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Boy, 4, Thrown From Truck on I-4
Published: Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 2:28 a.m.
A 4-year-old Lakeland boy was in serious condition Sunday night after being thrown from a pickup that overturned on Interstate 4, according to Florida Highway Patrol troopers.
Troopers said the 2001 Chevrolet driven by Osbaldo Cruz, 32, of Lakeland, was heading west in the outside lane when the left rear tire blew out, causing him to lose control and overturn east of McIntosh Road.
Yahel Cruz, 4, was thrown from the vehicle. He was airlifted to Tampa General Hospital in serious condition. Troopers said he was not in a child seat.
The other passsengers, Hilaria Perez, 31, Yury Parras, 9, Judith Parras, 12, and Yajaira Cruz-Perez, 1, all of Lakeland, were taken to Tampa General Hospital with minor injuries.
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Edward M. Kennedy was the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts. He was the second longest-serving member of the Senate.
Edward Moore Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on February 22nd, 1932. He was the fourth son and last of nine children of Joseph P. (1888–1969) and Rose Fitzgerald (1890–1995) Kennedy.
His father was a multimillionaire businessman. Because his family moved frequently, Kennedy attended several different private schools before enrolling in Milton Academy, near Boston, Massachusetts, in 1946.
Upon graduation from Milton in 1950 he enrolled at Harvard University. At the end of his freshman year, however, he was expelled for having another student take a Spanish exam in his place. Kennedy then enlisted for a two-year term in the Army. His father's influence won him an assignment as a guard to Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe (SHAPE) in Paris.
After completing his time in the Army, Kennedy returned to Harvard and graduated in 1956. He then enrolled in the University of Virginia Law School, where his natural talent for debate was sharpened. He received his law degree in 1959 and was admitted to practice in Massachusetts in the same year
While still a law student, Kennedy managed the successful Senate reelection campaign in Massachusetts of his brother John Kennedy. In 1960 he served as Western states coordinator for John's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. After his brother's victory in the 1960 election, Edward took a position as assistant to the district attorney of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. As preparation for running in 1962 for the remainder of John's unfinished Senate term, Edward traveled widely and made many speeches.
He was first elected in 1962 to complete the final two years of the Senate term of his brother, Senator John F. Kennedy, who was elected President in 1960. Senator Kennedy was re-elected to eight full terms during his time in the Senate.
Throughout his career, Senator Kennedy was an advocate for health care, education, civil rights, immigration reform, raising minimum wage, defending the rights of workers and their families, assisting individuals with disabilities, protecting the environment, and safeguarding and strengthening Social Security and Medicare.
Senator Kennedy was the Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and also served on the Senate Armed Services Committee, as the Chairman of the Seapower Subcommittee.
In addition, he was a member of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and the Congressional Friends of Ireland, as well as a trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Senator Kennedy graduated from Harvard University and the University of Virginia Law School.
He resided in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, with his second wife Victoria Ann Reggie Kennedy. Kennedy has five children; Patrick, Kara and Edward Jr. from his first marriage to Joan Bennett; and Curran and Caroline Raclin from his second.
He passed away on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009, after his long battle with cancer. He was 77-years-old.
Family Statement on the Passing of Senator Kennedy
"Edward M. Kennedy, the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply, died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port. We've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever. We thank everyone who gave him care and support over this last year, and everyone who stood with him for so many years in his tireless march for progress toward justice, fairness and opportunity for all. He loved this country and devoted his life to serving it. He always believed that our best days were still ahead, but it's hard to imagine any of them without him."
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One Health (OH) is the concept that the health of animals, the health of people, and the viability of ecosystems are intricately linked. As the link among human and animal populations, environmental changes, (ecological and climate), and global movement evolve, the risk of disease transmission between animals and people has increased. An OH approach embraces the idea that disease problems that adversely impact the health of humans, animals, and the environment can only be solved through improved communication, cooperation, and collaboration across disciplines and institutions. OH supports the idea that healthy productive livestock and pets lead to healthy people and sound environments through food, economy, and companionship.
APHIS Veterinary Services' has established a One Health Office to coordinate and implement its vision, mission and goals as outlined in the OH Strategic Plan are as follows:
APHIS VS will provide US leadership for the animal health component of One Health (OH). As a committed OH partner, APHIS VS will contribute towards the global health of people, animals, ecosystems, and society
As the nation's animal health authority, APHIS VS will contribute expertise, infrastructure, networks, and systems to operate effectively with multiple disciplines and multiple partners (local, state, national and international) to collaboratively promote healthy animals, people, ecosystems, and society.
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Why would any nation sign treaty with Palestinians?
Alan Stein, Waterbury The United Nations has adopted a resolution recognizing the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a "non-member observer state" (Nov. 29 article, "Palestinians hope for leverage from U.N. recognition"). This disregards the fact the PA, essentially an independent state for more than a decade, does not possess the legal attributes that define a state. After all, given the composition of the U.N., if the Palestinian Arabs offered a resolution condemning Israel for the devastation brought on by Hurricane Sandy, it would pass overwhelmingly.


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by Caitlin Noblitt, Digital Intern Bear
What better way to celebrate this ghoulish month than by making delicious cake pops that look like adorable pumpkins? We decided to make pumpkins but you could make any Halloween character – think ghosts, spiders, monsters, and mummies! Cake pops are the latest craze in baking so try this treat with your kids and gobble up some good food!
– 1 box of cake mix of your choosing
– 1 container of icing or 1 pkg of cream cheese (Note: anything made with cream cheese should be refrigerated.)
– Orange candy melts (found at craft store in baking section)
– Black cookie icing (found at craft store in baking section)
– Toothpicks
– Green Tic Tacs or green icing for the stems
– Lollipop sticks
– Cake pop stand or a block of Styrofoam to stick the cake pops in to dry
1. To save ourselves some time, we decided to bake our cake the night before. We started out the next day by cutting four sections to break down the cake.
2. Let's get ready to crumble! Crumble the cake and mix in the icing or cream cheese. You can choose to use icing but we prefer cream cheese because it doesn't make the cake pops too sweet.
3. Take this mix and begin to mold the cake into your desired shape. Since we made pumpkins, we just rolled the cake into balls and placed them in the refrigerator for 15 minutes while we worked on the candy melts. This helps them hold their shape better when coating with icing.
4. Melt the candy melts on the stove or in the microwave. Place the candy melts in a deep bowl so it's easy to dip and coat the cake pops!
5. Remove the cake balls from the refrigerator. Take the lollipop stick and dip the tip in the melted candy melts before inserting in the cake pop balls. This will help the cake to better stay on the stick.
6. Twist the cake pop for about 5 seconds to completely cover.
7. Tap the excess candy melts by holding the cake pop on its side and continuously rotating.
8. We used a cake pop stand to hold ours while they dried.
9. Making the faces is the fun part, but it can also be tricky! We used black cookie icing to create the pumpkins' faces. After microwaving the icing, use a toothpick to carefully draw on the face. We sketched the face before filling it in with icing all the way. Let the icing set for about 15-30 minutes.
10. For the stems, you can either use green icing or green Tic Tacs. We found spearmint Tic Tacs to be the best option.
Have you tried your hand at making cake pops before? Share your pictures with us if you dare to make this fun treat!


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The first steps in the production of any protein are transfecting a cell line, achieving expression of functional protein, and selecting a high-expessing clone for production. Charles H. Squires, vice-president of discovery and external partnerships at Pfenex Inc., spoke with BioPharm International about advances in protein expression technology, and discussed the challenges yet to be overcome.
