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I'm an avid reader of sports biographies and histories, so I was very pleased to get my hands on a copy of Lynn Davies' new book, "Hard Men of Welsh Rugby. "
As book titles go, it's pretty Ronseal, with a great photo of one of the hardest ever to grace the Wales shirt, Graham Price. It's a rattling good read. I was still in short trousers when many of the subjects of this book were practising their art on the rugby field, but the names will be familiar to all serious followers of Welsh rugby.
This a reference manual relating to giants of the past century or so. It describes the careers of twenty illustrious Welshmen, including all three of the famous Pontypool front row of the 70s.
Whilst it lacks the more exhaustive detail of say, Peter Jackson's "Lions of Wales," this would be the perfect concise introduction to the history of Welsh rugby in the second half of the twentieth century for any young rugby fan.
There are some great anecdotes, notably concerning colourful types like Bobby Windsor and Geoff Wheel, along with a sprinkling of remarkable stats relating to the achievements of these heroes. It's particularly pleasing to see John Bevan made it into the top 20 list of rugby hard men, but J J Williams, who I've always maintained was an inferior player in all regards, is absent.
What's clear from the book is that it is the communities and professions which shaped these players and forged their hardness. Steel and coal loom large in the backgrounds of many of them. However there's also room for a tough pair of doctors, JPR and Dr Jack, and the Electricity Board's finest, Delme and Grav.
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Northport City Council agenda: 12/10
Published: Monday, December 10, 2012 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 9:59 p.m.
The Northport City Council will consider the following items during their council meeting at 6 p.m. tonight at the Northport City Hall:
Second reading and Public Hearing, ordinance ordering demolition of unsafe structure at 2107 10th St.
First reading, ordinance amending code regarding fireworks — Mr. Harper
Resolution awarding bid file 12-12, landfill services
Resolution awarding bid file 12-14, stone & rip rap
Resolution awarding bid file 12-15, drainage pipe
Resolution awarding bid file 12-16, concrete
Resolution awarding bid file 12-17, chemicals, WTP & WWTP
Resolution awarding bid file 12-18, water/wastewater supplies & materials
Resolution awarding bid file 12-19, fuel
Resolution declaring certain equipment & items as surplus & authorizing their disposal
Resolution re-appointing a member to the IDA
Resolution appointing members to the ZBA
Resolution authorizing the city administrator to enter into an agreement with Spillman
Resolution amended use of funds — Mr. Collins.
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Henderson, Transylvania county schools closed Wednesday
Published: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 6:10 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 6:10 a.m.
Henderson County schools are closed today due to snow-covered roads in some areas of the county, school officials said at 6 a.m. It is an optional teacher work day.
Transylvania County schools also are closed with an optional teacher work day.
Mountain Community School and Brevard Academy are operating on a two-hour delay.
Immaculata Catholic School is closed today. Buncombe County and Asheville City schools also closed for the day.
Today's forecast calls for a chance of snow showers mainly before 3 p.m. with a high of 41 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Today will also be windy, with northwest winds of 21 to 25 mph and gusts as high as 46 mph. The NWS issued a wind advisory until midnight for the western Carolinas and Georgia, warning that downed trees and power lines are possible.
Warmer temperatures are expected for the rest of this week, with a high near 49 expected Thursday. Temperatures could reach 55 degrees Friday, 58 on Saturday and 60 on Sunday, the NWS says.
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So I am confused. I have a good enough PC, 2500K @ 4.5GHZ, 8GB RAM, properly configured to use 1536MB of memory VIA Java. Alot of my files run flawlessly.
But some MKV's, "stop" sometimes, and I use the PS3 info to watch when, it's not always the same place, so I don't think it's the video file. I've had a video go for 40+ minutes and nothing, while others do it 2 minutes in.
My speed is reported as 512Mb/s (Sometimes it boots up and detects 1Gb/s though)
I have it on the second setting, I used to use Lossless, but sometimes I had issues.
Not sure what to do, I let them buffer, to 400MB, and these files are only 250MB...I know conversion makes it bigger, but still. Just frustrating. It pauses, I notice the Audio disappears first, not the video bit-rate. Not sure what audio settings I should tick. I have a Denon 1312 Receiver, it supports DTS, AC3, and all that stuff, so I ticked it, but I've tried it with it off as well and no luck.


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Yvette Cason had been thinking about the icons, the jazz singers you'd see Sunday nights on Ed Sullivan, or through the blue haze of dimly lit jazz clubs, small, smoky and vibrantly electric rooms where legends performed only an arm's length away.
But play one onstage? The notion seemed like kind of a dreamy paradise to Cason, until she won the role of Ella Fitzgerald in "Ella, the Musical," which returns to the Lesher Center in Walnut Creek on June 25. The show had a strong run there last fall, when it opened Center Repertory Company's season.
Cason, who lives in Southern California with her husband and just-graduated-from-eighth-grade son, got a taste of the jazz rooms when she was a student at Boston's Berklee College of Music. A couple of her professors were performers and invited her to sing with them, and the experiences wound up helping seal the deal on "Ella" for Cason, who has also appeared in "Dreamgirls" on Broadway.
"I think I got the role for a couple of reasons," she says. "Michael (Butler, Center Rep's artistic director) said he wouldn't want to do the show without me, and because I could scat." She takes particular pride in her scat singing, a technique in which a singer solos with a string of bending, stretching nonverbal sounds, essentially turning her voice into a musical instrument. It was a technique that Fitzgerald made legendary.
Cason has become a big fan of the jazz singers of the mid-20th century, playing their music and viewing film clips as she researched Fitzgerald and her contemporaries, such Sarah Vaughan. And the research involved more than music.
While most people will be drawn to "Ella, the Musical" by the music (and, certainly, Cason loves performing it), they also get a lesson on the character being portrayed onstage.
"I learned a lot about Ella while I was doing my research," she said. "I didn't know she had such an awful childhood and what horrible times she had while growing up."
Cason insists her performance -- the show entails storytelling as well as singing with a backing band -- should in no way be considered an imitation of Fitzgerald but rather a tribute that attempts to catch the spirit and style of the performer. And, based on her performance last fall in Walnut Creek, she does that quite well, even at times actually seeming to be the identical image of Fitzgerald.
"It's the biggest compliment when someone said they felt like they saw Ella in my show; I want them to have the feeling of experiencing Ella," Cason said. "But if you look and listen to her closely, you realize nobody could be Ella. There are movements and things she does with her voice nobody could duplicate."
But she comes pretty doggone close. And she is aided in no small fashion by the band of jazz players who accompany her during the show.
"That's why it's so important to have real jazz performers, players who have been in the clubs and concerts and know how it is," she said. "This isn't to take anything away from people who play for musicals. It's just that jazz players have an instinct for this."
