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Arriere Red Blend and The Allure Cabernet Sauvignon.
Featuring Napa all the way through Coombsville, Stags Leap and St Helena appellations. Both from just about perfect drinking now in their sweet spot.
Arriere is made by Keith and Chelli Webster of the perennially sold out Webster Cellars. Allure is the inaugural release from uber talented Jacqueline Yoakum. She is consulting winemaker for Italics, a cult cab.
WHAT WE TASTED: Instant pop of dense berry then cigar box like notes kick in. Cassis in spades and not bowled over with excessive tannins. It is so elegant through the natural fermentation like a textured lattice that holds the fruit and lifts and carries you to each height of new taste revealed if you linger. Because it will indulge.
WHAT WE TASTED: An exciting wine, spicy, subtle, and lean. Spicy with pepper, licorice and clove. Subtle showing notes of cassis, tobacco, mild cherries, blackberry and just a hint of cacao. Soft entry, the mid-palate satisfying, and the finish is elegant.
PERSONALITY: The label is an original art piece that Keith Webster painted during his time as a New York artist. He is a multifaceted man. This project was about expressing Keith and Chelli's mutual creativity by combining the two mediums together.
Wrapped and packed in a sleek black box for powerful gift giving.


It's been said in a discussion thread that the 30 day trial would update with every new build.
I have build 1536 - from Nov. 18 - but now only 5 days left of my trial. Is there some mistake here?
Fixed for next nightly, thanks for heads up!
IR> now only 5 days left of my trial. Is there some mistake here?


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Douglas Gathering Newsletter No. 5
Douglas Clan Gathering
30th June - 6th July 2014
Travel arrangements - USA and Canada
Chas MacDonald, organiser of the 2014 Arisaig Highland Games, has put together a great travel deal through local agent Al Included*. Return flights leave from New York, Boston, Toronto and Halifax to Glasgow. Please note that the deals won't last long, and need to be booked by mid-November at the latest.
This seems like a good opportunity to take advantage of a ready made package, so check out their website by clicking here.
*Yes we know we've spelt 'Al Included' wrong - Al is the name of the travel agent!
The Arisaig Highland Games take place on the last Wednesday of July.
Fares shown below are approximate and held til 2nd November.
Further details can be found in the Gathering website>>>
We are working on a deal for Australia.
Karl Sabbagh will be launching his book on the Douglas Cause, "Whatever Happened to Lady Jane?" at the Douglas Clan Gathering.
This will be accompanied by an illustrated lecture and book signing, a free to enter event provisionally set for Thursday 3rd July.
Karl Sabbagh is a writer, journalist and television producer. His work is mainly non-fiction: he has written books about historical events and produced documentaries for both British and American broadcasters.
Gathering Programme
We are now fairly firm on how the programme will look for daytime events.
Monday 30th June: Visit Aberdour and Lochleven Castles
Tuesday 1st July: Visit Bothwell and Douglas Castles, the Douglas Heritage Museum and St Bride's Church
Wednesday 2nd July: Visit Dirleton and Tantallon Castles and Lennoxlove House
Thursday 3rd July: Visit Lincluden Abbey, Threave Castle and the Douglas Mausoleum
Friday 4th July: Tour Edinburgh, or a location of your choice
Saturday 5th July: Clan Muster at Drumlanrig Castle, with an opportunity to visit Morton Castle and the Queensberry Tomb.
On Sunday 6th July, we will be in Stirling, where a Kirkin o' the Tartan church service is planned. We will march with banners flying from the Castle to the Kirk. You will then have the opportunity to visit Stirling Castle, The Wallace Monument and the site of the Battle of Bannockburn.
Further details of the daily programme are available on the Clan Gathering website.
Stirling to Host 2014 Armed Forces Day National Event
The city of Stirling has been chosen to host the Armed Forces Day national event on 28 June 2014. This coincides with the Bannockburn 700 celebrations and Pipefest.
Plans will soon be underway to create a spectacular national event in the historic city, enabling the local community the opportunity to lead the nation in honouring the UK Armed Forces past and present.
Armed Forces Day in Stirling will be the sixth national event since the Historic Dockyard Chatham hosted the inaugural event in 2009. This year's host city of Nottingham attracted 100,000 people, and was attended by The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester representing HM The Queen.
Stirling is the home city of the Scottish regiment, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, whose headquarters and museum are in Stirling Castle.
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Augusta Health Care for Women is pleased to bring you our secure, online patient portal.
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By submitting all of these forms, we will be able to complete most of the registration and clinical intake process PRIOR to your arrival. Completing these documents through our patient portal will help expedite your inital appointment time.
Patient Registration Form: Please submit this form once every 12 months. It is helpful to have your insurance information available when completing this form. If any of the information on this form changes, you can re-submit the form or notify the office by phone or in person.
Office Policies: Please submit this form once every 12 months.
Health History Form: This form can be found at the bottom of the forms page under "My Health History Forms". It is helpful to have your medication bottles or a list of current medications available when completing this form. This form should be completed at least once every 12 months or when there are changes in your health history.
Problem Visit Form: This form can be found at the bottom of the forms page under "My Health History Forms". If you are a new patient portal user, please make sure to submit the Health History Form first. Your provider prefers that this form be submitted no more thatn 1-2 days prior to your appointment.
New OB: This form can be found at the bottom of the forms page under "My Health History Forms". Also submit or re-submit the Health History Form and Review of Systems Form if you have not already done so within the previous 2 months.
Here you can perform the following additional functions at your convenience.
Through our patient portal, we save you time! Our practice is able to communicate with you and confirm appointments quickly via secure email rather than trying to reach you by phone.


When does 'micro-cheating' cross the line?
Unsettling news for anyone in a committed relationship: You're most likely cheating on your partner, or being cheated on, without even realizing it.
Introducing micro-cheating, the newest buzzword in committed relationships.
Micro-cheating is a relatively new term for all the tiny ways you can be unfaithful without actually exchanging any bodily fluids or sweet nothings.
"Micro-cheating is a series of seemingly small actions that indicate a person is emotionally or physically focused on someone outside their relationship," dating expert Melanie Schilling told HuffPost Australia.
Do you always make an effort to look nice if you know you're going to run into a certain person? Micro-cheating.
Ever sent your ex a message reminding them of a good memory you share? Micro-cheating.
Have inside jokes or nicknames with someone other than your partner? Micro-cheating.
The list goes on and on. It all seems harmless, but plants the seed of wanting attention from someone who isn't your partner. This can quickly progress to an all-out emotional affair, which usually then crosses over into something physical.
Just because you're in a committed relationship doesn't mean you turn into stone. You're always going to be attracted to other people and a little bit of flirting is natural, and that flirting doesn't have to compromise your relationship.
A good way to figure out whether something crosses the line is to think about how you'd feel if your partner was doing the same thing. Any time you're about to send a flirty text or email, picture your partner reading it. After-work drinks? Imagine your partner standing next to you.
If your person wouldn't be cool with what you're typing/saying, don't do it.
If you find yourself hiding anything from your partner, that's a major red flag. Shut that thing down.
Also, micro-cheating of any kind, no matter how "harmless," with an ex or old flame is never OK. When you've got romantic history with someone, it's not micro-cheating anymore. It's just cheating and that's not cool.
Surprise! You're probably being cheated on!


