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Aug 2014
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10Posted By: Athlon646464
Aug 2014
CBS is making shows that you won't see on conventional TV
(Engadget.com) - The company is creating shows that most likely won't air on its own TV channels -- a big step when many rivals are still reluctant to give online services their latest conventional programming, let alone an incentive for people to drop their cable subscriptions. Mind you, it's not hard to see the financial motivations involved. Netflix just recently overtook HBO in revenue, based in part on exclusive shows like House of Cards; while it still has a long way to go on profit, there's now a lot of money on the table for studios that make internet-only hits....
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8Posted By: Athlon646464
Aug 2014
Dish Anywhere app now looks much better on tablets
(Engadget.com) - Dish Anywhere has now been further improved on iPad, Android and Kindle Fire tablets, with a redesigned UI and fresh discovery features that let users easily find new stuff to watch. But there's more beyond the pretty, image-heavy pages Dish made the app better in other ways, thanks to new features including a Watchlist, the ability to turn your device into a Dish remote, and more. If you haven't grabbed the update, you can do so via the App Store, Google Play or Amazon Appstore, depending on what tablet you're rocking these days....
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Why your brand-new plane doesn't have a seat-back TV
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Aug 2014
Update: The FCC wants to hear what you think about AT&T buying DirecTV
(WashingtonPost.com) - The Federal Communications Commission has begun taking public comments as part of its consideration of the AT&T-DirecTV merger, a $49 billion affair that would combine the nation's biggest satellite TV provider with its second-biggest wireless carrier....
Aug 06 2014 11:23 PM
6Posted By: James Long
Aug 2014
DISH Network Reports Second Quarter 2014 Financial Results
DISH Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) today reported revenue totaling $3.69 billion for the quarter ending June 30, 2014, compared to $3.49 billion for the corresponding period in 2013. Subscriber-related revenue increased 5.6 percent to $3.65 billion from $3.45 billion in the year-ago period.
Net income attributable to DISH Network totaled $213 million for the second quarter 2014, compared to a loss of $11 million from the year-ago quarter.
Further results and discussion here.
Aug 06 2014 04:04 AM
6Posted By: Athlon646464
Aug 2014
Dish Signs Deal To Bring More TV to the Internet
The deal brings Dish a step closer to making its streaming TV service a reality.
In the race to deliver traditional television via the Internet, Dish Network has just reeled in another major entertainment company for its upcoming streaming service. The satellite TV provider announced Tuesday that it has secured the rights to deliver content from A&E Networks "over-the-top," or via the Internet, rather than through cable or satellite service.
Aug 06 2014 04:03 AM
6Posted By: Athlon646464
Aug 2014
Update: After Pushback, Murdoch Abandons Fox's Pursuit of Time Warner
At 4:07 p.m. Tuesday, the chief executive of Time Warner Inc., Jeffrey L. Bewkes, received an unexpected email.
"On behalf of our board and senior management team, I am writing to inform you that we are withdrawing our offer to acquire Time Warner, effective immediately.
Sincerely, Rupert Murdoch."
A hand-delivered letter bearing the same message arrived soon after.


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Visiting the world's most turbulent places, Jon Wilson found his life forever altered. But now he's come back home to fulfill his dreamand is still able to be amazed.
Five years ago, in the unsettling days following 9/11, Jon Wilson stood on the grounds of the Pentagon, staring at the charred rubble. The young Army man had driven two high-ranking officers there who would plan the security matrix around America's military headquarters. Officially their chauffeur, Wilson, a black belt in the martial arts, was also their bodyguard. In short, he was security for the securers.
"I was there while the building was still smoldering," he reflects softly. Yet it was not the first life-altering experience, not the first time seeing a mass grave up close, for someone then only in his early 20s.
How could someone so young have seen so much? It all started with that icon of small-town life, a lemonade stand.
"I was born and raised in a small little town, Somerset, Ky.," he says. "Somerset's a really small town. It's equivalent to Mayberry." Growing up, he spent a lot of time with his friends and younger brother. "We used to come up with all these different schemes it sounds kind of shallow now but to make money. We'd use this money to buy baseball, basketball and football cards. These schemes entailed setting up little lemonade stands which grew into hotdog stands right there on the side of Main Street.
"Everybody had their role of selling, and I never was, at least at that time, a very good speaker or interpersonal speaker. So, I would be 'security.' I was the security for the money, for the investment, everything. I'm not sure how that started. It was just a natural, protective thing. But that seemed to be my role, and it just grew from there."
At age 15, Wilson (pictured left) started taking classes in tae kwon do, the Korean art of self-defense. His high school didn't have any formal law enforcement program "too small," he points out but "there were some criminal justice related classes that I took, anything I could find, anything I could suck up. But I knew from what little I did have in high school, that's the direction that I did want to go." He kept up the martial arts training, too, and became a first-degree black belt about the time he graduated in 1997.
"After that, I joined the United States Army under the military police corps," Wilson says. "I talked to the recruiter. I had my mind made up that it was what I wanted to do [and said] 'you're the only branch that can really guarantee me being in a law enforcement position.' I would be a 19-year-old by the end of summer. And of course, no other law enforcement agency does that everyone else goes by a 21 [minimum age] standard."
The recruiter had to agree to two conditions before Wilson signed up: first, that he would enter the service as a military police officer, and second, that he got to spend one last small-town summer with his friends. That second condition was a wise move. As summer set on Somerset, those memories would provide a much-needed escape from what he'd see during six years in the service.
"While I was in, I became a paratrooper, and we do that out of Fort Bragg, N.C.," Wilson says. "I was deployed to Kosovo, one of the smaller countries in the former Yugoslavia, in '99." There had been conflict in that region since 1995, "but it erupted in Kosovo in '99, and I was one of the last units to come on the first wave."
When asked what that was like, Wilson responds quickly and firmly. "Life altering. Honestly, it really was. After I came back from that experience specifically, it was incredibly life altering. I looked at things a lot differently and realized that I, and a lot of the people that surrounded me, took life for granted."
All that changed from being so close to the conflict. "There were people that we worked around, and would try to keep each other from, that literally wanted to eliminate each other just for who they were," Wilson says. "And to us, there wasn't much of a physical difference [among them]. These people looked, to me at least, a lot alike. And they lived maybe five miles away from each other, sometimes closer, and they brutally hated each other, and if given the chance, would kill their neighbor." Standing at one of the mass graves, Wilson decided he would never look at life the same away again.
Most Americans had the same realization about two years later, on 9/11. By then, Wilson was back at Fort Bragg.
"From our point of view, it was just confusion at first, and for the rest of the nation, too, because we didn't know what was going on," he remembers the news unfolding. "At first it was 'an accident,' and then we were being attacked. And if we were being attacked, then by whom? And to be honest, I wasn't a very high rank, so they didn't tell me very much anyway.
"I looked at things a lot differently and realized that I, and a lot of people that surrounded me, took life for granted." Jon Wilson
"For the first couple of days, we just went into lockdown. So we got put on the outer perimeter of the fort, got very little sleep and were told very little." His unit wasn't assigned to go to the Pentagon, but with his background and experience, he was approached personally about going as a driver. Wilson stayed for seven months.
As chauffeur to the officers charged with securing the site, "whenever they worked, I worked, so there were long hours at the Pentagon and at different meeting sites around Washington, D.C." Looking at Wilson, who's now a third-degree black belt and a certified instructor, it's hard to imagine anyone getting past him.
Wilson's last tour, also for seven months, was in Afghanistan. In July 2003, the Army specialist left the service and went home. Less than a month later, he started classes at Somerset Community College.
"I didn't want to go to a larger university at first. I just wanted to get acclimated back into the real world slowly," Wilson says. He took some classes in allied health with an eye on nursing but switched to criminal justice, "that being my background." He also began working in a staff position relating to safety and security.
Then came SkillsUSA. "My criminal justice instructor [Brandi Coomer] dragged me, not exactly kicking and screaming, but suggested it," he laughs. "At first I was a little hesitant to get involved, because I didn't know what it entailed and what it was. With all my other schoolwork and work work involved, I didn't know if I'd have time for it."
