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05.17.11 Green Parenting News Roundup
Here's another compelling argument for the need for TSCA (the Toxic Substances Control Act) reform, and that we should be weary of the chemicals that are replacing BPA in many plastics. From the New York Times, Domininque Browning reviews how industry uses the next chemical, without running any safety tests. Manufacturers know they have a few years before the studies start coming back with concerns, so they ride it out.
According to the article:
"The problem is that our regulatory system allows manufacturers to introduce or continue to use chemicals that have not been adequately tested for safety. A manufacturer can replace BPA with another untested compound and get a few years' use out of it before it, too, becomes the subject of health alerts or news media attention. By the time we know what those new chemicals do to us, entire generations are affected. We are the guinea pigs."
She ends the op-ed calling for support for the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011. "We will have to make as much noise as newborns to get Congress to pay attention to Senator Lautenberg's proposal and, more broadly, to chemical regulation." I couldn't agree more. Bring on the tantrums!
Next up is a book review from the Sunday Book Review in the New York Times. It's about a new book called What's Gotten Into Us?: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World," by McKay Jenkins. This book adds to the growing reams of literature showcasing the harm chemicals are having on our bodies. The author takes on the concept of consumer culpability in decision making:
"We've allowed ourselves to become alienated from the products we use: we don't know where they come from or how they're made (let alone where they go when we're done with them). The more this physical and psychological distance between our stuff and ourselves grows — a breach filled by brands — the more confused we get. "The dumber we feel, the less confident we are in our decisions," Jenkins riffs. "The less confident we are, the more susceptible we become to the suggestion that everything is as it should be." When we reach unthinkingly for a familiar brand, "we implicitly grant authority — and trust — to what manufacturers have told us, that a product is 'safe.' "
I see this in the older generation-- a brand loyalty so devoted they can't imagine the Lysol, Chemlawn, or Nice and Easy hair dye could harm them. I'm adding this book to my reading list.
And did you see this article about BPA in receipts? While we worry about BPA in plastics, we handle receipts coated with the stuff everyday. Laurie David noticed that and worries about all the teenagers handling receipts everyday, then eating, chewing gum, or preparing food. These exposures add up. We need the Safe Chemicals Act to stop the use of BPA in all products, including receipts. Do you have any receipts in your purse or wallet? I do!
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JV Floor Hockey League, Game 3
Sparky's Wings & Things took out 99 Restaurant & Pub 12-5. Daniel Howell played to win, scoring five goals for Sparky's. Tyler Byram was the second highest scorer for Sparky's with three points. Jacob Ruperto scored four goals, all in the third period for the 99 Restaurant & Pub, but it wasn't enough to steal the victory.
Align Credit Union triumphed over JNR Gutters 6-3. At the end of the first period it was 2-2, which made the second period intense. Franklin Libby and James Darwin both scored a goal at the end of the second period for Align Credit Union, which took the lead 4-2. Braden Dorr and Kevin McNally both scored a goal in the third period to secure the win for Align Credit Union, which remains undefeated.
Major League Floor Hockey, Game 3
Pistone Containers fell to Twomey & Legare Contracting 6-3. Tommy Legare and Aiden Corcoran both scored a goal in the first period for Twomey & Legare, taking a 2-0 lead. Things quickly changed for Pistone Containers in the second period when McKayla Dingle and Jade Banks both scored a goal to tie the game 2-2. But Nathan Libby scored two final goals for Twomey & Legare to secure the victory.
Malcolm Insurance blew out Dempsey Insurance 6-2. Jason McKeon, Walker Deschenes and Bryan Carter all scored a goal for Malcolm Insurance in the first period, while Enrique Alvarado scored one goal for Dempsey Insurance. By the end of the second period the score was 3-1 with Malcolm Insurance still in the lead. In the third period, Jayden Arias hit two goals that secured the victory for Malcolm Insurance.
American Resource Staffing buried Messinger Chiropractic 4-0. Adrian Andrade, Tito Delgado, William Braffitt and Ricky Flores all scored a goal in the first period for American Resource Staffing. By the end of the first period the score was 4-0. Neither team scored a goal in the second or third periods and American Resource Staffing walked away with the victory.

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Everybody hates the flu - getting it or taking care of someone else who has the flu.
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Flu Seasons Are Mostly Annual Events
According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), flu seasons are generally unpredictable, although epidemics happen every year. For the most part, flu seasons arrive each year as the fall progresses and we spend more time indoors.
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Like most games, I seem to find the time for them after the craze has faded. In many ways I like to be late to the party because it helps me enter the game with a clean palette. My opinion is not immediately salted by partisan reviews of perfect 10's and 1's. My latest endeavor was a trip down the rabbit hole that is titled Resident Evil 6, or as I like to call it, a relentless exercise in patience.
Patience is a virtue some would say, and it is a very important trait to have if you plan to play Capcom's Resident Evil 6. From the frustrating controls to the poorly designed encounters, this game is a must-play for any game designer. This game is a perfect example of how not to design a game, a lesson that many of us should take to heart. Below are some tips to help your game execute on equal ground with this tent-pole for bad game design.
Be sure to use as many button combinations as possible. Also do your best to teach the player the language of the game and then break the rules as often as possible. Have lots of tables to jump over, but only sometimes. Be sure to include crates you can break, but only certain ones. Other crates of shoe box size should be enough to hold the player back even if he is capable of leaping across building tops when the context option is available. Make sure you have lots of bodies laying around to trip on that can't be disposed of. Make those bodies such that the player can't interact with them from afar, but then have them leap out and kill the player when he gets close. It's also a good idea to have many special-case interactions for the most simple things like entering a crawl space or stepping up a 6" incline. If more than 20 minutes have passed in your game and you aren't forcing the player into a context sensitive situation then you are doing it wrong.
