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Law is one of 31 effective Oct. 1
Throughout the state, motorists are reminded to slow down or move over from the outer lane when they see emergency vehicles pulled off to the side of the road.
As of Monday, motorists are now urged to do the same for utility workers.
A new law passed in June to prevent accidents went into effect Oct. 1 requiring drivers to move at least a lane away from the lane closest to where utility and road maintenance operations displaying amber lights are working.
If there is only one lane available or moving over isn�t possible, then drivers must slow down and prepare to stop.
Drivers who fail to follow the Move Over law may be fined $250 plus court costs.
1st Sgt. C.L. Johnston of the N.C. Highway Patrol Kinston barracks said the new law will be enforced if a clear-cut violation is spotted by the department�s officers.
�It�s a danger for anybody working on the road,� Johnston said. �� Hopefully, (the law) will provide a safer work area for them.�
Forty-seven states have enacted similar laws requiring drivers to slow down or change lanes when emergency, law enforcement and other official vehicles are stopped on the side of the road.
The law was originally enacted in 2001 to protect emergency responders, law enforcement vehicles, tow trucks and Incident Management Assistance Patrols operated by the N.C. Department of Transportation.
�We have issued citations,� Johnston said. �We have enforced it in the past.�
For real-time travel information, dial 511, visit ncdot.gov/travel or follow NCDOT on Twitter at twitter.com/ncdot. For a smartphone-friendly version of the NCDOT website, access NCDOT Mobile by typing in m.ncdot.gov.
Margaret Fisher can be reached at 252-559-1082 or email@example.com.
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Some of the 31 new legislative laws effective Oct. 1:
S.L. 2011-369, sec. 1 Swine in Transport/Regulate Feral Swine
Prohibits transport of live swine unless the swine has official identification approved by a veterinarian. Also regulates classification/taking/removing feral swine(HB 432)
S.L. 2012-17 Landlord Tenant Law Changes
Establishes a process for a landlord to remove from a residence tangible personal property belonging to a deceased tenant through an affidavit filed with the clerk of court (HB 493)
S.L. 2012-20 Divorce/DVPO/Child Support Changes
Amendment of laws related to domestic violence protective orders. Also provides for termination of child support when a child is enrolled in an early collage program (HB 589)
S.L. 2012-28 Street Gang Nuisance Abatement
Individuals engaged in street gang activities are subject to injunctions as nuisances (HB 673)
S.L. 2012-40 Amend Grounds/Termination of Parental Rights
Terminates parental rights of when an individual is convicted of a sexually-related offense that results in conception (HB 235)
S.L. 2012-46 Metal Theft Prevention Act of 2012
Designed to strengthen metals theft protection (HB 199)
S.L. 2012-90, sec. 7-13 Various Emergency Management Changes
Makes changes to the emergency management statutes and establishes the Joint Legislative Emergency Management Oversight Committee (SB 798)
S.L. 2012-129 Right to Choose Physical Therapist
Ensures patients have the right to choose a physical therapist under their health benefits plan (SB 656)
S.L. 2012-147 School Bus Crash Reports Name Disclosure
Allows for the release of the name and address of a minor child involved in a school bus crash only under certain circumstances (SB 227)
S.L. 2012-153, sec. 6-8 Saleof a Minor/Felony Offense
Makes the unlawful sale, surrender or purchase of a minor a criminal offense and requires the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys to conduct a study if other measures are needed. Also clarifies information on whether the identity of a person reporting child abuse or neglect can be released and what information the Division of Social Services is required to maintain or withhold (SB 910)
S.L. 2012-167, sec. 1-3 Municipal Electric Utilities/Rate Hearings
Requires the Eastern Joint Municipal Power Agency and the municipal members of the Eastern Power Agency hold a public meeting before changing rates (HB 457)
S.L. 2012-169 Accountability for Publicly Funded Nonprofits
Provides greater accountability for nonprofit entities that receive public funding (HB 572)
S.L. 2012-170, sec. 1-3 Absconding Probation Violators Forfeit Benefits
Prevents a probation violator who absconds after the issuance of a warrant to forfeit any public assistance benefits until surrendering to the court (HB 1173)
S.L. 2012-176 Motorcycle Insurance Discount/Military
Allow members of the military who have taken a comparable motorcycle safety program to receive the same insurance discount as citizens who complete the Motorcycle Safety Instruction Program (HB 1044)


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Residents in the other 59 counties in New York have had the option of shopping or not shopping at Walmart for decades. The same is true for virtually every other city and state. Only New York City is behind the times.
City residents continue to be denied the opportunity to shop at Walmart thanks to excuses made by politicians and their union allies. They feel that we should oppose Walmart because of substandard salaries and unfair competition for smaller stores.
Construction of a new Walmart can provide work for contractors and their employees. Once opened, the over 8 percent of New Yorkers out of work could find employment.
The city would benefit from millions in sales, payroll and real-estate tax revenue that could help fund essential municipal services everyone desires.
Consumers shopping at Walmart get a bigger bang for the buck by being able to compare prices, quality and service to other stores.
Several hundred thousand New Yorkers work off the books, full and part time with no benefits or health insurance. Many existing retailers pay minimum wage with no benefits. Public officials opposing Walmart never talk about these abuses.
The free enterprise system made our nation great. Economic growth and the creation of wealth comes from businesses — small and large. Consumers all over America made Walmart the success story it is today. It is time to allow Walmart the opportunity to compete in the New York City marketplace.
If public officials continue refusing you a choice, the only recourse you have is to vote them out of office or deny them promotion to higher public office. Ask your local candidates in the upcoming elections were they stand on Walmart.
Don't vote for them if they will not give you a right as a consumer to decide who to patronize.

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Penn State's Academic Leadership Academy Prepares Higher Education Administrators from India, US
"India is a large country with 1.2 billion people, 500 million of whom are under the age of 18," said Nirmal Pal, director for India initiatives in Penn State's Office of Global Programs.
According to Pal, roughly 22 million people turn 18 every year, but only about 17 percent of them go into some sort of higher education, one of the lowest percentages worldwide.
"So India has this vacuum," said Pal. "They have all of these young people who need to develop skills. This is a big need for India."
Another issue facing India, according to Pal, is that Indian higher-education institutions have a tremendous need for leadership.
"How do you take a faculty member or somebody who is teaching and suddenly have them become a dean? They are two very different jobs," said Pal.
Three years ago, Indian participants started coming to the ALA through the Obama-Singh Knowledge Initiative of the 21st Century. Bob Hendrickson, founder of the ALA and co-principal investigator of the Obama-Singh initiative, said, "The concepts of leadership, management, faculty development, institutional research and planning and budgeting are universal concepts applicable to global higher education when another country's context is considered in implementation and practice."
Tobias Linden, a lead education specialist for the World Bank, and participant in the ALA for the past two years, said he thought the structure of the event and the topics being discussed would be very important to help develop leadership in Indian higher education. He added that the goals of the ALA fits in nicely with the goals of his organization.
"Higher education is a critical component of competitiveness and economic development," said Linden. "And because the World Bank's mission is to eliminate poverty, it's a natural fit that we would be helping to improve their economic performance, bringing more people out of poverty. In order to do that, you need a robust higher-education system."
This year, the World Bank provided 16 scholarships for Indians to attend the ALA conference. They primarily came from two of the largest and poorest states in India, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, according to Linden.
"We're basically helping them revamp their whole higher-education system," said Linden, who added that a key aspect of revamping is establishing institutional leadership.
Hendrickson said he worked with Linden and Pal to bring teams of Indian administrators to the ALA in 2014 to assess how the ALA could improve leadership skills.
Another important and appealing feature for both Indian and American participants is the ALA's strong networking opportunities.
"We wanted to replicate that for this group of people in India," said Linden. "They come to ALA as a group, and then when they're back in India, they can talk to each other and support each other. They can help each other overcome challenges."
To help build this network, the ALA developed what Pal referred to as "India experts." These are Indians who attended the ALA in previous years. They prepare briefing papers on all of the topics being presented so that the new attendees will understand in advance what is being presented and what the India context is.
"This is so they can keep their ears open for what applies to India," said Pal.
Each evening the Indian participants and the India experts do a debriefing where they discuss the important aspects from that day.
"And that process has worked wonderfully so far," said Pal. "We are hoping that we can continue this in perpetuity because India's needs are so humungous. I strongly believe that this is going to work, and India needs it. I talked to a few of the vice chancellors, and they are very positive."
Individuals from US higher education institutions also attend the ALA each year to improve their practical administrative knowledge and skills. This year, some of the schools represented at the ALA were: West Texas A&M University, Lebanon Valley College, Champlain College, Albion College, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Future Generations Graduate School, Saint Francis University, National Intelligence University, Gwynedd Mercy University, Champlain College, The College of St. Scholastica, Kirtland Community College, Ohio Wesleyan University, Excelsior College and University of the Arts.
--by Kevin Sliman (July 2014)


