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KKTY NEWS Jul 09 Archive
(Fri 7/31/09) - The Douglas City Council will begin the process of filling several open jobs this Monday morning. Acting mayor Marilyn Werner has called a special meeting of the council for Monday, August 3rd at 9:30am in the Council Chambers at City Hall. Purpose of the meeting will be the appontment of a Mayor for the City of Douglas, as well as beginning the process of filling a councilperson vacancy and the city attorney vacancy. The City Council fired former City Administrator Bobbe Fitzhugh on Monday, July 27th. Mayor Jim Schneider also resigned that night, and former City Attorney Jim Hardee resigned his position Tuesday morning. This Monday morning's special council meeting will be open to the public and will be broadcast live on Communicom Cable channel 61.
(Fri 7/31/09) - Bridge Party! Several hundred area residents joined state officials yesterday on a sunny afternoon to celebrate the completion of the West Yellowstone Bridge across the North Platte River. Free hot dogs, cake and Pepsi, speeches, a ribbon cutting and a parade marked the festivities. Susie Dziardziel of Douglas is Chairman of the State Transportation Commission... she noted that the final result was worth the wait... audio here
WyDot director John Cox, a former member of the Douglas police department, said it's a big chunk of concrete... audio here
Cox took a few moments to look back over the history of several bridges at the site.. audio here
Cox said the original bridge was 15 feet wide. The new bridge features two lanes in each direction, a center lane, sidewalks and boulevard lighting on both sides and custom Jackalope cutouts that pay tribute to the town's official mascot.
(Fri 7/31/09) - The Wyoming State Fair is looking for a few good mutton busters. This year there are three nights of sheep riding action available for participants. Mutton Bustin\rquote will occur on Thursday, August 13 during the PRCA Xtreme Bull-Riding as well as Friday and Saturday during the PRCA Rodeo. Contestants must be 5 to 7 years old and under 65 pounds. There are still spaces available for your child to participate. Contact Debbie at the Wyoming State Fair office to sign up for a spot.
(Thu 7/30/09) - Wyoming investigators say the deaths of three people in a rural Converse County home in March were a double homicide-suicide. Sheriff Clint Becker said Wednesday the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation concluded that 53-year-old Joseph Noel and his wife's son, 28-year-old Chad Heck, were homicide victims. In a written statement, Becker said 51-year-old Teresa Noel committed suicide, but he didn't say who killed her husband and son. Earlier, he said no motive for the killings was determined. Sheriff's deputies found the three people dead after responding\par to a call at their home on March 9.
(Thu 7/30/09) - Douglas will officially celebrate the opening of its new bridge today. The West Yellowstone Bridge over the North Platte River was opened earlier this summer. Work on the project began more than a year ago, replacing a bridge that had stood for more than eight decades before being closed and demolished. Today's completion celebration begins at 12 noon on the west end of the bridge... it will feature a ceremonial ribbon cutting and remarks by WyDot director John Cox and local officials. There'll be a short parade, and refreshments will be provided. The public is invited to attend.
(Thu 7/30/09) - Wyoming has hundreds of wind turbines in place or under construction, but it's not clear what happens to them after they wear out. State Sen. Jim Anderson, a Glenrock Republican, said this week that decommissioning the turbines is a major concern. Anderson serves on a legislative task force looking at decommissioning and other issues. Wyoming currently has no standard for setting aside money to deal with obsolete turbines and related facilities. Most turbines have 20-year warranties and power-purchase agreements, but wind energy developers expect the machines to last longer. About 290 turbines were built in the state in the past year, and about 160 more are under construction.
(Tue 7/28/09) - Another job opening at City Hall. Douglas City Attorney Jim Hardee submitted his resignation this morning. In a short letter to council president and acting mayor Marilyn Werner, Hardee said that he is tendering his resignation from the position of City Attorney effective immediately. This follows last night's firing of City Administrator Bobbe Fitzhugh and the resignation of Mayor Jim Schneider. Councilwoman Marilyn Werner is Council President, and is serving as acting mayor. The council can select a new mayor from their ranks at their next meeting, and will then take applications from those interested in filling the open council seat.
(Mon 7/27/09) - The City Administrator's fired... the Mayor quits. At the end of tonight's Douglas City Council meeting, Councilman Bob Chiapuzio motioned to take the council into executive session to consider employment matters. The council returned to chambers at 10pm, and this was the motion by Councilman Chiapuzio... audio here
Councilwoman Kathy Russell seconded the motion. Mayor Schneider made the following comments... audio here
Again, Councilman Chipuzio... audio here
The Council took a roll call vote, with councilpersons Chiapuzio, Reynolds and Russell voting to fire, and Mayor Schneider and Councilwoman Werner voting against. Per her contract, Fitzhugh will receive six months severance pay. Following the vote, Mayor Jim Schneider tendered his resignation... audio here
The council will now begin the process of replacing both the City Administrator and the Mayor. City Attorney Jim Hardee told KKTY News tonight that the Council will take applications to fill the Administrator's job... audio here
Filling the Mayor's job will be a little bit different process... audio here
Councilwoman Marilyn Werner is Council President, and will be in charge of the council until a new mayor for the City of Douglas is named.
(Thu 7/23/09) - A judge has set a September sentencing date for a former Wyoming state trooper who pleaded guilty this week to two federal criminal charges. Former trooper Joe Ryle of Douglas pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he violated the civil rights of a Wal-Mart trucker by kidnapping the man in an aborted scheme to murder him. Ryle said in court that he had planned to stage a crash to collect settlement money from the company. But he said he ultimately decided he couldn't go through with it and let the trucker go. U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer said Monday that Ryle faces about 19 years in prison, including a mandatory five-year sentence for using a gun in a crime. The judge has set a Sept. 25 sentencing date for Ryle in Cheyenne.
(Thu 7/23/09) - Wyoming's unemployment rate jumped to 5.9 percent in June, nearly a full percentage point higher than May as job growth couldn't keep pace with an increasing labor force. The Wyoming Department of Employment said Wednesday the state added more than 7,200 jobs in June, but that was offset by new jobseekers, including recent graduates and students looking for summer work. The bigger job gains came in retail trade and professional and business services. Natural resources, mining and construction suffered the larger losses. Converse County's unemployment numbers also took a jump in June, rising to 5.2 percent, up from 2.6 percent the year before. Wyoming's May unemployment rate was 5.0 percent. In June 2008, it was only 3.2 percent. To put it perspective, however, we're still in much better shape than most of the rest of the country. The national unemployment rate is 9.5 percent.
(Tue 7/21/09) - Another big windfarm on the way for Converse County. Duke Energy says they're planning to build another wind farm, this time northeast of Glenrock, that would produce enough electricity for as many as 60,000 homes. Duke Energy plans to build the $400 million dollar, 200 megawatt Top of the World Windpower Project on 17,000 acres off Highway 95 east of Rolling Hills. Duke is currently building out the 99 megawatt Campbell Hill project northwest of Glenrock. Between 110 and 133 wind generators will be built on the Top Of The World site. The final number will depend on the type of turbines installed. Duke Energy plans to apply for permits for the project this fall and hold a formal public hearing in December. Construction is expected to begin next summer. The project is expected to become operational in the summer of 2011. Duke will host an open house to discuss the Top Of The World project at the Glenrock Town Hall at 6pm on Tuesday, July 28th.
(Tue 7/21/09) - A former Wyoming state trooper has pleaded guilty to two federal charges that he unlawfully arrested a Wal-Mart trucker in an aborted scheme to murder the man to stage a crash to collect settlement money. Joe Ryle of Douglas entered the guilty pleas Monday afternoon before U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer in Cheyenne. The judge says Ryle faces about 19 years when he's sentenced at a later date. Prosecutors say Ryle pulled the trucker over in January near Douglas. Ryle told the judge he released the trucker unharmed when he realized he couldn't go through with the crime. Ryle says he agreed to plead guilty because he committed the acts and wants to face up to them.
