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How about a pavlova? Nice crispy meringue, topped with whipped cream, fresh fruit and a sprinkle of shaved chocolate.
This lemon budino roughly replicates a mousse but is much lighter. Plus, the individual servings are elegant. I have made them in advance with great success, and without using meyers, just regular.
I just came across the Mandarin sorbet from Andre Nguyen:
She served it with currant cookies which I can't find a link for but it's a butter cookie with 2T currants in the batter.
Any sorbet or granita would be a natural -- some kind of fruit and herb concoction, or something boozy?
I've made panna cotta with cinnamon-spiced almond milk, served with fruit compote, and it's very light while still being a bit more... I dunno, substantial maybe than just sorbet.
Panna Cotta. The picture shows one i made with a blackberry coulis, mint sprig for garnish and cornmeal madelines from Frank Stitt's Highland's grill cookbook. Light and lovely. I have also made a Chambord panna cotta and macerated red raspberries in Chambord to garnish.
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Good! It could not be simpler and so light in the mouth and cool. Variations are infinite. In this picture is the Chambord version. I made it in a Bundt mold for a bridal shower. Somehow to call it cream jello sounds revolting, but the actual product is addicting. What makes a topping even easier are fruit coulis from France by Emmanuelle Baillard...Nectars de Bourgone. Cassis, Abricot, etc. You can probably Google for them if a local gourmet shop does not have them. Flavors are only limited by your imagination. Liqueurs, strained fruit purees The one above was a buttermilk panna cotta. When in doubt trot the panna cotta out. That with a delicate or not so delicate cookie, what more could one ask?
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You are welcome. If you cannot find the French fruit coulis they really are not difficult to make. It is basically pureeing fruit and adding sugar and other flavorings to suit your taste. The bottled sauces are a quick substitute. Not cheap but they are imported and made with impeccably fresh fruit. You could thin out a jam with a bit of liqueur or brandy, apple jack etc to make a coulis to top the panna cotta too.

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- Click on the "Participants" link (usually) in the upper left on the main page for your course.
- Click the editing icon to the right of the phrase "All participants" near the top center of the page.
- Click on the role you wish to assign in the column on the left.
Graders can view and enter grades
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- From the search results select the user you are looking for.
- Click the "Add" button between the two columns. The individual's name should then appear on the left.
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Big nanotech breakthrough from IBM?
Researchers at the company's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., report in Science that magnetic anisotropy could eventually be used to store information in individual atoms, paving the way to pack as much as 150 trillion bits of data per square inch, 1,000 times more than current data storage densities. In other words, the ability to store data in individual atoms could lead to devices capable of storing the equivalent of 30,000 movies in a device the size of an iPod.
More here.
City of Knoxville looking at energy efficiency
Hayes Hickman has the story on the city's new Energy and Sustainability Task Force.
The team includes a wealth of local expertise on the subject, including representatives of ORNL, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the U.S. Green Building Council and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
"We've got a unique group of people to start attacking this," the mayor said.
Step one already is under way, with an inventory of the city's overall energy usage, including electricity, water and gas, as well as greenhouse gas emissions and waste.
A separate tally of all buildings, vehicle miles traveled and solid waste produced within the city as a whole also will be totaled, said Madeleine Weil, the task force's chairwoman.
Weil, who came to Knoxville last year from New Haven, Conn., has previous experience with this type of initiative. Since taxpayers paid about $10 million in energy bills for 74 city-owned buildings last year, this effort makes financial as well as environmental sense.
Standing up for fair use
As reported earlier on this blog, a coalition of tech companies has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission regarding the draconian copyright warnings of professional sports leagues, movie producers and publishers.
That group, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, has started a Web site, Defend Fair Use.
The site offers an alternative warning to the "abuses" of, among others, Major League Baseball, which, if you take their warning literally, prohibits you from talking about a baseball game without the written permission of the Commissioner.
Apple and VW looking at iCar?
After barging its way into the cell phone market, is Apple's next move into the auto market?
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has had discussions with Volkswagen's CEO about a possible joint venture between the two companies.
Engadget offers some snarky commentary on the possibility:
Ryan: "Can hit 100Mph, can't hit 100Kbps."
Viacom cares not for copyright, except its own
See if you can follow this tangled knot of copyright madness:
So Viacom took a video that I had made for non-profit purposes and without trying to acquire my permission, used it in a for-profit broadcast. And then when I made a YouTube clip of what they did with my material, they charged me with copyright infringement and had YouTube pull the clip.
Folks, this is, as we say down here in the south, "bass-ackwards".
Images of Boomsdays past
If you're looking to get pumped up for Sunday's Boomsday fireworks display, check out photos from past years on Flickr.
There are some impressive shots in there. This one is my favorite.
(Hat tip to Jack Lail.)
Luke's lightsaber launching into space
Nerds rejoice! Luke Skywalker's lightsaber from Star Wars will join seven astronauts on the shuttle Discovery during an October mission to the International Space Station.
The lightsaber will be on display at the visitor complex at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston through Labor Day. Then it will be shipped to Kennedy Space Center and packed into Discovery's mid-deck.
NASA spokesman James Hartsfield said the sci-fi sword would remain stowed throughout the shuttle's 13-day mission.
The famous lightsaber joins such luminous spacegoing artifacts as a piece of fabric from Orville and Wilbur Wright's airplane and some cremated remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
More here.
Knoxville-area companies make Inc. 5,000 list
Inc., a business magazine for entrepreneurs, publishes a list each year of the fastest growing private companies in the country. Two companies in the area made the top 500, and 13 were in the Inc. 5,000 list:
* Visionary Solutions (310)
Why rural areas are stuck on dial-up
Excellent story from Computerworld on the difficulties of bringing broadband Internet access to rural America.
Rural areas need broadband. But deregulation has freed carriers from any real obligation to offer it. The market will never provide universal broadband access without regulation or subsidies, but the U.S. lacks both a coherent policy and the political will to address the issue. Even as the telephony infrastructure itself is absorbed into the Internet, some policy-makers still fail to view broadband as the new critical infrastructure.
AllofMP3 planning a comeback
In a short post on its blog, the infamous cut-rate Russian MP3 Web site AllofMP3.com announces its impending comeback:
The service will be resumed in the foreseeable future. We are doing our best at the moment to ensure that all our users can use their accounts, top up balance and order music.
MediaServices, the company that runs the site, has been operating a nearly identical site, Mp3Sparks.com, since AllofMP3.com was shut down in July. The company's CEO was found not guilty of violating Russian intellectual property law earlier this month, though prosecutors have promised to appeal.
AT&T fires back at iPhone hackers
You didn't really think AT&T -- with its sweetheart 5-year deal as the exclusive iPhone carrier -- was going to take all this iPhone unlocking business lying down, did you?
A company set up to sell software unlocking services for the iPhone got a menacing call early Saturday morning from a Menlo Park, Calif., law firm, even though the act of unlocking a cell phone is technically legal.
After saying they were phoning on behalf of AT&T, the law firm presented issues such as copyright infringement and illegal software dissemination. Uniquephones is taking legal advice to ascertain whether AT&T was sending a warning shot or directly threatening legal action.
The rest of the press release is available here on the company's blog.
Worst use of company funds ever
The New York Times reports on a tiff between a law firm, Nixon Peabody, and a blogger, David Lat, who writes the Above the Law blog.
