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The fund has returned 24.23 percent over the past year, 10.07 percent over the past three years, 17.36 percent over the past five years, and 8.66 percent over the past decade.
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Westport Select Cap Fund takes much the same approach as its sibling Westport Fund, just with a heavier focus on small-cap companies. Co-managers Ed Nicklin and Andy Knuth generally seek out undervalued companies afflicted by a temporary challenge that they expect will be resolved over time.
As of July 03, 2014, the fund has assets totaling almost $390.65 million invested in 24 different holdings. Its portfolio primarily consists of mid- and small-cap stocks of U.S. companies, with a smaller portion of U.K. stocks.
In general, management favors companies that have strong fundamentals but are facing temporary issues that depress the stock price. The purchase of FEI Corporation, an electron microscope manufacturer, underscores fund manager Ed Nicklin's investment approach. Historically inconsistent financial results have pushed the company's stock price down, but if research efforts in the field of nanotechnology heat up over the next few years as Nicklin expects, demand should increase for FEI's equipment. "Research, whether it's in electronics or biology, is focusing more and more on the atomic structure and if you're dealing with trying to create things very small, you need something to see what's going on," Nicklin says. "The broader application and greater demand for their product, that's the reason for the purchase." The fund has returned 24.23 percent over the past year and 10.07 percent over the past three years.
The fund tends to lag more aggressive rivals in the most heated markets (such as 2003 and 2009) but has performed better than most in market downturns. The fund has returned 17.36 percent over the past five years and 8.66 percent over the past decade.
Investment Strategy
Nicklin identifies undervalued or out-of-favor businesses that have a perceived catalyst for change which he thinks will eventually close the gap in valuation. "We're looking for something that is likely to cause the undervaluation to disappear over a reasonable time period," he says. A fairly patient investor, Nicklin gives his picks about two years to develop. He'll hold on names even longer if he sees additional value in owning the stock. That longer-term horizon results in lower turnover and more tax-efficiency for investors, Nicklin says. However, if the improvement he expects from a pick doesn't occur at a reasonable pace, he will exit the position before the two-year window and move the assets elsewhere.
Role in Portfolio
Morningstar calls this fund a "supporting player."
Andy Knuth and Ed Nicklin manage the fund. Knuth has been with the firm since the 1980s and Nicklin managed Evergreen Growth & Income for a decade before signing on at Westport. Nicklin also manages Westport Fund.
Westport Select Cap Fund has an expense ratio of 1.21 percent.
The fund's concentrated portfolio might make it more vulnerable to market swings. Also, small-cap companies tend to be more volatile than large-cap companies.


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We want to make sure that everyone can take advantage of our amazing Cyber Monday deal, so we've extended it through Tuesday! Get 20% off any rental and if you spend $200 or more, we'll give you a $50 gift card to RTR! Treat yourself…tis the season for looking great!
2 My Father's Daughter (Gwyneth's Cookbook!)
Katie tried out a few recipes from Gwyneth Paltrow's cookbook, My Father's Daughter, and couldn't believe how easy but fresh and delicious they were. She recommends the duck ragu and almond cookies…to die for! (Not to mention the gorgeous pictures of Gwyneth and her family!)
3 College Football Saturdays
Blaire went to support her alma mater, LSU, in their game against Arkansas while home in Baton Rouge. LSU won (12-0) and is now off to the SEC Championship. She got her fix for all the best Louisiana has to offer, most importantly family, friends, and Cajun food!
As much as we love all things digital, nothing beats a beautiful card sent by way of snail mail. We love Minted.com, one of our fav fellow startups, where you can personalize beautiful stationary and holiday cards. They collaborate with some of the best independent graphic designers to deliver impeccable quality and products. Brooke used them for her holiday cards this season and they turned out fantastic!
5 Brooklyn Brewery
Katy loves the Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg, where you can taste all of their beers and get a tour of the factory. They also have happy hour and events all throughout the week – great having a local brewery!
6 Muppet Movie
Many of us grew up watching The Muppets and even the fashion industry has been looking forward to the franchise refresh. We can't wait to catch Kermit and Miss Piggy on the big screen again!
7 Ed's Lobster Bar
Those of us who reside downtown are thrilled that Ed's Lobster Bar has opened an annex in the Lower East Side. Located on Clinton, the most recent franchise boasts signature specials like lobster meatballs and mini lobster pizzas. Yum!
We love Stamped, a new iPhone app launched by a stellar team from Google where you 'stamp' your favorite restaurants, books, movies and more and your friends can follow your taste. Since most of us are the designated fashion gurus in our groups of friends and constantly being consulted, this is a perfect sharing platform. What better way to get and give recommendations than from the people you trust!
9 Water Taxi
We love that you can now buy water taxi tickets that include a visit to the 9/11 Memorial. The ride consists of a scenic trip complete with tour guide from West 44th Street all the way to Dumbo in Brooklyn, making stops at the 9/11 Memorial and South Street Seaport. This is a great way for visitors to see the city and an important landmark.
10 Flo and the Machine cover Drake + Rihanna
We can't imagine a better musical combination, really. Check out this video of Florence and the Machine covering Drake feat. Rihanna "Take Care".

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Matt Cain's ulnar collateral ligament has checked out fine, but he's dealing with "loose bodies" in his throwing elbow and it's unclear when he'll pitch again.
Diamondbacks call up former elite prospect Andy Marte
Jul 31, 2014, 5:28 PM EDT
Once upon a time Andy Marte was one of the best prospects in baseball. He cracked Baseball America's top 15 list in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
The Phillies stand pat at the deadline. Apparently Ruben Amaro is satisfied.
Jul 31, 2014, 5:15 PM EDT
You happy, Philly?
Cubs trade James Russell and Emilio Bonifacio to the Braves for a catching prospect.
Jul 31, 2014, 4:52 PM EDT
The Braves get their lefty and a venerable super sub. The Cubs get an interesting catching prospect.
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Shortly after acquiring Stephen Drew and Martin Prado in separate trades this afternoon the Yankees announced that starting second baseman Brian Roberts has been designated for assignment.
Jared Cosart traded from Houston to Miami
Jul 31, 2014, 4:30 PM EDT
Some pitching heading Miami's way.
Kurt Suzuki stays in Minnesota, signs extension with Twins
Jul 31, 2014, 4:20 PM EDT
All month the assumption has been that the Twins would either sign Kurt Suzuki to a contract extension or trade the 30-year-old impending free agent in the middle of his career-year.