(Mon 7/20/09) - The Best of the Crop is being shown this week at the Converse County Fair. 4H and FFA kids are showing their best efforts at the Wyoming State Fairgrounds. The horse show gets underway at 8 this morning in the show ring, and kids will put their dogs through their paces tonight at 6pm in the Dog Agility trials. Activities continue through the week, with the Buyers Lunch Saturday morning at 11 at the Rotary Booth, and the Livetock Market Sale Saturday afternoon at 1:00pm. Following the Sale Saturday, there'll be a volleyball tournament at 4pm, dachshund races and a calcutta Saturday night at 6pm, carnival games from 6 to 8pm, and comedian Dan McGowan on the Pepsi Stage Saturday night at 8:00pm.
(Fri 7/17/09) - More time for comments on a new powerline corridor. The Bureau of Land Management has announced the delay of its siting process for a proposed Wyoming-Idaho transmission line to try to settle issues raised by landowners along the route. BLM Project Manager Walt George said Thursday the agency is pushing back the completion date for its draft environmental impact statement for the Gateway West Transmission Line Project from this fall to next spring. Idaho Power and Rocky Mountain Power propose to build the 1,150-mile line to carry wind and other power from Wyoming to Idaho and other points off the line. The proposed line would start at Glenrock, and run to Melba, Idaho. George says the existing proposed route has run into opposition here in Converse County, and in Power, Cassia, Ada and Owyhee counties in Idaho.
(Mon 7/13/09) - Douglas area hammered by thunderstorms. Douglas residents will clean up today following heavy thunderstorm activity Sunday afternoon. Storms moved in around 6 or 6:30 Sunday afternoon, bringing winds and hail. The National Weather Service reported dime- to golfball-sized hail, up to an inch and 3/4. No measurements of wind or rain totals, as the National Weather Service's weather measuring instruments at the Douglas Airport were down from 6:30 to 9:30pm during the storm. Downed trees caused power outages in many areas of town, but the lights were back on by 9:30pm in most area. Flash flooding closed Irvine Road five miles south and Chalk Buttes Road past the S-curve. The worst hail damage seemed to be out Chalk Buttes Road, along Bedtick Road and the base of Sheep Mountain. In town, lots of trees and tree branches down, some damage to business signs... the greenhouse at Hardware Hank was completely destroyed. The National Weather Service says we could see thunderstorm activities again this afternoon and evening.
The Converse County Sheriff's Department says that as of this morning (7:30a), Chalk Buttes Road is mostly cleaned up and open. Irvine Road took a little more damage last night, and while the road is open and passable, there may be some places that are rough after washouts last night. Caution is advised on Irvine Road about 5 or 6 miles south of Douglas.
If you have trees or branches down... the City of Douglas says that Public Works will be working their way through the city today to pick up storm debris. If you have branches down that you can safely get to the curb, Public Works crews will pick them up and remove them. If you can haul off debris yourself, there's no charge to dispose of storm debris at the landfill. And if you have trees or branches down that are too big for you to safely handle, you can call Douglas Public Works at 358-9750 for assistance. The City also has phone numbers of several companies than can do tree trimming or tree removal if necessary.
(Fri 7/10/09) - Opponents of a new high-power transmission line over the northern Laramie Range got good news last night. In an interview with KKTY Radio yesterday afternoon, Rocky Mountain Power president Rich Walje told us that they're considering some options that might not include building a set of planned transmission lines down Ft Fetterman Road through Downey Park... audio here
Rocky Mountain Power's orignal plans for the Gateway West were to rebuild a 230kv line that's already in place through the Shirley Basin on the west side of the Laramies. They would have also built a new, 500kv line in that same corridor, and built a new 230 kv line from Glenrock, over Boxelder and down the Fetterman Road. Walje said that they're probably going to pull the new 500kv line out of the project... audio here
Walje said that by pulling the 500, they could build the new 230kv line down the existing west corridor, loop it over on the south end to reach a new wind project there, and not have to build the proposed east corridor at all. At an open forum meeting of the Northern Laramie Range Alliance at Douglas High School last night, Alliance organizer Diemer True said he was surprised by the announcement... audio here
True said that he was pleased that the decision makers were listening... audio here
More than 150 people attended last night's meeting at the high school. True and Ken Lay presented an overview of the Alliance's activities, and the crowd heard comments from Walje, Aaron Clark from the Governor's office, Senator Jim Anderson and Representative Jeb Steward of the state's wind task force, and a short question and answer period was held at the end of the evening.
(Fri 7/10/09) - Well, they're not Hell's Angels and they're not headed for Sturgis, yet... but there will be a large group of bikers in Douglas this weekend. Leo Rodriguez of Wright is the head of the Campbell County Chapter of a group called "Bikers Against Child Abuse"... they'll converge in Douglas tonight... audio here
Rodriguez says they're expecting over 200 bikers to make the ride tomorrow from Douglas to Wright. While the Campbell County chapter is the first in the state, Rodriguez says there's another chapter preparing to form in Casper, and they'd like to have one in Douglas as well. Bikers Against Child Abuse is a national organization... more information is available on their website at BACAUSA.com.
(Fri 7/10/09) - If bikers don't scare you, how about kids with guns? This is a pretty good group, too. The 2009 Wyoming 4H Shooting Sports State Match is in Douglas this weekend, and that means over 500 kids from around the state competing in air rifle, air pistol, .22 rifle, .22 pistol, trap shooting, muzzleloader, archery, and outdoor skills. Competition takes place at south of town at the Converse County Rifle Range and at the Wyoming State Fairgrounds.
(Fri 7/10/09) - Wyoming is waiting for Colorado to decide what type of trains it intends to run on its planned high-speed rail lines before Wyoming can finish a feasibility study about the prospect of extending passenger rail service north to Cheyenne. Republican State Sen. Michael Von Flatern of Gillette is chairman of the Senate Transportation, Highways and Military Affairs Committee. He says Wyoming's study already has determined that it would make sense to extend service from Colorado as far north as Cheyenne, but not farther north into Wyoming. The original proposal had high-speed rail lines extending north through Douglas to Casper. Wyoming's study is scheduled to be finished later this summer.
(Wed 7/8/09) - More roads on the Grassland? Federal land managers have adopted a new travel management plan for the Thunder Basin National Grassland north of Douglas. The plan calls for seeking new public rights of way on more than 400 miles of roads that both lead to the area and cross it. Managers say that would improve public access. Grassland managers announced yesterday that they had selected the plan from the alternatives in their final environmental assessment. The decision is still subject to public appeal. The Thunder Basin National Grassland travel management plan is available at http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/mbr/projects/trans/index.shtml.
(Tue 7/7/09) - Local law enforcement officers are investigating a reckless endangering incident. Friday afternoon at about 6:30pm, a 911 call came in with a male subject threatening suicide. The man said he had two guns. Douglas Police, Converse County Sheriffs, Wyoming Highway Patrol and Ambulance crews responded to the Pearson Street extension in Douglas and made contact with the man, who was convinced to surrender and was taken into protective custody. The name of the 24 year old man is being withheld pending filing of formal charges of breach of peace, reckless endangerment and interferance with a peace officer.
(Mon 7/6/09) - Officials in Casper say Friday's storm caused at least $4 million in damage and they're asking the state to help pay for repairs. Natrona County commission chairman Rob Henry and Casper mayor Kenye Schlager sent a letter to Gov. Dave Freudenthal on Saturday asking him to use his emergency fund and other sources to help. They said high winds and heavy rain caused about $2 million in damage each to county and city property, including the Hall of Justice, the sheriff's office and Wyoming Medical Center. Parks and streets were also damaged. In addition, more than 125 people have reported damage to homes and businesses. Just over 2 inches of rain fell in downtown Casper. Police say no one was injured.
Here at Douglas, a couple of thunderstorms through the day on Friday left .56 of an inch of rain on Friday. Year-to-date precipitation here stands at 8.41 inches.
