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I am a WOHM with a 16 week old who will start to nurse, suck a few times, pull away and cry and/or scream and arch her back. I'll calm her down a bit and try again and the same thing will happen. Seems like we go on like this for awhile b/c I worry that she is not getting enough to eat, until I get exhausted from trying or am somewhat satisfied with how much she ate.
This has been going on for a month or so. The only time she feeds well is at night which means she ends up sleeping with us in bed. I prefer that she doesn't sleep with us b/c I don't sleep as well and end up tired at work.
It started not long after I went back to work so I feel pretty sure that it's a problem of nipple confusion, but I don't know how to remedy it. I really don't want to completely switch to bottle feeding--both because I don't enjoy pumping that much and would miss that time together.
It could also be gas b/c I can feel gas bubbles in her stomach sometimes and she will burp after awhile, but it doesn't get any easier after she burps, so I'm not sure if that's the primary problem.
What should I do?? Any help would me most appreciated!
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A number of top ballers looking to sharpen their games ahead of the year's first major, the Aussie Open, have gathered in Sydney for the Medibank International.
But before they hit the courts for competition, some of these ballers put on their party-best and hit up a cocktail party celebrating the opening of this long-standing tourney.
Check out both draws here.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
PHOTO OP: Ballers gather for Medibank International, hit up Sydney cocktail party
A number of top ballers looking to sharpen their games ahead of the year's first major, the Aussie Open, have gathered in Sydney for the Medibank International.
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Holy crap Serena looks like a hot mess in that photo (and not in a good way). Nole looks uncharacteristically uncomfie. But Vera looks super cute and happy (yay). Best of luck to all the ladies and gents!ReplyDelete
BTW, good call on labeling Simon's game as "sneakily effective." I'd throw Gulbis in there too.
- johanneJanuary 11, 2009 at 2:07 PM
SON-OF-A! Above post by johanne :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Serena looks great; Johanne honey you better run off to a lense crafters.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Serena always looks like a hot mess. Damn, Simon looks cute in that pic!ReplyDelete
- johanneJanuary 11, 2009 at 8:38 PM
anon9:09: If that's what looks great, I'd much prefer to look terrible.ReplyDelete
Wooo Johanne, you go girl!ReplyDelete
I have to agree. Like Rich, I am not fond of chokers. Very few people can work it. And her dress is.. sweetie, I know you've got it, I've got it too, but many times a modest neckline is even more enticing than the full glory, if you get my drift.
Nole looks WAY cute! I love the shirt, and I love the hair. I like it when men aren't too tidy, too inside the lines.
Simon: sigh Rich.. You really gonna make me lust for another younger than me male baller.. You're such a bad influence.
Vera and Ag looks great, Safarova needs to lose the necklace, whay does Nalby always looks so greasy, please cut the hair, and Fish looks nothing good.
DANG Nole is lookin' good here! YUUUUMMMMMM!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2009 at 7:33 AM
i'll second sonja there! YUMOZA.ReplyDelete
plus simon is lookin' good too.
Mardy is creeping me out here in a high school principal with a severe drinking problem kinda way.ReplyDelete
*lugs out high school yearbook*
yes, it's true
*has unfortunate flashbacks of awkward teenage years*
*burns yearbook*
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM
haha, Rich I love the comment about Mardy. It's dead on!ReplyDelete
LMAO @ Rich.ReplyDelete
BTW did anyone else notice that the women totally got the "cocktail party" vibe, but the men all look like they've come in from a Baseball game?ReplyDelete
good call sonja! yes how typical - clearly no gay boys up in there (or at least out gay boys) what gives???ReplyDelete
Exactly, so typical!ReplyDelete


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Unlike plastic pet fountains that develop cracks, this 128-oz. drinking fountain is made from durable, nonporous glazed ceramic that mitigates bacteria growth. Ceramic resists bacteria (commonly found on porous plastic surfaces) that cause acne on a pet's mouth and chin. Developed by Hammacher Schlemmer, the ceramic drinking fountain is dishwasher-safe, enabling simple, thorough cleaning. The fountain has an integrated pump that draws water from the basin to the top of the dome where it pools and cascades back into the 3" H reservoir. The falling stream attracts pets with the sound of trickling water and entices them to drink more often—a practice that can reduce the pet's risk of kidney disease and urinary tract infection. A charcoal filter removes impurities responsible for unpleasant tastes and odors in water. Filter lasts up to 30 days. Plugs into AC. 14" L x 11 3/4" W x 7 1/4" H. (8 lbs.)
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Dogs are happy
By Gwammy
from Livermore, CA
Two degreed adults had a problem assembling the pump per instructions offered and , instead, relied on experience and our own common sense to figure out how to get this fountain to operate. Even so, we had to disassemble several times before realizing lever adjustments to the flow were needed to even get the flow to START. After that, no complaints. The item has a large enough reservoir to allow 2 small dogs enough water to last several days before refill is needed. It is white and porcelean so cleaning is obvious when needed and easy to accomplish. It IS porcelean, though, so it is somewhat heavy. I suggest you get it to flow first on a countertop, then dump the water and move it to the place you desire, and then fill again and plug in as the last step.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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My cats love it!
By Sarb Jit
from Espanola, NM
I cannot I believe I waited this long to purchase this. Best thing I have bought in a long time. I have 6 cats and they love using it and they are all drinking more water! One old boy who is 18 years old loves to hang out next to it!
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Why I wouldn't order this pet fountain.
By freelarry
from CA Sierra Foothills
I bought 2 and the 1 gal. fountain's pump failed 1st day. Pump is 1.5" x 1.25" and could have been replaced by mail. Co. made me ship the whole fountain back and receive a whole new fountain in return. Cost of shipping? Why not just send a new pump? By snail mail. If the pump fails I don't want to ship this thing. Pets love it though.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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By Tracy
from Scranton, PA
This is a great fountain for my dogs- I have 3 small dogs and have been using pet fountains for years, but they were always plastic and got dirty fast. this fountain is larger and easier to clean. We needed a bigger bowl as we just added a Boston Terrier to our family! The dogs love the clean water, and this fountain is bigger then the others and yes it's heavier and bulkier but that is a welcome trade off for the ability to clean it easier and less stains. I was prepared for it to be a little heavier, and it isn't so heavy that is is a pain to use or clean. The line indicating when the water is low is extremely convenient as well so it is sure not to burn the motor out due to not enough water. The only thing i would recommend to add to it if i were designing it would be an automatic shut off for the pump when the water is to low (my last one had this and the motor never burned out- prior to that i have gone through a lot of these bowls due to motors burning out)
(6 of 6 customers found this review helpful)
Beats the plastic ones hands down!
By Mary
from Danb y, VT
My Cats Love it.The motor is only good for about 4/5 months. But Hammacher replaces it for nothing.Great Company!!
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By Jennifer
from Winston-Salem, NC
We have 2 cats and a very large lady, chocolate lab who use the pet fountain. It is wonderful in that I do not have to constantly add water as I had to other fountains in the past. The only thing I can say against this fountain, and the company makes everything right, is the motor only lasted 5 months. It is completely free to return it, without hassle, just the inconvenience of taking it to the UPS Store. They replace the whole unit, not just the motor. I will continue to deal with Hammacher as you cannot go wrong with a lifetime guarantee!! Excellent product.
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Wonderfull product
By Gary
from Vacaville, Ca.
Lots of water, great filter, just rinse once a week and your done. Ordering another one today.
(3 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
Too noisy
By cat lover
from Winnipeg, Manitoba
This cat toy's motor is too noisy. The sound chased the cats away. It was also disturbingly loud for us to have in the room.
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By Jane the Dog lover
from Lubbock, TX
Great product, easy to clean, easy to set up, great craftsmanship. But it is small for a golden retriever. I have to fill it up every day. Not the biggest problem, but not as nice as our previous water bowl that could go three or four days. Also, you have to fill it up long before it is empty for the motor to work. Still, I love the quality and craftmanship so it gets four stars.
Nice Drinking Fountain for Three Dogs
By Twickenham OES
from Stamford, CT
We have another fountain made of stainless steel. It works just like the ceramic unit from Hammacher but it is noisy particularly when the water level gets low. The ceramic unit is much quieter probably as a result of the rubber feet on the tower insert.
