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Definition of triploid in English:
1(Of a cell or nucleus) containing three homologous sets of chromosomes.
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- The triploid endosperm nucleus is derived from the fusion of two polar nuclei from the female parent and one sperm nucleus from the male.
- In this type of endosperm, which is the most common in cereals, development starts with several rounds of divisions of the triploid nucleus without cytokinesis.
- The first stage, grain enlargement, involves early, rapid division of the zygote and triploid nucleus.
1.1(Of an organism or species) composed of triploid cells.
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- Two samples from the original data set were omitted because one was from a triploid plant and the other from a tetraploid.
- So-called triploid fish are unable to reach maturity and so are unable to breed.
- The endosperm, a result of double fertilization in flowering plants, is a triploid tissue whose genetic composition is more complex than diploid tissue.
A triploid organism, variety, or species.
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- Little is known about the transition from diploidy to polyploidy but in some species, triploids are thought to function as intermediates in this transition.
- The populations showed continuous morphological variation connecting the species, but karyotypically they consisted of only three types of plants: diploids, triploids, and tetraploids.
- Moreover, the high loads of inviable or weak aneuploid pollen produced by triploids induce high selfing rates in normally self-incompatible sexual diploids.
- Example sentences
- Although triploidy and haploidy of chromosomal regions in humans often cause viable or semiviable developmental defects, it is difficult to identify regions of the genome that are haplolethal.
- In humans, 10% of spontaneous miscarriages are due to triploidy, but triploids of fish and amphibians can grow to adults and some species are even fixed in the triploid state.
- Multiple gestation, gestational trophoblastic disease, triploidy, trisomy 21 syndrome, and hydrops fetalis have been associated with an increased incidence of hyperemesis gravidarum.
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NEW: Robbery, shooting victim drives self to hospital
Published: Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 10:29 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 10:29 a.m.
A Manatee County man who was robbed and shot in his own home Wednesday then drove himself to the hospital for treatment, authorities said.
Investigators learned of the chaotic incident around 6 p.m. Wednesday, after receiving a report from Blake Medical Center personnel that a 31-year-old man had suffered a gunshot wound, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.
The victim, who was listed in stable condition early today, told deputies that he had driven himself to the hospital from his residence in the 5100 block of 51st Lane West, following a home invasion there.
Investigators then searched the home, finding evidence of a home invasion and a shooting. At this time, deputies do not know is anything was taken from the residence, although there was evidence of drug use in the home, says the sheriff's office.
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Kakao Moves Beyond Chat Rooms
Kakao Corp., the company behind the smartphone chat app popular in Asia, has launched a new app in a bid to expand its mobile revenue.
Since it introduced Kakao Talk in 2010, the South Korean company has diversified into mobile games and commerce. Its new offering, called Kakao Page, works like an e-reader. Within the app, users can store video clips, pictures, comics, and reading material featuring professionals from various fields, ranging from song writers to hair stylists. Download fees vary depending on the content. The app, launched about a month ago, is available on the Google Play store but is only offered in Korean.
During a Livechat program with six panelists hosted by The Wall Street Journal Korea Thursday, Kakao's co-Chief Executive Lee Sir-goo spoke about a few challenges it faces down the road.
"It's a bit early to discuss how successful Kakao Page has been so far. [But] we have been thinking from the start of the service launch that it will take a considerable amount of time for this model to root down, as the [user] environment is not yet used to seeing paid content," Mr. Lee said.
Kakao has parlayed the popularity of its chat rooms to successful distribution of the mobile game Anipang, which helped it post its first annual profit of $4.9 million last year.
"(We) plan to evolve into a platform that provides a variety of content," Mr. Lee said.
Kakao Talk is the most popular chat app in Korea, and is also offered in 230 countries in 13 different languages.
Kakao's strategy contrasts with that of rival WhatsApp, which declared it has no immediate plans to build a broader platform. Jan Koum, CEO of WhatsApp, recently said the user experience would suffer if the company were to widen its business focus. Although they're both chat apps, the two have grown based on different business models as KakaoTalk is provided free of charge while WhatsApp users pay for the app.
As the use of smartphones becomes common and more chat apps come online, compatibility and standardization would pose challenges for companies providing messaging apps, Mr. Lee said.


