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When using the X Window System, you can create multiple windows at the X level in a single Emacs session. Each X window that belongs to Emacs displays a frame which can contain one or several Emacs windows. A frame initially contains a single general-purpose Emacs window which you can subdivide vertically or horizontally into smaller windows. A frame normally contains its own echo area and minibuffer, but you can make frames that don't have these--they use the echo area and minibuffer of another frame.
Editing you do in one frame also affects the other frames. For instance, if you put text in the kill ring in one frame, you can yank it in another frame. If you exit Emacs through C-x C-c in one frame, it terminates all the frames. To delete just one frame, use C-x 5 0.
To avoid confusion, we reserve the word "window" for the subdivisions that Emacs implements, and never use it to refer to a frame.
The mouse commands for selecting and copying a region are mostly
compatible with the
xterm program. You can use the same mouse
commands for copying between Emacs and other X client programs.
This is normally the left button.
mouse-set-region). You can specify both ends of
the region with this single command.
If you move the mouse off the top or bottom of the window while
dragging, the window scrolls at a steady rate until you move the mouse
back into the window. This way, you can select regions that don't fit
entirely on the screen. The number of lines scrolled per step depends
on how far away from the window edge the mouse has gone; the variable
mouse-scroll-min-lines specifies a minimum step size.
This is normally the middle button.
mouse-save-then-kill, has several functions
depending on where you click and the status of the region.
The most basic case is when you click Mouse-1 in one place and
then Mouse-3 in another. This selects the text between those two
positions as the region. It also copies the new region to the kill
ring, so that you can copy it to someplace else.
If you click Mouse-1, scroll with the scroll bar, and then click
Mouse-3, it remembers where point was before scrolling (where you
put it with Mouse-1), and uses that position as the other end of
the region. This is so that you can select a region that doesn't fit
entirely on the screen.
More generally, if you do not have a highlighted region, Mouse-3
selects the text between point and the click position as the region. It
does this by setting the mark where point was, and moving point to where
you click.
If you have a highlighted region, or if the region was set just before
by dragging button 1, Mouse-3 adjusts the nearer end of the region
by moving it to where you click. The adjusted region's text also
replaces the old region's text in the kill ring.
If you originally specified the region using a double or triple
Mouse-1, so that the region is defined to consist of entire words
or lines, then adjusting the region with Mouse-3 also proceeds by
entire words or lines.
If you use Mouse-3 a second time consecutively, at the same place,
that kills the region already selected.
The simplest way to kill text with the mouse is to press Mouse-1 at one end, then press Mouse-3 twice at the other end. See section Deletion and Killing. To copy the text into the kill ring without deleting it from the buffer, press Mouse-3 just once--or just drag across the text with Mouse-1. Then you can copy it elsewhere by yanking it.
To yank the killed or copied text somewhere else, move the mouse there
and press Mouse-2. See section Yanking. However, if
mouse-yank-at-point is non-
nil, Mouse-2 yanks at
point. Then it does not matter precisely where you click; all that
matters is which window you click on. The default value is
This variable also effects yanking the secondary selection.
To copy text to another X window, kill it or save it in the kill ring. Under X, this also sets the primary selection. Then use the "paste" or "yank" command of the program operating the other window to insert the text from the selection.
To copy text from another X window, use the "cut" or "copy" command of the program operating the other window, to select the text you want. Then yank it in Emacs with C-y or Mouse-2.
When Emacs puts text into the kill ring, or rotates text to the front
of the kill ring, it sets the primary selection in the X server.
This is how other X clients can access the text. Emacs also stores the
text in the cut buffer, but only if the text is short enough
x-cut-buffer-max specifies the maximum number of characters);
putting long strings in the cut buffer can be slow.
The commands to yank the first entry in the kill ring actually check first for a primary selection in another program; after that, they check for text in the cut buffer. If neither of those sources provides text to yank, the kill ring contents are used.
The secondary selection is another way of selecting text using X. It does not use point or the mark, so you can use it to kill text without setting point or the mark.
mouse-set-secondary). The highlighting appears and changes as
you drag.
If you move the mouse off the top or bottom of the window while
dragging, the window scrolls at a steady rate until you move the mouse
back into the window. This way, you can mark regions that don't fit
entirely on the screen.
mouse-secondary-save-then-kill). A second click
at the same place kills the secondary selection just made.
mouse-kill-secondary). This places point at the end of the
yanked text.
Double or triple clicking of M-Mouse-1 operates on words and lines, much like Mouse-1.
mouse-yank-at-point is non-
nil, M-Mouse-2
yanks at point. Then it does not matter precisely where you click; all
that matters is which window you click on. See section Mouse Commands for Editing.
Some Emacs buffers display lists of various sorts. These include lists of files, of buffers, of possible completions, of matches for a pattern, and so on.
Since yanking text into these buffers is not very useful, most of them define Mouse-2 specially, as a command to use or view the item you click on.
For example, if you click Mouse-2 on a file name in a Dired buffer, you visit the that file. If you click Mouse-2 on an error message in the `*Compilation*' buffer, you go to the source code for that error message. If you click Mouse-2 on a completion in the `*Completions*' buffer, you choose that completion.
You can usually tell when Mouse-2 has this special sort of meaning because the sensitive text highlights when you move the mouse over it.
Mouse clicks modified with the CONTROL and SHIFT keys bring up menus.
You can use mouse clicks on window mode lines to select and manipulate windows.
C-Mouse-2 on a scroll bar splits the corresponding window vertically. See section Splitting Windows.
The prefix key C-x 5 is analogous to C-x 4, with parallel subcommands. The difference is that C-x 5 commands create a new frame rather than just a new window in the selected frame (See section Displaying in Another Window). If an existing visible or iconified frame already displays the requested material, these commands use the existing frame, after raising or deiconifying as necessary.
The various C-x 5 commands differ in how they find or create the buffer to select:
find-file-other-frame. See section Visiting Files.
dired-other-frame. See section Dired, the Directory Editor.
mail-other-frame. It is the other-frame variant of C-x m.
See section Sending Mail.
find-tag-other-frame, the multiple-frame variant of M-..
See section Tags Tables.
See section Visiting Files.
You can control the appearance of new frames you create by setting the
frame parameters in
default-frame-alist. You can use the
initial-frame-alist to specify parameters that affect
only the initial frame. See section `Initial Parameters' in The Emacs Lisp Manual, for more information.
A single Emacs can talk to more than one X Windows display.
Initially, Emacs uses just one display--the one specified with the
DISPLAY environment variable or with the `--display' option
(see section Initial Options). To connect to another display, use the
A single X server can handle more than one screen. When you open frames on two screens belonging to one server, Emacs knows they share a single keyboard, and it treats all the commands arriving from these screens as a single stream of input.
When you open frames on different X servers, Emacs makes a separate input stream for each server. This way, two users can type simultaneously on the two displays, and Emacs will not garble their input. Each server also has its own selected frame. The commands you enter with a particular X server apply to that server's selected frame.
Despite these features, people using the same Emacs job from different displays can still interfere with each other if they are not careful. For example, if any one types C-x C-c, that exits the Emacs job for all of them!
You can make certain chosen buffers, for which Emacs normally creates
a second window when you have just one window, appear in special frames
of their own. To do this, set the variable
special-display-buffer-names to a list of buffer names; any
buffer whose name is in that list automatically gets a special frame,
when an Emacs command wants to display it "in another window."
For example, if you set the variable this way,
(setq special-display-buffer-names '("*Completions*" "*grep*" "*tex-shell*"))
then completion lists,
grep output and the TeX mode shell
buffer get individual frames of their own. These frames, and the
windows in them, are never automatically split or reused for any other
buffers. They continue to show the buffers they were created for,
unless you alter them by hand. Killing the special buffer deletes its
frame automatically.
