text: A Closer Look: Casey Riordan Millard's 'Shark Girl' The new public art at Canalside includes some sharp-looking teeth. (Mark Mulville / Buffalo News) Tweet By Colin Dabkowski | News Arts Critic | @colindabkowski | Google+ on Wednesday, August 27, 2014 2:35 PM, updated: August 27, 2014 at 5:38 pm ADVERTISEMENT Title: "Shark Girl" // Artist: Casey Riordan Millard // On view permanently at Canalside Meet "Shark Girl," the newest piece of public art in Erie County and already one of its most talked-about in years. The 6 by 6 by 3-foot sculpture, which sits in a well-trafficked area of Canalside, features a young girl in a blue dress with a red sash who happens to have a great white shark for a head. After the unveiling of the sculpture on Tuesday afternoon, social media channels flooded with commentary. Some embraced "Shark Girl" as an absurd symbol capable of bringing a brief moment of joy to the lives of passers-by, while others dismissed it as ugly and tacky. "Shark Girl" even has her own Twitter account, which has been generating plenty of reaction on its own since the sculpture's debut. Below are some of the best reactions to Millard's piece: https://twitter.com/buffalopundit/status/504738219930710016 https://twitter.com/sharkgirlbflo/status/504714556942598144 https://twitter.com/DavidJCervi/status/504731975664795649 https://twitter.com/ohheyitscaiti/status/504728359109402625 https://twitter.com/LindyRuffsTie/statuses/504718731940229120 https://twitter.com/markpoloncarz/statuses/504355463270780928 https://twitter.com/NickLangworthy/statuses/504380351285055489 https://twitter.com/markpoloncarz/statuses/504384766150713344 https://twitter.com/topshelfcookies/statuses/504395059676979201 https://twitter.com/InTerryWeTrust/statuses/504649694401011712 https://twitter.com/sharkgirlbflo/statuses/504650603034050561 https://twitter.com/WGRZmaryalice/statuses/504652302649942016 https://twitter.com/sharkgirlbflo/statuses/504670021977903104 https://twitter.com/TomPuckettWBEN/statuses/504672181184262145 And here's some reaction to Shark Girl's debut from The Buffalo News' Facebook page: For a little more insight into the artist's inspiration for the sculpture and her other work, check out this interview Millard did with the Angela Meleca Gallery in Columbus, Ohio last year:


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New Orleans, La. – The zone of deep water with low oxygen levels is blamed on nitrates flowing from agricultural areas along the Mississippi River. This year's so-called dead zone is still large, but not as massive as predicted by the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Researcher Nancy Rabalais says the stormy weather stirred up the Gulf, disrupting low-oxygen water from settling on the Gulf floor. But Rabalais says she could see evidence during a recent cruise for water samples that problems exist in off Barataria Bay in southeast Louisiana.
"Some of that was visible as a huge volume to the east with low oxygen water reaching almost to the surface. And things that usually live in the sediment, like eels, were swimming up at the surface of the water. So there was definitely a lot of bad water at the bottom."
High river levels this year were forecast to create a dead zone up to 94-hundred square miles, about the size of Lake Erie. It's now predicted to be about 67-hundred square miles, or about the size of Connecticut.
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Calif. pot vote isn't just hippies versus cops
SAN FRANCISCO - Now that a proposal to legalize pot is on the ballot in California, well-organized groups are lining up on both sides of the debate. And it's not just tie-dyed hippies versus anti-drug crusaders.
So far, the most outspoken groups on the issue are those affiliated with California's legal medical marijuana industry and law enforcement officials who vehemently oppose any loosening of drug laws.
But the campaign that unfolds before the November election could yield some unusual allies: free-market libertarians joining police officers frustrated by the drug war to support the measure, and pot growers worried about falling prices pairing with Democratic politicians to oppose it.
Others believe legalizing and taxing the drug could improve the state's flagging economy.
"We spend so much time, our police do, chasing around these nonviolent drug offenders, we don't have time anymore to protect our people from murders and child molesters," said Jack Cole, president of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, a group that plans to champion the California proposal between now and the election.
The initiative, also known as the "Tax Cannabis Act," received enough signatures this week to qualify for the November ballot. If it is approved, California would become the first state to legalize marijuana for recreational use by adults. The measure would also give local governments the authority to regulate and tax pot sales.
According to campaign finance records, nearly all of the more than $1.3 million spent on the campaign to qualify the question for the ballot came from businesses controlled by the proposal's main backer, Oakland medical marijuana entrepreneur Richard Lee.
Lee operates a medical marijuana dispensary and cafe in downtown Oakland and is the founder of Oaksterdam University, which trains people to run their own medical marijuana businesses. According to the school, more than 5,000 students have completed their programs.
The largest donations from an individual not connected to the marijuana business came from George Zimmer, founder and chief executive of the men's clothing chain Men's Wearhouse.
Television viewers know Zimmer as the Fremont-based company's longtime pitchman in commercials. But he is also known as a longtime supporter of efforts to liberalize the nation's drug laws.
Opponents contend that the legalization effort will pit a few wealthy individuals against regular Californians who will provide the groundswell needed to defeat the measure.
"You have rich dilettantes who want to legalize drugs and ordinary people who consider the ramifications of legalization on their communities and their families," said John Lovell, a lobbyist representing several law enforcement groups opposed to the initiative.
Lovell pointed to the lopsided defeat of a 2008 ballot issue that would have pushed treatment instead of prison for drug offenders as a sign of voters' leanings. Supporters of the measure heavily outspent opponents, but it was defeated 59 to 41 percent.
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HTML5 in the browser: Canvas, video, audio, and graphics
Where Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera, and Safari stand on HTML5 Canvas, HTML5 video, SVG, and WebGL
The five characters HTML5 are now an established buzzword, found everywhere on the Web and often given top billing in slides, feature lists, and other places where terms du jour congregate. Nonprogrammers who must either manage or work with programmers are even beginning to pick up the term. Just two days ago, someone who can't manage a TV remote explained that he was sure his company's Web presence would be much better because they were using HTML5.
