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Eastdale Baptist Chapel ( Montgomery )
Alabama : Bandiera dello stato
Eastdale Baptist Chapel è una località di tipo Chiesa facente parte della Contea di ( Montgomery ).
La località abitata più prossima risulta essere quella di Montgomery East dalla quale dista 0.56 chilometri in linea d'aria.
Essa dista inoltre 8.86 chilometri dall'aeroporto o eliporto più vicino, Kershaw Airport .
Le previsioni meteo più prossime sono quelle disponibili per la località di Mount Meigs , distante 11.10 chilometri da Eastdale Baptist Chapel .
Il cap relativo a Eastdale Baptist Chapel è 36057.
Oltre a Eastdale Baptist Chapel nella Contea di ( Montgomery ) vi sono le seguenti località anch'esse di tipo Chiesa , presentate nel seguito in ordine alfabetico:
Abraham Baptist Church - Abraham Vinyard Church of Christ - Adams Street Baptist Church - Agudath Israel Synagogue - Aldersgate Church - Aldersgate United Methodist Church - All Saints Episcopal Church - Antioch Baptist Church (historical) - Antioch Church - Bell Street Baptist Church Number One - Bell Street Baptist Church Number Two - Bethel Baptist Church - Bethelonnia Church - Bethesda Church - Bethlehem Church - Beulah Baptist Church - Beulah Church - Bible Methodist Church - Big Roxanna Church - Big Zion Church - Boylston Methodist Church - Branch Grove Baptist Church - Brewer Memorial Church - Briar Hill Church - Bridgeview Baptist Church - Bryant Street Baptist Church - Butler Mill Church - Butler Mill Road Church - Calvary Assembly of God Church - Calvary Baptist Church - Calvary Church - Calvary Presbyterian Church - Cannan Hill Baptist Church - Capital City Baptist Church - Capitol City Church of the Nazarene - Capitol Heights Baptist Church - Capitol Heights Church of Christ - Capitol Heights United Methodist Church - Carter Hill Church of Christ - Catoma Baptist Church - Center Point Church - Central Presbyterian Church - Chisholm Baptist Church - Chisholm Church of Christ - Chisholm United Methodist Church - Christ Episcopal Church - Christ Temple Church - Church of Christ - Church of Christ - Church of Christ - Church of Christ - Church of God - Church of God - Church of God of Prophecy - Church of Montgomery - Church of the Ascension - Church of the Good Shepherd - Clay Hill Church - Clay Street Baptist Church - Clayton Street Methodist Episcopal Church - Cleveland Avenue Church of Christ - Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel - Cloverdale Baptist Church - Cloverdale Christian Church - Cloverdale Church of Christ - Coles Chapel - Coosada Road Church - Cornerstone Bible Church - Court Street Baptist Church - Court Street Methodist Church - Covenant Independent Methodist Church - Covenant Presbyterian Church - Dalraida Baptist Church - Dalraida Baptist Church - Dalraida United Methodist Church - Day Street Baptist Church - Dexter Avenue Baptist Church - Dexter Avenue Methodist Church - Druid Hills Church of Christ - Eastbrook Church of Christ - Eastern Hill Baptist Church - Ebenezer Church - Ebenezer Church - Elizabeth Church - Emanuel Holiness Church - Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter - Etz Ahayem Congregation - Evangel Temple - Fairview Church - Fairview United Methodist Church - Faith Rescue Mission - Fifth Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church (historical) - Finley Avenue Church of Christ - First Assembly of God Church - First Baptist Church - First Baptist Church - First Christian Church - First Church of Christ Science - First Church of the Nazarene - First Colored Baptist Church (historical) - First Congregational Church - First Cumberland Presbyterian Church (historical) - First Freewill Baptist Church - First Independent Methodist Church - First Methodist Church - First Presbyterian Church - Forest Avenue Methodist Church - Forest Park Baptist Church - Four Spot Church - Frazer African Methodist Episcopal Chapel - Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church - Freewill Missionary Baptist Church - Friendship Baptist Church - Friendship Church - Friendship Church - Friendship Church - Fundamental Methodist Church - Galilea Baptist Church - Galilee Church - Gay Meadows Church of Christ - Glory Hill Church - Grace Church - Grace Lutheran Church - Greater Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church - Guys Village Church - Hale Street Baptist Church - Hardshell Baptist Church (historical) - Harmony Church - Harvest Time Church - Heritage Baptist Church - Hickory Chapel - Highland Avenue Baptist Church - Highland Church of Christ - Highland Evangelic Church - Highland Gardens Baptist Church - Highland Gardens Church of Christ - Highland Park Presbyterian Church (historical) - Hilliard African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church - Hills Chapel - Holly Holiness Church - Holt Street Baptist Church - Holt Street Church of Christ - Hope Hull Church - Hope Hull United Methodist Church - House of God Church - Hunter Station Baptist Church - Hunter Station Church of Christ - Hutchinson Street Baptist Church - Jackson Prospect Church - Jackson Street Baptist Church - Jericho Church - Jerusalem Baptist Church - Jerusalem Church - Jerusalem Church - Kahl Montgomery Jewish Temple (historical) - King Hill Baptist Church - King Hill Church of Christ - Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses - Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses - Klondike Baptist Church - Lakewood Church of Christ - Landmark Church of Christ - LaPine Church - Lebanon Church (historical) - Liberty Church - Liberty Church - Liberty Church (historical) - Lilly Hill Church (historical) - Lily Baptist Church - Little Rock Church - Little Zion Church - Lydia Hill Church (historical) - Macedonia Baptist Church - Macedonia Church - Macedonia Church - Mathews Church - Mathis Chapel - Memorial Heights Baptist Church - Memorial Presbyterian Church - Midlien Baptist Church - Mobile Heights Baptist Church - Montgomery Baptist Temple - Montgomery Primitive Baptist Church - Montgomery Unitarian Church - Morning Pilgrim Baptist Church - Morning Star Baptist Church - Morning Star Church - Morningview Baptist Church - Mose Chapel - Mount Calvary Baptist Church - Mount Carmel Church - Mount Hill Church - Mount Lebanon Church - Mount Moab Church - Mount Moriah Church - Mount Olia Church - Mount Olive Baptist Church - Mount Olive Baptist Church - Mount Olive Church - Mount Pleasant African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church - Mount Pleasant Church - Mount Pleasant Church - Mount Sinai Baptist Church (historical) - Mount Sinai Church - Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church (historical) - Mount Zion Church - Mount Zion Church - Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church - Mountain Hill Church - Murdock Church - Narrow Lane Community Church - New Canaan Baptist Church - New Elam Baptist Church (historical) - New Home Baptist Church - New Hope Baptist Church - New Hope Church - New Hope Church - New Hope Primitive Baptist Church - New Liberty Church - New Providence Baptist Church - New Town Church of Christ - Normandale Baptist Church - Normandale United Methodist Church - North Court Street Baptist Church - North Montgomery Baptist Church - North Star Baptist Church - Oak Grove Church - Oak Grove Church - Oak Park Presbyterian Church - Oak Street Baptist Church - Oakdale Church - Old Augusta Church - Old Elam Baptist Church - Old Sardis Church - Old Ship African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church - Open Acres Baptist Church - Our Lady Queen of Mercy Church - Our Redeemer Lutheran Church - Peace Church - Peace Church - Pentecostal Holiness Church - Peoples Baptist Church - Perry Hill Road Baptist Church - Perry Hill United Methodist Church - Pike Road Church - Pilgrim Baptist Church - Pilgrim Church - Pilgrim Church - Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church - Pilgrims Church - Pine Level Church - Pinedale Baptist Church - Piney Grove Church Number 2 - Pintlalla Church - Pisgah Church - Pleasant Grove Church - Pleasant Grove Church - Pleasant Grove Church - Pleasant Grove Church - Pleasant Hill Church - Providence Church - Providence Church - Rehoba Church (historical) - Resurrection Catholic Church - Revelation Baptist Church - Ridgecrest Baptist Church - Ridgecrest Church - Rigby Street Baptist Church - Ross Street Christian Church - Saint Andrews Catholic Church - Saint James Baptist Church - Saint James United Methodist Church - Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church - Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church - Saint Johns Church - Saint Johns Church - Saint Luke United Methodist Church - Saint Lukes Church (historical) - Saint Mark Baptist Church - Saint Marks United Methodist Church - Saint Matthew Church - Saint Matts Church - Saint Paul Church - Saint Paul Church - Saint Paul Lutheran Church - Saint Pauls Church - Saint Pauls Methodist Episcopal Church (historical) - Saint Peters Catholic Church - Saint Stevenson Baptist Church - Salvation Army Church - Sardis Church - Sardis Church - Second Baptist Church - Second Christian Church - Seek and Follow Church - Seventh Avenue Baptist Church - Shiloh Baptist Church - Shiloh Church - Sinai Church - Snowdoun Baptist Church - Snowdoun Valley Church - Snowdown Church - Southlawn Baptist Church - Southlawn Church of Christ - Southside Baptist Church - Southside Congregational Holiness Church - Spring Hill Church - Starr Street Baptist Church - Stones Chapel - Strata Church - Strata Church of Christ - Tabernacle Church - Temple Baptist Church - Temple Bethor - The Christian Church (historical) - Third Baptist Church - Thorne Church - Tremont Temple Negro Church - Trinity Baptist Church - Trinity Pentecostal Holiness Church - Trinity Presbyterian Church - Troy Chapel - Union Academy Baptist Church - Union African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel - Valley Park Baptist Church - Warrior Hill Church - Weeping Mary Church - Weeping Mary Zion Methodist Church - Weeping Willow Baptist Church - Weeping Willow Church - West Side Assembly of God Church - Westgate Baptist Church - Westminster Church - Westview Gardens Church of Christ - White Cloud Church - Whitfield Memorial United Methodist Church - William African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel - Woodland United Methodist Church - Woodley Baptist Church - Woodley East Church - Woodley Road Alliance Church - Yarbrough Street Baptist Church - Zion Hill Baptist Church - Zion Star African Methodist Episcopal Church (historical) .
Dove stare: Alberghi e Hotel di Eastdale Baptist Chapel
Si prega di voler trovare in quanto segue l'elenco degli Alberghi, Bed & Breakfast e altre strutture ricettive presenti a Eastdale Baptist Chapel.
Per tutti gli Alberghi, i Bed & Breakfast e le altre strutture ricettive sono diponibili numerosissime foto e dettagliate descrizioni. Sono anche disponibili i giudizi dei clienti, suddivisi per categorie e fasce d'età.
Alabama : Stemma dello stato
- Capitale : Montgomery
- Abitanti : Alabamian (Alabaman, Alabamer, `Bamer)
- Motto dello Stato : Audemus jura nostra defendere
- Traduzione italiana : Giuriamo di difendere i nostri diritti
Mappa e cartina stradale di Eastdale Baptist Chapel
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Su ogni mappa sono presenti: un selettore di scala, sulla parte sinistra della mappa, una serie di pulsanti per avere diverse visualizzazioni della stessa mappa, posti nella parte in alto a destra della mappa, un campo di ricerca a testo libero per cercare qualsiasi attività commerciale all'interno della mappe stessa, posto nella parte inferiore della mappa. Si può anche inserire in esso direttamente il nome di un'altra località per ottenere subito la mappa della nuova località scelta.
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News Archives - 2012
Augsburg names Heather Riddle as Vice President of Institutional Advancement
Augsburg College is pleased to welcome Heather Riddle as Vice President of Institutional Advancement effective Sept. 18.
Riddle, who most recently served as director of development at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, will lead the advancement of our community's work on the campaign for the Center for Science, Business and Religion; growth of overall fundraising from all constituencies; the continued expansion of our relationships with alumni, parents, corporations and foundations, and government agencies; and the abiding evolution of our culture of philanthropy among alumni and friends, faculty and staff.
"We are excited to have Heather as an Auggie," said President Paul Pribbenow. "Her experience, combined with her strong commitment to civic engagement, means she will be able to seamlessly integrate with the Augsburg community to lead our development and constituent relations work. We look forward to Heather's work with me and the Board of Regents, as we strive together to move the College toward its long-term philanthropic goals."
KeyStone Search, a Minneapolis-based search firm, recruited a diverse pool of high-level, high-talent and engaged applicants.
"KeyStone's Lars Leafblad and Marcia Ballinger delivered a deep, impressive pool of candidates that made our decision difficult, but one in which we couldn't fail," Pribbenow said. "We were again struck by the depth of civically engaged, ethical leaders in Minnesota's non-profit world, and who clearly are so excited about the work we are doing at Augsburg."
Prior to her work at Children's, Riddle served as vice president of advancement at Concordia University in St. Paul, and was a development staff member at Macalester College.
"It is an honor to be asked to lead Augsburg's strong and growing Institutional Advancement efforts," Riddle said.
"It is also a great pleasure to join a College that faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members care about and care for with their time, expertise and philanthropic support. I sincerely appreciate the time so many people took in participating in this search process. Your warm welcome has meant a lot."
Riddle has pursued her commitment to civic engagement since she was in junior high. Throughout her post-secondary education, she was a member of the debate team and now serves on the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Urban Debate League. She has a demonstrated passion for service, and is co-founder of the Rock Star Supply Co., one of the largest volunteer tutoring programs for Twin Cities' high school students.
Riddle, a graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead, hails from Barnesville, Minn., and now lives in St. Anthony Park with her family.


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The tax system for companies
The current and future rates of corporation tax are:
|Main rate
|From 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2020
|From 1 April 2020
Estimate your liability to corporation tax with our corporation tax calculator.
The rate bands are proportionately reduced where a company has associated companies (members of the same group or companies controlled by the same persons) or where the accounting period is less than 12 months.
Corporation tax self assessment requires companies to work out their own tax bills as part of their return, and accounting for the 'self-assessed' liability to corporation tax.
The company tax return
The corporation tax return (CT600) has to be accompanied by accounts and computations, which form part of the return. The return has certain supplementary pages, and some companies have to include extra information such as international interests and loans to shareholders. These must generally be filed online, and tagged using iXBRL.
Failure to file on time
An automatic penalty of £100 will be imposed if you file your return more than twelve months after the end of the accounting period. This rises to £200 if the failure to file continues beyond a further three months. The third consecutive late return attracts penalties of £500, this rises to £1,000 if the failure to file continues beyond a further three months. Your first accounting period may give rise to two return periods if your period of trading exceeds 12 months, so it is very easy to accrue double the amount of penalty in the first year without realising it.
