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I've been running on the treadmill since the snow/sleet on Wednesday - has anyone been down to the Charles river to run since the storm? If so, how is it? I'm set to do a very long run tomorrow but won't do it there if the conditions are horrible.
That said - does anyone have any suggestions/tips for running on this stuff? At Marathon Sports one time I saw what looked like spikes/cleats that you can attach to your sneaker for winter weather. Has anyone tried these?
Any insight would be very much appreciated!! Thanks to you all!
Are you speaknig of yak traks?
i have not ever worn them but they are getting excellent reviews on the boomers and beyond board.
For icy and/or mixed conditions (hard packed snow, cleared ground, icy, & slush) I wear Get-A-Grips Ice Joggers. I think Yak Trax are great for snow, but they don't work well on ice or when the pavement is clear. You can run on asphalt or concrete in Ice Joggers; it's annoying, but you don't really slow down and you have them when you hit an icy spot.
I buy them from QVC, but if you Google the term, lots of places sell these. BTW, I use these on my everyday shoes/boots, too.
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I ran 9 miles on the Charles on Thursday and 14 on Saturday with screw shoes and had no problems slipping - none, nada, zilch. The ground is rough though, with frozen footprints and tire tracks leaving holes and ruts so it's slow going, hard work, and tough on the ankles. Between Eliot Bridge and N. Beacon St. I had to run mostly in the road because the path was plowed so badly that it was impassable. The loop from the Science Museum to Eliot Bridge is much better.
I had used the screw shoe option (see post by trifecta082) for several previous seasons (usually have to deal with ice 4+months months per year in NH) and agree that they are way better than the Yak Trax and Stabilicers. However, last year I discovered a much better option called Icespike ( http://www.icespike.net/ ). Similar concept as the screw shoes but one set lasted the whole winter (30-40 miles/wk, clydesdale runner). With the screw shoes (sheet metal screws), I was changing them weekly. Great traction, comfortable, super light, long lasting (and less expensive than Yak's or Stabilicers).
I agree, I also use the icespikes and they work great!!
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Senior Nikki Dunn posted the best finish of her career, coming in fourth to lead the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's golf team to a sixth-place finish at the UALR Women's Golf Classic on Tuesday at Diamante Country Club. The Islanders shot 317 in both the second and third rounds of the event.
Tuesday's action featured the conclusion of the second round along with the full third round. Play was suspended due to darkness on Monday with five holes remaining in round two.
Dunn delivered consecutive rounds of 76 in both the second and third rounds to post a 230 for the event. North Texas' Georgina Mundy earned medalist honors with a 222. Dunn finished just three shots behind second-place Nicole Budnik of Sam Houston State (227), while Julia Roth placed third with a 228.
SHSU rallied for the team title, posting a 298 in the final round to edge Middle Tennessee State for the win. The Bearkats finished with a 937 (324-315-298), while the Blue Raiders were just a stroke back at 938 (324-304-310). Oral Roberts (325-316-306—947), Central Arkansas (319-323-309—951) and host Arkansas-Little Rock (323-319-311—953) rounded out the top five. The Islanders posted a 959 (325-317-317).
Senior Taylor Slagle placed 16th with a 237 (79-77-81), while sophomore Vanessa Johnson came in 32nd with a 243 (87-79-77). Juniors Krista Fenniak (81-85-83—249) and Lindsay Biehler (88-86-84—258) rounded out the scoring for the Islanders.
A&M – Corpus Christi returns to the course again next week, when it travels to the HBU Husky Invitational, hosted by Houston Baptist. The Invitational will be 54 holes, the first 36 played on Monday, April 1, and the final 18 on Tuesday, April 2.

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There were 52 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Sunday. At that time, there were 1,405 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411.
Robbery: Four young men assaulted a clerk at a convenience store and stole cigarettes and other merchandise at 5:30 a.m., Sunday in the 2500 block of West Hammer Lane, according to the Stockton Police Department.
Robbery arrest: Police arrested Tijuanisha Evans, 26, on suspicion of stealing a bottled coffee and two donuts before punching a convenience store owner who tried to stop her around 10:37 a.m. Sunday in the 9300 block of Thornton Road, according to police.
Robbery: A man was knocked unconscious and robbed around 5:11 p.m., Saturday near the intersection of Church and San Joaquin streets, according to police.
Robbery arrest: Police arrested Julian Melgoza, 27, after he allegedly stole a man's necklace around 8:08 p.m., Saturday, in the 600 block of Wilson Way, according to police.
Weapons arrest: Police arrested Hector Montanez, 23, after allegedly finding a loaded and reported-stolen gun under his driver's seat, authorities said. The gun was discovered after a traffic stop at 8:52 p.m. Saturday in the 2700 block of Playa Del Sol.
Robbery: A 22-year-old man was robbed of his phone and bicycle around 12:50 a.m. Sunday in the 1200 block of Hammer Lane, according to police. The attackers were in a dark green 1996-98 Toyota Camry.
The California Highway Patrol did not report on its activities in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Sunday.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 117 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Sunday, including two vehicle accidents, 96 medical calls and two structure fires.
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January 25, 2007
Never mind the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China, I say knitted lace is the eighth wonder of the world. And I'm not alone. According to last week's poll, nearly half of you enjoy knitting lace. But this also means that 50% of you haven't yet caught the lace bug.
Over the next few weeks we'll set out to change this. I begin this week with a very basic and painless introduction to the fundamental concepts of knitted lace, including a pattern for the green scarf you see here.
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Thursday's letters: In the henhouse
Published: Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 6:42 p.m.
To the editor: The recent closings of the White House tours is the most juvenile behavior yet of the so-called government.
Our glorious leader should have been at the door to welcome our children to the peoples house. Not much luck there. At the same time, our great VP statesman was in Paris at a cost, to us, of $1 million for two nights.
Wake up, folks. The foxes are in the henhouse.
