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Getting Started with Condor
Cluster computing emerged in the early 1990s when hardware prices were dropping and PCs were becoming more and more powerful. Companies were shifting from large mini-computers to small and powerful micro-computers, and many people realized that this would lead to a large-scale waste of computing power, as computing resources were being fragmented more and more. Organizations today have hundreds to thousands of PCs in their offices. Many of them are idle most of the time. However, the same organizations also face huge computation-intensive problems and thus require great computing power to remain competitive—hence the stable demand for supercomputing solutions that largely are built on cluster computing concepts.
Many vendors offer commercial cluster computing solutions. By using free and open-source software, it is possible to forego the purchase of these expensive commercial cluster computing solutions and set up your own cluster. This article describes such a solution, developed by University of Wisconsin, called Condor.
The idea behind Condor is simple. Install it on every machine you want to make part of the cluster. (In Condor terminology, a Condor cluster is called a pool. This article uses both terms interchangeably.) You can launch jobs from any machine, and Condor matches the requirements of the job with the capabilities offered by the idle computers currently available. Once it finds a suitable idle machine, it transfers the job to it, executes it and retrieves the results of the execution. One of the features of Condor is that it doesn't require programs to be modified to run on the cluster.
In practice, however, Condor is more complicated. Condor is installed in different configurations on each machine. Each Condor pool has a central manager. The central manager, as the name implies, is the central manager of the cluster. It manages the detection of new idle machines and coordinates the matchmaking between job requirements and available resources. Machines in a Condor pool also can have Submit and Full Install configurations. Submit machines are those machines that can only submit jobs, but can't run any jobs; Full Install machines are machines that can do both, submit and execute.
Condor does not require the addition of any new hardware to the network; the existing network itself is sufficient. Condor runs on a variety of operating systems, including Linux, Solaris, Digital Unix, AIX, HP-UX and Mac OS X as well as MS Windows 2000 and XP. It supports various architectures, including Intel x86, PowerPC, SPARC and so on. However, jobs developed on one specific architecture, such as Intel x86, will run only on Intel x86 computers. So, it is best if all the computers in a Condor pool are of a single architecture. It is possible, however, for Java applications to run on different architectures.
In this article, we cover the installation from basic tarballs on Linux, although distribution/OS-specific packages also may be available from the official site or sources. (See the Condor Project site for more details, www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/downloads.)
Download the tarball from the Project site, and uncompress it with:
tar -zvf condor.tar.gz
The condor_install script, located in the sbin directory, is all you need to run to set up Condor on a machine. Before you run this script, add a user named condor. For security reasons, Condor does not allow you to run jobs as root; thus, it is advisable to make a new user to protect the system.
One of the first questions the script asks is how many machines are you setting up to be part of the pool? This is important if you have a shared filesystem. If you do, the installation script will prompt you for the names of those machines, and the installation of Condor on those machines will be handled by the software itself. If a shared filesystem does not exist, you have to install Condor manually on each system. Also, if you want to be able to use Java support, you need to have Sun's Java virtual machine installed prior to installing Condor. The install script provides plenty of help and annotation on each question it asks, and you always can turn to Condor's comprehensive user manual and its associated mailing lists for help.
The variable $CONDOR is used from now on to denote the root path where condor has been installed (untarred).
After the installation, start Condor by running:
This command should spawn all other processes that Condor requires. On the central manager, you should be able to see five condor_ processes running after entering:
ps -aux | grep condor
On the central manager machine, you should have the following processes:
All other machines in the pool should have processes for the following:
And, on submit-only machines you will see:
After that, you should be able to see the central manager machine as part of your Condor cluster when you run condor_status:
$CONDOR/bin/condor_status Name OpSys Arch State Activity LoadAv Mem ActvtyTime Mycluster LINUX INTEL Unclaimed Idle 0.115 3567 0+00:40:04 Machines Owner Claimed Unclaimed Matched Preempting INTEL/LINUX 1 0 0 1 0 0 Total 1 0 0 1 0 0
If you now run condor_master on the other machines in the pool, you should see that they are added to this list within a few minutes (usually around five minutes).
Open source?
The Condor FAQ is pretty clear that source is not distributed freely.
How is Condor in any way 'Open Source'?
You just send a request
You just send a request email, and they give you access to a website with the source.
And the license allows you to do anything you want with the source (redistribute, make derivative works), ala BSD style.
Right source code is NOT
Right source code is NOT available from the website, however it is STILL opensource, because if you request it from them and have a good reason to do, like extending it for something, they will not deny the request.
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PORTLAND, Ore --- A would-be armed robber thought he could get some quick cash Tuesday afternoon. What he didn't count on was a fearless clerk and some loyal customers who weren't going to let it happen.
The robber, wearing a ski cap and sunglasses walked into Nick's Double-Up Deli, located at 8028 SE Powell Blvd, around 3:00 p.m. The store clerk who would only go by the name Guan, said the man came around the counter brandishing this gun.
"The only thing he yelled was, 'Give me the money,'" the victim said. But the tides quickly changed when a female customer walked in, startling the robber, who hide the gun behind his back.
With the robber distracted, Guan reached for the gun. The two struggled. Customers in another room heard Guan yelling, and came out to help.
The struggle went on for almost a minute. Eventually the gun clip fell to the floor. The three men beat and pushed the robber all the way through the door and he took off.
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By Robb Murray
Free Press Staff Writer
MANKATO — The phenomenon that started in a Pub 500 restroom will hit a national TV audience this week.
At 2 p.m. Friday, the restroom pregnancy test dispenser that made its debut in the ladies room at Pub 500 will be the subject of discussion on "The Doctors," a CBS show (aired locally on KEYC-TV) that features a panel of physicians addressing medical issues.
Tom Frederick, Pub 500 owner, said he'd been contacted months ago about potentially having the pregnancy test dispenser featured on the show but was only interviewed recently.
Frederick said he doesn't know much about the segment, but he said it will come during a portion of the show where Dr. Lisa will give a talk about the dangers of drinking while pregnant.
"Big kudos to Healthy Brains for Children and the whole concept of fetal alcohol syndrome and the awareness this little pregnancy test program has created for them," Frederick said.
The idea was created by Jody Allen Crowe, who has done extensive research into the impact of drinking on unborn children. He thought that if a woman knows she's pregnant, she'll be less likely to drink alcohol.