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February 15, 2017 By Nancy Durkee
Just Say No to A Free Domain: Why You Should Register & Pay For It Yourself
When you started building your website, did your website builder try to sell you on a domain name?
Many of the do-it-yourself website builders offer you free domain name registration. This is a very tempting offer! However, we're here to tell you that you may regret it.
For these services, domain registration is not their primary business; it's just something they do on the side, a bonus that they can throw in for free. As such, they don't always do it well.
We know. We recently spent two months helping a client reclaim his domain name, which was held hostage by a site building company that had no process for domain transfer.
Our Cautionary Tale
The client was a doctor whose domain was registered with a do-it-yourself website builder. An office assistant started the website, then quit her job. We were fortunate enough to be able to help this client create a new website when no one else in the office could complete the project.
Shortly after we launched, the domain name stopped working. I called the old site builder/domain registrar on their help line and was told "We're so sorry! Our automated registration process didn't renew your site." They corrected the issue, but the site was down for half a day.
At this point, we made it a priority to move the domain name to a service that specializes in domain registration. The process to move the domain name took almost two months and at least 3 helpdesk calls, 7 chat conversations, 49 emails (not kidding) between the losing registration organization, gaining organization, the client and 11Web.
To give you an idea of the company's disastrous lack of domain knowledge and process, here's a bit of the story:
I called their technical support and was told I needed to cancel the account before they could release the domain name. I verified that the domain name would remain active until we could get it moved and was assured it would.
So I called billing to cancel the account. She said that I should call technical support and get the domain moved before I cancelled. I told the billing agent that I had talked to support and they insisted I get the account cancelled before I could get the code. I offered to call technical support again and she graciously assured me that she could cancel the account and the domain would remain active until technical support could give me my transfer code. They refunded the client the balance of their account and I got on the on-line chat before I ended the call as I had been told to do.
The tech on the chat line said I had to send an email to their support desk and they would email my transfer code. Of course, you have to wait for up to 24 hours for them to process your request.
About six hours later I received an email from the support representative that there is a problem obtaining the code and the request has been forwarded to their product development team for resolution.
I sent a request for update 3 days later only to be told it was taking longer than they anticipated.
I sent a request for update 7 days later. They said since my account had been cancelled, I would have to pay $15.99 to purchase my domain back. Really! I tried calling tech support and the automated line said to send an email to their support email. So I called billing. The guy on the line said "I see why they can't process it, you have an outstanding invoice for $15.99" Following a long conversation about how that invoice got created after I had been assured everything would be fine, he eventually cancelled the invoice and sent another ticket to their help desk.
It took us another four weeks and countless emails to get everything else aligned so the transfer could take place.
Ultimately, we were successful in getting the domain transferred to Hover.com, in an account under the doctor's name. Our client now has full control of the domain. But all of this could have been avoided if had he just registered the domain himself to start with rather than rolling it into a DIY website "bundle."
11Web's Domain Recommendations
Don't Be Swayed By Free — Purchase Your Own Domain Name
Your domain name is a very important business asset, and it is one you should protect by claiming it, paying for it, and managing it yourself from a domain registration company. $15 a year is not a big investment to protect something so important!
We use Hover.com because domain registration is their business, and they don't try to upsell you on additional features. Their user interface is very simple to navigate.
Make Sure You'll Receive Renewal Emails 5 Years From Now
We also recommend the you register the domain using an email that is monitored and belongs to the business in general, not an individual who might leave (think info@yourbusiness.com rather than your marketing manager's direct email).
A client of ours had to pay a premium to reclaim their domain when expiration notices were sent to an email address that was no longer used. Their site was also down for several days after the domain expired while the transaction was processed.
Your domain name is a very important business asset and it is one you should protect by claiming it and managing it yourself. $15 a year is not a big investment to protect something so important!
If you set yourself up for success from the beginning, you can protect yourself from frustration later. Do yourself a favor, and take charge of your own domain.
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About Nancy Durkee
Nancy is no stranger to utilizing technology to improve business efficiency and productivity. With over 30 years experience in software development, Nancy has worked in everything from planning, requirements gathering, writing specifications, coding, testing, and training. She understands the importance in maintaining the most up to date computer software and hardware to drive overall efficiency in work processes.
Nancy thrives on the energy that comes from developing creative solutions to make clients' lives easier. She has a fantastic formal resume, including a B.S. in Computer Science, and certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP). She then uses that expertise to develop workable and efficient web solutions that take your website to the next level.
When she turns off her computer, Nancy spends her time singing, tickling the ivories, gardening and traveling.


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To hell and back: The Bartoli story
Former Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli endured dramatic weight loss and mental abuse before setting her sights on a comeback.
01 March, 2018 17:00 IST
Bartoli will feature in the Tie Break Tens, a one-day exhibition tournament at Madison Square Garden. - AP
Former Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli, who retired a little over a month after winning her first grand slam title, at Wimbledon 2013, is all set for a return.
Bartoli will feature in the Tie Break Tens, a one-day exhibition tournament at Madison Square Garden. The French woman also hopes to play at the Miami Open later in March, then a tournament in Monterrey, Mexico, including the three remaining Grand Slam events.
Following the untimely retirement, Bartoli was troubled by dramatic weight loss and speculation about her health resulting from "a diet that just never ends, basically."
"I've been weighing, at some point, 90 pounds, and I was close to dying," Bartoli told The New York Times. "So anything that comes after that is a bonus. If I am able to call myself a professional tennis player after that, it's a huge victory."
Bartoli recounted the time when her boyfriend coerced her into dropping unhealthy amounts of weight; 114 pounds from 165.
"But I did it because he was just, every single day, telling me I was too heavy and too fat and whatever and whatever," she recounted.
During her playing days, a rare, two-handed forehand had become the trademark of her game. Now, as she returns to the court - four and a half years after hanging up her boots - the peculiar forehand will look the same.
"It's not easy to learn something new at 32 years of age," she said before adding, "That hasn't changed," she said, "and I don't think it will ever change."


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Multiple Sex Partners Increases Risk of Drug, Alcohol Addiction
Articles>Addiction Research
Multiple Sex Partners Increases Risk…
New research indicates that having multiple sexual partners leads to an increased risk of becoming addicted to drugs or alcohol. The effect is true for men and women, but more so for the latter. The researchers speculate that there may be several explanations for the connection, among them impulsivity, which can increase risky behavior of any type.
To investigate the link between sexual partners and substance abuse, researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand followed nearly all of the children born in the town of Dunedin, New Zealand, between 1972 and 1973. This included just over 1,000 people. They were tracked and interviewed several times over the years, up to the age of 32. The results of the study, which included asking the participants about their sexual partners and their use of drugs and alcohol, were published in February 2013 in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.
The strongest link between the number of sexual partners of a participant and later drug abuse occurred in the women in the study. Those women who had more than two or three sexual partners while they were between the ages of 18 and 20 were at a 10 times greater risk of developing a substance abuse problem by the age of 21. A problem with alcohol or with marijuana was most common. Women with more than two or three partners while between the ages of 21 and 25 saw a sevenfold increase in the risk of developing substance abuse by age 26. By the age of 32, the women in the study who had more than two or three partners from 26 to 31 increased their risk of having a substance abuse problem 18 times compared to those women with fewer sexual partners. For the male participants in the study, the risk of substance abuse was also increased with higher numbers of sexual partners, but not by nearly as much as it was for women. For instance, men with multiple sexual partners between the ages of 18 and 20 were just three times more likely to develop drug or alcohol problems at age 21, as compared to 10 times for women. The results of the study were adjusted to take into account mental illnesses and socioeconomic status and any affect these factors may have had on drug and alcohol abuse. The researchers found that the results held up even after controlling for these other factors.
The Implications
The results may not be entirely surprising, but they are important. While the study focused on one town in New Zealand, the results can apply to most people in most places. In the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly one-quarter of women between the ages of 20 and 24 has had two or more sexual partners. As women tend to underreport, this number could be higher. This means that a significant portion of the population is at risk for substance abuse. The study authors had a few possible explanations for the results of the research. The first and most obvious is that the link exists simply because both having multiple sexual partners and drug and alcohol use are risky behaviors. Someone who engages in one kind of risky behavior is likely to engage in another. The personality trait behind these behaviors is impulsivity. Someone who is impulsive, or acts without thinking, is likely to engage in any kind of risky behavior. This could help to explain why the results were higher for women. Having multiple partners is more taboo for women; hence it is more of a risky behavior than it is for men. Another possible explanation suggested by the researchers is that engaging in multiple, short-term, impersonal relationships may cause psychological damage, which, in turn, could lead to substance abuse as a way of self-medicating. Having multiple relationships that fail may also lead to anxiety about relationships and starting new ones–another reason to self-medicate. Women may be at greater risk in this scenario because they are culturally expected to seek out and be successful in long-term, monogamous relationships.
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Yep, this week saw the start of the 2018 World Cup! And while we tried our hardest to come up with a fantasy football team of cars from competing nations, the fact USA, Czech Republic and Romania hadn't qualified for the tournament threw a spanner in the works, while most of our favourite cars come from Germany.
Instead, we went a step further to reveal the most popular cars from the 32 participating countries. Ever seen a Saipa Pride? Or a Chevrolet TCR? Well then Cruyff-turn this way to find out which car would come out on top of our World Cup of Cars.
It's not all footie fever though. Over in America gaming fever has taken over, with the E3 event currently taking place and publishers showing off the latest gameplay and teasers.
The one that has got us most excited? The Resident Evil 2 Remake! But… that's got nothing to do with cars, so we'll lie and pretend it's the announcement that not only is Forza Horizon 4 on the, erm, horizon, but that it will set across the UK!
Taking in four seasons of lovely British weather, you'll get to 'drive' some of the best roads the country offers from the Cotswolds in the South to the Lake District in the north-west and up through the streets of Edinburgh in the north. You can even drive them in a black cab if you don't fancy wrecking a McLaren Senna.
That's not the only thing Skoda revealed, with the facelifted Fabia pricing, specs and engines announced ahead of it being delivered in September.
This week also saw our partners at Brake organise short, supervised walks with more than 100,000 children from over 500 schools and nurseries to highlight the importance of being able to walk without fear or threat from traffic.
In light of this, the Department of Transport in Scotland made a timely announcement promising to ban parking on the pavement in the country, with councils given the right to introduce fixed penalty notices.
And finally, Jaguar is the latest manufacturer to roll out a leasing-based subscription service.
Carpe is an all-inclusive service which allows busy, high-mileage drivers to get a brand new Jaguar or Land Rover for 12 months with no deposit.
It joins Volvo and Mercedes-Benz in doing so, with other manufacturers such as BMW also taking tentative steps into the new market in the US.
If, like us, you've been basking in the sunny weather and wondering to yourself "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if I could turn my old Seat Ibiza into a Jacuzzi?" then have we got a treat for you!
French artist Benedetto Bufalino has done just that, as well as turning a car into a ping pong table, a cement mixer into a massive disco ball and an old police car into a chicken coop.
We wouldn't try it with your lease car though, we're pretty sure none of this is covered under the BVRLA's fair wear and tear guidelines.
With an unparalleled reputation for reliability, and being the manufacturer arguably responsible for raising the engineering and build standards for the everyday car, it's no surprise that Volkswagen remains not only one of our most enquired manufacturers but also one of the most popular in the UK.
Falling under the radar, Phil Huff recently got to drive the Kia Picanto X-Line.
In light of that cool-but-odd reveal from E3, we're turning back the clock to nearly two years ago when the last Forza Horizon racing game was released.
With over 350 cars to choose from, including modern hypercars and iconic classics, a whole world of otherwise-inaccessible motors was opened up to to drivers and gamers when Forza Horizon 3 was released in October 2016.
So while gamers took their car of choice for a test drive via Xbox One first, we played devil's advocate and listed five cars from Forza Horizon 3 that were available to lease.
No matter how capable your pick-up trick is, remember that you should always pay attention to the payload limit.


