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The Natural Resources Conservation Service (Service) and the Santa Clara Valley Water District (water district) completed a comprehensive restudy of the Llagas Creek floodplain 1982. At that time, a environmental impact statement and report were completed and construction began. The project was sponsored locally by the water district and the Loma Prieta Resource Conservation District. The Service provided assistance under the authority of theWatershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act.
At the time of the 1982 report, an estimated 1,123 residential buildings, 64 mobile homes, 463 commercial establishments, and 24 industrial buildings were located in the flood-prone area. At that time, damages from a 1-percent or 100-year flood were estimated to be $8.5 million. Current value of damages would be far greater.
Encompassing a watershed of 104 square miles in southern Santa Clara County, when completed the Llagas Creek Flood Protection Project will protect residential, commercial, and agricultural areas in San Martin, and the cities of Morgan Hill and Gilroy.
Floods in 1937, 1955, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1969, 1982, 1986, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008, 2009 and 2011 damaged existing homes and businesses. The largest recorded flood, estimated to be a 33-year event, occurred in December 1955.
Beginning in 1993, the City of Morgan Hill and the District undertook an effort to preserve the natural creek on Reach 8, extending through downtown Morgan Hill. New alternatives are being investigated, focusing on environmental and aesthetic features while maintaining public health and safety. A restudy of Reach 8 including the investigation of a storm water retention system and underground bypass culverts is included in the planning and design effort.
In 2004, the City of Morgan Hill and the water district entered into a cost-sharing agreement to fund essential investigations to keep the project on schedule. The agreement funded a geotechnical investigation, hazardous materials investigation and a tree and riparian corridor assessment. The $680,000 cost will be equally shared by the City of Morgan Hill and the water district. At a later date, the parties expect to recover the monies spent from the federal government.
On January 4, 2008, many residential and commercial areas of Morgan Hill experienced flooding depths ranging from a half foot up to three feet. In a 25-hour continuous period, Morgan Hill received 4.25 inches of rainfall. According to preliminary estimates, the rainfall intensity varied up to a 60-year event (return period). Flood damages have not been finalized yet.
In 2009, the City of Morgan Hill and the water district entered into another cost-sharing agreement to fund and prepare project designs, Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement and the U.S. Army Corps' design documentation report. The $9.7 million cost will be committed by the water district with the City of Morgan Hill to reimburse the water district for 50% of the consultant contract cost up to $3 million.


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Growing demand for medium density fiberboard has allowed suppliers to increase prices, which has lowered buyer negotiation power. For these reasons and to help procurement professionals make better buying decisions faster, business intelligence firm IBISWorld has added a report on the procurement of Medium Density Fiberboard to its growing collection of procurement category market research reports.
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Medium density fiberboard (MDF) has a buyer power score of 2.9 out of 5, reflecting moderate negotiating conditions for buyers. MDF price movements depend largely on residential and nonresidential expenditure levels, as well as private spending on home improvements. These drivers have exhibited strong growth over the three years to 2014, boosting demand for MDF. According to IBISWorld procurement analyst Jesse Chiang, growing demand for MDF has allowed suppliers to increase their prices, lowering buyer negotiation power. Rising prices are restraining buyer power because buyers are less able to delay contractual decisions with prices increasing continuously. Instead, buyers must negotiate contracts to lock in lower prices. Prices are forecast to grow substantially over the three years to 2017, which will continue to reduce buyer power in the coming years.
Price increases for inputs such as lumber also led to price growth for MDF, limiting negotiation flexibility for suppliers that struggled to maintain profitability. As a result, buyers have had fewer opportunities to arrange favorable deals and negotiate lower prices. Additionally, moderate market share concentration and product specialization have created a tougher purchasing environment for buyers. Large, vertically integrated operators have significant market power, while moderate product specialization reduces buyers' ability to locate suppliers capable of satisfying their specific product requirements, says Chiang.
Nevertheless, buyers do have some considerable advantages. The high availability of substitute goods ensures that buyers are not forced to accept major concessions in their contracts because of their ability to switch to other suppliers that distribute alternative building materials. Secondly, low switching costs limit suppliers' ability to charge higher prices. Lastly, despite high demand driver volatility, volatility in prices for MDF products has been low. This factor has benefited buyers by making inventory planning and budget forecasts easier. The top four vendors in the market are Louisiana-Pacific, Weyerhaeuser, West Fraser Timber, and Plum Creek Timber.
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Well worth the money. The coffee brews fast as does the hot water system. The variable heat plate lets me make coffee for myself and my husband (who wakes up 1 hr after me) without it tasting burnt. The hot water system is an added bonus as our son and I both enjoy hot chocolate while my husband makes tea. We've already taken advantage of making Cup of Soup with it being cold season now. This is a fabulous addition to any kitchen as it takes the place of multiple gadgets and manages to be stylish. The carafe is easy to clean (dishwasher safe) and DOES NOT DRIP! The water reservoir is easy to view on the side of the machine unlike the regular version of the coffee maker without the hot water system (you have to peer inside the water tank). Exactly what we needed. A+
Worked well but was too tall for my cabinet area. Also does not have a way to see how much water you have in pot on outside of pot. If you are short and can't see down into pot that is inconvenient. Loved the hot water feature!
So far so good, we love this coffee maker! My husband drinks about 4 cups of tea a day so this is perfect for him! My coffee definitly tastes less bitter than it did with my old cheaper maker. I like the carbon water insert filters, I think that does help with the taste of the water. The area you pour the water into for the "hot water" section is large and convient however the area you pour the water into for the cofee maker is much smaller and takes a little more focus... But it's worth it for us. The water heats up very quickly as well. I find myself refilling the water side more frequently than I anticipated though, it seems to hold enough water for about 3 cups of tea. We use it alot! The fill water light, lights up when it's low on water, which is nice. If you don't use hot water or drink beverages other than coffee, I would NOT recommend this. This is designed for people who drink other hot beverages on a "regular basis". If you are primarily a cofee drinker, get a regular pot. This unit is a bit larger than a regular coffee maker, so it does take up a little more space. I have not used the hot water for oatmeal or grits yet, but I'm looking forward to trying that out. Overall GREAT buy... we love it, looks stylish, great performance, would buy again!
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Missing Cats are: John "Jojo" Hermann / piano & vocals Sherman Ewing / acoustic guitar & vocals
Missing Cats features John "Jojo" Hermann, longtime keyboardist of Widespread Panic, and New York City-based singer-songwriter, Sherman Ewing. Playing with only a piano and acoustic guitar on stage, Hermann and Ewing combine the sounds of New Orleans boogie-woogie piano and raw emotive songwriting.
Jojo and Sherman met in New York City, and started playing the clubs in1983. Discovering they shared a passion for songwriting, the classmates formed Sherman and the Bureaucrats. Jojo moved to Mississippi in the late '80s and joined the Oxford based band, Beanland. Then in 1992, Jojo became a member of the Athens, GA band, Widespread Panic. Sherman continued to develop his singer/songwriter sound and guitar playing in various New York bands until 2002, when he launched his solo career.
