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PAW PAW (WKZO) -- The man police say is responsible for a crash that killed three near South Haven this week is out of the hospital and in jail, formally charged with eleven counts.
32-year-old David Glen Johnson of Covert was discharged from Bronson Hospital at 3PM Friday and immediately taken into custody by two deputies who transported him to the Van Buren County Jail.
He is being held without bond on three counts of 2nd degree murder and 3 counts of driving drunk causing death for being responsible for the head on collision that killed Cassadi Berryhill, Kandice Berryhill and Brittney King.
He is also charged with three counts of driving on a suspended license causing death and one count each of driving while drunk and driving with a suspended license causing injury to Justin Berryhill, who continues to recover from the crash.
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Stone Temple Pilots with new front man Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) will be they'll be hitting the road with their new line up. The tour begins September 4th in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with several North America dates to follow. Filter will be the opening act.
Pre-sale for VIP packages that include collectible merchandise and a meet & greet with the band are on sale tomorrow, July 16th at 10:00 AM. For further info and to purchase VIP packages, punch up http://bit.ly/STPVIP.
General admission tickets will go on sale Friday July 19th at www.stonetemplepilots.com/tour-dates/
STP members Dean DeLeo, Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz made their live debut with Chester Bennington at in May. Since their surprise performance, the band has been busy working on new music for an upcoming EP to be released this fall.
In an effort to take control of the way they will be delivering new music in the future, STP will release the upcoming EP via their own label, with distribution through ADA (Alternative Distribution Alliance).
STP with Chester Bennington and Filter:
Sept 4 Bethlehem, PA @ Sands Bethlehem Events Center
Sept 6 Sayreville @ Starland Ballroom
Sept 7 Atlantic City, NJ @ House of Blues
Sept 9 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
Sept 10 Huntington, NY @ Paramount
Sept 13 Oklahoma City, OK @ Downtown Airpark (w/ Motley Crue)
Sept 14 Newkirk, OK @ First Council Casino*
Sept 17 Sunrise, FL @ BB & T Center (FLA Panthers Event)
Sept 18 Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
Sept 20 Columbia, SC @ Township Auditorium
Sept 21 Ft Myers, FL Shockwave Festival – Jet Blue Park
Sept 24 Midland, TX @ La Hacienda Event Center
Sept 26 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee
Sept 27 Las Vegas, NV @ Freemont Street Experience*
Nov 1 Biloxi, MS @ Hard Rock Live*
* Filter will not be appearing on this show

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WHEELING (AP) — A federal jury has found a West Virginia radiologist and two Pittsburgh attorneys guilty of conspiring to fabricate asbestos claims.
The Wheeling jury on Friday ordered Pennsylvania-based attorneys Robert Peirce and Louis Raimond and retired Bridgeport radiologist Ray Harron to pay CSX Transportation more than $429,000, which could be tripled because they were convicted of civil racketeering charges.
Harron diagnosed tens of thousands of asbestos claims for the attorneys. In 2007, he agreed to stop practicing in Texas, where he was under investigation by that state's Medical Board for thousands of questionable diagnoses of the lung disease silicosis.
CSX filed the initial lawsuit against the Peirce law firm and Robert Gilkison in 2005 after learning that the Pittsburgh-based lawfirm represented two CSX employees who devised a plan to defraud the railroad company. According to CSX's lawsuit, an employee who had been diagnosed with asbestosis agreed to appear at an X-ray screening for another employee who did not show signs of the illness. The CSX lawsuit said Harron was the doctor who reviewed those X-rays.
Harron has been under scrutiny for a number of years in other legal cases as well as in major news stories. In 2006, the New York Times published an article highlighting problems surrounding asbestosis and silicosis litigation. For years, workers have been suing their employers for exposing them to toxic substances that cause the two incurable lung diseases.
The Times article highlighted Harron's practice in Bridgeport, saying Harron made more than 75,000 lung injury diagnoses since the mid-1990s. The article said he commonly read more than 150 X-rays a day. It continued by saying the doctor was paid $125 per X-ray.
If that is true, Harron made millions in just a few years.
An attorney representing Peirce, Raimond & Coulter said in a 2007 State Journal article the firm had nothing to do with the deception. In court documents, he wrote the firm does no contest that the two employees plotted to defraud the railroad company. But he said the law firm was not involved in the scheme in any way. He also said Gilkison, who was a contract employee of the firm who specialized in screening potentially injured workers, also was not involved in the deception.
The trial began Dec. 11.
The State Journal's Beth Ryan contributed to this story.
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Ok, Ileana got me thinking about the havoc preeclampsia wreaks with our poor veins- I was a notoriously hard stick when drawing blood during pregnancy, including, but not limited to blood draws and the epidural placement with the first, spinal with second.
I even have a 'horror' blood draw story, that involves a epidural gone wrong, blood patch, big frickin' needles, and MY FEET. You folks didn't know there was going to be a floor show, huh? Just kidding.
Question: How many of you out there brought seasoned medical professionals to their knees in the pursuit of blood during hypertensive/preeclamptic pregnancy?
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"Contagion's" Matt Damon, 40, is the proud father of four daughters, and when asked by "Extra's" Jerry Penacoli if he would consider trying again for a boy, Damon replied he was "done," adding, "We're closing the shop. That's a wrap. Our life is full. I want to know our kids' names."
The actor commented on his pal Brad Pitt and the Brangelina brood, saying, "I honestly don't know how they do it. They seem to do it so effortlessly. I'm sure they're cloning themselves."
The on-again/off-again relationship between pretty couple Jude Law and Sienna Miller is off again.
"It was an entirely an end-of-the-relationship decision," a friend told People.com. "It had run its course," but added, "It is mutual and amicable and they are still friends."
No, on-again lovebirds Sienna Miller and Jude Law didn't get married, but they did participate in a ritual of sorts.
"It wasn't a marriage ceremony at all," Miller told "Extra" at the grand opening of the Esquire House L.A. "It was a blessing from a monk. The whole thing was completely fabricated by the glorious British press."
The 2010 Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning by "Glee's" Lea Michele and Jeff Daniels.
Oscar winner Denzel Washington, Jude Law, Scarlett Johansson and Catherine Zeta Jones are just a few of the big names nominated this year.
The three-hour ceremony will take place Sunday, June 13 at Radio City Music Hall, honoring theater pros for their achievements on the Broadway stage.
Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes" stars Robert Downey Jr. as the mischievous detective -- and the director admits that the casting was a "happy accident."
"Sherlock Holmes" opens everywhere Christmas Day.
Robert Downey Jr. made the Big Apple premiere of "Sherlock Holmes" a special date night with wife Susan.
"We promised ourselves we'd enjoy each other," the actor tells "Extra's" AJ Calloway. Susan added, "We said we'd have fun tonight."
The happy couple had a whirlwind 2009 and they're ready to wind down. Susan confessed that for her resolution, she wants to find time to relax, but Robert is having a little trouble picking one. "I've actually run out of things to give up! I don't know what to do," he joked.
