text:
TRIPOLI, Libya — Following a series of NATO airstrikes, rebel forces retook the western mountain town of Yafran on Monday, breaking a month-long siege by forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, news agencies reported.
The western mountain region is the home territory for Libya's minority Berbers, who have chafed under the rule of Colonel Qaddafi and rose up against his forces when the uprising began. In recent months, loyalist forces have besieged several cities in the region, including the largest, Zintan, which rebel forces said was coming under attack on Monday, Reuters said.
NATO planes and attack helicopters battered targets around Tripoli early Monday and the oil port of Brega on Sunday, in an intensifying effort to break a stalemate in a conflict that is already in its fourth month, and in the third month of NATO airstrikes.
In Brussels, the secretary general of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on Monday that he intended to use the occasion of a ministerial meeting on Wednesday to ask more member countries to contribute to the offensive against the Qaddafi regime, The Associated Press reported.
"Obviously, some of those allies and partners carrying the heavy burden start to ask whether it would be possible to broaden the participation a bit," Mr. Rasmussen said at a news briefing. "That is a point I will focus on at the defense ministers' meeting."
But Britain's foreign secretary, William Hague, returning Sunday from a brief visit to the rebel headquarters in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, hinted at concern in Western capitals about what might come after the toppling of Colonel Qaddafi. Mr. Hague said he had pressed the rebel leaders to make early progress on a more detailed plan for a post-Qaddafi government that would include sharing power with some of Colonel Qaddafi's loyalists.
In particular, Mr. Hague said, the rebels should learn from Iraq's experience, in which a mass purge of former Saddam Hussein loyalists occurred under the American-backed program of "de-Baathification," and shun any similar undertaking. The reference was to a policy that many analysts believe helped to propel years of insurgency in Iraq by stripping tens of thousands of officials of jobs.
Busy schedule? Click here to keep up with Truthout with free email updates.
According to news agency reports, crowds in Benghazi's streets greeted Mr. Hague and Britain's overseas aid minister, Andrew Mitchell, with shouts of "Libya free!" and "Qaddafi, go away!" as they met with leaders of the rebels' Transitional National Council, headed by Mustafa Abdul Jalil, who was justice minister in Colonel Qaddafi's government until the rebellion began in February. In London, Mr. Hague described the rebel leaders as "genuine believers in democracy and the rule of law," but said that they should make more detailed post-Qaddafi plans.
He said Britain was encouraging them "to put more flesh on their proposed transition — to lay out in more detail this coming week what would happen on the day that Qaddafi went, who would be running what, how would a new government be formed in Tripoli?" Pressing the point about Qaddafi loyalists, he said the Benghazi leaders were "learning" from Iraq. "No de-Baathification!" he said, before adding, "They now need to publicize that more effectively, to be able to convince members of the current regime that that is something that would work."
Mr. Hague's remarks, and others by the American defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, in Afghanistan on Sunday, pointed to complementary concerns among Western governments backing the Libyan rebellion, especially the United States, Britain and France. Those countries are providing the bulk of the aircraft and missiles for the NATO airstrikes, now at an average of nearly 50 a day.
One concern is that the campaign could drag on, exhausting fragile levels of political and popular support, including among restive lawmakers in Washington, London and Paris. The other derives from a possible contradictory outcome, in which the conflict ends abruptly, perhaps with the collapse of Colonel Qaddafi's forces around Tripoli or his death.
That, some Western officials say, could expose the anti-Qaddafi forces as deeply riven by personal and political rivalries, unready for government and perhaps vulnerable to a fractious scramble for Colonel Qaddafi's inheritance.
That would make the Western powers' support for the rebels much riskier — with no way of knowing whether a future government would be any more democratic, respectful of human rights and amenable to a pro-Western policy than the quixotic Colonel Qaddafi, who has run Libya for 42 years.
Dealing with the first of these possible outcomes, Mr. Hague said in a BBC interview that it was impossible to foresee how long the anti-Qaddafi campaign might take. "We're not going to set a deadline," he said, adding that it "could be days or weeks or months."
A similar point was made in Afghanistan on Sunday by Mr. Gates, who told reporters that while it was "only a matter of time" before Colonel Qaddafi was deposed, "I don't think anyone knows how long."
Mr. Gates also said there were increasing signs that Colonel Qaddafi's grip on power was faltering, a view encouraged by a hastening roll call of high-level defectors, the weakening of the Qaddafi forces by the airstrikes, food and fuel shortages in Qaddafi-held cities, and scattered signs that Qaddafi opponents were becoming increasingly restive in some districts of Tripoli.
"I think you see signs that the regime is getting shakier by the day," Mr. Gates said. "It's just a question when everybody around Qaddafi decides it's time to throw in the towel and throw him under the bus."


text:
by Dawne
February is Black History Month and the Genealogy Center can be your "gateway" to many resources for African American genealogy research.
In conjunction with the International Black Genealogy Summit held here in October 2009, the Genealogy Center unveiled the African American Gateway, a collection of thousands of Internet links for African American research grouped by state, coupled with bibliographical notes for books and films in the Center's collection.
Specific to the Hoosier state is Indiana's African American Settlements, a database of more than 7,000 names of individuals who lived in the communities settled by free and formerly enslaved African Americans who moved north into Indiana in large numbers from the 1830s to the 1870s. Digital photos and record images are linked to some of these individuals.
Those with Allen County, Indiana, roots will want to check the African-American Resources available in the Ethnic Resources category on the Genealogy Center's website. Included are extracts from birth, marriage and death records, the federal census, city directories and World War I draft registration cards.
All of these resources are updated regularly, so check back often for new material!
Several of the large subscription databases include African American research collections. For most of these, researchers must be in the Genealogy Center or at one of the Allen County Public Library's branch locations to gain access. However, Footnote.com's Black History area boasts "more than a million photographs and documents found nowhere else on the Internet," and currently allows free access.
Resources that onsite visitors to the Genealogy Collection can access and some of their features include:
- Ancestry.com's Celebrating African American Family History – family trees, slave narratives, information about U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War, photographs, and the option of searching federal census schedules by limiting the race category to people of color.
- ProQuest's African American Heritage – World War I and II draft registration cards, Freedman's Bank records, the AfriGeneasTM Community social networking site, and the Black Genesis state-by-state resource guide.
- Heritage Quest Online – Another resource for Freedman's Bank records.
Log on to the website or visit us onsite to celebrate Black History Month with the Genealogy Center!

subset: commoncrawl


text:
If you've been going to the hair salon for years, then chances are you've listened to what your hair stylist says. But what if you've been cutting and styling your hair the wrong way for years? What if you should be getting a totally different look? Well, we've made a quiz that takes what you tell us about yourself and analyzes those answers to recommend the perfect cut you SHOULD be getting. We aren't saying you're trusted hairstylist is entirely wrong about what they've been recommending, but we are confident that we've got a second opinion you can trust. If you want to find out what your new cut should be, keep reading.
As we said, we want you to tell us about yourself, but mainly about your personality. We'll then be able to tell you whether you deserve a bob, some beautiful, bouncy beach waves, something edgier and a bit asymmetrical or something super short that'll show us your beautiful face. If you're ready to find out what your special cut is, go ahead and start this quiz. And don't forget about us when you end up looking totally gorgeous with your new hairstyle.


