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Utility work starts city apartment fire
February 22. 2013 11:46PM
MANCHESTER - A plumber heating pipes accidentally started a fire that left one apartment inhabitable at an apartment building at 35 Log St. Friday evening, District Chief Jim Michael said.
Michael said one resident lived in the apartment and was able to find family to stay with.
The fire, which was reported about 5 p.m. Friday, started in a second-floor apartment while the plumber was working on a sink. The fire has been deemed accidental, he said.
Nobody was injured in the fire, which caused minor damage to two other units, he said.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices slipped back below $96 a barrel Friday afternoon, reversing course after rising earlier in the day.
Benchmark crude for March delivery fell 11 cents to finish at $95.72 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It rose as high as $96.57 in the morning.
U.S., drivers still can't catch a break at the pump. The average price for a gallon (3.8 liters) of gas rose a penny to $3.57. That's up 27 cents from a month ago and 8 cents more than last year at this time.
Drivers in Massachusetts who are filling up ahead of a massive blizzard that could dump up to 3 feet (nearly 1 meter) of snow are paying an average of $3.69, while the average pump price in New York is $3.92 a gallon. Local television coverage showed lines of cars at gas stations reminiscent of those seen after Superstorm Sandy.
Once they fill up and stock up on groceries, many people in the Northeast might not drive again for a day or more. Demand for gasoline should drop, supplies should rise and prices in the region should drop a bit, says Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for Oil Price Information Service.
"The simple impact (these storms) have is that they destroy demand for a period of time," Kloza says.
The brunt of the storm is not expected to hit refineries around New York and Philadelphia the way that Superstorm Sandy did, so no supply disruptions are expected. If New England ports get snowed in for a few days, it could delay shipments of gasoline by barge, which could lead to reduced supplies, Kloza says.
The storm could bring a break in gasoline prices after a steady march upward in recent weeks. Kloza thinks that later in February and in March prices will rise as they do most years, but perhaps not as fast, because prices have already climbed so high.
"We were in an uptrend but clearly it was too brisk," he said. "The market borrowed some of the increases that usually come in February and March."
Oil rose initially after a report showing that China's trade growth surged in January. Exports soared 25 percent from a year earlier and import growth rocketed to 28 percent.
Analysts said the year-on-year data could be distorted because the Lunar New Year holidays fell in January in 2012. Last year companies picked up pace in January to fill orders before shutting down for the holiday, which this year falls in February.
And the Commerce Department said Friday that the U.S. trade deficit fell nearly 21 percent in December from November, as oil imports plummeted. That's the smallest trade deficit in nearly three years. The smaller trade gap means the economy probably performed better in the fourth quarter than first estimated last week.
But those gains evaporated in the afternoon.
In London, Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, rose $1.66 to end at $118.90 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
— Wholesale gasoline rose 6 cents to finish at $3.06 a gallon.
— Natural gas fell 1 cent to end at $3.27 per 1,000 cubic feet.
— Heating oil gained 4 cents to finish at $3.24 a gallon.
Pamela Sampson in Bangkok and Pablo Gorondi in Budapest contributed to this report.

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Motorcycle stolen from disabled veteran in NC
Motorcycle stolen from disabled veteran in NC
Detectives with the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office are searching for the person who stole a disabled veteran's motorcycle before he could go on his honeymoon.
A statement from the sheriff's office said 66-year old Calvin Teeple of White Mills, Pa., was in the Hope Mills area last week when the bike was stolen while it was secured on a trailer which was parked in his son-in-law's driveway.
The sheriff's office said Teeple and his wife were en route to Florida to celebrate their marriage and had stopped over in Cumberland County to visit family.
The sheriff's office identified the bike as a blue and white Harley Davidson Heritage Softail being pulled on a chrome transport trailer with Pennsylvania license tag XR 55086.


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The PS3 Had 12 Games At Launch. Here's What They Looked Like.
We finally saw the actual PlayStation 4 during Sony's E3 press conference on Monday, and we got sneak peaks at the console's upcoming games, some of which will be launch titles. But how do those games compare with the PS3's launch titles? Let's take a look.


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If you graduated from Fort Lewis College in 2001, you likely remember a tall Kenyan in your class. Ledama Olekina, a Maasai who is running for governor in his native country, is back in Durango.
Olekina is scheduled to give a talk at 7 tonight at the Strater Hotel.
He is looking for support for his candidacy, but he plans to address a number of subjects as well as his campaign.
He will talk about African politics and the electoral process, which changed in 2010 when Kenyans voted in a new constitution. He also will talk about business and tourism opportunities for Durangoans in his state of Narok.
For more information, email Olekina at email@example.com, or call him at (617) 610-9848.
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The phone was ringing and I scrambled from room to room unable to find it. This is exactly what wasn't supposed to happen after I sprung for a new cordless phone system with five handsets.
FIVE and I still couldn't find the damn phone!
So I took a step back in time and bought a restored 1940s coin-operated rotary pay phone and stuck it up on the kitchen wall.
Problem solved.
This telecommunications relic turned out to be a practical antidote to the physics of cordless telephones, the mysterious force that makes all cordless handsets gravitate to the farthest corner of the house or hide between the sofa cushions.
The pay phone in the kitchen isn't going anywhere.
As long as I can find the kitchen — and if you've seen me recently you know that hasn't been a problem — there's at least one phone in the house I can always find.
When friends come over they always ask "does it work?" and can't resist a nostalgic spin of the dial. If you're a boomer or above you grew up feeding nickels, dimes and quarters into rotary pay phones.
Not so Sean Sullivan.
Sean is 12 and occasionally stops by with his parents for a visit. Like all proper American 12-year-olds he has never owned anything that doesn't come with a charger. All the telephones in Sean's life have been smartphones. Yet, upon seeing our fire-engine red 1940s rotary pay phone, a staple of my analog childhood, Junior Sullivan's face lit up like Og the Caveman seeing fire for the very first time.
"How does it work?" he asked.
And after extracting a nickel from him, I was happy to demonstrate. I made 70 cents during that visit. I wish the Sullivans would stop by more often.
Of course coin-operated pay phones have nearly vanished from the American landscape along with other once-commonplace domestic items rendered obsolete by our obsession with the digital revolution.
I have two shelves worth of encyclopedias. I bought them in 1986 from a door-to-door salesman who will probably go to his grave telling the story of the time somebody actually wanted to buy an expensive set of leather-bound encyclopedias.
The doorbell rang. I asked, "What do you want?" He said, "Would you be interested in the Encyclopedia Britannica?" I said, "As a matter of fact I would. Come on in."
But he just stood there wide-eyed.
In 20 years of humping encyclopedias all over Southern California, I think this was the first and only time someone was actually happy to see him.
Today you can't give away encyclopedias.
Or VHS players, answering machines, pagers, a Thomas Guide, film cameras, cassette tapes and hundreds of other once-ubiquitous household objects that have gone the way of the nickel phone call.
In fact, talking on the phone is practically obsolete. If you want to talk to your kids or grandkids, you better know how to text.
Sean Sullivan was flabbergasted to learn the rotary pay phone was actually older than his grandfather. Like beauty, new is in the eye of the beholder.
The world I grew up in is vanishing. I accept that because the world is always vanishing. It just happens faster now.
Each new software download enables the next new software upgrade and the endless race to maintain state of the art continues unabated.