The five characters are in reality just the name of a document that isn't even finished. The W3C, whose job it is to build standard-setting descriptions of Web technology, has been contemplating the fifth version of the HTML standard for almost seven years. The latest HTML5 draft may finally become official in 2022, at least according to Ian Hickson, one of the authors who works for Google.
[ HTML5 will spawn richer, more sophisticated websites while also easing development. See InfoWorld's "How HTML5 will change the Web" and "How to use HTML5 on your website today." ]
That is clearly too far in the future for many bosses and potential clients, who've put the HTML5 buzzword on their checklist. The good news is that most modern browsers have implemented a solid collection of the features, and it's quite possible to put HTML5 to work on your site for users are equipped with the latest browsers.
The biggest questions center on the newest technologies entering the standard. Many of these have been around for several years in various forms in various browsers, but now that the standard is coalescing, the major browsers are all lining up in support.
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- Data layer. Web pages once required a connection to the Web. The new tools for handling data are turning Web pages from display mechanisms for distant servers into stand-alone software applications that store data without a Web connection.
- Other tidbits. A surprisingly large number of little ideas are bunching under the umbrella of HTML5, even if they're not in the official specification. New tools for using geolocation information and better organizing the presentation of data are all included.
- Little fixes to old approaches. The browsers have never handled every detail in uniform ways. The HTML5 standard cleans up some of the differences.
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We have 2 applications in IBM BPM process server.
Application 1 is a mediation module developed in IBM Integration developer and application 2 is a BPD developed in IBM Process Designer.
Application 1 is a JMS export which get messages froma MQ and sends it to application 2 for further processing.
Application 2 is exposed as webservice and application 1 connects to application via wsdl.
and at runtime in prod I am getting Connection refuesd or 400- bad request error.
Can you please tell if it is advisable to change the application 2 from webservice to a SCA binding.?
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Re: SCA or Webservice?2012-11-23T16:30:56Z in response to SystemAdminWhat version of the product are you using? The sense I am getting is that it is IBM BPM Advanced and you have an SCA module that receives the original incoming external request and then wishes to invoke a BPMN process. The way I would suggest doing this is by including the exposed BPD import component in your SCA assembly. The product already provides exactly this capability. Now there may be reasons why you wish to expose the BPMN process as a Web Service but you have not described these in your post so making a more detailed recommendation is not yet possible based on the information provided so far.
Re: SCA or Webservice?2012-11-25T00:29:31Z in response to kolbanThanks Neil,
we are using IBM BPM Advanced 7.5.1.
We created our BPD initially as a webservice but then it was said it had to integrate with a MQ module so we created the mediation module to connect BPD with MQ.
We have configured our BPEDB, and other product db's on MS SQL.
But because of this when the number of requests are high, whenever the mediation module tries to invoke the BPD webservice call, we are reciving Lock request time out messages, causing 100 per cent CPU utilization and ending in CPU starvation and server crash. hence thought of changing to SCA. So would like to know if SCA is really helpful in achieving better results than a webservice.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: SCA or Webservice?2012-11-25T02:06:13Z in response to SystemAdminGotcha. I'd check IBM's TechNotes to see if there aren't some recommended tuning parameters on MSSQL to alleviate the performance/resource issues. When invoking a BPD exposed as a Web Service (directly - not through SCA) then you are effectively building a SOAP message and sending that out over the transport protocol stack. IBM BPM then receives the SOAP message, unmarshalls the request and processes it. If I remember correctly, this will involve not only building a BPMN type Web Service but also calling a UCA to then asynchronously fire off the BPD. All in all, quite a stack and quite a lot of work. With IBM BPM Advanced and a knowledge of SCA assembly, invoking a BPD directly through its exposed SCA interface is pretty much a single drag and drop with nothing special needed on the BPMN side of the house. My understanding is that SCA bindings will be used (under the covers) to invoke an instance of the BPD. Certainly, no UCA definitions need be considered.
Re: SCA or Webservice?2012-11-25T21:16:25Z in response to kolbanHi Neil, Thanks again. You are right, when the webservice is not responding I am getting async timeout error in ffdc.
Also, it was already developed appln. and I wanted to clarify before making the changes. Please let me know with your findings.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: SCA or Webservice?2013-05-08T08:00:29Z in response to SystemAdmin
How about have SCA use JMS import interface put message in eventqueue? After all SCA components use the sib to communicate with each other, and this is faster. Also by using eventqueue you can easily trigger multiple BPDs as long you use relevant id value. Also any pre-processing of messages can be done in the SCA, so it is a bit more flexible. But again depends on your requirement. If you don't need the flexibility the performance difference will be insignificant.


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Sijsling Ousts Tsonga On Home Soil; Simon Beats Brands In Opener
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Wild card Igor Sijsling ousted World No. 8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-4 to claim his first Top 10 victory on home soil Monday evening at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam.
Sijsling withstood 14 aces from the third-seeded Frenchman and saved seven of the eight break points he faced to clinch the upset in two hours. He and Tsonga were meeting for the first time.
"He played and served well. He was good on the big points and took his chances. That's it," assessed Tsonga. "I didn't play too bad. The last game was not good, since I was broken for the first time in the match."
The Dutchman improved to 3-4 this season. He is looking to win back-to-back matches for the first time in 2013. Sijsling also reached the Australian Open doubles final, partnering Robin Haase to a runner-up finish (l. to Bryans).
Fifth seed Gilles Simon opened campaign with a 7-6(3), 6-4 victory over Germany's Daniel Brands. The Frenchman converted three of his 10 break points and won 81 per cent of points on his first serve to seal the win in one hour and 32 minutes.
The No. 14-ranked Simon is coming off a quarter-final showing at the Open Sud de France in Montpellier (l. to Paire) and improved to a 6-3 record on the season. The 28 year old's best performance in five previous visits to Rotterdam was a semi-final showing in 2008 (l. to Soderling).
Simon goes onto face Italian qualifier Matteo Viola, who defeated Spain's Marcel Granollers 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 in just over two hours.
