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Thule is the greek word for most northern place. Thule was a municipality in northern Greenland, until it was overtaken by the U.S. Army at the height of the cold war. The native population was resettled 67 miles to the North, in Qaanaaq. The resettlement happened in four days without any prior notice. Quaanaaq has a population of 656 as of 2013. Source: Wikipedia.
"When I was born and growing up, we had nothing to do with the people that were there – they wouldn't even say hello! But the soldiers started to come and say hello – very young and smiley. We didn't understand each other but they made us laugh."
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Project Iceworm was the code name for a top-secret US Army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. To study the feasibility of working under the ice, a highly publicized "cover" project, known as Camp Century, was launched in 1960. Source: Wikipedia.
"It was around springtime – May – the ice condition was no good. We were some of the last ones to leave. My father wasn't that young anymore. He had had a tipee when he was young, he was a bit weak. My three brothers had to bring their young children over the ice, then come back to get us. They came back for us. "
Thule Air Base is the United States Air Force's northernmost base, located 1,207 km (750 mi) north of the Arctic Circle and 1,524 km (947 mi) from the North Pole on the northwest side of Greenland. Source: Wikipedia.
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The persistence of two reporters pays off in revealing how local government failed residents who worried about connections between corporate behavior and the high incidence of brain cancer.
By Kevin P. Craver
Tan southwest homes gave way to desert as Interstate 10 took us out of Phoenix, and I couldn't help but dwell on the voice mail greeting I'd recorded the day before from my desk in Crystal Lake, Illinois. "I will be out on assignment …."
It's a phrase I'd never uttered in seven years with the Northwest Herald, a small paper in McHenry County, Illinois, two of them as the newspaper's senior reporter. In these trying times for newspapers, talking the editors of a 38,000-circulation daily into two plane tickets and two hotel rooms is worthy of a story in and of itself.
Sitting in the passenger seat on the sunny October 2007 day was Danielle Guerra, a 22-year-old videographer and Vanderbilt University graduate, whose persistence was one of the reasons for the trip. And ahead of us on I-10 was an interview that we both wanted and dreaded to conduct. Waiting in that Phoenix suburb was Joanne Branham, who lived much of her life in the small town of McCullom Lake, nestled in McHenry County, a county northwest of Chicago. She and her husband of 44 years, Franklin, had moved to Arizona after raising five children to spend their sunset years somewhere warm.
But that was not to be—Franklin died in 2004 of glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer, a deadly disease that afflicts slightly more than three people per 100,000. That wasn't the main reason Danielle and I hopped on a plane. Months after Franklin's diagnosis, two of his former next-door neighbors in McCullom Lake were diagnosed with brain cancer as well. All three families in April 2006 sued two manufacturers, Rohm and Haas and Modine Manufacturing, located a mile north of their homes in the neighboring village of Ringwood. For decades, consultants had tracked a plume of volatile organic chemicals in the groundwater from their operations.
After more than a year of covering the issue piecemeal, Guerra and I convinced our editors to let us pursue what turned into a six-part investigation full-time, also atypical for such a small-size newspaper. By the day of our trip, 22 current and former residents, all but four with brain and nerve cancer, had sued the companies.
One of my favorite proverbs from a book of sayings that my late father kept in his study was that age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill. But whoever came up with that bromide never examined what could happen if you merged the two—Guerra's youth and skill and my age and treachery—toward a common goal. The two of us—and the Northwest Herald—banked our reputations on the answer.
In the multimedia presentation of this story, Joanne Branham expresses profound sadness about her husband's death from a glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor that she and other families similarly affected believe was caused by industrial contaminants near their home in McCullom Lake, Illinois.
Moving Pictures
I had worked on stories with multimedia components before embarking on this series, but nothing this ambitious. Guerra and I agreed at the beginning that every story in the series would have accompanying video, and I attended almost every interview or shoot that she conducted. I quickly learned of multimedia's potential—its raw power to reach out and grab viewers by the collar and not let them go.
Arizona's climate had been good to Joanne Branham. She was healthier than many people half her age, and she had the energy to manage a restaurant, where patrons affectionately called her "Aunt Jo." Guerra's camera captured an interview that I could not have conveyed if the editors gave me the entire "A" section and half of Sports. Print could not capture the amazing volume of tears that spilled down her face, or the cracking in her voice as she recalled Franklin's last moments. Upon his diagnosis, doctors gave him six months to live, but he barely made it one month.
Weeks later, that same camera came along with us to Philadelphia, home of Rohm and Haas's world headquarters and the attorney who took the villagers' cases. It captured the crusading style of Aaron Freiwald, a former investigative reporter himself before entering law, as well as the measured tones of Rohm and Haas's spokesman and the company's counsel.
As we traveled down the back roads of eastern Pennsylvania, multimedia helped capture the curious tale of Spring House, a Rohm and Haas research campus where 15 or so employees, five of them in one hallway, have developed brain cancer. Moving pictures again told a thousand words as former corporate executive Tom Haag gave us a tour in his car, pointing out who died in which part of which building.
And while the interview of widow Joan Szerlik didn't have the raw grief of Branham's—it had been 14 years since Szerlik lost her husband, who worked at Spring House, to brain cancer—it caught how perplexed she was at the company's conclusion that the 15 cases were coincidence.
The story's true test came when Editor Dan McCaleb sat down at Guerra's computer to watch the first video of the series, which featured Branham's heart-wrenching tale. Through the corner of my eye, I noticed the boss tearing up a bit, which is no small feat if you ask any journalist. The verdict was in, although unspoken—the time and money spent on the project was more than worth it.
Digging Up Buried Information
But what kind of investigative work could a newspaper with the limited resources of the Northwest Herald hope to execute? I was an army of one writer—no bright-eyed college interns, no gofers, only me. Six stories averaging 100 inches, not counting sidebars, based on numerous interviews and tens of thousands of pages of data, requires the Melinda Mae approach. (Melinda Mae was the little girl in a Shel Silverstein poem who decided to eat a whale. She did it in 89 years, which I didn't have.)