Downey Jr, 44, got in shape for the flick using martial arts, and Susan can't decide if she likes the "Sherlock Holmes" or "Iron Man" physique better. I just like the body! Does it matter?!" she laughed.
Susan also tells "Extra" about Robert finding out about his Golden Globe nomination. "To be perfectly honest, he was sitting next to Jude Law and he said, 'He should have got one!'"
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Law showed up for the premiere with a new accessory on his hand -- a bandage. "I was so tired," Law explains. "I was cutting a piece of bread and I cut the end of my thumb off."
Law, 36, says that for his resolution, he wants to keep up with his "Sherlock Holmes" buddies in the gym. "I've got to try to keep up the fitness regime!"
- Jude Law doesn't like girls from NYU heckling him, so he's fighting back with fruit!
- How low can she go? Suri Cruise keeps herself entertained with a game of limbo.
- Zac Efron has been spotted solo while promoting his new film, but he's not a single man!
- Kim Kardashian laughs off plastic surgery rumors saying the reason her face looks different is because she lost weight.
- Jordin Sparks is upset she missed the first screening of "New Moon" ... it's her appendix's fault.
- "Chuck's" Zach Levi wants to thank you for helping him stay employed.
The trailer for Heath Ledger's final film, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," has just hit the web. It's about a traveling theater company performing a show that packs more than a punch. Ledger died during production in early 2008, so Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law stepped in to complete the role of a shape-shifting character.


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The mayor plans to re-stripe Montaño to four lanes, but some say the project could do more harm than good
There may not be a single road in Albuquerque that has been more controversial than Montaño. Be it neighborhood angst over the laying down of the very road itself and the construction of Montaño Bridge, or protesters lying in the dirt to keep bulldozers at bay when a developer came to build Universe Boulevard, every time the city announces plans to change the corridor in some way, neighborhood residents and historic-preservation groups have been there to oppose it. Now, it seems as though Montaño, that road with a knack for stirring up trouble, is at it again. Only this time, it's getting folks all riled up over a brand new paint job.
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Pops and Corps
On Oct. 17, subdued councilors met after the recent, balance-shifting municipal election. Not that party labels have meant much recently, with a Democratic mayor depending on Republicans for automatic support. Maybe more appropriate, if oversimplified, categories would be "Corporatists" versus "Populists." The Alibi waits with great interest to see whether the city will now get more Pop grassroots or more Corp trickledown.
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Bad Law Just Got Worse
Bush's new Medicare bill could lead to further cutbacks for the poor
It doesn't seem possible, but the Bush Administration has just managed to mess up what was just about the only positive aspect of the new Medicare Prescription bill. Now it has absolutely no redeeming qualities.
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The last time we succeeded in setting aside a few acres of our state's disappearing wilderness, we had a president who joked that trees cause pollution. So here's great news: Congress has passed the Ojito Wilderness Act, the first New Mexico wilderness legislation since 1986.
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Dateline: Belgium—If you are in Belgium, whatever you do, don't take a leek. Belgian police warned thieves last Saturday not to use any of the 500 pounds worth of leeks stolen from a vegetable farm in the West Flanders town of Izegem. Leeks are the primary ingredient in Vichyssoise soup, but police say the recently purloined vegetables should have stayed in the ground another six weeks to be safe after treatment with toxic pesticides. According to the Belga news agency, consumers have been warned not to eat any leeks with a "strange smell."
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The campaign"s final stretch finds Warren with a small lead and a revved-up volunteer base.
Turnout for a popular ballot measure that would fully legalize marijuana could determine whether Obama or Romney wins this important swing state.
California has gutted the budget for what was once a shining example of public higher education, leaving students saddled with more debt and fewer options.
Democrats have a rich opportunity to push electoral reform at the state level.
The state that Obama won in 2008 is far from a sure thing this time around.
In this crucial swing state, organizers are betting that a strong grassroots ground game can defeat Romney's Super PAC cash.
As states like Mississippi reject solitary confinement, this "blue" state leads the nation in the use of "disciplinary segregation." Or as prisoners call it: torture.
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Sharia is as unthreatening to the US legal system as the ideas in the Old Testament. Yet bigoted hysteria is fueling legislation that actually undermines our courts.
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PEC's Charlottesville & Albemarle Field Officer, Jeff Werner, has been struggling for many years with how to explain the issues surrounding the proposed Rt. 29 Western Bypass. He decided to give drawing a shot.
Part I: The Problem with Rt. 29 North (and how to fix it)
Part II: Why the Western Bypass Won't Work (and Is a Waste of Your Money)
UPDATE: On February 18, 2014, the Federal Highway Administration sent a letter to VDOT advising it to conduct a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Rt. 29 Western Bypass. The letter advises VDOT to update the purpose and need and reopen the consideration of alternatives. Read the letter >>


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My past employment was in an independent light truck and passenger car repair shop. Where I was employed for 9 years. I currently have my ASE (Automotive Service Excellence) Master Technician Certification and an OTF member. I was hired in April 2007 as the Grounds Mechanic at the College of Wooster.


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WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - Admit it. You've probably thought about it at the polling place.
You see the tempting section called "write-in" and you consider making a snarky selection when you're performing your civic duty. Perhaps, you want to make a political statement.
Regardless of the reason, 453 voters chose to write in a name for the single candidate race for Wilmington's mayor this year. For the record, Bill Saffo, running unopposed, was easily re-elected to the position.
However, on Tuesday, the New Hanover County Board of Elections released a spreadsheet of the names written in for this particular race and we have the results of the runner-ups.
By far, Wilmington's "man about town" Ricky Meeks, who has run unsuccessfully in the past for various positions, received the most write-in votes with 66. Six others registered voted for Meeks but misspelled his name or called him something completely different, like Billy or Jimmy.
There were various protest votes against the current mayor, with several votes for "Anyone but Saffo" (3), "Anyone Else" (9) and "Anybody but Saffo" (1).
Several other well-known civic leaders received write-in votes for the office of mayor. Current and recently re-elected Councilman Charlie Rivenbark pulled in the most votes in that category (9), followed by former mayor, Harper Peterson (6) and council candidate Skip Watkins (6). New Jersey Governor Chris Christie cruised to re-election up north last Tuesday, but also picked up a single write-in vote for mayor in Wilmington.
There were several spelling-challenged voters casting write-in ballots for civic leaders as well. New Hanover County Commissioner Brian Berger received a few write-in ballots, although people spelled his name "Brian Burger," "Bryan Berger" and in one instance just "Berger."
There were also write-in votes cast for the following (with correct spellings in parentheses): DannyMcCombis (Former Representative Danny McComas), Ron Zapple (former New Hanover County Commission candidate Rob Zapple), Mario Pantano (Two-time Congressional candidate Ilario Pantano), Tom Golsby (State Senator Thom Goolsby) and two versions of the aforementioned Rivenbark with Charley Ravenbark and Chalie Rivenbark.