In the absence of a return, HMRC may make a determination of the tax to the best of its information and belief. No appeal can be made and the tax must be paid. The determination can be displaced only by filing a completed return and self assessment.
Note that the penalties apply even where no tax is payable by the company.
If the return is submitted 18 months after the end of the accounting period, there is a 10% tax geared penalty. If the return is submitted 24 months after the end of the accounting period, there is a 10% geared penalty.
Amending returns
Tax-geared penalties are payable for incorrect returns, and a company has up to twelve months from the statutory filing date to amend its return. HMRC can correct obvious errors or omissions no more than nine months after the filing date.
Enquiries frequently now referred to as "checks" are subject to rules similar to those applying to income tax. If HMRC does not start an enquiry within the prescribed time (normally one year from the date of filing the return), the company´s self assessment will become final.
Keeping records
The Companies Act already requires registered companies to keep accounting records. For most companies in most situations, this is enough to satisfy HMRC record keeping requirements, so long as they are kept for six years from the end of the accounting period.
Corporation tax payments
There are arrangements under which a large company will pay its corporation tax by quarterly instalments starting at 6 months and 14 days after the start of the period. The conditions are that either:
- The company had taxable profit of £1.5 million in the current year and previous year, or
- The company has a taxable profit of £10 million in the current year.
Most companies are too small to be affected, so will pay their tax in one sum nine months and one day after the end of the accounting period.
For accounting periods beginning on or after 1 April 2019, the tax payment dates for companies with large taxable profits (more than £20 million) are to be paid in quarterly instalments in the third, sixth, ninth and twelfth months of their accounting period.
Where a company is a member of a group, the £20 million threshold will be divided by the number of companies in the group. The first instalment will be due 2 months and 13 days after the start of the accounting period, with the remaining payments due 3 months after the previous due date.
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@Kirra - I sent you an email that might assist you with regards to Photoshop.
You are hereForums › Digital Scrapbooking › Tutorials › Tutorial Requests?
Tutorial Requests?
Hi Marisa,
I would love to learn how to make elements glossy and shiny! Like for instance the red glitter brads you have. How do you make them puffy and glossy? And say for instance you have a candy cane or something and you want to make it look shiny.
Thank you,
Oh! I have another one - I have seen glitter Brushes. I don't understand how you use a brush with the glitter. How do you use 2 things at once like that?
Okay - Okay - maybe its a dumb question but I am new at this!
Thanks again!
@Nancy: Quick answers to your requests, let me know if you need more than this.
Plastic effect tutorial here. This is a basic introduction, there are lots of setting you can mess around with.
Adding glitter to a brush is as simple as using the brush on a layer, filling another layer with glitter and then clipping the glitter to the brush. Clipping masks are your friends.
I would love to learn how to create buttons. I have googled and havent come across a good tutorial. The tutorial that I need will create a button like button 25 in you templates.
Thanking you in advance.
Thank you for showing me!
I would love to learn how to make a half circle pleated banner template with a fancy edge of a different color or clipped paper?
I would like to learn how to curl paper. I know how to distort the shadow to make it look like it is lifted but not how to make it look like it is curled over.
I'd like a tutorial to create shadows
Could you give me more ideas on how to use shape masks and shape edges? I've seen the tutorial on how to clip papers to them, but there must be some more ways you can use them, or not?
1) Re: Misting and Brush Techniques (from JustJaimee.com)
This topic has been moved to "Photoshop and Photoshop Elements" (View topic)
Is it possible to create some "generic" tuts for those of us who do not use Photoshop and Photoshop Elements?
I would LOVE to learn about misting and brush techniques (and have for quite some time)!
2) For those of us who have massive collections of cu items, specifically regarding papers, could you provide some sort of tut or tips on how to organize these when you have 100's & 100's? I have them divided by textures, overlays, patterns, etc., and then within those folders, I have them categorized by kind of overlay (grunge, for example), kind of pattern (circles, squares, argyle, etc.), but how can you organize the 100's of those you simply don't know where to put/where they belong. Not to mention the packs of papers or textures+ that come mixed with different kinds of style of papers/textures/etc.
Please help! What happens is that there are so many just floating around that they never get used. You can't begin to sort through them when you need something and you're in the midst of creating something.
Thanks for your help!
P.S. What can one do with flat templates or shapes, like a witch for Halloween? There's no way to create a bevel, right? Are they to be used for patterns on papers?
Thanks again!
There has been some discussion here about organizing. It can be rather personal based on your scrapping style, etc, but in the future I will probably make a post about my own personal preferences.
Also, please take a minute to read our forum guidelines.
This seems like a silly question, but I've always wondered how to use your glitter .pngs. (I use Photoshop.) Other glitters I've downloaded have either been .asl styles or 12x12 sheets of glitter which were scaled such that I could just clip them to a shape and the glitter would look properly sized. I don't know how to use yours, which are smaller - do I turn them into patterns/styles? Are they seamless or whatever the term is that lets you turn things into styles without looking wonky? I love your glitter colors so much and I've been downloading them for months and then just sort of staring at them sadly when I realize once again that I have no idea what to do with them. I'm pretty new to digital scrapbooking, so there's probably some obvious way to use them that I just haven't learned yet.
Fantastic, thank you so much, Marisa! I downloaded the Birds In Snow glitter kit. What delicious colors.
I'm new to the site and I love the tutorials as well as the templates. You've done an excellent job with this site! I've downloaded a bunch of the templates and have been experimenting. In several files, there is a 'non editable adjustment' setting that is blocking me from recoloring the elements. I'm guessing it's a 'group' setting in regular Photoshop. I haven't been able to figure out how to turn it off in Elements (what I'm using). Would love a tutorial on this. 'Flower10-a.psd' is an example of what I'm speaking of. I've also run in this in several of the ribbons. I'm unable to see the layers to recolor them. In this file for example, instead of showing the flower petals, the only layer showing is a folder icon with a 'non editable adjustment' icon to the right.
I've been making my first journal cards, and I am trying to figure out how to make perfectly rounded corners! I have tried a bunch of different ways, but I always end up with more jaggedy corners than I would like. I zoom in on your journal card corners and they are as perfectly smooth as pixel-ness will allow. I'd love to know how to make a rounded-corner border, too (like one that would be the edge of a rounded-corner JC, but with space in the middle for another layer to show through). Thank you so much for all your great tutorials!
@Shannon: I started a new thread here to try and determine what the problem is.
@Violet: The rounded edge shape tool is your friend. I will make a quick tutorial.
I see you make awesome stitches, Marisa. What about a tutorial on how to make those?
I would love to know how to create pattern overlays! Love this site. Thanks for all you do!
I use gimp but find that Photoshop tutorials can most of the time can be helpful even though the programs are different. My request is for a distressed and muted colors tutorial. I just love the look and can not for the life of me figure out how to get the colors the way you do on your distressed papers! Help!
Someone has already asked but I would like to know the best way to scan or photograph and extract things. I have tried a few different things and nothing really comes out looking great
I'm curious about assets...how people make or procure them. I've figured out how to recolor gray scale items, and make paper and some patterns, but have no idea how people do assets. I've done a little web browsing on the topic, but really haven't gotten any useful information.