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Japan Auto-Industry Head Hopes for Calm 2013
Akio Toyoda, the head of Japan's biggest auto maker and current chairman of the country's most influential automobile industry group, doesn't have high hopes for 2013. Rather than offering up spoonfuls of optimism, he said he merely hopes it will be calm and uneventful after years of hardships for Japan's auto industry.
"What I mean by an uneventful year is that people are healthy and can go to work every day and can produce and sell cars every day (without any big trouble). That's all. This is what I am hoping for," Mr. Toyoda, the chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, said.
"It hasn't happened since I became president (of the association)," said Mr. Toyoda, who took the helm as the association's chairman in May 2012. Mr. Toyoda is also president of Toyota Motor
Japanese car makers have faced a string of tough challenges over the past few years: starting with the 2008 financial crisis, followed by the yen strengthening to a record high against the dollar — a move that undermines the price competitiveness of vehicles built in Japan and is threatening companies to move production overseas. A massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan and severe floods in Thailand disrupted the parts supply chain and led to months of production stoppages and constrained the supply of vehicles.
Mr. Toyoda fell short of explicitly predicting what year 2013 will be like, saying that it would be a lot easier to run his business if he could talk about it now.
Even with most of the industry's unexpected headwinds gone, the auto business remains plagued by high corporate tax rates, a hike in power rates, slow progress in free trade agreement among other hurdles weighing on Japan's manufacturing industry.
But one thing is for sure, Japan's auto industry is starting to see potential big improvements in its business environment.
The yen recently weakened to a 28-month low against the dollar as the newly established government vowed to tackle the yen's strength.
Still, the chairman of the auto association is sticking with his view that the yen is still very strong and its recent drop hasn't been enough to turn around the fortunes of Japan's manufacturing industry.
The Japanese currency is merely in a correction phase, he said.
But it appears market expectations are high and it has already started factoring in a better business outlook. The Nikkei subindex for the auto sector has surged more than 26% since mid-November, outstripping a 20% rise on the benchmark Nikkei during the same period.


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DETROIT -- I like to shoot photos, but I do not consider myself a photographer. I'm a word man by trade, but as they say, sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
Sunday night, in the bedlam of the Giants' cramped clubhouse at Comerica Park, with no interviews possible because of the crush of dancing players and blasts of Champagne, I decided to hold up my little iPhone and start shooting randomly.
Somehow, I snapped the best sports photo I ever have taken, totally by accident but perhaps by some divine guidance from those baseball gods players are always referencing.
I managed to capture the radiant face of Ryan Vogelsong, lifting the World Series trophy high over his head, tears streaming down his face. He had not so much a look of triumph but a gaze of relief and redemption at the end of a long, arduous, uncertain journey, one fraught with detours and many potential dead ends.
The whole of the photo is a bit blurry. But at its center is that face -- total clarity amid total chaos. Look at it. It's beautiful. In that face, you see all the way to Japan, where Vogelsong pitched for three years when nobody here wanted him. In that face, you see minor league towns such as Lynchburg, Va., and Altoona, Pa.
You see the release of years of athletic struggle, of persistence against long odds, of untold moments of near surrender to a game that so often is brutal in its dispensation of frustration and defeat.
Those tears in his eyes should bring tears to your eyes. Did mine. Because let's face it, most of us are lucky if we have a little Ryan Vogelsong in us, trying to fight the good fight, trying to make an honest buck, trying to extract whatever talents and resolve we have deep within us, and finally, trying to achieve that one brief moment of ultimate triumph that makes the challenges of life all worth it.
You don't see this kind of special victory in sports very often, particularly in the glorious but cruel game of baseball. Just two weeks ago, in the very same clubhouse where the Giants celebrated their second title in three years, I stood at a locker interviewing A's outfielder Coco Crisp, tears fairly evident in his eyes, trying to explain why he didn't catch that fly ball in Game 2 of the American League Division Series.
It wasn't for lack of trying. I vividly remember the replay as Crisp -- a very gifted outfielder -- tried once, tried twice, tried three times to snare the loose ball that very well could have put the A's in position to do what the Giants did Sunday.
