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A recent examiner.com bowling story about Christy Fentress' breakthrough 223 game didn't escape notice of her dad.
Christy racked up her first certified 200 game about a week ago at AMF Woodlake Lanes in Woodland Hills and did it in emphatic style. In just her second full season of league bowling, Christy blasted a "turkey," or three strikes in a row, late in the game to power past 200 in the ninth frame.
Afterwards, Christy said she hoped one day to roll a 600 series.
That comment elicited a touching response from Howard "Buster" Smith, Christy's father and a longtime top-flight league bowler.
"The 600 will come before too long!" Smith messaged Christy. "Like life, bowling is up and down so keep living and keep rolling."
Love, Dad
Smith's vote of confidence underlined another benefit of bowling: It can bring family members closer together.
The 80-year-old Smith, a Thousand Oaks resident like Christy, remains active in league bowling and is still doggedly pursuing a perfect game.
He's averaging 180 and has blasted a 299 that should have been a 300 if he had decent pin action on his final shot.
Smith has mothballed a bottle of wine, which he plans to open once (and not if) he smokes his 300.
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In This Issue:
Feature 1 - State Getting Sued Again
Feature 2 - Secret Ingredients
Feature 3 - Gauging the Election
Feature 1
State Getting Sued Again
For raiding money from the Highway Trust Fund
The number of people suing the state increased by two Thursday, because of the way Gov. Mike Easley tried to balance the state's budget the last fiscal year.
And while the plaintiffs' lawyers are familiar faces in lawsuits against the state, the litigants are new.
Former State Sen. Bill Goldston and former Secretary of Transportation Jim Harrington filed a complaint in Wake County Superior Court, because Easley in February transferred $80 million from the state's Highway Trust Fund to balance the general budget. The lawsuit argues that transferring any money from the dedicated fund violates the state constitution.
"My single goal in this lawsuit," Harrington said, "is to make sure the taxes that have been diverted are returned to the Highway Trust Fund and used for the original intended purposes, as our constitution says it must."
Both men repeatedly referred to Article 5 Sec. 5 of the constitution, which says, "Every act of the General Assembly levying a tax shall state the special object to which it is to be applied, and it shall be applied to no other purpose."
Goldston and Harrington were key leaders who helped establish the Highway Trust Fund in the late 1980s. Goldston, a Rockingham County Democrat, chaired the Senate Transportation Committee and the State Highway Study Commission, which created the plan for expanding and improving intrastate highways, urban loops, city streets, and secondary roads. Harrington, who served under former Republican Gov. Jim Martin, initiated and later consulted for the Highway Study Commission. The commission's work resulted in the 1989 Highway Trust Act.
The two plaintiffs are represented by the Raleigh law firm of Boyce & Isley. The lawyers are also representing 22 counties and cities in another lawsuit against the state, because Easley used tax reimbursement money intended for municipalities to help close the state's budget gap.
The state constitution requires the governor to keep the budget in balance, and in February 2002 Easley transferred revenues from several sources to do so. However lawyer Gene Boyce argues that the constitution authorizes the governor only to "effect the necessary economies in state expenditures," and may not use money from dedicated funds.
In addition to February's transfer, the state budget for this year takes $205 million from the Highway Trust Fund.
"The legislature does not have the authority to appropriate those funds," Harrington said at a press conference. "That's why we went to the trouble to [set it up] the way we did."
Ahead of the Curve
• Though Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue said it was "about making history," the first-ever state legislative session to consider a governor's veto was a real snoozer. About one-fourth of the House and Senate gathered in separate, simultaneous sessions to quickly shuffle Gov. Mike Easley's veto of a bill to a committee next year. The bill made appointments to several state boards. The Winston-Salem Journal reported that the lawmakers who showed up in Raleigh mostly discussed election results, and who the next House speaker might be. "I hope all members of the (Republican) caucus will support whoever a majority of the caucus selects," said House Minority Leader Leo Daughtry, who is a candidate for speaker for the new session starting in January. The GOP caucus was to meet over the weekend.
• After last week's election results were digested, some North Carolina newspapers speculated on the future of two of the state's delegation in Washington, D.C. The Journal analyzed the options of Rep. Richard Burr, R-5th, who has long been considered a solid candidate for governor or U.S. Senate. "This is a decision that I need to make fairly quickly," Burr said. The Charlotte Observer reported that U. S. Sen. John Edwards, who is considering a run for the presidency in 2004, was one of the few Democrats helped last week, because most of the party's other top leaders were "tarred by the Democratic disaster."
Feature 2
Secret Ingredients
Politicians cooking, but school may get a raw deal
In June, when Johnson & Wales University and Charlotte officials announced a new $82 million school for downtown Charlotte they said it was being subsidized by local tax dollars and private funds, but they made no mention of any subsidies from the state.
On Nov. 6, The Charlotte Observer reported that the state was putting in $10 million to help lure Johnson & Wales University to downtown Charlotte. The $10 million commitment from state officials was made in secret. Subsequent Observer stories and CJ's own investigation revealed officials cannot explain where the money would come from.
Johnson & Wales is a private career school whose main campus is in Providence, R.I. The school is best known for culinary training, but it also offers hospitality and business programs.
The school is scheduled to open in September 2004, but several employees are already working in leased office space at the Gateway Center on West Trade Street in downtown Charlotte. Eventually closing their schools in Norfolk, Va. and Charleston, S.C., school officials expect to have 250 employees and 2,800 students in Charlotte by 2007.
In a series of stories the Observer revealed that prior to the June announcement Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight, House Speaker Jim Black, and Gov. Mike Easley all wrote letters indicating their support for the project and their commitment to securing $10 million.
Black's was perhaps the strongest commitment. "You have my personal commitment of support for a $10 million investment over the next five years by the State of North Carolina for this project," said Black in a May 23, 2002 letter to University President Dr. John A. Yena.