After playing on and off together for 25 years, Jojo and Sherman officially reunited in 2006 to write new songs forming Missing Cats. Drawing material from Sherman's solo album, "Single Room Saloon" (2011), and Jojo's three solo efforts including, "Smiling Assassin" (2001, Fat Possum), Missing Cats toured for the first time in 2009 to tremendous response.
Armed with new material, the simple song writing acoustic duo will head back out for another tour this spring. In March, Jojo and Sherman will record the first Missing Cats record with Grammy Award winning producer Jon Randall Stewart. Jon has recorded with Emmy Lou Harris, Sam Bush, and Lyle Lovett. Jon also produced Grammy nominated Dierks Bentley's acoustic-driven album, "Up on the Ridge". Missing Cats are excited to capture their original, down- to-earth songs and bring this new music to fans in 2012.


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Orthopedic shoes have often been considered an unattractive option of footwear for people with medical conditions that affect their legs and feet. Although the shoes may not be attractive, they have a vital part to play in the development of the patient's legs. The orthopedic shoes are incredibly beneficial for people who suffer from chronic foot, and leg pain.
The manufacturers of the orthopedic shoes are beginning to use designs that are not only functional, but fashionable as well. People who suffer from the chronic conditions connected with the use of orthopedic shoes are very self-conscious. They will want to have shoes that make them feel less conspicuous and look great. Although style is very important, the overall use of the shoes remains the same.
Shoes that are bought from the average high-street store often do not provide the adequate support that is needed. Due to the need to produce lower cost shoes, the manufactures are using cheap materials. The emphasis is centered around style, and never on the actual fit or comfort of the shoe. Orthotic shoes are focused on the comfort element of the design, and this often means that the style is forgotten.
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Family style open mic nights are held at the Asian Arts Initiative every third Friday of the month. They are hosted by Michelle Myers and Catzie Vilayphonh of the spoken-word duo Yellow Rage. Guests are asked to share songs, stories, song, dance, poetry and more with the Asian American community and are held to a five minute time limit. There are also special performances scheduled on certain nights.
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Born into South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church in 1894, Christinah Nku experienced numerous visions as a young girl. Plagued with illness as a young woman, she was told by God she would not die. A decade later, she received a vision of a large church with twelve doors, and then in 1939 a vision to build it not far from Johannesburg. In her dreams, Christinah recalled the healing of the crippled bystander in John's Gospel, which led her to focus on the healing ministry in her own religious life.
Christinah and her husband, Lazarus, in 1924 had been baptized into the Apostolic Faith Mission, a large Transvaal indigenous church, but after a personal and doctrinal conflict with its leader, the young woman struck out on her own as a healer. She named her church the St. John Apostolic Faith Mission, and while it began as a Pentecostal church, her powers and interest in the healing ministry soon gave it a distinctive character. AFM became one of the largest indigenous churches in South Africa, attracting over fifty thousand members. Its founder was known as "a mother with a thousand teats" whose spiritual gifts fed millions. Although the church and its founder took no overt position on political issues, both Lazarus Nku and the couple's son, Johannes, who eventually assumed the senior male leadership position, were active in the African National Congress (ANC).
An important feature of the Zionist-Apostolic Pentecostal churches was the place they accorded women as members and ministers. Most such churches had strong women's organizations that provided friendship, assistance, and a sense of feeling important in a lonely world. Excluded from power in the mainstream churches and marginalized by apartheid's cruelty and a male-dominated African society, at least two million women found these churches to be welcoming places. Female prophets were common, as were "lady bishops," as women leaders were sometimes called. Mother, or "Ma," Nku, as she was known, began her ministry in the Johannesburg slums, and crowds made their way each day to her two-room dwelling for prayer at 5:00 and 9:00 a.m., and at 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. Hundreds of persons reported being healed, and Christinah neither sought fame nor took money for her healing prayers. Eventually she agreed to accept a shilling for each person who came to her for healing, and from these offerings she was able to build seventy churches throughout South Africa. Schools and youth programs were added as well.
Much of the Apostolic Faith Mission service resembled the rite of other Pentecostal churches. Scripture readings, hymns, preaching, and offerings were part of the liturgy. People were encouraged to talk directly to God and to deliver their testimony and petitions, after which those in attendance knelt and loudly uttered their own prayers of the heart.
The use of water was a distinctive attribute of the church, and Christinah was given to praying over buckets and bottles of it for her adherents. The healing service began with persons drinking water that had been blessed; then the ministers, having washed in the holy water, laid hands on each person. Sometimes in smaller services, ritual bathing and the controlled use of enemas and vomiting were administered as part of the rites to a few participants.
The church created its own marching band, which attracted new members, for the lively sound and blue and white uniforms were show-stoppers on slum streets. Choirs added compelling music to the services and became ways of interacting with other churches through choir festivals and competitions. Like choirs in the black churches of segregated America, the African choral groups expressed solidarity and affirmed personal and corporate worth and dignity in an otherwise harsh and restricted world. A four-day annual choir festival was a galvanic event for the entire church. Members came from all over South Africa, sang and shared meals together, prayed, and were baptized.[1]
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps clown ahead of me." Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take up your mat and walk." At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and walked.
--John 5:5-8
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps clown ahead of me." Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take up your mat and walk." At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and walked.
--John 5:5-8
Frederick Quinn
This article is reproduced, with permission, from African Saints: Saints, Martyrs, and Holy People from the Continent of Africa, copyright © 2002 by Frederick Quinn, Crossroads Publishing Company, New York, New York. All rights reserved.


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Match report: Somerset 32, Morganians 5 (From Bridgwater Mercury)
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Match report: Somerset 32, Morganians 5
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Somerton 32, Morganians 5
FOR the first 20 minutes, Morganians had the majority of the territory and had some good attacking phases.
However it did not help when after 25 minutes, Elliot Singleton was sin-binned and the team were reduced to 14 men.
Somerton scored an unconverted try but shortly after a Morganians break saw a mazy run from Will Hopkins run over the line.
Unfortunately, the home side ran in two more tries before half-time to lead 15-5.
The second half saw the game slip away from Morganians and the well-drilled Somerton team ran over three tries in the last 15 minutes to claim the win.
The team are at home this Saturday against Wiveliscombe 2nds. Kick-off is 3pm.
