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July 08, 2014
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BOSTON – Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced the launch of the Boston Public Library's Bibliocycle, and the re-launch of ReadBoston's Storymobile, now in its nineteenth year. Both programs use a human-powered bicycle with an attached trailer to make their services mobile, and will be pedaling through Boston's neighborhoods this summer.
"The Bibliocycle and Storymobile are innovative ways to reimagine libraries, and promote reading and learning across all generations," said Mayor Walsh. "These services will keep kids reading through the summer and help to prevent summertime learning loss, while expanding library accessibility for adults."
Boston Public Library's Bibliocycle
The Bibliocycle is a partnership between the Boston Public Library (BPL) and Boston Bikes that will enable the library to take its free offerings to the streets in a friendly, active way. Features of the Bibliocycle program include library card sign up, book checkout, demonstrations of BPL's digital resources, and help with reference questions. The mobile collection of up to 50 books includes new releases, bestsellers, cooking, gardening, picture books, and bike repair titles. The checkout limit is 10 items per person.
The Bibliocycle will travel to markets, fairs, and neighborhood events throughout the summer and fall to serve city residents, and the complete schedule can be found at bpl.org/community. On select dates, Boston Bikes team members will accompany librarians in order to provide bike and healthy living tips.
The Bibliocycle team is not equipped to handle fines and book returns, and patrons will need to visit one of BPL's many brick-and-mortar locations to complete that type of transaction.
ReadBoston's Storymobile
An annual summer treat for children in the city, the Storymobile aims to inspire a love for literacy at an early age. Children can enjoy storytelling at its finest, with books brought to life through tales and song. At the end of each session, every child receives a free, new book to take home.
ReadBoston Storymobiles will roll through the city's neighborhoods weekdays from Monday, July 7, through Friday, August 15, to offer children in Boston a free and fun adventure at 78 sites each week. The Storymobile is a visual reminder that learning can happen anywhere, not just in the classroom. The program, which is most appropriate for children ages 3-8, is open to the public with convenient locations all over the city. No sign-up or registration is necessary.
A full schedule for the ReadBoston Storymobile is available here. For the latest updates on ReadBoston, visit their Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/ReadBoston. For questions about the program, please call 617-918-5286.
About Boston Public Library
Boston Public Library has a Central Library, 24 branches, a map center, a business library, and a website filled with digital content and services. Established in 1848, the Boston Public Library has pioneered public library service in America. It was the first large free municipal library in the United States, the first public library to lend books, the first to have a branch library, and the first to have a children's room. Each year, the Boston Public Library hosts thousands of programs and serves millions of people. All of its programs and exhibitions are free and open to the public. To learn more, visit bpl.org.
About Boston Bikes
Boston Bikes is part of Boston's vision for a vibrant and healthy city that benefits all its citizens. It seeks to make Boston a world-class bicycling city by creating safe and inviting conditions for all residents and visitors. Boston Bikes focuses on improvements in all five universal bike planning areas: Engineering, Enforcement, Education, Encouragement, and Evaluation.
About ReadBoston
ReadBoston is the City's only comprehensive early literacy program, reaching Boston's children at all points in their day, all year long. It provides schools, after school programs, early childhood centers, summer programs, and families with the resources they need to set Boston's children on the path to reading success.


