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Design By: Mary Pueschner
Skill: Intermediate
Size: Afghan: approx. 39" x 46"; Pillow: approx. 11" x 9"; Dolphin Toy: approx. 14" long.
Materials: Worsted Weight Yarn:
Sea Blue (MC): 28 oz (800 g), 1456 yd (1332 m) Light Grey (LG): 7 oz (200 g), 364 yd (333 m) White (W): 3.5 oz (100 g), 182 yd (167 m) Pink (P): 3.5 oz (100 g), 182 yd (167 m) Royal Blue (RB): 3.5 oz (100 g), 182 yd (167 m) Yellow (Y): 3.5 oz (100 g), 182 yd (167 m) Sea Green (SG): 3.5 oz (100 g), 182 yd (167 m) Various Colors (for Bubbles): 2-3 yds each
Yarn needle; Fibrefill.
Crochet Hook: Size F-5 (3.75 mm) and H-8 (5.00 mm) or size needed to obtain gauge.
Gauge: With H Hook, 7 sc x 7 rows = 2 inches
Dolphin Afghan Pillow & Toy Crochet Pattern
The sea comes to life your home with the Dolphin Afghan, Pillow and Toy crochet pattern set. Add adventure to a child's day or dress up his room with this seaside trio of a crocheted Dolphin Afghan with coordinating crochet Toy and Pillow designed by Mary Pueschner. All three pieces in this set are crocheted with worsted weight yarn for a soft, yet durable finished item. Dolphin is poised on a sea of blue complete with bubbles, coral reef and star fish on the crochet afghan. The coordinating crochet pillow has the same starfish design as the afghan. A dolphin crochet toy finishes this three-piece set by giving your child something to play with while he pretends to be deep in the sea. This design can be crocheted with color changes as you go or cross stitched after finishing the solid background.
Dolphin Afghan, Pillow and Toy crochet pattern requires an intermediate crochet skill level for the color changes and sea life designs. Choose to use cross stitch for the designs might make it easier to complete for a lower skill level. The afghan is a small cuddle-sized blanket with the finished dimensions of 39 inches by 46 inches. You can throw the afghan over a small chair or use it as a play mat on the floor. Make all three pieces in this pattern for a fun set that will decorate a bedroom, nursery or make a fun accessory for a play area. Boys will love having a crochet afghan that is themed just for them.
Other popular children crochet patterntoy sets include:
Cooking Katie Chef Set Crochet Pattern
Handy Andy Tool Set Crochet Pattern
Fire House Afghan and Toy Crochet Pattern
Crochet Tea Set Crochet Pattern
Frolicking Frogs Afghan, Pillow and Toy Crochet Pattern
Giraffe Afghan, Pillow and Toy Crochet Pattern
Super Easy Chunky Monkeys Crochet Pattern
Hours of fun await your little one with the crochet toys from these crochet patterns
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Return Policy
Our policy lasts for 60 days. If 60 days have passed since your purchase was made, unfortunately we can not offer you a refund. To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging. To complete your return, we require a receipt or proof of purchase be sent with your return. Please do not send your purchase back to the product manufacturer. There are certain situations where only partial refunds are granted: Books with obvious signs of use Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error. There are certain situations where no refund will be granted: CD or DVD that has been opened Clearance/Bargain Items - Only regular priced items may be refunded, unfortunately Clearance/Bargain items cannot be refunded.
Download Policy
Maggie's Crochet Brand offers download versions of most of our products. Adobe Reader is required when opening the patterns. If you do not have Adobe Reader installed on your computer or device, you can download it here: http://get.adobe.com/reader/. Please note: Using other programs such as Preview or PDF Complete will cause printing errors and more. Due to the nature of downloadable products, we cannot and will not refund the cost of the item. If the item is a Maggie's Crochet Brand pattern, we can generally mail the pattern to you if you are having trouble downloading. Shipping and handling charges will have to be charged using a credit card by phone. Some downloads are not available to ship out - these are noted and all sales are final on those products. If you are not sure, please contact customer service.
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Any person in violation of our copyright will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. This site is owned and operated by Maggie Weldon Designs. All the content on this site, including but not limited to photographs, pattern designs, logos and text is owned by Maggie Weldon Designs. All materials contained on this site are protected by both United States and International copyright laws and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of Maggie Weldon Designs. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. A copy of downloaded patterns may be printed by the purchaser, for personal use only and are not to be distributed. Items made from Maggie's Crochet patterns may be sold, however a notice must be attached to each item giving credit to both Maggie's Crochet and the pattern designer.


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The competition for jobs among college students set to graduate in 2013 looks like it's going to be tougher than initially expected.
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Overall, employers plan to hire only 2.1 percent more college graduates from the class of 2013 than they did from the class of 2012. The report says this number is down 10.9 percent from estimates determined by a similar survey conducted by the NACE in the fall of 2012.
About half of the survey's respondents indicated they plan to hire more new graduates than last year. However, more than a third said they expect to hire fewer new grads than they did last year.
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Pakistan's minorities have no faith in democracy
LAHORE, Pakistan In majority Muslim Pakistan, religious minorities say democracy is killing them.
Intolerance has been on the rise for the past five years under Pakistan's democratically elected government because of the growing violence of Islamic radicals, who are then courted by political parties, say many in the country's communities of Shiite Muslims, Christians, Hindus and other minorities.
On Saturday, the country will elect a new parliament, marking the first time one elected government is replaced by another in the history of Pakistan, which over its 66-year existence has repeatedly seen military rule. But minorities are not celebrating. Some of the fiercest Islamic extremists are candidates in the vote, and minorities say even the mainstream political parties pander to radicals to get votes, often campaigning side-by-side with well-known militants.
More than a dozen representatives of Pakistan's minorities interviewed by The Associated Press expressed fears the vote will only hand more influence to extremists. Since the 2008 elections, under the outgoing government led by the left-leaning Pakistan People's Party, sectarian attacks have been relentless and minorities have found themselves increasingly targeted by radical Islamic militants. Minorities have little faith the new election will change that.
"We are always opposed to martial law (but) during all the military regimes, the law and order was better and there was good security for minorities," said Amar Lal, a lawyer and human rights activist for Pakistan's Hindu community.
About 96 percent of Pakistan's population of 180 million is Muslim. Most are Sunni, but according to the CIA Factbook about 10 to 15 percent are members of the Shiite sect. The remaining 4 percent are adherents to other religions such as Christians, Hindus and Ahmedis - a sect reviled by mainstream Muslims as heretics because they believe a prophet came after Muhammad, defying a basic tenet of Islam that Muhammad was the last prophet. Sunni radicals view Shiite Muslims as apostates.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in a report last month berated the Pakistani government for its poor record of protecting both its minorities and its majority Sunni Muslims and recommended that Pakistan be put on a list of worst offenders, which could jeopardize billions of dollars in U.S. assistance.
"The government of Pakistan continues to engage in and tolerate systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of freedom of religion or belief," the report said. "Sectarian and religiously motivated violence is chronic, especially against Shiite Muslims, and the government has failed to protect members of religious minority communities, as well as the majority faith."
