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A federal official said Friday that the focus of the new U.S. charges is Benjamin Arellano, described by investigators as the cartel's primary commander. Benjamin Arellano has not previously been publicly charged by the U.S. government, although his brother, Ramon, was indicted in 1997 for drug conspiracy and remains on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. The U.S. government has offered a $2-million reward for information leading to the arrest of Ramon Arellano, viewed as the gang's enforcer.


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Cougars are re-populating their historical range, new study confirms
New Mac OS in July has social-network integration
(AP) Next month, Apple will release its new operating system for Mac computers.
APPLE LIVE: New Mac, mobile updates at Apple show
(AP) Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off the company's annual conference for software developers on Monday. He was expected to show off new iPhone software and updated Mac computers and provide more details ...
Hot Apple developers rally gets June 11 keynote
A sold-out Apple gathering devoted to tailoring programs for the company's coveted gadgets will kick off in San Francisco on June 11 with a keynote presentation by top executives.
As deadly cat disease spreads nationally, MU veterinarian finds effective treatment
Lone Star ticks, which are notorious carriers of many diseases including cytauxzoonosis, or "bobcat fever," have been spreading across the nation in recent years. As a result, cats across much of the country are now exposed ...
Apple brings iPad features to the Mac
Apple released a preview version of its new Macintosh operating system on Thursday, bringing some features of the iPad to the personal computer.
Learning to live in mountain lion country
Researchers at Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve often encounter signs of mountain lion activity, from lion scat to the occasional deer carcass covered with leaves. But few have actually caught a glimpse of the ...
Wild cats roam the Tucson Mountains
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, mountain lions and bobcats have been photographed as part of an in-depth monitoring study in the Tucson Mountains, a small island of habitat facing increasing segregation ...
Probing Question: What are wildlife corridors?
Mountain Lion! Stand or Run?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new UC Davis study of 110 years of mountain-lion attacks on people suggests the conventional wisdom of standing your ground may not always be the right course.
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Repavement project continues to the south
Date: May 19, 2009
by: Robin Hartill | Community Editor
Repavement work began Monday on the 2.2-mile stretch of S.R. 789 from Bird Key Drive to Ken Thompson Parkway.
Construction work and lane closures will take place between 6:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. for most of the project, although work on St. Armands Circle will begin later, around 10 or 11 p.m., to avoid interfering with business hours.
Lane closures will be permitted 24 hours a day on the bridge to St. Armands located 200 feet north of Washington Drive in order to install new rails. As of Tuesday morning, the right-hand merge lane on the bridge was closed, but there were no traffic delays.
For more information, contact Darren Alfonso, the repavement project's public information officer for the Florida Department of Transportation, at 813-767-9532, or visit www.mySR789.com.
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17 Night of Fish, Fun & Fright
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18 Jewels on the Bay Showhouse
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Durante dog, owner well after raccoon run-in
Last week, we reported on a scuffle between a black dog and a group of raccoons that occurred at dusk near Joan Durante Park.
Golfer scores her first hole in one
Liz Lang scored her first hole in one July 8, on the Resort at Longboat Key Club's Harbourside White Course, while celebrating her friend, Jane Hunter's birthday.
Commissioner Lynn Larson's three grandchildren, Zander, 9, Zora, 8, and Zoe Ramsey, 5, got a close-up look at what Longboat Key police and firefighters do to keep residents safe earlier this month, during a tour of the police and north fire stations.


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Patrick Peterson wins battle with Calvin Johnson
That storyline this week was the NFL's best receiver, Calvin Johnson of the Detroit Lions, against one of the top young cornerbacks in the game in Arizona's Patrick Peterson.
Johnson did catch 10 passes for 121 yards, but Peterson and the the Cardinals defense kept Johnson out of the end zone in a convincing 38-10 win at University of Phoenix Stadium -- and the second-year man from LSU had his fingerprints all over it.
In the second quarter, Peterson intercepted a Matthew Stafford pass intended for Johnson, got back to his feet and weaved through Lions' players all the way down to the Detroit three-yard line. Two plays later, Beanie Wells plunged into the end zone from two yards out, giving the Cardinals a 14-7 lead they'd never relinquish.
"It was everything I thought it would be," Peterson told the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network after the game. "He's a great athlete and a tremendous, tremendous receiver. I give the guy the utmost respect because he continues to do what he's known for week in and week out.
"It was definitely a tough task for me, like I said throughout the week -- it was going to be a measuring stick for me and I thought I measured up pretty well here today and hopefully I can keep that going for the rest of the season."
