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Abbas Wins District 20
Democrat's election is certified by the state
Bush Gets Punked at the Sunshine
"They saw this nut (G.W.B.) on TV and said, 'Whoa, this is like letting a 4-year-old drive a car.'"
You may not want to believe it, but George W. Bush has some strengths. As he told us four years ago, he is a uniter, not a divider. The truth of that statement was more than apparent last Friday, when over 700 punk rockers converged on the Sunshine Theater for the fist-pumping, crowd surfing and political networking that was the Rock Against Bush tour.
Ortiz y Pino
Early Childhood Needs Public Scrutiny
Governor's plan should be viewed as a first step in a long journey
Behind the scenes, far from the public's view, a battle is being waged with great consequences over early childhood education in New Mexico.
Payne's World
Power to the Pajama People!
How bloggers took down once-mighty CBS and are changing the news business forever
In the midst of Rathergate, and prior to CBS's reluctant admission they were pushing fabricated government memos as real, former CBS executive vice president Jonathan Klein sneered, "You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances [on mainstream media] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing." Klein's disparagement of guys writing in their pajamas was intended to put bloggers—the only folks questioning the authenticity of the memos at the time—in their place.
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Troops Sí, Drunks No
At the Sept. 20 meeting, Council President Michael Cadigan's bill mandating treatment for city employees after a first DWI conviction and firing after a second conviction passed 9-0, as did his bill guaranteeing that vacation and sick leave would accrue normally for city employees on active military duty.
Odds & Ends
Dateline: Israel—Israel's Health and Agriculture ministries branch in Ashkelon last week seized 80,000 cans of dog food that had been disguised as foie gras for humans. The product, imported from Bulgaria, was originally labeled "chicken for dogs," but was covered by two different fraudulent labels: "Domestic birds' liver pâté. Producer: S.E. Grenot, France" and "Pâté fois gras. Producer: Lovmit General Toshevo." Although it is believed the products never reached store shelves, the Health Ministry warned consumers not to purchase products with those names. "The health risks from such a product are considerable," Shirley Deri, a food engineer for the district of Ashkelon, told the Haaretz International daily. "It could contain microbiological pathogens that are lethal to humans." The Agriculture Ministry is conducting an investigation.
Correction: In the "Newscity" article "Condemnation Denied" appearing Sept. 16-22, the Alibi wrongly stated that Bernalillo County issued a building permit for a house on D. McCall's Bosque property. The county approved a waste water permit and that's what was rescinded. The building permit was never approved.


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Logitech Harmony ONE Review
As we have moved further into the technological age we have remote controls for just about everything imaginable. The problem is that eventually juggling the three, four, five or more remotes gets to be a little ridiculous. Press "On" for the television, press "On" for the surround sound, press "On" for the DVR or cable box...you get the point, it gets old quick. After the pain becomes too great and you decide to buy that new all-in-one remote control to help ease the suffering, it happens, BAM! The all-in-one solution you bought works with the television, but not the DVD player and surround sound. You spend that wonderful Saturday afternoon (of course that's when we make the purchase) putting in code after code or trying to make the remote learn the correct codes. If and when you get it working you realize that many of the functions that are available to you on each individual device's remote are no longer available to you. So finally, there are a couple of choices. Either the remote goes back to the store or you live with the reduced functionality of that nice all-in-one remote you just bought. What if there was a remote control that could make all of those problems go away? No more grueling setup punching in endless codes. No more reduced functionality. How about a remote with a touch screen that works?
Well Logitech has such an animal in its Logitech Harmony "ONE" universal advanced remote control. The One, at first look, has the traditional remote control styling but then incorporates a touch screen into the unit to give the best of both worlds. All of the buttons for the technofile and the touch screen for the the rest of the family for the ease of use. The Harmony One mixes the best features of the Harmony 890 Pro as well as the Harmony 1000. The only feature not included on this remote is the Z wave capabilities that the other two have. Can the Harmony One live up to the expectations and performance of the Harmony series? If past performance is any indicator, then it should do just fine.
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The Harmony One comes packaged in the traditional Logitech Green and white. The front view gives an almost 360 degree view of the Harmony One. The "One Touch" mantra is repeated on the front and back panels of the package, letting the consumer know just what the purpose of the "One" is. The side views offer a continuation of the 360 degree view as well as a view of the touch screen.
Once pulled from the confines of the box, the Harmony One is secured by two shells, one on each end, while the charging cradle is in a partition of it own. Under the charging cradle are the accessories and documentation.

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Anne Arundel County residents lauded Superintendent Kevin Maxwell's recommended $986.2 million operating budget at a public hearing Tuesday night, encouraging the school board to adopt it and the county council to help fund it.
About three dozen people attended the meeting at Old Mill High School in Millersville. All of those who commented on the fiscal 2013 budget voiced support; they included members of the teachers and secretaries union. Maxwell's budget requests the authority to fill 62 additional teaching positions and fully funds negotiated agreements with all four employee bargaining groups.
School officials will hold an additional public hearing Thursday in Annapolis.
Diana Peckham, a member of Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County, said the group approved of Maxwell's effort to honor negotiated agreements and said that county officials should support those efforts.
"We do not have a spending problem in this county; we have a revenue problem," said Peckham. She said that the county's funding authority should "honor its commitments rather than continue to force educators, police, fire, county, office and department employees to pay from their own pockets for county services which benefit all Anne Arundel County residents."
Maxwell said that residents' comments lead him to believe they are aware of the economic challenges facing school budget funding, and added, "They understand that beyond the negotiated agreements there is only a 1.2-percent increase that we're asking for here. They understand this is not a pie in the sky budget. You're not hearing people crying and gnashing their teeth."


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Our community lost a true angel on earth recently with the passing of Pete Barbour. He was a church member and friend to our family for my entire life. After the death of my dad, Pete wrote a letter in the Times-News about what a good man Carroll Deal was. I am now proud to honor his life. He lived 90-plus years and spent all of those with the mission of serving his God and being of service to others. Many knew him from Burlington Drug Co. where he worked to fill prescriptions and help anyone with questions about what might be the best medicine for their need. Our mother had several serious health issues and if we ever needed medicine after hours, Pete was always there and delivered the meds to our home.
After Pete retired, he took up walking and for years walked five miles daily. Along the way he would take many papers and place them at the doorstep for anyone on his route that might not be as mobile. He grew vegetables and shared those as well. I would often come home to find tomatoes at my back door.
In our church, he served many leadership roles and I was fortunate to be the recipient of his mentoring. He was a fervent prayer and any group he was a part of always asked him to close us out. You honestly felt like his connection was more direct than most.
For many years Pete owned an old Dodge Ram truck and he loaned it to anyone in our church who needed it. He always made sure it was full of gas and if you tried to fill it back up before returning it, he really got mad. It was another way for him to serve.
I called him my angel as he was such an inspiration and champion for me all of my adult life. I am so sad for those of us left without him as he was a true Christian who always did the right thing and lived to serve others. I miss my kiss on Sunday mornings! We have lost a rare �gift� but we are grateful for his presence and influence in our lives. We can honor him by continuing his legacy.


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Fishing Rods: Selecting Your First Pole
Salty scents, cool breezes, and relaxing out on the open water as you wait to hook your next meal: fishing is one of the world's most popular pastimes since it can be enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities. The simple act of casting out your line from your fishing rod and waiting for a bite brings peace and tranquility, while reeling in a fish can be one of the most exciting things you'll ever experience.
