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Street conditions and open fire issues within Holyoke city limits were addressed at the Tuesday, March 18 City Council meeting.
Councilmember Kevin Scott noted that he had received a handful of calls regarding troublesome manholes around the city. Manholes tend to be lower than the street around them, caused from years of seal coating and overlays. As the street gradually becomes higher than the manhole, the manhole creates quite the obstacle similar to a large pothole.
Scott proposed that manholes should be corrected an entire street at a time. Gordon Street and Furry Street were identified as two of the worst streets.
Scott specifically mentioned correcting a manhole on Highway 6 near Lucky's Liquor as well. Because it's on a state highway, Brown mentioned that fixing that particular manhole would require permitting through the state. Brown has already been in contact with the state on the issue and reported that they were willing to help, so the city can work on that.
"I think our money and time would be better spent fixing Sherman (Avenue)—some of these streets, you can hardly even drive down—instead of worrying about a few manholes. That's just my opinion," councilmember David Churchwell said.
Brown pointed out that Sherman Avenue was an item discussed last year before budgeting because of storm drainage problems. It has already been budgeted to repave the road with a coal mix and to put a storm sewer in.
There is roughly $169,000 in the street maintenance budget for repaving, potholes, manholes and other maintenance work. There is $27,000 in the storm sewer construction budget that would address the storm sewer on Sherman Avenue. Before work commences on manholes, priority is given to crack sealing and seal coat preparation.
The burning of leaves, grass and twigs was also brought to the city council's attention. Brown stated that neighbors of those burning have complained as the smoke funnels through neighborhoods. City Attorney Al Wall mentioned that many cities have ordinances in place that state that people must first get approval from the police or fire departments before going forth with these types of burns.
As Holyoke has no paid fire department, approval could come from Holyoke Police Cheif Doug Bergstrom. Approval would be determined by wind direction, level of dryness and any fire restrictions in place.
Mayor Orville Tonsing proposed that if an ordinance is made, it should ban all burns. He stated that there would have to be an opening in the ordinance that would allow for fire pits, however. Brown pointed out that the wording of the ordinance would be crucial, because fire pit is ambiguous. Some ideas for erasing any confusion included limiting fire pits to those with lids that are manufactured and are FDA approved.
Brown stated that one aspect that must be addressed is the city's tumbleweed-burning policy. When tumbleweeds become a nuisance, city crews in past years have gathered them and burned them in the street. An all-encompassing ban could possibly make tumbleweeds a problem, but giving Bergstrom the authority to grant burns would be an ideal situation.
Wall agreed to bring in other city ordinances for reference at the next city council meeting on April 1.
Part-time city employee sick leave policy dissected
With the possibility of Holyoke Pool operations manager Karla Pargas being away from work for an extended period of time due to back surgery, council members discussed payroll options.
According to Brown, Pargas had not made any payment request, but he thought a route should be chosen if she were to.
As a part-time, monthly salaried employee, Pargas has no sick leave or vacation time. The question of whether or not to prorate her pay for any time she might miss was raised.
"I'd love to be able to pay her for the month, but a bad precedent would be set," councilmember J.C. Peckham stated. "I hate to be the bad guy, but we don't really have a choice."
City Council members chose to keep pay prorated as per city policy.
"In the future, I would like to see her covered in a situation like this, if there is a possibility we can as a council, because she has been there for a long time," councilmember Scott Murray said.
While Pargas is absent, the city water department will handle the chemicals on a daily basis for water chemistry. Other duties will be spread out among city workers.
Officials report
Brown reported that there had been no power outages since the March 4 meeting. One light pole on South Wynona Avenue toppled during strong winds Saturday, March15, however.
All electric department trucks were recently tested by Diversified Testing out of Denver, with one failing due to cracks in welds on the lower boom. The truck must be taken to Denver for a certified welder to work on it. Brown noted that he has sent out requests for bids for a replacement for the truck, which was budgeted for this year. He hopes to have bids by the April 1 meeting.
Brown also mentioned that the city's new vacuum excavator pothole machine has arrived.
Bergstrom reported that between Feb. 27-March 12, the police department handled 61 calls for service, gave out one citation, made eight reports and issued four warnings.
City Clerk/Treasurer Kathy Olofson informed council members that as of 5 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, March 18, there was no way to get on the ballot for the election. As the city had received three sufficient petitions from council members J.C. Peckham, Brian Akey and Steve Moore, the election has been canceled.
Olofson also noted that the fire pension board met March 4 and decided to leave the retirement benefit at $55 a month for the city.
It was also mentioned that the city had received the first quarter payment from the conservation trust fund for $6,109.45.
Other business
In other business March 18, the council:
—approved a liquor license renewal for The Skillet.
—approved a liquor license renewal for the Holyoke Golf Course and waived the local fees.
—agreed to purchase a computer, monitor, software and installation from New Age Electronics for a total of $1,598.
—agreed to pay $2,500 to the Phillips/Sedgwick counties victim assistance service.
—authorized Tonsing and Brown with up to $2,000 for an independent fee estimate for the airport project.
—approved the signing of the FAA grant for $618,526 to begin construction on the airport partial parallel taxiway.
—held a 40-minute executive session for the purpose of receiving legal advice on specific legal questions.
Holyoke Enterprise March 27, 2014


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The Governments of Fiji and Grenada formalized diplomatic relations at a ceremony at the Permanent Mission of Fiji to the United Nations in New York on 23 June 2015. Grenada's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Denis Antoine, and his Fijian counterpart, Ambassador Peter Thomson, signed a joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Your Excellency the Prime Minister of Thailand;
Your Excellency the President of Kiribati;
Your Excellency the President of the Marshall Islands;
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Your Excellency the President of the Republic of Nauru;
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Trade missions to Japan and England cost S.C. taxpayers about $134,000, according to figures released by the state Commerce Department.
The July event at the Farnborough International Airshow in England totaled $97,133.76, the agency said.
The tab included travel costs for Gov. Nikki Haley, 11 state employees, plus exhibits and expenses associated with promoting the state at the airshow.
Travel costs for the Farnborough show, including airfare, hotel and food, totaled $37,626.11. Another $59,507.65 was spent on the state exhibit, including items, shipping, and the design and printing of invitations.
A weeklong trip in September to attend the SEUS-Japan conference in Tokyo cost $36,880.89. The figure includes $28,984.30 in travel costs — airfare, hotel and food — for the governor and seven state staffers.