I'm trying to improve my skills on styles and i would love some great tut about that Like creating a ghost acrylic och stitched around style etc
I have two requests:
I'd like to know how to organize the tons of cu papers, textures, and overlays I have. Some are obvious, like shapes, grunge, patterned, etc., but what about all of those other kinds? I have so many papers that never get used, not even looked at, because they're not in any category. Help!
I'd also like to know how to create patterned papers. Could you provide a "general" tutorial? I use PhotoImpact and can't always follow photoshop tuts. How do you line up the elements for the pattern, for example?
Thank you for your help!
I would to know how I can set shadow on PSE...i use PSP and PSE...because the settgin for the shadow on PSP is easier than using style in PSe...am I right???
Marisa, could you make a tutorial for quality checking elements for jaggies & how to smoothe out the edges ? Please ? Thank you.
xoxox Beth
What would be the best way to make an element in PS?
I would like an organization tutorial also but I have this dream of putting all my png and jpeg files in the Photoshop Elements organizer. I didn't know you could do this until recently! When I got a copy of PSE 11 last year, I purposely didn't let all of my photos from my other Photoshop go in there so I could start from scratch. Only thing, when I go to attempt it, I am lost as to what to do (especially in 11). Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to categorize it? I really would like the "tagging" feature so I don't have so many duplicates. Just a suggestion!
Hi Marisa, I would love to know if it is possible (and how to do it) to convert a png file to a custom photoshop shape- for example your coffee cup template. Would it be possible to use that sort of file to make a custom shape? I keep searching the interwebs for clues and still haven't found any - which sort of makes me think it can't be done -if it's any help to you I'm using CS5. Thanks so much


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'Prefabulous' houses have gone far beyond trailers
Author Sheri Koones is on a mission to educate American homeowners about home building.
Her first three books focused on the basics on home construction, borne of her own experience as a frustrated homeowner trying to remodel her Greenwich, Conn., house.
At that time, she said in a recent interview, there was almost no information to help her make intelligent choices as she faced an endless number of decisions about this or that flooring material, plumbing fixture, roof shingle, and on and on.
Koones's last four books have zeroed in on prefabricated, factory-built housing. For more than 100 years, this type of housing has been promoted by designers and entrepreneurs who have touted its efficiency, speed and affordability, but with limited success. It remains a niche market, and most homeowners still equate prefabrication and modular housing with trailers, Koones said. She wants to set them straight.
With "Prefabulous & Almost off the Grid," (Abrams, $25), Koones presents a wide variety of prefab houses that demonstrate how broad a category it is today. A "modular" prefab house is constructed in sections in a factory, transported on the flat-bed trucks we see plying the interstate highways and slowing down traffic, and finally joined together at the building site in a few hours. Or, prefab can mean the walls and framing can be partially assembled in a factory and brought to the site where a local contractor supervises their erection and finishes the house over several weeks. Or the prefab system can be something else entirely.
The 32 prefab houses Koones features in her latest book show the aesthetics of prefab housing are as varied as the different types of prefabrication. Stylistically, these houses run the gamut from strictly traditional to starkly contemporary, and they all feature inviting, light-filled interiors. No one will mistake them for a trailer. The 32 houses were built in urban and rural areas; by current standards they are modest in size; more than half of them have less than 2,500 square feet. The owners gravitated to prefab, Koones said, because they determined it was the best way to build a new house that would be unusually energy efficient and easy to maintain.
Reasons to choose a prefab
Koones offers additional reasons to build a prefab house. For her, one of the most important will surprise homeowners who are not familiar with the construction process. A factory-built house minimizes waste, compared to a site-built house where the large volume of waste routinely fills up a dumpster several times over. Most owners are oblivious to this but, Koones said, they are paying for all the material that is wasted, as well as the dumpster to hold it, the cost to haul it to a landfill and the tipping fees to dump it there. Factories, where the same house parts are assembled over and over, can more accurately predict what they will need so waste is minimized and the overages can used for other projects.
A second plus with a prefab house is its speed of construction. While a site-built house takes several to many months to complete, a prefab generally takes weeks. Because most of the work is done in a factory, there are no weather delays and no damage to exposed framing from being deluged in a summer thunderstorm. Perhaps most importantly for owners, speeding up the construction process reduces the amount of stress most endure as their house goes up.
Koones said prefab houses are built with higher quality control than site-built ones. In many factories now, the workers use sophisticated, computer-aided machinery that makes more accurate cuts so the framing pieces fit together more easily; this in turn makes all the subsequent steps in the construction sequence, including the installation of interior and exterior materials and windows, faster and easier.
Koones devotes a fair amount of text to explaining the ways her 32 houses deliver the energy efficiency their owners sought. A telling detail is the HERS rating scores. HERS, which stands for Home Energy Rating System, compares the energy efficiency of a building envelope to a house built to the Model Energy Code for 2006. A house meeting that standard is rated at 100.
Somewhat counter-intuitively, the lower the HERS rating, the better. A house built to the most recent and more stringent 2012 Model Energy Code will be 30 percent more efficient and have a HERS rating of about 70. Of the 19 prefab houses with HERS scores in Koones's book (not every house was rated), 12 have a rating below 50 and one has a HERS rating of 0.
All the houses in Koones's book were custom built. But given the advantages of factory production, especially in creating energy-efficient houses, could an entire subdivision be built this way, especially as energy code requirements ratchet upward? Daniel Gainsboro of Now Communities, a Boston home-building firm whose work will be featured in Koones's next book, is planning to do exactly that, using the Bensonwood Homes wall system featured in the "Unity House" described in her current book.
In the past, production builders have eschewed prefab, saying it costs too much. Gainsboro opted for prefab for the opposite reason - it will cost him less.
The system he is using is faster, more efficient and less costly for building the 12-inch-thick walls that he is using to make his houses 60 percent more energy efficient than conventionally built ones in the Boston area. When he built this cumbersome, multi-layered wall on-site, his crews found it frustrating and time consuming. What took them three weeks, Bensonwood can do in 2½ days.
Another plus, Bensonwood's computerized production system allows Gainsboro to tweak the amount of insulation in each wall, depending on its orientation and sun exposure, a degree of fine tuning the builder of a site-built house can only dream about.
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MSPP #55: Buttons Learns About Girl Scoutingstevejb68 on November 17, 2008 in Advancement, Leadership, podcast, Service No Comments »
Up until now, Buttons, the radical Boy Scout, has always been about the Boy Scouting program. He has talked about the Scout Oath and Law, being physically fit, how to tell when you know you are a Boy Scout, and has interviewed a Cub Scout and an assistant scoutmaster. Today, he begins to expand his Scouting knowledge into something he has never talked about before – Girl Scouting!
In the United States, boys and girls have separate Scouting programs (except for Exploring). Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting are very different programs even though they share many of the same goals. In both programs the members may chose to earn the highest award available to them. In Boy Scouting that would be the rank of Eagle Scout. In Girl Scouting it is the Gold Award.
I recently had the honor of attending the Gold Award ceremony of my niece and two other Girl Scouts. It was very impressive, and I learned a few things about Girl Scouting that I did not know. I video recorded the ceremony at the request of my sister, and we plan to broadcast it over our local community television station.
After the ceremony, I had the chance to congratulate each of the girls, and ask them if they would be willing to be interviewed by Buttons, the radical Scout. They had all seen a Buttons video or two so they knew what I was asking. To my pleasant surprise, they all said yes to the idea.