Melinda Mae did it one bite at a time. Likewise, all I could do was begin to pore over everything—one page, one question at a time. But doing so required a flurry of FOIA requests to local, state and federal agencies, as well as about $1,500 worth of legal dockets downloaded from the U.S. District Court where a class-action lawsuit on behalf of McCullom Lake residents had been filed.
This deliberative strategy paid dividends. The information I received showed, for starters, that the former owners of one of the factories knew about the pollution a decade before reporting it to environmental authorities. Private e-mails from the environmental consultants who mapped the water pollution showed they had serious concerns about the accuracy of their data.
For me, the bigger question was just how the McHenry County Department of Health had done its research to reach its conclusion that nothing was wrong, when it found that the defendant manufacturers were not responsible for these cancers. Just one month after the first lawsuits had been filed, county health officials had pronounced before worried village residents that local cancer rates were not above average and presented maps showing the contamination far from village wells. But the cancer data the county relied on were from years before nearly everyone involved in these lawsuits had gotten sick. More ominously, many of the maps that the county trotted out to calm the masses stated in small letters, "Provided by Rohm and Haas."
Curious as to whether the county appointed a fox to guard a chicken coop on the taxpayer's dime, I acquired every e-mail, document or cocktail napkin in which county officials referenced the brain cancers, as well as attorney Freiwald's deposition of the county epidemiologist. What I found was the crowning achievement of our series, as our watchdog journalism enabled us to publish evidence of government failing the people.
The series revealed that, aside from relying on out-of-date data and maps provided by the defendant companies, the epidemiologist depended on college textbooks, class notes, and Web sites to hastily assemble the study. The study had no protocol, ignored accepted standards for researching disease, and its authors privately ran it by Rohm and Haas executives before showing it to the public.
This interactive map gives users the ability to see where cancer patients lived in proximity to one another and to the factories and the alleged water contamination.
Map courtesy of the Northwest Herald.
Public Reaction
The series, "Coincidence or Cluster?," was published in December 2007. It has won at least a dozen awards for investigative and online journalism, but its ultimate accolade is one that Guerra and I strived for from the start—none of what we reported in the series has ever been proven wrong. Not one fact, not one statistic has ever been successfully disputed, though county officials tried—if by "tried" one means that they jumped up and down and screamed about the stories. In a meeting in which they planned to highlight "key facts" we chose to "downplay, spin or ignore," their defense amounted to the fact that the whole mess was state government's responsibility.
Our diligence did not end with the series. As with any good investigative effort, "Coincidence or Cluster?" shook other facts loose. For example, we learned that county officials downplayed some critical facts involving their own activity in regard to this public health issue; they obtained some of the bombshell memos in our series a year before it ran, but chose not to read them.
Following our series, one advisor to the county health board told its members, "People's memories who read the newspapers are short. So maybe in about a year, nobody will remember this."
Yet again, they were wrong. And the reason is because a small newspaper refused to believe it was too small to tackle such an ambitious project, not only in print, but also with video.
Kevin Craver, senior reporter at the Northwest Herald, got his start in journalism drawing comic strips for the Northern Star, his college newspaper. He and Danielle Guerra were named 2008 Journalists of the Year by Suburban Newspapers of America for their work on "Coincidence or Cluster?." The series has won recognition from The Associated Press, the Illinois Press Association, the Chicago Headline Club, Washington Monthly, and the Chicago Journalists Association.
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Sandi says:
June 21, 2010 at 1:42pm
You should be very proud of yourselves! Keep up the great work! Thank you for keeping us accurately informed and not fudging the truth as the McHenry Department of Health and Rohm & Haas have been trying to do!
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Yes, it's pretty much old news considering this is what director Christopher Nolan has been saying about "The Dark Knight Rises" since day one. But, considering the recent rumors about Joseph Gordon-Levitt (which have been denied by his reps) playing Batman in "Justice League," it's worth reminding folks how Nolan views the final entry in his trilogy as well as the possibilities of continuing the story.
The director recently sat down for a lengthy chat with Scount Foundas of Film Comment and, when asked about revisiting Gotham and the possibility of a door being left open at the end of the film, Nolan makes it clear that while the theme of the movie is about an enduring myth and legend, when it comes to the story, it's all wrapped up. "For me, 'The Dark Knight Rises' is specifically and definitely the end of the Batman story as I wanted to tell it, and the open-ended nature of the film is simply a very important thematic idea that we wanted to get into the movie, which is that Batman is a symbol. He can be anybody, and that was very important to us," he explained.
"Not every Batman fan will necessarily agree with that interpretation of the philosophy of the character, but for me it all comes back to the scene between Bruce Wayne and Alfred in the private jet in 'Batman Begins,' where the only way that I could find to make a credible characterization of a guy transforming himself into Batman is if it was as a necessary symbol, and he saw himself as a catalyst for change and therefore it was a temporary process, maybe a five-year plan that would be enforced for symbolically encouraging the good of Gotham to take back their city," he continued to explain. "To me, for that mission to succeed, it has to end, so this is the ending for me, and as I say, the open-ended elements are all to do with the thematic idea that Batman was not important as a man, he's more than that. He's a symbol, and the symbol lives on."
Again, it's nothing particularly revelatory, but it does indicate that Nolan deems the book closed on his trilogy. And it underscores why taking a character from that world and placing him in another franchise would be a bit of disservice to what he has created. But let us know your thoughts below -- can the series and characters live on without Nolan or is a fresh reboot what's needed?
David | November 29, 2012 4:12 AM
I'll be honest after seeing the movie I was a bit disappointed. It seems like he may have closed up the trilogy as he says, in terms of how Batman "endures" and becomes a symbol of the people and can pass the torch new hand, however he did leave the story open.
