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Editor's note: This post has been updated with new potential candidates.
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, one of the many choices facing him and his transition team involves the new Secretary of Agriculture.
Much in the way of food policy and safety is currently under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Since Trump said very little during his campaign about food policy, his USDA pick becomes all the more important. This person could have influence over the agency's priorities, funding, staffing levels and policies for years to come.
Many names have been floated as potential Trump picks for this vital role. But who are they and what might they do? Here are all of the people we've heard of, in alphabetical order, and a little bit about the background and viewpoints they might bring to the job. We will continue to update this record with new names or information that surfaces between now and when the new secretary takes office.
Sam Brownback
Current position: Governor of Kansas
Background: Brownback grew up on a pig farm that his parents still run. He earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics, then went on to be a lawyer. He taught agricultural law at Kansas State University, and co-wrote two books about the topic.
He has served in both houses of Congress and was elected as the state's governor in 2010. Brownback was a member of the House of Representatives from 1994 to 1996, then served in the Senate until 2010. In the Senate, he was the top-ranking Republican on the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee.
Brownback, who also was once secretary of the Kansas Board of Agriculture, is a member of Trump's agricultural advisory committee.
Susan Combs
Current position: Entrepreneur; former Texas agriculture commissioner, former Texas comptroller
Background: Combs, who was elected as the Lone Star State's first female agriculture head in 1998, pushed several nutrition initiatives that have been compared to Michelle Obama's. She instituted policies removing fried foods, soda and sugary items from the state's public schools.
She became the state's comptroller in 2006, working to streamline tax processes and cut government purchasing. However, while she held office, the department inadvertently released personal information of 3.5 million Texans, believed to be the biggest breach of data in state history.
She manages a cattle ranching operation that has been in her family since 1882, and has written books -- her own memoir and a 1990 romance novel.
Chuck Conner
Current position: President and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Background: Conner has been involved with agriculture all of his life, growing up on a family farm in Indiana. His bachelor's degree is in agricultural economics.
He has worked in various positions advising and setting federal agricultural policy. He was President George W. Bush's agriculture adviser, and Bush named him deputy USDA secretary in 2005. Conner spent some time as the acting head of the agency after then-Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns resigned to pursue a U.S. Senate bid in Nebraska.
Before USDA, Conner had several positions in the U.S. Senate, mostly with the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
Dave Heineman
Current position: Former governor of Nebraska
Background: Heineman holds the record for being Nebraska's longest-serving chief executive. He was elected lieutenant governor in 2002 and became governor in 2005 when then-Gov. Johanns became President George W. Bush's USDA secretary. Heineman was elected to two full terms and left office in 2015.
As governor and in several other statewide posts, he worked to secure agricultural trade agreements for Nebraska products. He secured a $400 million trade agreement with Taiwan and two $30 million agreements with Cuba, and opened a trade office in Japan.
He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and is a graduate of the Army's Airborne and Ranger Schools.
Heidi Heitkamp
Current position: Democratic U.S. senator from North Dakota
Background: The first-term senator, who is a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has spent her time in Congress as an advocate for farmers. She had a key role in the 2014 Farm Bill, which expanded crop insurance, did away with direct subsidy payments to farmers, and reduced SNAP funding. On genetically modified ingredients, she broke with other Democrats and voted for voluntary labeling.
Prior to her election to the U.S. Senate, she served as North Dakota's attorney general from 1993 to 2001. She was one of the state attorneys general who urged Congress to demand more information about livestock prices from meat packers, contributing to the passage of the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act.
She also worked as the director of the Dakota Gasification synfuels plant.
Charles Herbster
Current position: Owner of several agribusiness companies; Trump's top campaign agricultural adviser
Background: A longtime friend of Trump's, Herbster is a successful businessman who once made a foray into politics. He ran for Nebraska governor in 2013, but abruptly dropped out and donated $860,000 to one of his former rivals.
Herbster has been a large donor to both Republican candidates and the super PAC Ag America. He is on the PAC's steering committee.
Tim Huelskamp
Current position: U.S. Representative from Kansas
Background: Huelskamp has a Ph.D in agricultural policy, and his family has farmed for many generations.
He was first elected to represent his large rural district in Congress in 2011, and briefly served on the House Agriculture Committee. He was removed from the committee in 2012, and lost the Republican primary to challenger Roger Marshall — who will succeed him in the 115th Congress — in August.
He chairs the House Tea Party Caucus and is a member of the House Freedom Caucus.
Mike McCloskey
Current position: Founder and CEO, Select Milk Producers; chairman of the board, Fair Oaks Farms
Background: One of the co-chairs of Trump's campaign advisory council on agriculture, McCloskey is best known for his work and innovation in the dairy industry. Select Milk Producers is the nation's sixth-largest milk cooperative.
McCloskey is based at Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana, with about 15,000 dairy cows. The dairy is well-known for its sustainability practices, powering its dairy and trucks with compress natural gas made from cow manure. The farm is also open to the public as an educational park to showcase the agricultural industry.
Ted McKinney
Current position: Director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture
Background: McKinney was appointed to head Indiana's agriculture department by Gov. Mike Pence (now the vice president-elect) in 2014. Prior to taking office, he was director of global corporate affairs for Elanco Animal Health, a subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Co. He grew up on a family grain and livestock farm, and worked in corporate affairs of a few different agribusiness companies.
McKinney has been a vocal supporter of the Trump-Pence ticket, and told DTN/The Progressive Farmer that if Trump were elected, "American agriculture will be at the fore. It will not be forgotten."
Working with the Pence administration, McKinney helped to bring the Future Farmers of America conference to Indiana. He has a degree in agricultural economics from Purdue University.
Sid Miller
Current position: Texas agriculture commissioner
Background: Since his election as head of Texas' agriculture department in 2014, Miller, an enthusiastic Trump supporter, has had an interesting tenure. The former state legislator and agriculture vocational education teacher has rolled back guidelines prohibiting deep fryers, sugary sodas and junk food snacks in schools. He's also been under scrutiny for accusations of using public funds to travel out of state to compete in a rodeo and get a so-called pain-curing "Jesus shot."
Miller has socially conservative viewpoints on issues like abortion and immigration, and was in the spotlight for calling Hillary Clinton an obscenity in a tweet before the election.
He owns a plant nursery and tree farm, and is a champion calf-roper.
Jerry Moran
Current position: U.S. senator from Kansas
Action: Moran denied reports that he had been offered the position, saying he plans to remain in the Senate.
Background: Moran, the current chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee's agriculture subcommittee, was just elected to his second term in November. Previously, he served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. He has a conservative voting and legislative record.