More generally, you can set
special-display-regexps to a list
of regular expressions; then a buffer gets its own frame if its name
matches any of those regular expressions. (Once again, this applies only
to buffers that normally get displayed for you in a separate window.)
The variable
special-display-frame-alist specifies the frame
parameters for these frames. It has a default value, so you don't need
to set it.
For those who know Lisp, an element of
special-display-buffer-names or
can also be a list. Then the first element is the buffer name or
regular expression; the rest of the list specifies how to create the
frame. It can be an association list specifying frame parameter values;
these values take precedence over parameter values specified in
special-display-frame-alist. Alternatively, it can have this
(function args...)
where function is a symbol. Then the frame is constructed by calling function; its first argument is the buffer, and its remaining arguments are args.
This section describes commands for altering the display style and window management behavior of the selected frame.
modeline face also, so
that it remains in inverse video compared with the default.
auto-raise-mode has no effect on
auto-lower-mode has no effect on auto-lower
implemented by the X window manager. To control that, you must use
the appropriate window manager features.
In Emacs versions that use an X toolkit, the color-setting and font-setting functions don't affect menus and the menu bar, since they are displayed by their own widget classes. To change the appearance of the menus and menu bar, you must use X resources (see section X Resources). See section Window Color Options, regarding colors. See section Font Specification Options, regarding choice of font.
For information on frame parameters and customization, see section `Frame Parameters' in The Emacs Lisp Manual.
When using X, Emacs normally makes a scroll bar at the right of each Emacs window. The scroll bar runs the height of the window, and shows a moving rectangular inner box which represents the portion of the buffer currently displayed. The entire height of the scroll bar represents the entire length of the buffer.
You can use Mouse-2 (normally, the middle button) in the scroll bar to move or drag the inner box up and down. If you move it to the top of the scroll bar, you see the top of the buffer. If you move it to the bottom of the scroll bar, you see the bottom of the buffer.
The left and right buttons in the scroll bar scroll by controlled increments. Mouse-1 (normally, the left button) moves the line at the level where you click up to the top of the window. Mouse-3 (normally, the right button) moves the line at the top of the window down to the level where you click. By clicking repeatedly in the same place, you can scroll by the same distance over and over.
Aside from scrolling, you can also click C-Mouse-2 in the scroll bar to split a window vertically. The split occurs on the line where you click.
You can enable or disable Scroll Bar mode with the command M-x scroll-bar-mode. With no argument, it toggles the use of scroll bars. With an argument, it turns use of scroll bars on if and only if the argument is positive. This command applies to all frames, including frames yet to be created. You can use the X resource `verticalScrollBars' to control the initial setting of Scroll Bar mode. See section X Resources.
To enable or disable scroll bars for just the selected frame, use the M-x toggle-scroll-bar command.
By default, each Emacs frame has a menu bar at the top which you can use to perform certain common operations. There's no need to describe them in detail here, as you can more easily see for yourself; also, we may change them and add to them in subsequent Emacs versions.
When you are using a window system, you can use the mouse to choose a
command from the menu bar. On text-only terminals, you can use the menu
bar by typing M-` (
tmm-menubar). This enters a mode in
which you can select a menu item from the keyboard. Either type the
initial of the item you want, or use the left and right arrow keys to
choose an item and use RET to finalize the choice.
Each of the operations in the menu bar is bound to an ordinary Emacs command which you can invoke equally well with M-x or with its own key bindings. The menu lists one equivalent key binding (if the command has any) at the right margin. To see the command's name and documentation, type C-h k and then select the menu bar item you are interested in.
You can turn display of menu bars on or off with M-x menu-bar-mode. With no argument, this command toggles Menu Bar mode, a minor mode. With an argument, the command turns Menu Bar mode on if the argument is positive, off if the argument is not positive. You can use the X resource `menuBarLines' to control the initial setting of Menu Bar mode. See section X Resources. Expert users often turn off the menu bar, especially on text-only terminals where this makes one additional line available for text.
When using Emacs with X, you can set up multiple styles of displaying characters. The aspects of style that you can control are the type font, the foreground color, the background color, and whether to underline. Emacs 19.29 does not support faces on MS-DOS, but future versions may support them partially (see section MS-DOS Issues).
The way you control display style is by defining named faces. Each face can specify a type font, a foreground color, a background color, and an underline flag; but it does not have to specify all of them.
The style of display used for a given character in the text is determined by combining several faces. Any aspect of the display style that isn't specified by overlays or text properties comes from the frame itself.
Enriched mode, the mode for editing formatted text, includes several commands and menus for specifying faces. See section Faces in Formatted Text, for how to specify the font for text in the buffer. See section Colors in Formatted Text, for how to specify the foreground and background color.
To see what faces are currently defined, and what they look like, type M-x list-faces-display. It's possible for a given face to look different in different frames; this command shows the appearance in the frame in which you type it. Here's a list of the standardly defined faces:
When Transient Mark mode is enabled, the text of the region is
highlighted when the mark is active. This uses the face named
region; you can control the style of highlighting by changing the
style of this face (see section Modifying Faces). See section Transient Mark Mode,
for more information about Transient Mark mode and activation and
deactivation of the mark.
One easy way to use faces is to turn on Font-Lock mode. This minor mode, which is always local to a particular buffer, arranges to choose faces according to the syntax of the text you are editing. It can recognize comments and strings in most languages; in several languages, it can also recognize and properly highlight various other important constructs--for example, names of functions being defined.
Font-Lock mode is a minor mode. The command M-x font-lock-mode
turns the mode on or off. The function
unconditionally enables Font-Lock mode. This is useful in mode-hook
functions. For example, to enable Font-Lock mode whenever you edit a C
file, you can do this:
(add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
To get the full benefit of Font-Lock mode, you need to choose a
default font which has bold, italic, and bold-italic variants; or else
you need to have a color or grayscale screen. The variable
font-lock-display-type specifies whether Font-Lock mode should
use font styles, colors, or shades of gray to distinguish the various
kinds of text. Emacs chooses the default value according to the
characteristics of your display.
The variable
font-lock-maximum-size specifies a buffer size
beyond which Font-Lock mode is suppressed (lest it take too long). The
font-lock-maximum-decoration specifies the preferred
level of fontification for modes that provide multiple levels. The
normal default is 1; larger numbers request more fontification, and some
modes support levels as high as 3. These variables can also specify
different numbers for particular major modes; for example, to use level
3 for C/C++ modes, and the default level otherwise, use this:
(setq font-lock-maximum-decoration '((c-mode . 3) (c++-mode . 3)))
You can print out the buffer with the highlighting that appears
on your screen using the command
See section Postscript Hardcopy.
Here are the commands for changing the font of a face:
Here are the commands for setting the colors and underline flag of a face:
You can also use X resources to specify attributes of particular faces. See section X Resources.
The following commands let you create, delete and operate on frames:
iconify-or-deiconify-frame). The normal meaning of C-z,
to suspend Emacs, is not useful under a window system, so it has a
different binding in that case.
If you type this command on an Emacs frame's icon, it deiconifies the frame.
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Five positives for India from the Indore Test Match
India completed an outstanding victory at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore beating New Zealand by a margin of 321 runs, winning the series 3-0 in the process. This is the second biggest win for India in terms of runs.
Indore, in its first ever Test match, played witness to a belligerent display by the Indians as they outplayed the Black Caps in all the departments of the game. In what was a complete performance, we look at five most pleasing aspects for the winners:
#5 Gambhir impresses in comeback Test
When Gautam Gambhir came into the squad after the first Test, many Indians were hoping he would get a game. And as luck had it, Shikhar Dhawan injured his thumb in the second Test, paving a way for the Delhi opener to make his international comeback after 2 years of exile.
