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Eva Longoria is a renowned American Actress known for famous portrayal of Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. She has also been awarded a nomination in the 2006 Golden Globe awards for the best actress in the comedy role for her character in the show Desperate Housewives. Her first worldwide recognition came on television in the sitcom The Young and the Restless playing the character of Isabella Williams. She has been the brand ambassador for many high ends advertising campaigns .She has been on the cover page of several high profile women's magazine including Marie Claire, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. She has also appeared in movies such as Harsh Times, Over her dead body and The Sentinel.
Longoria is a very wealthy woman due to the success she has enjoyed in her TV serials. She used to charge about 400000 USD per episode of Desperate Housewives. She also earns a lot of money through her multi-million endorsement deals with companies like L'Oreal, Bebe & Hanes. She also owns a string of restaurant chains in Hollywood Boulevard & Las Vegas. During the last 4 years her average income was about 10 million USD per movie. Unfortunately she has suffered some setbacks in her Las Vegas hotel & was forced to file for bankruptcy protection. Her total estimated net worth till date is estimated to be at 35 million USD.
Eva leads a very luxurious lifestyle due to the enormous success she has enjoyed in her TV & endorsement career. She drives around in a super deluxe Bentley car. She has been involved in an accident involving that car. She once had a half million dollar USD home in Texas. She bought another home in Texas valued at over 7 million USD. She moves around the world in hired private jets. She is involved in a few charities & supports AIDS & cancer related causes. She has started her own philanthropic foundation named as Eva's Heroes. She also helps disadvantaged children & works for National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the National Stroke Association,, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital & Project HOME.
Eva Longoria was born in Texas to Mexican-American parents Enrique Longoria Jr Ella Eva Mireles. She has been married twice. Her first wedding was to TV star Tyler Christopher in 2002 but unfortunately the marriage was short lived lasting for only two years. She then started dating Basketball star Tony Parker in 2004 and 2 years later the couple got engaged .They got married in July 2007 in a civic ceremony but sadly all was not well and the couple filed for divorced in November 2010 It was later discovered that her husband Tony Parker cheated on her with another women. She later dated brother of Spanish actress Penelope Cruz from February 2011 to March 2012.
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina – The UNCW women's soccer team completes its six-game road swing this weekend as it travels to East Carolina and NC State for a pair of non-conference contests.
The Seahawks open the weekend with a return to Greenville, where they squared off Western Carolina and UNCG last weekend in the ECU Soccer Tournament, to face the Pirates in a 7 p.m. contest at the ECU Soccer Stadium. UNCW completes the weekend swing sunday with a 1 p.m. contest against the Wolfpack at Dail Soccer Field.
UNCW (0-4) is back on the road after falling in both of its games in the ECU Soccer Tournament last weekend, suffering a 2-1 setback to Western Carolina and a 2-0 defeat to UNCG. Sophomore Katrina Guillou tallied her first goal of the season in the contest against the Catamounts while redshirt freshman Theresa O'Sullivan picked up her first collegiate point with an assist on Guillou's tally. Guillou and freshman Moa Jarl were both named to the All-Tournament Team for their efforts.
ECU (2-1-1) continues a five-game homestand on Friday that began last weekend with a 1-0 loss to UNCG and 2-1 double-overtime victory against WCU in action in the ECU Soccer Tournament. The Pirates have found balance in their attack in the early going as five players have found the back of the net this season. Junior Saundra Baron has started all four games in goal for the Pirates and has recorded 14 saves, 0.67 goal against average and a .824 save percentage in that span.
NC State (4-1) heads into Sunday's contest looking to rebound from its first loss of the season, a 2-0 setback to No. 13 Georgetown, on Wednesday. Freshman Jackie Stengel has gotten off to a torrid start to her collegiate career, leading the Wolfpack in scoring with 11 points on the strength of a team-best five goals and one assist. Freshmen keepers Karly Gustafson and Mackenzie Stelljes have split time net in the early going, combining to record 14 saves, a 1.20 goals against average and two shutouts through the first five contests.
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My general problem with it is the exemption that our legislators gave themselves and their staff. They have the Cadillac Plans, and not only do they not want themselves to pay a penalty for this plan, but they also do not want to have to pay a portion of the premium (supposedly this is a cut in salary tell that to the Cal Poly professors who had to take a leave day the other year with a deduction in salary). To rub salt into the wounds of the taxpayers, we are required to supplement their premiums.
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Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work! The opportunity you give people and the professionalism you show is unique. I hope to return to your environment when I am back in Miami. Thank you for keeping the doors open for me.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
Pros – Good and fair compensation. Payment of salaries and contractors are of utmost importance for CEO and he makes sure that this guideline in followed to the T.
Cons – There is no professional sense of management. CEO is on top of every move, from top to bottom of company, does not delegate, shows total contempt and disdain for the work of employees. He believes he has the knowledge in every field and discipline, and does not accept others' work, criteria or recommendations if different to his views. Yells, insults and uses disrespectful words to humiliate employees. Emotionally draining for male and female employees alike and even for his own relatives and girlfriend who work for him. Not worth the money.
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Heroin that strong can kill. "For inexperienced users that can have deadly consequences. So it's very alarming to me that we're finding it in young people, people that are educated."
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Gastrointestinal stasis, GI stasis, GI hypomotility or ileus is a serious condition that requires immediate attention. The condition occurs when the gut stops moving, is blocked, or is full of gas.
- Loss of appetite (anorexia) or changes in eating habits. A good way to test this is to offer fresh herbs or a favorite treat.
- Small to no stool, loose or mucous covered stool or diarrhea.
- Sitting in a hunched position or pressing stomach against the floor.
- Loud tooth grinding which is an indication of pain. This is different than the "tooth purr" that indicates pleasure or contentment.