Very cold wind chills expected until noon Saturday. The cold wind chills will cause frostbite in as little as 30 minutes to exposed skin. Expect wind chills to range from 5 below zero to 20 below zero. Winds gusting as high as 45 mph through the day today will cause areas of blowing and drifting snow with the existing snow pack. In addition, minor tree damage is possible.
The Pen Argyl Jr. High and Varsity wrestling matches forThursday at Salisbury have been postponed until Saturday, January 20th at 10:00 and 10:45am. The match will be wrestled in Salisbury's Old Gym.
All Bangor School District sports events for Friday have postponed and will be re-scheduled at a later date.
If Friday's cold weather and wind knocks out power and anyone needs a warm place to stay due to a possible emerging situation such as heat being out, the Mt. Bethel Fire Department has offered to open up their building for warmth and a place to stay. Additionally, Supervisor Teel has donated blankets at the Township Building if you need an extra blanket or two.
Going to the Fire Department's building should only be done if there is a critical need. If it is an immediate emergency, please dial 911, if it is not an immediate emergency but a warm place to stay is needed call me at 602-703-3717 and we will help you and your family get to the Fire Department for a place to stay. Stay safe and look out for your family and neighbors.
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January, 2018 - Streams from two cameras at the nest site went live. One camera is more of a side angle and the other a view from above, which also has infrared capabilities for night viewing.. December 2017 - Staff members from HDOnTap and Codorus State Park worked through the cold and wind to replace and rewire cables at the nest site. Some of the nest had fallen. Two adult eagles have been frequenting the site with nesting material.
Cams courtesy of the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
They say that everything happens for a reason. But what good could come from the exceptionally cold weather we have been experiencing lately? All it does is produce snow, ice and more ice.
When you think ice, however, you may wonder when was the last time that you went ice skating outside? If you can't recall or would like to ice skate, the Borough of Roseto has purchased and set up an outdoor ice rink located at the Roseto Ball Park.
You can access the rink through the main gate only off of Denisco street. If gate is closed the ice rink is closed.
Saturday it will open at 9:00am -12:00 noon for ice hockey and 12:00 noon - 5:00pm for general skating.
 Harrisburg, PA – They're creepy. They're crawly. They're also an excellent indicator of water quality– they're the aquatic insects and animals that live in Pennsylvania's rivers, lakes, and streams. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is for the first time visualizing benthic macroinvertebrate sampling results from across the state. The data is now publicly available in a GIS viewer with downloadable data sets for the first time as well.
Benthic macroinvertebrates are the insects and animals that spend most, if not all, of their lives underwater, and are generally regarded as bottom feeders. . They can be mayflies or midges, crayfish or clams, or one of many other underwater species, and are one of the most important parts of the food chain that fish, birds, and other animals depend on.
"Because they spend almost their entire lives in the water, benthic macroinvertebrates are especially attuned to water quality," said Dustin Shull, Water Program Specialist for DEP. "They are an excellent way to gauge how healthy a particular section of stream or river is, and help DEP meet our obligations for monitoring water quality.
Not all streams and rivers are created equal, and DEP has developed unique macroinvertebrate collection methods for freestone streams, limestone streams, and low-gradient streams. DEP uses these differing methods to get a complete picture of how many, what type, and how healthy the invertebrates are in any given habitat.
"DEP and partners have collected thousands of samples, and collect hundreds more every year to continue to deepen our knowledge base on the health of Pennsylvania's waters," said Shull.
See examples of the different streams types, the methods used to sample them, and results of the sampling by visiting Looking Below the Surface, DEP's interactive story map on benthic macroinvertebrates.
Since Rep. Emrick's district offices will be closed the first Monday in January (New Year's Day), Dominick will be stopping by the Nazareth office on Friday, Jan. 5 from 10 am to 2 pm. If you wish to meet with him, please call (570) 897-0401 or (610) 746-5090 to schedule an appointment.
His Nazareth office is located in the borough office building at 134 S. Main St.
Ice Cream Wars 10, presented by Whole Foods, takes place from 10 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 6, 2018 at the Da Vinci Science Center. Winners will be announced at 3:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at davincisciencecenter.org/icecreamwars or at the science center on the day of the event. Da Vinci Science Center members can RSVP in advance at the same link and will be eligible to receive a commemorative Ice Cream Wars 10 spoon.
Slate Belt AARP Chapter 4135 will hold its meeting on Jan. 8, 2018 at 1:30pm at the Senior Center. If the Center is closed due to inclement weather, the meeting will be cancelled also.
Miller Keystone will be bringing a bus to the Grand Central Landfill and Hauling/Waste Management of the Slate Belt, Pen Argyl on Friday, February 16 at 10:00 am. Interested Blood Donors can sign up by sending an email to Community Relations Manager, Adrienne Fors directly at afors1@wm.com.
On this day in 1999, for the first time since Charlemagne's reign in the ninth century, Europe is united with a common currency when the "euro" debuts as a financial unit in corporate and investment markets. Eleven European Union (EU) nations (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain), representing some 290 million people, launched the currency in the hopes of increasing European integration and economic growth. Closing at a robust 1.17 U.S. dollars on its first day, the euro promised to give the dollar a run for its money in the new global economy. Euro cash, decorated with architectural images, symbols of European unity and member-state motifs, went into circulation on January 1, 2002, replacing the Austrian schilling, Belgian franc, Finnish markka, French franc, German mark, Italian lira, Irish punt, Luxembourg franc, Netherlands guilder, Portugal escudo and Spanish peseta. A number of territories and non-EU nations including Monaco and Vatican City also adopted the euro.
Conversion to the euro wasn't without controversy. Despite the practical benefits of a common currency that would make it easier to do business and travel throughout Europe, there were concerns that the changeover process would be costly and chaotic, encourage counterfeiting, lead to inflation and cause individual nations to loose control over their economic policies. Great Britain, Sweden and Demark opted not to use the euro. Greece, after initially being excluded for failing to meet all the required conditions, adopted the euro in January 2001, becoming the 12th member of the so-called eurozone.
The euro was established by the 1992 Maastricht Treaty on European Union, which spelled out specific economic requirements, including high degree of price stability and low inflation, which countries must meet before they can begin using the new money. The euro consists of 8 coins and 7 paper bills. The Frankfurt-based European Central Bank (ECB) manages the euro and sets interest rates and other monetary policies. In 2004, 10 more countries joined the EU—-Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Several of these countries plan to start using the euro in 2007, with the rest to follow in coming years.
For more information on upcoming events and promotions at Miller-Keystone Blood Center, or to register for any MKBC blood drive, visit GIVEaPINT.org.
Sunday, January 14, 2 PM- "History of Cigar Manufacturing"- Patti Dewitsky will present state and local history of cigar manufacturing.
Sunday, February 11, 2 PM- "The History of Scouting"- Perry Morris will celebrate the founding of Boys Scouts and memories of "Camp Wygat".
Thursday, August, 9, 7 PM- "One Room Schoolhouses"- Walter Emery will be showing pictures of all the area old school houses.
Thursday, September 13, 7 PM - "Anthracite Coal Trains in the Slate Belt"- Craig Ealey, train historian, will do a program in honor of the Anthracite Coal 250th Anniversary.
Sunday, December 9, 2 PM- "The Great Slate Belt Trivia Contest"- MC Marc Blau hosts the trivia game for teams of four. Make your own team or just show up and join in the fun. Prizes for the winners.
 The rink will also open on Sundays from 1:00 - 5:00pm. Weather permitting, the borough plans to open every weekend. There is no cost to come skate, so sharpen your blades and join us for some old fashioned fun this winter.
A representative from the Pennsylvania American Legion will visit Rep. Marcia Hahn's district office on Wednesday, Jan. 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is a great opportunity to have individual questions answered or check out programs that may be available to the men and women who serve or have served our country.
The American Legion Riders have their monthly meeting on Sunday, January 14 at 10:30 AM at the American Legion Post 927, Route 209 and Fairgrounds Road, Gilbert.
The American Legion Riders are well known for their charitable work, which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local children's hospitals, schools, veterans homes, severely wounded service members and scholarships, and enjoy riding.
The Slate Belt Heritage Center will hold their monthly historic presentation on Sunday, January 14th @ 2:00 PM. Speaker for the afternoon will be local historian, Pat Dewitsky whose topic will be "The History of Cigar Manufacturing in the Slate Belt and State". It is a little known fact that there were many local cigar manufacturing plants in the area. Come hear this extremely interesting talk.
The event is free and open to the public. The Heritage Center is located at 30 North 1st Street, Bangor, PA. For additional information contact: Karen Brewer @ 484-894-5661.
The event will be held at the Berks County Agricultural Center Auditorium, 1238 County Welfare, Leesport, PA 19533 on Thursday, January 25, 2018, 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
This event is available to all members of the public and will include updates from Penn State Extension, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, and Berks County Conservation District. This event is open to anyone interested in learning more about the Spotted Lanternfly regardless of home county and quarantine. Bring your questions and join us for discussions on the current status of this invasive insect, information on the quarantine, preparation for insect control in the 2018 season, and how individuals and communities can help stop the spread of this insect. Lunch and handouts are included.
If you cannot register online, please call for assistance at 1-877-345-0691 Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Questions regarding the January 25, 2018 event can be directed to Amy Korman at amk6396@psu.edu by phone at 610-813-6613.
Penn State encourages people with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, call the Northampton County Extension office at 610-813-6613.
Cupcakes, Cookies and Pie, Oh, My!
Hello, Cupcake What's New by Karen Tack.
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm.
Going Wild by Lisa McMann.


