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Issue date: Monday, May 20, 1912
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Publication name: Van Wert Daily Bulletin
Location: Van Wert, Ohio
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Van Wert Daily Bulletin, The (Newspaper) - May 20, 1912, Van Wert, Ohio ESTABLISHED A. D. 1873. VAN WURT, OHIO, MONDAY, MAY 2O, 1912, PBICB TWO CENTS. NOTICE I will make outtide optical calls mornings, in Older to get more fresh air and sunshine. If those wishing my optical services will drop me a port card or 'phone, I will go to any home in Van Wert County and teet eyes withput extra charge. These calls will also include the following towns outside of Van Wert County: Celina. Rockford, Paulding and Delphos. My charges for 15 year gold filled guaranteed Spectacles, and This b an opportunity to those who can't conveniently .come to Van Wert Those who can come to my office will find me in every after- noon. J. C. COLLIER, OptidM. Home Guard Temple Van Wen. Onto DR. B. L. GOOD. Surgery and Diseases of Women. north Washington street. HOOTS 2-5 p. m. OR. W. H. PERRY Practice limited to diseases to the Bye, Bai, Nose and .Throat and adjustment of Olaaaee. Telephone 1818. HOME OCAKDS TKMPLB, VAN OHIO. Office Hours: 8 to 11 AH. 1 to 3 m. AND GLASSES. Byes tested scientifically. Glasses fitted ao- enrately. The latest methods employed In Europe and America for finding the refractive errors are used in tola office OR. JOHN H. WILSON. OSTBOPATHIC PHTSIC1AN. Over Mlt Tom's. Office hours, B to a. m., i: 80 to 6 p. m. Office 'phone 1S81, residence 1176. Other hours by special appoint- ment. A. B. QILLILAND, M. D. Specialty the eye and fitting ot glasses' pjrop- erly. Gfflca 108 East Main street Savlnsts Bank. Hours 10 to_______ i p. m., and at other times at special appoint- ment. ____________________ OR. MARTIN S. CRAMER. PSTSIOLtS ADD 8CKGBOS. Office: U8H West Main street, Van Wert, O. r-aoae 130S. JOHNSON FAILS TO END STRIKE Today's Philadelphia-Detroit Game Called Off, PLAYERS ARE IN THE DUMPS OR. R. R. RICHISON. PRYSIOUH AMD SDBQKON. All sails given proinpt attention. Office, IIS Sonth Washington street. 'Phone BeaJ- dence 'phone DR. C. Q. CHURCH. PHYSICIAN ABB 3UKOBOJT Tigers Realize That In Refusing to Play Until Cobb Is Reinstated They Made Serious Blunder and Precipi- tated Situation Prom Which It Will Be Difficult to Extricate Them- Owners Meet In Qua- ker City to Discuss Future' Plans. Philadelphia, May John president of the American league, -when asked his position on the strike of the Detroit baseball team, declared that he is "standing pat." Other than this he refused to discuss the matter. Johnson arrived fcere and went immediately to the Bellevue Stratford, where he was Joined shortly by President Shibe o: the Athletics, Manager Connie and Manager Jennings of Detroit. The two managers left a short time later, but Shibe and Johnson remain- ed in conference for several hours. They refused to say what had tran- spired. There will be no baseball game at Shibe park today. The Detroit club will not play another game in this or any other city until it is represented by its regular players. This was the tdict promulgated by Ban Johnson. president of the American league, al- ter a conference with President Shibe and Manager Mack of the Ath- HUGH JENNINGS Detroit Manager Scored by League President. PANAMA VOTERS REGISTER TODM President Tail's Commissicn Guards the Polls, ATTEMPT ATFRAUO SUSPECTED Minister Dodge, Colonel Goethals and Colonel Greene, Protected by M? rines, Will Visit Various Votin Districts and See That Poiit-c. Game Is Played on Fearcd Disorders and Asked Unc: Sam to Boss the Job. Photo by American Press Association. FIGHT TO LAST DITCH Cardinals Washington, May 20. Taft's commission to supenise :hp elections to be held in Panama begin their work at the registration booths in Colon today. The s- sion, consisting of Vnted States Ister Dodge, Colonel Goethal.s. charge of the canal construction, ai-J Colonel Greene of the army, bavc- met with representatives of the ad- ministration and opposition parties and agreed upon a. scheme of pio cedure. It is proposed to have the registra- tion of voters take place in the dif- ferent distiicts successively. Some member or members of the commis- sion will attend each registration, ac- companied by a small guard of diers 01 marines. It is proposed thaf the commission adjust promptly any disputes which may arise between t PRINCESS LOUISE Kaiser's Daughter Who Is Pride of Her Country. Princess Victoria has been pho- tographed often, for she Is very populir, fcot this la considered ot the latent and beat pictures of her. DOINGS IN OHIO Can Raise Policemen's Pay. Columbus, O., May 20. Attorney General Hogan rendered an opinion to City Solicitor Bennett of East Liv- erpool, deciding that salaries of po- Mcemen and firemen can be increased or diminished during their terms of service, and thereby brought to light the fact that Ohio courts are guess- TWO DROWNED; FIFTY INJURED Crowd Is Dumped Into Water ot Puget Sound. GANGPLANK CHAINS GIVE WAY Defeat Phillies Pitchers' Battle. In Great continue in effect i St. Louis. May Cardinals j the factions at the polls. The super- }ng about the law since the supreme court failed to give its reasons for a decision in a case in which the ques- tion recently was Involved. until the actual voting for candidates letica. .LOUIS. Cardinals j tag been completed. Have Suspended Themselves. i foiled :o battle hard to the last J This commission was appointed by Mr. Johnson said: "The failure of j dltch overthrow Jhe Phillies. It j President Taft at the request of both t._ _. of ths the f if WiAii-aWJ-l DCL1U JLUtJl. Ci.il tl 1C j .M. u 1 L W the Detroit plavers to participate in was a duel beween pitchers, in which parties in Panama. The leaders the game with the Athletics on Sat- Harmon finally fought the 'victory to feared the partisans of urday at Shibe park', out of sympathy bis. cyedlt- Tlle visitors showed su- other would cause disorder at for Cobb, has assumed proportions J stealing bases, but failed Sections unless the United j after the game between New York j m this way. The piling under the that overshadow the mere suspension j a timely hit would have brought _ took a hand. Their fears proved well Pandemonlum Reigns as Mass of Hu- manity flounders Between Steam- er's Side and Dock Piling People on Decks Hurl Lifebelts at Victims Many of Whom Are Injured by Heavy Belts Many Rescued by Means of Ropes and Boathooks. Seattle, Wash., May When the chains holding a gangplank leading from the Coleman dock to the steam- er Flier broke, 150 persons were plunged into the waters of Puget From the struggling and shrieking mass of humanity two persons were brought to the shore dead. They were Mrs. H. Leonard and Carl Bru- den, both of Seattle. More than 50 Injure 3 persons were rushed to hos- pitals and othes to private residences. The accident occurred while the steamf-r Flier was taking a load for Tacoma. Crowds were jammed on the gangplank as tight as they could stand, and the weight broke the 'chains. Pandemonium reigned for a few minutes, and there was great danger that those in the water would be crushed between the steamer and the dock piles. Passengers on the Flier threw life- belts into the bay by scores Many Of those floundering about were hit and badly hurt by the heavy belts. Ropes and boathookB were lowered Excitement Causes Death. Cincinnati, O., May H. Barnett, 35, of Middletown, fell dead to the struggling mass of humanity here at the gate of .the baseball park from the dock and many were saved of the Tiger star. Every one of the striking players has automatically home a runner or more. himself and made himself I I f ineligible to compete In a game un- Batteries Brennan and Dooin; fler organized baseball control until Harmon and Wingo. Is reinstated by the national com- mission" LEAGUE. At the Aldme hotel, wheie the Be- Erooklvn 0 0 0 2 0 f" troit players are stationed, there