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John was recommended to me by two former clients who used him a while ago. He certainly knows about dogs and training, but his clear goal is to sign you up for private training, which is pricey, especially if your dog does not have big behavior issues. I opted for the group class which is also available to all of his private clients and provides exposure to other dogs. John did very little direct training during these classes. Dogs and owners spend a lot of time walking together in a circle then sitting and laying down while John provides advice and answers questions. Not the experience I'd hoped for.
Area Encinitas, CA
Cost Less than $250
Date March 2016
Posted: 3/22/2016 • Link to this review
I grew up without dogs, and scared of them too. Howevr, I finally gave in for my 11-year-old. We got Cookie (a lab retriever) when she was 8 weeks old.... I was so stressed over every move she had. I cried, yelled at my kids.... Until I found Denelle from Johnknowsdogs . Denelle showed us how to puppy prove our house, our yard, most importantly how to train Cookie. Now Cookie knows she has to sit and wait when I prepare her food, she has to calm down so I will pet her... Now I can feed her, walk her all by myself. I am not sacred anymore. People say :"tolerance is first sign of love" Denelle Rocks
Posted: 5/20/2011 • Link to this review
John has been INCREDIBLY helpful in training my 8 month old Australian Shepherd. Awesome techniques -- they work! Tuck was aggressive and unruly but after several in-home training sessions Tuck is obedient and showing major improvement. I am extremely happy with my dog's progress and John's training. Thanks John!
Posted: 2/11/2011 • Link to this review
Found John's Natural Dog Training company online. I am not sure about the training experience over the last 8 months. I am uncertain if it was the best method for our dogs.
Posted: 8/23/2010 • Last edited: 6/16/2011 • Link to this review
I have now had 6 weeks of dog training with John. I have two dog aggressive dogs. Through training with John I've seen huge results in how my dogs behave. I have found out that this is a process and does not happen overnight. I look forward to more sessions with John and group training. They're extremely patient and very informative with advice on how to train my dogs in a progressive way. Thank you!
Posted: 7/30/2010 • Link to this review
About 9 months ago, my husband and I adopted an one year old shepard mix from the shelter. Even though the shelter told us he was dog friendly, he began acting aggressively on his leash around other dogs within weeks. It was really shamefull to have our neighbors avoiding us on the street. My vet recommended John's Natural Dog Training and 2 of my neighbors had also used him. After John's first visit, we felt relieved. Our dog was able to socialize on leash with John's dogs and he explained that our problems were all due to a fight or flight instinct. He showed us how to correct our dog with the leash without getting mad or frustrated. After a few months of private lessons, we attended our first group class. We were amazed at how well our dog did around dozens of different dogs of all breeds and sizes. John explained that a dog is not trained in a month, and as we have been doing this consistantly for these 8 months, we can see that he is right. We are constantly learning new things and seeing improvement. We can proudly say that we have not had any aggressive outbursts in 4 months. We greet all of our neighbors, and have gone to 2 dog fairs, and go to dog park and dog beach. THANK YOU JOHN!!! We could'nt have done this without you! We will refer you to everyone who asks.
Posted: 7/30/2010 • Link to this review
We brought a very cute but needy 10 month old, female, sheperd mix home from Central Animal Shelter. I immediately contacted John's Natural Dog Training on the recommedation of my vet. That was the best thing I ever could have done for our dog and our family! Denelle worked with us at home, met me at dog park, took long walks with us, and has been a constant support for the past year. She included my children in the training, addressed all issues I put forth and has offered fantastic advice over and over again. Our dog has evolved into a fantastic companion who often makes me proud at dog school, thanks to Denelle! There is no way we could have done this without her! I have recommended Denelle and John's Natural Dog Training to everyone I know and will continue to do so.
Posted: 7/29/2010 • Link to this review
This is the worst training method in town. John, like several others mentioned, showed up for the first 2 appts on time, but cut the sessions short, even though we were paying for 2 dogs. By the 3rd session, it consisted of "walking on the boardwalk" with other "private" clients. No real personal instruction. We never completed our last course. As for the lifetime of group lessons to look forward to: if you call walking in a circle for 45 minutes, repeating the same exercises over and over again week after week with no variation something to look forward to, then go ahead! I personally don't think it's worth $600. On top of that, due to him yanking my dogs on the prong collars I was sold, they are more aggressive than before. I'm looking into a more positive, rather than punitive training method.
Posted: 7/04/2010 • Link to this review
We apologize to this client if we did not provide the service they believe they paid for. As we state on the material we provide to them at sign-up, sessions are 30 to 45 minutes in duration and we strictly adhere to that. This works best for the dog which is what we focus on. With two dogs we do require two handlers - or we will handle the second dog. Since this client has not contacted us personally, I am not sure which program they signed up for. Training dogs under distraction is what we strive for, especially if any sign of aggression or fear is indicated. We often use the boardwalk as a very effective tool for this. I am not sure what else the client would have preferred we do if their dogs have issues with other dogs or strangers. (Just working them in their own environment won't resolve issues they have outside of their home) If the client is "yanking" their dog on a prong collar (something we do not do and do not instruct our clients to do) then we indeed would like for them to call us so we can instruct them properly. Classes are fun for the dogs and we do many fun drills - as evidenced by the many honest reviews from dedicated owners who have left theirc positive comments here on KUDZU. Bottom-line - dog obedience training is a process. It takes many phases of training and progression to get good, solid and long lasting results. We at JNDTC believe that a quickly trained dog is not a well-trained dog. Most owners understand it is a process and are willing to put in the work, time and effort. I wish this client, whoever it is, the best of luck but encourage them to call us so we can help rectify the situation
I rescued an Akita who, while overly affectionate with people has/had some real aggression issues towards other dogs. She has been in several "scraps". My friends bought us sessions with John's company for my birthday, I upgraded to a Gold package to have access to ongoing group lessons as Kiya matures. Jessica is our trainer and I have seen a HUGE improvement in Kiya, I am coming along slowly but, humans do seem to take more time to train! We start group class tonight, Jessica knowing how nervous I would be getting into the "distraction" part of training has offered to handle Kiya if she gets too aggressive. It's service like this and passion for the dogs that what I appreciate so much. Having had dogs all my life, I never have had dog aggression issues before, Jessica has been great in our private sessions and I am excited about group class. Kiya even made it through a on leash walk at OB's dog beach last weekend. I would highly recommend this company and Jessica! Thank you!
Posted: 9/13/2009 • Link to this review
John and Denelle have made the training of my headstrong Shiba Inu pup a dream (OK, close to a dream! As close as it will ever get with a Shiba.) Their experience and guidance have been invaluable in shaping the little guy into a very well behaved citizen. Don't know what I would do without them both!
Posted: 3/08/2009 • Link to this review
Jessica told us to sign up for Beginner Obedience class. Within 10 minutes, she promoted both my dogs to Advanced. The experience has been awesome. They have more confidence, and ignore the other dogs in class. It is possible to teach old dogs new tricks! When Jessica started with our recently adopted rescue, he behaved more like a feral cat than a dog. He pee'd and pooped wherever he was at the moment he had to go, wouldn't walk on a leash either. Within minutes of Jessica working with him, he started to walk on the leash. By the time we completed our second training session, he stopped relieving himself inside my house. I have never been one to believe in miracles before, but I am a believer now! Miracles do happen, and Jessica entering our lives is a true blessing. I don't have a lot of money to spend, but I do not regret getting the Platinum package at all. I plan on taking every group class we can.
Posted: 10/15/2008 • Last edited: 11/14/2008 • Link to this review
I have dog named "Charlie" who is two years old.I got Charlie from "Helen Woodward Animal Shelter" when he was 12 weeks old.Charlie was a sweet puppy but a bit shy,I did everything I was told to do including "Socializing, Obedience School, etc...After a transitional period in my life, moving, breakup, etc..My Charlie started to develop some aggression issues;he actually bit my Mother who I am living with temporarily. I was devastated and desperate.I had to address the seriousness of what had happened.I researched extensively online and after thoughtful consideration called "John's Natural Dog Training Company." Within 24 hours Jessica responded to me and listened patiently as I explained the situation.I couldn't have been more relieved. Within the week Jessica was at my home doing a consultation.Jessica has natural instincts and a soothing logical and patient approach to dog training.I purchased the "Bronze Package" and it was the best money ever spent. Charlie needed structure to feel safe she explained.I set boundaries with Jessica's help and my dog, although not perfect,(but who or what is)has turned into an incredible and dependable companion.It broke my heart to see Charlie misbehaving and I feel tremendous relief that he is becoming the dog I had hoped and knew he could become.I will always recommend Jessica and this company to anyone who has any type of dog with any and all behaviors issues.Thank you Jessica from the bottom of my heart. Becky Bensussen
Posted: 9/15/2008 • Link to this review
We have been with John's Natural Dog Training Company Since 2006. The trainers have brought me and my Dog Oso to the point where we have bonded and the Dog is now a Therapy dog. I couldn't have asked for better trainers and friends.
Posted: 8/26/2008 • Link to this review
We purchased the 8 in-home sessions in order to get our Papillion to the point she could attend group classes. She was a timid 6-month old when I brought her home and displayed her fear by barking, snarling, growling and lunging at people and other dogs. After only 4 sessions with Jessica, she was ready to attend group classes. I am utterly amazed at the progress. Jessica has been so patient with us (humans being the slow to learn ones). We haven't yet completed the last two in-home sessions and have not only begun group obedience classes, we have started agility class. After the first agility class, our dog was jumping over bars, running through tunnels, jumping up on and staying on a table, and running up and down an a-frame. Unbelievable!! She was totally unconcerned with the other dogs around her and she thoroughly enjoyed every minute. Her confidence has been so boosted by her experiences with John's Natural Dog Training, that people find it hard to believe she was such a terror before. Our dog is now a more attentive, happy, and and trainable member of the family. It may seem expensive, however it is worth every penny.
Posted: 8/23/2008 • Last edited: 8/24/2008 • Link to this review
When we added our Golden Retriever, Fenway, to our family, we also added two important, two-legged beings: John Rubin, company owner and dog training expert, and Denelle Smalley, lead trainer. They've trained, raised, and most importantly, loved him as their own. He is a happy, healthy, loving, highly-social, well-adjusted and well-trained dog because of their dedication, devotion and commitment. They've gone above and beyond from Day One. They're always on time for in-home appointments and group classes. They're just a phone call away with any questions and concerns we've had. Their suggestions for bonding, feeding, leashes/collars, etc., have been excellent. And John and his family have been invaluable, when it comes to doggie day care and overnight boarding. They truly have a sixth sense when it comes to dogs. Fenway is who he is today because of John and Denelle. And oh yes. They've also trained me in the process, which is no small feat! I wouldn't think of training or boarding with anybody else. I respect and trust them!
Posted: 8/21/2008 • Link to this review
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Lumenier AXII U.FL 5.8GHz - LHCP Antenna
The Lumenier AXII 5.8GHz (LHCP) with U.FL connector makes a giant leap forward in FPV antenna technology. A 5.8GHz tiny FPV antenna with 1.6dBic and an axial ratio almost perfect.
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The Lumenier AXII 5.8GHz Antenna makes a giant leap forward in FPV antenna technology. Lumenier, in collaboration with renowned FPV antenna designer Hugo of TrueRC, brings you one of the smallest, lightest and best performing FPV antennas in the world.
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Potassium Acetate in dialysis fluid
One of the most common complications of diabetes is End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). People whose kidneys no longer function properly need to undergo hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis for as long as they live, or until they receive a kidney transplant.
Dialysis fluid (dialysate) consists of purified water in which various substances are dissolved. Dialysate regulates the electrolyte and acid-base balance of the dialysis patient and removes waste metabolic products from the body.
Niacet’s pharma acetates, such as sodium acetate, sodium diacetate, magnesium acetate and potassium acetate, play an important role as a buffer regulating the pH level of the dialysis solution. Sodium acetate also enables the liver to produce sodium bicarbonate, which is needed in order to prevent the blood from acidifying.
Sodium acetate is mostly used in solutions. Sodium diacetate is used in dry concentrates and gives better results in the dialysate due to the higher acidity/lower pH. It also better prevents the precipitation of calcium carbonate on the artificial kidney.
Sodium diacetate offers clinics the benefit of being able to locally dissolve the dry mix, instead of having to store a liquid product. Sodium diacetate is also used in other applications where it is advantageous to use a solid source of free acetic acid, e.g. for safer handling and reduced transportation costs.