To that end, he decided the logical next step was to do something to help ensure that women could have every possible means to know whether their drinking that night will harm a life they didn't know was growing inside them.
Crowe's goal is to have pregnancy test dispensers be as common in college town bars as dispensers of other items.
So far, though, it's not exactly taking off at Pub 500.
"From what I understand, there's been some small usage," Frederick said.
He said they get some questions about it at the bar. The dispenser has gotten a lot of attention, Frederick said. It's been featured in newspapers and television stations locally and across the state and region.
But Friday's appearance on "The Doctors" may be its biggest exposure yet.
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DETROIT — In Michigan politics, the main event, of course, is the down-to-the-wire duel between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in next Tuesday's GOP presidential primary.
But an intriguing undercard, with potentially broad implications for the general election, is developing in the deepening confrontation between Romney and the state's diminished but still potent labor colossus, the United Auto Workers.
As he's campaigned across the state since last week, Romney has notably escalated both the tone and extent of his criticism of labor unions in general and the UAW in particular. In a speech before tea party activists in Oakland County on Thursday night, Romney excoriated "labor bosses" and "labor stooges" and pledged to pursue an array of policies anathema to organized labor, including "right-to-work" laws that bar closed union shops.
On Friday morning, the UAW fired back with a raucous rally on the roof of a parking garage across the street from Ford Field, the football stadium where Romney would deliver a speech to the Detroit Economic Club a few hours later. Despite a coating of slush and ice from an overnight storm, and a cold, steady drizzle, some 250 members from the UAW and other unions turned out to hear speakers slam Romney and praise President Obama for providing federal financing during the industry's restructuring.
Obama "stood with us when we had our backs to the wall," UAW President Bob King declared. To underscore the point, the UAW parked two lines of American-made cars with placards on their windshields that spelled out "Mitt Romney: Let Detroit Go Bankrupt," a reference to the headline of his 2009 New York Times op-ed piece opposing the auto-industry bailout.
The sharpening conflict with organized labor is one of several fronts on which Romney has moved toward more confrontationally conservative positions as he struggles to regain the initiative in the tumultuous GOP race. Just as Romney earlier embraced hard-line positions on immigration to draw sharp ideological distinctions with Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, he may be highlighting an adversarial stance toward organized labor partly to contrast with Rick Santorum, who sought to maintain better relations with labor as a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.
In a release last week, the Romney campaign stamped Santorum as "Big Labor's favorite senator" and derided him for voting with unions on issues such as right-to-work and the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires contractors to use union employees or to pay comparable wages on federal projects.
Without mentioning Santorum, Romney unfurled an extended denunciation of labor leaders during the tea party forum on Thursday night.
"Look, unions play an important role; I have no problem with union members and feel they make a real contribution," he said. "But let me tell you, the union bosses, that's a different group. And they gave a lot of money to Barack Obama to get him elected, and they are going to give a lot more to try and get him reelected. And so he takes care of them."
As evidence of that charge, Romney cited the ownership stake the UAW received in Chrysler and General Motors during the bankruptcy process, Obama's appointment of "labor stooges" to the National Labor Relations Board, and his resistance to right-to-work legislation. "I believe in right-to-work; I will fight for right-to-work," Romney declared, before adding later that "hopefully, we'll have national right-to-work" legislation.
Romney moderated his tone during his economic speech on Friday, but strikingly returned to criticism of the unions in response to a question about his electability. If nominated, Romney insisted, he would make the argument that Obama's policies favoring unions "all made it harder for our economy to recover."
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, who's supporting Romney, said in an interview before the speech that the tough line on unions was one of several issues, such as tax cuts, that would help Romney with the tea party movement, which is expected to cast a long shadow in Tuesday's primary. "The right to work is a hot button for the tea party, so if right-to-work is your hot button, press Mitt Romney," Schuette said. "If tax cuts are your hot button, press Mitt Romney.… He's talking tea party language."
But such heated antiunion rhetoric, in contrast to the more muted approach that Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has taken, also carries risks for Romney herepotentially in a GOP primary, but more likely in November if he wins the nomination. In 2008, exit polls showed that voters from union households cast 28 percent of the ballots in the Republican presidential primary, with Romney and Sen. John McCain of Arizona each capturing a third. Romney's notable tilt right on union issues could provide an opening in that constituency for Santorum, who stresses his blue-collar roots.
The issue could be more resonant in November. Organized labor's political clout has waned along with its declining membership, but unions remain a significant force in Michigan and other key Rust Belt battlegrounds like Ohio and Wisconsin. In the general election, union households cast about one-third of Michigan's ballots. Obama got 67 percent of their votes, but McCain still captured 31 percent.
The UAW's King on Friday predicted that Obama's share could rise in 2012 if he's paired against Romney. "A lot of our members, who sometimes are independents, are not going to vote for someone who didn't support us," he said. Michigan's labor movement may also attempt to encourage turnout by qualifying a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to bar right-to-work legislation.
Nick Singelis, who described himself as a conservative critical of Obama, left Romney's economic speech on Friday shaking his head over the candidate's tough language on labor. "Whoever is his communication director needs some better words," said Singelis, the chief of staff for a hospital chain, as he filed off of the football field on which the candidate spoke. "You say 'right-to-work' in Michigan, you turn off 50 to 60 percent of the state. You don't say that. You don't say that in a restaurant."
Perhaps an even greater threat for Romney in Michigan is that his feud with the UAW will keep alive his opposition to the auto bailout. Romney wrote a Detroit News newspaper op-ed last week reaffirming his belief that the companies should have entered bankruptcy before receiving public aid, and insisting that the federal intervention was designed mostly to protect the unions, not to revive the companies. "While a lot of workers and investors got the short end of the stick, Obama's union allies — and his major campaign contributors — reaped reward upon reward, all on the taxpayer's dime," Romney wrote.
Nationally, a narrow majority of Americans still say they oppose the bailout, according to a Gallup survey released on Thursday. But nearly two-thirds of Michigan voters (including 40 percent of Republicans) now support the intervention, according to a recent NBC News/Marist poll.
Debbie Dingell, a longtime Michigan Democratic activist and wife of Democratic Rep. John Dingell, said that represents a significant shift from internal polling in 2010 that showed the intervention failing to attract majority support even among local Democrats. "It's gotten there," she said. "When we were doing our polling last year, it wasn't there. But the fact that it's worked and gotten so much discussion has increased the numbers."