BioPharm: Can you describe how the process of protein expression has improved or changed over the past 10 years or so? What are one or two key technological advances that have made these changes possible?
Squires: New methods to more rapidly and reliably express proteins have proliferated over the past decade and a half. Innovations in this area have included the improvement of expression hosts to introduce more phenotypic capability to produce active, undegraded protein. For instance, hosts have been modified to overexpress folding modulators or mutated to eliminate proteolytic activities. Also, there has been a large increase in the number of these tools available commercially, putting many effective approaches within the reach of researchers with limited resources. The past several years have also seen the emergence of proprietary platform technologies, each of which offers some advantages in expressing difficult proteins or which delivers an advantageous downstream process. Examples include platforms such as a strain of Escherishia coli that secretes product to the extracellular space (Wacker Chemie AG), a toolbox of regulated promoters in the yeast Pichia pastoris (VTU Technologies), and a completely unique Pseudomonas fluorescens-based expression platform (Pfenex). The Pfenex platform has proven highly effective in expressing a variety of types of proteins and employs a high-throughput parallel processing technology in which a thousand or more unique expression strains are constructed and analyzed in about a month.Similar types of improvements have been made in the screening of mammalian expression hosts for the extent of target protein expression, including fluorescence-activated cell sorting for the selection of productive clones. These technologies are particularly effective in the identification of cell lines expressing high levels of engineered monoclonal antibodies.
In addition to these types of improvements to host and expression strategy, advances in gene design that go beyond the traditional adherence to codon usage tables have been implemented, such as the technology developed by DNA 2.0. Expression data-taught, host-specific algorithms that modulate DNA sequences while keeping protein amino acid sequence constant may add yet another dimension to the list of effective protein production tools. The community of researchers involved in all aspects of protein production is certainly much better off than it was 20 years ago in its ability to provide solutions to protein expression, but it will take much more work understanding all aspects of the nature of protein expression to arrive at universally applicable principles. Those solutions will necessarily involve an ever widening toolbox of approaches that will need to be accessed through more advanced parallel processing tools. The principle difference now is that a multidimensional approach to gene and protein expression is available to the great majority of researchers, whereas 20 years ago the process was one dimensional and digital, giving only a yes or no result.


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Playing to the heart
WASHINGTON — In baseball, a game without a clock, each player on a team that is behind by a bunch of runs is advised to "stay within yourself." That baseball lingo means: Do not try to do too much. Instead, get 'em on, get 'em over, get 'em in. There are no five-run home runs. Small, incremental gains matter because the game goes on until someone makes the 27th out. Until then, there is hope.


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Age: 24
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FREMONT -- With a low crime rate, high-quality schools and a growing tech sector in an improving economy, Fremont has caught the eye of covetous home developers.
But several residential developments soon will add thousands of students to already overcrowded campuses, which school leaders say could damage the quality of education, strain district resources, send students out of their neighborhoods and add to traffic as parents drive kids to those more distant schools.
District leaders say they are close to a crisis point.
And even though it is likely developers will largely finance one new school, the leaders also want voters to approve a $650 million school bond -- Alameda County's largest ever -- on the June ballot to ease existing and anticipated overcrowding. That has some parents saying developers should start paying much more in development fees to Fremont Unified, so that property owners aren't burdened with more tax debt.
"I don't think it would be fair to saddle taxpayers with costs for a new school," Fremont resident Mary Biggs said. "You can't constantly turn to the taxpayers."
Forest Park Elementary's overcrowding reflects the district's challenge, said Superintendent of Schools James Morris. Its 982-student enrollment is well above the ideal maximum, 850 students, for an elementary campus. But it could be worse, as another 215 neighborhood students who normally would attend Forest Park attend other campuses outside their area, district leaders said.
Several other schools are crowded in Fremont Unified, where 33,662 students attend 42 campuses. Enrollment has grown by 2,000 students in the past six years, and 1,500 more are expected by 2017. The district has added portable classrooms as a short-term solution, but it is running out of room, Morris said.
"It's a problem, and we don't have the capacity to solve it," he said. "We just can't continue like this because we don't have the seats available for more students."
And it might get worse before it gets better.
The district is lowering class sizes from 30-1 to 24-1 for grades K-3, over a four-year period to comply with new mandates for state funding under Proposition 30. Smaller class sizes are better for children, but they force schools to use more classrooms, Morris said.
"It's good pressure to reduce class sizes and increase enrollment," he said. "But with the two pressures, we're quickly approaching a point where we have no available classrooms."
Meantime, the City Council has approved 500 single-family residences at Patterson Ranch in Ardenwood, where Forest Park and other elementary schools already are overcrowded.
And even more new housing, and the students that likely will come with it, are on the way.
The Warm Springs/South Fremont development near the BART station opening next year would add 2,700 housing units. Warm Springs Elementary already has 951 students, so another elementary school must be built, district leaders said.
Developers should pay more money to provide the classroom space for the new students those developments will generate, says Kathryn McDonald, a longtime Fremont resident.
"We as citizens have to hold developers accountable for the impacts they're having," McDonald said. "If developers are not able to mitigate at least the school portion of their impacts to the city, then why approve their projects?"
Biggs, also a Fremont parent, said she wants developers to contribute more. New development is fine, she said, but the problem stems more from controlling the city's pace of growth.
"The city must pace its approval of new housing better," Biggs said. "Then the school district can catch up with it, and the increased revenues from growth will provide a natural flow into our school district's and city's general funds."
District and city leaders say that state law ties their hands when it comes to developers' contributions. The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act limits cities' ability to require developers to address their effects on schools.
Thus, Fremont Unified's collection of school impact fees is the only mitigation that can be imposed, said Fremont Planning Manager Kristie Wheeler.
State law allows Fremont to charge developers $5.27 per square foot for new residential development. That's considerably higher than Milpitas, which charges $3.36 per square foot, or Union City, which charges $3.27. Builders in Sunnyvale, a South Bay city with a population two-thirds that of Fremont's, pay $1.98.
Fremont's pricey land values, and the district's low availability of classrooms and high number of portable classrooms are some of the factors in the state's formula allowing Fremont to charge higher development fees, Morris said.
But the fees go only so far. Just building an elementary school in Ardenwood could cost as much as $40 million, and developer fees from Patterson Ranch, for example, are estimated at $6 million to $7 million.
That disparity means Fremont Unified must do a good job of educating the development community about the schools' needs.
"We want them to understand that if they contribute up front to building a new school when planning a development, that makes the houses worth that much more when they sell them," Morris said.
Messages left Friday seeking comment from developers involved in Fremont projects were not returned.
Some Fremont taxpayers, such as Biggs and McDonald, want developers to pay for all or most of the cost of a new Warm Springs school.
They might get their wish, said Fremont Mayor Bill Harrison, who said he expects the development community to "basically furnish the district with a school in Warm Springs."
He added: "This is all being negotiated, but from my perspective, you won't see that project being approved without the school situation being addressed."
Contact Chris De Benedetti at 510-353-7011. Follow him at Twitter.com/cdebenedetti.


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Earlier in the month, ArenaNet introduced a new culling method in WvW in to reduce the amount of invisible enemies on your screen. Habib Loew now reports that the trial has been completed and the original culling behavior has been restored:
If you have feedback regarding the trial, or if you have feedback regarding our switch back to the old method, please leave that feedback in this thread. Also, if you're reporting issues regarding invisible players please include a screenshot of your experience (including mini-map) and your basic system specs (memory, cpu, video card) so that we can more clearly understand the issues you are reporting. We will use this feedback, along with the feedback from the original culling trial thread, to determine if we will switch to the new system until our more comprehensive solution is ready.
