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A traffic bottleneck in the Mokane area ended late last week when the Auxvasse Creek Bridge on Missouri 94 just east of Mokane reopened to traffic.
Traffic along Missouri 94 was closed to traffic at the bridge three miles east of Mokane on Sept. 19 and detoured along Route C and Route CC to Route O.
It was a long detour for students riding school buses to and from South Callaway Schools at Mokane.
The detour caused excessive traffic on nearby county roads by people seeking shorter trips. Most local residents know shortcuts and used graveled county roads. Strangers often became lost seeking shorter detours along gravel roads.
At the same time, about 1,000 extra workers were hired for current nuclear reactor refueling and maintenance at the nearby Callaway Energy Center. That also increased traffic along county gravel roads.
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WASHINGTON – A type of antacid sold under brand names such as Prevacid, Prilosec and Nexium can increase risk of vitamin B12 deficiency when taken for more than two years.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association links long-term use of protein pump inhibitors (PPIs) with the body failing to absorb vitamin B12 appropriately.
"Patients who took PPI medications for more than two years had a 65 percent increase in their risk of B12 deficiency," said Douglas A. Corley, a gastroenterologist and research scientist with the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in a news release.
The risk also increases with higher doses of the drugs compared with lower doses.
There's an easy fix though, according to Corley, who says a relatively simple blood test can determine whether it's happening. If so, the issue can be resolved easily by taking vitamin supplements, he says.
Vitamin B12 deficiency left untreated can have dire consequences including dementia, nerve damage, and anemia.
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Video: My guest appearance on Wine Library TV
30 May 2010
For those of you that follow me on Twitter or have read my post on the Viddler blog you'll already know that I was a guest on Wine Library TV on Friday.
This episode was a long time coming. Gary and I had tried to align our schedules for a pretty long time but never were able to make it work. I'm glad that we finally did. The episode has a few hundred comments over on the show's blog and I'm happy that I've been able to respond to nearly every single one.


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Jack Thompson Threatens To Sue Northern Illinois University
Unfortunately, I have more Jack Thompson news for you guys. Apparently, he has provided GamePolitics with a copy of the fax he sent this morning to the university's public safety department in Dekalb, Illinois. I find this interesting considering he offered to help NIU just the other day. At the same time, this move isn't exactly surprising. As I have said before, NIU has a lot more to worry about than the silly video game violence debate. It's a real shame they have to deal with things like this in addition to what they have already been through this week. Here's a quote from what was sent to the university:
Pursuant to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request production of copies of all documents that reveal Steven Kazmierczak's play of violent video games, including but not limited to the use of his computer to play Counter-Strike, which he apparently, according to the New York Post, used to rehearse for his Valentine's Day Massacre at NIU. The killers in the two worst school massacres in history—in Erfurt, Germanay, and at Virginia Tech University—similarly trained on Counter-Strike to rehearse for their killing sprees.
If I am not provided with this information, I shall bring a civil action to secure these documents.
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New Penn State president Eric Barron is on record in the past that he believes successful athletics is important to a university. Judging from my interpretation of an hour-long interview several Tribune-Review reporters conducted with him Thursday, Barron's recognition of sports is more than mere lip service.
Barron repeatedly referenced sports – sometimes, just in passing; other times, to drive home a point or make an analogy – over the course of a wide-ranging discussion in the Trib's D.L. Clark Building offices. Barron, of course, was here to talk about more than – and more important things than – just sports. Some of the Trib's finest newsside reporters ,Debra Erdley and Adam Smeltz, detailed that. As the lone reporter representing sports (although two Trib sports editors were present), I'll offer some of my initial impressions of Barron's opinions of the athletics issues facing Penn State.
The main bar for the Sports section for Friday's print editions mostly is centered around Barron publicly supporting the idea that the NCAA sanctions levied on the football program be softened when former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell releases his next PSU athletics integrity progress report in August.
While, on face value, this might not be surprising – after all, shouldn't a sitting university president be expected to always stand up for the school and its best interests? You'd think, but remember, it was Barron's predecessor, Rodney Erickson, who himself signed the consent decree for the penalties in July 2012. Since, Erickson's public tact has more involved a conciliatory we'll-take-what-they-give us tone toward the NCAA than one in which he publicly campaigned for sanctions relief. Barron, initially at least, appears to opt more for the latter. (To be fair, for a variety of reasons the political airs have evolved sharply over the past two years toward a more pro-Penn State, anti-NCAA position being given sympathy).
Here are some of Barron's other football-related thoughts:
- On the school's hiring process in January that resulted in James Franklin, who himself had been tied to an alleged rape cover-up and was brought to a school that was and is still reeling from arguably the most horrific story involving alleged rape cover-up in the history of sports:
"I've seen or heard nothing that would make me question it."
- On his initial meeting with Franklin:
"I have had lunch with him, and I was impressed with how student-centered he is. And to the degree to which one of his objectives is to break the all-time record for the grade-point average for football. And we had discussions on lots of different topics, including if a student doesn't go to class, how do you get them to go to class. And now we could apply this to people at 8:00 in the morning and have them run laps if they don't show up for class – I don't know if it would work. But we talked about a lot of things like that, and I felt very good about the lunch that I had in terms of his attitude and his focus and what his objectives are. And of course he'll be tested very publicly, won't he?"
- On if he sought personal assurances from Franklin that he was involved in no wrongdoing in connection to Vanderbilt rape case:
"This was not a, you know, 'Let's walk through this,' kind of case… we didn't talk that way."
