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Who doesn't get a little giddy (though discretely to keep your cool, of course) when greeted by name upon entering a restaurant or business? It makes you feel like a bit of a celebrity, right? Okay, maybe it's just me.
But it seems that "Cheers," or at least the theme song to the popular 80s show, got it right – you really are more likely to go to a place where you're well known, or at least where somebody knows your name.
It turns out that research backs that up: 23% of consumers surveyed choose to shop at a locally-owned, independent small business where employees are friendly and greet customers by name, according to American Express OPEN Small Business Saturday Consumer Pulse. And 22% of those surveyed choose to shop at a small business because the people that work there know them and make recommendations of products and services they might like.
That makes sense. In this world of online shopping and social media, it's nice to have that face-to-face connection. I'd also rather support someone with my hard-earned money that takes the time to learn my face and name. The friendly factor is also incredibly important: What's that old adage about catching more flies with honey than vinegar?
The research also found that 73% of consumers choose to shop local to support businesses in their community because they don't want those businesses to go away.
Some other interesting survey results include:
- A majority of consumers (87%) share their favorable opinions of businesses with others; 85% use word of mouth, 24% use social media and 13% use review sites. Only 69% share unfavorable opinions.
- Men actually spend more than women at the one small business they shop at the most ($110 versus $95).
- Resources to find locally-owned independent stores or restaurants vary by region: Consumers in the south and west are more likely to use deal sites such as Groupon and Living Social; consumers in the northeast are more likely to use web sites of traditional media outlets; north central states use social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
So what do you think? Are you more likely to support your local businesses and restaurants in general or because you feel a bit important when you walk in and are greeted by name?

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Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by ROLO46, Mar 8, 2010.
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Okay, it's The Church, I can dig it.
I had picked up some other info that said (around this time) Victor had location equipment set up in a hangar somewhere to make some records of travelling dance bands, outside of the state of New Jersey. But it may have been wrong.
It's also important to remember that Victor had New York studios operating, Camden, at the Academy Of Music in Philadelphia...
Busy company.
They recorded "Territory Bands" all over the country. All labels made field recordings. Sometimes those are just wonderful (like Robert Johnson records).. After 1934 pretty much the pop stuff was blanket city..
Les and Mary were soaked in artificial echo.
They are multi generation and hifi ish but not natural events.
Les was a hobby genius and show biz pro.
Bill Putnam a recording pro.
In my umble opinion.
I can't listen to a modern 'hi-fi' traditional big band recording, especially those stereo recreations from the 70s and 80s. That dry in-your-face-with-the-horns-blasting-out-eardrums sound is as much a part of the swing era for me as Lucky Strike smokes.
Strong exception for the Ellington recordings made at Columbia's 30th St. studio. Those are a whole different matter, musically and sonically.
dan c
Agreed. In my mind the "dead" but smooth and powerful sound of Swing Era recordings scream "authentic!" to me. Modern "re-creations" don't have that sound.
Let's take care of this. Take a good big band, go into a carpeted, dry room, get two RCA ribbon mikes and an RCA optical-limiter and recreate the Big Band Era! Heck, go right to digital. It will still sound just right. I've tried it!
In a related subject, no Marshall amp from the 60s or 70s had reverb on them. It was all added in the studio digitally, even Hendrix. No Marshall amp, ever.
I doubt it was added digitally. There was no such thing back then. I believe you are talking about an analog echo chamber.
I have a guilty secret.
I tweak tiny amounts of delay/ verb onto my 50's monos.
I keep both in Tunes and compare and contrast
I prefer wet but not wet wet or wet wet wet.
Please don't blackball me for this heinous admission..
I'm about to try my hand at Gerry Muligan Quartet with Chet Baker
Those dry Radio Recorder studios or the Forum theatre need a tiny slap of delay and a tickle of small room verb.
I'm a deviant...
But you should hear some jazz masterings for total excess
Were they all on heroin????
The Victor studio kept the church pipe organ (and further adapted it)... hence all those great reverberant pipe organ jazz sessions by Thomas "Fats" Waller: the solos (1926-29), Waller with Thomas Morris and His Hot Babies (1927), and the Louisiana Sugar Babes (1928), some of my all-time favorite records.
Fats returned for his last sides at the church studio pipe organ on January 5, 1935: "Night Wind" and "I Believe In Miracles" by Fats Waller and His Rhythm.
I can't really add anything to this thread, but I would like to say that I'm really enjoying reading this thread. I'd like to see more threads like it.
Fill in the blank:
"________ history in recorded music."
Of course there were other brands of amps that did have built in reverb, like Fender.
At that time in the UK verb was not fashionable
delay (echo) was.
Lots of boxes (Binson,Watkins,Vox,Selmer) provided good delay.
The basis of RnR and pyschedelic recording.
Yes, indeed. My Victor of "SUGAR" goes down to like 20 cycles. It's years ahead of other recordings.. Amazing for 1929.
Wow! Great thread...I have a ton of jazz and pre-jazz CDs sourced from 78s as well as LP reissues of this material from the 60s and 70s and even early 80s...How do I know which ones have added echo/reverb? I mean, I know what it is, but is it that easy to tell if it's been added? Are there specific reissue series on LP/CD that are known to have added echo/reverb, or is it basically a hit or miss proposition to identify the culprits?
Frank Laico,Columbia recordist (Round Midnight,Miles Davis etc) had used an echo chamber at Columbia's Studio C from 1949 ( a U47 and a speaker in a 12x15 concrete storage space)
He could regulate studio C with it.
However he was unhappy with it and on Les Pauls advice passed it through a tape machine,this warmed things up and increased delay.
'Afterwards ,everybody in the business showed up ,including guys from England,wanting to know how we got that echo chamber sound'
So there we have it.
Source 'Sound on Sound' April 2010
Thanks, Roger. A trick that Abbey Road used on the first Beatles' recordings..
This thread reminded me that my Dad bought a Cadillac in 64 that had a reverb unit in it. Push-pull switch and level knob up by the radio in front. I remember him twiddling with it at the car dealership with the sales guy. When on, there'd be this huge horrible wash in the car. Bizarre stuff... I had totally forgotten about that car. I do remember djs being mixed in with lots of reverb back then too.
I have a Victor Scroll of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir ("By The Waters of Minnetonka" / "Devotion") recorded in '25 in Salt Lake City that has tons of natural reverb – the most I've ever heard on an early 78.
