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For introductory computer courses on Microsoft Office 2010 or courses in computer concepts with a lab component for Microsoft Office 2010 applications.
The goal of the Exploring series has been to move students beyond the point and click, helping them understand the why and how behind each skill. The Exploring series for Office 2010 also enables students to extend the learning beyond the classroom.
Students go to college now with a different set of skills than they did five years ago. With this in mind, the Exploring series seeks to move students beyond the basics of the software at a faster pace, without sacrificing coverage of the fundamental skills that everybody needs to know. A lot of learning takes place outside of the classroom, and the Exploring series provides learning tools that students can access anytime, anywhere.
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The goal of the Exploring Series is to teach more than just the steps to follow to accomplish a task. Exploring also teaches you the theoretical foundation you need to understand when and why to apply the skills you learn in this class. This way, you achieve a deeper understanding of each application and can apply this critical thinking beyond Office and the classroom.
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Dr. Robert T. Grauer, Creator of the Exploring Series
Bob Grauer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems at the University of Miami, where he is a multiple winner of the Outstanding Teaching Award in the School of Business, most recently in 2009. He has written numerous COBOL texts and is the vision behind the Exploring Office series, with more than three million books in print. His work has been translated into three foreign languages and is used in all aspects of higher education at both national and international levels. Bob Grauer has consulted for several major corporations including IBM and American Express. He received his Ph.D. in operations research in 1972 from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Two dueling gun events played out in the hometown of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on the second anniversary of her shooting, illustrating the sharp divide between gun reform advocates and Second Amendment stalwarts.
Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik staged a gun buyback Tuesday in the parking lot of the Police Department, offering $50 grocery store gift cards to anyone who surrendered firearms to be destroyed.
Just a few hundred feet away, GOP state Sen. Frank Antenori held an event where a dozen people offered cash for guns to be added to their own collections.
Police said Wednesday they took in 206 guns at Kozachik's event after noting the names of people who surrendered weapons, checking serial numbers to be sure the guns weren't stolen, and making certain the weapons were owned and purchased legally.
Antenori, who lost his re-election bid in November, said he organized his event — which became an unregulated but legal marketplace for gun sales — because offering gift cards for weapons amounted to stealing.
"Can you name me one firearm in working condition that's worth $50 or less?" he said.
Kozachik, also a Republican, said the gathering of men holding signs reading "Cash for Guns" bolstered his argument that gun laws need to be reformed.
"We have a fundamental hole in the private sales of guns. You can walk up right in front of a cop and buy a gun, no background check, nothing," Kozachik said. "How much more flawed can the system be?"
Antenori left the event early, and the gun-buyers refused to comment.
Giffords was severely injured in a Jan. 8, 2011, shooting rampage as she met with constituents outside a supermarket. Six people were killed and 12 others injured.
She and her husband Mark Kelly have formed a political action committee to prevent gun violence and change laws to require, among other things, comprehensive background checks for all firearms sales.
They outlined the effort this week in an editorial in USA Today and in an interview on ABC News that also provided a new glimpse at Giffords' recovery since she was shot in the head.
Giffords struggled to speak in complete sentences but provided several one-word answers to ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer in describing her recovery and response to the shootings in Tucson and Connecticut, where 20 school children were killed.
She said "daggers" to recount her tense, face-to-face encounter with Tucson gunman Jared Lee Loughner at his November sentencing when he was given life in prison. She said "sad" to describe his mental illness, and expressed frustration that her recovery has not progressed more quickly.
Asked by Sawyer about the shooting of schoolchildren in Connecticut, Giffords replied with just one word — "Enough."
Giffords has a service dog named Nelson that helps her keep balance and guides her as she works with speech and physical therapists. She recently gained more movement in her right foot and can now walk faster, but she still struggles with her vision.
Kelly and Giffords wrote in the opinion piece that their Americans for Responsible Solutions initiative would help raise money to support greater gun control efforts and take on the powerful gun lobby.
"Achieving reforms to reduce gun violence and prevent mass shootings will mean matching gun lobbyists in their reach and resources," the couple wrote.
Giffords' initiative harkened back to the 1980s, when Jim and Sarah Brady formed the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Brady, then-President Ronald Reagan's press secretary, was wounded in a 1981 presidential assassination attempt by a mentally ill gunman.
Brady's organization has been among the most vocal champions of gun control, but it remains to be seen whether Giffords' group can compete any better against the National Rifle Association and its fundraising and political clout.
The NRA spent at least $24 million in the 2012 election cycle. By comparison, the Brady Campaign spent around $5,800.
"This country is known for using its determination and ingenuity to solve problems, big and small," Giffords and Kelly wrote. "But when it comes to protecting our communities from gun violence, we're not even trying — and for the worst of reasons."
As a U.S. House member, Giffords was a centrist Democrat who supported gun rights and owned a Glock pistol. Giffords and Kelly said they still own two guns that are locked in a safe at their house.
Associated Press writers Michael Melia in Hartford, Conn., and Bob Christie in Phoenix contributed to this report.