If you're daydreaming about getting out on the water, you'll increase your chances of capturing a successful fish with the right fishing poles. Before making a decision on what to get, ask yourself the following questions to help you determine your choice:
- How much fishing will I be doing? Will I be out on short trip, or will I be fishing for a longer stretch? The more fishing you do, the more durable you'll want your rod to be.
- What do I want to catch? Am I fishing for bluegills and crappies or tuna and halibut? The bigger the fish, the stronger your rod and line will need to be.
- What conditions will I be in? Are the waters going to be rough and choppy, or placid and serene? Rougher conditions warrant stronger rods.
- How strong am I? Can I handle pulling in any size fish, or do I need extra help? Look for qualities that will help you reel in your catches. Graphite rods offer plenty of give and won't break with large fish and are good for standard excursions. Composite rods are a combination of graphite and fiberglass and provide flexibility with added durability.
- What type of boat will I be in? Will I be pier fishing or in a boat? Get a long rod for surf fishing and pier fishing. Short rods work for boats, since they're easier to maneuver in small spaces, while if you're freshwater fishing from a bank, medium rods are best.
- How tall am I? What size rod will feel comfortable for my body? Be sure to get a rod that fits your height and size.
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Spinning rods are easy to use and ideal for beginners. Spinning rods have a spooling system that prevents the fishing line from getting tangled in the reel, while the spool and large fishing line guides reduce friction to allow you to reel in your catch quickly. They're great for throwing light baits and are ideal if you're fishing for smaller fish in open water, such as bluegills, perch, and crappies.
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Use a casting rod if you're fishing for pike, bass, and muskie. These types of rods are longer than spinning rods and come with heavier gauge line, which makes them great for fishing over long distances or to catch heavier fish. Since the line comes off straight, not coiled like with a spinning rod, casting rods tend to be more accurate.
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Trolling rods are preferable if you're looking to go after heavier fish. Trolling is where lines that have hooks on them are dragged behind a boat, in hopes fish might bite. They're designed to handle big fish like salmon and walleyes.
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Around the World: Unusually Creative Hotels
When my husband and I are choosing a vacation destination we are seeking a way to have fun, relax, see new things, and have a memorable experience. What if your hotel alone could give you all that and more?
This list of unique hotels go above and beyond the normal boutique or bed and breakfast experience. The whole concept of these unusual accommodations is to give their guests an experience that they couldn't get anywhere else.
We often pick our destinations based on where we want to go and what type of vacation we want and then look for accommodations as an afterthought. I have to say that after doing this research and bookmarking so many incredible places I may re-think how I travel and choose my destination by the hotel from now on.
Here are 7 hotels that I would travel to just to stay in:
1. Hotel Fox in Denmark has 61 rooms, 21 artists and 1,000 ideas. "Each room is an individual piece of art - from wacky comical styles to strict graphic design, from fantastic street art and Japanese Manga to simply spaced out fantasies. You will find flowers, fairytales, friendly monsters, dreaming creatures, secrets vaults and more." I am seriously going to go here for a week and stay in a different room each night.
2. The Treehotel in Sweden allows their guests to live in harmony with nature amongst the trees. Each treehouse is designed by a different architect with different visions. There are currently six rooms completed with twenty more to come and each one is more jaw-dropping than the next.
3. Arte Luise Kunsthotle in Berlin is known as "a gallery where you can spend the night." Each of the 48 rooms was designed by a renowned artist and gives you an incredible, otherworldly experience.
4. Poseidon is in Figi. The rooms of this underwater resort rest 40 feet below the surface of the waves in a room made out of acrylic glass. For a mere $15,000 a week this is something I'm never gonna be able to do, but I like the idea that it's out there anyway.
5. Propeller Island City Lodge in the heart of Berlin is a habitable work of art. Each room was created by the German artist Lars Stroschen to challenge the guests senses and emotions.
6. Hôtel de Glace in Québec is entirely made out of ice and snow. This ice palace is rebuilt with a new design each winter. January 6, 2012 will mark its 12th year.
7. dasparkhotel in Austria was created by artist Andreas Straus who wanted to create a minimal and economical lodging place for travelers. The personal pod suites are located in a public park next to the Danube and provide the basic essentials one needs for a good night's sleep.
8. Hotel Kakslauttanen in Finland has log cabins and snow igloos as well as some unbelievable glass igloos that provide a one of a kind opportunity to view the northern lights and millions of stars in a crystal clear sky.
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The groups responsible for standardizing the language used to build Web sites have begun tackling technology
to provide a direct interface to Webcams. The World Wide Web Consortium has begun work on the HTML Device addition to the Hypertext Markup Language specification. "The device element represents a device selector, to allow the user to give the page access to a device, for example a video camera," according to a December 11 draft of the specification.


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Call them gluttons for punishment. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's appetite for private equity work hasn't tapered off even after a brutal couple of years.
The firm's total private equity deal value dropped from about $10 billion in 2010 to $8 billion last year, even as the number of deals rose, according to L.A. partner C.N. Franklin Reddick III, who co-chairs the firm's corporate group. Despite that, Akin Gump is investing in the practice with the idea that better days are coming.
"We are looking to build in private equity M&A to achieve long-term strategic goals so the near-term outlook is not driving our decision," Reddick said. "We have a very strong funds practice in New York and we represent a wide variety of private equity firms." The firm would like to replicate that on the West coast by adding partners with books of business across California, he said.
Akin Gump and other firms lining up for a share of the private equity fund market aren't all crazy. The bigger private equity deals—those worth more than $1 billion—seem to be coming back, accounting for a little more than half of all capital invested in 2011, according to my new favorite friends at Seattle-based research firm PitchBook (they respond fast to my frazzled requests on precarious deadlines).
Capital investment into business and consumer services companies rose last year, and funds have been shifting more money into the IT, health care and energy sectors.
And as I reported Monday, private equity firms are sitting pretty on about $425 billion in "dry powder"—capital ammunition that hasn't yet been invested—of which $100 billion is nearing the end of its investment horizon. That means the firms have to find a place to park the money.
While many New York and Silicon Valley firms train their sights on California's high-tech and life sciences sectors, Akin Gump is pinning its hopes on its specialty in the clean-tech, renewable energy and media and entertainment practices.
Last year, Akin Gump represented Cerberus Capital Management in its $1.5 billion acquisition of DynCorp International Inc. and handled transactions for New York private equity firms Angelo Gordon & Company, RNK Capital and Halyard Capital, among others.
"We seek to expand our private equity representation on the West coast in order to better serve our existing clients and expand our practice, leveraging our strengths in our fund formation, cross-border transactions, tax and public policy practices, which currently are centered in our other markets," Reddick said.


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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that can occur in people who have a suppressed immune system.
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CMV pneumonia is caused by a member of a group of herpes-type viruses. Infection with CMV is very common. Most humans are exposed to CMV in their lifetime, but typically only individuals with weakened immune systems become ill from CMV infection
Serious CMV infections can occur in people with weakened immune systems from conditions such as:
In people who have had organ and bone marrow transplants, the risk of infection is greatest 5 - 13 weeks after the transplant.
In otherwise healthy people, CMV usually produces no symptoms, or it produces a temporary mononucleosis-type illness. Those with a weakened immune system can develop serious symptoms, however. Symptoms may include:
The doctor or nurse will perform a physical exam. In addition, the following tests may be done:
The objective of treatment is to stop the virus from copying in the body through the use of antiviral drugs. Some people with CMV pneumonia will need to get medication through a vein (intravenously). Some people might initially need oxygen therapy and breathing support with a ventilator to maintain oxygen until the infection is brought under control.