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The grease tube split at the seam which seems to be a common thing these days with multiple items of this type that I have used (some related others not). No problem, just slipped it into a sandwich bag to keep the mess down. You will need a traditional filter cleaner when transition from petroleum based to bio based filter oil so plan on having something strong on hand for the initial wash if using the old stuff. Once setup with the new stuff the cleaner works as advertised, is fairly quick and painless. Much less of a mess than dino oil. Application of the bio oil is a bit messy. I started using a 1 gallon zip lock bag to reduce the mess and save some filter oil. Drop the filter in the bag, add some oil, seal, massage around to cover the filter. Then pop the bag open and squeeze out excess back into the ziplock bag. Press out the air and save for the next re-oil session. This is the green oil with the water based (vs alcohol) carrier so dry time takes longer. I usually put it back on the filter frame, and back on the bike. Then leave the door open overnight to allow the water carrier to flash off. Close the door the next day and you are good to go. If doing filter changes between motos or whatever you had better have a backup that you can rotate in due to the dry times. No issues with the backfire screen removed and another brand's filter. Likely removes one of the two flammable risks. Will swap out filters to the notoil one when this one wears out to get the additional flame resistance as final insurance.Read All Reviews
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After two months of controversy, the Compton school board Tuesday rejected a petition by parents aiming to use a groundbreaking state law to turn over their struggling elementary school to a charter operator.
Board members with the Compton Unified School District voted unanimously, 7-0, to return the petition to parents at McKinley Elementary , saying it failed to include information required by state regulations. District officials also found that parents cited the wrong education code section and failed to provide evidence that they had selected their desired charter operator, Celerity Educational Group, after a "rigorous review process" as required by state emergency regulations.


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The Prelives of the Blues, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2012
An Instinct Toward Life, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 2011
Folks on the Fringe, ACME., 2010
Folks on the Fringe, ACME., 2010
The Defiant Garden, 2009-10 Cut paper, homemade paper (pulp made from soldiers' letters sent home and wife/ sweetheart letters sent to soldiers from various wars, cotton), carrier pigeon skeletons, WWII-era pigeon message capsules, dried flowers from various battlefields, hair flowers braided by war widows, mourning dress fabric, excavated shrapnel and bullet lead from various battlefields, various seeds, various seashells, cartes de visites, gold leaf, silk, ribbon, wood, glass, foam core, glue 79 ½ x 61 x 4 ½ inches
Folks on the Fringe, 2009 cut paper, colored pencil, foam core, glue 52 1/4 x 36 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches
Maidens of Mother's Milk Thistle, 2009 cut paper, colored pencil, foam core, glue 52 1/4 x 36 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches
Alchemical Gardens, 2009 cut paper, colored pencil, foam core, glue 52 1/4 x 36 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches
Society of Seekers, 2009 cut paper, colored pencil, foam core, glue 52 1/4 x 36 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches
Tales of Theodicies, 2010 cut paper, cut album cover elements, colored pencil, ribbon, foam core, glue; 85 x 70 x 1 inches
American Seabed Recordings, 2010 colored pencil, cut album cover elements on paper 45 1/4 x 38 inches
Demonstrations of Sailor's Valentines, 2009 cut paper, various seashells, colored wax, cartes de visites, silk, ribbon, foam core, glue 59 x 52 x 6 inches
Some Longings Survive Death, 2008 Glacially released 50,000 - year old woolly mammoth tusks, 19th c. braided hair flowers of various lovers intertwined with glacially released woolly mammoth hair, carved ivory and bone, bocote, colored paper, silk, ribbon, typeset 57 x 8 x 53 inches
Heaven Is Being A Memory To Others, Frye Art Museum, 2008
Dario Robleto Love Has Value Because It's Not Eternal , 2008 Hand blown glass beakers, stretched audio tape of field recordings of the sound of glaciers melting (2005-06) intertwined with audio tape of various lovers recording their partner's heartbeats as they reflected on each other, ground passion flower, amber, eternal flower, resurrection plant, silk, satin, leather, ribbon, brass, iron, cork, pine, typeset
Dario Robleto A Homeopathic Treatment For Human Longing , 2008 Glass vials, vintage glass electrode wands, 19th c. bloodletting cupping glass, various handmade homeopathic remedies (sound of glaciers melting, voice of oldest to ever live, last heartbeats of loved one, million year old blossom, million year old raindrop, deceased lovers heartbeats, extinct, animal sounds, extinct languages), various custom ordered remedies made by professional homeopath (black amber, willow, tears, mammoth hair, glacial runoff, voice of oldest widow, black swan bone dust, Silvia Plath's voice), velvet, silk, leather ribbon, brass, iron, cork, pine, typeset
The Boundary of Life Is Quietly Crossed, 2008 Ink dyed poplar, typeset on cardstock, hair lockets made of stretched and curled audio tape recordings of supercentenarians (human living to 110 or older), 19th c. hair flowers, lace and fabric from widows' mourning dresses, colored paper, silk, antique ribbon, homemade paper, willow, ash, white oak, milk paint, glass 71 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 104 1/2 inches
Ark of Frailty, 2008 Poplar, typeset on cardstock, hair lockets made of stretched and curled audio tape recordings of "Lazarus species" (species that are rediscovered alive after being classified extinct) in the wild, 19th c. hair flowers, 19th c. dried flowers, lace and fabric from widows' mourning dresss, colored paper, silk, antique ribbon and buttons, carved animal bone buttons, homemade paper, willow, ash, white oak, milk paint, glass 71 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 105 1/4 inches
Words Tremble With The Thoughts They Express, 2008 Feathers made from stretched audio tape of the last recordings of now extinct birds and of now extinct languages, glass inkwell, homemade ink (lamp black, ground fulgurites [glass produced by lightning strikes when heat from blast melts surrounding sand], cuttlefish sepia, homemade paper, volcanic ash from Mt. St. Helens, ink dyed willow, brass, typeset 63 3/4 x 25 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches
Chrysanthemum Anthems, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, 2006
Woman Negotiates With Grief, 2005 - 2006 Homemade paper (pulp made from soldiers' letters to mothers from various wars, ink retrieved from letters, cotton), colored paper, hair flower braided by a widow, fragments of military blankets and uniforms from various wars, soldiers' thread from uniform, sewing pins, silk, ribbon, dried chrysanthemums, graphite, magnolia, white pine, ash and poplar 19 x 13 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches
A Century of November, 2005 Child's mourning dress made with homemade paper (pulp made from sweetheart letters written by soldiers who did not return from various wars, ink retrieved from letters, sepia, bone dust from every bone in the body), carved bone buttons, hair flowers braided by a Civil War widow, mourning dress fabric and lace, silk, velvet, ribbon, WWII surgical suture thread, mahogany, glass 38 x 38 inches
A Defeated Soldier Wishes to Walk His Daughter Down the Wedding Aisle, 2004 Cast of a hand-carved wooden and iron leg that a wounded Civil War soldier constructed for himself, made from the Shirelles' "Soldier Boy" melted vinyl record and femur bone dust, fitted inside a pair of WWII military cavalry boots made from Skeeter Davis' "The End of the World" melted vinyl record, oil can filled with homemade tincture (gun oil, rose oil, bacteria cultured from the grooves of Negro prison songs and prison choir records, worm wood, golden rod, aloe juice, resurrection plant, Apothecary's Rose and bugleweed), brass, rust, dirt from various battlefields, ballistic gelatin, white rose petals, white rice 80 x 21 x 20 inches
