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Enjoy the outdoors in Amish gazebos, pavilions and pergolas with screens to keep the bugs out. Kids and grandchildren get in on the fun with Amish swing sets. Protect all your garden tools, from shovels to mowers, in an Amish storage shed. Two-story buildings double your storage space without taking up much room. Keep your cars, trucks and tractors out of the weather with an Amish garage. Chickens, goats, horses, sheep and rabbits give your kids a hobby; house your animals in an Amish shelter. Choose chickens, and youll have fresh eggs.

Historic Stevensville, now a Maryland State Arts and Entertainment District, will host again this year the Sixth Annual Art in the Park, Saturday, September 27, from 9am to 4 pm. Artists and artisans of all media from paintings to woodworking, photography to jewelry offer their original works. Musical entertainment and food sellers will also be present. All historical sites will be open to the public, as will restaurants and shops. Artists at Work Studios and Gallery has been in town 18 years, featuring the original art of Jeanne Noble along with works from 30 other local artists. Island Arts/My Little Studio is home to Joan McWilliams and 50 other artists. Paris Grey is a lovely cottage and chic shop that carries Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. Trade Winds Exchange is an antique emporium owned by Patty McCool, who says Kent Island really is Treasure Island. Come see the treasures and enjoy your day at Art in the Park.

If you enjoy old hardware stores, youll like Art Things. From screen-printing to gilding, from oil painting to fabric arts, from comic art to clay: We have the tools and materials. Do you have a favorite pen, pencil or journal that you love? Come check out our selection. Handmade papers from all over the world will dazzle you, and the Creative Kids department grows as we head towards the holiday season. New this fall: QOR (pronounced core) watercolors made by Golden, a modern formula that makes the pigments seem to glow. Check out the video: http://www.qorcolors.com/videos/ qor-modern-watercolorsintroduction. Founded in 1966 and owned and operated by people who love to help customers with their creative projects, Art Things features an impressive inventory showcasing a wide range of quality materials chosen with value in mind. Please be sure to ask for a frequent shopper ARTCARD. The greeting card selection is carefully curated and represents many local artists. You dont have to think of yourself as an artist to find interesting and unique things in this shop: Browsers are welcome.

Belair Engineering is a woman-owned and -managed heating and air conditioning, standby generator, gas fireplace and plumbing contractor. Were celebrating our 53rd year of providing exceptional repair service and replacement installation for your furnace or heat pump heating system at great prices. All our technicians are drug-screened and mom-approved. We also provide you with a 100-percent satisfaction guarantee. Dont miss our Gas Fireplace and Standby Generator Show Saturday, October 4, from 9am to 4pm at our award-winning showroom, 15881 Commerce Court, Upper Marlboro. Refreshments will be served, door prizes awarded and huge savings can be had on last years models while they last. Bring your firebox measurements and digital pictures. Dont miss the show!

At Compass Stone & Tile Studio, we have the largest selection of porcelain, ceramic, stone and glass tile in the area. We offer complimentary design services to ensure that your vision comes to life. Our interior designers are here to guide you through our vast selection. Our advice is simple: Choose tile that you can live with for years. Its easy to repaint a room; its easy to change an appliance; but tile is here to stay. Tile will add value to your home and should not be overlooked in your project. We encourage homeowners to come browse our showroom as there are so many new styles. Right now, the hot look is tile that looks like hardwood. Unlike wood, there is no maintenance of the finish, and there is no wear and tear. Tile is easy to maintain. With the explosion of stainless steel appliances, there are many beautiful backsplashes with a hint of metallic. We were voted by Whats Up Magazine as the Best Tile Store, and we will continue to work hard to provide the best selection and service to our community.

Dr. Glass is a quality professional window-washing and power-washing service with professional men and women who have worked for our customers for many years. We guarantee your complete satisfaction with our work. We are responsible, punctual, careful and appreciative of all our client partners.

Ecoasis Garden Center is a traditional garden center offering eco-friendly alternatives, sustainable landscaping supplies and gardening products for growing in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Ecoasis sources most of our plants from local growers as well as shrub and tree growers from the Eastern Shore. The store is stocked with earth-friendly products, rain barrels, composters, eco-mats, bio-logs and much more. Also on site are chickens that produce eggs for sale and bees for local honey. We have other farm-to-table products from local growers. Our large garden produces wonderful as-local-as-it-gets vegetables and herbs, and we supplement our produce stand with vegetables from the Southern Maryland farmers auction. Ciminellis Landscape Services, our sister business, offers landscape and hardscape installation. Like us on Facebook and sign up for our monthly newsletter to receive great gardening and landscaping advice and special discounts. Visit our Apple Festival September 27 and 28 for free apple tastings, apple cider and apple butter as well as food tastings and a cooking demonstration Sunday from 11am-3pm. Dont miss visiting our beautifully restored Amish barn full of local art, garden gifts and antiques. Find us on West Central Avenue in Bowie just one mile from Rt. 301 from the west and the Patuxent River from the east on the border of Anne Arundel County and Prince Georges County.