Convinced the next big thing will be the answer to all our problems, technology has become a religion, the iChurch, with Saints Jobs and Gates and the Apostles Paul Allen and Steve Wozniak.
I like electricity and I'm a big fan of air-conditioning and refrigeration, so clearly I'm not anti-technology. But putting our faith in stuff is worshiping at the altar of a false god. Today's hippest smartphone is tomorrow's eight-track.
Doug McIntyre's column appears Sunday and Wednesday. He can be reached at: firstname.lastname@example.com


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We've written before about the controversial free-range parenting movement, including Take Your Kid to the Park…and Leave Them There Day. Now the woman behind the idea, Lenore Skenazy, is taking things to a new level. Yesterday, she held the first "I Won't Supervise Your Kids" class, where she charges parents $350 (she offers scholarships, and says parents don't have to pay a penny) to drop their kids off for an 8 week free-play class, where kids make their own fun in the beautiful outdoors, just like we did when we were kids, while she sits in a coffee shop nearby.
So how did it go? Did anyone show up? We reached out to Lenore to find out.
In the end, four kids attended, although three of them were friends. Nothing bad happened to them. She's not hopeful anyone will be there next week, but she'll show up just in case.
However, the media came out and helped her spread her message, which she summarized for us:
I really want parents to understand two things:
1. Free play is not a waste of time. It is as valuable as the other classes we put our kids in (and spend money on!).
2. Crime is lower today than when we were kids and our parents let us play outside without a security detail. Our parents knew that there were creeps around. They did not live in a bubble. That's why they told us, "don't take candy from strangers." But that knowledge did not mean that they never let us go outside on our own. Yhey had a grip -- they could keep their perspective that the odds were hugely in our favor, and they understood that part of the business of childhood IS to play. So they let us.
All I want is for us to give our kids the kind of freedom our parents gave us. And for today's parents to appreciate the fact that we are living in very safe times, rather than using "worst-first" thinking -- jumping to the worst-case scenario first and proceeding as if it's likely to happen. We THINK that's what a good parent does. I think a good parent trains her kids to be smart, savvy, good at crossing the street and great at standing up for themselves -- and then sends them out.
What do you think? Would you ever do it? Even if leaving your kid in Central Park alone is too extreme for you, do you agree with the idea that kids need more space and time to just play? Leave a comment.


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SHERMAN, TEXAS -- Sherman police say they might have their first case involving the synthetic drug -- bath salts.
Just a few weeks ago at Grayson College, a girl believed to be high on bath salts struggled with college cops, bit one and had to be tased.
The drug is called "bath salts" because it looks like the bath product.
Sherman police say the drug is illegal because the chemicals used to make it are also dangerous.
At 1 a.m. yesterday, Sherman police pulled over Christopher Puckett for not stopping at a stop sign.
They arrested him when they found a switchblade on him, but they also found a glass pipe and baggy full of what they believe could be bath salts.
Now, they want to spread the word about the dangers of the drug.
"The individual that possessed them possessed them on the belief that they were an illegal substance which I'm assuming that he believes them to be bath salts," Sherman Police Sargeant Bruce Dawsey said.
But the term bath salts can be confusing. The bath salts he's talking about is a potentially dangerous drug.
"Along the same lines as methamphetamine in other words, not a naturally occuring substance," Dawsey said.
Because of the chemicals used to make it, the drug is illegal.
"Possession of those chemical compounds are prohibited by law," Dawsey said.
Some are confusing the drug with actual products meant for use in a bath tub.
"Actually that's what I thought when I first heard about it that was the first thing that occurred to me was, 'Is it bath salts you can actually buy in a store?'" Women's Gift Exchange employee Vikki Buskirk said.
Vikki Buskirk sells locally made bath salts. She says she's concerned people will start buying the bath product thinking it's a drug.
"Become desperate and go into the store and buy regular bath salts and try to use them and, what damage might come from that?" Buskirk said.
"If someone actually went to Bath and Body Works and smoked bath salts purchased from there, if it would be any more harmful to them than the illegal bath salts substance?" Dawsey said.
Dawsey and Buskirk say there are minerals in non-drug bath salts that could also be dangerous.
"If they go to the store and they purchase spa-type bath salts and try to smoke it, it's going to make them sick if it doesn't put them in the hospital or kill them. It's the same way with the illegal substance," Dawsey said.
Dawsey says they're waiting for test results to determine whether the crystal substance on Puckett was actually the bath salts drug.
Non-drug bath salts retailers say the salts have a lot of minerals, which could be harmful if ingested.
For more information, visit these sites:
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There is a package in AUR:Template:Package AUR.
Or you can directly download the source from https://launchpad.net/mediawiki-el .
After you install the package from AUR, open your emacs configuration file (usually, Template:Filename) and add the following line in it.
(require 'mediawiki)
Then add the mediawiki sites to the configuration file. For example, the following line adds ArchWiki to it.
(setq mediawiki-site-alist (append '("ArchWiki" "https://wiki.archlinux.org/" "username" "password" "Main Page") mediawiki-site-alist))
Where Archwiki is the name for the site. https:/wiki.archlinux.org/ is the url of the site and username and password is your username and password of this site. Main Page is the default page opened when you connect to the site.
Other sites can also be added by append the configuration list to the list variable mediawiki-site-alist.
After the configuration, you can use emacs to edit the wiki pages directly. Open your emacs and do the following to connect to the site.
M-x mediawiki-site RET {site name} RET
Now that you are connected, the default page should be opened. If you would rather edit another page. do the following to open it.
M-x mediawiki-open RET {page title} RET
Some useful keybindings are:
- C-x C-s – save this page
- C-c C-c – save this page and bury the buffer
- C-return – open the page under point for editing
- TAB – go to the next wiki link
- M-n – next page in the page ring
- M-p – previous page in the page ring
- M-g – reload the current page
Now enjoy editing wiki pages in emacs!


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SAUGET, Ill. – Greenville baseball dismantled Webster University on Friday, May 4 at GCS Ball Park in Sauget, Ill. in an eight-inning, 11-1 blasting.
With the win the Black and Orange move to 13-8 in the SLIAC and eye a top seed in next week's SLIAC Tournament. GC capitalized early in the run-ruled contest and never looked back.
Two Gorlok miscues opened up the floodgates for a Greenville College five-run third inning as the visiting Panthers put on a show at GCS Ball Park. Greenville opened up an 11-0 lead before Webster broke the shutout with a lone tally in the eighth.
Greenville and Webster go right back at it, playing a double header in Greenville on May 5. The start time of those games has been moved back to 5:00 p.m. from noon. Greenville has recently installed lights for its field and will host the Gorloks in the first ever home night game for the Panthers.


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約 RedSparrow Fighter
About Red Sparrow
◎Apple App Store "best new game" featured
◎Mass 4.5 stars praise
◎Unity recommended
2017s first 3D competitive fighting mobile game, this is a novel game, combined RPG and competitive elements. You can earned high quality equipments through all the difficulties and develop your favorite characters to a fair fighting.
All the characters, actions, scenes and music are original, rich storylines Guide throughout the game, perfectly restored 1V1 FTG games played in the past, we also joined the original "red Sparrow" skills, show the players a new experience of fighting games
The《Red Sparrow》 game characters are all from top designer, the beautifully and delicate characters representing the currently popular "internationalization of China style" , which is attractive to global users.
