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Paul Demie Mainieri Field at St. Thomas University Dedicated in Honor of Renowned College Baseball Coach
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former baseball coach, athletic director and alumnus of the St. Thomas University Sports Administration program Paul Mainieri will be honored Friday, March 1st, 2013, at the dedication of a new baseball field and scoreboard at St. Thomas University. The new field, home of the St. Thomas University Bobcats baseball team, is now named Paul Demie Mainieri Field at Frank R. Esposito Stadium.
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To dedicate the field, Mainieri's father Dr. Demie Mainieri, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to the baseball game between the St. Thomas Bobcats and the Southeastern Fire. Dr. Mainieri will represent his son at the dedication due to a conflict with an LSU baseball game on Friday night in Baton Rouge, La.
Paul Mainieri, currently the Head Baseball Coach at LSU, asked to include his middle name "Demie" in the naming of the field because it is the same name as his father's first name. Both Mainieris have deep roots with St. Thomas, and recently became the first father-son duo to be elected to the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Paul Mainieri is an alumnus (M.S. Sports Administration, 1982), former Head Baseball Coach, and former Director of Athletics at St. Thomas. He won the NCAA College World Series with LSU in 2009 and was recently named a 2014 inductee for the ABCA Hall of Fame.
"St. Thomas University will always hold a very special place in my heart because of many reasons," said Paul Mainieri. "First of all, I received an outstanding education in the nationally-renowned Sports Administration program and that degree has opened many doors for me professionally. Also, I was proud to have served both on the faculty and as the athletic director. Most importantly, however, the university gave me my first opportunity as a young man to become a head coach in college baseball. Ken Stibler, the athletic director, believed in me and I worked hard to confirm the confidence he and the university had in me."
The new baseball field, with its improvements, is rapidly becoming one of the finest in college baseball. The improved field will facilitate continued growth of the baseball program which is currently ranked 12th in the national NAIA Coaches Poll. Paul Mainieri strongly believes the program is moving in the right direction under the leadership of current Head Coach Jorge Perez.
"As my career evolved and I moved on to new challenges, I followed the Bobcats program very closely from afar and continued to be proud of the success the coaches that followed me have had," said Paul Mainieri. "Al Avila, Jim Pizzolatto, and Manny Mantrana all did a tremendous job in keeping the program at a high level. And now, Jorge Perez, a man I admire very much as a person and a coach, has the Bobcats primed for national prominence on an annual basis. To know that he will continue to develop the program on a field that bears my name is extremely gratifying and overwhelming for me."
Paul Mainieri has a 1,122-614-7 career record in 30 seasons of collegiate coaching. He is no. 10 on the career wins list for active NCAA coaches and is one of only six active coaches to have won 1,000 games and an NCAA national championship.
Entering his seventh season at LSU, Paul Mainieri has guided the Tigers to two College World Series appearances, winning the national championship in 2009. He has also directed LSU to three NCAA Regional titles, two Southeastern Conference championships, three SEC Tournament titles and three SEC Western Division crowns.
Prior to becoming LSU's coach in June 2006, Paul Mainieri directed the Notre Dame program in 12 seasons (1995-2006) to 533 wins, nine conference titles, nine NCAA tournament berths and a College World Series appearance in 2002. He coached the Air Force Academy from 1989-94 where he won 152 games and is the only coach in school history to win 20 or more games in six consecutive seasons.
Paul Mainieri's coaching career began at his alma mater, Miami Columbus High School, where he served as assistant baseball and football coach for three years before taking over at St. Thomas in the fall of 1982. He graduated with a Master of Science degree in Sports Administration from St. Thomas in 1982 where his coaching career began. He was the Head Coach for St. Thomas from 1983-88, while also serving as the University's Director of Athletics from 1986-88. He remains the "winningest" coach in school history with a career record of 179-121-2 in six years at St. Thomas. His St. Thomas teams averaged 30 wins per season (after an average of just 18 wins in the six previous years) and four of his six teams were ranked in the NCAA Division II Top 10 during the season. He was named the Sunshine State Conference Coach of the Year in 1984 and his 1987 team led the nation with a .340 batting average.
Fifteen of Paul Mainieri's St. Thomas players entered pro baseball, with Joe Klink, Dane Johnson and Dan Rohrmeier each going on to appear on Major League rosters. Klink played with the 1987 Minnesota Twins and 1989 Oakland A's World Series championship teams while also pitching with the Florida Marlins in 1994.
"During my time coaching the Bobcats, I had the distinct honor of working with so many outstanding young men in our baseball program," said Paul Mainieri. "I am proud of the effort and dedication they gave to our university; and the distinction they brought to our baseball program. Following their time at St. Thomas, they have gone on to become successful in their lives and that is of which I am most proud. I hope we had an influence on teaching them what it took to succeed."
Paul Mainieri was inducted into the St. Thomas University Sports Hall of Fame in November 2009, and his jersey No. 1 was retired by the University in February 2012. Now the baseball field will bestow his name, along with his father's, with the dedication of Paul Demie Mainieri Field at Frank R. Esposito Stadium. "I am honored and humbled to have the baseball field at St. Thomas University named after me," said Paul Mainieri. "I never imagined something like this would ever have been bestowed upon me."
Dr. Demie Mainieri, who was an adjunct professor in the early years of the prestigious St. Thomas University Sports Administration program, won 1,012 games as Head Baseball Coach at Miami-Dade Community College North. He was elected to the ABCA Hall of Fame in 1988. In 1990, Dr. Mainieri became the first junior college coach in history to win 1,000 games. He finished with 1,012 wins in a career that spanned from 1961 to 1990. While at Miami-Dade College, Dr. Mainieri coached 35 players who went on to play in the major leagues including Hall of Famer Steve Carlton, Bucky Dent, and Mike Piazza.
For more information on St. Thomas University schools and programs, visit www.stu.edu or contact Chief Marketing/Communications Officer Marivi Prado at firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information on St. Thomas University Athletics and the St. Thomas baseball program, go to www.stubobcats.com.
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text: Jon Hamm will host the ESPYs this summer, ESPN announced today. Even among meaningless awards, ESPYs are ultra-meaningless — sports has its own system of awards known as winning — but the ceremony is occasionally tolerable, if only for all of the athletes attempting to look mildly surprised despite not being surprised at all. Hmmm, let's see: Jon Hamm is funny, he seems like a good sport, he's not totally unfortunate-looking, ladies like him, fellas like him … maybe it's time to just declare Jon Hamm the host of everything.