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Leaving for France
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Unmissable tourist sites
Where to sleep?
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Le Monopole from41 €Book
Hôtel aux Sacres from55 €Book
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Rheims : Michelin's recommendations
Artistic city, site of coronations, seat of a university, Reims is famous for its cathedral and basilica of St Rémi. It is also the joint capital of Champagne (along with Épernay). Bounded by a belt of boulevards laid out in the 18C, the town (largely destroyed in 1914) has extensive outlying districts which sometimes border the vineyards. Today its liveliest areas are along the rue de Vesle and most notably on the long place Drouet-d'Erlon.
Tourist attractions Rheims : Things to see and do
Notre-Dame Cathedral of Reims
2 place du Card.-Luçon F - 51100 Reims
This cathedral, a Unesco World Heritage Site, belongs to the lanceolate Gothic style, of which Chartres was the model. The west façade is admirable for its extraordinary slenderness and its statuary. The 13C stained-glass windows have suffered severe..
Tau Palace
2 place du Card.-Luçon F - 51100 Reims
this old Episcopal palace was built in 1690 by Robert de Cotte and Mansart. In the salle du Tau - the setting for the banquets which followed the coronation of France's kings - there is an exhibition which explains the tradition of the ceremonies. Th..
St Remi Museum-Abbey
53 r. Simon F - 51100 Reims
The museum, located in an old Royal Abbey, has an attractive collection of 17 and 18C buildings that have preserved some medieval parts. The museum has collections of Reims art, from its origins to the late Middle Ages. The Gallo-Roman history of the..
Hotels Rheims
Hôtel Azur
9 Rue des Écrevees F - 51100 Reims
Prix Prices from : 55 €
Located in the city centre of Reims, Hotel Azur is just a 5-minute walk from the SNCF train station. It offers rooms with a flat-screen satellite TV and free Wi-Fi access. Some rooms also have air conditioning. Breakfast is served daily at the Azur ..
Hôtel Le Bristol
76 Place Drouet D'Erlon F - 51100 Reims
Prix Prices from : 54 €
Le Bristol is located in the heart of Reims, 750 metres from the Notre-Dame Cathedral and 300 metres from the train station. Set in a 19th-century building, it offers a 24-hour reception and en suite rooms with free Wi-Fi access. The guest rooms are..
Hôtel aux Sacres
7-9 Rue Du Général Sarrail F - 51100 Reims
Located in Reims city centre, this hotel is 210 metres from the Modern Art Gallery and 400 metres from Reims TGV Station. It features a 24-hour reception and soundproofed rooms with a flat-screen TV and free Wi-Fi. The elegant guest rooms feature ai..
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Prices from : -33 €
Check out the romantic and iconic wonders of the French capital aboard an open-air double-decker bus. At your own pace, explore and admire panoramic views of the world-famous landmarks including Notre-Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, and the Eiffel Tower..
Prices from : -55 €
Discover one of Paris' best-known districts on this walking tour of historic Montmartre. Led by a professional photographer, stroll past famous landmarks and pretty, out-of-the-ways spots in this village-like neighborhood on your very own photo sho..
Located in the heart of the champagne region, the House of Mumm, which was established in 1827, welcomes visitors for a tour of the cellars where some 25 million bottles are stored. On this fascinating tour of the cellars, you will be shown the ma..
Restaurants Rheims
L'Assiette Champenoise
40 avenue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier F - 51430 Tinqueux
The smart, modern decor, faintly lounge in style, reflects the personality of the chef, Arnaud Lallement. His creative cuisine is elegantly subtle and seeks to create complex blends of flavours based on high quality produce.
Le Pavillon CG
7 rue Noël F - 51100 Reims
This bourgeois house (1850) was a bank before being transformed into a restaurant. It is a sure bet, where you can enjoy gourmet cuisine made with quality ingredients. Elegant dining area beneath a glass roof. Amiable service.
Le Parc Les Crayères
64 boulevard Henry-Vasnier F - 51100 Reims
An extravagant interior (wainscoting, stucco, tapestries) provides the backdrop to equally sumptuous food. The presentation, flawless execution and fine produce combine to create an exceptional gastronomic experience.
Le Millénaire
4 rue Bertin F - 51000 Reims
The façade of this restaurant not far from the place Royale is full of character. Delicious, thoroughly modern cuisine from a partnership of two chefs.
Le Pré Champenois
1 rue Jean-Jacques-Rousseau F - 51100 Reims
This gourmet restaurant was opened in 2010. Pleasantly plush, it is popular for its classic culinary repertory with a modern twist (squid carbonara, Grand Marnier soufflé...).
Le Foch
37 boulevard Foch F - 51100 Reims
The restaurant stands by the Promenades, which are 18C shaded courtyards. The interior, both classic and contemporary, is ideally matched to the chef's inventive culinary repertory. Premium produce takes pride of place (lobster, fish).


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Many have heard of the Lost Colony, but just recently the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources paid tribute to another colony on Roanoke Island.
Freedman's Colony of Roanoke Island was recently honored by the state with a road marker, forever marking its place in history.
During the Civil War, Union-occupied Roanoke Island became home to thousands of former slaves. Initially they settled near the Union headquarters, with the camp evolving into a government-sanctioned colony.
Virginia Tillett says, "When my cousin finalized the lineage of all of us, we found out that we're part of the original Freedman's that settled on Roanoke Island"
She says Freedmen, like many former slaves, had used the underground railroad and items like a quilt to lead the way to a better life. She says, "Each of these blocks would give them directions on which way to travel or it would tell them to stay hidden because it was not safe to travel."
Tillett says the colony consisted of houses, schools and churches.


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Looks good so far though I'm wondering if there was that much titles written in gotische fonts on 19th centuries maps Also some borders colors are a bit jarring but it's may be my personnal tastes.
I am doing maps again. I tried a lot of different things in the recent time, but nothing that really made me happy.
Now I am trying a historical style again.
Things still to do / change:
Colours: I have to limit myself to a more subtle palette for the country colours.
Font: I can for Mercator's sake not identify what kind of font was used in the original. Some kind of Didot, but that is all that I could find. The one used here is called "Georgia" and was the closest I had at hand. I have downloaded some kind of free Didot variant, and while the text looks better, the numbers are still not right.
Aging effects: Background texture is slapdash right now. Have to do it better.
Further infos: As I did not want to copy the original map 1 to 1, I used the starter setup of Crusader Kings 2 867 / The Old Gods as a template.... after a lot (heck! All!) of hand-adjusting the CK2 map to this layout.
The original map from the 14th edition of the Brockhaus encyclopedia can be found here (BTW: while I used the original map as a template, all of my map is really drawn by me. )
I'll be back soon... hopefully with some serious update (I have to play CK2 )... and a number of questions.
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Looks good so far though I'm wondering if there was that much titles written in gotische fonts on 19th centuries maps Also some borders colors are a bit jarring but it's may be my personnal tastes.
Changed the colours to a more suitable setup.... should be better now, I hope.
Changed a number of fonts. I really must start taking notes of my workflow... I don't know if I will ever find the correct setup again.
I also changed the title text to an Antiqua font. I really like the gothic one I used in the first variant, but Max is correct... the colour tables in this type of encyclopedia were all in antiqua, even if the main body of text was set in gothic.
Added more text, city names to be specific.
Added a legend, directly based on the original map and adapted to my setting.
(And I already found a few mistakes. )
Last edited by Freodin; 07-08-2013 at 07:17 PM.
Ooh, nice! I like how it looks.
I'm working on a XIX century map myself and I have to wonder, how do you get those borders to work? I haven't been able to properly recreate that style.
It took me ages to come up with a way that worked for me. These Brockhaus scans have been sitting on my HD forever, and I couldn't find a way to replicate this irregular hatching for the borders (or the sea).
(Note to all: if someone would present a simpler way than I finally did... don't be shy!)
So this is what I did:
The base texture for the borders is rendered in Blender. Basically it is a striped (wave: band) texture, slightly distorted and modified with some noise, then rendered to the size I needed.
In my current work, I already merged down the outer narrow borders and the inner striped borders, so that I cannot colourize them independently any more. That was really really stupid.
But you always learn something, don't you?
Excellent! I'll try and see if I can get it to work.
Thank you very much for sharing your secrets!
