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In Prince William County, voter turnout Tuesday has been low. But depending on who you ask, the turnout could be because of rain, the type of election or just the time of day.
PWC Voter Registrar Betty Weimer said an average of 75 voters had voted so far per precinct.
In Lake Ridge, precincts were quiet, with low voter turnout and no disruptive voters. precinct had 25 voters out of 4184 registered voters in the precinct as of about noon on Tuesday. There were no projections for total voter turnout.
At , at about 12:30 p.m., there were 41 voters out of a total of 2590 in the precinct. Election officers guessed there might be a total of about 100 voters.
At the , 81 voters turned up by 1 p.m., out of a total of 2683 voters in the precinct. Election officers projected a total of 144 voters.
Election officers at the McCoart polling place raved about the new computer system designed to prevent voter fraud.
"Functionally, it's an evolution," Nicholas Handres, Assistant Chief Election Officer said. "This system is working fantastically."
The Advocate Precinct Management System draws information from the Registered Voter Database, and highlights the name of any person who votes, thus preventing the same person from voting twice, Assistant Chief Election Officer Karen Attreed added.
"It's really increased our confidence," Handres said.
precinct had 44 voters as of noon Tuesday. Polling officials said they had a line of four around 10 a.m. and a few rushing to work this morning.
At the first voter turned up around 8 a.m. As of noon, that precinct had 12 voters. But poll workers were optimistic more would turn up as the day progressed.
At lunch was in full force for students in the cafeteria but behind a curtain, three poll workers said 35 voters turned out. The bulk of them came out in the morning because the precinct serves a high retired community.
At in Dale City, 32 voters out of the 3197 in the precinct had voted by about 12:45 p.m. Election officers predict a rush at 4 p.m. that might boost the voter count to 100 by the end of the day.
Republican Primary - Eleventh Congressional District
By Susan Larson, Burke Patch editor
Chris S. Perkins arrived at Orange Hunt Elementary School in Springfield at 7 a.m. this morning, after voting in his home precinct in Lorton. Perkins is running in the Republican Party Primary in the 11th congressional district against . The winner of the primary will face Democratic Congressman Gerald Connolly in November. Independent Mark Gibson is also running in the 11th District. He is required to gather 1,000 signatures by Tuesday to get onto the November ballot.
Perkins Message to Voters on Primary Day
"I hear how angry people are about the lack of progress in Congress," said Perkins. "It's important to send the message today that voting is our mechanism for change, and it's important for everyone to get out and vote," he said.
How Perkins Differs from Vaughn
"We are both fiscal conservatives, so it comes down to how serious is your solution," said Perkins. "Vaughn's solution is to offer massive cuts to balance the budget in just one year," he said. "My more serious answer is to address regulatory reform over time. The changes should not just come from budget cuts. Vaughn also supports cuts in defense and veterans benefits, and I just can't support those," he said.
Republican Primary - United States Senate
Allen Message to Voters on Primary Day
By Jessie Biele, Mt. Vernon Patch editor
Former senator and Gov. and wife greeted voters Tuesday morning at Washington Mill Elementary School, a precinct near their home in Mount Vernon.
Allen stopped to chat with Patch: "Well, our goal obviously is to win and the bigger the turnout the better," he said. "I think most people recognize that the larger the turnout the stronger it'll be for us. We have a lot of support through Virginia because people know me.
"I had the honor of serving Virginians in the U.S. Senate, as well as governor, and I know the communities and the people, and that's not something that's easily done just in a year of campaigning," Allen said. "We have good friendships and relationships throughout Virginia, so the bigger the turnout, the better it'll be for us. We're cautiously optimistic."
Allen faces competition in today's Republican primary for the U.S. Senate from three challengers: tea party member , minister and state Del. of Prince William County.
The Allens voted at their precinct and plan to visit other precincts around Northern Virginia today before heading to a rally in Richmond tonight to await results of the primary.
The winner will face Democrat Tim Kaine, also a former governor of Virginia. The Senate seat is currently occupied by Sen. Jim Webb, who announced his retirement last year from the Senate.
"Just voted for George Allen. Please remember to go vote for George today, polls are open until 7:00 p.m. tonight," Chairman Corey Stewart posted on his Facebook page just before 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Bob Marshall Votes in Manassas
By Jamie Rogers, Manassas Park Patch editor
Under cloudy skies Tuesday just before 10 a.m., Virginia Del. Bob Marshall, a candidate in the U.S. Senate race in Virginia, stepped out of his white Ford Crown Victoria and slowly strolled up the sidewalk of Signal Hill Elementary School in Manassas to cast his ballot at his home precinct in the Republican primary.
"I'm satisfied with what time I had [campaigning]; I can't tell who's voting. This is like flying blind with no instruments or anything," Marshall said of his campaign. "I had a lot of volunteers around Virginia, but clearly we didn't have the money that (Republican U.S. Senate candidate) George Allen did, but this— at least the way it looks like it's turning out—is a campaign of intensity, not one of name ID. We'll find out at 7 o'clock tonight how accurate that is."
Marshall Speaks on Thorne-Begland
His stance against the judgeship appointment of openly gay Chief Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Tracy Thorne-Begland in May definitely thrust his name into the spotlight, though that wasn't his original intention, Marshall said.
"It put my name ID Higher. Look— I tried to get rid of that issue without any controversy at all; you can ask Del. Bob Kline," Marshall said.
The Virginia House of Delegates ultimately voted against Thorne-Begland's nomination.
When asked if he had any regrets about his actions he said, "I'll do it again."
Marshall helped supporters put up a few signs outside of the elementary school Tuesday, as the showers moved in.
He said he planned to go and make some phone calls before going to an event at City Tavern Gill tonight in Manassas to await the outcome of the election.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - A survey of leading economic forecasters is
suggesting an end to the recession later this year.
The National Association for Business Economics says 90 percent
of those surveyed believe that.
NABE president Chris Varvares says unemployment will rise and
the recovery will be moderate.