Talk radio show host Curtis Wright edged out talk radio show host Tyler Cralle, five votes to four, although each could get an additional write-in vote based on interpretations of the ballots for "Curis Wright" and "John Tyler Cralle."
And, finally, there are the votes for cartoon characters, deceased "Kings" and Hollywood tough guys. Bozo got the most support with four votes.
Daffy Duck is slightly more popular than Donald Duck, edging him out two votes to one. Mickey Mouse also pulled in two votes.
Also receiving one vote of support each from Wilmingtonians, Betty Boop, Thor, Carmen San Diego, (the) Great Pumpkin, Dora, Kermit the Frog, Sponge Bob and Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, Hollywood Actor Chuck Norris, the King Elvis Presley and Author Ayn Rand.
Just to be safe, Santa Claus also received a write-in vote. It is unclear if that will move that particular voter on or off the naughty list this year.
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Police probe sugaring theftMarch 09,2013WILLISTON Vermont police are investigating the theft of more than $7,000 in maple sugaring equipment in Williston.
Williston police say between November and mid-December of 2012, a $4,000 vacuum pump, a filter press and other equipment was taken from a sugar house on South Road.
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The Rhine in Flames is a fireworks spectacular that takes place along the most scenic stretches of the Rhine every year between May and September. From Rüdesheim to Bonn, spectacular pyrotechnics and curtains of fire bathe the riverbanks and landmarks in a magical red glow, and a flotilla of illuminated riverboats glides beneath mesmerising patterns of light in the night sky – a romantic and unforgettable experience for the whole family.
Rhine in Flames: the river at its most romantic. This captivating display of fireworks and illuminations can be witnessed on five dates at some of the most scenic locations on the Middle Rhine. There's always a traditional wine festival or similar celebration happening at the same time, as well as music and dancing. In the late evening, beautifully illuminated boats sail out into the river to give their passengers the best views of the fireworks, which begin as the flotilla arrives. Every year the first section of the route is from Linz to Bonn, but if you'd rather stay on dry land, maybe to see the illuminated boats as well as to enjoy the fireworks, the riverbank celebrations at Linz, Remagen, Bad Honnef, Königswinter and Bonn are just the thing for you. Bonn's Rheinaue Park is the venue for the biggest single Rhine in Flames event, a festival that draws some 300,000 visitors, spreading excitement during the afternoon and offering a wonderful view of the fireworks spectacular before midnight – the climax and culmination of an unforgettable evening.
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A Frigid Morning!
By Sam Kantrow on October 13, 2012, 9:57am
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Talk about some cold temperatures this morning. One of the coolest views I've seen in a long time was the Middletown Camera that you see above. Very cold air temperatures, and very warm (relatively) water temperatures below causes the evaporating warm water to condense into a cloud and form fog. This morning, because temperatures were below freezing, this fog was freezing onto the trees nearby. The technical term for this is freezing fog. We also had some really cool temps across the state as well. Check out some of the numbers:
Eastford, Granby: 25
Norfolk, North Haven: 26
Stafford Springs: 27
Burlington, Danielson, Manchester: 28
Besides that, we saw a lot of 29 degree readings across the state. How low did the temp get in your town? Let me know by leaving a comment below!!
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"Liked the book, loved the narration.."
What really did it for my in this book was the narration. Ms. Sarah Coomes made me feel the story. I felt Grace's (our heroine) desperation and her griping fears. I felt the deep connection between Vincent and Grace and fell in love with them. This was a great example of how a narration makes a good book come alive and makes you a part of the story. I was very surprised by the twists and turns towards the end of the story. Very unexpected! All in all I highly recommend this book to all historical romance junkies like me :)
"Great story, so-so narration"
This story has the qualities I like on a romance story: a sweet romance with hot scenes, a well developed, believable story with mystery and excitement. Unfortunately the narrator is so-so at best. She makes great voices for the females but doesn't even try to simulate male voices. All males sounded the same as females which is distracting and weird. Anyway the story is still so good that I recommend this book.
"A Fifty Shades remake"
If Harlequin commissioned a Fifty Shades of Grey remake this would be it. I saw many similarities in the storyline. I didn't mind that and enjoyed the story. I do have an issue with this being a "collection" of stories. The term collection seems to be more of a marketing tool because it's just one standard book. It has many hot love scenes and the romance is believable. You also get an introduction to Sam and Maddie's story which is a bonus and makes you want to listen to the next book. The narrator does a pretty good job as well.
"The narrator ruins the story"
I struggled so much to finish this book because of the narrator. So many things were wrong with Ms. Flosnick. She sounds too old to bring life to our young heroine. It was also impossible to distinguish all other characters. All men sounded the same and the midwife sounded like a man. The story is good but the narrator makes this a painfully boring experience.
"Very good Irish historical romance"
I really liked this book! Yes our heroine Triona was immature at times but still this story has the three elements I need to have on historical romances in order to like them: interesting adventure, hot romance and great narration. This book had all three so I do recommend it if you like Irish/highlander historical romances.
"Historical fiction with very little romance..."
This has been the only Courtney Milan book I haven't enjoyed. This isn't really a romance story, it's more historical fiction. It's the story of Violet and how she went through a journey of self acceptance, she fought for women's rights and equality and found love on the way. The romance is very mild and I got bored hearing about the inheritance of traits in plants. Not even the amazing narration saved this story for me. I do not recommend it. All the other books in The Brother Sinister series are excellent thought.
"Not quite as good as the first one..."
This is a fluffy easy listen. It's ok but not a book I would listen to again. The first one was much better. I guess my issue is that the storyline is too fantastic. Katie is a Paris Hilton type character. She's a spoiled rich party girl who happens to get a baby in her doorstep (yeah right). The baby came with adoption papers and everything! The story of who the parents are, how the baby ended up with Katie and how she wants to quit party and socializing just to take care of the baby is unrealistic. The romance also didn't quite do it for me. This book is good if you get it on a good sale and want an easy listen while on vacation.
"It's a yes for me..."
This is a light listen. It's perfect for a relaxing day when you're in the mood for a sweet love story with a good dose of humor. Animal lovers will also enjoy listening about the pets the heroine has because they each have quite peculiar personalities. I enjoyed it a lot and for the price it should definitely be a yes for you too. I liked the narrator as well.
"Great story with an even better narration..."
I loved this book!!! The characters are complex, the conflicts are real and it's written in a way that you get to care for the different characters. This is a rich story that handles intense subjects such as political influence, human rights, mental illness and epilepsy. And the thread that binds all of those subjects are two great love stories. By the end you feel satisfied and happy because you see that love conquers all.
Narration: Rosalyn Landor is one of the most experienced and amazing narrators I've ever listened to. She adds intensity and passion to the story and has an uncanny ability to make very different voices to all characters (and this story had lost of characters). She nails every characterization (men, older men, young women, old women).
If you enjoy historical romances then you must add this title to your collection.