Show lots of medallions and shiny things on the screen but never explain them. Put lots of numbers up on the screen for those motivated enough to dig through forums to figure out what they mean. Can these medallions be earned on any stage or campaign? Are there more or am I seeing only what I've earned? What is that weird green medallion, is that supposed to be bronze or did I just not achieve that objective? How do these rewards effect my rating or the story? These are the kinds of questions you want your players to be asking themselves as they quickly skip past the collection of random empty compliments on screen. It will be well worth the engineering and art budget to make this happen.
On the topic of user interface, it is important that you have the player run through as many pop-ups as possible to get into the game. The more the better, you can never have too many pop-ups.
Be sure to give your player a false sense of security with that classic "saving..." in the corner. That way when they exit the game and return to continue their session later it will force them to replay the entire mission. Also make sure that you lose any content that may have been collected along the way such as hidden items, rare drops, and most importantly all of the cut scenes that can't be skipped. A true fan of your game is willing to watch every cut scene as many times as it takes before your save system actually saves their progress.
If you have a quick-time event, make sure that the player must not only watch for which buttons to press but also they need to follow the animation sequence. If the animation is not complete and the player begins their action for the next button in the sequence, penalize them as severely as possible. A good example might be to force them to climb a rope for 10 minutes, forcing them to fall a good 10 feet if they break the sequence or interrupt the animation. It is also suggested that you play the animation as slow and methodical as possible while being chased by something at least 4x faster than you. That's not frustration you are feeling, that is fear! Can you feel it?!
It is critical that you drag the player through a series of meaningless trials and puzzles that are too easy to be called a puzzle and just difficult enough that they question why you didn't just let them walk through the door. To add insult to injury, make sure the player's character is constantly moaning and groaning at the idiocy of the puzzles. That way they know that you as well know that these puzzles sucked when you made them and they still suck now.
Why stop at just telling the story when you can do everything with cut scenes? Need to walk through a door? Cut Scene! Need to pull a lever? Cut Scene! Need to hitch a ride through the city? Cut Scene! Need to swim across a small body of water? Cut Scene!! Seriously! Don't limit yourselves people. The potential of cut scenes are immeasurable.
If you do use cut scenes, there are some rules you need to follow.
It's important that you take the best elements of every game from the past 10 years and jam them into one game. More importantly however is that you do them all half-ass. Have a navigation system like Dead Space, but no exactly. Have a cover system like Gears of War, but not as stylish and not nearly as useful. You can't forget the epic moments like a shoot out on a passenger plane from Modern Warfare, but less awesome. Make helicopter crashes so awesome that you have to play them twice to appreciate it's awesomeness! You also need a health system like Halo but make sure that the enemies take at least 1 whole bar so that you have no hope of ever healing back to full health; especially with non-intractable zombies that suddenly come to life before your slow-as-molasses character can react. Playing Resident Evil 6 felt like I just watched Lost In Translation, cast with Chuck Norris, with the plot of 28 days, and it was filmed as a documentary by David Schwimmer. You need this kind of forward thinking in your games.
A boss fight is not a boss fight unless you fight 4+ frustrating incarnations of the same enemy. After blasting their head off with a shotgun, running them over with a train, feeding them to zombies, frying them with lightning bolts, then blowing their second head off with a rocket propelled grenade, trust that they are dead when a tiny metal spike pierces their abdomen. It's important that the player understand that a metal spike protruding from a harmless courtyard centerpiece is far more dangerous than the armory of death-dealing mayhem they carry on their back. It is events like these that make the player really feel like it was all worth while.
|Tom Battey
This is wonderful. I've still yet to make it all the through the Resi 6 DEMO, let alone the actual proper game. How such a big studio with so much money and experience can make a game so dreadful on almost all accounts is beyond me...
|Arly Rampen
Nice article. Only about the cutscenes, as a player, it was its convention since the first Resident Evil to give the intense/anticipation of doing things, just like the first 2 doors on Resident Evil 1 where there are dogs unexpectedly trying to enter the door. Maybe in Resident Evil 6 its just not working anymore since, for me, it doesn't seem to look like a horror game anymore. Other than that, it's nice.
|Ron Dippold
'Be sure to give your player a false sense of security with that classic "saving..." in the corner.'
This is sadly common these days. What it really means is 'checkpointing' so that if you die you'll return to the last checkpoint, but if you ever exit.. whoops. Back to the start of the mission. Though some of them at least save your pickups and accomplishments.
Yes, it's asinine. But sadly I've seen this in many more games than RE6.
|Fraz Chaudhry
I hope someone from the RE6 dev team reads this. I'd really like to hear their opinion on what they think of this.
|Kevin Watkins
Sums up my frustrations with the game perfectly! I still quite like it though - I'm probably in the minority on that one...
|Joe McGinn
True fact: RE peaked with RE4, and been going downkill ever since. RE4 basically perfected the survival-horror formula. Then they destroyed it.
|Jason Drysdale
Seems to me (having not played the game yet) that they were trying to mesh too many elements from previous titles in the series, and ended up with a garbled mess. Maybe I'll still give it a go if the price keeps dropping...
|Ronildson Palermo
I agree with some things you've mentioned, but the majority are just franchise staples that have been around forever, especially the Boss issue you've mentioned.
Though I didn't see you complain about the actual gameplay system, only peripheral additions to the core experience, which (granted) do take a considerable portion of the experience in the story campaigns.
I take it you don't have a problem with how Mercenaries mode works then?


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Police complaints will be assessed with panel made up of the public (From Herald Series)
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6:30am Monday 13th January 2014 in News By Ben Wilkinson, Crime Reporter, also covering Barton and Wood Farm. Call me on (01865) 425427
COMPLAINTS against the police are to be scrutinised by members of the public in a move to increase confidence.