And that, in turn, has increased the optimism among local Democrats that Obama, who held an 18 percentage-point lead in Michigan over Romney in that NBC News/Marist poll, can recapture a state that swung sharply toward the Republicans in their 2010 midterm landslide.
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The Chiefs have found the big, powerful back they were searching for, signing Thomas Jones to a two-year, $5 million contract on Tuesday, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Report: Chiefs re-sign WR Chambers
The Chiefs re-signed WR Chris Chambers, an unrestricted free agent, to a three-year contract on Monday, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. The deal is reportedly worth $15 million, with $5.9 million guaranteed.
Pioli, Haley both looking for improvement from Bowe
While speaking to the media at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli and head coach Todd Haley each addressed a host of topics, but both were asked about one player in particular: WR Dwayne Bowe.
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The Chiefs announced Thursday that they have signed OLB Mike Vrabel to a contract extension. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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International agency Oxfam today warned that sanctions imposed on Mali could have devastating consequences on 3.5m people already at risk of hunger, if humanitarian needs are not safeguarded.
Growing insecurity in Mali and northern Nigeria is disrupting the supply of food to communities suffering from a major food crisis affecting 13 million people in West Africa, said international aid agency Oxfam today.
The current food crisis in Niger is likely to escalate into a full-scale humanitarian emergency if urgent action is not taken, international agency Oxfam warned today. Already, 1.9 million people are at severe risk, and by April, this number could rise to 3.5 million people if help doesn't come now, according to the National Early Warning System.
According to a recent field study conducted in communities in western and eastern Niger, between 70 and 90 per cent of people estimate their food stocks will run out before the next harvest, creating an imminent 'hunger gap'.
According to a survey carried out by Oxfam, 55% of the families in the Abou Deia region, in Chad, have had to get into debt and close to 20% have been obliged to reduce their daily intake of food, because a food crisis caused by extreme weather.
A structural vulnerability, the lack of rain and crop failure is leaving the central area of Chad in a critical situation of food security. Resources are scarce and ever more pressing needs.
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By its own admission, the Australian government's policy on asylum seekers has been overwhelmed, just three months after the passing of new laws aimed at stemming the flow of those seeking refuge in Australia.
Since the resurrection of the so-called "Pacific Solution," under which asylum seekers making their way to Australia by boat are processed offshore, 7,929 people have arrived in Australian waters on 134 boats, according to the Immigration Department.
Australian Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said Wednesday that detention facilities on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and Nauru would not be able to accommodate all the asylum seekers who had recently arrived and said that "some of these people will be processed in the Australian community."
At full capacity, Nauru and Manus Island are able to accommodate 2,100 asylum seekers, around a third of the number who have arrived since August 13 when the government announced a return to the policy introduced by the Liberal government led by John Howard in 2001.
The decision to process the overload of asylum seekers on the Australian mainland comes as Amnesty International inspectors this week described conditions at the Nauru detention center, where 387 asylum seekers are currently held, as "appalling."
Amnesty said conditions were so bad that there had been a "terrible spiral" of self-harm, hunger strikes and suicide attempts as people waited to be processed. One of several people on a hunger strike at the facility had not eaten for more than 40 days, the group said. The center on Nauru re-opened in August this year.
"In summer, in the heat, it gets to over 40 degrees during the day in those tents and it was certainly very hot and humid when we were in there. When it's raining, as it is now, the tents are leaking and their bedding gets wet at night,'' Amnesty's Graham Thor told reporters during a visit to the island.
The government has dismissed the criticism.
"Conditions on Nauru at times may not be pleasant but they are the same conditions immigration staff and service providers are working under," Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said.
Foreign Minister Senator Bob Carr insisted Wednesday that despite the extraordinarily large number of arrivals, the re-opening of the Nauru facility had deterred people from making the journey. Nor did he think that Amnesty International's observations had damaged Australia's reputation.


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Mitch Carmichael says the reasoning is simple, logical and fraught with compassion.
If folks reporting to work each day can be put to a drug test, why doesn't the same practice hold sway for anyone picking up a welfare check or food stamps?
Everywhere he stumped this year in a successful quest for a state Senate seat, the House minority whip found huge support for a Republican-led effort to conduct random drug screens for those on the dole.
Now, as a senator, representing Jackson County in the 4th District, he wants to renew an attempt to force random testing.
At least in the Senate, he has one strong ally — Delegate Craig Blair, a Republican who won a seat in the Nov. 6 election. Blair got the idea rolling a few years back, only to see it die in a House committee.
With the Republicans surging in the balloting and now claiming 46 of the 100 seats in the House, Carmichael sees his chances as vastly improved. After all, five conservative Democrats can align themselves with the GOP bloc and force any legislation onto the floor for a vote, he pointed out.
"And the Senate is a much more conservative body," he said.
Under the tentative bill, anyone on public aid — excluding, at least for now, those getting an unemployment check — could be ordered to undergo a drug screen. Three failures and the aid ceases.
"Obviously, the concern some expressed is, what do you do about the children?" he said of his campaign treks.
"This is not a mechanism to be punitive. It is intended entirely to be compassionate and help people to get off the drugs and empower them to stay clean and to provide for their families in the proper manner."
Carmichael acknowledged that some previous backers of such legislation took a hard-line approach to singularly punish the wrong-doers.
"I want to make sure people throughout the state know that is not the intention," he said.
"It is a compassionate mechanism to break the dependence. The worst thing you can do is leave a child in a drug-infested home. So with this legislation, there are three opportunities to test clean."
Testing positive the first time allows the recipient to voluntarily seek help. Failing to come clean a second time results in mandatory counseling and this can be achieved in the private sector, even in volunteer settings, such as faith-based groups.
Failing a third time brings the hammer down. Three strikes and you're out. No more welfare, period.
Is random testing fair, considering that one recipient may be clean as a houndstooth and go through a drug screen, while an habitual abuser never is examined?
"If you happen to be the one that's completely clean, and you're being tested and someone's not, that individual might view it as unfair," the senator-elect said.
"From a statistical standpoint, it's completely fair."
Momentum appears to be shifting in favor of those seeking such testing.
Twenty-eight states are proposing some variation of a testing law. Laws are already on the books in some jurisdictions.
Utah enacted legislation to compel a written questionnaire screening for drug use, while Georgia and Oklahoma passed bills requiring drug tests for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
All recipients must be tested in Tennessee.