It seems Nixon Peabody, after being named to Fortune magazine's 2007 list of best companies to work for, commissioned a dreadfully hilarious song to celebrate its accomplishment. Lat got a copy of the song and posted it on his blog. Nixon Peabody was not pleased.
But shortly afterward, Mr. Lat said, he received a phone call from Allison McClain, a firm spokeswoman, and John R. Gerhard, the firm's managing director. Mr. Gerhard said that the song had been leaked by a person who was in a fight with the firm, though he did not explain further. Mr. Gerhard asked for Mr. Lat's sources and asserted that posting the song had been a violation of the firm's copyright.
Mr. Gerhard asked Mr. Lat to take down the song, but he refused, saying his playing of it fell under the fair-use provisions of the law. Though Mr. Gerhard said the firm did not "intend to let this thing lie," Mr. Lat says he did not receive a cease-and-desist letter. By Friday, YouTube had removed the song, noting that it had received a copyright violation notice.
You can still listen to an MP3 file of the song at Above the Law. Better yet, catch a snippet of the song on this video, which works hard not to run afoul of fair-use copyright laws.
Hot for teacher
This just in: Good Morning America has learned that YouTube has -- gasp! -- a dark side:
The scene was a fifth grade graduation ceremony in Charlotte, N.C., and the star of the amateur video was not exactly the student body, but a teacher's body.
"The video was three and a half minutes of me. It would go to my face, to my butt, to my face," said former elementary school teacher Keri McIntyre. "And then he had his fun zooming in to my butt."
McIntyre said she only recently learned of the video's existence and that it was posted on YouTube, set to the Van Halen tune "Hot for Teacher."
The video was pulled from YouTube (after nearly 200,000 page views) but has resurfaced on MySpace. The story says the former teacher is "on a mission" to find out who was behind the camera. No word on whether the incident was what drove her away from teaching.
From the story's comments (posted by "Gun_Toter"):
What's really sad is that whoever did this will get in more trouble with the RIAA for unlicensed use of a copyrighted song than they will for violating the teacher's privacy and making a mockery of her on the Internet.
More on the Wikipedia sleuth
Slate Magazine gets around to reporting on Wikiscanner, and while it's a little late, the story includes this entertaining passage:
For the past week, I've been running various large law firms, banks, and consulting groups through Wikiscanner. While I haven't uncovered any great gotchas, I have noticed a few trends. First, corporate America shows an unparalleled creativity when it comes to describing erotic activity. (I will never think of milkshakes the same way again.) Second, way too many of you are adding yourself to Wikipedia as "Notable Alumni" of your school or as a "Person" from your hometown. Third, most every investment bank seems to have some British guy who's obsessed with football and vandalizes the Arsenal page. Fourth, people who went to Yale cannot resist editing their Secret Society page. Fifth, there's still a lot of love out there for Larry Bird. And, memo to everyone: Adding your buddy's name to the entry about "Oral Sex" is not original.
A Wired blog still has some enjoyable examples of corporate and governmental whitewashing.
Keep an eye on Market Square
Knoxnews.com has just added a Web cam that overlooks Market Square from the Knoxville Chamber offices. The image updates every five minutes.
That's one lonely hot dog vendor out there in the heat.
The TECHMED Award
East Tennessee Medical News and Saratoga Technologies are teaming up to offer the TECHMED Award, which looks to recognize physician practices that show "outstanding use of technology in patient care."
Learn more at the awards' snappy Web site. Applications are being accepted through Sept. 15. Winners get a plaque, a written "technology assessment" from Saratoga and an article about the winners in the November issue of East Tennessee Medical News. One of the six winners will win a Web site developed by Saratoga.
Music piracy costing economy $12.5 billion?
A report released earlier this week by the Institute for Policy Innovation found that worldwide music piracy costs the U.S. economy $12.5 billion, 71,060 jobs, $2.7 billion in workers' earnings and $422 million in federal, state and local tax revenue.
Piracy of these works harms the intellectual property owner, who loses the revenue that would have been gained had the legitimate recording been purchased. These "direct" losses, however, represent only part of the story. Piracy also causes significant and measurable harm to the "upstream" suppliers and "downstream" purchasers who also would have benefited from the sale of legitimate, copyright protected sound recordings. Indeed, the harms that flow from pirate activities produce a cascading effect throughout the economy as a whole. These harms include lost output, lost earnings, lost jobs and lost tax revenues.
Ars Technica offers a response that questions the validity of the study's figures.
Consumer apathy aside, there are other factors at work in the music industry. One of the biggest is the transition from sales of physical media to digital media. CD sales have dropped sharply since the beginning of the decade, and projections indicate that there's no end in sight to the decline. Sure, downloads have picked up since 2004, but not at a rate that will come close to overcoming the slide in CD sales. The individual song download angle is largely ignored by the IPI's study as well, which is fixated on sales of physical media.
Car crash test videos available online
Consumer Reports is offering free access to more than 200 crash test videos on its Web site.
It's a great and useful feature for car shoppers, but it's also just fascinating to watch cars getting smashed up (with dummies inside, of course).
My car (a 1996 Volvo) is too old for the videos, so I watched the test of a newer model Volvo (a "good" rating for frontal impacts and "acceptable" for side impacts). After watching a few other tests, I would not want to be in the backseat of a car with a "poor" side impact rating (watch the Nissan Altima for an example).
As Jeff Bartlett, deputy autos editor for Consumer Reports, says in a press release, "Rest assured, you will demand side air bags on your next car after watching these videos."
Bush administration to expand mountaintop removal
The Bush administration is set to issue a regulation on Friday that would extend the coal mining practice of mountaintop removal. The technique involves blasting off the tops of mountains and dumping the rubble into valleys and streams.
It has been used in Appalachian coal country for 20 years under a cloud of legal and regulatory confusion.
The new rule would allow the practice to continue and expand, providing only that mine operators minimize the debris and cause the least environmental harm, although those terms are not clearly defined and to some extent merely restate existing law.
The industry says the rule is necessary to clear up existing laws. Environmentalists call it a "parting gift to the coal industry" and hint at possible lawsuits to block the rule. More here.
Arm-wrestling game breaks girly arms in Japan
Let's say you're an arcade game distributor, and you have an arm-wrestling machine that's, oh, say, breaking the arms of the people using it. What's your public relations response?
You guessed it: call the players who broke their arms weak, girly and "overexcited."
"The machine isn't that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it," said Atlus spokeswoman Ayano Sakiyama, calling the recall "a precaution."
"We think that maybe some players get overexcited and twist their arms in an unnatural way," she said. The company was investigating the incidents and checking the machines for any signs of malfunction.
More here.
UT student challenging RIAA's subpoena
A University of Tennessee student, identified only as "Doe No. 28," is challenging a subpoena in a recording industry lawsuit in Knoxville. (Read here for some background.)
The Recording Industry Association of America has filed two "John Doe" lawsuits in Knoxville accusing UT students of illegally distributing copyrighted music online. This is the first local challenge to the industry's "ex parte" subpoenas. The student argues that the release of his or her information would violate the right to privacy under a federal law.
Read the (rather sloppy) memorandum filed in support of the motion to quash the subpoena. Download file
Apple trots out used iPhones
Two months after its release, Apple is already offering refurbished iPhones on its Web site at a $100 discount.
A CNET blog offers some pertinent questions.