Right around the corner is the best little bank you may never have heard of, and it just may be the bank you need for your fall home projects. Essex Bank, with offices from Rockville across Maryland to the Bay, hits the sweet spot between small community banks and big impersonal institutions. What distinguishes Essex Bank from competitors is a sense of person-to-person responsiveness, whether the customer is a family or individual, a small business or a large corporation or municipality each of which are current Essex Bank customers. Flexibility is also something customers find at Essex Bank, especially small-business owners who typically are ignored by large banks when it comes to funding needs. Homeowners in particular will be attracted to the availability of construction and lot loans, and single-closing construction-to-permanent mortgages, even for renovations and additions. Bay-area Essex Bank locations include Crofton, Arnold and a stunning new branch in Annapolis, at the corner of West Street and Chinquapin Round Road. Treat yourself to a totally new banking experience by visiting Essex Bank today. Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender.

Fall is the new spring. Its a great time of year to rejuvenate your landscape or plant a new one. Whether its dividing those overgrown iris, planting a new tree or a complete re-do, Greenstreet Gardens is here to help. Great landscapes start with great soil. We recommend Bumper Crop. Chock-full of micronutrients, it gives roots an added boost. Choose the right plants for the space. Varieties that need full sun will not thrive in shade, and shade-lovers will wither in sun. Before you plant, consider the amount of space available. Young plants grow. Yes, you can prune them to an extent. Trying to keep a plant three feet wide when it wants to be 10 feet will stress the plant and you. Instead, choose a plant that will fit the space and give it room to grow. Bring fall color into your landscape with seasonal favorites: mums, pansies, ornamental kale, cabbage and grasses. Great companions, these plants look terrific in containers or planted directly in the garden. Our full-service nursery is stocked full of everything you need for a fantastic fall. Stop in and chat with one of our experienced staff. Because success grows here.

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SAN FRANCISCO A handful of startups are getting traction in smart clothes, mainly for athletes. They hope that the electronics increasingly disappear into the shirts and socks, and that a broader set of companies helps establish the emerging category.

"Today retailers don't know where to put these products -- by the shirts, but then it's an expensive shirt, or by the electronics," Pierre-Alexander Fournier, chief executive of Hexoskin, told us after a talk at the Designers of Things conference here.

Hexoskin embeds the electronics for its smart shirt in a device about the size of a stack of business cards. It contains two microcontrollers, a Bluetooth radio, a USB controller, a 4 GByte SD card, and a battery adequate for about 14 hours of operation.

"We'd like this part to disappear into the clothing, so you don't think about it," Fournier said. "It could be the size of a button, run on a coin cell so you don't need to charge it, and be something you can put in a washing machine. We are not there yet, mostly because of power consumption, which determines the battery size and device form factor."

Hexoskin puts into its shirts about a dozen dry sensors measuring ECG, respiration, temperature, and blood oxygen level. "We can meld data from these sensors to get blood pressure and other data," said Jean-Francois Roy, its chief technology officer.

Smart clothes makers face manufacturing challenges, too.

"Knitting using conductive wire will be best for production, but it's not yet available, and when it is, we may need to build some special machines for it," Fournier said. "Polymer laminates are very precise, but less comfortable and not suitable for use with all kinds of textiles, because sensors need thermal transfer."

Fewer than five manufacturers can make clothes with embedded sensors today. "There's a huge gap between the clothing industry and the electronics industry," he said. "It's like travelling back to the 19th century when you visit these factories."

Fournier showed the Hexoscale shirt and its electronics, which he wore to the talk at the Designers of Things event.

Costs are another hurdle. The Hexoskin shirts sell for $169 each without the electronics or $399 with them. Fournier said startups are still experimenting with business models around selling clothing versus services.

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Several high-profile members of the media and filmcommunities have been named in the inaugural Australian Womens Weekly Power List, with mining magnate Gina Rinehart leading the way.

Fairfaxs biggest shareholder is seventh on the list, while Maile Carnegie, the managing director of Google Australia and New Zealand comes in at 13, andnew CEO of REA Group Tracey Fellows is in at number 40.

Leading the pack is Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop, with a raft of politicians and bureaucrats in the rankings.