The state also paid $593.15 for marketing supplies, $3,850 in conference fees and $674.03 for the Japan American Chamber luncheon.
Other costs for the Japan trip included $1,551.53 for translator and consultant services, $568.34 for prospect meetings, $462.60 for rental of conference rooms and $196.94 for printing.
South Carolina has attended the airshow, which alternates between England and France, since 2005, and the trip has been crucial in building the state's budding aerospace business, state officials said.
Initial contact was made with The Boeing Co. at the airshow, and that led to the investment of the 787 Dreamliner assembly plant in North Charleston and the creation of more than 6,100 jobs, state officials said.
This year's trip, which included about 50 meetings with various firms, was aimed at attracting aerospace suppliers to the state, Commerce Secretary Bobby Hitt said.
Going to the SEUS conference sought to build on South Carolina's ties to Japanese companies and attract investment in the Palmetto State.
The SEUS conference involved seven southeastern states and Japan. Haley was one of five governors who made the trip.
At the conference, S.C. delegation participated in 23 meetings — 16 of which involved Haley. The state's goal is to attract direct foreign investment, Hitt said, noting that 75% of new companies that made economic development announcements in South Carolina were from Europe or Asia.
Japan is the second-largest investor in South Carolina, behind Germany. There are 147 Japanese companies that have operations in South Carolina, representing a $7 billion investment and 12,500 jobs.
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Me thinks Kim Clijsters is a dead ringer for the most recent contestant to be voted off Survivor: Tocantins-The Brazilian Highlands, 19-year old Spencer Duhm.
Separated at birth or a spot on drag queen impression by Spence? DO TELL!
PS - thanks Aaron!
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
SEPARATED AT BIRTH: Kimmie vs. Spencer
Labels: celebrity, Kim Clijsters, tennis, TV
11 comments:
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM
I can see the resemblance, but the guy is cute AND hot!She's Not!ReplyDelete
I am a dude by the way
How about Gilles Simon and Robert Pattinson?ReplyDelete
- johanneMarch 19, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Spence looks like he has a little Lleyton in him (I think it's the eyes)...hey, Kim's had a little Lleyton in her too! ;)ReplyDelete
anon: no worries - i'm a dude too...usually. depends on the day i suppose.ReplyDelete
fedex: ya think???? i was actually just reading his interview in GQ. he's kinda dreamy. i though sneaky simon looked more like joaquin phoenix pre-rapper phase.
johanne: ROFL!!! i love all of DtL's most pervish readers. *smiles*
- sarahaceMarch 19, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Hello, this is so random but I'm actually a reporter where Spencer Duhm is from. I've interviewed him, including the night he was voted off. I think the comparison is a bit much. But there are many people with look-alikes. Oh, he's actually 20. He was 19 when the show aired!ReplyDelete
Johanne I totally see the Hewitt in him. If Lleyton and Kim were old and had been together 20 years ago this would make for a very interesting developement.ReplyDelete
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Sara: LOL yes that would be very curious indeed!ReplyDelete
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Simon is much cuter than Pattison. I don't like that crooked nose of his. And Gilly looks more like Joaquin Phoenix when he was sane (although Simon is much, much hotter).ReplyDelete
Could it be Spencer's what Kimmie + Lleyton's baby would've looked like had they stayed together?ReplyDelete
Separated at birth: Kim & Princess Fiona (from Shrek). I'm trying to mean but just sayin'...ReplyDelete
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Take 5 With Andy FrostWritten by Mike Finnegan on November 29, 2013 Roddin' @ Random
Since 2005, HOT ROD's Drag Week™ event has established the Fastest Street Car in America. Most Americans feel the event's drive-race-drive challenge proves who has the fastest street car in the world, although the rest of the world would have to travel to the United States to prove otherwise. Meanwhile, across the pond, U.K. resident Andy Frost has not-so-quietly been putting up numbers in his Pro Mod Vauxhall at Santa Pod Raceway that eclipse the e.t.'s laid down by Drag Week™ heroes like Larry Larson, Jeff Lutz, Joe Barry, and Drag Week™ 2013 winner Tom Bailey. Bailey was the first guy to run a 6-second pass at every track during Drag Week™ '13 and went as quick as 6.70 in the quarter-mile. Frost has run 6.40s in a car he's managed to register and drive occasionally on the street in his hometown.
Rumors about billet-aluminum heads without water jackets, a methanol-only engine calibration, and an unwillingness to come to the U.S. to prove his car is a real street machine have run rampant. Now that Drag Week™ 2013 is in the history books, it's a fitting time to have a chat with the man to find out what's real and what's vaporware. He's adamant about having the quickest street-legal car in the world. We want to know why.
We're comin', and we're gonna give you a run. This car, it's fast. We've run 6.4s in Second gear.
HRM] What is your full name, and where are you originally from?
AF] Right, well, my full name's Andrew Thomas Frost. Andy Frost is what everyone calls me. Originally from England and still live there. Born in Birmingham.
HRM] Ever lived outside of the U.K.?
AF] No, not really. Just like 70 percent of Americans have never been outside of their country.
HRM] How did you get started racing?
AF] I went to a run-what-you-brung event with my original Victor. It was a hot rod–style custom street machine. I went just to try the car out, and I got hooked.
HRM] Do you have any racing heroes?
AF] Yeah, I do, actually. Rod Saboury was one of them. And also a guy in this country, Dave Pollen.
HRM] How do you know Dave Pollen?
AF] Well, in the early '90s, there was a series in England called the International Door Slammer and Gary's Picnic that was a street-race kind of event. [Dave] had a car that ran 9s, which was really quick back then. When I saw his car [at that race], I knew I wanted to go in that direction. That was a tube-frame car as well, just like my car is now. In those days, you didn't have cell phones and GoPros and all of that. Without the Internet, we all looked at Custom Car magazine to see what was going on. That was the mag for us just like HOT ROD is the mag for the States. We saw pictures of Dave cruising Chelsey, which is a big cruise thing in this country. He lives in that area, so he cruised that bridge. Everybody went "No way!" when they saw the car on the street in Custom Car magazine. I told him a few years ago that this was all his fault.
I met Rod Saboury a few years ago, when I took my car to World Street Race organized by RPM magazine in Canada. Unfortunately, it rained for four days and the event got called off. That was a long way to go to get rained out. So all this Internet rubbish about me not having the balls to go anywhere to race is wrong. I was doing that before your lot were doing Drag Week™.
HRM] In 2005, you brought your Red Victor 2 car over to the States, right?