In an interview Nov. 8, Black's spokesman, Danny Lineberry, told CJ that Black intended only to try to find the money. When asked where it would come from he said, "Wherever they can find it. It may not come from anywhere. The speaker made a commitment to try to get it."
With Republicans now having a 61-59 advantage in the next legislative session, Black will likely be replaced as speaker and his "personal commitment" may be more difficult to honor.
While the governor does have a discretionary economic development fund called the One North Carolina Fund, it contains about $3 million in uncommitted money.
CJ tried to speak directly with Dr. Yena, but he did not return several phone calls. Judith Johnson, executive director of University Relations, eventually returned a call for him.
When asked whether the $10 million was essential for the move, she said, "Jack Yena has said that we would not come without the $10 million." When asked what assurance the school had, she replied, "We believe in business by a handshake. The legal documents are being worked up." She also said she did not know exactly where the money would come from. "We were not aware of the specifics. We felt the commitment is coming." And what if it doesn't? "That is a separate issue," she said.
As of Friday, Johnson & Wales had still not contacted the N.C. Department of Commerce. Spokesman Tad Boggs told CJ, "There is no ironclad commitment. The company has never come to us and indicated a desire to get anyone North Carolina Fund money."
Capital Quotes
• "I'm certainly going to examine the position I would be in in order to help my constituents."
— Rep. Cary Allred, R-Alamance, discussing with the Shelby Star who he will support for House speaker. Allred, though a Republican, is friendly with Speaker Jim Black, D-Mecklenburg. Two years ago Allred agreed to back Black if the vote were close. Allred was rewarded with the chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee and co-chairmanship of the House Transportation Committee.
• "There is no question that the state is taking on more risk."
—Patrick Conway, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill economics professor, commenting to the Associated Press on recent changes in the portfolio of the N.C. Teachers and Employees Retirement System. The pension fund is paying out $150 million more in benefits per month than it is taking in collections from employees, in part because the state did not make its scheduled contribution this year. To compensate, the fund is seeking a higher return by selling bonds and buying more stocks. International stock holdings, for example, will grow from 7 percent of the funds assets to 14 percent.
• "We had obviously been challenged based on relationships. But the decision to go with (BioVista) is just stellar qualifications."
— Valeria Lee, president of the Golden LEAF Foundation, defending to The Charlotte Observer her organization's decision to invest $30 million in BioVista, a still forming biotech venture capital firm. BioVista is tied to John Crumpler, a major donor and fund-raiser for Gov. Mike Easley, with little apparent experience in the field. As a result of concerns about political favoritism in handing out its funds, Golden LEAF has asked its consultants to complete negotiations with BioVista.
Feature 3
Gauging the Election
Panel analyzes results at Locke luncheon
State and national pundits headlining a John Locke Foundation luncheon Nov. 11 offered various, and sometimes conflicting, analyses of the midterm election after a recount of votes in a key state race apparently shifted the N.C. House to Republican control.
All five members of the luncheon's panel, however, agreed that circumstances aligned in Republicans' favor to do well, surprisingly, almost everywhere.
"Nobody saw anything in terms of a tide or a wave," said David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union in Washington.
He said President Bush took nearly everyone by surprise with his tireless campaigning in the weeks leading up to Election Day. "George W. Bush made this his election," and the president got "his" base out, Keene said.
Panel member Bill Lee of Tel Opinion Research in Washington also said Bush helped seal the election for the GOP because he was a "visible [president] who was all over the country." Lee said the impending threat of war and national economic turmoil drove voters to stability.
"The voters were looking for security, and they saw the chief executive very active," he said.
Lee contrasted the energy and symbolism of Bush, who appeared in North Carolina on behalf of Elizabeth Dole five times, with the disarray of Democrats.
"The Democrats were not able to advance an issue," Lee said. "There was no Democratic leadership nationally."
Lee also attributed GOP successes, based on his polling information, to a 2 percent increase in turnout, or 4.5 million more votes cast nationwide, compared to the last midterm election. He said most of those votes went to Republicans. He also said the generic vote trended toward the GOP throughout most of the pre-election period.
Most poll respondents said the economy was the most important issue affecting their votes.
News & Observer of Raleigh political columnist Rob Christensen agreed that "the election was obviously just right for the Republican Party," but he said the attacks of Sept. 11 and subsequent war talk played a large part in the party's successes. Most of Christensen's election coverage assignments focused on the Dole's race against Democrat Erskine Bowles, which he said helped other Republican candidates in North Carolina.
Christensen said that in Dole, the national Republican Party had recruited "a rock star," who was "one of the most popular women in the country." Saying he had not seen anything like her campaign before, Christensen suggested she may have been a better candidate than was Jesse Helms, whom she will succeed.
Christensen said he observed that many women who were normally reliable Democratic voters turned out at Dole rallies. He also said Bowles in many ways was not the right candidate to oppose Dole because of his perceived changes of position on free trade and tepid support from black constituencies and the state's teachers' union.
Locke Foundation President John Hood said the presence of Dole on the ballot didn't help state GOP candidates much, but redistricting, tax increases, and other local issues likely played a larger role.
On The Cutting Edge
Pre-Columbian Health
• It is well-established that Europeans brought a number of diseases to the New World that indigenous people had no immunity against, such as smallpox, measles, malaria, and yellow fever. The epidemics that resulted decimated some Indian populations.
However, recent research indicated that the general health of Native Americans had apparently been deteriorating for centuries before 1492. That is the conclusion of anthropologists, economists, and paleopathologists who studied the health of people in the Western Hemisphere over the last 7,000 years by analyzing more than 12,500 skeletons from 65 sites in North and South America.
Rating the skeletons for signs of various diseases, they found that the healthiest sites for Native Americans were typically the oldest sites, predating Columbus by more than 1,000 years.
More recent pre-Columbians were malnourished and in poorer health. However, they found that nomadic 19th century Indians of the Great Plains enjoyed excellent health, near the top of the index.
The researchers attributed the widespread decline in health to agriculture and urban living. Urban diets were less varied and diseases spread easily — as happened in the earliest cultures of the Middle East.