Robert Jones
Mass murderer
To the editor: We recently reached the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Ten-plus years ago, I wrote a letter to the editor and stated that if weapons of mass destruction were not found, George W. Bush should be tried as a war criminal. No weapons were found. Thousands of our soldiers dead, tens of thousands of our soldiers maimed and more than 100,000 Iraqi citizens dead.
When honest history books are written about this era, Bush will join the company of Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot and others as mass murderers.
Yes, weapons of mass destruction were found. They were George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz.
Arthur L. Swygard
The Little Prince
To the editor: On March 10, I took my two little granddaughters, ages 4 and 6, to see the YouTheatre production of The Little Prince. I am not sure who enjoyed it more, the girls or me! They loved it so much they want to go see it again. Kudos to all the young people for a job well done!
While I was sitting there, I thought back over the recent controversy concerning the Playhouse, and I am very thankful that we still have this jewel in our community. Art in any form is very important, and had we seen the demise of the Flat Rock Playhouse, we also probably would have seen the demise of YouTheatre, which is producing some of our actors/actresses of tomorrow. The passion these young people have for the craft they are learning is exciting to see.
If you have never attended a performance at Flat Rock Playhouse, I encourage you to go. Performances of The Odd Couple will start in April, and I already have my tickets for that show!
Lee Smith
Faulty research
To the editor: Barbara Briley, in calling letter writer Bob Johnson a prevaricator, should have dug deeper in her research.
Ms. Briley cites The Chronicle for Charitable Giving in naming the five most charitable states as Utah, D.C. (?), Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, mostly Republican. The Chronicles findings have been faulted for not providing basic weighting factors plus breakdowns of nonsecular giving as opposed to secular giving.
Further research might have led Ms. Briley to Forbes.com, and the Boston College Center for Philanthropy, an organization that presents a far different picture.
Boston College research names Utah as No. 1, followed by Maryland, New York, Connecticut and California, all Democratic states except for Utah. Methodology and weighting criteria are cited. Paul Grogan, author of its most recent study on the subject, says that Itemizers are a very small portion of taxpayers. To compare their charitable donations to the average income for everybody is like comparing apples to oranges.
Those who would publicly call another a liar should be able to prove the charge. You can find figures to prove anything you want, depending on what youre looking for.
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Cell phones and other electronic devices (except assistive listening devices) are not permitted in the courtroom.
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No Audio or Video recording or the taking of photographs is allowed unless approved pursuant to California Rules of Court, Rule 1.150. Any person who fails to comply with these restrictions will be removed from the courtroom.
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July 30, 2006
Some talented locals showed their stuff in downtown Augusta Sunday, July 30, hoping to make an impression on some big time judges.
It's the show where "stars are born and legends are made."
Big names like Ella Fitzgerald and Augusta's legendary James Brown have all come out of the Apollo Theatre.
On their nationwide search for their next big act, judges made a stop in Augusta.
Before there was "American Idol", it was "Showtime at the Apollo."
"Apollo has been on for 73 years and on TV for more than 20," said Apollo judge Vanessa Brown-Rogers. "It's the first to create a talent show involving the audience."
"I used to watch and see dancers up there and say, 'Man, I wish I could'," said audition hopeful Ansley Jones. "I know I'd never get the chance to go somewhere, so it was cool it's down here now."
Ansley and her dance partner, Craig, were only one of an elite four chosen so far.
"They told us to make ourselves available for the last two weekends in September so we could perform for amateur night," she said.
Hundreds of talented hopefuls lined up outside the Imperial Theatre for hours for their 90 seconds in the spotlight.
"I practiced a couple times, but I'm not going to wear myself out so I won't be nervous when I get up there," hopeful Bianca McGhee said.
From singers to off the wall moves and comedians who laugh at their own jokes, judges are looking for one skill.
"Our show is based on audience participation," Brown-Rogers said. "If you can't get three of us to believe you, then you can't get 1500 people to believe you on live TV."
And it's that very same conviction that helped Ansley make it to the finals.
"People are afraid that if you put too much in it, it won't do anything for your life," she said. "I wasn't allowed to take dance classes until I left for college."
Now she says she'll never miss another beat.
Those who were selected to move on will fly to New York in September to start taping for the show that hits the air in October.


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All local ski areas, that normally open during the week, said they plan to reopen today.
The Tuesday rain forced the temporary closing of Blue Mountain in Danielsville, Camelback Mount Resort in Tannersville, Jack Frost/Big Boulder in Blakeslee and Shawnee Mountain in Shawnee-on-Delaware.
By Tuesday afternoon, all said they plan to open again today.
Alpine Mountain and Ski Big Bear are only open on the weekends, and both have ski events planned for then.
Temperatures are expected to reach 48 degrees today and then drop to 39 degrees on Thursday.
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Robertsville Middle School opened its home portion of the 2012-13 season with a pair of convincing wins Thursday against visiting Karns Middle. The Lady Rams took a slim 7-6 lead at the end of the first quarter and extended it with full-court pressure to a 19-7 lead at the half.
The Lady Rams were led in scoring by Mykia Dowdell with 10 and Makayla Johnson with seven. Destiny Kassner scored six while Olivia Daniels, Kyrah Sanders and Desiree Bates chipped in two points each.
"From a defensive standpoint this is the best we've played to this point in the season," coach Scott Hinton said of his 4-3 team. "Mykia and Desiree were both able to get a lot of deflections on the press, which led to easy scores during our run in the second quarter."
The boys used a similar script to get their seventh win, taking a 17-10 lead after the first and making it 30-18 before half. The Rams defense was even more air tight in the third as they held the Karns Beavers to just five points.
Tee Higgins led RMS with 23 points and had eight rebouds to go with four steals and a block. Taijon Jones had three assists and three steals to go with his 12 points.
Demarea Whitt had nine points, four steals and three rebounds while Markell Rowe came away with eight rebounds and four points.
Robertsville travels to Webb on Monday to face the Spartans. Tipoff for the girls game is 4:30 p.m. with the boys to follow at 5:30 p.m.
Jefferson girls fall to familiar face at GCMS
The Jefferson Lady Eagles lost a close one to Barry Haile and the Grace Christian Lady Rams, 32-27, on Thursday. Haile, a long time coach at JMS, took the coaching job at GCMS and has made them into a contender.
