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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Monday, June 4, 2012
AIKEN, S.C. -- What was once was an old beer warehouse is now a bustling city of crates crammed with beer cans. There's also plastic strawberry containers and industrial hydraulic fluid buckets, too.
Overall, they're just a couple samples from a potpourri of garbage that's stacking up ready to be recycled. But what's unusual about this recycling facility is its workforce that zips around all day on forklifts. They are recyclers who have been recycled themselves.
"We've got guys that came in that hadn't been given a lot of opportunity and to watch them grow is an amazing thing," said Norman Dunagan, who runs the 14-man operation off York Street in North Aiken.
It's a start-up recycling company cleverly named Dumpster Depot.
Dunagan was, by all accounts, a Fortune 500 guy.
"We thought that I would never leave Frito Lay. I was successful with Frito Lay -- one of the top districts within Frito Lay," Dunagan told News 12.
But in an unexpected money-saving maneuver, Frito-Lay laid Dunagan off.
"So, I decided that, at that point, that we would be looking to own our own business," he recalled.
He finally collected the capital to establish Dumpster Depot around 2002. The recycling business took off two years ago, despite the recession.
"We feel like we've taken advantage of a downed market. We came in to recycling at the same time that companies were looking for ways to save money," Dunagan said.
What Dumpster Depot does is an intricate process. It hauls in waste from businesses and manufacturers, reprocesses and bales the waste and then sells the recycled material back to other manufacturers for profit.
That's the reason piles of industrial rubber at the facility is so valuable. Old, dirty carpet might as well be lined with gold.
Ultimately, it's ton after ton of waste that won't end up in a landfill for eternity. Dunagan says Dumpster Depot kept 8,000,000,000 pounds of waste out of landfills this year.
It's all made possible by workers like Elijah Pontoon.
"I like it a whole lot. It gives me a different insight on recycling," Pontoon said.
Pontoon has lived in Aiken most of his life. He says he's been through hard times, but now, has stability.
"We pull people in, you know, they might have a little record, you know. Norman, he's open-hearted. He doesn't look at it as far as their past history. He just does as far as what they do in here for Dumpster Depot," Pontoon said.
Some of the workers even have criminal records.
"We've got people that we hired here that were having trouble getting a job because of things that were in their past, and we're not looking toward the past, we're looking toward the future. This whole recycling that we're doing is all about looking toward the future," Dunagan said.
Workers without cars can walk to work. Current employees can refer others to stop in and meet Dunagan and land a job, as long as they're ready to work hard.
"You can't teach passion. You have to hire passion and that is the truth. I feel like if you give people the opportunity and give them the leeway to succeed, they'll out-perform your expectations," Dunagan said.
Pontoon says he's gained valuable management skills that could easily land him a job higher up the totem pole somewhere else, but without question, he says his future is at Dumpster Depot.
And Dunagan says the future of Dumpster Depot looks bright.
Additionally, he says large manufacturers and big-box stores already recycle through big contractors. That's why Dumpster Depot goes for the small and middle-sized businesses and manufacturers -- from a yogurt shop in Evans to a carpet store in Augusta.
His plan is to expand to Augusta, so his company can have a job impact there, too. All the while, he says the environmental impact is purely a bonus.


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The price of gas may be hurting you at the pump, but have you ever though about how much it costs a truck driver to fill up?
"It takes $1,000 to fill it up," said Comstar driver John Watson. "I make sure I don't drive any faster than 62 mpg and that helps a little and I don't idle more than I have to."
"It used to cost around $500 to $600, now it's up to $900 to $1,000," said RMX driver Mark Wratchford. "It's really getting tough."
The drivers tell New Ten that, filling up 300 gallons for a thousand dollars or more can last for just three days, if you're lucky. The cost of diesel is usually always more and industry experts attribute that to high worldwide demand.
It's a commodity that there's not much of as there is gasoline," said Michigan Petroleum President Mark Griffin.
Whether it's diesel or regular, both prices are always influx and based on a lot of what if's.
"If this happens it could cause a disruption in supply so therefore we're trading these futures down the road, [so] we need to charge more for them today," said Griffin.
And the speculation is based in part on the conflict in the Middle East. But Griffin says we can't just blame Libya or other parts of the Middle East.
"This year because of speculation and fear that there's going to be a shortage due to unrest in the middle east, it's caused crude oil to go up faster at a time when typically it doesn't go up. And unfortunately it means higher prices at the pump," said Griffin.
The U.S. imports only 15% of its oil from the Middle East. 85% comes from North America including Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. And the reality is there is no shortage, supply more than meets demand but it's the future, that's the variable.
"I use the acronym SIRF: Speculation, Innuendo, Rumor and Fear that drive up the price of crude oil not what's really going on in the marketplace," said Griffin. "To a certain extent this is a false run up in the price of crude oil."
While it may be a false run because of all the speculation, it certainly doesn't make us any better when filling up.
"You don't cut back, you keep going, you take the hit," said Wratchford.
Another issue is many consumers feel the price at the pump shouldn't have to pay such exorbitant prices but something many people don't know is gas stations are actually losing money at the pump, usually. After it pays for the gas, including the transportation of it and all the fees and taxes associated with it, it tends to lose double-digit cents on the gallon.
"In 2009 the typical gas station in this area sold gasoline at about a 6.5 cent a gallon loss. In 2010 it was about 5.5 cents and it's not unusual to see gasoline sold at a loss because of the competitive pressure," said Griffin. As of March 8, 2011, gas station on average are losing 11 cents.
Gas prices could be going up soon in the months to come. When stations switch to a summer blend, consumer could be paying as much as 5 cents more per gallon.


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If at first you don't succeed...
Augusta government watchdog Woody Merry and his attorney Joe Neal have announced they'll try again.
"We're going to give one hell of shot. We're going to Atlanta. I'm going to argue this in front of the Supreme Court," said Neal.
They're asking Georgia's Supreme Court to force the mayor's hand.
Even though Judge Carlisle Overstreet denied Woody Merry's petition to end abstentions in the Augusta Commission, Merry originally claimed that the ruling, which clarified the mayor's power to change an abstention to a yes or no vote, was a victory.
But now he says commissioners are making up their own rules, and it's time to take things one step further.
"We still do not have a properly elected mayor pro-tem after 100 days," Merry said.
Merry and Neal say nothing's changed since the judge's ruling, and that's why they want to take their case to a higher court.
"We're going to ask the Supreme Court of Georgia to issue a mandamus to order the commission to hold an election for mayor pro tem and elect somebody lawfully," said Neal.
Merry says some commissioners have misinterpreted the judge's order and are now abstaining or voting present just because they can.
"Commissioner Hatney abstained 11 times, voted present 5 times, out of the room 7 times, not voting one time," Merry said.
Merry says Mayor Copenhaver has also ignored the judge's order by not using his power. Merry claims Copenhaver is avoiding controversy, as he's up for re-election.
"That is unbelievable to me," Copenhaver said.
Copenhaver says he will only use his power on issues that move the city forward.
He says Merry's appeal may only hinder such progress.
"It hurts our economic development efforts to have all this uproar. It's sad that we're continuing to create this controversy and bring it upon ourselves," Copenhaver said.
And while the commission could be headed back to court, Marion Williams says this time he sees no need to spend money defending himself.
"I don't have no reason to get an attorney," Williams said. "I don't need to do anything. I'm the mayor pro-tem and I'm going to be the mayor pro-tem."
We were not able to reach Judge Overstreet to get clarification on his ruling or his reaction to the appeal.
If there is a date set for this case by the Supreme Court...we will let you know.