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Could Pedro Nobre Be the First UFC Fighter Ever to Be Released For Faking an Injury? [UPDATED]
This is Pedro Nobre, the TUF: Brazil alum who made his UFC debut last weekend at UFC on FX 7 against fellow Brazilian Iuri Alcantara. As you can tell from the neck brace he is sporting in the above photo, his debut did not go well. Alcantara landed a few supposedly illegal shots to the back of Nobre's dome, and likely in an effort to make up for his poor performance during the Alessio Sakara/Patrick Cote debacle at UFC 154, referee Dan Miragliotta waved the bout off and declared it a no contest when Nobre was unable to continue.
The only problem was that 90% of the shots Alcantara landed, if not all of them, were neither illegal nor all that devastating (at least from our perspective), which prompted Dana White to post the following on Twitter:
In fact, White became so enraged by Nobre's Oscar-worthy performance that he recently all but completely closed the door on Nobre's future UFC aspirations.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. chairman Ray Lane is stepping down. The announcement Thursday comes two weeks after a near ousting by shareholders. Here are some biographical details on Lane.
TITLE: Chairman, Hewlett-Packard Co. (stepping down).
CAREER: Served as executive chairman since September 2011. Was non-executive chairman before that, since November 2010. Served as managing partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a private equity firm, since 2000. Previously president and chief operating officer of Oracle Corp.; senior partner of Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting company; and a division vice president with Electronic Data Systems Corp., which HP later bought.
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Earlier today, we wrote about ex-Eagle Brian Mitchell and his departure from ESPN 980 in D.C.
The station said they let Mitchell go because of the economy, but the former special-teams ace told USA Today that it may have had more to do with his criticism of Dan Snyder and the Redskins' organization.
Snyder, you see, owns the radio station.
We also mentioned that B-Mitch resurfaced last week as a co-host of Howard Eskin on WIP. But was that a temporary move by the station, or do they have bigger plans for Mitchell?
We reached out to station manager Marc Rayfield to get more information.
"When he became available, we decided to take a look," Rayfield said in an e-mail. "Where we might potentially use him is yet to be determined but the feedback from our listeners has been tremendous."
Mitchell spent three seasons with the Birds (2000-2002) and did a Monday night radio show on WIP.
Rayfield added that he never doubted Mitchell's football expertise, but has been pleasantly surprised about his knowledge of other sports.
For more on Mitchell's comments regarding why he was let go in D.C., click here.
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Boston, Mass. -- Beginning this week, the first phase of soil removal is beginning at the Beede Waste Oil Superfund Site in Plaistow, N.H.
The lightly contaminated soil was previously excavated and/or relocated and stockpiled on site in order to construct a new temporary driveway and access road to the Site. The soil will be trucked off-site utilizing the newly-constructed temporary driveway and access road. A fleet of six trucks, each of which can carry about 20 tons of soil, will make up to three trips per day to the Rochester, N.H. landfill. The work will involve an estimated 565 truckloads of soil.
The truckloads of soil will be covered to ensure containment, and the trucks will be thoroughly cleaned before they leave the Site. To minimize dust, EPA will use watering techniques during the removal. During soil removal, EPA will also conduct air monitoring around the work site to ensure that potentially harmful contaminants are not posing a threat to people's health. If air monitoring shows levels of contamination exceeding appropriate limits, all work will be halted until these issues are addressed.
The trucks will not leave the Site while school buses are picking up or dropping off students who live between the new Main Street driveway entrance and Route 125.
Contamination occurred at the nearly 41-acre Beede Waste Oil Superfund Site from the 1920s through August 1994, when it was used as a waste oil storage and recycling facility. The site is contaminated primarily with waste oil that seeped into the ground from a variety of sources, including a former unlined lagoon and various above and underground storage tanks that have since been removed.
The Site cleanup plan is being conducted in accordance with the Record of Decision, signed in 2004, under the terms of a Consent Decree entered as a final order in New Hampshire Federal District Court in 2008. The Consent Decree secures a commitment from the settling parties to finance and conduct a comprehensive clean up of the Beede site under oversight of the U.S. EPA and the N.H. Dept. of Environmental Protection.
To date, cleanup activities have included: removal of water, oil and sludge from storage tanks and drums formally located on the site, removal of approximately 100,000 gallons of waste oil from the groundwater table, design and partial construction of a groundwater treatment system, and construction of a waterline for residents whose private wells were impacted by the Site. The cleanup plan will continue to address remaining contamination at the Site including soil, sediment, groundwater and surface water.
More information on EPA cleanup work at the Beede Waste Oil Superfund Site (http://www.epa.gov/region1/superfund/sites/beede)


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The College of St. Scholastica, the only private college in northeastern Minnesota, has sponsored study abroad programs for many years. 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the intensive Russian language program held at Petrozavodsk State University in Petrozavodsk, Duluth's sister city in Russia. The program is co-sponsored by Saint Martin's University in Lacey, Washington.
Petrozavodsk State University has a strong foreign language program with instructors specially trained in second language acquisition. In addition to academic work, they organize numerous outings and field trips during the exchange.
Students in this program have a homestay with students from Petrozavodsk State University, so they have considerable opportunity to meet and interact with Russian students who are eager to make friends with their American counterparts. Indeed, contact with Russian speakers outside the classroom plays as important a role in language training as formal coursework. American students are encouraged to spend most of their time with Russian speakers - not with other Americans.
Petrozavodsk, some 240 miles northeast of St. Petersburg, is the capital of the Karelian Republic and an ideal spot for summer language study. It is located on the shore of Lake Onega at the edge of a wilderness of incomparable beauty. The people are extremely friendly and hospitable to Americans, especially to those with ties to their sister city, Duluth, Minnesota.
With a population of 280,000, Petrozavodsk is large enough to support a variety of restaurants, shops, theatres, museums and other cultural amenities to add richness to one's stay. On the other hand, the majority of the people in Petrozavodsk speak only Russian, so students are not likely to encounter as many who want to practice English as they might in larger, more cosmopolitan cities.
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The Police Log is a digest of reports filed by the Warwick Police
Officer Nicholas DiNardo reported he stopped a car on Warwick Avenue around 10:25 p.m. on March 6 because the window tinting was illegally dark. He said he pulled the car over and noticed an odor of burnt marijuana in the car. He said he asked the driver about the smell and the driver explained that he had smoked marijuana in the car earlier. DiNardo said the driver consented to a search of the car and he found no more marijuana but a second officer searched the back seat and found a small baggie that contained a white substance that the passenger told him was his and that it was crack cocaine. The passenger, identified as Christian M. Domenech, 19, of 284 Grove St. in Providence, was arrested and charged with felony possession of a controlled substance. He said he also learned that the driver, identified as Jesus E. Matos, 19, of 63 Alverson Ave. in Providence, had an active bench warrant out of District Court for failure to appear. Matos was charged with unlawful installation of sunscreen material and then held for the next session of District Court. Domenech was later released on $1,000 surety bail.
Officer John Madden reported he went to Manor Drive on Feb. 29 for a report of tools stolen from a work van that was parked there overnight. The owner told him he parked the van in his driveway around 8 p.m. the night before and noticed that the tools were gone when he returned to the van around 1 p.m. that day to get some tools. He told Madden he didn't have a detailed list of the missing tools yet but did estimate that they were worth between $3,000 and $4,000. He explained to Madden that he was a retired carpenter and that all his work tools were in the van. He later provided Madden with the list of tools and Madden had the list scanned and entered into the file for stolen property.
Officer Paul Wells reported a smashed driver's side window and a missing purse from a car left in the lot at Healthtrax Wellness & Fitness on Post Road on March 6. He said the owner told him she left her purse under a swimming belt in the locked car while she was inside the gym. She came back to find the broken window and the swimming belt moved to the back seat and her purse was gone. She said her Vera Bradley purse contained her Verizon Droid cell phone and $200 in cash. She said her $600 Fendi sunglasses were also in the purse. No suspects or witnesses.
Officer Christian Vargas reported he was on patrol around 6:40 p.m. on March 6 when he saw a car swerve erratically on Airport Road. He said he followed the car and watched it regain its control and maintain a straight path but followed it into Airport Plaza with the intention of checking the sobriety of the driver. He said the driver leaned toward the glove box to get his papers and he saw a plastic bag in the pocket of the man's jacket. He said the baggie was in plain sight and he picked it out of his pocket and recognized it as marijuana. He said the driver told him it was for medical reasons but did not have a medical marijuana ID card. He said he ran a check on the driver's record and found numerous prior arrests for drug possession and possession with intent to sell and dozens of priors for driving on a suspended license and several charges of breaking and entering. He said he also learned he was currently out on bail for selling drugs to a paid informant for the Rhode Island State Police. He said he also found four car jacks and a small set of basic tools in the trunk of the car and $492 in cash on his person. Keith J. Reynolds, 43, of 1015 Warwick Ave. was arrested and held for the next session of District Court in the morning.
Officer Hovsep Sarkisian reported he was dispatched to Bo's Billiards around 1:10 a.m. on March 6 for a report of a disturbance and malicious damage complaint. He said he learned from dispatch that the car had left the scene heading toward Cranston on Route 5 and then learned that Cranston Police had already stopped the car for driving erratically before the "be on the lookout" was broadcast. Sarkisian said he went to Cranston and then transported the suspect back to Warwick where the driver, identified as John J. Rouleau, 20, of 33 Ringgold St. in Providence, was charged with punching out the window of a West Warwick man's car. Sarkisian said he transported the suspect to Kent Hospital where he refused medical attention for a laceration on his finger, in spite of the advice of the staff to have it stitched. Rondeau was held for the next session of District Court.
A Providence man was arrested and charged with shoplifting on March 5 after security at Macy's in the Warwick Mall told police they saw him steal a $165 pair of Timberland boots. Officer Gary Driscoll reported that the man turned himself in but denied the theft and denied knowing the other person accused of being involved in the incident. Driscoll said he asked the man if he had an ID on him and he said he lost his card a few months ago and that he believed someone was using his identification. Driscoll said he advised him to give him a written statement about his belief that someone was impersonating him but gave him a summons for shoplifting anyway and said they would continue to investigate in the meantime. Tevin Walkie, 19, of 42 Edgemere Ave. was released with the summons.
Officer Hovsep Sarkisian reported going to Kohl's in the Rhode Island Mall on March 1 for a report of a shoplifting in progress involving three suspects. He said police already stopped two people in a vehicle and a third suspect was being detained by store security. He said Jennifer Bell, 38, of 19 Hamlet Ave. in Woonsocket, was in possession of three stolen dresses from Kohl's worth $159 when she was stopped in the parking lot. Officer David Thompson said the second woman in the car was dressed as a male but was identified as Megan Lynn Haberek, 29, of 3 Lister St. in Warwick and was charged with shoplifting. The third suspect, who was identified as William Jordan, 30, of 123 Pinehurst Ave. in Warwick, was charged with leaving the store wearing $460 worth of clothing he put on in the store and attempted to walk out without paying for the goods. Bell was released with a summons. Haberek and Jordan were arraigned before the Bail Commissioner. Haberek was released on $1,000 personal recognizance. Jordan was transported to the ACI when he could not pay the $3,000 surety bail.
Laurence Gagnon, 71, of 979 Tollgate Rd. in Warwick
was indicted by the Statewide Grand Jury last week. It charged Gagnon with 14 counts of second-degree child molestation. It alleges that, between Sept. 1 in 2010 and June 30 of 2011, Gagnon molested three children under the age of 14.
The West Warwick Police conducted the investigation. Gagnon will be arraigned in Kent County Superior Court on March 23. Since his arrest on Sept. 10 of last year, Gagnon has been out on $30,000 surety bail and has been ordered to have no contact with the victims or any children under 16 years of age.