- Loud GI sounds or complete silence in the stomach. You can use a stethoscope or listen with your ear pressed against the stomach.
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You should seek immediate veterinary assistance if your rabbit has not eaten or passed stools in the past 12 hours or is exhibiting other symptoms of GI stasis. Your vet will provide proper treatment and care. If left untreated, GI stasis can be fatal in 48 hours.
Below are links with more information about various treatments for GI stasis.
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- Suite 101, Sarah Goodwin-Nguyen, Helping a Bunny With G.I. Stasis
- Wisconsin House Rabbit News, Julie Smith, When Your Bunny Stops Eating
- Kinenchen, Is my bunny sick?
- Examiner.com, Phyllis O'Beollain, Is Lactobacillus supplementation useful for the house rabbit?
- Equidane Vetline, The role of Probiotics in the management of rabbit gut stasis.
Further Reading
- Dana M. Krempels, Ph.D., GastroIntestinal Stasis, The Silent Killer
- House Rabbit Society, Susan Brown, DVM, Sluggish Motility in the Gastrointestinal Tract
- Medirabbit, Dana Krempels, Mary Cotter and Gil Stanzione, Ileus in domestic rabbits
- House Rabbit Society, Southeastern PA-Delaware Chapter, Gastro-Intestinal (GI) Problems: Gas and Stasis
- Hug-a-Bunny Rabbit Rescue, Rabbit Health: GI Stasis
- Friends of Rabbits, Dr. Scott J. Stahl, Anorexia and Gastrointestinal Stasis in Rabbits
- Long Beach Animal Hospital, GI Stasis (hairballs) in Rabbits
- Rabbits Online, GI Stasis: What Everyone Should Know
Here are some relevant Q&A's:
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Chokri Belaid, head of the Unified Democratic Nationalist Party, was shot on his way to work in the capital, Tunis, according to authorities. No one claimed immediate responsibility for the attack, but it comes as Tunisia faces a troubled economy and a restive transition to democracy after decades of dictatorship.


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---- — You gotta hand it to Marge Brewer for yet another thoughtful act of kindness.
She waited until the day after Christmas to declare her passing, undoubtedly because she didn't want to ruin anyone's holiday.
That was Marge:Thoughtful, considerate, passionate about others and her own indelible spirit. That's how she will be remembered.
I can count on one hand the people I most admired in this community over a lifetime of journalism. Marge would be at the head of her class. I never told her that. It would have humbled her to embarrassment.
"Oh, no, you've got the wrong woman," I can hear her saying. "If we can't help one another, then what's the sense of living?"
Perhaps that is why she lived to age 96. Because she had a role to play and God needed a few good people around here to keep the peace.
I'm not exaggerating when I tell you a week seldom went by when I didn't get a phone call from Marge. One day, it would be about the children's May Pole celebration she conducted for 35 consecutive years. The next day it would encompasses a trip for the elderly.
Marge played both generations against the middle. She kept all factions happy. She was a friend to those who had none and to others who had plenty.
When Marge spoke, you listened. She always had something to say, always for the good.
How she managed to have so many irons in the fire is beyond me. She sparked her own inferno of activity.
Well into her 80s, she called one day with an urgent plea, looking for some press. Marge wanted a center for the youth of Riverside. She was looking for a place where kids could come, enjoy some companionship, get homework help and develop a sense of security.
An argument could be made — why don't they go to the Boys' & Girls Club or the YMCA/YWCA or Girls Incorporated, places that cater to youth.
"Don't always work that way," Marge insisted. "In some cases, they have no way of getting there. I'm looking at a neighborhood setting for locals."
Much as she tried, through articles that hit the paper, it never came to pass and her balloon burst. She gave it a year, maybe two, and never got the necessary funding. But she remained persistent toward her mission when others would have quit in half the time.
Whenever I saw the woman — and it was everywhere — the greeting was usually standard. Her "Brewer" name always came into play.
"Hey Marge, what's brewin?''
"The grounds in my coffee," she would retort. "Too many to count."
One time I really fouled up badly. She gave me all the information on a senior citizens trip she was planning and I associated it with another venue. They got the people, she got nothing.
The next day she was on the phone. I expected a verbal outrage. But no. Instead, it was a chuckle.
"You helped another cause," she said. "Glad to help any way I can, even with a misprint. Goes to show we're all human and can make mistakes."
My favorite Marge-ism was her Thom Thumb weddings, where she got to dress up the children in bridal outfits and staged the extravaganzas at her beloved Riverside Memorial Church. The kids had a ball. And Marge was the biggest kid of them all.
I asked her why one day.
"Because if you want to stay young and vibrant, you have to surround yourself with youngsters. I'm around elderly folks all the time. It makes me feel older than I am. But I loved them all."
When Marge received her Woman of the Year award in 1994 from the Haverhill YWCA's Tribute to Women, it was pretty much predestined. Though the other candidates were all worthy of their tributes, Marge was the brightest star in the sky that day.
But you'd never know it. Instead of basking in her own radiance, she took the time to praise the others, acknowledging their presence and devotion to the community.
She passed the credit to everyone else while shielding her own luster.
She drove a school bus; organized trips for the mentally challenged; conducted horse shows at the stadium; followed her children and grandchildren around the sports world; organized minstrel shows; was a true ambassador of the Council on Aging; did yeoman's work with the Masonic bodies of our city, particularly with Eastern Star and Rainbow Girls; and was involved in the Hale Hospital Auxiliary, Women's City Club, Haverhill Women's Club and the Penacook Place Board of Directors.
There were also the community meals she distributed and clothes to the needy. The list goes on.
She's gone — but never forgotten. We love you, Marge!
Photographer and writer Tom Vartabedian is retired from The Haverhill Gazette. He contributes this regular column.