For fighting games, character gameplay design is our focus, in the development plans, each character has a unique battle gameplay, it can be said that each character represent a whole new gaming experience.
The game features:
wealth of game characters, different story, experiencing twists and turns of the different characters life
Cool special effects, dazzling even strokes, experience the wonderful fighting show
Original operation, powerful ending, find back the happy memories of arcade games
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posted by Kroc Camen on Tue 28th Apr 2009 11:09 UTC
More banal banter of the binary kind; Oracle buys Sun, Yahoo pulls the plug on Geocities, the Acer Revo nettop and much-offtopicness as we discuss the recently announced Windows 7 "Classic" XP mode.
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Apologies up front of course for my innacuracies and poor quality audio. I have been rather unwell through the weekend and the show was recorded and edited late at night when I really needed to be in bed instead, to get up at 6am. Still, we suffer for your listening pleasure, readers!
Here's how the sound file breaks down:
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|"Windows 7 'Classic' XP Mode"
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Become a part of the El Search Party by choosing a character with your play style.
Play as a mad scientist whose robotic arsenal is almost unlimited,
or choose to be an angel sent by a Goddess on a mission to stop the world's destruction.
Make your character like you or a totally different person and start your journey!
Much of the beauty of Elsword is found in its lore. Unfold the events that led up to the great adventure you're about to embark!
Birth of the Goddess / The Continent of Elrios
In the beginning, there lived the god of Darkness, Henir, and the Goddess of light, Elia. When Elia created the material realm, the demon realm's creation followed as a result. The Goddess Elia tasked the Goddess Ishmael to become a steward of the material world.
There was darkness in the material world that Chaos was born out of it. To protect the material realm, the Goddess Ishmael sent a huge gem in the heart of the continent. Soon after, the continent thrived with life and became a place of abundance. The ocean became alive, a river began to flow into the forests giving it life. People and animals appeared to relish in the energy of the revived lands.
The gem would shine and give energy all around. People would come from many different places to admire the gem they would call El – the land it revived would be named Elrios.
The Monster Outbreak and the Elian
The Elrios continent became a prosperous land but it still had traces of its influences from the Demon realm. In a dark forest, just North of where the El had settled, a dark energy seeped through the gap in the dimension and turned the creatures in the forest into monsters. One day when a large amount of dark energy was seeping rampantly, these monsters came out of the forest to attack the people.
When the citizens became paralyzed in fear, a general with an emblem of the Sun rallied his army against the monsters to defeat them. He seemed to be knowledgeable in harnessing the El's power to fight. After that fateful event, more and more people who could harness the power of the El appeared. The Goddess Ishmael granted the power to control El to the children of those who settled near it. The common people started following them and turned them into leaders. These people have come to be known as Ellians.
Nasod and the El Lady
Under the guidance of the Ellians, civilization has flourished. The Ellians started teaching people how to properly harness the amazing powers of El. And this prosperous period was known as the brilliant Ellian Civilization.
From this civilization, people called the Debrians appeared. These were the great minds who were able to overcome their lack of ability to manipulate the El through mechanical means. Among the Debrians, a genius named Adrian Nasod was the most prominent. He used code to create an El energy device with the ability to move on its own. These devices were called the Nasods. And with further development, central AI's called Adam and Eve and other 2nd generation Nasods were created.
The Debrians and the Nasods would create great cities like Elianode and Elysion.
The greed of humans has caused the El's power to go dark as it slowly deteriorated. In order to protect the Nasods, Adam started a war with the humans. But this Nasod War ended swiftly when the humans drained the Nasods of their El energy which caused Adam to cease functioning.
The El was at its breaking point due to the constant harnessing of its power but with the help of a lady possessing Ishmael's power, she was able to restore the El. Life slowly returned and the people started to venerate the El Lady.
El Masters
The civilizations finally started to preserve the power of El that the El Lady restored. Masters were chosen to govern the El and in turn they would find a new El Lady to watch over it.
The first master, Master of Fire is 'Rosso.'
The power of fire is the power of passion, and there is joy to prevent the strength of the fire from overflowing.
The second master, Master of Earth is 'Gaia.'
He possesses the warmth and richness of the land and protects the continent of Elrios.
The third master, Master of Water is 'Denif.'
A combination of coolness and intelligence controls the sea so that it does not overflow onto the land.
The fourth master, Master of Wind is 'Ventus.'
The power of the wind energy keeps the universe in motion.
The fifth master, Master of the Sun is 'Solace.'
Elrios was revived due to the power of life and the birth of the sun's power.
The sixth master, Master of the Moon is 'Ebalon.'
The power of the moon gives the people of Elrios comfort and security. Each Master was endowed with different skills in order to use the El's power to govern Elrios. They circulate the El's energy to fertilize the land while calming the storm, thus giving rise to Nasod again.
Harmony Festival and The Last Day
In Elrios, a special event takes place once every 3 years. When the Sun and Moon become one, the sky will become dark and all living creatures spend this time to unwind and enjoy each other's company. The purpose of this event is to let the El's natural energy prosper and unite all; it was called the 'Harmony Festival.'
During the Harmony Festival, the El tower was attacked by Solace, the Master of the Sun. Solace felt sympathy for the lady who watches over the El, and so he went on a mission to free her. As the Festival continued, the El Lady and Solace had disappeared together.
Before the Harmony Festival came to an end, Solace's followers and those who had guarded the tower had gotten in a dispute. In the most horrendous hours, the El which had been deserted by the El Lady was very unstable and could not overcome the turmoil. A tremendous uproar ensued and explosions erupted everywhere. The El exploded into tiny shards that had been misplaced all over the Elrios continent.
El Explosion
A large explosion has caused the El to break into millions of pieces. With the shards dispersed across the whole continent, the Nasod and human civilizations were slowly disappearing.
Survivors of the aftermath could only stay where chunks of El Shards can be found. This caused the people to split up into different parts of the continents where large shards were. Soon, many earthquakes would split up the land into two and would continue for several months. The remaining masters have settled near large El shards to protect it and restore power to the El.
The Kingdom became overrun with wicked beings that steal the El Shards and kill those who protect it.
This is where your story will begin…
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Take advantage of this system that greatly benefits new players,
and maybe even build lasting friendship with your mentor.
Partying with your mentor will give you up to 100% BONUS EXP
Enjoy many exclusive quests for the Mentoring System that gives following rewards
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Contains 20 Resurrection Stones
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Removes Curse, Fire, Poison effects
and recovers HP/MP
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Anchor Inn, Fore Street, Beer, Seaton, Devon, EX12 3ET
Room Reservations: 0845 60 86 040
Restaurant & Events: 01297 20386
Email: email@example.com
The Anchor Inn Hotel in Beer, Seaton
Overlooking the bay of the village of Beer, the Anchor Inn is a small and cosy seaside escape, with 6 recently refurbished bedrooms.
Ideal for keen walkers, it's located on the 95-mile-long Jurassic Coast, England's first natural World Heritage Site. With sea views from every room, the hotel also offers fresh, locally caught fish as part of its daily specials, to be enjoyed in the restaurant, before taking in the views from the cliff-top beer garden.