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EDWARDS - Battle Mountain girls' basketball snapped its nine-game losing streak with a 55-23 victory over Summit County, making Huskies' fans feel a little lighter Tuesday night.
"It feels like a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders," Huskies coach Vinny Cisneros said. "The girls have been so resilient. The old saying goes, 'Coaches lose games and players win games.' The girls played a great game."
Whatever the adage is, give yourself a W, Vinny.
Battle Mountain (2-9 overall and 2-4 in the 4A Slope) burst out to a 16-0 lead and never looked back. While this season has not gone as well as hoped for both Shrine Pass rivals, this was a particularly bitter pill for the Tigers (1-10, 0-7) and their head coach Dylan Hollingsworth.
"It's unacceptable," he said. "The way we played was unacceptable. Our attitude was unacceptable. We just can't play like that."
The Huskies shed, at least temporarily, the slow starts that have plagued them this season. Battle Mountain's Michelle Rios, Logan Nash and Taylor Davidson all had field goals in the first quarter, staking the Huskies to a 9-0 lead after eight minutes.
Nash and Davidson struck again and then Ali Teague hit from beyond the arc for a 16-0 lead. Summit's Meg Heil broke up the run with a Tigers' basket with 6:24 left in the first half.
The Huskies kept coming, though.
"Starting slow has been our nemesis all year long," Cisneros said. "I told the girls, challenged them not to wait until we were down by 20 (points) before playing with full intensity. They did that. They played like they were down, and built on that."
Of particular concern to Hollingsworth was his team's rebounding - or primarily, the lack thereof.
"We got killed on the boards," he said. "We have to take boxing out seriously. We've got to rebound better or this is going to be a long season."
Hollingsworth's frustration peaked in the third quarter when he got a technical foul.
Summit has Delta at Farmer's Korner at noon Saturday.


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PARKERSBURG - Art lovers came out Sunday for the opening of three exhibits at the Parkersburg Art Center.
The largest of the events is the ninth West Virginia Art and Craft Guild Biennial Juried Exhibition, said Abby Hayhurst, executive director of the center.
"This is a pretty prestigious organization and each piece goes through a stringent jurying process," Hayhurst said. "We are proud to show the 75 winning pieces and every single one of them is wonderful."
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Julian Siefeit, 9, of Vienna, looks at one of the Artist-Trees to find items during Sunday's opening of three exhibits at the Parkersburg Art Center. (Photo by Jolene Craig)
Calligrapher Sharon Hanse demonstrates a style of penmanship in the Ebsenshade Gallery of the Parkersburg Art Center for the Marietta Calligraphy Society's exhibit as one of three art exhibits that opened on Sunday at the center. (Photo by Jolene Craig)
The West Virginia Art and Craft Guild is a nonprofit membership organization formed in 1963 by people determined to preserve and promote the creative lifestyle in West Virginia. Its projects include workshops, a craft marketing program, co-sponsorship of the Mountain State Art and Craft Fair at Ripley and the juried exhibition.
The show will remain in the art center through Dec. 31. at which time it will move to Wheeling for a months-long exhibition.
"This is really one of my favorite shows," Hayhurst said.
In the Ebsenshade Gallery, the Marietta Calligraphy Society opened its exhibit Sunday of many pieces of writing art.
"I brought calligraphy to this area in the early 1980s when I moved to teach at Marietta College," said Jeanne Tasse, chief scribe of the organization. "This is our 31st year and to celebrate we decided to have this show."
Tasse said the group has a show every other year to share what its members do with the community.
"I am extremely proud of what everyone has done," she said. "Each member has done tremendous work."
"It's an old and marvelous art that needs to be preserved," Hayhurst said of the calligraphy exhibit.
The third exhibit to open Sunday was the art center's own Artist-Trees, which involved art center volunteers decorating trees based on themes taken from famous paintings and other works of art.
"They started to be our interpretations of famous works of art as Christmas trees and they have just grown," Hayhurst said.
Each year the center tries to have five or six new trees with favorites brought out. This year the event includes 10 new trees.
"They are just something we do that the community seems to truly love and have fun with," Hayhurst added.


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Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C (WRDW) -- A family is mourning the loss of two brothers after they were killed in a morning car accident Wednesday. The accident happened in North Augusta following a high-speed chase with Richmond County deputies.
"It really hasn't sunk in yet," said cousin Evan Dansby. "It's just unbelievable."
Dansby was home with his mom when she got the call about the tragedy early Wednesday morning.
"I knew by my mom's tone of voice that a tragedy had to happen," he said. "But not this, was not expecting this."
Deputies say 23-year-old Derrick Darden was driving on Broad Street with his brother 22-year-old Deante Darden when a Richmond County deputy with the DUI Division attempted to pull them over for driving erratically. At first they pulled over, but then took off again, leading the deputy on a high-speed chase. They crossed the state line on Gordon Highway driving in excess of 100mph. They then got off at Martintown Road and took back roads until they hit Carolina Springs Road where they crashed into a tree. They both died of multiple body trauma.
"If there's things that you're doing wrong, just man up to it and just pay what you got to pay and do what you got to do. Your life shouldn't be ended like this," said their uncle Bruce Dansby.
This isn't the first time the family has been struck by tragedy in the form of a car accident.
"My uncle was actually killed about four years ago in a car accident as well so its just a hard time right now," Evan said.
To him, it still doesn't seem real.
"I had just talked to one of them Sunday," he recalled. "We're big Redskins fans and we were rooting the Redskins on Sunday and that's the last time I talked to them."
As a college football player, Evan says hes now lost one of his biggest fans.
"Right before kick off we always talk on the phone and say, 'Cuz, you know you with me all the way', and I know he'll still be with me all the way, but just not receiving that phone call will probably be one of the hardest things," Evan said.
A loss that's made even harder as one family now mourns two of their loved ones.
The coroner says neither one of the boys was wearing a seat belt.
Toxicology is pending and the autopsies are being done today in Newberry, S.C.
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AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW) -- News 12 has learned the names of the two brothers who died at the scene of a single-car crash early Wednesday morning.
We're told 23-year-old Derrick Darden and his 22-year-old brother Deante Darden, both of North Augusta, died in the crash that started around 2 a.m. Wednesday.
Deputies say Derrick was driving a 2007 Chevrolet Impala when he failed to stop for a deputy on Broad Street in Augusta.
Deputies say a high-speed chase began and eventually ended when Darden lost control of the car on Carolina Springs Road and hit a tree.
The Darden brothers were not wearing seat belts and died from multiple body trauma.
We're told an autopsy is scheduled for today in Newberry, S.C.
Right now, toxicology is pending.


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Andre 3000 More Focused on Film, Fashion Than OutKast
Music lovers who have been praying for the rap duo OutKast to release a new album won't get their wish granted anytime soon. After a nine-year hiatus, Andre Benjamin aka Andre 3000 says he's unsure when he and Outkast partner Big Boi will team up for another record.
"I really can't say. I don't know what the future holds for OutKast," Andre 3000 told Speakeasy in an interview this week. He said he didn't have a specific reason why OutKast hasn't released an album (other than a soundtrack) since "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" which won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2004. "I don't know, I really don't know," he said.
Big Boi is scheduled to release his sophomore solo album "Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors" on December 11 according to his publicist.
"He's been focused on that and I've been focusing on the music I've been making, films and this great partnership with Gillette," Andre 3000 said, referring to his participation in the razor maker's campaign to raise awareness about prostate cancer. Gillette tapped Andre 3000 to be one of the masters of style in its "Movember" campaign that kicked off in New York City this week.
Andre 3000's extended break from OutKast has allowed him to focus on fashion and acting. He just wrapped up filming a biopic on Jimi Hendrix in which he will portray the guitar great and he says he is trying to revive another clothing line after having to shut down his Benjamin Bixby line during the recession. "Right now, we're revamping so stay tuned," he said. "It's going to be really interesting and lively."
Andre 3000, who was named World's Best Dressed Man by Esquire magazine, says his passion for the fashion business doesn't take away from his music. In fact, he says one feeds off the other.
"It's all the same. It's just…different mediums. Clothing is expression, music is expression," he said. He noted that he didn't begin developing his own brand of style until he became an entertainer.
"I really wasn't always into fashion. I think me becoming an entertainer and having to present myself helped out a lot," he said.
"The older you get you kind of come to figure out we don't have many opportunities to express who we because we're in a world where people follow things," he said. "You know [when] it's something that you do that says this is me, it feels good to you and you kind of get addicted to feeling good."
Andre 3000 puts Ralph Lauren at the top of the list of the designers who have influenced him because he admires his rise from humble beginnings.
"Every black kid in the ghetto can relate to Ralph Lauren's story. He was just a dreamer. He wanted to be better. He wanted to be a part of something," Andre 3000 said. "He grew up in the Bronx….he didn't have money. He built himself. Rappers do the same thing. They take themselves from nowhere and build themselves up and create the life they want."


