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News and opinion about video games, technology and the internet
The dark days of SOPA and PIPA are behind the US, at least temporarily as copyright tycoons reground and restrategize, attempting to come up with measures that don't cause the entire internet to shut down in protest.
But one country has already moved ahead with similar legislation. The government of the Philippines has passed the Cybercrime Prevention Act, which on the surface, as usual, sounds perfectly well-intentioned. But when you read the actual contents of what's been deemed "cybercrime," SOPA's proposed censorship sounds downright lax by comparison.
Yes, there's the usual hacking, cracking, identity theft and spamming, which most of us can agree should be illegal. But there's also cybersex, pornography, file-sharing (SOPA's main target) and the most controversial provision, online libel.
Now, as someone who has been the target of many a vicious attack from commenters or forum posters, I can understand frustration with the nature of online anonymous criticism. But to actually try to make such a thing illegal? You wade into dangerous waters that anything resembling freedom of speech will likely drown in. And that's overlooking the free speech implications trampled by banning pornography and file-sharing as well, two provisions getting less attention due to the severity of the libel section.
Via CBS, a senator who opposed the bill explains its potential ramifications:
"If you click 'like,' you can be sued, and if you share, you can also be sued," said Sen. Teofisto Guingona III, one of the lawmakers who voted against the passage of the law.
"Even Mark Zuckerberg can be charged with cyber-libel," the senator said.
The provision, according to Guingona, is so broad and vague that it's not even clear who should be liable for a given statement online. And if you're found guilty, get ready to spend up to 12 years in prison.
Guingona poses the question, who exactly is libel for the libel? Is it the person who made the statements? Anyone who reblogged or retweeted them? The website on which the comments were made? Anyone who commented in assent or even clicked 'like'? The way the law is worded, the Filipino police could actually charge you with simply criticizing them or the government in a way they deem "malicious," a word very much open to interpretation.
One of the two Senators who inserted the libel provision, Vincente Sotto III, stands by it.
"Yes, I did it. I inserted the provision on libel. Because I believe in it and I don't think there's any additional harm."
Again, much like SOPA, these are lawmakers who don't understand the true implications of the law on the technology they're attempting to regulate. Or maybe they do, in this case. Sotto recently came under fire online for plagiarizing speeches from an American blogger and Robert F. Kennedy which he used to rail against a controversial reproductive health bill.
On social media sites like Reddit, young Filipinos are lamenting the seemingly backwards nature of their government's recent policies, decrying that they were able to pass a law like this one heavily censoring the internet, but not the aforementioned legislation to teach sex education and give out birth control in schools.
Opponents of SOPA and PIPA should stand up to web tyranny everywhere, and when a supposedly free country institutes censorship practices like that of China and Iran, something is very wrong with that picture. Despite huge protests against the law, the government, as of yet, shows no sign of backing down.
Once again we see a mix of ignorance to technology and the desire to exert further control over a population. Neither is pretty, and neither has any place in a good government.
UPDATE: The law has been suspended, read here.
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A sad day for all Filipinos. SOPA has come to us so quick.
Indeed! We need to fight back and bring back our rights! We are the people and WE, people should work together and never be afraid.
I never thought that I would experience another form of dictatorship in my life. First was when I was still a child. And now the freedom to express that has always been one of the things I have regarded as the most important aspect of human life is being threatened. Thanks to this new Philippine Cyber Crime law that has been passed, I fear that our incompetent government is doing nothing but suppr
ess the people of free will.
Yes being responsible in using the internet is important, but to impose a law that would hinder the growth of the new generation as they take on the innovation of the world is unforgivable. No wonder there were people who decided to take down government sites as a sign of protest. This act may have been something that the government will recognize as a hideous crime but, to me it looked more like how people or the masses would react when driven to a corner. People will fight back.
Just because those incompetent people who are sitting in a position of power that we have elected to put them in cannot do their job right does not mean that, they have the right to use their power to to protect themselves from the blatant truth. The people's opinion matters. May it be published on the internet, said verbally or even expressed in any medium. An opinion will always be an opinion.
And in my opinion the government is utterly useless passing laws for personal gain and robbing the poor. Justice has already been stolen by corrupt officials. I did not believe the campaign of our current president from the start that he aims to set things right. He is currently making it worse by betraying the trust of the people with the means of invading the privacy of the people who are using the internet.
No wonder people fleeing the country. The government is undermining our will. I would rather die than live in this country where the teachings of our national hero is being mocked by officials who oppress the will of the people that put them in that place of power.
I am sorry to say this, but the government today does not only suck balls it is also very incompetent and that those who even signed the bill are nincompoops. They can throw me in jail for all I care. and the moment that they do they have wronged my opinion in which they can and should never win in any court. Unless they pass a bill for that too.
It's really funny how Benigno Aquino Jr, our current presidents father died to give our people a voice, when his son goes ahead to sign a bill to hinder it. I find it hilarious Vicente Sotto I passes a law for press freedom but III not only denies obvious plagiarism but also adds a section for what seems to be personal vendetta.
John Kennedy Ozores is right. They haven't proven anything to the people and yet they always claim to be for the people. A lot of Filipinos are still jobless, homeless and starving, crime rate has never gone down and yet they find their selves fixing things that shouldn't be fixed. Are these so-called Government Officials really for the people? I say they are just hypocrites that are basking themselves in the riches of taxpayer's money and stepping on the rights of their own countrymen.
Majority of our people suffer from poverty, lack of education, lack of jobs, lack of proper health care and yet our government deems it fit to budget 50 million to hinder our freedom of speech which go against the 1987 constitution, third article under the Bill of Rights. I guess that's what their priorities are. They'd rather silence the people than build a better future.
http://www.lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html <— Copy of the 1987 Philippine Constitution.
And let's not forget that Filipino libel laws are supposedly carried over from the Spanish Colonial Period, which ended about A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
Share this to everyone, the technology is already being used here in big companies, its called AscenFlow by a company called XTERA. In the revision of the law for Cyber Crimes in which cases of prima facie as deemed by the government, they have full authority to put one of those appliance in the core switch of any ISP and its instant digital feed of everyones activity and data (it will see everything – with automatic logging). Complete network visibility at any given time with spontaneous sniffing capability of all its users – http://www.xtera.com/Products/WANOptimization/AscenFlow.aspx – its pretty much like the carnivore system of the FBI, but for commercial use.
October 2, the Supreme Court sitting en banc is set to hear several petitions for prohibition against the Cybercrime Prevention Law.