About 74 percent of the forecasters expect the longest recession
since World War II to end in the third quarter. Another 19 percent
predict it will come in the final three months of this year. The
remaining 7 percent say it'll be in the first quarter of 2010.
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Send this item to a friend: Erdogan: "The Image of the Jews Is No Different from that of the Nazis"
Hamas Mega-Attack Planned through Gaza Terror Tunnels
by Lawrence A. Franklin
IDF Excavation of the tunnels has resulted in the seizure of tons of Hamas supplies as well as the discovery of plans for future operations.
There Must Not Be a Ceasefire
by Denis MacEoin
Even in its weakest moments, would Britain have risked a cease-fire with Nazi Germany during World War II -- knowing that Hitler habitually broke his promises?
War "Statistics": The New York Times Deceives Again
by Gil Lavi
It is the very power of numbers, graphics and photographs that makes them compelling ways to prove a point, and lousy ways of explaining what is really going on.
Creating compelling clickbait in the form of infographics is a disturbing trend in news today. But that is not "all the news that is fit to print;" that is propaganda.
UN probe of Israel will only encourage Hamas war crimes
by Alan M. Dershowitz
Hamas's Absurd War against Israel
by Salim Mansur
What we are witnessing is Israel engaged in a struggle against Hamas, against Palestinians, against Arabs, against Muslims, and against an expanding body of opinion in the West that is less and less inhibited from displaying the rancid anti-Semitism behind its support for those who openly call for another Holocaust for the Jews.
Gaza was returned to the Palestinians in 2005 as a test for building trust.
This verse [31:27 ] means that no one Muslim should claim that he has a monopoly over the reading of the Quran, for that would amount to reducing the majesty of God to the smallness of man.
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GreenBank parent sees profit drop in 1Q
Green Bankshares on Wednesday reported a first-quarter profit available to common shareholders of $1.9 million, down from $3.5 million in the first quarter of 2009.
The company set aside nearly $3.9 million for loan losses, compared to $6.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2009.
"The solid underpinnings of our company's core earnings potential are beginning to become more evident as we emerge from this recessionary cycle," new chairman and CEO Stephen Rownd said in a news release. "After having recently visited with our management and bankers in all three of our operating regions, I am impressed by the caliber of our team and their drive and determination to move GreenBank forward in these challenging times."


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On Saturday February 25th, 2012 Pack 36 had our annual Blue and Gold Dinner at the B.A. Cucinella School, where 13 Webelos Scouts were awarded the Arrow of Light. The boys that were awarded the Arrow of light included; Alex DiPaolo, Lars Gartelmann, Christopher Gieda, Nicholas Fleming, Daniel Murphy, Tyler Torner, Clayton Bernardi, Joel Bradshaw, Nikolas Constantino, Ian Dalgleish, Luke Degen, Luke Kelly and Joshua Michonski. The Arrow of light is the highest award that a Cub Scout can achieve and normally requires up to 5 years to work up through the ranks of cub scouting. All of the 13 scouts have decided to join one of Long Valley's Boy Scout troops to continue their journey in scouting.
This year's Blue and Gold dinner also included the annual Father / Son cake baking contest. To enter this contest a scout had to make and decorate a cake with their father without any other help. The cakes were judged by all of the attendants of the dinner and the 3 winners were; Hudson McFarland, Anthony Pescatore and Jack Murphy. In addition, Ms. Cheryl Burger, the owner of the Sweet Spot Bake Shoppe in Chester, was the guest judge and selected the cake prepared by Jack Ciavolella as the judge's choice. To see all of the amazing cakes, visit our Facebook Page at: http://on.fb.me/zUy4My


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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
All Canada is reading CQ today
Captain's Quarters blog is publishing details online concerning testimony about the breaking "Sponsorship" scandal in Canada. This is material that Canadian media are forbidden by law to report – which until recently was a source of some relief to the Liberal party. But of course the forbidden fruit once published on CQ has a way of slipping back over the Canadian border. Yesterday CQ had just under 400,000 hits as measured by Sitemeter, much of them from our neighbors to the north. I believe that is a 1-day record for hits on any blog.
Here is a graph of CQ's traffic over the past month, and also a screen-grab of Sitemeter's report. Remember that CQ is normally one of the highest-hit blogs in the US, and then look at the last 2 days. Canadians are certainly hungry for this news!
CQ's daily visits for the last 30 days
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CUMBERLAND HEAD — Fort Izard sits on a rise overlooking Lake Champlain, a sentinel guarding the region from invaders traveling south on the lake.
At least that is what Gen. George Izard believed when he ordered construction of the earthen structure in May 1814 as American troops prepared for the arrival of a British flotilla from Canada.
The fortress included high walls of stone and dirt on four sides with wooden towers erected on each of the four corners and a moat surrounding the entire structure.
By August, the fortification was ready to protect Plattsburgh Bay as a refuge for the American fleet.
But then Izard received orders to move most of his troops to Sackets Harbor, and Fort Izard was abandoned as the remaining troops moved back to fortifications built in and around Plattsburgh.
The fort never played a significant role in the ensuing Battle of Plattsburgh and became a mere footnote in the archives of American military history.
But for Jane Babbie, who grew up as one of six Hagar children on the property where the remains of Fort Izard survive, the walls of the structure provide a plethora of memories.
"We used to slide down the hill and onto the ice," Babbie said as she walked along a path at the top of the fortress walls. "We used to skate on the ice. We even had a little bridge that went across the moat."
In those days, the family used the property as grazing land for their cattle, and the fort remained relatively clear of brush.


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Lots of folks tell personal tales of the historic two-day nor'easter that began Feb. 5, 1978 — singer songwriter Tully Cummings spins the story of his grandmother Lilian Finkelstein's journey that day in the ballad, "Blizzard of '78".
Lilian, a 62-year-old who lived in Woonsocket on Woodland Road at the time (Now she's a Cumberland resident), was babysitting the then 5-year-old Cummings as the storm approached the area.