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Chapel chair upholstery project is woven into local economy
At first glance, the choice to refurbish the chairs in Hoversten Chapel is just good financial management. The move to refresh versus replace the chairs saved the College more than $40,000.
But that's only the surface of the decision.
What really went on gets to the heart of what it means to be a good steward. It makes exceptional what could be written off as a one-dimensional, mundane decision. It is a concrete example of how the College can live out its mission to be an engaged member of the community, a thoughtful steward, and a responsible leader.
When the College this past summer opted to refurbish the 17-year-old chairs, staff requested a bid from All About Upholstery, a locally owned business.
"We had worked with Tonya, the owner, on a smaller project in the old coffee shop, and she was great," said Matt Rumpza, director of purchasing and central support services. "By making the decision to re-upholster the chairs, we were making an environmentally friendly and cost-sensitive decision. We felt that given our mission, our interest in being a good community neighbor, and our desire to be environmentally mindful, this was a no-brainer."
Tonya DuRoche [pictured], who lives in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, worked with her team to refresh 597 chairs. The job included new upholstery, replacing the seat and back cushions, regluing joints, and touch-up varnishing. It was rewarding work, too.
"It might sound cheesy," she said, "but contributing to the comfort of students who are studying and those who are practicing their spirituality in the chapel is a way to contribute to the future."
DuRoche, who is committed to her community and other local businesses, sources nearly all of her fabrics from a family-owned company in Minneapolis. That means the money spent by Augsburg to have All About Upholstery do the work had a multiplier effect in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Studies show that money spent locally stays in a community longer than money spent at companies with headquarters outside of that community, state, or region.
In fact, the 2004 Andersonville Study of Retail Economics found that $100 spent in locally owned independent stores returns $68 to the community through taxes, payroll, and other expenditures. Money spent at a national chain only returns $43 to the community.
DuRoche also hires and trains local employees. She completes a mix of residential and large-scale commercial work for tribal businesses such as casinos and helps stabilize other local businesses by providing suppliers with a fairly steady stream of business. In turn, her suppliers are able to provide a stable income for their employees. This interconnected way of doing business is important to her.
"It's a way to be an entrepreneurial role model, to give back to our community," said DuRoche, a member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska. "I've always wanted to be an artist or work in the medical field. This gives me the chance to offer a kind of healing by creating beauty in surroundings."
To learn more about the work DuRoche does through All About Upholstery, visit her Facebook page.


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As I mentioned a few times this morning, President Obama's NCAA Tournament bracket was unveiled today.
If you haven't yet seen it, here it is, followed by a few quick reasons why Obama's picks and strategy are worth considering (independent of whatever unspoken political objectives they surely serve).
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Naturally, Obama is being criticized, as any President would, for taking time away from more pressing matters to worry about college hoops. I'll leave it to you to decide whether he should or should not complete a bracket and whether any national TV network should give him an annual platform to do so.
This is a sports blog, not a politics blog, so those questions aren't really our concern.
The reason why I have posted about the President's bracket is because a) people care – it's the most famous single NCAA Tournament bracket out there, all things considered; and b) the President's chalky pick strategy may not be much fun or all that interesting, but it sure has proven successful.
Remember, last year the President nailed 29 out of 32 first round games. Obviously his bracket fell apart a bit once it got to the Final Four, but whose didn't with one of the First Four teams (VCU), a Horizon League team (Butler), and a 9th-place regular season finisher in its conference (UCONN) all getting there.
Remember, as I told you Monday, the last two Final Fours, which have featured seven non-#1 seeds, have been extreme outliers within the context of NCAA Tournament history. Of course you should pick a lower seed if you feel strongly about them, or if you have a personal attachment to them (like I do with IU, hence this), but for the most part you should pick the favorites…just as President Obama has done above. Neither President Obama nor anyone else who predicts like this will ever get the "perfect bracket" because we know crazy upsets will happen; but trying to predict where those upsets will happen is usually a fool's errand.
The point is this: if your #1 goal in whatever NCAA Tournament pools you're entering is to win, you increase your chances by going mostly chalk and being very, very selective about where you choose lower seeds to beat higher seeds, especially before the Elite 8 and Sweet 16 rounds; and once you get there, definitely go with the better seeds in matchups where there is a large seed disparity, because those rounds are where Cinderellas, for the most part, go to die.
So mock and criticize the President all you want for his picks, along partisan and/or non-partisan lines; and accuse him of making certain picks for political reasons, which he surely does; but just remember that actual final bracket is a pretty good guide for putting the odds for victory in your favor.
And for that Mr. President, I salute you. Now give me some dap.


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Science Action's 23rd rapid inventory leads to protected expanse in northern Peru
Days before the change in government in July 2011, Peru's outgoing administration established Zona Reservada Yaguas. The new protected expanse, the target of our 23rd rapid inventory, harbors exceedingly diverse communities of plants and animals, and more than a dozen species new to science. There were two unexpected highlights. We found that this region shelters more fish species than anywhere else in the entire country (the two rivers support 65% of Peru's known freshwater fish diversity). In addition, perhaps our most remarkable discovery was a large archipelago of peat swamps, covered by a specialized vegetation that includes savannas and dwarf forests, previously unknown in the Putumayo watershed.
One of the peat swamps in the Putumayo drainage in Peru, as seen from the air. Photo: R. Stallard
We handed the final inventory report to government officials in June and the area was officially protected a month later. In our report we proposed a 2.7 million-acre strict-protection area encompassing a portion of the Cotuhé as well as most of the Yaguas, and an additional 864,000-acre wildlife reserve adjacent to the riverine communities along the Putumayo. The government protected 2.14 million acres. We will be working with Peru's new administration to propose national park status for Yaguas and to keep working for the protection of the rest of the inventoried area.
Our 23rd rapid inventory report.


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Global sports personalities came together in London yesterday to sign up to the #WhoseSideAreYouOn campaign, which seeks to mobilise support amongst younger generations for the fight against the illegal wildlife trade. Sportspeople already signed up as Ambassadors of the campaign include David Beckham, Andy Murray, Lewis Hamilton, Rahul Dravid, Samuel Eto'o, Yao Ming and Francois Pienaar.
United for Wildlife is a flagship project of The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, and includes partner organisations IUCN, Conservation International, Fauna & Flora International, The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, and ZSL.
Following on from the commitments made by world leaders at the United for Wildlife conference in February this year, the #WhoseSideAreYouOn campaign is a clear call to action for a generation who will use sport and social media to raise awareness of the extinction crisis.
Over the coming 12 months, United for Wildlife Ambassadors will be sharing exclusive social media content and encouraging their followers to do the same by sharing tweets, videos and games with their friends. In this way, the issue of wildlife trade will be brought into the daily lives of millions of young people around the world, who will get to know the current work of conservationists in the field.
Poaching and the illegal wildlife trade have increased dramatically over the past few years. In 2013, 30,000 African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana) and 1,000 Rhinos were slaughtered, and in 2011, between 40,000 and 60,000 pangolins were captured and killed in Vietnam alone. The illegal trade in high-value Tiger products including skins, bones, meat and tonics is the primary threat to Tigers (Panthera tigris). This has led to their recent disappearance from broad areas of otherwise suitable habitat, and continues at unsustainable rates. The current global wild Tiger population is estimated to be around 3,000 individuals.
More sporting Ambassadors are due to be announced as the campaign unfolds. You can follow the campaign using the hashtag #WhoseSideAreYouOn through Twitter and Facebook.