"Ella" plays June 25-July 6 at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts. Tickets, at $40-$65, may be reserved at 925-943-7469 or www.centerrep.org.
"MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT": The wacky British musical comedy created by Eric Idle, John Du Prez and Neil Innes, opens Friday at Contra Costa Civic Theatre, under the direction of Michael Ross.
Winner of the Tony Award for best musical in 2005, the show is drawn from the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," which was the British comedy troupe's retelling of the King Arthur legend. The stage adaptation adds glitzy song-and-dance numbers and a bevy of beautiful showgirls to an already rich comic milieu involving knights who say and do silly things, as well as cows, killer rabbits and French people. The result is a wildly silly musical that offers a huge amount of fun.
The show plays through July 13 at CCCT in El Cerrito. Tickets, at $16.50-$28.50, may be reserved at 510-524-9132 or www.ccct.org.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE (WABC) -- A cat named Fuzzy has tested the limits of his nine lives, and now, he is reunited with the owner who lost him four years ago. "It's definitely fate," Michelle Wright said. "It's nothing short of a miracle."
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UA-affiliated company gets $23,500 to wirelessly charge mobile device
Company wins grant in Launchpad competition
Published: Friday, September 27, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, September 27, 2013 at 7:31 p.m.
A startup company with University of Alabama affiliations that is working on technology to wirelessly charge mobile devices received $23,500 during the latest round of the 2013 Alabama Launchpad Start-Up Competition to continue development of its product.
E-Electricity was one of four companies to win grants in the Alabama Launchpad competition, which coincided with the third annual Alabama Launchpad Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham. The companies were judged by a five-judge panel composed of entrepreneurs, investors and corporate stakeholders.
The awards, presented Friday by Gov. Robert Bentley, are based on the startups' financial needs and the marketability of the venture, Angela Wier, a vice president with EDPA, said in a statement released by the group that organizes the annual competition.
"We have a long way to go, but we are very excited," said e-Electricity team leader Sloan McCrary, a UA master of business administration student.
The e-Electricity team for the Launchpad competition included UA associate engineering professor Jaber Abu-Qahouq — whose research the product is based upon — Whitney Hough with UA's Office for Technology Transfer and UA senior marketing major Will Sanders.
McCrary, the CEO of the startup, said the next stage is construction of a prototype to continue work to refine the technology and make it more efficient while also finding more funding.
The technology has been proven on a larger scale, he said. The challenge is to miniaturize the design so it can travel anywhere.
The technology converts radio frequency waves to DC power, allowing a device to use the power for operation or to charge its batteries, McCrary said.
For cellphones, the initial design is envisioned as an external attachment — possibly integrated into a case — that would allow the devices to charge.
McCrary said he believes once the demand is proven the charging technology could be licensed and integrated into the hardware of portable devices.
"We have our goal set; we feel we can have the ability to charge wherever you are," he said.
The other winners included companies developing everything from teas to construction materials.
Alabama Chai, a Birmingham company developing micro-brewed organic tea beverages, received $30,000. Blox LLC, a Birmingham-based company developing prefabricated building components, was awarded $50,000. Heartlife Technology LLC, an Auburn company developing inexpensive, reliable portable defibrillation technology, received $25,000.
The companies competed through four phases of the competition in an effort to prove the commercial relevance and win grants to pursue proof-of-concept work. The teams were competing for a share of as much as $100,000 in prize money to advance their ventures.
Twenty-seven start-ups applied for the competition and a five-judge panel chose the 10 after reviewing submitted applications. The field was narrowed to five companies in July.
Alabama Launchpad, organized by the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama Foundation, is in its seventh year. Its goal is to help innovative ventures that have the potential to create and keep jobs in Alabama grow into businesses in the state.
Registration for a third round of the competition will begin Oct. 21, according to Greg Sheek, Launchpad Programs director.
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Our objective is to give athletes instruction from the top college coaches in the area. We also would like to give the college coaches the abilityto see and evaluate the top high school athletes in the area.
The Camp will be held at Firestone Stadium, Home of the Akron Racers, and we currently have 9 Colleges Confirmed for attendance.
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For reasons we can't fathom, Bic has a line of "for her" pens — "Designed to fit comfortably in a womans hand" and with an "Attractive barrel design available in pink and purple." For reasons we can totally understand, Amazon reviewers find these pens very funny.
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I had an interesting discussion with some of my gaming buddies in light of the recent PS Vita portable game system release. After talking about the amazing capabilities of the Playstation's newest handheld, the talk turned to Nintendo — specifically the 3DS. We had quite a debate, with me defending Nintendo and my friends dissing the company and the 3DS.
"Nintendo is doomed," stated one friend.
"The 3DS has no games," said another.
Seriously, have they been looking at recent sales figures, especially in Japan where the 3DS is kicking butt? The 3DS is now considered the fastest selling handheld in its first year, even surpassing the sales figure of the mighty Nintendo DS. True, the PS Vita is on fire right now, but Sony's success doesn't spell Nintendo's doom. Haters have been saying Nintendo is toast for more than a decade, and what do you see now? The company is still alive and kicking, and in fact they have dominated both the handheld and the console race (even if some self-proclaimed "hardcore gamers" like my buddies do not approve of the 3DS or the Wii, just because the majority of Nintendo games are not targeted to their tastes).
During my debate, I argued that Nintendo is staying true to itself by catering to a wider, casual gamer audience that my friends simply dismiss. We went back and forth, and I really couldn't understand their reasoning. Why be a hater just because someone isn't as hardcore as you? Why not accept the fact that not everybody enjoys first person shooters or complex RPG games? There's room for all sorts of games and gamers, and one gaming style isn't necessarily better than the other. The PS Vita rocks, and FPS games like MW3 rock, but this doesn't mean that Nintendo or the 3DS suck. Far from it — Nintendo and its game systems offer something special to a unique fan base. I for one consider myself a "hardcore" gamer and I'm looking forward to new releases likes Max Payne 3, but that doesn't mean that I don't enjoy playing casual games like Mario Kart 7 or Pilot Wings Resort. As far as I'm concerned, I have the best of both worlds.
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Support the blues of the Italian national team with this official Italia Home Jersey from PUMA! This jersey uses USP moisture management technology and has the Italian national team badge heat-transferred over the left chest and the PUMA cat logo applied over the right. The PUMA cat logo is also applied to both sleeves.
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jaqb wrote:Totz just look here http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver ... ail?id=282 If u can add this code to the source and compile it, it will add Gametrailers rrs support...works even in HD videos...
Thanks jaqb
This is going to sound stupid, but how do I download the source code to modify it? I have no experience of coding.
Thanks again for your help!


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As transparent as a black hole
The Obama administration has been as transparent as a black hole regarding the attack on our personnel in Libya.
