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Though they were a powerful force in the west decades ago, the Enclave has not been seen or heard from in the Mojave Wasteland for years. Members who were not hunted down are believed to have traveled east - or successfully integrated into the NCR.
"— Loading screenThe NCR-Enclave War was a military conflict between the temporarily aligned forces of the New California Republic and the Brotherhood of Steel against the remaining Enclave personnel on the West Coast.
The war began when an unknown amount of time had passed after the canonized events of Fallout 2, and ended sometime after with the decisive sacking of Navarro. Details and specifics on when and how this conflict occurred and/or played out remains a mystery.
Several years after the Chosen One destroyed the Control Station ENCLAVE Oil Rig, the NCR ultimately decided that Navarro, along with the rest of the local Enclave personnel, would constitute a threat to the security of the region, despite being cut off from their leadership, proceeding ahead with a widespread offensive.
The NCR sacked the previously heavily defended Navarro outpost, inflicting a decisive blow to the remaining Enclave presence in California, despite suffering horrendous casualties. From then on, the NCR continued with hunting down the surviving Enclave forces within the known territory while bilateral relations with the Brotherhood remained agreeable.
While the majority of the Enclave relocated to a wide array of different locations according to Arcade Gannon, most noteworthy being the Capital Wasteland, some had went into hiding. The remaining few who were not exposed, arrested, or killed in battle or otherwise, had successfully integrated into the NCR.
The Brotherhood assisted the NCR in arresting those that were caught for war crimes, and as a result, relatively few managed to live in the boundaries of NCR territory by hiding.
Remnant Enclave personnel lingering in California that did not relocate with the rest of the Enclave, successfully disappeared, or integrated into the NCR, would ultimately be arrested and tried as war criminals by the NCR, and eventually imprisoned indefinitely, or even executed. Some were able to slip through NCR territory into Nevada.
At least one sizable bunker is known to remain in operating condition in the Mojave Wasteland, serving as a small base and refueling station for Vertibirds, with not only the NCR but the Mojave Chapter of the Brotherhood evidently failing to find or gain any sort of knowledge of the area despite controlling areas extremely close to its location.
Ultimately, the combined successes of the NCR-Brotherhood alliance in their mutual efforts against what remains of western Enclave activity would not last, as not long after, the NCR-Brotherhood War would be declared. Due to the NCR's taking and usage of Enclave technology from Camp Navarro that they could not understand, they would ultimately, via their unaware employee, bring about the destruction of the Divide, killing an unknown amount of people within or near the area of proximity.


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Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Thinking about International Economic Coordination
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Walking: Meditation on the Move
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In our daily lives, we usually feel pressured to move ahead. We have to hurry. We seldom ask ourselves where it is that we must hurry to.
When you practice walking meditation, you go for a stroll. You have no purpose or direction in space or time. The purpose of walking meditation is walking meditation itself. Going is important, not arriving. Walking meditation is not a means to an end; it is an end. Each step is life; each step is peace and joy. That is why we don't have to hurry. That is why we slow down. We seem to move forward, but we don't go anywhere; we are not being drawn by a goal. Thus we smile while we are walking.
In daily life, our steps are burdened with anxieties and fears. Life itself seems to be a continuous chain for insecure feelings, and so our steps lose their natural easiness.
Our earth is truly beautiful. There is so much graceful, natural scenery along the paths and roads around the earth! Do you know how many dirt lanes there are, lined with bamboo, or winding around scented rice fields? Do you know how many forest paths there are, paved with colorful leaves, offering cool and shade? They are all available to us, yet we cannot enjoy them because our hearts are not trouble-free, and our steps are not at ease.
Walking meditation is learning to walk again with ease. When you were about a year old, you began to walk with tottering steps. Now, in practicing walking meditation you are learning to walk again. However, after a few weeks of practice, you will be able to step solidly, in peace and comfort.
Choose a nice road for your practice, along the shore of a river, in a park, on the flat roof of a building, in the woods, or along a bamboo fence. Such places are ideal, but they are not essential. I know there are people who practice walking meditation in reformation camps, even in small prison cells.
It is best if the road is not too rough or too steep. Slow down and concentrate on your steps. Be aware of each move. Walk straight ahead with dignity, calm, and comfort. Consciously make an imprint on the ground as you step. Walk as the Buddha would. Place your foot on the surface of the earth the way an emperor would place his seal on a royal decree.
A royal decree can bring happiness or misery to people. It can shower grace on them or it can ruin their lives. Your steps can do the same. If your steps are peaceful, the world will have peace. If you can take one peaceful step, you can take two. You can take one hundred and eight peaceful steps.
I suggest that you should walk like a Buddha, taking steps as the Buddha did. Each step leaves the imprint of peace, joy and innocence on the surface of the earth, and the earth becomes the Pure Land.
It is not by preaching or expounding the"sutras"(scriptures) that you fulfill the task of awakening others to self-realization; it is rather by the way you walk, the way you stand, the way you sit and the way you see things.
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Whitney Houston's traded up from Bobby Brown ... with Kim Kardashian sex tape co-star Ray-J, who's 17 years her junior! The greatest love of all!
"EXTRA" spotted Miss Houston holding hands with 26-year-old Ray-J (R&B-ish brother of crash-embattled Brandy Norwood) as the two ran into Jay-Z and LeBron James' Bud Select-Sprite pre-NBA All-Star game party Saturday at TAO in Las Vegas. This marks the second public appearance for the couple, who were spotted last month having a romantic dinner together at Mastro's in L.A.
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If you have been up to date ..Remember...Ray J is the porn man of Kim Kardashion Fame. He's going to film Whitney having sex and smoking crack , then sell the DVD. don't say I didnt warn you...
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I think you are a wonderful girl...to poop on!
Why is it that nothing this nasty skanky crack 'ho does surprises me anymore??? Hey, maybe Sh*tney thought a sex tape would help revive her dead career and generate some income to help support her crack habit.......
They must have a pissy of a time . One Steamy Dream . Oh I bet she craps on his chest and he pees in her hair . That and a massage would make my day ! Go read a book ! You want IT !