Antiviral medications stop the virus from copying itself, but do not destroy it. The CMV suppresses the immune system, and may increase your risk of other infections.
Low oxygen levels in the blood in people with CMV pneumonia often predicts death, especially in patients who need to be placed on a breathing machine.
Complications of CMV infection in people with AIDS include spread of disease to other parts of the body:
Complications of CMV pneumonia include:
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of CMV pneumonia.
The following procedures have been shown to help prevent CMV pneumonia in certain patients:
Preventing AIDS avoids certain other diseases, including CMV, that can occur in people who have a weakened immune system. Certain people with AIDS who have a CD4 count of less than 50 cells/microliter should consider taking preventive treatment for CMV.
Drew WL. Cytomegalovirus. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds.Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 384.
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BOSTON, Mass. - MIT followed up last weekend's season-opening sweep by participating in the highly competitive Terrier Classic. In a meet featuring thousands of athletes from runners and teams around the country, the Engineers performed well and authored several national qualifying performances.
One of the biggest highlights of the weekend came in an early-season attempt for the Engineers to snag an NCAA berth in the distance medley relay on Friday. Racing beyond expectations, MIT finished a stunning third overall with a time of 10:03.30. The Cardinal and Gray finished less than two seconds behind event-winner Duke and were less than one-half tick off the clip turned in by Fordham. Junior Yermie Cohen (3:03.4) put MIT in excellent position with a strong 1200m to open while sophomore Stephen Morton (49.2) showed his versatility and potential by piecing together a solid leg in the quarter. Matt Bieniosek (1:56.7) pieced together an exceptional third leg in the 800m before Jake Ruzevick (4:14.0) anchored the effort with a gutsy run in the mile.
With Friday's success shaping a positive weekend-vibe for the Tech contingent, the Engineers set many personal bests. Morton continues to develop his craft as a high-level competitor and he produced the highest individual finish on the weekend by placing third overall in the long jump. Morton's best leap of 22'3" placed well, but his split of 22.45 in the 200-meter dash probably resulted in his top effort of the day.
Indoor personal records for MIT on Saturday included: Stephen Oney (51.48) in the 400m, Bieniosek (1:07.15) and David Reshef's identical clips in the 500m, David Fernholz (8.22) in the 55-meter hurdles, Bill Phipps (1:57.67) and Peter Mulligan (2:02.03) in the 800m, Cohen (4:16.98) and rookie Paul Welle (4:22.14) in the mile, Joseph Roy-Mayhew (8:37.35) in the 3k, and Chris Wong (15:10.45) and Brian Jacokes (15:21.48) in the 5000m.
MIT also competed well in the 1600-meter relay. Paced by an excellent lead-off split of 50.6 by Oney and a strong anchor by John Granata (50.2), the Engineers finished 11th overall and second among Division III schools with a time of 3:22.81.


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For the last 30 years Yvonne Jacquette has depicted the city from on
highviewing the city from tall buildings and aircraft. Her view
Herald Square Composite II, 1993, visually describes the saturated
colors and lights of midtown at the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue
and 34th Street and the glitter of the city at night. Named for the now
defunct New York newspaper, the small park in the square, is only partially
visible in the painting. Street traffic, the garish façade of the
Manhattan Mall, and the glowing logo of Toys R Us dominate the scene.
Escalators with decorative lights are visible from inside the Mall and
the traffic reflects on its exterior, along with line drawings of cars
and buses in this composite view.
The complexity of the city is visually apparent in Michael Najjar's multi-layered photographic prints. Like Fritz Lang whose 1926 film Metropolis envisioned the futuristic city, Najjars Netropolis series carries the notion a step further, positing the city as a locus of computer networks and digital information. In Netropolis/Shanghai, 2003, he photographed from the tallest building in the city of Shanghai. Using a conventional camera, Najjar shot to the north, south, east and west. These images were converted to digital files and combined into a single image that was manipulated on the computer. In the final stage the work is converted back and produced as a traditional silver gelatin print. The resulting image gives the viewer a sense of seeing through time.
Whether it be Germans dressing as Native Americans or the London Bridge replicated in Arizona, the irony of transported places and hybrid cultures provides a subtext running throughout the work of Andrea Robbins and Max Becher. In the series St. Pierre & Miquelon they have chosen to photograph a French village that is 20 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada and 3000 miles from France. Settled in the 17th century, the quaint village depicted in St. Pierre & Miquelon: View South, 2003, is French territory that uses European electrical standards, video formats, cars, and the Euro, despite its North American location.
From the Duomo in Florence to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Elephant
House at the Bronx Zoo, cities and their monuments are tourist destinations
in Terry Towerys Kodaculturalism and The Transnational Tourists
Eye AKA Pictures from a Trip, 1984-2005. For over twenty years Towery
has documented the rituals vernacular amateur photography,
specifically the tourist snapshot, throughout the world. These images
record the visit and proclaim the person was actually there. This computer-based
project juxtaposes two photographs, snapshot size, on the screen in an
ever changing, random sequence and offers an interesting study of what
people do in front of and behind the camera.
Shimon Attie marks the loss of Jewish neighborhoods in WWII Berlin by
recreating, in part, the street life of those neighborhoods. Using archival
photographs, he projects these images onto the buildings as they exist
now. He works at night with generators and high power projectors, allowing
the viewer to see through time from the present to the past. Joachimstrasse
11a, Berlin, 2003, depicts a café with its patrons and a bird
shop. He conceives of this process as a short-term performance event that
is documented in photographs. In 1998 he worked on New Yorks Lower
East Side, using projected texts based on historical materials and interviews
with neighborhood residents to focus on past immigrations.
Anyone who has ever been stuck on a traffic-snarled highway can easily
relate to the frenetic city scene in Red Groos' fiberglass bas-relief
Loop the Loop. As always Grooms imagery is colorful and vivacious.
Cars, trucks, and taxisbumper to bumper arc and curl on a
roadway that looks like a carnival ride while pedestrians move along the
sidewalks nearby. The scene lends comic relief to the jammed New York
City streets.
For many years Danny Hauben has been a painter of Bronx street scenes.
In View from the Bronx River Parkway II, he captures the convergence
of the #2 and the #5 train lines at 180th Street. Several Bronx neighborhoods
can be seen surrounding the platform and the train yard. Manhattan lies
in the distance like a dramatically lighted Oz. The twin towers of the
World Trade Center are barely visible as two simple strokes of paint.
Josh Dorman creates both cities and landscapes that are pure flights of fantasy. His stream of consciousness imagery, rendered with drawing, painting, and collage techniques, hovers at the edge of abstraction. Old topographic maps, yellowed with age, provide a base strata and conceptual springboard for an invented geography. In Oceana, 2004, concentric elevations trigger doodle-like found images that range from Buddhas to graveyards. Building shapes alternate with blocks of color in a cityscape in the foreground while very tiny cities can be found on shorelines throughout the drawing.
Two figures, a man and a woman, glide freely through the sky over a tropical
city. It is early evening and the last vestiges of a flaming red sunset
streak the sky. Known for his unearthly illumination and surrealistic
scenarios, Robert Yarber sets a mood that is strictly from a REM state.
