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A multiple-point temperature sensor, with optic fibers, uses the effect of variation in the birefringence in a birefringent optic fiber as a function of temperature. This sensor has a plane polarized, wide spectrum source coupled to a monomode optic fiber for preservation of polarization, along one of the neutral axes, with weak coupling points distributed along this fiber. A polarizer at 45° to the neutral axes of the fiber is placed at the output of this sensing fiber. The output radiation is analyzed by spectroscopy, for example in a Michelson interferometer, capable of being swept, associated with a detector. The interferometer shifts needed to detect the extreme values of the transmission function are measurements of temperature deviations.
1. A multiple-point temperature sensor using optic fibers, comprising:
a wide band optical source, of the pulse-modulated, plane polarized, super-luminescent diode type;
A birefringent, monomode, sensing optic fiber on which there have been created localized, weak coupling points, spaced out along the fiber, the input face of which is coupled to the source, the polarization axis of the source being aligned with a neutral axis of the fiber;
polarization means coupled to the output face of the fiber, to align the polarizations of the waves transmitted by the fiber (and make their interference possible);
a device for spectroscopic analysis, coupled to the output of the polarization means, to analyse the radiation transmitted and to form the transmission function of the sensor;
and processing means which, using the transmission function, extract the measurements of the temperatures of the segments of fibers between coupling points
2. A sensor according to claim 1, wherein the polarization means are formed by a fiber polarizer, directly coupled to the sensing fiber with an axis at 45° to the neutral axis of the sensing fiber.
3. A sensor according to claim 1, wherein the polarization means comprise a polarization preserving optic fiber coupled to the output face of the sensing fiber, its axes being oriented at 45° to the axes of birefringence of the sensing fiber, and an output polarizer, coupled to the polarization preserving fiber, with an axis that is the same as a neutral axis of this fiber.
4. A sensor according to claim 1, wherein the localized coupling points are created on the fiber by elastic torsion and then local heating which relaxes the torsion.
5. A sensor according to claim 1, wherein the device for analysis by spectroscopy is a Michelson interferometer, one returning mirror of which can be shifted along the optical axis of the radiation which it receives.
6. A sensor according to claim 1, wherein the coupling points are evenly spaced out on the sensing fiber.
1. Field of the Invention .
The invention relates to a temperature sensor using optic fibers and to their properties whereby they have birefringence which varies as a function of temperature.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A linear polarization preserving monomode fiber is obtained by creating a high degree of elasto-optical birefringence, using a zone that sets up intrinsic stresses, in a monomode fiber A standard example of a fiber of this type has the following structure: two very highly doped bars are placed on either side of the core. During the fiber-drawing process, the different glasses are first viscous and then get solidified. In cooling down to ambient temperature, the doped bars, which have a thermal expansion coefficient far greater than that of the rest of the structure, get contracted and therefore place the region of the core under elongation stress By elasto-optical effect, this stress creates birefringence.
This birefringence is often defined by the beat length LB, namely the length at the end of which the polarizations along the two neutral and orthogonal axes of the fiber have become phase-shifted by 2πrad. This length is typically of the order of 1 to 5 mm. The origin of this stress is, therefore, the cooling of the non-homogenous structure and depends on the temperature. This dependence is of the order of 10-3 /° C.
The temperature of the multiple-point temperature sensor, with optic fibers, according to the invention, uses this property of variation in birefringence as a function of temperature to enable the measurement of temperature.
According to the invention, a multiple point temperature sensor using optic fibers comprises:
a wide band optical source, of the super-luminescent diode type, for example, which is plane polarized and may be pulse modulated;
A birefringent, monomode, sensing optic fiber on which there have been created localized, weak coupling points, spaced out along the fiber, the input face of which is coupled to the source, the polarization axis of the source being aligned with a neutral axis of the fiber;
polarization means coupled to the output face of the fiber, to align the polarizations of the waves transmitted by the fiber (and make their interference possible);
a device for spectroscopic analysis, coupled to the output of the polarization means, to analyse the radiation transmitted and to form the transmission function of the sensor;
and processing means which, using the transmission function, extract the measurements of the temperatures of the segments of fibers between coupling points
The invention will be better understood, and other of its characteristics will appear in the following description, made with reference to the appended figures, of which:
FIG. 1 is a drawing illustrating the working of a birefringent, optic fiber as an interferometer;
FIG. 2 represents the transmission relationship, as a function of the wavelength of an interferometer of this type;
FIG. 3 represents the spectrum of a wide source and the transmission relationship as a function of the converse of the wavelength, of the interferometer;
FIG. 4 illustrates the wave trains at the output of the polarizer placed at the output of a birefringent, sensing fiber comprising several coupling points;
FIG. 5 represents a first embodiment of the sensor according to the invention;
FIG. 6 represents a second embodiment of the sensor according to the invention.
If we consider an optic fiber in which the beat length LB is equal to 1 mm, there are 1000 LB for one meter of fiber, and when the thermal dependence of the birefringence is 10-3 /° C., a variation of 1° C. produces an output phase shift variation between the two inherent polarizations, equal to 2πrad and corresponding to a shift of one fringe if interferences are created between these two waves.
This effect is, therefore, highly perceptible and can be measured in an interferometrical assembly
FIG. 1 shows a polarization maintaining, monomode optic fiber 1, for which the birefringence is obtained by means of two highly doped stress bars 2 and 3, which determine the directions of the two neutral axes XX' and YY' of the fiber. When a fiber of this type receives a radiation which is polarized along P, at 45° to the neutral axes of the fiber, and which therefore gets distributed equally between the slow mode and the fast mode, corresponding to two neutral axes, the two waves get propagated at different speeds owing to the birefringence. At the output of the fiber, the two modes can be recombined by means of a polarizer at 45° to the two neutral axes, along P.
In an assembly of this type, as in a standard interferometer with two distinct paths, the output power of the radiation varies as a function of the cosine of the phase shift between the two modes, and hence as a function of the temperature.
This system also has chromatic filtering properties. For, if there were no dispersal, the birefringence would create a difference in optical path Δ1 between the two inherent modes: the light is transmitted if Δ1=kλ and extinguished if Δ1=(2k+1)λ/2 where λ is the wavelength of the optical radiation. The corresponding relationship of transmission, as a function of 1/λ, is shown in FIG. 2.
When the birefringence varies, the relationship of transmission gets shifted: if the system is analyzed with a monochromatic streak having a wavelength λo, the result is obtained by which, in making the birefringence vary, the transmission at a given wavelength λo varies according to a sinusoidal relationship.
If, instead of being a monochromatic source, the source is a wide spectrum one, the ridges of the transmission function will be far narrower. At the output, therefore, there is obtained the product of the transmission relationship ridged by the spectrum of the source, namely, a ridged spectrum which can be analyzed by all the standard methods of spectroscopy such as those using dispersive prisms, lattices, spectroscopy by Fourier transform, etc. The spectrum of a wide band source and the ridged transmission relationship are shown in FIG. 3, as a function of 1/λ.
Spectroscopy by Fourier transform, in particular, uses an interferometer, the working difference of which is made to vary: a signal is found when the shift between the two arms of the interferometer correponds to the pitch of the ridges (as a function of the frequencies), i.e. when this shift compensates for that of the first interferometer for which the transmission function is analyzed.
