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Heroin vaccine ready for human testing, researchers say
Point Loma A heroin-blocking vaccine has proven its effectiveness in rats and is ready for human clinical trials, say scientists at The Scripps Research Institute.
Even after being put through withdrawal and then given access to heroin again, the vaccinated rats don't seek it out.
"The effects of the heroin vaccine are more dramatic than any we've ever seen and have been tested more rigorously in an animal model than we've every seen," said George Koob, the study's senior author.
The study, conducted entirely by Scripps scientists, was published online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The first author was Joel E. Schlosburg.
Senior study author Kim Janda says the vaccine causes the body to produce antibodies against heroin and its psychoactive products. These antibodies circulate in the bloodstream, and neutralize any of these substances they encounter before they reach the brain.
"It's like the old '80s game Pac-Man," Janda said. "They immediately seek out the target and sequester it."
The vaccine isn't intended to provide a one-step solution for heroin addicts, Koob said. It's meant to help addicts who want to get off the drug, by eliminating the damaging effect of a relapse.
Money is the main obstacle to beginning human testing, say the researchers, who are looking for a drug company or perhaps a philanthropist to fund the clinical trials.
The trial would be relatively inexpensive, Koob said.
"My guess is it would be less than the millions of dollars that need to be done for, say, an antidepressant," Koob said.
Bob Patton, a research fellow at the National Addiction Center at King's College in London, said the study is promising, but more research is needed to determine how effective it can be upon the "more sophisticated immune and reward systems" of humans.
"It is well understood that addiction is more than a simple physiological condition, and that environmental and social factors play an important role in its onset and maintenance," Patton said by email. "For this reason, it is encouraging that the authors view their vaccine as an adjunct rather than an alternative for existing therapies."
Worldwide, an estimated 12 million to 14 million people used heroin as of 2009, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. An estimated 281,000 Americans used heroin as of 2011, according to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Janda and colleagues including Koob have been developing other anti-drug vaccines, such as a cocaine vaccine now in Phase 2 clinical trials.
Blocking the voluntary resumption of addictive behavior is extraordinarily difficult, said Koob, who chairs the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders at Scripps. Demonstrating that effect in rats gave "definitive" evidence that the vaccine has potential for people.
"That's never been done before," Koob said. "No one has ever addicted a rat to nicotine or cocaine and then shown they could stop them from re-addicting themselves."
Such anti-addiction vaccines are safe, and don't block the effect of painkillers Koob said.
"One of the fears is, it's going to bind to my endorphins — not," Koob said. "It's going to bind to my opiate receptors — not. It's going to do something to my liver — not. They sit in the bloodstream like a sponge, they grab these molecules when they show up, and activate clearance or destruction of the molecules."
Koob said one of these metabolites, 6-acetylmorphine, appears to be the most active ingredient in the heroin high, because blocking that molecule stopped the addicted rats from engaging in "reinforcing" behavior.
"We knew that it was formed, we knew that it was active, but we didn't know how active," Koob said. "It seems to be even more important than morphine itself."


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A Tale of Two RoadstersWritten by on March 28, 2012 Contributors: Jeff Smith, Wes Allison, Tom Medley, Bob Bayles
WALLY. Long before he became HOT ROD's editor (1949) or cofounded the National Hot Rod Association (1951), Wallace Gordon Parks was a dry-lakes racer and hot rodder. Born in Goltry, Oklahoma, in 1913, his life's work--and the course of hot rodding--was set by his parents' relocation to Los Angeles in the '20s. Like most boys back then, the youngster was fascinated by automobiles. The first time he made the trek over Mint Canyon Road to Muroc dry lake to watch the flivvers speed across terra firma, the teenager was hooked. According to the late Dean Batchelor, Wally raced a fenderless '27 Chevy convertible coupe to 82.19 mph, joined the Road Runners club, helped form the Southern California Timing Association in 1937, and, together with Eldon Snapp, produced SCTA Racing News. The young man's leadership and journalistic abilities were already evident.
After World War II, despite the federal government's closure of them, the lakes scene became a hotbed of activity (pun intended). Dozens of clubs raced on various dried-up lakebeds. In 1947, Wally became the first paid employee of the SCTA as secretary and general manager. After Robert E. Petersen and Bob Lindsay launched HOT ROD magazine, Wally became one of their earliest editorial contributors, then their first full-time employee.
In the Apr. '54 issue, Wally's monthly column, The Editor Says, introduced a black-and-white photo of him looking back over the decklid of his red '29 A-V8. According to Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum curator and HOT ROD Deluxe contributor Greg Sharp, the body had been black when purchased. Wally soon repainted the car but never got around to changing its blue interior. While typical for its era, the roadster had some unusual features: a track-roadster-style, suicide front end; a three-piece, louvered hood; an Auburn dash; and a painted rear nerf bar.
Although that famous photo continued leading his HRM column until 1957, the roadster was long gone by then. In conversations with Sharp, Wally recalled that he sold the car in 1954, watched it turn onto the Hollywood Freeway, and never saw it again.
Fast forward to 2005--more than 50 years after Wally watched the roadster disappear--and the Cal-Rods car club, which meets monthly at Wally's namesake museum. During one of those meetings, members hatched a plot to re-create the Model A. Under the project leadership of Vic Cunnyngham, flyers were printed, Rod and Custom and SEMA helped spread the word, and donations of money and parts flooded in: a brand-new body from Brookville, Deuce rails from American Metal Stamping (subsequently assembled by Steve Dennish's Limeworks), a fresh V8 from H&H Flatheads, a transmission from Jim Coffee, and virtually everything else necessary to assemble a complete, running, reliable vehicle. The Cal-Rods rented an airport hangar for the construction.
During the intense summer that followed, the parts were lovingly fettled, massaged, polished, painted, and assembled. California Roadster shipped in the 2-inch-chopped windshield, and George Britting sliced the grille shell and insert donated by Gary Moline. Mufflerville (Baldwin Park, California) replicated the original exhaust system. Ed Lyons installed a Painless Wiring harness, and Gene Winfield, a longtime friend of Wally's, personally shot the paint. (Unfortunately, space does not permit us to publish the complete list of 60-plus contributors submitted by the club. You know who you are, and so did a grateful Wally Parks.)
As most readers realize all too well, building any kind of hot rod is hard work. Building one by committee might seem impossible. Yet the Cal-Rods achieved the impossible and presented the car to Wally in a very moving ceremony during the museum's Twilight Cruise in December 2005.