Slowly but steadily the map gets into the shape I want it to.
I still wasn't satisfied with the colour palette in the last version. It looked about alright in the first map, but when I had finished the second one, with more diverse borders, it just didn't work.
Inspiration took a while to get through. How was the original done? What colours did they use? Closer analysis revealed the answer: it is a simple three-colour print. Should have been obvious.
So I decided to replicate this way of printing also. With the three base colours of red, yellow and blue, each in a specific direction of hatching, and just adding up these colours, I arrived at this version.
I also tried several ways to adding little imperfections in the "print", a last comming down to the simplest of all: doing it by hand.
Basically, this should be it. Workflow is set. Methods tried out. Now all that is left to finish this piece is an inspiration of how to layout the other three maps.
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Great job so far
I am still tinkering with this. The current version is about as close to my goal as I can get it... but the methods I use get more and more complicated.
Unnecessarily complicated perhaps... I don't think most people are going to notice some of the small details.
One problem I have run into: you cannot use layergroups as layermaps / alphamaps - at least not in the current version of GIMP. So in order to keep this map non-destructive, I have to include a number of backup layers.
Now I have to come around and write all this stuff down, so that I don't forget how I did it.
What do you think? Would it be worth to invest the time, do it right and make a tutorial from it?
Last edited by Freodin; 02-25-2014 at 08:31 AM.
That's really nice. I'd maybe make the water go slightly darker where it's close to the land, just to provide a bit of extra contrast, but other than that tiny detail it's a gorgeous style. +1 for a tutorial!


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|New Tribes Mission Aviation's new plane introduced in Grant
By Carolyn Lee
The Imperial Republican
The first Kodiak turbo-prop plane to be owned by New Tribes Mission Aviation was displayed in Grant Jan. 9. The visit was a tribute to the fact that New Tribes had a pilot training facility in Grant, established with the guidance of former Imperial resident Lee German, now of Arizona.
The Kodiac, a 10-seater, is the 31st plane made by Quest Aircraft Co., and the first to be owned by New Tribes. It is designed to fly missions, relief and humanitarian work in back-country terrain, according to instructor-pilot and aviation department leadership team member Jason Miller of McNeal, Ariz.
New Tribes Mission Aviation is a branch of New Tribes Mission, and advances its goals and visions, according to Miller.
New Tribes missionaries go into a country to "reach the unreached with the gospel of Jesus," he said. The missionaries learn the language, develop an alphabet, then teach the natives to read and write their own language.
The missionaries then take the Word of God and translate key passages in the Old and New Testaments, Miller said, encouraging the natives to become disciples of Christ.
The missionaries help establish a church, then move out, leaving believers of Christ, he concluded.
Lee German flew for New Tribes in the Philippines for many years. Nephew Eric German and wife Brenda and family, now of Imperial, also flew for New Tribes.
Miller grew up in Venezuela. The Germans served 12 years in Venezuela and one year in the Philippines.
In fact, the Millers and Germans worked together in Venezuela for a year, Miller said.
He stated that the trip to Grant was a chance to "pay homage to the folks there" for their service to New Tribes. "New Tribes had many ties and history there."


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Courchevel Village (formerly Courchevel 1550) is the quietest of the Courchevel resorts and the most affordable. Linked to Courchevel (1850) by both a cable car and a chairlift, as well as the free bus, this resort is great for families looking for a quieter base from which to explore the Courchevel ski area, or the wider Three Valleys. Those wanting a night out can take advantage of the late-running bus service to spend an evening in Courchevel Moriond (1650) or Courchevel (1850)..
A huge variety of slopes, terrain park and half pipe will keep skiers and boarders entertained during a week skiing holiday in Courchevel. However, exploring the whole of the Trois Vallees ski area is easy thanks to the modern lift system of chairs and gondolas.
The small ski area directly above Courchevel Village (1550) is predominantly blue runs, with a couple of reds and greens. However, it is just a short cable car ride from here to Courchevel (1850) from where the mountain really opens up and skiers and boarders of all levels will find runs to enjoy. The Wood Park on the Tovets run just above Courchevel Village (1550) has a selection of wooden rails and tables for freestylers. There is a 2km toboggan run from Courchevel (1850) back to Courchevel Village (1550) which is floodlit in the evenings until 7.30pm.
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GLEN DALE - The plan all along according to Morgantown girls' basketball coach Adam Henkins, was to pressure John Marshall from one baseline to the other for 32 minutes Thursday night. When the Mohigans pulled into town and found out Monarchs star Kylie Howard would not play, that simply reaffirmed the coach's initial thoughts.
Leah Taylor scored 19 of her game-high 21 points in the first half as Morgantown (12-4) used an 11-0 run spanning the end of the first quarter and start of the second to springboard it to a 72-52 victory.
''We won by 20, but Howard is a 22-point scorer so she makes the difference (Thursday),'' Henkins said. ''In my mind she's the state player of the year and that's who I will vote for. I already have my mind made up.
''I thought we did a good job running the floor and pressuring them into some turnovers. They made a nice little run in the third quarter and going into the fourth, but I thought we did a nice job holding our composure and finishing them off.''
Howard, who is the reigning Gatorade West Virginia Softball Player of the Year, tore the Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) in her right knee in a loss to Parkersburg South on Tuesday and will see a surgeon early next week. Her basketball career is finished, and Howard's status for the softball season, where the Monarch will try to defend their Class AAA state title, is in severe peril.
''Obviously with the loss of Kylie, I feel bad for her,'' John Marshall coach Mark McCormick said. ''She's having a great year, she's playing the way she is and we're playing well.
''There's a need right now for someone to step up.''
The Monarchs (10-6), who lost their fourth in a row, stayed within seven after the first quarter but couldn't stem the tide in the second. Morgantown forced 18 first-half turnovers (25 for the game) and got 19 points from Taylor and another 10 points and nine rebounds from Caroline Colombo before halftime.
''Leah Taylor had an awesome game. I can't say enough about her,'' Henkins said. Caroline Colombo had monster boards - I think she was double-digit rebounds, which is good for her and good for us.
''That was one of our focuses because they're so big inside with (Emily) Winters and (Tori) Derrow.''
Winters had perhaps her best game of the season as she got free for a team-high 13 points and also pulled down nine rebounds. Derrow netted nine points for the Monarchs, as did Sissy George.
''I thought Emily played very well and that's a step in the right direction for her,'' McCormick said.
Other than that though, there wasn't much for the Monarchs. Morgantown had a lot to do with that.
''Fullcourt man-to-man was very good for us and I was very happy with the defensive intensity we had,'' Henkins said. ''I think we did make them play faster.
''They even had us broken a couple times but we were able to make them throw it just a little bit too high, or make them go just a little bit too fast.''
McCormick agreed, saying ''we're dribbling and having two or three girls trying to throw off the dribble. That's just not us.''
Tiara Ireland came off the Morgantown bench to notch 18 points, while Taylor added six steals and four assists. Colombo finished with a game-high 12 rebounds.


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Track Record: 1:33, Sky Jack (7), August 24, 2003Stakes Record: 1:34.20, Koala Beach, June 27, 2010
Most WinsTrainer: 3Doris Harwood (Koala Beach, 2010; Noosa Beach, 2009; Margo's Gift, 2008)Jockey: 2-tieNathan Chaves (Raise the Bluff, 2006; Naab The Win, 1999),Amir Cedeno (Northwest Attitude, 2004; Leather N Lace, 2003)Ricky Frazier (Koala Beach, 2010; Margo's Gift, 2008)Owner: 2Jeff Harwood (Koala Beach, 2010; Noosa Beach, 2009)
Biggest $2 Win: $21.60, Northwest Attitude (2004)Smallest $2 Win: $3.20, Name for Norm (1997)Favorites: 7-for-17, Odds-On: 1-for-4 Gate-to-Wire: 5-for-17Track: fast 13, wet-fast 2, muddy 2Winner Bred: Washington 12, California 1,Florida 1, Kentucky 1, Maryland 1, British Columbia 1
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SUPER 6 HANDICAPERSJoe Withee (EmD1): Music of My Soul, He's Not Bluffin, Finallygotabentley (0-6—$40.00)Robert Geller (EmD2): Worldventurer, Finallygotabentley, He's Not Bluffin (2-6—$53.90)Gary Dougherty (Horse Racing Seattle): Finallygotabentley, Music of My Soul, Carving (2-6—$49.10)Vic Cozzetti (Predictorsays.com): Music of My Soul, Finallygotabentley, Worldventurer (2-6—$92.80)Nick Rousso (Daily Racing Form): Music of My Soul, Worldventurer, Finallygotabentley (1-6—$56.50)Jacob Pollowitz (EmD3): Worldventurer, Music of My Soul, Cariboo Road (1-6—$57.60)Consensus: Music of My Soul (19), Worldventurer (13), Finallygotabentley (11) (1-6—$46.80)
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Release Date: November 01, 1996
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In this intimate horror thriller, Ted Harrison, an adventurous photojournalist, is transformed after being bitten by a strange beast in Nepal. After his ordeal, his sister welcomes him home, where only the family dog, Thor, recognizes the terrible significance of the man's experience. Ted struggles to retain the last vestige of his humanity before the beast growing within him destroys his unsuspecting sister and her innocent son. As his lust for blood begins to override his sense of conscience, all that stands in his way is Thor. But the monster who was Ted might just underestimate the unshakable bond between a boy and his dog.