Peterson finished the game with a team-high seven tackles and broke up two passes in addition to his game-changing interception. He now has seven interceptions on the season, which is tied for the second-most in the league.
"I just wanted to be physical, I wanted to meet him at the line of scrimmage each and every down," Peterson said. "Each and every down, I wanted to draw a line in the sand just to let him know this was the type of game it was going to be.
"Those guys came out with a great game plan, but we knew what they wanted to do and we picked them off the way we needed to."
When Peterson wasn't one-on-one with Johnson, cornerback William Gay and safety Kerry Rhodes double-teamed the All-Pro, similar to outside coverage on a punt return, to help keep him in check.
"I didn't necessarily agree with the coverage but the head man (Ken Whisenhunt) has the last say, so he thought that would be the best opportunity to slow him down a little bit and that's what we did."
Whisenhunt said the Cardinals' game plan for Johnson wasn't necessarily original.
"There's other teams that have done that," Whisenhunt said. "New England's done it before and Kansas City we've seen do it before, so it's not a completely new approach but part of it was to let them know we were going to take him out on that play. That puts the onus on other guys that they've got to be able to cover when we know that they're not going to go to Calvin Johnson.
"It was a good scheme, our defensive staff did a great job and our players executed it well."
Johnson had nothing but praise for Peterson following the contest.
"Good corner," Johnson said. "Good ball skills, overall a good player, man. It's a pleasure to play good players in this league -- because it's some great competition and he's one of the good ones."
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Name : Karen L. Mendonca
Age : 58
Place of residence : Moraga
Attended college : Yes
College : California State University, Chico
Degree : Bachelor of Arts
Year of graduation : 1974
Grad school
University : California State University, Chico and the University of San Francisco
Degree : M.A. in Education and M.A. in Educational Psychology/Counseling
Year of graduation : 1976 and 1977
Ph D.
University : University of California, Berkeley
Area of research : Academic Pioneers: a national study of women and presidential leadership
Year of graduation : 1995
Employment Information
Job titles held : Vice President; Associate Vice President; Senior Director; Director; Counselor; Mathematics Teacher
Employers : The California State University; Santa Rosa Junior College; Gravenstein School District
Political Information
Party affiliation : Democrat
Running for a: Local office
Running for position: Moraga Town Council
Chamber/district: Moraga
Incumbent: Yes
First elected: 04 November 2008
Previous elective offices : Moraga Town Council, 2008 - 2012 Served as Councilmember, Vice Mayor, and Mayor
Unsuccessful bids for elective offices : none to date
Party HQ
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Campaign Manager
Name : Clay Serrahn
Title : Campaign Manager
Website : www.karenmendonca.com
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After serving on the Moraga Town Council during the past four years--as Councilmember, Vice Mayor, and Mayor--I am seeking re-election. I served as Chair of the Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority Board, member of the Audit and Finance Committee, liaison to Saint Mary's College, Moraga School District, and the Moraga Youth Involvement Committee, and founded monthly "Ask the Mayor and Town Manager" open public meetings. I have thoroughly enjoyed working collaboratively with our community and Town staff in order to make informed decisions that both respect our Town's history and positively shape its future. I earned my Ph.D. degree in Education with a specialization in Policy and Management Research from UC Berkeley and completed a 25-year administrative career with the California State University. My spouse and I have lived in Moraga since 1991. If re-elected, I will continue to work to: protect Moraga's open space and semi-rural character; maintain our fiscally-responsible budget, including our sound reserve; repair and maintain our infrastructure (streets and storm drains); revitalize local businesses through responsible planning; fund public safety and support traffic measures to ensure citizen safety; support and enhance our high-quality schools. I would appreciate your consideration and your vote. www.karenmendonca.com


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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. —
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It's community project time again for Airigami. We're going to build a big, public display for all to see and it's going to involve a bunch of people. But before going into the project, I'll admit that the title of this post won't mean a lot to those not in the know, so I'll start with a few definitions.
- Imagine RIT – An annual innovation and creativity festival hosted by the Rochester Institute of Technology that features the work of university students and staff. Now in its fourth year, this year's festival will take place from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturday, May 7, 2011.
- Microsoft Kinect – An add-on product to Microsoft's Xbox gaming system that allows playing of games without the use of traditional controllers (joysticks, trackballs, keyboards). The user plays games though normal body movements and gestures.
- AR Drone – A small, remote controlled "quadcopter" or flying machine.