AF] I run in a series called Street Eliminator that's been going since 1995. Our cars were pretty fast on Mickey Thompson Sportsman Pro tires. Before we went to the U.S., we ran 8.50s on pump gas. Four of us said we'd bring our cars to America and run by our rules: 315mm-wide M/T Sportsman Pro tires and pump gas. Anything else went, and there would be a 30-mile cruise [to show how streetable the cars were] like the HOT ROD Pump Gas Drags. We brought the four fastest cars we had to take on four Canadian guys. There were four Americans, too, but one of them dropped out. More than 100 Brits flew over to cheer us on. You never heard anything about that. RPM magazine covered it. We didn't get the likes of HOT ROD because you didn't win, so you weren't interested. In 2005, the Internet wasn't big. The promotion you can do now is way better.
HRM] You bought Penn Auto in 2002. What did you do before that?
AF] I worked there for six or seven years. It was just a transmission shop back then. The guy who owned it wanted to retire and gave us a few days to round up the money to buy the name. I did engines on a small scale in my garage and carried that on at Penn Auto.
HRM] What do you do on a day-to-day basis now?
AF] Well, I spend half the day on the phone talking to customers or building racing transmissions. If I fancy an engine, I'll do it. It's transmissions I stick to. This is one of the reasons why it's so difficult to leave and do anything because when people call the shop, they want to talk to me. It's even difficult to go racing. You've got to be here to understand how this country is different than the United Sates.
You've got straight roads for hundreds of miles. We have traffic lights and queues everywhere. Our freeway system…to go five miles can take an hour. It's like your San Francisco. We've got 67 million people living in a place smaller than Texas. Take Tom Bailey. He puts his car in a trailer in Michigan and drives to Memphis. He doesn't have to go through customs, get a passport, et cetera. It's difficult for us to go anywhere. It's 2,000 miles across an ocean to get to America. I'd have to shut my business down. I did it in 2005 and almost put myself in that position.
HRM] What prompted you to build Red Victor 3?
AF] I wanted to run Pro Mod. When I started to build this car, I never said I was building a street car into a race car. I built a race car that's street legal.
HRM] Why go to the hassle of making it street legal?
AF] That's what we've always done. In 2006, we put turbos on Red Victor 2 and became the fastest pump-gas car in the world. We ran 7.80s on BFGoodrich drag radials. No one had ever done that before. Eventually, we went 7.60s.
HRM] 7.60s on pump gas is stout. What is your "pump gas?"
AF] I run 93-octane Shell V-power. It's 98 ROM, which is the equivalent of your 93-octane V Power Nitro.
HRM] 7.60s on 93 octane. How much boost?
AF] At that time, 28 pounds of boost.
HRM] Are you managing the cylinder pressure with the cam profile? 28 psi and 93 octane don't usually go together.
AF] You have to have the right cam timing to bleed off [cylinder] pressure, and we were only 8.2:1 compression. It was a 572ci engine. We eventually started using an octane booster called Power Pour, which is only available in the United Kingdom. We've helped a couple of guys in the U.S. to run on pump gas.
HRM] What does Red Victor 3 refer to? Obviously, the car is red.
AF] A long time ago, I raced against a guy who had a car [with] a name. He said to me that people remember cars with names on them. When I [named] the first one, it stuck. It doesn't mean anything other than it's a red Victor. It works. Americans know what a Vauxhall is now.
HRM] How much do you actually drive this car on the street in the U.K.?
AF] Well, every chance I get, which isn't much. The car doesn't live in a workshop so that you can just roll it out of the workshop and drive it. It lives in a truck because I don't have room for it in the shop. So every time I want to go out on the street, I have to go and get it out of the truck, and I don't have the time to do that. So unfortunately, it would be great to say I drive it every day, or once a week, but I don't. Another factor is that here seven months out of the year it's cold and rainy and horrible. It's like living in, I don't know, Wisconsin. We only get a short summertime to do all of this stuff. I know that most of the other guys out there like Larry [Larson] don't drive theirs very often, as well, because they are running a business.
He'll go and drive to the Street Car Super Nats. Yeah, no problem. Those roads are nice and straight. You don't have 200 traffic lights and queues to sit and wait at. It's a different deal. I don't drive it very often, but that doesn't not make it a street car. I'm not saying my car is a Drag Week™ car, and that it's done Drag Week™. You can't deny that it's a street car. It's got an MOT from this country, so it's got all the stuff that you need to drive it in this country based on the '72 car. So there's no emission test for a car of that age. It hasn't done Drag Week™ because I don't live there. What really bugs me is that people say I have to drive it to Drag Week™ to prove it's a street car.
I totally agree that the measuring stick that you've created is a good yardstick, but it's not the world's rules for fast street cars.
HRM] Do you agree that Drag Week™ is a good measuring stick for a true street car?
AF] Absolutely. It is and I've never denied that. If you can do 1,200 miles in a street car and five passes at a track, then you can't deny it, even though some people are trying to deny that Tom Bailey's car is one just because it's got a fiberglass shell. What the hell does that have to do with anything? It was specifically built for Drag Week™. I'm not stupid, and I've been doing this a long time, so no one can tell me that these are true, true, drive-them-every-day street cars. Larry has done it for the last five or six years—built, broke, built, broke that car to do Drag Week™. That's his main goal and reason for doing it. You can't not call his a street car. Yes, it is a great measuring stick, but it isn't the only one.
If I lived there, I would have done it already because I would have built the car for it. It doesn't mean I could finish, but I would have a go at it. People kind of assume that just because I'm from here that we haven't got the talent to build a car to do Drag Week™. They are so wrong. There is so much talent here to do cars of all sorts. Formula 1 is based here. We can get anything done—anything. We could definitely have a car that could show up at Memphis and have a shot. But nobody can say that you will finish that race.
Until you hit that last track and that last pass, you haven't done it. I followed the coverage this year and last year. The guys who do that—it's awesome. It's such a test not only of the car but of the people who are doin' it. It's hard for us living here to get the length of the drive. You do a hot rod show here, and the max anyone will travel is 200 miles. Last year, there was a 400-mile drive between tracks, and that's like from here to Glasgow. For cars that are capable of running 6s to do that distance is a huge, huge achievement. I know what parts it takes, but it's still huge. Stuff breaks.
HRM] Will you come here and compete with our Fastest Street Cars?