If the high court junks these petitions and disapproves the request for a temporary restraining order (TRO), the Cybercrime Prevention Law will take effect the following day, forever changing the Internet landscape in the Philippines — possibly even killing Internet freedom.
It's Mar████ ███w in the digital age.
[ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇɴᴛ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋᴇᴅ.] (ʀᴀ ɴᴏ. 10175)
Read the Cybercrime Law provisions and learn what technology can really do to your rights. Be educated.
Be counted and sign the petition http://www.change.org/petitions/junk-the-cybercrime-prevention-law
Share this article to everyone if you don't condone R.A. 10175
I AM AGAINST ALL CRIMES., and bullying in any form.. albeit some good points it speaks more of how weak we are as a nation… this CyberCrime Law is incompatible with the guarantees in our Bill of Rights under the Constitution, " THE 1987 CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ARTICLE III BILL OF RIGHTS, Section 4. No law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech, of expression, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances.cralaw " They should focus more on poverty, education,. And the list goes on…
The internet-using population and number of internet-centric businesses are still much smaller here in the Philippines than in the US and that's why our collective voice is not yet loud enough, not unlike the anti-SOPA and anti-PIPA campaign. We could really use help even just through articles such as this. Thanks.
It is unfortunate that the non-internet-using population are probably the people who voted these people who wrote such laws into power. The majority probably wouldn't care so much about the bill. But as you said, the issue is its effect on free speech and all that. I already feel like I'm in another country already, where we have very limited freedom. It's a very sad day.


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what link is good for a step by step, progression of learning reason (have 6.5) for beginners'
i have found allot of the links, you tube sites are all over the place. Like you will get for example. A great starter tutorial, then when its done. You can't find the next progression video.
I guess almost like a site that coincides with the users manual. Maybe there isnt , maybe i am looking for a course like site, that i might need to pay for.
I do not know if there is one link; however, there are several links, that would add up to too many to go through. My thoughts is to have one sonic comparison chart that aides the user when getting any device so they will not duplicate, or at least know that one system is superior to another. This should be based on a sonic playing field and not from name recognition either. Lastly I believe the guru's of reason (Selig, Jiggery-Pokery, etc) should be the compositors of the chart. I believe they are the more informed over all than the rest of us. Other than that there are some good tutorials out there but even with our tutorial sticky the links is not in order of importance or experience of the user (In my opinion).
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DRAFT: A vessel's depth (including props, shafts and struts or outboard lower unit) below the water's surface. "Draft" is a noun, not a verb. A boat draws three feet; it doesn't draft three feet.
LOA: Readers specifically asked about this one. And no, I have no answer as to why boatbuilders list models differently than the actual length. LOA means the true length over all, including any overhangs like a bow pulpit or a transom swim platform or bracket. The actual length of a boat without any overhangs is called length on deck (LOD).
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Measure any boat from the bottom of the transom V to the point of the bow to get your real length!
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Epic and Autobiographical (A Versified Finale)
An Autobiographical Narrative: 1960s
Born on the Goldhawk Road
Provides a fitting preface
To a long autobiographical piece,
Consisting almost entirely
Of versified prose, and linear in nature,
Which is to say,
Beginning with my birth,
And leading all the way
To the early 2000s.
Whilst dealing with my earliest years,
It was fashioned only recently.
Although An Autobiographical Narrative
Has been composed not solely of
Stray pieces of prose
That failed to make the first team.
For it includes
Further versified phenomena,
Such as refugees from the memoir,
Rescue of a Rock and Roll Child.
The piece itself is a versified version
Of one much reproduced
In various forms throughout my writings,
Although it bears little resemblance
To its original, which first glimpsed
The light of day in around 2002,
As a meagre and mediocre slice of prose,
And while it can still be read
On the World Wide Web,
It's undergone much modification since then,
Including the alteration
Of all names of people and places
For the solemn purpose of privacy.
Although it was first published
In a form resembling that found below
At the Blogster website,
On the 1st of February 2006.
Born on the Goldhawk Road
I was born at the tail end of the Goldhawk Road
Which runs through Shepherds Bush
Like an artery,
And in the mid 1960s,
Served as one of the great centres
Of the London Mod movement,
But I was raised in relative gentility
In a ward of nearby South Acton
Whose vast council estate
Is surely the most formidable
Of the whole of West London.
Although my little suburb
Has since become
One of its most exclusive neighbourhoods.
My first school was a kind of nursery
Held locally on a daily basis
At the private residence
Of one Miss Henrietta Pearson,
And then aged 4 years old,
I joined the exclusive
Lycee Francais du Kensington du Sud,
Where I was soon to become bilingual
And almost every race and nationality
Under the sun was to be found
At the Lycee in those days...
And among those who went on to be good pals mine
Were kids of English, French, Jewish, American,
Yugoslavian and Middle Eastern origin.
While my first closest pals were Esther,
The vivacious daughter
Of a Norwegian character actor
And a beautiful Israeli dancer,
And Craig, an English kid like myself,
With whom I remain in contact to this day.
For a time, we formed an unlikely trio:
"Hi kiddy," was Esther's sacred greeting
To her blood brother, who'd respond in kind.
But at some stage, I became a problem child,
A disruptive influence in the class,
And a trouble maker in the streets,
An eccentric loon full of madcap fun
And half-deranged imaginativeness.
And my unusual physical appearance
Was enhanced by a striking thinness,
And enormous long-lashed blue eyes.
Less charmingly, I was also the kind of
Deliberately malicious little hooligan
Who'd remove some periodical
From a neighbour's letter-box
And then mutilate it before reposting it.
The sixties' famed social and sexual revolution
Was well under way, and yet for all that,
Seminal Pop groups such as the Searchers
And the Dave Clark Five;
Even the Fab Four themselves,
Were quaintly wholesome figures.
And in comparison to what was to come,
They surely fitted in well
In a long vanished England
Of Norman Wisdom pictures;
And the well-spoken presenters
Of the BBC Home Service,
Light Service and World Service,
Of coppers and tanners
And ten bob notes;
And jolly shopkeepers
And window cleaners.
At least that's how I see it,
Looking back at it all
From almost half a century later.
An Autobiographical Narrative: 1960s
In its most primordial form,
Snapshots knew life as spidery writings
Filling four and a half pages
Of a school notebook
In what is likely to have been 1977.
And these were edited in 2006,
Before being tendered a new title,
Subjected to alterations in punctuation,
And then finally published at Blogster
On the 10th of March of that year.
Some grammatical corrections took place,
Which were suitably mild
So as not to excessively alter the original work,
From which certain sentences were composed
By fusing two or more sections together.