is Chicago ......01001000 4 7 founded, as a number of riots occur- H- Eo Ted ln tne early days of registration. The Panama elections will take place in July. an air of gloom, and several of the players have confidentially that they think they acted in rather a hasty manner Since coming here Ban Johnson i Calls attended day and night Washington and Main streets has remarked that Manager Office, corner Phones: Office, 1883; Beeideuce, 1518. of the Tigers apparently forgot he I Batteries Ragon and Phelps; i Smith and Xeeclham. AT R. H E New Yoi k .000300000 9 1 Cincinnati 001100010 12 2 and Meyers; Sugg-s and McLean. SEE VICTORY FOR THEIR CANDIDATES snd Cincinnati. An examination showeo that Barnett died _ -of heart dock saved many lives. On every pile for many feet from one to half a failure, accentuated by the excite- 1 dozen persons were clinging. ment of the game. Falls From Viaduct. Cleveland, O., May Bou- j nie, 30, a structural iron worker, I working on the central viaduct here, i iost his balance and fell 110 feet from the bridge into the Cuyahoga river. j He was rescued after sinking twice, and will recover. WANT CITY WIDE PROBE Campaign Managers Forecast i Phoas, Wo. 1068, R. J. MORGAN, M. D. s was a representative of the owners wnrsioiAH AND BUBQBOH. j of the club and not of the players. Offiaa No. 338 North Jefferson street. Offle" Johnson i-pr-nrTrprl >hr, Wo IflWL -RArfflnTiAA TSn. Km aiSO 1 PTT.ai Red SRI CaStlCaliJ upon the manner in which Jennings DR. L. E. LADD. lauded his players and apparentlr failed to censure them for striking. In fecmi-offlcil quarters Johnson is Y.. Pitts..'. 19 G .760 Phila... 13 14 4S1 Bost... 10 10 .438 Brook.. W. L P.C 12 18 .400 9 14 .391 10 17 .370 9 16 360 Father Meets Son In Jail. Daytcn, O., May 20. Father and RpQiilt nf flhin Primary son> cnarsed with highway rob Ul UillU rillUdlj, bery, met for the first time in six ___________ years when Joseph Carney, Sr., 60 j and Joseph Carney, .Ir, 26, faced Cohjmbus, O., May chair- j each other in the corridor of the FHTSICIAS AND SCBQHOX Office, fllnee' Block, East Male street; 1 ience, Booth Walnut street. 'Phone 1988-6 K. AMERICAN LEAGUE. CLUBS W. L. P.C. CLHBS W L P.C ,Chica.. 23 6 .793 Deft... 13 14 .491 being quoted as declaring that a 'Bost... 16 30 .615 Phila... 11 13 manager unable to handle a 'Wash.. 13 13 .500 K. Y... 7 16 .304 is- prison. Congress Will Meet In Baltimore to Discuss High Prices. Baltimore, May high cost of is a complex problem, made up of many elements, some natural, some artificial. For "its solution, a congress should be held of all the states and territories and representa- tives of the federal government and ?ome united action should be taken looking to a remedy, or remedies, for the artificial causes of high prices, which can and should be remedied." With this preamble the report the committee appointed by the city- wide congress to investigate the high cost of living will be presented to the congress at its meeting on Wednes- EXPECTS TEDDY TO BOLT; Taft Issues Statement Calling Oppo- nent Traitor to Party. Cincinnati, O., May Taft issued a statement accusinc Theodore Roosevelt of being a traitor to his party and of having forfeited Ms right to stand as a candidate in a Republican convention. The Taft statement plainly shows that the prescient believes Roosevelt is going to bolt in the event of nomination at Chicago. He charac- terized Roosevelt's course as one of rule or ruin, and declares that his statement in Cleveland that he is the Republican party finds no parallel ift history save in the words of Louis state; I am it." The issu- ing of this statement, it is believed, removes the last hope that Roosevelt yield in the event of Taft's nomi- nation. This statement is the most severe that the president hae uttered against Roosevelt. Mr.Taft was deeply moved by Roosevelt's renewed accu- sation against him in Cleveland and. plainly showed his feeling. Ruef Indictm'ents Quashed. San Francisco, Cal., May 20. Im obedience to the mandate of the state appellate court, Superior Judge Fraafc H. Dunne dismissed the 24 remaining indictments standing against Abra- ham Ruef, former political hoss of San Francisco, now serving 14 years in San Quentin penitentiary for com- plicity in municipal affairs uncovered TB 190G. VAST SUM LOST IN MINERS'SUSPENSION Apement to Be Signed mi Work Resumed In Few Dayt H G d_ENN ATTORNBT-IT-LAW, Van Wert, Ohio. crisis with more tact than the De- ufflce_in Swineford Building, sonth-west troit situation has been handled Wsah- would be much better off as a player. :Cleve.. 12 12 .500 St. L... 7 IS .250 i EDWARD C. STITZ ATTOBNKT-AT-LAW. Office: 104H East Main Street, Van Wert, O. over Gleaaon Tobacco Store. OSCAR W. PR I DO Y. Boom, 93 Home Guard Temple. 1887 'Phont WILLIAM FOSTN AUGHT. ATTORNET-AT-LAW, VAX WERT, OHIO. The law of Realty, Titles and Abstracts a specialty. Loans made. CLARK QOOD. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 11BM East Main jt-rdr.t, opposite Court House. 'Phone 1288. _ PENSION CLAIMS. Ot r. MAKIHIP, VAH WBKT, OHIO. 1 am rflvlne special attention to the proaecu- tion o pension OUlms. recent acts of Congress, many are now entitled pensions, previously rejected. Call wad see me. t wiP give .ur bailaera oamfnl service. HAS GREAT EXPECTATIONS Colonel Roosevelt Leaves Ohio Well Pleased With Trip. Cleveland, O., May Roosevelt kept exceedingly quiet at the home of James R. jSarfield at Mentoi, a few miles out of Clevc- I land. He issued a statement in which he said among other things he was entirely satisfied with the week's la- bors in Ohio, and believing that the people of Ohio are sound, he expects to see the state tomorrow climb un alongside of Pennsylvania and Illi- nois or. his side against the "powers that prey." When he leaves the state at Mari- etta this afternoon on his way home. 10. men for presidential candidates sued the following statements: Went Down Wjth Tjtanjc_ Walter F. Brown, Roosevelt Man- Daytcn, O-, May was learn- Roosevelt's fight is 1 od here that Fred Ware, a mechanic day evening. the people's fight and so he is sure to of this city, was a passenger on the I Summarized, the report states that wm. Every political sign indicates a i ill-fatpd Titanic and perished in the prices have been raised for the fol- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. substantial majority of the 21 con- disaster that befell the ship. j lowing, among other AT COLUMBUS 8. Toledo 5. Eressional districts will send Roose- i Increased supply of gold- price AT KANSAS CITY 9, St. Paul 8. i velt flelegates, and we would not be Despondent Man Hangs Himself. I control of exchanges and' agree- AT LOUISVILLE 6, Indianapolis 9. surprised if be sweeps the state." O.. May 20. Edward j ments: tariff upon foodstuffs and AT MILWAUKEE 1, Minneapolis j _ L- c- Laylin, Taft Maiers, 45, committed suicide at Me-j other products; abuse of cold storage Wilkesbarre, Pa., May dent White of the mine union and other officials will hold m final conference with the coal oper- ators' committee in Philadelphia this afternoon. At this meeting the agree- ment adopted by the convention Saturday will be signed and the sus- pension of work which has lasted seven weeks will formally cease. Many of the mining officials praise President White highly and declare their faith in him as a conservative and thoroughly reliable leader. The suspension started seven weeks ago today, but as most of the mines will not resume until next week the period _pf idlenes will be practically eight weeks. In that time the losses due to the suspension were estimated as follows: Loss in wages of mine employes, loss to coal companies in net profits, loss to sellers of supplies and materials for loss to railroads in coal Ii eight charges, loss IB of jdle coal train crews, 000; loss" to merchants in trade, J16..000.000. .______ _.--.. primary election tomorrow will be a TLTTBS v T p c UBS w T p c I comP'ete vindication of President Colum. 23 'll 676 16 39 457 Taft by his native state and an em- Minue.. 