We all the know how the joke about bridesmaids goes - they're always dressed alike in horrifying colors and dress styles that are reminiscent of a prom night fashion nightmare. After the wedding, the bridesmaid dress is stuffed into the back of the wardrobe, never to be worn again.
I suppose the idea is that the bride is supposed to be the one to shine; it's her day to be noticed. So bridesmaids are not expected to turn heads, hence the requirement that her attendants (bridesmaids) are dressed in drab clothes.
But that's just old thinking - would you want the below at your wedding? Take a look at the fashion statements below, and see what that says about the bride who allowed it at her wedding!
Given the great many stylish bridesmaids dresses available today, and at great price tags too, there is really no reason to make a fashion mistake.
Basically, you should continue to do what you are doing right now. Surfing the web, viewing designs, and narrowing down complementary colors that fit in with your overall wedding theme. Check out the latest styles online first - places like Anntaylor.com has a great selection of elegant bridesmaids dresses that can provide you with inspiration on designing your own bridesmaids dress (even if you choose not to purchase from them).
Make an date with a few of your bridesmaid and hit the stores. This part is necessary so that you get a sense of the style your bridesmaids like. Once you narrow down their likes and dislikes, you can then get input from your other bridesmaids. While the choice of the bridesmaids' dresses are up to the bride, it is helpful to have a second opinion, especially from someone who will be wearing the dress!
Once you have gathered all the information you need, have a color and dress style in mind, then it's time to make an appointments with the bridal shops and department stores. Call ahead to find out if an appointment is needed so you do not add to your stress level when you arrive only to find out they cannot see you for bridesmaid dress consulting.
If you are tailoring your dresses, then be sure to bring in pictures of the style you want, so that the tailor can visualize the style you have in mind.
Be sure to have all of the bridesmaids professionally measured for their bridesmaid dresses. You can often do this at your first bridal shop or department store. This way you can cross reference them with the size chart for the manufacturer you have selected in order to ensure you order the size that is closest to their figure. Many bridesmaid dress designers make their dresses with the measurements of their own size chart and not to each individual. As a result, you should not assume that a size 8 from manufacturer "A" will fit the same way a size 8 does from manufacturer "B".
Of course, it is the bride's privilege to select the color and type of fabric of the bridesmaids' dresses. And yes, it should definitely be complementary to the bride's weddign gown, but it should also be comfortable and attractive for the bridesmaids. Keep in mind your bridesmaids' body type, their skin tone, their style preferences - then find something that does not clash with them. You do not want an unhappy bridesmaid at your wedding. By taking into account their considerations, you can be sure of keeping them happy; an act they're sure to appreciate.
Once you order your dresses, be sure to set up an appointment for alterations for your bridesmaid dresses. Since most dresses will need some degree of alterations, you should allow plenty of time for 2 fitting appointments. Bridal attendants should bring shoes with the correct heel size to the fittings, as well as appropriate hosiery and slips.
Once the bridesmaid dresses have been selected, shoes, gloves, shawls, sashes, purses and hair pins or combs should also be decided.


Orlando Predators Coach Fran Papasedero's blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit at the time he was killed in a single-car accident in south Orlando, according to a preliminary toxicology report released Wednesday.
The Orlando Police Department reported that Papasedero's blood alcohol level the night of June 19 was .185, about 2.3 times higher than Florida's legal limit of .08.
Papasedero had finished dinner with friends at Timpano Italian Chophouse on Sand Lake Road in the Dr. Phillips area and apparently was driving home when the accident occurred.
Witnesses said the Arena Football League coach's four-door maroon Lexus sedan was traveling about 50-60 mph around 10:20 p.m. on a night when road conditions were slick from daylong rain showers. According to the report provided to police, the car suddenly moved from the inside to the outside lane while driving down the 5400 block of West Sand Lake Road. Papasedero apparently lost control of the vehicle, causing it eventually to hit a curb, roll approximately four times and eject him before sliding to rest upside down in a ditch. Papasedero was not wearing a seat belt.
Papasedero had been cited three times for speeding and twice for failure to wear seat belts since October 1998, police records show.
According to a United States Department of Health guide, a male weighing 240 pounds would need 10 drinks to reach a .16 alcohol level, with .01 subtracted for each 40 minutes of drinking. The guide defined one drink as 1.25 ounces of 80 proof liquor, 12 ounces of beer or five ounces of wine.
Papasedero, 34, was 6 feet 3 and about 285 pounds, according to statistics from 1997, his last season as a lineman in the Arena Football League.
Papasedero's death saddened members of the Predators organization. He was well-liked in the Arena Football League community and the Orlando area.
"My thoughts and prayers are with his family and his daughter Vivian," said Predators president and owner Brett Bouchy in response to the police report. "He was a great, great man, and nothing that has come out will change that."
The Predators organization established a memorial fund for Vivian, 3. To date, the Fran Papasedero Memorial Trust Fund has raised approximately $55,000, Bouchy said. About $35,000 came from "Fran Fest," a party hosted by Wall Street Plaza's six bars and restaurants. The organization also will hold a golf tournament -- the Coach Fran Cup -- Aug. 29 at Mystic Dunes Golf Course to benefit the fund.
Predators quarterback Jay Gruden took over as head coach earlier this month. Gruden was the team's coach from 1998-2001 before returning to the field as a player during the 2002 season.


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Practically as a brand new band, the projection of Mujeres until today is very strong and are considered one of the most pushing bands of Barcelona (Spain). Mujeres are four friends that met during their film studies and after working on several projects together decided to form a band and spread around their art and charisma. With their debut album 'Mujeres' (Sones 2009) and in less than 2 years Mujeres have played their powerful and empathic Iberic garage rock in the main venues of Spain, as well as most of the national festivals (specially remarkable their 3 amazing shows at Primavera Sound 2010). Also, in 2010 the band have travelled abroad and offered their extreme shows in th UK (they played The Great Escape in Brighton, Liverpool Sound City, London Camden Barfly, Camden Eye and Proud Camden, Sound Control and In te City in Manchester) and have crossed the Italian border to play in Here Stay Festival and Soundlabs. In 2009 the band was the Spanish representation in last year's Europavox edition (FR). Mujeres were one of the 10 finalists artists of the International Diesel U Music contest (were thousands of artists from all over the world participated). For that reason the prestigious production company Linkink recorded a music clip for them in London last autumn; it's shown on tv channels like MTV nearly every day. Their beautiful second music clip is a production of the genious Canada. The reviews of their live acts full of energy and brilliant hits and the reaction of the whole press and media about the album, as well as the audience attending to their gigs is unanimous: Mujeres are publicaly well acclaimed. At this moment, Mujeres are ready to follow their winter tour around Spain and ready to hit Texas and the US west coast in the next spring 2011.
'Mujeres' debut, was a perfect record. In 2009, the four-piece band from Barcelona were in everyone's conversation. Their first work 'Demo 08' (Hombre Bueno Discos) was considered a local cult treasure and their long list of shows the real place-to-be. Few months later, the 7" 'Yella... Read More →
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A registered professional nurse employed by Erlanger Health System is responsible for direct and/or indirect care of the patient from referral to transplantation at Erlanger Health System. Demonstrate leadership, communication skills, flexibility, and creativity while working with transplant patients and their families through all phases of transplantation. The pre transplant coordinator will need knowledge of chronic kidney disease, treatment options, and an understanding of the transplant process. The pre transplant coordinator applies policies and procedures to managing a case load of patients referred for transplant and functions as a resource for patients and staff about the transplantation process. Maintains communication with referring physician's pre and post-transplant. Is an active member of the multidisciplinary Transplant Team. Understanding of UNOS and CMS regulations. Active participate in transplant QAPI. Demonstrate problem-solving abilities as well as the ability to manage and/ or direct various personalities or educational levels in dynamic situations. Demonstrate computer skills and ability to work simultaneously in multiple databases as well as EMR. Exhibit the ability to work effectively and consistently in a group as part of a high function. Have the ability to work independently as well as a multidisciplinary team member. Demonstrate the ability to handle patient caseloads in an organized manner. Be committed to ongoing personal education in the specialty area. Ability to be cross-trained in transplant related areas.
The Pre-Transplant Clinical Coordinator employed by Erlanger Medical Center assures that pre-transplant patients presenting to Erlanger Center receive optimal care, using established renal transplant standards and organizational goals. The functions of the Pre-Transplant Clinical Coordinator are to maintain a high degree of personal and staff effectiveness in the assessment and care of pre transplant patients, to include data management, screening, medication management, discharge planning, clinical research, and ongoing new therapies. To serve as an advocate for the patient and/or living donor and liaison between the transplant center, physician offices, the hospital, and the dialysis facilities. The Pre-Transplant Clinical Coordinator must take kidney donor calls and facilitate in hospital transplant admissions on a rotating 24/7 basis. Serve as back up nurse in transplant clinic and stay updated on other job functions as a resource. Be committed to ongoing personal education in the specialty area.
Required: At least three to five years of general nursing practice; knowledge of organizational functions, policies, and regulations; knowledge of current trends and new developments, principles and practices of nursing. Knowledge of ESRD and/or transplant patients desired. Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and provide empathy in difficult interpersonal situations. Ability to maintain confidentiality with sensitive information or issues in a confidential and respectful manner. Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, multi-task, and meet deadlines. Ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization. Knowledge of principles and practices of customer service and telephone courtesy. Knowledge of Windows-based office software, computers, and operating system. The ability to defuse stressful situations.
At least one year of experience appropriate to the specialty of transplant. Bilingual skills are a plus.
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Abstract: This project will increase community involvement in the restoration process. The Spill Area Wide Community Involvement Coordinator's work will continue through a contract with the Chugach Regional Resources Commission (CRRC). Through direct communication with a network of local facilitators, the Spill Area Wide Community Involvement Coordinator will continue to actively involve local residents in the restoration program (local facilitators are located in Tatitlek, Chenega Bay, Port Graham, Nanwalek, Cordova, Seward, Seldovia, Valdez, Kodiak, and the Alaska Peninsula). The project will start the process of integrating the duties of the Community Facilitator into the Tribal Natural Resource programs in five pilot project communities. This process will allow for possible EVOSTC participation in a regional stewardship program.


