also called Hors d'âge, is a cognac which youngest eau-de-vie is at least six and a half years old.
A Cognac may be sold only when its youngest eau-de-vie reaches a minimum of two and a half years old, as of the first day of October following the harvest of the grapes.
Only the years of storage in oak barrels count to determine its age. Once transferred into glass, Cognac stops maturing. It stands still.
However, most Cognac houses will use Cognacs much older than those required by law, allowing X.Os to reach a minimum of twenty years old, in order to reveal their very best.
XO is perhaps one of the vaguest classifications regarding quality, and should't be taken at face value without further search. Some of the XOs you can find in our site are certainly under-priced, while some others, which, of course, you will NOT find here at Le Cognac, may be quite mediocre . In fact, selecting Cognacs with a reasonably quality/price ratios is one of our raisons d'être.
On the other hand, regarding Cognac, beyond a certain level of quality one enters into the realm of subjectivity. And then, of course, there is always a premium in rarity. When a product is scarce, if demand remains strong, it is only natural that prices go up. This is exactly what we have been seeing with high-end Cognac prices in the last few years because of the huge Chinese demand.
As a rule, we would say that the XOs present at Le Cognac are all good value in general market terms. Some of them are indeed very good value.
Brillet - Très Vieille Réserve
The Cognac XO 'par excellence'!Learn MoreExcl. Tax: €74.17 Incl. Tax: €89.00
Delamain - Pale and Dry XO
A blend produced exclusively from Grande Champagne, the first cognac growth, and aged for many long years, reveals a remarkably delicate elegance.Learn MoreExcl. Tax: €73.75 Incl. Tax: €88.50
- François Voyer - Napoléon
François Voyer cognacs are selected by the finest restaurants (Alain Ducasse, Lucas Carton, Laurent...)
Subtle and elegant.The « best-seller » of François Voyer Cognacs, which pleases the novice as well as the connoisseur ... A superb performance by the Master of cellars ...Learn MoreExcl. Tax: €49.17 Incl. Tax: €59.00
Hine - Antique XO Grande Champagne avec Etui
Created in 1920 by Georges HINELearn More
90 years later, the House of HINE reinterprets Antique, now an XO Premier Cru.
Blend of more than 40 cognacs exclusively from grapes grown in Grande Champagne, the finest cru of the Cognac region.
All cognacs are aged for more than 10 years.Excl. Tax: €149.17 Incl. Tax: €179.00
Paul Beau - Hors d'Age
Vieille Grande Champagne. Gold medal at the 2008 Concours Agricole de Paris, Silver medal at the International Wine and Spirit Competition 2001. Aged 20-25 years.
Gold medal at the 2010 Concours Général Agricole of Paris !Learn MoreExcl. Tax: €71.67 Incl. Tax: €86.00
Raymond Ragnaud - Folle Blanche -2002-Grande Champagne-
This fine and exquisite "eau-de-vie" is created from an uncommon and old grape variety "the Folle Blanche".Learn More
The "Folle Blanche" is the exceptionally unique cognac grape surrendered after the assault of phylloxera in the late nineteenth century.
The "Folle Blanche" gives unfathomably exquisite, sensitive and perfumed cognacs.Excl. Tax: €62.50 Incl. Tax: €75.00
Couprie - XO Très Vieille Réserve
This XO, made with expertise handed down from generation to generation, has an oaky character provided by Limousin oak barrels. The blend has been patiently aged for decades, and the youngest component has spent many years in barrel.Learn MoreExcl. Tax: €57.50 Incl. Tax: €69.00
Couprie - Napoléon
The youngest Cognac in this blend is aged for long time in Limousin oak barrels (including several years in new barrels).
Elegant copper highlights, a lingering bouquet, and a powerful, round flavour make this a very distinguished Cognac. The oaky characteristics and candied fruit flavours coat the palate after the first sip.Learn MoreExcl. Tax: €46.17 Incl. Tax: €55.40
Couprie - XO Carafe Elégance
This XO, made with expertise handed down from generation to generation, has an oaky character provided by Limousin oak barrels. The blend has been patiently aged for decades, and the youngest component has spent many years in barrel.Learn MoreExcl. Tax: €101.25 Incl. Tax: €121.50
Delamain - XO VESPER Vieux Cognac
Vesper is the sixth canonical hour celebrated each late-afternoon: the name of this Cognac Delamain reflects its richness and near worshipful feeling .Amber tone with a bright reflection of pure gold. Powerful and persisting perfumes from this old cognac coming from the Grande Champagne.The know how of the cognac house Delamain is fully explicit in the process of blending from natural strength (around 50% vol.) down to 40, with waht is called the 'Faibles' (weak). Its style is round, full bodied, mature and mellow. Learn MoreExcl. Tax: €115.42 Incl. Tax: €138.50


