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(WECK 1230) — I haven't been the biggest supporter of Darcy Regier since 2006-07, but the pre-July 1 personnel moves he made to improve the Buffalo Sabres have been more than enough to get me to give him a second chance (as if he's massively desirous of such an opportunity!).
Then, I read that Ville Leino had become a Buffalo Sabre and got even more excited… until I saw the price tag. At six years and $27 million, Leino had become the Sabres third-highest paid forward. Derek Roy and Drew Stafford would be paid less than a player with a commendable playoff record but 70+ career points by age 27.
I was perplexed, maybe even a little angry. Did Regier understand the concept of a salary cap? Shouldn't he have been signing Tyler Myers to a long-term extension? I didn't need him to get Brad Richards (in fact, I'm somewhat against it), but for real?
Yes… and I get it.
I really hate agreeing to this move, but armed with the knowledge that Leino is a natural center I'm ready to like — not love — the move. The fact of the matter is that the Sabres have added three winners to the roster and kept a guy who throws his body around like he's indesctructible. They also extended a gutsy mighty mite to an extremely reasonable contract.
An the anatomy of these moves points to another major surgery forthcoming… a big trade. Follow me:
1) Chris Butler & Paul Byron to Calgary for Robyn Regehr, Ales Kotalik and a second-round pick.
The Sabres entered the offseason with four RFA blueliners: Mike Weber, Butler, Andrej Sekera and Marc Gragnani. The likelihood of signing all four was fine, but the odds that the majority of them would be happy were ridiculous.
2) Trading a fourth-round pick for the rights to negotiate with Christian Ehrhoff.
This is actually the only truly un-Darcy thing that's been done. Regier loves draft picks, but this risk was phenomenal. The 10-year deal is absolutely fine, but only plausible because T-Pegs is okay with giving a defenseman $13 in signing bonuses over the first two years of the deal.
3) Resigning Cody McCormick and Nathan Gerbe to three-year deals.
You work hard here? You stay here. Boom.
4) Signing Ville Leino for six years and $27 million.
Whether Leino as center is a smoke screen or truth, the guy has shown up beginning three seasons ago in a brief spell with the Wings. He arrived in the playoffs with Philly in 2009-10, scoring 21 points in 19 games including three goals and six assists in the seven-game Cup loss versus Chicago.
Leino also gives the Sabres 14 forwards under contract and terrific depth at defense. In fact, the guy who deserves the most credit for the upcoming Step Five is someone who wasn't doing it on purpose: Tom Golisano.
5) Trade multiple roster players, prospects and picks for a true No. 1 center
No rewards without risks, but the Sabres have an almost gross amount of prospect depth. They've drafted defensemen for years and not sent them packing because of Golisano's rules. They've got some terrific NHL-ready forwards as well, and now can deal those picks, which may not even be precious anymore.
It could be multiple deals: Maybe Pominville and Morrisonn go to some team short of the cash ceiling and then Sekera, Adam and a first go for a stud. Perhaps it's a blockbuster. Maybe they land a piece we didn't even know was available: Dustin Brown, David Backes, Zach Parise, Paul Stastny, Ryan Getzlaf, Evgeni Malkin… who knows?
It's all on the table at this point, and that — more than a substandard free agent class — is what makes the new Sabres a threat to win a Cup as early as next year. It's pretty awesome. If this Leino signing, however, is it, I'm going to temper my enthusiasm a bit. Tyler Ennis is a natural center, too, but what comes natural isn't always what's best in a league that features the best of the better.
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P.S. Expect Ryan Miller to post Vezina numbers again with Regehr and Ehrhoff joining the fold.


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Kelowna International Airport welcomed its first direct flight from Los Angeles yesterday – a United Airlines flight that capped a year of expansion for the airport.
In April, the airport welcomed North Western Air's twice-weekly direct service to Red Deer as well as new seasonal WestJet flights to Phoenix and Los Angeles.
Previously, Kelowna residents had no direct route to California.
Ski resort operators told Business in Vancouver earlier this year that they were excited about the increase in service because it meant Alaska Airlines no longer had a monopoly on the market via their Kelowna-to-L.A. flight that stops in Seattle.
Obtaining the United Airlines flights took more than four years of negotiations.
Michael Ballingall, who is senior vice-president at Big White Ski Resort and at Silver Star resort, together with other resort operators and representatives at Tourism Kelowna, originally lobbied for a direct flight to San Francisco because they thought getting gate space at LAX would be impossible.
United then bought Continental Airlines in a US$3.17 billion all-stock deal in 2010, creating the world's largest air carrier.
Management shakeups followed, forcing Ballingall's team to restart lobby efforts and sell a new set of executives on the idea of flying to Kelowna.
Those new executives eventually calculated passenger projections for San Francisco and Los Angeles and determined that the flights to Los Angeles would make money from day one, Ballingall said.
"The decision and the timing was based around business, not tourism," he said.
Large Kelowna employers such as Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS), which in 2007 paid $350 million to buy the Kelowna-founded virtual reality game Club Penguin, will also benefit from direct flights to Tinseltown.

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Everywhere else in the world if you notice someone checking out a stripper you don't think much of it. In Ottawa, on January 28, if you see someone checking out a stripper, they're at their local library and they're just going to have a nice chat for 20 minutes or so.
Oh, Canada! You've charmed us once again, this time with your "Human Library," wherein patrons of Ottawa's libraries will be able to borrow a human being for 20 minutes at a time. Included in their selection will be a prostitute, a stripper, an HIV positive man and a transgendered woman who will talk with the patrons about their lives one-on-one. The human subjects, who will also include (depending on which branch you go to) an urban aboriginal, a Muslim woman, a police officer and a Peking Opera performer, will not make presentations, but will have conversations with patrons. The event is meant to promote "diversity and dialogue," says a story in the National Post.
Of course there are some people who have objected to the checking out of the sex worker and the stripper. But, "Books are about information and information comes in many, many formats, and a human book is a unique way of presenting information. ... The role of the public library is to provide access to information," said Elaine Condos, the city's acting librarian.
The Human Library concept actually began in Denmark, the Post says, "when an anti-violence group was asked to build a program to promote dialogue, reduce prejudices and encourage understanding for fans attending the large Roskilde music festival. It has been replicated around the world."
We gotta say, though, if we were gonna check out a Canadian, can it be Ryan Reynolds?