Ultimately, parts of it were incorporated
Into the memoir, Rescue of a Rock and Roll Child,
And thence into the first chapter
Of the definitive autobiographical piece,
Seven Chapters from a Sad Sack Loser's Life.
But recently, it was newly versified,
With a fresh set of minor corrections,
Although as ever with these memoir-based writings
The majority of names have been changed,
And they are faithful to the truth to the best of my ability.
Snapshots from a Child's West London
I remember the 20th Chiswick Wolf Cub pack,
How I loved those Wednesday evenings,
The games, the pomp and seriousness of the camps,
The different coloured scarves, sweaters and hair
During the mass meetings,
The solemnity of my enrolment,
Being helped up a tree by an older boy,
Baloo, or Kim, or someone,
To win my Athletics badge,
Winning my first star, my two year badge,
And my swimming badge
With its frog symbol, the kindness of the older boys.
I remember a child's West London.
One Saturday afternoon, after a football match
During which I dirtied my boots
By standing around as a sub in the mud,
And my elbow by tripping over a loose shoelace,
An older boy offered to take me home.
We walked along streets,
Through subways crammed with rowdies,
White or West Indian, in black gym shoes.
"Shuddup!" my friend would cheerfully yell,
And they did.
"We go' a ge' yer 'oame, ain' we mite, ay?"
"Yes. Where exactly are you taking me?" I asked.
"The bus stop at Chiswick 'Oigh Stree'
Is the best plice, oi reck'n."
"Yes, but not on Chiswick High Street,"
I said, starting to sniff.
"You be oroight theah, me lil' mite."
I was not convinced.
The uncertainty of my ever getting home
Caused me to start to bawl,
And I was still hollering
As we mounted the bus.
I remember the sudden turning of heads.
It must have been quite astonishing
For a peaceful busload of passengers
To have their everyday lives
Suddenly intruded upon
By a group of distressed looking Wolf Cubs,
One of whom, the smallest,
Was howling red-faced with anguish
For some undetermined reason.
After some moments, my friend,
His brow furrowed with regret,
As if he had done me some wrong, said:
"I'm gonna drop you off
Where your dad put you on."
Within seconds, the clouds dispersed,
And my damp cheeks beamed.
Then, I spied a street I recognised
From the bus window, and got up,
Grinning with all my might:
"This'll do," I said.
"Wai', Carl," cried my friend,
Are you shoa vis is 'oroigh'?"
"Yup!" I said. I was still grinning
As I spied my friend's anxious face
In the glinting window of the bus
As it moved down the street.
I remember a child's West London.
One Wednesday evening,
When the Pops was being broadcast
Instead of on Thursday,
I was rather reluctant to go to Cubs,
And was more than usually uncooperative
With my father as he tried
To help me find my cap,
Which had disappeared.
Frustrated, he put on his coat
And quietly opened the door.
I stepped outside into the icy atmosphere
Wearing only a pair of underpants,
And to my horror, he got into his black Citroen
And drove off. I darted down Esmond Road
Crying and shouting.
My tearful howling was heard by Margaret,
19 year old daughter of Mrs Helena Jacobs,
Whom my mother used to help
With the care and entertainment
Of Thalidomide children.
Helena Jacobs expended so much energy
On feeling for others
That when my mother tried to get in touch
In the mid '70s, she seemed exhausted,
And quite understandably,
For Mrs O'Keefe, her cleaning lady
And friend for the main part
Of her married life
Had recently been killed in a road accident.
I remember that kind
And beautiful Irish lady,
Her charm, happiness and sweetness,
She was the salt of the earth.
She threatened to ca-rrown me
When I went away to school...
If I wrote her not.
Margaret picked me up
And carried me back to my house.
I immediately put on my uniform
As soon as she had gone home,
Left a note for my Pa,
And went myself to Cubs.
When Pa arrived to pick me up,
The whole ridiculous story
Was told to Akela,
Baloo and Kim,
Much, much, much to my shame.
I remember a child's West London.
The year was 1963, the year of the Beatles,
Of singing yeah, yeah in the car,
Of twisting in the playground,
Of "I'm a Beatlemaniac, are you?"
That year, I was very prejudiced
Against an American boy, Robert,
Who later became my friend.
I used to attack him for no reason,
Like a dog, just to assert my superiority.
One day, he gave me a rabbit punch in the stomach
And I made such a fuss that my little girlfriend, Nina,
Wanted to escort me to the safety of our teacher,
Hugging me, and kissing me intermittently
On my forehead, eyes, nose, cheeks.
She forced me to see her:
"Carl didn't do a thing," said Nina,
"And Robert came up and gave him
Four rabbit punches in the stomach."
Robert was not penalized,
For Mademoiselle knew
What a little demon I was,
No matter how hurt
And innocent I looked,
Tearful, with my tail between my legs.
I remember a child's West London.
An Autobiographical Narrative: 1960s
In September 1968,
While still only 12 years old,
I became a Naval Cadet
at the Nautical College,
Situated then as now
In the Royal County
Of Berkshire.
Which may have made me
The youngest and unlikeliest
Serving officer
In the entire Royal Navy,
If only for a very, very short time.
The Four Precious Years (I Spent at Welbourne)
My third and final school
Was the former Nautical College, Welbourne,
Where at still only twelve years old
I became the youngest kid in the college,
And an official serving officer
In Britain's Royal Naval Reserve.
Founded at the height of the British Empire,
Welbourne still possessed her original title in '68,
while her headmaster,
A serving officer in the Royal Navy
For some quarter of a century,
Wore his uniform at all times.
However, in '69,
She was given the name Welbourne College.
While the boys retained their officer status,
And naval discipline continued to be enforced,
With Welbourne serving both
As a military college
And traditional English boarding school.
The Welbourne I knew
Had strong links to the Church of England,
And so was marked by regular
If not daily classes
In what was known as Divinity,
Morning parade ground prayers,
Evening prayers,
And compulsory chapel
On Sunday morning.
Later in life, I felt grateful to her
For the values she'd instilled in me
If only unconsciously, even though,
By the time I joined Welbourne,
These were under siege as never before
By the so-called Counterculture.
And in the early 2010s,
I'd insist if I possessed
A single quality that might be termed noble,
Such as patience, or self-mastery
Or consideration of the needs of other people,
Then I'm at least partially indebted
For such a wonderful blessing
To the four precious years I spent at Welbourne.
An Autobiographical Narrative: 1960s
For all the Beatniks of SF consists of
Edited and versified extracts
From one of my earliest
Existent pieces of fictional writing.