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As the animal starts to jump up on you, turn sideways and either extend your leg and step into th edog's space or lean over and with your hip give a body block so that the dog never even gets her paws on you. You see, once she has her front paws on you, she already has what she wanted (she won and you lost).
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As consumers snap up new cars, parts retailers need to rev up sales.
AutoZone reported Tuesday that profit in its last quarter rose 6.4% to $203.5 million, or $5.41 a share. Sales rose 2% to $1.99 billion. Wall Street analysts expected $5.39 a share in profit on sales of $2.02 billion. Same-store sales, a key retail metric that measures revenue growth at locations open at least a year, gained 0.2% in the quarter. MarketWatch notes that figure was the slowest growth rate in years.
Pep Boys, though, fared much worse. The Philadelphia chain reported a 2.7% decline in same-store sales in its quarterly results Monday. Overall, Pep Boys lost $6.8 million, or 13 cents a share. Revenue fell 2.4% to $509.6 million as costs rose. A gain in service revenue wasn't enough to offset a decline in merchandise sales.
Earlier this year, Gores Group pulled the plug on a $1 billion deal to buy Pep Boys after the chain's financial performance proved much weaker than the private equity firm had expected. Pep Boys has 740 locations in 35 states and Puerto Rico, far smaller than AutoZone, which owns 4,703 stores in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The outlook for Pep Boys seems dim.
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Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds)
The Fighting machine (also known as a Tripod) is one of the fictional machines used by the Martians in H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel The War of the Worlds. It is a three-legged walker with mounted weapons such as the Heat-Ray. It is the primary machine the Martians use when they invade Earth, along with the handling machine, the flying machine, and the embankment machine.
- 1 Novel
- 2 Adaptations
- 2.1 The War of the Worlds (1953 film)
- 2.2 Television series
- 2.3 H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005 film)
- 2.4 H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005 film)
- 2.5 War of the Worlds (2005 film)
- 2.6 Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
- 2.7 Parallel and sequel novels
- 2.8 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- 3 Influence on later fiction
- 4 Footnotes
- 5 External links
H. G. Wells first describes the fighting machines in detail early in the novel:
And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder. A flash, and it came out vividly, heeling over one way with two feet in the air, to vanish and reappear almost instantly as it seemed, with the next flash, a hundred yards nearer. Can you imagine a milking stool tilted and bowled violently along the ground? That was the impression those instant flashes gave. But instead of a milking stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod stand... Seen nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange, for it was no mere insensate machine driving on its way. Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, and long, flexible, glittering tentacles (one of which gripped a young pine tree) swinging and rattling about its strange body. It picked its road as it went striding along, and the brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about. Behind the main body was a huge mass of white metal like a gigantic fisherman's basket, and puffs of green smoke squirted out from the joints of the limbs as the monster swept by me.
Another eyewitness described them as "Boilers on stilts, I tell you, striding along like men".
A London newspaper article in the novel inaccurately described the fighting machines as "spider-like machines, nearly a hundred feet high, capable of the speed of an express-train, and able to shoot out a beam of intense heat". Earlier newspaper articles having described the Martians as "sluggard creatures", the narrator describes "a rolling motion and as fast as flying birds".
The fighting machines are armed with a Heat-Ray, fired by a camera-like mechanism held by an articulated arm, and Black Smoke, a type of poison gas deployed by cylinders. It can also discharge steam through nozzles that dissipates the Black Smoke. Description is given here of the Heat-Ray:
It is still a matter of wonder how the Martians are able to slay men so swiftly and so silently. Many think that in some way they are able to generate an intense heat in a chamber of practically absolute non-conductivity. This intense heat they project in a parallel beam against any object they choose by means of a polished parabolic mirror of unknown composition, much as the parabolic mirror of a light-house projects a beam of light. But no one has absolutely proved these details. However it is done, it is certain that a beam of heat is the essence of the matter. Heat, and invisible, instead of visible light. Whatever is combustible flashes into flame at its touch, lead runs like water, it softens iron, cracks and melts glass, and when it falls upon water, incontinently that explodes into steam.
Their tentacles are used as probes and to grasp objects. The fighting machines also sometimes carry a metal cage or basket, used to hold captives. The height of the fighting machines is unclear; a newspaper article describes '100 feet high' (30 m), but they wade through relatively high water, as when HMS Thunder Child opposes a trio of tripods pursuing a refugee flotilla.
In the book the fighting machines are delivered to Earth in massive cylinders, shot from a sort of gun from Mars (in the PC game adaptation, the Martians refer to this device as a "large-scale hydrogen accelerator"). On Earth, the machines are quickly assembled.
The conceptual drawings for the fighting machines, drawn by Warwick Goble, accompanied the initial appearance of The War of the Worlds in Pearson's Magazine in 1897. When Wells saw these pictures, he added the following text to the final version of his book:
I recall particularly the illustration of one of the first pamphlets to give a consecutive account of the war. The artist had evidently made a hasty study of one of the fighting machines, and it was there that his knowledge ended. He presented them as tilted, stiff tripods without either flexibility or subtlety, and with an altogether misleading monotony of effect. The pamphlet containing these renderings had a considerable vogue, and I mention them here to warn the reader against the impression they may have created. They were no more like the Martians I saw in action than a Dutch doll is like a human being. To my mind, the pamphlet would have been much better without them.
The War of the Worlds (1953 film)[edit]
The Martian war machines in 1953 movie The War of the Worlds resemble sinister-looking, copper-colored manta rays. They glide on three electromagnetic legs, visible only when emerging from the pit made by their crash-landing, and later shown indirectly by a sparking, burning effect where it touches the ground. Designed by Albert Nozaki, each war machine is armed with a visible, reddish heat-ray, atop a moving goose-neck in a cobra-like head.
The machines also have weapons which fire green energy bursts from both wingtips; these are identified as "skeleton beams" for the ghastly visual effect, in which an x-ray-like silhouette of the victim's skeleton becomes briefly visible as the body disintegrates. These weapons are immediately hypothesized by character Dr. Clayton Forrester as neutralizing mesons, "the atomic glue holding matter together", causing the target to vaporize, leaving a black stain on the ground (either remnants of the burned bodies or a scorching of the terrain where they were standing); they appear deployed as a long-range surface weapon, as compared to the heat-ray which is used at closer range and against taller structures or overhead aircraft. These war machines do not have grasping tentacles; the Martians in the film apparently have no use for humans as a food supply. Their tactics for advancement across the terrain bear this out: "...they slash across country like scythes, wiping out everything that's trying to get away from them", as described in the film. The war machines are also equipped with a retractable cable tipped with an electronic eye, housing with three colored lenses (red, green, and blue). It is used as a probe and slightly resembles the Martian "face". It is deployed from a round hatch on the underside of the machine, which appears seamless at any other time. The use of this probe and a subsequent physical reconnoiter (and contact) by a single Martian is the only time the Martians show any interest in humans.