- On how he plans on dealing with the issue of Joe Paterno's legacy at Penn State:
"It's a completely different situation, but when I was shortlisted to be president at Florida State, Bobby Bowden was fired two hours before that meeting. And partly from the viewpoint no president would take the job if they had to deal with a legend. And I quickly realized that about 35 percent of the people thought that was outrageous, and 35 percent of the people felt it was high time, and the 30 percent in the middle were silent. And so you've got, really, a lot of opinions, and it took three years to get to the point where Bobby came back. Right, to my wife's credit, to the point of her calling up Ann Bowden and having lunch with her twice, and it doesn't work to sit there and do it on the – no offense – on the front page of a paper, and it doesn't work with saying, 'I'm going to go do this and this.' This is a period of healing, and it takes time. But you can count on the fact that it's important to me and I'm going to do my best to help."
- Barron was asked a follow-up to press on dealing with the Paterno situation:
"You'll have to give me time. I haven't been here very long, and I just described a three-year process for someone who was fired. And this is, you know, more sensitive, and does take time. I will say this: Every single one of those alumni, no matter where they sit, cares deeply about the institution. That's, at least, a foundation for moving forward, I think, in very positive ways. Every single person, they're motivated by their love of the institution. So I can think a lot of conflicts that sometimes can be managed if you don't have that foundation at all. I'm optimistic that we will make improvements but I'm not going to give you a time schedule or a process."
- On the status of the athletic director's position (Penn State awkwardly removed the "acting" from Dave Joyner's title in January 2013… but at the same time stated that when a new university president took over in mid-2014 that a "national search" would be conducted for the position):
"I know what president Erickson announced, including that when the new president comes in, that'll be time for a search. And we have other positions that are also an interim basis, and so I'm busy doing my assessment, and I tell people I would have to be convinced not to follow through on what president Erickson said."
- Finally, Barron was asked what his reaction was to the Freeh Report:
"Anybody who's been at Penn State or near Penn State or certainly graduated from Penn State felt just an incredible amount of pain and sadness. It's awful. And obviously I wasn't here as the institution went through that, so I just saw from afar in terms of that level of pain. And I saw a lot of alumni because one of the things you realize even though you're a dean and people look at you and you're fundraising and I'm talking about you and about giving back – and then I leave and some people that will sit there and say, 'OK, so he was fundraising for them, but he didn't care about me as a person.' I think one of the things about the Penn State family is you really do care about people as people, and so even though I was at a completely different institution, I'd go visit Penn State alumni and go have dinner with them and sometimes stay at their homes because these are friends – and this hurt. So wherever you look there was that pain because nobody sees Penn State that way.
But beyond that, I came in 2 ½ years later and, so what is my reaction to the Freeh Report? Well, my reaction is there were 119 different recommendations and I'm looking at a spreadsheet that says, 'We've done this, we've done this, we've gone beyond on this one, we've created this, these four are pending but the following actions have already taken.' And I'm looking at it and saying, 'How on earth could an institution manage that in such a deliberate, aggressive fashion to make sure this doesn't happen?' And not an instance that is focused on this event, but rather focusing on an institution in which this ethical standing is extraordinarily important.
So truthfully my reaction to the Freeh Report was, 'This institution has just become a model institution for addressing issues like them.' Because what I saw first was all the steps that they had taken."
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Are you not Weary of Ardent Ways? / Winstin, Kiev PO
1 CD / ERM Media / 2006-10-01Works: Robert Ian Winstin: Scherzo qui a la Gachette Facile, concerto for trombone & orchestra; Are You Not Weary of Ardent Ways, concerto for viola & orchestra; Drum Concerto; Flute Concerto; Concerto for ...
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Jodie Meeks scored 24 of his career-high 42 points in the second half, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat Oklahoma City 114-110 on Sunday despite a triple-double by Thunder star Kevin Durant.
Pau Gasol added 20 points and 11 rebounds for the injury-ravaged Lakers, who had lost 29 of their previous 37 games. Meeks was 11 of 18 from the field and 14 for 14 at the line while becoming the third player to reach the 30-point mark this season for Los Angeles.
Meeks is averaging 19.2 points in 11 games since returning from a sprained right ankle. Before the injury, he was averaging 14.4.
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Wild Rice Pilaf
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
- 1/2 cup chopped yellow onion
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- 1/4 cup finely chopped scallions, white and green parts (2 scallions)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a medium saucepan, add the onion, and cook over low heat for 5 to 10 minutes, until translucent. Add 5 cups of water, 2 teaspoons of salt, and the wild rice. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to very low, and simmer, covered, for 50 minutes to 1 hour, until the rice is tender. Drain well.
Place the drained rice in a bowl, add the remaining tablespoon of butter, the scallions, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, and the pepper. Taste for seasonings and serve hot.
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Save Our Name! "Power Hour" is under attack!
Dearest lovers and fighters (but most importantly fans):
Everything that we hold dear is under attack, and I want to encourage you to help.
As you know, The Power Hour Podcast is a relatively new entity, but your support will help to ensure continued excellence for ages to come.
Facebook and mutual friends have brought local musician Ali Spagnola to my attention. She has written 60 original songs, each 1 minute long. If you actually know what you're reading, you can probably guess what such a collection of songs might be used for. (Yes, for drinking to.) She has recordings available in addition to playing them live (yes thank you, I do recognize how awesome this sounds).