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When did any of this become racial not to mention YOUR oppinions on Homosexuality!?!?!? First of all your Opinion is your opinion but please for everyone else in this world that doesn't want to hear it...Keep your mouths shut!!!! Second of all, TMZ didn't make this racial #'s 1 and 3 did!!!! You both need to grow up and realize that not everything in this world is about black and white or gay and straight!!!! When you all try speaking for black people maybe you should watch yourself and think of the "black person" that doesn't want you to speak for them becuase they dont have the same loud mouthed opinions that you do!!!!!!! But, as for Whitney and Ray J... hey why not... good for them!!!!
when this this topic become racially motivated. I swore that both parties in the article are black. If #3 wants to be gay then so be it but why must you be so hostile about it.
Whitney did you watch his tape? Tis, Tis...... I guess that you liked what you saw............
Um...ebony. I love how you talk about jesus an tim whatshisname in the same sentance. Just shows how fucked up the black community is when it comes to their own bigotry and hatred. You will never learn anything from your own oppression. Wake up girl. You can't imagine what an asshole you sound like.
How Whiteny got her groove back...I hope she doesn't do anythin stupid and mess up her comeback..
#3... You sound like another, I am assuming you are black, black women crying about the shame of the white people. Get over it... You will and will always be second class citizens. I know this sounds terrible, but the truth is the truth... Now go get a job you didn't earn, through affirmative action, or sit on your ass, make tons of babies for us to pay for... ..
SWEET CANDY, YOU NAILED IT! No one cares to read about another ho who made a sex tape anyway and your post below was DEAD ON!!!
Well, Jasmine first thing you have to know is that it's all the same to them. But at least we aren't haven't to read about another white woman's death. You know when a white woman dies in America it's reported like the Apocalypse! Crack head or not! I.e., Nicole Brown Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith. Oops! Let's not forget that wrist cutter Princess Diana and well in Florida the coma lady. Like when a white woman dies the world is supposed to stop. People die every day already. And so they slept with black people or might have been lesbos... the absolute horror! Yeah, whatever. So the fact that TMZ even recognizes the "relationship" (said with extreme sarcasm) between Cokeney and Ray J is worthy of applause. THANK YOU TMZ FOR not mentioning another dead ass white woman... Oh damn, there goes another photo of Britney "I'll Show You How to Ruin A Career" Spears. P.S.) Jas, now if we could only get I. Washington and Timmy Hardaway to keep their filthy mouths shut! They are telling all our dirty little black society secrets. Homophobe black people are really gays trying to hide. YIKES!!! Posted at 5:22PM on Feb 19th 2007 by Sweet Candy
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lamborghini > ANY subaru
PS. I was messing with an NSX once...those things are fast
This is a discussion on Seriously... He wants to race? within the Comparison: WRX vs World forums, part of the Community - Meet other Enthusiasts category; lamborghini > ANY subaru PS. I was messing with an NSX once...those things are fast...
lamborghini > ANY subaru
PS. I was messing with an NSX once...those things are fast
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2002 Midnight Black Pearl WRX (Traded In!)
2012 Ice Silver Metallic STi Sedan
You couldn't be further from correct.
The STi is a turbocharged AWD 2.5L 4 cylinder 4 door sedan.
The M3 is a naturally aspirated 4.0L 8 cylinder 2 door coupe (yes I know their are convertibles and 4doors, but the performance contender is the coupe)
One is designed as a street driven luxury track car. The other is a Subaru.
m3 is not luxury...it has stiff suspension....i guess you would call it luxury because it is a BMW
and it puts down VERY similar numbers to the STi (skidpad, 1/4 mile, 0-60)....the m3 MAY put down slightly better numbers, but still very close considering the price difference
i wasnt referring to engine size
The older model M3's are V6s, which are the ones i was talkin about
Bugeye Mafia #213
2002 Midnight Black Pearl WRX (Traded In!)
2012 Ice Silver Metallic STi Sedan
With italian leather, 14 way adjustable seats, adjustable dampners, 13 speaker sound system, a navigation unit that's more powerful than the computer that I'm on right now. There is no way possible that you can tell me that the M3 is not luxury.
They are 2 different cars with 2 different end goals for 2 different classes of people with 2 different sets of wants/needs.
The STi is "Cheap Thrills" while the M3 is a "Luxury Sports Car".
One is easily modified for cheap with big turbos, while the other is pushing the limits of a 4.0 V8 engine at a 8,300rpm red line.
Both have certain "Race Car" features such as adjustable locking differentials and "track ready" brakes, but when it comes down to it, the M3 is a much more "refined" car that has a fully italian leather and brushed aluminum interior with not much more than a few ounces of visible plastic.
(btw... I've driven a new M class car, and my modified WRX... and the differences are so massive that I can't even begin to note them)
aright so it started bothering me so checked some sites and the Nurnburg times are as follows, although different sites do generate different times...
7:52 --- 157.119 km/h -- 2003 Lamborghini Gallardo E-Gear
(which car has the best time at nuremberg - E46Fanatics)
7:59.41 --- 154.69 km/h - 2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STi
(SUPERCARS.NET - Comprehensive Specifications, Galleries & Forums since 1996)
thats both stock, sti's take well to mods, i have no doubt that it could beat it in a track race, and if the lambo owner brought the car out there to race im assuming he would be there to win so he may or may not care. alright im done.
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The price on the STi seems to have gone up since the popularity took hold after it's introduction to the United States back in 2004. The STi used to be something you could get for under $30,000 and mod to the ends of the earth and back. You couldn't find an E46 M3 for $30k back in 2004 (the last year they made them I think). Now the STi is well into the $30k range and yet, I would much rather have an M3 if given the choice.
Stock for stock, I would say the E46 M3 and an STi would probably be equals. If you consider the AWD drivetrain loss vs the RWD M3, the horsepower numbers would be about equal on a dyno. Put equal money into each car and I bet they would still be pretty even. Put forced induction on the M3 though, and it's bye bye STi.
BMW made the 335i to tide people over until the new E92 M3 came out. Obviously, there is no comparison between the E92 M3 and an STi of any year. Of course, you pay for what you get but to me the new M3 is much more a car than the STi, hands down.
Speaking of the 335i, who's got some love for that thing? Twin turbo, 3.0 inline 6 cylinder. Stock power output of about 300hp, very conservative. You can up the power levels very quickly on that thing, suddenly putting down close to 400hp.