What I think he has done is left it open for Bruce Wayne to come back as Batman. He names Blake at the end of the movie as "Robin" and sends him to the "Bat Cave". Fox knows he's not dead and will continue to make gadgets and make sure he gets his company and money back, Alfred knows he's not dead and will help resurrect him from the dead, and it seems like Commissioner Gordon has fixed the Bat signal in the same anticipation. Bringing him back isn't hard either they've done it before, and can do it again. They can make it look like because he was broke and he decided to leave, was presumed dead because they thought he was killed along with all that happened with Bane in Gotham and wasn't found and was presumed dead along with many others, this will help him get Wayne Enterprises back. Don't forget Scarecrow wasn't dealt with, Harley Quinn never enters, and the Joker wasn't seen in this movie and dealt with. Plus, Catwomen is with him, but was never officially announced as such and whole lot more could be added to the story with her.
I just hope they decide to make a 4th entry or standalone that adds more to they way we love to see Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) as Batman and see some Arkham Asylum next time.
Joe | November 28, 2012 9:50 PM
Again I don't fully buy the entire Rise storyline being Nolan's original trilogy plan. Not sure where I read it but I do remember an interview where Nolan had intended for Knight's murky open ended storyline to be the catalyst to the then possible third entry. But he stated that given Ledgers death they were left at a loss as to how the story could be wrapped due to not wanting another actor play the Joker role. The final film is hard to digest simply due to Nolan being uniterested in a lack luster story he just becomes overly cocky and just slapping empty jingoistic images on the screen along with oddly paced edits, and nonsensical story sequences; its basic psuedo intellectual porn. I'd take old fashioned Hollywood style Burton Batman anytime over this overhyped substitute.
SFlare | November 28, 2012 9:46 PM
He's made a wonderful trio of Batman films. It would be a strange decision by Warner to try to shoehorn a character invented by Nolan for specific thematic purposes into the Justice League as a ham-fisted way of trying to capitalise on the Avengers model.
Ben | November 28, 2012 9:16 PM
The 1989-1997 Anthology was good, but rushed into.
The 2005-2012 Trilogy was excellent, It was "Tougher" and it was a short hand full.
I would like a reboot in the future, and I want along fans and critics to love. To turn it into a "New 52/Arkham games Style". For once I would love to see:-
Red Robin
Mad Hatter
Harley Quinn
Red Hood
Killer Croc
In a gothic dark toned and with psychotic behaviour.
Nina | November 28, 2012 8:05 PM
all i want to say is Thank You Christopher Nolan and all the cast and crew for making one of the greatest trilogy of all time!
Are777 | November 28, 2012 7:49 PM
There is no doubt that Chris Nolan has made superhero cinematic history with his Dark Knight trilogy. For some, its a matter of debate about whether he has made the definitive Batman films. Personally, I believe he has done just that, and, no matter how one wishes to interpret Nolan's finish in Rises, I believe it is safe to say that Nolan's Batman is retired. To take a character from this universe and attempt to juxtapose it into a shared universe, as mentioned below, would not only be a mistake, it would potentially ruin everything that made Chris's Batman trilogy so great in the first place. Nolan introduced a visionary series of Batman films that the viewer could absolutely believe to be real. The idea that something that sounds so absurd, a man dressing as a bat and pummeling criminals with his bare hands worked - and man did it ever do more than work. It revolutionized the way an audience sees a superhero. Therefore, with all of Nolan's gritty realism, to take from that a character firmly rooted in that world, and place him in a shared DC Universe would be out of place. The symbol lives on, yes, The Batman can be anybody brave enough to stand against injustice. John Robin Blake is not that man though, and nor should Warner and DC carry that character over. I say leave Nolan's Batman trilogy alone, just as we left the Wachowskie brothers Matrix trilogy alone.
Coop | November 28, 2012 6:55 PM
Nolan doesn't own Batman, WB/DC does. If WB wants to make Nolan-esque Batman sequels or JLA movies and offers same roles to the actors from Nolan Batman movies, it's up to the actors accept the offers or not. When I first encountered HitFix's scoop, I immediately thought that JGL was campaigning for the role. Of course his rep has to deny that whatever the reality is.
Rob | November 28, 2012 6:23 PM
Anyone who wants Nolan's take on Batman to continue needs to read this interview. The story is said and done. His take is hermetically sealed off from other superheroes. As soon as you add aliens and powers, you make the conflicts in this trilogy absurd. Let this be the end, the only thing one does in connecting it to other superheroes is soil its good name.
Christian | November 28, 2012 6:11 PM
Nolan is totally on the mark. Completely agreed with him and he has elevated the end of Batman to an everlasting symbol of justice instead of just another "The Adventures of Batsy will continue..." (cough...Marvel...cough). Great job, Chris!
hank | November 28, 2012 6:02 PM
no shit?
KT | November 28, 2012 6:01 PM
This makes sense.
I view Nolan's Batman trilogy as a graphic novel, if you will, that tells its own separate, self-contained story. That's why Bale's Batman or Gordon-Leavitt's Robin/Nightwing wouldn't work in the same world as the 'Man of Steel'.
From an inception stand-point (no pun intended), the (re)introduction of (a young) Superman is the best way for DC/WB to get the ball rolling with a clean slate for their superhero properties. With all of their heroes under one house if they do it correctly and they could make a killing...