According to his campaign website, he opposes overreaching regulations on agriculture. He fought the listing of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species, and opposed the USDA's promotion of "meatless Mondays."
Moran is a lawyer who started his political service in the Kansas State legislature.
Elsa Murano
Current position: Director of the Borlaug Institute and food science professor, Texas A&M; University
Background: Murano, who was born in Cuba, has a long history working in food science and safety -- as well as working with policy and the private sector. She has a doctorate in food science from Virginia Tech, and served as the USDA undersecretary for food safety under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2004. Under her leadership, recalls decreased about 50%, going from 113 in 2002 to fewer than 50 in 2004.
She also has had a vibrant and busy career in academia. She became president of Texas A&M; in 2008, and was the first female, the first Hispanic, and the first person younger than 50 to have the position. She resigned in 2009 amid controversy over her performance, but returned to the university as a professor. She has been director of The Borlaug Institute, which is dedicated to helping farmers around the world out of poverty through agriculture and food science, since 2014. She had many other positions at Texas A&M;, and was also a nutrition and food safety professor at Iowa State University.
In 2006, she was named to the board of directors of Hormel Foods.
Current position: Governor of Idaho
Background: Otter, who has been governor of the Gem State since 2006, has many years of experience in both state and federal government. He served as the state's lieutenant governor from 1987 to 2001, and served three terms in Congress after that. He started his political career with three terms as a member of the Idaho House of Representatives in the 1970s.
In the private sector, Otter spent 30 years working with agribusiness firm the J.R. Simplot Company, founded by Otter's former father-in-law. He started as a low-level employee, and eventually the company's president.
He has a bachelor's degree in political science from the College of Idaho, and he served in the Idaho Army National Guard's armored cavalry.
Sonny Perdue
Current position: Former governor of Georgia
Background: Perdue was a popular governor, serving from 2003 to 2011. When elected, he was the state's first Republican chief executive in more than 130 years. His tenure is known for its budget-cutting and organizational reforms, as well as improvements in education.
A former state senator, Perdue is a veterinarian and was a captain in the U.S. Air Force. He owns several agriculture-related businesses.
Current position: Former governor of Texas
Action: Perry has reportedly been offered the position of Energy secretary.
Background: The longest-serving governor in Texas history, with more than 14 years as the state's chief executive, Perry was an early opponent to Trump in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Perry succeeded George W. Bush as governor in 2000, and left office in 2015.
Perry is known for his fiscally and socially conservative policies. But before he was governor, he was elected Texas agriculture commissioner for two terms. He also unsuccessfully ran for president in 2012 and again in the 2016 cycle (actually dropping out in 2015) and served in the state legislature.
He has a degree in animal science and served in the U.S. Air Force for five years. Before entering politics, he worked in the cotton farming business with his father.
Bruce Rastetter
Current position: CEO and founder, Summit Agricultural Group
Background: A successful Iowa crop and livestock farmer, Rastetter formed Heartland Pork and helped grow it into one of the nation's largest pork producers. He established the Midwestern Summit Ag Fund, which is a farm leasing and acquisition fund. He also is well known in the sustainability field, co-founding the nation's top ethanol producer, Hawkeye Energy Holdings, and founding other related agribusinesses.
Rastetter is a prolific political donor. In 2015, he hosted the first-ever Iowa Agriculture Summit, where he interviewed top contenders for the Republican nomination on farm policy.
He has a degree from the University of Iowa and is president of the Iowa Board of Regents. He also serves on the board of directors for Iowa Premium Beef and Cultivation Corridor.
Kip Tom
Current position: CEO of Tom Farms LLC
Background: Tom, who grew up on his family's farm in northwest Indiana, still uses the land as part of his much larger commodity farming empire. He is especially known for his seed production business.
He ran to represent Indiana in Congress this year, but was defeated in the Republican primary. Before his run, he was a member of the board of directors of the Indiana Economic Development Corp., where he served under former governor and vice president-elect Mike Pence.
He seems to support looser federal restrictions on farming, telling the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, "I believe it's time to contribute and make sure that we don't get in the way of innovation and creativity in our country."
Don Villwock
Current position: Former president, Indiana Farm Bureau
Background: Villwock led state's farm bureau from 2002 to 2015, when he stepped down and said he was going to return to his corn, soybean and wheat farm. The longtime friend of Pence soon changed course, announcing his candidacy to lead the American Farm Bureau. He lost the 2016 election to lead the group.
He has a degree in agricultural economics from Purdue University. Villwock was state executive director of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service from 1989 to 1993. He was a liaison for former U.S. senator Richard Lugar, and was appointed to the national Commission on 21st Century Production Agriculture in 1997.
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By on 6 Sep 2017
Photo courtesy of si.com | Cowboys star running back Ezekiel Elliott has been given a six-game suspension for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy. The suspension will take into effect starting Week 2 of the season.
The NFL handed down its decision Tuesday night. As reported by ESPN, NFL appointed arbitrator Harold Henderson has upheld the suspension of the Cowboys feature running back, Ezekiel Elliott. He will sit out six games of the season.
Elliott was suspended for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy after he faced allegations of domestic violence. Elliott's ex-girlfriend, Tiffany Thompson, told Columbus police that the former Ohio State star physically assaulted her while the-then couple was sitting in a parked car in July of 2016.
No criminal charges were brought against him after the Columbus City Attorney's office said there was "conflicting and inconsistent" information about the incidents between Thompson's and witness' testimonies.
The NFL felt the opposite, and the NFL Special Counsel for Conduct Todd Jones wrote in a letter that "there is substantial and persuasive evidence supporting a finding that Elliott engaged in physical violence against Ms. Thompson on multiple occasions during the week of July 16, 2016."
"I am both surprised and disappointed by the NFL's decision today," Elliott tweeted out on Aug. 1, "…I admit I am far from perfect, but I plan to continue to work very hard, on and off the field, to mature and earn the great opportunity that I have been given."
Elliott's legal team said in a statement after the announcement, "we are extremely disappointed with Mr. Henderson's inability to navigate through league politics, and follow the evidence and, most importantly, his conscience."
The legal team is also under the impression that the league was out to get Elliott. They believe that Elliott was "(a) victim of a conspiracy orchestrated by the National Football League and its officers to keep exonerating evidence from the decision-makers, including the advisors and Roger Goodell."
Despite the NFL's decision, Elliott will be eligible to play Sunday in the Cowboys season opener against the New York Giants. His suspension will take effect beginning Week 2 and will remain in effect pending official legal proceedings.
Two previous cases judged by Henderson resulted in the reduction of the suspensions of Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. The Elliott decision marks the longest suspension regarding a violation of the league's personal conduct policy.