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And, don't tell me that you don't look at the body alone, but at the person as whole and you like intelligent, a good sense humor, etc. I get it, me too, but let's stick to addressing the simple question I have posted.
Just to give you an idea, when I married my wife her weight was about 125 lbs. she is 5'8" and I thought she was too thin, but I married her because I loved her and I looked at the entire package. However, 15 years and 3 children later she is now 165 lbs. and I find here hot and just perfect and I continue to be deeply in love with her.
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i dont know if i am in a majority or a minor got ot go pager
We both still look like we're in our twentys. Here recently she just mentioned getting back into yoga. Good choice. She's so sexy when she does it! Well I'm going to be honest I like seeing her leg in the air.
A woman is defined by how she carries herself. Now that's what you call sexy!
Many women are insecure because of things like your post. Because, some men want them to look a certain way! A woman is a woman regardless of how she looks.
He seems to be asking men if they prefer women who are overweight as opposed to thin. He thinks his wife is more attractive with "meat on her bones" though he loved her regardless of her shape like the other men who answered this thread.
There is one thing though. You used the word "however" and you put in a different weight and admitted you still love her. The word "however" tends to negate your previous paragraph. I and I think Jason both understand and we both love our wives but are you seeking affirmation of her gaining weight and still loving her.
I am confused I love my wife regardless of her weight now or then and what the future holds. She will always be my sexy wife.
Don't get me wrong, I've dated some women that were a size 6-8 and they were beautiful women inside and out, but when we were out in public I had to really make myself not be disrespectful by staring at the thicker sized women who walked by.
The last small woman I was talking too sent me two pictures of her naked, and I had to actually make myself lie and pretend like I liked what I saw. However, when I started making comments about the hotel room she was in when she took them I think it hit her hard that I definitely wasn't really into her sexually.
Not sure about your area, but where I'm from the majority are men who like thicker/plus sized women.
My wife at 47 is 5'4" and about 160.
The face is a mask, as is the body, but to take proper care of the body, people should not become heavy. You guard your health for your loved ones as much as for yourself, and that also means good weight management.
Most people who eat properly and get some healthy exercise have a small natural weight range where they feel best. Love them most in good health, it shows they love you, too.
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At PiCloud we strive to be the easiest service out-of-the-box, yet versatile enough to be used for the most complex applications. This ideal was especially challenging to realize when expanding our compute platform beyond Python-only modules, to support the whole gamut of non-Python software. How could we extend the same ease-of-use that our cloud library offers to the complex world of software dependencies?
In this blog post, I'll explore how we've harnessed three different technologies to achieve our goal of a highly-scalable software dependency manager. We call it Environments, and for many PaaS users, it's what sets us apart.
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PiCloud originated as a Python-only platform. In that simplified setup, our Dependency Analyzer could identify and ship all pure-Python dependencies at job submission time. Why only pure-Python? Anything that requires compilation cannot be expected to work when shipped to a computer with a different architecture. Unfortunately, for performance purposes, many Python libraries are actually compiled C-extensions, and this meant if you used a Python library with C-extensions, our compute nodes needed to have that library pre-installed. Not surprisingly, it didn't take long before this limitation became an issue for some of our users.
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When the time came to revamp our dependency manager, we sought a generic solution that would work for Python and non-Python software alike. We boiled our requirements for the new dependency management down to the following:
- Simplicity. It must be no more difficult than what a user would do on their own machine. Importantly, it should not require users to learn a new tool or configuration language.
- Powerful. There should be minimal limitations on what packages or programs a user can install. Such flexibility necessitates that escalated privileges (for dependency installation purposes) are given in controlled situations.
- Low Overhead. It must not introduce significant overhead to job processing. Among other things, this means satisfying a user's dependency must not require booting a new machine or rebooting an existing one.
- Parallelizable. The value of PiCloud is giving users the freedom to use as many cores as needed to accomplish their tasks. Deploying dependencies should not hinder parallelization across many machines.
How We Got There
Filesystem Virtualization
Fundamentally, satisfying the dependencies of a program means ensuring that the appropriate files can be found in the proper places in the filesystem. We can then rephrase the role of the dependency manager as making sure a job is run in whatever filesystem environment it needs for proper function.
We took inspiration from the Python tool virtualenv, which lets you create, on one machine, multiple, isolated Python environments, each with its own packages and settings. In other words, it virtualizes those portions of the filesystem relevant to Python. Generalizing this concept, what we wanted was a virtualenv for the entire filesystem.
On *nix machines, the simplest way to virtualize the filesystem is through the chroot program, which allows you to set any point in your filesystem hierarchy as the new filesystem "root". Unfortunately, chroot lacks mechanisms for isolation and resource management. At the other end of the virtualization spectrum is a virtual machine, which gives you full control and isolation but comes with the huge overhead of starting and running the VM. However, in between the simple chroot utility and full VMs are container technologies that share the host's kernel but have the capacity to virtualize most everything else. Combined with other recent Linux kernel developments, like cgroups and namespaces, container technologies provide resource management and isolation, respectively. And starting a container is fast, because there is no operating system to boot up – the host's kernel is already up and running. We ended up choosing LXC (LinuX Container) as our container technology, because it has been mainlined into the Linux kernel.
Our new dependency management system was beginning to take shape. A user would start with an LXC-bootable base filesystem, and install whatever programs and files their jobs need. We would store this modified filesystem, which we'll call an Environment from this point on. When the user runs a job, we would start an LXC container using their Environment as the filesystem. The next question is, how do we store and send these big Linux filesystems across the network to compute nodes?
Union Mount System
What we realized was that saving the entire Environment was wasteful. In practice, Environments would be mostly the same, with only a relatively small number of files added in or changed. Theoretically, given the base filesystem the Environment was built on, we only need the changes the user made on top of this base to recreate the full Environment. What would enable us to save just this difference, rather than the whole Environment?