Lal said that in the past three years, 11,000 Hindus living in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province have migrated to India because they were worried about security and frustrated by kidnappings and forced conversions of young Hindu girls to Islam. Pakistan's Hindu minority complains that scores of Hindu girls have been kidnapped, forced to marry their abductor and convert to Islam.
"In Pakistan's southern Sindh province, from every Hindu house, one member of the family has left either for Karachi or for a foreign land," said Lal, who was once a special adviser to Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan People's Party until her assassination in December 2007.
"We have lost our hope from the democratic forces because they do everything for money" and nothing for minorities, he said.
Pakistan's Christian communities have complaints as well.
In March, a mob of young Muslims stormed and set fire to nearly 150 homes and shops in the Joseph Christian Colony, a Christian enclave on the outskirts of Lahore, the capital of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, where 60 percent of Pakistanis live and where militant Islamic groups have their headquarters. The mob gathered after one resident was accused of blasphemy, but local people say it was a tiff over money. Most residents fled for their lives, returning the next morning and eventually rebuilding their homes.


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Does anyone know what units the wallow fire damaged? News says it's over 230,000 acres already, and headed for nm.
Does anyone know what units the wallow fire damaged? News says it's over 230,000 acres already, and headed for nm.
Central-West to Northern part of Unit 27 is charred. I know unit 1 is north of 27 and that area is affected as well. I hunted 27 2 years ago. Short term at least, this is very sad. Alpine is a great town, Hannigan Meadows was a beautiful area. Just very sad with every update I hear on the news.
I have heard that it is headed for Area 23 in NM, it may already be there as this was earlier in the week that I heard this
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its over 300K acres and still ripping. I fight fire up in Utah but I have a buddy off my engine on the fire right now with a hand crew. Basically, its doin work and not showing signs of stopping.
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430,171 acres and it was 6% contained as of sat afternoon hope they get a handle on it soon
Yes a very sad situation me and my family actually were evacuated for 10 days. it started in the bear wallow wilderness and burned north and got a good chunk of unit 27 and burned into unit 1 and burned up 95% of unit one. I was born and raised here in unit one and its a sad situation very depressing to see it happening in your back yard. but it was a ticking time bomb. when they shut down logging and shut down the mill in town my grandpa who was a welder at the mill told me that the day would come that instead of us falling asleep to the sound the chipper we would fall asleep to the sound of helicopters and tankers fighting to save our town from burning up. It was only a matter of time. Its sad to say but for all the residents here that spend a lot of time in those mountains, nobody was suprised and everybody knew once it got going that it wouldnt stop until we got rain or it ran out of fuel. It is now over 500,000 acres and still growing. it is 38% contained and that is only because in certain areas it finally did run out of fuel.
sad but true, thats the way it is everywhere out west, no logging means more fires and hotter ones. My firefighting unit is down there with two tankers(water tenders) one just got moved to the southern half which is the most active.
Fire is the natural order of things and while there is destruction and chaos now, the years to come will show another side to mother nature and it will be magnificent! The game populations will get stronger and everyone will take benefit most of all, the wildlife...
IMO Smokey the bear is a joke here in California... Preventing forrest fires is no way to manage a resource.
"This is A Way of Life"
Ya Cali is definitly in need of better management from the forest service. I asked a FS guy one time how hard it was to get a controled burn going. He said the had to draw up a plan (stack of papers) and then have that passed by a committee! I said sweet, I'll get a match
Has anyone got a report of how the archery elk season was in Unit 1 this year? Was there any descent hunting after the fire? I have 13 points as a non-resident and I am thinking seriously of using them in 2012 for an archery elk tag.


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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Homemade Gift: Lego Book
28 comments:
- Christy said...
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing.
- March 27, 2010 at 8:13 AM
- katy said...
What a great idea!
- March 27, 2010 at 9:48 AM
- RootsAndWingsCo said...
These are the best books! I just made one for my Son's Lego Birthday Party and we LOVE it! We also have blank page protectors at the end to slip all of their Lego instructions into, as they get new sets! Perfect!
Rebecca of the R&W Gals
- March 27, 2010 at 11:04 AM
- Rebecca said...
Wow, this is such an awesome idea! Im bookmarking this one!
- March 27, 2010 at 11:10 AM
- Jen said...
This is an AWESOME idea. I have wondered for years why there isn't a book that gives instructions for all of those pieces. Obviously, i just wasn't looking hard enough! Thanks for sharing.
- March 27, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- TMCPhoto said...
how fabulous! and something that can be added to as well.
- March 27, 2010 at 1:07 PM
- teachmama said...
love it! I hope the Easter Bunny's reading...maybe he'll bring one for my kiddos!
- March 27, 2010 at 1:25 PM
- Tami (Pixeltrash) said...
You know, that is so great. Why didn't I think of that one? Love it! Thanks for posting. I'm going to DO that!!!
- March 27, 2010 at 8:43 PM
- Elissa said...
Love it! I'm filing that one away for sure!
- March 28, 2010 at 12:00 AM
- Donica said...
omg! too cute!
- March 28, 2010 at 2:24 AM
- kristin said...
you've just made my son's day! i don't know why i never thought of looking for building instructions.
i was the kind of kid who just built, but he LOVES following a plan.
i'm printing them out this morning.
thank you again.
- March 28, 2010 at 8:55 AM
- The Sunshine Crew said...
Thanks for sharing about this! I blogged about the Fun with Lego idea and linked to your post for everyone to see your awesome idea for a homemade gift.
- March 28, 2010 at 6:42 PM
- Genevieve said...
LOVE IT!!! Just finished printing and can't wait to assemble! This is going in my son's Easter basket! What a fab gift or birthday favor idea! TY
I'm a follower now! So glad I found your awesome blog!
- March 28, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- Ticia said...
I love this idea! I'm going to the sites you've linked to now.
- March 28, 2010 at 11:07 PM
- Jen said...
What a thoughful gift!
Creative and Curious Kids!
- March 29, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- Rebecca: said...
Fantastic idea! Thank you!!!
- March 30, 2010 at 10:08 AM
- JDaniel4's Mom said...
What a wonderful gift! It would fill hours with fun!
- March 30, 2010 at 1:51 PM
- Demarcus Family said...
can't wait to make this for my nephew!
- March 30, 2010 at 9:21 PM
- Nicole said...
Fabulous idea!!!
- August 13, 2010 at 2:15 AM
- amy@flexibledreams said...
We totally made this!! I even cut out all the pictures from the Lego Advent Calendar and taped them onto card stock to go in the book. We've been using it for two and a half years and the kids still love it.
- April 23, 2011 at 8:24 PM
- pink and green mama MaryLea said...
@ Amy, That's awesome!! So glad you're enjoying your book -- ours still gets quite a work out in the lego corner of our family room!! : )
-Pink and Green Mama,
- April 23, 2011 at 9:34 PM
- Val in the Rose Garden said...
Dude. You are brillant! Seriously! My kids would love love LOVE this. :) Christmas is half covered.
- July 30, 2011 at 12:34 AM
- April said...
Help!! I once read in your blog about a fabulous and adorable gift idea for a baby shower or new momma. It was made with a wooden recipe box and had red letter stickers on top. Inside you could put memories etc. of your children(s)...Can you help?