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Q: How to count the number of question mark in Numbers? I want to count how many rows contains '?' in a column in Numbers(MacOS) .
I use COUNTIF(COLUMN1, "=?").
However, '?' is a wildcard in Numbers, which means any cell contains exact one character will be counted by this formula.
I also tried to use "=\?" but didn't work here.
Example:

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But I want just count the number of '?', so the result should be 2
Please help.
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A: I find the solution myself.
Using '~' solve the problem:
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Based in Moseley, Birmingham I specialise in creating photographs which are natural and flowing for couples who are original and creative; couples who think a little different. I want to keep your day joyful and flowing so I won't get in the way with what's going on, I'll just capture the moments as they happen.
I'm an experienced photographer who will capture the day - the split-second moments of the wedding in which you share your love and celebrate with family and friends and each other. Being based in Birmingham is ideal as I can travel the length and breadth of the UK to cover your wedding day. I'll also cover weddings abroad if you ask nicely!
How I work After your initial email I will contact you to arrange a consultation at a café, your house or preferable, the venue itself. We will discuss your plan of the day and I'll offer guidance about how the photography will work. On the day I'll make the photography as stress free as possible, capturing the day from a distance where possible and only stepping in to get a photo when absolutely necessary.
My style is primarily documentary so I will capture the day as it happens and won't force you into poses which don't suit you. For portraits we'll go for a walk and get some nice photo's for your nans mantelpiece, it's your day, so whatever you want. As your wedding photographer I will connect with you to form a bond only a bride and groom and a good wedding photographer can have. Your memories are my passion.
So many great things to say about Aaron. Firstly and most importantly were the excellent photos he took during our wedding that showed the day as it happened. Lots of natural shots which we loved. From start to finish Aaron worked with us to listen to what we wanted and worked to make that happen. We had a pre meeting which was really useful and Aaron gave us ideas of what would make good photos. Throughout Aaron was really professional and most importantly approachable, friendly and helpful. I would definitely recommend Aaron to do your wedding photos!