But after investigating SkillsUSA on his own, it sounded interesting. Wilson started competing in his regional championships, both in Job Skill Demonstration and in Criminal Justice. In only his first year as a member, he qualified for the SkillsUSA Championships in 2006. He placed fourth in the national Criminal Justice contest.
"When we first got to nationals, my state director told us it would be beyond imagination, and he totally didn't disappoint. It's amazing," says Wilson, now 28. Particularly memorable was the service event that capped the week. "I worked on a community cleanup project with people from all over the nation people under normal circumstances I wouldn't have had the opportunity to meet."
So, what's next? More classes at the community college "I haven't forgotten where I came from," he says and continuing his education at Eastern Kentucky University. "It's really one of the leading law enforcement schools in the nation. I aspire to become a federal law enforcement agent."
He smiles. "I'm just naturally protective." And as these unsettling times roll on, we all could use someone like Jon Wilson on our side.
When Andrew Barber (pictured left) of Lawton, Mich., left the U.S. Air Force in 2005, he wanted to become a technician in HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning). Ironically, it was a huge blast of air that brought him to his goal.
"Before I went into the service, I worked as diesel mechanic. Then I worked on transport refrigeration. I didn't know much about it then, but I knew I wanted to get into it," Barber says. In June 2005, Hurricane Arlene forced him to evacuate from Patrick Air Force Base in Cocoa Beach, Fla., to the Arnold Engineering and Development Center campground in Tullahoma, Tenn. "From there, I could see the mountains of East Tennessee. As I was preparing to get out of the Air Force, I looked for schools in Tennessee. I did a search on the Internet and found the Tennessee Technology Center at Elizabethton. Its HVAC/refrigeration program was just what I was looking for."
Barber got out of the Air Force on July 2, 2005. Three days later, he began at the center. The G.I. Bill paid all registration fees and book costs. "I couldn't have done it without the veteran's benefits. Everything worked like clockwork. One month after enrolling in school, I received my first check," Barber says.
A year after entering, Barber completed the program. He was a student role model, according to instructor Scott Simerly, and took first place in Tennessee and 11th place nationally in SkillsUSA's HVACR competitions.
If veterans are seeking employment in the technology field, Barber suggests they consider attending a technology center, where "self-motivation is key to success. Students can progress as fast or as slow as they desire, depending upon their self-motivation." He's now employed in Kalamazoo, Mich.
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I hate the way Spain play, they are infuriating to watch.
And speaking of infuriating, Malouda and Benzema are doing a pretty fine job at that too.
Granted, it probably looked better than it was as he actually recovered from being out of position relatively well, just by the time he got back to where he ought to have been his balance was shot.
Edit: Jamie Carragher giving us another rendition of the best scouse accent in the world once again. Sounds like he's constantly trying to cough up something that didn't disagree with him.
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Can't blame the Spanish for the French being mardy-arsed jibbers. They've offered nothing.
Showing all the fight they're renowned for.
Cricket Web's 2013/14 Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"The committee discussed the issue of illegal bowling actions, and believed that there are a number of bowlers currently employing suspect actions in international cricket, and that the ICC's reporting and testing procedures are not adequately scrutinising these bowlers."
- Even the ICC's own official press release thinks things must change
Yea France have been ****. Hope they can shrug their shoulders and put the white flag away for the second half.
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I'm trying desperately not to type Cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys.
Oh damn I failed again
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
George Gently looking good, ATM.
Definite pen.
& that's all she wrote. 2-0 to Spain.
Been pretty thin gruel, hasn't it?
Abject. And **** off ITV commentators using great with these ****ing fluke merchants - this makes it about 3 knockout matches they've deserved to win over the last 4-5 years.
I love watching Ronaldo fail but he's much better to watch than this **** shower. I hope he rips them to shreds.
It's been grim in the extreme. Some of us are old enough to remember how much flack Italy used to take when they were the kings of defensiveness, but reckon this lot are just as unwatchable. How many one-nils in knock-out games would it have been without that irrelevant last minute penalty?
Apart from that Ribery must be the most over-rated played in world football, bar none.
And htf did France rack up 21 games unbeaten leading up to these finals?
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Newburyport Daily News
---- — To the editor:
"The mission of the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority is to revitalize blighted or deteriorated areas of the city by attracting the private investment to achieve a balanced mix of housing, business and public/open space in a manner that provides socio-economic benefits to the city by providing jobs for the unemployed, and adding tax revenue to an over-burdened community."
Thus is the announcement made at the beginning of each and every Newburyport Redevelopment Authority public meeting, the practice of which has received commendation by the commonwealth on a number of occasions. This authority was created by a widely and still-used statute many decades ago thereby establishing an "independent board appointed by various mayors and the governor with the consent of the City Council.
Today"s authority consists of Newburyport volunteers so appointed by our mayors and confirmed by this City Council. Most certainly, they are not aliens who have invaded our community and stolen our waterfront, as some mean to imply. These attacks blithely ignore this authority's devotion to their mission dtatement and recklessly call for their resignations. So much for the rewards of public service.
The reasons for this stalemate are few but persistent in their effect. Fierce disagreement on the details of any proposed development have left us with dirt parking lots on our riverfront because, as Newburyport revitalized and prospered, prior NRA boards were hoodwinked into allowing the city to take the easy way out and usurp this property for the highly inappropriate parking of motor vehicles.
Parking never belonged there, but now our utter lack of imagination has mandated that since it's already there it should remain. Why so? I guess it comes down to one's definition of the the term "open." The NRA's spectacular and well-thought-out proposal takes a mere 13 percent of this property and designates it for private development (per its mission statement) in order to raise the revenue to greatly expand the park area and take some cars off the waterfront. The relatively small but boisterously loud opposition can't decide what it wants other than their persistent cry to keep it "open" ( which, ironically, the NRA plan gorgeously accomplishes). Not to decide is to decide to leave this vital diamond in the rough blighted for another 40 years.
Shortly, private development will provide us with the long awaited and much needed hotel (although, sadly, not on the waterfront where it rightly belongs). With it will inevitably come a parking deck to make up for those relatively few parking spaces displaced by the NRA development, and perhaps, thereafter, eradicate this blotch on our waterfront altogether.
Finally, at long last, Newburyport has an NRA with the vision, authority and courage to complete the last remaining mandate of its mission statement by connecting the waterfront to the rest of our fabulous downtown and letting us all enjoy it, not only for ourselves but our children and their children in perpetuity.
Let's not waste this golden opportunity. Continuing to do nothing is the worst and most unforgivable risk of all.
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Arthur Explains HimselfBooks
I received quite an unexpected email from Arthur A Levine's assistant a few moments ago. I was so incredibly impressed and feel that his response and action so reflect what it is to be a Harry Potter fan, that I'm printing it in full.
I'm Cheryl Klein, Arthur Levine's assistant, and he asked me to write
and explain his flub on the Today Show this morning. Arthur knows the
location of Flourish and Blotts -- he literally came off the stage
and said "We're going to get a hundred letters telling us that
Flourish and Blotts is in Diagon Alley instead of Hogsmeade." But as
a judge, he wanted to make sure that the girl playing for Gryffindor
earned some points during the game (she'd made two mistakes already),
and "Hogsmeade" was a likely answer, if not the right one. (And
moreover Arthur was nervous -- children's book editors very rarely
appear on national television!) So do please forgive the error . . .
It was a slip of the tongue, not the brain.
Happy Harry Day tomorrow, everyone!
Cheryl Klein
Assistant editor
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Howard County
Monday, 10:35 a.m., deputies arrested Bruce Liggin Jr., 21, 1000 block of North Vaile Street, at the Howard County Courthouse, on a petition to revoke a suspended sentence.
Tuesday, 10:40 a.m., deputies arrested Stephanie J. Burnette, 23, 180 block of Champagne Court, at the Howard County jail, for aiding, inducing, causing, dealing cocaine.
Tuesday, 5:01 p.m., deputies arrested Wendy M. Richman, 46, 4500 block of Stratford Drive, at the same location, on possession of marijuana.