Reminds me of my friend's Audi S4. I haven't heard anyone mention it. If you EVER see one of those cars that looks legitimately modified, don't race it. It's like if you see a DINAN badge on a BMW, you just stay away.
You say equal money in to each right well the sti has a turbo already .so if you put forced induction on the m3 it is alot of money .... so say you do that to the m3 cost 5 grand say now you can go bigger with the turbo on the sti and now is it still bye bye sti I dont think so..
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oops didnt catch that mistake (I-6). sometimes i catch myself calling the 997 a v6 as well. i meant 6 cylinder..
anyways, the point i was making was that the m3 and sti put down similar performance at the track
I know they are two completely different cars in different classes, but someone had said about an STi vs an M3 at the track. The "luxurious" features of the m3 dont matter in that situation.
The bottom line is that they are both 13 second cars, stock for stock
Ive been inside an M3, and i would consider it more as a track car than a luxury car. You want a luxurious BMW, then you are talking about a 5, 6, or 7 series.
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2002 Midnight Black Pearl WRX (Traded In!)
2012 Ice Silver Metallic STi Sedan
Last edited by WilliamG; 09-08-2009 at 07:25 PM.
Here's a 400whp STi getting stomped by a supercharged M3:
YouTube - E46 M3 versus MY04WRX STi
Oh no say it ain't so
YouTube - BMW E46 ///M3 vs Subaru STi Spec C
YouTube - BMW M3 CSL vs Subaru WRX STI - on the track
Now I'm sure you could go find just as many videos of STis smoking M3s. I'm just sayin, don't knock one of those modified E46 M3s


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Also known as Lake Wononscopomuc. Nestled in the foothills of the Berkshires it is Connecticut's deepest lake and a premiere recreational asset for swimming, sailing, canoeing and fishing in the summer and skating and cross country skiing in the winter.
About the Association
The Lake Wononscopomuc Association was formed in 1988 to protect, preserve and improve this important scenic and recreational resource for the enjoyment of present and future generations. Our mission is to promote public awareness of potential threats to the ecological health of this lake and its watershed, to improve its water quality and to discourage the growth of invasive weeds that may threaten the safe enjoyment of the lake by our community.
Minutes of Board Meeting
July 20, 2013
Most of the meeting was devoted to a presentation by Charles Ouellette on the harvesting program he has operated on our lake for the past 21 years. Charles explained that the Eurasian Water Milfoil seems to grow in cycles and that we are now in a period of years when this invasive species is most dense and covers the widest area.
Lake Management
State of the Lake 2012
This year we sampled 6 times. There were only 17 days of ice cover in the preceding winter and temperatures in the spring were higher than normal. Rainfall during the sampling season was very low.
Maintaining a Healthy Lake
What we do can make a big difference in the health and welfare of our lake. Eutrophication is the natural aging of lakes from the addition of nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen. They stimulate algae and aquatic plant growth. In modern times a large percentage of these nutrients enter the lake from the development of its watershed. The watershed area of Lake Wononscopomuc is the total area from which water drains into the lake. Anyone who lives within this area has an effect on the quantity of nutrients entering the lake. The key is to limit the amount of phosphorus, nitrogen and sedimentation entering the lake.
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Eurasian Water Milfoil is an invasive plant that has taken over parts of the lake in depths from about 3 feet to about 18 feet. The plant has been a problem in Lake Wononscopomuc since at least 1975. Each year since the Town, Hotchkiss and the association have spent up to $30,000 per year to trim the milfoil during the growing season. The plant can crowd out native plants depriving the lake of the diversity is needs to survive in a healthy state and support its normal aquatic live population.
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A look at the Yanks' infield defense from '03-'12
ByThe Yankees will never be mistaken for a pitching and defense team, especially over the last 10-15 years. They've fielded some stellar individual defensive players during that time, but as a whole they've been consistently below*average. Heck, the 2005 Yankees were arguably the worst defensive team in baseball history. That club was brutal.
The additions of Mark Teixeira and Brett Gardner have improved the defensive situation in recent years, but not enough to bring the Yankees to league average, nevermind above-average. Today I want to look at the team's infield defense over the last ten years, which is as far back as reliable batted ball data goes. Rather than use UZR or DRS or FRAA or some other complicated defensive metric, I'm going to use regular old BABIP. It tells us how many balls in play were converted into outs, which is exactly what we're looking for here. We don't care about who has the most range or the strongest arm, just the number of batted balls the defense turned into outs.
Infield defense is pretty complicated because there are all sorts of plays that need to be made. Ground balls are the most common, but there are also line drives, pop-ups, the double play pivot, and in the case of first baseman, receiving throws from other infielders. I'm going to keep this simple and stick to ground balls exclusively. Apologies for the tight and busy table, but here's the data…
xOuts | aOuts | dOuts | Primary Infield | |
'12 |
1,917 | 0.250 | 0.238 | 1,461 | 1,438 | -23 | A-Rod, Jeter, Cano, Tex |
'11 | 1,962 | 0.250 | 0.238 | 1,495 | 1,472 | -24 | A-Rod, Jeter, Cano, Tex |
'10 | 1,885 | 0.246 | 0.231 | 1,450 | 1,421 | -28 | A-Rod, Jeter, Cano, Tex |
'09 | 1,844 | 0.230 | 0.238 | 1,405 | 1,420 | 15 | A-Rod, Jeter, Cano, Tex |
'08 | 2,029 | 0.256 | 0.240 | 1,542 | 1,510 | -32 | A-Rod, Jeter, Cano, Giambi |
'07 | 1,981 | 0.244 | 0.245 | 1,496 | 1,498 | 2 | A-Rod, Jeter, Cano, Phillips |
'06 | 2,003 | 0.240 | 0.245 | 1,512 | 1,522 | 10 | A-Rod, Jeter, Cano, Giambi |
'05 | 2,152 | 0.246 | 0.239 | 1,638 | 1,623 | -15 | A-Rod, Jeter, Cano, Tino |
'04 | 1,998 | 0.238 | 0.245 | 1,508 | 1,522 | 14 | A-Rod, Jeter, Cairo, Clark |
'03 | 2,037 | 0.256 | 0.236 | 1,556 | 1,516 | -41 | Ventura, Jeter, Soriano, Giambi |
xOuts: Expected number of outs based on the league BABIP.
aOuts: Actual number of outs recorded.
dOuts: The difference between actual and expected outs, so aOuts – xOuts.