Dating at an estimate from about 1970,
It reflects the spirit of the times,
Even though its been sanitised
For online publication.
In the years immediately following
The revolutionary events of '68
I was deeply in sympathy
With the West's prevailing
Adversary Culture
Or Alternative Society
Which is very much not the case today.
And my attitude is dictated
Not by increasing maturity,
But by my Christian beliefs,
Without which I might
Be an ageing hipster by now,
Blithely festooned
With ostentatious symbols of revolt.
For all the Beatniks of San Francisco
Shirley Brown was a very beautiful girl,
And her brunette hair
Hung down her back
And as the wind blew thru the window,
It waved around. It waved around.
She was making sandwiches,
And was packing them with fruit,
And two massive bars of fruit
And nut chocolate.
She lit a cigarette, picked up the basket,
And with a nod of her head,
Waved her hair backwards
And walked out the back door
Into the alley where,
Propped up against a fence
Was a blue mini-moped.
She mounted the bike
And with a little trouble, started it.
And the rider made a sudden jump
As a horn blew behind her,
And a leather jacketed youth
Sped by on a butterfly motor-cycle.
People turned away
And the music blared on
And the youths talked on.
Then, a park keeper came
But the youths took no notice.
"What are you kids doing,
The keeper shouted,
I've had complaints from all over,
Clear off, wilya,
This is a park
Not a meeting place
For all the Beatniks in San Francisco."
John Hemmings started dancing:
"Cool it, grandpa, get on,
Get going, don't bug me!"
The kids had gone too far
And they knew it.
Some of them turned away,
As the radio blared even louder,
Litter was scattered everywhere.
"I ain't chicken of dying,
John Hemmings then said,
We've got to go on,
ALL RIGHT! Who are the crumbs
Who want to chicken out at this point,
Just take your bikes and go.
We're free people now.
Nothing can stop us,
We'll rule the streets,
The young people will triumph."
He was perspiring wildly
And his black hair
Hung down his back.
It waved around. It waved around.
An Autobiographical Narrative: 1960s
This jackadandy's original title was
An Essay Written by a Guy
Who Was Too Lazy to Finish It,
And it dates from
My college days, ca. 1971,
At a time I was yet enamoured
With the hedonistic
Hippie way of life.
It's been reproduced more or less
Verbatim, notwithstanding
Some minor editing,
And versification.
And I don't think it's necessary
To add there is no such cologne
As Monsieur de Gauviche.
As the first title implies,
It was never finished,
But I've taken the liberty
Of belatedly turning the protagonist
Into a dandified danger man
Somewhat in the mould
Of Peter Wyngarde's
Stylishly overdressed secret agent
From the classic television series,
Department S and Jason King.
Englishman, Jackadandy, Spy
He made no move at all
As the alarm clock went off.
But ten minutes later,
It was obvious he was awake.
He lifted himself out of bed
And went towards the bathroom.
He shaved himself
With a Gillette Techmatic
After having sploshed himself
With a double handful
Of icy cold water.
He washed again, dried his face,
Put on some Monsieur de Gauviche
And got dressed.
He wore a Brutus shirt,
A Tonik suit and a pair of
Shiny brown boots.
He was six foot two,
And he smoked sixty Players
Medium Navy Cut cigarettes
A day, and he lit each one
With a Ronson lighter.
His name was Titus Hardin,
And he had the biggest
Wardrobe in London.
He was a fair-haired man
And very good-looking.
He was thirty two years old
And a bachelor,
And lived near Richmond, Surrey.
He was immaculate,
Wore long sideboards
And a long moustache,
And his hair was shortish
And well-combed.
His shirt was light blue,
And he wore a dark blue tie.
He wore two rings on each hand.
He washed himself
After his usual breakfast
Of toast, black coffee and health pills.
He cleaned his teeth thoroughly,
Put some more cologne on,
And then went to do
His isometrics.
His name was Titus Hardin,
And he had the biggest
Wardrobe in London.
He was born in London in 1940.
He went to Eton and Oxford,
Had taught at Oxford for eight years
But was sacked.
He had been an Oxford Rowing Blue,
And got a degree in English, Art and History.
His father was Lord Alfred Hardin, M.P.
Titus loved teaching,
And not many people know the reason
For his dismissal at the age of thirty one.
He was nearly expelled from Eton
For smoking, drinking,
And being head of a secret society
With secret oaths, but he was
Too promising a sportsman,
And all the boys respected him
As a prefect.
He was a fair-haired man
And very good-looking.
He was thirty two years old
And a bachelor,
And lived near Richmond, Surrey.
His flat was beautifully furnished.
His name was Titus Hardin,
And he had the biggest wardrobe in London.
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By DANIEL SUDDEATH
Though he stressed the issues can be resolved, a local hospital official said there have been some concerns about the service provided by Rural/Metro Ambulance since the company began operating in New Albany.
Rural/Metro has transported patients to Louisville that could have been treated locally, and there are also concerns about the number of EKG tests being administered by the company, according to Dr. Daniel Eichenberger, the chief medical officer for Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services.
The EKG test — which stands for electrocardiogram — checks for complications with electrical activity in the heart.
Hospital and city officials said the concern is that Rural/Metro isn't performing enough EKG tests on patients prior to them arriving in the emergency room.
"We were used to certain things being before," Eichenberger said.
Mayor Jeff Gahan allowed Rural/Metro to assume control of ambulance service in place of the New Albany Fire Department in October.
He said the move would save taxpayers as much as $270,000 annually through reductions in expenses from having firefighters staff an ambulance.
Gahan also touted that Rural/Metro had more accreditation for levels of service, and could provide three ambulances for the city instead of just one.
"I'm very pleased with the transition and the service we're providing the residents of New Albany," Gahan said Friday. "We've been able to expand the services with more ambulances without any additional costs to the taxpayers."
Rural/Metro also operates under the management of the NAFD's administration.
But there have been issues with Rural/Metro in surrounding communities.
In March, Rural/Metro terminated its contract with Clark County following complaints by the Clark County Health Department.
Dr. Kevin Burke, the executive director of the Clark County health department, alleged Rural/Metro failed to stock certain medicines, didn't obtain mutual-aid agreements with other certified ambulance providers and neglected to maintain a minimum number of ambulance units in the county.
Rural/Metro claimed Clark County emergency and health officials had been unwilling to meet with them about the concerns, and thus the company elected to voluntarily terminate its contract.