She produced a CD and a DVD of this work, but then ran into a snag. A guy comes along, I'll redactedly call him [opportunist] [competitor], and claims that he holds the rights to the use of the phrase "Power Hour". As you know, having found this podcast, and likely having listened to it, that "Power Hour" is also a phrase that I use. Because that's what it is that we do. It's a power hour.
Please check out Ali's website, and give her any written support, brewed submissions, or most especially, financial support that you can offer to the cause.
Ali Spagnola's Power Hour Drinking Game
Once you've properly donated to the world's most worthy cause, check out the rest of her site of polymath hotness:
Also, for some great further info (from another great supporter of Ali's work), check out Power Hour HQ: Save The Power Hour where you can read the [opportunist] [enemy]'s side of the argument, where he readily showcases his great grammar and shift-key aplomb. Also, some cracking good responses with all the legal quantum theory you could possibly desire!
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Schools across the country have been serving up disgusting pink slime meat [1] disguised as yummy burgers and other meaty cuisine for years. The slime, which is made up of second-grade meat treated with an ammonia process to eliminate bacteria, has only recently made national headlines thanks to the likes of Food Revolution's Jamie Oliver. Now, in a more substantial effort to educate the public, and to put pressure on the USDA to ban this "meat", Jamie and his team have built a website dedicated to stopping pink slime [2] use cold!
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text: Rencon: a 'Turing Test for musical expression' Culture 02 September 13 by Olivia Solon Rencon Dubbed a "Turing Test for music", Rencon is a competition that pits different computer systems against each other in a battle of musical expression.At the end of July, the Speech, Music and Hearing Centre at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology played host to an extraordinary music competition. A small audience -- which included one of Sweden's most highly acclaimed pianists Lucia Negro and the head of Sweden's Royal College of Music Stefan Bojsten -- listened to 12 different performances played on a grand piano. They were looking out for technical control, musicality, expressive variations and one other attribute: humanness.This is because each of the performances were generated by computer systems and played by a laptop linked up to a Disklavier -- an electromechanically-controlled grand piano that can operate the keys and pedals without a human operator. Rencon These ghostly performances were in aid of an annual competition called Rencon, which pits different computer systems against each other in a battle of musical expression. It is considered to be a musical Turing Test of sorts; the aim is to create a system that can play music in a manner that is indistinguishable from a human. The ultimate goal is to have a machine win the Chopin Competition, one of the most respected accolades in classical music.Rencon [Musical Performance RENdering CONtest] was launched in Japan in July 2002 as a workshop at an international conference in Kyoto between three different research groups. In a bid to advance the field more rapidly, Rencon was repositioned as an international competition in the same vein of the RoboCup. A decade on and there are now around 10 research groups working in the field who regularly compete against each other. This year's event was organised by Anders Friberg, along with Roberto Bresin and colleagues from the KTH Sound and Music Computing Group.Teams take very different approaches to the software that they develop. In simple terms, each system takes the original score, reads all of the symbolic notations -- the grammar -- and then interprets it to produce an expressive variation, emphasising certain parts more than others."You follow the grammar when you read text, stopping at the end of a phrase, breathing and then starting the next phrase. Otherwise you don't have speech. But then you can say the same word to communicate different emotions. It depends on how you emphasise or pronounce the word. The same applies to music," explains Roberto Bresin from the KTH Sound and Music Computing Group. "On top of that you can change the performance style. Performance style follows a grammar but you can exaggerate or dampen some acoustic tonalities.""If you take a musical score and play it exactly as it's written -- without changing the duration or the loudness of the notes -- then this is a deadpan performance," says Erica Bisesi, a senior postdoctoral researcher at the University of Graz, adding that the resulting performance would sound like a mobile phone ringtone.Top-down or bottom-up? There are, broadly, two different approaches to the same problem. The first is to take the grammatical approach, whereby you teach a computer first of all how to read the melody and its associated notations and then use certain parameters to influence the tempo and dynamics of the piece, with a view to mimic some of the creative flourishes that we see in human piano performances.The second approach involves machine learning -- heavy statistical analysis of a database of previous human musical performances and their scores, which is used to train the system. The idea is that you can then input a new piece of music and it will drawn on elements from previous human performances. There are, of course, also hybrid systems.Then there are fully automatic systems -- where you feed in the score and it spits out a performance -- and human-conducted systems, where the computer follows the rhythm set by a person. In Rencon, these two sorts of systems are divided into different categories.Teams that enter Rencon are given two pieces of music about an hour before they -- or rather their system's output -- goes on stage. In July's competition, these were Sonata K.466 by Domenico Scarlatti and Prelude No.3 by Nino Rota.Once given the MIDI files of the deadpan performances, the teams can then fine tune their system to make sure they are optimised for the appropriate style of music -- each system might, for example, have a different set of rules for baroque, classic, romantic or modern pieces. They then hand a new MIDI file back to the organisers, and this is played on the Disklavier in front of an audience.Erica Bisesi and her colleagues Richard Parncutt and Anders Friberg -- from the Universities of Graz and KTH -- took a grammatical, bottom-up approach to the challenge. The system is based on a previous formulation called Director Musices, a performance rendering system (developed at KTH) that introduces expressive deviations to input scores. Rencon The team starts by introducing phrases to the score -- taking big phrases and