Romania's Victor Hanescu claimed his second tour-level win of the season as he upset seventh seed Jerzy Janowicz, 7-6(4), 6-3. Hanescu countered Janowicz's 10 aces with eight of his own and broke serve twice to prevail in one hour and 32 minutes. The 22-year-old Janowicz was one of the breakthrough acts of 2012, reaching the final at the BNP Paribas Masters to catapult into the Top 30 of the Emirates ATP Rankings.
In a first-time meeting, Grigor Dimitrov defeated Bernard Tomic 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Dimitrov won 86 per cent of his first serve points in the deciding set to advance in one hour and 33 minutes. The Bulgarian improved to 7-4 on the year, highlighted by a runner-up finish to Andy Murray at the Brisbane International.
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Vergason Technology, Inc. is pleased to announce the promotion of Mark Fitch to the position of President.
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Vergason Technology, Inc. is pleased to announce the promotion of Mark Fitch to the position of President. Mark has been with the company for eight years, the most recent five years as executive vice president. He has been responsible for VTI's growth strategy, leading all efforts in international sales and marketing, technology development, and business development. He has served on the board of directors since 2008.
Mark brings to VTI extensive leadership experience in both small company environments and large. Prior to joining VTI he was co-owner and President of a Finger Lakes Fabricating, a manufacturing company in Ithaca, NY. He was formerly Sr. Vice President of LightPath Technologies, of Orlando, FL, a producer of optical components. He was Vice President of Operations for Geltech, Inc., an optical materials company based in Orlando. He has also held the position of Sr. Scientist with Corning Incorporated, where he began his professional career. Mark has a BS in Physics from Brockport, and is the holder of 6 US patents.
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Frankenweenie is a love story between a boy and his dog. It is also a beautifully crafted homage to classic horror films, a study of grief and a commentary on the mysteries of science and those who narrow-mindedly fear its advances.
Oct 5, 2012It's probably too early to peg Frankenweenie as Burton's comeback vehicle, but it's certainly the director's best movie in twenty years.
This delightfully twisted story about a boy and his (dead) dog showcases precisely what Burton excels at: blending the macabre and the heartfelt in a perfect, if oddball, union.
Frankenweenie is stitched together with love and a bit raggedy, like Sparky the dog in question.
The movie, a simple yet immensely pleasurable tale of a little boy and his undead dog, is good enough on its own. If you know the back story, it's even better.
Frankenweenie has that youthful verve and the ghoulishness of strange kids who will some day be eccentric creators. This movie is an attic experiment for its makers to be proud of and for audiences to cherish.
Frankenweenie is a cool little flipbook of historical Burtonian style. It even brings back old friends, including "Beetlejuice's" Winona Ryder and Catherine O'Hara.
This magnificent stop-motion cartoon is alive - "it's alive! - with laughs and heart.
It says something, then, that Burton's best, most enjoyable, and most emotionally resonate film in years is actually an adaptation of one of his very first projects: Frankenweenie.
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Oct 6, 2012Yeah,the old Tim Burton is back with his best movie since Sweeney Todd.Frankenweenie is visually beautiful and very emotional,I have to sayYeah,the old Tim Burton is back with his best movie since Sweeney Todd.Frankenweenie is visually beautiful and very emotional,I have to say that what he done in Dark Shadows is forgiven here… Full Review »
Jan 24, 2013Frankenweenie is the best animated movie from Tim Burton of all time, because apart from the typical gothic-expressionist environment andFrankenweenie is the best animated movie from Tim Burton of all time, because apart from the typical gothic-expressionist environment and characters, we see that science is in between. First we have the signature character of this director, who in this case is a misunderstood boy without friends, although here is expanded to other people of the story, unlike most of Burton pictures. In addition to Victor, there is Elsa (animated Winona Ryder), Mr. Rzykruski (animated Vincent Price), Edgar, Weird Girl, Toshiaki, Bob and Nassor; all these characters are very well physically constructed and have a defined personality. Second, the vision of the science that brings Tim Burton to the plot is awesome, and it is defined by two things that are said by Mr. Rzykruski: people like what science gives them but not the questions that science asks; and, science is not good or bad, but it can be used in both ways. Third, the idea of gothic mixed with science gives the film a fresh air and it is reflected in the moment when the other boys have their experiments. The thing here is that with these series of creatures, we notice the different approaches to science: love of Victor, ignorance of Edgar, over-confidence of Toshiaki, superiority of Nassor, fear of Bob and accident of Weird Girl. Other great things on this movie are the use of Frankenstein elements and the outstanding application of camera, in the picture are noticeable transitions from one images to another, flip over (360 turn) and the famous vertigo effect, formed by simultaneously dolly in and zoom out. Tim Burton could have a perfect film, but the end should be different.… Full Review »
Oct 5, 2012Frankenweenie. One of my favorite animated movies of this year, I think that is fresh, original -yes I know that the movie is based on the TimFrankenweenie. One of my favorite animated movies of this year, I think that is fresh, original -yes I know that the movie is based on the Tim Burton's short-, the movie is really interesting, the development of the story is funny, and yes I think that is one of the best movies of this year.… Full Review »


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There was a time around the middle of the last century when it seemed that humans could decisively vanquish the microbes that caused so many dreadful, often deadly, diseases. But that sense of victory over an enemy has given way to alarm. Drug-resistant pathogens have sprung up and 'superbugs' that can shrug off most drugs that are thrown at them have surfaced and spread across the world. With few new antimicrobials under development, there is a real sense among medical experts of humanity having its back to the wall and of the frightening possibility of a return to the bad old days when what started as a simple infection could get completely out of control. This year's World Health Day (April 7) focusses on antimicrobial resistance and its global spread. In a highly interconnected world, drug-resistant microbes can leap from one country to another. Last year, there was a furore over the spread of highly drug-resistant bacteria, which had the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1) gene, from South Asia to several countries. But 'superbugs' have made their way to India from elsewhere in the world too. For instance, studies of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria isolated in India have indicated a movement of such organisms from the United States, Europe, and Australia to this country.