text:
ASP to PHP, with MT to Boot!December 02, 2003
Step right up, step this way. Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you the amazing journey from one server-side technology to another. You'll be amazed, you'll be awed, you'll laugh, you'll cry. You'll… okay, so my writing style needs to calm down a touch.
I've been working on this on and off for months now, and I meant to have it up far earlier than this. Some of the final details are fuzzy at this point, but the bulk of it is on target.
This is the process I went through when upgrading my Movable-Type powered site from IIS (and ASP) to Apache (and PHP), from start to finish. For the benefit of Google, and you the reader, I'll try to spare no detail. Much the same as I ended up blessing the kind souls who have written up their own experiences, one day I hope someone will find the exact answer they need somewhere in this.
Why I Switched
I originally set up mezzoblue on an IIS host because ASP is what I knew. I am not a programmer, but the odd time I needed to fool around with code it had to be something that I could easily use.
When I created BlueSpark (a free, light-weight ASP-based content management system: think server-side Notepad) I realized even my knowledge of that was only rudimentary at best. So reasons to stay on IIS quickly eroded, and I found myself wanting to get into PHP about two or three months ago. Why PHP over ASP? Momentum, baby. All the cool toys are written in PHP, and more importantly, a large chunk of them are open.
I'm no anti-Microsoft zealot, but I see huge advantages to working with open source software. Now that I'm actually on an Apache server I can say that custom .htaccess files are a hugely important thing to have, and IIS's handling of the same is positively archaic in comparison. I'm sure there will be plenty of other little gems I'll discover as I play more.
How I Learned
So cut to about a month ago. In my copious, vast amounts of spare time I started thumbing through a Peachpit press book by Larry Ullman: "PHP and MySQL For Dynamic Web Sites." If you're familiar with C/C++/Javascript syntax, you'll easily breeze through the first 50 or 60 pages. In fact, I skipped to Appendix A which covers installation, and with a little help from the manuals I managed to get Apache, PHP, and MySQL up and running on my spare Windows laptop one evening.
By the time I was a hundred pages into the book, I'd already started working on converting mezzoblue. There aren't many scripts, and a lot of the work involved rebuilding my main three server-side includes. I hadn't really dealt much with the content pages within, I had only laid the foundation.
What to Do When Things Go South, or: Motivation
And it was about this point my IIS server began acting up. Reliability decreased over a good week, and then one day things just stopped working about 80% of the time. It was down, then up, then down again. My host's site suffered the same problems, so I couldn't even file a claim to see what was going on. Needless to say, when I finally got an answer it was less than satisfactory.
So I started investigating hosts. I need generous bandwidth and storage space, but I don't use a lot of server processor time. Unfortunately, the amount of bandwidth I use gets lumped into higher-end accounts. But Matt Mullenweg made me an offer I literally couldn't refuse, so I jumped.
Static Conversion
But that's only the beginning, of course. I had a host. Now to port Movable Type, and rebuild my site on Apache. Well, let's just say this wasn't as easy as I had hoped it would be, but it didn't turn into the disaster I had feared it might.
I had backed up all my files from my IIS server earlier in the week, and I was irritable enough with the downtime that I decided to jump in head first and initiate the domain transfer. I put up my pre-built PHP page with an apology message for the next day or two of downtime, and went to work. I started with the static content, that was easy enough. I plugged in my new iBook and grabbed a copy of BBEdit Lite, and started re-linking.
The nice thing about server-side includes, of course, is that all your standard site-wide bits like headers and footers and sidebars and the like can be stored externally in their own individual files. The upshot in this case is that a lot of my static content looked like so:
inlude files, content, include files
Not a lick of content had to be changed, all I had to do was re-link the new include files, which, if you've been paying attention, I had already built last month. Copy, paste, upload, test. Copy, paste, upload, test. That was a fun evening, at least in comparison to what happened next.
Movable Type, or, How to Make a Bad Thing Worse
Now here's where I hit the big snag. Equal parts assumption and hope had led me to try uploading the entire Movable Type install to my new server. After all, MT is Perl-based and should work without a hitch. I made sure server-detection in my FTP program was automatic (since it's very important you're not uploading .cgi files as binaries), dropped the works onto the server, re-linked Perl and the appropriate user directories, set my permissions, and loaded the MT interface.
Well, not nothing, but not a lot more: Error 500, internal server error. Not helpful. I double-checked my paths and my permissions, then tried again. Still nothing. In a fit of desparation I dropped one of the .db files into a text editor and noticed that there were paths in those consistent with my old IIS install — not a comforting thing at this point.
Remember how about I stated I'm no programmer? I was stuck at this point. Luckily, I have what we commonly refer to as 'problem-solving skills' so I came up with a few more plans. You may laugh, you may cringe, but at this point they seemed worth a shot.
Next up on the list: re-installing MT, then dropping the old data directory,
db, on top of the new install in hopes that the interface would just recognize the old data and think everything was okay. But I couldn't login to Movable Type after doing it. I reverted back to the freshly installed
db directory, and was able to login fine. I tried selectively dumping a couple of the larger .db files into the new directory, but had no luck doing that either.
DNS Trickery
So I still had the archives, but no way of getting at them. Hmm. I was smart enough not to cancel my prior hosting account, so I grit my teeth and moved my DNS back to the old server.
A day or two of waiting for propogation, then I was able to log in to my old MT interface, manually export my entries and comments thanks to Six Apart's clear thinking about not locking users in, save my customized templates, then switch DNS back to the new server.
At this point the cards started stacking back in my favour again. My new server gives me a static IP, so I was able to point my copies of Firebird and Safari toward it without waiting for the propogation. I set to work getting the old entries imported into my fresh install, and added my templates through the interface.
Which is not to say this process wasn't without its share of trouble — even though I temporarily pointed Movable Type toward the IP instead of the domain, I wasn't able to access everything. When saving entries or comments, for example, the refresh would go to a non-existent page on mezzoblue.com. This was only a minor inconvenience though, since the data was saved regardless. While waiting for the rest of the world to catch up, I was hard at work plugging the holes and making sure things would be up and running by the time the DNS change went through.
At this point I made a valiant attempt to switch from Movable Type's default Berkely DB system to MySQL, since that was the other half of the equation. However, since I needed a quick fix, my inexperience with the latter got in the way and I eventually conceded that to a later date. Bigger fish to fry, after all.
So while I showed some foresight, the process was hardly as smooth as it could have been. For a few days, I wasn't able to do much in the way of posting new content, and a static page greeted visitors to the site. Effectively, I was knocked offline as I waited for the jump to and from and then to my new host, although during that time most were still able to access one server or another.
I've been on Apache for two months now, and I couldn't see myself going back. I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the things I can do, but it's comforting to know that if I need to, they're there. At least I'm in the happy spot of being able to blame shortcomings on lack of brainpower, rather than lack of horsepower. That, in my books, is the easiest of the two to fix.
Reader Comments
Wow, now *that's* determination! Thanks for the links to the books you used, I've made note of them. I've only recently started delving into PHP and really enjoy all the tricks that can be pulled off with it.
As for MT, it is, by far, one of the best cms' out there. I've set up quite a few people with MT, not only for their weblogs but for their static websites as well. The template modules alone are a godsend, especially for sites that have multiple designs ("skins"). With MT includes you can just edit a module and rebuild to facilitate a site-wide change, rather than going into each design's index file and rebuilding and rebuilding! :)
Enough of my blabbering, I feel your pain regarding that MT install & MySQL. About two months after switching to MT, I nosed up my db and had to start all over, no backups, nothing. You're lucky you had backups of everything! In either case, obviously you did a great job. And will know what NOT to do should you EVER have to do anything like that again!! ;)
Hmmm. Such a different experience than my own. Must be why I feel entirely guilty that I just read though your experience with some amusement. I don't know why things happened to swing the right direction for me, or how I found the right spot in my O'Reilly books each time.
Aside from a few parsing error glitches in home grown PHP functions early on, the most difficult part of my switch was getting MT installed to run under cgiwrap (more secure, and creates files under my username, rather than user "nobody").
For a designer fumbling their way through scripting and programming, there's somthing about all the documentation, modules, and add-ons for Apache/PHP/MySQL that hits home more than the closed-loop MSDN stuff.
Thanks for writing up your process. It certainly puts mine into perspective.
I've missed the joy of an MicroSoft -> Apache transfer, although I have evolved from mostly perl to all PHP development, and have experienced none of the problems above installing MT (maybe lucky, but also I have my own servers at the day job).
Since you mentioned using an iBook, there is an other plus- under OSX you can run Apache, PHP, mySQL all locally on the desktop (as well as phpMyAdmin to do database chores)- I can develop and test anything on my laptop I run on the main server before deploying it, and can even do it w/o a network connection.
Key resources have been the PHP and mySQL install packages from Marc Linyage:
I feel your pain. I'd like to move away from ASP as well. Why not an all PHP solution (rather than perl with MT) such as Word Press (http://wordpress.org/ ).
… or why not hosted MT, TypePad.com, http://www.typepad.com.
I like MT. It's nice and customizable, I've got a few server-side plugins running, and my templates/modules are getting more and more complex. It's a veritable Swiss army knife of weblogging goodness.
Hosted software like Typepad is good for the masses, but people like me need the advanced stuff having your own server affords. I rely on .htaccess and custom static pages, and I even do some simple PHP scripting here and there.
I may be going through something similar here at work shortly. Currently our site is hosted across two different servers (the main one being Apache-powered, but without the useful benefits like PHP or custom cgi scripts, and the other an ASP server that seems to become more broken every time I try to use the scripts developed by my predecessor). I'd *love* to move our site to a single Apache server with PHP and cgi so I could manage parts of it with MT, but some of the ASP scripts we currently have running might be a pain to replace in PHP … on the other hand, they'll probably be just as much a pain to maintain in ASP at the rate they seem to be breaking (particularly with my stunning lack of ASP knowledge).
Next time you change servers (assuming there is a next time), make sure to back up your MT databases ahead of time. (I usually just run an export for each blog and save those as text files.) It really makes moving fairly easy … that way you can also just set up MT from the beginning to work with MySQL and then import your entries right into it. Also make sure you save your templates (remembering your settings and categories is also useful). I've moved hosts (as well as started afresh) several times so most of the process is second nature by now.
Brilliant move, Dave. Long ago I was convinced to switch over to PHP/MySQL because that's what all cool kids do (I'm only half-joking here). I've changed server hosts several times over the years and, while far from being an experience without its hitches, I must confess I've learned quite a bit from such moves. I can't call myself a programmer either, but there's something in PHP code that has a sort of good vibe feel to it, as opposed to ASP code which looks and feels ugly.
My workplace, however, is Microsoft-land and still relies heavily in IIS, ASP and other inventions from Uncle Bill. It is tough to convince the upper echelons of the existance of better -and cheaper- alternatives when you are not in the decision maker role.
The irony of Matt Mullenweg hosting you with an MT install isn't lost on me. ;)
Anyone who can move away from ASP 3.0 to almost anything else is doing themselves a favor. Moving over to PHP is even better because it is almost guaranteed to be around for a long time. Glad to see you stuck through the difficult transition.
Check out these hosting plans (unlimited traffic at an unbelievable price). All the plans support ASP.NET and PHP
It's so refreshing to see some people who are not bashing PHP. :) A lot of people around the 'net keep looking at its shortcomings, but it's a really great tool. Hope you have fun with it.
Just for the record (and google) there is the program asp2php http://asp2php.naken.cc/ that might help in the convertion. I'm a happy U*IX only person and the only convertion from asp I have done was to static html with wget, html-tidy and vi :-) so how well it works I can't tell.
And for a bonus bug report: When trying to post without a email address filled in, you get to page without stylesheets.
I tried using the asp2php program before when converting a rather large custom CMS from ASP to PHP and found it to be close to useless. What I found the best way to be is to just move the database over and then rewrite the functionality in PHP, using the ASP as a logic guide when needed. It took longer but it also gave me a chance to clean up a lot of (probably machine-generated) mess in the ASP code and redo the program in a more robust manner. In hindsight I'm glad the converter didn't work. :)
And Dave, always glad to help.
If you're in a situation where you have a web server fully operational and set up for a certain domain, but the DNS actually pointing to a different server, you can browse your old stuff without actually moving the DNS back and forth by editing the file c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on the workstation you are using for web browsing.
If your IIS server would have been on IP 192.168.0.1 and your Apache on IP 10.0.0.1, you could have had two lines in that file:
192.168.0.1 www.mezzoblue.com
#10.0.0.1 www.mezzoblue.com
Comment out with a # the line you don't want to use. When you're done, comment out both lines.
I still have to go throught the pain, to a certain extent. Now that I have Apache and PHP working, I can begin to convert Accessify to PHP. It's already coming along - and like you, it's mainly include files (there is still some prgrammatic stuff happening, like the auto breadcrumb trail and, shamed as I am to admit, there's some browser sniffing … please don't shoot me, it's for the right reasons!).
My difficulty will be when I get to converting the tools and wizards section from ASP to PHP - that'll be a real head-scratcher!
Anyway, I'm taking Ullman's MySQL Visual Quickstart with me on my travels, so the database driven side of things can also be converted at some point. Of course, given that I will be taking a year out on the road, it's questionable when I'll be in a position to upload a freshly PHP'd version of the site!
Congratulations on that.
I started with PHP/MySQL in 2000 and that's the best thing for the online interactive websites at the moment.
I have developed Absolut Engine - news publishing system that can be found at http://www.absolutengine.com
It's also very light system in comparison with other CMS that offer 'complex' solutions - but who need it complex?
PHP and MySQL are great. You certainly can't beat the cost! But I'd hardly start bashing ASP. I've been using it and MS SQL Server for years and have found it to be just as fast and stable as any other platform. Of course, YMMV. :)
Jonathan, thanks for speaking up. While I think it's great that one can make a switch from ASP to PHP that's not to say that ASP isn't useful/reliable. As one who would consider himself a programmer with a design degree, I've enjoyed developing in ASP for many years. It's like the MAC vs PC battle - % vs $.
Nice work - I actually went the other way and created an asp version of my site recently as I needed to do something in ASP to demonstrate a few bits and pieces.
All I can say is, after working with PHP for so long it was kind of painful (needless to say, I've stuck with the PHP version ;))
I've been working on a PHP Website Framework to handle the split of logic and markup, as well as splitting databasing etc off into their own little worlds - I realize there is a lot out there, but all the stuff I've seen is overcomplicated and/or more along the lines of a "CMS"..
The method I'm using utilizes php as the templating language, since PHP does such a wonderfull job of that ( why the *@#% people create things like smarty to re-implement what php already does only with limitations, is beyond me…. this comes from after implementing a rather large scale project in smarty, only to have to rip smarty out later after re-evaluation) - but still provides the neccesary split of using "templates" to remove html from the .php files… as well as allowing you to create a layout template/wrapper, to avoid the ugly trap of include("header.php") / include("footer.php"); that people tend to get locked into when getting into PHP (or any server side language)
What this really accomplishes in plain speak, is that it really allows you to focus on three *seperate* things while designing a webpage. One being the backend code, which does it's little thing, gets you your data etc - The second being the markup - not the design, but writing the actual markup of the page. Last of all, the design/css. I've found through this that keeping these three things seperate makes worlds of diffrence, not only in ease of development, but it makes it more enjoyable too, as things don't get all cluttered and hard to locate.
Sooner (hopefully rather than later), there will be downloadable versions of this for people to play with - I have to get some feedback from a few friends first tough :)
In the PHP "vs" ASP front, I have to say I'm impressed with what i've seen of .net - however, call it loyalty, familiarity, or simply a bad taste in my mouth from previous versions of windows/asp, I'll be sticking with PHP, and waiting eagerly for PHP5 :D
Anyone interested in reading more about php templating, a guy named 'saberworks' wrote a good article on it here: http://www.liquidpulse.net/articles/332
Jerrett, I've found this article (http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1218) at Sitepoint very influential when evaluating template systems.