Elliott surpassed all expectations last year, becoming the 2016 rushing champion as well as Offensive Rookie of the Year runner-up to his teammate, quarterback Dak Prescott.
The Cowboys, without Elliott, will most likely be forced to use a committee of running backs including veterans Darren McFadden and Alfred Morris. The Week 2 game against the Denver Broncos will be the first indicator of how the team will handle Elliott's absence.
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Community is one of the central themes of The Country of the Pointed Firs. The entire novel focuses on the narrator's description of the tiny community of Dunnet Landing. As the central character, Mrs. Todd functions as a touchstone by which the narrator is able to perceive the lines that interconnect the individual members of the community. The narrator meets or hears of many members of the community through Mrs. Todd, and learns of their relationships to one another. Although most of the people she meets—all of them over the age of sixty and either widowed or widowers—seem to lead generally solitary lives, the strong community ties that hold Dunnet Landing together are clearly indicated.
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The BOI signed an agreement with Bellevue Residencies (Private) Limited which is a mixed development project for a 35-storey Tower and shopping complex.
The unique aspect of this project is that it will be constructed in Ja-Ela and it is the first time that such a high-rise tower is built outside the city of Colombo. In fact the Bellevue Tower will be the tallest building outside the Colombo District. The investor Mr. Chandima Karandawala, who is a Civil Engineer residing in Nice, France, has been involved in construction for more than 15 years in France.
The Bellevue Residencies (Private) Limited project will create 228 new employment opportunities and represents an investment of US$15.4 million.
Among the projects that Mr. Karandawala has built in the past is the house in the French Riviera of the singer Julian Lennon, the son of Beatles Star John Lennon. His project in Sri Lanka, the Bellevue Tower will have apartments in both tower buildings and one of its main attractions will be its close proximity to Colombo International Airport. Bellevue Tower is a joint venture with MAGA, a leading contractor in Sri Lanka.
Mr. Chandima Karandawala is confident of Sri Lanka's potential and he is looking at future projects in the hotel sector. He added that as Civil Engineer with vast experience working in France, his tower project in Ja-Ela will utilize some of the cutting edge construction technologies currently available.


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The Taliban has provided the U.S. government with a new video of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, Reuters is reporting,...
By Brian Adam Jones | Published Jan 15, 2014 7:34 PM
The Taliban has provided the U.S. government with a new video of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, Reuters is reporting, along with multiple other news outlets.
It's been nearly five years since, Bergdahl, then a private first class, disappeared from his forward operating base in eastern Afghanistan and somehow fell into the hands of the Taliban.
He is the only U.S. service member from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan held captive by enemy forces.
The release of Bergdahl has been a key point of negotiations between the coalition and the Taliban. The recent video, could serve as "proof-of-life," and would be an important step in his release.
This is the first video depicting him alive in more than three years, according to NBC News.
NBC News also obtained a statement from his parents, released through the National Guard in Idaho.
"Naturally, this is very important to us and our resolve to continue our efforts to bring Bowe home as soon as possible," they write. "As we have done so many times over the past 4 and a half years, we request his captors to release him safely so that our only son can be reunited with his mother and father."
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
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Stranded Rohingya rescued by Indonesian fishermen: officials
Five Rohingya stranded at sea for almost three weeks have been rescued by Indonesian fishermen but another five of them died during the harrowing ordeal, officials said Friday.
News of the rescue comes several days after the arrival in Malaysia of another boat carrying dozens of members of the persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar.
The group of two men, aged 28 and 33, a 20-year-old woman, a 15-year-old girl and an eight-year old boy were spotted Monday in a small boat in waters off southern Thailand and Myanmar, 325 kilometres (176 miles) from Aceh province in Muslim-majority Indonesia.
The fishermen took them back to Aceh on Sumatra island and the group arrived early Friday.
"They were immediately brought to a local hospital for treatment as they were weak," Abdul Musafir, head of the East Aceh search and rescue team, told AFP.
"But I'm sure they will be fit again after a couple of days in hospital."
Musafir added that the group said they had been travelling with some two dozen other Rohingya but got separated. He did not provide further details.
East Aceh police said the rescued five were stranded at sea for about 20 days while five others had starved to death and their bodies were thrown overboard.
It has been rare for Rohingya migrants to attempt the sea routes south since Thai authorities clamped down on regional trafficking networks in 2015, sparking a crisis across Southeast Asia as large numbers were abandoned at sea.
But there have been concerns desperate migrants might start taking to the high seas again after mainly Buddhist Myanmar launched a new crackdown last year that forced about 700,000 members of the stateless Muslim minority to flee to Bangladesh.
In 2015 hundreds of Rohingya came ashore in Aceh, where they were welcomed in the staunchly conservative Islamic province.
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US20100081498A1 - Casino game with next round multipliers - Google Patents
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Ernest W. Moody
Ernest Moody Revocable Trust
Moody Ernest W
2009-11-11 Application filed by Moody Ernest W filed Critical Moody Ernest W
2009-11-11 Priority to US12/616,145 priority patent/US20100081498A1/en
2011-05-31 Assigned to ERNEST MOODY REVOCABLE TRUST reassignment ERNEST MOODY REVOCABLE TRUST ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: MOODY, ERNEST W
A player plays a first round of a casino game. If the player achieves a winning outcome on the first round of play, the payouts for the next round of play of the casino game will be increased. The amount of the increase is based on the category of the winning outcome on the first round of play. Each subsequent round of play continues to have increased payouts if the player continues to achieve winning outcomes. When the player has a losing outcome, the payouts revert to the base level. An extra wager may be required from the player to activate this feature during the play of the casino game.
This application is a Continuation-in-Part of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/958,570, filed Dec. 18, 2007. This application also is based on and claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/875,812, filed Dec. 18, 2006, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety and U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/986,627, filed Nov. 9, 2007, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety.
This invention relates primarily to casino games, and more particularly to casino games such as video poker, keno and slot machines. The present invention provides the player with multipliers on the next round of play depending on the outcome of the previous round of play.
Conventional video draw poker is a single player game in which the player does not play against a dealer or other players, but rather merely tries to achieve the highest possible ranking poker hand.
After an initial deal of five cards, the player is allowed to discard and replace unwanted cards with replacement cards. Electronic video poker games use poker hand rankings to determine winning combinations and a payout schedule is used to determine the amount awarded to the player for achieving a winning combination.
The conventional winning poker hand rankings that are used in video poker in order from highest to lowest are: Royal Flush, Straight Flush, Four of a Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight, Three of a Kind, Two Pair and a Pair of Jacks or better. Any hand having less than a Pair of Jacks or better is a losing hand. These winning poker hand rankings are used in the Jacks or Better draw poker format as well as many of the other draw poker formats.