It barely fell from his grasp.
As players so often say, that's baseball. It's a game that can reward you in so many ways, but more often than not, it rips your heart out.
So why do men play it? To have a moment -- just one -- like Ryan Vogelsong's.
Those of us who report get to share in those rare moments, fortunately. I've covered sports for 40 years, mostly in search of precious snapshots like this one. I've seen a handful, not all of them captured on camera but forever burned into memory.
Long ago, I gave up rooting for brands. Hey, it's great the Giants won their second World Series in three years, a fabulous achievement. But it's not about the uniform or the city it represents. It's about the people, and how they cultivated a collective alchemy from spring training to now and delivered us this wonderful, mind-blowing odyssey.
This has been an epic baseball season in the Bay Area, maybe one that will never be topped again. The Giants were an unlikely success story -- the A's even more so -- and both teams were fun to be around because of their wide range of personality and depth of character.
But this is the Giants' day, a day to reflect on their many heroes.
Who could not revel in a good man such as Barry Zito overcoming the widespread scorn of fans to rewrite his San Francisco legacy? How about Gregor Blanco, a fringe player who somehow stepped in and filled Melky Cabrera's empty shoes?
Then there was Marco Scutaro, a one-time bench player who at 36 became an offensive force and a spiritual leader in three short months.
How about Tim Lincecum, experiencing failure for the first time in his baseball life, searching to find an avenue of competitive salvation and finally finding the grail out in the bullpen?
There was Sergio Romo, from the hardscrabble border town of Brawley, mowing down the Detroit Tigers in the 10th inning of Game 4 and capping it with one last masterstroke fastball to Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera. It was tantamount to throwing a pork chop past a wolf and getting away with it, but it was fine art.
After the game, the emotional Romo -- with those same wet, red eyes as Vogelsong's -- curtly rebuffed the media at almost every turn, perhaps gripped by so much sensory overload that he wasn't yet ready to put it all in perspective.
Mix in with those men the bona fide stars.
Matt Cain, the rock, talking calmly like the Giants statesman that he is. Pablo Sandoval, the bad-ball hitting Panda who was supposedly too overweight to do what he did to Justin Verlander, giggling like a little kid on the interview podium and afterward remarking that he didn't much care for Corvettes, his reward for being named Series MVP.
And, of course, there was that other MVP, Buster Posey, the man with the regal calm and glow so reminiscent of Joe Montana. While other players were going berserk with joy in the middle of the clubhouse, Posey stood quietly and watched by himself from a nearby room, flashing a cool and satisfied smile. As much as he already has accomplished at 25, you sense this is only the beginning for him.
But the pure essence of what we witnessed this past week, this month, this season, was right there on Vogelsong's face. He was the soul of this Giants team, its microcosm, a man who never gave up chasing his baseball dream even when things looked their most grim. So many chase, so few reach their destination.
To see his face in the aftermath was to understand how the Giants could miraculously rally from down two against Cincinnati, then do it again against St. Louis, and finally, with the finish line so close, steamroll the Tigers in four games to become champions of the baseball world.
That's the way I saw it, anyway, in roughly a thousand words. But that photo, that face, tells so much more. It tells you if you want something bad enough in baseball -- or in life -- you just never give up.


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I look, I listen, I have been around the game for 60 years.
The following are a few simple tips that can truly help any level of play. My tips are simple and can be applied with or without a coach.
More: 4 Ways to Beat the Baseline Game
Whatever success I have had is a direct result of seeing and then saying a few simple words. Demonstrations are also very important because so many people react to vision learning a lot quicker.
Tip 1: Early Preparation
You cannot prepare soon enough- turn your hips and shoulders before the oncoming ball bounces on your side. GET THAT RACQUET BACK!
Tip 2: Exaggerate your follow through
The majority of all people, no matter what sport they play, can improve by following through when you get a little nervous or your opponent is in control of play and moving you around.
Exaggerate your follow through; do not think just hit the ball. MOVE YOUR FEET!
Tip 3: Two bounces and you're out
Whenever you rally, wherever you play, make up your mind that you will never let the ball bounce twice. Always run for the ball even if you think you have no chance to reach it.