"Everywhere I went during the campaign, people were in support of it," Carmichael said.
"There's just an overwhelming sense that we're empowering people to stay home and abuse drugs. There's a sense of fairness to say, 'If we have to take a drug test to go to work, then why not take one to stay home?' That was the biggest applause line. There was overwhelming support for it. I believe if it were put on the ballot, it would pass 75-25."


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It was our first Valentine's Day as a couple. My wife was off to her college class. I wanted to surprise her with a fancy dinner. I had candles lit, cooked crab and had wine ready to go. Then she walked in an hour early.
She was sick — puking sick.
Sometimes marriage is messy, really messy. Life after Valentine's Day can be hard. Here are a few thoughts to help us reconnect.
What next?
In marriage, there is always something next. It can be kids, retirement, a new job, or a new home. Marriage expert John Gottman talks about how couples begin to live "parallel lives." When we are always focusing on what's next and not on one another, we sometimes drift into living like roommates rather than people that want lifelong intimacy.
The Big Goals
When we were newly married, I thought I had to address everything. "I'm living with this person the rest of my life, she has to learn now that I don't want the trash there," I would think. I focused on my immediate needs and wants instead of the long-term goal of marriage. The goal of marriage is to have a deeply intimate and rewarding life with another. If we didn't think our lives would be better because of the other person, we wouldn't get married.
Live in the Now
Whether it is Jesus, Buddha or a TED talk, over and over research, theologians, and common sense shows us that when we appreciate the here and now and focus less on the past or future, we're happier. If we're thinking about something and it is better than where we are currently, we'll be disappointed. If it's worse, then we'll feel bad about it. In essence, not appreciating the present actually robs us of the full joy of the moment.


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The Madejski Stadium, a 24,200 capacity all-seater 'bowl' design, opened in August 1998 and has quickly established a reputation as one of the best of its kind.
Built to a total cost of £50m, the Stadium complex also houses a first class Conference Centre and four-star deluxe hotel, and ESPN recently voted the stadium as the best mid-sized arena in Europe. In addition, in the summer of 1999 'Match of the Day' magazine readers voted the Stadium as the third best stadium in the country behind Old Trafford and Highbury!
There has also been national and international recognition as the Stadium was chosen to host England under 21 football internationals, the Rugby Union 2001 European Shield Final and the Rugby League World Cup fixture between New Zealand and the Cook Islands in November 2000.
The Stadium is named after Reading Football Club Chairman John Madejski OBE, DL who successfully founded the 'Auto Trader' magazine and contributed a significant amount of his personal fortune to the construction of the Stadium.
Madejski Stadium is located less than a mile from Junction 11 of the M4, and has more than 2,000 parking spaces. On football matchdays, parking facilities are also available at the nearby Compaq offices and Reading Speedway Stadium. Shuttle bus services from the town centre are also available to supporters.
The A33 relief road gives a direct link from the motorway, but the roads in the area are very busy, and queuing can be expected exiting the M4 and then all the way to the Stadium. Car parking is extensive, but very popular and under extreme demand, so travelling by train to Reading Central and then by shuttle bus is recommended whenever possible.
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There were several times this season when Clinton junior Hunter Genco could have thrown in the towel.
He broke his hand throwing a punch in anger moments after a loss at a tournament in Sterling, Ill., in December. He lost back-to-back matches for the only time this season at Clinton's Bob Lueders Invitational. He trailed 8-1 in a consolation semifinal at the state tournament.
But Genco fought back from each of those to place third in the state at Class 3A 120 pounds and finish with a 37-6 record, giving him 103 career wins. Genco was selected as the Herald's Wrestler of the Year.
"He has unbelievable competitiveness," Clinton coach J.D. Lueders said. "He showed that at the state tournament, being down big and coming back to win. He broke his hand and refused to come out of the lineup."
Genco said the low point of his season was when he broke his hand.
"My parents were debating whether to even let me wrestle," he said. "I not only screwed myself, but I screwed the team over.
"I didn't get surgery. If I did I would have missed the win over Assumption and a whole lot of practices over winter break. That was my lowest point. I let down J.D. I let down the team. The most important thing is the team. It's all about the team."
That loss wasn't a bad one as it came to an Illinois state champion. All six of Genco's losses came to state qualifiers, including two that were to state runners-up and two that were to the top-ranked wrestler in Class 3A.
Genco's momentary lapse ended up proving not that costly. He was back a week later to win the title at the Saber Invitational and help the River Kings to a team title.
"I got first in that tournament without any pain," Genco said. "I wrapped my hand just to show my parents that I was protecting it, but that was the worst part. It let people know something was wrong with my hand. I was OK to wrestle. Once in a while it might hurt, but it was nothing I couldn't fight off with adrenaline."
After the injury, Genco won 16 of his next 17 matches, with the only loss coming to top-ranked Alijah Jeffery of Marion Linn-Mar. Jeffery beat Genco again at the Bob Lueders Invitational to give him four straight wins over the Clinton junior.
He vowed to end that streak.
Genco does a lot of his wrestling in practice against assistant coaches Derek Gabel or Eric Lueders.
"They put you in situations you're bad at," Genco said. "One of my goals was to beat Alijah Jeffery. They would put me in situations he got me in. I got better at those and was able to get points off them. They really pushed me."
Genco got another chance against Jeffery in the first round of the state team duals and won 6-4.
"When I got that first win against Jeffery, I knew for a fact I was never going to lose to him again," Genco said. "It was like, 'I got you now. You're never going to win a state title because I'm going to beat you.' "
The next time they met, though, Genco was put to the test because Jeffery built an 8-1 lead at the state meet.
"He was down 8-1 and I told an assistant, 'It's not over,'" J.D. Lueders said. "I knew he could come back. He has a huge heart."
Come back is just what Genco did. He still trailed 8-2 after the second period, but the final two minutes were all Genco.
"The third period is when I definitely took it to him," Genco said. "There was blood time (with 1:40 left in the match and Genco trailing 8-3). I went over to the sideline. Coach goes, 'Hunter, what do you have to do to win?' I go, 'I'm going to win, Coach. I'm going to win.' Coach said, 'No, what are you going to do to win?' I said, 'I'm going to win.' It took me a couple seconds to realize I wasn't paying attention to what he was saying. I was just so focused that I was going to win."
Genco scored all nine third-period points for an 11-8 win. He credited that win to his stamina, which he said comes from running cross country in the fall.