- October 20, 2011 at 10:54 PM
- pink and green mama MaryLea said...
@ April - I would love to help out but unfortunately that wasn't my blog, you must have seen it somewhere else. Sounds like a cute project!
- October 21, 2011 at 11:34 PM
- Christi said...
This is awesome, thank you so much!! Both of your links point to the same site, though, are they supposed to?
- November 16, 2011 at 3:14 PM
I tried to check on your links to look for the lego instructions but the pages are gone!!
Can't find instructions anywhere :(
- July 28, 2012 at 10:57 AM
- pink and green mama MaryLea said...
Patty, I just checked and it seems as if Lego has removed the links. I'm so sorry, I can't find the printables on their site. : ( Poop!
- July 30, 2012 at 2:30 PM
- The Tiffany Studio said...
Patty and pink and green mama they have them again they are under customer service! There is 3300 different instructions now for this mama to find some easy ones!
- December 4, 2012 at 9:40 AM
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Product Detail
|Product Description
|SARNS FLEXIBLE ARTERIAL CANNULA: 6.7 MM (20 FR) 00 WITH 3/8" CONNECTOR,SUTURE RING, 9.5" (24 CM) LONG. The Sarns High Flow Aortic Arch Cannula is indicated for use in perfusion of the ascending aorta during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.
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|Class II
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|Catalog number: 13010 and Lot codes: 0590855, 0593791, 0597307, 0603718, 0616892, 0624831,0629341,0634937, 0636270, 0644444, 0646144, 0653230, 0666586, and 0669487.
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|133,793 (each)
|Reason For Recall
|During production of one lot of the Sarns High-Flow Aortic Arch Cannula, Terumo Cardiovascular Systems (Terumo CVS) found a foreign substance on the outer surface of some cannulae connectors. Terumo CVS' preliminary investigation found that the substance can be dislodged from the cannula surface, the substance was likely deposited during the molding process, but the exact composition of the particulate is still undetermined and while Terumo CVS has no other documented instances of this substance appearing during production, it has determined that any unit manufactured within the last three years on the same mold could potentially be affected. The particulate can be dislodged from the connector surface and either adhere to the gloves of the clinician in the sterile field, or fall into the pericardial well while the surgeon is connecting the cannula to the arterial line of the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit.
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|Recalling Firm
|Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation
|Ann Arbor
|Voluntary / Mandated
|Voluntary: Firm Initiated
|Recall Initiation Date
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"Calculus: The Musical!"—a comic review of the concepts and history of calculus—returns April 3 to North Central College as part of a national tour.
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The third Microsoft Research Summer School was held at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, U.K., on 7 July through 11 July 2008. It included a series of talks of academic interest and posters sessions that gave invited students the opportunity to present their work to Microsoft researchers and a number of Cambridge academics.
The 2008 Summer School was organised in partnership with the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. Invited students included all first year PhD students of the Computer Laboratory and all Microsoft Research 2007 PhD Scholars.
Lectures and posters sessions were public and open to all research staff and students from the University of Cambridge.
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
- Research career - Industry vs. academia, Andrew Herbert (Microsoft Research)
- How to write a great research paper, Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft Research)
- How to give a great research talk, Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft Research)
- Pesentations of past students
- Towards a peer-to-peer file backup system, Alessandro Duminuco (Institut Eurécom)
- Generalizing the discrete analyses of genetic networks using constraints, Fabien Corblin (Université Joseph Fourier)
- Why breaking other kids' toys (in time) is an achievement in computer science, Georg Weißenbacher (ETH Zurich)
- Computational prediction of three-dimensional protein structure from NMR chemical shifts, Kai Kohlhoff (University of Cambridge)
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
- Giving a good presentation, Ken Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques)
- Mind-reading machines, Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge) 14:30
Thursday, 10 July 2008
- Rough guide to being an entrepreneur, Jack Lang (University of Cambridge)
- Grand challenges in computer science, Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research)
- How does the Internet work?, Richard Black (Microsoft Research)
- How to apply for funding? In search of the holy grail, Wouter Spek (European Science Foundation)
Friday, 11 July 2008
- Take control or how to manage your supervisor, Tristram Hooley (vitae)
- Write off-loading: Practical power management for enterprise storage, Dushyanth Narayanan (Microsoft Research)
- Surface computing: the post-PC experience, Steve Hodges (Microsoft Research)
- Enzymatic computing, Klaus Peter Zauner (University of Southampton)
Talk Abstracts and Speaker Biographies
Andrew Herbert, Managing Director, Microsoft Research
Research career - Industry vs. academia
Andrew Herbert is the managing director of Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Initially joining Microsoft Research in 2001 as an assistant director, in March 2003 he succeeded the founding director, Roger Needham.
Andrew's research interests include networks, operating systems, programming languages, and distributed information sharing.
Before joining Microsoft Research in 2001, he was director of Advanced Technology at Citrix Systems, Inc., where he was instrumental in steering the company toward Internet thin-client technologies, initiating development of products for Web-based application deployment and for the emerging application-service-provider market.
Andrew joined Citrix in 1998 from Digitivity, Inc., which he had founded in 1996 to develop a product to enable secure deployment of Java clients for business-to-business applications. Digitivity was a spinoff from APM, Ltd., a research/consulting company Andrew had founded in 1985. APM managed ANSA, an industry-sponsored program of research and advanced development of distributed-systems technology to support applications integration in enterprisewide systems. The ANSA work included research on support for interactive multimedia services, object technology for World Wide Web applications, distributed-systems management, mobile-object systems, and security for electronic commerce. Herbert led the ANSA technical program, built the ANSA team, created the ANSA architecture, and made it known and respected in the industry.
Andrew is a fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge, England, a member of St John's College Cambridge, and a liveryman of the City of London Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. In 1975, he graduated from the University of Leeds with a B.Sc. in computational science, and in 1978, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in computer science.
Simon Peyton Jones, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
How to write a great research paper (Microsoft Office PowerPoint file)
How to give a great research talk (Office PowerPoint file)
Writing papers and giving talks are key skills for any researcher, but they aren't easy. In this pair of presentations, I'll describe simple guidelines that I follow for writing papers and giving talks, which I think may be useful to you too. I don't have all the answers – far from it – and I hope that the presentation will evolve into a discussion in which you share your own insights, rather than a lecture.
Simon Peyton Jones, MA, MBCS, CEng, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. After two years in industry, he spent seven years as a lecturer at University College London, and nine years as a professor at Glasgow University, before moving to Microsoft Research in 1998. His main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He has led a succession of research projects focused around the design and implementation of production-quality functional-language systems for both uniprocessors and parallel machines. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the implementation of functional languages. More generally, he is interested in language design, rich type systems, software component architectures, compiler technology, code generation, runtime systems, virtual machines, garbage collection, and so on. He is particularly motivated by direct use of principled theory to practical language design and implementation – that's one reason he loves functional programming so much. He is also keen to apply ideas from advanced programming languages to mainstream settings.
