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What a good-humored chop.
Major Mackerel, a top Jamaican reggae star from the '80s, was briefly hospitalized with cuts to the head and hand after a jealous husband attacked with a two-foot samurai sword – but the musician isn't sweating it.
"These things happen," Mackerel, whose real name is Garfield Dixon, told the New York Daily News. "It's a Jamaican thing."
Mackerel was on his way to his East Flatbush home when neighbor Oscar Joseph ambushed, claiming that he had flirted with the man's wife, investigators told the News.
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Mackerel denied hitting on Joseph's wife. But he said his friends might have hollered at her in the past year.
"He was chopped with a sword," Mackerel's girlfriend Novia Watson said. "I couldn't believe it."
Joseph was arrested outside the Brooklyn building on assault and criminal possession of a weapon charges, the News reported.
He was reportedly still holding the bloody sword.

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High Country Baking: Chocolate chip biscotti
Help! I'm addicted to chocolate chips!" claimed a reader recently. "No," she continued, "I'm not looking for rehabilitation; I just need cookie recipes for something beyond the usual chocolate chip drop cookie. Got any?" I sure do! How about chocolate chip biscotti? The twice-baked cookies definitely showcase chocolate chips and they're enhanced nicely by almonds, vanilla and a hint of orange. The taste is reminiscent of the iconic chocolate chip drop cookie that everyone loves, but the other additions give it a distinctive twist and the crisp texture is a refreshing change. Like all biscotti, these are at their best when softened slightly in something to drink. This one dips beautifully in coffee (which heightens the chocolate taste), tea or amaretto (which highlights the almond flavor). But, don't limit yourself to these beverages; try it with whatever you like.These crunchy morsels come together with very little active time and without the need for any appliances except an oven. Four ingredients are blended by hand in one bowl, the rest in another, and then the two are combined. You can make them well ahead of serving; they keep well at room temperature and freeze beautifully. Vera Dawson, chef instructor with CMC's Culinary Institute, lives in Summit County, where she bakes almost every day. Her recipes have been tested in her home kitchen and, whenever necessary, altered until they work at our altitude. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Adjusted for altitudes between 8,000-10,000 feetMakes 20-25 cookies———————————————Ingredients1 3/4 cups of flour (spoon and level)1 3/4 teaspoons of baking powder1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips3/4 cup of almonds, coarsely chopped2 large eggs and 1 egg white5 1/3 tablespoons of unsalted butter, melted3/4 cup of granulated sugar, preferably Baker's2 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract1/2 teaspoon of almond extract1 teaspoon of dried orange zest or 1 1/2 teaspoons of fresh orange zest———————————————01 Heat the oven to 350 degrees, with a rack in the center position. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or non-stick aluminum foil.———————————————02 Combine the flour, baking powder, chocolate chips and chopped almonds in a large bowl and stir/whisk to combine well. Set this aside. In another bowl, combine the two large eggs, the melted butter, the granulated sugar, the vanilla and almond extracts and the orange zest and whisk to combine thoroughly (the mixture should be completely smooth).———————————————03 Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients (push them up the sides of the bowl). Spoon/pour the egg-melted butter mixture into the well and stir with a rubber spatula until a sticky dough forms. If it's too wet to work with, refrigerate it for about 20 minutes until it firms up a bit. While still in the bowl, divide the dough equally. Using wet hands (this prevents the dough from sticking to you), lift one half out of the bowl & place it on the prepared baking sheet, about a third of the way from one of its long sides. Form it into a rounded log about 10 inches long, patting and smoothing it as you go. Take out the second half of the dough and do the same, placing it about five inches from the first log. Lightly beat the egg white and brush the tops of the logs with it (you won't use it all).———————————————04 Bake in the preheated oven for about 20-25 minutes, until the dough is set but still slightly soft to the touch. Remove the pan from the oven, but keep the oven on. Let the biscotti cool for five minutes, and then carefully slice each log on the diagonal into individual cookies, making each slice about one half to three-quarters of an inch wide. Gently stand each slice up (you may need to lift them with a small metal spatula so they don't break) on the lined baking sheet, with space for air to circulate between them. Return them to the oven and bake until both edges of each slice are dry. This takes another 18-22 minutes in my oven. Remove the pan from the oven and the cookies from the pan. Let them cool completely on a rack. Store airtight for six days at cool room temperature or freeze them for up to five weeks.
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Fall brings such wonderfully crisp days to delight in and enjoy. It also signals time to get our gardens, our vehicles, our homes ready for winter. We also can view it as a good time to get ourselves ready to stay healthy this fall and winter.
One of the easiest ways is to get a flu shot. Getting a flu vaccine can help ensure time off is spent doing what you want to do, not staying home sick.