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The Administration has once again announced yet another attempt to square a circle, and they have once again failed. And so, we now have new regulations on the HHS mandate — the requirement that employer health insurance policies cover abortifacient drugs, sterilization, and contraception.
The objections of the Church to this violation of our rights are well known, and were asserted yet again by Cardinal Dolan on behalf of the U.S. Bishops.
The Administration and its allies, on the other hand, continue to assert that they have already satisfied all objections, and, in effect that religious people and organizations should just sit down, be quiet, and obey.
Not so fast. The new regulations — just like the old ones — are a fraud and a violation of fundamental rights.
Consider the alleged "exemption" and "accommodation" for some religious employers.
The "exemption" would certainly grant protection to many religious organizations, but nobody knows how many, or how few. The key provision in the regulation refers to an obscure part of the Internal Revenue Code that is not exactly written in clear and self-evident prose. Nobody knows how, in the end, the IRS will interpret and apply that provision. Does anyone trust them to do so in an even-handed way?
The "accommodation" is even more problematic. Every religious non-profit that objects to the mandate knows that when they offer their staff health insurance, they will also be providing them the objectionable products and services. It is true that they won't have to list the offensive things in their plan booklet, but they know that they're covered in any event — and that the employer will be paying for them. As a moral matter, that's really no different from directly and explicitly providing for the coverage in the insurance plan.
The "accommodation" is basically asking religious non-profits to accept a lie and pretend that it is the truth.
The new regulations offer no help whatsoever to for-profit businesses. They will be coerced into providing, promoting, and paying for morally offensive things. Nothing is changed for them in the fundamental injustice of the HHS mandate, and their many lawsuits against the mandate will go forward.
The heart of the matter ultimately doesn't depend on specifics of these very complex regulations. We have a situation where the government is forcing people to cooperate in immoral activities, either directly or under a transparent fig leaf of lies.
There is a core of liberty that is inherent in the nature of the human person, into which the government may not intrude without becoming a tyranny. One such area is the natural right of individuals and institutions to be free from government coercion of their consciences. One would have thought that this was made clear on July 4, 1776, and that the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials would serve as ample reminders of those principles.
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383 posts MemberHeroes Unleased Returns! Looking forward to EA Play announcement....OT in CS....please.19
100 posts MemberJune 6, 2019 10:58PM edited June 2019Great choice of events am excited for all of them👍 and thanks for letting us know, I plan on booking some days off to play double xp lol8
1400 posts MemberLoving the two triple XP weekends, thanks!8
6306 posts MemberThese developers seriously lack any creativity. It's pretty embarrassing.25
127 posts MemberI'm looking forward to the new map! The suspense is noice5
2609 posts MemberWell done and thank you for listening - HU and weekday events 👍🏼7
39 posts MemberI'm tired of the CW spam. Give us Scarif.17
316 posts MemberAnd the first one has already happened 👏🏻 👏🏻2
2546 posts MemberI'd love some more out-there events, like Era-accurate things, or a troopers-only GA and CS. In addition, I'd like for special modes and events to be separate from the normal rotations. Sometimes I like the choice of the normal versions. Spice it up more than "It's this mode normally, BUT with more Heroes". Granted, I'm still waiting for the spawn timer to be removed but hey, that's me : /
Also, please tell me this means we'll be getting Galactic Civil War maps to Capital Supremacy. I quite enjoy the mode, but the Clone Wars are wearing me down. Give me some wholesome OT goodness next please."I felt there was a large amount of human chauvinism... also I felt very bad that at the end the Wookie didn't get a medal also... oh, all the people got medals but the Wookie who had been in there fighting all the time, didn't get any medal, and I thought that was an example of Anti-Wookie discrimination." - Carl Sagan on the subject of Star Wars
He knew.5
2 posts MemberSo are we ever going to get a server browser so people stop getting put in empty games? Just asking, not for a friend, but for myself6
710 posts MemberThanks for returning heroes unleashed10
3033 posts MemberThe June Community Calendar is finally here! I have been waiting since June 1st!
Thank you devs for bringing back Heroes Unleashed! I am so looking forward to playing that event again after a long hiatus.5
17 posts MemberMaybe an event that is multiple random events from round to round? like if you play CS it is randomized at the beginning of the match whether it is heroes unleashed, vehicle cost reduced, or infantry only. Just a thought off the top of my head.Add Jyn Erso as a HERO!0
22 posts MemberPlease no more clone wars. It's been too much. We need different maps and heroes from different areas in CS. I don't even play it anymore.8
430 posts MemberWell, at least i know now what weekend i definitly won't even bother starting BF.2
38 posts MemberWhat time with the CT be dropping? "I've been looking forward to this" you know...1
403 posts MemberJune 7, 2019 7:17AM edited June 2019Nothing as always in therms of events... Can't say I expected actual events.2
1621 posts MemberI've said it before and I'll say it again, make fast spawn permanent!!!3
802 posts MemberWhat time with the CT be dropping? "I've been looking forward to this" you know...
Morning Pacific time:2
1361 posts MemberSame lackluster things, and they are called events lol try something different how about community ones where we all contribute to an award or something. I mean if a certain other publisher can do regular ones in their games why not this one)? yo ubisoft not to.1
539 posts MemberGuys, please. If you're gonna release a community calendar for a month, do it BEFORE the community events starts. You released this on June 7th and have 2 points on it that already happened a week ago. This is simply **** and shameful.12
63 posts MemberReleasing a monthly calendar of events a week into that month after some events have already happened is ridiculous. Your calendars should release in the last week of the previous month. At least remove the events from the calendar that have already been and gone before you publish it if you are going to be so late every month. Baffling behaviour from whoever is in charge of these announcements.6
553 posts MemberAlways bringing the info soo late5
56 posts MemberFor next month. Can we get any one of these instead?
1. Reinforcements Unleashed (No cap on any reinforcements)
2. Enemy Heroes off the radar (for CS, GA and HvV)
3. Heroes on Extraction, Blast and Strike (2 per side max)8
5 posts MemberAlmost time for the big CT0
288 posts MemberJune 7, 2019 11:58AM edited June 2019So fun with HU again! Needs to level up an officer to be able to compete in the mayhem!0
75 posts MemberDaiBenduMonk wrote: »For next month. Can we get any one of these instead?
1. Reinforcements Unleashed (No cap on any reinforcements)
2. Enemy Heroes off the radar (for CS, GA and HvV)
3. Heroes on Extraction, Blast and Strike (2 per side max)
Almost. My only concern is that Reinforcements can't play ion rocket objectives so, maybe like 7 or 8 per side max. Otherwise, fun ideas.PSN: Agent_TSCX
Join me, and together we will rule the Galaxy!2
21 posts MemberAm i the only one who cant spot any New Hero text in this
978 posts MemberWhat time with the CT be dropping? "I've been looking forward to this" you know...
Morning Pacific time:
That's not a time2
155 posts MemberI'm assuming it means before 3pm eastern time?0
12 posts MemberExtremely underwhelming! Oh well time to move on to a new game! That is until they remove Bobba "coward"fett!2
7141 posts MemberWhat time with the CT be dropping? "I've been looking forward to this" you know...
Morning Pacific time:
That's not a time
Thats so they can pick and choose when so they don't miss a timePSN: ibrajoker590
2050 posts MemberJune 7, 2019 2:45PM edited June 2019So nothing, basically. Where's our Target System HvV weekend, huh?
Edit: I realize now, I'm confusing this with the CT, so maybe there's good news to be had yet (besides HU, which is always nice). My mistake.
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Find me in HvV, pushing people off of stuff and watching them fall, like a cat.3
215 posts Memberduck poo DICEA still no arcade content.....1
1193 posts MemberNothing in the CT about reworking the combat system or changes on Heroes and Villains characters.
But Ive seen some comments about these in the personal Twitter accounts of Ben and Guillaume (buffs for Maul, Yoda, nerfs for Anaking etc and some more features and fixes)
I dont really know which of the former are going to be in the Monaday 10th June update or in the 26th June update.1
761 posts MemberOutstanding! This is going to be one heck of a month!"All wings report in."2
38 posts MemberJune 7, 2019 5:55PM edited June 2019Malibu Stacey gets another new hat and Starfighter Assault players get another kick to the [removed].
4005 postsModerator › SWBF Senior ModeratorSo hot right now.3
5591 postsModerator › SWBF Senior ModeratorIronSoldier wrote: »So hot right now.
I got burned2
551 posts MemberI have never seen Heroes Unleashed, what a madness it must be1
20 posts Member
Remember when Ben said this june was going to be big for battlefront 2??? where is the BIG????3
If they want to fix this game they coulda started by fixing everything that is wrong with starfighter assault...
5 posts MemberIs it just me or any game mode i play, triple XP is not active?1
2293 posts MemberIt would of been nice to have an offline large game mode to play instead of "heroes unleashed"0
4 posts MemberWhat would Naboo Capital Supremacy be look like in Star Wars Batttkefront 2
538 posts MemberCheekibreeki wrote: »What would Naboo Capital Supremacy be look like in Star Wars Batttkefront 2
The courtyard area of the city0
Does anyone know what time the triple xp event finishes on Monday 10th?
I'm UK time by the way. Thanks in advance👍🏻0
P.s. can we please get some imperial troopers v rebels in CT. I'm so bored looking at clones3
1 posts MemberDon't you love when you are trying to spawn on a squad mate who is in combat (but he actually isn't)....how about fixing that please1
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President Obama's picks to be the two new Commissioners at the Securities and Exchange Commission voiced their support during their confirmation hearing Thursday for SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White's recent announcement that she'd be changing the agency's "neither admit nor deny" settlement policy by seeking admissions of guilt in some of the more egregious cases.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said at the Senate Banking Committee hearing—which also considered the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., to be the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and two other nominees—that requiring admission of guilt in some cases "is an important step" for the agency and "shows that SEC will show some backbone in certain cases."
Warren then asked Kara Stein, an aide to Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., who was nominated to replace SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter, and Michael Piwowar, an economist on the Senate Banking Committee's staff who was nominated to replace Troy Paredes, whether they supported White's decision.
Piwowar replied that he agreed, as the SEC's policy has been on "autopilot" for too long. "Enforcement should be on a case-by-case basis," he said. Stein said she also agreed, echoing Piwowar's sentiment that "nothing should be on autopilot."
Both Piwowar and Stein's nominations are expected to be approved.
As reported by Reuters, White said at the annual CFO Network event hosted in Washington on Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal that the SEC is "going to in certain cases be seeking admissions going forward. I think … public accountability in particular kinds of cases can be quite important, and if we don't get them, then we litigate them."
In a June 17 email to the SEC's enforcement staff, the enforcement division's co-directors, George Canellos and Andrew Ceresney, said that the agency had begun to review its settlement approach "to ensure we make full and appropriate use of our leverage in the settlement process, including a discussion of the neither admit nor deny approach. While the no admit/deny language is a powerful tool, there may be situations where we determine that a different approach is appropriate."
From discussions with White and the commissioners, Canellos and Ceresney said that the types of cases where admissions of guilt could be in the public interest include "misconduct that harmed large numbers of investors or placed investors or the market at risk of potentially serious harm; where admissions might safeguard against risks posed by the defendant to the investing public, particularly when the defendant engaged in egregious intentional misconduct; or when the defendant engaged in unlawful obstruction of the commission's investigative processes."
In such cases, "should we determine that admissions or other acknowledgement of misconduct are critical, we would require such admissions or acknowledgement, or, if the defendants refuse, litigate the case," the two enforcement directors said.
Both Canellos and Ceresney said, however, that they "recognize that insisting upon admissions in certain cases could delay the resolution of cases, and that many cases will not fit the criteria for admissions." For these reasons, they added, "no-admit-no-deny settlements will continue to serve an important role in our mission and most cases will continue to be resolved on that basis. We will also continue to strongly defend our discretion to reach such settlements in response to inquiries from courts."
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Edinson Volquez knows that reaching free agent status next November is "good for me."
But he hopes is doesn't happen.
"I hope I don't get to the free agent market," the right-handed pitcher said recently. "I'd like to stay a Padre. I think they know that. I love it here. I see a future with the Padres and I like everything about San Diego, the food, the weather, the community."
Acquired in the four-for-one that also brought first baseman Yonder Alonso, catcher Yasmani Grandal and reliever Brad Boxberger from the Reds on Dec. 17, 2011, in exchange for right-handed pitcher Mat Latos, Volquez re-fired his career last season with the Padres.
He was 11-11 with a 4.14 earned run average in 32 starts.
Volquez is tough to hit. He allowed only 160 hits in 182 2/3 innings last season and threw only the Padres' third, complete-game one-hitter over the past 19 seasons. He finished the season with the ninth-lowest opponents batting average (.236) among National League starters.
But he also led the National League with 105 walks.
Before they engage Volquez in talks about a contract extension, they'd like to see more control and command from the 29-year-old -- who will make $5.275 million this season in a negotiated contract during his final arbitration season.
"I want pitch to make it happen," said Volquez of possibly earning an extension from the Padres.
Volquez next Monday will make the first of his two initial spring training starts for the Padres before reporting to The Dominican Republic team in Miami for the World Baseball Classic.
Volquez has also spent part of this spring counseling Yasmani Grandal about the catcher's 50-game suspension for using performance-enhancing drugs. Volquez tested positive for a PED used to boost male fertility in 2010 and served a 50-game suspension with the Cincinnati Reds.
"You feel bad to see anyone go through that," said Volquez. "There is really little you can say. I talked to Yaz the first day here. It's a process. He's smart. It's really about what you do now. It's going to go away. This year will be tough, but if you do it right from here, it will go away."
Padres notes
--Padres manager Bud Black said he has been impressed by the stuff shown by three young relievers in camp – Matthew Stites, Johnny Barbato and Kevin Quackenbush.
--Minor league infielder River Stevens, the Padres' ninth-round pick in last June's draft, will miss the 2013 season due to elbow reconstruction surgery. Right field prospect Rymer Liriano had his "Tommy John" procedure Wednesday in San Diego.
--Much of the Padres scheduled workout Wednesday was scrubbed due to rain.