In India, as in other countries, such dangerous microbes are circulating not only in hospitals but also in the larger community; poor sanitation and faecal contamination of water supplies have allowed some highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria to spread. Drug-resistance is a major issue in tuberculosis. India accounts for one-fifth of the global burden of the disease and two people die of it every three minutes. The rise of resistance as a natural consequence of the process of evolution is perhaps inevitable. But the misuse of antibiotics greatly hastens this process. There is a great deal that can and must be done to conserve the drugs that are available and still effective. Over-the-counter sales of antibiotics must be stopped. Physicians need to be educated on when it is appropriate to use antibiotics. Even when an antibiotic is needed, it is essential that the right drug is given at an adequate dosage and for a suitable duration. A proper system of surveillance for antimicrobial resistance as well as regularly updated guidelines for treatment would help doctors make the right choices. Further, the use of antibiotics as growth-promoters in livestock needs to be curtailed. In all of this, the government, the medical fraternity, and the public must play their part.
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UW-River Falls Art Students Hold Exhibits At Library
November 20, 1998
Two arts students at UW-River Falls will be holding exhibits.
Barbara Jerome, of Oakdale, Minn, will display her work in the Chalmer Davee Library at UW-River Falls Dec. 6-13. The exhibit features her works in clay through which she has created the tribal story teller and various pots simulating those of Native Americans. The exhibit will be held in a glass table case and may be viewed during regular library hours.
Susanne Finstad, an art major from Burnsville, Minn., will display a weaving in the table show case in the library from Nov. 30-Dec. 5. This piece was woven into narrow strips and then hand stitched to create one larger piece. Finstad also hand-dyed the wool.
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Big 12 ADs discussing pros, cons of staying at 10
IRVING, Texas Big 12 athletic directors spent several hours Monday discussing the pros and cons of maintaining their 10-team configuration or eventually making additions to the conference - or maybe doing something in between.
League commissioner Bob Bowlsby repeated what he has said before "that our current composition is terrific for us" but the ADs went through plenty of "what-if" scenarios to be prepared for any eventuality in what has been an ongoing shift of conference affiliations. The Big 12 has lost four members to other leagues while adding West Virginia and TCU.
"I think we did gravitate around some principles that will guide us going forward and I think we created some filters that we all agreed on," Bowlsby said after the first day of their regular scheduled two-day meeting. "I think there was a fair amount of unanimity in the room."
Among the possibilities is an alliance with other conferences, including the ACC, and Bowlsby said there appears to be unanimous support for the idea.
"We talked about those kinds of things, and I think there are some ways that you can get some of the benefits and some of the value of larger configuration without actually adding members," Bowlsby said. "We spent a good portion of the late afternoon talking about how that all fit together and how it worked."
Bowlsby didn't get into specifics and wouldn't say what other conferences could be in the mix. Pac-12 and SEC officials have indicated they have had no such discussions with the Big 12.
All the Big 12 athletic directors agreed to defer questions to Bowlsby, but several seemed encouraged by their discussions when asked what was accomplished.
The primary items on Tuesday's agenda are football scheduling and bowl alliances.
Their first day was reserved for discussing the makeup of the league, and Bowlsby said that was "talked completely through for about three hours." Bowlsby said there were a whole bunch of different financial and geographical and scheduling possibilities discussed.
Bowlsby described the meeting as a free-flowing opportunity to interject a lot of ideas, and said the interactive nature by everyone in the room was probably indicative of the interest in the topic.
"I think that it's possible to make a considered decision to stay at the most favorable structure and that's where we have been," Bowlsby said. "But having said that, I don't think we ever want to be in a position of being un-nimble, and by that I mean it's a changing environment and we have to be prepared to respond to that changing environment, and this meeting is certainly going to help us do that."
Bowlsby said there is evidence that dictates the league stay at 10 schools, and other that suggests getting bigger.
"We have evidence on both sides of it," he said. "But I don't know that any of it is compelling enough to cause change right now."
Forbes recently projected revenue conferences would generate this school year through network television deals, bowl games and NCAA tournaments. The Big 12 is expected to earn $262 million, which averages to $26.2 million for each of the 10 schools - the highest per-team average of any conference.


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This Operation has been modified as per Budget Revision 8 (see below).
This budget revision to Emergency Operation (EMOP) 200298 'Emergency food assistance to the non-refugee population in the Gaza Strip' proposes to: temporarily provide food and voucher assistance to an additional 380,000 conflict affected persons following the escalation of conflict starting in July 2014; and, increase the budget by US$ 47,619,761, to include: a corresponding additional 26,190 MT in food transfers, valued at US$ 32,800,142; and no additional value-based voucher transfers valued at US$ 5,450,000
This budget increase and extension-in-time to Emergency Operation (EMOP) 200298 Emergency food assistance to the non-refugee population in the Gaza Strip' proposes to: extend the operation from 1 July to 31 December 2014, while maintaining the same activities and number of beneficiaries (285,000); increase the budget by USD 22,276,801, to include: o a corresponding additional 20,244 MT in food transfers, valued at USD9,737,638; and, no additional value-based voucher transfers valued at USD4,554,000.
Six decades of political instability, four years of blockade and major destruction of private and public property during military confrontations, have led to the disintegration of the productive economy in the Gaza Strip. Over 50 percent of people in Gaza are unable to meet their daily food requirements without support due to few employment opportunities, low incomes and limited economic access to food. In spite of a partial relaxation on import restrictions since June 2010, an ongoing ban on exports and on some imports has hampered recovery and improvements in 2011, and food insecurity levels are likely to persist throughout 2012.


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Things I would have changed:Would prefer the top be metal and they not try and put impressions of parts that dont really exist it just looks tacky.
What others should know:Don't use copperheads. I find they dimple and oxidize.
Things I liked:On opening the pistol today I shot exactly 135 shots out of a single crosman 12 gram powerlet before removing the cylinder and got a little "spisht" sound when I took the pressure off. All shots were high powered the last magazine seemingly as powerful as the first and to me that's just incredible. Especially under today's less than ideal 55 degrees. The accuracy at 5-10 meters was dead on. Resting the bottom of the soda can on top of the 3-dot sights I proceeded to make Swiss cheese of it in short order. This pistol has a wonderful feel and the sights, metal magazines, and CO2 trap door are all excellent features.