Food served 7am–10pm Mon-Fri, 8am–10pm Sat-Sun
Last check in is 11pm
Double x 3
Superior x 1
Twin x 2
Beer Quarry Caves – 1.1 miles
Seaton Tramway – 2miles
Pecorama – 0.5 miles
Sidmouth Donkey Sanctuary – 5.9 miles
Lyme Regis Marine Aquarium – 9.8 miles
Escot Park and Gardens – 13 miles
Axe Cliff Golf Club – 2.4 miles
Jurassic Coast
Postcode; EX12 3ET
The hotel is on the seafront, just by the slipway
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Notice to Members 05-78
SEC Approves Amendments to the OATS Rules
On September 28, 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved amendments to Rules 6950 through 6957 (OATS Rules) relating to the Order Audit Trail System (OATS).1 The amendments to the OATS Rules: (1) implement the OATS reporting requirements for manual orders (OATS Phase III); (2) provide that members are required to capture and report the time the order is received by the member from the customer for all orders; (3) expand the order transmittal requirements to include orders routed to a member's trading desk or trading department; (4) exclude certain members from the definition of "Reporting Member" for those orders that meet specified conditions and are recorded and reported to OATS by another member; and (5) permit NASD to grant exemptive relief from the OATS reporting requirements in certain circumstances to members that meet specified criteria.
The OATS Rules, as amended, are set forth in Attachment A of this Notice. In this Notice, NASD also is publishing information regarding the registration requirements for OATS reporting, as well as questions and answers regarding the application of the amended OATS reporting requirements. The amended OATS reporting requirements and OATS Phase III become effective May 8, 2006. In addition, NASD is publishing revised OATS Reporting Technical Specifications, incorporating the amendments described herein. The OATS Reporting Technical Specifications can be found on NASD's Web site at Regulatory Systems > OATS > Technical Specifications.
Questions regarding this Notice may be directed to the Legal Section, Market Regulation, at (240) 386-5126; or Office of General Counsel, Regulatory Policy and Oversight, at (202) 728-8071. For technical questions regarding OATS reporting, please contact the OATS Help Desk at (800) 321-NASD.
1 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 52521(September 28, 2005), 70 FR 57909 (October 4, 2005) (File No. SR-NASD-00-23).


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Scripting SSH and SFTP Made Easy With Python
Secure, Automated SSH and SFTP Sessions
SSH is an indispensable tool that I use every day for file transfers, remote execution of tasks, setting up network port redirection between systems (tunneling), and securely driving a shell on a remote system. While the SSH commandline client on UNIX and Linux systems is how I interact most often with SSH servers on the remote end, there are times when it is helpful to script some action or series of actions rather than performing them interactively.
Installation of paramiko is pretty simple. If you're using Ubuntu or Debian, installation is a simple "sudo apt-get install python-paramiko" command in a terminal. If you aren't using Ubuntu or Debian, you can check to see if your system provides a package for paramiko. If it doesn't, then you can always use easy_install: "sudo easy_install paramiko".
After installing, the next step is to create an SSHClient object and connect it to an SSH server. I've created a module named "ssh_common.py" that contains a function to connect to a specific server on my network and then return an "ssh" object.
#!/usr/bin/env pythonimport paramiko
from contextlib import contextmanagerhost = '192.168.10.142'
username = 'slacker'
password = 'insecure'@contextmanager
def create_ssh(host=host, username=username, password=password):
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The first couple of lines are imports: one for "paramiko" and another for "contextlib". "paramiko" contains all of the SSH code that we'll use. "contextlib" contains code that helps setup a context manager in a very simple way. Context managers are a fairly new feature to Python. I won't go into great detail in describing them here, but the gist of a context manager is that it allows you to create some resource that you can use in a "with" code block. It performs some initialization code before the "with" block is entered and then runs some finalization code after the "with" block is completed. I am using a context manager with an SSH connection because I know that before I use the connection, I need it to login to the server and after I get done with it, I want it to close.
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After the imports, I set "host", "username", and "password" variables that the "create_ssh()" function will pick up by default. While this function will pick these values up by default, you can certainly override one or all of them if you import the module and call the function yourself.
Next, I define the function "create_ssh()" that I just mentioned. I set a "contextmanager" decorator on "create_ssh()" so that it can be used as a context manager. Inside "create_ssh()", I create an "SSHClient" object and refer to it as "ssh". I then set a host key policy to automatically accept host keys from any host it connects to. If you are concerned with security, you'll want to change this behavior so that it is not quite so permissive.
Next, I create a try/finally block. In the try/finally block, I connect to the specified server and then login. After connecting, I "yield" the "ssh" object. A context manager executes the code up to the point of "yield" before anything else in the "with" block. (I'll get to an example of the "with" block in the next code example.)
In the "finally" block, I simply "close()" the connection. A context manager executes the code after the "yield" after everything else in the "with" block has run. In this case, it will execute the "finally" block even if an exception is raised when the "ssh" object is used. Note that before and after creating the connection and closing it, I have placed "print" statements to detail what is going on in the code.
Here is a very simple example that creates a "with" block and uses the "ssh" object:
#!/usr/bin/env pythonfrom __future__ import with_statement
import ssh_commonwith ssh_common.create_ssh() as ssh:
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All that I do in this example is to get an "ssh" object from the "create_ssh()" function in the "with" statement and then print the "ssh" object.
Here is the output from running this simple code:
jmjones: python_ssh$ python simple_connect.py
creating connection
closing connection closed
You can see that the pre- and post- "yield" statements ran before and after the print statement that displayed the "ssh" object. This means that the "ssh" object was initialized before any code ran in the "with" block and it was finalized after the code ran inside the "with" block.
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Database experts build a database appliance that delivers superior usability, reliability, and performance with Fusion ioMemory PCIe cards.
The Challenge
Having spent his entire 30-year career in database administration, database development, and the database administration industry, Alex Alexander, Co-founder and CEO of SpringbokSQL noticed that DBAs perform many redundant tasks when rolling out a new project. They are constantly building, sizing, and deploying database servers and looking for better I/O, all with limited time and personnel.
"A typical company, instead of going with the biggest pipe, doesn't worry about the pipe," notes Alexander. "So they do everything else but open the pipe. But the only thing they don't think about is getting a bigger pipeline. So what companies usually end up doing is settling for less."
Alexander points out that in computing infrastructure, there are generally two types of server categories, the application server and the database server, but server hardware is typically very generic and not optimized for either the application or database processing. SpringbokSQL focuses specifically on the database server, which is unique and highly dependent on I/O performance—input and output operations per second. Database servers should be developed in a fundamentally different way from application servers because of the database server's critical reliance on I/O.
Alexander suggests that the entire database is only as fast as the system's I/O allows; frequently a company's biggest architecture bottleneck is I/O performance: "The SpringbokSQL idea was born based on this premise—the creation of a database appliance—a server or machine, which is specifically optimized for the database workload, which are heavily I/O-intensive." The idea was to conduct testing and benchmarking to determine how to build the fastest possible hardware that is optimized for database processing. Therefore, the entire machine is built solely for database throughput and high availability.
"Companies spend a lot of time worrying about the CPU capacity, worrying about the memory capacity," said Alexander. "But the single most important component when it comes to database throughput is I/O—how fast you can store and retrieve the data from the database. And the faster you can do it, the faster your application becomes. So in order to build the fastest possible database machine, you have to figure out the fastest possible way to connect your I/O to your server—and PCIe flash devices are the fastest way to connect your I/O to your servers today." Since, according to Alexander, a database is only as fast as the system's I/O allows, databases should be sized from the I/O to the CPU and memory, not vice versa.
