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Enchanted Learning: Farm Animals Around the World: Images and facts about these farm animals; learning activities
Kids Farm: A site about animals and people that live and work on a ranch in Colorado. It is a place for young children to learn about farm and wild animals, animal sounds, what grows, farm equipment and a wildlife rehab center. They also have spelling, puzzles, horses, cows, chickens, sheep, goats, elk, kids rodeo, and guest pets.
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|History of Chickens
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What is a public record?
"Public records" refer to county, state or federal materials that are typically viewable by the public. Examples of public record information that are often included on credit reports are bankruptcies, civil judgments, tax liens, foreclosures and wage garnishments.
How will it affect my credit?
Adverse public records included on your credit report can have severe negative effects your credit score. Generally, only time can lessen the impact of a public record on your credit report. Most public records can remain on your credit report for seven years. However, certain types of public records may remain for longer periods. For example, bankruptcies may remain on your report for ten years, and an unpaid tax lien could remain on your credit indefinitely.
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Eamonn O'Kane has joined Bernardo Checa's stable of professional boxers.
O'Kane - a Commonwealth Games gold medal winner - has moved to Checa after losing in a British title eliminator against John Ryder at the start of December.
And O'Kane - who will fight on the undercard of the Carl Frampton versus Kiko Martinez European title fight at the Odyssey on February 9 - says the move was suggested by former trainer Gerry "Nugget" Nugent.
"I was very disappointed and down after losing to Ryder and 'Nugget' suggested I should maybe try another trainer.
"He said 'a change is as good as a rest,' and maybe I needed a fresh approach.
"But I am still on great terms with all the boys from the Immaculata club and I will never be able to express what they have done for me. And I could never thank them enough for all they have done for me over the years.
"I still have a great relationship with them all and I am actually going there to spar tonight," he added.
And O'Kane says he hopes the move to Checa will pay-off in the coming months.
"I have been working with him for a few weeks now and it is going well. I am out at the Odyssey on February 9, but it it will take a wee while longer for his coaching to come to the fore.
"Bernardo is a very technical coach and I have enjoyed working with him.
"It is also great that Paul McCloskey also trains with Bernardo. I spent 14 to 15 years with Paul at an amateur boxing club in Dungiven, so it is great to travel up and down with him to training.
"It was difficult leaving 'Nugget' and the Immaculata but hopefully the move will pay-off," he added.
And O'Kane admitted that he was to blame for accepting the fight against Ryder in December.
"I took the fight at 13 days notice and I have to admit 'Nugget' told me not to take the fight at such short notice.
"I had three quarters of a stone to lose in those 13 days and I was not at my best on the night. But I am not going to make excuses for the defeat.
"All I will say that the loss has given me massive motivation to come back and prove that I am better than the performance I put in against Ryder," he added.
Also on the Odyssey bill, Martin Lindsay will fight Lee Selby for the British title, Jamie Conlan will attempt to get his hands on the Commonwealth Super-Flyweight title, Andy Lee faces Anthony Fitzgerald, Daniel 'Insane' McShane will appear, as will James Fryers.
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TAMPA — A rash of 7-Eleven robberies across three counties may have been committed by the same group, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
The robberies may have begun in Pasco County on May 11 at the All About You Hair Salon at 5440 James St. in Port Richey, deputies said.
That robbery was similar to four 7-Eleven robberies that have occurred since Wednesday in Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough.
"The detectives met with evidence collected at the scene, (and) evidence videos," said Deputy Larry McKinnon, a spokesman for the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office. "With that totality of information, they started comparing notes and determined it was the same group hitting these places throughout several jurisdictions."
Four people wearing black T-shirts with masks or T-shirts covering their faces and semiautomatic pistols walked into a 7-Eleven at 9817 S Highway 301 in Gibsonton at 12:14 a.m. Wednesday.
They threatened the clerks with guns, took money and lottery tickets, then ran away. Fourteen minutes later they repeated the routine at another 7-Eleven at 7711 Causeway Blvd. in Tampa.
Later, on Wednesday night, four men wearing masks approached a store clerk outside a 7-Eleven in Pasco, at 2144 Corporate Center Drive in Odessa, and forced him back into the store at gunpoint.
Pasco sheriff's deputies said two of the robbers demanded the cash from the registers while the other two went to the rear of the business and demanded money from the store manager at gunpoint.
The robbers fled in a silver vehicle, possibly a Dodge Intrepid, with an undisclosed amount of money and cartons of cigarettes.
No one was hurt in any of the robberies.
McKinnon said the execution of the Hillsborough and Pasco robberies matched a Pinellas County robbery Monday night at a 7-Eleven at 6980 40th St. N in Pinellas Park.
Anyone with information about the case may contact the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at (813) 247-8200, the Pasco Sheriff's Office at (727) 844-7711 or Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay at 1(800) 873-8477.


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Sportsman's Warehouse is expanding with new locations in Sheridan, Colorado and Flagstaff, Arizona.
Outdoor retailer REI announced Thursday it will open two new stores in the spring, one in Flagstaff, Ariz., and the other in Columbus, Ohio.
National Grocers by Vitamin Cottage said that its first Arizona store – in Flagstaff – has opened, and will be joined by two additional stores located in Sedona and Prescott.


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Clackamas County Commissioners are seeking citizens knowledgeable in human resources and compensation management to serve on the county's Compensation Board for Elected Officials. There is currently one vacancy available on this three-member board. Members serve for three years and attend about five meetings (typically two hours each) between early April and mid-May each year.
Duties of the Compensation Board for Elected Officials include annual review of Clackamas County elected officials' salaries and submission of a recommended compensation schedule to the county's Budget Committee. Subject salaries include those of county sheriff, assessor, treasurer, clerk, commissioner, District Attorney and justice of the peace.In order to have balance and diversity of membership in the areas of geography, gender, interest and experience, commissioners are looking for members from all backgrounds and areas of Clackamas County.
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Now we know why MPs are members of unions, so they can get multiple votes
When moderates complain about Labour, they're told they can join and have their say.
But will it be an equal say?