Things I would have changed:Not a thing for $29.99 or maybe even twice that.
What others should know:If you understand DAO pistols and why it has the long somewhat hard trigger pull I don't see much to complain about. It sure didn't hinder my ability to hit the target and my skills are average at best. I also had no problems with the magazines of which I have three. The loaded easily and stayed loaded. If it's hard, you may be going about it wrong. Eats Daisy Zinc BBs like candy. Best $29 gun on the planet! Feels/shoots like more than $29. I can't speak to its longevity yet and will update in the future.
Things I liked:Low cost but good performance balanced with value. This pistol is very lightweight as it's almost all plastic but still feels solid, though perhaps somewhat toylike compared to other Umarex models. As others have commented, not much of a wow factor but a good purchase for either a collector or an introductory bb pistol. This is meant to be a bare essentials model but it still looks great. Hard to go wrong for the price!
Things I would have changed:It has a white dot on the front sight -- perhaps white or orange dots on the non adjustable front sight.
What others should know:When I contacted superior Pyramyd support as to which clips to purchase for this model, lo & behold, I had them stumped -- LOL! Maybe a first! The helpful support person even checked the Umarex website (as I did) tho no avail. I promised the tech that I'd add this to the website when I found out so it turns out this model uses the 18rd Crosman C31 clip (it's identical to the included clip), so please get yourself a package of two clips which should be enough shots (54 shots including included 18-shot clip) before your CO2 loses power. DO NOT order the Crosman 20rd C11 clips -- you can jam it into the pistol but it will likely misfire/jam. I would recommend the Umarex Universal Weaver/Picatinny mount laser for $18 at Pyramyd for this pistol. The Swiss arms Universal Pistol Tactical Weaver/Picatinny Rail (Metal)($13 from Pyramyd) for this pistol as well -- fits great, but use two #6 washers for each hex screw as shims so the bottom weaver rail isn't off center. This allows you to use the Umarex laser AND/OR a red dot if you so choose. This also allows you to use the regular sights as you can see through the tactical rail when mounted. Your inexpensive pistol will then look like a truly foreboding weapon! I've done this with most Umarex pistols I own that have the bottom weaver rail -- only need one detachable Umarex Laser and one red dot (weaver mount) for all of them if you are on a budget. Happy shooting!
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BY REMOVING 22 suspected drug dealers from downtown Wilkes-Barre last week, city police scored a win – albeit temporary – for the "good guys."
The officers involved in "Operation Square Deal," a five-month investigation that culminated Friday in the arrests of nearly three dozen people, including 10 alleged drug users, deserve thanks and praise for conducting this street sweep. Credit, in particular, goes to the patrol officers who frequent the Public Square area and who reportedly propelled the effort, establishing it as a priority. Nice work.
That's not to overlook the gall – or stupidity – of drug pushers who set up shop in this vicinity. The tract includes a public school, City Hall and the police headquarters. Not an especially observant or well-read bunch, the alleged perpetrators supposedly conducted their illegal trade in broad daylight beneath the city's much-publicized Hawkeye Security surveillance cameras.
No doubt, visitors to the city's hub this week will feel more secure without so many people skulking on street corners. Regrettably, the situation probably won't last. A new crop of criminals – either desperate or dumb, or both – will drift toward the territory, trying to fill the void and the unyielding demand. Or they'll set up "shop" nearby.
The only antidote is a concerned community – people like you who won't tolerate this kind of activity where you live and work. And where you raise your children.
The drug scourge remains a community problem that requires a community response.
If you witness suspicious activity, report it to police. If you have the inclination, get involved with the Wilkes-Barre Crime Watch Coalition or join a Guardian Angels patrol. If you know someone with a drug dependency, guide them toward a treatment program. If you've conquered a habit, stay the course!
Just as important: If you are raising a child, teach him or her the benefits of a drug-free lifestyle. There's always room in the ranks for one more "good guy."
• Suspect illegal drug activity? Call 91 1 or, for Wilkes-Barre incidents, use the online Wilkes-Barre Crimeline, accessible at www.wbcrimeline.com.
• Find area drug-treatment programs. Call Help Line at 1-888-829-1341. Or visit www.helpline-nepa.info.
• Get advice on raising drug-free kids. Visit www.theantidrug.com.
• Learn about drug-prevention strategies from the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, an Alexandria, Va.-based organization. Go to www.cadca.org.


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LONDON, (AFP) --- Maria Sharapova suffered a shock exit from Wimbledon on Monday as Germany's Sabine Lisicki avenged last year's semi-final defeat with a 6-4, 6-3 fourth round victory over the world number one.
Sharapova had romped to a straight sets win over Lisicki in last year's semi-final at the All England Club, but the top seed was completely out-played by the 15th seed this time.
The 25-year-old has been a finalist in three of the last four Grand Slams and arrived at Wimbledon on a high after winning the French Open for the first time earlier this month.
But she came back down to earth with a bump on Court One as Lisicki, beaten in the first round in her four pre-Wimbledon tournaments, produced one of the best performances of her career.
"I certainly had chances; I didn't take them. But I think a lot of the credit goes to my opponent," Sharapova.
"She played extremely well and did many things better than I did on this given day. She came after the rain delay really firing. You just have to hand it to her."
Sharapova could lose her world number one ranking depending on her rivals' results at Wimbledon, but she refused to be downbeat as she contemplated a well-earned rest.
"Of course you want to stay at the top as long as you can. Obviously everyone guns for that spot," she said.
"You can only use it as motivation but it will be nice to rest for a little bit and be in a home atmosphere. I've missed it for over two months."
Lisicki, who will play compatriot and eighth seed Angelique Kerber for a place in the last four, said: "It's just unbelievable. I'm so happy. I had lost the last three meetings with her, so it's nice to finally win one.
"I just went for my shots out there. I felt great, it's my favourite tournament. I love the crowd and playing on grass.
"I'm fighter and I fight to the last game. I think I'm getting better with each match."