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Post-2012 autopsy
Politics | The Republican National Committee's report on the future of the GOP angers social conservatives and the party's grassroots base
WASHINGTON—At last week's annual gathering of conservatives near Washington, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, the GOP lawmaker of the month, called the Republican Party "stale" and "moss-covered."
On Monday the Republican National Committee agreed.
The RNC's new report on the future of the party, dubbed the "Growth and Opportunity Project," warns, "Unless something changes, it will be increasingly difficult for Republicans to win another presidential election in the near future."
The nearly 100-page report, ordered by the RNC after Republicans failed to win the White House last November, includes comments from voters calling the GOP "scary," "narrow-minded," "out of touch," and the party of "stuffy, old men."
Republicans, the report states, knows how to appeal to older voters, but it is increasingly out of touch with other demographics and has lost the ability to persuade and welcome those who don't side with the party on every issue. The report, surprisingly blunt considering it comes from inside the RNC, says Republicans spend too much time talking to one another.
"Public perception of the party is at record lows," the report states. "Young voters are increasingly rolling their eyes at what the party represents, and many minorities wrongly think that Republicans do not like them or want them in the country. When someone rolls their eyes at us, they are not likely to open their ears to us."
But the report's 219 recommendations for changing the GOP include several ideas that already are being blasted by grassroots activists and social conservatives.
The report calls for Republicans to "embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform" or risk shrinking to its core constituents: "If Hispanic-Americans perceive that a GOP nominee or candidate does not want them in the United States (i.e., self-deportation), they will not pay attention to our next sentence."
Authored by five members of the GOP establishment, the report tries to downplay social issues. It does not mention abortion, and it does not push for a public change in the party's support of traditional marriage. But the report does argue that homosexual issues are causing the party to lose younger voters: "There is a generational difference within the conservative movement about issues involving the treatment and the rights of gays—and for many younger voters, these issues are a gateway into whether the party is a place they want to be."
But Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, fired back, saying deemphasizing social issues would alienate a crucial voting bloc.
"Social issues are keys to reaching certain minorities the GOP yearns to attract, as well as to motivate millions of voters who first gravitated to the party as Reagan Democrats," said Dannenfelser, citing statistics showing that a majority of Americans do not support taxpayer-funded abortions.
In releasing the report, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said, "I think that we have to be a welcoming party. I think that we have to have a party that says, 'If you want to support our party and you want to walk through that door, I don't need to agree with you on every single issue.'"
The five-person committee behind the report included Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary under former President George W. Bush; Republican National Committeeman Henry Barbour, a nephew of former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour; and Sally Bradshaw, an adviser to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Before writing the report, the committee listened to more than 50,000 members of the GOP.
Priebus said the RNC would focus more on reaching out to voters on the ground and less on television advertisements in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election. This spring the RNC will hire national political directors for Hispanic, Asian-Pacific, and African-American voters, and it will invest $10 million toward initial efforts to reach those voters by the end of the summer. The RNC also will work to upgrade its use of digital technology and social media to target supporters and get them to the polls. The superior voter database infrastructure used by President Obama's campaign last year played a large role in his reelection victory.
The report also seeks to change the party's primary and debate process. It calls for moving the GOP convention from August to late June or July, reducing by half the number of primary debates, and holding primaries in regional clusters instead of caucuses and conventions. Priebus said the intent would be to limit "the amount of slicing and dicing that goes on in our party" during the selection process.
Some argue that last year's long primary season wounded Mitt Romney, the eventual GOP nominee, before he could take on Obama in the general election. But some are warning that such changes would be a knee-jerk reaction to an election loss in a year that the GOP already faced the uphill battle of running against an incumbent. In 2016, both parties will field challengers.
Opponents to the recommendations also fear that a shortened primary season would reward the well-funded establishment's choice while making it harder for a grassroots-driven outsider to mount and sustain a challenge like former Sen. Rick Santorum did last year.
"The Republican consulting class is just plain wrong about how it approaches politics," said Newt Gingrich, who also launched an unsuccessful presidential bid in 2012 by portraying himself as a Republican outsider.
The controversial report will provide new ammunition in the escalating battle between grassroots Republicans and the party's entrenched old guard. Party insiders and consultants were a top villain at last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The conference even included a panel titled, "Should We Shoot All the Consultants Now?"
"Now is the time to furlough the consultants, and tune out the pollsters, send the focus groups home, and toss the political scripts," Sarah Palin told CPAC attendees, receiving a loud ovation, "because if we truly know what we believe, we don't need professionals to tell us."


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Fracking: Fact or fiction?
Energy | Horizontal drilling is boosting domestic natural gas production, and dubious controversy over its safety
MIDLAND, Texas-Hydraulic fracturing. Fracking. It sounds like an epithet, and many environmentalists blame it for earthquakes and poisoned drinking water. But fracking has supporters-especially consumers who are spending less to heat their homes because the controversial technology has increased natural gas supplies and lowered prices. So what is fracking? Does it deserve the invective aimed its way? I set off for Midland, Texas, to find out.
Mark Merritt climbs out of his dusty F150 pickup, hands me a hard hat and safety glasses, and leads me on a tour of a gas well where a "frac" job is taking place. The lanky, soft-spoken Texan is the director of oil and gas operations at Fasken Oil and Ranch, an exploration and production company based in Midland. We're surrounded by equipment: tractor trailers filled with water, sand, miles of steel and composite tubing, hoses and wires snaking along the dusty ground. I can't hear above the steady, incessant thrumming of a dozen heavy diesel compressors pumping thousands of gallons of water and sand deep beneath the earth.
We get some relief from the noise only when we step inside the portable office trailer that serves as control room, operations center, and small kitchen. Technicians in fireproof coveralls monitor computer terminals that continuously spit out data: pressure, temperature, fluid mix, flow rate, and micro-seismic activity around the well bore. All this bustle and noise is temporary. In less than a week the frac job will end, and the crew will haul the equipment to the next job.
The equipment is more sophisticated today, but oil and gas operators in Texas have been "fracking" wells for the past 65 years to get at oil and gas contained in "tighter"-less permeable-oil shale formations. More than a million frac jobs later, fracking is a routine step in the oil and gas production process, but now petroleum engineers have added a new twist: They turned their well bores 90 degrees to drill horizontally through low-permeability shale formations. The result: Oil and gas operators boosted natural gas production so significantly that prices plummeted from almost $10 per thousand cubic feet (mcf) to around $2 per mcf today.
To understand why fracking works, you have to understand a little bit about geology.
Mark Merritt says "most people have an idea that it's just a big cavern down there that we just drill and tap into." But it's not like that. Oil and gas are trapped in rock formations deep in the earth. Conventional drilling aims at "reservoirs" that are almost like sand, saturated with hydrocarbons easy to extract. These reservoirs are highly porous, with lots of microscopic bubbles containing oil and natural gas distributed throughout the rock, making it something like a very hard sponge. Those pores are connected to each other by naturally occurring, microscopic fractures. Those fractures make the rock permeable. You don't need fracking to get oil out of reservoirs that are porous and permeable.