(Mon 7/6/09) - New officers have been named for the Converse County Coalition Against Violence. Dr Jim Morgan was named chairman of the group at their annual meeting on June 29th. Morgan will replace outgoing chair Janet Caster, who has served for more than 20 years as a Coalition volunteer and who served two consecutive terms as chairwoman of the board. David Harris was elected vice-chair. Kathy Mayo and Joyce Lockwood were re-elected to the positions of secretary and treasurer. The coalition is actively recruiting new board members. Anyone interested in serving can pick up an application at the Douglas Coalition office at 126 North 5th Street or at the Glenrock office at 213 West Birch Street.
(Mon 7/6/09) - A major regional power generator is announcing plans for a 51-megawatt wind energy project on Colorado's Eastern Plains. The wind farm will be built by Duke Energy of Charlotte, N.C. Duke says the project will have 34 turbines on 6,000 acres near Burlington, about 150 miles east of Denver. It's expected to be completed by the end of next year. Duke Energy is also building the 66-turbine Campbell Hill Windpower Project here in Converse County northwest of Glenrock.
(Thu 7/2/09) - 5,971 people... that's the official population estimate for Douglas as of July 1st, 2008. The U.S. Census Bureau has released their most recent set of city and town population estimates, and Douglas and Converse County numbers were up again last year. Douglas's 2008 population was up about 300 residents from the year before. Glenrock's population count was up about 50 to 2,423, Rolling Hills had 505 residents, and officially, Lost Springs is still the smallest incorporated town in the state with 1 resident. Converse County's population grew to 13, 267 last year, up from 12,870 in 2007. Wyoming's population also showed strong growth last year, with a population of 532,668, up almost 10 thousand from the year before. Those estimates were all made as of July 1st, 2008, before energy prices and the economy in general tanked late last year. Click here for a link to the Census Bureau's 2008 Wyoming population estimates.
And in Sports...
(Sat 7/25/09) - A good run this morning wasn't enough to get Douglas's Raegen Scott into tonight's short go championship performance at the National High School Finals Rodeo in Farmington, New Mexico. Scott ran a 17.714 through the barrels this morning... added to last Sunday's 17.773, Scott totalled 35-485 second on two runs, and that leaves her setting 28th out of 170 barrel racers. Only the top-20 in the average get to advance to the championship round.
Advancing to the finals tonight... JR Vezain of Cowley sits third in the average on barebacks, and Luke Camino of Clearmont has a two-go average of 8.703 seconds in steer wrestling... Luke sits in third place in the average. Three Wyoming cowgirls are in the top 20 in goat tying... Jordan Thurston of Lance Creek sits 8th, Jori Lorenzi of Laramie is 12th, and Devin Nicholls of Kinnear is 14th. Megan Belus of Buffalo is 5th and Devin Nicholls of Kinnear is 12th in breakaway roping... AJ Fuchs of Teton Villages is 10th in boys cutting... Cinnamon Smith of Gillette is tied for 16th in girls cutting... Shyann Lucas of Jackson comes into the championship round at 14th in pole bending... Tim Malm of Albin sits 11th in tiedown roping... and AJ Fuchs of Teton Village and Matt Schieck of Casper are currently 6th in team roping with a two-go time of 18.731. The National High School Finals Rodeo chamiponship round gets underway tonight at 7pm in Farmington, New Mexico.
(Sat 7/25/09) - It''ll be Rock Springs versus Powell in tonight's Championship Game at the Junior Babe State Baseball Tournament here in Douglas. On Friday, Torrington beat Cody 6-3, it was Jackson over Sheridan 9-5... Powell hammered Rawlins 29-0, and Rock Springs shut out Douglas 10-0. In semi-final games today, Rock Springs shut out Jackson 4-0, and Powell took Torrington 7-3. Rock Springs plays Powell for the Jr Babe State Championship tonight at 7 at Nida Field. The winner advances to the Northwest District Tournament in Centrailia, Washington.
(Thu 7/23/09) - Thursday baseball action, at the Junior Babe Ruth State Baseball Tournament at Nida Field, Douglas survived a late rally by Cody to win 9-6. Douglas is now 1-1 in tournament play, and will meet Rock Springs Friday night at 7 at Nida Field.
At the American Legion North District Tournament at Casper, Powell jumped out to an early lead and ran past Douglas 12-2. The nine inning game was called after 7 due to the 12-run rule. The Cats drop into the consolation bracket, and will get a day off tomorrow... Jackson dropped out before the tournament began, leaving a hole on the other side of our bracket... Gillette got a bye today and will play Powell tomorrow... Douglas takes the day off Friday, and will return to action Saturday at 12:30 at Mike Lansing Field in Casper.
(Wed 7/22/09) - Opening round of the 13-15 year old Junior Babe Ruth State Baseball Tournament today, a couple of blowouts and a couple of nailbiters... Sheridan beats Rawlins 21-1 and Jackson hammers Powell 11-2. Rock Springs edged Cody 4-3 this afternoon, and Douglas fell to Torrington 8-7. Tomorrow, Rawlins meets Jackson at 10:00am, Douglas plays Cody at 1, Torrington plays Rock Springs at 4, and Sheridan plays Powell to wrap up the day at 7. Tournament play continues through Saturday.
(Tue 7/21/09) - Hot bats in Douglas this week... the top eight teams from around the state visit the Jackalope City as the 13-15 year old Junior Babe Ruth State Baseball Tournament begins tomorrow. Two-time defending state champ Douglas will host Rawlins, Sheridan, Jackson, Powell, Rock Springs, Cody and Torrington. Rawlins and Sheridan open tournament play Wednesday morning at 10:00am at Nida Field. Douglas plays their first game tomorrow night when they meet Torrington at 7pm. Tournament play continues through Saturday.
(Mon 7/20/09) - A Douglas cowgirl is in the thick of the competition as the 61st Annual National High School Finals Rodeo gets underway in Farmington, New Mexico . Wyoming state champ Raegen Scott made her first run through the barrels in last night's performance, turning in a time of 17.773, good enough for 8th place in the round. Scott will make her second run in the final performance of the second go Saturday morning.
Also last night, JR Vezain of Cowley set the mark to beat in barebacks with a score of 71. Luke Camino of Clearmont turned in a 3.824, good for 2nd in steer wrestling. Trey Barlow of GIllette scores a 201 to place 6th in girls cutting, Devin Nicholls of Kinnear sits 6th in pole bending, and Dalton Hall of Rozet is 6th in tie-down roping.
Rodeos start at 9am and 7pm everyday. The top 20 on 2 runs total, comes back for the championship short go Saturday evening. Wyoming is 1 of about 40 states represented in Farmington, New Mexico for the High School NFR. This year's event features a total of 1,375 contestants from the United States, Canada, and Australia.
(Mon 7/20/09) - Douglas's 13-15 year old Babe Ruth Baseball Team went 3-1 at the District 2 Division Tournament at Gillette this weekend. Douglas opened the tournament with an 11-8 win over Buffalo Thursday morning, then beat Casper 12-4 Thursday afternoon. Douglas beat Gillette 7-3 Friday morning and lost 10-7 to Sheridan Friday at noon. By Saturday afternoon, Douglas, Sheridan and Gillette were all 3-1, and Douglas came up on the short end of the tiebreaker, leaving Sheridan and Gillette to play in the championship game Saturday night. Sheridan won the District Championship 7-4 in 8 innings over Gillette. Douglas will still play in the state tournament however, as they're the host team when the tournament gets underway this Wednesday here in Douglas.
(Fri 7/10/09) - It's a busy baseball weekend in Douglas this weekend as the Cats host the annual Bolln Memorial Tournament at Nida Field. Teams from Wheatland, Newcastle, Torrington and Riverton will be in town. Play begins this afternoon as Douglas hosts Torrington at 4pm... Wheatland plays Newcastle at 6:30 tonight. Saturday, Douglas opens play against Nerwcastle at 10:30am... then it's Torrington vs Riverton, Wheatland vs Riverton and Newcastle vs Torrington. Sunday, Douglas plays Wheatland at 10:30am, Newcastle plays Riverton, Wheatland plays Torrington, and Douglas wraps up the Tournament against Riverton Sunday night at 6:00pm. All games will be played at Nida Field at the Douglas Rec Center.