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All area codes are 850 unless specified.
Saturday, Nov. 10
Biophilia Center
Nonie and her ark of animals demonstrate the important roles animals play in our environment at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center. Standard admission rates apply. Call 835-1824.
Thank-A-Vet 5K
The Walton High School Air Force Junior ROTC will host a 5K Run/Walk to pay tribute to veterans at 8 a.m. beginning at the DeFuniak Springs Amphitheater, 1183 Circle Drive. Cost is $20/preregistration and $25/race day. Register at http://whsafjrotc.sites.runsignup.com. Call 892-1270, ext. 4475 for information.
Cottages for Kids
Cottages for Kids, a fundraising event that benefits Children�s Volunteer Health Network, Inc., will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekends Nov. 10-24 on the East Long Green in Rosemary Beach for the public to view and for kids to play. Volunteers are needed help sell raffle tickets, serve as security around the cottages and other various duties. Email email@example.com.
Holiday Sale
The Volunteer Guild at Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast hosts its annual Holiday Sale Extravaganza from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 10 and 12-16. Shoppers will receive a 15 percent discount on most gift shop items and a 20 percent discount on varying holiday items. Call 278-3032.
Florida Trail Association
An overnight backpacking trip on Eglin near DeFuniak Springs begins at noon. Eglin recreation permit is required. Call 585-5150.
Toy Drive
Cheeseburger in Paradise will host a Toy Drive from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the parking lot of the business at Silver Sands Premium Outlets to help local foster children.
A free appetizer card will be given for any donation of a new toy, and a 20 percent discount on lunch that day will be given for any food dropped off. Also, remember there are teenagers in foster homes, and gift cards or teenager gifts would be greatly appreciated. Call 357-3562 or 837-0197.
Coastal Holiday Market
The second annual Coastal Holiday Market will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Rita Church, 173 Moll Drive in Santa Rosa Beach. There will be more than 30 artisans and crafters, homemade cinnamon rolls and Boy Scouts to serve lunch.
Flutterby Festival
One of South Walton's premier events celebrating the migration of the Monarch Butterfly, Flutterby Festival takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 10 and 11 at Rosemary Beach's South Barrett Square, Main Street and Western Green. The event provides live music, interactive storytelling, animal encounters and an array of artists, vendors and exhibitors. A master gardener will be on hand teaching children the art of building a butterfly garden. The fun-filled day also includes a butterfly costume parade at 3 p.m., street games, face painting, and street and mural painting. The event is free. Call 622-5970.
Seaside Farmers Market
Get your pick of fresh produce, baked goods, dairy products, native plants and other unique offerings from 8 a.m. to noon in the Amphitheatre behind Raw & Juicy. Enjoy special cooking demos and activities.
Sunday, Nov. 11
Free doughnut
Krispy Kreme will honor veterans and active military personnel in uniform or with valid military identification with a free coffee and doughnut for Veterans Day at participating Krispy Kreme locations. No purchase necessary.
Low Country Boil
723 Whiskey Bravo, 3031 E. County Hwy. 30-A in the heart of Old Seagrove, offers a Low Country Shrimp Boil with boiled shrimp or crawfish and all the fixin�s plus live music from 3-7 p.m. Call 213-0015.
Marie's Bistro
Singer/guitarist Bill Evett performs from 6-10 p.m. Fridays with DJ Shane beginning at 10 p.m. at Marie�s Bistro on 30A in Blue Mountain Beach. Karaoke takes center stage on Wednesdays; Kelsey Anna performs from 7-10 p.m. Thursdays; and Redd Sings from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Tuesdays with DJ Shane beginning at 10 p.m. Shag Music & Dance Class is held from 5-7 p.m. Sundays with Ben Friedman from 7-10 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 12
Rudy Applewhite
Tommy Bahama�s Restaurant & Bar, 525 Grand Blvd. in Sandestin, presents Rudy Applewhite from 4-9 p.m. every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Call 654-1743,
Pajama Time Story Time
Join storyteller Ms. Cheryl at 6 p.m. in the children�s room of the Coastal Library for some bedtime stories in your pajamas. This will be a quiet time for little readers to relax to a bedtime story in the comfort of their caretaker�s arms. Call 267-2809.
Zumba classes
Zumba With Marcia classes will be held at 6:30 p.m. Mondays, 6 p.m. Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. Fridays and 9 a.m. Saturdays at Premiere Performers Academy in Santa Rosa Beach; 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays at The Studio in Seaside; and 8:30 a.m. Wednesdays at Rosemary Beach Fitness Center.
Yoga Express
A 45-minute Yoga Express class will be held at 8 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at The Studio, 30A Yoga in Seaside. Cost is $12 drop-in, no monthly fee. Call 320-237-4201 for more information.
Tuesday, Nov. 13
Book Lover�s Club
The Coastal Library Book Lover�s Club will be held from 10-11 a.m. in the community room of the Coastal Branch Library, 437 Greenway Trail in Santa Rosa Beach. New members are welcome along with their friends. Book to be discussed is Jane Austen�s work of choice.. Call 267-2809 or visit www.youseemore.com/walton.
Dannica Lowery
Dannica Lowery performs live from 6-9 p.m. at Shorty�s Surfside Bar, 63 Hotz Ave. in Grayton Beach. Call 468-0417.
Jazz class
Jasmine Dance Studio in Santa Rosa Beach will hold a ladies adult jazz class from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursday. Call 217-6620 for more information.
Moms �CAN� Do
Baby Boot Camp, the fitness and nutrition program for new moms, will offer free Moms �CAN� Do classes that incorporates canned food items into the workout at 9:45 a.m. Nov. 13 at The Village of Baytowne Wharf in Sandestin and 9:10 a.m. Nov. 14 at Morgan Sports Complex in Destin. Canned foods will then be donated to Destin Harvest in Destin.
Participants are asked to bring two 15 oz. (or larger if they are feeling strong) non-perishable food items to utilize in the workout and then donate after. To reserve a spot or find out more, contact Andrea Moak at 376-4497 or email@example.com.
Wednesday, Nov. 14
Seagrove Garden Club
The Seagrove Garden Club meets at 10 a.m. at Nick�s on the Beach in Blue Mountain Beach. Russ Barley, owner of Emerald Coast Florists, presents �Holiday Arrangements.� The cost to members will vary from $18 to $23 depending on the venue. Guests will be an additional $5. Reservations are required at 267-9586.
Restaurant Fire at Gulfplace hosts a fundraiser from 6-8 p.m. at 7 Town Center Loop. Money raised goes to Christmas Connection for local, impoverished, families by giving them a comprehensive Christmas or season.
The event is a $45 wine tasting paired with heavy hors d'oeuvres, a silent auction, a raffle to win a Fire dinner valued at $500 for four, and live music. Call 267-9020.
Information session
Northwest Florida State College will hold an �NWFSC-Get Started: What You Need to Know to Start College� information session for new and prospective students from 6-8 p.m. in the Student Services Center on the Niceville Campus. Those interested in starting at NWFSC in the upcoming spring term which starts in January are encouraged to attend. Call 729-6467.
Green Thumb Garden Club
The Green Thumb Garden Club will meet at 9:45 a.m. at the Coastal Branch Library on Hwy. 331 in Walton County for a "hands-on" workshop, making holiday wreathes, swags or centerpieces. Brunch will be served and is $20, payable by cash or check at the door. Make reservations by Nov. 11 at 650-5872 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Arbor Wealth Management, LLC, a �Fee-Only� Registered Investment Advisory Firm, will host an �Income Generation Seminar� at 10 a.m. in the Arbor Wealth Conference Room. Strategies are most appropriate for investors with $250,000 or more of investable assets. Refreshments will be served. Call 608-6121 to reserve seating.
Florida Trail Association
A 6.6-mile hike on the Alaqua Trail near DeFuniak Springs at 8:30 a.m. Eglin recreation permit required. Call 651-0902.
Rosalina plays classic standards and show tunes on keyboard from 6-9 p.m. at Christiano's Ristorante in Santa Rosa Beach. Call 267-2185.
Thursday, Nov. 15
Ted Henry, a former TV news reporter who now conducts video interviews with spiritually guided people, will address the Emerald Coast Meditation Society at 6:30 p.m. at 480 N. Co. Hwy. 393 in Santa Rosa Beach. Email firstname.lastname@example.com for information.
Rotary Club of South Walton
The Rotary Club of South Walton meets for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. at the Embassy Suites, Scenic Hwy. 98 in Miramar Beach. Visiting Rotarians and their guests are welcome. Call 267-2929.
Fusion fitness class
Hope Lutheran Church, 3422 U.S. 98 W in Santa Rosa Beach, will offer a fusion fitness class at 9 a.m. Attendees may bring a mat, towel, water and light hand weights. Suggested donation is $5. Call 267-0322.
Thursday thread therapy
Needlers, knitters, crocheters and others come for free therapy from 4-6 p.m. on the porch at Yards N Yarn, 3770 Co. Hwy. 3280 in Freeport. Call 880-6404.
Yoga class
A Restorative/Gentle Yoga Class will be held at 11:30 a.m. at Balance Health Studio 30a in Seagrove. There is no cost to individuals currently receiving treatment for any type of cancer. Call 532-4295.
Friday, Nov. 16
Topsail tour
Learn about the coastal dune lakes at 1:30 p.m. at Topsail Hill Preserve State Park in Santa Rosa Beach. All programs require a $6 per car entry admission into the park. Call 267-8330.
Hansel and Gretel
The Florida Chautauqua Theatre presents a musical adaptation of Grimms� fairytale, �Hansel and Gretel,� at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 and 17 and 2:30 p.m. Nov. 18 at 830 Baldwin Ave. in DeFuniak Springs. Tickets are $14/adults and $10/students 22 years and younger. To purchase tickets, call 892-9494 or email email@example.com.
Holiday Parade
Show off your holiday spirit with the annual South Walton Holiday Parade beginning at 4 p.m. Nov. 24. The parade will stage in front of the Seagrove Plaza (home to Garrett Realty & Bruno's Pizza), and roll down Scenic Highway 30A, past the rows of spectators and end in Seaside, where the celebration continues with the arrival of special guest Santa Claus and the lighting of the Christmas tree.
All entries for parade must have registration form and fee (if applicable) turned in no later than Nov. 16. Visit SeasideFl.com or call 231-6107.
Eastern Star
The Order of the Eastern Star #281 meets at 7:30 p.m. at Herman Lodge on Madison Street in Freeport. Call 835-2314.
Saturday, Nov. 17
SouthernFare Dinner Series
WaterColor Inn & Resort presents a Georgia Farm to Table Dinner in the BoatHouse, featuring White Oaks Pastures, Gayla�s Grits and Georgia Olive Farms. Enjoy this elegant dinner prepared by the chefs at Fish Out of Water with finest beef offered by White Oak Pastures. Seating at 7 p.m. Cost is $65/++ pp res required. Call 231-7713.
Sparkling Wines and Holiday Lights
The Sandestin Wine Festival begins the holiday season with Sparkling Wines and Holiday Lights from 4-7 p.m. Stroll streets lined in twinkling lights and greenery and sip a variety of champagnes and taste featured menu items from various Village restaurants. Cost is $40/person. Must be 21 to participate. For more information and to purchase tickets visit sandestinwinefestival.com.
Grand opening
Thi Bod Fitness celebrates its grand opening at 6 p.m. in the Emerald Coast Plaza in Santa Rosa Beach with light hors d�oeuvres and a graduation of its first boot camp participants. Thi Bod Fitness offers Zumba classes and boot camp classes.
Bulls, Barrels Rodeo
Pleasant Ridge Arena, 1917 Pleasant Ridge Road in DeFuniak Springs, will host a Bulls, Barrels Rodeo at 7 p.m. featuring Blessed Bucking Bulls. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. Cost is $10/adults, $8/children. Call 892-5398/
The Nutcracker
The Northwest Florida Ballet presents the magic of The Nutcracker at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 and 2:30 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Mattie Kelly Arts Center in Niceville. Tickets are $28/adults and $14/ children 12 and under. Call 664-7787 for tickets or additional information.
Biophilia Center
Interact with the creepy, crawling world of insects at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center. Standard admission rates apply. Call 835-1824.
Book Sale and BBQ
The Friends of the Walton/DeFuniak Springs Library will hold a book sale from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Walton County Fairgrounds. Pack as many books as possible into a plastic grocery bag for $2. Bags will be provided.
Baytowne on Ice
The ice skating rink at The Village of Baytowne Wharf will be open through Jan. 31 at the Apex Broadcasting Skating Pavilion. For $10 guests can skate for an hour and a half. Skate rental is $2. The first hour of each day is reserved for "kids skate" for youth 12 and under.
Season passes are available for $140. During November bring two non-perishable cans of food for Harvest House of Destin and receive a free skate rental. Call 816-682-1003 for times and special skating packages.