Often, though, shale is not particularly porous or permeable. Merritt holds out a small core sample of shale taken from two miles below the earth, between Midland and Odessa, Texas. "This may be a few percent porosity," he says as he fingers the hard, black piece of rock. Picture a cube of rock two feet on each side. The amount of oil and gas containing pore space would be about the volume of a major league baseball-but spread throughout the total volume of the rock.
The rock Merritt is holding is 10,000 times less permeable than that in a "conventional reservoir." It has fewer pores and fewer naturally occurring fractures, so operators use fracking to "stimulate" the rock to create additional tiny fractures, making the shale more permeable and releasing the oil and gas hidden in those microscopic pores to flow to the well bore.
During a short but intense frac job, operators inject a mixture of fresh water and sand into a well at very high volumes and pressures. Perforations at the end of the well bore allow this sand/water mixture to force its way into the rock formation, opening up tiny crevices, or fractures, in the rock. The sand is deposited in these crevices, propping them open and providing a pathway for the trapped hydrocarbons to make their way to the well bore. Operators extract the "frac fluid," minus the sand, and recycle it.
Petroleum engineer Randy King has been involved with hydro-fracking for 25 years. "We've refined this technology for decades," he says. "The only thing new is now we're taking those drill bits and instead of going vertical, we're going horizontal into the formation, and thus exposing more of the well bore to the formation-allowing us to do more fracs per well." That means a single horizontal gas well is as productive as at least four traditional vertical wells.
Here's where the story takes a political turn. Fracking has led to more productive gas wells and more optimistic projections about the amount of natural gas that companies can recover from shale rock. Those developments have driven down the price of natural gas-normally a good thing, especially when the United States is striving for energy independence.
But low natural gas prices have undermined efforts to make so-called "green" energy technologies-wind and solar-economically viable, putting the oil and gas industry squarely in the sights of environmental organizations. They blame hydraulic fracturing for everything from contaminating drinking water with methane and other chemicals to causing earthquakes.
Kate Sinding, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, told me her environmental advocacy group's concerns with fracking run the gamut from air pollution to waste water to a perceived lack of sufficient regulatory oversight of onshore oil and gas operations. She noted the theoretical possibility that fracking chemicals or naturally occurring underground contaminants might migrate to drinking water sources through existing natural faults or fractures that have intersected with fractures created through fracking.
"Even though it happens at significant depth, there is the potential for this kind of contamination pathway to be created," says Sinding: "It's not something that would show up right away." She acknowledges that this possibility has never been documented, but quickly reminds me that spills of fracking fluids and waste, or problems with gas leaks from well bores, have happened in the past.
In Texas, past history of oil and gas activity goes back over 100 years. Fasken Oil and Ranch operates on land its founder, Toronto attorney David Fasken, started buying in Texas in 1913. After they discovered oil on their ranch in the 1940s, the Faskens spread across the Southwest. The family still holds 300,000 acres in west Texas, and the company manages both cattle and oil and gas operations. It operates wells on the same land where cattle graze. Mark Merritt is amused that anyone would associate fracking and contaminated drinking water: "We own the surface-we want to use the fresh water for cattle and people for many years to come. ... We believe it's safe so we're fracking on our own land!"
We walk over to a flatbed trailer stacked with long, cylindrical steel tubes called casing. Merritt points out that this casing, nearly 10 inches in diameter and weighing nearly 100 pounds per linear foot, is part of the triple layer of steel and cement that Texas laws and regulations require as a well passes through the fresh water aquifer, where an oil or gas well is most likely to affect drinking water. It's a requirement common to all oil and gas wells and has nothing to do with hydraulic fracturing.
Again, a little knowledge of geology is important to understand why many experts dismiss worries about fracking and water contamination. Huge distances exist between freshwater aquifers and the rock formations where fracking takes place. Drinking water wells are fairly shallow-about 500 or 600 feet deep. An oil and gas well is fracked at depths between 5,000 and 10,000 feet. The miles of rock between the surface and the shale formation create tremendous overpressure that works against the fracture stimulation process. Pressures this deep can be almost 5,000 pounds per square inch (psi), so it takes a great deal of energy to create these man-made, microscopic fractures, which extend radially outward from the well bore no more than 500 to 700 feet (see well bore illustration).
"Think about it," says Randy King, "You're trying to bust up something 5,000 or 6,000 feet below the surface of the earth. It's got a lot of pressure in it, so you can only move a man-made or induced crevice so far. So if you've got a 500-foot crevice or fracture, you've still got 5,500 feet of rocks and sand and limestone and granite and who knows what between you and the surface."
Not everyone is convinced by that argument. About two years ago, the EPA bypassed the Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates oil and gas activity in the state, and issued an emergency order against Range Resources, an independent oil and gas operator in Fort Worth. The EPA claimed that Range Resources' fracking activities posed an imminent danger to residential areas by causing contamination of private water wells in North Texas. The EPA's order required Range Resources to provide clean drinking water to several families in the area.
The Railroad Commission conducted a detailed investigation, held hearings, and determined the EPA's allegations were not supported by the science. Methane may have been in the drinking water of those North Texas families, but it did not get there as a result of fracking. The Railroad Commission said the methane in the drinking water was naturally occurring, biogenic methane, created by the decomposition of organic material through fermentation, not thermogenic methane associated with oil and gas activity. The EPA ignored that finding.
When a Texas judge concluded that residents and an environmental consultant had falsified a video showing how their methane-tainted water could be ignited, the EPA withdrew its order. John Tinterra, former executive director of the Railroad Commission, says the episode shows the tension between state regulators-who have broad power, local expertise, and inspectors in the field-and federal regulators, who don't have the broad regulatory framework or the depth of expertise to regulate all the oil and gas activities taking place throughout the country.
Texans are used to seeing oil pump jacks and gas wells in both urban and residential areas. They are tolerant of, if not totally comfortable with, an industry that has made Texas one of the wealthiest states in the nation. But much of the untapped gas shale reserve in the United States is buried deep beneath New York, Pennsylvania, and North Dakota, states without a comparable connection to oil and gas. Even with the potential for economic growth oil and gas development would bring to these states, it will be a challenge to overcome the "not in my backyard" resistance the industry will face.
As recently as five or six years ago, many experts thought the nation had only a seven or eight year rolling supply of natural gas. Hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling changed all that.
Randy King is convinced this wasn't accidental: "Now we think we have about 1,000 trillion cubic feet in recoverable reserves, so instead of an eight-year, we've got a 30- to 40-year supply. And honestly, God knew all that! We just didn't know it. Now it's become obvious that we're blessed with it, and all because those shales, which were never booked as crude reserves, are now productive because of horizontal drilling and fracturing, and the game has changed."
-Michael Cochrane is an industrial and systems engineer


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|Lynette Harms hanging it up after 20 years
|Written by Chris Lee
After 20 years of combined time spent in education, Holyoke Elementary special education teacher Lynette Harms is leaving the classroom.
She is leaving the halls and the numerous kids for a much smaller number. She plans to spend some time with her two grandchildren who live in the area.
Her husband Ken plans to "put me to work fishing and farming," Harms said with a smile on her face.
"I just knew it was time to quit," Harms said about her decision to put the pen down. "I love kids," she said, but other aspects of the job are getting to be much more time intensive.
She will miss the kids most by far. Being able to watch the growth over the years is an aspect of the job she has enjoyed.
Of course the staff will be missed. She noted Holyoke has great staff and administration which adds to the greatness of the district.
She will trade school work for farm work as she will be a little more involved with the family's operation.
The new retiree grew up in an educational home. Her mother and father, Rhoda and Alfred Renzelman, live in Haxtun. Her father was a principal so she was learning from the best from the get-go.
She remembers voting as a family on whether or not her father should take the principal's job because a couple of them were in high school at the time.
Her path into education was always assumed. "It was kind of a natural way to go back in those days," Harms said.
Special education teacher Lynette Harms is set to wrap up a teaching career that has spanned over 20 years and many areas of study. She said she will miss the kids the most. —Enterprise photo
Harms began her schooling at Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Neb. after graduating from Haxtun.
Following her graduation from University of Northern Colorado in Greeley with a degree in elementary education, Harms went to teach in Venango, Neb. For two years she drove from Paoli, where she lived with husband Ken, to Venango where she taught first and second grades.