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Have Medical Questions? Ask a Doctor Online!
Answers are for informational purposes only. Please confirm any information given with your own doctor.
Hi there.
Did you have blood too?
Also, what do you mean by sensory tests? Which tests specifically have you had?
No blood tests have been done yet but I will if it seems like a condition that you've heard of. The last family Doctor and emergency room Doctor kinda scratched their heads and offered anti-inflammatories and that's not helping.
When I said "sensory tests', I meant having the small rubber hammer banged on the knee cap for flexing, banged on the ankles, having a small metal object tickled on the bottom of my feet to see if my legs were "numb" and had no feeling or if I had feeling in my legs and it was a "partial numbness", pushing against the Doctors arms with my feet, raising my legs, things like that. The seonsory test was just to see if I had feeling in my legs (sorry, I didn't know how to describe it).
Have you seen this "heaviness" above the knees before? This has been going on for months now and I'm a little scared
Hi Tommy.
Okay. I doubt this is just normal sensory loss and I have a few ideas of tests that need to be done.
Last question before I answer: Do you take any meds or supplements for any reason?
Also are you vegetarian or drink alcohol?
Thank you for responding so quickly.
No I don't take any prescription medication, I'm not allergic to any medication either. The only supplements I was taking was Mens 1-A Day Vitamins (but not anymore). I'm not a vegetarian and as for alcohol, maybe 2 times a month I'll have a drink but its very few and far between.
I'll seriously consider all options of tests you have in mind. I've literally spent thousands of dollars on chiropractor visits and exercises and diets, and massages and MRI, etc, etc.. please offer your thoughts. Thanks
You're welcome.
The first thing you need is some blood work.
1)screen for autoimmune disease with an ANA test blood test
2)vitamin B12 can cause neuropathy like this. Get a B12 level and folate level
3)thyroid problems. Get a TSH and T4 level
4)Also, check CPK to make sure its not muscle breakdown
Lastly you need another test called an EMG. An EMG measures nerve function in the body to see what is causing the problem. This is done by a neurologist whom is the doctor you should see.
Please don't click "bad" or "poor" service as this leaves me negative feedback. If you aren't 100% satisfied, just click "reply."
Thank you so much for the replies, I am going to do the necessary steps to have this taken care of. In all honesty, I asked this same question to a Neurologist yesterday and his answers were very generic and offered little advice. His work was terrible, your answers were much more detailed.
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, I have an appointment to see a Sports Chiropractor now, even though I don't think it will do much for me today. I will leave you a positive feedback. I appreciate the answers!
You're very welcome Tommy.
Thank you for the kind words.
Please don't forget a good review and ask for Dr. Phil in the future!


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Forum OpenACS Q&A: nsd crash after "ns_returnredirect"
I am having a repeatable nsd crash each time ns_returnredirect is used. Redirect actually works, but then server dies with a single message (debug enabled).
[09/Aug/2006:12:27:58][7817.1082550624][-conn:0-] Fatal: received fatal signal 11
NsTclReturnRedirectObjCmd, Ns_ConnReturnRedirect seems to finish OK, and if there is anything in ADP after ns_returnredirect call, I am getting that in a trace, too.
So apparently server dies not IN the call, but AFTER it.
Any suggestions?
~ Alex.
Tried to set to 1M (8 times the default size), don't see any difference - keep crashing.
~ Alex.
for example, http://referred-to-page has content: <img src="https://.."?
the initial page (index.adp) may be as simple as this:
< %
ns_returnredirect "http://server:8080/alive.html"
% >
and alive.html only has a single "alive" word in it.
I also shall say that this issue seems to be specific for 64-bit version of nsd.
Are there any warnings when the server starts?
The mistake is on your side, we have compiled the whole suite for 64 bit opterons and power5+ (our production environment) an the environment works very stable. if you want that someone helps you with the problem, you have to provide more details about what might be special in your setup.
It's 4.5.0
No warnings at all ... just "signal 11"
Quite possible ...
however this is how I compiled it:
#./configure --enable-threads --enable-symbols --prefix=/usr/lib/aolserver4/ --exec_prefix=/usr/lib/aolserver4/ --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.4
#make install
The troubling question for me is that server seems to have no other issues except "redirect".
Could you suggest any better method to debug this problem?
file nsd/adpeval.c, function NsAdpLogError(NsInterp *itPtr), around line 824
At some point, framePtr which is
framePtr = itPtr->adp.framePtr;
turns out to be zero, which obviously causes SIGSEGV in the code couple lines later
Ns_DStringPrintf(&ds, "\n at line %d of ",
framePtr->line + interp->errorLine);
Why framePtr is zero - I have no idea, would be great to hear from nsd developers.
However, this quickie fixes the *crash* part
if (!framePtr) {
Ns_Log(Fatal, "AAA - zero framePtr");
Please comment
~ Alex.
PS this is 4.5.0, not 4.0.10
I haven't tried 4.5 yet, but someone has reported the same problem that you're having on the AOLserver list.
You may want to report your findings there.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Complacency was the word of the day on Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" TV show Monday, as he told viewers that 2012 is shaping up to be markedly different than 2011, which means the word complacency takes on a whole new meaning. Cramer responded to critics who have been complaining that he's been too bullish on the markets and is too confident that stocks are heading higher. The critics want Cramer to recommend selling everything, ahead of the old adage "sell in May and go away," starting with today's selloff. But Cramer reminded viewers that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has plunged more than 250 points 67 times over the past few years, and today was not one of them. The markets have plunged more than 2% a total of 101 times over the past few years, and today was not one of them. Things are simply better now, added Cramer, which is why being complacent, thinking things are still the same as they were in 2011, is the reckless strategy. Cramer said if investors truly feel that the Federal Reserve controls stock prices, by all means, sell. But, he said, that decision will keep investors out of stocks like Apple ( AAPL), a stock which he owns for his charitable trust,


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It has been so long since I have needed to do something like this I am not even sure what the best way to do this any more. I long time ago i used to use image maps to do this but I need to knwo if ther eis a better way now, other than Flash of course.
I have a numbered grid that represetns burrial plots that are for sale. The ones that are avaialbe will be highlighted. When you click on the highlighrted square, that persons contact information will show up in a specific area (one that remains constatnt) adn the square will change to a different color. how is the best way to go about this. HTML and CSS I know, the rest is a bit hit or miss.
Any suggestions?
many thanks,Houston
Here is another example of the same script with the clicked item highlighted:
That could be adapted to your needs.


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28-0815 - Fuse Holder
Rated Voltage: 32VDC
Rated Current: 30A
ATO in-line
Mfr Name: Distributed By MCM
Mfr Number: CQ-211(N)
28-1185 - Fuse Holder
Rated Voltage: 32VDC
Rated Current: 30A
Five gang ATO fuse block
Mfr Number: ZC-312-5P
60-11405 - Add-a-Fuse Tap for Automotive ATC Fuses - 10pk
Add a Circuit Fuse Holders (10 pack)
This device has slots for two fuses. One is for the fuse you took out of your panel, the second is for the lead you are tapping off.
Mfr Number: CQ-ADATC
28-0175 - Fuse Holder
Size: 1 1/4" x 1/4"
Rated Voltage: 250VDC
Rated Current: 10A
Fuse block
Mfr Number: 28-0175
28-063 - Fuse Holder
Ideal for prototype, hobbies or general repair/replacement use. Includes screw cap clearly marked "Fuse".
Mfr Number: 28-063
28-0810 - Fuse Holder
Heavy Duty Fuse Holder
Rugged screw type in-line fuse holder accepts standard 1/4" (dia.) x 1-1/4" (L) glass type fuses up to 20A. Molded ABS housing is perfect for a variety of automotive and security applications. Attached lead is 12AWG stranded wire, covered...
Mfr Number: CQ-210
28-3453RF1 - Panel Mount Fuse Holder 1.25'' x 0.25''
Models for standard 1.25" x 0.25" and smaller 20mm x 5mm sizes UL and CSA rated for use with 3AG fuses, up to 20A, 250V Requires 1/2" diameter mounting hole Connections accept 3/16" female disconnect or may be soldered Thermoplastic housing...
Mfr Name: Littelfuse
Mfr Number: H3453RF1
28-6460 - In-Line Fuse Holder
Type HHT is a black 2-piece screw together assembly in-line fuse holder. Supplied with 13" long red 16AWG wire. Electrical ratings: 5 x 15mm rated 5A at 32V; 5 x 20mm rated 10A at 32V.
Mfr Name: Eaton Bussmann Series
Mfr Number: 91F4760
28-6480 - 20 AMP 1/4'' Quick Connect Terminal Fuse Block
20A Quick connect terminal fuse block, 6.3 X 32MM, bolt in mount
Voltage Rating VDC:300V
Voltage Rating VAC:300V
Fuse Current:20A
Fuse Holder Type:Fuse Block
No. of Fuses:1
Fuse Size:1/4" x 1 1/4"
RoHS Compliant
Mfr Name: SPC Technology
Mfr Number: 63K6137
60-11400 - Add-a-Fuse Tap for Automotive Mini ATC Fuses - 10pk
Mfr Number: CQ-ADAST
Easy and quickly bought my TV component and used tutorial to fix. Now have a working TV again for a tiny fraction of cost of a new TV, so very satisfied.