This video posting to the Melrose Scouting Productions Podcast is the first of these videos. Ali Kociemba, one of the Gold Award recipients, is the first Girl Scout to be interviewed by Buttons. They discuss the different age groups of Girl Scouting, what some of the awards are, service projects, what Ali did for her Gold award, and what her favorite troop activities were. It turned out to be a nice introduction to Girl Scouting.
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Off the grid: Focused Ubaldo ready for O's debut
In keeping with tradition, right-hander shuts off phone ahead of start vs. Red Sox
BALTIMORE -- It's the Orioles' first off-day of the season, Ubaldo Jimenez's first full day in Baltimore with nothing baseball-related, and the right-hander is officially unreachable -- to everyone.
Jimenez started the mind-clearing activity -- shutting his phone off the day before he starts -- about seven years ago, and he said it helps him concentrate on the upcoming task. No social media, no text messages or long conversations. The only exception Jimenez can remember since this started is if he needs to get in touch quickly with a family member. He'll relent briefly, only if it's important, as Jimenez -- who plans to have most of his relatives live with him in the spot he's rented in Baltimore -- gives new meaning to the term family-oriented.
And while Monday marked the beginning of the O's season, Wednesday will officially usher in the Ubaldo Era, as the right-hander -- who was signed to the largest free-agent contract for a pitcher in club history -- will take the mound for Baltimore for the first time.
"I put enough pressure on myself to be the best I can be," Jimenez said of how the four-year, $50 million commitment will change him. "The money, how much I'm going to make, is definitely something different because of the expectations and stuff like that. But I'm excited. I'm excited for the expectations and I like the challenge."
Jimenez will be tested right away in facing the defending World Series champion Boston Red Sox, a team he's faced only four times in his career (1-2 with a 11.72 ERA). Last season, Jimenez lasted just 1 2/3 innings in his lone start against Boston, giving up seven earned runs on two hits and five walks. Command was an issue for Jimenez in that game, and one of the biggest question marks following the Orioles' commitment to Jimenez, who has been both dazzling and baffling in his career, was: can they keep him consistent?
"That's the ultimate challenge," pitching coach Dave Wallace said of Jimenez, who pitched to a 1.82 ERA in his final 13 starts with the Indians. "But now that we've had him and been able to watch him throw, he really gets himself in a good position. The lower half of his body and his legs and trunk get in a real good position to throw the ball. It's still at the point where we're learning as much about him as he is about us.
"It's not going to happen all at once. It's not going to happen in a week or a month, but hopefully over the course of a season, we can minimize the streaks of inconsistency."
Jimenez hasn't always had such an unorthodox delivery, but a shoulder strain while he was in the Minors back in 2004 kept him from the mound for five months. When he came back, everything changed.
"I was trying to find a way with my mechanics to make nothing hurt, and that's what I got," Jimenez said. "That's how it came about."
There's been plenty of tinkering and toying with it since then, with an ankle injury in 2012 not allowing Jimenez to stay consistent with any delivery. One pitch would be over the top, the next would be closer to his side, leading to an MLB-high 17-loss season.
Last year, with Indians pitching coach Mickey Callaway helping him smooth things out, Jimenez started to show signs of his old self, the one who started the All-Star Game in 2010. The O's haven't reached out to Callaway just yet, though they've considered it, and Wallace has a few former pupils similar to Jimenez.
People often bring up Pedro Martinez, whom Jimenez mentioned in his introductory news conference, but Ramon Martinez had a similar long-and-lean build to Jimenez and a lot of moving parts. That arm angle, the way Jimenez can manipulate the ball, is unusual but not unheard of.
"When I had Hideo Nomo, everyone talked about how unconventional he was, but he really got himself in good position," Wallace said. "That's a resource you pull up, when you've had guys in the past that were somewhat unconventional. But if you break it down, [Jimenez] can be more consistent, without a doubt."
One thing that has gone unchanged about Jimenez is the way he carries himself in the clubhouse, something the Orioles did their due diligence on before making that kind of a commitment.
"He's a quality human being," manager Buck Showalter said. "This guy is good people. I had heard that, had a lot of people talk about it. ... He's committed. If you really look at his background, this is the first time an organization has really stepped out and just made the commitment to him for a long period of time. A lot of people talked about it, came close to doing it. But I think that means something to Ubaldo. This is a good human being. Very respectable, but at the same time, he's competitive. He's in a good place right now mentally."
Jimenez, who signed with the O's knowing only Miguel Gonzalez from a Minor League All-Star Game, won't be the type of player who elicits much -- if any -- emotion on the mound. An imposing physical presence, he is soft-spoken and mild-mannered in interviews. Jimenez has heard the criticism that comes with not wearing your heart on your sleeve, that he doesn't care enough or act as if this is important.
"It bothers me when people say that it's bad, that I need to get some more energy or whatever, but that's who I am," Jimenez said. "I'm fun. I like to joke around and things like that. But once I get to the game, I'm always the same.
"Some people say that I need to show emotion. But I have enough emotion. I try to do the best I can every five days, and I really care about the game. But if I do bad, I move on quick. I don't stay in the moment. That's something that people need to know; it doesn't matter how I react out there, I care. If I have a good game, if I have a bad game, I stay the same. I don't change."
There is a silly side to Jimenez, who laughs at the old picture Gonzalez -- in the locker next to him -- digs up to show off from their Minor League days. He smiles easily and likes to dance, particularly bachata, which he learned growing up in the Dominican Republic. Everywhere he goes, Jimenez carries a Dominican flag and a picture of his 9-year-old niece, Crisley. Jimenez's family will meet him in New York for his second start next week before traveling back to Baltimore.
"[He's been] an absolute pleasure," Wallace said of Jimenez. "He's respectful, he's engaging, he's all about wanting to get better. And I think [we are] pleasantly surprised by, even in this short period of time, he's been great. He's been so engaging and such a part of this team. He's fit right in. This guy is going to help us."


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When it comes to the lockout of officials, the NFL Players Association has been largely huffing and puffing.
This week, the huffing and puffing continued. Jay Glazer of FOX reports that the union sent a letter to the league this week, insisting that the locked-out officials be immediately reinstated, for safety reasons. The league, predictably, has declined.
We believe that using replacement officials definitely gives rise to potential safety concerns. With the officials now charged with spotting men who may need to be evaluated for concussions, the replacement officials may simply be overloaded with responsibilities as they adjust to NFL football, and thus unable to properly spot potential head injuries.
Still, if the union truly is concerned about safety, why hasn't the union taken action? There's no way the players would have walked out over the issue, but there has to be something more direct that the league could do other than send letters or talk tough.


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SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 (UPI) -- Renewable projects in western states approved by the government could generate enough power to meet the needs of 340,000 homes, the interior secretary said.
Outgoing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the government approved two California solar energy projects and a wind energy project in Nevada. Combined, the facilities could generate around 1,100 megawatts of energy per year.
Salazar said the companies involved in the projects agreed to minimize the effects to the environment as well as cultural and historic resources. The Interior Department estimates that, combined, the projects would displace around 800,000 tons of greenhouse gases every year.
The McCoy Solar Energy Project in California is the largest solar project of its kind, with a planned capacity of 750 MW.
The state's Desert Harvest Solar Farm, meanwhile, would generate around 150 MW of energy from a 1,200-acre site.