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This paper describes six representative works by twentieth-century Chinese composers: Jian-Zhong Wang, Er-Yao Lin, Yi-Qiang Sun, Pei-Xun Chen, Ying-Hai Li, and Yi Chen, which are recorded by the author on the CD. The six pieces selected for the CD all exemplify traits of Nationalism, with or without Western influences. Of the six works on the CD, two are transcriptions of the Han Chinese folk-like songs, one is a composition in the style of the Uyghur folk music, two are transcriptions of traditional Chinese instrumental music dating back to the eighteenth century, and one is an original composition in a contemporary …
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My local Radio Shack Store has a new SIRIUS display and some new inventory. The display consists of a framed poster featuring SIRIUS with the best of XM. New inventory includes new boom boxes that will work with the Starmate 5 and other units. The only new radio they offer is the Starmate 5. There are small (newly affixed - added on) stickers on the Starmate 5 boxes that proclaim: ala carte ready.
SIRIUS is not pitching a la carte programming. SIRIUS is pitching best of. If you want a la carte, you pretty much have to know about it yourself and educate the salespeople about it. After doing just that, they busted out the Starmate 5. They had no home docking hardware available currently, except for the new boombox. The old boombox is marked down to $79.95. It will not work with the Starmate 5. The new boombox that will is priced at $99.95.
SIRIUS, wisely or unwisely wants to exhaust old inventory before promoting the new stuff. I'm just guessing when I say that there must be half a million old units (non-starmate 5) to unload. Starmate 5 is the only radio that Radio Shack offers that is a la carte ready.
I am still anticipating at some point soon that we will see a promotion featuring free radios. Purely guessing, but if economic gloom and doom persists as it seems to be doing, it would be a boon to SIRIUS to give away radios with paid subscription plans. For example, sell a six months plan for $49.95 with a free radio for a Christmas special.
Customers would jump on that like white on rice. The'y have a tangible gift item for under the tree and a paid sub.


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EAST LANSING, Mich. – Junior Sara Kroll led the Michigan State women's cross country team to a runner-up finish as she won the Big Ten Cross Country Championships at Forest Akers East Golf Course on Sunday, Oct. 28. The women finished second with 75 points in the 6,000-meter race and the men placed seventh overall in the 8,000-meter race with 183 points.
"I've worked so hard for this," said Kroll. "I've had this goal in mind for over a year now. I came away from last year's Big Tens wanting to win. I know that the team goal was more important. I know that I gave this race everything I had. To come away with a win today really makes me feel like I gave it my best effort. Being able to race with our girls on our home course is just a blessing."
Kroll was first overall to cross the finish line with a personal-best time of 20:13 to earn first-team all-conference honors. Redshirt freshman Leah O'Connor also made the first-team all-conference, recording a time of 20:25 to place fourth overall.
"I think the whole team ran well," said director of cross country/track and field Walt Drenth. "We thought Sara had a chance to win and she did a great job. It's been something she's been planning on and thinking about all summer. It's hard to do and to pull it off; she's quite an athlete."
Redshirt senior Rachel McFarlane received second-team all-conference honors as she finished 14th overall in 20:45. Junior Julia Otwell placed 23rd overall with a time of 20:59.
"From the whole team standpoint, I thought we ran really well," Drenth said. "Leah O'Connor has made enormous progress. Last year, she was our sixth or seventh person and to finish fourth in this meet is a huge step forward. I was really proud of Rachel making all-conference. That's a hard thing in this conference to be in the top-14. As a team, we didn't hold any cards back, we were all in and it turned out that we just got beat today."
Rounding out the MSU women was senior Olivia Sydow (33rd-21:11), freshman Lindsey Clark (36th-21.13), freshman Emma Drenth (38th-21:16), junior Megan Rodgers (59th-21:36) and senior Veronica Wilson (72nd- 21:54).
Michigan took home the women's team championship with 55 points.
Freshman Caleb Rhynard was the top MSU runner for the men, recording a time of 24:22 for 19th place. Less than a second behind Rhynard was sophomore Alex Wilson who finished 29th with a time of 24:33. Sophomore Ben Carruthers was next to cross the finish line for the Spartans in 24:35, good for 33rd overall.
"This was my first Big Ten Championship meet, so it's great to be home," said Rhynard. "It was loud with the fans the whole time, which is great. Overall, I think we went out a little faster than we had anticipated, but we adapted to it. I'm hoping this meet increases our confidence and boosts us to get through regionals."
Sophomores David Madrigal (45th-24:51) and Drake Veitenheimer (57th-25:05) as well as seniors Isaiah Vandoorne (58th-25:06), Ben Miller (61st – 25:13), Josh McAlary (72nd-25:26) and Brian Hankins (85th-25:49) rounded out the MSU men.
"I thought up and down the team we had some bright spots," said Drenth. "I think Caleb ran well. It's been a long road for him with a frustrating injury over the summer. He and Alex Wilson and Ben Carruthers did a really nice job. I'm optimistic given the fact that we are pretty young and we had a freshman leading us."
Wisconsin finished first for the men with 33 points to win the men's team championship.
After a weekend off, the Spartans return to action on Friday, Nov. 9, when they travel back to Madison, Wis., for the 2012 NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championships hosted by University of Wisconsin.


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Continuing my coverage of the IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Executive Summit at the Fairmont Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, we had a day full main-tent sessions. Here is a quick recap of the sessions presented in the afternoon.
I found the client testimonials insightful. It is always good to hear that IBM's solutions work "as advertised" right out of the box.
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Hii, there! How is everything? Great! Have you ever seen floating home? Wow! What is it like? Actually I have never been seen the real floating home. But don't you worry guys. Because I have some pictures about this floating home. Let's get started.
This home is in white painted wall. It can be seen from facade. This home has unique design. Yes! That is floating home. Actually it is not floating as you imagine, it still sticks on the ground. The garage which become the lower ground and has small design. So that, the home looks like floating home.
That is about the outside view. Then let's move to inside. Here you will see the minimalist design of this floating home. It has white wall inside and wooden parquet floor. In living space you will find the minimalist interior. Here you will find red chair which is combined with white sofa and red cushions. Then there is also glazed window which makes you easy in seeing the outside.Read more »


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7-Eleven sparks downtown business
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The 7-Eleven that opened downtown in March is sparking other businesses to open shop, which is a huge goal for the city -- to spruce up downtown.
"We got to get Jacksonville back to being successful," said Donald Harris, of the Downtown Investment Authority. "With any city you go to, it has a successful downtown, and we have to get our city successful."
Just after the 7-Eleven opened, word came that McDonald's will open up just across the street, as well as a Dollar General. It has people who live in the area pleased.
"We're a sleeping giant downtown and we need a store like 7-Eleven and McDonald's," downtown resident Wayne Streeter said.
He said downtown has potential, and the 7-Eleven is the start to realizing that potential.
"A couple of guys got stabbed here, but thank God right now there's a 7-Eleven and it looks a whole lot brighter downtown," Streeter said.
7-Eleven has opened up 11 stores in the last nine months. The company says by 2016, it will have 80 stores in business in northeast Florida.
"7-Eleven's goal is to open a new store about every three weeks here in this area," said Joseph Whale, of 7-Eleven. "It's not just the appearance of the location, it's the service we provide. I mean, we have a lot of businesses here who didn't have anywhere to go eat lunch or they had to bring it with them. Now they have fresh food right around the go."
With every store, at least 10 jobs become available. It may not sound like a lot, but with 80 stores that's 800 jobs, plus more sales tax, more business and franchise opportunities.
So far, the 11 stores around town are located on Blanding Boulevard, Union Street, Julia Street, Lane Avenue, County Road 220, Max Leggett Parkway, South Lane Avenue, two on Third Street North, Atlantic Boulevard and Dunn Ave.
The next store under construction is at the corner of Kernan and Atlantic boulevards.
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"Sex and the City" star Chris Noth will be selling off memorabilia from the hit franchise at a charity event in New York City over the weekend.
The actor, who played Mr. Big in both the TV show and the movie series, is hosting a benefit event for the Rainforest Action Network at his Manhattan bar Cutting Room on Sunday.
Singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin will be performing at the party and guests will be invited to take part in a fundraising auction, which will include a number of interesting items for Sex and the City fans.
Noth tells the New York Daily News, "Shawn Colvin is going to be playing and we will auction off Sex and the City goodies like Sarah Jessica Parker's Manolo Blahniks (shoes) and the script from the finale, signed by me."