- Balloon – A bag made of a thin, flexible material that can be filled with fluid. The ones we're referring to here are made of latex and filled with air. (If your'e reading this blog, I assume you're familiar with balloons, but who knows. Maybe you found this page while searching for "Kinect" or "AR Drone".)
Last quarter at RIT, Kelly and I took part in the Innovation and Invention class at RIT's Center for Student Innovation. In that class, we hacked a Kinect to fly an AR Drone through an environment built from balloons. There was more to the project than that quick description. (The site describing the full class project is still under construction. I'll update this article and put a link to that here as soon as it's available.) What's important is that we're taking it beyond a small class project and turning it into a public demo at the Imagine RIT festival.
The plan is to build a jungle scene for the human gesture controlled copter to fly through. Those piloting the copter will be able to see the artwork through the AR Drone's onboard camera. We're going to make the scene large enough that people will also be able to walk through it and experience the artwork directly with their own eyes.
Now for the community part. We need help. As Airigami projects go, this is far from one of the largest. It will, however, be one of the most unique and will play to an audience of around 30,000 people. We're looking for RIT students, community members, and just anyone that feels like taking part in helping with the construction, photographing, and filming of what ends up happening. We can use artists, engineers, photographers, you name it. We don't care if you've ever worked with us or have any experience with balloons. We just want to make this fun. If you're interested in volunteering for some period of time during the week of May 2-7, let us know. This isn't a Balloon Manor-sized project. We don't have an infinite amount of space for helpers. We aren't looking for hundreds of people. But we would like a few dedicated folks that want to be part of something cool.
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Savory Slow Cooker Chicken and Butternut Squash – Grow. Eat. $ave.
Posted By Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom On October 19, 2011 @ 5:31 pm In Dairy Free,Garden,Gluten Free,Grow. Eat. Save.,Recipes,Slow Cooker | 13 Comments
So this isn't pumpkin…but it's close!
We've been enjoying lots of butternut squash lately, after buying some at Kroger, then more at Aldi the next week for just $.59 each!
We've had this…a beef stew with butternut (recipe coming Monday on One Dish Dinners!)…and I made the same beef stew mix for the guys to enjoy while I'm out of town this week.
(And sorry about the lighting…it was already dark. And dark outside kitchen light does not bode well when photographing food! This is a peek inside the slow cooker, minutes after I took off the lid to serve dinner.)
(And I should add…I had grandiose plans for all the acorn squash that I had growing my little garden. That is, until the squirrels ate them [5]. Sigh.)
Savory Slow Cooker Chicken and Butternut Squash
Yield – 4 servings
Preparation Time – 10 minutes
Cooking Time – 8 hours in slow cooker
- 3 small chicken breasts (about 1 1/3 lb.) ($2.50)
- 2 tsps red wine vinegar ($.05)
- Salt and pepper
- 1/2 bag baby carrots, or 4-5 peeled carrots sticks ($.67)
- 1 butternut squash, peeled, seeded and diced ($.59)
- 2 tsp Italian seasonings ($.10)
- Whole wheat dinner rolls or toast with butter ($.75)
- Place the chicken breasts in the base of the slow cooker and splash the vinegar over the top. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add the baby carrots and butternut squash around and on top of the chicken. Season with the Italian seasonings and more salt and pepper if you like.
- Set the slow cooker on low for 8 hours.
- Prepare bread or toast.
- Serve Savory Slow Cooker Chicken and Butternut Squash with carrots and toast.
Cost $4.66
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It was only a few short weeks ago that Bill English was saying he wasn't going to be spooked by a little bit of red ink in the Government's accounts.
The Treasury's pre-election fiscal update bleeds so much of the red stuff that the document looks like the aftermath of Dracula running amok in the blood bank.
The numbers in this horror story are truly awful. It is goodbye to operating surpluses for close to a decade. The forecasts for the separate cash deficit figure nearly double to $6-7 billion for the foreseeable future. Growth slumps. Unemployment jumps. These numbers will almost certainly get worse. The Treasury's forecasts were done before last week's maelstrom on Wall Street.
It certainly wasn't a pretty sight, and we face some tough years that will require strong financial management, and a willingness to make hard decisions. But Armstrong notes that Cullen went easy on National:
But Michael Cullen did not lay into National yesterday - and for good reason. The update's forecasts have obliterated previous boundaries of the tax argument.
Having slammed National for setting a debt-to-GDP target of 22 per cent, Cullen's position has been undercut by the current debt ratio being forecast to balloon from 17 per cent to 24 per cent of GDP over the next four years.