Thames Valley police and crime commissioner Anthony Stansfeld has pledged to set up the independent committee in the wake of high-profile police scandals nationwide.
The force is now advertising for volunteers to sit on the panel.
Mr Stansfeld said: "Due to the national concerns over police integrity there is an accepted need for the development of a robust, independent and transparent system to be established.
"I have decided to set up this panel to ensure that integrity and ethical issues are prioritised in order to maintain public confidence in policing.
"I think there has been a little bit of disquiet publicly about various things that have happened in the police. They haven't been happening in the Thames Valley but nevertheless there is concern."
Complaints against officers are investigated by Thames Valley Police's professional standards department, which has the power to set up misconduct hearings and discipline officers.
Thames Valley Police has seen a drop in complaints filed against its officers, with 2,313 in 2010, 1,823 in 2011, 1,777 in 2012, and 728 by August last year.
The PCC said the new panel would not have the power to discipline officers but would review handling of complaints and refer them to him or the Chief Constable Sara Thornton.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission sets the guidelines forces have to follow when investigating complaints and the national body also considers any appeals made by the complainants. It also investigates more serious cases involving police forces.
Mr Stansfeld said the force would be advertising for members of the Complaints, Integrity and Ethics Panel which he hoped to see established over the next two months.
His pledge comes after the "Plebgate" scandal which saw Metropolitan Police officers accused of lying.
Police integrity has also been questioned in the light of allegations officers took bribes from tabloid journalists for information.
Mr Stansfeld said the panel was an example of attempts to increase public accountability within the police, although it will meet behind closed doors.
- To apply, visit thamesvalley-pcc.gov.uk or call 01865 846782. The deadline for applications is Friday, January 31.
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pete j says...
That is why so many police officers especially those in the Thames Valley force get away with things. The IPCC who are meant to be 2independent" are also biased towards the police and help cover up their misconduct.
When a complaint is made against the police or an officer it is "investigated" by themselves and normally the officers own manager…No surprise that things are covered up!
They even have their own department called the "Professional standards dept" whose function it is to play down and gloss over acts of misconduct and prevent them from being made public!
The IPCC (who's staff are mostly ex-police officers) also work closely alongside the police so they will help them in any way they can.
Police officers get away with everything and it is not surprising that the public have no confidence in them or the ineffective police complaints system.
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Appalachian Highlands
The Appalachians are old. A look at rocks exposed in today's Appalachian mountains reveals elongate belts of folded and thrust faulted marine sedimentary rocks, volcanic rocks and slivers of ancient ocean floor. Strong evidence that these rocks were deformed during plate collision. The birth of the Appalachian ranges, some 480 million years ago, marks the first of several mountain building plate collisions that culminated in the construction of the supercontinent Pangea with the Appalachians near the center.
Quiet beginningsDuring the earliest Paleozoic Era, the continent that would later become North America straddled the equator. The Appalachian region was a passive plate margin, not unlike today's Atlantic Coastal Plain Province. During this interval, the region was periodically submerged beneath shallows seas. Thick layers of sediment and carbonate rock was deposited on the shallow sea bottom when the region was submerged. When seas receded, terrestrial sedimentary deposits and erosion dominated.
The making of a supercontinentDuring the middle Ordovician Period (about 440-480 million years ago), a change in plate motions set the stage for the first Paleozoic mountain building event (Taconic orogeny) in North America. The once quiet, Appalachian passive margin changed to a very active plate boundary when a neighboring oceanic plate, the Iapetus, collided with and began sinking beneath the North American craton. With the birth of this new subduction zone, the early Appalachians were born.
Along the continental margin, volcanoes grew, coincident with the initiation of subduction. Thrust faulting uplifted and warped older sedimentary rock laid down on the passive margin. As mountains rose, erosion began to wear them down. Streams carried rock debris downslope to be deposited in nearby lowlands.
This was just the first of a series of mountain building plate collisions that contributed to the formation of the Appalachians. Mountain building continued periodically throughout the next 250 million years (Caledonian, Acadian, Ouachita, Hercynian, and Allegheny orogenies). Continent after continent was thrust and sutured onto the North American craton as the Pangean supercontinent began to take shape. Microplates, smaller bits of crust, too small to be called continents, were swept in, one by one, to be welded to the growing mass.
By about 300 million years ago (Pennsylvanian Period) Africa was approaching North American craton. The collisional belt spread into the Ozark-Ouachita region and through the Marathon Mountain area of Texas. Continent vs. continent collision raised the Appalachian-Ouachita chain to lofty, Himalayan-scale ranges. The massive bulk of Pangea was completed near the end of the Paleozoic Era (Permian Period ) when Africa (Gondwana) plowed into the continental agglomeration, with the Appalachian-Ouachita mountains near the core.
The breaking of a supercontinentPangea began to break up about 220 million years ago, in the Early Mesozoic Era (Late Triassic Period). As Pangea rifted apart a new passive tectonic margin was born and the forces that created the Appalachian, Ouachita, and Marathon Mountains were stilled. Weathering and erosion prevailed, and the mountains began to wear away.
Old mountains, young topographyBy the end of the Mesozoic Era, the Appalachian Mountains had been eroded to an almost flat plain. It was not until the region was uplifted during the Cenozoic Era that the distinctive topography of the present formed. Uplift rejuvenated the streams, which rapidly responded by cutting downward into the ancient bedrock. Some streams flowed along weak layers that define the folds and faults created many millions of years earlier. Other streams downcut so rapidly that they cut right across the resistant folded rocks of the mountain core, carving canyons across rock layers and geologic structures.