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Q: Perform operation on destructured element in JS object function capitalizeFirstLetter (string) {
  return string.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + string.slice(1)
}

I want to capitalize the title after destructuring in one line,
const { question } = this.props
const {
  title,
  Question_uuid: questionUUID
} = question

How to capitalize property title after destructuring. ":" renames the variable and "=" assigns a default value.

A: Destructuring is just a way to unpack values from objects and arrays. You cannot perform any action on the destructured values. You'd have to to do that in a separate line:
let { title } = question;
title = capitalizeFirstLetter(title)

There are some hacks to make it happen while destructuring. (These are purely academic and should not be used in an actual code base)
One option is to create another variable and assign a default value
const { title, updatedTitle = capitalizeFirstLetter(title) } = question

This translates to
var title = question.title,
    updatedTitle = question.updatedTitle === undefined
                    ? capitalizeFirstLetter(title)
                    : question.updatedTitle;

As you can see, this only works if the newly created variable name updatedTitle doesn't exist in question as a key.

There is another way to create a title variable without creating an extra variable. You could create a getter in String.prototype called capitalize. Destructure the title property from question to get the capitalize property

Object.defineProperty(String.prototype, "capitalize", {
  get: function() {
    return this.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + this.slice(1)
  }
});

const question = { title: 'lower case question' }
const { title: { capitalize: title } } = question

console.log(title)

This translates to:
const title = question.title.capitalize;

The getter in String.prototype will be called and it will assign the capitalized string to the title variable.

A: As far as I know you can't change the original property but you can do this:
const {
  title,
  titleCap = capitalizeFirstLetter(title)
} = question

i.e. declare a 'dummy' variable that you provide a default value for. This would be a bad idea though - if at some point the value ever did exist in the original prop then your default value would be ignored.