The warning signs had been there for Sharapova, who won Wimbledon as a 17-year-old in 2004, as she hadn't been at her dominant best in the first week.
She had to survive a hard-fought clash with Tsvetana Pironkova before finally winning in three sets in the second round and it soon became clear Lisicki, pumped up to avenge last year's defeat, would pose her plenty of problems.
Lisicki has always thrived at Wimbledon, reaching the last four as a wild card last year and making a quarter-final appearance in 2009.
The big-hitting 22-year-old, dubbed 'Doris Becker' by German media for her powerful style, was quickly into her stride and broke for a 3-1 lead in the first set.
Even when nerves got the better of Lisicki as she served for the set, allowing Sharapova to break, it was the German's response that impressed as she came out all guns blazing and broke straight back to take the set at the second attempt.
A 45-minute delay did little to improve Sharapova's mindset and a double-fault presented Lisicki with two break points, which the German gratefully converted at the first attempt with a blistering forehand return.
When it came to serve for the match, Sharapova might have hoped for Lisicki to crack under pressure.
The German squandered one match point with a miscued forehand and couldn't take her second either, but a huge ace sealed victory and she fell to her knees in jubilation.


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Hunting is too dangerous for kidsNovember 30,2012
Hunting is too dangerous for kids
The story in the newspapers about the 7-year-old child who got lost in the woods after hunting with family is both appalling and terrible parenting. Taking a 7-year-old, or for that matter any child, hunting is risky and inappropriate. In this case the child wasnt shot by accident, as is usually the case in these accidents while hunting, but got lost overnight in freezing cold weather. I wonder where the parents were? Deer hunting is dangerous enough already without exposing your kids to the bullets buzzing by your head from other hunters shooting at everything that moves. Thats not including your own rifle going off by accident and killing your best friend or kids. Just ask Dick Cheney, who shot his buddy while quail hunting. The 78-year-old victim had a heart attack after getting shot by Cheney.
So, leave the kids at home and go hunting yourself if you have to. If people are in the woods with children they better stay close to them.
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My GAS is out of control, I dig everything on ebay now, what I got is a dirty brass lens in Unicum shutter. It has no name on it, just some labeling on the shutter says, "Bausch&Lomb OPT Co. PAT Jan, 6, 91. Aperture scale starts from F4, but I guess it could be F8 as to modern standard(I don't think this lens was made in 1991, is it 1891?)
After a bit cleaning the lens is OK, no fungus or separation, few scratches. What surprised me is the shutter works after the two cylinders got cleaned. One more thing if it's helps to identify what it is, there is a "W.A." label on the aperture scale.
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NEWORLEANS-- A New Orleans East business fell for a bold scam last week, and as police investigate, Eyewitness News obtained exclusive video that may help identify the con artist.
The woman introduced herself as an official with the state food stamp office.
'She had a clipboard. It had a list of other business and signatures and an identification tag as well,' said Desirie Tran, manager at the gas station convenience store next door.
By the time a cashier at a New Orleans East bakery became suspicious, it was too late. After being given access to the store's Electronic Benefits Card reader, the woman, seen on video, transferred $200 cash value to a card belonging to someone else.
'Basically, she just came in and said she was with the food stamps and wanted to upgrade the machine. Everything seemed legitimate. She was on the phone with what sounded like a supervisor.'
The woman bolted when the cashier asked to see further identification, but she didn't go far. Tran said the woman then came into her business and began the same routine.
When Tran approached the woman, she left abruptly. That's when the bakery shop manager ran over to warn the gas station.
'As soon as she walked out, two minutes, he came running over. Right after that,' Tran said.
The state food stamp office verified the scam. According to electronic transaction records, the woman first tried to add $600 to the card, but when that didn't work, she kept punching in purchases until the card finally accepted the $200 credit.
Now these businesses want to make sure nobody else is victimized.
'Some people may have thought it was legitimate and never even realized it yet,' Tran said. 'Hopefully this will get it out there.'
Investigators with the New Orleans Police Department are trying to solve the case.
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BRUMMITT, Ark. (KTHV) - This weekend, one of the busiest seasons for Arkansans comes to an end. Duck hunting ends Sunday, followed by a youth weekend on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1.
This week's Science with Sarah puts a new spin on the sport, exploring why duck hunting is so special to Arkansas.
Whether it's the culture, legacy, or thrill, duck hunting is a major sport to the natural state. Feather Farms of in Brummitt, Ark. took Sarah Fortner on a duck hunt to learn what it's all about.
Geography of Arkansas plays a huge role in the duck hunting success. As birds migrate in from Canada, Arkansas is in the path to warmer weather. It's not just the temperature that appeals the birds, but typically in winter, most land in the northern plains are frozen or snow covered, so the ducks don't have a food source. In turn, when the weather is very icy up north, it typically means hunting in Arkansas is that much better.
The agriculture of Arkansas is also to thank for the great hunting. Dennis Adkins explained that before the advancement of farm equipment, more rice and other crops were left behind. So historically, ducks favored Arkansas for the abundance of food.
Now the state manages land for the ducks to have a rest stop. Arkansas Game and Fish provides habitat areas like Bayou Meta that are open to the public.
Weather plays a big role in hunting ducks, too. Other than geography, wind, temperatures, pressure changes and even moon phases can determine when waterfowl are more or less active.
"It's harder to kill the ducks when you've got a full moon and they eat all night," added Adkins.
After a 12-hour hunter safety course and rounds of practicing shooting, the THV 11 crew went out on an afternoon hunt in Lonoke County at Feather Farms. Although the season may be ending, you can plan ahead for next year by signing up for safety courses and renewing your licenses. You can do that at http://www.agfc.com.


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Let The Year of Nina Agdal Begin And Other News
- Charlize Theron just hangs out at Sean Penn's house in a bikini. [Lainey Gossip]
– Don't tell Benedict Cumberbatch you fap to his mom. [Dlisted]
- The Year Officially Kicks Off With Redheads [theCHIVE]
- Ke$ha's been getting plastic surgery. [Fishwrapper]
- Guardians of The Galaxy put out its first official cast photo. [tooFab]
– Some chick only ate at Starbucks for an entire year. [BuzzFeed]
– Hello, Bridget Malcolm in lingerie… [Popoholic]
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This one hour documentary takes a look at the reality that faces a last generation status Indian as she tries to hold on to her culture after the recent passing of her main native reference, her Grand-father.