Kayal Summers led JMS with 10 points and five rebounds as the game stayed tight throughout. The Lady Eagles led by one at halftime and found themselves down by two points at the start of the fourth but could not get ahead as the buzzer sounded.
Amara Howard had seven points and Leah Scudder had six to go with her eight steals. JMS hosts LaFollette tonight.
Robert Holder can be contacted at (865) 220-5508.
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WILLIAMSTOWN - The carved bear statue that was reported missing earlier this week has been recovered, officials said.
The more than five-foot-tall carving was found in the old Riverview Cemetery, said Sgt. Robert Sims with the Wood County Sheriff's Office.
"A subject traveling across old Waverly Pike looked out the window and spotted the bear in the cemetery," Sims said Thursday.
This occurred Thursday afternoon. It remains unknown who took the bear and when.
Dave Ferguson, a chainsaw carver with a home studio off of Seventh Street in Parkersburg, created and donated the bear. He said the wood bear was estimated to be worth about $600.
"I'm thinking, or wondering that someone read the missing article in the paper and thought they could really get in trouble and decided to put it in the cemetery," Ferguson said. "But I'm ecstatic it was found because I didn't think I'd ever hear about it again."
Ferguson said as far as the responding deputy could tell, the bear was not damaged.
"The case is still under investigation," Sims said.
The carving was removed from the cemetery not long after its discovery and placed in storage at the Williamstown Welcome Center.
On Tuesday, Ferguson reported the bear missing to the Department of Highways.
The 150-pound sculpture had sat next to the northbound Interstate 77 exit ramp in Williamstown for the past four years, since Ferguson had donated it to the West Virginia Department of Highways as a welcome.
The bear had held a "welcome" sign in one paw and an American flag in the other.
"People seemed to respect the bear because about six months or so ago the original flag had broken and someone replaced it with a brand new flag," Ferguson said. "So, someone cared about it."
On Tuesday Ferguson contacted WVDOH officials, who confirmed they had not removed the bear.
Officials said it is unclear when the sculpture was taken. Ferguson said he had seen it in early September but doesn't remember whether it was there afterward.
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SAN JOSE -- In what city leaders hope ushers in a new era of international travel for their modern airport, the inaugural All Nippon Airways Dreamliner 787 flight linking Silicon Valley with Tokyo roared out over the Pacific on Friday morning, just hours after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered a safety review of the new planes.
The long-courted San Jose-Tokyo flight -- a five-day-a-week route that eventually will be daily -- received a boisterous send-off, including toasts of sake and a water turret salute. San Jose is the first Bay Area airport to land the fuel-sipping plane loaded with passenger comforts -- such as larger windows with electronic shades -- on a permanent route. And it is the first direct San Jose flight to Asia since American Airlines ended its San Jose-Tokyo service seven years ago.
"It's important to our economy, it's important to our families and it's important to our airport," San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed said in a ceremony marking the start of the service that began with two musicians playing kotos, harplike Japanese instruments. Reed was accompanied by a host of heavy hitters, including former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos, Consul General of Japan in San Francisco Hiroshi Inomata and ANA Chairman Yoji Ohashi.
"The San Jose-Tokyo service is now open for business," announced Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino, who played an instrumental role in bringing the new route to San Jose. A ribbon-cutting and breaking of a sake barrel with wooden mallets, a traditional Japanese ritual called kagami-wari, which symbolizes a new beginning, ensued.
The launch party, though, was overshadowed by the FAA announcement that it is undertaking a comprehensive review of critical systems of the Boeing's newest and most technologically advanced jetliner after a fire and a fuel leak earlier this week. The investigation will include the design, manufacture and assembly of those systems.
The aircraft is made with flexible and lighter high-strength fibers embedded in resin, making it 20 percent more fuel-efficient than other jetliners. But numerous glitches with the Dreamliner -- some aviation analysts call them "teething" problems -- have caused Boeing embarrassment.
On Monday, an electrical fire broke out on a Japan Airlines-operated 787 Dreamliner after landing in Boston; the next day, another JAL 787 aborted a flight departing from Boston after some 40 gallons of fuel spilled onto the runway. And on Wednesday, ANA canceled a domestic Dreamliner flight because of a brake problem.
The string of problems caused some passengers on the San Jose-Tokyo flight to joke that they were bringing along electrical tool kits and fire extinguishers. Guardino said he considered taking "a backpack with a parachute."
ANA took delivery of the first 787 in October 2011. Last fall, the Tokyo-based airline said it was ordering 11 more, which will eventually give it a Dreamliner fleet of 66.
ANA Chairman Ohashi, who greeted scores of reporters from Japan and the Bay Area with a bow, said the airline has not yet spoken with the FAA and would not comment regarding the agency's review of the aircraft. But, he added, "We are confident about the Dreamliner. We still believe this is a good aircraft. As the launch carrier (of the 787), we believe this is our destiny."
Ohashi said the San Jose route is an important one for ANA. San Jose "is located in the center of Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley has a lot of IT companies, including Japanese ones." ANA hopes to tap those business travelers heading to Japan and elsewhere in Asia, he said.
Travelers on the sold-out flight appeared thrilled at the chance to cross the ocean on an airplane analysts believe will change the airline industry, much like Boeing's 747 did in the 1970s by opening up long-haul travel for the masses. The 787's efficiency and long-range capabilities could make direct international flights to smaller airports like San Jose profitable for airlines.
When the plane touched down about 9:25 a.m., cheers erupted in the airport's new lounge, The Club, located near ANA's gate. Onlookers pressed up against the windows overlooking the airfield, clicking pictures with their cameras and smartphones.
Clearly, the airplane's celebrity status has not been damaged by the recent glitches -- at least for those on hand for its arrival.
Robert Erickson, a tax adviser from Washington, D.C., was the first to check in. He shrugged at the reports of problems. "No passenger has been injured or killed on a 787," he said.
