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|Aria Templates CDN
AT core team member
|21 November 2013 16:22
Mind dump:
- IE 7 not supported? // ok just kidding
- maybe there should be a link to this forum < http://ariatemplates.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=94 > at the bottom, to report issues, ask questions etc
- since there's a "skin" URL param, shall we add "flatskin" or sth too? (question: what if someone requests AT-1.4.veryold with flatskin - either a big red error, or just serve the atskin?)
Edit: just noticed:
should be rootFolderPath - it's a path string, not a map
(This post was last modified: 21 November 2013 16:26 by jakub-g.)
|25 November 2013 14:12
Homepage updated (disclaimer + contact) and support for flatskin added. The latter serves the regular atskin if the requested version is below 1.4.12; if you feel it should send an error instead, let me know.
AT core team member
|2 December 2013 14:56
I've been trying to release lightweight Fiddler rules targeting cdn.ariatemplates.com and realized a couple of things regarding CDN while working on this. The most important is the following:
When someone requests a dev file, say:
he gets a pre-built version, i.e. all of the bootstrap files are preprocessed on our side and squashed into a huge file which has nearly 15k lines (yeah not that bad compared to 22KLOC in Aria JSP). The remaining files are served on-demand in the old-fashioned way.
Compare this to the old good bootstrap-via-injection:
While the concatenation is nice for speed (1 big request instead of dozens of smalls), and probably JS execution time too, it hurts debuggability, because half of the things you'll see will come from 'at148.js' in the stack traces.
Also, say I want to put a breakpoint in "DownloadMgr", I am unable to CTRL-O in the dev tools to find it quickly, because DownloadMgr will not be a separate entity (since it's been concatenated into the bootstrap). So whole lot of entries (see attachment) will be unavailable in Firebug's list (same in Chrome devtools), and the only way to put a breakpoint there would be to open bootstrap and look for the interesting line within this monstrous 15 KLOC file.
Since the reason for the dev mode is mainly to debug stuff, I think it's crucial to have the niceties I mentioned.
One option to achieve this would be to change the way we serve dev files. However as I mentioned, the one-by-one mode is slow, so alternatively we may have three modes min, dev, and devdev But I think it should be probably enough to change "dev" to serve src files instead of the ones from bootstrap build.
(This post was last modified: 2 December 2013 15:37 by jakub-g.)
AT core team member
|2 December 2013 15:47
Some other issues (mostly about internals of the CDN):
1) Seems that for non-dev versions, we just have a big folder with all the versions thrown there, relying on MD5s for uniqueness: e.g.
I think it would be cleaner to have nice URLs like
(or the opposite, 1.x.x/dev/... and 1.x.x/min/...)
and just call sth like
in non-dev versions in the same way it's done for ?dev.
I'm thinking in terms of Fiddler rules, so we can have simple rules based on the nice URL structures on the servers, instead of different rules code for dev and non-dev. Also, ideally whatever we're doing with the CDN should resemble what's already in place for http://aria/aria-templates-old so we can easily reuse the rules' code instead of duplicating it. It's been painful enough to have 'ariatemplates.js' / 'aria-templates.js' etc. Consistency über alles
2) contrary to http://aria/aria-templates-old/ the CDN doesn't support directory listing, hence I can't traverse the folders to find out about directory structure. Not sure if this is deliberate or just overlooked. I prefer to have dir listing enabled so that in case something goes wrong I can debug things on my own rather than seeing 404s and wondering what's going on.
Also, since the index page of the CDN.AT.com is the informational page, you can't traverse the list of available versions (you only have a JSON with min and max version, but you won't see if patch versions are available etc.). If we moved things into the subfolder, say http://cdn.ariatemplates.com/at/ we might then make this folder listable too (i.e. I'd like http://cdn.ariatemplates.com/at/ behave like http://aria/aria-templates-old/ ).
(This post was last modified: 2 December 2013 15:55 by jakub-g.)
|4 December 2013 10:16
We could modify the directory structure of the non-dev folders but it is also used by other parts of the site, not only the cdn so... maybe in the future if time permits.
Other than that, all versions of AT between min and max are there, including the patched ones (which, remember, are only for internal purposes.) I'm not sure how having directory listing would help debugging? Can you elaborate on this?
AT core team member
|4 December 2013 10:56
Ad. dir listing: I meant meta-debugging/reverse-engineering the CDN I couldn't find certain files there until I've realized the 'dev' is actually 'lightly-packaged' version instead of pure src. Not that important for now.
|11 December 2013 15:56
The following changes have been committed:
- directory browsing: /aria, /dev and /css can be browsed (using the default pages provided by Connect)
- nocors parameter to force CORS bypass (this uses the xdomain library we force for IE8&9)
- no more preflight requests (see https://github.com/ariatemplates/cdn.ari.../issues/1)
|11 December 2013 16:15
(2 December 2013 14:56)jakub-g Wrote: When someone requests a dev file, say:
Yes, that's the way the OS version is built. You still have access to your "old-fashioned" bootstrap if you request the non-OS version.
|20 December 2013 10:55
Does it work with page engine?
|20 December 2013 15:05
Minus the cdn restriction (so no IE7 basically), yes it does!

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Early this year, Spanish researchers published a peer-reviewed paper considering the evidence of social learning in Middle Pleistocene hominids as indicated by patterns of butchery.
In the study, part of the Bolomer excavation under the auspices of the Prehistory Museum of Valencia, researchers examined bones to find that breakages during butchering to extract marrow occurred at unlikely places, indicating a specific intention, knowledge and practices transmitted through the generations from parent to child, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
I tuck in my three-year-old at bedtime under a mural I painted for him of mountains and trees and animals from his favorite storybooks: Owl Babies, Curious George. I turn the lights off, and brighten the dimmer three clicks, just enough to see. Aslan—the lion from the Narnia books I can't wait to read to Sam when he's a couple of years older—emerges from the dark with a slightly punk-rock mane on the wall just above my son's pillow.
He snuggles under a quilt friends made for him in honor of his Nana and Papa who died before he was born. We read two books.
Our routine is the books, and then singing one of several lullabies my mother and father sang to me. And we say a prayer, the Lord's Prayer or the Twenty-Third Psalm. He watches my mouth and my face intently. We say it every night until one night I realize he is saying it ahead of me. Another night when bedtime came after a scuffle he glowers at me and says: "You don't say it! I say it!"
I decide guidance in delivery is trumped by content. He calls the Lord's Prayer "The Jesus prayer," and Psalm 23 "The Lord is my shepherd," and he almost always prefers it, even at dinnertime. As far as writing goes, it trumps the Lord's Prayer: Sam likes stories, and the Psalm has concrete details like pastures and water and valleys and tables, not only kingdoms and wills and trespasses.
On occasion anointing heads with oil and cups overflowing is left out. I can understand. In our kitchen we encourage oil and milk to stay in their bottles and cups.
Pronunciation during these recitations is dicey. I don't suffer any delusion that there is great depth of understanding. Growing up in mountain territory, I'm not sure my son knows what a pasture is yet, and I pray the meaning of evil and the shadow of death will evade him for a long time to come.
