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The House of Representatives passed a stimulus bill on Tuesday, Aug. 10 that will rescind $2.2 billion in highway contract authority apportionments from balances held by state transportation departments and President Barack Obama signed the bill into law the same day, according to a report in the AASHTO Journal. [1]
The Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act, HR 1586, was passed by the Senate the previous Thursday (Aug. 4), forcing the House to be recalled from its summer recess, which began in late July, to quickly pass the bill (see August 6 AASHTO Journal story).
According to the AASHTO report, representatives voted 247–161 to pass the Senate version of the bill, which contains $16 billion to extend increased Medicaid funding for states by six months and $10 billion to help states cover teacher salaries for the upcoming school year. The bill is fully paid for with several provisions to increase taxes and cut spending, including the $2.2 billion reduction in highway contract authority.
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We saw the environmentally conscious Samsung Replenish on Sprint just over six months ago, but Boost's liking those green credentials so much, it's decided to get the Samsung Gingerbread handset on board. 82 percent recyclable materials, there's still both a 2.8-inch touchscreen and keyboard in tow. A two megapixel camera and the usual medley of GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi round out the wallet (and Mother Earth) friendly handset. The Replenish is priced at $100 and will hit Boost Mobile's stores on January 16th. Eco warriors; the press release offers itself below.
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IRVINE, Calif. – Boost Mobile, ranked Highest in Customer Service Performance and Purchase Experience among Non-Contract Wireless Providers by J.D. Power and Associates1, starts off the New Year with a new eco-friendly Android™ smartphone, Samsung Replenish™. An Android touch/QWERTY smartphone enabled with Mobile ID, Samsung Replenish will be available Jan. 16 and is Boost Mobile's first Android priced less than $100.
Samsung Replenish, Boost Mobile's first eco-friendly2 Android smartphone, is partially built with recycled plastics3 and is the ideal choice for the environmentally conscious consumer who wants the latest technology with a no-contract offer on a dependable nationwide network.
Boost Customers can get additional "green benefit" by simply trading in their old device as part of Boost Mobile's new Buyback program or by simply making on-time payments with Boost Mobile's $55 Android Monthly Unlimited plan with Shrinkage. For every six on-time payments, a Boost Mobile customer's monthly cost will shrink by $5, eventually getting down to as low as $40 a month for unlimited nationwide talk, text, Web, email, and calls to 411. Payments do not need to be consecutive to qualify for these savings milestones.
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SANTA FE >> Santa Fe County has seen the number of crashes involving alcohol drop sharply over the past year, and experts say that's evidence New Mexico's drunken-driving laws, police enforcement and education are making the state safer.
"It's not noise. It's not random. There is a real trend going on there," ignition interlock advocate Tom Starke told The New Mexican (http://bit.ly/1fQWz9q ). Interlock devices allow people convicted of drunken driving to continue to drive when sober by measuring alcohol content in a person's breath.
A report prepared by the Santa Fe Prevention Alliance shows the number of alcohol-related crashes decreased from 128 in 2012 to 106 last year. The number of DWI arrests was also down, and one less person died in a drunken-driving crash in 2013 than the previous year.
Starke and others believe one factor is New Mexico's ignition interlock law, which mandates one of the devices for all DWI offenders. The state currently leads the nation in the number of interlocks installed per 10,000 residents.
"It definitely helps and drives home message," Santa Fe Police Chief Ray Rael said.
Another factor cited by experts is forfeiture laws.
In both the city of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County, law enforcement authorities can seize a person's vehicle if he or she is arrested for drunken driving and already have a conviction on their record.
Since 2009, anyone arrested for driving while their license is revoked also can lose their ride. Last year, the city and the county seized 554 vehicles, compared to 504 in 2012. Many of those will be subject to permanent forfeiture.
Starke said police and sheriff's deputies have been catching a lot of people driving after a license revocation.
The officers are "pretty merciless" when it comes to drunken-driving offenses, Rael said.
"We are strongly enforcing all these laws, and ultimately we believe it's having an impact. If you are going to drink and drive, you are going to expose (yourself) and eventually get stopped," the chief said.
Rael said he believed the decline in alcohol-involved crashes is related more to education about the effects of drunken driving and strengthened enforcement.
"The probability of getting arrested for DWI, the cost of defending yourself and possibly losing your vehicle -- all this starts adding up quickly and having a serious impact on your finances," he said.
Statistics from the Santa Fe DWI Planning Council show the re-arrest rate of first-time offenders declined by 55 percent since 2002. The number of alcohol-involved crashes fell 40 percent between 2002 and 2010, and alcohol-involved injuries declined 47 percent in that same time period.
Lupe Sanchez, director of the county's DWI program, attributed the improvement in the DWI picture to a combination of factors, including the interlock, checkpoints and saturation patrols, vehicle seizures and public awareness.
Whatever the reason, "anytime crashes go down, we're grateful," he said. "One life is huge."
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LAS CRUCES — A convicted felon was arrested Sunday afternoon following a high-speed car chase and foot pursuit in the Las Cruces area.
Doña Ana County Sheriff's deputies were called out at around 12:50 p.m. after Victor Carreon, 22, sped away from the scene when a deputy attempted to pull him over for speeding.
It is unclear where the initial incident happened, or where the suspect is from.
According to DASO spokeswoman Kelly Jameson, Carreon led police on a high-speed chase through Mesilla Park, Mesilla and then Las Cruces before bailing out of his vehicle behind Las Cruces High School, near the Las Cruces Magistrate Court.
The suspect ran from sheriff's deputies and New Mexico State Police officers before being apprehended and arrested in the backyard of a residence.
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HARRIS, WILLIAM (?–?). William Harris, Brazoria County official and one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, was a native of Maine and received title to a sitio of land in what is now Brazoria County on July 10, 1824. He is probably the William Harris listed in the 1826 census as a farmer and stock raiser aged between twenty-five and forty. He had a wife, Ruth, and two sons. Ruth was the daughter of Alexander Hodge. Since three of the original colonists were named William or William J. Harris, their exact identification is difficult. The William Harris of Brazoria County was presiding officer at the election at Chocolate Bayou in February 1836, when delegates were chosen for the Convention of 1836.