The Yankees acquire Martin Prado from the Diamondbacks
Jul 31, 2014, 4:16 PM EDT
A super sub at heart who can and will be used at multiple positions by the Yankees.
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Recapping all of Thursday's dealings in one spot.
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Jul 31, 2014, 3:59 PM EDT
How committed are the Red Sox to blowing up the roster? They just made a trade with the Yankees–the Yankees–sending shortstop Stephen Drew to New York just 39 games after re-signing him to a $10 million deal.
ACES GALORE: The Rays trade David Price to the Tigers
Jul 31, 2014, 3:55 PM EDT
With Price in town, a guy who one the AL MVP and Cy Young Award a couple of years ago is now the TIgers fourth starter.
Indians trade Asdrubal Cabrera to Nationals
Jul 31, 2014, 3:40 PM EDT
In search of infield help with Ryan Zimmerman on the disabled list again, the Nationals have acquired switch-hitting shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera from the Indians in exchange for minor leaguer Zach Walters.
UPDATE: The Price trade may be a three-way between the Rays, Tigers and Mariners
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Drip . . . drip . . . drip . . .
Orioles acquire Andrew Miller from Red Sox
Jul 31, 2014, 3:13 PM EDT
This morning the Red Sox were reportedly close to trading left-handed reliever Andrew Miller to the Tigers, but that deal apparently fell through because now Jerry Crasnick of ESPN.com reports that Miller has been sent to the Orioles.
The Mariners acquire Chris Denorfia from the Padres
Jul 31, 2014, 2:21 PM EDT
A lefty masher is having a down year, but he can help out in Seattle.
Brewers acquire Gerardo Parra from Diamondbacks
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Steve Zwick, Contributor
I write about the economic value of nature's services.
The Heartland Institute yesterday lashed out at the blogosphere for reporting on the contents of leaked documents that appeared on DeSmogBlog late in the night of February 14. It was material that, if legit, implies Heartland is guilty of spreading dangerous disinformation simply to make a buck (something it has long accused climate scientists of doing).
Heartland, a nominally Libertarian "think tank", is one of the loudest voices in the climate-change denial choir, yet its prepared statement contained, among threats and hedged denial, this appeal to the better angels of our nature:
"…honest disagreement should never be used to justify the criminal acts and fraud that occurred in the past 24 hours," the statement said. "As a matter of common decency and journalistic ethics, we ask everyone in the climate change debate to sit back and think about what just happened."
Yes, let's think of what just happened – and why stop 24 hours ago (or, more accurately, 48 hours ago at this point)? Why not go back a decade or even two? Or a century? Or longer?
Let's think of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which aggregates research from thousands of scientists and then summarizes it in conservative assessment reports that have been vetted hundreds of times over before being released to the public.
Let's think of the people who attack the IPCC – people who have no qualms about pulling isolated sentences out of early drafts of thousand-page documents and then using them to try and discredit an entire body of research.
Let's think of climate scientists – geeky types who, for the most part, grew up with a sense of wonder at the world around them, devoted their lives to learning, and now spend their time modeling clouds and currents or digging into ice sheets.
Let's think of the community of climate science – which spent the last century modeling the skies and the seas as early generations grew old and died and subsequent generations carried on, tested the theories, discarded the ones that didn't hold up, and kept the ones that did.
Let's think of how the notion emerged that man's activities were first going to alter the atmosphere, then might be altering the atmosphere, and – finally – were almost certainly altering the atmosphere.
Let's think of how this evidence slowly began to mount across the scientific community, how it came into focus from data points across the globe, from ice sheets and tree rings to physical measurements.
Let's think of how scientists – as is their wont – questioned this evidence, attacked it – "honestly disagreed" with it – until they had no choice but to acknowledge that their worst fears were, in fact, coming true.
Let's think of how they came to realize that our current practices were bringing us to a cliff that will kill our crops, dry our prairies, and destroy our economy. Let's think of the subsistence farmers in Kenya who are currently suffering a drought that Arizonans can't even comprehend, or the indigenous tribes of the Amazon who will suffer under climate change – or the mass migrations that will threaten our national security.
Let's think of the absurd belief that a global community of highly-educated scientists would collude to create a false body of knowledge just so they can make a buck.
Let's think of the military, which is already taking steps to protect us from the consequences of our own apathy.
You are talking about people who are taking advantage of people who were not educated enough to be able to wash a frying pan.
And those you allowed to purposely be miseducated for political and religious beliefs.
This did not happen when education was not splintered between home private religious and what ever splinter of education is the buzz of the week.
Public education has fallen with all the other failures because not everyone has a dog in the fight.
IMHO the biggest sellout of the American people.
You can cut public education, only the poor go there.
Now all the groups are easy to baffle with bull.
I can so wash a frying pan (I think).
Mr Zwick,
Are you talking about the same scientists who need the prodding of FOIA litigation to release their code and data to other scientists , information needed for replication of study results — the essence of the scientific process?
Are these the scientists who, with a wink and nod, approved the infamous "hockey stick," which when statistically scrutinized fell harder than Building 7 on 9/11? The IPCC quietly dropped any reference to the hockey stick in all subsequent reports.
Are these the same scientists who conduct their research by "consensus" rather than by a rigorous scientific process not influenced by politics and the lucre of overly-generous government and foundation grants?
Are these the scientists who refuse to debate any element of the issue in public forum, claiming that no debate is necessary because "the science has been settled."
No, organizations like The Heartland Institute are needed to present even the modicum of dissent the public needs to make an informed decision on an issue which can have considerable financial costs to them. Partisans like Al Gore and George Soros (and their paid accomplices) should not have the only word on the subject.
1. Hidden code? Here are links to the code that has been available, much of it for many, many years:
2. Hockey Stick?The hockey stick is alive and well at the IPCC and in all the major datasets covering the recent past in the Holocene..
3. Consensus? Consensus is what results from rigorous scientific process.
4. Lucrative? Scientists don't get rich on grants they have to spend the money on research and equipment and expenses.
5. Debate? Science is actually not so much about debate as what the data indicates.
The Heartland Institute has proven unable and generally incapable of providing even a modicum of reasonability in the climate debate when it's position is weighed against science. What you are saying is that we should place foolishness above evidence. That's a pretty liberal stand.