If National's tax cuts are reckless, so, by Cullen's previous definitions, are Labour's.
Cullen admitted as much by saying that had he known in advance what was going to happen he would have been more cautious about cutting taxes. However, he is refusing to withdraw the second and third phases of Labour's tax package.
That gives National carte blanche to go with its more generous package, which it says will be no more expensive than Labour's because the extra cost will be funded by transparent savings in government spending.
The bickering over tax has long made up for the lack of argument over wider economic policy. Yesterday changed everything. The election is no longer about tax. It is about which party can best convince the voters its policies will shorten the length and depth of that recession.
Keeping Stock concurs. Michael Cullen has steered the NZ economy through many years of good times, but seems totally spooked by what now faces him. The economy seems to be in a similar state to that inherited by National in 1990, except that thanks to the Fiscal Responsibility Act they know about it in advance, not once the power-shift has occurred. If National can come up with a bold and innovative plan to revitalise the economy, the election is theirs for the taking - even though it would possibly be a good election to lose! But the thought of Labour trying to manage the current situation is too much for thgis blogger to bear!!


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Jaguars rookie QB Blaine Gabbert impressing early
Although it is extremely early, we hear Jaguars rookie triggerman Blaine Gabbert has been very impressive in camp.
Rams agree to one-year deal with Sims-Walker
The Rams filled a big need by going out and getting a wide receiver, former Jaguars WR Mike Sims-Walker.
Jaguars ink former Jets CB Coleman
Former Jets CB Drew Coleman agreed to a three-year, $7.4 million deal with the Jaguars.
Jacksonville defense continues to take shape
After signing former Bills MLB Paul Posluszny, Jaguars GM Gene Smith is at it again, with the additions of Clint Session and Dawan Landry.
Jaguars cut DE Harvey
The Jaguars have parted ways with DE Derrick Harvey, a former top-10 pick of the club.
Report: Jaguars close to landing FS
The Jaguars appear to be fixing their secondary issues by signing former Ravens FS Dawan Landry to a five-year deal.
Jaguars sign OL Spitz
The Jaguars have reached a deal with C/OG Jason Spitz, who played last season with the Super Bowl champion Packers.
Gabbert last of Jaguars rookies to sign
The Jaguars have signed their first-round draft choice, QB Blaine Gabbert, the last of their five rookies to agree to a deal.
Jaguars agree to deal with OLB Session
OLB Clint Session has chosen to join an AFC South rival, leaving the Colts and agreeing to a contract with the Jaguars on Thursday.
Bears find new punter, agree to deal with Podlesh
The Bears found their replacement for P Brad Maynard, agreeing to sign former Jaguars P Adam Podlesh.
Report: Lions agree to two-year deal with LB Durant
The Lions agreed to terms with former Jaguars LB Justin Durant on a two-year contract, Vaughn McClure of the Chicago Tribune reported.
Posluszny an instant upgrade for porous Jaguars' defense
The Jaguars took a step toward solving their tackling issues with the acquisition of Paul Posluszny.
Jaguars agree to six-year deal with ILB Posluszny
Former Bills ILB Paul Posluszny agreed to terms on a six-year deal with the Jaguars Tuesday evening.
Jaguars rookie Prosinski will be in the mix at safety
Jaguars fourth-rounder Chris Prosinski, who could compete for a starting job this season, has tried to maintain as much of a routine as possible during the lockout.
NFL dominates Forbes' 'Most Valuable Teams' list
All 32 NFL teams made the Forbes list of the "World's 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams," led by the Cowboys, worth $1.81 billion.
Ball signed Friday with the Jags.||||||| Ball spent last season in Houston after playing five years in Dallas. He is expected to compete for a starting job for the Jaguars, who recently parted ways with cornerbacks Derek Cox, Rashean Mathis and Aaron Ross. Ball has 22 career starts and three interceptions.
Ball is active for Houston after missing the last five games with a sore foot.||||||| Ball has registered eight tackles in 11 games.
The Dallas Cowboys have signed Ball, whose playing time figures to increase after the release of safety Ken Hamlin.||||||| Ball has played in 28 games, including three starts, over three seasons. He is listed as the starter at free safety. A seventh-round pick out of Illinois in 2007, Ball has 26 tackles and five pass breakups and has been a key special teams player.


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It can be a challenge to get a gift for the mother who has it all. Many people either do not want a lot of different things or they buy themselves everything that they want. There are many gifts that you can get for her for Mother's day that will still be meaningful and special. The following are some of the best gifts for the mother who has it all.