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Hey I just found this.
I too am about 290 and I have gotten into running over the last few years. I am about to run the Peachtree road race 10k for the 3rd year in a row. I have run another 10k and a 5 k in the past. My goal ultimately is to loose some weight and be healthy. 230 is where I would like to get too. I have been there a few years ago and that required a lot of time and I was younger and had the time. I was biking about 1.5 hours a day and going low carb. Now as a married man with a child on the way I find it harder to have time to run. Especially in the winter when the sun is not up as long. This summer my wife has been incredible allowing me to go out running a good bit in anticipation for the race. I was a big guy in high school and hated running. I started working out in the toe shoes and have found as a big guy it is easier on me. I don't spring up so I don't cme down as hard. All my running for three years have been in them. I have had surgrery on both knees back in high school. I now enjoy the simplicity of runs. I love the way I feel and the time to my thoughts. WHat do others do for running in the winter? I really don't want to go to the gym. I hate treadmeals. I want to go some where.
Hey Jeff,
Congratulations to both you and your son on digging into the C25K program. A bit of advice I often give to folks doing C25K is to slow down; running at a ~10:00 pace is pretty quick for this program. By slowing down you'll be able to run further, allow your body to more gradually adapt to the rigors of running without causing an injury, and prepare you for the days when you've finished C25K and are looking to run a 10K or longer race.
I know a lot of folks are surprised when I suggest they slow down as there seems to be a belief by many that they need to run fast to get fast. Nothing could be further from the truth. Case in point, for the last fifteen months I've been typically training at about a 10:00 pace, and yet I run my races at a pace between 7:00 (for a 5K) and 7:30 (for a 10K).
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Hey David,
Congratulations to you as well for your commitment to running. Here are a few comments on your post, kinda-sorta in the same order as they apply to your words:
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I'm just barely in the 200+ club and I'm logging nearly 35 miles a week. I stumbled across this thread from the Active.com running newsletter, and thought it was AWESOME. I'm basically here to say things that many of you know -- this is entirely possible and you're all capable of amazing things. When I started running, I was about 280 pounds and could barely make a mile. I shed 85 pounds within about a year and was able to log 4-5 milers without the same difficulty I had before. Within a year!
Now I'm on a roller coaster ride of weight from 200 to about 220 -- although ideally I want to be just under 200. I've finally admitted to myself that I need to pay attention to my diet to get there, and I'm moving in the right direction. I'm back under 210 and well on my way to my goal weight while marathon training for my next race.
I think everyone here that's trying to do this is amazing. It was a long hard road, full of sacrifices -- you HAVE to make time to run, even when you don't want to, but this is an ENTIRELY achievable thing. Good luck to all of you and I hope to hear some really inspirational stories in the future.
Edit: I also want to note to anyone that does the run/walk thing -- yes, there are jerks out there that will make you feel like you're not good enough if you can't run the whole way. Don't listen to them. Seriously. Every day you're achieving something. Maybe it's running 5 minutes and walking 2 instead of running 4 minutes and walking 2. Whatever it is, you're getting better. And you're spending your time making yourself better. I, for one, welcome every single person I see on my running path on the levee along the Mississippi in New Orleans. Everyone is out there, busting their butt, making themselves better. They made a choice to do something today instead of just think about doing something. Everyone, no matter how fast or slow, gets a smile, a nod, and a wave from me. (unless it's really really hot.. then I feel like I'm smiling, but it probably looks more like a grimace)
Well said Doug,
I also make it a point to say "Hey" to all of the folks I see out on the trail, and I typically stick around at the end of races "until the last dog is hung", so I can cheer those whom need it the most.
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Is this club for all >200lbers? Or just ones doing c25k?
I've done two HMs AND A 5k. Weighing in at 253.
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Is this club for all >200lbers? Or just ones doing c25k?
I've done two HMs AND A 5k. Weighing in at 253.
Speaking strictly for myself, I'm no longer over 200 lbs (weighed 192 after today's run), and I've never done the C25K program.
Of course, I still participate here, and if the collective will let me in, I'm sure they'll welcome you with open arms.
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Hi Wideguy & all other 200+ lb runners!
My name is Scott. I started this year out on Jan 13th at 316.2 lbs, Entered a 12 week weight loss contest, dropped 74 pounds and won. A week after my last weigh in of that contest I got myself a new starting weight of 260.0 lbs and then signed up for a full 26.2 mile marathon to be held November 1, 2014 in Wynne, Arkansas to help me maintain and improve upon the weight loss progress I made in the beginning of the year.
I am in week 12 of a 30 week marathon training program which consist of 4 runs per week and I could use all the help and support I can get. The first week of that program is simply walking and I spent the first 3 or 4 months of the year doing nothing but walking. Weeks 2 through 10 of the program consisted of walking & running. I started with jogging 10-15 seconds at a time and was able to work myself up to a minute of jogging so, I created a blog called www.icanrunaminute.com to help track my progress and get support from fellow runners.
20 years ago in 1994 I ran my first marathon with a time somewhere around 4:30 or 4:40. One of the things I remembered is that it was very hard and figured one full marathon every 10 years would be good enough. 10 years ago I signed up for my 2nd full marathon just a couple days before the run and mainly walked that one but finished. This will be my third marathon and I would like to finish it in a time comperable to my first but, even thought I'm still down about 60 lbs from where I started this year I really need to drop more weight by November to help make that dream come true.
That's about it for now, just wanted to jump in this group and introduce myself. I wish everyone the best of luck with their training endeavors & weight loss goals
I too am over 200 and dropping, I was 250 and have been as low as 199 after my first half marathon. I'm at 210 and am just starting to train for my first marathon in Dec. The best advice I've ever gotten was also the stuipest thing but worked. In the book the non-runners marathon trainer it said never tell youself that you have to run today, change it to I get to run today. Like I said it seems stuip but I tried to continue running many times over the past years and always quit, it's been over a year since I read the book and I look forward to each run. The other thing was anytime your running and you have a good experance bank it in your memory. Grate blog!
Hey All,
Just had my 48th birthday this weekend and decided I'm tired of being so heavy, so along with eating (a lot) less, I've decided to try this C25K program. I'm 5'11" and weigh 326lb. It's a sad situation. I have no one to blame but myself. I'm going to do something about it and I've decided to start TODAY. I used to be a cyclist back in the 90s but now I'm just a couchist. But not anymore...I am going to make a change. I don't know if I'll like running but it's worth a shot.
I'll keep you all posted.
Congratulations on divorcing your couch (I did that back in April 2013).
I've been a cyclist and runner off and on throughout my life (rarely at the same time), and have found that for losing weight, running is great and cycling doesn't do jack (for me at least).
If you do decide to start running, I highly recommend a C25K (Couch to 5K) program, and take it really easy.
Keep us posted on your progress and if you have any questions please feel free to ask.
Love your User Name.
Here is a link to a post I made a while back with photographic evidence of what a year of running did for me:
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Hi all.....It is now July and I thought I would give an update. Since I last posted, I have walked every day, minimum of one mile up to 4.2 miles a day. That does not include all the other walking I do in a day...that is what I do. I have participated in three 5 K's, I might finish last but I finish. One person told me after the last one last Saturday, you finished in front of those who did not get off of the couch. Yes I did. I am pleased to be getting closer to under 20 minute miles each time. As I said in my last message, I can't run due to artificial knees....but I am moving and doing. This past weekend was the start of the Tour de France. In the past I participated in the Tour de Fleece. Using a spinning wheel, making yarn for three weeks with goals. This was good for me the past two years as I was recovering from knee surgeries and the doctor wanted me to flex my ankles many times a day to help with blood flow. When he realized what my kind of spinning was, he said go for it. One year I actually had spun over 3 miles of finished yarn. This year will not have as much because I am no longer sedentary. My goals for the three weeks of the Tour are....a quadathalon. I walk first thing in the morning, minimum of a mile...today was 3.....then I come home and turn on the Tour...and ride my stationary bike.....I do not have a real bike. My goal is to get up to one hour a day...so far I am up to 30 minutes. Then I spin for 3 hours. Then I get in the pool and tread water for 15 minutes...too small of a pool for laps. I may make a few days a pentathalon....I may add horseback riding. I love the energy I now have from the walking that I started. Have I mentioned that since March I have lost 35 pounds?? My next goal in the future? The Peachtree Roadrace in 2015. Walking in 2 hours or less.
Wow, The Peachtree Roadrace, talk about a blast from the past. The Peachtree Roadrace 1979 was my very first roadrace; talk about instant nostalgia.
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Hi folks, I am starting the C25K this evening, not having done any running in over 25 years. I previously ran a lot but with work, marriage and kids things got let go - a lot! I'm currently at 301 pounds and I'm very unhappy at this weight and corresponding level of fitness. Ideally I would like to be around the 220 mark, though I know that this is a long term goal and cannot be rushed, just like getting back into the running habit. I really used to love running and hope that this will kick start the habit again. I have read many, inspirational stories on here and I hope to replicate those of you who have achieved your goals. Any tips or advice will be greatly appreciated, especially when the going gets tough - as I know it must. I will keep up to date will all that's happening on the site and posting on my progress. Keep up the good work everyone!!
Hey Ferrylights,
Congratulations on starting the C25K program. Even though I've never personally done the program, I have coached a few folks who've done it; the following are my standard tips on C25K success.
Once you've finished the C25K program:
Always keep in mind, during the C25K program and after, the key to improving your fitness and losing weight is to push your progress very slowly so as to allow your body to prepare itself to endure the rigors of more running. Rushing into running almost always ends up with injury.
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Why Credit Is Key for the Housing Recovery
An analysis from economists at Goldman Sachs shows how the degree to which mortgage lending standards ease over the next few years could make for a big difference in home sales volumes.
New home sales in March posted a surprising plunge from February, dropping 14.5%, and leaving new home sales 13.3% below their year-earlier level. The March reading of 384,000 units at a seasonally adjusted annual rate was the lowest level since July.
The Goldman economists say they expect new home sales to reach 800,000 units by 2017, up from 430,000 last year, based on traditional drivers such as job growth and household formation. But sales will only rise to around 600,000 units in 2017 if lending standards remain at their current levels.
The report illustrates why some economists, together with policymakers at the White House and Federal Reserve, are warning that mortgage-lending standards have become too restrictive, years after carelessness by lenders inflating the housing bubble.
It also shows how sensitive any projections of home sales are to changes in credit standards. The WSJ reported last week that lenders had begun to slightly ease lending rules for certain borrowers.
"Credit availability is key for the continued housing recovery," wrote economists Hui Shan and Eli Hackel. They say a number of measures, including credit scores, product choices, and income-verification levels, show that lending standards are "exceedingly tight."
Nearly 40% of new borrowers last year had credit scores above 760, compared with just 25% before the housing bubble in 2001. Meanwhile, less than 0.2% of borrowers had credit scores below 620, compared to 13% in 2001.
The Goldman analysis uses the household turnover rate—the share of households that move and purchase a home in a given year—to build their sales estimates. The authors used data from the American Community Survey in 2001, before lending standards slipped dramatically, and compared it to 2012.
Their analysis estimates that around half of the decline in the household turnover rate between 2001 and 2012 is due to tighter lending standards. In 2001, around 4.5% of the sample from the survey reported moving into the home that they owned at the time, versus a turnover rate of 3% in 2012.
The Goldman report estimates that about half of the decline was due either to demographic changes or cyclical changes, and the other half was due to lending standards.
A separate analysis from analysts at the Urban Institute, a think tank in Washington, estimated that around 200,000 fewer mortgages were made in 2012 due to credit standards that were more stringent than they were before the housing bubble.