I'd also like to reiterate that the system that we were testing is a proposed temporary, interim solution. Work is continuing on a more comprehensive solution to the culling issues and this interim solution has not taken resources away from that effort.
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'Differential' teachers' pay should be on the table
January 14, 2013
Business owners and managers understand paying everyone who works for them at the same rate just won't work. Some skills are in higher demand than others, so those possessing them earn mor....
The priorities are wrong. The students had nothing to fear when they take the Westest. They are no consequences. So why should they try their best. And you want to base Merit Pay on a system like that. If a group of students don't like a teacher then they can do poorly on the test and cost that teacher money. Just think about what you are proposing.
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I hear people all of the time bash teacher's They are the same people who have out of control kids that they send off to school for someone else like the teachers to deal with, As in the Sandy Hook incident proved teachers deal with alot and are so under appreciated. Thank You to all of the good teachers out there in helping to raise our children!!!
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Marvel has provided CBR with an exclusive look at the remastered re-release of Chris Claremont and Jim Lee's "X-Men" #1, re-colored by Thomas Mason.
From "Captain Britain" to "ClanDestine," acclaimed British artist and writer Alan Davis answered diverse audience questions about his 30 years creating and shaping superhero comics.
Tim comes back from some time away with the New Mutants to share the life lessons he takes from the 100 issues of the original series, by the likes of Chris Claremont, Bill Sienkiewicz and Rob Liefeld.
Marvel's Tom Brevoort wraps the week expounding upon the role of legendary creators and methods in the modern market and updating readers on the Kirkman/Liefeld "Killraven," the Loeb/Campbell "Spider-Man" and more.
In the latest of CSBG's month-long series of polls, we want to know what you think was the best Marvel comics run of the 1980s! Byrne's FF? Miller's Daredevil? Claremont/Byrne X-Men? Come here to decide!
Doug Zawisza gave "Chaos War: X-Men" #1 4 stars, saying of the Louise Simonson, Chris Claremont and Doug Braithwaite created issue, "of all the âChaos Warâ tie-ins, this one is by far the most enticing."
Marvel Comics has released an advance look at "Chaos War: X-Men" #1, written by Chris Claremont and Louise Simonson with art by Doug Braithwaite. The dead return Wednesday, December 29.
"Chaos War: X-Men," by writers Louise Simonson and Chris Claremont and artist Doug Braithwaite, begins in December. We spoke with Simonson about the series which stars a host of famous and fallen mutants.
Some of Marvel's most popular scribes including Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction, Mark Waid, and Chris Claremont gathered for a discussion of their history and writing philosophies at Comic-Con International.
The legendary X-Men writer held court over a sprawling Q&A session at Comic-Con that ranged from his earliest days at Marvel to his latest issues of "X-Men Forever." CBR was there to get you the details.
The writer of "X-Men Forever 2" and the upcoming "New Mutants Forever" answers reader questions about the fates, good or ill, of Chris Claremont's alternate take on the X-Men Universe. Plus, exclusive art!
Marvel Comics has released a special advance look at "New Mutants Forever" #1 by Chris Claremont and Al Rio with a cover by classic New Mutants artist Bill Sienkiewicz. The alternate reality series launches August 4.
"X-Men Forever 2" kicks off in June, continuing a story that began nearly twenty years ago. Writer Chris Claremont spoke with CBR about the future of the series and brought along exclusive art by Tom Grummet.
The longtime leader of the entire X-Universe again expands upon his untapped ideas to bring the original teen team of mutantkind right back to where they started from with a new five-issue mini featuring original cast and creators.
The long-awaited Italian X-Men project from the legendary writer and artist Milo Manara is finally on its way to the U.S., and Chris Claremont tells CBR how he made the female-centric project both classic and accessible to new fans.
The writer of "X-Men Forever" joins X-Position and answers your queries about timelines, a possible alternate future for the "New Mutants," and X-Men on the Mediterranean. Plus, an exclusive look at art from "X-Men Forever" #12!
Superstar writer, Chris Claremont, shared his career experiences with a room full of fans in Baltimore, including his latest gig on Marvel's "X-Men Forever," movie adaptations, modern storytelling techniques, and more.
Chris Claremont joins CBR today to answer your questions about "X-Men Forever," including killing Wolverine, blinding Sabretooth, the possible return of the New Mutants and the possibilities of an acting career.
Legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont answers your questions about âX-Men Forever,â the new series where he brings the team kicking (and occasionally screaming) into the 21st century.
The famous X-Men writer and the author of "Wolverine: Inside the World of the Living Weapon" were at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art this week to dissect Wolverine's complicated history.
With "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" opening this weekend, Chris Claremont and Mike Collins join George for a look back at Remy LeBeau, the Cajun mutant better known as Gambit.
Picking up directly from where his short-lived run on âX-Menâ Volume 2 left off in 1991, Chris Claremont prepares to explore an improbable history with artist Tom Grummett in âX-Men Forever.â
Celebrated âX-Menâ writer Chris Claremont brings back the next generation of mutant marvels in âGeNext United,â beginning in May. CBR News spoke with the creator about what he has in store for the characters.
At the Chris Claremont Retrospective panel, the author treated the audience to tales about his early days on X-Men, Jean Grey's (first) resurrection, hints of projects to come and much more.
Wizard World Philly attendees spent Saturday morning hearing stories from Chris Claremont, Peter David, Tom Brevoort and Greg Hildebrandt at the aptly named Legends of Comics panel. UPDATED
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'Stilettoes Stomping Cancer' shop night planned Sunday
Citizen Staff Reports 10/04/12
Care Advantage, Inc. and Stein Mart are sponsoring a shop night fundraiser to raise money for the American Cancer Society's Cure by Design. The 'Stilettoes Stomping Cancer' shop night will be held Sunday, Oct. 7 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Stein Mart location in Short Pump.
There will be live music and entertainment, hors d'oeuvres, giveaways, door prizes and more. Attendees will also gain fashion and styling tips and discounts while shopping for the perfect outfit to wear to Cure by Design, another American Cancer Society fundraiser. Cure by Design is a fashion show, auction and reception fundraiser being held on Oct. 27 at the John Marshall Ballroom. For more information, visit http://www.curebydesign.org .
Admission to the stilettoes event is $20. For more information and to purchase tickets, call Mandy Hudson at 323-9464 or visit http://www.careadvantage.com/donate.htm
Free children's clothing for those in need
The Children's Clothing Closet at Highland Springs United Methodist Church will be open Saturday, Aug. 27 and Tuesday, Aug. 30 to provide free new or nearly new children's clothing for families in need, prior to the start of the school year. The Clothing Closet will be open from 10 a.m. to noon both days. The church is located at 22 North Holly Avenue. > Read more.
Local choral group seeks volunteers
Citizen Staff Reports 07/18/2016
Good Vibrations choral group is looking for all voices with some musical experience to sing with the volunteer choir. The season runs from August to November. Genre includes patriotic and inspirational. > Read more.