"Suppose a company is planning to roll out an online dating site or some kind of gaming site," suggests Alexander. "You invite a database architect, because you want to build the fastest user experience possible. Today's users are very impatient. We would like to see the results refreshing pretty much instantaneously. This performance is delivered by front-end applications in, by and large, the database server. Because whatever you do, you're always storing or retrieving the data." However, in a typical company setting, system architects are not given six months to a year to extensively test every available I/O or server configuration option. SpringbokSQL sought to solve that problem and prevent DBAs from wasting time with endless cycles of database sizing and tuning, trying to achieve a performance- optimized database solution.
Testing PCIe Flash Memory Options
Alexander wanted to build a database appliance that delivered superior usability, reliability, and performance. To address usability the SpringbokSQL database appliance was designed to allow for seamless integration into customers' existing infrastructure without disrupting business-critical operations. To solve the challenges of reliability and performance SpringbokSQL focused on PCIe flash devices.
"In doing our research to develop the fastest database appliance possible, we figured out that the best way to connect I/O to our appliance is by using PCIe flash memory. Once we determined this, the next iteration was to seek out every possible PCIe vendor on the market, perform benchmarks on the devices, and evaluate the result," said Alexander. "We wanted to select one vendor that we could work with— a partner who would listen to our feedback and optimize the technology based on our feedback."
There is a sea of various options when it comes to SSDs or PCIe flash memory. During the eight-month testing period, SpringbokSQL tested nearly every possible PCIe vendor on the market with benchmarks primarily focused on database-specific tests executed on multiple databases—PostGIS/PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. For testing scenarios, Springbok selected five real-world issues that companies are struggling with on a daily basis and performed these specific tests with the database I/O.
SpringbokSQL focused squarely on customer pain points. Number one on the list was a replication of the slave log. Companies have a master database and slave databases. When capacity and transactions increase, the slave databases start falling behind, primarily because of memory limitations. "Companies then figure they should have more servers processing these transactions," said Alexander. "What they actually do, though, is complicate the server infrastructure. However, the problem is only solved if you find the fastest I/O, so the slave just never falls behind. And essentially, this is why our first series of tests that we published was purely focused on replication performance. We staged the test by intentionally stopping the slaves and then powering them up after a certain time lag to see which one could catch up first. And in our tests, PCIe flash devices from SanDisk—the Fusion ioMemoryTM SX300 PCIe Application Accelerator—was the fastest possible configuration for our customers to use."
The Solution
The SpringbokSQL appliance was born to address a gap in the marketplace. According to Alexander, the appliance is both very fast and very reliable. "I always want to strive for perfection," he said.
A plug-and-play solution, the SpringbokSQL appliance saves customers the effort of undergoing months' worth of research and testing. "This appliance reduces your deployment time," said Alexander. "You can literally be up and running with this database in a matter of a few days, without months and months of research and testing. Customers can purchase the appliance and fast forward to having the fastest possible throughput." The SpringbokSQL appliance, offered in a compact 1U configuration, also saves rack space and energy and can replace the workload previously performed by multiple servers.
In order to simplify the architecture and administration, SpringbokSQL removed all moving parts, including all spinning disks. All data resides on PCIe flash devices, which makes it very reliable. In fact, SpringbokSQL appliances are NEBS Level 3 certified so they can be deployed in mobile transport environments, such as on ships or moving trucks.
When deploying SpringbokSQL appliances, customers can easily select their configuration. Customers no longer need to worry about how many cores, or RAM they have, but focus only on how much database capacity they need. SpringbokSQL database appliances are available in three configurations: 1.5TB; 3TB; and 6TB. On the back end, SpringbokSQL deploys Fusion ioMemory SX300 PCIe Application Accelerators, which come in several capacities in a low-profile form factor allowing SpringbokSQL to scale appliance capacity to fit end user requirements. As SpringbokSQL's extensive competitive testing showcased, theFusion ioMemory SX300 PCIe Application Accelerator is optimized for the mixed workloads that the SpringbokSQL database appliance addresses and is capable of delivering low latency performance and hundreds of thousands of IOPs.
The Results
Most database servers are running today at 10,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS). However, SpringbokSQL was able to achieve up to 800,000 IOPS with the Fusion ioMemory SX300 PCIe Application Accelerator during their performance tests.
After having built the SpringbokSQL database appliance that was his brainchild—a product he had considered for a decade—Alexander received a telling compliment from a client. "He literally told me, 'Alex, if your product was in the Olympics, I would worry about it getting tested for steroids.' This is how fast it was. At the customer site, in replication tests, our appliance was able to catch up with the master database within four hours. It took the database server provided by the hosting company five days to accomplish that same task," explained Alexander. "You can see the massive difference between four hours and five days—this is the type of performance that we can deliver today in cooperation with SanDisk."
In addition, Alexander pointed out that the appliance is a small footprint, saving both energy and rack space. It is easy to deploy, easy to maintain, low energy consuming, and ultimately, very reliable.
After every product iteration of the SpringbokSQL appliance—even once Alexander has deemed it at a level of 'perfection,'—SpringbokSQL asks, "What else can we improve?"
Alex Alexander CEO and Co-Founder, SpringbokSQL
Changing the Role of the Database Administrator
SpringbokSQL is proud that their appliance contributes to a more exciting career for database architects and administrators. Deployment of the SpringbokSQL appliance relieves DBAs of low-level tasks, such as database sizing and testing. Instead, administrators can focus on learning more about database features, enhancing logical database design, and improving application features and performance. The SpringbokSQL database appliance handles the performance, availability, and reliability of their backend infrastructure, freeing DBAs to focus on more critical aspects of their role.
Partnership with SanDisk
SpringbokSQL selected SanDisk as their vendor based on their extensive tests. However, Alex Alexander was also looking to partner with a company with longevity, continuity, and a history of flash memory know-how. Alexander notes that, since SanDisk has been a flash memory company throughout its history, the Company has greatly contributed to PCIe flash design: "SanDisk was the first company who actually listened to our feedback. They made improvements to the device configuration, so we started using that solution in our configuration. In addition, the people I established a relationship with initially are still onboard. I think the best thing about SanDisk is continuity. From the moment we had a relationship, it continued. We had the same people involved. I think, together, in cooperation, we developed something really valuable. I think this is a very good partnership."
SanDisk took a very unique approach. Since SanDisk was already a veteran of the flash memory business, augmenting hardware with the Non-Volatile Memory File System (NVMFS)—a specialized file system to optimize PCIe product performance— was a natural next step. SanDisk refined their specialized flash-optimized file system to improve performance capabilities of Fusion ioMemory PCIe devices in MySQL database deployments. "Not only did the appliance become faster than anything out there on the market, but also we enhanced it even further, by deploying SanDisk's NVMFS file system for database performance," said Alexander.
He continued, "SpringbokSQL is a software and a hardware company. SanDisk is a software and hardware company too. Not only do we have the fastest possible PCIe flash device at our disposal, but also SanDisk developed a file system for this PCIe flash device. So that combination created the fastest possible throughput."
Alexander believes that deploying a product other than SanDisk results in using a file system that is not optimized for PCIe flash: "That's the uniqueness of SanDisk. Not only do you have a hardware device, along with their experience in flash device design, but also the hardware is mated to the file system that SanDisk developed."