dividing them into sub-phrases and sub-sub-phrases. These phrases can be modelled by varying the tempo and the dynamics with musical features such as ritardando (slowing down), accelerando (speeding up) diminuendo (getting quieter), crescendo (getting louder)."We extended the previous formulation by relating expressive features of a performance not only to global or intermediate structural properties, but also accounting for local events. Previously, once you segmented a piece and applied the rules to all of the phrases, they looked the same along the duration of the piece. Now each phrase can be rendered differently," explains Bisesi.In order to achieve this, Bisesi and colleagues introduced accents to the model. Accents are, broadly, local events that tend to capture the attention of listeners. This could be metric, melodic or harmonic events -- anything that captures attention. So, for example, a melodic accent occurs at the highest and lowest tones of a melody and at local peaks and valleys, while a harmonic accent is related to roughness and harmonic ambiguity -- for example an unexpected chord or cadence -- or harmonic familiarity or expectedness. The team's system can identify these accents automatically, assign a salience to each one, modelling the volume and tempo around these events into a curve.The curves are designed to mimic human movement. When people move their hand, be it to pick up a cup or to press onto piano keys, they tend to accelerate and then decelerate in a fluid manner. Were you to plot the acceleration on a graph, it would be parabolic. It is this biological motion that the Rencon competitors must mimic if the music is to avoid sounding robotic.Bisesi explains: "I am a pianist. When I play the piano and am playing an ascending melody and want to increase the sound from the start to the end, I have to press with more weight on the key. The shape of this exertion is mapped to a movement. Our perception is comfortable with this movement."Listeners -- at least musically-literate ones -- can "hear" these shapes. It's precisely this that means that human conducted systems generally sound better. The machines don't have to create these shapes, they can simply follow those of a real person.The winning system in the human conducted category was VirtualPhilharmony, developed by Takashi Baba from Kwansei Gakuin University along with colleagues at Soai University. It involved using a theremin as a sensor to capture the movements of a conductor. These movements were then used to control the tempo and dynamics of the music. Here's how the system played Scarlatti (MP3). Rencon The team that scored the highest in the automatic category (not conducted by a human) came from the Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan. Their system took a similar approach to Bisesi and colleagues, modelling deviations from the score with various curves, depending on the particular events within the music that they wanted to highlight.Human-machine collaboration Baba told Wired.co.uk that the human element in his team's performance gave them an advantage. He added that neither the case-based, machine learning approach nor the rule-based bottom-up approach are sufficient for creating a truly expressive performance.He explains this by talking about the way both systems might approach a particular notation in the score of a tune, using the "f" symbol, which means forte (loudly), as an example.In the rule-based approach, a system might search for all parts of the music marked with "f" and play them with a loud volume. In the case-based approach, a system would scan the database of previous human performances looking for samples where this particular piece of music was played. The more samples there are where the note is played with loud volume, the higher the probability that the note in the new piece will be played with loud volume."But there are many kinds of 'f'," Baba explains, adding that a human would never play every one with the same volume. Each 'f' has a different purpose, depending on its context and the performer. But these aren't marked in the score. It doesn't say "this f is designed to convey anger" or "this is a triumphant f". How each one is played comes down to the way that humans interpret the music, the way they try to tell the story on the partiuclar day that they are performing. "There is a black box between rule-based and case-based approaches. This is where you find art, sensitivity, creativity and humanity."The interactive systems have an advantage over the automatic systems because a "human can intervene in this black box". That is to say that the conductor can help to bring some of the creativity and emotion to the performance. Baba believes that by improving these interactive systems -- and better understanding the connection between the score, the conductor and the performance -- we'll be able to start unpicking what's going on inside the black box.Bresin adds that a really talented pianist will surprise the audience with deviations that they are not expecting. "Conducting allows for these sorts of deviations. It's hard to mimic in an automatic system."Sometimes it's precisely an attempt at such a deviation that identifies a performance as computer generated, even if it is expressive. Besisi gives the example of a computer placing the wrong emphasis on the classic Beethoven Ba Ba Ba Bum of the fifth symphony -- something a human wouldn't mess with.Alexis Kirke, a member of the University of Plymouth's Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research and co-editor of the Guide to Computing for Expressive Music Performance sat through all of the Rencon Performances. He picked up on some more subtle giveaways. In the Scarlatti "the left hand and the right hand at times seemed to interact in ways that didn't make sense. The notes of the lead melody wouldn't coincide with the notes in the left hand. It's not so unusual but it didn't feel human.""Sometimes things sounded pleasant but the metronome was too perfect. It was too much in time. Human performances are slightly erroneous, but if you make it too erroneous it can sound like a mistake," he adds.However, he adds: "Although I have heard Disklaviers before I had never been in a room with a Disklavier being controlled by a computer system which is meant to make it sound human. There was something quite profound in the moment for me, coming face-to-face with this piano-embodiment of a robot 'expressing itself' with our main language of emotion -- music."The AI challenge Rencon is not simply a fun competition to see if we can differentiate between a robot and a human performer: it represents a major AI challenge -- or, as Baba puts it, clarifying what's going on inside the black box."We don't really understand human expressive performance fully," adds Kirke. "You can take the same piece of music and ask a