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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is currently investigating the immediate past chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Hakeem Belo-Osagie over alleged siphoning of huge sums of money from the bank's branch in New York to its subsidiary in Nigeria, where the ex-bank chief is believed to have substantial interest.
A national newspaper (Daily Independent) reported, yesterday, that the EFCC may arrest Mr. Belo-Osagie over alleged diver-sion of government revenue running into millions of dollars during his stewa-rdship of the bank.
An impeccable source in the financial crimes com-mission who confirmed the probe to Daily Trust, yesterday said however, that the questioning of the ex-UBA boss "is in connection with the diversion of government revenue, foreign exchange malpractices and siphoning of huge sums from the bank's (UBA's) New York branch to its subsidiary where he is said to have substantial stake".
According to the Daily Trust source, who would not wish to let out details for fear that "it may affect on-going investigations", Mr. Hakeem Belo-Osagie had been inv-ited for questioning late last year in connection with the probe, "and he may still be invited whenever the need arises".
The source who preferred anonymity, disclosed further that many other officials of the bank, especially the subsidiary to which the huge sums were allegedly siph-oned were questioned "within the three months or so that the investigations began, and our team of investigators have gotten very useful information from these people, just as inves-tigation continues".
The source said: "Like I told you earlier, we don't want to make full disclosures in order not to jeopardise the on-going efforts by our team of investigators, but we'll let out the detailed amount involved and all key actors at the appropriate time".
The Daily Independent said in its report yesterday that Mr. Belo-Osagie's travel documents may have been seized over the probe which it said involved money laundering in the bank during his stewardship, and that the team of auditors who audited the accounts of a Lagos-based company (names with-held), allegedly belonging to the former UBA boss was detained for the better part of last week, and released at about 9.30 p.m. on Friday.
The news report said further that the EFCC had, in a letter dated November11, 2004, written to the auditing firm, which is also based in Lagos, solicited its co-oper-ation, "as the commission is investigating a case of alle-ged conspiracy, stealing, criminal diversion of federal government revenue and foreign exchange malpra-ctices perpetrated by the management of UBA Plc and Zamora Ltd".
EFCC detectives, the newspaper report said furt-her, allegedly uncovered a $127 million scam in the course of the probe, and that UBA was indicted of dive-rting federal tax and stamp duties worth over N2 billion meant for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
Efforts to get official reactions to the allegations from officials of UBA Plc, yesterday, failed, as the office line of the bank's head of Corporate Affairs, Mrs. Funmi Olayinka continued to ring without response, while her mobile phone was switched off, up to press time.

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Volume 60 / Number 2 / August 2011 / Pages 538-543
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The IFMIF-EVEDA beam dump must be able to stop deuteron continuous and pulsed beams with energies up to 9 MeV. The maximum beam power is 1.12 MW corresponding to a beam current of 125 mA. The design is based on a copper cone 2500 mm long, 300 mm aperture diameter, 5-6.5 mm thickness, whose inner surface faces the beam. The cooling is provided by water flowing at high velocity along its outer surface.Electroforming of copper on an aluminum mandrel has been considered the most suitable manufacturing technology. Nevertheless some issues must be addressed before the final decision is taken. The joint of the flange at the aperture and the possibility of manufacturing different parts subsequently joining them by electroforming is analyzed by carrying out tensile tests with specimens with and without joints.Mechanical properties and chemical composition are studied. The radiological impact of the measured impurities due to their activation under the deuteron flux is also assessed .The comparison of the properties obtained with the different manufacturing possibilities will allow choosing the most adequate one.
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This week we are featuring the newest flagship LEGO store in New York City, recently opened this Fall in the middle of Manhattan's Flatiron District! Located at 200 5th Avenue between 23rd and 24th streets, this fun-filled mega-store is an impressive 3,500 square feet (and this week's RETAIL space of the week #RSOTW)! The Danish company has other flagship locations in Minnesota's Mall of America and Disney's Florida and California parks, but it is astounding and a monumental (yes, pun intended) feat to open such a large retail establishment in one of NYC's busiest, in-demand and flourishing neighborhoods. From inspiring window displays to oversized murals and structures inside the store (obviously completely made of LEGOs), it is a fun scene to walk by if you are one of the lucky start-up employees (or tourist or really anyone happening to pass by) that also meanders through NYC's Silicon Alley.
Lease Length - Landlords, Sublets, and the "3-Year Minimum"
As a growing business, with a lot of moving pieces and constantly-changing variables, signing a multi-year lease can be a daunting thought. It can be difficult to find a short-term or flexible lease (especially in a hot market), so deciding to commit to a lease should be well thought out. To better understand why the shorter term options are scarce, we need to consider the transaction from the Landlord's point of view.
Pre and Post-Work Rituals: The Habits of Success
Work work #werk. As employees, if you break it down to the basics, our weekday lives are relatively similar. We wake up, go to work, come home, sleep, and repeat. Scrutinizing this routine down to the nitty gritty details is what makes us unique, and sets each individual employee apart! We all end up at our respective offices... but what are our pre- and post-work rituals that define our days and our successes, in and out of the office? As entrepreneurs, are most of us night owls, working late into the night surrounded by glowing screens and takeout boxes? Or are early-risers and morning gym-goers more common, getting an early and productive start to a long day? With work on our minds 24/7, how do we actually disconnect from our day jobs and have lives outside of the office? A couple of entrepreneurs share their daily rituals and routine tips for success.
Laurel & Wolf - LA Office Space of the Week
This week's Office Space of the Week is LA-based Laurel & Wolf, interior design slash tech startup. This cool and creative team needed an inspiring space to compliment their own original and inventive spirit. The office is located in sunny Los Angeles, in West Hollywood's Design District. It is in an older building, which has a history of designer occupants. The complex is called Almont Yard and has inspired the creative juices of several well-known names in the design world, including Kathryn Ireland, Nathan Turner, and Peter Dunham. The Laurel & Wolf team have a mission to bring design to the masses, providing an extraordinary service with a DIY twist. They believe that incorporating design and beauty into one's surroundings is important in every aspect of life, and that includes creating (their own) smart and sleek office! #GetYourDesignOn for #OSOTW!
One World Trade
One World Trade Center, after many years of anticipation and waiting, is finally open! Also known as the Freedom Tower (but officially One World Trade), this superstructure is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the fourth tallest in the world - topping out at 94 stories and 1,776 feet! The final spire was added in May 2013, and completed the shell of the building that memorializes the original World Trade Center complex that fell during the attacks of September 11, 2001. Construction originally began on April 27, 2006, and this iconic building officially opened its doors to tenant companies just a couple days ago, on Monday November 3rd.
Interior Pictures, and Leasing Commercial Space
Did you know that searching for office space can be exciting? Your business is growing or in need of its first corporate address and you get to build a brand new environment for your company and team. However, the search for commercial real estate also has its own unique quirks and obstacles. It is definitely not an easy task to navigate, whether its your first or tenth time looking for a new office space.
11 Secret Haunted Spots in NYC
New York City is known for it's bright lights and late nights, but who knew that this city also had some haunting history? Let's explore some of NYC's spookiest spots. Maybe you've even frequented some of these famous locations… or maybe it's time to!
Office Space of the Week - Hutch Media
This week's Office Space of the Week is LA-based creative studio Hutch Media. With offices in both Los Angeles and New York City, this cross-country collaborative team of creative minds needed inspiring spaces to compliment their energetic and innovative spirit. The studio they took over in LA is on the Raleigh Studios lot which had previously been the creative studios of two extremely well-known talents, Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney. The team recruited the help of Laurel & Wolf designer Gabrielle Lazaros to create an inviting and invigorating atmosphere that still reflected the unique and inspiring history of the space. Gabrielle took the raw studio in the heart of Hollywood, along with the vision of the team, and made the space a vibrant and welcoming professional space for this creative group.