Future plans
SpringbokSQL will continue to build appliances in cooperation with SanDisk. "Our next generation of appliances will be liquid cooled to reduce energy consumption by at least 400%. We plan to reduce the footprint by as much as 10 times the current configuration. We strongly believe that liquid-cooled computing is the future of technology and our biggest goal right now is to bring supercomputing technology down to the 'average' company, delivering the ultimate in reliability and performance."
"I strongly believe that the partnership between SpringbokSQL and SanDisk has a very bright future. I feel very passionate about computing myself. We continue to innovate. We're going to keep pushing forward and keep delivering faster performance, better reliability, smaller footprint, less energy consumption. We're going to change computing."
About Springbok SQL
SpringbokSQL, Inc. manufactures a database appliance and load balancer. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Henderson, Nevada. SpringbokSQL's solutions make it easy for companies to grow and scale database architectures, saving thousands of dollars in labor and hardware costs. The Company has succeeded in designing and deploying the fastest, most available database environments. The Springbok SQL database appliance is a pre-packaged or pre-configured, balanced set of hardware, software, service, and support. The appliance is sold as a unit with built-in redundancy for high availability and positioned as a platform for DBMS use in online transaction processing (OLTP) and/or data warehousing.
سواءً كنت ضمن أكبر 500 شركة عالميًا أو كنت شركة ناشئة من خمسة أفراد، فإن SanDisk لديها الحلول التي ستساعدك للحصول على أقصى أداء من بنيتك الأساسية.
سواءً كنت ترغب في طرح بعض الأسئلة الأولية أو كنت مستعدًا لمناقشة أحد حلول SanDisk المخصصة بحسب احتياجات مؤسستك، فإن فريق مبيعات SanDisk على أهبة الاستعداد لمساعدتك.
سنسعد بالرد على أسئلتك، لهذا يرجى ملء النموذج أدناه بحيث يمكننا البدء.
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Rochester senior Edith Hanson, who will graduate with dual majors in Japanese and computer science and a minor in history, was named a Fulbright alternate to South Korea. Rising junior Adam Russak was chosen to participate in the 2012 Fulbright US-UK Summer Institute, where he will spend six weeks studying at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Russak, a native of Agoura Hills, Calif., is completing a bachelor of science degree in applied math and also doing a minor in classical civilization.
Dundas, who will graduate on May 20 with a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology from the College, will spend a month in Katmandu, undergoing extensive training in the Nepali language and honing her teaching skills. During her eight-month stay in Nepal, she hopes to volunteer in a local health clinic or assist in research and community projects, in addition to her teaching assistantship.
For Dundas, the Fulbright is an opportunity to build upon experiences she had working with and studying Nepali refugees in America during summer 2011. Dundas, who was awarded an Anthropology Undergraduate Research Grant, worked with newly settled Bhutanese refugees during an internship with the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program. Dundas lived with a Nepali family originally from Bhutan, serving as an in-home English tutor. During the summer, she also used her research grant to study newly formed agricultural projects that help refugees and immigrants acclimate to the United States. Both experiences will help inform her honor's thesis, which explores the American experience of Nepali refugees.
For Dundas, traveling to Nepal as a Fulbright is not her first international education experience. She also studied abroad in Cape Town, South Africa, as a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholar and also received an IES Africa Scholarship. During her time in South Africa, she worked in impoverished Cape Flat communities, teaching English as a Second Language to nine through 12-year-olds.
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The beauty of a deck is that — unlike bare ground or lawn — it's level, stable, supports furniture, sheds rain and provides usable living space. Building a deck, however, requires more skill and understanding of construction principles than, say, building a patio. The simplest deck, called an on-grade deck, typically requires the installation of concrete piers to which beams and joists are attached. The perimeter joists, called rim joists, are doubled and then covered with trim boards.
Depending on climate, the piers may need to be set on a footing that is several feet below grade. Check with your building department to find out what the code is in your area. Proper footings prevent the deck from "heaving" should the ground freeze. Framing hardware, such as post bases and joist hangers, are used to join all framing members. Decking (what you walk on) is fastened to the joists with screws or nails from the top, or with "invisible" fasteners from below.Such a deck will probably be less than a foot off the ground and therefore will not require railings or stairs, both of which complicate construction significantly. A door to the house will also complicate things. If it's a step above the decking, you're in luck. If you have to build one, two or three steps to reach the door, you'll also probably want to include a landing to make entering and exiting the house safer and easier.
If the deck is adjacent to the house, it will require a ledger board. Typically, siding is removed, and the ledger board is bolted to the house framing. Flashing should then be installed so that rain and snowmelt don't enter the joint between the ledger and house. If the deck is a freestanding "island" deck, there is no ledger board.
The higher a deck is off the ground, the more complex it is to design and build. Suddenly, you have to decide from which approach, or approaches, you'd like to access the deck. Skirting or landscaping must be used to hide the framing that supports the joists. Also, stair railings and balustrades must be built, adding to the cost and complexity.
Building a deck can greatly enhance the enjoyment of your yard, but it requires planning every step before pulling out your circular saw and nail gun. The nice thing about getting a deck under your belt, however, is that you'll learn skills that will help when building many other projects, including garden sheds, porches, arbors and gazebos.
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Skanzen - Open Air Museum
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The aim of founding the Szentendre Open Air Museum was to present folk architecture, interior decoration, farming and way of life in the Hungarian language area from the 2nd half of the 18th century to the 1st half of the 20th century, through original and authentic objects, relocated houses arranged in old settlement patterns.
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Derry police plan to fill vacancy from withinBy HUNTER MCGEE
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DERRY — Derry police will look from within the department to fill a vacancy created by the departure of a longtime lieutenant who recently became Fremont's new police chief.
After working 28 years for the Derry Police Department, Lt. Jon Twiss left and began serving earlier this month as Fremont's chief. Fremont selectmen appointed Twiss last month to the part-time post that pays a salary of $53,000 a year.
Derry police plan to replace Twiss from within the department, said Derry Police Capt. Vernon Thomas. Following Twiss' departure, Derry is down from five to four lieutenants.
"It is our plan to replace him," Thomas said. "We have a process that will take place in September."
Beginning next month, police administrators will look from among the eight sergeants on staff to fill the post, he said. And once the lieutenant's job is filled, it will in turn create a need to fill the vacant sergeant's post from the remaining officers on board, Thomas said.
"This will be an opportunity for several people who have experience and are interested in getting promoted," Thomas said.
Of the department's five lieutenant positions, one is in administration, another in the detective division and three are in patrol, he said.The open position is in administration and is a Monday through Friday job, making it more attractive to sergeants who are working some weekend shifts, he added.The lieutenant job pays a salary of about $70,0000 a year.
To attract the right candidates for the job, the department is willing to offer the relatively higher paying salary, Thomas said, adding that it is difficult to find qualified applicants without providing a salary of that scale.
It is a lot of money in a difficult economy, but those chosen for the position will earn every dollar, Thomas said.
"We make sure the officers earn it each day," Thomas said. "The job is not like any other. They make split-second decisions that get evaluated by others for months, perhaps years."


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Small-business people in the area are invited to attend four weekly two-hour sessions, which will focus on topics to increase productivity and strategically plan for future success.