Good comebacks to denialist nonsense. Heartland is a front for Big Oil. Paid lobbyists. Their communications are fact free marketing and PR.
"3. Consensus? Consensus is what results from rigorous scientific process."
That is total and utter nonsense. "Consensus" is irrelevant in science. What matters if reproducibility, explicability, and mathematical correctness. If you can't reproduce or derive a particular result yourself, your opinion about the veracity of that result is worthless, and most of the people who are supposedly part of that "consensus" clearly lack the training or expertise to do so.
If consensus settled things, we wouldn't have quantum mechanics or relativity, because the overwhelming majority of physicists used to have a consensus that physics worked entirely differently.
What is interesting about your comment is that you misunderstand what 'rigorous scientific process' means. It means precisely what you said. So your post seems confused. Consensus comes from what results from "reproducibility, explicability, and mathematical correctness"
Mr. Reisman:
1)The IPCC is like AG Holder, who sends Congressional investigators thousands of documents about "Fast & Furious," but withholds all pertinent info and claims that he has been totally cooperative with requests for information. The IPCC continues to restrict access to some of their most pertinent information. Read about Steve McIntyre's latest experience with the IPCC: http://climateaudit.org/2012/01/26/another-ipcc-demand-for-secrecy/#more-15485
2) The original Mann hockey stick has, indeed, been replaced. You can call the replacement a "hockey stick" but it has been broken upward at the handle and flattened at the blade end. Recent data, continual statistical scrutiny and more sophisticated models will certainly flatten the blade in the next IPCC Report.
3) The results of rigorous scientific process is scientific knowledge. Consensus is too amorphous of a term to be tested. It can be influenced by politics, money, philosophy and, occasionally, the facts.
4) No one knows exactly how much is spent on climate change research annually, however, the GAO ( http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-317 ) found that the federal government allocated $8.8 billion to climate change activities in 2010. Additionally, each state funds research. Foundations give more. And many countries add to the pot. Someone, somewhere is getting rich!
5) Debate is an excellent tool in which to include the public in the process. After all, they are being asked to pay the bill. They should know the wheres and whys (and whethers) about the large amount of resources they are being asked to contribute to "The Cause."
Mr. derekcrane
1. Comparing 'Fast & Furious' with the IPCC is a non sequitur. The reason for secrecy in the IPCC process is increase the integrity of the process and not allow immature information that is not fully vetted to get out into a blogosphere that will say see, see, this information is not even fully vetted yet.
2. The original Hockey stick still stands as well though but within the constraints of its own study parameters. The other hockey sticks generally show the same pattern though. Stephen McIntyre proved it was wrong but only by about 3 hundredths of a degree and his correct in was found after review not be statistically insignificant and scientifically unsound in context.
3. Consensus by definition means general agreement. The data is clear, we are warming and we have increased the radiative forcing. Also, it's not the consensus you test, it's the evidence and the physics. The testable hypothesis that were raised in the 50′s through the 70′s (some as early as the 1890′s and 1920′s) have not proven true.
4. First, I'm not saying that scientists don't like to get research grants, they do. Otherwise they would not apply for them. And there is always the jump on the bandwagon reality of hey, there's gold in them thar hills, let's go get some. That said, the great majority of scientists that receive monies for research, half often goes to institutional admin, and with what's left, the scientist in charge needs to pay for supplies, travel and the research. What most people don't know though is that often , the money for the grant is deducted form their salaries. The only extra money they make is from any overtime they put in. So if your saying they should not make any money for the extra work they do, as capitalist, I have to disagree.
5. A somewhat fair point, but keep in mind the facts as known and the relative confidence intervals are not debatable; but if they want to know the wheres and whys (and whethers) about the large amount of resources they are being asked to contribute then they need to learn the science, and not form the blogosphere, from the scientific papers and the consensus conclusion that have been reached.


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Sure many of you have seen it, but I just recently had a chance to view it. For a low budget film, I'd have to say it was pretty good, comical in fact. A little boy is infatuated with a video game called Satans Little helper. When Halloween comes around he dresses as his favorite character and sets off to find another individual to trick or treat with and meets a man dressed as the boss of the video game....... Satan. Although his new friend doesn't speak, the lonely boy is more then happy to follow and assist this stranger in a night of murder and mayhem. The little boy doesn't realize that the murders are real until the very end of the movie, but in the process he's brought the serial killer home with him, trick-or-treating with him and scaring the hell out of some bullies, not to mention leading him to other neighborhood houses. The Satan character has loads of fun at an adult costume party. Satan poses for several photo's for people who seemingly believe the antics are all great Halloween props. Of course most of the other characters must be remedial not to know the truth earlier, but after all it is a Horror Movie and people do the dumbest things in such shows that ultimately lead to their demise.
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Any information of how and when to get tickets for this event ??
Thanks for the help
Any information of how and when to get tickets for this event ??
Thanks for the help
Good luck! Last year when I went to NHK, we only got tickets because my friend with whom I went had contacts in Japan who bought them for us. Otherwise, we never would have been able to attend.
I believe that we may have been the only non-Asian fans there. In fact, on the Monday after competition, we were eating breakfast at the McDonalds in Nagano and sitting next to us was a very handsome, distinguished Caucasian gentleman. All of a sudden, he asked us, "Were you here for NHK?" When we said yes, he asked us if we had a skater and when we indicated no, he was shocked that we were fans who had come all the way over to attend. He turned out to be Paul Poirer's father!
I'm interesting to buy the tickets too. Is it possible to buy the ticket if I'm not Japanese?
Will it be broadcast on any of the satellite channels?
If you are in Japan, public sale starts at 10:00am on Aug 21st, and pre-sales (by lottery) start from this weekend.
Otherwise, there is a phone number for general inquiry in English on the JSF announcement for NHK Trophy : 03-5405-8686 (From abroad: +81 3 5405 8686)
It also lists another number for ticket inquiry: 0570-06-9999, but I am not sure this number can be reached from abroad.
Public sales are similar to the above plus by phone. Sometimes you can buy a ticket at one of the ticket vendor offices by standing in line for a long time, but I do not know if they give this option for this event.


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Nothing like trading sunny Florida for the cold, blustery Midwest in mid-December for James Shields and Wade Davis. The two pitchers arrived in Kansas City on Wednesday to undergo physicals and check out Kauffman Stadium.
