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"Today's event marks the beginning of an expansion plan that will strengthen the 787 program and allow us to continue building on the footprint we have established in South Carolina with Boeing Charleston and Global Aeronautica," Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, says in a statement.
"Locating the second line in North Charleston will allow Boeing to successfully compete in the aerospace market and grow for the long-term benefit of many stakeholders," Albaugh adds.
The groundbreaking at the North Charleston site comes just weeks after Boeing announced on 28 October that it had selected the city for the second 787 line.
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The event also marks the largest expansion in Boeing's commercial production capability since the airframer merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997 and the first new final assembly plant for the company since it opened its Everett, Washington line in 1967 to support the 747-100 programme.
Boeing Charleston is already responsible for the fabrication, assembly and systems integration of the aft fuselage of the 787.
The North Charleston campus is also home to Global Aeronautica, a 50-50 joint venture with Italy's Alenia Aeronautica, where integration of the 787's centre fuselage takes place. The facility is responsible for the assembly and systems integration of four structural sections from aerostructures manufacturers in Japan and Italy.
The North Charleston line will be operational in July 2011 and will produce its first 787 in the first quarter of 2012.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The No. 6 Penn State men's volleyball looks to continue its outstanding start to the 2013 season this weekend when it hosts Pfieffer and Mount Olive. Both matches are set for 7 p.m. with the Lions meeting the Falcons in the main gym of Rec Hall on Friday, Feb. 1 and the Trojans in the South Gym on Saturday, Feb. 2.
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For the week across three matches, Penn State hit .240 and averaged 11.00 kills, 10.27 assists, 1.55 aces, 8.73 digs and 2.41 blocks per set.
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Kenya Moore Responds To Jay-Z Dating Rumors
Kenya Moore says that people mistake her for Beyonce all the time, so it wouldn't be too far-fetched if she had dated him.
This week, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star had the Internet buzzing after she posted an old photo of her riding shot gun with Jay-Z on Twitter. She captioned it, "Me and Jay-Z pre Beyonce & Mr_Dupri. Both Truly Nice Guys and epic video," referring to the 1998 "Money Ain't A Thing" music video.
The photo, started a whirlwind of dating rumors, which Kenya quickly shot down:
Sorry… but NO I never dated Jay-Z. Only worked on the video. He and @jermainedupri were true gentlemen. #dumbRumors #twirlonthat
Kenya definitely just gave us a flashback video moment. She was featured as one of the main chicks in the video who was down for the ride, hanging out of fast car windows and racing horses. This was back when videos had million dollar budgets and girls were paid more than 200 bucks and some chicken wings to do a video.
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When Miley Cyrus embarked on her Bangerz tour last weekend in Vancouver, we all assumed that the tour would be shocking, but only in a suggestive way. However, Miley has moved on from just sticking her tongue out to shoving her tongue down Katy Perry's throat. We have to ask: did both ladies like it?
Well, we know exactly how Cyrus felt about the whole thing. Thanks to a fan's Instagram video, we know that as soon as she kissed Katy Perry, Cyrus announced to the crowd, "I just kissed a girl and I really liked it a lot." Katy Perry, however, looked taken by complete surprise!
Perry first burst onto the music scene with a song that most pundits thought would be a "one hit wonder." The buxom brunette crooned on "I Kissed A Girl" that she kissed a girl and liked it. So, we can only assume that her impromptu smooch from with Miley Cyrus was totally par for the course for her. Perry even retweeted a photo of her shocked reaction to the kiss with the note, "I adore you @MileyCyrus."
Cyrus has only been on tour for a week, and the Bangerz tour has already been criticized for being too shocking and for not being shocking enough. Looks like she's willing and eager to up the ante–and we're going to have quite the scandalous tour on our hands.