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PC Gaming Show E3 2018: New Gameplay For Hitman 2, Tripwire Announces Publishing Division, Telltale Shows Gameplay For The Walking Dead: Final Season, Sega Announces More IP's For PC, and more.
Alex Levine June 11th, 2018 - 10:42 PM
The PC Gaming Show has only been around for a few years, but it's turned into one of the biggest events for PC gaming aficionados. The show itself usually focuses on indie developers and whatever games they're going to release. However, the show has slowly started to showcase AAA titles that are normally saved for the bigger conferences such as Microsoft, Bethesda, and Ubisoft. Hosted by Sean "Day9" Plott and Frankie Ward, this year's event was no different as the they pulled out all the stops to impress everyone. We'll go through the events biggest announcements.
To start off the show, a brand new trailer was shown for a new IP, Satisfactory. Known for there popular game Goat Simulator, Coffee Stained Studios is going in a whole new direction with this game. The gameplay trailer showed a team of engineers, in first person view, search for lush planets, and gather materials and resources in order to built large machines and repeat the process. The game was confirmed for multiplayer with up to 4 player co-op. A closed Alpha is planned in the near future which you can sign up for here.
Also announced was a re imagining of a popular mod, The Forgotten City. The original was so acclaimed that it won a screenwriting award, so it makes sense that its being reintroduced as a stand alone game. In the trailer, a player makes his way through an underground city that appears to have a portal through time, including solving various puzzles and investigation. The game has a tentative release for 2019.
In addition the action detective game, The Sinking City, showed a new gameplay trailer. Set in the 1920's with the Lovecraft inspired motif, the game has you play as a detective searching around a town that is involved with the old god, Cthulhu. The developers from Frogware proclaimed that "the game is not about fighting monsters." While that may be true, the game still has monster to contend with, so you are expected to defend yourself to some extent. You can check out more about the game and its developer here.
The first AAA game announcement came from Sega, except it was multiple games at once. In a reveal trailer, Sega announced that more of there popular IP's would be coming to PC, released in particular on Steam. The two biggest games to be revealed were Yakuza Kiwami, and Yakuza 0, both critically acclaimed PlayStation 4 games that popularized the Yakuza series. Yakuza 0 is coming out first on August 1 and you can pre-order it now on Steam. The other games to be announced were Valkyria Chronicles 4, Shining Resonance: Refrain, and Shenmue I+II.
Developers Tripwire took the stage to announce a brand new summer event for their over-the-top multiplayer game Killing Floor 2. Dubbed The Summer Slideshow: Treacherous Skies, it adds a new map, Airship, which takes place on….an Airship. A brief trailer was shown where players mowed down clown zombies (also known as Zeds) on an airship along with some new weapons for the event. The map and weapons go live next Tuesday.
However Tripwire wasn't done with the stage just yet; they had some more announcements for us. They revealed that they have created a publishing branch within there company in order to assist indie developers with publishing their games. The first game to be published was revealed to be Road Redemption, an action racing combat game developed by EQ Games and Pixel Dash Studios where players lead a biker gang in races, robberies, and assassinations. The other game announced to be published was Maneater, a game developed by Blindside interactive where you play as a human-eating shark. Yes, you play as a shark! As seen in the trailer, in the infested waters of the Gulf Coast, you control a man-eating shark that levels up with points in this open world Role-Playing Game with skill trees, and did I mention that you play as a shark? What a time to be alive. Road Redemption is available to purchase on Steam today, and Maneater was not given a release date.
To add on to the announcements, Insomniac Games introduced a brand new IP, a VR game called Stormland. In the trailer, we saw a robot being brought back to life where the world around him has been ripped asunder. The robot begins to repair themself by finding new parts to put themselves back together before attempting to repair the world around them. Combat was also showcased where you can wield a gun and a shield against other robots as well as finding other robots and reviving them to tag along with you. Insomniac explained that the world was destroyed by a being known as the Tempest, and once a week, he will rearrange the landscape giving players new locations to explore. Stormland has a tentative release for 2019 on the Oculus Rift. You can see more about Stormland here.
Telltale took to the stage, along with Clementines voice actress Melissa Hutchinson, to premier the gameplay trailer for the The Walking Dead: The Final Season. In it, we're shown some of the dialogue choices, combat, and some new facial animation. The art direction also takes on a more realistic tune, showing how gritty the world has become since we last saw Clementine and AJ. Speaking of those two, they have gotten older, with Clementine looking to secure a home for AJ to grow up in. The first episode will release on August 14, and the other episodes will be released in later months.
Avalanche Studios came up to showcase another trailer for Just Cause 4. In it we were given a real glimpse of their new beautiful gaming engine, the Apex engine, which looks astounding especially the weather effects and draw distance. The developers also promised more destruction than the previous games, so get ready for more explosions and car wire tricks. The last of the AAA developers was IO Interactive, and we were given another gameplay trailer for Hitman 2. We got a preview of the upcoming Miami level where Agent 47 uses some new tricks to his already deadly arsenal. This includes slapping someone in the face with a fish, throwing more objects than ever before at peoples faces, and using a ton of different disguises to make your way to the targets. One of the assassinations was also shown, where a race car winner stood at the top of the podium and was caught in an explosion from faulty pyrotechnics. This is definitely the series we have grown to love. Just Cause 4 releases on December 4 2018, and Hitman 2 releases on November 13, 2018.
Heres a breakdown of some other games that were at the show:
Neo Cab, a narrative game by Chance Agency where you play as a rideshare driver balancing your job and real life. You can see more about the game here.
Mavericks Proving Ground, a battle royale game where the player count can up to one thousand. You can see more about the game here.
Star Control: Origins, a game five years in the making, is an RPG space simulator. Billed as a "Open Universe Game" with cute cartoon animation to boot, it releases on September 20, 2018 on Steam, GOG and the Stardock website.
Hunt: Showdown, a game in early access, is a first person PvP mutiplayer game. A trailer was shown where they introduced new weapons, although no date was given for the update.
Archangel Hellfire, a multiplayer expansion to Archangel, is an action adventure mech game on VR where you play with others in a competitive first person mech combat. You can buy it for early access on Steam, but it will officially release on July 17.
Warframe: The Sacrifice, is the newest expansion in the ever growing online game Warframe. Not much was shown, but it was announced that the story will tie into the new frames, called Umbra, and that Venus will be the next open world zone, and the expansion releases this week. Digital Extreme explained that they would have more reveals at their fan convention, Tennocon 2018. You can see more of Warframe here, and its free to play.
Bravery Network Online, Morning Star, and Overwhelm are three indie games announced all at once by Untitled Publisher, and yes, that is their name. Bravery Network Online is a 2D role playing turn based game with a cute art style, and it releases in 2019. Morning Star is the more mysterious of the three, its described as a "first person game where computers are your soil and software is your seeds." Overwhelm is a side scrolling shooter with mouse controls where the enemies get power ups and the player does not. Overwhelm is available today on Steam.
Jurassic World Evolution, is a simulation game created by Frontier Developments, who are known for the Roller Coaster Tycoon series, and Elite Dangerous. The game plays similar to the Tycoon series where you build dinosaur parks. The pre-order trailer was the only thing shown for this one. You can check out the game here.
Sable, is an open world exploration with one of the best artistic approaches to a game that we've ever seen. It looked absolutely beautiful with bright and vibrant colors to go along with the trek across the desert. You can check the game out on their Steam page here.
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Q: how to get font color of a XSSF CELLSTYLE? I am trying to get  font color of cell of a XLSX file.
I am using the apache poi.
I am able to get the cell color but not the font color.
Any kind of suggestion will be appreciated.
thanks

A: From an XSSFCellStyle you can get the XSSFFont. From that, you can get the XSSFColor. Finally, from the XSSFColor, you can get the colour information as ARGB Hex, RGB with Tint etc.
Your code would look something like:
XSSFCellStyle style = cell.getCellStyle();
XSSFFont font = style.getFont();
XSSFColor colour = font.getXSSFColour();
System.out.println("The colour is " + colour.getARGBHex());


Market Square in Downtown Knoxville was alive with children splashing in the fountain, buskers looking for cash and a group of women looking to make their own great masterpieces at Oodles Uncorked. Wine & Canvas provided the supplies and instruction for the painting of a beach scene masterpiece with the theme "No problem".
For each event, Wine & Canvas sets up easels, and provides canvases, paints, palettes, brushes and aprons. Wine & Canvas also supplies the art teacher who takes the budding artists step by step through the painting so that everyone ends up with a pretty good piece of art.
A very important part is the skill and communications ability of the art teacher. This evening, the art teacher was Tracey Crocker, a co-owner of the Knoxville franchise along with her husband, Rob, and another business partner. Tracey told the class which paint brush to use, how to measure distance on the canvas, and how to mix and brush the paints.
Wine & Canvas uses acrylic paints. This way, the paint is drying on one part of the canvas as the class is working on another part of the canvas. Tracey gave clear directions even on how to do the little fiddly bits of details. Tracey's husband, Rob, took copious photos for sharing on social media and made sure everyone had enough paint and could see and hear well.
Tracey and Rob made sure that everyone in the class had a good time. They are passionate and enthusiastic about Wine & Canvas. They are committed to their small business and they are committed to the Knoxville area. In addition to the public and private parties, they are also doing a fundraiser for Feral Feline Friends of Knoxville and you will be able to paint your pet. Yes, you can paint a portrait of your very own pet. Check out the Wine & Canvas Knoxville calendar.
To make sure that everyone is involved in art, Wine & Canvas also will be hosting Cookies & Canvas for the younger set.
Rather than a boring bachelorette party, neighborhood block party or even a corporate team building event, think of the fun you could have with Wine & Canvas Knoxville.
Movement and music on canvas come to life: Emmett Williams Exhibition.