Following two years, she was offered a first-grade position in Holyoke and gladly accepted it. She held that position until 1978 when her first daughter was born. She stayed home where she kept busy raising four children. Harms stayed in education during that time by teaching some GED classes as well as substituting.
She also held a title I half-time position in Fleming and filled in as a long-term substitute in Haxtun for some maternity leaves.
She entered back into full-time teaching in 1998 as a first-grade teacher in Holyoke where she worked with Barb Brown and Karen Scott.
"I felt very fortunate when Holyoke hired me back," Harms said.
She spent the next seven years keeping track of the youngsters before she got tired. "First grade takes a lot of energy," Harms laughed.
In 2005, she was given the opportunity to teach special education where she has spent the last seven years. She was able to go back and get her generalist special education license. She has a true compassion for special education which was another reason for transitioning into the new role.
Harms noted special education takes a lot of energy but it's a different type of structure. She said she was ready to try something new at the time and it worked out well.
"It has been fun," Harms said. She is very thankful for having been given the opportunity to work with a lot of great people throughout the years.
"Holyoke has been blessed with having aides in the classrooms," she added. "They are such an important part to this system. And that's one of the reasons I applied in Holyoke to begin with."
To keep her and the students going over the years, Harms has followed a couple of her favorite mottos. "Whatever task ahead of you is never as great as the power within you," and "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart."
Harms remembers back to when she began teaching in Holyoke. She had 28 students in her classroom. She laughed saying she still has about that same number but her aides have been amazing.
Looking back on favorite memories, Harms can think of a time in first grade when she had a student who really wanted to go to the office to call his mom. She said she kept putting him off, and putting him off, until finally she asked him why? "To tell her I can read," he shouted with excitement.
Another memory is when they thought they had lost a student. All was OK when they found him hiding up in a closet.
Technology has evolved over the years as well, Harms said with an iPad lying on the table in front of her. She was quick to credit elementary principal Kyle Stumpf who has worked hard the last few years to get the school up to date with today's technology.
So as the chapter closes on education, Harms will never forget her career as a teacher. She moves on from the classroom to a place where she knows she will be happy—more time spent with family.
Harms and husband Ken have four children. Jessica and husband Brian Gales live in Phillips County and have two children, Tessa and Luke. Melissa Harms lives and teaches in Milliken. Stephanie Harms lives in Loveland where she is in the health and wellness field and son Gus farms in the Phillips County area.
Along with her parents, her mother-in-law Betty Harms also lives in Haxtun.
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MOUNDSVILLE - A vote canvass that should determine whether Jason ''Jake'' Padlow succeeded in his bid for re-election as a Marshall County commissioner continued late into the night Tuesday with no result.
At press time officials were still examining provisional ballots. They plan to meet at 4 p.m. today to tabulate final results.
Padlow said the integrity of the election was compromised when County Clerk Jan Pest and her staff late last week discovered an error in the unofficial report released Nov. 6. It was determined 2,912 absentee and early votes had been overlooked as election night totals were reported.
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Marshall County Commissioner Brian Schambach, left, county Clerk Jan Pest and Commissioner Don Mason open ballots from two randomly selected precincts for hand counting during Tuesday's canvass. Looking on in the background is lawyer George Sidiropolis.
The Nov. 6 results, which included only ballots cast on Election Day, showed the Democrat Padlow leading by 61 votes, 4,797 to 4,736 over Republican Robert Miller Jr. Padlow was notified of his anticipated loss on Saturday. The commission race was the only question on the ballot to see its results change as a result of the error.
Set to begin at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, the canvass was convened then immediately recessed until noon so Prosecutor Jeff Cramer could be present. Cramer had a prior obligation to attend grand jury proceedings in circuit court Tuesday morning. At their conclusion, Cramer reported to the canvass to act as counsel for the county commission. He remained on hand throughout the afternoon and evening as two precincts were counted by hand and while 165 provisional ballots and 14 additional early votes were addressed.
As Padlow announced he would recuse himself from the canvass, he questioned how nearly 3,000 ballots could have been left out of the vote total announced on election night.
''I feel bad for everyone involved ... '' Padlow said, wondering aloud how anyone should respond to news of such a mistake. ''Sorry isn't good enough, Ms. Pest, not for me and not for the voters of Marshall County.''
Pest replied that the early and absentee ballots had been counted on Nov. 6 - but that total wasn't added to the votes cast on Election Day.
Cramer then advised Pest and the county commissioners that the questions they were debating would be better addressed in an official contest of election results. He said the canvass should be completed; then, he said, anyone who believed they were aggrieved by the process could take their case to court.
Padlow had questioned whether seals on ballot bags had been broken Saturday without county commissioners, ballot commissioners or the prosecutor present. Pest confirmed that seals on bags containing PEBs, or personal electronic ballots, for each precinct in the county had been broken so ''flash card'' memory from voting machines could be retrieved from them.
Separate bags containing the rolls of paper that record each keystroke made on a voting machine were brought to the commission room with their seals still in place as the canvass started Tuesday. Timothy G. Leach, assistant general counsel for the West Virginia Office of the Secretary of State who was present for the canvass, said this ''paper trail'' is considered to be the official record of the vote.
''As far as I can tell, the actual vote was sealed,'' Leach said outside the commission chamber.
Leach declined to comment on whether Pest's decision to break the PEB seals without any commissioners, ballot commissioners or the prosecutor present was ''standard procedure,'' as Pest had asserted.
''We're here to try and figure out if any missteps were made and to figure out what we can do about it,'' Leach said regarding the role of the secretary of state's office Tuesday. ''We can't rule an election valid or invalid. ... A circuit court decides election contests.''
Pest later said the PEB seals were broken Friday with her entire staff and members of the public present. She said her office always runs an additional election report prior to the canvass, and when this was done workers noticed a discrepancy between the report generated Friday and the totals announced Nov. 6.
She said Commissioner Don Mason had granted her access to the PEB bags so the report could be run Friday. When her staff couldn't resolve the discrepancy Friday, she and Deputy Clerk Winnie Reilly decided to return to the office Saturday and seek support from Casto & Harris, a company that provides technical support related to voting machines. That is why they were in the office alone when Padlow was notified of the new result, she said.
''The report we handed out (Nov. 6) is a report we do out of courtesy to the public, it's not required,'' she said. ''It just happened that this one wasn't complete.
Pest also addressed Padlow's Tuesday request for an ''inventory'' of all bags containing votes and PEBs and their seals. She said no special steps to log an inventory were taken during the canvass.
''We didn't deviate from our regular way of doing it,'' she added. ''If after 12 years of Jake being a commissioner he doesn't know how we do things, shame on him.''
Leach also indicated the canvass was a typical one, noting he was unsure what Padlow was seeking when he requested the inventory.
Weirton attorney Dan Guida, representing Padlow, said he and his client contend the integrity of the election was compromised when sealed bags containing voting information were opened prior to the canvass and without what they believe is proper supervision. He noted all candidates have 48 hours following a canvass to request a recount, followed by an opportunity to contest the election in court.
Attorney George Sidiropolis, representing his brother David Sidiropolis who failed to win a seat in the House of Delegates on Nov. 6, asked to see and record the numbers listed on the seals as they were removed from the bags Tuesday. As George Sidiropolis persisted in questioning county officials, Commissioner Brian Schambach approached him. An exchange between the two became contentious, with Schambach apparently touching Sidiropolis on the arm as he tried to make a point.
''This is an assault,'' Sidiropolis said. ''Don't touch me.''
Pest continued to address the questions raised by Sidiropolis. When she had finished, Mason - acting as commission president after Padlow stepped aside - told Sidiropolis the canvass would proceed and that he would need to wait until its conclusion to further question the proceedings. The lawyer returned to the commission chamber that evening and submitted a Freedom of Information Act request regarding the election results to Pest.
Election night totals indicated David Sidiropolis, a Democrat, captured 5,161 votes but lost his bid for election to one of two open seats to incumbent Democrat Mike Ferro with 6,898 and Republican David Evans with 5,402.
A hand count of two precincts - 5 percent of the county's 45 precincts - was conducted. Its results were required to match results from election night within 1 percent before the commission could address provisional ballots. If the results had differed by a larger margin, officials would have been required to count all 45 precincts by hand. Officials hand-counted 14,362 votes - not ballots - and the total was within 0.97 percent of the machine count - within the parameters required.