San Juan Basin Health already has been out to area senior centers providing flu shots to one of the groups at risk for developing serious complications from the flu those age 65 or older. However, the very young (children younger than 5, especially younger than 2 years old www.cdc.gov/flu/parents/index.htm), pregnant women and those with chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes and heart disease are also groups at high risk.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone older than 6 months get a flu shot. It protects not only you and your loved ones but those you work with and those in the community you come in contact with who are more susceptible to getting complications and may not have had a flu shot.
San Juan Basin Health is offering several opportunities for people to get vaccinated. Our Wacky Wednesday Walk-In flu clinic will start today. You or your whole family can get protected against the flu as well as vaccinated against whooping cough (pertussis) and tetanus.
As you may have read recently, there is sharp rise in cases of whooping cough in many states, including Colorado. Because of this, vaccine is being offered at about 1/3 its normal cost through local health departments. People ages 11 and older can receive this combo (Tdap) booster for just $14.70. Additionally, while flu shots for adults cost $25, both the flu shot and FluMist for people age 18 and younger costs just $14.70. Walk-In Wednesdays will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. today through Nov. 14.
Our annual Boo to the Flu event will return Oct. 27. It will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the La Plata County Fairgrounds and 10 a.m. to noon at the Bayfield Upper Pine Fire Administration Building. Both locations are offering the Tdap booster this year.
Also new and exciting, our Southwest SmileMakers dental hygienist will provide free dental screenings and fluoride for children at the Durango Boo to the Flu. SmileMakers provides childrens dental services and can be reached at 385-4480.
With or without a flu vaccination, we all can take some everyday prevention steps to stay healthier this winter. To help protect against flu, cold and other germ-related illnesses: wash your hands; avoid touching your eyes, mouth and nose; get adequate rest; cover your cough or sneeze with tissue and throw it away (or sneeze/cough into your elbow); stay home if you are ill; and stay away from others who are sick.
So get your fall health preventive tune-up and enjoy this fall and winter.
For more information, visit: flu.gov.
Jane Looney is the communications director for the San Juan Basin Health Department.


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HELP JAPAN: DONATE TO THE RED CROSS NOW!Posted on April 29, 2011 | No CommentsA devastating 8.9 earthquake struck Japan on March 11th, 2011 causing widespread destruction as well as tsunamis and aftershocks. Japan desperately needs our help! Please take the time to donate whatever you can spare, every little bit helps. Please also share this with your friends and ask them to donate to the Red Cross and support Japan in their time of need. Thank you, -Jonathan Nerdtrek


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We are so thrilled to announce these exciting new designs just for kids! We have expanded our wall decal collection to include lots of fresh inspirations for kids decor! From pirates to butterflies, and dinosaurs to daisies, these kids decals are sure to bring the cutest rooms to life! The designs include our popular dots, blox and stripes, wall art kits large and small, and interactive dry-erase maps, chalk board decals, and growth charts!
Large and small wall art kits await, guaranteed to make your kids rooms the coolest in the neighborhood! These fabulous decals include classic themes like dinosaurs, butterflies, flowers, puppies, planes and much, much more! Featured above is the Puppy Love kit, with dogs of all shapes and sizes and the fancy-chic Delilah flower kit, which comes with shimmering gem accents!
Playful motifs like racecars, daisies, pirates, sailboats, sports and an enchanted bike ride take our popular dots, blox, and stripes to fun new heights. Pictured here are the Regatta nautical themed dots and stripes, and the Patchwork Daisy pink damask dots decals. The line includes 6 dots, blox & stripes combinations, with motifs for boys and girls and designs that both can agree on!
Peel and stick growth charts, colorful kids map decals and 2 new chalk board decals add an interactive flair to this dynamic new collection. Help your kids practice their letters on the Learn to Write chalkboard decal and enjoy charting adventures on the dry-erase Map Decals. These engaging new wall decal designs hold the promise of smiles for years to come, helping you make imaginative and awesome spaces that your children will love!


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ESSAY- Kingfish effect: Why Obama can't help your economy
Since I can't support a man who so blatantly panders to American self-involvement that he offers a "gas tax holiday" instead of an honest discussion of America's energy liability, almost everyone I talk to lately has been working to assure I punch the Democratic ticket.
Their latest gambit is to imply that the new voters will be so overcome if their man doesn't emerge the winner that they'll riot. The disenfranchised will know, these people say, their man lost because of racist voters out there. They claim that the angry will believe that "their" election was stolen by con-men behind voting machines. I hear about the "Bradley Effect" constantly.
My friends' best case scenario is that, if their man wins, the nation will undergo a "rebirth of freedom," to quote former President Lincoln, as many will be enfranchised "and that government of the people, by the people and for the people" will again reign in Washington.
History, however, indicates other scenarios, based on two elections. One of those elections, I lived through, and one almost changed the face of American history.
I had been an ardent supporter of Al Gore until after 1992 when, in power, he and his boss, Bill Clinton, did absolutely nothing for the environment. We environmentalists had turned our back on the best environmental president in American history, George W.'s dad, to bring in one of our own, the author of Earth in the Balance.