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Tom/Lordex necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 175 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
SpinaTrak by Lordex
We are a medical equipment manufacturing company located just outside of Houston Texas that has been in the business for over 25 years designing,testing and building medical equipment with focus strictly on the spine(lumbar,cervical and thorasic) and back pain associated with spinal problems. In the U.S.alone back pain is a multi billion dollar industry affecting 8 out of 10 people in their life time,world wide the number of people suffering from back pain right this second is staggering.While there is no real cure for back pain it is manageable with the right equipment.Thats where our team of professionals come in,our design, testing and research team is made up of Doctors,engineers and fitness experts from several different specialties around the U.S. Our companies goal is to build the best equipment possible to help people get the best results possible.
Doctors looking for the newest ideas and affordable equipment to incorporate into their clinics for treating their patients that have back pain.Also the men and women with back pain ages 30 to 80(some younger some older) looking for a cure for there aching back and wanting to purchase real medical equipment from a real medical company for use in their homes.
Must be appealing to all sexes and age groups around the world.Professional since we are also trying to attract Doctors of several specialties.Memorable we would love for this to become a household name with a very worldwide recognizable name and logo.Modern,cool, possibly a little funky, very up to date,can have some color to it.Needs to be able to be seen or readable on something as small as a business card or company letterhead.A picture/video of the new machine can be viewed at http://www.spinatraksystem.com/report.html. Please keep in mind the color of the machine in the video has not gone thru final approvement we're still looking at frame and upholstery colors,possible frame colors include but are not limited to white,blue,silver,brushed nickle,gray...possible upholstery colors will most likely be blue or black.The colors in the logo do not need to match the colors of the machine just wanted you to know the possibilities.We are looking for creativity.Since this is our first time to use this service we hope we have provided adequate information.
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Saturn's moon Titan is unique in our solar system, being the only natural satellite to boast a significant atmosphere, somewhat like Earth's.
Also like Earth, Titan has bodies of liquid on its surface that support processes akin to our water cycle—the huge moon has clouds, spring rains, and fog—and even shows signs of a lake effect similar to the one seen over North America's Great Lakes.
The key difference, of course, is that the liquid on chilly Titan is methane, a carbon-based chemical that, on our world, is the prime component in natural gas.
Still, Titan's hydrocarbon haze is exciting to scientists who are hoping to get a glimpse of how life might have been sparked on Earth: Lab experiments, for example, suggest that the moon's atmosphere may be flush with the building blocks of life, such as amino acids and DNA bases.
And now, for the first time, scientists say they have proof that early Earth had a very Titan-like atmosphere … at least periodically.
On today's Earth, dry air contains roughly 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, with trace amounts of other gases. But ancient rocks show that, before about 2.5 billion years ago, atmospheric oxygen was a scarce commodity on our planet.
The widely held theory has been that before the so-called Great Oxygenation Event, Earth's atmosphere was dominated by Titan-esque organics—but no one had yet found evidence for such a chemical makeup in the planet's rocky history.
In a study published online yesterday in Nature Geoscience, Aubrey Zerkle of Newcastle University in the U.K. and colleagues report their analyses of rocks from South Africa that date to between 2.65 and 2.5 billion years ago.
Core samples from these rocks contain microbial mats, which show that some of the tiny creatures in shallow seas were producing oxygen long before the Great Oxygenation of our atmosphere.
The rocks also contain carbon and sulfur isotopes—chemicals that would have reacted with oxygen. The levels of the different kinds of isotopes present indicate that sometimes oxygen production was happening when the atmosphere was thick with methane—but other times the atmosphere must have been haze-free.
The clarity of the early atmosphere seems to flip flop roughly every few million years, Zerkle and co. report, hinting at a push and pull between microbes that generated oxygen and those that belched methane.
At last, though, *something* happened about 2.5 billion years ago to trigger the planet's permanent oxygen high. (What that "something" was is still a mystery, although theories abound.)
Of course, this pattern has so far been seen only in the South African rocks, so more research on samples from around the world will be needed to truly tell whether Earth was once a Titan—atmospherically speaking.
Victoria Jaggard is a senior editor for National Geographic News, specializing in all things space. You can follow Victoria on Twitter @vmjaggard99.


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|3,000 gp
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|Faint illusion (DC 16)
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Robes of the metamorph were the invention of a sorcerer named Ssin Sahvek, of the high court of Shandura, a technologically primitive society that sought development of a more metaphysical kind, and dabbled strongly in the arcane arts to further its knowledge of magic. Before long, the robes were customarily used by Shanduran spies and agents.
These light and smoothly flowing robes are a silvery blue-gray color and strewn with various, elegant patterning. They always seem to be perfectly tailored to the body shape of the person wearing them. The robes bestow a +2 competence bonus on Bluff and Diplomacy checks. These robes may be used in conjunction with the Disguise skill, for a +10 competence bonus on the check. However for a character with sorcerer levels the robes have a further function.
At the command of a wearer with at least one level in the sorcerer class, robes of the metamorph allow him to take on a disguise of his choice, the robes themselves seemingly extending over the body and emulating the desired form. This disguise does not only alter appearance, but also extends to clothing, armor or weapons that the user is wearing, and equipment that he has on his person. At any rate, the chosen disguise must be one that is within limits of a disguise self spell. Robes of the metamorph may be used - and their effects dismissed - at will as a full-round action. Using this ability of the robes requires the wearer to expend one of his sorcerer spell slots for the day. Any onlooker is allowed a Will save to recognize the disguise as an illusion, with a save DC equal to that of a spell of a level equal to that of the expended spell slot, cast as by the wearer.
Prereqs: Craft Wondrous Item, disguise self, CL 1st.
Cost to Create: 3,000 gp (1,500 gp + 120 XP).
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(CNN) - Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has a dueling holiday message with the White House - forget Obamacare, go volunteer.
President Barack Obama's Twitter account tweeted earlier this week a picture of a man wearing plaid pajamas, encouraging people #GetTalking about insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act over the holidays.
"How do you plan to spend the cold days of December?" the tweet reads with the image, directing internet-users to barackobama.com/talk.
The internet, particularly conservatives, had a field day with the image and now Christie's office is picking up on the joke.
"In New Jersey, we are spending the cold days of December volunteering," the tweet reads, mimicking the design of the @BarackObama tweet but with a picture of the Garden State governor in an apron serving food.
It must be hard for governor Christie to serve food. I bet their inventories come up short at the end of the day. Judging by his girth he should be the first one in line for Obama care. Let's see how he does with donuts and coffee.
Before the election I thought Obama is very much with the ordinary citizen , but now I feel like he is really living in a different world , he don't even have a clue about the word STRUGGLE.
I don't care if this is a photo op or not - the spirit is right. It's the season to volunteer and help others to make a real difference in the world.
OK Fat Boy, I'm on my way.
He will never be President, he will never be Vice President, he's at the top of his game and is lucky to have gotten this far. He's a fraud and a bully for the most part, and thats how he will be remembered. Fat Jersey Bully.
He actually said "Get me some PB&J's".
Christy was not there to help, but to eat all their food.
Any clean pots and pans the "all of the sudden" more in your face governor of NJ can clean for the camera.
He's probably volunteering because he likes to be near food.
Not all of his constituents in NJ like him. This guy has got too many skeletons in the closet.
I can't see people talking about health care around the xmas tree, the dinner table or for that matter wearing PJs to bed and talking in your sleep about it. Volunteering for anything is awesome! Everyone needs to understand that you don't have to buy into the healthcare.gov site because everyone who already has insurance is getting better now because of the law. This needs to be peace of mind for people at the holidays and ongoing and for the ones who don't have insurance if they do sign up through the exchange this may be beneficial to them because if they are at a lower income the subsidies would give them financial assistance. These people need to check into it.
Standard responses of liberals, lets sit and talk of nothing instead of doing something that is actually beneficial to those in need. With all the wasted funds spent on Obamacare, we could have probably opened several high end clinics and maintained them for several years to come with the current price tag at $2.7 trillion.
The biggest problem liberals have with Christie is that he speaks the blunt truth. Unfortunately, truth hurts and reality is hard. Obama had fed them so many lies that they expect it to be an easy road for them as long as they follow blindly. Just wait till those co-pay bills start coming in. Then you will get your wake up call.