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Hurst Chevy Camaro and Dodge Challenger - Gentleman's MuscleWritten by on September 1, 2010 Contributors: Johnny Hunkins Hurst Delivers Chevy Camaro And Dodge Challenger Muscle Cars For Discerning Tastes.
There comes a time in a man's life when he feels like he owes himself a real car. He's worked hard and made a good living, and now it's time for a well-appointed, powerful car. Something with an air of classy styling that gathers looks from even the most discerning and snobbish eyes, but yet still retains a muscular persona that car guys appreciate. Unfortunately, for muscle car enthusiasts there aren't a lot of cars of that ilk out there. Where's our upscale American muscle?
Hurst wondered as well and decided it was time to step back into the market. The issue, they reasoned, wasn't a lack of pricey aftermarket performance muscle cars, and it certainly wasn't a lack of worthy platforms, it was a lack of American performance packages that felt less like a mass produced ponycar with a boy-racer body kit and striping and more like a handbuilt factory-backed piece. A true gentleman's muscle car, if you will. After all, if it's going to cost as much as an AMG Mercedes-Benz, you can't make a buyer feel like he stepped down in quality.
We'll admit that we typically look for cheap, lightweight, stripped-down models to build PHR project cars and weekend track toys, but for hellish daily L.A. commutes and long trips, we'd rather reach for the keys to a plush, fully optioned car. There's room for both in our hearts, but it still has to feel like a real muscle car. That's why we accepted Hurst's offer to spend some time behind the wheel of their new Challenger and Camaro. We wanted to see if they really were an evolution of the breed.
After spending a week behind the wheel of the top-level supercharged Performance Series 4 Camaro and Series 4 Challenger and logging a few hundred miles of daily commuting, canyon running, cruise night attending, and acceleration testing, we have to say we're impressed. Like previous Hurst-packaged cars, the Hurst Challenger and Camaro were never meant to be quarter-mile cars or serious open trackers; they're intended to be truly nice cars to drive. And in that, Hurst hit a home run. Not only do both cars sport impressively well balanced but compliant suspension and enough power to pull away from the herd with ease, they also truly feel like upscale muscle cars. The interior is wrapped in posh twice-dyed, top-stitched leather, and the Hurst Hard-Drive shifter is a work of art. It's quiet and free of road noise, and the MagnaFlow exhaust has only the slightest low-volume rumble mingled until under hard throttle where it coalesces beautifully with the right amount of supercharger whistle. Both cars even get respectable mileage, and boy do they gather attention.
From guys in pickup trucks, to the Porsche Carrera driver who gave the Challenger a thumbs-up and the Bentley Continental GT owner who dropped a tire off the road while staring a little too intently at the Camaro on the freeway, the clean but aggressive styling of these cars gets noticed. Even the most hard-core street racer we met at the Friday cruise-in at Bob's Big Boy was swayed. It didn't take more than a 15-minute blast around the area to elicit a change of heart: "You know, this really is a nice car," he says.
Sometimes that's what it's all about. A nice car is about seamlessly blending that subtle balance of power, handling, comfort, and style into a package that feels unforced, and that's exactly what these two new Hurst cars provide. Could they make more horsepower, or have more aggressive suspension tuning, or have a couple hundred pounds trimmed off in the interior all in the name of performance numbers? Sure, but that would be missing the intention-at some point you start to lose that refined feeling and then it's just another muscle car with parts bolted on. And there are plenty of those out there already. If you want a little something more, give Hurst a call, but hurry. Like all previous Hurst cars, these are a limited edition with only 50 of each scheduled per year. They're not cheap, but then exclusivity never is, and then again neither are the parts and installation. We have to say, without a doubt the latest generation of Hurst muscle is by far their best effort yet.
Hurst/Camaro Series 4
Hurst/Magnuson Supercharger
Hurst Hard-Drive shifter (auto or manual)
Hurst 20x9 and 20x11 T-2 wheels, polished with painted spoke insets
Hurst exterior graphics and badges
Hurst Performance Series sequentially numbered dash badge, Series limited to 50
Michelin Pilot Sport K1 Performance Tires
Hurst/MagnaFlow stainless steel cat-back exhaust
Hurst/Eibach coilover adjustable suspension and sway bar
Hurst leather interior with contrast topstitching and embroidered logo
Hurst AIRSPEED rear spoiler
Hurst embroidered logo floor mats
Current colors: black with silver/red stripes, white with black/gold stripes, silver with black/red stripes, other colors available
Hurst custom car cover
MSRP (not including base car): $32,450
Hurst/Challenger SRT8 Performance Series 4
Hurst/Vortech supercharger
Hurst Hard-Drive shifter
Hurst 20x9 and 20x10.5 T-2 wheels, polished with painted spoke insets
Hurst exterior graphics and badges
Hurst Limited Edition sequentially numbered dash badge
BFGoodrich KDW performance tires
Hurst/MagnaFlow stainless steel cat-back exhaust
Hurst/Eibach coilover adjustable suspension and sway bar
Hurst leather interior with contrast top-stitching and embroidered logo
Hurst AIRSPEED rear spoiler
Limited colors: black with Hurst gold racing stripes or silver with Hurst black and red racing stripes
Hurst custom car cover
MSRP (not including base car): $29,150
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Hurst freely admits that both cars are conservatively tuned with longevity and civility in mind, so there is plenty of room to kick up the power with ease if desired. As delivered, our Hurst Camaro registered peaks of 416 hp and 441 lb-ft of torque on W.O.T. Performance's Mustang dyno, with a verified 7-psi peak boost blowing from the Hurst/Magnuson Supercharger.Inside the Hurst Camaro, the seats, armrests, and shifter boot are treated to a topstitched Katzkin leather interior that's dyed tan on the inside and black on the outside so the perforations contrast.Rather than a helical rotor-style blower, Hurst worked with Vortech to create a special intercooled centrifugal blower package. In contrast to the Camaro, the Challenger was tuned more aggressively. The 6.1 was rev-happy and power came on in a flood at 4,000 rpm under hard throttle.The Hard-Drive shifter is used as well in the Challenger. The gold version won't be available for stand-alone purchase, but a titanium version will.The 20-inch Hurst T-2 wheels for the Challenger are also available separately, as well as a select few other Hurst Performance parts. You can't build one of these cars on your own, but you can get close.Through the notorious curves of Decker Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains, the adjustable Eibach coilovers and sway bar made the big Challenger feel amazingly well balanced and neutral. It handled like a much smaller, lighter car.The Mustang dyno at W.O.T. Performance confirmed our seat-of-the-pants feeling that the Challenger was packing more power as it put down an impressive 485 hp and 459 lb-ft of torque with 8.5 peak psi of boost. For point of reference, a 405hp C5 Z06 Corvette typically puts down 325 hp on this dyno.


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NFL Draft: Ravens Use Draft to Restock Defense for the Future
With the recent retirement of future Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis and loss of all-pro safety Ed Reed to free agency, the Baltimore Ravens' defense will never be the same. But that doesn't mean they won't still be a very good defensive team. Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome used this past 2013 NFL draft to make sure of that.
The Ravens' management used its first four picks of the draft on defensive players; the first two picks were used on some of the highest-rated players in their particular positions and could end up becoming cornerstones of the Ravens' defense for years to come.
With the 32nd overall pick in the first round, the Ravens selected Florida safety Matt Elam. Known as a thumper on the back line, Elam was feared by receivers and running backs throughout his college career for his hard hitting. He is projected to be a starter at the strong safety at the position for the Ravens, where he can replace the void left when Bernard Pollard was released this offseason. Elam will actually wear the jersey number 31, the same number Pollard wore. But unlike Pollard, Elam's skills aren't limited to just knocking offensive players senseless near the line of scrimmage. Elam also has excellent ball fielding skills and a pair of great hands, which will help him cover receivers and make interceptions down field.
Elam was projected to go earlier in the first round so it was a steal for the Ravens to draft him at pick number 32, the same way it was a steal for them to pick up Kansas State inside linebacker Arthur Brown in the second round. The Ravens traded up to pick 56 to snatch Brown because many teams were eyeing him in the second round. Brown was one of the highest-rated players coming out of high school and started his college career at the University of Miami, the same school Ray Lewis attended. But Brown eventually transferred to KSU to get more playing time and immediately began to stand out. He was elected captain of the defense and produced stellar numbers on the field, including 100 tackles, seven tackles for losses and two interceptions recorded last season in 2012. Brown won't be the next Ray Lewis, but who will? No one will ever be able to fill Ray Lewis' shoes, but Brown will turn out to be a very productive linebacker for the Ravens.