But four years later, that administration had done nothing, and we environmentalists were making waves with our restlessness. In a last-minute move, the Clinton Administration screwed Utah by putting 1.9 million acres off limits to any kind of development in the Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument.
Since Utah was about the strongest GOP stronghold in the country, the Democratic administration surprised even the state's U.S. senators with the announcement. The Clinton Administration wouldn't even make the dedication in Utah, instead declaring the national monument in a hasty ceremony in Arizona, a state still in play as the election neared. It was brilliant politics. We environmentalists again responded with our support, and it didn't cost Clinton-Gore a single potential electoral vote.
A few months later, after the election, the rumors began to leak out. Except for what used to be available in the Escalante, Johnny Huang and the Lippo Group controlled the only other untapped deposit of low-sulfur, high-BTU coal deposit in the world. Huang, of course, had been channeling illegal campaign funds into the White House and, by taking Escalante off the market, the Lippo coal in Indonesia skyrocketed in value.
I can imagine something similar happening in 2012 when the people who put Obama in office begin to growl when he hasn't delivered. Already, Jesse Jackson wants to castrate the man because Obama has back-pedaled towards George W. Bush on faith-based initiatives and Iraqi policy since he got the Democratic nomination.
Worse, I can imagine a scenario similar to the 1930s when populist Huey P. "Kingfish" Long was moving rapidly to unseat Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the Democratic party nomination. By 1935, citizens who had turned out in record numbers to put the former New York governor into the White House during a time of 25 percent unemployment were angry that FDR's policies weren't doing much to solve The Great Depression. The famed 100 days weren't so famous when the dirt poor were calling Long, a former Louisiana governor, and its present senator, the next political messiah.
Behind the "Kingfish" and Father Charles Coughlin, a Detroit priest who first discovered broadcast evangelism, many of the Democratic faithful, and most of the new believers, had turned against the man we now think of as one of the greats. Roosevelt had simply not delivered fast enough for those suffering from the economic meltdown.
Like Long and Coughlin, many originally ardent supporters were by 1935 calling FDR– at best– a stooge of Wall Street.
In his three-hour radio sermons, Father Coughlin backed Long to a congregation of 40 million still down-and-out Americans– at the time the largest audience in American history. Coughlin's primary political message: America needs the quasi-socialist agenda revitalizing Germany under a man named Adolf Hitler at that moment, and the American to deliver it was the one-term senator from Louisiana.
Long fought off corruption, intimidation, vote-buying and bribery charges– even purchasing his own impeachment vote– by claiming people criticizing him were actually attacking his supporters, the poor, hard-working dirt farmers. His "share the wealth" plan and overall threat to FDR's reign came to a sudden halt when he was assassinated in 1935, just days before his book, My First Days in the White House, rolled off the presses.
Mr. Obama, if elected, will enter office in much the same situation that FDR did in 1932. The country will be in crisis, but Obama no longer has the executive power to declare a "bank holiday' and won't have any money for programs like the Works Progress Administration or the Civilian Conservation Corps. None of Obama's campaign promises are likely to come to pass because the country faces a record $455 billion deficit before any bailout dollars and the Democratic Congress did– we should remember– promise no new spending until it finds comparable spending cuts. The financial crisis today virtually assures no governmental health insurance, no additional bailouts for people who have defaulted on their loans, no nothing after Obama gives the speech of his career January 20.
In four years, what will the backers of "hope" and "change you can believe in" still believe?
Will they wait quietly for policies which always take years, usually decades, to develop? Will respective interest groups, like we environmentalists in 1996, be appeased by campaign shenanigans?
Could the disenfranchised and disenchanted turn toward the Huey Longs and Adolf Hitlers of this world?
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Al Gore might be the phoniest politician and human out there. Richard Clarke's book details a meeting where VP Gore's opinion strongly favoring the capture of a suspected terrorist for rendition overruled Lloyd Cutler's. That's the same Al Gore that now castigates the Bush administration over the Patriot Act.
Environmental initiatives might have stalled economic growth during the Clinton era, so save the environmental advocacy and castigation for the Bush administration.
The idea that we enjoy more freedom by becoming MORE dependent on the government is absurd. The opposite is necessarily true. Under Obama, we will clearly enter the era of "Vote yourself a Raise, Vote for Me". The path to controlling people's minds runs through their pocketbooks.
All those drinking the Obama kool aid now, will wake up with bitterness....I am amazed at how easily this country was bought.
And to all those who will call foul play?? Wake up! They are all slinging slime. Your hero is no different. This is politics! This is America! Use your heads! What happened to healthy debate and freedom of all speech.
Relax people and take three deep breaths before you attack me for being a self employed, low income, female, with no insurance who supports McCain. Why many have asked?? Because I am an informed, educated, objective realist who wants to see this country succeed. Because I love America..the good...the bad...and the political. Don't swallow the half facts and truth...don't vote based on emotion...Use your heads please!