Shields and Davis became members of the Royals Sunday night in a blockbuster trade that sent outfield prospect Wil Myers, pitchers Jake Odorizzi and Mike Montgomery and third baseman Patrick Leonard to Tampa Bay. Kansas City will also receive a player to be named or cash.
Last season, Myers batted .304 for the Omaha Storm Chasers with 24 home runs and 79 runs batted in.
Shields is a former All-Star who is expected to be the No. 1 starter for the Royals while Davis expects to shift back to the starting rotation after spending last season working out of the bullpen.


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Enchilada Casserole Recipe
- 1 pound ground turkey or beef (90% lean)
- 1 can (10 ounces) enchilada sauce
- 1 cup salsa
- 6 flour tortillas (10 inch)
- 2 cups fresh or frozen corn
- 4 cups (16 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- Preheat oven to 350°. In a large skillet, cook ground beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in enchilada sauce and salsa; set aside.
- Place two tortillas, overlapping as necessary, in the bottom of a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Cover with one-third of the meat mixture; top with 1 cup corn; sprinkle with 1-1/3 cups cheese. Repeat layers once, then top with remaining tortillas, meat and cheese.
- Bake, uncovered, 30 minutes or until bubbly. Yield: 6-8 servings.
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Excellent! I have made enchiladas for years. This is so much easier and just as good!
I added more meat, and used a 9x9 pan, so my casserole was thick and full. This was easy to prepare. My husband enjoyed it very much., I would think it would be very flat or very sparse if you made it as written.
I didn't have enough meat so I just made two layers, using less than the 16 oz of cheese, and it tasted just as good. To make it slightly healthier, I used reduced fat cheese and 93% lean beef and my boyfriend who is not about healthy eating never noticed my revisions and he asked me to make it again!
Having this for dinner tonight.... Am excited.. My mouth is watering, and my husband Greg is helping me...
My household called this a HOMERUN!!!!! Will definately make this often. Pot luck fare as well.
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Salesha Wilken
Staff Reporter
Rogers County voters will decide the fate of the one-cent sales tax May 14, if approved the tax will run for five years.
The tax is to be designated "soley for the construction, improvement, maintenance and repair of county roads and bridges," according to the May 14 ballot.
The Rogers County Commissioners have spent $8.4 million this fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2012, from the one-cent account.
The one-cent account includes several sub-accounts including Maintenance and Operations (M&O), used for operations, Capital Outlay, provides for fixed assets, and Salaries, to be paid to employees that perform roadwork, according to Oklahoma State Statute.
The one-cent fund has paid $6.3 million in M&O expenses, $1.5 million in Capital Outlay and $700,000 in Salaries.
Each sub-account contains various expenses, however the majority of funds are used for equipment and asphalt or other road surfacing products.
Equipment purchases, at $2.1 million, accounted for 25 percent of total expenses for the fund.
The commissioners use two options to purchase equipment, payment in full or lease purchase.
Lease purchase payments are recurring monthly expenses and in the last ten months $545,665 has been paid to several vendors including Welch State Bank, Oklahoma State Bank and Caterpillar Financial Services.
District 3 Commissioner Kirt Thacker pays about $40,000 monthly in lease payments.
District 2 Commissioner Mike Helm recently lowered his monthly lease payments from $29,000 to $9,653.
District 1 Commissioner Dan DeLozier paid $8,538 in March, but soon will be reduced to $5,889, according to District 1 staff.
This year the commissioners have spent 54 percent or $4.6 million of total one-cent expenses to purchase road materials or pay sub-contractors for roadwork.
DeLozier reports that the county does not have the ability to perform some micro-surfacing roadwork, requiring the work to be sub-contracted.
Additionally, Helm is the only commissioner to own an asphalt machine.
This year about $4 million has been paid to subcontractors, including companies such as Donelson Construction Company, a paving contractor from Clever, MO.
About 50 percent of all sub-contracts were paid to Donelson, with DeLozier paying $432,000 and Helm spending more than $1.6 million with the vendor.
Fuel is another common expense and each district's fuel cost directly reflect the distance traveled to collect materials or the amount of fuel provided to other agencies.
DeLozier has the highest fuel cost of $195,000 and provides fuel to the Rogers County Sheriff's Office.
Helm has spent $180,000 on fuel and provides the service to a number of area agencies including Oologah Talala Emergency Medical Services, the town of Oologah and several rural water districts.
Thacker currently has the lowest fuel cost at $140,000 and he supplies fuel to area agencies including the Rogers County Assessor's Office.
Some of the fuel costs are recovered thru reimbursements to each district by the area agencies.
The cost of doing daily business goes beyond materials and salaries, each commissioner spends money monthly on tools, parts and other supplies.
For example, Helm spent $40,000 on tires since July and the commissioners have paid more than $25,000 to local automotive suppliers.
Due to increasing expenses, the commissioners have actively voiced their concerns about the upcoming vote and the impact it will have on their budget.
Thacker recently said, "If the one-cent goes away about two thirds of the employees goes away. Without the one-cent you may get your ditches mowed once but snow patrol is not happening. There will be no weed eating around the stop signs. If you have no money you do without. It would be detrimental to the county."
According to the county financial reports Rogers County is currently spending less than one percent of the total one-cent fund on salaries.
Currently, the county is using the t-highway account to pay salaries and provide operational expenses and the one-cent for roadwork and equipment, according to county financial statements.
Compared to the county t-highway account, the one-cent fund accounts for almost all roadwork expenses.
"T-highway revenues are from state imposed fuel taxes and disbursements are for the maintenance and construction of county roads and bridges," according to the Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector's office.
The t-highway fund pays $1.8 million in salaries and benefits.
That is 73 percent of the total salaries paid from both the t-highway and one-cent accounts.
Additionally the commissioners have paid other employee expenses this year from the t-highway fund including $14,000 in travel, $22,000 for cellular or other phone services, $47,000 for uniforms and supplies, $3,800 on medical treatment, $4,680 for office supplies and $1,000 for Java Daves Coffee.
The t-highway account pays for additional daily operating expenses including utility services for the county barns, including alarm services, gas, water, trash, extermination services, insurance and electricity.
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· Enhancement of participation in the Confidence Building Measures - how States Parties can better exchange information to increase transparency and build confidence in compliance.