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Former #Chargers GM A.J. Smith is in Indianapolis this week (presumably to find work). Various NFL execs saw him last night.— Adam Caplan (@caplannfl) February 24, 2013
Tavon Austin didn't run sub 4.4. He ran sub 4.3. - hand-timed at 4.25! Almost got to Chris Johnson's 4:24 Combine 40 time.#wow— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) February 24, 2013
Texas WR Marquise Goodwin clocks 4.25, tying Austin. A track athlete.— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) February 24, 2013
Welcome to sure fire first-round status, Tavon Austin— ryan van bibber (@justRVB) February 24, 2013
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Georgia's Jarvis Jones did get favorable review on neck (stenosis) from Dr. Craig Brigham (neck, spine specialist), per various teams— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) February 24, 2013
Te'o measured 6-1 and weighed 240.He's not rocked up like a Patrick Willis. He's a 3-4 ILB or consideration at OLB by some teams— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) February 24, 2013
Specialist golf tourney been a blast... Sawgrass is kicking my butt tho. twitter.com/jdrescher88/st…— Justin Drescher (@jdrescher88) February 24, 2013
USC safety T.J. McDonald confident that he's the best safety in this year's draft class— Jason Garrison (@JGarrisonSBN) February 24, 2013
Back from Indy but have more coming from my interviews the last few days. Follow @jgarrisonsbn and @mockingthedraft who are still in Indy.— Matthew Fairburn (@MatthewFairburn) February 24, 2013
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Tyrann Mathieu: "My best friend right now is honesty" wp.me/p14QSB-7p3j— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) February 24, 2013
Swearinger says he's the best safety in this year's draft class. That makes three best safeties so far.— Jason Garrison (@JGarrisonSBN) February 24, 2013
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Saturday's Combine Combo
2013 NFL Combine: Arthur Brown says he can play any linebacker position | SBNation.com
Jason Garrison - While addressing the media at the 2013 NFL Combine in Indianapolis, Kansas State linebacker Arthur Brown said that he has the ability to play any linebacker position.
2013 NFL Combine Diary Day 3: Te'o Media Swarm | Cincy Jungle
Jason Garrison - The focus of the 2013 NFL Combine switched from coaches and team personnel to almost exclusively players on Saturday as linebackers and defensive linemen addressed the media.
2013 NFL Combine Saturday winners and losers | SBNation.com
Dan Kadar - There were WINNERS and LOSERS both on the field and off. It's so staggeringly important that both words were capitalized.
Terron Armstead, Lane Johnson head banner day for O-linemen | NFL.com
Daniel Jeremiah - Offensive line is one of the deepest areas of the 2013 NFL Draft, and the position group certainly didn't disappoint in field drills on Saturday at the NFL Scouting Combine.
LSU DEs Sam Montgomery, Barkevious Mingo take competing into the NFL draft: Combine notebook | NOLA.com
Jim Kleinpeter - Montgomery and Mingo have a bet on who will be drafted first.
LSU's Sam Montgomery admits he didn't always play full speed for Tigers | NOLA.com
Jim Kleinpeter - Montgomery seemed comfortable admitting that he didn't always play hard during his college days, depending on the opponent.
Former LSU football players have lofty goals | The Advocate
George Bremer - Barkevious Mingo was addressing reporters Saturday at the NFL Scouting Combine when a voice in the crowd asked whether the former LSU defensive end was going to miss playing alongside the guy sitting next to him.
2013 NFL Draft Prospect Meetings | walterfootball.com
An alphabetical team-by-team list of 2013 draft prospects who have met with individual NFL teams.
Hmmmm. Jim Kleinpeter (above, with Nakia Hogan) looks like he's partied with Rob Ryan a few times...because they have shaggy hair and goatees. Hey, I'm in that group, too, then!!
Saints Stuff
Draft prospects the New Orleans Saints have met with prior to NFL Scouting Combine | whodatdish.com
Gene Higginbotham
New Orleans Saints could covet college defensive ends making switch to outside linebacker | NOLA.com
Nakia Hogan - LSU's Barkevious Mingo among list of players to get work at OLB at combine.
Could Tracy Porter be headed back to the New Orleans Saints? | whodatdish.com
Gene Higginbotham
Top 5 Saints' Playmakers Ever | thesaintsnation.com
Holden Blake
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Reggie Bush unlikely to re-sign with Miami Dolphins | NFL.com
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The location was close to the highway and shopping
smoking sections of the hotel were gagging when you walked throughEnjoyed our stay, would book again
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Q&A with Toledo safety Barry Church
Toledo's Barry Church talked to PFW about his prolific college career, those disappointing 40-times, funny sayings from Pittsburgh (his hometown) and a crippling fear of bees.
A look at four books on football
Tom Danyluk shares his thoughts on a variety of football books he recently had the chance to peruse — two from the vaults and two current tomes.
Bengals re-sign C Cook
The Bengals re-signed C Kyle Cook, an exclusive-rights free agent, on Wednesday. He started all 16 games for Cincinnati last season.
Bengals keeping defense together
Undoubtedly, the signing of ex-Buccaneers WR Antonio Bryant in March was the Bengals' most significant individual move of the offseason. The Bengals' offseason moves on defense have received less attention. but they have been important.
Report: Bengals re-sign DE Rucker
According to a report from the Cincinnati Enquirer's Joe Reedy, the Bengals have re-signed RFA Frostee Rucker, a defensive end for the team.
Ravens' PK situation fluid once again
The Ravens' interest in Shayne Graham is a clear indication the club isn't tied to having Billy Cundiff beginning the 2010 season as its placekicker.
Bengals re-sign LB Jeanty
The Bengals re-signed SLB Rashad Jeanty, a restricted free agent, on Thursday.
With Bryant in fold, is pass-catching TE next for Bengals?
With Antonio Bryant in the fold, wide receiver becomes a lesser priority in the draft for the Bengals. However, tight end still looms as a position they could address early.
Bengals agree to one-year deal with S Williams
The Bengals have agreed to a one-year deal with S Roy Williams, reports indicate.
Redskins agree to deal with Larry Johnson
The Redskins and RB Larry Johnson have come to an agreement on a three-year contract, according to various published reports.
Bengals sign WR Davis
The Bengals signed ex-Titans WR Chris Davis on Friday. Terms were not disclosed.