« Because of the Indian Act I am forced into letting go of who I am and accepting that I am probably the last Indian in my family lineage. Although I always had uncertainties and questions about my true belonging to the Mohawk culture and my ties to my community, I've never felt as culturally empty as I do now. Even if I always knew that I was a last generation Indian, I never felt that I needed to justify or explain who I was because my Grand-father was Mohawk, which in turn granted me that right. With his death, my heart and my roots seem to have slipped further away.
Last Call Indian begins where the life of Morris Bonspille ends.
This heart-warming documentary is not only about cultural identity but is also a critical analysis of Aboriginal entitlement and the dilemma faced by many last generation Indians.
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The former Grey's Anatomy actress has signed on to not only star but serve as producer on a HBO original film based on the novel by Ann Hood.
The project centers on a mother mourning the death of her young daughter and struggling to overcome the grief that jeopardizes every aspect of her life — including her marriage. She begins to find her way back into the world through a knitting circle.
Award-wining playwright Craig Wright, creator of Dirty Sexy Money, will write the screenplay. Wright previously worked on HBO's Six Feet Under.
This will be Kathrine Heigl's return to television since her exit from the series Grey's Anatomy back in 2010.
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Published: August 5, 2004
LIKE many people these days, Jason Kim and Linda Crasco rely heavily on e-mail for their work, running a small educational research and evaluation company in Norwood, Mass. And like many people, they get plenty of spam, some 400 pieces of unwanted e-mail daily.
So when their company, Systemic Research, first installed a spam filter 18 months ago, they were impressed by the noticeable reduction in the amount of spam they received.
Several months ago, Dr. Kim and Mrs. Crasco were at a meeting when they ran into a program director they knew from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She greeted them coolly. Puzzled, Dr. Kim and Mrs. Crasco asked what they might have done to offend her.
As it turned out, she had sent Dr. Kim and Mrs. Crasco an e-mail message suggesting that they work together on a grant application. The application deadline had since passed, and the acquaintance was more than a little miffed that she had gotten no response from them.
The two entrepreneurs were flabbergasted. Not only did they have no idea the e-mail had been sent, they had no idea that it had been snuffed out as junk.
As spam has become the bane of in-boxes, spam filters have come to the rescue. Added on to or built into popular e-mail services and programs like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Eudora and Outlook, the filters are helping many people feel less besieged by spam.
Some people who despaired of spam to the point where they were ready to change their e-mail addresses or give up on e-mail altogether are so happy with their filters that they now consider e-mail to have re-emerged as a viable form of communication.
Yet filters can also create more work, requiring constant vigilance and frequent tuning in order to teach the software to recognize certain types of junk.
And as the experience of Dr. Kim and Mrs. Crasco shows, filters can also make mistakes, siphoning important e-mail messages off to the electronic slag heap.
Some e-mail users are learning to make do with an imperfect system while others remain frustrated, even angry, that better mechanisms have not emerged.
The current gold standard in filtering is called Bayesian scoring. The method, which is used in the latest versions of Eudora, among other programs, works by looking at words in an e-mail message and assigning each a probability of being part of a spam message. The filter then analyzes the cumulative probabilities and comes up with the total likelihood that the message is spam, delivering a score of 1 to 100 -- the higher the number, the more likely it is that the message is junk.
''It is fabulous,'' said Jean Armour Polly, who lives in Jamesville, N.Y., and is the author of several Internet-related books. Ms. Polly depends more on e-mail than most people she knows, and since she gets about 900 junk messages a day, it is worth it to her to fine-tune her filters.
''You have to spend some time training it as to what is junk,'' she said. ''Then you set your tolerance level for junk, using a slider bar.'' Ms. Polly said she tells the filter to consider anything with a score of 45 or above as junk.
Matt Dudziak, Eudora project manager at Qualcomm, the company that sells the Eudora program, said that when version 6.0 of Eudora was released in September 2003, the filtering method caught 97 percent of spam e-mail.
Though still very good, Mr. Dudziak said, the filter is less accurate now. ''Spam has changed in the last nine months,'' as spammers move to outwit filters, he said.
As spam evolves, the filters need to be trained to recognize new indicators. ''When you 'junk'' or 'not junk' a message, this is what you are doing,'' Mr. Dudziak said. If a legitimate message gets put into the junk mailbox by mistake, the user can find it, tag it as ''not junk'' and have it moved to the in-box. In the process, the filter learns to recognize similar future messages as legitimate.
Mr. Dudziak examined a few of the messages that got past Ms. Polly's filter and said they all illustrated the clever evolution of spam. One ad for pharmaceuticals, for instance, was surrounded by poetry. ''Spammers have started using words the Eudora filter wouldn't consider junk in the first place,'' he said, ''overloading the dictionary with those types of words, so when you calculate the total probability, the few spammy words aren't likely to outweigh the hundreds of valid words.''
He said the Eudora anti-spam team was trying to devise new methods for spotting such messages, like scrutinizing just the first few lines.
Other messages that got past Ms. Polly's filter were filled with graphics. ''They'll send you a message that just has a big graphic in it, and a graphic alone doesn't necessarily mean the message is spam,'' Mr. Dudziak said. ''The filter doesn't know if it's an ad for Viagra or a picture of your kids.''
One advantage of a filtering program like Eudora's is that it is under the user's control. If a legitimate message lands in the junk mailbox when it should not, the user can rescue it. This requires periodic perusing of the junk mail folder, but many people seem to be willing to do that.
Ms. Polly, for instance, knows that she must scan her junk folder every few days, looking for items scored below 60. ''I occasionally 'not junk' those,'' she said.
But if e-mail messages get scrutinized at the server level -- that is, at a company's central computer -- the user never sees if a valid message gets mistaken for junk and thrown away.