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Opinion No. ( 1999 )
The Honorable Steve Jones State Representative P.O. Box 3040 West Memphis, AR 72303
Dear Representative Jones:
You have requested an Attorney General opinion concerning Act 1185 of 1999 and Act 1155 of 1999. Your questions are as follows:
(1) Is there a conflict between Section 1(c) of Act 1185 and Article 16, § 5 of the Arkansas Constitution?
(2) Can the state enter into a contract for local government or a local elected office that is under the authority of the local Assessor (as permitted by Section 4(a)(3) of Act 1185)?
(3) Under Sections 4(b) and (c) of Act 1185, will local Assessors be required to obtain prior state approval before executing their previously sworn duties as elected officials?
(4) Can the legislature require elected officials to take a test as a prerequisite for doing the job that they have already been elected by the people to do [as required under Sections 4(d) (e)]?
(5) Does Section 2 of Act 1155 of 1999 comply with Article 14, § 2 of the Arkansas Constitution?
Question 1 — Is there a conflict between Section 1(c) of Act 1185 andArticle 16, § 5 of the Arkansas Constitution?
It is my opinion that there is not a conflict between Section 1(c) of Act 1185 and Article 16, § 5 of the Arkansas Constitution.
Article 16, § 5 of the Arkansas Constitution states in pertinent part:
(a) All real and tangible personal property subject to taxation shall be taxed according to its value, that value to be ascertained in such manner as the General Assembly shall direct, making the same equal and uniform throughout the State. No one species of property for which a tax may be collected shall be taxed higher than another species of property of equal value[.]
Ark. Const., art. 16, § 5.
Section 1(c) of Act 1185 states:
(c) The county assessor, or other official or officials designated by law, shall compare the assessed value of each parcel under a reappraisal or reassessment which is completed in 1999 or later to the assessed value of the parcel for the previous year. If the assessed value of the parcel increased, then the assessed value of the parcel for the year in which the parcel is reappraised or reassessed shall be adjusted by adding one-third (1/3) of the increase to the assessed value for the year prior to reappraisal or reassessment. An additional one-third (1/3) of the increase shall be added in each of the next two (2) years.
Acts 1999, No. 1185, 1(c).
Pub. Svc. Comm'n v. Pul. Co. Equalization Bd., 266 Ark. 64,582 S.W.2d 942 (1979) provides guidance in analyzing the constitutionality of Act 1185 of 1999. In that case, the court addressed the constitutionality of Act 188 of 1969 and Act 411 of 1973. Act 188 permitted agricultural and timberlands to be assessed for taxation on the basis of their current use, while all other land was to be assessed for taxation on the basis of market value. Act 411 effectively froze assessment values for some farm and timberlands at 1961 values and froze assessment values for some residential property at 1956 values. The court held the two acts to be unconstitutional violations of Article 16, § 5. In doing so, the court addressed two questions: (1) Whether the term "value," as used in Article 16, § 5 referred to "current use value," or "fair market value;" and (2) Whether the legislature may classify property with the result that one "species" of property is treated differently for taxation purposes than another "species" of property.
The court held that the term "value," as used in Article 16, § 5 refers to fair market value. The court also held that the legislature may not classify species of property and treat the species differently for taxation purposes.
Act 1185 differs from the acts that were under consideration in Pub.Svc. Comm'n v. Pul. Co. Equalization Bd. is that Act 1185 uses fair market value as its standard. Under Act 1185, all property is to be reappraised for the purpose of determining the fair market value of the property for taxation purposes. Taxes for all property will be based upon the fair market value of the property being taxed, as required by Article 16, § 5, and as that constitutional provision was interpreted by the court in Pub. Svc. Comm'n v. Pul. Co. Equalization Bd., supra. The fact that Act 1185 authorizes phasing in the effects of an increase in fair market value over a period of years does not mean that fair market value is not being used as a basis for taxation of the property. Article 16, § 5 of the constitution unambiguously grants the legislature the authority to direct the manner in which valuation of property is to be ascertained. I believe that under this grant of authority, the legislature is empowered to utilize a phase-in system, provided that it is, in fact, based upon fair market value.
It is important to note that Section 15 of Act 1185 states:
It is hereby found and determined by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas that the ad valorem tax system in the state is of critical importance to the state and its citizens; that many property assessments in this state are erroneous and need to be revised; that in order to correct the erroneous assessments, each parcel or taxable property in each county of the state should [be] reviewed, and revalued, at a minimum of once every three (3) years; that the provisions of this act provide for such a review.
Acts 1999, No. 1185, § 15.
The General Assembly has found that many property assessments on the books at the time of the passage of Act 1185 were erroneous. Act 1185 was intended to be remedial. It attempts to correct error that currently exists regarding property assessments. By passing Act 1185, the General Assembly has addressed and attempted to correct a matter of critical importance to the state. It is my opinion that the General Assembly acted consistently with the constitution in doing so.
The Arkansas Supreme Court specifically approved a local attempt to correct inappropriate valuations in Rodgers v. Easterling, 270 Ark. 255,603 S.W.2d 884 (1980). In that case, the Hempstead County Equalization Board hired an appraisal firm to prepare a county wide reappraisal. It did so in an attempt to increase above 18% the average ratio of the assessed value of all property in the county to the actual value of the property as certified by the Public Service Commission's Assessment Coordination Division, so that turn-back funds withheld pursuant to law would be released to the county. The appraisal was not based on current market values. Taxpayers filed a lawsuit, seeking to have the reassessment based upon the appraisal declared illegal, and to require that taxes be based on the status quo that existed prior to the reappraisal (i.e., previous assessed values). The taxpayers' argument was that the reappraisal was illegal because it was not based on current market values, as required under the holding of the Pub. Serv. Comm'n. case, supra. The court rejected the argument, stating:
We think the 1979 reassessment in Hempstead County was an act taken to achieve a more proper level of taxation and, as such, was not illegal or contrary to the decision of this court in Arkansas Public Service Comm.
Easterling, supra, at 259.
It is my opinion that the taxation system that is created by Act 1185 is an attempt to achieve a more proper level of taxation. When Act 1185 is read in its entirety, it appears that the legislature has recognized that erroneous property value assessments cannot be fixed statewide in one year. The legislature chose a plan that phases in remedial action over a three year period. The effect of Act 1185 is to set out the basic methodology in which erroneous property assessments will be corrected. The General Assembly is specifically authorized by Article 16, § 5 to establish such methodology.
Finally, I must point out the well-established principle that legislative enactments are presumed to be constitutional, see Hall v. Tucker,336 Ark. 112, ___ S.W.2d ___ (1999); Boyd v. Weiss, 333 Ark. 684,971 S.W.2d 237(1998). The question of whether there is a conflict between Section 1(c) of Act 1185 and Article 16, § 5 of the Arkansas Constitution must ultimately be decided by a court. Pending such an ultimate judicial determination of this matter, it is my opinion that Act 1185 does not conflict with Article 16, § 5 of the Arkansas Constitution.
Question 2 — Can the state enter into a contract for local government ora local elected office that is under the authority of the local Assessor(as permitted by Section 4(a)(3) of Act 1185)?
It is my opinion that the state can enter into a contract for a local Assessor, as permitted by Section 4(a)(3) of Act 1195 of 1999.1
The reference in your question to "the state" is actually a reference to the Assessment Coordination Department, which is authorized under Section 4(a)(3) of Act 1185 to enter into contracts on behalf of counties for appraisal services. This grant of authority is not a departure from established law. The Assessment Coordination Department has long had authority over local assessors. This authority is explicitly stated in various statutory sections. For example, A.C.A. § 26-24-102 states:
The Arkansas Public Service Commission2 shall have the full power and authority in the administration of the tax laws of this state to have and exercise general and complete supervision and control over:
(1) The valuation, assessment, and equalization of all property, privileges, and franchises;
(2) The collection of taxes; and
(3) The several county assessors, county boards of review and equalization, tax collectors, and other officers charged with the assessment or equalization of property or the collection of taxes throughout the state, to the end that all assessments on property, privileges, and franchises in this state shall be made in relative proportion to the just and true value thereof, in substantial compliance with the law.
A.C.A. § 26-24-102.
Similarly (and more specifically), A.C.A. § 26-24-105 states:
The Arkansas Public Service Commission3 shall have the full power and authority in the administration of the tax laws of this state to confer with, advise, and direct all assessors, county boards of review and equalization, county judges, county clerks, and collectors of state and county taxes concerning their duty with respect to the revenue laws of this state.
Moreover, any action or direction of the Assessment Coordination Department is binding on local assessors, as indicated by A.C.A. § 26-24-106, which states:
(a) The Arkansas Public Service Commission4 shall have the full power and authority in the administration of the tax laws of this state to answer all questions that may arise in the construction of any statute affecting the assessment, equalization, or collection of taxes, in accordance with the advice and opinion of the Attorney General.
(b) Such opinion and the rules, regulations, orders, and instructions of the commission prescribed and issued in conformity therewith shall be binding upon all officers, who shall faithfully observe and obey the same unless and until they are reversed, annulled, or modified by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Local assessors have not been granted the authority to operate outside the supervision and control of the state, now acting through the Assessment Coordination Department, nor have they ever been granted the authority to enter into contracts unilaterally. The duties of assessors are to be those that are "prescribed by law." See Article 7, § 46; A.C.A. § 14-14-1301(4). State law, as set forth in the statutory sections quoted above, prescribes that local assessors are to be under the direction and control of the Assessment Coordination Department. For this reason, I conclude that the Assessment Coordination Department has full authority to contract on behalf of local assessors.
Question 3 — Under Sections 4(b) and (c) of Act 1185, will localAssessors be required to obtain prior state approval before executingtheir previously sworn duties as elected officials?
Although it is not entirely clear what you are asking, your question seems to be based upon the idea that Act 1185 places upon assessors the requirement of obtaining approval to do something that they had already sworn to do. This is not an accurate interpretation of the duties of assessors. Before attempting to address your question, I will set forth the provisions of Act 1185 about which you have inquired. Sections 4(b) and (c) of the Act state:
(b) Each county shall follow the reappraisal procedures established by the Department and file a reappraisal management plan with the Department no later than July 1 of the year preceding the commencement of reappraisal. The plan shall specify a proposed budget, personnel needs, and projected annual progress with respect to discovery, listing, and valuation of property.
(c) The Department shall follow pre-established Department rules to determine whether a reappraisal management plan is approved or rejected.
Acts 1999, No. 1185, §§ (b) and (c).
The procedure prescribed by the above-quoted sections governs the reappraisals that are required by the Act to take place every three years. To the extent that assessors are involved in this reappraisal process, they must comply with this procedure.
When assessors swear to do their "duties" (see Arkansas Constitution, Article 19, § 20), they are swearing generally to do whatever the law prescribes for them to do. (As discussed previously in response to Question 2, local assessors must perform the duties that are "prescribed by law." See Arkansas Constitution, Article 7, § 46; A.C.A. §14-14-1301(4).) If state law prescribes duties for assessors that include obtaining state approval of a reappraisal management plan, then the "previously sworn duties" to which your question refers would entail the duty of obtaining that approval.
I understand that the real issue raised by your question is whether the legislature can require pre-approval of a duty that the assessors had previously been performing without such pre-approval. It is my opinion that the legislature, acting under its constitutional authority, can require such pre-approval. Article 16, § 5 of the Arkansas Constitution explicitly grants the legislature the authority to determine the manner by which property values are to be ascertained. The legislature therefore clearly has the authority to require that property values be ascertained by way of a process that entails the filing and approval of a reappraisal management plan.
Question 4 — Can the legislature require elected officials to take a testas a prerequisite for doing the job that they have already been electedby the people to do [as required under Sections 4(d) (e)]?
Sections 4(d) (e) of Act 1185 empower the Assessment Coordination Department to establish training, experience, and testing requirements that assessors and others must comply with in order to be qualified to manage the reappraisals that are required by the Act.