Gift card
A gift card can be a great gift for the mother who has it all. One of the biggest worries about buying for such a person is that anything you get for them will be a waste, simply relegated to the closet where they will never use it. Instead you can get them a gift card for a place that you know that they like to go to. Almost everyone has somewhere that they like to go to whether it is a restaurant, clothing store, general store or even a grocery shop. Some people are uncomfortable giving money to their mothers, but they might feel fine getting her a gift card. You will have many choices from which to choose. If you get it to a place that you know that she likes then you know it will get use. You can also give it to an unusual place if you want her to get a new experience. The other good thing is that you can make it for as much as you want.
Picture in a frame
Many mothers just love to look at pictures. If you get her a picture that she doesn't have then it will be different. It can be something special that she can look at. You can also give her a digital picture frame where she can look at a lot of different pictures. Alternatively you can get her a photo album filled with pictures.
A gift of experience
If there is nothing material that she needs or wants then you can give her some sort of gift of experience. It could be a special night out in which you take her out to dinner, to a show or to somewhere special. You can even take her on a weekend getaway or a longer vacation if you have more money that you want to spend. You can do whatever it is that you think that she will like.
Magazine subscription
A magazine subscription might be a nice gift. There are so many to choose from that you should be able to find something that she would like. These are generally inexpensive, last the entire year and do not take up a lot of room.
Mother's Day can be a difficult time to buy a gift for the mother who has it all. Consider the above gifts when making your selection.


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By Jim Sullivan
---- — It has been 15 years since Scottish-American fiddler Hanneke Cassel came to Newburyport to play in a duo at Yankee Homecoming. On Saturday night, she will be making her return, this time as a headliner.
"I'm excited," Cassel says of coming back to the city. "I haven't played there in a long time, and it is its own community up there. I'm very excited to return."
The Oregon native, who was named Junior National Scottish Fiddle Champ at the age of 14, came to the Boston area when she attended the Berklee College of Music in the late 1990s. She found she fit right in.
"Out of all the places I've traveled in the U.S., Boston has a really strong Irish scene and a really strong Scottish scene and a strong Cape Breton scene," Cassel said. "They're really distinct, and they also kind of mix with each other."
Although she came East to open her musical horizons, it turns out she helped to open Berklee's, as well, helping to start a strings department and set up fiddle camps in the area.
"When I was there, I was one of the only fiddle players playing Scottish music," Cassel said. "So, I was playing traditional Scottish music and was in touch with that scene in Boston. But I was also improvising and all this other stuff. So, maybe my sound was sort of a newer thing within the Scottish community. Now, at Berklee, there is this whole department."
In 1997, Cassel visited Newburyport with friends to play as a busker, or street performer, during the annual fall festival. She felt right at home.
"I loved it," she said. "I'm from a town in Oregon on the coast, so I love being near the ocean. People just seemed to be having a really good time. And it was one of the first big festivals that I've played. I love performing and having an audience that wants to hear me perform. It was really exciting. It was really thrilling."
Currently touring the West Coast, Cassel will be hitting the studio to record her fifth solo album in May and plans to break out some of those new songs for her Newburyport gig at St. Paul's Church.
"In the last few months I've been playing a lot of the stuff that we're going to put on the album," Cassel said. "I'm testing the waters and testing out arrangements. It's fun to play new material and we certainly hope the crowd likes it."
Accompanying Cassel will be cellist Mike Block, who was a member of Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project.
"He's a great player, he plays all kinds of different styles," Cassel said of Block. "He's an incredible classical player, but he also plays all kinds of styles of folk music."
Christopher Lewis will be joining in acoustic guitar.
"I've known him since I went to Berklee," Cassel added. "He has more of a rock background but he plays acoustic. I think because the rhythm is so important, it's good to have a rocker."
While Cassel has been bringing Scottish fiddle music into the 21st century, she's delighted to be playing in the 150-year-old Newburyport landmark.
"We plan to use it in a really distinctive way," Cassel said. "It's one of my favorite places to play, these kind of old buildings."
The concert is presented through the Heptunes Celtic Heritage Series in association with the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival.
IF YOU GO What: Hanneke Cassel with cellist Mike Block and guitarist Christopher Lewis When: Saturday, 8 p.m. Where: St. Paul's Church, 166 High St., Newburyport Tickets: $28. To purchase, www.HeptunesConcerts.com.


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Class of '68 will reconnect at Reunion Weekend — by Danielle Ward '08
William Messick '68, the reunion chair for his class, remembers planning for class reunions almost as fondly as the reunions themselves.