Even so, in the simplest hunter-gatherer societies, few people survived past age 50. In the healthiest cultures in the 1,000 years before Columbus, a life span of no more than 35 years might be usual.
Interestingly, other paleopathologists have recently discovered clear traces of tuberculosis in the lungs of 1,000-year-old Peruvian mummies, evidence that native Americans might already have been infected with some of the diseases previously thought to have been brought to the New World by European explorers.
Reported in the New York Times, 10-29-2002.
Education Distribution
• According to the Census Bureau figures released in June, one-fourth of Americans have college degrees — an all-time high. During the 1990s, the number of people with a sheepskin increased by well over one-third, while high school dropouts declined. But the bounty of the educated is not evenly distributed across the country.
States and local communities wishing to improve their tax bases attempt to lure the best and brightest. At the same time, new immigrants with below-average education are locating in gateway regions, where affluence has driven demand for low-skill services — restaurant workers, office cleaners, and the like. This creates the potential for local "barbell economies," with bulges at both ends of the education scale.
In the District of Columbia, nearly four out of 10 residents have college degrees, while one in three are so blessed in Massachusetts — and one in seven in West Virginia.
In Mississippi, Kentucky, and Louisiana, more than one out of four adults did not finish high school, compared to about one in eight in Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Utah.
Latino border metros McAllen, Laredo, Brownsville, and El Paso, however, show large concentrations of dropouts.
The nation as a whole showed a decline in high-school dropouts, but seven Western states plus Texas bucked the trend. The common thread: significant increases in Latino populations.
Several states with dropout gains were also states that had big gains in college graduates. The resulting barbell effect is even more pronounced in Las Vegas, Phoenix, and other metros — a selective-migration pattern long evident in the more mature gateway area of Los Angeles, which is a magnet to low-skilled service workers from Latin America.
Reported in the Milken Institute Review, Third Quarter, 2002.
Employee Absences
• Some employees are rebelling against cuts in official time off by taking unscheduled absences from work, human resources experts report. Such practices are costing companies serious money.
In 2002, the cost per employee for unscheduled absences reached an annual average of $789 — an all-time high and an increase of nearly 30 percent since 2000. Unscheduled absences for personal needs rose 21 percent in 2002.
According to a survey by CCH, a provider of human-resource and employment-law information, employees during the past year were more likely to take unscheduled sick time to meet personal and family needs than for actual illnesses.
Twenty percent of employees acknowledge that they try to take more vacation days than they are entitled to, according to Fodor's Travel Publications.
At the same time, the amount of paid time off is dwindling. The proportion of companies having paid vacation has fallen to 91 percent this year from 95 percent in 1999, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. Companies offering paid personal days — aside from sick and vacation days — have dropped to 46 percent from 57 percent.
Experts theorize that employees resent their employers playing around with their time-off benefits, and are fighting back.
Reported in USA Today, 10-29-2002.
Coming Up
• On Jan. 27, the John Locke Foundation will welcome renowned author and reporter Bill Gertz to speak at a special luncheon. The national security and defense writer has just released his new book, Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11.
Gertz is an internationally recognized newspaper reporter who has specialized in writing major stories on a wide variety of defense, intelligence, and international security issues.
A veteran defense writer who specializes in coming up with inside stories, often based on classified documents, he is widely viewed as one of the best reporters in his field. His sources within government are extensive. Gertz has broken a number of stories with international implications. As former CIA Director R. James Woolsey put it, "When I was DCI [Director of Central Intelligence] Bill used to drive me crazy because I couldn't figure out where the leaks were coming from. Now that I've been outside for two years, I read him religiously to find out what's going on."
For more information or to pre-register, contact Kory Swanson or Thomas Croom at (919) 828-3876 or [email protected].
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Richard Gray's Power Company 400S AC line conditioner
They go on: "Richard Gray's Power Company increases the dynamics and performance of audio systems by providing a short-term supply of high current on demand to satisfy power-hungry transients required of the AC line by your stereo equipment." They cite the 400S's "unique ability to 'fill in' the AC line when demand momentarily overcomes supply," and explain that it "tends to 'even out' small line anomalies. This electronic flywheel 'fill-in effect' enables Richard Gray's Power Company to suppress or quench the back EMF or 'fingerprint' of the equipment connected to it." The 400S also "quenches AC line noise caused by internal crosstalk between digital and analog electrical devices within the circuit," and is said to "greatly improve" home-theater systems.
Audio Line Source lobbied hard for a review. Here it is.
What is it?
Each Richard Gray's Power Company 400S comes in a powder-black rectangular housing with four gray (of course) Hubbell AC sockets on its face and an IEC mains-in fitting on the side. Whether you plug your components straight into a 400S or plug it into your system's power receptacles, the heart of the beast—the inductor—is wired in parallel, "bracketing" the AC. It offers, says RGPC, little or no resistance to the line: "Theoretically it can be placed anywhere within a circuit to provide high current on demand to all equipment within the same AC circuit. The closer your equipment is placed to the unit, the more quickly effective it becomes."
I looked at a few drawings supplied (I believe) as part of the patent application, and the 400S appears to be a large, iron-core inductor or choke. I understand that there's also a metal-oxide varistor (MOV) sitting across the hot and neutral lines to provide protection against voltage spikes.
If you need more than four outlets, RGPC suggests plugging the "overflow equipment," both analog and digital, into a good-quality power extender, "one that does not contain any form of power-line conditioning," and use that into the 400S. Start with the front-end, they counsel, listening as you go, with the power amps last. One is exhorted in no uncertain terms that best use is made with "star clusters" of two or more 400Ses in multiple arrays. "While the system is playing, merely plug a second [400S] into the primary unit for almost instant delivery of twice the power-on-demand." (my italics)
For the audiophile flush with the necessary cash, "additional units may be added, with the only limitation being that of how many spare plugs you have available on the unit." They recommend one on each amp in the system after the front-end is treated, "because each amplifier plugged into the combined system will benefit from a doubling (2 units) or tripling (3 units) of thousands of watts of high current-on-demand." (my italics again) "To our knowledge, [the 400S] is the only device that provides high current on demand without limiting the dynamics of any amplifier, regardless of power rating or design!"