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- With your other hand, take the Propeller sensor and slide it over the top and push down until it's snug.
- If you're having trouble, try turning the sensor until it slides down over the inhaler.
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We immensely enjoyed The Christmas Carol (the musical) at Arkansas Repertory Theatre (The Rep) in Little Rock. "Our own" Adam Hose
stars as Bob Cratchit, singing a tender duet with Tiny Tim. We call Adam "our own" because he is a beloved guest of Lookout Point.
Hailing from New York, whenever Adam is performing in the area, he considers our Hot Springs bed & breakfast home for an escape.
Congratulations to The Rep for a fantastic and successful production of Charles Dickens' story of Christmas love. NOW I am ready for Christmas.


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Fruit Pizza Supreme
Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake: 10 min. + chilling
Makes20 servings
- 1 tube (16-1/2 ounces) refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- 2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
- 1 cup fresh strawberries, halved
- 1 cup seedless red grapes
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 2 kiwifruit, peeled and sliced
- 1 can (11 ounces) mandarin oranges, drained
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
- Pat cookie dough onto the bottom of an ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until deep golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack.
- In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and vanilla until smooth. Fold in whipped topping. Spread over the crust. Arrange fruit on top.
- In a small saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch, orange juice and pineapple juice until smooth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Cool; drizzle over fruit. Refrigerate until chilled.
Nutrition Facts1 piece: 283 calories, 11g fat (6g saturated fat), 20mg cholesterol, 143mg sodium, 43g carbohydrate (30g sugars, 1g fiber), 2g protein.
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Ive been making this recipe for years! The cookie sheet always comes back licked clean. No negative feedback on this one. Its a winner
May 12, 2014
I was actually looking for an old recipe I had gotten from the magazine but couldn't find online. Glad to say, this is much better!
Dec 15, 2010
My friend made this for Thanksgiving and it was sooo delicious that I begged her for the recipe! A few days later I made it for my co-workers and they loved it! It was simple and easy to make. The only thing is next time, I'll use 2 tubes of sugar cookie dough instead of one. I didn't feel like there was enough dough for a 15-in. x 10.in x 1-in cookie sheet. And I'll have to reduce the glaze portions by half. The glaze was a bit too much. Otherwise, it's an excellent recipe and I plan on making it again for my Holiday potluck.
Aug 1, 2009
I made this for our house warming and was a hit!, Everybody ask me for the recipe, and of course I didn't share it! That's my little secret.
Feb 27, 2009
Delicious, with or without the glaze.


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We knew Daniel Radcliffe was starring as Igor in the Max Landis-scripted Frankenstein reboot, starring James MacAvoy as Dr. Frankenstein, but we didn't know what he looked like. So here's what he looks like, thanks to some on-set photos.
Hmm. I can't help but feel he looks somewhat familiar...
...it'll come to me.
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text: Re: 'Conan The Barbarian' and Arnold Reunited: Universal Reboots Franc Demand for a King Conan film starring Arnold has been there ever since. That final image in Conan - The Barbarian screamed for that sequel. And now, Arnold has hit the right age to do it. It's perfect. Hopefully John Milius will be involved. He just has to be.


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Beginning on Jan. 16, nearly 8,000 Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) 1181 bus drivers walked off the job to safeguard benefits and ensure job security in new contracts.
During the strike, nearly 40 percent, or 152,000 of the city's students, went to school in cabs and city buses during the first strike of its kind since 1979.
After the walk-off ended, ATU Local 1181 president Michael Cordiello said his drivers would continue to push for the Employee Protection Provision (EPP) clause for his drivers.
"Though our strike has been suspended, the principles that we fight for remain pressing issues that the city will have to address," Cordiello said in a statement. "A safe workforce is an experienced workforce, and the Employee Protection Provisions currently included in the city's busing contracts protect our most experience drivers, matrons and mechanics, and have created one of the safest workforces in the entire country."
On Nov. 11, it was reported that new contracts were put out to bid by the Bloomberg administration with savings of nearly $400 million, much of which are thought to be from the lack of job securities of union drivers.
9. Maspeth Accident
The community of Maspeth was plastered over the front pages of newspapers across the city when five students from I.S. 73 were injured, three critically, when a SUV lost control and veered onto the sidewalk early on the morning on Sep. 12 as kids made their way to nearby IS 73.
Investigators believed the accident transpired when the driver accidentally hit the accelerator instead of the breaks as he was driving along Grand Avenue. No charges were filed.
Maspeth resident David Foubister joined a group of people at the corner of Grand Avenue and 71st Street to lift the SUV and free two of the girls trapped underneath.
"We lifted the car and pulled the girls out," he said.
One week later, 13-year-old Michael Gomez died of an asthma attack on Nov. 19 while being treated for minor injuries related to the accident at Elmhurst Hospital.
8. Noise From the Borough Airports
One of the issues facing Queens residents this year that made the biggest noise was from overhead: airplanes.
A new departure pattern our of LaGuardia Airport – known as the TNNIS climb – continue to be an issue for folks living across northeast Queens, from Flushing out to Douglaston.
And the new program that the TNNIS climb is a part of – NextGen – which allows planes to fly lower to the ground and closer together, continue to have negative impacts on residents in other Queens neighborhoods, including Jackson Heights and Elmhurst.
Some progress was made on the issue this year, as Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered the Port Authority to conduct a noise study of the borough's airports, as well as form a roundtable that includes community residents and the Federal Aviation Administration to address concerns.
7. Music Returns to West Side
The historic tennis stadium at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills was brought back to life once again last summer, as the Dublin-based folk group Mumford and Sons kicked off the first of several concerts expected to hit the neighborhood in 2014.
Club president Roland Meier estimates the total renovation costs to completely remodel the legendary building at 1 Tennis Place was just $2.5 million. Nearly 17,000 people attended the show.
As some were turned away because of overcrowding and neighbors complained that stadium traffic patterns caused headache, all in all, the first concert on Aug. 28 went without any major glitches that many expected.
"If we're talking about all these kinks and these irregularities, I look forward to working toward the next event," Meier said. "You should make mistakes, because no one is perfect. You're really stupid if you make the same mistake twice and we're not going to do that."
The WSTC stadium was once home to the US Open and hosted concerts by numerous rock legends, including The Beatles and Bob Dylan.
6. New Corona BID
As discussions for the addition of a Business Improvement District (BID) on Roosevelt Avenue began to surface earlier this year, opposition soon followed as many residents and business owners feared the additional tax assessment.
While those who oppose it protested, business owners who support the proposed BID between 82nd and 114th streets held meetings to help clear up what they say is nothing more than a combination of misinformation and misunderstanding about the true nature of a BID.
Seth Taylor, a BID supporter and executive director of the 82nd Street Partnership, has been working with business owners over the last year to garner support.
"I think we're one of the first BID's that's trying to find a way to find some solutions and mitigate some of these tensions," Taylor said after it was announced that the scope of the proposed BID zone would shrink to accommodate those in opposition.
The proposed fees for businesses within the confines of the BID are expected to be about $900 annually.
5. 5 Pointz Whitewashed
Gerald Wolkoff, the owner of the building known to graffiti artists and admirers as 5 Pointz Aerosol Art Center, took matters into his own hands as the debate over what to do with the years of wall art that had collected throughout the buildings at 24-50 Jackson Ave. in Long Island City.
With plans to demolish the crumbling structure, and in the midst of a debate and lawsuit over intellectual property on his building, Wolkoff whitewashed the walls of the graffiti mecca.
"It was very difficult for me to do this, but I had to do it because I'm going to be demolishing the building," said Wolkoff of his decision. "And to see one piece at a time come down I felt would be really torturous."
4. Borough President Race
Melinda Katz was elected the new Queens borough president this past November, replacing Helen Marshall following her third and final term in office.
A new vision for the borough was at stake as fellow candidates State Senator Tony Avella, Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr. and businessman Aurelio Arcabascio tackled heated issues like the borough's underserved transportation, seniors and housing, and parkland development proposals like the once-debated park space allotment to MLS for a soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Melinda Katz was elected the new Queens borough president this past November, replacing Helen Marshall following her third and final term in office.
3. Glendale Homeless Shelter
Glendale residents and elected officials rallied throughout the year against a proposal from Samaritan Village homeless services to construct a 125-family, 51,000-square-foot shelter at 78-16 Cooper Ave.
Although it has been nearly unanimous in its opposition from the community, the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) later approved the $27 million proposal and decided to go ahead with the plans pending the results of an environmental impact study on the potentially contaminated property.
Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley and community members stood before the Mayor's Office of Contract Services in mid-December to oppose the city's efforts to build a shelter at the location.
"Think of how much further we could use $27 million," Crowley told the panel. "This money could be spent repairing buildings that already have the infrastructure in place, and money would likely still be left over for improvements in current shelters and providing job placement and permanent housing services."
Expect this to be a heated issue throughout 2014.
2. Sandy Rebuilding, One Year Later
One year after Superstorm Sandy flooded the waterfront communities of Queens, civic groups and homeowners continued their cleanup efforts.
While businesses and homeowners in neighborhoods like Howard Beach and Hamilton Beach reported having minimal feedback from The Red Cross and support from FEMA, nearby Kiwanis clubs, churches and other donors came together to provide the support they needed.
"A year later, this is an issue that's going to be with us for a very long time," said State Senator Joseph Addabbo. "We've come a long way, but there is still a long way to go."
1. Queens GOP at Heart of Bribery Scandal
Six defendants were charged in a bribery scheme this past April to get State Senator Malcolm Smith on the GOP ballot for the Republican mayoral primary
According to the charges, Smith worked with Councilman Dan Halloran, Queens County GOP vice chairman Vince Tabone, Bronx Republican chairman Joseph Savino and upstate Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmine and Deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret to buy off Republican leaders for support.
Smith was brought down by an undercover FBI agent.
"Senator Malcolm Smith tried to bribe his way to a shot at Gracie Mansion," said U.S. District Attorney Preet Bharara after the charges were first announced. "Smith drew up the game plan and Councilman Halloran essentially quarterbacked that drive by finding party chairmen who were wide open to receiving bribes."