What's my job again? Thoughts on being a team player.
At a startup, the earlier someone joins, the less defined his or her job is bound to be. The title of the founders, in fact, is bound to be the most inexact.
The Meatpacking District: Transformed
Two years ago, photographer Brian Rose discovered a collection of undeveloped negatives of New York's Meatpacking District. He had taken the pictures nearly three decades earlier, but the project had been abandoned and remained unfinished and untouched in a box in his archives. When finally developing the images, Rose was inspired in a way he had never imagined when originally taking the shots. The images portrayed a neighborhood now defined by luxurious pleasures, a playground for the affluent, the Meatpacking District. These images reflected a time when the neighborhood's name still reflected its pragmatic purpose. They show a New York that is nearly unrecognizable to those who were not here in the 1980s - a bare, dreary section of Manhattan which was deserted daily after slaughterhouse workers had completed the day's butchery. Rose decided to revisit the Meatpacking District last year, recapturing the setting and the dramatic transformation of this history-laden neighborhood. His book, Metamorphosis: Meatpacking District 1985 + 2013, shows significant changes between this iconic neighborhood's industrial, blue-collar atmosphere of the 1980s, and the feeling of wealth and indulgence it exudes today.
Office Space of the Week - Horizon Media
Horizon Media, the largest U.S. independent media services company where "business is personal," needed a new NYC office space to deal with rapid growth and expansion. Previously, New York employees had been working in three different buildings, on 9 different floors, all within a 10 block radius. This disconnect just wouldn't do!
14 Essentials for our Office-Tours Toolkit: Mastering Working Out of the Office
Whether working in or out of the office, our team is always prepared for any last-minute surprises that arise throughout the day. Providing both an online and offline service, we are constantly on the go. Our mission is to help business owners and entrepreneurs easily navigate through the jungle that is the commercial real estate leasing process. And although the search for an ideal office space starts online with our easy-to-use search tool, eventually businesses also need to physically view their options. One of our knowledgable space advisors shows the spaces that are specifically matched to a company's needs, and to do this easily and successfully, they need some tools to streamline the process.
Office Space of the Week - HelloGiggles!
This week's Office Space of the Week is LA-based, positive and peppy online community, HelloGiggles! With a quickly growing user-base and bold / brilliant brand, HelloGiggles needed a bright and creative space to compliment their ever-energetic and enthusiastic team and product. They recently moved into an airy and open space in Los Angeles, and recruited the help of Homepolish's Creative Director Orlando Soria to create the perfectly relaxed but still super inspiring vibe. He took the raw, sunny space in Downtown LA and made it a vibrant, welcoming, and professional space for this creative team.
Stand-Up Meetings, for Non-Technical Teams
As a small and active team of hustling entrepreneurs, it's not always easy to keep track of what projects everyone else is working on. Our roles are all so different! Especially as a small team each trying to hit a number of targets and each wearing a never-ending closet of hats, each employee has to bring a unique set of skills to the group. Projects and to-do lists and work-streams are constantly overlapping and intertwining, but our individual skill-sets are extremely different. Stand-ups for a team like ours, a team made up of developers and designers and marketers and brokers and leaders, are focused more on company-wide goals. We each bring up projects that may be particularly interesting to the group or that we could use help with, but generally try to steer clear of listing out our tasks for the day or week.
New York City Office Space of the Week - TripleLift
This week we are featuring TripleLift as our New York Office space of the Week (#OSOTW)! TripleLift is a New York based tech company who is providing the "advertising solution for the visual web." This creative and innovative team needed an office that looked amazing, while still allowing TripleLift employees to work efficiently! They transformed a bright, open loft in the Flatiron District, combining the unique visions for the space of TripleLift co-founder Shaun Zacharia and Homepolish designer Tina Apostolou. Their vibrant and inspiring space is located at 36 West 20th St, in the Flatiron District aka Silicon Alley in NYC.
NYC Street Names & their Origins
New York City can be a tough landscape to navigate. Even as a non-newbie, my inner space-cadet still comes out once in a while and I find myself a little lost in the complicated sea of city streets. Especially in the non-grid neighborhoods, like the Financial District or the West Village, I'll be walking down Bleecker Street heading to Magnolia Bakery for some delish banana pudding or possibly one of their famous red velvet cupcakes, make a wrong turn, and end up downtown surrounded by skyscrapers and completely out of my element. Having zero sense of direction has been a blessing in disguise though, because I am always exploring and discovering some new nook in the city that I never knew existed (even if these detours are usually an accident)! New York is a city oozing with history, each street and neighborhood daring you to discover its secrets and the tucked away gems that make it unique. Let's explore some of the history behind NYC's most famous streets to get a little background on the ever-evolving concrete jungle.
Careers that Consume the Most Coffee
According to coffee.org, we've come up with a ridiculous number of ways to refer to coffee. These range from the well known "cuppa joe," "java," and "wake-up juice," to the lesser-known stranger slangs… including "worm dirt" and "C8H10N4O2," the latter being the molecular formula for caffeine. However you refer to your morning cup (for example, my morning coffee is my special savior from zombie-dom / crankiness), you're (obviously) not alone in starting your day with an aromatic go-go juice. Let's explore some surprising coffee stats, as well as the most caffeinated (read: cracked out) offices.
Guest Post by Karma - the 6 Best Places to Work in NYC Outside the Office
At Karma, we're all about office independence—the ability to work where you want, how you want, without the restrictions of traditional office WiFi. We make a personal, portable WiFi device that takes everything that sucks about your big Internet providers (nonexistent customer service ball-and-chain contracts, surprise fees) and throws them out the window. We love our office in NYC. We have an awesome view of downtown Manhattan and the coffee never runs out. But sometimes, you just have to pack up your laptop and your Karma and get out of the office for a breath of fresh air. We've compiled our list of our favorite places to work outside the office.
Yipit - NYC Office Space of the Week!
This week we are featuring Yipit as our New York Office Space of the Week (#OSOTW)! Yipit is a New York based tech company aggregating and promoting the best daily deals in many cities, including offers across a variety of industries! Fitness fanatics and foodies (and even thrillseekers - Yipit can find you deals to go SKYDIVING!) alike can find exactly what they're looking for, at an amazing discount. Previously, the team had worked out of General Assembly, when this innovative education slash tech company was also a coworking hub in NYC. The founders of Yipit, Jim Moran and Vin Vacanti, wanted their new office to be just as collaborative and laid back as a shared space like GA, so they teamed up with McGarvey Robinson Design to create a relaxed but still inspiring space. Their unique office is at 3 West 18th St. in the Flatiron District in New York.
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We see it every day. Clients come through our system, browse for availabilities that match their space criteria, inquire on these spaces and then once we chat with them, it becomes apparent that they have spoken with several different brokers and in many cases, have toured with more than one.
New York City Office Space of the Week - Memoir & Estimote
This week we are featuring the joint NYC offices of Memoir and Estimote, two extremely cool and forward thinking tech startups in New York's Silicon Alley. The space was decorated by the talented designer Danielle Arps who wanted to design an office that reflected the innovative personalities of both groups, while maintaining a cohesive theme and energy throughout the space. Their vibrant and enchanting shared office is located on 19th St. and Broadway, amongst many other startups in the creative industries, in the Flatiron District.
8 Ways to Get To Work in NYC #Commuterlife
Unless you're a remote worker or you've decided to stay home "sick" today, we all have to get our half-asleep, don't-talk-to-me-until-cup-of-coffee #2, bodies to work somehow. Do you take the subway and then walk? Or is your normal routine to take the morning commuter train and then bike to your New York office? Regardless, a commute is part of every employee's day, so let's take a look at the pros and cons for each form of transportation available in NYC:


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Women's Classic Mush
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Caution: Mush® is the happiest four-letter word in the English language. It may put you in such a state of relaxation that you could momentarily lose touch with reality. Do not wear while operating heavy machinery.