With Cummings' parents home, and her husband, Elliot (one of four brothers who ran J. Finkelstein's & Sons outer wear and sportswear) waiting for her in Woonsocket, Lilian set off in her Oldsmobile Delta 88, determined to make the trip. "Against everybody telling her not to leave, she left Middleboro, MA and headed for Woonsocket, RI," Cummings said.
"I foolishly thought that I could get home," Lilian said. The storm got worse, and she found herself all alone on the highway with no guardrails, and it was getting dark. She couldn't turn around, she said, because she didn't know the area well enough, so she continued forward for about 20 minutes before she saw a set of red lights ahead, which turned out to be a sander truck. She decided to stick with it. "...and wherever they (the red lights) went, there I would go," Lilian said.
She followed the truck off the highway, and saw that it was turning around to get back on. She decided to park her car and walk to another set of lights that turned out to be a DPW shack. She opened the door and stepped into a room full of men - DPW workers.
"They looked looked at me and said, 'Lady, what are you doing here?' Lilian said. When she told them she was driving to Woonsocket, "They said, 'You're not going anywhere tonight,'" Lillian recalls.
She called her husband to tell him she was OK, then got a ride from a DPW worker in his truck as another man drove her car to a nearby motel.
Cummings said he can't recall much of that day, but he does remember his grandmother didn't make it home, winding up at the Foxboro DPW, where town workers took her in and set her up in a nearby motel for the duration.
"I stayed in that motel for four days," she said. Luckily, she had some money and the reputation of J. Finkelstein's & Sons behind her, she said. That and a nearby restaurant kept her warm and fed until her son could use his Jeep to pick her up and take her home.
"And here I am at 97 still trying to recall it," Lilian said. She said she's had a good life as a photographer, golfer and artist, with the sad exception of Elliot's death in 1988, and she's happy to be able to remember much of it.
"It's a story we've had in our family for years," Cummings said. The Middleboro, MA musician, who's been writing, singing and performing for about 15 years, said the song's been around for about two years.
While the song itself has been around for a while, Cummings said he created a video for it and posted it to facebook today for the 35th anniversary of the Blizzard of 78. Cummings said Lilian was happy to hear he'd put her story to song. "She loved it. She had tears in her eyes," he said.
"I guess I have a survivor's spirit," Lilian said of her decades-old ordeal, but with another storm on its way Friday, "I'm staying put and I'm warning everyone else to do the same," she said.
You can purchase Cummings' songs and CDs directly from tullycummings.bandcamp.com, and visit his facebook page to keep apprised of his future endeavors.


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The Auto Show has been rolling for a century! We found that out looking at The Buffalo News from 100 years ago today.
A century ago they were doing a drawing for an Overland Flyer car, pictured above.
They were going to get "some young girl" to draw the winning ticket. You have to read down the story a little to get to this detail which, Buzz did.
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Seniors, 55+, retirement communities are encouraged to enter the fourth annual online video talent competition to win cash prizes.
Richmond, Virginia (PRWEB) June 30, 2014
Seniors Guide, the comprehensive resource for retirement communities, home care, and services for seniors, has announced the official start date of their fourth annual SENIORS GOT TALENT.
Beginning July 1, 2014, Seniors Guides SENIORS GOT TALENT is an online video collection of seniors from across the country having fun by showcasing their talents with the added bonus of a chance at 1 of three top cash prizes: $250 for third place, $500 for second place, and a grand prize of $1,000 for first place.
Each year has been bigger than the last, says Katharine Ross, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Seniors Guide Magazine and SeniorsGuideOnline.com.
The feedback we get is that everyone has just as much fun filming their talents as they do showcasing them to a large audience, says Ross.
Previous winners of SENIORS GOT TALENT have included retirement communities, senior centers, and independent talents.
Runk & Pratt Senior Living, with communities in Forest, Smith Mountain Lake, and Lynchburg, Virginia, won the grand prize in the 2013 contest for their video remake of Glees Dont Stop Believin. Filmed by the community, the video featured residents and staff in a fully produced music video.
Although some videos may look more professionally done, weve had winners and successful videos that were filmed with an iPhone or digital camera, says Ross.
Another previous winner is back for their third year in a row. The Garner Senior Center in Garner, North Carolina has already submitted a video from their dancing senior troupe the G Squad. Singin in the Rain puts a new spin on the classic Fred Astaire song through the talented groups dancing talents. Previous video submissions from the G Squad included routines to Adeles Rumour Has It and Lady GaGas hit song, Telephone.
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Mr. Keith Heard, age 51, of Flowery Branch, GA and formerly of Buford, GA passed away on Wednesday, June 3, 2009. He was preceded in death by: parents, Edgar Shag and Jeanette Heard; brothers, George Heard, Scotty Heard; and brother-in-law, Ricky Wallis. He is survived by: wife of thirteen years, Karen Wallis Heard, Flowery Branch, GA; son, Chasten Lemasters, Toccoa, GA; sisters, Alice Watson, Winder, GA and Belinda Heard, Flowery Branch, GA; brother, Ricky Heard, Flowery Branch, GA; aunt, Geraldine Cannon, Buford, GA; several nieces, nephews and cousins; father-in-law and mother-in-law, Wendell and Susie Wallis, Buford, GA; sister-in-law; Kim Wallis Williams, Buford, GA; brother-in-law, Randy Wallis, Buford, GA; and special friends, Ronnie Puckett and Becky and Henry Firddell. Mr. Heard was born April 3, 1958 and was a native of Buford, GA. He was a welder and a member of the Buford American Legion Post No. 127. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with Mr. Ronnie Puckett and Rev. Lamar Hansard officiating. Interment will follow in Broadlawn Memorial Gardens in Buford, GA. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday evening from 7:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and on Friday from 10:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Keith Heard Memorial Fund, c/o Flanigan Funeral Home. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, 4400 South Lee Street, Buford, GA 30518, 770-932-1133, www.flaniganfuneralhome.com.
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by Henry Shivley
There has been a lot of debate back and forth about the publishing of the addresses of registered gun owners in New York by The Journal News. The mainstream propagandists have latched onto this exhibitionism in an attempt to keep the issue of guns front and center in the mainstream. They are putting forth the question, should the newspaper be allowed to publish the names? And of course the counter question, should bloggers be allowed to publish the names of those who publish the names?