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The world's soil is in trouble. Ecologists say without dramatic changes to how we manage land, vast swathes of grassland are at risk of turning into hard-packed desert. To make sure that doesn't happen, researchers are testing out innovative ways to keep moisture in the soil.
In eastern Colorado, one way could be in the plodding hooves of cattle.
Conventional wisdom tells you that if ranchland ground has less grass, the problem is too many cows. But that's not always the case. It depends on how you manage them, if you make sure they keep moving.
When Sally O'Neill's doctor told her she had an early form of cancer in one of her breasts, she didn't agonize about what she wanted to.
The 42-year-old mother of two young girls wanted a double mastectomy.
"I decided at that moment that I wanted them both taken off," says O'Neill, who lives in a suburb of Boston. "There wasn't a real lot of thought process to it. I always thought, 'If this happens to me, this is what I'm going to do.' Because I'm not taking any chances. I want the best possible outcome. I don't want to do a wait-and-see."
For the Month of August, Morning Edition and The Race Card Project are looking back at a seminal moment in civil rights history: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his iconic "I Have A Dream Speech" on Aug. 28, 1963. Approximately 250,000 people descended on the nation's capitol from all over the country for the mass demonstration.
MONTAGNE: The Labor Department says the U.S. economy added 162,000 new jobs last month. That's lower than many economists expected. Still the unemployment rate dropped to 7.4 percent. Workers did have fewer hours on the job and hourly earnings fell in July, for the first time since last fall. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


By Gary Eason
BBC News education correspondent
The tables include new progress measures this year
More than 1,400 primary schools in England fall below the government's "floor target" for pupils' attainment in English and maths, analysis shows.
This is that 55% of the pupils in each school reach the level expected for their age in both subjects.
The annual league tables, based on children's Sats results in English, maths and science, show more schools did worse this year than did better.
The government wants local authorities to pressurise head teachers to improve.
The 2009 results show that at least 1,472 schools had only 54% of pupils or less reaching the English and maths expectation, Level 4 in the national curriculum.
Last year the total was 1,359, so it has risen by 113.
Nationally the proportion of pupils achieving the expected level in both English and maths fell from 73% to 72%.
The government has a target of 78% by 2011.
Only 268 schools out of more than 13,000 had the pupils working at the expected level in all three test subjects - down from 329 last year.
The chief adviser on school standards, Sue Hackman, wrote to directors of children's services earlier this year making clear that extra attention should be paid to head teachers who were not setting themselves tough enough challenges.
LEVEL 4 OR ABOVE
English: 80% (girls 85% / boys 75%)
Reading: 86% (89% / 82%)
Writing: 68% (75% / 61%)
Mathematics: 79% (78% / 79%)
Science: 88% (89% / 88%)
"We have highlighted concerns in the last two years at the number of primary schools setting targets which represent no improvement over their most recent performance," she said.
Schools Minister Diana Johnson said schools had made huge progress over the past 12 years - but the figures confirmed "a small dip" in English performance this year.
"We want as many children as possible to leave school with the secure grasp of the basics and after years of the necessary top down approach, it's now down to local authorities to get all schools making progress all of the time - no ifs or buts," she said.
The school which had the highest average point score per pupil - 32.9 - was Hampstead Norreys Church of England Primary School in West Berkshire.
The worst of the results published this year were at one of the two dozen or so academies which cater for primary age children, the Steiner Academy in Hereford.
The academy - operating on Steiner Waldorf learning principles - teaches its own curriculum but, being state funded, was required to enter children for the Sats.
Parents had a different idea, according to the principal, Trevor Mepham.
"The parents were involved in a campaign against the children sitting the tests," he said.
"We registered the children and the parents in large numbers decided that they would not have their children sit the tests."
The turn of events is an embarrassment for ministers who promote Academies as the answer to under-performance in England's schools.
The Conservatives are also keen to see more Academies and to have more parents' groups setting up schools and controlling their destinies.
The next worst performing school was St Mary's CofE (VA) Primary School in Worcestershire, with a combined score of 50 out of 300.
There, only 7% managed the expected level in both English and maths.
Shadow Schools Minister, Nick Gibb said it was a tragedy that almost four in 10 children left primary school without a good grasp of the basics.
"With so many children entering secondary school without any effective ability to read we are storing up problems with truancy and disruptive behaviour for the future," he said.
Head teachers' leaders say they are determined this will be the last time the tables appear.
"League tables of pupil performance are misleading to parents," said the National Association of Head Teachers.
"They are also demoralising for schools and school leaders, particularly those working tirelessly in tough communities, and they add nothing to the impetus for school improvement."
The general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Christine Blower, acknowledged that Schools Secretary Ed Balls was proposing a new school report card, summarising schools' performances on a wider range of measures.
"I am afraid that too is doomed to failure with the government, and indeed the Conservatives, determined to continue with the principle that test results describe a school's success or failure," she said.
Within the UK, the league tables are a uniquely English phenomenon.