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I just thought, before we get inundated with Star Wars posts, that I'd comment on a film I recently saw, Love & Mercy--the story of Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson's struggle out of mental illness.
Wilson began losing it around 1964, when he threw a tantrum on a plane on tour. (The movie, however, puts the date at two years later.) The film settles down to its first plot element after a long montage of the group's career in the early 60s; this plot element focuses on the making of the Pet Sounds album. Let me say right now that Pet Sounds is an album I admire very much, chiefly for its effects in instrumentation and its vocal counterpoint. What I don't like about it is that it's so locked into one mood--that of despondency.....it's an album which a depressed person should stay away from. Despite this overriding flaw, I'm oftentimes forced to conclude that Pet Sounds is one of the major works of the last third of the twentieth century. Many the world over consider it the greatest album ever.
The explorations of Brian's musicality are very well done, particularly in his interactions with the numerous orchestral musicians, in perfecting his piece, although this movie gives one the impression he could actually read music (didn't he have a copyist-transcriber to aid considerably in getting it all down on paper?).
I don't have too much complaint with the casting of two actors--Paul Dano as the young Wilson, John Cusack as the older Brian--though their faces do look significantly different. Perhaps this helps, however, in navigating one's way through the sudden flashbacks, coming without warning.
The film does do a good amount of exploring Brian's mental illness, particularly in the flashback scene where his abusive father knocks the side of his face, the suction from his ear causing permanent deafness in that ear--we are taken into Brian's head, with the tell-tale high-pitched white noise of tinnitus. But I really do feel the film doesn't delve deeper into the depths of Brian's emotional ailment. There was an extremely long fallow period where he was completely immobilized and, in addition to his drug addictions (under the prescription of his moching live-in psychiatrist Eugene Landy), his weight eventually grew to 300. The film should have spent a good deal of time exploring this period as well (mid- and late-70s, early 80s), where the casting people should have picked a third actor to play the obese Brian--or perhaps have either Dano or Cusack go on one of those Robert De Niro diets to mushroom them up!
What the movie focuses on is the burgeoning relationship between Wilson and the woman who'd eventually become his wife, Melinda Ledbetter (played by Elizabeth Banks), and her aid in his spiritual quest to find and get back his creativity. The film's closing credits start with concert footage of the real Brian Wilson today.
The casting department hit on some real ringers for the members of the Beach Boys. All in all, an entertaining film, but one I expected to be a lot better.
"Love & Mercy"
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Thanks for your review. I enjoyed this film, but as you note, it has its flaws.
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Thank you for the post, Neil, but I doubt very much that we are about to be "inundated" with posts about the latest in the Star Wars franchise.
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If you look at the photo of the whole monument. Click on the photo to enlarge it. There are three rings. These are the symbols for the Independent Order of Oddfellows: Friendship, Love and Truth. The IOOF and the Rebekas erected this monument after the First World War.
Until, I was looking at the support material for one of the oral histories at the Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library, I didn't know anything more about it. In 1977, Richard Neath was interviewed and one of the key subjects he talked about was the IOOF.
The support material was entitled "Lest We Forget". I haven't listened to the interview to know if the monument was talked about. After the end of the war, IOOF Lodges 180 and 441 formed a special committee to make recommendations for a suitable memorial.
Here I quote the article
. . . a square tapering monument, built with native field stone was decided upon. Volunteer help headed by Bro. Geo. Darby, P.G. dug the excavation for the case and other members spent afternoons and evenings gathering rocks and field stones which were hauled to the site on a truck donated by Bro. R. A. Breckenridge. Bro. C. H. Thompson was able to secure cement and the necessary aggregate for a nominal sum, to pour the base, which would require approximately 24 cubic yards of concrete. This was all done by members of the order and resulted in a lot of sore muscles and some blisters as machinery for mixing concrete in those days has long been outdated. The building of the monument was placed in [the] hands of a local stone mason by the name of Mr. Wm. Malcolm, who was without a doubt a master craftsman, especially with field stone. A recess was left on the West side of the monument to place a suitable bronze tablet on which the names of the members of the order who gave their lives during world war one was cast. [1]
Unfortunately, no date of dedication is given.
R. H. Neath, P. G., P.D. D. G. M., "Lest we Forget" in the supporting material for an oral interview conducted on March 15, 1977 for the Owen Sound Public Library conducted by Carol Anne Holder.


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Duck Dynasty: Battle of the Beards: Redneckify Yourself
Nov 11, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Duck Dynasty: Battle of the Beards by A&E Television Networks Mobile is available in the iTunes App Store for US$0.99.
Duck Dynasty is an American reality television series on A&E featuring a band of redneck family men who sport ratty beards.
They became wealthy by making the popular duck call, Duck Commander, and the reality show itself? It's a wild phenomenon -- the fourth season premiere snagged a whopping 11.8 million viewers.
I've seen bits and pieces here and there, and I can't say I'm a true fan, but when I saw that the show had created a No. 1 paid app game in the iTunes App Store, I had to take a closer look.
After all, how does a reality show about rich redneck duck call makers turn into a leading iOS app?
The Duck Dynasty Game
The premise is that you start out playing as a Bluetooth-earpiece-wearing, clean-shaven businessman, and as you immerse yourself in the ruckus hunting-and-eating-what-you-kill lifestyle of the Louisiana backwoods Robertson men, you'll transform into a redneck -- fully camouflaged, long-haired, with a bandana and a wild beard.The game's fast-paced tone is clear: Being a yuppie is bad, but don't worry, as you play the game, you'll transform into a more desirable human: bearded.
The game play is a series of rapid-fire micro-challenges set in levels. For instance, you might start by blasting ducks out of the air by tapping on them as they fly quickly across your screen.
You'll also grab frogs and throw them into a bucket, and if you're successful, get treated to an "eat what you kill" screen that shows frog legs sticking out of a pie.
In other micro-games, you have to quickly flick donuts -- or hot chili peppers -- into the mouth of one of the bearded brothers.
In another, you might hunt deer and then hit the factory to slap packing tape on boxes of customer Duck Commander shipments.
Oh, by the way, you have to quickly assemble duck calls, too.
Did I mention beaver dams? You get to blow them up.
As you complete these micro-games -- which come at you one after another in a rapid fire pace of pure hairy adrenaline -- you get to level up, which means you get to dress your redneck self.
Dressing your redneck self? Well, it sure seems a lot less manly as I type it out for this review than it did when I was choosing my shirt in the game.
Whoa. I just shivered. I'm a grown man talking about dressing myself in an iPad game. Sheesh.
Meanwhile, each time you level up, your hair gets longer, your beard grows, and you go from looking like an idiot "yuppie" to a disheveled but manly man capable of hanging with the Robertsons.
The Redneck Store
Of course, you can purchase coins and oil and other elements of commerce so you can buy more redneck gear and clothing in the redneck store -- or you can simply keep playing the game to earn coins and level up into a bigger beard and spend your hard-earned coins on new clothes and gear.
The best way to spend your coins, however, is on unlocking the Robertson men characters via the Beard Talk section. You can get life lesson advice from Phil that comes from quotes from the show -- things like, "We have a problem, Houston. But it ain't nothin' a chain saw won't fix."
Or you can get "sound business advice" from Willie, the CEO of the business, and so forth.
I'm sure that Duck Dynasty fans will get -- and appreciate -- a gob of insider jokes as well as revel in the game's tone and mannerisms.
All in all, Duck Dynasty: Battle of the Beards is a fun diversion. It has a goofy cartoonish feel that doesn't give you enough time to question it -- because you're busy catching fish or grabbing berries instead of raccoon droppings. And your wild and possibly smelly beard? Surprisingly satisfying.