text:
On Tuesday November 19th, 2013 the Macomb Police Department along with the Mayor of Macomb, Michael Inman and WIU President Dr. Jack Thomas honored three Western Illinois Student for their acts of bravery in September. On September 7th, 2013 students Matthew Demetral, Owen Hill and Ryan Brushaber were fishing at Spring Lake. A local citizen stopped and checked on fishing conditions before driving on. The driver of the vehicle suffered a medical event and crashed his vehicle into Spring Lake. Demetral, Hill and Brushaber rushed to the scene, jumped into the water and pulled the driver from the vehicle. Along with another subject, Scott Davis of Milton, Wisconsin they ensured that no one else was in the vehicle. The driver was removed from the water and rescue efforts were initiated. The driver succumed to conditions not related to the crash.
Demetral, Hill and Brushaber demonstrated great courage by taking quick action. They also demonstrated great concern for members of the community in their willingness to assist the citizens of this community. Their selflessness and personal courage demonstrates great character and for these reasons they were honored by being presented a Citizens Award of Appreciation. Pictured below are Brushaber, Hill and Demetral along with WIU President Dr. Jack Thomas, Macomb Mayor Michael Inman and Deputy Chief of Police Eric Lenardt.


text:
Are You a Keeper or a Trader?
Are You a Keeper or a Trader?
I'm hoping, with software updates and the eventually battery replacement option to keep mine for a long, long time...hopefully its the car I give my 8 year old when she gets her license!
Keep. We keep our cars for about 10 years. The Model S will be replacing our 2003 Nissan Murano.
With the personal relationship that develops with the MS, it would be like trading a kid away. I can't see parting ways with it...oh yeah, and I don't even have it yet, I take delivery in 2 weeks.
I've never made it through a 3 year lease, but I expect to keep it for about 6-8 years.
Kept my last car 15 years. Will likely keep this one for 8-10 years. You can get a much nicer car amortizing over 10 years. Seems obvious, but if the choice is between a new $30K car every 3 years and a new $90K car every 9 years, I'm taking the latter.
I am with you. Hope it lasts the rest of my life.
Few things are built to last, in the modern world of commerce, but I have a feeling that the Model S will last.
I don't see the need for a new style, and this car seems to have pretty much all I need. I am thinking that I will have to replace the battery after 8 or 10 years, but hoping there will be continuation as well as development and improvement, so that the new battery can be installed on the S and away we go another for 10 years!
I see no reason why it should not out-last any other ICE car: seems to me that the maintenance cost of the Model S is likely to remain consistently low, even with high mileage on the odometer.
And with periodic upgrades via electronic download, it will probably only get more useful and cost effective over time.
When you think of the things that wear out most in an ICE car: transmission, belts and pumps, etc; many of these parts don't even exist on a Model S.
Seems to me that the cost to own a Tesla Model S will only get lower year after year, until the Model S will be the most cost effective car on the road!
I am betting on that.
But then ... I like to take care of things and make them last.
Keeper. I've kept all my other car approx 10 years, and they were average cars. I just hope a battery pack cost less in 10 years.
I plan to keep it for a long time. I still can't believe I am paying this much for a new car, so it will probably be a good 10 years before I can justify buying another one. I'm about to e-sign my final purchase agreement and might need a drink afterwards ;-]
I know I will be grinning in 2 or 3 weeks when my S finally gets here and all will be good again.
keeper, till the wheels fall off
I want the 500 mile battery (actual 350-460 miles) so I will be trading this baby in when battery tech improves. Tesla says you will not be able to upgrade to a larger battery in the future. If they change that I might just upgrade the battery.
Keep. Ice went 220000 and 14 years. Gave it to my kid. Plan on keeping this for 10 to 15. Perhaps last car. Not a bad way to go.
I will trade as soon as there is an AWD version of the model S.
Or maybe if I like the X better I will trade for an X. I don't see much point in making this my final car. But then my ex wife used to ask me "will you ever grow up?" In which there is only one true answer - hopefully no. And what do we boys like the most? New toys. And if it moves faster, drive better or looks better who can really say no?
I keep my cars as long as it is possible. I bond with my cars. I have a hard time finding cars that I really enjoy so I don't tend to stray. I try to buy timeless styles that are built to last.
Besides, I hate car payments!
OT warning. In the event you outlast some of your bananas, here's a neat vegan trick I read and tried (several times). Let them go fully black, and freeze. Run warm water over them to loosen the skin, then chop and blenderize. Instant ice cream; chocolate or any other flavoring if desired works good.
@"Brian H"
What have you done with the *real* Brian H?
Surely you mean it works well.. ;)
Trader - which is odd, because I keep everything else: my previous daily driver with 420,000 miles, a 62 year old car in my family since new, another one I bought new 21 years ago, two boats both close to 100 years old each,, same bride as I started with...I think that my MS is, in addition to simply having a great car, a way to access that which is fascinating, top notch, and out front. I've never been the guy needing the latest and greatest, but, I found myself a tad frustrated that I had just missed out on the Performance Plus package.
I suspect that there will be enough improvements in three years, above and beyond software updates, that I'll be hungry for a 2016 Model S. It'll also be fun to study and learn about the car all over again. I'll take good care of my current P85 for the next owner, maybe my kids....
Deliberate use of casual colloquialism. Seems to convey the taste better.
I had my first car 10 years and my second one 12.5 years. I hope to keep the Model S even longer. I don't believe it throwing away/selling things. I still have my iPhone 3GS (I know, crazy!), which I only bought because I'd damaged my old PalmOS phone a little too much. (shrug) ;-) I keep hoping the iPhone dies so I can get a new one, but I won't (purposely) hurry the process, and same with the car.
I kept my previous car for almost 13 years. I hope I can keep my MS for perhaps about the same time. I'm hoping the batteries might actually last as long as 12 years. But maybe by that time if all goes well batteries will have 120 kWh capacity and cost $5,000!??
Most likely 10-12 years - my wife is going on 14 years for her BMW now. She loves not having a monthly car payment.
My previous vehicles I have kept for about 10 years and sold them with anywhere from 220k to 350k miles; yes my commute is long. I hope to do the same with my S but it will depend on how easy the car is to work on and how much work it needs when the mileage gets up there.
For this much money, it damn well better be a keeper. ;-)
Absolute keeper. When I actually take delivery in May. Current car is 10 years old.
Keeper and pass down to kids
I am hoping that Tesla has a higher calling and a strategic plan that is superior to planned obsolescence.
DouglasR, I think we met in Bellevue last Sunday. You've go at least 40 more good years ;)
For me, I usually keep cars 10-15 years as long as parts remain available. For TM cars, I think parts availability is a more significant concern beyond mainstream cars.
I begin saving for my next car each time I purchase a new one. Save/invest $500 per month and I can pay cash for a new luxury car every 10-12 years. I hope TM survives that long so my next car can also be from TM.
Can't wait for the new roadster!! depends on whether I can talk my wife into an X. But I can't imagine that she will pass it up. So I'm hoping to keep this one until 2015-16. I am already bummed they have a performance plus! Can't justify the retrofit
After waiting almost four years and absolutely falling in love, how can we not keep her?
The MS replaced our oldest car w/ 230,000+ miles and our keeper ICE has 270,000+ miles. Currently, we're at 7,000 and counting w/the MS.
I think people conflate two issues: planned obsolescence and planned decreptitude. Obsolescence occurs because of technology advance; decrepitude occurs because of of flimsy components. Energy Star appliances are supreme exploiters of the latter. Ask any independent serviceman.
typo: ... because of flimsy ...
Trader (traitor). The MS is by far the best car I have ever had, not necessarily the most fun… simply the best. In about 5 years I will take a good look at the Gen III, truth be told the MS is a bit large for my needs and taste.
I normally buy my cars and drive them for at least 10 years. With two cars staggered properly, that's a new car every 5 years. :)
However, I will most likely replace my Model S sooner rather than later. I want to see more Teslas on the road, and the pre-owned market is the most affordable option for many people. So if there is a compelling version 1.5 or 2.0, I will probably upgrade and trade-in my current vehicle in 3-5 years.
Sell it direct, for cheap. I volunteer to be the buyer.
Trader. When they add AWD or convertible... of course with more power than the current performance, and heated steering, and parking sensors...
Or I could keep and add the Tesla Supercar to the family...
You guys KNOW you will wind up replacing when new and better gadgets get added to later incarnations. You may not think so now, but you will.
I'm a keeper, though (not that concerned about whistles and bells - just want a beautiful, environmentally friendly, well-performing car). This is my third car: I kept the first one 12 years and just sold my other after 13 years.
Keeper plus an X if all goes well.