I imagine he has achieved the level of understanding of the "donzerly light" I belted out in the national anthem until learning the actual words at the not-particularly-precocious age of ten.
But he is committing these words—or sounds, at least— and rhythms to memory. He is learning them by heart.
It is popular in the spiritual-but-not-religious city of Seattle to say that parents want their child to make their own choices about faith when they are old enough to decide. But in Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier, he quotes an unnamed rabbi as saying that in order for an adult to have the ability to choose her own faith journey, she must have been brought up in some faith as a child. She must have had the idea of faith presented, the practices of faith learned, wisdom passed down from one generation to the next.
Cheryl Strayed, author of the recent Wild, expressed disappointment in an interview that her mother had not shared her faith with her. Then her mother died and Strayed didn't know how to find her way. Another woman's parents were killed in an accident while she was in her teens. Her parents had intentionally not brought her up in any faith tradition, since one was Christian and one Jewish. She, too, was angry. She didn't have any prayers she knew to pray. She didn't know the Lord's Prayer.
I am painfully aware of more failures than successes as a parent. I know my children need more than my husband and I can provide. And whether they come to that realization by our deaths, or in adolescence, or both, the least I can do in all of my inadequacy as a parent is to ensure they have spirits stretched and trained to grace, so that they might lean into that beauty when they most need it.
I've knelt by a grave on a windswept tundra hill and prayed the Lord's Prayer and the Twenty-Third Psalm because I didn't know what else to pray. I've been thankful for words I can work to understand, even when the meaning might lie in the space between words. I've been grateful for the stuff of mercy to turn over in my head, for something my soul can rest in and hold on to and take apart over and over again until it makes sense or starts to be beautiful.
This is what I want for our children: the sounds and rhythms and words of prayer to wrestle with and explore when the world falls apart.
"I want to say prayer!" says our toddler. His soft small hands are holding my husband's and mine before dinner. My husband is mere seconds away from bowing his head to give thanks. The table is laid with a simple dinner I've made to build our son's body and brain. We sit together to build his heart. We pray to build his soul.
At some point life is going to break him at a hard place, more than once, and I want him to have what he needs to heal. I want him to find marrow in his bones.
"The Lord is my shepherd," my son begins…
"Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."
I keep my eyes closed above a half-repressed smile, sparked by amusement, but sustained by deep gratitude.


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Avocado Pound Cake Recipe
This recipe works a few mashed avocados into a pound cake recipe and adds a bit of cornmeal for texture. It bakes up just barely green, crisp on the edges, tender within, and with just a bit of a crunchy bite.
Reprinted with permission from Joy the Baker Cookbook by Joy Wilson. Copyright © 2012. Published by Hyperion. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
- Yield:makes two 9x5-inch loaves
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:1 hour 20 minutes
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- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons ripe mashed avocados
- 4 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
Place a rack in the center and upper third of the oven and preheat to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9x5-inch loaf pans and set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cornmeal, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Add avocado and beat for another 2 minutes. Stop mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl as necessary.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating on medium speed for 1 minute after each addition. Stop the mixer and scrape down to make sure everything is thoroughly mixed. Beat in vanilla.
With the mixer on low speed, add half of the flour mixture. Beat until just incorporated. Add the buttermilk and the remaining flour mixture. Beat until just incorporated. Remove bowl from the stand mixer, and finish incorporating the batter with a spatula.
Divide the batter between the pans and bake on alternating racks for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, rotate racks and bake for another 15 to 25 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool in pans for 20 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Cake will last, well wrapped, at room temperature for up to 4 days.
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These beautiful new mantillas come directly from Barcelona, Spain, having been artfully embroidered for a lovely drape.
All veils on this page are ready to ship within 3 business days--no rush fee! If your order contains "Ready to Ship" mantillas only, your veils will ship within 3 business days.
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Tuff Country EZ-Ride Suspension's new "Strong" Chevy Avalanche lift kits use new extended steering knuckles and a three-piece sub frame that includes two cross members that are connected by a heavy duty skid plate. This skid plate is designed to protect the front differential and stabilize the cross members for unmatched strength and durability. This design also allows for an easier and quicker installation. Rear coil spring spacers lift the rear to level the Chevy Avalanche. Differential drop brackets and torsion bar drop brackets keep everything in alignment. Also included are lateral compression arms which along with the 3-piece sub frame strengthen and stabilize the front end. Tuff Country has been producing quality suspension products for over 25 years and backs all lift kits with a limited lifetime warranty.
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|Tuff Country has been producing quality suspension products for over 25 years and backs all lift kits with a limited lifetime warranty.
1. Factory rims will not fit with this lift kit. A rim with 4.5" or less wheel off set is required.
2. Will not fit models equipped with Stabilitrak.
3. Factory shocks do not need to be replaced, kit includes shock relocating brackets..
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Fred The Godson adds a visual for his freestyle over Dej Loaf's track "Try Me". Fat Boy Fresh is out now.
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Fred The Godson is the latest rapper to freestyle over Dej Loaf's "Try Me".
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Fred The Godson returns with a quick visual for his "Hot Nigga" freestyle. Watch as Fred spits some new bars over Bobby Shmurda's hit.
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Study Abroad
Engage your world
Prepare to thrive in the ever-changing, global network. Don't just read about other cultures – encounter them firsthand.
We make your overseas experience affordable and convenient. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks George Fox among the nation's leaders in study abroad participation.
Note: Due to the pandemic, some trips planned for 2020-21 may be postponed or canceled. We are monitoring the situation and will keep you posted as the situation develops.
More than 50% of George Fox undergraduate students travel overseas.
Juniors Abroad
These three-week trips – with airfare and program costs funded by the university – include the guidance of faculty mentors. Study Renaissance Europe history in Paris. Learn Swahili and peace-building in Africa. Explore ancient pyramids in Egypt. Recent teams traveled to Rwanda, Ireland, Costa Rica, Rome, Paris, China, Egypt, Berlin and more.
Semester Abroad
Spend a whole semester overseas. Join a service trip with GoED International to address poverty and injustice. Learn advanced Spanish and experience the rich culture of Spain. Study environmental science and sustainable development in Costa Rica.
George Fox students have studied a full term on every continent but Antarctica. Travel and program costs for Semester Abroad are shared by George Fox.
Summer Serve
Be a global agent of change. Our students have served on short-term mission trips to South Africa, Thailand, Malawi, Russia, Romania, Jamaica, Cuba, Brazil, India and the Philippines.
You'll leave for Summer Serve expecting to share God's love. Most likely, you'll receive more than you give.