Contorted ridges of erosion-resistant rocks of the Appalachian Mountain core show up as red on this image. Notice the stream running down the center of the image. This is an old stream that was well established before the Cenozoic Appalachian uplift began. As the Appalachians rose some streams downcut so rapidly that they sliced through resistant rocks rock layers and geologic structures, rather than establishing new courses that flowed around them. Image from NASA.
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Skin-care maven, Morgan Hill investor, spins real estate yarns
The Scope stopped by today's lunch meeting to honor the out-of-state investors in the old Kingston Apartments building, which turned out to be interesting in a vaguely strange sort of way.
As noted earlier, the featured speaker was Sandie Tillotson, a self-described Massapequa, Long Island girl who told quite a tale about her rise from a $9,000-a-year teaching job to flipping multi-million-dollar apartments in New York City.
Tillotson teamed with New York investor Stanley Mohr to buy the Tower at Morgan Hill, which recently underwent a major rehab and is open to students for the fall semester. At the lunch meeting, she told of how, years ago, she quit her teaching job and ventured into a network marketing gig that eventually paid her $200,000 a month, until the diet company behind it -- Cambridge Plan International -- filed for bankruptcy protection.
In 1985, she and a girlfriend started their own skin-care/network marketing company, a venture now called Nu Skin Enterprises that had $1.3 billion in revenues last year and more than 760,000 "distributors". (It trades on the NYSE under the symbol NUS.)
Tillotson recalled that Stanley Mohr's wife helped her purchase her first apartment, and told of selling the penthouse of the Trump International for $10 million, after buying it for $5 million. Another apartment on Park Avenue, she said, was sold for $30 million after she paid $15 million.
As for the Tower at Morgan Hill (which is also quite glamorous, in a square, brick, boxish sort of way), the rehab financing was provided by Clayton Bank and Trust whose CEO, local manufactured-housing tycoon Jim Clayton, told of meeting Tillotson (along with other bank officials) for dinner in Las Vegas before extending credit.
"If you're going to borrow $1 million from us, I've got to meet you," he said, adding later that the bank has never loaned anybody as much as they loaned Mohr and Tillotson's firm. (According to a construction deed of trust, the bank loaned $15 million on the project.)
Clayton also made a somewhat strange joke, saying they didn't intend to loan that much money but implying that the dinner changed his mind, before saying any bank in the country would have provided financing for the project.
At any rate, the skin-care maven walked away with a city proclamation, presented by the mayor's deputy, Larry Martin, which declared August 10, 2010 as Sandie Tillotson Day in Knoxville. Martin said the city is also grateful to Mohr and told him they would have issued a second proclamation, but "we went with the pretty lady instead of you."
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CATEGORIES MoviesWill Smith is no stranger is post-apocalyptic-related movies ("I Am Legend," "Independence Days"), and now, he's gotten his son Jaden in the mix.
The first trailer for "After Earth," M. Night Shyamalan's dystopian thriller, has arrived. The film, which stars Will and Jaden Smith as a father-son duo (Cypher and Kitai Raige), takes place 1,000 years after humans were forced to evacuate Earth due to cataclysmic events. However, when an asteroid hits Cypher and Kitai's aircraft, they end up descending to an unfamiliar and dangerous planet Earth.
The movie is a departure from Shyamalan's normal brand of horror-suspense. Granted, this isn't the filmmaker's first go-round with sci-fi: in 2010, he released the critically lambasted The Last Airbender." Here's hoping he has more luck with "After Earth." You can watch the new trailer in the video above. "After Earth" is set to hit theaters on June 7, 2013.
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After making a heroic comeback to defeat #6 Lincoln Christian, junior hitter Torey DeLozier (Watertown, Wis.) tallied 20 kills and four blocks (two solo) while sophomore blocker Laci Peterson had 13 kills.
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Vt. committee votes to kill health care taxBy DAVE GRAM
THE Associated Press | February 23,2013TOBY TALBOT / AP PHOTO
Sugar-sweetened drinks are displayed at a store in Vermont.MONTPELIER A Vermont House committee on Friday voted to kill legislation that would have levied a new tax on sugary soft drinks to pay for public health education and to help smooth the transition to a health care overhaul.
In a move that drew the comment Holy smokes! from Sen. Virginia Lyons, a member of the Senate Health and Welfare committee, the House Health Care Committee voted 5-5, with one member absent, on the measure. The tie killed the bill the committee had spent weeks drafting.
Its frustrating, said Rep. Mike Fisher, D-Lincoln and chairman of the House panel. The committee spent a lot of time and took majority votes on a number of steps along the way and there were a few members of the committee who couldnt support the bill because of how much it did, and there were a few members of the committee that couldnt support the bill because they ... wish it had done more. ... I think right now everythings dead.
The vote creates a new cloud of uncertainty over efforts by the Legislature and Gov. Peter Shumlin to solve what has become one of the key riddles of the current legislative session: how to move to the new health care marketplace, or exchange, called for under the federal Affordable Care Act, without hurting people who had been enjoying state subsidized health care.
Vermont has two publicly subsidized health insurance programs geared to providing coverage to low- and moderate-income working people and families: the Vermont Health Access Plan and Catamount Health. Lawmakers and advocates have been raising an alarm for months that many of the people enrolled in those programs face steep increases in the cost of health insurance, because federal subsidies under the exchange will not be as generous as what the state has been offering.
Members of the House committee had reviewed charts in recent weeks from legislative fiscal analysts showing a wide range of impacts from the switch from the state programs to the exchange, depending on income and size of household. Some families would be hit hard. One chart offered the example of a single parent with two children, who could see a monthly premium increase of $256, more than doubling the current premium of $208.
Shumlins administration proposed trying to partially close the gap between state and federal subsidies; the House panel tinkered with the amounts and with the mix of premium subsidies versus those that help people pay out-of-pocket costs like co-pays and deductibles.
Fridays committee vote left those efforts in doubt, Fisher said.