Bengals re-sign DT Johnson
The Bengals re-signed DT Tank Johnson on Thursday.
Reports: Bengals agree with WR Bryant
The Bengals, in need of a playmaking wide receiver to pair with Chad Ochocinco, have agreed with UFA Buccaneers wideout Antonio Bryant on a four-year contract, according to multiple media outlets.
Bengals re-sign TE Coats
The Bengals re-signed TE Daniel Coats on Wednesday. Terms were not disclosed.
Smith on mend, in line for bigger role with Bengals
The Bengals have high hopes for second-year ORT Andre Smith. Head coach Marvin Lewis, speaking at the Combine, said that Smith's ability to work with the club in the offseason will help "immensely."
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Ghee has been placed on injured reserve by the Bengals with a groin injury.||||||| Cincinnati visits Pittsburgh on Sunday in an AFC North matchup.
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Midway Middle School was evacuated Wednesday morning due to a suspicious device found in a car. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Liberty County Sheriff's Office are trying to remove the car and suspicious device parked near the school so parents can pick up their children. Liberty County Sheriff Steve Sikes said their office received a call about possible bomb at the middle school, which is just off of US Hwy 84 and US 17. The sheriff said a car that was stolen out of Savannah had a device in it with all the appearances of a bomb - with wires and butane tank in the woodline behind the school. They're still working to figure out of it's a bomb, but they are taking all precautionary measures as if it was one.
Superintendent Dr. Valya S. Lee told WTOC that Midway Middle School was evacuated and Liberty Elementary School is still on lockdown, but that there is no immediate danger.
The GBI responded and blew windows out of car. The sheriff said bomb threat could have been a diversion for credit union robbery nearby. Middle school students were taken to the high school. Any students still on school buses were taken to Liberty County High School where parents can pick them up.Lee said the school district is calling parents to alert them about the situation. Parents are waiting to hear about their children on Edgewater Drive, which is where the elementary school and the middle school are located.
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Firefighters responded to 109 Roanoke Avenue just after 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
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Jeff Leiding, the heart of sensational Texas defenses of the early 80's has passed away at the age of 52 of a heart attack.
Steve Patterson has been the Athletics Director for only a few months at his alma mater, but he isn't shy about being a major spokesman for the current collegiate system that is under attack.
Texas and OU have agreed to keep playing in Dallas and in the Cotton Bowl through 2025, which will the 97th straight meeting between the two teams in the venerable stadium.
Texas basketball announced most of their non-conference schedule for the 2014-15 and the defending national champion Connecticut Huskies are on the slate.
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Backbone Trail Part 2
Hiking distance: 11.7-miles.
Hiking time: 4 1/2 hours.
Highlights: Most of this stretch of the Backbone Trail is not complete or under construction. As of June 1, 2002, these directions follow a route that is as close as possible to the proposed finished Backbone Trail. It is necessary to walk along paved roads for a total of 2.5 miles. This hike will be updated when the trail is completed.
Elevation gain/loss: Starting elevation is 2,082 feet with the lowest elevation being 1,239 feet and the highest elevation is 2,381 feet.
Difficulty: Mostly moderate with a couple of short, strenuous climbs.
Signs: Only one trail has a Backbone sign since most of the trails included in this section of the Backbone Trail are still unofficial.
Spurs: None.
Dogs: Canines on leash are permitted on trails.
Drinking fountains and picnic tables: None.
Restrooms: Circle X Ranch ranger station, 1.6 mile southwest of the trailhead parking on Yerba Buena Road.
Directions to trailhead: Leave a shuttle car at the end of the hike. From Las Posas Road on Highway 1, drive 19.3 miles east to Kanan Dume Road and turn left. From Highway 1 travel 4.5 miles north on Kanan Dume Road to a parking lot on the left. To the trailhead: From the parking lot turn left and drive north on Kanan Dume Road for 1.8 miles and turn left onto Mulholland Highway. Drive another 0.9 mile and turn right staying on Mulholland Highway. Continue for another 2.4 miles to the intersection with Highway 23 and turn left. Drive 1.9 miles south and turn right staying on Mulholland Highway. Turn right again 0.4 mile farther onto Little Sycamore Canyon Road. Drive 3.9 miles on this road, which becomes Yerba Buena Road at the county line, and park on the left side of the road.
Hiking directions: Start walking southeast (to the right) back toward the Ventura/Los Angeles county line. At 0.95 mile turn right at a dirt road and look on the left for a narrow foot path that drops down to the recently constructed Backbone Trail. Turn left on the new trail and at 1.9 miles the trail turns into an older dirt road. Follow the dirt road and at 2.1 miles turn right, back onto the paved road. At 2.57 miles turn left onto the dirt road and head toward the white gate. Go around the gate and follow this fire road where the next gate is at 5.15 miles. There is another gate at 5.21 miles and the highway is just beyond. Turn right on the paved road and at 6.33 miles is Clark Ranch Road, a dirt road on the left. A good place for lunch and rest is just beyond the dirt road, on the left, under the oak and pine trees. After a break, go back to the gate on Clark Ranch Road, now at 6.44 miles. Turn right and follow this road to the next gate at 7.01 miles. On the other side of the gate turn left and cross Encinal Canyon Road at 7.1 miles. On the other side of the pavement follow the dirt road to the gate at 7.17 miles. Go around the gate and turn left 50 yards later onto the narrow foot path. There is a rope barrier a little farther and at 7.67 miles the trail curves to the right following the more worn path. The trail goes through a grove of eucalyptus trees and crosses a creek at 7.7 miles. You'll come to a T intersection at 8.1 miles and turn left. At 8.52 miles continue straight and follow the narrow trail uphill. You'll come to a fire road at 9.05 miles and turn left. There is a Backbone Trail sign on the right at 9.17 miles. It is 2.5 miles on this trail to the parking lot. You'll cross a bridge at 10.7 miles and at 11.2 miles turn right, at the fork, for the last half mile. The parking lot is at 11.7 miles.