The Yankees have converted fewer ground balls into outs than expected in six of the last ten years, and we're talking big (red) numbers too — an average of 25 fewer outs than expected per year over the last three seasons plus two other seasons of 30+ fewer outs. It doesn't seem like a lot — 25 fewer outs than average is one extra ground ball squeaking through every six or seven games — but it is a lot when you consider that fielding ground balls is just one aspect of defense. Combine the missed ground balls with a poor outfield defense (missed fly balls) and botched double plays and all that, and it adds up in a hurry.
Derek Jeter is the one constant in our sample and we all know he's a below-average defender at short. The ground ball problems aren't all on him though. Jason Giambi had a huge hand in it for a long time, as did Alfonso Soriano (to a lesser extent). Alex Rodriguez was a defensive liability both early in his Yankees career (learning a new position) and in recent years (breaking down and losing mobility). Below-average defense isn't an isolated event; turning fewer batted balls into outs results into more pitches for the pitcher, more wear and tear on the bullpen throughout the season, and so on. It's a continually compounding problem.
The good news is that ground balls are generally harmless. The vast majority of grounders that get through the infield turn into singles, but a few will result in doubles and triples if they're hit hard enough and down the line. The next ground ball homer I see will be my first. The Yankees have compensated for their defensive woes in recent years by targeting high strikeout pitchers — seriously, look at the staff strikeout rate the last few seasons — who tend to take non-catcher fielders right out of the equation. I think the Yankees have a truly elite defense on the right side of the infield, but they're very much lacking on the left side. There isn't much they can do about it now outside of moving Jeter or A-Rod to DH full-time, so they'll have to continue targeting pitchers who can miss bats and record outs by themselves.
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The BABIPs in the table are strictly for ground balls, correct? They're not BABIPs for all batted balls?
Could Polanco learn SS? If he gets back to form, would he make sense as a SS/3B who can hit a bit?
Polanco hasn't been good offensively since 2008 and hasn't played shortstop since 2005. At 37 coming off of the worst season of his career I'd rather stick with Nix.
The next ground ball homer I see will be my first.
FWIW, there were two hits in 2010 that were classified as ground balls and turned into HRs (none in the last two seasons):
One was an inside the park homer by Chris Denorfia on Aug 5 and the other was an inside the park homer by Andre Torres on July 4. I find it interesting that the Torres HR is listed as a groundball in the 1B-2B hole. Not sure how that happened.
Maybe Swisher dove for it and lost it in the lights.
There was one in 2011. here's the video: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play......d=15289299
Great article, Mike. Almost Larry-like.
Had to look at the author to be sure it wasn't. A lot of data analysis there.
I love this stuff, as it so often (maybe not this time in some ways) runs counter to some of the narrative we hear here over and over. It's also the thing I don't have the time or knowledge to look at myself….ever.
I like to view it at the level presented by Mike. Sometimes Larry goes in so deep, my eyes glaze over. I've got to look at things to that depth for my job, so I don't always care to do it just for fun.
I like to think that Mike's transformation from non-stats guy to somewhat-stats guy will one day give me hope that I will one day move beyond what was on the back of my 1986 Topps Mattingly card.
Pink gum?
I hated gum-stained cards.
Infield defense is pretty complicated…so I'll stick to one particular aspect of it, and then base my entire judgement of the infield defense on it…sounds pretty lame to me.
Yep…my opinion of the article too…or are you just sneaking dinner into the bathroom again because she just can't cook.


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World's first mum-to-daughter uterine transplants in Sweden
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Two Swedish women received new uteruses at the weekend in the world's first mother-to-daughter uterine transplants aimed at helping them have babies, Gothenburg University announced on Tuesday.
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Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce
Season stats: Pierce: 19.0 points, 5.7 rebounds; Garnett: 14.7 points. 7.0 rebounds
Chances Rivers was referring to them: Low
Case for trading: The Celtics aren't going to consider trading Pierce or Garnett unless they consider this season a lost cause. A contending team would love to have either player, but you're probably getting draft picks in return. If the Celtics are truly out of it, moving one of these two could set them up for the future and prevent them from being out of luck when Pierce and KG move on.
Case for keeping: Losing either Garnett or Pierce would send the Celtics into a tailspin. After watching a contender for five years, Celtics fans would not handle rooting for a bottom-dweller. Not sure there's a deal out there where it makes sense to part with your best players.


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Rebuilt Marine Academy of Science & Technology Prepares for First Day of School
The high school, located at the tip of Sandy Hook, was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy.
The storm left books, chairs and desks tossed about the inside of the thirteen small, reinforced-concrete buildings on the campus and mounds of sand everywhere, Parent Teacher Association President Edward Failla explained.
In the immediate aftermath, MAST students were housed at St. Joe's in Keyport. Now, ten months later, the school has been gutted and rebuilt.
"MAST is a strong community, and we can survive anywhere," Failla said. "But there's nothing like being home."
MAST is a Monmouth County Vocational School charged with providing a small and nurturing school community for students who wish to study marine life and the environment.
The first day of school will be Monday, Sept. 9.
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INDUSTRY TRADES TALK ABOUT "DAYS" WIN: VARIETY: NBC's "Days of Our Lives" took the gold for drama series at the 40th annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday. The win marked the first time since 1975 that the sudser has won the top prize at the Daytime Emmy fete — and only its second drama series nod in its nearly 50-year run on NBC. And to make it that much sweeter, the victory coincided with the birthday of "Days" exec producer Ken Corday. "Pinch me," he said. "Today is a great day to celebrate." HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: In a surprise win, Days of Our Lives was named best drama series Sunday night at the 40th annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which aired live from the Beverly Hilton on HLN. The NBC soap beat out last year's winner, ABC's General Hospital, as well as CBS' top-rated The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful and ABC's One Life to Live. Days last won best daytime drama series in 1975. NOTE FROM JASON47: Like me (originally), Variety and Hollywood Reporter both list 1975 as "Days" last win for best soap. As mentioned earlier, Ken Corday accidentally mixed up his 5's and 8's when accepting the award. "Days" last won 35 years ago, in 1978. (It's nice to know I'm not the only one who didn't catch the error...but it seems I'm the first to correct it...and I only have a staff of one person)!! :) |
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HTC has really made a strong burst coming into the market. Their sales are increasing, and their phones seem productive. They have a great, reliable operating system, as well. Even though, it may be hard to keep competing with Apple. I think both companies have their work cut out for them.