The Melancholic Refuses to Surrender, 2003 Cast and carved bone charcoal melted vinyl record of Leadbelly's "The Titanic", broken male hand bones, ground coal, horse hair, dirt, pigments, lead salvaged from the sea, string and rust 11 x 5 x 14 inches
Hippies and a Ouija Board (Everyone Needs to Cling to Something), 2003 Suitcase: cast an carved dehydrated bone calcium and dust from every bone in the body, microcrystalline cellulose, cold cast iron and brass, rust, antique syringe, crushed velvet, leather, thread, water extendable resin and typeset. Ouija board, bottles and medicines: cast and carved dehydrated bone calcium and bone dust from every bone in the body, typeset, home-brewed moonshine (potato derived alcohol), wine health tonics (water, sugar, fermented black cherries, yeast, gelatin tartaric acid, pectinase, sulfur dioxide, oak flavoring fortified with 100 year old: hemlock oil, Devil's claw, witch hazel bark, swamp root, powdered rhubarb, pleurisy root, belladonna root, white pine tar, coal tar, dandelion, sarsaparilla, mandrake, mullein, skullcap, cramp bark, elder, ginseng, horny goat weed, tansy, sugar of lead, mercury with chalk and tin-oxide; calcum potassium, creatine, zinc, iron, nickel, copper, boron, vitamin k, crushed amino acids, home-cultured antibiotics, chromium, magnesium, colostrum, ironized yeast, ground pituitary gland, ground wisdom teeth, ground sea horse, shark cartilage, coral calcium iodine and castor oil) Records: various 1960's 45 rpm records cast in prehistoric whale bone dust, typeset 23 x 19 x 42 inches
The Creative Potential of Disease, 2003-04 A self-portrait doll made by a Civil War union soldier amputee while recovering in the hospital, mended and repaired with a modern day surgeon's surgical needle and thread, new pant leg material made from a modern day soldier's uniform, cast leg made from femur bone dust and prosthetic alginate treated with Balm of a Thousand Foreign Fields, vegetable ivory, collagen, melted shrapnel and bullet lead, cold cast steel and zinc, polyester resin, rust 11 x 9 inches


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All systems are go again at the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Office's Robert L. Gilder Elections Service Center where power was down for a time today.
According to the supervisor of elections Twitter feed, power went down around 4:45 p.m. today, Nov. 6.
"A transformer went out," a Tweet from the SOE's office said. "Backup generators kicked on. We have resumed printing in-person absentee ballots."
The line outside the 2514 N. Falkenburg Road elections office was about 35 minutes long, officials reported shortly after the outage.
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Welcome to week 16 of the National Football League season. If you are reading this you probably are in your championship game, congrats! Last week was a tough week for good matchups on paper, but hopefully they'll follow a little closer to the script this week. Here are some guys who you should think about starting and sitting this week.
Tony Romo – Romo has been playing very well of late and gets to face the New Orleans Saints poor pass defense. Of course they unexpectedly shut down Josh Freeman in week 15, but it looked like Freeman was more to blame than the Saints defense. Romo should have no trouble putting up numbers. In the last four weeks he's put up three games of 20+ fantasy points. Just last week against the Steelers at home he threw for 341 yards and two touchdowns. All signs point to a big game in big D.
Cam Newton – Newton has been the number one fantasy quarterback over the last seven weeks. He's averaged 250 yards passing and 48 yards rushing to go along with 13 passing touchdowns, 2 interceptions and 4 rushing touchdowns during that span. This week he faces the Oakland Raiders who have been awful against opposing quarterbacks this season, giving up 66% completion rate, 260 yards passing per game and 25 passing touchdowns. And that includes playing against whoever was quarterbacking the Chiefs at the time, twice. Oh and Blaine Gabbert too!
Running Backs
Matt Forte – Forte has had trouble scoring this season, but he's still putting up decent total yards, with 93 per game. The Cardinals are giving up 132 rushing yards a game since week four, which leads the league. I believe the Bears will slow this game down and let their defense shut down Ryan Lindley (which shouldn't be hard) and let Matt Forte help keep Jay Cutler from turning the ball over by running more than usual.
DeAngelo Williams – With Cam Newton coming on strong and Jonathan Stewart hurt, Williams has been playing well in turn. He's averaging 128 total yards and a touchdown over the last two games and faces a Raiders' defense that is giving up the most fantasy points to running backs over the last seven weeks.
Wide Receivers
Danny Amendola – The Buccaneers are having a tough time keeping opposing receivers at bay this season. They've given up the league high in yards and receptions to opposing wide receivers. Amendola is finally back from his foot injury and posted six receptions, 58 yards and a touchdown last week against the Vikings. With a week under his belt and another poor pass defense to face, he should do well.
Pierre Garcon – Garcon has 32 targets in his last three weeks and showed that even with Kirk Cousins under center he will get plenty of opportunities. The Eagles have played better of late, but the Eagles can't have improved from their league worst play, to one of the league's best pass defenses in just a few weeks. Play Garcon and if RGIII plays, play him a lot!
Ben Roethlisberger – The Cincinnati Bengals have been playing great pass defense of late. Over the last six games they have allowed just three passing touchdowns and had six interceptions. This game is a big one for each team, so it will be intense. It's hard to predict rivalry games like this, but there's a good chance it will be a low scoring affair.
Josh Freeman – If you throw no touchdowns and four interceptions against the Saints you can't be started ever again. Well, especially in your fantasy championship game. Plus their matchup with the Rams isn't great. They've held opposing quarterbacks to just three touchdown passes over the last six weeks.
Running Backs
Trent Richardson -- Richardson's big workload seems to be catching up with him. He's been getting into the end zone, but his yardage totals have been falling. Over the last five games he's averaging just 64 yards rushing at 3 yards per carry. Of course with his touchdowns not slowing down, he's been fantasy worthy, but the bad news is the Broncos rush defense has been lights out lately. Since week six the Broncos are giving up just 68 rushing yards per game, 3.4 yards per carry, and one rushing touchdown to opposing running backs.
BenJarvus Green-Ellis – Law Firm has been playing well of late, but the Steelers have only allowed one rushing touchdown at home this season and with their playoff lives in jeopardy, they should be ready to play. The last time Green-Ellis faced them was in Cincinnati and he had just 69 yards on 18 touches.
Wide Receivers
Danario Alexander – The Jets are still the only team to have not given up 100 yards to an opposing wide receiver this season. Alexander had been on a tear until last week's no-show. He'll most likely be covered by Antonio Cromartie and if you add that to his poor showing last week, it's going to be tough starting him.
Josh Gordon – He's played well of late, but going to Mile High and facing Champ Bailey is an almost impossible task for the rookie. Add that to Brandon Weeden not looking good last week, the Browns will have trouble moving the ball at all.
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Ground Zero in Urban Decline
Cincinnati isn't just a town down on its luck. It's the future of the American city.
