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The term revenue most commonly refers to Net Revenue but it can also be used as Gross Revenue.
Revenue is the total amount of money a company takes in before any expenses.
Net Revenue is the amount of a company's gross revenue plus all negative revenue items. For instance, in the retail industry, gross revenue includes all sales made by a retailer during the accounting period. Net revenue, however, will also exclude the costs associated with items like refunds on returned items, discounts and other negative sales revenue items.
Often times, net revenue can refer to revenue a company receives after it pays its partners. For example, Google (GOOG) arrives at net revenue by subtracting Traffic Acquisition Costs (TACs) from its gross revenue. TACs are comprised of payments made to its Adsense network partners (Google ads displayed on third-party websites are subject to a revenue sharing program), as well as fees related to non-conventional partnerships (such as Google being the first search engine listed in the Mozilla Firefox built-in search toolbar).
This is a subtle difference from Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) - in the case of TACs, these are costs directly related to generating revenue (which is then split between different partners). COGS, on the other hand, refers to overhead and "manufacturing" costs related to the production of goods sold. Analogously, Google's COGS would include expenses incurred in data center operations.
Ratio analysis can be implemented and utilised for the comparative measurement of financial data among several companies of the same industry to facilitate wise investment, as ratios in general involve a process of standardization. Two main indicators-ratios can be used for the evaluation of a company's performance:
Activity ratios describe the relationship between the company's level of operations(usually defined as sales and the assets needed to sustain the activity). The higher the ratio, the more efficient the company's operations, as relatively fewer assets are required to maintain a given level of operations(sales), or the company expoits its assets in an efficient way maximising its sales. Monitoring the trends in these ratios over time and in comparison to other firms in the industry, can point out potential trouble spots or opportunities that would facilitate investing decisions.
It is a measure of a company's profitability and it is the relationship between the company's costs and its sales. The profitability ratio indicates the proportion of Revenue that form the company's profit, after deducting any operating and other expenses the company has. It can be also interpreted as the proportion of profits generated from each dollar of sales, showing how profitable a company is.
This ratio is a combination of the two aforementioned ratios that can be summarised in the term Return on Assets, that measures the overall productivity of assets.
Net Revenue (also Revenue, Net Sales, or Sales) is the total revenue or gross revenue minus the costs associated with returned or undelivered goods and commissions. Total Revenue or Gross Revenue on the other hand is simply all positive revenues. This distinction is particularly important for certain sectors like banking which relies heavily on commissions and Retail which can experience frequent returned items.[1]


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I removed the six machine screws that hold the top cover on, and had a look inside. What I found was a well laid out amplifier, with a symmetrical layout, and extensive use of very low tolerance surface mount style parts. The power supply uses four pairs of 50N06 MOSFETs with each one capable of continuously switching 35 amps of current. The outputs are two pairs per channel of TO-218 large case TIP35/36 high power transistors, with a total output capability far exceeding the Arc Audio KS125.4's design. The power supply gets its energy from 13,600µF's of capacitance, and after stepping up the "jolts", the secondary side of things has 8800µF's of storage capacity. Two 30A ATC style fuses are mounted on the panel beside the power connectors. The amp is complex inside, with a high part density which speaks well to the ability of the factory building it, as well as the designer who did the layout. Vertically mounted daughter boards are used to conserve space, and to provide the top mounted control functionality. These little vertical boards were solid in their placement, and in fact the entire amp seems solidly built, with good attention to detail.
The Arc Audio KS 125.4 is a fairly basic amplifier in terms of audio control features, but it certainly includes all the "required" ingredients. There are separate gain pots for each of the four channels, so getting the left to right "balance" set perfectly is simple. -12dB Butterworth crossovers are employed for both high and low pass, and can be adjusted from about 40Hz to 500Hz. The rear channels include a bass EQ function that is centered at 45Hz, (which is about perfect for most systems) and can provide up to 15dB of boost. Thankfully, the "Q" factor of this boost control is nice and narrow, making it far more useful and effective than some of those designed more to put a marketing bullet on the box than to actually use in real life. Make no mistake, the folks behind this amp, "get it".
Lately my ears have been spoiled by the exceptionally superlative performance of a couple of very high-end home amplifiers I've been listening to, (by high-end, I mean amps that cost as much as a decent new car) and so I was quite conscious to avoid being overly critical of the next mere "car amp" I auditioned. As it turned out, I needn't have been so concerned. Now while I'm certainly not going to tell you that the Arc Audio KS 125.4 sounds just like a Krell or Pass Labs amplifier, but when you consider what it is, and how much it costs, it's certainly a welcome addition to the system in any car!
The Arc Audio KS 125.4 sounded very good throughout my listening trials. I configured it so the rear channels were bridged into my 4 ohm reference woofer, and the front channels drove my reference bookshelf speakers. With the front crossover filter set to all-pass, and the sub adjusted to about 80Hz, the amplifier was very musical, and virtually transparent. Bass was tight and very defined, with good power and authority considering the 250 watt rating. The full range front channels sounded as if the amplifier wasn't there… which is about the nicest thing you can say about an amplifier. I didn't notice any of the "compressed" type of sound I have noted on some recent full range Class D designs, and I think the Class AB and Class G designs may still have a slight sonic edge there. Stereo imaging was excellent, as was the decided lack of background noise. Other than a very slight amount of noise from the top mounted cooling fan, this thing is dead quiet. When the amp was pushed very hard, with the woofer occasionally driven well into clipping, I did notice the front channels also began to distort as the available current in the power supply was depleted. This however is common to most multi-channel amplifiers, and is certainly nothing specifically deleterious to the Arc Audio design.
One of my concerns when I saw the size of the heatsink and read the power ratings was whether or not the amp would pass muster from a thermal perspective. After listening to it for several hours at relatively high levels, I measured the surface temperature of the heatsink. The hottest spot I found was about 71°C, which is good and warm, but not hot enough to make the amplifier thermally protect. Now, I should remind you that the amp was inside my cool listening room, and not in a hot car trunk, so how it's going to do in the Arizona summer remains to be seen, but I found no cause for thermal concern in my testing. And I have tested amplifiers that would thermal under the same conditions, so I'd have to say it's very competitive from a thermal perspective.
After I'd finished the listening part of the evaluation, I brought the amp into the electronics lab for a thorough examination. I've looked inside and measured thousands of amplifiers over the years, and sometimes I sort of develop my own performance expectations based on what I've just seen and heard. Before ever firing up the Audio Precision analyzer, I expected the Mini Arc Audio amp to surpass it's published specs based simply on how it sounded and what I'd noted inside. The Arc Audio KS 125.4 did just that. It made more than advertised power at 4 and 2 ohms, and also at 4 ohms bridged. S/N was better than published as well, and the frequency response within human hearing was within 0.3dB from perfectly flat. When I noted how densely populated the PCB was, I wondered if the amp would have problems with crosstalk. Crosstalk, or stereo separation is the products ability to keep the signal on one channel from "leaking" or "crossing" into the other. I needn't have worried, the Arc Audio KS 125.4 measured as good or better than almost any other car amp I've tested. Another kudo to the layout and design team! There was really very little to find fault with, maybe the overall power efficiency wasn't quite as great as I expected, and I thought it could have had a bit more available gain… but really, that was about it for raspberries.
The Conclusion
With their relatively modest power, these Mini amps are probably not going to be the first choice for a hard core SPL customer, but the Arc Audio Mini Series represent a high-tech and different approach to compact, good sounding amplifiers for the vast majority of enthusiasts everywhere. Everything I've seen here would indicate they'll be reliable, easy to live with due to their small size, and you'll look long and hard to find something that sounds significantly better. So in the end, if they sound good, fit in small places, and don't break, what else could you ask for?