Nice job Hook. It's good to see an opposing viewpoint once in a while!
Randy, great article. Only with historical articles like this one can we hope people realize what roads we've already been down that didn't work out.
Obama is not Jesus. Just FYI for all the liberals on my street.


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What is the best free online converter for the latest standard?
What is the best free (offline) Windows converter for the latest standard?
I am not a programmer just a performer/teacher.
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I was wondering if anyone would go on the line/save some time by offering the name of the best free software
that can truly represent the latest version of the standard?
Its not that I don't appreciate all of the valuable time spent at making this software from past to present.
Its just that I feel we could plain be left-out of the new advances put forth in each new standard.
I see ample talk about formatting but wonder if it is in the standard?
One thing I am looking for is a better way for a part (P:) to be put in a delineating "box".
When alphabetic letters are used for chords- the chords can appear just adjacent to the part letter.
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No interest credit card offers sound too good to be true. For those who use them wisely, no interest credit card offers are a cornerstone to good financial management. Yet there are people who use no interest credit card offers and then several months later find themselves in financial hot water. How can you embrace the former and avoid the latter? Here are three things to keep in mind:
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Nick Punto went 3-for-4, including an RBI double in the second and a mammoth home run (above pic) into the second deck in right-center. Doubront (6.1-7-3-1-7, 101) held the Jays in check (after wriggling out of a bases loaded jam in the third) and the Red Sox moved into fourth place. Since May 11, Boston is 16-6.
With two outs and Jarrod Saltalamacchia on first in the saecond inning, Ryan Sweeney singled, Will Middlebrooks singled (1-0), Punto doubled (2-0), and Daniel Nava singled (4-0).
In the fourth, Kevin Youkilis doubled and took third on Jose Bautista's error; he scored when Middlebrooks hit into a double play.
David Ortiz singled with one out in the eighth and moved around to third as Salty and Yook both walked. With the bases loaded, Ortiz scored on Sweeney's grounder to first.
Punto began the ninth with his first home run of the year - and the 15th dong of his 12-year career - and was given the silent treatment in the dugout. Punto had three hits, and no other Sock had more than one. Sweeney (single, two walks) and Nava (single, walk, HBP) were both on base three times.
It was the fourth game in Punto's career (917 games) in which he had at least three hits, including a home run.
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In its first season "The X Factor" didn't quite turn out to be the television phenomenon that Simon Cowell predicted – but he's not going to let that stop him from hotly hyping the show's sophmore run. Especially because he's recruited no less than Demi Lovato and Britney Spears to join him and L.A. Reid on the judging panel. Cowell and Lovato reveal how the show plans to stand out in an ever more crowded field of singing competitions.
On their unique dynamic as judges:
Simon Cowell: My first recollection was Demi saying to me 'You're much better looking in real life.'
Demi Lovato: Of course, of course. I totally said that.
Cowell: I thought she was very confident, very bright – then became quite annoying, but knew what she was talking about…When I saw Demi a couple of years ago I thought she'd be interesting to work with because of what she's been through, coming through the whole Disney system, being a bit of a rebel, very marketable artist. People like that are always going to be what I call, "lippy." We have different views on the contestants, but I thought it was important since a lot of the contestants are young and that we have a very young audience, that we have to have somebody closer to that age group. But if I'm comfortable with somebody, then you can argue with them, so I'm obviously very comfortable with Demi.
Lovato: It's everything that I thought it would be and more because I always thought it would be so much fun and difficult, but at the same time, you're in a position that you're mentoring people. You're trying to give them the best advice possible so that they can be groomed into this pop star that you know they can be. It's a lot more challenging than I thought it would be, but I am very excited of putting everything that I have into it.
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Cowell: First of all, I've seen the first show. I think it's sensational. I think the girls do a great job. The contestants are great. The show looks different to anything else we've ever made before. I think this is the reason why NBC decided to put 'The Voice' up against us. It is a spoiling tactic and it's very simple—they don't want people to see this first episode. I think it's mean-spirited and I hope and I pray that it backfires on them because this is one of the best shows we've ever made. I am pissed off about it because I think there is kind of a gentlemen's agreement, but you have to rely that the viewers will make the right selection. I think three nights in a row is too much. I think there is a lot of interest, rightly so, in our show because of Britney, Demi, the way the show is going to look. We're going to see what happens. But I've learned, don't make any predictions.
On Christina Aguilera's comment that she doesn't know what Britney Spears will be able to offer "X Factor":
Cowell: [She should] watch the show. She might learn something.