Tuesday, 11:11 a.m., police arrested Katelin D. Grube, 24, 420 block of West Walnut Street, at the same location, for domestic battery and criminal recklessness with a handgun.
Tuesday, 12:58 p.m., police arrested Julie L. Clark, 47, Indianapolis, at the 410 block of West Lincoln Street, for a hit and run.
Tuesday, 4:40 p.m., police arrested William L. Bandy, 44, 2000 block of St. Louis Drive, at the 2100 block of North Dixon Road, for driving while suspended, resisting law enforcement, hit and run, mischief, and two warrants for burglary and failure to appear.
Tuesday, 10:44 p.m., police arrested a 13-year-old and a 17-year-old female at the 800 block of East Hoffer Street for battery.
Wednesday, 5:39 a.m., police arrested David A. Boettjer, 37, 1220 block of North Courtland Avenue, at 1900 block of West Sycamore Street, for public intoxication.
Tuesday, 11:21 a.m., theft of a Yard Machine push mower, valued at $25, and a kid's bicycle cart, valued at $100, from the 1200 block of North McCann.
Tuesday, 11:25 p.m., theft of a gold Rolex watch, valued at $3,500, from the 700 block of North Dixon Road.


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Canadian astronaut and pilot Chris Hadfield posted an amazing photo taken over Niagara Falls to his Twitter feed Monday.
The photo was snapped as two Canadian Snowbirds, Canada's military aerobatics demonstration team, flew over the falls.
Hadfield's Twitter following swelled to over 900,000 when he began tweeting pictures from the International Space Station in December of 2012. Hadfield returned to earth in May of this year and has retired from the space program.
The photo was taken by Snowbird Crew Chief Sgt Tevor Llewellyn sometime in May.
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I have a love/hate relationship with Postmodernism. So I was slightly dubious as I headed for the V&A last week to view Postmodernism – Style and Subversion 1970 – 1990.
Postmodernism's genre bending and splicing, its mixing of fiction with non-fiction, its blurring of the lines between high and low culture, has resulted in some wonderful art, design, music, film, and literature. The world would be a poorer place without Jeff Koons or Cindy Sherman, Neville Brody and Peter Saville, Bladerunner, The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel, Mclaren's Madame Butterfly, or The Crying of Lot 49. Of that I have no doubt. But before I get too gushy, let's look at the downside.
Postmodernism's blank stare and inherent knowingness can get irritating, fast. Its unwillingness to either criticize or celebrate, or take a political or moral standpoint, can leave the work feeling deeply empty. And the less said about the often impenetrable accompanying theory the better. Personally I often suspect the obfuscation and awful writing was deliberate, an attempt to hide a weakness of ideas. But despite my reservations I found myself enjoying this exhibition more that I expected, for two main reasons.
The first is Postmodernism's ability to still confuse and outrage 'Middle England'. I was preceded through the V&A by a gaggle of ladies about to lunch, dressed in obligatory twin-sets and pearls. In a well curated and contextualized exhibition they remained utterly bewildered. Perms were scratched and gold buttons twiddled as they passed from Venturi and Scott-Brown's Learning from Las Vegas, to Jarman's The Last of England, Anderson's O Superman, and on to Westwood's Punkature. Exclamations of 'I don't understand it' or 'I don't get it' issued from glossed lips. The nearest to a discussion consisted of one lady asking the other if she'd ever been to Las Vegas. 'No...', the other replied, '...and I wouldn't want to'.
Now there's a surprise.
The bending, splicing, and mixing that form the best of Postmodernism is the exact thing that confused them. To truly appreciate postmodern culture you need extensive cultural capital – and not just of high culture. You need to know about popular culture too. If you're not interested in Las Vegas, street fashion, popular music, commercial graphic design, or Sci-Fi movies, postmodernism will leave you feeling excluded. Sure, there are myriad references to classical art and high culture, but without understanding the context these are employed in, you're lost. And that's a good thing. It puts the boot on the other foot. If only for a minute.
The other reason I enjoyed the exhibition is more personal. I was born in 1971, at the beginning of the period defined as Postmodern by the curators. I became an adult as this period ended in 1990. The exhibition I walked through – arranged chronologically – was really a journey through my life. I had studied the earlier stuff at University, but once the exhibition got to the 1980s a curious sense of nostalgia hit me. My life was on the walls of a museum. On this wall record sleeves that reside in my collection, on that a T-shirt I once wore, and in this cabinet a copy of The Face salted away in my cupboard somewhere. I expected this to a degree – I'd even bet with myself on which Peter Saville sleeves would make the final cut – but it still gave me an unsettling yet rather comforting feeling.
And that's the brilliance of this exhibition. It's curated in away that elicits that most postmodern of emotions: nostalgia. The end of the exhibition has the heading "Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday?" This lyric from New Order's 'Bizarre Love Triangle' introduces the final exhibit, the promotional video for the same song. The curators discuss nostalgia here, but the genius is that they've been carefully cultivating the emotion throughout the exhibition. It's a very clever and rather knowing piece of design.
And ultimately, truly postmodern.
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 – 1990 is on now until January 15 2012 at the V&A Cromwell Road, London.


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Charges are filed more than seven years after two women are found dead inside their midtown Tulsa apartment.
In January 2006, 45-year-old Linda Wright and 60-year-old Dorothy Lindley were found stabbed to death near 51st and Lewis.
After a tip in 2009, Tulsa Police gathered enough evidence to eventually charge Hilliard Fulgham with first degree murder.
He's already in prison in Mississippi for a separate crime.
36-year-old Jaqueline Smith was arrested in Louisiana for two counts of accessory to murder.
She's awaiting extradition to Tulsa.
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Would you know how to turn off the water to your house in the event of an emergency? Many people don't have a clue. Trust me, waiting until a plumbing catastrophe strikes is not the time to figure it out. At some point every homeowner (or house renter) will find themselves in a situation that requires turning off the main water supply valve to the house. It could be a broken water pipe or a toilet or sink may malfunction sending water cascading across your floors. Sinks and toilets have their own shutoff valves but if the shutoff valves are stuck or they fail, you'll have to fall back to the main water shutoff valve and turn off the water before serious damage occurs.
The first step is shutting off the main water valve is to locate it. In colder climates, you can usually find the main water shut-off valve in the basement or inside a closet in a front room of the house. Sometimes, builders will hide it behind a removable panel. In southern states, the main water shut-off valve is often located outside the house, usually along the front outside wall and often near an outside hose bib (faucet). In the small Texas town where I grew up, the main water shut-off valves were inside the meter box near the curb. If that's the case where you live, make sure you have a meter box key so you can get into the meter vault if you have to. Some shut-off valves inside meter vaults even require a special "key" or wrench to turn them off but most can be turned off with a crescent wrench. Fortunately, most shut-off valves inside the house just require a firm grip of the hand to turn off. Remember, turn the valve to the right to turn it off.
Have a plan! Not only should YOU know how to turn off the main water shutoff valve, you should make sure that every member of the family knows where the shutoff valve is located and how to use it. This includes young children who may be home alone someday when catastrophe strikes. Additionally, it's a good idea to put the plumber's name and phone number near the shut-off valve. Tape his business card to the wall or place a tag on the valve. You may need to reach a plumber quickly if plumbing repairs are required. There are many scenarios where this could prove helpful. For instance, let's say you've gone on vacation and your in-laws are house sitting when the water heater rusts out and starts flooding the floor. You'll want that water turned off ASAP. To help you learn how to locate and turn off your water supply valve, Roto-Rooter created a helpful video that you should watch then share with family and friends. You can thank us later.
If your family is house shopping this summer, you already know the anxiety associated with buying a home. You'll wonder what mysteries lurk behind the walls and whether you'll inherit a bunch of new problems that the current owner might be hiding. Water heaters and sewer lines can prove costly. As plumbers, we hear from lots of customers who experience plumbing problems within the first year at a new (older) home. So here are some tips for you to remember before you buy.