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Texas History: Counting down the 5 moments that shaped the Mack Brown Era: Ricky returns
Joe Harrington American-Statesman Staff
jharrington@statesman.com
This fall marks the 20th anniversary of the Mack Brown Era starting at Texas. During that time Brown won 158 games, a national championship and a total of 10 bowl games.
But what are the five moments of his 16 years at Texas that shaped his tenure? Over the next few days we'll reveal the five moments that help tell the Mack Brown story on the 40 Acres:
Here's the list so far:
No. 5 Oklahoma hires Bob Stoops
No. 4 Mack picks Colt
No. 3 Ricky Williams returns
Texas RB Ricky Williams eludes the grasp of A&M's linebacker Roylin Bradley as he rambles through the secondary to set up his touchdown run in the third quarter. The Texas offense stumble down the stretch and lost 27-16 on Nov. 28, 1997. (Ralph Barrera/ American-Statesman)
The headline on a Statesman story written by beat writer Suzanne Halliburton on Jan. 8, 1998 read: "Williams likely will head to NFL."
It wasn't a clear indication that Ricky Williams, the superstar junior running back who could have been a first round pick in the 1998 NFL Draft was leaving, but seemed liked the door was shutting. Other star running backs in his situation usually left campus.
The situation? The Longhorns had been terrible during his junior season and a coaching change was made when John Mackovic was ousted as coach. About a week later, Texas hired North Carolina coach Mack Brown. Williams had already etched his name in college football history after winning the Doak Walker Award despite a bad season. He was 12th all-time in NCAA rushing.
Eight years earlier, in Gainesville, Fla., Emmitt Smith was a star at Florida and the SEC Player of the Year, but the Gators hired a new coach named Steve Spurrier. Smith left for the NFL. Almost 20 years later, Texas had a bad year, lost to Kansas and Doak Walker winner D'Onta Foreman decided to leave Texas instead of playing under a new coach, Tom Herman.
Past and present instances indicate that the star running back leaves instead of playing for a new coaching staff. Sometimes it works out for the best. Smith said his decision to leave Florida was best for him and Spurrier, as the star running back's departure meant the flamboyant passing attack of Spurrier didn't have to be grounded to appease a star back.
Sometimes it leaves you wondering. Had Herman had a 2,000 yard rusher returning, Texas' 2017 season is completely different. Quarterback Sam Ehlinger certainly doesn't lead the Longhorns in rushing, freshmen running backs can redshirt and the offense is completely different. He didn't return and Texas' offense was, at times, unwatchable.
PHOTOS: Ricky Williams through the years
This is what makes the period of early December 1997 to mid-January 1998 so important for Brown and why it's one of the biggest moments of his 16 years on the 40 Acres.
Let's remember how much things had changed in one year from 1996 to 1997. The 1996 season was, arguably, the best year of the Mackovic era. Yes, in 1995 Texas went 10-2-1 while 1996 was an 8-5 season, but it was an 8-5 season that included the biggest win of Mackovic's coaching career and the first ever Big 12 South championship and later the first ever Big 12 championship.
Mackovic needed things to completely fall apart in 1997 to lose his job. He had quarterback James Brown returning, Ricky Williams back, a strong crop of recruits emerging, heck he even had one of the best kickers in school history, Phil Dawson, on the roster. Future NFL Pro Bowlers on defense included youngsters Shaun Rogers, Quentin Jammer and Casey Hampton.
Texas football coach John Mackovic(center) standing with his players at Kyle field after his loss to Texas A&M in College Station on Nov. 28, 1997. (Taylor Johnson/ American-Statesman)
It fell apart.
It fell apart in the worst way.
Perhaps John Mackovic's "Charlie Strong-Kansas" moment came when he lost by 63 points at home to unranked UCLA, 66-3, while the Longhorns were No. 10 in the nation. It's one of the worst losses in Texas athletics history. Texas lost three more games by at least two touchdowns. The Longhorns lost to Texas A&M by 11. At one point, they dropped four games in a row, including two at home.
It was clear after the 27-16 loss to No. 15 Texas A&M that Mackovic was gone. The fan base was out the door too. The attendance of the final home game against Kansas was recorded at 68,000. That's more than 6,000 off the season average, which was 74,040 and that's likely just looking at tickets, not actual attendance.
Texas pulled the plug in 1997 on the Mackovic era at a time when the face of the program on the field was changing. James Brown had established himself as a star quarterback in almost four seasons as the starter and made the game-sealing play against Nebraska in the 1996 Big 12 title. He was gone. Williams was spectacular, but it was such a given he was leaving after a disastrous season, that Texas couldn't depend on him to be there for a marketing campaign to sell tickets in 1998.
There's a case to made that Texas' peak and valley track from November 1996 to November 1997 is one of the steepest in college football of the last 25 years.
Mack Brown was left to pick up the pieces. He not only needed to win on the field, but he needed to win over the fans who probably expected a bigger name to be hired as coach.
Texas' head coach Mack Brown, left, meets Colorado head coach Gary Barnett after the Horns stuffed the Buffaloes in the second half to secure another road win 31-7 on Oct. 20, 2004 (Ralph Barrera/ American-Statesman)
Northwestern coach Gary Barnett was the favored pick of Statesman columnist Kirk Bohls.
He wrote: "Here's an even shorter list: Gary Barnett and everybody else. Texas will interview multiple candidates, Dodds insists, but at this point it appears that Barnett might be Candidate 1 and all the others are 1A."
There were other names we've written in retrospect. If you go by Bohls' short list in the same column, Brown's name comes fourth on a list of eight coaches he wrote about. Dodds and the search committee said they started with 30 names.
In the eyes of many fans, Brown was not the first choice, but he was, seemingly, DeLoss Dodds and the 11-member search committee's first choice.
What was Brown stepping into? Well, how about this passage from Bohls' column on the day Texas hired Brown:
When asked Monday if he had been approached about coming back as head coach, Royal said with a smile, "No, dammit."
He was kidding but added good-naturedly, "It would have been nice to be asked."
The Royal is Darrell Royal. Were people actually floating that idea? One can image there were some high-level members of the fan base wondering that while also wondering why Texas didn't interview Barnett.
Dodds explained: "I told the committee every person has a flat side (weakness). The way you get around that, you hire people to compensate for it. We had to find somebody who didn't have a flat side. And that's Mack Brown."
In his first introductory press conference, Brown was already starting to win. Bohls wrote:
Halfway through his introductory press conference at the Erwin Center on Friday afternoon, this much was obvious: If Mack Brown coaches half as well as he talks, Texas football fans can count on a national championship by the turn of the century.
That same press conference he was winning over the players. Linebacker Brandon Nava told the Statesman: "Man, I am ready to start playing. Mack Brown, for him to get in and get the players excited, speaks a lot for his character and what kind of person he is."
Brown started working on getting the fans excited. Saying in the press conference: "One of the first things we'll do is try to get everyone pulling in the same direction. We need to sell tickets, and you need to be early and be loud. We ought to make Darrell K Royal-Memorial Stadium the toughest place to play in the world."
It was the player who wasn't there that spoke volumes:
Ricky Williams, UT's top player and the nation's leading rusher, was not in attendance Friday afternoon. He already had plans to be out of town Friday before he learned of the press conference. But Williams met briefly with Brown on Friday morning, and the two will talk again over the next several days to discuss whether Williams will give up his final season at UT to enter the NFL draft.
"You know, (Williams) is good," Brown deadpanned at his Friday press conference. "It's a big priority for me to sit down with him and talk to him. I may not be very smart, but Ricky looks pretty good on film to me. I know if he's here next season, I'll be a better coach.
"If he comes back, he'll be one of the best players in the country and one of the top candidates for the Heisman (Trophy). I want to make sure he understands all his options. When I talk to Ricky, I don't want to tell him what to do, but let him know what I feel about both his options."
For more than a month, Williams left the ban base and the coaching staff wondering. On Dec. 17, 1997, Brown told the Statesman: "He will let us all know when it's time."
Williams added: "I still don't know what I'm going to do. "I'm looking at taking the decision until early January. All I know is I don't want to come back and play for a 4-7 team. … I don't think winning the Heisman will be one of my top priorities."
Texas running back Ricky Williams runs into the endzone in the second half for a touchdown against Texas A&M in the final meeting between Southwest Conference rivals. (American-Statesman archives)
Then came early January, when Williams told Halliburton: "I am leaning toward going professional. It's always been a dream of mine to play pro football, and I don't want to risk injury."
The day before, Bohls had written a column about Brown being a hit with high school recruits, pointing out that a number of recruits were taking pause and listening to the new coach. It was obvious Brown was showcasing his top skill: recruiting.
Here's an interesting note from that column:
*Running back Ricky Williams changes his mind with the hour about turning pro or staying for his senior season. Insiders suggest he is looking for reasons to stay and could be swayed to return if he thinks UT has a legitimate chance to win next fall.