Another major difference is the presence of an energy force shield, a "magnetic blister" identified by Dr. Forrester (resembling, when briefly visible, the glass jar placed over mantle clocks: cylindrical and with a hemispherical top) that protects each of the war machines from heavy ground fire. The film's war machines were invincible to all standard Earth weapons, including an atomic bomb. In the book the war machines were vulnerable to Army artillery fire and a British Navy torpedo ram.
Television series[edit]
The serialized War of the Worlds TV series was established as a sequel to the 1953 film with many of the alien technology in the first season cued with visual references to the design of those in the aforementioned film.
While almost never using war machines in general, the series does reveal in one episode that these same aliens (from Mor-Tax; not Mars) did at one point use fighting machines in their past before evolving into the floating machines as seen in the film. This "older model" resembles the latter machines with only a few noticeable differences.
Aside from the legs, there is no visible mounted Heat-Ray; however, where the latter models have a green window in its front, the fighting machines have an orange/red colored window (framed in blue circle) that, coupled with its pulsating glow, suggests that it is a cruder version of their Heat-Ray and is built into the body of the machine. Whether it is a Heat-Ray, or what other weaponry this model possesses is unknown. While the new models are reminiscent of a swan, these tripods seem more inspired by an insect, both in its (briefly seen) movement as well as the sound it emits. The TV series also gives insight into the machines, referred to both by humans and aliens alike as ships. In "The Resurrection", the interior of the machines are seen to be lit by cold colors of blue and black (with only a sliver of neon green). The machines have an on-board computer that the aliens can communicate with even when distanced by location and time, and even with relatively primitive equipment
When asked how the aliens make the machines fly, Dr. Blackwood refers to Dr. Forrester's unconfirmed speculation that they are able to use brainwave impulses. This is given credibility when three aliens later take possession of the tripod. From inside, it can be seen that there is no obvious physical means of operation; instead, the three are simply seated back-to-back, a formation seen quite commonly among the aliens throughout the season, frequently in a state of some type of shared mental exercise (though what this practice is exactly is never detailed in the series). A similar seating construction appears to be present in the later machines with the device clearly identified as the computer placed in the center.
Information given in the show also suggests that deflector shields were not used until the 1953 invasion, after a recon mission proved that humanity had the means of effectively damaging their machines. The limited strength of their unprotected warships is also suggested by the fact that two or more of them were downed by a militia of no more than just 38 men. Curiously, a late episode features a mysterious pod of theirs found that is made of an element that is, by all accounts, virtually indestructible.
The pod in question appears to have to no weaponry and can only seat a single alien. Its purpose is not given, leaving its connection to the invasion and the aliens' technological progress unknown.
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005 film)[edit]
In Pendragon Pictures' low-budget, direct-to-DVD H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, the only Victorian-set adaptation of Wells' novel, the fighting machine design is loosely based on the look of a praying mantis, which according to director Timothy Hines was a favorite insect of H. G. Wells.[citation needed] The tripod has a large, free-moving head atop the smaller main body, giving its Martian occupant a panoramic view. It has four thick, metallic tentacles held on high, with boxy-looking segments, making them appear more bicycle chain-like rather than slim and whip-like as described in Wells' novel; they are used mainly to capture humans during the film. The machine has three long, stilt-like legs which occasionally stride with the right and rear leg moving forward together in an unconvincing fashion. The heat-ray sits atop the tripod head and has a round, spinning mirror on a metallic arm; when the mirror rotates rapidly it emits a long range Heat Ray. The chemical black smoke is emitted from the tips of the thick tentacles in the form of a spray, instead of the bazooka-like device that fires canisters of the smoke, as described in the novel. The fighting machines also has the collecting basket for captured humans, but in the film it looks more like a regular bucket. There are other Martian machines seen in the film: a four-legged fighting machine and six-legged handling machines that somewhat resemble scorpions.
H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005 film)[edit]
In H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (aka Invasion), a film adaptation from The Asylum, the fighting machine is a menacing, six-legged machine resembling a crab. The Heat-Ray is built into the body of the machine, shooting through a slot on its "head". The ray itself instantly incinerates a victim's flesh, leaving only skeletal remains. This machine can also eject an object that emits a green gas (similar to the black smoke) through the same slot, and has an opening atop the head through which Martians can leave the machine, as well as at least one clawed, metallic tentacle, grabbing fleeing humans. The machines do not appear to have particularly heavy protection against artillery, unlike the machines protected by invisible shields in the 1953 and 2005 film adaptations. They are probably 20–30 feet tall.
War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008 film)[edit]
In the Asylum's 2008 sequel War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave, the new walkers are tripods called squid-walkers, and capable of flight. Unlike the first film the Martians do not control the fighting machines from the inside but govern living cyborgs by remote control. A Heat-Ray is attached to the walkers, as well as a kind of ray that teleports humans to the mothership, where humans are drained of their blood to feed the aliens. Whereas Wells' fighting machines carried cages to capture humans, these tripods place the humans in the machines themselves. The interior of the machines is organic, with no windows or controls, as these tripods travel at will. The walls within the organic corridors absorb anyone unlucky enough to touch them, to destination unknown.
War of the Worlds (2005 film)[edit]
There are several differences between the fighting machines as described in Wells' novel and those in Steven Spielberg's 2005 film, which come from an undisclosed planet. In this version the tripods were long ago brought to Earth, having been buried underground in its past. The aliens instead travel in "capsules" to their machines by some kind of "beaming" process resembling lightning (from where or what is never revealed), which transports them underground. The lightning containing the capsules travel faster than the eye can see, and the unearthing of the first war machine suggests they may have also each been kept in something similar to a cylinder (which might have been part of a rocket or other transportation that brought them, long ago, to Earth). In a published interview, screenwriter David Koepp stated his belief that they were planted long ago by these extraterrestrials as a part of some kind of alien "contingency plan" (said plan never being revealed to the audience).
The features of the fighting machines also differ: They do not possess the novel's killing chemical black smoke and are equipped with some type of invisible force shield that only becomes visible when struck; no conventional weapons can penetrate them (an obvious reference to George Pal's original 1953 film version). They are armed with two heat-ray-like weapons that incinerate humans to ash, leaving the victim's clothing behind while destroying and burning everything else; this caused confusion for some viewers and also among critics. It has been put forward that aliens' heat-ray only destroys "organic" matter, though this does not fully explain the destruction of buildings and vehicles, nor the untouched cotton and wool of clothes, both of which are organic. One offered solution is that the heat-ray is a high energy coherent emission of microwaves similar to a Maser that causes the water in the human body to superheat into very high temperature steam, which then causes the victim to explode into ash as it instantly expands; this would also account for the metal objects it hits catching fire as they heat up, like metal objects placed in a microwave oven.