On co-judges Britney Spears and L.A. Reid:
Cowell: I think Britney is a fascinating person, because you just don't know anything about her. She's very unpredictable. You never know what's going to happen. She has taken this very seriously and she's surprisingly quite mean! In the past we've had judges who never say no. She can't say no quick enough on this show. She's quite difficult to please. But she's a fascinating person and I've gotten to like her a lot…If you buy a dog, you expect it to lick you and then it turns out to bite you – It was rather like that. It was a real surprise. She's really, really difficult to please. But in a way, I think it made it more interesting because she just wouldn't say yes for people to like her. When you do these auditions in front of 5,000 people, they boo you. But she was kind of fearless. Because I know the first show Demi said, no, and she got booed, I could see the look on her face, like, 'I don't think I want to do this show anymore.' It's kind of difficult, but she's going to surprise a lot of people, I think, when you see her.
Lovato: L.A. and Britney are so amazing. I feel like they are doing just a great job, especially Britney. I feel like the world hasn't really gotten a chance to see her personality over the past couple of years and now this is the perfect opportunity for people to really see the light inside of her just shine. She's very witty and funny and quirky and I just have such a good time working with her. L.A. is so much fun to work with, so much funner than Simon, and we just have a connection.
Cowell: L.A. is on the panel because, like me, we are two of the biggest hit-makers in the world right now. As important as it is to have artists on the panel, you've got to have people who are currently having a hit record; otherwise it's impossible to judge these shows. I feel very secure with L.A.
On whether a potential star may emerge from the auditions:
Cowell: There are a lot of good people who came on the show this year. There is no question or doubt when you offer $5 million as a prize, you get a lot of good people. Interestingly, although they were weak last year, I think the groups are very strong this year, and particularly, the 12 to 17-year-old contestants. They're like a whole new breed who actually haven't even been brought up on these talent shows before. They've been influenced by what they see on YouTube, social networking, and stuff like that. They've brought something very interesting to the show. It's very, very competitive this year. Right from the get-go, you're going to see some amazing people in the first episode.
On the other tweaks to the second season:
Cowell: The headlines are that we've allowed the audience to see even more of the audition process than what they've seen before. There is a lot of stuff backstage. You're definitely seeing more of how the contestants interact with each other, how they prepare for the auditions, and in the case of the first audition, there is a lot of [action] that happens behind the scenes, which you don't normally see. I found it fascinating to watch because this is the first time, even though I've done this a long time, I genuinely believe I know what it's like to be a contestant on this show. I found it fascinating. There is a lot more reality than we've ever shown before. Maybe before, we showed people 60% of the process, now it feels like it's 100%.
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This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Bamboo Prototyping Board from HaHaBird.
The Great Pumpkin PCB on a pumpkin! from Low Voltage Labs.
da Vinci catapult model from Derringdos.
Comm Badges from Pete Prodoehl.
USB mill controller and e-stop from hudson.
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Which horse has the best pedigree to handle twelve furlongs in the final leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday, June 9 at Belmont Park? My Belmont Stakes list concludes with late entrant My Adonis.
My Adonis's sire Pleasantly Perfect (by Pleasant Colony) won 9 of 18 races from 2001-04 including the G1 Breeders' Cup Classic in '03. The Lane's End Farm stallion is responsible for Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf winner Shared Account, multiple graded turf route winner Cozi Rosie, 2-time 'Big Cap runner-up Setsuko, and recent G3 Affirmed hero Nonios.
Pleasantly Perfect's sire Pleasant Colony (by His Majesty) won 6 of 14 starts including the G1 Kentucky Derby and G1 Preakness. His Triple Crown bid came to a halt with a 3rd place finish in the 1981 Belmont Stakes. The late sire is responsible for such prominent runners as Pleasant Tap, Pleasant Stage, St. Jovite, Behrens, and '93 Belmont Stakes hero Colonial Affair.


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Court rules against parents trying to save Mukwonago mascot
A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled parents suing to save the Mukwonago Area School District's American Indians nickname and logo have no grounds to file a challenge.
The state Department of Public Instruction decided in 2010 the nickname and logo discriminated against American Indians.
Parents of current and former students filed a lawsuit challenging the decision. A Waukesha County judge found in the parents' favor, concluding the DPI employee who made the finding had a high risk of bias.
DPI argued the parents lacked standing to sue. The 2nd District Court of Appeals agreed Thursday. The court said the parents didn't enter the fight until after DPI made its decision and didn't properly petition the judge for review.
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Fiora, The Grand Duelist
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Ranked Teams
- Fixed a bug with the background on the Team Invite popup.
- Fixed a bug where Team status would be missing on the Team Profile.
- Fixed a bug where Ranked Team specific notifications would not send properly.
- Fixed several bugs with client side stat calculation and display.
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- Lunge: Fiora dashes forward to strike her target, dealing physical damage. Fiora can perform the dash a second time within a couple seconds at no mana cost.
- Riposte: Fiora's Attack Damage is increased. When activated, Fiora parries the next basic attack and reflects magic damage back to the attacker. Works against champions, monsters, and large minions.
- Burst of Speed Burst of Speed: Fiora temporarily gains additional Attack Speed. Each basic attack or Lunge she lands during this time increases her Movement Speed. Killing a champion refreshes the cooldown on Burst of Speed.