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Principal selected for Dunbarton comes out of HampsteadBy KATHY REMILLARD
Union Leader Correspondent
April 04. 2013 9:31PM
DUNBARTON - The Dunbarton School Board has chosen a new leader for Dunbarton Elementary School, to replace outgoing principal Carol Thibaudeau.
Thibaudeau, who has been at the K-6 school since 2008, will retire on June 30 and will be replaced by Owen Harrington, current assistant principal at Hampstead Middle and Central Schools.
According to information provided by the school district, Harrington has been assistant principal since 2006.
Prior to that, he taught in the Litchfield School District.
Harrington has a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Educational Leadership from Rivier College. He is certified in elementary education and as a Principal and Superintendent.
Dunbarton School Board Chairman Rene Ouellet said, "We are excited to welcome Owen to the Dunbarton Community. His experiences in curriculum, instruction, and administration make him an excellent candidate for our school."
According to a press release issued by the school board, Harrington was chosen following an extensive search process involving school board members, teachers, support staff, administration and community members.
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I previously talked about my daughter's death and the fact that I wasn't able to properly grieve for her. I want to take a moment now and talk about the emotions and initial shocks that come with losing a child.
As we have said before, losing a child is never easy. It's a very emotional and shocking moment. When you lose a child you become a passenger on a rollercoaster of emotions that you have no way off. There is no set right emotion or wrong emotion. It's…
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I know what it's like to lose a child. I know what it feels like to have your whole world spiral out of control with emotions. I know what it feels like to walk around in a haze. Feeling numb. Thinking there is no way that it is happening. I know what it's like to want just "one more moment" with that child. I have been there. I have lived it. You see, 17 years ago I lost my 2nd daughter, Elizabethe-Ane . I remember feeling so numb. So out of sorts. I can remember hearing a beast like…Continue
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The closing conference of the LIFE+ 3WATER project took place in Brussels on 10 December 2013 with the participation of IUCN. The project is a successful example of close cooperation between private landowners, land users, nature organizations, communities, and national and European authorities.
Aside from those protected areas that are managed by governments, many others are owned or managed by private individuals, companies, organizations, communities and faith groups. In Europe, 75% of the land is privately owned.
Private-public partnerships are essential to ensure the long-term involvement of all stakeholders in the management not only of Natura 2000 sites, but also in other areas of particular environmental interest. There is great need to engage both land owners and the private sector and consequently to explore possibilities for integrating their efforts in enhancing landscape resilience and connectivity.
The 3WATER project aimed at restoring and conserving specific habitat types and species of Community Importance in the Natura 2000 area of Midden Limburg, Belgium, by fostering cooperation between private and public actors. Thanks to this innovative approach, special attention was given to the synergy between ecology, education and economy. This balanced approach is a sustainable basis for further development and prosperity in the area.
Luc Bas, Director of the IUCN European Representative Office intervened at the event: "Private landowners play an important role in conservation actions, especially as they own the majority of land in Europe. They are therefore important partners for us."
The conference developed through four panels during which the results, obstacles, successes and future expectations of the project were discussed. The future of participation of private landowners in the management of species and habitats in Natura 2000 areas was also addressed.
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Aspen/Snowmass, CO--A wet winter storm rolled through Aspen/Snowmass dumping up to 16 inches of snow on area peaks, with the real storm still on its way.
Snowmass saw 16 inches of snow while Aspen Highlands received 11 inches and ten inches fell on Aspen Mountain. Buttermilk, at a lower elevation, woke up to eight inches of snow.
Rich Burkley, General Manager of Mountain Operations, declined to comment on the abundance of snow preferring not to jinx the start of the season. Yet, in a Zen-like way, Burkley said, "We count it on the ground and we are grateful for every inch.
Snowmass and Aspen Mountain are scheduled to open on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 23. Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk are scheduled to open Saturday, Dec. 9. Ski racing takes center stage on opening weekend with the fastest women in the world coming to Aspen Mountain for the Sirius Satellite Radio Aspen Winternational Nov. 25-26.
When skiers and riders return they'll find more than $23 million dollars in on-mountain improvements including the new Elk Camp Gondola at Snowmass (opening mid-Dec.), and new cabins on Aspen Mountain's Silver Queen Gondola.
This winter ski or ride Aspen/Snowmass for less than $35 per day with the Aspen/Snowmass Classic Pass. Click here for more details. http://www.aspensnowmass.com/classicpass/


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Foreign direct investment (FDI) has traditionally been defined as a physical investment into a country from a foreign entreprise - like the construction of an industrial building - but is also recognized as large-scale, long-term investment outside an investor's domestic economy. In this case, investors are most often multi-national corporations and investment firms.
Following the global economic crisis, the amount of investment capital shrank, with total global FDI inflows falling from the all time high of $1,979 billion in 2007 to $1,697 billion in 2008, according to the UNCTAD, a UN agency which tracks this information.
FDI inflows represent investment originating from foreign economies, while a country's FDI outflows represent a country's investments placed outside of its borders. A net positive FDI inflow indicates the potential for job creation and corporate expansion of the host country while a negative flow suggests more numerous and attractive investments exist outside the country.
So, which countries boast the biggest amount of foreign direct investment? Click ahead to find out!
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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Under pressure from armed militias, Libya's parliament passed a sweeping law Sunday that bans anyone who served as a senior official under Moammar Gadhafi during his 42 year-long rule from working in government.
The Political Isolation Law could lead to the dismissal of many current leaders, some of whom had defected to the rebel side during the country's 2011 civil war or had been elected to office since Gadhafi's ouster and killing. The move is likely to further stall the country's already rocky transition to democracy by ousting elected lawmakers.
It injects a new dose of uncertainty into Libyan politics during a still-fragile transition. Liberals say it will give a boost to Islamists, who performed poorly in recent elections compared to their counterparts in other Arab states, although Islamists said they could also be affected by the ban.
The law was partially driven by the unpopularity of Libya's current crop of politicians among many of the still-powerful former rebels who toppled Gadhafi, and others who say little has improved since. Backers of the law say it is necessary to complete the revolution.
But critics say that the law was passed at gunpoint. Militias had surrounded several government buildings in Tripoli last week barring officials from work. Their vehicles mounted with rocket-propelled grenades kept watch on the street during the vote.
Most of the militias have roots in the rebel groups that fought Gadhafi, but their numbers have mushroomed in the two years since his fall. Many of the armed groups have been accused of rights abuses, but the government continues to rely on them to keep order in the absence of a strong police or military. Many militiamen say they mostly want jobs and steady pay.
The General National Congress, Libya's elected parliament, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the law. Out of 200 lawmakers, 169 attended the vote.
Deputy head of parliament Juma Attiga, who oversaw the vote, told the TV station Libya Ahrar that militias had pressured parliament to vote in favor of the law, but that he had planned to vote yes in any case. He may be affected since he served as head of a governmental rights group under Gadhafi.
The law highlights the government's inability to rein in armed groups and exposes the many obstacles the North African nation faces in rebuilding its weak central government.
It comes at a time when Islamists are in a position of strength following the Arab Spring uprisings that saw Libya's two neighbors — Tunisia and Egypt — oust longtime autocrats from power. As is the case in all three nations, Islamists and liberals are in a power tussle for control over the direction of their countries.
But unlike Egypt and Tunisia, liberals won big in Libya's first free elections last year. Former rebel leader Mahmoud Jibril's liberal bloc took nearly half of the seats allocated for party lists. The body has a significant numbers of independents allied with Islamist parties.
Legislators told The Associated Press that the law states that parliamentarians who lose their post will be replaced by either the next name on the party list or by the independent candidate who came in second in a district. This could benefit many Islamists, who trailed in the elections and came in second in many districts.
Lawmaker Tawfiq al-Shaybi, who is with Jibril's bloc, told Libya Ahrar TV that the country's Muslim Brotherhood party was pushing the law "in favor of themselves rather that in favor of what is best for the country."
Brotherhood lawmaker Majda al-Falah denied that Islamists passed the law to target their opponents.
"The proof of this is that 164 (parliamentarians) voted for the law and not all are Islamists, though among them are members of our party," she told The Associated Press. The law could also affect some Brotherhood figures who entered into reconciliation talks with Gadhafi's regime years ago, she said.
Several drafts of the bill were debated over the past several months, and it was not immediately clear how the final draft will be applied. Those who it does affect will be banned from government positions for 10 years.
Sunday's session of parliament, carried live on TV, was heated — some lawmakers demanded to debate articles, but Attiga cut them off insisting the session was just for voting.
Zeinab al-Targi, another member of Jibril's coalition in parliament, said the law essentially criminalizes people by excluding them from political life, even if they sided with the opposition that ousted Gadhafi.
Jibril, once an aide to Gadhafi's son, may be affected by the law.
Prime Minister Ali Zidan could also be among those impacted, though his position as a diplomat under Gadhafi might not be considered a "senior" post. He defected in 1980 and was elected to Libya's parliament before being voted by Jibril's bloc to head government.
Notably absent from the voting was the head of Congress, Mohammed al-Megarif, who may be ousted under the new law for having served as an ambassador under Gadhafi.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said that while Libyans have a right to see officials who abused their positions under Gadhafi or committed crimes be removed from office, the law is too sweeping.
"This law is far too vague - potentially barring anyone who ever worked for the authorities during the four decades of Gaddafi's rule," Sarah Leah Whitson of HRW said in a Saturday statement.
Some Libyan activists say the vote is undemocratic since it took place under the threat of violence from militias. A Friday march in Tripoli against militia impunity was attacked by supporters of the armed groups.
The law has also been criticized because it excludes any possibility of judicial review. The Supreme Court, for example, had played a critical role in striking down last year a post-revolutionary law that had criminalized glorification of Gadhafi, a move many said contradicts the right to free speech.
Still, thousands of Libyans in Tripoli celebrated in the streets after the law was passed, waving the country's new flag that was the symbol of rebel fighters during the devastating eight-month civil war. Before the vote, protesters had placed images of people killed in the war on empty coffins laid outside parliament, a message that Gadhafi-era officials were not welcome in government.
The law may also affect a number of ambassadors, heads of governmental agencies, professors and media professionals on government payrolls.
Security officials such as the military's chief of staff Maj. Gen. Youssef Mangoush, once a special forces commander under Gadhafi, may also come under the law. He quit his post 10 years before the uprising began and sided with rebels during the war.
Soldiers including senior officers have in recent weeks demanded that Mangoush resign, accusing him of failing to control militias. If he is removed abruptly, it could disrupt attempts to build up a national army and police capable of replacing militias.
Borqiya Ghagha, a 26 year-old mother with the protesters outside parliament, said removing Gadhafi-era officials was a key demand of the revolution in which thousands died trying to oust the longtime dictator.
She said she voted for Jibril's party in parliament, but that they failed to bring about change.
"The whole platform turned out to be a lie," she said. "He used propaganda to have his party reach power and until now they have not put forth a concrete plan for Libya and instead used their power to bring forth Gadhafi-era officials to power."
Parliamentary spokesman Omar Humeidan said after a live broadcast of the vote that a committee will be formed to see how the new law will be implemented.
The committee will be comprised of judges and rights activists already serving on an "integrity commission" that vetted ministers for Gadhafi-era ties. That body will be dissolved. A new clause, though, requires members of the new vetting body to be at least 35 years old and have a degree in Islamic law, he said.
Batrawy reported from Cairo.