"We look forward to getting together every five years for the reunion planning," he says. Perhaps that's the reason the original planning committee has remained intact since the class' fifth-year reunion.
As much as the committee enjoys reuniting, the excitement for the planning meetings is nothing compared to the excitement for the event itself. There's even a clock on the class webpage counting down to the second until the 40th reunion. Messick believes the weekend will serve as a chance to reconnect with his classmates and reminisce about their years on campus.
"I am interested in what my classmates are doing, their families, their lives. Remembering old stories and events embellished as they are," he says. "Gathering on campus this time of year always is an inspiring event."
Messick recalls that in 1973, the class viewed old films of football games. He remembers Reunion parades, especially the parade cars like the 1960 Ford Edsel, the Maroon Mustang, as well as the live band party at the old Delta Upsilon house on the Quad, the tour of Chateau Chavaniac, and pub night socials. Although these moments stand out for Messick, he says that nothing compares to the opportunity to spend time with old friends and former classmates.
Although Messick has maintained strong ties to the Lafayette community and visits often, he sees the reunion as an opportunity to see classmates who have not been back to campus recently. He hopes that classmates hesitant to attend Reunion will "come to reconnect with classmates and the college." Messick mentions that Reunion will be a wonderful opportunity for his classmates to see how the campus has changed in the past 40 years. "See the campus as it has evolved," he says. "Visit for either day if time is an issue."
He also mentions that the committee has assembled a collection of class memorabilia, which will provide alumni with a trip back in time during Reunion Weekend.
Reunion will serve as a testament to the strength of the Lafayette community. Messick explains that Lafayette Reunions are "a great uplifting event to see several thousand positive people gathered."


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Police report that a brutal attack on a 26-year-old woman knocked her unconscious on Halloween night.
The woman reports being struck on the back of the head and knocked out. Police met with her the next morning after friends had taken her to Massachusetts General Hospital. She was suffering from injuries to her face, mouth and arm, police report.
But that doesn't describe her whole ordeal. As WBZ reports, the woman's friends say she was also dragged across the grass, lost several teeth and had her sweater torn off. Police told WBZ the woman was not sexually assaulted.
The victim had been walking home from a convenience store when the attack took place in the area of Lawrence Street near the Phipps Street Burying Ground. The woman was able to get herself home, where she passed out again. Friends helped her get to the hospital about 4 a.m. on Nov. 1, police say.
Some neighbors were shocked at the brutality.
"This used to be place where wives and mothers felt safe to walk the streets," neighbor Sean Riley told 7News. "I wish it was again."
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I had to parse a culture-sensitive currency value from a string and couldn't figure out how to do it. I'm using ASP.NET AJAX to do String.localeFormat("{0:c}", value) for writing a currency value to a textbox, but getting it back out... not so easy. The Number.parseLocale extension provided with ASP.NET AJAX is cool for parsing out numbers in a culture-sensitive fashion... if they don't have a currency symbol.
String.localeFormat("{0:c}", value)
So, time to hook that up. Here's what I came out with:
Number.parseCurrency = function Number$parseCurrency(str) { /// <summary> /// Parses a string containing a culture-sensitive currency value into a number. /// </summary> /// <param name="str" type="String"> /// The numeric string with optional currency symbol to convert into a number. /// </param> /// <returns type="Number" /> var currencySymbol = Sys.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.numberFormat.CurrencySymbol; var numberOnly = str.replace(/\s+/g, '').replace(eval("/\\" + currencySymbol + "/g"), ''); var parsed = Number.parseLocale(numberOnly); if (isNaN(parsed)) { // Try all 5 possible negative number formats. var customCi = Sys.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture; for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) { customCi.numberFormat.NumberNegativePattern = i; parsed = Number._parse(numberOnly, customCi); if (!isNaN(parsed)) { break; } } } return parsed;}
What it's doing:
["(n)","-n","- n","n-","n -"]
At the end of all that if you still come out with NaN, it's not a currency value.
If someone knows a better way to do this, I'm all ears.
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Natalie Ysais blasted her first career home run. As the Blue Raiders fell 11-5 to FIU in the second day of competition at the 2011 Sun Belt Conference Championships. (Athletic Communications)
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LAFAYETTE, La. - Middle Tennessee Softball's 2011 campaign came to an abrupt ending on Thursday as they team fell 11-5 in a wild extra inning affair on the second day of competition at the Sun Belt Conference Championships.