trained pianist to play it happily, sadly or angrily and they can do. In order to simulate performance, we need to tap into who we are at the deepest level, what it means to be human and to experience beauty."Bresin adds: "If you can model how human beings express themselves, you have a better insight into human expression in general."Music has the added advantage of being a universal language. Research into musical expression could also be applied to other fields, such as robotics or general interactions between humans and machines.For Bisesi, the main challenges for Rencon relate to non-verbal communication and education. "It's not really about trying to replace human performers with a computer. The aim is to have a system which allows us to understand just one aspect of human communication. If we can communicate and explain music in a systematic way, it can be useful for educational purposes."Baba believes that systems like VirtualPhilharmonia could also be applied to musical therapy, by allowing people with limited musical skills to express themselves. He suggests that children, people with dementia and those with learning disabilities could find pleasure through musical performance -- playing complex music by simply waving their hands. This, in turn, may "activate their brains".While there is anecdotal evidence to suggest that there may be therapeutic benefits to musical therapy, very few rigorous trials have been carried out.Flawed methodology Despite being dubbed the "Turing Test for music", Rencon suffers from a fairly major methodological flaw: the judges know that none of the pieces are played by humans. In the standard Turing Test for artificial intelligence, the judge is presented with both real people and machines."Knowing that all of the performances were machine-generated was a problem. It meant that I was looking for mistakes. When one note sounds unnatural people will throw away the whole performance," Kirke says.So powerful is stage presence in our evaluation of musical recital that a study published in August found that people shown videos of piano competitions could pick out the winners more often than those who could also hear the music. The study concludes that both novices and experts make judgements about music performance quickly and automatically on the basis of visual information. Novices were able to quickly identify the actual competition winners at very high rates based on the visual passion that they displayed.The Rencon setup -- a laptop plugged into a Disklavier -- makes for a pretty bland visual accompaniment. One solution would be to get a pianist to sit at the piano and fake the movement of playing the computer-generated piece. This sort of performance could be interspersed with real performances in order to reduce the bias of prior knowledge.Bresin believes that current technology provides a performance on a par with a pianist who has played for between five and seven years. "But we can go further, to almost diploma level [10 years]."However, at that point it may become more challenging to make improvements as it's at that point when pianists start to develop personality. You can listen to all of the performances on the Rencon results website. Latest on wired.co.uk


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Last month, Lisa told you of speculation that Angelina Jolie was pregnant – with twins! The pregnancy has since become obvious, with Angelina showing off a growing baby bump at last weekend's Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Neither Angie or Brad Pitt have spoken publicly about the pregnancy, but sources say that Brad has been telling friends how excited he is to have two babies on the way. An unnamed friend of the couple tells The Daily Mail,
[Brad's] telling everybody close to him, because he is having to change his work schedule to get ready for the birth. They're having twins, Angelina is healthy, and he's thrilled that he's going to be a father once again."
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Wednesday, July 31
FACE Cancer Support Group meets at 12:30 p.m. at Chetco Community Public Library, 405 Alder St., Brookings. For information, call Marie Kirk at 541-412-7977.
A pinochle group meets at 12:30 p.m. downstairs in the Chetco Activity Center, 550 Chetco Lane, Brookings. For information, call 541-469-6822.
Community Kitchens offers free meals from noon to 1 p.m. at Star of the Sea Catholic Church, 820 Old County Road, Brookings. Donations are welcome. Everyone is invited. For information, call 541-469-3411.
Renegade line dance class for beginners is from 6 to 7 p.m. followed by classes for intermediate to advanced dancers from 7:15 to 8:30 at Ship Ashore Resort, 12370 Highway 101, Smith River. For information, call 707-464-6866.
A computer class, taught by James Warren, that focuses on Macintosh and Windows is offered from 10 to 11 p.m., in the Chetco Activity Center computer room, 550 Chetco Lane, Brookings. For information, call 541-469-6822.
The Wednesday Farmers Market will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Chetco Grange Community Center, 97895 Shopping Center Ave., Harbor.
The Crescent City Farmers Market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the corner of Front and K streets.
Thursday, Aug. 1
Chetco Chatterers Toastmasters meets at 7 a.m. in the Curry Coastal Pilot conference room, 507 Chetco Ave., Brookings. Enter through the back doors on Art Walk Alley. For more information, call 541-469-0145 or visit http://bit.ly/12tV4mG.
Aglow International meets at 7 p.m. in the Harbor Water District meeting room, 98069 W. Benham Lane.
The Del Norte County Fair runs through Sunday, Aug. 4, at the fairgrounds, 421 Highway 101 N. Crescent City. Watch for the schedule in the Del Norte Triplicate.
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) OR432 members weigh-in from 7:45 to 8:30 a.m. The program and business meeting is from 9 to 10 a.m. at Sea View Senior Living Community, 98059 Gerlach Lane, Harbor. For more information, call 541-412-0726 or 541-251-3775.
Game day is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Chetco Activity Center, 550 Chetco Lane, Brookings.
Chess players gather at 1 p.m. at the Chetco Community Public Library, 405 Alder St., Brookings. For information, call 541-469-8461 or 541-469-4353.
Mexican train dominoes are played at 5 p.m. in the Driftwood Estates Mobile Home Estates clubhouse, 16063 Driftwood Lane, Harbor. Both hand and foot players are welcome. For information, call 541-251-3442.
Cub Scouts meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Scout Hall, 414 Azalea Park Road, Brookings. For information, call Cubmaster Jerry Law at 541-646-9270.
Community Kitchens offers free meals from noon to 1 p.m. at Brookings Presbyterian Church, 540 Pacific Ave. Donations are welcome. Everyone is invited. For information, call 541-469-3725.