If I didn't find the worst one a few days ago I scored one in the top 5: Woody Herman's LIGHT MY FIRE LP (Cadet LPS 819). Recorded October 1968 at Ter-Mar in Chicago (aka the Chess Records Studio), the 'production' (SIC) by one Richard Evans (who was also arranger of all the titles in the album) made it a wretched attempt to be 'hip' or 'psychedelic' in places. Everything heavily compressed, drenched in plate reverb overkill (and even tape echo slathered over the top of all that), with that nasty transistory upper-mid hash (the sax section sounds like it was recorded with bad SM 58s)....astoundingly bad. Listen for what happens to the trumpet solo after about 7.25 in this clip: 'MacArthur Park'
Compare with the warts-and-all vastly superior recording Columbia gave the band at Basin Street West just three years earlier: '23 Red'
I remember when I finally got my 78 copy of Charlie Parker's Ko-Ko on Savoy. Dry as a bone, unlike any of the LP remasters I owned. Even weirder—that famous "Massey Hall" concert of Bird, Diz, Mingus, Roach and Bud Powell? Finally heard the original tape, sans the post-production Mingus inflicted on the recording. There's gobs of reverb on the Debut release, but the original tape has soloists obviously going right to the mike. There's practically no "Room Sound" when Bird or Diz are soloing.
I have a Blue Steele Victor scroll....maybe you had this one as well, it's got a lot of natural reverb on it.
Quoted from Russ Sanjek's American Popular Music Business v.3, talking about early 1930s:
"RCA Victor had issued a number of imported British HMV masters, of music by the Ray Noble ochestra [sic], whose superior sound qualities rapidly became the talk of the trade. Record supervisors called on their British associates to learn the secret. It lay merely in the oversized studio used for Noble's disks, a mammoth sound stage on a film lot. It was a far cry from the usual small recording rooms in America, with their bare cement walls, unfelicitous hardwood floors, and meager wall drapings, which combined to frustrate any improved quality that might have come from the recently developed directional microphones suspended overhead from booms. A press agent said that Noble's practice was to place his men at the far end of the studio. By the time the sound reached microphones at the near end, it had acquired the distinctive quality for which a small army of American record buyers was spending money. Victor, Columbia, and Brunswick were soon engaged in a veritable musical comedy of searching for sufficient space in which to reproduce the British sound and spotting musicians in outside halls, inside men's room, and all over. Brunswick was the first to solve the problem. Its musical director, Victor Young, began to record in a Los Angeles motion-picture studio."
As I mentioned earlier, the fad was over by early 1935, Juke Box operators complained..
I checked, the link is still good if anyone is interested..
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In what is thought to be an unprecedented move, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has approved the importation of cannabis extracts from Canada for the purposes of a research study.
The University of California San Diego's Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research will be allowed to import capsules of CBD and THC extracts for their study of essential tremors, an ailment which affects 10 million people in the U.S., as reported by the Associated Press.
The reason why U.S. researchers have to turn to foreign companies for their cannabis products are manifold and kind of stupid. While the simplest solution would be for researchers to acquire materials from nearby state-regulated, lab-tested cannabis companies, federal law prohibits that.
What cannabis researchers are supposed to do is get their product from the one place licensed by the federal government to do so, the National Institute on Drug Abuse's cultivation site at the University of Mississippi.
However, the weed at Ole Miss is notoriously hard to get and more or less worthless even if you do get it. As we reported last year:
"God help you if your weed hookup is the federal government. If you're a researcher in American doing some much needed investigation into the health benefits and risks of cannabis, then you're probably doing it with moldy, yeasty seeds and stems."
Not to mention, the facility does not even produce extracts, which are preferable to flowers in some studies for a host of reasons.
NORML deputy director Paul Armentano told the AP, "It's very telling that you have researchers in the U.S. willing to exert the patience and go through the regulatory hurdles to make this happen at the same time the United States has its own domestic supply source."
While cannabis is still illegal at the federal level in the U.S., Canada's federal government has legalized it for medical use and its nationwide recreational program will go live in October.
The imported compound will have a 20:1 THC to CBD ratio, and will be provided by the British Columbia-based Tilray Inc.
The study's principal investigator, neurologist Fatta Nahab commented on the importance of the study, saying, "Essential tremor is ten times more common than Parkinson's and yet nobody really knows about essential tremor. That we're finally getting to a potential therapeutic option in an area that is untapped is a big deal."
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Rabies is a serious disease caused by a virus. The virus can infect animals, including pets such as dogs and cats. In the United States, wild animals such as raccoons, skunks, foxes and bats are the most likely to carry rabies. The virus is carried in the saliva of an infected animal. If an infected animal bites a person, the virus can be given to humans. When rabies is carried by a bat, there does not have to be an actual bite for the person to be infected. If a person has been bitten by an infected animal or in contact with a bat, the way to prevent the disease is to give a series of anti-rabies shots. Without this treatment, rabies is almost always fatal.
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Jewish World Review July 30, 2012/ 11 Menachem-Av, 5772
What Me Worry? YES!
By Bernard Goldberg
First, let's review the state of the economy, which everyone agrees is the single biggest issue that will decide who wins the election.
Jobs: The official unemployment rate has been over 8 percent for Barack Obama's entire term thus far. As bad as that number is, the reality is even worse. If you count the people who stopped looking for work in the job numbers, the real unemployment rate is nearly 15 percent. That should be very bad news for this or any president seeking re-election.
Economic Recovery: It's the most anemic at least since World War II. And even if we don't slide into another recession, no one is predicting a serious change for the better anytime soon.
ObamaCare: Most Americans still don't like it. They worry that they won't be able to keep their doctor or their medical plan, and they're right to worry. They worry that panels will decide if they qualify for life-saving operations or if the cost would be prohibitive because they're "too old." Let's not call them "death panels" that only riles up the liberals but you can make a case that that's exactly what they will be.
Spending: Barack Obama continues to spend money we don't have. He's racked up about $5 trillion in debt since taking office. Even by Washington standards, that's serious money.
You get the idea.
Now let's look at some polls that have come out this month.
Rasmussen has Obama up 47 percent to 46.
CBS/New York Times has Romney up 47 to 46.
Pew has Obama leading 50 to 43 percent.
Quinnipiac shows Obama up 46 to 43.
Washington Post/ABC has the race tied 47 all.
There are more but they're just like the ones you've been reading. But shouldn't Mitt Romney be up by at least 5 points, given the crummy economy? Why isn't he?
It isn't because the American people think Barack Obama is doing such a wonderful job. As dopey as we Americans can be, we're not that stupid. So what is it? I think it's that Mitt Romney comes off like a stiff. Stuff like that apparently matters, even in hard economic times. He reminds people of the little guy with the monocle on the Monopoly board.
The president has portrayed Romney as an out-of-touch rich guy who has money in Swiss banks and who knows where else? And why isn't he releasing his old tax forms, Team Obama wants to know? What's he hiding?
This may be taking a toll on Romney. Never mind that FDR was also rich. And so was JFK and LBJ and John Kerry. Having a lot of money is only a crime, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, if you're a Republican with a lot of money.