The answer is union mounts. A union mount allows you to stack multiple filesystems and present a unioned view at a different mount point. It is the technology behind many Live CDs. A Live CD contains a bootable operating system but is not typically writable. Hence, upon bootup from a Live CD, the system will create a temporary scratch space in RAM, then union mount this RAMFS on top of the filesystem of the CD. After chrooting into this unioned mount, the user is presented with a machine seemingly running off a read-only CD, but giving you the ability to tinker with and change the operating system files as you try it out. And due to the magic of the union mount, all changes are being written to the RAM filesystem, even when modifying files from the CD.
Several union filesystem tools exist, but after some research, we settled on AUFS (Another Union FileSystem), a nifty module created and maintained by Junjiro Akajima. We chose AUFS, because it is relatively performant and reliable, and we have been impressed with Junjiro's responsiveness to support requests.
So, how much does AUFS help? On PiCloud, the average size of Environment modifications is around 220 MB. Given a base filesystem size of around 2.5 GB (which includes many pre-installed libraries for convenience and performance), this leads to roughly a 12-fold savings in terms of storage and network transfer.
Environment In Action
So, putting all that together, here's how PiCloud Environments work:
- PiCloud user requests creation of a new Environment through our web UI or client CLI.
- PiCloud launches a machine the user can log into, that is actually an AUFS stack of an empty filesystem (read-writable) on top of a base Environment (read-only), much like a Live CD.
- User logs into the "setup server" and installs dependencies as they would on their own machine.
- When the user is done setting up the Environment and requests to save it, user changes are sanitized for security and saved into our distributed file system.
- User can now submit jobs specifying it should be run in the custom Environment. In Python, Environment is specified with the "_env" keyword, and in bash, the "-e" flag.
- PiCloud recreates the AUFS stack on our compute nodes, and runs the user's jobs in LXC containers.
DFS Features That Improve Performance
As mentioned above, AUFS reduces the size of an Environment by roughly 12-fold. In practice, we end up doing much better than that thanks to our distributed file system (DFS), which has two important properties:
- Files from an environment are transferred at the block level to the compute node on-demand (only when a program accesses them).
- Transferred files are cached on the compute node automatically.
To understand the benefits of these properties, consider the Matlab Compiler Runtime (MCR), which enables the stand-alone execution of compiled Matlab applications. When a user installs the MCR in an Environment, close to a gigabyte of files are added. But, for the typical MCR-compiled application, a small minority (< 10%) of MCR is accessed at runtime, significantly reducing the data transferred. And, if a subsequent job runs on the same compute node, and needs the same MCR Environment, it will be available without any data fetching over the network.
Check Out the New Features
If you're currently a PiCloud user and have wondered how Environments worked, I hope this shed some light into the black box.
If you haven't already, you should check out our recent updates to the Environment system. We've redone the web UI and added client-side CLI support for managing your Environments. Also, we are excited about the new sharing feature that lets users share Environments they've created with colleagues and the general public.
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Illustrating how everyone can use a little open source, XAware announced a new plugin for Salesforce.com users that enables additional control over customer data and extension of capabilities of the popular SaaS platform. One can "migrate, manage, share and mashup data from various systems", says XAware. XAware also features an Eclipse-based design environment and an Eclipse plugin to the many developers who use it as their standard development environment. The XAware plugin is available at the company's Web site or from Salesforce.com's AppExchange.
Michael Johnson and Erik Troan have spiffed up their book Linux Application Development enough to warrant this new, second edition. Published by Addison-Wesley, the book presents key APIs and techniques one needs to create robust, secure, efficient software or to port existing code to Linux. It further offers "deep coverage of Linux-specific extensions and features". The new edition has been updated for the Linux 2.6 kernel, the GNU C library version 2.3, the latest POSIX standards and the Single Unix Specification, Issue 6.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Davidson County Clerk John Arriola faces a criminal investigation, as well as outrage from some citizens.District Attorney General Torry Johnson announced Friday afternoon that he asked the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to follow up on questions first raised by NewsChannel 5 Investigates.That investigation raised questions about cash that Arriola pocketed for performing weddings on taxpayer time, questionable spending by Arriola's office, as well as his campaign treasurer who was put on the Metro payroll.
"I think that the allegations, the stories, the responses and so forth would indicate that again the taxpayers are deserving of an answer -- and I think this is the best way to get to the bottom of it," Johnson told reporters during a news conference to discuss the resignation of Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk David Torrence.Also on Thursday, some upset protestors took to the streets to call for Arriola's arrest. Video, captured by The Tennessean, shows a couple of protestors who said they were upset about the money that couples had to pay for those wedding ceremonies.
One protestor called it "extortion."While many people were upset about those wedding fees -- what Arriola called "gratuities" -- Johnson said he called in the TBI and state auditors following NewsChannel 5's questions about people that the county clerk put on the Metro payroll.In fact, our investigation has now discovered that one of them may have a lot more to gain than anyone knew."Certainly the issues about an employee, or employees, that maybe are paid for little or no work, I think that would get your attention first," the DA explained.Johnson says investigators will want to know more about John Arriola's campaign manager, Leighton Bush.As our NewsChannel 5 investigation first revealed, ever since Arriola was elected county clerk five years ago, Bush has been drawing a regular paycheck -- even though there's little evidence of the hours he's worked. Arriola insisted that Bush had plenty to do, although he acknowledged that he was "wrong" not to make him keep track of the hours he worked."There's some assertion that individual was doing things the office needed, and maybe that's true," Johnson said. "Maybe there's a way to establish that. I think that's what we'll have to get to the bottom of."But when confronted by NewsChannel 5 Investigates, Bush could not recall what he had done lately to earn his Metro paycheck.Now, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has learned that not only has Bush been getting full Metro medical insurance, but in about six weeks he'll qualify for a Metro retirement.That would give him a small $82 monthly income.