Video poker as a draw poker game using the Jacks or Better draw poker format has been played in gaming casinos for many years. Variations of video draw poker have evolved and include video draw poker using Jokers as wild cards and video draw poker using Deuces (or even Sevens) as wild cards. Another known variation of video draw poker is the Tens or Better format in which the lowest winning hand combination is a Pair of Tens. Most of the more recent modifications to video involve the use of different draw poker formats such as Bonus Poker, Double Bonus Poker, Double-Double Bonus Poker and even Triple Bonus Poker. Different draw poker formats involve changes to the pay table and often involve using different poker hand rankings as winning hand combinations.
Multiple hand video poker games allow the player to play more than one hand of video poker at a time. U.S. Pat. No. 5,823,873 to Moody, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, discloses a multiple hand poker game in which the player plays two or more hands of video poker at a time. An initial starting hand is dealt, the player discards unwanted cards and replacement cards are dealt for the discarded cards. The poker hand ranking of the final cards is determined and the player receives a payout for any winning card combination achieved. Each hand of the multiple hand poker game is treated as a separate pay line for payout purposes. However, each pay line uses the same pay table for the purpose of determining the amount received by the player for winning hands.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,638,163 (Moody) discloses a stud poker game with consecutive rounds of play. In either a single hand format or a multiple hand format, the play makes a wager to start the game. As long as the player continues to achieve winning outcomes, the play continues to receive additional rounds of stud poker without having to make any additional wagers. No pay table multipliers are disclosed in this method of play.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,149,521 (Sanduski) discloses randomly applying a multiplier to a pay line based on the value of a multiplier card. Sanduski discloses using only a single multiplier value for a single hand of video poker. For example, when a player achieves a Four-of-a-Kind, the payout for this winning combination is multiplied by the value of the kicker card in the poker hand. There is no carryover effect of any multiplier in the Sanduski game to the next round of play of the game.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,247,092 (Jarvis et al.), the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, discloses the use of one or more multiplier cards added to a conventional deck of playing cards. Whenever a multiplier card appears during the play of a video poker game, the payout for any winning combination that is achieved is multiplied by the value of the multiplier card. This Jarvis feature has been commercialized in a game known as SUPER TIME PAY which is marketed by IGT of Reno, Nev. There is no carryover effect of any multiplier in the Jarvis game to the next round of play of the game.
The Jarvis multiplier card feature has been applied to multiple hand video poker. For example, in TRIPLE PLAY SUPER TIMES PAY all pay lines are eligible for the same multiplier value should a multiplier card appear in the initial deal of the starting hand. There is no carryover effect of any multiplier in the TRIPLE PLAY SUPER TIMES PAY game to the next round of play of the game.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,612,927 (Slomiany et al.) discloses a multiple hand poker game using multipliers. The player wagers to play four hands of video poker. The first hand is played at a 1× pay table. If the player has a winning outcome on the first hand, the player plays the second hand at a 2× multiplier. If the player has a winning outcome on the second hand, the player plays the third hand at a 4× multiplier. If the player has a winning outcome on the third hand, the player plays the fourth hand at an 8× multiplier. The multipliers from hand to hand always remain in the same progression of 1×, 2×, 4× and 8×.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,569,013 (Taylor) discloses a poker game which uses varying pay tables. As the player achieves a winning outcome on each consecutive round of play, the pay table changes for the next round of play. When the player achieves a losing outcome on a round of play, the pay table resets to the base pay table for the next round of play.
Slot machines also have one or more pay lines and for each pay line that has been activated by making a wager thereon, a player receives a payout whenever a winning symbol combination that appears on an active pay line.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,120,378 to Moody, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, discloses a multiple reel slot machine with multiple pay lines. The player makes a wager for each pay line that the player wishes to have activated for a particular round of play. The method of the present invention may be practiced using the slot machine disclosed in this '378 patent as well as other slot machines which have multiple pay lines.
The present invention provides a method for applying multipliers on the next round of play of a casino game based on the outcome of the previous round of play thereby adding a new and exciting wagering and winning feature for the player. The method of the present invention can be applied to draw poker games and to slot machines. Stud poker games and keno games may also be modified to use the method of the present invention.
A player plays a first round of a casino game. If the player achieves a winning outcome on the first round of play, the payouts for the next round of play of the same casino game will be increased. The amount of the increase is based on the category of the winning outcome on the first round of play. Each subsequent round of play continues to have increased payouts if the player continues to achieve winning outcomes. When the player has a losing outcome, the payouts revert to the base level. An extra wager may be required from the player to activate this feature during the play of the casino game.
FIG. 1 shows a video poker machine configured to practice the present invention showing a representative initial deal of the cards of a multiple hand poker game for the first round of play.
FIG. 2 shows a video poker machine configured to practice the present invention showing a representative display of the final hands of a multiple hand poker game for the first round of play.
FIG. 3 shows a video poker machine configured to practice the present invention showing the multiplier feature as applied for the second round of play.
FIG. 4 shows a video poker machine configured to practice the present invention showing the multiplier feature as applied for the third round of play.
The present invention relates to casino games such as video poker draw and stud games, keno games and slot machines.
FIG. 1 shows generally at 10 a typical electronic video poker machine that is configured to provide to the player the method of the present invention. A portion of the poker machine 10 includes a conventional video screen display 20 upon which the play of the poker game is shown.
The poker machine 10 also includes a conventional currency/ticket acceptor 52 by which the player can insert currency or tickets to add credits to a credit meter 22. It is also possible to provide a conventional coin head (not shown) to allow the player to add credits or make wagers by using coins or gaming tokens.
As is also conventional in electronic video poker machines, the credit meter 22 is provided to show the amount of credits that the player has accrued on the gaming machine 10—either by inserting coins, tokens, currency or tickets or from winning plays achieved by the player. Whenever the player makes a wager, the amount of the wager is decremented from the credit meter 22. Whenever the player achieves a winning play during the play of the game, the amount of the winning play is incremented on the credit meter 22.
A conventional payout hopper may also be located on the interior of the gaming machine and is used to dispense coins or tokens to the player into a payout tray (not shown) when the player wishes to collect any winning amounts the player has accrued. Other suitable and conventional payout mechanisms can be used, such as a ticket printer or other cashless payout devices.
A button panel 40 is also provided on the poker machine 10 and the buttons mounted on the button panel 40 are used by the player to control the operation of the poker machine 10. Any suitable configuration of the buttons on the button panel can be used and, alternatively, conventional touch screen technology can be used for any or all of the buttons mounted on the button panel.