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|Match to needle
- "You'll be starting small, just matches into needles and that sort of thing—"
- —Percy Weasley[src]
This spell was used to transform a match into a needle[1]. It is one of the simplest transfiguration spells[2].
Nature and teachingEdit
Due to its being the simplest spell of transfiguration, this is the first spell taught in transfiguration class (after they take many complicated notes)[1].
It seems, however, that even beginning students have trouble with it; by the end of their first lesson, only Hermione Granger had made a substantial improvement to her match, and Professor McGonagall proudly showed the class how it had turned silver and was rather pointy[1]. She later gave the class "a pile of homework", presumably on the subject of this spell[1].
Behind the scenesEdit
- Morag tried to light her match, and was scolded by Professor McGonagall[3]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Chapter Eight - The Potions Master)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Chapter Seven - The Sorting Hat)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
|Professors: Albus Dumbledore · Minerva McGonagall
|Textbooks: A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration · Intermediate Transfiguration · A Guide to Advanced Transfiguration
|Known practitoners: Emeric Switch · Circe · Falco Aesalon · Mirabella Plunkett · Thaddeus Thurkell ·
|Transfiguration spells studied at Hogwarts: Chair to cat · Match to needle · Snail to Teapot · Teacup to Rat · Switching Spell · Transforming Spell · Avifors Spell · Mice to Snuffboxes · Beetle Buttons · Rabbit Slippers · Teapot to tortoise · Draconifors Spell · Lapifors Spell · Vanishing Spell · Vera Verto · Owl to opera glasses · Guinea fowl to guinea pig · Hedgehog to pincushion · Small Child to Rat · Meddling Man to Monkey
|Branches of Transfiguration: Transformation · Vanishment · Conjuration · Untransfiguration


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As Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur returns to the Royal Opera House, we asked conductor Ryan Wigglesworth how he is approaching a modern masterpiece.
Ryan spoke about the intoxicating sound world that the composer has created, as well as what it's like to follow in the footsteps of Antonio Pappano, who conducted the opera's 2008 premiere to such acclaim.
"The orchestra is huge but Harrison also has a wonderful way of holding back colours and presenting them when they are needed so that there's an evolution throughout the whole journey of the work". Ryan says of the piece's structure, "there's an endless melody that goes through the piece, but it's constantly changing shape and form. It's not something you're necessarily conscious of, it works somewhere in the back of your mind."
Watch footage of Ryan conducting The Minotaur's Sitzprobe
Read audience reaction to The Minotaur
The Minotaur runs until 28 January. Tickets are still available.


