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The Illinois House of Representatives made history last Tuesday, as it voted 65 to 46 to approve a temporary visitor's driver's license (TVDL) SB 957 for the undocumented. The Senate had voted last month to approve the bill by 41 to 14, with one abstention. Illinois is the 5th state in the nation after Tennessee, New Mexico, Washington and Utah to approve such a measure but the only one in recent times to make such a bold move. The bill's passage has been hailed by immigrant advocates as a milestone for Illinois and a measure of things to come for comprehensive immigration reform in Washington D.C. Other states may take Illinois' lead and follow.
Chicago Irish Immigrant Support (CIIS) Executive Director Breandan Magee was in the chamber for the count and had this to say, "This vote is historic in its reach and is a bell weather for national sentiment on immigration reform and immigrants' rights. The tide is turning and Americans of all political persuasions see this as a fight for human rights. I am very hopeful looking forward to immigration reform at the national level but today Illinois just made its roads safer and offers the 250,000 undocumented immigrants driving on our roads the chance to get a license and become insured".
The bipartisan bill's passage was the result of a long campaign that kicked off in the summer, led by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrants and Refugee Rights (ICIRR).
ICIRR is an umbrella group of over 130 agencies in Illinois that advocate for immigrants' rights; it counts CIIS and the Chicago Celts for Immigration Reform as long standing members.
The Irish voice was a loud one in this debate with CIIS and Billy Lawless of the Chicago Celts fielding members for days of action in Springfield and participating in mass call ins to press legislators to back the measure. CIIS Board President Cyril Regan and Executive Director Breandan Magee spent the last two days before the vote in Springfield with a contingent of grassroots supporters from ICIRR to make the final case to lawmakers that the bill was good for Illinois and for road safety in general.
The vote however was still undecided just before the House convened, with key legislators still unsure as to how they would cast their vote. Representative Fred Crespo was one such lawmaker who was a definite no before the crucial vote. Regan and Magee accompanied Fr. Brendan Curran of St. Pius Parish Chicago to the representative's office with only five minutes to sway him before he rushed off to the final session of the 97th Congress. It turned out that Crespo, the son of a Puerto Rican Korean War veteran had been born, baptized and confirmed in St Pius's and he graciously listened to the three Irishmen plead the case for the bill. The bill's passage would have direct impact on the over 5,000 undocumented Irish men and women in Chicagoland and has stringent controls in place to avoid document fraud.
From the floor of the House an emotive Crespo acknowledged the visit of Fr. Curran and the Irish and thanked them for their passion on the issue. In the end he voted with his conscience and voted yes. Another representative that the trio visited in the eleventh hour was Emily McAsey who had been a no on this issue and had voted consistently against pro immigrant measures in previous votes. She also listened intently and had questions answered. She had been visibly emotional in previous meetings in her district when undocumented immigrants told their stories of parents deported after being pulled over for a traffic violation. Representative McAsey also voted yes.
In total 65 lawmakers voted yes after listening to the impassioned debate on the House floor from those opposed and those in favor of the initiative. Over 400,000 immigrants are deported annually and many such removals are triggered by a routine traffic stop. Anyone apprehended while driving without a license may be booked and brought back to the station where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can put a hold on him/her and begin the deportation process. Families are torn apart and as one advocate put it " we are creating orphans with parents" as US citizen children remain here while one or more of their parents are sent back to their country of origin.
Back in the chamber a gasp of disbelief and elation rang out from the packed public galleries as the final vote flashed up on the electronic screen. Everyone in the chamber knew that history had just been made and the tears followed amid the beaming smiles. It was a highly charged crescendo to a long fought campaign for the bill's ardent supporters.
Immigrant advocates in Illinois had been fighting for this measure for over 13 years; the last time that this proposal came up for a vote in 2007 it was defeated by a handful of votes in the House. This time around a strong campaign led by ICIRR and key Irish community leaders built a coalition of supporters who persuaded many legislators to vote in favor. Key proponents of the bill included Senate President John Cullerton, Representative Eddie Acevedo, Speaker Michael Madigan, House Minority Leader Tom Cross, Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno, the Latino Caucus, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Governor Pat Quinn, Former Governor Jim Edgar, Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown, Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran and Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.


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reanimator wrote: Yeah - I'd call it 6/8. Technically, the only difference between 3/4 and 6/8 would be if the music was notated or if a conductor was conducting it. The reason I would call it 6/8 is because, due to the fast tempo, if a conductor was going to conduct it, they would most likely make a motion on the first beat per 'triplet', instead of every note of the 'triplet' (triplet is in quotes because in 3/4 or 6/8, it's not a true triplet notation-wise, it would just be notated as a quarter note). So, it's definitely not a waltz tempo, which is why I wouldn't call it 3/4.
But, programming-wise, the tracks were composed in 3/4 because it was just to make it easy to snap to the timeline. I'm not even sure the software I used has 6/8 on it as an option.

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Team Ninja faces some uncertain times after losing its leader, Tomonobu Itagaki. The studio known for its frenetic action games stumbled with the release of the disappointing "Metroid: Other M" and "Ninja Gaiden 3," and it left some wondering if the developer had lost its edge.
Its third original game in the post-Itagaki era would be the most telling. "Dead or Alive 5" could signal a decline of Team Ninja, or it could show that the developer has righted the ship. With a new artistic style, the studio showed positive signs that this could be a reboot for the series.
It had a chance to depart from the "Dead or Alive" series' puerile past. It was fun to duke it out using heroines with unrealistic proportions, but after more than a decade, the act is getting stale.
Unfortunately, "Dead or Alive 5's" face-lift is more evolutionary than revolutionary. Sure, the women of the game look more like realistic supermodels instead of Barbie dolls, but the studio still emphasizes elements such as breast physics and costumes that can pass as lingerie, thus clinging to the sexploitation themes of its predecessors.
That's clear in the story mode, which acts as a long tutorial. It introduces players to all the characters, including such fresh faces as Mila, the MMA fighter, and Akira and Sarah Bryant, two "Virtua Fighter" regulars making a guest appearance in the game.
Taking place after the events of "Dead or Alive 4," the narrative makes more sense than its peers. It follows Kasumi's search for Alpha-152, a destructive clone made from her DNA, and Helena's hunt for Victor Donovan, the man responsible for using her company for world domination.
As it tells the story, the game tries to teach players the concepts of the triangle fighting system and the more nuanced concepts of its comeback mechanics. Fans should be familiar with how punches and kicks can be countered and how throws can be effective against those who block or rely on holds.
But the concepts of Critical Bursts and Power Blows need better instruction. Power Blows can only be used when the health bar is low, and it's better to stun a foe before using it, because the move takes a while to unleash. These moves are also different for each character, but the commands are buried in the arcade mode. It would have been great to have them as an option during practice.
Along with the new moves, Team Ninja also integrated the tag-team concept into the fighting system. There are now special throws and combos available for two-member teams. There are even strong Critical Burst and Power Blow combinations.
One of the better improvements -- and something the series has always excelled at -- is creating environments. In "Dead or Alive 5," Team Ninja ups the ante and designs detailed multitiered stages that dramatically affect a battle. Players can knock foes off scaffolding or out of towers. They can punch them into electrified ropes or slam them into barrels.
Part of the reward of playing the game is discovering the hot spots of each stage. Players who know a level will have an innate advantage, forcing foes against walls so that they can pummel them in a corner or kick them off for extra damage.
Still, despite the graphics overhaul, "Dead or Alive 5" doesn't offer much in terms of innovation in online matches. The game offers the basics with ranked fights, players fights and lobby matches. But there is no stat system that's comparable to "Tekken Tag Tournament 2," and the online play isn't as flawless as Namco Bandai's game. When compared to its rivals, Team Ninja does enough with the face-lift and level design, but it would have been helped by a more complete overhaul.
What fans have is a solid and serviceable fighting game that hits the marks that it's supposed to. But "Dead or Alive 5" doesn't offer the change that the series so desperately needs.
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September 17, 2005
If your child were missing, would you be prepared? News 12 is on your side to show you what you can do to make sure you have all of your child's critical information.
"How old are you, Mary? What's your best friend's name?" asked Alison McCarthy, DNA Life Print.
A few simple questions that could make a difference in finding your child.
"It helps to see how they act with other people because I'm a stranger to these kids so how they react with me gives you an idea of how they'd react with someone else," McCarthy said.
DNA Life Print is a national child safety program sponsored by America's Most Wanted host John Walsh.
"We come out to different cities across America," McCarthy said.
The program give parents a free DNA kit for their child to keep at home in case their worst nightmare ever became a reality.
"God forbid in case he was I'd have that on file as well as his photograph," said a parent.
The DNA kit takes one simple step and parents have a full record of their child's genes. It's a modern day advancement that comes without error.
"This is better than hair samples or fingerprinting because it's a guarantee to get a DNA strand," McCarthy said.
It's critical information for police when time is your enemy.
No records of the child's visit with DNA Life Print are kept on file with the program. The purpose is for parents to have the information they need readily available for police.