Another William Harris sold part of his land to Henry Austin. At the time of his death in 1833 he owned a sawmill and 2,362 acres on Chocolate Bayou and one unlocated labor of land plus stock, household furniture, and fixtures.
Lester G. Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 1 (October 1897). Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas (Austin, 1963-). Louis Wiltz Kemp, The Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence (Salado, Texas: Anson Jones, 1944; rpt. 1959).
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She forced herself to stand up. Her legs felt like jelly and hardly supported her. She swallowed the pain and started trudging towards the lighthouse; the only sign of civilisation.
The first step was easy, but then it got harder. Her bare feet sank into the lose sand making every step an effort. She tried to remember how she got to the gloomy beach. Her memory was foggy as though a grey veil had been thrown over her mind; she remembered who she was and where she came from, everything before the yesterday was crystal clear, but after that … nothing.
Abruptly, she noticed that walking had become much easier. She looked down and realised that she had passed the sand and emerged onto the dead sickly green grass.
She quickened her pace, until she was almost running up the steep hill. She looked up at the lighthouse. It was constructed entirely of weatherworn white stone. An ivory door stood at the front with a gold handle. At the top of the lighthouse was a viewing platform with golden railings.
Bitter wind howled throughout the bleak area carrying tiny grains of sand that cut into Kisara's flesh, she ducked her head and covered her face with her forearm. She started sprinting up the hill to get out of the biting gale.
She reached a point where the ground stopped sloping up and gingerly opened her eyes. She had reached the top of the hill, the wind still billowed around her, tossing her hair around her shoulders and threatening to lift her off the ground; there was no sand in this wind so it was bearable. She turned her eyes to the sign. It was made of gold, but lacked shine in the dim mist. Carved into the surface was an inscription:
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Redeem the sins thou hath commit,
And thus the light shall be lit.
She read the inscription three times over, each time hoping to pick up something she had missed previously, but nothing popped out. She sighed; still she didn't know where she was. She turned around and once again started out over the windswept beach. It looked as though the fog had thickened but she couldn't be sure, past the beach there was just sandy orange desert.
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French label Kitsune gives us a preview of their Ivy League collection for the upcoming Autumn/Winter season. Fresh off of previewing their "Golf Club" range, we now get a good sense of Kitsune's direction. The collegiate lifestyle is now the label's aim with intelligent looks and styles reflecting the fashion in Universities across the globe. Cardigans, vests, suits, and more are included in the collection with colors such as yellows, reds, and blues as the standout. The aesthetic definitely works well for those looking for a label alternative to the likes of RRL or even J.Crew.
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Feds probe former Carnegie Mellon University trustee's contribution
Former Carnegie Mellon University trustee Marco Delgado, charged in a scheme to launder more than a half-billion dollars for a Mexican drug cartel, defrauded a Mexican utility of millions and used that money to underwrite a lavish lifestyle that included a $200,000 contribution to the university, federal authorities said.
"The university is complying fully with all requests from the authorities," university spokesman Ken Walters wrote Wednesday in an emailed statement, though he did not disclose what requests had been made.
Anna E. Arreola, an assistant U.S. Attorney in El Paso, outlined the latest allegations against Delgado, 46, in a petition filed in federal court to seize his El Paso home, hundreds of thousands of dollars in furnishings and the contents of an offshore bank account in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean.
The petition alleges those assets are proceeds of the complex scheme to defraud the Mexican state-owned utility.
It states that Delgado tapped the offshore account to wire $200,000 to Carnegie Mellon in July 2010 — the first time federal investigators publicly tied the contribution to his accused criminal activities.
"We do not want to get ahead of the judicial process and must reserve comment while the appropriate authorities investigate," Walters said.
Delgado, a Texas lawyer and businessman who received a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School in 1990, maintains his innocence. His lawyer, Ray Velarde, did not return calls for comment.
Delgado served on the Carnegie Mellon board of trustees until last year. He provided $250,000 in 2003 for a scholarship fund in his name at the Heinz School. That gift is not listed in the petition filed in December seeking seizure of Delgado's assets.
The lawyer, who portrayed himself as a high-flying businessman with ties to the energy industry, was arrested Nov. 2 at an El Paso restaurant and charged in a scheme to launder more than $600 million for a Mexican drug cartel in 2007 and 2008.
A federal judge on Jan. 16 ordered Delgado to be held without bail pending trial, saying his access to money in international bank accounts and frequent global travel made him a high risk for flight.
When he was arrested, Delgado was enrolled in an international master's degree program in asset and wealth management at Carnegie Mellon. The 20-month program had 16 international and six U.S. students taking classes in Pittsburgh and at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
According to federal authorities, Delgado helped a Nevada company, FGG Enterprises LLC, secure a $121 million contract with a Mexican utility in 2009 to provide turbo generators for a power plant in Mexico City.
Authorities claim he used a bogus power of attorney to have the utility route $32 million intended for FGG to his personal offshore account.
The forfeiture petition seeks title to a home Delgado purchased for $375,000 and renovated for $250,000. It seeks to seize $218,000 in furnishings.
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Road Bike Position
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Road Bike Position
G'day all,
Been following these forums for the last couple years but first time poster. A quick little intro about me, I'm 25 years old from Bankstown in Sydney and part of Bankstown Sports Cycling Club. I've been on a road bike for the last 4 or 5 years or so but really only been consistently on the bike over the last two years. I get a lot of riding all around Sydney from the Akuna Bay area near my work, the M7 cycleway with the Bankstown crew, down south around the Royal National Park and occasionally in the Jamberoo area when I'm in training for the 3 Peaks. I have done a few sportive type rides in the past including the Sydney2Gong, 3 Peaks, and Blayney to Bathurst. However, I think it's time I entered the racing scene and was hoping you guys could give me some pointers so that I can ride that little bit faster!