It has obfuscated since day one. There was real-time coverage of the event. Hundreds of national security people received real-time emails. American drones overhead covered the event live.
The Libyan government said an al-Qaida affiliate was responsible, while the administration clung to the offensive video scenario. The administration couldn't concede the truth because since the moment it took office it has denied there's a war on terror or that terrorists are at war with us.
It is an article of faith with the administration that the killing of Osama bin Laden ended all aspects of al-Qaida and anything opposing that view had to be denied.
On Sept. 25, in a speech to the United Nations, President Obama said six times that the attacks across the Islamic world resulted from the video.
Everyone needs to acknowledge Fort Hood wasn't "workplace violence" and al-Qaida wasn't dismantled by the death of bin Laden. If we don't, we will get another 9/11-style wake-up call.
Gregg Manning
Administration clearly covered up attack
Even the question of what started the attack in Libya is a distraction as part of the cover-up.
Sending Ambassador Chris Stevens to Benghazi without proper protection and denying assistance during the attack means President Barack Obama, and possibly others, are guilty of four homicides.
Criminal negligence in the first case, and outright murder in the other three.
If President George W. Bush had done something similar, he would have been forced to resign within two weeks.
The news and further revelations should have had front-page coverage nearly every day from Sept. 11 through Nov. 5.
Bob Rickman
Administration has shown wisdom
Yes, the administration has been appropriately transparent.
Despite hysterical cries from Sen. John McCain claiming it's "worse than Watergate," there's no comparison. Watergate was a planned breach of the law to benefit President Richard Nixon's re-election. The attack on Benghazi was a tragic incident perpetrated by our enemies.
In the days after the attack, there was an investigation to catch those responsible. Did Americans need to know immediately who they were? Was it wise to wait so we could seek out the attackers and not alert them? Absolutely.
The outrageous claims of a cover-up benefit only those who constantly lie in wait for something with which to attack President Barack Obama, who the day after the attack said, "No acts of terror will shake our resolve."
On Nov. 14, Obama answered a Fox reporter saying, "Immediately upon finding out our folks were in danger, my orders to my national security team were do whatever we need."
National security and diplomacy depend on the caution and wisdom Obama, Hillary Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus showed at that critical time. That's what we need to know.
Sam Van Zandt
Walnut Creek
Administration is not transparent
When Libya first happened, what did President Barack Obama do? He flew to Nevada for a fundraiser, then sent out U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice on five talk shows Sunday morning to blame it on a video.
This has been a cover-up from the get-go. If President George W. Bush had been in office when Libya happened, it would have been splattered on the front page of every newspaper in the country, and reported on all the major networks to this day.
This is worse than Watergate; no one died in Watergate. We lost four American lives -- an ambassador for heaven's sake. This administration is hiding the truth.
Shame, shame on the media for not reporting the truth. They protect this president no matter what he does. Transparency in this administration? What a joke.
Cathy Ledbetter
The attack on the consulate in Libya
More and more it looks like our "consulate" in Benghazi was really a CIA operations facility that was interacting with local informants and gathering local information, as it could.
So, should the Obama administration have been more "transparent" about all this, days before the election, based on a variety of viewpoints and sources of information, some "unclassified," some "classified?"
If you think so, then you probably think that Susan Rice should have been the one to officially "out" our totally "illegal" CIA facility there, albeit in a relatively unstable foreign country and in the midst of the complication of the death of Ambassador Stevens.
But would that have made Fox News happy, days before the presidential election? Of course not!
Susan Rice was a messenger. She let be known what she knew at the time.
The election is over, folks. Barack Obama is going to be our president for four more years. We need to move forward.
George Fulmore
Transparency clearly avoided
Only the pro-Obama Times would post such a question in light of the overwhelming evidence that the Obama administration has done everything possible to avoid transparency in the Benghazi attack on the American consulate.
From President Barack Obama's address to the U.N. General Assembly to the televised assurances by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the attack was a spontaneous demonstration resulting from an obscure and amateurish anti-Islamic video, this has been an absurd denial of reality.
These declarations by Obama and Clinton were an effort to distract the voters' attention from the fact that al-Qaida is alive and thriving. However, nothing they say can distract us from the very real fact that four Americans were murdered by terrorists while Obama denied them the available and nearby military aid.
When the congressional investigations of this incident are concluded, the staggering evidence of presidential misfeasance will impel the House of Representatives to impeach and the Senate to convict and remove President Obama from office. Whether these bodies of blustering politicians with little courage will do their constitutionally mandated duty is problematic.
Ernest Hampson
Benghazi case has been a cover-up
President Barack Obama lied about almost every facet of the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi.
He lied about the events leading up to the attack; he lied about the attack itself; he lied about the events after the attack; and then he had his people try to spin the lies. But, in a sense, it was completely transparent. Everyone knew he was lying.
The disgusting thing is that the purpose of all the lies and deceit was to maintain the ridiculous charade that Obama was doing fine protecting America from terrorism. Obama had to maintain the charade until after the election. So he lied about it. And his comrades in the media covered his back for a long time. But even they could not keep a straight face.
The truth is that Obama, with the aid of the Democratic Party, has taken more steps than any other figure in American history to place Americans and the American way of life at risk.
Jay Todesco
Has been absence of transparency
Transparency is absent in the Benghazi murderous attack to which President Barack Obama refers to as "bumps in the road."
Instead, we hear misplaced indignation from the president to those who question the veracity of the talking points Ambassador Susan Rice delivered on numerous TV shows at the request of the White House. Yet, Obama chose to add to the confusion by stating, "She had nothing to do with Benghazi."
Some claim Rice's talking points had been edited from the original version. Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes admitted that the only edit made by the White House was changing "consulate" to "diplomatic facility." By whom were these and other edits made and why?
Hopefully, the ongoing investigation will satisfy the American people's right to know that "transparency is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed" in order to learn the truth.
But as the investigation proceeds, so does a fast-moving bus.
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Chart of the Day: Ignore ADP
ADP said private businesses added 191,000 jobs last month, a modest pace of hiring that should be a positive sign for the labor market.
But at least one economist says investors shouldn't really care what ADP has to say.
"It's a shame that April Fool's Day fell yesterday and not today, because we have come to regard the ADP employment report as a bit of a joke," said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. "We can no longer take the number seriously as an advance guide to the official data."
For years, investors have used the payroll and benefits-administration company's report as a proxy for the government's monthly jobs report. Wall Street has fixated on this figure mainly because the timing of the ADP release typically comes a day or two before the Bureau of Labor Statistics's results are released, making it easy to compare the two.
The March nonfarm payroll figures are due this Friday. Economists polled by the Wall Street Journal expect the economy added 200,000 jobs last month, up from 175,000 a month earlier. The unemployment rate is expected to tick down to 6.6%, from 6.7% a month earlier.