AF] Of course! As long as everything ties in like business commitments and being able to afford to go. I am actually in the process of getting help to get the car there. I have people who have offered to help that are already racing Drag Week™. I don't want to mention their names. I want to do it, but I just can't ruin my business and life to do it. I have to be comfortable. We will come with a car. I want to do it in 2015. That's my plan right now, this minute, but it's all based on money. Money makes the world go 'round. That is the easy part.
Andy's Victor
Vauxhall Motors was the British arm of General Motors during '57–'76 model years.
The Vauxhall Victor was exported to Canada and the U.S. and sold by Pontiac/Buick dealerships until 1961.
The stock wheelbase of the FE series Victor is 101 inches; Andy Frost's car has been stretched 14 inches.
The body of Red Victor 2 was welded together as a plug for a mold that was made to create the composite body of Red Victor 3. The engine, lights, door handles and other odds and ends from RV2 all found their way onto RV3.


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ARTBA elects 2011-12 officers
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The American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) announced the election of its 2011-2012 officers. The following individuals were elected at the association's national convention, held Oct. 2-5, in Monterey, Calif., as ARTBA officers:
- Chairman: Paul Yarossi, president of HNTB Holdings, Ltd., New York, N.Y.
- Senior Vice Chairman: Steve Wright, president, Wright Brothers Construction, Charleston, Tenn.
- First Vice Chairman: Doug Black, CEO, Oldcastle Materials, Atlanta, Ga.
- Northeastern Region Vice Chairman: Nick Ivanoff, president and CEO, Ammann & Whitney, New York, N.Y.
- Southern Region Vice Chairman: Tom Elmore, president, Eutaw Construction Company, Aberdeen, Miss.
- Central Region Vice Chairman: Kathi Holst, senior vice president, RoadSafe Traffic Systems, Romeoville, Ill.
- Western Region Vice Chairman: Jim Andoga, president, Austin Bridge & Road, Austin, Texas
- Vice Chairman At-Large: Ward Nye, president and CEO of Martin Marietta Materials, Raleigh, N.C.
- Vice Chairman At-Large: Bob Luffy, Luffy Consulting, Corapolis, Pa.
- Vice Chairman At-Large: David S. Zachry, president and CEO, Zachry Construction Corporation, San Antonio, Texas
- Vice Chairman At-Large: John Houle, vice president and general manager of Traffic Safety Systems Division, 3M, St. Paul, Minn.
- Vice Chairman At-Large: Bob Close, vice president, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Orange County, Calif.
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- Treasurer: Tom Hill, president and CEO, Summit Materials, LLC, Washington, D.C.
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Snakebit - 1956 Ford F-100Written by on January 15, 2014 Contributors: Patrick McCarthy, Barrett Jackson The Kiss of Life
Editors note: This truck debuted at SEMA 2013 with major attention, and well deserved hoopla, but it wasn't until just days before the '56 Ford F-100 known as Snakebit rolls across the block in Scottsdale that a press release sent out a few days the magnitude of the project caught our attention.
Hey, how's that for a catchy corny title? Get it, Snakebit, Kiss of life Gene Simmons KISS bassist; his wife and actress Shannon Tweed-Simmons; and local businesses including the Saskatchewan Ford Dealer Association, the Wheels of Dreams Project is on a mission to raise funding for the development of the future Children's Hospital of Saskatchewan in Canada. A custom built 1956 Ford F-100 with Shelby Mustang influences will be sold at no reserve at the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, Ariz. on Jan. 17, 2014. All proceeds will benefit the Children's Hospital Foundation of Saskatchewan.
Tom Foster, President and General Manager of Industrial Machine & MFG in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan sounds like Classic Trucks' kind of guy. In the back of his mind he thought it might be cool to build a classic truck as a team building exercise for IMM's 55th anniversary. Then the fourth member of the Foster family arrives, and the baby girl's first 14 days of life weren't easy. Saskatchewan is one of only two provinces in Canada without a hospital dedicated solely to children. Looking back on the experience Tom thought maybe the truck idea would be a good platform to help raise funds to build a children's hospital in Saskatoon. It's a story anyone that has ever built a custom truck, or car can tell you, the idea starts out small, and then always ends up on a much larger scale. Tom Foster's case was no exception. Originally the small-window '56 Ford project started out with modest intentions to be sold locally for $55,000, but it wasn't long before major heavy hitters entered the picture. Here's a few images of the '56 to whet your appetite, and to learn more about the truck's amazing saga a Google search will bring up a proverbial wealth of information, maybe even this story.


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More than 100 people gathered for a public memorial service at Syracuse University to mark the 25th anniversary of the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster.
Thirty-five Syracuse University students studying abroad were among those killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. The bombing killed 259 people aboard the plane and 11 on the ground.
A service of hope and remembrance began at 2:03 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel on campus, followed by a procession to the university's Wall of Remembrance.
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A K-9 program is in the works for law enforcement agencies in Phillips County. Undersheriff Thom Elliott and Deputy Michael Grant spoke with members of the City Council at their March 2 meeting about plans for the program.
The program isn't set in stone and won't begin until funds are raised. Grant and Elliott said the program will be able to start if $2,000-$3,000 can be raised.
The idea came from Deputy Grant. His father has worked with a K-9 in the L.A. County Sheriff's Office, and Grant would like to incorporate a K-9 program in Phillips County.
The dog will be a drug/search dog instead of a bite dog and be available to all law enforcement agencies in Phillips County 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Grant is scheduled to be the primary handler of the dog.
The sheriff's office asked the City of Holyoke to help support maintenance of the dog. They estimate the total maintenance will be around $1,200 a year and asked the council to contribute $400 a year. He said this is something they could work into the 2011-19 budgets as the 2010 budget is already completed. Elliott said the Town of Haxtun has already jumped on board to help with the costs.
The plan is to use the dog primarily as a sniff dog, according to Elliott. "We think there is a problem with trafficking of drugs through the county, and we're hoping to decrease the traffic by the use of the dog," Elliott added.
Another use for the dog will be tracking. Elliott mentioned they had three cases where people resisted arrest in 2009 and escaped custody. The dog would've helped prevent that, he added.
A third area where they hope to utilize the dog is drug awareness education in the schools.
Grant said they currently have a trial dog. It is an 8-month-old German Shepherd that belongs to Sheriff Rob Urbach and his wife. If the dog shows promise in training, they will save money by purchasing the dog from the Urbachs instead of looking elsewhere.
Grant mentioned they had planned to go to Oklahoma, to a place that trained dogs for NYPD, to look for a dog. He mentioned Sheriff Urbach has trained three dogs himself, so for now that will be the plan. Elliott said Urbach has already begun to assist Grant in training the dog.