In general I don't have too much trouble in the hills (it helps being 55 kg..) but really don't cut it when riding in flat terrain where I struggle to match the speeds of others. When taking a turn at the front or trying to ride in a breakaway I'm a no-hope. Rolling pacelines absolutely destroy me and I usually can't contribute very much, burning out really quick. I'm not sure if this is a general problem for smaller riders or if it's to do with road bike setup, or both.
Here's a link to my road bike position: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KLZmg ... e=youtu.be
I quickly alternate through my positions from more relaxed to a little more aggressive. Does anyone have suggestions on what I can do in order to improve my position so that I can be more aerodynamic and get some "free" speed? My flexibility is pretty woeful and is something I need to work on. Apart from this though, I was thinking of getting a -17 degree stem to get me a little lower (no more spacers to remove)and raising and moving the saddle forward slightly to open up my hips. I don't feel very powerful when in the drops at the moment which I think might be due to my poor flexibility. I prefer to ride in the hoods if that is at all relevant.
If anyone has useful suggestions on helping me improve my speed and aerodynamics it would be greatly appreciated!
Hope to see you all on the road, say hi if you see me, should be pretty easy to spot!
Re: Road Bike Position
If you want to start taking it seriously then get serious about a bike fit.
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Yoga, pilates, stretching.
At 53 yo my flexibility is garbage so no "free speed" there for me. On the flat/downhill races I do, I sit in the bunch or take very short turns and do my turns on the front on the longer uphill stetches.
There is no such thing as free speed, just work with what you have got and ride hilly races
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It's not all about how low you can go. You need to balance your riding position between power output and aerodynamics. There's a 'sweet spot' that's different between bikes, riders and terrain that you need to learn how to chase. Don't worry about the drops too much. You can get pretty damned aero on the hoods. Plus when you're riding on someone's wheel your own aerodynamics don't matter as much.
Tactics wise, taking your turn on the front should be restricted as much as possible to uphill sections.
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Thanks for the input guys!
I have had a bike fit done by Steve Hogg in the past and he was able to sort out many of my issues which were primarily comfort problems, this was back when I was only just getting into the swing of things.
I will definitely look into doing a lot more stretching so that I become more comfortable in a more aerodynamic position which I can still produce power in. I guess I need to review my race tactics as well so that I don't waste energy sitting at the front if I don't need to.
Looks like it will be a trial and error process to see what works best for racing.
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If you can't handle the breakaways or rolling turns, you are on a hiding to nothing in the racing scene because the last option you have left is sprinting and at 55kgs, that's unlikely to be a strong suit. I wouldn't worry about aero too much, if you are on a road bike set up by Steve Hogg you are likely at the limits of what is sensible and achievable already. I would strongly suggest you consider some 4x10 intervals and VO2max 3x3x3s or similar, along with some weight training to allow you to cope with the high end efforts better. Realistically, you have to be able to leave the pack if you are no bunch sprinter, and there are no races in Sydney that regularly allow a strong specialist climber to shine. Even Akuna West Head requires some serious power to leave the pack and stay away on the downhills. I personally would love to see some races with hill finishes even though climbing isn't a strong point for me, but the nature of our roads doesn't make it easy.
Yes, getting in the drops helps, lower bars helps, but a properly fitted road bike tends to be quite aero. Stretching and engaging in some core stability etc etc etc will help.... but work on your engine. It won't take much to make serious gains at this stage.
(EDIT: I just watched your video. You see those arms? You see them? You want aero? Drop your elbows so they are 90 degrees to the ground... and therefore the air from the front. You can do this on the drops, you can do this on the hoods, and you can even grab the top of the hoods to do it. Try to avoid holding the tops of the hoods in bunches on the weekends or bad surfaces. I've had Steve fit me as well, and we're similar on the bike, but I get my arms MUCH further down to the ground when I'm on the front or trying to break away, and I accept the strain on the back. Steve puts you a lot closer to the bars than some alternative fits, which makes for comfort and efficiency - and hopefully you will be stronger and more functional, to compensate for lack of aero. You might only adopt this semi-TT position for 15 minutes of a race lasting 60, but it's worth a lot of wind resistance and that small change might be the difference between D grade and C grade. Or B grade.
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You appear to have a very climbing-suited physique (unlike myself), but could do with some strengthening of your muscle mass - legs / back / core - to improve your speed/strength for the quicker stuff. Fit won't make too much more of a difference, I would suggest.
Lastly, if all else fails, racing will strengthen you as a natural occurrence.
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Neither. Your setup is fine, quite good actually. Put your seat up about 3-5mm.
Practise riding in the drops for a period of time every time you go riding. Riding on the hoods in a race is just terrible technique, you are catching a lot of wind in that position.
When rolling pacelines, do it in the drops. Your problem is simply a lack of power, it has nothing to do with your body size or shape. You will get stronger and faster the more you ride and race.
As I have said many times before on here, don't pigeon hole yourself based on your size and weight. If you race, you have to be able to climb, sprint, time trial and ride in groups. If you cant do all these things then you are in the wrong sport. If you were a tennis player you wouldnt play comp if you only had a forehand and couldnt serve, hit a smash or play a backhand. Ok the forehand may be your favourite weapon but you cant play without being good at everything. So quit the "Im a climber" thing because you are not. If you have a look at the top 10 in last weekends Baw Baw classic, I didn't see any 50 kg weaklings there. The guy that won just came off winning a 4 stage race which he won from swapping off in a small group and basically time-trialling solo for 15km.
Just keep riding and racing. 2 years is nothing in cycling, it will take more than that to start to see results. With experience comes improvement in all areas. Work on your weaknesses.
Good luck with everything
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+1 on DD's comments.
If you are riding like that in a race on the hoods then you are doing loads of work for nothing, although you can probably relax quite happily on the hoods behind a big guy at your size .
Do lots of efforts in that position to get used to it... you can build up core strength etc on the bike, do some stretching a few times a week to lengthen everything out again.
I ride with plenty of guys your size who can handle it fine... the only thing they suffer in is the wind and cold ( pretty common here ). Personally getting in a break with a wippet sucks for me being built like a bus!.