But historically uneven forecasting records prompted ADP a few years ago to revise the methodology behind how its data were calculated. In October 2012, ADP began collaborating with Moody's Analytics on the newly reported data. At the time, the firms stressed that the ADP's number would be highly correlated to the government's final nonfarm payroll figures. For instance, the Labor Department reported the economy added 175,000 jobs in February. But that figure will get revised several times before a final number is reported. ADP has said it's figures will track that last number, not the closely watched initial read. (For the record, ADP also revises each of its monthly figures).
Despite the revised methodology, the firm's forecasting skills have proven to be less than stellar. The chart below, which overlays ADP's initial figures with the Labor Department's initial and final monthly job numbers since October 2012, shows numbers that are all over the map.
For example, ADP initially reported 238,000 jobs were added in December. But the government's initial number was just 74,000 jobs created, and that ultimately was revised only slightly higher to 84,000 jobs.
Other ADP figures were more predictive of the government's official numbers. In September, ADP said 166,000 jobs were added. The Labor Department initially reported 148,000 jobs were added, a figure that was ultimately revised to 164,000.
If anything, ADP actually appears to be more closely correlated to the government's initial numbers than the final figures, the opposite of what the firm was initially trying to achieve.
Say what you will about the ADP report, just don't let it overly influence your thinking ahead of the mother of all economic data coming up this Friday: the government's jobs reports.
Here's a look at ADP's final figures and how they stack up against the government's final job tallies.


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In 1797, community members organized the academy, chaired by Rufus Putnam. Even though the school only lasted about 30 years, it symbolized the importance of education during the early pioneer days, said Marietta College history professor Jim O'Donnell.
"The Muskingum Academy represents the desire of education in the West while they were still trying to survive," O'Donnell said. The city of Marietta itself had been settled nine years before in 1788.
In 1800, the Muskingum Academy erected its building between Front and Second streets where the First Congregational Church is today. It was a wood building, about 24 feet by 40 feet in size. From the school's original donor list, O'Donnell said it is clear that Rufus Putnam believed in the need for a strong local education presence.
"He donated $300, which was quite a bit of money back then because no one else pledged more than $40," O'Donnell said. Putnam also went on to help found Ohio University in 1804.
Historian and author Robert Cayton said the Muskingum Academy taught the classical basics of reading, writing, mathematics, Latin and Greek, but in a less rigid way than some schools in the east. While most students of the time learned primarily by memorization and recitation, students at the Muskingum Academy were learning how to apply their academics to life.
"It enabled them to read and write and do something in life," Cayton said. "I wouldn't call it a vocational school, but that's kind of what they were aiming for."
This style of education brought in a variety of students, O'Donnell said.
"The academy could take you in to learn how to read and write or it could take you in to get ready for college," O'Donnell said.
However, Muskingum Academy didn't last long. Starting in 1816, the building went through several educational renters and eventually was abandoned and destroyed.
Marietta College later became the area's main higher institution of learning, but Cayton stressed that the 1835 founded school had no link to Muskingum Academy.
Cayton authored the book "A House Suitable for Instruction, A History of Muskingum Academy," which is available at the Washington County Public Library.


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NATCHITOCHES, La. – Brandi Huff's jumper off the glass with 50.5 seconds left proved the crucial basket, as the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's basketball team knocked off Northwestern State 51-49 at Prather Coliseum on Thursday night. Huff led the Islanders with 12 points in the victory.
Jessica Jammer tallied a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds, while Alisa Roberts finished in double figures with 10 as well. Ashanti Plummer had a big night on the offensive glass, snaring seven offensive boards and eight total in the victory. The Islanders held NSU to 34.0 percent shooting and forced 18 turnovers.
Janelle Perez was the main catalyst of the Lady Demons offense, finishing with 18 points on 7-for-12 shooting. Keisha Lee added 11 points and Jasmine Upchurch has nine along with 11 rebounds in a losing effort.
Early on, neither team was able to find much on the offensive end, with the Lady Demons opening a 9-2 lead on a Perez three at the 11:52 mark. The two teams then quickly traded baskets to make it 11-4 at the 9:52 mark. The Islanders defense forced NSU into five turnovers in the opening 10 minutes of action.
At that point, the Islanders began to heat up on the offensive end, getting four quick points – two from Jammer on a jumper and two more at the line from Anderson-Sparks – to make it 11-8. From there on, the two teams traded points the rest of the way into the half, with an Alisa Roberts three bringing the score to its closest margin at 15-13. After a Perez jumper made it 19-15 at the 3:21 mark, the only point the rest of the way came on Plummer free throw with 1:38 remaining, as the Lady Demons went to the locker room up 19-16.
Out of the break, the Islanders scored the first four points to gain the lead for the first time. Janae Blount hit a long jumper and Huff followed with two off the glass to make it 20-19 in favor of the visitors. After the teams traded baskets to make it 22-21, the Lady Demons went on a 9-0 run to establish their largest lead of the game at 30-22. A Perez three capped off the rally.
But the Islanders countered with a 7-1 run of their own to trim it to just two. Huff and Jammer did all the damage, with Huff burying a pair of baskets and Jammer converting a layup and a free throw. Again, though, it was Perez coming up big, as a three from the corner pushed the lead back to five. At that point, she had half of her team's 34 points.
After a Lee layup pushed the lead back to seven, the teams battled back-and-forth with the Lady Demons sitting ahead 40-33. The Islanders then embarked on an 11-4 run that culminated in a pair of free throws by Roberts to make it 44-all. A Roberts three was also crucial in the rally for the Islanders.
Perez went 1-for-2 at the line, Huff came up big with a jumper from just inside the three-point line to put the Islanders up 1. After Upchurch hit a pair of free throws to put NSU back up one, Huff came through again, kissing one off the glass for a 48-47 lead. From there, the Islanders locked in defensively, forcing a shot-clock violation, and closed out the game at the line on a pair of clutch shots by Anderson-Sparks and one by Verne'qua Taylor. Upchurch added a layup at the buzzer, but it proved no matter in the 51-49 victory.
The Islanders will close out the 2012-13 season on Saturday night in Nacogdoches, Texas, when they take on Stephen F. Austin. Tipoff between A&M – Corpus Christi and the Ladyjacks is set for 4 p.m. at Johnson Coliseum. Yannis Koutroupis will have the call live on GoIslanders.com and the latest updates will be posted on Twitter (@IslandersWBB).


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The Affordable Healthcare Act may be the most important law passed in decades. But it may also be the most complex and controversial because many Kansans are still unsure of what the law means for them.
FactFinder 12 hopes to explain the basics so you have a better understanding of the changes and if they impact you.
When does the Affordable Care Act start?