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March 11, 2011
Madigan Urges Illinois Contributors to Research Charities Before Donating
Chicago — Attorney General Lisa Madigan today urged Illinois residents who plan to donate to earthquake and tsunami relief efforts underway in Japan to be on the lookout for fundraising scams by con artists seeking to exploit the natural disaster for their personal profit.
Unfortunately, its common to hear of fraudulent charities taking advantage of peoples generosity amidst a tragedy such as this, Madigan said. In the wake of this crisis, I want to urge Illinoisans donating to relief efforts to take the time to investigate before donating. Taking that extra step will help ensure your donations reach legitimate causes that will directly contribute to helping the victims of this disaster.
Donors who are seeking to give to the Japanese relief efforts should be wary of requests for clothing, food or other in-kind donations, which may not be appropriate. Unless the charitable organization has the staff and infrastructure to distribute such aid, the donations may be more of a burden than a help. Ask the charity about their transportation and distribution plans. Be wary of those who are not experienced in disaster relief assistance.
In addition, potential donors should find out if the charity is providing direct aid or raising money for other groups. Donors may want to avoid the middleman and give directly to charities that have a presence in the region. Attorney General Madigan advised that donors may want to ask questions to determine the ultimate recipients of the donations to ensure that the organizations are equipped to effectively provide aid.
Under Illinois law, fundraisers and charitable organizations are required to register each year with the Attorney Generals Office. To assist potential donors in making wise giving decisions, Attorney General Madigan provides important information about charitable organizations such as income, expenditures and programs. This information is available at http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/charities/index.html.
Attorney General Madigan suggested the following tips to best ensure a donation will be used for its intended purpose:
Madigan encouraged donors to contact her offices Charitable Trust Bureau to report suspicious solicitations at (312) 814-2595. The Attorney General recommended that, whenever possible, keep notes detailing the date and time of the call, the organizations name and the name of the solicitor. Madigan also advised to try remembering the pitch as well as any other pertinent information.
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Offering Christians an outstanding engineering education that integrates Christian values and faith into engineering practice benefits both the graduate and the graduate's employer. Here you can find our Objectives and Outcomes.
- By Objectives we refer to the long-term positive impact an EE or CE degree from OC will have on the graduate's life.
- By Outcomes we refer to the skills and knowledge-base the EE or CE graduate will possess at graduation.
Our Outcomes are chosen to ensure that all our graduates will achieve our Objectives .
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering considers its primary constituents to be threefold: industry, students who value an engineering education at a Christian university, and parents of these students. Working with these constituents, we have set the following Program Educational Objectives:
Oklahoma Christian University graduates with an Electrical or Computer Engineering degree will use the talents God has given them to make a difference through
- finding joy in a successful career that is characterized by:
- contributing effectively and adding value to the engineering process,
- actively applying technical and leadership skills in pursuing team success,
- keeping technically current and adaptive to changes in the workplace; and
- internalizing a personal faith in God that is exhibited by:
- consistent ethical behavior based on Christian principles,
- an exemplary work ethic consistent with their Christian worldview, and
- a stable life that balances career, family, church and community.
- Goal 1 The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department will produce graduates who have the technical knowledge to be immediately productive in industry.
- Outcome 1: Graduates will have an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering.
- Outcome 2: Graduates will have an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
- Goal 2 The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department will produce graduates who have mastered the essential engineering methodologies to be immediately productive in industry.
- Outcome 3: Graduates will have an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems.
- Outcome 4: Graduates will have an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data.
- Outcome 5: Graduates will have an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.
- Outcome 6: Graduates will have an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams.
- Outcome 7: Graduates will have an ability to communicate effectively.
- Graduates will be able to effectively prepare formal written documents.
- Graduates will demonstrate effective formal oral communications.
- Outcome 8: Graduates will have an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.
- Outcome 9: Graduates will have a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.
- Outcome 10: Graduates will demonstrate good project-management skills.
- Outcome 11: Graduates will have the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.
- Outcome 12: Graduates will have a knowledge of contemporary issues.
- Outcome 13: Graduates will be involved in a variety of service activities that benefit society.
- Outcome 14: Graduates will demonstrate a faith in God exhibited through personal devotional practices and a value system based on Christian principles.