- Blade Waltz (Ultimate): Fiora dashes around the battlefield to deal physical damage to enemy champions. Successive strikes against the same target deal less damage.
- Duelist (Innate): Fiora regenerates health over 6 seconds each time she deals damage. Striking champions will cause this effect to stack up to 4 times.
- Triumphant Roar Triumphant Roar: mana cost increased to 28/41/54/67/80 from 20/35/50/65/80.
- Unbreakable Will Unbreakable Will: mana cost reduced to 100 from 150.
- Trample: fixed a bug where it was dealing less damage than intended.
- Stats:
- Base damage increased to 56 from 54.
- Armor per level increased to 3.4 from 3.1.
- Chum the Waters Chum the Waters: mana cost reduced to 100 from 150.
- Idol of Durand Idol of Durand: damage range increased to 600 from 575.
- Fixed a bug where Grandmaster's Might passive attack canceled if the buff ran out during the attack animation.
- Lucent Singularity Lucent Singularity:
- Cooldown increased to 11 seconds from 9.
- Now additionally grants vision while in flight to its destination.
- Now starts its cooldown when cast rather than when detonated.
- Now displays a buff showing how long Lucent Singularity Lucent Singularity will last until it automatically detonates.
- Finales Funkeln Finales Funkeln:
- Now grants vision of the affected area during the spell and vision of enemy champions hit for a short duration afterwards.
- Lux can no longer use Flash while casting Finales Funkeln Finales Funkeln.
- Granite Shield Granite Shield: now shows a cooldown timer.
- Unstoppable Force Unstoppable Force:
- Area of effect radius on impact increased to 325 from 300.
- Malphite can no longer Flash while using Unstoppable Force Unstoppable Force.
- Fixed a bug where Malphite would seem to hit the target but would not cause the effect.
- Strut now shows a cooldown timer.
- Umbra Blades now has a passive cooldown timer like Ziggs and Shen.
- Movement speed increased to 325 from 320.
- Undertow:
- Base damage increased to 80/125/170/215/260 from 50/90/130/170/210.
- Scaling changed to 1.0 bonus attack damage from 0.5 total attack damage.
- Base cooldown reduced to 8 from 10.
- Flat cooldown reduction for picking up the axe reduced to 4.5 seconds from 6.
- Ragnarok now provides 30/45/60 armor and magic resistance instead of 20/30/40 flat damage reduction.
- Paragon of Demacia Paragon of Demacia now shows you over its icon how many stacks you have.
- Health per level increased to 82 from 77.
- Move Quick's passive component now shows a cooldown timer.
- Noxious Trap: arm time reduced to 1 seconds from 2.
- Explosive Shot: cast range increased to 625 from 600.
- Hexplosive Minefield Hexplosive Minefield:
- Mana cost reduced to 70/80/90/100/110 from 80/90/100/110/120.
- Slow duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2.
- Damage from 2nd and subsequent mines reduced to 40% from 50%.
物品 编辑
- : attack damage increased to 40 from 30.
General 编辑
- Improved minimap visibility of turrets in Colorblind Mode.
- Colorblind announcement colors now reference blue (friendly) and purple (enemy) teams.
- Important items purchased by your team will now be called out in chat (Aura items, and s, top tier items, etc)
- Champion Kill messages are now more specific.
- You can now activate a timestamp for game chat in the options menu.
- When colorblind mode is activated, movement cursor is included with new color scheme (was not before).
- Announcer callouts no longer reference blue team/purple team, and instead should reference friendly/enemy team (ie. A friendly inhibitor is respawning soon/the enemy inhibitor has respawned).
- Champions will now attempt to run home immediately when disconnecting, rather than attempting to Recall.
- Small monster camp sigils now restore up to 30 Mana in addition to Health.
- Small Golem camp:
- Movement Speed increased to 300 from 180.
- Medium Golem base damage increased to 59 from 54.
- Fixed a bug where whisper messages were the wrong color.
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- Added Blitzcrank bot to the roster of bots in Co-Op versus AI.
- Improved bots' ability to last hit and reduced how much they push their lanes.
- Reduced the amount of gold given to bots on Summoner's Rift Intermediate.
- Added the ability for bots to call for help from nearby bots.
- Improved the precision of skill shots and ground targeted AoE abilities.
- Minor bug fixes with Leona, Lux, and Shyvana bots.
Art 编辑
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Americans who are concerned about pollution and climate change have traditionally stood with science, in particular the consensus that greenhouse-gas emissions from human activity are warming the earth and changing the climate.
Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline, in contrast, seem to deliberately ignore the evidence that the pipeline wouldn't lead to environmental disaster. Missing from their argument — on prominent display in Washington protests this past weekend — are a few salient points. The pipeline would do little to increase greenhouse-gas emissions in North America. It would merely enable Canada to send its crude to Gulf Coast refineries via a north-south pipeline rather than rail or ship, and allow the U.S. to get more of the eight million barrels of oil it imports each day from a good neighbour.