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It's a great weekend to get outside! The Pocahontas Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society is offering two events this weekend. Accompany the group to find and document native plants present and blooming in Echo Lake Park on Saturday or take a "Sunday Stroll" at Dorey Park to observe the seasonal changes taking place. Other outdoor events this weekend include the final summer concert at West Broad Village and "Fridays on the Patio" at James River Cellars Winery in Glen Allen. If you're going to be outside, don't forget the insect repellent! To learn more about avoiding those pesky mosquitos, check out Henrico County's "Fight-the-Bite TODAY" event tomorrow. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Spanning the U.S. and Canadian border, the Prairie Pothole Region forms the core of what was formerly the largest expanse of grassland in the world. Glaciers receding at the end of the last Ice Age left behind millions of shallow wetlands-so-called prairie potholes-speckled in an endless sea of grass. Shallow wetlands teeming with aquatic plant and animal life are juxtaposed with grasslands communities lying atop deep, nutrient-rich soils. An impressive array of bird species is dependent on the productive and highly-diverse nature of the prairie.
Waterfowl are uniquely adapted to take advantage of all aspects the prairie-gorging on abundant, protein-rich aquatic invertebrates in the spring, nesting in expansive fields of prairie grasses, and finally returning with newly-hatched broods back to wetlands to prepare for fall migration. Additionally, prairie wetlands provide crucial food resources for young and adult waterfowl alike, and provide sanctuary for ducks during molt.
When it comes to breeding waterfowl, surrounding grasslands are equally as important as the prairie potholes themselves. North America's upland-nesting duck species (i.e. northern pintail, mallard, blue-winged teal, gadwall, etc.) will successfully nest up to several miles away from wetlands provided adequate grassland habitat exists. Nests and hens incubating nests are extremely vulnerable to predators. Even in intact prairie systems, duck populations can lose two out of three attempted nests to predators. Nesting success is a scientific measure of how many nests that were started actually hatch at least one duckling. As the abundance of grassland increases in a landscape, nesting success also rises. After years of research Ducks Unlimited and the rest of the conservation community now recognize with certainty that inadequate grassland habitat is responsible for low nesting success. This knowledge is the cornerstone of Ducks Unlimited Grasslands for Tomorrow Initiative. Protecting and restoring grasslands is paramount to ensuring healthy waterfowl populations.
A whole suite of other bird species is also dependent upon the unique character of the prairies: marbled godwit, bobolink, short-eared owls, Wilson's phalarope, Baird's sparrow, Sprague's pipit, chestnut-collared longspur, grasshopper sparrow. Although their life strategies might differ; shorebirds, wading birds, passerines, hawks, owls, and ducks are inextricably tied to the fate of the prairies. Grasslands for Tomorrow is dedicated to protecting 2 million acres of the disappearing prairie-the prairies need your help and support.


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Welcome to being a TD, Dugan! Everyone is an asshole...or has an asshole....or an opinion....n/m, I probably lost you at punctuation. Anyways, thanks for getting this done and I'm actually excited about the early start since I get off work at 4am and am likely just headed straight there!


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Baby girl is born in parking lot of NH racetrack
Published: Monday, September 17, 2012 at 8:23 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 17, 2012 at 8:23 a.m.
LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman and her baby are doing fine after the woman gave birth in the New Hampshire Motor Speedway parking lot.
Shawna Arnold began going into labor Friday and she and her boyfriend began driving to a hospital. But when she realized she was about to give birth on the way, they made a pit stop at the racetrack parking lot in Loudon.
Arnold tells WMUR-TV (http://bit.ly/QikoZ8 ) that she and her boyfriend delivered the baby, named Katie, in their car. An EMT at the track then came to help, and the couple and the baby were taken to a hospital.
Speedway General Manager Jerry Gappens has awarded the baby two tickets to NASCAR races for the rest of her life.
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|Solar halos seen in Tambopata.
Image by Phil Torres
A boat ride down the Tambopata River in Peru this September took an incredible turn when rare optical phenomena, known as high altitude solar halos, were seen and photographed with what are being considered the best images of the halos ever recorded.
What appeared to be an upside-down rainbow at first glance out the side of the canoe ended up being part of the rainbow-filled display seen here. Biologist Phil Torres and photographer Jeff Cremer were there to document it in the images and video seen here while on a photo tour at the Tambopata Research Center.
What are high altitude solar halos?
According the atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley, these solar halos are caused by a very specific reflections and refractions of the sun's light with ice crystals located in cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere. Normal rainbows are created by interactions of the sunlight with low level rain drops rather than high altitude hexagonal crystals of ice.
Cowley also mentioned that after first sharing the photos with others in the field of study, the consensus was that these images are considered "the best high sun halo images seen" and are strikingly clear compared to other images of this phenomenon, possibly because of the tropical origin opposed to a more temperate one typically associated with the halos.
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No- many consider all 'rainbows around the sun' like these to be sun dogs, they are not. Sun dogs are a specific type of ice halo found closer to the horizon with paired glowing refractions horizontal with the sun, as seen here. The halos seen in Tambopata were considerably higher in the sky than a sun dog.
While many think these ice halos are found only in colder climates, Cowley says that they are actually present throughout the world.
A full analysis of the display can be seen on Optics Picture of the Day.
|Simulation of the phenomenon with names of corresponding ice halos seen in the images.
Image created by Les Cowley with HaloSim.
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Battery, stalk charges for ex-tennis star Capriati
Published: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 11:16 p.m.
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NORTH PALM BEACH — Former tennis star Jennifer Capriati has been charged after police said she punched her ex-boyfriend on Valentine's Day while he was working out at a gym.
Palm Beach County court records show Capriati was charged by prosecutors Wednesday. She has been issued a summons to appear before a judge April 17 on stalking and battery charges, though she has not been arrested.
North Palm Beach police say Ivan Brannan was working out when the 36-year-old Capriati approached him and yelled at him. Brannan told police that he tried to get away by walking to the men's locker room, but Capriati blocked his path and punched him in the chest.
Brannan told police he and Capriati broke up in 2012 and that she has harassed and stalked him since then.
West Palm Beach attorney Richard Lubin told the New York Daily News that Capriati is innocent of the charges, which he called "nonsense."
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Here's a 30 minute interview with Ted Nasmith, one of the celebrated "Big Three" Tolkien artists who has recently (and very successfully) turned his hand to depicting George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, with his series of castle paintings for the 2011 calendar (and The World of Ice and Fire book that Linda and I have co-written with GRRM). He's presently working on the new A Game of Thrones limited edition. Among the topics of discussion are Nasmith's approach to depicting the setting, and his career in general.
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Paula G. Stanton has more than 35 years experience in real estate and has worked in Summit County since 1976. She is a broker with Coldwell Banker Rounds & Porter Real Estate in Breckenridge. Contact her by phone at (970) 485-0592 or online at www.breckrealestate.com.Where did you grow up? Washington, D.C. area - Northern Virginia suburbs; one mile from Mount Vernon on the parkway What do you love about Summit County? What's not to love. I love the moments when I actually catch myself stopping for a moment and just marveling that I live at the base of the Rocky Mountains and am just so blessed to make this my home enjoying good health, fitness, pastimes that I love - surrounded by a loving and supportive family and friends - and a job that I truly enjoy each and every day! What do you enjoy doing when you're not working? Just about anything outdoors - hiking, running, walking, golfing, swimming, biking, gardening. How long have you worked in real estate? 35 + years What is your specialty? Client satisfaction and continued repeat business and referral business.What designations do you have and what does that mean for people you with? Graduate Realtor Institute (GRI), Certified Residential Specialist (CRS), Certified Negotiation Expert (CNE), Resort and Recreation Specialist (RRS), eCertified - I strive to lead by example and feel that I have done an excellent job of honoring the integrity and ethics of my profession and try to always make myself available to share my knowledge and experience. What is the most challenging/gratifying aspect of what you do? Striving to learn something new at every opportunity and keeping a smile on my face while meeting that challenge. What is the most unique property you've listed or sold? Ninety-three acres and a mine along with a large "land swap" that was completed with the National Forest Service involving multiple mining claims. I learned so much about patented and unpatented mining claims and the ins and outs of working with government entities.What are the top three things that separate you from your competitors? Attitude, negotiation skills and creative thinking.What is one tip you have for someone looking to buy or sell a home? Listen to the professionals; use the resources at hand to make intelligent, informed decisions.What do you see in the future for real estate sales/prices? Still the best long-term investment - it would appear that we have "leveled out" but that we have a long, steady, healthy climb ahead of us.Why should someone chose you as their real estate broker? I will listen and get it done and in a very professional manner.Is there anything else you would like to tell us about yourself? My credo is "All you put off by procrastinating is success."