UNTIL a few years ago HTC was pretty small and relatively obscure. But the Taiwanese company's recent growth has been remarkable. In the second quarter it sold 11m smartphones, more than doubling its revenues compared with a year earlier. HTC's main rivals, Nokia, Samsung and Apple, still sell around twice as many smartphones. But HTC's rapid growth, especially in Apple's American home turf, has made it a competitor worth worrying about.
One reason for HTC's surging sales is the relentless pace of its innovation: in the past quarter, in which Apple had no new iPhone to launch, HTC introduced ten new models. Another is Google's Android operating system, on which most of HTC's smartphones are now based. Android phones have proved a hit among consumers, and their combined sales overtook those of iPhones last summer.
Apple has not taken the challenge from HTC lightly. On July 15th the US International Trade Commission made a preliminary ruling upholding two claims in a far larger patent suit Apple had filed against its rival. Earlier in the month, Apple had filed additional claims and MOSAID, a Canadian company, said it would sue HTC and Sony Ericsson for allegedly infringing its patent for transmitting a mobile handset's location when its user makes an emergency call.
The outcome of these cases will be of keen interest not just for HTC but for all other handset-makers using Android: promoted as a free, open-source system, it is proving increasingly expensive. This is because it relies on a whole host of basic features that are, or may be, subject to patent: how a screen is swiped with a finger, how a phone number embedded in an e-mail can be called by tapping it, and so on.
Apple, having recently settled a patent case brought against it by Nokia, is suing Samsung and Motorola as well as HTC. Last year HTC resolved another claim over Android, with Microsoft, agreeing to pay it significant royalties. More such suits may yet emerge (from Nokia for example), and prove costly. HTC's shares, which had surged in reaction to the strong growth of its smartphone sales, have dropped by a third since early June.
HTC will appeal against the trade commission's ruling. It will also fight back in other ways. Earlier this month it bought a lossmaking software firm, S3, for $300m. S3 recently won a patent case against Apple and may have other patents, which might be used to launch a counter-suit against Apple, or at least persuade it to agree a truce. On Wednesday the Wall Street Journal reported (paywall) that Google itself was considering a similar move: buy a smaller firm with a collection of patents to boost its armoury in the patent war. Pierre Ferragu, an analyst with BernsteinResearch, believes the takeover of S3 will provide HTC with some winning cards in its legal poker game. It also shows, says Mr Ferragu, that the next phase of mobile-phone development will be driven at least as much by the courts as by consumers.
A shaky start
HTC has been sucked into this American legal battle as a result of it following a course that most of its Asian peers have not pursued, at least not successfully. Founded in 1997 out of the embers of the Taiwanese operations of Digital Equipment, HTC initially took the conventional approach of building gadgets for others to sell. It tried to launch a laptop but the product never came to market. Then an introduction from Microsoft led to its design of an early PDA for Compaq. It subsequently built similar products for Palm and others.
In 2001, just as many of the Taiwanese manufacturers were shifting operations to China, it bucked the trend again and built a factory next to its headquarters. Most of its production capacity remains in Taiwan. In the past five years or so it has steadily risen up mobile operators' lists of the handsets they promote to their subscribers. In April HTC's market capitalisation overtook that of Nokia.
The firm's success has pushed Cher Wang, its chairwoman and largest shareholder, to the top of Forbes's Taiwan rich list, passing Terry Gou, the boss of Hon Hai, a company (also known as Foxconn) that reflects a radically different, and more traditional, model of Taiwanese business. Hon Hai has moved most of its production to mainland China and continues to make products for other companies, a business that inevitably emphasises cost-trimming and low value-added.
HTC has distinguished itself through its speed in building new products—first, ones that ran on Microsoft operating software, now Android ones. It has also been impressively quick in adapting to changing telecoms standards—most recently 4G—and in developing its own applications software. And its manufacturing quality has been remarkably high. Unlike rivals HTC has not suffered unpleasant headlines about shoddy products or suicides at its factories.
The company has continued to produce a string of subtle but clever features: phones that ring louder when placed in a handbag; ones that stop ringing when flipped over in a meeting; ones designed to work smoothly with Facebook and other social-networking sites, and so on. It has made progress in building a brand that reflects innovation and trust, allowing it to escape from the low-cost treadmill on which some of its peers remain stuck.
But there is a risk that Android, one of the key elements in this successful strategy, is turning into a point of vulnerability. HTC's most fearsome competitor, Apple, sees its patents as a weapon to undermine Android's cost advantage. Others are seeking their pound of flesh too. The more time HTC has to spend fighting lawsuits, and the greater the share of its revenues it has to pay out in software royalties, the harder it will be to keep up its remarkable run of innovation and sales success. If that proves to be the case, what can HTC do? Switch to using Microsoft's operating software for most of its smartphones, maybe?


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—By Dave Gilson, Jaeah Lee, Ben Breedlove, and Mikela Clemmons
This Thursday, fast-food workers in more than 100 cities are planning a one-day strike to demand a "livable" wage of $15 an hour. They have a point: The lowest-paid Americans are struggling to keep up with the cost of living—and they have seen none of the gains experienced by the country's top earners. While average incomes of the top 1 percent grew more than 270 percent since 1960, those of the bottom 90 percent grew 22 percent. And the real value of the minimum wage barely budged, increasing a total of 7 percent over those decades.
More of the numbers behind the strike and the renewed calls to raise the minimum wage:
Median hourly wage for fast-food workers nationwide: $8.94/hour
Increase in real median wages for food service workers since 1999: $0.10/hour
Last time the federal minimum wage exceeded $8.94/hour (in 2012 dollars): 1968
Change in the real value of the minimum wage since 1968: -22%
Median age of fast-food workers: 29
Median age of female fast-food workers: 32
Percentage of fast-food workers who are women: 65%
Percentage of fast-food workers older than 20 who have kids: 36%
Income of someone earning $8.94/hour: $18,595/year
Federal poverty line for a family of three: $17,916/year
Income of someone earning $15/hour: $31,200/year
Income needed for a "secure yet modest" living for a family with two adults and one child… In the New York City area: $77,378/year In rural Mississippi: $47,154/year
Growth in average real income of the top 1 percent since 1960: 271%
What the current minimum wage would be if it had grown at the same rate as top incomes: More than $25
How would you and your family fare on a typical fast-food paycheck? How much does it really take to make ends meet in your city or state? Use this calculator to get a better sense of what fast-food workers are up against.