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I am conducting a classical conditioning experiment in which three colored squares are presented to participants in the computer screen. Two of these pictures are paired with a mild electrical shock in approximately 1/3 of the trials, and the third is never paired with the shocks. I would like picture presentation to be random, but there has been times in which the same stimulus appeared three times in a roll during the experimental session. In my experiment, a stimulus cannot appear more than two times in a roll. I know it is possibile to randomize trials in a block once per participant, once per group or every time the block is presented, but I could not change this parameter.
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A Sister's faith: Gift
Three Sisters reflect on keeping the faith. The last approaches faith as a gift from God.
Guest blog by Sister Rebecca Holley, C.S.J.
As a woman in the church I am able to keep the faith because God gives me the gift of faith daily. My faith is nourished in so many ways—not in one place, not in one event—but in the many ways God gives to me.
Through daily prayer, I seek the God in me, in solitude, in those around me, in nature, in good health, and in ministry. I am mindful of God in times of peace and discord, remembering that God is larger than any one given moment.
The walk of faith for me is not always easy but it is constant. I am grateful for the choices I have that will nourish my relationship to God. I pray for the intercession of those who have gone before me so that I will not lose sight of God's gift to me, a faith that keeps on giving.
Guest blogger Sister Rebecca Holley is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St. Louis Province. This is the third in three posts from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
As a supplement of the January 2011 special issue on women, U.S. Catholic is asking guest bloggers, "How do you keep the faith as a woman in the church?" To submit your answer (about 500 words), e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
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You could spend 365 days in Houston and still not experience everything the city has to offer. From world-class museums and theaters to family-friendly destinations, you'll find what you're looking for in Houston. The largest city in Texas and the fourth largest in the U.S., Houston comes brimming with everything from big city nightlife to small-town charms.
Known around the world for NASA Space Center in the Clear Lake area and Texas Medical Center, Houston is also the proud home of a dizzying array of performing arts groups, professional sports teams, shopping destinations and great restaurants.
Relaxing is easy, with great golf courses, beautiful parks, sumptuous spas, inspiring museums and spectacular shopping. For family fun, there are amusement parks, a world-class zoo, the aquarium, the Children's Museum and many festivals and special events throughout the year.
Nearby Galveston, the gem of the Gulf Coast, combines fishing and beach play with charming architecture, great eating and a good dose of history. Kemah's Boardwalk delights young and old with restaurants and carnival rides all with a view of the bay. Katy's claim to fame includes some of the country's best outlet shopping and natural wonders to savor the quiet outdoors.
No matter if you want a shopping spree, a quiet stroll, a gourmet meal, a game of golf or a family outing, Houston fits the bill.
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The Calrad Electronics Gold Designer Speaker Binding Post is perfect for single channel outputs (L+R), A+B (L+R) or 5.1, 7.1 surround sound speaker distribution. Works with single or dual male banana plugs or binding post termination and accepts up to 14 AWG cable. Easy color coded speaker polarity markings (red/black) with solderless wire termination. This insert completes a professional looking installation of your audio components in your home or office with the use of a Decora-style wall plate, sold separately.
Use this high quality speaker connection wall plate to reduce the number of unorganized speaker wire laying on the floor, or running to multiple wall plates. This single gang binding post is a simple solution for consolidating the number of wall plates you are using because it has 6 ports, for 3 speakers. The gold plated binding posts give optimal signal transfer with their gold plated terminals.
This Calrad product is also available in Ivory or in a 2 Post, 4 Post or 8 Post configuration, each sold separately.
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"IF WE ask the right questions, we can change the world"… Last summer, we asked what were YOUR World-Changing Dreams. The idea was pretty simple: sharing dreams with just a sentence beginning with the words "IF WE". Through a contest called the "IF WE Challenge", we would collect those through Facebook, Twitter, 3ds.com, our blogs and third-party blogs. Oh, and because you could share your "IF WE" Dream through Twitter, it had to be not longer than 140 characters… pretty much a challenge in itself! 🙂
Anyway, we collected as many as 550 contributions from all over the world! We boiled them down to about 85 of them (with criteria of interest, feasibility, fit with sustainability…). Then we got back in touch with authors and asked them for more details about their ideas. Boiled down again to about 20 that we submitted to the final Jury. Then the Jury came up with our 3 final lucky winners (in our next blog post series, we'll let you know more about each winner and their respective projects):
- Geoffrey Cooper, Canada: "IF WE designed a rolling tree planting robot, we could send them out to replant forests and restore deserted lands. Let's make it happen!"
- Ismael Moreno Cendejas, Mexico: "IF WE design more exoskeletons we can help more people with different capacity"
- Andjelic Zoran, Serbia: "IF WE have enough 3D printers, we could make custom made prosthetic limbs for all victims of landmines and renew their faith in science"
Yet in the process of selecting the dreams, we found that others were also pretty cool so we came up with this short video illustrating 10 of them:
Thank you to Ozgur (Turkey), Hemanth (India), Christopher (France), Cristian (Cameroon), Josh (United States), Andjelic (Serbia), Marinescu (Romania), Noam (Israel), Swapnil (India), Goeffrey (Canada)… and thanks again to all participants of the "IF WE Challenge" in 2012!
And expect a new edition of the Challenge in 2013! 😀


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However, even without the birds up close you just have to feel great with mornings that look like this:
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Kayaking on a Perfect Morning
However, even without the birds up close you just have to feel great with mornings that look like this:
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Perfect is a good word for it. Some near perfect reflections too,ReplyDelete
Thanks Mosura. A couple of really beaut days for sure.ReplyDelete
Stares out of office window at car park.
Great to see someone's getting decent mornings - and making use of them! Now, could we have our good weather back? Please? ;-)ReplyDelete
Snail, I do feel for your 'sighs'. All desk-work comes to an end sometime, surely?ReplyDelete
Tony, please keep your own wretched weather! We've had enough of it down here already! That's what made the last couple of days so great.ReplyDelete
G'day Mick,ReplyDelete
All I can say is.. ooooohhh!
Thanks Gouldiae, that's pretty much my reaction when I'm out there too.ReplyDelete
Wish I was there with you.ReplyDelete
Thanks Neil - wait for school hols than all come out.ReplyDelete
Snail said it all I think, great stuff Mick.ReplyDelete
Thanks Duncan, perfect days do happen!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous, the water is like a mirror.ReplyDelete