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Agenda: sight, attraction, music and maritime in Ostend
Timescape Escape Games
Challenging escape rooms with attention to detail and some surprisingly original puzzles! Timescape's first escape room is called the Quarantine but soon it will be adding a second one, called 'Battle Royale: Bunker Break-in'. These two rooms each have a floor area of 65 sq.m., meaning they are perfect for large groups! During the holidays, Timescape also organises pop-up escape rooms for children aged 10 or over. ...Read more
The Dune church was made a listed monument in 1946. The trapezoidal cemetery with lawns, weeping willows and shrubs followed suit in 1975. Many of the people who are buried here belonged to well-known families of Mariakerke. Leopold Passchyn was Mariakerke's last mayor (they have even named a street after him in Mariakerke). James Ensor is also buried here, near his beloved Dune church, which he helped protect against demolition in the late 19th Century. Every year in April, they organise the...Read more
Herdenkingsmonument HMS Vindictive
In May 2013, the restored bow of the HMS VIndictive was given a prominent place on the east bank of the port of Ostend. ...Read more
Horse-drawn carriages
Discover Oostende from a different point of view. You will find the coaches waiting for you at the Seamen's Memorial. They tour in and around the city centre depending on the weather.Read more
Sea excursion Oostende
Embark and make a wonderful sea trip with the MS Franlis III from the port of Ostend! Enjoy the sun, the wind, the water... You will pass big ferries, sailing boats, motorboats with fishermen in action with flying seagulls but also the beach and the dunes. The excursion (45 minutes) gives a complete particular view on the port and the city. Like to visit this attraction at a discount? Print your free Coast Pass now on www.kustpas.be/home/registerRead more
Kursaal Oostende
The building dominates the view at the Albert I promenade. The Casino, a design by Leon Stynen (1953) stands on the spot where in 1875 the first casino already stood. The latter was destroyed during WWII. After the war it would still be eight years before the current building was erected. This strikingly large building can boast being the largest in Belgium and is a typical example of modernism. The eye-catchers are of course the murals by Paul Delvaux. On 17th December 2004, the renovated...Read more
Get on board for an unforgettable sea fishing trip! Experience is not required, old or young, feel free to join in for this healthy leisure activity. ...Read more
North Sea Cruise Oostende
During this cruise, a guide will tell you about everything from short sea shipping and port signalling, various kinds of buoys and beacons over marine bird and sea mammal exploration to crossing international shipping routes. The boat tour finishes at the Thorntonbank wind farm, about 30 km off the coast.Read more
Museum Amandine
April 3rd 1995. On this day the Amandine entered Oostende harbour for the last time. On this day it dropped anchor for the very last time. The crew disembarked, swallowed hard and went home without looking back. The last page in Oostende's book on Iceland Fishing had been turned. Now, 13 years later, the Amandine has started her second career, a career as an interactive museum. It has taken two years of hard and concentrated work in the old shipyard 'Seghers' to restore the...Read more


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It is a little less than 12.5 miles up Pike's Peak from bottom to top for car, truck and motorcycle competitors in this weekend's famous race to the clouds. For one competitor the trip to the Pike's Peak International Hill Climb began 1132 miles away from the foot of Pike's Peak at Porsche Motorsports HQ.
We told you earlier this week about seven-time Pikes Peak Hill Climb champion Jeff Zwart's plan to drive the 620 horsepower Porsche GT2 RS he will be competing in at this weekend's Hill Climb to the event himself, but now you can watch his awesome trip in action. The 1132 mile trip from Santa Ana, Ca to the foot of Pike's Peak is well documented in this interesting video.
If transporting race cars is becoming too much of a hassle for Porsche we'll happily volunteer ourselves for the next round of GT2 road trip duty.
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Achieving Clarity in Academic Writing New
Achieving clarity in writing is not just about what's written on the page – that is merely the final stage in a long and complex process. It actually starts with the interpretation of the question… From a linguistic perspective writing is actually rather straightforward, but the clarity of the 'end product', particularly in academic writing, is very much dependent on the clarity of all the stages that precede it. This session will examine this process and explores strategies to help you improve the clarity of your writing.
First year PhD students in the School of Physical Sciences
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Final Vote alliance paying off for Tigers' Benoit
Detroit closer can benefit from partnership with Giants' Pence in polling
CLEVELAND -- Joaquin Benoit's job in the Tigers' bullpen is to protect leads. Get him an advantage, and he'll finish it out.
After the second balloting updates for the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com Final Vote, Benoit was going to need some help from fans to earn the last spot on the American League roster.
And to get that extra help, the Tigers turned to, of all clubs, the team that beat them in the World Series.
The move appears to be giving Benoit some traction, as he moved up from fourth to third among the AL hopefuls when the latest balloting updates were announced Wednesday, with the lead maintained by Toronto's Steve Delabar.
On Monday the Tigers and Giants announced a Final Vote partnership, encouraging Detroit fans to vote for Benoit as well as San Francisco outfielder Hunter Pence, and vice versa. The teams unveiled the #BackBenoit and #BackPence hashtags, the official tags to be used to vote for the pair during Thursday's social media voting period between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET, which also marks the final six hours of voting.
Benoit has faced Pence five times, including twice in the Fall Classic, but he doesn't know him personally.
"It's a great way to start a friendship, I guess," Benoit said. "We'll vote for each other."
Now in its 12th year, the 2013 All-Star Game Final Vote sponsored by freecreditscore.com gives baseball fans around the world the opportunity to select the final player on each All-Star team. Balloting began immediately following Saturday's Major League All-Star Selection Show presented by Taco Bell and will end on Thursday at 4 p.m. ET. The winners will be announced on MLB.com shortly thereafter.
The Tigers have had success building up players for the Final Vote before, getting Brandon Inge into the 2009 All-Star Game. They've also had success getting relievers recognized for stellar seasons with All-Star selections, such as Jose Valverde two years ago.
They're hoping to do the same with Benoit, whose six saves in six opportunities and nine holds have continued his track record of quiet production and late-inning lockdown performances. No other reliever in the Final Vote brings the combination of saves and holds as Benoit, who earned his well-deserved chance to take over Detroit's closer role last month.
Statistically, Benoit is enjoying his best year since his 2010 breakout season with Tampa Bay made him one of the game's best setup men. With 46 strikeouts and just 28 hits over 36 1/3 innings, he has a level of stinginess not seen from a Tigers closer in a long time. Moreover, he has allowed just two home runs all year, a vast improvement from the 14 he gave up last year.
Along with left-hander Drew Smyly, Benoit has been the glue holding together Detroit's bullpen through its struggles. Now is the opportunity for fans to return the favor.
The normally quiet Benoit isn't going to campaign for himself.
"I want to let the people decide," he said. "Obviously, I want to go. It would a great experience."
His teammates, however, are picking up the campaign for him.
"Thanks to all the fans who vote for our boys," catcher Brayan Pena tweeted Sunday night. "You guys are the best. Please let's get Benoit in!!"
Thanks to all the fans who vote for our boys , you guys are the best , please lets get Benoit in !! GOD BLESS U AMERICA GOOD NIGHT !!- Brayan Pena (@cuban2727) July 7, 2013
There will be an extra treat for fans who participate in the Final Vote online. If you are not a current MLB.TV subscriber (MLB.TV or MLB.TV Premium), you are eligible to receive a 14-day free trial of MLB.TV from July 12-26. If you are a current MLB.TV subscriber (MLB.TV or MLB.TV Premium), you will receive a 15 percent discount to the MLB.com Shop. MLB.com will send an email on Friday to all Final Vote voters with instructions on how to redeem the applicable offer.
Mobile voting in the U.S. and Canada is open to everyone. In the U.S., to receive the 2013 All-Star Game Final Vote sponsored by freecreditscore.com mobile ballot, text the word "VOTE" to 89269. To vote for Benoit, simply text message A1 to 89269. In Canada, fans should text A1 to 101010. Standard message and data rates may apply. To vote for another player via text message, use the codes below.