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With apologies to all the poor slobs who bought the Richard Gray 400s. Scull was right - these things are worthless. In fact everybody I have spoken-to who owns these things don't even know how they work or what they do!! Absolute stupidity!
No, they aren't filters - not even close!
Yes - they choke the crap out of amplifiers!
No - they don't make a TV look better. A cheap line filter does that better.
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Canada reported the first ever surplus in its international assets in the fourth quarter, supported by gains in foreign stock markets and a weaker currency.
Statistics Canada reported a net international investment position of $26.7 billion on assets of $2.91 trillion and liabilities of $2.88 trillion. The agency's records date back to 1990.
Foreign assets held by Canadians rose by $240 billion in the fourth quarter on gains in stock prices while Canada's dollar fell 3.1 percent against the U.S. dollar. The weaker currency raised the value of Canada's international assets more than the value of liabilities, Statistics Canada said.
Canadian assets held by foreigners rose by $142 billion in the fourth quarter, according to the report.


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Here is the latest edition of BruinTV's 'Football Friday" video segment.
This week, several of the last season's true freshmen discuss their first experience with the winter workouts designed by head athletic performance coach Mike Linn.
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'The Cove' Concept Heads to Animal Planet
"The Cove," a documentary film that stealthily exposed a secretive dolphin slaughter in the Japanese town of Taiji, recently won an Oscar award. The next iteration of the "Cove" concept will hit television. The Discovery network's Animal Planet will air a reality series starring Ric O'Barry, the former Flipper trainer who led the "Cove" team to Japan. Mr. O'Barry's 38-year-old son, Lincoln, is an executive producer of the coming series, tentatively titled "Dolphin Warriors." It takes the undercover approach to other regions where dolphins are threatened, and will likely debut in early fall, after the TV premiere of "The Cove" on Animal Planet. The series is a reunion of sorts for the O'Barrys, father and son. Lincoln grew up working for his crusading father's Dolphin Project, but then peeled off to start his own career. Lincoln did not work on "The Cove," which was directed by former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos, and Psihoyos is not involved in the Animal Planet series. Speakeasy recently spoke with Lincoln O'Barry.
The Wall Street Journal: "The Cove" was so tightly focused on the dolphin practices in Taiji, Japan. How do you expand on that for a series?
Lincoln O'Barry: This kind of slaughter happens all over the world, so it's about going to these other hot spots. They're not all just like the cove [in Taiji] but we can use a similar approach. Basically the camera has become the environmentalist's best weapon.
What kind of places are you going?
I don't want to say too much. We are working in the South Pacific with an indigenous tribe that kills dolphins and uses the teeth for currency. There are nuances in every place. Not everywhere is the same. Some places are looking for an alternative. I go to scout the place we're shooting and to get their story. We come back with my dad and do the mission and the problem solving. We do some undercover surveillance video, but in some places I'm upfront about where we go.
What stage of development or production are you in?
We're in production on episodes two and three, and right now it's a six-episode deal. Episode one is about Japan. It's somewhat of a mini version of "The Cove" and an update on what has happened since the movie came out.
What has happened?
Broome, Australia, suspended ties with [sister city] Taiji. That helped lead them to stop killing the bottlenose dolphins in Taiji. But since then, Broome rescinded the ban, and bottlenose dolphins are being killed again. Now, in Taiji, there's mandatory testing for citizens for mercury poisoning [which has been exacerbated by the eating of dolphin meat]. I tried to show the whole story, with Japanese people on my crew, to make it more rounded. The goal was to show that's it not the Japanese people doing this, it's just small groups.
The high-tech cameras used to capture the dolphin roundup in the cove added a kind of thriller element to the documentary. Are you going to be able to use those resources, most of which are pretty expensive?
We're using all sorts of high-tech gear, including UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles]. On one episode we're using a camera hidden in a coconut– the coconut cam. Since the movie came out, companies have come out of the woodwork to help. .
"The Cove" director Louie Psihoyos was recently involved in a sting operation on a restaurant accused of serving whale meat. Did that have anything to do with this TV project?
That was something they had been working on for months. We had nothing to do with that. That was incredible. I had never heard of whale meat being served in the U.S. He's now looking for funding for his next documentary, which is about extinction.
How do you respond to the criticism of "The Cove" made in Taiji, that eating habits are part of a long tradition there and emblematic of their culture?
In this country, part of our culture was slavery and not letting women vote. But we're in 2010 and things change. The thing is, it's really not part of the culture in Japan, because you go anywhere else other than Taiji and nobody knows about it. It's hidden in this cove. I don't believe it's something they're proud of.
This crusade long ago took over Ric's life. What was it like to have a father who was consumed by such a mission?
Growing up I didn't realize what a special situation we were in. He was constantly traveling and wasn't around much of the time. He was the godfather of the movement, but for so long it wasn't popular. Not until I was an adult did I realize the sacrifice that had to be made. I had no animosity about that. Starting in the ninth grade, I was running the Dolphin Project, which he started [in 1970] right after Cathy [one of the "Flipper" dolphins] died in his arms and he released another dolphin out of captivity. It was just the two of us basically. I had the first Motorola brick cell phone in the 10th grade. I'd be getting calls from the press in science class.
What brought you into this project?
There was a good 10-year period where I backed off from working with my dad. I started a production company in Miami, where I did commercials and music videos and fashion. When the film came out at Sundance I saw him getting overwhelmed quickly and just jumped in to help him. Working with dolphins has never been a paying gig. For many of those years I worked with the Dolphin Project we would bang it out on our credit cards and worry about how to pay for it later.
Your father has an obsessive nature that seems pretty conducive to the reality-show treatment.