1. Buyers do not have to disclose information about plumbing problems so ask questions! Ask when the home was built. If it is more than 12 years old and still has the original water heater, expect to replace the unit within the next year or two. If the house is 25 years old or older, it may not have plastic/PVC sewer pipes. And that's not good. When it comes to reliable sewers, plastic is good, clay, iron and concrete are bad because these materials do not wear well underground as well as plastic does. Root intrusion is common in every type of sewer line except for PVC. Ask the owner if they've ever had trouble with the sewer clogging.
2. A sewer line inspection is not included in a standard home inspection. It's true because sewer inspection video camera snakes are expensive. Good ones can cost more than $5000 each so most home inspectors don't make the investment. Sewer repairs are expensive and sewer replacement costs can easily exceed ten thousand dollars. When you think about it that way, paying a company like Roto-Rooter to video inspect the sewer line is a good investment. You can expect to pay between $200 and $550 for a complete sewer line camera inspection and that will include a DVD or thumb drive copy for your records.
3. If it happened once, it will happen again. While you're asking questions, ask if the basement has ever flooded. Ask why it flooded. Find out if the basement or crawl space is equipped with a sump pump. Then ask the owner when it was last replaced. Rest assured, if the homeowner confesses that the basement flooded once many years ago during some super storm but it has never happened since, Murphy's Law dictates that it will probably flood again during your first year in the house – if the previous owners did nothing to mitigate the cause of the first flood. Personally, I would never buy a basement home that doesn't have a sump system and a backflow preventer in the sewer. These plumbing fixtures are a must and if you have them, you'll never know how many catastrophes they prevented over the years. But if you don't have them, you'll find out the hard way how difficult and expensive homeownership can be.
You probably notice floor drains most often in public restrooms but floor drains are also found in commercial kitchens, garages, on patios and driveways, in basements, warehouses and even some residential bathrooms and laundry rooms. The humble floor drain captures overflow from sinks, toilets, tubs, rain, etc. then directs it safely to a sewer or municipal storm drain so that the floor stays dry and rooms don't flood.
If you have floor drains in your home or business and you smell foul odors coming from them, it's because the traps have dried out. You see, floor drains have one of those U-shaped P-trap pipes just like your bathroom sink drain. That U-shaped pipe is designed to hold water, which stands in the pipe and prevents sewer gases from coming up through the drain. If you smell sewer gas, grab a bucket of water and start pouring it into the floor drain. Go ahead a dump a gallon or two or preferably a whole five gallon bucket of water into the drain. This will not only seal off sewer gases, it will also let you see if the drain is working properly. If it's clogged it won't be able to do its job when called upon.
Floor drains can become clogged just like any other drain. In fact, they become clogged more often
than many types of drains because they're on the floor where dirt and debris collect. That debris often finds its way inside the drain. In fact, lots of people sweep their floors and sweep the dirt right into the floor drain. Please don't do that!
So, if sewer gas is a problem and your floor drains don't get much water flowing into them, be sure to refill the traps about once a month. And at least twice a year, you should really give that drain a workout. If it appears to be clogged or slow, take steps to remove the clog. Use a crank snake and see if you can reach the clog. But because floor drains are often connected by long pipes, the hand auger may not reach all the way through the pipe. It's a good idea to call a sewer and drain cleaning company like Roto-Rooter to clean it out professionally.
It is the heart of the summer and aren't most people determined not to let anything ruin the last full month of the season? With summer storms, added excessive hot temperatures, and Mother Nature's indecisiveness, it is repeatedly a recipe for disaster that could put a damper on the end of the season. These conditions can strain main sewer lines.
Summer storms regularly backup main sewer lines, and in addition to excessively high temperatures during summer months, weather conditions promptly lead to clogged main sewer lines and damage to homes. It is not the weather by itself that causes the problems. It's the aggressive growth of tree roots inside sewer pipes that causes the sewer to clog and household drains to backup.
But how can you tell whether or not your main sewer line is truly backed up? Three major signs of this problem are 1. A foul stench coming from drains 2. Slow draining bathtubs or laundry lines, or 3. If the use of other fixtures associated with your main line lead to water backup in places such as toilets or showers. Find your local Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Drain Service location at rotorooter.com and have them send one of our expert service technicians as soon as possible if you're seeing these symptoms in your home.
Though backups and damage to a main sewer line may seem like a problem that is able to be put off onto the backburner, it absolutely is not. If sewer lines get choked off and are not promptly cleared of roots, raw sewage can backup into your bathtubs and sinks, causing significant collateral property damage. Since the main sewer line is the pipeline that carries waste away from all of your household drains to the sewage treatment plant, sewer maintenance and upkeep is especially important. Fortunately, sewer backup and damage to main sewer lines is something that can be fixed by an experienced sewer solutions specialist from Roto-Rooter. So, lookout for early signs of a sewer backup during these last weeks of summer and make it the best, most stress-free month yet!
Water conservation is finally becoming good business for companies that are engaging in it. Plumbers like Roto-Rooter who service a long list of large A-List commercial customers have been demonstrating the financial benefits of going green for a long time. Water and sewer costs are on an upward trajectory so it really makes sense for businesses to control costs by making modest investments in low-flow faucets, more efficient toilets, sprinkler systems and water heaters.
"Going green" has long been a favorite buzz term for businesses. It gets them good press and makes most prospective customers feel good about doing business with socially responsible green companies. But let's face it, it's a whole lot easier to go green if businesses can also enjoy a financial reward for their green efforts. Such is definitely the case today with "green plumbing." The cost of smart, miserly plumbing fixtures has come down and their reliability is better than ever. Commercial grade plumbing faucets that automatically turn on a perfect spray for washing hands and then turn themselves off again have become the norm in commercial restrooms. When we witness the lasting effects of the drought in some of the Western states, we get a better understanding of just how scarce fresh water is becoming.
Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Drain Service is calling on all businesses to get serious about water conservation. Make an appointment with your plumber to talk about ways your business can use less water. Get up to speed on water conservation fixtures by visiting our ROTOGreen pages and by checking out the EPA's WaterSense website. Green plumbing fixtures will pay for themselves in a very short period of time via lower water and sewer bills. But it's not just smart, green fixtures that will cut down on water costs. Have your plumber check your system for plumbing leaks. Fixing leaks and tuning up old toilets and urinals will make a huge difference in utility costs.
Have you ever visited a public restroom and noticed a toilet or urinal running continuously? Roto-Rooter put together a video to demonstrate how much water a running urinal can waste and how much it costs the business owner with each passing minute (based on the average cost of water in the U.S.). We think it's an eye-opening video and we urge business owners and managers to see it for themselves on our YouTube channel. Go here to see the video now. Then get busy fixing leaking plumbing fixtures at your business. Your bottom line will thank you and so will your customers.
It's summertime and the preferred season for many people has finally arrived! The season of good weather, great memories and even better festivities is here. For many people, summer celebrations consist of gatherings with lots of food that eventually gets dumped down the drains. Many of us find joy in making use of new grills or outdoor equipment, as well as cooking out to celebrate the changing of seasons. However, a main concern is always, how am I supposed to keep my drains from clogging when the leftover scraps of food are accidentally dumped down the drain, or not so accidentally crammed into the disposal instead of into the trash can? You could invite your plumber to your cookout but there is a better way to keep your drains flowing.
Why not solve the clogged drain problem before it happens? Petty drain issues should not have the power to clog your summer celebrations. Roto-Rooter Pipe Shield helps people do just that. Pipe Shield is an environmentally friendly monthly enzyme treatment product that keeps drains unclogged from the first concentrated treatment until the very last, 64th, treatment. This way, there is no distress about what if my drains clog? Pipe Shield not only keeps drains clog-free longer, it also treats the entire piping system before it has a chance to become stopped up.
Emerging products are becoming more and more centered around the sort of green movement currently taking place nationwide, but Roto-Rooter Pipe Shield has been a green product since its introduction in 1981. It is tempting to use readily available harsh caustic chemical products but those could potentially harm drains and certain kinds of pipes. However, Roto-Rooter's Pipe Shield carries the certified "green" EcoLogo seal and is safe to everyone and everything that comes in contact with it. So, help save your drains, the environment and even your summer celebrations, and let us know what you think! Have a happy clog-free summer! Pipe Shield is available through your Roto-Rooter service technician or you may order it here.