Welcome to ground zero in inner-city decline: the Over-the-Rhine district in Cincinnati, Ohio. This is the neighborhood, settled a couple hundred years ago and named for the predominantly German immigrants who once populated it, that was at the center of America's most recent spasm of social turmoil. In April, after police shot an unarmed black man, hundreds of Cincinnati residents took to the streets to protest entrenched racism and economic inequities. Cincinnati -- once renowned as the Queen City of the Ohio River, once dubbed "Porkopolis" for its dominance in pig processing, once famous as the home of baseball's legendary Big Red Machine -- is now known for civil disorder and a sagging population. The 2000 Census underscores that Cincinnati's glory days were somewhere in the past: During the 1990s, the city lost over 30,000 residents, or about 9 percent of its population.
Any prospects for revival in this Midwestern city were dealt a staggering setback by images of smoldering fires in the streets, angry men hurling bricks through storefront windows, and shop owners holding vigil over their property with shotguns. In less than a week, more than 600 people were arrested for disorderly conduct, vandalism, and assault. Urban decay -- vacant buildings, declining population, few jobs -- provided the tinderbox for the riots that thrust this famously staid city into the national headlines.
If the nation was shocked -- this was a town known for its conservatism, restraint, and bedrock Midwestern values -- so were Cincinnati's city leaders. Prior to the riots, the business community had been cultivating the city's reputation as a bastion of middle-class values and the German work ethic, regardless of the current residents' cultural heritages. The unrest provided a dramatic counterpoint to other recent development efforts. Earlier this year, in a bid to win the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, local activists and leaders put together an 800-page document touting Cincinnati's competitive advantages. In 1996, voters in Hamilton County, of which Cincinnati is a part, approved a sales tax increase to underwrite the construction of two new professional sports stadiums -- a baseball-only stadium for the Reds (the nation's oldest professional baseball team) and a separate football facility for the Bengals. The city and county have also invested substantial public funds in redirecting Fort Washington Way, a freeway providing easy access to downtown from the outer edge of the metropolitan area.
All told, those recent investments in downtown and riverfront improvements have cost Hamilton County residents close to $1 billion, and that's not counting the interest on bonds. The city lists 34 projects on its downtown development plan; if everything on that wish list gets built, the total price tag would be something like $4 billion. And yet Cincinnati has little to show for the effort, other than some white-elephant public works projects and the wreckage -- physical and emotional -- from this spring's riots. "The problems of the city," notes city councilman Phil Heimlich, "are not so much that white and black people don't get along; it's that white and black people don't stick around. I think the most important fact is that the city has lost almost 10 percent of its population over the last 10 years."
Cincinnati is a very specific place: Well-known for its steep hills and riverfront location, it has been built into its landscape in a singular and striking way (Winston Churchill once called it "America's most beautiful inland city"). Yet Cincinnati is also a very generic place in today's America. It's a city smack dab in the middle of a long, slow decline -- not just in population but in prospects for the future. Its story -- a sad one, though not without some measure of hope -- is one that is being played out in urban centers throughout the country. The reasons for Cincinnati's decline and the misguided attempts to reverse it are all too representative of what's happening throughout the U.S. today. For good and ill, what's happening in Cincinnati may well be coming to a city near you. If, in fact, it's not already there.
In 2001, the Fannie Mae Foundation studied three dozen of the nation's largest cities and found that most have been losing population since the 1970s. While some cities gained population during the '90s -- including such long-bleeding cosmopolises as New York and Chicago -- more lost ground: Cincinnati, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Rochester, Syracuse, Toledo, Baltimore, Buffalo, Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and the District of Columbia, among others, continued long traditions of population decline.
A closer look inside Cincinnati's city limits reveals a more troubling trend: Only three of its 48 neighborhoods added people between 1990 and 2000. One of those neighborhoods -- Queensgate -- only grew because the city built a new jail. Twenty-six neighborhoods lost more than 10 percent of their population. The Over-the-Rhine area saw its population shrink from 9,572 people to 7,638.
A Long Line of Spenders
Cincinnati's recent orgy of high-profile, publicly funded projects is hardly its first. At the turn of the 19th century, public works projects served mainly to line the pockets of political boss George B. Cox's friends, earning Cincinnati the reputation of a corrupt frontier burg. The excesses of corrupt city bosses helped inspire a series of reform groups, including the Taxpayers' League, in 1880. By the early 20th century, the same sort of public works projects were carried out in the name of social welfare -- whether the project in question entailed constructing a 15-mile commuter rail and subway system or taking over the local utilities. Despite its public profligacy, Cincinnati ranked among the nation's largest cities at the turn of the 19th century -- a gateway to the West and a thriving commercial center sustained by the Ohio River and the Miami-Erie canal. The city quickly became a center for industry, hosting the nation's largest concentration of factories making soap, cleaners, shortening, candles, oils, and chemicals. The legacy is symbolically embodied in the twin towers of Procter & Gamble's world headquarters in the heart of the city's downtown. Pork processing and beer brewing rounded out the list of major industries.
The city's German history reaches back nearly two centuries. An ethnic German was elected its first mayor in 1802, and by the 1840s, the city was printing bilingual ordinances. By the mid-19th century, one-fifth of Cincinnati's population spoke German, and Germans are largely credited with the expansion of savings and loans, called "bauvereins," that created a foundation of homeownership among the middle and working classes. Even in the mid-20th century, high-rise apartment buildings were scarce, an architectural legacy that benefits even the poorest neighborhoods, including Over-the-Rhine.
In the wake of the riots, city leaders created a task force -- Cincinnati Can -- and charged it with developing recommendations to address the simmering problems of urban decline. The effort is strikingly similar to Rebuild LA, the largely ineffective effort to revitalize South Central Los Angeles after its riots in 1992. Whether Cincinnati Can actually does anything to revitalize the city, this much seems certain: It will provide cover for dozens of other projects that elected officials and prominent business leaders have trumpeted in recent years to stimulate the city. For instance, city leaders are pushing hard to expand the money-losing, municipally owned and operated Dr. Albert A. Sabin Convention Center. The proposal would double the size of the current convention center to more than 600,000 square feet.
Citizens for Civic Renewal, a nonprofit local urban reform organization, commissioned "regional government" guru Myron Orfield to do a study of the region. Orfield, an elected representative in the Minnesota state legislature, is best known for Metropolitics, an influential 1997 book published by the Brookings Institution that argued that declining inner suburbs were as much a victim of sprawl as central cities. Orfield's preliminary report, released earlier this year, highlighted growing inequalities among the city, its inner suburbs, and the growing outer suburbs, and called for regional planning to minimize them.
If his past is any prologue, Orfield's final report, to be released later this year, will call for more regional government and revenue-sharing to redistribute income from relatively wealthy neighborhoods (and suburbs) to relatively poor inner-city neighborhoods (and suburbs). A multibillion- dollar light-rail project has also been proposed by the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana council of governments (OKI), an organization that includes 105 representatives of government, business, social, and civic groups in an eight-county region. Proponents argue that the rail system will do just about everything -- reduce regional congestion, promote economic development, revitalize inner-city neighborhoods, and constrain sprawl.
