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NEWPORT County AFC suffered a Severnside derby defeat on a wet and wild afternoon in Bristol that put another dent in their promotion hopes.
Former Exiles loan striker Kaid Mohamed put Bristol Rovers ahead in first half stoppage time and Eliot Richards made it 2-0 just after the break.
Rene Howe pulled one back for County but John-Joe O'Toole's last minute strike sealed three points for the hosts as they eased their relegation concerns.
County manager Justin Edinburgh said: "A lot of things didn't go for us today. That's not taking it away from Bristol Rovers but I certainly didn't think there was too much between the two sides.
"We're disappointed with the goals we gave away. A couple of players have spoken and held their hands up and know they can do better.
"The timings of the goals were crucial for them and put us on the back foot and made it difficult. The ball hasn't fallen for us and it has for them."


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WASHINGTON, DC—The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) has appointed Brian Crawford, currently chief of staff to Florida Congressman Tom Rooney (R-17), as VP of governmental and political affairs. He will join the staff on Feb. 3.
In this role, Crawford will support the association's advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill and with key administration policymakers, with a focus on labor and workforce issues. He also will provide strategic support for the association's political action committee, HotelPAC.
"Brian is an outstanding addition to our team and will immediately play a key role in amplifying the lodging industry's compelling narrative with members of Congress and the Administration," said Katherine Lugar, AH&LA president/CEO. "Workforce issues continue to be a major focus for hoteliers across the country, and the decisions made in Washington in these areas have a direct impact on their operations and bottom line. Brian will provide our members with outstanding expertise in this area and play a pivotal role in explaining to policymakers the impact these issues have on lodging. He also brings a keen political mind that will be critical to our efforts to grow HotelPAC."
Crawford spent nearly eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives, having served the past five as Congressman Rooney's chief of staff. In this role, he directed all legislative, press, and operational activities for a staff of 15 in the Washington, DC and three Florida district offices. He previously served as the deputy chief of staff for Florida Congressman Ric Keller (R-08). In addition, he held a top legislative affairs position with Associated Builders and Contractors, where he implemented the association's workforce, labor and healthcare agenda, and with the National Small Business Association.

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The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914 (Hardcover)
Europe, 1900-1914
Basic Books, 9780465011162, 488pp.
Publication Date: November 1, 2008
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The old order gives way to the new in a vast panoramic history of Europe on the brink of the Great War.
About the Author
Praise For The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914…
"The vertiginous atmosphere of a tumbling prewar society - at the same time exciting and frightening - is described with atmospheric clarity. The combination of easily worn scholarship, fascinating character studies and fluent story-telling that is often very funny makes this a hugely enjoyable and illuminating book….A work of narrative history at its best."
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"Impressive and thought-provoking....encapsulate[s] complex historical and biographical events pithily and in an illuminating context…The book brings the fears, enthusiasms and blindspots of the period brilliantly to life."
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"In this enthralling, panoramic sweep of the 15 years preceding the First World War, Blom convincingly argues that it was this decade and a half that truly marked the start of the modern age, with all its grandeur and calamities…. With his impressive synthesis of historical literature, old and recent, and his finely drawn portraits of both emperors and workers, Blom's Vertigo Years will surely enlighten and interest another generation of readers in an era far in the past, yet worth understanding all the same."
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The military comedy Enlisted will premiere in January instead of its original Nov. 8 debut, Fox announced Thursday.
In a press release, Fox said the scheduling shift was meant to take advantage of the network's "winter sports promotional platform." The show will debut Friday, Jan. 10, at 9:30 p.m., following new episodes of Bones and Raising Hope.
To replace the original Enlisted slot, Fox will air back-to-back new episodes of Raising Hope starting at 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8.
Enlisted stars The Finder's Geoff Stults, Veronica Mars' Chris Lowell, and Suburgatory's Parker Young as three brothers working at a Florida military post.


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The Vallejo school board will get its first look Wednesday at a proposed budget for the district.
For months, the Vallejo City Unified School District, like others across the state, has been developing a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) as part of a new model for school funding in California that demands input from stakeholders.
Out of that plan, the district has developed a budget under the local control funding formula. In its first year, the formula provides more money to districts with high concentrations of low-income students, foster youth and English language learners.
The board will also hear about the district's wall-to-wall academy initiative during a special program showcase.
The wall-to-wall academies seek to place all Vallejo high school students who are sophomores and older into one of the 10 career academies at Vallejo and Jesse Bethel high schools.
The board meets at 5 p.m. after a 4 p.m. closed session at the large gym at Jesse Bethel High School, 1800 Ascot Parkway.


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Hi Cake Gurus!
My FIL is turning 70 and I have been commissioned to make the cake. He is a connoisseur of the finer things in life so I'm still thinking about what to make. I had thought about making a red-wine-bottle cake, but I just made one, and he has seen it, so I'd rather do something a little different.
I was thinking about a Sugar Champagne bottle in a bucket-of-ice cake. What does everyone think? My FIL would not really appreciate a funny themed cake (like those over-the-hill cakes) as he has a bit of an ego (I'm making him sound awful - he really is a good person!)
Any ideas on what kind of cake to make for the person who considers himself a jetsetting type (who has discerning tastes)? I had also thought about a newspaper cake with 'FIL turns 70!!' as a headline, but then I realized that piping is involved and I'm not the best at piping script. Fugghedaboudit!
I also was thinking about a 'roll-of-film' cake where I would have round cake tiers (like film reels) and have edible images pictures of him throughout the stages in his life (he LOVES pics from his past).
Any ideas for either/both of these design ideas (or completely new ones)would be most welcome!
For the discerning taste, you could set a "table" with various classy items like caviar, fine cheese, a glass of wine, etc. I don't have a discerning taste so I don't know what other foods would fit. You could add a rose or some other elegant flower in a petite vase and/or a candle in a shiny candle stick. HTH.
What about a cake car? Something the older generations would enjoy. Shiny red Jaguar maybe?
What about a cake car? Something the older generations would enjoy. Shiny red Jaguar maybe?
I just did this cake for a client last week who's hubby was turning 70 - it is a Jaguar car badge.
I have heard back from her and he absolutely loved it. Cars are a good theme for that age unless he has a particular hobby.
Good luck
Wow! Great Jaguar cake!!!
Thanks for the ideas. He used to have a corvette in his youth that he LOVED. Maybe I'll try to recreate it.


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A Taliban suicide bomber in Kabul has killed eight military officers in an attack on an air force bus, Afghan officials said.
It is the latest strike against the national security forces as US troops withdraw.
The Afghan capital has been relatively peaceful since the presidential election on 14 June, though there have been street demonstrations as politicians are locked in a dispute over vote fraud.
A defence ministry spokesman confirmed the death toll and said the attack struck at 7am (3.30am Irish time) as military staff were being taken to work.
The Taliban used a recognised Twitter account to claim responsibility for the blast, adding that the suicide attacker approached the vehicle on foot before detonating his explosive-packed vest.
A Taliban spokesman said that at least 25 people had been killed on the bus, though the insurgents regularly exaggerate death tolls after attacks.
Election day saw a sharp rise in nationwide violence, but there has not been a major attack in Kabul since 7 June, when 12 people were killed in a suicide strike against presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, who escaped unharmed.
Mr Abdullah has said he will reject the result of the on-going election vote count, alleging massive fraud against him in the race against his rival Ashraf Ghani.
NATO's 50,000-strong combat force will leave Afghanistan by December, though about 10,000 US troops will stay into next year if the new president signs a security deal with Washington.