After he passed away in September 2007, at age 94, Wally's last hot rod sat silently in the museum--until the Cal-Rods came up with a plan to drive the car to Bonneville, a favorite place for the man primarily responsible for originating Speed Week in 1949. Early last year, the old team went to work again, preparing the car for a 1,400-plus-mile round trip that proved to be as trouble free as it was fun for participating club members. Upon their return, the Cal-Rods donated the car to the NHRA Museum, where it now has a permanent home amidst so many other artifacts and memories of a life devoted to growing, guiding, and nurturing both hot rodding and drag racing.
In-N-Out Burger was born there. So was the Cal-Rods Car Club. Baldwin Park lies about 20 miles due east of Los Angeles. In 1954, on the advice of Baldwin Park High School teacher Clyde Gorsuch, young Don Scurti--who is still a member--formed the Cal-Rods to teach boys how to work on their cars. Other area clubs included the Deckers, the Nerfers, the Ratchets, the Loafers, and the unlikely Wambombies.
An early priority was finding a clubhouse. By raising funds through a paper drive and securing donations and discounts from local merchants, members fixed up an old barn. They got some help from the girls, too--the Cal-Rodettes. Known to this day for community service, the club was first honored in 1955 with a Second Place trophy in the City of Hope Hospital's annual fundraising drive.
The club flourished for about 10 years, then faded as members married and moved on with their lives. However, the desire to share their hobby did not die, and in 1997, alumni Vic (1960) and Wanda (1962) Cunnyngham proposed re-forming the club. Original president Don Scurti and his wife, Pat (Willis), endorsed the idea. Don even produced his original club plaque, saying, "Maybe we can make duplicates of these."
By 1999, the Cal-Rods were fully re-formed with 300 families and more than 500 individual members. Meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Original members Don Scurti, Jack Ferguson, Roger Killiam, Merced Medina, Bill Prisk, Jim Kitley, Tom Flenniken, Patty (Willis) Scurti, Sharon (Whelan) Davis, and Claire (DeLazzaro) Ensminger are still active.
Besides supporting the NHRA Museum, the club continues to support the community with a charity car show and Christmas toy drive. In 2004, the Cal-Rods were presented with the Eagle One Golden Rule Award presented annually for the most outstanding community-service program in the western United States. More information about the club can be found at CalRods.com. --VIC CUNNYNGHAM
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Greg Sharp, NHRA Museum curator and indispensable HRD researcher, kicked down the classy Auburn dash. Cornhusker Rod & Custom contributed a rare banjo wheel, intentionally relieved of its horn button to match the original. Covina Auto Trim matched the custom blue interior that an owner previous to Wally installed (when the body was still black).A rare pair of original, flawless Stromberg 97s was supplied by NHRA Museum board member Steve Gibbs, Wally's good friend and longtime NHRA competition director.H&H Flatheads contributed a period-correct mill. The few original detail photos that exist guided the Cal-Rods' faithful replication of Wally's original engine compartment, right down to a '41 Ford six-cylinder radiator from U.S. Radiator and a '39 V12 Lincoln distributor modified to eight lobes by the late Dave Enmark. Bob's Auto Painting (Whittier, California) produced the firewall. Obviously sticklers for accuracy, Cal-Rods members swapped out the Navarro heads that H&H provided for a set of Evans heads, just like those that Wally was running in the mid-'50s.Steve Dennish and his team at Limeworks Speed Shop in Whittier, California, were responsible for most of the heavy lifting, including chassis work, suspension, steering, body mounting, and miscellaneous fabrication. Dig the Austin gasser and chopped coupe parked outside the day that Cal-Rods members collected their prize.Vic Cunnyngham, a past president of the Cal-Rods and the main instigator of this ambitious project, laid out the template used to mate a three-piece, custom hood to the Model A cowl and '32 grille. Note the unusual, late-Ford front end that mounts the spring ahead of, rather than behind, the axle. The slightly longer wheelbase delivers a slightly better ride.Famous customizer Gene "Windy" Winfield did his lifelong friend one final favor by personally replicating Wally's original paint.This excellent shot by Cal-Rods member Bob Bayles of the rolling chassis gives us all a view of Mufflerville's exhaust installation and Limeworks' craftsmanship.Assisting in the final thrash are (left to right) Bill Seal, Vic Cunnyngham, Colleen and Gret Hardy, Don Ford, Jerry Masson, Bob Bayles, Bill Willis, and John Hampton. All are Cal-Rods members except the Hardys, hot rodders visiting from Australia. (Not shown is Cal-Rodette Wanda Cunnyngham, who shot the photo.)At the '54 Southern California Championships at Pomona, NHRA President Wally Parks chose off Vice President (and cofounder) Ak Miller. Miller got the holeshot in his Olds-powered Deuce. Fifty-one years later in Pomona, on the night of the Cal-Rods' replicar presentation, Wally said, "Ak was leading at the halfway point, but then I pulled away and won. I never raced him again. That way, I could say that the last time I raced Ak Miller in this car, I beat him!" The fellow Road Runners members were pals for nearly 60 years and verbally reran this contest dozens of times prior to Ak's death in 2005.
This print is the earliest image that historian Greg Sharp has ever seen of the original roadster and also the only one still showing the black paintjob that came with the car. It's believed to be from 1951, but might be even older.Among the 35mm images visible in this poor copy of Tom Medley's proof sheet is the frame selected by HRM's editor to lead his monthly column from April 1954 through April 1957. Greg Sharp recognized the background as an unfinished portion of the Hollywood Freeway, whose downtown Los Angeles stretch opened in December 1950.A real blow to California hot rodders was the "fender law," enacted in late 1951, requiring vehicles weighing more than 1,500 pounds to have fenders on all four wheels. With the help of CHP officer Chuck Pollard, Parks demonstrated to HRM readers a solution to the problem, using modified motorcycle fenders and his own '29 highboy as the guinea pig.Shown in the seat is Emmy-winning TV newscaster George Putnam, an anchor at all four of Los Angeles' major independent stations and a man praised by Richard M. Nixon as "one of the most influential commentators of our times." During the second NHRA Southern California Championships at Pomona in 1954, he made passes in Wally's roadster and was very interested in buying it until Putnam's wife squelched the deal, according to Wally. The car was sold to someone else later that year.Here's what Wally Parks saw when he walked outside the NHRA Museum on December 8, 2005. Veteran NHRA announcer Dave McClelland, an old friend, is the emcee at the podium.The unveiling by Cal-Rods members clearly astonished both Wally (in red jacket) and wife Barbara (in wheelchair, on steps behind podium). Mrs. Parks would pass away the following month.