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Ananda at Plant Journeys did a post on a local plant: Dreamwort
Tansy did a post on her top 40 local herbs to focus on for the next year.
Rebecca wrote about her dooryard herbs.
Angie attempted to narrow her abundant local favorites down to a workable list.
I suspect there may be more yet to come. If so, I will update as they come in. And here's my own emphatic rant for local herbalism!
Using local plants for me is about intimacy, connection and practicality. So some of it is rooted in the spiritual and emotional realm, but there's a pragmatic side as well. How much more common sense can you get than using free, locally abundant plants for medicine? This as opposed to paying for expensive and often less than quality exotics. If the medicines are capable of having the same effect then why on earth would I pay for stale plants from a foreign country that have been sprayed/irradiated and god knows what else?
I'm especially wary of the exotic panaceas of the wetlands, desert or highest mountains. These are often little known plants from fragile ecosystems easily upset by overharvesting. There's usually a great deal of corporate money behind those advertising extravaganzas in glossy health magazines. They'll tell you how much you really NEED some of their precious and rare root from the himalayas, extracted by a patented process and specially put into capsules, and they won't tell you how Burdock is just as nice, quite abundant and you've been yanking it out of the garden anyhow. Do we really believe that Sambucol is better than our hand harvested Elderberry creations? Or that we can get more nutrition out of a bottle of Noni juice than from our own homebrewed Strawberry wine? Making our own medicines and gathering our own foods is an act of profound activism in a culture of people brave enough to suck down prescription drugs but powerless every time our child gets a fever.
Now, nearly all of us have a few exceptions for extra special plants that we can't find a local equivalent for. Kava is a good example of this, and many of us very bioregionally based herbalists will pay a pretty penny to get some high quality root. I consider this kind of like purchasing a special sauce or a rare favorite veggie from the grocery store. I do it sometimes, and I sure like the taste, but I don't depend on it as a primary aspect of my practice. Especially with the rising cost of shipping, I can barely afford to buy Kava or Kale! But I can always afford some Skullcap from across the river, or some Lobelia from down the river.
I've been occasionally told that my fervent attitude about local herbs is an unreasonable approach for people who don't live out in the sticks like me. This doesn't make good sense to me though. I know that in some areas it's completely illegal to pick most plants and that in other places there's huge amounts of pollution. But really, who can't find some Dandelions at the edge of a community garden or Plantain in an unsprayed and weedy backyard? By investing some footwork and research into the process, we can usually find a few nice weedy plots and perhaps a choice wild area to gather from. Having put in all that intent and care will make the medicine that much more potent and meaningful too.
Another viable option is a thriving garden where you can grow many of the most valued but not necessarily local to you herbs. Our European ancestors brought myriad medicinal plants with them from the Old World, and many of these plants such as our common Garden Sage and Lavender are easily grown in a yard corner, window box or pot. Even easier is to grow local weedy plants, wouldn't it be nice to be able to claim that you're actually growing all that Ground Ivy on PURPOSE?
We don't have to pick a certain number of plants within a certain area, but it sure is nice to be aware of what's growing and available right around us. Not knowing the flowers outside my door feels a little like not knowing the people I live with. Possible for sure, but definitely not a good idea. Even when I travel I try to introduce myself to the local land and plants, while I may not ever know all their names it still feels good and right to sit down, say hello and pay attention.
It all comes down to old fashioned sense for me, and when I have a fever or Rhiannon has a bellyache, it feels so good to find my medicine flowering under the juniper tree — fresh, vibrant and intimate.
If you haven't already, you might want to read my essay The Healing Roots of Home: A Medicine Woman's Journey into Bioregional Herbalism. It was written for my female students, but applies to everyone regardless of gender.
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Oh no! I totally forgot! I'm on it…
I run a community garden in our local town Deniliquin N.S.W Australia, we are going through a severe drought the town is on water restrictions so to maintain our garden plots is quite the challenge.
Our town is extremely flat the only hills are ant hills, so wide open plains has it's own beauty.
Your blog sounded like dreamtime to me….would be eaten alive by aussie bugs if we slept out in the open, have done so when bushwalking, covered by a mossie net and repellent.
I did it!
Here's mine: http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2007/11/02/local-herbalism/
(You'll see why it took me a while. 😉
I've looked all over for information on the blog party and don't have any idea where to find it… is there a description? is it open to the general "public?"
lately I'm a pretty irregular blogger, but maybe this would inspire me??
And I finished mine as well! http://herbalistpath.blogspot.com/2007/11/kivas-blog-party-local-herbs.html
thanks, Kiva! I scrolled through Rebecca's posts on the blog party and came up with the original: http://crabappleherbs.com/blog/2007/04/29/invitation-to-an-herbal-blog-party/
I'm not (yet?) an herbalist, but I love plants and sometimes write about them… I'll have to keep tabs on the this blog party and see if there're topics I can join.
I love this topic of local weeds… I try to find plants that grow around my home and woods that grow abundantly and cover my basics. Here are a few of my favorites… elderberry, yellow dock, dandelion, nettle, peppermint, yarrow, queen anne's lace, plantain, comfrey (very useful on this farm!), and if I hike up the hill a bit, oregon grape and salal. I hope to tune in more often so I can catch the next blogparty on time, thanks to all.


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March 14, 2013
Newton, NJ
Robert R. Longcore, 81, of Newton, died Thursday, March 14, 2013, at Barn Hill Care Center in Newton.
Born in Franklin Borough, Mr. Longcore was a longtime resident of Newton. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1952 and was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, TX, where he served in the United States Army Medical Corps. He achieved the rank of Corporal before his discharge in 1954. Mr. Longcore graduated from William Paterson College in Wayne with a Bachelor of Science (Education) in 1956 and received his Master of Science (Education) from William Paterson College in 1959. In addition, he did graduate work at both Columbia University and Lehigh University with the intent to pursue a Ph.D. A retired teacher and Chief School Administrator, Mr. Longcore worked in six school districts over a period of 25 years. He helped to develop Curricula standards for local school districts and also had extensive experience working with local Boards of Education.
Mr. Longcore was a volunteer for the Sussex County Sheriff's Office over the past decade, overseeing the Sheriff's Work Assistance Program (SWAP) and the Sheriff's Labor Assistance Program (SLAP) on historical projects. These programs frequently offer maintenance of neglected or abandoned cemeteries or small burial plots, as well as historical sites and buildings. A member of the Sussex County Historical Society in Newton, Mr. Longcore served as President from 1999 to the present time. He developed and chaired "A Day of Sussex County History", an event which focused on County heritage and included participation by over forty local historical groups. He was also involved with several other Historical Societies, including the Minisink Valley Historical Society in Port Jervis, NY, serving as a library and cemetery volunteer; the Pike County Historical Society in Milford, PA, serving as a past board member, genealogist and Museum Committee chairman; the Culver Brook Restoration Foundation in Branchville, serving as a board member, past officer and a member of the Cemetery Committee; the Historical Society of Andover, serving as a past board member and a member of the Museum and Cemetery Committees; and the Walpack Historical Society in Walpack Centre, serving as a past board member, a past officer, and a member of the Cemetery Committee.
The son of the late Ira William and Pauline (nee Rudy) Longcore, Mr. Longcore was also predeceased by his niece, Marion Longcore, in 1995. He is survived by two brothers: William Longcore and wife, Janet, of Ridgebury, NY, and Ira Longcore and wife, Patricia, of Middletown, NY; his nephews: William Longcore and wife, Gail, and Jeffrey Longcore; his nieces: Kathy Alley and husband, Larry, and Celeste Keane and husband, Joe; his great-nephews: James Williams and wife, Allie, and Kasey Longcore; his great-nieces: Ayla Frazer and husband, Logan, Aslinn and Ciatriona Keane; his great-great-nieces and nephews: Catrina Williams, Evan Frazer and Keleb Williams; and his uncles: Clifford Rudy and Lillian Storm and Sam Rudy and wife, Helen.
Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Smith-McCracken Funeral Home, 63 High Street, Newton. Visitation will be held Sunday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the funeral home. Interment will be private.
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Dr. Franklin is an assistant professor of business and education at the Wayland campus in Clovis.
In a prepared statement, Dr. Armes said the Maloney award is given to a Wayland faculty member who "exhibits outstanding qualities in academic excellence and leadership, who is an example of Christian commitment and dedication, and who makes positive contributions to the lives of Wayland students."
Dr. Franklin joined the Wayland faculty in 1997. She is a graduate of Texas Woman's University with a Ph.D. in human resource management and adult education, and a master's of education in counseling and guidance.
Dr. Franklin's career in education began in 1964 in the Coppell public school system where she was named Teacher of the Year in 1981. She has since received awards and honors both nationally and internationally. She has worked as a research assistant at Texas Woman's University and has taught at Chapman University and Eastern New Mexico University.
Dr. Carol Green, dean of the WBU Clovis campus, nominated Dr. Franklin for the award, saying in a letter that Dr. Franklin, "takes an interest in her students' personal and professional lives. She is aware of the challenges they face and is proud of her ability to be a Christian witness and mentor," and "she consistently displays professionalism and integrity in her duties at Wayland."
The Maloney Award was established by Dr. Mary Maloney, a business professor at the WBU Phoenix campus, in honor of her parents. Previous award recipients are Dr. Jeff Tillman, a religion professor at the Wichita Falls campus, and Dr. Ann Stutes, chair of the music department in Plainview.


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There's something to be said about attempting to replicate the old-school arcade experience, as Ion attempted to do with the iCade, but sometimes you need something a little sexier. This is the Atari Arcade for the iPad.
Teased in the Atari's Greatest Hits app in iTunes, the Atari Arcade is essentially an iPad stand that adds four arcade buttons and a joystick to the device, making it perfect for playing the sort of games you'd find in Atari's greatest hits catalogue. The official page for the device mentions Asteroids (which only used buttons), Missile Command, and Centipede (both of which used a trackball).
The Atari Arcade is listed as coming soon, with no price specified. Odds are it'll be cheaper than the iCade, but not nearly as nostalgic.
Atari Arcade Duo-Powered Joystick [Discovery Bay Games - Thanks Carlunga!]