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Tasting Kauai Food Tour – North Shore
April 30, 2019 @ 11:45 pm - May 1, 2019 @ 3:15 am HST
An event every week that begins at 11:45pm on Tuesday, repeating until June 25, 2019
Our tours are a playful, educational, edible experiences that are based on the seasons. Yes, Kauai has seasons! Since our tours are seasonal and based on fresh ingredients, availability and what we like right now, descriptions on our website may not accurately reflect what you'll be served, who you will meet, or what you will experience. You can count on a full day of eating well and exploring what's fresh and seasonal on the Garden Isle! As a small, family owned business, Tasting Kauai is able to add a personal touch to create memorable experiences infused with aloha. This unique tour can't be experienced anywhere else on Kauai. Custom tours available.
What you'll do and taste on our North Shore Food Tour
Hop in your car and follow our guide on a tasting adventure through Kauai's lush North Shore. You'll sample everything from food trucks to fine dining!
- 4-hour tour
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- Tastings at 5 stops on the North Shore
- Private tastings with top chefs alternating between the luxurious St. Regis Princeville Resort and Westin Ocean Resort Villas (call for details)
- Experience out-of-the way establishments
- Sample traditional Hawaiian food
- Learn about Tiki cocktail culture
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- Sample some of the best food the North Shore has to offer
- The tour ends at a farmers market – stroll through the market and purchase gifts of aloha, or food to enjoy during your stay
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Drop-in replacement for django's many to many field with sorted relations.
Project description
sortedm2m is a drop-in replacement for django's own ManyToManyField. The provided SortedManyToManyField behaves like the original one but remembers the order of added relations.
Imagine that you have a gallery model and a photo model. Usually you want a relation between these models so you can add multiple photos to one gallery but also want to be able to have the same photo on many galleries.
This is where you usually can use many to many relation. The downside is that django's default implementation doesn't provide a way to order the photos in the gallery. So you only have a random ordering which is not suitable in most cases.
You can work around this limitation by using the SortedManyToManyField provided by this package as drop in replacement for django's ManyToManyField.
Use SortedManyToManyField like ManyToManyField in your models:
from django.db import models from sortedm2m.fields import SortedManyToManyField class Photo(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=50) image = models.ImageField(upload_to='...') class Gallery(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=50) photos = SortedManyToManyField(Photo)
If you use the relation in your code like the following, it will remember the order in which you have added photos to the gallery.
gallery = Gallery.objects.create(name='Photos ordered by name') for photo in Photo.objects.order_by('name'): gallery.photos.add(photo)
You can use the following arguments to modify the default behavior:
Default: True
You can set the sorted to False which will force the SortedManyToManyField in behaving like Django's original ManyToManyField. No ordering will be performed on relation nor will the intermediate table have a database field for storing ordering information.
Default: 'sort_value'
Specifies how the field is called in the intermediate database table by which the relationship is ordered. You can change its name if you have a legacy database that you need to integrate into your application.
SortedManyToManyField provides a custom widget which can be used to sort the selected items. It renders a list of checkboxes that can be sorted by drag'n'drop.
To use the widget in the admin you need to add sortedm2m to your INSTALLED_APPS settings, like:
INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'django.contrib.admin', 'sortedm2m', '...', )
Otherwise it will not find the css and js files needed to sort by drag'n'drop.
Finally, make sure not to have the model listed in any filter_horizontal or filter_vertical tuples inside of your ModelAdmin definitions.
If you did it right, you'll wind up with something like this:
It's also possible to use the SortedManyToManyField with admin's raw_id_fields option in the ModelAdmin definition. Add the name of the SortedManyToManyField to this list to get a simple text input field. The order in which the ids are entered into the input box is used to sort the items of the sorted m2m relation.
from django.contrib import admin class GalleryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): raw_id_fields = ('photos',)
You can find the latest development version on github. Get there and fork it, file bugs or send me nice wishes.
Feel free to drop me a message about critique or feature requests. You can get in touch with me by mail or twitter.
- Adding support for Django 1.7 and dropping support for Django 1.4.
- Adding support for prefetch_related(). Thanks to Marcin Ossowski for the idea and patch.
- Correct escaping of for attribute in label for the sortedm2m widget. Thanks to Mystic-Mirage for the report and fix.
- Python 3 support!
- Better widget. Thanks to Mike Knoop for the initial patch.
- Django 1.5 support. Thanks to Antti Kaihola for the patches.
- Dropping Django 1.3 support. Please use django-sortedm2m<0.5 if you need to use Django 1.3.
- Adding support for a sort_value_field_name argument in SortedManyToManyField. Thanks to Trey Hunner for the idea.
- Django 1.4 support. Thanks to Flavio Curella for the patch.
- south support is only enabled if south is actually in your INSTALLED_APPS setting. Thanks to tcmb for the report and Florian Ilgenfritz for the patch.
- South support (via monkeypatching, but anyway… it's there!). Thanks to Chris Church for the patch. South migrations won't pick up a changed sorted argument though.
- Use already included jQuery version in global scope and don't override with django's version. Thank you to Hendrik van der Linde for reporting this issue.
- Fixed packaging error.
- Heavy internal refactorings. These were necessary to solve a problem with SortedManyToManyField and a reference to 'self'.
- Forgot to exclude debug print/console.log statements from code. Sorry.
- Fixing problems with SortedCheckboxSelectMultiple widget, especially in admin where a "create and add another item" popup is available.
- Fixing issue with primary keys instead of model instances for .add() and .remove() methods in SortedRelatedManager.
- Fixing validation error for SortedCheckboxSelectMultiple. It caused errors if only one value was passed.
- Removed unnecessary reference of jquery ui css file in SortedCheckboxSelectMultiple. Thanks to Klaas van Schelven and Yuwei Yu for the hint.
- Added a widget for use in admin.
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Haskell Platform: Field Report and Future Goals
Mark Lentczner — Slides, Video
The Haskell Platform has become the standard way people acquire a Haskell programming environment. It is used by novices getting their first exposure, experienced Haskell programmers for their day to day programming, and production deployments needing a stable base to build on. The platform is settling into a reliable and central part of the Haskell landscape.
This talk will report on the current state of the Platform, the process of producing it, the relationships of the people involved, and the timing of our releases. It will also briefly review the content of the Platform, and the processes in place for proposals.
Then, to stimulate discussion on the future of the Platform, I will propose language for goals, and present a straw man description of what the Platform should strive to be, and not be. I will also propose a roadmap for the packages included in the Platform, and some suggestions for improving our processes. A lively follow-on discussion is anticipated!


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Fifty years ago today, in the wee early morning, a pair of interurban streetcars departed from the Pacific Electric terminal on Main Street, headed out through the wooden rail viaduct, and then down the quadruple-track right-of-way towards Long Beach, where, less than an hour later, it entered history as the last run of the Red Cars in Southern California.
For years, many an Angeleno claimed to be riding "on the very last Red Car" into history. That may or may not be so, but they did take the time to pay their last respects to a 60-year-old institution in the region.
Flash-forward just about half a century to the day later:
Metro Rail LRV #231 sits on the Expo Line tracks after a day of testing -- the first test run under its own power.
If it were not for the return of rail transit some 21 years ago, April 9, 1961 might remain an absolutely dark day in Los Angeles history, but now it's just a trivial footnote - not the end, but merely the beginning of a 29-year hiatus.
Sure, the Pacific Electric, at 1,150 miles (and larger than the 842-mile NYC subway -- tell a New Yorker that fact and they will start convulsing) was the charming ancestor that Metro Rail will always pale in comparison to, but any planned modernization to it would have been prohibitively expensive anyway. History is cyclical - The Militant's youth took place in an era where rail transit in Los Angeles was either a distant memory or silly pipedream - a reality where some people would have gladly exchanged their "what ifs" and "too bad we don't haves" for today's worries about cost overruns and why the turnstiles don't yet work.
It's a well-known fact that The Militant loves him some history. But he's far more excited about the future. Look back, only to see how far we've gone.