A typical button arrangement is shown on the button panel 40 in FIG. 1. A "BET ONE" button 42 is provided to allow the player to wager one credit at a time. A "BET MAX" button 44 is provided to allow the player to wager the maximum amount of credits permitted by the configuration of the gaming machine 10. Any number of credits can be set as the maximum amount that it is possible to wager on each hand and, typically, five credits will be the maximum number of credits for any particular hand. Alternatively or additionally, a "BET ONE" location 26 and a "BET MAX" location 28 can be provided on the video screen 20 to allow the player to wager by using conventional touch screen technology.
The button panel 40 also includes a "CASH OUT" button 41 by which the player can effect the cashing out of any credits accrued on the credit meter 22. A touch screen "CASH OUT" location 21 may also be provided.
A conventional "DEAL/DRAW" button 46 is also provided on the button panel 40 which is used by the player to activate the initial deal of the cards at the deal stage of the method of play or the dealing of replacement cards at the draw stage of the method of play as is appropriate. Similarly, a DEAL/DRAW location 27 can be provided on the video screen 20 to allow the player to effect either the deal step or the draw step by using conventional touch screen technology.
The button panel 40 is also provided with five "CARD" buttons 48A, 48B, 48C, 48D and 48E associated with each horizontal card location on the video screen display: card button 48A is associated with the left most card location, card button 48B is associated with the second from the left card location, card button 48C is associated with the middle card location, card button 48D is associated with the second from the right card location and card button 48E is associated with the right most card location. Each card button is preferably aligned below the card locations so that the player can easily associate the appropriate card button with the appropriate card location. These card locations 48 are used by the player to select which cards to hold during the draw step of the poker game. Alternatively, the card locations on the video screen display 20 can be touch screen activated to allow the play to select which cards to hold by merely touching the card location on the video screen display 20.
A "BET ONE HAND" touch screen location 23 is provided on the video screen display 20 to allow the player to choose to play one hand of video poker. Each time the player presses the "BET ONE HAND" touch screen location 23 another hand of video poker is activated for that round of play. A "BET ALL HANDS" touch screen location 24 is also provided on the video screen display 20 to allow the play to activate all available hands of the multiple hand poker game with a single press. Associated buttons (not shown) may be provided on the button panel 40 to allow the player to bet one hand or to bet all hands.
The button panel 40 also includes a "BET MULTIPLIER" button 45 and an associated "BET MULTIPLIER" touch screen location 25 can be provided on the video screen display 20. This allows the player to activate the multiplier feature of the present invention during the play of the video poker game, if the use of the multiplier feature is optional during the play.
The video screen display 20 also has a "BET" location 32 that shows the amount of credits that have been wagered on a particular round of play and a "WIN" location 34 that shows the amount of credits won by the player on a particular round of play.
Each electronic video poker game is designed to be played by having one or more poker hands displayed on a video screen to a player. These are "player's hand only" poker games in which the player does not play against a dealer's hand or against other players, but merely attempts to achieve a winning poker hand combination using the player's final cards of the hand. Awards are made for winning final hand combinations based on the amount wagered by the player and the payouts that are displayed in a pay table.
An initial deal of cards comprises the player's initial hand. By manipulating the buttons on the gaming device or by using conventional touch screen technology, the player selects which cards he wishes to hold in his hand and thus which cards he wishes to discard. Replacement cards are then displayed for the discarded cards and the outcome of the play of the hand is determined. The resulting poker hand ranking of the final hand is then compared to a pay table to determine whether the player has a winning hand combination.
The method of the present invention will now be described. An initial hand is displayed to the player. The player is then allowed to discard any unwanted cards from the initial hand. Replacement cards for the discarded cards are displayed which results in a final hand. If the final hand has a winning card combination, the awards that can be won by the player on the next round of play are modified by an amount associated with the poker hand category of the winning card combination that was achieved in the final hand in the first round of play.
After the player has inserted an appropriate amount of coins, tokens, currency or tickets to add a sufficient amount of credits on the credit display meter 22, the player makes his initial wager. The player may press the "BET ONE" button 42 one or more times to bet in single increments or the player may merely press the "BET MAX" button 44 and the maximum number of credits are applied, for example, five credits are wagered on each of the three hands to be played and an additional five credits are wagered on each of the three hands to be played to activate the multiplier feature. The player can also use the touch screen locations to make his wager as described above.
As shown in FIG. 1, a player has made a thirty credit wager shown in the "BET" location 32. This activates three hands to be played HAND ONE 71, HAND TWO 72 and HAND THREE 73: five credits are allocated as the amount wagered on each hand and the additional five credits are required for the multiplier feature on each hand. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, a player must make an extra wager to be eligible for the multiplier feature. The amount of the extra wager relates to the frequency and amount of the multipliers applied to the various pay lines. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the amount of the extra wager is equal to the amount of the wager made on a hand, although higher or lower amounts for the extra wager may be used. Alternatively, no extra wager could be required for the multiplier feature, but the pay table would have to be adjusted for the increased payouts that would come from the multiplier feature.
In the present invention, the multiplier feature does not apply to the present round of play, but applies to the next round of play. The player is making this wager on the present round of play to earn the possibility of receiving multipliers on the next round of play. At any point during the play of the game, if the player does not make the extra wager for a particular round of play, then the next round of play will occur at the base pay table having only a 1× multiplier.
Because FIG. 1 shows the initial first round of play, there is only a 1× multiplier on each hand. As shown in FIG. 1, a 1× multiplier 61 applies for HAND 71, a 1× multiplier 62 applies for HAND 72 and a 1× multiplier 63 applies for HAND 73. The payouts for any winning card combinations that are achieved on each of these pay lines are paid according to the associated pay table with only a 1× multiplier applied to those payouts. As discussed below, any multipliers that are earned during this first round of play are applied to the pay table for the next round of play.
The poker game shown in FIG. 1 as an example is a three hand poker game played in accordance with the method disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,873,823.
The player has been dealt a first HAND 71 of the Ace of Spades, Five of Hearts, Eight of Clubs, Ace of Hearts and Three of Diamonds. The player has selected to hold the Ace of Spades and the Ace of Hearts and these two cards are duplicated into second HAND 72 and third HAND 73.
As shown in FIG. 2, replacement cards for the discarded cards of first HAND 71 are displayed and the final first HAND 71 has a poker hand combination of a Full House. Additional cards are displayed into second HAND 72 and the final second HAND 72 has a poker hand combination of a Pair of Aces. Additional cards are displayed into third HAND 73 and the final third HAND 73 has a poker hand combination of Four Aces.
A pay table is displayed to the player showing the amounts that the player can win based on the poker hand ranking achieved by the player and the amount wagered by the player.