The fighting machines have several searchlights mounted on the front facing forward for navigational use and Illumination. As in Wells' novel the tripod's three legs are completely flexible, even rubber-like in their appearance and movement, with no visible mechanical joints or pivot-points, and they propel themselves by truly "walking" over any terrain; this can be seen as faithful to the original novel, where Wells describes the fighting machines as being more organic in their nature than mechanical. Spielberg's tripods also emit loud, deep bellows, which seem to be a means of calling out to one other, similar to how Wells' originally described them at one point in the book. The sounds used by the tripods in the film consist of one loud 113 Hz blast (between A2 and A#2 on the musical scale) for three seconds, followed by a deep 136 Hz blast (near C#3) for another three seconds, sounding very much like Earth lighthouse foghorn blasts. The fighting machines are also equipped with numerous retracting and expanding tentacles for capturing humans and other tasks, as well as two seemingly detachable metal-wire cages attached directly underneath on the rear and along on each side of the machine's hull, used for temporary human prisoner storage; a hatch in the hull over each cage dials open and a smaller tentacle reaches down into the cage to pull a captured human into the machine every few minutes for off-camera blood processing. At one point, it was revealed that a human with explosives, after getting put into a cage and later pulled into the tripod, can destroy it by detonating the explosives inside the machine, demonstrating an effective, yet highly risky, method of destroying them.
Additionally, the fighting machines have a tentacle that is used as a camera probe to explore small places such as the inside of buildings, and another tentacle used as a pipette to drain human blood directly from uncaptured humans. The altogether-collected human blood is then sprayed from the tripods' heads as fertilizer to aid the spread of their fast-growing terraforming red weed. Similar to the book, the fighting machines appear to emit some kind of black smoke before arming and firing the heat-ray, although this may only be accumulated dust and fine debris or a chemical steam for clearing vents. The tripods appear to have been made to resemble the aliens themselves, which have three legs, a large head, and three arms attached to their bodies. Some have observed that the tripods' main body housing and the aliens' heads look like cuttlefish.
The lethality of the fighting machines can be summed up in a phrase spoken in the film (a paraphrase of a line from the 1953 film): "Once the tripods start to move, no more news comes out of that area."
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds[edit]
The fighting machines are described in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds and depicted on the album artwork painted by Michael Trim. This version of the tripods does have some inconsistencies from Wells' description in his novel; for example, the Heat-Ray emanates from a proboscis in the cupola rather than from a box carried by the tripod,[1] the basket to hold captured humans is a cage on the handling machines instead of the fighting machines,[2] and the "cowl" (cockpit) of the fighting machine is fixed in place, instead of being a separately moving hood. This fighting machines also makes a "Ulla" sound, which is believed to be used for communication between other Martians.
This interpretation of the Martian tripods also appears in the 1998 and 1999 video games based on the Jeff Wayne album.
Parallel and sequel novels[edit]
In Kevin J. Anderson' The Martian War the Martians use two type of tripods, the ones from The War of the Worlds and a smaller, "overseer" variant. In Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds, the fighting machines are described as having legs that can telescope down allowing for entry and exit, and as being possibly based upon the original body type of the Martians.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen[edit]
The second volume of the comic book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen retells the story of The War of the Worlds, and the tripods are prominently featured. These fighting machines are more organic-looking than in other depictions, with wide, crested heads. They are depicted with details of the tripods from Wells' original novel; they have the Heat-Ray and baskets for captured humans. The fighting machines are shown to be destroyed by heavy artillery, launched from Captain Nemo's submarine. Furthermore, Edward Hyde brings down a tripod by ripping off one of its legs, questioning why the Martians would use a tripedal machine as a form of transport.
Influence on later fiction[edit]
Alien tripod war machines have appeared in several novels, movies, video games and television series.
In John Christopher's trilogy, an alien species has subdued the Earth. The aliens travel in three-legged machines known as tripods, as they cannot survive in Earth's atmosphere. The Tripods was later made into a BBC TV serial, which ran for two series but was cancelled before the three-part story was completed.
In Larry Niven's Rainbow Mars, time travelers from the 31st century passing through the late 19th century observe the Martian fighting machines attack a Brazilian city.
The tripods also inspired the AT-AT, AT-ST, and other war-machines in the Star Wars series.
In Scary Movie 4, a spoof of Spielberg's film, the fighting machines have only three tentacles, and fire the Heat-Ray from their central eyes. When the first tripod emerges, it appears as a giant iPod (named a triPod), selecting "Destroy humanity". Its other features are given a comical treatment; the cages on their backs feature a V.I.P area. Inside the tripod is the bathroom from Saw, where it is revealed the aliens are commanded by the Saw doll.[3]
Creatures and machines similar to the fighting machines are featured in many video games, such as the Striders from Half-Life 2[4] and their companions, the Hunters from Crysis and its sequels and spin-offs; Annihilator Tripods from Command & Conquer 3;[5] Colossi from StarCraft II; Science Walkers and Defilers from Universe at War, and Darkwalkers, which use rays and emit a similar noise, from Unreal Tournament 3.
Alien tripod mecha have appear in many animated movies and series, for example in the three-part pilot of the Justice League; the Japanese animated film Be Forever Yamato; in episodes of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, 'Ed, Edd, n Eddy and Kim Possible, as well as (albeit based on automotive spark plugs, and with four legs) in a daydream sequence in the 2006 film Cars. In the Japanese anime Space Runaway Ideon, several of the Buff Clan's heavy mecha have three legs, inspired by the Tripods.
Issues #7 and #12 of the Sonic X comic book feature a three-legged alien machine reminiscent of a Tripod. The machine is armed with laser weapons & shields, and goes on destructive rampages when activated. However, the origins of the craft has not yet been explained.
The Mechwarrior collectible miniatures game also has its own version of the tripods, called the Ares. Developed under the fictional "Rhodes Project", the 135-ton mechs closely resemble the tripods in the Steven Spielberg version, except that their legs are more squat and robust. Their names are also adapted from prominent Greek gods (Hera, Hades, Zeus, Poseidon).
In the American children's cartoon movie "Chicken Little", alien tripods attack the Earth. The aliens themselves sit inside the tripods and they look similar to War of the worlds aliens.
In the animated superhero film Ultimate Avengers 2, a race of aliens called the Chitauri invade earth. Machines resembling Wells' fighting machines are briefly seen attacking London, as a deliberate homage to War of the Worlds.
In the 2010 TV movie High Plains Invaders, a Western film about an alien invasion of the American Wild West in the 1890s, the alien antagonists were inspired by the machines of Wells' fiction. The machines walk upon legs (four legs instead of three) and carry a weapon above their head on a neck, resembling the Martian Heat-Ray from the 1953 film adaptation of War of the Worlds.