"Running all three years has really benefited me," Genco said. "I can outlast people in the second and third periods. ... To go hard for all six minutes, you need the stamina you get from cross country.
"A lot of times I like cross country. I like the feeling of passing people. But some days are dreadful. You want to just lay down and stare at the sky. Then I think about why I'm doing it — for wrestling. That motivates me."
That first win over Jeffery also gave Genco something he'd been lacking — confidence.
"That confidence carried on for the rest of the season," Genco said. "I know for a fact I can beat anyone in the state."
Genco came into the program as a freshman with one main goal, which is a practice he's stuck to.
"My first year out, J.D. gave us all a paper to write down our individual goals," Genco said. "I wrote I wanted to be a state placewinner. He looked at the paper and said, 'Damn boy, that's a great goal. We'll do it.' That motivated me to work harder and harder. Then, after placing seventh as a freshman, my only goal was to place higher. (He placed sixth as a sophomore). This year it was a top-three finish."
Genco said the only goal left was to win a state title.
"I'm already working out four days a week. Visualizing a gold medal keeps me driving. The coaches keep me driving. I want a state title more than anyone," Genco said.
"We all know he has the ability and the toughness," Lueders said. "He just needed confidence, and I think he's there now. ... I truly believe after what he accomplished this year, he can be a state champ. He expects to be a state champ."
Clinton's Lueders named top coach
Three years ago, J.D. Lueders took over a Clinton wrestling program that struggled though a 2-17 season.
In his first year, Lueders led the team to an 11-8 dual meet record. The next year, the River Kings set a school-record for most dual wins with 15. This year, Lueders led Clinton to a 12-3 season, including wins over the No. 2 team in Class 2A, Davenport Assumption, and Class 3A No. 8 Burlington. The River Kings finished the season ranked ninth as a team, and for the third consecutive season Lueders was selected as the Herald's All-Area Coach of the Year.
"The culture has changed and the attitude," Lueders said. "I wasn't there for the 2-17 season. But there were kids who were part of it when I came in. I set a standard of a successful season. The kids worked really hard and bought in."
Lueders said when he was a part of the program in the 1980s it had a winning culture, and he wanted to return to that.
"It's been a neat journey," Lueders said. "To progress to where we are now and beat Davenport Assumption. Three years ago I told the kids we were going to pack the gym, wrestle the best in the state and beat them. I could see they wanted it. It was a neat thing."
Clinton junior Hunter Genco said: "When J.D. said that, we believed him. He believed in the team. We got what we were expecting. We're expecting even more next year. This was a fun year. The team really bonded. We did what we set out to do. J.D.'s plan was to get Clinton wrestling back on the map. Now everybody knows us."
The River Kings had five wrestlers qualify for state, but Lueders said it takes a lot more than five wrestlers to have success in dual meets.
"The idea that we push through the program is that all the kids are a big part of it," Lueders said. "It takes all of them to be successful. We make them all feel like they're a part of it. We call it a family. We're already looking forward to next year. I have a great coaching staff that takes time to work with every kid."
The 34-33 win on criteria over Assumption was likely the biggest, but the win over Burlington may have shown how much the culture of the program has changed.
"We beat Burlington 47-30," Lueders said. "I went into the locker room and the kids were upset. I told them it was a pretty good win. They looked at me and said, 'Aren't we supposed to?' We were talking about beating the No. 8 team and not beating them by enough."
Clinton junior Alex Caldwell said: "We expected to win. No one was too excited because we all knew we could wrestle a lot better. Coach demands that we do our best, and we weren't at our best. We still got the win, so it was a good night."
Genco said the team wasn't happy, which was a big change from the past.
"We felt like we should have dominated them," he said. "When J.D. was in school, they would beat the crap out of people. We didn't beat the crap out of them, so we were disappointed. That was a lot different. A couple years ago we didn't expect that much, nothing like what we expect now. We expect to be the best."
A lot of that change in attitude can be attributed to Lueders; he's also responsible for putting them in a place to be that successful.
"He's developed me as a wrestler and a person," Caldwell said. "He teaches us life lessons while we're in the room. ... He's just a good guy. He develops everybody from the 106-pounders to the heavyweight. He puts in so much time for us."


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MODESTO — Henry Solario is addicted to all things golf.
The satisfying click of a well-struck 5-iron. The moment when one of his students finally makes solid contact. Decades-old memories of his days as a caddie and scratch player at Modesto Municipal.
Solario, 81, shows his golf credentials with his leathery dark skin, born of years walking the local fairways. As a 19-year-old, he finished 3-3-3 and shot 6-under-par 66 at Del Rio Country Club. Today, his teaching skills and homespun personality have inspired thousands of senior-citizen students and golfers of all ages at McHenry Golf Center, where he gives lessons and spins stories collected on the golf scene for nearly 70 years.
In 2010, the lifelong Modestan was inducted to the Modesto High Hall of Fame. From selling cars to hitting it long and straight, Solario remains a civic treasure and a walking time capsule of local golf.
Q: Where do you find your most enjoyment as a golf instructor?
A: I enjoy teaching seniors and juniors, but my enjoyment is when I see people hit the ball well, I tell them, "You can take it to the bank." I've done my job. As long as you can hit one ball straight, you can play golf. That's what keeps me going. I teach basic skills. You think Arnold Palmer read the golf magazines about swinging the club? No. He says, "Swing whatever you got. Swing your swing."
Q: At one time, you taught a few visually challenged golfers. How did that work out?
A: The only problem I had is that I had only three, and I couldn't get people to pick them up and take them to me. When I had them out on the range, I just lined them up and told them to swing. That worked for one of them, Evelyn Burris, who was a good golfer, but it was harder for the others who had not played golf before. I would line up the putter on the green for them and let 'em swing. I played with a blind guy once at Muni and he shot a 42 for nine holes. He had a grandson who would line him up. He would walk on the green and read the putts with his feet!
Q: What was more satisfying to you, playing a great round or giving a great lesson?
A: Giving a great lesson. I was a scratch player, but I enjoy more what I'm doing right now. Helping people to have fun with the game is the best reward. I like to see people laugh and enjoy the game.
Q: Your introduction to the game was tinged with fate. It was almost like golf was your destiny.