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Gatwick Airport has revealed it will give residents most affected by noise from a second runway an annual compensation of around £1,000.
The compensation offered would be the equivalent to a Band A council tax and made available if and when the runway became operational.
Stewart Wingate, CEO of Gatwick Airport, said: "Expansion at Gatwick would, without doubt, deliver many upsides for our local community in terms of jobs and investment.
"But we must also recognise the negative noise impacts on local people from more flights. Gatwick's location obviously means that comparatively fewer people would be affected by a new runway. However, I believe we must do more to help those that would be affected."
Mr Wingate estimated that as many as 4,100 households could qualify for this scheme.
He said: "How we best compensate communities affected by major infrastructure projects is an issue facing a growing number of sectors - from aviation to energy.
"Our proposal would see the people most affected by expansion at Gatwick receiving monetary compensation.
"Under the scheme, we are pledging £1,000 towards Council Tax for qualifying households in the local area, if and when a second runway became operational."


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in this circa 1910 pencil factory building, morten bo jensen, chief designer atvipp and his partner, graphic designer kristina may olsen have created a dreamy open space modern loft. morten and kristina have mixed repurposed vintage finds with their own creations – the carbon colored kitchen is a vipp design by morten himself. the home is also family and kid friendly for twin daughters merle and anine – p.s : i want their dollhouse, again, designed and built by super dad.
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I bought this one unsniffed (I know, I know..... LOL), When I first sprayed this I thought "oh no yuck". After reading the notes I was hoping for a creamy coconut/creme brulee scent but the initial blast is a very unpleasant citrus scented bug spray (at least to my nose). I like citrus but something doesn't sit right with these top notes for me. I was initially very disappointed!! Thankfully it does become something a lot nicer as it wears on; with a little more of the creamy coconut/creme brulee I'd hoped for, coming through. It is not the sillage/projection monster that Pink Sugar is and wears closer to the skin. However, as for lasting power, I can still smell it on my skin and clothes 5.5 hours later. As others seem to like this a lot, I do wonder if perhaps my bottle has gone off or something? I will try a tester in a shop (if it ever comes to Australia). For a comparision scent, I'd say it's along the same lines as to The One by Dolce & Gabbana (not identical just slightly similiar).
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Warm up to winter at Humble Wine Bar
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Cozy up to the bar at Humble Wine Bar in Lakewood and soak up the warmth radiating from the eatery's focal point, a 750-degree pizza oven. The wine bar, an offshoot of nearby Deagan's Kitchen and Bar, turns out some good food under the guidance of chef de cuisine Vincent Sanchez. The custom-built pizza oven […]
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WPS CONTINUES TO DIG DEEP AT THE GRAND FINALE The WPS Racing outfit continued to dig deep during the second day of proceedings at the Caterpillar Grand Finale on Phillip Island in Victoria today. After making several changes to the set up of...
The WPS Racing outfit continued to dig deep during the second day of proceedings at the Caterpillar Grand Finale on Phillip Island in Victoria today.
After making several changes to the set up of their WPS Racing Falcons for this morning's qualifying session the team's drivers Max Wilson and Jason Bargwanna started the opening race from 24th and 27th respectively.
During the opening laps of the 23-lap journey both drivers moved up three positions to run just outside the top 20. Bargwanna was the first of the pair to complete his compulsory pit stop on lap 10, he returned to the circuit in 24th position.
Two laps later the WPS crew executed another clean stop to change the rear tyres on the #8 WPS Racing Falcon.
As the race continued both Wilson and Bargwanna pushed hard but were unable to climb any further up the order and cross the line 20th and 21st respectively.
Polesitter Todd Kelly won today's race ahead of Garth Tander and Mark Skaife. Championship contenders Rick Kelly and Craig Lowndes finished fourth and fifth respectively closing the gap in the chase for the championship to a mere three points. Bargwanna is in 13th place, 61 points clear of Cameron McConville and Wilson 15th.
Tomorrow's action consists of two 32-lap races at 11:20am and 3:30pm.
Jason Bargwanna - #10 WPS Racing Falcon
"The main aim for the weekend was to make sure we kept out of trouble and added some championship points to our tally to make sure we maintained our spot in the standings," said Bargwanna.
"There were a few hairy moments during the opening few laps but I played it conservative to make sure I got to the end.
"We made a slight change in to the setup of the car in the pit stop which seemed to help me a bit as the car got better the race continued."
Max Wilson - #8 WPS Racing Falcon
"We made a little bit of progress from yesterday but still have a fair bit of work to do before we can move further up the order," said Wilson.
"Our focus is now on making sure we can finish both races tomorrow to make sure I can stay inside the top 15 for the championship."
Mark Larkham -- Team Principal
"I'm pleased both cars finished the race in one piece with no damage and we can focus on getting more speed out of them tomorrow," said Larkham.
"Starting from where we were did I thought it was going to be tough to stay out of trouble, especially considering our lack of outright speed, but it is pleasing to know both drivers drove a smart race and brought both cars home straight."
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Pictures of Fernando Alonso's first run in the Ferrari F150 at Fiorano.
Day: January 28, 2011 articles archive
Montezemolo urges rethink on testing and engine rules
2011 F1 seasonPosted on
Luca di Montezemolo says a four-cylinder Ferrari would be "absurd".
Ferrari F150 – fly-around video
F1 videoPosted on
Ferrari show off their new 2011 F1 car in this fly-around video.
2011 Ferrari F150 and 2010 Ferrari F10 side-by-side
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Last year's Ferrari won five races and nearly took the title. How does the new F150 compare?
Domenicali predicts closer title battle in 2011
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"Red Bull, Mercedes, McLaren, and some other teams" to challenge for wins in 2011.
Ferrari F150 launch – first pictures and video
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Pictures and video from the launch of Ferrari's 2011 F1 car, the F150.
Ayrton Senna vs Jack Brabham
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At long last, the Phillies' interminable one-game losing streak is over.
Yes, it was a tough 24 hours, but tonight the Fightins finally returned
to their winning ways with an 11-3 victory, moving the Fightins to an
exemplary 10-2 record for the month of August. Roy Oswalt, who gave up
just three runs over seven innings, picked up the W for the first time
since returning from the DL.
The win was due in no small part to the performance of the Washington
Nationals' infield, an atrocity exhibition the likes of which Ian Curtis
never even dreamed of. Booted grounders, poorly gloved grounders,
grounders missed altogether, sailed throws to first, dropped throws to
first...the Nats' infield may have only been charged with three errors
this evening, but there were least another three plays that the infield
just failed to make, nearly all of which the Phils ended up capitalizing
on. In fact, the only decent play made the entire inning by the
Natinals from within the diamond was made by starting pitcher John
Lannan, who glove-shoveled a slow-chopped Wilson Valdez grounder to home
to get a force on Ryan Howard. Besides that, Lannan got no help
whatsoever, resulting in this odd final pitching line: 3 IP, 7 R, 1 ER, 4
The Phillies didn't need to do all that much to take advantage of the
Nats' miscues—incredibly, they scored their first eight runs on just
five hits, only one of which was for extra bases—but they did help their
own cause with some smart baserunning. Wheels went orgasmic over the
number of times the boys went first-to-third on singles, as well as over
the Utley-like move from Wilson Valdez when he scored from second on an
infield grounder after the Nats failed to secure a force at second with
the bases loaded. And that one extra-base hit was a two-run blast from
Ryan Howard in the opening frame, which was big for the guys after they
only managed to scratch out one run in seven innings of Livan Hernandez
action last night. (By the way, with his four men driven in tonight,
Ryan now has 18 RBIs in his last 15 games, with six homers over that
span. Just mentioning.)
As for Little Roy's performance on the mound, he was fairly sharp in his
second start since returning from the DL. After laboring a little in
the first two innings, the Phils' five-run third gave Roy the chance to
settle down a little, and aside from a mildly sticky sixth, he breezed
the rest of the way, getting in seven innings with less than 100
pitches, striking out five and walking just one. Not dominant, but on a
night where all we really needed was solid efficiency, he certainly gave
us that, and the boy wonder Michael Stutes (who it appears has
officially replaced Raul Ibanez as the city's "UUUUUU" Fightin of
choice) finished the job with a scoreless final two innings.
Tomorrow, Roy Halladay takes the hill with a chance to give the Phils
their fifth series win in a row, opposed by Nationals sinkerballer /
reclamation project Chien-Ming Wang. With the Braves' 8-4 loss to the
Cubs last night, Philly is back to being 8.5 games up in the East, and
if the Phils win again tomorrow, they'll only have to play .500 ball the
rest of the season to end up with 100 wins. Hell of a season, Jackie.