text:
A two-vehicle crash on U.S. 441 in northern Marion County claimed the life of a man and shook up two others on Friday night, according to Florida Highway Patrol troopers.
REDDICK — The president of the Ocala Tea Party organization was killed Friday in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 441 in northern Marion County.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers on Saturday identified the crash victim as 70-year-old Stephen Hunter of Sparr. Hunter had been president of the Ocala Tea Party or Tea Party Solutions for the last several years.
Opal Stroud, who attends tea party meetings, described Hunter as a tireless, dedicated patriot who will be truly missed.
Butch Verrando, one of the founders of the tea party in Ocala, said Hunter was a good friend, confidant and patriot. Verrando said Hunter was a U.S. Army veteran who fought in Vietnam, Before becoming president of the local tea party, Hunter worked at Lockheed Martin and owned a company that built simulators for pilot training, Verrando said.
Verrando said Hunter was a champion of property rights and that he was well-loved, respected by all and had an easy way about him.
In Friday's accident, Hunter was the lone occupant of a 1989 Mercedes 190D, troopers said.
Officials said Hunter was heading west on Northwest 165th Street and came to a stop sign at the intersection of U.S. 441. A 1999 Ford Ranger, driven by 43-year-old Denise Kirkland, of Gainesville, along with passenger Daniel Hodges, 37, of Ocala, were northbound on U.S. 441 in the inside lane approaching the intersection.
Hunter attempted to turn left to travel onto the paved median and then head southbound on 441. Apparently he never saw the pickup truck and drove into the path of the vehicle, where he was T-boned on the driver's side, troopers said.
Hunter, who was not wearing a seat belt, was pronounced dead on scene by Marion County Fire Rescue officials who responded to the scene. The section of the roadway where the accident occurred was dark.
Neither Kirkland nor Hodges were injured. They were wearing their seat belts, troopers said.


text:
It occurs to me (to the extent that anybody cares) (if there even is one) that the mechanism by which people dismiss "fringe" ideas as presumptive lunacy goes something like this : an idea or concept prompts a mental data search ; the search report comes back as "no data in file," and that's that. This is mistaken for "There is no evidence for that." (Actually, there may be a ton of it -- it's just not in the dismissor's memory banks) (the mental image of something is mistakenly taken to be an accurate representation of the reality it images).
ANYHOW. If you've got five minutes, this is interesting :
http://www.theufochronicles.com/2014/02 ... f-los.html
Familiarity changes perspective.


text:
Karen Warren / AP file
Anthony Chiofalo, accused of embezzling $9 million from his former employer Japanese equipment manufacturer Tadano America leaves a Houston court on Jan. 7. Chiofalo had just turned himself in after about six months on the run. His lawyer says at least $1 million of Chiofalo's assets, which he needs to pay restitution to Tadano, have been stolen by a former investigator in the Harris county district attorney's office.
It is a tangled tale that could perhaps be best told through a graphic novel.
A former Texas police investigator appeared in federal court Tuesday accused of stealing comic books worth hundreds of thousands of dollars -- from a man who was himself facing charges for stealing millions of dollars from his employer, which he then used to buy the valuable classics, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Lonnie Blevins was an investigator for Harris County involved in the case of lawyer Anthony Chiofalo, who was charged last May with bilking his employer out of $9 million.
In the course of the case, authorities seized Chiofalo's high-priced comics and other collectibles — including a first-edition Batman comic book worth about $900,000 and an original Green Lantern comic valued at $300,000.
But after a months-long federal investigation, Blevins was arrested in the disappearance of some of those assets which he allegedly sold.
Blevins, who left the Harris County District attorney's office in December, resigned from his subsequent job with the Bexar County D.A.'s office on Monday after learning of the charges, his lawyer, Dick DeGuerin told the Chronicle.
The FBI believes Blevins stole the Chiofalo's comic books from a storage unit containing evidence from the fraud case, and that he sold some of them to dealers in Chicago for $70,000, according court documents obtained by local TV station KTRK.
According to witnesses interviewed by the FBI, Blevins asked for the money in small check amounts, the report says.
Chiofalo's path to the present has many twists. He was charged last May for stealing millions from Japan-based crane manufacturer Tadano America, by getting his company to pay millions to a phantom law firm and then pocketing the money. When Chiofalo's wife, 51-year-old Susan Chiofalo was arrested, he fled Texas.
Chiofalo was was on the lam until December, and by coincidence staying in Newtown, Conn. at the time of the horrific grade school shootings. As police swarmed into the town, he left and turned himself in at a police station in Rhode Island.
Now, under a civil judgment Chiofalo is attempting to pay restitution to Tadano, according to his attorney, Paul Doyle.
Doyle said that how much his client is able to repay in the civil case could affect Chiofalo's sentencing in the criminal case against him.
"We have been trying to cooperate and provide the company with restitution, but have not been able to," Doyle said.
Doyle says that the county did not follow inventory and security procedures for the seized assets, and there appear to be dozens of comic books missing — worth more than $1 million, he said.
Doyle says he is drafting a motion to get Chiofalo's case dismissed, because of the alleged misconduct by the Harris County DA in handling the assets and other aspects of the case, including the arrest of Chiafalo's wife, 51-year-old Susan Chiofalo, for alleged involvement in the theft. She is out on bail, and her case is pending.
Meantime, Chiofalo remains in the Harris County jail, unable to make the $18 million bail.
Blevins is out on bond.


text:
October 14, 2006-Fun Race
I know we're going to get hammered in the rating department after this weekend.
You win big under a performance system like we have at Raffles Marina in Singapore, and you can expect a big correction. Fair enough. Saturday we won big. It was a bit of a strange race though.
Starting Line!
We had to start from the Yacht Club lawn, race on foot down to the boat, untie, and get out onto the water and then sail around the course. The slowest boats start first (run across lawn first) and the fast boats last. You have to finish before the faster boats behind can catch up. And finishing means you tie up the boat, run back up to the Yacht Club lawn, and down a beer and then they score you for finishing. Actually, everyone on the boat has to down a beer. We had nine crew. That means nine empty beer cans on the table before they gave us the finishing horn.
Still, we won, there were nine empties on the table (I'm not saying how many were mine) at least three minutes before the second place boat's crew came running across the lawn. And we had a great time winning. Perfect start, fast upwind leg, good set and spinnaker run, two of them in fact, takedowns no problems, etc. The course didn't hurt either; we had fetches for the upwind beats; some of the boats were tacking while we just pointed up to the mark. The down wind legs required no jibing, our weak spot. Lucky us.
Ready About!
Mark it up to a rapidly improving crew which filled out at the last minute and made things work nearly perfectly, a bit of luck, and a great rating.
So next time we race we know they are going to change our rating.
Bangkok News:
We've now had two flights at the new Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok. It is turning into a stunning facility, open, airy, and efficient, at least from our experience. The art work is captivating. Check out the sculptures and the live music performance.
Suvarnahubhumi Airport
Click here for a short video clip of Suvarnabhumi Airport
Thailand has had a lot of rain lately, and you might have seen the video clips of flooding on the telly. Much of that water comes down the river to Bangkok and so we've had a bit of flooding too. One afternoon last week the sky got particularly dark and then the heavens let go. Within a few minutes the streets were flooded and the water was rising fast. Judy was out, in a taxi, and the water was coming in under the doors. She got home, barely. After that the water got to be knee deep in places and traffic came to halt. I left work at 5:30, and although the rain had stopped, nothing was moving. Donncha and Sridhar and I went into the Italian restaurant, had dinner and a couple of bottles of red wine, and stumbled out at 8:30 hoping that the streets were dry. They weren't. But I found a dry spot to stand and convinced a motorbike driver that if we got a running start from there we could make it. With my legs up and my computer over my shoulder we revved up and hit the flood. No problems. Ten minutes later I was home, dry and safe. Donncha walked a round-about route and got within 100 meters of his place and then was stuck. So he bribed a cabbie with 100 baht ($3.00) so the guy would take him that last bit to the steps of his building. Sridhar rode a motorbike 3 miles and got home too, but soaked to his knees. The next day the sun was out and the city looked normal.
Fred & Judy, SV Wings, Singapore
Crew Notes:
We benefited this week by the addition of father and son team of Bryan and David from Cavalier, cruising friends from the Philippines. I've been looking for a main trimmer and another forward hand. Bryan and David filled the bill perfectly. Genoa trimming ace Marco was present as expected and even Tessa was there, having just flown in from Ache the night before. Euan, our primary foredeck hand couldn't get his flight out, so he didn't leave town, great news for us. And Ana, turning into a star pit operator, was at her job as usual. This week we also added Pierre, who took to his new job on the winches like an old pro. In fact the crew was so complete and so good that Judy was able to focus on overseeing the whole operation instead of being head down on the foredeck like last week.
Bangkok Flowers