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Death Rate Declining for Elders With Heart Failure
April 5, 2011 -- Death rates after hospitalization for patients 80 and older with heart failure have dropped significantly in the past decade, but readmissions for the disorder -- common among the elderly -- are frequent, a new study shows.
Heart failure is one of the most common reasons older patients are readmitted to hospitals. This is not likely to change in coming years, in part because people 80 and older make up the fastest growing segment of the older population.
Researchers studied 21,397 U.S. veterans aged 80 and older who had been hospitalized at least once for heart failure from 1999 through 2008.
The outcomes of those patients were analyzed according to three age groups: 80 to 84, 85 to 89, and 90 or older.
Tracking Heart Failure Outcomes
The researchers say they found that overall death rates within 30 days of the first recorded hospitalization for heart failure were cut in half, from 14% to 7%, in the 1999-2008 time period.
The hospital readmission rate for any cause within 30 days of the initial hospitalization for heart failure was 17.3% and remained mostly unchanged between 1999 and 2008.
Overall death rates within a year of the first hospitalization for heart failure fell from 48.8% to 27.2%.
Patients 90 and older with heart failure were the most likely to die within a year of first admission.
However, in the 90 and older age group, 30-day death rates fell 11%, and one-year death rates dropped 26%, according to the study. And the biggest improvements in survivability occurred in that age group.
The researchers say the drop in death rates could be due to a growing emphasis in recent years on performance measures that promote evidence-based treatment of heart failure.
Because the study included only veterans -- and only 2.6% of participants were female -- the findings do not necessarily apply to broader populations, says study researcher Rashmee Shah, MD, a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Expected Impact of Aging Population
In general, elderly heart failure patients are defined as those who are only 65 or older, and the average age at diagnosis is 75 and up. This population is sure to increase dramatically in number with the aging of the baby boom generation.
The number of Americans age 80 and older is projected to grow to 21 million over the next 40 years. Shah says a number of steps could, in theory, reduce the risk of short-term readmissions among very elderly heart failure patients.
These could include better patient education, blood testing, or other follow-up procedures by doctors shortly after heart failure patients are discharged from hospitals, Shah says.
"The next step would be another investigation to see what's driving the readmissions and test interventions to reduce readmissions among this growing population," Shah says.
The study is published April 5 in Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association.