Alessandro Duminuco, 2005 Microsoft PhD Scholar, Institut Eurécom
Towards a peer-to-peer file backup system (Office PowerPoint file)
Peer-to-Peer systems have received a lot of attention in recent years. The key property of Peer-to-Peer systems is self-scaling, i.e. as more peers become part of the system not only the service demand increases but also the service capacity. The research community has shown an increasing interest in the use of P2P systems for file storage. This application can be very attractive for two main reasons: (i) centralized solutions are expensive (ii) common PCs are equipped with high-capacity local disks, often underutilized. The design of a Peer-to-Peer storage system is not a trivial task and presents a considerable number of challenging problems. I will illustrate briefly some of the issues involved, explaining some of the solutions I proposed so far during my Ph.D. thesis.
Fabien Corblin, 2005 Microsoft PhD Scholar, Université Joseph Fourier
Generalizing the discrete analyses of genetic networks using constraints
Our work generalizes the current existing discrete approaches for analyzing the properties of genetic networks as proposed by Thomas using concepts that are available in constraint programming (CP). Thomas' networks can be formalized, generalized and implemented using constraints. At the limit the proposed approach combines both aspects of simulation and reverse engineering. The ultimate goal of this work is to allow biologists to explore the combined effects of various types of hypotheses such as the assumed gene interactions and the expected dynamic behavior. We have developed a constraint program that utilizes the assumed hypotheses expressed as data. When the data is interpreted by a CP processor the proposed system is capable of responding to multiple queries that encompass simulation, reverse engineering and hybrid combination of the two. After a presentation of our approach, I will show you the constraint program in action with the following functionalities: combination of simulation and reverse-engineering, addition of hypotheses about the combination of interactions over the genes of the network, creation of mutants, relaxation of constraints in case of incoherence (the data having contradictory effects), and consequently suggestion of refinement of the model.
Georg Weißenbacher, 2005 Microsoft PhD Scholar, ETH Zurich
Why breaking other kids' toys (in time) is an achievement in computer science(Office PowerPoint file)
Automated software verification is a superb challenge. Unfortunately, in the many years of research in this field, few actual products (if any) have been proven correct beyond doubt. We can, however, look back to a long history of spectacular successes in software falsification (think Ariane 5). The problem is that bugs are usually buried deep in the software and traditional testing techniques just don't dig deep enough. I will talk about an approach that accelerates the digging, allowing us to dig deeper for bugs and "break the toy" before somebody else breaks it unintentionally. I'll also explain how finding deep bugs in abstract software models can help verifying the actual software.
Kai Kohlhoff, 2005 Microsoft PhD Scholar, University of Cambridge
Computational prediction of three-dimensional protein structure from NMR chemical shifts (Office PowerPoint file)
Proteins are involved in virtually every biochemical reaction in a living cell. A protein's function is strongly dependent on its three-dimensional structure and there is a large interest in the pharmaceutical industry to understand the native structure of proteins in order to perform targeted drug design. Existing experimental techniques offer high spatial resolution, but tend to be costly and time-consuming. A novel method, CamShift-MD, will be presented that is based on relatively easy to perform chemical shift measurements from nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. This method predicts protein structure by introducing restraints into molecular dynamics computer simulations. CamShift-MD offers a new way of automatically generating protein structures based on a combination of experiment and theory. It has the potential to solve structures for which traditional methods are not suitable, such as highly dynamical non-native states. Moreover, the method can be used to determine protein ensembles. Unlike a single, rigid structure, such ensembles reveal information about the distribution of conformations and dynamics of molecules in solution, providing us with a better picture of the behaviour of proteins in the cellular environment.
Ken Shaw, Benchmark Communication Techniques
Giving a good presentation
Lecture, Presentation or Conversation? We will examine: Who your audience is; What they want; Why you are addressing them; How you handle practical issues like nerves, body language, speech & voice, humour, visual aids etc.; What is success? What is plan B if everything goes wrong; How you recover.
Ken Shaw has taught communication skills to MBA students at Judge Business School for 17 years. He has also taught at Said Business School, London Business School, Cass Business School, Henley Management College, ESMT in Berlin, Bled School of Management plus Leicester, Nottingham and Bristol universities. He has delivered training for commercial clients in France, Germany, Switzerland, The Bahamas, Holland, Norway, America, The Caribbean, Australia and Singapore.
Peter Robinson, Professor, University of Cambridge
Mind-reading machines
Facial displays are an important channel for the expression of emotions, and are often thought of as projections of a person's mental state.Computer systems generally ignore this information.Mind-reading interfaces infer users' mental states from facial expressions, giving them a degree of emotional intelligence. We use video processing to track two dozen features on the user's face. These are then interpreted using statistical techniques through a hierarchy of analyses as basic actions, head and facial gestures, and finally groups of mental states. The talk will describe an implementation of facial affect inference, together with an evaluation and some preliminary results of using the system to monitor car drivers.
Peter Robinson is Professor of Computer Technology and Deputy Head of Department at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in England, where he leads the Rainbow Group working on computer graphics, interaction and electronic CAD. He is also a Fellow, Praelector and Director of Studies in Computer Science at Gonville & Caius College where he previously studied for a first degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science under Neil Wiseman.
Professor Robinson's research concerns problems at the boundary between people and computers. This involves investigating new technologies to enhance communication between computers and their users, and new applications to exploit these technologies. The main focus for this is human-computer interaction, where he has been leading work for some years on the use of video and paper as part of the user interface. The idea is to develop augmented environments in which everyday objects acquire computational properties through user interfaces based on video projection and digital cameras. Recent work has included desk-size projected displays and inference of users' mental states from video images of their faces.
Jack Lang, Lecturer and Entrepreneur, University of Cambridge
Rough guide to being an entrepreneur (Office PowerPoint file)
At some stage you might want to exploit your ideas by starting a company, just as Bill Gates and Paul Allen did in 1975. It might even be the next Microsoft, or bought by them. I'll give an overview of the process, explain some of the success factors investors look for, and how to go about writing a business plan and getting off the ground.
Jack Lang is a serial entrepreneur and business angel with high-tech and internet companies based in Cambridge, where he is Entrepreneur in Residence, Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, an affiliated Lecturer and member of the Faculty Board at the Computer Lab and a by-fellow of Emmanuel College. His latest venture is as co-Founder of Artimi, which is making the next generation of ultra wide band wireless chips. Previously he was founder of Netchannel Ltd, an early Interactive TV company which was acquired by ntl: where he became Chief Technologist. Before that founder of Electronic Share Information Ltd, one of the first online brokerages, acquired by E*Trade Inc. Prior to that he started a consultancy (now SAIC UK Ltd) that was involved in the early days of the "Cambridge Phenomenon", and was a proper academic at the Computer Lab. He is author of "The High Tech Entrepreneurs Handbook" (FT.Com/Prentice Hall 2001). He has other interests in molecular gastronomy and fireworks.
Tony Hoare, Principal Research, Microsoft Research
Grand challenges in computer science (Office PowerPoint file)
One way to do great research is to work with a great team, collaborating over an extended timescale, to find answers to fundamental questions that lie at the very basis of your branch of science. I will call such a project a Grand Challenge.