The good news for Romney is that only Rasmussen polled "likely voters." And in that one, President Obama is up by a single point, well within the margin of error. The others polled either "registered voters" many of whom don't show up on Election Day or simply "adults" folks who may or may not know how many states there are in the United State; many of whom, thankfully, also don't show up to vote.
There's also bad news. Romney isn't doing well in the battleground states, the ones that will decide the election.
Now you know why I'm still bewitched, bothered and bewildered.
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A family of five were left deeply distraught and personally affected by the loss of a beloved family member which was caused by mistreatment provided by a prominent New South Wales Hospital and a local General Practitioner. The psychological distress suffered by the family as a result of losing a loved one was significant and warranted a combined payout of $340,000.00.
In July 2015 the deceased was admitted to a hospital and subsequently diagnosed with a brain tumour. The doctors and medical staff of the hospital made the decision to operate on the tumour in late July 2015. The deceased had a pre-existing history of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism and therefore, it was important that she was in continuous receipt of blood thinning medication to prevent a stroke. In spite of this, the hospital staff made the decision to cease the blood thinning medication which had been prescribed.
Following the procedure, the deceased was not put back on her blood thinning medication by the staff of the Hospital or by her General Practitioner, both of whom assessed her. As a result of this decision, the deceased suffered cardiac arrest due to a pulmonary embolism in early August 2015 and passed away.
The family members of the deceased were deeply distraught by the loss and suffered severe psychological damage as a result. Gerard Malouf & Partners was approached by the family to investigate whether the death was caused by negligence and to seek compensation for their mental distress. Mr. Leslie Abboud, experienced Medical Negligence Lawyer sought evidence from a prominent emergency physician who confirmed that the deceased's death was caused by the decision to cease the blood thinning medication.
With this important evidence, Mr. Abboud filed individual claims for each of the family members in the District Court NSW, referring to expert opinion to assess each family member's ongoing psychological injury. This evidence in turn was crucial to supporting our clients' claim.
Mr. Abboud was able to provide some financial and emotional relief to the family of deceased by settling their claims at Mediation for a combined sum of $340,00.00. This gave the family much needed compensation to assist in their ongoing care and support.
The death of a loved one can be a distressing event especially in circumstances where the death was avoidable and caused by negligence on the part of treating medical professionals. If you have suffered mental harm as a result of the death or severe injury of a close relative potentially caused by an act of medical negligence, please call Gerard Malouf & Partners on 1800 004878 and ask to speak to one of our experienced Medical Negligence Lawyers. Time limits apply in Medical Negligence claims, so call Gerard Malouf & Partners today.
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Persuasive is one thing, outright pushy and unkind with your words is quite another.
You could end up really hurting someone with that forked, acerbic tongue today, and though inside your head you have been meaning to do something about the situation for some time, put an end to matters once and for all, perhaps even been obsessing about it a little too much (lost sleep over it) just mind you do not lose your mind when time comes to getting your point across. You could end up losing a lot more.
Easy there, when kicking against those pricks. Avoid being that prick.
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Every so often the 13th day of the Gregorian calendar month lands on a Friday. And although horror film fans consider Friday the 13th as the day that Jason Voorhees comes to life once again to terrorize campers, very few people have a real understanding of the historical significance of the date.Credit: wikipedia
Friday the 13th, or Black Friday, is thought by many scholars to have significance based on the death of Jesus Christ. With 13 people being involved in the last supper on the eve of Christ's crucifixion. But other scholars find no reference to the date being considered unlucky until the 1800s. Although the number 13 has a long history of being considered unlucky, historical references to the combination of Friday and the 13th day of the month have a much shorter history.
There are only a couple of references in literature to the superstition surrounding Friday the 13th. But many books, like Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, have referenced the feared date as the date in which the Knights Templar were arrested by King Philip IV in 1307.
But it seems the best method for understanding the importance of, or the superstition surrounding, the date is to split up the elements.
Fridays are considered unlucky due to being the day in which Jesus was crucified. Friday is also considered to be the day in which Cain murdered Abel. There are many references to Friday in other mythology, but most consider the theological references as having the most merit in explaining the superstition surrounding the sixth day of the week.
The fear of the number 13, or triskaidekaphobia, can be found in everyday life in western civilization. From hotels and high-rises being built without a 13th floor to people refusing to even go outside on the day, Friday the 13th is considered to be the most widely spread superstition in the United States. Other explanations of the unlucky number 13 can be found in the fact that there are 12 months in the year and 12 Zodiac signs. With thirteen being unlucky due to going past the restraints of the calendar year and Earth's orbit of the sun.
But the combination of the two elements, happening one to three times per year, has really only become a powerful superstition over the last couple centuries. And although the legend of Jason Voorhees and his infamous hockey mask may be the first thing that pops into contemporary minds, the history of the superstition of the 13th day of the month falling on Friday has a rather religious, theological slant.
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Human-powered Search!July 25, 07 by Bharani
Killerstartups.com, a user-driven internet start-up community, profiles a whopping 249 search-related products! There are various flavours of Search engines originating from different parts of the globe.
Wikipedia, the Free encyclopedia, lists down around 100 odd search engines. It's interesting to see the way they have classified these search engines in to 29 categories.
Off late, I am fascinated by the concept of human-powered search engines like www.Mahalo.com & www.chacha.com. They focus on serving high-quality relevant results using the human intelligence. This is accomplished through the people-centric approach, whereby experts hand-pick best sites and difficult-to-find sites under each category and add them to the search engine. This approach clearly overcomes the problem that the mega search engines like Google, Yahoo et al poses. For example, the PageRank algorithm of Google prevents new, niche, less SEO'ed sites and not-so-often-quoted sites to figure on top results. Many a times, such sites turn out to be the most relevant ones.
Until the "artificial intelligence", "machine-learning", "natural-language processing", "neural-networks" and other esoteric concepts gather some traction and shape, the human-powered approach is a dependable way of solving the problem. But there will be questions raised like "How to do you scale it up?", "How many years, people you need to accomplish this?", "How will you eliminate the subjectivity and bias of the experts?". This is where I think Mahalo and Chacha are doing a good job. They invite users/volunteers to hand-pick the results. They also have a good reputation system which enforces sanctity and validity on the user-contributions. The focus is on top search terms and to add the long-tail terms as and when a demand is seen. The approach eliminates spam-sites, copy-paste sites, SEO-oriented blogs et al., The game of "online advertising and marketing" has clearly spoilt the quality of search results on major search engine. It is refreshing to see search engines that are powered by humans and that are clean from advertising gamers.
Mahalo.com: Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides.
Chacha.com: The first search engine that uses the brainpower of really smart people to find anything you want on the Internet.