For the viewpoint of the analysis, placing two interferometers with similar shifts amounts to placing two filters, having identical ridge pitches, in parallel; when they are in coincidence, the light goes through, but there is a minimum degree of transmission when they are in anti-coincidence.
The multiple-point temperature sensor according to the invention uses a pulse-modulated, plane polarized, wide spectrum source of this type, coupled with a birefringent, monomode fiber, along the axis of birefrigence. Weak coupling points are distributed along the fiber. If the wave train is coupled in the fast mode at input, there will be, at output, a wave train that has remained in the fast mode, and a series of wave trains in the slow mode, created at the different coupling points. The localized couplings, distributed along the fiber, are weak so as to make it possible to overlook the wave trains coming from multiple couplings, for example the wave train coupled in slow mode to the first coupling point and re-coupled, in the slow mode, to the following coupling point etc.
A polarizer at 45° to the neutral axes, placed at the output of the fiber, enables the realignment, in the same polarization state, of the main wave train TOp and the wave trains coupled to the points M1, M2,...M1, respectively TO1, TO2...,TO1. FIG. 4 shows these wave trains successively detected as a function of the shift x of a interferometer capable of being swept. The shft between the main wave train TOp and a wave train which is coupled, i.e. TO1, depends on the birefringence between the coupling point Ml and the end of the fiber.
By difference, the distance between the wave trains TO1 and TOi+1 corresponds to the birefringence between the coupling points M1 and Mi+1, this birefrigence being itself a function of the temperature of the fiber segment M1, Mi+1.
The intensity of the couplings at the coupling points M1 does not come into play. The only factor that counts is the distance between these two points, the shifts between wave trains being directly proportionate to the temperature deviations A particularly advantageous approach is to have evenly spaced out points M1.
This system with several coupling points has a transmission with ridges in the spectrum, the spatial frequencies of the ridges created by the different points being different. Since the couplings are weak, the extinguishing is not complete, i.e. a value of zero is never obtained in the transmission function
The analysis of the transmission function of a complex "filter" relationship of this type thus enables the analysis of the birefringence and, therefore, of the temperature of each segment M1, Mi+l.
A method of analysis by spectroscopy, which is well suited to this case, lies in the use of a Michelson interferometer, capable of being swept.
An advantageous method to make the coupling points consists in twisting the fiber elastically, and then in heating it locally by means of an electric arc, a torch or a laser source. The torsion gets relaxed at the heating point, thus creating a rotation of the neutral axes and, hence, a localized coupling, without, thereby, in any way inducing losses since the fiber core has not been interrupted.
FIG. 5 is a diagram of a first embodiment of the multiple-point temperature sensor, using optic fibers, according to the invention.
The wide spectrum source 10, of the super-luminescent diode type, plane polarized by construction, or associated with a polarizer, is coupled along an axis of birefringence, with the fast axis being coupled, for example, to a birefringent optical axis 11 comprising a certain number of localized, weak coupling points M1, M2...M1... A polarizer 19 is coupled to the output of the fiber at 45° to the neutral axes of this fiber, to align the wave trains. The light coming from this polarizer is then transmitted to a Michelson interferometer, capable of being swept, comprising a separating element 13 and two returning mirrors, 14 and 15, which respectively receive the waves transmitted and reflected by the separator. One of the mirrors 15 can be shifted along the optical axis of the beam which it receives, and this shift enables the appearance, at a detector 16, of the maximum values of the transmission function, the spacing of which is as indicated above, as a function of the temperature. A processing circuit 17 transforms the shifts into measurements of temperature.
The invention is not restricted to the above-described embodiment. In particular, it may be worthwhile to move the sensing fiber to a distance from the detecting and measuring means rather than to place them at the output of the sensing fiber. For this purpose, as shown in FIG. 6 where the same references are repeated for the same elements, to the output face of the sensing fiber, there is connected a polarization preserving fiber 18 with an axis at 45° to the neutral axes of the sensing fiber and a polarizer 19 is placed at the end of this reflecting fiber, this polarizer 19 being aligned with the neutral axes of the polarization preserving fiber. The set formed by the fiber 18 and the polarizer 19 is equivalent to the polarizer 19, of FIG. 5. This embodiment enables the fiber sensor part to be moved away from the detecting and measuring means.
Besides, the wide spectrum source may be either a super-luminescent diode ("SLD") as indicated above, or a laser source wherein the spectrum is widened artificially.
This type of temperature sensor can function for temperatures varying between -20° C. and +100° C. when the fiber has an acrylate coating, for it would not withstand higher temperatures. On the contrary, for polyimide coatings, the temperature range may be widened to between -100° C. and +300° C. In this range, the variations induced are linear and without hysteresis. Other adapted coatings should enable considerable widening of the temperature range.
To obtain measurable energy, it is possible to use 100 coupling points at 30 dB for example: this gives one-thousandth of the intensity for each rise following the main pulse in which approximately 90% of the energy is recovered. The energy can be likened to a coherent detection where a small pulse "beats" with the main pulse, correponding to the main wave train. For example, a 100 μW source creating, at a coupling point, a 0.1 μW coupling in the other mode, suffices to perform the detection efficiently.
To check the temperature on 20m., it is possible to space out the coupling points by 20 cm. for example or, to check the temperature on 300 m., it is possible to space to the 100 coupling points by 3 m.
The invention can be applied notably, but not exclusively, to the checking of temperature on great lengths or in big volumes.
For the analysis of the relationship of transmission, with 103 fringes LB for 1 m, the shift of the interferometer may be 0.5 mm. for a shift by one fringe, namely 5 cm. to see 100 fringes (owing to the to-and-fro path of the light via the mirror).
The invention is not restricted to the above-described embodiments. In particular, the coupling points could be created by other methods, inasmuch as they are created at well localized, fixed points and inasmuch as they do not destroy the continuity of the core of this fiber.
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Because I am a Girl: Girls in the global economy 2009
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'Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2009' is the third in a series of annual reports published by Plan examining the rights of girls throughout their childhood, adolescence and as young women.
Focusing on girls in the global economy, the report warns that failing to send girls to school is costing the world's poorest countries billions of pounds each year. No education means girls are confined to dangerous, unskilled work - neglecting their earning potential and slowing a country's recovery from the current financial crisis.
The global economic downturn also means girls in the developing world are the first to lose their jobs, may end up in the sex trade and are more likely to die young.
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In Russia, the all-girl punk band Pussy Riot has been found guilty of protesting Vladimir Putin at a cathedral in Moscow. The charge could carry up to three years in prison.
The court case has generated international outrage about the curtailing of free speech. Prosecutors in Russia argued that Pussy Riot's anti-Putin "punk prayer" violated religious strictures, and the court agreed. The specific charge is "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred."
The Pussy Riot punk group singers, who have been found guilty by the Khamovnichesky Court in Moscow, were motivated by hatred and religious enmity, the court verdict says.
"The Pussy Riot singers colluded under unestablished circumstances, for the purpose of offensively violating public peace in a sign of flagrant disrespect for citizens," the court said in a verdict being pronounced on Friday.