A1 - Joaquin Benoit, Detroit
A2 - Steve Delabar, Toronto
A3 - David Robertson, New York Yankees
A4 - Tanner Scheppers, Texas
A5 - Koji Uehara, Boston
N1 - Ian Desmond, Washington
N2 - Freddie Freeman, Atlanta
N3 - Adrian Gonzalez, Los Angeles
N4 - Hunter Pence, San Francisco
N5 - Yasiel Puig, Los Angeles
For the second consecutive year, the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com Final Vote Sponsored by freecreditscore.com (#FinalVote), will include a social balloting element as Twitter support from the candidates' fans over the last six hours of balloting will count toward their final vote totals. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET on Thursday, any tweet that includes a designated player hashtag will be tabulated as part of the overall vote total used to determine the American League and National League winners. Fans may follow @MLB on the popular social networking service for the latest standings updates in advance of the 4 p.m. balloting deadline.
The fun doesn't end there, however. Fans, having already decided the starters and soon the final player on each team, once again will have the opportunity to participate in the official voting for the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player presented by Chevrolet via the 2013 All-Star Game MVP Vote on MLB.com during the All-Star Game. The 84th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM also will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, visit allstargame.com.


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(Editor's Note: In honor of Veterans' Day, which fell on Sunday, AdvisorOne is re-running this "Advisors Who Serve(d)" slideshow.)
In the middle of fireworks and barbeques on July 4, 2012, the editors of AdvisorOne ask you to consider the true meaning of Independence Day, and to honor your peers and your partners who placed their lives on hold and on the line to help preserve our independence.
This is the third in a series of articles on AdvisorOne that honors those advisors and partners to advisors who served in the military. We've created a special landing page for you to view all three of our slideshows as well. The 18 people on the pages below responded to our call to share the particulars of their service—some in the past and some still serving—and, in most instances, some photos of themselves, when they were in service or today, as well.
Most telling to us, however, were the 18′s responses to how their military service helped prepare them for their advisory careers. We began this series of AdvisorOne slideshows last year because anecdotally there seemed to be a large percentage of advisors, both men and women, who had served in one of the branches of the military over the years but in many cases had not received the appreciation they were due for their service.
The comments of this group below on their military experiences speak for themselves—profound and humorous, patriotic and often self-deprecating, but humbly proud of their service as well.
While there are many ways to show our patriotism, we ask you please to pause this Independence Day 2012 and honor the advisors below and all their brothers and sisters in arms in the past and now for their service to our country.
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Janet Barr
Title/Company: Registered Principal – Collaborative Financial Solutions, LLC
Branch/Rank: US Army – Private E2/Sergeant E5
Service Dates: Aug '80 – Aug '84
Work you did: Tank Mechanic; seriously.
Brief story that stands out from your service time: In my past 35 years of business dealings, the one principle I took away from the Army came from a very special Sergeant. He was new and had a very hardened, strict and mean demeanor. I became his driver, and after getting to know him I realized he was actually a sweetheart. He was so kind and so nice that I had to ask him why he put on such a cold front. He replied that in order to command respect, you have to be a little hardened. To be taken seriously, one must be firm and strong. He explained that it is easier for someone to be pleasant and kind after gaining respect than to be strict and mean with no respect at all. This token of advice has helped me professionally and more importantly has helped me create sound and rewarding relationships with my staff.
Henri Bonne
Title/Company: Associate Vice President – Raymond James and Associates
Branch/Rank: US Army – began 2nd Lieutenant, ended Captain
Service Dates: 1981- 87
Work you did: Artillery Officer
Brief story that stands out from your service time: See photo above.
John F. Brosnan III
Title/Company: Financial Advisor & Branch Manager – Raymond James Financial Services
Branch/Rank: US Marine Corps – 2nd Lt. – Captain
Service Dates: March '90 – Sept '93
Work you did: Infantry Officer
Brief story that stands out from your service time: Served with the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division during the Persian Gulf War, Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm. Funny story: my then fiancée and I had been planning our wedding for months. When I reported to the battalion for duty after Infantry Officer Course I was told I wasn't going to be able to go to my own wedding due to the upcoming deployment. Fortunately things worked out, three days after the wedding our unit deployed for the Gulf. Let's just say my wife didn't see the humor in this story. Semper Fi, JB.
Terry R. Carr
Title/Company: Branch Manager – Raymond James
Branch/Rank: US Army – 2d Lieutenant – LTC
Service Dates: Jan '69 – Oct '91
Work you did: Special Forces; Most of career in logistics
Brief story that stands out from your service time: When I was serving in Egypt responsible for cooperative development programs for all military services, we had numerous high-level visitors like the Secretary of Defense, former President Jimmy Carter and numerous others. We took Gen Schwarzkopf, CG, US CENTRAL COMMAND, on a "faluka" ride (a small Egyptian sailboat). My wife remarked to me afterwards that she was glad we were not at war because she couldn't imagine Schwarzkopf with such a warm and generous heart as a combat leader, and that he was like a big teddy bear. Soon thereafter he led what was arguably the most successful combat operation in US history, Operation Desert Storm.
Aaron Frye (no photo supplied)
Title/Company: Financial Advisor – Raymond James
Branch/Rank: US Air Force – E-5/SSgt
Service Dates: Aug '94 – April '03
Work you did: Aerospace Physiology – Hyperbaric and Hypobaric Chambers
Brief story that stands out from your service time: N/A
Brian Haugen
Title/Company: SVP, Investments – Emerald Coast Wealth Advisors of RJFS
Branch/Rank: US Army – 2LT – LTC
Service Dates: March '86 – Sept '09
Work you did: Special Forces
Brief story that stands out from your service time: Commanded a Special Forces Company along the Afghan-Pakistan border from '02 to '03. Those were some wild times.
Bill Krebs
Title/Company: Financial Advisor / Branch Manager – Raymond James and Associates
Branch/Rank: US Army – 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant
Service Dates: May '75 – May '79
Work you did: Infantry Officer with 1st Ranger Battalion
Brief story that stands out from your service time: We parachuted into the Gatun Drop Zone in Panama to conduct a mock raid. I was a platoon leader at the time. I used initiative to cross a stream and attack the objective from the rear. Found out later that we had crossed the old French Canal which was shark infested. Got yelled at; however, we smoked the mission!
Jerold Marc Matherne
Title/Company: Financial Advisor – The Shobe Finanical Group
Branch/Rank: US Navy – Midshipmen – LT, made LCDR in reserves
Service Dates: May '88 – Sept '96
Work you did: Surface Warfare Officer
Brief story that stands out from your service time: Most memorable moment was conducting counter narcotics in the Pacific Ocean just on the other side of the Panama Canal. We came across a boat that was suspicious and even more so because we had just spotted bails of cocaine floating in the waters near this vessel. We towed the boat into Rodman Panama and seized one of the largest drug busts of the time. The irony was that the other bails of cocaine in the water near the boat we captured weren't from the same cartel. It sounds like they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The picture above is from when I was a Midshipman at Tulane University NROTC, 1984-1988.