He looked good in the first innings, pulling two Matt Henry deliveries over the square-leg boundary for sixes, but could not capitalize on a good start, as he was caught plumb by a Trent Boult delivery. Then, he injured his shoulder while fielding and it looked like his comeback would end in disappointment.
But the 34-year-old came out to bat in the second innings, and after another injury setback on Day 3, he absolutely stamped his authority on the Kiwis at a time when India needed quick runs on the fourth morning. He took the game to the New Zealand bowlers playing some exquisite cover drives and cut shots as he looked to up the ante. Soon he reached his half century, his 22nd in Tests.
He got out soon after looking to hit out against Jeetan Patel, but the team management will be pleased with this knock and so will he. Question marks persist about his new technique, with his open stance expected to cause trouble against balls that tail in, but his approach and mentality needs to be commended. It will be a good selection headache for the selectors ahead of the England series which starts next month.


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When I try to open the docs for oa-openid-0.3.2, I get a repeated message that is is building the pages and will open just as soon as it completes. After a second or two the page refreshes with the same message. I let it run for 10 minutes like this before giving up. Any idea what's going on?
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Data increases every year, so the solution needs to grow with it. With tape and disk, that equates to spending more of the budget on additional tapes and disk space, not to mention finding a place to store them offsite. One of the benefits of backing up to the cloud is that cloud storage capacity grows along with data, so there is no need to manage or buy any additional equipment or hardware. For a monthly fee, data is automatically and simultaneously backed up to the cloud and locally. That allows the IT admin to focus on other tasks, and saves the budget for more important endeavors.
Keeping Data Safe: No Staff, Even More Problems
Since many schools use solutions like tape backup, the school IT department ends up having to spend a lot of time managing those backups. Frequently switching between tapes (which are prone to being damaged and losing data) is time-consuming enough. Having to find a lost file by going through countless tapes can take hours or even days – assuming the file is still on the tapes at all. This task is not just frustrating, but also a major waste of already-limited admin time.
With online backup, daily backups are automatically scheduled to occur, so IT admins need not get involved. As there are no physical copies to manage, the process doesn't require a lot of (or really, any) human intervention, which in itself can save an IT department hours of managing system backups. Cloud offers significant time benefits for recovery as well. If a single file is lost, the admin can recover it directly from the cloud via a web-based management console in a manner of minutes.
Disaster Recovery & Large Datasets: More Data, Still More Problems
Most organizations, educational or otherwise, have to contend with continually increasing dataset size. Big data can be hard to manage when it comes to doing daily backups with a solution that can finish those backups in a timely manner.
Like we mentioned earlier, tape and other physical backup solutions become problematic when it comes to managing more data, because they do not scale and grow along with it. Increasing capacity with physical backups gets pricy fast because it involves having to buy more hardware every time the dataset gets too big.
If the large dataset size means the backup system cannot handle completing backups within the daily backup window, that also becomes a major issue – it means having to choose between backing up less data, or risking losing more data in case of disaster by extending the window. The unfortunate IT admin responsible must choose between the lesser of two evils.
Enter, DR in the cloud. Backing up large datasets to the cloud can be problematic with many service providers because transferring all of that data can take a really long time, and go over the allotted daily backup window. The good news is that not all online backup solutions work the same way. With Zetta's cloud disaster recovery architecture, the solution is built to be able to transfer large datasets to and from the cloud through incremental backup and parallelization. Zetta Data Protection can transfer up to 5TB in 24 hours, so depending on which solution a school decides to go with, having to choose between what to back up and not can become a problem of the past for IT departments.
IT admins really don't have it easy with everything they need to do on a daily basis in the limited time they have in any given day. But it's important to keep in mind that their roles are becoming more important as technology becomes an integral part of keeping educational institutions running. Implementing cloud DR can help alleviate most, if not all of the painstaking tasks involved in managing backups, and really just makes life easier for everyone – and who doesn't want that?
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On October the 1st, Ascom announced the release of our new Smartphone the Ascom Myco – "My companion".
We're really excited about Myco, it's a smartphone designed for nurses & clinicians. Myco has all the standard features of a smartphone, such as a touch screen, 3G and Wi-Fi, but in addition it has a robust design for withstanding knocks and drops, and also moisture and dust for maintaining hygiene.
Additional features include, a top display that can show scrolling messages and a coloured LED to show the priority of the message. A Barcode reader enables patient and medicine identification for improved safety using current and coming technologies.
We focused on three important areas: to reduce alarm fatigue, mobilise the information to the point of care and improve clinical workflows.
The official launch event of the Ascom Myco will be held at the below states:
- Melbourne November 10th
- Brisbane November 11th
- Sydney November 12th
There will be live demonstrations, exciting guest speakers and a great chance to meet the team and find more on what we have installed for MYCO.
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A DOT that Wants You to Drive Less
Why would the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) sponsor such a challenge?
Reducing congestion is understandable, as that's in the mission of most state DOTs, but ODOT's goals were also to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fuel use by reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT), according to the AASHTO Journal.
The campaign, which ran from Oct. 21-Nov. 1, encouraged Oregon drivers to seek other forms of transportation for those 12 days, including walking, biking, taking public transportation, or carpooling. ODOT's goal was to eliminate 500,000 vehicle miles traveled by single drivers from the roadways.
The outcome surpassed ODOT's goals. According to their report, "thousands of participants cut more than 900,000 miles during that 12-day period. Those vehicle miles were reduced in many ways, as participants logged 21,885 bike trips, 12,500 carpool occurrences, 9,902 bus rides, 2,561 light rail trips, 147 streetcar rides, 7,805 walking trips, 2,106 telework instances, and 990 vanpool trips."
The result: "Elimination of 652,960 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions while saving 33,608 gallons of gas and $223,479." ODOT is contributing to the state effort "to reduce these emissions to levels 75 percent below those experienced in 1990 by 2050. The Drive Less Challenge was created to have an impact on those numbers while also creating more awareness for citizens of their transportation options and behaviors," writes AASHTO.
As we posted here earlier, Oregon signed the Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy (PDF) on Oct. 28 to reduce these emissions. And then there's ODOT's commitment to intermodalism that we described here last May. All of which makes ODOT not your typical DOT.
As for participants in the Challenge program, winners were rewarded with gifts that included a $2,600 credit for a custom-built folding bike and annual transit passes,
Correspondent's note: It appears that ODOT refers to both the Oregon Department of Transportation and Ohio DOT. Confusing?


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pointy pointy guitar looking somewhat like a mutated B.C.Rich Mockingbird is a one-off creation (sorry, I don't know who made it) and is currently being offered for sale on eBay UK, although the seller isn't willing to post - the guitar must be picked up from Stamford, Lincolnshire, UK. The guitar looks to be very competently built judging by the photos (obviously you'd need to get your hands on it to pass better judgement) and features and oak body, walnut neck, with an African ebony fretboard, 24 frets, and a metallic graphite finish.
This is a guitar that screams loud and clear that it is intended for a specific type of music. It's not one you'd expect a country picker to play, although I'd love to see that.
Currently listed on eBay UK with a Buy It Now price of £350.
G L Wilson
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A very pointy one-off guitar surely aimed at the heavy metal player
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FORT LAUDERDALE — Anthony Gillette spotted the first passengers to disembark from the two yachts. ``Well, we`ve got some beautiful young ladies here,`` he smiled.
Gillette, who owns the Historic Bryan Homes Restaurant on the New River, got to pose for pictures with the 51 fresh-faced Miss Teen U.S.A. candidates as they docked for a luncheon Sunday.