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Tom Cruise Can't Wait To Wed Katie
When there is no couch to jump on, that clever Tom Cruise finds the nearest thing to hop on to. It's a good thing there weren't any sexual toys laying about.
Tom Cruise has confirmed plans for his marriage to Katie Holmes are well underway.
The Hollywood star and Holmes, who had their first child, Suri, last week, have been engaged since last year but were waiting for their baby to arrive before proceeding with wedding plans.
Cruise also reveals his fiancée will have total control of organizing the special day.
He says, "That stuff is actually going to happen in the next couple of weeks. We are going to decide where and when and how. "Really whatever Kate wants, you know."
Most of all, the actor is impatient to be able to call Holmes his wife. He adds, "I can't wait till we get married. I can't wait till I can call and say, 'Hey, you know, put my wife on the phone.'"
He's been able to use that phrase twice before. In regards to Katie having anything she wants; she can have anything as long as it's Scientology approved.
More photos of Tom Cruise smiling, after the jump.
Cruise: 'Wedding Preparations Underway Soon' [Hollywood.com]


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For starters, Rays at Cubs, seeking a sweep
UPDATE, 1:19:Today will be a big day for Rays TV man Dewayne Staats, who will lead the crowd in singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame during the 7th inning stretch. Staats, a former Cubs broadcaster, will also work the top of the 7th inning on WGN.
The Rays made a roster move this morning, activating INF Tim Beckham off the 60-day DL and optioning him to Triple-A Durham.
Among the Rays fans at Wrigley today was Bucs co-chairman Bryan Glazer.
UPDATE, 1:16: The Rays lineup has a slightly different look as manager Joe Maddon said he liked S-Rod over Guyer vs. Wood, and he wanted to keep extra RH on bench. He moved Longoria up to change the look.
Rays lineup:
Jennings cf,
Zobrist rf,
Longoria 3b,
Rodriguez LF,
Escobar SS,
Loney 1b,
Casali c,
Cobb p,
Forsythe 2b
DEVELOPING: After beating the Cubs Friday and Saturday, the Rays are back at Wrigley Field again this afternoon sweeping to sweep the series.
And they will do so in their new retro road "fauxback" uniforms - personally designed by principal owner Stuart Sternberg, inspired by the 1978 Padres - as part of the Cubs' throwback event.
RHP Alex Cobb will be on the mound for the Rays, seeking to get back to his top form. The Cubs are starting LHP Travis Wood, which means the Rays likely will use most of their right-handed hitters.
Lineups when available.