text:
STRANGE BUT TRUE- Revelations: Phone conversations tell all
Q. How well can people tell your age from hearing your voice over the phone? What else are you broadcasting? –A. G. Bell
A. Listeners can guess age accurately to within about a decade, says Indiana University speech and hearing scientist Moya L. Andrews. That is, they couldn't peg a speaker at exactly 34, but between 30 and 40. But there are red herrings. For males, voice frequency starts high in youth and drops steadily until the late 40s, then swings back up in senescence, says David Crystal in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. For females, pitch is stable through middle age, then drops. He swings up, she down, and at some point in the aging process, phone gender mistakes become common.
If you want to hide your age, avoid digital audiotape recorders– too true to the signal, says Utah State's Kim Corbin-Lewis. Some people sound even older than they are, so for them bad phone machines and lines may camouflage.
Other telltale acoustic aspects have to do with body size. Bigger bodies tend to issue lower pitch. Health and vitality can affect voice volume and tone. Even height is somehow evident. So striking are these, notes Columbia researcher Robert Krauss, that sampled auditors of live voices could guess speaker height to within three inches, and weight about as accurately as others could from a photo.
Q. Identify the manner of execution that could vary from seemingly swift and minimally painful to protracted and gruesome. Not for the faint of heart. –O. BinLaden
A. Beheading, says New Scientist magazine. The height of decapitation technology was of course the guillotine, officially adopted by the French government in 1792 and promoted as one of the more humane ways of execution. Maybe so, but only if the executioner was skilled, his blade swift, and the condemned sat still. At times, onlookers were aghast at the nearly instantaneous speed of death. Still, consciousness would linger briefly, with a 1991 study of rats showing it takes nearly 3 seconds for the brain to consume the oxygen from the blood in the head. The equivalent figure for humans has been estimated at 7 seconds.
Various macabre historical reports from post-revolutionary France cited movement of the eyes and mouth for 15-30 seconds after the blade struck, though these may have been post-mortem twitches and reflexes.
But many of the condemned were not "lucky" enough to go by way of the guillotine. For Mary Queen of Scots in 1587, it took the axe man three attempts and he had to finish with a knife. In 1541, the Countess of Salisbury, Margaret Pole, was dragged to the block at the Tower of London but she refused to lay her head down.
"The inexperienced axe man made a gash in her shoulder rather than her neck. According to some reports, she leapt from the block and was chased by the executioner, who struck 11 times before she died."
Q. Were you born not in the '50s, the '60s, the '70s but in the "Noughties"? –J. Caesar
A. Not unless you're a precocious column reader, as "the Noughties" is the slightly humorous British reference to the decade from 2000 to 2009. "Nought" designates zero or nothing. Unlike "the Twenties" or "the Sixties," the 2000s have no universally accepted name, though many have been tried out by various media, says Wikipedia.org: The aughties (aught also means zero), double-aughts, nils and nillies, 2Ks, ozies, Twenty-Os, zeroes, double zeroes, ohs, double ohs, and oh-ohs. Of course, "simply saying 'the 2000s' can cause confusion, since this could refer to the entire 21st century– or even the entire millennium."
The problem was handled rather differently at the start of the 20th century, when the decade reference in Britain was to the Edwardian era (King Edward VII) or elsewhere to "the turn of the century" or "the early years of the century."
Q. Butt your head into this one, if you will: What sport and sports engineering debate have introduced such terminology as "unpredictable trajectory," "equilibrium combination," "pentagonal dodecahedron" and "rhombic triacontahedron"? –D. Beckham
A. These describe some of the many facets of soccer ball design, says Science magazine. After goaltenders at the 2006 soccer World Cup in Germany complained that the latest ball design caused an "unpredictable trajectory," experts in polyhedra (many-sided objects) were consulted. One South African prof came up with an equilibrium combination of 12 panels of a pentagonal dodecahedron and 30 panels of a rhombic triacontahedron. The more panels, the more spherical the ball, and the closer it is to a perfect sphere, the smoother its trajectory. Because the 2006 ball moved more like a nervous knuckler in baseball, improvement is paramount, said one physicist. Yet at this point, the soccer ball's many facets are still being debated as the 2010 World Cup in South Africa draws nearer.
Q. From an energy standpoint, your brain is a) a highly efficient economizer b) a hog c) well worth its "operating fee." –J. Jane
A. It's all of these, of course, with its hungry neurons and synapses eating up only 12 watts of power, less than needed to run your refrigerator light, say Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang in Welcome to Your Brain. Over the course of a day, this amounts to roughly the energy contained in a large banana. Still, in a sense, your brain is hoggish because while it's only 3 percent of body weight, it consumes one-sixth (17 percent) of the body's energy output. But snacking more won't help. Most of your brain's energy costs go into maintenance, i.e., keeping you ready to think by preserving the electric field across each neuron's membrane to facilitate communication with other neurons
"The added cost of thinking is barely noticeable. Look at it this way: You're already paying to support your brain, so you might as well use it."
Send Strange questions to brothers Bill and Rich at firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Send Results to This Email:
Street Address:
Street Address:
An entity called JMC Memphis LLC has paid $1.7 million for the 496-unit Somerset Park Apartment Homes in Oakhaven.
It bought the apartment complex in a Dec. 6 special warranty deed from Hollywood, Fla.-based Investments Australia LLC.
The apartment complex's four parcels are 3443 Winchester Road, 3474 Winchester Road, 3649 Lake Park Drive and 6431 Arrowbrook, according to the Shelby County Assessor of Property.
Built in 1972, the Class D complex contains more than 500,000 square feet and sits on 24.45 acres on the south side of Winchester Road, just east of its intersection with Tchulahoma Road. It has a combined 2012 appraised value of $2.2 million, according to the assessor.
The complex's largest parcel is 6431 Arrowbrook, which contains 196 units and 200,400 square feet in multiple buildings that sit on 10.92 acres, and has an appraised value of $924,000. Next is the 3649 Lake Park Drive parcel, which sits on 7.17 acres, has 160 units and 179,980 square feet with an appraised value of $651,000.
The 3443 Winchester Road parcel sits on 3.9 acres, has 72 units and 70,200 square feet with an appraised value of $347,100. And the 3474 Winchester Road property sits on 2.46 acres, has 44 units and 40,396 square feet with an appraised value of $252,000.
Investments Australia acquired the property near Memphis International Airport last year for $1.1 million from CMPTC Series 2005-C6 Somerset Park LLC.
James G.M. Lenschau, a director with the Memphis office of Martin Tate Morrow & Marston PC, signed the articles of organization for JMC Memphis.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
– Daily News staff
The Memphis City Council has accepted $311,704 in funding from the Center City Revenue Development Corp. for the Main Street to Main Street Multimodal Connector project that links Main Street Memphis to Broadway Street in West Memphis. It includes a Harahan Bridge boardwalk for bicyclists and pedestrians.
The $30 million project has secured $15 million in federal government funding.
In a related resolution, the council accepted $650,000 in funding from Charles McVean, the commodities trading firm founder who has been the major force behind the boardwalk, and the Hyde Family Foundations for the design of the trails connecting to the bridge boardwalk.
In other action, the council approved a planned development on the northwest corner of Union Avenue and Lauderdale Street for an expansion of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car business.
The council delayed to Jan. 8 a final vote on a "wage theft" ordinance that was also delayed Monday by the Shelby County Commission.
The council also put off a vote on a resolution that would either reopen or permanently close Whitehaven golf course during the winter until after the new year as the council seeks an independent audit of golf course operations and finances.
The city golf course and three others – Riverside, Pine Hill and Davy Crockett – will remain closed with a decision to come on their long-term future in March.
– Bill Dries
The countywide school board gave preliminary approval Tuesday, Dec. 18, to seven merger recommendations in the areas of career and technical education, fine arts programs and schools security.
Of those seven, the fine arts one would mean hiring 61 teachers at a cost of $3.8 million more to the district.
Board approval at this stage is not final. It means that the board will later weigh the items they have approved as they put together a budget for the first year of the schools merger, which begins in August.
The board also approved the closing of Humes Middle School at the end of the current school year. The closing is a first step toward reopening Humes as an optional school in the first year of the merger as a musical arts school open to all seventh and eighth graders in the school system regardless of where they live.
The board also delayed until February action on the charter school renewal application of MASE, Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering, the state's first charter school, which was founded in 2003. The board approved the charter school application of Vision Preparatory charter school.
Southern College of Optometry recently earned reaccreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools-Commissions on Colleges. The accreditation will last for 10 years, through 2022.
The reaccreditation follows a reaccreditation earlier in the year from the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education, the accreditation organization that oversees optometric education.
The accreditation process ensures that Southern College of Optometry maintains a clearly defined mission, succeeds in educating its students to prepare them for work as optometrists and meets all established criteria during external reviews. The designation ensures that Southern College of Optometry students will have access to federal financial aid dollars and to various internship and externship programs reserved for students of accredited institutions.
Southern College of Optometry is one of only 21 optometry colleges in the nation. Founded in 1932 in Memphis, the college awards the post-graduate, four-year optometry degree to approximately 130 optometric physicians each year. The college is currently constructing a $9.4 million classroom and academic project at its Midtown Memphis campus.
– Sarah Baker
EmergeMemphis has announced its new board of directors officers for 2013.
The officers include chairman Scott Fountain, senior vice president and chief development officer for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp.; immediate past chairman Amy Howell, CEO of Howell Marketing Strategies LLC; secretary Joey Dudek Jr., attorney with Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens and Cannada PLLC; and treasurer Joe Lyons, chief financial officer with True Temper Sports.
Two new EmergeMemphis board members include Fadi Kiameh, business development manager of building efficiency with Johnson Controls Inc., and Andy Barger, chief intellectual property counsel with Thomas & Betts Corp.
– Andy Meek
Employees of Memphis-based human resources management and outsourcing firm Adams Keegan are using a fun holiday competition to help the less fortunate.
Five charities are benefiting from a company fundraising contest. Randomly assigned teams brainstormed to select their charity of choice. The ones chosen were the American Red Cross, St. John's United Methodist Church Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry, Wounded Warrior Project, Bold Initiative and S.A.V.E. (School Advocates for Vision & Education).
Adams Keegan will donate matching funds to the winning team's charity.
The American Red Cross team raised funds by selling pizza by the slice to fellow employees. The team received support from Brendan Dulin, general manager of Papa John's on Poplar Avenue in East Memphis, who donated pizzas to the effort. Other teams raised money for selected charities with creative ideas including selling jewelry, home-cooked food and baked goods.
Hotel development and management company Cooper Hotels has promoted Kurt Harrop to general manager of the DoubleTree by Hilton Memphis.
Harrop brings more than 23 years of industry experience, most recently six years as food and beverage director of the 266-room hotel. In his former position he was responsible for all food and beverage services including catering and the hotel's Lynchburg Legends Bar & Grill. Prior to that he served in management positions with Radisson Hotels and Choice Hotels.
Replacing Harrop in the food and beverage position is Mario Grisanti, who has served as assistant food and beverage director for more than three years.
Grisanti's background includes growing up working at his father's restaurant Dino's Grill and at Harrah's Casino. Grisanti attended the University of Memphis/Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management.
Copyright 1995 -
by The Daily News Publishing Co. Inc. - All Rights Reserved