No. Because unionists and special interest groups, the very people corroding the party, get more than one vote.
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ISLAMABAD, June 12: The Senate ended its lacklustre budget session on Tuesday by recommending 145 changes to the federal budget, all of them with consensus except five.
Surprisingly, the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ended its boycott of the session on its last day.
On the other hand, coalition partner Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) staged a token walkout over the killings in Karachi only to return to the house to table the recommendations to be sent to the National Assembly for consideration.
At the outset of the sitting, Senator Tahir Mashhadi of MQM speaking on a point of order drew the attention of the house towards the killings in Karachi over the past few days and lodged a strong protest against, what he alleged, failure of the authorities to control the situation.
The MQM senator said the killings had become an order of the day in the city where extortion mafia was still active and traders were being kidnapped for ransom.
He alleged that all this was happening under the protection of police.
The MQM senators then staged a token walkout to register their protest.
Chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance, Nasreen Jalil, presented the report containing 145 recommendations for its onward transmission to the National Assembly.
She said the committee had received 287 proposals from the senators, but dropped almost 50 per cent of them because of various reasons.
Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in his brief winding up speech assured the house that the Senate proposals would be given "serious consideration" at the time of the approval of the budget.
PROPOSALS: The Senate through its recommendations suggested a number of steps to resolve the energy crisis such as settling circular debt and increase in allocation for the sector.
Terming the allocation of Rs182 billion for the energy sector "insufficient", the senators suggested that at least Rs500 billion may be allocated to the sector through reducing non-development expenditure.
The Senate urged the federal government to only fund those projects under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) which fall in the federal legislative list.
"Projects that fall in the domain of local or provincial governments may not be funded from the PSDP and all such savings may be diverted towards the energy sector in order to reduce the loadshedding," says a recommendation.
The senators want the federal government to create a single "energy ministry" by merging different ministries dealing with the same subject "in order to fast track actions against ongoing issues relating to energy." Through a key recommendation, the members of the Senate demanded that incomes from all sources be brought under the tax net and the proposal pending before the Council of Common Interests with regard to uniform tax on agriculture income may be finalised. The senators proposed to the government that it should take immediate measures to stop "grey traffic" in the country to ensure outstanding receipt of Rs75 billion from the UAE-based Etisalat company that had taken over the PTCL.


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Earlier this year, I interviewed U.S. Senate candidate and Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel for a piece on United Liberty and have reported on what a far-left radical his opponent, Senator Sherrod Brown is.
Ohio, birthplace of the great Senator Robert "Mr. Republican" Taft, who lead the fight against the New Deal, hasn't elected a conservative to the Senate in my lifetime. But with endorsesments from FreedomWorks and Senator Jim. DeMint's Senate Conservative Fund, Mandel has shown himself to be a true movement conservative.
With polls showing the Senate race is tied, outside groups are lining up to help Mandel combat Brown's support from the environmental lobby and Washington lobbyists.
One such group is the Government Integrity Fund, run by a group of Ohio conservatives, who are running tough ads such as this:
And this:
According to today's Politico influence email update, they are on air now:
OHIO-BASED CONSERVATIVE GROUP BUYS ADS AGAINST BROWN: Government Integrity Fund, a tax-exempt nonprofit, dropped $1 million on ads against Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) between Aug. 17 and Sep. 6. The ads aired in Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Lima and Zanesville. The group has previously spent at least an additional $500,000, on ads against Brown and in support of his Republican challenger Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel.
Predictably, far-left groups (who, hilariously, hide their donors too!) are outraged. The Soros-Funded ProPublica published an attack piece today, which was re-printed in The Columbus Dispatch:
Like many other such nonprofit groups that are playing a dominant role in this year's elections, the Government Integrity Fund is shrouded in mystery. It isn't required to reveal donors, nor has it answered questions about who runs the group. The Fund's barebones website lists no contact information beyond a P.O. box.
The only name listed on incorporation papers for the group is a Columbus lawyer, William Todd, who told ProPublica, "I really have no role in their affairs." (In June, Todd also declined to respond to questions from a Huffington Post reporter, citing attorney-client privilege.)
But previously unreported documents filed with an Ohio television station pull back the curtain a bit: the Government Integrity Fund is run by a state lobbyist who in turn employs a former top Mandel staffer.
The lobbyist, Tom Norris, is listed as the Government Integrity Fund's chairman and treasurer.
I contacted Tom Norris for comment, and he was rightfully indiginant about this blantant assault on free speech:
In the Citizens United case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the basic principle of the First Amendment that all Americans have a right to speak out on public policy matters. By protecting this important right, the Court created new avenues for Americans to be involved in the political process.
Many new groups have taken advantage of the protection provided by the Supreme Court to speak up about policy matters. At the national level, large organizations, such as Priorities USA, and the Majority Fund are fully engaged in the debate over federal issues such as Congressional spending, health care reform, and reinvigorating our economy.
In Ohio, groups like Our Future Ohio, have also taken advantage of their protected, First Amendment freedom to discuss issues of importance in the Buckeye State. Similarly, the Government Integrity Fund was created in order to focus on those important public policy matters that have a direct impact on the lives of Ohioans.
While there are reputable groups like the US Chamber and Crossroads GPS who are operating in as many as 20 states, the Government Integrity Fund has chosen to operate solely in Ohio at this time, focusing on issues important to Ohioans.
The Government Integrity Fund is simply another independent voice in the robust debate that all Americans wish to see in the public arena. The Fund operates in a manner consistent with our Constitutionally protected First Amendment freedoms and strictly follows federal and state campaign finance laws in its operations.
As Justice Brandeis once noted, the cure for bad speech is more speech. And as liberal public-sector unions have been funding message campaigns for decades, conservatives are only now attempting match the independent political firepower that the left has.
The Government Integrity Fund's donors have a right to speak. And I applaud their efforts to elect a solid conservative to the U.S. Senate.


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ONE Direction touch down in Japan to an army of hysterical fans.
The lads got into the cultural spirit of their Far East trip, donning bright
red kimonos – a look they struggled to pull off.