But some people, like bartender Steve Catanese, only got to glimpse the bevy of young women who are vying for the crown in the third annual pageant.
``I didn`t see her sash (naming her state), but the girl in the all-blue pants suit with the blond hair, blunt cut -- I think she even had freckles -- she`s really pretty,`` said Catanese. ``They`re all really pretty.``
Making their only appearance in Broward County, the contestants from all 50 states and the District of Columbia took a 90-minute ride on the Intracoastal Waterway and the New River on their way to the restaurant. One yacht that carried them was Lady Encore, owned by recording star Barbara Mandrell.
Weeks of smiling for photographers, and appearances at luncheons, dinners and dozens of other engagements will culminate Jan. 22 at 9 p.m. when the pageant will be broadcast live from the James L. Knight Center in Miami before an estimated 800 million viewers.
Lunch began with a fresh Florida fruit salad and cream of tomato soup. Breast of chicken Tanis and black cream swans for dessert followed.
``I`m planning to pig out my first week and diet my last week,`` said Kelly Hu, 16, of Honolulu, as she buttered a piece of nut bread.


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Then look at todays front page
The Sun only backs winners. Cameron and Osborne are toast.
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"This is our chance to make Britain even greater, to recapture our democracy, to preserve the values & culture we are rightly proud of"
Sun: "Vote Leave, and we will reassert our sovereignty - embracing a future as a self-governing, powerful nation envied by all" #TakeControl
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Monday, 13 June 2016
Time to leave the burning building,great piece from Trevor Kavanagh
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It is I suspect less of The Sun backing winners (which they could have publicly predicted at the beginning of the campaign) and more a case of knowing which way the wind is blowing. On this issue the Sun is not wrong. You can be sure that if remain were in the lead the Sun would be pressuring their readers to vote Remain
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Herbarium is a collection of plants with amazing photos (iPhone Optimized) and details (scientific name, light, description, type, dimensions). You can zoom in photos, visualize them in slideshow mode, mark them as favorites, compare, share with friends, the application offers a Quiz game for you to check your knowledge. With Herbarium you posses one of the vastest, well structured plant collection available.
- 1000 plants with awesome photos (iPhone Optimized) and details
- Slideshow mode
- Super zoom
- Quiz game
- Compare
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- Gestures navigation (next / prev - swipe right / left)
- Save to photo library
- Real time availability, no matter where you are, even without an internet connection.
Herbarium is your essential guide to plants from all over the world. With in-depth information and photos on 1000 plants provides invaluable species information right in your hand.
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I'm using ScummVM on a Treo 680 and it works quite well (can't get sounds on mokey2, but it doesn't matter at the moment).
My problem is that while I'm playing the device clock seems to be locked, i.e. when I exit the clock still shows the time that was showing when I started. So, if I tart to paly at 20:00 and play for half an hour, when I exit the clock still shows 20:00.
Anyone can help?
Well, just to let everyone know: the annoying problem doesn't seems to manifest itself every time, after upgrading the phone firmware it seems somewhat more stable.
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From logs emailed by the Quincy Police Department at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 11 and 5:34 a.m. Jan. 12.
18-00398 Arrest Helen S Cook (58) 1223 Madison for Failure to Report an Accident at 3828 Broadway on 1/4/18.
17-36173 Arrest/Lodged Brenda L Jackson (34) 924 Payson Ave for Domestic Battery that occurred at 706 Jackson on 12/24/17. She was lodged on 1/11/18.
Traffic Jeremy L. Pipkin, 44, Quincy for Leaving the Scene of an Accident and Improper Lane Usage from a traffic crash on 01/07/18 - cash bond
Andrew A. Brink, 30, Quincy for Leaving the Scene of an Accident and Improper Lane Usage from a traffic crash on 01/07/18 - NTA
18-00930 warrant arrest John Thomas (44) 2903 Kingsridge Quincy, IL for no valid DL and operating uninsured and on a Lawrence County, MO warrant for FTA- possession of a controlled substance at 8th and York on 1-11-18. Cash and Lodged.
18-00984 Warrant/Traffic Sam J Douglas, 23, Quincy for No Insurance and Expired Registration - NTA Also arrested on Scott County warrant for FTA - Consumption of alcohol by a minor - cash
18-01000 Arrest Ashley R Hawkins (31) 205 Stadium Dr for Expired Registration at 10th & Hampshire PTC
18-00995 Arrest Timothy L Musick (51) Homeless for FTA Trespassing, FTA Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Pike Co FTA Driving While License Suspended FTA Operating Uninsured Vehicle at 1005 Broadway Lodged
18-00978 Arrest Dakotah A Sigler (26) LaBelle Mo for Disobey Stop Light at 8th & Broadway NTA
18-00982 Arrest Christian R Riggs (18) Clayton Il for Operating Uninsured Vehicle at 12th & Maine NTA
18-01033 Arrest / Lodged Richard E. Bias (39) and Natalie R. Shepherd (28) were arrested for Possession of Controlled Substance after a traffic stop at 6th and Oak.
18-01014 Arrest / Warrant Zachary A. Hull II (24) was arrested on warrants for Unlawful Possession w/ Intent to Deliver Cannabis and FTA Operating Uninsured Vehicle. Lodged


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The Owner. on 08/06/2011
The previous 'reports' are malicious lies posted by 1 person. These apartments are CLEAN and well kept. It's amazing how someone can post blatant lies and remain anonymous. What I find more disturbing is that this misinformation can be posted by the site host without any evidence.
Anonymous on 06/08/2009
At least 3 units in this 12 unit apartment have been affected.
The landlord is not pro-active in getting rid of the bedbugs. He has sprayed one apartment, which resulted in the bedbugs moving into another apartment. All units really need to be treated at the same time to have any effect.
The building is old with separated baseboards from hard wood floors, giving bedbugs free reign of the building. Soon every unit will be infested.
Anonymous on 02/22/2009
Tenants moving out in droves as the bedbugs move in...
Owner does not care about bedbugs. Does care about his rent checks however.
You have been warned!
Anonymous on 02/07/2009
Bedbugs happened. Brought in by other tenants. Landlord didn't care. Wont spray. Be warned.
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How to play Spin the Eyeball Game
Shoot bubbles and create groups of 3 or more of the same bubbles to remove them from the game. Remove all bubbles to advance to the next level.
Spin the Eyeball game controls
fire = left_mouse;jump = na;movement = mouse;
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Spooky Bubble Spinner Game.


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1. I am married and live in Dracut MA with my wife and 10 year old daughter who is a dancer and my 12 year old son who is a soccer player.
2. I graduated from UMass-Lowell with my PT degree.
3. I've lived in several different places but moved back to my hometown of Dracut when I got married and we decided to have children.
4. I have coached my kids in soccer, baseball, and basketball. I don't understand soccer any more now than I did 10 years ago.
5. When I have time I enjoy mountain and road biking, skiing and snowboarding, hiking and kayaking.
6. I used to love snowboarding Tuckerman's Ravine but now my knees and my wife won't let me.
7. I used to mountain bike race when I lived in Arizona, a long time ago.
8. My son and I are both black belts in Tae Kwon Do, earning them about 30 years apart.
9. I am a horrible cook except I make great homemade pizza.
10. My family loves Disney World and we have been several times, and the kids ask when we are going again as soon as we get back.


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My name is Paige Myers. I live in Akron, Ohio with my parents, my younger brother Jared, and our sheltie Zoe. We also have a blue parakeet named Buddy. I read a lot growing up. I'm of the age that I grew up alongside Harry Potter, so naturally I think that is the best thing ever.