20 T2 .GOG Mihv... 13 18 .419 Phatie indorsement of his administra- Toledo. .oSl Louis.. 11 IS .379 tion. The trend of sentiment has K.C... 17 17 .500 Ind'lis.. 12 21 .301 been for the CENTRAL LEAGUE. in the last week-" AT SPRINGFIELD 11, South Bend H" L- Nlthols. Harmon 5. j "The result of the primaries will AT FT. WAYNE 6, Grand Rapids 5. i to the country that Judson Har- Comb by hanging himself to the raft- ers ot an old shed. Ill health is said to hare been the cause. AT DAYTON 2, Terre Haute 5. AT YOUNGSTOWN 3, Akron 2. AT ZANESVILLE 5, Canton 13. AT ERIE 5, Wheeling 1. mon is still be'oved by the Democ- racy of Ohio, which could not be I by the activities of the few persons calling themselves his enemies." Erie ...10 Y'gst'n. 14 T-" i J.-WM -iiikJ i E I L 1X3. I 't 'JtJ i. 1 iJ 1.4J VJI every congressional district in G. R'ds. 12 9 .571 Ft. W... 9 13 .409 rtate except the which con- 13 10 .565 S B'nd. 8 13 .nsi ARGAIN COUNTER A pretty assortment of 9x12 ft. S25, Axminster room size Rugs___ All our Calico, tight and dark colors............. 24 inch Oak Grain Filler, 4Q. for around rugs, per yd.. Many odd pairs of soiled Lace Curtains marked way down. A xm i n i s t e r room size door Rugs.............. 15c to 25c Hat Flowers, allat................... Curtain Stretcher, large with pins one inch apart long Silk Gloves AA Wack, white and tan V Pretty Dark Persian Drapery, per yd. lOc. ISOOBirdseye Matches, for 5c. French China fancy dinner Plates and Cups and Sauoen, lOc. Regular 25c fancy for lOc. Collier's fARWIKT, ono he will have carried his campaign T. H'te. 13 into the state tain Cincinnati, the president's home, i He will have traveled between and miles and made over 30 tpeeches. PREACHER IS KILLED of Shot Down by Cousin Accused Intimacy With His Wife. Waycross, Ga., May a pistol duel at Millwood the Rev. C. C. Ben- nett was killed and Carey Bennett, J. H. Murray and Sam Murray wounded. The duel was fought by Jhe two Bennetts, who are cousins, jind the Murrays were hit by stray fiullets. The duel was the culmina- tion of trouble bptwpen Carey Ben- ret and the Rev. Bennett about at- j Jr Prfg Yz h P-'g Johr- J President of the Pro- 8 ll Canton3 I 12 '429 f Democratic league of Ohio, 9 591 Akron.. 9 13 1 look a Parting shot at Governor Har- mon it, a Ipngthy statement in which Davton 11 10 :.524 ZanesT 4 is m f of the ____j__ j 66 Democratic members of the Ohio OHIO STATE LEAGUE. AT MANSFIELD 4, Portsmouth 3. AT MARION 6, Newark 4. AT LIMA 5, Chillicothe 2. 3LTJBS W. L. P.C. CLT7RS W. L. P.C Ports.. 10 Mans... 10 9 S 55G Marion. S .556 Chil'e.. 9 .oOO Lima... 9 .9 .500 8 10 .444 S 10 .444 constitutional convention are against the governor in his pffort to land the presidential nomination. He also in- timates that a vote for Harmon at to- morrow's primaries is a vote for Wall street. ENDS DISSIPATED CAREER SEES COMPANION KILLED Balloonist, However, Makes Para- chute Descent and Lands Safely. German Nobleman Suicides When Boston Mav Barr. 20. Jilted by Chicago Woman. Chicago, Ma> Spruck ron Aim en thai, member of the Ger- jian robjJity and large land owner fn Oregon. Washington and Idaho, shot and killed hiivself. Hotel at- his i tentions paid by the former to the j tachps who round the body in latter'? wife. MrF. Bennett witnessed looin discmored a revolver in the duel. hand and a photograph of Mrs. Fran- ces Rosenblatt, mere of the lato Xel- son Morris, millionaire packer, in the other. Houston Has Fire. Houston. Tex., One million dollars' loss was the toll claimed by the fire In the central business district of Houston, when fire originated in the six-story Stowers building, occupied Ly Stowers Furniture company and A. Lippcr's Millinery establishment, destroying that structure and three .Tther buildings and damaging four others. Defective wh-ing is declared by firemen to have been cause. RiehCMn's Execution Stt. Bottofi, May is now authort- that Richeeon'i ex ecu-, tloc wm take place early tomorrow morning. Von Armenthal left a note in which of Lynn, was instantly killed by a fall of about 2.000 feet from a bal- loon info thf water at Xahant. He Intended to make a descent by means ftf a parachute, but the device failed to open and 1'ir youth came down into the wa'er 1A0 yards from with such forre that aimo.v every bonr body was broken. Barr and of Cam- bridge made "he ascent togf'her When the had reached a j amount of labor on farms and conse- quent increase in wages; decrease of EditorTlas Vanished i trucjc farms and farming around the Eellefontaine O., May 26-Halle i excessive profits, bv Elwood, editor of the Quincy Gazette, i to too many small shops and too has disappeared, and his creditors much between producer and have caused a warrant for hiB arrest I consumer; too much purchase on to be issued i credlt at advanced prices: inadequate ______ I transportation to proximate farming From Burns. j districts, especially fn winter: short Circleville, O., May 20. Beatrice and inadequate control of Birchw, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs scales, weights and measures; abuse LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN CHICAGO, MAT li. Cattle Receipts, 300 head- beeves, 25; Texas 75; western Steers, J4 7 85- stackers and feedere, 1 00; cows and heifers, calve-s, 25 @S 25. head; lirtt SO; mixed, 9S; heavy, 95; rough, IT 7 65; pigs Jo 00. Sheep and head; native %t 75iff'6 35: west- ern, OOST'6 40; native lambs, Of 65: western, 00; ywftr- lings, 500! 7 35. 2 red, 14. 2. 78c. 2 wUt% Granville Bircher, died as the result falling into a tub of boiling water. Harmon Claims Michigan Bunch. Washington, May The Harmon headquarters issued a claim that the pinK- 30 ucinstructed members of the Michigan delegation to the Baltimore of the patnt laws; too high charges p.nd improper conditions of our city markets; growing luxuriousness of the people, which eliminates careful, business-like housekeeping and shop- convention, elected last week, will be for Harmon. The basis of this claim is a telegram received from Judge Connclley of Detroit, who says that Edwarrl Frensdorf, the Wilson man- ENEMY HARD TO FIND Mexican Federal Troops Have Oroz- co's Army on the Run. Washingtrn, May depart- ment icpresentatives in Mexico re- ernor Harmon. ager in Michigan, conceded a major- j ported that the federals have demor- lty Michigan delegation to Gov- j alized the main force under Genral Orozco, the rebel leader, to a greater extent tnan has been supposed hith- erto. Thf> rebel force is so scattered, it is stated, that the federals are T'-ndin? it difficult to find the revolu- Root to Be Chairman. Washington, May 20. -It is author- itatively stated in Washington that Senator Root of New York will be i the temporary chairman of rhe na- tional convention in Chicago unless i he declines the offer. i tionist army. I i WEATHER OBSERVATIONS f beisrbt of el Barr reloaded nlunge-d downward le said his despondency was due to pgrarbuto firink and the fart that he had lost j head first Tho man a stonV "the finest woman in the world" be- cause of his drinking. Returns Home With Children. Xew York, May automobile lide through Central park to give the two Titanic waifs a lasting picture of city that was their home Tor a month, was the send-off given Mme. Marcelle Xavratil and her two little boys before they boarded the Star liner Oceanic tor Eu- rope. Rushe.- -Aitne-f-d his companion' dearh. but released his para chute and alighted in the in safety. Baby Shields Mother. Litt'fj Rook, ArU., May D. P. Coultor, vietim of an attempted assanlr, lives because her nine-, months-old baby, lying o'n her breast, caught in its own little body the bul- let at her by her baffled assail- ant. The baby died initantly. 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$41.9 million PennDOT Avoca project officially starts
PITTSTON TWP. - A group of federal, state and local officials formally broke ground on a $41.91 million project designed to overhaul access to the airport and surrounding communities like Avoca and Dupont.