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Overgrown Weeds Can't Stop Ventrac
What do you do when your backyard resembles an overgrown weedy jungle!? Get a Ventrac Tractor and Tough Cut Mower to do the work! An awesome new video has just been released on YouTube highlighting the Ventrac tough cut mower deck and tractor doing some serious action. Although this video demonstrates a homeowner use, there are multiple commercial/municipality applications that really benefit from using the Tough Cut mower deck. Golf courses, parks, cities, townships and state agencies have grassy areas not mowed on a regular basis that need knocked down from time to time and the Tough Cut is a perfect solution.


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The last time we featured the art of Nick Carver was in 2008, when the dude was looking for a job. Today, he seems to be doin' OK, as he's a senior artist at Blizzard.
Having spent over five years at Free Radical, later Crytek UK, Carver has been at Blizzard since 2009, where he's been working on the company's top secret successor to World of Warcraft, the MMO known only as Project Titan.
While that project obviously remains locked behind closed doors, Nick's other works are just wonderful.
If you're wondering where all these post-steampunk (note: not a real term) images come from, the majority of images below are from a personal project of his set in the alternate early 20th-century city of Dustrum, which is being made into a book and which looks amazing. (Update: Ah, it's called dieselpunk, thanks!)
You can see more of Nick's work at his personal site (thanks CAW!).
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October 21, 2005
North Augusta's new Lowe's is close to completion. But that means more traffic on one of the city's busiest roads. It's always been a popular route for commuters, and now it's a magnet for shoppers, too. That's why the area is in for some major changes. News 12 is on your side with what these changes could mean for your drive home from work.
Brent Morin has to loop around and come down a back road on Knox Avenue to get to his dad's shop on Georgia Avenue.
"Usually around lunch them when everyone's getting off work, it seems hard to get across the street, getting on this road," Morin said.
Working only a block away from Knox and Five Notch Road, he says he hears accidents from the area all the time.
"It'd be a good idea to put up a light because someone will end up getting really hurt," Morin said.
Tonya Gregory works right across the street and she agrees, not only would it prevent more accidents but it will also help the traffic congestion on Knox Avenue.
"A lot of cars go fast through there, and they're trying to turn, end up with people being hurt," Gregory said.
And they're both right. Skip Grkovic, the Director of Economic Development in North Augusta, says about 32,000 cars a day travel through the Knox-Five Notch-Georgia Avenue area.
"We had a number of questions, comments and complaints on a regular basis on traffic lights," Grkovic said.
And that's not the only intersection raising some concerns. That's why the city plans on adding several new traffic lights around Knox Avenue and Martintown Road. Where exactly will they be? One will be on Knox and Five Notch Road. Another will be on Knox and Lecompte. And to help ease some of the traffic coming in and out of Lowe's, another will be placed on Jersey and Martintown.
While some are saying more traffic lights are an absolute must for Knox Avenue, especially with the new businesses coming in, Skip says it can be a double-edge sword because it'll alleviate some of the accidents right now while creating new problems at the same time.
"Traffic signals have a tendency to increase the number of accidents because if there's no red light, people won't run it, but once it's up people will go through it," Grkovic said.
The new traffic lights, an attempt to stop more accidents will mean more stop and go traffic.


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Human Genetics at IMFAR
Guest staff blogger: Vlad Kustanovich, Ph.D.
Genetic research is one of the exciting avenues of investigation that was highlighted at this year's IMFAR meeting. The section on human genetics started with a description of the largest study of autism twins to date. This study, described by Dr. Joachim Hallmayer, has concluded the data collection phase and is beginning to shed new light on how much autism can be explained by genes and how much by environment. Because identical twins share 100% of their DNA while fraternal twins share only approximately 50%, geneticists can compare the relative contribution of genes and environment, since it is assumed that for each twin pair, the environment is the same. Clearly, both environment and genes are involved but this study may help to identify to what extent.
Dr. David Ledbetter described his effort to gather anonymous genetic information on chromosomal microarays from hundreds of thousands of patients with autism spectrum disorder and developmental delay. He is doing this by forming partnerships with over 120 clinical labs throughout the U.S. Dr. Ledbetter, a world-reknown expert in cytogenetics, has the knowledge and respect of the scientific community to achieve the goal of creating data standards and pooling information to show which chromosomal changes are most often identified in these groups. Deletions in regions on chromosomes 16 and 22 are identified consistently. Although still rare, an understanding of altered genes in these regions may lead us to identify new subtypes of autism.
Other talks focused on studies of brain and face development (since these happen at the same time) in families with autism from the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange, an update from the Autism Genome Project, and a fascinating talk from Sun-Chiao Chang (working with Dr. Susan Santangelo) on sex-specific effects in autism spectrum disorder. Ms. Chang identified several genes which seem to have an effect only in males, possibly helping to explain the common finding that there are four times as many males with autism as there females.
To read complete coverage from IMFAR, please visit http://www.autismspeaks.org/science/science_news/imfar_2010.php.
May 27, 2010 at 1:16 pm
I worked with triplets that were all on the spectrum. It is good to see that this research is being done. I always thought that families with multiples or siblings on the spectrum had to hold some key to helping figure out this mystery. A big thank you to Dr. Ledbetter for what he is doing.
May 27, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Great….but remember girls get it too. Genetic research probably helps contribute to how much environmental factors will effect a persons likelihood of having sensitivity to differing environmental exposure componets. So both need to be studied in a wholistic approach, for best study results! We are all out here wondering how the next generation will be helped by the Dr.'s who study to make changes for the better for all of us with medical realities to live with day in and day out!
May 30, 2010 at 1:12 pm
"Because identical twins share 100% of their DNA while fraternal twins share only approximately 50%, geneticists can compare the relative contribution of genes and environment, since it is assumed that for each twin pair, the environment is the same:.
The classic twin study design assumes an equal prenatal environment is false and has led to misleading impressions and false conclusions.
Identical twins share the same prenatal environment in 66% of pregnancies (monochorionic). A third of identical twins develop in seperate placentas (dichorionic) just like fraternal twins.
To determine the relative contributions of genes and environment, concordance rates of identical twins need to be segregated by chorion type. If concordance rates in identical twins are the same in monochorionic and dichorionic identical twins, then the condition is largely genetic. If concordance rates in identical twins are substantially higher in monochorionic twins than dichorionic twins then the magnitude of the environmental component has been significantly understated.
No autism twin study has ever segregated concordance rates in identical twins by chorion type.
May 31, 2010 at 12:03 pm
I appreciate the effort of these scientists but it is time to see results. This subject has been intensely studied and been the recipient of massive investments for a dozen years and still no answers.
We have to move on. We could be studying these "rare chromosomes" for the next 50 years, meanwhile rates are rising exponetially and none of this research has prevented one child from developing autism. Let's finally see a scientist and organization brave enough to study the rate of autism in unvaccinated sibs vs. vaccinated sibs. Such information will yield more important and immediate information than another 10 years of rare chromosomes.
There are huge populations of unvaccinated sibs- let's get it done.
OMG please no more discussions of facial gazing. Enough. Millions upon millions have been invested into this. Really time to move on.
The reason autism affects boys 5x the rate as girls is because testosterone adheres to heavy metals and the adjuvants while estrogen protects girls from the same toxic materials. Males has less protection and are more likely to suffer adverse vaccine reactions. Males w/ a family history of autoimmune disease are also 3x as likely to develop autism. W/ a weaker innate immune system their bodies go into overdrive and cannot tolerate multiple viruses at once. Instead of developing an immunity to these disease their immune system starts attacking their own GI systems and then their brain- that is a regression.The largest part of the immune system is found in the gut.