Look for every bit of free speed you can... lower position, skin suit, aero helmet, deeper wheels, pinning on number properly etc etc ... and train to suffer.
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Just bear in mind that you will enjoy the lighthearted encouragement of peers and competitors if you purchase these. I'm the only regular user of a skinsuit in Sydney outside track racing, I think I'll cause spontaneous combustion from laughter if I get the aero helmet
Having supportive riders is a lot cheaper than all of those things, because they will let you hide behind them in the wind
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About 1 in 10 rides with a skinsuit here, about 1 in 20 with an aero helmet. I haven't put a skinsuit on yet this year and I don't have an aero road helmet. I haven't even glued up my 58/88's this year. But there is no doubt that they all work to some degree.
But to be honest non of those things is what is holding me back at the moment .
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Your position looks fine - but use the drops more and be nice and low. I've had people grumble about following me because I'm tiny and don't give them much of a break compared to a big tall rider.
however - the rest is just lots of hard riding to build up power and strength.
You can do 5x5 or 4x10, whatever - lots of it needed.
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Young DD wears a skinsuit or critsuit all the time, just because its more comfortable. Anyone who laughs on the start line usually isn't laughing at him at the finish.
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Yeah that's one thing to love about it... it's a big show, but I struggle to believe that I would be as competitive without it. I tell everyone that if its worth 5 watts over the race, it's worth it because the effort to add 5w to your FTP is a lot more than spending a few bucks on a onesie
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Laylah Ali "The Acephalous Series" @ Paul Kasmin Gallery, NYCJuxtapoz // Saturday, March 28, 2015
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of The Acephalous Series, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Laylah Ali. This is the artist's first show with the gallery and her first solo exhibition of paintings in New York since 2005.
Walton Ford "Watercolors" @ Paul Kasmin Gallery, NYCJuxtapoz // Thursday, May 08, 2014
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce Watercolors, an exhibition of new paintings by Walton Ford through June 21, 2014 at 293 Tenth Avenue, New York. Ford continues to explore the visual and narrative scope of traditional natural history painting with his monumental watercolors, chronicling encounters between human culture and the natural world. Several pieces in this exhibition will expand upon Ford's longstanding practice of incorporating written marginalia in his work, and feature for the first time musings penned by the artist from the perspective of his animal subjects.
Opening: Kenny Scharf "Kolors" @ Paul Kasmin, NYCJuxtapoz // Thursday, April 04, 2013
We are in NYC right now for the opening of Kenny Scharf's Kolors at Paul Kasmin Gallery, tonight April 4. (We haven't mentioned this yet, but Kenny's the cover artist for the new May 2013 issue). He wil unveil a new body of work plus a series of sculpture works.
Walton Ford @ Paul Kasmin Gallery, NYCJuxtapoz // Friday, November 04, 2011
Walton Ford, former Juxtapoz cover artist and subject of a video interview with us earlier this year, just opened a new exhibition in NYC at Paul Kasmin Gallery with perhaps the best art show name of the year: I Don't Like to Look at Him, Jack. It Makes Me Think of That Awful Day on the Island.
Mark Ryden to premiere "The Meat Shop" at Frieze with Paul Kasmin GalleryJuxtapoz // Wednesday, October 12, 2011
As we are in the works preparing our December 2011, it was brought to our attention that Mark Ryden will premiere a new painting, The Meat Shop, at Paul Kasmin's booth in London's Frieze Art Fair today, October 13. Anything with a Lincoln sitting as the butcher in a meat shop is great by us.
Kenny Scharf at Paul Kasmin Gallery in NYCJuxtapoz // Monday, January 31, 2011
Legendary Pop Artist Kenny Scharf currently has a two-fold exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery in NYC. NATURAFUTURA features a new series of large-scale paintings inspired by the surroundings of Scharf's coastal studio in Bahia, Brazil, and THREE DOZEN highlights Kenny's iconic donut paintings. Images after the jump . . .


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Tempe, Ariz. • Trent Lockett came back and helped Arizona State gain at least a measure of redemption for its ugliest loss of the season.
Lockett had 12 points after missing six games with a sprained right ankle and the Sun Devils held off Utah 57-52 on Thursday night.
Carrick Felix led the Sun Devils with 15 points, including a dunk with 47 second to play and a pair of free throws with 11.7 seconds left.
The Utes lost their fifth straight and 11th in 12 games. Their lone victory in that span was a 64-43 rout of Arizona State in Salt Lake City on Jan. 21.
That was the Sun Devils' first game without Lockett. They went on to go 1-5 in his absence.
"It definitely gets rid of that sour taste," Felix said, "but we've still got things we have to work on."
Chris Hines was the only player in double figures for Utah (5-19, 2-10) with 10 points, but he made just 3 of 15 shots. Overall, the Utes shot 30 percent and had to heat up at the end to even reach that paltry figure.
Arizona State's Jordan Bachynski had 11 points and 12 rebounds for his first career double-double.
Lockett, the Sun Devils' scoring leader at 14 points per game, played 36 minutes after barely practicing.
"Medicine is a wonderful thing," he said. "Obviously, it's going to be a process. I haven't played in three weeks."
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Ive got up to 13 days I can take off between my summer and fall seasons, so I'm trying to fit in a good ol bike tour. This will be my first very long distance multi day trip. Ive done a few 140mi 2-day and 200mi 3-day rides. My current intentions are to start here in Baltimore county and ride west in MD til I get to Green Ridge State Park. Camp there and continue south to Monongahela National Forest, then cut east thru Clifton Forge. and up thru Luray, Browntown, and hit a bit of Skyline Drive on the journey back up home. Total distance about 570 miles thru some serious mountain roads
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A young York couple will join forces to push their bodies to physical limits and raise awareness for multiple sclerosis.
Central York High School graduates Cameron Swengel and Kayla Jacoby, both 19, will bicycle down the Atlantic Coast with the hope of raising $30,000 for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The ride: The couple and six other cyclists will leave from Bar Harbor, Maine, on Monday to cycle 2,636 miles to Key West, Fla. Along the way, they will promote MS awareness on one-day rest stops in Philadelphia, Nags Head, N.C., and Daytona Beach, Fla. The group plans to spend 35 days on the road, including 30 riding days.