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Filmmaker Vishesh Bhatt, who has decided to take on full responsibility of his father Mukesh Bhatt and uncle Mahesh Bhatt's company Vishesh Films, aims to make films at par with Hollywood.
"I'm going to add great structure and change the face of film making, where my movies are now going to be not only collaborating with international movies but are going to be at par with Hollywood," Vishesh said in a statement.
Bhatt directed Murder 3 which starred Randeep Hooda, Aditi Rao Hydari and Sara Loren.
The production house, which has delivered many hits like Aashiqui 2, Raaz, Jism is known to give the best directors, blockbusters and their evergreen music to the film industry.
Vishesh Films is known for gaining ROI (return of investment) on all the films produced and directed by the established production house, said a statement.


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Student Teaching/Student Observation Request Information
If you are interested in completing your student teaching or student observation hours in Kennedale ISD you will need to the complete three forms below. The KISD Student Teaching/Intern Form, KISD Background Check Form, and the DPS Criminal History Form. You will also need to provide a copy of your driver's license and a letter from the university or program you are enrolled in stating what their requirements are of you while you are in the classroom. PLEASE turn all the required documentation in at one time to Kim Dailey in the superintendent's office. Once approved the district will contact you to let you know which campus you are assigned to and who on that campus you should be in touch with to begin your student teaching or observation hours.
If you have any questions about the process, please contact Kim Dailey at firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling 817-563-8003.
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Back surgery can help relieve some causes of back pain, but it's rarely necessary
Lumbar discectomy is a surgery to remove a herniated or degenerative disc in the lower spine. The incision is made posterior, through the back muscles, to remove the disc pressing on the nerve.
Your doctor or surgeon should be able to tell you how long you're likely to have. in your back will be lifted from the back bone, to expose the back of the spine.
What surgical and nonsurgical treatments are available? Learn. Herniated discs are more common in the lower back (lumbar spine), but also occur in the neck .
Sometimes Conservative Disc Treatment is not enough – in this case, surgery. Cervical decompression can also be performed through the back of the neck as .


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Rejoice and Sing!John Rutter - Oxford University Press
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This joyful, sprightly carol comes from Sir David Willcocks: A Celebration in Carols. With its uplifting 7/8 time signature, memorable melody, rich and diverse textures, and delightful orchestral accompaniment, this carol is a fitting tribute to one of the great names synonymous with Christmas.
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Some members of the British community are suffering the consequences of the ignorance and mistaken identity finding themselves victims of Islamophobia. RT's Polly Boyko went to meet Sikhs as racists sprayed the words "die Muslims, die" on the wall of a Sikh Gurdwara in north Yorkshire.
The report of Russia Today looks at how the appearance of Sikhs is resulting in Sikhs in being targeted in the UK despite serving for the country in 2 world wars and contributing economically for decades.
The religion practices compassion and forgiveness but despite that many of the attacks get mis-reported. A recent report showed only 33% of crimes against Sikhs get reported.


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Local Churches
Steadfast Apostolic Church 210-262-3506 643 Rice Rd San Antonio, TX 78220 website
Senior Pastor: Myra Webb
- Service Times: Sunday: prayer at 9:30 – 11:00 service: 11:00 – ? Tuesday: prayer at 7:30 – 8:30 bible study 8:30 – 10:00 Friday" prayer at 7:30 – 8:30 Deliverance service: 8:30 – ? Saturday: radio broadcast at 9:15 am, station 1480 on am dial, KCHL (can be heard on line at gospel 1480 or Tunein radio.
- Worship Style: Blend of Traditional and Contemporary Worship
We have a women's ministry, men's ministry, youth ministry, community ministry and anything else the Lord tells us to do to reach the souls of men, women, boys and girls. All are welcome to come.
Hillburn Drive Grace Baptist Church 210-675-5484 5426 Hillburn Drive San Antonio, TX 78242 website
Senior Pastor: Jose Maldonado
- Service Times: Sunday School 9:45 AM Sunday Worship 11:00 AM Sunday Evening 6:30 PM Wednesday Evening 7:00 PM
- Subdenominations: Sovereign Grace Baptist
- Worship Style: Traditional Worship
We are a Sovereign Grace Baptist Church that seeks to glorify God in all of our services. We are an independent and autonomous Church.
Rolling Oaks Baptist Church 210-590-4177 6401 Wenzel Road San Antonio, TX website
Senior Pastor: John Boubel
- Service Times: Sunday School: 9:30am; Sunday 10:45am
- Awana: Sunday 5:00pm
- Prayer: Wednesday 6:30pm
- Bible Study: Wednesday 7:00pm
- Worship Style: Traditional Baptist
A church being made by the hands of Jesus Christ!
San Fernando Catholic Church 210-227-1297 231 W. Commerce Street San Antonio, TX 78205 website
Senior Pastor: Very Rev. Victor Valdez
- Service Times: Sunday mass 6:00am, 8:00am (Spanish Televised), 10:00am, 12:00pm Spanish, 2:00pm, 5:00pm Bilingual; Saturday Vigil 8:00am Spanish, 5:00pm English; Monday-Friday 12:05pm Bilingual; Monday – Thursday 5:30pm Bilingual
- Worship Style: Traditional
We pray you enjoy your visit to the Cathedral and that you take some time to look throughout our website for various news, resources, events, and ways you can become a part of the Body of Christ that is within our parish community.


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The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is accepted almost universally as the best practice for IT service management and ITIL certification is becoming increasingly more important for advancement in the field. Fortunately, training is available and in a variety of formats; including seminars, online study, computer based training and there are practically mountains of literature to help an IT professional become proficient in the terminology and techniques of ITIL.
It's useful to know exactly what courses are needed for each version's certification and there is information available online The ITIL v2 and the ITIL v3 brochures provide an overall picture of each and prerequisites, if any, are needed. Syllabus for the respective certifications, such as the one for the ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management can be found with a simple Google search.
The actual training required depends on the version of ITIL a person is wishing to gain expertise in. ITIL v2 training is centered on The Foundation levels, Service Manager and Practitioner. Once past the required Foundation level, the Practitioner level has a number of options for certification from which to choose. ITIIL v3 has four types of certification: Foundation in IT Service Management, ITIL Intermediate, ITIL level v.3 Expert, and ITIL v3. Master Qualification. A person needs to keep in mind that the Foundation level in either version is a criterion for admission to other levels within ITIL training.
An ITIL Foundation Training course can be found at www.thoughtrock.com. This 100% online ITIL training & exam bundle includes everything an IT professional needs to become ITIL certified. Thought Rock currently offers to best value worldwide and has been used by over 16,000 ITIL professionals.