- ^ "The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells". Wikisource. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
- ^ "The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells". Wikisource. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
- ^ "Synopsis for Scary Movie 4". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
- ^ Ben Bowen (24 December 2004). "Half-Life 2 review". Just Adventure. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
- ^ Alec Meer (26 March 2007). "Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Review". Eurogamer. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
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Simply standing on the Marietta homes's grand front patio takes you back in time.   See the Image
The sparkling pool is complemented by a custom-built pergola and a bronze winged statue.   See the Image
Even the legendary arches, easily one the University of Georgia's most visible symbols, were recreated in the Marietta home's garden.   See the Image
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Primarily used for entertaining, the front parlor has lots of natural light, wide-plank hardwood floors and brass lighting fixtures.   See the Image
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Here it is. My tribute to Mr. T. Thanks to M2 for giving me the idea. I also made a tribute to Peewee Herman. You might want to check that out. It's not meant to be funny or anything. I just wanted to make a movie to show how much I like him. Same goes with Mr. T because I think it's safe to say that he is the best role model of our generation. Yay for Mr. T! Oh, and by the way... if you want to write stupid mindless reviews telling me how much my movie sucks and how I disgrace Mr. T's name etc. you can go eat a stick because I ain't got no time for no jibba jabba!
Rated 4 / 5 stars February 10, 2002
your are one crazy Sucah
I was looking through my reviews today and i came across your reply that said you would consider making a T tribute. I checked a list of your most recent movies and sure enough there was "Tribute to Mr. T". This is gold pure gold Jerry, and just as good as your Peewee tribute. We really should get together and combine our flash skills to make the ultimate Tribute. Let me know if your are interested.
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Mr. T
you really like Mr. T make something on...The 3 Stooges...since u seem 2 like them
Rated 3 / 5 stars September 14, 2001
I Pity The Fool
Mr T Thanks You For This Hella Cool Tribute Fool
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Pretty cool
It was entertaining
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haha humor. mr. t sitting with the chipmunks.. wow.


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BRAINERD, MN (WSAU) - Wausau Paper is making changes at it's Brainerd Minnesota mill. The Mosinee based company will end production of print papers at that location. Seven salaried employees and 48 hourly employees will be laid off, with most of the layoffs happening by the end of the year. Some staff will stay on until next July.
The mill just completed a 27-million dollar retooling to make technical and specialty grades of paper last year. This mill will not be closing, but it will eliminate production of this product line. Wausau Paper currently has 137 hourly and 34 salary workers in Brainerd.


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Increasing Canine Agility Performance: The Human Element
Thomas D. Fahey, Ed.D.
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California State University, Chico
Agility contests for dogs are big and growing. Timed obstacle courses require dogs to maneuver through tubes, ladders, and poles. Successful dogs are fit and well trained and have to work-out for many hours to master the sport become conditioned enough to run the course many times during the day. Trainers and owners have written hundreds of articles in books and magazines on developing skills and fitness for dogs involved in this sport. But, the dog is only part of the team.
The human element is the other part of the equation. People spend hours training their dogs for agility and fitness but almost none on themselves. Most trainers are middle age and sedentary and haven't exercised vigorously since high school or college. Agility trials use elimination rounds that can wear down the human part of the team. By the end of the day, humans get so tired that their fatigue limits their dog's performance.
Trainers bend, twist, accelerate, and stop fast during training and competition. Sore feet, legs, and lower backs can sap your strength and wear you down. It's obvious that you rather than your dog are the weak link in the chain. Your fitness relates directly to your ability to get the most from your dog.
You don't have to be a pro athlete but you should be fit if you want your dog to shine in agility races. You have to have good endurance as well as a strong back, abdominal muscles, solid joints, and the physical capacity to perform endless start and stop movements. You will get the most from your dogs— and improve your own health and wellness— if you follow the thirteen principles of training. These principles are a guide to gradual, long-lasting, injury-free fitness development and will lead to improved performance with the smallest risk of injury for you and your dog.
Principles of Training
1. Train the way you want your body to change.
2. Eat a well-balanced, high performance diet.
3. Establish realistic goals
4. Have a workout Plan
5. Exercise all year round.
6. Get in shape gradually.
7. Don't train when you're ill or seriously injured.
8. Train first for volume (more repetitions) and only later for intensity (more weight or resistance)
9. Listen to your body.
10. Train systematically
11. Warm-up and cool-down
12. Train the mind.
13. Have Fun! Keep the exercise program in its proper perspective.
1. Train the way you want your body to change. This means stress your body so that it changes the way you want. Agility training for dogs requires general fitness for their trainers, so choose a well-rounded program that concentrates on the major muscle groups. Besides the weight training routine, the program should include endurance and flexibility exercises.
This is the most important training principle. The body adapts to stress in a very specific way. For example, swimming will not improve endurance for pacing your dog in agility courses. The best way to improve performance in a sport is to practice that particular sport, but also do support exercises, such as weight training, walking, and running that will help pace your dog. The principle of specificity should be the central consideration in any training program designed to improve skilled performance. Develop fitness for the type of movements you do when working or competing with your dog.
Summarizing this critical principle of specificity — train the way you want your body to adapt. Develop strength, power, endurance, and flexibility slowly. Improving fitness that will aid the performance of your dog in agility courses.
2. Eat a Well-Balanced, High Performance Diet. - During the past 20 years, sports scientists have shown that the right diet can improve performance and keep off unwanted pounds of fat. All the training in the world will not give you a great body if you eat too much. You spend a fortune on your dog's diet - don't neglect your own diet. You are a critical part of the team.
Eat a sensible, nutritious diet - one containing a balance of the basic food groups. The diet should supply enough calories to meet energy needs but still allow you to control your weight. If you want to lose weight, do so gradually— lose no more than 2-1/2 pounds per week. Eat a variety of healthy foods that are high in fruits, vegetables, fish, and whole grains. Include foods containing monounsaturated fats, such as olive oil, nuts, and avocados.
3. Establish Realistic Goals. Fitness reflects the nature of the exercise stress (training program). Goals should reflect factors such as your capability, your dog's talent, and your motivation for success.
4. Have a Workout Plan. Write down your goals and your method for achieving them. If you are overweight, come up with a prudent plan for losing weight. For example, if you are a woman who wants to lose 20 pounds, set up a realistic program for achieving your goal. A sensible approach might be to lose 1 pound per week and strive to go to the health club 3 times per week and work your dog 3-5 times per week. You might achieve your goal by cutting down on desserts and fats in your diet in addition to your exercise plan.
5. Exercise All Year Round. Dogs and people who take too much time off from their training program will lose the gains they've made. And they'll be more susceptible to injury if they try to get back in shape rapidly. Established a year-round program; have specific goals and procedures for each period of the year and stick to them. Have alternative training plans for when the weather is bad or when you don't have access to a training field.
People who miss workouts, don't improve fitness and even lose the gains they made. Plan regular times for their exercise programs and stick to them. Don't let things interfere with their workouts. All of us have many responsibilities that compete for our time. Make your workouts a priority if training and competing with your dog is important.
6. Get in shape gradually. Achieving fitness takes time. Try to increase fitness too fast and you will get injured or
over-trained. You cannot push the process too fast. High levels of fitness represent many small adaptations. If you introduce the stresses of exercise gradually, you will eventually become more fit with a minimum risk of injury.
Training is a stress the body must overcome, so give your body— and your dog's body— time to adapt to the stress of exercise. Muscles are more susceptible to injury during the early phases of conditioning. Over zealous training, or intense conditioning when you aren't prepared for it, will lead to injury and delay progress.