A: When I was 12, I was riding my new Schwinn bicycle to a friend's house and we were going to compare our balsa-wood airplanes. I was riding on the road to the left of Muni's No. 9 (today, No. 6), and a golf ball dented one of my spokes. The guy who hit my bike was Morley Theaker, who was the second president at Del Rio. He gave me a dime and then asked me, "Would you like to caddie for me?" I made $1.60 that day, and my younger brothers Ruben and Rudy and our friend Henry Rios became caddies the next day. We could make $1 a loop, but we would double-bag, so that's $2 a loop, with sometimes a tip. During those days, I could take a quarter and go to the Strand Theater and buy a Coke and some popcorn and still have 4 cents left over. What I always wonder is what really got me into golf the ball that hit my bike, or my balsa-wood airplane.
Q: What is the most important quality in building a good swing?
A: Tempo. A nice and easy swing and keeping your balance. To do this, you have to have a good grip. Without a good grip, you can't hit the ball good.
Q: Seniors can't swing the way they used to when they were more limber. How do they adapt in their later years?
A: I tell them not to swing hard. That can throw your timing off. I also tell them to hit the ball with your right hand (for right-handers). The left hand is the guide, and you hit the ball with your right hand. Home-run hitters get their power with their right hand. Ferris Fain (a two-time American League batting champion with the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1940s) believed that. I went to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles for two weeks with Joe Zakarian (former Del Rio head pro) for a golf clinic. Fain was there. He said, "I get it from my left hand (he was a lefty). If I use my right hand too much, all I'm going to get is a little Texas leaguer over second base."
Q: You attended that great exhibition match that Ben Hogan played in not long after Del Rio opened. Any memories?
A: On No. 7 (of today's Oak course), Hogan asked his caddie LeRoy Silva, "What's the yardage?" LeRoy said, "It's a 3-iron," and Hogan said, "Son, I didn't ask you what iron. I asked for the yardage." He shot 69. But back then when we caddied, we knew after a few holes how far our guys hit the ball, so we would just give them the right club. If we were at about 100 yards, we would say, "A smooth 9-iron or an easy 8." There were no yardage numbers on the sprinklers at that time. We might have a marker or a tree for 150 yards away.
Q: Would it be fair to call the caddies hustlers when they played?
A: We were all hustlers. There was a guy named Oakdale Andy and he would love to putt against us for nickels. To this day, I always think he let us beat him because he always paid us in quarters. We had a lot of fun at Muni and at Del Rio, too. We didn't play for a lot of money, but I remember one time when we got to No. 6 at Muni (today, it's the par-3 third), and the loser on that hole had to buy the Cokes at the store across the street. The can openers hung from a tree near the green. I lost, but I had only 15 cents in my pocket, and they cost a nickel apiece, so I had to get the cans and go thirsty. From that day forward, I always make sure I have enough money in my pocket to cover the bet! One of the guys that day was Freddie Bumgardner (for whom Del Rio's annual junior tournament is named).
Q: What are your thoughts about Muni and its future?
A: The First Tee is doing a great job out there. I'm on the committee now. They're thinking about building a new clubhouse at Muni. The course is in good shape. They just need to regrade the tees. I hope they never close Muni. It's a tough course. Are you kidding me? When we played it years ago, there were more traps out there. The old No. 1 (today's No. 7) was 30 yards farther, but they moved the green forward to make room for the ballpark (the remodeled Thurman Field next door). At old No. 7 (today, the par-4 fourth), I used to hit driver and 7-iron or 8-iron. Today, it's driver-hybrid and I hope to reach the green!
Bee staff writer Ron Agostini can be reached at email@example.com or (209) 578-2302. Follow Ron via Twitter, @modbeesports.


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WASHINGTON — Up against a deadline, Congress passed and sent a waiting President Barack Obama legislation late Wednesday night to avoid a threatened national default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown, the culmination of an epic political drama that placed the U.S. economy at risk.
The Senate voted first, a bipartisan 81-18 at midevening. That cleared the way for a final 285-144 vote in the Republican-controlled House about two hours later on the legislation, which hewed strictly to the terms Obama laid down when the twin crises erupted more than three weeks ago.
The legislation would permit the Treasury to borrow normally through Feb. 7 or perhaps a month longer, and fund the government through Jan. 15. More than 2 million federal workers would be paid — those who had remained on the job and those who had been furloughed.
After the Senate approved the measure, Obama hailed the vote and said he would sign it immediately after it reached his desk. "We'll begin reopening our government immediately and we can begin to lift this cloud of uncertainty from our businesses and the American people."
Readers of the Daily Item Facebook page responded to a simple question: How do you think each sides handled the shutdown?
"How can you say the drama is over, all they did was delay it again for another three months … and again use scare tactic again against the American people. Yes, I am afraid about what could happen but the line has to be drawn some were. We cannot keep going on the path we are going. Time for the government to say enough is enough and try and get this country back on the right path." – Robert Haddock
"Time for the PEOPLE to say enough is enough." – Melissa Keister
"I think 'badly' is an apt description." – John Del Vecchio
"It was a pitiful showing by the right wing extremist. It cost the country $24 billion dollars and for absolutely nothing. Hopefully, and I sincerely doubt it's likely, the Republicans will see the poison in their midst and distance themselves from the loathsome tea party. Unfortunately, there are no apologies coming from the Tea Party, just the same arrogance and echo chamber rhetoric from before." – Eric Adams


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One of a Kind Candidate: Keith Goodenough, Natrona County Commissioner, Casper, WY
Here at Comedy Central's Indecision we loooove those definitive Best-Of lists: the top 10 burger joints, the best places to Groupon your massage latte. Maybe we think we deserve the best eyebrow threading in the tri-state area. But maybe we should be satisfied with a pretty decent eyebrow threading, no? Keith Goodenough is our man.
Casper, Wyoming's Goodenough is running as an independent for commissioner of Natrona County. He's fed up with the animosity of the two-party system that says if your party is the best, the other party has to be the worst. If Bronzed Beauties has the finest tanning beds around, then there's no room for Solar Dreamz at the table. We take these choices so seriously, when the truth is, either party will let you tan your downstairs parts as long as you shower first. Are these metaphors pretty much spot-on, or what?
Goodenough has created a "party of one" – awww – to combine the bits he likes from Democratic, Republican and Libertarian ideas. It's an Island of Dr. Moreau for city governance: the body of gun rights with the head of a social safety net. What ghastly beasts do ye create in Wyoming? It should be noted that Goodenough is running against Republicans and a Democrat but also candidates from the Constitution Party, yet there is no mention of his political human centipede wearing a tricorne.