Al-Anon Family Group meets from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 209 Wharf St., Brookings.
Oasis Shelter Home offers a free support group for women at 11 a.m. at Fleet Street Counseling, 624 Fleet St., Brookings. For more information, call 541-373-1630.
Star of the Sea Thrift Store is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Star of the Sea Catholic Church, 820 Old County Road, Brookings. The sale of goods benefits the needy, the church and Catholic education. The store is also open Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Weight Watchers meets at Brookings Inn Resort conference center, 1143 Chetco Ave. Weigh-in is at 5:30 p.m. with the meeting following at 6.
Friday, Aug. 2
The second annual "On Streets of Gold" Christian outreach will be from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Gold Beach High School football stadium. Admission is free. The event includes bands, speakers and booths. For more information, visit http://www.onstreetsofgold.com. The event will continue from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3.
First Friday Salon meets at 6 p.m. at Chetco Community Public Library, 405 Alder St., Brookings. The film "Whose Body, Whose Rights?" will be shown. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/ynnavi.
Brookings textile artists gather from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at Manley Art Center and Gallery, 433 Oak St., Brookings. For information, call Marge Norvelle at 541-469-1949.
Chetco Shrine Club meets at 11:30 a.m. at Sebastian's Bar and Grill, 16011 Boat Basin Road, Harbor.
Community Kitchens offers free meals from noon to 1 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1200 Easy St., Brookings. Donations are welcome. Everyone is invited. For information, call 541-469-3411.
Arnis (Philippine martial art of stick fighting) classes are offered at 7 p.m. at South Coast Fitness Center in the Brookings-Harbor Shopping Center. For information, call 541-469-7118.
Al-Anon meets at noon at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, 401 Fir St., Brookings. For information, call 541-469-5504, 541-469-0972 or 707-487-9046. The group also meets at 10 a.m. Saturdays and 6:30 p.m. Mondays.
Bingo is played at the Brookings Elks Lodge, 800 Elk Drive. Earlybird bingo begins at 11 a.m. followed by regular bingo. The public is welcome.
Pelican Bay Amateur Radio Club meets for coffee and to discuss ham radio at 8:30 a.m. at Dee-Ann's Tea Room, 434 Redwood St., Brookings. Those interested in amateur radio are invited to attend. For more information, call 541-469-7240.
Saturday, Aug. 3
Backwoods Home Magazine is sponsoring a Project Appleseed Marksmanship and Heritage Clinic at 21225 Carpenterville Road, Brookings. Register at http://www.appleseedinfo.org. The clinic will continue Sunday, Aug. 4.
Al-Anon Fourth Step meets at 10 a.m. at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, 401 Fir St., Brookings. For information, call 541-469-0972 or 541-469-2931.
Sunday, Aug. 4
A beach grass pulling party will be from 1 to 5 p.m. at Tolowa Dunes State Park, 2591 Old Mill Road, Crescent City. Volunteers are advised to dress in layers, wear sturdy shoes and a hat, bring water, snacks and sunscreen. The event is cancelled if it's raining. For information, call 707-954-5253.
Tuesday, Aug. 6
The Compassionate Friends meets from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Chetco Community Public Library, 405 Alder St., Brookings. TCF provides comfort, hope and support to families experiencing the death of a son or daughter, brother or sister or a grandchild. For more information, call 541-469-5814.
Chetco Stamp Collectors meet at 1 p.m. at the Chetco Activity Center, 550 Chetco Lane, Brookings, to exchange stamps. For more information, call 541-469-0957.
Moms In Touch International meets for prayers weekly. For information, call Ruth Wilson at 541-469-4798.
The Pregnancy Care Center of Brookings, located at 344 Pacific Ave., offers free and confidential pregnancy tests, education on all pregnancy options, parenting classes, baby and maternity items and more. The center is open from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Client classes are offered on Tuesdays. For information about classes or about the center, call 541-469-1846. A 24-hour hotline is available at 800-395-4357.
Alcoholics Anonymous has many meetings from which to choose in Brookings-Harbor and Gold Beach. Locations and times in Brookings-Harbor may be obtained by phoning 541-469-2440. In Gold Beach, call 541-247-9038 or 541-247-0695.
Oasis Shelter Home provides a haven for women and their children to be free of domestic violence, sexual abuse and resulting homelessness. Oasis offers a women's peer support group in Gold Beach that is open to the public. Call 541-247-7600 or 800-447-1167 for dates, times and assistance.
CC's Cancer Resource Center offers free counseling and resource options daily to women addressing cancer issues. The resource center is inside CC's Upscale Resale Clothing Store in the Brookings-Harbor Shopping Center in Harbor. The center is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The resource center also hosts Tea at Ten group meetings every Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. For information, call 541-469-2072.
The Christian Science Reading Room and Bookstore, 429 Pine St., Brookings, is open from 1 to 3 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. The room contains products and resources for the exploration of spiritual healing. For information, call 541-469-2398.
Pelican Bay Narcotics Anonymous meets at 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, 401 Fir St., Brookings. For information, call 541-787-6282.


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Jim Burroway
June 7th, 2013
Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Albany, NY; Anchorage, AK; Athens, Greece; Birmingham, AL; Blackpool, UK; Boston, MA; Brooklyn, NY; Des Moines, IA; Detroit, MI; Edmonton, AB; El Paso, TX; Indianapolis, IN; Innsbruck, Austria; Karlsruge, Germany; Key West, FL; Long Island (Huntington), NY; Los Angeles, CA; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Milwaukee, WI; Oxford, UK; Philadelphia, PA; Shanghai China; Söderhamn, Sweden; Split, Croatia; Spokane, WA; Tel Aviv, Israel (Today only); Turin, Italy; Washington, DC; Zurich, Switzerland.