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By CTK
From: Scottsdale
May 2, 2008
Note : Getting There - "It is possible to drive to the upper area and park there if you want to put your vehicle through its paces and skip the two minutes it takes to walk up the hill." It is no longer possible or appropriate to do the prior, as you will find fencing!
At this time you must park just off the main access road in what are a couple places to park a few vehicles! If you have higher clearance drive further east to the end to conserve low clearance access for others. This area official resides within the boundaries of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve and should be treated as such!
By Benjamin Smith
May 11, 2008
|Just a heads up, made an attempt to climb One for the Road yesterday but got chased off by bees that look like they have a hive at the top of the first pitch. My partner and I moved over to the main bolted area, but were still getting harassed by bees.
By CTK
From: Scottsdale
Dec 12, 2008
|Still, to this day there are bees, likely Africanized, as they are persistent in there harassment / attacks, still atop and around the Svens Slab formation.
By noburu Irvine
From: Flagstaff
Nov 8, 2009
|Very few bees (like 2 or 3) but no nest today at One for the Road area (11/09)
By ClimbPHX.com
From: Mesa AZ
May 24, 2010
For you adventurous that love to explore - There is a tunnel to the right of Black Death that you may go up into ... tight squeeze to a chimeny section - Up above - good fifth class solo crack
BEWARE - There is an aggressive Bee Hive above and the suckers are not friendly - sustained numerous stings...
Be Safe - Climb Hard
By Jeremy Jones
Jan 29, 2012
|I think all the routes there are sandbagged. Great wall, easy access, but some of the bolts are way off the deck. Be Careful. It was a slab fest! We had allot of fun!
By Phalanges
Feb 3, 2015
|Just to update the getting there section, what's listed is now as far as I can tell out of date. Both Sven's slab and the climb's for Tom's Thumb and Gardener's Wall are accessed from a single trailhead and parking lot. The directions in the Weekend Rock were pretty confusing having never been there and with the clearly new setup. Just follow the directions on the Tom's Thumb page.
By Joanna M
From: Tempe
Nov 29, 2015
Seconding Phalanges. The "Getting There" instructions here, in Phoenix Rock II, and Rock Climbing AZ Falcon Guide, all seem to be out of date. To get to Sven Slab you can park in the Tom's Thumb trailhead located here: trailhead on google maps, then head east out of the lot on the Marcus Landslide Trail. It's a 5-10min walk to the climber's trail on your right.
Use this handy map that is posted at the beginning of the Marcus Landslide Trail:


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Anyone frustrated by the NBA rule that says draft picks can't be traded for 30 days after they sign — and count us among those, since we're eager to see a Kevin Love/Andrew Wiggins deal and move on with our lives — should note that it could be worse.
A decade ago, this deal would pretty much be dead — and not because Love was 15 and Wiggins was 9, though we suppose that would pretty much kill any NBA deal as well.
We found this nugget from a Cleveland AP story interesting:
There have been restrictions placed on trading newly signed rookies dating back at least to the 1998-99 collective bargaining agreement. At that time, rookies were lumped in with all free agents into a rule that prevents any newly signed player from being traded for three months or before Dec. 15 of the next season – whichever is longer.
The rule was modified in the 2005 CBA, separating rookie contracts into a different category with the shorter, 30-day timeline between signing date and trade eligibility.
In the case of Wiggins, Dec. 15 would have been the date in question, or about 45 days into the NBA season. In other words, no deal, since it appears his salary being on the books is important to making this trade happen and his salary is only on the books now that he has signed.
What's the point of the rule, anyway? Why can't teams just trade players, including rookies, whenever they please?
It was designed to prevent teams from circumventing salary cap rules. … The spirit behind the rule is that if a rookie is traded immediately after he signs, it gives the appearance that the acquiring team is the one that is in fact signing him.
That doesn't make a ton of sense to us, but then again the NBA collective bargaining agreement is a tangled web from which few people escape fully unscathed.
Just be happy, we suppose, that a trade is still possible, even if it will take until the end of August to be official.
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text: Hallo to everybody! How would you translate this dialogue? "Non tentare di scappare" mi supplicò uno dei due. Ma non ci penso proprio, li tranquillizzai. "Do not try to escape", one of them begged. Not on your life/ No way / I wouldn't do it for love nor money/ I'm not even thinking about it, I calmed them down. Thank you.