Paula G. Stanton was selected as this week's Agent Spotlight in Summit Homes & Properties. Stanton was asked to provide information to a standard set of questions designed to help the reader learn more about her.


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Most chicas with fine hair want to create volume, natch. Rule of thumb: you have to "take out" excess water to make straight or fine hair light enough for a lift, Dickey suggests.
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MORGANTOWN - First-year Kansas University head football coach Charlie Weis has never been accused of being a 'man of few words.'
And the former-offensive coordinator for the New England Patriots had a few for West Virginia's Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey following the Mountaineers' 59-10 victory on Senior Day at Milan Puskar Stadium.
"I can't use my exact verbage that I used after the game," said Weis, who coached at Notre Dame from 2005-09. "I grabbed No. 1 (Austin) and No. 3 (Bailey) and told them to work harder than they ever had before because both of them have the talent to continue playing at the next level (NFL).
"I also told them that they were both a pain in the butt. Those weren't my exact words, but you (the media) can change it to whatever you want."
The Kansas coach wouldn't be alone in that thought.
Austin, one of 21 seniors playing his final home game as a Mountaineer, rushed for 77 yards and one touchdown on 12 carries and hauled in four Geno Smith passes for 110 yards while Bailey, who may elect to jump to the NFL following a junior season which saw the Miramar High School product become a semifinalist for the Bilentikoff Award, added 11 receptions for 159 yards and a pair of six-pointers.
"My concern all week wasn't West Virginia," said Weis. "It was us. They (WVU) have a great quarterback (Geno Smith) and some dynamic players on offense that exposed us today."
Smith closed out his four-year stay in Morgantown by completing 23-of-24 attempts for 407 yards and three scores. His only incompletion was interception by the Jayhawks' Tyler Patmon.
"The way I see it, he (Smith) completed every pass today," continued Weis. "Twenty-three to them (WVU) and one to us.
"I've been telling people all week long that wanted to criticize Geno that they wouldn't be doing that if they (the Mountaineers) hadn't lost five games."
A feeling echoed by Mountaineers' head coach Dana Holgorsen.
"Geno's going to be playing for a long, long time," said Holgorsen when asked if his senior signal-caller could be the first overall pick in the upcoming NFL draft. "He has all of the skills needed to play in any offense. He will be playing for a very long time."
It took Smith and company eight plays and less than three minutes to take the lead for good. A 45-yard completion to Bailey on the game's opening play put the football at the KU 32 and six running plays, and an 8-yard completion to J.D. Woods later and the old gold and blue crossed the goal line on a 2-yard plunge by sophomore Andrew Buie.
Senior Tyler Bitancurt, who would add a 30-yard field goal in the third quarter, connected on the PAT and WVU led 7-0.
A lead that doubled 10 minutes later when senior Shawne Alston culminated a 9-play, 77-yard drive with a 2-yard dive with 2:08 remaining in the opening quarter.
Kansas, which dropped to 1-11 (0-9 Big 12), showed some signs of life, offensively, on its next possession as red shirt freshman Michael Cummings led the visitors on a 9-play, 80-yard drive that ended with a 1-yard scoring run by Big 12 rushing leader James Sims.
That, however, would be the only highlight for the junior, who entered KU's final game of the season needing only 44 yards to eclipse the 1,000-yard plateau, as WVU's defense limited him to 57 total yards on 18 carries.
Kansas came into the game averaging 216.6 yards per game on the ground, but was held to a mere 157 yards on 45 carries by a Mountaineer defense that has played well against the run for most of WVU's inaugural season in the Big 12, drawing praise from their second-year head coach.
"We're (the defense) getting better," said Holgorsen. "They have been improving. They are getting better at it. Since that bye week, I think we've gotten better against some very good offensive teams.
"They have put up some points, and I understand all that. But, they never gave up. They came to work each week looking to get better."
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MODESTO -- Colin Kaepernick wrapped his 793/8-inch wingspan Monday around a dozen children stricken with heart issues and marveled at how they're overcoming adversity.
"Ultimately I haven't been through things that they have," Kaepernick said, "so for me, I try to support them as much as I can and show them they're great kids."
Kaepernick, for his part, looked worry-free at his second annual golf tournament benefiting Camp Taylor's efforts for heart-troubled children.
When he reports to the 49ers' mandatory minicamp Tuesday, his attention will be squarely on football, a mindset he insists wasn't jeopardized by this offseason's earlier distractions. In the past two weeks, he signed a lucrative contract extension (six years, $126 million) and was cleared of any wrongdoing in a Miami police investigation.
That's some heavy weight off his shoulders, right?
"To me it wasn't weight because they weren't things I was worried about," Kaepernick said at Del Rio Country Club. "To me I was worried about playing football and making sure I was handling business, to be the best player I can be for this season."
Last Thursday, the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office concluded that Kaepernick and two other players committed no crimes against a belligerent woman who had to be removed by police from his hotel suite.
"Miami's over and done with," Kaepernick said. "There was nothing there."
Rick Kaepernick commended his son on his "really good job" of coping through this offseason, especially regarding the Miami incident.
"With everything that's happened and what we've learned, even though it's hard, sometimes silence is better," Rick Kaepernick said. "You let people do their jobs. We knew, in our heart of hearts, what the deal was."
The job at hand for the 49ers quarterback is to prepare for what he hopes will be the team's fourth consecutive playoff run, with such stakes reverberating through his incentive-laden contract.
On June 4, Rick Kaepernick escorted his son to the 49ers facility for a contract signing that merited his praise for both the 49ers and Kaepernick's agents at XAM Sports.
"Jed York did an amazing job pulling us together. We're really pleased," the elder Kaepernick said of the 49ers owner. "Colin, ever since he was a little boy, it's more important for him to win. Yeah he has a big contract and has to perform, but who has a job and doesn't have to perform every day to get paid?"
Money from Kaepernick's first game check as a 2011 rookie went to Camp Taylor, and he says "another check" is ticketed to the Salida-based organization near his childhood hometown of Turlock.
"The original reason why I was adopted was because my parents had lost two kids to congenital heart defects, and when we had the opportunity to be involved with Camp Taylor, we took advantage, to help these kids and these families as much as we can," Kaepernick said.
With some golfers paying $10,000 to play just three holes with Kaepernick on Monday, more money is being raised and, as a byproduct, more opportunities will be afford to Camp Taylor's kids.
This year's event brought out a 49ers teammate for the first time: fullback Bruce Miller, a fellow member of the 2011 draft class.
"I wanted to come show my support for the kids, the family and the community," Miller said.
Miller stood alongside Kaepernick at a pre-tournament news conference, during which some campers not only expressed their gratitude but analyzed the 49ers.
Juan Barragan, 12, said: "It's really cool when they do really good. The thing that sucks is when they lost to the Seahawks."