Erickson, who decided to take a vacation to Japan when he heard about the new 787 San Jose-Tokyo route, was eager to enjoy the plane's amenities.
"I am looking forward to the experience of the larger windows, the fresher air," he said. "It's supposed to be roomier. And I'm looking forward to seeing what ANA is like. It's a new experience."
Passenger Alan Tsuda of San Carlos, a consultant, said he was pleased he can now catch a direct flight to Asia from San Jose International.
"It's a big deal for San Jose," he said. "It puts the 'international' in San Jose International. I like being able to leave out of San Jose. San Francisco (International) can be daunting at times. There is a lot more traffic."
Securing the nonstop flight required a five-year effort by city officials and business leaders. They promised ANA officials they would strongly nudge the valley's global business community to use the new service, which can link passengers to cities across Asia. Also playing a role in attracting the airline was Mercury News Publisher Mac Tully, chairman of the group's CEO airport task force.
The stakes are high for San Jose International, which is saddled with $1.5 billion in debt from its major makeover a few years ago: Other Asian and European carriers have indicated they are interested in launching a service to San Jose if the ANA route is a success, said Bill Sherry, San Jose International's director of aviation.
City officials estimate the new San Jose-Tokyo route will generate $78 million in business for Silicon Valley and 61 jobs in San Jose during its first year of service.
Contact John Boudreau at 408-278-3496; follow him at Twitter.com/svwriter.


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(February 20, 2013)--Automatic across-the-board budget cuts set to take effect on March 1 unless a deal can be reached on Capitol Hill would be felt in the Fort Hood area and across Central Texas.
If Congress does not pass or extend the budget, many of the civilian DOD employees in the area could lose their jobs, be furloughed without pay or forced to cut back their hours.
"You take that many days of unpaid civilian salary, that's going to have an impact on the local economy," said retired Lt. Gen. Pete Taylor of Heart of Texas Defense Alliance.
At a Garrison Town Hall meeting last week on post, workers learned that the cuts started in October 2012.
So far 60 jobs have been shed, but Fort Hood still needs to cut another 120 by September.
Workforce Solutions of Central Texas says a few Fort Hood civilian employees have stopped by to check out resources.
The agency says now is a good time for civilian employees to prepare for the worst.
"Think of the activities they did in those jobs, and you can use that to try to find other jobs you might be interested in or qualified for," said Wendy Ann Damon, career center supervisor.
The Department of Defense says that if furloughs take place, all affected employees will be notified at least 30 days in advance.


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Yahoo Ads Are Targeted in Malware Attack
A security breach that researchers say affected thousands of visitors to Yahoo websites in recent days shines a light on the use of online ads as a way to spread malicious software.
Yahoo took down advertisements containing malware that is says were shown to visitors of its sites in Europe between Dec. 31 and Jan. 3, the company said today in an emailed statement.
Security researchers at Fox-IT said in a blog post that the exploit infected the computers of about 27,000 users an hour during the attack, which focused on users in Romania, Britain and France. Fox-IT discovered the attack Jan. 3 and alerted Yahoo that day before publishing its findings, Joost Bijl, marketing manager at the security firm, said.
Malware is sometimes used to give its perpetrator control over the infected computers, steal usernames and passwords, and disable antivirus software, Bijl said. Users who think they have been affected should update their antivirus software. Turning off the use of Java in a browser can also limit exposure to future attacks, Bijl said.
Unlike hacking techniques that prey on users downloading malicious software, "malvertising" can infect users who simply click or view an ad. Just visiting a page that is carrying the malicious ad puts the visitor at risk — whether or not they click on or even see the ad, Bijl said. That makes Yahoo and other companies that serve ads to millions of users attractive targets.
Yahoo said users in North America, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region weren't affected, and that malicious ads weren't shown on mobile devices or Mac computers. "We will continue to monitor and block any advertisements being used for this activity," a Yahoo spokeswoman said in the email. "We will post more information for our users shortly."
Yahoo didn't say how many users were affected or comment on who might be behind the attack.
The New York Times website fell victim to malvertising in 2009, and two of the largest ad network operators, Google and Microsoft, have both worked to curb the practice in recent years.


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Monocle is a simple search tool that puts a universal search field at your disposal. When you want search, you can choose from a number of engines to perform the search in different places. Monocle comes preloaded with engines for Google, Wikipedia, Windows Live Search and Yahoo! Search. You can easily add your own engines by performing an example search inside a web browser window in Monocle.
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"Universal Attachability" for AppleScript
UI Actions brings "universal attachability" to AppleScript, greatly enhancing your control over applications running on your computer. Attach a UI Action script to any standard native OS X application, and UI Actions automatically runs the script whenever you perform specified user actions in the target application. You write the script, and you select the user action that triggers it, such as choosing a menu item, changing the value of a text field, opening a drawer or window, or activating an application.
UI Actions is a scriptable faceless background application, enabling you to use AppleScript commands to attach and detach UI Action scripts, to export and import sets of UI actions, to enable and disable them, and to get a reference to the affected UI element for use in your UI Action scripts.
The included UI Actions Setup application works with UI Actions. It provides a convenient graphical user interface to attach UI Action scripts to applications and to manage all of your UI Action scripts.
UI Actions is based on Apple's Accessibility API, and it fully supports GUI Scripting with AppleScript. You can write and distribute UI Action scripts that will run on any Macintosh computer where UI Actions is installed!
UI Actions version 2.3.0 adds support for new accessibility features introduced by Apple in OS X 10.10 Yosemite as well as minor improvements and bug fixes.
UI Actions may be purchased for $35.00 US.
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Read all about UI Actions on our web site:
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- Press - adding support for new accessibility features introduced by Apple in OS X 10.10 Yosemite as well as minor improvements and bug fixes, in UI Actions Setup 2.3.0 on October 25, 2014
- Support - including general UI Actions tips, and special notes for users running UI Actions 2.3.0 under OS X v10.7 Lion or v10.8 Mountain Lion
And in our first review:
- in ATPM (About This Particular Macintosh). UI Actions now implements almost all of the suggestions made in this detailed review of UI Actions 1.0.