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Catching Mitt
Campaign 2008 | Despite high discomfort level with presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormonism, the GOP candidate's ratings aren't going down
"Catching Mitt" Continued...
How many voters does insurance broker Frank Senger of Newport Beach, Calif., represent?
"No way will I be voting for Mitt Romney," he insists. A Republican and a lifelong Baptist, he abhors the thought of voting for a Mormon for president and says "there's more to it than just some prejudice. It bothers me a whole lot that someone that bright could fall for the stories about where Mormonism came from, and all that blather about the golden tablets. If he'll fall for that, do I want him in the same room and at the same table with Kim Jong-il of North Korea or Ahmadinejad from Iran?"
Senger also wonders about "why Romney's changed so many of his positions on key issues. Just seems a little too convenient at this stage of the game for him to become so conservative all of a sudden on abortion, on homosexual marriage-even on some economic issues."
Mitt Romney, of course, has heard that often this year. He's read the polls that say 25 percent of all American voters-or worse yet, a third of all Republicans-won't even consider voting for a Mormon for president. And he's responded so often to the "flipflopping" charges that he probably could do that in his sleep.
In a late April interview with Romney, WORLD asked: "The Apostle Paul is famous for saying that if the historical facts don't back up Christianity, then his teaching-Paul's teaching-is worthless and the Christian faith is futile. Would you be willing to say the same thing if it were shown that Joseph Smith made things up? Would it be fair to conclude that Mormon teaching is also worthless and futile?"
Romney was quick to answer. "I'm not going to take that hypothetical-OK?" he said, almost curtly, then softened. "I'm no Paul," he added modestly.
But for all the controversy over the candidacy of the 60-year-old former governor of Massachusetts, who potentially could become the first Mormon president of the United States, Romney is very much in the race. Analyst and columnist Peggy Noonan (who makes no effort to hide her own support for unannounced candidate Fred Thompson) proclaimed Romney winner of the May 3 GOP debate in Simi Valley, Calif., that featured all 10 active candidates. "The statuesque Mr. Romney," she wrote, "had a certain good-natured command, a presidential voice, and a surprising wiliness. He seemed happy to be there, and in the mysterious way that some people seem to dominate, he dominated."
Some GOP voters seemed to agree: Among New Hampshire primary voters, Romney drew 31 percent of the vote to Giuliani's 23 percent and McCain's 22 percent in a poll following the debate.
Things are, in fact, so positive around the Romney camp following the debate that you'd never guess their man-even after six months of costly, energetic campaigning-has regularly lagged well behind Rudy Giuliani and John McCain in overall polls. Never fear, say the Romney people. Of the "big three" candidates, theirs is the only one whose numbers have actually improved in recent weeks. The Giuliani boom has crested, they believe, and the wave of McCain support left over from the 2000 campaign is proving that it is just that-a leftover.
But no one knows for sure whether the dissipating Giuliani and McCain support represents potential for Romney, or if it is more likely to seek out other potential candidates like Fred Thompson, Newt Gingrich, or one of the so-called minor candidates (Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, and Tommy Thompson)-none of whose poll numbers have yet passed the 4 percent level.
Yet this much seems certain: If there is to be credible movement in the Romney polling numbers, it will have to come from skeptics like Frank Senger. No one can up front write off a quarter or maybe even a third of his targeted constituency and expect to win. Which is why Romney for some months now has been going out of his way to build bridges to the camps of evangelical Christian leadership.
The effort has borne early and surprising fruit. After the campaign invited a dozen hand-picked evangelical leaders (including Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, Jay Sekulow, and Gary Bauer) to the Romney home near Boston for a three-hour get-acquainted session in November, reassuring word began to spread that in spite of his Mormonism, Romney is an OK guy. The Southern Baptists' Richard Land was not at that meeting but has left the door open, saying "We're not electing a theologian-in-chief."
Romney insists that Mormons and evangelicals have "values that are very much the same. We could look at each other's records for protecting life or preserving traditional marriage and for strengthening families and see that we are on the same page in terms of the direction needed for America."
Some evangelical leaders agree: Charles Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship, told WORLD that Romney is "a very attractive candidate. While I have deep theological differences with him, I am more influenced by his values and how they would play out in public office. I don't make endorsements, but he has got a lot of appeal."
Skeptics wonder how Mormon theology connects to those values. WORLD asked Romney: "What one or two issues do you wish evangelical Christians understood better about your Mormon faith?" He replied, "Nothing jumps to my mind," with the clear suggestion he'd rather move on to other matters.
But Romney detractors are not so eager-even if they're willing to set aside the Mormon affiliation-to ignore the issues on which Romney has switched positions over the last few years.
As recently as 2002, for example, during his gubernatorial campaign, Romney said about abortion: "I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose. This choice is a deeply personal one. Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government's."
Two weeks ago, his statement was very different: "It's my hope," he told WORLD, "that you'll see the Supreme Court return to the states the authority to create their own laws regarding abortion. The one-size-fits-all Roe v. Wade decision was wrongly decided, and I look for the court over time to provide to the people and their elected representatives of the states the right to protect life as they feel appropriate."
Asked to explain the shift in his thinking, Romney attributed the change to his changing political roles: "It's one thing to consider something as a citizen. It's another when you're actually responsible for the people of a state and you see the impact of abortion practices on the people of that state. . . . My change followed a lengthy debate regarding cloning and embryo farming associated with stem-cell research. And it became clear to me that we had so cheapened the value of human life through a Roe v. Wade mentality that it was important to stand up for life."
Harder to discern are details surrounding apparent shifts in Romney's positions on marriage, civil unions, adoption rights, and protected rights for homosexuals. That discussion has led to the formation of a whole anti-Romney protest industry in Massachusetts called "MassResistance," an organization that pumps out reams of documentation to show how far to the left Romney has been on such issues. No one, even in MassResistance, charges that Romney has ever favored approving homosexual marriage, but conservative opponents say that his cautious role in the appointment of judges in Massachusetts has left the homosexual lobby stronger there than it would otherwise be. They criticize his statement, in regard to the Boy Scout ban on homosexual leaders, that "all people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation."