Survey work has already begun, and state Department of Transportation contractor Pennsy Supply will begin clearing the way for a new access road by the end of the week, said Mark Polizzi, Pennsy's north region vice president of construction.
"This is a significant project that will help economic development, improve safety and access for the industrial park east of the turnpike by providing a direct connection to Interstate 81 and improve safety and traffic flow along the (Route) 315 and Oak Street area corridor," PennDOT District 4 Director George Roberts said during Wednesday's ground-breaking ceremony.
The new mile-long access road will connect Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport to Grimes Industrial Park via Navy Way.
"There's a lot of talk in the world of transportation about maintaining our existing infrastructure, and I completely agree with that," said state Rep. Mike Carroll, D-118, Avoca. "But we can't stop there. ... We set the bar far too low if we simply say we're going to maintain the existing infrastructure."
The project also calls for rehabilitating four bridges on Interstate 81, replacing a pedestrian bridge over the interstate, repaving a 1.5-mile stretch of I-81, consolidating interstate exits, replacing interstate off-ramps and creating three roundabouts to guide traffic to the airport, Route 315 and Dupont.
Mr. Carroll, the Democratic chairman of the Assembly's Subcommittee on Highways, described the project as a good blend of repairing existing infrastructure, creating safer traffic conditions and adding new road capacity.
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The Faces of Fatherhood Luncheon was first started in 2005 to create public awareness of the important role fathers play in the lives of their children. During the luncheon, which is held every year on the Friday before Fathers Day, several fathers who demonstrate the four dimensions of fatherhood; Involvement, Consistency, Awareness, and Nurturing are presented with the Heart of a Father Award. Over the last ten years 43 fathers nominated by local business or community groups have been honored. For more information regarding the Faces of Fatherhood Luncheon or the Heart of a Father Award call 317-921-5943.
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this is GORGEOUS!!!
Wow! it's autumn, and falling leaves,marking soon there will be winter, and cold. Yet it's so warm,and happy, reminding the winter will be over someday, and they will come back. It's so beautiful.
WOW! The beautiful colours - and the aspect ratio really makes it great.
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Very cool^^
Wonderful! almost looks like water colors...
This looks beautiful!
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Grats on the DD!
It'd be so lovely just to see where that trails leads. I feel like the that light at the end is practically begging me to walk down that way...
Congratulations on your DD! Well deserved
woah, looks like woods in Vermont in the fall! and is that an ATV trail!? yay!!
Simply stunning ! A well deserved DD !
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Prachtige foto! Chapeau!!
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Prachtige foto! Chapeau!!
Mag ik vragen waar de foto gemaakt is?


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The Canberra Times brings word of plans by the National Kangaroo Protection Coalition to organise a boycott of tourism to Canberra in response to recent 'roo culls.
"We've been talking about it the last couple of days and we think it's one of the options we've got and probably the strongest option we've got to get [...]
Simon Corbell has announced the winners of the ACT Sustainable Cities Awards for 2009:
This years' winners include;
– Community Partnerships – Oz Harvest;
– Environmental Innovation – Papercut;
– Dame Phyllis Frost Litter Prevention – Orana School;
– Resource Recovery – Corinbank Festival;
– Protection of the Environment – Jervis Bay School – Booderee Junior Rangers;
– Energy Innovation – Hawker [...]
The Department of Territory and Municipal Services has announced that roo culling is commencing this Friday in the Canberra Nature Park.
The ACT Government wishes to advise that areas within the Canberra Nature Park will be closed from Friday 3 July until Friday 31 July to allow for the controlled culling of over-abundant Eastern Grey Kangaroos. [...]
Vicki Dunne is taking a swing at plans to do up the Lanyon homestead which neglect to do anything about the Nolan Gallery.
"While I support the enhancing of Lanyon's value as a heritage tourism destination, this Stanhope-Gallagher government is creating the classic donut effect," said Ms Dunne.
"The access road will be improved, there will be [...]
The Canberra Times reports on concerns by the ACT Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission that the feed-in tariff system (whereby you get paid for electricity your home generates in surplus to what it consumes) could come at a hefty price:
Consumers will be forced to pay "premium prices" to recover the program's costs including $48million in [...]
Normally the ACTEW website is a dry affair, but today they're offering something a little different:
ACTEW Corporation is offering free ice scrapers to help you get the frost off your frozen windscreen on those cold Canberra mornings.
To get your free ice scraper contact ACTEW's Water Conservation Office on 6248 3131 or by email with [...]
It appears that the metal bench chairs in Civic are being replaced.
The comfortable and vaguely pleasing to the eye ones are being replaced by butt ugly and very uncomfortable ones.
Does the ACT Government really have that much spare cash floating around that they need to get rid of perfectly good seating that does the job. [...]
The National Capital Authority has, at long last, advised that Lake Burley Griffin is once again fit for use after closures began in the long long ago of February.
NCA Chief Executive, Gary Rake said the lake is now considered safe for recreational use.
'Water-quality results received today, show the levels of blue-green algae are now within [...]
In all the long years since the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve was burned out in the 2003 fires it has been free for visitors to enter the scorched surrounds.
TAMS now warns that entry fees are returning to the recovered facility.
For a normal car a day pass from 1 August will be $10, and an annual pass [...]
Renovated Chateau Cranky a couple of years ago, incorporating insulation (batts) in all walls and roof areas. The certifier was fullsome in his praise of the installers work.
The place has always since seemed to require more heating and cooling than I would have expected from the insulation installed.
We do have some uncurtained glass, so in [...]
The Greens' Shane Rattenbury is up in arms over the ACT's climate budget being used to fund the Chief Minister's beloved arboretum:
ACT Greens MLA for Molonglo, Shane Rattenbury MLA has slammed the Government's funding of the Arboretum from the climate budget following the tabling of a report* that indicated the emissions that will be [...]
TAMS are warning that they're marching on with their controlled burning program:
The ACT Government wishes to advise the public that, weather permitting, controlled burns are taking place in a 14 hectare area of Kowen Forest from Wednesday 24 June to Sunday 28 June 2009.
The purpose of the ACT's annual controlled burn program [...]
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Leaving The Phoenix on Monday night I stepped into a photo-grapher's wonderland of altered light.
With the city still lit up and a thick fog rolled in everything was just a little weird.
Slideshow below:
The ABC reports that the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal has had a chance to gather its thoughts and has dismissed Animal Liberation's challenge to the roo cull at Defence's Majura site.
Today the tribunal ruled that the Government's original decision [to authorise the cull] should be confirmed because there is compelling evidence that the kangaroos [...]
What has happened to minimum standards for energy efficiency ratings for houses in the ACT?
On the weekend we visited a house for sale in Harrison which was only three years old – and it had only a 3-star EER. That's 3 out of a possible maximum of 6! Our current house in Palmerston, which is [...]
Andrew Barr has announced that he's happy with the Environmental Impact Statement Assessment Report (EISAR) for the Cotter Dam expansion.
Now we just need to wait for the Commonwealth to agree.
ACTEW are breaking out the champagne.
The ABC brings word that the National Botanic Gardens have, after these many long years of drought, managed to get approval for a system to extract water out of Lake Burley Griffin, just as the Royal Canberra golf course does for the benefit of its members.
NCA chief executive Gary Rake says it will save the [...]
Andrew Barr had his wrist slapped yesterday for not fronting estimates committees when asked to (the ABC has details).
But he's certainly revelling in seeing off Green plans to get electric hot water systems banned in the ACT:
The main problems with the Greens Party's original ill-conceived legislation include:
· A lack of realisation that electric water heaters [...]
Having witnessed the spectacle of the National Botanic Gardens withering while the golf course pumped water out of the lake to keep itself lush I concluded that the gardens' management lacked clout.
The ABC now explains why.
The Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra say the gardens are in trouble and the management [...]
My place of work has called in the exterminators to get rid of some mice who have made the office their home. The exterminators use bait stations which attract the mice, who eat the poison and run off to die. I understand the death involves internal bleeding, which doesn't sound like a painless way to [...]
The Greens' Shane Rattenbury is expressing alarm that the ACT Government's submission on the Draft Airport Master Plan has not been made public.
Are our leaders supporting 24 hour freight operations or are they opposing it?
Even those of us without strong views on the subject would probably like to know?