Russell McAlmond
Title/Company: President – Evergreen Capital Management Inc.
Branch/Rank: US Marines – Corporal
Service Dates: N/A
Work you did: Infantry
Brief story that stands out from your service time: It was the best of times and the worst of times.
Clayton McWhorter (no photo supplied)
Title/Company: Senior Vice President – Raymond James and Associates
Branch/Rank: US Army – 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant
Service Dates: Feb '62 – Feb '64
Work you did: Platoon leader, Exec Officer, Company Commander
Brief story that stands out from your service time: Two of the very best years of my life I spent as a platoon leader, executive officer and then as tank commander, responsible for 17 tanks and 120 men. I have to say it was absolutely the best job in the world.
Steven Medland
Title/Company: Co-Founder and Partner – TABR Capital Management, LLC
Branch/Rank: US Navy – Began as an Ensign and left active duty as a Lieutenant. Currently a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve.
Service Dates: June '92 – present
Work you did: Submarine Officer
Brief story that stands out from your service time: As a young officer reporting aboard my submarine, I felt prepared for the technical aspects of submarine operations, but I was totally unprepared to help my junior enlisted sailors with some of the financial challenges they faced. Fortunately, the senior enlisted crewmembers had seen it all, and they were experts at extricating our younger shipmates from bad financial decisions (e.g. buying too much car, purchasing life insurance as an investment, etc.). In my eight years of active duty service, I unfortunately saw how the financially unsophisticated can be targeted, but I also learned how financial education can be used to protect against unscrupulous characters. Knowledge is power, and that's true for our service men and women in addition to all U.S. citizens.
Byron Overton
Title/Company: Financial Advisor – First Command Financial
Branch/Rank: US Army – E-1/E-5
Service Dates: 2002-08
Work you did: Combat Engineer/Construction
Brief story that stands out from your service time: Tour of Iraq 2003-2004. Had a great time and while working my duties, worked with the Koreans that we were stationed with. I became English teacher for a Special Forces unit stationed with us. That was one of the greatest times in my life.
Steve Putnam
Title/Company: Financial Advisor – Raymond James Financial Services
Branch/Rank: US Army – Lt., Major
Service Dates: 1965-81
Work you did: Recon Platoon Leader, S2, S3 Air
Brief story that stands out from your service time: Spending time in both Korea and Vietnam allowed me the opportunity to appreciate the nuances of those cultures and people. As a Ranger/Airborne platoon leader, I had a very special "family" relationship with my soldiers who served and sometimes died. None that I served with ever felt their efforts were wasted and I have felt every day after that was a dividend given to me to help others.
Meredith Schneider
Title/Company: Principal – Schneider Wealth Management
Branch/Rank: US Army – 2nd Lt through Captain
Service Dates: June '92 – Aug '96
Work you did: Platoon Leader, Maintenance Officer, S-1, Civil Affairs Officer
Brief story that stands out from your service time: I am honored to have had the opportunity to meet so many people from all over the country who served with great dedication. I will never forget the "Any Solider" letters we received while in Bosnia. Some days they were the only link to life outside of our tents since we had no phone, television, newspaper, Internet, and often no mail from loved ones. I remember a letter in particular from a young boy in Rhode Island who wrote in reply to a letter I wrote back to him. He wrote, "Receiving your letter was the happiest day of my life." Little did he know how happy I was to receive his letter of support.
Alvin Steinberg
Title/Company: Financial Advisor – Ameriprise Financial
Branch/Rank: US Air Force – E-1, E-5
Service Dates: June '67 – June '71
Work you did: Security Tactical Air Command (SEATO) & Strategic Air Command USA
Brief story that stands out from your service time: A friend of mine was destroying classified secret codes according to procedure. You wad up small pieces of paper (code pages), insert them in a paper grocery bag, staple the bag, and then set it on fire in a barrel. Someone forgot to tell him to punch holes in the bag to let the heated air escape prior to burning. Well, the bag exploded and code pages were flying everywhere. He looked like Barney Fife chasing them down.
Dennis A Suckstorf
Title/Company: Director of Financial Planning – Financial Advantage, Inc.
Branch/Rank: US Air Force – SMSgt
Service Dates: April '70 – July '90
Work you did: Cryptologic Linguist
Brief story that stands out from your service time: As a young linguist during the Vietnam War, a veteran Staff Sergeant saw me struggling with the foreign language I had been assigned to learn. He took the time to mentor me in the language and the job. He made a lasting impression on me that led me to work with other airmen during my career. It also gave me the focus and philosophy of helping that has been a major contributor to my success as a financial planner.
Andy Tilp (no photo supplied)
Title/Company: President – Trillium Valley Financial Planning
Branch/Rank: US Air Force – E1-E4
Service Dates: Sept '73 – June '77
Work you did: Calibration electronic technician
Brief story that stands out from your service time: I joined just as Vietnam War was winding down and, unfortunately, it was a time where the military was not looked upon with high regard. I am glad that attitudes have changed and returning veterans are now treated with respect.
Ronald Wilson
Title/Company: Financial Advisor – Raymond James
Branch/Rank: US Army – E1 to Spec 5
Service Dates: April '67 – July '73
Work you did: Crew Chief Medivac Helicopter
Brief story that stands out from your service time: I was in a small helicopter Medical Evacuation unit in Vietnam. We had six aircraft and about 40 men. After Vietnam we went 35 years with little if any contact. Since 2004 we have gathered at various places in the U.S. Our most recent event was this year over the Memorial Day weekend in New Orleans. It was been very rewarding to see these guys again!
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VANCOUVER - There was no road map for the lonely territory Joannie Rochette had to cross Tuesday night.
No sports psychologist, among the many who worked with Canadian Olympians in the lead-up to the Games, could have prepared her for having the moment she'd waited for all her life arrive amid the terrible grief of her mother's death two days earlier.
The capacity crowd at Pacific Coliseum would have gladly rushed onto the ice and carried the 24-year-old from Ile-Dupas, Que., through the two minutes and 50 seconds of her short program, but a figure skater must literally face the music alone, in the middle of a vast white surface, and try to carve something memorable out of the ice in the time allotted.
So Joannie Rochette stood there, letting the fans' warmth wash over her, knowing that when it grew quiet, she would have to do this thing, all by herself.
And she did it all, every jump, every spin, every flourish to the Uruguayan tango La Cumparsita, whose lyrics begin: "The little parade of endless miseries ..."
Only when it was over would she let the grief take over, and she crumpled into the arms of her coach, Manon Perron, and wept uncontrollably while her marks came up.
On a night when Japan's Mao Asada and Korean world champion Yu-Na Kim had pretty much brought the house down with back-to-back works of art – Asada with the Olympics' first-ever triple Axel combination by a woman leading off what might have been her best-ever skate; Kim answering right back with her matchless combination of textbook technique and show-stopping artistry – there was little chance of Rochette matching their firepower.
But she is right there for a medal, sitting third heading into Thursday's long program, and with everything that must have been swirling through her mind, it was one of the most remarkable performances any Canadian skater has ever laid down.
