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Nevada Rural Counties RSVP program, based in Carson City, is collecting items for homeless veterans and veterans in need as part of the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.

Willy Hernangomez didn’t play in their first meeting Dec. 7, when Juancho had 15 points in Denver’s 113-107 loss.

High Point Quilt Guild: 6:15 p.m. second Thursday, Westchester Baptist Church, 135 Westchester Drive, HP. Angie Pelle, mommapeele@aol.com.

The microstructure of wrought iron, showing the “grain”. Mike Meier (m610) [CC-BY-SA-3.0].The result in the case of wrought iron is an extremely pure and malleable iron, with inclusions of furnace slag that the working process has formed out into an almost fibrous grain-like structure. This removes the brittleness of pig iron or cast iron, and makes it a much stronger and more elastic substance. It is much softer than steel, indeed if you are used to the hefty blows required for steel forging it is something of a shock to find just how soft it is on the anvil. I have only ever worked it once, my dad had a piece as part of a heritage restoration job, and we tried working it for curiosity’s sake. “Like hammering butter” is how I’d describe it, after working mild steel.

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The real reason that “grid clusters” will continue to exist far into the future is to ensure information security and physical equipment security. Redundant, and potentially highly distributed, cluster sites will be essential for “large scale disaster” survivability. Last years events impact in the financial industry and some of the companies ability to recover using redundant backup sites were the proof of this.

Saturday Craft-Away: 11 a.m. Saturdays, Turntable, 209 W. Main St., JT. Gathering of local craftspeople. 336-937-7578.

Senior Outreach: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. second Tuesday, Center United Methodist Church, GB. Program and hot catered lunch for ages 60 and older. Make reservation. Amanda Clark, 336-373-4816 or RuralOutreach@senior-resources-guilford.org.

Last but not least, the “Broadcast TV fee” is probably the most egregious of the whole set, with the “regional sports” fee running right behind. When the telecommunications act got its big fat upgrade in the 1990s, so did the rules pertaining to the carriage agreements between local broadcast stations (your NBC, NBC, and CBS affiliates and so on — the whole UHF and VHF gamut) and cable carriers. That change in regulation opened up the opportunity for broadcast stations to negotiate their own retransmission rates rates with cable companies. Since 1994, the cable companies have been permitted to pass those costs through to consumers. Similarly, companies charge extra for recouping the cost of carrying regional sports networks in your package, whether or not you want them. (Sometimes it can be almost impossible to get a bundle without.) Those are the “regional sports fees,” and cable companies say that it’s simply too expensive to carry whatever channel is playing baseball in your neighborhood. As a bonus: if you’re a Comcast customer, you’re paying regional sports fees for them to bring you… Comcast-owned stations. That is some chutzpah. The thing is, though, there’s already a pass-through charge for recouping retransmission fees, and it’s called “your entire cable bill.” Because that’s exactly how the system works: content companies, like Disney and Discovery and Viacom and so on, make agreements with distribution companies, like Comcast and Charter. For every cable subscriber that receives Channel X in their bundle, Cable Company Y will pay the content company that owns Channel X a small monthly fee. If the agreement is for $0.50, and 10 million subscribers receive that channel, then the cable company pays the content company $5 million per month. The cable company recoups those fees by getting paying subscribers in the door. So if you pay $100 per month for your cable bill, and you get Channel X, then nominally about $0.50 of your bill goes to that company. It’s not that direct, of course, and the cable company is using giant pools of fungible money on both ends, but that’s the idea. With “Broadcast” and “regional sports” fees added on — which can run $8 per month or more, combined — cable companies are simply increasing the rate you pay for cable TV while claiming not to be increasing the rate you pay for cable. It’s impressive, in its own way.

This weekend’s storm caused flooding on several major highways, broken tree branches blocked roads and more than 125,000 homes and businesses to lose power.

Now, their sons defy big software conglos — and I smell the same adrenaline/blood level in the air. So I think this is not an end, but rather a new beginning.

East Side Access has been dogged by massive cost overruns and delays since construction began nearly a dozen years ago. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo has brought in a manager who is focused on bringing the $11 billion project to completion by a new deadline in four years.