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Fully expend all existing bond authorizations for farm viability by 2018, and increase funding for the FVEP in subsequent authorizations.
Train Agriculture and Conservation Commissions on actions farmers may take under current law to manage on and off-farm beaver activity to avoid property damage. If needed, consider changes to state law to allow farmers recourse in the event of off-farm beaver activity that is damaging a farm’s crops or farmland.
Increase technical assistance to farmers around crop and livestock-specific climate change adaptation strategies. Include climate change adaptation strategies as eligible practices under USDA’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
Update the TDR model in the EOEEA toolkit and provide interested communities with technical assistance on how to implement TDR in their town or municipality.
Support revisions to the Community Preservation Act that will provide additional funding to the Trust. Encourage communities to adopt the CPA, which provides funding streams for open space protection (including agricultural land) and affordable housing, as well as recreation and historic preservation.
Provide technical assistance to town Community Preservation Committees, Agricultural Commissions and land trusts about how CPA funds can be used to support farmland protection, as well as affordable housing associated with farmland.
Establish a coalition of agriculture, conservation, forestry, and smart growth organizations to work together and with the ALPC and state and federal agencies to identify and take action on common issues and priorities around farmland protection.
Provide technical assistance to municipalities to identify suitable municipally-owned land, including parks, schools, and open land, for food production. Encourage municipalities to partner with community garden and other non-profit urban growing groups to grow on underutilized public lands.
Where needed, develop model contracts and leases that municipalities can use to lease city-owned land for farming. Train municipal land use managers and planners on these tools.
Educate municipal Planning Boards and Agricultural Commissions about the use of Conservation Subdivision/Natural Resources Protection Zoning and accessory apartment bylaws as tools to promote compact development, and provide technical support to communities seeking to adopt and use these zoning tools.
Encourage and support Agricultural Commissions and, in communities where there are no Agricultural Commissions, other municipal boards, land trusts, and farm organizations, in: educating landowners about Chapter 61/61A/61B, farmland protection and conservation programs, and land listing, linking and matching services; inventorying current and potential farmland in town; and identifying opportunities for restoring active farming on land that has been abandoned.
Provide technical assistance and model zoning bylaws and ordinances to encourage municipalities to support the use of land, rooftops, and unused infrastructure for urban agriculture.
Develop guidance for farmers and municipal officials around solar development and the types of arrays and installation techniques that minimize the long-term impact on agricultural resources.
Provide adequate funding for APR Program stewardship. Consider a dedicated fund for this purpose, as was proposed in the 2014 Environmental Bond. Include outreach to landowners around farm transfer and succession strategies as part of APR Program stewardship.
Update the state Farming in Wetlands guide (last updated in 1996), and include new examples of situations involving the Wetlands Protection Act agricultural exemption. Provide training to farmers and Agriculture Commissions on the guide and the agricultural exemption. Require Conservation Commission members to take a training course on the agriculture exemption.
Expand farm succession planning services for farmers. Consider models such as UMass’ Your Forest, Your Legacy program, Land for Good and various programs the U.S. Forest Service is doing with forestland owners.
Increase funding and technical assistance for farmland succession planning and matching services through state, federal, and NGO programs.
Provide technical assistance to Agriculture Commissions and, where no Agricultural Commissions exist, municipal land managers and relevant town committees to inventory municipally-owned land and assess its suitability for agriculture.
Educate land trusts, Agriculture and Conservation Commissions, and municipal land managers on farm-friendly lease arrangements, and provide technical assistance to these entities to assist with implementation of farm leases.
Educate land trusts, Agriculture Commissions, and others involved in farmland protection about the role and value of ground leases in linking housing and farmland protection.


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Dales Park School in Peterhead is one of two schools in Aberdeenshire which will host a visit from Theatre in Schools Scotland.
The compey is touring two award-winning, internationally recognised productions to primary schools this autumn.
Martha, presented by Catherine Wheels Theatre Company, and Shopping for Shoes, by Visible Fictions, will visit the Blue Toon primary on September 2 and 9.
Theatre in Schools Scotland is a new initiative, celebrated earlier this year at a launch event in Edinburgh, established to support and develop the provision of theatre in Scotland’s schools, with the ultimate aim of ensuring that every child in Scotland receives - at their nursery or school - a minimum of one performing arts production, per year, as a core part of their education.
The initiative has been created initially as a pilot project, which will expand over the next three years, exploring different models for touring theatre into schools.
Executive director at NEAT (North East Arts Touring), Emyr Bell, said: “This is not just a great opportunity to share high quality theatre with younger audiences, it’s an opportunity to help our young people become creative and critical thinkers.
“North East Arts Touring is proud to be a part of this exciting and vital partnership,” he added.

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“Why the Devil Chose the Violin” with Jinjoo Cho
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One of America’s most prominent young concert violinists, Jinjoo Cho, explores why, early in its history, the violin was thought of as Satan’s instrument. Examining the instrument’s Eastern origins and the “Orientalism” mindset of Europe that perceived Eastern culture as sensual and uninhibited, Jinjoo explores how our fear of the unknown creates misperception.
This event has been recorded and is now available on YouTube.
About the Artists
Violinist Jinjoo Cho is redefining what it means to be a classical artist in the 21st Century as a charismatic soloist, dynamic and engaging chamber musician, dedicated teacher, innovative artistic director, and published writer. Jinjoo’s technical and artistic skills have been tested and proven as first prize winner of some of the world’s most prestigious competitions, such as the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and Concours musical international de Montréal, in addition to the Buenos… Read more


As most of us know, the Shake Weight is the revolutionary exercise device handcrafted in the fertile pastures of SCIENCE that harnesses the divine power of Dynamic Inertia and "ignites" the muscles in your arms, shoulders, and chest.
However, according to recent research published the Journal of Sports Science &…
And you thought the Shake Weight was bad.
The KTLA morning show gang sent a fearless reporter a shake weight-based exercise class. You know where this is going, right? Yeah, it went there in less than a minute.
And now we know what Sherri Shepherd looks when giving manual stimulation. (Rotating animated gif, for your pleasure/disgust, after the jump.)


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Cops are looking to make a stronger criminal case against Michael Phelps by cracking down on the people who partied with the Olympic champion when he was photographed smoking a bong, a defense attorney charged.
The arrests of eight people linked to the now-infamous party where Phelps was photographed was the first step in compiling evidence against the record-breaking swimmer as cops seek to make the criminal case against him, a lawyer for one arrested person said Thursday.
Seven people were arrested for marijuana possession and one for distributing -- including the bong's owner, who tried to hawk the paraphernalia for $100,000 on eBay.
"All these people have been asked the same questions," attorney Dick Harpootlian told The State newspaper. "It's all about Michael Phelps."
Harpootlian said he represents a 21-year-old student on leave from the University of South Carolina who was arrested during a raid over the weekend when cops busted into the student's home with guns drawn and found five or six grams of pot. The student was at the November party with Phelps.
"They were asking 'Were you at the party with Michael Phelps? Did you see him using marijuana?' It was all about Michael Phelps," Harpootlian told The State.
Deputies seized four laptops, a desktop computer and a storage drive from the student's home to find evidence against Phelps, Harpootlian said.
A second individual who was arrested for possession was also questioned about the booze-filled party, his attorney, Joseph McCulloch, said.
McCulloch did not name his client, who faces up to 30 days in jail and a $200 fine if convicted on the pending charge.
The Richland County Sheriff's Office would not comment on the lawyer's remarks.
"As soon as we're ready to release information on this case we will and we're still in the middle of this investigation," said Lt. Chris Cowan.
The news that cops are building a criminal case against Phelps came on the same day he issued a heartfelt apology to fans, telling them he would make them proud again in a video that was posted on a Chinese news website.
"I will ... make you proud again," Phelps said during the 50-second clip.
The video plea helped Phelps retain a major endorsement deal with Mazda, which said they would not boot the swimmer from his unprecedented seven-figure endorsement gig with the company.
"I recently engaged in behavior which was regrettable and not what people have come to expect from me, " Phelps said in the video." I will learn from these mistakes, train hard and make you proud again."
Phelps was one of about 40 party-goers gathered at the South Carolina ranch home in November where marijuana smoke clouded the rooms and about two dozen people passed around a bong, witnesses first told The State newspaper of South Carolina.
Phelps was surrounded by a gaggle of the girls at the party and even put down a $2,000 bet during a high-stakes game of beer pong, witnesses said.
Sometime after midnight, witnesses told the paper that they saw a woman snap a photo of Phelps smoking a bong with her iPhone but it is unclear if it is the same photo that was published in a British tabloid on Feb. 1. The identity of the photographer remains unknown.
After the photo was published, Sheriff Leon Lott said his office would investigate and possibly bring a charge against Phelps, though his spokesman has not specified what the offense might be.
Phelps, 23, and his team have not disputed the photo's accuracy. Phelps has issued a public apology, acknowledging "regrettable" behavior and "bad judgment" after the photo appeared.
McCulloch said his client and his roommate -- who was also arrested -- used to live at the house where the party that Phelps apparently attended took place, but they have since moved out of the city.
Richland County deputies searched the alleged party home and then searched the roommates' new home in Irmo and made the arrests, he said.
He said his client was out of town when the swimmer visited the city and said he doubted that anything the client or his roommate — who has a different lawyer — told police would assist them in the case against Phelps.
"Our clients answered questions but I don't know that their information would be helpful to law enforcement," he said. "It seems to me that Richland County has a host of its own crime problems much more serious than a kid featured in a photograph with a bong in his hand."
Under South Carolina law, possession of one ounce or less of marijuana is a misdemeanor that carries a fine up to $200 and 30 days in jail for the first offense. Possession of drug paraphernalia is a $500 fine.
Columbia television station WIS-TV was first to report earlier this week that eight arrests had been made, but did not cite a source. McCulloch said college students and lawyers have told him that about eight arrests have been made.