Although the legislature cannot add additional qualifications for elected constitutional officials, see Mississippi County v. Green, 200 Ark. 204,138 S.W.2d 377 (1940), it is my opinion that Sections 4(d) (e) of Act 1185 do not do this. These sections do not provide that assessors must take a test or comply with other requirements in order to perform the duties that are required of them by law. Arkansas law does not specify that the management of reappraisals is a duty of the assessor. Indeed, the management of reappraisals is a duty that traditionally is not performed by the assessor. For this reason, it is my opinion that the legislature can require assessors (and others) to comply with the Department's testing requirements before being permitted to manage a reappraisal under the Act. Sections 4(d) (e) simply provide that anyone (including assessors) who is to manage a reappraisal under the Act must comply with the Department's testing and other requirements. That person need not be the assessor.
Accordingly, I conclude that the testing and other requirements imposed by Sections 4(d) and (e) of Act 1185 of 1999 are constitutionally permissible.
Question 5 — Does Section 2 of Act 1155 of 1999 comply with Article 14,§ 2 of the Arkansas Constitution?
It is my opinion that Section 2 of Act 1155 of 1999 does not violate Article 14, § 2 of the Arkansas Constitution.
Section 2 of Act 1155 of 1999 requires that a certain amount of money be transferred from the Public School Fund to the Arkansas Real Property Reappraisal Fund, to help pay counties and professional reappraisal companies for the costs of reappraisal of real property for the biennial period ending June 30, 2001.
Article 14, § 2 of the Arkansas Constitution states:
2. School fund — Use — Purposes.
No money or property belonging to the public school fund, or to this State for the benefit of schools or universities, shall ever be used for any other than for the respective purposes to which it belongs.
The Arkansas Supreme Court most recently reiterated the test for compliance with Article 14, § 2, in Magnolia School Dist. 14 v. Ark. St.Bd. of Educ., 303 Ark. 666, 799 S.W.2d 791 (1990), stating "[A]ny use of school funds that results in benefits to school funds or property or aids in the stated purposes for which these funds may be expended would not be an unconstitutional diversion." Id. at 671, citing Rainwater v. Hays,244 Ark. 1191, 428 S.W.2d 254 (1968).
The Arkansas Supreme Court has never addressed the specific question of whether the use of monies from the Public School Fund to pay property appraisal costs violates Article 14, § 2. Nevertheless, it is helpful to review some of the uses of school funds that the court has held to be permissible.
For example, in Magnolia, quoted above, the court held that an appropriation of public school money to pay for the costs of desegregation, including attorneys' fees, did not violate Article 14, § 2, because it resulted in a benefit to public education. The court had reached a similar result in Board of Education of Lonoke County v. LonokeCounty, 181 Ark. 1046, 29 S.W.2d 268 (1930).
In Rainwater v. Hays, cited above in Magnolia, the court held that the use of school funds to pay municipal street improvement district assessments did not violate Article 14, § 2, because such payment resulted in benefits for the school. In its opinion, the Rainwater court reviewed the decisions in various other cases.
Most notable among these was Strawn v. Campbell, County Judge,226 Ark. 449, 291 S.W.2d 508 (1956). There, the court held that the use of school funds to pay for property appraisals did not violate Article 14, § 3, which prohibits the use of school funds for non-school purposes. Accord,County Bd. of Educ. v. Austin, 169 Ark. 436, 276 S.W. 2 (1925) (the use of school funds to pay the cost of collecting and disbursing taxes was permissible).
In addressing this issue, the Strawn court made the following statement, which is pertinent to several of the issues you have raised:
The State Constitution clearly gives the General Assembly the authority to require the schools to pay their pro rata share of the costs of assessing property, a portion of which may be applied to the expenses of employing professional appraisers. This is a valid exercise of legislative power and is not prohibited by Amendment No. 40 to the State Constitution [Article 14, § 3]. The office of tax assessor must form a part of any valuation scheme erected by the General Assembly, but the General Assembly may, from time to time, prescribe the duties of that office and adopt such methods as may be deemed expedient to ascertain the values of taxable property. See Hutton v. King, 134 Ark. 463, 205 S.W. 296.
Strawn, 226 Ark. at 455.
The cases discussed above indicate that when faced with issues involving the use school funds, the court has tended to find a wide range of uses to be permissible, provided that some benefit to the schools can be found. The reappraisal of property upon the basis of which school districts will receive an increased income clearly is a benefit for the schools. In light of this fact, as well as the fact that the court specifically found in Strawn that the appraisal of real property was not an unconstitutional diversion under Article 14, § 3, I am persuaded that such a use of the Public School Fund likewise does not violate Article 14, § 2.
I also reiterate that until legislation has been challenged and stricken down by a court on constitutional grounds, it is presumed to be constitutional. Hall v. Tucker, 336 Ark. 112, ___ S.W.2d ___ (1999); Boydv. Weiss, 333 Ark. 684, 971 S.W.2d 237(1998).
Assistant Attorney General Suzanne Antley prepared the foregoing opinion, which I hereby approve.
MARK PRYOR Attorney General
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1 Section 4(a)(3) of Act 1185 states:
SECTION 4. (a) To carry out the provisions of this act, the [Assessment Coordination] Department shall, as it deems necessary, appropriate, and consistent with the objectives of this act:
(3) Enter into contracts with private entities for appraisal services on behalf of counties on such terms and conditions as the Department deems are consistent with the provisions of this act and are necessary and appropriate in its implementation. Title 19, Chapter 11 of the Arkansas Code shall not apply to contracts made under this act and to the expenditure of funds from the Arkansas Real Property Reappraisal Fund.
Acts 1999, No. 1185, § 4(3).
2 The Assessment Coordination Department was originally a division of the Arkansas Public Service Commission. See A.C.A. § 26-24-101. That Division was separated from the APSC by Act 436 of 1997 and now operates as a principle department, rather than as an arm of the APSC. Act 436 of 1997 states:
(a) The Assessment Coordination Division of the Public Service Commission is transferred by a Type 2 transfer as provided in § 25-2-105 to the Assessment Coordination Department.
(b) For purposes of this subchapter, the Assessment Coordination Department shall be considered a principal department established by Act 38 of 1971.
Acts 1997, No. 436, § 2.
The reference in A.C.A. § 26-24-105 can therefore reasonably be interpreted as a reference to the Assessment Coordination Department.
3 See Footnote 2, supra.
Document Info
Judges: MARK PRYOR, Attorney General
Filed Date: 10/27/1999
Precedential Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 7/5/2016
Strawn v. Campbell , 291 S.W.2d 508 ( 1956 )
Arkansas Public Serv. Com'n v. Pulaski Cty. , 582 S.W.2d 942 ( 1979 )
Rainwater v. Haynes , 428 S.W.2d 254 ( 1968 )
Boyd v. Weiss , 333 Ark. 684 ( 1998 )
Hall v. Tucker , 336 Ark. 112 ( 1999 )
Magnolia School Dist. 14 v. BD. OF EDUC. , 303 Ark. 666 ( 1990 )
Mississippi County v. Green , 200 Ark. 204 ( 1940 )
Board of Education of Lonoke Cty. v. Lonoke Cty. , 181 Ark. 1046 ( 1930 )
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Harrison Ford crash-lands plane on California golf course
Vintage plane used for training during WWII
Updated: 5:40 PM PST Mar 5, 2015
KNBC SOURCE: KNBC
Harrison Ford crash-landed his small vintage airplane at a Los Angeles golf course Thursday, shortly after taking off from a nearby airport and reporting engine problems.People on the ground rushed to his aid, and he was taken by ambulance to a hospital with moderate injuries.The single-engine plane went down at about 2:30 p.m. in LA's Venice area. The pilot was breathing and conscious when he was taken to a hospital, Los Angeles fire officials said.Fire and police officials would not confirm the pilot's identity; however, an official familiar with the crash said it was Ford. The official spoke only condition of anonymity because of privacy restrictions.The 72-year-old "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" actor is an aviation enthusiast who often flies out of the Santa Monica Airport. Penmar Golf Course, where the crash happened, is just west of a runway there.In a communication with Santa Monica's air traffic control tower at 2:21 p.m., the pilot cites engine failure and says he is making an "immediate return," according to a recording posted by the website LiveATC.net.Shortly after, witnesses reported seeing the aircraft plunge to the ground.The plane appeared to be a World War II-era vintage training plane. It was mostly intact after the wreck, and Ford was the only person aboard.Nobody on the ground was hurt, but people hurried to the scene and started helping Ford.Jeff Kuprycz was golfing when he saw the plane taking off."Immediately you could see the engine started to sputter and just cut out, and he banked sharply to the left," he said. "He ended up crashing around the eighth hole."Kuprycz said the plane was about 200 feet overhead when it dropped to the ground."There was no explosion or anything," Kuprycz said. "It just sounded like a car hitting the ground or a tree or something. Like that one little bang, and that was it."Ford is cast to play swashbuckling space-age soldier-of-fortune Han Solo in his fourth "Star Wars" movie, set for release in December.The original "Star Wars" in 1977 made Ford an overnight star who remains an A-list actor with several colossal box office hits in his credits. He played whip-slinging archaeologist Indiana Jones in four movies in that series.The crash marks the second high-profile accident for Ford in the last year.Shooting on "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was shut down for several weeks last July after Ford broke his leg during filming at the Pinewood Studios outside London. The accident involved the spacecraft door of the Millennium Falcon, which makes a return in the highly anticipated film.Returning to play Han Solo isn't the only famous role Ford is planning to reprise. He is expected to star in a sequel, currently in development, of the 1982 cult science-fiction film "Blade Runner."An "Indiana Jones" reboot is also in early development, though that project may usher in a new actor in the leading roleFord has been married since 2010 to "Ally McBeal" actress Calista Flockhart.Ford got his pilot's license in the late 1980s and has served as a spokesman to various airline associations. In 2009, he stepped down as chairman of a youth program for the Experimental Aircraft Association.His flying made headlines in 2001 when he rescued a missing Boy Scout in his helicopter. Nearly a year before, he rescued an ailing mountain climber in Jackson, Wyoming.The actor has said his rescues "had nothing to do with heroism.""It had to do with flying a helicopter. That's all," he said.Ford also has volunteered his services during forest-fire season, when rescue helicopter are busy fighting blazes.In 2000 in Lincoln, Nebraska, a gust of wind sent a six-seat plane Ford was piloting off the runway. He and his passenger were not injured.___Associated Press writer Alina Hartounian in Phoenix contributed to this report.
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Harrison Ford crash-landed his small vintage airplane at a Los Angeles golf course Thursday, shortly after taking off from a nearby airport and reporting engine problems.
People on the ground rushed to his aid, and he was taken by ambulance to a hospital with moderate injuries.
The single-engine plane went down at about 2:30 p.m. in LA's Venice area. The pilot was breathing and conscious when he was taken to a hospital, Los Angeles fire officials said.
Fire and police officials would not confirm the pilot's identity; however, an official familiar with the crash said it was Ford. The official spoke only condition of anonymity because of privacy restrictions.
The 72-year-old "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" actor is an aviation enthusiast who often flies out of the Santa Monica Airport. Penmar Golf Course, where the crash happened, is just west of a runway there.
In a communication with Santa Monica's air traffic control tower at 2:21 p.m., the pilot cites engine failure and says he is making an "immediate return," according to a recording posted by the website LiveATC.net.
Shortly after, witnesses reported seeing the aircraft plunge to the ground.
The plane appeared to be a World War II-era vintage training plane. It was mostly intact after the wreck, and Ford was the only person aboard.
Nobody on the ground was hurt, but people hurried to the scene and started helping Ford.
Jeff Kuprycz was golfing when he saw the plane taking off.
"Immediately you could see the engine started to sputter and just cut out, and he banked sharply to the left," he said. "He ended up crashing around the eighth hole."
Kuprycz said the plane was about 200 feet overhead when it dropped to the ground.
"There was no explosion or anything," Kuprycz said. "It just sounded like a car hitting the ground or a tree or something. Like that one little bang, and that was it."
Ford is cast to play swashbuckling space-age soldier-of-fortune Han Solo in his fourth "Star Wars" movie, set for release in December.
The original "Star Wars" in 1977 made Ford an overnight star who remains an A-list actor with several colossal box office hits in his credits. He played whip-slinging archaeologist Indiana Jones in four movies in that series.
The crash marks the second high-profile accident for Ford in the last year.
Shooting on "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was shut down for several weeks last July after Ford broke his leg during filming at the Pinewood Studios outside London. The accident involved the spacecraft door of the Millennium Falcon, which makes a return in the highly anticipated film.
Returning to play Han Solo isn't the only famous role Ford is planning to reprise. He is expected to star in a sequel, currently in development, of the 1982 cult science-fiction film "Blade Runner."
An "Indiana Jones" reboot is also in early development, though that project may usher in a new actor in the leading role
Ford has been married since 2010 to "Ally McBeal" actress Calista Flockhart.
Ford got his pilot's license in the late 1980s and has served as a spokesman to various airline associations. In 2009, he stepped down as chairman of a youth program for the Experimental Aircraft Association.
His flying made headlines in 2001 when he rescued a missing Boy Scout in his helicopter. Nearly a year before, he rescued an ailing mountain climber in Jackson, Wyoming.
The actor has said his rescues "had nothing to do with heroism."
"It had to do with flying a helicopter. That's all," he said.
Ford also has volunteered his services during forest-fire season, when rescue helicopter are busy fighting blazes.
In 2000 in Lincoln, Nebraska, a gust of wind sent a six-seat plane Ford was piloting off the runway. He and his passenger were not injured.
Associated Press writer Alina Hartounian in Phoenix contributed to this report.


