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DCF - What to Expect?
I received a call from DCF today, asking to set up a home visit.
My children have never been involved with DCF before. My only experience with this was a few very negative ones when I was a child.
I know they are not allowed to say who filed a report, but my kindergartener's school had already warned me before that they may file (there were a few incidences of him coming to school with less than pristine uniforms and messy hair.)
What should I expect?
I am nervous of course, since all of my previous experiences were bad ones.
My oldest child has Asperger's as well as some accompanying issues. to be honest, he is mostly out of my control and we have conflicting personalities to boot. I have given serious thought to the notion that I am unable to provide the correct environment and support for his needs. I don't know what the solution to that would be, however.
My entire bedroom smells because I cannot get my oldest to stop peeing on things. I will be spending the weekend with the shampooer, but it doesn't help a whole lot anymore.
My preschooler is almost completely non-verbal and shows signs of severe ADHD.
I follow a lot of attachment and natural parenting philosophies - I'm sure that DCF will not be pleased that we do not vaccinate, I'm extended breastfeeding, and my youngest still co-sleeps.
I can't get a job, don't have a car, pay 80% of my income just for rent, and I see absolutely no remedy to my situation at present. My father was supposed to help me with a vehicle and I will be a licensed EMT at the end of February, but that's all I got!
The kids fathers offer little or no support. I do get child support from one.
It looks bad. Not to air all my laundry, but what am I up against?
~Lana~ SAHM and EMT student to J 4/11/07, Asperger's, ADHD, ODD, MDNOS A 3/25/10, Autism N 10/14/11
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They called because of dirty uniform and messy hair. That's insane!
When CPS came to my house a few years ago it was a complete mess. They didn't say anything and dismissed the case. Anyways, unless your floor is covered in feces and garbage I don't think they will care.
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Do the children all have a place to sleep - that isn't your bed? If the answer is no, it might be a good idea to borrow a crib for your youngest. Do you have sufficient food for your family and a means to prepare it?
A less than pristine uniform and messy hair isn't children's services worthy, unless you mean filthy? Do you have a plan in place to make sure that your child and his clothes are clean, even if they are still messy?
Do you get help for your children with special needs? If not, I would take this as an opportunity to ask for help.
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Yes, definitely make sure everyone has a seperate bed, including the baby. I feel for you as a single (though soon to be engaged now, I have been a single parent for the last year and a half with little help) mom of three myself, including one with autism. Shampoo the carpets, clean the uniform, and get through this visit the best you can. Then make a plan for the future. Are you working with any doctors or therapists for your DCs needs? to you.
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Make sure you have food in the fridge, trash is put out, place is picked up and laundry is in baskets, drawers or closets, dishes are clean and away, separate beds for everyone, air the place out, make sure everyone has bathed and shampooed at least the night prior. You definitely want to make a good impression.
Don't be afraid to ask if there is any services they can offer.
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Re: DCF - What to Expect?
We don't have separate beds, because we lack the space.
My oldest is outgrowing his toddler sized bed. My PLAN (but it will take a lot of money, which is why it is not done yet) is to get my boys a bunk bed or a loft bed. With a loft bed, my oldest will then have a twin sized bed, my preschooler can have his brother's toddler sized bed (which can be placed underneath the loft bed with one of their dressers) and my youngest will get the crib (currently being used as a daybed for my preschooler.)
Laundry IS an on-going issue for us. With no car, three children, and no washing machine...you can imagine. It piles up fast around here and there's not much I can do about it. My mom takes the baby's diapers and my oldest's uniforms about once a week. I may be able to have a friend help me do laundry this week anyway, which will be a slight improvement.
Honestly, I'm surprised this is the first encounter we will have with DCF. Given our situation, I was pregnant with my third by age 19, we stayed in a domestic violence shelter two years back, ya know...
I think it is pretty ridiculous that a report was filed over THIS of all things.
~Lana~ SAHM and EMT student to J 4/11/07, Asperger's, ADHD, ODD, MDNOS A 3/25/10, Autism N 10/14/11
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I don't think it was just that. There was probably an allegation of neglect that was communicated and that's why they're coming out. From what I've seen and heard (especially with my sis and her messed up family) you're lucky they gave you a "warning" call and didn't just show up.
You do sound overwhelmed, overworked, and unable to handle the kids. Maybe the school is picking up on that. At any rate, you can tidy up and what not but your attitude about and toward your kids is going to have the biggest impact on them, as well as the overall condition of the home. I would be honest with DCF. Tell them that you've had your share of bad things happening, hit a point where you felt downtrodden but you're working toward your goals in baby steps. Be honest about your abilities to parent your children, and tell them if they'll help you you're willing to do what it takes to make things right. They may have options and resources that you didn't know about. Once there is a paper trail it may hurt you a little bit but it may also help you to get whatever services and help are available to you and your children.
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On the special needs,
Both boys have gone to Head Start. My preschooler is there currently, and we are on a waiting list for my youngest.
My oldest just got his IEP in school in place. The SPED team there seems really good, but I don't feel that his teacher is qualified to meet his needs (****, I"M not qualified.) They did a very thorough evaluation and told me he has the worst sensory issues of any child they have ever seen :X (but the OT was super excited to beign working with him, haha.)
The referral for my preschooler came in the mail today. He was evaluated by the public schools, but I think they did a terrible job (I notice FAR more things at home then they picked up, but I will push this issue further.) He just graduated up from the Early HeadStart, qualified because of his severe speech delay of course.
Food is not an issue, we just did a big BJ's trip as well.
~Lana~ SAHM and EMT student to J 4/11/07, Asperger's, ADHD, ODD, MDNOS A 3/25/10, Autism N 10/14/11
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Ask what supports they can recommend/offer regarding your oldest's Aspbergers. Would you be eligible for any sorts of in home therapies or respite care? Edited - I see you are already hooked up with Head Start and have IEPs - that is good. (My 2 year old is also severely expressively language delayed - the jury is still out on other issues at play like autism, intellectual disability, ADHD - so we are just now starting to navigate these services. Him being so behind makes me feel like a cruddy mother on a daily basis, so I get how you are feeling).
If you do not/cannot work and do not receive child support regularly, how are you able to live? Maybe they can point you in the direction of free legal help to get the child support you are owed. Is there any possibility of moving in with family who can offer more help to you? If your mom is washing dirty diapers, she sounds pretty supportive! I can see how no laundry on site and no access to a car would make the laundry pile up fast. Can your mom take all the laundry once a week, not just diapers and uniforms? How many uniforms does your son have? Any possibility you could hand wash his uniform in the tub and hang to dry if it gets dirty between washings? I hope you are able to find a job once you graduate and things get easier soon.
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well you dont know for sure that the school called or that the only thing reported was the uniforms and hair. from the sounds of it, it seems pretty obvious that you are overwhelmed and needing support. calling services is not all about busting negligent parents, sometimes it is about getting services and resources to the families and kids that need it. it could have been anyone at this point....the school, neighbors, parents in your kids class, your own family for goodness sake.
i would do what i can to prepare but also look at this as maybe an opportunity to get some assistance if there are further services you or your kids can quality for. i cant imagine trying to juggle special needs kids as a single parent....no job, no car, and all that you have going on.
for the carpet issue, whats under the carpet? can you just pull up the carpet and get rid of it entirely?
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Stocks drifted higher after their sour morning start, in light trading volume on a bond-trading holiday. Jonathan Cheng has details on The News Hub. Photo: Reuters.
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In classical physics and engineering, measurement is the process of estimating or determining the ratio of a magnitude of a quantitative property or relation to a unit of the same type of quantitative property or relation. A process of measurement involves the comparison of physical quantities of objects or phenomena, or the comparison of relations between objects (e.g. angles). A particular measurement is the result of such a process, normally expressed as the multiple of a real number and a unit, where the real number is the ratio obtained from the measurement process. For example, the measurement of the length of an object might be 5 m, which is an estimate of the object's length, a magnitude, relative to a unit of length, the meter.