Its very disappointing for low-income people, he said. I think in some members attempt to get more, theyre ending up with nothing.
Fisher called for the vote even in the absence of a key supporter of several of the bills provisions, Rep. George Till, D-Jericho. Till is an obstetrician-gynecologist and had to leave shortly before the vote for a medical emergency, committee members said. A page later sent to Till drew no immediate response.
Asked why he allowed the vote to proceed, Fisher said: The committee needed to move forward. A member committee got up and left at the last minute; I cant account for that.
Other committee members and some lobbyists disagreed with Fishers assessment that the bill was dead. Tina Zuk of the American Heart Association said her group would continue pushing for a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, which the AHA and other groups blame for increasing obesity.
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Dream Island Road residents are proud of their pirate statue. Some refer to the pirate as "our buccaneer." A few have even suggested that he makes them feel protected, acting almost like a neighborhood security guard.
Longtime Dream Island resident Michael Hodges said he received many calls last week when his neighbors learned that the Longboat Key Historical Society was discussing the possibility of moving the statue to public land, or, possibly, to a business. The statue welcomed guests to The Buccaneer Inn from 1957 to 2000.
"If it moves, it could fall apart," said Michael Hodges, who has lived on Dream Island Road since 1973.
Since last week, Hodges has collected a pledge signed by 32 residents to keep the pirate grounded in its current location. The pledge states that the pirate greets residents as they enter the neighborhood and serves as an attraction for people who visit the statue to have their pictures taken next to it.
"It uniquely conveys a sense of 'welcome home to a very special place called Dream Island,'" the pledge states.
Historical Society President Tom Mayers said he would work with residents to keep the statue in its current location. He said that the Historical Society began the discussion about moving the pirate because members worried that it could be destroyed. The Buccaneer Inn property became the Grand Mariner condominium project, which went into foreclosure in 2008. The pirate stands near Harbour Villa Club condominium, although it is unclear to residents who owns the spot where the pirate stands.
"Our main concern is that it be treated with respect," Mayers said. "We don't want it painted pink. We don't want it pushed over."
Later this week, the Harbour Villa Club board will discuss assuming control of the statue. If the board agrees, residents will work together to provide the pirate with a "facelift": a cleaning and paint touch-up at least, although residents are unsure about whether they should replace the pirate's broken nose.
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A JSO report says after several fights started at the bonfire in the woods at the 14500 block of Old St. Augustine Road, a witness observed Cline punching the victim.
The report also says witnesses saw Hoffman punching Ford several times until he fell to the ground.
Police say Cline admitted to punching the victim.
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The events regarding the sewage spills into Lake Wylie as well as our private homes and properties are getting to be a daily event.
Television news reports and newspaper articles have documented quite well Tega Cay Water Service's (Utilities Inc.) failed attempts at identifying the problem and permanently rectifying the situation. The residents have been living with this issue for at least the last decade that I have resided in Tega Cay. Each report of another spill sends a clear message to prospective home buyers that there are better and safer areas to raise their families. The surrounding townships come with lower taxes, Fort Mill schools, lower water bills, no fear of potential health issues and no threat of property devaluation.
The U.S. government along with the state of South Carolina have set up laws and agencies (to enforce these laws) to ensure that individuals and companies alike do not violate statutes within the criminal law, civil law, environmental law, health and education law, marine and aviation law, just to name a few. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) & the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) deal specifically with environmental issues like the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. Both the EPA and SCDHEC have the ability to fine, rescind or reject certifications. In cases where there are violations of criminal law, individuals and company representatives responsible for the criminal acts can be arrested. We have a competent City Council, Mayor and City Manager who are for the first time seriously looking into alternatives to continuing to utilize Tega Cay Water Service, Utilities Inc.
The residents of Tega Cay most certainly feel we are under represented by the S.C. State Senate and to a lesser extent the House of Representatives. Where are our representatives from the U.S. Senate & U.S. Congress? When the governor states her office is looking into the matter I tend to convert the ongoing investigation into months or years. For my family it has already been a decade and much longer for others. How much longer will residents of the city of Tega Cay in the great state of South Carolina have to wait for one or more of our esteemed representatives or regulatory agencies to act on our behalf.
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Stimulus package, budget and flexibility have helped rebuild schools
Updated: Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 | By Robert Farley
The Obama-backed economic stimulus package approved in February includes nearly $1.3 billion in education funds for Louisiana, of which $840 million has already been made available. In Mississippi, about $900 million in education funds have been announced, of which over $600 million has been made available.
Also, President Barack Obama"s 2010 budget included $30 million for counties in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas that were impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Funds could be used to improve education through such activities as replacing instructional materials and equipment; paying teacher incentives; building, modernizing, or renovating school buildings; beginning or expanding Advanced Placement or other rigorous instructional curricula; starting or expanding charter schools; and supporting afterschool or extended learning time activities.
This year, 16 schools have reopened in the New Orleans area for the first time since Katrina hit in 2005.
According to a May 16, 2009, story in the Times-Picayune, a major funding hurdle was overcome with the Obama administration when two Louisiana Recovery Authority officials persuaded federal officials "to allow for aggressive pooling of school rebuilding money expected from FEMA's Public Assistance program, so that dozens of older, badly damaged buildings could be mothballed or razed in favor of building a small collection of state-of-the-art campuses."
In May, FEMA earmarked about $150 million for rebuilding four public schools in the city. Construction of the schools has been under way for more than a year, and in August, the first newly constructed school, Langston Hughes Elementary, opened in New Orleans. Ultimately, FEMA expects to spend more than $640 million at the four campuses and on rebuilding or repairing other public schools in Orleans Parish. The pooled rebuilding allows them to consolidate construction on fewer sites.