I was diagnosed with FA when I was 9. We had just moved to a new school district, and my teacher noticed a subtle abnormality with my walking and suggested I be checked for scoliosis (ironically, to this day I've never had scoliosis). My family doctor saw the telltale neurological signs, and a cardiology and neurology appointment quickly confirmed FA. The entire diagnosis process took only a matter of months.
Fast-forward a few years to when I was 12. I got very sick—completely unrelated to FA, probably an aggressive flu or something—but it knocked me off my feet for two weeks. That was long enough that I could no longer walk unassisted after that. I started using a walker. For a while the walker provided adequate support, and I could even go short distances without it. I would normally leave it by the door of the classroom and walk around inside by myself.
I "walked" until the end of my junior year. I put that in quotation marks because I had truly lost the ability to walk long before that. By my junior year, I was putting the majority of my weight through my arms, and I had to have an aide next to me at all times to grab me when I lost my balance, which was a lot. I definitely should not have been walking. But I'm very stubborn, and the administration didn't help when they tried to convince me to use a wheelchair because that only made me more determined not to.
I've come to realize that a large part of why the transition to a wheelchair was so difficult for me is the finality of thing. I understand very well the nature of a progressive disease, and especially now that I haven't walked for several years I know I might not walk again. That's not what bothers me exactly, though. I was never an athletic person, and I'm still not. I have no desire to be. It's not who I am. While of course that doesn't make the wheelchair ideal, it's not horrible either. My problem with making the transition was more that I felt like I would be letting the progression win.
But I don't feel that way any more. When I was starting my senior year in high school, I decided I was almost 18 and did not want to be so reliant on aides anymore, so I started using a wheelchair. I gained back a lot of independence and confidence. I don't at all regret my determination to walk as long as possible, but I was more than ready to make the transition, and I'm very happy I did!
I was really scared to talk about FA for a long time. In fact, even most of my current friends don't know more than the basics. I used to avoid FA totally; I went so far as to even deny it when directly asked about it (I now find that quite ridiculous). I'm not scared of it anymore, more like I just don't know how to talk about it. FARA Ambassadors is my first effort to get myself more involved in the FA community, and I'm very excited about this next step.
I've talked a lot about FA stuff here, but I really don't let it define my life. Like I said, I never talked to most of my friends about this. Mostly it just never came up. I'm definitely going to try to change that, but when I'm with people I don't think about it much. FA is part of my life, but not all of it! In my freshmen year of high school, I took my first biology class, and I've loved biology ever since! I'm currently working on my undergrad in systems biology with a concentration in cellular and molecular biology at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduation, I plan on continuing into a graduate program in either genetic counseling or genetics (with which I would run clinical trials).
I also love history. I took U.S. history in my freshman year of high school also, and toward the end of the year we did a project where we interviewed someone who was alive during WWII. Though this was U.S. history and an ethnic German who lived in Yugoslavia at the beginning of the war is obviously not American, I got permission to interview my grandpa anyway. I found it really interesting, so European history is my second major interest.
In my free time, I explore attractions and neighborhoods in Cleveland with my friends. Many of these areas are older and largely inaccessible, but people are always willing to help and we make it work! I'm also starting up a club at my school for disability advocacy, which was inspired by a panel I participated in the spring of my freshman year about living with a disability and its implications for school. I'm the president of that group, and I've spent a considerable amount of time trying to get us off the ground.


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WD® (NYSE: WDC), the world's leader in external storage solutions, today introduced the WD TV® Live Plus HD media player, which makes it easy for Netflix® members to instantly watch thousands of TV episodes and movies on the biggest screen in their home -- their HD television set. The new Netflix interface enables members to browse and add movies to their instant Queue on the Netflix Website right from their TV.
In addition to Netflix, the WD TV Live Plus HD media player also enables users to stream personalized Internet content from YouTube™, Flickr®, Pandora®, Live365™, as well as the MediaFly network which includes daily podcasts from CNN, NBC, MTV, ESPN® and other online content providers1. Unlike most other Netflix-capable devices, the WD TV Live Plus HD media player also lets consumers enjoy a broad variety of the digital media they already own, creating a unified entertainment experience.
The onscreen menu brings together all of the users' available media in an elegant and simple-to-navigate interface, while the network capability enables users to stream movies from PC or Mac® computers, USB storage devices such as My Passport® portable hard drives, My Book® desktop drives, or network-attached storage such as WD's My Book® World Edition™ and WD ShareSpace™ to their HDTVs. Compatible with Windows® 7, the WD TV Live Plus HD media player enables the Windows 7 Play To feature so users can initiate and control the streaming of video, music or photos to the media player and home entertainment systems from any Windows 7-based PC on their network.
The WD TV Live Plus HD media player fulfills consumers' growing demand for large libraries of digital videos, photos and music. According to research firm Parks Associates, the average broadband household will see its digital media storage needs grow to nearly 900 GB by year-end 2014. And users are increasingly looking for easy ways to enjoy the content on the big screen. Parks' findings reveal that the sales of connected consumer electronics devices, such as connected TVs and digital media adapters, is expected to more than double from 57 million units in 2009 to 115 million units in 2013 (Home Networks for Consumer Electronics 2009).
Similar to the popular generations of WD TV HD media players that preceded it, the WD TV Live Plus HD media player connects directly to a users' HDTV and plays almost any file stored on a connected USB drive such as My Passport portable hard drives. The WD TV Live Plus HD media player features powerful media processing, which enables playback in Full-HD 1080p resolution. WD TV Live Plus HD media player also plays movies, music and photos stored on other popular USB devices such as digital camcorders and digital cameras.
"Netflix has become a 'must have' for consumer electronics devices," said Netflix vice president of business development Bill Holmes. "We're proud to align with WD to include Netflix on WD's groundbreaking WD TV Live Plus HD media player."
"While Netflix can be found on an increasing number of products such as Internet TVs, Blu-ray Players, video game consoles, and other stand-alone devices, the WD TV Live Plus media player is unique as it allows digital media buffs to access and play all of their own personal HD media stored anywhere on their network or USB drives. At the same time they can easily stream Netflix, Pandora, YouTube and other Internet favorites to their HDTV," said Dale Pistilli, vice president of marketing for WD's branded products group.
WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player
Features of the WD TV Live Plus HD media player include:
Pricing and Availability
The WD TV Live Plus HD media player is available now at select retailers and online at shopwd.com. Covered by a 1-year limited warranty, the MSRP for WD TV Live Plus HD media player is $149.99 USD.
About WD
WD, one of the storage industry's pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users' data accessible and secure from loss. Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own consumer storage and media products.
WD was founded in 1970. The company's storage products are marketed to leading OEMs, systems manufacturers, selected resellers and retailers under the Western Digital® and WD brand names. Visit the Investor section of the company's website (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.
1 Availability varies by country. Netflix and Pandora are available in the U.S. only. Streaming services may be changed, terminated or interrupted at any time by the service providers.
2 WiFi adapter sold separately.
3 WD TV media players are optimized for use with My Passport portable hard drives.
4 Additional composite (RCA), and component outputs ensure compatibility with most television sets.
Western Digital, WD, WD TV, My Passport, My Book, and the WD logo are registered trademarks; World Edition is a trademark of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Other marks may be mentioned herein that belong to other companies. All other brand and product names mentioned herein are the property of their respective companies. One gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.


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Paul Costello said
Brilliant short break in Brittany on Le Boat from Messac. Very friendly and helpful staff. Beautiful river Very helpful staff and great location
A Clipper canal boat can accommodate parties of six. The cabins are at the bow and stern for enhanced privacy, and they have en-suite bathrooms. The saloon has a radio/CD player and MP3/USB connectivity. Ample windows keep the interior bright and cheery! Some models of this boat are equipped with a bow thruster.