The Actual Effects
What seems to be missing in the mess of publicly financed projects is any rational -- let alone balanced -- debate on whether such endeavors have any positive effects, much less the pie-in-the-sky results proponents routinely claim. Sports stadiums have emerged as a classic case in point. "Adding professional sports teams and stadiums to a city's economy does not increase aggregate spending for the city," wrote Lake Forest College economist Robert Baade, a leading expert on the subject, in a 1996 study. In fact, according to Baade's research, adding teams "appears to realign leisure spending rather than adding to it and is, therefore, neutral with regard to job creation." Baade's conclusions are based on his analysis of economic growth in 48 cities between 1958 and 1987, some with and others without new professional sports stadiums. Other analysts go even further, arguing that public investment in a sports stadium might reduce economic growth by siphoning money away from other important projects, such as road improvements, or from lowering taxes.
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18 High Street, Canterbury, CT1 2RA, Tel: 01227 862162, Email, www.thebeaney.co.uk, (0.3 miles, 0.6kms)
This fabulous new visitor attraction provides state of the art special and permanent exhibition galleries, a brand new library, excellent learning facilities and a varied programme of events for all ages.
St. Peters Place, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2DA, Tel: 01227 785625, Email, eastkentfreemasons.org/kent-museum-of-freemasonry, (0.3 miles, 0.5kms)
Open to all and free to visit, one of the UK's finest collections of Masonic artefacts will take you on a surprising and informative interactive journey through the history of Freemasonry in Kent and beyond, dispelling myths along the way.
Bekesbourne Road, Bekesbourne, Canterbury, CT4 5EL, Tel: +44 (0)844 842 4647, Email, www.aspinallfoundation.org/howletts, (3 miles, 5kms)
The Aspinall Foundation's Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent is a great day out for groups of all sizes where education, conservation and fun combine. Set in over 100 acres of beautiful ancient parkland.
25 High Street, Canterbury, CT1 2BD, Tel: 01227 471688, Email, www.eastbridgehospital.org.uk, (0.3 miles, 0.5kms)
Eastbridge Hospital was founded following the murder of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral as accommodation for poor Pilgrims visiting his tomb.
Honey Hill, Blean, Canterbury, CT2 9JR, Tel: 01227 765168, www.druidstone.net, (3 miles, 5kms)
Set in attractive gardens and woodland, Druidstone caters for the imagination of all ages. Go on a walk through the enchanted woodland, enjoy hands on experience with the farmyard animals.
Christ Church Gate, The Precincts, Canterbury, CT1 2EE, Tel: 01227 459779, Email, www.canterburyguidedtours.com, (0.4 miles, 0.6kms)
Enjoy a fascinating 90 minute tour of historic streets AND Cathedral Precincts with knowledgeable, entertaining guides to address your questions and special interests. All for £7 or less! Tours daily from the Buttermarket.
The Welcome Centre, Canterbury Coach Park, Canterbury, CT1 1BW, Tel: 01227 637556, Email, www.canterburyaudiotours.co.uk, (0.4 miles, 0.6kms)
The perfect way to explore some of the well known historic sites of Canterbury, plus some of the hidden gems - available in 8 languages. Enjoy an audio tour & travel at your own pace. 20 attractions and local city landmarks are featured.
76 Castle Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2QD, Tel: 01227 766616, Email, www.lilfordframing.com, (0.1 miles, 0.2kms)
Lilford Framing provide a complete framing service, our friendly and helpful staff have over 30 years of experience.
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St Margaret's Street, Canterbury, CT1 2TG, Tel: 01227 479227, Email, www.canterburytales.org.uk, (0.2 miles, 0.4kms)
Step into medieval Canterbury and accompany Geoffrey Chaucer and his colourful characters on their magical pilgrimage from London to Canterbury.
Cockering Road, Canterbury, CT1 3UP, Tel: 01227 862000, Email, (1 miles, 2kms)
This beautiful ancient 45-hectare woodland has spectacular displays of wildflower including many species of orchid.
Watling Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2TN, Tel: 01227 862162, Email, www.canterbury.gov.uk/leisure-countryside/things-to-do-in-the-district/parks-and-gardens/dane-john-gardens/, (0.2 miles, 0.3kms)
Canterbury's most popular park has been restored into attractive gardens with monuments and memorials, a bandstand with summertime concerts, a central fountain, a tearoom and a children's maze.
Yorkletts, Whitstable, Kent, CT2 9JX, Email, www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/wood-information/victory-wood/, (4 miles, 7kms)
This is a place for a great walk set on the edge of the Blean Woodland area. See a wood with a difference! This is the Flagship Site, one of 33 woods plant around the UK, for the Trafalgar Woods Project to commemorate the 200th anniversary.
80 London Road, Canterbury, CT2 8LS, Tel: 01227 472557, Email, www.canterburycityparish.org.uk, (0.6 miles, 1kms)
The church is 1000 years old and was the first to be dedicated to St Dunstan.
The Precincts, Canterbury, CT1 2EH, Tel: 01227 762862, Email, www.canterbury-cathedral.org, (0.4 miles, 0.7kms)
Motherchurch of the Anglican Communion, seat of the Archbishop. Stunning stained glass. Eleventh Century Crypt, Twelfth Century Quire, Fourteenth Century Nave.
New Road, Rough Common, Canterbury, CT2 9DB, www.theblean.co.uk, (4 miles, 7kms)
Blean Woods are the largest in Kent and, in addition to their intrinsic interest as ancient woodlands they surround a number of attractive villages with pubs, where you can eat and drink, places to visit.
Herne Common, Herne Bay, CT6 7LQ, Tel: 01227 712111, Email, www.wildwoodtrust.org, (4 miles, 7kms)
Wildwood Wild Animal Park is a year-round experience for all the family in 40 acres of ancient woodland with over 50 species of British wildlife. Enjoy special events, talks and feeds around the park, adventure playzone and restaurant.
King Street, Fordwich, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 0DB, Tel: 01227 711950, www.fordwichtown.org/, (3 miles, 4kms)
Although it is believed that there was an earlier building on the site, the present Guildhall, or Town Hall as it is known today, was built in 1544 during the reign of King Henry VIII.
Castle Street, Canterbury, CT1 2PR, Tel: 01227 862162, Email, (0.0 miles, 0.1kms)
The ruins of a Norman castle keep and castle walls and one of the three original royal castles in Kent. There are interpretation panels, a tactile model of the castle (circa 1200AD) and elevated viewing areas.


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Update 12:31 p.m. With 100 percent of precincts reporting Wednesday, Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar has been re-elected to the City Council and former Councilmember Pat Gilbreath will also return.
Aguilar finished with 9,171 votes or 27.24 percent, and Gilbreath finished with 6,651 votes or 19.76 percent, ahead of the nearest challenger, Redlands Tea Party founder Lane Schneider, who finished with 6,174 votes or 18.34 percent, according to San Bernardino County registrar's unofficial results.