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Event : Chöd Retreat with Lama Wangdu
Date : November 12-14, 2010
Venue : Nalanda West
Address :3902 Woodland Park Avenue North,Seattle, Washington 98103
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Friday, 7PM-9PM
Rinpoche will give a talk on the history and practice of Chöd and introduce the practice.
Saturday, 9AM-5PM
Teachings, practice and empowerments by Rinpoche.
Sunday, 9AM-4PM
Teachings and practice with Rinpoche.
Lama Wangdu Rinpoche, a Chöd master and a lineage holder of Padampa Sangye's Shije tradition, will offer empowerments and teachings on the Chöd practices called Accomplishment on One Seat and Bellowing Laugh of the Dakinis. This is a rare opportunity to train with a recognized master and yogi in this ancient teaching of dismemberment and offering.
A powerful practice for cutting through one's fearful preoccupation with self, Chöd expresses the heart of the Buddhist Mahayana teachings on compassion. Chöd is practiced in all of the Tibetan Buddhist lineages and is especially important in Rinpoche's Nyingma tradition.In addition to receiving permission to perform the practice, retreatants will get copies of the texts, be instructed in the use of the Chöd instruments and learn the melodies sung by Chödpas since the time of Padampa Sangye and Machik Labdron.
Rinpoche was born in the Tingri region of Tibet in 1936. While in his teens, he received transmission for Chöd, the Longchen Nyingthig and other teachings from his root lama, Naptra Rinpoche. He has completed the traditional 108 charnel grounds retreat and spent many years practicing Chöd in the wild places of Tibet, India and Nepal.In 2001, after HH Dalai Lama asked him to preserve the Chöd and Shije teachings and train a new generation of practitioners he founded Pal Gyi Dingri Langkor Gonpa in Kathmandu.Rinpoche is known throughout Nepal, Tibet and China as an accomplished, compassionate and generous yogi, teacher and healer. To learn more about him, visit lamawangdu.org or read his biography, One Hundred Thousand Rays of the Sun.
Chöd Retreat with Lama Wangdu November 12-14, 2010
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Nothing adds depth of flavor to a dish like homemade chicken stock, but what about fish stock? It's easier to make than you think, and can lend a unique flavor you hadn't had in awhile. (Cooking it does not cause unpleasant odors as you would expect.)
A recent weekend in Columbus, Ohio included a trip to the famous North Market in the trendy downtown Short North district. The fishmonger ("The Fish Guys") offered beautiful salmon heads, and my good friend Abra decided to buy 7 lbs worth and make a fish stock.
Below is a recipe from Epicurious -- adapt for your needs as appropriate.
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 medium onions, very thinly sliced
4 stalks celery, very thinly sliced
2 medium carrots, very thinly sliced
2 dried bay leaves
1/4 cup roughly chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves and stems
6 to 8 sprigs fresh thyme
2 tablespoons black peppercorns
1 large (6 inches long or more) or 2 small (4 inches long or less) fish heads from cod or haddock, split lengthwise, gills removed, and rinsed clean of any blood
2 1/2 to 3 pounds fish frames (bones) from sole, flounder, bass, and/or halibut, cut into 2-inch pieces and rinsed clean of any blood
1/4 cup dry white wine
About 2 quarts very hot or boiling water
Kosher or sea salt
1. Melt the butter in a heavy 7- to 8-quart stockpot over medium heat. Add the onions, celery, carrots, bay leaves, parsley, thyme, and peppercorns and cook, stirring frequently with a wooden spoon, until the vegetables become very soft without browning, about 8 minutes.
2. Place the fish head on the vegetables and stack the fish frames evenly on top. Pour in the wine, cover the pot tightly, and let the bones sweat for 10 to 15 minutes, or until they have turned completely white.
3. Add enough very hot or boiling water to just barely cover the bones. Give the mixture a gentle stir and allow the brew to come to a simmer. Simmer for 10 minutes, uncovered, carefully skimming off any white foam that comes to the surface, trying not to take any herbs, spices, or vegetables with it. (Using a ladle and a circular motion, push the foam from the center to the outside of the pot, where it is easy to remove.)
4. Remove the pot from the stove, stir the stock again, and allow it to steep for 10 minutes. Strain through a fine-mesh strainer and season lightly with salt. If you are not going to be using the stock within the hour, chill it as quickly as possible. Cover the stock after it is thoroughly chilled (it will have a light jellied consistency) and keep refrigerated for up to 3 days, or freeze for up to 2 months.
Cook Notes
Strong Fish Stock can be used in any fish chowder, using 1 or 2 heads form haddock or cod mixed with any combination of flounder, sole, bass and/or halibut frames (bones).
You can employ the "sweating" method with any fish you use to make a chowder — simply substitute the same amount of heads and bones. Keep in mind, however, that while the heads and bones of salmon, bluefish, and other species of oily fish make a stock that is right for their own chowders, its flavor is too pronounced to be suitable in other chowders or soups.
For equipment, you will need a 7- to 8-quart heavy stockpot with a tight-fitting lid, a wooden spoon, a ladle, and a fine-mesh strainer.