Dr. Tom Harris is the Floyd County Health Officer and served as the medical director for the NAFD when it operated an ambulance. He was opposed to the city's contract with Rural/Metro last year, and remains opposed after almost nine months after the company took over the New Albany service.
"None of the local EMS medicine specialists that are to trained to administer EMS are willing to work with this group, and that should tell you a lot right there," Harris said.
The medical director for Rural/Metro practices near Indianapolis.
Some patients have been transported to Louisville hospitals instead of Floyd Memorial, which is also an issue, Eichenberger and Harris said.
"I think that's the expectation of Floyd Memorial and the medical staff," Eichenberger said. "Our hospital is a well-rounded, full-coverage hospital that can handle virtually anything the ambulances bring in, other than major trauma."
Obviously hospitals receive more money for the more patients they treat, but NAFD Fire Chief Matt Juliot said the issue isn't just tied to money.
Patients have the right to decide which hospital they are transported to, and when the city's service offered only one ambulance, it was difficult to take people to the facility of their choice, Juliot said.
The one NAFD ambulance had to remain in Floyd County the majority of the time, so if a patient wished to be transported to a Louisville hospital, a private company such as Yellow Ambulance would have to be called in, he explained.
"None of our medics are trying to talk patients into diverting from Floyd Memorial," Juliot said.
He added that more EKG's will be administered, but also that he has no complaints with how Rural/Metro has performed to date.
Prior to the privatization of the service, Juliot said he received at least one phone call per week from a patient complaining about the treatment or service they received.
"Since the program took over in October, I have yet to field one phone call or complaint," Juliot said.
Most of the public doesn't realize there's even been a switch since Rural Metro employees wear NAFD uniforms and primarily operate ambulances marked with city logos, he continued.
"We went with what we felt was the best service to the citizens of New Albany, and I feel they're getting a better service than what the fire department could provide at the time," Juliot said.
Though the administration could have likely proceeded with privatizing the service anyway, the New Albany fire union did approve the move in a vote by its members.
The Medical Executive Committee — a board that represents about 500 physicians at Floyd Memorial — and Eichenberger sent the administration a letter requesting a meeting with Gahan in April.
Juliot and City Attorney Stan Robison eventually met with some hospital officials, including Eichenberger, this month.
Harris said Gahan refused to meet with him prior to switching the ambulance service, and added that he should have at least talked with Eichenberger and the other hospital officials about the issues that have been presented.
"It's disconcerting to me that the mayor is unwilling to interact with the physicians who have the knowledge of the problems here," Harris said.
But Juliot said he felt some of the allegations against Rural/Metro were false. The issues that were unveiled in Clark County aren't related to the service in Floyd County, Juliot added.
He said that Floyd Memorial has been encouraged to provide a medical director for Rural/Metro to oversee the protocols and treatment administered if they feel there are any problems.
Harris conceded there's no apparent will by the administration or leadership of the NAFD to return the service to the fire department, which he said was a well-run operation.
Gahan said that based on his conversations with Juliot and Rural Metro, the company is "striving to improve the services any way they can."
"They're committed to providing the absolute best possible care and service," Gahan said.
Floyd Memorial desires a "good, collaborative working relationship" with the city, and the issues that have been cited by the hospital aren't catastrophic, Eichenberger said.
"I don't think it's anything that's not resolvable," he said. "As long as the problems are getting resolved, we're going to be happy."
The News and Tribune attempted to contact multiple Rural/Metro representatives for comment for this story. As of press time, messages hadn't been returned or the officials contacted said they couldn't speak to the media.
One representative at Rural/Metro said she hadn't been informed of any complaints regarding the company's New Albany service, but referred questions to another official with the company.


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RALEIGH — It didnt take long for N.C. State to turn Dunk City into Done City on Tuesday.
With a lift from senior forward Jordan Vandenberg, N.C. State rolled out to a 20-point lead in the first four minutes of the second half against Florida Gulf Coast and then cruised to a 82-62 win.
Sophomore forward T.J. Warren led the Wolfpack (3-2) with 30 points but it was the return of Vandenberg, who missed the first four games of the season with an ankle injury, who made the difference Tuesday.
You can tell theres a big difference when hes in there, Warren said of Vandenberg. Im glad hes back.
Vandenberg, who finished with seven points and 10 rebounds, gave State a presence in the paint it had been missing the first three weeks of the season. The fifth-year senior turned his left ankle in the first preseason game on Oct. 30.
He had been relegated to the bench but not against Florida Gulf Coast, which earned the nickname Dunk City last March with a run to the Sweet 16.
States bigs Vandenberg, Warren and BeeJay Anya not the Eagles, provided the highlight dunks. Freshman point guard Cat Barber, making his first start, hit Vandenberg with a line drive pass near the rim from 35 feet from the basket.
In one motion, Vandenberg caught the ball, spun and threw down a dunk with his left hand for a 50-30 lead at 16:33 in the second half.
Cat threw it a little low, but I made it work, Vandenberg said.
N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried was impressed with Vandenbergs ability to run the floor, something he couldnt do a year ago when he was 40 pounds heavier.
Hes somewhat nimble now for a big player, Gottfried said. He can move. It helps him a lot. Hopefully we can get some more games like he played tonight because I thought tonight he was the difference in the game early on.
Warren added the exclamation point with a breakaway jam at 13:48 to push the Packs margin to 57-32.
The rest of the game was a chance for the team to completely flush the bad mojo from last Wednesdays home loss to N.C. Central out of its system.
Anya, the massive freshman forward, didnt play in the first half but came off the bench in the second half and had three dunks in a two-minute span.
Pretty much everything that went wrong against NCCU disappeared in the fun of Tuesdays rout. There were fewer fouls, fewer forced shots and more defensive pressure from the Wolfpack.
Vandenbergs return also allowed Warren to move back out to the wing, where hes clearly more comfortable. Warren has scored 13 points in each of N.C. States first two losses, compared with 27, 23 and 30 in the three wins.
It was fun, Vandenberg said. It was good to see all of my teammates play really well, especially T.J.
Hes the main reason I can do what I do because everyone is worried about him so theyre not worried about the 7-footer running down the floor.
The reconfigured starting lineup with Barber (12 points, six assists) and Vandenberg didnt take control of the game until the final 5 minutes of the first half.
The teams went back and forth until Warren scored six points in a 12-3 run to put the Pack up 35-20. A Warren jumper with 31 seconds left gave the Pack a 39-24 lead at the half.
The Eagles (4-2) got their only dunk with 2:26 left in the second half. Vandenberg and N.C. State had closed down Dunk City long before then.