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While promoting climate adaptation at home, China will continue to support other developing nations to adapt to the climate crisis, said Zhao Yingmin, vice-minister of ecology and environment.
Negotiators at the United Nations climate conference being held in Dubai were told to step up their game over the first Global Stocktake talks.
Chinese envoy to the UN called for an increase in humanitarian aid efforts ahead of winter, and reiterated that China's stance on the Ukraine issue has not changed, emphasizing its commitment to mediation and promoting dialogue.
The 8th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers' Meeting was held in Beijing on Thursday.
The recent rhetoric about a "China threat" and calls by some U.S. officials and lawmakers to intensify curbs on exports and investment run counter to the commitments that U.S. President Joe Biden made in his recent summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California.
The Foreign Ministry expressed opposition on Thursday to attempts to smear and damage Belt and Road cooperation, after the Italian government officially informed China about its withdrawal from the Belt and Road Initiative.
China and Singapore have agreed to implement a 30-day mutual visa-free arrangement and are in close communication on the matter, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday.
Song Tao issued a call to action to Taiwan business leaders on Thursday, urging them to play a role in promoting peaceful development and deeper economic integration across the Taiwan Strait.
President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to Vietnam from Tuesday to Wednesday, a trip that is expected to pave the way for further elevation of bilateral relations and expansion of cooperation in multiple sectors.
China and its five Southeast Asian neighbors along the Lancang-Mekong River have agreed that, facing an unstable and uncertain world, "there is a greater need to boost unity and solidarity and to advance regional peace and stability".
China's top legislature has pledged to increase communication with lawmakers, with optimized measures for them to perform their duties so that their suggestions can be effectively implemented and turned into methods to promote social governance.
President Xi Jinping emphasized on Thursday the "strategic importance" of relations between China and the European Union for global peace, stability and prosperity.
President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Vietnam from Dec 12 to 13, China's Foreign Ministry has announced.
United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell has called for bigger financial support to the developing nations, stressing finance as the "great enabler for climate action".
President Xi Jinping has congratulated Andry Rajoelina on his reelection as president of Madagascar, pledging to work with him to promote bilateral ties.
China respects all countries' freedom of navigation in the South China Sea in accordance with international law, but firmly opposes any country using this as a pretext to undermine China's sovereignty and security interests.
China is willing to work together with the countries of the Lancang-Mekong region to discuss cooperation plans and jointly promote regional prosperity, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken exchanged views on the Palestine-Israel conflict during a telephone conversation on Wednesday, and they agreed to maintain communication on the Middle East situation.
More than 120 countries have brought health to the front and center of climate action with the launch of the "COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health", bolstering the development of climate-resilient, sustainable, and equitable health systems.
China views its relationship with Singapore from both regional and global perspectives, Premier Li Qiang said on Wednesday during a meeting in Beijing with Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong.
Thursday's summit will be the first face-to-face one held since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The review and handling of 8,314 suggestions submitted by lawmakers to this year's annual session of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, have been completed, according to an NPC Standing Committee commission.
Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region John Lee Ka-chiu on Tuesday called activist-turned-fugitive Agnes Chow Ting shameless for deceiving the city's police after deciding to jump bail and leave the city to study in Canada.
The latest move by China's central leadership to facilitate the construction of a foreign-related legal system will serve to guarantee high-level opening-up and protect the legitimate interests of the country and its people, experts said.
China's unilateral visa-free policy for ordinary passport holders from six countries has already provided travelers from those countries with practical convenience.
China will unswervingly promote and protect human rights, actively participate in global human rights governance, implement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and strive for greater development in the cause of human rights worldwide.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited the United States embassy in Beijing on Tuesday to mourn the passing of former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger.
Beijing has put forward a four-point proposal for advancing global human rights, including "galvanizing common security and shaping a stabler international environment", in order to end conflicts and facilitate the return of the homeless to their homeland.
During his recent inspection tour in Shanghai, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president, and chairman of the Central Military Commission, emphasized the need for Shanghai to faithfully implement the new development philosophy on all fronts.
The Sino-UAE diplomatic relations, based on the spirit of collaboration and mutual respect, have notably strengthened over recent years, said Hussain bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, ambassador of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to China.

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Why Furry Friends Fawn Over Fairlington
It’s not just people who enjoy living in Fairlington. It seems some of the neighborhood’s furry friends and neighbors just can’t get enough of this Arlington neighborhood.
A great place for pets and their owners, Fairlington is home to Utah Dog Park. The fully fenced park has a dog run, which is a favorite destination of pets in the neighborhood.
The dog park offers dog bowls and fountains, plus bags for owners to clean up afterwards. Outside of the park, the pet-friendly neighborhood is a good place to go for a stroll with man’s best friend, too.
This self-contained neighborhood was first developed during the 1940s as a rental community. Homes were built to provide temporary housing for defense workers during WWII.
Fairlington soon became the largest defense housing project in the entire nation with nearly 3,500 apartments. The mostly brick residential buildings of Fairlington were grouped together to make U-shaped courtyards.
Originally called Seminary Heights, the name was later changed to prevent any confusion with other nearby neighborhoods. Fairlington came about from the combination of Fairfax and Arlington.
When the war was over, the residential properties in Fairlington were sold off, and rented out as apartments. After a few decades, some of the apartments in Fairlington became condos, creating Virginia’s largest condominium community.
These days, Fairlington is made up of seven smaller communities, all of which are similar. Most of the properties in Fairlington are townhome-style condos, some of which are owned and some of which are rented.
While you won’t find any single-family homes in the neighborhood, residents of Fairlington do have access to swimming pools, basketball courts, tennis courts, walking trails and tot lots. The playgrounds prove to be a popular destination for families, plus the Fairlington Community Center provides a gymnasium, multipurpose rooms, art studios and special programming.


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EAST LANSING, MI -- Featuring Keith Lockhart, conductor and cello soloist Sophie Shao, the BBC Concert Orchestra comes to the Wharton Center this Thursday, Jan. 31.
East Lansing marks the first US Tour stop for the BBC Concert Orchestra, who will feature a program including the greats of British classic music.
New York Times applauded Shao, who joins the orchestra for Elgar's famous Cello Concerto, as “eloquent” and “powerful."
The group is led by well-known Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart.
The performance also features Elgar’s beloved "Enigma Variations," Britten’s "Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes," and Butterworth’s The Banks of Green Willow.
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Emily Caswell is the managing editor of Capital Area Women's LifeStyle Magazine and the publications director at M3 Group. Contact her at emilypcaswell at gmail dot com or follow her on Twitter @emilycas.