In the third round, the Ravens added more beef to their defensive line by selecting Missouri Southern defensive tackle Brandon Williams. At 6-foot-1, 335 pounds, Williams is a big boy who will help clog up the running lanes of opposing offensive units. Williams did play for a small school so there were questions about the competition he faced, but there are no questions about his physical and athletic abilities. Williams had a very impressive 38 reps on the bench press at the NFL combine. He even has video footage of him walking on his hands and back flipping into pools on YouTube. Big guys normally aren't as athletic as Williams so it's not hard to understand why Newsome was willing to draft him in the third round.
Williams will serve in the trenches with the Ravens fourth round draft pick, Ohio State defensive end John Simon. One of the reasons the Ravens' defensive unit fell off last season and finished below the top 10 for the first time in 10 years was because of the lost of outside linebacker Jarrett Johnson in free agency. Johnson never got the praise that Ray Lewis and Ed Reed received, but he did a masterful job of performing tasks that don't show up on the stats sheet, like setting the edge on the outside against the run, forcing running backs to cut back where linebackers like Lewis were waiting. Simon has a knack for performing the same duties that Johnson did, which is imperative for the Ravens' defense in its quest to return to elite status.
The Ravens used their final six picks from round 4-7 on Harvard tight end/fullback Kyle Juszczyk, Wisconsin tackle Ricky Wagner, Notre Dame defensive end Kapron Lewis-Moore, Colorado State-Pueblo center Ryan Jensen, Elon receiver Aaron Mellette and California cornerback Marc Anthony.
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Novak Djokovic is reportedly looking to make another money-making move at the start of the 2010 season.
The Serb may be jumping ship to join K-Swiss when his current contract with adidas expires at the end of this year according to the Sports Business Journal's Daniel Kaplan. The sports apparel brand already houses Tommy Haas, The Flying Bondarenkos Alona + Kateryna, Mardy Fish, Vera Zvonareva, and Anna Kournikova.
Nole is no stranger to switches in sponsorship, of course, having made a much-discussed and criticized racquet switch from Wilson to HEAD at the start of this season. His results seemed to suffer afterwards leading many pundits to blame the abrupt money-making switch as a reason. I doubt anyone (at least I'm hoping) will think to blame any lackluster results on his clothing if this happens. I mean, REALLY.
It would be a huge coup for K-Swiss, however, to grab Nole, a Top 5 baller and Grand Slam champion. Unfortunately, in terms of aesthetic value and fit, adidas tops K-Swiss all over the place so let's hope they amp up the design quotient for the Serb.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
THE LOW DOWN: Is Nole looking to leave adidas for K-Swiss?
Labels: adidas, K-Swiss, Novak Djokovic, sponsorship, tennis
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Adidas make a logo for him...he have exclusive.ReplyDelete
k-Swiss is boring!!
i'm a little surprised considering adidas just came out with the falcon range this year for novak. it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.ReplyDelete
I bet he's just doing this for the new contract with adidas. Part of negotiating tactics.ReplyDelete
No no no no NO.ReplyDelete
K-Swiss is so dull and has none of the prestige that adidas does... I really hope Nole doesn't do it. I have a major love thing for adidas (yes I am weird) and most of my stuff's from there so it'd be crap if my boy weren't sponsored by them anymore. *pouts*
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|Buffalo brought back to Phillips County
|Written by Kyle Arnoldy
Phillips County again has buffalo as Paul Mailander's recent purchase of a bull and five heifers are the only buffalo in the county.
A casual conversation about eating healthier with his daughter nearly four years ago sparked the initial interest in purchasing buffalo. Buffalo meat is lean, low in cholesterol and contains a considerable amount of protein.
After talking with some friends who have had buffalo for years, Mailander decided to give it a shot.
"It has been very easy. They pretty much take care of themselves and are very adaptive to the weather," Mailander said.
They also calve on their own and require a lot less feed than cattle do.
Paul Mailander shows off his buffalo heifers, a mix of plains and woods bison.
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Although his first year with the bull, Buster, has been fairly easy, he did comment on the potential dangers of owning buffalo. Buffalo have never been domesticated and possess an aggressive side.
Friends made sure to relay the importance of being careful to Mailander. The best advice he received when dealing with buffalo was to always know where the bull is and always have an escape route planned in case the large animal decides to charge.
Once, when Mailander's son, Mark, was taking feed to Buster, the 2,000-pound bull managed to jump a 5-foot-6-inch fence and charge toward the feed wagon. Ultimately no one was hurt, and other than the scare, they have had no troubles with Buster.
Mailander said that he was initially greeted with laughter from his family when he brought up the idea of purchasing buffalo, but now everyone enjoys going out to see the small herd.
Breeding will begin in the summer with hopes of having calves by next March. At this point, Mailander plans to keep the bull and heifers to grow the herd but plans to raise the calves for their meat.
The buffalo will be released to the 100 acres of land Mailander set aside for them this summer. They will be grass-fed as opposed to corn-fed, which will take them longer to hit the ideal weight of between 1,200 and 2,000 pounds.
It will be nearly two years before the calves can be slaughtered for their meat, but each calf could yield 600 pounds of meat for Mailander and his family.
Although Mailander, who has been farming for close to four decades, describes his work with buffalo as a side project that he hasn't really made any long-term plans for, he did state that selling the meat a few years down the road may be a possibility as buffalo meat is widely appreciated in Colorado and no one too close in proximity is selling it. Currently, he is just enjoying the beauty of the animal.
Paul Mailander recently purchased Buster, a 2,000-pound bull, at the National Western Stock Show.
—Enterprise photo
Holyoke Enterprise February 21, 2013


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Carpel tunnel release is a surgery where the ligament covering the carpel tunnel is cut open.
The median nerve runs from the forearm into the hand.
Carpal tunnel syndrome
occurs when this nerve is squeezed at the wrist as it runs through the carpel tunnel. This results in pain, weakness, tingling, or numbness in your hand and wrist. Pain may also radiate up your arm.
Carpal tunnel release is a surgery to relieve pressure on the median nerve. The pressure is reduced by opening the ligament of the carpal tunnel. The ligament is called the transverse carpal ligament.
Surgery to treat carpal tunnel syndrome is usually recommended in the following instances:
Complications are rare, but no procedure is completely free of risk. If you are planning to have carpal tunnel release, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
Your doctor may do the following:
Leading up to your procedure:
General anesthesia or local anesthesia with sedation is used. If you have general anesthesia, you will be asleep during the procedure. With local anesthesia, the area being operated on will be numbed, and you may be given a sedation medicine to help you relax.
Your doctor will discuss with you which may be best.
A classic open incision or an endoscopic technique may be used:
A short incision will be made in the lower palm and wrist area. The carpal ligament will be opened. This will free the median nerve. The incision will then be closed with stitches. A bulky bandage will be applied to the wound.
Two tiny cuts in the skin will be made on the palm side of the wrist. A small tool with a camera will be passed through an incision. This camera will allow the doctor to see inside of the carpal tunnel. Other surgical tools will be passed through the other incision. The doctor will use these tools to release the carpal ligament. After the camera and instruments are removed, a few stitches will be needed to close the incisions. A bulky bandage will then be placed over the wounds.
In some cases, the doctor may need to change to the open procedure.
15-60 minutes
Anesthesia will prevent pain during the procedure. Once the anesthesia wears off, you will have some pain in the area. Talk to your doctor about medicine to help manage the pain.
You will be monitored in a recovery area until you are ready to go home. Your hand and wrist will be wrapped in a bulky bandage. The wrist will be elevated to control swelling. Ice packs may be applied periodically.
When you return home, do the following to help ensure a smooth recovery:
You may have to wear a brace or splint for several weeks after surgery. Complete recovery may take four weeks or longer. The pain and numbness or tingling in your hand and fingers usually improves rather quickly. Your grasp strength will slowly begin to improve.
After arriving home, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs:
In case of an emergency, call for medical help right away.
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