And then Romney still has to live down his infamous statement, while debating Ted Kennedy in a 1994 race for the U.S. Senate, that he was "no fan of Ronald Reagan conservatism."
His own team agrees he probably tried too hard a few weeks back when he should have passed on a question about his experiences as an outdoorsman and hunter. "I've been a hunter all my life," Romney expansively assured his listeners. By the next day, though, he had to admit he had gone hunting only once or twice in his life.
So Romney's conundrum is this: On the one hand, he has to persuade folks that his Mormonism isn't a really serious issue. Speaking at the Simi Valley GOP debate, he stressed that it's not Americans, but America's enemies, who find religion a divisive matter. "We don't choose our leaders based on which church they go to," he said. "The people we are fighting [overseas], they are the ones fighting over religion."
But then, after persuading skeptics that he's not radical about his faith, or that it's not really as weird as it may seem to some observers, he has to convince them at the very same time that he is serious about his conservatism, and that he's not a johnny-come-lately to the core principles of the party.
It's a tough balancing act-even for a deft politician like Mitt Romney.
Romney file
Age: 60. Born March 12, 1947, in Detroit, Mich. Son of George Romney, a U.S. auto executive, governor of Michigan, cabinet member, and candidate for president.
Married his high-school sweetheart, Ann Davies, in 1969. Together, they have five sons and 10 grandchildren. Ann Romney was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998.
The Romneys are active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, otherwise known as the Mormon Church. He served for 30 months in his late teens as a missionary of that church to France.
Attended Stanford University, then graduated summa cum laude in 1971 from Brigham Young University. In 1975, finished with graduate degrees in law and business from Harvard University.
Served as a business consultant, then took management roles with various investment companies, building a personal net worth estimated at $500 million. Headed the financially troubled 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, leading to a fiscally profitable conclusion.
Lost a 1994 race for the U.S. Senate to incumbent Ted Kennedy. Ran successfully for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, but chose not to seek a second term in 2006. Announced his candidacy for president of the United States in January 2007.


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Charlotte, NC - The Buccaneers jumped out to an early 10-point lead before the Panthers pulled within 3 to end the first quarter.
Tampa Bay capitalized on a Captain Munnerlyn punt return fumble, caused by Erik Lorig.
With the ball on the 29-yard line the Bucs capped off a 6 play drive with a Josh Freeman touchdown pass to tight end Nate Bynham. The 3-yard score marked Freeman's fifteenth straight game with a passing touchdown, making it 7-0 Bucs.
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The Bucs led after one quarter of play 10-7.
In the second quarter the Panthers would comeback to grab the lead on a one yard Jonathan Stewart touchdown run. The score capped a 77-yard drive, giving Carolina a 14-10 lead.
But the Panthers weren't done, so they thought as Cam Newton hit Steve Smith for a touchdown pass that would be nullified for offensive pass interference. At halftime Carolina maintains a 14-10 lead.
In the third quarter the Bucs got a break when Carolina went for a fake punt on fourth down, Haruki Nakamura's first down run attempt came up short.
From there the Buccaneers took over on the Panthers' 37-yard line, but on first and ten Freeman threw a duck that was picked off by Nakamura. The intended pass to Vincent Jackson turned out to be Freeman's second interception on the afternoon.
At the end of the third quarter the Panthers still lead 14-10.
In the fourth quarter the Bucs had a chance to take the lead on 4th and 1, but Doug Martin fumbled in to the endzone. It appeared he crossed the goal plain, but a referee review would call it a touchback and Carolina ball.
On the Panthers ensueing posession, they orechestrated an 80-yard drive when Newton hit Brandon LaFell for a 29-yard touchdown strike giving Carolina a 21-10 edge.
The Bucs would pull with in eight, following Barth's second field goal of the day.
Tampa Bay would get the ball back trailing 21-13 with just over a minute in the game. On the final drive in regulation, Freeman hit Jackson with a pin point pass over the top for a score with 12 seconds left. Trailing by two, the pewter and red hit on the two point conversion on play action as Freeman hit Jackson again over the middle for the game tieing score.
For the first time this season the Bucs headed in to overtime. In the extra session, Tampa Bay took advantage of winning the coin toss. Freeman would find Dallas Clark all alone near the pylon for the game winning touchdown.
As the Bucs win their fourth in a row and third straight on the road 27-21, sweeping the Panthers in the season series.


text: Lost & found: How Refugees United aims to be a Google for refugee search United Nations 18 January 11 by Tom Cheshire This article was taken from the February 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.Marie Rutuganda last saw her sister in 2002, as she fled Rwanda. She now lives in a drab part of Copenhagen. The 37-year-old has big braids that jump from her head like springs, and a tattoo of a rose on her left underarm. The date 3-5-1998 is etched below."My parents were killed in 1998 in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide," she explains. "They had done nothing wrong, but my father was an important man. A businessman who was well-known and had helped protect children during the first uprising." Rutuganda's family was a mix of Hutu and Tsutsi. They did what they could to oppose the genocide.Rutuganda, who wears a white T-shirt despite the November chill in the flat, shifts on the sofa and looks nervously out of the window, which overlooks a meadow. A poster of Jesus hangs on one wall; on another, a Ghanaian flag."I remember when they rounded us up in our village, placing us in a small circle, asking us to sing a special song about Rwanda, a song about Rwanda moving forward," she says. "Soon, the men in military fatigues began picking out the men and women who looked nice, who had nice skin, who dressed nicely. They singled out the young men and women, the educated ones, and began beating them hard, with sticks, whipping them with whatever was at hand. It was eerily silent."Next, they began taking the people they had singled out away... they began to kill them. Shots and screams rang out and people began to flee from the circle which was still guarded by the militia. Few were successful. The men came back and grabbed families to come and pick up their dead, who were stacked in the bathrooms of the huts. I managed to hide and escape. This was the last time I saw my parents alive." Her brother was also killed. The militia strung him between two trees, hung 2kg weights from his testicles, and beat him with sticks. They left him alive for the birds of prey circling overhead.The militia had come to Rutuganda's village from a region further north to find "spies". They targeted the well-educated. As she describes the deaths, Rutuganda touches the rose on her underarm with her right hand. "It's the date of my mother's murder," she says. "I don't know where her body is, so I buried her on my arm."After the militia left, she lived with the surviving members of her family and began to work with various organisations, including the Red Cross and Girl Scouts. Her activism during these four years is too sensitive to describe in detail (she and her younger brother were sent to prison -- where they were molested and beaten -- as a result of their work), but she built a network among international organisations that would later save her life. In 2002, she was warned that she was a militia target. "My situation had become too tense -- too many people were upset with the work I had done," she says. (Rutuganda still fears reprisals. Her name and those of others have been changed.)Soon after, she was told she'd be arrested and killed if she returned to her village. She left by bus the same night, travelling to Uganda with nothing but a T-shirt, trainers, jeans and 3,000 Rwandan shillings (£7) to bribe the border guards. Lacking a passport, she had forged papers, which took her across the border. She had been to Kampala before with her father, and could call on friends for a place to sleep."But I couldn't sleep, didn't sleep," she says. "I only spent the night. I slept for 15 minutes at a time, nightmares waking me up. Most of all, the memory of my siblings kept me awake. I had not been able to tell them I had to leave, didn't say goodbye or warn them. What would happen to them now? The youngest was ten. There was nothing I wanted more than to have spoken to them before I left, to tell them why I had to go. But it would have been too dangerous. It would have cost them and me our lives."She could go no further using false papers. She emailed people she knew abroad for help and was awarded asylum in Denmark. The Danish embassy told her that this status was conditional on having a valid passport. A friend in Rwanda who'd had an affair with a government minister procured it for her, in exchange for a digital camera. Soon she was on her way to Copenhagen. Rutuganda went to school and learned Danish. Today, she works with brain-damaged children. "I like how it makes me feel, the connection I make with them when their eyes light up, when they understand I'm there to help."Rutuganda is building a new life and family in Copenhagen -- she is seven months pregnant -- but the loss of her Rwandan one aches. "During the holidays, especially, I would hear someone say, 'Oh my mum's coming to the nursing home,' and I'd think, 'I don't have a mum. I wish I did,'" she says. "I heard rumours of my entire village being killed and thought, 'Why should my brothers and sisters have survived?' I tried to forget, but every night the memories came floating back. It was sad. My heart was broken. The uncertainty was unbearable." Rutuganda is a devout Christian. In autumn 2009, a Ugandan priest well-known in east African Christian circles travelled to Europe. She went to hear him preach in Denmark and he told her about Refugees United, an independent NGO whose website that offers a free and safe internet search to help refugees locate missing family members. He also said that he thought her family was alive and living in Uganda. She had never heard of Refugees United, but registered a profile on November 3. She entered her name and certain details that only her family would recognise. Then she waited. Read page 2 12345 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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The Digital Pali Reader is an extension for Firefox and Google Chrome browsers that makes the entire Pali Canon, in Pali, accessible through a button on your browser's menubar. You have your choice of several different methods of transliteration; when you click on a Pali word, the definition of that word appears in a window below the text; and you have access, through the extension's browser window, to all available online Pali-English dictionaries. If there are translations of the sutta you're viewing available on the web, you have links to those. And that just begins to touch on its many features. For serious students of the Pali Canon, it's an invaluable tool. I've used it extensively in preparing my own translations of a number of suttas on my Dharma Study site (a support site for the classes I teach at our Osher Lifelong Learning Institute continuing ed. program at the University of Cincinnati and elsewhere).
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NBC's Love In The Wild returns next week for the show's second season with new host, Jenny McCarthy. If you're excited about the new season, you're about to be even more excited as we have some sneak peek videos for you! Check them out after the jump.
Love In The Wild returns on June 5, for a brand new season, and has a brand new host, Jenny McCarthy. This season proves to be more explosive, romantic, and dramatic than ever, but what can fans expect on the two hour season premiere? Just take a look below for some preview videos and extras from NBC!
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Troy Larson enters his 8th season as Head Coach of the Iowa Lakes Men's Basketball team following a successful 2013-2014 season in which he led the Lakers to a 23-9 record, 2nd place in the Iowa Community College Athletic Conference (ICCAC) regular season (10-4), and runner –up in the Region II Championship. The Lakers ended the year ranked 17th nationally and were ranked or received votes in every NJCAA poll this year. In the 2012-2013 season Coach Larson led the Lakers to a 26-8 record, Iowa Community College Athletic Conference (ICCAC) regular season championship (11-3), and Region II Championship and National Tournament appearance. The Lakers ended the year ranked 11th nationally and were ranked in the final 9 NJCAA polls. The regular season ICCAC Championship was the first in Iowa Lakes Men's Basketball history. Larson was also named District 8 Coach of the Year at the conclusion of the 2012-2013 season. While at Iowa Lakes Coach Larson has compiled a 145-76 record. In his 7 seasons as head coach, Larson has had 27 student athletes continue their careers at four-year institutions. These institutions range from NCAA Division I, II, III as well as NAIA Division I and II.
Larson was introduced as the 8th head men's basketball coach in Iowa Lakes Community College history on May 24th 2007. In addition to coaching duties Larson serves as Athletic and Housing Director.
Larson spent the previous six seasons as an assistant coach at South Dakota State University working mostly with the guards. In addition to his coaching duties, Larson handled recruiting, scheduling and the day-to-day management of the basketball team. Larson was part of a staff that produced three straight NCAA II national tournament teams (2002, 2003, & 2004) and one North Central Conference Championship (2002). The 2004 team won a school record 27 games. From 2005 – 2007 South Dakota State was an NCAA I institution playing the likes of Kentucky, Illinois, Minnesota and Nebraska.
Larson worked as an assistant under Coach Jerry Schmutte at Morningside College for two years (1998, 1999) before getting a promotion to associate head coach in 2000. Larson accepted the head coaching job at Morningside in March of 2001, when Schmutte took over as Director of Athletics, but did not coach a game before going to South Dakota State. While at Morningside the Mustangs won a school record 16 consecutive games (1998 – 1999).
Prior to Morningside, Larson spent one season as an assistant coach at Iowa Lakes. The Lakers finished 24 – 7 overall; good enough for second place in Region XI.
During 17 seasons as a college basketball coach, Larson has been a part of teams that have won 320 games at a 62% clip. He has coached 29 first team All-Region /Conference performers, two league MVP, three freshman of the year, ten professional basketball players, and has appeared in the post season twelve times.
A Mallard native, Larson led the Ducks to a combined 39-7 record his junior and senior seasons. He played in back-to-back state tournaments for his father & coach, Ron, earning All-State honors both times. Larson graduated from Mallard High School in 1991 as the school's all-time leading scorer.