Women tend to have an uneasy relationship with power not so much the wielding of it, which they do as well as any man, but the owning of it, said Australian Womens Weekly editor-in-chief Helen McCabe.

Our definition of power when compiling this list was not how impressive a womans title is or how large her corner office might be, but her ability to get things done. Im confident we have come up with a list which is both authoritative and surprising.

Other notable names on the list include Cate Blanchett (12), Leigh Sales (14), Fran Kelly (32), Miranda Devine (34), Kate McClymont and Caroline Wilson (43),Annabel Crabb (44) and Sarah Ferguson (49).

Judges for this year included ABCs director of news Kate Torney, PR Sue Cato, Clive Mathieson editor of The Australian, Henry Tajer chairman of IPG MediaBrands and McCabe.

The list is published in Octobers edition of the Australian Womens Weekly on sale on Thursday.

Women in media and film on the list:

7. Gina Rinehart (Billionaire and mining magnate)

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When the Ebola outbreak made a resurgencein Guinea in early August,after earlier showing signs of stabilizing, Moise Mamy knew what he needed to do.

The Guinean pastor had already been traveling from remote village to remote village three times a week to spread awareness about preventing and containing the deadly virus. But as the outbreak flared up again, Mamy and a team of workers from the non-governmental organization Eau de la Vie (Water of Life)began going to the villages five times a week.

The instruction they provided was simple, focusing on washing and water purification practices. But Mamy was convinced that more visits to the isolated areas to was necessary to bring an end to the deadly epidemic.

It was exhausting work, and the team often encountered resistance, Mamy told others; but, he said, it needed to be done.

"This Ebola is a menace that can overrun the country," Mamywarned recently in an e-mail to the leader of a U.S.aid organization.

On Tuesday, Mamy and his team took a truck that was already damaged by rocks that had been thrown at them during visits to other remote villages and drove to Wome, in the forested, southeastern part of Guinea.

This time, they enlisted local officials to help ease the tensions and fear that run rampantin thatpart of thecountry, which is near where the deadly outbreak began.

"The meeting started off well; the traditional chiefs welcomed the delegation with 10 kola nuts as a traditional greeting," said a resident who was present at the meeting, a man identified as "Yves" told the Guardian. But a group of young people arrived, Yves said, and they began throwing stones.

Then, some members of Mamy's team were dragged away.

Then, the unthinkable happened.

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With California water regulators having voted to approve fines up to $500 a day for residents who waste water on lawns, landscaping and car washing, the City of Oakdale must now come up with a conservation plan for its residents and 7,000 water customers.

The move on Tuesday, July 15, by the Water Quality Control Board came after its own survey showed that conservation measures implemented voluntarily have failed to achieve the 20 percent reduction in water use sought by Gov. Jerry Brown. Water Control Board survey results showed that water consumption throughout California had actually risen by one percent this past May compared to the same month in previous years.

Under the new statewide rules, any agency that does not impose mandatory conservation measures could be subject to state fines of up to $10,000 a day.

Oakdale City Manager Bryan Whitemyer said the city is in discussion with formulating a plan for more stringent use and have been taking complaints from the public on chronic water wasters, but education and voluntary compliance are being emphasized over levying fines.

Our goal wasnt to make this punitive, but we do have a citation process in effect, Whitemyer said.

Oakdale Public Services Director Thom Clark said the city already has a water conservation ordinance that has most of the things the water board called to have put in place and its only a matter of formalizing a final plan.

The new rules, approved by the water board, impose new restrictions on outdoor water use starting Aug. 1 that could result in fines of up to $500 per violation. The recent guidelines ban washing cars without a nozzle on a hose; watering driveways or sidewalks; using potable water in ornamental fountains; and over-watering landscaping so that water runs off into roads and adjacent properties. Recycled water is exempt.

Our fines arent as high as theirs, said Clark, stating the city gives two warnings before implementing fines.

The fines will apply only to wasteful outdoor watering, including hosing down hard surfaces such as sidewalks and driveways. They also include exemptions for public health and safety, such as allowing cities to power-wash sidewalks to get rid of human waste left by homeless people a complaint merchants repeatedly have in the city.

Clark said when studying water conservation efforts he discovered that private water trucks would hook up to city fire hydrants to fill their tanks.

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Pizza chain Eagle Boys cut its media spend in half for its latest digital campaign, yet saw improved results after adopting a more targeted approach, according to its retail general manager.

Nick Vincent said the company learned a lot from its first Mad Minutes campaign which offered cut price pizzas during a limited time each day for two weeks and drastically reduced its media spending in the second wave of the digital push.

The savings came after Eagle Boys scrutinised where its online traffic was coming from and directed its budget to those areas.