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Hi All, In a *very* quick patch I tested using huge pages/MAP_HUGETLB for the mmap'ed memory. That gives around 9.5% performance benefit in a read-only pgbench run (-n -S - j 64 -c 64 -T 10 -M prepared, scale 200, 6GB s_b, 8 cores, 24GB mem). It also saves a bunch of memory per process due to the smaller page table (shared_buffers 6GB): cat /proc/$pid_of_pg_backend/status |grep VmPTE VmPTE: 6252 kB vs VmPTE: 60 kB Additionally it has the advantage that top/ps/... output under linux now looks like: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 10603 andres 20 0 6381m 4924 1952 R 21 0.0 0:28.04 postgres i.e. RES now actually shows something usable... Which is rather nice imo. I don't have the time atm into making this something useable, maybe somebody else want to pick it up? Looks pretty worthwile investing some time. Because of the required setup we sure cannot make this the default but... Greetings, Andres -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
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Our superb core faculty — comprised of scholars and former officials from the worlds of diplomacy, development, defense, commerce and intelligence — remain close to the policymaking process, bringing real world, real time experience to the classroom. They are frequent travelers to Washington, New York, London, Brussels and Beijing (but also Israel, Turkey, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Taiwan), criss-crossing the country and globe, making presentations, consulting, conducting research or advancing special projects for the US government, United Nations, European Commission or the NGO community. These faculty members are distinguished by their commitment to teaching, scholarship, and public service. Their institutional connections and personal contacts can prove invaluable when it comes to ferreting out internships and professional opportunities for our students, and career openings for our graduates.
Student engagement with the Patterson School core faculty is substantial, given the intimate size of the program, our exclusive focus on masters degree students (no competition with PhD students or undergraduates), and the wide range of co-curricular activities.
Core Faculty
Carey Cavanaugh | 461 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4666 | Fax 859-257-4676
Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh came to the Patterson School after a Foreign Service career centered on conflict resolution, political-military affairs, and humanitarian issues. In addition to Washington assignments in the State Department, Pentagon, and on Capitol Hill, Ambassador Cavanaugh served in Berlin, Moscow, Tbilisi, Rome, and Bern. In 1992, he established the first US Embassy to the new Republic of Georgia, serving as Chargé d'affaires. Under Presidents Clinton and Bush, he spearheaded or helped advance peace efforts involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Turkey. His final government assignment was foreign policy/political advisor to Admiral Mike Mullen.
Professor Cavanaugh earned his B.A. at the University of Florida, his M.A. at the University of Notre Dame, with four years additional graduate work at Notre Dame and the Army Russian Institute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. In 1991, he was an APSA Congressional Fellow. Cavanaugh is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies and serves as a director and trustee of Conciliation Resources, a British NGO focused on conflict prevention and peace building around the world.
Areas of Specialization
Conflict Resolution, Diplomacy, Mediation, U.S. Foreign Policy, Arms Control, Europe, Russia and the Caucasus.
Kathleen Montgomery | 443 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-8261 | Fax 859-257-4676
Kathleen Montgomery, Associate Professor, spent more than a decade leading USAID-funded trade projects as 'Chief of Party' before coming to the Patterson School. These assignments include the East Africa Trade Hub in Nairobi, the Trade Facilitation Project in Ramallah, West Bank and the Southern Africa Trade Hub in Gabarone. She also worked in other capacities in development and commerce-related projects in Islamabad, Amman, and Kabul. Montgomery received her B.A. from the College of William and Mary and immediately afterward served in Benin as a Peace Corps volunteer, teaching physics and chemistry, as well as helping develop a small batik business with a local women's group. She later received an M.S. (Agricultural Economics) and Ph.D. (Economics) from Pennsylvania State University and taught economics for five years at UK's Gatton College of Business.
Areas of Specialization
International Trade, Development, International Economics, Africa, Middle East.
Stacy Closson | 439 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-5201 | Fax 859-257-4676 | http://www.uky.edu/~scl223/
Stacy Closson, Assistant Professor, came to the Patterson School directly from the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC. She received her Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and her masters from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. Dr. Closson was also a Transatlantic Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Center for Security Studies in Zurich and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. From 1996-1998, Dr. Closson was a Presidential Management Fellow at the Department of Defense attached at intervals to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-5), the Senate Appropriations Committee, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, and the Defense Attaché Office in Ukraine. She then served for four years as the Ukraine and Caucasus Desk Officer in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Professor Closson was selected in 2011 as one of 75 "emerging leaders for environmental and energy policy" by the Atlantic Council and is also a Fellow of the Truman National Security Project. She is the author, with Evan Hillebrand, of Energy, Economic Growth and Geopolitical Futures.
Areas of Specialization
Geopolitics, Energy Security, Unrecognized States, Civil-Military Relations, Russia, Caucasus, Central Asia
Robert M. Farley | 1177 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4668 | Fax 859-257-4676 | http://www.uky.edu/~rmfarl2
Robert Farley, Senior Lecturer, has worked at the Patterson School since 2005. He received his B.A. from the University of Oregon and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington. He is the author of Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force, The Battleship Book, and an extensive array of articles on airpower, maritime strategy, and national security affairs. His research investigates the diffusion of military technology and ideas across the international system. Dr. Farley teaches courses and seminars on defense and national security.
Areas of Specialization
Military Doctrine, Transnational Politics, National Security.
Karen Mingst | 455 Patterson Office Tower
Karen A. Mingst retired from the Patterson School in December 2015 following decades of service to the University of Kentucky. She was the Earl and Jean Lockwood Professor of International Commerce and Entrepreneurship, but also maintained a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science where she had served as Chair from 1993-1999. She joined the Patterson School in 2002. Professor Mingst received her B.A. from Colorado College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. She taught earlier at Louisiana State University and the University of Maine, and was the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships to Africa. Professor Mingst's published works include Essentials of International Relations, The United States and Multilateral Institutions, and Politics and the African Development Bank. She is also co-author of United Nations in the Twenty First Century and International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance.
Areas of Specialization
International Cooperation, International Organization, Non-governmental Organizations, International Law.
Gregory Hall | | 441 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4671
Gregg Hall, associate professor, joined the Patterson School in 2016. His areas of teaching and expertise include international relations and security, foreign policy, international political economy, Eurasian affairs, and, research methodology. Prior to joining the Patterson School, Dr. Hall served as Head of the Department of Political Science and Director of the International Studies Program at Morehouse College. His most recent book is titled Authority, Ascendancy, and Supremacy: China, Russia, and the United States Pursuit of Relevancy and Power. Hall completed his Ph.D. in Political Science, with a concentration in International Relations from Howard University.
Areas of Specialization
International Cooperation, International Organization, South-South Relations.
John E. Charalambakis | 1101 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4666 | Fax 859-257-4676
John E. Charalambakis, Lecturer, has worked as a consultant for government agencies, corporations, and non-profit groups in several countries, including providing recent support to the newly established Congressional Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. He also serves as managing director of the BlackSummit Financial Group. Dr. Charalambakis was Professor of Economics at Asbury College for twenty years. He earned his BA from the Athens School of Economics and Business, his MBA from Roosevelt University, and his Ph.D. from the University of East London. He is the author of The Fed, the Markets, and the Metamorphosis of the Business Cycle. One of his principal areas of interest is identifying the factors that lead to the creation and sustainment of a middle class in different societies.
Areas of Specialization
International Financial Markets, Economic Forecasting, International Development.
Ying-Juan Rogers | 1101 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4666 | Fax 859-257-4676
Ying-Juan Rogers, Adjunct Professor, first began working in trade as an analyst with the Foreign Commercial Service at the US Consulate General in Guangzhou, China. She made a career as an international trade specialist and manager in the private sector, working in both California and Kentucky. Rogers is currently Executive Vice President and Trade Mission Lead at the World Trade Center Kentucky. Rogers is currently President of Birtley Industrial Equipment, a Chinese-owned clean coal equipment manufacturer. Previously, she was the Executive Vice President at the World Trade Center Kentucky for twelve years handling international trade regulation, policy and import/export activities. She earned her BA from Wuhan University, did graduate study in Beijing at the Foreign Affairs College (now China Foreign Affairs University) and in France at Paris Law School. She also obtained a Certificate of International Studies from Sciences Po in Paris. She received her M.A. from the Patterson School in 1992.
Areas of Specialization
Trade Promotion, Import/Export Compliance, Market Research, Business Development.
Max Wise | 1101 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4666 | Fax 859-257-4676
Max Wise, Adjunct Professor, is currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at Campbellsville University where he also serves as the lead faculty member for the Homeland Security program. He is also State Senator (R) from Kentucky's 16th district. Before coming to Campbellsville University, he worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving first in the counterterrorism division at headquarters in Washington, DC and later with the Louisville Field Office's Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center. Wise received his MA from the Patterson School in 1999 and holds a graduate Certificate in Homeland Security from Texas A&M's Bush School of Government and Public Service.
Areas of Specialization
Intelligence, Homeland Security, Counter-Terrorism.
John D. Stempel | 455 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4666 | Fax 859-257-4676 | http://www.uky.edu/~stempel
John Stempel retired after twenty-six years with the Patterson School, serving first as associate director from 1988, director from 1993-2003, and finally senior professor. He became professor emeritus in December 2013. His research and teaching focused on diplomacy, cross-cultural communication, and Middle East politics. Before coming to the University of Kentucky, Stempel was a career American Foreign Service officer. His twenty-three year State Department career included overseas postings focused on political and economic affairs in Guinea, Burundi, Zambia, and Iran. In Washington, he was assigned to both the State and Defense Departments, and served as director of State's Operations Center. He was also diplomat-in-residence at the U.S. Naval Academy. Stempel's final diplomatic assignment was Consul General in Madras (now Chennai), India. Stempel is the author of Inside the Iranian Revolution and Common Sense and Foreign Policy. He received his A.B. from Princeton and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a trustee of Georgetown College.
Areas of Specialization
Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Near Eastern Politics, Cross Cultural Negotiation, Iran, and India.
George Herring | 455 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4666 | Fax 859-257-4676
George Herring retired after thirty-six years at the University of Kentucky, including eleven as chair of the Department of History. He was visiting professor at the U.S. Military Academy and the University of Richmond, as well as a Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand. Herring's connection to the Patterson School started in the 1970s. He received his B.A. from Roanoke College and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
Professor Herring's research centered on U.S. foreign relations. His most recent work is From Colony to Superpower: American Foreign Relations Since 1776, (part of the Oxford History of the United States). Other published works include The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius; America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975; The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The "Negotiating Volumes" of the Pentagon Papers; and LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War. Professor Herring is one of the nation's foremost experts on the Vietnam War.
The core faculty represent only the top of the pyramid of expertise available to Patterson School students. Substantial academic depth and breadth are provided by associated/support faculty. These scholars serve as professors across the University of Kentucky's many colleges, schools, and departments. Their extensive course offerings and multifaceted research provide the broad interdisciplinary support our students require to achieve their professional goals and be competitive in the international arena.
Visiting professors, researchers, lecturers, and experts provide additional opportunities for informative, intellectual discussion with Patterson School students and faculty members.
Associated / Support Faculty
James C. Albisetti | 1767 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4343
James C. Albisetti, Professor of History, received his B.A. from Amherst and his Ph.D. from Yale. His primary areas of specialization are German History, European Social History, and Women's History. His current research interests include comparative study of female education in nineteenth-century Europe and Jewish Germans who became English Unitarians.
Horace Bartilow | 1641 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-7031
Horace Bartilow, Associate Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany. His areas of specialization include International Political Economy, International Relations, American Foreign Policy, and Race Relations. His most recent work is The Debt Dilemma: IMF Negotiations in Jamaica, Grenada, and Guyana.
Douglas Boyd | 101J Main Building | Phone 859-257-1705
Douglas Boyd, Professor of Communications, received his B.F.A. from the University of Texas-Austin and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He currently also serves as Chief of Staff to University of Kentucky President Lee T. Todd, Jr. He specializes in international broadcasting and new media technology.
Francie Chassen-Lopez | 1771 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4344
Francie Chassen-Lopez received her B.A. from Vasser and her Ph.D. from the Universidad Nacional Modern Mexico in 1986. She lived and taught in Mexico for ten years before returning to the United States. She has served twice as director of Latin American Studies and is currently chair of the History Department. Her most recent book was From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca. She specializes in Latin American History, Modern Mexico, Women and Gender in Latin America, and Race and Ethnicity in the Americas.
Robert Dahlstrom | 425L Gatton Building | Phone 859-257-6717
Robert Dahlstrom, Bloomfield Endowed Professor of Marketing in the Gatton College of Business and Economics, received his B.A. from Xavier and his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. Some of the courses that he has taught include International Marketing Management, International Marketing, and a Seminar in International Business. He has repeatedly worked as a visiting professor and a Fulbright scholar at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo.
Walter Ferrier | 455X Gatton Building | Phone 859-257-9326
Walter Ferrier, Gatton Endowed Associate Professor of Management, received his M.A. from the Patterson School and his Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of Maryland. His research interests include patterns of competitive actions-reactions among rivals, top management team demographics and decision making, inter-firm social networks, and competitive strategy.
Gordon F. Holbein | 455J Gatton Building | Phone 859-257-6455
Gordon Holbein, Senior Lecturer, received his B.A. from Dartmouth, M.B.A. from Syracuse, and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. He began teaching at Gatton College of Business and Economics in 1995. He specializes in contemporary management, business strategy and leadership, and international commerce.
P. P. Karan | 1439 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-6953
P. P. Karan, Professor of Geography, received his B.A. from Patna University, M.A. from Banaras Hindu University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Indiana. His research focuses on sustainable development and environmental management, with a recent emphasis on Nepal and the Himalaya region. His most recent books are The Non Western World (2004), Japan in the 21st Century (2005), and Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan (2008). Professor Karan also chairs the UK Japan Studies Committee. He specializes in development, geography of multinational corporations, society-environment relationships, Asia/Pacific, Japan, South Asia.
Mark Kightlinger | College of Law, Room 256 | Phone 859-257-4698
Mark Kightlinger began teaching at the University of Kentucky School of Law in 2004. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1991. Particular areas of experience and interest include European Union laws, WTO issues, bio-terrorism, and immigration policy.
Donald Mullineaux | Gatton Building | Phone 859-257-2890
Donald Mullineaux, duPont Endowed Chair in Banking and Director of the School of Management, graduated from Boston College in 1971 with his Ph.D in Economics. He has taught at the University of Kentucky since 1984. Before that he was Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and taught at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. His research interests include banking and financial services. Mullineaux is also currently curriculum director for the American Bankers Association Stonier Graduate School of Banking.
Angelos Pagoulatos | 404 Barnhart Building | Phone 859-257-3482
Angeolos Pagoulatos, Professor of Agricultural Economics, received his Laurea di Dottore at the University of Rome and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University. His areas of interest include natural resource and environmental economics.
Karen Petrone | 1701 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-4345
Karen Petrone, Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1994. She specializes in cultural and gender history in modern Russia and the former Soviet Union. She spent time in Moscow during 1991-92 and saw firsthand the transition of the Soviet Union to Russia. Her most recent book is Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin.
Michael Reed | 308 Barnhart Building | Phone 859-257-7259
Michael Reed, Professor of Agricultural Economics and Director of International Programs for Agriculture, graduated from Iowa State University in 1979 with his Ph.D in economics. He joined the University of Kentucky in 1989. His areas of specialization include international trade, agricultural marketing, statistics, and price analysis. He is the author of International Trade in Agricultural Products.
Susan Roberts | 1471 Patterson Office Tower | Phone 859-257-2399
Susan Roberts, Professor of Geography and department chair, received her B.A. from the University of Leister and her Ph.D. from Syracuse University's Maxwell School. She taught at Anglia Polytechnic University in the United Kingdom before coming to the University of Kentucky in 1991. She is coauthor of An Unruly World? Geography, Globalization and Governance and is currently engaged in a project examining NGO transnational networks. She specializes in global political economy, the geography of financial capital, development, social, feminist theories, and the Caribbean.
Jerry R. Skees | 310 Barnhart Building | Phone 859-257-7262
Jerry Skees, Price Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1981. His areas of specialization include agricultural policy, risk, insurance, and rural development. He is also President of GlobalAgRisk, which aims through its policy-related research to mix markets and government in sharing natural hazard risk. His work on new livestock insurance in Mongolia won the World Bank's Golden Plough Award for innovation in 2006. Skees is the author of Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes: Agrarian Myths and Agricultural Policy.
Steve Vasek | College of Law, Room 249 | Phone 859-257-3250
Steve Vasek, Associate Professor of Law, began teaching at the University of Kentucky in 1969. He received his B.A. in Business Administration and his J.D. from Northwestern University, as well as an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School.