The boyband were all smiles as they continued on their journey of world
dominance, greeting the crowd with traditional hand gestures.
They landed at Narita Airport in Tokyo after an 11-hour flight from their
native UK, but the excitement of being in Japan clearly overrode any
Hordes of devoted fans crammed into the terminal to catch a glimpse of their
idols Harry, Louis, Niall, Liam and Zayn.
Many of the predominantly female faithful held home-made signs aloft.
Overwhelmed by the response from their Japanese fans, the 1D boys joked around
with each other as they took in their surroundings.
They then chatted to the screaming masses and signed autographs.
Niall tweeted: "Japan! This place is so cool! Can't wait for next few days!
Gonna be fun!
"Airport was crazy! Big love to japanese fans."
Harry couldn't stop beaming, which is no mean feat considering he's
just split up with singer Taylor Swift.
It's claimed he ditched the US country star because she was "asexual" and
didn't meet his needs in the bedroom.
The heart-throb grew increasingly frustrated with Taylor because of her
prudish ways in the build-up to their New Year break-up, according to
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wh*re because she dates around, that she doesn't put out, what she doesn't
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PESHAWAR: Assistant Political Agent Landi Kotal Khalid Mumtaz Kundi died on Tuesday from injured sustained when suicide bombers struck his office a day earlier during a meeting to discuss looming general elections, officials said.
Kundi, a deputy of Khyber Agency Political Agent Mutahir Zeb, died in a military hospital in Peshawar.
"They operated on him for several hours overnight but several pieces of shrapnel had entered his body and he died," a security official told AFP.
Officials in the Khyber administration confirmed his death.
Six people have now died as a result of the attack, in which two suicide bombers stormed the Khyber administration's compound in Peshawar as Zeb chaired a meeting on arrangements for the elections.
There has been no claim of responsibility.
The Pakistani military has long been fighting Taliban and other insurgents in Khyber, which straddles a key Nato supply route into Afghanistan, where US-led combat troops are due to leave next year.
Violence has increased in northwest Pakistan ahead of elections, which are due by mid-May and which will mark the first time an elected civilian government completes a full term in office.


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I need a bit of help here. I've now got a 6mm agir backplate and was told that the vision bolts would be long enough to accomodate the backplate without any modification.
Can I get it to fit? No, I can't. The bolts don't even come up flush to the inner surface of the backplate. The guys I know with this config, have the original Vision cases so I don't know if this is significant or not?
Sensible solutions please. Longer bolts, if so, from AP or Where? Or do I have to enlarge the holes in the backplate. If so how on earth do you do that (never did metalwork at school)?


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Name: Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt
Date of Birth: November 29, 2003
Siblings: Maddox (08/01), Zaharah (01/05), Shiloh (06/06) and twins Knox & Vivienne (07/08)
– Pax was adopted from Vietnam in 2007
– His birth name was Pham Quang Sang which was changed after his adoption
– Pax Thien translates to "peaceful sky" – "Pax" is Latin for "peace" while "thien" means "sky" in Vietnamese
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A RECORD 25,000 people, including thousands from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, will lace up their running shoes to raise millions for charity tomorrow.
They all hope to complete the ten-mile Great South Run, which takes in the sights of Southsea seafront and Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
The big run will be started by Dame Kelly Holmes, a double gold medallist at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Among them will be chartered accountants from Wilkins Kennedy who hope to raise thousands of pounds for The Rose Road Association, and a team of 30 children and adults, some suffering from spina bifida and hydrocephalus, who will be taking part to help others with the condition.
Staff from Warner Goodman LLP hope to raise money for Families of Ocean Ward, supporting Southampton General Hospital's children's heart unit.
Dressed as superheroes, Southampton General Hospital children's physiotherapists, Tom Meredith, Sian Evans, Nicky Broughton-Head and Phil Webb, will be taking part to raise vital funds for their department.
Sarah Crabb, Daniel Van Cuylenburg and Morgan Strange will be raising money for the Ellen MacArthur Trust.
Kathy Tilbury, from New Milton, will be running to raise money for AYME, a charity that has supported her neighbour, Rosie Smith, 14, who suffers from ME.
Also on the run, is carer, Lou Brown, Rebecca Volk, of Broadwater Road, Romsey, Luke Tillman, from Fawley, and four Fareham council workers.
Since the first Great South Run in 1990, more than £30m has been raised for charity.


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> LIKE requires a different kind of index. See > <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/indexes-opclass.html>. Thanks for the answer peter, I didn't notice it when I red the doc, but if I create the index as specified then it is the query with equal operator which use a seq scan. Do I have to create 2 indexes on the same column (with different datatype) in order to support different kind of queries ? Well, It seems quite strange to me : Suppose you have an user interface in which user can parameter his query on 4 varchar fields (independantly, i.e field 4 does not need to have field 1,2 or 3 filled), and you allow to use generic character such as '*' or '?' (which will be translated into '%' and '_'). User can also fill in exact values. Then you would have to create 4*2=8 indexes to handle every combinations of possible queries. It would also mean that support both exact generic queries double the indexing task on update/insert/delete. Am I wrong ? Luc Jouneau
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Government COO expands on £6,000 PC support cost claim by tweeting video of slow laptop bootup
Stephen Kelly's IT spending figures are cause for alarm, says V3 editor Madeline Bennett
The government has always faced criticism that its IT is slow, unwieldy, inflexible, unnecessarily complex and overpriced. It's one thing when you face this criticism from your rivals, the press or members of the public – but you know you've reached a dire point when it's your own chief operating officer (COO) twisting the knife.
The government's new COO Stephen Kelly posted a tweet on Wednesday morning, highlighting the decrepit nature of government IT systems. However, by Thursday the video had been removed, no doubt after Kelly was taken to task by his seniors for posting a video showing his PC logins, and yet again criticising public sector IT.
l videoed my laptop booting at 7am this AM: 7min 20s youtube.com/watch?v=sanq7v… Keen to be transparent with @telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…— Stephen Kelly (@SKellyCOO) June 12, 2013
The tweet followed comments made by Kelly at a government spending review attended last week by V3, in which he shed light into the world of technology at Whitehall and across the public sector.