In Nevada, the Searchlight Wind Energy Project will generate 200 MW of electricity.
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and chairman of the House Budget Committee, this week unveiled a 10-year plan to balance the federal budget without raising taxes. Part of the plan is critical of federal spending on renewable energy programs.


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text: Digital Fishbowl Summer Superlatives – THE RESULTS! By Peter Ogburn|August 23, 2012 Share By Peter Ogburn|August 23, 2012 Share Now that everyone has had a chance to vote, the results are in for the FishbowlDC Superlatives. We'll be rolling out the results today and tomorrow, so be on the lookout to see how your nominees did. Biggest Self Promoter— This was the closest vote that we had in the whole competition. It was between Former Daily Caller reporter Michelle Fields, ABC News White House Correspondent Jake Tapper, The Daily Beast and CNN's Howard Kurtz, WaPo's Chris Cillizza and Publicist Tammy Haddad. The photo finish saw Tammy Haddad beat out Fields by only five votes! Congratulations Tammy! Worst Temper— The candidates were Mother Jones's David Corn, Politico's Jim VandeHei, Politico's Tim Grieve, Mediaite's Tommy Christopher, and Slate's Matt Yglesias. The people have spoken and they say Tim Grieve has the worst temper in Washington! We'd congratulate him, but we're afraid it might set him off.Favorite Flack— We asked you to choose between POTUS campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki, Mitt Romney spokesman Brendan Buck, House Maj. Leader Eric Cantor's Deputy Chief of Staff Doug Heye and NRCC's Brian Walsh (pitched as Drama and Turtle), C-SPAN's Howard Mortman, and House Maj. Whip Kevin McCarthy spokeswoman Erica Elliott. Despite a last minute push by Mortman, the winners were Doug Heye and Brian Walsh!Most Likely to Wind Up in Jail— The suspects choices were Politico's Joe Williams, PR Exec. David Bass, BuzzFeed's John Stanton, The Daily Caller's David Martosko, The Daily Caller's Neil Munro, Reason's Mike Riggs and freelancer Moe Tkacik. The overwhelming winner was Joe Williams. Class Clown: This category was a joke. The results were the most lopsided in all of the superlatives. The contenders were Sirius XM's Julie Mason, Roll Call HOH's Neda Semnani, Yahoo! News' Olivier Knox, Reuter's Sam Youngman, The Atlantic's Scott Stossel, Wonkette and The Guardian's Jim Newell and The Drudge Report's Charlie Hurt. Julie Mason walked away with this category with a crushing 46 percent of the vote.Most likely to end up with a reality show— In D.C., there are PLENTY of options, but we narrowed them down to Mediaite's Tommy Christopher, ABC7's Stephen Tschida, TWT's Emily Miller, Susanna Quinn, Publicist and blogger Janet Donovan, NBC's Luke Russert, Current TV's David Shuster,and CNN's Roland Martin. The winner of this category was… Emily Miller! (Our advice would be to make sure you get the lighting right on her reality show or she might shoot the bulbs out.)Thanks to everyone who voted, but we aren't done yet with the big reveal. Check back tomorrow to find out the winners of all of our other categories, which include Best Writer, Sexiest, and Best On-Air Personality! Share http://adweek.it/2l427Fc copy Adweek Adweek


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Repeat a portrait eight times so it can be cut out from a 6″x4″ photo and used for visa or passport photos
montage 2007-08-25-3685.jpg +clone -clone 0-1 -clone 0-3 -geometry 500 -frame 5 output.jpg
Yes, You could do it in the GIMP or even use Inkscape to auto-align the clones, but the command line is so much easier.
NOTE: The +clone and -clone options are just to shorten the command line instead of typing the same filename eight times. It might also speed up the montage by only processing the image once, but I'm not sure. "+clone" duplicates the previous image, the following two "-clone"s duplicate the first two and then the first four images.
NOTE2: The -frame option is just so that I have some lines to cut along.
BUG: I haven't bothered to calculate the exact geometry (width and height) of each image since that was not critical for the visa photos I need. If it matters for you, it should be easy enough to set using the -geometry flag near the end of the command. For example, if you have your DPI set to 600, you could use "-geometry 800×1200!" to make each subimage 1? x 2 inches. You may want to use ImageMagick's "-density 600" option to put a flag in the JPEG file cuing the printer that it is a 600 DPI image.
BUG2: ImageMagick does not autorotate images based on the EXIF information. Since the portrait photo was taken with the camera sideways, I made the JPEG rotate using jhead like so: jhead -autorot 2007-08-25-3685.jpg
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NetChat is a socket based server client model chat system with keep alive option which is both fast and intuitive. NetChat operates over a TCP/IP protocol making it ideal for LAN chats. With advanced intuitive features like Font manipulation, Group Chat, Message Notification Alert,Company Logo Integration, Message History and Command line control – This becomes a robust must have tool for LAN users.NetChat Software pack has Server & Client files.
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Beveridge wrote:Blaming the PP goal on Fleury is laughable. He was in perfect position against the post. Crap happens.
2nd goal....all him and nobody but him.
TSN showed the net cam on the 1st goal. Fleury was tight against the post and you couldn't see any gaps in his legs, then the puck just suddenly appeared from between his knees/thighs and went in. No idea how it happened.


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Anthony James scored 16 points and Northern Iowa beat 15th-ranked Wichita State 57-52 on Saturday, sending the Shockers into their first losing streak of the season.
Seth Tuttle had eight points, eight rebounds and four blocks for the Panthers (12-11, 5-6 Missouri Valley Conference). They took control with a 14-0 run in the second half and became just the fourth Valley team in the last 23 games to beat Wichita State at home.
The Shockers (19-4, 8-3) pulled within 52-50 on Carl Hall's steal and bucket with 1:18 left. But Northern Iowa's Seth Tuttle blocked a Nick Wiggins try that would have tied it and then sealed the win with a breakaway dunk.
Hall led Wichita State with 20 points. The Shockers, who lost to Indiana State on Tuesday, have dropped a game behind league-leading Creighton in the Valley race.
The Shockers gave up sole possession of first place in the Valley when they lost to the Sycamores, snapping a 19-game home winning streak.
Wichita State started and finished this one in much the same manner.
The Shockers went over seven minutes without scoring in the first half, allowing Northern Iowa to take an early edge. But Wichita State steadied itself long enough to pull even at halftime, 23-all.
The Shockers then jumped on the Panthers with seven quick points, which can be huge against a slow-paced team such as Northern Iowa. But the Panthers responded behind a pair of Marc Sonnen 3s, jumping back ahead 37-36.
Sonnen had three 3s for Northern Iowa, which scored 23 of the game's next 29 points after falling behind 30-23.
The Panthers, who earned national acclaim with their stunning upset of top-seeded Kansas in the NCAA tournament in 2010, will almost certainly miss the tourney for the third year in a row.
Northern Iowa played a brutal non-league slate that included losses to Louisville, Stanford, Memphis, Iowa and UNLV, and it opened Valley play with a 25-point loss at Wichita State.
The Panthers have been unlucky of late. They lost their last home game when Indiana State drew contact on a desperation heave and hit free throws just before the final buzzer. They also lost in overtime at Evansville, 54-51, on Tuesday.