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46mp @5fps wow wonder what the buffer will be if true, and shudder to think what the price will be bet it will make the 5D3 entry price look like a real bargin! good to see though
I'd love a 32MP at 7fps and good low iso DR and 4k video in C300-style blocks even more .
Or 39MP and 6fps and good low ISO DR. losing the 1 fps to go 39MP to 46MP is not worth it. at 6fps it can also do action much better than at 5fps.
But anyway it may be a very nice cam 46 5fps mix in top low ISO DR and 5D3 AF and 5D3 size (please not a 1 series brick). And at least 5fps starts getting you there. It would be awesome if they gave it a crop mode so you don't need to waste so much space on far off subjects and boosted fps to 6-8fps for crop mode. All that and it makes the D800 look pretty weak. Lot of IFs though. Wonder what kind of video they can get out of a 46MP sensor though.


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The Royals and Rays pulled off a blockbuster deal on Sunday night, with Kansas City agreeing to send center fielder Wil Myers, RHP Jake Odorizzi, LHP Mike Montgomery and third baseman Patrick Leonard to Tampa Bay in exchange for RHP James Shields, RHP Wade Davis and a player to be named later (or cash).
Myers, the Minor League Player of the Year, headlines the prospect package heading to Florida. The 22-year-old outfielder had a breakout campaign in 2012, pounding Double-A pitching to the tune of .343/.414/.731 with 13 home runs in 152 plate appearances before a promotion to Triple-A, where he proceeded to hit .304/.378/.554 with 24 homers.
Odorizzi, who went to Kansas City via the first Zack Greinke trade, made his major-league debut last season, tossing 7⅓ innings and allowing four runs on eight hits and four walks. However, the 22-year-old sparkled in the minors, where he pitched 145⅓ innings between Double- and Triple-A with a 3.03 ERA. He also registered 135 strikeouts.
Montgomery also spent 2012 between Double- and Triple-A, though he did not find the same success as Myers and Odorizzi. The southpaw started 27 games between the two levels and was pounded for 179 hits in just 149⅔ innings.
Leonard, a 2011 fifth-round pick, made his professional debut in 2012, hitting .251/.340/.494 in 268 plate appearances for the Rookie League Burlington Royals.
Shields will front Kansas City's revamped rotation. The soon-to-be 31-year-old is signed through the 2014 season. During the 2012 campaign, "Big Game" James fired 227⅔ innings, recording 223 strikeouts and posting a 3.42 FIP.
Davis, who lost his rotation spot and was converted to a relief role, found an uptick in both his velocity and strikeouts in the bullpen in 2012. The 27-year-old righty threw 70⅓ innings and finished off 15 contests for the Rays, whiffing 87 batters en route to a 2.73 FIP.


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September 3, 2014
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First meeting of the 2014 -2015 Club year
Speaker: Tom Jacobson
Tom Jacobson joined Rural Dynamics, Inc. (RDI) as Executive Director in September of 2003. His responsibilities include providing strategic direction for the development and administration of RDI initiatives, programs, policy agendas, and public relations efforts. He has led this 45 year old non-profit agency into expanding its financial counseling programs to assist consumers as they move along an economic continuum from dependence to independence. Tom is also a current legislator in the Montana House of Representatives and was assigned to Taxation, Health and Human Services, and Fish Wildlife and Parks committees in the latest, 63rd session.
Tom and his team turned a 45 year old agency on its head, figuring out what it took to be current. Every concept was worth exploring to come up with the right mix for today's environment. "Thinking outside the box" doesn't even come close to describing this process. Tom also spent time in Africa and learned some quick lessons about himself and others. You will leave this meeting ready to take on any challenges.
Tom is married to Charity Jacobson and together they have three children at home and three in college and on their own. In what spare time they have they enjoy hiking, camping, fishing and most anything that keeps them outdoors.
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This Saddle Maker's Daughter weaves together her unique humor and storytelling skills to share Western Wit and Wisdom for the Workplace™. She's helped businesses, nonprofits, schools, government agencies and associations improve leadership, change management, project management, sales, marketing, communications, and customer service. Jeri Mae has served as president of "almost every organization I've belonged to since Lively Livestock 4-H." She is a Past-President of the National Speaker's Association's Mountain West Chapter serving professional speakers in Idaho, Utah, Montana, and Wyoming and serves on the Board of the Richfield, Utah Chamber. She has also served as president of her Chamber of Commerce, Faculty Senate, Convention and Visitor Bureau, Society of Human Resource Managers, and the Montana Speakers Network.
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October 14, 2014
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October 15, 2014
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Holiday Inn @ 12:00PM
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The family will receive friends on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, from noon until 2 p.m. at Collins-Burke Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at 2 p.m. in the Collins-Burke Chapel, with burial at Oak Hill Cemetery. The Rev. Greg Story will officiate, Collins-Burke Funeral Home will direct.
Mrs. Burton was preceded in death by her father, Van Odom; mother, Emma Courington Odom; husband, Johnny Burton; son, Jack Burton; sister, Grace Deason; and brothers, Willard Odom, Lawrence Odom, Lloyd Odom, M.C. Odom, Jack Odom and Gerald Odom.
She is survived by her daughters, Ruth Chaffin (Glenn), Marie Kimbrell, Barbara Rollo and Patricia Phillips; daughter-in-law, Joyce Burton; brother, Roy Odom and Dewey Odom; 10 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.


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The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) has confirmed its first case of chikungunya virus this year in a South Carolina resident.
The case occurred in an Upstate resident who recently returned from a trip to Haiti.
Chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne illness traditionally found in Africa and Asia, was recently identified in the Caribbean.
The symptoms of chikungunya are headache, fever, rash, joint swelling or muscle pain. So far the virus has only been identified in the United States in individuals who recently traveled internationally.