If yours is one of the millions of American homes with a basement, you've probably experienced the stress and worry associated with basement flooding. I myself always listen for the sump pump when I lay my head on the pillow at night. The reassuring sound of the sump pump turning on and off gives me a sense of well being and I can sleep with the confidence that my sump pump is doing its job and keeping my basement dry.
Now that spring has finally arrived, heavy and unpredictable storms are the norm. For many, the risk of spring flooding brings on a sense of unease. Savvy homeowners begin checking the sump pump more often, put a plumber on speed dial and start thinking about backup systems because at any time, that sump pump could fail. The float switch could wear out or the impeller could suck up rocks and debris or (in my case) a piece of a plastic grocery bag (don't ask!) and be rendered useless. So in that sense, your sump pump, your home's protector and guardian is also your home's Achilles heel. If the pump is inactivated, ground water will gradually flow into your basement via floor cracks and an overflowing sump crock.
The good news is that there are two backup systems available for your sump pump. Your Roto-Rooter plumber is familiar with both and can handle the installation in an hour and a half or less. The most common remedy is a battery backup sump pump that uses a marine grade battery that looks like the one in your minivan. If the primary sump pump fails or a storm knocks out electrical power, the battery will engage and power a backup pump for up to 12 hours, depending upon how often it has to turn itself on to handle the flow of water into the sump pit. The second backup option is called a Venturi backup pump. I'll describe the advantages and disadvantages of the Venturi system in next week's Roto-Rooter blog.
Roto-Rooter's corporate office has been working hard to develop a new prototype design for it service branch locations. The design takes into account all of the unique needs of a large scale plumbing company that provides a high level of both residential and commercial plumbing services. For instance, the location will have a huge warehouse large enough to allow for indoor storage of trucks and equipment. The warehouse also incorporates multiple with drive thru doors that allow trucks to pull into one side of the building and right out the other side. This system eliminates the need to use the reverse gear to back large trailers through bay doors.
Additionally, the new branch design has more than adequate office space, a large classroom for the Roto-Rooter plumbing school that can seat dozens of student plumbers at a time. The adjacent hands-on plumbing school is described as "huge" with working plumbing fixtures of all kinds that allow students to work on piping behind the walls and on every major type of plumbing fixture.
Rick Arquilla, Roto-Rooter President and COO is leading the project's development. "We want to encourage innovation and a dedication to continuing education. It is important to Roto-Rooter to bring expertise and cutting-edge technology to customers, as well as, foster the professional development of future generations of tradesmen," Arquilla said.
The first updated service location built from the ground up is located outside of Dayton, Ohio. It will be the first of the new branch facilities with a scheduled completion date in April 2014. It will easily be the largest plumbing shop in the nation. The newly designed branch will also incorporate a wash bay with a heavy duty drainage system so all Roto-Rooter vehicles can be washed in-house. This is especially important for excavation equipment, which frequently get covered with caked on mud.
It's not a a joke, the bathroom is one of the most dangerous rooms in the house. Each year more than 200,000 people in the U.S. are treated for non-fatal injuries suffered in the bathroom. Think about it, tile floors and sturdy plumbing fixtures make of porcelain, steel and granite are Showerunforgiving if you slip and hit your head. Hot water should be no hotter than 120 degrees Fahrenheit but it's not uncommon for us to find water heaters turned up to 150 degrees and hotter. If a child or elderly person accidentally turns up the hot water while showering or bathing, they could easily be scalded. These are the reasons Roto-Rooter wants to spread the word about National Bathroom Safety Month.
It's tempting to use towel bars as a handle when steadying ourselves but most are only screwed into the drywall so they'll pop right out under the weight of a 150 pound person. A better option is to install one of the better models of suction cup-mounted grab bars. Better yet, hire a handyman to install high-quality stainless steel grab bars that are screwed directly into wall studs.
Anyone who has kids knows that children won't hesitate to use the toilet or sink as a step stool to reach a medicine cabinet. A fall from such a height will bruise at the very least when landing on a tile floor. As an Emergency Room doctor about some of the injuries he/she has heard about from bathroom accidents. The stories will boggle one's mind. My own brother once put his foot onto a ceramic soap dish that was part of a tile wall. He wanted to see out the bathroom window so that seemed like a ready-made step until it popped right off the wall and he fell right across the width of the bathtub. Other children have been known to find mom or dad's razor and cut themselves. Still others have ingested cleaning products kept under the vanity.
At Roto-Rooter, we've put together a web page dedicated to bathroom safety. We hope you'll review the tips and watch the helpful videos so that you can become familiar with the many ways you can make your own bathroom a safer place for everyone.
It's not a a joke, the bathroom is one of the most dangerous rooms in the house. Each year more than 200,000 people in the U.S. are treated for non-fatal injuries suffered in the bathroom. Think about it, tile floors and sturdy plumbing fixtures make of porcelain, steel and granite are unforgiving if you slip and hit your head. Hot water should be no hotter than 120 degrees Fahrenheit but it's not uncommon for us to find water heaters turned up to 150 degrees and hotter. If a child or elderly person accidentally turns up the hot water while showering or bathing, they could easily be scalded. These are the reasons Roto-Rooter wants to spread the word about National Bathroom Safety Month.
It's tempting to use towel bars as a handle when steadying ourselves but most are only screwed into the drywall so they'll pop right out under the weight of a 150 pound person. A better option is to install one of the better models of suction cup-mounted grab bars. Better yet, hire a handyman to install high-quality stainless steel grab bars that are screwed directly into wall studs.
Anyone who has kids knows that children won't hesitate to use the toilet or sink as a step stool to reach a medicine cabinet. A fall from such a height will bruise at the very least when landing on a tile floor. As an Emergency Room doctor about some of the injuries he/she has heard about from bathroom accidents. The stories will boggle one's mind. My own brother once put his foot onto a ceramic soap dish that was part of a tile wall. He wanted to see out the bathroom window so that seemed like a ready-made step until it popped right off the wall and he fell right across the width of the bathtub. Other children have been known to find mom or dad's razor and cut themselves. Still others have ingested cleaning products kept under the vanity.
At Roto-Rooter, we've put together a web page dedicated to bathroom safety. We hope you'll review the tips and watch the helpful videos so that you can become familiar with the many ways you can make your own bathroom a safer place for everyone.
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RESIDENTS in a West Oxfordshire village are "chuffed to bits" the Queen has thanked them for their Jubilee messages.
Her Majesty wrote to residents in Bradwell near Burford to thank them for wishing her well during her Diamond Jubilee celebrations earlier this year.
Valerie Kent, 67, who lives in the village, said: "I thought it was absolutely superb we have got recognition from the Queen. We are thrilled to bits."
Children and adults wrote messages to Her Majesty – and Mrs Kent attached a poem – at the village's Jubilee celebrations in June.
They submitted the messages via the Asda store in Wheatley, which was sending messages to Buckingham Palace at the time, and the store received a response last week.
The letter, signed by Her Majesty's lady-in-waiting, said: "The Queen was particularly touched by the poem and thoughtful message of good wishes which you sent on the occasion of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee."
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Mike Vick hints at starting for Eagles this week
Vick "optimistic" about playing Sunday.
Living the Fantasy: Adam Levitan breaks into stash house for Week 5
Fantasy football advice from Adam Levitan.
The False Start: The NFL is back … be excited
The False Start is a weekly football column by Ryan Hadfield about how we, as consumers, think about the NFL – excuse me, THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE.
GOP fail again to amend START
A second Republican bid to amend President Barack Obama's strategic
nuclear arms treaty with Russia failed during debate in the U.S. Senate
yesterday, and top Democrats expressed confidence they would have the
votes to approve the accord.


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This is a fun route to do if you want a long, sustained trad route. Start in the huge left facing corner near the center of the south face of Rappel Rock.
60m rope; Standard rack (larger pro if you want to do the chimney first pitch?); single and double length runners for tying off chickenheads.


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Clark County conservatives say they've struggled to keep their election signs in the ground but they hope one thief who was caught on camera will help their cause.