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Kazimir Malevich painted "The Black Suprematist Square" in 1915, in the heat of World War I, but he first conceived the idea 2 years ago in 1913. Initially, "The Black Square" was not intended to have any symbolic meaning: its purpose was to solve artistic problems.
|Kazimir Malevich (1879, Kiev - 1935 Leningrad, now St Petersburg). Source: RIA Novosti
However, as is often the case with masterpieces, the painting spurred a multitude of interpretations and even provoked skeptical remarks, such as "So, this is also art? Even I could paint a square!" In reality, "The Black Square" is a very complex painting; painting it required very solid knowledge of colors, composition, and artistic proportions.
To begin with, "The Black Square"is not a square. None of its sides are parallel to the frame. Besides, it is made of mixed colors, none of which is black. If you look closer, you will see that the paint has cracked over time, creating an intricate network of line which some assert represents a running buffalo.
One urban myth has it that "The Black Square" came to be by accident: a major futuristic exhibition was fast approaching at which Malevich and his fellow artists had a huge hall reserved for their works.
On learning that there would be a lot of wall space to fill up, the artists urgently began creating more works. Malevich couldn't get his one going, so simply painted the canvas over.
Malevich himself used to say that he had created "The Black Square" in a mystical trance, under the influence of a "cosmic consciousness" experience.
He even accentuated this by making sure that at the exhibition, the picture was hanging to the right of the entrance, the place reserved to Christian icons in accordance with the Russian tradition.
Alexander Benois, an art critic and himself an artist, immediately noticed this. "That is undoubtedly the icon that Messrs Futurists oppose to the Madonna."
The other squares
Apart from "The Black Square," Malevich created a red square and a white square. In fact, there exist more than one "The Black Square."
Kazimir Malevich painted "The Black Suprematist Square" in 1915. Source: Wikipedia
The second painting was done in 1923 for the Venetian biennale, and differed from the original in size.
Malevich painted his third "The Black Square" for the 1929 exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery.
The story goes that he was asked to do so by the gallery director, who hated to have to exhibit the by-then crack-painted original. The second and third "Black Squares" have no signs of cracks, probably because the artist used an anti-cracking varnish on them.
A fourth "Black Square" was rediscovered in 1993: a person whose name is unknown used it as collateral to get a bank loan in Samara. The bank came into possession of the painting, and later used it as its main asset in settling accounts with its creditors as it went into bankruptcy.
The government banned an open auction lest the masterpiece should leave the country; this "Black Square" was sold for $1 million to Russian tycoon Vladimir Potanin, who then handed it over to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
Not only Malevich
Suprematism was founded by Kazimir Malevich in the 1910s as a movement in abstract art. Its followers combined multicolored basic geometric shapes (the circle, the square, the triangle, and the line) in asymmetric compositions. Suprematism was widely used in the art of the poster, and also in architecture, design, and scenography.
Malevich was not the first artist to experiment with squares and the color black. In 1617, English doctor, astrologist and philosopher Robert Fludd created his work "The Great Darkness." In 1843, the French artist Bertall entitled his completely dark piece "Vue de La Hogue" (effet de nuit).
Paul Gustave Dore used a black square to illustrate the dark age of the Russian history. There is also "Negroes Fighting in a Tunnel at Night" by Paul Bilhaud, which is also quite similar to Malevich's "Black Square." Finally, in 1893, French journalist and writer Alphonse Allais came up with a black horizontal rectangle entitled "Negroes Fighting in a Cave."
Monument on canvas
Like many great masterpieces, the story of "The Black Square" continued after the author's death.
In accordance with Malevich's will, a "suprematist rite" was performed at his funeral in which "The Black Square" once again played an iconic role: the square was painted on the artist's coffin, and a reproduction of the painting was mounted on the hearse truck.
The exact location of Malevich's grave was forgotten during World War II. In 1988, enthusiasts installed a commemorative sign in the area where the artist was believed to have been burried. The sign was done to the description in Malevich's will, representing a white cube with the image of a square on it.
Malevich's grave got rediscovered in the late 2000s, but it turned out that the plot had been used for a housing project. Thus "The Black Square" remains the principle monument to its author, in full keeping with his own words that only suprematism is capable of expressing the essence of mystical feelings by totally standing beside death and conquering it.