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"American Idol" finalist James Durbin has married longtime girlfriend Heidi Lowe in a New Year's Eve ceremony at the edge of a California redwood forest.
The couple says in a statement that the wedding in a Santa Cruz Mountains chapel was a perfect way to kick off 2012.
The Contra Costa Times ( http://bit.ly/vOxulV) reports the 85 guests included their 2-year-old son, Hunter, who was the ring bearer.
Other guests included fellow "American Idol" alums Haley Reinhart, Stefano Langone and Casey Abrams.
The "Idol" season 10 finalist turns 23 on Friday. His debut album, "Memories of a Beautiful Disaster," was released in November.
Durbin is from nearby Santa Cruz.


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Blinded tadpoles were able to regain their site when scientists attached eyes to their tails.
A group of biologists at Tufts University surgically removed the eyes of 134 African clawed frog tadpoles and attached new ones on their tails. About half of the newly attached eyes grew nerve cells and successfully plugged into the spinal cord.
According to research published in the March issue of The Journal of Experimental Biology, research associate Douglas Blackiston and his supervisor Michael Levin were able to test the vision for the blinded tadpoles by bathing them in alternating blue and red light, while teaching them to associate the red light with a small jolt of electricity.
While the blind tadpoles showed no preference for the blue light, a few of the tadpoles with the donor eyes learned to stay in the "safe," blue-lit area.
The team had tested 134 tadpoles endowed with transplanted eyes, so what made these six tadpoles different? The answer lies in the nerve patterns extended by the donor eye after transplantation. Levin and Blackiston had cleverly used tadpoles expressing a red fluorescent protein as donors, and so they were able to see the pattern of red neurons extending from the new ectopic eye using a microscope. Half of the transplant patients showed no innervation. Of the remaining half, 26% showed neurons projecting from the donor eye towards the gut and 24% had neurons extending towards the spine. It was within this latter group that the six lucky tadpoles with colour vision fell.
"The brain is not wired to find an eye on the tail, since it's never happened before and thus is not something the brain has evolved specifically to deal with, and yet it can recognize this patch of tissue as providing valuable visual information," Levin said. "These findings suggest that the brain has remarkable plasticity and may actually take a survey of its body configuration to make use of different body arrangements," he added. "If it were not the case, then every time a mutation produced an improvement in body plan--a large significant change in anatomy--the animal would die and the beneficial mutation would be lost."
Levin said the research could have major implications for replacing damaged organs in humans too, or even making them superhuman.
"Perhaps you'd like some more eyes, maybe ones that see in infrared?" Levin said--not entirely joking.


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Watch how WatchGuard Application Control lets you easily enforce acceptable use policies for users and groups by category, application, and application sub-function (messaging, file transfer, etc.) for over 1800 applications.Close the Gap in Your Network with Visibility and Control Over the ApplicationsToday, new Internet and social media applications are a common source of vulnerabilities and attacks. IT pros are faced with the challenge of managing or controlling a vast array of web applications without hindering productivity. Most application traffic is now web-based over port 80 or port 443. Adding to this challenge, some applications also use evasive techniques like encryption or they jump around non-standard ports. And to complicate matters, the distinction between "web site" and "web application" is tenuous at best. No longer does a traditional firewall with only port and protocol numbers suffice; the firewall administrator needs to set granular controls by application. The business needs to understand and control which applications employees use.


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How safe are community pools? Chlorine, cleanliness, common sense helpBy BARBARA TAORMINA
Union Leader Correspondent
June 23. 2013 7:18PM
Manchester's city pools are opening today and public pools in many area communities — including those in Bedford and Goffstown — opened in the last several days.
So, just how safe are they?
A packed pool can become a soup of germs that can cause stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea that can take weeks to shake off. While testing and disinfecting pools with chlorine are the primary weapons used to beat back the bugs, health agencies and officials also stress that personal behaviors and hygiene play a key role.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention track pool-related illnesses in two-year cycles. In 2006, the national total of reported illnesses was 4,167. In 2008, that number jumped to 13,480.
Tim Wilson, coordinator of the state Department of Environmental Services Public Pool and Spa Program, said that while recreational water illness cases have increased, New Hampshire has not seen any major outbreaks.
"In general, it's a small percent of pools overall that have an issue," said Wilson, adding that a larger number of illnesses come from ponds, lakes and the ocean.
New Hampshire's 2009 total of all recreational water illnesses, the most recent figures available, was 318 cases.
The CDC stresses that a significant number of pool-related illnesses go unreported. Wilson agrees that people who come down with a nasty bout of stomach cramps and diarrhea a couple of days after visiting a public pool may never connect the sickness to the swimming.
Bugs and bacteria enter pools on the bodies of people who haven't showered. Swimmers recovering from a case of diarrhea can sicken an entire pool full of people. Dirty feet and toddlers in diapers are among the potential sources of germs that cause illnesses.
To keep people as safe as possible, pool operators test chlorine and ph levels and keep them at an amount high enough to kill contaminants.
"We test every hour on the hour," Goffstown Parks and Recreation Director Rick Wilhemi said, noting: "Every day is different."
This past weekend, Goffstown opened its two pools at Roy and Barnard parks, "Seventy-six days to go," Wilhemi said with a laugh.
Lifeguards at Bedford's public pool test the water every two hours. Nashua Health Officer Heidi Peek said testing increases with large crowds and hot weather.
"Whoever manages the pool tests according to different factors, like bather volume," said Peek. "At the five city-owned pools, it gets done pretty regularly throughout the day."
Keene Parks and Recreation Director Andy Bohannon said state regulations require three tests a day at the city's two public pools; under certain circumstances the staff will test more often.
"If it's crowded or if there has been a lot of rain, we keep a close eye on the water," he said.
When it comes to keeping swimmers safe, most people put their confidence in chlorine.
"Everything is in parts per million," said Wilhemi. "As long as the chlorine is between 1.5 and four, we're good. Nothing can live in chlorine."
Well, almost nothing. Cryptosporidium, better known as crypto, and giardia, two of the most common swimming pool parasites, have protective outer shells that have made them resistant to chlorine. They may die eventually, but it takes more time, which gives the bugs more opportunities to infect swimmers.
And chlorine can cause its own set of problems. When people jump in a pool coated with suntan lotion, perfume and sweat, those substances mix with chlorine and form chloramines.
Chloramines can sting eyes, burn noses, trigger rashes and cause breathing trouble, especially for people with asthma, Peek said. And when chlorine reacts and becomes chloramines, it's no longer doing its job as a disinfectant.
Peek said chloramines tend to burn off in the sunlight and are typically more common with indoor pools. A tell-tale sign that a pool is having troubles with chloramines — a strong smell of chlorine drifting off the water.
"People smell that and they think chlorine is supposed to kill stuff, so the pool must be clean," said Wilson. "That's not the case."
"That's why it's so important for people to shower and pay attention to hygiene," said Peek, who added that the lifeguards at Nashua's pools do a good job of making sure everyone showers before swimming.
"I've heard them say to people heading toward the water, 'Your hair isn't even wet.'" she said.
Bedford Health Agent Gary Pariseau admits enforcing good hygiene is an almost impossible task. There are other signs of problems that are easier to pinpoint, he said.
"You have to be able to see clearly to the bottom," said Pariseau. "If the water is cloudy, the pool closes."
Another red flag: The sides and bottom of a pool should not feel slippery or slimy
Pariseau feels confident in a pool's safety as long as the chlorine and ph levels stay within the set parameters.
Wilson said public pools are required to document chlorine and ph levels whenever they test.
"That's public record and anyone can request to see that information,' he said.
Manchester's pool rules and information remind swimmers about those logs and records and encourage swimmer to ask for information. Manchester's four pools and Crystal Lake are scheduled to open today, however some hours are restricted to city residents only.