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Austrian director Ulrich Seidl makes a habit of blurring boundaries: his documentaries include staged scenes, and his dramas feature nonprofessional actors who are sometimes playing versions of themselves. But there is little middle ground when it comes to the reception of his work.
Writing in Artforum last year, John Waters declared: "Fassbinder died, so God gave us Ulrich Seidl." Werner Herzog once said of Seidl's "Animal Love," a 1996 documentary about excessively devoted pet owners: "Never have I looked so directly into hell." (He meant it as a compliment.) But accusations of cruelty and misanthropy are also legion. Seidl's own website proudly displays a scroll of epithets that have been hurled at him, including "voyeur," "social pornographer" and "blackguard."
For such a divisive figure, Seidl has had unusually prominent platforms for his most recent work, the "Paradise" trilogy, with one new film at each of the three major European festivals.
"Paradise: Love," which opens in Los Angeles this week, had its premiere in competition at Cannes last May. "Faith" was screened in Venice, where it won a jury prize and drew charges of blasphemy and the threat of a lawsuit from a Catholic organization. The final installment, "Hope," was shown in Berlin, where Seidl also presented an exhibition of still images from the trilogy.
In an interview at Cannes, Seidl, speaking in German through a translator, said that the original plan was to make one episodic film about three women, each on a journey of her own.
The mother, Teresa, visits a seaside resort in Kenya, where young local men known as beach boys sell trinkets — and themselves — to female Western pleasure-seekers. Her sister, Maria, a devout Catholic, takes time off work to devote herself to door-to-door proselytizing, only to be interrupted by the return of her estranged husband, a wheelchair-bound Egyptian Muslim. Teresa's daughter, Melanie, is shipped off to a fitness camp for overweight teenagers, where she develops a crush on a middle-aged doctor.
"All three women are in search of their personal paradise," Seidl said. Wrestling with 90 hours of footage, he ended up with a six-hour film. Attempts to condense or intercut the stories weakened individual scenes, so he persuaded his investors to allow him to make three films, each one named for a Christian virtue.
The title of the trilogy can be taken in what Seidl called the "biblical sense" — paradise as "the original state of constant happiness," as he put it. Stefan Grissemann, an Austrian critic, wrote a book on Seidl titled "Sündenfall," which translates as "Original Sin." The concept of sin, Grissemann said in an email, relates to Seidl's established role as a taboo-breaker with "an explicit way of dealing with religion and, for that matter, public morality."(Among Seidl's documentaries is a portrait of Catholics at prayer, "Jesus, You Know.")
Austrian cinema has no shortage of provocateurs, starting with the newly Oscar-sanctioned Michael Haneke, but Seidl's confrontational streak is especially pronounced, evident in almost every frame. His movies favor head-on, tableau-like compositions, a static style that Seidl, 60, said dates to his first short from film school in the 1980s. (The "Paradise" trilogy was shot by Wolfgang Thaler, a longtime collaborator, and the veteran American cinematographer Ed Lachman.)
The outward poise of the films stands in stark contrast to the extravagantly messy behavior on view in them. As severe and controlled as they appear, their defining quality may in fact be their volatility. Fiction and documentary commingle in unpredictable ways, as stories and actors are exposed to real people and places.
"I don't distinguish between actors and nonactors," Seidl said. Professional or otherwise, none of his performers ever sees a script. Scenes emerge through a long process of rehearsal and improvisation, and he shoots chronologically, which allows him and his wife and writing partner, Veronika Franz, to revise the screenplay as they go.
In his 2007 fiction film "Import/Export," Seidl ventured into a geriatric ward, where he filmed patients on the verge of death. In "Love" he cast actual beach boys, which meant that the queasy on-screen transactions between the visitors and the locals played out behind the scenes as well. "It was a kind of blackmail," Seidl said. "After we'd been shooting for two weeks they stopped and said if they didn't receive twice as much as promised they would pull out."
"Paradise" touches on many of the obsessions that have run through Seidl's three-decade career: religion, lust, beauty ideals, the war of the sexes. "All the relationships between men and women in these films are very unequal," Seidl said of the three heroines in "Paradise," each trapped in a doomed coupling across a racial, religious or age divide.
Seidl has not exactly mellowed with age, but at least in Austria, Grissemann said, the criticisms have softened with his growing international acclaim, as has happened with other iconoclasts such as Haneke and the novelists Thomas Bernhard and Elfriede Jelinek.
Seidl's next project is a documentary about "the relationship that men have with their basements," he said recently in Berlin. While visiting Austrian homes as research for "Dog Days" (2001), an ensemble movie set in a Viennese suburb, he realized that "very often the basement is far more lavishly outfitted than the living space above ground."
While Seidl's documentary will not deal with the sensational recent news stories of Austrian home dungeons where young girls were held captive for years, he said he expects viewers to watch it with those real-life cases in mind.
"My experience is that men retreat to their basements when they want to be the way they are," he said.
Which naturally raises the question: What might we find in his basement?
Seidl responded with a smile: "I have a very nice old wine cellar."