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Just when we think we've seen the worst of Spencer Pratt, the guy manages to out-douche himself. The latest victim of The Hills star is none other than his mother in law, Darlene Egelhoff.
Spencer had some choice words for his wife, Heidi Montag's mother, on the latest episode of the Hills. Apparently the vile reality star's disdain for his mom-in-law stems from Darlene's criticism of Heidi's unnecessary 10 plastic surgery procedures, all which she had done in one day.
"How do I go and say that of course I thought you were more beautiful before?" said Darlene to Heidi on a previous episode. "I thought you were younger, I thought you were fresher-looking, I thought you were healthier."
Spencer, 26, then decided to snap during last night's episode, saying the following about his wife's mom. "She's not God," said Spencer. "She didn't make Heidi. She's just a vagina!"
And it doesn't end there. Spencer's attack of Darlene continues both on and off the show. According to TMZ, a bank in Colorado is foreclosing on an undeveloped piece of property owned by Darlene, on which she owes $187,385.62 on a $189k loan she took out in 2006.
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PEORIA — It still is possible to make a good living without a college degree, Ernestine Jackson says.
This weekend, her allies in the building-trades field will attempt to demonstrate that — particularly to Peoria-area minority youths.
A career fair is set for 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Woodruff Career and Technical Center. Various organizations are to present cases that boost careers in bricklaying, electrical work, pipefitting and plumbing, among other non-academic endeavors.
"I don't think kids know about trades anymore, because they're talking about college," said Jackson, the Peoria Branch NAACP labor and industrial relations chairwoman. "We're trying to give kids an alternative.
"I think it's important for kids to go to college, but … if you're not going to college, what better job is there to have than to be a carpenter or electrician? They pay well, they have great benefits and you can take care of a family on them."
The career fair is the product of collaboration between the NAACP and the city. Last year, Jackson addressed City Council members about what she said was a lack of minorities and women employed in some public-works projects.
The NAACP had planned to picket those work sites, Jackson said. Instead, the group decided to approach city and local trade-union officials with its concerns.
"What we really found out is there are barriers we need to try to work to overcome," City Manager Patrick Urich said. "One of the opportunities we really realized is just even getting exposure to the construction industry is important."
Also important is education, although not necessarily at the university level. Understanding of basic mathematics, such as algebra, is required for many construction disciplines, Urich said.
The local NAACP plans to form a partnership with Peoria School District 150 to help students take classes necessary to pass building-trades examinations. But Jackson said that's a long-term strategy.
In the short term, initial exposure to trades careers can help those fields fill the spots of long-time workers who are retiring, according to Jackson.
"There are kids who can pass those tests," she said. "They just don't know about them."
The career fair Saturday might provide those kids less of an excuse for that lack of knowledge.
"We recognize Peoria is a very diverse community," Urich said. "We're trying to extend that diversity to building trades. It's very important to us."
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Career fair at Woodruff Career and Technical Center focuses on trades
PEORIA — It still is possible to make a good living without a college degree, Ernestine Jackson says.


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What is a wireless repeater and what is the optimal way to use it?
You can use a wireless repeater (for example FRITZ!WLAN Repeater to increase the range of your wireless network. The repeater is connected to the existing wireless network (for example from your FRITZ!Box) and then makes its own additional wireless network available; wireless devices connected to it can then in turn connect with your home network. The signal of the existing wireless network is therefore not amplified by the wireless repeater, it is repeated.
To achieve optimal results when increasing the range, you should consider the existing infrastructure when choosing the repeater and observe a few principles when positioning it. In this guide, we give you advice on selecting the perfect repeater for your home network.
Which wireless repeaters can I use with my router?
A wireless repeater must connect with the router; different procedures exist.
Wireless repeaters that only function as repeaters, such as the FRITZ!WLAN Repeater, use the "Universal Repeater Mode" procedure and behave towards the router like conventional wireless devices. This means that you can use this type of wireless repeater with all conventional wireless routers.
Some wireless routers can also increase the wireless range. Wireless routers usually use manufacturer-specific methods to act as wireless repeaters; as a result, often they only can be used with a wireless router from the same manufacturer.
"Wireless Distribution System" (WDS) is a non-proprietary procedure that enables wireless routers to be used as repeaters; however, its development was discontinued over 10 years ago. Therefore, the WDS standard only allows use of the unsafe WEP encryption procedure and slow throughput rates according to 802.11g, which means only rates of up to 54 Mbit/s gross. Current AVM products do not support WDS due to these limitations.
We have developed a solution that supports the secure WPA2 encryption method as well as throughput rates according to 802.11n and 802.11ac. Starting with FRITZ!OS 5.50, most of the FRITZ!Boxes can also be used as a wireless repeater with a FRITZ!Box.
Can I use more than one wireless repeater?
Yes, it is possible to use more than one repeater. They can either be connected directly with the wireless router to increase the range in different directions, or they can be connected with each other (wireless cascading ) to increase the range in a particular direction. However, the latter option can create more problems than benefits, since the wireless speed in such cascades is halved with each single repeater used, for example.
Does a wireless repeater reduce the wireless speed?
This is not always the case. With most wireless repeaters, the bandwidth for wireless devices is halved because they only have a single transmitter and receiver unit (radio), which means that it cannot simultaneously send and receive. If it is receiving a data package from a wireless device, it cannot transmit it directly to the router until the wireless device has finished transmitting to the repeater.
This is different with repeaters with two radios, for example the FRITZ!WLAN Repeater 1750E. If it is connected with a wireless router that also has two radios, for example FRITZ!Box 7590, data can always be transmitted without the wait, if different frequency bands are used for each path (crossband repeating). If the repeater is connected with a wireless repeater that does not support the simultaneous use of both frequency bands, at least you will not experience waiting time with the repeater on the other frequency band.
What is crossband repeating and how does it work?
Crossband repeating is a procedure where the repeater and router are connected over one particular frequency band, but wireless devices are connected with the repeater's other frequency band.
For example, if a wireless device is connected to a repeater via the 5 GHz frequency band, then the repeater uses the 2.4 GHz frequency band for the connection to the router. This does not cause speed loss because each frequency band uses its own transmitting and receiving unit; as a result, there is a continuous data flow.
The FRITZ!WLAN Repeater takes it even a step further; in addition to the crossband repeating procedure, it can flexibly select the frequency band for the connection between the repeater and router; this way the best setting is automatically selected for the current transmission situation.
Where should I position a wireless repeater?
If the repeater is connected to the router over wireless LAN, it must be located within the range of the wireless network so that both of the wireless networks overlap. Since the repeater is connected with the wireless router's wireless network, it must be placed where the quality of the router's wireless signal is good. If the router and repeater also use the same wireless settings, wireless devices can register themselves with the device that has the best signal strength, with virtually no interruptions. Switching between both of these wireless networks is called roaming.
An optimal location for the repeater is somewhere where there are as few obstacles as possible between it, the wireless router, and the other wireless devices. Especially metallic objects or objects containing water, for example radiators, refrigerators, or even houseplants, significantly reduce the quality of the wireless signal. A repeater should also be placed at a distance from other transmitters such as microwaves, a baby monitor, wireless speakers, or Bluetooth devices.
Many wireless repeaters also have a LAN port, for example the FRITZ!WLAN Repeater 1750E; this allows you to also use the repeater outside the router's wireless range. This way, wireless devices can access your home network even at a great distance from the router.
For the connection between the repeater and the router, you can either use a LAN cable up to 100 meters in length, or you can also use powerline devices, such as FRITZ!Powerline.