He's been working on these one-liners for so long that he's got them down to a science. There's one that I love. "To teach a child not to step on a caterpillar is just as important to the child as it is to the caterpillar."


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"Miley goes on a wild shopping spree," reads a headline from In Touch about Miley Cyrus.
According to the tab, "Miley dropped more than $500,000 on fractional ownership of a private jet, and hundreds of thousands more on clothes, jewelry and furniture."
In Touch quotes a so-called "friend" of Cyrus, saying her dad "Billy Ray kept Miley on a very short leash when it came to her spending habits, but now that she is an adult and has some control, she's blowing through money pretty fast."
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"I think what excites me is the unknown," she says. "There's no certainty when you launch a cable channel, when you launch an app, that people are going to like it . . . if you truly have something people are going to stick with." Faced with extra airtime but little money to create programming, Sweeney was thrilled to be part of the team that acquired old-timey family favorites like Mister Ed and The Donna Reed Show and packaged the reruns as Nick at Night. "We went through the inventory that was available, then looked at things we had loved as kids," she says. Given the success of that programming, the idea now seems like a no-brainer. But at the time no one felt sure that contemporary audiences would respond to shows from a generation before. The classic TV programs appealed as kitsch to kids and teens while also tapping into boomer nostalgia.
In 1993 media mogul Rupert Murdoch called Sweeney and offered her a promotion and the chance to explore her love of launches, writ large: He wanted her to move to Los Angeles and, as chief executive officer of FX Networks, help him start a cable channel. If Sweeney hesitated before accepting, she had good reason. The family was set up in its first real house—"a sweet Dutch Colonial, the kind you dream about"—in White Plains, New York. Her husband, who had just graduated from law school, had lined up a job at a big New York City firm and was studying for the bar.
"Just when you think you have everything organized, God laughs," she says. "I spent the next couple of days talking to my husband about it . . . and every piece of the refrigerator was covered with pro/con lists." Ultimately, she says, it was her spouse's willingness to move to California and take the bar exam in both states—"a wildly unpleasant experience," she notes—that convinced her the move could work.
"He looked at me and he said, 'You gave me law school. The next adventure is yours.' "
Sweeney's great adventure at Fox saw her launch two cable channels in three years—FX, which featured a mix of sports, news, live TV and reruns, and FXM: Movies from Fox, the industry's first studio-based movie network. FX established an early foothold on the then-new World Wide Web, encouraging viewer interactivity with the channel. Murdoch "taught me not to be afraid of any idea," Sweeney says. In 1996, Sweeney's former boss Laybourne hired her away to Disney/ABC, where she oversaw the launches of Toon Disney (now Disney XD) and SOAPnet and more than quintupled the Disney Channel's subscriber base. She ascended to her present position in 2004.
The family's relocation to the West Coast in the early '90s proved fortunate in ways Sweeney could never have imagined. When her son, Christopher, was two, she began noticing that he had cognitive issues, so she took him to the pediatrician. She returned home with a diagnosis—something called pervasive developmental disorder—and a feeling of helplessness. After the move to Los Angeles, a doctor examined Chris, by then nine, and told Sweeney and her husband that their child was autistic. "It was, in an odd way, a relief: At least we knew there was something we could read about," she says, adding that they found "a brilliant speech therapist who willed him to talk. Then we kept throwing a lot of therapy at him." A seismic change in her son's development came when Miller decided to go part time. "To have Dad on the ground when Chris got home? It was life changing for us," says Sweeney. "It was an enormous sacrifice on my husband's part, but he made it for our family."
While working for Murdoch, Sweeney met Peter Roth, then president of Fox, whose daughter is autistic. They became "friends and support systems for each other," says Roth, who now runs Warner Bros. Every year, he says, Sweeney arranges a VIP trip to Disneyland for his daughter, who is passionate about the amusement park. For that, he says, "I will always be grateful to her."


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One of the most intriguing things about Charlotte is how the Queen City can be known as such a large corporate metropolitan but still have a true neighborhood and community feel. Just a mile south of the skyscrapers of Uptown, you enter large Oak lined streets with historic homes set on sprawling lawns. (That is if you leave Uptown and head to Myers Park.) And this combination of innovation and tradition is one of the attributes that makes Charlotte so special.
One of the most unique things about Charlotte is how self-sufficient each individual neighborhood can be. Many neighborhoods contain their own restaurants and bars, grocery stores and hardware stores all within a couple miles radius. And many Charlotteans need not leave their neighborhood for all their daily necessities. On one hand this can lead to exclusivity but on the other, it creates a true sense of community within your surrounding area which is rare in big cities.
Madison Park (the neighborhood within the square created by Park Rd and South Blvd, Woodlawn and Tyvola) is one of those neighborhoods. Madison Park residents need only to go less than a mile and a half to find themselves in Park Road Shopping center with a grocery store, hardware store, drug store, movie theatre, and multiple retails shops. And then just one block over to Montford Drive for some of the best local restaurants and bars. And the same goes for residents of Ballantyne, South Park, Plaza-Midwood, Cotswold, Myers Park and Dilworth.
As residents of these neighborhoods, we become promoters of "our" individual hot-spots and businesses. We want our neighborhood spots to succeed and feel called to stay loyal to those businesses that choose to share our neighborhood. Some Charlotte neighborhoods offer hustle and bustle of urban living, while others provide a slower, more peaceful setting of the suburbs, and each of us have chosen our particular neighborhood accordingly. We have chosen our neighbors wisely and even in the largest city in the state of North Carolina, we hope to gain the sense of community.
Charlotte's unique mix of big city and small town attributes has contributed to it being voted one of the best places to live by Relocated-America.com and CNNMoney.com. And with 199 neighborhoods spanning from Uptown to Ballantyne, it's clear that many people agree.
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Relay for Life, Menifee- American Cancer Society!
Do you know anyone who has been affected by cancer? Are you a cancer survivor? Is so, please get involved in the Relay for Life, Menifee Au...