The women were motivated by religious enmity and hatred, and acted provocatively and in an insulting manner inside a religious building in the presence of a large number of believers," the court said.
Activists massed outside the courtroom, chanting "Freedom to Political Prisoners." Police made arrests of the protesters, including chess champion and former Presidential candidate Gary Kasparov. Russian opposition leader Sergey Udaltsov was detained as well. A number of solidarity protests have taken place across Europe today.
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A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found a correlation between the size of a man's cojones and his parenting skills. In layman's terms, the bigger the balls the more semen; the more semen ejaculated at a time, the more likely a man is to be an absentee dad. This is especially important because children with more involved dads have been proven to have higher IQs and fewer behavioral problems.
The evolutionary theory behind the findings is that men are divided into two camps: the function of those with bigger balls and more testosterone is to proactively procreate; those with smaller stones are made to nurture and protect the offspring. This study follows the lead of similar research that has suggested that men with higher testosterone levels are less interested in raising kids. But a man's testosterone level can vary over his lifetime because of age, diet and general health, while the size of his family jewels stays consistent.
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- Background The Deltaretrovirus genus comprises viruses that infect humans (HTLV), various simian species (STLV) and cattle (BLV). HTLV-I is the main causative agent in adult T-cell leukemia in endemic areas and some of the simian T-cell lymphotropic viruses have been implicated in the induction of malignant lymphomas in their hosts. BLV causes enzootic bovine leukosis in infected cattle or sheep. During the past few years several new Deltaretrovirus isolates have been described in various primate species. Two new HTLV-like viruses in humans have recently been identified and provisionally termed HTLV-III and HTLV-IV. In order to identify a broad spectrum of Deltaretroviruses by a single PCR approach we have established a novel consensus PCR based on nucleotide sequence data obtained from 42 complete virus isolates (HTLV-I/-II, STLV-I/-II/-III, BLV). The primer sequences were based on highly interspecies-conserved virus genome regions. We used this PCR to detect Deltaretroviruses in samples from adult patients with a variety of rare T-cell neoplasms in Germany. Results: The sensitivity of the consensus PCR was at least between 10-2 and 10-3 with 100% specificity as demonstrated by serial dilutions of cell lines infected with either HTLV-I, HTLV-II or BLV. Fifty acute T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) samples and 33 samples from patients with various rare mature T-cell neoplasms (T-PLL, Sezary syndrome and other T-NHL) were subsequently investigated. There were no cases with HTLV-I, HTLV-II or any other Deltaretroviruses. Conclusions: The results rule out a significant involvement of HTLV-I or HTLV-II in these disease entities and show that other related Deltaretroviruses are not likely to be involved. The newly established Deltaretrovirus PCR may be a useful tool for identifying new Deltaretroviruses.
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Liverpool have terminated the contract of manager Kenny Dalglish, owners Fenway Sports Group and the club have confirmed.
The announcement comes just 24 hours after the Scot returned from a meeting with principal owner John Henry and chairman Tom Werner in the USA.
Dalglish paid the price for failing to close the gap on the Premier League top four, with the Reds finishing eighth despite significant investment in playing staff in his 17 months in charge.
"Fenway Sports Group and Liverpool Football Club announce that Kenny Dalglish is to leave his post today as manager after having his contract terminated," said a joint statement.
"After a careful and deliberative review of the season the club came to the decision that a change was appropriate. It is not a decision that was reached lightly or hastily. The search for a new manager will begin immediately."
Werner said they had made a tough decision to remove a man who is held in such high esteem at Anfield following his exploits as a player and manager in his previous spell in charge.
He acknowledged the effect the 61-year-old had produced in putting things on a more even keel after a disastrous six months under Roy Hodgson, but felt a change was required.
"Kenny came into the club as manager at our request at a time when Liverpool Football Club really needed him," he said. "He didn't ask to be manager; he was asked to assume the role. He did so because he knew the club needed him.
"He did more than anyone else to stabilise Liverpool over the past year-and-a-half and to get us once again looking forward. We owe him a great debt of gratitude.
"However, results in the Premier League have been disappointing and we believe to build on the progress that has already been made, we need to make a change.
"We are committed to delivering success for our supporters and our ambition remains resolute to return this great club to the elite of England and Europe, where it belongs."
'Heart and soul' of Liverpool
Henry was also fulsome in his praise for the Scot. "Kenny will always be more than a championship-winning manager, more than a championship-winning star player," he said.
"He is in many ways the heart and soul of the club. He personifies everything that is good about Liverpool Football Club. He has always put the club and its supporters first. Kenny will always be a part of the family at Anfield.
"Our job now is to identify and recruit the right person to take this club forward and build on the strong foundations put in place during the last 18 months."
Despite winning the Carling Cup and reaching the final of the FA Cup, the Reds' league results were disappointing. A 14th defeat of the season at Swansea City on the final day condemned the club to their worst league finish for 18 years and their lowest points tally, 52, since 1953/54.
Prior to the start of the season Henry had suggested that UEFA Champions League qualification was the minimum requirement. There had been progress made under Dalglish, who initially took temporary charge in January 2011 with the club dangerously close to the foot of the table after Hodgson failed badly.
The Scot was given a three-year contract a year ago but an inability to sufficiently close the gap to the top four despite a significant outlay on transfers appears to have persuaded Fenway Sports Group a change was required.


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North Freedom, Wisconsin
Dr. Evermor merrily manipulates bits and pieces of the historical slipstream. He's been constructing God knows what behind Delaney's Surplus since 1983.
Dr. Evermor is occasionally known as Tom Every, a scrap artisan who owns a local salvage and dismantling business. He's built the World's Largest Sculpture on a science fiction landscape, from old carburetors and discarded power house machines -- like Japanese RPG weaponry from the Age of Steam. Oft imitated by "Visionary Art"-wannabes, none have seriously challenged the Doctor's ingenious conglomeration.
From the highway, the top of the 320-ton Forevertron is barely visible, its trans-temporal egg chamber poking up above the foliage. A few devices, fanciful Victorian howitzers and strange extrusions, sit along the roadside -- no signs or other warning of what lies beyond.
You walk behind the surplus store into a spider-silent alien carnival. Dozens of mechanical creatures, ranging from waist-high to 20+-feet tall, flock in clearings. Disintegration chambers, spaceship gun turrets, and huge insectoid contraptions are obliquely arrayed. There are no labels or explanations, so you'll need to talk to Dr. Evermor himself. We missed him during our first visit years ago...
We're in luck this trip: Dr. Evermor greets us in his trademark pith helmet, cigar in hand.
His greatest achievement is the Forevertron, "designed and built in a timeframe of around 1890 ... whereas our dear doctor is a scholarly professor who thought he could perpetuate himself through the heavens on a magnetic lightning force beam inside a glass ball inside a copper egg. You have to understand that at the time electricity and magnetic forces were not fully understood." Tom's anachronistic third person patter is critical to grasping how the Forevertron operates.
"This device is called the Graviton. The doctor would have to stand in that to de-water himself, to get his weight down, before going up that spiral staircase, going across the little bridge, and getting into the glass ball inside the copper egg."