In his promise, Obama mentioned school needs for "kids," so we assume he was talking about elementary and high school rebuilding and improvements, but we note that there has been some progress with higher education as well. The federal government also resolved a longstanding reimbursement dispute with flood-ravaged Southern University at New Orleans in July when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the university would get $42 million in additional grants to help rebuild (bringing its poststorm federal aid to $92 million).
According to "The New Orleans Index," which tracks the recovery of New Orleans, public and private school enrollment has continued to grow, and reached 78 percent of pre-Katrina levels by the spring of 2009.
Much work still needs to be done to improve the school systems in the Gulf states. But Obama never promised he would completely fix all of the school woes in the region, only that he would "help" to make necessary infrastructure investments. And with hundreds of millions of dollars in the stimulus and the proposed $30 million in his current budget, plus the effort to pool the rebuilding money, he's done that. We rate this one Promise Kept.
"Promises, Promises: Obama wins praise for Katrina,"
by Ben Evans and Becky Bohrer, Aug. 27, 2009
Times-Picayine, "Southern University at New Orleans gets long-awaited rebuilding grant" by Bill Barrow, Aug. 17, 2009
Times-Picayune, "Red tape eased in rebuilding of N.O. schools," by Coleman Warner, May 16, 2009
White House, Fact Sheet: Background on Gulf Coast Recovery and Nationwide Disaster Preparedness and Response Efforts
Times-Picayune, "'New Orleans has a unique place in...American life, and that's why it's so important now.'' Analysis," by Jonathan Tilove and Bruce Alpert, Aug. 23, 2009
Interview with Allison Plyer, Deputy Director, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, Aug. 28, 2009
Interview with Christina Stephens, spokeswoman for the Louisiana Recovery Authority, Aug. 28, 2009
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Continue to Moray, where the Incas constructed greenhouse terraces to study and improve their refined farming techniques. This place is famous for its amphitheater formed agricultural terracing. Length: 4.5 hours. (Minimum: 2 pax). Code: CUS-2 Adult Price: 130 (US$) + PIQUILLACTA AND AHUAYILILLAS You will visit two important centers located in Cusco's Valley. First you will visit Piquillacta, a pre-Inca citadel (Wari culture) that maintains its ancient mystery and bizarre architecture. Afterwards you will be transferred to visit Andahuaylillas, a town of the Spanish conquerors that keeps the art and gold treasures in its church. Due to its outstanding art and craftsmanship,it is called the Sistine Chapel of America. If you wish you are invited to taste the typical Peruvian chicharrones (pork) or cuy (guinea pig). Length: 4 hours. (Minimum: 2 pax). Code: CUS-3 Adult Price: 159 (US$) + VISIT SAN PEDRO MARKET AND THE CHOCO MUSEUM Enjoy visiting a local market in Cusco and the Taki Museum where you will see an extensive sample of original musical instruments of native Andean, Amazonian and foreigner communities. Length: 3 hours. (Minimum: 2 pax). Code: CUS-5 Adult Price: 72 (US$) + VISIT WORKSHOP AT CHOCOLATE MUSEUM Visit the Chocolate museum where you can learn about the history of the Cacao and the chocolate, the Cacao's tree and its small chocolate factory where the products are made. Enjoy a cacao preparation workshop and experience the making of hot chocolate with a selection of special ingredients. Length: 3 hours. (Minimum: 2 pax). Code: CUS-6 Adult Price: 76 (US$) LIMA + DINNER WITH SHOW AT LA DAMA JUANA RESTAURANT Enjoy a variety of local food at the Dama Juana located in Barranco. Inside the restaurant you will be delighted by its atmosphere, the rich cuisine offered and the folklore shows that are presented by night. Length: 2 hours. (Minimum: 2 pax). Code: LIM-1 Adult Price: 82 (US$) + HALF-DAY INDIAN MARKET Enjoy a guided tour to the Indian Market. It is Located in Lima's modern district of Miraflores. The market offers Peruvian handicrafts, potters, paintings and unique souvenirs. At the numerous stands you will find a variety of carpets, sweaters, coats, t-shirts, hats, metal crafts, such as bronze-, silver-, gold- and precious stone arts. There is also beautiful leather, wool, wood and stone goods available. Length: 3 hours. (Minimum: 2 pax). Code: LIM-4 Adult Price: 68 (US$) + HALF-DAY PACHACAMAC The tour will start by taking the South Pan American Highway, arriving at Pachacamac, the most important Ceremonial Center of the Peruvian Coast during pre- Inca and Inca times. Here, you will see several mudded buildings from different early times. Over the course of the centuries, Pachacamac was occupied by many different Andean civilizations such as Lima, Wari, Ichma, even the Inca´s Empire, but it always kept its religious status. Length: 4 hours. (Minimum: 2 pax). Code: LIM-3 Adult Price: 95 (US$) + HUACA PUCLLANA AND HUACA HALLAMARCA Visit two of Lima's ancient oracle centers with an archaeologist. You will start with the Huaca Pucllana archeological center that was active between the 5th and the 8th centuries A.D. Next, visit Huaca Huallamarca, an oracle center that functioned for 1,200 years up to the Spanish Conquest. Length: 2 hours. (Minimum: 2 pax). Code: LIM-2 Adult Price: 87 (US$) + MAGIC CIRCUIT OF THE WATER Enjoy this guided tour to the Magic Circuit of the Water, the world's largest fountain complex of beautiful interactive fountains with playing water, colorful lights and laser rays, which dance with the music rhythm. Length: 3.5 hours. (Minimum: 2 pax). Code: LIM-5 Adult Price: 89 (US$) BUENOS AIRES + FULL DAY FIEST GUACHA SANTA SUSANA WITH BBQ LUNCH Drive out to Los Cardales and the Estancia Santa Susana, where the Gauchos welcome you with a drink. Visit the Estancia and learn about the daily life of the cultural symbols of Argentina. Savor a rustic barbecue or "asado" lunch, with a variety of meats and sausages. Afterward, enjoy a folkloric show. Length: 7 hours (Min. 10 paxs) Code: BUE-1 Adult Price: 168 (US$) + HALF-DAY TIGRE TOUR Drive through the northern district and outskirts of the city to get to Tigre, a charming resort where "portenos" (locals) spend their weekends. Enjoy a boat excursion along the channels of the Paraná-Delta. Length: 4.5 hours (Min. 10 paxs) Code: BUE-2 Adult Price: 84 (US$) + TANGO LESSONS AT MANSION DANDI ROYAL Located at San Telmo, the Tango's birthplace, Mansion Dandi Royal is a unique art nouveaux residence decorated with murals portraying Tango scenes and original objects d'art. 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DETROIT -- Wins have been tough to come by for Joe Saunders and the Mariners of late, and that trend continued Monday as the Tigers pulled out a 4-2 victory despite a promising beginning for the southpaw.