It does, Ricky. With the offensive line almost intact, UT could sweep all six home games against New Mexico State, Rice, Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Baylor and, yes, Texas A&M and beat Oklahoma and Texas Tech on the road to go 8-3 and play in a bowl game. Plus, you could win the Heisman and decline an invitation to New York City after this year's snub.
Washington State quarterback Ryan Leaf advised Williams to take the money and run to the NFL. Best bet is Williams is leaning 60-40 in favor of the NFL.
Advice from Ryan Leaf. Huh. (Kirk got almost everything he wrote in the second paragraph correct expect for beating Texas Tech and Williams declining an invite for the Heisman ceremony)
A few days later, and on the same day — Jan. 8– the Statesman printed that Williams was likely heading to the NFL, the 40 Acres learned it was all a ruse.
Williams had decided to stay at Texas weeks earlier.
"Everyone loves a surprise," Williams said as he ducked out the back way of UT's Bellmont Hall after his press conference Thursday afternoon. "I wanted people to think I was leaving, so people would be surprised that I was staying."
Later the story included:
A beaming Mack Brown immediately stood up and hugged Williams, although the new head coach had heard the news with the rest of his staff in a private meeting 15 minutes before.
"We have just had a successful recruiting class," Brown said to relieved laughter. "This is our first signee. He's the best football player in the country returning next year."
This moment came before the first game. The first practice. The first national signing day. It's the first watershed moment of Mack Brown's career at Texas and, like when Oklahoma hired Bob Stoops, it had nothing to do with Mack Brown but it may have had everything to do with Mack Brown.
A book could be written about Williams' 1998 season.
He broke and set the NCAA all-time career rushing record. He did so against a highly-ranked Texas A&M team and gave the rivalry one of its greatest moments:
He won the Heisman Trophy, joining Earl Campbell as the only Longhorns to do so. There was a parade. Graduate assistant coach Tom Herman was there.
More importantly, it brought the fan base back, set recruiting by Mack Brown down a path that yielded some of the best classes in program history and showed Texas could indeed be a powerhouse in the next millennium.
Texas finished the 1998 season 9-3. The Longhorns won a bowl game. Average attendance was 77,440, up nearly three thousand from 1997. Excitement was back and Williams was almost solely responsible. He made millions of dollars for Texas. Everything was moving in the right direction in Austin for the first time since the early 1980s.
If Williams picks the NFL instead of returning to school, there's a good chance the 1998 season is a disaster.
He had 2,124 yards and 27 rushing touchdowns in 1998. He had 262 more receiving yards and another touchdown. No offense to Hodges Mitchell, but he's not doing that as the starting running back. Major Applewhite never breaks Texas freshman passing records without a 2,000 yard running back making defenses cautious of Williams. Texas certainly doesn't beat Texas A&M to end the season.
Without Ricky, does the Mack Brown tenure take off? Does star recruit Cory Redding pick Texas to make the 1999 class one of the best in program history? We'll never know because before Mr. February ever signed a single recruit at Texas, he was Mr. December and landed Ricky Williams.
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Several thousand Euros a square metre, property in Paris is expensive. Once a city for everyone, Paris is now just open to a few. Traditional working class sectors like the 18th 19th and 20th Arrondissements are now rebranded and sold as "up and coming". The gentrification of Paris has been going on for years. So where do the homeless and immigrants live ? A few photos.
Made from rubbish and salvage, a "home" for the homeless near Austerlitz station.
Tent city – homeless and immigrants pitch their tents at a new arts and media center on the banks of the Seine near Austerlitz station – the art centre was launched in great pomp a few years back as the first phase in the redevoloppment of the Paris docks – truth to ell, Paris has never had dacks like London or Amsterdam or Antwerp – this was a "call-in" quay for river barges. Camp cleared away late 2017, just before the Olympic Committee visited Paris.
Tents spring up all over Paris. Immigrants, homeless people, the working poor. Pitch your tent on hallowed ground and more specifically on church proerty and the police cannot move you on. This is taken in the St Paul area just a short walk from the Paris City Hall.
How romantic, living on an old canal barge, moored on the banks of the Seine in the heart of Paris – very nice if you have plenty of cash. Mooring costs are phenomenal and don't forget to get plumbed in with water supply and sewage outlets. A lot of these barges have suffered in the recent floods.
Old Salvation Army barge, moored near the Pont d'Austerlitz, in between Austerlitz station and the Gare de Lyons. The barge is now closed and there were plans afoot to develop it into gallery space, but it sank in the recent floods. Just 100 metres away, another former Salvation Army barge that has been developped into a luxury hotel.
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Slightly Demystifying Zoning Not Really
November 15, 2017 January 28, 2018 ~ raludwick
Zoning is one of the big topics in Seattle right now. We've been bogged down in a multi-year – I am not joking – process by which we figure out ways we can change zoning and other rules and programs related to housing so that we can make Seattle more affordable and livable. At one point, it looked like we might change the zoning on large swaths of Seattle to re-legalize pretty non-dense, by world city standards, increased housing density in much of the city. That upset a lot of people. So they went back and did some stuff and recently released some recommendations to expand where we (in theory) incentivize more affordable housing with a package of recommended zoning changes to go city-wide with. It includes a very handy map on the proposed increased zoning density and easily lets you compare existing zoning to the original proposals and the new ones.
Here in Seattle, we have a lot of fancy dandy maps. You can see current zoning in an interactive map here or in static PDFs. One thing you'll immediately note is just how much of Seattle is "Single Family". This is theoretically one house per lot with a limit on how many unrelated adults can live in the same dwelling. In theory "mother-in-law" units ("accessory dwelling units" or "detached accessory dwelling units") are allowed, but the restrictions make them very hard to build. Vast portions of the city are zoned for single family but have non-conforming (but grandfathered) features (duplexes, multiple accessory dwelling units). But if you tear them down, you can't rebuild them the same way.
Anyway, it got me thinking about how one even figures out how things have changed. The house my family lives in is near the future Judkins Park light rail station (opening 2023!) on a lot zoned LR2 or "Lowrise 2" which allows multi-family housing. A number of lots in my neighborhood have had older (and very small) single family homes torn down and turned into row houses or very skinny detached houses. On our little block four lots on either side of the street (out of I think sixteen five years ago) have been turned into these kinds of houses: 15 (if I've counted right) new units in place of 4. In a single family zoned area, your only option if you tear down a small old house is to build another house, usually a very large and expensive one and still only housing a single family.
It's great our neighborhood is getting more density. It's already within walking distance of lots of great transit (though less so on shops and such). In 2023, it will be a five minute walk to a light rail station (it's about a 15 minute walk now to Mt Baker or Beacon Hill stations). But it had me wondering: how long has my neighborhood been higher density? How has it changed?
First, here's a picture of the current zoning in my neighborhood:
North is up. The future Judkins Park light rail station will be about where the blue I-90 shield is. My family's house is in that brownish area just to the south and east of that station. The brown is a mixture of LR2 and LR1 zoning. LR2 closer to Rainier (why not LR3?) We're in LR2. The dark yellow or orange is commercial, specifically C1-40 and C1-65. The latter number indicates the height limit (I think). Despite its name, commercial zones do allow residential buildings. The light yellow is single family, usually SF5000 meaning that (conforming) lots are at least 5000 square feet. If you zoom out a bit, you can see that the strip between Beacon Ave (where Beacon Hill light rail station is) and Rainier Ave (where Mt Baker station is) is overwhelmingly single family, even though pretty much every residence is within a 15 minute walk to one or two stations.
In this map, that I-90 shield is at the top. Beacon Hill light rail station is in the lower left quadrant (right about where the text "Beacon Hill Library" is). The Mt Baker light rail station is at the intersection of Rainier Ave and MLK in the lower right ("L King Jr Way S" is all you can see here). In all that light yellow it is really hard to put more than one family per lot (unless it's already built that way).
Anyway, the new proposed changes, at least in Alternative 3, don't to my mind substantially change much. The zones that already allow multi-family are upzoned a bit and most single family lots stay the same, sadly. But then I go back to that history question. I knew our lot wasn't always "Lowrise 2". It was single family at one point. When did that happen?
Unfortunately, there aren't handy maps that let me just say "show me zoning in 1990". There is a map of 1973. You can view the "index" map and then zoom in on your area. We're in 52W:
So, in 1973, our lot was what would be today SF5000, just like my neighbors a couple blocks to the south. When did we upzone? This is where the tricks come in. Mike Eliason on twitter helpfully pointed me at the historical zoning page. Then he pointed out the neighorhood plans page which linked to specific ordinances. I started searching ordinances. Straight keyword searches were no good, but then I noticed the "Index Terms from City Clerk's Thesaurus" box. Oh! Now we're getting somewhere! The ordinance that increased zone density around the (then future) Beacon Hill light rail station was passed in 1999. The "index terms" for this ordinance are "NORTH-BEACON-HILL, BEACON-HILL, REZONES, NEIGHBORHOOD-PLANS".