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text: The Portsmouth Little Theater (PLT) has announced upcoming dates for its next production, the Book of Liz. The show will take place March 4, 5, 11 and 12 with shows starting at 7:30 p.m. at the PLT located on Lawson Street in Portsmouth. According to the shows director Leigh Anne Kimbler, the show promises to be a laugh a minute. "The show is written by Amy and David Sedaris so it is really funny. It's staring some of the beast actors we've got in Portsmouth," Kimbler said. "It's (Book of Liz) really about cheese balls and sweat."Kimbler says the show is about a squeamish woman, and by squeamish think Amish woman and she makes cheese balls. "She (Elizabeth Donderstock) feels unappeased at cluster haven and their little community. She strikes out into the big wide world, and meets some interesting characters. She gets herself a job at a restaurant called Plymouth Crock," Kimbler said. "Meanwhile back at cluster haven they are trying to recreate her cheese balls, and can't. Back a Plymouth Crock, she (Elizabeth Donderstock) has an opportunity to be promoted and hesitates because she has a sweating disorder, that tends to put come consumers off."The lead character Elizabeth Donderstock, has to decide if she wants to have an operation to fix the disorder. "I'll leave it there, I do not want to give too much away," Kimbler said. "The theme of the show is, it takes balls to be different, cheese balls. The scrip it's self is about 50 pages and we've inserted an intermission so we can sell cheese balls," Kimbler said. Kimbler will be making her directorial debut with The Book of Liz. She has been working on this play and gathering the cast since November, "We got the actors together three weeks ago, we had a read through and I was crying in laughter, every night they add something different," Kimbler said. "The show is very funny, and is an equal opportunity offender."The cast is make up of six people including, Jynx Jenkins, Tucker Battrell, Jim Hayes, Guinevere Merce, Susan Reed and Michael Stapleton. "Ashland (Kentucky) is getting ready to produce Hair Spray and there's a lot of talent locally that has going to Ashland to be in that play. A lot of music directors at area high schools have upcoming shows," Kimbler said. "We did not have a lot of people addition for a musical because they are already committed to shows, happening before this.""We decided so we could put on a better musical in May, that we would swap the shows (the Book of Liz, and Godspell). Usually the people who are in straight plays or comedies are not the same talent pool that does the musicals," Kimbler said. "We have really a lot of talented people in the area. We decided it would be best to wait until they are available to do the show."She said season ticket holds received a brochure stating Godspell would be in March and Book of Liz would be in May. Godspell auditions will be held at the PLT March 15th and 16th at 7 p.m. with the show being on May 22 and 29. For more information and tickets to the Book of Liz visit www.pltlive.com. If tickets are available they will be available one hour prior to the show.


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A computer-printer Internet terminal adapted to produce under the control of its user a composite greeting and gift certificate card redeemable by the named recipient at a retail establishment linked to Internet which authorizes the issuance of the certificate. The terminal is provided with greeting card and gift certificate software which is selectively downloaded by the user of the terminal into the computer, making it possible for the user to compose and print out the composite card which carries a message of greeting addressed to the recipient and a gift certificate entitling the recipient to receive a gift from the retail establishment.
1. A computer-printer Internet terminal for producing under the control of its user a composite card having printed thereon a greeting card section and a gift certificate section which is redeemable by a recipient named on the composite card, said system comprising:
A. a digital computer provided with a keyboard operable by the user;
B. first software means under the control of the keyboard to download into the computer selected data derived from greeting card software associated with the computer to compose a greeting card section appropriate to said recipient;
C. second software means under the control of the keyboard to download into the computer selected data derived from gift certificate software associated with said computer to compose a gift certificate section redeemable by the recipient at a retail establishment that has authorized the issuance of the certificate;
D. a printer associated with the computer which when activated, then prints a composite card containing said greeting card section and said gift certificate section; and
E. means including a modem linking the terminal to an Internet highway to which said establishment is also linked to obtain authorization from said establishment to issue the certificate to the user of the terminal, said Internet highway linking the terminal to several retail stores, each selling goods and issuing gift certificates which when redeemed, entitle its holder to a specified amount of goods, the user of the terminal surfing the stores over the Internet highway to find and select a store issuing a gift certificate acceptable to the user, the selected store providing the user with gift certificate data to appear on the card.
2. A terminal as set forth in claim 1, further including a video screen associated with the computer to exhibit said composite card before it is printed.
1. Field of Invention
This invention relates generally to greeting cards and gift certificates, and more particularly to a computer-printer Internet terminal adapted to produce under the control of the user of the terminal a composite greeting and gift certificate card redeemable by the named recipient at a retail establishment linked to Internet.