October 1st is the first day to begin the enrollment process. You do not have to be signed up by then, enrollment is open through the end of March. This is just the first chance to see and compare the different health plans offered in Kansas.
Who needs to sign up?
If you already have health coverage through your employer, you don't need to do anything. But if you don't have coverage, you will need to sign up and purchase a policy through the online marketplace at healthcare.gov. The law has a few exceptions, but for the most part everyone must have insurance or pay a penalty.
How much does it cost?
That depends on the size of your family, the level of coverage and your household income. The government offers upfront tax credits to help families at the poverty level and up to four times the poverty level. The less you make, the more you qualify for.
Where can I get help?
The state received federal grants to train more than 250 people called "navigators" who will sit down with you and walk you through the enrollment process and tell you if you qualify for assistance. A lot of people will have questions, so don't hesitate to ask. The Kansas Insurance Department and the Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved are excellent resources.


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Bringing (Human) Diversity to America's National Parks
The Way Home: Returning to the National Parks, by the National Parks Conservation Association.
Park Ranger Shelton Johnson has been telling the story of the Buffalo Soldier at Yosemite since 1998. In the late 1800s, these African American army regiments formed in the years after the Civil War and served as some of the park's first rangers.
But despite Johnson's familiarity with the story and the frequency with which he tells it to visitors at Yosemite, it is rare that he sees African Americans in his audience.
"What is hardly ever brought up," Johnson observes, "is how that incredible, intimate connection to nature, to the wilderness, was incrementally whittled away and broken down to the point where African Americans are now the one group least likely to have a wilderness experience—the one group least likely to have an experience with the natural world."
Follow the Los Angeles-based Amazing Grace 50+ Club as they rekindle their relationship to nature and to a history their ancestors may have played a role in.
"The last act of the civil rights movement is this embrace of the earth, this embrace of the continent," Johnson says. "If Martin Luther King were alive today, he would be first and foremost to say we as a people need to go to Yellowstone, we need to go to the Grand Canyon. Because if this is America's best idea and we played a role in this creation, how dare we not choose that for ourselves."
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CAMPBELL -- Like millions of people, Paul Bondonno searched in vain for an explanation for the deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. But when early reports noted the gunman had Asperger's syndrome, the 34-year-old bolted into hyper-driven self-defense, and he hasn't stopped since.
"We don't want Adam Lanza to be our poster boy," Bondonno said at the Coffee Society in Campbell.
The cafe is usually busy on weekends, but a pelting rain Sunday morning kept the crowd and noise down, a perfect setting for separating the facts of a mysterious disorder from the debate over guns, massacres and mental illness. A 13-year-old girl with Asperger's, Puja Uppalapati, and her father, joined the conversation as well.
"It irritated me," Puja said about the initial Lanza-Asperger's connection. "I was like, why are you saying this? Is this what people will think of us?"
Medical records have not confirmed it, but the possibility that Lanza, the 20-year-old gunman, had Asperger's has got people such as Puja and Bondonno worried that any association with Lanza, true or false, will create a runaway stereotype of them as murderous madmen waiting to explode.
Considered a form of high-functioning autism, Asperger's is a neurological disorder generally characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication with others.
Children who have autism may have more severe tantrums and meltdowns than other youths, but the disorder is not typically linked to violence, said Mohan Krishnan, a clinical neuropsychologist who works with children and adults who have Asperger's at Hope Network Behavioral Health Services in Grand Rapids, Mich.
"In adulthood, planned acts of violence are not associated with people with Asperger's," Krishnan said.
People who have Asperger's "have normal intelligence or better," and some become university professors or work in other professional jobs, often in technical fields, Krishnan said.
But they sometimes struggle to communicate, may not understand slang or jokes, and may have difficulty in social situations, he added. Some develop an unusual preoccupation with a particular topic, such as train schedules or football helmet designs.
Asperger's usually goes undiagnosed until a child enters school. That was the case with Puja.
Especially good in math and above average in other subjects, her grades began to fall in the fifth and sixth grades, and she received bad marks for behavior.
"The teachers kept saying I had to respect others more and stop interrupting them," she said.
According to her father, Siva Uppalapati, a microchip designer, it took a long time for school psychologists to confirm his daughter's condition. Only then did the school provide special assistance. Today, Puja sees a speech and language therapist twice a week at school. She gets unlimited time for completing tests because her writing is slower than average. Her grades have improved but the bright, precocious girl wants better.
"I'm good at logic and strategic thinking," she said. "It irks me that I'm getting B's and B-pluses when I should be getting all A's."
She also receives instruction in social skills from Bondonno, who teaches the subject for the Asperger Society.
Where Puja's disorder was caught early, Bondonna had to run the gauntlet before he was diagnosed at age 20. He was bullied relentlessly in school, he said, and misdiagnosed four times, once as a potentially violent youth who should be institutionalized. But his mother refused to believe he had a psychological disorder. Finally, medical researchers determined he had Asperger's, a neurological condition.
"It took me years to come to terms with all the mislabeling," Bondonno said. Today, he's frank, even humorous, about the challenges of living with Asperger's.
"I'm hyperactive," he said, "and sometimes I don't know when to stop talking, or when I've made my point too many times, but I'm getting better about that."
It's that sort of social difficulty, Bondonno fears, that people will associate with Lanza and violence. That could lead to a range of rejection of Asperger's sufferers, from schoolyard bullying to discrimination in employment and social shunning. Those prospects, Bondonno said, could drive individuals with Asperger's into the closet to avoid the stigma and away from treatment.
Several of Lanza's classmates described him as a loner who shied away from others, but Bondonno said that's not necessarily a diagnosable trait of the condition. Krishnan agrees.
"Most of them have close connections, particularly to family," Krishnan said. "A lot of them, if not most of them, desire friendships."
Even if Lanza had Asperger's, experts say he may have had mental illnesses that led him to the violence.
Meanwhile, Bondonno has been running a nonstop, one-man crusade to explain Asperger's to a nation looking for answers. He has a new website in the works and is connecting with Asperger's networks across the country.
"This is our breakthrough moment, and we can't let Lanza speak for us. We have to speak up for ourselves," Bondonno said.
Staff writer Sandy Kleffman contributed to this story. Contact Joe Rodriguez at 408-998-8079. Follow him on Twitter.com/JoeRodMercury.


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FREMONT -- 24 Hour Fitness is launching new stores in Fremont and Hayward as part of a $25 million expansion that will create hundreds of new jobs in the Bay Area this year, the personal health company says.
San Ramon-based 24 Hour Fitness will open a Super-Sport club in Fremont on Saturday, and is under construction with a Super-Sport outlet in Hayward at a former Circuit City store. The deals for the sites were arranged through Terranomics Retail Services, a realty firm.
"These are exciting times for us," said Jim McPhail, chief development officer at 24 Hour Fitness. "We continue to build new clubs, relocate clubs and remodel clubs in the Bay Area."