The first Mad Minutes campaign was a test and we did quite a hefty digital advertising campaign. But we learned a lot and in the second push we became more efficient in our media buy, Vincent said. We became more targeted and as a result spent half what we did in the first campaign and achieved better results.

He declined to reveal the cost of its media.

The fast food chain said visits to its website climbed more than 50 per cent during the fortnight with almost four in 10 of those first time customers.

A third digital push will run next month with social at its core. Vincent declined to reveal further details but said it would not be another Mad Minutes campaign although he confirmed that will return in the future.

While Eagle Boys will still use traditional channels in its marketing mix, including bits and pieces of TV, Vincent said it was increasingly turning to digital advertising.

Around one third of its marketing budget is now directed online, double that of three years ago, he said.

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Good afternoon. It seems like only a week ago that we were staring blankly into the beige of another city toe-dip into governance. OH WAIT, IT WAS. Today, your dais with the mostest will be doing its usual song and dance for the first couple of hours of interest, the city (via OUC) is washing its hands clean of the nonexistent, broken-down nuclear power plant in Crystal River; also, some interactive display and bridge decal agreement with the Orlando Magic appears to be of importance. But the real showdown will come later when the city approves its fiscal year budget which will likely bring a 17 percent increase in property taxes, because of the wonderful things that does. (Also, $15 million in other city cuts to things like public safety while simultaneously playing booster for the soccer stadium). Come along for the ride. Well be transfixed by the terrible for a long while today.

2:05 p.m.: Invocation is happening, followed by the Pledge via Sam Ings (thankfully, thats a short little bit of prose).

2:07 p.m.: ITS HUNGER ACTION MONTH. Second Harvest Food Bank was ranked NUMBER ONE for human services in the state of Florida last week, so show some respect. If this budget passes, we all might be needing a bit more food.

2:13 p.m.: NONPROFITPHOTOOP. yawns.

2:14 p.m.: I think were going to have a lot of testimony today, so lets save time for our residents, says Dyer, surely aware that he is having a Marie Antoinette moment.

2:16 p.m.: Theres going to be a QTI incentive approved for 25 new high wage jobs with Solodev, a geek party of sorts.

2:17 p.m.: Sam Ings is up first; seems that OC Sheriff Jerry Demings had a sister who just died over the weekend at the age of 65. This isnt a good day at all.

2:18 p.m.: Ings is throwing a charity golf tournament with red ties involve. Embarrassingly, the people in the audience who are WEARING red (says the mayor) are here for a matter in District 3. Pretty sure were going to be hearing a lot about development in College Park, right in the middle of everything. (Smith, Princeton, Edgewater).

2:21 p.m.: A lot going on in the Southeast part of the city, says Commish Jim Gray. THERES A NEW ASSISTED CARE FACILITY AND A NEW RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE. Again, all the sads today.

2:22 p.m.: Tony Ortizs mustache is going to touch briefly (cough) on some issues he just heard about in D.C. Water, transportation, internet stuff. Whatever.

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According to a new market research report Microprocessor, GPU, and Peripherals Market by Architecture (X86, ARM, MIPS, Power), by Application (Personal Computer, Smartphone, Tablet, Server, Embedded), by GPU Type (Discrete, Integrated), by Industry Vertical, and by Geography - Global Trends and Forecasts to 2014 - 2020, the microprocessor, gpu, and peripherals market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.49% from 2014 to 2020, and reach $128 Billion in 2020.

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The microprocessor is the integral part of a computer and is responsible for ensuring proper execution of programmed instructions based on the inputs. Microprocessors are excellent computational devices for performing complex calculations in aerospace and defense, research, education, and industrial applications. Modern microprocessors are found in most of the electronics devices including personal computers, smartphones, media players, washing machines, automobiles, and routers. Graphics processing units (GPUs) are highly complex processors designed for manipulating 3-Dimensinal (3D) content on the computers. The peripherals facilitate the communication between the microprocessor and its associated devices. Modern microprocessors are extremely compact and highly efficient devices capable of performing some of the most advanced computing tasks. Their design complexitieshave increased in accordance with the Moores Law.

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The rising popularity of smartphones and tablets, emergence of high-speed cellular networks, and the adoption of cloud computing are playing a major role in driving the market for microprocessors. Gaming consoles continue to act as a growth drivers for GPUs. The wide-scale use of animation in movies and advertising is further acting as a growth driver for GPUs. The declining shipments of personal computers and the emergence of low-cost mobile devices are acting as the major hurdles in the earnings of some of the key players in this industry. The market potential of applications like the Internet-of-Things and ubiquitous computing is proving to be an important element in defining and reshaping the future of the microprocessor industry.

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