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Random cell searches during lockdown are under consideration in NSW jails following an inquest into the overdose death of a female inmate.
Tracy Lee Brannigan was locked inside a high-risk cell at Dillwynia Women's Correctional Centre on Sydney's outskirts on the afternoon of February 24 last year.
The following morning her cell mate woke at 5am to find the 41-year-old's body slumped on the floor.
In handing down the findings of an inquest into her death, Deputy State Coroner Paul MacMahon said on Monday the availability of drugs in prisons across NSW was an "endemic problem".
He recommended Corrective Services consider implementing random searches of cells at or shortly after lockdown, as drug taking appeared to happen after inmates were locked in for the night.
These should particularly be geared towards known or suspected drug users, he said.
Corrective Services NSW Commissioner Peter Severin said in a statement that he would: "seriously consider that as a potential extra measure to our current approach of detection, deterrence and treatment".
The comments come after the inquest heard how drugs were often thrown over the fence into Dillwynia in tennis balls.
Brannigan, police told the inquest, had formed a lesbian relationship with several female inmates, including her cell mate Lauren Ironside, who gave her drugs in return for sex.
On the night of Brannigan's death the pair had a "drug party" in their cell with heroin and prescription drugs, to celebrate Ironside's bail the following day to a rehabilitation centre.
Director of Women in Prison Advocacy Network Kat Armstrong told the inquest Brannigan was "all over the place" when she saw her on the afternoon of February 24 and that it was obvious the 41-year-old was on drugs.
But Mr MacMahon rejected that Brannigan was drug affected at this point.
Instead he found that it was "more likely than not" that Brannigan administered heroin to herself shortly after being locked in her cell.
Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) CEO Edward Santow said random searches of cells at lockdown would help save lives.
Speaking after the inquest, Brannigan's mother Sandra said she was "very happy" about the recommendation.


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Health center to serve estimated 9,000 patientsBy DALE VINCENT
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 22. 2013 11:13PM
MANCHESTER - The new Manchester Community Health Center-Tarrytown is expected to become the medical home for an estimated 9,000 people in the coming year.
Kris McCracken, CEO and president of MCHC, said the new center expects most of those to be new patients from the area.
If some come from the other center, at 145 Hollis St., she said, that simply means there will be openings at Hollis for now unserved residents.
McCracken and other speakers at the grand opening ceremonies held at Elliot Hospital stressed that the new center, at 184 Tarrytown Road in Doctors Park, will provide not only primary health care for families, but also things like interpreters, Medicaid enrollment, diabetic education, counseling services and psychiatric nurse practitioner services.
McCracken said behavioral health must be available at a community health center. "You can't not address the mental health problem," she said. "It touches everybody."
The new center is a collaboration between Manchester Community Health Center, the Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester and Easter Seals, with additional support from Elliot Hospital.
Mental health center President Peter Janelle said the center sees 11,000 people a year and said the plan is to replicate the mental health center program downtown at MCHC-Tarrytown.
Mayor Ted Gatsas chided the participants, saying it took a long time for the new center to become a reality. He said conversations about the new center began three years ago about the need for access to primary care.
"Emergency room costs are so much higher than going to a primary care physician," he said, "and we all know those costs are passed on to all health care consumers." He said there are an estimated 13,000 residents in need of a health care home.
He said there needs to be a health center on the West Side, saying he has three or four possible sites in mind.
Praising the collaboration of the various parties in making this center a reality, Gatsas said: "I look forward to cutting the next ribbon in six months." When the principals and invited guests adjourned from the Elliot conference room to the health center building for a ceremonial ribbon cutting, Gatsas nudged everyone again about a West Side location, repeating his earlier comment: "In six months I'll be doing this again."
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Roaming jihadis: A terrorist visits ManchesterEDITORIAL
May 19. 2013 2:10AM
Law enforcement sources leaked last week that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev scrawled a confession/political statement inside the Watertown, Mass., boat in which he lay bleeding on April 19. According to CBS News, the message declared that the Boston Marathon bombings were in retaliation for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and it included the statement, "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims." So, not a Tea Partier, this guy.
Lest certain reactionary types blame George W. Bush's warmongering for the bombings, the U.S. House voted 420-1 to authorize force against Afghanistan, and the Senate voted for it 98-0. Barack Obama supported the war, and four years into his presidency we are still there. To blame American foreign policy for the Tsarnaevs' terrorism is to demand surrender. If we cannot respond to a terrorist attack on our soil because the killing of any Muslim will provoke retaliation from other Muslims, then we must lie down and submit to their aggression.
That is not the American spirit, at least not yet. We will defend ourselves from totalitarians of all species. How we do that when the totalitarians are within our borders is the tricky question. It is easier to keep them out (though we have been awful at that) than to identify, isolate and neutralize them within our borders. Americans have civil rights that prevent totalitarian measures from being used domestically to catch totalitarians - though that might be changing.
The FBI acknowledged last week that Tamerlan Tsarnaev went target shooting in Manchester the month before the bombings. It was one of several visits he made to the Queen City to interact with an exiled Chechen rebel who lives in an apartment just off of Interstate 93.
That alarming revelation underscores just how vulnerable the citizens of a free republic are. In choosing freedom over security, we run the risk of encountering the likes of Tamerlan Tsarnaev on our own streets. It is a risk we have been willing to take for centuries because Americans have long understood that an all-powerful state is a greater threat than the occasional guerrilla warrior. Even in an age when jihad is spread by the Internet and aircraft, that remains true. We forget that at our peril.
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David Blatt; Tanglewood; Hit Man Hart; and so much more
The man who has the pleasure/challenge of coaching LeBron James has a Fall River connection, via Durfee High School basketball history.
David Blatt is the new head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Long before he got into coaching, and even before he played basketball at Princeton, Blatt for a short time was a key figure on the Hilltopper hoops scene.
Do you remember?
The year was 1977. En route to a 26-0 state championship season, the Hilltoppers faced mighty Framingham South in the Division 1 South final.
Framingham South, considered by some the favorite to win it all that year, featured some very good players, including Brady Otey and 6-foot-10 Tommy Barrett. But their best player was 6-foot-2 guard David Blatt.
Against Durfee in the showdown on March 12, 1977, Blatt scored 14 points before fouling out with 4:02 remaining. Ahead at the time, Durfee prevailed 64-58. Kevin Whiting led Durfee with 26 points.
In his Herald News game story, Pete Levesque described Framingham South as the "team widely recognized as the best in the state" and noted that in the South final, Blatt "couldn't penetrate Durfee's combination zone defense."
Wonder if that's how Mr. Blatt remembers it.
That was also back in the days when Durfee basketball suffered from Rodney Dangerfield syndrome concerning coverage from the Boston newspapers. In a the Levesque story, Durfee coach Skip Karam was quoted as saying, "I hope today's performance has convinced Boston writers that there's talent in the Bristol County area."
(A lack of respect in and around Boston and getting cheated by those Cape Cod referees were for a long time two of the familiar cries from Durfee fans. Miss those days.)
Durfee Principal Paul Marshall, a 1977 graduate of Framingham South, said Blatt's ascension to such a high-profile job should be no surprise to those who knew him.
"He was in my class. Let me correct that. I was in his class," Marshall said. "He was president of our class. He was an outstanding, phenomenal, tremendous guy. I couldn't think of a better guy."
Blatt, Marshall said, had the ability to bring a diverse student population together. "He was a natural leader, but he was also an unassuming guy. Very intelligent."
----- Can't help but share few interesting items from the March 14, 1977 Herald News I dusted off to check on the Framingham South game. The ads are the best. Sawyers had European inspired vested suits for $89. Rippoffs over in Somerset was selling poplin casual slacks for $7.98. A story in one of the news sections told of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa and Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fielder speaking to political leaders about their opposition to Gov. Dukakis' plans to possibly renovate an abandoned Jesuit seminary in Lenox into a medium security jail. The seminary was near Tanglewood, the summer home of the BSO.
----- This is called a transition.
Concerning Tanglewood, 2014, I doubt my group of nine was the only one to leave last Saturday night's John Williams Movie Night concert disappointed. Ol' John simply didn't have the orchestra crank out anywhere near enough of his most popular and familiar movie tunes. And he talked too much. I'm waiting to hear the classic Indiana Jones theme (which never came) and he's yapping about Fred Astaire.
But no big deal, John. It's not like we drove 287 miles round trip for the concert. Oh, that's right, we did.
----- On a slightly less disappointed vein …
It would have been nice if Bret "Hit Man" Hart had at least smacked someone during his visit to the PAL Hall for the TRP card last Friday. Of course Hart wasn't going to engage in a formal match but why not send some wise mouth to the ring while Hart was addressing the fans and have Hit Man belt him and toss him from the ring?
Forgot to ask Hart if Hitman/Hit Man is properly one word or two. You see it both ways. It was two words on the WWE site, so that's what I've been using.
----- An interesting wrestling note. Ted Bolduc, one of Steve Ricard's lieutenants at Top Rope Promotions, is also an accomplished wrestler. He told me he recently wrestled the son of Scott Hall (Razor Ramon). It was, of course, three years ago that Hall showed up very impaired for a TRP card at PAL, with video clips of his "performance" getting tons of hits and the appearance leading to an ESPN documentary on Hall. Bolduc said young Cody Taylor Hall is nowhere near an accomplished wrestler and that he tried to rough Bolduc up a bit in their match.
----- Another somewhat interesting wrestling note. The other day, a group of guys were getting a little rowdy on Taunton Green. One of them told police they were just horsing around, giving each other "Ric Flair chops."
----- One of my favorite annual moments in Greater Fall River sports: When local Little League czar (and a kind czar he is) Jeff Silvia hauls out the Russ Gibson Trophy which goes to the winner of the City Championship tourney.
----- Togo Palazzi.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, December 21, 2007
A Fireside Christmas with Aurelius Battaglia
This is my final post for 2007. Here at Today's Inspiration World Headquarters, I'll be using the remaining time before Christmas to frantically finish up painting some home-made gifts for those hard-to-buy-for types on my list (and of course, wrapping, wrapping,wrapping... lordy, I hate wrapping!)
Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, here's wishing you and yours a Merry Merry and a Happy New Year!
And speaking of New Years -- I'll be back on January 1st, 2008 with more art and info from the glorious days of Mid-20th Century illustration. Bye for now!
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Leif, A very merry Christmas to you and your whole family, and a happy new year too.ReplyDelete
I have enjoyed following your blog throughout 2007; it is perfectly named, because it does give me a daily dose of inspiration. Thank you for that, and in the classic words of Tiny Tim, god bless us, everyone!
Leif, I was exploring your blog and this post caught my eye. The illustrations and title of the book are very similar to a book I have in my own collection – but mine is called The Fireside Book of Folk Songs and is illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen. I'm sure you are familiar with those illustrators. I treasure this book very much, not only because the illustrations are so lovely, but my mom used to get us to sing from the book while she played the guitar or our family Hammond organ. Ahhh... memories...ReplyDelete
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The Reinhardt main campus in Waleska, Ga., is easily accessible from I-575, I-75 and Hwy 515 and is convenient to Cumming, Calhoun, Jasper, Dawsonville, Marietta, Ellijay, Woodstock and Canton. See Directions
Waleska, Ga., is in Cherokee County, Ga., about 45 minutes northwest of Atlanta, and 20 minutes east of Cartersville and 20 miles west of Jasper. Our scenic campus has the warm appeal and security of a small town, while Atlanta and Chattanooga are only a quick car ride away.
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What does Waleska have to offer?
Waleska is a quaint small town with a proud history. It was named in the mid-1800s by some of the first white settlers in the territory, Lewis Reinhardt, a successful farmer, and his wife. In the 1820s and 1830s, the Native Americans who had lived in the area were being moved west by the U.S. federal government. Reinhardt and his wife were sympathetic to the plight of their neighbors, the Cherokee Indians, many of whom they knew well. To honor them, the Reinhardt couple named their small, developing community after the Cherokee Indian chief's daughter,"Warluskee."
Today, Waleska is a friendly and welcoming small town. It offers within easy walking distance of the campus a post office, a pharmacy, a Dollar General, a gift shop, several convenience stores, a grocery store, a local park, and several other businesses.
Waleska is proud to call Reinhardt its own, and many of our neighbors enjoy the College's cultural, athletic and alumni events.
What else is nearby?
Canton, the nearest town, is about 10 minutes south, and offers many options for shopping, entertainment, recreation and dining.
North Georgia mountains, streams and rivers, including Lake Allatoona, offer numerous places for enjoyment and recreation. If you enjoy camping, hiking, canoeing, whitewater rafting, kayaking, swimming, water skiing, golf, or paintball, you'll find many options within easy driving distance.