The Meeting of Experts will be chaired by Ambassador Boujemâa Delmi of Algeria. Referring to the comprehensive nature of the meeting, the Chairman said "I am confident that we will be able to convert the decisions of the Seventh Review Conference into a renewed and revitalized intersessional programme that makes a genuine contribution to reducing the risks posed to global security by biological weapons".
Broad participation in expected at the meeting. As well as the States Parties to the BWC, key intergovernmental organizations will participate, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), INTERPOL, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Expert international bodies will also be present, such as IAP: The Global Network of Science Academies, and the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The private sector will participate, including the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations and the International Gene Synthesis Consortium. Individual technical experts will be participating as guests of the meeting, including from Aston University, the University of Bradford and the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre.
Among other issues, the meeting is expected consider the publication of two controversial scientific papers on the mammalian transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) virus. The formal work of the meeting will include time set aside to examine developments in science that have potential for uses contrary to the provisions of the Convention. A side event on 17 July is planned by the governments of the countries from which the papers originated, to address their experiences and the implications for science governance.
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The Biological Weapons Convention, more formally referred to as the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, opened for signature in 1972 and entered into force in 1975. It prohibits the development, production, acquisition, transfer, retention, stockpiling and use of biological and toxin weapons and is a key element – along with the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and the Chemical Weapons Convention – in the international community's efforts to address the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The Biological Weapons Convention is the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning an entire category of weapons. It currently has 165 States parties, with a further 12 having signed but not yet ratified.
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Todays guests were Jason Aycock, the new Artistic Director for Thalian Association Children's Theatre (T.A.C.T.) and Susan Habas, the Managing Director of Thalian Association Community Theatre. They told us about T.A.C.T.'s upcoming season of plays and about the T.A.C.T. Academy that is offering classes now.
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When Pauline Cepeda came to the United States from the Philippines as an eight year old her mother insisted that she take advantage of as many opportunities as possible to improve her English and break out of her shell, so she signed her up for the Young Writers Workshop. Little did Cepeda know that she would grow up in the workshop over the next 10 years where her writing would flourish and she would eventually serve as a mentor for other young writers.
More than 475 future Warriors swarmed the California State University, Stanislaus Friday at the first of five New Student Orientations to prepare incoming students for life at the Turlock campus.
Parents of students in the Turlock Unified School District may need to make child care changes to adjust to the new bell schedule on Wednesdays next school year that has students released almost an hour earlier to accommodate the District's new Local Control Accountability Plan.
A new charter school geared towards struggling students may become a part of the Turlock Unified School District as soon as the 2014-2015 school year pending District approval.
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The playoff race continues tonight in HSBC Arena as the Sabres meet the running-for-the-offseason Florida Panthers. Will be definitely keeping an eye on the out-of-town board tonight as the Hurricanes are in Tampa for a 7:30 start and the gasping-for-air Devils are in Pittsburgh at 7. New Jersey is here tomorrow night and the Sabres will just miss the return of Zach Parise.
The Devils are simply running out of time after their miraculous run as they enter tonight's game nine points out with nine games to play and this looks like their do-or-die weekend.
Not much to say about the Sabres' game yet. It's the start of yet another back-to-back, their 18th of 22 this season. The Sabres are 9-7-1 in the first half and 7-8-2 in the second. Buffalo has swept two sets, split 13 and been swept twice.
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7 p.m: All seven defensemen take the ice for the Sabres. There is a rumor that Tyler Myers is ill but he is taking the warmup. So is Steve Montador. Stay tuned.
7:30 p.m.: Sabres scratch Montador. Myers is in.
Sabres starters: Gerbe (big hand when he was introduced)-Gaustad-Mancari-Butler-Leopold. Goal: Miller
Panthers starters: Booth-Reasoner-Dadonov-Weaver-Garrison. Goal: Vokoun.
Third Period
9:21 p.m.: The puck is dropped. Gaustad returns to take the draw.
13:43 left: Miller with a nice pad save on Weiss. Shots are 3-2 for Buffalo.
10:48 left: Samsonov for hooking. Sabres need to get a clincher right here.
10:17 left: There you go. Pominville's shot from the point is deflected home by Leopold. What was he doing there? Sabres lead, 3-1.
10:04 left: And that's going to be it for the Panthers. Stafford makes a steal at center ice and puts home an Ennis rebound. His second of the night and 28th of the year. Sabres lead, 4-1. Two goals in 13 seconds.
8:45 left: Mancari goes for slashing. Carolina takes a 3-1 lead in the third at Tampa, which is really struggling of late. Looks like Buffalo lead will remain at three points.
6:19 left: Penalty killed. Shots are 8-4 for Buffalo in this period (29-18 game). This is called taking care of business.
5:00 left: If Sabres hold on -- and they better -- they will improve to 17-16-4 at home. It will mark the first time this year they have more home wins than regulation home losses. Remember, they started here 0-6-1 so they've spent nearly five months climbing back.
2:43 left: The fans are doing the wave. Really? Ugh. OK. At least we get some hip music to it with the Hawaii Five-O theme. But still. Very 80s.
1:30 left: Ennis stopped in tight after a great move to avoid the defense. Good thing he did or he might have lost a knee.
2.5 left: Panthers beat Miller for a meaningless goal to make it 4-2. Evgeny Dadonov.
It's over: A solid 4-2 win. Carolina leading 4-1 with 5:00 left so no change there. Final shots were 32-24 for Sabres.
Second Period
8:28 p.m. The puck is dropped. AP eagle eye Bob Matuszak spots no David Booth on the Panthers' bench.
17:27 left: Ennis has been a maniac in this game, skating all over the place. He dumps it to Boyes and his backhander is tipped home by Stafford for his team-high 27th. Sabres lead, 2-1. Stafford's first goal since the March 6 overtime winner at Minnesota, a drought of six scoreless games and two missed due to a hamstring strain.
13:35 left: Shots are 5-2 for the Sabres in this period. A good start.
10:00 left: We've played half the period in 12 minutes of real time. Almost no whistles.
9:35 left: Finally a whistle on a Vokoun save. Shots are 7-2 for Buffalo. Booth will not return tonight according to the Panthers.
9:11 left: Weiss for elbowing Gaustad. Pretty high. Looked a little like Crosby-Steckel although this didn't look all that accidental. Gaustad to the room.
8:39 left: Vanek absolutely robbed by Vokoun with the left pad trying to wrap the rebound around the Florida goalie.