Grant added they will try to get the dog certified toward the end of April.
Elliott said Yuma P.D. and Washington County Sheriff's Office both saw an increase in arrests after the addition of a K-9 program.
In the grant proposal, a new vehicle would be purchased to use for the K-9 program. Elliott said the Phillips County Commissioners are going to be purchasing a new vehicle for Sheriff Urbach to replace the Dodge Durango he currently uses. If enough money is raised, the goal is to purchase a vehicle specific for the dog that would belong to the Sheriff's office.
They have a cage from Eagle County that will fit into a Chevrolet Yukon. Grant said the cage can be chopped down to fit different types of vehicles if necessary.
The dog could be used for service six to eight years, Grant said. By the time the eighth year arrives, the dog begins to struggle getting in and out of vehicles. If by then the program has been a success, a new dog could be purchased.
City council members voted to write a letter of commitment to help with the costs and will provide no more than $400 this year.
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I've been reading Ecological Gardening by Marjorie Harris on the subway. I love it because it's trade paperback-sized–perfect for my purse–and it's so conversational, you don't even realize you're reading non-fiction sometimes. The Globe and Mail wrote that "the facts come across as if from a helpful conversation with a good friend." I need to remember to keep a pad of sticky notes in my purse to mark all the pages I want to come back to. I really want to strive to make my garden as healthy as possible and I'm so excited about what I've been learning.
Here are some of the facts I have learned from my new friend Marjorie:
- Dandelions only grow in fertile, balanced soil. Their crazy long roots can actually bring nutrients from deep in the soil up to the surface. This is good news because I have a ton in my backyard and now I don't feel so bad. They can also apparently help the growth of other flowers.
- Watering thoroughly once a week is better for the plants than shallowly watering each day–except for containers which sometimes need to be watered twice a day.
- Not all ants are bad. The other day some of the buds on one of my flowering perennials (I'm not sure what it is, but it has electric-blue frilly petals) had these little ants on them. I was a little alarmed at first, but according to Marjorie, they were sipping the sap from the buds, which isn't harmful. Also, some of the other ugly beasties I've seen in my garden aren't at all bad, so I need to make friends with them, too.
- I think one of the best pieces of advice I have taken away this week from the book is to feed the soil, not the plant. If a plant is suffering and you've done all the things you're supposed to–watering, given it adequate light, etc.–your problem likely lies in the soil and what it might be lacking. Marjorie provides lots of easy troubleshooting tips for amending your soil.
This weekend I hope to tackle my monster rose bush with the brand new rose gloves I got from my sister for my birthday.
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Five principles of performance management: Insights from performance champion Bob Paladino
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Today's feature article features insights from performance management champion Bob Paladino, delivered this spring at the IBM Cognos Government Executive Roundtable in Ottawa. In his best-selling business book, Five Key Principles of Performance Management, Bob Paladino tells us that nine out of ten companies fail to implement their strategies. ... Read more
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Hatteras 60GT ConvertibleBy Capt. Patrick Sciacca
The twin-engine Embraer turboprop I was aboard slid and skipped along the flag-stiffening breeze like a boat that was being beaten by breaking seas. The approach to the Bahamas' Marsh Harbour—and the end of this interesting voyage across from West Palm Beach, Florida—was in sight, but it wouldn't be my last tangle with this blowhard of a wind. However, the next time we'd meet, the vehicle under my feet would push back with a vengeance.
I made my way to the dock at Abaco Beach Resort and took in a sad sight. The east-northeasterly blow was so bad that the Bertram, Hatteras, Viking, and custom-built battlewagons all lined up to fish day two of the Big Four billfish tournament were huddled in their slips. This was no weekend-warrior event, either; these were all top-gun teams representing the biggest and baddest. And it was Hatteras' newly designed, resin-infused 60GT Convertible battlewagon that I was here to see.
I've never been one to back off if bad weather arrives on test day, and neither is this builder. Hatteras marketing director David Ritchie, Capt. Dave Fields, and I decided that if we couldn't fish, we might as well see how our test boat, which was designed for the hardcore fisherman, handled equally hardcore conditions. This was going to get fun.
As we exited the marina, the wind was puffing 30 to 35 knots, causing the protected waters to kick up into four to five feet of steep, nasty, go-back-to-the-dock-and-watch-TV chop. The three of us just smiled as Fields called out that he was going to run the 60 for a bit to get to some deeper water for our speed trials. Twenty-three, 30.3, and then 37 mph, the 60 sped along as the optional twin 1,800-bhp Caterpillar C32 ACERT diesels hummed happily inside her hull until she reached a 2000-rpm cruise speed of 41.7 mph. Based on a full 1,800-gallon complement of fuel, this vessel can make a 582-mile run at this speed while consuming 116 gph. I was truly dropjawed, which wasn't the best idea, as the equally forceful wind managed to fastball spray over the expansive flared bow and right up into my face. (This 60 had a completely open bridge; may I suggest you get yours with a full enclosure?) Ritchie and Fields had a good chuckle at my salty-faced expense, but it was refreshing. Even more refreshing was when Fields put the Caterpillar single-lever controls to the pins and the 39x64 five-blade Veem wheels ate up the choppy white water, propelling the 60 to an average hair-straightening top hop of 48.6 mph—the fastest Hatteras ever. Of course, this will cost you 190 gph. However, her large fuel capacity enables a 414-mile range at this speed. Even more important, this high-freeboard behemoth moved along in utter defiance of the elements she was facing. There was no bang, slam, or even a stutter—ever.
The 60's easy-riding, solid-fiberglass bottom is similar to the successful convex, variable-deadrise hull of the builder's popular 54 Convertible, which debuted four years ago and features a sharp entry, about 20 degrees of deadrise amidships, and a flat, two-degree aft section. But according to Bruce Angel, Hatteras' vice president of product development and engineering, the 60's hull bottom also takes advantage of the lightweight build that the resin-infusion process offers. This system, which Hatteras recently added to its manufacturing process, involves the fiberglass being held in position on the mold's surface via a vacuum, all of which is in a sealed plastic bag. Resin is introduced into this closed system in a controlled manner. The result is a low-emission, clean lay-up. It also maximizes the glass-to-resin ratio and minimizes the voids and inconsistency that can be found in a hand-laid hull. By example, the glass-to-resin ratio on the 60's hull was around 60:40, where as it would be the other way around if the hull had been hand-laid, according to Angel.