In order to make $___ a year, the typical fast-food worker has to work __ hours a week.
A household like yours in ___, ___ needs to earn $__ annually to make a secure yet modest living. A fast-food worker working full time would have to earn $__ an hour to make that much.
The average fast-food employee works less than 25 hours a week. To make a living wage in ___, ___ at current median wages, s/he would have to work __ hours a week.
In __ hours, McDonald's serves __ customers and makes $__. That's about __ Big Macs.
Sources: The National Employment Law Project, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Economic Policy Institute's Family Budget Calculator. The annual costs of living for adults without children use state-wide averages from MIT's Living Wage Calculator.
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—By Dave Gilson
One of the odder details in Dallas 1963, Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis' new book on the JFK assassination and the superheated political climate of the early '60s, is a modest proposal for transforming American democracy as we know it. The source of the idea is Dallas oilman Haroldson Lafayette "H.L." Hunt—a JFK-bashing billionaire bigamist whom William F. Buckley, Jr. described as a man "of eccentric understanding of public affairs, of yahoo bigotry, and of appallingly bad manners." Once one of the richest men in America, Hunt is thought to have been an inspiration for J.R. Ewing.
In 1960, Hunt self-published a novel called Alpaca. In it, he described a fictional republic of the same name whose constitution enshrined the concept of "graduated suffrage," by which votes are apportioned by income and age, with as many as seven "bonus" votes going to the richest citizens.
Here's how it works: In Alpaca, every citizen 18 and older may vote. Voters between 22 and 65 automatically get two votes apiece; young and elderly voters get one vote. Beyond that, citizens may earn "premium votes," based on how much they pay in taxes:
Assuming that the Alpaca's tax system works like ours, the top 10 percent of taxpayers likely would be the wealthiest 10 percent of citizens. So the 55-year-old CEO of Alpaca's largest fast-food chain might get nine votes, while his 19-year-old counter worker might get just one. (The Alpacan system has some wiggle room for the under-enfranchsied: It doles out two extra votes to retirees who forsake their official or military pensions, government employees who give up half their salaries, and citizens who pay a "poll tax" of more than 440 pounds of wheat or rice.)
Hunt explains the rationale behind the income-based rationing of voting power:
The grant of additional voting power to those who pay a larger part of the taxes is prompted by the logic that the citizen's sense of responsibility rises in direct ratio with his contribution to the nation. The recognition that he has a direct stake in the government and its spendings gives him an alertness and caution in the exercise of his citizenship which is seldom found in the non-taxpayer and the very small taxpayer.
In other words, the makers and job creators deserve a greater political voice than the takers and moochers, who "could be expected to vote alike"—and presumably in opposition to the interests of their wealthy betters. (Fast forward to Mitt Romney's 47 percent video.)
Though Hunt clearly endorsed the Alpaca system, his book didn't speculate how its application at home might affect American politics. Yet what would happen if we implemented his plan in 21st century America? How would officially stacking the deck in favor of the superwealthy change a system where they already wield disproportionate influence? Would it upend partisan politics as we know it?
First, let's look at how Americans voted in the 2012 presidential race based on income. According to exit polls, 53 percent of voters making $50,000 or more voted for Romney, while 60 percent of those making less than $50,000 voted for Obama.
The younger the voter, the more likely she would vote for Obama; a majority of older voters preferred Romney. Sixty percent of voters between 18 and 29 voted for Obama. Half or more of all voters 40 or older picked Romney. In short, the younger and less wealthy the voter, the more likely she would vote for Obama, and vice versa. Even though voters making $50,000 or more and voters over 40 made up nearly 60 percent of the electorate, respectively, Obama won with 52 percent of the overall vote.
So, if Hunt's system of graduated suffrage was in place, would it have boosted the electoral power of Romney's older, richer constituency enough to flip the election? To find out, I did the math. In order to determine how many income-based bonus votes would be distributed, let's first look at who pays taxes. According to IRS data, the roughly 198 million Americans who filed income tax returns in 2011 broke into these income levels:
After applying the Alpaca model to the taxpayer data (7 additional votes going to the top 10 percent etc.), here's how many extra votes each income level would receive:
In this scenario, the 500,000 or so Americans earning $1 million or more would get 3.9 million extra votes, effectively increasing their voting power by 700 percent. The 84 million Americans making $50,000 or more would get 453 million extra votes while the 114 million making less than $50,000 would get just 63 million bonus votes. And that's before you count the extra votes given to voters between 22 and 65.* Once I factored in extra votes for age (assuming that the age breakdown of 2012 voters was the same across all income levels), I was ready to rerun the most recent presidential election, Alpaca-style.
The result? Mitt Romney won—but not by the landslide you might expect.
In fact, under graduated suffrage, Romney would get 52 percent of the 1.8 billion votes cast—essentially the mirror image of Obama's actual win. And it wouldn't be the superwealthy that carry the election for him, but the well-off voters in the $50,000 to $100,000 bracket, who received the lion's share of extra votes based on income. The 10-percenters are enough of a minority that their overall share of the total vote didn't change much under the one-millionaire-seven-votes system. But the share of the Romney-leaning folks with above-average incomes jumped considerably—from less than a third of total votes in 2012 to more than half in the hypothetical election. And the millions of Americans making $30,000 or less got crushed: Their share of the vote dropped from 20 percent to 4 percent.
Clearly, Hunt's system would turn the American political system on its head, but perhaps not as dramatically as he might have hoped. But then, Hunt's oligarchic utopianism extended beyond vote rigging: Alpaca also bans discussing politics and government business via "radio, TV and the theater" as well as public meetings of more than 200 people. Print media would be the only officially sanctioned medium for news and opinion. "The purpose of this limitation," Hunt wrote, "is to prevent the illiterate or thoughtless from being aroused in "mass to impulsively overcome soundly considered, responsible views expressed by the printed word." No doubt he would have loved the internet.