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Sustainability Issues in Five Points and Beyond
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The Five Points neighborhood in Denver was a thriving cultural center for decades, attracting jazz greats like Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington.
While the neighborhood's once vibrant commercial strip has long been in decline, former Gov. Bill Ritter breathed new life into the area in 2010 when he named Five Points a designated sustainable community. The focus now is on bolstering investment in the neighborhood, decreasing abandoned storefronts, increasing energy efficiency, and developing new housing opportunities.
As part three of its Blueprint America initiative, Rocky Mountain PBS is exploring some of the key sustainability issues that Five Points and three other communities designated as part of the Colorado Sustainable Main Streets initiative - Fowler, Monte Vista and Rifle - are facing.
Watch a recent episode below of "Colorado State of Mind," where host Cynthia Hessin and an expert panel discuss the impact of the Main Streets initiative so far on the Five Points neighborhood and beyond.
Watch the full episode. See more Colorado State of Mind.
This initiative is brought to you by the Blueprint America project from WNET.org with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.
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In early June Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Jack Kelly commended Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate in this column. The column is particularly interesting in retrospect. Today Kelly himself takes a look back. Far from patting himself on the back, Kelly now measures the potential risk and reward in Palin's selection:
There is no such thing as the perfect candidate. The knock on Sarah Palin would be her relative inexperience. She's only been governor for 18 months, and before that, the mayor of Wasilla, a small suburb of Anchorage.
But it will be difficult for Democrats to attack Ms. Palin on this without calling attention to Barack Obama's lack of experience. Ms. Palin is the undercard, not the top of the ticket. And her 18 months as governor (not to mention her two terms as mayor) is 18 months more executive experience than Mr. Obama and Sen. Joe Biden have combined.
Whether this is a brilliant choice or a bad risk will depend on how Ms. Palin performs on the campaign trail. But if I were Joe Biden, I'd be worried. A former journalist, Sarah Palin is careful about what she says and says it well, qualities for which Mr. Biden is not renowned. Mr. Obama picked Mr. Biden in part because of his reputed skill as a hatchet man. But if Mr. Biden comes on too hard in the vice presidential debate, he'll look like a bully. And Alaska is littered with the bodies of those who tried to bully Sarah Palin and failed.
The experience question — implicit in Kelly's concern about Palin's campaign performance — remains a kind of trap door on her candidacy. Obama's endless parade of ignorant gaffes are walled off by a bodyguard of media fans. Governor Palin will have no such margin for error.
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Our mission is to build better and free systems for use in libraries. Toward this end, we maintain a listing of free software and systems designed for libraries (the physical, books-on-shelves kind), and we track news about project updates or related issues of interest.
oss4lib started at the Yale Medical Library in early February 1999 thinking there were probably other folks like us out there who might be working on free library software or looking for same. Our reasons for wanting to see Open Source take off in the library software arena are straightforward, fairly typical, and mostly outlined in the Open Source Systems for Libraries: Getting Started piece. You would think librarians would have figured this shared software thing out years ago. :)
Dan Chudnov (dchud) started oss4lib and maintains it, along with the many readers who often post news. Everyone is welcome to sign up for an account and post news, so long as it's about free software or libraries or the intersection of both.
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Miranda respondsTo
From Erights
__respondsTo/2 is a Miranda message for asking whether an object understands a message.
Returns a boolean indicating whether this object responds to messages with the verb verb and arity (number of arguments) arity.
The Miranda method for E-language objects is:
- If this object has a method with the given verb and arity, return true.
- If there is a Miranda method with the given verb and arity, return true.
- If the object has a matcher, return the result of invoking the matcher with the __respondsTo message. If the matcher does not match, return false.
- Return false.
XXX confirm this is an accurate description of current behavior.


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WWSB parts ways with News Director…
Sources tell Florida News Center that Sarasota's WWSB parted ways with News Director Gene Ross earlier this week. There is no word on who will fill Ross' vacancy. The station has already listed the opening on its website.
No reason was given for Ross' sudden departure. However, his departure comes just weeks after Jeff Benninghoff was named VP and General Manager at the station.
Are more changes coming to WWSB? Stay tuned to Florida News Center for the latest.
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Samuel Spraker has not received any gifts yet
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So I was vehemently opposed by another individual when I told her that all babies were atheists. I also said that no innocent child believes in the supernatural beings until they are proselytized to believe so. Doesn't geographic determinism prove this? If you're born in the United States, you'll probably end up Christian, and if you're born in Iran, you'll end up Islamic. Doesn't this prove my point? I'd appreciate any devil's advocates.
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I don't believe that this is a quote that can readily be overlooked. Indeed, if there is a god, and he created us in his image, then wouldn't he use his intellect, reason, and continuing knowledge to question himself as the great french philosopher Descartes did when he wrote,"I think, therefore I am."? Why shall we ever believe in something so profound as to never question it, and to blindly follow it with such fervor?
It is too easy to speak of such things with confidence on…Continue
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Prior to science, superstition conquered. Aristotle believed that objects in motion slowed because they simply became "tired." God was reason for all, and all was reason for God.
Due to brilliant minds we have emerged from these opaque ages of knowledge. Newton enlightened us with mathematical logic in the 17th century. He also enlightened us with knowledge of optics,…Continue


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Ortega, Barnes reelected to Merrimack School BoardBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
April 09. 2013 10:50PM
MERRIMACK - Voters reelected two members of the School Board, but narrowly defeated a proposal for a new $1.5 million building for the school district in yesterday's town election.
Shannon Barnes and Christopher Ortega were both elected to a second term on the School Board.
Ortega topped the field with 1,268 votes, just a handful more than Barnes who was second with 1,264.
Gary Krupp, a town Budget Committee member finished third with 896 votes.
Voters rejected a warrant article seeking $1.5 million for the construction of a new, consolidated special services and administrative office building for the school district.
A majority of voters backed the proposal, but the margin of 963 in favor and 912 opposed was short of the three-fifth's "supermajority" needed for approval.
Another 165 votes would have been needed for approval.
Ortega said he was disappointed with the low voter turnout saying he wished more people would take the time to cast ballots.
Barnes said her campaign worked paid off on election day.
"I worked my tail off," Barnes said as she greeted voters outside the polls.
Krupp said before the polls closed that he ran a good campaign and was pleased with his interaction with local residents.
"People had more of an opportunity to learn about me and my positions, which was important this time around," said Krupp. "But, it is a pretty sleepy election."
Incumbent Daniel Dwyer won reelection to the Town Council, and former Councilor David Yakuboff claimed another seat. Both were unopposed.
Voters approved a 2013-2014 town operating budget of $28,725,477, as well as five collective bargaining agreements on the town portion of the ballot.
On the school ballot, voters approved a $66.3 million school district operating budget, and a new contract with teachers that increases the salary budget by $1.65 million over the next three years.


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Tetra is the only brand name that's become synonymous with ornamental fish keeping, thanks to Dr. Ulrich Baensch. He founded Tetra Werke (Company) in Melle, Germany 50 years ago, and pioneered the development of flake fish foods. Tetra now manufactures hundreds of products and publishes books for aquarium fish keeping, reptile and amphibian keeping, and water gardening.


text: With every big dotcom, electronics manufacturer and cable provider suddenly jumping on the streaming video bandwagon in the last 18 months, it's safe to say that industry leader Netflix is experiencing some big changes. The company's mainstay content providers, Showtime and Starz getting skimpy with their shows, Netflix is looking to make friends elsewhere. And according to the Wall Street Journal, the video service is oh-so-close to making a deal with Miramax that would stream the studio's library of more than 700 films to customers. [More]


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Study Finds Minorities Are More Likely to Own Smartphones
Pop quiz: among whites, blacks, Asians and Hispanics, which are the least likely to own a smartphone?
If you said "whites," go to the head of the class — because you're right.
According to Nielsen's latest Mobile Insights study of US mobile subscribers, whites are the only group more likely to own an old-school "feature phone" than a smartphone like an iPhone or Droid.
Demographically, two-thirds of Asian-American mobile subscribers own smartphones, followed by 57 percent of Hispanics and 53 percent of blacks — while only 45 percent of whites do. This backs up other studies showing blacks and Hispanics are far more likely than whites to make purchases on their phones.
As more Americans shift from using the internet on their computers to using it on their mobile devices, this new data could mean the racial aspect of the so-called "digital divide" is closing. Although research has shown whites are more likely to have internet access, that work only took into account computers and laptops — and since smartphones are less expensive to buy, more lower-income people could have internet access than previously thought.