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In theaters this Friday, Lee Daniels' The Butler covers a whole lot of history, from the plight of poor black sharecroppers working on plantations in the Deep South in the 1930s to the Civil Rights movement to the election of Barack Obama. But somehow, in the course of a 15 minute interview with the film's star, Forest Whitaker, we managed to cover even more history than that.
Whitaker plays Cecil Gaines, the character at the center of The Butler, based on a real man who worked in the White House for every President between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. Cecil is a father and husband who's happy to have a good job and unwilling to rock the boat politically, but his son (played by David Oyelowo) is the opposite, joining the Freedom Riders as a college student and eventually the Black Panthers. Telling the parallel story of Cecil and his son allows The Butler to touch on many elements of the Civil Rights era, but as Whitaker revealed, his own childhood in South Central Los Angeles put him directly in the middle of stories even more fascinating than those in the film.
Soft-spoken and speaking passionately, Whitaker at one point apologized for talking so much about history and social justice movements, but a conversation about something so big is remarkable in a world where most actors are happy to just promote their movie and move on. Check out my conversation with Whitaker below, and see him and an all-star cast in Lee Daniels' The Butler in theaters this weekend.
Since you're born in 1961, you were kind of alive in the '60s, but you weren't really old enough to participate in the stuff we see here. Did you ever get the romanticism of that era and feel like you'd missed out on the experience of like the Freedom Riders or the Freedom March or any of that stuff that was going on?
Yeah, but there's a few things that I did kind of experience anyway, but in a different way. Because I grew up and I was raised in South Central LA, so the Black Panther Party's office was around the corner from my house. So, every day I saw them as kids, they picked me up, they knew my name.
Were you one of the kids getting their free breakfast?
They asked me to, but my mom wouldn't let me, you know.
Did she think they were too radical?
I guess so. Yeah, and I guess she maybe was right because it was like later that when I walked by their office, it was blown up. They blew up the office, you know. Then later in life, when I was supposed to go to Compton High after Watts riots which was near my neighborhood but later I was supposed to go to Compton High, and my mom would bus me. I went over to my cousin's house, across from Adams to be bussed to the beach, so it would at least take me two hours a day to get to school and two hours, a little longer on the way back after football practice. So, I would leave in the morning and wouldn't come home until 10:00 at night.
And could you even process why that stuff was going on? Because when you're younger, things just happen and you don't really think about it.
No, I don't think so. I knew the Panthers were cool. I remember looking at the poster of Huey. It was right there on the corner, and I remembered that they were really nice to me and I knew that they stood for strength and I remember what happened in school when the deaths happened, with King, and things like that. I remember the hush, know what I mean. The pain, but I don't think I understood it, know what I mean? There's a difference. The SLA...my grandma lived in this apartment and the SLA were killed in the apartment, this little building behind it, so as a little kid, a young kid, I would walk through the charred remains of that building and in a weird way, I was always kind of walking around these pieces of history.
Like it's always been part of you, but only later could you put the pieces together.
Yeah, I don't think I could have possibly understood it then, but then it did formulate some of my thinking later, you know, about what could happen, the potentiality of when you try to protest, what could happen from it, but also like about people fighting, you know, always aware. I don't think I'd understand the principles of the party, because originally, like the Black Panther Party, a lot of organizations started off as neighborhood help organizations, like the Crip was a neighborhood, the gang was a neighborhood help organization. They started in Los Angeles, to help the community, you know what I mean, and then it grew into something else and turned into something else, basically because of pressure and disfunction of what society does when it doesn't offer the economic opportunities as well as opportunities to be able to be treated as a human being.
Well so few films deal with the Panthers at all, and when they do, they're often villainized. This one, obviously, in it, the son leaves them, but it shows the good work they were doing from the beginning, which is brave.
Yeah, it works a little bit on the borderline.
Yeah, the messages of what they really stood for.
Which I don't think people really know, if they ever read the credos of it, they'd be really surprised. The idealists, not the ones who were unfortunately infiltrated, spied upon and tricked, but like the Fred Hamptons, in Chicago, and stuff like that. Those guys were trying so hard to help, know what I mean, in the means that they had. I think what's great about the way Lee tells this story is that he lets you feel that in an emotional way. I mean, it continues to tell the story of our family, that way you get to see those historical moments and make them mean something to you in your body. That's the only way you'll understand something.