Yesterday morning shocked everyone I think by getting down to -6 degrees.
As I can't recall the last time I saw icicles I thought it worthy of taking a picture.
Today the Bureau forecasts a whole 12 degrees.
But with the 10.24am update registering a mere 1 degree I'm having my doubts about getting there.
So much for that [...]
[ 22 June 2009 at 6:30 pm; ] Windows can be a major source of heat loss on cold Canberra nights.
Single glazed windows can be up to 10 times worse at insulating, when compared to the same area of standard wall material.
So what are the options when it comes to Window Insulation?
Whether you are a renter or a homeowner, come learn [...]
The Workplace Ombudsman has published a media release saying they are prosecuting Aussie Junk Pty Ltd and the Company Director Dennis Richter for allegedly underpaying staff at the Mitchell site $280,000.
Aussie Junk's conduct has been an issue for years and finally the truth is starting to emerge. This must make ACT Nowaste feel a bit [...]
[ 13 June 2009 at 1:00 pm; ] Be part of the Climate Solution!
We are facing a climate emergency. Climate change is already affecting people in Australia and across the world. We urgently need the Australian Government to invest in renewable energy, renew out economy, and help ensure a safe climate future for all. Instead, Prime Minister Rudd has announced a climate plan [...]
ABC has the news that the feral-proof fence around a big chunk of Mulligan's Flat (next to Forde) has now been finished.
A project of the BOB (Bush on Boundary) group of environment organisations, the purpose of this fence is to preserve a section of grassy box woodland in a feral-free state, and even allow reintroduction [...]
Whilst ACT Parks and Lands are contemplating widespread tree clearing throughout Canberra, they appear to be having some practice by removing native shrubs from the streetscape in Kaleen. They did it last year in Baldwin Drive, and now they have moved on to Maribyrnong Avenue, where someone with a spray can of blue paint is [...]
The good folk at the Bureau of Meteorology have made the call:
Scattered showers, falling as snow on the ranges and lowering to around 600 metres overnight, with the chance of some light snowfalls locally. Fresh and gusty westerly winds.
Time perhaps to crack out the mittens, warm up the gluhwein and keep and eye out for [...]
Hi all,
Wife and I are curious to know which suburbs / streets have the best views in Canberra?
In particular, which areas have the best vews out to the West / south of canberra looking out over the Brindabellas?
YouTube, thanks to "spinningreel" has thrown up a gem of a 6 minute doco on the history of the Cotter dam.
So many things I did not know about all the infrastructure out there.
And so re-assuring to see that cockups are nothing new.
This morning on the radio they were talking about Australia's biggest eyesore (which happened to be Surfers Paradise).
It got me thinking about Canberra's biggest eyesore. This morning the favourites were the Belconnen Shopping Mall and the National Art Museum.
So what is Canberra's Biggest eyesore? Could it be the various art pieces popping up around Canberra? [...]
The Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission has announced that they're approving an average electricity price rise of 6.42% next year.
'Effectively, real electricity prices will rise by approximately 2% in 2009-10', Mr Paul Baxter, Senior Commissioner said today. 'The increase in price is due mainly to an increase in distribution costs, although this has been partly [...]


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Apologies for the lack of meatier content this week. I've had four different longer projects in the work plus Joie and I are moving the end of the week. Things will pick up here soon, I hope. Anyway, I saw Dark Knight Rises the other night and will be writing more soon, as well as hopefully participating in a group discussion on it over at Mere Orthodoxy. For now, though, a collection of reviews worth reading:
Douthat discusses the film's politics:
Actually, the Batman movies pretty consistently portray Gotham as corrupt, chaotic, unequal and unjust, not "generous, welcoming, and content." In "The Dark Knight Rises," while the corruption and chaos have been reduced through the mass incarceration of gangland figures, the city's basic inequities seem to have increased, and the movie gives every appearance of endorsing all of the nasty digs that Ann Hathaway's Catwoman character takes at the Gotham elite. What's more, the only time that we learn why a specific Gothamite has joined Bane's underground army, the volunteer is a teenager who's graduated out of an orphanage that lacks the resources to care for kids past the age of 16, and we're specifically told that young men like him are going down into the sewers because there's no work to be found up above — which suggests that something other than "laziness" is creating would-be revolutionaries. (Bane himself has been even more ill-used by the world, if not by Gotham itself.)
All of which is to say that Nolan isn't trying to push a crude, Ayn Rand-esque parable about heroic Gotham capitalists threatened by resentful, parasitic looters. His model, as the movie's literary references make clear, is "A Tale of Two Cities" rather than "Atlas Shrugged," which means that he's trying to simultaneously acknowledge the injustices of the existing regime while suggesting that both the revolutionary and anarchic alternatives would be much, much worse. Across the entire trilogy, what separates Bruce Wayne from his mentors in the League of Shadows isn't a belief in Gotham's goodness; it's a belief that a compromised order can still be worth defending, and that darker things than corruption and inequality will follow from putting that order to the torch. This is a conservative message, but not a triumphalist, chest-thumping, rah-rah-capitalism one: It reflects a "quiet toryism" (to borrow from John Podhoretz's review) rather than a noisy Americanism, and it owes much more to Edmund Burke than to Sean Hannity.
Matt Yglesias highlights the mainstreaming of concerns with inequality that can be seen in the film.
Bruce Wayne, meanwhile, is genuinely a good guy. He's rich, but his eyes are open to valid critique of other rich people. He blames them for throwing charity balls at which too little of the money goes to actual charitable purposes. He's concerned about unscrupulous business practices of others. But he certainly doesn't think that inequality per se is morally problematic, and the charitable work we see him directly involved with is the classic noblesse oblige cause of orphans. Crucially there's not even a question of whether Wayne deserves to be rich because he's a "job creator" or because he "built that"—everybody knows he hasn't done anything to get rich, but the appropriate response is to be a responsible steward of his riches and his family's legacy rather than to level the playing field.
The point here is less to criticism radicalism (about which people have their opinions, come what may) as it is to criticize the new moderate egalitarianism by suggesting that it's more radical than it seems. The question is do you want to overturn the existing social order or do you want to defend it against the forces of chaos? If it's "unfair" that the people in the top position have so much, then it seems like you do want to overturn it. But that's radical. If it turns out you're really just sad that orphans are going hungry, then that's consistent with the status quo. But the solution is basically to persuade wise stewards of the status quo that it's in their interest to feed orphans rather than have needy teens ending up in the sewers recruited by Bane.
Chait focuses on the New York-centric nature of the series.
There is, however, one strain of thought that runs consistently through not only TDKR but the entire trilogy: an almost pathological New York–centrism. All three movies are about powerful criminal gangs that are fanatically devoted the reducing the quality of life in one particular municipality, Gotham, which is obviously New York City.
Two unstated assumptions are at work here: First, there is no point in unleashing this sort of hell on any other city, despite their being softer targets lacking superhero protection. And second, at no point can things get bad enough that the people of this city will actually, you know, leave. They can endure blackouts, nerve gas attacks, sadistic attempts to make them kill each other, and evil clown rampages, and they will simply think to themselves, "This is pretty bad, but what am I going to do, move to Jersey?" In this way, the Dark Knight trilogy is merely the flip side of a Nora Ephron movie.
Podhoretz talks about the "quiet Toryism" of director Christopher Nolan:
This Manichean worldview goes very well with what one might call the quiet Tory perspective of Christopher Nolan. The theme running through the three Batman movies (the first, Batman Begins, was not very good, although Nolan and his co-screenwriter, brother Jonathan, mine it effectively for plot points in the new one) is the battle between order and chaos, with Nolan standing unambiguously on the side of order.
Nolan knows exactly what he's doing when he puts the rhetoric of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the mouth of his villain. The Dark Knight Rises is a Classic Comics version of Edmund Burke. Which makes its incidental role in the latest monstrous spasm of nihilistic violence, as the movie that was playing during James Holmes's evil massacre at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, all the more haunting.
Christopher Orr bemoans the failure of the second half to deliver on the promise of the film's 75 minutes.