And in print:
- Matt Neuburg, AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition (O'Reilly & Associates 2006)
- What's New with AppleScript in Tiger (MacTech, May 2005, p. 72) by Ben Waldie
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This version of UI Actions runs on OS X v10.7 Lion or newer. See the Requirements section below for details.
Obtain a registration key from eSellerate to unlock the trial version. Either choose UI Actions > Registration > Obtain Key Online in the trial version of UI Actions Setup while connected to the Internet, or go to our Online Store. UI Actions is $35.00 US. Quantity discounts are available for 5 or more licenses.
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Updates for current customers: This version runs as a free update for all registered users of earlier versions of UI Actions.
Users of Mac OS X v10.6 Mountain Lion or older: UI Actions 2.3.0 does not run under versions of OS X older than OS X v10.7 Lion. If you need to run UI Actions under Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, download UI Actions 2.1.3, released June 2012. If you need to run UI Actions under Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, download UI Actions 2.0.1, released September 2010. If you need to run UI Actions under Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, download UI Actions 1.2.1, released June 2007. If you need to run UI Actions under Mac OS X v10.3 Panther, download UI Actions 1.1.1, released May 2005.
Download Automator Actions for UI Actions version 1.0, for use with UI Actions 1.1.1 and older. These four Automator actions are free, but they require UI Actions to work. They let you add steps to an Automator workflow to attach and detach your UI Action scripts automatically, in case you prefer not to write AppleScript scripts or use UI Actions Setup to do it. Although UI Actions 1.1.1 runs under Mac OS X v10.3 Panther or newer, Automator requires Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger or newer. (You do not need the separate Automator Actions download if you are using UI Actions 1.2 or newer, because the Automator Actions are now built into UI Actions.)
UI Actions 2.3.0 requires OS X v10.7 Lion or newer. At this writing, version 2.3.0 has been tested successfully through OS X v10.11.0 El Capitan.
Older versions of UI Actions are still available. UI Actions 2.1.3 runs under Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard. UI Actions 2.0.1 runs under Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard. UI Actions 1.2.1, runs under Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger. UI Actions 1.1.1 runs under Mac OS X v10.3 Panther. All of these older versions run with some limitations compared to the latest version.
UI Action scripts will be triggered by user actions only if the UI Actions faceless background application and the PFAssistive framework are installed on the user's computer. They are included in the download.
Apple's GUI Scripting technology was officially introduced in Panther as a standard feature of Mac OS X. Scripts written using the GUI Scripting technology will run on all computers equipped with Panther or newer, but some GUI Scripting features require newer versions of OS X. (Apple successfully concluded the GUI Scripting public beta test on Jaguar, and the beta version of the underlying GUI Scripting software for Jaguar is no longer available.)
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Coroner: Spartanburg woman dies in three-vehicle crash on I-85 Wednesday
Published: Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 5:31 p.m.
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A Spartanburg woman died in a crash involving an 18-wheeler on Interstate 85 Wednesday night.
Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger said in a written statement Thursday that Brenda Sue Hope Morphew, 65, of Webber Way, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 6:49 p.m., three-vehicle crash.
According to the S.C. Highway Patrol, Morphew was a passenger in a 2002 Ford Taurus involved in the crash on I-85 south near the 80 mile marker. Morphew was wearing a seat belt and was trapped inside the car, Cpl. Bill Rhyne said.
The Highway Patrol has not released the name of the driver of the Taurus, but she was also wearing a seat belt and trapped inside the car. She was taken to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center with injuries, Rhyne said.
A second driver involved in the crash was Wyomina Smith, 36, of Gaffney. She was driving a 2004 Cadillac, was wearing a seat belt and was not injured. Two passengers in her vehicle were wearing seat belts and were taken to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center with injuries, Rhyne said.
The driver of the 2001 Freightliner tractor-trailer, Camaley Anthony Sawyers, 28, of Riverdale, Ga., was wearing a seat belt and was not injured. He was later taken to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center for observation, Rhyne said.
No charges have been filed. The crash remains under investigation by the Highway Patrol's Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team. Troopers have not released the cause of the crash.
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A voluntary boil advisory issued for parts of Lake Region Water & Sewer Company was lifted around midday Wednesday, Oct. 9.
The advisory was issued Monday afternoon for The Club at Porto Cima and customers living east of the club including all of LaRiva Estates, Private Quarters, Villa LaCresta, and customers along Resplander Way.
Lake Region issued the advisory due to low pressure in the system from a water main break caused by a contractor working in the area, according to the company.
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I treated myself to some of my grandmother's biscuits this morning. We make them about the size of a silver dollar, and they are so tasty! Delicious with a little honey or jelly, they keep great – I'll be slicing them open and toasting them open-faced for several days! These biscuits are super easy to make. The key is in what kind of flour you use.
The only flour that my grandmother ever used was White Lily. I'm actually a bit torn about flour right now. I have used White Lily my entire life (mostly because it did right by Grandmama), but now that I'm trying to be more conscious of the ingredients I cook with I've got a little thinking to do. White Lily does not make organic flours (and they also don't make unbleached all-purpose flour). I'm curious to know what flours other people use, particularly with baking. I know that King Arthur carries a lot of different organic flours – is it worth it to switch from the flour that my family has used (literally) for generations?
Any other bakers out there care to weigh in? What flour do you use, and have you experimented with organic flours?
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At first glance, the San Jose City Council's vote last Tuesday on the proposed Rocketship charter school near the Tamien light-rail station looked like a straight party-line affair involving basic political math.
Six council members, all part of Mayor Chuck Reed's business-friendly coalition, voted for the nonunion Rocketship. The four dissenters sympathize with unions. Councilman Sam Liccardo, a Reed ally engaged to Rocketship official Jessica Garcia-Kohl, had to recuse himself from the issue.
Three of the dissenters -- Ash Kalra, Don Rocha and Xavier Campos -- have been mentioned as potential Assembly candidates.