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ROME, March 19 (UPI) -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said he provided U.S. Vice President Joe Biden with an accurate update on the latest talks between Serbia and Kosovo.
"I believe it became clear that certain information arriving in the United States did not correspond to the actual situation in the Belgrade-Pristina relations and the level or progress made in the dialogue was not assessed correctly," Nikolic told Tanjug news agency.
Nikolic said Biden told him the United States feels obligated to help resolve the situation because it has recognized Kosovo's independence.
The meeting between Biden and Nikolic was the first in four years between a Serbian president and a U.S. vice president.
It took place in Rome late Monday where both men were there to attend Tuesday's inauguration of Pope Francis as the new head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Nikolic called the talks exceptionally useful.
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On my way to the pool at Le Tahaa Island Resort & Spa, I spotted a groundskeeper — tired from his work in the warm French Polynesian sun, he took a big swig from a freshly cut coconut. He posed for a photo, and then immediately grabbed another coconut from the sand, pulled back his machete and cut it open just for me.
This is the kind of warmth and hospitality clients will find at this 57-unit luxury resort, located on the secluded Motu Tautau islet just off Tahaa. The unique Tahitian property is reachable by a 40-minute boat ride from the Raiatea Airport, and the dock is just a few steps from where passengers disembark flights from Tahiti or other area islands. The moment I stepped off the plane, a Le Tahaa representative greeted me with a flower necklace, assisted me with my luggage and escorted me to the boat.
The resort faces the lush island of Tahaa on one side (responsible for more than 80 percent of Tahiti's vanilla production) and the majestic silhouette of Bora Bora on the other. Inspired by traditional Polynesian architecture and style, the property was built around the existing vegetation and with mostly local materials. Clients will discover old trees, native flowers and plants and a staff mostly made up of native Polynesians.
The property comprises 45 thatched-roof overwater suites, all of them spacious and with wrap-around decks, covered gazebos on the porch and direct access to the crystal-clear water. Each hut features an outdoor shower outside each hut, two chaises for sun bathing and a ladder that leads down to the sea.
Many of the design details throughout the resort were inspired by a Polynesian outrigger canoe. For example, the bungalows are designed with bamboo walls, a shell acts as a drawer handle and the closet door handles are made of rope.
The rooms also feature large windows facing the water with a long wooden bench for premium ocean viewing. At the foot of the bed, a glass-bottom aquarium hinges open for in-room fish feeding (even at night — the water is lit). Televisions, air conditioning and iPod-enabled stereos are also included.
There are also 10 beach villas on the property, each offering a bedroom and a separate living area, private plunge pools, thatched-roof cabanas, outside bathtubs and showers and beachside hammocks. There are also two royal beach villas, each with two bedrooms and en-suite bathrooms/
Dinner and a breakfast buffet are served at Le Vanille, the property's main restaurant. The dining area has covered and open-air seating — its canopy views make it feel like a treehouse. The scent of vanilla in the air is subtle, but the flavor of the island's signature spice is irresistible in the butter brought to the table with fresh bread.
Local and international selections focus on fresh ingredients. Every Tuesday night, the resort hosts a Polynesian buffet with Tahitian delicacies, fish cooked to order and a show with authentic entertainment such as ukulele and drumming performances and fire dancing. Resort guests staying during the high season can try out the seasonal and more formal gourmet restaurant, The Ohiri. Reservations are required.
Lunch is served by the small infinity pool and guests dine either in chaise lounges or at the sand-bottomed, thatched-roof restaurant La Plage. The chef's specialties include colorful salads, grilled fish or meat, sashimi and Tahiti's renowned "poisson cru," a salad of raw tuna marinated with vegetables, lime juice and freshly squeezed coconut milk — served in a coconut, of course.
The five-minute boat ride to the village of Tapuamu is free and runs several times per day. Plenty of excursions are offered as well — private island picnics, vanilla plantation tours and helicopter tours to Bora Bora are among the choices. Snorkeling, diving and fishing are common excursions as well, though there's no need to book an excursion to do some amazing snorkeling. In fact, visitors from other resorts often visit the nearby reef, which Le Tahaa guests can access through the lagoon off of their front decks. Snorkel gear is available at the pool desk and other recreational items are available upon request.
In keeping with the resort's local tradition, the on-site spa features an extensive menu of treatment options and rooms surrounded by lush flowers and a serene natural environment. Indigenous ingredients are incorporated into spa products: monoi oil made from coconuts, infusions of vanilla, flowers and other local goods.
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What is START?
START (Students Teaching in the Arts) is a program that matches Dartmouth student volunteers with local 1st-8th grade classrooms. Over six classroom visits, volunteers develop and deliver original arts integration activities that complement regular classroom curriculum, enhancing the learning experience for students. START is active in fall, winter and spring terms.
Who Can be a START Volunteer?"
START volunteers are Dartmouth undergraduates who are passionate about the arts and want to share their time and talent in a leadership role in Upper Valley classrooms. While volunteers do not need to be experts in an art form, they do need to be creative and collaborative. START values volunteers that stretch their imaginations and the imaginations of their students. More than just arts and crafts, START wants to provide students with "outside the desk" thinking so that students connect sit-down subjects to on-your-feet activities.
Who Can be a START Classroom?
START works with grades 1-8 in classrooms within a 25-30 minute travel radius of the college. START visits classrooms during regular school hours for up to sixty minutes depending on classroom schedule. Each term the availability of volunteers shifts; the more flexibility a classroom has in terms of the scheduling, the more likely we'll be able to place a START group. Classroom teachers are partners and have input into the process. Teachers also give valuable feedback to the volunteers throughout the term and help manage the classroom during individual START visits.
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Man killed, woman injured in Surry rolloverBy MEGHAN PIERCE
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September 20. 2013 8:03PM
SURRY — A 22-year-old Swanzey man was killed in a rollover crash on Route 12A Thursday. His 19-year-old passenger was seriously injured.
Edward Scott, 22, of Swanzey was found dead by emergency crews that responded to the scene around 11:04 a.m. on Thursday.
The passenger, Taime Adams, 19, of Keene had crawled out the back of the 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse Scott had been driving.
The Mitsubishi had been traveling southbound on Route 12A at "a very high rate of speed, according to a witness, and evidence at the scene," state police said. "The vehicle then lost control and left the right side of the roadway striking a large rock embankment and rolling over."
Adams was taken to Cheshire Medical Center in Keene and was later airlifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon with serious but not life-threatening injuries, state police said.
The investigation is ongoing, state police said.
Surry and Keene firefighters and Keene police assisted state police at the scene.


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HeritageQuest Online - Focus on Archives ResourcesSubmitted by Local History a... on March 12, 2013 - 4:45pm
Many researchers that visit us are familiar with research resources such as Ancestry.com. Today I'd like to focus on one that doesn't get quite as much recognition: HeritageQuest Online. HeritageQuest Online is a collection of databases, all of which are very useful to history and genealogical researchers. Included under its umbrella are:
- U.S. Federal Censuses: A complete collection of original images of every federal census, from 1790 to the newly released 1940 census. At least partial name indexes are included for each census, totalling over 140 million names.
- Genealogy and Local History Books: Digital images of some 7 million pages from 28,000 of family history and local history books from the American Antiquarian Society and HeritageQuest's own collection are available through the site. All are indexed and searchable.
- Periodical Source Index (PERSI): A comprehensive index of over 2 million records covering genealogical and local history periodicals published throughout the world.
- Revoluntionary War Records: Over 80,000 indexed digital images from pension and bounty land warrant application files of American Army, Navy, and Marine officers and enlisted men from the Revolutionary War era.
- Freedman's Bank Records: Digitized original images including 480,000 names of bank applicants, dependents, and heirs from 1865–1874. This data, all indexed and searchable, can provide valuable insights to those tracing their African American ancestors.
- LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set: Digital images of 480,000 pages recording the memorials, petitions, private relief actions made to the U.S. Congress back to 1789, of course all fully indexed and searchable.
HeritageQuest is available on all of our computers here in the archives, or you can access it from home via the Research section of the E-Resources menu located here on The Urbana Free Library website (you will have to enter the 14 digit barcode number from your Urbana Free Library library card to access the site). Scroll down to "Local History & Genealogy" to find the link for HeritageQuest. Stop by or contact us for any tips in using this great resource!


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STOCKTON - State prisoner John Joseph Lydon was sentenced to death Thursday for the murder of his cellmate at Tracy's Deuel Vocational Institution, the second time he had killed an inmate in prison.
STOCKTON - State prisoner John Joseph Lydon was sentenced to death Thursday for the murder of his cellmate at Tracy's Deuel Vocational Institution, the second time he had killed an inmate in prison.
Lydon, 39, is the first person condemned to death in San Joaquin County since September 2008, when serial rapist and murderer William Jennings Choyce was sentenced to death.
Lydon, who had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, was convicted of first-degree murder and found sane in the 2010 strangling of Jonathan Guy Alexander, who had been imprisoned on a child sex conviction.
Deputy District Attorney Robert Himelblau said his office sought capital punishment because Lydon murdered more than once. And to not pursue death, he said, would put correctional officers at risk.
"The jury did a really conscientious job," he said. "It's been a job for the people and a job demanded by the people."
But whether his execution will actually be carried out remains a question.
Lydon will join about 725 other death row inmates awaiting their punishment in California. His sentence was issued seven years to the day after California halted capital punishment.
A federal judge blocked the execution of Stockton rapist and murderer Michael Morales on Feb. 21, 2006.
No executions have taken place in California since, as courts are determining whether the lethal injection - the only method currently authorized in California - exposes the condemned inmates to cruel and unusual punishment.
"These delays are causing an erosion of the public confidence," Himelblau said, adding there are death convictions more than 20 years old still in the appeals process.
Deputy Public Defender Michael Bullard, however, believes Lydon does not deserve to be on death row.
Bullard believes it was "criminally negligent" for Deuel to place Alexander and Lydon in the same cell despite the inmates' backgrounds.
"I'm particularly shocked by the Department of Corrections' behavior in putting John in the cell," Bullard said.
Lydon, who says he was sexually abused as a child, maintains he had told Deuel staff he didn't want to be housed with any child molesters.
Lydon's previous victim at Coalinga's Pleasant Valley Prison in 2004 also was a convicted child molester.
In arguing for Lydon's life, defense attorneys presented testimony that Lydon's childhood was marked by sexual abuse at the hands of Boston's defrocked Catholic Priest John Geoghan, and beatings and neglect from his parents.
Geoghan also was murdered in a prison where he was serving a sentence for child molestation charges.
Bullard is disappointed in the verdict.
"I think the whole thing is a shame," he said. "I don't think that John deserves to be executed given all the circumstances of the case."
Contact reporter Jennie Rodriguez-Moore at (209) 943-8564 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/courtsblog.