This technique saved the builder 5,000 pounds of weight, and the savings directly affects bottom loading, which Angel says was a major factor in this boat's speedy nature. To explain bottom loading, let's say a boat's running surface was 100 square feet and the displacement of that surface was 1,000 pounds. The result would be ten pounds of load per square foot of bottom. So if you could shave 100 pounds of that displacement for the same size area, the bottom load becomes nine pounds per square foot, which means you need less hull structure. Now when the 60 is honkin' with a minimal amount of hull surface in the water at high-end speeds, she is lighter than her hand-laid predecessors and therefore has a lower bottom load. According to Angel, my test vessel has the lowest bottom loading of any Hatteras built to date. And because the hull is resin-infused, she's even stronger. (To even further reduce weight and enhance the vessel's toughness, the builder used PVC foam core in the hull sides and superstructure.)
The 60's nimble, too. During my wheel time, her Hynautic hydraulic, power-assisted steering was fingertip-responsive, and the boat rode like she was on rails. In addition, the Twin Disc Quickshift transmission's deep 2.48:1 reduction was deliberate and real time during shifting and spinning those massive Veem wheels. It makes sense that her hardware would be as overbuilt as her hull. She's a fine specimen of a sportfisherman, indeed.
However, that doesn't mean she's lacking niceties: a standard 42-inch plasma TV in the cherrywood-accented saloon, Cruisair air conditioning blasting from the decorative and subtle overhead valances, a comfy master stateroom, two guest staterooms, and two heads with top-of-the-line Headhunter MSDs. She's fishy with 60-inch-long big-eye-capable cockpit fishboxes, deep-freeze bait stowage under shady standard mezzanine seating, an optional PipeWelders tower, and enough food stowage for a crew to hit the tournament trail for quite a while. Heck, the amount of food I saw in the optional flying-bridge freezer alone was enough to keep a crew happy for a month.
The most telling part of my time in the Bahamas with the 60 came during a dinner when I saw some helicopter footage of the tournament boats heading out in the rough stuff on day one. There was the 60, out in front, taking the ever-swelling sea to task and busting through like a silverback knocking down the forest. She never looked back because she knew no one was there to see. If you like to be out in front of the rest of the pack, Hatteras has an 85,000-pound gorilla of a battlewagon ready to put you there.
For more information on Hatteras, including contact information, click here.
The choice is yours. Hatteras Yachts has put together a vessel that is about customization and therefore offers four layout options for your 60GT. You can run her as lean as the more traditional three-stateroom, two-head vessel we tested (first layout at right) or as busy as the four-stateroom, three-head setup (next to last layout). This kind of choice goes hand in hand with other options such as interior woods. Teak? Anigre? Maple? Cherry? Yes, you can have those and many others. Aside from moving bulkheads, this builder offers a fair amount of interior customization for its owners.—P.S.
This article originally appeared in the August 2007 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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|For a car in Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Grand Theft Auto V, see Dukes.
- "If you are arriving by plane, your first steps on Liberty City turf will probably be in Dukes. Francis International Airport sprawls across the eastern tip of the borough and serves as an international hub for the rest of the country. Dukes should be experienced first-hand rather than from a cab window as you race to catch your flight home. One of the newer attractions is the National Union of Contemporary Arts (NUCA), a museum of modern art crammed full of canvases with To the east of NUCA lies Meadows Park where you will find relics like the Monoglobe and Liberty State Pavilion Tower leftover from a world fair half a century ago. If you are comfortable with drunken men throwing lethal weapons around a crowded bar, finish your day with a game of darts at the famous Steinway Beer Garden."
- ―Liberty City Area Street Map Description
Dukes is a borough of Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV. While it only contains nine out of the city's sixty five neighborhoods, the Dukes neighborhoods themselves are large, thus the borough is large, being slightly larger than its neighboring borough Broker, thus becoming the second largest after Algonquin. It has an estimated population of about 1.75 million. Its archetype is Queens (both words are positions in a monarchy), and although it shares its name with the muscle car also found in-game, there does not seem to be a relation between the two. The borough is spread across two islands. Seven of its eight districts are located on the Broker/Dukes mainland island, with the eighth being Charge Island in the Humboldt River. Dukes and Broker are the only boroughs in the metropolitan area to share an island. All other boroughs are separated by waters.
Dukes consists of nine, large, heavily-populated neighborhoods and has the second-highest population behind Algonquin.
The character of Dukes varies considerably across its neighborhoods. It has the most green space out of all the boroughs in Liberty City which is particularly concentrated around the districts in the north of the borough such as Meadows Park, and western parts of Francis International Airport.
The income of Dukes itself overall could be described as middle class, as it also could be considered the most suburban out of all four boroughs. The main urbanized district of the borough is East Island City which is centred around the Dukes Boulevard thoroughfare. It contains both modern business land use. It consists of a Bank of Liberty chain, the National Union of Contemporary Arts and the LC24 Tower in addition to declining industrial areas in the neighborhood's southern reaches and Beechwood City, which also merges with Broker. Charge Island is Dukes' other industrial centered local. Commercial shopping areas are centred around Camden Avenue in Cerveza Heights, where the majority of shopping outlets are independent ethnic businesses, as well as Saratoga Avenue in Willis where there is a Shopping Mall as well as the presence of chain business outlets. Cerveza Heights can be considered the neighborhood of central importance in Dukes, with the presence of the borough's medical and policing services on Livingston Avenue as well as the housing of Huntington Street LTA, an important Subway station providing a crossover interchange between the two loops of the 3/8 Broker Line.
Some parts of Dukes could be considered leafy, quaint and expensive suburban locales. These are mainly focused around Willis, Meadow Hills, Meadows Park. Dukes' only housing projects are the Steinway Projects which are located along Yorktown Avenue in Steinway, a working-class neighborhood.
Francis International Airport is Dukes' and Liberty City's largest district, and obviously serves as the center for aviation in Liberty City.
Like the real-life archetype of Dukes, the borough shows evidence of much multiculturalism. The communities often noted for a strong ethnic identity in Dukes include: Irish/German Steinway, Italian/Hispanic/Chinese Cerveza Heights and Jamaican/Caribbean Willis.