There are definitely costs involved in securing the training, both in time and money. An individual wishing to learn ITIL must be willing to meet either expenses or, if possible, obtain educational assistance and time off from his or her employer. As there are benefits to be received from the training, there are also serious professional costs for not achieving ITIL certification. The Information Technology Infrastructure Library is not only best practice in IT service management; it is rapidly becoming the common language and methodology for this sector of information science. Those who do not take advantage of an opportunity to enroll in ITIL training and learn the ITIL vocabulary and practices run the risk of becoming functionally obsolete in IT service management, facing dim prospects for future advancement or even employment in IT service management as a consequence.
As mentioned above, the needed training courses and modules for ITIL certification are readily available online and overall costs are really quite reasonable. The greatest benefit of the training, of course, is the expertise a learner derives from exposure to the practices, vocabulary and the overall method of doing things that ITIL training provides. No figure can adequately be given to such a reward.


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President Obama has staked his reputation on being a human rights guru to people around the world. But his remarks at Tuesday's news conference and behavior since taking office have instead exposed a different persona--that of human rights charlatan.
On June 15, three days after the phony Iranian elections and the same day that seven Iranian demonstrators were murdered, Obama's UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, made a speech in Vienna promoting the Saint Obama vision: "The responsibility to protect is a duty that I feel deeply. We must prepare for the likelihood that we will again face the worst impulses of human nature run riot, perhaps as soon as in days to come. And we must be ready. We all know the greatest obstacle to swift action in the face of sudden atrocity is, ultimately, political will. It requires above all the courage and compassion to act. Together, let us all help one other to have and to act upon the courage of our convictions."
A week later there were multiple casualties, injuries and threats, and 46 million voters wrenched away from that doorway to freedom that had opened--if only a crack. But when the president was asked Tuesday: "Is there any red line that your administration won't cross where that offer [to talk to Iran's leaders] will be shut off?" He answered: "We're still waiting to see how it plays itself out."
And when asked again, "If you do accept the election of Ahmadinejad without any significant changes in the conditions there, isn't that a betrayal of what the demonstrators there are working to achieve?" He answered: "We can't say definitively what exactly happened at polling places."
And asked again: "Why won't you spell out the consequences that the Iranian people " He answered: "Because I think that we don't know yet how this thing is going to play out."
And yet again: "Shouldn't the present regime know that there are consequences?" He answered: "We don't yet know how this is going to play out."
This is a man who embodies the opposite of the courage to act. His appalling ignorance of history prompted him to claim at his press conference that "the Iranian people aren't paying a lot of attention to what's being said here." On the contrary, from their jail cells in the Gulag, Soviet dissidents took heart from what was being said here--as all dissidents dream that the leader of the free world will be prepared to speak and act in their defense.
The president's storyline that we don't know what has transpired in Iran is an insult to the intelligence of both Americans and Iranians. Our absence from the polling booths doesn't mean the results are a mystery. The rules of the election were quite clear. Candidates for president must be approved by the 12-member Council of Guardians. As reported by the BBC, more than 450 Iranians registered as prospective candidates while four contenders were accepted. All 42 women who attempted to run were rejected. So exactly what part of rigged does President Obama not understand?
Instead of denouncing the fake election, President Obama now tells Iranians who are dying for the real thing "the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran." Whose sovereignty is that? The Hobbesian sovereign thugs running the place? Sovereignty to do what? To deny rights and freedoms to their own people? In a state so bereft of minimal protections for human dignity, why should the sovereignty of such a government be paramount?
But President Obama didn't want to dwell on the daily reality of sovereign Iran: A criminal code that permits stoning women to death for alleged adultery and hanging homosexuals for the crime of existing. Instead, he repeatedly invoked "respect" for "their traditions and their culture."
This is the same mantra he espoused to the Islamic world in Cairo when three times he spoke of the "rights" of Muslim women to cover up their bodies. Knowing full well that women in the Muslim world face the contrary problem of surviving after refusing to cover up their bodies, he never once dared to mention that this was also a human right. What part of cultural relativism and traditional oppression does President Obama not know how it plays out?
In his scripted remarks, the president gave the impression of talking tough: "The Iranian government must respect those rights [to assembly and free speech]. It must govern through consent and not coercion." But with the "or else" pointedly missing from his lines, he made it plain that he continues to have high hopes of partnering with this current Iranian theocracy. "I think it is not too late for the Iranian government to recognize that there is a peaceful path that will lead to stability and legitimacy and prosperity for the Iranian people."
This Iranian government has told us in deeds, as well as in words, exactly what path it has chosen. President Obama has told us his path also: pandering to Islamic radicals and empty posturing. Ironically, the rest of the world claimed they wanted a weak American president whose foreign policy would read "apologize, capitulate and stand down." Now that they have what they asked for, real human rights victims are being forced to pay the piper.
Anne Bayefsky is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and professor and director of the Touro College Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust in New York.


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March marks the beginning of springtime magic with the Vernal Equinox and St Patrick's Day. Let's celebrate by including at least one green ingredient in our dishes. Asparagus and leafy greens are in season, dandelion greens and mints are popping up in the yard, and we've got lots of ingredients in storage or trucked in such as all sorts of peas, green beans, kelp, pumpkin seeds, pistachios, zucchini, broccoli, spinach, collards, artichokes, kale, spinach, scallions, celery, leeks, okra, fennel, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, green bell peppers, kiwis, limes, avocados, cucumbers, spirulina, olives, etc. Please add more below! Let's also celebrate "going green" by treading lighter on the planet, looking for more locally, and creating less waste.
We're also having a bake sale! Bring a reusable to-go container because you are definitely going to want to take home some goodies!!
The purpose of this event is to make (or purchase) a new or favorite dish to share with others, get together and socialize with other like-minded folks, and enjoy small samples of the yummy vegan dishes everyone else brings. Please bring a good amount of food to share and extra if you're bringing children or there's more than one person in your party.
Bring a list of ingredients along with your dish (or even better, the recipe!) Remember: this is a vegan safe-space event and DISHES MUST BE 100% VEGAN, with no meat, no fish, no milk, no butter, no eggs, no chicken stock, no honey, and so on. Please ask if you have any questions. Please also bring YOUR OWN UTENSILS, BOWL, PLATE and drink. This is a 100% WASTE-FREE EVENT which means we are not generating any trash – please bring only reusable items, no paper or plastic. Alcohol is permitted.
Our potlucks take place the FOURTH SUNDAY of every month (except Nov & Dec) at 5:30pm at the Kitchen & Lounge Community Building at South Front Apartments. Use the gate located on Greenfield Street at 2nd Street, across the street from Satellite Bar. PARKING: Drive straight in all the way to the end of the road and turn right to find parking. Parking is permitted only in the spaces without numbers. After parking, walk over to the lounge located at the center of the complex. The lounge entrance is on the opposite side (facing Front St).