Just where are the refurbished iPhones coming from? Is Apple getting enough returns so they can resell them at such a volume so soon after the phone's release? Or are Apple employees refusing their free iPhones? Or is this just a clever marketing ploy, the kind at which Apple excels? I bet on the latter.
A social networking site for spies
The Financial Times reports on the launch of "A-Space," an internal social networking site for U.S. intelligence agencies.
Thomas Fingar, the deputy director of national intelligence for analysis, believes the common workspace – a kind of "MySpace for analysts" – will generate better analysis by breaking down firewalls across the traditionally stove-piped intelligence community. He says the technology can also help process increasing amounts of information where the number of analysts is limited.
It's an intriguing idea, but couldn't they have come up with a better name than "A-Space"? How about Spookbook? Spy meets spy? SpySpace?
Programming error leads to lottery SNAFU
I hope none of my readers has been playing 2-2-2 or 7-7-7-7 in the Tennessee Lottery. The lottery said Tuesday that for nearly a month, no winning draws included duplicate numbers.
Paul said a programmer for the vendor, New Jersey-based Smartplay International Inc., made a keystroke error in the parameters set for Cash 3 and Cash 4 — typing a "u" for "unique" instead of an "r" for "repeat."
A second third-party vendor, New Jersey-based Gaming Laboratories Inc., also erred by certifying that the drawings were random and complied with the rules of the games, Hargrove said.
The Tennessee Lottery began using computerized drawings, instead of manual drawings with numbered balls, last month.
More here.
Is Barbie Cummings next?
Toymaker Mattel has sued a company for using the "Barbie" trademark as part of the name of a pornographic Web site.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, said the Web site www.chinabarbie.com had used the Barbie trademark to capture the positive image Mattel had created through its "Barbie" products.
Knoxville's favorite homegrown porn star may want to be on the lookout.
Google offers a look at the heavens
Google's latest venture is Google Sky, which launches today as an application within Google Earth. Go to the "view" menu on Google Earth and click "Switch to Sky" to play around with it. You can type in your address to see what the sky looks like at your location.
More info here.
The Hold Steady is coming to Knoxville
Randall Brown has the skinny on a great concert coming to the Bijou.
I can't vouch for Art Brut, but The Hold Steady puts on an absolutely fantastic live show. You can read what I wrote about them in a previous life here.
This is outside the normal scope of my blog, but what the heck? Check out the band's video for the song "Chips Ahoy!"
A Monster problem
Monster.com, the popular job search site, has been hacked in a serious way.
In all, more than 1.6 million entries in Monster's system – belonging to "several hundred thousand" members – were taken after the hackers logged in using the details of employers who routinely scour the site for prospective workers, according to Symantec, the security firm.
The details, which included names, surnames, e-mail and home addresses, as well as phone numbers, were then used to send 'phishing' e-mails to members, apparently from Monster.com, encouraging them to download a tool known as 'Monster Job Seeker'.
The tool was in fact a malicious program known as a 'trojan', which encrypted the files on the victim's machine, making them inaccessible to the computer owner. A message was left requesting that money be paid to the attackers before the files – which could include photos and other personal documents – would be decrypted.
More here.
Facebook costing Aussie employers $4 billion?
According to a study by Internet security company SurfControl, Australian employers lose as much as $4 billion each year because of productivity losses while workers tend to their accounts on social networking site Facebook.
That figure is pretty staggering, and I'm skeptical. A company called "SurfControl" probably has ample motivation to scare employers about productivity losses due to uncontrolled Web surfing -- a problem that can no doubt be solved by the company's own products. Plus, "social" networking sites aren't just for social purposes anymore:
Upon learning of the study's findings, employers may be tempted to block employees from logging on to the site. In fact, the U.S. military banned the use of MySpace, hi5, BlackPlanet, and other social networks on Department of Defense networks earlier this summer.
Still, employers might want to take note of the case of international law firm Allen & Overy, which attempted to block its employees from Facebook earlier this year. Legal Week reports that the company had to retract its stance against the social network after workers complained that the site was an important tool they used for business purposes.
More here.
Studying an online virus for real-world effects
Some researchers are taking a look at a virtual-world pandemic to see if there are any real-world lessons.
The calamity did not occur in the real world, of course. But the pandemiclike event that occurred in September 2005 in the online multiplayer realm of World of Warcraft has some researchers interested in whether such online environs could be used to predict the spread of infectious diseases in the real world.
"There are actually parallels between what would happen in the real world and what happened in this game," said Nina Fefferman, professor of applied mathematics at Rutgers University.
Fefferman is lead author of a research paper released Monday in the journal the Lancet Infectious Diseases examining the lessons of the Corrupted Blood pandemic and how they might be applied to real world disease control efforts.
More here.
You think your job is bad?
Try sterilizing elephants, rooting through garbage, inspecting maggots on corpses or pickling dead animals for high school biology classes.
Those are among the tasks for the workers in Popular Science's list of the 10 worst jobs in science.
Among the colorful jobs: whale-feces researcher, elephant vasectomist and coursework carcass preparer.
The No. 1 worst job? Hazmat diver:
"The worst was at a factory pig farm," says Steven M. Barsky, the author of Diving in High-Risk Environments, the industry bible for hazardous-materials divers. "A guy had driven his truck into the waste lagoon and drowned. Not only was it full of urine and liquid pig feces, the farmer had dumped all the needles used to inject the pigs with antibiotics and hormones in there." Someone had to recover the body, and the task fell to commercial hazmat divers.
An Internet connection via the sewers?
It sounds like a joke, but a university in the U.K. is deploying a high-speed network through sewer lines.
As existing networks become increasingly congested with more cable types, it has become difficult for network companies to find new pathways.
The H2O Networks development allows universities to use the sewers to set up their own secure IT and telecoms network, rather than the traditional disruptive method of digging up roads.
The deployment process is a least 80 percent faster than traditional methods, resulting in operational networks within weeks rather than months.
Insert your own "the Internet is a cesspool" joke here.
A YouTube for scientists
For those who like their Internet videos more intellectually challenging than people getting hit in the groin, check out SciVee.
The new site, a partnership of the National Science Foundation, Public Library of Science and the San Diego Supercomputing Center, lets scientists upload research papers and videos explaining their work.
I made it through a few minutes of the current featured video, "Structural Evolution of the Protein Kinase–Like Superfamily." It's no "Amazing President Facts," but you'll still be smarter at the end.
Happy birthday to the compact disc!
The CD turns 25 today. Philips Electronics, the manufacturer of the first CD, estimates that more than 200 billion have been sold worldwide. Many happy returns.
Another view on top-10 newspaper Web sites
Howard Owens takes issue with the Bivings Group's list and offers his own. Happily, knoxnews.com still makes the list at No. 5.
Interesting commentary from Owens, Gatehouse Media's director of digital publishing, in the comments:
With a couple of exceptions, such as WaPo and SOSD, most of the best newspaper site work has been done by smaller papers for the past decade. The bigger papers have been notoriously slow for adopting new ideas. In the major competitions, the lower circulation categories have traditionally been more competitive. It's still not real helpful to look at larger newspaper sites for best practices.
Two local companies in the Wall Street Journal
Today's Weekend Journal has a story on "products that help people neutralize antisocial behavior at the push of a button." Two Knoxville companies get a mention.