2. Status of Prior Art
Internet is a world-wide information highway interlinking millions of computer terminals, each having many users. Associated with Internet are various commercially-operated on-line services, such as Prodigy, CompuServe and Online. One important use to which Internet is put is the retrieval of information from electronic libraries and other data bases, thereby giving each terminal access to a vast treasury of information. Another popular use for Internet is electronic or E-mail making it possible for terminals linked to Internet to communicate with each other.
E-mail communication may take the form of a greeting card composed at one terminal and transmitted to another terminal linked to Internet. Thus the 1995 U.S. Pat. No. 5,426,594 to Wright entitled "Electronic Greeting Card Store and Communication System" discloses a method by which a user of a personal communicator can select and pay for an electronic greeting card and to send it to another personal communicator for presentation to its user.
As noted in the Wright patent, the usual practice in sending a greeting card appropriate to a given occasion, such as a birthday or wedding anniversary, is for the individual to go to a retail store carrying greeting cards for various occasions and to select from what is available a card having an image and message printed thereon suitable for the occasion. The individual would pay for and take possession of the card and then write a personal message on the card before sending it to the party for which the card is intended.
This procedure may be inconvenient to the purchaser of the card, for it requires this individual to go to a greeting card store, search through the many cards there available to find an appropriate card, pay for the card, write a personal message thereon and then mail the card.
In the Wright system a first personal communicator accepts off-line selection of an electronic greeting card from a user, and then transmits a request message corresponding to the off-line selection of the electronic greeting card, the request message including at least an electronic greeting card identifier and a destination identifier. The electronic mail server receives the request message, and processes the request message by wireless transmission of an electronic greeting card message to the second personal communicator. The electronic greeting card includes a representation of an electronic greeting card image being identified by the electronic greeting card identifier. The second personal communicator is also identified by the destination identifier included with the request message. The electronic mail server updates billing information associated with an account of the first personal communicator in response to the electronic greeting card message being transmitted for billing the user of the first personal communicator therefor.
When a person is celebrating a birthday or other special occasion, it is common practice not only to send that person a greeting card appropriate to the occasion, but also a gift. In recent years a gift certificate has emerged as a viable alternative to the purchase of the gift itself.
Gift certificates offer many advantages over the purchase of a gift. If the gift giver is unsure of the needs of the recipient, a gift certificate offers a wide range of goods or services from which the recipient can choose. Currently, gift certificates can be purchased only at retail locations or through catalog houses. This is a drawback, for it is often inconvenient for one to have to travel to a store in order to purchase a gift certificate. To overcome this drawback, the 1993 U.S. Pat. No. 5,243,174 to Veeneman et al. "Method and Apparatus for Generating Gift Certificates" discloses an electronic gift certificate dispenser for printing and dispensing a gift certificate purchased by a credit card. A consumer approaches the dispenser and inserts a credit card into a magnetic card reader. The consumer then chooses a retailer from a menu of participating retailers and enters the gift certificate value.
The machine automatically verifies the credit card, causes the account to be debited and prints the gift certificate. A plurality of gift certificate dispensers devices can be connected in a network under the control of a central processing unit. Information regarding gift certificate purchases is transferred from the dispensers to the central processing unit to be collated and billed to credit card accounts. The central processing unit also informs merchants of the purchase of gift certificates that will be redeemed at their stores.
With the Veeneman et al. electronic gift certificate dispenser, it is no longer necessary to go to the selected retail establishment issuing the certificate to obtain it. But one must travel to the mall or center at which the dispenser is installed; hence the certificate certificate cannot be produced at home.
In view of the foregoing, the main object of this invention is to provide a computer-printer terminal adapted to produce under the control of its user a composite greeting and gift certificate card redeemable at a retail establishment which authorizes and is paid for the issuance of the certificate.
More particularly, an object of this invention is to provide a terminal of the above type which is linked by a modem to the Internet whereby the user of the terminal can surf Internet to find a retail store linked thereto that has available goods or services which the user wishes to give as a gift to the recipient of the card and that authorizes the user to issue the gift certificate.
Among the significant advantages of a computer-printer Internet terminal in accordance with the invention are the following:
A. The user of the terminal may compose a greeting message addressed to the named recipient which is personalized and reflects the user's feelings.
B. The user, in producing the gift certificate, has no need to go to a gift certificate dispenser installation or to a particular retail establishment issuing gift certificates, for the certificate is composed and printed at the user's terminal.