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Have you ever felt so sick of blogging that you find it unable to face your computer screen? Does the sheer burden of typing, promoting and logging in-out of accounts bug you on some days? If so, you are suffering from a blogging-burnout. It is a scene which most bloggers face, sooner or later.
When does Blogging-Burnout happen?
The bloggers burnout occurs usually due to continual and un-planned blogging schedules. There are many poor blogging habits that may cause you to have a burnout. It mostly happens when bloggers exert themselves too much. I have seen many bloggers who get so desperate to succeed in blogging that they begin to post two-three articles every day. These bloggers avoid physical exercise, social interaction and remained completely glued to the computer screen without any break. This kind of a schedule can only be maintained for a few days. After some days, the lack of sleep, exercise and social interaction will cause fatigue and a person will not feel like blogging. Then for a few days the person suffers from acute blogging burnout. He gets sick of the whole process and the blog gets neglected during that period.
The passion the blogger in above case showed is in such excess that it becomes counter-productive. Because for the next few days he will not dare to come online and blog. And we all know that blogging is very tricky and you need to put in effort every day. To be successful at blogging, it is better to take one step at a time. Don't drain all your energy in a span of ten days. It is more advisable to save that enthusiasm and energy for the next three months.
How to Fight Blogging-Burnout?
Nature Does Not Want You To Blog
Think about the statement above. Nature has not built man in such a manner that it can sit in front of a glowing screen for hours, and the only exercise being for his fingers. This is why it has become very important for bloggers who spend a lot of time in front of the computer to involve themselves in some sort of physical activity.
Work In Time Frames
I have seen that bloggers who blog under a given timer frame every day are much less prone to blogging-burnout. If you are the kind of person who will come online in the morning and blogs whenever possible (perhaps during your office break/free time), then it affects your productivity. Also such kind of blogging habit will not leave you any time to rest. If you use the office-break to blog then that is no longer a break. It means you work yourself continuously for 10-12 hours, which is brutal on the human body. Set a fixed time (2 hours before sleep, maybe) to blog and stick with it, don't exceed the set time. And also don't let blogging affect your other committments.
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Guilderland Archives The Altamont Enterprise, January 27, 2011
Win second place in Future City Regionals
By Melissa Hale-Spencer
GUILDERLAND Learning about engineering was expected as part of the Future City Competition, but the Farnsworth Middle School team had unexpected lessons in another culture.
One of the team members, Aviral Pandey, was born in India and the students chose to name their city after his native Allahabad. The city is thought to be the place where Brahma, after creating the world, offered his first sacrifice and is a site for Hindu pilgrimages.
"He didn't push it on them," said advisor Thomas McGreevy, a technology education teacher at Farnsworth. "It was a really nice bonus. The kids learned a lot about Indian culture."
McGreevy said, for example, when the students were planning the riverfront for Allahabad 150 years in the future, "The kids thought of beaches and waterskiing." The city is located at the confluence of the holy rivers, Ganges and Yamuna, and the ancient Sarasvati River. "Aviral told them, the rivers have religious significance and you wouldn't use them for those types of things," said McGreevy.
The Farnsworth team placed second against 21 other teams and also brought home three additional prizes for best medical device, best model, and best presentation.
The middle-school students, starting in September, create cities using Sim City software and then build tabletop models, using recycled materials that cost not more than a hundred dollars. Students write essays about their cities and then explain and defend them before a panel of judges.
New Lebanon won first place on Saturday and will compete in the national finals in Washington, D.C. in February. Farnsworth, which has competed in all 10 years of the National Engineers' Week Future City Competition, came in second in the nation in 2008. Farnsworth won second place regionally last year, and first place regionally for the four years before that.
This year's team was all new, except for one returning student, Brad McGuire. "Because they were new, they had a lot of different ideas," said McGreevy. He said the team was "ecstatic" with the results, coming in second and winning three top prizes.
Richard Lasselle, a Farnsworth science teacher, advised the group with McGreevy, and engineering mentor Thomas Raber from General Electric Global Research helped, too. Additionally, three Guilderland High School students, each of whom had previously competed on the Farnsworth team David Lasselle, Dan Sipzner, and Chris Raber were mentors for the team and judges for the event.
"They were great," said McGreevy of the high school mentors.
Three prizes
The challenge for this year was to provide an effective health-care product that would improve patients' quality of life. The Farnsworth device that won the prize was a printer for body parts. The organ printer was based on existing inkjet and 3-D printers, said McGreevy.
"A 3-D printer allows industry to print parts just like you make prints," he said, noting the Farnsworth invention would sample DNA from a patient's body and then use it to program a computer to print a new organ or limb in three dimensions.
"Their model was technically excellent," said McGreevy. describing some of the Farnsworth students' innovations. Since they didn't want the airport to take up too much space, they designed a device to catch the planes in the air and lower them on a platform that ran on hydraulic systems.
"All of the industries were located underground," said McGreevy. And tunnels connected Allahabad to other cities "with supersonic speed," he said. "The vibration from that generated electricity."
The city's other source of power came from a satellite that beamed microwaves from the sun. Solar collectors in space could be used 24 hours a day with no cloud cover, McGreevy said, noting all of these ideas were based on a lot of student research.
He concluded, "Our model was really held to a very close scale. If we asked how wide a road was, they knew it was 40 feet because it was one-inch wide and it was built to a scale of 40 feet to an inch."
The three presenters Sarah Jones as a bioengineer at the city hospital, Pandey as a city engineer, and McGuire as a visiting businessman considering a location in Allahabad "did a fantastic job," said McGreevy. "They're brought into a room where they have to answer all sorts of questions technical and not-so-technical from engineers," he said. "It was among the best I've seen," he said of the presentation.
The students are already excited about next year's Future City, McGreevy said.
"Students are stopping me in the hall to tell me they're collecting junk for next year's model," he said. "They know what to expect next year," he said, adding, "I don't know if they could do better, though…This was a great team effort, a smash-up job."


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JERUSALEM (Mar. 2)
The world-wide conference of Jewish organizations opening next Tuesday in Zurich will serve as a demonstration of the determination of the Jews to resist the Communist anti-Jewish drive in Eastern Europe, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, co-chairman of the Jewish Agency, today told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency upon his arrival here. He was scheduled to confer with Premier David Ben Gurion today.
Dr. Goldmann, who expressed the hope that the conference would influence world public opinion, said that he attaches "the greatest importance" to the parley. He emphasized that this will be one of the greatest Jewish conferences of many decades, representing the entire Jewry of almost 40 countries. He expressed the belief that the few major Jewish groups which have not yet replied to the Agency's invitation to come to the conference will join at the last minute since the conference will demonstrate Jewish unity.


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If you watched the Super Bowl last night, you probably saw the creepy commercial where the Droid alien gets human thumbs sewn to his arms. Good times.
That's the unveiling of the Xperia Play from Sony Ericcson, and that's about as close as we're going to get to a formal announcement for the PlayStation Phone. Or, perhaps, that is the PlayStation Phone, renamed to avoid confusion in a PSP product line… much like the NGP.
Sony Ericcson's Facebook page has been splashed with this graphic.
Enter the page and you'll see the trailer from the Super Bowl. So weird.
We'll have more on this as it develops. However, the unit is almost assuredly going to take advantage of the recently announced PlayStation Suite, the service that will bring PSOne games to the Android Marketplace. Details will definitely surface on the 13th of this month, as the splash screen above indicates.


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But it is also lined on one side with windows and on the other with a one-way mirror.
On this rainy morning, Fisher-Price executives are peering into the room from behind the mirror, watching a group of 4-year-olds play and trying to gather critical data for a line of electronic toys they are developing for their new "KidTronics" line.
If all goes well, the products will be previewed at the Tot Fair in New York in February, and hopes are running high.
"We're breaking new ground here," said David Ciganko, vice president of product design at Fisher-Price, a unit of Mattel Inc.