Reporter Jennifer Saranow points out Regal Entertainment's wireless paging devices that allow customers to summon ushers to help control unruly patrons. She also describes a unique product from Radio Systems:
Some products, like the "Outdoor Bark Control Birdhouse," which aims to quiet loud dogs, came about by accident. Though the technology has been around for five years, the manufacturer, Radio Systems of Knoxville, Tenn., initially sold it as an indoor training tool for pet owners. But the company says it began getting requests from customers for an outdoor version that could be used on annoying neighborhood dogs. When a market analysis showed 60% of consumers would welcome a covert way to shut up somebody else's canine, the company decided to proceed. Mike Taylor, a Radio Systems executive, says the company doubled the bark controller's range to 50 feet, then asked a focus group to help figure out a way to camouflage the unit so neighbors wouldn't know what it was. After flirting with fake rocks and footballs, the company settled on a somewhat unlikely design -- a brightly painted Bavarian-style birdhouse. "I was the first user," says Mr. Taylor, who says he tested the prototype on an obnoxious neighborhood German shepherd. "I'm sleeping pleasantly now."
A life-saving video game?
On Thursday, Jamie Satterfield had a harrowing front-page story about a Louisville man who was held captive and tortured over the span of nine days.
The story caught the eye of several video game blogs. The reason? This passage:
Sanchez served as guard, holding Garcia at knifepoint during his captivity, the complaint alleged. Gonzales, Early said, came and went. On June 21, Gonzales gave Sanchez a hand-held video game that would prove to be Garcia's savior, the complaint stated.
"Sanchez played the video game virtually all day that day and much of the night," Early wrote.
Garcia used the distraction as an opportunity to loosen his bindings. When the exhausted gamer fell asleep, Garcia bolted...
According to GamePolitics, the handheld system in question was a PlayStation Portable. More blogging on the story from PSP Fanboy, Joystiq and N4G.
Thanks to Jack for the tip.
Drought to drive up power bills in October
The Tennessee Valley's drought is leading to higher electric bills. TVA announced today that its fuel cost adjustment, a quarterly calculation based on TVA's cost of producing power, will be 0.432 cents effective Oct. 1.
The upshot: Consumers will see higher electric bills after the adjustment is implemented. TVA says residential customers can expect an increase ranging from $3 to $6.
If you use 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month -- roughly the usage of an average KUB residential customer -- your monthly bill is going to be $4.32 higher after Oct. 1.
UPDATE: KUB says that the hike on a 1,000 kilowatt-hour bill would actually be $3.61 because of different rate classes.
Click through for the full text of TVA's announcement, including steps to help conserve energy.
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Knoxnews.com gets a top-10 ranking
The Bivings Report has ranked the recently redesigned knoxnews.com as the sixth-best newspaper Web site in the country. They offer some kind words:
I'm not sure a newspaper website could look any better than this one. When we talk about de-cluttering sites and making them look "clean", this is what we mean.
A big congrats to our online staff and the rest of the Scripps team that worked on the redesign.
The top 10:
1.) The New York Times
LimeWire leaving the life of crime, going legit
The peer-to-peer file-sharing service LimeWire has announced its plans to go the Napster route and launch a legit digital music store.
LimeWire's foray into paid music downloads comes as somewhat of a surprise, given the already-saturated market and Napster's utter failure to gain any appreciable market share over the long term after going legit itself. With Napster, it was hoped that the brand name would translate to success, and LimeWire is clearly hoping for the same.
LimeWire may face some trouble signing on more major music labels, too, given that it was sued just a year ago by the IFPI, RIAA, Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI, and Warner Music Group for facilitating illegal file sharing; LimeWire sued in retaliation shortly thereafter. It's also unclear how LimeWire plans to balance its P2P model alongside legit downloads, which surely won't go over well with music labels.
Okay, so maybe it's not leaving the life of crime. You may recall LimeWire as the whipping boy for Congressmen concerned about leaky federal government computers.
Images of Endeavour's damaged tiles
A ZDNet blog has images of the gouge on the space shuttle Endeavour's heat shield. Check them out here.
The gouge is a little nerve-wracking since a similar breach of the heat shield led to the disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia and the deaths of seven astronauts in 2003. But NASA officials say the damage to Endeavour isn't a safety hazard for the shuttle's crew.
It's my bill in a box
The first iPhone bills are starting to roll in from AT&T, and if you're a frequent text messager, you may be in for a surprise.
Justine Ezarik offers a nice video -- bonus points for the use of the iPhone ad music -- on her 300-page bill, which showed up in a box. The moral: Use e-billing.
Thanks to Jack Lail for the tip.
A case of the e-mail blues
British workers are suffering "e-mail stress" because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inbox. Staff are left tired, frustrated and unproductive as they struggle to cope with a constant deluge of e-mails, researchers from Glasgow and Paisley universities have found.
More than a third said they thought they checked their inbox every 15 minutes and 64 per cent said they looked more than once an hour. When researchers fitted monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing e-mails up to 40 times an hour.
Methinks the Brits are not alone on this one. More here.
A new Wikipedia sleuth
Overzealous press secretaries beware! There's a new tool to track edits on Wikipedia.
Wired has the story on Wikipedia Scanner, the creation of a CalTech grad student who cross-referenced edit information from Wikipedia with IP address locations.
The result? You can check out all the edits made by a particular organization. The site wasn't working too well when I tried it -- probably deluged by traffic from the Wired story -- but a Wired blog is collecting user favorites, including this gem:
Wikipedia's entry on President Bush "IS TAINTED BY POLITICAL BIAS THAT HAS NO PLACE IN WIKIPEDIA," shouts an unbiased critic ... from the Justice Department in Washington D.C.
Putting Colbert and Stewart on the witness stand
Last year, entertainment giant Viacom brought a $1 billion copyright lawsuit against Google, which owns YouTube. Both sides have submitted a list of names that they'd like to depose in court. Google listed, among others, Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, and Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report.
Just a fishing expedition by Google's attorneys? Maybe not.
Google attorneys could argue that the comedians and the producers of their shows have made public statements that are very relevant.
For example, a year ago Colbert urged fans to make him a viral-video star. The comedian stood before a green screen on his show and played with a light saber. He encouraged fans to fill in the background in their own videos and submit them to his show.
"This could go to determining non-infringing uses," Litvack said. "If Viacom used the clips for marketing or promotional purposes Google could argue that Colbert needs to be deposed."
By the way, you can still find a few of those on YouTube.
Forming like Voltron
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In Hollywood, it appears to be the only form of creativity.
Following the success of the live-action Transformers movie, the New Regency studio plans to make a live-action movie out of the second-most popular giant-robot animated series of the 1980s -- Voltron!
Marks' take is described as a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico. Five ragtag survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders.
More here.
Why the U.S. has subpar Internet
Robert X. Cringely offers a scathing indictment of American broadband policies and missed opportunities.
There are no good guys in this story. Misguided and incompetent regulation combined with utilities that found ways to game the system resulted in what had been the best communication system in the world becoming just so-so, though very profitable. We as consumers were consistently sold ideas that were impractical only to have those be replaced later by less-ambitious technologies that, in turn, were still under-delivered. Congress set mandates then provided little or no oversight. The FCC was (and probably still is) managed for the benefit of the companies and their lobbyists, not for you and me. And the upshot is that I could move to Japan and pay $14 per month for 100-megabit-per-second Internet service but I can't do that here and will probably never be able to.