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Cross Road, between Honeygo Boulevard and Chapel Road, will close Jan. 23 to Feb. 15 for utility construction on the Reserve at Camp Chapel housing development, County Councilman David Marks announced.
Local traffic will be allowed. Baltimore County Public Schools have also been notified and will alert parents to any bus changes, Marks stated in an email.
The developer will also complete some improvements to Cross Road, including widening and repaving, during this time, Marks added.
While the Reserve at Camp Chapel housing development gained approval about four years ago, construction was held until this winter due to the struggling economy, Patch reported.
A representative of developer D.R. Horton said construction of homes will likely begin in January, and that the development should be completed by the spring.
The planned neighborhood is named after a former horse farm and the historic Camp Chapel United Methodist Church nearby.
Projected new residents will add approximately nine students to Gunpowder Elementary School, six students to Perry Hall Middle School and seven students to Perry Hall High School, according to a Baltimore County school impact analysis document dated July 19, 2006, provided by the Baltimore County Department of Planning.
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Create a design for a new Heritage Society certificate for The Ontario Genealogical Society.
As an addition to our current heritage clubs and societies, OGS is developing the First World War Society for genealogists who can prove they have one or more ancestors who served with the allied forces in the First World War.
We need a striking certificate for members of the First World War Society to proudly display, particularly as we commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the start of the First World War next year.
Prize: $500
Design Criteria
- Each 8.5″ x 11″ portrait format certificate design must have,
- The OGS logo present somewhere on the certificate (.jpg of the logo may be obtained by contacting OGS provincial office firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Space for the name of applicant
- Space for the name(s) of qualifying ancestor(s)
- Space for the date of issue and signature of the OGS president
- Room for the OGS seal measuring 5.5 cm in diameter
Please visit the OGS website to view examples of our other certificates. We are looking for a design that will fit into our collection. Multiple entries are welcome.
While you may submit your entry in a format of your choice, please be aware that the OGS office is a PC environment.
Deadline: December 31, 2013
The winner will be contacted in March 2014 and the certificate will be launched at The Ontario Genealogical Society's Annual Conference May 1st – 4th 2014
Please submit entries and any questions you may have to: provoffice[at]ogs.on.ca
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Corsicana — Van Kirk Williams, 46, of Ennis, passed away Friday, Dec. 28, 2012 at his residence in Ennis. Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, 2013 at Ross and Johnson Mortuary. Wake services will be 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013 at St. Mary Baptist Church in Bardwell. Funeral services are 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 at St. Mary Baptist Church in Bardwell. Interment will follow at Woodland Memorial Park. Arrangements by Ross and Johnson Mortuary.


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Wichita State University is a public institution that was founded in 1895. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 12,192, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 330 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Wichita State University's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, Tier 2. Its in-state tuition and fees are $6,927 (2013-14); out-of-state tuition and fees are $14,961 (2013-14).
Wichita State University is located in the southern part of Kansas, in the largest city in the state. Students at Wichita State can choose from numerous undergraduate degrees in six academic colleges, and graduate students can earn degrees in the W. Frank Barton School of Business and in the schools of education and engineering, among other fields. WSU students and athletic teams are called the Shockers because Wichita students used to earn money by harvesting or "shocking" wheat. The university also used to be called WU, for Wichita University, and now the school's mascot is a bundle of wheat named WuShock.
The Wichita State Shockers varsity sports teams compete in the NCAA Division I Missouri Valley Conference. Besides athletics, students at WSU can get involved in more than 150 campus organizations, Greek life and community service. Notable WSU alumni include Frank and Dan Carney, founders of Pizza Hut, and Gary Burrell, co-founder of GPS maker Garmin.
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Wichita State's location in the largest city in Kansas enhances the traditional classroom experience by providing students greater opportunities in resources, contacts with business and government leaders, employment, and internships. Wichita State has an excellent cooperative education program, which gives students real-world work experience. Students also take advantage of hundreds of campus activities, plus they enjoy the largest selection of malls, shops, restaurants, clubs, golf courses, amusement parks, and movie theaters in the entire state.
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When applying to Wichita State University, it's important to note the application deadline is rolling. Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due August 1. The application fee at Wichita State University is $30. It is selective, with an acceptance rate of 95.2 percent.
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The student-faculty ratio at Wichita State University is 20:1, and the school has 45 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Wichita State University include: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Health Professions and Related Programs; Education; Engineering; and Social Sciences. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 70.8 percent.
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Wichita State University has a total undergraduate enrollment of 12,192, with a gender distribution of 46.1 percent male students and 53.9 percent female students. At this school, 9 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 92 percent of students live off campus. Wichita State University is part of the NCAA I athletic conference.
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Wichita State University offers a number of student services including nonremedial tutoring, placement service, day care, health service, and health insurance. Wichita State University also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, student patrols, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Wichita State University.
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At Wichita State University, 52.1 percent of full-time undergraduates receive some kind of need-based financial aid and the average need-based scholarship or grant award is $4,136.
Paying for college doesn't have to be difficult or devastating. Go to the Paying for College knowledge center to get advice on raising cash and reducing costs.
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Things have been a bit crazy since Parker's controversial multimillion-dollar nuptials in an old-growth forest on the California Coast. He talks with CNET's Paul Sloan about being the Internet's punching bag.
In a rebuttal to harsh criticism offered about the alleged environmental damage done in building his wedding, the man who once was at Facebook says he did what was right.
Sean Parker pays $2.5 million for building a movie-set-like wedding site without permits in California's Big Sur forest.
After constructing a massive venue in Big Sur's redwood forest without proper permits, Parker comes to an agreement with the California Coastal Commission.
Jen-Hsun Huang says the company's mobile chip will show 100-times improvement from the first generation to the fifth.
Metallica's Lars Ulrich tried to sue Napster and Parker more than a decade ago at the onset of file sharing. Today the former adversaries joined in praising Spotify.
Have you ever wanted to be able to just look at your phone and know where all of the open parking spaces are in your area?
Speaking with AllThingsD, Parker discusses some of the hurdles his video chat site has faced since its launch, including executive departures and weak user numbers.
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A new restaurant opening in July and offering Pacific Northwest cuisine will replace the venerable Chateaulin Restaurant, which served French cuisine in downtown Ashland for a half century.
The new tenants, Rob and Anny Harvey, who own Beasy's on the Creek, will remodel the space, which occupies the ground floor of a two-story building that rises from East Main Street to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's courtyard.
Over time, actors and others have been lured to this dining spot with its people-watching window seats.