A support vehicle will always be nearby to carry equipment and ensure the riders' safety. They will spend their nights in campgrounds, host homes, hostels and hotels.
Since the group will be logging 80- to 90-mile days, it will break up the effort through the course of the day, Swengel said. To train, the riders try to bike 30 miles every other day throughout the week, with more miles on the weekend, he said.
Coast to Coast: Swengel, of Manchester Township, is a sophomore at Philadelphia University. The architecture major organized Coast to Coast for MS, which sent bikers across the country to raise MS awareness, two summers ago as part of his high school graduation project.
In its second year, the event has raised about $21,000 so far, Swengel said. The first event raised $22,000 total. He said he thinks the team can reach its goal of $30,000 this year.
"We think that it's very attainable," he said.
Last time, the riders who participated were high-schoolers. Now they are in college and a little more focused toward the cause, he said. Aside from Swengel and another rider, this is a fresh group.
"With a couple more years of maturity, I think that the group seems to work together really well," he said. "Last time there was a lot of miscommunication, and this time it's going to be a lot easier to motivate and get everyone on same page."
The first event visited areas that weren't very populated, Swengel said. He's hoping that the Atlantic Coast's bigger cities will provide the opportunity to speak to even more people about MS.
MS: MS is a progressive disease that attacks the central nervous system.
When Swengel's grandfather was diagnosed with it in the 1980s, effective treatments were still in development. He died before Swengel was born.
And eight years ago, his father, Scott Swengel, was in his late 30s when he was also diagnosed with the disease. He generally has numbness in his extremities as a result. For instance, if he picks up a glass, he won't actually feel it, making it easier for him to drop objects.
Fortunately, treatments are now available, and his father can control his symptoms.
"I'm really thankful for that," he said. "I always tell him, 'You're one of the lucky ones.'"
But Swengel still has the possibility of his own diagnosis in the back of his mind. MS isn't a hereditary disease in a strict sense, but a person's risk increases when an immediate family member is affected.
"It makes me nervous because MS has generational tendencies, and I don't want to become a victim," he said. "At the same time, I plan to live an active lifestyle. I'm not going to let it stop me in the future if I was diagnosed."
Partners: This is Jacoby's first big cycling trip, and Swengel says he's 100 percent confident in his high school sweetheart.
"Kayla is doing a lot better than the boys are," he said. "She's going to be perfectly fine."
She said she saw him through the entire 2011 journey.
"When he was leaving is when it kind of hit me that he was doing this," she said. "I should have went with him."
And now she has the chance.
Jacoby, of Manchester Township, is a sophomore at Kutztown University. The elementary and special education major is the only female cyclist riding with Coast to Coast for MS this year.
She's been training since last summer, going on long rides, including a 76-mile ride without a major break.
"As far as being prepared, the first week of riding is really going to put us in shape," she said. "I feel that I can do it."
The rest of the riders are Swengel's friends: six from school and one from Texas who participated in the first event.
Throughout the ride, the group will update its website with progress reports. The students plan to ride through York on May 30 for a huge spaghetti dinner.
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There have been a number of high profile cases involving abuse such as Steven Hoskins or the Hounslow case and all cases have provided important lessons.
Five people 'befriended' Stephen Hoskin, an extremely vulnerable man with an IQ in the bottom 0.4%. He was beaten, forced to sign false confessions, kept as a slave and lead around by a dog collar, made to shoplift, burnt with cigarettes and finally made to swallow 70 paracetamol and forced to his death over a viaduct. The subsequent serious case review noted that better interagency working, better communication and the sharing of information would have spared him the abuse he suffered. The only legal intervention with Stephen was not to protect him, but was an environmental enforcement action to reduce the noise from his flat.
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The Hounslow case concerned the failure of the local authority to protect two adults with learning disabilities. As a consequence they had pepper and fluid forced into their eyes, were forced to drink urine, eat dog biscuits and human and dog faeces, had kitchen cleaner sprayed into their mouth, face and hair and were slashed repeatedly with a knife. No secrets failed to protect them.
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South Tyneside was criticised by the Local Ombudsman for failing to implement No Secrets procedures, resulting in two older people suffering 'harassment and fear while living in what should have been a supportive environment'. They described the perpetrator as bullying, harassing, publicly humiliating and abusing them.
Margaret Panting was 78 years old when she died in July 2001, just weeks after moving to live with her son-in-law Peter Biggin and her teenage grandchildren at their home in Normanton Springs in Woodhouse. A post-mortem revealed a horrific catalogue of more than 60 injuries including razor-blade cuts to Mrs Panting's stomach and chest, cigarette burns to her back armpits and black eyes. There were so many bruises a pathologist could not count them all. But although Mr Biggin and his sons Martin, then 18 and Nathan, 16, were arrested on suspicion of murder, it could not be proven who was responsible for her injuries and no-one was ever prosecuted.
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In Africa, there's no shortage of plans to conserve the continent's wildlife. Park managers, field researchers and government committees are all adept at developing ideas to save African wild dogs or encourage the growth of the black rhinoceros population.
But while coming up with conservation ideas is easy, determining whether these ideas work is much more difficult. Evaluating the outcome of a reintroduction or translocation program can take years. Time is rarely a luxury for endangered species.
New field tests developed by Lincoln Park Zoo Endocrinologist Rachel Santymire, Ph.D., hold the promise of providing real-time feedback on efforts to preserve populations in peril. By enabling easy, field-ready analyses of stress and reproductive hormones, Santymire and her colleagues at the Davee Center for Epidemiology and Endocrinology are providing an effective way to evaluate conservation efforts. By evaluating animals at Lincoln Park Zoo to validate her tests, the scientist is providing an important link between zoo populations and their endangered cousins, one that will help both to thrive.
Science, Hold the Ice
The boundaries of Serengeti National Park are fluid ones, with wild animals, domestic cattle and local villages overlapping. This can lead to conflict, such as when African wild dogs—severely endangered predators—attack cattle that local herders rely on for their livelihood. To reduce the risk of reprisal, conservationists in the area seek to relocate wild dog packs that are harassing cattle to within Serengeti National Park.