Saunders was sailing along with a 1-1 tie with two out in the sixth before giving up two runs on a walk and three straight hits that ended his night when manager Eric Wedge pulled the plug after 83 pitches.
A frustrated Saunders sent a bucket of sunflower seeds flying in the dugout after being replaced by Tom Wilhelmsen, who got the final out of the sixth to keep the score at 3-1.
Saunders, 32, fell to 11-15 with a 5.16 ERA as Seattle dipped to 66-84 with its seventh loss in the past eight days. Saunders is 1-5 with a 7.14 ERA over his past eight starts.
The Tigers, who sport the highest batting average in the Majors and are second to the Red Sox in runs scored, tacked on a run off Wilhelmsen in the seventh and improved their American League Central-leading record to 87-63.
Mariners right fielder Abraham Almonte continued his strong showing as a September callup as he ripped a solo home run with two out in the third off Rick Porcello.
Almonte, a speedy 24-year-old outfielder acquired from the Yankees for reliever Shawn Kelley this spring, went 2-for-4 on Monday and has hit .313 with two home runs and seven RBIs in 15 games. Almonte has recorded a hit in 12 of the 13 games in which he's had an at-bat.
But Almonte's shot was the only run allowed by Porcello in six innings as he improved to 13-8 while striking out 10 batters for just the second time in his career.
Raul Ibanez reached base three times, going 2-for-3 with a walk and a double, and scored on an RBI single by Justin Smoak in the eighth to cut the lead to 4-2.
Saunders gave up a run in the first on a pair of singles and a wild pitch that allowed Torii Hunter to zip home from third. But after a leadoff double to Omar Infante in the second, the veteran tightened things up and faced the minimum number of batters from there until his ill-fated sixth.
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The historic building in St. Paul is ready to undergo a massive makeover, and officials fear that scaffolding network may be tempting to some urban climbers. That's why the Minnesota State Patrol is trying to raise awareness and warn anyone with a hankering for high places that they could face charges if they're caught.
History is filled with great explorers like Leif Erickson, the Viking who visited North America 500 years before Christopher Columbus -- but Capitol security wasn't exactly thrilled when one man went on a quest to where few others have been before last fall.
For 12 minutes, a man wearing a gray hoodie climbed the scaffolding outside the Capitol while it was undergoing renovations. He was even able to elude officers who were trying to capture him, scale down the back of the building and disappear into the night.
Capitol visitors who spoke to FOX 9 News said they'd be too scared to explore the heights of the structure like the mystery man, but Tony and Becky Orsini, of Dallas, said they felt there was no harm no foul because no one was hurt -- even if the climber shouldn't have set out in the first place.
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Frank Stella first came into prominence in 1959, when his spare, black-and-white canvases were featured in a seminal show at the Museum of Modern Art, and he emerged in the 1960s as one of the leading figures of American Abstraction.
In marked contrast to the paradigm of painting as a magic window, Stella advanced a more literal, concrete conception of the painted surface as a pattern bounded by edges. His shaped canvases of concentric black-and-white bands set the stage for the Minimalist movement, but Stella began in the later 1960s to integrate color into his increasingly monumental compositions. One of a series of paintings that explored relationships of color, form and pattern, Flin Flon VIII's petal-like geometric shapes-- made of overlapping protractor outlines-- seem to project and recede in a dizzying optical dance.


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MANDEVILLE, La. - A suspicious package that turned out to be an old chess set caused two dozen homes in a Mandeville neighborhood to be evacuated for several hours Saturday afternoon.
Mandeville Police were called to a home on Devon Street shortly before noon when a retired IRS agent reported what he thought was a suspicious package on his front porch.
"The gentleman is a retired IRS agent who thought there might be some people out to harm him based on an ongoing case," said Mandeville Police Chief Rick Richard.
When officers arrived they found a brown briefcase on the homeowner's door step. Immediately, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's bomb squad was called in to investigate.
"An x-ray of the device was taken and it was a mirror image of a pipe bomb in a briefcase," said Chief Richard. "It just looked like the real deal."
Several law enforcement agencies were called in, including the ATF and the FBI. Within an hour, a 600-foot perimeter was setup around the home.
Many residents were shocked when they returned home from outings and were turned away by police, who had evacuated roughly 24 homes.
"We weren't prepared," said one neighbor. "We weren't here to be evacuated so we couldn't grab anything."
For hours, neighbors nervously waited for word on exactly what was going on. Then just after 5 p.m. police were able to open the briefcase to determine what was inside.
"We blew it open and tried to get the robot down there to look around, but there was too much debris so guys suited up in bomb suits and went down there and did a physical inspection," said Chief Richard.
That is when investigators realized the briefcase held nothing more than an old chess set. A short time later, nearby roads were reopened and residents were allow to return to their homes.