Grand Challenges have long been common in Astronomy (the Hubble telescope) and in Physics (the large hadron collider), and more recently in Genetics (the enumeration of the human genome). Here are six Grand Challenges that have recently been singled out by UK computer scientists for the attention of the research community:
- 'in vivo = in silico'– multi-level simulation of the behaviour of biological organisms;
- 'memories for life'– rapid recall of a lifetime's memories;
- 'architecture of the mind and brain'– simulation of the relation between them;
- 'non-classical computation'– a search for a theory that covers the wide range of computing phenomena in nature;
- 'ubiquitous computing'– principles of engineering of the swarms of computers that surround us;
- 'dependable systems evolution'– programs that are proved correct by the computer before running them.
Can you think of any more? I will talk in more detail about the last of these, which has been my own life-long research interest.
Tony Hoare's computing interests were stimulated by his first (and only) degree in the humanities (1956): he studied Latin and ancient Greek, followed by philosophy, with particular interest in mathematical philosophy and logic. He learnt Russian during National Service in the Royal Navy. He spent a postgraduate year studying statistics at Oxford and another at Moscow State University, where he discovered the sorting algorithm Quicksort. In 1960, he joined the British Computer industry as a programmer, eventually rising to the rank of Chief Engineer.
His Academic career started in 1968 with appointment as professor at the Queen's University, Belfast. He chose his long-term research area as proof of the correctness of programs. In the thick of the troubles, he built up a strong computing department, and moved in 1978 to do the same at Oxford. Following the example of Theoretical Physics, his interests broadened to the pursuit of Unifying Theories of Programming.
On reaching retiring age, he accepted an offer of employment at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, where he has seen a strong surge of interest in automation of computer proofs of program correctness. He continues to pursue this interest, while exhorting academic researchers in long-term pursuit of even more idealistic scientific goals.
Richard Black, Research Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Research
How does the Internet work? (Office PowerPoint file)
Could you explain how the Internet works in simple terms to someone else? Are there any gaps in your understanding, or questions you have? In this talk I'll be giving an introductory description to how it all works.
Richard Black is currently a Research Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where he is part of the Systems and Networking group. His research interests include performance analysis of distributed systems, operating systems and networking. Recent projects include: Constellation, and Network Inference. The Network Inference project gave rise to the Network Map feature of Windows Vista. Underlying the Network Map feature is the LLTD protocol which is licensed by many companies as part of the Windows Rally program.
Richard obtained his B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in 1990 and his Ph.D. addressing issues in operating systems and networking interaction in 1995. After a further three years at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory as a research associate and research fellow he moved in 1997 to a lectureship at the University of Glasgow Department of Computing Science. He returned to Cambridge in January 2000, to join the Microsoft Research laboratory, initially as a Researcher. He changed role to Research Software Development Engineer in 2006.
Wouter Spek, Director, EuroBioFund, European Science Foundation
How to apply for funding? In search of the holy grail (Office PowerPoint file)
Wouldn't it be nice to have unlimited sources of funding for your research? Wouldn't it be nice to have the freedom to operate? Wouldn't is be nice not to be bothered with constant applying and competing for financial sources? These are some of the topics we will discuss, we will talk about unmet needs and I will give you some pointers how to address the issue of finance and finance acquisition.
Wouter Spek is currently the Director for EuroBioFund at the European Science Foundation, which he joined early in 2006. The aim of EuroBioFund, also supported by the European Commission, is to promote the development of strategic European Research Programmes in the area of life sciences. Dr. Spek received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Leiden University (1988), with part of the research undertaken at the University of California, San Diego. From there he began his professional career at Senter (1988-1996), the agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs responsible for all science and technology subsidy programmes, as project advisor/deputy head of the biotechnology division. Dr. Spek subsequently moved to The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, where he was co-ordinator of the Life Sciences Research Council Earth & Life Sciences (ALW-NWO) (1996-2002). In 2002 he joined the Netherlands Genomic Initiative as Manager for Innovation and International Affairs, where he was involved in bringing together relevant partners for projects, including industrial partners, government agencies, and start-up companies.
Tristram Hooley, Senior Network Manager, vitae
Take control or how to manage your supervisor (Office PowerPoint file)
This session will look at how to make supervision work well for you. It will argue that to get the most out of your relationship with your supervisor you will need to be proactive and assertive. In particular the session will encourage you to think about the following issues:
- The relative rights and responsibilities of the supervisor and supervisee;
- What your supervisor cares about and how you can move up in their priorities;
- Strategies that you can use to manage the supervision and make them more useful;
- What to do if things go wrong.
Tristram Hooley is Senior Network Manager for the UK GRAD Programme wherehehasresponsibility for liaising between the programme anduniversities.He wrote a PhD on dystopian fiction before goingon to workin various capacities including web design, learning technology, researcher, and skills trainer. He is particularly interested in the career development of researchers, online research methods, social capital and the pedagogy of the research degree.
Dushyanth Narayanan, Researcher, Microsoft Research
Write off-loading: Practical power management for enterprise storage (Office PowerPoint file)
In enterprise data centres power usage is a problem impacting server density and the total cost of ownership. Storage uses a significant fraction of the power budget and there are no widely deployed power-saving solutions for enterprise storage systems. The traditional view is that enterprise workloads make spinning disks down ineffective because idle periods are too short. We analyzed block-level traces from 36 volumes in an enterprise data centre for one week and concluded that significant idle periods exist, and that they can be further increased by modifying the read/write patterns using write off-loading. Write off-loading allows write requests on spun-down disks to be temporarily redirected to persistent storage elsewhere in the data centre. The key challenge is doing this transparently and efficiently at the block level, without sacrificing consistency or failure resilience. We describe our write off-loading design and implementation that achieves these goals. We evaluate it by replaying portions of our traces on a rack-based testbed. Results show that just spinning disks down when idle saves 28–36% of energy, and write off-loading further increases the savings to 45–60%.
Dushyanth Narayanan is a researcher in the Systems and Networking group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. His most recent research interest is in reducing the energy consumption and improving the performance of enterprise storage.
Steve Hodges, Principal Hardware Engineer, Microsoft Research
Surface computing: the post-PC experience (Portable Document Format file)
The long-established 'desktop' computing metaphor continues to drive a lot of our interactions with computers, But at the same time, new interaction paradigms are being developed and we believe that these will increasingly complement the traditional computing experience. To this end, at Microsoft Research we are exploring a number of new interaction technologies along with the novel form factors, user experiences and usage scenarios they enable. This talk will present some of our work on 'surface computing', a new approach to interaction which doesn't required a keyboard or mouse for input, but which is inherently multi-user and which allows direct manipulation of digital content with hands, fingers and via tangible objects.
Steve Hodges has a background in a broad range of computer-related technologies. His first degree is in Computer Science with Electronic Engineering, from University College London, and he received his PhD from Cambridge University Engineering Department in the area of Robotics and Computer Vision. Prior to joining Microsoft Research, he was the Technical Director of the Cambridge Auto-ID Lab, where he was involved with many activities, including the global research programme, the US Field Trial, the hardware-oriented action groups and privacy and IP policy development. Due to its success, the work of the Auto-ID Lab has been handed over to GS1 (formerly UCC.EAN, the barcode custodians). Steve has co-authored and presented a number of Auto-ID Centre white papers, and he has also given presentations to a wide range of audiences on the Auto-ID and EPC system. He was a founding director of the easyEPC RFID training and consultancy company. He worked as a Research Engineer for a number of years at the Olivetti and Oracle Research Lab, which became AT&T Laboratories Cambridge before eventually shutting down in 2002. This lab was internationally recognised as a centre of excellence across a broad range of advanced research into communications, multimedia and mobile technologies.