Despite this, the FCC says America has the highest broadband deployment rate in the world and President Bush has set a goal of having broadband available to every U.S. home by the end of this year. What have these guys been smoking? Nothing, actually, they simply redefined "broadband" as any Internet service with a download speed of 200 kilobits per second or better. That's less than one percent the target speed set in 1994 that we were supposed to have achieved by 2000 under regulations that still remain in place.
Congressional wiki-shenanigans
Tom Humphrey had a nice story on Saturday about a little attempted Wikipedia whitewashing by the press secretary of U.S. Rep. David Davis, a Republican from Unicoi County.
Timothy Hill deleted information about his boss and his brother Matthew Hill, a state representative. His explanation? He wanted to replace information that struck him as inaccurate with "accurate stuff."
Click here and here to read Hill's edits.
Humphrey cites an article written by a Wikipedia administrator. Here's the money quote for any other PR folks tempted to pull a whitewash job.
As an administrator I am continually surprised by how often I see edits that serve little purpose except to place the editor at risk for adverse news coverage ... Activities at Wikipedia are transparent, yet many individuals who have a professional reputation to protect behave as if their actions were guarded by an opacity the site does not possess.
Meteor shower to put on a show Sunday night
The annual Perseid meteor shower will make its appearance Sunday night/Monday morning.
We know today that these meteors are actually the dusty remains left behind by the comet Swift-Tuttle.
Discovered back in 1862, and most recently observed in 1992, this comet takes approximately 130 years to circle the Sun. And in much the same way that the Tempel-Tuttle comet leaves a trail of debris along its orbit to produce the Leonid Meteors of November, Comet Swift-Tuttle produces a similar debris trail along its orbit to cause the Perseids.
Indeed, every year during mid-August, when the Earth passes close to the orbit of Swift-Tuttle, the material left behind by the comet from its previous visits rams into our atmosphere at approximately 37 miles per second (60 kps) and creates bright streaks of light in our midsummer night skies.
The shower should peak about 2 a.m. Monday morning, but it will be visible after dark Sunday night. More here.
Harry Potter, lost in translation
Continuing with the theme of Chinese-translation issues, the New York Times has an amusing roundup of Chinese Harry Potter counterfeits. My favorite excerpt, from "Harry Potter and the Leopard-Walk- Up-to-Dragon":
Harry doesn't know how long it will take to wash the sticky cake off his face. For a civilized young man, it is disgusting to have dirt on any part of his body. He lies in the elegant bathtub, keeps wiping his face, and thinks about Dudley's face, which is as fat as Aunt Petunia's bottom.
China eyes moon for energy source
China is planning to survey "every inch" of the moon during a new exploration project, according to a state-sanctioned news source.
The purpose? Mine helium-3 with the goal of making it a nuclear-fusion power source, said Ouyang Ziyuan, China's chief scientist for the moon exploration project.
"There are altogether 15 tons of helium-3 on earth, while on the moon, the total amount of Helium-3 can reach 1-5 million tons. Helium-3 is considered as a long-term, stable, safe, clean and cheap material for human beings to get nuclear energy through controllable nuclear fusion experiments. If we human beings can finally use such energy material to generate electricity, then China might need 10 tons of helium-3 every year and in the world, about 100 tons of helium-3 will be needed every year. This means that the helium-3 reserves on the moon can serve human society for at least 10,000 years," he said.
Hmmm....guess those numbers were garbled in translation. More here.
Pearl Jam vs. AT&T
The rock band and the telecom giant are in the midst of a dustup:
The incident happened during a Lollapalooza webcast over at AT&T's "Blue Room" media showcase. Pearl Jam's performance of their big 90's hit "Daughter" morphed into the melody from Pink Floyd's "The Wall," and Eddie Vedder served up a pair of anti-Bush lyrics to the tune. "George Bush, leave this world alone," he sang. "George Bush, find yourself another home."
Fans at the event got to hear the words in all their glory, but in the webcast, the lines were censored—AT&T made the decision to silence them, apparently believing that they would prove offensive to listeners.
Pearl Jam responded with an open letter on its Web site:
AT&T's actions strike at the heart of the public's concerns over the power that corporations have when it comes to determining what the public sees and hears through communications media.
UPDATE: AT&T spokesman Michael Coe said that the silencing was a mistake and that the company was working with the vendor that produces the webcasts to avoid future misunderstandings. He said AT&T was working to secure the rights to post the entire song — part of a sing-along with the audience — on the Blue Room site. More here.
College students pushing back against RIAA suits
The blog Recording Industry vs. The People, which monitors recording industry lawsuits, rounds up several recent developments across the country.
The music business, through its agent the Recording Industry Association of America, earlier this year stepped up its litigation campaign against music piracy on college campuses. The record labels have filed two "John Doe" lawsuits against University of Tennessee students. The recording industry's attorneys then pursue subpoenas to learn the identities of the students suspected of sharing copyrighted music online.
So far, those subpoenas have gone unchallenged by the UT "John Doe" students, and federal judges in Knoxville have approved both subpoenas. But students are putting up a fight elsewhere, including the University of South Florida, Oklahoma State University and Boston University. In the Boston case, one of the expert witnesses for the students is chairman of the university's computer science department.
Study: Let students use social networks
A new study done for the National School Boards Association recommends that school districts reexamine their policies on social-networking sites and find ways to harness their educational value. The study includes some eye-opening statistics:
Overall, an astonishing 96 percent of students with online access report that they have ever used any social networking technologies, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging and visiting online communities, such as Facebook, MySpace and services designed specifically for younger children, such as Webkins and the chat sections of Nick.com. Eighty-one percent say they have visited a social networking Web site within the past three months and 71 percent say they use social networking tools at least weekly.
Further, students report that one of the most common topics of conversation on the social networking scene is education. Almost 60 percent of students who use social networking talk
This is a refreshing change from the fear-mongering that often pervades discussions of teens and social-networking sites. Of course, the study was made possible by the "generous support" of Microsoft, News Corp. (the owner of MySpace) and Verizon. Perhaps that had something to do with the Internet-friendly results?
A big haul for science and tech projects
The "America Competes Act," which calls for $33 billion for federal science and technology projects, is on its way to the president's desk:
The bill lays out a multibillion-dollar funding schedule for a number of science-related federal agencies over the next three years, including the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy's science programs and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It also authorizes hundreds of millions of dollars in education-related grants, including $150 million in state grants for K-12 science, technology, mathematics and engineering programs and nearly $300 million in grants to establish masters and bachelors degree programs for training math and science teachers.
More here.
I'm heading out of town, back Thursday. Until then...
Tech group takes on copyright warnings
Maybe you can rebroadcast, reproduce or otherwise use accounts of a baseball game without the express written consent of Major League Baseball.
A trade group that includes Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and other high-tech companies has asked federal regulators to order changes in copyright warnings.
Copyright statements that appear at the start of most DVDs and pro sports broadcasts and movies go too far and discourage legal use of the content, the Computer and Communications Industry Association said in a statement Wednesday.
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1925 Ford Model T Snow Flyer
The original snowmobile
The "snowmobile" as we now know it, was invented by Virgil D. White, around 1913. A Ford dealer in Ossipee, New Hampshire, White patented the concept and marketed conversion kits for Model T Fords, which he sold for $400. After establishing a warehouse in Minnesota and seeing snowmobile sales diminish as snow plows became more popular, he sold out to Farm Specialty Manufacturing Corporation of New Holstein, Wisconsin.