But perhaps his greatest selling point is that by being on the ballot, when voters look at the Republican and Democratic candidates, they won't have to choose the lesser of two evils. Instead they can shrug their shoulders and say, "Eh, good enough. Let's get tacos."
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Wyoming Legislature Prepares for Zombie Apocalypse
Different states attract tourists in their own ways. California is known for its beaches, Maine for its lobsters and New York for its culture and nightlife.
But, if well-planned post-apocalyptic survivalists societies are your thing, then come on over to beautiful Wyoming…
Responding to economic instability both in the U.S. and abroad, lawmakers in Wyoming are advancing what is quickly becoming known as the "Doomsday Bill.
"If enacted, House Bill 85 would create a "government continuity task force" to study how a variety of crises would affect the state, such as an economic meltdown, a U.S. constitutional crisis, or disruptions in food and energy supplies, according to the bill's text. The law also suggests looking into providing an "alternative currency" if the U.S. dollar should collapse…
"This isn't about doomsday," the bill's sponsor, Republican state Rep. David Miller told The Daily Caller. "It is just planning. I don't want people thinking that the federal government is going to be there every step of the way to solve all of their problems."
When faced with the prospect of total economic collapse, why waste precious resources on silly projects like creating jobs or stimulating small business? As the rugged individualists of Wyoming know, the proper response is to form a government task force to help residents grab their guns, build bomb shelters and start collecting canned beans. You see, Wyoming lawmakers don't want to be in the business of solving your problems, just causing them.
I suppose it's nice to know that even in the event of a zombie apocalypse, Wyoming will have the most ideologically pure libertarian zombies in the country.
Those state legislators are really using their BRAAAAIIIINS.
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The United States of Unflattering Stereotypes
How long does it take to travel to every state in the nation and mock it right to its face? About two minutes…
I think it's really cool that Paul Jury traveled 19,000 miles in the service of writing his book States of Confusion, but you've got to wonder if it was really necessary. If he was really interested in seeing how everybody in the country really lives, couldn't he have just gone to a Wal-Mart in a Hoveround?
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The University of Wyoming's Dick Cheney Center for International Students and Brain-Exploding Irony
When you think of a safe and nurturing set of arms lovingly outstretched for foreign-born young adults, it's pretty much impossible to escape the one most obvious correlation:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney…
A decision by the University of Wyoming to name a new center for international students for former Vice President Dick Cheney is drawing criticism from people who say Cheney's support for the Iraq war and harsh interrogation techniques should disqualify him from the distinction…
The center is funded in part with $3.2 million the Cheneys donated to the university in several installments while he was vice president…
"We feel that by naming it the Cheney International Center, that the programs and UW can't avoid being identified with that ideology and that approach to global politics that the Bush-Cheney administration championed," Pelican said Tuesday.
Awesome! The new Cheney Center for International Students should really fill out the quad nicely, right alongside the university's excellent Lohan Center for Feminist Studies and the Vick Center for Veterinary Medicine.
At any rate, it's gotta be more popular than the old Cheney Center for International Students (his basement).
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Dick Cheney Tototally Dumbfounded About Why He is Not More Beloved
As Dick Cheney prepares to enter into his final three weeks of duty as the vice-president of the United States, he may have remarkably low approval ratings at 29 percent. But now it appears that he may also have remarkably low critical reasoning skills as well.
In an interview with a Wyoming newspaper, Cheney answered a question of his unpopularity…
QUESTION: How do you explain your low approval rating?
CHENEY: I don't have any idea. I don't follow the polls.
Apparently, he also doesn't follow his own actions, the things he says, or whatever the hell it is that Constitution thing says.


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"Shocked" and "saddened" are words many have used to describe , on Friday, Dec. 14, and the Lexington Public Schools are no different.
"We are all shocked and saddened by the shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut," Superintendent of Schools Paul Ash wrote in an email to Patch. "No words can explain such a horrible act.
Explaining school security standards, Ash said at each K-5 school, the school doors at locked when school begins each day. And all school principals have been trained in security measures should an intruder enter the building.
"The training program was funded by a federal grant and security materials are in each school," Ash said. "Since some measures would undo the security plan itself, we can only share with you general procedures."
Ash also shared an email sent home yesterday with students in grades K-5, which provides some tips for talking to kids about the tragedy should it come up over the weekend. On Saturday morning, the schools sent out an email with more age-appropriate guidelines for talking to students of all ages.
You can read the full text of both letters in the PDFs posted above.
The Hastings version of the Friday letter says the school does not plan to start discussions about the tragedy, but staff "will respond to student worries but will not dwell on the details."
The four suggested steps provided in the letter are below:
- Limit your child's exposure to the news, video and internet discussions of this event. Children do not need to see images of their frightened peers.
- Be mindful of your own reaction to the tragedy and the conversations that you are having around your children.
- If you choose to talk with your child about this event, listen carefully to what your child is asking, provide short answers, steer away from talking about the details, and focus on your child's understanding of the things in place to keep him/her safe.
- If your child asks, what can I do to help, consider writing a kind note to children in the school or make a card for someone who is injured. (We will keep you posted as we explore additional ways we can help).


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The Cavalier Women's Soccer Team advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament with a 4-1 win over Loyola tonight at Klockner Stadium. The win improves Virginia's overall record to 12-3-6.
After a scoreless first half, the Cavs exploded for four second half goals. Nikki Krzysik got Virginia on the board first with a goal in the 51st minute. Two minute later, the Grayhounds tied the game, but Kelly Quinn put the Cavaliers ahead for good in the 56th minute with her seventh goal of the season.
Shannon Foley and Julia Falk each added a goal to give Virginia insurance. The Cavaliers ended up out-shooting Loyola 19-4 on the night.
Virginia now advances to face William and Mary in second round action. The Tribe downed Georgetown, 2-1, in first round play tonight. This will mark a rematch of Virginia and William and Mary's September 23rd match up. The Cavaliers won that game, 1-0, in double overtime. Sunday's second round contest will begin at 2:00.


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By Mike Harrington
NEWARK, N.J. -- Only two weeks before the Rochester Amerks play their just-about-sold-out outdoor game Dec. 13 at Frontier Field against the Lake Erie Monsters, Angola native Patrick Kaleta has almost certainly been knocked out of the unique affair after suffering what appears to be a severe leg injury in last night's 5-3 win over the Monsters.