"I came into the office and I pressed my PC and it took me seven minutes to boot up," he told attendees. "That's government in the old world, that's three days of the year I waste of my time booting up."
As soon as I heard these remarks I was reminded of another example of 'government in the old world', as highlighted at the Department of Work and Pensions, where anyone wanting to claim certain benefits has to use a PC running nothing newer than Microsoft Windows XP or Internet Explorer 6. So the reliance on slow-running and old machines within other areas of government is nothing surprising.
Aside from the huge waste in productivity outlined by Kelly, the government seems to be throwing huge amounts down the drain maintaining this outdated kit. The COO said he thought the cost of a single desktop PC was around £6,000 per year – for which he could go and buy 10 Apple iPads.
Far be it for V3 to quibble in affairs of the state, but I feel that either Kelly is misinformed over real-world IT costs or has got his sums mixed up. Firstly there's the minor point that for £6,000 you could actually get hold of as many as 22 iPads if you went for the mini version, or 15 of the cheapest full-size tablets, if you opted for 16GB WiFi-only models. I'm guessing the government's COO has more expensive tastes though, and takes the attitude that only a £579 32GB WiFi+4G model will suffice.
But then there's the more concerning issue of the £6,000 a year Kelly thinks is being spent on each public sector PC per year. This is a ludicrous amount, unless the government happens to be providing all staff with a 3D-enabled desktop and printer, or their very own IBM Watson.
According to my estimations – verified by a CIO – this figure should be less than £1,000 per year taking into account the cost of the hardware, office suite, and support and server costs over a three-year period, so it looks like the government is getting completely swindled by their PC supplier – or Kelly needs to go back and re-sit his maths GCSE.
Kelly went on to say that as the government is such a big spender, it should be demanding a better service, and hence lower costs, from its suppliers. I couldn't agree more with this sentiment, but have to question whether Kelly is best placed to lead this charge. Surely the UK government needs someone who puts a £600 figure on annual desktop costs and let suppliers try to work up from there, rather than downwards from £6,000.
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This evening, Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-PA) released the following statement on their efforts to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Sen. Lieberman and Rep. Murphy are the lead sponsors of the bill to repeal the policy in their respective chambers.
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DAHLONEGA - Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday for the founder of the Dahlonega-based band The Fiddleheads.
Zak McConnell died of natural causes - possibly heart failure - at the age of 26 on Tuesday, according to a statement on the band's website.
A part of the statement read:
"Zak was kind, humble, passionate, compassionate, respectful and intelligent. We have lost someone who was a dear friend, a son, a brother, and a husband. And a world-class musician who played every note of every song with all of the passion that was in his young heart."
McConnell founded the band in 2009 at the University of North Georgia and had been in school at the university of Georgia pursuing an MBA at the time of his death.
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Daniel Sackett
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d.16 NOV 1862 Kimball, St. Clair, Michigan, United States
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In The Sacketts of America[2], Weygant lists Daniel's parents as Benjamin and Phebe (Davis) Sackett. However, Weygant was mistaken, and the Daniel Sackett who died in Troy in 1845 and married Sarah Pardee was actually the son of Benjamin and Phebe. Research[8] proves this error: all of the diary of George Holcomb[9], the surrogate record and probate of Daniel Sackett of Troy[10], and the Surrogate's Record of Benjamin Sackett[11] support this conclusion.
On an unnumbered page in the Surrogate's Record of Benjamin Sackett (File No. 70-3032 at the Rensselaer County Historical Society), Daniel Sackett is named as the son of Benjamin Sackett, and on a separate page, he is identified as living in the City of Troy. At the time of Benjamin's death, the Daniel Sackett who married Abigail Smith was living further west.
Interestingly, if the will of Daniel of Troy hadn't been challenged by Charles H. Wheeler and his wife Elvira, then this error might not have been discovered, especially since one of the witnesses testified that he knew a brother of Daniel's at some time, not that he knew of Daniel's extensive family, some of whom still lived in the area.
According to the statutes of that time, the court was under obligation to notify all heirs and next of kin of the probate hearing, even if they weren't mentioned in the will. Most of the 12 pages of the will are the citations and affidavits of service for all of Daniel Sackett's next of kin, since he left his entire estate to his wife, Sarah.
Furthermore, according to the diary of George Holcomb, the Daniel Sackett in Troy was the brother of Benjamin Sackett, jr., son of Capt. Benjamin Sackett and Phebe Davis. (The Stephentown Historical Society has plans to release the over-900-pages diary on pdf at some future date. They were kind enough to provide me with 90 pages of Sackett references.)
I'm still not certain how Weygant made such a glaring error. Perhaps this Daniel's father was a Benjamin also from Rensselaer County? --Obstinatesnooper 13:55, 30 July 2011 (EDT)


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Who else here had a mom who disciplined them with spankings? (By spanking I mean something more than one swat to get your attention.) I was raised by a divorced mom in Michigan who believed in the rod and the paddle.
my mom spank me all the time dad also but mom most bare btotom hair brush padd;e allways same lecture standing in front she pull down pants and undest put me over her knees an spank me till i was kicking crying howling out mom burns two holes in my butt all the time forget about sitting
mom spank me into teens years
I was raised by mom and dad, but she was the main spanker at home. I have a lot of good but stinging memories of her slipper accross my bare bottom. Dad spanked too, and really hard, sometimes with his belt, but that happened rarely.
I too was regularly spanked at home by mom bare over her lap with the hairbrush . Like swhotk it was the 50s and spanking happened quite often in the home and schools back then .
I grew up in the 50s with a spanking mom who routinely bared and spanked me over lap with a wooden hairbrush. In the 50s spanking was the norm at homes and at school. I was regularly spanked at home and all my friends were spanked as well.
yes back then it was so common to go to school next day with two bruised butts cheeks
Yes absolutely! All my siblings and I were spanked properly by Mom when we earned it growing up!