Measurement is not limited to physical quantities and relations but can in principle extend to the quantification of a magnitude of any type, through application of a measurement model such as the Rasch model, and subjecting empirical data derived from comparisons to appropriate testing in order to ascertain whether specific criteria for measurement have been satisfied.
In addition, the term measurement is often used in a somewhat looser fashion than defined above, to refer to any process in which numbers are assigned to entities such that the numbers are intended to represent increasing amount, in some sense, without a process that involves the estimation of ratios of magnitudes to a unit. Such examples of measurement range from degrees of uncertainty to consumer confidence to the rate of increase in the fall in the price of a good or service. It is generally proposed that there are four different levels of measurement, and that different levels are applicable to different contexts and types of measurement process.
In scientific research, measurement is essential. It includes the process of collecting data which can be used to make claims about learning. Measurement is also used to evaluate the effectiveness of a program or product (known as an evaluand).
- A measurement is a comparison to a standard. -- William Shockley
- By number we understand not so much a multitude of Unities, as the abstracted Ratio of any Quantity to another Quantity of the same kind, which we take for Unity -- Sir Isaac Newton
Units and systems of measurement
- Main articles: Units of measurement and Systems of measurement
Because measurement involves the estimation of magnitudes of quantities relative to particular quantities, called units, the specification of units is of fundamental importance to measurement. The definition or specification of precise standards of measurement involves two key features, which are evident in the Système International d'Unités (SI). Specifically, in this system the definition of each of the base units makes reference to specific empirical conditions and, with the exception of the kilogram, also to other quantitative attributes. Each derived SI unit is defined purely in terms of a relationship involving itself and other units; for example, the unit of velocity is 1 m/s. Due to the fact that derived units make reference to base units, the specification of empirical conditions is an implied component of the definition of all units.
The measurement of a specific entity or relation results in at least two numbers for the relationship between the entity or relation under study and the referenced unit of measurement, where at least one number estimates the statistical uncertainty in the measurement, also referred to as measurement error. Measuring instruments are used to estimate ratios of magnitudes to units. Prior comparisons underlie the calibration, in terms of standard units, of commonly used instruments constructed to measure physical quantities.
Metrology is the study of measurement. In general, a metric is a scale of measurement defined in terms of a standard: i.e. in terms of well-defined unit. The quantification of phenomena through the process of measurement relies on the existence of an explicit or implicit metric, which is the standard to which measurements are referenced. If I say I am 5, I am indicating a measurement without supplying an applicable standard. I may mean I am 5 years old or I am 5 feet high, however the implicit metric is that.
- Main article: History of measurement
Laws to regulate measurement were originally developed to prevent fraud. However, units of measurement are now generally defined on a scientific basis, and are established by international treaties. In the United States, commercial measurements are regulated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, a division of the United States Department of Commerce.
The history of measurements is a topic within the history of science and technology. The metre (us: meter) was standardized as the unit for length after the French revolution, and has since been adopted throughout most of the world. The United States and the UK are in the process of converting to the SI system. This process is known as metrication.
Difficulties in measurement
Measurement of many quantities is very difficult and prone to large error. Part of the difficulty is due to uncertainty, and part of it is due to the limited time available in which to make the measurement.
Examples of things that are very difficult to measure in some respects and for some purposes include social related items such as:
- a person's knowledge (as in testing, see also assessment)
- a person's feelings, emotions, or beliefs.
- a person's senses (qualia).
Even for physical quantities gaining accurate measurement can be difficult. It is not possible to be exact, instead, repeated measurements will vary due to various factors affecting the quantity such as temperature, time, electromagnetic fields, and especially measurement method. As an example in the measurement of the speed of light, the quantity is now known to a high degree of precision due to modern methods, but even with those methods there is some variability in the measurement. Statistical techniques are applied to the measurement samples to estimate the speed. In earlier sets of measurements, the variability was greater, and comparing the results shows that the variability and bias in the measurement methods was not properly taken into account. Proof of this is that when various group's measurements are plotted with the estimated speed and error bars showing the expected variability of the estimated speed from the actual number, the error bars from each of the experiments did not all overlap. This means a number of groups incorrectly accounted for the true sources of error and overestimated the accuracy of their methods.
See also
- Conversion of units
- Dimensional analysis
- Dimensionless number
- Econometrics
- History of measurement
- Instrumentation
- Levels of measurement
- Measurement in quantum mechanics
- Orders of magnitude
- Systems of measurement
- Thermometry
- Timeline of temperature and pressure measurement technology
- Timeline of time measurement technology
- Uncertainty in measurement
- Uncertainty principle
- Units of measurement
- Weights and measures
Measuring the ratios between physical quantities is an important sub-field of physics.
Some important physical quantities include:
- the speed of light
- Planck's constant
- the gravitational constant
- the elementary charge (electric charge of electrons, protons, etc.)
- the fine-structure constant
Newton, I. (1728/1967). Universal Arithmetic: Or, a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution. In D.T. Whiteside (Ed.), The mathematical Works of Isaac Newton, Vol. 2 (pp. 3-134). New York: Johnson Reprint Corp.
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- A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
- Conversion Calculator
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It's this time period that caught the attention of Associate Professor of History Laura Ettinger, who has been conducting research on the history of women engineers at Clarkson with McNair Fellow Nicole Conroy '09 for the past years.
Conroy, a double major in history and psychology, spent much of her time digging through the Clarkson archives while Ettinger conducted oral histories. "The oral history interviews with Clarkson alumnae have truly deepened our understanding of this time period at Clarkson," says Conroy.
Already, Conroy and Ettinger have been able to make some interesting connections. "We found that women engineers' experiences as undergraduate engineering majors were quite different than their experiences later in life, mostly in the realm of discrimination," explains Conroy. "As undergrads, the women saw their experience as positive, despite some minor inequality issues. However, later in life, some of them faced both subtle and blatant gender discrimination."
This spring, Conroy presented their research at the undergraduate conference in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In the fall, Ettinger will continue the project while Conroy enters into Syracuse University's Ph.D. program in child and family studies.
The CURE team was recognized for their combined treatment processes and off-site recycling/reuse options that resulted in the desired zero waste criteria for the competition. Their processes aimed specifically at the recovery of reusable solvents, energy and water.
Six members of the 28-member student team travelled to New Mexico State University for the international competition. They set up and demonstrated a bench-scale version of their treatment and energy recovery system and used oral and poster presentation formats to communicate their process to judges.
As part of the on-site competition, the students were given two gallons of a corrosive solvent waste stream that they treated by distillation to recover high purity water. They worked late into the night and were the only team that successfully treated the entire volume of waste.
Environmental Science & Policy majors Hilary Lockwood '09 and Stefanie Kring, who received her bachelor's degree in December 2008, conducted year-long research on the St. Lawrence in conjunction with the Great Rivers Center (GRC) at Clarkson. GRC Director Michael Twiss, an associate professor in the biology department, served as faculty mentor.
Lockwood tested for differences in the health of the plankton community in areas that have been impacted by heavy industry by testing water quality above and below the Moses-Saunders Power Dam.
Kring examined nutrient levels in the rivers and the numerous tributaries that flow into the river in the Massena area over a seven-month duration.
Both projects concluded that the heavy industry does not have a noticeable impact on plankton health or nutrient levels in the area, but that there are upstream impacts in tributaries that affect water quality in the St. Lawrence River near Massena.
Lockwood and Kring were among a handful of students selected from across the state by the Great Lakes Research Consortium to present their research to state legislators.
Clarkson Assistant Professor of Digital Arts & Sciences and digital artist Dave Beck and marine scientist Jennifer Jacquet's visual treatise on the (surprisingly) adverse impacts of overfishing on our diet was featured in Scientific American in March.
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I don't play with any kind of consistency but I couldn't find my stats so I'm guessing that everyone had to remake accts when a new system got put in place.
lol, I was very proud of the pixels that had made up an image of a trophy cause there's no way I could compete with the players today. It doesn't matter considering that the new interface with choosing difficulty and type is amazing.