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How often do you find yourself, like Charlie Brown, wanting to believe, only to be duped?
Remember the Peanuts comic strip where Lucy invites Charlie Brown to come kick the football while she holds it in place, and then at the last second she pulls it away and laughs, as he falls on his back? Each time Charlie Brown thinks, "This time she will let me kick it."
Well, that's how I feel every time politicians say they are appointing a commission to study an issue and come up with a final report on how to deal with it. They also keep telling us, "This commission report will be different; it will not have the same fate as all the others, buried and gathering dust on the shelf." And like Charlie Brown, I want to believe Gov. Gary Herbert's Utah Advisory Commission To Optimize State Government will be different.
Herbert, immediately after his inauguration in August 2009, appointed the commission that would advise him how to improve Utah government by "looking for ways to improve efficiency, enhance effectiveness and optimize performance." The commission was also charged with identifying "areas where innovation and efficiency already exist, and explor(ing) ways to expand those measures." It was to provide a set of written recommendations to the governor in the fall of 2010.
The commission, comprised of dedicated volunteers from business and the community, completed the yearlong 65-page report in August 2010, with 56 recommendations for the governor to consider in making Utah government more efficient and effective. As the chairman, former Gov. Norm Bangerter said, "Many of the commission's findings are ready to be adopted immediately. Others will take time to implement." (See the report at www.utah.gov/governor/).
If the recommendations are implemented, it's possible Utah could have a more efficient government; however, those recommendations will not help solve the problems brought about by globalization that have dramatically changed our social, technological, and economic life. It seems we would be making our government more efficient only to do more of the same. Corporations that did that are long forgotten. The successful ones are those that retooled themselves to meet the demands of the new economy. Our elected leaders would do well to do the same.
Successful organizations have leaders that take the time to understand their environment, conditions and the forces of the times that cause change, and then renew the organization's mission to respond to the change. Utah's elected leaders must do so as well if we are to have a government that can meet the needs of a changing world. Being more efficient at doing the same is a recipe for failure. Making our state government more efficient without an understanding of whether our state's departments are solving today's problems is a waste of tax dollars and perpetuates the bureaucratic culture that says to follow procedures properly because it's policy, resulting in a bureaucracy that loses sight of its original purpose while doing more of the same.
The commission did what it was charged to do — make recommendations for government to be more efficient. It was not charged to do the most critical thing, which is to determine whether agencies are meeting current needs with results. It is the responsibility of the legislature to exercise its oversight mandate by examining whether agencies are meeting their initial legislative intent, identifying where they need to change and determining whether they are still needed.
Like Charlie Brown, let's keep believing.
A Utah native, John Florez has served on the staff of Sen. Orrin Hatch, was former Utah Industrial Commissioner and has filled White House appointments including Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor and a member of the Commission on Hispanic Education.


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The city will spend more than $130,000 to purchase 32 radios and three control stations in order to comply with a Federal Communications Commission mandate that goes into effect Jan. 1.
The purchase was approved by the Harker Heights City Council on Tuesday.
The FCC mandate requires all public safety and business mobile radio systems to operate using a 12.5 kilohertz efficiency technology. City Manager Steve Carpenter said Tuesday the police and fire departments are operating under the megahertz system, under the Bell County emergency system, but the other radios in the parks and recreation and public works departments are not on the same frequency.
"So basically, since we cannot use the radios without possibly getting cited after the first of the year, the only way we'd have to communicate an emergency is with a cellphone," Carpenter said. "It would be better to just bite the bullet and purchase these radios."
The Jan. 1 deadline is the result of an FCC effort that began almost two decades ago to ensure more efficient use of the spectrum and greater spectrum access for public safety and non-public safety users, according to the FCC website.
The city will purchase the new equipment from Dailey-Wells Communications, which submitted a quote of $116,229 for 32 radios and $14,546 for three control stations.
The equipment will be funded through the utility and drainage fund balance, said Alberta Barrett, finance director.
The radios will be distributed to the parks and recreation, streets, maintenance, water operations, wastewater and drainage departments and installed in their vehicles. The base stations will be at City Hall, the maintenance building and the street and water yard, according to the city.
Deputy Fire Chief Glenn Gallenstein said the old radios are no longer usable but could possibly be used as ham radios. "Their frequencies are not programmable, and if you were to use them, you might be fined."


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(A) A county family services agency (CFSA), as defined in rule 5101:9-1-16 of the Administrative Code, may request an inter-county adjustment of funding for any state or federal allocation.
(B) Subject to the requirement of this rule, the Ohio department of job and family services (ODJFS) will execute the request to adjust allocated funds based on a final inter-county adjustment agreement between the involved directors of the CFSA. Proposed transactions and final agreements regarding the adjustment of funds will be entered into by the agencies involved. ODJFS will not be a party to or participate in any proposed or final inter-county adjustment agreements between any CFSA. However, in the event there are funding problems with one or more of the funds, the director of ODJFS may limit fund sources, either partially or totally, that are available for an exchange of allocation amounts between counties.
(C) ODJFS notifies the CFSA of county allocation funding levels through subgrant notices issued through the county finance information system (CFIS). The allocation amounts listed in the CFIS notice, less any draws against the allocation amounts, will be the maximum amount eligible for the inter-county adjustment of allocated funds.
(D) If funding level reductions or increases occur during the funding period, allocation dollar amount changes will be made proportionate to the certified allocation dollar amounts that ODJFS has on record as of the effective date for the announced funding level change. The funding period is the period in which services are performed and/or provided. Pending adjustments will not be a factor in the calculation.
(E) A CFSA requesting ODJFS to notify other counties that additional funding may be available or that it has a need for additional funding shall submit the JFS 02718 "Notice of Intent to Participate in Inter-county Adjustment of Allocated Funds" (rev. 5/2011) to the bureau of county finance and technical assistance (BCFTA). ODJFS will maintain a website for the purpose of posting information regarding the inter-county information submitted by the CFSA.
(F) When two CFSAs agree to an inter-county transfer of funding, each CFSA shall complete the JFS 02719 "Inter-county Agreement and Certification Release and Acceptance of Funds" (rev. 7/2013), which shall serve as the agreement between the county directors involved in the transaction.
(1) The director of the CFSA or another designee shall sign the JFS 02719. A resolution passed by the board of county commissioners of each county shall be attached to the JFS 02719.
(2) The board of county commissioners may pass a resolution:
(a) Assigning authority to the director of the CFSA to serve as their designee, thereby granting the director the authority to sign the inter-county adjustment agreement on behalf of the county for a specific period of time;
(b) Assigning authority to another party to serve as designee and therefore, grant that party authority to sign the inter-county adjustment agreement on behalf of the county for a specific period of time; or
(c) Agreeing to enter in the inter-county adjustment agreement with a specific county with specific amounts.
(3) A copy of the JFS 02719 agreement, along with the county commissioner resolution, shall be submitted to ODJFS, office of fiscal and monitoring services. The agreement will serve as a request for allocated funds adjustment and must be received by ODJFS no later than the last date of the liquidation period of the funds being transferred.
(G) Upon the timely receipt of a properly completed JFS 02719 and county commissioner resolution, ODJFS will execute the requested adjustment of funds from the counties involved in the transaction.
(1) ODJFS will reduce the allocation for funds as specified on the JFS 02719 and requested by the releasing county;
(2) ODJFS will increase the allocation for funds as specified on the JFS 02719 and requested by the accepting county; and
(3) Upon completion of the fund-adjustment, ODJFS will send revised subgrant notices to the CFSA involved.
(H) Inter-county agreements can only be made between similar CFSAs. Public assistance (PA) funds can only be transferred for other (PA) funds. Public children services agency (PCSA) funds can only be transferred for other PCSA funds. Child support enforcement agency (CSEA) funds can only be transferred for other CSEA funds.
(I) The approval by ODJFS to adjust the allocation of a CFSA pursuant to this rule is for the funding and liquidation period during the fiscal year in which it is made and does not obligate ODJFS to any future allocation increase to the CFSA.
(J) Nothing in this rule should be interpreted or construed to replace, amend, or supersede the requirements of rule 5101:9-6-02 of the Administrative Code.
(K) The definitions, requirements and responsibilities contained in rule 5101:9-6-50 of the Administrative Code are applicable to this rule.
Replaces: 5101:9-6-82
Promulgated Under: 111.15
Statutory Authority: 5101.02, 5101.161, 5101.46
Rule Amplifies: 5101.02, 5101.16 , 5101.161, 5101.46 , 5101.54, 5107.05, 5111.01, 5115.03
Prior Effective Dates: 9/15/05, 11/6/09, 10/1/10, 5/31/11