A cynical reading of the vote is that they'd prefer not to offend the California Teachers Association, which has raised questions about the proliferation of charter schools.
That view, however much we like it, overlooks some very local background. Rocha and Campos know what it is to deal with knotty problems of school traffic -- Rocha with Harker School and Campos with charters in his district.
Kalra is a former planning commissioner who stressed the problems of picking up and dropping off kids, an almost inevitable curse with a new urban school.
Rocketship, meanwhile, won a 5-0 approval Wednesday night from the San Jose Planning Commission, which has two members sympathetic to the union side.
No, this is not a mistake: Kalra, Constant agree
And despite the feuding among San Jose's City Council factions, there's occasional consensus.
To wit: During last week's council meeting discussion of a pilot program for curb cafes, liberal Councilman Ash Kalra concurred with conservative colleague Pete Constant's concerns that proposed language might be too limiting.
"I agree with council member Constant," Kalra stated.
There was a brief moment of stunned silence before Kalra and the rest of the council burst out laughing in amazement. You can see for yourself on the council meeting video at www.sanjoseca.gov. It's at the 5 hour, 30-minute mark.
DA Rosen to seek advice on what to do about his old pal
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen has come through so far on his campaign promise to crack down on overzealous prosecutors. But he faces his biggest challenge in deciding what if anything to do about misconduct findings against his best friend and right-hand man, chief assistant district attorney Jay Boyarsky.
A state appellate court late last month reversed a judgment against a felon accused of being a sexually violent predator after finding Boyarsky had engaged in a "pervasive pattern of misconduct."
When we asked Rosen about it last week, he vowed in an emailed response to "carefully evaluate the ruling, briefs and trial transcripts," and said that "as a double check to my work, I will seek independent and outside advice."
"Once I finish my evaluation," Rosen said in the email, "I will treat the Chief Assistant the same way I treat any other prosecutor accused of misconduct and discipline him, if that is warranted."
We're not sure whom Rosen plans to seek out for that outside advice, though surely the DA who promised transparency as a candidate will let us know. Perhaps he'll confer with top ethics experts like Santa Clara University law school professor Gerald Uelmen.
As for disciplining his old pal, there's only so much Rosen is likely to reveal given laws that treat personnel matters as confidential. But speaking generally, Rosen suggested it may never come to that.
"Formal discipline is rarely appropriate for someone who makes an unintentional mistake for which they take responsibility," Rosen emailed. "Most often the reversal itself -- and subsequent training for the prosecutor -- is sufficient to ensure that the mistake will not be repeated."
New standardized tests need a better name
California last week rolled out its much-anticipated replacement for the STAR standardized tests for public school students.
Moving away from testing broad knowledge in math and English, the new tests will assess whether students think critically, solve problems and have in-depth understanding.
Which may all be fine, except perhaps from a marketing standpoint. Whatever its shortcomings, the STAR test had a nice ring to it.
The new tests? They're known as the Smarter Balanced assessments.
Really? You can imagine TV's fictional '60s advertising ace Don Draper snuffing out his Lucky Strike and furrowing his brow in disappointment before sending his young staffers back to the drawing board.
For starters, it sounds a bit too much like that Smart Balance, that spread in the dairy case. "Butter Just Got Better!" Is the state substituting STAR testing with low-calorie learning?
Sacramento Bee columnist Peter Schrag thought Smarter Balanced sounded more like a shoe. Let's face it: It doesn't exactly evoke academic excellence.
Yes, we know the name wasn't the state's idea. It's shorthand for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, a multistate group that developed the tests to align with the new Common Core State Standards.
But California's a heavyweight in that consortium. Surely, the state can lean on others to create a new moniker. How can we expect our kids to think seriously about a test that sounds like something they spread on their toast?
Speaker Pérez remains prickly with the media
Assembly Speaker John Pérez, D-Los Angeles, has had a prickly relationship with the media since he was stung with reports in 2011 that he'd falsified his résumé showing he'd graduated from UC Berkeley in 1991.
He's short with reporters when asked questions he doesn't want to answer. He exasperates them with windy, arcane pontifications on minute points.
And he's imposed rules that frustrate Capitol reporters, forbidding tape recordings of legislative sessions and requiring journalists -- men and women -- to wear jackets or sweaters in the chambers.
Pérez later relented on the recordings and loosened the dress code for women after journalists cried foul.
But we weren't surprised when he proposed a new rule forbidding interviews with legislators in the Assembly chambers. He said he was trying to keep the decorum of the chamber and minimize the noise, even though much of the chatter comes from legislative staffers.
Pérez has since backed down, designating a small section in the corner of the chamber for reporter interviews.
"We hope the solution we came up with is appreciated," said Robin Swanson, Pérez's spokeswoman. "We all are working hard to make sure everybody is accommodated."
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Apple Earnings: What to Watch
Apple's remarkable run of earnings growth came to a halt in the past fiscal year as the company's annual profit fell for the first time in more than a decade. An increasingly competitive mobile market squeezed the profitability of its flagship products, the iPhone and iPad, raising questions about whether Apple's best days are behind it.
Apple sought to dispel such notions during this past holiday quarter. It rolled out two new versions of its iPhone, the first time it has launched more than one new model of its smartphone at the same time, and refreshed its iPad line-up.
New products will help drive sales, but the changing smartphone landscape is pressuring Apple's bottom line. Much of the growth now comes from emerging markets, where low-cost alternatives to Apple's high-end products are more popular. What's more, the company needs to spend heavily on marketing to keep fueling demand for its products amid a flurry of new smartphones from competitors.
Last week, Samsung — Apple's main rival for smartphones – reported a decline in profitability at its mobile division, hit by a rise in marketing expenses to promote new handsets.
Wall Street will be watching to see if those factors weighed on Apple. The average estimate from analysts is for net income of $12.68 billion, about 3% lower than a year ago. Profit is expected to decline even though revenue is projected to rise 5% to $57.46 billion — toward the high end of Apple's forecast of $55 billion to $58 billion.