In Floating Isolates, 2003, the location is Cancun. The figures,
highlighted in blues and reds, seem irradiated. The lights of the beachfront
of hotels and the turquoise glow of swimming pool lights punctuate the
Tomie Arai represents a city neighborhood not only as shops and apartment buildings but also with its people. Developed during an artist residency at the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, Arai created a suite of prints based on Asian women living in New York. In Chinatown, 1990, she worked with Frances Chung, a poet who had lived most of her life in the neighborhood. Working from oral histories, family photographs, and archival images from the museums collection, Arai created a composite image. A portrait of Chungs mother dominates one of the five panels of this silkscreen construction. In a smaller detail, another photo-based image, Chung is seen as a young girl with her mother in front of their apartment building on Grand Street.
Focused on neighborhood transitions and change, Bertrand Ivanoffs Open House, is a conceptual proposal to deconstruct an abandoned building in the South Bronx. The proposed interventionfor a building on Melrose and 160th St.would offer a temporary, site-specific art installation intended to be a catalyst for neighborhood discussion and a vehicle for interaction with the larger public. The project, will be closely tied to neighborhood associations, companies, and programs at The Point, a community based organization where Ivanoff works with students.
In Into the Night; Broadway, 2004, Paul Chojnowski captures the
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Bertha M. Bradley, 89, of St. Marys died at 9:35 a.m. Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, at the home of her niece, Angie Young.
She was born on Feb. 9, 1924, in Whitely County, Ky., to the late Allen and Angeline Goley Roller.
Bertha was a homemaker who enjoyed working in her yard and visiting with her family and friends.
Survivors include a niece, Angie Young and her family, Rusty, Allison and Alaina Young; other numerous nieces and nephews; a stepdaughter, Margie Beckman of Celina; three sisters, Sandy (Herbert) Bruns of St. Marys, Sally (Carl) Fredricks of Frankfort, Ind. and Mary Ruffner of Chicago, Ill.; five stepgrandchildren; several stepgreat-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Shirley (Earl) Orick; two brothers, John (Babe) Roller and Raymond Clayton (Shelby) Roller; an infant sister, Vickie Roller; and by her two husbands, Frank Tilton and Ike Bradley.
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I'm more or less assuming all of us are familiar with the Apple Lisa, Apple's and Steve Jobs' first attempt at turning Xerox PARC's work into a marketable product. It was a flop, but many of its ideas carried over onto the Macintosh, and in fact, Macintosh development took place on the Lisa.
Due to the fact few Lisas were sold, it's hard to get your hands on a working model, meaning most of us will never get the opportunity to actually use one. Luckily, there's a very advanced Lisa emulator available, written by Ray Arachelian. It's open source (GPL) and available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Setting it up is remarkably easy (there are non-hqx Lisa operating system files too), but do note that technically, you need to own a Lisa yourself in order to use the ROMs. But, of course you do.
The Lisa user interface takes a bit of time to get used to, as its terminology is a bit alien, and some things feel quite a bit arbitrary from our modern, harmonised perspective. For instance, it took me a while to figure out how to open a new file in the Lisa office applications; it turns out that you need to double-click a special kind of icon ('stationary'), which the Lisa calls 'tear off stationary', which creates what to me looks like a copy of said stationary icon. This icon is the actual new file; double-click it to open it.
I'm having quite some fun poking around the Lisa, and the emulator has been holding up perfectly - no crashes, and it's remarkably easy to use. I would definitely advise giving this a go if you have some spare time.
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I'm attempting to fix it, well, on and off, mostly off. Couldn't find the bug manually, the next steps are to build a CPU comparator and compare LisaEm's generator core against other emulators and see what they do, opcode for opcode - I highly suspect there are a few CPU bugs. You can see one in the desktop scroll bar, one of the scroll arrows is in the wrong place. Another is visible in the Desktop menu - it shows duplicate entries. Yeah, github sounds like a good idea. The latest version is 1.3.0, but isn't functional - had a lot of "fun" when OS X went to 64 bit with wxWidgets, but those bugs are fixed, so what's left are my CPU core bugs.


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From inside the walls of a school, a principal can see how much of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream has come to pass and how much further America still has to go.
From inside the walls of a school, a principal can see how much of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream has come to pass and how much further America still has to go.
That's what West Thibodaux Middle School Principal Greg Cook spoke of Monday morning on the civil rights leader's holiday.
"Although we've made so many strides, some still have the same doubts and fears that we did when we were young," Cook said of the conversations he has with his students.
He spoke of his frustration with the entertainment industry, which portrays the "falsehood" that black men "would rather pour liquor, use drugs and degrade women rather than educate ourselves," and with society's "subtle ways" of telling those who are black that they aren't equipped for successful lives.
However, "to the young people here today, I stand before you as a living testament of the power of hope. ... Anything you work for can be obtained as long as you guard the hope in your heart," Cook said.
His speech highlighted the theme of the NAACP Lafourche Parish chapter's Monday event, "Even When the Odds Are Against You, Keep Hoping."
Many of the words spoken during the Thibodaux event had a similar mixed tone, all with the conclusion that those who struggle will triumph in the end.
Before the group began its march from Martin Luther King Jr. Park to the St. Luke Community Center, 12-year-old Naomi Winston read a poem she wrote for the occasion.
"Hope sometimes feels like an illusion. Sometimes it fills me with such confusion," read Winston, who is the daughter of the NAACP chapter's vice president Ronnie Winston. Still, "even when the odds are against me, I hope."
As she marched Monday, Gustavia Vergin, 56, spoke of the changes Thibodaux has undergone since she was a child and the changes she would still like to see.
Growing up, she remembers separate water fountains and separate waiting areas in doctors' offices for black and white people.
"My mama told me I had to wait till things change. … Now, it's changing, slowly," said Vergin, whose father participated in civil rights marches.
Still, "a lot can be improved," such as the public school system and law enforcement's treatment of African-Americans, she said.
Furthermore, King would likely be "crying about what children are doing today, like blacks killing blacks," if he were alive today, Vergin said.
King would have turned 84 this month. He was assassinated at age 39.
The chapter's president, Burnell Tolbert, was not present at the Thibodaux event because he was in Washington for President Barack Obama's inauguration.
"I couldn't miss this. … It's cold, but it's well worth it," Tolbert said by phone Monday, after hearing Obama speak. He had not seen Obama's first inauguration. Former chapter president Eva Shanklin saw that one.
When Shanklin saw Obama at the National Mall, "it was just an awesome feeling to think we have an African-American president," she said.
"He's serving because this is what God called him to do. … He's been continuing to fight and struggle as we have," Shanklin said.
Tolbert said he had been talking with others that day who were doubtful that Obama may not achieve much in his second term. Tolbert said he disagreed.
"I think Obama's going to do well in his second term. I think he's going to get a lot accomplished," Tolbert said.
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Will a crackdown on (supposedly) performance-enhancing growth hormone just make the drug more popular?
"I was young, I was stupid, I was naive," explained Alex Rodriguez on Feb. 9, 2009, in an interview with Peter Gammons. "And I did take a banned substance. For that, I'm very sorry and deeply regretful." The slugger claimed that he had stopped using performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, but a report published this week by the Miami New Times suggests that A-Rod was doping even as he sought forgiveness.
The newspaper has uncovered handwritten records of drug sales to Rodriguez—testosterone creams, IGF-1, and human growth hormone—from a now-defunct drug dispensary in South Florida. One document related to these transactions lists the name "ALEX ROD" alongside that of his cousin and acknowledged drug mule, Yuri Sucart. It's from a book marked "2009," in an entry dated Feb. 7. That would place the deal just two days ahead of A-Rod's public mea culpa.