It sounds like a win-win situation—the dogs find new prey, and the cattle are safer—but researchers want to ensure that the process of moving the wild dogs into the park doesn't overly stress the dogs. One way to test this is to monitor the carnivores' stress hormones before, during and after the translocation. If they return to their pre-move stress levels with no long-term effects, that's a positive sign for the conservation plan.
There's one issue with the idea, though. You can find many things on the plains of the Serengeti—lions, wildebeest, elephants—but freezers typically aren't one of them.
Why's that a problem? Well, hormones are typically extracted from feces, and feces need to be put on ice within 12 hours to provide usable data. Since field scientists often spend days at a time traveling through the bush, sans icebox, it's easy to see how samples might be lacking.
To make the project work, Santymire knew she had to find a way to take ice out of the equation. And so, using feces collected from the African wild dogs at Regenstein African Journey as a starting point, she did just that.
"We wanted to get rid of the ice, and we also wanted a long shelf life so researchers could mail samples to us from Africa," says the scientist. With some trial and error (and a few contributions from the zoo's wild dogs), Santymire came up with a process suited to life in the wild.
Here's how it works: researchers collect feces, measure out a small amount and mix them in an ethanol solution. The liquid is then poured through filter paper, straining out leftover waste and allowing the hormones to pass into a test tube. After the ethanol evaporates, the tubes are capped and shipped to Santymire's lab, where dried hormones clinging to the test tube walls can be resuspended and analyzed. No liquid, no ice, no problem.
By enabling analyses of samples collected in the wild, Santymire can help quantify the conservation impact of transporting the dogs. At the same time, Santymire's method also gives researchers another tool for studying African wild dogs' famously complex social groups. Wild dogs observe a strict hierarchy. The leaders—an alpha male and alpha female—don't allow other group members to produce pups. Instead, lower-ranking dogs help feed, care for and protect the dominant animals' offspring.
By monitoring reproductive hormones in the field, Santymire and collaborators can learn how breeding cycles might impact group dynamics. They can also study how stress levels relate to an individual's position within the group hierarchy. Do alpha dogs experience more stress? Does anxiety increase as dogs try to work their way up within the structure? Hormonal analysis could shed light on these questions, aiding conservation decisions in the wild and improving zoo efforts to enhance animal well-being.
"These surveys offer an unprecedented look into what's going on in the wild," says Vice President of Conservation & Science Dominic Travis, D.V.M. "Before, there was no way to get this kind of data in a timely manner. By enabling easy analysis of field samples, Rachel is expanding opportunities to study wildlife."
Reviewing the Rhino Recovery
Another site where endocrinology is aiding conservation is South Africa's Addo National Elephant Park, where Santymire and colleagues are collaborating with local researchers to study the black rhinoceros population. Black rhinos are endangered; their population plummeted from 65,000 individuals in 1970 to only 2,000 in 1995. Intensive husbandry efforts have raised that number to approximately 4,000 rhinos today, but the species' status remains precarious.
To boost the recovery, researchers want to learn more about the factors influencing rhino reproduction. Addo National Elephant Park provides an ideal learning laboratory. Rhinos there populate three distinct sections in the park—Addo, Nyathi and Darlington—covering more than 80,000 acres.
Each of the sites varies in factors that might impact breeding: human presence, competition with elephants for resources and the predation of calves by lions and hyenas. The Darlington site, which has the shortest interval between births, also has the fewest tourists and no elephants, lions or hyenas—all potential stressors. By studying stress and reproductive hormones, Santymire hopes to determine how all of these factors are linked. "Rhinos are very shy—zoo studies have shown that breeding can easily be disturbed," says the scientist. "By monitoring hormones, we hope to break down how these environmental factors influence reproduction, thus aiding conservation management."
To look at the link between stress and reproduction, Santymire is developing a field-testing kit that will enable researchers to conduct analyses on the spot. Again a zoo animal—this time the black rhinoceros at Regenstein African Journey—is playing a crucial role in helping his counterparts in the wild. By surveying his hormones, Santymire can validate her procedure before sending it to the field.
Once the test is ready for the wild, Santymire's collaborators will evaluate male rhinos' testosterone levels to see if they vary seasonally—valuable information for breeding. They will also determine basic breeding information for the species, such as the age at which females become reproductively active and the duration of infertility following a pregnancy.
"These answers were made possible by research conducted at zoos," says Santymire. "By using the zoo's animal collection to design tools for the field, we're able to really evaluate the impact of our conservation efforts."
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to announce that Children's Hospital will have an
interim sibling play program. Initially this program will
have it's home in a small temporary space until the Playroom
Of Hope is constructed. We are very excited to see the siblings
finally have a place of their own! We hope that you will
join us to continue to help Children's by contributing
to support the day-to-day operations of this sibling play
program into the future. We will keep you updated on the
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Posted on: January 1, 2010 8:34 pm
Which Gators come out tonight ?
Coach Meyer is in limbo. Coach Strong is in temporary limbo. Gator Nation is in limbo.
Bearcats are a very very formidable top level football team in college football.
Do my Gators come out and stink up the Dome ?
Do my Gators come out and play with passion, emotion, and heart ?
How will Tim Tebow play ? What's going on in Meyer's head ?
We'll certainly know in a few hours...........
Posted on: October 6, 2009 12:21 am
Tebow has been cleared !
Tuesday the press conference with the Gators will release the following:
"Tim Tebow, in a quiet, yet powerful, moment on Sunday afternoon laid his hands upon himself and was healed. "
More details will be released in the morning !
Posted on: February 13, 2009 7:21 pm
Limited # of AS and SS ratings avail, as per cbs.