And it sounds like the calls for him to return to Buffalo are going to have to stop too.
Veteran Rochester Democrat & Chronicle beat reporter Kevin Oklobzija tweeted late this morning that there's still no official word from the team on Kaleta's status but it certainly doesn't sound good.
Oklobzija reported late last night that Kaleta barreled over Lake Erie goalie Calvin Pickard and the back of his right leg slammed into the crossbar as he somersaulted over Pickard.
Amerks coach Chadd Cassidy would only said "it didn't look good" and "it's going to be a while" when asked about Kaleta.
Kaleta had one goal and three assists in seven games for the Amerks and had been playing a clean game with only two penalty minutes. He's back in the AHL, of course, after clearing waivers when former Buffalo GM Darcy Regier opted not to put Kaleta back on the roster following his 10-game suspension for a head shot against Columbus' Jack Johnson.
New Sabres president of hockey operations Pat LaFontaine and interim coach Ted Nolan both pushed off questions about Kaleta recently, emphasizing he had to make major changes to his game to avoid suspensions before he would be a candidate for a recall.
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The Case for Combisystems
Homeowners in Sun Prairie, Wisc., reap the benefits of combing solar and propane energy for better performance and lower operating costs.
Sun Prairie, Wisc., may not be the epicenter of green building, but an existing, 2,000-square-foot farmhouse in this town just northeast of Madison provides one of the best examples of combining efficient energy sources to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and lower on-going costs for homeowners.
Cardinal Heating & Air Conditioning, a local specialty contractor, devised a clever solution to help make the existing house and its propane-fueled space and water heating equipment deliver even better performance and efficiencies. "The owners already had a 95 percent efficient propane furnace, so we keyed off of that," says Keith Ouimette, the solar division manager at Cardinal.
Specifically, the Cardinal team ground-mounted an array of six, 4x10-foot solar thermal collector panels on the site and plumbed themusing a buried, rolled copper pipe, insulated and sleeved in a perforated drain tileto a new, 119-gallon solar storage tank in the home's basement 250 feet away.
Ouimette chose to mount the collectors at ground level on a tilted racking system rather than on the roof to optimize their performance. "The orientation of the roof wasn't ideal, and it was shaded," he says. The owner also had plenty of land and the panelsdespite being in a position to collect the most solar energyare hidden from view by a small grove of trees. The tilt of the collectors also sheds water and snow; the rack is slightly raised to keep snow from blocking the panels.
Depending on how much solar energy the array collects (usually more than enough on a sunny day), the cold water in the tank can be preheated or fully heated for delivery to the home's existing propane-fueled water heater. If the water dips below the set temperature of the water heater's thermostat, it is supplemented by propane energy to make up the difference.
The system also circulates water from a solar storage tank through a copper coil heat exchanger located in the return duct of the propane furnace. Like the water heater, the propane-fueled burner on the furnace automatically ignites should the solar system fall short of the desired indoor temperature setting. The same combination system also heats the swimming pool.
By leveraging the sun first and having an efficient, affordable, and reliable backup energy source (propane) at the ready, the owners of the Sun Prairie home have realized a $700 per year savings on the energy billsdespite record-breaking snowfall and winter temperatures. The equipment installed by Cardinal, including the solar collectors and storage tank, is all commercially available, as is on-site propane service providers.
This combination of technologies and energy sources exemplifies the next generation of affordable and environmentally smart domestic space and water heating. No longer must builders or homeowners have to rely on just one energy source, or invest entirely in newer renewable technologies that require longer payback periods.
In fact, these systems qualify for federal energy tax credits under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and often for state and local tax credits and utility rebates, thus making their return on investment even more attractive.
For Cardinal Heating & Air Conditioning, this project represents a new niche of work that is quickly becoming the standard spec. "We've installed at least a half-dozen other combination systems with propane as the auxiliary energy source," says Ouimette.


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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced the selection of Clint Riley as the new Assistant Regional Director for Migratory Birds and State Programs for the Mountain-Prairie Region, which is headquartered in Denver. The Mountain-Prairie Region includes Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas.
Riley previously led the Pennsylvania Ecological Services Field Office of the Service's Northeast Region. In that position, Riley was responsible for projects ranging from endangered species protections to private lands conservation through Partners for Fish and Wildlife projects.
Prior to Pennsylvania, Riley worked at the Service's Headquarters Office. Riley first served as Special Assistant to the Director and later as a Branch Chief in the Division of Bird Habitat Conservation and the Deputy Division Chief for the Division of Migratory Bird Management.


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Investing in rental property in Florida is now a faster process this year for all investors using the JWB group website. Instant access to turnkey homes available are found at http://www.jwbrealestatecapital.com/purchase.
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Florida is an emerging market for investment property owners due partly to the increase in population over the past decade. The JWB Real Estate Capital company has simplified investing in rental property in Florida for its investing clients this year with a new program at http://jwbrealestatecapital.com/properties.
The shift towards building more residual income is one that has concreted the position of JWB in the rental market in this decade. The foundation of property acquisitions mixed with an expert level team has contributed to the investment services that are now open for clients to access this year.
"We're pioneering our own investment program that is centered around turnkey homes in above average neighborhoods to help bring in more rental dollars for our clients," a JWB Real Estate Capital source said.
One of the known benefits to investors who access the turnkey programs setup by JWB this year is the expanded tenant lease agreements. Unlike properties that can sit vacant after purchase, clients who buy into available homes receive monthly revenues from a tenant contract already in place.
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Ryan is frustrated because he doesn't feel Ducks management appreciates his 30-plus goals over each of his first four NHL seasons. He seems to go through this a couple times every year, and usually the trade rumors involve the Flyers. In the past, Ryan usually indicated that he'd rather stay in Anaheim even though he grew up loving his hometown team and his father, Bob, has been a close friend of Flyers great Bob Clarke for years. No more. "I take things personally," Ryan said. "Anaheim to me has been a team over the past year that really has shown me nothing to prove that they want me here, unfortunately. Obviously, it's not the ideal situation. When you get drafted, you want to win championships with that team and every time they look to add a piece to the puzzle, I'm the piece going the other way. "I gotta be honest with you. At this point, I don't care. Move me ... because it's just tough going to the rink every day knowing that if something goes wrong, you're going to be the guy moved."
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