7:52 left: Leopold and Connolly avert disaster at the point as Leopold gets back to snuff Ryan Carter's breakaway attempt. The net came popping off behind Miller and Leopold was shaking his left hand going back to the bench.
6:34 left: A dangerous game with the weak Panthers hanging around. Shots are 20-10 for Buffalo (10-4 in this period)
5:02 left: Carolina takes a 2-1 lead in the second period at Tampa Bay.
3:50 left: Gerbe goes for tripping, a quick takedown of Samsonov at center ice.
2:36 left: Miller with his best save of the night, moving to his left to rob Dmitry Kulikov with the glove. Came a few seconds after Weiss' shot was tipped through teh crease but not into the net by MIke Santorelli.
1:38 left: Sabres survive the Florida power play.
1:00 left: Miller stops a Marty Reasoner deflection after some rough work in his own zone by Leopold.
9.4 left: Miller again as Santorelli breaks in through the circle. Shot gap cut to 11-8 by Panthers.
First Period
18:37 left: Pominville pounds home a rebound from the edge of the crease after Vanek ends up on his butt in the crease bumped into Vokoun. They ruled he was pushed in there. Sabres lead, 1-0, on Pominville's 19th.
17:42 left: Referee Bill McCreary talked to Panthers coach Pete DeBoer about the goal and said he was going to call a cross-checking penalty on Keaton Ellerby for the bump on Vanek and that's why the goal stood. McCreary, by the way, is working his final regular-season game in Buffalo tonight in a career that dates to 1984. The longtime NHL official is retiring after the season.
15:59 left: Myers certainly looked ill there. Falls to his knees in front of his own net and lets go a weak backhander that's easily intercepted by Sergei Samsonov. He backhands one past a clearly surprised Miller to end the Panthers shutout streak at 135 minutes, 21 seconds. Game tied, 1-1.
14:23 left: Vokoun with the nice stop on Morrisonn and the rebound by Ennis.
12:51 left: The Edge sends its thanks to the Panthers Radio Network for some pregame air time. Longtime NHL defenseman Randy Moller, who played parts of two seasons in the 90s with the Sabres, is the Florida radio voice and his goal calls are wildly popular in the Sunshine State. Moller is best known for his days with the Quebec Nordiques and also played with the New York Rangers before finishing his career with the Panthers in 1995.
11:39 left: Boyes stoned from in front on great Ennis feed. Shots are 8-3 for Buffalo so far as Vokoun has been excellent.
8:30 left: Excellent attention to detail by the game staff to again put NCAA Tournament scores up on the out-of-town board. Just noticed Kansas has an early 25-9 lead on Richmond. So much for the Cinderella.
5:10 left: Not many whistles here. Gerbe-Gaustad-Mancari still causing plenty of havoc in the offensive zone. No substitute for hard work. Shots are 9-4.
2:35 left: Kansas is up on Richmond 33-11 and North Carolina leads Marquette, 36-15? No drama for CBS and TBS early, that's for sure. Meanwhile, Carolina and Tampa Bay are 1-1 in the first period.
2:31 left: David Booth to the dressing room for the Panthers after taking a puck to the mouth.
End-1st: Tied at 1-1. Shots were 10-6 for Buffalo. Panthers outscored Buffalo, 8-1, in the first period of their four meetings this season.


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The 40th annual conference is set for July 2 – 6 at the Conference Center at Pitt-Johnstown, on the picturesque campus of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, PA. The campus is a 650-acre mountaintop wildlife preserve with 40 acres of hiking trails.
Registrants are offered two package options:
- FULL PACKAGE: July 2 – 6 (five days, four nights). The program begins Wednesday afternoon (July 2).
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The education program for all packages concludes Sunday afternoon.
The conference features experts in the fields of health, nutrition, animal rights, the environment, exercise and related lifestyle areas, plus talented chefs.
Click here for a PDF of the full 2013 program and check out the NAVS website for updates and registration
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In 2009, when Danny Green was a scrub for the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James was the teams star, I visited the Cavaliers locker room to interview Green.
Green has rarely lacked confidence even then, when he was a barely-used Cavalier. Mid-interview, Green saw LeBron walk over to the next locker and started telling him about the powerful dunks Green said he had put down earlier in the day.
I looked like a young you out there, Green said.
LeBron guffawed. He was the king of Cleveland at the time. Green had won a national championship at North Carolina earlier that year, but six months later he was a rookie who was so far down the totem pole in Cleveland that he was going to get cut before he ever began his second season there.
Now they are both on different teams, and both LeBron and Green have a chance to become MVP of these NBA Finals.
LeBrons Miami team trails Greens San Antonio squad, 3-2, with Game 6 on Tuesday night in Miami and Game 7 (if necessary) Thursday in Miami. Green has rocketed into the forefront of these Finals by making an astounding 25 3-pointers through five games, shooting so well it seems almost impossible that he once was demoted to the NBA D-League, took a detour through Slovenia to play basketball and was cut by the very same Spurs twice!
There are two other far more traditional MVP candidates for these Finals Miamis Dwyane Wade and San Antonios Tony Parker. If the Spurs win, Id actually vote for Parker, whose quickness is otherworldly.
Still Green as a legitimate MVP candidate? Its an amazing thing. But setting the NBA Finals record for 3-pointers (Green is 25-for-38 overall on threes through five games) will do that for you.
Green played in the shadow of Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington all first-round draft choices on the 2009 North Carolina championship team. Although Hansbrough got most of the publicity for his competitive streak, Green was also a strong competitor. He told me in that same interview that he had won over 80 percent, of the time in the legendarily intense summertime pickup games at Smith Center. He claimed his winning percentage was a record.
Green did a little bit of everything then for North Carolina pump-up-the-crowd pregame dances, blocked shots, rebounds and a dunk over Duke guard Greg Paulus that Tar Heels fans still remember with fondness. But Green was not the deadeye 3-point shooter then that he is now. Ellington was the purest shooter on that team.
Picked in the second round of 2009 draft by Cleveland, Greens work habits also were questionable during his first years in the NBA. But he has matured. And much like Boris Diaw, Green has thrived in the Spurs team-first system.
Diaw was an on-and-off player for the Charlotte Bobcats with fine passing skills, a soft body and a frustrating temperament. But Diaw is fully engaged with the Spurs. He played great defense on LeBron in Game 5 and held James to 1-for-8 shooting during the possessions in which Diaw guarded the NBAs best player.