Other Celebrations This Weekend: Razzle Dazzle Dallas, Dallas, TX; Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Hartford, CT; Sierra Stampede, Rio Linda, CA; AIDS Lifecycle, San Francisco to Los Angeles, CA (Sponsor BTB's Rob Tisinai here!); Tel Aviv LGBT International Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Miami Voters Rescind Gay Rights Ordinance: 1977. The Dade County Commission approved an ordinance in January of 1977 that would outlaw discrimination against gay people in employment, housing and public services. Miami joined about 40 other communities around the nation had similar anti-discrimination laws in effect.
Reaction from local Christian conservatives was swift. Former beauty queen and Florida Orage Juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant learned about the ordinance when it was denounced from the pulpit at Northwest Baptist Church. She sprang into action, creating a group called "Save Our Children" to overturn the ordinance at the ballot box. Fearmongering about "access to children" would be the group's main focus. "When the law requires you to let an admitted homosexual teach your children and serve as a role model for them, it's time to stop being so tolerant," Bryant said. Her mean-spiritedness reportedly cost her a planned syndicated television series when producers backed away from the controversial singer. This gave her a chance to reveal her persecution complex. Declaring that "the blacklisting of Anita Bryant has begun," she claimed that in losing that job, "it destroys the dream that I have had since I was a child." Gay rights leader and local businessman Bob Kunst relished the irony. "She wants to cause gays to lose their jobs and she complains because she has lost a job. The lady is a hypocrite."
As acrimonious as the campaign was, the final vote wasn't even close. When the day of the special election came around, the final tally was 202,319 to just 89,562. Dade County voted overwhelmingly to jump onto Anita Bryant's bandwagon. Bryant responded, "The laws of God and the cultural values of man have been vindicated," and announced that she would take her campaign to other cities across America.
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While one roadblock veterans face in the pursuit of homeownership is securing steady employment, they display a generally positive attitude in regards to potential employers and positions.
• More than two-thirds (67%) believe that employers appreciate their or their spouse's unique skills learned in the military, while the same percentage (67%) believe employers are eager to hire veterans.
• However, it is important to note that nearly half (45%) agree that their skill set does not match the requirements for many available positions.
• Surprisingly, only one in five (20%) considered opening their own business when they returned home from the military.
Survey Methodology
The survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of Mullen and Century 21 Real Estate LLC from October 16-18, 2013 among 2,014 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, among whom 437 indicated that they or their spouse either currently is or previously was a member of the U.S. armed forces. It is from the aforementioned 437 responders that we based the survey results. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.
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Meet Danny O'Brien
This is part of a series of 2009 Maryland football commitment Q&As leading up to Signing Day on Feb. 4. All answers are provided by the featured player. Click here for previous entries in the series.
Name: Danny O'Brien
Birthdate: Sept. 26, 1990
Birthplace: St. Paul, Minn.
Hometown: St. Paul, Minn.
Nicknames: None
Height: 6-3
Weight: 195
Position: Quarterback
High School: East Forsyth (N.C.) High School
Senior statistics: 117-for-235 passing for 1,640 yards, 16 touchdowns and six interceptions. 780 yards rushing and 11 touchdowns on 160 carries.
Rankings: Rivals.com -- Three stars, No. 37 pro-style quarterback, No. 25 player in North Carolina. Scout.com -- Three stars, No. 57 quarterback
Bench max: 245
40-yard dash: 4.64
Other schools considered: Virginia, Wake Forest, Clemson, Duke, East Carolina
Favorite NFL player: Peyton Manning
Favorite NFL team: Minnesota Vikings
Favorite all-time Terp: Boomer Esiason
Favorite music: Lil Wayne, Coldplay
Favorite book: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Favorite TV show: SportsCenter
Favorite movie: Remember the Titans
Favorite food: Chili
Favorite high school class: U.S. History
Favorite thing about College Park: "I just love the area. It's in between D.C. and Baltimore. I just love the overall atmosphere and area."
Other high school sports: Basketball
Hobbies: "Besides training and lifting and running, just hanging out with friends and relaxing when I'm not doing sports."
Intended major: Business management
Something that not many people know about you: "I go fishing more than the average guy."
Best football moment: "I would say beating our rival school Glenn 49-7 this year."
Role model: "I would say Peyton Manning again just because of his work ethic. He's not the most physically gifted athlete, but he just works so hard and that's why he's successful."
Why Maryland? "I just like the direction of everything going on up there. [UM offensive coordinator and quarterbacks] coach [James] Franklin is a great guy and so is coach [Ralph] Friedgen. And I just established a lot of good relationships with the players coming up there and the coaches."
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This Startup Weekend event will be held at hotDesks, a coworking space, in Salisbury, MD. We can accommodate 50-75 attendees. Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of builders, creators, developers, designers, and idea generators who come together for a weekend of experiential learning and growth. The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, WA but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and build companies. All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it's a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback. Whether attendees found companies, find a cofounder, make amazing connections, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups. Register now for the best weekend of your life!