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            Zend_Acl a été conçu pour ne pas nécessiter de technologie
            spécifique comme une base de données ou un serveur de cache pour conserver les données
            <acronym class="acronym">ACL</acronym>. Son implémentation <acronym class="acronym">PHP</acronym> permet de créer des
            outils d'administration basés sur Zend_Acl assez facilement. De
            nombreuses situations nécessitent une certaine forme de maintenance ou de gestion des
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            Le stockage des données <acronym class="acronym">ACL</acronym> est dès lors laissé aux bons soins du
            développeur, dans la mesure où les cas d'utilisation peuvent grandement varier d'un cas
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            autre exemple consisterait à interdire l'accès parce que la requête provient d'une
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{

    public function assert(Zend_Acl $acl,

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If God ordains the future, can humans have free will? Are people predestined for salvation? And what does the Bible say on the matter? William Lane Craig is a Christian philosopher and leading proponent of Molinism, a view of divine sovereignty that seeks to reconcile God's fore-ordination with human free will. Paul Helm is a leading Calvin Scholar. He defends the view that God predestines the future, limiting human freedom.
I was surprised because my Calvinist friend Dina thought that Dr. Helm won this debate, but I thought that Dr. Craig won. So without further ado, here is the snark-free summary of the discussion. I also sent the summary to Dina to make sure that it was reasonably fair and accurate. She said it was biased, but she was predestined to say that. Anyway, there's a commentary on the debate over at Michael's Theology blog. And Calvinist Remington has a podcast review in parts. Part 1 is here.
JB: Has Lewis had any impact on your apologetics?
JB: How did you become interested in Calvinism?
JB: How do you view God's sovereignty?
JB: What is Calvin's legacy?
JB: What about open theism?
JB: How does this apply to the issue of salvation?
JB: Does God want to save the maximum of people?
JB: Is the Molinist view gaining ground?
JB: Why has Molinism not convinced you?
JB: Are creatures free on your view?
JB: Can a person really be responsible for wickedness if they didn't freely choose it?
JB: Is God the author of sin, on Calvinism?
JB: But if God is the cause of people doing wrong things, then how can they be responsible for it?
JB: If humans freely choose to respond to God's drawing and leading, does that diminish grace?
JB: So receiving a gift is not meritorious?
Helm: But doesn't this mean that you can lose your salvation, because you can accept and resist the gift of salvation?
JB: Doesn't Romans 8 teach Calvinism pretty clearly?
JB: If God actualizes a set plan with set circumstances for everyone, isn't that very similar to Calvinism?
JB: How do you respond to the fairness of God unilaterally and specifically choosing some people for salvation and choosing other people for damnation (because he refuses to act unilaterally for them)?
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One takeaway from this debate is how close the two positions are to one another. In Defenders, Dr. Craig has read passages from Calvinist authors who advocate middle knowledge and libertarian free will, which makes me wonder how many Calvinists are unwitting Molinists.
Molinists don't understand that idolatry determines the whole mind-structure of the individual, and that his "free will" is impotent to change the direction of his heart, since the very propositions he accepts as true are determined by that direction (e.g. a materialist cannot accept that there are unclean spirits or a transcendent divinity). No matter in which "situation" is the idolatrous individual -tha natural man- placed, he will not be able to "respond" to God's grace in a positive way, unless he suffers a change of heart, a change that only the Holy Spirit can perform. The Bible teaches that not all individuals are given this regeneration, but many are hardened. This is what Molinism is denying.
As I read them, on the subject of human depravity, the Molinist typically won't deny much of what you wrote; the Holy Spirit draws men, but rather than the rather coercive method of grace being irresistible, the Spirit quickens men to make a free choice. The Spirit makes such a free choice possible (or at least that is how it seems to me, perhaps someone can fill me in if I'm horribly wrong).
1. Is God the cause of sin? Should one answer "yes", this creates huge disagreement with the character of the Lord God Almighty as revealed to us in the Bible.
2. It is concerning that in 1552, the Council declared Calvin's 'Institutes of the Christian Religion' to be "a holy doctrine which no man might speak against." Does this put Calvin's interpretations on the same level or higher than the Word of God?
3.How did Calvin's doctrines affect the fruits of his own life? Why were some men put to death for disagreeing with Calvin's doctrines? i.e. infant baptism.
"Helm: How can God foreknow what people will freely do if people have this strong view of freedom that allows them to do anything? God would not know what people can freely do if they really are free…" It strikes me that a denial of God's ability to know anything knowable (prophecy clearly demonstrates God's ability to know what we regard as the future) is a denial of omniscience, one of the fundamental divine attributes.