Now that Nebraska has accepted a revised route for the pipeline around the state's sensitive Sand Hills region, President Barack Obama is expected to decide this spring whether to allow its construction. He has already encouraged TransCanada Corp. to build the southern part of the line — from Cushing, Okla., to the Gulf Coast — and has only to consider the northern section, which crosses the Saskatchewan-Montana border.
Even if, in making his decision, Obama takes concern for the environment into account, he will have no reason not to approve the project.
Here's what's wrong with the environmental argument against the Keystone project.
Pipeline foes say that by pumping 700,000 barrels of crude a day to the U.S. it would encourage maximum development of the Athabasca oilsands in Alberta. Extraction of this thick, dirty crude requires heavy equipment to inject steam underground to unearth the liquefied tar. The process is therefore relatively expensive and high in carbon emissions compared with simple drilling for liquid oil.
Similar steam-injection processes that are used to extract oil from deposits in California's San Joaquin Valley, however, haven't received the kind of attention that anti-Keystone forces have aimed at the Alberta oilsands, as an editorial in the journal Nature recently pointed out. If these processes are so intolerable, why would the U.S. oppose Canada's using them but still allow them to proceed at home?
In any case, extraction methods are getting cleaner. By 2015, carbon-capture technology is expected to reduce emissions from Canadian oilsands by as much as 35 per cent. Even now, when you look at the entire well-to-wheels life cycle of the oilsands crude, its emissions are at most 20 per cent greater than normal, because most of oil's emissions come from burning the fuel.
Like most every sentient being, the project's foes are worried about the pipeline's potential to leak oil within the U.S. TransCanada is taking pains to ensure that the pipeline is designed for the heavy crude it is meant to carry and that it would be safely operated. Even so, we could expect a leak or two a year of more than 2,000 gallons of oil, according to the 2011 environmental impact statement on the project issued by the U.S. State Department. In most cases, however, such spills are expected to be contained in a small area and readily cleanable. This is the calculated risk we take with other oil and gas pipelines, thousands of miles of which criss-cross the U.S.
So blocking the Keystone pipeline wouldn't save the world from environmental catastrophe.


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Scope of threat in West a surprise to feds
The Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency charged with regulating the highly explosive substance ammonium nitrate, wasn't aware that West Fertilizer Co. stored 270 tons of ammonium nitrate - 1,300 times the threshold that triggers federal oversight.
But the small company did submit the information to another government agency - the Department of State Health Services.
Had federal officials been aware of the information contained in the state disclosure, DHS officials might have inspected the facility and required safer storage.
The patchwork of local, state and national laws regulating fertilizer facilities remains at the heart of the investigation into the deadly explosion that claimed 14 lives in the tiny Czech community of West. Saturday, company officials were unavailable to explain why they had not complied with DHS rules, promulgated in the last five years, requiring the disclosure of such a large quantity of ammonium nitrate.
Since 2006, the company complied with state agencies overseeing air emissions and product quality, but no state agency had the legal authority to inspect and enforce safety measures at the plant.
For instance, when the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued a permit approving operations in 2006, its records clearly reflected that two schools were located close by. Under state law, the commission's only duty was to determine whether air quality at the site would negatively affect the students and other nearby residents.
No control over safety
Whether a fire could trigger a devastating and deadly explosion was not a factor to be considered under state law, said Larry Soward, who was on the commission at the time.
"Unfortunately, the actual safety of the operators is not something TCEQ has any jurisdiction over," said Soward, now a consultant with Air Alliance Houston. "I've said for a long time we ought to be able to look at whether something is properly located from a public health and environmental standpoint."
State Chemist Tim Herrman, whose office oversees the 592 Texas fertilizer facilities that have registered with the state, said inspectors "are in those establishments on a frequent basis," but strictly to enforce laws pertaining to packaging, labeling and testing for contaminants. His office maintains a list of 1,105 firms registered to manufacture or distribute fertilizer in Texas. "We do what the law tells us to do."
On Saturday, his small office - actually a department within Texas A&M University - posted public records showing the plant had been cited several times in the last decade for mislabeling the contents of its products.
TCEQ budget cut
But fertilizer production is overseen in many other states by state Departments of Agriculture, and many of them were involved when the federal government promulgated new rules requiring disclosure of large quantities of ammonium nitrate.
Environmental activists said Texas is proud of its small government philosophy that imposes few regulations, but that means Texas lags behinds other states in protecting the environment. Last session, the Texas Legislature cut the TCEQ's budget by $305 million, leading to a reduction of 235 full-time employees.
Also, volunteer fire departments aren't subject to the same oversight as their paid, professional counterparts. The Texas Commission on Fire Protection has adopted some standards promulgated by the National Fire Protection Association, but does not oversee volunteer fire departments. Had the plant been inspected by a fire safety expert enforcing NFPA standards, it would have had to comply with specific codes addressing safe storage of ammonium nitrate.