Divide, divide, divide. All are missing the muddy elephant in the middle of the living room, which is the map pointing out the residents containing the registered handguns. This is New York where it is hard to get a concealed carry permit, yet look at the map. And remember, these are just the people who have concealed carry permits and handguns. How many more have long guns?
The mainstream propagandists have been desperately attempting to put forth the ridiculous assertion that American nationals who support the 2nd Amendment absolute are a "fringe group". Again, look at the map. It would seem more like the body of the population.
I have heard the most ridiculous assertions coming from the commies in their attempt to bolster the appearance of their minute numbers. I heard one putting forth the idea that more people are arming in areas where violent crime is dropping, indicating the exact opposite of what the reality presents. The commies are saying that the crime is dropping, so what is the need for further armament? This dribble is beyond bogus. I shouldn't have to say it but I will. The crime is dropping because of the armament, in fact in direct correlation to the armament.
Traitors like Michael Moore, who are international communists by definition, need to be arrested and charged with constructive treason and insurrection. And when convicted, via the videos of their treachery, they need to do some hard time in a federal prison and then be deported to China or Russia where they belong.
Any of these communists speaking out in opposition to any article of our Bill of Rights needs to be arrested and prosecuted.
I heard the communist Chris Matthews put forth the assertion that we the people cannot oppose the dictator Obama because he was elected through a popular vote. Is there any dictator out there who is not elected over and over again for life via fraudulent elections? Every American, not a part of the socialist insurgency, knows that the 2012 Presidential so called election was nothing short of a banana republic, dictator perpetuated, in-your-face, blatant fraud.
When the 2012 NDAA with Sections 1021 and 1022, military arrests and indefinite detention for American nationals without due process of the law, was signed by the insurgent Obama, he declared himself dictator of the United States of America, and in doing so declared war on we the people.
The power of rule in the United States under our Bill of Rights and Constitution resides in the hands of we the people. There can be no dictatorship without a pacification of American nationals and the removal of our authority through force of arms. Now that the dictator has declared war on us, he wants to sign a dictate for us to disarm.
Anybody who supports this shit had better take a long hard look at that map in New York and imagine it across this country. Remember, this is only those with concealed carry permits who do not represent a drop in the bucket of our armed population.
God bless the Republic, death to the international corporate mafia, we shall prevail.
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Traitors need to be killed, period.
On CNN there was an article that said that the negotiations supposedly going on this weekend between Reid and McConnel to " avert the cliff " are not even going to be between them but their staff? really? their staff? and they are not even expected to be in the capitol according to the article,
then on newsmax there was an article about how obama just gave biden and the reps a raise,,, yep thats right a raise. Did you get a rise this year?? do you feel particularly represented in washington these days??
its time for some real changes, we are all being played by these assholes in washington and at all levels of government, our state alone has an unfunded pension liability over the 2 billion $ level,,, where do they think that money is coming from,,
Wake up folks, its time for a change, and this time the change needs to be a total purging of all government officials and agencies, its time to see just what the TRUE patriots of this country are made of and to see where our brothers and sisters who have been gving their lives for the country will stand.
It's time for all of our good men and women in the Armed Services to search their conscience. Will they be used by the vipers and internationalists to suppress their homeland? Whom do they serve? The elitists and bankers – or the US Constitution, to which they swore fealty? Will they shoot their brothers and sisters or be as true as the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord and aim their sights at dual-passport lobbyists and influence-peddlers in Washington, DC? And what of the mass-media scum-spewing Quislings that push incremental erosion of our Bill of Rights and outright destruction of our Second Amendment? A reckoning is coming. Let us pray that our military is with us. We can't do it alone.
Like you, I feel that the military and those in law enforcement are going to have to make a difficult choice in the near future/.
Though I agree with you to a point, if you want to wrap yourself up in the rightous second ammendment, which I believe in, to the letter, you might want to review the FIRST ammendment! If you will,,, remember those shit bags have the same right as you do to spew projectile diarrea! The same as you want the "communists" to respect your second ammendment rights, you in turn must have the flexability for their twisted views. So, if you are unhappy with the "communists" in the press, or in the "office" then you can always move to North Korea, I'm sure they would love to hear your opinion. Dress warm jackass.
The difference is we arent trying to remove or infringe upon their rights Troll
Danite, I think that 2/3 of our military will be with us..maybe more. Most police forces will be too. They all have families, and they all have brains and something to lose.
I'm ready. "They" underestimate us. We will provail.
Keep spreading the word.
The military and the police will do what they're told. TAKE OUR GUNS. Just like they did in New Orleans during Katrina.
It's simple; Come and take them!
If it is "open season" on the populace, it must be de facto "open season" on LEOs. And Military.
Sorry to be so direct, ladies and gentlemen: We'll pray for the good ones. There must be at least one good cop out there… And lots of good soldiers, who are being conditioned to "obey orders" above all else. Not sure we'll have the backing our Patriots hope for… We'll be marginalized first, dehumanized, and labelled as "evil" for daring to question "Our Great Leader" Kim Jong Obama.
Manchurian Candidate, without the mind control (BO). With the mind control, USA, USAF, USMC, USN.
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Things looked promising for the Comets varsity volleyball team to play a fifth and deciding game against visiting Martinsville Monday night, with Halifax holding a 19-13 lead in game four after losing two of the first three games. Unfortunately for Halifax, Martinsville was in no mood to extend the match and rallied for a 25-22 win and a sweep of the season series.
Halifax started slow in games one and two, with the Lady Bulldogs grabbing the lead midway of both games and holding off the Comets for a pair of 25-20 wins.
The momentum shifted in game three with the Comets rolling to leads of 9-0, 13-1 and 16-2 before winning 25-7 and Halifax rallied in game four after trailing early to grab the six-point lead.
Martinsville fought back to tie the game at 21-21 and reached match point at 24-22, before sealing the win on a close line call at the net.