"The chikungunya virus is spread from person to person by the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquito," said Dr. Linda Bell, state epidemiologist with DHEC. "People who are traveling to areas where mosquito-borne viruses have been identified should take extra precautions to prevent mosquito bites."
Bell added anyone who has recently been to the Caribbean and believes they have been infected should contact their health care provider and stay indoors for at least 7 days to avoid spreading the virus to South Carolina mosquitos.
DHEC suggests protecting yourself, family and animals from any mosquito-borne illness by taking these precautions:
• Use a mosquito repellant containing DEET while outdoors
• Remove all sources of standing water around your home to prevent breeding
• Wear loose, light-colored, long clothing to cover arms and legs while outdoors
• Avoid peak mosquito times such as dawn and dusk
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When approaching the David H. Koch Theatre (pronounced "coke") at Lincoln Center, a huge light wall draws you into the glass entrance and box office lobby, and into a venue that recently experienced its most expansive renovation since it opened in 1964 as the New York State Theater. New York City Ballet and New York City Opera coordinated this renovation jointly. New side aisles redefine the look of the main floor, while many other improvements are to the technical systems, orchestra lift, and acoustics.
In the spring of 2007, New York City Opera started talks with New York City Ballet, engaging initial consultants and starting renovation planning. Late that year a feasibility study was started and completed in November. In mid-December both companies committed to proceeding with development and established financial parameters. The consultants (to name a few) were Schuler and Shook, theater consultants, JaffeHolden, acousticians, and JCJ architects.
Barbizon Lighting already had a long-standing relationship with the theatre and provided the lighting system, including dimming, control, company switches, fixtures, and installation and integration services to the theatre. The company's project management team in New York (Brian Dunn, project manager, and T. Luczak, system sales) worked closely with Polo Electric and ETC to supply, deliver, install, energize, test, and program the dimming and control system that incorporated 21 dimmer racks, seven control equipment racks, more than 2,000 circuits, as well as hundreds of terminations for the network, ETC Paradigm system, and cue lighting control.
Michael Moody, former production manager at the Manhattan Theatre Club, interviewed some of the technical people, designers, and consultants involved. This Q&A offers key responses from those interviews:
Michael Moody: So your team developed most of the changes and guided them through to fruition?
Christopher Sprague, Schuler and Shook: Yes, we worked with the architects and did a lot of mockups, and specified systems with input from the ballet and the opera, who worked together like never before. We were asked by both companies to do a very fast facelift beginning in October 2007. The Opera brought to the table making the orchestra pit movable and larger. The power for the building and the dimmers were all in the basement where the old dimmers lived. For the new layout, a lot of power in the basement had to run up to the roof and back down to the new dimmers. The circuits had to run upstairs where the positions are located, and first we had to run a new system, which ended up being a whole new duplicate system which was redundant until the last minute when we flipped it over to the new system. In June of 2009 we had to make sure that the new system was going to work before we demolished the old system before the deadline of November 5.
Michael Moody: How was the project managed in keeping with the Ballet schedule?
Ken Tabachnick, former general manager, New York City Ballet: From April 2008 to June 2008, New York City Ballet performed its Spring Season. In Spring 2008, the initial project parameters were set, and scope set for first dates of construction. During Fall 2008 (July through November), initial construction and infrastructure undertaken, then November 2007 through January 2008 New York City Ballet performed Nutcracker and its Winter Season, while additional projects were contemplated in scope of work. February 2008 through April 2008 was the second construction window, when the decision was made to add orchestra aisles. April 2009 through June 2009 New York City Ballet performed its Spring Season. July 2009 through October 2009, major construction work completed. November 2009 New York City Opera performed its Fall Season.
Michael Moody: What were the main changes in terms of lighting?
Mark Stanley, resident lighting designer, New York City Ballet: We needed to upgrade the old dimmers. We had 200 10kW Kleigl dimmers dating from 1963. Now have 2000 ETC Sensor dimmers (circuit per dimmer) located in two positions: half are in the basement (four floors below street level) where the old Kleigl dimmers where, and the other half are behind the followspot booth. We had to run conduit from the basement up the back wall of the theatre to the followspot booth, then run the circuits back to the stage via the ceiling, above the drop ceiling in the theatre….
This is a huge improvement for repertory, considering what we used to have to do with the old Kleigl patch panel. Now its all soft patch. We also got a balcony rail, new box boom positions, and new side rail positions on three levels tucked under the side balconies.
Michael Moody: In any large renovation at the State Theater, acoustics was a major concern….
Mark Holden of JaffeHolden Acoustics: I think the very first thing we did was try to understand the goal of both the Ballet and the Opera. The Ballet felt that their voice had not been adequately heard regarding the acoustics. And that everything had been Opera focused. [We had to] understand what the Ballet wanted to approve and didn't want to approve, what were the issues? Well that was an exploratory process that took us a few weeks and meetings with many members of the Ballet, Peter Martins.
One key meeting was with George Steel, general manager and artistic director of New York City Opera, to determine his goals, dreams, aspirations and passions... No one has ever asked those questions, It had been approached more mechanically, like a technical mission project, rather than from a more holistically and emotional standpoint.
We had to document the State Theatre with more measurements to understand the plaster, the backstage, and the stage floor. We held a series of additional meetings to get everything in priority order. We took some readings on the walls and one of the things we had discovered was that the hall was not as bright or clear. It had presence certainly at the high-end and there were certain areas of the room that were better than others, it wasn't a terrible room.
The Ballet was concerned mainly about "footfalls," a very Balanchine-esque concept: that the girls be very quiet, especially so their toe shoes do not sound like a herd of elephants.
The floor at the Koch and floors like it have the ability to absorb the impact of the hard shoes on the deck, and it's very good at doing that. The deck is a very important part of the room and to a lesser part the hall. The room did not support the sound of the toe shoes very well at all. That was the Ballet's major concern.