At a press conference late Friday, Gov. Rick Perry expressed a willingness to review whether state regulations were sufficient. He pointed out that the plant was subject to "local zoning, state requirements and federal requirements" and that "sometimes they mesh and sometimes they don't."
"If there's a better way to do this, we want to know about it," Perry said. "I assure you with the Legislature in session, there will be plenty of opportunities" to examine the regulatory framework.
Travis Considine, a spokesman for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, indicated it was too early to predict whether new legislation would be adopted in response to the explosion.
"As with any incident of this magnitude, the only prudent course of action is to determine and review the facts first," he said.
'Wrong direction'
Environmental advocates called for more funding of state regulators.
"We brag about the great business climate, but we don't put enough money into regulating agencies," said Jim Marston, director of the Texas office of the Environmental Defense Fund.
Currently, the Texas Legislature is considering a bill that would speed the TCEQ permitting process, and put a greater burden on neighbors opposing a polluting industry, he said.
"We are moving in the wrong direction," Marston said. An industrial state "needs regulations that are effective in dealing with the complexity of society."
Tom "Smitty" Smith, director of the Texas office of Public Citizen, also noted that the Texas House is scheduled to debate a bill that would eliminate public disclosure of a state evaluation of compliance history. He said he hoped the explosion in West would prompt lawmakers to reject a bill that would make it "difficult to know good actors and bad actors."
Health and safety
According to the TCEQ, West Fertilizer Co. was constructed in 1962, prior to government regulations requiring permits for air contaminants. A 2004 state law required the company to obtain a permit, but it was not until TCEQ responded to a citizen complaint in 2006 that the company complied.
The timeline of construction of the neighboring schools and nursing home could not be determined Friday, but it is likely that the town grew up around the 50-year-old fertilizer operation.
"It's a reminder why we have environmental standards in place," said Luke Metzger with Environment Texas. "It's not a bureaucratic exercise. They are to protect human health and safety. It's critical that we get it right."
Smith agreed.
"The West explosion shows why we need to be toughening rather than weakening environmental regulations," he said. "Our regulatory scheme has failed."


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Our success depends on our people performing at their best – and for this they need to feel motivated, connected and valued. By making sure our employees are engaged, we create a culture of personal responsibility, diversity and innovation.
We last ran our biannual employee engagement survey in 2017. We had a high participation rate (84 percent) and high overall engagement scores (83 percent). When we compare ourselves to other high performing organisations, over 94 percent of participating employees rate our way of working on environmental responsibility significantly above the norm.
We saw some improvement around career development issues – an area we have been working on (for example, our investment in the MyFuture programme). We continue to focus on improving our Process Efficiency and Managing Change. We still have work to do in these areas; both are critical for our long-term success. Following an in-depth root-cause analysis and best practice research, we are finalising action plans. Our next survey will run in 2019, and we will report on the results in our next report, to be published in 2020.
As the pace of change is increasing, we know that we need more flexible and agile way of listening to our employees' opinions. That's why we will be introducing the employee engagement pulse surveys. These will complement the current biennial EE surveys with more frequent and short surveys. It will also help us in addressing global/ functional or cluster engagement measurement needs in a more agile way.?
We will use them to follow-up on employee engagement actions and as a pulse check after a significant change in the organisation, as well as to collect feedback where we see issues in morale or turnover in specific areas of the organisation.
We believe that a sense of team and common purpose needs shared values. In such a diverse business, it is more important than ever to create a common 'language'.
Our values are:
Customer focus and long-term view
Quality and innovation
Freedom and responsibility
Partnership and fun
Recognising positive behaviours and performance is important to us and we acknowledge our colleagues in a number of ways. For example, any employee can nominate a colleague for an Excellence Award in four categories: customer, innovation, operation or leadership. We also recognise teamwork with our awards for market and factory of the year.
Do you want to learn more about employee engagement?
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Together with our customers we make food safe and available, everywhere. Since the start in 1951 we have taken pride in providing the best possible processing and packaging solutions for food.
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Last year I overcame my Fear-of-Carnival-Equipment and took my first ride ever on the Fiesta ferris wheel. When I was a child I loved amusement parks. Fear-of-Carnival- Equipment is an affliction that strikes one upon becoming a mother. Nevertheless, at this time last year my camera was brand new and I was determined to take photos from the ferris wheel vantage point (and both kids had left for college and grad school).
I was disappointed to see that this year the ferris wheel was not set up along Pavilion Beach. According to carnival employee Bones, the ferris wheel was recently sold to a permanent park in Mexico because it was becoming too old for the frequent moves demanded of it from a traveling company. Although I will miss the gorgeous view of Gloucester from atop the ferris wheel I am glad they made this safety call. The good news is that the company is planning to purchase a new ferris wheel and hopefully it will be here next year!
Snapshots from St. Peter's Square this morning.