Do you know anyone who has been affected by cancer? Are you a cancer survivor? Is so, please get involved in the Relay for Life, Menifee August 26th and 27th. Here is an email I recieved from Ruben Longoria.
Good Morning Menifee,
The American Cancer Society is planning a 24 hour, community & family based event called:
RELAY FOR LIFE OF MENIFEE on August 26th and 27th and we would like to invite you to an: Interested Parties meeting on May 9th at Wheatfield Park.
Walkers and runners will go round the clock in the battle against cancer in honor of friends and loved ones, hoping to raise funds in the local community for the fight against cancer. Dozens of business and community teams are forming, and cancer survivors are needed to participate in the inspirational "Survivor's Lap", during the Opening Ceremony.
We are looking for committee members to plan the event along with the American Cancer Society and we were given your name as somebody involved in their community who might want to be part of this great event. We would also ask you to send this invite to anybody else who you might think would be interested in our work or in forming a team for the event. At this meeting May 9th we will answer any questions about the event and provide a short video on what Relay For Life is and how you can get involved. Thank you for your time,
Ruben Longoria
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By Neal Simons, Liz Gundlach, Rachel LaMotte, and Diane Miller
Question: What's the relationship between your work load and how much you learn?
Brittney Coleman, Junior, Communication: "The more work given in one day, the less I'm able to learn – I'm going to be in a rush and have to take less time to actually learn the material."
Alissa Pietila, Senior, Communication: "If I have so much that I'm overwhelmed, I'm probably not digesting the information in the way that's going to be beneficial to me in the long run. If you have a lot of work, it's better if we get an opportunity to discuss it in class.
Emily Turcotte, Sophomore, PTA: "I prefer homework, because it makes me think more than a lecture. The more work load I have, the more I learn."
Kelsey Monette, Junior, Psychology: "The work outside of class definitely helps, because it gives me time to think about the topic on my own and think through it more than taking whatever the professor says and writing down and forgetting about it. I actually have to learn it."
Jessi Wuori, Freshman, Undecided: "There has to be a balance for homework to be helpful. If there is too much, it causes stress and less learning."


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When asked, "What would you say is a sure sign of summertime? Many might have fond memories of catching fire flies and a parent supplying a temporary jar to be able to observe them flashing.
There are some other types of type of flies, which are not as pleasant but equally unforgettable. Perhaps we have all seen neighbors and family members engaged in a sort of wild shadowboxing episodes.
Instead of punching, they are grabbing at their eyes, the back of their necks, hitting at their ears and even rubbing their noses. It is definitely not an accident, when those tiny gnats begin to swarm into people's faces and end up in their eyes.
Gnats are non-biting pests, no bigger than a few grains of salt, are attracted to fluids secreted by your eyes—in fact, they are also known as "eye gnats" or "eye flies." There are hundreds of different gnat species worldwide
The Smithsonian scientist will pointed out, when viewed under a microscope; they are "true" flies, because they have two wings instead of four wings. Male gnats will amass in large mating swarms rarely seen, particularly during dusk right before the darkness is complete.
Interestingly, "there are scant records of chloropidae from ancient amber deposits, mostly from the Eocene and Oligocene periods; although, some material may suggest the family dates back to the Cretaceous or earlier," according to information about the origin of gnats is posted on Wikipedia.
One of the more common ones in the U.S., especially in the southeastern states where there is loose sandy soil for the gnats to lay their eggs in. In addition, while a gnat's life cycle can be as short as 11 days that does not guarantee relief from these persistent pests— they can have multiple generations in one season.
Liohippelates pusio are well known in the United States are called eye gnats of eye flies for their habit of feeding on the fluid in the eyes. Thaumatomyia notata, the 'Yellow Swarming Fly', is a well-known species of 'frit flies' or 'grass flies' belonging to the family Chloropidae, to actually learn more about gnats visit the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
As they have done since pre-historic times they not only invade neighborhoods, buildings and parks they will continue to belong long after humankind is gone, because they were around before there is a record of humankind.


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We didn't think there could be anything more hipster-tacular and twee than a pillow featuring an illustration of a fixed gear bicycle. But Thomas Paul just had to take it to the nth degree and put a bird on it.
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2012-13: Played in 22 games with one start for the Pirates after missing the first 10 due to an injury...Finished the year with 213 points (9.7 per game), 79 rebounds (3.6 per game), 24 steals, 18 assists and nine blocks...Poured in a career-high 20 points at Houston (2/7/13)...Posted a career-best 12 boards versus Southern Miss (2/17/13) and 19 points for a double-double...Tallied a season-best six steals against UCF (2/3/13)...Notched 10 double-figure scoring games...Made her season debut versus No. 17 North Carolina (12/19/12) at the Beach Ball Classic with 13 minutes of action versus the Tar Heels in which she recorded seven points and one steal...Recorded 14 points helping lift ECU over Elon (12/29/12)...Recorded three rebounds and shot 44.4-percent from beyond the arc against the Phoenix...Notched a season-high 15 points to go along with one rebound, one assist, one block and one steal in the Pirates' win over George Mason (1/2/13)...Tallied four points, three steals, and one rebound against Rice (1/10/13) in the Pirates' conference opener...Recorded eight points and a season-high five boards at UTEP (1/13/13)...Registered eight points, two rebounds, a pair of assists, one block and one steal at Memphis (1/17/13)...Led the team in scoring with 14 points and added five boards, with one assist while shooting 50-percent from the floor against Tulsa (1/20/13)...Notched seven points, two rebounds, one assists and a steal at Tulane (1/27/13)...Posted 11 points, a season-high six steals, three rebounds and two assists while shooting 40-percent from the field against UCF (2/3/13)...Led ECU with a career-high 20 points and five boards at Houston (2/7/13)...Led the Pirates with three blocks, while adding five rebounds and three assists versus SMU (2/14/13)...Led ECU in scoring with 19 points and notched a career-high 12 rebounds, while adding two assists, one steal and one block versus Southern Miss (2/17/13)...Connected on a career-best 6-of-6 free throws against the Golden Eagles...Tallied eight points, three rebounds and one block at Marshall (2/21/13)...Recorded nine points and two rebounds against UAB (2/28/13)...Registered 15 points, seven rebounds, two steals and one block versus Memphis (3/3/13)...Registered 17 points, nine rebounds, three assists and three steals against Southern Miss (3/14/13)...Posted 11 points, six boards, one assist and one steal at Western Kentucky (3/21/13)...Was named Conference USA Sixth Player of the Year...Earned the ECU First Award...Named to the ECU Athletics Director's Honor Roll...Named to the Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll.