Rodriguez denies the allegations, as has the Washington Nationals' Gio Gonzalez, who's also listed in the notebooks. And there may be good reason to question the evidence: The file described above gives Feb. 7, 2009 as a Monday, when it was in fact a Saturday. Another entry implicating A-Rod shows up in the "2010" book below the date Monday, Nov. 21, though the 21st fell on a Sunday in 2010. If we trust the listed days, then the records would seem to have been misfiled—those dates would match the days of the week for 2011 or 2005, not 2009 or 2010.
But if the records prove legitimate, funny dates and all, then the New Times scoop casts doubt on the presumed tapering off of the steroids era in professional baseball. It also illuminates a shady world of "anti-aging clinics," where hormones are handed out to athletes and entertainers, and to anyone else who'd like to shed some weight or harden their physique. In December, the AP published a report on record sales of prescription growth hormone, apparently driven by a market for its illegal, off-label uses. "Years of raids, sports scandals and media attention haven't stopped major drugmakers from selling a whopping $1.4 billion worth of HGH in the U.S. last year," the article concluded.
What accounts for the continuation of this problem, in spite of all the anti-doping efforts that are arrayed against it? The most obvious explanation—and the one that will be cited most in coming weeks—has to do with testing. Though Major League Baseball banned HGH in 2005, it didn't start screening its players for the drug until just prior to the 2012 season. A new testing program, first used for last summer's Olympic Games, will be in place for the upcoming season, with players getting tested for HGH in-season, too.
As in past years, however, the focus on enforcement may only make things worse. In fact, the unnecessary panic over HGH—a mild drug, with neither clear performance-enhancing benefits nor clearly dangerous side effects—has only served to boost its profile and promote its use.
The AP's December investigation reveals that very link. From 2005 until 2011, inflation-adjusted sales of HGH were up by 69 percent, it says. Yet a closer look reveals that the majority of that increase had already occurred by the end of 2007. According to the AP's numbers, HGH prescriptions were up 41 percent that year, and have been stable ever since. Similarly, inflation-adjusted sales of HGH were up by 46 percent between 2005 and 2007, and then climbed by much smaller increments in the years that followed.
That spike in HGH prescriptions matches up with a major government crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs, which served to squeeze out illegal imports and fortify the domestic market. In 2006 and 2007, the feds completed two widespread criminal investigations designed to bring down a "global underground trade of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and insulin growth factor." In December 2007, George Mitchell finished his 409-page review of anabolic-steroid and HGH use among MLB players.
In the midst of all this activity, no one bothered to distinguish HGH from its more potent (and more deadly) alternatives. Anabolic steroids made athletes stronger and more proficient. But while lab tests showed that HGH could help people lose weight and grow lean tissue, they hadn't linked those changes to improved athletic prowess. (The lean tissue seems to be mostly a byproduct of water retention.) The only thing we know for sure is that HGH can make you look better. Their side effects, too, appeared to differ: Where steroids are likely to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, growth hormone tends to produce only nuisance symptoms like swollen joints and carpal tunnel syndrome, and these subside with discontinued use.
Despite their glaring differences, HGH and steroids are often described as if they are interchangeable. (Athletes do tend to take the drugs together.) In a twisted way, the market for growth hormone may have benefited from all the negative attention. The more the anti-doping authorities went after it, the more effective the drug must have seemed to potential users. By early 2008, we'd learned that not just athletes but a bevy of celebrities—Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent, Tyler Perry, and Sylvester Stallone—had taken HGH. (The drug is big in Hollywood.) Magazine features in Outside and GQ touted its magical, rejuvenating effects for normal, aging men. And from what we now understand, baseball players (and perhaps their wives) continued to inject the stuff in the years the followed.
If the new testing regime in MLB, along with the New Times scoop, leads to a renewed interest in stamping out HGH abuse, this cycle may begin anew. Further research in the last five years has not brought much more clarity about the drug, in terms of its benefits or its risks.
The most dramatic recent study of how HGH affects athletic performance came out in 2010, and found that regular dosing could improve a sprinter's time by almost 4 percent. A senior author of the paper, Kenneth Ho, noted that a 4 percent improvement might cut four-tenths of a second from an Olympic athlete's 100-meter dash—enough to turn a last-place finisher into a gold medalist.
The last-to-first comparison was reported widely in the media, along with claims that researchers had at last produced "hard evidence" for the HGH effect. That fit in well with the message of the World Anti-Doping Agency, which provided funding for the study. But other scientists wondered at the paper's conclusions. Previous double-blinded, placebo-controlled studies had found no effect of HGH on muscle strength or bicycling performance, and the 4 percent effect from the Ho paper showed up not in a real 100-meter dash, but on something called a Wingate test, completed on a stationary bicycle. (No one in the field knows exactly how the Wingate test relates to actual sports performance.) The Ho paper also found that HGH had no detectable impact on its subjects' cardiovascular endurance, their ability to lift weights, or their capacity to jump straight up in the air. Finally, the drug did not appear to boost performance in female subjects.
A critique published in the same journal several months later warned that while the media attention to the study might be taken "as a victory in the highly publicized battle against sports doping, it is scientifically inaccurate, unethical and irresponsible." Then the author added: "Ironically, it could also encourage the abuse of doping agents by exaggerating their efficacy."
Evidence for the amazing healing powers of HGH remains obscure as well. (A few studies have found an effect on collagen protein synthesis and fracture repair, but they have not yet been corroborated.) Same goes for the drug's often-cited long-term health risks. The December AP report, for example, writes off some of the drug's purported benefits as having "scant scientific evidence," while listing diabetes, heart disease, and cancer growth among its "suspected side effects." But the research support for these dangers is scant as well. Children treated with growth hormone for legitimate medical conditions seem to have higher rates of certain kinds of cancer, but their overall mortality rates are unchanged. In August 2011, the FDA reviewed data from a large study of HGH that's underway in Europe and concluded that "the evidence regarding recombinant human growth hormone and increased risk of death is inconclusive," recommending that healthcare providers continue to prescribe it where appropriate. (N.B. the FDA considers "anti-aging" an inappropriate use.)
Six years ago, I wrote in Slate that "every star athlete who gets caught with a vial of HGH turns into a spokesperson for the drug." Indeed, these de facto advertisements are just like the ones that drive an underground market in deer-antler spray, holographic energy stickers, negatively charged water, and other mumbo jumbo for which pro athletes seem to have an endless hunger and credulity. HGH may not really improve your game, but that doesn't matter much when it comes to its popularity. A-Rod just gave this product his endorsement, and that means the drug will sell.
What does this mean for all the nonathletes who are taking the drug for its "anti-aging"—i.e. cosmetic—benefits? They're left to fend for themselves amidst conflicting claims from sleazy clinicians and overzealous anti-dopers. They would be wise to ignore the marketing, wherever it comes from, and decide for themselves whether the potential for cosmetic gain is worth the as-yet-unknown risks.


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The game will give you a primer of using stealth here, but that's not really an option. Thugs will approach your truck and immediately call you out, so the quicker you get out of the truck and begin firing on the enemies here, the better off you're going to be. It's important that you stay near Phil Bell as you go through this area (a turquoise arrow will hover over him). He'll relentlessly push forward regardless of what you're doing, so auto lock-on enemies to find them both on the ground and in the rafters and catwalks above (where they are far more dangerous) and help him out as he moves forward. Keep in mind that if he dies, the mission ends in failure and you'll have to start over again.