*A couple of things I did not try to include in my calculations: In Alpaca, corporate taxes are also counted toward one's total tax bill, so it's possible that the final distribution of votes is more concentrated toward the very top. Also, the Alpacan system assumes that men are primary breadwinners: A woman who earns less than her husband gets the same number of bonus votes as he does; yet a man who earns less than his wife "is on his own in making his showing for increased voting power."
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—By AJ Vicens and Dave Gilson
The United States and Afghanistan are close to finalizing a deal that would set guidelines for the two countries' relationship after 2014, when the bulk of American forces are supposed to leave the country—more than a dozen years and hundreds of billions of dollars later.
The New York Times reported Tuesday that Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai had reached tentative agreement on one of the last remaining holdups preventing a long-term deal: whether American forces could continue to raid Afghan homes during security operations. The new agreement would prevent American-led raids except under "extraordinary circumstances," but it's not yet clear that the deal will pass the Loya Jirga, a body of Afghan elders. The raids, among other issues, have created deep mistrust between American forces and the Afghan people.
If a deal is reached, US forces could remain in the country at least another 10 years in some fashion, committing taxpayers to spending millions more on security and nation-building projects. So far, many of those projects have been undermined by corruption and dysfunction. Here are a few examples of US investments in Afghanistan that have already either fallen apart or show little signs of lasting success:
Hospitals At least 19 of the hospitals built by the international community—including two US-funded facilities that cost nearly $20 million—may be too expensive for the Afghan government to run.
Counternarcotics Aircraft The Pentagon has invested $770 million for nearly 50 planes to patrol the countryside for opium poppy and hashish fields. But the Afghan government can't afford the $100 million annual overhead—nor does it have enough qualified pilots to fly the aircraft.
Power Grid With two-thirds of Afghans lacking regular access to electricity, the United States has spent more than a billion dollars beefing up the country's power grid. But according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the state-run power company may not be able to pay its bills after 2014, when US funding expires. Meanwhile, the US Agency for International Development recently gave the utility control of the construction of a hydroelectric dam in a restive section of Helmand province—a project 29 Marines died to make possible. As the Los Angeles Times reported, there are doubts about the "utility's competence and experience, as well as the government's commitment to a project that insurgents have violently opposed."
Roads The United States spent $1.7 billion on road and bridge building from 2002 to 2007, but some of the projects have already started to fall apart, "mainly because of the poor quality of initial construction, poor maintenance, and overloading," according to SIGAR.
Schools More Afghan children are being educated than ever before, thanks to international development efforts. But the Afghan government won't be able to operate all the new schools, especially as international personnel and aid trickle out of the country. "Of course we built too much," one British official told the Guardian. "We didn't think about how the Afghans would pay for it…We wanted to show them what we could do for them, but without regard for sustainability."
All in all, military operations in Afghanistan have cost nearly $700 billion. That's still less than the United States spent fighting in Vietnam, but it's still a major chunk of the more than $1.6 trillion spent on the Afghan and Iraq conflicts since September 11.
With all eyes on congressional Republicans' doomed effort to repeal Obamacare, it's easy to forget that efforts to stymie the law's key provisions are continuing apace at the state level. Specifically, 22 states have decided not to go along with the Affordable Care Act's provisions for expanding Medicaid coverage to their poorest residents.
Medicaid expansion will kick in January 1. So far, its uneven rollout is disproportionately affecting minorities, a higher percentage of whom qualify for the federally funded coverage. As the authors of a recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation explain, "People of color make up the majority of uninsured individuals with incomes below the Medicaid expansion limit in both states moving forward and not moving forward with the expansion at this time." (The 2012 Supreme Court decision that spared Obamacare turned Medicaid expansion into a state-by-state decision.)
Under Obamacare, states may offer Medicaid coverage to anyone whose income is at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty line. (The poverty line is currently $11,490 for one person and $19,530 for a family of three.) By that benchmark, 25 million Americans without health insurance are now eligible for expanded Medicaid coverage. Of those, 59 percent are people of color.
However, nearly half of the people of color who might enroll in Medicaid live in states that currently are not expanding coverage.
While 47 percent of whites now eligible for the Medicaid expansion live in states that are not increasing coverage, 60 percent of eligible blacks and 53 percent of eligible Hispanics do.
In the states that do not offer the new Medicaid coverage, Kaiser predicts that "poor, uninsured adults will not gain a new coverage option and likely remain uninsured."
This article has been updated.
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1. Nazi Adolf Hitler
2. Nazi party members
3. Nazi Holocaust architect Heinrich Himmler
4. Nazi stormtroopers
5. Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels
6. Nazi war criminals
7. Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
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was this a bad trade??
It's a 14 team PPR dynasty league.
I traded Jahvid Best and Jeremy Maclin for Frank Gore and Randy Moss (yes I know)
My Team Now:
QB: Roethlisberger, Hasselbeck
WR: Austin Collie, Pierre Garcon, Mike Williams (TB), Davone Bess, Randy Moss
RB: Maurice Jones-Drew, Frank Gore, Blount, BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Deji Karim
TE: Chris Cooley, Jermaine Gresham
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The guy that traded Gore away is your new best friend
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lol well 3 out of 3 agree with me so I feel better now. thanks! and yes he is my new best friend, i traded him moss earlier this year for garcon and now im getting moss back. lol making out like a bandit
I agree with NeedAW, Gore is huge every year, and Best had one, count 'em, one good game. Maclin is amazing with Kolb but that'll change once Vick comes back. Moss is a wash I think. Good trade.