Ok. So now we have been informed by the GolfGuy that only a limited number of Superstar ratings are avail. throughout the cbs site. Never mind that the site adds new members on a daily basis. And yes, probably loses some, but they stick around forever it seems, just check your profile. And we were also informed today by GolfGuy that the decrease in everyones level of ratings, re: 99 to a 96, 98 to a 96, 97 to a 92, etc., is because... and get this:
Guys, As baseball starts back up this week with spring training, different patterns have emerged. Many dormant Community baseball users have started posting again and have bounced back to their previous high standing in the Community. Remember, your overall reputation score is based on all of the Community members. There are only a certain number of Superstars, All-stars, etc ... That is the reason some of you have experienced a slight drop in your reputation over the last week or so. I would expect a little more 'reputation' reshuffling as the baseball season gets into full swing. Thanks, Golf Guy which seems to not follow the official cbs policies of :
Things that will hurt your reputation:
IGetNoRespect, You are right in a way. Members are competing for a limited number of spots for each reputation level. Our current system will not allow all 400,000 Community members to become a Superstar even if every member posts 1,000 things per day. Golf GuySome comments from those affected were:
40 Below: Right but why should some MLB poster get their status right back if the rest of us are active community members? That makes no sense. And why can't everyone be superstar if others consider their posts to be good enough and they are active in the CBS community? Why are we automatically prejudicing people to be stuck at rookie, pro, or all-star - that hardly seems fair or gives an equal voice to everyone -
IGetNoRespect: I didn't know it is the job of a Community's members to compete against each other. Isn't it the job of members of a community to interact with each, enjoy each other's company, bust each other's chops now and then, and maybe try to learn something once in a while that you didn't know before? Right now, this place is like watching a train wreck. You want to walk away, but you just can't take your eyes off it. Please, Golf Guy, Cole, Blackbird, Admins, help us out. Inform us as to what is going on in more substantive ways than has been done already. We're big enough to take it. It feels like certain things have been done to weed out or isolate some "undesirables," but a lot of others are now caught in the net and not enjoying it very much.SF S 78: Yeah, I went from a 98 to 95 overnight. Bogus!STARIS1: went from a 96 to a 92 over night, no warnings or reason.jabronski5375: Ever since the changes my rating has been stagnent now it just took a six point drop. Can someone please tell me what the deal is. Or better yet make a better set of guidelines so that everyone knows what to do.Carboh: I agree! To make up a 4point drop because of returning, taking time off posters is a penalty on alot of us!If you need a guiding light, follow the torch of FlyFlyersFly: Umm, you guys are going to fix this right? There is no way you can possibly place a limit on the number of Superstar members, when you are using a scoring system that bases you on how many teams and players you can rattle off. 40 Below is absolutely right, every change to this site you've guys made has been for the worse. And yeah, why aren't fantasy sports included in the scores anymore? Many of the posters here put a lot of time into their fantasy teams, why shouldn't it give you some reputation points? You guys should really pay attention to what the community members are saying here. Your system punishes people who sometimes post about thing other than sports, and just want to BS with other posters who have become pretty good online friends after being here for so long. Yet it rewards someone for adding all 30 or 32 teams and 20 players to the bottom of their post. Someone posted a picture made out of dashes and dots and it recieved a score of nearly -15000 and that dropped the entire thread score, so the thread dropped to the 3rd page, when pretty much every other post was relevent to the NHL and had good scores. Doesn't this sound like a messed up system? How can you guys actually think this scoring system is going to work for the members of the community?Obviously I feel the current system is mired in a quagmire of Keystone Cop Business Manual Techniques. What's your take? Have you been affected? Lost the right to change your av? Can you still glog? Or maybe you weren't affected. I'll enjoy hearing from you.
Be safe. Enjoy. And may the darkhorse come riding a carrying my Royals.....and may by Chiefs find the guiding light......
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Keep America Beautiful
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Obituaries Section :: Page 20
Richard E. 'Dick' Bullen
Richard E. "Dick" Bullen, of Xenia, passed away Sunday, Feb. 16, at Greenewood Manor in Xenia. He was 91.
Paul Henry Reed
Paul Henry Reed died Jan. 30 of heart complications at Jackson North Medical Center in Miami, Fla.
Patrick S. Gentile, MD
Patrick S. Gentile, M.D., age 67, died of natural causes at his home in Wilmington, Ohio, on Tuesday, February 11, 2014.
Barbara Monnin
After a long battle with cancer, Barbara (Gundolf) Monnin passed away peacefully, surrounded by family and friends, on Feb. 3.
Carl Phillip Spier
Carl Phillip Spier died peacefully at home in Brewster, Mass., on Jan. 26, three months shy of his 91st birthday.
Walt Tulecke
Walt Tulecke died peacefully with family nearby at Friends Care Center on Jan. 28, following surgery for a broken hip. He was 89 years old, two weeks shy of his 90th birthday.
Alice Jean Allen
Alice Jean (Fink) Allen passed away peacefully in her sleep on Jan. 24 in Xenia, where she had been a resident at Hospitality Homes in recent years. She was 84.
Ruth Olivia Gladman Colvin
Ruth Olivia Gladman Colvin passed away peacefully, and full of life to the very end at her home in Xenia on Jan. 22.
Tim Rogers memorial update
An open house celebrating the life of Tim Rogers will be held at his home, instead of The Winds Cafe, on Sunday, Feb. 9, 4–7 p.m.
Tim Rogers memorial
An open house celebrating the life of Tim Rogers will be held at his home, instead of The Winds Cafe, on Sunday, Feb. 9, 4–7 p.m. Carpooling and walking are encouraged.


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LAST UPDATED: 2:25 p.m. HST, Jul 24, 2014
A Honolulu Police motorcycle officer was taken to the hospital in good condition after he was hit by a car during a traffic stop on the H-1 freeway near the Kaonohi overpass on Thursday morning.
The accident occurred around 4 a.m. when a car sideswiped the officer and his motorcycle in the Ewa-bound lanes, police said.
Officers arrested the driver of the car, a 22-year-old woman, on suspicion of driving under the influence, fleeing the scene of the accident and failure to make way for an emergency vehicle, police said.
The officer has been with police department for seven years, police said.
He was treated at the hospital and released.