The first half of Nolan's film is bold, innovative, and darkly thrilling. The opening sequence, in particular, is a tour de force, an aerial extraction that puts The Dark Knight's shanghaiing in Hong Kong to shame. And while the movie's other big set pieces don't rise to the level of its predecessor, its fight sequences are a considerable upgrade—vivid, visceral, and raw.
The credit is owed primarily to Hardy's Bane, who, while not quite so indelible a villain as Heath Ledger's Joker (how could he be?), is one several times the size. Hardy has been big in past roles—he gained more than 40 pounds of muscle for his breakthrough role in Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson—but here he is almost implausibly immense, a mountain of flesh with a neck as thick as a normal person's waist. With his volcanic physique and a voice that booms metallically from behind a tube-crossed facemask, Hardy commands nearly every scene he is in. …
There was an opportunity here for Nolan to show us that other way, to (again) stretch the boundaries of what is possible in a superhero film. Instead, alas, the latter half of The Dark Knight Rises retreats toward conventionality and, while perfectly fine on its own merits, can't help but disappoint. As was the case with the previous two movies, Nolan bites off a great deal but proceeds to chew somewhat less.
It's a common trap for sequels to be handcuffed by nostalgia and the desire to tie up loose ends. One of the strengths of the previous film, The Dark Knight, was that it broke free, abandoning the airy mysticism of Batman Begins for something bleaker and grittier, positioning itself as a kind of gangland neo-noir. But The Dark Knight Rises instead harkens back to the first film, to Ra's al Ghul and the League of Shadows, to slender, overwrought meditations on the nature of fear and the soul. And while some of the backward references—to Martha Wayne's pearls, for instance—are touching, they ultimately become wearisome. Three flashbacks toBatman Begins are at least one too many.
There are more particular missteps as well. An oddly off-key, Occupy-Wall-Street-inspired political undercurrent suggests that a substantial population of ordinary Gothamites would be so dissatisfied with their civic institutions that they would join Bane—who has by this time done some decidedly terrible things—in a violent insurrection against the city's wealthy elites. (Yes, this is an anti-Bain Bane.) And one character's recovery from a rather crucial impairment defies pretty much everything that I believe is known of human physiology.
Andrew O'Hehir had the most perplexing review of the lot, criticizing the film's politics (which he analyzes in a really simplistic, superficial way) while praising its quality:
Let's back up for a minute and observe that all this stuff — the French Revolution and the Middle Eastern pit-prison and the vision of America's greatest city capitulating to the ugliest kind of anarchy and terror — happens in a Batman movie. There are all kinds of valid reasons not to like "The Dark Knight Rises," which absolutely does not offer the summery, pure-popcorn pleasure of something like Joss Whedon's "The Avengers." It's loud and bombastic and exceptionally long — 164 minutes from opening to closing credits — and brutal in several senses of the word, taking sadistic pleasure in both its scenes of violence and its Camus-meets-Nietzsche existential nihilism. It has no villain with even half the charisma of Heath Ledger's now-legendary Joker, since Tom Hardy's monstrous, 'roided-out Bane remains figuratively and literally a masked figure, behind his Hannibal Lecter-as-Darth Vader faceplate.
As I've suggested, I think it's a trap to read too much into this movie by way of political commentary, but whatever you come away with, it won't be uplifting. The Gotham status quo is a cynical regime based on "useful lies," false heroes and systemic inequality — straight out of the playbook of neocon founding father Leo Strauss — that corrupts even decent men like Gary Oldman's Commissioner Gordon. But the so-called revolution that overthrows it, overseen by the forbidding mercenary Bane (who is himself just the mouthpiece for a sinister hidden agenda, or several at once), is an Orwellian nightmare of atavism, unreason and anarchy.
It's no exaggeration to say that the "Dark Knight" universe is fascistic (and I'm not name-calling or claiming that Nolan has Nazi sympathies). It's simply a fact. Nolan's screenplay (co-written with his brother, Jonathan Nolan, and based on a story developed with David S. Goyer) simply pushes the Batman legend to its logical extreme, as a vision of human history understood as a struggle between superior individual wills, a tale of symbolic heroism and sacrifice set against the hopeless corruption of society. Maybe it's an oversimplification to say that that's the purest form of the ideology that was bequeathed from Richard Wagner to Nietzsche to Adolf Hitler, but not by much. Whether you think Nolan is endorsing or condemning that idea, or straddling the fence with a smirk on his face, is very much up to you. …
Nolan carefully hits all the beats of the superhero action flick in the right order: Batman returns from exile, has an initial victory followed by a crushing defeat and the loss of his powers, and then must rebuild himself and make unexpected alliances in order to save the day. But the whole thing is cranked to 11, or maybe 13, the whole time, so it becomes barely recognizable. I guess this counts as a minor spoiler, but Batman receives a startling beatdown in this movie, one that belongs more to the universe of crime films than superhero fantasy. Bane leaves him alive only because he wants to make Bruce watch Gotham suffer, and needless to say that sadism will prove hubristic. (Even so, Bane is ultimately revealed as a tragic-romantic figure, pursuing mayhem and murder only out of love.) A fair piece of the story proceeds with Batman offstage, and Bruce Wayne literally crippled and helpless.
Arguably the Nolan-Goyer plot is unnecessarily complicated and loaded with MacGuffins, starting with a dynamite hijacking sequence that opens the film and continuing through an exciting stock-exchange hostage-taking sequence and Selina's irrelevant quest for a nugget of software that will erase her identity and allow her to start afresh. After a terrific late plot twist and a bravura, literally explosive conclusion that leaves Gotham — and the mythical version of America it inhabits — permanently scarred in a way Osama bin Laden could only dream about, Nolan dutifully drops us off at the gateway to another sequel, one he has said he won't direct. But he leaves future Batman filmmakers in an impossible position. They'll simply have to try something different, because for grandeur and pretension and evil genius and pure thrills — for delivering exactly what the multiplex audience wants, in tremendous style, and undercutting it at the same time — there's no way to top "The Dark Knight Rises."


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Skip to comments.Warren Stevens, Veteran Character Actor, Dies at 92
Posted on 03/29/2012 12:21:16 AM PDT by EveningStar
Warren Stevens, whose busy seven-decade career as a character actor in Hollywood included a key role in the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, died Tuesday of respiratory failure at his home in Sherman Oaks. He was 92.
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I remember him well. A long and fruitful life. Condolences to his surviving family members.
"This person is dead."
He was in a lot of shows, as per IMDB. Only one Perry Mason, though ( which I do remember ... from Me TV, that is! ) and I guess that picture is from his role as Rojan in Star Trek, memorable for the reduction of the crew members, at his hands, to "crystals" about the size of volleyballs.
Of course his role in Forbidden Planet was the prototype for McCoy, in Star Trek.
Yes! That's where I remember him from. Could the cube he crushed have been from a person in a red uniform perhaps?
RIP Warren Stevens
I don't think so. It was more abstract. Something about encoding all their thoughts and personality, etc.
OK. here it is:
"This is the essence of what they were. The flesh and brain and what you call the personality, distilled down into these compact shapes."
( I can never get over being able to find all this kind of stuff on the internet. )
That was my second guess. ;)
I should have just looked it up, then again if you take away the brain and personality part, it could run as a democrat.
RIP, Doc.
One of my favorite movies in any genre.
Nothing scared me more than that Twilight Zone with Billy Mumy as the kid who could read minds. He turned that one man who got drunk into a little jack-in-the-box clown and the guy's wife freaked out.
Prominently displayed, I hope!
Well, now we know what became of Jimmy Hoffa.
We watched that episode last night. Quite a surprise to see this news this morning!
Same here. I watch enough vintage TV and remember his face well now.
Enjoyed his work. RIP.
Stevens had a role in "The Gun", what I consider to be one of the top five COMBAT! episodes of the five year series.
Do you know this for a fact?
"Doc, oh, Doc."
I take it as obvious. The clincher is the ST episode, SPOCK'S BRAIN, in which McCoy uses the "teacher" to greatly expand his mental capacity, much in the manner of 'Doc" in Forbidden Planet, but without the fatal result.
Two entirely different devices. The Krell device obviated the need for instrumentation. A brain boost was an unexpected side effect, not the intent of the device.