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Since 2005, My Small Business 101 has provided training to more than 60 businesses.
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There is no cost for the series, which will be held at Clarkson University in Bertrand H. Snell Hall Room 214 from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, January 21 through February 11.
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Ray Wieczorek: Joe Kenney is the man for the jobBY RAY WIECZOREK
March 09. 2014 4:09PM
Let's start out by saying what Joe Kenny is; he is an American hero who has spent more than 30 years defending this country as a Lt. Colonel In the U.S. Marine Corps. Joe has served in war zones, including both Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to Joe's exemplary military career, Joe has served the citizens of his community and the citizens of New Hampshire on the Wakefield Board of Selectmen (including as chairman of the board), in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. Joe Kenney is about public service.
I also knew Ray Burton well, having served with him for nearly 11 years on the Executive Council. Ray served the people of the 1st District well for the 35 years he was their executive councilor. Although nobody will take Ray Burton's place, the person who will fill his shoes needs to be able to commit the time and have the right experience required to perform the job. The person who has the available time and experience is Joe Kenney. Joe has been personally endorsed by Ray Burton in his previous runs for both the Senate and governor, so along with the many endorsements Joe has, he also has the past endorsement of Ray Burton himself. When Joe Kenney was on the ballot, Ray Burton endorsed him because Joe shared many of the same values that Ray had, and Joe always had his constituents' needs at the top of his list.
Having served on the Executive Council for 11 years, I know that to properly do the job, you need to devote a lot of time to reviewing the many important items that come before the governor and Executive Council at their meetings. You also need to be available and responsive to your constituents. Joe has the time and experience to properly do this job.
Being an executive councilor requires skills in making decisions that affect many lives. With his military experience and his State House experience, Joe is the only candidate who brings these qualities and will be ready to go from Day One. The district needs someone who can begin helping people Day One.
I would like to ask the voters of the 1st District to join me in supporting Joe Kenney for the open seat to fill the remaining portion of Ray Burton's term on the Executive Council.
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Terramar Helix T-Shirt - Lightweight, UPF 25+, Short Sleeve (For Men)
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Closeouts. Terramar's Helix T-shirt is every athlete's dream because it's designed to respond to your body's temperature. Innovative EC2® Qwik-Dri® micropolyester accelerates evaporation as your temperature rises, keeping you comfortable and perspiration free.
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I am sorry I did not order more. I am really sorry I did not order more.
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Thru hike ShirtVerified Buyer Reviewed by Charles from dallas on Sunday, September 30, 2018I have tried 10 different shirts and chosen this one for my thru hike. At 4.3oz for the large, it's 1.4oz heavier than the Patigonia Capilene ultralight. Not even considering the cost difference. This is a better shirt for me. The helix is much more comfortable and worth the extra weight. It's also pretty durable. I am an ounce counter. It was an easy decision. I have 4 or 5 other Terramar pieces I am bringing. Terramar stacked against whatever else I could find, and afford (not Arcterex). Wins fair and square most of the time. They have a lot of really good products.
Terramar's Helix T-shirtVerified Buyer Reviewed by KTM525 from NE GA on Thursday, September 13, 2018Great shirt! I am ordering more.
Love it!Verified Buyer Reviewed by MikeTRx from Austin, TX on Friday, August 24, 2018This shirt is so lightweight you hardly know you are wearing it. Fit is not skin tight but not baggy either. It does a great job of wicking and keeping you cool(er).
Nice TVerified Buyer Reviewed by Allen from Okinawa on Wednesday, August 22, 2018Good looking t-shirt, very light and comfortable. Fits nicely, not too baggy and not "body mapping". Gunmetal is a great color, too.
Breathable shirtVerified Buyer Reviewed by RonP from NC on Monday, July 16, 2018Soft and lightweight. Oddly, I had ordered a large and x-large and both fit about the same. The large was accidental.
Comfortable active shirt, Great!Verified Buyer Reviewed by Mangoberry from MA on Monday, July 9, 2018I bought a blue color. The shirt is comfortable to wear and the color is solid. If you don't care about brand name, this would be an alternative. Good quality with great price!
Excellent for gymVerified Buyer Reviewed by Gary from Tennessee on Friday, June 15, 2018Just what I was looking for. Very comfortable, cool, quick-drying, nice fit.
My favorite go-to T-ShirtVerified Buyer Reviewed by Frankenbiker from Virginia on Wednesday, June 13, 2018I love the 3D weave that provides a wicking action for sweat, however this means it snags really easily. But just don't go running through a rose garden and you'll be okay!
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"A current color sample looks deep purple but the shirt I received is bright blue (which I see now is the label on the purple swatch)."
Very true. I was in the same boat and I took two things into consideration. First, I didn't mind if the shirt was a bright blue (really a dark bright blue, if that makes sense), so I thought I would gamble and see if it really was purple, like in the picture. It isn't. Secondly, these shirts are an absolute steal at this price for a moisture wicking shirt, so it wasn't that big of a deal to me. I didn't get a purple shirt like the picture, but I got a nice blue shirt like advertised.
What's your question?
Always read description carefully especially on closeout items! perhaps the company didn't have correct color swatch to display, but I do like the performance of these shirts.
Sorry, I have purchased neither color. That said, what I have purchased made by this brand has been first class. My favorites are the Dri-Release shirts;
very comfortable.
i'm not sure what the question is...
A long sleeve that I bought looked like a cool almost pink color, but when I got it, it was an orange tee. That specific color I did buy and on my monitor it did look purple but like you said the color description was blue.
I see no question mark, so this sounds more like a statement. I cannot answer a statement.
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"I'm colorblind. I have one of these shirts in "Cypress" which I haven't seen for quite some time. However, the "brick" offering appears to me to be the same color, but I have always associated brick with red. So...is it red or green? Thanks!"
Hi...I don't remember doing a review on these, but I can tell you that the Brick is definitely not green. It is a red-like color with rust shade (a bit like a muted orange/red). Good luck!
Just checked out the color samples of this fantastic t-shirt. Cypress is typically light blue (not listed in samples).
Brick appears to be a dark orange/pale red. By the way, nice choice of T-shirt. I bought several of these, my husband loves them.
Hope this helps.
Brick is an orange/red color.
Well, I got one in steel blue and its a little lighter than the color on the website. But for your case, I'd say the brick does look like a dark orange-red. But if it looks like the cypress to you, then get the brick! I'm not sure if this is helpful for what you're asking, but I hope so!
In taking a look at the colors, it appears to me that the color brick looks more like a copper color or more dark orange. So neither red or green. The lava color looks brighter orange than the bright orange color, and the bright orange color looks red. So it would appear that the people at Terramar could be color blind too. I hope this helps.
There is no "Cypress" color option for this tee. If you mean "Citrus," I find it to be an unappetizing shade of green. I greatly would prefer "Olive." On the other hand, "Brick" is a darker shade of "Orange"--an entirely different color than "Citrus." I do things the easy way, wearing "Black" only. Do not know if this piece of information is of any use to you, but the easiest way by far to remember the colors of the spectrum is to memorize the name of Mr. Roy G. Biv--red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. All shades of color derive from these "majors." White is the absence of color. Black is, well, I forgot that part of my junior-high-school chemistry class....