C. Payment for the gift certificate may be made via Internet.
Briefly stated, these objects are attained by a computer-printer Internet terminal adapted to produce under the content of lists user a composite greeting and gift certificate card redeemable by the named recipient at a retail establishment linked to Internet which authorizes the issuance of the certificate.
The terminal is provided with greeting card and gift certificate software which is selectively downloaded by the user of the terminal into the computer, making it possible for the user to compose and print out the composite card which carries a message of greeting addressed to the recipient and a gift certificate entitling the recipient to receive a gift from the retail establishment.
For a better understanding of the invention as well as other objects and further features thereof, reference is made to the following detailed description to be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a computer-printer terminal in accordance with the invention linked with Internet; and
FIG. 2 illustrates the composite greeting and gift certificate card produced by the terminal.
FIG. 1 illustrates in block form a computer-printer terminal in C-P accordance with the invention adapted to produce under the control of its user a composite greeting and gift certificate card. Terminal C-P is linked to the Internet highway 10 by a modem 11. Also linked to Internet highway 10 are retail establishments which provide goods and/or services to customers and issue gift certificates therefor. FIG. 1 shows by way of example retail stores A, B and C linked to the highway so that the terminal C-P and the stores can communicate with each other.
The terminal includes a digital computer 12 provided with a manually-operated key board 13. Associated with computer 12 is a video screen 14 which visually presents the composite card composed by the user who operates the terminal.
The composite card consists of a personalized message of greeting directed to the named recipient of the card and a gift certificate redeemable by the recipient. The graphic design and terms of the greeting message and those of the gift certificate are selectively downloaded into the computer by its user who operates keyboard 13, this data being derived from greeting card software 15 and gift certificate software 16.
When the format of the computer card exhibited on video screen 14 is acceptable to the user, a printer 17 associated with computer 12 is then activated to print out the composite card which can then be mailed out to the recipient named on the card, or it can be transmitted to the recipient by E-mail.
In a typical digital computer, the hardware includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a main storage unit serving to store both the program and the data on which it operates. A storage address register holds the address of the storage location to be activated, either in order to read the contents of the location or for storing into the location. A storage data register temporarily holds data being read into and out of storage, while an arithmetic and logic unit (ALU) performs the specified operation on the data presented at its inputs. The ALU is routed to either a register stack and I/O control unit or to main storage by means of signals from the central processing unit (CPU). The computer hardware is controlled by a series of instructions stored in the main storage, the sequence of instructions constituting the computer program.
In operation, a user operating key board 13 selects from the software 15 downloaded into the computer whatever text and graphics he wishes to appear on the greeting card section GS of the composite card 20, as shown separately in FIG. 2.
Thus the greeting section GS reads "Greetings Jerry on Your 50th Birthday"--below which is a personalized message 21. A greeting card computer program for this purpose may be similar to that disclosed in the electronic greeting card system disclosed in the above-identified Wright patent.
And the gift certificate card section CS of the card 20 shows a Bloomingdale's Department store gift certificate for Jerry Smith whose birthday is being celebrated. Section CS includes the registration number of the certificate, the product or products to which it is applicable, and the money amount of the gift. The computer program for producing the gift certificate section CS may be similar to that disclosed in the Veeneman et al. patent.
Before entering gift certificate date into the computer, the user of the terminal must surf the stores linked to Internet to find a store that carries the product or services he wishes to give as a gift. When the user makes his choice, he is advised via Internet by the selected store in regard to the Internet data to be printed in the gift certificate section of the card. The gift certificate can be paid for by the user of the terminal by credit card over the Internet. The payment procedure may be such as to involve a security control center in which the user is given a special security number.
Thus the user does not leave his home or office to compose and print out the composite card. He can bill the gift certificate to his credit card or to his telephone charge account, or to his bank account. The user of the terminal is under no time constraints, and it may take him 30 minutes or more to compose the composite card so that it is customized to the recipient and reflects the feelings of the user.
While there has been shown a preferred embodiment of the computer-printer terminal on internet for producing composite greeting and gift certificate card, it will be appreciated that many changes and modifications may be made therein without, however, departing from the spirit of the invention.
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By Guillermo X. Garcia, By Michelle Mondo and Guillermo X. Garcia / Express-News : February 3, 2011
Photo By TOM REEL/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSMETRO Motorists pass by a spot of ice at a convenience store on FM 306 in Comal county Wednesday morning. The ice was continuing to thicken through the day as temperatures remained in the 20's. Tom Reel/Staff February 2, 2011.