The grassroots group Liberty Alliance says their signs were targeted during August elections. Party leaders set up an undercover sting t ocatch the thief in the act.
They say it worked - and now 66-year-old John Ellis is facing charges for illegally removing a campaign sign.
"I knew the sign was going to go missing because it had every other time," said Precinct Committee Officer Lynda Wilson.
Wilson says it was a tough race to win her position - and half the battle was keeping her signs in the ground. The conservative activist says her signs were consistently stolen or vandalized.
That's why her Liberty Alliance supporters put a motion-sensitive camera in a tree inside Wilson's district. The footage shows a cyclist in a neon yellow shirt picking up a pro-Wilson sign and riding off with it. The video makers say they later found it with several others behind a tree.
The Liberty Alliance posted the video on youtube.
Police identified the man as Ellis, according to court documents. When officers asked the man about stealing the sign, Ellis said it was illegally placed on the median and no campaign signs should be allowed there.
Wilson's supporters say they hope the man's day in court will be a lesson to others.
"It's definitely a problem for candidates across the spectrum," Liberty Alliance Director Christian Berrigan said. "People just need to agree to protect each other's political speech and let the voters decide."
If Ellis is convicted, he could face a $1,000 fine or up to 90 days in jail.
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A crop of American cockroaches brings in serious cash.
A new development is
coming to downtown Bowling Green. A CVS store is set to go up on West Wooster
The CVS is making a return
after leaving several years ago for financial reasons. The building will be
approximately 13,000 square feet, and sit adjacent to downtown Bowling Green.
It will replace vacant buildings.
Currently the CVS is not
scheduled to be open 24 hours, but is expected to be competition for the Rite
Aid and Walgreens in the city.
Officials say the store
will help serve a new clientele.
"Due to this location, it
might have a different clientele, since it's not far from BGSU," said Heather
Sayler, planning director for the city. "It will service more of the downtown
area, where we have more of a commercial area."
Demolition of current
buildings is expected to start the second week of May, and the store is
expected to open mid-November.
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Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Albert II of Monaco own Fabergé eggs. Now you can, too. The fabled Russian jewelry house founded in 1897 by Peter Carl Fabergé, goldsmith to the Russian Imperial Court, was revived in 2009 with his great-granddaughters Tatiana and Sarah helming the company's heritage council, and it's opening its first store in the U.S. on Madison Avenue today. Among the offerings designed by creative and managing director Katharina Flohr (late of Russian Vogue) are Les Favorites—miniature egg pendants (pictured) made from precious stones encircled in tiny diamonds or the guilloché enamel that the jeweler is famous for. "The fashionable young crowd in London are really embracing our fine egg pendants," Flohr told Style.com at a walk-through of the new store yesterday. (New York is the house's third store after Geneva and London.) "They collect the eggs and wear them layered like charms. In fact, there's a waiting list there of clients wanting the latest edition to add to their collection." The pendants start at $6,500 and there's no waiting list—yet—on Madison Avenue.


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Bodie's off to join the Survey Corps!
Recycling is a designer's secret weapon. I worked at this place where we kept a shared library of assets that could be reused for our projects. Anytime an artists created a new icon or illustration, it got added to the library. We all worked in Flash so it made sharing across projects fairly easy. Our library go so large that a coworker and I eventually coded up an interface that would let us all browse the library visually to more easily find things we were looking for.
Of course, there were a few times when I would spend more time searching through the library than creating something myself. But at that point, I was already fed up with the work and ready to quit.
I want to see and understand the world outside. I don't want to die inside these walls without knowing what's out there!
Kane holds up his stylus.
And… we have a poster.
If I didn't see it myself... How did you do it so fast?
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The three Rs of design. Repeat. Reuse. Recycle.
Bodie stands up and salutes.
Used a poster I'm working on for the show. Now all we gotta do is get them printed.
This herculean task shall fall to me.
Bodie hangs his head.
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Are—are you sure?
No. But it must be done.
It's con season which can be kind of a hassle for creators. So here are two alternatives to trying to get into that big show.
Big shout out to Erin from Hiveworks for hooking up the new backend! Things work a little differently now. The bloggy blog will still be on the page even when you click over to make a comment on the comic. And there might be some other odds and ends that a slightly different. But overall, things should work like they have been.
The Hiveworks team is hard at work migrating the YP comic CMS into something less crazy then the Comicpress madness. As a result, you'll notice a few 404′s if you click around here as well as comments missing on some posts. Those have been sucked into the new system and will be back up once we're able to finalize the migration. Hopefully, everything will get sorted out soon.
I've been meaning to update the website for a while now, but the WordPress/Comicpress combo has too many pieces that I'd need to change in order to refresh everything. There are so many bits that are connected with so many other bits that it'd be like digging for gold to make the changes I want.
The new system is more streamlined which makes things easier for me and actually loads a whole lot faster which makes things easier for you! So please excuse the mess while things are a chugging.
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Category: Game of the Week
Tigers and Weather Too Hot for Bruins
St Xavier kicked off their football season by hosting Ballard High School and triumphing 17-0 before the game was called at half-time due to a heat index of 105 degrees.
Louisville Youth Football League Pigskin Preview
The 2014 Louisville Youth Football League Pigskin Preview took place at Sky View Park Aug. 2-3 and saw two days chock full of football.
LXC Soccer at the JCC
The League of Xtraordinary Coeds (LXC) played host to a variety of soccer teams on Monday, July 7 at the Jewish Community Center.
Shamrocks Beat Out Rebels
Trinity beat out Atherton 7-0 as Paxton Rousseau struck out eight for only two hits as the Shamrocks won the 27th District title at Seneca.
Tigers Crush Crimsons
St. Xavier crushed visitors Manual 10-1, stretching their home record to 8-3 for the year and 18-7 overall.
Snider shines in Derby Classic
A crowd of 5,518 witnessed the White Team defeat the Green Team 128-104 in the 41st annual Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic at Freedom Hall.
Butler Blasts Past E-town for State Title
Butler's Bearettes beat Elizabethtown 49-38 in Sunday's championship game in Bowling Green in front of 4,284 at E.A. Diddle Arena.
Ballard Cruise Past Male
Ballard strung together a 20-point run as they swept past Male 77-53 in the Seventh Region Tournament semifinal on Sunday at Valley. Kelan Martin scored a game-high 21 points, while Quentin Snider added 18 points, six assists and four steals as Ballard (29-5) advanced to face Trinity (28-5) in Tuesday's regional final. P.J. Scott high-scored [...]
Trinity Claim District Title Over Waggener
Trinity faced off against Waggener in the 27th District final, pulling away late in the game to claim a 46-33 victory.
Bruins Too Good For Crimsons
Quentin Snider high-scored with 21 points, including 9-9 at the free-throw line in the fourth quarter, to help Ballard slide past Manual 78-70 on Friday night.


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The Texas A&M Aggies have begun the task of replacing head coach Mike Sherman, who was fired Thursday night. According to reports, the clear top candidates for the job are Houston Cougars coach Kevin Sumlin, who reportedly also has an Arizona St. Sun Devils offer, and Louisville Cardinals coach Charlie Strong.
The list, as has been reported, is pretty much everybody Ole Miss wants plus everybody Arizona State wants. See for yourself! First up, the Star-Telegram:
All signs point to the Aggies pursuing Houston coach Kevin Sumlin, a former A&M assistant, as Sherman's replacement. Sumlin has led the Cougars to a 12-0 record and a berth in Saturday's Conference USA championship game.
Other candidates include Louisville coach Charlie Strong, Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart and Boise State coach Chris Petersen.
@kbohls Top three Aggie targets early: Kevin Sumlin, Charlie Strong, Chris Petersen.
@schadjoe Kevin Sumlin, Kirby Smart, Charlie Strong, Larry Fedora in that order for A&M
@fbrumormill Add TCU's Gary Patterson and Louisville's Charlie Strong to your Texas A&M list
A&M is a better job than ASU is, plus Sumlin already knows the school and the area. If he's offered the chance to coach in the SEC, that's the move. Strong, for his part, has long wanted to become a SEC head coach.