text: What's Left is a simple thread with a simple question for everyone. If you could only choose one (or at the very most 3) titles in any given genre, what would you like to see released. This does not concern stalled shows. We are talking only about shows that haven't had any season set releases in R1 up to this point. So what's your favorites by Genre? Here are mine. Sitcom – Ozzie and Harriet, Wonder Years Family – Lassie Western – Stagecoast West, Wide Country, Rifleman Anthology – Fireside Theater Medical Drama – Dr. Kildare Drama – The Millionaire Adventure – Tarzan Sci-Fi – Six Million Dollar Man Mystery – Hec Ramsey Animated Series – Harlem Globetrotters Crime Drama – In the Heat of the Night Detective – Adventures of Ellery Queen (50's), 77 Sunset Strip Legal Drama – The Defenders School Drama - Mr. Novak (easy choice here for me) Newspaper Drama - Big Town, The Roaring 20's (I know, but it fits here too) War/Military Drama - Navy Log, 12 O'Clock High Anybody else? Gary "try to really narrow down your choices to one show if possible" O.


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Palazuelos targets top two
Ruben Palazuelos sees no reason why Hearts cannot secure a top two SPL finish next season.
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Ruben Palazuelos sees no reason why Hearts cannot secure a top two SPL finish next season, provided they strengthen their squad over the summer.
The Tynecastle outfit will finish third in the table this time around, although they are a whopping 23 points behind second-placed Celtic.
Palazuelos has acknowledged there is a gap between Hearts and the Old Firm, but he believes with more quality signings they could secure second.
"The gap between us and Celtic and Rangers is big," explained Palazuelos.
"The difference is huge in terms of points but we have played well against the Old Firm in the SPL this season.
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"Celtic and Rangers have the stronger squads and better players because they have the most money.
"If we add real quality to our squad then we can finish second."
Meanwhile, Palazuelos is retaining hope the club will be able to retain out of contract Bruno Aguiar, who is expected to move on in the summer.
"There is a lot of speculation about Bruno but I would love to see him stay at Hearts," he concluded.


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That's the question at the forefront of the midterm elections, of course, and Democrats have no answers. Reason TV has an explanation for why the private sector has not begun to create jobs on a meaningful scale while generational highs in unemployment persist: uncertainty. Ted Balaker takes a look at the depressing effect (in more than one sense) of an administration and Congress running amuck with regulatory expansion. Businesses cannot possibly plan for the future, and instead have decided to hunker down with their capital — and that's very reminiscent of the last catastrophic economic period in American history.
Today many Americans credit FDR with rescuing our nation from the Great Depression, but there's plenty wrong with that view, says Lee Ohanian, a UCLA economics professor who specializes in economic crisis. "What's wrong with that view is that private-sector job growth did not come back under Roosevelt," says Ohanian, who notes that Americans often forget how long the Great Depression lasted. Unemployment stood at 17 percent in 1939, a decade after the infamous stock market crash, and, although times were much worse back then, Ohanian sees troubling parallels between the Great Depression and the Great Recession. In both instances our nation emerged from a severe downturn with strong productivity growth and the banking system largely restored. "So the key puzzle for both today and the 1930s is why aren't private-sector jobs being created at a much more rapid rate?"
Uncertainty may have something to do with it. "Uncertainty is an enemy of job creation," says Ohanian, "Because in a world with a lot of uncertainty there's a tendency to 'wait and see.'" Our nation's job creators wait and see what Washington's next experiment will be.
CEO Joanne Garneau has spent a year waiting for the Federal Trade Commission to announce a new regulation that will determine whether her company hires more employees or even stays in business. It's just one regulation, a tiny one by Washington standards. How will businesses end up being affected by ObamaCare or the 2,300-page financial overhaul? What if taxes go up? Today, like the 1930s, uncertainty reigns.
According to research conducted by Ohanian and fellow UCLA economist Harold L. Cole, FDR's anti-market policies actually prolonged the Great Depression by seven years. And what about Obama's policies? When the unemployment rate finally does improve will he receive credit for rescuing America from the Great Recession or blame for prolonging the crisis?
The problem in this case is twofold. First, rather than incentivizing capital investment in the broad market by lowering tax rates, the Obama administration has signaled just the opposite by keeping the tax hikes due at the end of the year on the table ever since taking office. If capital investment will carry added risk and income will carry higher penalties, the smart option is to shelter capital until a more attractive environment arrives. At the same time, the uncertainty in regulatory expansion means that businesses can't even conduct a rational cost-benefit analysis on expansion, which essentially puts off those decisions entirely.
The jobs will not return until regulatory uncertainty vanishes and the tax regime is changed to encourage investment. It doesn't get any more clear than that.