Places of Interest in Dukes
- Francis International Airport
- National Union of Contemporary Arts
- LC24 Tower
- Liberty State Pavilion Towers
- The Monoglobe
- Liberty City Swingers Stadium
- Dukes Bay
- Dukes Bay Bridge
- East Borough Bridge
- Dukes cemetery
- Meadows Park
- Meadows Park Church
- Gantry Park
Notable Residents
- Ray Bulgarin (formerly)
- Tony Prince (formerly)
- Tyler Dixon (formerly)
- Jon Gravelli (formerly)
- Harry Hall
- Michael Keane (formerly)
- Huang Lee
- Eddie Low (formerly)
- Maureen McReary
- Derrick McReary
- Francis McReary (formerly)
- Gerald McReary
- Patrick McReary (formerly)
- Kate McReary
- Harvey Noto
- Aiden O'Malley (formerly)
- Gordon Sargent
- Bucky Sligo (formerly)
- Fredo Volpe
- Mark Volpe
- Wilhelm (formerly)
Businesses in Dukes
- Steinway Beer Garden (Yorktown Avenue/ Morris Street Intersection, Steinway)
- Cluckin' Bell (Huntington Street, Cerveza Heights)
- Beechwood City (Far Rockaway, Richmond Hill)
- Cerveza Heights (Corona, Jackson Heights, Ozone Park)
- Charge Island (Randall's Island, Ward's Island)
- East Island City (Long Island City)
- Francis International Airport (John F. Kennedy International Airport with the runway scheme based on LaGuardia Airport)
- Meadow Hills (Forest Hills)
- Meadows Park (Flushing, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park)
- Steinway (Astoria, Queensbridge Projects)
- Willis (Hollis, Jamaica)
- Unlike any of the three other boroughs or Alderney, no Safehouses that can be resided in are located in Dukes. As a result, Dukes is the only one out of five areas that the protagonists don't reside in.
- Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince grew up in Dukes, though he keeps it a secret from everyone but Luis Lopez.
- Dukes is one of two boroughs that doesn't have internet cafes or gun shops. The other one being Bohan.
- Dukes is the only borough that does not have an accessible Burger Shot, although there is a closed one in Cerveza Heights. Alderney also has an operating Burger Shot
- Dukes is one of two Boroughs to have an accessible Cluckin' Bell, the other being Algonquin. However, there is one in Alderney, but it's closed.


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Video: Hurricane Sandy Approaches Md., DE. Beaches
OCEAN CITY, Md. (WUSA) - Ocean City Officials are advising residents who have not evacuated to stay in place throughout the storm.
Residents and visitors should stay indoors during the hurricane and away from windows or glass doors, and Emergency Services officials are requesting citizens stay off the roadway as heavy rain and wind is expected to worsen.
According to Ocean City Officials, citizens should keep curtains and blinds closed, close all interior doors and secure outside doors. If necessary, take shelter in a small interior room, closet or hallway on the lowest level of your home.
At this time, forecasts predict the storm is expected to be at its worse between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Monday, with winds that could reach 50 mph.
Officials would also like the public to know that The Emergency Operation Center is fully staffed and operating 24 hours. If you need information, call 410.289.8967.


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28, 36b, 73 or 76. Does anyone have any experience in these units? Any info shared would be greatly appreciated. Right now I'm leaning towards 28 because of the different land options. Thanks fellas.


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Jamie's presentation entitled "Business Agility through Service Management and Operations Excellence," will lead the Tivoli and Integrated Service Management participation at Impact 2011, also to feature Dave Lindquist, VP and CTO, Tivoli Software, on "Enhancing Cloud Strategy and Architecture with IBM's Integrated Service Management," and Allison Kingburg's Inner Circle session on Application Performance Management from a customer's context.
Additional Tivoli @ Impact highlights include:
- Over 40 sessions - 13 of which will be led by Tivoli.
- A booth in the Solutions Expo dedicated to Integrated Service Management (Automation, Image Management, Cloud, and Security).
- Representation at three other booths, including the 'Private Infrastructure Cloud' booth within the Smarter Computing zone, the 'Integrated Service Management for IBM zEnterprise' booth, and the 'IBM Solutions for Smarter Communications' (CSP2) booth.


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Letters to the Editor: East Rockaway, Lynbrook
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Presiding over Justice Court, Justice Siegel uses his experience as a jurist to help village residents become better neighbors. His hands-on approach maintains a fair and impartial justice court that defendants and residents expect and deserve. It's also a reassuring comfort people don't expect to find in a courtroom.
Many East Rockaway residents don't know that Judge Siegel is highly qualified for his job. This is why I support him for re-election. When not in court, he is a defense attorney in private practice, focusing on medical malpractice and other complex negligence actions, as well as criminal law. When he was an assistant district attorney in Queens County many years ago, he served in the Special Victims Unit, trying several murder cases. One of his cases made it to TV on the show "Law and Order."
Judge Siegel has lived in East Rockaway with his family for over a decade. And he continually gives back, helping residents seeking advice, trying to resolve matters without a drastic sentencing and working to further others' rights. As a founder of the non-profit Filipino-American Legal Defense Fund, Judge Siegel helps people suffering from legal injustices, many of whom are often unable to engage legal aid and assistance on account of poverty.
Steven Siegel is exactly who we need in Justice Court. He is a model neighbor who does our community proud on the bench. Join me in returning him to his seat in this year's election.
Gordon Fox
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Illegal immigration foes despair over GOP moves
DENVER Marty Lich is ready to bolt.
It's been a couple of years since the self-described conservative considered herself a Republican, but she still often votes for GOP candidates. That's partly because of their tough stands against illegal immigration, which the retired teacher's aide blames for ruining her Southern California hometown and fears could threaten the Colorado mountain community where she now lives.
But Lich and voters like her are watching with despair as more and more Republican politicians edge toward a bipartisan plan that includes a pathway to citizenship for many of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. "If the GOP agrees on this amnesty, they're selling out their core values," Lich said. "They'd lose us. They'd lose the votes of people who support them, and they're not going to gain a lot of votes."
Demographics and election returns are pushing Republican leaders away from people like Lich. In 2007, a grass-roots rebellion led Republicans to reject then-President George W. Bush's immigration overhaul because it included a process in which otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants could eventually become U.S. citizens. Activists derided the provision as an "amnesty." After tea party groups toppled various Republicans in primaries over their dovish immigration stands, the party's rhetoric and proposals became increasingly tough.
That's changed since the drubbing the GOP took last November. Mitt Romney received underwhelming support from voters in the two fastest-growing minority groups: 27 percent of Hispanic voters and an even smaller share from Asians, according to exit polls. In contrast, George W. Bush won an estimated 44 percent of the Hispanic vote in his 2004 re-election.