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2015 Special Edition Ornament
The Main Street Ronceverte program would like to unveil its 7th edition ornament for 2015. This special edition is to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the Ronceverte C&O Depot and the recent restoration of the historic property.¬† The ornament will make its debut at the 1882 Heritage Days festival and will be sold at […] Continue Reading »
Calendar and Events
1882 Heritage Days / Ronceverte Depot Centennial
September 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2015 Event Schedule: Friday September 4th 9:00am-5:00pm Flea Market 5:00pm- Grand Opening of Ronceverte Museum 6:30 Parade-Island Park through Downtown 7:30pm-9:00pm- Squaredance Sponsored by the American Heritage Music Hall in Downtown Ronceverte Saturday September 5th ¬†8:00am- Registration for the 5K Dana Morgan Harrison Memorial Run Sponsored by STCA 9:00am-4:00pm- Ronceverte […] Continue Reading »
This is "My" Ronceverte
For the past year Ms. Arabeth Balasko has been diligently working on a wonderful oral history of our town of Ronceverte, WV. ¬†Please follow the link below to hear and see the stories of some of Ronceverte's residents. https://arabethbalasko.wordpress.com/ Share/Bookmark Continue Reading »
Christmas Open House
Don't forget this evening from 5 PM- 7 PM many of our local businesses will be staying open to offer refreshments before the annual Christmas Parade. Participating businesses will have balloons out front. JRS Video, located at 220 W. Edgar Avenue, will be filming the parade for purchase. Hope to see you there! Share/Bookmark Continue Reading »
New ornaments have arrived!
Ready for purchase!! The 1917 "The Smokestacks" The Virginia Western Power Co., later known as VEPCO, constructed a steam plant along the Greenbrier River on West Monroe Avenue in 1917. The small stack, standing over 200ft., was built first along with the building. The second stack was completed in 1923 and rose to […] Continue Reading »
Calendar and Events
Historic Coca-Cola Mural Restoration
Time:¬† July 9, 2014 5pm Place: 812 Monroe Street, Ronceverte, WV Refreshments (Coca-Cola products) Free. Celebrate with us!!! Share/Bookmark Continue Reading »
The Green Corridor Plan of Ronceverte, WV: WI-FI in the City!!
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Sharing Your Story
"Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future." -Corrie Ten Boom Have you lived in Ronceverte for 50 years (or more) or know anybody who has? Would you like to share your stories and experiences of growing up and living in Ronceverte? If you this sounds like something you would […] Continue Reading »
Ronceverte Eco Community Plan
¬†The Ronceverte Main Street program, along with Downstream Strategies have developed a plan¬†to encourage local economic growth and environmental sustainability. ¬† The framework for the plan is based on three primary components'ÄĒwater, energy, and community'ÄĒfocusing on storm water management, energy efficiency, renewable energy development, and enhancing quality of life for residents. ¬† The multiphase strategy […] Continue Reading »
Ronceverte Sustainability Fair
Sustainability Fair April 20 — 10am-4pm Clifford Community & Recreation Center Want to reduce your energy consumption and save money ? ¬†Interested in energy efficiency and renewable energy options ? Join us for our upcoming family-friendly energy fair that features exhibitors focusing on energy efficiency, recycling, and renewable energies such as solar and wind […] Continue Reading »
Super Sunday Football Party & Fundraiser
Ronceverte Development Corporation'Äôs Main Street Program Hosts Super Sunday Football Party & Fundraiser On Sunday February 3rd, 2013, the Ronceverte Development Corporation and its Main Street program will be hosting a gala Super Sunday Football party and fund raiser at the Clifford Recreation and Community Center (Clifford Armory) located in Ronceverte, WV. The event […] Continue Reading »
2012 Commerative Ornament Offered for Sale
Main Sreet Ronceverte annouces the release of their annual Christmas ornament with the 1928 Greenbrier High School building.¬† The ornament is the fourth in a series of historic landmarks in Ronceverte. Earlier ornaments included the C&O Depot, C&O coaling tower and Martin and Jones Hardware. The Ronceverte High School was established in 1896 and combined […] Continue Reading »
Main Street Ronceverte announces Recipients of Main Street Awards
Main Street Ronceverte announces Recipients of the Governors Main Street Awards On Thursday June 27, 2012, members of the Main Street community traveled to Charleston to attend the 2012 Governors Main Street Recognition awards held in the Cultural Center at the State Capitol Complex. Main Street Ronceverte would like to acknowledge the following recipients of […] Continue Reading »
Ronceverte Main Street Begins Planning Process
On July 12th the Ronceverte Main Street Program held it'Äôs 1st planning meeting to begin to develop strategic plans that will create the vision and work that will carry the organization and the community into the future. The planning process is supported by a grant that the program received from The West Virginia Community […] Continue Reading »
Main Street Ronceverte Volunteer Opportunities
Community ideas and efforts are what drive our Main Street Ronceverte and every effort makes a difference!! Opportunities to contribute to Main Street Ronceverte are as diverse as our community 'Äď ranging from a one hour office project to helping lead one of our four committees. People with all levels of experience and skill are […] Continue Reading »
Warm Weather Wednesday Vendor Information
WARM WEATHER WEDNESDAY MARKET AT THE DEPOT Dear Businesses, non-profits, individuals, and community organizations, Following the success of June'Äôs Warm Weather Wednesday, The Ronceverte Development Corporation/Main Street Ronceverte is extending an invitation to any groups, businesses, or individuals who would like to participate in the upcoming July event We will be hosting Warm Weather Wednesday […] Continue Reading »
Ronceverte to host "Warm Weather Wednesdays"
The Ronceverte Development Corporation/Main Street Program will be hosting 'ÄúWarm Weather Wednesdays,'ÄĚ a business open house, in downtown Ronceverte on the second Wednesdays of June, July, and September. The first event will be Wednesday, June 13th from 5-8 pm. Businesses will stay open late and offer light refreshments, and there will be a gift basket […] Continue Reading »
Ronceverte "Green Team" to hold organizational meeting
Please join the Ronceverte "Green Team" at our community informational meeting on Tuesday June 19, 2012 at City Hall.¬† The meeting will begin at 5:30 and will offer information on the following potential projects: Development of a community garden Installation of Rain Barrels Strengthening Community Recycling Renewable Solar Panels for lighting¬†at the Horseshoe Pits, […] Continue Reading »
Daniel Louis Friedman Memorial Fountain Dedication
Please join us on Sunday, June 10 at 2:00 at¬†the Island Park Skate¬†Park as we dedicate the fountain in memory of Daniel Louis Friedman. Thank you to Daniel's Teachers, Classmates, and Friends who joined together to work on this project in Daniel's Honor. Share/Bookmark Continue Reading »
Main Street Ronceverte Volunteer Opportunities
Community ideas and efforts are what drive our Main Street Ronceverte and every effort makes a difference!! Opportunities to contribute to Main Street Ronceverte are as diverse as our community 'Äď ranging from a one hour office project to helping lead one of our four committees. People with all levels of experience and skill are […] Continue Reading »
Ronceverte Welcomes New Business
On February 1, 2012, Mrs. Barbara Weikle opened a new retail shop in the downtown Ronceverte business district. The business known as AC-KC, ¬†features a variety of items, including beautiful purses, handbags, jewelry and an interesting array of other items. ¬†The Weikles, have been featuring their wares¬† at local and regional fairs for a number […] Continue Reading »
Ronceverte Clifford Community and Recreation Center
The Clifford Community and Recreation Center is a 15,000 sq foot building that provides a gymnasium and facilities suitable for birthday parties, reunions, sports, and special events. The gymnasium and other space rents for $35 per hour or $100 for a 3 hour period.¬† For more information and for reservations, please call the Ronceverte Development […] Continue Reading »
It's Party Time in Ronceverte !!