Each of the company's Super-Sport clubs employs 100 to 150 full-time and part-time workers.
The fitness company opened two Super-Sport clubs in recent months, including a January opening in Walnut Creek and a December opening in Livermore.
24 Hour Fitness also plans to remodel existing outlets at unspecified locations in the South Bay and the Peninsula this year.
These efforts are part of an overall investment during 2013 ranging from $20 million to $30 million, according to McPhail.
The Fremont 24 Hour Fitness site is in a 45,000-square-foot building in the Pacific Commons retail complex.
"It's very exciting to get 24 Hour Fitness," said Christina Briggs, Fremont's city economic development manager. "It's great to get a retail use that provides healthy services for the community."
In Fremont, the fitness club occupies a property that once was a former college and auto shop location.
The Hayward 24 Hour Fitness is in a former Circuit City building. That Super-Sport club should open by July, McPhail said.
In Walnut Creek, the company opened a fitness center in January on the site of an old batch plant that had been used for highway construction. In Livermore, the 24 Hour fitness opened a store in a one-time Triple A call center. In Pleasanton, the company is operating in a former newspaper plant once occupied by Bay Area Newspaper Group.
"Most of the time we do adaptive reuses of existing spaces," McPhail said.
In addition to the openings in Walnut Creek, Fremont and Pleasanton, the company also intends more store openings in 2014.
While the expansion and renovation plans may seem ambitious in a sometimes wobbly economy, the company believes it makes sense for people to attempt to remain fit, even during sour times.
For one thing, people often feel they need to remain in shape, even if they are out of work. That way they can look and feel their best during a job interview.
McPhail, though, believes more fundamental factors may be in play, whether the economy is feeble or robust.
"Fitness is a choice and on the list of things that are important to people in terms of their lifestyle," McPhail said. "Being fit drives down your health care costs. Besides looking good and staying injury-free, fitness also has to do with how it makes you feel emotionally."
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Airport worker suspected of egging Saints team bus quits
Published: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 10:11 a.m.
ATLANTA, Ga. -- A single employee suspected of throwing eggs at the Saints team bus last Wednesday as it sat on the tarmac at Atlanta's International Airport has quit, according to a spokesperson for the airport.
The spokesperson issued the following statement: " The lone employee suspected of hitting the New Orleans Saints charter bus with two or three eggs last Wednesday has quit his restaurant job. Department of Aviation officials at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport confirmed that after being questioned by police, the worker quit. The employee's security badge has been deactivated, revoking all access to the Airport, and the company will be fined. The Department of Aviation has now closed its investigation."
Saints players tweeted about the incident shortly after it occurred and it was a source of social media interest the next day, adding fuel to an already hot Saints-Falcons rivalry.
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SARASOTA - Welcoming in all kinds of people and pies, the Pinecraft village held its second annual pie competition, an unusual event in the modest community.
But Sarasota's Amish and Mennonite community is a unique place, bringing together a broad spectrum of permanent and vacationing Anabaptists.
Pat Stahly, a snowbird who lives near Pinecraft and saw a flyer for the contest, swept all three pie categories. The contest was open to anyone, and her apricot and pecan pies won first for the fruit and one-crust categories. Her raspberry cheesecake took the cream category, while raising the question, Is cheesecake a pie? But it had a crust and looked like a pie — and after tasting the rich dessert, the judges could only praise it.
Stahly said her secret to making the three best pies among the 13 entered is "lots and lots of practice."
A 23-year-old pie contestant from Ohio, Katie Schmid, grew up around an Amish community, her hot pink canvas shoes and jean shorts just part of the generational shift in her family. She said the close-knit community reminds her of home. She made a rhubarb pie, her favorite, with her grandmother's crust recipe, securing third in the fruit category.
Sherry Gore, an Amish cook
"It's beautiful!" Gore gushed, commenting on the unbroken sheen on a pumpkin pie surrounded by a sugared leaf crust.
To her, one of the organizers, the event was about food, fellowship and celebrating pie, a staple for many families. Since the community is marked by its modesty, Gore said some attendees do not like to be the first to arrive at an event or might hesitate to claim their prize for a superior pie.
Gore was surprised there was no peanut butter pie; she said she suspects no one wanted to compete with the version sold across the street at Yoder's Amish Village.
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I am a Lecturer and Research Fellow under the Cardiff University Serious Brain Power initiative in the School of Geography and Planning. My research and teaching revolves around the broad theme of climate change and how its policy and governance is constructed around scalar ontologies.
- PhD in Human Geography, University of Hull, UK (2010)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Research Skills, University of Hull, UK (2010)
- MSc (Environmental Management) Distinction and Academy Award, University of Sunderland, UK (2004)
- BSc Hons (Environmental Earth Science) High Second Class (Second Division), University of East Anglia, UK (2002)
- BA Hons (Modern History) Second Class (First Division), Anglia University, Cambridge, UK (1996)
- Cardiff Serious Brain Power Research Fellow/Lecturer, Cardiff School of Geography & Planning and Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK (June 2012 - present)
- Australian Research Council Super Science Research Fellow, Australian Sea Level Rise Partnership, Global Change Institute and School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (June 2011 - March 2012)
- Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Centre for Adaptive Science & Sustainability and Logistics Institute, University of Hull, UK (May 2010 - May 2011)
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- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
One of five shortlisted for 2012 best essay by early career scholar in Progress in Human Geography: Kythreotis, A.P. (2012). Progress in global climate change politics? Reasserting national state territoriality in a 'post-political' world. Progress in Human Geography, 36 (4), pp. 457-474
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Associate Editor, Regional Studies, Regional Science
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Reviewed for journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Political Geography, Journal of Environmental Planning & Policy, International Journal of Sustainable Society, Globalizations, Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance and International Planning Studies
- Member of the Environment Research Group.
- Member of the Urban and Regional Governance Research Group.
- Affiliated with the Sustainable Places Research Institute (PLACE) at Cardiff University.
- Honorary Fellow at the ESRC Third Sector Research Centre based at the University of Birmingham.
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My research interests are trans-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary and international in scope, spanning geography, environmental science and cognate disciplines. They include the governance of sustainable development and climate change, earth and climate processes, climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience, environmental (geo)politics, constructions of climate knowledge, the political economy of the state and the scale debate in human geography. More specifically, my current research interests examine how power is configured and negotiated across territorial space and scale through climate change and environmental governance interventions and processes, especially through emerging relationships between the third and public sectors.
Projects I am currently involved in:
- I am currently working with Dr Milena Büchs (Southampton) through the ESRC Third Sector Research Centre, examining mainstreaming of environmental issues within UK third sector groups.