The call, which ultimately decided the match in favor of Martinsville, wasn't the ultimate factor coach Steve Mattox explained, pointing instead to the losses in the first two games.
"When you put yourself in a situation where you're up and down you leave yourself open to a call like that," he said referring to the Comets' inconsistencies in falling behind.
"But, I'm not blaming anyone for this loss. Martinsville came in the more prepared team and played fantastic defense.
"For the most part we played well. It's hard to come back from two games down, but they did it against Heritage in the tournament, so they knew they could do it."
Although the Comets seemed to hold an advantage in the number of attackers, the Bulldogs compensated with digging the Comet's attacks and dumping them into open spaces on the court, with 12 balls hitting the floor, a number Mattox thinks is too high.
"Our kills were not overly abundant and our attackers need to learn to back off a little bit," Mattox noted. "Martinsville was smart and saw where we were getting in tight and they found the openings.
"They could see where back row players were sneaking in, and they dumped well because they hit flat balls with no arc to them."
In contrast, the Comets found holes in the Martinsville defense on several occasions, but weren't as consistent, Mattox noted.
"Our girls played hard and Martinsville had a whole lot of heart and were determined to dig every ball we put into play, and that's to their credit."
Halifax now has a week to prepare for its Western Valley District opener Tuesday at Comets Gym against defending district tournament champion Franklin County.
Mattox is looking forward to the challenge, adding the match was a prime opportunity to get off to a good start in the district.
"It's nice to get the district opener at home," Mattox said.
"Our goal this year is to finish in the top two of the district and I don't think they'll be too down about tonight, because Martinsville is a good team."
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• Service Aces: Jessie Bagbey, Kelsey Thompson four; Jill Trickey two; Johanna Spencer one
• Service Points: Bagbey 13; Thompson 12; Trickey four; Kate Bane, Spencer three; Alex O'Neil, Jameshia Smith two
• Good Passes: Bane 24; Spencer 18; Jameshia Smith 15; Bagbey eight; Thompson, O'Neil seven; Trickey six; Whitney McCargo five; Jamilia Smith, Megan Day three; Melyse Brown two; Nia Brown one
• Good Sets: Bagbey 53; Spencer two
• Kills: McCargo, Jamilia Smith five; Spencer four; Jameshia Smith three; Nia Brown two; Melyse Brown one
• Blocks: Jamilia Smith, Melyse Brown three; McCargo one
• Service Percentage: 86 percent
• Passing Percentage: 77 percent
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Park Day Reunion activities rescheduled for Saturday, August 10
Following a rainy Park Day Reunion last weekend, some activities have been rescheduled for Saturday, August 10, at Silver Springs Park, 1100 N. Hampton, Springfield.
"A lot of people were very disappointed last weekend, but the rain couldn't be helped," said event organizer Jane Pike.
The community is invited to enjoy a day of fellowship at the Silver Springs Park pavilion starting at 10 a.m. Saturday. Picnic foods will be for sale to help raise money for next year's event. The Miss Silver Springs Beauty Pageant, which was rained out last Sunday, will be held Saturday at 6 p.m.
Silver Springs Pool will be closed Saturday for the event. The pool reopens for the last day of the season Sunday, 1-6:30 p.m..
The Park Day Reunion takes place at Silver Springs Park every year on first weekend of August, bringing together friends and family from Springfield and around the country. The event name dates back to 1952, when Gerald Brooks, a teacher at Springfield's Lincoln School, started a day of games and sports for young black residents at Silver Springs.
Silver Springs Park is one of the Springfield-Greene County Park Board's 10 Historic Parks. It was established in 1918 on land known as the old Fairbanks pasture, and later named for a spring on site, flowing into Jordan Creek. During segregation, Silver Springs was the city's only public park designated for black residents and accompanying sports leagues, including semi-pro baseball. The WPA built fieldstone retaining walls and the first Silver Springs Pool, and lined the creek channel with rock in the 1930s.
For more information about the Park Day Reunion, visit parkdayreunion.com or contact Jane Pike, Springfield Reunion Club, at 417-869-8091.
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Going into tonight's Academy Awards, Louisville native Jennifer Lawrence is the favorite to win Best Actress—but no shoo-in.
Lawrence, star of Silver Linings Playbook, would become the second-youngest Best Actress winner in history and the win would be another indicator—on top of the $408-million domestic gross for last year's Hunger Games, in which she also starred—that the 22-year-old is among Hollywood's elite.
Predicting the outcomes from the Oscars has become to the entertainment news media what a presidential election is to the political news media—something to gab about, something to mull over and an opportunity to make bold predictions. The difference is that political pundits have polls. In this way, the Academy Awards are more like a Conclave; divining who'll win comes mostly from chatter and conjecture.
Regardless, Lawrence appears likeliest to win an Academy Award for Best Actress in her second time nominated, according to prognosticators ranging from Movieline to New York Magazine's entertainment blog to FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver.
In fact, this is the general agreement of the most recent predictions I surveyed from those entertainment news sources, plus Huffington Post, New York Magazine's Vulture blog, The New York Time's Carpetbagger blog, Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly.
Huffington Post says:
Silver Linings Playbook wasn't even Jennifer Lawrence's most popular movie this year—that would be—The Hunger Games—but her endearing performance as an eccentric young widow has her team expecting gold.
Carpetbagger blogger Melena Ryzik writes that Lawrence's role in Silver Linings Playbook is "the kind of multilayered turn that actors, the largest voting body in the Academy, love."
The Vulture blog says that a win for her would amounts to a "coronation."
But J-Law fans shouldn't just yet get the champagne ready to uncork or start prepping couches for torching tonight—however they prefer to celebrate. Some categories are practically already decided—Daniel Day-Lewis for Best Actor, Anne Hathaway for Supporting Actress—but Best Actress isn't among them.
"This is a close one, and not a lock by any means," Entertainment Weekly says.
So say you're not an Oscars obsessive or a movie buff, but you're interested because, well, J-Law. Who's the competition?
Depending on where you look, Lawrence may lose to either Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain or Amour star Emmanuelle Riva.