About this series Clues to Ashland's past as a pioneer settlement, mill town, railroad town and arts city are visible in its buildings. Almost 50 of its structures are listed on the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places. See a list at www.nps.gov/nr/travel/ashland/sitelist.htm.
To launch this historic tour of Ashland, the Daily Tidings will spotlight buildings around the downtown Plaza, a turn-around where the city began. If you would like to suggest a building to be the focus of the next segment, please email email@example.com.
A brief look back at Ashland:
Pre-pioneer times: Shasta Indians inhabit the land
1852: Abel Helman and others arrive, build a sawmill, then later a flour mill on land that is now an entrance to Lithia Park
1871: The post office shortens the town's name from Ashland Mills
1874: Ashland incorporates
1876: The Ashland Daily Tidings prints first edition
1879: Fire destroys Plaza's wooden businesses; brick storefronts emerge
1908: Women's Civic Improvement Club campaigns for a park along Ashland Creek the same year Lithia water is discovered
1935: First performances of what would become the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Photos for this story came from Terry Skibby's collection. Digital files of historic Ashland photos are available from Skibby for $15 each. To reach him, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
It was here at the Rolling Pin Caf� in 1953 that Vladimir Nabokov wrote passages of "Lolita," a novel about a middle-aged professor who pursues a 12-year-old girl whom he compares to a butterfly. The Russian-American author rented a house on Meade Street for the summer so he could search for a rare butterfly on Mount Ashland.
When Chateaulin opened in 1972, performers and theater patrons dined here before ascending the Chautauqua walkway leading to the two-year-old Angus Bowmer Theatre.
Originally, a photographer claimed this site.
Historic photos from the 1890s show a wooden structure used by photographer Frank L. Camps. A sign painted on a wall advertises "Portraits."
In the 1890s, Ashland was already known as a resort and educational center. It had a library, city band, opera house and had joined the adult-education Chautauqua assemblies circuit.
Thousands of people each year walked past Camps' studio to hear famous orators and entertainers speak in the imposing Chautauqua dome, where the Oregon Shakespeare Festival would later get its start.
In 1904, Camps hired an architect to design a more permanent building with a ground-floor store and offices above.
A story in the Ashland Daily Tidings reported that a "handsome," stucco-clad brick building "shows a front elevation the peer of any building now in Ashland and one which will be fully in keeping with the sightly spot where it is located."
In the 1950s, the geographically desirable space had become the Rolling Pin Doughnut Shop.
Dale Monroe, who graduated from Ashland High School in 1960 and now lives in Medford, remembers delivering newspapers to the back door and being rewarded with fresh, hot donuts. The Rolling Pin was later upgraded to be a full-service caf�.
After 1966, when cars bypassed Main Street — Ashland's portion of Highway 99 — by taking the new Interstate 5 freeway, and city shops and the logging industry were closing down, desperate city officials paid a consultant $36,000 to suggest ways to improve the boarded-up downtown.
One of the recommendations was to promote the thriving Shakespeare festival, according to Joe Peterson's book "Images of America: Ashland."
The festival, which started in 1935, was attracting theater patrons including Hollywood stars Charles Laughton, Ginger Rogers and others.
Ashland historian and photographer Terry Skibby was told Elizabeth Taylor stopped in at the Rolling Pin Caf�, but he can't verify the story.
OSF owns the top level of the Camps Building and uses it for the membership lounge, development offices and a meeting room.
The first level of the building was purchased in 1992 by wine expert Michael Donovan and Chef David Taub.
The two business partners bought Chateaulin in the late 1970s from original owner Bernard Pradel, who was from Chateaulin, France. Pradel later launched Bernard Pradel Cellars, now part of Elyse Winery in Napa, Calif.
Donovan and Taub changed the slow-cooked country menu to include more regional, seasonal specialties and a signature French onion soup. Vintage menus show that Salmon Florentine in a light sherry sauce was $8 and Boeuf Bourguignon in red wine was $6.25.
A few years before the Ashland Wine Cellar opened on Lithia Way in 1980, Chateaulin was stocking exclusive bottles of wine.
A 1967 Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac premier cru was listed at $31. Today, the value would be about $700, with restaurants charging as much as $1,500, says Donovan, who is the director of national sales and marketing for RoxyAnn Winery in Medford and serves on the Oregon Wine Board.
In 1992, Chateaulin added a wine shop and became one of the first to ship Oregon pinot noirs.
When Donovan sold his share of the restaurant to employees in 2002, there was $100,000 worth of domestic and imported wine in the cellars.
Chateaulin's management changed hands several times until the doors closed last summer.
Still, people continued to pass by under the burgundy awning, peer into the windows and look for signs that the chocolate brown door with the brass number "50" would open again.
Now, they will just have to wait until this summer. On the menu of the restaurant, which will have a new look and name, will be items that pay homage to Chateaulin, says Rob Harvey.
"We are excited about the opportunity to be a chapter in the history of the Camps Building," he says, adding that he will continue to manage Beasy's on the Creek along with the new restaurant. "After 17 years of proprietorship of Beasy's on the Creek, we are stepping into a Main Street window."
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The Los Angeles Times is reporting that three men have been arrested in connection with $1 million in burglaries from the homes of vacationing Times subscribers.
The burglaries occurred over the past three years, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
"Detectives said one of the suspects obtained lists of subscribers who had submitted 'vacation holds' to a vendor that distributes newspapers for the Times. Officials said they have identified 25 victims but believe there are more than 100," the Times reported Wednesday.
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Love photography but loathe lugging a dedicated camera bag? Keep your gear in the Haven. A portable padded protector for all things photographic, it instantly turns any bag into a camera bag ñ and back again ñ with pick up, plonk down ease. Three sizes are available, with the small Haven designed to hold a micro 4/3, compact camera or DSLR and lens.
Features2 STORAGE ZONES
- Fully configurable main compartment with two velcro
- mounting slimline dividers
- Five exterior mesh pockets for cables, filters, memory cards and lens caps
FAST OPENING, SECURE CLOSING, the drawstring with cord lock ensures fast opening and secure, gap free closure.
360 DEGREE PROTECTION, the Haven's base, sides and internal dividers are all padded. When closed, the sides fold inwards at the top, creating 360 degree protection.
COATED RIP STOP OUTER, is tear and water resistant.