- The second project is funded through an early career researcher grant from the Regional Studies Association entitled: 'The spatial integration of climate change adaptation governance in the UK: the efficacy of a (city-) regional politics?'
- I am also involved with a Cardiff Futures interdisciplinary project with colleagues from Cardiff, Professor Chris Chambers (School of Psychology) and Dr Gerard O'Grady (School of English, Communication and Philosophy), and Exeter, Dr Natalia Lawrence (Psychology). This project, entitled the 'UK Evidence Information Service' aims to inform MPs of correct scientific evidence before they enter into parliamentary debates. We are currently liaising with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) and a number of Peers in the House of Lords to develop this project.
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I teach on the BSc Geography and Planning programme and on a range of the MSc programmes in the school.
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Bell, J. et al. 2014. Maps, laws and planning policy: working with biophysical and spatial uncertainty in the case of sea level rise. Environmental Science and Policy 44, pp. 247-257.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – In conjunction with the Southland's 50th men's and 29th women's cross country championships, the conference released its All-Time Cross Country Honor Roll on Tuesday. Texas A&M – Corpus Christi had four individuals place among this elite list.
Among the 45 men, the Islanders had two runners named to the honor roll, with Shadrack Songok and Patrick Kimeli being recognized for their performance during their time at the Island University. The lone women runner to garner this attention was Anne Ronoh.
The Southland also recognized eight of the conference's greatest coaches for their contributions to the sport. Among the list of coaches was Islanders head coach Shawn Flanagan.
"The Southland has a rich history in cross country, extending back many years," Flanagan said. "It's a great privilege to be honored in this elite group of coaches. To also have had the opportunity to coach a number of the athletes that our mentioned in this group has been a fantastic experience and they are definitely deserving of this honor. It gives me real motivation to continue to turn out champions."
Flanagan is entering his 14th year with the Islanders, after building the program from the ground up. He has had tremendous success, earning three women's Coach of the Year honors, while leading the women's team to conference titles in 2007-09 and in 2011 as well.
Prior to his time at A&M – Corpus Christi, he spent 16 years at Texas-San Antonio while it was a part of the Southland. While at UTSA, Flanagan won five conference titles with his women's team, including his 1996 team that qualified for the NCAA Championship Meet — the only time an entire Southland team has advanced to the national meet. He also won two men's championships and seven total Coach of the Year awards with the Roadrunners.
Songok finds his way on this list after being one of the most decorated Islanders of all-time. He was the 2006 and 2007 Southland champion, and then went on to win the NCAA Central Regionals in those same years. In the 2007 NCAA Championship he finished in seventh place, which marked the best finish ever for a Southland athlete at that time. Songok also garnered Athlete of the Year honors in 2006 and 2007 and was even inducted into the Southland Conference Hall of Honor in 2013.
It was 2010 and 2011 conference championships that led Kimeli to being placed on this list. He also qualified for the NCAA Championship meets in those same years.
After being named the 2008 Newcomer of the Year, Ronoh didn't slow down, as a 2009 conference championship helped her earn her way to being the only female Islanders athlete to make it on the honor roll. In both of those seasons she also made it all the way to the NCAA Championships.
A full list of all of the athletes and coaches to make this list can be found here.
A&M - Corpus Christi, along with the rest of the Southland, will run in the conference championships on Friday in Lake Charles, La.
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Budhyzer 17696 wrote:AO wrote:Course looks great as always! Just played tonight. Minimal leaves on the ground but bugs are still somewhat out there.
As AO said, the course is in really great shape right now. Come on out this Saturday and enjoy all the work we've put into the course this year. We'll have a roaster full of soup/stew and I'll be making a couple roasters full of chili at no charge while supplies last. As always, course improvement donations are welcome for the food! B.Y.O.C. (I'll have crackers but bring your own cheese if you want some. don't know why you would ruin good chili with cheese though )
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Dev said he is making deer ball soup.
He said it's good, hell that's even worth the price of admission!


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- Parents sue San Jose police for daughter's 'wrongful death'
- Jun 4:
- San Jose: Officer cleared in fatal South San Jose shooting of woman holding drill
- Feb 6:
- San Jose: Family of woman shot by police while holding drill files claim against city
- Aug 26:
- San Jose: Parents speak out about life, death of woman shot and killed by police while holding drill
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- Woman killed by San Jose police is identified
- Aug 15:
- San Jose: Questions linger in wake of police shooting that killed woman holding drill
- Aug 14:
- San Jose police: Officer shoots, kills drill-wielding woman who threatened her family
Five days after Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., 19-year-old Diana Showman was shot and killed by San Jose police after flaunting a weapon that turned out to be a cordless drill painted black.
Two people dead. Two families in mourning. Two cops scarred.
The incident in Ferguson has stirred 10 days of angry protests and prompted the entry of the U.S. Justice Department into the probe.
The shooting in San Jose has passed quietly behind us.
On social media, there is a tendency to conflate police shootings, either in a broad indictment of cops or a knee-jerk defense of authority. The truth is that every case is different.
At least four issues set Ferguson and San Jose apart:
RACE -- A big reason that Brown's killing has ignited protest is the context: Ferguson has a nearly all-white police department (50 of 53) and a two-thirds black population. With that ratio, the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old summons years of perceived and real slights, the bone-on-bone legacy of prejudice.
San Jose, on the other hand, has a far more diverse population and police department. Race was not reported as a factor in Thursday's case: The officer involved in the shooting was Japanese-American.
THE WEAPON -- I don't pretend to know exactly what happened before Brown was killed. But certainly the knowledge that he was initially unarmed -- and that he was shot six times, including twice in the head -- nursed the grievances of the street.
In San Jose, the 19-year-old woman claimed to have an Uzi and approached cops with a drill that could easily have been taken for a weapon.
You can understand why a cop would make a split-second decision to fire. (For those who remember the vegetable peeler involved in the fatal shooting by cops of a Vietnamese woman in 2003, the painted drill was a more persuasive threat).
MENTAL HEALTH -- By one estimate, 40 percent of the police-involved shootings in California involve a mental health crisis. That's certainly been true in the cases I've covered.
The woman shot last Thursday reportedly suffered from a bipolar condition. And the debate has been whether we have adequate mental health services to help people like her. (The officer who shot her had taken Crisis in Intervention training to deal with such cases.) This isn't to say there aren't mental health crises in the inner St. Louis suburbs. There are. But they are submerged beneath the jagged fabric of race.
POLITICAL SAVVY -- In comparing the two cases, you can't forget that the Ferguson and San Jose police are very different organizations.
Here the police did not try to hide the officer's name, while in Ferguson, the attempt at anonymity inflamed an already tense situation. From my experience, it would be extraordinarily unusual for the San Jose cops to release a video of a slain kid taking cigars from a convenience store. Unlike the Ferguson police, they would understand automatically that it would not help their job in quelling street violence.