Farm Specialty was owned by B.P. Arps and Adolf Langenfeld, the latter of whom soon started his own company and marketed a version called the "Snow Flyer," with different cleats that were less prone to packing with snow. In 1930, Farm Specialty combined with Langenfeld's operation to form the Snow Flyer Corporation, and production continued with a Snow Bird kit for Model Ts, Model As and other cars, like Chevrolet, Star, and Whippet. They were available through 1939. The company furnished a Snow Bird for Admiral Byrd's Antarctic expedition in 1931.
Perhaps the archetypal snowmobile is the Model T roadster pickup—utilitarian, simple, and ready for all tasks. Snow Flyer and Snow Bird kits, however, could be added to any style of Model T or Model A. Tudor sedans are occasionally seen, but perhaps the most stylish is this 1925 coupe. An older restoration, it shows a few blemishes and chips, but it is correctly done and very well preserved. The front skids and rear tracks are correctly painted in Snow Flyer's blue, the Model T of course being the usual black. It has been used every year for the last deCAD + HST & Licensinge at the annual Model T snowmobile meet. What better way to enjoy this year's winter?
Features of the Nicely presented Unusual coupe-bodied Snow Flyer
20 bhp, 176.7 cu. in. four-cylinder inline L-head engine, two-speed planetary transmission, solid front axle with transverse semi-elliptic leaf spring, live rear axle with cantilever semi-elliptic leaf springs, transmission service brake, and two-wheel mechanical drum parking brakes, 122 in. wheelbase
Information on the 1925 Ford Model T "Snow Flyer"
20 bhp
176.7 cu. in. four-cylinder inline L-head engine
two-speed planetary transmission
solid front axle with transverse semi-elliptic leaf spring
live rear axle with cantilever semi-elliptic leaf springs
transmission service brake
two-wheel mechanical drum parking brakes
Wheelbase: 122 in.


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A fugitive has been described by the FBI as being a "tall, dark and handsome bandit".
The 'bandit' has been accused of holding up two banks in Houston and Beaumont this week in Texas.
Bank surveillance photos show a suspect, believed to be the same man, with sunglasses atop his head during the robberies.
Investigators say a teller was handed a threatening note Thursday at a Comerica Bank in Houston. Nobody was hurt and the robber escaped with an unknown amount of cash.
A Bank of America in Beaumont was robbed Monday, in which a note was also slipped to a teller. No further details were released on the heist.
The robber is described as a white man, in his 30s, about 6 feet tall, with a medium build and short brown hair.


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Quite a Senior Night for St. Joe's as the Marauders post a memorable upset of Niagara Falls.
Review the action -- thanks to PrepTalkTV video reporter/producer Lauren Mariacher -- and get our breakdown of the top games of the upcoming week:
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By SHERRY VAN ARSDALL
Elkhart County Sheriff Brad Rogers appeared on CNN Thursday on the Anderson Cooper 360 news program and provided the perspective of the organization Constitutional Sheriff.
Rogers is a member of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, a conservative group of law enforcement professionals who believe the federal government oversteps its constitutional authority in several areas.
Several customers watched the town hall-style meeting at A Constant Spring Bar in downtown Goshen.
Chris Beachy of Goshen said he admires the sheriff for stating his viewpoint.
"My personal position is in the middle. I can see both sides," Beachy said.
Rachel Stoltzfus and Julia Stoltzfus, both of Goshen, watched the show and declined to share their comments about gun control.
The sheriff stated the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, is clear what the powers Congress has.
"Gun control is not one of them," Rogers said. "The issue of any gun laws should be the individual states. However, in that endeavor, the states are limited by their own constitutions."
He gave the example from the Indiana Constitution — it has a clear message in Article I, Section 32: "The people shall have a right to bear arms, for the defense of themselves and the state."
Jeffrey Toobin, a legal analyst for CNN, didn't agree with Rogers.
"He (Toobin) basically called me a liar and said it's not true (what the sheriff said)," Rogers said. "I didn't get a chance to talk as much as I would have liked."
The sheriff said he received a call from Cooper Wednesday after reading a post on the Sheriff's page on Facebook.
"Somehow, someone drew Cooper's attention to my post," Rogers said. "He knew pretty much what I was going to say and he bounced off that and had me say it."
He was suppose to fly out Wednesday but had to wait until Thursday morning.
"It seemed a rather expensive trip for 30 seconds even though it was an all-expense paid trip," the sheriff said.
The town hall meeting was held on the campus of George Washington University in Washington D.C.


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They rallied the best they could from a big deficit and even took a lead late, but the Orangefield Lady Bobcats couldn't quite pull it out Friday night as they fell to the Houston Yates Lady Lions 60-53 in the area round of the Class 3A Region III area round of the playoffs at Beaumont West Brook.
The Lady Bobcats (16-13) trailed the 23-3A champion Lady Lions (21-7) 46-33 entering the fourth period but Orangefield found its groove in the last stanza and actually grabbed a 53-52 lead with 1:52 left after senior Megan Burton drilled two free throws.
However, the Lady Bobcats had three crucial turnovers down the stretch and the Lady Lions ran off with the game's last eight points with feisty guard Kardeza Hicks scoring six of them.
The Yates win offset an outstanding performance by Lady Bobcat senior post Morgan Moss, who powered her way inside for a game-high 26 points. Moss scored 15 points in the second half and finished with seven rebounds.
Burton finished with 10 points and the senior was a perfect 8-for-8 from the free-throw line and added six rebounds. Senior Morgan Worthy added seven points and five boards for Orangefield while fellow senior Kacey LeBlanc contributed six points and three rebounds.
Hicks led the Yates attack with 18 points, 10 of them coming in the fourth period. Jessica Allen had 10 points, hit two three-pointers and added five rebounds. Andrea Moore scored nine points, including two three-pointers while post Elisha Ray had eight points and 10 rebounds before fouling out early in the fourth. Amari Albrow also added eight points.
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Weight-bearing exercises include activities that make you move against gravity while being upright. They include both high-impact, moderate-impact and low-impact activities. Some examples of high-impact weight-bearing activities are:
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If you can?t do high-impact or moderate-impact weight-bearing activities, try one of the lower-impact ones. Some examples are:
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*Avoid if you have balance problems and are at risk of falls.
Biking and swimming are not weight-bearing exercises, so they don?t help your bones as much. If you like these activities, try to add other activities to your exercise routine that work your bones.
All individuals should check with their healthcare provider before beginning a new program. Once you have your healthcare provider?s approval, start slowly. If you?ve broken bones in the spine due to osteoporosis, be very careful to avoid activities that require reaching down, bending forward, rapid twisting, heavy lifting and those that increase your chance of a fall. If you have any chest pain, stop exercising and see your healthcare provider immediately.
Another way to put pressure through the bones is by working the muscles that are along the bones. This can be done by lifting weights, using exercise bands, or using weight machines to name a few. Let"019s call this "01Cweight training."01D Weight training is typically done by moving the resistance through a motion until the muscle we are working tires out. For example, we can strengthen the upper arm by lifting a weight from our side to our shoulder, bending the elbow. To strengthen muscles and bones, the resistance should be enough that you feel fatigue in the area after 10 or 20 repetitions. Weight training for bone health and general health should include exercises for the major areas of the body. If you have osteoporosis or are frail, you should work with a physical therapist to be sure you are doing your exercises safely.