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Pabst Is the 2009 World's Ugliest Dog
And the 2009 World's Ugliest Dog Is . . .
Another Petaluma scorcher for this year's Ugly Dog Contest! The 2009 champ was a new face who won me over with his pronounced underbite, which he uses like a scoop to get the food in at mealtime. Ha. Even though the last several years have featured lil pups like the late Gus, this time a big pup's top dog.
Four-year-old Pabst and his owner, Miles Egstad, came from Citrus Heights, CA — the Boxer mix was super sweet, loved the shade, and seemed to be rather sleepy before his turn on stage. Resting up for his time in the sun, I bet. We got a glimpse of Pabst, blue ribbon and all, so see one more cute pic (and hear what his owner had to say about the win) when you
On the recognition: "This breed is not known for being ugly like the Chinese Crested. He's so ugly, he's adorable."
On the prize: "He's definitely getting a filet mignon, maybe not tonight, but he will. And getting his teeth cleaned, look at them!"
Congrats to Pabst and Miles and stay tuned for more Ugly Dog coverage next week!


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Justin S necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 165 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for a logo for our law firm, The Strother Law Firm. We consider our services premium, and we cater to entreprenuerial clients.
The Strother Law Firm (or Strother Law Firm)
(EDIT: Please read the comments within the contest to see how our desires have been focused by the very good entries.)
We are looking for a logo for our law firm, The Strother Law Firm. We consider our services premium, and we cater to entreprenuerial clients.
We want a modern logo that we can use on the web, business cards, and stationary, and any other print or electronic use.
We are pretty wide open on how it should look, but I think it should be sleek, modern, and professional.
You can use "The" in the name -- we currently do -- but we are not wedded to it if you think it looks better without.
I will review the entries daily, give feedback, and at the end of the week, present them to the other attorneys for a selection.
**NOTE: I am working to find examples that capture parts of what we are looking for. If you want to receive these examples, please e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I will e-mail you right back with what I am looking at.
**NOTE 2: There's something I like about this winning design from another contest: http://99designs.com/contests/5585/…5#entry-15
I also like this entry from the same contest: http://99designs.com/contests/5585/…ies/363253
Sleek, modern, professional. Distinct. Maybe even edgy. In vector format, please, for print and web use.
I think somewhere it could have "Attorneys & Counselors", "Attorneys & Counselors at Law", "Attorneys - Counselors" or something like that.
When I've seen other contests, I've seen examples of stationary and business cards. Please prepare something like that for us to look at.
**UPDATE** Many of the designs focus too much on "Strother" and have "Law Firm" too small. We like the emphasis, but we want to have the size difference -- if any -- be a little subtler. Otherwise, it looks like the name of the company is just "Strother."
No gavels, scales of justice, or anything trite or cliched.
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NILES, Ill., Dec. 14, 2011—The live HD broadcast of Chicago's 2011 Magnificent Mile Lights Festival by WLS-TV, an ABC-owned TV station, is a challenging event, requiring extensive use of wireless microphones and intercom systems in an RF-intensive outdoor environment. Performers included Grammy-winning sister duo Mary Mary. Parade grand marshal Mickey Mouse was on hand to illuminate more than one million lights on 200 trees lining Michigan Avenue, officially kicking off Chicago's holiday season. This perennially difficult assignment became much easier in 2011 with the use of a new and unique wireless microphone system: Shure Axient with frequency diversity.
WLS enlisted the aid of On Stage Audio (OSA) in suburban Wood Dale to supply the needed audio equipment. OSA senior staff engineer Pete Wiejaczka, along with Kelly Epperson of Easy Live Audio, offered the station the opportunity to employ the new Axient system. Axient is Shure's state-of-the-art wireless network management system, designed to handle the most crowded RF conditions with a range of advanced features that include extremely tight RF filtering combined with spectrum management, frequency diversity, and remote transmitter control via wireless data communications.
The parade route is on Michigan Avenue in the heart of downtown Chicago, an RF-rich environment made even more complex by event logistics. ABC 7's temporary broadcast site included a "backstage" tech area and nearby dais for three broadcast anchors. It also required wireless signals for street reporter Val Warner on the parade route and the nearby performance stage. The location provided additional wireless challenges by being within line of sight of several nearby DTV antennas and adjacent to a competitor's broadcast studio.
After the capabilities of Axient were explained to them, WLS and audio engineers Lou Sabatini and Mike Cunningham could not pass up using the new Shure system. "Once we saw what Axient can do, we knew it was perfect for this event," explained Cunningham.
As a result, eight channels of Axient were employed, including a handheld and bodypack system for Warner, and a pair of handheld mics for Mary Mary. The results did not disappoint.
Axient constantly monitors the full RF spectrum to detect potential interference. In addition, its frequency diversity feature enables a second, independent frequency from the transmitter. When interference is detected, the system can seamlessly switch to a clear backup frequency, enabling mission-critical transmitters to survive even the most challenging conditions without a glitch.
"We had an absolutely flawless wireless system throughout the broadcast," reports Sabatini, who handled the broadcast mix. "We also got to see first-hand how Axient can detect and prevent a problem before it happens."
During rehearsal, the system detected interference on one of the anchors' system. "The display on the receiver turned red to show us the problem," reports Cunningham, who was responsible for frequency coordination. "It turned out to be interference from an unplanned in-ear system. Axient switched the transmitter and receiver to a safe frequency. That would have been a major panic situation, but Axient handled it seamlessly – detecting the problem, alerting us, and having a safe channel ready to go."
The other demonstration of Axient's capabilities involved reporter Val Warner. Her handheld Axient was working fine in low power mode as the broadcast began, but as the parade route filled with the estimated 250,000 attendees, the system detected a reduction in signal strength. "She was about three-quarters of a block away when the receiver went red," reports OSA's Pete Wiejaczka. "I was able to push data to that handheld to switch it to high power mode and right away, we had a solid RF signal again. It was great that, with the tools Axient provides, we were able to deliver a seamless performance for our client."
To get broadcast audio to the bleachers located across Michigan Avenue from the broadcast position, Wiejaczka employed the new Shure PSM 1000 personal monitoring system in its point-to-point mode, sending full-range audio to the PA system with no discernible latency or quality loss. "It's really a great system," Wiejaczka notes. "The sound quality is excellent, and the PSM 1000's point-to-point mode allows me to use a Shure UHF-R receiver, which meant I had real balanced XLR outputs instead of just the mini headphone jack that's on an in-ear bodypack. It's a great solution anytime you can't run cable to the PA system."
Video from the November 19 live broadcast of the 2011 Magnificent Mile Lights Festival is available on the station's website, and will be rebroadcast by ABC7 Chicago and in 72 markets nationwide via syndication throughout the holiday season.


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West Penn Hall Has New Cinema Facilities and Gathering Spaces
The Point
Fall 2013
West Penn Hall, Point Park University's architecturally distinctive, 13-story building and annex on Wood Street at First Avenue, received much-needed renovations in the summer of 2013. It now features new facilities for the Department of Cinema and Digital Arts as well as an expansive first floor lounge for students, faculty and visitors.
Home to the University's School of Business, which occupies the 11th through 13th floors of the tower, as well as several levels of classrooms, West Penn Hall is in the process of a multi-phase renovation to reconfigure and upgrade interior spaces and improve the elevator system, according to William Cameron, vice president of operations at Point Park.
Many key renovations could not be initiated until various tenants, including the Kaplan Career Institute, moved out of the main tower and adjacent annex at Ft. Pitt Boulevard in the past year, says Cameron. Over the summer, the main entrance to West Penn Hall was repositioned (farther to the right) on Wood Street, the cinema facilities and a digital arts classroom were completed, and a spacious new lobby with vending area now provides much needed indoor gathering space.
New Studios for Cinema and Digital Arts
Cinema and Digital Arts students and faculty now have a flexible production facility, known as Studio Two, on the first floor of West Penn Hall. The space will be used for production work, photography, cinema classes and other activities, according to Nelson Chipman, chair of Cinema and Digital Arts.
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On the second floor of West Penn Hall is a 30-ft screening facility to enable cinema and digital arts students to view films and other productions. The renovations include new classrooms equipped with computers and digital tools to support drafting and other creative activities in Point Park's growing animation program. "With these new facilities, we have more than doubled the amount of production space and Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and laboratory space, which will be an asset to our programs," says Chipman.
A New Lounge, Upgraded Elevators
The expansive new lounge will provide much needed space for informal gatherings and special events, similar to the lobby area and gallery on the first floor of Lawrence Hall, says Cameron.
The elevator situation in the building has been a source of much frustration for students and faculty who previously had to queue in a tiny foyer and outside to wait for elevators to take them to classrooms in the upper floors of the tower. The expanded lobby will alleviate that issue, says Cameron.
The elevators in the tower and the annex will also receive renovations to the cabs, doors and operating software to enable them to work more efficiently. In addition, in the final phase of renovations to commence in the months to come, general-use classrooms now located on upper floors in West Penn Hall will be relocated lower to floors two through five in the building.
When complete, the relocated classrooms will improve the elevator situation since groups of students heading to and from class around the same time will have a shorter wait time and distance to travel.
"We believe that all of these renovations to West Penn Hall will make a very positive impact on our students, faculty and visitors," says Cameron. "It will greatly enhance that end of campus."
Text by Cheryl Valyo
Photo by Chris Rolinson
The Point is a magazine for alumni and friends of Point Park University