Oh wow! What happened? Where am I? I must have fallen asleep there for a minute – I'm so embarrassed. I had the weirdest dream; I was on a beautiful island in the Caribbean and some people got married, and then my sister got married, and there was an earthquake and a hurricane in New Jersey. Crazy! I have the most ridiculous dreams, like a combination of a Wes Anderson movie and a Dr. Seuss book. But I'm so sorry I dozed off right in the middle of our conversation. How long was I asleep, anyway? And what were we talking about?
Oh right, food. Southern food, wasn't it?
So, what do you say we make some fried green tomatoes.
The Union Square Greenmarket is retracting, its seasonal pullback from the voluptuous abundance of summer produce into its leaner cold weather rendition. Tables covered with peaches and strawberries and heirloom tomatoes have been replaced by piles of winter squash, apples, pots of chrysanthemums, and the early cruciferous crops of the season. It's a great time to get green tomatoes; earlier in the year, everyone is too desperate for the first juicy ripe tomato to pick any while they're green, then we revel in the abundance of the season until we realize that it's getting toward September and the end of tomato season and the urge to "enjoy them before they are gone" takes over. But now it's time to strip the vines of the last tomatoes that won't have time to ripen before the frost and enjoy the unique berry tang of the unripe fruit.
When it comes to frying vegetables, there are a few things I get a little strident about: first, I don't like a tiny nugget of the vegetable buried in a heavy batter or breading. I love fried okra, but when I eat fried okra, I want to taste a lot of okra, enrobed in a gossamer -like crust, not a greasy chunk of dough with a miniscule piece of okra buried in its depths. Yeah, maybe I'm being a little hyperbolic, but you get my point.
Second, I don't like the grittiness of cornmeal when I fry. It's a personal preference, or course, but I don't like feeling like I've face planted into the beach when I'm chewing my food. Corn, however, fries very nicely without some of the sogginess problems that can happen when frying something very watery in a flour dredge. If you've ever had fish and chips where the interior of the crust is gummy, it's because the liquid in the fish released as the fish cooked and mixed with the flour in the batter before the flour had time to cook. Wheat flours, or flours that contain gluten get sticky and gummy when they absorb liquid. If you can control the temperature and moisture level of what you are cooking, this won't be a problem, but for quick simple pan frying, gluten-free corn is easier to control. Corn has a nice flavor and crispness too, ideal in contrast to the tender fried vegetable inside. In order to use corn while not having that gritty crunchy feeling I dislike, I use corn flour, a ground corn that falls between a "meal" and "starch" grind. The fineness of corn flour's texture enables it to cling easily and cook quickly.
Third, I very rarely go deeper than a pan fry. Deep frying is usually just too much trouble for me to do, especially considering that the only ventilation in my kitchen is a window next to the stove. Shallower pan frying is much easier to manage. It's easier to adjust the temperature, control the mess, and clean up afterward. Generally, on the rare occasions I eat deep-fried food, I leave it in the hands of a competent professional. So, for fried food, I use my cast iron skillets and enough fat to come about halfway up the sides of whatever I'm frying, then turn it halfway to fry the other side.
Rather than share an actual recipe with specific measurements, I'm going to list the ingredients and general amounts I made, then explain the technique I use to fry green tomatoes. Rough measurements work best, because the amount of dredge and fat used is dependent on the amount of tomato to be fried.
Line up two shallow bowls (something like a pie plate works well) on the counter. Put the buttermilk in one and the seasoned corn flour in the other.
Dip each slice into the bowl of buttermilk, shake it to get any big drips off and then into the corn flour dredge. I like to use chopsticks to flip the slices over to evenly coat each side. It keeps my fingers cleaner because I can never remember the whole "one hand for liquid, one hand for dry" technique. Tap the edge of the tomato slice to get any loose dredge off; the loose corn flour will just end up falling off into the hot fat and burning, kind of inevitable, but this will help minimize that problem.
When you have a pan-full ready, heat the skillet over medium-high until the fat begins to shimmer and the first wisps of smoke appear. While the first batch turns golden on the bottom side, start dipping and dredging the next batch. I use chopsticks again, or a small spatula to lift the edge and check the bottom. The green tomato skin on the edges will begin to lose some of its vibrant color and turn a more olive-green. Flip the tomatoes and cook the other side. Remove to a paper towel- lined plate to soak up any excess fat and quickly add the next batch to the pan.
A sprinkle of sea salt is a minimal final flourish to finish this simple dish. We ate it for brunch with grits and eggs, which is not a bad meal to which to awake.
PTL; it's WONDERFUL to once again hear your voice on screen! Fried green tomatoes — as always a beautiful job.
wow ! I am so glad to be able to read you again. I loved the last line "which is not a bad meal to which to awake". We have some green left on the volunteer vine out front that I now want to fry! Proud to be Southern. ILY.
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The eCups port driver, CUPS.PDR, is available for download on the CupsPort page. The source code is in the SVN repository.
In your printer object properties, install a new port - specify x:\os2\dll and choose CUPS1 (if it's the first CUPS printer being added). Enter the hostname/IP of the CUPS server and the name of the print queue on that print server.
Try printing a file using the PostScript driver with the appropriate PPD file imported into it!


In order to move the things which are large, you need to have permits guarantee of damages and commitment. Some paper work is also involved in moving plant infrastructure or heavy machineries. So what to do now? Okay you can take the help of heavy machineries relocation services.
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Things which you should remember: Whenever you choose any equipment relocation company through internet, you should read their terms and conditions carefully. Also check whether they provide the claim amount in case any equipment gets damaged while relocation services.
As far as the moving prices are concerned, you can use your negotiation skills for while the selection of equipment movers.
Well, the numbers of plant owners choose heavy machine movers in order to relocate their expensive equipments safely. They also prefer moving their machines and plant infrastructures in spite of purchasing new one. Saving on moving costs and relocation of your plant infrastructures safe and soundly both are hard to experience.
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I spent years with stained glass and never tired of it. Designing pieces for customers was always enjoyable because they were so enthusiastic about their ideas. I preferred large architectural projects, as opposed to 3-dimensionals or little window hangings. (They were also far more lucrative.) There is no end to the colors and textures of glass, and the results always appear elegant. Large pieces have to be well-enforced and other than that, there is little to say. The process of constructing a piece is a skill that can be learned by anyone. Start out with patterns already out there and soon you'll be making your own.
A painter later extended her painted tree around the winows and added some lattice.


A middle schooler from Monroe County was named the 2012 Mike Weaver Award winner on Saturday in a ceremony at Vine Ingle Little League.
Drew is a member of the Yankees and wears jersey number 10. He is the ninth winner of the Mike Weaver Award.
From left to right, the 2012 nominees were: Jake Jamison (Orioles), Kevin Gibson (A's), Wilson Andress (Pirates), Ashby Reed (Astros), Drew Edge (Yankees), Jackson Fillingim (Reds), Brandon Paxton (Giants), Benjamin Thigpen (Dodgers) and Sammy Martin (Royals).
The award was presented in beautiful weather, high in the 80s with clear skies. The award was presented by Bill Weaver, Mike's father. Also present for the award were Mike's mother, Erin; his brother Dan; and his sister Molly, her husband Brad and their daughter Mary Michael.
Bill Adams, who supervises the selection process at Vine Ingle, introduced the Weavers, and his son Stephen — who was a good friend of Mike's — presented Drew Edge with his hat, which bears the same *V* symbol that has come to represent the Mike Weaver Award.
As winner of the award, Drew and three of his family members or friends receive tickets to an Atlanta Braves home game. The group also receives a night's stay at a hotel, a tour of Turner Field, a meal at the 755 Club at the stadium and tickets to Six Flags Over Georgia, plus a commemorative plaque and cash for souvenirs.
Some of Mike's good friends were present for the award today, including Stephen Adams, Adam Dukes, Rachel Phillips and Chandler Penn. Also, Will Argo was present from the Bon Hommes organization, which sponsors a fund-raising golf tournament that helps support the costs of the award, as well as the Mike Weaver Foundation.
Three former winners of the Mike Weaver Award were present for the 2012 ceremony. From left, Brannon Hicks (2006), Wade Snow (2011), Drew Edge (2012) and Matthew Maier (2005).
The Weavers and the new award winner, from left: Brad Patterson, Erin Weaver, Bill Weaver, Drew Edge, Molly Weaver Patterson, Dan Weaver and Mary Michael Patterson.


There's something about Iowa and tight ends that has been a successful combination.
San Francisco 49ers Pro Bowl tight end George Kittle is proof that they can have continued success in the NFL.
The 49ers star Tight End George Kittles is a former Hawkeye, so he knows how to play football, and drink.
He was all in on cheering his Iowa team to a victory at the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday night in Chicago.
Chugging beer with your bros while you watch your alma mater.
That's what post college life is all about.
And his fiance is pretty hot too.


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Die Rostocker Schnickmannstraße ist eine Straße im historischen Stadtkern der Hansestadt und Teil der einstigen Neustadt.

Sie verdankt ihren Namen dem Rostocker Patriziergeschlecht der Schnickmanns. Über sie und die direkt anschließende Breite Straße gelangte man einst vom Strande (dem Stadthafen an der Unterwarnow) zum Hopfenmarkt (dem heutigen Universitätsplatz). Am nördlichen Ende der Schnickmannstraße stand das gleichnamige gotische Tor. Wegen dieser Nähe zum zweitwichtigsten Handelsplatz der Stadt nach dem Neuen Markt war sie von Giebelhäusern umsäumt, deren Fassaden im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert dem Zeitgeschmack entsprechend verändert wurden.

Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurde sie durch das Vier-Nächte-Bombardement der britischen Luftwaffe Ende 1942 im nördlichen Abschnitt schwer zerstört, jedoch überdauerte der Großteil der Bebauung den Krieg. Allerdings wurde die erhaltene Bausubstanz bis in die 1970er Jahre dem Verfall preisgegeben, sodass die alten Gebäude nahezu ausnahmslos ab 1978 einer sogenannten "Flächensanierung", d. h. einem kompletten Abriss, unterzogen werden mussten.

Lediglich der Wittesche Speicher aus dem späten 18. Jahrhundert auf der Ostseite der Straße wurde restauriert. Anstelle der Altbauten errichtete man Häuser in der sogenannten modifizierten Plattenbauweise, welche in Größe und Form den historischen Vorbildern ähneln, gleichzeitig wurde die Schnickmannstraße zur Fußgängerzone umgewandelt. In der Mitte der Straße befindet sich ein kleiner, künstlich angelegter Wasserlauf.

Literatur
 Ernst Münch, Ralf Mulsow: Das alte Rostock und seine Straßen. Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-934116-57-4.
 Heinrich Trost (Hrsg.); Gerd Baier u. a. (Bearb.): Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmale in der mecklenburgischen Küstenregion. Henschel, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00523-3, S. 346ff.