What: Wilmington Vegan March Potluck – Going Green
Where: Kitchen & Lounge at South Front Apartments
(1400 S 2nd St, Wilmington, NC 28401)
When: Sunday, March 26th, 5:30pm
Event Link: https://facebook.com/events/1760901434225147/


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We've got lots and lots of new things trickling down the pipeline, and I can hardly keep track! Actually, that's not true, because we have you know, lists and things here. I have a list of things to take pictures of to get online, and also some things planned for the blog, but it seems like I can hardly keep up!
This one in particular I was pretty excited to receive last week. We've been carrying Edison Pen Company pens for a long time, and they've been a gorgeous addition to the shop. Both people new to fountain pens and long-time users love turning these pens in their hands, and seeing the translucence and colour and shine. There have been a few times when someone has seen an Edison pen, held it in their hands, and has just known that that was the pen for them.
I very rarely write about pens that aren't in my personal collection, although I'm working on that, so you can bet that I'm a big fan of this one.
Since the Hudson was discontinued last year and the Herald a few months ago, we only had the two remaining models in the shop: the Collier and the Beaumont, actually two of my personal favourites, although the Collier is a bit big for me, so I have a Beaumont. I can't wait to see what Brian Gray puts out for his Production line next, but in the meantime, we've brought in the Pearlette.
We originally brought in the four larger models because they all share the same nib size, but the Pearlette takes a different nib from the other Edisons, the smaller No. 5 nib, rather than the No. 6. We will have the No. 5 nibs up for sale on the website soon, but if you're in need of something sooner, please feel free to send us an email, and we can set something up.
As I always seem to say to myself after we get in a new product, I'm not sure what took us so long, mainly because this pen is just perfect for me – the size, the colour, the shape, the weight, the colour…….
I was momentarily distracted by the Deep Indigo, because it also has that hint of swirling depth, but who am I kidding. I got the Aztec Gold Flake. It's this beautiful slightly translucent amber, brown, orange. I'm all over that colour range.
It's that balance of rich and light and warmth and depth that I love browns for and that this beautiful material has captured. It's like a sea of fall leaves. Basically I'm in love.
It's also the perfect shape and size for me, a bit on the smaller end of things, tapered gently at the ends. The pen itself is a bit lighter, like most of Edison's pens, so perfect for longer writing sessions.
It takes a standard converter or cartridge, but like all Edison pens, you can convert it to an eyedropper with just a bit of silicone grease around the threads. I just used the converter, and filled it with Rohrer & Klingner Salix, an old favourite of mine, but you can rest assured this will be eye-droppered at some point.
I've only had it for around a week, but it already feels nice and comfortable in my pen roll. I can't wait to eyedropper it! The hardest part about picking an ink for an eyedropper is that you're really committing to use it for a while.
It's been mild and beautiful out the last few days, and we've been trying to soak up every minute of it while we have it. Usually on Mondays, we do groceries in the morning and then some chores and packing up and try to cross off some things in the afternoon, but we couldn't resist wandering around our neighbourhood and park and basking in the vitamin D.
Caleb is walking further and further on our walks, which is greatly aided by his relatively new willingness to hold someone's hand while walking. No more random darting towards the road or grabbing at people's dogs. Or at least, less. It's crazy how these little babies grow into these tiny humans who have minds of their own.
As I'm writing this, it's mid-afternoon, and I've got a coconut chicken curry simmering on the stove, and I'm surrounded by boxes and boxes of Life and Clairefontaine and G. Lalo stationery waiting to be lovingly counted and reluctantly re-stocked by yours truly, so life is looking pretty good right now.


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Alamo's AC may be causing harm
Having withstood an 1836 battle and centuries of exposure to the elements, the Alamo's biggest threat today may be air conditioning — a modern amenity that experts fear is threatening the fragile limestone walls of the Texas shrine's iconic mission-era church.
George Skarmeas, who is leading a process to craft a master plan for the Alamo and surrounding area downtown, said preservation of the church, the "most significant artifact" at the site, has become a key point of focus.
The effects of up to 2 feet of soil added in layers at the base of the church over time and a concrete roof that has covered its walls since the 1920s also are concerns.
"The early signs are that we have some worrisome behavior of the building," Skarmeas said.
Chunks and flakes of limestone debris that have fallen from the walls onto black butcher paper on the perimeter of four side rooms in the church since Sept. 1 provide new evidence of the building's gradual decline.
"This is actually significant loss," Skarmeas, design director with Preservation Design Partnership of Philadelphia, said during a recent walk-through of the 250-year-old church to show the accumulation.
An update on the master plan, being developed for the city, Texas General Land Office and nonprofit Alamo Endowment, will be presented at a 2 p.m. Wednesday City Council work session, to be streamed on the city website and aired live on cable channel TVSA.
The final plan, due in mid-2017, is likely to address options for a modern visitor center, removal of traffic from the city-owned Alamo Plaza and historical interpretation of the area — site of a Spanish colonial mission with close to 1,000 recorded burials in the 1700s, and the famed 1836 siege and battle for Texas independence.
At a recent public meeting, City Manager Sheryl Sculley said the plan will benefit local residents, not just visitors, after last year's designation of the Alamo and four federally run missions as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
"Even more people will be coming to San Antonio," she said. "We also want this designation to include an educational component for those who live in San Antonio and may not know about the layers of history for not only the other missions, but also for the Alamo."
In addition to $31.5 million in state funds allocated by the Legislature for master plan projects, the city has programmed $17 million and proposed up to $22 million for plaza improvements as part of a 2017 bond referendum. The Alamo Endowment also plans to raise funds privately for the project, including structural preservation work.
Pam Rosser, the Alamo's on-site conservator since 2010, said she is glad to have Skarmeas and his team at the state shrine, helping discern the best path forward for the revered building. The accumulations on black paper of limestone chips and flakes that normally are swept out on a daily basis provide a "good visual" of the structure's decay, she said.
"It shows proof that the walls are losing debris," Rosser said.
Discoloration and other effects of "rising damp," an upward migration of ground moisture, have been documented for more than a century on the exterior walls of the Alamo church. The master plan, for the first time, is bringing together all available resources to document the building's various construction phases and the use of radar imagery, high-resolution photography and other new technology to track its decline.
"Some of these effects are slow in the way they manifest. But the destructive impact may be very immediate," Skarmeas said.
One of his key concerns is the air conditioning in the church that removes indoor moisture while thousands of visitors, often sweaty from the Texas heat, bring in "another load of moisture" and humidity.
"So you're going into a vicious cycle," Skarmeas said. "The building was never intended to be that way."
The church has been air-conditioned at least since 1961, when an ad and article in the San Antonio Express chronicled a ceremony to turn on the new General Electric units — all-electric heat pumps that cooled without water and heated without a flame.