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January 9, 2014
Gov. Brown's 2014-15 budget will contract 5,633 new prison beds in state while funding the expansion of four new prisons and allocating $500 million for more jail construction. Advocates celebrate a series of parole reform victories outlined in the proposed budget while pointing out that lifting some of their extreme limitations could easily prevent Gov. Brown's costly prison expansion plans.


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Granted, there are degrees of success, but with all the potential in that bundle of code, how much would come to fruition in the following scenario:
All of the Genera code is released under a BSD or GPL license.
To bring it to its full potential would probably be monumental, after all, there's a C compiler in there that's been undergoing bit-rot for a couple decades, but let's start small, with the straight-up lisp portions of it.
The current implementation, off of a lisp machine, runs on Alpha hardware, and is pretty intensive to set up on anything else as a result. Furthermore, it's running a virtual lisp machine and all the lisp code is running on _that_. So the first task is to get that virtual lisp machine running on x86, other chips can wait for now.
The development environment is legendary, especially for lisp. However, many emacs users are rather accustomed to various extensions and methodologies, and Zmacs might be a bit frustrating at first. Would an effort be made to port what needs to be ported? How much should be forgotten for what reason? Would it fragment the Emacs community? How long until someone has a howto for setting up SLIME/Genera?
Would the fact that you're running on a VM and a large amount of code comes with Genera give a performance/resource hit? Considering the cost of RAM at the time Symbolics was going, I doubt it, but that's yet to be tested in this imaginary world.
What would the first misguided development move be, once it was ported? Optimisation before updating the system? Separate it out into separate applications? Throw out the other programming languages?
Looking ahead further, what happens when you update that C compiler to the latest standard and GCC extensions? At what point does the OS it's running on become something close to a hindrance? If all your C applications/libraries run under Genera, even at a likely performance hit, what do you run outside it? I become confused thinking about this, as I understand that you can make applications written in different languages talk to each other in interesting and useful ways, but I don't know what they are...
The fact that I have all these questions, and others think that anyone using a truly open Genera is a pipe dream casts some doubt on it for me as well...
The fact that it's fully compliant with the CL standard, and includes an interface to X(not CLX, but it's there), CLim, and numerous libraries and extensions, it's already ahead of CLisp in many ways. It lacks threads, and we don't know how it performs, so it's behind SBCL on the pure speed front, at the least on modern processors. This is just looking at it as a runtime. Factor in the environment and I think we'd have a real contender on our hands if it was made to interface with modern *nix systems(I'm sure some things have changed a bit in the past 16+ years). It might even attract new users that wouldn't otherwise consider lisp. Emacs is one thing, but figuring out SLIME, a piece of software with no releases, the somewhat cryptic, limited, and always terse SBCL debugger(or in my experience less helpful CLisp debugger) and how to set all that up is too much for many people starting out.
Zmacs wouldn't help with the Emacs keyboard controls barrier, in fact the Super, Hyper, Meta, Control, Symbol system would increase that, really. Not to mention a number of other keys having totally different functions and names (Triangle??)... but the gains would be more obvious and instantanious.
This is pretty much all questions, right now. Symbolics Inc. still holds the copyright to Genera, though that company is really just one guy, selling and possibly fixing old lisp machines and selling Maxima.
Apparently an original Symbolics keyboard is 125usd.


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You can adjust the size of the hole where the food falls out so that it drops about 5 pellets each time the servo turns. Might take some trial and error :-).
Over all the projects, this one is really cool and cute, makes me want to make one for my own cat. It would be great if we have a nice cover for all the little digital board.
why not use this for cereal
I have a question - I am often away for several days at a time. It appears that this kit can only handle a single day, meaning you place the food in the container, and it simply regulates the time of feeding, it can't feed multiple days in a row without manual intervention, is that right? If that's the case, is there a way to modify it so it can have, for example, five feeding hoppers that it progresses through, one for each of five days' feeding? THAT would really help me. THANKS!!
Did you make an iphone app for this? How did you connect this to iphone app? i m just curious about this part. This looks amazing project :)
this is a really cool project, my family leaves home a-lot and this works great for feeding my turtle
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Where can you find a cheap laser cutter. My turtle needs this!
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It looks fun
Really we can use any material right?
I've the look of it but laser cutting stuff isn't really cheap.
I am so making this for our dog. Would you be able to post the measurements of your laser cut parts? I'd like to 3d print them instead, as I don't have a laser cutter. Thanks
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It's great to be back! I'm thrilled to be posting and to remind everyone why today is so significant to Google Maps Mania, the maps and mashup world, and the web at large.
I'll start with this Craigslist post that was put up 5 years ago..
New web interface for housing (beta) < rademach > 04/07 23:40:15
I'm working on a graphical interface to Craigslist rental and for-sale listings. It's still in early beta, but you can check it out at:
There's a link on that page to email me feedback, which I'd appreciate. Thanks! :)
..This is the first post that Paul Rademacher made to let the Craigslist community know about his little hack which combined housing data from the site with the exposed code that was available from the then newly available, Google Maps. After seeing Paul's creation I was personally inspired to start this blog and mentioned it on day 2 of posting.
Keep in mind that an API for Google Maps did not yet exist. This was the first act of its kind to mash data up and add it to a Google Map and as far as record keeping goes, is, the first Google Maps hack, or mashup. I've always tended to call it a hack since it's just more bad-ass and disruptive than a "mashup" sanctioned by a proper API. :)
There is so much significance to today and it started so many things. It's the act that showed that a Google Maps API should be created. What followed were many more from Google and others from across the web. This in turn gave rise to this massive, hysterical explosion of development on top of a Google map and specifically a transformation in the online real estate vertical that saw some of the best aggregators like Trulia and Redfin featuring a map as the center of their user experience.
In short, Paul Rademacher helped to change the web and he has been recognized for it the world over. The cool part? It's still being used as the go-to site for people looking for a place to live. Congrats to you Paul 5 years on for creating something that helped to change so much.