More importantly, it would also let him receive Metro retirees' health benefits, where the city would pay 75 percent of his medical premiums.Sources told NewsChannel 5 Investigates that Bush has had some serious medical problems, meaning that he would have benefited from being on the Metro payroll."There certainly are things that could be, that are, that I think would be potentially criminal," Johnson said, referring to the overall investigation.The DA said he also has questions about the weddings that Arriola performed while on taxpayer time, pocketing the cash collected from couples -- calling it "gratuity."NewsChannel 5 Investigates estimated that, in the past 12 months, that could have allowed him to pocket more than $33,000."Given the apparent numbers and the amount of money involved, while we're at that, that's another matter that ought to be looked into and audited," Johnson said.NewsChannel 5 Investigates reached out to John Arriola for comment, but received no response.Johnson said it may turn out that there has been no criminal wrongdoing, just a management problem.
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Watching the House on C-SPAN. Here are a few preliminary thoughts: (1) I was laughing my fucking ass off when they all turned and faced the flag and recited the pledge of allegiance. What is this, fucking grade school? (2) The Republicans really are total raving fucking maniacs (and shitty actors). Passing this bill is …
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Thousands of surfing fans and big-wave enthusiasts descended on Half Moon Bay today for the Mavericks Invitational big-wave surfing contest.
By 7 a.m. Sunday, hundreds of people were already milling about the harbor, many who parked at the Half Moon Bay Airport. The airport parking lot had people from many regional areas, including Los Angeles and San Diego as well as Oregon and Washington states, many who drove all night to get here.
By noon, organizers declared the Mavericks Festival at the Oceano Hotel as sold out. Only those with pre purchased tickets were admitted into the event. The line to get in wrapped around the parking lot and traffic was down Highway 1. The festival accommodated more than 10,000 people with live music, food, beer, and live video coverage of the contest. The Princeton area was still open to the public, as was Pillar Point Harbor.
"We're really pleased to be here in Half Moon Bay today," said Floyd Smith, custom surfboard shaper from Santa Cruz who was at the Mavericks Invitational Festival shaping a board out of balsa wood from Ecuador. "This is the most excitement I've seen around surfing in a really long time, and we're really enjoying ourselves, from the novice to some of the guys like myself who have been around over the years. Looking forward to many more years of the contest."
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An estimated 30,000 people traveled to Half Moon Bay, Pillar Point Harbor and Princeton-By-The-Sea to check out the competition at the Mavericks break, sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Rosenblatt said.
"The festival filled up and the competition appears to be going well," Rosenblatt said. "Everyone is being really cooperative and having a good time."
While weather conditions were expected to remain fair for the remainder of the day, National Weather Service forecaster Bob Benjamin said that that the waves had not been coming in as high as expected.
Most waves were cresting between 7 and 10 feet at locations along the coast, Benjamin said, with the highest waves at Mavericks reaching just over 15 feet.
A high surf advisory that went into effect around the Bay Area on Saturday was expected to expire today at about 4 p.m., Benjamin said.
The sheriff's office reported no arrests as of 2 p.m. and reported that no one had trespassed on the fragile bluffs above the break that were closed to the public this year for safety reasons, Rosenblatt said.
The U.S. Coast Guard reported no incidents on the water associated with the contest.
Additional reporting by Bay City News
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Valpo Men Move into Fourth after Strong Showing on Day Two at Mid-Con Championships
Friday, May 16, 2003Spurred on by second place finishes in both the decathlon and the long jump, the Valparaiso University men's track and field team moved up into fourth place on Friday, after two days of the Mid-Continent Conference Championships being held in Macomb, Ill.
Western Illinois leads the meet through seven events with 74 points, while Oral Roberts is ten points behind in second place. Southern Utah has tallied 54 points with the Crusaders scoring 32 points. UMKC is fifth with 28 points and Chicago State has 21 points.
Valpo had three scorers in the decathlon, led by Joe Dwyer's (Lansing, Ill./TF South H.S.) runner-up finish with 5,059 points, second most in school history. Jed Reisetter (Lewiston, Minn./Lewiston-Altura H.S.) made his move over the final three events to finish fifth with 4,711 points, while Jeff Moscinski (Rockford, Ill./Christian Life H.S.) was eighth with 4,262 points.
Dwyer, competing in his first-ever decathlon, turned in four fourth place finishes in five events on Friday, and tied for fifth in the high jump, clearing 8'7 �". He turned in a time of 17.12 seconds in the 110 hurdles, threw the discus 82'10", and the javelin 112'11". In the final event, the junior crossed the finish line of the 1,500m run in a time of 5:03.91.
Reisetter finished the decathlon with a bang, placing third in the pole vault, clearing 9'3 �". He then won the javelin by more than ten feet with a toss of 160'4" and cruised to a 36-second victory in the 1,500m in 4:26.07. Moscinski placed third in the discus (83'5") and was runner-up to Reisetter in the 1,500m (5:02.43).
In other finals on Friday, Joshua Lee (Yellow Jacket, Colo./Montezuma-Cortez H.S.) finished in second place in the long jump with a leap of 22'9 �", 8 �" off of the lead. Todd Goodrick (Rochester Hills, Mich./Rochester Hills H.S.) also scored for the Brown and Gold in the field events with his seventh place finish in the shot put with a toss of 46'7 �".
On the oval, Matt Blume (Logansport, Ind./Pioneer H.S.) and Doug Brown (Bluffton, Ohio/Allen East H.S.) combined to score seven points for the Crusaders. Blume was fourth with a personal best time of 9:29.62, while Brown finished seventh in 9:41.54.