We are treated to a walking tour around the base of the Forevertron. "Everything here correlates to making the trip." Tom waves his cigar towards a gazebo that sits atop a metal tower. "Royalty would sit in the Teahouse for a commanding view. Doubting Thomases look through the telescope to see if the Doctor made it. Two people sit in the Doctor's Celestial Listening Ears over there and listen to voices from the heavens. At night they would measure astrological bearing points, and transfer that information to Overlord Control, which I'm building right over there..."
The structures perch on weathered concrete, the grounds of a long ago demolished schoolhouse, a level stage for the freestanding metal modules of copper and steel.
"On the other side we're building a Juicer Bug to give us extra juice. The eyes are made from survey markers."
Tom points out significant items welded into the main contraption. "The Forevertron is built from important historical material, including those dynamos, which were constructed by [Thomas] Edison around 1882 -- they come from the Ford Museum. And this unit was the decontamination chamber from the Apollo space mission. A lot of the rest is from power houses from the 1920s."
Hold on -- that's lunar decontamination salvage? "The Apollo decontamination chamber was in three trailers [donated to a university]. We wrecked and scrapped most of it, but I kept the two autoclaves that the moon rocks were passed through." Tom is pretty proud to have this neglected piece of America's space program. "We contacted NASA to try to get papers authenticating it, and boy -- they're very touchy about what happened to that stuff. We did get the original drawings and it's the same damn thing."
While the Forevertron is huge, imposing, much of Tom's work is delicate and whimsical. The 70 members of the Bird Band are lithe percussive instruments or tall string instruments.
"I'm about the only guy that's using preexisting shapes and forms where they lose their original identity and become something else, without any alterations to that shape or form."
Tom doesn't use blueprints or drawings, and has no traditional art schooling. "No sketches, no models, no nothing -- I just go for it." This is pretty amazing, since sculptures like the Juicer Bug are fifteen tons, and will be hoisted up on spindly insect legs. "Everything here is free floating. I got these bug toenails up in the air, but I don't want a toenail falling off on somebody." He develops his own construction solutions, so far without mishap. "No engineering firm could compute the compression on these legs."
Tom is slowing down, walking from sculpture to sculpture a bit more tentatively. Tom's wife Eleanor and son Troy pitch in on the creation. Troy runs the dismantling business now. Why is Tom still building? "Why not?" he answers. He thinks of it as "an inspiration to other people to look at things in a different perspective."
Tom ran his successful salvage business for many years, and his artistic side contributed to works in the nearby House on the Rock. "Yea -- I designed the carousel. I haven't been out there since 1982. And all those rooms, those fantasy rooms I designed and built those." There has been bad blood between the good Doctor and the House, which we won't go into, but suffice to say that you should try to visit both for a truly memorable day.
These days he's excited about a proposal to move his entire complex across the street to the old Badger ammo plant. "We would like to move the Forevertron and other things over to Badger Ordnance and make a permanent memorial to the munitions workers, a repository for art from around the world, and kind of a good-spirited thing for the state of Wisconsin." If he can get through all the government "hootchikoo," it may ensure the Forevertron won't end up on somebody else's scrap heap when Tom "highballs it to heaven."
Artist Tom "Evermor" Every is still on this magnetic plain, though he's now residing at the Maplewood Nursing Home. Lady Eleanor, who now manages the art park, assures us Tom's as sharp as ever, and still a bit mischievous.


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Crunch time: NHLPA makes two offers to NHL, expects response today
Nov 8, 2012, 3:32 PM EDT
Hold your breath, hockey fans.
It's being reported that the NHLPA made two offers to the NHL yesterday, one on revenue sharing between teams, the other on players' share of revenue and the so-called "make whole" provision. The union expects the league to respond during today's CBA meetings, according to Chris Johnston of the Canadian Press.
Given revenue sharing and "honoring" current player contracts are right at the top of the list of NHLPA concerns, how the NHL reacts today could be the difference between ending the lockout and prolonging it indefinitely.
Sportsnet's Michael Grange reports that the NHLPA proposal has players' share of revenue falling to 50 percent by Year 3 of the deal.
The NHL wants a 50-50 split immediately, but introduced the "make whole" provision as an attempt to satisfy the players' demands that all current contracts be paid out in full.
- grillmarks - Nov 8, 2012 at 3:39 PM
Something feels different this time… feels like good news is coming.
- bcsteele - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:04 PM
I agree. And I like that both sides haven't complained and just sat in a room away from everyone else to try and hammer this out. This was what they needed to be doing months ago, though, I think both sides planned to miss part of the season just for leverage.
Just let it be over with and give the fans their game back, I want hockey.
- flyeredup202 - Nov 8, 2012 at 7:10 PM
You mean both sides are WORKING like they should have been from the begining? This is how a negotiation is suppppppppposed to go….. you hash things out till they are completed… its 2 months to late.
- esracerx46 - Nov 8, 2012 at 6:39 PM
What exactly feels different this time? The fact that its more private? The NHL recently modified it's "make whole" provision. What does the NHLPA do? They offer 2 new proposals. The NHL has got it. If the NHL were selling the NHLPA a car, it would go something like this. Ok, I have this model in Blue at this price. NHLPA response, Were not interested in that. What about these 3. NHL, well what if we tweak the price a little, or maybe a different color?. NHLPA, You know what, what about these other 2 over here?
- lordfletcher - Nov 8, 2012 at 3:41 PM
fingers crossed
- islesjb - Nov 8, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Please just let this be the end of this entire ridiculous fiasco
- davidpcoelho - Nov 8, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Any word on the restructuring of the divisions?
- bloominoctober - Nov 8, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Let's worry about *having* divisions first.
- derrico2 - Nov 8, 2012 at 3:57 PM
I heard not this year but likely next.
- mississippimudslinger - Nov 8, 2012 at 3:56 PM
and all you fools drop to your knees, while both the players and owners continue to rake in YOUR $$$
- islesjb - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:04 PM
yet you come to this website, just the same as we do and comment on these articles for what purpose? Just to be a negative @$$hole? Never understood people like you
- dreadpiratesteve - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:19 PM
He received a lot of unwanted "attention" as a child. That's the reason for this type of behavior.
- tfaltin - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM
It's the Final Countdown! Da na na na…….
- lsxphotog - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:08 PM
Hmmmmmmm….so they've been sitting in a room all day going over these offers. I like that they aren't talking to media either. No more finger pointing and digs. Just talking about why they can't agree and trying to find out why. I think they call it "negotiating"…crazy, right?
- dlk75150 - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:12 PM
And when will the next lockout be…
- bluejacketsfan16 - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:17 PM
According to TSN's Darren Dreger and Bob McKenzie, the meeting ISN'T going well.
Still a bumpy and long ride, unfortunately.
- stakex - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:36 PM
One tweet by someone not in the room isn't reason to panic.
The last time the players made any sort of offer, the owners were out of the room in 15 minutes and the two sides didn't meet for weeks. The simple fact that the players made an offer of some sorts to the owners yesterday and the two sides are meeting today is reason to have a touch of optimism.
- jpat2424 - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:27 PM
Islesjb. Totally agreed. Nicely said.