Staying in good shape all year long is much easier than trying to achieve fitness in a few months. It's much easier to apply a little pressure instead of trying to go for a crash conditioning program.
7. Don't train when you're ill or seriously injured. The body has problems trying to fight more than one stressor simultaneously. Training when you are sick or injured may seriously hinder your progress or even be dangerous.
8. Train first for volume (more repetitions) and only later for intensity (more weight or resistance). This principle seems to be at odds with the principle of specificity. You might ask, as a dog trainer, why would I want to develop aerobic capacity and muscle endurance if power output and speed are the most important fitness components? The answer is that low-intensity, repetitive exercise prepares your body to withstand more intensive training with less risk of injury.
High intensity training designed to develop power and speed pushes the body to its limit. If you first develop a "fitness base" and increase the intensity of training gradually, you will develop power and speed with less risk of strains, sprains, and muscle cramps.
9. Listen to your body. Don't stick to the planned program too stubbornly if it doesn't feel right. Sometimes the body needs rest more than it needs exercise. Most studies show that the absolute intensity is the essential factor in improving fitness. Typically, an over-trained person has not recovered enough to train at an optimal intensity; so, a few days rest is sometimes necessary to provide enough recovery to allow for more intense training. Overtraining is accompanied by fatigue, decreased performance, irritability, and sometimes depression. Exercise training is not an exact science. Sometimes you feel great and can train more intensely than planned. Other times, you feel tired and sluggish. Training hard when tired will actually impede progress.
Don't use this principle as an excuse to skip workouts. If you listen to your body and it always tells you to rest, you will never improve fitness. Follow a systematic program but be flexible enough to change it slightly according to how they feel.
10. Train systematically. Plan a proper workout schedule for the coming months, but don't be so rigid that you can't change the program to fit unforeseen circumstances. The important thing is that you have a plan, so you can comfortably and consistently improve fitness.
11. Warm-up and cool-down. Muscles work best when they're slightly warmer than at rest and have plenty of blood. Warming up before exercise increases muscle temperature, muscle and heart blood flow, tissue elasticity, joint lubrication, and gives athletes additional practice before competing or beginning formal practice. Cool-down helps to gradually restore normal resting blood flow levels to the inner organs.
12. Train the mind. One of the most difficult skills to acquire — but critical for attaining high levels of physical fitness is mind control. Training the mind is thoroughly interrelated with training the body — you can achieve almost anything if you set your mind to it. To become physically fit or to succeed as a dog trainer, you must believe in yourself and your potential, have goals, and know how to achieve these goals. It requires discipline and is an ongoing process. You must be able to put yourself in the proper frame of mind in order to do this.
13. Have Fun! Keep the exercise program in its proper perspective. An old saying among exercise critics is "Exercise doesn't make you live any longer; it just seems longer!" The program doesn't have to be a chore if they chose activities they enjoy. You are in a great sport— don't let your poor fitness hold your dog back!
Dr. Thomas Fahey is one of the most respected exercise scientists in the world. He has co-authored the "bible" of exercise physiology textbook (Exercise Physiology: Human Bioenergetics and its Applications. New York: McGraw Hill, 2000) along with other books ranging from sports injury treatment to women's strength training. Dr. Fahey has also has published numerous studies in prestigious medical journals and is invited to present his findings throughout the world. He has worked with professional and Olympic athletes—including Bruce Jenner—and is himself is a six time national champion senior discus champion, and the current World Games discus winner, senior division.


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The Creators of NY: Comedians The Dependable Felons
Josh Wool spent a decade as an executive chef, opening restaurants across the south. But all that changed in 2010, when the carpal tunnel in his hands meant he could no longer work. To keep from going stir crazy, he picked up a camera and found his next calling. Two years, thousands of portraits, and a move to New York later, Wool is documenting the people who inspire him on a daily basis. Welcome to Creators of NYC.
The Dependable Felons
Comedians James Chupka and Murf Meyer met sometime around 2009, in a rat-infested row home in Northern Philly (their words). Now part of comedy troupe The Dependable Felons, the duo are making their way into the New York comedy scene with a particular brand of psychedelic absurdity — and a new tour that takes them into people's living rooms. We caught up with them in their Park Slope stomping grounds.
Your newest gig is a called the Whiskey Tango Living Room Tour, which actually takes you into the homes of New Yorkers. Why host a comedy show in people's living rooms?
The Felons were inspired by our lower-middle-class upbringing, where friends and family would gather in each others homes every weekend to share spirits, jokes, and stories. Cheaper than any movie or concert that would pass through Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. With the Whiskey Tour, we want to make our shows more accessible.
Is it ever awkward being in the private homes of strangers?
Sometimes it takes a moment for both the performers and the audience to get used to the intimacy. But once everybody settles in, it becomes a funky experience. The weirdest thing we've dealt with was putting a host to bed. He clearly had too much to drink, so we escorted him to his bed and tucked him in. All in a night's work.
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Formal acknowledgment of years of service was launched in 2011 to recognize staff and faculty members who have reached specific anniversaries in their employment at Pacific. The Employee Recognition Committee sponsors a yearly luncheon to honor and thank these employees who have reached employment milestones.
In 2013, the following employees were recognized and celebrated for their years of service:
Shelly Azevedo
Devon Bailey
Debbie Beck
Maria Beltran
Travis Bluford
Stanley Constantino
Valeria Donald
Katherine Falk
Michelle Fang
Dr. Shika Gupta
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William Edrich
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Dr. Robert Stuart
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10 U.S. Code § 136 - Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
(a) There is an Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
(b) Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense, the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe in the areas of military readiness, total force management, military and civilian personnel requirements, military and civilian personnel training, military and civilian family matters, exchange, commissary, and nonappropriated fund activities, personnel requirements for weapons support, National Guard and reserve components, and health affairs.
(c) The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness takes precedence in the Department of Defense after the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller).
(d) The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness is responsible, subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense, for the monitoring of the operations tempo and personnel tempo of the armed forces. The Under Secretary shall establish, to the extent practicable, uniform standards within the Department of Defense for terminology and policies relating to deployment of units and personnel away from their assigned duty stations (including the length of time units or personnel may be away for such a deployment) and shall establish uniform reporting systems for tracking deployments.
Source(Added Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title IX, § 903(a),Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1727; amended Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title XV, § 1503(a)(2),Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 510; Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title IX, § 923(a), title X, § 1066(a)(1),Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 724, 770.)
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1999—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–65, § 1066(a)(1), inserted "advice and" after "by and with the".
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106–65, § 923(a), added subsec. (d).
1996—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104–106substituted "Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)" for "Comptroller".
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A Miami woman returned from Haiti with a case of cholera. The disease has afflicted thousands in Haiti, but there hasn't been here since the '90s. But stay calm. No matter what newspeople say, none of you are at risk.
Relax, People, You Will Not Get Cholera
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