Day two also meant preliminary heats in the sprints. Valpo placed three hurdlers into the finals in the 110m event. Sean Barfield (University Place, Wash./Curtis H.S.) led the Crusader contingent with a time of 15.26 seconds, while Brian Schultz (Sheboygan, Wis./South H.S.) turned in a time of 15.38 seconds and Nathanael Noon (Birmingham, Ala./John Carroll H.S.) qualified in 15.49 seconds.
No Crusaders qualified for the finals in the 400m dash with Raphael Awoseyin (Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria/Greater Tomorrow S.S.) turning in Valpo's fastest time of 51.12 seconds. The Brown and Gold also failed to qualify individuals in the 100m where Lee was the fastest on the team with a time of 11.41 seconds.
In the 400m hurdles, Adam Wierciak (Ottawa, Ill./Marquette H.S.) will represent Valparaiso in the finals after a qualifying time of 55.92 seconds. The final event in prelims was the 200m where Awoseyin was Valpo's fastest runner with a time of 22.79 seconds but failed to advance.
The championships will conclude on Saturday with field events beginning at 10 a.m. with running finals starting at 12:30 p.m.
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Food truck aficionados normally forced to go to Fort Worth for their fix can eat locally Saturday as Weatherford has another Food Truck Bash.
Co-sponsored by QXFM and Albertson's, 10 food trucks featuring all types of cuisine along with a number of bands and artists will converge on the Albertson's parking lot, 225 E. Spring St., for the event which runs from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Albertson's store director Larry Lewis said the initial event in September brought out a good crowd once the evening came on and temperatures cooled off.
"We had the Fred's (Texas Café) truck having waits of an hour and a half," Lewis said. "Another truck came in the store and bought $500 worth of food. By the end of the night, two or three of the original six or seven trucks were still in operation, things went so well."
Almost as soon as the event ended, Lewis began getting questioned on when the next event would take place. Robert Ashford of QXFM contacted Lewis, wanting in on the action.
"He contacted us and said he'd be willing to help us with the event, which is a lot of work," Lewis said. "It finally clicked with me that Ashford and the radio station would have access to a number of bands and musicians."
They do and they will as a number of local acts, like Katy Keenie, Scott Sturgeon, Chris Watson and more are expected to perform.
Lewis said if there was a negative about the last truck bash, it was the fact there were no local trucks taking part. That problem has been solved, as both Fire Oak Grill and 2 Outlaws BBQ will be bringing their trucks to the event.
Other returnees from the first truck bash include Fred's Texas Café, which will be known as Fred's Smokehouse and is expected to have their famous Diablo Burger, Good Karma, a vegan, gluten-free truck and the popular Slush Works.


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Virginia Democrats Decry Potential Aviation Cuts
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Democrats from Virginia's congressional delegation on Monday warned that across-the-board budget cuts from sequestration would have dire impacts on the health of the U.S air travel system.
During a press conference at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va., Sen. Tim Kaine, Reps. Gerry Connolly and Jim Moran, and members of aviation industry groups reiterated that the spending cuts would result in widespread furloughs of federal employees, including Federal Aviation Administration workers. They also repeated the warning that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood issued on Friday, emphasizing that the cuts would bring massive delays to passengers at many airports.
Moran -- whose district includes many federal workers -- stressed that furloughing government employees was "not a replacement for sound fiscal policy."
Federal workers already have given up "billions toward deficit reduction," he told Government Executive. "Sequestration will not just impact federal employees, it will be felt at airports all over the country," he said.
"It sends a message, and I think it's a message that [it's] going to have an adverse impact upon every American when their services are reduced, and their government is demoralized," he added.
According to an FAA memo released on Friday, nearly $600 million in cuts would immediately take effect if lawmakers don't reach a deal before March 1, making it likely that a vast majority of the agency's 47,000 employees would be furloughed. Sequestration would be the direct result of "the unwillingness of some to compromise," Connolly said.
"There are real consequences to this, and this is not an external problem," he said.
Republican senators proposed a plan on Thursday to give the Obama administration more leeway in administering the cuts. But Connolly said it would be "highly ironic" if Congress gave the administration more flexibility, because it would mean that the legislature had given up on trying to find compromise. He said that undertaking sequestration would not be an easy task for the government, or the economy.
"The idea that this is belt tightening, and can be done painlessly, is false," Connolly said.
Connolly also said that future investments toward the FAA's Next Generation Air Transportation System -- also known as NextGen -- would also be jeopardized, should the budget cuts go through. He told Government Executive that the government cannot keep pushing the upgrade of NextGen down the road.
"We have an absolute obligation to the traveling public to make that investment," Connolly said.
Kaine also discussed the impact that sequestration would have on military infrastructure and investment in Virginia. He said that he had been on a "sequester tour" around the state, speaking to members of the military and defense contractors about the situation they face. Though members of the military were exempted from the cuts, he said that civilians supporting the military -- such as nurses at rehabilitation facilities -- could face furloughs. He said that preventing sequestration should not be a difficult task for lawmakers.
"This is not conceptually hard to solve," Kaine told Government Executive. "Everybody agrees the right solution is balanced."
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Here are some of the top police and fire stories recently in the San Fernando Valley from areas not directly covered by Patch. Go to Sherman Oaks Patch, Studio City Patch, North Hollywood-Toluca Lake Patch, Encino Patch, Calabasas Patch, Northridge-Chatsworth Patch and Woodland Hills Patch for news in those areas.
Reseda, Van Nuys, Mission Hills
A state appellate court panel Friday upheld a former gang leader's conviction for murder for his role in eight Los Angeles-area killings, primarily in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys.
The three- justice panel from California's 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected Marvin Mercado's contention that there were errors in his Los Angeles Superior Court trial.