2011-12: Made 27 starts in 31 games played...Ranked first on the squad in three-point field goals made (41), second in steals (56), blocked shots (28) and three-point field goal percentage (.320) and third in scoring average (8.7 p/g)...Will enter the 2012-13 campaign on a 10-game starting streak...Placed eighth in three-point field goals made (1.3/g), 11th in blocked shots and 15th in steals among Conference USA players...Scored in double figures 12 times...Produced her first double-double in a Pirate uniform against Monmouth (11/30), scoring 16 points and corralling 11 rebounds to go along with five steals, four blocks and two assists...Has drained at least one three-point field goal in 17 of her last 18 games...Knocked down at least three triples in six contests...Netted a team-best 17 points as well as three assists and two steals versus VCU (12/7)...Scored 15 points to go along with nine rebounds, five steals and two blocks against Tulane (2/2)...Tallied career highs in steals (8) and assists (5) at Marshall (2/26) and paced the squad with seven rebounds in the overtime victory.
2010-11: Led Frederick College and was sixth in the nation in scoring at 21.8 points per game, earning her National Junior College Athletic Association Division II Second-Team All-America honors...Paced Frederick to a 25-6 overall record and 10-3 ledger in the Maryland Junior College Conference (MJCC) as the Cougars reached the championship game of the Region XX Tournament...FCC also began the season with a 14-game winning streak...The First-Team All-MJCC honoree, in addition to her scoring output, averaged 9.8 rebounds and 3.7 steals per game while turning in a 51-percent shooting mark from the field and 80-percent showing at the free throw line...Ended the season ranked second in the league in scoring and free throw percentage, third in blocks, fourth in steals and ninth in rebounding...Also earned recognition just weeks into her collegiate career as she was named the MJCC Athlete-of-the-Month for November...Originally signed with Colonial Athletic Association perennial powerhouse James Madison University before transferring to Frederick.
Robert E. Lee High School: Earned all-state honorable mention honors and was named to the VirginiaPreps.com All-State Second Team as a senior, averaging 19.9 points and 14.0 rebounds while passing the 1,000 career point mark...Was voted the most valuable player at the 2008 Northern Region Tournament as she helped lead Lee to the championship...Is a two-time all-region first-team honoree and a three-time All-Patriot District First-Team selection and also garnered Washington Post All-Metro honorable mention as well as VirginiaPreps.com All-State Second-Team accolades in 2008...Was named Lee's offensive MVP after the 2008 season and earned team MVP honors in 2006 and 2008 before receiving the nod as team captain for the 2009 campaign...Also received valuable experience in the AAU ranks as her Fairfax Stars team was the 2004 U12 national champion...In the U13 ranks, Fairfax finished 13th nationally in 2005 and 16th in the U14 category in 2006...In addition to their national success, the Stars won the Potomac Valley Region championship in 2004-05 and were the runner-up in 2006...Additionally, Mial put in time with the James Lee Razorbacks AAU squad, helping it to a Potomac Valley Region runner-up showing in 2007...Proved to be a solid student as she was a consistent member of the honor roll at Robert E. Lee and a 2009 National Honor Roll inductee.
Personal: Born Kristine Mial on March 20, 1991 in Prince George's, Md...Daughter of Deborah Koester...Majoring in sports studies with a minor in psychology.


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Robert "Buddy" Harkness is a wheelchair bound man who was paralyzed by the effects of cerebral palsy. He has been reliant on healthcare professionals to care for all his needs. Harkness has to trust them with everything from feeding and bathing to helping him get dressed. Due to his disability Harkness was vulnerable and tragically one of those caregivers took advantage of that.
Tammy Labrecque was one of Harkness's nurses for the last 15 years but something had gone wrong. Harkness told his conservator that he was being abused at the hands of Labrecque. They set up a nanny-cam of sorts to catch the nurse in the act.
On the very first day the camera was in use, Labrecque could be seen on tape screaming, cursing, and threatening him. She slapped his arms and legs, forced his arms over his head, and threatened to break his fingers.
Labrecque was subsequently arrested and charged in Waterbury court with felony cruelty to a person. She was found guilty and was just sentenced to 5 years in prison. A friend of Harkness read a statement to the court after the sentencing in which he called it one of the happiest days of his life. Labrecque told the court that she was under mental and physical stress at the time and had no memory of the incident. Not surprisingly Labrecque's license was revoked shortly after her arrest.
It is important to remember that unfortunately Labrecque's behavior is not an isolated behavior. The fact that this woman's behavior was repeated frequently makes it especially abhorrent. But abuse by a caregiver can happen to anyone at any time. Working with people with disabilities can be a stressful profession. Most people do not go into that line of work with a plan to hurt others. They are well meaning individuals who want to help. The frustration and stress of working conditions, low pay, and difficult work can build up until a worker snaps.
Statistics show that abuse happens most frequently when a good person makes a bad decision when he or she is overwhelmed. That is why it's imperative to be aware of the signs of stress and act before something serious happens. This articlehas more details about how to identify and avoid stress related abuse.
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Oct. 23, 2012
LOS ANGELES - The UCLA football team welcomed a special guest to practice on Monday, as young Cade Spinello was on hand at Spaulding Field to the delight of team staff and players.
Cade, who is currently battling cancer at Children's Hospital of Orange County, took part in several team drills, even scoring a touchdown with the entire team cheering him on.