Green plays good perimeter defense and shoots beautifully from the 3-point line. And thats it. He really doesnt have any NBA-caliber offensive moves besides spot up and shoot. But he does that so well that he starts for what may soon be the NBA champion.
To win NBA Finals MVP, Green probably needs one more great game. The NBA Finals needs one more great game, too.
Only one of the first five games has been decided by single digits, and that was Game 1. The average margin of victory has been 17 points.
Thats partly because Green has helped San Antonio run away with a couple of wins. While both teams have their own Big Three, it is Green who has been hitting the biggest threes of all shooting better from long range than his former Cleveland teammate ever has and authoring the most unlikely story of this series.
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By that time, Barrymore had grown-up problems of her own. Having achieved stardom in E.T. at the age of 7, she moved on to a series of successes in such movies as Firestarter and Irreconcilable Differences. She was a 40-year-old in a 9-year-old's body, and she played the role with precocious ease. Talk shows, drinks, movie offers, nightclubs, cocaine. All before the seventh grade. Then, at 14, it all seemed too much.
"I did attempt suicide, but I didn't really want to die," Barrymore says now. "At least I didn't want to disappear permanently. They rushed me to the hospital and saved me, and there I had to make a conscious decision. I made a conscious decision that I really wanted to live."
The hospital where she spent the next few months was a cross between a rehab center and a mental institution. On the inside she experienced characters like Lillian, the elderly woman in the adult ward who would suddenly slam down her lunch tray and in her best Mae West imitation scream, "You just paid a quarter for an orgasm!" On the outside, living on her own and trying to make ends meet, Barrymore filed the papers necessary to emancipate herself from her parents in order to legally work the same hours as 18-year-olds. Fifteen-year-old recovering substance abusers, she found, sometimes have a difficult time paying the rent.
"She's so appealing, and she's so bright, and she's such an essentially nice human being," says rock star David Crosby, who along with his wife, Jan, took in Barrymore for close to a year after her treatment. "We found it very easy to love her, and I still do. I knew her dad, and I know her mom. I've watched the four generations of major alcoholic destruction that she comes out of. So I feel very strongly about her. She's an extremely talented kid who got dealt a very short hand. Her father was a disaster and never made any attempts to correct it – let's leave it at that. And to put it very mildly, as politely as I can, I disagree with her mother's approach to life rather much. I would really hope that Drew keep a distance from her. I will say this: I consider her mother one of the worst influences possible."
Luckily for Drew Barrymore, there were more parental substitutes – fantasy figures for most of the world but the only grounding forces in her existence. To this day, Steven Spielberg still tells Barrymore that she is his eldest child.
"If people like David and Jan and Steven weren't in my life, I'd probably be a lot more fucked up than I am," says Barrymore. "They made me believe that there actually were trustworthy people out there."
Barrymore fidgets and for a split second begins a microtirade about how Spielberg can only see her as his little girl. Then a moment later she smiles and admits that this is precisely the way she likes it.
This year on her birthday Spielberg sent a package to a restaurant where she and friends had gathered. In it was a blanket and a copy of the Playboy magazine in which Barrymore recently posed for a pictorial. The note said: "Here's my version of you in Playboy and a blanket to wrap yourself in." Inside the magazine Spielberg's art department had woven its own computer-generated wardrobe to cover her in every photo.
Drew Barrymore claims that no one who truly cares about her would dare call her Drew. It is a name she has heard and read so many times in so many contexts that she can barely stomach it. Some people call her D, but to most she is Daisy. Around her neck she wears a beaded, grade-school-style necklace that proudly spells out her flowery alias.
In person Barrymore is tiny, a miniature version of herself: ultrahip, 70s leftovers tightly clinging to her matchstick limbs and a coquettish expression attached to a face that doesn't look a day removed from her role in E.T. Because of this she possesses the ability to charm those around her in two contradictory manners. One is overt: all over-the-top enchantment and a contagious overflow of positive energy. The other is passive: a thinly veiled sadness and a distinct awareness that she comes with her share of baggage and could certainly use a little help in carrying it. She uses both tactics equally, and each comes in handy. Her history, she knows, is one in which most of the world is well schooled.
"I think the day I read an article that doesn't talk about my past, I'll probably shit in my pants," says Barrymore out of the blue. "Just shit my pants. I've never shit my pants my whole life, but that will be the time."
A laundry problem is quickly averted. Talk turns to Mad Love, and Barrymore, without missing a beat, travels back in time to make a point.
"My character goes into an institution, and her brain starts to deteriorate," she says. "How many other fucking actresses can relate to that?" She stops, waves her arm in the air like a kid trying to get the teacher's attention and shouts at the top of her lungs, "I can!"
And so the question bubbles menacingly to the surface: Does she worry about drinking again after having lost a year of her life to institutionalized rehabilitation?
"Every time I take a sip of alcohol, I think, 'What will people think?' " Barrymore says. "That's strange. Try that on for fucking size, living your life in a fishbowl for everyone to judge you. How 'bout that?"
Instead of an answer, another question is asked. This time, it is whether – regardless of public opinion – she fears that drinking might shatter the fragile balance that she has achieved in her life and career. She is, after all, part of a family tree that has been tragically uprooted by its history of alcoholism. To this, she smiles sweetly.
"I'm fine," Barrymore says. "This is what kills me. Ask any person in this industry if I ever missed one fucking day of work or if I was ever unprofessional or threw a temper tantrum or walked onto the set drunk. It's never happened. Doesn't that stand for something?"
She pauses and affects the more dramatic tone of a veteran actress.
"The only reason anyone found out anything about me is because some guy broke into my hospital and reported it," she says. "I never asked him to exploit my story. Nobody ever would have known, because I never missed a day of work over it. This guy has some pretty gnarly karma coming. So to clear the record I had to tell people myself. I had to go, 'OK, I'm getting my fucking life together.' And now I'm fine. I'm happy."
Barrymore dabs her hand at the tears that are beginning to chase each other down her cheeks and chooses her most childlike tone. "Can't just be happy?"
It is not your typical uniform in which to commune with nature. We are seated in a park alongside New York's East River, and Drew Barrymore is extolling the virtues of the great outdoors. She is wearing a leopard-print coat and an intentionally loose, low-cut blouse circa Charlie's Angels, the Cheryl Ladd years. Her purple sunglasses are held together with a diaper pin, and her hair is in spiky disarray. It is a souvenir snapshot from the Sex Pistols' reunion picnic. If, of course, they ever decide to hold one.