It was a game of momentum swings as the two teams jockeyed for winning position over the eight frame contest.
Junior Caty Jutson started the game in the circle and threw 3.1 serviceable innings of work. She allowed just one earned run off six hits over the span.
With the score 1-0 in the fourth, a costly Blue Raider fielding error would bring home two more unearned runs. Reliever Janele Robinson entered the game with the score 3-0 and stopped the Panthers. FIU then tacked on one more run in the top of the fifth.
With the Blue Raiders trailing by four runs in the bottom of the fifth, Natalie Ysais stepped to the plate with the base loaded. In the broiling Louisiana mid-day sun and with the season slipping away, the Yurupa, Calif., native blasted the biggest hit of her collegiate career, a grand-slam home run over the leftfield wall. This gave Ysais her first grand-slam homer as a Blue Raider. Four RBIs are the most in a single game for the junior.
It looked as if the Blue Raiders had caged the hard-hitting Panthers as Robinson was in control allowing just one hit over the next two innings.
MT had a chance to win in walk-off fashion in the seventh with pinch-runner Nina Dever on third and one out. A Dever came in for Kelsey Woodruff who led off the side with a double to centerfield. It was not to be, however, as the Blue Raiders could not come up with the game-winning hit and Dever was left stranded.
With the game tied at four in the top of the eighth, Robinson could no longer keep FIU at bay. The Panthers came out quickly scoring a run off an MT error. Freshman Shelby Stinnett came in a relieve a worn Robinson, but was ineffective as the Panthers would go on to tally six more runs to move the score to 11-4.
In the bottom of the eighth and the game seemly out of reach, senior Corrie Abel stepped to the plate for what would be her last collegiate at bat. Abel went out in style as she knocked an RBI-double to score Nina Davenport from second, moving the score to its final tally.
Abel ends her career as one of the most decorated hitters in program history, holding the school career-records for most hits (238), singles (186), and total bases (314). She has the second most runs scored (105) and walks worked (64), while also holding the third most doubles (37) and triples (6). Her 78 career RBIs and batting average (.364) are fourth-highest for a Blue Raider.
Fellow seniors Kelsey Dortch and Brittney Banania went out well, both going 1-3. Dortch knocked a double with a stolen base, while Banania recorded her conference-leading 16th sac hit of the season.
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If so, it's ungrammatical. Neutrality would be the clause, so it would never have been waived. In other words, the object is in the position of the subject, and the subject is missing.
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NEWBURYPORT – Beth Raucci, the principal of the Nock Middle School, got an e-mail two weeks ago from Kimberly Potts with a special request.
Potts is the mother of 2001 Amesbury High School graduate Justin Potts, a National Guardsman with the 182nd Engineer Company. After a 10-month deployment in Afghanistan through Operation Enduring Freedom, the soldiers were returning home, Potts wrote to Raucci. Would the principal consider having the middle school students make and hang signs welcoming them home?
Raucci happily agreed and notified eighth-grade social studies teacher Jennifer Groskin of the request, as much of that curriculum focuses on what it means to be an American citizen. The eighth-graders created about 25 welcome signs and hung them on the fence outside the Armory on Low Street yesterday in anticipation of today's noontime arrival of the soldiers.
Potts also has a nephew in the fourth grade, and he and his classmates at the Molin School also made signs.
"I was really thrilled she thought to ask us," Raucci said. "It's about giving thanks. I just really thought it captured the spirit of giving thanks and appreciating service."
The approximately 84 soldiers of the 182nd Engineer Company arrived at Biggs Army Airfield in Texas on Nov. 14 and began the mandated demobilization process.
This is the second deployment for the unit. In 2007, Potts also returned home on Thanksgiving Day from a 15-month deployment to Kosovo with the 101st Engineer Battalion as a combat engineer.
In the Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, the 182nd provided route clearance operations. According to company commander, Capt. Michael R. Bouchard, they cleared 35,000 kilometers, encountered 96 improvised explosive device events, and cleared 70 percent of IEDs. Of the 84 soldiers in the company, 55 received combat action badges and two combat medic badges.
"It was really tough the first few months of deployment. We were hitting a lot of IEDs because of the terrain we were encountering. We used our equipment to its full potential, and we were able to get everyone home safe," Spc. Michael G. Demers, a combat engineer assigned to the 182nd Engineer Company, said in a press release.


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Traverse City Record-Eagle
---- — TRAVERSE CITY — It's harvest time.
That's the word from area vineyards and winemakers as they begin harvesting their 2013 grape crop. Some winemakers said they are starting the harvest this weekend while others are starting Monday morning.