Klaus-Peter Zauner, Lecturer, University of Southampton
Enzymatic computing (PDF file)
Klaus-Peter Zauner is a Lecturer in the Science and Engineering of Natural Systems Group of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. He was born in Stuttgart, soldered together a Sinclair ZX81 as his first computer and went on to study Biochemistry at the University of Tuebingen. Intrigued by Nature's molecular scale information processing mechanisms he left Tuebingen in 1992 for Detroit to join Michael Conrad's Biocomputing Group. Under Michael Conrad's mentorship he worked on conformational computing and enzymatic computing. Klaus-Peter received his Ph.D. in computer science from Wayne State University, Detroit in 2001. He started his academic career as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wayne State University, then returned to Europe in 2002 to work with Peter Dittrich in the Bio Systems Analysis Group at the University of Jena, before taking up his current position in 2003. He served on the Governing Board of the International Society of Molecular Electronics and BioComputing and is an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Unconventional Computing. He is a Microsoft Research European Fellow (2005) and recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership award (2007).
Posters Session 1
- Adaptive combinatorial search (PDF file)
Alejandro Arbelaez, INRIA
- The cycle of modeling, modeling of the cycle (PowerPoint file)
Alida Palmisano, CoSBi
- Adaptive evolutionary computation (PDF file)
Álvaro Fialho, INRIA
- Adaptive software lock elision (PowerPoint file)
Amitabha Roy, University of Cambridge
- Exact JPEG recompression and forensics using interval arithmetic
Andrew Lewis, University of Cambridge
- Highly sensitive de novo identification of peptides from tandem mass spectra by linear optimization and kinetic modeling
Axel Rack, Freie Universität Berlin
- Illuminating circadian rhythms with Bayesian inference (PDF file)
Ben Calderhead, University of Glasgow
- Code reprogramming and dissemination in mobile WSN (PDF file)
Bence Pasztor, University of Cambridge
- Quality-oriented handover scheme for adaptive multimedia streaming in heterogeneous wireless network environment (PDF file)
Bogdan Ciubotaru, Dublin College University
- Probabilistic interpretation of figures of speech (PDF file)
Ekaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge
Posters Session 2
- Video abstraction and stylisation (PDF file)
Christian Richardt, University of Cambridge
- Time-aware routing in wireless sensor networks (PDF file)
Daniele Borsaro, University of Cambridge
- Towards optical PCI (PDF file)
David Miller, University of Cambridge
- Spread-spectrum computation (PDF file)
Derek Murray, University of Cambridge
- Proof engineering: Refactoring proof
Eliot Setzer, University of Edinburgh
- Vehicular ad hoc networks (PowerPoint file)
Eugenio Giordano, University of Bologna
- Automatic derivation of loop bounds (PDF file)
Florian Zuleger, Technical University Darmstadt
- Mechanized foundations of finite group theory (PDF file)
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Francois Garillot, INRIA
- New apparatus for characterising molecular computing substrates (PDF file)
Gareth Jones, University of Southampton
- Contact network modeling of flu epidemics (PDF file)
Anilkumar Sorathiya & Ian Leung, University of Cambridge
Posters Session 3
- Autonomous experimentation methods for characterising molecular computing substrates (PDF file)
Chris Lovell, University of Southampton
- Dynamic dependency graphs – How much parallelism is out there? (PDF file)
Jonathan Mak, University of Cambridge
- Pan-tropical modelling of the impact of land use change on water quantity provision and low flows
Jorge Peña Arancibia, King's College London
- The Infinit file system (PDF file)
Julien Quintard, University of Cambridge
- Designing robots for people (PDF file)
Laurel Riek, University of Cambridge
- Diagrammatic reasoning across multiple domains: The automatic construction of useful diagrams (PDF file)
Matthew Ridsdale, University of Cambridge
- Noise from in-silico biology: A statistical perspective (PDF file)
Michele Forlin, CoSBi
- Supporting village community through connected situated displays (PDF file)
Nick Taylor, University of Lancaster
- Examining the adoption and usage of m-banking applications in low-income communities: The case of M-PESA in Kenya (PDF file)
Olga Morawczynski, University of Edinburgh
Posters Session 4
- Shape grammar and image based 3D reconstruction of buildings (PowerPoint file)
Olivier Teboul, École Centrale Paris
- The realities of graphical passwords (PDF file)
Paul Dunphy, Newcastle University
- Learning the temperature of a game (PDF file)
Philipp Hennig, University of Cambridge
- Automated planning with goal utility dependencies within a satisfiability framework (PDF file)
Richard Russell, University of Cambridge
- From BlenX to SBML (PDF file)
Roberto Larcher, CoSBi
- Deployment of wireless sensor networks (PowerPoint file)
Ruoshui Liu, University of Cambridge
- Provable security at implementation-level (PowerPoint file)
Sebastian Faust, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Renewable energy in data centres (PDF file)
Sherif Akoush, University of Cambridge
- Stochastic modelling of single cell assay data (PowerPoint file)
Simon Youssef, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Interactive visualization, annotation and processing of terabyte-scale 3D image volumes
Tahir Mansoori, University of Oxford
- A robust video receiver allowing WIMAX video broadcasting and indoor WIFI retransmission
Usman Ali, Supélec
Discussions Themes
This type of discussions was requested by the students who attended the 2006 Summer School and the students who attended the 2007 Summer School enjoyed them very much. The goal is to make the students think and discuss about a topic or issue of importance and get to know each other.
Each group will be asked to share briefly to the other groups the outcome of their discussion.
Ethics in scientific research
Discussion leader: Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research)
Scientific method in computing research
Discussion leader: Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)
Computer science education
Discussion leader: Kevin Bond (Aylesbury Grammar School, Cambridge)
Impact of research
Discussion leader: Wolfgang Emmerich (University College London)
Being a post-doc - Academia vs. industry
Discussion leader: Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research)


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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) could drop their ban against gay members and leaders, as early as next week.
The 100-year-old youth organization has long been known to restrict their membership to heterosexuals since it was founded.
"It's unacceptable. There's no one in this community that our group would want to turn away," said Richard Meyerdirk, Assistant Cubmaster of Pack 442 in Cloverly, Maryland.
Meyerdirk is not only a Cubmaster, he was an Eagle Scout, and a Cub Scout before that. His 11-year-old son Tyler is now in his Pack. Meyerdirk and his wife Theresa Phillips are teaching their son not to discriminate.
"We said we really want to take a stand against this." Phillips said who is also a Committee Chair.
That's why the 45 cub scouts of Pack 442 took a stance against the Boy Scouts' ban on homosexuals. They posted a Non-Discrimination Statement on their website.
This backlash against the Boy Scouts' ban kicked off last April when Jennifer Tyrrell, an Ohio mother says she was kicked out of her son's cub scout pack for being a lesbian.
"I can't still believe that in 2012 and now -13, the LGBT community doesn't have all freedoms all equal rights, and it's still amazing to me that we're still even having these discussions," Tyrrell said.