Photo By HELEN L. MONTOYA/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSMETRO: Jose and Lillian Reveles and their daughter Princess, 6, try to stay warm as they walk along Nueva St on Wednesday Feb. 2, 20100. Temperatures dropped into the teens and are expected to stay below freezing. HELEN L. email@example.com
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Liz Ermis shields herself from the cold wind as she leaves work on Houston Street downtown. A wind advisory is in effect until 11 a.m. today.
Photo By TOM REEL/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSMETRO Frances Esparza (left) and Carol Garza (right) hurry with a friend from work to their cars as cold wind in front of the Frost National Bank building on Houston Street swirls around them on February 1, 2011. Tom Reel/Staff
Photo By HELEN L. MONTOYA/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWSMETRO: Morgan Leetch bundled up as he did his daily run along Padre Dr on Tuesday Feb. 1, 2011. Temperatures were expected to dip into the teens Tuesday night. HELEN L. email@example.com
Dallas has been dealing with it for days. Now, South Texas may get its own snow, with flurries possible beginning this morning and continuing through Friday.
San Antonio's morning commuters could see isolated patches of it, but the most widespread snowfall is predicted to begin this evening, the National Weather Service reported.
Snow accumulation is expected to stay at 1 inch or below for those west of the Interstate 35 corridor while areas east of the interstate could see 1 to 2 inches.
Low temperatures through Friday morning will stay well below freezing, with wind chill readings reaching into the single digits. Today's high is not expected to climb above 30, but Friday is expected to see above-freezing conditions.
Combined with rolling power outages that crippled traffic signals throughout the area, the coldest temperatures of the year Wednesday made life difficult for emergency responders.
San Antonio firefighters re sponded to 12 calls of structure fires in a 13-hour period starting at 3 a.m., but the majority were canceled, fire department spokeswoman Melissa Sparks said.
The most significant blaze occurred shortly after 6:30 a.m. in the 300 block of East Locust Street, where a fire began in the attic and spread. Sparks said the cause likely was electrical.
The frigid weather continued to affect air travel, with a number of flights from San Antonio International Airport to D-FW and Love Field in Dallas canceled due to snow and ice accumulations in the Metroplex.
The Arctic air mass gripping the state was muscling forward with a mixed bag of sleet, snow and freezing rain for the South Texas border, forecasters said.
Sleet is likely tonight in the Rio Grande Valley, with snow possible along the U.S. 281 and U.S. 77 corridors and west toward the mid-Valley, National Weather Service forecaster Barry Goldsmith said.
The winter storm could surprise unwary drivers by glazing roads with ice and leave thousands of residents without heat by cracking frozen power lines. "It won't take much to get things treacherous," Goldsmith said, adding that damage to sugar cane, citrus fruit, and tender vegetation will be a serious concern.
Emergency management officials in cities throughout South Texas were thinking about opening shelters but made no announcements. Several Valley school districts cancelled Thursday's classes.
As elsewhere in the state, there were rolling power outages. Craig Verley, spokesman for the Mission Consolidated Independent School District, was in a darkened room as he spoke of his district's preparations for a possible "snow day" Friday.
"There's a lot of discussion going on," said Verley, who has lived in the Valley for 20 years. "I can't remember that ever happening."
When snow blanketed South Texas on Christmas Eve 2004 — an almost unheard-of event — schools already were closed for the holiday.
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UNDATED (AP) - Two energy companies are pulling out of northeastern Pennsylvania, where a long-standing moratorium on gas drilling, or fracking, has infuriated landowners who say the ban has cost them big bucks.
The Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance represents more than 1,300 families and businesses that signed a lease with Hess Corp. and Newfield Exploration Company.
The landowners' group says Hess and Newfield have terminated the lease, and the pullout will cost its members more than $187 million in lease bonus payments.
A Hess spokesman declined comment. A Newfield spokesman says the company's focus now is on oil, not gas.
The Delaware River Basin Commission imposed a moratorium on Marcellus Shale drilling in the Delaware watershed in 2010. The property owners' group is threatening to sue the agency over the ban.
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How many of you have this cookbook in your kitchens?
Mine is so dirty, that it's an embarrassment to post,
but non the less, it works well and it's fed many crowds.