Cade is associated with the Jessie Rees Foundation.
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Let $f(X)\in\mathbb{Q}[X]$ be a square-free polynomial, that is, not divisible by any prime of $\mathbb{Q}[X]$. Let $K:=\mathbb{Q}(X)[Y]$, where $Y$ is a square root of $f(X)$, or equivalently $Y$ solves the monic polynomial equation given by $T^2-f(X)=0$. I want to compute $O_{K}$, the integral closure of $\mathbb{Q}[X]$ in $K$.
There is a trivial case: $Y\in\mathbb{Q}(X)$. In this case, $K=\mathbb{Q}(X)$ hence the integral closure of $\mathbb{Q}[X]$ in $K$ coincides with the integral closure of $\mathbb{Q}[X]$ in its field of fractions, which is $\mathbb{Q}[X]$ itself, since $\mathbb{Q}[X]$ is a UFD and UFD'S are integrally closed domains.
So we assume $Y\notin\mathbb{Q}(X)$. In this case, the set $\{1,Y\}$ provides a basis for $K$ (as a $\mathbb{Q}(X)$-vector space): every element $\xi\in K$ can be written in a unique way as
$$\xi=x+yY, \ \textrm{with} \ \ x,y\in\mathbb{Q}(X)$$
An easy computation provides the minimal polynomial of $\xi$ over $\mathbb{Q}(X)$, which is
If we assume $\xi$ integral over $\mathbb{Q}[X]$, then it is well known that $m_{\xi}$ has coefficients in $\mathbb{Q}[X]$
$$2x\in\mathbb{Q}[X], x^2-y^2f\in\mathbb{Q}[X]$$
Now, $2x\in\mathbb{Q}[X]$ clearly implies $x\in\mathbb{Q}[X]$ and $x\in\mathbb{Q}[X]$ implies $y^2f\in\mathbb{Q}[X]$.
Now suppose that some prime $p(X)$ of $\mathbb{Q}[X]$ divides the denominator of $y$. We get $p^2|f$, which contradicts the square-free hypothesis. Thus $y\in\mathbb{Q}[X]$ and $\xi\in\mathbb{Q}[X]+\mathbb{Q}[X]Y$, so that $O_k=\mathbb{Q}[X][Y]$ in this particular quadratic extension of $\mathbb{Q}(X)$.
My question is: can be stated something more than this? I mean, this setting reminds me a similar situation, where we have $\mathbb{Z}$ in place of $\mathbb{Q}[X]$, $\mathbb{Q}$ in place of $\mathbb{Q}(X)$ and $\mathbb{Q}[\sqrt{d}]$ in place if $K$, with $d$ an integer, $d\neq 0,1$, $d$ squarefree. In this case we have $O_K=\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{d}]$ if $d\equiv 2,3 (mod \ 4)$, $O_K=\mathbb{Z}[\frac{1+\sqrt{d}}{2}]$ if $d\equiv 1 (mod \ 4)$.
So i'm asking if there is an analogy among the present case and the other one, or not.


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Michigan is home to a diverse community of writers whose work inspires, enlightens, and engages. On Saturday, September 28, the University of Michigan's English Department Writing Program and its Helen Zell Writers' Program will celebrate Michigan's great writers and the state's enduring literary traditions at the 2nd annual State of the Book Symposium & Bookfair, co-hosting a day-long series of public events in Rackham Auditorium that showcase the state's leading literary stars, as well as the next generation of Michigan writers:
A reading and presentation by elementary school writers affiliated with 826michigan, in conjunction with the release of their annual OMNIBUS anthology;
- A performance poetry event starring teen participants from the Neutral Zone and InsideOut Literary Arts Project;
- Panels on women writing memoir, writers from the Upper Peninsula, and writers who use the supernatural to elucidate Michigan's past and to imagine its future;
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The day's events will conclude with a keynote conversation featuring an award-winning fiction writer or poet—last year's conversation was between Charles Baxter, an award-winning fiction writer and novelist, and Philip Levine, a former Poet Laureate of the United States and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.


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Radon is an invisible, odorless, radioactive gas that naturally occurs underground. The National Academy of Sciences reports that it is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States, behind smoking.
Officials say that homes with high levels of radon can easily be fixed for about the same cost as other common home repairs. For more information on the gas, call your local health department. To get a free radon test kit, call the State Radon Program at (502)-564-4856.
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You can't see, smell or taste radon. But it may be a problem in your home. Radon is estimated to cause many thousands of deaths each year. That's because when you breathe air containing radon, you can get lung cancer. In fact, the Surgeon General has warned that radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. Only smoking causes more lung cancer deaths. If you smoke and your home has high radon levels, your risk of lung cancer is especially high.
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Radon comes from the natural breakdown of uranium in soil, rock and water and gets into the air you breathe. Radon can be found all over the U.S. It can get into any type of building -- homes, offices, and schools - and build up to high levels. But you are most likely to get your greatest exposure at home. That's where you spend most of your time.
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Magellan T. Bear, manufactured by the North American Bear Company, became the first official teddy bear in space, flying as the "education specialist" aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-63 mission in February 1995. The bear's journey was part of an ambitious educational project to stimulate interest in geography, science, and social studies. Students and faculty of Elk Creek Elementary School in Pine, Colorado, worked with NASA and Spacehab to have the teddy bear certified for spaceflight. The school also arranged for the bear to fly around the world, visit the South Pole, fly on United Airlines' first Boeing 777 flight, and attend U.S. Space Camp.
Presented to the National Air and Space Museum in May 1998 by librarian Penny Wiedeke and principal Jerry Williams, Magellan T. Bear is on display in the "How Things Fly" gallery.
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- North American Bear Company
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- Moving Beyond Earth
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- overall: 100% polyester blue plush fabric with polyester stuffing
- eyes and nose: black plastic buttons
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- 3-D: 40.6 x 21.6 x 57.2cm (16 x 8 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)