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The first day of 2009 opened on an optimistic note with stock markets showing some signs of life. And the stimulus package announced by the government a day later lead to a further rally after the weekend.
But Wednesday proved to be a black day in the history of corporate India. B. Ramalinga Raju, 54, and a Harvard Business School alumnus dropped a bombshell. He said he had been cooking the Satyam accounts books for the past 10 years. No one, except his brother, knew about it. The confession left everyone aghast and the question everyone was asking was how a company that has nearly 200 Fortune 500 clients, did this without the knowledge of its auditors, bankers and employees?
KPMG COO Richard Rekhy raises one such issue. He says the auditors touch base with the bankers for confirmation directly. If PWC got the verification letter from the bank then someone from the bank would be involved or it could be that the auditors did not ask for it.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants will conduct a due diligence into the working of the audit firm and the partner who signed the reports stands to lose his license if he’s guilty. SEBI, RBI and the ministry of company affairs are already in Hyderabad examining the books of Satyam.
Meanwhile the government moved in quickly. The minister for company affairs referred the issue to the serious fraud office; the SEBI and Income Tax officials began their investigations. The acting CEO of the company Ram Mynampati addressed a press conference on Thursday tried to take charge of the situation, but hardly managed to throw any light on the fraud.
The company is now seriously short of cash and admitted it didn’t know how it would pay future salaries. It has 53,000 employees on its rolls.
The stock dropped to Rs18.80 after touching a low of Rs6.30 on Friday. Many foreign institutional investors like Aberdeen and Swiss Finance Corporation sold their shares in block and exited.
The Satyam board is meeting on Saturday to announce its third quarter results. The company is yet to file any case against Raju. The police or enforcement agencies have not yet detained Raju or taken any preventive measures.
More on the Satyam saga is expected in the coming weeks as suspicion gathered whether Raju’s confessions were fully true.
The oil PSU employees are asking for better pay scales and the first lot to strike work was the employees of oil companies.
On Thursday power, fertilizer, steel, aviation services were affected. IOC, India’s largest refiner and retailer, admitted supplies were running short.
Sarthak Bidhuria, chairman, Indian Oil, says, “We are trying to see that after our aviation refueling, we do the retail outlet and LPG particularly in cities like Delhi, we have positioned people but obviously when 12,000 people are on strike its difficult for the five hundred people to manage work.”
There were long queues at petrol pumps as anxious owners of cars and two-wheelers topped their tanks. In Mumbai there was near panic situation as many bunks ran out of fuel. About 30 – 40% of petrol stations in Delhi, had run out of fuel.
But the strike came to end after the government told the striking employees that they could face legal action under ESMA if they continued being on strike. At the time of recording this bulletin on late Friday evening, employees from BPCL, Oil India Ltd, Indian Oil and GAIL had called off their strike.
Amidst economic and corporate gloom and doom if there is a ray of hope for the government. And it has come in the form of inflation figures. On Friday the inflation fell for the ninth consecutive week today to a 10-month low of 5.91% for the week ended 27 December, from 6.38% in the previous week. That is sharply lower than the peak of just over 12% in August.
The fall is due to a decline in prices of food and manufactured items. And that should come as a real relief to the government. A year ago it stood at 3.83%. The previous low was recorded at 5.69% for the week ended 23 February, 2008.
But not everyone is impressed. According to economists while the index is down the prices of essential commodities like cereals and pulses are yet to reflect the trend fully.


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X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer has been regularly tweeting from the Montreal set of his highly anticipated superhero flick due out next summer. Today, Singer unveiled a big reveal: Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence back in the blue paint as shapeshifter Mystique. See the first look below.
‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’: See Halle Berry’s new look as Storm – PHOTO
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John Redwood demands Sunak halves corporation tax
British pensioners are likely overpaying billions of pounds due to miscalculations in Stamp Duty, according to new research.
This is a tax people sometimes need to pay if they buy a residential property or piece of land in England or Northern Ireland.
Stamp Duty is paid on residential properties which cost over £250,000 unless someone qualifies for first-time buyers’ relief.
Cornerstone UK has reportedly uncovered an error in the overpayment of the levy due to property transfers into pension schemes.
According to the property tax specialists, some financial advisors have told their clients to pay Stamp Duty when, in fact, they do not need to.
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Based on figures released by Cornerstone UK, up to 75,000 people could be owed compensation of up to a staggering £80,000 each.
Errors are said to have been made when solicitors mistakenly assumed that Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) must be paid on the transfer of property from multiple owners into Small Self-Administered Schemes (SSASs) and Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs).
So far, Cornerstone has received 50 refunds from HMRC on behalf of clients for this error and has a 95 percent success rate across all Stamp Duty refunds.
The organisation estimates that the compensation due from HMRC and solicitors to pension holders affected could amount to nearly £6billion in total.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Express, group chairman of the Cornerstone Group David Hannah, shared what reform needs to be brought in to avoid similar mistakes from taking place again.
He explained: “Pension members should be given the right to seek independent tax advice from appropriately qualified and insured specialists over property purchases and not forced to rely on solicitors often selected from a panel mandated by their pension provider.
“Considerable difficulty has been caused in making reclaims from HMRC and claims against solicitors by the pension companies reluctance to authorise such actions leading to an exacerbation of losses by pension schemes.
The property tax expert highlighted what homeowners and businesses should be doing when it comes to Stamp Duty.
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Mr Hannah added: “(They) need to be particularly careful when relying on their conveyancer to calculate stamp duty. Many conveyancers believe, incorrectly, that this is a purely administrative task and that HMRC’s ‘calculator’ can be relied on.
“Stamp duty is way more complex than this and an incidence of errors in Stamp Duty Returns by solicitors conveyancers of over 30 per cent points to a poor understanding of the tax and its complexities combined with superficial attention to the detail which is vital in getting the calculation right.”
In a statement, HMRC stated: “’SDLT is due when property is transferred to a pension fund in the majority of cases. There are only very specific and limited circumstances when it is not due.”
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The developers of the Apocalypse ransomware have contacted a security researcher to ask for help after discovering that a coding bug was haunting their creation.
The researcher in question is Fabian Wosar, Emsisoft CTO and head of the company’s Malware Research Lab, who has had several unpleasant “encounters” with the Apocalypse ransomware before. Disturbed that the researcher managed to break their code and release free decryption tools, these actors included abusive comments in their code and even changed the threat’s name to “Fabiansomware.”
This time around, however, they peacefully asked for help with their coding issue, appealing to Wosar’s commitment to help the numerous victims of the various ransomware variants. In their message to the researcher, they even tried to lure him by calling him “the best in cryptography.”
The bug resides in the CryptoApi and results in files being filled with junk if the encryption function fails. This means that even if the victim pays the ransom to decrypt files or uses a free decryption tool for that, the files are unusable.
Unable to zero in on the bug, the malware authors decided to ask Wosar for help, saying they were willing to send over the encryption and decryption code, so that he would simply point to where the issue is located. “We will fix it and no more fake encryptions with garbage instead of the file content,” the ransomware developers said.
The entire situation is a moral dilemma, and Wosar presented the problem to the community. As expected, most of the replies encouraged him not to help the crooks, while also suggesting him to break the ransomware’s code even further.
When looking at the bigger picture, however, this could also become a legal issue: “If I fix their code, I may become liable according to German law,” Wosar told SecurityWeek.
“The best thing I could do is point them to the Microsoft documentation that explains how to use the functions they use properly and hope they figure it out on their own,” Wosar added.
In the meantime, however, the number of victims is growing: Apocalypse’s developers claim that one in three victims has their files damaged. Wosar says that the group made over $100,000 in Bitcoins over the past four months, which suggests that hundreds of people have already paid the ransom, while the actual number of victims might be even higher.
The Emsisoft researcher hasn’t decided what to do just yet. He already received the encryption and decryption code and has yet to decide how he can offer help. However, that means that he will focus on helping the victims rather than the cybercriminals, most probably by updating his free decryptor to help victims recover their damaged files without paying a dime.
Because the malware battle is mostly silent, malware developers and security researchers rarely collide in such a manner. In early September, IBM Security revealed how an actor decided to email them to point out that their report on the developer’s Bilal Bot was outdated and misinforming, because the code had received improvements.