no way, who cares getting frank gore is huge, hes a fantasy beast, j. best last 4 or 5 weeks has put up avg stats at best, very good trade for you
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ya thats what I was thinking, thanks for the input


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Date Range: January 1, 2011 - December 26, 2010
Millburn deals with residual blizzard issues
December 28, 2010, 11:02AM
MILLBURN – Millburn followed the state's lead and rescinded its state of emergency declaration but emergency workers are still dealing with some storm-related issues today. Full story »
Arthur 'Larry' Abrams was distinguished N.J. lawyer, Air Force veteran -- Obituaries Today
December 28, 2010, 8:14AM
Arthur L. "Larry" Abrams died on Dec. 23 at age 94. He was a 1937 graduate of Rutgers University class and was graduated from Harvard Law School in 1940. He spent five years as a navigator and captain in the Army Air Force. After the war, he practiced law in Newark for 38 years, and helped create the New... Full story »
Jersey City mother gives birth to baby boy in car during snowstorm
December 28, 2010, 8:00AM
LIVINGSTON — Her due date a week away, Joan Pierre-Mann was praying she wouldn't go into labor during Sunday's monster snowstorm. So Monday morning, when she woke up with cramps, she was not alarmed. At 8 a.m., she and her husband, Fredrick Mann, and their 5 -year-old son pulled out of their Jersey City neighborhood in their Toyota Highlander... Full story »
Newark airport officials say backlog of stranded passengers will take 'matter of days' to clear
December 28, 2010, 7:05AM
NEWARK — Some corners of Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday looked more like a homeless shelter than an airport, as stranded passengers slept on floors, in hallways and even on baggage carousels as they waited out the massive delays caused by the big blizzard. Steve Coleman, a Port Authority spokesman, said 1,200 flights were canceled Monday, more than... Full story »
NJ digs out, state of emergency lifted, but driving is still a problem
December 28, 2010, 6:11AM
New Jersey is still digging out this morning. While the main roads are cleared, many of the secondary roads remain snow-covered and every roadway at this point is subject to black ice and icing conditions. Often the ramps off highways are even more slippery, so be careful. In some instances, drivers are finding exits from roadways are blocked. Listen... Full story »
NJ state of emergency rescinded
December 27, 2010, 10:24PM
Acting Governor and Senate President Stephen M. Sweeney tonight rescinded the state of emergency that was in effect since Sunday night. Full story »
Newark, JFK, LaGuardia airports expect to reopen in late afternoon
December 27, 2010, 2:40PM
Hundreds of passengers are stuck at New Jersey area airports. John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports remain closed due to blizzard conditions. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Steve Coleman says passengers are being provided blankets and cots. He says there are hundreds of passengers at Kennedy Airport and between 100 to 200 at... Full story »
Snowfall total climbs into 30-inch range in several Union County towns
December 27, 2010, 1:06PM
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December 27, 2010, 12:24PM
WEST ORANGE — This morning, residents and business owners on Harrison Avenue in West Orange &mdash typically one of the township's busiest thoroughfares — pushed stranded cars through snow and shoveled out walkways. An NJ Transit bus, which neighbors said tried to turn left onto Chestnut Street around 9 p.m. Sunday night, lay stranded across the intersection, waiting to... Full story »
Portion of Interstate 280 in Essex County remains closed following snowstorm
December 27, 2010, 11:25AM
ESSEX COUNTY — A stretch of Route 280 in Essex County remains closed to traffic this morning, although officials expect to reopen it this afternoon, according to the Essex County Sheriff's Office. The stretch of highway known for its steep hills has been impassable during the storm, which dumped more than two feet in some areas of the county,... Full story »
Essex County Sheriff's officers help woman give birth to baby in car
December 27, 2010, 10:54AM
LIVINGSTON — Two Essex County Sheriff's officers helped a woman give birth in her car about 9 a.m. today after her panicked husband, who was driving her to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, got lost just a few blocks away. Frederick Mann was lost and in a panic when Det. John Frucci approached him to offer help, according... Full story »
Millburn reports many disabled vehicles
December 27, 2010, 10:00AM
MILLBURN – Last night's blizzard brought more than 20 inches of snow and drifts up to six feet to certain areas of Millburn/Short Hills, all of which has led to numerous disabled vehicles throughout the township. Full story »
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The entire state of New Jersey seems to be snowed in this morning. The message is the same for everyone…stay off the roads. For those who venture out, either because they are essential government personnel, snow plow operators or simply want to start digging out their driveways, send in your photos to firstname.lastname@example.com. As long as the power holds up... Full story »
Millburn closes offices due to blizzard
December 26, 2010, 10:13PM
MILLBURN – All non-essential Millburn government offices will be closed on Monday, Dec. 27 due to the state of emergency called by Acting Gov. Steve Sweeney. Full story »
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Sevierville, Tenn. -- Looking for a quick family getaway? WSBTV.com ventured north to Tennessee for a trip to Wilderness at the Smokies.
Wilderness at the Smokies is a 700-acre resort near Pigeon Forge that is all about fun. It features three outdoor water parks, two indoor waterparks, 36 holes of golf, mini-golf and a brand new seven-acre dry facility called Adventure Forest.
"We are opening Adventure Forest," said Rick Laney from Wilderness at the Smokies. "It's a real departure for us here at Wilderness at the Smokies. It is a dry park. And by dry park, what I mean is, it's the first thing we've ever built that doesn't involve water. You'll find ropes courses, you'll find bowling alleys, you'll find laser tag, glow-in-the-dark miniature golf, you'll find a huge arcade."
Adventure Forest opened Friday.
Adventure Forest is next to the Wild Water Dome. The dome features four slides, including Storm Chaser. It takes four guests 55 feet down a dark tunnel before dropping them through a zero gravity fall into a funnel. In the funnel, riders will experience several fast oscillations before splashing into a pool below. The Wild Water Dome includes a 150,000 wave pool, an indoor-outdoor hot tub, a mutli-level play area and the region's only surf rider.
With the unusually warm weather the south has experienced this winter, Wilderness at the Smokies has already started opening the outdoor parks on select weekends, too.
"If you come up to Wildnerness, you have a couple hours from Atlanta, you're here," Laney said. "You can park your car and literally, really never get in it again. You can eat at a different restaurant every meal. You can have a different activity everyday without ever getting in your car. But with so much in this area, it's tempting in the evening especially, to get cleaned up, go out to eat, go take in a show, go see one of the other attractions in the area, but if you really want the peaceful, don't get in the car, don't go anywhere vacation, you can certainly do that here year round."
The outdoor parks feature numerous slides, play areas, a wave pool, adventure river and cabanas.
Wilderness at the Smokies water parks are reserved for hotel guests. Only guests of the hotel are allowed in the water parks. With about 1,000 hotel rooms on the property, there are never lines longer than a few minutes Laney noted. Guests are allowed to use the water parks starting at noon on their arrival date and can use the facilities all day until close on their departure day.
For more on Wilderness at the Smokies, check out its website or join their Facebook page. Wilderness routinely runs specials on Facebook.
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