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EAGLE, Colorado - The Eagle County jail's work release program poured more than $104,000 back into the county's general fund last year.
That's not the program's goal, but it is a benefit, said District Court Judge Fred Gannett.
"Work release is a mechanism that can take someone whose history might be bad, but their life story is pretty typical," Gannett said. "It helps them stay ahead of the tsunami that comes with a criminal conviction."
Work release programs have been around since 1913 when they were introduced in Wisconsin, under a program written by Wisconsin state senator Henry Huber. An inmate who is sufficiently trusted and can be monitored, gets to leave jail to work a regular job. When the workday is done, they go back to jail where they spend the night.
"It's best for a someone to keep a job and meet their financial obligations as best they can, and continue to care for their wives, husbands, children, aging parents," Gannett said. "Hopefully it helps them maintain some sense of self-esteem and deal with the consequences of bad behavior."
The Eagle County Sheriff's Office runs the local work release program.
"It's a difficult program for the Sheriff's Office to administrate and requires additional staff and time. It would be easy for them to say 'No dice' and not do it," Gannett said.
"It's one of the most important tools to be placed at our disposal in the last 10 years. It's a seismic leap forward," Gannett said.
More than money
The Eagle County detention facility reimbursed $104,836.11 to the county's general fund, said Capt. Bill Kaufman with the Eagle County Sheriff's Office.
That doesn't cover the jail's $2.3 million budget, of course, but it puts some money back into the general fund and provides other benefits, Kaufman said.
"Inmates are not just sitting in here. When they're released they're sent back out with a work ethic, instead of getting out and committing more crime as a way to get by," Kaufman said.
Work release inmates also get time shaved from their sentences.
For every day they work, their sentence is reduced by an additional day.
The equation can be a bit convoluted, but that means if you're sentenced to 30 days in the work release program, you'll be free to go in 19 days.
Recycling for dollars
Not part of the work release program, but just as successful is prisoners working at the county landfill, Kaufman said.
Every day the jail sends as many as prisoners as possible, usually four or five, Kaufman said.
If the county's solid waste and recycling program doesn't have prisoners available, it hires temporary workers for $18.01 an hour, Kaufman said.
Figuring an eight-hour day at $18.01 an hour, Kaufman calculated the program save the county's taxpayers $154,021 in 2012.
It's usually for longer-term prisoners and shaves time off comes off the back of their sentences.
"It's the same deal as the work release program, work a day and get a day off the back the back of your sentence," Kaufman said.
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Sustainability Committee
The CCSF Sustainability Committee is dedicated to assuring long-term
oversight and successful implementation of the CCSF Sustainability
Plan, as well as to serve as a central resource to ensure effective
partnerships among departments, training programs, awareness
campaigns, local community organizations, businesses, and the City of
San Francisco's Department of the Environment. We are an advisory
committee on all issues related to sustainability.
The student-initiated Sustainability ommittee was formed in 2006 as an official Shared Governance subcommittee of the Facilities Review and Planning Committee, and is now a roundtable committee under the Academic Senate.
It has open and unlimited membership from student, classified, faculty, and administrative populations at CCSF, and interested members of the San Francisco community.
- Typically meets once per month
- Meeting dates for Fall
- Wednesday, Sept. 9, 4:30-5:30 pm, Cloud Hall 365
- Wednesday, Oct. 7, 4:30-5:30 pm, Cloud Hall 365
- Wednesday, Nov. 4, 4:30-5:30 pm, Cloud Hall 365
- Wednesday, Dec. 9, 4:30-5:30 pm, Cloud Hall 365 (this meeting subject to date change; please check back to confirm)
- For more information, contact the
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3 Men Sought in Burglary of Lakeland Store
Published: Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 1:29 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 1:29 a.m.
Police are asking for help identifying three men who broke into the My Broken Phone store.
About 11:30 p.m. Aug. 12, three men used a crowbar to pry open the door of the store at 3139 S. Florida Ave. The men took an HP laptop, 25 glass iPad covers and five black storage bins, Lakeland police said.
The three men then left, but returned about 3:35 a.m.
Police said the men went to the back of the store and pulled a safe, which was bolted to the floor. The men loaded the safe into a dark-colored SUV/crossover vehicle and drove away.
Inside the Big Horn Safe Company safe were about 100 used cellphones of differing brands and money.
The first man was wearing a dark-colored T-shirt, light-colored shorts, gloves and a baseball cap. The second had his mouth covered with a bandana and was wearing a dark-colored T-shirt, camouflage shorts, dark-colored tennis shoes and a cowboy hat, and the third man was wearing a dark-colored long-sleeved shirt, light-colored long,pants and a light-colored skull cap-type head cover.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Lakeland Police Department at 863-834-6900 or Crime Stoppers at 800-226-8477.
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The focus in Oakland almost always is on the offense, which has scored the most runs (444), or on the pitching, which has the second-best ERA (3.11) in the majors.
The thing is, the A's can do more. And they did more Monday in the opener against the Giants, a team they will play three more times this week.
The A's first run came in the fifth inning off starter Ryan Vogelsong, who hit Craig Gentry with a pitch. Gentry then stole second and took third as Coco Crisp dropped a brilliant bunt down the first-base line, beating it out with a speed show of his own.
"It's a good combination when they're both on," manager bob Melvin said. "There's the dynamic where (the pitcher) has to be quick to the plate."
Gentry was batting ninth and Crisp first, a setup that Melvin likes because of the combined speed factor as the lineup turns over.
In the third inning Gentry singled and the threat of him stealing (he's 16 for 16 this season) might have helped Crisp (15 for 18) draw a walk.
Oakland didn't score in that inning, but in the fifth, when Gentry was hit by Vogelsong, the same basic dynamic was in play. Vogelsong and the San Francisco infield had to be wary of Gentry, and he stole anyway.
When he was on second base, there might have been some tendency for the Giants to play a little deeper on the infield, and Crisp put the bunt down and used his speed to beat out a hit that led to the game's first run.
Before the night was over, the A's would have three steals -- the others came from Crisp and Eric Sogard -- and while only Gentry's would lead to a run, the pressure the baserunning puts on shouldn't be overlooked.
Oakland is 53 for 63 in steals this season, a success percentage of 84.1 that moves them back ahead of Washington (83.6) as the best in the majors in that category. Other teams have stolen more, but those teams have also been thrown out more, sometimes much more.
"Speed doesn't take a day off," catcher John Jaso said. "Unless you're catching."


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How to Format Ordinary Text in Office 2011 for Mac
3 of 11 in Series: The Essentials of the Office 2011 for Mac Ribbon
In Office 2011 for Mac, the Home tab on the Ribbon displays the commands used most often when formatting text. Head to the Font group on the Ribbon's Home tab when you want to format text that you have selected by highlighting. Although most of these controls may seem familiar, some of them work a little differently in Office 2011 for Mac.
You may enjoy working with text a bit more after you go through the explanations of the Ribbon's Font group:
Font name: Click to choose a font. Notice the first item in the list, Font Collections, which appears when you click this control:
Fixed Width: Lists fonts where every character is exactly the same width instead of using a proportional amount of space. This is quite like the old typewriters where the characters i and w took the same amount of space.
Fun: Fonts that may add some zest. You may not want to use any of these in a corporate document unless you're in the entertainment business.
Modern: Modern from a 1960s perspective, perhaps. All fonts here though are clean and upright.
PDF: Fonts that look great when saving in PDF format.
Classic: Not boring Times New Roman as the label implies. There are plenty of classical fonts here.
Web: Fonts that play nicely with Web browsers. Use these if you're planning to use Save As Web Page.
Windows Office Compatible: Stick with these fonts if you plan to share with Windows users. You'll avoid most font substitution problems. Office 2010 for Windows has these fonts.
Font Size: Type a size in the box, or click the arrow to select a size from the pop-up menu.
Larger: Each click bumps the size up a notch.
Smaller: Each click shrinks the size a notch.
Change Case: (Word and PowerPoint only) Offers five options, formatted exactly as they look: Sentence case, lowercase, UPPERCASE, Title Case, tOGGLE cASE.
Clear Formatting: Restores default properties to the selection.
Bold: Makes font bold.
Italic: Makes font italic.
Underline: Makes font underlined. In Word only, there's a small downward arrow next to this button that reveals a pop-up menu with several underlining options.
Strikethrough: Places a horizontal line right through your text.
Superscript: Makes font go up and become smaller, like the 2 in 32=9.
Subscript: Makes font go down and become smaller, like the 2 in H2O.
Character spacing (PowerPoint only): Offers several options to manipulate spacing between individual characters.
Font Color: Displays font color palette.
Text highlight color (Word only, not illustrated): Click to add, change, or remove a highlight color.
Text effects: Click to display a submenu of assorted text effects in Word and PowerPoint.