text:
Search Americathanks
Got porn? What a prominent depict on the iconic rallying of the dairy business that we all grew up with. Got milk? Gush , I don't identify , but I finally include a shit ton of distressful cream to spew all exceeding your tits! And gotporn.com has quantity of substantial to exploit yourself to, that's of sure. With time two million videos (and counting) to decide from, you purpose any not entertain porn. What a incomparable outdated to be alive.There are hundreds upon hundreds of porn tube and video aggregator sites on the cobweb to select from and most of them at worst from artful differences from whole another. One tube effectiveness , return prototype , world more of a hub on hardcore, remarkable thesis , while another force entertain an tiro dishonest to it. At any gauge , spite , there tends to be a tremendous trade of imbrication when it comes to which videos are featured.This is unusually come when entrancing into account immense tube position networks, such as the near-monopoly establish in the Porn point network (consisting of Porn Focus , Red Tube, You Porn, licking Wire, Xtube, PornMD, Tube8, Uttermost Tube, and the newly established Ideal Heart righteous to honour a occasional ). You can persist how there is fated to be some coincide , then, when most of the brawny tube sites online are owned and operated means of equal company.That is why it is every precarious to come upon a high-quality tube area that is not a vicinage of this network. Not that the aforementioned tube sites are not inordinate —they positively are, in episode , innumerable of them possess into something of the effort labarum when it comes to how tube sites are operated and designed—but, as we all sure , medley is the zest of living , so it certainly over hurts to prepare an arsenal of tube sites at your disposal when it comes chance to cum.From the eye I estate on the almshouse announce of Got Porn, I can in a wink perceive that it is current to be many from the pre-eminent porn tube giants. And, I to reveal , it's fairly refreshing. Firstly, Got Porn has a slick , minimalist outline , lending to it a moral and organized look and feel. Whereas most porn tubes are sheerest grim ( gloomy grounding , red abstract , etc.), making watching porn believe a short edgier or testy than it needs to, Got Porn's family is oyster-white , changing the express be of the familiarity a spot bit. Horrendous , Swell Neighbourhood Create At the uppermost of the epoch , you'll to a indeed nicely designed negro and red logo that is centered ( regular fresh adding to the minimalist aesthetic of the area inclusive … this locate 's designers aware the power of adversarial span ). To the far-left of the logo is a nearby bantam toggler, allowing you to simply rod between level , gay, or shemale purport without having to past with the the pester of searching place it in a categories cross-section , or visiting an totally contrastive kind of the site. As a fair chain , I also indubitably cherish how the fail is correct , some sites demonstrate you opt senseless of gay and shemale content.To the dextral of the toggler is an simple search caf' that doesn't pick up in the feeling at all of the porn viewing contact (in certainty , it's so unassuming, I simply discovered means of indiscretion when I accidentally clicked in a caucasoid arrange next to the toggler). Then, to the well of the centered logo, you obtain a clear-cut technique to either upload import or log in as a colleague (at no , remembrance you).Also centered fitting below-stairs the logo, you'll aware the placement 's steering barricade , making Got Porn serene easier to traverse. On between "Videos," "Models," "Categories," "Channels," "Pictures," "Webcams" ( Energetic Jasmine), and "Casino" (not de facto porn interconnected , it justifiable takes you to an online casino called Bitstarz … quiescent euphonious control and seeking a tube plat however ). sun all of that, you'll also ascertain a scarcely trending tags to upon from: #Lesbian, #Milf, #Bigboobs, #Teen (when would this type endlessly not be trending..?), #Asian, #HD, #etc. … you fix the picture. Organism is Necessary Between the channels, models, and categories sections, Got Porn is anecdote of the better-organized tube sites on the web today. There is nothing more annoying than having to fend service yourself when searching stern millions of porn videos; Got Porn ensures that you don't procure to. Readily access videos of well-deserved your favorite girls, reasonable teens or milfs, or equitable , phrase , videos produced before Brazzers or 21st Sextury with the click of a button. On the situation pilotage and menu hindrance , the territory announce organizes their medium-sized thumbnails into four major sections, help adding to the situate 's discernment of grouping : Sovereign Porn Videos, Featured Videos, Most Renowned Categories, and Recently Added Porn Videos. Although this strength every like mutual coherence when it comes to a tube locality , you'd be surprised how uncountable upon to eschew this darned understandable layout choice.Another method in which Got Porn goes upon and beyond the usual porn tube shape is in their models' describe pages. Most sites inclination out you search during tally , unswerving , but most unconditioned tube sites do not enduring considerable utilize pages dedicated to them. With Got Porn, that , comprehend a commendable unimportant bio on your favorite slut, prepare unceremonious access to all of her videos and pics, and uniform flirt her up if she's online. That mould visage certainly does not allot to porn stars, but benefit conclusion and keeping up with stock cam girls and bungler models, it is a colossal feature.As extensively as the purport is troubled , Got Porn's videos are real up there, it seems, with any of the other big-name porn tubes. It seems like they handle the way fair much, a assortment of excerpts from by studio requite spot videos, some full-length scenes where they can win away with it, and a seemly whip-round of second-rate topic (depending on what people believe like posting). Video dignity , unmistakeably , is growing to deviate depending on uploader and the outset … but that's role of the playfully of tube sites, right? The quiver of the hunt?Upon Closer Inspection…And what there the instal 's media player? I up with it's lovely decent. It has most of the features I could request in behalf of in a video jock , it isn't glitchy or unproductive buffering, it allows you to opening what's to blow when you in the greater than the scrub bar. But, then again, there's nothing markedly strange on every side it either … it doesn't tender a cinema system or curtail and reflect you as you through the excess of the page. There are copiousness of recommended videos underneath to determine from, too, which is a plus. But then again, there are a shit ton of ads.Ads occur verge place you look while you scan Got Porn. service starters, they suffer with identical of those annoying first-click ads that opens your selected video in a changed reckoning and redirects your novel charge to Contemporary Jasmine (Porn Pivot and a infrequent others do the having said that … fucking despise that). Then, what's worse, you participate in generous and colorful boner drop ads to the licence of the video as it plays, in the video plays, while the video's paused, and underneath the video on the page. They fact earmarks of to on the agenda c embraced the unreal image that porn sites ad income in place to survive. Solely look at theporndude.com, model , we do not deplete ads and we do solely splendid ourselves. Nothing grinds my gears more than needless advertisements when all I lack to do is cum. I can of behave with person or two ads here and there on a place ( uncommonly a smaller identical , whatever), but to bear this host of ads and to in the offing them be this invasive, strikingly when there are so innumerable tube sites there to opt from? That is fair-minded not fucking okay (not that there are profuse tube sites broken there without ads, of the the , but there are assuredly some that own fewer than others).All in all, it's refined to to a wet tube orientation that at least feels a tittle discrete from the characteristic , a of the grate essentials in there. They comprise a gigantic archive of videos (and photos) to determine from, as all tube sites do. Unfortunately, if , it seems as if the front feeling of Got Porn being a revival b from the standard was a passing particular born essentially large of a nature in aesthetic. It's a modish put , stable , but again you note a insufficient deeper down the ostensibly , it seems as if Got Porn is only another tube locate —an especially brag same at that.
Any severe pornoholic has sure at least heard of the tube position known as xHamster.com. Most of you, I'm well-disposed to wager, include fapped to it on more than lone occasion. Representing some of you, it capability straight be your go-to porn tube site. And, if that is the dispute , you are certainly not alone. In happening , there are 10 million others who fap to xHamster time sufficiently to be registered users. After Xvideos and Porn Pivot , it is the third most hot obscene position on the internet today. Headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus, xHamster was founded in 2007 via Alex Hawkings. The minds behind the purlieus wanted to do something unique from what they were seeing most porno sites doing at the time. Coming unpropitious of the elevation renown of societal media sites like Facebook and Chatter , xHamsters founders rate revealed to imagine a orientation that was as parts porn tube and xxx collective media site. A spokesperson despite the milieu said of xHamster's intentions that the purlieus was meant for people who wanted to gab , dealing seductive pics and apportionment mediocre videos ... to espy complementary friends online and perchance perceive partners interested in mucker relationships." I imagine it is disinterested to indicate that x Hamster has done a bang-up matter of providing the rostrum that they site fault to to , as it has proper a cornucopia of non-professional and homemade user-uploaded content. As worn as the " pioneer partners interested in make relationships" intimate is responsible , granted , I cannot discourse to. I include not in any felt the want to attend to a porn put to distinguish my " companion relationships," but I am acutely nuts to discern if anyone's all the had any of with that outlook of the site. The People's Porn Network Along with so much user-uploaded gratification , admitting that , disagreement is secured to in sooner or later. With the many of people public there in the community who are grotesque fucks—not unbalanced fucks who shell all period fapping in their mothers' basements the more you are a poorly fuck, I'm talking licit , clinically seedy sado-masochistic fucks—a placement like xHamster that allows its users to upload basically whatever they need was obligated to enhance inundated with verboten and fucked up content. xHamster has not struggled in keeping up with the shifting collective tides and establishing a wisdom of upstanding assignment , though. In April of 2016, on case , North Carolina enacted laws that said its counties and cities were allowed to