I was raised the same way and love my mom dearly
I was raised in the 50s by an older mom who used spanking as her primary form of punishment. From age 7 to 11 if I misbehaved my pants came down and I was hand spanked where ever I misbehaved and regardless of who was watching. When I turned 12 mom introduced my bare behind to her long handled wooden hairbrush which she used on me routinely until just before I turned 17, which was not uncommon in the Midwest in the 50s.
I do not remember dad ever spanking me, he worked and mom was a stay at home mom and discipline was her area. From age 11 to 14 I was spanked almost once a week and sometimes more than that. But I knew the rules and the consequences of misbehavior. Lots of my sore behinds were caused by my smart mouth.
My biological parents did not believe in spankings. Lord knows that I wanted either or both of them to do it and I gave them plenty of reason to do it. I wouldn't have cared how hard it was or what they might have used, pants up or completely naked. I NEEDED to get it from my real mom or dad. At the time I didn't understand why this was so, but it was a fact.
Just because they didn't do it, doesn't mean I didn't get spanked. I had Gram in my life and she believed in spanking me for almost anything that she thought was worthy of it. That line was pretty close and it didn't take very much for me to find myself standing in front of her while she pulled down my pants and underwear for a session over her knee. I would estimate that it happened about 2 or 3 times per week on average. It didn't take me long to realize that this was far more frequent than any other kid I knew but I didn't care and wouldn't have changed it even if I could have.
I have wondered if I'd be here on this site if mom and/or dad had ever smacked my bum. Maybe not, but I think I may have been wired in that direction anyway.
I was raised by a divorced mother who certianly believed in spanking when I misbehaved or disobeyed her. Her spanking hurt so much and would always make me cry. Yet when I finally stopped crying I felt an overwhelming feeling of love and respect for my mother. I would also want to show her that I learned my lesson. For example if she spanked me for a messy bedroom I would clean the whole house the next day.
Oh, yes, mom was more frequent a spanker than dad who was harsher and meaner. Mom was determined still to raise a world of hurt and did it efficiently until I was 15 or 16 and just to mature for her to stand spanking me. Hand, brush, spoon and belt were all in her arsenal.
i never get spank since i was a kid. but i always want to know how it feels to be spank...
At 19 I still get the belt for misbehavior by mom. When she decides that's enough without wasting time my skirt goes up panties down and I get spanked as if I was a little girl. Nevertheless I know she does it for my own good and I'm thankful to her for her care.
My mom was divorced when I was 4. She was able to keep things together, raise me and keep her own life going well. She was a firm believer in spanking and had a belt I am almost certain she wore out on me.

I am 29 and my mother can still and will put me over her knee
Yes, my mom was a firm believer in spankings!
My mom used to spank me plenty. She took me over her knee and spanked me bare bottomed. This occurred all throughout my childhood. My last spanking was when I was 18 and had stayed out too late one night, when I got home, mom was mad. She took me over her knee right there on the couch and gave me a good spanking. I was crying by the time the spanking ended.
Your Mom really cared. She had the weight of caring for you on her shoulders. You deserved a red, very red bottom!
hey my mom used to do that too, arent our moms all the same?lol

jst to let u noe, ur not alone:D


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Cape Town - A 23-year-old man from Elsies River drowned at Rocklands Beach in Sea Point on Sunday.
The National Sea Rescue Institute said the man had gone into the sea to help a friend but witnesses said the man had gone for a swim by himself.
When the Cape Argus arrived at the scene at 5.30pm, paramedics were trying to resuscitate the man.
A young woman standing behind the yellow police tape identified the man as her friend Zayroudien Samson.
The police have opened an inquest docket.
Meanwhile, after three days of singeing heat, Capetonians can look forward to cooler weather for the rest of the week.
The weekend heat was caused by an offshore air flow which preceded a coastal low-pressure system, said forecaster Rian Smit of the Cape Town Weather Bureau.
Hot air flowing from the interior had moved towards the coast, sending temperatures soaring to highs of over 40°C in parts.
But the good news was the coastal low had arrived overnight and, as airflow turned around and headed back landwards, temperatures would drop.
"The air flowing from the sea to the land is obviously cooler and more moist and, therefore, temperatures would drop to about the mid-to-late 20s," Smit said.
"On Wednesday evening, a very weak front may come around but we do not expect it to rain. Next weekend might be sunny and hot again but most likely not as hot as it was this weekend."
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The Effect of Glutamine on Systemic Inflammation During Human Experimental Endotoxemia
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Glutamine levels decrease during severe sepsis; this may be associated with increased mortality. The investigators tested the effects of glutamine supplementation on systemic inflammation in a human sepsis model.
The investigators found that glutamine levels drops significantly during experimentally induced systemic inflammation. However, glutamine did not affect the degree of inflammation.
|Sepsis Systemic Inflammation
|Dietary Supplement: alanine-glutamine infusion
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
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|The Effect of Glutamine Infusion on the Inflammatory Response and HSP-70 in BMNCs During Human Experimental
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- Heat shock protein -70 production from BMNCs
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|June 2007
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|October 2007
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|October 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Dietary Supplement: alanine-glutamine infusion
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|Dietary Supplement: alanine-glutamine infusion
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Glutamine levels have been shown to decrease substantially with severe sepsis and this has been connected with increased mortality. Therefore, in the present study, we infused either saline or Alanine-glutamine during an endotoxin challenge and measured parameters related to an immune response, i.e. plasma cytokines and Heat Shock Protein (HSP)-70.
Materials and Methods This was a double blind, randomised, placebo-controlled crossover trial in eight healthy young men. The study was performed in random order on two separate days, with a four-week washout period between days. Subjects received an infusion of Alanine-glutamine ( Dipeptiven) at a rate of 0.025 g / (kg BW * h) for 10 hrs or saline. After two hours of infusion subjects received an intravenous bolus of E. coli endotoxin (0.3 ng/kg). Blood samples were collected hourly for the following eight hours. HSP-70 protein content in isolated Blood Mononuclear Cells (BMNCs) was measured by western blotting.