"Visitors to the Alamo will find the ancient building cool and comfortable as three G.E. Weathertrons … keep the temperature consistently pleasant from their concealed locations," the article said.
But the Express-News has reported since 2010 on the concerns of preservation experts that air conditioning could be compromising the building's integrity, possibly creating a humidity gradient that draws moisture into the church and even through its walls, comprised of stone, mortar and a rubble interior.
Battle Brown, a documentation and project management specialist based in Pittsburgh, told the Express-News in 2013 that the air conditioning could be drawing moisture through the walls, contributing to deterioration and discoloration of the walls and blistering of a newly painted roof and ceiling.
Last year, at a conference at Texas A&M University that focused on preservation of the shrine, structural engineer Patrick Sparks said he had used infrared data to identify areas where air conditioning was cooling the walls, possibly causing condensation and "potential delamination."
Skarmeas said the solution may be an air-circulation system that does not add moisture instability, to "create a relative comfort for the occupant."
He said he also wants to know if layers of surface soil and pavement that have covered the church's lower walls should be removed, to help contain the rising damp and restore the building to its historic context. He said he's yet to learn the depth of a slab that lies beneath the church's flagstone floor.
Since the church was not designed to have a steel-and-concrete roof, more study is needed to see how well the walls are handling the weight, Skarmeas said.
Some Alamo devotees have raised concerns that the master plan will marginalize the 1836 history — the primary attraction for visitors from around the world. Skarmeas said the plan will respect that chapter in the site's 300-year history, as well as its emotional ties to descendants still living in Texas today, and put the siege and battle in proper historic context, as an event with a global impact.
"It's almost like a symphony, where you have everything building up to a crescendo, and 1836 is the crescendo in the symphony," he said. "And different ears hear the crescendo differently. They absorb it in different ways, emotionally, intellectually and viscerally."
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And, surprise surprise, it reminds me why it is I wouldn't lose too much sleep over not getting out to vote next week. In list format, because I'm lazy.
- Andrew Hayden: spending most of the debate picking at the other candidates, and interjecting his 0.5 cents where it's not welcome–like, say, when someone else is supposed to have the floor. Go away, Andrew.
- Clive Doucet: Pro-LRT, anti-tunnel, no idea what he'll do with municipal taxes to compensate–or if he knows, he sure as hell isn't saying. Also: Really? You'll criticise O'Brien on how he handled the OC Transpo strike, but you'll give me the stink eye for criticising the same? And yeah, I'm still not a fan of spam. You go somewhere else, too. Just not the same place as Andy–I don't think he likes you. Or anyone.
- Jim Watson/Larry O'Brien: Where's the difference? One taxed us municipally, one taxed us provincially. Both are pro-LRT, pro-tunnel, anti-clue. And they spent the debate sniping back and forth at each other more than Andrew Hayden did at any of them. But aside from the fact Watson actually answered a question re: how much the LRT system would cost, whereas Larry well, um, did the exact opposite, they look very much the same to me.
I asked the candidates in the debate to maybe knock off the bickering and actually answer the questions being asked. I don't particularly think they came close to doing that. If I didn't one day plan to rmove back to the city, I might be inclined to view this more comically. As it is, though? I think I'm actually kind of scared. That's not an easy accomplishment. Nice work, guys.
PS: Andy, the biggest criticism we had about Larry O'Brien is he wouldn't work with city council. You didn't even work with the moderators of the debate. You fail. That is all.


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Abstract: Signal parameters estimation is an important prerequisite for assessment of power quality (PQ) indices. Nowadays, large amounts of measured data need to be automatically processed for appropriate and useful data mining in PQ. Especially, modern wind generators are often seen as sources of PQ disturbances, which should be constantly supervised. The authors propose an application of modified Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) method for signal parameters estimation. Results of the proposed method are compared with broadly used Fourier Transform. Additionally,, results from Prony method are presented. A mechanical model of doubly fed induction generator (DFIG), operating in various conditions was chosen as a source of disturbed signals. Research results verify the usefulness of SVD based method.
Keyword(s): Power Quality ; SVD ; interharmonics ; Prony Method
Note: 2009 IEEE Bucharest Power Tech Conference, July 2009, Bucharest , Romania
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PASER is an acronym for Pavement Surface Evaluation and Rating system. It is a system for visually rating the surface condition of a pavement from a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being a pavement in a failed condition and 10 being a pavement in excellent condition. Guidelines for rating the pavement surface using the PASER system have been developed by the Michigan Transportation Asset Management Council. Engineering staff evaluates all local streets within the City each year and publishes a map showing the PASER ratings.
PASER Ratings Map
Pavements age with time and gradually deteriorate due to environmental effects and traffic loadings. Resources for maintaining and repairing roads can be efficiently managed so that the money is spent in the right place at the right time by knowing the condition of the pavement network. The City of Novi has recognized the benefits of performing regular pavement condition surveys to evaluate the existing pavement conditions and to allocate maintenance and construction funds. The pavement survey is one aspect of a larger asset management program not only for pavements but for all infrastructure in the City.
Most pavements will deteriorate through various phases as shown. The rate at which pavement deteriorates from an excellent (10) to a very poor condition (1) depends largely on its environment, traffic loading conditions, original construction quality, and interim maintenance procedures. Two pavements constructed at the same time may have significantly different lives, or certain portions of a pavement may deteriorate more rapidly than others, due to material or construction problems.
The PASER rating scale can generally be translated into maintenance categories as shown. The normal maintenance or rehabilitation procedure has been found helpful in relating to the surface rating scheme. However, choosing an individual surface rating should not automatically dictate the final maintenance or rehabilitation technique. Future traffic projections, original construction and pavement strength should be considered since these may dictate a more comprehensive rehabilitation. On the other hand, it may be appropriate under special conditions to do nothing and let the pavement fully deteriorate, and then rebuild when funds are available.
Of the 183.6 miles of city controlled streets, 46% of the roads have a PASER rating of 6 or higher (i.e., pavement condition is rated as good or better).
A comparison to previous years' data shows that the city's overall average PASER ratings have been decreasing;
however, additional funds have been budgeted from the 2012 road millage to make additional improvements with the goal of increasing the average PASER rating.
PASER Ratings Map
The graph below summarizes the overall condition of Novi's streets.
The City's Asset Management approach for pavements was established in 2009 and is summarized in the figure and tables below which illustrates that there are appropriate fixes for the various pavement ratings. Routine maintenance, such as crack sealing, should occur when the road is in good condition (PASER 8-10). Preventative maintenance, such as non-structural overlays and joint repair, should occur when the pavements are in fair to good condition (PASER 5-7). Reconstruction, which is the most costly fix, should be reserved for segments that exhibit a structural failure of the pavement (PASER 1-4).