In the example shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a Jacks or Better draw poker game format is used. A suitable pay table for this format would be:
NUMBER OF COINS BET
POKER HAND 1 2 3 4 5
ROYAL FLUSH 250 500 750 1000 4000
STRAIGHT FLUSH 50 100 150 200 250
FOUR-OF-A-KIND 25 50 75 100 125
FULL HOUSE 9 18 27 36 45
FLUSH 6 12 18 24 30
STRAIGHT 4 8 12 16 20
THREE-OF-A-KIND 3 6 9 12 15
TWO PAIR 2 4 6 8 10
JACKS OR BETTER 1 2 3 4 5
Using the pay table shown in Table 1, final HAND 71 is a winning combination of a Full House and the player would receive forty-five credits as a payout based on the 1× multiplier 61. Final HAND 72 is a winning combination of Jacks or Better and the player would receive five credits as a payout based on the 1× multiplier 62. Final HAND 73 is a winning combination of Four-of-a-Kind and the player would receive one hundred twenty-five credits as a payout based on the 1× multiplier 63.
The multipliers to be applied to each hand in round two of the game are also determined based on the outcome of each hand in the first round. The multipliers are based on the various poker hand categories that are designated as winning hand combinations for the poker format being used. A multiplier table is used and could be displayed to the player on the video screen display 20, on a second screen display or printed on the glass of the gaming machine. Any suitable multiplier table could be used. An exemplary multiplier table is shown in Table 2.
ROYAL FLUSH 10×
STRAIGHT FLUSH 10×
FOUR-OF-A-KIND 10×
FULL HOUSE 6×
FLUSH 6×
STRAIGHT 5×
THREE-OF-A-KIND 4×
TWO PAIR 4×
JACKS OR BETTER 2×
Using the multiplier table shown in Table 2, the winning outcome for a poker hand category of a Full House in HAND ONE 71 results in a 6× multiplier shown at 161 in FIG. 3 and applied to HAND ONE 171 in the next round of play. Likewise, the winning outcome for a poker hand category of Jacks or Better in HAND TWO 72 results in a 2× multiplier shown at 162 in FIG. 3 and applied to HAND TWO 172 in the next round of play. The winning outcome for a poker hand category of Four-of-a-Kind in HAND THREE 73 results in a 10× multiplier shown at 163 in FIG. 3 and applied to HAND THREE 173 in the next round of play.
When the next round of play is conducted, the player would again make a wager of thirty credits and a round of video poker would be played. By making this thirty credit wager, the player is activating the multiplier feature for the next round of play. As the example in FIG. 3 shows, the player achieved a losing outcome in HAND ONE 171 so the multiplier feature reverts to 1× as shown in FIG. 4 at 261 for HAND ONE 271. The player achieved a winning outcome for a poker hand category of a Straight in HAND TWO 162 so the multiplier feature shows a 5× multiplier as shown in FIG. 4 at 262 for HAND TWO 272. Also, the player achieved a losing outcome in HAND THREE 173 so the multiplier feature reverts to 1× as shown in FIG. 4 at 263 for HAND THREE 273.
This progression of multipliers continues from round to round as long as the player continues to make the wager for the multiplier feature in the embodiment of the present invention which requires that the player make a wager to activate the multiplier feature.
Whenever the player achieves a losing hand combination on any hand of play, then the next hand of play would be played at the normal 1× payout.
While the examples shown in FIGS. 1 through 4 use a regular Jacks or Better draw poker format pay table, other pay tables have been developed for the other variations of draw poker, such as Deuces Wild Poker, Bonus Poker, Double Bonus Poker, Double Double Bonus Poker, Triple Bonus Poker, Joker's Wild Poker or any of the myriad of video poker formats that have been developed. Each of these video poker formats uses various arrangements of poker hand rankings as winning combinations and they use various payout amounts for the poker hand rankings. The amounts paid for the various winning hand combinations in each of the video poker formats are calculated to provide a certain theoretical game return based on the mathematical probability of achieving the winning hand combinations and the theoretical hold percentage that the casino wishes to offer to the players.
The method of the present invention can be applied to any of the various video poker formats that are available or can be created for use.
The multipliers for a poker hand category can also be varied as desired and can be applied to some or all of the poker hand categories that are winning hand combinations for the poker format being used.
While the example given above has been described in connection with a three hand video poker game, the present invention can also be applied to a single hand video poker game, or to any number of multiple hand video poker games.
The present invention can also be applied to stud poker games, keno games and slot machine games or any other casino game that uses a pay table.
The present invention has been described above in connection with a multiple hand draw poker game with the example using a three hand poker game. However, the multiplier feature of the present invention can also be used in single hand or single reel games or in any game that has two or more hands or reels.
In an embodiment, a method of playing a slot machine game in which a player can achieve modified awards on a next round of play comprises on a first round of play, providing a pay table with at least a first award for at least one winning symbol combination category. In an embodiment, there would be two or more winning symbol categories each having an award associated therewith.
The gaming machine then randomly selects and displays at least a first pay line of at least two symbols. In an embodiment, there would be two or more pay lines that the player could choose to wager on and each pay line would have more than two symbols. In an embodiment, there would be multiple reels with each reel having multiple symbols. the pay lines would include all or part of each reel.
The gaming machine determining the symbol ranking of the two symbols of the at least first pay line, and in an embodiment, the gaming machine would determine the symbol ranking of each pay line wagered on by the player.
If the at least first pay line is a winning combination, the gaming machine provides a modifier for at least the first award on the next round of play by an amount associated with the symbol combination category of the winning combination.
The method also includes a player making a first wager on the at least first pay line, and paying the player a preestablished award based on the first wager if the winning symbols of the first pay line comprise a predetermined symbol combination category of the pay table.
In an embodiment, the method includes the award being modified by using a multiplier.
In an embodiment, the method includes the player making an additional wager to be eligible for the modifier, such as the multiplier.
Each subsequent round of play continues to have increased awards if the player continues to achieve winning outcomes. When the player has a losing outcome, the awards revert to the base level of the pay table.
While the invention has been illustrated with respect to several specific embodiments thereof, these embodiments should be considered as illustrative rather than limiting. Various modifications and additions may be made and will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
1. A method of playing a slot machine game in which a player can achieve modified awards on a next round of play comprising:
a) on a first round of play, providing a pay table with at least a first award for at least one winning symbol combination category;
b) randomly selecting and displaying at least a first pay line of at least two symbols;
c) determining the symbol ranking of the two symbols of the at least first pay line; and
d) if the at least first pay line is a winning combination, providing a modifier for at least the first award on the next round of play by an amount associated with the symbol combination category of the winning combination.