Movieline notes that Riva is 85 years old and a first-time nominee—a fact that voters may notice.
"In other words, Lawrence and Chastain will be back and this is Riva's first, and presumably last, bid for an Academy Award," writes Movieline's Donald Liebenson.
Riva won a BAFTA Award for best actress for the French-language film, beating both Chastain and Lawrence.
Early on, Chastain appeared to be a strong contender, but Zero Dark Thirty has been muddled in controversy, particularly over its depiction of torture. Chastain won a Golden Globe for best actress in a drama; Lawrence won the Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy or musical.
Lawrence has also won a few other awards for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and, on Saturday, an Independent Spirit Award.
For her part, Lawrence recently told WFPL that she's less nervous with the Academy Awards buzz than in 2011, when she was a newcomer to the Oscars scene.
"I'm just trying to have more fun with it," Lawrence told WFPL in a recent telephone interview.
The Academy Awards begin at 8:30 p.m. ABC begins broadcasting at 7 p.m.
Hours later—maybe several hours later—we'll know if Louisville can claim a reigning Oscar winner among its own.
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MERCED — Climate change alters the way species interact with one another not just today or in the future, but also in the past, according to a review by UC Merced Professor Jessica Blois and colleagues coming out this week in the journal "Science."
"We found that, at all time scales, climate change can alter biotic interactions in highly complex ways. So if we don't incorporate them when we're anticipating future changes, we're missing a big piece of the puzzle," Blois said.
A special issue of "Science," titled "Natural Systems in Changing Climates," features the article and a podcast.
The article and podcast are the work of Blois, one of UC Merced's newest faculty members, along with three colleagues: one from Yale University, one from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and one from the University of California at Berkeley.
They have contributed a paper called "Climate Change and the Past, Present and Future of Biotic Interactions."
"Biodiversity does respond to climate change, and it's a perfectly natural response to past climate change," Blois said. The worry is that the rate of climate change is more than species can handle.
"We are seeing responses in many species," she said, including plants that have never been found before in certain climates such as species of palms found in Sweden and in animals moving to higher elevations as their habitats grow too warm for them.
What interests the researchers in this field is how interactions between species change between predators and prey, or plants and pollinators and how to translate data into future models.
The article indicates that while much more research is needed, changes can be discerned, though it's harder to get data from the fossil record because complete information about the interactions isn't always available.
Big changes can can be seen at the end of major climate changes, such as the last Ice Age, when large herbivores went extinct.
Without those mega-eaters to keep certain plants at bay, new communities of flora developed, the likes of which we no longer see because there have been many other changes.
"People used to think climate was the major driver of all these changes," Blois said, "but there's a lot of work that indicates it's not just climate. It's also extinction of the megafauna, changes in fire and expansion of humans. It's all linked."
Doctoral student earns faculty post in England
UC Merced alumnus Andreas Kolling, the first student to earn a doctorate at UC Merced in electrical engineering and computer science, has obtained a faculty position at the University of Sheffield in Great Britain.
Kolling came to UC Merced in January 2007 and graduated with his doctorate in 2009. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Pittsburgh, the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon and Linköping University in Sweden.
Starting this fall, Kolling will work at the University of Sheffield's Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering. He will develop a research program in robotics as well as teach graduate and undergraduate students.
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Holly Andersen, MD, is too good-looking to be a cardiologist. I'm sitting in her office wondering who slipped the J.Jill model behind her desk. She keeps two 12-pound barbells on the credenza and does sets in between seeing patients. "Even if I can do it for just 20 or 30 seconds, I've done something for me," she says. As director of education at the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, she's big on the idea of women doing something for themselves. She knows that many women have a "family and work first" attitude that puts their own health low on their to-do list.
Personally, I take a certain pride in not going to the doctor. Doctors are for wusses. Also, they always find something wrong -- as my mother, herself a doctor, used to tell me. I hate doctors. Unless they make me look better, in which case I love them. Let's review: Yes to dermatologists, no to virtually everyone else.
So what made me think that perhaps, at 50, I should go to a cardiologist? Well, recently I've been having palpitations and occasional shortness of breath. And a while back I wound up in the emergency room, thinking I was having a heart attack. Many hours later I learned I wasn't. It was actually a panic attack. Gee, could it have to do with any of the following?
1. My dad died. 2. Then my mom died. 3. My husband's a bit of a geezer. 4. My son has Asperger's syndrome. 5 My other son says he hates school. 6. I'm the breadwinner. 7. Nearly everyone in my family drops dead from a stroke or heart attack. Pick one.
Doctors are for wusses. So what made me think that perhaps, at 50, I should go to a cardiologist?
Clearly, stress is not unknown to me. Could this particular cocktail of problems ultimately lead to a genuine heart attack?
Dr. Andersen starts by asking my family health history, but not before she helpfully reminds me that cardiovascular disease is still the top killer of American women, and that those 35 to 54 appear to be dying from it at an increasing rate. Worst of all, nearly half of women say they wouldn't call 911 immediately if they thought they were having a heart attack. "They're so busy, they think, 'I can't be having a heart attack now -- I have to pick up my daughter,'" says Dr. Andersen. "As a result, they tend to come to doctors later than men, are less likely to be diagnosed -- and if they are diagnosed correctly, are less likely to receive lifesaving therapy quickly. That's why we've got to focus on prevention."
So, okay -- on to prevention. Dr. Andersen asks if I take medications (only Synthroid for my low thyroid -- and vodka) and gently prods me to discuss those recent stressors. I mutter something about my aversion to doctors but boast about not being too concerned since there's longevity in my family. "Yes, I had all my grandparents until I was in my 30s," the 49-year-old doctor says, slowly. "I also had a 50-year-old brother who was captain of the football and track teams in high school, exercised, never smoked. Worked like a dog. Probably didn't eat well. Didn't go to the doctor. Dropped dead of a heart attack last Labor Day."
Point taken.