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Staten Island, NY – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, announced today that the video posted on his You Tube page (www.YouTube.com/frfrankpavone) that describes a suction abortion has surpassed one million views.
"This is a reason to rejoice," said Fr. Pavone, "because one of the biggest problems we have regarding abortion is that it's hidden. Thanks to videos like this, people who think they are pro-choice become fervently pro-life. We receive testimonies literally every day about such conversions. We invite others to spread these videos."
The suction video, available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBOAPleF1t0, illustrates the most common abortion procedure. In describing it, Fr. Frank quotes abortionists and medical texts, and uses fetal models with actual instruments used in abortions. It was originally posted in March of 2008.
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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|Photographer, Photographed: Charles Barry. Photo by Ryan Selewicz '13
See the people who sustain Santa Clara and are inspired by it: an engineering student hauling an underwater robot to the surface of Lake Tahoe, a dancer guiding her class in the exuberance of motion. See the Mission Gardens in the magic hours when the light is golden.
These are certainly moments that Chuck Barry has captured with his camera in the past 25 years. His favorite shoots are with students in real situations, catching the personal interaction; there might be dignity or whimsy in the moment.
|Hear Charles discuss a few of his photos.
He's won national and regional awards for his work, which has taken him across the country and farther afield, to places where alumni and faculty and students work and play. He's brought his mandolin-playing skills to the community Fiesta that is the annual Virgen de Guadalupe celebration on campus. If he could invite a handful of folks to join him for dinner, the guests would include his parents, Mark Twain, and Frank Zappa.
And he'd be the first to say that it's the ideas and aspirations of this place that keep it—and photographing it—fascinating and new. Steven Boyd Saum
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Detectives are trying to find a man who has gone missing.
Nicholas Alan Boon , 34, was last seen by relatives at about 11am on Saturday and reported as missing the next day.
And police believe he may be still in the Wakefield area.
Mr Boon is 6ft 1ins tall, of medium build and has short brown coloured hair.
He was last seen wearing tight straight maroon coloured jeans, a brown or black top and a baseball cap. He was also carrying either a white carrier bag or a turquoise suitcase
He has a distinctive tribal tattoo to the left side of his neck which appears black in colour.
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When you're preparing for a visit by the pope, sometimes even mundane tasks like checking the logistics at an airport take on larger-than-life aspects.
For Msgr. David Malloy, general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, that meant hitching a ride on Air Force One from Washington to New York to check on details for the pope's departure from John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Joe Hagin, White House deputy chief of staff, described Msgr. Malloy's unconventional shuttle trip at an April 9 background briefing on the papal visit for members of religious media.
Hagin said he and Msgr. Malloy were in one of a series of meetings about Pope Benedict XVI's April 15-20 U.S. visit when they concluded neither one of them was clear on some details about the JFK airport departure. The only solution, he said, was for them to make a trip to New York to see the site for themselves.
"I usually travel with the president," Hagin explained, and he realized that the very next day he was scheduled to accompany President George W. Bush on a trip to New York, using JFK airport. He suggested Msgr. Malloy tag along for the ride.
So March 14, Msgr. Malloy made a same-day round trip to New York aboard the president's Boeing 747.
Before the president arrived for departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Msgr. Malloy got to tour the plane, then he went to sit in the back where staff members and the press pool are usually seated.
Msgr. Malloy told CNS in an e-mail that the White House staff was "most gracious."
Hagin said that on the flight back to Washington, the president asked him who was in the back of the plane. When he mentioned Msgr. Malloy and explained their mission related to the pope's visit, the president told Hagin, "Get him up here."
Msgr. Malloy said he and Bush chatted for about five minutes, during which the president "expressed his esteem for Pope Benedict. He said that he had given the instruction to the White House staff that he wanted every effort made to make the Holy Father feel most welcome."


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Torah, is a Hebrew word meaning teaching, instruction, or especially Law. It primarily refers to the first section of the Tanakh, i.e. the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
These books are Genesis (Bereishit), Exodus (Shemot), Leviticus (Vayikra), Numbers (Bemidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim) . Collectively they are also known as the Pentateuch (Greek for "five containers", where containers presumably refers to the scroll cases in which books were being kept) or Hamisha Humshei Torah (Hebrew for "the five parts of the Torah", or just Humash "fifth" for short).
Jews also use the word Torah, in a wider sense, to refer to the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious teachings throughout history. In this sense it might include the entire Tanakh, the Mishnah, the Talmud and the midrashic literature. In its widest sense, Jews use the word Torah to refer to any kind of teachings or philosophy.
Holy Torah (split by parts) is a part of the Jewish Bible and is a sacred text of Judaism.


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CAMPTON - A local woman who allegedly kicked a 23-month-old child in the head on Thursday was arrested on a felony assault charge.
Police said Amanda Dustin, 21, is related to the boy, who was treated for a head injury. Police released no other information about the incident.


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Assemblyman John Ceretto is teaming up with the Firemen's Association of the State of New York to help promote this year's statewide volunteer firefighter recruitment drive, Recruit NY, which will take place at firehouses across the state on April 27-28.
Ceretto will be joining his fellow members of Lewiston No. 2 Volunteer Fire Co. on Saturday to help publicize the event and discuss the many benefits of becoming a volunteer firefighter. Lewiston No. 2's RecruitNY drive runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 27. There will be refreshments served at the event, as well as several emergency skills demonstrations that include the "Jaws of Life" and other fire equipment, and giveaways for children.
"RecruitNY is a coordinated effort to boost membership in volunteer fire departments, which has decreased in recent years," Ceretto said. "Volunteer firefighters provide essential services to our communities, often putting themselves in harm's way to save the lives and property of their friends and neighbors.
"For their service, volunteer firefighters can receive a number of tax breaks, medical insurance, and may also receive assistance paying for college. I would encourage anyone interested in learning more about becoming a volunteer firefighter to stop by one of the area firehouses participating in this weekend's recruitment drive."
Ceretto said several volunteer fire departments from his district are participating in this year's recruitment event, including Adams Fire Co., Bergholz Fire Company, Frontier Fire Company, Lewiston No. 2, Shawnee Volunteer Fire Co., St. Johnsburg Fire Co., Town of Niagara Active Hose, Tri-Community Ambulance Service and Upper Mountain Fire Co.
For more information on the times, dates and locations of this year's RecruitNY event, visit www.recruitny.org/opendoors.php or contact Ceretto's district office at 716-282-6062 or[email protected].


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I recently got a virus which automatically got downloaded into my computer.
suddenlly it gives a pop up window saying
"hi I am HCZ_UX_12o11, i am your virus software. i live in your system, a know all about you ,anf my master know all about you too"
the picture is stored in filename AIVIR.JPEG
the pop up window opens a site
and then shows the above message
i downloaded the latest norton antivirus update, also the spybotSD resident and spyware blaster but of no use.
again i got a pop up from the same site that he is still present in my computer
It always tries to start a self executable file "PLEASE WAIT AS WE TRY TO OPEN THE PLUGIN "
the virus also creates a cc.c program, and other 1.dat extending to 10.dat in the c:\ (folder)
it also creates a application program 12240 witha girls photo and a shortcut in the start menu.
it does not allow me to do any work. my homepage cannot be changed. all over FREE SEX ICONS comes and this embaresses my whole family.
my computer config is: P4 1.8 ghz o/s- win98 (Earlier it wasnt giving any problem as we used to check only mail and send greetings card)
norton antivirus 2003
agp card
u guys are good, pls hellp me out.