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Tothum Siptet, the sorcerer with evil powers, has stolen the orb of Hope. The young barbarian warrior Kaan volunteers to recover it and is then caught up in an arduous hunt, confronting skeletons, sorcerors, bear-men and huge monsters in the breathtaking quest to recover the Orb.
- Venture Forth From Your Home: From asaquan to the sykonian lands, you must leap, dodge, charge and master several different weapons, such as the long sword, hammer, and jet axe.
- Master Your Blade: Learn many different combinations and special attacks.
- Explosive 3D Action: Non stop action and remarkable special effects throughout the adventure, with attaks involving up to 8 enemies at the same time.
- Extend The Adventure: Fight in arena mode against dozens of enemies and take on an additional bonus quest. Tribe bonuses are scatered throughout 17 levels of the game.


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The Loudest Internet Voice on Hurricane Sandy Doesn't Believe in Climate Change
Posted By Kristine Lofgren On November 5, 2012 @ 4:00 pm In Environment,global warming,News,Politics | No Comments
The Wikipedia page for Hurricane Sandy [2] received over half a million views in the past week, and one Floridian man named Ken Mampel has dedicated great time and effort to maintaining the page himself. The trouble is that Mampel doesn't believe in climate change [3]. As a result, any information regarding the link between the hurricane and climate change [4] is conspicuously missing from the page.
As of November 2, Mampel had edited the Wikipedia page twice as many times as the next editor. PopSci editor Dan Nosowitz [6] contacted the man to get an understanding about why he was so heavily involved in editing the page. Mampel told Nosowitz that he didn't believe in climate change. "It's still in debate in the world community Dan… even if EnviroGore thinks there is no need for debate," he said. Editing out information about climate change [7], then, was his effort to keep the page as factual as he felt it should be. However, Mampel has no particular knowledge, by his admission, about climate change or weather.
The bedrock of Wikipedia is built on allowing any contributor to edit, remove or add elements to a page. However, Wikipedia isn't meant to allow for one editor to carry greater editorial weight than another and Mampel's edits has created controversy between himself and the other contributors. While Mampel may feel that he is making these edits in good faith, the question remains: how can those 500,000 readers get the full story if certain aspects of it are withheld? Luckily, the open nature of Wikipedia means that eventually contributors will succeed in providing all of the facts about the hurricane [8], but until then, Mampel is making sure that climate change [9] isn't a part of that story.
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[2] The Wikipedia page for Hurricane Sandy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy
[3] climate change: http://inhabitat.com/global-warming/
[4] link between the hurricane and climate change: http://inhabitat.com/nyc/mayor-bloomberg-and-governor-cuomo-admit-to-relationship-between-sandy-and-climate-change/
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[6] Dan Nosowitz: http://www.popsci.com/category/popsci-authors/dan-nosowitz
[7] climate change: http://inhabitat.com/book-review-climate-cover-up/
[8] hurricane: http://inhabitat.com/hurricane-sandy-forces-mitt-romney-to-eat-his-words-about-rising-oceans/
[9] climate change: http://inhabitat.com/mayor-bloomberg-and-governor-cuomo-acknowledge-relationship-between-climate-change-in-hurricane-sandy/
[10] Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5956282/most-of-your-hurricane-sandy-knowledge-is-coming-from-a-man-who-doesnt-believe-in-global-warming
[11] PopSci: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-11/wikipedia-sandy
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4 questionsWhat do you want to be when you grow up? A stage director
What is your favorite food? Pizza with lots of tomato sauce
What is your weird talent? Making up songs
Who inspires you and why? Oompa loompas because they are funny and make people laugh.
His parents encourage all of Finn's interests and talents and knew early on that they needed to find an outlet for his creative tendencies.
"He loved anything with music on TV or in movies, so that's where we got the idea to have him join a theater group," says mom Dana Rue Weiby. "We tried first with a park district group but it was hard because they don't have experience with special needs kids. He was taking gymnastics classes and met Orion who saw that Finn had limitations but was willing to work with him."
Orion Couling is the assistant manager, artistic director and special events coordinator for Gymkhana Gymnastics & Dance in Hanover Park, which was running a summer theater workshop at the time. The workshop ended with a performance and Dana says Finn stole the show.
"After the teen class did monologues he got up and did his own. He loves to hear clapping and to make people laugh."
Finn also participated in the center's production of "Aladdin Junior" in the fall, also directed by Couling. Not only did Finn learn his lines and songs, he learned everyone else's, too, (Finn started reading before age 3) and was always ready to jump in and help direct.
"The other kids were great with him," says Dana. "When he joined in with the main characters they just let him do it. The teens were seeing Orion's reaction and they saw that it was OK."
Finn says his favorite song from the production is "Arabian Nights" and that he likes singing better than dancing. "Dancing is kind of hard," he says.
Besides acting, Finn also likes yoga, takes piano lessons, gymnastics classes and tap dance lessons (Dana says he likes to practice his tap steps in the basement). He's also gearing up for his next performance at Gymkhana as a centaur in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" March 14 and 15. This is a more serious play for Finn and isn't a musical, but Dana says he's doing well with rehearsals.
"He always surprises me," she says.
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May 3, 2016
Rising fuel prices aren't just being felt at the pump... it's also impacting bakeries.
The cost of flour has greatly increased, forcing many bakeries to raise their prices, and others out of business.
Some bakery owners are paying about three times more for flour than they were last year. The increase is due to the rising cost of gas and energy.
Some farmers are now growing less wheat and growing more corn, which is being used for ethanol.
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