Northern Iowa didn't need much luck against the Shockers, whose offense went into a funk for the final 12 minutes.
Wichita State finished with 13 turnovers and a season-low 52 points. It hasn't cracked 60 in either of their recent losses.


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Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
In half a dozen lawsuits, Justice lawyers have opposed formal motions or spurned out-of-court offers to delay court action until the new administration rewrites Freedom of Information Act guidelines and decides whether the new rules might allow the public to see more.
In only one case has the Justice Department agreed to suspend a FOIA lawsuit until the disputed documents can be re-evaluated under the yet-to-be-written guidelines. That case involves negotiations on an anti-counterfeiting treaty, not the more controversial, secret anti-terrorism tactics that spawned the other lawsuits as well as Obama's promises of greater openness.
"The signs in the last few days are not entirely encouraging," said Jameel Jaffer, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed several lawsuits seeking the Bush administration's legal rationales for warrantless domestic wiretapping and for its treatment of terrorism detainees.
The documents sought in these lawsuits "are in many cases the documents that the public most needs to see," Jaffer said. "It makes no sense to say that these documents are somehow exempt from President Obama's directives."
Groups that advocate open government, civil liberties and privacy were overjoyed that Obama on his first day in office reversed the FOIA policy imposed by Bush's first attorney general, John Ashcroft. The Bush Justice Department said it would use any legitimate legal basis to defend withholding records from the public. Obama pledged "an unprecedented level of openness in government" and ordered new FOIA guidelines written with a "presumption in favor of disclosure."
But Justice's actions in courts since then have cast doubt on how far the new administration will go.
Justice: FBI did enough
In a FOIA case seeking access to the rules governing the FBI's Investigative Data Warehouse — a computer database containing searchable documents about Americans and foreigners — Justice lawyers told a district court here Thursday, "It is not clear that the new guidelines, once issued, will be retrospective to FOIA requests that the agency already has finished processing."
They asked the court to rule instead that the FBI has done enough. The bureau has reviewed 878 pages, withheld 76 and released some portions of 802.
To withhold some material, the FBI cited discretionary FOIA exemptions and ones that require balancing privacy and public interests. David Sobel, attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based group that advocates civil liberties in cyberspace and brought the lawsuit, said those decisions might come out differently under the new guidelines.
The issue isn't retroactivity, Sobel said. "The issue is whether the new administration is going to devote legal resources to fighting old battles now that the president has announced a fundamental change in the government's approach to FOIA."
Other lawsuits in which Justice's civil division has expressed opposition to delays until the administration writes its FOIA guidelines and uses them to review Bush decisions:
- One seeking documents about the Automated Targeting System used by Customs officers to screen all travelers leaving or entering the country.
- A case seeking records of lobbying by telecommunications companies to get legal immunity for cooperating in warrantless domestic wiretapping.
- A case seeking Justice's legal opinions justifying that wiretapping. One of the plaintiff attorneys, Meredith Fuchs, of the National Security Archive, a private group that publishes formerly classified government documents, said, "I'm somewhat surprised they did not take the opportunity to look at these again, but maybe it's because the administration doesn't have all its top Justice appointees in office yet."
- Three cases seeking Justice legal opinions about detention and interrogation of terrorism detainees. Civil division attorney Caroline Wolverton wrote the ACLU's Jaffer that Justice would proceed "consistent with the principles" in Obama's FOIA order "and also with due regard for the legitimate confidentiality interests of the executive branch and the national security interests of the United States."
Jaffer called that "a nonresponse response."
Two cases may be reviewed
So far, Justice has expressed willingness to review Bush decisions in two cases, only one because of FOIA changes.
Only in Sobel's lawsuit for anti-counterfeiting treaty documents has Justice joined a plaintiff to obtain a court delay to give the administration time to write FOIA guidelines and use them to "review its determinations on the documents at issue."
But that case is unusual because Justice is represented by its Office of Information and Privacy, not by the civil division that handles all the other FOIA lawsuits. The information and privacy office provides governmentwide guidance on how to obey the FOIA. Attorneys in these cases worry that the information and privacy office doesn't have the clout of the much larger civil division and may not control administration policy.
The civil division has sought a delay to review one case — involving three 2005 Justice legal memos on the definition of "cruel and unusual" interrogation tactics. But its request didn't mention the new FOIA policy. Instead it said Obama's Jan. 22 executive order on detention and interrogation might alter the government position.
Even if the new administration reviews Bush decisions, that's no guarantee the outcome will change.
Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a review of every court case in which the Bush administration used a different legal tool to preserve secrecy: the state secrets privilege it invoked a record number of times to have lawsuits thrown out. On the same day, however, civil division attorney Douglas Letter cited the state secrets privilege in asking a federal appeals court to uphold dismissal of a lawsuit accusing a Boeing Co. subsidiary of illegally helping the CIA fly suspected terrorists to allied foreign nations where they would be tortured.
Three times Letter assured the judges his position had been approved by Obama administration officials.
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Days after the state Attorney General's office dropped charges against state Rep. Larry Womble in a deadly crash, Winston-Salem's police chief said he defends his department's initial investigation.
"Our initial investigation was not flawed. We stand by it as accurate, and we believe in that investigation," Chief Scott Cunningham said Wednesday at his standard monthly public safety meeting.
Winston-Salem police concluded that Womble swerved into the path of an oncoming vehicle in a crash at 2600 Reynolds Park Road on Dec. 2, 2011. David Carmichael, 54, died from injuries sustained in the crash.
State prosecutors charged Womble in May with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle. The state took the case at the request of the Forsyth County District Attorney's office.
After the charge was filed, Winston-Salem police used an outside expert to assess the crash, state prosecutors said.
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Cunningham said Wednesday that the assistant attorney general didn't feel comfortable taking the case to court after a computer program from a traffic reconstruction class showed different ways that the crash could have happened.
"Our (computer program) considered all the data points, the actual crash locations, the damage on the road, the curvature on the road, all the specific real data that existed. The other program didn't," Cunningham said.
The class was using photos and drawings to determine what happened instead of specific data, Cunningham said. However, he also added that the the class's results neither prove nor disprove what happened.
In a news conference last week, Womble said he was "happy and elated that the facts prove that I was in my lane and the gentleman crossed over into my lane and hit me."
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Chicago, Ill.--Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified genetic markers in cancer cells that predicted the benefit of a novel cancer drug prior to chemotherapy.
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Scalped: Dave & Tim show drew some 'cockroaches'
So you wanted tickets to the sold-out Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds show on Saturday August 20 at the nTelos Pavilion? You could still get them even a day before the concert, but you might have paid a pretty penny more than the $50 per ticket most concertgoers paid. On Craigslist, for instance, one website– clickyticket.com– had a variety of seats available ranging from the low $400s up to nearly $800. One ebay listing brought in $1,500 for two VIP tickets– more than twice their $300 apiece face value.
According to Pavilion GM Kirby Hutto, scalping– when tickets are sold by a third party, most often for a profit– is an increasing problem at the Pavilion, thanks in part to the ever-higher-profile nature of the acts coming to Charlottesville.
"The whole scalping world has just exploded over the last few years," says Hutto, who notes that unlike D.C., Virginia has no laws prohibiting the resale of tickets, no matter how high the profit margin. That leaves Virginia venues without much recourse, says Hutto, noting that if a scalper mentions the actual seat number in an online ad, the Pavilion may cancel the ticket and then resell it. Most scalpers, however, are craftier than that and list only the section or row of the tickets they're listing, making it nearly impossible to determine which tickets are being sold fraudulently.