- capesouth - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:34 PM
So the players offered three plans last time they met, weeks ago. The owners walked out. Now the players are offering two more plans. If this doesn't work, it's not for lack of trying and the NHL should AT LEAST come back with something instead of just saying 'no'. Agreed with some folks above, there were a lot of one on one meetings the past week and the fact they are spending so much time together is good so hopefully something comes of it. I have a good feeling, too. The owners have to budge from their last offer though. They are only going to assure the whole season if lost if they don't budge bc the players are making offers left and right.
- stakex - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:48 PM
You ignore the fact that the players "three offers" a couple weeks ago were really just different versions of their first offer the owners had previously rejected. They shuffled some numbers around but in the end were pretty much the same thing. Its also worth pointing out that, but their own numbers, the players "50/50 split" offer was actually a 56.7/43.3 split in year one.
So its really not fair to jump on the owners for walking out on those offers…
- capesouth - Nov 8, 2012 at 5:08 PM
To think either one of us knows much about the specifics of the offers is assuming too much. My point is that the players are making offers and the league is patiently sitting back, waiting to see something they like. Instead of hashing it out like they seem to be trying to do now, they walked out after 10 minutes last time. The only way this gets fixed is when they stick to it and work on figuring it out vs the owners posturing by saying 'no' and then leaving, like they are 100% in control of this.
- stakex - Nov 8, 2012 at 5:57 PM
Actually the players released their offers, including a break down of the numbers. So we know the specifics quite well.
I'd also point out the league made the two offers leading up to the players counter offer a couple weeks ago, and that they were giant leaps from their first offer. So they most certainly have not been sitting back.
You can be on one side or the other… but you can't have your own facts. Sorry.
- capesouth - Nov 8, 2012 at 6:16 PM
And you are obviously on one side then, eh? My argument is centered around both sides making offers and then staying in the room to resolve the situation, and not just walking out. I don't care what side your on. I'm sorry but I don't believe a thing you say about the specifics of the offers bc, in the end, you're just a commentor on a blog. You may know SOME of the specifics, but you certainly don't know all of them or the tone being used in these meetings. What is a fact, however, is what it takes to resolve an issue and it isn't digging in your heals and then walking out of a room when the other side makes multiple counter-proposals. Finally, yes the owners did come back a while ago with an offer that was a 'giant leap' from their first offer but nobody actually looked at their first offer seriously. They represented the unrealistic and one-sided demands of the owners and we all knew it was just the first of many offers. I think the NHLPA has an equal part in this mess but don't paint the owners as the good guys here. They are the one's cancelling games, walking out of meetings, and cancelling the largest hockey event of the year two and a half months in advance.
- proudliberal85392 - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:51 PM
mississippimudslinger, your ignorance regarding true hockey fans is showing.
- mississippimudslinger - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:55 PM
ProudLibby, I bet you voted for that (soon to have only a short term) of a "President" in office too huh?
- tk1966 - Nov 8, 2012 at 5:03 PM
"soon to have only a short term"???
I may be totally misinterpreting this, but does that sound like an implied threat to anyone else? Should this clown's IP address be logged and be getting a visit from the Secret Service? I sure hope the moderators of this board are taking action…
- stakex - Nov 8, 2012 at 6:00 PM
Consdiering that a majority of Americans voted for him, it wouldn't be a shock if any one random person voted for the President. Sounds like you're butt hurt that your idiology was rejected by the country as a whole. To bad, so sad.
…and I would be careful making what can be interpreted as death threats aimed at the President. Thats a good way to get yourself arrested, even if you do it on an internet forum/comment.
- mississippimudslinger - Nov 8, 2012 at 4:53 PM
Stakex ….. I kinda get the idea that TSN's Darren Dreger and Bob McKenzie know a little bit more about this process then a bunch of you overweight non athletic couch fans , so keep that in mind Wonderboy.
- seagullrice - Nov 8, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Dude, what's your deal? Instead of being a dick and taking jabs at people for no reason maybe try finding something constructive to say or get your own lazy a$$ out of your computer chair.
- stakex - Nov 8, 2012 at 6:04 PM
Stop projecting.
- thedavesiknowiknow - Nov 8, 2012 at 6:10 PM
- dannythebisforbeast - Nov 8, 2012 at 6:31 PM
A deal is not imminent. Fehr still has players believing in him. Fehr WILL NOT cave to the owners and the owners DO NOT want to agree to things that Fehr is not budging on.
- mississippimudslinger - Nov 8, 2012 at 7:52 PM
LOL@ Secret Service coming to my door ever heard of the fact that he could be impeached .. you pus&Sy but hurt Liberal quee*r
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"The landscape isn't terribly different in Sinai than here," said Lt. Tommy Truex. "It wasn't a bad deployment at all. It was for the most part pretty low-key. We observed different things regarding the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt."
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"Oh, it's going good," said Sgt. Eric Stuart. "I've been in the service for awhile. It's my fifth deployment. It's good to be back though. My family is so excited see me here, the kids are real excited. My daughter cried when I picked her up from school. That was a new thing for me, but I'm adjusting well."
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1 bunch
asparagus spears, ends trimmed
2 tablespoons
1 (8 ounce) package
sliced mushrooms
onion, minced
1/2 cup
coarsely chopped pecans
1/2 teaspoon
garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon
dried basil
1/4 teaspoon
1/4 teaspoon
black pepper
1/2 cup
freshly grated Parmesan cheese
The pecans give a nice texture, but for my restaurant, I decided to tweak them a bit. During prep, I browned a pat of butter in a saute pan, stirred in a small amount of brown sugar until it was caramelized, and sprinkled the mixture onto the pecans, then roasted them on high heat in the oven for about five minutes. To balance the sweetness, I threw in a VERY SMALL amount of powdered cayenne, as well as a dash of crushed red peppers, to the asparagus as I cooked it off. Remember, a little sweet and a little spice go a long way in this dish. The final product went over VERY well with my guests.
Sorry, but this was a little too bland for me.
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Hi - this is my recipe, and I just wanted to say that in its original form, it only takes 20 minutes. Allrecipes.com tends to change the directions... anyway, just simmer the asparagus in a skillet with 1/2" water until tender. Sautee the onions and mushrooms together until they're both soft, add seasonings and pour over asparagus on serving dish. Top with cheese. MUCH quicker (and true to how I wrote it in the first place!)
Used more butter and left out the onion. I have made asparagus with parmesan cheese before but not with those particular spices. Very good.
Loved this recipe... so yummy!! I did roast the pecans in the overn with brown sugar and butter which made it taste amazing!! I did not use parm cheese for I had none.
Loved these. I cooked the asparagus and put that aside, but I put the mushrooms, onions and seasonings all together and sauted till done. I pushed my mushrooms to one side of the pan and put my asparagus back in on the otherside to warm up. Wounderful recipe.
This was very easy to make and very filling! We ate this as a main dish and did not snack before bed. I used minced garlic instead of garlic powder. This will be a regular at our house!
Excellent recipe. Used exactly as written...kudos to the inventor of this yummy dish!!!