Tyrrell started a petition and now has more than 300,000 signatures of support.
In July, 2012 the Boy Scouts of America reaffirmed their stance. An avalanche of opposition followed. Major League Soccer ended their contract. Then-Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, and President Obama came out against the discrimination and Intel Foundation pulled their funding.
Today, the Boy Scouts of America announces they're "discussing potentially removing the national membership restriction regarding sexual orientation."
But BSA would not talk to us on camera so we asked -- why now? The BSA said in an email, "The decision to discuss the policy is a result of a long standing dialogue within the Scouting family."
Back to Pack 442, they didn't want to lose their charter, so they took down their statement.
David Fones is also an Assistant Cubmaster, "It struck a nerve with us and it's something that in this day and age is not right." The Pack is hoping the BSA will reconsider their policy.


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Nice,rock! Congrats! You've hunted hard this season and deserved a decent buck. Glad to see.
Thanks Dr, I appreciate it! This is my best buck to date so I am pretty stoked. Thanks for the support
Congrats, looks like a heck of a nice buck
Oh ya that's a nice one for sure! Congrats!
very nice, what did you use (Rifle and Caliber), to take him with.
Nice buck, good job.
Nice buck, what elevation were you at?
Thanks all. I used a 7x57 mauser with a 175 RN bullet. And this was about 7,000 ft
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KLEM News PM Update August 2, 2010
Rainfall varies from 0.2 of an inch in Le Mars to nearly two inches at Sioux Center.
Sheriff's office squad car swept into flooded creek
(BOYDEN)--Flooding from heavy rain swept a Sioux County Sheriff's Deputy and his patrol car into a flood creek early Friday morning.
Written information about the flooding accident was released by the Sioux County Sheriff's office.
Three to six inches of rain fell in about three hours, beginning at three Friday morning, with the heaviest amount in the Boyden area.
Several rural roads were affected by flash flooding causing some road closures and delays on Highway 18. The deputy was patrolling Highway 18
When the patrol car left the highway, the car was submerged, but the deputy was not hurt. The vehicle had extensive damage.
Traffic returned to normal on Highway 18 about seven Friday morning.
Law enforcement issues a caution about continued flooding reminding drivers not to travel through moving water. If a road becomes impassible and it is not barricaded, drivers are asked to contact the Sioux County Communications Center.
Northwest Iowa colleges and universities welcome future students
(SIOUX CITY)--Private colleges and universities in northwest Iowa are rolling out a red-carpet welcome to prospective students and their parents.
Sue Pyburn of Morningside College says Iowa Private College week through Friday is a wonderful opportunity try to visit as many schools as the students and their families can. Pyburn describes the week as a fun way to start a college search.
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Pyburn chairs Iowa Private College Week. Information about the 12th annual week is available from Morningside, Northwestern, or, Buena Vista, St. Luke's, or Dordt Colleges and Universities. www.ThinkIndependently.com
YANKTON, S.D. (AP) Mount Marty College at Yankton is starting a coed club program for students to compete in archery target shooting at a regional and national level.
College officials say it's the first of its kind in South Dakota and one of about 70 such programs nationwide. It will be affiliated with the National Field Archery Association that has its national headquarters in Yankton.
Mount Marty has offered archery classes as part of a recreational degree program. Archery coach M.J. Rogers said he expects those students to form the nucleus of the team.
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Ottumwa man charged with attempted murder
OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) An Ottumwa man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after a pair of stabbings at a motel.
Ottumwa police say they responded to a reported disturbance early Sunday and found two men with stab wounds.
Twenty-one-year-old Christian Deeter of Ottumwa was treated for a stab wound to the face and released from a local hospital. Alexander Collins, also 21, was transferred to the University of Iowa Hospitals and was treated for multiple stab wounds.
Police arrested 45-year-old Darryl Johnson following an initial investigation.
Johnson is charged with one count of attempted murder for stabbing Collins and willful injury in the stabbing of Deeter.
Johnson is being held in the Wapello County Jail. Bond is set at $60,000.
DNR says 31 Iowa dams have structural issues
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) State records say that 31 dams in Iowa have structural issues or other deficiencies that could cause them to fail unless they're fixed.
A copyright story in the Des Moines Register says the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has labeled six of those dams ``high hazard.'' The classification means their failure could result in a loss of life to people downstream.
The agency says 14 dams pose a moderate hazard. Financial losses and environmental damage could result if any of those dams failed.
Jon Garton, a dam safety engineer with the department, says none of the 31 dams face imminent failure. Garton says state officials are working with each of the dam owners to either bring them into compliance or to remove the dam.
Lawyer says no charges to be filed in Boesen case
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) A lawyer for Ed Boesen's estate says a criminal investigation into the late Des Moines businessman has been closed without charges being filed.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was looking into how Boesen obtained millions of dollars in loans using a false stock account statement.
Attorney James Monroe says FBI agents told him last week they're not filing criminal charges.
The move indicates that no sufficient evidence was found to implicate anyone had helped Boesen get the loans.
Six banks alleged that Boesen used a fraudulent stock brokerage account statement to obtain almost $16 million starting in November 2007.
Boesen died the following July of an intentional overdose of over-the-counter drugs.
Polk County tightens inmate bus security
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Security measures for transporting inmates in Polk County have been tightened after a man facing murder charges escaped from a jail bus last May.
Polk County Jail deputy Jana Rooker says inmates being shuttled between the jail and the courthouse are now fully restrained with waist chains, handcuffs and leg restraints.
The added security measures came after Richard Mutchler briefly escaped from a sheriff's transport bus on a busy street in Des Moines.
Mutchler was found guilty of first-degree robbery last week while awaiting trial on murder charges for the stabbing deaths of Des Moines women.
Mutchler is also charged with escape and assault on a police officer.
Police arrest pair in gun shop theft
Dueling marriage rallies staged in Des Moines
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Groups on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate have staged rallies in Des Moines.
The National Organization for Marriage is on a tour of 19 states to show support for traditional marriage. The group rallied at the state capitol Sunday.
One Iowa, an organization supporting same-sex marriage, staged a counter event just down the road.
The National Organization for Marriage is hoping to garner support for a public vote on whether states should sanction gay and lesbian marriages. About 75 people attended the event at the capitol.
One Iowa's event drew roughly 250 people to a downtown park.
Davenport may park free meters
DAVEPORT, Iowa (AP) Davenport might soon start charging people to park downtown again.
The city stopped charging drivers to park downtown eight months ago, and the number of cars visiting the city center jumped eight percent in that time.
Officials say the free passes might have to stop, though, because of an ongoing debt of over $10 million from parking ramps built several years ago.
The city is now debating whether to go back to some paid parking spots or use tax dollars to pay off the debt.
Mayor Bill Gluba prefers using taxes, but several aldermen say they don't want to use tax dollars instead of parking revenue to retire the debt.
Gluba says a final decision won't come until next spring at the earliest.
Clarke College become Clarke University
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) Clarke College in Dubuque has changed its name to Clarke University.
The school will celebrate its first day as a university on Monday with the unveiling of a banner displaying its new moniker.
The school's board of trustees voted unanimously in May to change its name to Clarke University.