My book's coyrighted in December 1962.
It's printed by Derksen printers from Steinbach, Manitoba.
As you can see it's the most used and tattered page.
It's almost too dirty to touch.
Pie Crust
5 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1lb. lard or shortening (I use White Crisco)
2 Tbsp. vinegar
2 eggs.
Sift dry ingredients and work in lard.
Beat eggs in cup, add vinegar and fill cup with cold water.
Mix well.
Remember you don't want to over beat this dough!
Keeps will in refrigerator.
The pastry is enough for about 3-4 /10inch pies,
depending on how thick you make the crust.
I prefer more crust than real thin.
The tender crust is the substance that makes the pie.
Pie Filling
I use the recipe from Betty Crockers Book.
10 - inch filling
1 Cup Sugar
1/3 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. cinnamon
Dash salt
8 Cups thinly sliced pared tart apples
3 Tbsp. butter
First of all, don't go and look for your old re-cycled apples.
Keep those for applesauce.
I try to find the most crisp apples.
(Granny Smith, Gravenstein, Jonagolds, Spartans)
Anyways I make my apple pies in the summer and fall,
and berry pies with frozen fruit in the winter.
Heat oven to 425Degrees, Prepare Pastry
Stir together sugar, flour, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt;
Mix with apples.
Turn into pastry-lined pie pan;
dot with butter.
Cover with top crust which has slits in it.
seal and flute.
I don't cover the edges with alum foil as it suggests,
to prevent it from browning.
I bake it at 425 for 15 minutes and then reduce
to 350 for the next 45 minutes.
Apple Pie is a favorite at our home any time.
Add ice-cream and that becomes our breakfast on Sunday mornings.
Somebody's always snitching pieces here and there.
Pies have replaced Birthday cakes in our home.
Somehow I never exceeded at baking cakes,
so I resorted to making pies.
Strawberry, Banana Cream, Cherry, Lemon Meringue.
Blackberry is also a winner.
I will post the filling at a later date.
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George Washington boys, girls take swimming titles
MORGANTOWN -- Hurricane's boys placed seventh and Huntington High 10th in the West Virginia High School Swim Championships that ended Friday at the West Virginia University Natatorium.
On the girls side, Huntington High took eighth place and Cabell Midland was ninth.
George Washington swept the boys and girls titles.
Hurricane's boys took second in the 200 medley relay. Quin Shurow, Zach Shurow, Jack Wright and Luke Earls had a time of 1:42.38. George Washington won in 1:40.94.
In the 50 free, Wright was fourth (22.42) and he placed fourth in the 100 fly (52.85).
Spring Valley's Sam Mannon was fifth in the 100 free (50.39).
Huntington High was fifth in the 200 free relay (1:35.69). Ben Aulick, Andrew Ching, Loy McGuire and Evan Vega made up the team.
In the 100 breast, Zach Shurow was second (1:02.40) and Aulick sixth (1:07.41).
Hurricane was sixth in the 400 free relay (3:26.01). Earls, Zach Shurow, Austin Harper and Wright made up the foursome.
For the girls, Huntington was first in the B Finals in the 200 medley relay (2:03.18). Emily Chambers, Sophie Georgel-Walz, Lauren Johnson and Lauren Vega made up the team.
Winfield's Madisyn Lyons won the 200 IM (2:12.33) and placed second in the 500 free (5:12.47).
In the 100 fly, Claire Coleman of Hurricane was third (1:00.62) and Cabell Midland's Alyssa Morris fourth (1:01.02). Morris also was fourth in the 100 breast (1:10.84).
In the 100 free, Georgel-Walz was sixth (56.62). Chambers was sixth in the 100 back (1:03.28).
South Charleston's Austin Green turned in two of the best efforts of the day. He achieved All-American Automatic times in the 100 fly (49.25) and 100 breast (56.67). The 100 breast was his final high school event.


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Laughter can't solve the many serious problems America faces at home and abroad. But it can provide comic relief from those ominous challenges.
So good for President Barack Obama's gag writers for giving him witty material to deliver at Saturday night's annual White House Correspondents Association dinner at the Washington Hilton.
The president approached the microphone at that star-studded soiree not to the strains of "Hail to the Chief" but to DJ Khaled's rap hit "All I Do is Win."