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ATLANTA -- The 49ers are back in the Super Bowl for the first time in 18 seasons after erasing a 17-point deficit Sunday for one of the greatest comebacks in NFL playoff history.
A 28-24 win in the NFC Championship game merely required the 49ers to shake off a terrible start in the Georgia Dome and stave off a last-ditch drive by the Atlanta Falcons.
"Winning the George Halas Trophy, it's a huge accomplishment," 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said. "It's another flag, another trophy. You want to win as many trophies as you can."
The Lombardi Trophy will be on the line, as will the 49ers' 5-0 record in Super Bowls, when they play Feb. 3 in New Orleans against the Baltimore Ravens, who are coached by John Harbaugh, Jim's older brother.
To reach the Super Bowl, only the 2006 Indianapolis Colts climbed out of a bigger hole, rallying from 18 points down to win 38-34 over the New England Patriots in the AFC title game.
Not until Frank Gore's 9-yard touchdown run -- on a beautifully executed read-option play by quarterback Colin Kaepernick -- did the 49ers (13-4-1) climb into the lead, 28-24, with 8:23 remaining.
Gore, the 49ers' all-time rushing leader who's weathered many storms in his eight-season tenure, couldn't wait to express his joy to reporters. He interrupted Kaepernick's news conference, sidled next to the second-year quarterback and declared: "We deserve this."
"It's been a long eight years," Gore added. "We've been struggling and struggling and struggling. We've got the right guys in front of us to lead us."
Leading the way is Harbaugh, the second-year coach whom players praised for "keeping his cool" and conducting "business as usual" when they entered their locker room with a 24-14 halftime deficit.
Tight end Vernon Davis also spoke up at halftime, telling teammates: "Let's get this. We made it this far. Finish strong."
What a finish it was. The Falcons followed up Gore's go-ahead touchdown by marching 70 yards to the 49ers' 10-yard line. They got no farther, as Ahmad Brooks batted down Matt Ryan's third-down pass and NaVorro Bowman broke up a fourth-down throw to Roddy White.
Earlier on the nail-biting drive, Kaepernick had a message for the 49ers defense, doing so during a replay-challenge break that upheld a 22-yard, third-down reception at the 49ers' 28-yard line.
Said Kaepernick: "I went out and talked to them, told them, 'This is for the Super Bowl right here.' They said, 'We've got you.' I mean, I take a man at his word."
Once that mission was accomplished, the 49ers sideline resembled a Bourbon Street celebration, even though 1:09 remained and the 49ers offense couldn't get a first down on its ensuing drive. The 49ers chewed up all but six seconds, however, and the game ended on a 24-yard catch by Julio Jones at the 49ers' 35-yard line.
A parade of players immediately streamed to congratulate defensive tackle Justin Smith on making it to his first Super Bowl in his 12-year career.
After playing in his second straight game with a partially torn left triceps tendon, Smith called the win "unreal," then added: "We have one game left. It's all for naught if you don't go and take care of that one."
The top-seeded Falcons (14-4) couldn't take care of a sizable lead for the second straight game at home. They blew a 20-point fourth-quarter lead against the Seattle Seahawks before advancing to the NFC title game on a late field goal by Matt Bryant for a 30-28 win.
The Falcons, who led 20-0 at halftime of that playoff opener Jan. 13, followed that same script against the 49ers, starting with a 46-yard touchdown bomb from Ryan to Jones on the game's seventh snap.
That lead climbed to 17-0 when Jones nabbed a 20-yard touchdown catch to open the second quarter. But the 49ers answered with a touchdown drive that offensive coordinator Greg Roman credited for their overall comeback.
"Our first touchdown really eliminated the need to get anxious, greedy or get out of our game plan," Roman said. "Those first points broke the ice."
Rookie LaMichael James' 15-yard run accounted for that ice-breaking touchdown midway through the second quarter, for a 17-7 ballgame.
It wasn't easy sledding thereafter, but with Kaepernick showing remarkable poise and vision, and with the 49ers defense forcing a couple turnovers, the second half belonged to San Francisco.
Gore contributed a 5-yard touchdown run on the first series after halftime, and his 90-yard rushing total capitalized off the Falcons' focus on Kaepernick's running ability.
"We felt we could pierce the middle of their defense, be patient and wear them down," Roman said.
Gore credited much of the offense's revival to Kaepernick, who completed 16 of 21 passes for 233 yards with no interceptions and one sack. Kaepernick scrambled only once, for a 23-yard gain.
"Man, he's a different quarterback," Gore said. "If it wouldn't have been for him, it would have been a tough day."
Davis had his best day of a subpar season, coming through with five catches for 106 yards and a second-quarter touchdown. That production offset the limited role of Michael Crabtree.
Playing under the cloud of sexual-assault allegations, Crabtree did have a team-high six catches, but for only 57 yards. He fumbled at the Falcons' 1-yard line early in the fourth quarter, then redeemed himself with an 8-yard catch to set up Gore's go-ahead touchdown.
"It's hard to break us," Gore said. "We're not going to give up."
Not when it's New Orleans or bust. Next stop: the Big Easy.
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.
Sunday, Feb. 3
At New Orleans
49ers vs. Baltimore, 3 p.m.
Most Super bowl appearances
Games Team Record Pct.
8 Pittsburgh Steelers 6-2 .750
8 Dallas Cowboys 5-3 .625
7 New England Patriots 3-4 .429
6 49ers 5-0 1.000
6 Denver Broncos 2-4 .333
More 49ers
Purdy: Unforgettable game sets up the Super Sibling Bowl. Page A1
After years of heartache, Super Bowl wait ends for Frank Gore. Page 2
Patience pays off as Vernon Davis has breakout game. Page 6
Har-Bowl set
John Harbaugh, above, will meet his brother after the Ravens beat the Patriots. Page 7
Biggest playoff comebacks
The 49ers' rally from a 17-point deficit was the largest in the history of the NFC Championship game and the seventh-largest in NFL playoff history. Here are the top six:
32: Buffalo Bills 41, Houston Oilers 38, AFC wild card, Jan. 3, 1993, at Buffalo. The Bills trailed 35-3 at halftime before winning in overtime.
24: 49ers 39, New York Giants 38, NFC wild card, Jan. 5, 2003, at San Francisco. The 49ers scored the final 25 points after trailing 38-14.
20: Detroit Lions 31, 49ers 27, Western Conference playoffs. Dec. 22, 1957, at San Francisco. The Lions rattled off 24 straight points after they trailed the 49ers 27-7 in the third quarter.
18: Dallas Cowboys 30, 49ers 28, NFC divisional playoffs, Dec. 23, 1972, at San Francisco. Roger Staubach completed a Cowboys rally from a 21-3 second-quarter deficit by connecting on two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter.
18: Miami Dolphins 24, Cleveland Browns 21, AFC divisional playoffs, Jan. 4, 1986, at Miami. The Dolphins scored the final 21 points of the game as quarterback Dan Marino engineered an 18-point comeback.
18: Indianapolis Colts 38, New England Patriots 34, AFC Championship game, Jan. 21, 2007, at Indianapolis. Peyton Manning guided the Colts to their first Super Bowl appearance since the 1970 season after trailing by 18 points in the second quarter.
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Why Do Gerson and Wehner Think The Drug War Helps People?
I have difficulty with viewing these arguments from Wehner and Gerson (and David Frum) as anything but naive posturing. For Gerson, the aim seems to be that the drug war is something that is helping people, and backing off from it is bad for society; for Wehner, he seems to conclude that the path back to electoral success is doubling down on the drug war to appeal to single women and moms.


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SAN JOSE -- A family of beavers has moved into Silicon Valley, taking up residence along the Guadalupe River in the heart of downtown San Jose.
The discovery of the three semiaquatic rodents -- famous for their flat tails, brown coats and huge teeth -- a few hundred yards from freeways, tall office buildings and the HP Pavilion represents the most high-profile Bay Area sighting since a beaver family settled in Martinez in 2006. The discovery of those beavers sparked national headlines when city leaders at first tried to remove them and then backed down after public outcry.
The appearance of the furry mammals in downtown San Jose is believed to be the first in 150 years.
As word about their new home spreads, the animals are being held up as a symbol of the slow but steady environmental recovery of San Francisco Bay and its streams after decades of pollution and sprawl -- a hopeful sign of the resilience of nature in the nation's 10th largest city.
"My reaction is cartwheels. I'm so excited," said Leslee Hamilton, executive director of the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy in San Jose.
"It's amazing we have this living river in downtown San Jose, with great blue herons, egrets, chinook salmon, steelhead trout and now beavers. We live in such a highly urbanized area, it's a delight to walk out and actually see that wildlife are able to survive here."
The beavers, a female adult and two yearlings, have been swimming between the Children's Discovery Museum and the St. John Street Bridge. Beavers are nocturnal and rarely come out in the daytime. But some people have reported seeing San Jose's beavers a few times just after sunrise, Hamilton said.
They haven't built a dam, which might raise flood control issues.
"Our perspective is that there's really nothing to do right now except monitor the situation. We have no plans to do anything," said Marty Grimes, spokesman for the Santa Clara Valley Water District, which is responsible for flood control on the river.
If they do build a dam, it is in an area where there is a large overflow channel, built as part of a $300 million project in the 1990s to protect downtown from flooding. So any water that backed up could flow harmlessly into that channel, Grimes said.
"We've got the overflow capacity. There are worse spots for them," he said.
Nobody knows where the beavers came from. The key theories at the moment are that they were part of a colony that has been known to be living in the upper reaches of Los Gatos Creek, upstream from Lexington Reservoir, for at least 20 years. They could have swum down Los Gatos Creek, because their current home is close to where the creek flows into Guadalupe River.
Another thought is that maybe they are connected with the Martinez beavers, who are believed to have originally come to the Bay Area from the Delta.
"Our female beaver produced 15 live births. They've all dispersed," said Heidi Perryman, president of Worth a Dam, a Martinez nonprofit that advocates for that city's beavers. "They could be in San Jose. There's certainly a chance."
There are still four beavers living in Martinez in Alhambra Creek. Flood control concerns were reduced by putting a pipe in the beaver dam that regulates the flow of water. So if the water gets too high, it drains out downstream.
The beavers in downtown San Jose -- who may become as well-known as the peregrine falcons who live atop San Jose City Hall -- were first discovered about two weeks ago when San Jose resident Roger Castillo noticed telltale chewing marks on trees near the Shark Tank.
Castillo, who gained fame in 2005 for finding the skull of a 14,000-year-old Columbian mammoth while walking his dog along the river, sent news of the find to amateur naturalists around the South Bay. A few days later, on March 30, one of them set up two remote cameras in the trees near the St. John Street Bridge and the confluence of the Guadalupe and Los Gatos Creek.
When Greg Kerekes checked the memory cards in the days that followed, he saw three beavers frolicking, climbing on logs and chewing on trees.
"This is a sign that things have recovered enough that there's enough native vegetation to sustain a family of beavers," said Kerekes, who works for the conservancy and for the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society.
"Every time I go down there I see something new, a new butterfly or a new bird. There are still challenges dealing with the homeless and litter, but overall it's a good sign of the ecosystem's health that the beavers are there."
Beavers are believed to be native to the Bay Area. A skull in the Smithsonian is from a beaver found in Santa Clara in 1855.
Over the years, they were hunted across California and most of the U.S. for their pelts. To this day, they can be hunted without limit by anyone with a hunting license in 42 of California's 58 counties, including Alameda and Contra Costa, between Nov. 1 and March 31. It is against the law to hunt beavers in 16 counties, including Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin, San Francisco and Santa Cruz.
Beavers that are damaging property can also be trapped and killed under permits issued by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
In recent years, beavers have been spotted along the bay front in Sunnyvale, Vallejo, American Canyon and Benicia.
The vegetarian animals live up to 15 years. Research shows they benefit salmon and other animals by keeping water in dry streams year-round and pooling water behind their dams, which allows sediment to settle and provides cool water for young fish.
"Whether these beavers came from the bay or Los Gatos Creek, I don't think we know," said Rick Lanman, a Los Altos physician who has published scientific papers on California beavers. "As long as we keep improving our environment, we are going to see more recolonization. It is a really cool story."
Paul Rogers covers environmental issues and resources. Contact him at 408-920-5045. Follow him at Twitter.com/PaulRogersSJMN.