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Photo of a massive Arctic cyclone AUG 09 2012
Where have I seen this before, a massive long-lasting Arctic storm that looks a lot like a hurricane? Oh right, The Day After Tomorrow.
The storm had an unusually low central pressure area. Paul A. Newman, chief scientist for Atmospheric Sciences at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., estimates that there have only been about eight storms of similar strength during the month of August in the last 34 years of satellite records. "It's an uncommon event, especially because it's occurring in the summer. Polar lows are more usual in the winter," Newman said.
Arctic storms such as this one can have a large impact on the sea ice, causing it to melt rapidly through many mechanisms, such as tearing off large swaths of ice and pushing them to warmer sites, churning the ice and making it slushier, or lifting warmer waters from the depths of the Arctic Ocean.
I love The Day After Tomorrow. I know it's a cheeseball disaster movie (which is pretty much why I love it) but it's also looking more than a little prescient. Well, as prescient as a cheeseball disaster movie can be anyway. In the Washington Post the other day, prominent climatologist James Hansen wrote that human-driven climate change is responsible for an increase in extreme weather.
My projections about increasing global temperature have been proved true. But I failed to fully explore how quickly that average rise would drive an increase in extreme weather.
In a new analysis of the past six decades of global temperatures, which will be published Monday, my colleagues and I have revealed a stunning increase in the frequency of extremely hot summers, with deeply troubling ramifications for not only our future but also for our present.
This is not a climate model or a prediction but actual observations of weather events and temperatures that have happened. Our analysis shows that it is no longer enough to say that global warming will increase the likelihood of extreme weather and to repeat the caveat that no individual weather event can be directly linked to climate change. To the contrary, our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.
In many ways, the phrase "global warming" is grossly misleading. "Oh," we think, "it's gonna be a couple degrees warmer in NYC in 20 years than it is now." But the Earth's climate is a chaotic non-linear system, which means that a sudden shift of a degree or two -- and when you're talking about something as big as the Earth, a degree over several decades is sudden -- pushes things out of balance here and there in unpredictable ways. So it's not just that it's getting hotter, it's that you've got droughts in places where you didn't have them before, severe floods in other places, unusually hot summers, and even places that are cooler than normal, all of which disrupts the animal and plant life that won't be able to acclimate to the new reality fast enough.
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With child deaths on all-terrain vehicles on the rise in Georgia, lawmakers are trying to find ways to help prevent them from happening at all. A bill has been introduced that will change the rules for those who operate ATV's.
Five children were killed on all-terrain vehicles in Georgia last fall all between the ages of 10 and 13. Lawmakers say requiring license plates for the vehicle will ban children from riding illegally on public property.
"I think it's ridiculous to license the vehicle. Putting tags on off road vehicles just will not work they are totally confused about what they are trying to do," says Rusty Sampson.
The bill puts ATV's in the same category as motorcycles, allowing those 16 and up to get behind the wheel only with a safety helmet.
ATV dealers say the bill is total contradiction. These vehicles already come with warnings restricting those under 16 years of age, also riding with multiple passengers and driving on the highway.
"I don't think they should be allowed on roads at anytime. I think they need to come up with a plan for operators due to how dangerous they are, you see a lot of young kids on them," says Ronald Sellers.
Sampson says the bill will only create more problems for kids over 16 driving ATV's on highways. He says it's parents that need to take on more responsibility.
"Buy a helmet, if you're going to let a child ride ATVs buy a helmet you make them wear them when they ride a bicycle," says Rusty.
ATV dealers do adhere to strict guidelines when selling the vehicles, including informing buyers about safety precautions and not selling to those under 16.
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About the Book
Cherie Currie, with her signature Bowie haircut and fishnet stockings, was the groundbreaking lead singer of '70s teenage all-girl rock band the Runaways. At the tender age of fifteen, she joined a group of talented girls—Joan Jett and Lita Ford on guitar, Jackie Fox on bass, and Sandy West on drums—who could play rock like no one else.
Arriving on the Los Angeles music scene in 1975, they catapulted from playing small clubs to selling out major stadiums, headlining shows with opening acts like the Ramones, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, and Blondie. Currie lit up the stage with the provocative teen-rebellion songs "Cherry Bomb," "Queens of Noise," and "Born to Be Bad," riding a wave of hit songs and platinum albums, all while touring around the world.
On the face of it, Currie's is a riveting story of girl empowerment and fame. But it is also an intensely personal account of her struggles with drugs, sexual abuse, and violence. She and her bandmates, runaways all, were thrown into a decadent, high-pressure music scene where on the road, unsupervised for months at a time, they had to grow up fast and experience things that no teenage girls should. Neon Angel exposes the side of the music industry fans never get to see, and chronicles the group's rise to fame and their ultimate demise.
Shocking and inspiring, funny and touching, Neon Angel stunningly re-creates a bygone era of rock and roll, all the while providing an inside look at growing up hard under the relentless glare of the public eye, and chronicling one tough woman's fight to reclaim her life.
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"What truly amazes me is what a fine, honest, introspective author Cherie is, with an incredible tale about an incredible life, and a fascinating personal odyssey." — Joan Jett
"I don't think a lot of people know the story of Cherie Currie. It's an amazing story and she's an amazing woman and performer. " — Dakota Fanning on The Tonight Show
"Raw and riveting." — LA Weekly
"Details the band's short, messy history and the struggle with addiction that nearly claimed her life." — Entertainment Weekly
"[NEON ANGEL] reveals how the liberated life of a 16-year-old rock star in Los Angeles included many dark moments." — Spin
"Unflinchingly honest." — Boston Globe
"The striking thing about The Runaways, is how authentic it feels… One reason may be that the movie is partly based on Neon Angel, a newly revamped autobiography by the group's lead singer Cherie Currie, whose chillingly quick self-destruction is relived through Dakota Fanning." — New York Times
"Currie is looking forward to giving Neon Angel its second life…the new version, with a foreword by [Joan] Jett, adds the sex, drugs and darkness that were missing from the first edition." — Reuters
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We had problems with double-encoded UTF strings being saved to database when using this function, sending it of to a apache xml-rpc servlet and storing it in mysql database. It was solved by setting 'escaping' to just 'markup' and 'encoding' to 'UTF-8' (don't forget to set 'utf-8' in xmlrpc_decode too).
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Scott Rosenberg quotes Steve Ballmer as saying Jun 01 2007
Scott Rosenberg quotes Steve Ballmer as saying that only 4 out of the first 30 Microsoft employees were good...the rest "weren't as good -- they just weren't pushing as much". Here are some of the schlubs in question. Ballmer pushed pretty well, I guess...he showed up late to the party and, somewhat controversially, got $15 billion out it.


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The fact that you don't need a power adapter to run eSata mode is fantastic.
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If you have 2.5 inch SATA drives that you want to use on your laptop then these casings are for you.
I bought two now I have 1.25TB HDD space running SATA drives on my lattop :-)
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Great drive enclosure
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This must be one of the best 2.5" caddies. Internally you can install either an IDE or SATA drive. Externally you can connect it to your computer with either USB or eSATA (note you can only use USB with an IDE drive).
The unit comes with the following cables:
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It's very easy to install and set up and it comes with a nice soft carry case.
I installed a 320GB Western Digital SATA drive for a great backup/portable drive setup.
All in all highly recommended.
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Great item
Reviewed by The Regsy. Review Posted 08/08/2012
I bought one after realising that the new hard drive I'd bought for my laptop was too fat, 12.5mm instead of 9.5mm so I bought one of these to use the drive externally, set up and installation was easy to do, case is well constructed and feels solid, it is however a little larger than some of the others I have used, no doubt due to the fact it will accept the larger drive and has IDE and ESata compatibility built in. Great item and very recommended.
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Faulty Item and needs separate USB for power
Reviewed by Will. Review Posted 09/08/2012
Had high hopes for this product but after just a couple of days it developed a fault where the power connector has to be held in at a certain angle or the devices loses power, potentially damaging the drive inside. Also didn't realise that when using the eSATA cable the unit also needs to be plugged into a separate USB port for power - as my laptop only has 3 USB sockets (one of which is the combined USB/eSATA), it means using this device only leaves one USB port free which isn't ideal.
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Project Number: 6066-22000-069-00
Start Date: Oct 28, 2013
End Date: Aug 03, 2014
This project seeks to advance application technology through improvements in 1) drift management technology, 2) technologies for improved within-canopy deposition, 3) use of low-altitude remote sensing to identify stressed plants, and 4) performance of variable rate aerial application systems. While drift management is a concern for all pesticide applications, it is of particular concern for aerial applications. The potential for drift is greater for aerial application due to higher altitudes of spray release and greater air turbulence in the wake of the aircraft. Determination of optimal spray release height will be a goal, as the effect of this variable on within-canopy deposition and off-target drift has not been considered adequately. Experiments for both drift and deposition will attempt to reduce confounding of treatment data with environmental effects, preserving statistical precision of the experiments. Penetration of sprayed material to the lower portions of the canopy is critical for control of fungal spore diseases like Asian Soybean Rust (ASR). Studies will compare nozzle types paired with carefully selected formulations and tank mixes for spray penetration. The deleterious effects of off-target herbicide drift of cotton will be detected using hyperspectral, multispectral, and thermal remote sensing techniques. Evaluation of variable rate aerial application systems will be continued and improvements will be made through interaction with system component manufacturers. Experiments are also proposed to demonstrate the validity of techniques developed.


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De La Salle High defensive end Victor Egu has orally committed to Cal, Scout.com reported.
Egu -- who has a three-star rating by Scout -- had several scholarship offers and interest from most Pac-12 schools, and took an official visit to Oregon in early October. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound senior returned to action early last month after he missed time in September with a concussion. He is expected to play linebacker for the Golden Bears.
In seven games this season, Egu has 24 tackles, four sacks -- including two last week against California -- and one fumble recovery.
Egu is the second member of De La Salle's defense to commit to a Pac-12 school. Linebacker Michael Hutchings committed to USC in July.


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There was high flying action today at White Face ski resort on Thursday.
Hannah Kearney among the olympic freestyle skiing stars in moguls and aerials coming together to compete in the USANA Freestyle Cup.
Event organizers say the athletes come from all over the world including Poland, Germany and Russia.
Jon Lundin with ORDA said for many athletes this world cup competition can catapult their olympic dreams.
On Friday and Saturday aerials competition takes place at the Olympic Ski Jumping Complex in Lake Placid.