Looking composed and focussed as soon as she took the ice for warmup, nothing changed in her routine, and she opened with a perfect triple Lutz-double toe loop combination to show that her nerves were fully under control. She followed with a solid triple flip, then a double Axel, a wonderful footwork sequence, and emoted to the music and was rewarded with her season's best score, 71.36 points.
She's distantly in third, but also comfortably ahead of fourth-place Miki Ando of Japan.
"Words cannot describe it.," Rochette said, in quotes relayed through Skate Canada's high performance director Mike Slipchuk. "It's hard to be precise. I have no regrets.
"It was a very nice, warm welcome. Hard to handle, but I appreciate the support. I will remember this forever."
Nathalie Lambert, the Canadian Olympic team's chef de mission, had predicted "a wind of love" from the audience when Rochette stepped on the ice Tuesday, and she was not wrong.
"If she doesn't skate, we'll love her. If she does skate, and does well, we'll love her, and if she does skate and doesn't do well, we'll love her," Lambert told a reporter the other day. "And that's the most important thing."
But when the moment came, the result did matter. The crowd was pulling so fervently for her, she couldn't have helped but feel it.
"I was thinking, 'Please let it be perfect and let it be exactly what she is hoping for, and let the music finish before anything bad happens,'" said Lambert. "It's a very tough week for her, the toughest of her life, it's already something really hard to cope with just the stress and uniqueness of the Olympics – and on top of this, to have to cope with the grief … and from the first minute, I think she handled it extremely well.
"I think she wanted to do well tonight – both for herself and for her mother. As an athlete, you can't get to the place where she is right now without the support of your family, and more often than not, your mother is your No. 1 fan, and this was very much the case for her.
"And so this was the Olympic dream for the whole family, and she just wants to live it. I think she held it together until she was finished, and then that's the moment when you realize your mother was not there to watch it – and she came here for that. "
But if none of the possible outcomes really mattered to anyone else, once Therese Rochette passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning, they still mattered to her daughter, who was awakened gently by her father, Normand, at 6 a.m. to tell her the awful news.
She didn't want a free pass from the butterflies and the pressure. And she didn't shy from it. She couldn't have dreamed that the moment she had waited for all her life would be so big, and so complicated. But wherever she found the strength, she got the job done.
"When she took to the ice, she looked like the Joannie we've known and grown with," said Slipchuk. "She was as good as she's been all year. That's just a testament to her, to be able to get herself in the right frame of mind, in the moment, and do it. "
And now that the dam has burst, and Joannie Rochette has finally let herself feel the pain?
"I think we all saw all the emotion that was in there, and this was a big step for her tonight," said Slipchuk. "We've got a couple of days now. I know she'll be ready for Thursday."


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October 28, 2013
Research, poetry, art, and activism come together in The Watcher Files Project, a collaboration between Assistant Professor of Art Garrick Imatani and poet Kaia Sand.
Imatani and Sand recently spoke with OPB's Think Out Loud about their role as artists-in-residence at the City of Portland's Archives and Records Center, and their project to engage the Watcher Files, a series of surveillance documents on 301 activist groups collected by the Portland Police Bureau over a 30-year span.
One piece of the project is talking to some of those surveilled and incorporating their responses in the art. A poem that Sand is composing is based on all the sentences in the files that start with the word "she," as a way to catalogue the diverse lives of the women under surveillance.
The project won't be complete until next summer, but an exhibition of their work in progress can be seen at the Portland Archives and Records Center, 1800 S.W. Sixth Avenue, Suite 550. The artists have also launched a website with progress reports based on their art, poetry, and research.
"What I do in my own work and scholarship has a direct impact on how I approach teaching," Imatani said. "My most inspiring teachers asked questions of my working process that challenged me to think deeply about how my work was situated within a broader visual culture. I respect my students enough to take this same approach into my own classroom today. Technology always changes and crafts can continue to be learned outside the context of school. The most important tool to sharpen in undergrad is your mind."
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By DAVID GREEN
The good thing about this year's drop in enrollment for Morenci Area Schools is that the decline isn't as great as expected.
When preparing the budget in June, finance director Erica Metcalf projected a decline of 24 students from the number enrolled when school ended in June, for a total of 721. That projection followed the trend in declining enrollment from recent years.
On student count day last week, 744 students were enrolled, a decline of 16 from a year ago. However, last year there were 10 students enrolled in Morenci's alternative education class—several from outside the district—but the district has no alternative education students this year. Not including the alternative school, the change in enrollment is only six fewer than a year ago.
The biggest change from 2010-11 comes at the elementary school where student numbers fell by 26.
That's partially due to last year's extra large fourth grade class that's now in the middle school—and still growing. This year's first and third grade classes both lost seven students over the summer, while the second grade class grew by five.
This year's fifth grade class is now up to 71—an increase of six—to help raise the middle school enrollment by 10.
The high school enrollment includes a range of class sizes, from the 45 members of the senior class to 66 in the freshman class. Total enrollment increased by 13 from a year ago as last year's 42 seniors graduated and the large freshman class moved in.
Enrollment could still fluctuate some because any changes over the following two weeks after count day must be reported.


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RED SOX: Dustin Pedroia finalizes 8-year, $110 million extenison
If the Red Sox thought the contract extension they gave Dustin Pedroia would keep him in Boston for the rest of his career, they may have actually underestimated the tenacity that made the diminutive second baseman a star.
"I don't know if I'll be done by then, man. I feel good, dude," he said after signing an eight-year, $110 million contract extension that would keep him in a Red Sox uniform until the age of 38. "Maybe I haven't had my growth spurt, and I'll get taller."
The Red Sox announced their new deal with the 2008 AL MVP before Wednesday night's game against the Tampa Bay Rays. At a table set up in front of the team's dugout, general manager Ben Cherington, manager John Farrell and Pedroia talked about his contributions as a hitter and fielder but also as a leader in the clubhouse.
"He's the straw that stirs the drink," Farrell said. "He sets the tone for our workday. There's a pretty strong sentiment that if you practice at full speed, you're going to become a better player."
Pedroia had been scheduled to receive $10 million next season under his old deal, which also had an option for '15 at $11 million. The new deal starts next season and runs through 2021.
"This place is the only place I've known since I started playing professional baseball, and it's my home," said Pedroia, who was selected by the Red Sox in the second round of the 2004 draft. "I can't wait to be here and put on that uniform every day. It means a lot to me to be with my teammates and represent the city in the right way."
A 5-foot-8, 165-pound infielder who was the AL Rookie of the Year in 2007, when the Red Sox won their second World Series in four seasons, and MVP the next year, Pedroia has grown into his role as a team leader. Cherington said that was the reason the team agreed to the long-term deal -- reportedly with a full no-trade clause.
"This contract does represent an exception for us, and as we told Dustin in spring training, he's absolutely the right person to make an exception for," Cherington said. "It was the right thing to keep him here, hopefully for the rest of his career. I just know we're happy he's here, and there's no one we'd rather have as our second baseman."
As Cherington was speaking, Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz walked up and presented Pedroia with second base from the Fenway Park diamond. "This is for you, buddy," he said.
Pedroia is batting .306 this season with 25 doubles, six home runs and 58 RBIs. In his seven-year career -- all with the Red Sox -- he has a .303 batting average and an on-base percentage of .371.