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A Functional Perspective on Improving Leadership Effectiveness
- Lead for The Future. // Credit Union Magazine;Jan2010, Vol. 76 Issue 1, p14
The article reports on executives in the U.S. who see leadership behaviors as a helpful tool to combat economic crisis.
- Taming the Governance Tiger. Byers, Mark // Association Management;Nov2002, Vol. 54 Issue 11, p54
Focuses on the qualities of an association executive in the U.S. Manifestation of leadership skills; Competency to the management task; Practice of integrity in governance.
- Real executives. Crisp, Wendy Reid // Executive Female (0199-2880);Jul/Aug95, Vol. 18 Issue 4, p80
Discusses the importance of leadership among female executives. Factors that contribute to successful leadership in the family and in the workplace.
- Managers and heroes: How maturity levels influence managerial values. Webber, Ross Arkell // Management Review;May80, Vol. 69 Issue 5, p43
Presents questions testing the influence of maturity on managerial attitudes in the U.S. Persons symbolizing the concept of a hero; Rejection of business leadership in career aspiration; Admiration of young middle managers on integrity and commitment possessed by the hero.
- Being a leader in dot-com times. Klevatt, Sydney // Catalog Age;Jul2000, Vol. 17 Issue 8, p197
Presents tips on how United States executives can be good leaders. Definition of leadership; Need to gather information and ask help from the corporate team; Development of a plan; Importance of having a sense of humor; Value of optimism.
- Leaders and Stories: Growing the Next Generation, Conveying Values, and Shaping Character. Blunt, Ray // Public Manager;Spring2001, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p45
Discusses how senior government practitioners can use their experience and leadership stories to convey values and shape characters of potential leaders in the United States. Lessons of example and experience; Importance of stories to leadership; Lack of framework for carrying out the...
- Real life leadership. Shelton, Ken // Executive Excellence;Apr99, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p2
Presents various leadership principles, as discussed in books by several effective leaders in the United States. Includes Robert A. Lutz in the book `Guts'; Martin Puris in the book `Comeback'; Brian Muirhead and William L. Simon in the book `High Velocity.'
- The e-business Leader. Druckenmiller, Jr., Gary // Engineered Systems;Aug2001, Vol. 18 Issue 8, p34
Focuses on the performance of dot-com executives in the United States. E-business leadership; Characteristics of successful e-business leaders; Management ability during economic downturns; Attributes to survive the digital economy's slow down.
- Controlling Burnout: A Leadership Guide for Managers. Niehouse, Oliver I. // Business Horizons;Jul/Aug84, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p80
Focuses on the use of Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership model in managing job stress or burnout among managers in the United States. Characteristics of burnout; Symptoms of stress and burnout; Discussion on the style of leadership of managers.

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The radio controlled jeep came about after I attended the '98 Joe
Con on San Antonio. A vendor was there with some R/C jeeps he'd made
from the soft plastic First Strike jeeps that K-Mart used to sell for
$10-$15 bucks in a set with a helicopter. The vendor had apparently
used a commercial R/C chassis to power the unit. When Radio Shack had
an after-Xmas clearance sale on toys last year, I snagged a lonely R/C
Ford F-150 pickup with 4-wheel drive and digital-proportional steering.
(Digital-proportional steering means you can turn just a little or a
lotů none of the jerky cornering associated with R/C toys!) Before
buying it, I measured its wheelbase - then ran home to measure my
5-Star, SOTW, and First Strike jeeps. The First Strike was right on!
This jeep really screams on the pavement and has plenty of power to push those heavy joes and the heavy jeep body across grass or rugged terrain. It's got much too much speed for me - but then again, that's part of what makes it fun and exciting, too! Here's a pic of the jeep running in tall grass. Power to spare in that 4x4 chassis!
Here's a pic of the really cool suspension. It's got 4-wheel independent suspension, so it looks really cool cornering hard on the street or bouncing over obstacles in the dirt. This poor jeep is pretty beat looking (these pics don't really show the detail damage). Like any good 4x4, though, a few dings and scrapes just tell its story of off-road conquest!
We added a trailer hitch so it can tow a 5-Star trailer. This clasp came from a GI Joe keychain. I took off the chain and just put a bolt through the hole. It's plenty secure beneath the jeep, yet with a little force, I can twist it under the jeep to get it out of the way for off-road running. It has a convenient 360 degree swivel feature, too! If the trailer rolls on a tight hihg-speed corner, the swivel spins, preventing the weight of the loaded trailer from causing the jeep to roll. We tested this feature ;-) and it works great!
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As ELA control units, the DS-6 PA Control I and II combine the control and monitoring of a 100 V PA system with a maximum amplifier power of 2 x 250 W on a DS-6 system.
In its compact 19“ design with one height unit, the units replace a large number of individual components, which all required a great deal of wiring.
A modern sound reinforcement system with DS-6 PA Controls can be wired almost completely with pre-assembled system cables in a pluggable manner.
Depending on the version of the PA-Control, the configuration can be carried out via the control panel with display or the serial interface, or in the case of the PA-Control II only via the serial interface on the unit. A remote solution is also available as an option, in which case the serial interface is integrated into the network via additional components, which are available as accessories.
By means of integrated software packages, impedance monitoring, amplifier failure, overload and earth fault detection of the sound system can be configured.
As a standard feature, sound reinforcement from one zone or loudspeaker circuit is possible with NEUMANN amplifiers, delivery number 4 172 4 (mono, 1 channel) or 4 171 3 (stereo, 2 channel).
By means of optional additional components which can be integrated into the unit, an extension to up to six zones with the above mentioned monitoring systems is possible. In addition, the cable loops can be monitored in zone one, as well as in the optional zone two, in the case of ring-shaped cabling, and in the event of an interruption, power can be supplied on both sides.
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Our Top Tips For Recycling
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The best way to increase your recycling would be to look out for the recycling stamp on the packaging. This generally shows if the item is recyclable or if it is only to be placed in general waste. If you’re ever in doubt definitely use this tip!
Anything you’re putting in your recycling bin should be made from plastics or metals. Make sure that you are flattening any items that you can, such as plastic bottles and cardboard boxes. This will give you more room for additional recyclable objects.
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Any items you can use more than once, make sure to save them and use them again! Some examples are plastic bottles, can be refilled and kept in the fridge, boxes can sometimes be re-used to store different products.
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When you’re finished with your jar, bottle or other food container. Make sure that it is full emptied, has been cleaned and dried. This ensures that the material can safely be used again.
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A lot of people place items they hope will get past restrictions within their recycling bin. When you do this, you contaminate the entire load of waste, which means it will all end up in landfill. I’m sure nobody needs to be told how bad that is for the environment!
Overall, people who want to help the environment will be extra conscious of what they’re putting in their bins. If you follow these tips you can make the most of the space you have in your bin. If you don’t know if an item can be put in a recycling bin, always check for the symbol and disposal instructions. For any questions you can’t find the answers to, please contact your local council to find their guidelines.


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Letters to the editor — Sunday (3-12-2017)
Learn the facts on immigration
This current election cycle is so interesting — both nationally and locally. Lots of information is being flung around. In the interest of basic understanding of the law, I would like to see Sheriff Auten develop a “citizen training” program for immigration law and responsibility.
Starting with existing immigration laws, I would like him to include law enforcement required actions, how sanctuary cities are formed, mayor and police chief interaction and specialty-group influence and pressure on local officials — elected and appointed.
Also to be included, how fear and misinformation are distributed. Written questions could be handed in before class with oral discussions held after class. Both these segments might guide the way for more class information.
Hopefully Sheriff Auten can build on his already successful “citizens training” program. Rowan County definitely has great personnel in retired law enforcement, lawyers and service people. We also have West End Plaza. Just some facts — no innuendo and fear-mongering.
— Irene Dalton
Students are taught to lay brick in high school if they want to learn.
Why do the schools not teach students to be electricians, plumbers, carpenters, painters and mechanics?
I don’t have children and maybe these things are taught. Let me know if they are.
— Linda Connelly
Syracuse University head basketball coach Jim Boeheim, who seldom pulls punches, said something the other day about Greensboro that didn’t... read more


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Almost everything is going right for Real Madrid. This Saturday, 'Los Blancos' took a big step towards winning La Liga after winning in San Sebastian which means they now have an eight point lead over second placed Sevilla.
Vinicius and Jovic managed to get the points for Madrid, who are quite concerned by Benzema's injury. Karim had to go off injured in the 17th minute due to a problem in his left hamstring.
Carlo Ancelotti's concern was evident and tests done this Sunday in Valdebebas were not conclusive, 'AS' reports. The player will definitely miss the Champions League game with Inter, but he could be fit for the derby with Atletico Madrid.
There is some hope, but it all depends on the result of the tests done on the Frenchman on Monday at the training ground.
Ancelotti, after beating Real Sociedad, did not rule Benzema out of the game with Atletico: "I didn't want to force him. I don't think he'll play against Inter, but he could be fit for the derby." Madrid fans are hoping that is the case.
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However, he is caught in a spiral of evil and does not seem able to stop himself. His actions become less heroic and more cowardly as he continues to murder and terrorise others in order to hold on to his power. Macbeth is at his most human and sympathetic when his manliness is mocked and demeaned by his wife see in particular Act I, Scene 7.
So he grasps the real dagger which he is carrying 'this which now I draw' as his troubled mind begins to fill with images of evil and thoughts of death. He is clearly a brave warrior and leader at the start of the drama but he falls victim to the Witches' predictions.
In a series of soliloquies he repeatedly questions himself about his motives for killing the King but is eventually persuaded to continue by his forceful wife. The essay below is one such example of his improved writing.
She has just received the news that King Duncan will be spending the night at her castle. Let the earth hide thee! His ambition now begins to spur him toward further terrible deeds, and he starts to disregard and even to challenge Fate and Fortune.
What follows is 1 the question from a mock GCSE exam, 2 his essay, and 3 my highlighted breakdown of his essay into its essential ingredients. Act 1 Scene 4 Macbeth is clearly worried by the strength of his own ambition which he refers to as black and deep desires.
However, by Act III, Scene 2, Macbeth has resolved himself into a far more stereotypical villain and asserts his manliness over that of his wife.
But Macbeth's hubris or excessive pride is now his dominant character trait.