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In preparation for season three of TrophyCatch, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) launched a new and highly improved website to facilitate gathering data on Florida's famed trophy largemouth bass and to reward anglers for releasing them alive.
TrophyCatch is an incentive-based conservation program designed for anglers who catch-and-release largemouth bass heavier than 8 pounds in Florida. There are three different tiers and two bonus categories offering the opportunity to win prizes:
"Be a Hero!" by getting decals that help with the research, rescue, rehabilitation and management of Florida's endangered manatees and sea turtles.
People can receive a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) manatee or sea turtle decal, and show their support for saving these iconic Florida species, with a donation of $5.
Rescues of manatees and sea turtles that are injured, ill or otherwise in distress are one of the many FWC conservation activities supported by decal donations.
The FWC anticipates the 2014-15 hunting season dates for mourning and white-winged doves to be:
First phase: Sept. 27 - Oct. 27
Second phase: Nov. 8 - Dec.1
Third phase: Dec.12 - Jan.15, 2015
(Note: The official dates will be posted by mid-August when they are released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
Shooting Hours:
First phase - noon to sunset
Second & third phases - ½-hour before sunrise to sunset
Bag limit (daily/possession): 15/45
Read more at
The FWC announced that it anticipates the 2014-15 waterfowl season dates to be:
• Early Canada Goose: Sept. 6-24
• September teal and wood duck: Sept. 20-24
• September teal only: Sept. 25-28
• Regular Season (ducks, coots, and light geese): Nov. 22 - Nov. 30 and Dec. 6 - Jan. 25, 2015
• Regular Season (Canada Goose): Nov. 22 - Jan. 30, 2015
• Youth duck and goose: Jan. 31 - Feb. 1, 2015
A red tide bloom in the Gulf has killed thousands of fish in the last two weeks, according to state officials, but Cedar Key is proving unaffected.
Leslie Sturmer, a University of Florida aquaculture specialist in Cedar Key, said Monday that test samples for red tide toxins in the area's shellfish have yielded good results.
"There are zero cells in the samples, as we suspected," she said, adding that 5,000 or more cells per liter in a sample would cause shellfish operations to close shop.
Officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) arrested two Clay County teenagers July 25 on charges of torturing a gopher tortoise.
Danielle Susan Dionne, 15, and Jennifer Emoke Greene, 18, have been arrested on charges of felony cruelty to animals, a third-degree felony, and taking, harassing, harming or killing a gopher tortoise, a second-degree misdemeanor.
The recreational red snapper season in Gulf state waters closes Tuesday, July 15, with the last day of harvest being Monday, July 14. Florida state waters in the Gulf are from shore to 9 nautical miles.
Several workshops on Gulf of Mexico recreational red snapper are planned for late July. The public is invited to discuss state and federal management of recreational red snapper and to explore future approaches for managing this fishery. Visit MyFWC.com/Fishing and click on "Saltwater," "Rulemaking" and "Workshops" to learn more.
The 5th Annual Great Suwannee River Cleanup is fast approaching, and representatives with the organizations involved want people to come out and get involved.
There were 30 boats entered in the Chiefland Rotary Club's 10th Annual Fishing Tournament held Saturday, May 24, in Cedar Key. Fishermen had an almost perfect day for landing redfish and trout and the fish cooperated.
Coast Guard crew members from the Coast Guard Station in Yankeetown rescued three people from a sinking 16-foot recreational boat near Eleven Prong on Thursday, May 22.
A report of a vessel with two adults and one child aboard taking on water at approximately 6 p.m.
was received by the Coast Guard
Sector in St. Petersburg.
The Yankeetown CG crew launched a trailerable boat usually used in doing buoy and navigation sign duties to reach the three people and bring them to shore.
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Keeping the oil barrel steady
While oil and gas reserves have brought Norway considerable wealth, allowed the country to stay out of the European Union and not adopt the euro as a common currency, the sector is not free from conflicts.
The months of June and July this year saw a massive 16-day strike of oil workers in Norway, demanding better pay and earlier retirement schemes. The strike put upward pressure on oil prices, crimped the nation's oil revenue and left the peaceful Scandinavian country in shock.
Norway is among the world's top 15 oil producers, with reserves of about 7.3 billion barrels, according to the country's Petroleum Directorate, which regulates the industry from its headquarters in Stavanger. Norway has been used to a steady inflow of petrodollars to feed its sovereign wealth funds and other public welfare funds, so the strike has been a wake-up call for the country's leading oil company.
"The strike had major consequences for the Norwegian society as a whole," said Bard Glad Pedersen, spokesman at the state-owned oil monopoly Statoil, in a press release after Norway's Labour Ministry intervened, stressing that a longer outage would have threatened Norway's reputation as a reliable supplier of gas to Europe and oil to world markets. Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy Ola Borten Moe has stressed on cost control in the industry being achieved through more "efficiency and technological improvements".
Difficult target
The action halted all offshore oil and gas production on the continental shelf off Norway for the first time in 26 years, with the result that Norway's oil production was "about 2 per cent below the cumulative prognosis this year", Jan Bygdevoll, head of forecasting at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, told Bloomberg in October.
"Since the prognosis for the remaining year is relatively high, it might be a challenge to meet the oil production target for 2012," he added.
However, things are not as bad.> In September, Norway's state-managed sovereign wealth funds, the Government Pension Fund, topped the list of global sovereign wealth funds for the first time, surpassing the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) by growing much faster than the Gulf's fund over the past decades. Norway now holds $656.2 billion (Dh2.4 trillion) in assets in the fund, as compared to ADIA's assets of around $627 billion, followed by China's SAFE Investment Company (a subsidiary of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange) with $567.9 billion and the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) Holdings with $532.8 billion, as per latest figures compiled by the US-based Sovereign Wealth Funds Institute.
While ADIA, SAFE and SAMA are quite secretive about their global investments, Norway is highly transparent and lists all major investments, such as Royal Dutch Shell, Nestlé, HSBC, Apple, Novartis, Vodafone, BG Group, Exxon Mobil and Roche Holding, in its quarterly report.
According to the US Energy Information Administration, Norway was producing about 2.5 per cent of the world's oil on a daily basis in 2011, most of which was for export. By comparison, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the US each produce more than 10 per cent of the world's oil. Norway's production is on par with Iraq, Kuwait and Venezuela.
About 80,000 people are employed in the petroleum sector in Norway today, and oil and gas comprise Norway's biggest export with a 47 per cent share of the total export market, the country's Petroleum Directorate says. The industry is also at the forefront in the areas of technology and environmental protection in the oil sector.
Expanded scope
Two associations cover Norway's domestic and international activities in the oil sector, Kristin Bremer Nebben, director of communication at the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association, tells GN Focus. While the association is concerned with activities on the Norwegian continental shelf, Norwegian Oil and Gas Partners (Intsok) was launched by the Norwegian government to expand business activities in the international oil and gas markets, on the basis of the industry's leading-edge experience, technology and expertise, according to the company's website. Intsok officials did not respond to requests by GN Focus to give details on Norway's current activities in the UAE and the Gulf.
However, there are a number of Norwegian companies active in the UAE, including Statoil, which has a regional office in Abu Dhabi to assess opportunities in the oil business and mainly cooperates with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is a risk management and advisory company in the oil, maritime and energy business as well as in the business insurance sector, says Jorgen Traun, DNV's Vice-President India and Middle East and also board member of the Norwegian Business Group in the UAE.
AGR Group (AGR) is a global services and technology company that provides integrated services and innovative technological solutions to the oil and gas industries. It opened an office in Abu Dhabi in 2010.
Other Norwegian companies active in the UAE are shipping firms Polarcus, Wilhelmsen Ships Service, the shipyard and industrial plant supplier Goltens, NCC Odfjell Chemical Tankers, safety services supplier MTI Middle East and Jotun, providing paints and coatings to the oil and shipping industry.
With advanced environmental technology in the oil and energy business, Norwegian companies are also sought-after as strategic partners for green projects in the UAE, namely in Masdar City where carbon dioxide recovery projects kicked off in early 2010.