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Congressman Rush Holt represents the 12th District of New Jersey.
The Democrat is running for the US Senate seat of the late Frank Lautenberg.
Holt holds a PhD in physics and has a solar energy patent.
"Elections should be on the basis of substance and quality and I believe this one will be. My background, my accomplishments are what I'm presenting. I've been a member of Congress for a long time. I'm really better known for the person who brought $80M to suicide prevention to the VA and the DOD. I'm a teacher, a scientist and a committed progressive in the mold of Frank Lautenberg. I want to carry on that fight," said Holt.


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Take Two #132: Are you Prepared?
By Kyra-lin Hom
Stockpiling food, water and bandages used to be for the paranoid. Burying homemade caches of money and weapons used to be alien concepts associated with survivalist crazies and backyard neighborhood militiamen. Hand-crank radios and portable solar panels used to be for techno enthusiasts more than your standard outdoorsman. But times are gradually changing.
Whether our recent social obsession with zombies and apocalypses, our sensational crime reporting, the rocky global economy, or the planet-wide meteorological meltdown are to blame, survival is on everyone's mind. Even FEMA's.More ›
Take Two #129: Horses, Rocket Ships & Cell Phone Privacy
By Kyra-lin Hom
About a month and a half ago, I wrote a column on the legalities of warrantless cell phone searches. Specifically, I mentioned the case of Riley v. California that was waiting on a Supreme Court decision at that time. To quote myself, here's a brief reminder of the case:
"...the defendant was pulled over for driving with expired license registration tags. Prior to impounding a vehicle, police are required to inventory its contents to avoid a future lawsuit. While performing this search, police found two guns and subsequently arrested Riley for illegal possession of firearms. This then allowed the police [to] search Riley's person incident to arrest whereupon they found a cell phone in his pocket. Later [while at the police station], police went through the contents of the phone (without a warrant) and discovered evidence linking Riley to a gang...shooting. Ballistic tests matched Riley's guns to the shooting and he was arrested and convicted of 'shooting at an occupied vehicle, attempted murder, and assault with a semi-automatic firearm.' Riley is appealing on 4th Amendment grounds."More ›
Take Two #135: Exploring NYC and DC
By Kyra-lin Hom
This week has been one heck of a whirlwind. From Chicago (where I live now) to New York City to Washington, D.C. and back again. All in just seven days. I've done much crazier – don't get me started on China, but only a few days in each of our nation's arguably most famous cities is like forcing a twin-sized fitted sheet onto a full-sized mattress. There's just no way to cover everything. To make matters worse, I oh-so conveniently injured myself just days before we were scheduled to fly out and so had limited mobility. Perfect, I know.


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HOUSTON — Avery Canahuati is only five months old. Her doctors say, at best, she will get only 13 months more.
So her parents are filling the fleeting days with as many memories as they can while taking Avery's story, and her "bucket list," online to spread the word about a rare genetic disorder.
Avery seemed perfectly healthy when she was born last November. But within her first few months, Laura Canahuati noticed her daughter wasn't progressing normally.
"I just started screaming," said Canahuati when she received her daughter's diagnosis. "It just doesn't seem real."
The diagnosis was spinal muscular atrophy, SMA Type 1. The incurable genetic disorder destroys spinal neurons. Avery has already lost use of her legs. She is beginning to lose strength and movement in her arms. As the disease progresses the atrophy is expected to rob her of the ability to breathe.
"When they tell you your daughter will most likely die within the next 18 months of an incurable disease, that there are currently no clinical trials for, and that it's the number one genetic killer of infants, it pissed me off," said Avery's dad Michael Canahuati.
It was at that point that Michael and Laura Canahuati decided to channel their anger and grief and make memories out of every moment of their daughter's life.
"We can sit at home and we can cry every single day, or we can try to make memories with her," Michael said. "We can watch her die, or we can let her live. And through letting her live we're going to try and educate other people about this so they don't have to go through it too."
So earlier this month, just a few days shy of Avery's 5-month birthday, they created Avery's Bucket List, an online blog of every memorable moment the trio and their extended families share. Her story, also on her own Facebook and Twitter accounts, chronicles her life, her parents' hopes and dreams, and information on SMA.
The blog, written by her parents as if in Avery's voice, asks that people "don't forget to share my story with everyone! While it might not help me in my lifetime, the more people who are aware of SMA, the more likely there will one day be a cure for SMA!"
"Mike always told me we've got all the time in the world to cry," said Laura. "We can cry, you know, when she's no longer here. But for now we want to enjoy the time we do have with her and just make memories."
Avery's crossed-off items on her bucket list include celebrating her first Easter (complete with wearing bunny ears), her first trip to college (the campus of Texas State University in San Marcos where her parents met), her first innocent kiss (from a boy named Cooper who is also an SMA patient), to her first tea party with her mom. On Sunday the Canahuatis braved the blustery weather in southwest Houston to fly a kite for the first time.
"We didn't sit down and cry that day," said Laura of their reason for creating and chronicling daily memories. "We sat there and we made memories with our daughter.
"And lots of them," said Michael of their goal.
Research suggests that 1 in 40 people, or an estimated 7.5 million in the U.S., are carriers of the SMA gene. The Canahuatis are sharing Avery's story to encourage parents to be screened for that gene so they can be aware of the odds of passing the disorder to their children.
"I refuse to think that my daughter will die in vain," Avery's dad said of their public chronicle of Avery's final days.
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On December 24, 2000, at 6:29 P.M., Officer Aubrey Hawkins was dispatched to a suspicious circumstance call at the Oshman's Sporting Goods Store at State Highway 183 and Belt Line Road. Officer Hawkins took the call from a restaurant less than one mile away where he had just finished eating Christmas Eve dinner with his wife, Lori, his son, his mother and grandmother. Aubrey arrived before any other units and approached from the north entrance from the service road. He drove through the parking lot looking at the front of the business then around the south side to the rear of the building. As he made it to the west side loading dock area and entered the driveway, he came under a barrage of gunfire without warning and had no time to take evasive or defensive action. Mortally wounded, Officer Hawkins was pulled from his squad car and run over by the killers. What had begun as a suspicious circumstance call turned out to be a robbery-in-progress committed by seven dangerous and violent escaped prisoners (known as the Texas 7) from the Texas Department of Corrections Facility in Huntsville, Texas, earlier that month. It was later learned that a lookout to the east of the store had seen his approach and warned the others causing them to abandon the numerous store employees that were huddled together, and bound, inside the store. Officer Hawkins' arrival to the dock area had coincided with the exit, from the building, of the escaped convicts providing them with an overwhelming advantage. Following the murder of Officer Hawkins, international media coverage followed the largest manhunt in Texas history. The manhunt ended in January 2001 in the communities of Woodland Park and Colorado Springs, Colorado, with the suicide of one escapee and the nonviolent capture of the other six after law enforcement located and descended upon them. The cold-blooded murder of Officer Hawkins on Christmas Eve tore at the very fabric of law, order and decency. The chaos, sorrow, and heartbreak created in the lives of his loved ones and the community has healed somewhat over time, but the scars of that tragic holiday season and Aubrey's memory will not be forgotten. With these words and feelings that Lori wrote, you can judge for yourself the void the world has due to the loss of Officer Aubrey Wright Hawkins:


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Location/Directions: 6 mi N of Los Banos. The China Island Unit is located between Newman and Gustine. From Gustine and the intersection of Hwy 33 and 140, travel 1.7 mi N on Hwy 33, turn right onto Canal School Rd., travel 1.4 mi and turn right onto Brazo Rd, travel 0.7 mi and turn left, proceed 1.2 mi. The Galdwall Unit is approximately two mi east of Los Banos at Santa Fe Grade. The Salt Slough Unit is approximately 7 mi N of Los Banos.
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#Tip: How to shoot quality video on mobile
Neal Augenstein's site #iphonereporting is a consistent source of excellent guidelines on how best to use your smartphone to supplement traditional reporting tools. These tips on shooting video on your phone are no different.