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....The way in which the new version of TDL works hasn't changed so much as how it is spread - via affiliates. As before, affiliate programs offer a TDL distribution client that checks the version of the operating system on a victim machine and then downloads TDL-4 to the computer.
Affiliates receive between $20 to $200 for every 1,000 installations of TDL, depending on the location of the victim computer. Affiliates can use any installation method they choose. Most often, TDL is planted on adult content sites, bootleg websites, and video and file storage services
The changes in TDL-4 affected practically all components of the malware and its activity on the web to some extent or other. The malware writers extended the program functionality, changed the algorithm used to encrypt the communication protocol between bots and the botnet command and control servers, and attempted to ensure they had access to infected computers even in cases where the botnet control centers are shut down. The owners of TDL are essentially trying to create an 'indestructible' botnet that is protected against attacks, competitors, and antivirus companies.....
....Despite the steps taken by cybercriminals to protect the command and control centers, knowing the protocol TDL-4 uses to communicate with servers makes it possible to create specially crafted requests and obtain statistics on the number of infected computers. Kaspersky Lab's analysis of the data identified three different MySQL databases located in Moldova, Lithuania, and the USA, all of which supported used proxy servers to support the botnet.
According to these databases, in just the first three months of 2011 alone, TDL-4 infected 4,524,488 computers around the world.
Nearly one-third of all infected computers are in the United States. Going on the prices quoted by affiliate programs, this number of infected computers in the US is worth $250,000, a sum which presumably made its way to the creators of TDSS. Remarkably, there are no Russian users in the statistics. This may be explained by the fact that affiliate marketing programs do not offer payment for infecting computers located in Russia.
Why not Russia?
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How can a curious person find out if his computer is affected?
was it a Ms or some other big company or who was it that asked European Union to set up some test that the ISP would only allow a computer access if the owner could show that it was run with the prescribed anti virus and router settings and so on. A kind of certification of every computer before allowing them to run at all on the internet.
Would that stop the indestructable botnet?
Telling 4 million users to look for virus on their computers is not easy.
Them will not trust the warning or advice to be a fake and that they got a spam message instead.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
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nooby wrote:
How can a curious person find out if his computer is affected?
you can use f-prot or clamav
, (these are mainly for usb-drives and suspect downloaded files (that you'll be sharing to someone's windows computer) though, and maybe windows hdds)
don't bother with rkhunter or chkrootkit on puppy, because they don't work
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Yes I tested one of these and them seems to give very many false positives.
I do have free AntiVirus on Windows but I never log in to windows so I guess them are a year old or something.
Fprot are them really known to have latest malware detection?
I mean more like what did happen to you. AFAIK none of those did warn you.
What you noticed was a slow down and then him told you about it.
Had him not revealed that he did it then you would still wonder what the slow down was about?
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no - I knew 'straight away' something was happening - puppy works FAST and almost never slows down
ok, so clamav can have false-positives, well fprot (in puppy-lucid repo -in puppy package manager) is said to have less, you can try that (I'm assuming you are using 5.25, some earlier versions of puppy I think have an fprot auto-installer - so if the puppy community decided that fprot was to be included it just may be better ryt?)
ontopic: good read. sophisticated stuff.
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Thanks dru5k1 , I am using Snow 5 that is based on many ideas but maily on Lupu 513 I guess. But sure I ahve 525 installed too so I could test Fprot on that one thanks for explaining how it works.
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QoTD: Michael Mace
Nokia's phones often appear as if their hardware and software were designed by completely different groups and slapped together at the last minute (because, in many cases, that's exactly what happened).
Advised by Marcelo, I've just read Michael Mace's post about the imminent "war" between Nokia and Apple. It's really worth reading.


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Fresh water is one of our nation's most precious and valuable natural resource. The management of this resource requires accurate and timely information on precipitation (quantitative precipitation information – QPI) for water managers to make appropriate decisions regarding infrastructure and resources. Knowledge of both the amount and uncertainty of QPI is also required by operational forecasters to produce robust hydrologic simulations of stream discharge, to issue flood warnings to the public, and improve overall situational awareness related to incoming storms. Recent studies have shown that climate change will increase the occurrence of extreme precipitation events over time, further highlighting the need for reliable QPI.
Hydrometeorological processes combine the science of precipitation formation and distribution in the atmosphere with the resulting intensity, distribution, and movement of water on and through the land surface. The activities of the Hydrometeorological Forcings Science Team (HFST) within PSD's Water Cycle Branch focus on research to better understand, describe and monitor these processes and foster the transition the results of this research to operations. Special emphasis is placed on extreme precipitation, water vapor transport processes and conditions in complex terrain. Data from field experiments, numerical models (atmospheric and hydrologic) and reanalysis products are integrated into scientific studies, evaluations of precipitation forecasts and development of prototype tools for use in forecast operations.
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Installation issues / Re: Stuck on Dcerouter login after upgrade« on: May 03, 2013, 09:43:24 am »
Thanks for the reply. I did install from a DVD. I would guess the black screen lasted for over an hour before I rebooted. I have stared another install. I'm saving the first 1 on 50 gigs. I'm not going to upgrade this time. The weird thing is I haven't heard that the screen is supposed to turn black in the many hours I spent researching this problem. I did set up the users, in fact everything completed on I had a Orbiter menu up and I was exploring when I was asked permission to reboot. Seems to me I tried to watch a channel. When is rebooted only the monitor screen came on, then I lost it too!. Hopefully once I have a working system I can compare logs and configs and get both working.


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Choosing the Right Law School / Re: Which is better?« on: July 06, 2013, 12:21:48 AM »
Thank you so much for the advices @livinglegend and @MaintainFL350. I'll keep it all in mind And @MaintainFL350
Just so I understand you correctly, are you saying that you have not even begun undergraduate studies but that you have an LSAT score? That's very unusual. Most people don't take the LSAT until at least their third or fourth year of university.I meant it hypothetically :p