Larson took his game to Iowa Lakes Community College after high school, where, in his freshman season he led Coach Bob Grems' Lakers to the national championship game with a 32-6 record. Larson led the Lakers to a 26-7 record as a sophomore, earning first team All-American, first team All-Region & first team Academic All-American honors in the process. Those numbers caught the eye of Morningside College head coach Jerry Schmutte, who brought Larson to Sioux City in 1994 to play for the Mustangs after completing his education at Iowa Lakes.
A team captain his senior year at Morningside, Larson led the Mustangs with 131 assists, and averaged 11.9 points per game. He made the North Central Region All-Tournament Team, earned All-North Central Region & All North Central Conference Academic honors, and led the Mustangs to the Division II Elite Eight Tournament.
Larson graduated from Morningside in 1995 with a B.A. in Accounting & Business Administration and also holds a Master's degree in Business Administration degree from the University of South Dakota.
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Jason McKinney enters his 7th season as a coach with Iowa Lakes. McKinney spent his first two years as a graduate assistant with the Iowa Lakes Men's Basketball team; during this time, he earned a master's degree in Higher Education through Iowa State University. McKinney has helped lead the Lakers to a 120-70 record. In his time at Iowa Lakes McKinney has Coached/Recruited 15 All Region Performers, the schools 1st two time All-American and 2014 conference player of the year, the school's first regular season Conference Championship, and was part of the school's first ever # 1 National Ranking. McKinney's duties include day-to-day operations, recruiting, scouting, player development, and other on the court duties.
Before coming to Iowa Lakes, Coach McKinney spent two seasons as a Student Assistant under Ray Shovlain at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. While at St. Ambrose coach McKinney aided in the recruiting and scouting efforts as well as pre and post season conditioning, practice, and in game coaching. He also worked on his second undergraduate degree in Physical Education.
Prior to St. Ambrose University, McKinney was the Head Varsity Boys' Basketball Coach at Calamus-Wheatland where he led the Warriors to their first playoff victory in 5 seasons. McKinney's duties included developing and implementing a weight program, individual workouts, pre and post season workouts, scouting, practice and in game coaching. McKinney has also served as the Director of Basketball Operations for Sports Town Quad Cities in Eldridge, Iowa.
McKinney is a native of Calamus, Iowa. He graduated from Calamus-Wheatland in 1998 where he was a member of the Warriors District Championship team. Coach McKinney's other accomplishments include a Sport Management Degree from Iowa State.
Jamison Montgomery
Coach Montgomery enters his first year as the Men's Basketball Team Graduate Assistant.
A native of Milwaukee, Wisc., he spent the past two years as a varsity assistant coach at Rufus King, his former high school. During his playing days at King, he was a senior captain and a two-year starter. In addition, he played on teams which received two regional championships, two sectional championships, and made it to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association state tournament.
Jamison received his Bachelor's degree in Sports Communication from Benedictine University in Lisle, Ill. He played all four years, was a 2-year starter, won 3 of 4 conferences titles, and also made the NCAA National Tournament.
He is excited and enthused to be a part of Iowa Lakes and the Laker community.
Ron Larson
Ron Larson starts his seventh year as an assistant volunteer coach for the Lakers men's basketball team. Ron is an alumnus of Iowa Lakes Community College, graduating from the Emmetsburg Campus in 1970. He graduated from Wayne State College in 1972, with a BAE degree.
Ron taught and coached in Nebraska before returning to Mallard High School, in Mallard, where he taught and coached the boys' basketball team to two state appearances.
Ron received his Master's degree in Education from Drake University and retired, from the now West Bend/Mallard CSD, in the spring of 2006, after 20 years as the middle school and elementary principal in Mallard.
Beside his son, Troy, Ron and his wife Richelle, have a daughter Tamela, who lives in Kansas City, Mo., with her family.


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(WUSA9) -- The Redskins dropped to 1-4 on the season after falling to the Cowboys 31-16 on Sunday night in Arlington, TX.
Washington's first turnover put the Burgundy and Gold down 15. Its second just might have sealed a Dallas victory. After driving down the Cowboys 23 yard line with just over five minutes to go, Robert Griffin III fired a deep shot to the end zone that Dallas' Orlando Scandrick picked off after Santana Moss fell down running his route.
That turnover came just a drive after RGIII was hit for a sack and fumbled that Dallas recovered on the Washington three-yard line. Two players later, Joesph Randle plunged in for the score and increased the Cowboys lead to 15 with less than nine minutes to play.
Dallas extended their lead back to eight with 10:40 to go in the game when Cowboys kicker Dan Bailey drilled a 30-yard field goal. The Redskins defense made an impressive red zone stand, highlighted by DeAngelo Hall's breakup of what looked like a sure touchdown pass from Tony Romo to Miles Austin.
Washington had a chance at the start of the final period to chip away more of Dallas' lead if not jump out in front for the first time of the game. However, again the Redskins drive stalled and the team settled for a Kai Forbath 49-yard field goal attempt that he hooked wide left. That was Forbath's first miss of the game after connecting on his first three attempts of 20, 32 and 33 yards respectively.
Washington finally found the endzone with 3:43 to go in the third. After struggling rushing the ball, the Redskins Alfred Morris broke one - a 45 yard scamper that got the Burgundy and Gold within five.
Dallas again increased its lead to at least two scores on its first possession of the second half. It was all set up Dwayne Harris returned the Redskins kickoff 90 yards to the Washington 15 yard line. Two plays later, Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo found Terrance Williams in the corner of the end zone for a 15 yards touchdown.
Washington squandered a second straight red zone opportunity on it's first series of the third quarter; series that feature Robert Griffin III's longest run of the year - 26 yards. However, the Redskins offense bogged down again and settled for a 33 yard Kai Forbath field goal - Forbath's third field goal of the game.
Washington's last drive before the half was eerily similar as the Redskins had to settle for a 32 yard Forbath field goal just as time expired.
Dallas extended its lead to two scores just before the two-minute warning before the half when Dwayne Harris returned a Sav Rocca punt 86 yards for the 2nd Cowboys touchdown.
The Redskins got on the board on their first drive on a 20-yard field goal by Forbath.
However, that followed a great opening series by the Cowboys. Quarterback Tony Romo led Dallas on a 10-play 80-yard drive capping off the drive with 4-yard touchdown run by Demarco Murray.