The tips are technical and technological – covering how best to hold the phone and edit the video as well as which apps to use in the process – and give a solid start to anyone looking to get good video on the go.
Shameless plug: Mobile journalism luminary Glen Mulcahy, quoted in Augenstein's article above, is running a one-day course on mobile reporting for Journalism.co.uk in September if you want to take your skills to the next level.
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- #Tip: Check out this Storify of a recent #mojochat mobile journalism discussion
- #Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – advice on mobile reporting
- #Tip of the day for journalists: Consider getting interviewees to press record
- Five tips from a radio journalist who reports solely from an iPhone and iPad
- #Tip: Know where the video mic is on your iPhone


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As a Registered Dietitian for Avera Heart Hospital, I have the opportunity to wear a lot of hats. I'm a certified wellness coach, cardiovascular nutrition expert, cookbook author, motivational speaker, project manager, media representative, cooking class instructor, and nutrition spokesperson. I do it all — and I love every minute of it.
In my work with Avera, I have helped hundreds of people lose weight, lower their blood cholesterol, and improve their health and wellbeing through personalized nutrition consultation. I've also written several cookbooks and created the Five-Finger Menu Planning Guide, an innovative tool that helps adults and children plan nutritious and wholesome meals.
Heart health is serious business – but that doesn't mean it can't be fun. I am passionate about what I do and love to share it with others.
I have 18 years of experience developing others into the healthy person they want to be. I absolutely love my job. I am passionate about my own personal mission for health and wellness and feel it is the key to a long and happy life. I also feel very strongly about the benefits of exercise. I spend a great deal of our free time at the gym working out. In my opinion, a well balanced diet needs to be partnered with a well balanced workout that includes both cardio and weight bearing exercise for overall health. As a registered dietitian I feel it is my mission to meet people where they are at in their wellness journey. I enjoy partnering with them to develop their own personal health goals and then my aim is fulfilled as I guide them on their path to success.
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Wind Song, Sleeps 10, 4 Bedrooms, 4 Bathrooms. in Daytona Beach Shores
- bedrooms 4
- baths 4
- sleeps 10
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
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- community Ocean Hammock
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A six-star experience? Guests insist that Wind Song is replete with everything for the perfect vacation. Of course there's a private, heated pool and hot tub, but the outdoor fireplace is where Wind Song steps ahead. Ideal for a group of all ages, Wind Song will deftly keep three (or more!) generations happy at once. It's elegant yet cheerful and never sacrifices comfort. Better still, it's quiet and relaxing inside and out, and is extremely private.
Wind Song does first impressions properly and you'll say 'nice to meet you' with a giddy grin. Through the front door waits a wide, sunny hallway with an upholstered bench, plush area rug and framed black and white photography. It immediately sets the tone for an endlessly elegant vacation that furnishes your needs before you realize them.
A discrete entrance puts your big views and wide windows at the back, so all the good stuff within stays a secret to all but yourselves. Though gorgeous from top to bottom, it's just as comfy. The living room's long sectional couch doesn't scrimp on the cushions, with a brand new flat-screen TV above the indoor fireplace. (Trade secret: Wind Song is a great rental for both summer vacation and winter holidays).
Ready to subscribe to indoor-outdoor living? A ceiling fan suggests you keep the living room's sliding doors open to the screened lanai and pool area. Surrounded in full with lush landscaping, you'll really love the pool's total privacy.
Upstairs, a third floor den is the perfect place for reading or enjoying a movie in an even more elegant setting. A white sectional might be the sweetest spot in the house: an end chaise facing another TV and fireplace, with high ceilings and expansive lake and golf course views through the open sliding doors to your right. Thirsty? A wet bar means that reading hour easily segues into happy hour without the trek downstairs.
This non-smoking home sleeps up to 10 guests in 4 bedrooms (with a generous 4 full bathrooms). Propped up in your king-sized master bed there's nothing between you and the ocean sunrise except a charming lake and bright golf course greens.
Forget Jack & Jill, the master en suite has two full-sized vanities; one for each of you. Even more, there's both a walk-in shower and an elegant free-standing bath tub.
The second bedroom has a queen bed and a really relaxing feel, with not an ounce of clutter to distract. In bedroom three, the double bed is equally put-together and its trundle bed makes it a great kids' or teens' room, or one for parents with a young child.
In the kitchen, use miles of counter space for any culinary aim. A gas hob, extra deep under-mount stainless steel sink and dual ovens are obvious inclusions in a house of this caliber. All kitchen amenities are provided, including a toaster. Determined to stay outside? The outdoor kitchen has a large grill with adjacent prep area and sink. (Did we mention the outdoor fireplace?) The lanai wraps around the private pool and the entire area is screened for your total comfort.
In the 'spoil your rotten' category, Wind Song, of course stocks great amenities. The laundry is a full room, rather than a closet, meaning lots of space to do any hand-washing (keeping your new swimsuit in perfect condition).
Around the property the large yard is great for kids. The beach path is just beside the house and delivers your feet to the sand in just a few minutes' walk.
Looking for the perfect house to keep ten people happy? What about ten picky people? End your search here and get ready to step wide-eyed into Wind Song.
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- Gas Grill
- Golf Courses
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- Hiking Trails
- Hot Tub
- Patio
- Pool
- Sight-Seeing
- Swimming
- Walkway to Water
- Wildlife Viewing
- 97 miles to Disney World
- 30 miles - Daytona Airport (DAB)
- 75 miles Jackville Airport (JAX)
- 90 miles - Orlando Airport (MCO)
- Baseball Park
- Football Stadium
- Jacksonville Stadium (Jaguars)
- Kennedy Space Center
- Lighthouse
- Marine Land
- Museums
- St Augustine Historic Town
- Symphony Orchestra
- Theatre
- Ocean Hammock Beach Resort
- Palm Coast, Florida
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- Cookware
- Dishwasher
- Full Kitchen
- Ice Maker
- Microwave
- Oven
- Refrigerator
- Stove
- Toaster
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- Cable Television
- DVD Player
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- Exceptional Sunrises
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- Exceptional Views
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Base: 0, 2995, 5995
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The Memphis held a press conference this morning to introduce Allen Iverson, and AI, who's entering his 16th NBA season, explained that this season has taken a whole new significance for him.
From the Kansas City Star:
"This year for me, it's personal. It's going to be like my rookie season all over again," said Iverson. "It hurts. I read the papers. I listen to some of the things people say...about my struggles last season, saying I lost a step. They (are) trying to put me in a rocking chair already."
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A one-year-old little boy can now walk thanks to a new prosthetic leg.Lincoln Mouser has spent his whole life overcoming impossible odds. He was born at 23 1/2 weeks and weighed just over a pound.Doctors had to amputate part of his right leg because of a circulation problem. Doctors were not optimistic about him surviving. His twin sister Abigail died just days after their birth.Despite all the odds, Mouser pulled through and is now inspiring others with his determination to walk with a prosthesis.His mom, Andrea Mouser, says, "It makes us feel amazing and wonderful and very proud because initially, we didn't know if he'd ever be able to walk. Seeing him progress from crawling now to walking is a great feeling."She says he's getting into cabinets and climbing up on the couch."it's going to be hard to keep him out of stuff," Andrea says.
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Vogue's UK website has been taken over by dinosaurs wearing high end hats.
On Thursday, various Internet sources began reporting that if you typed in the Konami Code on Vogue's website, the lower third of the site would be taken over by dinosaurs.
For those of you who aren't children of the 80's, the Konami Code is a video game cheat code that you could type in during the title screen of many games, like Contra, Castlevania, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Dance Dance Revolution, to get free skills or bonus items.
So our Digital Team immediately went in to test it.
Here's how it works:
Vogue officials say the dinosaur fun isn't hacking, it was an Easter Egg put on the site on purpose. Or was it a Dinosaur Egg...
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Orange County
Broad, level expanses of sand make this part of California a beach-lover's paradise. Dramatic cliffs frame the antics of swimmers, divers, and beachcombers, while nature preserves draw those who enjoy watching birds. Inland, wooded canyons, a small beach community established in the 1920s, and bike trails offer more variety.
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