2. The method of claim 1 including:
a) a player making a first wager on the at least first pay line,
b) paying the player a preestablished award based on the first wager if the winning symbols of the first pay line comprise a predetermined symbol combination category of the pay table.
3. The method of claim 1 in which the award is modified by using a multiplier.
4. The method of claim 3 in which the player makes an additional wager to be eligible for the multiplier.
5. The method of claim 1 in which the player makes an additional wager to be eligible for the modifier.
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As of January 1st 2015, Cushman Corporation has undergone a name change and is now Cushman Speedometer Repair LLC. Our services to you remain the same! We will continue to restore speedometers from 1932 to 1980.  We have a large parts inventory to supply your needs. Brass speedometers will be considered for repair on a case by case basis.

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The first speedometers were produced in the early 1900's. Speedometers were first offered as a factory installed option. Ford began production of the Model T Ford in October 1908, a speedometer was offered as a factory installed option. Then in 1913 Ford began offering a $6.00 rebate on 1914 cars that were not equipped with a speedometer. During 1915, Ford ceased offering the speedometer as standard equipment.

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The Northumberland County Council apprenticeship programme allows people aged 16 and older to work for the council to develop their skills and knowledge whilst working towards gaining qualifications.
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Lukasz Piszczek made his 300th Bundesliga appearance in what could be his final season in German football. - © 2018 DFL
Lukasz Piszczek: Borussia Dortmund's greatest servant
Former Borussia Dortmund teammates Lukasz Piszczek and Robert Lewandowski joined the Bundesliga's 300 club at the weekend, becoming only the 17th and 18th non-German players in history to reach the milestone appearance mark.
bundesliga.com pays homage to Piszczek, the iconic flying full-back that has become a living legend in Dortmund.
A patient breakout in Berlin
It's difficult to think of Piszczek as anything but a marauding right-back in the black and yellow of Dortmund but there was a time when the now 34-year-old plied his trade both further up the pitch and further west of the country.
Lukasz Piszczek made his debut in the Bundesliga with Hertha Berlin. - 2010 Getty Images
A barnstorming UEFA Under 19 European Championship with Poland put the world on notice of the teenage Piszczek as he took his goal scoring exploits in Gwarek Zabrze's academy to the international stage. He would finish up joint-top scorer in the competition with four goals, including an effort against a Germany side featuring Mario Gomez and Rene Adler, despite the Poles finishing bottom of their group and losing three out of three matches.
It was at youth international level that a burgeoning relationship with Jakub Blaszczykowski would form, albeit with Piszczek featuring alongside his future BVB teammate in attack rather than bombing past him on the overlap. And those performances would prompt Hertha Berlin to make their move for Piszczek in the summer of 2004 but after loaning him to Zaglebie Lubin for three seasons, he would not make his Bundesliga debut until August 2007.
He did so as a centre-forward in the 1-0 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt and Piszczek would spend his early days in Germany flitting across Hertha's front-line. A maiden Bundesliga goal would come in April 2008 but his second season with the Old Lady became what defined him: A cruel run of injuries first saw him miss 20 successive Bundesliga matchdays before a run at right-back for the final five matches of the season helped shape his future.
Watch: Piszczek Top 5 Bundesliga goals!
Who was the coach that masterminded Piszczek's move to full-back? Why none other than Lucien Favre, the man who now calls upon his former Hertha charge as one of Dortmund's most experienced players.
"Above all, he was a striker. My assistant coach and I saw that he did really well [at right-back]. It was surprising," recalled Favre to BVB Matchday Magazine. "You're a striker and all of a sudden you're supposed to play right-back. He was not convinced and I understand that. He was not too excited about it but bit-by-bit he understood that it was pretty good for his career."
Favre's departure from Berlin in September 2009 preceded Piszczek's by only nine months, the 65-time capped Poland international recruited by Jürgen Klopp despite Hertha's relegation, as the German tactician plotted the club's first league title in nine years.
Borussia Dortmund head coach Jürgen Klopp was a match made in heaven for Lukasz Piszczek. - 2012 Getty Images For DFL
And boy did Piszczek have an impact. His searing pace, relentless running and superb delivery provided seven assists and aided 14 clean sheets as Klopp's men romped to the Meisterschale with the Polish trio of Piszczek, Blaszczykowski and Robert Lewandowski at their heart. It was a remarkable first season at the club and by the time Piszczek had helped defend Dortmund's Bundesliga crown while adding a DFB Cup trophy to the Signal Iduna Park's halls a year later, he had clearly endeared himself to the Yellow Wall's revered faithful.
"I've spent two years in Dortmund, during which time I've become firmly embedded in the football culture, the club and the Borussia Dortmund fans," he said at the time. And it's little wonder fans from this mining region - famed for hard work - took so fondly to Piszczek, who has built his legend with every one of his 10 seasons in Dortmund colours on the back of a highly professional and dedicated approach. Just ask anyone who has seen first hand how Piszczek sets the example for those around him to follow.
"He's really conscientious, a role model, the best you could hope for. He embodies everything that is good about BVB and what BVB should stand for," said former coach Thomas Tuchel, while Dortmund's sporting director Michael Zorc adds: "'Piszczu' is an absolute model professional and, as such, a role model for our younger players."
Lukasz Piszczek won back-to-back Bundesliga titles with Borussia Dortmund in 2011 and 2012. - 2012 Getty Images
The difference-maker
While the trophies Piszczek has helped deliver to the Dortmund cabinet speaks volumes for his importance to the team over the last decade, those that they've missed out on similarly communicate his significance. And there is no more relevant case in point than the 2017/18 Bundesliga season.
Dortmund were rampant as they went on a seven-game unbeaten start under Peter Bosz, moving five points clear of Bayern Munich at the top of the table. But a ruptured knee ligament sparked a subsequent run of eight games without a win that led to the Dutchman's departure. Peter Stöger stepped into the role and with Piszczek back in his side, Dortmund immediately went on a 10-game unbeaten streak.
They would lose just four league matches and concede 21 goals from Piszczek's 24 appearances that season, compared to five defeats and 20 goals shipped in the 10 he missed through injury. That led Dortmund to finishing fourth and a whopping 29 points behind champions Bayern, with Dortmund's CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke saying the team missed Piszczek and fellow absentee Marco Reus "like a fish misses water."
With the Yellow Wall behind him, Lukasz Piszczek has been a fan-favourite warrior in the black and yellow of Borussia Dortmund. - 2018 DFL
In total, Piszczek has sat out 102 games in all competitions due to injury over his time at Dortmund, a spell that could have been even more trophy-laden had both the player and club enjoyed a little more luck. Despite these spells on the sidelines, Piszczek's longevity is undeniable and after 300 Bundesliga games, 48 assists, 18 goals, two league crowns, a DFB Cup double and a trio of German Super Cups in the bank, it's been a truly memorable career in Germany for one of Dortmund's most iconic players in recent memory.