Thus through some trial and error – my part of the neighborhood has various neighborhood names and apparently its indexed under "MOUNT-BAKER" – I was able to find Ordinance 115606, "AN ORDINANCE rezoning portions of the I-90 Area" passed in 1991. There's a PDF scan of the text. In it, there are maps! My part is LR2 in these maps. But it's not totally clear – is this all existing zoning and it's only the variously marked through or stamped over zoning names that indicate changes in zoning? Did it actually change in 1991? It doesn't seem like it changed at this time.
But there's some interesting text:
WHEREAS, Ordinance 113858, adopted March 8, 1988, requested the Executive to implement a multi-family work program to develop and analyze permanent amendments to the multifamily code and requested that Executive recommendations include zoning text amendments and legislative mapping changes for the 1-90 area and other areas of the city;
If I poke around at other ordinances indexed with "REZONES" around this time frame, there are a bunch. A bunch of them invoke it being an emergency, mentioning this same ordinance, like this one:
AN ORDINANCE rezoning portions of the Queen Anne Hill neighborhood and declaring an emergency.
WHEREAS, Ordinance 113858, adopted March 8, 1988, enacted interim controls on development in lowrise multi-family residential zones for a period of one year and called for the Executive to implement a multi-family work program to develop and analyze permanent amendments to the multifamily code;
I'm not sure what's up with the emergency bit. Zoning changes do not seem like an emergency but maybe that was necessary to invoke certain rules? If you poke around in the actual ordinances in 1990/1991, they are mostly little piecemeal downzones. It's hard to actually screenshot, but have a look at a couple maps: 115512 (Queen Anne), 115197 (North Seattle).
Anyway, let's go look at ordinance 113858:
AN ORDINANCE adopting City-wide emergency interim controls in the Low Rise 3 (L-3) Low-Rise 2 (L-2) and Low-rise 1 (L-1) multi-family residential zones in the City of Seattle and declaring that emergency conditions exist in those zones throughout the City and by adding a new Section 23.45.0065.
Oh. Interesting. Emergency conditions exist in multi-family residential areas?! I am just going to go copy and paste a whole bunch of this text so you don't have to go to the PDF because it is amazing (some light editing because the copy/paste is unsurprisingly imperfect):
Section 1. Declaration of Emergency. The City Council of the City of Seattle finds that, since the adoption of the multi-family residential provisions of the Land Use Code in August 1982, new multifamily residential development, evidenced by the number of permits issued and the amount of preissuance activity and inquiries to the City's Department of Construction and Land Use, has occurred and will continue to occur throughout the City. This development has resulted in unanticipated impacts and conflicts with the City's planning goals and its overall health, safety and welfare. These impacts and conflict have been manifested in several ways, including the following:
i. New multi-family development throughout the City's neighborhoods has resulted in achievement of greater densities than were anticipated in the Final Environmental Impact Statement prepared pursuant to the State 'Environmental Policy Act (11SEPA11) to support the adoption of the multi-family code;
ii. Some neighborhoods of the City are experiencing densities under the multi-family low-rise residential designations which are significantly greater than those permitted under the previous zoning and greater than the capacity which the neighborhoods and available streets and public services can absorb;
iii. In many instances, new multi-family low-rise housing has been constructed which is out of scale with the character of the affected neighborhood;
iv. Higher activity levels within multi-family areas have resulted in additional traffic congestion upon streets with, insufficient capacity, parking shortages in multi-family zones and p king spillover into adjacent zones and neighborhoods, resulting in hazards of poor emergency access and sight distances and increased difficulties for the enforcement of parking codes;
v. The unanticipated greater densities and development potential allowed by the multi-family residential code have in many cases created excessive incentives for rapid demolition and redevelopment leading to the undermining of neighborhood stability. in some cases affordable single-family and multifamily housing has been displaced;
vi. A large number of SEPA appeals of new multi-family developments have been filed by community groups seeking use of the State Environmental Policy Act to control density, bulk and scale, parking and other land use impacts created by development allowed under the existing regulations. These numerous SEPA appeals have served to reduce the certainty of the development allowed under the existing regulations and have evidenced widespread dissatisfaction with the existing regulations.
vii. The City Council has been advised that mapping errors may have occurred in the multi-family rezone process.
THEREFORE, the Council finds that the low-rise residential multifamily code provisions must be reevaluated.
Okay, so back in 1982 they upzoned and now in 1988 folks are very upset that there was actual housing being built in those properties. So they (a) massively limit new construction in those areas of the city, and (b) authorize studying the issue and targeting parts of the city which results in 1990/1991 a bunch of piecemeal downzones. Ironically, of course, this 1988 limit on construction was justified on environmental grounds:
… finds that an exemption under SEPA for this action is necessary to prevent an imminent threat to public health and safety and to prevent an imminent threat of serious environmental degradation through continued development under the existing regulations.
Anyway, I still don't know when our lot was upzoned to LR2. So let's go find that 1982 law. I ended up going to a summary list of all 1982 law. The likely candidate here is ordinance 110570. Turns out it isn't index under "REZONES". Anyway, the title:
AN ORDINANCE relating to zoning and land use; adding a new Subtitle III to Title 23 of Seattle Municipal Code (Land Use Code) and repealing Section 24.98 to establish platting requirements; adopting an Official Land Use Map for all residential zones; adding a new Chapter 23.45 and new Sections 23.34.36, 23.34.38, 23.34.40, 23.34.42, 23.34.44, 23.34.10, 23.86.12, 23.86.14, 23.86.16, 23.86.18, 23.86.20, 23.86.22 to provide for multi-family zones in Title 23; and amending Sections 23.16.02, 23.30.10, 23.54.10, 23.54.20, 23.54.30, 23.76.06, 23.76.30, 23.84.04, 23.84.06, 23.84.18, 23.84.20, 23.84.30, 23.84.32, 23.84.36, 23.84.38, and 23.86.06 of Title 23 to conform to requirements of the multi-family provisions in Title 23.
It's a 361 page PDF. Oh my god. It immediately points me at several other ordinances: 110669, 110793 and 110939. The last one has long tables of "Plat" designations (sections of the city) and their existing zoning and new zoning but these are corrections. Aghhh!
Okay, let's go back to the historical zoning page. It points to the full record of the 1980 municipal code which doescontain maps. In 1980, all the zoning was in title 24. In 1982 it was all re-codified and organized into title 23 and that's when "Lowrise" appears in ordinance 110381. First, let's look at 1980. In title 24 of the 1980 code, if I scroll down to the maps and find my "Plat", it's clearly still single family, marked "RD 5000". That becomes "SF 5000". But back to the various 1982 bills. This is where I get stymied. There's an Exhibit A which appears to be the new zoning map in 1982 and I can't find it.
But I'm not sure I need it. It's clear that by 1991, the zoning was LR2. But the story I'm constructing here is:
There was a massive rationalization of zoning in 1982 that simplified the kinds of zones and also increased density in parts of the city.
In 1988, people were upset that some changes happened and densities were restricted temporarily.
In 1990 and 1991, a bunch lots were downzoned permanently. I'm guessing a lot of the downzones came from community pressure.
That sounds really familiar. As does this summary of community feedback included in one 1991 ordinance:
The Maple Leaf Community Council, and several citizens, have requested Lowrise I for the trailer park site. They are concerned about parking and traffic impacts on the narrow, congested streets in the area, worsening the existing drainage problem, and the lack of transition between more intensive development of the trailer park site and the adjacent low scale residential area.
The property owner wanted their property to remain Midrise. The council downzoned all the way to Lowrise 2. This is what the zoning looks like today:
The lot downzoned in 1991 is still LR2 today (to the east of the center C1-65 area in this image). It still will be under Alternative 3 of the "city-wide" MHA upzones.
But at least I sort of answered my question and learn a bunch about some past attempts to re-zone the city.
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Q: How to correctly tune Apache and mod_wsgi I'm using Django with mod_wsgi and need to tune the httpd.conf to handle 500 requests per second at peak.
Right now I have the following configuration:
StartServers 3
ServerLimit 15

MinSpareThreads 75
MaxSpareThreads 250

MaxRequestWorkers 250
ThreadsPerChild 25

MaxMemFree 2048
MaxConnectionsPerChild 10000

WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
WSGIDaemonProcess django_process processes=23 threads=2

But I have no clue how it works and whether it is optimal configuration for my needs.
Also, I don't know what each parameter means and how apache directives (StartServers etc.) work with mod_wsgi processes and threads.
Can anybody guide me how to tune this parameters or at least explain what do they mean, why do we need processes and threads and not just processes or threads?
Thanks is advance.
P.S. It is apache2/bin/httpd.worker
Right now it handles around 200-300 requests per second, but the system is unstable. I got 502 errors. The server just stops.