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It's a small application that can be installed within a web page or blog by reusing specific code behind the scenes in the HTML section to make the visual display look neat and uniform as well as interactive. Widgets can be used to allow people to subscribe to newsletters, like Facebook pages, display the latest tweets from a twitter page, and more.
Other terms used to describe widgets include: a gadget, badge or social plugin. Widgets are typically created by Web developers using code from DHTML, JavaScript or Adobe Flash. Those of us who aren't developers can copy the code and paste into the html part of our website and get a similar look for what we want to display on our blog or website.
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Hi One Laptop Per Child Community,
I hope you are well.
I am a Brown University graduate, looking to help spread online education. Currently, I am trying to link up a few innovative rural schools.
1. Are the One Laptop Per Child computers the best way to get efficient computers to those who can't afford them?
(I do not mean to be forward to suggest OLPC may not; I just want to target the best program to help these children).
2. Are these computers powerful enough to play a video from KhanAcademy.org?
3. If so, how do I write a grant proposal to be able to get these materials?
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Cowboys run riot in Townsville
North Queensland have finally jumped off the starting blocks and posted their first points for season 2008, running rampant over the Parramatta Eels to the tune of 38 points to 14.
In a match that, on paper, looked to be a tight one, the Eels were their own worst enemy, giving away far too many penalties and far too much possession to a team who, after having scored a total of 30 points in the first three rounds, were hungry and looking to score points at every opportunity.
The Cowboys were in charge right from the kickoff, with Carl Webb grabbing first points in the third minute following the first of many penalties against Parramatta helped the Cowboys into good field position.
Aaron Payne was at his scheming best from dummy half, finding holes in the defence left, right and centre, before laying on a lovely ball for Steve Southern in the ninth minute, who steamed his way towards the line, then passed on to Justin Smith to finish the play off beside the posts.
The Eels got their first real attacking opportunity of the match following their first penalty in the 16th minute, and took full advantage with Tim Smith dribbling a nice grubber into the in-goal for Brett Finch to pounce on and give Eels fans some hope.
Ashley Graham did his best to dash that hope, however, when he found himself on the end of a slick backline movement and used his strength to barge over in the corner. Thurston continued what would end up being a perfect night with the boot by curling in the ball from the sideline.
The Eels grabbed another try through winger Eric Grothe, but yet another penalty from them gave Thurston a shot at goal on the stroke of halftime, and we ended up with a score of 20 to 10 in favour of the home team at the half.
The second fourty was a Cowboys-dominated affair, however it wasn't until the 57th minute that the scoreboard attendant was called upon, when the Cowboys put together the play of the night.
Collecting a grubber on his own goal-line, Graham pulled a Matt Bowen-esque play out of his hat by firing a long ball out to Ty Williams on the wing. Williams, who was under heavy pressure from Joel Reddy, stepped inside Reddy, then raced fourty metres downfield before passing inside to Thurston, who in turn found Graham backing up. Graham pinned his ears back and set himself for the corner, but was pulled down from behind by Luke Burt five out from the line. The ball was spun infield to Thurston on the next play who went to take the line on, then changed his mind and fired the ball out to Jacob Lillyman, who strolled over for the try.
Centre Mark Henry guaranteed the win for the Cowboys four minutes later, before Anthony Watts capped a fine game from the bench with the first try of his career in the 75th.
To cap off a horrid night for the Eels, Reddy was placed on report in the tenth minute for a lifting tackle on Carl Webb, however replays suggest that it's actually Brett Finch who looks to have a date with the judiciary.
Match Details Round 4 - Full Time :: April 5th, 2008 9:30pm Venue: Dairy Farmers Stadium Referee: Bernard Sutton
North Queensland Cowboys 38 Tries: Carl Webb, Justin Smith, Ashley Graham, Jacob Lillyman, Mark Henry, Anthony Watts Goals: Johnathan Thurston (7/7) Parramatta Eels 14 Tries: Brett Finch, Eric Grothe, Taulima Tautai Goals: Luke Burt (1/3)
LeagueUnlimited.com Player of the Match 3 Points: Aaron Payne 2 Points: Johnathan Thurston 1 Point: Anthony Watts
LeagueUnlimited.com Live Commentary Good evening and welcome to Townsville for this match between the win-less North Queensland Cowboys and the Parramatta Eels.
0 min: Rookie Referee Bernard Sutton blows time on in just his second First Grade game in charge, and we're underway here in Townsville
2 min: PENALTY - Cowboys: North Queensland the first to receive advantage of the controversial off-season rule change, when the Video Ref over-rules the on-field decision of knock-on, but awarding a penalty for a strip.
3 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys The Cowboys take full advantage of the field position gained from the penalty with Carl Webb barging over from very short range. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston successful. North Queensland Cowboys 6-0
5 min: PENALTY - Cowboys: North Queensland dominating this game early and certainly not playing like a win-less team. Make a huge break down the right hand side with Payne causing all the trouble, before Hindmarsh gives away the penalty for holding down in the tackle.
7 min: A reprieve here for the Eels, as the Cowboys lose the ball on the restart after a goal-line dropout.
7 min: A double knock on early in Parramatta's resultant set gives possession back to the Cowboys in Eels territory.
9 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys Cowboys have come out of the blocks firing tonight, and look nothing like the team who have been anchored to the bottom of the table for the first three rounds. Payne slices through the defence, before passing to a steaming Steve Southern, who in turn finds Justin Smith who races around under the posts to score. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston successful. North Queensland Cowboys 12-0
10 min: ON REPORT - Joel Reddy: Joel Reddy is placed on report in the restart set for a lifting tackle, even though replays suggest that it was actually Brett Finch doing all the lifting.
13 min: Outstanding enthusiasm shown by the Cowboys. Thurston gets caught with the ball on the last tackle and puts a rushed kick into the in-goal. Luke Burt clears it up, but is greeted by not one, not two, not three, but four Cowboys defenders who force him touch in-goal.
16 min: PENALTY - Eels: Carl Webb goes high on Nathan Cayless, and the Eels will get their first real attacking opportunity of the match.
18 min: TRY Parramatta Eels The Eels take full advantage of the attacking opportunity given to them by the Cowboys courtesy of Brett Finch pouncing on a Tim Smith grubber in-goal just adjacent to the goal posts. Conversion attempt by Luke Burt successful. North Queensland Cowboys 12-6
21 min: Thurston obviously leading by example in keeping enthusiasm levels high after that try. Following a clearing kick on the fifth, Thurston was first man down there chasing and laid a nice big shoulder charge on Taulima Tautai. Two tackles later and he was over on the other wing, assisting Ty Williams in forcing Reddy into touch and getting the ball back for his team.
26 min: PENALTY - Cowboys: Parramatta continue to give the ball away through silly handling errors in their own half, and this time compound the error by giving away a penalty for holding down in the tackle.
27 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys Ashley Graham does his bit to help cover the pre-game loss of Matt Bowen, chiming in on the end of a backline movement and using his strength to barge over for the try in the left hand corner. Thurston curls the ball in from the sideline in a beauty of a kick. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston successful. North Queensland Cowboys 18-6
32 min: In a rare sight for Parramatta fans, Hindmarsh is off for an early spell on the bench
33 min: PENALTY - Cowboys: Parramatta hand the Cowboys another invitation to score points by giving them a fresh set on attack in Eels territory.
34 min: The gods certainly aren't with the Eels tonight. Jarryd Hayne intercepts the ball five out from his own line and you'd back him to go the length of the field. Unfortunately for him, Graham gets back there, forcing him in-field and into the path of Luke O'Donnell who knocks the ball free in the tackle, into the path of Thurston who kicks the ball back into Grahams hands and the Cowboys come up with possession.
36 min: TRY Parramatta Eels A rare mistake in their own half gives Parra an opportunity to reel in this scoreline, which they don't waste as Eric Grothe runs down a narrow passage on the wing and plants the ball in the corner. Conversion attempt by Luke Burt unsuccessful. North Queensland Cowboys 18-10
39 min: PENALTY - Cowboys: Brett Finch looks to be a bit hard done by here as the Cowboys had no-one at dummy half so Finch dives on the ball from marker, yet gets penalised in a call which has obviously come from the touch-judge. Thurston lining up the shot at goal.
40 min: PENALTY GOAL North Queensland Cowboys Thurston kicks the penalty goal from the sideline and that will take us to halftime. North Queensland Cowboys 20-10
HALF TIME It's half time here in Townsville and the Cowboys look well on their way to posting their first win of the season, leading the Parramatta Eels at the break 20 points to 10.
40 min: Luke Burt gets the second half underway!
40 min: PENALTY - Cowboys: The Eels continue on their ill-disciplined ways which now see the penalty count sitting at 7-1 against them. This time it's Todd Lowrie punching the ball out in a 2-man tackle on Shane Tronc and the Cowboys will get the first opportunity of the second half.
42 min: PENALTY - Eels: A lucky break for the Eels as Thurston is penalised for not clearing the ruck.
43 min: Brett Finch wastes a golden opportunity close to the line by just simply dropping the ball with no pressure on him whatsoever.
45 min: PENALTY - Eels: The Eels get another easy ride out of their own end, this time for the Cowboys not being square at marker.
46 min: PENALTY - Eels: Lowrie drops the ball as the Eels attack falls apart, but the Eels will get a penalty in interesting circumstances. The far touchie has come in reporting of a late shot on Finch by Shane Tronc. Thurston arguing what we're all thinking in that it was the far side touch judge who saw it, while the near side touchie, who was much, much closer to the play, saw nothing.
49 min: Things looking a lot closer in the second half, with both teams threatening but being guilty of poor execution and handling at crucial times.
51 min: PENALTY - Cowboys: Finch goes high on Luke O'Donnell and the Cowboys get yet another piggy-back out of their own half.
53 min: Reddy gets trapped in-goal, so a repeat set coming up here for the Cowboys.
55 min: Payne puts a bit too much weight behind a grubber in-goal, and the Eels survive the attacking raid.
57 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys A marvellous try for the Cowboys here which has gone the length of the field in just two plays. Cleaning up a grubber on his own in-goal line, Graham fires a long, speculating pass out to Ty Williams who, despite being under heavy pressure from Reddy, steps and finds himself racing 40 metres downfield before passing inside to Thurston, who in turn finds Graham backing up. Graham sets himself for the corner but gets rounded up 5 out from the line by Burt. On the next play the ball is spun out to Thurston who goes to take the line on, then re-thinks, pirouettes, and fires the ball out to Lillyman who juggles it before latching on and strolling over the line. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston successful. North Queensland Cowboys 26-10
61 min: VIDEO REF - Possible Cowboys Try...
61 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys The Cowboys take full advantage of a very tired and flat-footed defence by spinning the ball out wide for Mark Henry to grab his first try of the year, and in turn wrap up North Queenslands first win of the season. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston successful. North Queensland Cowboys 32-10
63 min: PENALTY - Eels: O'Donnell gets penalised and told by referee Sutton "it's rubbish", however the perplexed look on O'Donnell's face show he's not quite sure what "it" is. Replays do little to clear it up.
65 min: A long ball out to Grothe on the wing is not anticipated by the winger, and another attacking set from the Eels comes undone early.
66 min: A rare mistake for Thurston here as he kicks the ball out on the full. Eels to have the ball in decent field position. Whether they can do anything with it remains to be seen.
67 min: Second best result possible for Parramatta, forcing a goal-line dropout and getting another opportunity to make the scoreline look a bit more respectable.
69 min: The Cowboys defence holds strong, forcing Grothe out over the sideline.
70 min: PENALTY - Cowboys: A silly, silly penalty here by Parramatta. The Cowboys keep the ball in the scrum as long as possible, and by the time it is cleared out, there are no Eels left in the scrum, all having broken early.
75 min: VIDEO REF - Possible Cowboys Try...
75 min: TRY North Queensland Cowboys Relative unknown Anthony Watts caps a fine game from the bench with the first try of his NRL career. Tronc, in being held up in a tackle, gets stripped of the ball. While everyone is standing around, waiting for the referee to make his call, Watts pounces on the ball and races 30 metres untouched for the try. Conversion attempt by Johnathan Thurston successful. North Queensland Cowboys 38-10
78 min: TRY Parramatta Eels Parramatta finally make use of an attacking set, sending Tautai over in the corner for his first try in first grade. Conversion attempt by Luke Burt unsuccessful. North Queensland Cowboys 38-14
FULL TIME And it's full time here, with the Cowboys having run the cleaners through the Eels, running out winners 38 points to 14.