He then proclaimed: "Rush Limbaugh warned you about this — second term, baby — we're changing things around here a little bit."
Later, in mock reflection on aging into his second term, President Obama said: "I get it — these days I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be."
Certainly host Conan O'Brien seemed past his prime with this gagger:
"Also joining us is a congressman from New York named Steve Israel. That's right — he's from New York and his name is Israel. Now there's pandering and then there's pandering. That's like having a congressman from South Carolina named Jesus H. Gun."
At least Mr. O'Brien didn't mine the ample ridicule material offered by our ongoing 1st Congressional District race. And at least Mr. O'Brien is in show biz.
Those White House correspondents, however, are in the news biz.
Yet Saturday night's spectacle of media, political and entertainment stars again blurred the lines between journalism, politics and the modern celebrity culture.
A year ago on "Meet the Press," former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw explained why he stopped attending the dinner: "If there's ever an event that separates the press from the people that they're supposed to serve, symbolically, it is that one."
Last week, Mr. Brokaw told Politico: "I think any organization has to have a kind of self-policing instinct and what we're doing with that dinner, as it has been constituted for the past several years, is saying, 'We're Versailles. The rest of you eat cake.' "
And when the folks who are supposed to be watchdogs on the powers-that-be become their lapdogs, the joke's on all of us.
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The Bristol Evening Post reports that their sources claim City manager Derek McInnes is keen to bring in Wootton on loan until the end of the season.
City face competition from Blackburn Rovers who are also keen on signing the former Liverpool player.
Wootton joined United from rivals Liverpool at the age of 15.
"I wasn't too sure whether I was going to sign (for Liverpool)," Wootton later told the Daily Mail.
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Things I liked:I love the solid feel of this gun. It's got some weight to it. Deadly accurate just with the iron sights. Also, it has a good sound when firing. UTG sure did pay attention to detail when developing this excellent AEG rifle.
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Fire effects assessment using FIA data in the northern and central Rocky Mountains
Jain, Theresa B.; Their, Ralph; Michael, Wilson. 2003. Fire effects assessment using FIA data in the northern and central Rocky Mountains. In: Second international wildland fire ecology and fire management congress and fifth symposium on fire and forest meteorology; 2003 November 16-20; Orlando, FL, U.S.A. Abstract 3B.4. Boston, MA: American Meteorlogical Society. Online: https://ams.confex.com/ams/FIRE2003/webprogram/Paper66988.html
Wildfires of 2000 and 2001 burned thousands of hectares in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Within the fire parameters, 162 Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) plots burned in Idaho and Montana where pre-wildfire information on forest structure, vegetation composition, soil productivity, and surface fuels was documented; thus providing a unique opportunity to assess wildfire effects on forest resources at multiple spatial scales. This is a collaborative effort among FIA-Interior West, Rocky Mountain Research Station, and FHM. To date, crews have characterized burn severity on forest floor, soils, lower vegetation, and trees. Results on consumption, in addition to an evaluation on the influence of pre-wildfire forest structure on post wildfire burn severity will be presented.
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Seminar in which selected topics in Christian theology are examined via close reading and discussion of historical and contemporary works of philosophical theology. Examples of topics considered: Divine Attributes, Divine Providence (and Human Freedom), God and Ethics, Faith. The specific issue(s) to be considered will be identified each time the course is scheduled. Repeatable when topics are diverse. Liberal Arts.


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Apple doesn't allow nonprofits to include a direct donation system in the phone's applications, according to this article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The author, Vincent Stehle, argues nonprofits could benefit substantially from an iPhone application–especially now that Verizon is selling the phone.
Stehle raises the always interesting question of a company's role. "The best thing Apple can do to improve society is to continue to serve as a powerful engine of innovation," he writes. You would think that ends the argument except he goes on to point out that tech companies like Microsoft, IBM and Cisco have long promoted innovation and helped nonprofits. He describes Apple's policies toward philanthropy as "indifferent."
Of course Apple does nonprofit stuff, it's just not allowing an application to its iPhone. Apple has argued it doesn't permit the charitable donations because it can't verify the legitimacy of nonprofits, according to Stehle.