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Calories: 170
Calories from Fat: 122
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Rated 4 out of 5Â by Onlyouwouldbe Pretty but ..... I just got this top today,can not wait to try it on,I love the idea and the color,but it really too too wide for me ,it could to be two sweather for me ,my husband saw it and love it,so now I am still thinking fi I need to send it back.... 6.24.2013
Rated 5 out of 5Â by deerheart Americana at its best... Most delicious sweater...has 13 stars...like..one for each original colony:))) and I would have given this 13 stars if possible. It is perfectly oversized. I checked true to size because it is..for being oversized:) it fits snug in the sleeves and then boxy from above the elbow and up. Take great care when wearing and washing..the sweater gets snags easily and contains a tad wool and it says on the tag to hand wash only..Colors are just as described. Scrumptiously soft and I dont find it itchy, and i am wool sensitive though those of you who are very sensitive to wool might choose to wear with a thin top underneath Mine shipped out superfast and is here in good time for July 4th:) Fit-see picture i am 5'4'' 100 lbs wearing the XS... here are the measurement for the XS Length: 21" Bust (all around): 60" Sleeve Length: 13"...18'' from the ''shoulder'' 6.20.2013
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Jul 16, 2010
Perfect hardboiled eggs
Put (*cough*...farm fresh) eggs in pan, add cold water to an inch above them.
Bring to water to a gentle boil and keep that going for ONE MINUTE ONLY.
Turn heat off and cover your pot for SIX MINUTES ONLY.
Plunge eggs into ice cold water, repeat when water heats up from eggs.
The yolk should not be grey on the outside. The inner core of the yolk should be slightly darker and moister than the outside. That my friends is a delectable hardboiled egg.
*I have tried vingar in the boiling water to make hardboiled eggs peel better, I have never noticed a difference. The ease of peeling an egg seems to be how old the egg is, we use very fresh eggs so they are always a nightmare to peel.
If your experience differs, do tell. I love me some easy to peel hardboiled eggs, but not enough to buy them at the grocery store.
**If you live at a higher elevation you need to increase this time…to what I don't know. I'm so helpful.
Add a good bit of salt to the water and it will help to peel even those fresh eggs.
By Laura on 2010 07 17
I always do the plunging in to cold water. They peel SO MUCH EASIER. But I'll be sure to add the salt, Laura.
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Diarrhea is loose, soft, watery, and frequent stool for which you'll probably need to go to the bathroom very frequently. Diarrhea can happen at any time during your pregnancy.
Diarrhea is usually caused by a bacteria or viral infection.
Drink lots of water. Try to get about 12-14 glasses per day. This will replace the fluid you lose and make sure that your blood pressure remains normal.
Try eating some dry toast or rice.
You may need to test your stool for infection and get treatment, so check with your doctor.
Diarrhea, if left untreated, causes dehydration and loss of calories. This can put your baby at risk, so if you have diarrhea for an extended amount of time or a lot of diarrhea, you may need to go to the hospital for an IV.


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Tune in to LFC TV tonight and take a unique step back in time as Liverpool legend Elisha Scott is honoured with a special hour-long documentary.
100 years since the former Ireland international goalkeeper made his Reds debut, 'Lisha - The First King Of The Kop' looks back on his remarkable 22-year Anfield career.
Packed with anecdotes from those most qualified to talk about him, previously unseen photographs taken from his own personal scrapbooks and some very rare archive footage of the great man in action, it's a not-to-be-missed show for anyone with an interest in this club's illustrious history.
The documentary has been months in the making and features interviews that took place in both Liverpool, the city where Scott made his name, and Belfast, the city of his birth.
LFC TV Online subscribers can watch the documentary on demand right now by accessing the clip below.
Among the many highlights of this revealing documentary, we learn how he was able to forge such a special relationship with the supporters on the Kop and hear about his famous rivalry with Everton goalscoring legend Dixie Dean.
We find out which Liverpool defender was often on the receiving end of his strong Ulster invective, discover how fan power put paid to a proposed transfer across Stanley Park and why grown men wept on the day Scott left Liverpool.
Regarded by many as arguably the greatest goalkeeper ever to guard the Anfield goal, his career is evaluated by both those who knew him best and those who have since studied him in great detail.
The show airs for the first time on LFC TV at 10pm this evening and will be repeated at 9pm on Saturday and 11pm on Sunday.
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Click on the video underneath to see a free trailer of the show.
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Woman is hit by a pickup while taking pictures of her vehicle, after it was hit
CORPUS CHRISTI - First a car hit the SUV she was traveling in, then while she was taking pictures of the damage, a woman was hit while standing in the dark on State Highway 361.
She was taken to a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.
Corpus Christi police said the 22-year-old woman was a passenger in a 2004 Chevy Trailblazer that had been traveling north in the 11600 block of State Highway 361 when a 2006 Dodge Charger pulled out from Zahn Road and struck the Trailblazer.
The 38-year-old driver of the Charger was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.
Neither the woman or the driver of the Trailblazer were injured in the crash.
But as she stood in the dark to photograph the crash scene, she was hit by a 2004 Toyota Sequoia, authorities said.
She was taken to the hospital by ambulance and the driver of the Sequoia was not cited for any violation, police said.
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HELP PLEASE! Hard Drive Trouble With Final Cut Pro
Thanks so much for taking the time to respond to my thread. I am in a total pickle at the moment. I have been shooting a mini documentary on a handheld HD cam. I was out of the country, so I was storing all of my footage as I went on a portable external hard drive. The hard drive is a 1TB Seagate Free Agent portable USB. I had brought a mini netbook with me on the trip to use as the portal to upload footage off of my camera, onto the external hard drive.
Now that I am back home, I am trying to edit the footage I have on Final Cut Pro, using my Mac Book Pro. The problem is, I am able to only read footage from the external hard drive. I cannot write anything to it or create new folders in it from the Mac etc. I was under the impression (I feel like an idiot if I flubbed this one), that I could edit in Final Cut Pro on my mac, right off of the portable USB Seagate 1TB Freeagent Hard Drive that I saved everything on. Now I am finding out there are all these issues with NTFS and FAT32. Apparently my external hard drive is a formatted for NTFS and not FAT32. So I spoke with a Mac rep on the phone and they said the way to do this is to move all the footage off the external hard drive and on to another location and then erase the hard drive and reformat for FAT32 and then put the footage back on it. However, I am now reading stuff online about having to use ATA, FireWire, SCSI, RAID or Fibre Channel drives for editing with FCP.
Is this Seagate 1TB Free Agent External Hard Drive that I have ALL my footage on USELESS?? How am I ever going to get my footage into Final Cut Pro now?? I need serious guidance from you experts out there...I am new at all this stuff and that is becoming very obvious. Please, PLEASE write me some suggestions and share some advice...I really appreciate. THANKS SO MUCH!!
Easy solution - if your drive is full, just get another external drive, format it for FAT32 or HFS+, then copy all of your footage off of your drive you took with you onto the new drive. Once it's on the new drive that is either HFS+ or FAT32, you'll have no problem reading/writing/etc.
Your only issue right now is that the existing external is formatted in a way that OSX can't write to. You could install NTFS-3G, but as this is what I would deem critical footage that is irreplaceable, to me, it'd be worth it to just get a second drive, and copy the footage off.