Apple will report earnings after the market closes Monday and hold a conference call at 5 p.m. ET. The Journal is live blogging the call here; here are some key themes to watch:
How Margins Are Holding Up: The most closely watched numbers will be Apple's gross margin in the December quarter and its forecast for the current quarter. Gross margin — the percentage of revenue that remains after manufacturing costs — is viewed as the purest snapshot of Apple's profitability. For the December quarter, Apple forecast gross margin of 36.5% to 37.5%, with analysts predicting that it will come in at the high end of that range. Just two years ago, Apple's gross margins were routinely above 40%, hitting a high of 47.4% in the March quarter of 2012.
Sales of the Flagship Product: The iPhone remains Apple's most important product, accounting for more than half of its revenue. Apple launched the iPhone 5S and 5C in September, with a new emphasis on foreign markets. For the first time, Apple introduced the new phones in China without a delay; it also inked a long-awaited deal with Japan's largest carrier, NTT Docomo. Analysts are forecasting sales of about 55 million iPhones in the quarter, or about a 15% increase from the year-ago period. The figures are not expected to include sales to China Mobile, the world's largest carrier, which started selling the iPhone earlier this month.
The Cash Fight With Icahn: The activist investor Carl Icahn has ramped up his campaign for Apple to reduce its cash hoard by repurchasing more shares. Icahn, who says he has acquired $3.6 billion in Apple shares, wants a shareholder vote on a proposal for Apple to buy an additional $50 billion in shares by September — beyond the $60 billion Apple already has pledged to repurchase. So far, the company has rebuffed Icahn's proposals. Investors will be listening to hear if the company offers any additional plans for Apple's cash pile – $147 billion and growing — to keep Icahn happy.
Business in China: CEO Tim Cook said signing up China Mobile, which has more than 700 million subscribers, was a watershed moment for the company. It bolsters Apple's position in the world's largest smartphone market, where it lags behind rivals. Apple has not spoken about the potential impact of the China Mobile deal, but analysts are forecasting that it could result in an additional 15 million iPhones for the Chinese market this year. While announcing the China Mobile deal, Cook also said Apple sold more iPhones in Greater China, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, in the December quarter than ever before. Investors are anxious to see the impact on revenue in Greater China, Apple's third-largest region for sales.
Any Word on New Products: Apple has said that 2014 will be a big year, a declaration that many take as a sign that the company will move into a new product segment. It has been four years since Apple introduced a major new product, the iPad, and speculation is building that the company is preparing something new such as a watch or a television. Will Apple executives spill the beans on what it has in the pipeline? Don't hold your breath.
Related: Dan Gallagher has details on MoneyBeat.


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Teens and tweens are not the only ones flinging harsh words from behind a keyboard.
A quick glance at online forums, Facebook pages and chat rooms will quickly show that adults also take to the Internet to vent personal frustrations, gossip and bicker with one another.
"I think online bullying is just one example of keyboard bravery," said Dr. Ryan May, clinical psychologist and chair of the psychology department at Marietta College.
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"A lot of people scream and yell and fight with
each other online. They call each other names. It's an everyday thing."
— James Winch, 45, Marietta.
Where most people would not name call or threaten another person to his or her face, the online world is rife with examples of both, said May.
On the site www.topix.com, which allows users to post topics and comment on articles relevant to their area, users in the Marietta forums can often be found harassing one another.
"Get off the bath salt high already, you stoner," wrote one user in response to another who disagreed with Ohio's decision to ban bath salts.
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Advice for adult victims of cyberbullying
Do not retaliate or respond to the cyberbully except to calmly tell them to stop.
Keep all evidence of the bullying: messages, posts, comments, etc.
Familiarize yourself with the Terms of Use for the various sites you frequent, many of which will have rules in place prohibiting harassment.
Report the bullying to the service or content provider for the site being used.
If threats are being made, contact a local law enforcement agency.
Source: Cyberbullying Research Center.
In another comment section, one user posted a photograph of a woman along with an explicitly worded message that she was promiscuous.
Often a heated issue will be the impetus for a negative exchange of words.
On a Facebook page dedicated to the discussion of issues relating to the Warren Local school district, one commenter alleged that a Board of Education member had a problem with understanding words.
"Maybe he should go to the Sylvan Learning Center," the commenter quipped.
"A lot of these online comments are done with user names, not real names. Things can be said and you don't even know who's doing it to you," pointed out May.
When the comments section of a Yahoo news article about Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio turned to speculation about Rubio's future bid for the presidency, one commenter posted, "Only an idiot tool would vote for him!"
In return, a commenter whose screen name is simply a period called the initial commenter "a racist idiot."
Marietta resident James Winch, 45, has seen just how serious adults can get online.
"A lot of people scream and yell and fight with each other online. They call each other names. It's an everyday thing," said Winch of adults he sees interacting online.
Those comments can get especially vicious during multiple player Internet games, he said.
He plays one game with thousands of individuals around the world, where players can type to one another in the "comms," a sort of chat room within the game play, said Winch.
People curse at one another and make crude comments about each other's family members, he said. But Winch has even been seriously threatened.
"People ask where you live and say they are going to come beat you up," he said.
Part of the problem could be that some bullying tendencies carry over from childhood, pointed out Maggie Webster, school counselor for Fort Frye Local Schools and a trainer for the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program.
"There is a developmental trajectory. It seems to be that children who bully, if there is little intervention, will transfer that bullying later on in life to other relationships," explained Webster.
People who bully are hungry for power and control, said Webster.
"That's what bullying is, having power over somebody else," she said.
Some, like Winch, can just shrug off the aggressors.
"I think they're just cry babies. You're on a screen and you're a thousand miles away, so you can talk all you want," he said.
But other adults do not have such an easy time separating themselves from the negativity.
Just Wednesday, Canadian tennis pro Rebecca Marino announced she was retiring from professional tennis, citing depression coupled with the stress of online harassment.
Marino, who was once ranked 38th in the Women's Tennis Association rankings, told reporters she'd received tweets that she should "go die" and "go burn in hell."