More to come?
Although Piszczek initially suggested that he would see out his career with Dortmund at the expiration of his contract next summer, his legacy has already been established both on and off the pitch as seen by his launch of the Lukasz Piszczek BVB Academy in his hometown of Goczalkowice-Zdroj, in partnership with Dortmund.
"I grew up here, this is where I developed into the man I am today, which is why I wanted to give something back," he said at its announcement and Piszczek may not be done on the pitch, either.
Lukasz Piszczek is already giving back to football before he has called time on his incredible career. - 2018 DFL
"Right now, I don't want to say for certain that I'll end my career next year," he told Polish sports magazine, Przeglad Sportowy. "We'll see how it goes. If there's an option to extend, I'll be open to it."
And if he does say goodbye to Germany at the end of the season? "I will return to Poland and – just for fun – play for my old club LKS Goczalkowice. It would be nothing more to do with professional football – I will only keep myself fit there."
You'd think he's more than earned the right to go back up front, too.


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Stickers are to be affixed on the driver's side of the car close to the front. Passes must be turned in to Transfer Station.
Acceptable vehicles (one per household) shall be automobiles or pick up trucks – no dump trucks, dump trailers or dual axle trailers.
Yard waste shall come from residence shown on driver's license and registration or tax bill.
Absolutely no yard waste will be accepted originating from outside the Town of Danvers.
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We seem to take life for granted sometimes. We live life everyday thinking that there's always going to be a tomorrow. We wake up thinking that our friends are always going to be there. We wait to tell people how much they really mean to us until another day. We don't get around to tell them how much we love them and how they have made a wonderful difference in our lives. This was my mistake. David made a difference in my life. He meant a lot to me. I regret not telling him this before he left, but I will be able to tell him one day. For now I will remember the good times.
This is a essay we had to write in English class. We had to write about a person in our lives that influence our ways of thinking or acting enough to make perment changes.
There are many people in my everyday life that influence my ways of thinking or acting for a short period of time; but my friend David Sproul has influenced my life in such a way that I believe the changes I make becuase of it, will be permanent. David and I had been close friends for a number or years, but he had moved away in the summer just before grade ten. We had made a deal to try and keep in contact with one another as much as possible, even though he now lived more then thirty minutes away from me. Slowly our friendship faded and we only talked every few months. One afternoon I recieved a phone call from a friend who was friends with David as well. He informed me that David Sproul had passed away at his school ealier on that day. Until then I never realized how important keeping in touch with friends was. There were so many things I wanted to say to him before he left and so many feelings I never go to express. From that day on, I knew that I had to keep in contact with my friends and not to hold back on things I really wanted to say. There may not be a tomorrow in which to do that. It's sad that it took a death to realize this, but David Sproul has forever changed my way of thinking and acting, and I will always remember him for it.
We were only nine or ten.
You became one of my closest friends.
We promised we'd still talk on the phone.
And you told me you felt so alone.
And I had made some too.
I had almost forgotten about me and you.
It was from a friend that we both had.
I could tell he already cried.
He stopped breathing... Brittney, he died."
He was such a good friend to loose.
And I still miss him so much.
I'll always stay in touch.
Below is a link to a message board that I've made in memory of David. Anyone is welcome to sign it. Feel free to write what ever you wish about him.


In-memory fielddata is limited by the size of your heap.((("aggregations", "doc values"))) While this is a problem that can be solved by scaling horizontally--you can always add more nodes--you will find that heavy use of aggregations and sorting can exhaust your heap space while other resources on the node are underutilized.
While fielddata defaults to loading values into memory on the fly, this is not the only option. It can also be written to disk at index time in a way that provides all the functionality of in-memory fielddata, but without the heap memory usage. This alternative format is ((("fielddata", "doc values")))((("doc values")))called doc values.
Doc values were added to Elasticsearch in version 1.0.0 but, until recently, they were much slower than in-memory fielddata. By benchmarking and profiling performance, various bottlenecks have been identified--in both Elasticsearch and Lucene--and removed.
They live on disk instead of in heap memory. This allows you to work with quantities of fielddata that would normally be too large to fit into memory. In fact, your heap space ($ES_HEAP_SIZE) can now be set to a smaller size, which improves the speed of garbage collection and, consequently, node stability.
Doc values are built at index time, not at search time. While in-memory fielddata has to be built on the fly at search time by uninverting the inverted index, doc values are prebuilt and much faster to initialize.
The trade-off is a larger index size and slightly slower fielddata access. Doc values are remarkably efficient, so for many queries you might not even notice the slightly slower speed. Combine that with faster garbage collections and improved initialization times and you may notice a net gain.
The more filesystem cache space that you have available, the better doc values will perform. If the files holding the doc values are resident in the filesystem cache, then accessing the files is almost equivalent to reading from RAM. And the filesystem cache is managed by the kernel instead of the JVM.
<1> Setting doc_values to true at field creation time is all that is required to use disk-based fielddata instead of in-memory fielddata.
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Use doc values freely. The more you use them, the less stress you place on the heap. It is possible that doc values will become the default format in the near future.


This is purely a formal stage where the Bill is introduced to the House and the short title of the Bill is read out by the Clerk. A Bill, however, shall not be read a first time unless it has been gazetted and has reached every Member of the Legislative Assembly 21 days before it is proposed to be read a first time.
The Minister or Member of Cabinet in charge of the Bill moves the Second Reading. This is the most important stage through which a Bill has to pass. Members have the opportunity to debate (for no longer than two hours) the general merits and principles of the Bill.
This is the stage where the Bill is considered in detail. Each clause and paragraph is considered and it is during this stage that any Member may propose an amendment.
The Minister or Member in charge of the Bill reports to the House that the Bill was considered by the committee and was passed with or without amendment(s). The Bill is then set down for its third reading.
This is the stage when a Bill is finally accepted and/or rejected by the House. The Minister or Member in charge of the Bill moves that the Bill be read a third time and passed. There is no debate at this stage and the question is put to the House for a decision.
A true corrected copy of the Bill (including all amendments, deletions, etc, in Committee) is prepared by the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly and sent to the Attorney-General who prepares a legal report on the Bill for the Governor.
The Law is finally printed on vellum paper and signed by both the Speaker of the House and the Clerk and forwarded to the Governor for his seal and assent.
When a Bill has been assented to by the Governor and published in the Official Government Gazette, it becomes Law.


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