BTW, I hate the ST:TOS "Spock's Brain" episode. It was lame. There were however a few jewels, "Enterprise Incident", "Spectre of the Gun", and possibly "Plato's Stepchildren". But, there were too many stinkers, among the worst: "And the Children Shall Lead", "The Way to Eden" and "Spock's Brain."
RIP, and thanks for your service.
For the trivia experts: the McCoy remote control device was made from "The Cage" episode's communicator.
crushed cube trivia: the actress playing the ensign was at one point married to James Cromwell who played Cochran in First Contact.
teh actress in Spock's Brain had smokin' hot legs.
"Spock's Brain" has an overly simplicist plot--steal the brain, find the brain, restore the brain. The writers tried to inject some "tension" into the story by having Bones lose his brain-boost in the midst of surgery, and having Spock assist in his own brain reconnection. I had trouble suspending my disbelief.
For the trivia experts: the McCoy remote control device was made from "The Cage" episode's communicator.
I must admit I didn't know that. If ever this becomes a Jeopardy answer...
Some of Bone's medical diagnostic instruments were from the Desilu Studio's cafeteria (salt and pepper shakers).
I think the prototype for McCoy was Dr. Adams on Gunsmoke.
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Hicks, Gotch go 1-2 in 60m dash prelims, Tech claims silver in both long jumps
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Gotch leads collegiate ranks
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2014: Opened the year at the UAB Blazer Invite (1/10-11) where he finished 42nd in the 400m with a time of 52.67 ... Finished 16th in the 400m with a time of 51.81 and ran the anchor leg of the 4x400m relay "B" team that placed sixth with a time of 3:22.02 at the Southern Miss Invitational (1/30) ... Ran 52.01 in the 400m to finish 10th at the Jim Mize Invitational (3/22) ... Placed 27th in the 400m with a time of 51.30 at the Skechers Carl Kight Invitational (4/5-6) ... Ran 51.40 in the 400m at the Bobcat Classic (4/26) to place 20th.
High School: Graduated from Captain Shreve High School in 2013 ... Lettered in football and track and field ... Led Captain Shreve to the 4x400 5A State Championship ... Coached by Keith Bilbo, Marrita Hunt, and Lamark Carter.
Personal: Jared Deandre' Shepherd ... Born on January 18, 1995 in Shreveport, La. ... Son of Monica and Collier Mickle ... Has two siblings, Johnathan and Deidre' Shepherd ... Chose Louisiana Tech over Ole Miss and Louisiana-Lafayette.


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TALAVERA DE LA REINA, Spain (AP) — German rider Marcel Kittel won the seventh stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Friday, while Sylvain Chavanel maintained the leader's jersey for the fourth consecutive day.
The Skil Shimano rider edged ahead of the pack for the victory after Tyler Farrar of the United States fell, causing an accident in the peloton just before the finish line.
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A niece of a Vancouver man suspected of organizing a multistate crime ring has been accused of helping him flee to Mexico while he was free on bail.
Arielle R. Engh, 19, of Vancouver appeared Monday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first-degree rendering criminal assistance and methamphetamine possession.
Judge Suzan Clark held her on $20,000 bail and appointed Vancouver attorney Susan Stauffer to defend her. Engh is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges March 7.
Engh drove her uncle, Fred J. Engh, 30, of Vancouver to the United States' border with Mexico in July when he fled from authorities, Clark County sheriff's Detective Chris Luque wrote in a court affidavit. Fred Engh was apprehended in early November and is in Clark County Jail without bail.
He was the ring leader for a network of shoplifters who stole merchandise and then returned it for store credit on a gift card, according to court documents. The shoplifters, often called "boosters," then sold the gift cards to Fred Engh for 40 to 75 percent of their value, and he resold the gift cards online, the court documents say.
The crime ring operated for a period of at least three years in Washington, Oregon and Nevada, officials say.
Phone records showed that Arielle Engh traveled to the United States-Mexico border during the week of July 22, according to the court affidavit. She was traveling for about four days, the affidavit says.
Fred Engh allegedly offered to pay her an undisclosed sum of money to drive him to the United States-Mexico border. There, Fred Engh allegedly used the passport of Bernt L. Worrell, 31, of Vancouver to cross into Mexico. Worrell also is charged with one count of first-degree rendering criminal assistance.
Fred Engh said during a recent court hearing that he fled to Mexico to seek medical treatment, not to escape justice, but he did not disclose his medical condition.
On the way to the border, Arielle Engh's Volvo collided with a vehicle operated by Lien Banh in Sacramento, Calif., according to the court affidavit. Based on a photo comparison, Banh confirmed to sheriff's investigators that Fred Engh was a passenger in Arielle Engh's vehicle at the time of the collision, the affidavit says.
Arielle Engh isn't the first relative of the alleged crime ring leader to be charged in the case.
Fred Engh's sister, Amanda K. Engh, 33, of Vancouver has pleaded not guilty to money laundering and being an accomplice to first-degree trafficking in stolen property.
Fred Engh has been charged with more than 55 felony counts, including leading organized crime, money laundering and theft, related to the alleged crime ring. His trial is scheduled for May 5.
Before his arrest last May, Fred Engh was one of 20 members of the board for the Portland-based Meals on Wheels. The organization serves hot meals to needy seniors in the Portland-Vancouver metro area.


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That information Thursday left unanswered what caused four employees at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and two security workers to report burning and irritation on Wednesday.
Representatives of the FBI, the VA and the Portland Fire Bureau said they hoped an investigation and a second analysis of the envelope would provide answers.
Paul Corah of the fire department said the powdery substance report came from firefighters at the hospital. Hospital spokesman Mike McAleer said emergency room examinations of the six didn't yield information. With soap and water, he said, the symptoms went away. The six were at work Thursday.


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PULLMAN — The defense had done all it could. Now it was up to Washington State's offense.
Trailing 27-20 with 2:03 left Saturday, the Cougars had 80 yards of Martin Stadium turf between them and a tying touchdown.
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Instead, the Cougars tied the game with 28 seconds left and went on to defeat Southern Methodist 30-27 in overtime.
Talk about unexpected. Nothing the Cougars offense had done in the previous 58 minutes indicated it could march down the field and score.
When the drive started, WSU had 193 yards in total offense, 308 less than SMU. But the Cougars were prepared.
"That's a scenario you practice quite a bit," WSU offensive coordinator Todd Sturdy said of the final regulation-time possession.
That was part of the pre-drive message he had for quarterback Marshall Lobbestael, who up to that point was 17 of 42 for 159 yards. But there was more.
"I just reminded him of the situations that will come up during the drive," Sturdy said. "Just relaxing, taking what the defense will give you."
The defense gave the short stuff. Two throws for 14 yards got some momentum going. Then Lobbestael found Johnny Forzani for 21 yards to put the ball in Mustangs territory.
Two incompletions and a short gain left WSU with a fourth-and-seven from SMU's 42 with less than a minute left. The Cougars had no choice but to go for it. Lobbestael tried to hit Jared Karstetter.
Moore made sure Karstetter couldn't catch the ball, but his overzealous defense brought a pass-interference call. First down at the SMU 34.
"I saw pass interference," WSU coach Paul Wulff said. "It definitely was."
With the new life Lobbestael rifled a bullet to Jeffrey Solomon for 15 yards and a first down at the 19. WSU killed the clock with 42 seconds left, then Lobbestael found Daniel Blackledge for 12 yards to the 7.
On second and goal, Karstetter slipped inside Moore, went to his knees and caught the scoring strike with 28 seconds left. Nico Grasu's extra point tied it, and the teams went to overtime.
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Kazakstan Trial Seen as Too Flawed to be Fair
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The legal case against three leading opposition figures in Kazakstan is so full of holes that it recalls the Soviet show trials held under Joseph Stalin, supporters of the defendants say.
Court observers argue that the trial of Vladmir Kozlov, Serik Sapargali and Akjanat Aminov, which began in the western city of Aktau on August 16 and resumed with the start of testimony on August 27 after a five-day break, has been riddled with breaches of basic procedure, prejudicing the defendants' rights.
The rhetoric employed by the prosecution and its witness is heavy on propaganda and light on facts, they say.
Kozlov is head of the opposition party Alga, Sapargali an activist with Khalyk Maidany, an opposition coalition set up to support striking oil workers in western Kazakstan last year, Aminov, a trade union leader who took part in the strike.