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Not long after Coldplay debuted their new single "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall," claims of plagiarism popped up in YouTube comments, as listeners noted a similarity in the song's riff to that of Mystic's 1990 UK italo-house hit, "Ritmo de la Noche." In actual fact, the song contained a melodic sample from Peter Allen's "I Go to Rio," co-written in 1976 with Adrienne Anderson—a credit listed below the lyrics on Coldplay's website—which happened to be the same melodic bit that "Ritmo de la Noche" used. (To be more specific, Mystic's rendition of the song was merely the Simon Cowell-helmed UK version of a track that had several regional variations. WhoSampled credits the band Chocolate with the "original" of this house track.) This was clarified in a statement that a spokesperson for the band made to Scotland's Daily Record.
This was more than just misinformed accusation, though, as Coldplay has faced such charges in the past. Long gone are the days when the band joked on Storytellers about the extent to which "Speed of Sound" borrowed from Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill":
Since that 2005 performance, the band has faced accusations of plagiarism on 2008's Viva La Vida from Creaky Boards (that June), Joe Satriani (that December), and Cat Stevens (the next May). But sampled and interpolated melodies are also relatively unfamiliar to rock fans who believe authorship is sacrosanct, and Coldplay have brought a different sensibility to their songwriting, as seen in the clip above. Do they cross the line? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
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KPFA listeners deliver petitions demanding recall vote
A delegation of listeners delivered a huge stack of petitions containing signatures of over 800 KPFA members during the September 10 meeting of the station's elected Local Station Board. | KPFA News coverage (audio mp3) | Public comment (7 min audio clip) Listeners are upset with the loss of local control at KPFA Radio 94.1 FM in Berkeley. The Pacifica network, which owns KPFA's license, has made controversial changes to programming, including canceling the popular Morning Show at 7-9 AM, severely affecting fundraising during the station's morning drive time. The petitions demand a vote among KPFA listener-members on the question of … Continue reading
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When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, he built his reputation as an anti-war candidate by disparaging U.S. involvement in Iraq, adamantly insisting: "It's time to end this war." Now, with Iraq's U.S.-backed government under its most serious threat since the President pulled out the last U.S. troops in 2011, he is being forced to consider what had previously seemed unthinkable - resorting to military force there again.
The recent story of a woman who got kicked off a Disney cruise ship for bringing her 4-month-old aboard is just the thing most family travelers don't want to hear. After all, what could be more perfect than a Disney cruise for a baby? (Turns out, Disney Cruise Line has a rule against children under the age of 6 months.) Before my daughter Lucy was born, I had visions of toting her across the planet, inspired by my cool cousin Katie, who had taken her kids to India, Vietnam, and Bali when they could barely walk.
Never a dull moment. Taylor Swift's Twitter account was broken into this afternoon, with her profile tweeting out to over 51 million fans that they should follow someone who claims to be the "leader" of Lizard Squad, the hacking group that's ostensibly behind this attack. Swift has the fourth largest account on Twitter, making this one of the higher-profile breaches that have occurred on the network. Tweets sent by the hacker were deleted within about 15 minutes, as Swift or Twitter itself seemingly recovered the account.
Firefighter David Ruhl, 38, a married father of two from Rapid City, South Dakota, died on Thursday while on assignment at the Frog Fire in the Modoc National Forest near California's border with Oregon. Firefighters rushed to contain a pair of fast-moving wildfires in Northern California on Saturday as they mourned the death Ruhl, killed this week in the battle against one of the blazes. The largest blaze has forced hundreds of people to evacuate and destroyed more than a dozen homes.
Channing Tatum has now reportedly locked down his deal with 20th Century Fox to star as Gambit, following prior reports that negotiations were falling apart. Tatum's role as the card-throwing mutant wasn't really in jeopardy. After all, the Magic Mike star has already invested a lot of time into the character. Tatum's expected commitment level to the X-Men film universe was a major factor that needed working out, especially since Fox is looking to him to fill the void left by Hugh Jackman's Wolverine once he hangs up the claws for good. Gambit will begin filming this October under the direction of Rupert Wyatt for an October 7, 2016 release.
"Sherlock" fans have grown familiar with the waiting game between TV seasons, but they may be encouraged that show-runner Steven Moffat says he could see it "going on for a long while." Speaking to TV critics Saturday at a bi-annual panel, Moffat said he and co-executive producer, Mark Gatiss, are game to keep going. "I don't think it will be us that switch it off. I imagine it'll be down to Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.
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