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Gol dammit bleepin' sumbbichin weather! (Can I say that?) I was hoping to refresh The Hunt forum with a tale of late season deer hunting. You know, freshly fallen snow, fair winds, post-solstice sunshine, deer prancing near the beach...but all I get are gales. The season closes today amid 40 knot winds, 6 foot seas, and rain. I'm not even going to the harbor for a look. CURSES!!!
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I had been to deco walk hostel before they changed management and the 6 bedroom dorm I had purchased had only 3 bunks with 2 beds each and one bathroom to share. I was shocked to find that on this trip there were 12 beds in the dorm- separated by a door so 6 beds on each side- and only one bathroom. This is very misleading and it's false advertising. Deco Walk hostel needs to update the room descriptions on the website.
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I loved that the room was spacious and that there were restaurants and bar just outside the hostel-the hostel is in a very good location. However, I wish the bathroom and toilet space was larger and that it wasn't so noisy with loud music in the evenings. I enjoyed my stay with central backpackers and will definitely recommend to my friends and colleagues.
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Congress Considers Bringing Back the Steel Penny
As it exists in its shiny copper and zinc state, the penny costs more to produce than it's actually worth. The rise in prices of such metal commodities has initiated conversations in Congress about reverting to the steel penny used during World War II. The future of the nickel's composition is also in question as it currently costs 7.7 cents to make, while the penny's cost is 1.26 cents.
It's estimated that the coins set taxpayers back $100 million just last year, which is why on Tuesday the House debated a bill that would prompt the Treasury to come up with nickels and pennies that are more economical. A vote on the bill is expected to take place later in the week. In case you're curious, the Mint says that the dime costs a little over 4 cents to make, the quarter costs almost 10 cents, and the dollar coin costs about 16 cents to produce.