"I would love to see all of our players there, but at the same time, they have to do what's best for them and make their own decisions," said Kaepernick, who's kept in contact with Davis and Boone even though they've skipped organized team activities.
Davis explained Monday that money is indeed why he's "holding out" despite having two years left on his contract.
"It's all about getting paid what you deserve. It's not that complicated," Davis wrote as a guest columnist for Sports Illustrated's Monday Morning Quarterback website. "I want the 49ers to win the Super Bowl, and I want to be on the field this summer working towards that goal, but I have to worry about my future first.
"Most of my teammates and many players in the NFL understand that. A few don't," Davis continued. " ... I can't listen to anyone but my family and my advisers, because those are the people who are going to be there when football inevitably dumps me."
The 49ers awarded Davis in 2010 the richest contract ever for a tight end (five years, $37 million). "Four years later, and I'm playing at a higher level than I was then, which brings me to why I'm holding out," wrote Davis, who earned his second Pro Bowl invitation last year after totaling a team-high 13 touchdown receptions.
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.


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STOCKTON - Lt. Frank Gordo, a member of the Stockton Unified police department for 18 years, was placed on paid administrative leave last week by interim Chief Eric Holman, the latest upheaval in the department in the past two months.
Gordo, who as of two months ago was second-in-command on the school police force, declined to comment Monday. Holman and Superintendent Steve Lowder also declined to comment.
Through a source familiar with the department, The Record obtained the email Holman sent to his staff regarding Gordo. In it, Holman wrote, "Lt. Gordo was placed on Administrative Leave pending an Internal Affairs Investigation. ... All department members are directed not to contact or discuss any matters pertaining to SUSD Police day to day operations or internal issues with Lt. Gordo unless you have clearance of the Interim Chief of Police or Captain."
Changes to the force have come rapid-fire since former Chief Jim West's retirement Aug. 30.
Holman, a retired member of the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department, was chosen by Lowder and approved in September by a 4-3 vote of the school board as the temporary chief, despite West's outspoken public criticism.
John Huber, another retired member of the Sheriff's Department, was appointed interim captain. Holman subsequently resigned from his position effective Oct. 30. Huber is now under contract to lead the force until mid-January.
At tonight's school-board meeting, trustees are scheduled to select a recruiting firm to lead the search for a new permanent chief.
Gordo's name was in the news two years ago. Thelma Gray, a parent who also is a Stockton Unified employee, objected to Gordo's use of zip ties to restrain the woman's agitated 5-year-old son. Her lawsuit against West, Gordo and the school district is plodding its way through San Joaquin County Superior Court.
Contact reporter Roger Phillips at (209) 546-8299 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/phillipsblog.
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Definition of wall in English:
- The Washburn Valley is true Dales country, with stoutly-built stone barns and sinuous walls dividing up the fields of deep velvety green.
- The slow seep through the garden wall made the whole area under the grapes a muddy swamp.
- By the time I got to the drystone wall that divides the plot from the public footpath and the beck, the sobs had changed to screams of rage.
- Ayako didn't answer him back, but began to observe the surrounding buildings through the glass walls of the room.
- The room widens almost imperceptibly, then narrows again as the adobe walls converge on either side of the altar.
- Mirrors were on the right side of the wall, making the room appear much larger than it really was.
- At the strategic location of Pointe du Hoc, American Rangers scaled the cliff walls on D-Day.
- Up close, the walls were like the surface of the moon, made vertical.
- Describing the feeling of what it is like to scale a craggy wall with ease, Kirsty likened the experience to a Zen state.
- Detectives met a wall of silence despite being convinced that several local people knew who was responsible.
- Bullet-proof glass and protective walls will hopefully put paid to any terrorist attacks.
- He carried on his celestial observations alone from a tower situated on the protective wall of the cathedral.
- It was a clear foul - like when players ease a defender out the way in the wall at a free-kick.
- Nastja Ceh put Slovenia ahead in the 16th minute after curling a free-kick over a wall of defenders.
- Shevchenko steps up and promptly blasts the free-kick into the wall.
- The outer layer of the wall of the large intestine is weaker in some areas than in others.
- The outer wall of the braincase becomes the alisphenoid and the dermal skull bones.
- There were several points of adhesion from the lung to the chest wall and to the mediastinal pleura.
verb[with object]
- They put these viewing platforms all over the place so that people can see into whatever area has been walled off.
- I thought the garden was walled all round, but there is a breach in the wall at the back which a healthy animal could have hurdled.
- Outside the garden is walled to the front with a cobble lock drive and pathway to the front door.
- I was once told that the mill was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, and windows were walled up for the window tax of 1696.
- My room was far away from everybody else's, on the corner of an enclosed porch - it had once been open, but they walled it up.
- At the end of that time the slaves of one Adolius, to whom the inheritance of the mountain had descended, removed the stones with which the cavern had been walled up, and the seven sleepers were permitted to awake.
- They didn't touch me, but formed a solid formation that would be impossible to break, walling me in with the rail of the bridge at my back.
- This plus the fact the sheep pen is walled in on four sides by a solid board fence three and a half feet high on two sides and 15 feet on the other.
- When you should have been dreaming of accession, and lopping off the heads of people you took a dislike to, mad uncle Richard was walling you up in the tower.
between you and me and the wall
- see bedpost.
drive someone up the wall
- informal Make someone very irritated or angry: it's driving me up the wall trying to find out who did whatMore example sentences
enrage, incense, anger, infuriate, madden, inflame, antagonize, make someone's blood boil, make someone's hackles rise, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, ruffle, peeve;annoy, irritate, exasperate, irk, vex, put out, provoke, pique, gall, displeaseinformal drive mad/crazy, make someone see red, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get under someone's skin, get up someone's nose, rattle someone's cageaggravate, get someone, needle, bug, nettle, rile, miff, hack offBritish informal wind up, get at, nark, get across, get on someone's wickNorth American informal tee off, tick off, burn up, gravelvulgar slang piss offinformal, dated give someone the piprare empurple
- And each one was rude or stubborn or had some irritating habit that drove him up the wall.
- The noise is a low frequency vibration which can drive you up the wall when the wind sets it into homes and farms.
- It's the relentless, mind-numbing repeat tasks that drive me up the wall, and sometimes I can't even be bothered to crawl back down again.
go to the wall informal
- They have excluded every car from the city centre, as a result any remaining small businesses have gone to the wall.
- The result of her incompetence has been that young drivers are being crucified and that business are going to the wall with thousands of jobs lost.
- So the longer that access to our expensive salmon rivers and classic Highland lochs remains closed then the more fishing hotels, tackle shops and other small rural businesses will go to the wall.
- Notwithstanding their bravado, my guess is that the Democrats fear they will be the political losers if they go to the wall for the principle that a minority should be able to block a judicial nominee from receiving a vote.
- No politician will ever claim to have won a seat by announcing that he would fight, to save the Scottish Chamber Orchestra or go to the wall for the National Gallery of Modern Art.
- It's a farmers' problem and while everyone should feel sorry for them, and give them a help out, we can't all go to the wall for them.
go up the wall informal
- Become very angry in reaction to something: this causes the dog to go up the wall and bark his head offMore example sentences
- People are going to go up the wall.
- Surrounded by nice quiet things and an utter absence of familiarity, I went up the wall.
- We keep all of the tiny wage they pay me, but its enough to stop us going up the wall.
hit the wall
- (Of an athlete) experience a sudden loss of energy in a long race: marathon runners found they often hit the wall after 17 or 18 milesMore example sentences
- The first couple of games I felt pretty good, but by the third game I pretty much hit the wall.