"As a whole, the record provides substantial evidence such that the jury could properly find appellant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt," the justices found in a 12-page ruling.
Mercado was convicted in February 2011 of first-degree murder in the slayings of:
-- Armando Estrada and Miguel Limon, two rival Latino gang members who were shot numerous times after being ambushed at an apartment complex on Valerio Street in Van Nuys on April 14, 1995;
-- Cheng Peng, Paul Vu and Ben Liao, who were mistaken for members of a Taiwanese-based gang. They were followed by three carloads of Asian Boyz gang members as they left a Peck Road cafe, got on the westbound San Bernardino (10) Freeway and then attacked near the Temple City Boulevard off-ramp in El Monte on Aug. 1, 1995;
-- Oscar Palis, who was killed on Aug. 26, 1995, at Woodman Avenue and Devonshire Street in the Mission Hills area as he and others were heading home from a video arcade;
-- Jon Gregory, who was killed during a Sept. 20, 1995, home invasion robbery in Reseda; and
-- Tony Nguyen, who was killed with a shotgun the prosecutor said was fired by one of Mercado's accomplices.
Mercado also was convicted of 10 counts of attempted murder.
Jurors recommended that Mercado be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole rather than receive the death penalty.
Mercado, described by authorities as a former leader of one of the cliques of the Asian Boyz gang, was formally sentenced in March 2011 to eight consecutive life terms without parole.
Mercado was a fugitive when seven onetime cohorts of the gang's Van Nuys clique -- Buntheon Roeung, Sothi Menh, David Evangelista, Roatha Buth, Son Thanh Bui, Ky Tony Ngo and Kimorn Nuth -- were tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in June 1999.
Deputy District Attorney Hoon Chun told jurors during the trial that Mercado either had a direct role in the killings or aided his colleagues, including being the driver in the car-to-car shooting in El Monte.
Mercado was living in the Philippines under an assumed name after marrying into a socially prominent family when he was arrested in 2007. He was extradited to Los Angeles to stand trial.
Mercado's brother, Pierre, was convicted this year of four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the slayings of Peng, Vu, Liao and Nguyen. He was sentenced in August to 218 years to life.
A 20-year-old man dubbed the "Ear Gauge Stalker" was arrested Friday in connection with assaults on two women at a Sylmar apartment complex.
Kevion Ray Hunt walked into the San Fernando police station lobby with his mother and surrendered around 10 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Police said Hunt's mother said they knew police were looking for her son and they intended to speak to investigators.
"Detectives were writing a warrant for his arrest when we got the call this morning," said Detective Mike Brox, head of the Sexual Assault Unit. "We had been snooping around the neighborhood yesterday and showing the sketch."
The so-called Ear Gauge Stalker wore the circular items in both ear lobes during the attacks, which occurred early Sunday in the Mountain View Manor Apartments on Beaver Street, said Los Angeles police Lt. Paul Vernon. The location was not disclosed.
About 2:40 a.m. that same day, the man accosted a woman in her 30s who was pushing a baby in a stroller, Vernon said.
"He started with small talk, then reached under her dress and groped her," Vernon said.
About an hour later, the man assaulted another woman, who was walking to her apartment.
"He grabbed her and dragged her into a secluded area, trying to disrobe her, before two passersby confronted him and scared him off," Vernon said.
Neighbors pointed detectives to an apartment complex across the street from where the Dec. 9 assaults occurred, and several people described a young man with ear gauges who lived in the nearby apartment with his parents, matching the sketch, Vernon said.
"When we compared the DMV photo to the sketch, it was hard to imagine a better match," Brox recalled.
Authorities distributed crime alerts to nearby Sylmar High School and Los Angeles Mission College, and police had been ready to serve the arrest warrant at Hunt's home this morning when he walked into the police station.
"Funny thing was, detectives had not yet approached nor spoken to Hunt about the case," Brox said.
Hunt was booked for attempted rape at the LAPD Valley Regional Jail Section in Van Nuys where he is being held on $100,000 bail.
Anyone knowing more about the case was urged to call (818) 838-9975 or (800) 222-TIPS.
The death of an Alaska Airlines pilot whose body was found on a Golden State (5) Freeway offramp in October was due to natural causes, a Los Angeles County Coroner's Office report said this week.
The body of Lee Clifford Morris, a 55-year-old Alaska airlines pilot, was discovered on the Scott Road exit ramp Oct. 2 near Bob Hope Airport in Burbank.
Burbank police officers who responded to the scene initially thought Morris' death may be suspicious, but preliminary medical examinations indicated the death likely was natural.
The body of Morris—a 26-year Alaska Airlines veteran who was engaged to be married—had no obvious signs of trauma and he wearing civilian clothes. His wallet had not been taken from him.
A fire burned Friday in a Reseda home, a city fire official said.
The blaze was reported at 2:41 p.m. in the 18000 block of West Wyandotte Street, according to Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
Rescuers arriving at the location reported fire showing from the back of the single-story home, Scott said.
With 29 firefighters on the scene, the flames were under control in 19 minutes, Scott said.
A 22-year-old woman was taken to a hospital for minor smoke inhalation and was in fair condition, he said. A four-year-old boy was taken to a hospital as a precaution.
"(The) main house was described as a total loss," Scott said. "(There was) slight damage to a small two-bedroom house in the rear."


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Local individuals and businesses were honored Monday night with a number of awards at the Glasgow-Barren County Chamber of Commerce's 92nd annual meeting and awards banquet at the Cave City Convention Center.
Sue Haynes, executive director for the Community Relief Fund, was recognized as the 2012 Outstanding Citizen of the Year. Haynes heads Community Relief and has also been closely involved with Community Medical Care, Habitat for Humanity, Big Brothers Big Sister, angel tree, bell ringers and other community service programs. "Faithful servant to the community" were the words to describe why Haynes was chosen as the citizen of the year.