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Definition of Blackstone
Sir William 1723–1780 Eng. jurist
Rhymes with blackstone
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On the front page of the Devils Lake Journal for Thursday, July 17 you will find what's "Coming in print," what's only found on our website today and a whole lot more.
Coming in print: LRSC students travel to Greece.
On the web: New blog posts from local bloggers
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you obvioously just hate on him. and dont really watch basketball too often
so ill just ignore that comment cause itmakes no sense at all
many people would say mj because of the rings , but its really Lebron James because he dominated the games nobody can stop him. his a beast. and if you want to look at ring wise we should really say bill russell is the best because he has 11 to mj 6.
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mj is better cause the nba is so soft now u to young to see that
mj wasnt on a dream of stars.he diidnt get sweep when he got to lj will not get another ring. lj is not the best player in the world only the nba,the best players will smoke and drink and bust lj ***. hes around better player than mike was.if he was in hes home town he would have no rings
hell no,mj could have won 8 in arrow if he didnt take 2 years off
mj had a freaking hall of famer and one of the best rebounders to play the game and one of the top 3 shooters ever . a.k.a scottie pippen dennis rodman and steve kerr. you people have selective memory
and jordan couldnt win **** until they came in
Michael Jordan, first of all Jordan's individual accolades over 14 years is ridiculous. Lebron might pass him in mvp awards but that is only because he played with so many hall of famers. Secondly, Jordans Bulls teams was a cleard cut championship winner everyyear while there is always chance that Lebron's hat can lose.
MJ!! Who has more rings??????
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WASHINGTON, W.Va. - About 3,000 people celebrated the 65th anniversary of the DuPont Washington Works facility with an old fashioned carnival on Saturday.
Despite an afternoon of heavy rain and thunderstorms, plant employees, retirees and contractors brought their families to enjoy food, games and fun.
"The weather really hasn't hurt or slowed things down," said plant manager Karl Boelter. "When it started raining, we had the right number of people here for everyone to take cover in shelters and under tents."
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DuPont Washington Works employees, retirees and contractors and their families did not let the heavy thunderstorms and rain Saturday afternoon stop them from having fun in the DuPont Employee Park during an old fashioned carnival to celebrate the plant's 65th anniversary. (Photo by Jolene Craig)
Everyone who attended the event in the DuPont Employee's Park on DuPont Road was invited, as they have contributed to the plant's success, Boelter said.
"It's our 65th anniversary and we want everyone who had a hand in the success and continuation of the plant to be recognized," he added.
Robin Ollis, spokeswoman for the plant, said the event took months of preparation and it was really a celebration of the people who have made DuPont what it is in the Mid-Ohio Valley.
"Without them, there would be no DuPont Washington Works," she said.
The event began at 2 p.m. and by the time the thunderstorms hit the area around 2:30 p.m., the park had several hundred people, with most taking shelter in the kids' game tent and food shelter.
"Even with the rain we had a lot of fun," said Lucy Curfman, whose husband Jeremy Curfman works at the plant.
Their three children Wyatt, 6, Allison, 4, and Natalie, 1, all appeared to have had fun, carrying or wearing balloon designs as hats and carrying buckets filled with cotton candy and other treats.
"It was a good day," Lucy Curfman added.
Ollis said hearing people tell her they had fun made the preparation worthwhile.
"Everything worked out well," Boelter said. "Bingo was really popular and the big prize was the umbrellas - the competition was pretty heated."


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Families take part in YMCA Healthy Kids Day
Published: Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 8:38 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 8:38 a.m.
Cameron Green took off down a slope at Jackson Park on Saturday afternoon. The 2-year-old was trailed by his mother, Suzanne, and he was zeroing in on the inflatable obstacle course.
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The duo were taking in all the activities available to them at Healthy Kids Day — a national event sponsored by the YMCA.
Children from all over Henderson County poured onto a wide field to take part in different physical activities, including hula hoops, obstacle courses, soccer skills, water balloons, relays, tai chi and Zumba.
It wasn't just physical activities. Booths sat on the perimeter of the field to promote healthy living thanks to groups such as Henderson County Parks and Recreation, McDonald's, HandsOn!, Heading in the Right Direction, Hendersonville Community Co-op, Foot Rx, the Boys & Girls Club of Henderson County and Picture Time Photo Booth.
Suzanne Green was excited about the opportunity to gather support and ideas for things she is already instilling in her son.
"We definitely try teaching him about healthy living," she said.
"This is a great event that they can learn how to stay healthy and let it be fun, too."
The fun-filled event was presented by Park Ridge Health.
Chris Swain watched from afar as his sons Brendan, 7, and Gavin, 5, swung golf clubs on a putting green.
His youngest son was celebrating his birthday Saturday, and the event fit into the family's day perfectly, Swain said.
"It's fantastic," he said. "Everybody's happy and having fun. It's a treat."
This was the Swains' first time out at Healthy Kids Day. The YMCA has been organizing the event for more than 10 years. The trip out was well worth it, Swain said as he watched his children run off to grab a muffin from a booth.
"We need more opportunities for kids to be able to play," he said.
That's what the event is all about, Adam Fisher said. Fisher is the membership engagement director at the YMCA and also was a cocoordinator for the event. The event was about physical activity and not about YMCA memberships, he said.
"It's about getting families out and active and ready for summer," Fisher said.
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i forgot to mention, icab actually has the ability to create standalone web-applications (or single-site browsers, whichever you prefer), like fluid, from one or a whole set of user specified addresses. furthermore, these web apps' are able to use standard icab filters, settings and scripts. plus, like safari and all webkit applications, they are compatible with greasekit. beat that!
Very fast browser, suits me wonderfully.
v3.x supporting Mac Classic OS is awesome, nice to have a new browser option for OS9.
icab is so flipping intense it rips my face off, wears it and [intentionally] does a face-plant all over the interwebs. but seriously, this has become my go-to browser for research work and general light browsing. if only it could access login information in keychain, like camino and safari do, it would be my main browser. until then, it tops safari for me and comes in a close second to camino...
[pt. 2] the developer is also quite responsive to bug reports/feature requests. i hope a.c. never stops development on icab. aside from it's odd approach to saving login information, this is the most feature complete [solely mac] browser that i have ever used.
Hey people, great news: 1Password support iCab!!!!!
Tried saving as web archive (found agents' comment via a search for 'web archive' via google): works well with iCab when offline, but decompressing to load in another browser didn't work: errors happened on two files, maybe due to the file names used. Also the main page wasn't extracted (maybe because its url ends with '/').
(Tried with 7zX, unarchiver & stuffit expander)
However, saving as pdf worked very well: the resulting pdf doesn't have any gaps due to page breaks, as would have been the case if I had simply used the 'save as pdf' function from the print dialog.
With Ã53 âstand-alone WebApplicationsâ (think Fluid) have come to iCab, along with a useful Cache Browser.
Along with the geo-detection, this is really excellent work.
Good to see the 'Inspector' now and keychain access has improved.
Could do with a javascript console and something like SafariDockStatus for the feed count.
iCab has come on leaps and bounds with webkit. The latest build Ã25 has now resizable text fields and the auto password filling from the keychain gets it right (good news if you use the likes of Textpattern).
Still not as fast as Webkit, Safari, Sunrise, Demeter (and Shiira if you can put up with the errant behaviour) or the beta Opera and Firefox but getting there and leaves standard Camino/Firefox in it's wake.
It has a nice feel to it, handles Bookmarks differently, but you get used to it. There is sadly no 'Web Inspector' from webkit, but it does have a cool 'Page Overview'. I have only minor niggles with it really; love to see a toolbar button for kiosk mode and bookmarks in (say) a side drawer ala Opera. It's very stable though.
A solid browser. I'll be sticking with Firefox because of those can't-do-without plugins, but iCab has some advantages seen nowhere else:
- Extremely fast. Not even Safari beats it on rendering speed
- Works on very old Macs, such as my wife's laptop
- Kiosk mode is well designed and very useable
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PORTLAND — The state says Oregon's unemployment rate was unchanged last month as job growth ground nearly to a halt in the last third of 2012.
The jobless rate for December was 8.4 percent, a release today reported. A year earlier, it was 9 percent.
The state Employment Department said preliminary estimates showed the state added 2,000 jobs in December.
But such estimates frequently change. The agency said today that revised estimates showed a loss of 900 jobs in November when preliminary estimates had showed a gain of 600.
The agency said that given small job losses from September, October and November, the December gains meant employment was nearly flat in the last four months of 2012 — in contrast to a gain of 20,000 jobs in the first eight months.
— Associated Press
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Money allocated for new homes
Published: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 12:06 a.m.
TUSCALOOSA | The City Council on Tuesday allocated $469,655 to the Tuscaloosa Housing Authority for the construction of 10 new homes in West End.
The money is from the city's fiscal 2012 HOME Program funding plan. The HOME Program is funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Turn in your contest cards by Jan. 11 at the locations listed on the card and you will be entered into the drawing. Contest cards with 13 stickers or more will be eligible for the Grand Prize drawing. Non-winning contest cards from the Grand Prize drawing and all other contest cards with three or more stickers are eligible to win additional prizes. Drawing winners will be contacted and announced in January 2013.
When you "shop local," you help the North Lake Tahoe economy and help to keep our small independent retailers in business. Plus, you'll find gifts for everyone on your list. Think of the gas money you'll save by shopping locally!
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Blender 2.48 Launches!
The irresistible march of Blender continues. Yesterday the team announced the launch of version 2.48. This is less than two months after version 2.47 was release, which itself was just 3 months after 2.46. That's a nice release schedule for incremental updates. Some users may not like such regular updates, but personally I like to see progress in in growing Open Source multimedia projects. Adopting an agile development and release philosophy surely keeps users more engaged than a big once per year waterfall approach. When it comes to software, like Operating Systems, others may disagree.
"… all the work done on the Blender Game Engine and the Apricot Open Game "Yo Frankie!", with much better functioning game logic editing, character animation, and Blender Material based real-time shaders. And as last minute surprise a Bullet physics update with Softbody support.
We also included a lot of new development in this release; Windows 64 bits support, Grease Pencil for sketching annotations, Sun/Sky/Atmosphere rendering, new modifiers, and an improved text editor with Python API support. And last but not least, an enormous list of open bug reports were handled."
Further details are available on the Blender website.