- EVA outsole with Mush® traction pattern
- Sturdy 3-point thong construction
- Soft Mush® topsole with enhanced arch support
- Shipped in a biodegradable bag with a biodegradable plastic hanger
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I have arthritis in both of my feet and due to triple joint fusion in one foot which involved implementing screws and clamps in that foot, I have to be very careful of the type footwear I wear. These are extremely comfortable, and allow me enough support that I am able to wear them without putting undo strain on my feet. I have already recommended them to several friends and family members.
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Teva flip flops are the most comfortable flip flops I have ever owned.
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The footbed of this shoe is very comfortable and has already begun to take on the shape of my foot, though I have not had the shoes very long. The only negative comment I would have is that the material used for the straps is not very soft and feels rather scratchy on my foot. Otherwise, I would have rated it five stars.
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Q:What is the difference between mush II and the classic mush? Do they run small?Asked on 5/30/2015 by cs
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A:The mush 2 has a thinner footbed/sole and a more narrow design. They both run true to size, but the Classic Mush will offer a bit more width.Answered on 6/3/2015 by Teva Product Specialist
Q:I wear a 8 and a half, should I go with the 8 or 9 in the mush orginal?Asked on 5/30/2014 by couponcasey from greenville sc
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A:The Original Mush runs true to size. If between sizes, it is a good idea to go up 1/2 size. A size 9 would be recommended for you.Answered on 5/30/2014 by Teva Product Specialist
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Q:I usually where an 8 1/2 size women's shoe. What size Teva Mush flip flops do I order? I have read that they run VERY small?? Advice please.
SherriAsked on 5/30/2014 by Sherri from Brentwood, TN
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A:The Original Mush runs true to size. If between sizes, we recommend ordering up 1/2 size. A size 9 would be recommended for you.Answered on 5/30/2014 by Teva Product Specialist
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Q:Hi! Teva mush originals are the best! Have you thought about bringing back all brown or maybe a navy/denim color?Asked on 4/7/2014 by Julie from Sacramento, CA
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A:Thank you for the feedback. We have no confirmation on these colors coming out, however, we will forward your suggestion to our product development team.Answered on 4/8/2014 by Teva Product Specialist
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Q:What is the heel height?Asked on 3/16/2014 by Erika
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A:The ORIGINAL MUSH has a 1" sole.Answered on 3/17/2014 by Teva Product Specialist
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Q:How much does the original mush weigh for the pair?Asked on 12/21/2013 by Renee from Lakewood, OH
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A:The Original Mush weighs 6oz per pair.Answered on 12/22/2013 by Teva Product Specialist
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Q:I cannot find a size 9 women's flip flop, but I did find the pattern that I'm looking for in a men's flip flop. What size men's flip flop would you recommend for a woman who wears a size 9 flip flop?
Thank you.Asked on 10/5/2013 by Sue
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A:A women's size 9 is equivalent to a men's size 7.Answered on 10/7/2013 by Teva Product Specialist
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Q:I have a narrow foot and was wondering if these would fit. Thanks!Asked on 9/14/2013 by Kai from United States
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A:All of our women's product comes in a medium "B" width. For a narrow foot, I would recommend the Mush II over the Original Mush.Answered on 9/16/2013 by Teva Product Specialist
- Original Mush
Q:I Was going to get the original mush, but they didn't have the color i wanted which was tread black.I looked at The womens mush II and it seemed that it was not as thick will the thickness of it change the width or comfort of the shoe.Asked on 8/8/2013 by Mjacksyn from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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A:The Mush II has a thinner, more streamlined footbed than the Original Mush. The Original Mush in tread black is available now for preorder with a shipping date of approximately 10/22/13.Answered on 8/8/2013 by Teva Product Specialist
- Original Mush
Q:In the sizing chart, is the Inches column the length of the shoe or the length of the foot?Asked on 5/15/2013 by Kelsey
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A:It is the length of your foot.Answered on 5/15/2013 by Teva Product Specialist
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You pass it in the grocery store and see it at restaurants all the time. You might not be able to read all the words on the bottle, but you know what's in it: Sriracha.
The hot sauce in the clear bottle with the rooster on the side is incredibly popular. Quartz recently profiled Huy Fong's founder, David Tran, and learned that Tran is a bit of an accidental entrepreneur.


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A helicopter is a type of aircraft that uses rotating, or spinning, wings called blades to fly. Unlike an airplane or glider, a helicopter has wings that move. Unlike a balloon, a helicopter is heavier than air and uses an engine to fly. A helicopter's rotating blades, or a rotor, allow it to do things an airplane cannot.
How Does A Helicopter Work?
In order to fly, an object must have "lift," a force moving it upward. Lift is usually made by wings. Wings create lift because of a relationship called the Bernoulli Principle. The Bernoulli Principle describes how the speed of air and the pressure in the air are related. When the speed goes up, the pressure goes down and the opposite is also true.
Wings are curved on top and flatter on the bottom. This shape is called an airfoil. That shape makes air flow over the top faster than under the bottom. As a result, there is less air pressure on top of the wing; this causes suction and makes the wing move up. A helicopter's rotor blades are wings and create lift. An airplane must fly fast to move enough air over its wings to provide lift. A helicopter moves air over its rotor by spinning its blades.
What Can A Helicopter Do?
A helicopter's rotors allow it to do things an airplane cannot. Unlike an airplane, a helicopter does not have to move quickly through the air to have lift. That fact means it can move straight up or down. Most airplanes cannot do this. A helicopter can take off or land without a runway. It can turn in the air in ways airplanes cannot. Unlike an airplane, a helicopter can fly backwards or sideways. It also can hover in one spot in the air without moving. This makes helicopters ideal for things an airplane cannot do. For example, a helicopter can pick someone with a medical problem up where there is no runway. It can then land in a small area on top of a hospital.
What Are Uses of Helicopters?
Helicopters can be used for many things. They can be used as flying ambulances to carry patients. They can be loaded with water to fight large fires. Military forces use helicopters to attack targets on the ground and move troops. Helicopters are used to get supplies to ships. Helicopters can be used to transport large objects from place to place. Helicopters can rescue people in hard-to-reach places like mountains or in rough seas. Television and radio stations use helicopters to fly over cities and report on traffic. Helicopters are used by police and by people on vacation. These uses are just some of the many things that can be done with helicopters.
What Does NASA Do With Helicopters?
NASA conducts research on ways to make helicopters better. Crash tests help make helicopters safer. NASA studies how new materials can keep passengers safe if a helicopter crashes. Wind tunnel tests determine how to make helicopters quieter and more fuel-efficient. New ideas could help engineers create bigger, better and faster helicopters. Someday helicopters could carry 100 people on trips of 300 miles or more. NASA has even studied how helicopters could be flown on Mars!
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Why is it that some people are more aggressive than others? Why some people can control their emotions better than others? Or why some people are more anxious than others?
Psychologists have wondered what contributes to peoples' personality and how they act around others. Most people believe it is from the environment they grew up in, such as their location or how their parents raised them. The University of Minnesota investigated these thoughts by constructing a twin study involving twins that grew up in the same environment and twins that were separated at birth. After two decades of researching personality traits among twins, the U of M found the correlations of personality traits of twins living together and presented it in a table. The U of M then showed the correlation of personalities of twins living separately on the table next to the twins raised together. The correlations of personalities were very similar. This finding hints that the environments in which kids are raised in has little or no affect on peoples' personalities.
Personality: Formed by Genes or Environment
Why is it that some people are more aggressive than others? Why some people can control their emotions better than others? Or why some people are more anxious than others?
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Actually, a large portion of the variance in personality is due to environment...
I have to admit that it really bothers me when people try to find just ONE cause to any given thing, especially with something as complicated as personalities and reactions. When introduced to a stimulus, it's not just the stimulus that we're being exposed to, we're being exposed to that and every other piece of information that we've ever been exposed to that forms our thoughts and feelings regarding how to react. This also runs to the genetic level on how stimulus is processed and whether it's tolerated or not, etc. Though these studies definitely prove that it is not merely environmental, which is a step in the right direction.