Results and Discussion Plasma glutamine was significantly increased during infusion with alanine-glutamine infusion. En-dotoxin caused a reduction in plasma-glutamine during saline infusion as well as during Alanine-glutamine infusion. A significant effect of endotoxin was found on leukocyte subpopulations, tumor necrosis factor-a, interleukin-6, the expression of HSP-70 in BMNCs, temperature, and heart rate. However, no differences were detected between treatments with regard to the effect of endotoxin on any of these parameters.
Conclusion Endotoxemia reduces plasma glutamine independently of parenteral infusion of alanine-glutamine. Glutamine does not alter the response of leukocytes, leukocyte subpopulations, IL-6, or TNF-α, or the expression of HSP-70 in BMNCs to endotoxemia.
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|18 Years to 40 Years (Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Healthy young males
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any kind of acute or chronic diseases
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00780520
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Keywords provided by Rigshospitalet, Denmark:
glutamine inflammation HSP70 sepsis
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NFL fantasy football: Rob Gronkowski done for season
NFL.com Staff | Tags: Three and out,
Gronk sufferc broken forearm: New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski is finished for the postseason after breaking his forearm in Sunday's win over the Houston Texans. It was the same forearm that Gronk broke earlier in the season that caused him to miss five games. He'll have surgery to repair the injury and should be ready by the time training camp rolls around. In the short term, it's a blow to the the Patriots offense — as well as anyone who selected Gronkowski in the Playoff Challenge. However, New England showed what it can do even without its multi-dimensional tight end as Aaron Hernandez, Brandon Lloyd and Wes Welker became even bigger parts of the offense. Expect that to continue this week in the AFC Championship Game.
Dolphins' RB situation in flux: Looks like the Miami Dolphins could be searching for a new running back. According to Miami Herald columnist Armando Salguero, the Dolphins plan to submit a "team friendly" offer to Reggie Bush, meaning the rusher could look elsewhere for a bigger free agent deal. However, it doesn't seem like Miami has a lot of help further down the depth chart. Lamar Miller only had double-digit carries twice during the season and never topped 73 rushing yards. Meanwhile, Daniel Thomas is slated to have knee surgery and could be moving down the depth chart headed into next season.
Housler praised by Cardinals' GM: Most of the talk about the Arizona Cardinals' offense this season centered on the team's awful quarterback play and what it did to the fantasy value of Larry Fitzgerald. But lost in that chatter was the promise shown by second-year tight end Rob Housler. The undrafted pass-catcher was tied for third-most catches on the team with 45 while gaining 417 yards — numbers that likely would have been higher if the Redbirds had a decent QB. All the while, this made the oft-injured Todd Heap obsolete within the offense. Don't get overly excited, Housler won't be mistaken for a top-tier tight end anytime soon. But after a season in which the position was wildly inconsistent, he could become a good matchup-based option for weeks when fantasy owners are in need.
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Discussion in 'The National Football League' started by JB, Sep 4, 2010.
I don't really know what else to say.
Wonder if they had some sort of personality clash or if Carroll wanted to tinker with Gibbs' running game.
I sincerely hope he enjoys retirement this time and does not return to Houston in any capacity. I appreciate everything he did for us but I think we're good right now and don't need any more help.
I'm thinking it might have something to do with the cuts, including Whosyourmama. Perhaps he doesn't like the fact that team has very few weapons, and perhaps his influence isn't so much.
Totally agree.
That would be my guess.
This far into it, I have to think it's a cancer diagnosis, or a death in the immediate family.
This may have a bearing also...
I don't really see Andrews fitting Gibbs style
I remember reading something earlier in the year, where he wasn't sold on doing this much longer anyway. Heck, we pulled him out of retirement.
I thought he was just going to help tweak their program, and be on his way anyway.
Yep, I would imagine they are now tweaked as hell thanks to him.
In a surprising move just eight days before the season opener, Seahawks offensive line coach Alex Gibbs has resigned.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Gibbs' resignation was abrupt, and it's not quite clear why he did it.
However, Schefter notes that some think Gibbs may have resigned as a response to some of Seattle's recent roster moves. It's also possible that Gibbs, who announced his retirement in 2007 only to return to coaching in 2008, feels burned out.
But whatever the reasons, just eight months after Pete Carroll called hiring Gibbs an "outstanding achievement," Carroll now needs to find a competent replacement.
I have to change my opinion of my earlier post. I saw a report on NFLN, that the 'Hawks found out about this as surprisingly as we did. Someone walked into his office, and noticed all his stuff was gone.
Sounds like he was pissed, and didn't want to deal with it.
Now, how could a such a nice sweet man like Carroll have pissed off such an even keeled calm man like Gibbs?
Congrats on retirement Mr. Gibbs, don't take this the wrong way but we've moved on from you and don't need your assitance any more.
Weird. After all those years at USC you'd think Pete Carroll would be a salary cap genius.
Should be a good NFL coach to work for.
I think Dennison is more likely to adapt his scheme to the players and the opponent matchups, which will allow our OL to perform better than it did under Gibbs.
Gibbs is the best OL coach of all time, but we are better off moving on.
Don't know that I would go that far.
He probably didn't like the candy-ass program Pete Carroll is running.
That was a dynamic flawed from the beginning. Pete Carroll is in way over his head in the NFL. There is a reason college coaches do well in NCAA but can't translate it to the NFL. Nick Saban knows all too well what I am talking about.
Pete Carroll, though he denies it, ducked out of USC because he saw what was coming down the pike for the Trojans: Sanctions. He knew the jig was up. Can't say I fault him, but he jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire, IMO.
I want to see Carroll do Seattle like Petrino did Atlanta. That would be the sweetest ending of all.
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Timani faces hearing over striking charge
Wallabies second-rower Sitaleki Timani will face a disciplinary hearing in Bristol on Wednesday over a striking charge which threatens to end his European tour.
Timani is in danger of missing the final game of the Wallabies' tour against Wales in Cardiff on Saturday over the incident.
The 26-year-old appeared to elbow an Italian player in the head during a scuffle in the 13th minute of last Saturday's 22-19 win over Italy.