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Adam Wainwright and Cardinals await A.J. Burnett and Pirates in National League Divison Series
Pirates won season series 10-9
Schedule: (All times EDT) Game 1, Thursday, at St. Louis (5:07 p.m.); Game 2, Friday, at St. Louis (1:07 p.m.); Game 3, Sunday, at Pittsburgh (TBA); x-Game 4, Monday, Oct. 7, at Pittsburgh (TBA); x-Game 5, Wednesday, Oct. 9, at St. Louis, if necessary. (TBA). (All games on TBS or MLB Network).
Projected Lineup:
Pirates: LF Starling Marte (.280, 12 HRs, 35 RBIs, 41 SBs), 2B Neil Walker (.251, 16, 53, 24 2Bs), CF Andrew McCutchen (.317, 21, 84, 27 SBs), RF Marlon Byrd (.291, 24, 88 overall; .318, 3, 17 in 30 games with the Pirates), 1B Justin Morneau (.259, 17, 77 overall; .260, 0, 3 in 25 games with the Pirates), 3B Pedro Alvarez (.233, 36, 100, 186 strikeouts), C Russell Martin (.226, 15, 55), SS Clint Barmes (.211, 5, 23).
Cardinals: 2B Matt Carpenter (.318, 11 HR, 78 RBIs, ML-leading 199 hits, 55 doubles, .392 OBP), CF Jon Jay (.276, 7, 67, 10 SB), RF Carlos Beltran (.296, 24, 84), LF Matt Holliday (.300. 22, 94, .389 OBP), C Yadier Molina (.319, 12, 80), 1B Matt Adams (.284, 17, 51 in 108 games), 3B David Freese (.262, 9, 60), SS Pete Kozma (.217, 1, 35) or Daniel Descalso (.238, 5, 43).
Projected Rotations:
Pirates: RH A.J. Burnett (10-11, 3.30 ERA, 209 Ks in 191 IP), RH Gerrit Cole, (10-7, 3.22), LH Francisco Liriano (16-8, 3.02), RH Charlie Morton (7-4, 3.26).
Cardinals: RH Adam Wainwright (19-9, 2.94, T-1st in NL in wins, NL-leading 241 2-3 innings, 3rd with 223 Ks), RH Lance Lynn (15-10, 3.97), RH Joe Kelly (10-5, 2.69), RH Shelby Miller (15-9, 3.06, led ML in rookie wins).
Pirates: RH Jason Grilli (0-2, 2.70, 33 saves/35 chances), RH Mark Melancon (3-2, 1.39, 16 saves/21 chances), LH Tony Watson (3-1, 2.39), LH Justin Wilson (6-1, 2.08), RH Vin Mazzaro (8-2, 2.81), RH Kyle Farnsworth (1-1, 1.04), Bryan Morris (5-7, 3.46), Jeanmar Gomez (3-0, 3.35).
Cardinals: RH Trevor Rosenthal (2-4, 2.74, 3/8 saves), RH Edward Mujica (2-1, 2.78, 37/41), LH Kevin Siegrist (3-1, .045, 39.2 IP, 17 hits), RH Seth Maness (5-2, 2.32, 16 GIDP in 62 IP), RH Michael Wacha (4-1, 2.78, 8 2-3-inning no-hit bid last start), RH John Axford (1-0, 1.74 in 13 games after Milwaukee trade), LH Randy Choate (2-1, 2.29 in 64 games), RH Carlos Martinez (2-1, 5.08 in 21 games), LH Sam Freeman (1-0, 2.19 in 13 games) or LH Tyler Lyons (2-4, 4.75, 8 starts) or RH Fernando Salas (0-3, 4.50).
This is the first time the Pirates and Cardinals have met in the postseason ... The Cardinals swept a pivotal three-game series at Busch Stadium from Sept. 6-8 in which they outscored the Pirates 26-10. .... St. Louis was 3-7 in Pittsburgh. The Cardinals were 6-0 on final homestand and were 54-27 overall at Busch Stadium, second best home record in majors. ... The Cardinals' 97 wins is most for the franchise since 2005 team won 100. ... St. Louis' rookies had major league-high 36 wins. ... Wainwright tied Washington's Jordan Zimmermann for the NL lead with 19 wins and joined Dizzy Dean (1934-35) and Mort Cooper (1942-43) as the only St. Louis pitchers to lead the league twice. ... According to STATS, Adams is among three rookies to reach 17 homers and 50 RBIs in fewer than 300 at-bats, and he's the first to do it in the NL since the Giants' Tom Haller in 1962. ... Pittsburgh outhomered St. Louis 19-5 during the season series ... Marte hit .333 (17 of 51) with four doubles and three triples in 13 games against the Cardinals. He did not play in the late sweep by the Cardinals due to a bruised right hand ... Burnett is 1-2 with a 13.50 ERA in four career starts at Busch Stadium ... Cole went 4-2 with a 2.38 ERA in seven road starts this season. Opponents hit just .217 on the road against Cole as opposed to .274 against the 22-year-old at PNC Park ... The Pirates have just one player with a World Series ring (Burnett) while the Cardinals have over a dozen players who were part of their World Series championship team in 2011.
Big Picture:
Cardinals: The pressure was always on during the regular season and the Cardinals pulled away at the finish from Pittsburgh and Cincinnati after never leading by more than four games nor trailing by more than four. ... To make a deep run, they'll need a long list of youngsters to keep coming through. After setting a franchise record by batting .330 with runners in scoring position, the lineup core of Holliday, Molina and Carpenter is a big bat shy for at least the first round. Craig, who led the majors with a .454 average with RISP and was among the NL leaders with 97 RBIs, is in a walking boot with a left mid-foot sprain sustained in early September. Adams hit eight homers filling in at first base but can be vulnerable against lefties. ... Wainwright was 4-0 in last five starts and dominant in all of them, recovering from out-of-character consecutive drubbings by the Reds. He's lined up to make two starts in first round if needed. He's 2-0 with a 2.43 ERA and four saves for his career in the postseason. ... Kelly was a fill-in for second straight year but ended up being the Cardinals' most consistent starter for about a six weeks. Miller and Wacha, both 22, are top-end talents, and the bullpen leaders are young, led by Rosenthal, the closer-of-the-moment. ... Despite losing his job as closer in mid-September, Mujica was kept on the roster.
Pirates: The Pirates won a postseason round for the first time since the 1979 World Series when they beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-2 in the NL wild-card game on Tuesday night. Martin hit two home runs in the victory, becoming just the second player in the franchise's 126-year history to have a multihomer postseason game. Bob Robertson hit three home runs against San Francisco in Game 2 of the 1971 National League championship series ... Liriano scattered four hits over seven innings to improve to 9-1 at PNC Park this season ... The Pirates (94-68) are one of baseball's biggest surprises, riding solid starting pitching and an MVP-performance from McCutchen to the franchise's first playoff berth in 21 years. A season after finishing third behind San Francisco C Buster Posey in the MVP race, McCutchen is favored to become the first Pirates MVP since Barry Bonds in 1992. McCutchen was at his best down the stretch, hitting .339 after the All-Star break to keep the Pirates offense producing after the starting pitching fell off a bit in the second half ... Liriano may have been the biggest steal during free agency last winter. Foundering at age 29, Liriano has been revived in Pittsburgh. He signed a two-year deal in January and came at a discount after breaking his right (non-throwing) arm on Christmas Day. He made his debut in May and was arguably the best pitcher in the NL not named Clayton Kershaw or Matt Harvey from May to mid-August ... Pittsburgh splurged a bit at the waiver trade deadline in late August, bringing in Byrd, Morneau and catcher John Buck to give the offense some pop. Byrd has been Pittsburgh's most consistent player over the last month, hitting .318 with three homers and 17 RBIs in 30 games with the Pirates. He hit a home run in the first postseason at-bat of his 12-year career on Tuesday against the Reds ... Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle is 245-241 in three seasons with the Pirates. Hurdle led the Colorado Rockies to the National League pennant in 2007 and finished third in manager of the year balloting. He is among the favorites for the award this season after keeping his team focused through the dog days of August and beyond after late-season collapses the previous two years. ... The city came alive as the Pirates rebounded. Pittsburgh drew 2.26 million fans to PNC Park this season, the second-highest total in franchise history ... Grilli was an All-Star in the first half before injuring his right forearm in July. He missed six weeks then was eased back into his usual role, taking over in the final 10 days of the season after Melancon faltered ... Marte's 41 stolen bases from the leadoff spot were the highest by a Pirate since Tony Womack swiped 58 in 1998. The Pirates were 70-49 when Marte started.
Watch For:
- Big Hit: Carpenter was 1 for 10 during the final weekend, falling one short of 200 hits. It's been a spectacular year for the St. Louis leadoff man, who led the majors in hits, runs, doubles and multihit games and broke Stan Musial's franchise record for doubles by a left-handed hitter. Plus, he was a quick study at a new position after learning second base in spring training.
- Momentum Factor: The Cardinals won 17 of their final 22, clinching the Central with two games to spare, not much time to get complacent. Holdovers are driven by a sense of unfinished business last October. Matheny used his starting lineup almost to the finish, holding out Holliday on Sunday to preserve a .300 average and giving Molina a ceremonial start so he could depart to an ovation. Opponents averaged one run per game the final homestand.


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ARLINGTON, Texas — Florida Gulf Coast had already captured the attention of a nation, the No. 15 seed that busted brackets and brought a high-flying act from "Dunk City" to the NCAA tournament.
So when the journey ended with a 62-50 loss to that bigger school from Florida just before midnight Friday, the Eagles had still left their mark on March.
"We made history," point guard Brett Comer said. "We did something nobody in the nation thought we could do."
For a few minutes at least in its last game, the first No. 15 seed to make it to the NCAA round of 16 looked as if it might even go further.
The Eagles were hitting 3-pointers, had a highlight alley-oop and made a behind-the-back pass in an early 11-0 run that put them ahead of Florida, the No. 3 seed getting an all-too-close look at what everybody has enjoyed watching.
But Michael Frazier's only two baskets of the night were a pair of 3-pointers that got the Gators on their own run.
"When they started their run, we didn't have the energy we had in the other two games," Chase Fieler said. "We weren't playing with the same fire we were before."
Frazier's 3-pointers came from the left side, directly in front of the FGCU bench, and started a 16-0 run late in the first half. Once Frazier hit his shots, things just rolled downhill for the Eagles (26-11), whose program is so new they were only in their second season of eligibility for the tournament. The baskets started a 4½-minute span when the Eagles couldn't even get off a shot. They missed their only field goal attempt while turning the ball over four times in that stretch.The slump finally ended when Sherwood Brown, the Eagles' dreadlocked senior showman, made a layup in the final minute to trim the Gators' lead to 30-26 at halftime.FGCU heads back to Fort Myers (aka Dunk City), where it has man-made lakes and a beach on campus, having given the tournament a blast of fresh air while its players were just having a blast. The South Florida state school also got about the best free publicity its administrators could ever hope for."It was great to see the excitement across the country with the underdog and it's just a real feeling when you're the underdog and you're the talk of the nation," coach Andy Enfield said. "Our plan wasn't to become some great national story. Our plan was to go in and compete and win games. It was unbelievable to see the excitement and passion of not only our local community, the students, but also the national level."Our players believed, and they accomplished something special."
Florida (29-7) is going to its third straight NCAA regional final after holding the Eagles to a season low-matching 50 points.
The Gators will play Michigan in the South Regional final at Cowboys Stadium on Sunday. They are trying to get to their first NCAA Final Four since consecutive national championships in 2006 and 2007.
FGCU players walked down the steps of the raised court at the break with their heads down, much different from the team that looked so loose and ready for a good time after the early run so similar to extended spurts they had in upsetting No. 2 seed Georgetown and No. 7 seed San Diego State.
After the Gators turned up the defensive pressure, the most fun team this side of the Harlem Globetrotters was suddenly having a lot fewer laughs. Those spectacular dunks and alley-oops weren't there and Florida forced 20 turnovers.
"Stepping into a situation like this where you have everybody against us, we've got to block everything out. Just treat this like a road game," said Mike Rosario, who led the Gators with 15 points.
Scottie Wilbekin added 13 points for Florida and Casey Prather had 11.
Brown led FGCU with 14 points, and Fieler had 12.
Fieler started the Eagles' big run, the only one they'd have, with a 3-pointer from the top of the key before a few plays of the sort that earned them their "Dunk City" moniker.
After Comer stole a pass, he ran down the court and threw up an alley-oop pass for the trailing Brown, who delivered a slam that sent the announced crowd of more than 40,000 into a frenzy -- except for those in Gator orange.
Comer then flipped another backward pass to Bernard Thompson for a 3-pointer. Then Fieler had another 3-pointer -- less than 3 minutes after the first one -- for a 15-4 lead only six minutes into the game.
But after Frazier's second 3, Enfield angrily called timeout. That didn't stop the Gators' surge.
Rosario knocked away a pass inside to Eric McKnight, sending the break the other way. Prather grabbed an offensive rebound, and with his back to the basket, basically flipped the ball over his head -- and it went in.
The Eagles had 12 turnovers in the first half -- one less than they had in each of their first two NCAA tourney games. They had taken half as many shots as Florida (32-16) at the break.
Florida then scored the first seven points of the second half, and the Eagles never really threated again.
"It's sad we lost tonight, but it was a great ride," Eagles post player Eddie Murray said. "It hurts right now but when you step back and look at it, it's all been amazing. I think people really enjoyed watching us play."