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It is a familiar problem. You pull your glossy smartphone from your pocket to make a call but there are no signs of life. How can that possibly be? You plug it in every night. You are careful not to spend too long looking at Facebook. You hardly ever use the GPS and you always wait until you are on your laptop at home to click on those YouTube links. But still, here you are, clutching a "phone" with a dead battery.
The truth is that the power demands of our feature-filled smartphones have outpaced any improvements in battery technology. And it is only going to get worse as next-generation 4G networks come online, giving phones access to high-speed always-on connections and torrents of data. Without a step change in battery technology the digital nomads of tomorrow will be paralyzed - tied to the plugs and cables these new tools were supposed to banish.
"I don't think we are too far from the point when batteries, if they don't evolve more quickly, are going to create a noticeable drag on what your smartphone can offer," says Natasha Stokes, editor of Mobile Choice magazine,. Without a radical response, she predicts that it will not be long before power hungry, feature rich phones last just "six hours".
There are various nascent technologies looking to solve the problem, such as solar panels embedded in the screen or kinetic devices that harness your movements to charge a handset. But, these are a long way off from offering a practical solution. What is needed is an entirely new type of battery, say researchers.
And now, help could be on its way. In labs around the world, teams are testing new materials, chemistries and technologies that aim to supercharge your phone and, once again, allow mobiles to live up to their name.
Memory trick
Batteries are all largely based on the same simple principle: they convert chemical energy into electrical energy. To do this, they contain a positive and a negative electrode – known as a cathode and anode - separated by a substance known as an electrolyte. When these electrodes are connected to a circuit, a series of chemical reactions is kicked off. At one end, charged particles from the electrolyte – known as ions - flow to the anode, react and release electrons. At the other end, reactions at the cathode create a material that – like a sponge - wants to suck up these free electrons.
The result is a system brimming with electrons at the anode that want to move to the cathode. But this is where the electrolyte's second job comes on - it prevents the electrons taking the direct path, instead forcing them through the attached circuit – say the wiring to a light. It is this flow of electrons through the electric circuit that creates the electric current. In rechargeable batteries the reactions are reversible, with the ions and electrons flowing back in the opposite direction during charging.
This same sort of reaction is at the heart of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in almost every smartphone. These have an anode made of carbon (usually graphite) a metal oxide cathode and an electrolyte containing lithium salt. Lithium has become the metal of choice for these batteries because it is relatively easy to split ions from lithium metal, triggering the important reactions and boosting performance. The technology has been around since the 1970s but it was not until the introduction of the first commercial units by Sony in 1991 that they really took off, replacing its nickel cadmium predecessors. The market for lithium-ion power packs is now worth more than $12bn and is set to rise to nearly $54bn in 2020.
Their dominance is down to several reasons – they are lightweight; they tend to hold their charge better than other batteries and they do not suffer from so-called "memory effect", where batteries hold less and less charge if they are not drained and then recharged completely. Critically, they also have a high energy density - a measure of how much punch a battery packs.
Over the last 20 years, researchers and manufacturers have managed to continually squeeze more and more energy out of these packs, doubling their performance. This has been achieved by clever engineering, subtly tweaking the structures inside the battery to make them more efficient, or adding new materials to boost their performance. And the process carries on today, with materials such as silicon receiving a lot of interest as a possible replacement – and improvement - for the graphite anodes in lithium-ion batteries.
Silicon is attractive because it is cheap, abundant and well understood. But more importantly, by weight, it can store ten times more lithium ions than graphite, which means that it could theoretically allow a 10-fold increase in performance. However, to be useful, researchers must overcome a problem. While graphite anodes hold their shape when they soaks up lithium ions, silicon swells, causing silicon particles to become separated, rapidly reducing the performance of the battery.
To try to get around this, Dr Gao Liu, of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, is developing rubbery conductive binders that stick to the silicon particles within the anode, stretching and shrinking as the battery is charged and discharged. He worked with theoretical chemists to identify suitable materials for these restraints, finally settling on a conductive plastic. Initial results suggest his new anode could produce lithium-ion batteries with 25 to 30% greater capacity and longer life span than those on the market today.
"Our latest tests have shown our material works well and is really stable," says Dr Liu. "It keeps its conductivity, structure and capacity well even after more than 1,000 charging cycles." He is collaborating with commercial partners including the multinational 3M and says he is currently taking phone calls "almost every day" from consumer electronics companies.
But he will have to act quickly. US companies Amprius and Nanosys, are already developing lithium-ion batteries with anodes containing silicon nanowires to get around the swelling issue, whilst electronics giant Panasonic is due to launch lithium-ion laptop batteries with silicon alloy anodes, which it says boosts capacity by 30%. The firm has not announced a mobile phone battery but industry watchers suggest one may be in development.
But, despite the commercial interest, these advances will soon reach a bottleneck. At best, these incremental improvements will performance, researchers say.
"The lithium ion research field is 30 years old now and commercialisation is over 20 years old," says Prof Gerbrand Ceder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in US. "It's hard as a scientist to say something isn't possible but when you look at the candidates it doesn't look as if we're going to get dramatically better capacity which is why we are starting to see a lot of research on totally different chemistries and totally different technologies."
Short circuit
One example is lithium-air batteries, inspired by the zinc-air packs first used in hearing aids in the 1960s that get their power by reacting zinc with oxygen in the air. Professor Peter Bruce, of the University of St Andrews, Scotland, has been working on the idea since 2007, with anodes made of lightweight porous carbon. Oxygen from the air enters the porous carbon, reacts with the lithium ions in the electrolyte and electrons in the external circuit to form solid lithium oxide. Recharging causes the lithium compound to decompose, releasing the lithium ions and releasing the oxygen.
Calculations of the amount of energy involved in the chemical reactions involved suggest it could produce batteries that last three to five times as long as existing lithium-ion ones – hinting at a day when your smartphone could once again hold a working week's worth of charge. However, Prof Bruce says much work is still needed, particularly in identifying stable electrolytes that only allow useful electrochemical reactions without wasteful additional reactions.
Meanwhile other groups in the US, Europe and Asia have joined the race. "It's an exciting time, but there are still considerable challenges remaining," says Prof Bruce. "The science is promising but we can't yet guarantee it will end in a workable technology."
But it is not the only lithium-based battery looking to sneak into your next phone. Researchers are also investigating light weight lithium-sulfur packs, which are likely to have a life span of three times that of current lithium-ion batteries. These were first touted in the 1940s and use one electrode made from sulfur and another from lithium. They are already used in specialist communications and military applications but, despite high hopes and high-profile displays of the technology, they have never managed to hit the mainstream. In part, this is because they have had inherent problems such as losing their ability to recharge efficiently after a relatively short space of time and safety issues which mean the metal can melt and potentially catch fire if it comes into contact with water.
However, Sion Power, of Tucson, Arizona, says it has overcome these problems. It has a prototype with around 50% more energy capacity by weight than existing lithium-ion batteries, and says it plans to target markets including mobile phones and notebooks. In 2010 it was awarded a grant worth up to $5 million from the US government to develop safe, practical and economically viable rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries in three years.
The firm refuses to give specific details about the technology it uses but says it has dealt with the safety issues. These are known to be caused when branch-like growths grow on the lithium metal electrode, causing it to heat up and potentially short-circuit. Prototypes seen elsewhere suggest that they may have accomplished this by treating the electrodes to stop the growths and adding plastic or ceramic membranes to separate the electrodes and prevent short circuits. The company says it has also made progress with the recharging problem. It has prototypes that keep their capacity over 50 cycles but has claimed it is hopeful of reaching 1,000 cycles soon – the equivalent of today's lithium-ion batteries.
But some firms and researchers argue that despite intense research and millions of dollars of investment, both of these lithium based technologies are far from delivering on their promise. As a result, MIT's Professor Ceder is taking a more radical approach. He has used high-performance computers to create a public database of around 20,000 chemical compounds. A series of algorithms predict the properties of these materials, allowing researchers to quickly model how two compounds would react with each other in a battery.
"The kind of properties we're talking about are the kind of battery voltages possible with compounds, the mobility of ions and electrons in materials, chemical stability, safety, also indications about how the materials might be made," he says. The Materials Project, as it is known, has already been used to identify three new materials with the potential to be used in batteries. A lot more work needs to be done on these, he said, but his computational approach is already paying off in work on another technology known as magnesium-ion batteries.
These use a magnesium metal anode and could have two to three times the energy density of the best lithium-ion batteries. In addition, tests have shown they hold the majority of their charge over 3,000 charge cycles, many more than today's smartphone batteries. Magnesium is also cheap and abundant. However, the technology is still unproven. To be truly useful, researchers need to find a suitable cathode, something that has held back previous efforts. And this is where his computational approach comes in.
Prof Ceder and his colleagues have virtually screened more than 12,000 materials. Those that show potential are synthesized and tested. At least four materials are now being studied in detail. He claims that one cathode material has already demonstrated performance that would create batteries with greater energy density than today's lithium ion technology. He will not reveal more details, but it is enough to have attracted significant interest from investors and the US military. He has also established a start-up called Pellion Technologies to exploit the technology, initially for use in cars. However, if he is successful the technology could trickle down to mobile phones in years to come.
Apple juice
If and when it does, it may have to compete with another powerful contender for your future phone – the fuel cell. Like batteries, these convert chemical energy into electricity through a chemical reaction. However, these work more like tiny engines, converting the chemical energy from a fuel – an alcohol, say - into electricity through a chemical reaction with oxygen. And like an engine, they continue to run providing there is enough fuel and oxygen flowing through them.
They are an old technology dating back to the 19th Century and were successfully used to power elements of the early Gemini and Apollo space missions, for example. But they have now caught the attention of phone manufacturers because they have a high energy density. Simply put, fuels contain lots of energy. For example, hydrogen contains nearly 150 times the energy of an equivalent weight of lithium. However, to be workable they need to be small and have an easily rechargeable reservoir for fuel.
To build these, researchers are focusing on so-called MEMs technology - miniaturized mechanical devices and structures built using the patterning and etching techniques pioneered to build early computer chips. These are already used to make everything from solar cells to flat-screen TVs. Crucially, these techniques have advanced to the point where they can now be used to construct complex 3D structures – such as the networks of channels and pipes necessary for a tiny fuel cell.
The technology can be expensive, with precious metals such as platinum and palladium used to speed up chemical reactions, and hydrogen sources, even when compressed or in liquid form, taking up a lot of space. There are also the practicalities of having to moving and storing the fuel necessary to charge your phone on the go, not to mention the potential problems of handling potentially toxic fuels to make a phone call.
However, companies such as NEC and Toshiba have already shown off prototype fuel cells for mobiles. And in December 2011, news that Apple had filed two more patent applications for fuel cells for portable electronic devices reignited interest. The applications showed the company is proposing the use of reducing agent sodium borohydride, which when mixed with water generates pure hydrogen, and that they would be used alongside a battery to cut down on size, weight and cost. The documents suggest the technology could power devices for "days or even weeks".
But, according to St Andrew's Prof Bruce, we should not get too excited yet. "In the longer term there are these radical technologies which could transform energy storage for consumer electronics applications," he says. But, for the next few years, he believes, lithium-ion batteries are here to stay. Better remember to pack that charger.
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|portable (depends on GHC)
|Safe Haskell
Types and accessors to examine information in events.
- type EventM t a = ReaderT (Ptr t) IO a
- data EAny
- data EKey
- data EButton
- data EScroll
- data EMotion
- data EExpose
- data EVisibility
- data ECrossing
- data EFocus
- data EConfigure
- data EProperty
- data EProximity
- data EWindowState
- data EOwnerChange
- data EGrabBroken
- eventWindow :: EventM any DrawWindow
- eventSent :: EventM any Bool
- eventCoordinates :: HasCoordinates t => EventM t (Double, Double)
- eventRootCoordinates :: HasRootCoordinates t => EventM t (Double, Double)
- eventModifier :: HasModifier t => EventM t [Modifier]
- eventModifierAll :: HasModifier t => EventM t [Modifier]
- eventTime :: HasTime t => EventM t TimeStamp
- eventKeyVal :: EventM EKey KeyVal
- eventKeyName :: EventM EKey String
- eventHardwareKeycode :: EventM EKey KeyCode
- eventKeyboardGroup :: EventM EKey Word8
- data MouseButton
- = LeftButton
- | MiddleButton
- | RightButton
- | OtherButton Int
- eventButton :: EventM EButton MouseButton
- data Click
- eventClick :: EventM EButton Click
- data ScrollDirection
- = ScrollUp
- | ScrollDown
- | ScrollLeft
- | ScrollRight
- eventScrollDirection :: EventM EScroll ScrollDirection
- eventIsHint :: EventM EMotion Bool
- eventRequestMotions :: EventM EMotion ()
- eventArea :: EventM EExpose Rectangle
- eventRegion :: EventM EExpose Region
- data VisibilityState
- eventVisibilityState :: EventM EVisibility VisibilityState
- data CrossingMode
- eventCrossingMode :: EventM ECrossing CrossingMode
- data NotifyType
- eventNotifyType :: EventM ECrossing NotifyType
- eventCrossingFocus :: EventM ECrossing Bool
- eventFocusIn :: EventM EFocus Bool
- eventPosition :: EventM EConfigure (Int, Int)
- eventSize :: EventM EConfigure (Int, Int)
- eventProperty :: EventM EProperty Atom
- data WindowState
- eventWindowStateChanged :: EventM EWindowState [WindowState]
- eventWindowState :: EventM EWindowState [WindowState]
- data OwnerChange
- eventChangeReason :: EventM EOwnerChange OwnerChange
- eventSelection :: EventM EOwnerChange SelectionTag
- eventSelectionTime :: EventM EOwnerChange TimeStamp
- eventKeyboardGrab :: EventM EGrabBroken Bool
- eventImplicit :: EventM EGrabBroken Bool
- eventGrabWindow :: EventM EGrabBroken (Maybe DrawWindow)
- data Modifier
- type TimeStamp = Word32
- currentTime :: TimeStamp
- tryEvent :: EventM any () -> EventM any Bool
- stopEvent :: EventM any ()
This modules provides a monad that encapsulates the information in an event.
The events a widget can receive are defined in
Graphics.UI.Gtk.Abstract.Widget. Every event carries additional
information which is accessible through functions in the
EventM monad.
For instance, every event is associated with a
DrawWindow which is accessed using the
eventWindow accessor function. Other information is only available in
one specific event. For example, the
area that has to be redrawn, accessed by
eventArea is only available in
exposeEvent. Indeed, you can only
eventArea if the first type parameter of
EventM is the phantom
EExpose. (A phantom type is a type for which no values exist and
which is only used to enforce certain constraints on the usage of
functions such as
eventArea.) Some information is available in several
but not all events. In order to express these constraints the module
defines type classes whose names start with
Has... but which are not
exported, implying that no new instance can be created. (They could be
called phantom type classes.) For instance, the mouse pointer coordinates
can be retrieved using the function
eventCoordinates which requires
that the first type parameter of
EventM is in the class
HasCoordinates. The module supplies instance of class
for the types
EMotion and
EScroll. Thus for
all events that require an
EventM action with one of the types above,
the accessor function
eventCoordinates may be used.
Note that an event handler must always returns
True if the event
was handled or
False if the event should be dealt with by another
event handler. For instance, a handler for a key press should return
False if the pressed key is not one of those that the widget reacts
to. In this case the event is passed to the parent widgets. This
ensures that pressing, say,
Alt-F opens the file menu even if the
current input focus is in a text entry widget. In order to facilitate
writing handlers that may abort handling an event, this module provides
the function
tryEvent. This function catches pattern match exceptions
and returns
False. If the signal successfully runs to its end, it
True. A typical use is as follows:
widget `on` keyPressEvent $ tryEvent $ do [Control] <- eventModifier "Return" <- eventKeyName liftIO $ putStrLn "Ctrl-Return pressed"
The rationale is that the action will throw an exception if the
two event functions
eventModifier and
eventKeyName return something
else than what is stated in
the pattern. When no exception is thrown, execution continues to
the last statement where the event is processed, here we merely
print a message. Note that the return
value of this statement must be
() since
tryEvent always
assumes that the
function handeled the event if no exception is thrown. A handler
wrapped by
tryEvent can also indicate that it cannot handle the
given event by calling
Finally, not that the
EventM monad wraps the
IO monad. As such
you can (and usually have to) use
liftIO to execute
IO functions.
Event monad and type tags
data EVisibility Source
A tag for Visibility events.
data EConfigure Source
A tag for Configure events.
data EProximity Source
A tag for Proximity events.
data EWindowState Source
A tag for WindowState event.
data EOwnerChange Source
A tag for OwnerChange events.
data EGrabBroken Source
A tag for GrabBroken events.
Accessor functions for event information
eventWindow :: EventM any DrawWindowSource
Retrieve the
DrawWindow that this
event relates to.
eventSent :: EventM any BoolSource
Query if this event was sent sent explicitly by the application (rather than being generated by human interaction).
eventCoordinates :: HasCoordinates t => EventM t (Double, Double)Source
Retrieve the
(x,y) coordinates of the mouse.
eventRootCoordinates :: HasRootCoordinates t => EventM t (Double, Double)Source
Retrieve the
(x,y) coordinates of the mouse relative to the
root (origin) of the screen.
eventModifier :: HasModifier t => EventM t [Modifier]Source
Query the modifier keys that were depressed when the event happened.
Sticky modifiers such as CapsLock are omitted in the return value.
eventModifierAll your application requires all modifiers.
eventModifierAll :: HasModifier t => EventM t [Modifier]Source
Query the modifier keys that were depressed when the event happened.
The result includes sticky modifiers such as CapsLock. Normally,
eventModifier is more appropriate in applications.
eventHardwareKeycode :: EventM EKey KeyCodeSource
The hardware key code.
eventKeyboardGroup :: EventM EKey Word8Source
The keyboard group.
data MouseButton Source
eventButton :: EventM EButton MouseButtonSource
Query the mouse buttons.
Type of mouse click
data ScrollDirection Source
in which direction was scrolled?
eventScrollDirection :: EventM EScroll ScrollDirectionSource
Query the direction of scrolling.
eventIsHint :: EventM EMotion BoolSource
Check if the motion event is only a hint rather than the full mouse movement information.
eventRequestMotions :: EventM EMotion ()Source
Request more motion notifies if this event is a motion notify hint event.
This action should be used instead of
drawWindowGetPointer to request
further motion notifies, because it also works for extension events where
motion notifies are provided for devices other than the core pointer.
Coordinate extraction, processing and requesting more motion events from a
motionNotifyEvent usually works like this:
on widget motionNotifyEvent $ do (x, y) <- eventCoordinates -- handle the x,y motion: ... -- finally, notify that we are ready to get more motion events: eventRequestMotions
eventArea :: EventM EExpose RectangleSource
Query a bounding box of the region that needs to be updated.
eventRegion :: EventM EExpose RegionSource
Query the region that needs to be updated. Removed in Gtk3.
data VisibilityState Source
eventVisibilityState :: EventM EVisibility VisibilityStateSource
Get the visibility status of a window.
data CrossingMode Source
How focus is crossing the widget.
eventCrossingMode :: EventM ECrossing CrossingModeSource
Get the mode of the mouse cursor crossing a window.
data NotifyType Source
Information on from what level of the widget hierarchy the mouse cursor came.
- The window is entered from an ancestor or left towards an ancestor.
- The pointer moves between an ancestor and an inferior of the window.
- The window is entered from an inferior or left towards an inferior.
- The window is entered from or left towards a window which is neither an ancestor nor an inferior.
- The pointer moves between two windows which are not ancestors of each other and the window is part of the ancestor chain between one of these windows and their least common ancestor.
- The level change does not fit into any of the other categories or could not be determined.
eventNotifyType :: EventM ECrossing NotifyTypeSource
Get the notify type of the mouse cursor crossing a window.
eventCrossingFocus :: EventM ECrossing BoolSource
Query if the window has the focus or is an inferior window.
eventFocusIn :: EventM EFocus BoolSource
Query if a window gained focus (
True) or lost the focus (
eventPosition :: EventM EConfigure (Int, Int)Source
Get the
(x,y) position of the window within the parent window.
data WindowState Source
The state a
DrawWindow is in.
|Bounded WindowState
|Enum WindowState
These are hints for the window manager that indicate what type of function the window has. The window manager can use this when determining decoration and behaviour of the window. The hint must be set before mapping the window.
See the extended window manager hints specification for more details about window types.
|Eq WindowState
|Show WindowState
|Flags WindowState
eventWindowStateChanged :: EventM EWindowState [WindowState]Source
Query which window state bits have changed.
eventWindowState :: EventM EWindowState [WindowState]Source
Query the new window state.
data OwnerChange Source
eventChangeReason :: EventM EOwnerChange OwnerChangeSource
Query why a seleciton changed its owner.
eventSelection :: EventM EOwnerChange SelectionTagSource
Query what selection changed its owner.
eventSelectionTime :: EventM EOwnerChange TimeStampSource
Query the time when the selection was taken over.
eventKeyboardGrab :: EventM EGrabBroken BoolSource
Check if a keyboard (
True) or a mouse pointer grap (
False) was
eventImplicit :: EventM EGrabBroken BoolSource
Check if a grab was broken implicitly.
eventGrabWindow :: EventM EGrabBroken (Maybe DrawWindow)Source
Get the new window that owns the grab or
Nothing if the window
is not part of this application.
Auxilliary Definitions
Keyboard modifiers that are depressed when the user presses a key or a mouse button.
- This data type is used to build lists of modifers that were active during an event.
- The Apple key on Macintoshs is mapped to
Alt2and the
Metakey (if available).
- Since Gtk 2.10, there are also
Metamodifiers which are simply generated from
Composemodifier keys, depending on the mapping used by the windowing system. Due to one key being mapped to e.g.
Meta, you shouldn't pattern match directly against a certain key but check whether a key is in the list using the
elemfunction, say.
The time (in milliseconds) when an event happened. This is used mostly for ordering events and responses to events.
currentTime :: TimeStampSource
Represents the current time, and can be used anywhere a time is expected.
tryEvent :: EventM any () -> EventM any BoolSource
Execute an event handler and assume it handled the event unless it threw a pattern match exception or calls mzero (e.g. via guard).