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Down 26 early 3rd quarter, and came all the way back to pull it out.
KVH- 0 pts in the 2nd half. Disapeared completely!
playoffs baby
Tim Thomas with 20 against his old team
GREAT win for NY after that NIGHTMARE Friday night.
Smashing win!!!!
Out here in Denver they had the Spurs-Kings game on, so did not get to watch. How was Vin Baker ?
Vin baker had a Double-Double in points and rebounds (Not sure how much for each though) He was very aggresive in the 1st half when the rest of the Knicks were so lazy! But the 2nd half was when everyone came out to play especiallt KT!!
KT is the most underrated player in the league. I am glad we signed him for 4 more years.
If the Knicks stay the course, and make the playoffs, they could be very very dangerous.
kurt thomas was a beast like never b4 in that game
its playoff time babbbyyyyyyyyyy
Baker had 12 points, and 10 boards, and a couple of blocks. However, his game is off, as he missed a few real easy ones. Also, he didn't get much lift around the basket. But he showed that he has the skills to be a low post presence. Time will tell.
Kurt Thomas played solid "D" in the late 3rd, and throughout the 4th quarter. But he still only had 4 boards. He never jumped well, but now he's barely getting off the ground. I know his finger is jammed, and that effects his shooting, but what's with the legs??
Tim Thomas stepped up. Solid 2nd half. Must be the water in Milw.
I have to say something- SWEETNEY IS THE FUTURE OF THE KNICKS! He wil be spectacular next year. I just can't wait!
He is incredibly promising, after getting himself into better shape and gaining Wilkens confidence he has been playing tremedous.
I look for him to have a break out year next year.
ala Zach Randolph
Don't know if Sweetney will be like Randolph, but he will be a major contributor next season. He's already showing major signs of contributing this year. Anyone notice that last night against the Wizards, the Knicks were down 8 when he came in, and up 10 when he left some 9 minutes later. He boxes out, switches off real well, and has a knack for offensive boards. Foul shooting is below par (he was around 80% in College, but is at 67% in the NBA).Originally posted by Icer@Mar 17 2004, 03:03 AM
He is incredibly promising, after getting himself into better shape and gaining Wilkens confidence he has been playing tremedous.
I look for him to have a break out year next year.
ala Zach Randolph
Knicks should package Kurt Thomas and Norris (or Williams) next season for either Wallace, or a high draft pick, and let Sweetney and Baker play at the "4". Harrington is more then an adequate backup, and Baker can back up the "5". There's also Mutombo, if he's still around.
I will go as far as to say that Sweetney will be THE premier PF in the east if we start him. (only if Jermain O'neal plays the 5). Of course he won't compare to the likes of TD or KG. But I have HIGH hopes.
Lets not get ahead of ourselves here, even if he develops you just cant make that assertation.
There are alot of good PF's out in the East.
Jermaine O'Neal, Rasheed Wallace, Kenyon Martin, Carlos Boozer, Chris Bosh (when he moves back to PF permanently, C is just a stop), etc
Sweeteny is a Georgetown man, he is a great rebounder, very good defender in the post, and is a tough player.
If he continues to improve like this, the Knicks could very well trade Kurt Thomas.
Also, I really hope they can trade Houston to somebody, he is a great scorer, but he is the biggest p***y ever.
Take my word for it. KT is GONE! Write that one down, kids!
With Tim Thomas basically solidified at the 3, and the 4 & 5 are filled, if the JETS sign Rasheed where does he fit?
Is it just me or has Mohammed also been playing his ass off since Mutombo went on the IL?
Just you.


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EAST LANSING (AP) ? Trick plays, weird formations and a ringer from the basketball team were no match for the smooth efficiency of Kirk Cousins.
EAST LANSING (AP) — Trick plays, weird formations and a ringer from the basketball team were no match for the smooth efficiency of Kirk Cousins.
Cousins went 22-of-29 for 285 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Green team to a 24-10 win over the White team in Michigan State's spring game Saturday. The White team pulled out all the stops — even lining basketball player Draymond Green up at wide receiver at one point — but Cousins was too sharp. His team never trailed.
"I didn't have good scrimmages earlier this spring. I've never played well in scrimmages, period, for whatever reason," said Cousins, the soon-to-be senior who led the Spartans to a share of the Big Ten title last season.
"It was good to get out here in a game-type setting and play well."
Of course, this was only so much of a game-type setting, with shortened quarters and kick returns halted before too much contact.
Backup quarterback Andrew Maxwell went 9-of-21 for 120 yards for the White team, including a 38-yard touchdown pass to Keshawn Martin in the fourth quarter. Martin also lined up in the shotgun and took an occasional snap himself, part of a gadget-filled game plan that had mixed results.
At one point, Maxwell was out wide before taking a pitch and throwing a pass, although that play was called back for a penalty. There was also an odd, unbalanced formation that included only one lineman to the left of the center and five to his right.
In the second half, Maxwell lined up at receiver and ran a deep route over the middle, but Martin's pass was broken up.
"When you get the ball in Keshawn's hands, good things happen," said offensive line coach Mark Staten, who coached the White team. "That throw to Maxwell, we actually put that in a minute before he went out there for that exact play, so that wasn't something that we've been majoring in."
In the third quarter, Green lined up at tight end for the White team and jumped for a false start. The 6-7 basketball player moved out wide for the next play. Maxwell's short pass sailed over his head, but defensive back Johnny Adams, who is 8 inches shorter, held Green for a penalty.
Coach Mark Dantonio said Green came to practice Thursday and caught some passes in preparation for his cameo appearance.
"We got him in a couple plays," said Dantonio, who wasn't affiliated with either team for the scrimmage. "He just asked that he not be tackled."
Tight end Dion Sims caught touchdown passes of 2 and 42 yards from Cousins. Sims was reinstated for spring practice after being sentenced to probation last year in connection with the thefts of laptop computers from Detroit schools. Sims had been suspended from the team and didn't play at all last season.
"I know our coaches have oftentimes thought about playing him at left tackle if he was willing to do it, because he's just so smooth and so athletic and so big," Cousins said. "He wants to be a tight end, and he absolutely has the hands and the mobility to do that as well."
Arthur Ray Jr., an offensive lineman for the White team who was treated for cancer in his left leg four years ago, was on the field for a couple plays early in the fourth quarter and received a nice ovation has he headed back to the sideline. Ray underwent chemotherapy shortly after signing with the Spartans in 2007, and a subsequent infection postponed his comeback until now.
"He's a tremendous young man. We didn't want to put too much on him out there — we didn't want to get him mixed up in the middle," Staten said. "He's had a couple live snaps in the spring so far — controlled for the most part. It was good to just get him out there. He's an inspiration to anybody that walks, that breathes, that talks, because of what he's come back from."