One more question since I haven't played in a while, wasn't there always a person Laura or something in the top bunch of people? like someone sitting behind a piano was the picture. There's also another picture of some fuzzy bear or something that I didn't see. Always nice to see women doing logic stuff (not that women are illogical :/) just stats probably indicate male minds lean more that way and women own the 'feely' type of personality. I'm intp so if I offended anyone; it was not my intention and I apologize. hrm, rx something .... odd but I think that was fuzzy bears name. Oh dear, now I either admit I used to secretly root for them to do well or look like a stalker thing. I'm quitting typing now. bye
I used to cheer for others to do well. Ok, now done again.
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If you click on "High Scores" above, then click on the "Monthly Competitions" title to see this months stats, Laura is 23rd (211286 points so far this month) at the moment I write this. Perhaps other familiar icons will also be in that list, assuming they are currently active enough to be in the top 100.
You can see some information about the changeover here. http://www.logic-puzzles.org/forum/showthread.php?t=330
p.s. By the way, you should be able to see your old stats, and continue adding to your old stats if you want by going to the old site, http://old.logic-puzzles.org/
I didn't remember that I had solved that many puzzles under the old site (I had only joined shortly before the switchover) as at first I thought it was showing my current stats as, coincidentally, the total score on both are currently about the same. I made the "mistake" of starting a puzzle there, and man did that feel like riding a dinosaur. But it did show that newly completed games there score independent of the games on the new site (and points are more generous for the time spent on the old puzzles). Look like monthly competitions are no longer active on the old site, and I don't know how many people still prefer that site to the new one, but if it still adds points to your old stats, you could probably accumulate around 2 million points and have your name on the All Time Rankings list. (also noticed the icons are missing from the old site on the All Time Rankings list).
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Thought I'd jump in on this thread....
I used to be very active on this site but then got busy and realized that I was spending way too much time solving logic puzzles and letting other things go (like my job and housework ). A few months ago I checked in and saw the new format and thought to myself, "hmmm, this looks cool, let's solve just a few." Well, anyway, my resolve to be more responsible about how I spend my time has gone up in smoke. Although my solve time is improving, I don't think I'll ever be as fast as some of the other solvers here. But I still love logic puzzles. I'm telling my husband that they're good for strengthening my neural pathways.
I was very surprised to be remembered by Joe. Thanks so much! And I, for one, am not offended at all.
Best regards,
TY I found my pixel third place. TY passel and I ruined a mouse with the old site. Now I'm on a laptop with smaller screen and not sure if doing a ton is even possible for me cause hard to read tiny type.
OH, don't worry about competing with the top 10. I'm pretty sure half are robots and the other half are aliens. My whole thing is just to be able to play one full month cause after that it feels like less thinking and more just reacting accompanied by eye strain.
one of the best sites I've ever played though it wasn't a game in the conventional sense was some bizarre math/programming site. You'd have to solve a question to enable the next question. Mostly they were all questions that required an algorithm type approach to solving it. Like what is the 45994th prime number? Hrm, maybe i'll. try to find that site again cause I'm feeling mathatrophy big time right now .. well, just one more before searching.
Very "feely" earth mother type, waving to Joe. I adore logic puzzles, and continue to stay in the average solve time, with occasional fast and very fast. All those slow ones were due to RL invading my solve time! XD
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Consider it a friendly, "Welcome to the neighborhood."
Consider it a friendly, "Welcome to the neighborhood."
The Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau on Thursday formally supported the efforts of Kalahari Resorts in the company's quest to build a $350 million indoor and outdoor water park and resort complex in Pocono Manor.
The bureau doesn't normally issue letters of support, but President and CEO Carl Wilgus said there had been some questions as to why there hadn't been stated support after more than seven months of development.
"(Its) proposed resort, (water park) and convention center, combined with (its) history of demonstrated quality management and customer service excellence, will make (it) a welcomed addition and asset to the Pocono Mountains tourism product," Wilgus wrote in a statement.
The statement wasn't needed as a condition for any kind of building permit the company still needs to acquire, officials said.
Monroe County Commissioner Charles Garris asked Wilgus at a recent commissioners meeting when the bureau planned on penning some kind of approval.
Garris is a member of the committee researching the details of Kalahari's proposed Tax Increment Financing zone, but he said the support letter has nothing to do with the TIF zone.
A TIF allows a business to use future property improvement taxes for current infrastructure improvements.
"(The letter) shows that the Kalahari resort is welcome to the Poconos by the (bureau) membership," Garris said Thursday in an email.
That hasn't been an issue so far. Kalahari officials have said they already have met with representatives from Poconos tourist attractions, including would-be competitors like Camelback Mountain Resort.
Thursday's announcement goes to show there doesn't appear to be any bad blood.
Wilgus said the bureau's board of directors met last week for the first time since October and authorized the support.
"McDonald's doesn't necessarily want Burger King or Wendy's to come to town," Wilgus said of possible competition.
Kalahari hopes to begin construction this spring on the 150-acre resort complex off Route 314 in Tobyhanna Township.


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We spoke with Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres about how she balances her 6-year-old daughter, and being an Olympic swimmer. Here, she tells us about what she makes for dinner, how to raise a child that likes to swim, and some of her parenting struggles.
Describe your parenting style in one word: Loving.
The trait you hope your child doesn't inherit from you: Impatience.
Last thing Tessa Grace did that made you laugh: She came running into the room shouting, "I LOVE JUSTIN BIEBER!"
Best thing about being a single mom: All the one-on-one time I get with Tessa.
What's always on your kitchen shelf: Susta, a low-calorie sweetener that has probiotics in it. I'm a spokesperson for it.
The craziest thing you've done because you were sleep-deprived: Um, well…I called people who I really shouldn't have called. I call that "drowsy dialing."
The last meal you made for your family: Mac and cheese.
Your favorite book to read to your daughter: Fancy Nancy.
Your favorite TV family of all time: The Bradys.
Song that best describes your parenting experiences to date: I don't know the name, but it goes "I like to move it, move it!"
The last parenting decision you regretted: Not taking Tessa to the doctor sooner when it turned out she really was sick.
The best piece of parenting advice you ever got: Pick and choose your battles. Another mom told me that!
The first word that pops into your head when we say "mom.": My mom.
Last toy/object you helped your child find: A Wizards of Waverly Place guitar.
Best way to raise kids who are great swimmers: Get them into the water sooner rather than later! I'd rather see a younger kid screaming than one who's afraid of the pool.
Your biggest parenting struggle: Getting Tessa to eat better. It's hard to get her to try new foods.


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U.S. small businesses boosted borrowing for a third straight month in May, according to data released on Tuesday.
Discussing the challenges small businesses face to grow, and the difficulties in finding a skilled workforce, with Madelyn Alfano, Maria's Italian Kitchen president, and Matt Tyler, Vickers Engineering CEO.
Despite having about one-fifth the worldwide total of Internet users, China is notoriously tough for U.S. venture capital firms.
For all the challenges facing U.S. start-ups and small businesses, they seem to be better off than their counterparts in the developed world.
Discussing Uber's $1 billion valuation and the regulatory battles it faces, with Liz Gannes, Re/code senior editor.
Slava Rubin, Indiegogo CEO, explains what's propelling Indiegogo's growth and how the crowdfunding platform lured investments from luminaries like Sir Richard Branson and Megan Smith from Google.
CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports venture capital firms had their strongest fundraising Q1 since 2007.
A top Fed official lauded the economic benefits of small businesses, citing demand and limited funding as reasons that loans from banks remain flat.
Bubba Murarka, DFJ partner, discusses where he sees investment opportunities in consumer Internet and mobile technology.
Joe Bastianich, B and B Hospitality CEO, discusses the upcoming debut of his new CNBC reality show where he provides his own money to fund food ideas. It's really about sniffing out opportunities, Bastianich says.
Small-business owners are keeping a cautious approach to running their companies even as they grow more optimistic, a banking survey shows.
CNBC's Josh Lipton talks to leading VC's in Silicon Valley who share their thoughts on the potential for a tech bubble and where they are committing capital.