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Electrical pulses in the heart are controlled by special groups of
cells called nodes. The SA (sinoatrial) node generates an electrical signal
that causes the upper heart chambers (atria) to contract. The signal then
passes through the AV (atrioventricular) node to the lower heart chambers
(ventricles), causing them to contract, or pump.
The SA node is considered the pacemaker of the heart. Its
electrical signals normally cause the atria to contract at a rate of 60 to 100
times a minute.
Disturbance anywhere along this electrical pathway can cause
irregular heartbeats (arrhythmia).
Last Revised:
August 9, 2012
Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:
Rakesh K. Pai, MD, FACC - Cardiology, Electrophysiology & John M. Miller, MD, FACC - Cardiology, Electrophysiology
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I have this annoying box in my storage area, and it's full of re-usable party supplies: gift bags, themed paper plates, leftover goody-bag crap/swag, slightly wrinkled wrapping paper, odd lengths of ribbon, and a few banners that, at this point, say something more like HAPY BITHDY.
I am not giving up that box.
But I think there's a better way -- reusable party decorations and goody bags that don't instantly add to landfills.
And I think that even if each item is more than I'd pay for the disposable kind, the reuse more than makes up for the initial expense.
Would these ideas work for you?
Reusable Decorations
I am a sucker for rituals, traditions, and the word "redolent." I have a particular memory of the oversized bulbs of my grandparents' Christmas lights, and used to play a game of spotting the first robin of spring each year. I know, I'm a total cornball, but I want my kids to have that same excitement and security when they see familiar things year after year, so they can connect the dots of their childhood special events.
Here are some items I plan to add to our family's Wa-Hoo! Party Supply Box:
-- A birthday banner (see above). Eventually, I'll have "happy birthday" and a banner for each kid (and why not the adults, too?). They also make a terrific baby gift. $33 at Etsy.com
-- Fabulous fabric party hats, especially if I could find ones like everyone wears in Little Bear's Friend (a girl can dream, can't she?) $8 at Diapers.com
-- A funny birthday crown that the birthday person has to put on each year. (Can you imagine a series of photos over several years? Squeal!) $9.99 at Party City
-- Perma-birthday plates! Set of four, $33.99 at Target
-- A gorgeous growth chart, also suitable for photographing beside every year! $22.95 at My Retro Baby
Of course, this made me wonder about those goody bags. Around here, they cause so much hand-wringing: Do I really have to provide bags full of crap for the kids to take away? And the answer comes back: Yes, birthday-Scrooge, get over it. But you don't have to fill landfills, and you can make it a fun activity to boot:
Throw Pillows:
Each kid makes a drawing -- my niece used to make these amazing, elaborate flowers at her art class, and I loved them so much I scanned one in, printed it onto transfer paper, and ironed it onto a pillow-form for her. Your party can rage on as you do the scanning and ironing, and the kids can stuff and sew the pillows closed as an activity. They return home with something they can put on their beds, not in a landfill.
A friend's kid went to a party where the mom provided cheap flatware from IKEA, and each kid put Fimo in whatever pattern she liked on the handles. The mom popped them in the oven, and by the end of the party, everyone had a deluxe set of flatware to bring home and use!
Bud Vases:
I'm in love with these cool-looking bud vases made from a balloon and a shot glass votive candleholder. Suuu-huper easy.
Do you dig re-usable party supplies?
Image via MadeByLisah/Etsy


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Taxi cab driver leads Altamonte Springs police to woman after crash
Car reportedly stolen from Spring Colony Apartments
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – A cab driver led Altamonte Springs police to a woman who was believed to have been dead after she allegedly crashed a stolen car.
Police said they received a report of a stolen car from the Spring Colony Apartments early Wednesday, and an officer tried to pull the vehicle over but the driver took off. The car was found crashed a short time later on State Road 436 near Bear Lake Road, but the driver was nowhere to be found, police said.
According to Altamonte Springs police, the damage to the car was so severe that officers thought the woman driving had either been ejected or was possibly dead.
Police later learned, however, that she escaped the wreckage and went to the parking lot of a Wells Fargo bank located about a half mile east of the crash site.
A taxi cab then arrived at the crash scene looking to pick up a woman who had called for a ride, according to police, who followed the cabbie to the woman.
The woman was taken into custody before being transported to a hospital because of her injuries. Her condition was not released.
She faces charges of stealing a vehicle and fleeing from police.
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Asking questions about your medical history
and doing a physical exam for
atrial fibrillation can reveal important information
about your health and will often direct more testing.
Your doctor
may ask the following questions:
During the physical exam, your doctor will:
Some symptoms of atrial fibrillation, like lightheadedness, palpitations,
and chest pain, can be caused by other health problems. A medical history and physical exam will help your doctor find out what is causing your symptoms.
You will need further tests, such as an electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG), to diagnose atrial fibrillation.
Findings of the history and physical exam may
include the following.
Findings that may suggest atrial fibrillation or
heart failure include:
Further testing will be done if your history and physical
exam suggest atrial fibrillation.
It is important to provide your
doctor with detailed information about your past health and
Other health problems that can cause symptoms similar to atrial fibrillation include other abnormal heart rhythms, coronary artery disease, and imbalances in your blood.
Complete the medical test information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you prepare for this test.
Last Revised:
December 14, 2012
Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:
Rakesh K. Pai, MD, FACC - Cardiology, Electrophysiology & John M. Miller, MD, FACC - Cardiology, Electrophysiology
This information does not replace the advice of a doctor. Healthwise, Incorporated disclaims any warranty or liability for your use of this information. Your use of this information means that you agree to the Terms of Use. How this information was developed to help you make better health decisions.
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I have a tree which I populate with a file list from my computer on the click of a button. While the program is populating the tree the whole GUI hangs.
Is there a way to populate the tree in another thread so the tree gets populated as the files are found and not when everything has already been added? Or any other ideas?
This is what it looks like:
I am populating the tree with this code:
def traversePaths(self, path, parent):
files = os.listdir(path)
for myfile in files:
if myfile[0] != ".":
if os.path.isdir(path + os.sep + myfile):
current = self.filelist.append(parent,[self.dirIcon,self.dirIcon,self.dirOpenIcon,myfile,"DD",True,True,3])
self.traversePaths(path + os.sep + myfile, current)
current = self.filelist.append(parent,[self.fileIcon,self.dirIcon,self.dirOpenIcon,myfile,"AA",True,True,3])
which is executed on a button click:
def on_refreshbutton_clicked(self, button):
self.traversePaths(self.path.get_filename(), None)
I don't think threading.Thread works because of the gtk thread for the gui and cannot find gi.repository.Gtk api's on the subject
Any ideas?