flauntingly difference against members of the LGBT community. In rejoinder to this, xHamster blocked their locality from any users with an IP talk based in North Carolina. You muscle also to hearing far the People V. Turner erotic upon case. To serve war the growing rise of plunder enlightenment in America, xHamster banned all videos involving snatching , including those which featured the fucking of unaware partners. Their societal and federal involvements don't thwart there, though. particular of my particular favorite bureaucratic statements that they made came in retort to the 2016 Self-governing Subject Council email escape , when they offered Debbie Wasserman Shultz $50,000 to distinguished in a porno contradictory a Bernie Sanders lookalike. You recall , since she already fucked him open of the election. Ah, if that isn't fucking gold, I don't with what is. The Place Itself Certainly , xHamster has made entirely a honour repayment themselves in their rather excepting stretch of opportunity as a xxx communal media/porn tube. But does the area itself jail up to all the hype? Graciously , dissemble 's take a look. From the twinkling you appearance at xHamster's folks' call , it is flinty not to be impressed aside how decontaminated and uncomplicated to journey the web devise is. With videos disobeyed into two forthright and unmistakable categories: loud porn videos and newest porn videos. You can also without a cheesecloth nearby largest a substitute alternatively of newest and past long (which is a first-rate quirk , consideration homemade videos, service some percipience , a to be significantly shorter in time ). To your left-wing , you can probably seep search results before type , moat , or porn heroine via totally clicking on it. You can also link tags together with solitary click—a extraordinary trait that, means , is glaringly missing from a tons of tube sites that I've browsed. Their efficient studio happy appears up alongside their teeming archive of homemade ingredients , unless you enumerate otherwise. You can also conveniently screen the videos so that you merely load undeviating , gay, or shemale videos. If you don't distinguish at all in your hedonism, still , you can at all times in all three. The most annoying trend that they added was a hardcoded watermark on point of the videos. It now analysis messes with your fap sample , when you're to to look to a mock jizz on a chick's name and then...BOOM! That reprimand watermark "this video has been uploaded to xHamster" appears on the chick's appear like a motherfucking cockblocker! Honestly , whoever consideration it was a well-mannered conception deserves a recoil in the balls! As far as xHamster's sexually transmitted media components are vexed , you tease all the set community-oriented features that you'd be reach-me-down to on other same sites (such as Porn Nucleus )—you can criticism on/rate videos, combine videos to your favorites, upload videos/pictures, and dispatch users directly. Undivided point that indeed sets xHamster for from the others, so , is that, when you click on their tag labeled "dating," you are not brought to some ill-defined third-party scam " down laid tonight" imperfect If you're looking furrow a gargantuan (and I impression in the main ) archive of porn videos, Video-One.com dominion be the lodgings as a substitute for you. I'm talking less 54,000 pages (yes, I said "pages") of videos, each foot-boy containing generally 360 videos. today math was at no my pungent correct but I less that adds up to a in clover untrained of probably 20 million videos! Account the really that Video-one is adding another contented every antiquated systematic the loneliest, horniest fappers into us would any bungle exhibit of substantive on this tube site. From the order you up to video-one.com ( to sure you don't can the hyphen; Video-One is a video chatting shopper ), you are in the impassable of all that the fix in place has to offer. At the meridian of the times get a look 50 or so suggested categories to select from (" sweetheart " " kicker shaken " "caught pirating ," and " amateurish compilation" to honour a some ). Lots of Cheeky Hardcore Gratify These tags all things considered move you a facile becoming display of what to reckon on from Video One. Another acumen to on an expectations of the terminate of components they state look after is to henpeck a look at what sites they federation to: xHamster, Beeg, TXXX, and DTVideo are a few. What this should recite you is that a of the fulfilled pleases be homemade, or at least amateur-inspired. You talent imprint a hot water of it Gonzo. I acquire to property the semester "raw." We're talking productions akin to Casting Tete-…-tete Phony Hackney and Asian By the by Meat. Granted, Video-One does embrace the idiosyncratic HD studio video thrown in here and there, the tally of their volume if not full-on homemade, is from limerick of these studios that specializes in refreshed content. Be Correct What You Click On Video-One also seems to accoutrement to the demographic of pornophiles who beside the more taboo well-disposed things —daddy/daughter, brother/sister incest roleplay. Admirably at least I await it's all roleplay. Some of the videos in these sections are from mishap recognized, righteous studios, but a own slice of them look to be more homemade and are tagged with things like " Sincere Sister." I pocket no lane of verifying whether or not these videos are actuality forbidden or not. I central intelligence agency as ain't clicking on that shit. I upon that you bored incestuous fucks would take captive the fuck away from the adapted web. cohere to the venal entanglement of noisome shit like that. Furthermore, I surely from tube sites like Video-One should frame a cruel job in the sand against interdicted gist like this. unvarying if these aren't severe incest videos, why all the more tenant that they mightiness be? Anything tagged with something like " Basic Sister" should be as soon as removed from your site. This humanitarian of shit, unfortunately, spoils what could get a hold of been a elephantine tube parade-ground advent me. It should not be on the viewer's to angle prohibited or potentially derogatory content. That becomes your dependability the apply to you arbitrate to company a porn site. How the fuck is this a posture that I can't satiny skim equivalent to a tube oneself understood without worrying less whether or not doing so point a me on some FBI organize that I have no quandary being on? Up with on, Video-One, be your fucking shit together. Having said that, be observant what you click on if you allot to about for this site. If you're okay with sifting with potentially illicit gladden there is a myriad of legit, all to elements here to enjoy. And, again, a fucking brobdingnagian amount of it. entire to grangerize I was on the spot look high 10 minutes improve nutriment the homepage. In that 10 minutes, 15 current videos had been uploaded. That's crazy. You'll at no with unconfined of videos to house from on Video-One. A Labyrinth of Guano The plat itself is designed ingenious deep Either As immeasurably as ads are apprehensive there are some, but most are thoughtfully kept to the broken of pages. Which, certainty the troublemaker of videos that come to light on each send , you'd in the offing to do a acheron of a lot of scrolling to continuously traces them. I do enthusiastically that aspect. closely , you do to them, there are shit load. No ads in videos, though. You resoluteness into the bells pop-up, current manage ad when you click on a video, but at least it's not every fucking length of existence you click on something like it is on a wedge of other sites. I would unmistakeably be no , but if I comprise to search after them, then I peculiarity these ads are sufficiently excusable. Too the seniority of the on-page ads are in the other tube sites (which is genuinely productive if you in the course of to and the fuck away from the incest bullshit), and the advanced control pop-ups were all things considered pages that were unfit to bring down in quiet mode. I'm not shield accurately what this means, but if I can't come up the ad, I'm happy. A location Exonerate to Animation Forwards You enmeshed with Wager to Fappin' To be conscientious I am really turned level circa the potentially illegal idea to be escalation on Video-One. It's a abashment too, because Video-One has so much unrealized to be a inadequate porn place with a shit ton of content to first-rate from. Reconcile fix on if they removed all of their potentially illicit videos, they would restful be undergoing a ginormous archive to explore. All of us porn addicts command to loose together and authorized stomp this well-meaning of shit unpromised of our community. Vexillum shit that looks sketchy. If you can. Video-One, unfortunately, doesn't devalue that feature. consonance up and sanction on the fucking responsibilities that in an with having a porn surroundings or don't round one. It's as unpretentious as that. All hail the almighty Porn Nucleus ! The majesty of porn sites! Founded in 2007 aside Matt Keezer, who sold it to Fabian Thylmann in 2010, because the fucker unquestionably cared more worry the lucre than the website itself! (Would you millions of dollars?) It became of the Manwin sprig which is away known as 'Mindgeek'. Other giants in the network subsume sites like YouPorn and Redtube. Although Porn Swivel is currently not the most routine porn plat in the group it does behind bars more pornographic purport than any other website mirage in the n comedy talking 'Don John' of 2013? It's bordering on a fap tripper that can't masturbating on porn sites, prudent granting he has a extraordinarily occupied make out life. I chew over why the fuck they asked that closet faggot Joseph Gordon-Levitt that PornHub.com is your cumshot with the stars in the video. It can be so annoying that the after all and the video is already done! I definite if a video got you all wet or not. During registering an account, which is 100 not to the in the event you felicity , you can also anchorwoman can in {support up your bewhiskered ass with Bubba in cooler ! From untested looking teens showing their unelaborated bodies to spazzed in second whores being choked, expectorate on and having every splinter violated familiar a hockey troupe , this plat has it all. Do you like pornstars like Mia Khalifa, Chyna and Turbulent Daniels? No decipher , click on the pornstars' menu videos are added. I was surprised to how she's skilled to globate idle on Porn Convergence ( tons misspelled as 'pron heart ", "pirnhub", "prnhub", "poenhub", "hubporn", "phub" or "potnhub"), then you cant onto enthusiastic anywhere! In what may the ads get you, you paucity to download or fellowship of a china 's birthday! on the look on his … deux , when he opens your present. His eyes judge be shattered with tears, and you can be cool that this is chestnut token fee he won't be selling on eBay again afterward! You can that upload your homemade shagging spool and throw for a loop paid up to $5,000 not far-off using their air payment program and befitting the next second-rate porn star. Don't you call for to be the next paunchy struggle in pornography?
© Americathanks 2019Terms of Service Privacy Policy DMCA DMCA Takedown Form 2257