Hundreds of New York City business owners whose storefronts were damaged by Hurricane Sandy more than a year ago are still waiting for federal aid.
Where venture capitalists are putting money to work, with David Golden, Revolution Partners, and Tony Tjan, Cue Ball.
Brooklyn, N.Y.-based sneaker brand, Greats, said it has raised $1.5 million in new capital from a group of investors, Crain's reports.
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Maglite, makers of all things police and security guards use, is venturing out into the world of LEDs. Seems a brighter, better MAG is in the works, as the company's website is saying that in early 2006, MAG will start introducing MAG-LED products with LED technology. Made for both professional and consumer use, the new MAGs will be stylish, brighter, and are designed to last a lifetime.
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We say a great many things in church (and out of church too) without thinking of what we are saying. For instance, we say in the Creed "I believe in the forgiveness of sins." I had been saying it for several years before I asked myself why it was in the Creed. At first sight it seems hardly worth putting in. "If one is a Christian," I thought, "of course one believes in the forgiveness of sins. It goes without saying." But the people who compiled the Creed apparently thought that this was a part of our belief which we needed to be reminded of every time we went to church. And I have begun to see that, as far as I am concerned, they were right. To believe in the forgiveness of sins is not nearly so easy as I thought. Real belief in it is the sort of thing that very easily slips away if we don't keep on polishing it up.
We believe that God forgives us our sins; but also that He will not do so unless we forgive other people their sins against us. There is no doubt about the second part of this statement. It is in the Lord's Prayer; was emphatically stated by our Lord. If you don't forgive you will not be forgiven. No part of His teaching is clearer, and there are no exceptions to it. He doesn't say that we are to forgive other people's sins provided they are not too frightful, or provided there are extenuating circumstances, or anything of that sort. We are to forgive them all, however spiteful, however mean, however often they are repeated. If we don't, we shall be forgiven none of our own.
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Introduction & History
I came a bit after the time when personal computers initially made their debut, so I missed models such as the Commodores that I've read many hardened and salty fellows here speak of in comments on OSNews. I was instated into this life about the time when personal computers they began to take off fervently and the term "PC" still applied to any computer small enough to fit on a desk. My father originally purchased the Macintosh Plus in 1988 for probably around $2,000. This didn't include the Ericcson ~40 megabyte hard drive, spare floppy drive, and Kensington System Saver that he purchased seperately.
Since then, my entire family of nine lovingly used that machine for the next decade and then some. My older siblings used Microsoft Word 5.0 aplenty to print school assignments out on our StyleWriter II (which my father must have purchased later in the 90's as it wasn't sold until 1993; I have no memory of this, though). Though I sometimes made visits to Word to start my career in writing, I mainly used the Mac up until around 2000 to play games that remain my all-time PC favorites today: Arkanoid, MacMissiles, Cairo Shootout, Risk, The New Daleks, and Stratego.
The Macintosh Plus was released in January of 1986 after the original Mac (two years before) and the Macintosh 512k (a year before). The original price tag for this 15-pound hunk of eightiesness was $2599. When I read that the Plus wasn't quite so popular as Apple might have hoped and often found itself sold in cheaper quantities to educational institutions, I nearly cried. How could anyone dislike such a friendly, warm, and caring machine as the Plus? It may have been the price: $2600 back in the late eighties is equivalent to about $5000 today. Perhaps I was deprived as a youngster, but among the several other Windows 95- and Mac OS 8-powered machines that I used at home and at school, I loved the Mac Plus the most. I wasn't mature enough to appreciate the advancements that appeared in those later machines such as internet capabilities and CD-ROMs, but all I knew was that the Mac did what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Anyway, what seemingly little appreciation that was held by the public for the Macintosh Plus seemed to go a long way because the Plus still holds the record for the longest Mac to stay in production at Apple with a five-year lifespan.
Hardware Look-Over
The Plus sported a 9-inch 512 by 342 pixel monochrome integrated CRT monitor, an integrated 3.5-inch 800 KB floppy drive, 1 MB of RAM that was expandable to 4 MB (but not without actually clipping two resistors), a Motorola 68000 processor running at a grand 8 MHz, and two SCSI ports; this was the first Mac to include SCSI expansion slots, and these ports remained standard in all models up until the iMac in 1998. The standard package also included the infamous one-buttoned mouse and a standard keyboard; this was the last Mac model to include a keyboard with a phone-cord-esque (RJ-11 to be specific) cable and port.
I found it very interesting that the keyboard sports a capslock key that mechanically remembers whether it's pushed down or not-- no software involved. It's essentially a shift key with a mechanism to keep it down when pressed (not unlike the capslock key of my old Danish typewriter).
Beige in color and bulky in beauty, the outer hardware was pretty stereotypical of what we think of when we imagine a classic, smiling Mac. In 1987, they actually began shipping "platinum" colored (really just gray) cases. The Plus that I used for this article was of the platinum color. Why monocrhomatic color schemes were so popular back in the day is what I would like to know. I suppose we just needed time to develop the pretty machines of today.
I also own (as previously mentioned) an Ericsson 40 MB SCSI hard drive and a Kensington System Saver, so these will be mentioned here and there as well. The System Saver basically is just a glorified fan to place on one of the top vents and a way to have the power button in the front-- I always hated reaching to the back of any Mac to turn it on, anyway; bad designing on Apple's part, in my opinion. The hard drive is 10 x 11 inches and was designed to be a perfect base for the Plus to snugly sit upon.
System Software 6
I had always thought that System 6 was a very friendly system for its time, and I maintain that even today. I vaguely remember OS 8 and 9 that we had on varied versions of Macs at one of my old public schools, and I always remember them having trouble with the software performing tasks that we students were all supposed to do on assignment. I also remember them overheating perpetually (especially those blueberry Macs). For some reason, the familiar black and white schematic, the smiling Mac at startup, the simple interface, and the system's ability to do whatever I wanted it to do without trouble (at least with the software that we owned) caused me to love the Plus and hate the Macs of the 90s.
Sentiments aside, the Plus could handle any Macintosh system from 3.2 to 7.5.5 (Wikipedia says it could operate back to 1.1, but I'm really unsure of that fact), but System 6 was the standard during most of the Plus' lifetime of being sold. System 6 was released about a year after the Plus and discontinued in April of 1991, only six months after the Plus was.
System 6 originally was very buggy with its initial release, and thus 6.0.1 fixed 66 bugs by September of 1988. 6.0.2 was released shortly afterward to fix a screen font spacing bug. System 6.0.2 was the currently installed system on the Plus used for this review. 6.0.8L was the final release before the acclaimed System 7.
The system was small enough to fit on an 800k floppy disk but still supported color (for later color Macs), widely-used multitasking software known as the Multifinder (imagine multitasking actually being a feature to brag about), two gigabyte hard drives, and more. Despite its capabilities, it was still a rather simple system both in looks and in technicalities. Some of its limitations, for example, were that only up to 65,536 files could be on those 2 GB drives, there was no such thing as virtual memory, the trash always emptied when the Finder ended (essentially every time the computer shut down), there was very little customization, and only fifteen Desk Accessories (little useful apps such as a calculator, scrapbook, and even the control panel) could be installed at one time. These would all eventually be remedied in System 7 and OS 8.
In my experience, System 6 coupled with the Macintosh Plus could tackle some pretty useful and entertaining applications. I've already gone over the myriad of games I liked to play as well as Microsoft Word; it also ran Excel, Personal Ancestral File, MacDraw II, varied other types of programs. It obviously doesn't compare in productivity with today's application offering for even mobile devices, but it was viable enough at least for some people to last the ages; the person I bought this Mac from (my original Plus' screen died in 2004) was selling it for his mother who had used it from when they bought it until 2009.
Even though it was an almost-dead project by the time I even realized we had the original version installed on our Plus, I began tinkering with HyperCard in the early 2000's and designed dozens of practice-stacks, most of which were either pure button/text or were simple "fortune telling" stacks. I did end up designing one game that I was somewhat proud of: "Dastroid" (taking after only the name of "Arkanoid) was a simple game in which you used certian weapons ranging from a pea-shooter to a shotgun to take your opponent's HP down and kill him before he killed you. It even had the ability for human/computer and two-player games.