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Barga, Italy—I've been obsessing over the Tuscan hilltop town of Barga since my family vacationed there last spring. We loved the place for all the reasons you might expect - the beauty, the people, the architecture, the food, the wine, the history - and one I didn't expect:
The music.
Aristo Casciani doesn't run Aristodemo's bar anymore. These days, son-in-law Marino Comparini and daughter Danila put in the long hours of pouring wine, frothing milk for cappuccinos, slicing sheep cheese and tolerating customers' wisecracks. But Aristo makes daily appearances, always looking sharp in a sweater and tie. And where Aristo goes, the music follows.
When the moment feels right, Aristo, who worked as a musician on ocean liners back in the day, sits at his electric piano and launches a song. This gets a cheer from the drinkers. Mandolins, guitars and banjos hang on a nearby wall like so many prosciutto hams, so some locals - called Barghigiani, fortunately, and not "Bargans" - grab instruments and join in. An accordion appears. Aristo punctuates his singing with quick, and apparently clever, asides to the audience. More drinks are poured by the stoic Marino. And there is dancing. Even I was yanked to my feet by a lady in red for a spin around the floor while Aristo led his impromptu jam band through a bouncy ditty one night. Whether I was the butt of a locals-versus-tourists joke, or just handy, I don't know. I do know she didn't seem to recognize me when we crossed paths a few days later. But who cares?
Aristo is 80. He regales American tourists by asking their home state, then naming the capital: "Rich-a-monda," he says. May he play and sing until he's 100.
Late-night accordion
Our rented Fiat is in a two-hour parking space. But it's late, and better spaces should be open by now. So I'm trotting through Barga's slot-canyon streets, past the local Communist Party office, Osterio Angelio wine bar and Andrea's grocery, toward the parking lot. But I'm brought to a stop by what I hear coming from the darkness beyond a curve in the street bounded by Mario's newspaper shop and the Altana restaurant.
After a stealthy reconnoiter, I'm running back to Aristo's to collect my wife, Lorri; our daughter, Emily; and our Swiss friend Heinz. We're all soon back in the darkness, peering through a slightly open doorway into a small room where a man sits with his back to us, playing an accordion. His song is slow and romantic. It seems to cry for a love just beyond reach. I spin around to try to imprint the scene on my mind. Would the music sound this good if we weren't in this exact place, with its cobblestones, medieval walls, heavy wooden doors and parked Vespas?
We listen for a while, surprised and mesmerized and grinning stupidly at each other, spying on an innocent Italian musician.
But hey, I'm thinking, he is not so innocent, playing with the door open like that. This is entrapment by enchantment.
In the end, I forget to move the car, but everything is going right on this night. I run down to the parking lot the next morning - the accordion player's street looks so different in the light - to find no ticket on the windshield and a long-term parking space open and waiting.
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They gave the duomo's bells a workout on Palm Sunday. We watched the procession of children carrying baskets of olive sprigs and written blessings up the stone stairs to the 1,000-year-old duomo, (no one calls it a cathedral here), as the bell ringers did their thing high in the tower. And this wasn't just ding-dong, ding-dong. Rhythmic patterns rose and fell and weaved around each other.
It turns out there's a "Gruppo Campanari," a bell-ringers club, in Barga, and it takes skill and practice to earn this duty.
"Oh, the campanari have a grand time of it," our hostess, Carla, said later, when I asked about the bell-ringing. "And they take flasks of red wine up there, you know."
"I wish I could have seen it up close," I said.
"On Easter," she said, "if the door's open, go on up the tower and see what happens."
So when the bells started on Easter morning, Emily and I gulped down our breakfasts and ran up the hill. The tower door was open. We ducked inside and climbed the stairs, hearts and ears pounding, as the ringing grew louder, and louder, and louder. Finally, we arrived in the belfry and stood practically underneath one of three huge, centuries-old bells. Expecting to be kicked out of the tower, I scanned the faces of the eight or 10 men around us, asking, in the international language of eyebrow arching and mouth frowning, "Is it OK for us to be here?" A couple of men gave what seemed to be "buongiorno" nods.


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Reminder: Noah Wyle's back in the 'ER' Thursday
Mark Greene, David Morgenstern and Elizabeth Corday have already made a last trip through the ER this season, and now it's John Carter's turn.
Thursday (Feb. 19) marks the return of Noah Wyle to the show, where he'll guest-star on several episodes to help close out the series' 15-year run. NBC isn't being very forthcoming about how or why Carter, whom Wyle played for the show's first 11 seasons, returns to County General -- the network's episode description only says that "Dr. Carter makes a surprise return to the ER." Which isn't telling you anything you don't already know.
When we last saw Carter on the show, in 2006, he was working with a relief organization in the Darfur region of Sudan. (The story line was part of a guest arc Wyle did after leaving the show as a regular the previous season.) Descriptions of the next few weeks' episodes hint that he'll try to go back to work at County General.
The show's farewell tour has already featured guest spots from Anthony Edwards (Greene), who made an appearance in flashbacks in a November episode; Alex Kingston (Corday), who popped up in January; and William H. Macy (Morgenstern), who guested on the two most recent episodes -- the second of which was directed by former regular Eriq La Salle.
Before the series is over, fans can also expect to see George Clooney (Doug Ross) and Julianna Margulies (Carol Hathaway) one last time. Long-time orderly Jerry (Abraham Benrubi) has also popped up a few times this season.
I missed Kingston's appearance, but I thought the show handled Edwards' and Macy's returns pretty well. And given that Wyle's final turn on ER has been planned all along, there's no reason to expect anything different.
Are you looking forward to Wyle's return? How about Clooney and Margulies?


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OK, for all of you (and me too!) PowerPoint users, Prezi is not so easy to understand. That's not because Prezi is a difficult tool to use -- rather that's because we all have been so used to doing tasks in a certain way and expect the same workflows in Prezi, and that does not always happen! Clearly some unlearning is required.
The one task that had me stumped initially was trying to change the font (yes, typeface for the purists) within one of the text placeholders. That's a simple task in PowerPoint -- you can select any text you want, and change the font to anything you want. In fact, you can take a seven character word like "seasons", and have a separate font for each character! OK -- don't do that unless you have a compelling reason to do so -- but looks like that's not doable in Prezi?
So as of now, looks like there's no way to even use a different font for an entire text placeholder. There are three font choices for any text you create:
- Title
- Subtitle
- Body
Figure 1, below shows Prezi's font choices toolbar.
Figure 1: Prezi's font choices
Each of these choices (styles) has a font allotted to itself. And all these three choices are part of a Prezi theme. Now Prezi themes are similar to PowerPoint themes that also have font choices set up. Unlike Prezi, PowerPoint has two font choices within the theme:
- Headings (equivalent to Prezi's Title)
- Body (same as Prezi)
Figure 2, below shows PowerPoint's Font gallery.
Figure 2: PowerPoint's font choices
Now beyond these similarities, there's a difference. While PowerPoint does recommend that you use theme fonts, it does not prevent you from using any other font. That definitely is a plus factor. But Prezi's approach of not allowing a non-theme font assures that your text looks consistent -- and that's a plus too for some folks.
For those of you who are ready to change themes to add another font in your Prezi, this video might help:
This same video can be found with instructions on this page: Changing fonts in Prezi
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By default all versions of PowerPoint show you a preview when you add an animation to any slide object. While this is a great option for those who are new to PowerPoint animation, you will certainly not like this automatic preview feature if you are an advanced user. Yes, these previews can be irritating, especially if you add timed animations of longer duration -- maybe a 20 second animation. You will then have to wait until PowerPoint shows you the preview you did not ask for. Make a small change and you get another 20 second preview. If you are creating a slide with ten animations, the wait for each preview to happen can become quite frustrating!!
Fortunately, it is easy to turn off these previews in PowerPoint 2010 and 2013 for Windows. Just access the Animations tab of the Ribbon, and find the Preview button located towards the extreme left, as shown in the Figure below. Click the downward pointing arrow on the bottom half of this button to bring up a small menu. Within this menu, make sure that the AutoPreview option has no checkmark (click once to remove the checkmark).