If Timani is suspended Dave Dennis could start in the second row or Kane Douglas if he has recovered from a knee injury.


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For years I only wore lipstick. Hated the stickiness of lipgloss, but in the last year I've become a die-hard lipglass fan.
I'm working this weekend; preparing joint stips. and proposed orders.
Temptalia: Good luck w/ finals! You'll do great.
I love anything that looks good, ligloss or lipstick, but i have to say my favorite lipgloss right now is victorias secret's 2 for 10 glosses because they taste so good!!
I love lipstick! To be more precise, pink lipstick! I have a few too many lipsticks, most of them in various shades of pink. I guess I just have a weak spot for pink makeup =)
Hmmm…lipstick! Especially red lipstick. It makes me feel so super-starish.
I too am studying for finals! Yesterday I handed in a 51 page psychology essay. >_< Its that time of the year when teachers in every country try to kill university students.
Definitely lipstick – in all shades of red, of course 🙂 I didn't like gloss before I started using Clarins lip balm, which I now use as a thin layer over matte lipstick. I don't use lip gloss unless I am going for a nude lip, which hardly ever happens!
Pink lipstick is definitely my fav too!
Yet another vote for pink lips 🙂 LOVE IT! I do lipstick with gloss on top usually. Almost always pink. I recently had a MA talk me into the joys of red clothing and pink lips, she said it was very valentines day looking and could also be pulled off at Xmas time if done right. I am still a little on the fence about it but giving it a try. I like red lips but during the day at a school function it can come across as a bit much.
This weekend is going to be mellow for us. Doing some bell rining for the Salvation Army later today as volunteers for the cub scouts. An indoor soccer game tomorrow and going to finish decorating. I have my sewing final on Wed, I have a little bit of studying left to do in order to feel prepared.
My fav makeup item of all times are lipsticks, even if I have nothing else on, I will always apply a lipstick before I go out – Red lippies are my ultimate makeup weapon!
As for what's lined up…finals for me as well. Good luck on yours, Christine!
Lipgelees! And Petting Pink Tinted Lip Conditioner.
Lipstick with a little bit of gloss on top. My preferences are #1, Mary Kay shade Cranberry; #2, Cover Girl shade called Delight.
Gloss for me just needs to be shine, but if we're picking a color, the Aloha shade from Mary Kay.
lipglossss lova :] Though I'm starting to become a fan of lipstick!
Lipstick, especially light and sheer formulas. I love Clinique's Almost Lipstick. Wish it came in more colors.
I first fell in love with lipstick when I was 13 hahaha. But I do like lipglosses too, as long as they're not too sheer or sticky.
I love both lip gloss & lipstick, I've got almost every shade known! I love the color & intensity of the lipstick, but the look & feel of the gloss is like nothing else!
I'm a gloss freak, but I think I'm going to see if the coral or pink finery sets suit me. If so, Merry Christmas to me!!
I plan on spending my weekend bumming around with the hubby & our two doggies. It's cold & snowing, but I imagine we'll bundle up and indulge the pups with their usual weekend trips to the dog park anyway. Our female was living in NC last winter (we rescued her in August) so she saw snow for the first time this week and is a total clown running around in the few inches that's fallen. The park should be a riot. =)
I prefer glosses, but I like either bright pinks and purples for lips or really natural and soft tans, pinks, and clear glosses.
And I'll be studying too… good luck 🙂
I am definitely a gloss girl.. I don't even own any lipsticks! I am just still not sure if they suit me or not..
Lustreglasses are my favourite <3
I love glosses..from lipglass to lustreglass. With Palatial lustreglass being my favorite right now.
lip stain only one or two shades deeper than my natural lip color. it should be more berry, not more pink or red. lip stain doesnt leave the lips as quickly as either gloss or lipstick and looks more natural while still delivering color. if you want to prevent windburn during the winter, use lip gloss over it.
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Well, Texas sure was fun! Good food, great company, and a chance to experience a different Episcopal liturgy. How wonderful to be in a downtown city church where they announce that the "Gay, Lesbian and Everyone Else... or GLEE Club... will have a potluck dinner!" St. David's was rather large (three levels, and a parking garage to boot!). And yet the atmosphere wasn't stuffy or unfriendly. Such a nice backdrop to a Sunday with lessons from the Letter of James about how one treats the poor person vs. the one in all the finery... and one of my all-time favs from Mark with the Syrophoenician woman ("'Xcuse me, Messiah boy; who you callin' a dog here?!?!") Such a great set of lessons on a Sunday when I'm the stranger in the crowd. Oddly, the same thing happened last year when I was in Durham, NC, and was present for the service when the reading was the parallel story from Matthew's gospel. I don't plan these things! Really, I don't.
I also took some time to explore favorite haunts in Austin... namely Sweetish Hill Bakery, BookPeople, and Anderson's Coffee. And we had a wonderful time celebrating my friend Terry's mother's 85th birthday. The family rented out a room at a Middle Eastern restaurant called Phara's, and we were spellbound by the belly dancer who balanced a sword on her head... her hips... and her chest. It was fantastic!
I also took a walk around the campus of the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. It wasn't open due to the holiday weekend, which was too bad. But it was small, and the neighborhood seemed fairly quiet. I was really sorry not to have had a chance to go in and look at the Episcopal Church Archives. Perhaps another time.
Overall, it was an active and fun 48-hours in Texas. And a really nice and badly needed get-away.
More theological thinking to come: stay tuned!
Monday, September 7, 2009
I'm Baaaacckkk
Posted by SCG at 9/07/2009 06:46:00 PM
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Welcome home! I hope that all was well with my Kyrie as well.
- September 7, 2009 at 7:22 PM
I reread your last blog and am so pleased you went to look at the Seminary. Also, I really am amazed at how many Kings and their sons are killed or don't get the message in my daily readings these days. When did the Jews get a good leader?
- September 8, 2009 at 4:01 PM
- SCG said...
Haha, Peggins! Welcome to the Old Testament where just when you think the people of Israel will finally get it right, oops--there's another bright, shiny object!
Elijah has now come on the scene. I'll be interested in hearing what you think of him!