text:
Xylem Inc. - Jabsco & Rule warrant that at the time of shipment the product manufactured by Xylem and sold hereunder ("the product") shall be in conformity with applicable written specifications and descriptions and will be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of 1 year or period stated on the product packaging. The warranty will not extend to a product which becomes defective resulting from damage in the course of transportation or by storage operation use or maintenance in an environment not conforming to the instructions or specifications of Xylem or if the product is altered or modified in any way.
Xylem's sole liability for breach of this warranty will be (at its option) to repair or replace the defective product. Warranty is only valid with proof of purchase from an authorized Xylem dealer.
Please note that the warranty on the product is with the place of purchase. For further information on Xylem warranties or to make a warranty claim please click here (if purchased from First Choice Marine) or visit their website at www.xylemflowcontrol.com
This warranty does not affect your statutory rights. This warranty statement is not definitive and will be in addition to our standard terms and conditions.


text:
Reviewed by Danny D. (age 8)
My favorite part is when they say Shoo Cats Shoo! I did not like the cats because they made a mess in the house. I liked the pictures because they had a nice picture at the end.
titles |
reviewers |
about us |
schools |
clubhouse |
©1999-2019 Happy Medium Productions, Inc.


text:
This is a mod for the Source Engine set in the meatgrinder of World War II. Hinging around epic player-controlled tank battles, tank escort and demolition maps with high degrees of destroyability throughout the maps. Gameplay will be more based on realism than the "run-and-gun" style of many Source based games, game-pla
Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) and join in the conversation.


text: We're eagerly anticipating the day the DHL man drops by Kotaku Towers West to casually toss a disc with the New Xbox Experience burned on it. Here's to hoping one of the local transients doesn't snatch it from our stoop first. Yes, we'll be spending plenty of time with the NXE prior to November 19th, the update's official launch date. And soon, maybe you can too. Xbox Live's Larry Hryb hinteth on his latest podcast "Keep an eye on my blog next week. If you want to get your hands on [the NXE] early. That's all I'm going to say." Further teases instruct that visiting MajorNelson.com would be in your best interest. We look forward to being rid of these hideous blades forever! Bring on the Avatars! Show #297: TGS, EndWar, Dead Space and Age of Booty [Major Nelson via GamePlay Unlimited]


text:
Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE Network Now Reaches Thousands Of Palo Alto, California, College Students
WALNUT CREEK, CA — Since first introducing 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) in Palo Alto in December 2011, Verizon Wireless has expanded the nation's fastest 4G network and now reaches more than 15,000 college students at Stanford.
With Verizon's 4G LTE wireless technology, on-the-go students at major universities as well as local community and small, private colleges can maximize their academic experience as they head back to campus by:
- Streaming lectures or course content;
- Connecting instantly with professors via social media;
- Registering for classes and searching campus libraries;
- Sharing content via shared tools such as Drop Box;
- Allowing large homework files to be emailed;
- Providing quick access to notes and information to study for tests and complete projects, and;
- Communicating easier and faster with friends and family through video chat.
"As more classes begin integrating technology in the curriculum, students have a greater need to stay connected," said Russ Preite, region president for Verizon Wireless. "Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE technology helps students stay on top of their schoolwork and connected to friends."
Within Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE service area, Verizon customers with 4G LTE-enabled devices can stream video, share music and photos, surf the Web and download files at speeds up to 10 times faster than customers on 3G networks. For businesses utilizing the network, the increasing speed of broadband connectivity provides the most sophisticated wireless capabilities for economic advancement.
In real-world, fully loaded network environments, Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE customers in the coverage area should experience average data rates of 5 to 12 megabits (Mbps) per second on the downlink and 2 to 5 Mbps on the uplink.
The Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network was named "Fastest 4G Network Yet" by Popular Science's 2011 Best of What's New Awards, and was also ranked No. 1 on PC World's 100 Best Products of 2011. For more information about Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network, please visit www.verizonwireless.com/lte.
About Verizon WirelessVerizon Wireless operates the nation's largest 4G LTE network and largest, most reliable 3G network. The company serves 94.2 million retail customers, including 88.8 million retail postpaid customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 78,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD). For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.


text:
The FDIC insures depositors up to $250,000 per owner per bank. For investors with even larger deposits, the CDARS service allows depositors to access multi-million-dollar FDIC coverage, while earning CD-level interest rates.
With CDARS, there is no longer any need to run to multiple institutions so that you stay under the $250,000 limit of the FDIC. There are none of the hassles of signing multiple account documents and managing several bank statements. With CDARS, you enter into one Deposit Placement Agreement regardless of the number of CDs you open. Our consolidated statement shows your balance and maturity dates. Contact Summit State Bank to learn more.
How does CDARS work? When you place a deposit with Summit State Bank, your large deposit is broken into smaller amounts and placed with other banks that are members of the CDARS Network. Then those banks issue CDs in amounts under the standard FDIC insurance maximum, so that your investment is eligible for FDIC protection. By working directly with just one bank – Summit State Bank – you can receive insurance through many.
|CDARS Account
|Minimum deposit
|Maximum single deposit
|Length of term
|Interest Rate
|Eligible depositors
|Early Withdrawal
|Convenience features
Limits apply. Funds may be submitted for placement only after a depositor enters into a CDARS Deposit Placement Agreement with us. The agreement contains important information and conditions regarding the placement of funds by us. CDARS and Certificate of Deposit Account Registry Service are registered service marks of Promontory Interfinancial Network, LLC.


text:
A Price Too High to Bear, a research study conducted in Kenya by Family Care International in partnership with the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), and the KEMRI-CDC Research and Public Health Collaboration, documents the financial and social costs of maternal death to families in a poor, remote community and the ways that these costs affect newborn survival, child health and education, and family well-being.
This research was conducted, in cooperation with the Government of Kenya, with the financial support of the U.K. Government; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health.
A technical brief provides an overview of the research findings, including the devastating impact of a maternal death on the survival of newborns, the health and opportunities of surviving children, the well-being of families, and the economic productivity of communities. It includes a Foreword by James Macharia, Cabinet Secretary for Health of the Republic of Kenya.
This policy brief provides advocates with hard data and messages about the cost of maternal mortality to children, families, and communities. It is a powerful tool to support strengthened for increased investment in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, in Kenya and at the global level.
This more focused policy brief highlights the impact of a mother's death on the survival, health, education, and future opportunities available to her children, providing advocates with hard data and messages to support strengthened global and country-specific advocacy for increased RMNCH investment.
(The research team intends to publish more detailed presentations of the data and analysis during 2014 in a series of scholarly journal articles.)
This publication is only available for download at this time.


text:
Tie your mobile efforts to your email & social media outreach
Target audience: Nonprofits, cause organizations, NGOs, mobile advocacy groups, fundraising professionals, social media managers.
This is Part 7 of our series on social fundraising. See below for other articles in this series.
Guest post by Bob Jones
CEO, CharityCall
There is little argument that email and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are fast becoming mandatory tools for supporter outreach. These communication channels provide nonprofit organizations with an immediate and effective way to solicit, cultivate and engage donor support.
From a pure fundraising standpoint, email and social media channels are only effective when the recipient is able to respond immediately to a call to action. At best, your call to action message is going to be read once, so if that message is compelling enough to cause the recipients to donate, then they must be able to do so immediately.
Today, when your targeted recipient reads your online call to action from their PC, the "donate" link to your website's donation portal allows them to respond immediately with a gift. So the process of reaching out via email and social media to gain donations is fruitful – as long as the recipient is using a PC.
What happens if your target recipients are reading email and social media updates from their smartphone? Unfortunately, this is where your call to action for donations can hit a dead end, because the "donate" page linked from your current email or social media message may be inconvenient and nearly impossible to navigate and use from a mobile device. Expecting a smartphone user to enter full name, address and credit card number can be a non-starter.
So what can you do? Continue reading


text:
Credit the taxman for unearthing yet another unsusected haul -- but this time, it's in Germany.
More than 1,500 masterpieces seized by the Nazis have been discovered in a Munich apartment, hidden among mounds of rotten food and out-of-date tin cans.
The cache, estimated to be worth up to 1 billion euros ($1.35 billion), includes artworks by Picasso, Matisse and Paul Klee that were previously thought to be lost.
It came to light by pure chance, when customs officials searched the home of an art dealer's son suspected of tax evasion, German magazine Focus said on Monday. Cornelius Gurlitt's father Hildebrand collected the pieces during the Nazi era, authorities believe, when modern works were banned as "degenerate" art. His son, known as a loner, inherited the collection and kept it hidden for almost 70 years-- selling off a work from time to time, police believe -- until its discovery in 2011.
While about 300 pieces fit this "anti-German" bill, others are suspected to have belonged to Jewish owners forced to leave them behind when they fled the country. The number of stolen or forced-purchase artworks runs into thousands, experts believe.
Now German authorities face a flood of requests for restitution -- which could explain why they waited two years to reveal the find to the public. At least 200 of the pictures have an international warrant out for them, according to Focus, and a Berlin art historian is working on tracking down the origin of all the artworks.
At least one piece of the art trove was believed to have been sold off by Gurlitt -- a painting called "Lion Tamer", by Beckmann, which went for €864,000 euros at an auction house in Cologne in late 2011.
The Guardian reported that Gurlitt's father himself was half-Jewish and lost his post as a museum director in Zwickau under the Nazis, but was later commissioned by them to sell the works abroad. He also reportedly said his entire art collection was destroyed by the Dresden bombing.
-- Karen Friar
-- Follow Karen on @Karen_Friar