SizeWidth: 20 cm / 7.87 in
Height: 22 cm / 8.66 in
Depth: 10 cm / 3.94 in
Volume: 2 cm / 122.05 cu in
Weight: 0.2 kg / 0.44 lb
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Crumpler warrants to the original retail purchaser that the zippers, buckles, bindings and all other components on our products will be free from defects in materials or workmanship for as long as the original purchaser owns the product. If one of our products fails due to a defect in material or workmanship, we will repair or replace the defective part. Just return the product to one of our AU Crumpler stores or send it to our Repair Team, together with your proof of purchase.
Our warranty does not cover damages that result from misuse or abuse of the product. It does not cover normal wear and tear or damages such as abrasion, scratches or fading. The warranty also does not cover incidental or consequential damages, such as damage to, or loss of, the contents of a bag, loss of use, loss of time, or similar expenses.
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July 31, 2014
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey is seeking the state's first judicial redistricting in nearly 30 years and says he wants the public's input.
The Blountville Republican announced Monday that he's requesting the Senate Judiciary Committee "actively consider judicial redistricting."
Tennessee currently has 31 judicial districts that determine where the area's judges, district attorneys and public defenders serve. The last judicial redistricting occurred in 1984.
Ramsey encouraged concerned individuals and organizations across the state to develop redistricting plans to promote "efficiency, effectiveness and access."
To be considered, Ramsey says submitted plans must use 2010 federal census data and redistrict the entire state.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A Corpus Christi resident had the right intention but made the wrong move when crews hand-sorting through items left for recycling pickup stumbled on a few hundred rounds of live ammunition.
Solid Waste Director Lawrence Mikolajczyk says someone figured because the rifle and pistol ammunition is metal, it was OK for recycling. But he says the bullets could have become wedged in a machine and discharge.
A truck made the pickup Thursday and the ammunition was found during sorting on Friday.
City officials tell the Corpus Christi Caller-Times (bit.ly/11ueafq) bullets and shell casings can be recycled, but at the police department.
In the two years since the city began its curbside recycling program, sorters also have stumbled upon used syringes, a chain saw and two dog carcasses.
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Runners Up: Mi Pueblo, Oriental Super Mart, Sunrise Supermarket
The Holy Land Market on Sutherland Avenue is a bit of an anomaly: Where else can you find a selection of fine Middle Eastern staples like falafel and hummus—try the sun-dried tomato and basil, or the roasted red pepper and cumin—while also enjoying a great New York sub piled high with Cappicola? "Anything can happen at the Holy Land," laughs owner Walter Ajlouny, who spent 30 years in Long Island before coming to Knoxville five years ago. Holy Land sits in the heart of Knoxville's international student community among the collection of restaurants and small groceries that have sprung up to cater to it. He and his wife Denise say the reason they've won Best Foreign Foods Grocery three years in a row is their hospitality, which feels genuine. "We don't want you buying anything that you don't like, you know?" Walter says, as he hands out samples. To first-timers Walter recommends trying a falafel or Reuben from the menu and that they take home some of his wife's curry chicken salad or hummus. "She's the hummus queen," Walter says, smiling. "We're going to have a hummus pageant." Come fall, look for her Pumpkin hummus.
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Watford head coach Beppe Sannino insists his players understand it's up to them to lift the fans during matches
Updated 12:32pm Thursday 16th January 2014 in Latest Sport By Tom Allnutt
Watford's players understand the onus is on them to lift the supporters and not the other way round, says Hornets head coach Beppe Sannino.
The Golden Boys beat Bristol City on Tuesday night in front of 6,173 home fans and the atmosphere at Vicarage Road lifted in the second half when Sannino's side created a number of excellent chances.
"I think we have a lot of things to work on - if I want a team that is like my character then it is necessary to be organised in all parts of the pitch," Sannino said after the match.
"The problem is there is not a lot of time between each game but I can say the players have now understood something important: that it is not the supporters who have to push us but it is us who have to push the supporters.
"Like this evening when we were growing during the game, the supporters were very helpful for us."
The Hornets started slowly against the Robins but seemed to grow in confidence after first Davide Faraoni, and then Lewis McGugan, found the net.
"In my opinion when the team can score the opening goal and you don't play too many backward passes I think you reach a kind of mentality to be dangerous," said Sannino.
"Against Reading there were too many back passes and I didn't see enough movement going forwards and we struggled.
"After this game I don't want to think we have reached our maximum or that we did extraordinary things.
"We have to keep our humility. On Saturday we have another game against Bournemouth which is very important ."
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The players need to play their part otherwise what's the point eh.
Remember the lift that we all got when Deeney scored the third against Leicester....
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Apparently self-inspired by the line Call me Obama Basedgod in February's "I Own Swag," America's most tireless rapper has dedicated an entire mixtape to the electoral cycle. Demonstrating a mysterious productiveness befitting the presidential office, Obama Basedgod is Lil B's third mixtape this month, not even counting the 848-track compilation of based freestyles. Like most campaigns, the tape blurs major issues, with loosely pro-peace tracks like "Put Down the Flags" balanced by the loosely pro-conflict "United States of Thuggin." Most exciting, Obama Basedgod features a few throwback beats suited for the actual Obama's iPod with "Based Party" over Jay-Z's "Roc Boys," and the tape-closing one-for-the-record-books "I Dont Want Shit Remix" over Notorious BIG's "Juicy."
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Fall can be drab, so brighten up your life by getting out of dodge. Luckily, Philadelphia isn't too far away for fall fun—and our Fall in Philly feature can help guide you there.
If you feel like venturing out a little farther from home, check here for a weekly suggestion of something fun or interesting to do in the City of Brotherly Love. Whether it's a restaurant to try, a festival to attend or special museum exhibits, we'll feature something different every Thursday.
This Saturday and Sunday, The Kennel Club of Philadelphia hosts The National Dog Show at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks. At the two-day event, more than 2,000 of the top sanctioned dogs from across the country will compete for best of Breed, First in Group and Best in Show.
Saturday is The National Dog Show Presented by Purina, which is taped for its Thanksgiving Day television broadcast. Then Sunday's show offers canine competitions, enhanced athletic dog exhibitions and family-friendly activities. Both days of the dog show are benched, which means dogs not being shown in the competition will displayed so spectators, breeders, handlers and attendees can meet all of the dogs, ask questions and share information about the breeds.
If you can't make it to Philly, tune in to NBC at 12 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 24, for the broadcast of Saturday's dog show.
- Location: Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks, 100 Station Ave., Oaks, Pa., 19456
- Date/Time: Saturday, Nov. 19, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 20, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
- Price: Adult, $14; Children (4-12), $7; Children (up to 3 years old), Free. Purchase tickets here.
- More Info: The National Dog Show website