At this point, I'd stick to walking and ask your doctor for a referral for PT for activities of daily living. If there are any osteoporosis rehab and education classes in your area, get a referral for that also. It's very important that you not bend from the waist or do repetitive movements that put your weight on your spine.
Has your doctor talked to you about Forteo instead of Fosamax?
Also, there are various types of weighted vests. People with low bone density should be sure that the vest is snug with most of the weight on the top of the pelvis/hip area. Care should be taken to avoid downward pressure on the shoulders which can put the spine in a flexed, at-risk position. Also, it is important for people with very low bone density to work with their healthcare provider to determine if there is a cause that has not yet been addressed. If something is found, treatment of the cause may help raise bone density and improve bone strength.
I have always enjoyed biking because it does not aggravate my bunion. But now that my treatment for breast cancer has induced menopause at age 40, I'm looking to my future and thinking that I must find a way to incorporate more weight bearing.
Strength training is also a great option and can be done for all parts of the body to work on your bone health. It's important, however, that you learn how to do muscle-strengthening exercises correctly. If you can, work with a physical therapist who can teach you proper form. If you work with another exercise professional, let them know if you have low bone density or osteoporosis and discuss any modifications that may be appropriate for you.
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HOUSTON – The Houston SPCA rescued a horse Thursday morning that accidentally fell into a creek in Fort Bend County.
Authorities said officers notified the SPCA that a 10-year-old horse had fallen into Jones Creek and was unable to get out on its own. SPCA officials used a rescue harness and, after about an hour, were able to pull the horse safely out of the creek and reunite it with its owners.
Deputies said the horse had gotten out of its paddock and slipped into the creek while trying to get a drink of water. The horse was scheduled to be examined by veterinarians to ensure he did not suffer any injuries.


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Tow trucks are now removing vehicles abandoned in last week's blizzard that swept through Nebraska and Iowa.
Towing bans imposed on interstates 80 and 35 in Iowa were lifted on Saturday, which allows crews to retrieve vehicles that went off the road. Tom Kirkvold, a spokesman for Hannifen Company, says his company has fielded hundreds of calls for service. Kirkvold says the storm was one of the worst he's seen in years. He says the heavy snow seems to have caught many drivers off-guard.
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Crime rates in G.C. down for 2012
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By ANGIE HAFLICH
Both overall and in most separate categories, 2012 crime rates in Garden City decreased compared to 2011, according to the Garden City Police Department's master activity report. Compared to the crime rates in 2009 and 2010, the decrease in 2012 is even more dramatic.
The GCPD tracks nine categories each year: murder/manslaughter, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft, auto theft, arson and all other crimes, which include criminal damage, simple assault/battery, disorderly conduct, drug violations, sex offenses other than rape and auto burglary.
"Criminal damage would tend to be a leader in this category from month to month. The other crimes category varies a lot depending on other factors,¬ such as time of year, weather, etc.," Garden City police Sgt. Michael Reagle said.
In 2012, 1,596 "other crimes" were reported, compared to 1,746 in 2011.
The only two categories that remained the same or increased between 2011 and 2012 was murder/manslaughter, of which there was one in each year, and arson cases, in which there were 11 in 2011 and 12 in 2012.
The one incident that fell under the category of murder/manslaughter in 2012 occurred Sept. 18, when Odelia Hernandez, 65, 2820 Terrace Place, Apt. 21, was found dead at her home.
At that time, the GCPD was investigating the cause of Hernandez's death, which later was ruled as involuntary manslaughter.
When asked for the official cause of her death, Reagle said, "We do not disclose the coroner's report and the report is not subject to disclosure if involving a criminal case."
Reagle said no arrest(s) have been made in connection to the incident.
Arsons also remained stagnant with 11 cases in 2011 and 12 cases in 2012, in which five of the incidents occurred between Nov. 9 and Dec. 2, which combined caused about $5,400 worth of damages.
"Those incidents are still under investigation, and we have not made arrests at this point," Reagle said.
From 2011 to 2012, rape cases decreased from 22 to 14, robberies decreased from 12 to seven, burglaries decreased from 237 to 189, thefts decreased from 718 to 631, and auto thefts decreased from 27 to 16.
While the 51 aggravated assault cases decreased by only six, from 57 in 2011 to 51 in 2012, those types of crimes have decreased significantly since 2009 and 2010, when there were 73 and 71, respectively.
Overall, total crimes, which are made up of all of the aforementioned categories, dropped from 2,831 in 2011 to 2,517 in 2012.
When comparing 2012 to the years 2009 and 2010, in which total crimes were 3,915 and 3,127 respectively, there has been an even more significant decrease in crime.
What has caused the significant decrease is difficult to pinpoint, Reagle said.
"There is no easy answer to this question," he said. "We would like to think because we have a more experienced department, as far as individual officers' time with the department, their experience has let them better recognize trends and how to handle the criminal-related problems we deal with."
He also said that there are a number of other factors that have contributed to the decrease.
"We also do not pretend to take all of the credit either.¬ The community, as a whole, has been very instrumental in this.¬ We have people calling us to report suspicious activity before the crime takes place, and we have more people using CrimeStoppers and Tip411 to help us solve crimes.¬ We recently saw this with the Menards incident," Reagle said, referring to the arrests of four teens allegedly involved in vandalism at the store, which is under construction. "The more and more people in our community that get involved in helping us, the better job we are able to do."


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The National Governors Association (NGA) is the bipartisan organization of the nation's governors. Through NGA, governors share best practices, speak with a collective voice on national policy and develop innovative solutions that improve state government and support the principles of federalism. The organization was founded in 1908 as the National Governors' Conference. [1]
IN 1907, the Conference of Governors was felt necessary by the Inland Waterways Commission to provide both state and national views relating to practical questions dealing with natural resources utilization and management in the Progressive Era.[2] The NGA represents the governors of the fifty U.S. states and five U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). It is funded primarily by state dues, federal grants and contracts, and private contributions.[3]
NGA serves as a key public policy liaison between the state governments and the federal government. NGA provides governors and their senior staff members with services that range from representing states on Capitol Hill and at the White House when discussing federal issues to developing policy reports on state programs and hosting networking seminars for state executive branch officials. The NGA Center for Best Practices focuses on state innovations and best practices on issues that range from education and health to technology, welfare reform, and the environment. NGA also provides management and technical assistance to both new and incumbent governors.
NGA adopted a policy in 1977 formalizing its standard practice for many years: The position of NGA chair alternates yearly between Republican and Democratic governors, so that neither party can control the position for two consecutive years. The vice chair is usually of the opposite party to the chair, and generally assumes the role of chair the following year. The current NGA chair is Governor Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, a Republican. The vice chair is Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado, a Democrat.
Bill Clinton is, to date, the only former chair of the organization to become President of the United States.
Chairs preside for a one-year term and alternate party affiliation:[when?][4]
Equivalent organizations[edit]
Several other countries, including Japan[which?] and Canada, have similar organizations:
- Canada – Council of the Federation.
- Australia – Council of Australian Governments (COAG) (unlike the NGA and the Council of the Federation, the COAG also includes representatives of the federal government.)
- European Union: European Council
- ^ National Governors Association, [1].