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NCAA penalizes Montana football over booster perks
HELENA, Mont. The University of Montana's football program was placed on probation for three years Friday and will have its scholarships reduced from 63 to 59 over the same period after the NCAA found boosters provided extra benefits to players, including bail money and free legal representation for two athletes.
Other player perks provided by boosters included free meals along with clothing, lodging and transportation, the NCAA found.
The university and former coach Robin Pflugrad failed in their duties to monitor the football program, the NCAA said in its report.
The penalties, many self-imposed by the school, include vacating five wins for games in which ineligible players participated after receiving help with their legal problems in violation of NCAA rules.
The vacated games include a 36-10 win over rival Montana State and FCS playoff wins over Central Arkansas and Northern Iowa in 2011. Montana won the Big Sky Conference title in 2011, finished 11-3 overall and advanced to the FCS semifinals before falling to Sam Houston State. However, it can no longer list those among its football accomplishments, which include seven appearances in the FCS title game since 1995 and two national championships.
The school did not receive a post-season ban.
President Royce Engstrom and athletic director Kent Haslam issued statements Friday saying the university has expanded its compliance office and is improving its communication of NCAA rules to the university's fan base.
The university must also arrange an external review of its compliance program.
Haslam's statement asks boosters to feel free to ask any questions about NCAA regulations by calling, emailing or submitting an anonymous question to the "Ask Grizzly Compliance" section of the university's website.
Pflugrad, who is now the offensive coordinator at Weber State, is suspended from coaching during the first game of the 2013 season and faces recruiting restrictions this season. He also must attend an NCAA regional rules seminar in 2014.
Pflugrad accepts the sanctions and will not coach from Aug. 26 through Aug. 31, when the Wildcats play Stephen F. Austin, Weber State athletic director Jerry Bovee said in a statement.
Pflugrad, who coached at Montana in 2010 and 2011, did not respond to a phone message seeking comment.
Much of the case revolves around the October 2011 arrests of cornerback Trumaine Johnson, who now plays for the St. Louis Rams, and backup quarterback Gerald Kemp by police trying to break up a loud party. Officers used stun guns on the players.
The NCAA found that a booster posted a $340 bond to bail the two out of jail at the request of one player's grandfather - who later repaid her - while an attorney provided each with about $1,500 in free legal representation after a student employee in the football office told the players his mother was a lawyer.
The NCAA does not identify Kemp and Johnson in its report, but their arrests were widely reported on. They both pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct charges in December 2011.
The NCAA said Pflugrad learned a booster had posted bonds for the two, but did not report it to university officials. NCAA officials also found then-athletic director Jim O'Day and the compliance director were aware that a booster was providing legal assistance to the players.


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Fantasy Impact: The Vancouver Canucks have signed sniper Radim Vrbata to a two-year deal worth $10 million
The Canucks get: a five-time (pro-rated, lockout year) 20-goal scorer and a recent 35-goal man. You can pencil him in right now on the Sedin line. Bah, may as well use permanent marker.
Fantasy Players Impacted: It's a good fit for Vrbata, although I'd be leary of his leaving Phoenix to go anywhere - his last foray into free agency led him to Tampa Bay. And that ended with him heading back to Europe until he was traded back to Phoenix. But he's a proven scorer and possibly the best one that the Sedin twins have ever had on their line, when you think about all the Anson Carters, the Jason Kings, the Alex Burrows that have come and gone. But he is coming off of a subpar season.
Alex Burrows is probably not going to have that big bounce-back we were hoping for now. Not on a checking line, which is where he is now earmarked. And Nicklas Jensen owners can uncross their fingers now, because it ain't happenin'. Daniel and Henrik themselves benefit. Another weapon on that line - don't underestimate the value there. Teams have to focus on both sides of the ice, not just Daniel's now.
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WILKES-BARRE â?? City police arrested three people found sitting in a suspected mobile methamphetamine lab on East Lafayette Place Friday afternoon and used a Taser to subdue one of the occupants after he allegedly fled from police.
Police closed East Lafayette Place between Academy Street and Rita Street while state police forensic scientists wearing respirators, black protective suits and rubber gloves collected evidence from the vehicle, an older model green Toyota Corolla. They removed several metal jugs, bags, assorted containers and papers from the trunk and passenger compartment of the four-door sedan.
Members of a state police clandestine lab response team called the car a suspected meth lab and said articles consistent with the manufacture of methamphetamine were found inside the vehicle. The articles will be tested at a forensic laboratory, they said, a process that typically takes from six to eight weeks.
The vehicle was towed by LAG Towing, the cityâ??s towing contractor, to the LAG impound lot. City police said the vehicle was not evidence, though evidence was collected from inside the vehicle.
The alleged drug bust began shortly after 3 p.m., when Wilkes-Barre police officer Robert Collins said he saw the car parked on East Lafayette Place with the three occupants inside. One of the occupants, a man, took off running as Collins stopped his police cruiser.
Multiple neighbors, who asked not to be identified, reported seeing the man run into a fenced yard on East Lafayette Place, where Collins used a Taser to subdue him.
A neighbor who said he witnessed the incident said the man removed the Taser barb from his body and continued running until he was subdued by Collins. Collins ordered the carâ??s other two occupants, a man and a woman, to stay in the vehicle and kept them in sight as he arrested the man, several neighbors said.
â??He did a suburb job,â?ť a witness said.
Additional units arrived a few minutes later, and all three were taken into custody.
A neighbor reported she had seen the vehicle in the neighborhood before and she believed it did not belong to a resident of the neighborhood in South Wilkes-Barre.
â??Weâ??re kind of a close-knit community here and we try to watch out,â?ť said the neighbor, who did not give her name. â??You kind of get familiarized with who belongs here and who doesnâ??t.â?ť
Another neighbor said the Toyota did not belong to a resident of East Lafayette Street or the surrounding blocks.
The state Office of Attorney Generalâ??s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation was also contacted to assist in the investigation.
State drug agents busted other alleged meth labs at 72 Beekman St. on June 1 and at 80 Church St. on May 22 in South Wilkes-Barre.