I was also in the middle of designing "Smellytubby Shootout," a HyperCard game in which the user chose a Smellytubby character and traversed about Tubbyland, destroying monsters deployed by the Evil Black Smellytubby and his master, Babysun, when the screen on my original plus died in 2004.
HyperCard was a very popular program bundled with the Plus by August of 1987. It came already with a plethora of "stacks," or predesigned applications, that were all examples of what one could do with HyperCard and HyperTalk (the programming language developed for use with HyperCard). Wikipedia puts it beautifully in words that I needn't process again:
A Look Back in Time
To provide just a glimpse of what running System 6 on the Macintosh Plus was like, I've put together this film of the Plus booting into System 6, playing some games, taking a glimpse of Smellytubby Shootout in HyperCard, looking at the customization options in the control panel, typing in Microsoft Word 5.0, inserting and ejecting a floppy disk, and shutting down. The film is in two parts due to YouTube's 10-minute limit, so forgive me for the inconvenience. System 6 obviously never had any video screen capturing software designed for it, and I didn't want to use an emulator on my newer Windows desktop, so this is simply a DV camera trained on the screen. Enjoy or skip it.
I also found this highly enjoyable time capsule made by Apple in 1987. The film presents itself as if it was made in 1997; this is essentially what Apple thought (or hoped, or dreamed) the late 90's would be like for them.
Boy, were they wrong. I personally love the "Vista Mac", how their outlook of the nineties was sort of opposite of what really happened, and how they seemed to think the "classic" Mac form factor would remain essentially unchanged. Of course, that was probably more or less joking.
Macintosh Plus Quirks
The Plus has also had some interesting history around it. It was featured in a segment of Star Trek, the designers' signatures are superscribed on the back of the plastic case, and, cooincidentally, the very first manufactured Plus, given to the creator of Star Trek back in the day, has just been listed up for auction online. Bidding starts at 1500USD.
What was also interesting is that the Plus with System 6 can actually browse the Internet (though with limited functionality compared to the modern browser, I'm sure; also see this link). I currently don't have a modem for it nor do I have an appropriate Internet connection compatible with a modem of that caliber, but I'm hoping to one day satisfy my 80s nerd inside by accomplishing this task and uploading a video of it.
What I'd also love to do is install a Linux distribution on the hard drive of my Plus, but my searches have found that the closest thing to doing this would be to install MacMinix on top of System 6, and even MacMinix seems pretty hard to find. However, the Mac SE and later Macs all are able to run forms of Debian or other distributions.
All in all, I find the Macintosh Plus to be a very friendly computer along with its OS, System 6, despite the sometimes slow drawing of graphics and the very slow floppy drive reading (those were always slow). I suppose my personal appreciation of it is mostly sentimental and nostalgic and that there are other machines from the 80s that were better at the time, but it's still a great machine to have. I personally believe that if every man owned a Macintosh Plus, the very powers of darkness would have been shaken forever. Long live the Plus.
Do you have memories of using the Plus or similar classic Macs? How about even older computers? Why not share those memories in the comments? Also, if you'd like to write a remeniscing review of some of your old hardware, feel free to submit it to be published here at OSNews by writing it in our submissions form or by emailing it to us. Everyone loves to look back at the old days.


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RadioShack to close up to 1,100 US stores
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — RadioShack plans to close up to 1,100 of its underperforming stores in the U.S. and reported a wider loss for its fourth quarter as traffic slowed during the critical holiday season.
The stock tumbled more than 24 percent in Tuesday premarket trading.
The store closings would leave RadioShack with more than 4,000 stores.
For the period ended Dec. 31, the electronics retailer lost $191.4 million, or $1.90 per share. That compares with a loss of $63.3 million, or 63 cents per share, a year earlier. Excluding items, RadioShack Corp. lost $1.29 per share. Analysts expected a loss of 16 cents per share.
Revenue declined to $935.4 million from $1.17 billion. Sales at stores open at least a year fell 19 percent on weaker traffic and the soft performance of its mobility business. Analysts expected revenue of $1.12 billion.
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Nice to meet ya. I see we're also in the same age-range, turning 59 this month, as well as fellow drummers. I'm new to "coming out" as an atheist and looking for related-sites myself, so I'm a bit of a rookie here too, still finding my way around too. So how are things in Thailand anyway? Hope you got things there to keep you sane. Retired back in Sept and enjoyin' life so far! Get to play my kit more now, I have it muffled quite a bit, use brushes and the sound coming off the kit is very classic jazzy, if you know what I mean. I enjoy all percussions, play the congas/bongos also. lately I've "transposed" my conga playing to the drums; fills that have a more jazz/latin feel to it and am really enjoying the discovery of all this. Hope all is going well with you.
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Avalanche aim for 50th win in visit to Bluesby Brian Hunter
AVALANCHE (49-21-6) at BLUES (52-17-7)
Last 10: Colorado 6-3-1; St. Louis 7-3-0
Season series: This is the fourth and final game between the Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues. The Avalanche will try to avoid being swept by the Blues, who have outscored them 13-5, though the most recent game on March 8 was a tightly played 2-1 final.
Big story: Only the 2000-01 Stanley Cup team has won 50 games in a season in Colorado/Quebec franchise history. Rookie coach Patrick Roy can lead the 2013-14 Avalanche to that accomplishment with a win Saturday. Semyon Varlamov can also tie Roy's franchise single-season record by picking up his 40th win.
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Avalanche: Roy joked Thursday afternoon he was thinking about holding Varlamov out as the six-year NHL veteran closed in on his wins record. As it stands, Varlamov will start again Saturday as well as Tuesday against the Edmonton Oilers, but with the Stanley Cup Playoffs approaching, Roy wants to give starts to Jean-Sebastien Giguere and Reto Berra when the Avalanche close the regular season with three games in four days.
Varlamov, who has already far exceeded his previous single-season win total of 26 and also boasts a .926 save percentage (his previous career best is .924), doesn't just have personal stats to think about; the Avalanche are trying to hold off the Chicago Blackhawks for second place in the Central Division and home ice in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Rallying for a 3-2 shootout win against the New York Rangers on Thursday helped matters. Defenseman Tyson Barrie had the tying goal with 51.4 seconds left in regulation and the only goal in the penalty-shot tiebreaker.
"What has made the difference with Barrie? He went to the minors and worked on his game and he plays north hockey," Roy said in the Denver Post. "We did not want him to play east-west anymore. He has our full confidence."
Blues: A franchise record fell in St. Louis after the Blues edged the Buffalo Sabres 2-1 on Thursday. Their 52nd win of the season eclipsed the standard set by the 1999-2000 squad, which also racked up 114 points -- a total this season's squad is poised to surpass as well.
"(The record) is a special thing, but tomorrow it really means nothing," said goaltender Brian Elliott, who made 24 saves Thursday. "We have to keep going, get better tomorrow and get ready for these last few games."
With six games remaining, the Blues have to contend with the Anaheim Ducks for the top seed in the Western Conference as well as the Boston Bruins in the race for the Presidents' Trophy. They have a comfortable seven-point lead over the Avalanche for the Central title.
Who's hot: Avalanche forward Paul Stastny has one goal and five assists during a five-game point streak. Barrie has two goals and two assists in his past five games. … Blues goalie Ryan Miller has a 2.01 goals-against average and .920 save percentage in 14 starts since being acquired from the Buffalo Sabres.