Now your animations will not preview automatically!
In PowerPoint 2007, there's no equivalent way to turn off these animation previews -- if you discover a way, please share your thoughts by adding a comment to this page.
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A reader asked if there were any shortcut keys that could let her go from Normal to Slide Sorter view? The answer is both no and yes -- "no" because there's no real shortcut to do that and "yes" because there is such an easy workaround.
What you need to do is quickly press the Alt+V keyboard shortcut to bring the View tab of the Ribbon in focus -- and then press the D key immediately thereafter. So you would use the Alt+V > D sequence to get to Slide Sorter view.
Fortunately, you can quickly access all PowerPoint views with similar keyboard sequences:
Normal View: Alt+V > N
Slide Sorter View: Alt+V > D
Slide Show View: Alt+V > W (also F5)
Notes Page View: Alt+V > P
Additionally you can use the Alt+V > Z sequence to bring up the Zoom dialog box -- this however will not work in Slide Show view.
Do note that all these keyboard sequences work in Windows versions of PowerPoint.
So why did Microsoft not create proper keyboard shortcuts for these views, and why do they have these sequences instead?
I don't know the answer for the first part of the question, but yes there is an answer for the second part -- these keyboard sequences are essentially for using the menu options in older versions of PowerPoint that had no Ribbon interfaces.
Want more PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts? Want to know about all the missing or undocumented shortcuts? Or do you want to know if your favorite keyboard shortcuts are documented?
Get a copy of our PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts e-book now!
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All the new Microsoft Office file formats that were introduced with Office 2007 are essentially XML-based. These new formats are distinctive with their X suffixes, so that PPT evolved as PPTX (similarly DOC as DOCX, and XLS as XLSX) -- these new file formats continue being used in all subsequent versions of Office on both Windows and Mac. However, they are all essentially ZIP files. The ZIP file acts as a wrapper that contain plenty of XML files and other media content.
So how far would any WRM (Windows Rights Management) protection help? Won't savvy users be able to unzip those files and get to the content, even without using any WRM credentials? We tested this scenario by adding a ZIP extension to a WRM protected PowerPoint PPTX file, and then tried to unzip the file.
However, the unzipped folder showed up as empty! Follow these steps to see how this process works:
- Make a copy of any WRM Restricted PowerPoint file, and save it to a folder that is easy to locate, such as your Desktop.
- Ensure that your system is set to show file extensions. Now, right-click the PowerPoint file, and choose Rename (or just press F2). Add a ".ZIP" without the quotes right after the name of the file - for example if your original file name was:
Restricted PowerPoint.PPTX
It would now be renamed to:
Restricted PowerPoint.ZIP
- Windows will warn you that renaming the file extension could render this file unusable -- but since you are just working on a test file for now, go ahead and ignore this error by clicking the Yes button that you can see in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Change the file extension?
- Now that you have changed the PPTX to a ZIP file, go ahead and try to unzip the ZIP. We just right-clicked the ZIP file, and chose the Extract option in the resultant contextual menu.
- Surprise! This brings up a message window that indicates that the compressed (zipped) folder is empty, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: An empty Zip file!
- Even double clicking the ZIP will bring up an error message, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Just a ZIP, no unZIP!
This indicates that your WRM (Windows Rights Management) protected presentation is actually fully protected!
Received a question from an Indezine reader: Can you help me? I have built a target diagram using your tutorial (Thank You for this). However, I now am trying to write text within each of the target rings. Is it possible to shape the text to circular text?
Sure you can! Follow these steps:
- Select the circle for which you want to add circular text. Type some text -- by default the text is inserted right at the middle of the circle as shown in the Figure below.
- With the circle still selected, access the Drawing Tools Format tab of the Ribbon. In the WordArt Styles group, locate the Text Effects button and click it to bring up a drop-down gallery. In this gallery, choose the Transform option, as shown in the Figure below.
This opens a sub-gallery -- within the Follow Path category, choose the top left option, as shown in the Figure above.
- Your text will not be in a circular style just below the top edge of your circle, as shown in the Figure below.
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bringin water is the biggest thing
its hot enough and being outside is drainin
everyone stay safe i hope yall are havin as much fun as i am out here
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now everyone can take tomorrow to go to bamajam since they have the day off.
it will be a nice stress relief. i had a blast yesterday and im gettin ready for today
I feel for the poor workers
when CC shut down it took me months and months and months to find another job
its hard out there these days with so many looking.
i'm so sorry to see this happen to so many other people.
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Why would he care?
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i know that Sparks is gonna win this thing without a question of a doubt he is a great guy and we deserve a great guy in office
ill be happier when sparks is here to stay =]
Bob didn't exactly help to make us not a laughing stock of the nation.
anyone is better then him at this point in time
Sparks will win regardless of who they throw against him
we need the big changes he will bring to us
i cant believe that sparks won
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It's so sad that these people are going to be in my situation.
Hopefully their bosses will consider reopening like Gilley is doing at CC.
So many people need these jobs.
This is exciting stuff!
Let's go Gilley!
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Show BingoBobo how things are really run in AL!!!! Open up for us!!!
I cannot believe more people have to suffer the same way I had to when CC closed,
I wish them all luck in finding another job swiftly.
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Weobley is a large village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. Formerly a market town, it is today one of the county's black and white villages.
The name possibly derives from 'Wibba's Ley', a ley being a woodland glade and Wibba being a local Saxon landowner. In the Domesday Book the village name was transcribed as Wibelai. It is still pronounced as "Web-ley" (the spelling being similar to nearby Leominster which also does not pronounce the letter 'o' in its name).
In the Saxon period it is known that brewing and glove-making were carried out in the village.
The village has an historic church, the Church of St Peter and St Paul, with a Norman south doorway, a 13th-century chancel and 14th-century tower and a spire that is the second-tallest in the county; castle ruins; a high school and a primary school with a pioneering system of heating.
In the village is 'the Throne', a large 400 year old box - King Charles I spent the night here on 5 September 1645, after the Battle of Naseby during the English Civil War.
It was once incorporated as a borough, sending two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons until the Reform Act 1832, (see Weobley (UK Parliament constituency) and once had a borough corporation.
In 2001 the artist Walenty Pytel completed a sculpture of a magpie for the village (a magpie is the village's emblem). The sculpture was commissioned after the village won the Calor Gas/Daily Telegraph Great Britain Village of the Year in 1999.
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Here are a few key things that Wi-Fi users can do to secure their Wi-Fi devices and personal data:
- Set home Wi-Fi networks for WPA2™ security – Wi-Fi Protected Access® 2 (WPA2) is the latest in network security technology. It controls who connects to the network and encrypts data for privacy. It is important to note that the security level of a home network is determined by the least capable device and many devices ship with security options disabled as the default. For the most up-to-date protection, a network should include only products capable of WPA2 security.
- Look for Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ products – Wi-Fi CERTIFIED devices are required to implement WPA2 security.
- Look for devices with Wi-Fi Protected Setup™ – With an action as simple as the push of a button, new devices can be added to an existing network securely.
- Create strong passwords – Ensure that your network password is at least 8 characters long, does not include any dictionary words or personal information, and is a mix of upper and lower case letters and symbols. A tip that might make password management easier is to create an acronym from easy-to-remember phrases. For example, "my daughter's birthday is July 7, 1987″ could become the password "MDBi7787."
- Be smart about hotspot use – Most public hotspots leave security protections turned off, so while connecting to a public Wi-Fi hotspot is great for general internet surfing, users should not transmit sensitive data, such bank account login information.
- Turn off automatic connecting – Many products such as mobile phones and notebooks are set by default to sense and automatically connect to any available wireless signal. Users should turn off automatic connecting and only connect to and from networks and devices they are familiar with.
The foregoing were published by the Wi-Fi Alliance in a new release to educate users about securing their wireless networks and devices. You may read the complete news release here.
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