"It's great to have longevity in your family, but that makes it even more important to take care of yourself and stay fit, because if you're going to live a long time, you want to live well," she continues. This I did understand, since in the past year I'd begun, for the first time in my life, to exercise regularly and watch my weight. I'd gone from a size 14 to a size 8 and was spending money on a personal trainer instead of a therapist on the theory that if I were going to feel inadequate anyway, I might as well be inadequate and toned. Did I mention that I don't put much faith in therapists, either?
When I tell Dr. Andersen I sometimes get palpitations, she asks for specifics: Regular or irregular? When do they happen? And do I get shortness of breath? "No, it's usually when I'm having thoughts like, 'Where are the kids and who's picking them up and did I buy a present for Saturday's party and when was that story due and what happens when my husband dies and I'm all alone?'" I say. "You know, the usual. A gimlet usually clears it right up."
"I think you may be self-medicating," she says. I concede that this is true.
We go into Dr. Andersen's examining room and she checks my resting pulse (58 -- not Olympic-athlete level but not bad) and my lying-down blood pressure (128/78). Later she checks it after I've been moving, and it's still only 134/80. This is pretty good but surprising because it's usually about 140/90 when I see a doctor; last time I went it was 160/90. (It was also high when I was pregnant; I was hospitalized for possible preeclampsia.) "Well, you must like me," she says. She's right. I'm more relaxed than usual at a doctor's office. "Resting blood pressure is often taken incorrectly," she continues. "When you're stressed, your blood pressure goes up pretty quickly."
My cholesterol levels look pretty good: My LDL, the bad stuff that goes right into making the plaque that clogs up your arteries, is a decent 106 (under 100 is better); my HDL, the good stuff that can especially protect women's hearts, is a terrific 64 (over 50 is protective); and my triglycerides, which can reveal your recent diet, are quite low at 50 (anything under 100 is good). For the record, my total cholesterol is a respectable 180, though Dr. Andersen says that the HDL and LDL numbers provide more important information.
She then gives me an electrocardiogram, a.k.a. an EKG, where tiny electrodes are attached all over my skin and I lie on a table and breathe. The EKG tests the electrical impulses of the heart. Mine are normal. "If you'd had a previous heart attack -- 25 percent of heart attacks go unnoticed -- this would most likely show you," she says. "And it gives us insight if there are any abnormalities in the chambers of the heart." There aren't. "You have the EKG of a 20-year-old," she says. Thank God something on me still looks 20! "Look over there," she says, shining a light into my eye. "I'm looking at the back of your eye. It's the only place on the body you can directly visualize your arteries. And if there's damage from blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes, we can usually see it. But no -- yours look beautiful."
This day is turning out better than I expected. I begin to wonder if perhaps all the stress in my life is actually keeping me alive. Perhaps without it my pressure and heart rate would be so low I'd be unable to get off the couch.
But really, if everything seems normal, what next? Am I done? Dr. Andersen is quick to say that although things look good now, I shouldn't vanish from medical scrutiny for the next five years, which is essentially what I always do. I should get a blood test for my C-reactive protein level, which is an independent prognosticator of heart attacks in women. I need to cut down on salt, since I put salt on everything, including sugar (mmm, kettle corn). I need to stay active, or what passes for active given my preference for activities that involve lying down. Though then again -- there is a God! -- getting enough sleep and having good sex are pluses on the heart health ledger.
Emergency responders are still more likely to delay heart attack care for women than men. One reason? Symptoms in women can be different and more subtle than what men experience, says Claire Duvernoy, MD, founder of the Women's Heart Program at the University of Michigan Health System. Women often downplay their symptoms, too, and may put off calling for help.
For example, 40 percent of women having a heart attack never feel chest pain, says Dr. Andersen. Instead of an elephant sitting on their chest, women may feel pain in the back, shoulders, neck, or jaw; dizziness or sweatiness; extreme fatigue, and shortness of breath. "Most women having a heart attack also have a nagging feeling that something isn't right," Dr. Andersen says. "So don't wait for chest pain to call 911."
-- Richard Laliberte
Trouble may lurk in smaller blood vessels. In men, a heart attack usually happens when plaque in a large coronary artery forms a blockage or ruptures and causes a clot. But women with symptoms sometimes show no signs of coronary blockage in tests such as an angiogram. "Cardiologists may tell women they're at low cardiovascular risk," says Emily G. Kurtz, MD, director of Preventive Cardiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. But they might not be. Sometimes the small blood vessels become stiff with plaque and inflammation, causing reduced blood flow to the heart and resulting in chest pain, or angina. It's called microvascular coronary dysfunction, and it's four times more common in women than men. And it can lead to heart attack, stroke, congestive heart failure, and death.
Pregnancy complications can be an early warning. If you had preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, or pregnancy-induced hypertension, you're at higher risk of heart disease, according to the American Heart Association's prevention guidelines for women. "Consider having one of those conditions as equivalent to failing a stress test," Dr. Kurtz says. "Preeclampsia, for example, roughly doubles the risk of heart disease, stroke, and blood clots."
Menopause boosts risks. It's clear from studies that your chance of developing heart disease increases after menopause. Whether it has to do with age, declining estrogen, or something else still isn't clear. Hormone replacement has not been shown to decrease your risks -- and may even raise them.
-- Richard Laliberte
Heart trouble may be difficult to diagnose in women, but the right screenings can help. Read our rundown of the most common ones.
Test: Blood Pressure
When to get it: At least every two years if number is lower than 120/80, yearly if between 120/80 and 139/89, and more often if 140/90 or higher.
Test: Cholesterol
When to get it: Every five years starting at age 20; more often if you have high total cholesterol and low HDL, are over 50, or have other risk factors.
Test: Blood Sugar
When to get it: Every three years starting at age 45 -- younger and more often if you're overweight or if the results reveal prediabetes.
Test: Electrocardiogram (Ecg or EKG)
When to get it: Anytime you're evaluated for heart-related symptoms or have a complete physical exam.
Test: Echocardiogram
When to get it: If your doctor hears a heart murmur or suspects a problem.
Test: Stress Test
When to get it: If your doctor suspects you have impaired blood flow to the heart or other risks.
Test: Angiogram
When to get it: If your doctor suspects you have a blocked or narrowed coronary artery.