Since the Cowboys opening scoring drive, the Redskins defense has stopped Dallas on consecutive drives with an interception by Rob Jackson and forcing a punt.
The Redskins offense has struggled since its opening possession too; failing to make it to Dallas territory on both drives and punting on both.
Some first half stats:
Robert Griffin III: Passing - 19/39, 246 yds, INT | Rushing - 9 car, 77 yds, Fum
Alfred Morris: 16 car, 81 yds, TD
Pierre Garcon: 6 rec, 69 yds
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Can someone translate the following error for me? I am looking for where the timeout is occurring, as in ip and port. Any help would be appreciated.
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Get ready for the brightest holiday on the Jewish calender - HANUKKAH! The miracle of one bottle of oil that lit the temple for 8 straight days.
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Interactive menorah lighting ceremony with volunteers from the crowd @ 22.30
Tickets are 20 Euros, include 2 drinks of your choice (wide selection available) and yammy tapas. Additional drinks in substantial discount all night long.
Tickets sale: Wednesday, December 5th 12-15, MM31 in the LAUNCH PAD
For more tickets, ask your Israeli fellow students.
Get your Hanukkah groove on and light up the holiday.
ESPAÑA, Madrid


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OXON HILL, Md. (AP) - Prince George's County Police say a courier with an armored truck was shot during a robbery in Oxon Hill.
It happened about 1 p.m. Tuesday in the 6300 block of Livingston Road. Officers say the courier for Loomis Armored Car Service was delivering money to the Save A Lot store.
Police say the guard had just gotten out of the truck when he was confronted by three or four masked men. One shot him in the face. Witnesses say the guard ran inside the store screaming, "Call 911!"
The gunmen fled in a gray or silver four-door passenger car. They apparently grabbed a box of money, but may have dropped it before they escaped.
Police are checking surveillance tape from around the shopping center.
The courier was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.


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Serves 8
500g store-bought hard ginger biscuits
180g unsalted butter, melted
¼ cup dried sour cherries
¼ cup currants
½ cup sweetened dried cranberries
¼ cup glace ginger, chopped
¼ cup slivered pistachios
1½ Tbsp warm brandy
340g store-bought vanilla icecream, chopped
1. Place the biscuits in a food processor and process until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the butter and process until well combined.
2. Reserve 1½ cups of the ginger crumble. Use the back of a spoon to press the remaining crumble into the base and sides of a lightly greased 34cm x 1½ cm loose-bottomed, fluted tart tin.
3. Refrigerate for 1 hour or until set. Place the cherries, currants, cranberries, ginger, pistachios and brandy in a bowl and set aside for 20 minutes.
4. Place the icecream in an electric mixer and beat on low until softened. Stir through the fruit mixture and spoon into the tart shell. Freeze for 3-4 hours or until completely set. Sprinkle the tart with the reserved ginger crumble to serve.
For more recipes visit the Donna Hay website, www.donnahay.com.


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|Amid drought, local ranch is optimistic
|Written by Darci Tomky
It's calving season for many cattle operations in northeast Colorado, and the severe drought conditions have ranchers sitting on the edge of their seats.
"We're still optimistic that this drought will lessen," said Gale Haynes. "A lot depends on Mother Nature."
Gale and his wife Cynthia run what they call a ma and pa operation in the rural Holyoke area, and it's evident from talking with them that cattle ranching is their "real love." The Hayneses raise registered Angus for breeding stock as well as commercial Angus for beef.
They have been busy with calving season the past couple months, all the while waiting for some more moisture to come. "We're hoping for rain," said Cynthia, but only time will tell.
Preparing to put the cattle on pasture this summer, they are depending on new grass to grow. If that doesn't happen, the Hayneses already have an alternate plan with extra feed sources.
Gale said there could be a lot of cattle on the market if the drought continues and ranchers don't have alternate feed resources.
Rounding out their calving season for the year, Gale and Cynthia Haynes are optimistic that one of the worst droughts in Phillips County history will lessen, allowing them to put their Angus cattle on summer pasture this year. —Enterprise photo
"We have so many curve balls thrown at us," said Gale, with the high price of feed and the uncertainty of the drought this year. "But pricewise, cattle should be good," he added, noting other places in the country that still have moisture will be willing to pay good prices for cattle.
Consumers at the grocery store could also see an increase in the price of beef, so livestock producers are wondering if they will be willing to pay that price.
Despite the drought, the Hayneses and other livestock producers are very quality-conscious, making sure they raise desirable animals for beef production.
Gale said the number of cattle in the U.S. is the lowest in 60 years, and the drought is slowing down the building back up of the nation's cowherd.
In the Holyoke area, there are fewer cattle producers now—mostly family operations—but the total amount of cattle being raised has stayed constant.
The Hayneses said the snow they've gotten recently has been encouraging, but they continue to hope for more moisture. "This is the worst it's been," said Gale of his 42 years in the cattle business. Gale and Cynthia said both their fathers agree that this is the driest they have ever seen Phillips County.
Still, this couple remains optimistic. "You've got to have a bad day to appreciate the good day," said Gale.
Holyoke Enterprise March 21, 2013


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Port Charlotte, Florida -- Investigators are searching for the crook or crooks who ripped off three members of the Tampa Bay Rays.
While the Rays were at a Spring Training game Saturday, one or more burglars were cleaning out the house in Port Charlotte three of them had rented for the spring.
Info on the break-in comes from the St. Petersburg Times.
Three players were sharing the house: all-stars Evan Longoria and David Price, as well as infielder Reid Brignac.
According to the Times, Price was the first to spot signs of the burglary. He had come back to the house after Saturday's game against the Orioles.
Longoria said their belongings had been pretty well cleaned out of the house.
It looks like Price got the worst of it. He figures the crooks stole $50,000 worth of his stuff, including several expensive watches and a laptop.
Other stuff reportedly stolen: a 60-inch plasma TV, three iPads, and two Xbox video game systems.
Still, the players took a positive view. Longoria told the Times the important thing is "that everybody was okay and safe, and nobody had to fight their way out of a home invasion robbery."
"A multitude of different things could have happened, and there could have been people injured."
Longoria did a commercial a while back that joked about someone stealing his hat. Now he's dealing with two real crimes in one month.
Earlier this March, Longoria had his classic 1967 Camaro ripped off from a shop in Arizona. It was there having some work done on it.