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noun (plural tali /ˈtālī/)Anatomy
The large bone in the ankle that articulates with the tibia of the leg and the calcaneum and navicular bone of the foot. Also called astragalus.
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- The ankle joint is formed by the articulation of the talus with the tibia and fibula.
- In this series of operations, we used suture anchor devices to fix the free ends of the split patellar tendon to the talus and the calcaneus.
- Because of the bony articulation between the medial malleolus and the talus, medial ankle sprains are less common than lateral sprains.
Late 16th century: from Latin, literally 'ankle, heel'.
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noun (plural taluses)
1A sloping mass of rock fragments at the foot of a cliff.
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- Along these exposed fault scarps, 500 m or more high, not only can the nature of oceanic crust be examined, but complex patterns of fault breccias, talus, and lavas can be discerned.
- These wrens breed in rocky habitats, such as canyons, coulees, outcroppings, and talus slopes in the steppe and dry forests.
- Protection of algific talus slopes may help prevent the need for threatened or endangered status for these other snails and plants like the golden saxifrage.
1.1The sloping side of an earthwork, or of a wall that tapers to the top.
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- Large taluses were added to the southwest and east sides to strengthen the outer wall and to make it earthquake resistant.
- Soil loss and runoff were evaluated over a 2-year period (2001-2002) on the taluses of terraces, in this zone of intense subtropical orchard cultivation.
Mid 17th century: from French, of unknown origin.
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EAGLE, Colorado - In regular golf, the difference between a good course and a bad course, says legendary golf writer Dan Jenkins, is that on a good course the kid in the beverage cart never gets more than three or four holes away from you.
In disc golf you carry your own beverages. Jenkins didn't write that, but it's true.
It's with that can-do spirit that the Flying Eagle Disc Society opens its summer season Saturday morning.
"It's such an inexpensive sport. All you need is your discs and the willingness to have some fun," said Steve Klehfoth, FEDS president.
A history of fun
Disc golf got its start in the 1970s when college students took Frisbees to the courtyard and started throwing them at stationary objects. The player who got there in the least number of throws won the hole. Co-eds occasionally counted as the goal in disc golf.
Steady Ed Headrick was with Frisbee manufacturer Whammo, and invented the pole hole. That's the basket with the chains on a pole that you see on modern disc golf courses, although you can still use buildings or co-eds.
"That blew everything up and allowed people to design courses," Klehfoth said. "In the last 10 years disc golf has become one of the nation's fastest-growing sports."
You can have a different disc for different shots, the way you'd have a club for every shot in regular golf. The discs are weighted and molded to make them behave differently for different shots. They make discs that rise and dive, drive left and right, discs that light up so you can play at night.
Or you can do what you did in college and use one disc for everything, up to and including impressing co-eds.
"Disc golf can fit your skill and ability level. The only important thing is for you to have fun," Klehfoth said. "You can go out there with one disc or a bag filled with discs. We want people to have a good time. There's no reason to have a dozen discs if you don't think you need them."
Pete Brenner was one of the local disc golf pioneers. He helped create the original disc golf course at the Eagle County fairgrounds, where Saturday's event is scheduled. He ran a restaurant in Eagle for a time, aptly named "Brenner's" and was around to offer some guidance when the county's Powers That Be, who tended to be a bit rodeo-centric at the time, were redesigning the fairgrounds and had innocently forgotten about disc golfers.
Brenner gently reminded them that disc golfers are taxpaying people, too. The Powers That Be agreed and that's one reason we're disc golfing happily ever after.
The local club was founded a couple winters ago around a table at the Bonfire Brewery in Eagle. Jeff Woods came up with the name, Flying Eagle Disc Society, and they jumped on it.
"It's been a long time since the county has had any kind of official disc golf club and we're working hard to make ours one of the best around," Klehfoth said.
Saturday's opener is a bag-tag competition. If you join FEDS, you get a tag for the bag in which you carry your discs. They're numbered and if you win Saturday you get No. 1.
As the summer rolls along, anyone with a lower-numbered tag, which obviously is everyone else, can play you tag for tag. If they beat the person with the No. 1 tag, they get it and it's theirs to defend when they're challenged, which is usually the shortest expanse of time this side of a theoretical physics experiment.
"No. 1 gets called out a lot. It's a hot commodity," Klehfoth said.
You can actually make a living at disc golf, Klehfoth said.
"They're not staying at the Ritz-Carlton or riding in limousines to the course. But they're doing it and not working any other jobs," Klehfoth said.
There's a course atop Vail Mountain and Beaver Creek, or you can make up your own, with or without co-eds.
Staff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Since July 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released over 25 Public Notifications about individual supplement products marketed for sexual enhancement and weight loss that contain hidden active ingredients. Through laboratory testing, these products were found to contain drugs and controlled substances—ingredients that pose health and readiness risks. For a list of these Public Notifications, visit FDA's Tainted Sexual Enhancement Products and Tainted Weight Loss Products.
The most common types of products found to contain "undeclared" ingredients (that is, substances not listed on the label) are those marketed for weight loss, sexual enhancement, and bodybuilding. Dietary supplements don't require FDA approval before being put on the market, and there is no way to know the contents of a product without laboratory testing. So if you're considering a dietary supplement, check the label to see if the product has been evaluated by an independent third-party organization.
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the U.S., but with proper precautions you can decrease your risk considerably. The sun releases invisible ultraviolet (UV) radiation, which can cause cataracts (clouding of the eye lens) and skin cancers. An estimated 63,000 new cases and 9,000 reported deaths from melanoma—the deadliest form of skin cancer—occur each year.
UV rays also cause tanning and sunburns—and can damage your skin after only 15 minutes of exposure. They weaken the skin's elasticity, causing wrinkling, rash, and freckles too.
Remember that you can get sun damage on sunny and cloudy days. UV rays penetrate clouds, exposing you to 80% of the sun's harmful effects. The good news is that you can take steps to protect yourself from UV rays, while enjoying the outdoors.
- Limit your time in the sun. Seek shade and try to avoid sun exposure during midday (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) when the rays are strongest. And avoid suntanning and burning.
- Cover up. Wear protective clothing, including hats, long-sleeved shirts, and pants when going outdoors. Remember that protection decreases when clothes are wet.
- Apply sunscreen. Use water-resistant sunscreen with Sun Protection Factor (SPF) 15 or higher. Apply and let it absorb 15–30 minutes before heading outdoors. Use lip balm with SPF 30 or higher to protect your lips too. Reapply every 2 hours or after swimming, sweating, or toweling off.
- Protect your eyes. Wear sunglasses to cover the skin around your eyes and help prevent eye damage. When choosing sunglasses, check the label to make sure they block 100% of UV rays.
March 6–12 marks National Consumer Protection Week, a campaign that encourages consumers to make informed decisions about the products and services they purchase and avoid getting caught in a scam. Dietary supplements are often marketed with claims that sound too good to be true, so be a savvy consumer and question claims such as "quick fix," "miracle cure," and "scientific breakthrough." If you find a product you believe is falsely advertised/labeled or caused an adverse reaction, report it.
Visit the National Consumer Protection Week website to learn more about how to protect yourself from fraud, not just this week, but every day of the year. Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS) strives to provide the best resources and tools to help you choose supplements wisely. You'll find even more information and consumer updates about dietary supplements from federal agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission, and watch this video from Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch.
Stimulants are common (and potentially problematic) ingredients in dietary supplements such as pre-workout and weight-loss products. But do you know how to tell if your dietary supplement product actually contains a stimulant? OPSS has some answers. Check out the OPSS FAQs about why stimulants are a problem and how to identify them on labels, both of which link to our list of "Stimulants found in dietary supplements."
And while you're there, visit our other OPSS FAQs, where you'll find information about specific stimulant ingredients such as DMAA, DMBA, BMPEA, yohimbe, and synephrine. We also have several FAQs about caffeine, probably the most common stimulant.
If you're feeling stressed, don't rely on liquid relaxation products to relieve your tension. While energy drinks are promoted to give you an extra boost, relaxation drinks* are marketed to do just the opposite and help you, well, relax. These products commonly contain the amino acid theanine, as well as several different plant-based ingredients. But the science doesn't support the use of relaxation drinks to decrease stress or anxiety, and consumers should be cautious of two ingredients: kava and melatonin. Bottom line, if you're feeling stressed, try to identify the cause, and then use stress management strategies backed by scientific evidence. Read more here.
Your body makes 5-HTP, but it can also be made in a lab and used in dietary supplements. Products containing 5-HTP are marketed to help with a number of health conditions, including appetite control and depression. Do they work? Read the Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS) FAQ on 5-HTP to find out.
Do you have other questions about dietary supplements that need answers? Then check out our other OPSS FAQs, where you'll find information about performance products, weight-loss products, specific ingredients, and more.
Using your military Pro Mask or other commercial mask device as a method of respiratory muscle training (RMT) isn't going to prepare you for higher elevations. Increasing the strength of your respiratory muscles which help you breathe—your diaphragm and the muscles between your ribs—will improve aerobic fitness, especially for long-duration tasks.
RMT can be achieved through whole-body aerobic exercise, upper-body strength conditioning, and some commercial RMT devices. Studies show that RMT slightly improves performance in those who are already aerobically fit (e.g., military personnel). It offers somewhat more benefit for those less fit or with chronic conditions.
Your Pro Mask was made to protect your lungs, eyes, and face from chemical and biological agents, radioactive particles, and battlefield contaminants. It doesn't create enough airflow resistance to help improve aerobic capacity. In addition, it wasn't designed as exercise equipment. There is no scientific evidence that suggests using commercial masks at normal altitudes will improve your performance at high altitudes. Read more about the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine's (USARIEM) review of Pro Masks and commercial products for exercise training. Check out HPRC's take on using high-altitude masks and improving work performance at higher elevations.
Running is one of the simplest forms of exercise—just throw on your shoes and head out the door. But there are a few simple things you can do to ensure your run is safe too:
- Carry identification. Bring some form of identification with you. There are various types of wristbands and shoe tags to provide emergency contact and medical information too.
- Stay visible. Wear a headlamp and/or reflective gear so drivers can see you when it's dark out—even at dusk and dawn. Make yourself visible to oncoming traffic.
- Turn the music down. Music can be a great way to help you keep pace. But if your tunes are too loud, you may not be able to hear cars or people coming up behind you. Keep music at a volume low enough that you can hear what's going on around you, or try wearing just one earpiece when you run.
- Grab a buddy. Running with a friend is a great way to keep both of you motivated and accountable. But when you do run alone, let someone know and share your planned route.
- Use the crosswalk and follow crossing signs. Drivers tend to be more aware of pedestrians near crosswalks because in many areas pedestrians (runners included) have the right-of-way there. If you're running where there is a crosswalk, use it.
- Don't assume a car will stop just because you're in a crosswalk. Make sure the driver sees you, slows down, and allows you to safely cross the street.
- Run against street traffic. Sometimes it's easier to run on the shoulder or in a bike lane. Remember to run against traffic (normally the left side of the road) so you can see the cars and the drivers can see you.
Stay safe and happy running!
Do you know what's in your dietary supplement? In the case of supplements, ignorance isn't bliss, and what you don't know can put your health at risk. Performance Triad has created 2 videos highlighting the dangers of dietary supplements. In "The Dangers of Supplements," Drill Sergeant David Cross talks about the consequences he dealt with from using supplements, including permanent liver damage. Also watch the Operation Supplement Safety App video to learn more about what goes into dietary supplements. You can download the OPSS app to get access right in your hands to information about thousands of dietary supplement products and ingredients. Please visit the Apps tab of HPRC's Tools for the Warfighters to download the app.
Dietary supplements that claim to be "all natural" aren't necessarily safe. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued 2 Consumer Updates warning consumers about "all natural" products for erectile dysfunction and imported dietary supplements.
According to FDA, supplements marketed as "all natural" sexual-enhancement products might be tainted with hidden drug ingredients. Some of these are the same active ingredients found in prescription drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction. Not only could you potentially be consuming multiple drug ingredients, you could be consuming them in amounts even greater than prescription doses. Either way, these types of products can put your health and career in danger. For more information, please read FDA's Consumer Update on "'All Natural' Alternatives..."
Consumers should also beware of dietary supplements and nonprescription drugs marketed as "all natural" remedies for serious conditions such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, or heart disease. "Natural" does not necessarily mean safe, and these products also can contain undisclosed chemicals or drug ingredients that can be harmful. FDA specifically warns consumers about imported products sold online or at flea markets, or swap meets. Please read FDA's Consumer Update on "Some Imported Dietary Supplements..." to learn more.