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Book DetailsLanguage : English
Paperback : 246 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : January 2014
Author(s) : Hussein Nasser
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Networking and Servers, Enterprise
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Best Practices for Installing ArcGIS for Server
Chapter 2: Authoring Web Services
Chapter 3: Consuming GIS Services
Chapter 4: Planning and Designing GIS Services
Chapter 5: Optimizing GIS Services
Chapter 6: Clustering and Load Balancing
Chapter 7: Securing ArcGIS for Server
Chapter 8: Server Logs
Appendix A: Selecting the Right Hardware
Appendix B: Server Architecture
"This book by ESRI award-winning Hussein Nasser is very practical! The book includes a few exercises and examples, which are very helpful. Finally, the appendices are remarkably informative – one of my favorite sections deals with the rise of ArcGIS Server and also the benefits of a 64-bit architecture." - Susan Smith Nash
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What you will learn from this book
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ArcGIS for Server is a new technology that has been developed to bring geographically-enabled information from multiple sources into one single platform and make it available for sharing services. Server supports many types of services, and the beauty of this technology is that it has an edge over other products, as the source of information can be directly plugged into Server without the need to change or migrate the existing infrastructure.
Administering ArcGIS for Server teaches you the mechanics of ArcGIS for Server, equipping you with the skills to not only install and configure Server, but to do it efficiently to achieve effective results. You will also learn how to plan, analyze, design, and finally publish and consume GIS services from various platforms including mobile and tablets.
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Stupak Amendment to Prohibit Government-Funded Abortions
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by Marcus Washington
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Metro council member has proposed a residential caucus to help the city address residents' concerns or questions.
With his drilling company around for nearly 30 years, Bruce Long knows what it takes to get to the bottom things.
"One of the problems we've had out here is the lack of water, specifically enough water to run a fire hydrant," said Long.
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|Eileen and Paul's Story - Gifts of Real Estate
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Eileen and her husband, Paul, enjoyed their house. They had raised their three children there and had many family memories.
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Replace Oil in Baking
I would like to know if I can replace 1/2 of called oil amount with milk instead of applesauce in order to still keep the moist and muffin texture of original recipe. Thanks a lot!!
Here is the original recipe:
Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins
1 1/2 cups mashed bananas
2/3 cup sunflower seed oil
1 egg, beaten
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
If I understand you correctly, you know you can replace half the oil with applesauce, and you want to know if you can use milk instead. I think the answer would be "no." Oil makes baked goods moist because it doesn't evaporate during baking. When you use applesauce (or prunes) the moisture also doesn't evaporate (as much) because it's bound to the fruit fiber. Milk will just evaporate, although if you use whole milk, it will leave behind some fat.
Flax seed can be used as a substitute for fat. I usually replace half the fat with flax (the ratio is 3-to-1 which seems like a horrifying amount of flax but it works). Be aware that it will add a nutty flavor and will produce a darker product, so think about your flavor profile and desired looks before using flax. I love it in muffins and quickbreads.
I usually use unsweetened applesauce- store brands are fine
re: cheesecake17
re: ijeny
I think you will loose the cake-y moist texture if you try to replace the oil.
I make a pumpkin bread that does not need much, if any, oil, but I'm aiming for a hearty and moist texture, more like a good bran muffin than cake. The proportions I use (derived from a Joy of Cooking recipe) are
1 1/2c of flour (mixed grains in my case, including oat bran and ground nuts)
2 eggs
1c puree
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re: ijeny
You'll find buttermilk in the dairy section, near the regular milk. It's different than regular milk- it's cultured- like yogurt. It's got a tangy sort of flavor to it and it's avail lowfat and fatfree.
If you don't have buttermilk, a quick sub is 1 cup of milk (or soymilk, ricemilk, almondmilk, whatever) mixed with a tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar. Let the mixture sit for 5 or 10 min (while you prepare other ingredients) and it'll get clumpy. The clumps are what you want. Then just add it into the batter!
re: cheesecake17
Also, buttermilk can be frozen and thawed for future baking. It separates but just shake it well before measuring. Powdered buttermilk is sold in canisters and boxes of packets in the baking supplies aisle (Sago is one brand). You mix a packet into your dry ingredients and add a cup of water to the liquid ingredients.
re: greygarious
re: cheesecake17
Keep in mind that the OPs recipe does not have any baking soda - other than that in baking powder. Normally recipes that use buttermilk also use the soda.
My pumpkin bread recipe has both the powder and soda, but no buttermilk. However it does have a generous amount of molasses. And the pumpkin puree might also be mildly acidic. While I have varied the amount of oil, and the amount of molasses, I have not played with the baking powder and soda quantities.
That recipe has so much mashed banana in it already that the oil is largely overkill... IMO you could probably cut the oil back to 1/4 cup and not notice a difference in the finished product. There are only two cups of flour in the recipe so it's not going to make a huge quantity. Add an extra egg if they seem a little dry.
I made delicious chocolate banana muffins using 1 stick of butter, a couple of bananas, 3 eggs and 4 cups of flour and they came out perfectly moist.


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Smyrna Fire Department contains a house fire in less than 10 minutes Saturday morning. / (Photo: Courtesy of Dan Epright )
SMYRNA — A Smyrna couple was away from their house, meeting with potential buyers for it, when it caught fire Saturday morning.
The fire, which was contained in less than 10 minutes by five units of the Smyrna Fire Department, may have started in the dryer that was left running. The call came in at 9:15 a.m. Saturday.
Justin and Tiffany Granstaff and their two children have lived in the house at 300 Whitney Drive in Smyrna in the Bent Tree community. No one was home at the time.
We thank God for that, said Justin Granstaff.
The house was saved, but is unlivable right now. Theres fire damage in the kitchen and utility room and smoke damage throughout the house, Smyrna Fire Chief Bill Culbertson said.
We will get the house fixed, said Justin Granstaff. And weve had multiple people say we can stay with them.
Once repaired, the Granstaffs still plan to sell the home, which was built in 1991.
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