COLUMBIA STATION — Columbia accomplished what it wanted to accomplish, advancing to a Division III sectional final with a 58-46 win over Independence on Tuesday.
Raiders coach Larry Babics, however, was less than thrilled with what he saw from his team.
Columbia, the fifth seed in the Garfield Heights district, struggled to put away the 10th-seeded Blue Devils. Babics saw plenty of things his team will have to correct before its Friday home matchup with Gates Mills Hawken.
“Tonight we did not play well at all,” Babics said. “I thought Independence took it to us. I know it was a tournament game and you just want to advance, but when you’re taking backwards steps for the last two weeks it’s not something to be happy about. Stuff we can control … missed free throws, not playing good defense, not knowing assignments … stuff like that when you’re in Game 23 is not acceptable.”
The Raiders (18-4) got out of the gate slowly. They missed their first five shots from the floor and shot just 3-of-14 (21.4 percent) in trailing 8-6 after the first quarter.
Columbia used an 8-2 run to open the second quarter and take a lead it would not surrender the rest of the game.
The Blue Streaks (11-12) cut the lead to two or less six times before halftime, but couldn’t get a big stop or basket when it needed one.
The Raiders led 22-20 at halftime.
In the third quarter two things happened: The Raiders got aggressive with their 1-3-1 press on defense and sophomore David Delahunty took over on offense.
Delahunty scored 15 of his game-high 22 points in the second half while the Columbia defense forced six third-quarter turnovers. The Raiders outscored the Blue Devils 21-13 in the third quarter to put the game away.
“I think we got tired,” Independence coach Hugh McMahon said. “We noticed that their 1-3-1 broke down after several passes, but we were getting too rattled and driving too quickly and missing the shot, or taking a 3-pointer that was ill-advised.
“That’s what they want you to do against that defense, and that’s on me. We should have drilled them a little more on that defense.”
Delahunty, who also had a game-high 14 rebounds, said it took the Raiders a little time to get things going.
“We played a bad first half, our shots weren’t really falling,” he said. “We had to switch it up and start attacking them a little more. That’s what I did in the second half and it got me a lot of easy buckets.
“We were cold. I think we were a little too hyped or too excited. After we got into a flow it helped us start knocking down some shots.”
Dan Baran led the Blue Devils with 18 points.
Jay Banyasz, despite sitting the entire second quarter with two fouls, scored 12 points, pulled down seven rebounds and added six steals for Columbia.
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Columbia 58, Independence 46
INDEPENDENCE (46): Pat Wisniewski 4-0-8, Brett Teare 3-1-7, Dan Baran 7-4-18, Mike Martin 0-0-0, Dan Mathews 4-0-10, Jim Wotowiec 0-0-0, Kevin Dougherty 1-0-3, Ryan Dworznik 0-0-0, Joe Fracasso 0-0-0. Totals 19-5-46.
COLUMBIA (58): Brandon Severo 3-2-10, Jay Banyasz 4-4-12, Michael Boey 0-2-2, David Delahunty 9-2-22, Kevin Simon 4-3-11, Brian Hershey 0-0-0, Brandon Heidecker 0-1-1, Josh Gibson 0-0-0, Cody Shields 0-0-0. Totals 20-14-58.
Independence 8 12 13 13 — 46
Columbia 6 16 21 15 — 58
Three-point goals: Independence 3-14 (Mathews 2, Dougherty), Columbia 4-17 (Delahunty 2, Severo 2). Field goals: Independence 19-52 (36.5 percent), Columbia
20-52 (38.4 percent). Free throws: Independence 5-8 (62.5 percent), Columbia 14-24 (58.3 percent). Rebounds: Independence 32 (Wisniewski 7), Columbia 42 (Delahunty 14). Turnovers: Independence 15, Columbia 9. Total fouls: Independence 19, Columbia 9. Fouled out: Mathews.


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I have to marvel at the power of the internet. We have recently recovered a gold watch from our Founders series, which was lost in transit a couple of years ago. What are the chances of that!
The Founders gold watch surfaced on the internet at a ridiculous price. It was suspicious. We were alerted. We contacted the seller. The seller safeguarded the piece while both parties sought advice from legal and law enforcement authorities. The case was closed, and to everyone’s satisfaction, based on business integrity and trust.
The transparency of the internet is the hero here. Imagine this, the lost property could have changed hands all under the radar.
It is no secret that the internet to the luxury watch industry is largely deemed as some sort of a no-man’s-land. Many do not dare to tread it. But for me this incident is a glorious example of why we should not be afraid to embrace the online world. We at LW see the good in it. And we work with it, not against it.
Opportunities and positivity abound when you can make sense of it. Common sense, especially. There’s always the good and the bad to everything, be it in the real world or the online world. You see something that is too good to be true? The odds are, it is!


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Who’s there for you when you need support?
I’m not talking about people cheering you up at a competition or when you’re accomplishing things. I’m talking about who’s there for you for the ugly?
When you are crying out of pain, struggling with depression, hurting because of a heartbreak, dying because of an illness… When you no longer have the mental strenght to support yourself, when you’re heart is so heavy you feel the pain in your chest,
Is there someone here for you? Or everybody around you is too busy to see you? Do they just assume you’ll be find, or simply think its just a phase? Maybe they are saying you make a big deal out of everything and simply dismiss your being?
Are you dissapointed in them? Are you so tired of asking for support you just shut down and shut up? Do you stay for hours in your car crying because you’re not comfortable crying in your own home? Do you just wish you were mute?
Who’s there for you? Your siblings? Parents? Best friend? Significant other? Or none of them?
See… one lesson i’ve learned throughout the years is that only you can show up for yourself. There are things you’re going through that only you can be there for you. No one else. People are not interested in your struggles. Even your most loved ones sometimes. Often they would take it personal.Thus, you just gotta suck it up and try to move forward.
That’s when self-care becomes super important and can take unusual forms. During this time self-care might be crying yourself to bed, turning off your phone and cut contact with the outside world. Basically anything that makes you feel better.
You just need to be there for you!
Yes, so true. One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned is that anyone can turn on you in any moment. The only person you can always have to trust is yourself.
just reread this again… this is a message well worth sharing
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Thank you! I’ve been inspired to write after having conversations with a few people who felt they were alone while being surrounded by so many ppl. Lack of Trust was the main reason why they are feeling as if no one is there for them
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Tellement profond et vrai tu parles d une réalité que tout un chacun vit et parfois ne l admet pas. Merci de partager ce qu’on passe etre le ou la seule a vivre partant tout le monde est passé par là. Merci de nous rappeller que nous ne sommes pas seul tant que nous avons nous meme.