Saturday was the Rays' last home spring training game. The team opens its regular season this Friday against the Baltimore Orioles at Tropicana Field.
10 News


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Course summary for international students
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Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong)
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A full-time member of the academic staff, experienced in research, will be appointed as supervisor for each student in the Master of Science - Biological and Chemical Sciences. Associate supervisors, internal or external, may be appointed to assist the principal supervisor. Students may be required to meet certain attendance requirements and will be required to complete a thesis embodying the results of research carried out in the field of study specified at the time of enrolment. Students will be referred to prospective supervisors in order to establish a possible research project.
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|Tues. open house to celebrate remodeling
|Written by April Peregoy
Nearly a year after construction began, the remodeling of the Phillips County Communications Center is finished. To commemorate the occasion, the County is holding an open house Tuesday, Jan. 27 from 1-3 p.m. for the public to view the new upgrades and changes.
The Communications Center project was completed in several phases, the first being the remodeling which was done by Marvin Einspahr Construction. It included the widening of the existing connection between the Center and the jail. The extra space that was created with the widening is occupied by a new, larger Sheriff's office and storage room.
The Victims' Assistance Office and patrol office were combined for patrol office use only. The Victims' Assistance Advocate office was moved into the old sheriff's office.
In the dispatch area, a new equipment room was created and the entrance lobby was moved to the east.
Once the remodeling was complete, the second phase of upgrading and installing new equipment in the dispatch center began. A new desk and 911 hardware/software system, plus an 800 MHz console, was installed. In addition, existing map data from the County Assessor's Office was converted for use by the Communications Center.
The ultimate goal will be to have the system identify the location of an emergency cell phone call as it comes into the dispatch center. The mapping center will continue to be kept up by the Assessor's office and utilized by Road and Bridge, Weed and Pest and Planning departments.
In addition, a new generator was installed to allow the entire facility to stay online in case of power outages.
Total cost of the project amounted to $296,112. Approximately $54,000 of the cost was provided by the county and $75,000 by the 911 Authority Board. The county also secured a State Energy Impact Assistance Grant for the remaining $167,112.
The Communications Center was first constructed in 1975 by Dale O'Neal Construction. It was connected to the west side of Phillips County Jail. It was originally intended to house the Sheriff, Undersheriff, Chief of Police, Town Patrolmen and the Dispatcher.
A dedication ceremony of the building took place Jan. 28, 1976 with then county commissioner Harold Colglazier acting as Master of Ceremonies. Doyle T. Johns, the District Attorney at the time, was the special guest speaker.
To pay for the construction cost of the building, the county used Revenue Sharing Funds amounting to $38,630. A five bay garage, costing $21,101 was paid for by East Phillips County Hospital District, Town of Holyoke, Phillips County and W.E. Heginbotham Trust.
The garage was built on the south side of Phillips County Jail to house the ambulances and Police Dept. vehicles.
The Town of Holyoke, East Phillips County Hospital District, Holyoke Rural Fire Protection District, Phillips County Telephone Company and Phillips County all shared in the cost of running the center until the early 1980s.
It then became the responsibility of Phillips County and the Town of Holyoke until the Police Dept. moved out of the building in 1997. Today, it is solely run and operated by the county.


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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - The widow of slain ex-Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle has told mourners at his memorial service that he'll always be with her.
Taya Kyle tearfully told the crowd of thousands at Cowboys Stadium on Monday that she and Kyle had fallen in love quickly and he taught her many things.
She told her two children that they made him feel like the best father in the world. She says they'll remember his silly side, Texas twang and prayers they prayed together.
Iraq War veteran Eddie Ray Routh, 25, has been charged in the Feb. 2 killings of Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a North Texas gun range.
Kyle completed four tours of duty in Iraq and wrote the best-selling book "American Sniper."
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ACT Research points to promising future for truck and trailer demand
August 11, 2010
Citing a strong rebound in net margins for publicly traded truckload companies in the second quarter, ACT Research, a provider of data and analysis for trucks and other commercial vehicles, said it expects continued improvement in demand for heavy-duty vehicles and trailers.
In its "ACT North American Commercial Vehicle Outlook," ACT is calling for full-year production of Class 8 vehicles to be up 26 percent year-over-year at about 150,000, with further increases into 2011. And it is also calling for commercial trailer production to increase by 47 percent to about 116,000 year-over-year.
"Trucker profitability rebounded sharply in the second quarter, fueled by tightening capacity and rising freight rates," said John Burton, ACT vice president-transportation sector, in a statement. "Even with modest economic growth, commercial vehicle demand should continue to rise as carriers appear to be replacing an aging fleet but not adding capacity. Demand for new heavy-duty vehicles continues to be well below normal replacement levels, meaning overall fleet capacity is shrinking due to scrappage and export of used tractors. This will allow truckers to retain pricing leverage and profits."
While many truckload carriers had strong second quarter earnings results, these results came out at a time when various economic indices reported the strong momentum from the first half of the year began to slow down.
ACT Partner and Senior Analyst Kenny Vieth said that while truckers had a strong second quarter, it creates a question of if that performance is indeed sustainable.
"We still have below replacement [level] retail sales for Class 8 vehicles," said Vieth. "There is still capacity coming out of the market that way. And we are still seeing fairly healthy exports of used Class 8 trucks out of the marketplace, which is another avenue for lowering capacity, and we are seeing slower economic growth as opposed to contraction at this point, with a possible double-dip recession in the future."
Unless a double-dip actually occurs, even an incrementally growing economy is still going to absorb capacity, said Vieth. And the ACT 2010 forecast—and into 2011—remains at below replacement levels for expectations of commercial vehicle manufacturing. This suggests that truckers should be able to build on the momentum that they started to gain in the second quarter, although it may not be as robust as it could have been if the economy were continuing to grow at the pace it did during the first half of the year, according to Vieth.
"Even a modest pace of growth is still going to take capacity out of the market," said Vieth. "That story still works well for truckers. The route to a double-dip gets tied into the European financial crisis, and they have managed to forestall that situation from worsening. When we entered this downturn in late 2006, a lot of the excess capacity and overconsumption that had gone on in the economy has really gone away. Even if the economy slows, we will not be in that situation that we were in 2008 with a bad inventory-to-sales ratio compared to where it is now. Even if the economy slows, there will not be that type of inventory overhang that is going to cause manufacturers to shut their plants down. At this point we are at such a low level that you are not going to see a massive retrenchment."
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