Yes, I know. All of this might sound obvious. The two places are a half-continent and an even greater distance in culture away. A comparison does little to salve the grief of the victims' families. Yet it's worth thinking about why protests have erupted in Ferguson and not here. Sadly, it's cases like these that offer a mirror to our identity.
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ECHO 1 E90 1500 rd Box Mag
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- THIS HELPS SO MUCH!!!!I recently bought this box mag for my Classic Army P90 and my first thoughts were AMAZING!!!! I probably got ten compliments from friends and others about how awesome my gun looked. Before I got this mag my other mag (the one that came with the gun and which didn't feed at all into my gun) was terrible. I don't know if it was just me or what but it is now at the dump. If you have enough for it PLEASE don't second guess it. IT'S AMAZING!!!!!
3)1,500 ROUNDS (in other words don't worry about bringing other mags unless you're playing a HUGE game)
5)It's cheaper than other P90 box mags
6)It's very easy to put bb's in the box
1)The BB's kind of rattle around in the mag
2)You need to buy an extra high cap M16 Style mag for it
- Bad for lefties, READ REWVIEWIf you're left handed it sucks 'cause it blocks your grip position. So i'm sorry to say that i'm left handed so make sure you can hold this before you buy. THANKS... i'm sure it's a cool thing to have, but you're better off with a hi-cap for lefties like us.
- Must Have For Any P90 UserI bought this lovely device for my Classic Army P90 and it is working great. Due to the design of the P90 high capacity magazine, it constantly jams during combat which has resulted in my "death" multiple times. The P90 mid caps are too expensive and hold too little rounds. Another problem with P90 magazines is that they require special gear to hold them. This box magazine gives the P90 amazing fire power of over 1000 rounds which will last you any game. I personally bought a Vietnam style M4 magazine so that the P90 retains its sleekness.
1. Feeds flawlessly
2. Has a decent amount of metal parts
3. Holds either 1500 (regular style high cap) rounds or 1390 (Vietnam style I recommend this one)
4. Looks great and keeps the P90's streamline form
5. No need for special gear
6. Price (if you do the math it's cheaper than high caps combined)
1. Rattles when there are few bb's left in the box mag itself (this can be temporarily fixed by sticking your hand in it)
2. Not good for left handed people (thankfully I am right handed)
3. You need to make sure you locked the mag down (not that big of a con)
- Great Mag; Know How To Use It...I have used this box mag on a friend's ECHO1 E90/P90 and it is a huge help on the field! I strongly recommend it, but you have to know how to conserve ammo. You will have about 1800 BBs in this box mag setup, 1500 BBs in the box mag itself and about 300 BBs in the M4 mag, am I wrong? Psychologically, you will have a couple thousand BBs, which will make you lose your sense of ammo conservation. Even if you are a support gunner, you have to know when to lay off the trigger. You cannot camp inside a pillbox and continuously shoot at the enemy who has taken cover at over 200 feet away. Wait for the correct time to pick them off or to hold them under cover. Keep in mind that you should upgrade your battery and perhaps get an external pouch for a large type, since the typical 1100mah mini battery will only last halfway through the box mag. I actually have personal experience with this whole problem. I got an ECHO1 M249 SAW Para and I loaded up the box mag half way (1200 BBs) to break it in. Literally two minutes later I was out of ammo and battery power! You definitely need some type of experience with a box mag before you use it in battle.
- GreatATTENTION:
If you own any version of the p90 get this(and a mag to use with it).
I have yet to have any huge issues with it and i have used it for a couple of matches since i got it. This thing holds a lot of bbs and when you are playing a serious game you don't really get that trigger happy (in my opinion) so you will not need to worry about reloading. I do not have any problems with my battery (standard echo 1 e90 battery) running out before this or vice versa. then again i have not tried to see which runs out first yet. One small con(note the 4 stars) is that you have to make sure to "slam" it into place or else it will not actually lock into place and it is definitely meant for a righty (which thankfully i am). Not saying lefties can't use it but it may feel uncomfortable. Also i tend to have difficulties putting my mag into this so i find holding the box mag upside down when putting in your other mag into the box mag very helpful. Otherwise this is a definite buy. Unfortunately you can get a box mag that hold 5000rds or a 2500 rd cmag for the same price as this for a different gun and you have to buy another mag to put into the box mag(does not come with one). For some reason i feel that there is a monopoly on this mag since there are no others like it and basically everyone who has a p90 wants this.
- P90 Box Mag--This is a must-have for right-handed P90 players!!--
fixes two of the P90's biggest problems: mag capacity and battery size.
>other P90 hi-caps are 300 rounds, which may or may not be enough depending on playing style. This box mag - unlike box mags for other guns - maintains the P90's sleekness, and possibly even makes it look even cooler. 1500 rounds is also even more than some other box mags for other guns.
>the space in front of the box can fit a Large type battery, so now you don't have to worry about running out of juice (especially if you use 9.4v)
- I've owned this magazine for 2 yearsWell, as this title says, I've owned this extended magazine for a very long time. This magazine offers 1,432 more rounds than the E90's magazine of only 68, making it a necessity when you're playing. Overall, there are two huge benefits that I can identify from this magazine. One, of course, the extended rounds. But two, the looks. If you only have the E90 and this, it may look a bit odd. However, with my mock silencer, my red dot sight by crossfire, and this magazine, my gun looks like something out of a science fiction movie.
This magazine, as all items have, has its fair share of disadvantages. One - the grip. I feel that this magazine blocks part of my hand. This prevents me from getting as much accuracy on the field as possible (which doesn't pose as too much as a problem if you are playing CQB). Two, the looks. It looks very funny unless you have some other attachments to match it (as mentioned above). Three, the biggest problem that I think this offers is the weight. With the one pound box mag, the .6 pound bullets within the box mag, and the .5-1 pound m4 echo magazine, this attachment adds almost 3 pounds to your gun. As this seems only a little, it effects the gun A LOT while trying to run and sneak through the tiniest openings and holes; especially while crawling.
Overall, the fact that you have 1,500 rounds rather than 68, really does make this a necessity. If there was a 300 round magazine for the E90, I would definitely recommend that over this. However, until then, this is needed for the extra rounds and the fun method known as "Spray and Pray."
- I'm STILL laughing/ 204 rounds or 1500? WOW only 60 bucks?!? You can get three lowcaps for close to the same price, which equals 204 bbs in all. Now this, even cheaper than 3 lowcap mags, made of ABS, but mostly metal, holds 1500 rounds in all. only 1392 with Vietnam mags, yes Grimsmartboy, you ARE right. I just poured a 1000 rd jar of bbs into it, and hand-counted the 392. No winding issues, only a little rattle, this is great! I really recommend this and a metal mag.
Have fun airsofting!