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|Perhaps the best route (certainly one of the wildest) of the approximately 150 I've done so far at the Gunks. The P1 crux protects reasonably well with an RP . It does take some dicking around to get it in. However, it's probably best to make the moves and avoid testing it. P2 is fun and well protected. P3 is freaking awesome; hard and committing with an opportunity for some big air.
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When I did this route I checked out the gear placements on the first pitch on rappel. I felt the RP was good but, as Jon mentioned, difficult to place properly, and if it broke or fell out you'd be in a world of hurt. If I was local and it wasn't the middle of the hot, sweaty summer, I would have perhaps spent some time rehearsing this section. Instead I came up with another solution: I climbed a ways up Directissima from the ground and placed a good cam with a sling and then down-climbed. Then I started up Enduroman with decent toprope pro through the lower crux.
The third pitch is wild and well-protected.
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|If you're looking for some good airy pendulum potential fun, this is the route for you! So good!!
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|What a wild route. I think the wires would hold a fall on the first pitch but heads up for dicey easier climbing above. The 3rd pitch was awesome but a bit dirty with an element of difficult route finding.


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Every day thousands, if not millions, of card transactions occur worldwide in the land of direct response. Merchants accept payments every second from consumers interested in purchasing the latest product or gadget on the market. In the past, the question of whether or not the method of payment was a debit or credit card was a non-issue. That is - until now.
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What does this mean to the industry? It is evident, regardless of the outcome of these interpretations, merchants will soon have a greater ability to determine the type of card a consumer utilizes for a transaction.
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Live-stream sets from Stereosonic Melbourne today
Earlier this week, Tiesto released the compilation Dance (RED), Save Lives. With tracks from the likes of Calvin Harris, Avicii, Diplo, Afrojack as well as Tijs' own collaboration with Bono on a remake of U2's Pride all featuring on the CD, there's plenty of firepower in the tracklisting. But as the involvement of Bono may have tipped you off to, Dance (RED), Save Lives isn't just for fun – it's all part of Tiesto's involvement with AIDS charity (RED) and fittingly, all proceeds from the CD are going towards the fight for AIDS.
But the compilation isn't all Tiesto is doing with (RED). To mark World AIDS Day today, Stereosonic is live streaming sets from the Melbourne leg of its 2012 tour. Kicking off from 3pm today, you can tune in below to catch sets from Avicii, Calvin, Bingo Players, Chuckie, Dash Berlin, Infected Mushroom, JFK MSTRKRFT, Laidback Luke, Martin Solveig, Tommy Trash and of course, the headliner himself.
"When I went to Africa in 2006, I was struck by the devastating effect of AIDS," Tiesto said in a statement. "Now the world has an incredible chance to make sure that babies are born HIV-free by 2015, and the dance community is going to make a lot of noise to help make this happen." The stream begins at 3pm today, so if you're not at the Melbourne show kick back, turn the volume up and enjoy the mainstage from the comfort of your couch.


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Today, Congressman Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) and a group of 12 bipartisan Members of Congress representing Ohio and Michigan sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Commerce, Rebecca Blank, requesting strong enforcement of trade laws in the ongoing anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations requested by Whirlpool Corporation (Whirlpool). Whirlpool is based in Benton Harbor, MI, and has its largest U.S. manufacturing facility in Clyde, OH, where the company employs approximately 3,600 people.
Whirlpool, which has more than 22,000 employees in the United States, brought these cases in response to unfair trade practices involving imports of large residential washers from Mexico and South Korea. Whirlpool's Clyde plant is the nation's largest residential washing machine manufacturing facility.
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Get an overview of this hotel3-star hotel with restaurant and indoor pool
Popular property highlights
Situated in Battle Creek, this hotel is 2.5 mi (4 km) from Binder Park Zoo and within 9 mi (15 km) of Full Blast Water Park and Kingman Museum. Alwyn Downs Golf Club and Veterans Affairs Medical Center are also within 12 mi (20 km).
Hotel Features
Along with a restaurant, this smoke-free hotel has an indoor pool and a fitness center. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a poolside bar, and a coffee shop/café are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 120 rooms offer free WiFi and free wired Internet, LCD TVs with cable channels, and comforts like pillowtop beds and pillow menus. Room service, coffee makers, and free newspapers are among the other amenities available to guests.
Guest Highlights
- Proximity to shopping
- Helpful staff
Holiday Inn Battle Creek
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Holiday Inn Battle Creek features an indoor pool and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access.
Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measure 5000 square feet (465 square meters). This business-friendly hotel also offers an arcade/game room, multilingual staff, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Holiday Inn Battle Creek is a smoke-free property.
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Arcade/game room
- Total number of rooms - 120
- Number of floors - 4
- Conference space size (feet) - 5000
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
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- Free WiFi
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- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 465
- Free self parking
- Smoke-free property
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Family Friendly Amenities
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- Indoor pool
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- Laundry facilities
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Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Free self parking
Room Amenities
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Holiday Inn Battle Creek has a restaurant on site.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool and a fitness center.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Van Halen's New Album Rumored for an Early February 2012 Release Date
Van Halen's long awaited new studio album is completely finished and expected to hit stories in February of 2012, according to an inside source. The new record, the band's first since 1998's 'III,' and first with original lead singer David Lee Roth since 1984's '1984,' has been the source of much speculation over the past few months.
No title or tracklist has been revealed for the new album yet, which is described, similarly as by other people who have heard it, as a modern-day revisiting of the classic Van Halen sound. The source said a record company had yet to be chosen, with two unnamed major labels reportedly bidding for the right to work with the band.
The only official sign of life from within the Van Halen camp has been the re-emergence, albeit briefly, of recent birthday boy Roth on Twitter and Facebook. However, all he's said so far is 'Get Ready.' (We're ready, already!)
Meanwhile, Van Halen's original bassist Michael Anthony and second lead singer Sammy Hagar continue their busy streak, preparing to hit the road in a couple of weeks to promote 'III,' the second album from their current band Chickenfoot. They set the bar high for their former bandmates with songs like 'Dubai Blues,' and we're very excited to see how Eddie & company respond to the challenge.