It would seriously help if you had a firewire drive to be your scratch drive - although it is possible to edit HD footage using a USB drive, it's not the most pleasant thing in the world. FireWire is your cheapest option - you don't require a raid, you don't require SCSI, you don't require Fibre Channel, you don't require SerialATA - these things make it more pleasant to edit with the software because of the speed and throughput that the technologies offer but not everyone can afford such beasts. With you having a Macbook Pro you should have a firewire port, if new enough, it's a FW800 port which will be great. You can get an external drive chassis that supports FW400, FW800, USB and eSATA for not too much money and buy a nice 7200rpm drive to put into it and connect it to your laptop. Then connect your existing drive, make sure the drive connected via FW is formatted for HFS+ (you'll really need it HFS to edit with since FC creates HUGE files which exceed the max file size of FAT32 when working with HD footage), and set as your scratch drive.
Then import the footage from your other drive into your project, it should copy it over if you're able to use log and transfer, if it doesn't copy it over for you, you can always copy the files over yourself.
This is not a total disaster, and is recoverable.
I believe that I read on one of the threads on this forum. That there is an application that will let you write to an NTFS drive from MAC OS X.
Yes, there is - I mentioned one of them (ntfs3g), and there is also a product called from a company called Paragon Software Group called Paragon NTFS, but you really don't want to be using an NTFS formatted drive to edit video on OSX. A lot of data has to get pushed and pulled with regard to a scratch drive, and people have had issues before with data corruption on NTFS drives when using one of these products - although those two products work very well, they aren't what many would call 100% stable, and to me the risk is too great when dealing with footage that can't be replaced.
There are some things that are just better done in the native file system. Video editing, when done on Mac, should use scratch drives in HFS+, on a PC running windows NTFS, etc.
Final Cut will NOT edit with a drive of any format but Mac OS Extended (not journaled). USB is not enough sustained data rate for video editing, either. Final Cut does not support USB drives at all, that alone is asking for major headaches.
Again, Final Cut will NOT edit on an NTFS drive AT ALL! You simply can't physically do it.
You'll need a Firewire 800, 7200rpm, Mac OS Extended, non-journaled drive to edit with in Final Cut, nothing else will work, period.
Move your data to the proper drive, and you'll be fine. Check Other World Computing for great, durable drives at good prices, and top notch tech support.
I use USB drives all the time. I have used them extensively for over 2 years now and have never had a major issue. I have had no issue until upgrading to the newest Final Cut Studio. Now I am always confronted with a message, not about USB but about using Fat 32. Also, I occasionally, more often now than before, am getting drop frame warnings when playing back my video. It may slow me down a little but it doesn't stop me from editing my programs and DOES NOT effect my final result. If I were printing to tape, or playing the video out of my computer into a recorder it might be a problem. However, I always export my finished projects to Quicktime files or DVD files through Export, Share or Compressor. In those cases, I do not notice any issues with using USB drives with my FCP work. Other than MAYBE some speed issues with processing. Definitely, given a choice, I would use a Firewire drive and usually have with the larger My Book drives. However, they have always been large, cumbersome NOT PORTABLE etc. Recently I found the iOmega portable drives that have Firewire and USB and bought a couple of those. 500gig and available at Bestbuy for about $120. Good value, Firewire, as small as the WD Passports and made of metal and possibly more durable. Given a choice now, you can see what I would choose but to say that you CAN NOT edit with a USB drive is incorrect.
FCP and 4GB limit on FAT32
I am currently working on a documentary in which I need to work off my external hard drive, which is a Western Digital formatted as FAT32. However, when I changed my FCP systems settings so that video capture would occur on my hard drive, it comes up with a message "The selected disk is formatted using FAT32 which has a 4GB file limit. Using it as a scratch disk will lead to unpredictable behavior when using or creating larger files." I'm not sure what this means. Does it mean that each individual video clip I transfer into FCP cannot be larger than 4GB? I am working with about 120GB of footage total, but if they are divided into small clips when logging and transferring, will I have problems?
If anyone has any answers I would really appreciate it, as I'm on a time crunch! Thank you in advance!!
I have to say that I have been using an external USB portable drive for at least a year now and have not had any major issues. If you needed to archive your footage, I would definitely use a Firewire drive, but for temporary portability, a USB drive should be fine. There are probably some circumstances in which it would be less than optimal however.
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United Way struggling to reach goal
With about a month left in the United Way annual campaign, the organization is at 88 percent of their fundraising goal.
Their fundrasing goal this year is $21.2 million. So far they have raised $18.6 million.
As of Jan. 10, at the current pace of donations, the campaign is projected to end $499,963 short of its goal, according to a statement released by United Way of Central Carolinas last week.
"We certainly need some help," Richard Heins, regional vice president of the United Way of Central Carolinas, said. "So we're asking people if they haven't given, to please give, because the agencies need help."
Heins believes the campaign got off to a late start for many companies because of the Democratic National Convention and the impact of Hurricane Sandy on some companies with a presence in the northeast.
There have been some recent surprises that have helped the campaign close the gap, the statement said. Corporations, including PNC Bank, UTC Aerospace System and QuikTrip Corp. all donated more than $25,000 to the campaign. PNC Bank and UTC Aerospace Systems made donations in addition to their employee campaign. Two first-time, walk-in donors also helped to close the gap with their donations.
"The good news is that the gap is steadily shrinking, we've made significant process in each of the last two months," Executive Director Jane McIntyre said in a statement. "But with only five weeks left until our traditional Valentine's Day deadline, the current pace would still come up short. We've had a handful of great surprises in the last month, now we need a few more."
The United Way supports numerous Union County nonprofits, including Union Habitat-for-Humanity, Union County Community Shelter, Union County Crisis Assistance Ministry, Turning Point, the Boys & Girls Club and other organizations that assist people in need.
Last year's donation are helping more than 350,000 people this year, a statement from the United Way said.
Heins is optimistic that the organization can meet its fundraising goal.
"We certainly need help," Heins said. "I think if we can get just a few people or if a lot of people could just give a little bit, we could certainly hit it. But we certainly need the community to rally to help us."
People interested in donating can call 704-283-1537 or visit www.uwcentralcarolinas.org.


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London Memory Game is being released simultaneously with Amsterdam Memory Game. Primarily aimed at the tourist in London, it is a delight for all London lovers and city-trip travelers.
London Memory Game, like Amsterdam Memory Game, is made up of 25 pairs of cards about typical London themes: Big Ben, the City of London, shopping in London, London architecture, outdoor and indoor markets, bridges, museums, pubs, good eating, et cetera. Creatively visualized, it is an extra treat to play a game while learning to know the city better and from a new perspective.
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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2002 Al Qaeda not only hijacked airliners for terrorist purposes, the terrorist group is trying to hijack Islam, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Sept. 5.
Wolfowitz spoke at the Brookings Institution here about the need to build on the common ground between East and West. He said he is convinced the vast majority of Muslims in the world have no use for terrorism. The United States must encourage these people as it works to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the West, he said.
The deputy secretary said he's encouraged by the strides Turkey and Indonesia have made in the past year.
Turkey is a key NATO ally and is seeking admission into the European Union. The country is the historical crossroad between East and West, and it is a secular state with a Muslim majority. Wolfowitz said changes in Turkey, which include more press freedom and more minority rights, are a mobilization in support of Europe.