- September 9, 2009 at 11:24 AM
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Schlesinger's term, June 1914 to January 1923. Topics covered in these
materials include union organizing; strikes, labor disputes, working
conditions, and other labor issues in the women's garment industry,
particularly in New York City; inter-union relations; relations between
manufacturers' associations and the union; efforts by Schlesinger and others to
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workers' unions; education for workers in New York City; and Jewish war relief
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correspondence file include: Jane Addams; American Medical Aid for Russia; the
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Advocates want state to end contract with Syncare
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Lawmakers in Jefferson City will discuss widespread complaints against an Indiana company hired to determine the eligibility of Missouri Medicaid patients for in-home care
The House Interim Committee on Budget Transparency is expected to summon officials from the Department of Health and Senior Services to a meeting at noon Wednesday.
The state agency oversees a contract with Indianapolis-based SynCare LLC. The company was hired several months ago to determine whether Missouri's 55,000 Medicaid recipients qualify for home-based medical services or help with daily chores.
Several groups that represent the patients say the state should cancel the company's contract after clients complained of poor service and drastic reductions in the number of hours of paid help they receive.
Original Story: A group of advocates representing seniors and people with disabilities want state leaders to severe a contract with a health care provider accused of mismanagement.
Advocates said Syncare Incorporated has failed to deliver vital services to Missouri TMs Medicaid recipients.
Several Medicaid recipients told stories of how months went by without receiving services under Syncare TMs supervision during a news conference at the Boone County Courthouse on Tuesday morning.
The $5.5 million contract calls for Syncare to assess the eligibility of Medicaid recipients for a variety of in-home health services.
Independent Living Resource Center Legislative Advocate Imre Komaromi said, Excuses are being given over and over again by Syncare and nothing is improving. Anybody else would have let an employee like that go a long time ago, but so far we haven TMt. People are not receiving the services they need. We need to let them go.
Syncare has been responsible for helping about 50,000 Missouri Medicaid recipients since May 19.
The contract between the state and Syncare is managed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)


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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2007/11/05 - e-Enterprises (e2) to promote Suns portfolio of solutions and servers across the Kingdom.
e-Enterprises (e2), a subsidiary of Emirates Computers and Alesayi Communications in Saudi Arabia, announced that they have signed a partnership agreement with Sun Microsystems Middle East & North Africa to promote Suns best-in-class solutions and services across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Under the terms of the agreement, e-Enterprises will help sell, and implement Suns products and services portfolio across all market segments and verticals in Saudi.
Speaking on the partnership, Mr. Jamal Said, General Manager of Sun Microsystems KSA, said, "Saudi Arabia, being the largest market for IT and Communications in the region, is a very important market for Sun. We chose to partner with e2 as it brings with it Emirates Computers expertise and unmatched track record of implementing some of the biggest projects in the region and Alesayis strong local market presence as well as a wide network of customers and partners, making it a perfect partner for Sun in Saudi. We are happy with our long-standing partnership with Emirates Computers and decided to extend this relationship to Saudi as well. We look forward to working closely with e2 and will offer extensive support and training to their staff on implementing our solutions. We are confident that e2 will play a significant role in contributing to our success and will further strengthen Suns position in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
e-Enterprises (e2), which has offices in Riyadh, Jeddah and Al Khobar, offers IT and related services to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. e2 focuses on four key business lines, which cover communications and networking infrastructure, software solutions, systems integration projects as well as security solutions, and caters to the requirements of important market segments such as hospitality, real estate, government, telecom, transportation and utilities. e2 will promote Suns portfolio of software and storage solutions, volume based servers and services directly to customers. Some of products that e2 will promote are Sun Fire coolthreads servers, Sun fire X64 servers, Sunfire ultrasparc servers, Blade servers, SunRay (thin clients), Sun storage and Workstations.
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Central West Agricentre has made the switch to solar and expects to save in the region of $4,350 a year with its new 10kW system.
The system was installed by key Ruralco Solar supplier Energy Matters and consists of 40 REC Peak Energy Series solar panels and a 10kW Power-One Aurora inverter.
The modules were mounted flush on the 25 degree pitched roof using the Australian designed and made SunLock mounting system – a product of Energy Matters sister company, Apollo Energy.
Producing an average of 40kwh per day, or 14600 kWh annually, the Central West Agricentre installation will pay for itself within 4 years.
The system includes Energy Matters' Power Maximiser package, designed to keep a commercial solar array producing at its maximum power output through proactive maintenance.
The Power Maximiser analyses actual system performance against expected output in addition to leveraging inverter data logging to identify and troubleshoot performance issues before they occur.
Commercial scale solar power systems are becoming increasingly common throughout Australia on the rooftops of stores, warehouse and farm shedding.
According to Energy Matters, with commercial electricity prices increasing and the cost of solar components having plummeted, the long life of a system translates to a huge reduction in the medium to long term operational costs of a business or farming operation.
About Energy Matters
Founded in 2005, 100% Australian-owned Energy Matters has installed over 15,000 solar systems on homes, schools and commercial buildings throughout the nation, including a 200kW rooftop array in Sydney and a 400kW installation currently being constructed for NextDC – which will be Australia's largest privately funded rooftop system.
About Ruralco
Ruralco is a leading Australian owned agribusiness with more than forty specialist businesses operating across its network; including CRT, Town & Country and Agriwest, which services farming communities in and around Parkes, Peak Hill and Forbes, New South Wales.
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Senator Serrano Participates in the Annual Reading of George Handel's Messiah
Senator Serrano participated in the annual reading of Handel's Messiah at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx. This event, which draws large crowds from all around New York City, has become a holiday tradition in the Bronx. Music was performed by the Bronx Opera Chorus and conducted by Michael Spierman.
"It brings me great joy to have been selected as an orator, once again, for the reading of Handel's Messiah," said Senator Serrano. "The perception of the Bronx as not being rich in the arts and culture is quickly changing. The Bronx Opera has been on the forefront in showcasing all the wonderful talent this borough has to offer. I look forward to participating in future readings of Handel's Messiah."