Mark Johnson, winemaker and vice president at Chateau Chantal, said he's pleased with what he's seeing on the vines.
"We are right on par with our 2008 harvest, and that was a very good year," Johnson said. "We're on course for a good, average-sized crop, (which) is just exactly what we need."
Erwin "Duke" Elsner, a small fruit educator with MSU Extension, also expects an average crop this year.
"Its been a slow season in some ways if we compare it to last year, but last year was ridiculously rapid," Elsner said. "We're about a week behind the five- to six-year average harvest dates, but we still have plenty of opportunities to finish out a good season. Not many vineyards have disease issues and I think we're in fine shape."
Elsner said the majority of the harvest will take place through October, though some vineyards are already picking early varieties.
Larry Mawby, vintner and founder of L. Mawby Vineyards, said harvest will start Monday.
"We pick our grapes a little earlier than our neighbors because we make sparkling wine and the grapes we use are not as ripe," he said. "In terms of quantity, it looks really good. Quality looks really fine. We need sun for maturing, but disease seems to be under control. Bad things happen if it freezes in the next couple of weeks, but it's very unlikely that good vineyard sites will be frosted."
Mawby has harvested grapes in the Suttons Bay area for 40 years.
"This is what you work for all year, so you look forward to it," Mawby said. "There are always things you don't like and things you're concerned about and it's overwhelming, but I've always thought this is the best time of year. It's a lot of work—two or three weeks of intense activity—but it's what we do."
"Now I can look back on 40 years of growing and say 'I've seen that before' or 'we liked that, we'll do that again,' said Mawby. "But every year is a different year. There are some things in common, but it's still its own thing."
Unpredictability in weather is what brought Johnson to this region.
"One of the things I thought was that I wanted to go somewhere with a cool climate," he said. "In California, it's always sunny and warm and you can get into making wine by a recipe. That's not much of a challenge. It's kind of like being a baker and making the same thing over and over, or you could be an artisan baker and really create something."
Johnson chose the creative path and thirty years later he's created hundreds of wines for Chateau Chantal.
"Every year is different," he said. "You really don't know what to expect. It's up to Mother Nature and I do enjoy that. We get one shot a year and we need to make the most of it. It's an exciting time."


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By Dan Nienaber
Free Press Staff Writer
MANKATO — A 25-year-old Mankato man turned himself into police after officers spent about three hours attempting to persuade him to come out of a house he wasn't in.
Police were called at about 4:15 a.m. Friday after the man, later identified as Jordon Allen VanRyswyk, allegedly threatened three women while holding a shotgun.
The caller reported VanRyswyk was outside his residence at 117 Grove St. when he allegedly made the threats while holding the gun to his side.
The house happens to be across the street from where 23-year-old Richard Vosburgh was shot by a police officer he was attacking in 2007. The officer was responding to a report that he had broken into a neighbor's apartment and was threatening women inside.
The women from Friday's incident told officers that they knew VanRyswyk and that he had gone back inside his house.
Josh Kruger, who lives across the street, said he woke up before 5 a.m. to find about six squad cars in front of his residence and a spotlight on VanRyswyk's house. The officers also were using a loud speaker, at about 10-minute intervals, to surrender.
"It was just weird," Kruger said. "I hadn't seen the guy in awhile, so I assumed he had moved."
It was about two hours after the initial call when the River Valley Tactical Response Team arrived, Kruger said. They brought several men in fatigues and armed with high-powered rifles to the neighborhood, along with their armored vehicle.
"It was quite the scene to say the least," Kruger said.
The tactical team eventually swept through the house and came out empty handed, Kruger said. He wasn't sure at about 10 a.m. Friday if they had arrested the suspect.
Actually, though, VanRyswyk had been in custody for a few hours. He had walked up to the perimeter that had been set up around his house by Mankato police and the tactical response team and turned himself in. He was arrested without incident.
"He was not in the house when officers arrived," said Cmdr. Pam Hermanson of the Mankato Department of Public Safety. "We thought he was inside, but he wasn't. He would have exited the residence sometime between (the women) leaving and us arriving."
She said there are several factors officers consider before calling the tactical team in. Generally, she said, it's for safety reasons.
After seeing how the situation turned out, Kruger wondered if his neighborhood had been disrupted more than it had to be. He and his fiancee didn't get much sleep and his roommates were late for work because their cars were blocked in by police, he said. "I'm not saying what he did wasn't a big deal, but with all that hoopla. . ."