Six candidates were running for two seats on the Redlands Council, and each voter in Redlands was allowed to vote for two.
Don Wallace finished with 4,643 votes or 13.79 percent, Mike Saifie finished with 3,439 votes or 10.22 percent, and Michael Layne finished with 2,791 votes or 8.29 percent.
Posted 2:51 a.m. Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar was out in front in the City Council race, while former Councilmember Pat Gilbreath held a lead over Redlands Tea Party founder Lane Schneider, according to unofficial results early Wednesday.
Six candidates were running for two seats on the Redlands Council, and each voter in Redlands was allowed to vote for two.
With 68 percent of precincts reporting, Aguilar had 9,171 votes, 27.24 percent, Gilbreath had 6,651 votes, 19.76 percent, and Schneider had 6,174 votes, 18.34 percent, the registrar reported shortly before 2 a.m.
At a gathering Tuesday night at his home in east Redlands, Aguilar said he ewas encouraged the results as of 9 p.m.
"I feel good about the results so far but it's far from over and we got some time left," Aguilar said. "We've got some more updates to come but I'm happy about the early results, clearly."
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There is a proposition in place for the Ultimate Faith Christian Church - http://www.ultimatefaith.org/#! to use the the old Walgreens property on the corner of 83rd and Janes Ave, directly across the street from Cypress Cove.
While UFCC's purpose and cause is without question a noble one, seeking out and giving aid to the homeless, drug addicts and ex cons, it will bring an unwanted element into the community and particularly that neighborhood. The property is already surrounded by homes most of whom are probably unaware of the proposition. I am curious what those property owners think of this. Lets hear what you have to say. What does the Woodridge Park district, who run Cypress Cove which is directly across the street, think of this?
The public hearing is set for February 6 at 8pm at 375 West Briarcliff Road Bolingbrook, IL 60440.


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By Sarah Turner and V. Phani Kumar, MarketWatch
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Japanese stocks fell Tuesday as the yen strengthened and some disappointing earnings reports weighed, while shares in Sydney jumped after a bigger-than-expected interest rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average /quotes/zigman/5986735/delayed JP:NIK -0.63% closed 1.8% lower at 9,350.95, while the Australian S&P/ASX 200 index /quotes/zigman/1653884/delayed AU:XJO -1.36% rose 0.8% to 4,429.50.
The gains in Sydney came after the Reserve Bank of Australia cut its key cash rate by 0.5 percentage points to 3.75%, surprising markets that had priced in a quarter-point cut to interest rates. Read more on RBA move.
Spain in recession as banks downgraded
Spain's economy contracts for the second quarter in a row and the country's banking sector suffers a widespread credit downgrade.
"The main reason behind the bigger-than-expected cut is the fact that the RBA doesn't expect the big banks to pass on the full rate cut. This has resulted in equities extending their gains," said Stan Shamu, a market strategist at IG Markets.
Earlier, gains for Australian stocks gathered steam after official Chinese manufacturing data showed further improvement for the sector. Read more on China's official PMI data.
Still, market reaction to the Chinese data appeared muted, with Chinese markets, along with those in Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, closed for a public holiday.
The Japanese share market, returning Tuesday from a three-day weekend, saw losses for exporters as the U.S. dollar /quotes/zigman/4868099/realtime/sampled USDJPY -0.1744% fell below the ¥80 mark overnight for the first time since late February.
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Banks were broadly weaker after a poor session for financials in Europe Monday. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services took an axe to ratings for 16 Spanish lenders in the wake of a double-notch downgrade of Spain's credit rating last week. Read more on Europe markets.
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Alpine Skiing
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Who will be crowned Alpine king of the hill in Sochi?
Bode Miller is ready to hurl his aging body down an Olympic ski slope in search of one more medal and Norwegian giant Aksel Lund Svindal is looking for another gold to stash in his father's basement.
Marcel Hirscher can restore the Olympic pride of the Austrian men's team, so battered at the Vancouver Games four years ago, but American Ted Ligety plans to keep him off the top step of the podium.
The Alpine skiing program in Sochi has plenty of compelling story lines, starting with the showcase men's downhill on Feb. 9 on the Rosa Khutor piste designed by Switzerland's 1972 champion Bernhard Russi.
Embedded video_content_type: On the edge: Bode Miller
Who will be king of the hill this time remains an open question.
If Miller were to defy his 36 years, and overcome knee injury, to grab another gold in his fifth Winter Games - after his 2010 super combined - then the U.S. team's great showman would become the oldest Olympian to win a men's Alpine title.
He was second in a giant slalom in Beaver Creek in December, fifth in the Wengen downhill this month and has said he means to 'kick ass' in Sochi - even if triple world champion team mate Ligety's form puts him in the shade.
"It is a perishable process being a ski racer and I think until you are all rotten and shriveled up you should keep going," Miller said last year. "I'm pretty shriveled up but I'm not all the way rotten."
Embedded video_content_type: Ted Ligety: Adrenaline junkie
Ligety kept him off the top of the podium in Beaver Creek and the younger American has made the giant his number one goal of the Games, even if he is also a favorite in super-combined and super-G.
"I'll go there to win three medals, maybe not all gold," said Ligety in Wengen this month. "But I like the course, it reminds me of Beaver Creek."
Miller will not be the only veteran looking to go out with a flourish.
Croatia's Ivica Kostelic - brother of retired four times Olympic gold medalist Janica and the 2010 slalom and super combined silver medalist - is still in with a shout at 34.
Embedded video_content_type: The mystique of the start house
Svindal will be in the way of all of them, arriving on top of the World Cup and as defending Olympic super-G champion with downhill silver and giant slalom bronze from the 2010 Whistler slopes also in his collection.
Now 31 and with five world championship golds in his collection, Svindal has huge reserves of mental strength and loves the Olympic atmosphere. So much so, that the actual medals are almost secondary.
"It's kind of embarrassing, but they are in my dad's basement somewhere," he said in a recent video interview on the International Ski Federation website.
"Having the medals, so you can look at them every day, it's not important to me. It's the memories from when you got it. That's what's important."
Embedded owg_slideshow: Aksel Lund Svindal: Made of medal
Swiss Didier Defago, the man who beat Svindal to downhill gold by 0.07 seconds in Whistler four years ago, will fancy one final fling after a surprise return to form for the 36-year-old in Kitzbuehel on Sunday where he won the super-G.
If the weather holds up and there are no security nightmares, Svindal will have all the ingredients to provide some of the memorable moments of the Games.
But even if he is a favorite for the downhill, as world champion, there are no surefire bets in a race renowned over the years for going against the odds and crowning less-fancied racers who simply put it all together on the day.
The Austrians know that well enough.
Embedded owg_slideshow: Marcel Hirscher: Dominant 2013
In Whistler, the sport's dominant nation came and went without a single men's medal - for the first time since 1936 - in a shock comparable to Brazil exiting the soccer World Cup without winning a match.