The charges relate to an industrial dispute in the oil industry that lasted several months, and events in December, when police opened fire on demonstrators, killing 17 people, most of them in the town of Janaozen.
Kozlov and Aminov face three charges of inciting social strife, calling for the forcible overthrow of the government, and setting up a criminal group, which carry sentences of 12, seven and 12 years, respectively. Sapargali faces only the first two charges.
Kozlov entered a not guilty plea, Sapargali admitted partial responsibility but not guilt, while Aminov pleaded guilty, a move seen by some observers as an attempt to get a more lenient sentence.
Rights activists monitoring the trial list numerous procedural flaws, in particular the failure to give defendants enough time to familiarise themselves with the lengthy indictment and prepare a proper defence.
They note that the prosecution took only one day to sign off on an indictment covering more than 1,000 pages, suggesting that it merely skimmed over case documentation that took several months to compile.
During proceeding, the judge rejected a number of applications from defendants and their lawyers, without offering an explanation. For instance, Kozlov's defence entered a complaint that the indictment he was given to read differed from the document that prosecutors read out in court. The application was rejected.
Leading human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis, says Kozlov was given just one day to read the indictment, when Kazakstan law requires a minimum of three days. He argues that the trial judge acted unlawfully by denying Kozlov's application for a postponement to give him more time to review the charges against him.
Furthermore, Kozlov was denied access to adequate interpretation from Kazak into his native Russian – which is accepted as an official language for court proceedings – placing him at a significant disadvantage. Language was a problem during trial proceedings, as statements by the judge and prosecutors and responses by the defendants were mistranslated, according to defence lawyers and observers.
The case and the way it has been handled has raised concerns in the international community.
The New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch called on the authorities to ensure that the trial met international standards, and raised concerns about the conduct of the investigation and the use of charges that were either unexplained or poorly-defined like "inciting social discord". Its Central Asia researcher, Mihra Rittmann, said that anything short of a "scrupulously fair trial" would heighten fears that "the case against these men is arbitrary and politically motivated".
She also called for the defence to be allowed to challenge evidence and cross-examine witnesses, and for proceedings to be conducted in a language that all defendants can understand.
The top United States diplomat in charge of relations with Central Asia, Robert Blake, said Washington would be closely following the case.
Speaking during a visit to Kazakstan on August 15, Assistant Secretary of State Blake expressed hope that the trial would be fair, impartial and open.
Kozlov's party, Alga, has denounced the trial as a deliberate attempt to destroy political opposition as a force in Kazakstan.
Alga features heavily in the prosecution case, presented as a front for subversive actions by associates of exiled banker and politician Mukhtar Ablyazov designed to bring down the administration of President Nursultan Nazarbaev. Prosecutors claim the defendants tried to turn the oil workers' industrial dispute into an anti-government protest movement.
Observers say the tone adopted by prosecutors is reminiscent of Stalin's show-trials, with the opposition described as "destructive" and a "threat to national security", and forming an "organised criminal group" that conspired with "foreign puppet-masters".
Bulat Abilov, co-chairman of the opposition OSDP Azat party, said that sitting in court while the indictment was being read out reminded him of 1937, the worst year of Stalin's purges.
"Constantly repeating 'criminal group' and 'overthrowing the government' doesn't mean you will be able to make people believe that," he added.
Zhovtis, too, told IWPR that he doubted the official line, which lays the blame for the December 2011 bloodshed on the opposition, would win widespread acceptance.
These proceedings are the last in a cycle of trials that came out of the Janaozen violence.
Thirteen local people accused of inciting the unrest were sentenced on June 4, receiving prison terms of between three and seven years. The other 24 individuals accused in this mass trial were released – some were found not guilty, and the rest were convicted and either released under amnesty or given suspended sentences.
At a separate trial involving residents of Shetpe, a village close to Janaozen where one person died in smaller-scale violence in December, 11 men were convicted in May. Four were sent to prison for between four and seven years, and the rest were released under amnesty or given suspended sentences.
The current proceedings, in which the prosecution is attempting to portray the strike and the ensuing violence as a foreign plot, is expected to conclude by the end of the month, so as not to overshadow Constitution Day on August 30th.
The only trial involving police implicated in the shootings ended in late May with five officers sentenced to between five and seven years for overstepping their authority. Another officer was given five years for detaining people illegally in Janaozen.


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I got my 2011 Specialized Tarmac Elite (SRAM Apex) 4 months ago. It has 52/36 chainrings and an 11-28 ten speed cassette.
I've set up both bikes so they are almost identical (saddle to handlebar, saddle to center of crank, knee over pedal axle, etc.).
When I do my typical 35 mile ride on the Litespeed I come home refreshed.
The Specialized is lighter and has more gears but when I do the same route on the Specialized I come home whipped.
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GoPro Inc. is the latest consumer gadget company to go public with what can only be described as a spectacularly successful share offering. The IPO happened in late June at $24 (U.S.) a share, and within a week, the shares had reached a high of almost $50. As I write this, the shares are now trading at about $36, or 50 per cent higher than the offering price.
I have to admit, I'm actually tempted to buy one of GoPro's rugged digital cameras. The product is very easy to use, shoots high-quality HD video and can be mounted to anything from a surfboard to a bike helmet to self-capture video of your favourite hobbies and sports. I think my kids would love to shoot video while bouncing on their trampoline or swimming underwater.
But am I tempted to buy the stock? That's an entirely different question. It's okay to love a company and its products yet not feel the same about the stock, or vice-versa.
What I like about GoPro's business is how it has single-handedly created a market for action-oriented digital cameras. I've seen articles refer to the company's 94-per-cent market share in the niche, and I believe it. GoPro is the only product in this category that I've ever seen for sale or in use by a customer.
Having started the company in 2004, chief executive and founder Nick Woodman has built a powerful and sustainable brand, I believe. If you want the best digital SLR camera for photography, you buy a Canon or a Nikon. If you want the best self-captured sports video, you buy GoPro.
Growth has been fairly impressive too. Revenue for 2013 was $985-million, up from $234-million in 2011. The company is nicely profitable, but over the past two years it has clearly ramped up R&D and selling expenses faster than revenue has grown. Its gross margin has also fallen from 52 per cent in 2011 to 37 per cent last year. As a result, net margin has fallen from almost 11 per cent to only 6 per cent. Still, a 37-per-cent gross margin is quite healthy, the competition doesn't seem anywhere close to hurting GoPro's brand, and I expect it should be able to recapture some of the lost ground in the coming years.
At its $24 initial public offering price, I calculate the real market capitalization of the company (using the diluted share count) at $3.5-billion. At this price, the stock would be trading hands at 50 times 2013 earnings. For a company that is entirely dependent upon hardware sales and has very little product diversity, it feels like the top end of what I'd be willing to pay. For example, if the company doubled sales and pushed its net margin 50 per cent higher (from 6 per cent back up to 9 per cent), earnings would triple and the $24 share price would translate into a much less risky P/E ratio in the high teens. I'm betting GoPro can accomplish this within a three- to five-year time frame. But to generate a healthy return for shareholders, there needs to be a path to even better growth in the long term. Since the stock has climbed significantly higher than the IPO price, the math is even more challenging.
Right now, GoPro sells hardware that, unlike smartphones, doesn't need to be replaced very often and has a much more niche appeal. The company also states its desire to become more of a media company by streaming user-generated content to the world. If I wanted to invest in a media company that will benefit from this user-generated video content, I'd simply buy Google, which owns YouTube.
GoPro looks like a great company making a great product. But I'm not buying the stock based on its potential to become a media company. Instead, I'm more interested in signs that these tiny cameras are becoming popular en masse, for all sorts of other activities. If I believe that Canon and Nikon will inevitably be forced to compete because this market is growing immensely, that's when to consider buying GoPro.
Until then, this is a good example of loving the product, but not the stock.Report Typo/Error


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At the SpikeTV VGX Awards, Reggie Fils-Aime officially announced that the upcoming WiiU exclusive platforming game Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze will allow you to play as the original Donkey Kong, known to Donkey Kong Country fans as Donkey's curmudgeonly grandfather Cranky Kong.
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