Prominent Republicans, from television commentator Sean Hannity to former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, now support legalizing the status of some illegal immigrants. The outline of a bill to do just that was unveiled Monday by a group of eight senators, four from each party, and President Barack Obama reiterated his support for a similar overhaul Tuesday. Even in the Republican-controlled House, a half-dozen bipartisan members are nearing completion on wide-ranging legislation that would include a pathway to legalize the immigration status of those here without authorization.
It's unclear what, if any, immigration bill could pass Congress. Still, the shift in tone signals to some who favor tighter restrictions on immigration that parts of the Republican Party are ready to cave. That'd be a dangerous move, they warn, arguing that Hispanics strongly support Obama's health care law and other Democratic initiatives and are unlikely to ever back Republicans in significant numbers. They also warn that the party will squander a valuable resource by alienating its base.
"I don't know how you can even quantify the loss of enthusiasm," said former Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, a longtime thorn in party elders' sides for his aggressive stance on illegal immigration. "You're not going to knock on any doors, make any phone calls or give any money."
Other Republicans dismiss that worry. "Where else are they going to go?" asked Sig Rogich, a veteran Las Vegas-based Republican operative who has long pushed for a more immigrant-friendly GOP. "They'll get over it."
Immigration restriction activists - they don't like being called "anti-immigrant" or "hard-liners" - lack the organizational heft of labor unions, business organizations and religious groups, their primary opponents in this debate. Nonetheless, for years they were able to block an immigration overhaul that included some kind of legalized status.
But polls show public opinion may have turned against them. An AP-GfK poll last week found 62 percent of Americans - and 53 percent of Republicans - support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. That's up 10 points and 22 points respectively from 2010.


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|Spitz tackles state course
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Coleton Spitz participated in the state golf tournament at Cougar Canyon Golf Course in Trinidad on Oct. 5-6. He carded a 106 on the first day of the tournament.
Full results will appear in the next issue of the Enterprise.
Fleming results reported
Golfers traveled to the F&H course on Sept. 16 for the Fleming tournament. Duncan Brandt and Caleb Kafka turned in the team's low rounds both shooting 84s. Spitz was close behind with an 85. Deyten Klein rounded out scoring with a 97.
The team's 265 was good enough for third place. Burlington won the tournament with a team score of 242.


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WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- The flu virus is hitting harder and faster this season than in recent years. Many hospitals are packed trying to handle all the cases.
Sujata Ambardar, M.D., Chief of Infectious Diseases at Inova Fairfax Hospital talks to Anita Brikman about why this season is more potent than previous seasons.
Anita: "Why are some seasons so much worse than others?"
Dr. Ambardar: "I think with this season it may have to do with the type of influenza. The type of isolate, the H3N2 which is part of the vaccine, may be more severe."
Anita: "So that strain is just a bad strain?"
Dr. Ambardar: "Correct, although we don't really know the details of that at this point but we are seeing is that in terms of the number of influenza-like illness we use that terminology and from that the number of positive influenza cases is much higher."
Anita: "Now the vaccine though does include this strain, let's talk about that because we've gotten some conflicting information on whether the vaccine was a good match, is it a good match?"
Dr. Ambardar: "So far based on the studies that they have done and CDC has actually taken samples of the isolates both the influenza A, the two components of that and the B, so far matching greater than 99 percent which is what would be expected."
Anita: "So this is another reason to get that flu shot."
Dr. Ambardar: "Absolutely, they are still encouraging everybody to get the influenza vaccine and it's not too late because influenza season can last up to May even."
Anita: "Now we heard reports, children are dying. And for a parent you just think 'how on earth can I possibly lose my child to the flu, but it happens.'"
Dr. Ambardar: "We have to be sure that we immunize high risk individuals which would be anybody younger than five and specifically younger than two. The elderly, anybody with any type of immune defect, metabolic problems. Children, especially young children are very vulnerable, we wanna make sure that we immunize not only children but their providers, caregivers, daycare providers very important, and similarly any kind of health care provider of anybody with a chronic illness."
Anita: "You know I was at Walter Reed today and literally as you are walking into the hospital there are signs saying 'if you are coughing or sneezing, stop at the front desk for a mask' is that really what we need to do when we are potentially infectious just stay out of the public arena?"
Dr. Ambardar: "I don't know if you recall the H1N1 episode in 2009, that was specifically what they recommended that if you had an illness that you thought was an influenza-like illness to avoid going to the hospital. They actually limited visitation to hospitals at that time because transmission is a risk and you don't want to come to the hospital and be sick and get people who are already ill worse."
Anita: "And a final take home message if we are sick we should stay home from work and school absolutely."
Dr. Ambardar: "Absolutely and the transmission is probably five to seven days after you get sick and it starts about one day before."


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Royals sign former Dolphins quarterback Pat White to a minor league contract
The Kansas City Royals have signed outfielder and former Miami Dolphins and University of West Virginia quarterback Pat White to a minor league contract.
"We are excited about the level of interest Pat has in becoming a Major League player and being a Kansas City Royal," Director of Baseball Operations Lonnie Goldberg said. "Any time that you can add an athletic-type player to your organization, you try to do it. We know the NFL may still be an option and we have discussed that with Pat, but are excited that he is open to the idea of playing professional baseball for the Royals."
An outfielder at Daphne (Ala.) High School, the 24-year-old White was a fourth-round selection by the Anaheim Angels in 2004, but chose to attend the University of West Virginia on a football scholarship. While at Daphne, the left-handed hitter and thrower batted .487 his senior season with a .974 slugging percentage and 28 stolen bases leading to a second-team High School All-American selection by Baseball America. While at WVU, the 6-foot, 190-pounder was selected by the Angels again in the 26th round in 2007, by the Cincinnati Reds in the 49th round in 2008 and by the New York Yankees in the 48th round in 2009.
Following a redshirt season at West Virginia in 2004, White served as the Mountaineers' starting quarterback from 2005-2008 before being selected by the Miami Dolphins in the second round (44th overall) of the 2009 NFL Draft. White ran for 81 yards on 21 carries last year during his rookie season before being released on September 5, 2010.
While at West Virginia, White was a two-time Big East Offensive Player of the Year (2006 and 2007), winning two Big East titles and two BCS bowl games (Sugar Bowl in 2005, Fiesta Bowl in 2007). He remains the only starting quarterback to win four bowl games and has rushed for more yards than any quarterback in NCAA Division I history.