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For the New York Giants, playing the Philadelphia Eagles is a long-shot last chance at making the playoffs.
For the New York Giants, playing the Philadelphia Eagles is a long-shot last chance at making the playoffs.
For Andy Reid, it's probably a last chance in Philly.
The Giants (8-7) try to finish what has turned into a frustrating season on a good note Sunday when they face Philadelphia (4-11) in what likely will be Reid's final game as Eagles head coach.
Having blown a 6-2 start and two-game, late November lead in the NFC East, the defending Super Bowl champions need to beat the Eagles, have Minnesota and Chicago lose and have the Redskins either beat or tie Dallas just to get a wild-card berth.
It's not likely, especially after being torched the past two weeks by Atlanta and Baltimore by a combined 67-14.
"The last two weeks have been pretty embarrassing," said Lawrence Tynes, who kicked the Giants into the Super Bowl twice in the past five seasons. "There is no other word to say when you go out and play like we have. It's not a reflection of our head coach or this organization, and what they have done in the past. It puts a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, so we have to play better. We have to dig down deep and figure something out between now and Sunday to at least go out, if we are not in the playoffs, thinking: 'OK, I played well the last game of the year."'
Turning things around against the Eagles is not going to be easy. Philadelphia has won seven of the last eight against the Giants, including a 19-17 win in late September, just before the Eagles fell apart.
Making things even tougher will be how much the Eagles will be motivated to send Reid out a winner. They also will have Michael Vick returning to the starting lineup for the first time since suffering a concussion against Dallas in early November.
Giants defensive captain Justin Tuck saw the irony in Vick's return, especially because he has always made life miserable for the defense.
"They are going to be fired up," Tuck said. "We expect to get their best shot, no question. Regardless if it is Andy Reid's last game or whatever it may be, Vick there, whoever, this rivalry between these two teams, it always means something. I expect it to be one of those old-school Philly versus Giants football games."
Reid refused to discuss his future, saying he had not even thought of this as his final game as coach.
"I normally don't do those kinds of things; it's hard to look forward and look behind in this business, so you just look straight ahead and at the opponent," Reid said. "We've got the holiday weekend and all that stuff going on, so I'm really focused in on just getting ready for the Giants."
The past two seasons have been brutal and tragic for Reid.
The Eagles became the NFC's anointed team in 2011 after a free-agent spending spree. They came up way short with an 8-8 record — they needed to win their final four games to get there — and didn't make the playoffs.
Before this season started, Garrett Reid, the coach's troubled 29-year-old son, was found dead in a dorm room at the club's Lehigh University training camp.
After a 3-1 start, the Eagles fell apart.
Philadelphia safety Kurt Coleman said the team will fight for their coach Sunday.
"Coach has given us so much," Coleman said. "To go through what he's gone through and to continue to fight for us, we're not going to stop fighting for him. That's not what's going to happen. We're going to prepare (because) we want to get this one bad. We really do.
"I don't want to say this is going to be his last game. I hope it's not so I just want to finish this season strong and hope for the best."
Defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins said the Eagles would like nothing better than to go out with a win and avoid what would be Reid's lowest victory total since taking over as coach in 1999.
"Andy had a hand in bringing everybody here in," Jenkins said. "Obviously, he put faith in us and had a lot of trust in us. We haven't been able to live up to the expectations of the coaches or the fans. We still have to try and give whatever else we can give right now. The only thing we can do is to try and get a win in the last game."
The Giants also want to end the season on a high note, especially after losing five of seven in the second half of the season.
"We're not defeated," safety Antrel Rolle said. "We still have one game to go in the season and we know no matter what the outcome will be after that game, we're going to go out there and fight extremely hard. Like you said, we're playing against the Eagles. We're playing against a division rival, we're going out there and playing a game and trying to be as effective as we can."
Defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka still believes.
"It's not all gone yet," he said. "We're still looking forward. At the end of the season we'll reflect and see where things went wrong. But for right now, it's about getting a win and doing what we have to do so if things happen to fall how we want them, we're still in a position to get to the playoffs."