Ultimately, you'll want to push to the back end of the warehouse, alongside the dock there, but you're going to be hard-pressed to get there by simply running through. Shadow the movements of Phil, and watch his back. If you're having a difficult time following him via the turquoise arrow hanging over him, a corresponding turquoise dot will appear on your HUD that will give his general vicinity. Don't get too overzealous with your progress here, either. Nothing will take you down quicker than an Uzi at close range from an enemy you didn't even realize was standing behind you until it's too late.
When you've finally pressed through far enough that you emerge from the back side of the warehouse along the water, Phil will tell you to jump into the boat on the left of the dock while he gets to the right. Neither boat has been unloaded of their cargo, so abandoning the truck in lieu of these boats is a top priority. Kill any remaining enemies standing in between you and the boat, and then begin following Phil into more open waters. Two enemy boats will eventually try to stop you (represented by red dots on your HUD). A simple technique here is to engage the one in the front, forcing the one behind it to fall way behind. You can then fire away at the enemies in the first boat, losing the second boat completely in the process. Once you arrive at your destination off of Algonquin's western coast, you'll be in the clear, with another successful mission under your belt.
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Mayor Joe Lockwood and the City Council unanimously approved an agreement Monday for the construction of a park at Deerfield Parkway and Webb Road.
Jim Cregge, the city's director of parks and recreation, said the one-acre, triangular-shaped park will serve two main functions: to provide outdoor exercise opportunities and to honor veterans and reflect on the peace military service members have provided.
The park, which is estimated to cost about $160,000, will include a .15-mile wheelchair accessible path. There will be outdoor exercise equipment along the path including a curling board, a sit-up board, a cardio walker, a rowing machine and an elliptical.
The park will also feature a flag plaza where the city will hold its future Memorial Day and Veterans Day ceremonies. There will be nine flags — one for each branch of the military, one for soldiers missing in action or who were prisoners of war, a United States flag, a state of Georgia flag and a city of Milton flag.
Closer to the park's opening, which is tentatively slated for early December, the parks and recreation department will sell brick pavers which buyers can personalize to honor veterans.
Another feature of the park will be a peace pole, which will be donated by the Alpharetta Rotary Club, Cregge said. The peace pole will have the phrase "may peace prevail on earth" written on it in multiple languages. Peace poles have been erected across the world since 1955 with the movement starting in Japan, he said.
The name for the park has yet to be determined. Right now the project is referred to as Deerfield Park, but Cregge said Veterans Memorial Park or Veterans Memorial Peace Park might be alternative options.


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In an Accenture Public Service Pulse Survey of almost 7,000 citizens in seven countries, Accenture has revealed a significant gap between what citizens want from digital government and the services that are available. The research shows there is room for improvement in government meeting demand, and better digital services would improve citizens' view of government.
Government leaders need to engage citizens as partners in personalizing their digital services and delivering public service of the future. Using new technologies, new insights and new ways of working can help close the gap between what citizens expect and what's being delivered, creating more meaningful relationships between government and citizens.


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Anyway, i went to my STIHL dealer and picked up a couple of chains, and asked about sharpening them as the bit i had been using wasnt doing the job. Well apparently i was using too small a bit. He had the right bit there. But the thing he told me, i never heard of, was
use some kind of wax on the bit when sharpening, a crayon, candle or car wax. this will prevent it from getting hot and or becoming brittle and you will go through less bits.
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text: Dr. Benjamin Alexander Professor of English and Political Science (740) 284-5338 email@example.com Biography Dr. Alexander "has been privileged" to teach Dante's Divine Comedy in a Catholic context to a generation of students at Franciscan University."There aren't many places an undergraduate can do that in the United States," he says. "And you need to know the Divine Comedy to understand American literature because it's had such an impact on various American writers."Dr. Alexander grew up in Ridge Spring, South Carolina, hearing stories about the Civil War, the American Revolution, and local politician, Senator Strom Thurmond."My mother, Louise Alexander, knew Robert Frost, and she always had keen insights that gave me an understanding of history as drama."It wasn't until his senior year at the University of the South that he considered a career in teaching."That's where I really encountered Shakespeare, Faulkner, and I studied with Andrew Lytle, who taught Flannery O'Connor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop."He earned his PhD in 1979 at the University of Dallas in literature and political philosophy. He did post-doctoral work at the Dominican House of Studies and at Virginia Theological Seminary.Studying Dante and American Catholic writers influenced Alexander, who was once in Episcopal seminary, to become Catholic in 1992.Alexander taught at Hillsdale College, Catholic University of America, and George Mason University, and worked as a speechwriter in the George H.W. Bush administration. In 1992, he came to Franciscan, where he chaired the English department and now holds an interdisciplinary appointment. He is completing several books,including Leaving the Dark Wood: Dante and Flannery O'Connor.Dr. Alexander lives in Weirton, West Virginia. He's a member of St. Peter's Church, and he occasionally plays drums for campus events. Personal Website Visit BenjaminBAlexander.com for Dr. Alexander's articles and other works. Go to the English Department Homepage


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Teams will be racing for the Connell Cup.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale's varsity eight won the NCAA title for the third time in the last four years last May. Six members of that winning boat have graduated, so it would only seem natural for Yale head coach Will Porter to have different expectations for his squad in 2011. Porter, though, never changes his outlook.
"My expectation is FUN," he says. "We love to race. We love the challenge of covering 2k as fast as we can. We have trained hard all year to get to this spring ready to throw ourselves at the 2k distance."
Porter's formula of making sure his rowers enjoy the experience has been very successful. The Bulldogs have qualified for the NCAA Championships in each of the last nine years and have finished in the top six four straight years. In addition, Yale has won four of the last six Ivy League titles and has captured the Charles Willing Team Trophy for overall supremacy at Eastern Sprints in three of the last four years.
Despite all that success, Porter isn't worried that this year's team will feel pressure to live up to those lofty standards.
"Right now there is a distinct feeling of no pressure," Porter said. "I think that is a result of most of last year's varsity eight graduating, and this year we have a whole new group eager to see what they can do at the 1v level. Also, all the women who are currently on our team came here BECAUSE we are good and there are very high expectations within our program."
Still, there will be differences from previous years.
"We are small this year," Porter says. "We have a small squad and we are small in stature. We will have a very different approach to our racing. We are no longer a bruising heavyweight crew. We are more of a mid-weight light and quick group."
The Bulldogs, who were ranked sixth in the preseason USRowing/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Division I Coaches Poll, open the spring season on Saturday against Penn and Columbia. The first race is scheduled for 9 a.m. on the Housatonic River in Derby, Conn. The teams will be racing for the Connell Cup.
Connell Cup Schedule of Events
9 a.m. Third Varsity Eight
9:20 a.m. Varsity Four
9:40 a.m. Second Varsity
10 a.m. Varsity Eight
10:20 a.m. Varsity Four B & C
1st Varsity
C: Sarah Brownlee (Sr., Tampa, Fla.); 8: Catherine McDermott (Jr., Cazenovia, N.Y.);7: Dara Dickson (Jr., Lafayette, Calif.); 6: Caroline Nash (Sr., Darien, Conn.); 5: Natalie King (So., Weston, Conn.); 4: Armine Afeyan (Jr., Lexington, Mass.); 3: Kathleen O'Keefe (Jr., Washington, D.C.); 2: Stephanie Madner (Sr., Kew Australia); 1: Maddie Lips (Fr., Parker, Colo.)
2nd Varsity
C: Kristen Brownlee (Fr., Tampa, Fla.);8: Eliza Hastings (So., Berwyn, Pa.);7: Amber Anderson (Fr., Richmond, United Kingdom);6: Elizabeth McDermott (Jr., Cazenovia, N.Y.);5: Claire Tolson (Fr., San Mateo, Calif.);4: Kathryn D'Andrea (So., Darien, Conn.);3: Jen Stockwood (Fr., Winchester, Mass.);2: Nikki Grigg (Jr., Washington, D.C.);1: Emily Tormey (So., Seattle, Wash.)
Varsity Four
C: Margaret Ayers (So., Portland, Maine);4: Alexandra Fields (Sr., Rock Island, Ill.);3: Brittany Bowman (Jr., West Grove, Pa.);2: Lauren Ross (Sr., Princeton, N.J.);1: Reynolds Ostrover (Greenwich, Conn.)
3rd Varsity Eight
C: Elisa Visher (Fr., Malibu, Calif.);8: Mary Barrosse-Antle (Sr., Hockessin, Del.);7: Lily Blair (Sr., Seattle, Wash.);6: Elizabeth Kalina (Sr., Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.);5: Georgia Separovich (Jr., New South Wales, Australia);4: Abby Loucks (Fr., Dover, N.H.);3: Madeleine Faucher (So., Boise, Id.);2: Melissa Weigel (So., Annapolis, Md.);1: Katherine Dyke (Jr., Gastonia, N.C.)
2nd Varsity Four
C: Elisa Visher (Fr., Malibu, Calif.); 4: Elizabeth Kalina (Sr., Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.);3: Georgia Separovich (Jr., New South Wales, Australia);2: Sabrina Malak (Fr., Mullica Hill, N.J.); 1: Jane Kozey (Fr., Ansonia, Conn.)
Photo of Stephanie Madner by Bob Solorio
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GIS offers app
As the way people gather information changes with technology, so does the way information is offered to the public.
"We have seen the need for people to access the same kind of data through their smart device," Auglaize County Geographic Information System (GIS) Director Joe Collin said.
In response, he developed a new online mapping application "app" to be used on those smart devices, from phones to tablets.
"We felt a need to create an application that would work on more than the basic computer with the emergence of mobile devices," Collin said.
He anticipates the application enhancing the availability of information for someone that works outside the office.
The way to reach the application also has been streamlined.
"By simply typing in gis.auglaizecounty.org, this will detect whether you are using a mobile device or a standard desktop computer and direct you to the proper application," Collin said. "Once you have reached the application, you are free to bookmark the application for future use."
For more information, see the Wednesday, Nov. 13 edition of the Wapakoneta Daily News.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - [crit][img]more masked guys?(255k) Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "[crit][img]more masked guys?(255k)" WICKEDmemberMember #Joined: 19 Oct 2000Posts: 275Location: FL Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 9:08 pm Well the other threat has 135 post and so many great images. I thought if i wanted to get crit i should start another. Well looking at that awsome post was what inspired me to draw this. Also it would be easier for 56kers if we started a new threat if anyone still wanted to post images go ahead and post here if you like. Course nothing like the ones in the other threat but here it is Back to top sahrippermemberMember #Joined: 11 Dec 2000Posts: 69Location: Michigan Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 9:16 pm Looks good. The top border on the mask and the viewing area(what you would be looking out of)looks out of perspective, other than that I love it. Back to top EviLToYLeTmemberMember #Joined: 09 Aug 2000Posts: 1216Location: CA, USA Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 9:20 pm Yah.. the tubing looks a bit out of perspective. It comes towards the camera too much for a profile view. Anyway, looks great and all, but it's a bit too flat. Try to add a bit more shading to define volume and shape. Be bold... For example, on the tubing the shading doesn't necessarily fall in the same places on each segment. Back to top Codexierjunior memberMember #Joined: 15 Sep 2000Posts: 39Location: Buford, GA Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 10:03 pm Wicked, I don't know if this will be helpful, but if you think about it as just a bunch of shapes put together, it makes more sense. I'm not the best artist, by far, on this forum, but maybe these will help even just a little. All this has been said a million times, but it bears repeating a million more, and maybe someone will say it in a way that makes sense to you. The main part of the helmet is a big circle or oval, right? Every one can draw a simple sphere... Now, if you just cut a hole in your sphere where the eye sockets would go (just color it dark if you want) and bring part of it down on the side, and you have most of your helmet. From here, just keep adding shapes. Cyclinders for the gas mask breathers, etc. If you make mistakes (I did here...the cylinders don't look like they are jutting out from the sides correctly...) just paint over. Everything else is just shapes as well. One of the first things you have to do is pick at least one lightsource. Mine is coming from the left and a little behind the helmet. Think about where the light will hit and what will be in shadow. I did most of these for you in b&w tones, just to show you the values, but much of the power of the other gas mask pictures (Janne's and Gecko's and Rinaldos, etc, etc) is the use of color. Use contrasting colors to build up interest in your picture. I suck with colors, so here is my final pic... Again, I hope I've done more help than harm. If one of the better artists comes along to offer advice, listen to them. If not...go draw those spheres... Back to top jcterminalmemberMember #Joined: 13 Nov 2000Posts: 316Location: Vault 13 Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 10:22 pm painting a house without building a foundation is bad news... ------------------ j.c.terminal mind body soul Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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In March of 2011, when I published a book about Ween as part of the 33 1/3 series, it seemed as though the band would go on forever. At that point, core members Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo — Gene and Dean Ween, respectively — hadn't put out a new record since 2007's La Cucaracha, and Freeman had freaked out fans with a blotto anti-performance at a Vancouver show two months earlier, but as any Ween devotee could attest, such speed bumps were a familiar feature of the New Hope, PA duo's two-decade-plus cruise. The reasonable assumption was that Freeman would take some time to cool off, as he had after a canceled 2004 tour, and Ween would eventually reemerge with another string of triumphant three-hour gigs and brilliantly offbeat LPs.
Except it didn't happen that way. Ween did eventually return to the road, playing select festivals and one-offs through the end of 2011, but this past January brought news of Marvelous Clouds, a Freeman solo record featuring material by the poet-songwriter Rod McKuen. Once the publicity cycle for that album kicked in, things started getting weird. In May, Freeman called The Onion from rehab, stating that he was "ready to put [Ween] on the back burner." Later that month, he made a definitive proclamation to Rolling Stone: "I'm retiring Gene Ween." Disbelief and increasingly sordid online infighting ensued, and as the situation currently stands, it appears that the Freeman/Melchiondo partnership is no more.
It's a grim moment to be a Ween fan, but it's as good a time as any to assess the band's legacy: Pure Guava, Ween's major-label debut and the album that spawned their biggest hit, the Beavis and Butt-head–mocked "Push th' Little Daisies," turns 20 tomorrow, November 15. The loss of Ween as a live entity is tragic, to be sure, but the band's discography is rock solid. From their humble inception — two middle-school buddies spreading the gospel of an invented deity called the Boognish — to their late-career status as one of pop's most beloved cult bands, they never stopped honing their craft. There are no redundant Ween records; Freeman and Melchiondo told us something new with every album, from the sprawling 4-track mindfuck that is The Pod to the relatively tidy genre experiment 12 Golden Country Greats and the depressive psychedelic masterpiece Quebec. (The nine proper albums and one outtakes collection counted down here aren't even the half of it; completists will happily fill you in on the truckload of self-released cassettes, live albums, B-sides and assorted other rarities — including the 1999 fan-appreciation comp, Craters Of The Sac, viewed by some as a bona fide LP — that round out the Ween oeuvre.) Even as they matured, Ween never stopped sending mixed signals, juxtaposing silliness and sincerity: Balancing out every stoner's lark in their catalog is a perfect pop song.