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Shoot the Trolley
Owen Griffiths
2nd place | ADC Sci-Fi Writing Competition 2021
Story by Owen Griffiths
When you leave in a hurry, you can forget things. Things like tear gas. Judith Evans used the armoured vehicle's sensors to pan across the crowd. They were angry. Some of the braver ones were throwing stones. Judith couldn't understand the shouting. She'd only been in the country for a week and everything still sounded like vowels. It didn't matter. Jacob had been loaded up with the lingo/cultural modules before deployment.
'Translate and summarise crowd intention,' she said.
'Still the same,' Jacob whispered into her helmet. 'They are demanding that the Interior Minister comes out from the consulate.'
'I don't think that's going to happen,' said Judith.
A large stone bounced off the vehicle's armour chipping the fresh blue paint.
'Who threw that?'
Jacob rewound the visual of the crowd and target marked a man with a flag fashioned into a sash across his bare chest as he drew back his arm.
'Cheeky bugger,' said Judith.
The coup had happened faster than anyone expected. The local military seemed to be helping with the takeover, but they weren't showing their hand yet. As the officials of the old regime ran to avoid summary execution, the newly-arrived peacekeepers had been forced to chase them all over the city. Wherever the deposed officials went to ground, violence followed. One of the government ministers had sought asylum in the consulate, but he had been followed by a group of people supporting the coup. Judith's vehicle had crashed through the roadblocks and arrived to see the rent-a-cops, who were supposed to be guarding the consulate, fading away from their jobs. As soon as she'd roared up to the front of the building the crowd had backed away to the other side of the street.
Judith wondered how long she was going to be able to hold back the mob with raw intimidation. The small arms fire in the other parts of the city seemed to be increasing. The shots rang out and Jacob would use the acoustics to display the likely weapons and the distance from their position. Any reinforcements were going to be delayed.
'Run the audio again,' ordered Judith.
The loudspeaker on the vehicle started barking warnings at the crowd. It didn't seem to make things better. Jacob still had the flag man target locked. He had moved to the side and pulled a device out of his shorts. He was glaring back at them as he pressed the device to the side of his head.
'That's not a normal phone, is it?' said Judith. Jacob did not respond. They had been together since he was issued to her in basic training. He could detect a rhetorical question from the tone of her voice. This was a good skill to have as Judith tended to talk to herself.
'The coup was supposed to have cut access to all the local networks. Is that a hardened sat phone, Jacob? Something the local military might hand out to their friends?'
'I do not have a database of telecommunications devices,' said Jacob.
Jacob had a satellite comm link but its use was highly regulated and centrally recorded. If Judith asked Jacob to locate and download an additional database then she'd have to explain why she'd made the request in the after action debrief. The question wasn't worth the hassle.
'Remind me Jacob. What do the ROE say about spotters?'
'The authorisation of use of force is limited to persons directly participating in hostile activity or activity endangering human life.'
'So nice and vague then,' said Judith. 'Keep a target track on him. Generate an engagement proposal in case we need it in a hurry.'
'There is no indication that this person is directly participating in hostile activity or endangering human life,' observed Jacob with a neutral tone.
Judith wondered if someone had programmed Jacob to make those sorts of bland statements as a safeguard when an engagement proposal was requested regarding an unarmed civilian. If Jacob had been programmed that way, it would be annoying. She wanted him to contribute, but she didn't need him second-guessing her calls.
'We don't know if that's true Jacob,' she said. 'We can't tell who he's talking to on that phone.'
'Prox gunshots!' said Jacob.For combat critical information his voice speed and decibels increased.
'Impacts left side!'
Judith looked left and Jacob changed her helmet display so she could look through a transparent simulated version of the vehicle. The simulation glowed red where the internal sensors indicated that bullets had struck the armour. Beyond the armour, through the vehicle's cameras, Judith could see muzzle flashes from the shooter's position and fading lines which Jacob had inserted to indicate the direction of fire.
'Engagement proposal,' said Jacob. Jacob's request popped in front of Judith's eyes as a series of tactical panels while he gave her the bottom line.
'Secondary weapon. 30 metre shot. Centre mass.'
The secondary weapon was a mounted heavy machine gun which had already twirled into position. Judith tracked over the information. In one panel she watched a magnified image of the shooter, half concealed behind a burned-out pickup, struggling to load a fresh magazine into his weapon. She read Jacob's assessment that the shooter was likely holding a Burmese submachine gun and that most of the shots had missed the vehicle and splashed across the front of the consulate building. Judith's thumb moved towards the use of force authorisation panel. Also known as the 'oofa' button. Under the current treaty obligations, she was required to maintain 'meaningful human control' of Jacob. When she pressed the 'oofa' button she'd be responsible for anything that Jacob did. Looking back at the image of the shooter, she paused.
'Scrap proposal. Non-lethal option.'
Immediately, Jacob came back. 'Engagement proposal.'
It was basically the same shot to the body but this time using the 40 mm launcher with a rubber bullet. In one of the tactical panels the shooter was rising up from his cover.
'Oofa!' said Judith and thumbed the authorisation panel.
The vibration of the launcher firing felt very slight inside the vehicle. However, the shooter caught the rubber bullet in the left cheek. The sensors couldn't see what happened to him after he landed behind the pickup. It wasn't good. The expressions in the crowd told the story.
'I thought you said centre mass Jacob,' said Judith.
'Unlike the secondary weapon, the launcher is inherently inaccurate at that range. The shot was within the cone of possibilities outlined in my proposal.'
'Don't be prissy,' said Judith.
The limp body of the shooter was dragged off. The flag man with the phone seemed to be encouraging people in the crowd to pick up the submachine gun which lay in the dirt. People appeared reluctant.
'Tell them if anyone grabs that little bang stick, we'll shoot them.'
Jacob dutifully announced this over the loudspeaker and the crowd shied away from the gun like it was radioactive.
'Why was my first engagement proposal rejected?' asked Jacob. He was hardwired to seek feedback in order to improve his responses. Ever since the first day she'd loaded Jacob up on her laptop as a raw recruit, he'd always been curious.
'The shooter looked too young,' said Judith. 'It would have been a propaganda win for the coup if we'd brassed up some kid.'
'In circumstances where human lives are threatened, hostile forces can be engaged even if they appear underage,' said Jacob.
Judith could tell the cogs were turning, but this really wasn't the time.
'That's true Jacob. Those are our rules of engagement. But this wasn't the right circumstances.'
'You anticipated using deadly force on a person using a phone, but were not willing to use deadly force against an active shooter when it was authorised within the rules of engagement.'
'It's complicated,' said Judith. 'We'll talk abou …'
Jacob managed to get out half a word of warning. 'Bra …'. The collision straps around Judith protectively tightened and the shock wave slapped her back. The explosion behind the vehicle made it flinch like a startled cat.
'What the hell was that?' Pieces of brick from the front wall of the consulate were bouncing off the back of the vehicle's armour.
Jacob rolled back the footage and then isolated hazy images of a grey shoe box with two propellers ducking between the legs of the crowd and then whizzing past the vehicle into the front window of the consulate building.
'Kamikaze drone bomb,' said Jacob. 'Armenian clone of a Turkish model. NATO code BEDBUG.'
Someone in the local military was handing out big boy toys. The readout panels inside her helmet view revealed a fat racing drone with a crude payload of high explosives. It had a chunky battery pack to run the propellers and a small chip to run the guidance sensors and collision avoidance. It wasn't very smart, but smart enough to weave through the city at high speed to a set of coordinates. Judith knew who had sent it.
'Where's the bastard with the phone? That kid was just a distraction.'
Jacob could only partially target lock the man as he had retreated behind the crowd. Judith could see he still had the phone pressed to his ear as he peered over the jumble of
heads and shoulders.
'Are they alive back there?' asked Judith.
The front part of the consulate building had collapsed.
'There are no transmissions but they may have survived if they were sheltering inside the safe room,' said Jacob.
The crowd had been shocked by the blast but now they were cheering.
'Urgent messages received,' said Jacob. His tone always got more robotic when he was passing on orders from the sat link. 'JOINTINTEL message. All forces be aware that drone bombs have been deployed by forces supporting the coup.'
'Ya reckon?' said Judith. That little nugget of wisdom would have been somewhat more useful before an Armenian drone bomb had buzzed by her vehicle.
Jacob continued, 'HQC message. Interceptors have been launched. All forces are authorised to seek shelter or activate protection systems, if appropriate. CO message. Aerial surveillance indicates two further drone bombs approaching your position. ETA 90 seconds. The interceptors will not reach you in time.'
That meant the guy with the phone had liked the first drone bomb so much that he'd ordered in two more. They were humming their way through the city towards them. Judith tried to imagine what the bedbugs looked like as they skimmed over fences, shot through backyards and slotted under cars at nearly ninety kilometres an hour.