- Moehler seems to be hitting the wall around the 100-pitch mark, a trend that's worrisome in light of shoulder soreness he has experienced.
- Italy have a rare moment of pressure - but Panucci hits the wall for about the third time today.
off the wall
- It was something a little more off the wall, a bit of self-reference or a weird thought.
- They are off the wall, unsettling, and very strange.
- Christopher Walken does eccentricity well, but just being off the wall isn't necessarily funny.
- 'It was driving me off the wall, blocking e-mails and not letting me get to ordinary websites,' he says.
walls have ears
- proverb Be careful what you say as people may be eavesdropping.Example sentences
- There's nothing wrong with that per se but you have to be careful what you say because the walls have ears.
- 'The walls have ears here,' he says, soon after we enter the coffee shop, ushering me away from the disinterested-looking patrons in search of more private surroundings.
- In America, the damn walls have ears and the sky has eyes.
- (Of a carpet) fitted to cover an entire floor: he padded across the wall-to-wall carpetingMore example sentences
- Thick, beige, wall-to-wall carpeting covered the floor, and the vast bed had a frame of some sleek, dark wood.
- Kawara transformed the space, laying gray wall-to-wall carpet on the floors.
- Like wall-to-wall carpets they resembled, lush green lawns eventually covered just about everything in residential neighborhoods.
- informal8.1 Very numerous or extensive: wall-to-wall media coverageMore example sentences
- What is demonstrates, along with the wall-to-wall media coverage, is that soccer, alone among field sports, is a global game.
- The wall-to-wall media coverage was matched only by the grubby machinations of numerous entrepreneurs offering their 'services'.
- There is no doubt that we have had wall-to-wall saturation media coverage of this war.
wall-less adjective
- Example sentences
- When you were fielding in the wall-less labyrinth of cricketers and pitches, you often forgot which wicket your match was being played on.
- People are cooking, bathing, chatting in their wall-less homes.
- One double-walled track heads off north-west while another, wall-less, gently climbs a little east of north.
Old English, from Latin vallum 'rampart', from vallus 'stake'.
Wall comes from Latin vallum 'rampart', from vallus 'stake', which implies that the earliest walls were defensive ones around a town or camp. To go to the wall is now to fail commercially but originally meant 'give way' or 'be beaten in a battle or fight'. The idea may be that of a hard-pressed fighter retreating until he had a wall behind him and he could retreat no more—until he had his back against the wall. There may also be a link to the proverb the weakest go to the wall, which dates back to the end of the 15th century, and is usually said to derive from the installation of seating round the walls in churches of the late Middle Ages. Someone who is off the wall is unconventional or crazy. This is a quite recent phrase, first recorded in the mid 1960s, in the USA. One suggestion is that it refers to the way that a ball sometimes bounces off a wall at an unexpected angle. The proverb walls have ears dates back to the early 17th century. A more rural version is fields have eyes, and woods have ears, which is first recorded some 400 years earlier. Saying that the writing is on the wall is a biblical allusion to the description of Belshazzar's feast in the Book of Daniel. In this account Belshazzar was the king of Babylon whose death was foretold by a mysterious hand which wrote on the palace wall at a banquet.
Words that rhyme with wallall, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl
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Maurice Langston and Charlie Creel were in the spotlight at the Wakulla Community Center Thursday night. If their opening comments were any indication, there is not much love lost between the two opponents.
"The other candidate is a good man. I'd call him to go to church with him. I'd call him to go fishing with him. But I wouldn't call him to fight for your safety with me," said Langston.
"Our crime rate, and this is what I'll go over today, Index crimes are up 9.9%, total overall crimes up 15.4% under my opponents watch," said Creel.
The campaign has seen it's share of controversy. Langston's eligibility for office was brought into question earlier this year but he has since been cleared to run for sheriff. Both candidates stayed away from the controversy and focused on the issues by answering questions posed by the audience.
"I think we need to tackle the drug problem a lot harder than we are and we need to stop people from having their goods stolen," said Creel to the packed house.
"In 2011 to 2012 the Wakulla County sheriff's office had 86 investigations that were initiated by the narcotics division and they actually resulted in 143 felony narcotics related charges," replied Langston.
Voters will now decide who they think the right man to lead the WCSO is on November 6th.
Wakulla, FL - With just 12 days until the November 6th general election, the candidates for Wakulla County Sheriff are participating in a forum tonight for one last final push to sway voters.
The forum starts in just about a half hour. Maurice Langston and Charlie Creel will field questions from co-moderators from both the Wakulla Republican and Democratic Executive committee's.
The sheriff's race has featured some controversy and we'll have to see if that is brought up tonight. This is actually the third and final installment of bi-partisan political forums that were being held featuring all the candidates running for office in Wakulla County.
The forum starts at 6:30 with the property appraiser candidates up first, followed by Langston and Creel at 7:45.
The forum is scheduled to go until 9 p.m. at the community center in Crawfordville.
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Wakulla County, FL - The Wakulla Republican Executive Committee and the Wakulla Democratic Executive Committee jointly announced the schedule for the planned bi-partisan political forums.
DEC Chair Rachel Pienta said, "We've had a good response - all the candidates have agreed to participate."
REC Chair Jonathan Kilpatrick, "The forums will feature all the declared candidates in each race, regardless of party affiliation or NPA designation and all the candidates' supporters are invited to attend the forums. We're looking forward to three evenings of invigorating but civil discourse on the issues that impact our county."
The co-moderated forums will be held at the Wakulla County Community Center located at 318 Shadeville Hwy in Crawfordville, FL. Doors will open at 6 pm and the forums will begin at 6:30 pm.
On October 25th, the Property Appraiser candidates will speak first; followed by the Sheriff candidates at 7:45 pm.
The forums are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Former Islanders center Chris Daniels will be one of 11 players on the NBA D-League Select Team taking part in the Las Vegas Summer League, which opens play this week. The D-League Select Team will participate in the event alongside 23 NBA teams, with each team playing five games.
Daniels averaged 16.2 points and 9.2 rebounds for the D-League's Erie Bayhawks last year before returning to Korea, where he played the previous three seasons. Daniels led Anyang KCG to the 2012 Korean Basketball League championship a year after bringing a title to KCC Egis in the league.
The D-League select team will open its schedule on Sunday, facing the Washington Wizards at 7 p.m. The squad also has games against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks, Phoenix Suns and Minnesota Timberwolves. All games will be televised on NBA TV. For full schedule information, visit NBA.com's summer league page.
Daniels was a key piece of the 2006-07 Islanders team that won the Southland Conference Tournament and advanced to the only NCAA Tournament in school history. That season, he averaged 15.3 points and 6.7 rebounds and led the team with 53 blocks. He was named the Conference Player of the Year and the Tournament MVP as he guided the Islanders to the top of the league in their inaugural Southland season.


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An investigation into the deaths of a man and a woman in the Climax Springs area looks to be a murder/suicide based on evidence found at the house where the bodies were discovered, the Camden County Sheriff's Office is reporting.
Each victim had sustained a single gunshot wound to the head.
They have been identified as William J. Goodack Jr., 57, and his wife Linda K. Goodack, 65.
Around 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, Camden County detectives responded to the 1200 block of Sunset Shores Drive for a report of an unresponsive female and male.
The calling party reported that they had gone to the home to check on a friend they had not heard from since the day before. Upon arriving at the residence, they found the Goodacks lying in the home unresponsive to voice calls.