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Bay Area single family home prices continued a skyward climb in May, reaching their highest level in more than five years, according to a report Thursday.
Median sales prices in the sizzling market were given an upward nudge in the East Bay, Peninsula and South Bay by multiple offers for a scant supply of houses for sale and by a change in the market mix to favor higher-priced homes, said real estate information company DataQuick.
Sales still are well below their year-ago levels, although they rose by double digits from April to May in Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, and 8 percent in Contra Costa County, the San Diego company reported.
"The housing market here is very hot," said Remy Weinstein, a real estate agent with Highland Partners in Montclair. "I'm just constantly amazed with the amount of overbidding going on."
Weinstein is encouraging clients to move quickly if they want to snag a home in the current torrid market.
Nick Bird, a 31-year-old catering company owner, is closing in on his first home, for $297,000 in West Oakland. "We got on it so quick we didn't have to compete with any other offers," he said. "We just paid asking price."
Bird said he was discouraged at first. "Everything's going way over asking, and you're not competing with the small guy, you're competing with investment groups that can afford to pay a little more."
Inventory is up a bit in Santa Clara County, according to Carl San Miguel, president of the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors. But in the most desired pockets of the county, it's still painfully tight.
Mi Young Lee, an agent with DeLeon Realty, has sent mailers out in Palo Alto on behalf of two families who are searching for a home to buy. One can pay $3.3 million, and the other $1.6 million to $2.2 million. Both are offering all cash.
"It's been really tight," Lee said. "There's all these multiple-offer situations. It's really bad timing for buyers right now."
Alameda County's single-family home sales had a median sales price in May of $512,000, a 24.7 percent gain from May 2012. That's the highest since February 2008. Sales were down 10.6 percent from a year earlier.
Contra Costa County's median sales price of $421,000 was up 38 percent from a year earlier, also the highest since February 2008. Sales were down 2.5 percent from a year earlier.
Santa Clara County's median price was $750,000, a 22 percent yearly gain and the highest since November 2007. Sales were down 7.3 percent from a year ago.
San Mateo County's median price was $810,000, a 29.6 percent gain over the year, the highest since November 2007. Sales were down 12.7 percent.
The total of 4,382 sales of single-family homes in the East Bay, Peninsula and South Bay in May was down 7 percent from a year ago, but up about 12 percent from April.
"Sales are just a matter of supply," said DataQuick's Andrew LePage. "We need prices to rise a bit longer to draw more people to sell their homes." In a sign of a strengthening economy, foreclosures and sales of properties worth less than their mortgages were at their lowest -- 21 percent of all sales -- since December 2007, the San Diego company said.
Absentee buyers -- mostly investors -- made a quarter of all home purchases in May, the company said.
Buyers paying in cash accounted for 27.6 percent of sales in May, down a bit from April. The monthly average back to 1998 is 13.1 percent.
Contact Pete Carey at 408-920-5419. Follow him at Twitter.com/petecarey.


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Adelman made the announcement Monday, five days after the Wolves wrapped up a disappointing 40-42 season.
The decision brings to an end to a celebrated coaching career that includes 1,042 victories, eighth on the NBA's career list. He coached Western Conference powers in Portland and Sacramento and also had stops in Golden State and Houston.
Adelman said the time is right for him to step aside and spend more time with his wife, Mary Kay, who has been treated for seizures over the last two years. He also thinks the Wolves need a fresh voice to help them try to persuade star power forward Kevin Love to remain in Minnesota.
"I think it was kind of a gradual thing that just kept coming," Adelman said of his decision-making process. "And looking for the whole organization, I think it's best that maybe a new voice at the coaching position would be best right now."
Adelman just completed the third season of a four-year deal with Minnesota that he signed 2011. There was a mutual option for the final year of the deal.
After missing the playoffs for the third straight season, Adelman decided it was time to walk away from one of the most quietly influential coaching careers in NBA history. The introverted coach worked below the radar for most of his career, but his impact on the league is unquestioned.
"I think every coach in this league has taken some of his concepts," Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said. "You can see every team has part of his corner series as part of their offense."
Adelman won at least 50 games in a season 11 times in his career, helped turnaround the Portland Trail Blazers in the late 1980s and then built a power in Sacramento 10 years later. He had more modest success with Houston and Minnesota, but walks away with his fingerprints all over the league.
"He's been in several different programs, made them all better, done a heck of a job wherever he's gone, has always been underrated and has been a guy that players have really enjoyed playing for," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "That's who he is."
While with the Kings, Adelman worked with assistant and former Princeton coach Pete Carril to fine-tune his famed "corner" offense, a precision system that maximized the talents of big men Chris Webber, Vlade Divac and Brad Miller, all of whom were gifted passers from the elbow of the lane.
"A lot of people have run the elbow action, but no one's run it like him," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. "He started doing it in Portland and then in Sac, everywhere he's gone he's won for the most part. He's one of the better coaches that we've ever had in the league and a lot of people don't realize that. And I think that's too bad. But he's been good for the game. He's brought a lot to the game."
"I've stolen from him, very honestly," Popovich said.
Adelman's career started reluctantly in 1988, when he took over the Trail Blazers after Mike Schuler was fired during the season. The following season, in his first full year as an NBA head coach, Adelman led the Blazers to the NBA Finals, where they lost to the Detroit Pistons. He had the Blazers back in the finals in 1992, but they lost to Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.
Adelman turned the Kings from a perennial loser into one of the most entertaining and successful teams in the West from 1998-2004.
"In terms of the impact he's had on the league, you just check out everybody's playbook," said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, who caught the coaching bug while watching Adelman's Portland teams when he was a college point guard at the University of Portland. "Everybody has at least some version or piece of his offense in their playbook. And most teams call it Sacramento. He was and has been an incredible innovator in this game."
He had a two-year stop in Golden State from 1995-97, where he learned hard lessons about sticking to what he believed in and not letting others influence his approach, and that hardened philosophy served him well the rest of his career.
With a Houston team missing its two biggest stars in Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming, Adelman used 6-foot-6 Chuck Hayes at center and took the heavily favored Lakers to seven games in the Western Conference semifinals in 2009.
His Timberwolves teams suffered a litany of injuries as well, but he still did manage to take a team that had combined for 32 wins in the two years before his hiring and get them to .500 three years later.
Adelman's final season in Minnesota was a frustrating one, with Nikola Pekovic missing 28 games, Chase Budinger never fully healthy after offseason knee surgery and a team that beat the Thunder, Heat, Spurs, Grizzlies, Rockets and Pacers but also lost to the Kings, Magic and Jazz. They still finished 40-42, with nine more victories than last season.
Now the team heads into a precarious summer, with President Flip Saunders needing to find the right coach and make the right personnel moves to keep Love, who can opt out of his contract after next season.
Michigan State's Tom Izzo, a friend of Saunders for years, Iowa State's Fred Hoiberg, a former Timberwolves player and executive, and ESPN analyst George Karl are among the candidates likely to be considered to take over a team that has the longest-running playoff drought in the league at 10 years. Saunders himself could also take over, though owner Glen Taylor has said he prefers to keep Saunders in the front office.
Even as Adelman prepares to ride off into the sunset to spend more time with his beloved wife Mary Kay and eight grandchildren, his influence will remain in the league he called home for 25 years. Rivers still remembers a particular play Adelman ran when he coached the Kings.
"We copied it and won a game with it in Boston and called it Adelman," Rivers said. "It was great."
Follow Jon Krawczynski on Twitter: http://twitter.com/APKrawczynski