Hirscher, now the slalom world champion and two times overall World Cup champion, made his Olympic debut as a 20-year-old in 2010 and finished fourth in the giant slalom won by Switzerland's Carlo Janka.
Compatriot Benjamin Raich was also fourth in the slalom won by Italian Giuliano Razzoli and Mario Scheiber came fourth in downhill.
This time around, Hirscher is one of his country's biggest hopes as the man to beat in slalom and Ligety's main rival in the giant.
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"When I skied my first Olympics, Marcel was probably still jumping around in a playground," said Miller in December, before going on to recognize just how much further Ligety and Hirscher had developed the technical disciplines.
Other men to watch include 22-year-old Frenchman Alexis Pinturault, currently third in the overall World Cup after securing his country's first win of the season in the Wengen slalom in January.
"When he skis at 100 percent and doesn't make any mistake, he's unstoppable," said Hirscher of a rival who will also pose a big threat in giant slalom.
The slalom is a ferocious field with Austria's Mario Matt, Sweden's Mattias Hargin and Germany's Felix Neureuther all pushing Hirscher hard this season.
Embedded owg_slideshow: Spotlight: Alexis Pinturault
Switzerland's Patrick Kueng is another solid medal prospect in super-G and downhill.
Canada, without an Olympic men's Alpine medal since Ed Podivinsky powered to a downhill bronze in 1994, have real hopes of ending that long wait with 2011 downhill world champion Erik Guay on consistent form.
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A local restaurant keeps it in the family – and literally, every member of the family is welcome.
Labrador Lounge in Normandy Beach offers what staff members refer to as "vacation cuisine" and allows customers to bring their dogs onto the patio section during the summer months.
On top of the relaxed atmosphere a block from the beaches – the restaurant is located at 3581 Route 35 North – the cuisine is made straight from local goods and the liquor license is limited to New Jersey wines.
"We are a very big farms table, the Lounge offers local wine, local produce, local cheese, and local fish," said manager Veronica Parent. "We keep everything fresh, everything local, and we use simple ingredients."
The restaurant is 'bring your own liquor' but offers bottles of wine from Auburn Road, a local New Jersey winery located in Pilesgrove.
The menu boasts lunch and dinner selections ranging from salads, wraps and sandwiches to main entrees boasting local fish dishes, poultry, and a full sushi menu.
Goma Maguro, a Lounge favorite, is a seared sesame encrusted yellowfin tuna plate served with herbed smashed potatoes, book choy, and snap peas. The asian barbecue baby back ribs are slow cooked in a Hoisan Ginger Barbecue and served with Electra fries and sauteed greens and beans, a dish that Parent says "falls right off the bone."
A full list of sushi and specialty rolls are available as are edamame "tasty bites" and edamame wontons.
Labrador Lounge is one of seven Jersey Shore restaurants, four located in Asbury Park, co-owned by Marilyn Schlossbach and her husband, Scott Sczegeski. Schlossbach is the executive chef at her establishments.
Schlossbach previously owned restaurants throughout the 1990s including Rosalie's in Bay Head and Karma Cafe in Belmar, according to Parent. The Labrador Lounge opened in 2005 and was the first business that Schlossbach opened with her husband.
The restaurant is named for Schlossbach's two Labrador dogs and the hanging signs use an image of Harry, one of Scholassbach's older dogs who has since passed away, according to Parent.
Parent says the decor of Labrador Lounge represents Schlossbach's humanitarian side, as well as her dedication to Buddhism.
On Monday nights, the restaurant features live music outside and on Tuesday evenings, Labrador Lounge offers three course fixed lobster meal. At Pop's Garage, on 1000 Ocean Ave. in Asbury Park, there is are movie screenings on Wednesday nights throughout the summer, as well.
Labrador Lounge is open year round, seven days a week during the summer and six days a week after the summer. The restaurant is open Thursday through Sunday during winter months. Lunch begins at 12 p.m. and the Lounge is open until 10 p.m. during the week and 11 p.m. on weekends.
For a full list of Schlossbach's restaurants and websites, visit www.kitschens.com.


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Absorption and Drug Development: Solubility, Permeability, and Charge State
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Many times drugs work fine when tested outside the body, but when they are tested in the body they fail. One of the major reasons a drug fails is that it cannot be absorb by the body in a way to have the effect it was intended to have. Permeability, Solubility, Dissolution, and Charged State of Ionizable Molecules:
- Helps drug discovery professionals to eliminate poorly absorbable molecules early in the drug discovery process, which can save drug companies millions of dollars.
- Extensive tabulations, in appendix format, of properties and structures of about 200 standard drug molecules.
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1. Introduction.
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The no pants subway ride is this Sunday. I did it last year and it was a hoot, so I'm going to do it again. Who will join me???????
The no pants subway ride is this Sunday. I did it last year and it was a hoot, so I'm going to do it again. Who will join me???????
Post pics again!
"Michelle would never be caught with sausage grease staining her Vera Wang." - rfisher
Note too self; stay the HECK away from the subway this Sunday!
Buzz, you should make every effort to RIDE the subway, it's really hilarious to see everyone's reactions. And who knows, you might be tempted to join in!
I believe they do it in Toronto, too. Join in! Take off your pants!
Details for Sunday's ride are here:
Don't be a wimp! Take off your pants!
Hehehehehe can hardly wait for the first videos! People's reactions are always so priceless!!!
A friend of mine went on it in Berlin!
Lead me not into temptation. I can find it, and eat it, all by myself.
Hehe, I got to be a team leader!
There were many more older people this year, and lots of people who brought their kids along.
As last year, it was a hoot.
Hell, I would've done it in a second! Sounds like fun.
"I hit him with my shoes... if he had given me the medal like I told him to, I wouldn't have had to hit him!" -- 8-year-old Rhoda Penmark in "The Bad Seed"
Toronto joined in too! I had to work so unfortunately I was not a part of it. LOL But nice to see my home joining in. Gotta love the picture of the guy knitting while in his undies. Hehehe
I ended up in a subway car full of pantsless students on Sunday, so it seems like Stockholm did it too, and considering it was -12 C, I felt for them.


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IRVING, Texas -- While retail gasoline prices have soared in California, prices at Texas pumps have hardly budged.
The weekly AAA Texas Weekend Gas Watch released Thursday shows regular unleaded gasoline is averaging $3.55 per gallon, just a penny more than last week. That's at a time when the national average climbed 3 cents to $3.81 per gallon as refinery problems fueled a 50-cent increase in California's average gasoline price to $4.67 per gallon.
The cheapest gasoline in Texas this week is found in Galveston, where the average price fell a penny to $3.50. The most expensive remains in Amarillo, where the average price remained unchanged at $3.60.
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Catering Affairs1 Review
Bakersfield, CA | 661-326-4800
Kelly's review: We used Catering Affairs for our 2 daughters' weddings within one year and both times they were above and beyond what... (more)