Injury report: Colorado forward Cody McLeod (ankle/knee) left the game Thursday and is day-to-day. Forward PA Parenteau (knee) could return at the end of the regular season or by the start of the playoffs. Forward Matt Duchene (knee) is likely out until some point in the first or second round. … St. Louis defenseman Barret Jackman (lower body) and forward Alexander Steen (upper body) were out of the lineup Thursday. Jackman is set to return, but Steen won't and is probably out Sunday as well. Forward Vladimir Tarasenko (hand) remains sidelined.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Junior Stephanie Cooke's (Lanoka Harbor, N.J.) first goal of the season proved to be the game-winner as the MIT women's soccer team defeated Smith College, 1-0, in NEWMAC contest on Saturday afternoon. The win raised the Engineers' ledger to 6-1-2 on the year and 1-0-2 in the conference while the Pioneers dipped to 1-7-0 overall and 0-3-0 in the NEWMAC.
Smith's Ellie Theurer almost opened the scoring in the 11th minute on breakaway but junior goalie Meghan Wright (Devon, Pa.) grabbed the line drive strike. A few minutes later, junior Andrea Park (Irvine, Calif.) chipped a ball outside of the box which was pounced on by goalie Lindsey Gregor. The ball came loose, but she snagged it right before junior Emily Kuo (Chicago, Ill.) could get a touch.
Midway through the period, Park sent a short free kick into the box which was struck by sophomore Rachel Dias Carlson (Albany, N.Y.); however it glanced off the crossbar. In the 34th minute Cooke redirected a feed from Park yards away from the goal. With Gregor caught out of position, the shot appeared to be stopped by Ralston Louie on the line, but the officials ruled the ball had crossed the plane of the goalmouth.
During the final nine minutes of the half, Meredith Peck nearly registered the equalizer on two occasions. She had a one-on-one situation with Wright that brought her off her line. Peck unleashed a shot from the top of the box which resulted in Wright sliding to the near sideline to thwart the scoring attempt. Later on, from eight yards out, Peck spun around a sent a strike that caused Wright to dive and deflect the ball out of bounds.
In the second stanza, MIT continued to control the ball as it registered 11 shots with five on goal while Smith posted two shots. The Pioneers' best charge at net was in the 50th minute on a run by Dayln Houser. Faced with just Park and Wright she sent a strike from 15 yards out that was blocked by Park, ending the scoring threat.
Wright collected three saves and her fifth shutout of the season while Gregor turned away 11 shots.
Both squads continue NEWMAC play on Tuesday, Oct. 4 when MIT travels to WPI while Smith hosts Springfield College.


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Following an extremely successful introduction at last year's Hershey Show, Gulf Stream Coach Inc.'s Enduramax toy hauler is responding to its growing customer base with a fresh new upscale interior décor.
According to a press release, while hard-core off-roaders love the rugged, go-anywhere, do-anything flexibility of the Enduramax design, prospective customers expressed interest in a bit more luxury and residential-level comfort in the décor.
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A moist weather system will arrive Monday afternoon and drop over a foot of snow on the west slopes of the Bitterroot mountains.
Forecaster Ryan Leach with the National Weather Service office in Missoula says Lolo and Lost Trail passes will receive significant snowfall Monday might through Tuesday.
Leach says the Missoula area will receive light snowfall, but gusty winds may make driving difficult with blowing snow. A winter weather advisory has been issued for the area from 5 p.m. Monday to 5 a.m. Tuesday.
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Picture of Carl Junot courtesy of Gil Talbot.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Former Harvard assistant coach Carl Junot has been named the head men's soccer coach at Tufts, it was announced over the weekend.
Junot, a member of the Crimson staff under Jamie Clark, the Virginia B. and James O. Welch '52 Head Coach for Harvard Men's Soccer, for two seasons, helped Harvard reach the NCAA tournament in 2008 and 2009. The Crimson won the Ivy League title last fall, posting a 14-4-1 overall record en route to the third round of the NCAA tournament.
At Harvard, Junot was responsible for all aspects of team development and handled recruiting, video analysis and off-season player development. He also worked with Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy finalist Andre Akpan '08-09, as well as three Harvard players who were selected at the MLS Superdraft (Akpan, Michael Fucito '07-08 and Kwaku Nyamekye '10).
During his career as an assistant coach, Junot has coached five conference players of the year and 11 players drafted into MLS professional soccer. In addition, College Soccer News named him as a Top Assistant Coaches honoree while at Harvard in 2008.
In nine seasons as a Division I collegiate soccer coach, Junot was a part of six conference championship teams. Prior to coaching at Harvard, Junot coached for seven years at New Mexico. He was an assistant coach for the Lobos from 2001 through 2005, and then was promoted to associate head coach and held that position until the spring of 2008.
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The Dallas Mavericks won their first championship last night in Miami with a 105-95 victory in Game 6. There were plenty of heroes for Dallas that answered the prayers of millions of fans around the country. Dirk Nowitzki won the Finals MVP and scored 10 in the 4th quarter after a 1-12 1st half and Jason Terry came up clutch with 27 points off the bench. JJ Barea was huge once again and Deshawn Stevenson of all people made big threes in the 1st half. Vets like Kidd, Marion, Stojakovic, and Chandler won their first ring as well. Heck, even Mark Cuban finally made an appearance and came up with a classy gesture of having David Stern hand the trophy to original Mavs owner Don Carter.
Of course, since the Mavs beat the Heat though, the failure of one LeBron James is the story to come out of the 2011 NBA Finals. Unfortunately, the story of the Mavs and their great run through the Playoffs from the #4 seed and Dirk's 13 year quest for a title will largely be overshadowed because of one fact. The NBA Finals came and went and the King is still without a ring. LeBron James went missing for large portions of the game once again last night and will likely face even more criticism, laughter, and venom from fans not just in Cleveland, but around the country. I've never seen schadenfreude referenced more in a 14 hour period.
So, when LeBron went to his postgame presser with bff Dwyane Wade, someone was bound to ask about the sheer glee that his haters experienced with his failing in the Finals. Perhaps all the hate finally got to LeBron as he had this not so measured response…
The more I listen to that quote, the more cringe worthy it is. I understand James' point of view… yes, it's fun to root against LeBron and the Heat for most of us (save a thought for a true Heat fan though, our own Mike Vitiello, don't turn it on ESPN today), but we do all have real lives to live. However, referencing your great life and the personal problems of real people are not going to endear King James to the masses once again. The more you listen to this soundbyte, the more disconnected and arrogant James sounds. LeBron even lost his personal beat reporter, Brian Windhorst of ESPN's Heat Index, who didn't hold back the harsh words:
And there's the rub. So, too, will James. Eight years in, James is walking away from another season with no ring. In the past he could — and did — with his head high while quietly blame others. Last year, he got away with a series in which he failed to deliver.
Now, in the real world, there's nowhere to hide.
If anything, LeBron is more cemented in the villain role than ever. So with that, some of those real people had to welcome James back to the real world today. Here's a mini Real Tweets from Real People with some of their tweets @KingJames…
Jakeomaniac Retweet if you have the same amount of championship rings as @KingJames"
And one final word from Dan Gilbert and his all caps to bring us full circle…
cavsdan Congrats to Mark C.&entire Mavs org. Mavs NEVER stopped & now entire franchise gets rings. Old Lesson for all:There are NO SHORTCUTS. NONE.


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The regulars around here all know that we're on the verge of our annual orgy of list-making; right after New Year's, people will start posting lists of their favorite eggcorns posted on the forum during 2009. But anyone can participate—you don't have to have contributed during the year. So start making that list….
While I'm here, I'm wondering whether anyone has ideas about how we should commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Database, which opened for business on February 15, 2005.
I'm working on a list all of the candidate eggcorns from 2009, similar to the one I posted for 2008. I'll post it here in the new year.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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I'm working on a list all of the candidate eggcorns from 2009, similar to the one I posted for 2008.
Great! I didn't want to ask publicly whether you were, since I didn't want to imply that anyone was expecting you to go to that much trouble again. But that was amazingly helpful last year.
I'm not sure what you mean by "here" when you talk about posting your list, but I'd say go ahead and start a new "Best of 2009" thread when you post your list like you did last year so that my call for anniversary ideas doesn't end up being a distraction. And it was convenient last year to have all the best-of posts in one thread.