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The spirit of Alise gunderic is trapped in the Gunderic Manor. She has asked you to find and destroy the artiface that binds her soul to this world====
Go into the manor go up the stairs take a left. Keep going straight until you enter anther room (all the doors should be shut). go to the very far room and the one on the right should open. Go into that room and you'll find Alise and can get the quest.
the quest will lead you to a door that you cannot open but asks you a password. if you guess over and over about 5-6 times he will let you through. Edit
Just keep doing the 'Gunderic manor' quest until you get the lever and open the locked door with it. then go into the room and straight up the stairs. There will be three doors.( The one leading straight is the boss room,one on the right is a loot room, The door on the left is where the heart is). Once you go into the room you'll find a heart (the person in your group will say its a bad idea to destroy). Choose to destroy or keep it there.
- If you destroy it you will free her but make the boss more powerful
- If you don't then you will fight a weaker boss (and not be done with the quest yet)
Plz note:*** if you don't destroy you can go back and destroy it after you killed the boss and the quest will be done. Nothing more will happen other than the ghost thanking you*******
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When The New Yorker writer Ken Auletta decided to take a hard look at companies that are dependent upon advertising, he came away seeing “frenemies” everywhere—all of them facing “existential assault.” The resulting book, being released today after three years of research, is titled Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else).
Auletta interviewed 450 people, some of whom became key narrative characters in his book because of their vast influence and positions of power. They include former WPP Group CEO Sir Martin Sorrell, MediaLink Chairman and CEO Michael Kassan and Carolyn Everson, VP of Global Marketing Solutions at Facebook. Auletta’s goal was to determine whether advertising is going through the same disruption that has impacted music, newspapers, magazines and television, he explains in this interview with Beet.TV at the annual DMS conference presented by LUMA Partners.
“And they are, I found. It’s a vital industry and yet it’s one under assault with grave consequences for the media,” Auletta says.
Under Auletta’s scrutiny, no entity that is dependent on advertising revenue is immune to seismic disruption.
“The reason I came to the title Frenamies is that if you’re an agency, you are suddenly faced by people who used to be your partners or customers who are suddenly your competitors,” he says.
He also cites marketers taking functions in-house that were formerly the province of agencies, “PR agencies increasingly becoming ad agencies,” consultancies shifting their focus to advertising, “Facebook and Google who were your customers are now dis-intermediating you and going directly to your clients” and media companies “increasingly are becoming ad agencies selling ads and dis-intermediating you as well.”
Some people have become power brokers across the entire advertising ecosystem, one example being Kassan, according to Auletta, whom he describes as being “everywhere I went.”
MediaLink’s clients range from major publishers to Facebook, Google and Microsoft, to brand marketers and agencies. “If you’re writing about politics, you’re interested in following the power brokers. Michael Kassan in the ad world is a power broker. I call him the connector.”
He describes CBS CEO Les Moonves as “probably the most successful modern television executive in modern history” who became a vehicle to help Auletta determine “can old media become new?”
Then there is the public, which represents a “threat to this whole industry” because of their ability and desire to avoid ads. Throw in data privacy concerns and Auletta’s book depicts a future rife with challenge.
“You’re in a seesaw here,” he explains. “The more the seesaw goes up in terms of data that we can target at you, the more privacy goes down. And if privacy goes up, then your ability to use data goes down. And that’s a conundrum that the advertising world faces and government faces.”
While neither anxiety nor frenemies are on the formal agenda at the upcoming Cannes International Festival of Creativity, they will be in abundance, according to Auletta.
“Everyone knows they’re being disrupted, they know that there are problems ahead. These are all anxieties that everyone shares, be they a client, a platform, a publisher or an agency. So I think in that sense it brings them together, and yet they’re all frenemies. So they can’t get too close.”


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UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked New York state from forcing medical workers to be vaccinated after a group of health care workers sued, saying their Constitutional rights were violated. Judge David Hurd in Utica issued the order Tuesday after 17 health professionals, including doctors and nurses, claimed the vaccine mandate violated their rights because it disallows religious exemptions. The judge gave New York state until Sept. 22 to respond to the lawsuit. The state issued the order Aug. 28, requiring at least a first shot for health care workers at hospitals and nursing homes by Sept. 27. The state says it’s considering all legal options.
Photo: People rally at a demonstration against COVID-19 vaccination mandates, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

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Flubberbook Land Canal Flotillas
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The Flubberbook Land Canal Flotillas take you on a slow march through HO-scale scenes from your favorite Disney cartoons such as:
- Lilo & Book
- Snow White and the Empire
- Song of the Mermaid
- Lady and the Range
- Meet the Broomsticks
- Make Mine Dragon
- Who Framed Fancy Free
- The Lion Wonderland
- Warning: particularly excitable children will want to experience this attraction multiple times.
- Minimum height 44".
- Expectant parents can not ride.
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STAY SAFE, EDGEMONT HOOPSTERS
We fully expect to restart our travel program along with clinics and open gyms beginning in September 2021.
We recommend that Edgemont players take this unique opportunity to work on individual skills. To that end, please click here for drill videos and other developmental tips. For summer camps in the area, click here.
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The mission of Edgemont Hoops is to develop a community basketball culture and facilitate opportunities for Edgemont children to learn and play the game. Please click here and explore the site to learn more about our travel teams, clinics, training opportunities, supervised open gyms, and other basketball activities. Contact Jon Lewis via text to (631) 316-0269 if you have any questions. Be sure to check back frequently for updates, including announcements of new programs.
CONGRATS TO EDGEMONT’S 2019-20 CHAMPS AND RUNNERS-UP!
For the first time in the history of the boys program, Edgemont had 3 teams playing on the last day of the season, including 2 in the “A” division final and one in the “B” division final.
EDGEMONT HOOPS FLASHBACK
In the inaugural year of the travel program, the 2011-12 Edgemont Blazers–coached by Michael “Big Mike” Ferrante and Rob “The Wizard of Greenville” Sauerhaft–won the TCBL 5th-grade girls B championship. Edgemont Hoops salutes these pioneering young women, who are now sophomores in college!
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Isiah Thomas on why the Lakers and Celtics were successful year-after-year in the 1980s: “Those teams were loaded with talented players, yes, but that’s not the only reason they won. They won because they liked each other, knew their roles, ignored statistics, and valued winning over everything else. They won because their best players sacrificed to make everyone else happy. They won as long as everyone remained on the same page.”
“Your mother’s an astronaut.” — Billy Hoyle, played by Woody Harrelson in “White Men Can’t Jump.”
“What’s wrong with [counting in] twos?” — Moses Guthrie, played by Julius Erving in “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh.”

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text: The alkaline residue generated from the production of soda ash using the ammonia-soda method has been successfully used in removing phosphorus (P) from aqueous solution. But the accumulation of P-containing solid after P removal is an undesirable menace to the environment. To achieve the goal of recycling, this study explored the feasibility of reusing the P loaded alkaline residue as an amendment for immobilization of lead (Pb) in a shooting range soil. The main crystalline phase and micromorphology of amendments were determined using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy-electron dispersion spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) methods. The toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP), sequential extraction procedure, and physiologically based extraction test (PBET) were employed to evaluate the effectiveness of Pb immobilization in soil after 45 d incubation. Treatment with P loaded alkaline residue was significantly effective in reducing the TCLP and PBET extractable Pb concentrations in contrast to the untreated soil. Moreover, a positive change in the distribution of Pb fractions was observed in the treated soil, i.e., more than 60% of soil-Pb was transformed to the residual fraction compared to the original soil. On the other hand, P loaded amendments also resulted in a drastic reduction in phytoavailable Pb to the winter wheat and a mild release of P as a nutrient in treated soil, which also confirmed the improvement of soil quality.

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|Tenth Anniversary Interfaith Commemoration|
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|Written by Jo Cohrs|
|Tuesday, 09 August 2011 12:03|
Sunday, September 11, 2011 3 pm
In 2001 Churches United brought the over 5,000 people from across the Quad Cities together in the aftermath of 9/11. Once again we will reach out tA the whole area for this 10th year remembrance. People from diverse faith groups and community leaders from the Quad City area will come together to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with reflections and prayers.
Keynore speaker is Ms. Najeeba Syeed-Miller, an attorney by training who has worked extensivvely in the area of conflict resolution between diverse groups and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Interreligious Studies at the CLaremont School of Theology, Claremont, CA.
A year-long series of interfaith events in the spirit of promoting bridge-building within our community will be announced, moving forward with greater strength and deeper understanding of each other.
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The DHC-2 Beaver is a general purpose bush plane developed by de Havilland Canada.
Though originally used for cargo/passenger hauling and crop dusting, it was also adopted by the United States Armed Forces as a utility aircraft and search and rescue unit.
The single-engine, high-wing, propeller-driven STOL aircraft appeared in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars and was popular among front line men.
When production finally ceased in 1967, only 1,657 DHC-2 Beavers had been built.
Multi-connector for easy assembly
Lighter EPO 52 foam
Metal landing gear designed for hard landings
Scaled LED night lights
Large tires for any surface
Servo box design for easy assembly & disassembly
Newly developed lightweight hollow main wing
Oversized battery hatch for 6s battery and 15 minutes of flying time
Overall Length：1304mm/ 51.3in
Flying Weight ：around 3,800G
Motor ：brushless 4258-KV550
Servo:17G Metal Digital *6
Prop Size:15*9, 2 blades propeller
CG (center of gravity):70-75mm (from leading edge)