- ^ Inland Waterways Commission Recommendations... Inquiries in Progress Letter to the President, October 5, 1907: ..."3. We are of opinion that the conference may best be held in the national capital next winter, and that the conferees should comprise the governors of all our States and Territories, a limited number of delegates to be appointed by each governor, and representatives from leading organizations of both State and national scope engaged in dealing with natural resources or with practical questions relating thereto... In his Memphis address on October 4 the President announced the intention of calling such a conference, and on November 13 he issued invitations to the governors of the States and Territories to meet at the White House May 13–15, 1908;..."
- ^ FAQ National Governors Association website, "How is NGA funded?". Retrieved Dec 8, 2013.
- ^ "Historical Timeline". National Governors Association Centennial. Retrieved 2008-10-27.
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Teen Night will take place on Sunday, February 17th from 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. at The Fillmore Silver Spring. Teen Night will be a fun, supervised event for area high school students ages 13-18 to come out, have fun, and experience our 23,000 square foot venue. We'll have a DJ and a high-energy emcee to help students make the most of their Presidents Day weekend in a safe environment.
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The 6-3 score by which the Thunder defeated Bloomington on Saturday night at Intrust Bank Arena didn't look much different than many of Bloomington's games — the Blaze are the Central Hockey League's highest scoring team and the second-worst defensively.
The game itself didn't look much the same, though. Wichita set a tone early for a physical game and lured the fast-paced Blaze into a style of hockey more suited for the Thunder.
Wichita's aggressiveness was exhibited at the right times as it rebounded from a Bloomington rally in the second period. The Thunder held Bloomington to 22 shots, 10 below its average, as goalie Torrie Jung won his first start after a four game absence due to injury.
The Thunder lost Friday night on the road 4-0 to Allen and said it wasn't so much the opponent that brought out its meanness, but the hangover from the previous night and the vengeful feelings it produced.
"It was not so much about them, it was trying to rebound from (Friday) night's effort and being physical," Thunder forward Matt Summers said. "…We had to play rough. We have to play rough every night these days. It's crunch time."
Wichita took Bloomington out of its comfort zone immediately, though the Thunder paid a price for doing so. Enforcer Aaron Boogaard drew a game misconduct penalty, which comes with an automatic ejection, for an illegal check to the head on a hit that sent Leo Thomas to the ice for several minutes in the first period.
Thomas eventually skated off but Bloomington never found a way to match Wichita's physicality even though the Blaze often engaged the Thunder in mini-skirmishes near the goals.
Wichita used its edge to take a 3-0 lead, comfortable but not safe against a team that has scored four or more goals 27 times and features the league's second-leading scorer. Jon Booras pushed his point total to 71 points with two second-period goals.
"Set the tone early and keep it throughout the 60 minutes," Summers said. "We haven't played them in a while but I like their effort tonight."
Booras' goals, including one on the power play for the first score of the second period, may have caught the Thunder off guard if only because the Blaze had shown little sign of being able to produce anything offensively.
Before it broke through, Bloomington's passes were rarely crisp or accurate and the Blaze was outclassed by a Thunder attack that produced several scoring opportunities. Wichita was forced to regain its alertness when it's three-goal lead shrunk to one on two occasions, including after Travis Granbois scored in the third to make it 4-3.
"In our rink we're looking to win every game, it's a place we've had success this year," said Jung, who returned after being hit in the throat by a puck on Feb. 19. "We knew Bloomington was offensive, but at the same time we weren't overly concerned with them. We just wanted to play our hockey."
The Thunder eventually wore down Bloomington, whose offensive stats show a third-period dropoff, with depth that the Blaze doesn't possess. Ten players scored Saturday for the Thunder and five players had multiple points. Summers, RG Flath and Chad Painchaud each scored three.
Wichita has seven players with at least 40 points and their shifts feature little dropoff. The balance allows the Thunder to remain fresher and faster than its opponents, an important factor with 11 games remaining before the playoffs.
"It's really huge to have a deep team at this time of year," Summers said. "All year long it's good to have a deep team. We're throwing all three lines at them and playing all the (defensemen). It's good to have a deep team no matter what time of year it is, but especially this time."
First period
Scoring—1. Wichita, Trimm PP (Inman, Martens), 11:20; 2. Wichita, Summers (Inman, Flath); 3. Wichita, Flath (Painchaud, Jung). Penalties—Wichita, Boogaard (illegal check to the head major, game misconduct), 4:30; Bloomington, Lutes (interference, unsportsmanlike conduct), 9:14.
Second period
Scoring—4. Bloomington, Booras PP (Rioux, Gilbert), 9:25; 5. Bloomington, Booras (Fidler, Lutes), 11:06; 6. Wichita, Painchaud (Summers, Flath), 13:43. Penalties—Bloomington, OConnor (high sticking), 2:15; Wichita, Inman (tripping), 8:56; Bloomington, Makway (roughing), 15:50; Wichita, Lutz (goalie interference), 18:25; Bloomington, Lutes (interference), 18:57.
Third period
Scoring—7. Bloomington, Granbois SH (Puntureri), 4:48; 8. Wichita, Robinson (Lowe, Trimm), 7:31; 9. Wichita, Painchaud empty net (Summers, Trimm), 19:06. Penalties—Bloomington, Fidler (hooking), 3:57; Bloomington, Gilbert (holding), 14:53.
Power play—Bloomington 1 for 3, Wichita 1 for 8. Shots—Bloomington 4-8-10—22, Wichita 14-14-14—42. Saves—Bloomington, Pelletier 36 on 41 shots; Wichita, Jung 19 on 22.


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Mikhail Grigorenko is pretty excited. The Buffalo Sabres agreed to loan him to the Russian Federation for the World Juniors Championship, which begins on Dec. 26 in Sweden.
He will join Sabres prospect Nikta Zadorov on the team. The two are on the same flight Sunday leaving to Toronto so they can join the team in Russia.
"I'm really excited," Grigorenko said. "I can't wait to go there and meet all my friends and start preparation for World Juniors. It's a big tournament for us. I know we have all the chances to win the gold and hopefully I'll be able to bring my best game there."
Sabres interim coach Ted Nolan is happy to give Grigorenko the opportunity to play. Grigorenko was a scratch the last two games. In the eight games that Nolan has been here, he has sat five.
"If history teaches us anything it's that a player's got to play," Nolan said. "I don't know too many people who develop without playing. He has to play and this will give him a good opportunity to do so."
Other lineup notes out of Thursday's morning skate is that Brayden McNabb will sit with Jamie McBain in the lineup. Also back in is Matt D'Agostini who missed yesterday with the flu.
Nolan said Alexander Sulzer will be placed on injured reserve to make room for Cody McCormick who comes off the IR list today.
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A never-ending crush on fresh Asian flavors. Revel bills itself as a purveyor of Asian comfort food, and reviewers rave about especially indulgent dishes such as the pork belly pancake and the short-rib dumplings. But Joule chefs Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi aren't satisfied with just merging meaty goodness with irresistible starch (which, of course, they do very well). It's the more nuanced, layered flavors that will keep you coming back for more, despite the weekend crowds. (Try lunch if you can—same menu, less mayhem.) The pleasures of Revel lay in the worldly reframing of Asian spices and techniques within a modern, casual setting: the handmade seaweed noodles in a bowl of curried crab; the salad with rosy slices of corned lamb draped throughout, the excellent kimchi and pickles that punctuate so many plates; and the fantastic collection of house-made condiments that come with every meal.
File under: Dumpling mania, loud restaurants, open kitchen, swinging second restaurants, affordably chic, sticky fingers, wood-fired barbecue on the terrace
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