Cherington said there had been no talk about making Pedroia captain, a role last held by catcher Jason Varitek before he retired in 2012. But that's only because Pedroia doesn't need to have a "C" on his uniform to show that he's a leader.
Rays manager Joe Maddon called Pedroia "a guy that plays the game properly, shows up every night, will be there in the difficult moments, will set the right kind of example."
"He's not the tallest guy in the world, but he's like everyman when it comes to this game," Maddon said. "He's the type of guy that fathers can watch the game with their kid and say, `You can be Dustin Pedroia. Regardless of how big you are or not, just play with that type of verb intensity and enthusiasm.' It's good for the Red Sox. It's going to make it that much more difficult for us as far as competition."
The deal eliminates one uncertainty for a team that could see center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury become a free agent after the season. Of the position players on the 2007 championship team, only Pedroia, Ellsbury and Ortiz remain.
"I've come up with some guys that left. There's always that doubt," Pedroia said. "Always, in my heart, I felt like I would always play every game for the Red Sox. Just being here right now, this happening, it's pretty special to me and my family."


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May 16, 2013
The secretive Bilderberg Group has had more exposure in the past several years than it has since its founding in 1954. This is due mostly to the alternative media pushing the issue to the forefront. Today Bilderberg appears to be grooming itself for a new era and coming into the open. As reported by Paul Joseph Watson, Google and Bilderberg are apparently merging.
What is the end game of this merger? It is possible to reverse-engineer the Google-Berg plan by sifting through open source information. In this article we will be connecting the dots to paint a picture of what is very likely the big picture plan of the Google-Bilderberg partnership. This partnership entails the networking of powerful individuals who operate vast networks of influence. Among these include Banks, technology developers, CEO's of corporations and Prime Ministers.
In his 2011 book How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance, Parag Khanna – Director of the Global Governance Initiative at the New America Foundation – outlines a vision for the future in which mega corporations, NGO's and governments team up to govern the globe. As the Asia Times reports "Apart from the usual government/institutional suspects, Khanna includes an array of extra players in the new rulers of the world, mostly powerful NGOs such as the Gates Foundation. These players are particularly fond of the global conference circuit – from the annual bash at in Davos of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to the seductively mysterious Bilderberg Group."
An example of these individuals "fondness of the global conference circuit" is a 2009 meeting in New York at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Rockefeller Foundation. As to the secrecy of the meeting, a guest said, "They wanted to speak rich to rich without worrying anything they said would end up in the newspapers, painting them as an alternative world government."
This is the backdrop to the Google-Berg merger. Governments are going broke. Globalist influences have broken down national borders. Tax exempt foundations and mega corporations are filling the gap.
These groups are essentially hijacking national government's policies and advancing a top down, authoritarian system of control. In an interview with the Seattle Times, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was asked, "Some say the emergence of super rich philanthropies like the Gates Foundation has undermined the effectiveness of the U.N. and its member organizations, like the WHO." Moon responded,
"On the contrary that is what we really want — contributions from the business community as well as philanthropies. We need to have political support, but it doesn't give us all that we need. NGOs and philanthropies and many foundations such as Bill Gates Foundation — they're taking a very important role…"
The Gates Foundation has successfully hijacked America's national education policy. To demonstrate the intimate relationship that the Gates Foundation has with the Obama administration, this 2009 article points out that within the first four months of his Presidency, Obama appointed four high ranking officials from the Gates Foundation.
The Bilderberg conglomerate is tapping into this immense power to advance its objectives.
What will the future look like under the direction of mega corporations and philanthropic organizations?
Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna write in Foreign Policy magazine, "As we move into the Hybrid Age, whoever has the capacity to mange the intersection of technology, capital, and identity can become a pole of power." As we have seen, tax exempt foundations and corporations like Google have taken on a powerful role in global affairs. Governments are increasingly taking a back seat to the influence of these groups. Some have charged that they are "monopolizing development."
In joining with Bilderberg, Google is preparing to enter this "Hybrid Age" of advancing technology and rapidly changing geopolitical landscapes with its hands gripped tightly on the reigns of power. With this merger, the world is set to be shaped into a highly surveilled and planned system at the direction of unelected elitists.
In 2010 the Forum for the Future presented a vision of the future in which mega-cities are run by supercomputers and citizens lives are tightly controlled. The Forum for the Future is backed by Bank of America, Sony, the City of London Corporation, PepsiCo UK, Time Warner, and Royal Dutch Shell. Each of these entities have representatives at the Bilderberg Group.
Their vision for the future was called "Planned-Opolis":
These mega-cities will likely be based on an ongoing project in a South Korean city called New Songdo. The "U-City" will deploy so called "ubiquitous computing" technology that enables the monitoring of citizens 24/7 via pressure sensitive floors that track your walk to computer chips that are embedded everywhere in the environment. U-cities are described as places where "…all major information systems (residential, medical, business, governmental and the like) share data, and computers (e.g., RFID, smart cards and sensor-based devices) are built into the houses, streets, bridges and office buildings."
Bill Gates' Microsoft Corporation is playing a key role in developing technology for New Songdo. While a large portion of the technology is being developed in the U.S., it is being tested in South Korea where there are historically less traditional, ethical and social blockades to prevent its acceptance and use.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt – who expects to be swallowing nanobots in the not too distant future – envisions life in this technological age as a streamlined and convenient existence. Google's driverless cars – now legal in California and Nevada – will no doubt find their way into Planned-Opolis.
The Hybrid Age
Are we headed to a Rollerball like future in which corporations have replaced countries? According to Parag and Ayesha Khanna we are indeed headed in that direction. In the Hybrid Age, mega coporations will provide advanced technology to their constituents and thus gain loyalty. As we stray away from broken governments to provide security and prosperity, these entities will fill the gap.
"Employees of Facebook or Google can spend their days on campuses that are effectively full-service communes; the same is happening in companies in Russia, India, and China. One day a corporate passport might afford them greater freedom of mobility than their national citizenship."
In 2008 the Washington Post published an article titled "Washington's Future, a History." The Post gathered trends analysts, university heads and government officials to look into the future and develop potential scenarios. The Post depicts a future in which small scale terror attacks and angry rioters plague the streets while implantable ID chips allow government workers to pass through checkpoints unmolested. Economic decline and cyber terrorism fracture the country. Bobbie Kilberg, president of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, told the Washington Post, "Basic functions of government will be outsourced."
In the Post's vision of the future, "Google LifeServices" provide the wealthy with employment at "work pods," goods, and other services in one complex. Those who subscribe have access to,
"…entertainment and socializing… gathering goods, eating and working. The new subscription retailing was catching on in cavernous buildings, old big box stores that had been reconstituted as workspaces. Here, people could spend a good chunk of their day, moving seamlessly from their work pod to take in a movie with a friend, choose the dinner items that would be delivered before they got home, and take care of the day's errands, all while staying in constant touch with colleagues, and all for one monthly Google LifeServices subscription fee."
The global elite are pushing the globe toward a dystopic future in which all aspects of life are in some way managed by their interests. Humanity cannot afford to blindly accept this future, no matter how attractive the propaganda might seem. On June 6 the Bilderberg conference will commence. The future of humanity will be discussed by a handful of elites with agendas that will have a far reaching impact on all of our lives.