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General: Honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae). Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus) is a shrub or small tree that grows up to six meters tall. The leaves are large, opposite, divided into five to seven leaflets, and toothed or irregularly lobed. The fruits are white, berry like drupes, and one to one and a half centimeters in diameter. The flowers are small, white to creamy, with a strong unpleasant odor; numerous in a rounded or pyramidal parasol-like cluster (Pojar & MacKinnon 1994); blooming from mid May to July. The fruits are roundish, dull-white berries about 3/8 inch in diameter, soon becoming blackish, ripening August or September (Grimm 1993).
Distribution: Snowberry inhabits slopes and valley bottoms of the foothills of the Coast Ranges, the Sierra Nevada, and the mountains of southern California (McMinn 1939). It extends northward to British Columbia and eastward to Pennsylvania and the New England states (Ibid.).
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A tax is in the eye of the beholder. Or perhaps the one being taxed.
That's something Peoria residents are going to have to determine regarding two revenue-enhancement proposals city officials offered last week.
A deal to extend to 20 years the interval on the city's option to purchase the water utility would mean additional expense for residents and businesses. How much additional expense might not be obvious right now, despite figures the city has revealed.
The 3 percent franchise fee that is part of the agreement means the average residential customer of Illinois American Water will pay an extra $1.33 monthly, according to city officials. That money amounts to about $1 million per year.
But Illinois American is on the hook for about another $1.45 million annually in work-permit fees. That's what the water company pays the city for infrastructure access, among other things. Currently, Illinois American pays work-permit fees of about $280,000 per year.
It's difficult to imagine Illinois American will pay that extra $1.2 million out of the kindness of its corporate heart.
City Manager Patrick Urich said there's nothing that would prevent the water company from going to the Illinois Commerce Commission to request a rate increase. Karen Cotton, an Illinois American spokeswoman, stated her firm wouldn't seek a hike solely for the Peoria franchise agreement.
Cotton did state permit fees and the like statewide are incorporated into infrastructure surcharges and base rates and could be included in future rate requests.
The door — perhaps the back one — appears open, perhaps, to this deal costing more than an extra buck or so per month per residential customer.
Less than six hours after the water-buyout agreement was revealed publicly, City Council members and municipal public-works employees discussed a possible storm-water utility fee. The average monthly fee of about $4.50 per household would go toward rehabilitating the city's aging storm-water collection system.
Such repairs are laudable and appear necessary. But when discussing how a charge might be implemented and assessed, Public Works Director Mike Rogers bristled at the mention of the word "tax." He didn't use it.
In reality, however, a tax is what it would be.
It's likely to be another 18 months before a storm-water utility charge becomes more tangible. But the water company franchise fee is imminent, if the council votes March 25 to approve the agreement.
Prior to that, the city is conducting two forums to gauge public support. They're set for 10 a.m. Saturday at the Peoria Public Library North Branch and 6 p.m. March 19 at the Gateway Building.
Even if they can't attend the forums, it would behoove Peorians who use water — that's everybody, right? — to let their elected and appointed officials know what they think.
Urich and others have stated repeatedly the need for infrastructure improvements, which the water money would finance. A quick drive around the city reveals that to be true. But there also needs to be truth in taxation — or whatever you want to call it. (N.V.)
Learning from history
File this under "once burned, twice shy."
When the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced March 4 that the state's appeal of funding for local governments affected by the Nov. 17 tornadoes had been denied, it took Gov. Pat Quinn's office less than 12 hours to announce a $45 million aid package from (mostly) state funds.
That multiagency effort didn't literally come together overnight, though.
"It actually started when the first tornado hit ... on Nov. 17," Quinn spokesman Dave Blanchette told us Friday in response to our query. "We learned our lesson following the tragedy in Harrisburg."
In that instance from 2012, the feds also denied a request and appeal for local government assistance, requiring the state to step in. Having happened once already, it was sensible of state officials to anticipate it could happen again and to direct agency officials to be creative if possible in finding ways to steer funds. (C.K.)
Time and place
Quinn's news conference announcing that $45 million in aid was notable for two things: the chill in the air from the brisk and steady wind, and two protesters who seemed determined to pull politics into what has thus far been a commendably apolitical process.
They were advocates of Quinn's underfunded, under-recognized, underwhelming primary challenger, Tio Hardiman, the former director of anti-violence CeaseFire efforts in Chicago, and they jeered the governor for his lack of willingness to debate his opponent before the March 18 primary. They also shouted slogans and questions over the heads of media members during Quinn's presentation.
Look, anyone can protest at any time, and that's the glory of America. But the message here could've been conveyed in a less disruptive way. Voters can decide whether a campaign that has advocates making a scene in a disaster recovery zone is one they want to support. (C.K.)
Chris Kaergard (C.K.) covers politics and Peoria County government for the Journal Star. He can be reached at 686-3135 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ChrisKaergard. Nick Vlahos (N.V.) covers Peoria City Hall. He can be reached at 686-3285 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @VlahosNick. Read their blog online at www.pjstar.com/blogs/wordonweb.
Word on the Street: Council's water-deal debate could prove taxing
A tax is in the eye of the beholder. Or perhaps the one being taxed.


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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- The Pace athletics department has unveiled the 2014 women's soccer home promotional schedule for the upcoming season.
Youth Soccer Day will take place on Saturday, Sept. 20, as Pace takes on Merrimack at 3:30 p.m. There will be a halftime game featuring girls' teams from local youth soccer clubs and the participants will also be invited to serve as honorary ball girls during the game. All participants will receive a team photo, have the opportunity to meet the student-athletes and receive autographs after the game. The Setters will take on Bentley on Saturday, Oct. 4, at 3:30 p.m. This game also marks the annual Pace Soccer Alumni Day where all Pace Soccer alumni are invited to enjoy the game and attend a post-game reception on the field.
Pace will return home to host New Haven in the annual "Pace Goes Pink" game sponsored by the Student Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC) in partnership with the student group Colleges Against Cancer (CAC) on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 4 p.m. Fans have the opportunity to purchase $5 "Pace Goes Pink" t-shirts, with all of the proceeds going towards the Northern Westchester Hospital breast institute. To conclude the home game schedule, the Setters will play St. Michael's on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 11 a.m. which will feature senior day. During the pregame ceremonies each senior will be recognized for their hard work and dedication as a student-athlete on the Pace women's soccer team. New for this year, there will be a season-long promotion where all fans in attendance for every home game will be given a coupon for a discount at one of Pace's food sponsors. For the complete 2014 schedule, visit www.paceuathletics.com.


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BAYOU CORNE, LA (WAFB) - Assumption Parish officials and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) are holding a public informational meeting Tuesday about roads near the giant Louisiana sinkhole.
They'll be addressing the LA 70 bypass and detour routes. The meeting is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. and last until 8 p.m. It will be held at the Assumption Parish Community Center.
Frustration, disappointment and exhaustion seemed to overwhelm the residents of Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish as they assembled August 3, marking the anniversary of the sinkhole.
On August 2, Governor Jindal and Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced that the state will be suing Texas Brine for environmental damages caused by the failed Texas Brine cavern.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's office reported the governor stated the following:
"By filing suit, we are staying committed to holding Texas Brine accountable for the damage they've caused to Bayou Corne and to Louisiana. We have already pushed for buyouts for affected residents and are undertaking a thorough review of all of Texas Brine's permits in our state. This suit is just the next step in making sure Texas Brine does the right thing and properly addresses the mess it's caused."
Attorney General Buddy Caldwell commented as well on his concerns about the safety of Louisiana citizens is the most important.
"The safety and welfare of our citizens is the top priority. Additionally, Louisiana has expended significant financial resources to help the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou communities receive the assistance and protection they need. We are pursuing this lawsuit to hold the appropriate parties responsible for this tragic event," said Caldwell.
After a year, residents said they hoped the situation would be resolved. They expressed anger at the way they feel they have been treated. Several residents asked why no state officials were present during the anniversary ceremony.
Unfortunately for these residents, both parish and Texas Brine officials agree that this is far from over. While 3D seismic surveys conducted by Texas Brine seem to indicate that the sinkhole itself is beginning to slow and stabilize, the recovery has focused on a new danger: natural gas gathering underneath a nearby aquifer.
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