The Ballet also felt their pit orchestra was not projecting as well as it could into the auditorium. And that was a shared concern with the Opera, who also felt the orchestra was not as clear and as bright as it could be, or should be. At the same time, the Opera wanted to make sure that the voices would carry in the room; that's one of their big issues.
Given that we understood all of that, and that we'd measured the toe shoes with microphones and with level meters as well as measured dancers dancing, with all that data we were able to acoustically model some improvements to the hall, which would allow for both improvements for the Ballet and the Opera.
Michael Moody: What's new in the sound department:
Abe Jacob, head of sound, Koch Theater: I deal with video and sound. I was here for the last two of the three phases—in the first phase we got some of the heavy construction done. The second phase was putting in the video media suite, the lighting system, and the new orchestra pit and running new wire all across the building replacing all the wiring that was destroyed in the first part of the renovation. Any of the lighting and the sound control wiring that went through the orchestra pit was all destroyed.
Michael Moody: What do you think of the new system?
Abe Jacob: The improvements to room are actually quite good for the most part. It has increased the apparent reverberation time. There is more liveliness to the room from taking out the carpeted walls and putting in new chairs and removing the carpet in the aisles: adding aisles with no carpet has given this theater more surfaces to reverberate from. The new orchestra pit has a much more unified whole sound for the orchestra.
Michael Moody: What happened with the acoustic panels?
Abe Jacob: The temporary MDS panels, at the end of all the rings, were removed, and there are new acoustic walls built further back from the audience. They're not quite as visible and awkward, which opens up sidelines and do help significantly bounce the orchestra and the vocals back at the audience. These panels are right at the edge of the ring close to the proscenium.
The system from Acoustical Control Systems—the company from the Netherlands, a.k.a. ACS—was a temporary measure to increase reflections and reverberations in the Hall. It is disconnected at the present time, because of the success of the architectural renovations. The hardware is still there, the wiring for all the speakers is still there, and the speakers have been moved: they have not been thrown away. The system could be used in the future for special effects or surround sound, or as a reinforcement system rather than the architectural system it was designed for originally.
The major thing that we did sound-wise was put in a new console in the new sound booth, which was decreased in size by half, to accommodate a wheelchair lift for ADA requirements. We went to a digital console, and installed a DiGiCo SD 8. The board can do everything the old one did but it's half the footprint. Integrating that with the existing sound system was a major function, at least for us.
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Michael Bauer, Chronicle Restaurant Critic
For the fourth consecutive year, the French Laundry in Yountville has earned a rare three stars from Michelin, a name synonymous with fine dining in Europe. Thomas Keller's restaurant in Yountville tops the ratings for Michelin's 2010 San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country Guide, which is being released today.
In the nearly 110- year history of the guides, only 71 restaurants worldwide have earned three stars, described by the company as "exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey." Keller's Per Se in New York also holds three stars.
Thirty-eight other Bay Area restaurants, including two that have since closed, received either one or two stars. Two stars means "excellent cuisine, worth a detour;" one star, "a very good restaurant in its category." There are 451 restaurants included in the 2010 guide, 110 for the first time.
The two-star restaurants are Coi in San Francisco, Cyrus in Healdsburg, Manresa in Los Gatos and the Restaurant at Meadowood in St. Helena; all maintained their two-star rating from last year. However, two restaurants lost their ranking: The self-named Michael Mina in the Westin St. Francis Hotel on Union Square lost a star, while Aqua, the seafood restaurant in the Financial District, lost both its stars. This year chef Laurent Manrique left and the family that owns the restaurant has been locked in its own legal battles.
34 get one star
Michelin awarded one star to 34 restaurants, nine more than last year. Eleven restaurants received one star for the first time. They are Aziza in San Francisco; Commis in Oakland; El Paseo in Mill Valley (it has since closed); Etoile at Domaine Chandon in Yountville; La Toque in Napa; Luce in the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco; Michael Mina (demoted from two stars); Quince (which has since moved into new quarters); Sante in the Sonoma Mission Inn in Sonoma; Solbar in the Solage resort in Calistoga; and Ubuntu in Napa. Twenty-three restaurants retained their one-star ranking, including Gary Danko, La Folie and Chez Panisse.
Two Napa Valley places were dropped from last year's one-star category: Bistro Jeanty in Yountville and Martini House in St. Helena.
Excited first-timer
For those who have earned a first star, it's exciting. "It's something as a young cook you work toward for a long time," said 34-year-old Brandon Sharp of Solbar. "For me what's so special is that with Michelin it's not a sliding scale, so whether you're in Tokyo or Calistoga the star means the same."
Sharp has been cooking what he calls "American soul food" at the restaurant since it opened in July 2007. That translates to dishes such as herb-scented chicken soup with hand-made gnocchi, spicy shrimp lettuce wraps, pasilla chile-rubbed pork tacos and a double cheeseburger topped with fried pickles.
His style is an example of how the list of starred restaurants is much more eclectic in San Francisco and New York than it is in France, where the guide originated.
Roland Passot, who has had a star at San Francisco's French-centric La Folie all four years, said that growing up in France the blueprint for getting one, two and three stars was very clear.
"A bistro or something very simple in France would not be one star," he said.
Changing times, tastes
The American guides are adapting to the times. Michelin acknowledged two culinary areas that distinguish the Bay Area's restaurant scene by highlighting small plates and sake and cocktails. Small plates is a completely new classification, and has not been part of any previous guide.
Michelin's first Bay Area guide was published in 2006, a year after the first New York guide. Those are currently the only U.S. cities covered by Michelin; in the past, the company has published guides to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, but suspended them this year, citing economic concerns. Expansion to other cities is also on hold, a Michelin spokesperson said. Michelin guides cover cities in 22 countries, mostly in Europe, but also in China and Japan.