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Judge Disqualified over Facebook 'Friend' Request
Back in February, the American Bar Association cautioned judges about their use of social media. While sites like Facebook and Twitter can help judges stay in touch with the wider world, the ABA admonished that they should think twice before "friending," "liking," or "following" somebody.
A case in Florida drives home that concern.
The dispute centers around a circuit court judge who presided over a divorce proceeding. Before entering a final judgment, Judge Linda D. Schoonover sent the wife a Facebook "friend" request that the woman didn't accept, according to court documents. In a complaint, the lawyer for the wife accused the judge of then retaliating against her by allegedly saddling her with "most of the marital debt" and giving the husband "a disproportionately excessive alimony award."
Last week, an appellate court kicked the judge off the case and assigned the matter to a different judge, concluding that the wife had a "well-founded fear of not receiving a fair and impartial trial."
The unrequited friend request "placed the litigant between the proverbial rock and a hard place: either engage in improper ex parte communications with the judge presiding over the case or risk offending the judge by not accepting the 'friend' request," the appeals court wrote in its Jan. 24 decision. (Chicago intellectual property attorney Evan Brown, who blogs about law and technology, also has a run-down of the ruling.)
Judge Schoonover couldn't be immediately reached for comment. An attorney for the husband declined to comment on the matter.
In an interview with Law Blog, the wife's attorney, Damon A. Chase, called the judge's conduct "outrageous."