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Doesn't matter what level.
NFL, college or high school ranks, in football a quarterback controversy usually arises.
Do the Blue Jays have a closer controversy?
The Jays edged the Minnesota Twins 6-5 as closer Casey Janssen struck out Ryan Doumit on a 3-2 pitch and catcher J.P. Arencibia threw out Alex Presley to end the game before 27,044 fans at Target Field.
That's twice in a week Arencibia has erased the tying run at second base for the 27th out to save the day.
With two out and runners on first and third, Arencibia threw out Chris Getz in a 4-2 win over the Kansas City Royals on last Saturday.
"We're in the bullpen on the 3-2 pitch (to Doumit) asking, 'send him? Send him?" said bullpen coach Pat Hentgen. "Everyone said yes."
Arencibia entered the game in the top of the ninth, pinch hitting for Josh Thole, who was at his usual spot with R.A. Dickey on the mound as Dickey allowed three runs in 61/3 innings to win his 12th game.
"J.P. will say to me, 'can't you go nine innings any more?' and I'll say, 'we're going to bring in both our closers,' " said Thole. "That's awful tough to sit the whole game and go in there cold like he did."
Janssen was credited with his 28th save in 30 tries.
But after the strike-em out, throw-em out, warm-up-the-bus double play should Arencibia be credited with the save?
A quick poll:
Reliever Brett Cecil, who retired the only two men he faced in the seventh: "Casey gets the save."
Kyle Drabek: "It's Janssen's save, but J.P. made a good throw."
Anthony Gose, who manufactured a double and scored in the Jays' five-run third: "Not taking anything away from Casey, but J.P. has come up bit at crunch time twice in the last week. It's J.P.'s save."
Steve Delabar: "I might have to give it to J.P., but Casey held the runner close."
And now for the tie-breaking vote on who saved the day for the Jays ... Arencibia: "It was Casey's save, he was on the mound. He got the job done."
To quote a rosy-eyed optimist ... Janssen's night did not start off well.
Josmil Pinto hit a 2-1 pitch 421 feet headed for his first major league homer in 14 at-bats leading off the ninth, making it a one-run game. Pinto had 15 homers this season split between double-A New Britain and triple-A Rochester in 523 plate appearances.
One out later, first baseman Lind boxed Presley's hard grounder and the tying run was aboard again and up stepped Doumit with the Twins' No. 3 hitter on deck.
Dickey took a 6-1 lead into the seventh before former Indy League grad Chris Colabello tagged a non-floating knuckler for a two-run homer.
The Jays gave up an unearned run in the eighth as right fielder Moises Sierra committed a two-base error on a Brian Dozier single off reliever Dustin McGowan. Trevor Plouffe singled him home.
The kids were fine too.
You could even say, as The Who sang, The Kids Are Alright.
Brett Lawrie, 23, Ryan Goins, 25, Gose, 22 and Sierra, who turns 25 this month, all played a role in the win.
After the Gose double to start the third and a Thole single, Reyes singled in a run. With the threat a strike away from ending,
Lawrie had the key hit on a 2-2 pitch to expand the lead to 3-1 and made the right play on Pedro Florimon with a man on first.
Then Sierra followed with a two-run double to the wall in right.
Lawrie, Sierra, Gose and Goins have all been around. Yet none have played a full season in the majors. Lawrie's high was starting 124 games years ago.
Besides the double, the legend of Sierra's arm with his Ellis Valentine-like throw to the plate in the second, keeping Plouffe at third on Oswaldo Arcia's single to right.
Goins doubled to left and is growing on people ... that line about the a double play being a pitcher's best friend. Well, Goins takes care of the introductions, remembers everyone's name and makes lasting relationships: Turning an inning-ending double play in the second.
Goins has turned 12 double plays in 13 games, while Emilio Bonifacio turned 43 in 59 games at second and Maicer Izturis had 28 in 59 games at second. Goins also back-handed a quick one hopper off the bat of Clete Thomas.
The Kids Are Alright, but they are still kids. And sometimes they are not all right. Neither Gose nor Sierra made a play on a ball in the third off the bat of Presley which fell for a double.
Rather than cut off Dozier's eight-inning drive as a single, Sierra was unable to back-hand the ball and it rolled to the wall for a two-base error.
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'Gay' marriage justice tied to N.Y. Times
Wed to Anthony Lewis, paper's affiliate pushed for her appointment
The Massachusetts chief justice who voted with the majority yesterday in a 4-3 ruling that could establish homosexual marriage in the state is married to a former prominent columnist for the New York Times.
Margaret Marshall, a native of South Africa, is married to recently retired columnist Anthony Lewis.
One of Marshall's chief nemeses, J. Edward Pawlick, attorney for Massachusetts Citizens for Marriage, sees the marriage as a politically beneficial alliance with the Sulzberger family, who consider Lewis a family friend as well as a one-time premiere columnist for their newspaper.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Boston University professor Rosanna Warren with Anthony Lewis and Margaret Marshall at American Academy of Arts & Sciences event in May 2000
The attorney notes a Times subsidiary, the Boston Globe, pressed for Marshall's appointment to the state's highest court without revealing its conflict of interest.
"Now we see more of the results of the New York Times-Boston Globe power," Pawlick said, referring to yesterday's ruling.
"How the people react will be seen," he added. "But their outrage will be muted by the immense power of the five family-owners of The New York Times Company."
Yesterday, Marshall's Supreme Judicial Court decided homosexual couples are legally entitled to wed under the state constitution and should be allowed to apply for marriage licenses, overturning a ruling by a lower court handed down in May 2002 which said state law does not convey the right of marriage to homosexual couples.
"Barring an individual from the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex violates the Massachusetts Constitution," wrote Marshall in the opinion.
The ruling stopped short of declaring that homosexual couples should be granted the licenses, and does not call for them to be immediately issued to the plaintiffs in the case. Instead, the court ordered the state legislature to come up with a solution within 180 days. It granted a stay of its decision in the meantime.
"Marriage is a vital social institution," Marshall's opinion reads. "The exclusive commitment of two individuals to each other nurtures love and mutual support. It brings stability to our society. For those who choose to marry, and for their children, marriage provides an abundance of legal, financial and social benefits. In return, it imposes weighty legal, financial, and social obligations."
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Meaning: to have fun by acting in a silly waySynonym: fool around, mess around, muck around (British informal)
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Nashville Shakespeare Festival Celebrates The Bard's 448th Birthday on Sunday, April 22
Nashville Shakespeare Festival is calling all would-be Romeos and Juliets to join them in Centennial Park on Sunday, April 22, for their celebration of William Shakespeare's 448th birthday!
For the third year in a row, says Denice Hicks, the Festival's executive artistic director, the company will stage the "Biggest Balcony Scene Ever" at Centennial Park. The party starts at 3 p.m. at the park's bandshell.
"Last time we had more than 80 Romeos and Juliets, and we would love for even greater participation this year," Hicks said.
Scripts will be available to all who show up. Romeos will take their place on the ground, while Juliets will stand on the balcony (bandshell).
Pizza and birthday cupcakes will be provided on a first come, first serve basis. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own picnic fare and, after the completion of the balcony scene, to stay on for free family entertainment from various local performers. In keeping with Elizabethan tradition, all dogs are welcome.
Following the performances, judging will begin for the annual Shakespeare's Birthday costume contest. Prizes will be given in the following categories: best star-crossed couple, best dog costume and most creative costume (adult and children). One of the celebrity guest judges this year will beNashville Paw Magazine's very own Briley!
"What better place than Centennial Park bandshell, where Shakespeare in the Park happens each summer, to celebrate the Bard's birthday?" Hicks said.
The 2012 Shakespeare in the Park production will be Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Hicks, and running August 16-September 16. For more information, visit www.nashvilleshakes.org or call (615) 255-2273.
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Since 2006, Free Minds has offered educational opportunities to working class adults who may not picture themselves as college material, but after participating in the program, many students decide a college degree is possible.
Kellee Coleman graduated from Austin Community College (ACC) this September. A mother of three, Kellee is active in the Mamas of Color Rising collective and an involved parent at Campbell Elementary, where her two older children attend school. She plans to start work on a bachelor's degree this year with the intention of doing more community work, and she ultimately wants to attend graduate school in public policy or African American studies.
As the only program of its kind in Texas, Free Minds, a part of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement offers a group of motivated men and women a two-semester course in the humanities. Participants read and discuss prominent works, receive support, such as childcare and books and six hours of college credit through ACC. Kellee recently reflected on the transformative power of studying philosophy when she was a student in the program, an experience she took into her future college class work.
When I started Free Minds in 2007, my son UsZee was four months old and I already had my three-year-old daughter Journee. At the time, I was living in South Austin in a one-bedroom apartment and making $8,000 a year. I had a 1987 Chevy Beretta that was on its last leg. It was a hard time.
When we began reading Plato's Republic in Free Minds, I gained a confidence in myself that I didn't have before. UsZee would cry inconsolably with the childcare ladies, but I couldn't bear to miss class, so I would walk around in class nursing my infant son discussing the Thrasymacus question and the idea of the nature of justice. At home I found myself cutting off the TV and reading The Republic to my kids. I would try and explain it to my mom, my brother, random people on the street, whoever would listen.
I don't necessarily believe it was the content of The Republic that changed me, but more the realization that I could conquer a book like that. I loved being in a seminar environment with people like me, working-class folks, discussing the book and having these interesting conversations about Socrates, feeling affirmed by my peers as well as my professor. I love philosophy, and I love to think about ideas and pick them apart to the atomic level. It is a luxury I really hadn't tapped into until then.
Reading this book inspired me to go on to read other challenging pieces. It pushed me to always pay attention, and to continue to develop my analysis on my perspective of the world we live in.


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Saint Mary's U to Recognize Christian Brother LeadersFebruary 1, 2014
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Minneapolis, MN — Brother Louis DeThomasis, FSC, president emeritus of Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, will be honored Thursday, Feb. 13, at a special event at the university's Twin Cities campus in Minneapolis.
The event will include a dedication of Brother Louis Hall, formerly Park Avenue North (PAN). In addition, Brother Louis and four other Christian Brothers who have served as presidents at institutions throughout the nation, including Auxiliary Visitor, Brother Thomas Scanlan, FSC (right), will be recognized and presented with honorary doctorates.


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Now it's official. Bruna Marquezinhe is the new girlfriend of Neymar. The young actress(August 4 turns 18) and Brazilian ace have been dating for a month, and last week Bruna took place at the stadium to support Neymar(unfortunate debut, as the Santos lost). The striker confirmed the relationship during Carnival, posting on Istagram a photo of his girlfriend marching.


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Ottumwans prep for winter storm
Sun, 22 Dec 2013 02:46:31 GMT —
Ottumwans were faced with the task of balancing the shopping needs for both a storm and a holiday on the first day of Winter.
With a winter storm on the horizon and Christmas only four days away, Ottumwans packed stores in the city grabbing essential items for both.
Kelly Smith, sales clerk at O'Hara Hardware, said her store was busy all day with customers stocking up on items to gear up for the storm.
"We have lots of snow blowers, ice melt, shovels, Yaktrax, and de-icer," said Smith. "Just about anything that you would need to gear up for the winter weather."
Over at Hy-Vee South, the store director Max Dains said his store saw an uptick in business this Saturday but that it was mainly because of the holiday season.
He said customers were purchasing the usual bread, milk, and eggs in preparation of a winter storm, but that many were also buying items for Christmas they might not be able to secure after the storm hits.
"This is a busy time anyway and everybody's in here getting all their baking supplies and everything else," said Dains. "But with the pressure that they might not be able to get in here tomorrow, they're probably stocking up a little more today than normal."
He also said his top selling item of the day was surprisingly not a food item.
"The one big thing that really is different than a normal day would be that we probably sold two pallets worth of driveway salt," said Dains.