Barrymore settles onto a park bench and begins playing with a friend's dog. Suddenly she leans back and stares intently into the air.
"I tell you, nothing makes you appreciate being outside more than being locked up for a year," she says. "Nobody appreciates the sky more than me. Nobody. I have this fear that goes way beyond claustrophobia. I want to fucking be free. I mean that in every possible way."
More than any one thing, Barrymore seems defined by her inner battle between yearning for liberation and needing security and reassurance. She repeatedly and emphatically stresses that her friends are her family. Since the age of 15 she has lived a life of utter independence. At the same time, she has almost never been without a boyfriend, and a large number of those relationships have been live-in. When she and Erlandson began dating last June, they set about cohabiting almost immediately.
It wasn't your typical beginning to a love story (unless your idea of romance involves vomiting, in which case your opportunities are probably rather limited). It was in Los Angeles, outside a rock club, and Barrymore had stepped outside to relieve herself of anything she had eaten in the last 24 hours. Suddenly a hand was placed on her shoulder. Noticing the tiny creature purging herself in the relatively seedy neighborhood, Erlandson had stopped to stand guard. Skyrockets, however, were not yet in flight.
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BRIDGEPORT – Bridgeport jumped out to a 17-7 lead and never looked back as the Bulls defeated the Mineral Wells Rams, 54-40, here Friday night in a non-district game.
The loss drops the Rams to 10-11. The Rams will play next at 8 p.m. Tuesday at home against Burkburnett.
DaShawn Hicks led the Rams with eight points, with Ty Ashley and Ricky Scott each adding seven.
Also scoring for the Rams were Reece Tarver with five points, Biren Clardy with four, A.J. Williams and Jacoby Prestwood, each with three, Juvaree Sutton with two and Nick Wendt with one.
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---Former UB athletics director Bob Arkeilpane has been named the AD at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Arkeilpane, a Sweet Home and Syracuse graduate and the former deputy AD at Cincinnati, will succeed Dr. Ray Cieplik who will retire this summer after having served the Coast Guard Academy for more than 40 years.
Arkeilpane was the AD at UB from 1999-03.
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Every year the flu season strikes homes throughout Wisconsin, and the annual call out for flu shots echoes over the airwaves and the web. However, this year's flu season is making headlines due to a large increase in people contracting the virus as compared to last year.
Carrie Johnson, an infection control practitioner at Community Memorial Hospital, said 55 patients were hospitalized for influenza since Oct. 1. Johnson said that's the highest number of patients admitted for the flu in more than a decade.
"Wisconsin has been seeing a significantly higher number of cases of influenza," Johnson said. "It's probably the highest number of cases we've had here in 10 years."
Community Memorial isn't alone.
Flu cases in the Milwaukee area have increased to an "intense" level, significantly exceeding moderate levels in 2011-12, according to Google Flu Trends.
Wisconsin is among 42 states to have a widespread flu outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All 50 states are reporting symptoms, with Hawaii only reporting sporadic cases.
More than 1,200 people in Wisconsin have been hospitalized because of flu symptoms, creating crowding problems at Milwaukee-area hospitals, according to Today's TMJ4.
ProHealth Care in Waukesha County saw between 20 and 22 hospitalizations during the entire flu season in 2011-12. This year, they've already surpassed 100 hospitalizations at Waukesha Memorial Hospital and Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital, according to Andre Pells, a nurse in ProHealth Care's infection control department.
"It seems to be affecting the elderly and the very young predominantly. Those under one year of age, and over the age of 65," Johnson said. "People who are sick with any respiratory illness are urged to stay away from those age groups. Their bodies can't recover from influenza like healthy and young people."
Menomonee Falls School District Superintendent Patricia Greco said there haven't been an increase in the number of flu-related absences throughout the district.
Misconceptions, Symptoms, and Treatment
Johnson said there are several misconceptions about the flu virus. Often, people link vomiting and diarrhea with the flu, but Johnson said those aren't symptoms of influenza.
"That's not influenza. In most cases it's a stomach virus," Johnson said.
Telltale symptoms of the flu include:
- Fever
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- Sore throat
- Body aches
- Severe fatigue
"Generally people are so sick that they have to rest. They can't function with the flu," Johnson said.
Johnson said people with those symptoms should contact their primary care physician for treatment. Although the doors at CMH are always open, only those in need of urgent care should seek treatment at the hospital. Heading to a primary care physician helps the hospital manage its volume of patients who are in most need.
"Many times, younger healthy individuals can overcome the virus on their own," Johnson said.
Lastly, Johnson urged everyone exhibiting symptoms of the flu to stay at home until fully recovered. You're clear to return to school or work once your fever subsides for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medications.
Where to Get a Flu Shot
While the best time to receive the influenza vaccination is in October and November, there are still flu shots available. Your primary care physician can administer the vaccine any time. If you're considering getting a flu shot, here are some other places in the Menomonee Falls area that offer the vaccine:
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LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ohio (WSAZ) -- Vandals are proving when it comes to crime, there's no such thing as sacred ground.
For many, the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church serves as a symbol of freedom.
"This church is reported to be the oldest black church west of Pennsylvania," local historian Chris Saunders said.
It was a stop in the 1800's on the Underground Railroad.
James Hale says his family was involved with the church from its beginning.
Hale discovered in the past month someone had spray painted satanic symbols on the walls and pews.
"I came in and saw this, I nearly hit the ground," he said.
The number 666 and an upside down cross were painted on the floor, and a pentagram with 666 was painted on the wall and on a pew.
The church is now abandoned. Saunders says its isolated location on Burlington-Macedonia Road has made it an easy target for vandals, but this latest case is disturbing on a deeper level.
"To think people first tasted freedom here, and someone would just stomp on that memory, it's just unbelievable," Saunders said.
Hale has been painting over the vandals' work. He says it's a form of disrespect that's left him sickened.
"I know it's children or somebody completely ignorant of what they're doing, because they're trying to open a door into something they don't even know the consequences of," Hale said.
A ghost was painted on one of the windows, and stick figures were painted on several pews.
There were also some pictures stolen from inside the church.
Saunders say this hasn't been reported to police yet though, because there've been various forms of vandalism at the church over the years, and no one's ever been caught.


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