On Sunday February 5th, 2012, the Ronceverte Development Corporation and its Main Street program will be hosting a gala Super Bowl party and fund raiser at the Clifford Recreation and Community Center (Clifford Armory). ¬†The event promises to be an exciting and fun way to watch the Super Bowl with friends and neighbors, and at […] Continue Reading »
Local Author's Book On Sale at Ronceverte Library
One-hundred and fifty years ago, at the age of 23, Alfred Mallory Edgar left the comfort of the "Old Edgar Homestead" in what is now Ronceverte and volunteered to take up arms as a member of the Greenbrier Rifles, which later became the 27th Virginia Infantry, "a regiment in the famous Stonewall Brigade of the […] Continue Reading »
Virginia Blake will celebrate her 90th birthday on Sunday
Virginia Blake, Ronceverte'Äôs beloved, well-known icon will celebrate her 90th birthday on Sunday, Dec. 11, between 2 and 4 p.m. at the Clifford Armory at 301 Edgar Avenue in Ronceverte. Hosted by the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation and the Ronceverte Women'Äôs Club, the public is invited to join the festivities in honor of Virginia. […] Continue Reading »
ÔĽŅÔĽŅÔĽŅ. RONCEVERTE 'ÄĒ Two-time state horseshoe pitching champion Allen Withrow recently captured the 2011 Moose International championship. The Ronceverte man also currently holds the 30th slot in the rankings maintained by the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association of America. Retired from a 39-year career with the Division of Highways, Withrow has lived in Ronceverte since the […] Continue Reading »
Greening Main Street – Ronceverte's Eco District
Historic and high tech are not often mentioned in the same breath 'Äď that is, unless you'Äôre visiting Ronceverte'Äôs Eco-District. Here, solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and geothermal projects are part of an award-winning business strategy for community revitalization. In May, the Ronceverte Development Corporation'Äôs Main Street Program won the 2010 Governor'Äôs Main Street and On […] Continue Reading »
Big Dreams,Restless Spirit-Sept.15th-18th 8:00 Pm
The play which has been a treat for West Virginians for years will be back again to the delight of all. The play will be held at the Island Park Amphitheater – Lawn Seating is $ 8.00, $5.00 for children and preferred seating is $10.00. Tickets are available at First Natioal Bank in Ronceverte and […] Continue Reading »
The Ronceverte Women's Club
¬† ¬† In honor of the Federation of Women'Äôs Club in Ronceverte, established in 1946, Mayor Gail White read an ordinance marking Apr. 24 as Federation Day in Ronceverte. On behalf of the city council, she expressed appreciation for all the work the ladies of the Ronceverte Women'Äôs Club do for the benefit of the […] Continue Reading »
Grant Awarded for Depot
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Historic preservation grants for construction and planning at historically significant sites across West Virginia were announced Tuesday by acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin. Among the larger grants announced Tuesday: * $50,000 to rebuild masonry, repair a collapsed wall and repair doors and windows at an 18th-century brick home at Fort Pleasant in […] Continue Reading »
Shanklin's Grand Theatre in Ronceverte on WV Endangered Properties 2011 List
Shanklin'Äôs Grand Theatre in Ronceverte on WV Endangered Properties 2011 List Shanklin'Äôs Grand Theatre in Ronceverte designed by John Norman, Sr., one of the first of West Virginia'Äôs African American architects, is on the 2011 Endangered List Properties. The Ronceverte Development Corporation intends to purchase the property, which sits in the heart of the downtown, […] Continue Reading »
Welcome to Ronceverte
A town as unique as its name!¬† Founded on the banks of the beautiful Greenbrier River, we are Ronceverte, West Virginia, and we invite you¬†to experience the Friendly River City. From the French for "Green Bramble", our name is as unique as the people who make up this community and combine together to create our […] Continue Reading »
Building Donated
The Lewisburg Wholesale Building was donated to the City of Ronceverte by Kay Hardesty.¬† The building is currently being studied by the EPA Brownsfield Grant to determine any hazardous materials that may have been left at the site. Plans for the building include making it available for private or public re-development. Share/Bookmark Continue Reading »


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The Detroit Red Wings are coming off a game in an unfriendly arena, but they've always enjoyed visiting Columbus.
The Red Wings try for their seventh straight road win over the Blue Jackets on Monday when the teams square off at Nationwide Arena.
Detroit (19-8-4) won in New Jersey for the first time since Nov. 20, 1993 after rallying to beat the Devils 2-1 on Saturday.
"What a great win, coming back from behind," said Red Wings goaltender Dominik Hasek, who made 21 saves. "We talked about not having won here before the game. This was one of the most exciting wins of the year."
Detroit has had much greater success in Columbus. The Red Wings are 12-2-1 all-time there and have not lost a road game against the Blue Jackets since Nov. 20, 2003.
Detroit has won three straight and eight of nine overall against Columbus, including a 4-1 home victory on Nov. 4. Dan Cleary scored twice for the Red Wings, who outshot the Blue Jackets 37-17 and won for the 24th time in 30 meetings all time.
Brett Lebda had the go-ahead goal and Pavel Datsyuk scored a power-play goal in Saturday's win. He has four goals and five assists during a six-game point streak.
Datsyuk also has a four-game points streak in Columbus, recording three goals and six assists.
Defenseman Niklas Kronwall returned for the Red Wings after missing six straight games with a groin injury, and played more than 21 minutes with two shots on goal.
The Blue Jackets (11-17-3) are coming off Saturday's 6-4 loss to the Blackhawks. Columbus, which came back to within a goal in the second period after falling behind 4-0 and 5-1 in the first, has dropped two straight after a five-game winning streak.
"It's tough to fight back," Columbus' Fredrik Modin said. "We weren't happy with our start, but we managed to snap out of it in the second period."
Modin scored along with Rick Nash, David Vyborny and Alexander Svitov. Vyborny and Sergei Fedorov each had two assists. The Blue Jackets, who lost in a shootout at Phoenix on Thursday, had earned a point in six straight games.
"We came out a little flat and we can't be doing that," Nash said. "We need to come out with more energy."
Ty Conklin, who was recalled from Syracuse of the AHL last Monday, made his first appearance when he replaced Fredrik Norrena to start the second period and stopped seven of the eight shots he faced.
Norrena replaced Pascal Leclaire in the third period of last month's loss to the Red Wings and stopped all 10 shots he faced.


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Wareham business owner Aaron Bates has been leasing space on County Road since he opened his tire business in late 2008.
Wareham business owner Aaron Bates has been leasing space on County Road since he opened his tire business in late 2008.
Started as a joint venture with his dad, a 30-year veteran in the tire business, Bates opened Used Tire Warehouse to sell tires and offer customers full service replacement and repair.
But as the business grew, Bates found he was hampered by the amount of space he had available to work on customers' cars.
"Our biggest issue, that I saw, was the way customers would have to wait, because we had a limited space to work on vehicles," he said.
So, in 2012, Bates made the decision to invest more heavily in his operation and, in January of this year, he purchased an industrial building that offers triple the space he had on County Road.
Area brokers say businesses like Used Tire Warehouse that are taking the step to become building owners are a bright spot in the local commercial real estate market. Like residential real estate, commercial conditions slowly improved in 2012, a trend, many say, appears to be continuing into 2013.
"The primary driver right now is owner-user kinds of people," said John Shields, principal at Cape Cod-based Realty Advisory Inc. about market conditions. "They can own things for cheaper than they can lease it."