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Okay I admit it I am lazy. Well, I work four days a week as a developer and another two days writing. I am also good at pretending to be a father and a family man. However, in principle, in another life, in a parallel Universe, where elegance wins over brawn, I simply totally and utterly want to be lazy. When a lazy person, my hero, invented the wheel, the invention was not for the purpose of carrying heavy objects. The purpose was rather to avoid carrying heavy objects. Well, okay I want to be lazy and yet still expect large bags of fluffy green money stuff to buy beer and gadgets and motivate others not to bug me.
The only issue with being lazy is that I need to recreate the Universe to simplify my future. As a developer at an educational establishment, I am involved in creating the future infrastructure for learners. However, with so many Word and PowerPoint documents of various versions, quality of content and general value, we have a system of "What goes in stays in and will not budge even if the toilet overflows". To exasperate this flow issue the end user expects a modern internet experience and I am afraid that management will realize that you can make an awful lot of money out of reselling and repackaging content in small lumps. So being lazy and wanting to be elegant I am a Jedi master, apart from being a little over weight and having no light saber. Okay, I'm not a Jedi master. I am the wind (do not ask!). So being lazy, instead of churning out processes to convert old to new, I would love to side step the issue.
Many, many commentators have blessed Open Document Format with thumbs up. Now there is an overwhelming reason to use ODF. Support Alan's laziness. Alan does not want to spend the next ten years digging in the entropy mines. He would rather that end users are open to each other and community spirited. No doubt, you have read that Microsoft is delivering a tool for conversion to and from ODF of its numerous document sub species. This action is a wise marketing move from a perceptive company that is commercially dangerous for its competitors. My advice as always is to be very careful of the license and the exact details of the converted documents. Even slight variations and accidental bugs will generate considerable work for me and mine. So remember support Alan's laziness, any tool you use for ODF conversion needs to work 100%. Please double-check and verify and then double check and verify and only then use with my blessing as a Jedi master.
Beware Greeks bearing gifts
Or "make sure you know where the knife hand is". I think the thing that bothers me most about Microsoft's recent overtures (like the ODF converter) is that it seems a little too good to be true that Microsoft could do anything without the intent to harm.
I want to "give the devil his due" and respect what they're doing for what it is, but the company has such a track record of dirty-dealing and underhanded, below-the-belt tricks, that's it's just too hard to take them seriously when they decide to go "open source" as they claim to be doing with the ODF plugin.
There are of course, legitimate competitive explanations. The Open Document Foundation (also "ODF", let's call them "ODFn") plugin is not released yet, is subject to NDAs to see it at present, and so is not really following the open source "rules". Thus Microsoft, by announcing an open source effort is actually able to undercut the ODFn position by being "more open source friendly" with their plugin. It's a pretty big PR coup.
If you read the press release, of course, it's also an amusing FUD opportunity, as they have taken every opportunity to slam ODF as a less-capable, inferior standard to their own MSOOXML standard. Whenever they do tout the benefits of ODF, they avoid it by actually touting the benefits of "XML standards" (which would, theoretically, include both).
Then there's the scary Microsoft/Creative Commons tool (what a bizarre alliance that is). The license is a standard EULA with all the baggage that carries -- but then, if you're already using Microsoft Word to create document, you've already agreed to substantially the same EULA.
All of that seems pretty toothless to me. There may be a knife, but neither of those can be it.
On the other hand, Microsoft could just be looking for a way out. They can't afford to lose face or back down, so they have to make whatever position they take look like victory. They have to make us think they invented "open source", just like all the other technologies they "introduced" (i.e. appropriated).
I've even considered the possibility that ODFn intentionally left this opening for Microsoft. After all, you should always give a powerful enemy somewhere to go besides right over you! By leaving such an obvious opening, they may be trying to channel Microsoft into a sane course of action while making them think they invented the idea (or, if you want to be more devious, with the actual cooperation of Microsoft to make us think that Microsoft originated the idea!).
But I'm probably overestimating somebody's strategic abilities. Anyway, whatever the motivations, Microsoft seems to be sincere about the open source plugin: they've sited the project at Sourceforge rather than trying to retain in-house control over it, they've picked a standard, GPL-compatible, OSI-compliant, non-copyleft license (modified BSD). You know they wouldn't want a copyleft license, of course -- but that's hardly sufficient cause for concern. It could be that they have learned through experience that this is the only way such a project could be taken seriously.
At this point, the only place for the knife to be hiding is in software patents (but that's a pretty big hiding place). But they've held that threat for a long time. So it may be that Microsoft really is in retreat, and is doing no more than PR damage control. Maybe there is no real "knife".
Well thought out
Terry, what a well thought out set of comments. I suspect that only time will show us the real motives of all the parties involved.


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|Previous College:
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2011 (JUNIOR): Named Third Team All-Southland Conference in her fist season at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi…appeared in 24 games while starting 22 for the Islanders with a 14-7 record…posted a team-high 124 strikeouts in 136 innings thrown for a 2-to-1 walk to strikeout ratio…had a conference-high six shutouts…held opponents to a .221 batting average with a 2.57 ERA and led the team with 13 complete games…tied a school record with 11 innings thrown against McNeese State (3/22) and struck out a career-high 13 at Northwestern State (4/3).
Prior to Texas A&M – Corpus Christi: Played two seasons at Pima Community College under head coach Armando Quiroz … led her team to a 57-11 record last year while going 31-6 in the circle with an ERA of 1.56, which was good enough for second in the region, while her 280 strikeouts were tops in the region … named 2010 Region I Player of the Year and NFCA First Team All-West Region as well as First Team Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) … finished her first year with a record of 19-6 with a 2.85 ERA and 128 strikeouts to finish second in the region.
High School: Played at Buena High School for head coach Mike Tomooka … compiled a record of 37-5 and an ERA under 0.90 over her three-year playing career … First Team South Region in 2006 and second team after the 2007 season … led her team to a regional championship in each of her three seasons, with a runner-up finish in the state championship in 2007.
Personal: Born Jordan Trujillo on Aug. 7, 1990, in Sierra Vista, Ariz. … parents are Arthur and Cheryl Trujillo … psychology major.