The bodies were transported to Springfield, Mo. for autopsy, which is standard procedure in any homicide case. The next of kin was notified and funeral arrangements are pending.
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Television's suddenly volatile late-night scene experienced another jolt on Monday as Craig Ferguson announced that he will step down as the host of "The Late Late Show" in December.
The move comes only a few days after CBS decided to tap Stephen Colbert -- and not Ferguson -- to succeed David Letterman as host of The Late Show.
Ferguson made the announcement to his studio audience during a taping for Monday's program.
"CBS and I are not getting divorced," he said. "We are 'consciously uncoupling,' but we will still spend holidays together and share custody of the fake horse and robot skeleton, both of whom we love very much."
In a statement released by CBS, network entertainment chief Nina Tassler praised Ferguson's contributions.
"During his 10 years as host, Craig has elevated CBS to new creative and competitive heights at 12:30," she said. "He infused the broadcast with tremendous energy, unique comedy, insightful interviews and some of the most heartfelt monologues seen on television."
Added Tassler: "Craig's versatile talents as a writer, producer, actor and comedian speak to his great days ahead. While we'll miss Craig and can't thank him enough for his contributions to both the show and the network, we respect his decision to move on, and we look forward to celebrating his final broadcasts during the next eight months."
The Scottish-born Ferguson has several projects in the works, including hosting "Celebrity Name Game," a syndicated game show beginning fall 2014, as well as developing television projects via his Green Mountain West production company.
He's been the host of "The Late Late Show" since 2005 when he took over for Craig Kilborn.
During his run, Ferguson earned a Peabody Award in 2009, and an Emmy nomination in 2006.
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- May 4:
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- Kentucky Derby notes: New betting favorite, sloppy track
- Kentucky Derby: Post time, and five other things to know
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A trainer flooding the field with five horses. A black jockey trying to make history, and a woman rider, too. Louisville coach Rick Pitino seeking a double -- champions in racing and basketball. He's sure in the right place.
The 19-horse field for Saturday's Kentucky Derby is balanced, with no definitive favorite.
Orb is the prerace choice, just barely. Nearly overshadowed is his trainer, Shug McGaughey, who really, really wants this race. Doug O'Neill trying to win back-to-back. And then there's the threat of rain, which has done in some of the best-laid plans on race day.
It sure looks like a topsy-turvy Derby.
"I don't think we've got Secretariat in this bunch, even Seattle Slew," four-time Derby-winning trainer D. Wayne Lukas said, "so I think it's going to boil down to the trip and the pace and a lot of other things."
Todd Pletcher will saddle a record-tying five horses -- undefeated and early second choice Verrazano, Revolutionary, Overanalyze, Palace Malice and Charming Kitten.
"We laid out a plan to get here with them, and it's all come down pretty much like we hoped," said Pletcher, who has one Derby win with 31 previous starters.
Relative unknown Kevin Krigger will be aboard Goldencents, trying to become the first black jockey to win since Jimmy Winkfield in 1902.
"I'm going to ride us the race that should get us to the Kentucky Derby winner's circle," said Krigger, a native of St. Croix, Virgin Islands, who began his U.S. career at Golden Gate Fields.
The colt is partly owned by Pitino, whose Cardinals won the NCAA championship last month. Pitino was recently elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, so a Derby win would complete the ultimate trifecta.
Rosie Napravnik wants to grab history for herself, too. No female jockey has ever won the Derby, although she came closest, with a ninth-place finish in 2011. Napravnik will ride 15-1 long shot Mylute.
"He feels great, he's acting great, and I'm very confident heading into the Derby," she said.


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Drivers survive head-on collision
Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 7:48 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 10:43 a.m.
Two south Lafourche men were involved in a head-on collision Wednesday morning on U.S. 90 in Raceland when one driver allegedly lost control of his vehicle and it jumped the median, striking a truck.
About 6:30 a.m. George Rice of Raceland was traveling westbound on U.S. 90 in his 2005 Nissan Altima, State Police said. Police suspect he was driving too fast for the morning's rainy conditions which caused him to lose control of his car. The car went over a median striking a 2004 Ford F-150 driven by Jacob Felarise of Cut Off head on.
Rice was cited for careless operation, police said. Both men were wearing their seat belts. Both were treated for minor to moderate injuries at Ochsner St. Anne General Hospital in Raceland, police said.
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Caroline Cox takes fashion lovers on an exquisite journey through the most stylish footwear of the twentieth century. Vintage Shoes illuminates the crucial designers, key technical breakthroughs, and varied cultural influences that have shaped shoe fashion for the last hundred years—from André Perugia's designs for society women in the 1920s to the Christian Louboutin red-soled shoes favored by celebrities today, and including designs by Salvatore Ferragamo, Charles Jourdan, Roger Vivier, Beth Levine, Vivienne Westwood, Manolo Blahnik, and others. Lavish fashion photography, specially commissioned photographs of rare period footwear, and a unique shopping guide—with tips on sourcing and caring for articles of vintage fashion—help make Vintage Shoes an unforgettable tour through a dazzling corner of haute couture history.
Decade by decade, Vintage Shoes recounts more than one hundred years of the history of shoe design, highlighting the key designers and cultural influences that have shaped shoe fashions throughout the century. Vintage Shoes includes stunning fashion photography, specially commissioned photographs of period footwear, and the most collectible, exquisite, and fabulous shoe designs. As a bonus, a shopping and collecting guide offers pointers on sourcing and caring for vintage footwear, along with a glossary of shoe designers such as Salvatore Ferragamo, Manolo Blahnik, Vivienne Westwood, and many others. This book is a must-have guide for those interested in collecting and wearing vintage shoes.
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Camp Sunny Patch Session 9 is brought to you by Melissa & Doug, written by Camp Counselor (and Melissa and Doug Blog Ambassador) Zina Harrington. (Click here for a printable version.)
Do you have a little Olympian? This weekend the Summer Olympic Triathlon competitions begin. (Watch the women athletes Saturday, August 4, and the men Tuesday, August 7.)
Celebrate this international event by setting up a family-and-friends triathlon in your yard. The event contains three components: swimming, cycling and running. Time each child as they complete the course.
1. Swim: If your pool is not up to Olympic standards, get creative. In our race the triathletes had to slide down into the pool through a sprinkler and use a net to capture three pool boats.
2. Cycling: Let's make it a Trunki Triathlon! Grab some chalk and let the kids create a course on the driveway. You'd be amazed how fast your little one can cruise on her Trunki. Note: After our original run I requested the girls wear their bike helmets because we were racing on cement.
3. Run: Have the kids set up a line of activity cones or other obstacles for the final stretch of the event. Complete the challenge by running and kicking a ball through the cone maze to the finish line.
Do you want to get creative? Allow the winner of the group to make alterations to the triathlon course. Pop on over to Let's Lasso the Moon to see some additional ways to make your family's triathlon a memorable adventure.
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yeah, object golf on a championship course is a great answer. Or why not get some cone baskets?
Ewing is one of IA's (maybe even the midwest's) premier courses, and tournament players definately have a certain expectation of basket quality, and the soft touch's aren't within that level of expectation. Name one other course, that is a championship course, that has sub-standard baskets. How would the tone poles work out at USDGC? Or maybe I should say, how would soft touchs go over there? I'd be willing to bet that there would be lots of bitchin'.
Sure, if you putt a certain way, they catch just fine, and everyone is subject to that in competition, which is fair, but my point all along is, why should there be that factor on a course like that? There shouldn't. On a course like that, you cater to the touring players. Courses that aren't used for competition regularly, it doesn't really matter, even to me.