Turkey also supports the war on international terrorism. The Turks were among the first to offer support to the United States following the terror attacks of Sept. 11. The Turks are in command of the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul to the end of the year and have other forces in Afghanistan.
Turkey is also host to the American forces enforcing U.N. sanctions against Iraq.
The mere existence of Turkey as a representative democracy proves to others in the Muslim world that such a government is possible, Wolfowitz said. With the model of Turkey in mind, he said, America and Europe must do what they can to help Turkey succeed. One such step, he said, would be for the European Union to accept Turkey's bid for membership.
"In the long run, the way to defeat extremism is to demonstrate that the values that we call 'Western' are indeed universal; to demonstrate that the benefits we enjoy -- the benefits of a free and prosperous and open society - - are available to all Muslims," he said. "Never has our stake in Turkey been greater."
Indonesia is another important example for the Muslim world. Indonesia is home to more Muslims than any other country. The country has gone through tremendous changes as it seeks to make itself a democracy and bridge the gap with the West.
Islam is not the state religion in Indonesia. The country recognizes all five major religions in the country. The interpretation of Islam in the country favors the religion of Muhammad and not the fanaticism of Osama bin Laden, Wolfowitz said.
The deputy said the United States should help Indonesia in its transition to democracy and in the war on terrorism. Indonesia is working to improve its armed forces' human rights record and professionalism. He said Secretary of State Colin Powell's visit there in August helped move the two countries closer to normal military-to-military relations.
The fate of Indonesia is important to the United States and the rest of the West. "If we are serious about opposing terrorism, we must also be serious about helping Indonesia in its quest for a stable democracy and a stable economy," he said.
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The Historical Society of St. Marys and Benzinger Township is dedicated to preserving anything and everything related to the community's history. As part of that mission, local historian Ray Beimel has been photographing one of the most important events in the society's history: its relocation into a new, permanent home.
It's been 45 years since a twin-engine Allegheny Airlines plane crashed while coming in for a landing at the Bradford Regional Airport in Lafayette Township.
The Christmas Eve crash in 1968 killed 20 passengers.
Miraculously, 27 survived.
Pennsylvania's elk herd draws thousands of visitors to the area each year, many of whom come bearing their cameras in hopes of leaving with photographs of the creatures to document their time in Elk Country. Now those who may not have had much luck getting their own photos can instead take home a new book featuring a variety of photos of the animals.
Area photographer Marci Geise recently released her second book, "Pennsylvania Elk," which she described as featuring the work of some of the best elk photographers on the east coast.
Joseph V. Urmann Jr., 92, of 409 Shelley Dr., Ridgway, died early Monday morning, Dec. 23, 2013, at Elk Haven Nursing Home following a brief illness.
He was born July 29, 1921 in Ridgway, son of the late Joseph V. and Ruth (McMackin) Urmann Sr.
He married Jean Adam on Aug. 28, 1946, and she preceded him in death on Dec. 29, 2008.
He had resided in Ridgway all of his life and was a 1939 graduate of the Ridgway High School, and a 1943 graduate of St. Bonaventure.
Louis S. Morelli, 89, of 1223 Million Dollar Highway, Kersey, died on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013 at his home following a brief illness.
He was born Sept. 24, 1924 in Kersey, a son of the late Lino and Mary Tamburlin Morelli.
On June 21, 1947, he married the late Alice Wolack Morelli, who preceded him in death on July 1, 2007.
William A. Boderocco, 86, a resident at Highland View Health Care Center in Brockway, died Monday, Dec. 23, 2013 at Highland View.
He was born Sept. 30, 1927 in DuBois, son of the late William B. and Jemima McMeekin Boderocco.
He was Presbyterian by faith, and was a member of the Sons of Italy Club in Brockway.
He had been employed at the Ink Plant in Ridgway prior to his retirement.
He is survived by a cousin, Teddy McMeekin of Hinton, W. Va., and is also survived by numerous second and third generation cousins.


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Dunlop extends the Roadsmart Bike Tyre Range
Dunlop Motorcycle UK has announced that it has added new sizes to its already popular Roadsmart tyre range. The Roadsmart which meets the need of all-weather, all year round riders on sports-touring, naked street bikes and super-sport machines, range will now be available in sizes 110/80 R19 (59V) and 150/70 R17 (69V).
Motorcycle manager, UK and Ireland, Lisa Faulkner, said that ?We?re very happy to be able to bring the Roadsmart range to even more riders. Large capacity trail bikes have become an increasingly popular choice for road use, Roadsmart is one of the best all round tyres and it was only natural that we would develop a tyre for these bikes.?
Featuring short warm up times, and confidence on the street with linear handling and continuous feedback in all conditions on the road the Roadsmart has enjoyed success with both customers and the motorcycle media. The construction of the tyre, which features multi-tread compounds, composed of the latest polymers, carbon black and silica has allowed the tyre to be successful on the open road and with its adapted profile the Roadsmart offers high speed stability and performance, with strong levels of grip in wet and dry conditions and good shock absorption at speed.


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Barack Obama won Monday's presidential debate, according to 10 Clark College debate students who watched and scored each candidate.
The students scored the evening not on each candidate's foreign policy, but according to their demonstrated debating skills, using a rubric developed by their teacher, Dave Kosloski, director of speech and debate at Clark.
Eight students determined that Obama won the debate based on the predetermined criteria. Two students chose Romney as the winner. Both of those students said they consider themselves conservative Republicans.
The students had watched the other two presidential debates this fall, but this was the first one they'd watched together as a class.
Kosloski's rubric directed students to score both candidates on factual information, comprehension, persuasiveness, delivery and rebuttal.
He asked students to consider whether the candidates used facts to support their
arguments; demonstrated a thorough understanding of information; made logical, convincing arguments; communicated clearly and maintained eye contact, with good voice and delivery rate; and addressed opponent's arguments with counter-evidence.
Of the 10 students and Kosloski, three lean more toward the Democratic position, two toward the Republican, four are independents, one is a registered Libertarian and one is undecided. Five are voting in their first presidential election. Two are Running Start students too young to vote. Most live in Vancouver. One lives in Hockinson, one in Battle Ground and one in Woodland.
When Kosloski asked what each candidate's greatest strength in the debate was, Nathan Woodruff, 18, said, "Obama had the punch line about horses and bayonets."
"Instantly after that, it was already trending on Twitter," said Sanam vonKaenel, 17, a Running Start student who isn't yet old enough to vote.
"Here's what I like about that interaction," interjected Kosloski, the instructor. "That was totally impromptu, extemporaneous."
Jared Cortnik, 25, an independent from Woodland, said, "Obama kept butting in, accusing Romney of lying. Do you think that turned people off?"
When Kosloski asked students what topics should have come up during the foreign policy debate, their answers were immigration, Mexico, the drug war.
One student said that Obama and Romney presented conflicting information about international trade being up and down. "Is it up or down?" she asked.
When the students were asked whether the debates make a difference in helping voters choose a candidate, Alexander Nelson, 19, said, "They're fighting for the 1 percent that is undecided."