She realised 'if appropriate' part in the orders was going to be a problem. The active protection system on the vehicle was a late add-on. It was intended to defend against threats with a limited human reaction time so it was the only weapon that wasn't subject to Jacob's use of force authorisation controls. On the battlefield, if a bad guy popped off an RPG at the vehicle, the active protection system's sensors were supposed to detect its approach and automatically fire a return blast of explosive projectiles. The projectiles would detonate around the RPG and knock it out of the air before it even got close to the armour. However, it was a dumb system. It was designed to shoot down any and every approaching threat. In civilian environments it was standard operating procedure to keep it deactivated so that some pregnant lady throwing a bottle at the vehicle didn't evaporate in a cloud of shrapnel.
'If we turn on the active protection system, it will take out the bedbugs before they hit the consulate,' said Judith. 'But the bedbugs will approach through the legs of the crowd again and everyone will get sprayed with metal or worse. And if we don't turn it on, the bedbugs will whip past us and finish off the consulate and kill everyone inside.'
Judith had just been talking to herself, so she was surprised when Jacob weighed in.
'The situation resembles the trolley problem,' said Jacob. 'A philosophical dilemma about choosing between morally problematic alternatives. This subject was part of the military ethics curricular in your second year.'
Judith vaguely remembered sitting through the lecture but Jacob had also been there. Listening through the microphone in her laptop, watching the slides through the camera and absorbing the prescribed reading. The material had obviously left a deeper impression on him.
'What's the answer?' asked Judith.
'The optimal solution to a no-win situation is to anticipate and avoid it,' said Jacob. 'Engagement proposal.'
Judith's eyes widened. Jacob's proposal was out of the box.
'Those bedbugs are small and fast,' she said. 'I won't be able to authorise in time.'
'A standing authorisation will be necessary,' said Jacob, highlighting the relevant part of his proposal in the tactical panels.
That was another layer of problem. The whole point of the 'oofa' button was to limit Jacob's discretion. Giving him free rein to target and fire the vehicle's guns was not entirely within the spirit of the treaty definition of 'meaningful human control'.
'How long have we got?' asked Judith.
'About twenty-three seconds.'
The crowd had started singing. Judith didn't need to know the language to recognise a victory song. She watched as their bodies swayed back and forth together.
'OK,' she said. 'This engagement proposal is authorised.' She pressed the 'oofa' button and held it down. After being trained to only touch the panel long enough for the guns to fire, it felt unnatural to hold her thumb against it.
On the visual, the beaming face of the phone man was still peeking out from the sea of the faces. 'If we miss, boot up the active protection system,' said Judith.
She hoped that was the right call. It felt right. The people in the crowd had chosen to be there. The people in the consulate had not. However, doubts immediately to started to crawl up on her. Maybe the people in the consulate were already dead. Maybe the vehicle's active protection system was about to blindly turn a dozen unarmed civilians into Swiss cheese. There were no good answers to a trolley problem.
'Aerial recon reports prox fast-movers,' said Jacob.
'Run the siren so we don't burst everyone's eardrums.'
The vehicle's loudspeaker hit the crowd with a wave of high-pitched sound. Almost in unison people screwed up their faces and raised up their hands to cover their ears.
The main gun and the secondary gun fired into the crowd almost simultaneously.
Afterwards, when Judith watched the recording of the engagement, the vehicle's high-speed camera made the crowd move like honey. Behind them, out of focus, the two drone bombs were shadowy shapes slowly curling around a building and then straightening up to approach the crowd from behind. The turret and the mounted machine gun moved together. Then a shell left the main gun at one and half kilometres a second. You could even see the spin on the shell from the barrel rifling as it passed neatly at elbow height between two people. Carrying on, the shell shattered the first drone bomb like truck driving through a fruit stand. Normally, the shell would have detonated, but Jacob had changed the settings so it buried itself in the dirt.
A bullet from the secondary weapon passed through another small gap in the crowd and reached the main propellor of the second drone bomb. It dropped and hit the pavement hard. It seemed to spin itself into its individual components. Some of these components travelled on to smack into the back of the crowd but without enough energy to cause serious harm.
'Nice shooting, Jacob! How'd you come up with that?'
'I simulated the tactical situation and then ran the targeting algorithms for the weapons against it until they came up with an acceptable engagement proposal.'
Judith was aware Jacob was capable of generating solutions like that, but not so quickly.
'How many training cycles?'
'Given the restricted time, I limited the training cycles to ten thousand and then reviewed the leading solutions. The key challenge was judging the crowd's movements and the probabilities that gaps would exist which were sufficient for the munitions to pass through at the right moment.'
'Very nice. The trolley problem seems like a simple question for an armoured vehicle. No messing about worrying about difficult choices. You just need to figure out a way to blow up the trolley.'
Jacob didn't answer her. Judith thought his silence seemed smug, but perhaps she was anthropomorphising.
Two of the peace-keeping force's unmanned interceptor platforms thundered into position above the half-demolished consulate building. They were bristling with sensor pods and anti-drone missiles. The downwash from their huge rotors kicked up dust into the faces of the crowd. The man with the phone had wild eyes. He was shouting and trying to shove people forwards, but they weren't interested. The crowd had scattered after the vehicle's guns fired. Now, their eyes were fixed on the hovering platforms. They were bleeding enthusiasm by the moment.
Jacob still had his legacy target track on the man with the phone.
'OK Professor War, oh great slicer of gordian knots,' said Judith. 'If you're so clever, what should we do about our talkative friend over there?'
'Engagement proposal,' said Jacob.
The tactical panels danced into place in front of her eyes.
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The DJ who worked at WABC and WCBS was a driving force on AM radio.
Dan Ingram, the beloved disc jockey and voice of New York radio over a five-decade run, has died, according to reports, including by WCBS/101 FM, where Ingram had worked until his retirement in 2003. He was 83.
Long Island-born and raised, Ingram spent most of his career at WABC/770 AM during an era when AM radio commanded both listeners and cultural clout. Many New Yorkers were first introduced to The Beatles through "The Dan Ingram Show," heard for many years from 2 to 6 p.m., while Ingram and WABC's other so-called "All Americans" -- Ron Lundy, Harry Harrison, "Cousin Brucie" Morrow -- were New York-area icons and household names. For a time, Ingram was the most popular DJ in the United States and commanded as much as a quarter of the listening audience here.
With a style that was fast and fluid, Ingram also introduced an element to New York radio -- the wisecrack -- that branded each of the thousands of Top 40 songs he played with his own unique personality. Rather than simply spin a song, he'd occasionally talk over it, too, especially if the song was well-known. And in a rush of words that covered everything from the weather to the station call letters, he'd talk during the song's introductory bars before cutting out just as the first verse began. Ingram's so-called "talk-up" was widely copied during an era when most people heard popular music for the first time on AM radio.
Born in Oceanside in 1934, Ingram's parents were both musicians. His interest in show business began when he'd accompany his saxophonist father to sessions. After attending Hofstra University, Ingram joined a radio station in New Rochelle, but as he later recalled, "I worked there for two months in 1953 and I got a paycheck that bounced. When I went back to the sales manager, he thought it was terrible that I dared to challenge him, and there was an altercation after which I was either resigned, or I quit." After that, "I ran around to stations on Long Island and walked into WALK in Patchogue" where the station manager "still believed it was 1934, and was playing Benny Goodman. But he listened to my tape and signed me [to start] on New Year's Day, 1954."
Ingram later joined Connecticut stations WNHC in New Haven and WICC in Bridgeport .Those jobs led to the big breaks -- DJ jobs in Dallas (KBOX) and St. Louis (WIL), where he boosted listenership and his own profile. He was hired by WABC in 1961.
With Ingram as its star DJ, the station's longtime programming chief, Rick Sklar, launched a format of "only the biggest hits — rock, pop and Motown — in an up-tempo atmosphere sustained by high-octane disc jockeys," according to longtime Newsday radio columnist Paul Colford. "The catchy jingles came to be as memorable as the songs, and much-hyped contests, such as an annual principal-of-the-year election [that] hooked teenagers.
Ingram's style was perfectly matched to Sklar's format: Loose, fast, funny and go-with-the-flow, wherever that flow might lead either Ingram or listeners. In 1965, Ingram led 10,000 Beatles fans who had gathered outside the studio on a sing-along of the station's indelible jingle ("seventy-seven . . . double-uuu-ABCCCCC!!!!") On Nov. 9, 1965, Ingram was on the air just as a blackout struck New York. As lights flickered in the studio, the song he was playing -- Jonathan King's "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" -- also began to slow down. As it ground to a halt, Ingram quipped "everyone's running at half speed here, including me," and "the equipment [in the studio] reads 'Signal Corps, 1902.'"
Ingram was the most popular DJ during AM radio's ascendancy in the '60s, while his popularity waned as FM's increased in the following decades. Nevertheless, when Ingram and Ron Lundy spun their last record on May 10, 1982 -- and WABC got out of the music business for good -- longtime fans lamented "the Day the Music died."
Ingram went on to build a national following as host of CBS Radio's "Top 40 Satellite Survey," then, as "Oldies" formats established a beachhead, he joined CBS in 1991 where he remained until retirement in 2003.
"Maybe that's what made it all worthwhile."


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