At this point it looks like we have more than 700 candidate eggcorns this year. Some one, it would appear, has been feeding growth hormones to our chickens. As I mentioned above, I'll post the full list of candidates soon after the new year, and I'll start it, as Pat suggests, in a new thread where you can all make your nominations for best eggcorns.
Some random thoughts as I work my way through the posts…
Several entertaining discussions have marched across our screens in 2009. We turned up some morphological and semantic events that I had not given much thought to before this year. See, for example, lists of n-droppers and n-adders in English, cites of pseudo-Anglicisms, discussions of big fuzzy spots, riffs on sound symbolism, mind games with prefixes and hypercorrections, explorations of semanticized proper names, and, of course, the discovery/christening of a new kind of slip, the Annie Lehmann. I also liked David B's suggestion that we use the word silicism to represent any computer-caused permutation of English morphology, leaving the established "cupertino" as the spell-checker-caused subset of silicisms. And Pat seems to have gotten the rest of us to adopt his "WTF typo" terminology for pail-like substitutions that happen on the fly.
Lest we think eggcorns are always serious linguistic business, I should point out that Pat found time in 2009 to teach us how to write like William Morris and to appreciate the nuances of middle English verb endings. David B gave us a new motto for our clubhouse, caveat eggtor, and regaled us with a selection of cheeses and wines and teas. We began to notice the fifth-column activities of the sinister Beadwof. The first photograph of an eggcorn appeared on the Internet and we learned about a computer program for detecting eggcorns. For a while in November it was true confession time as we revealed our eggcorn sources. Peter clued us into the curate's eggcorn and Pat introduced us to the fata morgana drawing us into the desert of word etymolgies, the infamous Eggcorn Omega. We didn't reach Eggcorn Omega this year. On the contrary, we were startled to come across a number of rather obvious eggcorns, low hanging fruits that had escaped our notice for five years. Pat mentioned in one of his posts a Right Under Our Noses Award, which I rechristened the SNOT (Seen but Not Observed Terms) Award. Santa brought me lump of coal for that one.
Two of our members crossed the fifty-post line and became Eggcornistas: Adam Vero and David Bird. David, using two avatars (burred and DavidBird), racked up almost 500 posts in less than a year–some kind of record for a dayview on this forum, I imagine.
Chris, Arnold and others found time in 2009 to add another 14 eggcorns to our database, several of them drawn from discussions in the forum. And while they were doing that, the rest of us added several more posts to The Thread that Would Not Die.
And, last and least, this was the year that we came under attack. Spammers forced us to switch to a labor-intensive hand registration process for new users.
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Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
My previous post about 2009 highlights—I jumped the gun on that one. Posted when I was only about two-thirds the way through the 2009 entries. I have since added quite a bit to it.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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For High Point Regional and UNC Regional Physicians closings
High Point Regional has been named by iVantage Health Analytics as a 2014 HEALTHSTRONGT Hospitals.
Patients and visitors may notice unusual activity at High Point Regional on Wednesday, June 18.
Timothy "Dwayne" Hudler, technologist with High Point Regional, has received the North Carolina Society of Radiologic Technologists (NCSRT) Imaging Professionals for Excellence Award.
"Everyone at High Point Regional has an amazing attitude and capacity for helping other people. And we have come to a place in our lives where giving back to High Point, by helping others, is very important to us." - Barry and Bonnie
This February, High Point Regional celebrated Heart Health Month with the Key to Your Heart Campaign.
2nd Annual Heart of Champions Day!
Free Cardiac Health Screening for Student Athletes
Patient-Centered Medical Home T2011 standards emphasize enhanced care through patient-clinician partnership
Learn more about the facts for women and heart disease.
At 3:55 a.m. a car drove through the front entrance of the High Point Regional Emergency Department. The driver is currently being evaluated. There was a passenger in the car that has been evaluated and released. There were no other injuries in this accident.
Each year, High Point Regional Health System invites those who have lost a loved one to cancer, cancer survivors, families and the community to join cancer center staff for a Service of Remembrance and Hope.
Mike Gassemi, M.D. recently joined Regional Physicians Internal
Medicine. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and specializes in adult illnesses including diabetes and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder).
High Point Regional is holding an open house for nurses, physical therapists and occupational therapists seeking employment.
Deirdre Daniels with High Point Regional Health System Receives
American College of Cardiology Foundation's NCDR® ACTION Registry®–GWTGTM Platinum Performance Achievement Award
Family-Friendly Event Benefits Heart Strides Scholarship Fund
The American College of Radiology granted Regional Physicians Neuroscience MRI accreditation.
Barberitos restaurants in High Point and Greensboro will be serving pink chips and donating 10 percent of sales to benefit the Hayworth Cancer Center at High Point Regional Health System. This will be the fourth year Barberitos will serve "Pink Out" tortilla chips in an effort to promote breast cancer awareness.
High Point Regional Health System has joined forces with the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) to implement an innovative simulation program: SIM-FIT MI (Simulation for Improved Teamwork in Myocardial Infarction)The goal of this program is to continue improving the acute care of patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction.
Dr. Todd Reiter, recently appointed medical director of the Inpatient Rehabilitation Center at High Point Regional Health System, knows first-hand the similarities between Olympic athletes and rehabilitation patients. Dr. Reiter is also the U.S. Sports Medical Coordinator for the Philippine Olympic Team. He attended the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China and plans to attend the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in the United Kingdom.
Noted for on-site child care, two fitness centers, flexible work schedules, outstanding employee benefits, and weekly farmers markets in the summer, High Point Regional Health System recently received recognition as one of the 50 top family-friendly companies in North Carolina.


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Carroll County Public Service Authority board member David Hutchins was recently quoted in a news report:
"When we look at our systems, we look at Fancy Gap water, and while it is funded that way, Rural Development looks at it as Carroll County has a water system.
The 2013-14 procedures, approved by the Grayson Board of Supervisors, require a minimum of one week's notice and public meetings before a motion can be entertained by the board. Since approved board procedures were not followed in allowing Mr. Rosenbaum to make a last minute motion concerning zoning at his first meeting as a supervisor in December 2013, the motion to repeal zoning should have been denied at the December meeting.
This gross mistake in procedure needs to be addressed immediately!
The Grayson County supervisors meeting Jan. 9 was a very good get-together of the millionaires versus the poor people.
The three supervisors that were in control before have gone to the happy hunting ground.
The person that referred to them as the three stooges probably needs to look longer in the mirror.
The first several people that spoke had made their fortune somewhere else, then moved here to get out of the rat race, traffic, crime. Now want to live here in peace and harmony and don't want us to have anything.
At the Woodlawn High School meeting Jan. 23, my wife spoke regarding closing the school.
After hearing other comments, we are in agreement that the special ed children are in need of having a place to play basketball, etc.
However, as stated by my wife, when we attended a meeting with former School Superintendent [Greg] Smith and others at the school, it was stressed that the school was in dire need of repairs.
Apparently, that information has changed considerably. It now appears that we were sadly misinformed.
The answer to the question of whether to keep zoning is simple. Factions on both sides would like us to think it's not.
Zoning is not about the county being able to tell you what to do, it is about your ability to tell the county what you want. If you give up zoning, whatever you like or dislike about what's moving in next door, you will no longer have a say or even the forum to give your opinion.
Don't listen to polarizing factions on both sides telling you what to think. The grandstanding and drama are about personal agendas and not truth.
There is no better or more important protection for this county than the zoning ordinance. Why, then, are some in this community fighting against their own best interest?
I am writing this letter to cordially invite your church and choir to Oldtown Baptist Church's Black History Celebration.
We know this time of year can be very busy but we wanted to extend the invitation to "go back down memory lane" with us as we celebrate Black History Month.
The service will be Feb. 23 at 3 p.m. Your congregation and choirs attendance would be appreciated as we lift up the name of Jesus and thank God for freedom.
For more information you can contact minister Deiandra Anderson at (336) 430‑3947.
It was with great sadness that I heard about the Kroger store in Galax closing effective in March. However, I would like to take this opportunity to encourage all those interested in keeping this store open to do a letter writing campaign.