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At his 2 month check up his weight was on 65th percentile and now he's on 30th. (Height and head are both growing nicely) So I was told by his ped to try feed an oz more everyday. I have been every 2 hrs at least and 1-1.5 hrs when he's still awake and/or possible.
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With smart phones and tablets becoming ubiquitous and the push for Bring Your Own Device policies in government agencies, many companies, IBM included, are rolling out mobile management platforms.
IBM MobileFirst is an all-encompassing mobile platform designed to connect mobile devices to enterprise applications and Web offerings. It offers a comprehensive management suite that gives a network administrator total control over devices, applications and services, the company said in its announcement.
The MobileFirst portfolio includes strategy and design services to help organizations plan their management of mobile devices, according to IBM. Other features include the MobileFirst platform itself, a management module, tools for ensuring secure transaction and analytics tools.
To find out more, visit the IBM MobileFirst website. Or, if you happen to be in Spain this week, you can stop by IBM's booth at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona.
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The Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service at Suffolk University Law School will offer an opportunity to hear the views of each declared candidate in the 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial race during a series of lunchtime discussions open to the public.
Each candidate will speak and take questions from audiences made up of students, faculty, policymakers, analysts, businesspeople, non-profit leaders, lobbyists and lawyers in separate roundtable discussions scheduled from January through March 2014.
"We invite the public to get an early look at the candidates as Massachusetts prepares for a significant transition in leadership," said Rappaport Center Executive Director Gregory Massing. "These sessions will focus on the pressing public policy matters facing the commonwealth in 2015 and beyond, offering an opportunity to hear the candidates' views and perhaps shape the discussion as the campaign moves forward."
The candidates will give brief remarks, followed by Q & A and discussion. All sessions will take place from noon to 1:30 pm, except where noted below, in the first-floor function room of Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St., Boston.
- Don Berwick, Democrat, a physician who founded the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and served as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – Wednesday, Jan. 15
- Joe Avellone, Democrat, a physician and former selectman who is the corporate senior vice president at PAREXEL International, a global bio-pharmaceutical research company – Tuesday, Jan. 21
- Steve Grossman, Democrat, a small-business owner elected Massachusetts state treasurer in 2010; has served as both Massachusetts and national Democratic Party chair – 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30
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- Martha Coakley, Democrat, Massachusetts Attorney General, former Middlesex District Attorney – Tuesday, Feb. 11
- Jeff McCormick, independent, a founding partner of Boston venture capital firm Saturn Partners – Wednesday, Feb. 19
- Evan Falchuk, United Independent Party, an attorney who has served in executive leadership roles at Best Doctors, Inc., a Boston-based global health company – Monday, Feb. 24
- Mark Fisher, Republican, owner of Merchant's Fabrication, a metal manufacturing facility – Monday, March 3
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Business newsmakers: President of wedu receives award
June 17. 2013 1:33AM
Sean Owen, wedu president and CEO, received the Partners in Progress award from the Manchester Development Corporation for his and the agency's continued contributions to the growth and success of the Greater Manchester area.
The award was presented at the MDC's annual meeting in April.
"I am grateful to the MDC for this recognition," said Owen. "And I am pleased to accept it on behalf of the entire wedu team, because it truly is a testament to the good work that our group does to help make Manchester a great place to do business."
This marked the first presentation of the Partners in Progress award, which recognizes individuals who have invested resources to further the mission of MDC.
The MDC is a nonprofit economic development arm of the city of Manchester whose mission is to promote the growth and prosperity of the city by investing in economic development projects and activities within the city. The organization was formed by the city to be independent of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, and is charged with supporting the long range planning for proper development of Manchester.
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MANCHESTER — David Wolowitz of the law firm of McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton was recently designated by the New Hampshire Supreme Court as vice chair of the commission that oversees the New Hampshire Lawyer Assistance Program.
The NHLAP was established by the New Hampshire Supreme Court to provide confidential, meaningful assistance to lawyers, judges, law students and their families in coping with alcoholism and other addictions, depression, and other personal or professional crises. For more information, consult its website at www.lapnh.org.
Wolowitz, a senior director and co-chair of the Education Law Practice Group, has a national practice representing, consulting and advising independent day and boarding schools on all aspects of risk management and governance.


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Improving conditions for posted workers in the EU
The European Parliament's Employment Committee has approved a revision of an EU law on posted workers. The law will mean better working conditions for posted workers, the same rules on remuneration as workers in the host EU country, fairer competition between companies and better access to information for workers and businesses. It is now up to the European Parliament as a whole to approve the law.
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The EPP Group held its fifth European Congress of Young Farmers in the European Parliament in Brussels. The number of young people taking up farming is relatively low and there is growing concern that not enough are going into farming. The European Commission has suggested that the EU gives...
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Today, the Supreme Court hears oral argument in U.S. v. Windsor. The case presents the question of whether the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is constitutional. The U.S. government argues that DOMA, enacted by Congress with broad support and signed into law by President Clinton, is unconstitutional.
The case also presents issues of jurisdiction and standing. Specifically, the Court is called to decide whether the Obama administration's unwillingness to defend DOMA deprives it of jurisdiction, and whether the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives has standing to defend DOMA.
Similarly, the Prop 8 case argued yesterday presented a challenge to the standing of those defending the decision of California's voters to define marriage as between a man and woman. Apparently, when it comes to same-sex marriage, left-wing politicians not only want to override the democratic process, they would like to bypass Supreme Court review as well. I doubt that same-sex marriage is not alone in this regard.
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If yesterday's argument in the Prop 8 case is a reliable indicator, there ought to be at least five justices who are very skeptical of the attack on DOMA. If, however, any of those five justices seems receptive to the badly confused federalism argument against DOMA, the state of play might be very different.


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Amid growing concerns about malware threats in the IT supply chain, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for ways to test commercial products on a large scale to make sure they're "clean."
DARPA has launched the Vetting Commodity IT Software and Firmware (VET) program to find methods of ensuring that the commercial IT products the Defense Department buys, ranging from smart phones to routers, are free of backdoors, malicious code and other potential threats.
Supply-chain security has come to the fore recently, with a congressional intelligence panel warning that the United States "should view with suspicion" the growth of Chinese telecommunications companies in the U.S. market. A recent report by the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and Georgia Tech Research Institute identified supply chain threats as a serious, and hard to detect, threat.
Back doors, spyware and other malicious code could theoretically be designed into products or added by a manufacturer, vendor or integrator.
DARPA's VET program wants to test products before they're installed, which would seem to be a pretty big job.
"DOD relies on millions of devices to bring network access and functionality to its users," Tim Fraser, DARPA program manager, said in a statement. "Rigorously vetting software and firmware in each and every one of them is beyond our present capabilities, and the perception that this problem is simply unapproachable is widespread. The most significant output of the VET program will be a set of techniques, tools and demonstrations that will forever change this perception."
With VET, DARPA wants to develop a three-step process:
DARPA will host a proposer's day Dec. 12 in Arlington, Va., to brief interested participants in the program.
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Any black box that has memory can count. Any black box that can count can change its behavior after a large number of events happen. Any black box that can change its behavior after a large number of events can defeat any finite testing. Do you know of any IT equipment that has less than 2log(n) nand gates where n is the count at which it changes behavior? (log(n) = 32 for 4 billion tests that use the unknown event) Even if you have a map of every gate in the hardware do you think any system can recognize all the connections and therefore prove something doesn't have malicious hardware when all it takes is 62 nand gates?
Good grief. Three chestnuts from where I grew up apply here: closing the barn door after the cows get out, a penny smart and a dollar foolish, and if you want something done right do it your self. Prove to me one second that a device has "an absence of malice" and you haven't proven to me that it still has "an absence of malice" one second later. Whether it has a back door or a front door, if it is dynamic it can be put into some state that in some context will be "malicious" and all IT equipment is dynamic. There are two endpoints, not sending data it should and sending data is shouldn't, between them is a continuum of "malicious" states such as statefully dropping packets or statefully duplicating and rerouting packets or even increasing the error rate by 5% thereby forcing retransmission and bandwidth clogging. What type of test can they apply to a black box to prove all the myriad of "defined malice" is absent and permanently so? Do they really think they can "define malice" in all its forms? That seems a bit supercilious. So they save a few bucks buying from the lowest bidder and it costs them uncountable effort across the expanse of networks civilian and military to continually test. Instead they should put the effort into creating the equipment themselves. My local government creates its own roads, fresh and black water infrastructure, etc, given the importance of CIA in C3I, military and civilian; the government should produce this infrastructure itself. The AT&T monopoly was a great idea in a time of relative peace but we don't live in that time anymore. We have treated too many people like enemies to expect them to treat us with integrity. And from what I have seen the last few years that includes "our own" multinationals. The C3I infrastructure should be a government function like agriculture, transportation, EPA etc. Study living systems theory, C3I is essentially half of the functionality of any living system and therefore shouldn't be left to post acquisition testing. Would you rent your brain from a discount store?
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