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Microsoft Updates Skype for Windows
A new version of Skype adds Outlook integration, among other features and fixes
Microsoft's Skype division rolled out a new version of Skype for Windows (version 6.1). The updated version is for PCs running 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. (This is not an update for Skype for Windows 8, but since users can run Skype in the Desktop on Windows 8, they can run this update that way if they want.) The 6.1 update allows users to call and chat with contacts directly from Microsoft Outlook; search and add contacts more easily; and manage accounts from a new profile page, according to officials.
In preparation for the discontinuation of Live Messenger and replacement by Skype, Microsoft is prompting Live Messenger users to merge their contact lists. Once a user does this s/he is moved automatically to Skype and cannot use Messenger any longer - at least not without a lot of support intervention on Microsoft/Skype's part. Users who accidentally or intentionally merge their contacts now may benefit from using Compact View in Skype when messaging their contacts.
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It is nice to see other cities following San Francisco's lead! Thanks to Jordan H. for this article!
Seattle Times
Thursday, March 13, 2008
By Sharon Pian Chan
To cut down on trash and help the environment, the city of Seattle will stop buying bottled water, Mayor Greg Nickels announced Thursday.
The city could save as much as $58,000 a year, officials said, by not purchasing bottled water for events or water-cooler jugs for its workers.
"It is to really highlight the fact that Seattle has one of the best municipal water supplies in the country," said Marty McOmber, the mayor's spokesman. "When you look at the cost of bottled water, both in terms of financial costs and costs on the environment, it's a pretty clear choice that using city water is a much better choice."
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Hi Ognjen, I'll try and give detail, just that I have not seen or done one. However the interface is TELEForm (it use the capture ability of taking a set of images, organize them into documents, and then export the documents along with index). It exports to a posgreSQL database. So I'm just seeking a Database MetaData only. Warm regards, Mohlomi -----Original Message----- From: Ognjen Blagojevic [mailto:ognjen(at)etf(dot)bg(dot)ac(dot)yu] Sent: 02 June 2009 12:06 To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org Subject: Re: [NOVICE] DatabaseMetaData Mohlomi Moloi wrote: > I have never done, not even sure how Database MetaData look like! > I am expected to compile a DatabaseMetaData. I have created a database > with 5 tables that is in 1NF so as to permit data to be queried and > manipulated. > Can anyone help? It is not clear form your message what are you trying to do. Are you talking about Java interface java.sql.DatabaseMetaData? Do you need to implement that interface? You should write in more details if you expect help on the mailing list. Read this first: http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Regards, Ognjen -- Sent via pgsql-novice mailing list (pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-novice
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City Roots Farm working to become certified organic
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COLUMBIA (WACH) -- As organic foods become more popular, some wonder if they are really better for you or if it's all hype. And the question remains: Just what makes a food organic anyway?
City Roots Farm says it is already growing organic, but in order to be certified, inspectors from Clemson University and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture need to make sure. They inspected the farm Wednesday.
City Roots says the farm was judged based on whether it had been using certified organic seeds to grow its plants and whether the animals there are fed with organic feed.
Inspectors also checked to make sure the farm was not using petroleum-based fertilizers.
But just how bad those chemicals are for the body is still up for question.
"The long lasting effects of that are still kind of untold, and a lot of people will argue whether it's good or bad, but for me personally, if it's not something natural, I don't really want to have it in me," said Eric McClam, farm manager at City Roots.
City Roots expects to find out in the next week or so whether it is approved to be certified organic.


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12….11….10….we're ticking down the days until our 18th Street Block Party! Hope you're planning to join us from 12-6 on Saturday, September 29th for all of the great food, drinks, music, games and more we have lined up on 18th Street between Dolores and Guerrero.
A few updates to share with you:
- We're selling tickets now so you can avoid waiting in line on the big day ($2/ticket, they come in books of 10 for $20). You'll need tickets to buy any of the food and drink you find on the block, and one ticket book is probably the right amount for two people to eat and drink their way down the block. You can buy a book of tickets at the Market or Creamery, or online here. Remember, all money raised from ticket sales will be split between the six beneficiary organizations.
- We're taking entrants for our pie baking contest! Show us your sweet stuff: pies will be judged in four categories–fruit, chocolate, nut and other–by our own Anne and Kris from the Creamery, plus Leah Garchik from the San Francisco Chronicle. Share your talents with us by entering here. ($20 to enter, again all money raised goes to the beneficiaries).
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Petra Nemcova Eliminated From 'Dancing With the Stars'
Dancing With The Stars is closer than ever this season! Last night supermodel Petra Nemcova was sent home! Who do you think will win this years trophy?
Petra Nemcova is officially out of style, as the 31-year-old model was eliminated tonight from 'Dancing With the Stars' season 12.
The results weren't too surprising; Nemcova and partner Dmitry Chaplin's quickstep tied for the lowest judges' score on Monday (22).
Still, Nemcova was unable to fight back tears following her elimination, and later referred to her experience on 'Dancing' as "life-changing."
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Walter Sadler '82, a partner at Leopold, Petrich & Smith in Los Angeles, won a federal appeals court victory in a copyright infringement case that sets parameters of the fair use doctrine for struggling artists, documentarians, and their insurance carriers when the work is used in a historical context.
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Well I'm starting to get the feeling that it is not going to happen...At least in LA...
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
I think that Kobe is just messing with you and toying with what little emotions that you have left after going through this memorable Pacer season
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
BBB But Kobe...we...we wwww wee got you JERMAINE O'NEAL!
Kobe: SO WHAT! TRADE ME!
It will happen, even if for just one game. and then after the game Kobe demands a trade. JO and Kobe will play together one game. I will record the game and play 82 times while the NBA season is going on.
I really dont even care about losing JO anymore, I just want this deal to fall through so your dream never comes true.
JO and Kobe will play beautiful basketball together.
Shade I am starting to think that if we won the Lottery you would still be cynical:
With the first pick in the NBA draft the Indiana Pacers pick.....Greg Oden
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I am going to microwave my head, because the Pacers missed the boat again. When Oden is nothing more than Okafor and Durant makes the All-Star team I will never watch a game again. Heres to sucking for the next 10 decades
reaching an obsession or what? LOL
By the way Bird was talking, sounds pretty dead to me.
Sounds to me like LA wasnt offering enough for JO and Bird pretty much said "hey if you only want to offer us crap for JO, we'll offer you the same for Bryant."
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yeah it does sound dead, BUT...he could be trying to fool is
[/center]If you havin' depth problems, I feel bad for you son; I got 99 problems but a bench ain't one! - Hicks
And also remember, there could always be a 3+ team trade of some sort, so we might not just be looking at Laker players. Maybe offer Bynum around for a bottom top 10 pick this year maybe, or any of the other pieces around.
"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
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With what Bynum's shown thus far, he'd go top-5 in this years draft easily. If this kid would've went to college he would've dominated just like Oden.
Negotiations are like this. Obviously, the Lakers need JO more than the Pacers need to deal with LA...and both parties know it. The Lakers know it will be a nightmare if they do not acquire JO or another star like Garnett...and they are far more likely to get JO.
There is no middle ground. Jackson AND Kobe want to win NOW and they cannot do that with a draft pick and rookies. They simply cannot wait for Bynum to develop...and by that time Odom and Kobe are on the way down. We should be able to stuff Tinsley down their throat too. There is no more appropriate partner for LA than Indy.
Given all that has happened with Kobe...I would agree...but I also think that Boston could still be a likely partner.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
JO and The Truth would make very good basketball in the East.
Wait, did you mean for JO or Kobe???
Either the Pacers are putting up more smokescreens, or JO will be back. That's what I'm taking from O'Brien and Bird
Tinsley will not be going to LA.
He is the most "un-triangle-compatible" point guard in the league. He would be worthless to LA as long as Phil Jackson is coach.
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. -- Scottie Pippen
Although I am going purely on speculation from a fan POV ( and what I have garnered from the Celtics RealGM forums )......but if a Green/#5/Ratliff deal for JONeal is available from the Cs....I would take that deal before the proposed Bynum/Kwame/#19 deal.
IMHO....the only way that the Lakers can tip the scales is to include Odom...and from what we can tell...they won't. Given the situation the Lakers are in now where I feel that they MUST make a move to make Kobe happy.....and we don't have to trade JONeal ( much less to the Lakers )....I just feel that we are in a better position to come out ahead in any deal with the Lakers.
As I mentioned before....if all that we get from the Lakers is Bynum/Kwame/#19....then I really think that at best....we broke even...but at worst...we came out on the short end of the stick and I severely overestimated JONeal's trade value on the market. I fully expected ( before Kobe's rant ) that this was the best deal we could get from the Lakers. But now, I would expect more simply because of the "make a deal or else" position that Kobe put the Lakers in.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
Seems like Boston would be pulling pretty hard U-Turn on the direction of the team. They are in a hard core youth movement. If anything I think they move Pierce this offseason.
where exactly are you guys reading comments from bird? BUT LOL if that's how it sounds..hahah