I am not aware that there is a "cypress" color for this shirt. There is a "citrus" which is a sort of lime green, however, I am not seeing "cypress as a color option.
the brick color on the website looks a little Red/Orange, but I would imagine to usually mean red. It may look more red than the web photo, but I would guess cypress to be green. Hope this helps
The Brick is an ORANGE/RED color, it is a deep reddish/orange hue. Hope this helps. My husband LOVES this shirt, it s light weight, and really does whisk the perspiration away. He wore it in the Caribbean on a hike to the top of one of the Mayan Ruins, a strenuous hike.
"Are the colors 'lava (07)' and 'bright orange (15)' correctly displayed in this listing? Seems to me 'lava' should be darker and redder than 'bright orange,' but on this page 'bright orange' isn't bright at all. It's more of a tomato red, whereas the picture for 'lava' looks like what I would describe as bright orange."
"Can anyone specify the length and the width of sizes L and XL? thanks."
Chest size for a size large is 42" and length is 29". For the size XL the chest is 46" and the length is also 29".
"Can a logo be adhered to this shirt for our company?"
I would recommend contacting a few screen printing companies and seeing if they can work with 100% micropolyester. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
"Im looking for shirt with a roomy fit, does this one fit the bill?"
I'm 6 feet, 200lbs with a 34 inch waist. The shirt is neither too tight or too baggy for me.
No it is not a roomy fit. Recommend ordering the other Terramar Dri-Release instead. Much better fit and more comfortable.
"how much does this shirt weigh?"
The Helix T-shirt weighs 3.9oz. Have a great day.
very light; didn't weight it. it will be a backpacking short for me.
3.7 oz I believe.
"Do they come in ladies sizes also do they come in long sleeves and singlets? Debby"
They do come in ladies sizes, but unfortunately they do not come in singlets. Here is a link for the shirt.|http://www.sierratradingpost.com/terramar-helix-t-shirt-upf-25-plus--short-sleeve-for-women~p~1505n/?filterString=search~terramar-helix-t-shirt-for-women%2F&colorFamily=27
I bought one in a ladies size for my wife (different catalog nunmber). It is very form-fitting, but she described it as true to size otherwise. The man's XL fit is snug on me, too, but that's the way many wicking shirts are designed. Hope that helps.
"I will be in the Boundary Waters in September and need underwear that will dry quickly. Will this fill the need and if not can u recommend another brand that u carry?"
The T-shirt prevents moisture build up and therefore will dry quicker than a normal shirt.
Dear Pedro, I think these will do well you. They do dry quickly because of the open weave, but still trap some heat d/t being more porous next to the skin. Best.
This is definitely what you want. Dries very quickly.
"what chest size is a large"
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Leeland's run: A question of mental health treatment
April 08. 2013 7:45PM
Leeland Eisenberg, the man who took hostages at Hillary Clinton's Rochester campaign headquarters in 2007 by strapping flares to his body and threatening to blow himself up, walked out of a Manchester halfway house on Sunday. He was in a work release program because the state Department of Corrections deemed him no threat to the public. He was back in custody Monday.
We don't know whether Eisenberg is a threat. We do know that he considers himself at least a potential threat, which is why it is troubling that he was in a situation in which he could just walk away.
In a column submitted to this newspaper in February (but not published), Eisenberg wrote that he got excellent mental health care in prison and concluded that such treatment could prevent another Newtown.
"I'm Leeland Eisenberg, I know from where I speak," he wrote. "I am a state prisoner with mental illness and a receipient (cq) of this treatment, who's (cq) success will be measured by the harm I don't cause in the future."
The implication was clear: he would harm people if his treatment were unsuccessful. Is he a threat? Who knows? Unpredictable people act unpredictably. The more pressing question is: How effective is the mental health treatment for those who need it in prison and after release?


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SILVER SPRING, MD -- (Marketwire) -- 11/29/12 -- With families flocking into New York City for the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, it was the right time to signal a year-long campaign to save babies' lives, thought Scott Becker, executive director of the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL). Becker's group is partnering with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to raise awareness about newborn screening, a nationwide program that tests the 4 million babies born annually for dozens of potentially lethal genetic conditions.
"We typically don't speak with the 'loud voice' of CBS's jumbotron in Times Square," said Becker," but we're proud of our record -- 50 years saving babies' lives! And since the scientific invention that made the newborn screening test available to every baby, occurred right here in New York State, it seemed like a good place to announce the campaign."
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"We want parents to make sure their babies get the test, and that they take follow-through seriously if tests are positive. Sometimes all they need are a few words of wisdom from their healthcare provider. That's what this campaign is all about."
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So many good fiction stories begin with that question. What if – an Amish man were elected President of the United States? What if a campaign was run with honesty and integrity, if a candidate always answered reporters' questions with truth without considering what the impact might be on the polls? What if our nation returned to a common sense approach, and only spent the dollars it had to spend?
Josiah for President takes on those questions with a humorous look at the write in campaign of Josiah Stoltsfus, an Amish farmer from Lancaster County, PA.
The story begins with former Congressman Mark Stedman as he withdraws reluctantly from his Presidential race, his lifetime dream. He truly wants to turn the country around, from high unemployment, political apathy and discouragement. But he didn't get the poll numbers and he's heading home to Wisconsin when a few interesting interchanges with his GPS land him in a ditch on a remote farm in Lancaster. He becomes friends with Josiah, his rescuer and his respect for Josiah's way of life grows as they have many illuminating conversations. As Mark finally returns home, he is being pressured by his party to endorse his former opponent; a man he knows will be a terrible president. He finally ends up in front of the microphones to endorse someone...and surprises himself when he announces Josiah. What follows is a story that holds your attention and in true Martha Bolton style, provides some great giggles along the way.
I was intrigued by the idea of Josiah for President, and knowing it was written by the humorous Martha Bolton only added to my anticipation! I wasn't disappointed. You will be entertained but you will also be challenged; you may even begin to come up with a few more "what if's" of your own. As the country heads quickly towards another Presidential election in a climate similar to the setting in the story, being provoked to think more deeply can only be a good thing. I wonder if maybe that's what Martha had in mind all along?!
(I received a free copy of this book from Zondervan in exchange for my fair and honest review.)
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Tuesday's approval by the 27 member states came after pressure from the European Parliament, which had called foot-dragging on the issue shameful.
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Andrew McDiarmid is a "media relations specialist" at the Discovery Institute. He recently wrote to geologist Callan Bentley to ask permission to use a picture he took of a natural formation in an upcoming Stephen Meyer book. Callan quickly said no, telling McDiarmid:
I hold the Discovery Institute in the lowest regard, and it sounds like the new book will be a further perversion of reason in the name of pseudoscience. As a science educator, I could never support such an effort! I will not grant reproduction rights to any of my photos or drawings to any creationist effort such as the one you describe here.
Best wishes for your good health, and the speedy demise of the sham institution that employs you.
I'm sorry to learn that you do not support true freedom of scientific inquiry. As Charles Darwin himself stated, "A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question."
I only hope the materialist, reductionist scales fall off your eyes one day. Until then, I feel sorry for your students.
And I feel sorry for anyone who thinks that this has anything at all to do with the "true freedom of scientific inquiry." Callan isn't preventing Meyer from publishing his book. He isn't violating his "freedom" to do anything. He's just not letting him use the picture he took. Seriously, do Christian colleges have a class in martyrdom that is mandatory for all freshmen? Striking the Persecution Pose 101?


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