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Each year, returning New England Law students volunteer to assist and mentor first-year students. To ensure a smooth transition for incoming students, mentors contact their mentees prior to the first day of orientation.
Beginning in June, incoming students receive the Mentorship Program Welcome Letter in the mail from the Student Bar Association president. The information provided on the form is used solely to best match mentor and mentee.
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10.3 mile 1:27:30 . first 5 in 42:24 or 8:29/mi, mile 6 @8:18, mile 7 @8:28, mile 8&9 in 17:22 or @8:41/mi, mile 10 @8:11, last .3 @9:30/mi. Weather was cool and right hamstring was a little tight for most of the run. DH might be correct about right leg being weaker...
Nice run Ray, strong the whole way.
D.H. is right about a lot of things, but we'll keep it to ourselves, wouldn't want the guy getting a swelled head...
And speaking of D.H., I wanted to mention the woman on the news today who wanted a day off from work. Not wanting to call in sick, she called the cops instead and told 'em she'd been abducted, then robbed. They had photos of her after being arrested, poor thing was just too creative for her own good. So there you have it D.H., don't call the cops when you want a day off... lol
I did 2 workouts today. A 3 mile nordic walk early, then a 5 mile mtn. bike ride late. My foot wasn't bothering in the first mile of the walk, so I decided I'd test the waters by jogging a little in the second mile and sank like a rock. No harm done, but my foot's still got me on the disabled list.
And I think the odds of me being the new Mr. Universe are about as good as me winning the lotto when I haven't bought a ticket.
Enjoy life, this ain't a rehearsal...
Good workouts, men.
Ray, I want to run 10 miles when I grow up.
Rich, I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
Visited the gym tonight:
100 pushups
100 situps
Then I lifted heavy things and put them down again for a while. Look for me at the next Mr. Universe contest.
Dark Mare is out of town for a few days. Dark Colt and I are batching it.
Dark Horse
I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course.
Dark Horse, being wrong about being wrong makes you right, right?
And good luck batching it, which of you is doing the cooking?
Enjoy life, this ain't a rehearsal...
Rich in NH wrote:
Dark Horse, being wrong about being wrong makes you right, right?
And good luck batching it, which of you is doing the cooking?
Rich, right!
This is how the cooking has worked this week. In the morning I drive through McDonald's on my way to the Guard. Dark Colt makes himself oatmeal in the microwave for breakfast. At lunch, the school cafeteria feeds Dark Colt. The Guard cafeteria (manned by prisoners) feeds me. I eat the main course, and make a garden salad which I bring home for Dark Colt's supper. Also I cook something more substantial for supper. Last night it was chicken pot pie.
However, tomorrow (Thursday) I am home again. Monday through Wednesday this week I was getting paid to do annual training days. It turns out I can't actually start the real Guard job until all the hiring paperwork is processed, which takes longer than I realized. So I may be home for a few days or several days, depending. Or I may be back at state Guard HQ as early as Sunday if the approaching tropical storm looks like it may hit Massachusetts. My life is rich with uncertainty.
Dark Colt
I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course.
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4.6-2 Possession of Weapon or Dangerous Instrument in a Correctional Institution -- § 53a-174a
Revised to April 23, 2010
The defendant is charged [in count ___] with possession of a weapon or dangerous instrument in a correctional institution. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
a person is guilty of possession of a weapon or dangerous instrument in a correctional institution when, being an inmate of such institution, (he/she) knowingly (makes / conveys from place to place / has in (his/her) possession or under (his/her) control) any (firearm / weapon / dangerous instrument / explosive / any substance or thing designed to kill, injure or disable).
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Inmate in a
correctional institution
The first element is that the defendant at the time of the alleged offense was an inmate in <insert name of facility> and that <insert name of facility> is a correctional institution. "Correctional institution" means any correctional facility administered by the commissioner of correction.
Element 2 - Knowingly made,
conveyed, possessed, or controlled
The second element is that the defendant knowingly (made / conveyed from place to place / had in (his/her) possession or under (his/her) control) certain weapons or dangerous instruments. In this case, it is alleged that the defendant <insert allegations and type of weapon>.
"Knowingly" means that (he/she) was aware that (he/she) (possessed / made / conveyed / had under (his/her) control) <insert type of weapon>. <See Knowledge, Instruction 2.3-3.>
["Possess" means to have physical possession or otherwise to exercise dominion or control over tangible property.]
Element 3 - Weapon or dangerous
The third element is that the item[s] the defendant had in (his/her) possession was a (firearm / weapon / dangerous instrument / explosive / a substance or thing designed to kill, injure, or disable>. <Insert the appropriate definition:>
"Firearm" means any sawed-off shotgun, machine gun, rifle, shotgun, pistol, revolver, or other weapon, whether loaded or unloaded, from which a shot may be discharged.
"Weapon" includes anything used or designed to be used in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy.
"Dangerous instrument" means any instrument, article or substance which, under the circumstances in which it is used or attempted or threatened to be used, is capable of causing death or serious physical injury. "Serious physical injury" means physical injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes serious disfigurement, serious impairment of health or serious loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ. It is important to note that the article need not be inherently dangerous; all that is required is that the article was capable of causing death or serious physical injury under the circumstances in which it was used. Any article or substance, without limitation and even though harmless under normal use, may be found by you to be a dangerous instrument if, under the circumstances of its use or threatened or attempted use, it is capable of producing serious physical injury or death. The state need not prove that in fact death or serious physical injury resulted, only that the instrument had that potential under the circumstances.
"Explosive" is any chemical compound, mixture, or device that functions by explosion.1
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) the defendant was an inmate at a correctional institution, 2) the defendant knowingly (made/ conveyed / possessed / had under (his/her) control) a weapon, and 3) the weapon was a <insert type of weapon>.
If you unanimously find that the state
has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of the crime of
possession of a weapon or dangerous instrument in a correctional institution,
then you shall find the defendant guilty. On the other hand, if you unanimously
find that the state has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt any of the
elements, you shall then find the defendant not guilty.
1 Also see definition in General
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- May 30:
- Drakes Bay Oyster Co. cuts ties with Washington D.C. group helping in legal battle
- Apr 10:
- New lawsuit claims state wrongly put sanctions on Drakes Bay oyster farm
- Mar 18:
- Drakes Bay Oyster Co. attracts support from Bay Area restaurateurs, Republicans
- Feb 19:
- Drakes Bay closure could increase oyster prices
In a major decision on a California environmental battle that attracted national attention, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. in its efforts to continue operating at Point Reyes National Seashore in an opinion released Tuesday morning.
The case, which pitted environmentalists against each other, and attracted food leaders like Chez Panisse chef Alice Waters, raised key questions about the federal government's ability to regulate private businesses operating in national parks.
A three-judge panel heard arguments in May as the oyster company sought an injunction to halt closure. The court ruled 2-1 Tuesday against the Marin County oyster operation, however, which means the facility will likely have to close unless the full court or the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the ruling.
Drakes Bay owner Kevin Lunny said he was absorbing the news and pondering next steps.
"We are not sure what the next step is; we have to look at it," Lunny said. "It was a split decision; we are encouraged by that."
On Nov. 29, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced he would allow a 40-year lease with the National Park Service -- originally negotiated with the Johnson Oyster Co. in 1972 and taken on by Drakes Bay -- to expire.
In 1972, the federal government bought the land from Johnson for $79,200 and provided the lease. Lunny took over the lease in 2004, and although he knew it was set to expire in 2012, he sought an extension, enlisting the support of Sen. Dianne Feinstein and others.
Salazar wrote in his decision in November that Lunny was explicitly informed "no new permit will be issued" after the 2012 expiration date.
When Lunny's company purchased the oyster farm, "it did so with eyes wide open to the fact that the permit acquired from its predecessor owner was set to expire just seven years later, in 2012," the court wrote. "Drakes Bay's disagreement with the value judgments made by the (interior) secretary is not a legitimate basis on which to set aside the decision."
Conservation leaders who want the area permanently protected as federal wilderness applauded the 9th Circuit Appeals Court ruling.
"The court rightly decided that former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar had full discretion to let the oyster operation permit expire and to honor the 1976 wilderness designation for Drakes Estero," said Amy Trainer, executive director of the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin. "We are very grateful for this decision, which supports the Estero's full wilderness protection."
The case over a single oyster farm grew and took on national dimensions. It became a cause célèbre for conservative groups who wanted the farm to stay. For a while, the oyster farm accepted legal help from Cause of Action, a nonprofit whose executive director, Dan Epstein, worked for the foundation of Charles Koch, a conservative billionaire who has spent millions trying to weaken environmental laws.
Prominent Bay Area food leaders, including Waters and writer Michael Pollan, sided with the oyster farm also, saying that the federal government was bullying a local food producer.
In February, however, the oyster farm's fortunes began to fade, when U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected a preliminary injunction to halt the federally ordered closure.
The 9th circuit court agreed to hear the case and review Rogers' decision.
In its ruling Tuesday, the panel upheld the district court.
The 9th Circuit ruled that while it had jurisdiction to review whether the interior secretary violated legal mandates, it lacked jurisdiction to review the Salazar's discretionary decision whether to issue a new permit.
"We have long stated and the court has now confirmed that the expiration of the oyster operation permit was a well-established matter of contract and NPS policy that Mr. Lunny was fully aware of before he bought the last few years of operating rights," said Gordon Bennett, president of Save Our Seashore.
During the May hearing in front of the court, an attorney for Lunny and the government had 30 minutes each to argue their cases before the three-judge panel -- justices M. Margaret McKeown, Paul J. Watford and Algenon L. Marbley -- in a packed courtroom.
McKeown and Marbley ruled to uphold the lower court's ruling, while Watford dissented, holding that Drakes Bay was likely to prevail on its claim that the secretary's decision was arbitrary, capricious or otherwise not in accordance with law. Watford wrote the injunction should have been granted.
Mercury News staff writer Paul Rogers contributed to this report.


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Group Wants County Commission to be Single-Member Districts
Residents in each commission district would elect their representative
Published: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 1:13 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 10:02 p.m.
LAKELAND | A grassroots organization announced Tuesday it is launching a petition drive to seek a charter amendment to implement single-member county commission districts.
In other action Tuesday, county commissioners:
• Voted unanimously to approve the appointment of Dr. Ulyee Choe as the new director of the Polk County Health Department, which is operated by the Florida Department of Health.
• Voted 3-1, with Commissioner George Lindsey dissenting, to pay $225,700 to Raymond Crawmer for 20 acres for right-of-way for Ernie Caldwell Boulevard extension.
• Approved an agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation for cost-sharing for the construction of improvements at the intersection of Kinny Harmon Road and U.S. 17-92 in connection with the Poinciana Parkway project.
• Approved sale of an unneeded air-conditioning unit to the Kathleen Area Historical Society.
• Approved a lease agreement between The Arts Ensemble Education Foundation to use office and classroom space at the Johnny and Freda Brooks Eloise Resource Center.
• Proclaimed May 24-26 Pughsville Community Weekend.
The group, called Polk Citizens for Single-Member Districts, is aiming to get the proposed change on the November 2014 ballot.
It plans to kick off a petition drive next month.
Under the current county charter, commissioners are elected countywide but must live in the district they represent.
Under the proposed change, only voters within each of the five commission districts would be eligible to vote for the commissioner representing their district.
Debbie Ogzewalla of Winter Haven, the group's chair, called the current system "unfair and practically un-American."
"We think the voters in each district should have the final say as to who represents their district on the board of county commissioners," Ogzewalla said in a press release. "The voters in the district should be able to decide for themselves who represents them."
The issue of single-member districts arose in 2010 during Polk County's last Charter Review Commission, but members of the panel rejected that idea along with nonpartisan elections for commissioners.
One of the arguments in favor of single-member districts is that it allows candidates to run without having to raise tens of thousands of dollars from special interests as are typically required for a successful countywide campaign.
Opponents of single-member districts argue that it leads to "ward politics," a focus on more parochial issues at the expense of a broader countywide vision.
County Commissioner George Lindsey, who chaired the 2010 Charter Review Commission, said Tuesday he disagreed with the idea of single-member districts, saying it would produce the kind of politics that characterizes the U.S. Congress.
The 2010 discussion was not the first time the issue had been raised.
In 2002, Polk voters rejected a proposed charter amendment that would have expanded the County Commission to seven members with two being elected countywide and the other five being elected from specific districts.
This is the first citizen initiative to come forward since business groups pushed charter amendments in the 2008 election to make it more difficult for such initiatives to win approval.
Under the revised charter, citizen initiatives cannot pass unless they receive at least 60 percent approval from voters.
The measure was criticized at the time as an attempt by the local business and political establishment to retain as much control as possible.
The charter changes, which were proposed at the last minute by then-County Commissioner Jack Myers, came just months after a citizen initiative to impose a cap on development failed to get enough signatures to go on the ballot.
The only successful citizen initiatives occurred in 2000, when a group of activists won approval of charter amendments imposing term limits and salary caps on the County Commission. Both measures passed by majorities of more than 70 percent.
In addition to Ogzewalla, other officers in the group are Davenport Vice Mayor H.B. Robinson III, vice chair; Debra Strickland, Polk City, secretary; and Becky Wynkoop, Lake Wales, treasurer.
The group doesn't have a website, but Joseph Clark, another person involved in the campaign, said Tuesday one is being developed and will be up soon.
Under Polk County's charter, citizens seeking to put a charter amendment on the ballot must submit a copy of the summary language to the Polk County Supervisor of Elections office for review before collecting any signatures.
To get on the ballot, amendment proponents must get the signatures of at least 7 percent of the registered voters in each commission district.
If the amendment sponsors get enough signatures, the County Commission is required to put the measure on the ballot.
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