Don and Gail Kinslow and their family were recognized as farmers of the year for their 700-head dairy operation. David Burch, chairman of the chamber's agribusiness committee, called Don Kinslow a "true family farmer" for his start working on his parents' farm and then growing his own operation into a business where his son and son-in-law both now work.
Read the full story in Tuesday's print or e-Edition of the Glasgow Daily Times.


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For as long as we can remember products just appeared. We knew nothing of the production process, or who the device's authors might be. Not anymore. As Scott Wilson professes in his first project update, "I believe this is a significant milestone in product development history. And you are part of it. Part of what I consider will eventually be a common way for individuals, DIYers, small groups and aspiring entrepreneurs to realize their dreams. And you were there at the beginning."
McGregor's post was titled "A New Era for Design." It made sense to ask the people of the internet for money, because they were not only your investors, they wanted to be your customers. Kickstarter combined fundraising with opinion polling, marketing with grant-writing. And if you were lucky, one of the reward system built into the fundraising meant you would be the first to hear, see, read or use the production in question.
The process required to be a Kickstarter success, now summarized and codified on many other websites, reflects this consumer focus. A video, not too slick, but not too amateur. Relentless working of social media and casual contacts. Rewards. In the future, Kickstarter seemed to me to suggest, the socially awkward and untelegenic need not apply. But on the flipside, if Kickstarter could make industrial designers' dreams come true, who was I to question it?
But then it mushroomed. Stories late last year (later debunked) suggested that Kickstarter would soon fund more creative activity than the National Endowment for the Arts. And more types of projects, design not just for the wrist, started to try to get in on the action. Which made me very nervous. Kickstarter is not a popularity contest, or a democracy. Kickstarter's editorial teams selects which projects go on the blog. Their declaration of a glorious new era for design suggests that projects that aren't Kickstarter worthy aren't worthy. (Here's Rob Walker's New York Times Magazine story on the site, "The Trivialities and Transcendence of Kickstarter," which goes into all the details.) A suitable funding platform for a watch is not a suitable funding platform for a city. The expectations, the timeline, the relevant community are all wildly different.
Most of the Kickstarter projects under the Design tab congregate around the themes of bikes, cheese, typography and iAnything, yet there is now a subset of urban interventions. A plastic tent for a livability conference in Prague. Uni, a portable open-air reading room for New York. A rooftop farm in Mumbai. The filtration system for +Pool.
What do these projects have in common? First, they are in famous cities. Second, they access hot-button urban topics: rooftop farms, reclaimed railroads, (self-reflexively) urban conversation itself. And third, they are gizmos. Critic Reyner Banham, in the oft-quoted essay "The Great Gizmo" posited that it wasn't massive infrastructure projects that changed our world, but devices. Urbanism would lose out to industrial design. And that's just what's happening on Kickstarter. You wouldn't Kickstart a replacement bus line for Brooklyn, but you might Kickstart an app to tell you when the bus on another, less convenient line might come. You can't Kickstart affordable housing, but the really cool tent for the discussion thereof. Gizmo is close to gimmick, and worthy goals have to be dressed up in complex geometries for Kickstarter.
The example of Kickstarter urbanism par excellence is Delancey Underground, aka the LowLine, which raised $155,000 on Kickstarter earlier this year. (Pocket change, yes, in comparison to the Pebble.) The idea for the LowLine is to take a 1.5 acre abandoned trolley terminal on the Lower East Side and to turn it into what co-founders Dan Barasch and James Ramsey were, at least initially, calling a park. The renderings show multi-racial families enjoying the indoor sunlight, an accordionist, cooing couples, poured concrete benches. It looks a bit like Cobble Hill Park, with a psychedelic ceiling instead of the sky. The founders raised those funds with little more than those renderings and a nickname, as the images, first shown in New York Magazine in September 2011, swiftly made the rounds of New York City publications and techy blogs. (The rounds now seem almost pre-ordained, from Co.Design to WIRED, TechCrunch to Gizmodo, Bits blog to think piece.) When the LowLine launched on Kickstarter in February 2012, the audience of urban-dwelling, tech-savvy patrons was pre-sold on the park as gizmo, and seemed to expect it to pop right up like a watch. But what they were actually paying toward was a sub-gizmo, a test run of the skylights that would filter daylight underground. The consumable dream was years and bureaucracies away. The original appeal of Kickstarter was a one-to-one relationship with the artist, without layers of grant. Who was the artist here? And weren't donors just a precursor to grants?
Look at the differences between the LowLine and the unsuccessful $4200 effort to fund a new ping-pong table for Gulick Park, also on the Lower East Side. The first is physical, practical, and achievable. If you are part of the physical community, you would be able to see the fruits of your donation within months. The second is seed money for seed money. If the designers build a better skylight, then they might be able to attract more backers, then they might be able to make a deal with the city, and then they might be able to create whatever it is. True, the Gulick Park Kickstarter page is somewhat depressing and pedestrian, but that's what most urban intervention is. Small steps. Sometimes dirty. The High Line didn't get Von Furstenberg money until a lot of unphotogenic, person-to-person tasks had been completed. The timeline for urban projects, the real-life approvals and the massive construction costs, are ill-suited for the Kickstarter approach. All the format can handle is a little, gizmo-like piece of the puzzle.
I'm hardly the first to have noticed this disconnect. Brickstarter, a still-evolving platform developed by a project team at Sitra including Dan Hill and Bryan Boyer, seems like an attempt to right some of the wrongs and frustrations Kickstarter urbanism could create. A recent post by Boyer asked,
As the interest in crowdfunding for local projects continues to grow, we're digging into the nitty gritty of what this actually implies. What is really being funded and what's the extent of the community participating?


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