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Reaction continues to pour in on yesterday's spelling bee post (OK, we got one note, which was attached to a rock and thrown through our window). Toward the end of the post we noted that there are actually people who protest in front of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.; folks who want to simplify the more
complctd complicattd conplicated difficult word spellings in the English language. But there was one thing we missed. To wit:
I don't think you noticed that the person organizing the whole Simplified Spelling Society picket, Elizabeth Kuizenga, is Rebecca Romijn's *mother*. I heard Rebecca mention this during a Daily Show interview a while back, so it is for real.
And indeed, the mother of our favorite shape-shifting mutant from the X-Men is a member of the SSS and protests the Bee every year. Here is the group's Web site, and to prove they're serious, they even have a constitution, which we scrutinized carefully, noting that every single word has the common spelling. What's up with that? Among points in the Simplified Spelling Society Constitution are:
• A member may be expelled from the Society for reasons other than that of non-payment of subscription by a majority vote of those present and voting at a General Meeting, providing always that due notification of the resolution to expel has been given in the agenda of the meeting.
What could possibly get you thrown out of the Simplified Spelling Society? We prefer to think that the only way out is the route taken by Eugene Pontecorvo in The Sopranos.
• The Society may elect up to five Vice-Presidents. These appointments will be honorary and for life, and will be made to recognise special services to the cause of spelling reform.
Yes, they get to serve for life. But the confirmation hearings are a bitch.
Said Romijn in the article in The Hollywood Reporter: "They do this for fun, but it's also their quest. They're trying to update the spelling of the English language to make it easier for other people who are trying to learn how to spell or learn English. And also so kids don't have to learn all the stupid rules they have for spelling and all the exceptions to all the rules."
We probably shouldn't have to point out that Romijn was raised in, and her mother is from, Berkeley, Calif.
When Words Collide [Deadspin]
Simplified Spelling Society