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She recently announced that she will be moving on from WGTS to pursue to some other interests. Angela shared with me that she has been praying about direction in her life, and feels that God has some exciting plans in store for her. She is thrilled to see where God can use her ministry and talents next. One of the things that she will be working on is exploring her musical talents.
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The 2012 PGA Utah Golf Pass offers golfers discounted tee times and deals at more than 70 courses throughout the state. By paying the cart fee, pass-wielders enjoy free rounds at seven of the state's premier golf venues, including the red rock-framed fairways of Sand Hollow and the mountainside greens of Birch Creek Golf Course. At dozens of other courses, players enjoy VIP bargains such as percentages off tee times, buy-one, get-one-free deals on greens fees, special discounts for junior golfers, and free admission for infant sand wedges.
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To get the best view of the desert, you don't walk through it; you glide over it. The 2,500 feet of combined ziplines at Kanab Zipline let customers do just that. The three-zipline course sends riders zooming across scenic canyons, gullys, and the Pink Cliffs as they descend 1,000 feet from the tops of cliff to ground level. The entire course area sits on an undisturbed stretch of desert, and staff do their best to minimize their impact by creating paths that avoid displacing the area's natural wildlife and postcard photo-shoots.
Aboard Zion Helicopter's Robinson R44 Raven chopper, tourists soar over the rugged desert mesas of Zion National Park, the turquoise waters of Quail Lake, and even fossilized dinosaur tracks. The flights, which kick off in the epically named Hurricane, Utah, last for up to an hour, showcasing the harsh, untouched beauty of southern Utah.
One of Utah's first off-course golf retailers, Uinta Golf has been equipping putt enthusiasts with specialized apparel for more than 40 years. Tops from Nike (starting at $39.98) cloak swinging torsos, and TaylorMade hats (starting at $19.99) let players don their favorite brands or combat distracting perspiration with a moisture-wicking sweatband. As the Nike Women's Dri-Fit visor ($18) eliminates sweat and adjusts to cranium circumferences with a velcro fastener, Nike Tech skorts ($60) sheath lower halves with shorts' length and a skirt's aesthetic.
Though some participants choose to run and others to walk, everybody who participates in the Color Dash experiences a transformation. As participants make their way through the 5K Color Dash and UVSplash courses they are subjected to bursts of color; additional events include Zombies by Color Dash, which adds the undead to the equation. Though the color will wash away, the memories will remain forever in the minds of all participants who aren't goldfish. Proceeds from Color Dash events benefit local children's charities and organizations.


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The feasibility of PAUSD adding a new Mandarin dual immersion program will be discussed at the school board meeting next Tuesday evening. Here are some of the findings from the study:
1. A Mandarin dual-immersion program is consistent with PAUSD's mission and goals, programs and instructional strategies.
2. Start-up costs for the program will be $10,950 (which I think can be raised by fundraising, for example by parent donations/bake sales, or grants). Ongoing costs for the comparable with PAUSD norms.
3. PAUSD can recruit and hire the staff they need to implement the program. (Staff means mainly bilingual teachers and a principal, both resources may already exist in the district and may not be new hires.)
4. Necessary curriculum and assessment materials, exist or can easily be created for the program. The MI program will adhere to PAUSD best practices and standards.
5. Student selection will largely follow the existing Spanish Immersion program's process. The program will be open by lottery to all PAUSD students. Attrition should not be an issue based on research on other MI programs.
6. Location will be a challenge for the Attendance Area Review Group, who will make site recommendations in January 2007. Their priority is to find MI a home without displacing any neighborhood kids.
This study will be discussed at the school board meeting on Tuesday, December 12. PAUSD Board of Education meeting
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The meeting room is in the way back. Drive to the back of the driveway and it is right before the tennis courts.
I am very excited about the prospect of PAUSD adding this great new program! After reading the feasibility study, I am optimistic that it can and will be implemented with PAUSD's usual high level of quality.
If you want to show your support for the program, come to the meeting wearing red!
on Dec 8, 2006 at 6:02 pm
Don't be misleading Nico. The start up costs of $10,900 is PER CLASSROOM. This would mean that for a two strand school $22,000 would have to be raised each year for the first 6 years at elementary and that is at today's costs. This adds up to a lot of cookies and brownies, or else in a classroom of 20 Kids, the first groups of parents would be expected to "donate" $500 every year.
on Dec 8, 2006 at 6:13 pm
Not to mention that the "consistency" conclusions include a statement that the program will further the goal of narrowing the achievement gap because every resident child will have a chance to participate. I guess they forgot to mention this means every child can enter the lottery for K-1. And I'm still not getting how this addresses the achievement gap in any way.
on Dec 8, 2006 at 9:07 pm
So much that we teach our children in history and science is obsolete by the time it reaches the classroom. Language is learning that lasts a lifetime. Imagine how different our present circumstances might be if we had enough citizens who spoke Farsi? Immersion classes in Mandarin are worth far more than they cost.
I can't see the logic to the argument that something of this value shouldn't be available to any of our children because we aren't proposing to offer it to all who want it.


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MACON, Ga. (AP) - Airline passengers say a new airline service at the Middle Georgia Regional Airport is more convenient than flying out of Atlanta, and cheaper as well.
Silver Airways began offering service to Atlanta and Orlando, Fla. in April and airport manager Doug Faour told the Telegraph of Macon business has been increasing since then. Faour says the airline has served more than 500 passengers between July and September.
Macon Mayor Robert Reichert says his goal is for the airline to serve 10,000 passengers in a year to push the Federal Aviation Administration to increase contributions for maintenance and improvements at the airport.
Samar Othman told the newspaper that he and his family regularly drove to Florida from middle Georgia, and will likely fly from the regional airport from now on.
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