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mRNA expression of angiogenesis-modulating factors during the course of collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). Mice at different stages of disease were sacrificed and whole paws processed for mRNA quantification by real-time RT-PCR. Data are presented as fold change in mRNA level relative to the mean expression in six age-matched healthy controls (dotted line) after normalisation to the acidic ribosomal phosphoprotein P0 (Arp) gene. Data are from individual mice (n = 5 to 7), bars indicate the median mRNA level of the different groups. Statistical analysis of data was performed using one-way ANOVA with Dunn's post hoc test for multiple comparisons, compared against pre-arthritic mice (*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001).
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WHEREAS, Eric Bedingfield resigned as a member of the Greenville County Council, District 28, effective November 6, 2006; and
WHEREAS, the undersigned is authorized to appoint county officers in the event of a vacancy pursuant to Sections 1-3-220(2) and 4-11-20 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, as amended; and
WHEREAS, G. Frederick Payne, a resident of Simpsonville, South Carolina, is a fit and proper person to serve as a member of the Greenville County Council.
NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of this State, I hereby appoint G. Frederick Payne as a member of the Greenville County Council, District 28, effective immediately, and shall remain effective until Eric Bedingfield's successor qualifies and takes office.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, THIS 8th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2006.
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About Women and the Green Economy (WAGE)
While women are taking up leadership positions in government and NGOs – and increasingly in business and science – their numbers are not sufficient to match the enormity of the fossil-fueled-to-green-economy transition. Those women who do manage to break the glass ceiling still face challenges in bringing their companies, work and ideas to scale.
- Develop a Global Policy Platform that will advance women's leadership, based on a series of formal regional consultations and conferences with key leaders in business, government and NGOs.
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To date, Earth Day Network's global WAGE consultative process has seen events with scores of key women leaders in business, government and NGOs in San Francisco, Delhi, Sydney, New York, Boston, Washington, D.C. and more.


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Renowned photographer Kodiak Greenwood loses everything in Pfeiffer FireUPDATED 11:31 PM PST Dec 20, 2013
Professional photographer Kodiak Greenwood was at a photoshoot in Oregon when the Big Sur fire started. He drove 11 hours straight to find everything he owned was gone.
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Start drinking through a straw, and always refill the cup when empty.For Christmas, my sister gave me one of those newly popular bpa-free plastic cups with a straw and screw-on lid. I use it all the time and have found that I now drink so much more water I have no problem meeting my daily requirement. I even bought another one that I leave at work, and usually have my required 8 glasses consumed by the end of my workday, before I even go to the gym!
I have discovered that drinking plenty of water and tracking water consumption on sparkpeople helps me not to snack mindlessly.
You wanna live you gotta sweat!!
Oh, man - "Ben" from the inspirational video on Coach Nicole's blog - made me wanna run again. It was so inspiring:)


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American English - Beatles Tribute @ Watseka Theatre Watseka IL
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Date: Sun. Feb 9, 2014 2:00 pm
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It was 50 years ago today that The Beatles made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show! Watseka Theatre presents Tribute to The Beatles with American English. How many Beatles songs do you love? Special 2:00 p.m. Concert. Come early for the Watseka Theatre's great restaurant and full bar. All Ages. No seat is further than 40 ft from the stage. Tickets $18.00 are on sale at the theatre, by phone or online.


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RENO, NV - Reno native Max McManus wanted to do something spectacular to honor the memory of the 9/11 attacks on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy. What he came up with was a story fit for Hollywood.
"The only thing I could think of doing, and I didn't even know if it was possible, was to ride a bicycle and try to ride one continuous route, connect the whole United States and end at Ground Zero on 9/11," says McManus.
Not only did he pull it off, he set a record in the process. The shortest time ever taken to bike through every state in the US. The best part, it was all recorded by Carson filmmaker Tyler Bourns, who turned it into a documentary called "Freedom 50/50".
"I actually got to be out on his ride and drive support car for a little bit too, so I kind of got first hand experience in with the ride. It was kind of unique for me being in the film industry and learning a different industry at the same time and being part of an adventure that I'll never forget," says Bourns.
The documentary premiered to more than a 100 people at Commrow with 100% of the proceeds from the event going to the Wounded Warriors Foundation to benefit those who served during the 9/11 attacks.
"The bottom line is there are a lot of people who sacrificed their lives to protect our country and the way of life we take for granted sometime, so that was my patriotic contribution back to the country," says McManus.
Now that the premiere is over, "Freedom 50/50" will be marketed to a number of film festivals in the hopes that it gets picked up for wider release.


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Paul Williams, Springfield police chief, at the Every Child Project Advisory Committee meeting on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Valerie Mosley/News-Leader
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I appreciated the recent story in the News-Leader, "A crime wave? Review shows violent crime rate has risen but not dramatically."
It was a front-page spread highlighting what I have been telling people - crime in Springfield has risen. This is not perception but reality.
Overall crime, as reported through the FBI Uniform Crime Report, was up 2.39 percent in 2012, compared to 2011. The Springfield Police Department (SPD) is aware of this fact, is constantly analyzing the data to determine the cause(s), is working to combat this, and we need your help to do so. ...


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07-06-07 – The City of West Palm Beach would like motorists to be aware of the following road closure:
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The I-95 northbound exit ramp to Forest Hill Blvd. is closed completely for reconstruction until approximately September 2007. The work is part of the ongoing I-95 Mobility 2000 project.


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The Licking County Players will launch their performance of "No Sex Please, We're British," a comedy by Anthony Marriot and Alistair Foot, on Friday.
The play is about a young bride who lives above a bank with her husband, the assistant manager. She innocently sends a mail order off for some Scandinavian glassware, but instead receives Scandinavian pornography.
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Our management is to meet the targets of our customers at all times by providing world class quality products. Therefore we constantly intensify our production forces ranging from importation of high precision.
Established in 1984 with its Ist unit in Delhi, Kiran has come a long way in winning the trust of major O.E.M's of the Indian Automobile Industry. With its continued commitment in achieving the QCDD Targets, Kiran has created a distinct position for itself on the Domestic Front.
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