"Social media has also taken its toll on me," 22-year-old Marino told reporters.
Those kind of comments cross the legal line, said Capt. Jeff Waite of the Marietta Police Department.
"Threats is the threshold. You can't do that in person. You can't do that online either," he said.
And online tyrants can get into trouble even when they are not directly threatening anyone. Several cases have arisen where employees have been fired for negative comments made online.
In a highly publicized event in 2010, former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell was fired for comments he posted in his blog, attacking the former University of Michigan student body president for his "radical homosexual agenda."
Shirvell appealed his dismissal with the state's Civil Service Commission and lost.
Oftentimes, online commenters are blindly impassioned about the topic at hand, but sometimes people are simply looking to stir up trouble. These people are called trolls, said Bob Van Camp, an associate professor of computer science at Marietta College.
"It's really like a regular troll from fairy tales. It is someone who lurks online and posts inflammatory remarks," explained Van Camp.
These trolls will often have multiple accounts and do not necessarily even believe in what they post, he said.
Adults who want to avoid the negativity of adult bullying can make simple adjustments to avoid it, said May.
"I think that sometimes we have a tendency to react too quickly to hit the send button," he said.
Instead users can simply block negative posters or ignore them, he said.
That is the approach that Marietta resident Asher Doak, 32, takes.
Comments on YouTube videos and other online forums often feature posters who curse at one another, make comments about each other's intelligence and just generally name-call, he said.
"Most of those people don't even know how to spell. If you're going to get on somebody's case, at least learn how to spell," he said.


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More agencies are joining in on the search for suspected kidnapper, Brian Adkison.
Thursday, it was announced that the FBI and a deputy U.S. Marshal task force are now helping in the search that started over the weekend.
Authorities have been searching by land, air and water near Ivy Bend.
SWAT teams from Benton and Morgan counties and the Highway Patrol were searching the woods late Wednesday night. Four Highway Patrol boats were on the lake and the Patrol's helicopter was searching overhead.
The search effort has run into some problems. The Morgan County's armored SWAT vehicle broke down en route to the checkpoint. Highway Patrol's thermal imaging scanner in their helicopter is not working, hurting efforts to continue the search through the night.
ABC 17 News first reported Wednesday afternoon that a deputy noticed the back door of a home in Brown's Bend had been kicked in around 3 p.m.
That deputy started searching the area and saw a boat leave the dock behind the home. A Highway Patrol boat tried to intercept that boat, but Adkison jumped out of the boat and ran into the woods on the Morgan County side of the lake.
Law enforcement near the Lake of the Ozarks have been actively searching for Adkison after he was spotted near Sunrise Beach Monday afternoon. He is thought to be armed and dangerous.
The Morgan County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday that Adkison was initially observed Monday in Sunrise Beach, driving a stolen pickup truck.
Adkison then stole a personal water craft and fled the area. The Missouri State Highway Patrol recovered the water craft near the 58 mile marker in Ivy Bend.
Witnesses reported seeing Adkison fleeing the area on foot, so authorities set up a perimeter in the area to conduct a sweep of the wood, but did not find him.
Law enforcement say he was last seen wearing a black shirt and blue jean shorts.
Police said he may be looking for a plane to steal and was observed near a small airport on Monday.
Adkison may have been wounded after possibly suffering an injury over the weekend when he allegedly kidnapped 23-year-old Lauren Crawford.
Residents who talked to ABC 17 News fear he is hiding in a vacation home and will be able to wait police out.
Earlier Monday, the Missouri State Highway Patrol told ABC 17 News they sent their their helicopter to the area to assist in an active pursuit.
Law enforcement were searching the Lake of the Ozarks for a missing Jet Ski that Adkison may have taken.
Previously around 4 p.m., police were involved in an active manhunt in a wooded Morgan County area near Highway 135. They believe Adkison was on foot in the woods.
Officers had earlier set up a checkpoint near Shawnee View Drive and Highway TT to search cars for Adkision.
An ABC 17 News crew at the scene said there was a heavy police presence in the area, with the Camden County Sheriff's Department and Sunrise Beach Police Department.
Lauren Crawford was reported missing over the weekend but found at University Hospital Sunday after she contacted her family. Crawford is a medical student at the University of Missouri.
Hospital officials told ABC 17 News Sunday night that she was treated and released.
Police say Crawford's ex-boyfriend, Adkison, is a suspect. Law enforcement say Crawford left her home Saturday to walk her dog. Her dog was later found without her.


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The Dillon Town Council approved a temporary ban on issuing permits for recreational marijuana businesses at its Tuesday night meeting. The motion passed with a 6-1 vote. All council members were present.
According to the ordinance, the moratorium will extend through Oct. 1, although the Town Council can opt to lift the ban at any time, if deemed necessary.
"The biggest reason is because the state doesn't have any of the regulations in place yet," said Dillon town manager Joe Wray, of the purpose behind implementing the moratorium.
The recently convened Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force, a statewide panel tasked with helping lawmakers implement regulations on the sale of recreational marijuana, is expected to issue its recommendations in February. If the state fails to adopt regulations by July 1, or doesn't begin accepting applications for marijuana establishments by Oct. 1, regulatory authority rolls down to local governments.
"The benefit is that it gives us time to actually sit down and learn about it. There's so much that's not known, there's so much that hasn't been decided on the state level yet, it's kinda ridiculous we're supposed to come up with something when we have no guideline," said Dillon mayor Ron Holland. "But I do insist that we not just sit here and wait until Oct. 1 and not do anything. That's just buying time. I think we need to be proactive and discuss it and come up with what we want the town of Dillon to do, sooner than later."
Council member R. Louis Skowyra III was the only one to vote against implementing the moratorium.
"The state of Colorado, and specifically our local community, spoke loud and clear last November," Skowyra said. "I wanted to make sure my vote most accurately reflected the constituency."
The town has already been approached by an individual with an interest in a recreational marijuana business permit, although no application for the permit has been submitted at this time.
"I don't want to sit around and twiddle our thumbs. I want to address it and move on," Holland said.