Commercial sales were up in 2012 and expected to continue to improve in 2013, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Nationally, sales hit $283 billion in 2012, the highest amount since 2008, said George Ratiu, NAR manager of quantitative and commercial research. And much of that activity, $98 billion worth, happened in the final quarter of the year.
Overall, just about every measure has increased, said Ratiu. Prices are up, rents are up, and absorption rates for office space, industrial, retail and multi-family properties are up.
But while national markets are seeing a rebound, secondary and tertiary markets haven't necessarily been having the same experience. Secondary real estate markets include metro areas such as Atlanta and Baltimore, according to Real Capital Analytics, a global research and consulting firm with an office in New York City. All other states, not included in major metro areas or secondary markets, are considered tertiary markets.
Ratiu said real estate data is typically tracked for property sales of $2.5 million and above. But most NAR members, about 60 to 70 percent of sales agents, sell properties that fall below the $2 million mark. And many of them are reporting that conditions are improving much more slowly.
To paint a more accurate picture of smaller markets, NAR began surveying brokers about 2-3 years ago, Ratiu said.
"It's really a tale of two markets," he said. "Those people (in smaller markets) are reporting very sluggish leasing activity and prices that, in fact continue to decline, but at a slower rate."
As an example, sales prices fell by 3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 in smaller markets, a decline from the 10 percent drop that occurred in fourth quarter 2011, but definitely not the increases seen in larger markets. In addition, rents have not risen as aggressively as they have in national markets, he said.
Similarly, lending is still a problem in tertiary markets, according to Ratiu, despite national headlines that say otherwise.
"In smaller markets, lending continues to be tight. The bulk of our commercial Realtors cite lending as the major concern for them still in the 4th quarter (of 2012)," he said.
While Ratiu said he doesn't have data on owner-user activity, he has heard about the trend from Realtors.
"Anecdotally, I'm hearing businesses with good cash flow, a good business model and stable performance are certainly more interested in making an investment in real estate rather than leasing," he said.
For Mike Giuttari, president of Providence-based MG Commercial Real Estate, owner-user purchases have been making up much of the region's recent commercial activity.
He said that's because of interest rates between 4.0 and 4.5 percent and the availability of the Small Business Administration's 504 loan program, which allows users to purchase a building with 10 percent down.
In New Bedford, Coastal Commercial Real Estate, part of The Nery Corp., has helped a few businesses recently make the move to property owner. In Wareham, Bates is one of them, as well as Amy Franklin McCoog, owner of Franklin Analytical Services, who recently bought a New Bedford building.
Franklin Analytical Services found a deal that was just too good to pass up, said McCoog.
"We rented and we just found it was the right time for us to purchase," she said. "We got a really good deal on this property."
McCoog, who operates the asbestos abatement and lead paint inspection business with her husband Tom McCoog, purchased a 5,740-square-foot commercial warehouse at 312 Hillman St. in the city at the end of December.
The new space is not only larger than her previous office, it offers better amenities.
"We were renting and it wasn't a good space," she said, citing the lack of running water and a leaky roof.
For Bates, the purchase of the 32,680-square-foot warehouse in the Wareham Industrial Park allows him to serve more customers simultaneously, add new services and equipment, create a customer waiting area, and if business grows as expected, potentially create jobs.
It also gives the business a better location, just off Route I-195 and close to the town's main retail plaza, Wareham Crossing.
"It's an opportunity to have more space and expand inventory and availability," he said.
Beth Perdue is the editor of the SouthCoast Business Bulletin. To read about these business topics and more, see the SouthCoast Business Bulletin on news stands March 1. Or, go to www.southcoastbulletin.com today. To subscribe to The Bulletin, e-mail Lisa Nicolaus at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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There seems to be a debate out there about how closely PR pros should track their hours, whether they should charge clients for every single hour, should they use the retainer model or do a hybrid of both. According to Ken Jacobs and George Rosenberg regardless of how you bill your clients, your time tracking must be as accurate and inclusive as possible. Gini Dietrich writes about how these PR gurus, in a recent workshop on profitability in PR, point out the value of understanding exactly how long it takes to do something and how much time is actually allocated to different tasks and clients. This information is essential for planning, making adjustments and increasing profits. It is so easy to slack off on tracking hours, just doing it when it is convenient. So take this as a gentle reminder, that tracking hours accurately is extremely important to the success of your agency.
Gini's post goes on to point out how to use time tracking to make smarter budget predictions, and it shows the steps required to accurately determine projected client billing. For most PR pros (especially those of us that don't particularly love math) this post is very helpful. How would you like a better understanding of which clients are profitable and which ones aren't? How about better insight on how to create a realistic budget for a new client – one that you won't exceed? Wouldn't it also be helpful to know how the PR staff's time is spent each day, and which PR activities are most effective? If these are insights you need but don't have, then I suggest putting more attention toward tracking hours.
Once you start looking at time tracking as an important and valuable tool, then you can apply your new insights to make well-informed business decisions and make adjustments. If you find out that one client in particular is dominating the hours of your staff and their budget doesn't coincide, then it is time to take some sort of action. You may need to recommend a different approach to the client that demands less time, or adjust the budget for next year to more closely reflect the number of hours spent. Addressing the issue may be difficult, but avoid it and your agency and staff will pay.
Knowing the true number of hours spent per client is eye opening. Don't we all think that it takes us less time to accomplish a task than it really does?
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AT&T's coverage would be great … if we lived in a fantasy world!By David Kiefaber on Tue Dec 14 2010
AT&T's campaign for its new mobile network suggests its coverage would be great even in make-believe places (and maybe one Anthrax album). I guess they're trying to say that if they've got a place like Lilliput covered, they won't have any trouble providing adequate service in the mundane here and now. But the Los Angeles Times sticks a convincing pin in the "if false, then anything" logic behind these ads. See, this is why more philosophy majors need to work in marketing. AT&T's retreat from reality might have to do with its atrocious Consumer Reports ranking and flailing response in the form of a press release claiming its network was faster than both Verizon's and Sprint's. Which may be true, but that pales in the face of other, more basic issues like dropped calls and bad customer service. We've already seen similar desperation with Blockbuster's "Hey, we're still here!" campaign, but AT&T's crack at it is almost sadder.


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The Porsche 918 supercar is nearing production, and more and more information is appearing on the web. What you see before you are patent drawings for the 918 Spyder and coupe found on the European patent office's website by German publication Auto Bild. These drawings reveal a series-production car that remains extremely close to the concept unveiled at the Geneva show in March of 2010.
In terms of proportions, the 918 is strikingly dissimilar to any other Porsche currently sold. The profile view reveals race-car proportions, and it is far longer, wider, and lower than both the 911 and the Boxster, with which it shares its mid-engine layout. The wheelbase is identical to the Carrera GT supercar, which was produced between 2003 and 2006. And while it is close in size to that car, the 918 is stylistically even further removed from the regular lineup by virtue of its sculpted, protruding fenders.
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The 918 is an extreme showcase for hybrid technology, driven by a 770-hp powertrain whose heart is a 4.6-liter V-8 with 570 horsepower. The powertrain can provide more than 553 lb-ft of torque and is mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic. Top speed will be more than 202 mph; on electric power alone, the 918 can be driven at speeds higher than 90 mph. Electric range is about 15 miles, and the 918 is designed to be recharged by energy regeneration and by means of a plug-in charging interface.
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- Title: Cast Away
- Genre: Drama
- Directors: Robert Zemeckis
- Released: March 5, 2002
Cast Away – Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks reunite to explore the blessings and heartache of fate and the survival of the human spirit. Tom Hanks gives one of the towering screen performances of all time as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun…