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MARSHALL, Texas (2/26/14) – Marshall Attorney and former East Texas Baptist University Board of Trustee Chair Sam R. Moseley received the 2014 Sam B. Hall Jr. Civic Service Award Tuesday evening during the Sam B. Hall Jr. Lecture Series Banquet in the Woods and Cornish Great Rooms of the Ornelas Student Center. The annual event commemorates the late U.S. Representative and federal judge Sam B. Hall, Jr., who was a Marshall native and an alumnus of the College of Marshall, which is now ETBU.
Judge Hall's daughters, Amanda Wynn, Becky Palmer, and Sandra Bodenhamer, presented the blown-crystal award cup to Moseley. Like previous recipients of the honor, Moseley was taken by surprise as Wynn described his accomplishments and recognized he was the honoree.
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Rated 4 out of 5 by Porsc from Super nice This dress is very firm fitting. I normally wear a small but ordered the medium large since they were sold out of the small size in the color that I preferred.
Date published: 2016-12-14
Rated 5 out of 5 by fortunecookie from Must have! As many, I'm skeptical on purchasing items online but I read the reviews first and I took the plunge and glad I did! The dress fit perfectly. This is a staple item to have in your closet. It's very versatile as you can either dress it up or down. My body shape is slim but curvy. I purchased the medium as body con dresses can run on the smaller side. My measurements are 36, 27, 38 at 5"4. The fabric is great quality, thick, has a lot of stretch and can hide imperfections. This is definitely a must have item!
Date published: 2016-12-02
Rated 5 out of 5 by emii1991 from The best dress! I bought a size P/S and it fit perfectly! I am 5'8 and 130 lbs with a 28 inch waist and 37 inches in the hips(Bra size: 32D). So far I have I have three of these because I love them so much. I bought one in black, white, and knockout pink. The material really sucks everything in and makes your body look great. I am so glad I bought the knockout pink because it is more of a bright neon hot pink. I would buy them in more colors!
Date published: 2016-09-10
Rated 5 out of 5 by Laur from Amazing dress! This dress fits perfectly!! It is a brighter pink in person. This hot pink dress is just what I was looking for my bachelorette weekend! The shape and texture of the dress hides any imperfections. I am 5'3, 125lbs, bra size DD and I got the M/L size.
Date published: 2016-08-31
Rated 5 out of 5 by moniquem from super neon pink color i love this dress, fits like a glove, sexy, simple and the pink is the most neon pink you could find! I love it!
Date published: 2016-08-18


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Up (US - BD RA)
Gabe struggles to find interesting ways to express his most sovereign elation...
The greatest thing about Pixar Studios is their willingness to embrace pure imagination, when other multi-million dollar studios would back-off in favour of another sequel or reiteration of the Hero's Journey. The studio's outlandish and original pitches have developed a bit of a joke, yet they keep delivering on their promises, which, of course, just makes the joke that much funnier. The critics consistently announce that whatever recent pitch is thrown will be the studio's first failure. Nobody will take their kids to see a movie about middle aged superheroes. They did. Nobody wants to see a movie about a rat that cooks. They did. A kid's movie that takes place on a post-apocalyptic earth will never be a hit. It was. When Pixar announced the plot of Up you could almost hear the stalwart cry of 'Bring it on' carried on the wind.
Following the death of his wife and long time companion Ellie, Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner) retreats into curmudgeony reclusion, refusing to leave his home even after the city grows around him. When he's finally forced to go to a retirement home following a scuffle with a construction worker, Carl makes the drastic decision to fulfill his late wives dreams of visiting Paradise Falls in South America. Contrary to expectations, Carl fills several thousand balloons with helium, and rides his house, instead of taking a plane. Everything's going well until there's a knock at the door. Turns out that Russell, a Wilderness Explorer in search of his final merit badge (assisting the elderly) was on the porch when the house took off.
Nobody wants to see that. Or do they?
Pixar films have largely been defined over the years by four major creative entities, or more specifically directors – John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Brad Bird and Up director Pete Docter (the co-directors are, of course, very important as well). In broad terms the first three directors' work could be defined as such:
- Lasseter ( Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Cars) is the most old-fashion storyteller, with a focus on formula and feel-good values.
- Stanton ( Finding Nemo and Wall-E) is a bit more of a maverick, who came out of the Lasseter formula to cover more difficult subject matter. Stanton also seems more interested in reality than the other Pixar directors.
- Brad Bird ( The Incredibles and Ratatouille) is the outsider, and has found ways to deal with outlandish elements from an adult point of view.
Director Pete Docter now has two films under his belt as lead director, which makes his standing in the company more obvious. Stylistically he lands somewhere between Lasseter and Stanton. According to Monsters Inc. and Up, Docter is more interested in tradition animation, and pays regular homage to Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett and Friz Freleng. He's also not afraid to go to extremes for physical comedy, and his two films are probably the broadest in the studio's canon. Docter also has no qualms concerning sappy emotions, and characters defined by how adorable they are. With Monster's Inc. he toed the edge over-and-over, threatening to tip over into pure camp or pure saccharin. The other major Pixar contributing directors aren't above such sap, especially Lasseter and Stanton, but there's something about Monsters Inc. that was distinctly touchy-feely.
Up shows real growth from Monsters Inc., mostly in that it deals in less warm-fuzziness (that's not a Sully pun, by the way). There are few mainstream summer films (especially not those costing an estimated $175 million) that would be willing to deal with the emotional pain of loss in such a straight forward manner, and even fewer carrying a G-rating. Carl is required to grow more dramatically than any Pixar character ever, except maybe Lightning McQueen from Cars. The dramatic threats are all tangible, and Docter isn't afraid to go some scary places with the film's default villain, the famed-explorer turned crazy-recluse Charles Muntz, but the dramatic tension mostly comes out of Carl's three act character arc. The montage treatment of Karl's relationship with his wife at the beginning of the film is largely considered one of the year's defining cinematic moments by critics and audiences. Astonishingly enough, this isn't hyperbole, the sequence is one of the most genuinely moving things I've ever seen on the big screen, and a textbook example how to deal with exposition gracefully. It also features a dozen or so callbacks which are easy to catch on a second viewing. It's the best scene in the film, but unlike Pixar's previous release, Wall-E, which never quite lived up to its first act achievements, the rest of the film would still work well as a quirky adventure picture without it.
Up doesn't look to shabby either. Stylistically there's really nothing else quite like it in the Pixar canon, especially the humans characters, which are probably the most caricatured in the studio's history. Even The Incredibles weren't this deformed and cartoony. Characters are often practically defined by a single shape – Carl is a series of squares, Russell is an oval, Muntz is triangles – and their proportions are decidedly unrealistic. The skin effects are still a bit on the plastic side, so Dreamworks wins the 'new skin' war for the year ( Monsters vs. Aliens had some damn uncanny skin), but Carl and Muntz both feature some more realistic flesh impurities. The animation follows suit. Though not as elastic as some of the recent Dreamworks and Fox CG animation, the Up characters move quickly and broadly when called for. The dogs are particularly memorable, especially Dug's meticulously natural canine attributes, but Kevin the giant bird is the most extraordinary bit of expressionism in the entire film. Her early interactions with the egg-like Russell are the character animation highlight. There's still plenty of subtle character work, especially on Russell, who's so round and small featured it could've been difficult to discern his mood, and the action animation is up to the studio's usual standards.
Disney presents another reference level CG feast for the eyes on Blu-ray disc. I looked as hard as I could to find some kind of mistake on the transfer, but there aren't any. None. Not even a little compression noise during quick, busy movement, or minor edge-enhancement on the blacks of silhouetted shots. Details are pretty much perfect throughout the transfer, moving way beyond the abilities of the included SD DVD, especially in the beautiful wide shots, which are just as consistently sharp as the extreme close-ups. Skin is pretty smooth overall, but the clothing textures are quite intricate. You can practically count the threads on the characters' pants, even in wide shots. Hair is stylistically fluffy, but the dog fur is quite realistic, and the grey whiskers Carl sprouts over his adventure are a good calibration tool for your set's sharpness levels. Other great details lost on the DVD version of the film include rock textures, fine impurities in the glass and metal of Muntz' blimp, and the strings of the balloons, which feature no edge-enhancement even when place against the harsh blue sky. Oh, and those blues. And the reds, and the yellows, and the non-primary colours. They're beautiful. Crisply cut against each other, bright, full, and they feature no compression, bleeding, or noise.
Up also comes fitted with yet another reference level DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track. Yawn. Marvel at the subtle ambiance of the wind over malformed rocks, the bombast of a multi-channel engulfing storm, and the directional effect excitement of zipping airplanes. The vocal performances are all naturally pitched, reflecting their environments more realistically than plenty of big-budget live action films. The dogs are a good example, especially when they're given permission to speak freely, which fills the channels with perfectly mixed voices of varying volume and inflection (not to mention barks). Michael Giacchino's music is, in Pixar tradition, a character all its own. Giacchino's themes are hummable, and well altered in sevenths and minor chords to express mood. The score is best utilized when it's given a solo track during the aging montage, which features zero other sound. The following scene, where Carl wakes up and starts his day, is a great example of the mix's dynamic range. The mix starts quietly, and focuses on the minor aural details of Carl's cracking joints. This is followed by a warm influx of Bizet's 'Carmen' mixed with only subtle effect additions. Then Carl steps outside and the track is flooded with the sounds of the city, and the construction tearing up the area around his house.
Sigh. Here's the part where I once again apologize for my Profile 1.0 player's limitations. Seriously, the second I have the money I'm buying a PS3 and going back through these more 'prestigious' reviews to correct this. Bad economy, no job, etc. Anyway, Up starts with a Cine-Explore, PiP making-of/commentary track that I'm sure is the bees knees. Fortunately, disc one doesn't end there. Next up are two animated shorts. Partly Cloudy (5:50, HD), which preceded Up in theaters, is a bit too cutesy for its own good, and is a definite step down from the unmitigated glory of Presto or Lift (which both drive me to tears), but its still good for a few healthy belly laughs. Not to mention the fact that it looks gorgeous in HD. Dug's Special Mission (4:40, HD), which was made to accompany Up's Blu-ray and DVD release, apparently takes place a little bit before we meet the character in the film proper. Dug is given a series of seemingly menial tasks by Alpha in hopes of keeping him out of the way. After enough of these menial tasks go wrong, Dug meets our heroes. Adorable.
'Adventure is Out There' (22:20, HD) is featurette concerned with a crew field trip to the real table-top mountains in South America. The tale is told through interviews, on-site video, photos, sketches and motion graphics. The trip had a clear effect on the film, specifically the dizzying scale, the odd weather patterns, and the strangely shaped rocks at the top. The first disc is completed with an alternate scene featurette entitled 'The Many Endings of Muntz' (5:00, HD). The filmmakers weren't sure what to do with the villain, and even thought about redeeming him in the end. In the end death was the desired effect, and his many different deaths are presented here in rough storyboard form. I kind of like these other deaths more than the one the character was finally given.
Disc two starts with a series of seven, self explanatory design and research featurettes, minus a play-all option. These include 'Geriatric Hero' (6:20, HD), 'Canine Companions' (8:30, HD), 'Russell: Wilderness Explorer' (9:00, HD), 'Our Giant Flightless Friend, Kevin' (5:00, HD), 'Homemakers of Pixar' (4:40, HD), 'Balloons and Flight' (6:30, HD), and a look at music titled 'Composing for Characters' (7:30, HD). These would've worked better as a short documentary, and I resent going back to the menu between each bit (grumble, grumble), but it's hard not to be entertained by these information appetizers.
These are followed by another alternate scene featurette (9:00, HD). The process of force feeding the audience Karl and Ellie's marriage wasn't easy. The original idea was to show the couple in the midst of an ongoing punching contest. This was a bit too aggressive, but before doing away with the idea altogether the crew tried a version of the final montage with a slightly more wicked slant. This version, which is generally the same as the one in the final film, is presented in full in storyboard form. The set is completed with a promo animation montage (6:00, HD), a 'Global Guardian Badge' game (quiz game, reasonably fun), and trailers.
It's easy to complain about the summer of 2009, because the disappointments were pretty brutal, but besides spikes of genuine fun like Star Trek, and genuine adult-level greatness like Inglourious Basterds, the season's two most re-watchable films were released on the same day. Up and Drag Me to Hell don't have a lot in common plot-wise, but they're both brimming with tasty nostalgia, and actually make an excellent double feature. This Blu-ray collection is unsurprisingly just about the most perfect thing fans could hope for from the high definition format, and it features some solid extras, which are likely even better for those of us with better than Profile 1.0 players. I'm sure no one is surprised.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
a.c.norca Member Join Date: January 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 68
Great review, not so great film.
moviewizguy Member Join Date: February 2006 Location: United States Posts: 224
Best movie of the year so far. Brilliant film. It can have a chance at being nominated for Best Picture now that the Academy is expanding it to 10 nominations.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,835
I enjoyed Up. very charming film.
horrorfan25 Member Join Date: November 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,080
I'm super ecstatic to get this tomorrow! While it was overrated in my opinion, a great film nonetheless.
malars Member Join Date: January 2006 Location: United States Posts: 56
"It's easy to complain about the summer of 2008[...]"
Gabe, did you mean 2009 here?
Gabe, did you mean 2009 here?
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
Mother F**ker!
Thanks Malars. That's what I get for not waiting for Chris to edit it.
Thanks Malars. That's what I get for not waiting for Chris to edit it.
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
I loved this on first viewing yet weirdly I've got no real drive to see it again. Obviously, I will - but its weird that I'm in no rush considering how much I enjoyed it first time through.
Sam Spade Member Join Date: January 2007 Location: United States Posts: 2,032
This film brought tears to my eyes. Pixar does it again. I dunno about best movie of the year, but definitely best animated film of the year.
Dang you Disney, dang you!!! Now I need to buy this, plus the two Zorro TV Series box sets. I need more money, I need a career...
Dang you Disney, dang you!!! Now I need to buy this, plus the two Zorro TV Series box sets. I need more money, I need a career...
Up was an excellent film. Getting my copy in 2-3 hours. Best movie of 2009 along with Star Trek, Harry Potter and WTWTA. Very sad though too.
stevepulaski Member Join Date: June 2009 Location: Niger Posts: 741
Pixar breaks a lot of rules. But their imagination is some of the greatest.
Great review.
m@tt Member Join Date: October 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 551
Excellent film, haven't enjoyed an animated film this much since Toy Story 1 & 2. Much better than the Shrek movies or Monsters Inc.
Worst Nightmare Senior Member Join Date: July 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 6,716
The BD box set is available for $19.99 USD at the moment.... 4 discs!
YEs I know one is the digital copy....
YEs I know one is the digital copy....
I think it's better than "Ratatouille," "The Incredibles," "Cars" and the rest of the Pixar films except the original "Toy Story," "Finding Nemo," and "WALL-E."
All ages admitted
Disc Details
Release Date: 10th November 2009
Discs: 4
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Cine-Explore Commentary, Dug's Special Mission, Partly Cloudy, The Many Endings of Muntz, Adventure is Out There, Behind the Scenes Featurettes, Global Guardian Badge Game, Married Life, Trailers, DVD Copy, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Pete Docter
Cast: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer, Bob Peterson
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation and Comedy
Length: 96 minutes
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Running back Michael Bush will back up Matt Forte instead of Darren McFadden _ and get a lot more money in the process.
Bush signed a four-year contract worth $14 million, with nearly $7.8 million guaranteed, according to the Chicago Tribune. That represents the figure Bush would have been paid by the Raiders had they decided to franchise him instead of safety Tyvon Branch.
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Embarrassing, out of touch, and too late: That's the blunt assessment of sex education classes by school students around the world, including Australia.
A review of 55 studies of young people's experiences in sex and relationship education (SRE) classes has found little improvement in the quality of teaching during the past quarter of a century.
Many teachers are ill-prepared to teach such a specialist subject, while students are simply embarrassed to be there.
Students in mixed sex classes often feared being humiliated, with some boys reluctant to ask questions for fear of revealing their lack of experience.
While girls often took the classes seriously, they risked being harassed by boys if they were involved in discussions about sex.
Many of the students, most of whom were aged between 12 and 18, disliked how the classes took a scientific approach to sex, the "unrealistic" focus on abstinence, and negative portrayals of teen pregnancy.
They also believed that sex education classes were delivered too late and that there should be more information about homosexuality, same-sex relationships, pleasure and desire.
And they wanted specialists to teach them because their own school teachers were too poorly trained and risked complicating the teacher-pupil relationship by providing information and advice on such an intimate subject.
While the findings were based on studies of students in the UK, Ireland, Australia, US, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Iran, Brazil and Sweden between 1990 and 2015, the results were strikingly consistent, the study's authors said.
"The synthesis indicates that schools take insufficient account of the 'specialness' of sex as a topic, negatively affecting the way SRE is delivered and rendering many young people vulnerable and reluctant to engage," the Bristol University researchers wrote in a paper published online by the British Medical Journal on Tuesday.
The researchers added that while young people wanted a 'sex-positive' approach from their lessons, it was essential that schools address the issues about who teaches them and adequate training.
"Unless we get the delivery right, young people will continue to disengage from SRE and opportunities for safeguarding young people and improving their sexual health will be reduced," they said.


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Lightweight Antivirus programs.
Posted 04 April 2005 - 07:42 AM
Continuing on from how well Sophos will perform on older PC's, I've installed the new V4.5 for NT and Win 9x on a 150mhz CPU with 64mb (Win NT) and a 233mhz CPU with 64mb (Win 98). As far as I can tell there has been no performance decrease from when these PC's had V3.xx installed.
I concur with your statement about McAfee Enterprise as we use that as well at work and that is also very light on system resources.
Posted 13 February 2006 - 07:13 PM
I have replaced Etrust with VBA32 because I had recent personal experience of using Etrust.
There will be changes in the near future with KAV 2006 soon to be released and NOD 3 on the horizon. Further, there is speculation that maybe even F-Prot 4 will be released!
Edited by Blackcat, 17 March 2006 - 10:37 PM.
Posted 11 March 2006 - 07:06 PM
Has anyone with an *older computer* done a trial of Rising Sun AV? I am interested in reading a first-hand experience with this Sino-esque AV. Ding hao!
Posted 17 June 2006 - 12:24 PM
I have also upgraded KAV to version 6.
Posted 25 December 2006 - 06:09 PM
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Posted 20 December 2008 - 10:41 AM
With the continuing increasing number of malwares, the use of a sandbox/HIPS may be a better choice than a black-list scanner and most people would benefit from a layered defense system.
Edited by Blackcat, 19 December 2009 - 05:29 AM.
Posted 19 December 2009 - 06:16 AM
So of my recommended original list;
I would drop Command Antivirus, F-Prot, VBA32, Dr Web, AVG but add Norton 2010.
Command or Authentium is primarily an Enterprise AV and has become more so of late. Further, it took their support over 2 months to send me a serial number to trial the Home version. Frisk and Dr Web are very slow in pushing out relevant upgrades to the program and it takes them a long time to fix any bugs. Similarly, VBA32 seem to be treading water, as most small vendors are, in simply keeping up with adding new signatures never mind looking at new features. All 5 remain lightweight but IMHO, there are now much better alternatives.
Norton's last 2 efforts have been superb and recent testing over at av-comparative and av-test org (December, 2009) places it at or near the top for detection.
But it is worth considering the following;
1. Cloud computing seems to be "the next big thing" and I have been very impressed with Prevx/Prevx SafeOnline which is very lightweight and Forum support over at Wilders Security is superb; http://www.prevx.com/
2. A free cloud AV which has recently come out of beta is Panda Cloud AntiVirus which again is very lightweight but has had too many bugs for me, particularly on Vista; http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/ But well worth keeping an eye on.
3. HitMan Pro is also worth considering; another cloud product which uses the scan engines of Avira, Eset, G-Data, Prevx and A-squared and free as an on-demand scanner; http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro
4. The standard of the free AV programs has improved considerably over the last year or so; Microsoft Security Essentials is a very simple but effective program. fast scanner and its detection rate/malware removal abilities have already been tested and proven to be top notch. But some updating bugs still need to be solved on some systems, particularly laptops coming out of standby/sleep modes.
5. Panda's Cloud AV I have already mentioned and the new Avast 5 beta seems very promising; VERY lightweight footprint due to an excellent caching mode and great features/options which you do not find in many commercial AVs; http://forum.avast.c....php?board=15.0
Overall, I would say now that a free AV together with some more layered protection such as a Sandbox/HIPS and a good imaging program should keep most users safe from malware.
When some of the new additions above have matured and I have more experience with them I will add some more detailed information.
Posted 26 December 2009 - 06:51 PM
Merry Christmas to you and your folks. Good work you've posted here. It's appreciated
B. Udo
Posted 20 February 2011 - 09:58 AM
Over the last year after testing many AVs, my present recommendations would be;
Free AV- Avast. The new version 6 now has a sandbox and a script checker. Very, very light on CPU performance. With Avast Free, who needs to buy an AV now?
Paid AVs- Prevx, Vipre and TrustPort-all lightweight, particularly TrustPort which after fingerprinting/caching is the lightest AV I have ever used in terms of effect of performance, CPU time, I/O Reads and Writes.
Overall recommedation; use Avast Free and AppGuard/Defensewall as an excellent layered defense.
Posted 03 March 2012 - 09:49 AM
Free; Avast 7, loads of features for a free AV.
Paid; Trustport, Webroot Secure Anywhere and Ikarus.
WSA and Trustport are probably the lightest two I have tried and you can get excellent deals on WSA by buying the 2011 versions on ebay and upgrading to the latest 2012 versions. Ikarus at the present time has a 50% discount for Wilders Security members.
Today I would recommend running an AV together with a sandbox program or an Anti-executable.
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Jackson Rathbone Brings Baby Roe to 'Today Show' Appearance!
Jackson Rathbone is all smiles as he arrives for his Today Show appearance on Monday morning (November 19) in New York City.
The 27-year-old Twilight actor was accompanied by his girlfriend Sheila Hafsadi and their four-month-old son Monroe.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Jackson Rathbone
Jackson is back stateside after premiering The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 with co-star Nikki Reed in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Check out Jackson Rathbone's Today Show interview in full below!
FYI: Jackson is wearing Levi's jeans. Jackson is using his Chicco infant seat.


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Series 85172
District Court (First District : Box Elder County) Declarations of intention record books
Dates: i 1896-
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
Scope and Content
To become a citizen of the United States, an individual normally filed a "declaration of intention to become a citizen" at least two years prior to applying for citizenship. The next step was the naturalization hearing at which the candidate and witnesses either made oral statements or filed written petitions and affidavits attesting to the applicant's character, worthiness to become a citizen, and the validity of statements made to the court. If the judge found the applicant eligible to become a citizen, an oath was administered and the individual renounced his former citizenship. At this point a certificate of citizenship was issued documenting the fact. These volumes contain declarations of individuals' intentions to become United States citizens in which an applicant vows to later become a U.S. citizen and to renounce his current citizenship.
The first volume contains preprinted forms which have blanks for the insertion of the individual's name, his former sovereign, date, and signatures of the individual and the court clerks witnessing the statement. Beginning in 1906, the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization of the Department of Commerce and Labor (later the Naturalization Service of the U.S. Dept. of Labor) furnished the court clerks with the necessary blank forms. The forms were furnished in bound volumes as a court record. Each volume was to be indexed and the declarations numbered consecutively beginning with number 1 in volume 1. Loose sheets were also furnished so the duplicate copy could be given to the declarant and the triplicate copy mailed to the Bureau of Naturalization.
The forms contain blanks for the name and location of the court; the individual's name, age, occupation, color, complexion, height, weight, hair color, eye color, visible distinctive marks, birthplace, birthdate, and current residence; the location from which he emigrated to the United States and the vessel name; his last foreign residence; the name and title of the ruler to whom he would be renouncing allegiance; and the port and date of arrival in the United States.
By 1916, the applicant's marital status was inserted, and if married, his wife's name (or "spouse's name" after 1922 when married women could seek citizenship on their own instead of automatically assuming the nationality of their husbands), birthplace and birthdate. He was to take an oath that he was not an anarchist or polygamist, and that it was his intention to become a United States citizen and make the country his permanent residence. Blanks were provided for his signature and for the date and signature of the court clerk who witnessed his oath.
By the 1930s, naturalization laws had been revised, and new forms were issued.
Related Records
Naturalization records from the District Court (First District : Box Elder County), Series 82957, contain another set of naturalization records created by the court.
Certificates of citizenship record books from Box Elder County (Utah). Probate Court, Series 85171, contains some territorial period citizenship records from the county.
Access Restrictions
This series is classified as Public.
Preferred Citation
Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.
Finding Aids
Indexes: Each volume has its own index. Entries are alphabetical by the first letter of the individual's surname, covering from 1896 thru 1929.
Indexing Terms
- Declaration of intention--Utah--Box Elder County.
- Naturalization--Utah--Box Elder County.
- Emigration and immigration--Utah--Box Elder County.
- Citizenship--Utah--Box Elder County.
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Bread flour
I hope this isn't too basic of a question to post. I've been baking and using the recipes from all over the web and from several books. That said I wonder why some breads call for "bread flour" and other "AP". A couple of weeks ago I bought my fist 50# sack of flour. It was a bread flour "Power Flour" from Pendleton Flour Mills. I brought the cost of my bread down a bit as it was $.55 a pound that way. This is the cheapest I've been able to buy BF. (got to remember this is Hawaii!) The only other inexpensive way to buy flour is to give up on trying to find 50# sacks of unbleached AP flour. Everywhere I ask, they only carry bleached flour. Shipping here is out of the question. So the thrust of the question I have is this... Can I use BF exclusively for all my bread baking? What are the drawbacks? Why even use AP for bread?
I know, lots of questions! Hope someone can shed some light on this for me!


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Battalion Wars 2 is a take-off from the original Battalion Wars and is a great game for the young and old. It uses the Wii controls to there fullest and helps to teach strategy. The setting is very much the same as other combat games, one force against another. The twist on this one is that the planes, tanks and other equipment are cartoonishly exaggerated and the characters are children in combat gear. What is also new about this game is the introduction of battle ships, frigates and submarines that you can control. Wow. After the introduction play you will be given orders to find several allies nearby and to breach a large gate. As the game progresses you will be given control of the boys under your command and control of the tanks and aircraft made available to you. This is were the fun begins.
You can order all of those under your command, or certain groups of your boys, to attack a given target or to hold a chosen location. This applies to the tanks, ships and aircraft as well. As the enemy is defeated they will leave behind medical bags to replenish your health and in the case of enemy equipment they will leave behind fuel cans to repair any damage taken by your equipment. Certain tasks must be completed before moving on and in some instances within a time limit. The environment changes from mission to mission and can be in the mountains, the desert or on the sea.


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Cancer Survivors Join Together
For some it's a chance to remember, others a reason to celebrate, but every step taken at the Barnes County Relay for Life was a step toward finding a cure for cancer.
"The world with less cancer and more birthdays gets closer with every Relay for Life event," said emcee Paul Leier during the opening ceremony.
Funds raised from the event go to the American Cancer Society, which sponsors Relay for Life, to find cures and fight back against cancer, team developer Carol Grenz said.
The annual event was held Friday night into Saturday morning at Valley City State University Shelly Ellig field.
"We get to laugh and cry," said Tami Kratz of Valley City who is on the LaFarge Dakota Inc. team. Her team has been participating in the Relay since it was first held nine years ago. Kratz appreciates the support given by her family and friends but also by the community.
This year's Relay for Life theme was "The Magic of Relay: Dream It, Hope It, Cure It." That is exactly what the relay is all about. The relay gave all who are affected by cancer a chance to support each other and share their story.
During the opening ceremony Lisa Black shared her cancer journey story. Black is a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor who said her cancer journey has changed her perspective on life. "Everyday is definitely worth living," she said.
Following Black's speech, cancer survivors introduced themselves and spoke briefly of their cancer battle. Then, they took the honorable first lap around the track while Leier played "I Will Survive." When they were halfway through, the family and friends who cared for them during their cancer battle met them and finished the lap with them. Leier played "Lean on Me."
Each survivor was given a purple carnation. "I think it means good luck," said Ken Clausen, cancer survivor from Kathryn.
Plenty of supporters came out to participate in activities and relay. Delores Card, Valley City, is a survivor of cancer and particpates in the event every year. While she's not on a team, she attended the event to talk with her friends and fellow cancer survivors. "It's very good for us survivors to be remembered," she said.
Just as the night set in, the luminary ceremony was held. Luminary bags fillled with glow sticks, some with candles, lined the track at Lokken Field. The luminaries were purchased for $5 in honor of all those affected by cancer. Following a speech, relayers were asked to help light the glow sticks in the bags.
Lisa Black and Anna Knight conducted the luminary ceremony, and Kit Clemo, who is on Team Nemo, shared her cancer story.
Clemo is a nine-year breast cancer survivor. During her speech, Clemo said "Yeah, I have cancer, but that's not a death sentence--not anymore."


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July 22 2014
Tour up to a maximum of 4 people
The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD submerged lava around the Vesuvius cities Herculaneum was destroyed by a 25 m thick layer of mud and lava. It is merely the mud that preserved all the rests without any great changements thanks to its seal function. The beauty of Herculaneum villas is amazing. If we look at their villas, all built just in front of the sea we will understand how lots of rich Romans enjoyed to spend their holidays over there. Walking along Decumani of Herculaneum is like walking through the time: their houses, their baths and temples, have saved their former colours. The archaeological site of Herculaneum is one of the most beautiful in the world. Vesuvius is certainly the most famous and dangerous volcano in the world. Indeed it is not the highest volcano in the world but certainly the most monitored (all together with all the volcanoes in the Phlegraean Fields and Ischia). its history has inextricably linked to the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum with all the rest of the Vesuvius little towns such as Stabia and Oplontis. Vesuvius is the only active volcano of mainland Europe and its shape inspires the curiosity and fear of all people living on its slopes, or just walking at his sight. One thing is sure: the scenario of the Gulf of Naples and Mount Vesuvius dominating on the sea is probably one of the most beautiful natural wonders of our planet! Climbing up to the crater means to relax, to have a best moment of real trek and to breath the real history of this volcano. Its destructive power has earned since ancient times the respect of the local and passing people
This tour starts and ends at the Neapolis Hotel.
The departure is scheduled at about 9 am
The tour lasts approximately 3/5 hours.
You will visit: Vesuvio and Ercolano
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What comes to mind when you hear that TLA (three-letter acronym)? What about PDM? For most CAD users, the acronyms PDM and PLM are basically synonymous for data management. How do I store my CAD data? How do I revise my CAD data? How does my CAD data flow through its life cycle? The further along those questions one progresses, the more departments outside of Engineering and Drafting get involved, and PDM moves more and more towards PLM. For others, those two acronyms immediately invoke a response much like Kleenex® is to facial tissue, like Xerox is to photo copying, like Band-Aid® is to bandages, and like Tylenol® is to aspirin. In other words, CAD users think Teamcenter, or SAS, or Enovia and companies like Siemens, IBM, and Dassault (certainly there are others). Design Data Manager is even a name that often comes up when talking to SMB.
But there is another product out there as well. It is not as well known as the names I dropped above, but it is full of features useful to most CAD departments. The product is Visual Vault.
What makes Visual Vault different from all the other PDM/PLM solutions on the market? Frankly, the same things that make those other ones different from Visual Vault: the features you need through an interface you can understand at the price you can afford. To avoid making this look like a sponsored advertisement, I'm not going to list the features of the software; finding them is easy enough by clicking on the link provided above. Instead, I can tell you about my experience with Visual Vault.
In short, I'm a fan of it. I used it for a short while during my tenure at a company that had it installed. Compared to Teamcenter, which I also have experience with, Visual Vault was much easier to grasp. The web interface was very intuitive. The only training I required was specific corporate workflows and how they were implemented within Visual Vault. This company integrated sales quotes flowing to engineering design requirements to drawing release. From there it progressed to the shop for part fabrication and of course revision control. Scheduling and planning were in the flow after engineering, so notifications of jobs in-queue were essentially "broadcast" to all needed parties. It was also easy to customize workflows. The out-of-the-box solution may follow the 80/20 rule, but Visual Vault was so easy to use it was no problem adapting it to the special 20% without the expertise of a full-time PLM administrator – and the cost associated with keeping one on staff.
Granted, not all software is perfect. The one thing most lacking, in my opinion, was a visual process flow diagram. It would have been much easier, and much more intuitive, if there was a block diagram feature to map the life cycle instead of only a text-based web interface.
If you are still in the market for a PDM/PLM solution, consider looking into Visual Vault.


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Developers Trying To Treat Houses Like Copyright; Want A Cut Of Every Future Resale
from the bangs-head-against-wall dept
We've pointed out how this really only benefits wealthy artists, while harming up and coming artists -- despite those who support such laws claiming exactly the opposite. Their argument is that if a poor artist sells a piece of artwork on the cheap, and it later appreciates in value, he should get a cut of that increase in value. That argument fundamentally misunderstands economics, however. By adding that, you are effectively taking away the potential benefit to a buyer. You are lowering the possible return, making it less likely for them to invest in the first place. And we already have better mechanisms to help artists capture value if their older (cheaply sold) artwork becomes more valuable: it's called creating and selling newer artwork for much more money.
When Australia moved forward with just such a plan for artist resale rights at the end of last year, we asked mockingly, why not apply the same thing to every product, so that any time you sold it, you had to pay everyone else who owned it. In fact, we noted:
Imagine if that were the case with cars or houses as well? Who would ever think that was reasonable?Well, apparently some financial firm in Texas think it's reasonable. As a few people have submitted, they're trying to convince developers to set up a system where they get paid every time a house gets sold and resold:
Freehold Capital Partners, a company started in Texas, is selling developers across the country on a plan that would attach a private transfer fee to homes, allowing developers to profit for generations.My apologies for thinking that such a scenario was an "obviously ridiculous" one. Not surprisingly, Freehold is using intellectual property as the basis for its plan:
The fee, written into neighborhood restrictions, would encumber the property for 99 years and throw 1 percent of the sale price back to the developer -- or his or her estate or another investor -- and Freehold each time the home changes hands.
"Just like authors who write books and musicians who write songs that will be enjoyed for generations to come, those who improve property are also engaged in the creative process, and the economics of the transaction should reflect that reality," a Freehold brochure says.Thankfully, people are protesting this, noting that it will drive down the price of homes, make it harder to sell them, harm neighborhoods and greatly "muddy" questions of ownership. Of course, all of that applies to copyright as well, but we won't go there just yet.


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Burning Moon, The (US - DVD)
Gabe relives the bygone days of bootleg horror VHS with this German gore job...
I'm going to have to kick myself right in the indie horror cred-balls here because until it arrived in my mailbox for review I'd never even heard of Olaf Ittenbach's The Burning Moon. From what I was able to gather in preparation for this review it seems Ittenbach was/is a talented effects guy (he's since worked with Uwe Boll, and directed a series of more professional movies like Le6ion of the Dead) who built Burning Moon around the revolting effects he and his buddies were able to convincingly create on their own dollar. This isn't an uncommon back-story in the history of the grossest of the gross straight to video films that began cropping up in the gorehound grey market in the home video era, and have continued through the modern era with films like Fred Vogel's August Underground series. The collector's market built up a mythology around certain films, from genuinely chilling, well-made foreign rarities like Mou Tun-fei's Men Behind the Sun, Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust, and Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantik, to super cheap and artless atrocities like Johan Vandewoestijne's Lucker: The Necrophagous, Andreas Schnaas' Violent Shit trilogy, and everything in between (the Guinea Pig series lands somewhere in between as far as I'm concerned). The DVD era (which is, like it or not, winding down in favour of the streaming era), saw the release of some of the most obscure and bizarre gore cinema, and these mythologies built up enough sales interest to ensure these films were readily available at your local Best Buy. I'm just old enough to understand how incredible and baffling this all is.
I did discover I was familiar with Ittenbach's Burning Moon follow-up, Premutos: Der Gefallene Engel, which benefited from the excitement surrounding the buffet of previously unavailable horror releases on DVD in the late '90s, despite it being a new film at the time (made in 1999). Premutos is not a good film, but watchable and relatively entertaining, fitting snuggly into the whole German underground horror movement, spearheaded by Buttgereit, Schnaas, and, apparently Ittenbach himself. Buttgereit aside, this movement is largely made up of comparatively light-hearted, shot on video silliness, and these films are generally charming in the same way your average Youtube Friday the 13th fan film is. Actually, that's unfair to the average Friday the 13th fan film, because no matter how brutally untalented the average Friday the 13th fan director is, modern equipment, and yes, this includes camera phones, is infinitely more pleasing to eye than anything shot on analogue video. Ittenbach shows signs of understanding the filmmaking process, and his editing practices are better than average, but he can't quite overcome the ugly limits of the format, even when he gets all artsy-fartsy with hallucinatory dream sequences, and a genuinely disturbing vision of hell. At best I can at least see what he meant to achieve with his blue and orange lighting schemes, but only a fraction of his effort really shows up on screen.
This type of film usually lives or dies on its pacing and the quality of its filler material. The coolest, grossest gore effect in the world is only worth so much if your audience is forced to sit through an hour of boring characters doing generally nothing in preparation for that cool and gross effect. Burning Moon has more ambition than the average shot-on-video gore job, and sometimes this ambition was enough to hold my attention for the required time it took to get to the next genuinely amusing thing. Ittenbach's pseudo-anthology style also helps move things along in a judicious manner. That said, there's still an awful lot of filler to cull here, and most fans will likely be fast-forwarding to the good stuff. Burning Moon's banned status in its native country isn't much more than a cool thing to stick on the poster since Germany isn't really known for its leniency on graphic film violence. The UK got all the publicity for its banning spree in the '80s, but even Peter Jackson's entirely innocent and light hearted Braindead ( Dead Alive) is banned in Deutschland. All in all, the violence here is going to please all the right people, and I had fun once things started turning red. Burning Moon wins points for the general quality (better than some reasonably budgeted, theatrically released '80s slashers), the diversity, and overall frequency of its gore effects. Show-stoppers include a knife through the face, a dismembered, burning corpse, extremely bloody bullet hits, a handful of convincing beheadings, a brutal hammer beating, and an all around insane vision of hell featuring about as much blood, bones, and innards as you've ever seen on a budget this miniscule. My favourite bit is an in-mouth P.O.V. as a victim is force-fed an eyeball, followed by the eye's view down the gullet.
Burning Moon was shot on video so fans shouldn't expect more than VHS quality from this DVD release. Honestly, name a video artefact and it's probably here. Dizzying moiré effects? We've got them on every pattern. Rainbow-errific bayer effects and blocking? Oh yeah, around every edge. Distracting ghosting effects? It's as if the very film itself is possessed with angry analogue poltergeist. Detail levels are better than anticipated thanks to bright lighting rigs, but all whites are blown-out and blacks are messy and weak. Ittenbach's ambitious colour schemes, which admirably attempt to ape the pervasive blue and pink schemes of most of James Cameron's films, look alright, but bleed all over the place and there's rarely any purity to a given hue (flesh tones are flecked with green, for example). This is as good as anyone can expect, however, and anyone that complains has earned a good flogging.
Based on my basement level expectations I have to say I'm relatively impressed with this low-fi Dolby stereo soundtrack. I assume the disc's producers had access to the original audio masters, and did their best to line things up appropriately. The lip-sync is pretty bad, and the dialogue itself rarely blends into a scene, but volume levels are consistent, and the subtitles work (it's in German), so no complaints. There's very little in the way of ambience or even sound effects at all outside of the gore scenes, but nothing shows signs of particular damage, and hiss is kept to a surprising minimum. A.G. Striedl's keyboard and guitar score is actually kind of impressive, at least for type. The guy doesn't have the best taste, or a particularly original sound, but he's much more musically adept than your average shot-on-video 'composer', and his music sounds at least CD quality here.
The extras start with a surprisingly long collection of behind the scenes footage (46:30). There's no rhyme or reason to the order of the footage, but there's some context pertaining to the scenes in question, and everyone is clearly having fun. Ittenbach also appears in a suit and tie to talk a bit about his work, along with some of the actors, and the utter seriousness of it all is quite charming. The shocking thing here isn't the detail put into the special effects (and there's a lot of detail put into the special effects), but the fact that the crew actually built sets, and had a frickin' dolly rig for their camera. The camera's lenses look pretty impressive too. This is all quite sad, because I just assumed they shot on location at their friends' houses, and that the camera was just a store-bought VHS camcorder. The disc also features a trailer, and trailers for other Intervision releases.
I can say without any hesitation that The Burning Moon is the best shot-on-video gore flick I've ever seen. You can take that for what it's worth. It takes some real effort to get through the awkward storytelling, acting, and ugly analogue look, and on to the gooey extremes, but the climax alone ensures this one is worth all the gorehound, fanboy hype. The video and audio quality of this DVD are about as good as we can expect from anything shot on non-digital video, and the extras feature a charming behind the scenes video.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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I'd rather go to the dentist than to sit through any of this amateurish sh*t.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 13th March 2012
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Stereo 2.0 German
Subtitles: English
Extras: The Making of The Burning Moon, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Olaf Ittenbach
Cast: Andrea Arbter, Ellen Fischer, Ronald Fuhrmann, Rudolf Höß
Genre: Horror
Length: 98 minutes
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JACKSON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - May 15, 2013 --Authorities have charged a Delaware man with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl during a class trip to a New Jersey amusement park.
Police say 34-year-old Glen San-Andreas of Wilmington, Del., is held on $150,000 bail and is awaiting extradition to New Jersey. He's charged with second-degree sexual assault and child endangerment.
Jackson Police Lt. Steven Laskiewicz tells The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., San-Andreas was a parental chaperone on an April 27 trip to Six Flags Great Adventure.
Police say San-Andreas took the girl to a secluded area of the park and assaulted her.
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In this edition of Burning Questions, we sat down with Fire left back Gonzalo Segares. A native of San Jose, Costa Rica, Gonzalo has been capped 19 times for Los Ticos. The club's Defender of the Year in 2007, Gonzalo returns in 2013 for his ninth season with the Men in Red. The newlywed took the time to answer our Burning Questions about wedding themed movies, his infamous sweet tooth and the worst actor in Hollywood.
Always on the Inside: You got married this past December. What is the best movie that features a wedding: "Wedding Crashers", "The Wedding Singer", "The Hangover" or "Bridesmaids"?
Gonzalo Segares: Definitely the first "Hangover".
Gonzalo and Rusti married December 15
AOTI: It's pretty well documented that you're a fan of baked goods. If you could only choose to have one pastry for the rest of your life, what would you pick?
GS: Can it be chocolate? Chocolate bars. Like Crunch, Kit Kat or Snickers. I like chocolate with stuff in it, especially almonds or any kind of nut, except for peanuts.
AOTI: What do you miss most about Costa Rica?
GS: The weather. I love it here in Chicago during the summer but in the winter, I just hate the cold weather. Back home we only have two seasons, which is summer and winter, and the winter is only rainy. The temperature doesn't change that much. The average is usually in the 70s or 80s.
AOTI: How often do you use the phrase "pura vida?"
GS: I use it a lot if I'm talking to Costa Ricans when I'm home. I don't use it that often in Chicago because when the guys speak Spanish, it's not part of their slang.
AOTI: You attended Virginia Commonwealth University with current Fire teammate Dominic Oduro. What's one thing that people don't know about Dom?
GS: He was very, very, very shy. And now all of a sudden, he's not shy.
AOTI: Do you have any phobias?
GS: When it starts shaking on the plane, I definitely get nervous.
Gonzalo's not a fan of John C. Reilly
AOTI: Who is the worst actor in Hollywood?
GS: There are a lot of them. I would say maybe the guy that's in movies with Will Ferrell. He usually has a mustache. He's in the cartoon movie where he doesn't want to be a bad guy anymore, "Wreck it Ralph". In "Talladega Nights" he's the friend and he's also in "Step Brothers" with Will Ferrell. I think he's very, very bad.
Editors Note: As Gonzalo provides very good clues, we have deducted that he is referring to John C. Reilly.
AOTI: You can invite any three people to dinner. Who receives an exclusive invitation?
GS: I would definitely invite Messi. And also Michael Jordan and President Obama.