It sounds corny, but you can think of this round-up as a tribute to musical buddyhood. "A friend's a friend who knows what being a friend is," Freeman sang on La Cucaracha's "Friends," and in its own way, the track — and the band's entire body of work — is an expression of a collaborative ideal: two all-but-blood brothers uniting in the name of homegrown art. Sure, Lennon and McCartney's relationship soured along the way, but there's something comforting about that iconic joint songwriting credit, as if they never stopped longing for that kind of creative unity even after it unraveled. The same goes for Freeman and Melchiondo. Even as they trade barbs, they're each taking pains to acknowledge the depth of their bond. "What Aaron and I created together was something so special that everyone that was even close to it for even one evening was affected forever," Melchiondo wrote in the Ween forum this past September. "Nothing can ever change that." Can I get an amen?
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By MIKE MITCHELL
Hood River County environmental health supervisor
Over the last few weeks, we have had reported outbreaks of Norovirus, prompting public health officials to issue advice on steps everyone can take to avoid this common and unpleasant gastrointestinal illness.
The most important message we have right now is that people who are ill with vomiting or diarrhea should not work, go to school or attend daycare while they are having symptoms. Everyone needs to wash their hands frequently and thoroughly with soap and water. This is the most effective way to protect yourself and others against Norovirus since hand sanitizers alone are not as effective against this virus.
Norovirus is very easily transmitted by touching a contaminated surface as well as by direct contact or by eating food or drinking liquids that have been contaminated with the virus. Norovirus is difficult to kill with normal cleaning and disinfecting procedures. Surfaces that have been contaminated with stool or vomit should be cleaned immediately and disinfected with a freshly prepared diluted bleach solution or a bleach-based household cleaner.
Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach cramping. Some may have fever, chills, headache, muscle aches and a general sense of tiredness. The symptoms can begin suddenly and an infected person may go from feeling well to very sick in a very short period of time.
In most people, the illness lasts for about one or two days. People with Norovirus illness are contagious from the moment they begin feeling sick until at least three days after they recover. Some people may be contagious for even longer.
Infection can be more severe in young children and elderly people. Dehydration can occur rapidly and may require medical treatment and or hospitalization.
Unfortunately, there is no specific medication to treat Norovirus, but infected people should drink plenty of liquids to replace fluid lost through vomiting and diarrhea. The best course of action is prevention.
Simple steps to take if you suspect the presence of Norovirus:
n Wash hands frequently with soap and water, especially after toilet visits and before preparing, serving or eating food or drink. Hand sanitizers are not as effective against Norovirus.
n Clean and disinfect surfaces contaminated with vomit or diarrhea immediately using a bleach-based household cleaner, or dilute household bleach (chlorine, sodium hypochlorite) 1:10 in water (must be mixed fresh daily; never use undiluted bleach).
n Stay home when sick.
n Do not prepare food for other people when sick and for at least three days afterward.
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News Service
Iowa State economists assess recession's impact on wages, immigrant workers
Two Iowa State economists have been studying what the country's economic downturn has meant to workers. University Professor of Economics Peter Orazem assesses how the recession has affected employee wages, while Dave Swenson, an associate scientist in economics, assesses its impact on immigrant, low-wage workers.
Campaign Iowa State surpasses previous two Iowa State University fundraising campaigns
ISU benefactors have made gifts and future commitments surpassing $673.1 million to the Iowa State University Foundation during Campaign Iowa State: With Pride and Purpose. This milestone eclipses the private support that was generated during the previous two fundraising efforts combined at Iowa State.
Sivils named the second Geoffroy Faculty Fellow at Iowa State
Matthew Sivils, an assistant professor of English, has been named the next recipient of the Gregory L. and Kathleen C. Geoffroy Faculty Fellowship at Iowa State. President and Mrs. Geoffroy established the fellowship in 2005 to support the teaching and research program of an assistant professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Sivils' three-year fellowship begins Aug. 15.
Cyclone Power Pullers build four-engine "Wild CYde" for tractor competition
The students of Iowa State's Cyclone Power Pullers are building a four-engine, 1/4-scale pulling tractor for a competition sponsored by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers May 28-31 in Peoria, Ill. The team finished third overall last year and is hoping for a better, more consistent performance this year.
375 alumni return to campus for reunion
A 102-year-old man celebrating his 80-year reunion reportedly is among 375 alumni returning to campus this week for Alumni Days. The alumni are on campus May 14-16. This year's 50-year reunion class is the class of 1959.
Iowa State University researcher is part of cattle-genome mapping team
An Iowa State University researcher helped map the genome of Taurine cattle, which includes many breeds such as Angus, Shorthorn and most other beef and dairy breeds that are common to North America and Western Europe.
H1N1 virus confirmed in ISU student
The probable case of H1N1 virus in a Marshalltown student has been confirmed, Story County health officials recently informed the university. The student left campus May 4.
ISU alum Christine Romans of CNN to receive 2009 Greenlee School Schwartz Award
Christine Romans, a 1993 ISU journalism graduate and host of CNN's weekend business program "Your $$$$$," will receive the James W. Schwartz Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Communication from ISU's Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication during homecoming activities on Saturday, Oct. 17.
Students create furniture, lamps and ceramics for solar decathlon house
When Iowa State University's solar decathlon house is displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in October, it will be decked out with furniture, lamps, birdfeeders and ceramics created by students in three College of Design classes.
Iowa State solar car team tours the state to promote solar energy
Iowa State University's Team PrISUm will promote the power of solar energy during a SunRun to schools and businesses across the state May 11-15. The tour is part of Iowa Solar Energy Awareness Week.
ISU promotes sustainability via an all-university compost facility
Iowa State has opened an all-university composting facility that can handle more than 10,000 tons of organic wastes annually. The facility is designed to handle solid organic waste including yard waste, manure and bedding from ISU farms, organic greenhouse waste, biomass research waste and -- beginning this fall -- food waste from campus dining facilities.
Iowa State University researcher is ready to produce vaccine for H1N1 flu virus in swine
An Iowa State University researcher is ready to produce an H1N1 flu vaccine for pigs.
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Relive commencement
More than 3,000 students received degrees from Iowa State at spring graduation May 8-9. Video of the ceremony is available online.
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Kansas City twins, scholarship winners choose Iowa State
The Kansas City Star
Jonathan and Donathan Morgan, co-valedictorians of Kansas City's Ruskin High School, have received Gates Millennium Scholarships from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Morgan brothers will study mechanical and electrical engineering at Iowa State.
Same-sex ruling belies the staid image of Iowa
The New York Times
"People may think of us some other way," said Paul Lasley, a sociologist at Iowa State University, "but in the main, it is tolerance -- not always support, but tolerance -- that has really been the weave and warp of Iowa culture."
Study finds some youths 'addicted' to video games
Washington Post
In what is described as the first nationally representative study in the United States on the subject, researcher Douglas Gentile of Iowa State University found that 8.5 percent of American youths ages 8 to 18 who play video games show multiple signs of behavioral addiction.


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I adjusted the wheat to 125g and the AP 675g to have more wheat And to make up for not having rye flour. They proofed for 5 hours on the counter and in the fridge for 9 hours. I got a nice rise. I was afraud I had over proofed my dough. I will never throw out dough just in case it surprises me, and it usually does.
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