The table below illustrates the costs associated with street maintenance and construction. Using an asset management approach to street maintenance will provide a mix of treatments to keep the good roads in good condition through maintenance while spending some funds on reconstruction of roads that are failing.
As we continue to use this proactive approach, we will look for opportunities to optimize the available road funds provided for neighborhood roads by performing routine and preventative maintenance in addition to reconstruction. However, recognizing that the overall condition of the road network had started to decline, Engineering staff began working with the consultant, Orchard, Hiltz & McCliment, in December 2011 to review the current pavement management program, the funding level for pavement maintenance, and the way the funding is allocated. The study analyzed several funding scenarios to model and predicted the average PASER rating (including the current funding level of $3.2 million). The study allowed the consultant and staff to review current practices and look for more efficient ways to allocate the existing funding as part of an overall pavement management program that implements consistent, deliberate and planned maintenance of the system. These strategies and recommendations have been incorporated into the City's asset management approach.
The approved 2012 road millage generates more than $2.1 million of additional revenue, allowing for more than $5 million directly in annual road investments in Novi. Based on lane mileage, approximately 65% of the revenue generated by the millage increase is allocated to neighborhood streets, with 25% spent on major roads. The remaining 10% is allocated for non-motorized facilities, including new sidewalks, pathways and intersection improvements. Additionally, the City Council has set forth a goal to replace and repair 900-1,000 panels every year from 2017 to 2021 to the total of $ 4 million.
The study concludes that at the current funding level, the average PASER rating for the system is expected to continue to decline as shown in the graph below. However, additional funding for pavement maintenance would work to improve the overall system. The graph also shows that if increased funding were to be spend only on reconstruction (RC) that the overall condition of the system would decrease.
Road Asset Management & Funding Analysis Report
The study concludes that at the current funding level, the average PASER rating for the system is expected to continue to decline as shown in the graph below. However, additional funding for pavement maintenance would work to improve the overall system. The graph also shows that if increased funding were to be spend only on reconstruction (RC) that the overall condition of the system would decrease.
Pavement Management Analysis report, dated March 12, 2012 by Orchard, Hiltz & McCliment, Inc.


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IT WAS the moment Alex Fevola knew her marriage to football star Brendan was over.
After months of rumour and suspicion, Alex had accessed a "rambling voice message" to Fevola she believes was from bikini model Lara Bingle.
Alex told close friends she hit the redial key on Fevola's mobile phone and asked who she was speaking to. "It's Lara," was the response. Her friends say Alex "felt physically ill" and hung up.
Only 24 hours earlier, Fevola, Alex and daughters Leni, 5 months, and Mia, 6 (Alex's child from a previous relationship), appeared like any other happy family - splashing in the pool and Christmas shopping hand-in-hand at Southland.
Alex confirmed this week the split after 14 months of marriage, but would not talk about her husband and Bingle, 19.
Despite privately admitting to lying about his "good friendship" with Bingle, Fevola has told friends he has done nothing wrong and wants to reconcile with his wife.
Alex's friends told the Sunday Herald Sun this week that soon after composing herself, Alex hit redial again and confronted the woman.
"She called back again, introduced herself and asked her what she was doing with her (Alex's) husband," a friend said.
"The woman claimed she didn't know what she (Alex) was talking about and hung up.
"It was at that moment (on Monday morning), Alex knew her marriage was over."
The controversial phone voice message was long-winded, rambling and contained references to Fevola's marriage and a trip to Melbourne last Tuesday.
In it, the caller tells Fevola she is coming to Melbourne and "I'd love you to pick me up".
She begs Fevola to call her, saying that leaving a message is like "I'm talking to a brick wall. Can you call me?".
She then says she has been told by a friend that Fevola had "got back with your wife".
"You got back with your wife and I can't believe you would do that," she says.
Alex had earlier admitted she and Brendan were having problems, but said they were working through them.
She was already aware of rumours her husband was having an affair with Bingle.
"It's not nice, it's quite humiliating," she said.
"Whether or not anything went on, I don't know. If it's true I'll have a lot to say.
"Like every relationship, you go through ups and downs."
Her optimism quickly vanished. Two days later, the marriage was in tatters after Alex discovered the phone message on Fevola's phone. Friends say she had harboured suspicions for three months.
And they say Alex felt "a vibe" between Fevola and Bingle backstage on Channel 9's Grand Final Footy Show in September.
Fevola, a regular panelist on the show, first met Bingle during rehearsals for the end-of-season spectacular, but when confronted this week with rumours of an affair they denied knowing each other beyond the TV show.
"I've met the guy once," Bingle said at the opening of a Chapel St boutique on Tuesday. "There is no affair.
"I would barely know what he looks like if I saw him again.
"Just because I'm single, anyone thinks they can say anything they want about me.
"It's really sad. I'm only 19. I find it really disturbing. It's just not fair at all."
Sources close to Fevola say the Carlton Coleman medallist admits to seeing and speaking to Bingle on many occasions since the Footy Show meeting, despite his public claims he did not have a relationship with her.
One close friend said this week: "Yes, they are good friends and nothing more.
"You have to understand Brendan and Alex had broken up. They had gone through some hard times."
But Alex's friends say that, though they were apart for a couple of weeks before Fevola flew to Ireland to represent Australia in the International Rules series, they were never officially separated.
And Fevola moved back in before he headed overseas, they say.
Fevola hid in Europe after a drunken altercation with an Irish barman, leaving Alex to publicly support her husband - despite her private worries about his fidelity.
At the time, she told the Sunday Herald Sun: "He's a good person and he does a lot of good things.
"There has been a lot of pressure on him, in every way, from having a new baby, to the Coleman Medal and just getting through the season. He's still 25, learning about things himself. He's only human."
Behind the scenes, friends say Alex was devastated by Fevola's treatment of her after the birth of their daughter, Leni, in July.
And, they say, from the moment the footballer met Bingle, he belittled Alex and played on her vulnerability in the weeks after giving birth.
"The way he was treating her when he first met Lara, he was horrible to her. She couldn't understand what she had done," a family member says.
Suggestions that Fevola and Bingle met while he was lying low in Europe have been scotched by the Fevola camp.
"Under no circumstances did they see each other there," a Fevola mate says.
But he could not refute suggestions Fevola had several secret rendezvous with Bingle at another Carlton player's home.
"I don't know about that. I can't categorically deny they caught up at a friend's house," he said.
"He would love nothing more than to be spending Christmas with his family."
But Alex's friends have said the devastated mother has rejected any possibility of a reconciliation.
"The special bond is gone and she has no respect for him," a friend says.
Meanwhile, Bingle's manager, Priscilla Leighton-Clark, says the young model, star of the controversial "Where the bloody hell are you?" campaign, is not at home and is "far away from Sydney".
Originally published asAlex Fevola confronts Lara over alleged tryst