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There were no arrests Saturday during a Ridgecrest Police Department sobriety checkpoint in the 100 block of South China Lake Boulevard.
Sgt. Mike Myers said the checkpoint was conducted from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m., and approximately 440 drivers went through the checkpoint.
He said officers cited one person for driving on a suspended license, and no drivers were given field-sobriety tests.
Funding for the checkpoint came from a grant from the Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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By Kevin Siembieda
The weather has turned decidedly Autumn. Morning temps are in the forties and fifties. Afternoon highs are lucky to break into the low seventies. There is a crispness to the air and at Palladium Books, the atmosphere is pure excitement.
Ideas are flying and several dynamic titles are in development along with plans to get you those long awaited Beyond the Supernatural™, Rifts Chaos Earth®, Splicers®, Heroes Unlimited™ and Palladium Fantasy RPG® releases finished and in your hands between now and this time next year. In fact, I have tentatively plotted out the schedule of our next 12 releases, starting with Graveyard Earth, Bizantium and the Northern Isles, Robotech®: Expeditionary Force Marines, Chaos Earth® Resurrection, Rifts® Secrets of Atlantis, and Chaos Earth® First Responders, followed by more titles. This list of 12 titles are all finished manuscripts awaiting final edit and rewrites so they can go to press over the next 4-8 months. It does not include titles still being written (like Rifts® Heroes of Humanity), under development (like BTS sourcebooks) or being retooled (like the Splicers® sourcebooks). I am determined to get good manuscripts off the shelf and into your hands as dynamic books.
Other exciting stuff is brewing behind the scenes too, but we don't want to jinx them by mentioning anything too soon. Suffice it to say that if everything goes well, the next few months of 2014 and all of 2015 are going to be filled with new game product releases and excitement. And that includes the 2015 Palladium Open House, which we hope to make spectacular. Check out the POH update a little further on.


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When the student declares a major, he or she is responsible for securing an adviser in the major department and completing a Declaration of Major form which includes a comprehensive four-year plan. Usually this planning is done with both support from the first adviser and consultation with the new adviser in the major department. As the new adviser in the major department you should feel free to ask the student to revise the plan before signing off on it. Of course, plans should be free from technical errors: the course decisions and credit counts should allow the student to graduate! Also, the major declaration includes an essay which should provide a solid rationale for the student's decision.
When are declarations due? Frequently, the student will begin the process of deciding on their major early in the second year. Not only is it natural for students to be more focused within their studies by this time, but our off-campus study application process requires applications due (with preference for the major declared) by the end of the fall semester. The normal major declaration time is two weeks prior to pre-registration in the fourth semester, around early April.
Whose job is it anyway? Despite this being the student's responsibility, Tutorial advisers often play an important role in this process, offering support and guidance. The Registrar's Office sends a reminder to students in their fourth semester who are still undeclared. This email comes about two months before forms are due, and it includes a link to the Declaration of Major form and the due date. The Registrar's Office sends a reminder to these students' advisers, too. At that point you may decide to invite your undeclared advisees for a group meeting to discuss the process and begin their plans.
A tough choice. Sometimes this planning process comes easily to the student, but for other students it is a difficult decision. If you end up with an advisee who is having trouble deciding, you might begin by probing with some questions:
- Is it about having to make a choice (and feeling like you then can't change your mind)?
- Is it difficult to make a decision because there are too many good options?
- Is it about feeling like you don't have any good choices?
- Are your ideas about what you want to study in conflict with the expectations of your family?
- What happens when you limit yourself to just one area? Do you feel that you'll become completely defined by your major?
- What about double majoring or completing an interdisciplinary concentration?
- Do you assume that your major has to tie directly to what you do after graduation?
- What are your options for after graduation? What do you want your life to look like?
Sometimes students' answers to these questions help guide your conversation or let you know you need to make a referral. Remember that students struggling with their choice of major should speak with the staff in the Career Development Office, x4940, or Academic Advising, x3702. A matter of logistics. Part of process to create a four-year plan includes deciding which courses to take within the major department to fulfill requirements. Students should consult their Academic Evaluation on PioneerWeb (ACAD EVAL). Within this system they can pose "What if ...?" questions to the computer program. So, for example, if you have an advisee interested in a Theatre major, you can provide these directions to your student:
Before you meet with the Theatre department, go to PioneerWeb. Login to PioneerWeb and click on "Course Areas & Academic Info" tab at the top of the page. Then look for the "Academic Information" box. Click on "Academic Evaluation (check degree progress)" link. This will take you to an area where you can check your progress towards your Grinnell degree, AND (this is the cool part) you can ask it, "What if I were to major in Theatre?" and select ok. The computer program will go through all your courses to date and tell you what you would need to take if you were to major in Theatre. In addition to reading the requirements in the College Catalog, this should significantly assist in your planning.


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NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)-- Washington Post Columnist George Will believes that college rape victims are more likely to come forward now that rape is a "coveted status that confers privileges," Think Progress reported June 9.
In a column published by the newspaper on June 7, Will argues that the recent upsurge in rape allegations are overblown and based on inaccurate statistics. This will only put men at risk of being charged with rape, according to Will.
Yet, the number of reported rapes has increased by nearly 50 percent between 2008 and 2012, Think Progress reported May 2. A report that was conducted in 2007 found that only 12 percent of rapes were reported.
The increase in reported rapes is largely a result of more college students feeling comfortable enough to come forward. Despite the increase, there is still a large amount of people who are uncomfortable with reporting sexual assaults out of fear of being ostracized and threatened, the online publication reported.
"Clearly George Will has never tried to speak publically about experiencing sexual assault. People who do that receive death threats and rape threats, and get stalked and followed and harassed," said Harpo Jaeger, a college student at Brown University told Think Progress.
Will goes on to criticize universities that have implemented trigger warnings stating that, "Academia is learning that its attempts to create victim-free campuses–by making everyone hypersensitive, even delusional, about victimizations–brings increasing supervision by the regulatory state that progressivism celebrates."
Another issue with the recent uproar about sexual assault, according to Will, is its "capacious" definition that includes forcible sexual penetration and nonconsensual touching, Salon reported June 9.
Twitter subscribers have expressed their anger over Will's column via the hashtags #firegeorgewill #survivorprivilege and #rapeprivilege.
Here are some of the most recent tweets:
For 10 years I was too ashamed to tell my parents. @georgewillf don't you DARE tell me I benefit from #survivorprivilege. #firegeorgewill
— Juliana M-T (@JulianaMorganT) June 9, 2014
Having your family turn their back on you for "making a big deal out of something that 'wasn't really assault'" #survivorprivilege
— Terri (@terribenn8) June 9, 2014
#rapeprivilege is living in a culture we're you're mocked as having a "coveted status" rather than believed. #firegeorgewill
— mazzie (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ (@mazzie) June 9, 2014
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AUSTIN (November 29, 2012)--Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday he is asking his new education commissioner again to delay a mandate that requires that standardized test scores be factored into the final grades of Texas high school students.
Perry's request Thursday would extend a deferral of the so-called "15 percent rule" until the next school year that begins in fall 2013.
Under the rule, an end-of-course exam must count as 15 percent of a student's final grade.
The Texas Education Agency already gave ninth-graders a break from the requirement this school year.
Students, however, still must take the exam known as the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness.
"This week we received the excellent news that our state's graduation rate ties for the nation's third best. As you know, this accomplishment did not happen by accident, nor did it happen overnight," Perry said in the letter.
"While we must continue to adhere to our state's accountability system, we must also recognize the importance of local control. That is why I am asking you to defer until the 2013-14 school year the requirement that an end-of-course assessment count as 15 percent of a student's final course grade," Perry said.
Republican Sen. Dan Patrick, chair of the chamber's education committee, has filed a bill that would make the exemption permanent.