The school was founded in 1843 and named Clarke College in 1928 to honor founder Mary Frances Clarke.
Clarke president Joanne M. Burrows says the change marks the start of a new era.
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(WUSA9) -- Monday, the Republican Governors Association will start running an ad against Virginia's Democratic candidate for governor -Terry McAuliffe.
The ad refers to an electric-car company McAuliffe co-founded, which is now being subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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10 News Investigator Noah Pransky
TAMPA, Florida - After Hillsborough County Commissioners voted 5-2 to invite the Rays to come discuss their future this fall, it appears several commissioners shifted stances from what they said on the campaign trail back in 2010.
Commissioner Victor Crist cast a vote Thursday to meet with the Rays despite saying in 2010 that trying to lure a resource from one Tampa Bay community to another is like "competing against yourself." He also said then that Hillsborough commissioners should strive to help keep the Rays in Pinellas County.
While many have said the Hillsborough discussions are in the best interests of the entire region, there has been no formal invitation yet from county commissioners to any other elected leaders.
TIMELINE: 10 News' coverage of the Stadium Saga
Hillsborough Commissioner Les Miller said in 2010 that he didn't think commissioners needed to even discuss the concept until the Rays demonstrated a huge commitment from the private sector. But he voted "yes" as well on Thursday.
Commissioners Mark Sharpe and Sandy Murman "expressed some ambivalence" before voting with the majority Thursday, even though Sharpe admitted in 2010 that the county's tax dollars were practically all committed elsewhere and the only role for his board was to take a "backseat."
And Murman, who in 2010 said she wanted St. Petersburg to drive the discussion with the Rays, said she is now concerned the decision will create an "adversarial" relationship with Pinellas County.
But Chairman Ken Hagan has remained steadfast in his support for open discussions on a new stadium. In 2010, he campaigned on the issues of a new home for the Rays as well as "future sporting events" in Hillsborough County. Hagan has been a strong advocate of a new regional task force to study the issue, but he hasn't suggested a possible funding source, other than saying public dollars were off the table.
Al Higginbotham and Kevin Beckner were the commission's only dissenting votes Thursday.
The Rays have indicated they'd accept the county's invitation to speak at a fall meeting, which would be followed by an open discussion between multiple mayors and county commissions.
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Paradise Park vs. Silver Springs
Published: Sunday, September 15, 2013 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, September 14, 2013 at 5:11 p.m.
My father began taking me to a swimming hole on the south side of Silver Springs Run (now called Silver River) shortly after my family moved back to Ocala in the early 1930s. The place was called Paradise Park.
I was aware at the time (1932-33) that the park was still under development and that the people who operated Silver Springs Attraction were fighting the development by any means at hand, legal or underhanded, because it was designed as a competitor for Silver Springs. I was only a kid, so I wasn't told all the details, but I heard the talk and remembered it.
Years later, I read the dozens of news stories in the Morning Banner and the Evening Star about the legal battles fought over several years by the Paradise Park developer, M.R. Porter, an Ocala businessman, and Carl Ray and Shorty Davidson, operators of Silver Springs Attraction. There were lawsuits and countersuits between the two parties, with Ray and Davidson mostly on the losing side.
One of my vivid memories was arriving at the Paradise Park road only to find a fence across it. Fortunately, somebody already had cut a hole in the fence big enough for my dad to drive his massive black Maxwell through it. My dad had traded his Ford Roadster for the Maxwell, much to the consternation of my mother.
The fence, of course, prompted a new lawsuit because the Paradise Park road was an old one, dating back before the Civil War, and was considered a public road. That apparently didn't stop Ray and Davidson from hiring someone to plow up the road, trying to obliterate any sign of it.
I still remember our old Maxwell bouncing over the plowed ground to get to Paradise Park. To hear my dad tell it, public opinion soundly condemned the Silver Springs operators.
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Of course, Ray and Davidson had good reason to fear for their economic lives. M.R. Porter had the financial resources to carry out his plans for a new park, complete with a fleet of glass-bottom boats, to outclass the Silver Springs operation and attract tourists far and wide.
Porter, a former Northern industrialist, had made a great deal of money during World War I manufacturing airplane parts for the military. He had moved to Ocala in the 1920s and bought into local businesses.
He had invented a device to keep citrus groves from freezing during a cold winter, and he set up a company to manufacture the grove heater. He also came up with a fertilizer for farm land that made use of the overburden from the old phosphate mines that had been so numerous in this area in the 1890-1920 era. That brought about another new company.
Porter makes his moves
Sometime in the 1920s, Porter foreclosed on a mortgage and took possession of nearly 800 acres on the south side of Silver River. Then he began formulating a plan to make productive use of the property.
In a letter to the newspapers, Porter said he went to see Ed Carmichael, who actually owned the land on which Silver Springs Attraction was located. Porter quoted Carmichael as saying the plan for a new tourist attraction was not in his best interests, but he would not fight it.
The development of Paradise Park began in 1929. Porter set aside a number of acres to give to Ocala for use as a recreation park. The record is not clear on what happened to this public park. Maybe it got lost in the controversy that had tempers red hot.
Hearings and lawsuits
There was no way I could know it, but when my dad and I encountered the wire fence and plowed up road, the county commission, with Ed Carmichael as a member, was holding a public hearing to determine if the Paradise Park road was actually a public road.
Oldtimers came from far and wide to testify they had used it for many years. There seemed no doubt it dated back to the early years of Marion County. That didn't end the controversy, however, because the county commission majority was reluctant to rule against the interests of Ray and Davidson, which only served to add more fire to the continuing battle.
Meanwhile, the Silver Springs operators sought to block Porter's glass-bottom boat scheme by getting a law that would prohibit any boats at the head of the springs but their own. The courts eventually said that wasn't legal.
Porter sells out
Porter soon tired of the continuing court battles and sold Paradise Park and his other land on the river to a group of Jacksonville businessmen. The new owners jumped into the fray with new vigor and filed a countersuit against Ray and Davidson for impeding Paradise Park development.
By 1935, Ray and Davidson saw the inevitable facing them. They began secret negotiations with the Jacksonville group. The result was a buyout of the Paradise Park development at an undisclosed price. But it must have cost Ray and Davidson a great deal.
The Silver Springs operators now controlled all the property on the South side of Silver River. It wasn't until the end of World War II they finally found a use for Paradise Park. Faced with the possibility of having to integrate their money-making attraction, they decided to refurbish Paradise Park for the exclusive use of black people.
As a result, Paradise Park received a new lease on life — for a few years at least. M.R. Porter and his struggles with two men intent on stopping him by any means available soon was completely forgotten.
An avid Marion County historian, David Cook is a retired editor of the Star-Banner. He may be contacted at 237-2535.
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ATLANTA (AP) - The Center for an Educated Georgia is planning a rally at the state Capitol to celebrate National School Choice Week.
Organizers say the rally Thursday is aimed at spotlighting the need to expand educational options for all children in the state - including options to attend homeschools, online schools, hybrid schools and others.
Organizers Wednesday said former WNBA star Lisa Leslie is scheduled to speak at the event, which will culminate with students telling legislators how expanded school choice options have impacted them.
The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on the steps of the Georgia State Capitol on Washington Street near Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.