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Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council Invasive Plant Manual
Common Name: Purple Loosestrife
Scientific Name: Lythrum salicaria L.
Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria L.) is a wetland perennial that forms large, monotypic stands throughout the temperate regions of the U.S. and Canada. This aggressive invader replaces native vegetation, degrades wildlife habitat, and obstructs natural waterways. Also known as Bouquet-violet, it belongs to the Lythraceae (Loosestrife) family.
Similar Species
The native winged loosestrife (Lythrum alatum Pursh) most closely resembles purple loosestrife. However, winged loosestrife has alternate leaves, more widely spaced flowers, and is smaller in size (an average of 0.6 m or 2 ft tall) than purple loosestrife. Other species that might easily be confused with purple loosestrife on first glance include fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium L.), blue vervain (Verbena hastata L.), and blazing star (Liatris spicata L. Willd.), although their preferred habitats are considerably drier.
Purple loosestrife is an aquatic to semiaquatic species occurring in a variety of different shallow water wetlands including marshes, bogs, wet meadows, stream and river banks, shores of lakes and reservoirs, wet pastures, roadside ditches, and disturbed wet soils. Plants thrive under moist soil conditions and in full sun; however, they can survive in up to 50% shade.
Management Recommendations
Mechanical Controls
Hand Pulling: In areas that contain less than 100 plants, younger plants (1-2 years old) can be hand-pulled. Plants more than 2 years old should be dug out with special care to include the entire rootstock. Removal activities should take place before flowering to ensure that seeds are not dispersed during the disturbance. All plant parts should be carefully bagged, removed from the site, and placed in approved landfills or preferably burned. Any plant fragment that escapes proper disposal could spread purple loosestrife on your control site or along your travel route. In addition, all clothing, boots, and equipment should be properly cleaned to ensure that no seeds are transported. If feasible, native plants should be restored to the control area by seeding or planting. This reestablishment of vegetation will deter new loosestrife seedling development through competition. Do not cut or mow purple loosestrife. These methods will simply increase the spread of plants since they can sprout vegetatively.
Biological Controls
Long-term studies on the effectiveness of biological controls are being conducted at the New York Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University. Several phytophagous insects which specifically feed on purple loosestrife in Europe have under-gone a series of intensive lab and field testing. Three beetles-two leaf eaters, and one root miner-have been approved for release in the U.S. Experimental importation of these insects has been made in the northeast. Success of these efforts could pave the way for the use of biological controls to manage purple loosestrife in a permanent, cost-effective, and environmentally sound way. There is significant concern about other native species of the genus Lythrum that may also be fed upon, although to a lesser degree, by these insects. Since other control measures may harm a variety of non-target plant species, this non-target feeding may occur at a level which is preferable to alternative control techniques.
Herbicidal Controls
Cut Stump Treatment: In areas that contain more than 100 plants, a spot application of a glyphosate herbicide (one that is approved for use in and near water) is recommended. Individual purple loosestrife plants should be cut about 15 cm (6 inches) above the ground. A 20-30% solution of glyphosate and water should be applied directly to the cut surface either by a wick or injection into the stem.
Foliar Spray Method: If purple loosestrife covers a large area, a foliar spray can be applied using a 2% glyphosate solution and water plus 0.5% non-ionic surfactant. To be most effective herbicide should be applied just when plants have begun flowering. Where feasible, flower heads should be cut, bagged, and removed from the site before application to prevent the production of seed. Glyphosate is a non-selective herbicide, and extreme care must be taken to avoid contact with non-target plant species. The restoration of sites depends on these non-target species as they recolonize the area after the purple loosestrife is eliminated.
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Malecki, R. A.; Rawinski, T. J. Purple loosestrife: a need for concern. New York State Conservation Circular 17:1-5; 1979.
Malecki, R. A.; Blossey, B.; Hight, S. D.; Schroeder, D.; Kik, L. T. Biological control of purple loosestrife. Bioscience 43:680-686; 1993.
McKeon, W. H. Apreliminary report on the use of chemical herbicides to control purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) on a small marsh. Northeast Weed Control Conference 13:329-332; 1959.
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I sometimes find myself in editing tussles over company names.
Companies can spend a great amount of time, brainpower and money developing their names, and they love them. That's understandable.
The problem arises when a company insists that the graphic version of its name—say, all in lower-case letters—be used throughout articles referring to the company.
Such demands give editors heartburn because we're supposed to be crafting clean, clear text. You know when you're reading clear text because you don't have to keep stopping and going back to reread a sentence that confuses you. And confusion is likely when proper nouns don't start with a capital letter, or alternate caps and lower-case letters, or turn to other rule-breakers that look cool on business cards but are confusing in text.
If you find that you are constantly "correcting" people about how they present your company name, then perhaps your name isn't helping your brand. Instead, it's a troublemaker.


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Fayetteville library holds public input meeting
Official: We want everybody involved
City officials wrapped up a public input meeting Monday after asking residents what improvements they would like to see with the Fayetteville Public Library.
The Washington Regional Board of Trustees will vote on Aug. 20 on whether or not they will approve the library's $2 million bid for the old city hospital. The library's wish also includes a multipurpose space and an expanded children's section.
"People have begun to pay a little bit more attention to the fact that we're serious about expanding the library, and as the more details start getting explained and more discussion about how many square feet we need, more and more people are engaged," said David Johnson, executive director of the Fayetteville Public Library.
The library staff said it is taking the same steps it did when the library was built in 2004 to keep the community involved.
"They understand that this library was built after 36 public input sessions, so we're following that same process. It is the city of Fayetteville's library, and we want everybody involved in helping to determine where we go in the future," said Johnson.
Architect Jeff Scherer, who has built several libraries across the country, said the city's support is critical to make the master plan happen.
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Another roadblock arises against Soering transfer
Continuing the fight against Governor Tim Kaine's unexplained move to let convicted killer Jens Soering return to his native Germany where critics fear his release would be imminent, the General Assembly has moved forward on a Resolution urging the U.S. Justice Department to block the transfer, according to the Lynchburg News & Daily Advance.
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@agarn Do you know how much money Virginia would save by sending Mr. Soering back to Germany, instead of housing him in a Virginia jail for life ?
Send kaine and soring for a vac in north korea.
That would make a great buddy comedy, batman
A truly brave last minute action would have been to do what Governor Bill Richardson, of New Mexico did- repeal the death penalty; an action, not to benefit someone of privilege, who has the support of the rich and powerful, but one to benefit those who are often wrongly convicted and voiceless.
Nancy, do you know how much cheaper it would be to follow agarn's advice and kill them all?
Soering should be executed not released.
"Citing Cost Sates Consider An End to the Death Penalty" this is what Gov. Kaine could have done, and now McDonnell, could do, to save Virginia money.
If you, or someone you loved, was sentenced to death and after the fact found to be innocent--how would you feel ?
Meant to say if someone you loved was executed and later found to be innocent.
A TRULY TRULY brave last minute thing to do would have been to execute all those on death row in assmebly line fashion and given the money saved incarcersting them to the Schools.