Social media may be the thing at this time, but also keep in mind that all the Facebook posts may or may not be read. However, if you send a letter stating your concerns, be assured that someone in that office will open that letter.
The more letters you send may be the avenue to keeping the store in Galax.
Thank you, VDOT, for keeping the highways and byways scraped, sanded and safe during our recent perilous weather.
Your dedication is appreciated.
Bonnie Campbell and family
I would like to take the opportunity to thank Larry Chambers for all the time and energy he took to write the stories of the beginning of the Galax Theater Guild and to print the beautiful pictures of our actors in our plays.
That was 40 years ago, and because of his dedication and hard work, we are still here today.
We love the town newspaper because, without it, people would not have known about the productions. One can have a good product, but with nothing in print or on the air, who would know?
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Protesters' human barrier stops council tree cutters Published in the Derbyshire Times 6 March 2014
Protesters formed a human barrier on a wood shredder in an attempt to stop council workmen cutting the tops off a line of trees.
The trees on Slayley View Road, Barlborough, had been earmarked for a reduction by Bolsover District Council but residents were determined to preserve the leylandii trees amidst claims they provide vital privacy between nearby properties.
Campaigner Bridget Ingle, of Slayley View Road, said: "The lie of the land falls away with higher properties on one side of the road looking down through the windows of properties on the other lower side but the height of the trees provides privacy. Without the trees pedestrians can also see into people's homes from the pavement.
"There has been no consultation about this and as soon as we saw workmen starting to chop the tops off the trees we positioned ourselves on the wood chipper to save the trees."
Workmen had begun cutting about 5ft off the top of the line of trees from a point that was about eight foot off the ground when the protestors stepped in.
Ms Ingle also told how council leader Eion Watts had visited the site during the protest on Wednesday morning, March 5, in an effort to get the protesters to move so work could continue. But the protesters continued to prevent the tree cutting and a council officer was called out to discuss the situation with the residents.
The officer explained the council has a responsibility to maintain the grass and the hedge and it needs to keep the trees cut to a certain height so workmen can continue to safely maintain them without putting themselves at risk.
A Boslover District Council spokesman said: "The council received a request to prune an overgrown high hedge established within the boundary of council maintained land.
"The hedge is approximately 20 feet high and substantially higher than neighbouring fence boundaries. "Due to the proximity of neighbouring boundaries and property, the council considered this to present a risk. "It was also felt to be reducing amenity value of the local area due to its unkempt appearance.
"The high hedge line is therefore being reduced to a manageable height of 8 feet, to just above neighbouring property boundary fences; further to which, this will be included within the council's annual hedge maintenance program to establish a more formal hedge and dense maintained feature more in keeping with the local urban amenity value.
"The council, prior to recommencing works, will be writing to neighbouring properties which directly bound the hedge line to explain its position and reason for pruning and planned maintenance."
Watsy clearly isn't satisfied with having hundreds of trees removed from the country park…


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Of course you would expect the Catholic press to celebrate the Christmas season with plenty of excellent reflections. They're coming in fast and furious now. Some examples:
— "12 practical ways to keep Christ in Christmas" in The Catholic Spirit in St. Paul, Minn., delivers some excellent ideas for Christians trying to keep their Christmas celebration on track.
— Also from The Catholic Spirit is "Wal-Mart, Target offer faith-based toys," which gives parents some ideas for wholesome alternatives to typical Christmas toys.
— Among the bishops writing Christmas columns, Bishop J. Peter Sartain of Joliet, Ill., offers a reflection on how "the Christmas foreshadowing of Jesus' death adds to our appreciation of the mystery of the Incarnation and the depth of God's love" in his diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Explorer.


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Krissy Evans is a good girl. She always has been. Until...
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Blue Ribbon Leadership Team
The Sustainable Lincoln Blue Ribbon Leadership Team includes a broad cross-section of the community with interests in the environment, sustainable planning, and the social and economic future of Lincoln. Knowing that what matters is what's measured, the Blue Ribbon Leadership Team is charged with reviewing recommendations for measurable community-wide sustainability indicator targets in the following areas: air, water, land, waste, transportation, energy, and community. The Blue Ribbon Leadership Team reviews proposed indicator targets as a group, and then validates, amends, or proposes alternatives. The end result will be a first draft of what all expect will be a highly useful, regularly updated planning and accountability tool on what is right for Lincoln.
Blue Ribbon Leadership Team Members
- DiAnna Schimek - City Council
- Bill Schmeeckle - Assurity Life
- Dennis Scheer - Clark Enersen Architects
- Craig Gies - Sampson Construction
- Jack Zohner - John Henry Plumbing
- Mike Benker - Home Builders Association of Lincoln
- Michelle Bellamy - Telesis
- Sarah Peetz - Lincoln Community Foundation
- Malinda Burke - University Place Neighborhood/ LPS Science Teacher
- Kevin Wailes - Lincoln Electric System
- Adam Hintz - Meadowlark Coffee
- Sue Quambusch - A to Z Printing
- Mark Brohman - Nebraska Environmental Trust
- Dan Lambe - Arbor Day Foundation
- Ron Robinson - LI-COR
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What Team Do We Hate The Most?
What team do we hate the most? The Redskins, Eagles, Giants, or some other team? After my last blog was ambushed by an Eagles fan it made me wonder what team do we dislike the most? I have contemplated back and forth of which team. Maybe all of them (just kidding). In my opinion, I say the Washington Redskins.
The Washington Redskins have been our rival from the beginning. Over a song. Every game we play against them is intense. Plus I think Redskins fans are obnoxious. Last year the Deadskins got a cheap win. They missed a field goal when the judges called it good. I dont know if that changed the season outcome or not, but the win-loss record would have been changed and the Eagles game wouldn't have mattered.
Speaking of the Phliadelphia Eagles… I cant stand them either. I will make this short with them. When you win even just ONE ring then we will talk. Till then shut up and hope your team does well this year without a good defense.
The New York Football Giants… I really don't have too much of a big beef against them. I will admit they are a talented group, but Eli looks like a poster child for retardation, the way he holds his mouth open. My girlfriend and I make fun of him and the way he looks. Two years ago when they won the Super Bowl, that was a hard year. The Cowboys being 13-3 going into the Giants game. If we could learn how to tackle the outcome would have been different. I keep replaying in my mind the missed tackle of Plaxico. You know which one I am talking about. Also the dropped pass to Crayton. Oh well, that was 2 years ago.
Then there are other teams. Pittsburgh, since they have 6 rings now. Or maybe the Patriots, with Brady back now watch out for them. Are there other teams I left out? Yeah, I did. But if it comes down to it, the Redskins I can't stand.
When my little bundle of joy is born, I have an onesie that will say, "I have been just been born and I already hate the Redskins" – very funny. Until then – How 'bout them Cowboys!


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I needed this cover to keep my fingers from freezing in the winter because I have raynauds. It looks nice and works perfectly and even matches my interior. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because it was extremely difficult to get on. I almost sent it back but my boyfriend helped me and with both of us pulling it on, it worked. I've had covers before that were not that difficult to put on. Plus it was specific to my car make/ model. But once it was on, it was fine.I would recommend!


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Mary was preceded in death by her parents; brother Robert; brothers-in-law Ric Donati and Charles Beckman; and grandson Jonathan. She received her BA degree from Wilson College, did graduate studies at Wellesley College and earned her MA degree from the University of Denver. She married John A. Krimmel in 1943.
Mary moved to La Jolla from Denver in 1970, where she made her home with her husband and children.
Mary is survived by her husband; children John E., Bob, Max, Ruth, Margot, David and Sarah; and their spouses. She is survived by six grandchildren and one great grandchild. She is also survived by sisters Elizabeth Beckman, Jean Donati and Sarah Rodenberger; sister-in-law Betty Schabacker; and many nieces and nephews.
At the request of the family, there will be no service. Memorial contributions may be made to: Friends of the Pacific Beach/Taylor Branch Library, 4275 Cass St., San Diego, 92109.


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