Even if you have hundreds of dollars to spend, buying a ticket from a third-party seller is risky business.
"A lot of people are getting ripped off completely," Hutto explains, noting that certain particularly unscrupulous scalpers make counterfeit tickets, which will be worthless when the ticketholder shows up on concert night.
"It becomes a customer service issue because the guy who took their money is long gone," Hutto says, describing understandably upset patrons who may have traveled long distance and paid big bucks only to be turned away at the gate.
"It's a pain in our existence, both to fight these scalpers and to deal with the aftermath of the ones that are outright thieves."
Such unscrupulous scalping tactics seem even more egregious in the case of the Dave and Tim show, given that it was a charity event, with ticketholders asked to visit justgive.org to select the charity they'd like to receive the full original value of their ticket plus fees. Fortunately, says Hutto, even those people who purchased scalped tickets are able to donate the face value of the ticket– assuming the scalper hasn't already chosen the charity– and that the ticket is a real one.
The Pavilion boss has simple advice for making sure your tickets will actually gain you entrance.
"I would never give anyone cash for the ticket until I've seen the ticket," says Hutto, reminding concertgoers that all Pavilion tickets are printed on nTelos Wireless Pavilion ticket stock and feature an image of the Pavilion in the background and a barcode.
"I've seen ads where it says 'two lawn tickets, two great seats,' and at that point you don't know what you're getting," says Hutto. "An event like this brings out some of the cockroaches who see an opportunity to make easy money. If people aren't savvy, they can get ripped off."
If it looked like scalpers were getting their comeuppance at presstime, with bidding on some ebay listings holding steady right at the ticket's face value, that changed hours before the show. A pair of upper orchestra seats offered by Kansas-based "getmetickets" pulled in $430– nearly triple face value. And a single lawn ticket (with Water Street garage parking pass thrown in) sold for $215, more than four times its $50 face value.
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What a shame. Someone told me once Coran Capshaw sold Music Today this practice took off. Is that true ?
No. Scalping concert tickets has been a practice as long as concerts have been selling out.
why they didn't make these will call only tickets is beyond me? seriously, it's an all charity event, make it will call only and avoid this problem.
what's the big deal? the show is sold out, so the charities are still getting their money. the article even says you can still make the donation even if the tickets are bought from a third-party. yeah, scalping sucks, but it's legal in VA. so until the change the laws, it's gonna happen.
personally, i don't go to many shows anymore b/c the artists and venues themselves are charging such ridiculous prices for tickets. if you actually want to sit close enough to see the band you'll shell out a couple hundred bucks for a single ticket. sure, you can buy cheap seats, but then you just end up watching the band on a giant screen behind the stage. at that point, you may as well just buy a concert DVD and watch it at home. the beer would be cheaper that way too.
what's the difference betweeen a scalper and an entrepreneur?
It is hilarious how people like a free market until they can't get a low price on the concert ticket they wanted. Then they cry for government to save them.
@confused easily- i assume you love paying high prices for gas then? correct? you get excited about free market when gas is $4.00 a gallon?
i just want to pay the same price as they originally sold, face plus fees.
maybe they should have auctioned off all the tickets on ebay with the face price as the starting price and sell a hundred a day until they are all gone. That way the charities would have gotten more and the scalpers less.
"confused easily"- you are kidding, of course.............not sure anyone is crying for the government to "help".
Craig's list- call and make an offer- can't hurt!
"davefan"- I like the "will call" idea, especially for a limited attendance event like this
DaveFan: of course you want the same price as everyone else who bought tickets directly from the venue. So do 20,000 other people. Which is why it is good to allowing reselling so that you can still go to the event even though you aren't a member of the fan club (they got early ticket access) or one of the fans who logged in early enough to buy tickets (they sold out in a few minutes). I would rather pay more for a ticket than have no chance at all to see a show.
To HarryD: Who is asking for government intervention? Kirby Hutto is. See his comment about how DC has anti-scalping laws but VA does not, and so the venue has little recourse to stop scalpers.
why would venues want to stop scalpers? the venue gets its money whether it's coming from a fan or a scalper. sure, they say they fell bad for the fans who have to pay through the nose for scalped tickets. but then once you're inside they charge you $8 for a cup of warm bud light??? yeah, they really care about the fans.
I freaking hate scalpers. They take all the good tickets and then sell them for such a high mark up. Ok, I have two lawn tickets selling for 400 each.
"confused easily"- understood, well maybe I misunderstood- perhaps I am confused easily.....thanks for the clarification.
"IPEEYOUPOO"- nice handle! I am always curious as to whether the scalpers end up holding many of the tix they are trying to scalp.....
What has not been widely publicized is that, while you may be able to choose to which charity the value of the ticket goes, you may not itemize that amount on your tax return. Ordinarily in cases like these, you can itemize the amount of your donation to the extent that it exceeds the value of the ticket. Not this time - no part of your ticket purchase is deductible because you bought the ticket from a for-profit corporation. That corporation collects the money and funnels it to the not-for-profit, so IT (and probably Dave Matthews, Tim Reynolds and whoever else normally gets a piece of the ticket revenue pie) gets the charitable deduction for tax purposes.
Nice, huh?
"Annoyed fan"- I am not sure that many purchasers cared or would have deducted the amount anyway.....they just don't look at a ticket as donation to a charity.
Hey, here's a way to make it happen as a real charitable item, not some phoney baloney marketing "charitable cause"- actually hold an auction and find out what these folks are really willing to donate to charity!
Free enterprise, don't cha just love it.?
@annoyed fan, the motivation of charitable giving is not supposed to be selfish. No doubt more was given to charity as a result of this concert that would have been otherwise, and itemized deductions are only allowed up to a threshold. So your complaints ring hollow.
Yeah, I got ripped off for $80 in Atlanta a few years back when DM and the Allman Brothers played. Let me tell you, the ticket looked perfect - first rate color printing on heavy card stock with a barcode and all. Somebody in the ticket production phase has to be selling the blanks or reproducing multiples of the genuine tickets. I knew I was out of luck when the seller started walking away the street everyone was using to get to Piedmont Park as soon as I handed hime the money but I continued on and got turned away at the gate. I just hope the $80 helped the brother a little further along the road to crack addiction.
"Virginia has no laws prohibiting the resale of tickets, no matter how high the profit margin...if a scalper mentions the actual seat number in an online ad, the Pavilion may cancel the ticket and then resell it...making it nearly impossible to determine which tickets are being sold fraudulently."
I don't understand. If it's not illegal, what's fraudulent about it? How can the venue cancel the tickets and re-sell them to someone else?
Meanwhile, do be sure and hire someone who knows what s/he is doing when tax time rolls around, darling. Clearly you are not sufficiently informed to do your own. There is only a threshold of itemization allowed on a per year basis - overages are rolled over to subsequent years until they are fully utilized.
It is never about the giving. It is always about the money. In this case, the charities got the money, and the corporations got the tax write-offs, part of which should have gone to the ticket buyers were all things done in a fair manner. For example, that is how the Free Clinic does it when they have fund raisers of a similar nature.
No worries at the end of the day because the show was AMAZING.


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