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TORONTO -- A tentative agreement between the CAW and Chrysler Group could come as early as this evening after negotiators worked through the early morning hours trying to resolve outstanding issues, union officials said.
Marathon contract talks could produce Chrysler-CAW deal today: Union
TORONTO — A tentative agreement between the CAW and Chrysler Group could come as early as this evening after negotiators worked through the early morning hours trying to resolve outstanding issues, union officials said.
"We broke off at around 6 a.m so we could shower," said Dino Chiodo, president of CAW Local 444 and head of the union's master bargaining committee. "We got a lot of issues resolved over the last couple of days. It was a very fruitful. We're hopeful we can get to an agreement. It's just a matter of deciding when we get there."
"We are making good progress," said Todd Bested, director of labour relations, at Chrysler Canada. "Chrysler did present an offer to the CAW, however I can't comment on the specifics of the discussions."
CAW Local 444, which represents more than 4,500 hourly workers at the Windsor Assembly Plant, has scheduled an information/ratification meeting Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at Caesars Windsor.
CAW president Ken Lewenza said optimism was growing. "We were working hard into the wee hours of the morning closing the differences at all individual tables. Optimism is growing but until the i's are dotted and t's crossed, optimism is just that."
The talks were stymied over the company's concerns over structural costs such as the Cost of Living Allowance increases which exist in both the previous and pattern agreements reached over the last several days with Ford Motor Co., and General Motors, according to the union. As well the two sides were at odds over Chrysler's reluctance to pay out all at once lump sum payments worth $9,000, the union said. Chrysler apparently preferred bonus payments be tied to company performance.
Chiodo said the two sides we're still working on some issues. "The pattern is what we're working towards; we have a few issues still outstanding but we're working diligently to get those all resolved."
The talks affect more than 8,000 hourly workers at Chrysler plants in Windsor, Brampton and Etobicoke.
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If you're extremely vigilant, you'll come across stamps in each level of Super Mario 3D World. These cute little illustrations can then be used on the gamepad when posting to Miiverse. Now even the least artistically inclined (like me) can make awesome little Mario-themed portraits.
Even for those that find every single stamp in every level, you'll notice that there are still five stamps missing from the collection to make it complete. Getting the last five will be a little more involved.
The last stamps are actually stamps of the five main playable characters, including Rosalina. To unlock them, you'll need to beat every single level as that particular character. For example, to unlock the Rosalina stamp, you'll need to beat every level in the game as Rosalina.
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Hi all...
I am trying to design an over under barrel trigger mechanism that will cycle between the barrels on alternating trigger pulls, currently looking at striker fired, but not yet set in my ways...
Any help or inspiration would be gladly accepted... perhaps a cam system?
Many thanks:)
There's already many different kinds available. There's 2 most common designs-mechanical & recoil operated. Most over unders are mechanically operated. They usually have either selective single trigger or non selective single trigger. It's rare for over unders to have double triggers.
I see...
I will most certainly not re-invent the wheel then, is there any chance you could provide me with some diagrams, or some links thereto?
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It was O dark : thirty and I was sitting against a tree waiting for day brake. I heard a deer come down a hill a ways off and kept geting closer and closer. I heard some grunting so I assume it was a buck. It was pitch dark and I was a little nervous. The deer got so close I thought he was gona step on me. He suddenly took off like a shot blowing all the way. I never saw another one. I guess he smelt me? Did his blowing keep othe deer from comeing around?
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London (Oct. 1)
The British press is almost unanimous today in declaring that President Truman's appeal to Prime Minister Attlee for the immediate admission into Palestine of 100,000 Jews has complicated matters for the British Government and made its task in Palestine more difficult.
An editorial in the Daily Telegraph says that the Truman letter ignores some of the major factors in the Palestine situation. It asserts that behind Arab objections stands the newly-born Arab League, and behind that is Moslem opinion. "These forces cannot be lightly swept aside," it adds, "if there is to be an enduring peace in the Middle East." It stresses that the Palestine question must be merged in the larger question of finding areas where the Jews can build a peaceful, properous life. This, the Telegraph concludes, is the responsiblity of all the Allied nations.
The Daily Mail carries an editorial declaring that "the British people who have been living with the Palestine problem for twenty-five years know that such a solution (as proposed by Truman) is impracticable, and even to propose it is not helpful." If the U.S. is unwilling to undertake any responsiblity besides that of criticizing, and making impracticable suggestions, it should be prepared to accept the British solution, the editorial says. It also urges that the whole problem be placed before the United Nations.
The diplomatic correspondent of the Telegraph today says that the Truman letter coupled with the statement by Moslem religious leaders in Damascus yesterday, that partition of Palestine might lead to a holy war, presents the British Government with a tremendous problem. He predicts that the Government will submit the entire question to the United Nations.