Richard Williams told Venus and Serena when they were six and seven years old, "Don't think, just run and hit the ball."
More: Nick's Tips: How to Volley on the Move
Try playing on a court with no lines, whatever comes to you, it is in play.
Tip 4: Hit- Recover
So many players will hit a ball and watch the ball and compliment themselves on the shot. From now on you must hit and recover.
I suggest you watch the pros- it actually looks like the pros are recovering in the middle of their hit. I don't suggest going to that extreme. Just hit, finish and get back to position.
Tip 5: Foundation
I want you and your practice partner to start at the serve line but stand in between the singles and doubles lines. Rally or play points hitting only between the lines.
As you gain confidence, move back further until you are on the baseline. It's critical that you have a solid foundation and complete balance in order to hit between the lines (also early preparation).


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The bearings fit well and installed easily. I did however pop the seals out and clean the stock grease and packed them with Bel-Ray marine grease. Most bearings in general don't come with much grease and it''s of poor quality.
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Pivot Works began operations in 1999 as the first company in the world to manufacture and market complete bearing and seal kits to the power sports market. The original supplier of chassis and suspension rebuild components for dirt bike and ATVs.
- The Pivot Works Front Wheel Bearing Kit is a great way to restore your motorcycle's wheel performance back to new without spending time gathering individual parts or paying for overpriced O.E.M. parts.
- Each kit includes all the necessary bearings, seals, O-rings and washers to rebuild your O.E.M. wheel in one simple kit - without modifications.
- Includes Chevron Starplex® EP lubricating grease to ease installation.
- Backed by a lifetime replacement offer!
- Note: For some Hondas, kit includes an aluminum bearing retainer.
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These bearings were a good price, easy to install, and from a brand I trust. The fitment of the bearings and the seals were perfect in my OEM KTM Wheels.
These were easy to install, and looked to be great quality.
price, performance, and ease installation-all excellent. a quick install IF
you have an oval bearing race punch (google it) and a seal installer kit.
Great product can't go wrong with Pivot Works!
made such a diff on the way bike rolled
much stronger then OEM
2008 yz125 Stock front bearings came unsealed but these are all sealed and work GREAT. Throw them in freezer for 2 hours first and they slide right in! Thanks MOTOSPORT.com!!!!
Installed easy and look very well made
Easy installation, so far so good!
Watched video with product listing, Followed instructions and it was a no brainer!
This is a great replacement product when rebuilding a wheel set.
No problems
We have been using these bearings on all our bikes. They work great and hold up!
Watched a quick YouTube video, followed the steps and these installed with ease.
ease of process, from purchase to delivery was excellent. Instructions for professional installation, was easy to comprehend. Bike handles better now all is tight and responding properly. thumbs up
My rear wheel had started to squeak (after 7 years) and I bought the kit. Took about 45 minutes to replace because the circlip holding the brake rotor side in was tough to get out. Put the bearings in the freezer before I started and they were easy to seat into the hub.
No more noise and the tire rolls on the axle much better than before. I'm ordering a kit for my spare rim as well.
Another GREAT product by Pivot Works. Size was exact and the video from Pivot Works makes installation an ease. The low price makes the product a must buy!
No contest, these are the best bearings on the market.
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Major League Academy of Baseball and Softball
MLABS will be holding open tryouts Saturday, January 19th beginning at 10:00AM
Looking for players and dedicated parents for the following age groups!!!
8u - born in 2005 & 2004
10u - born in 2003 & 2002
12u - born in 2001 & 2000
14u - born in 1999 & 1998
16u - born in 1997 & 1996
All positions needed!
For more information you can call 832-217-5048...
Major League Academy of Baseball and Softball is conveniently located on Spring Stuebner Rd. in Spring, TX providing an easy commute from The Woodlands, Conroe, Humble, Tomball, Klein, and Cypress areas.
We feature our own newly constructed practice field complete with lights, an off-field warm up area and pitching lanes, in addition to an indoor training and hitting facility.
MLABS has a long-term vision with a realistic perspective when it comes to baseball and softball. While winning is important, the focus has to remain on playing the game the right way. When the goal for youth sports is to win at all costs, many kids walk away learning very little and being exhausted from the pressure to constantly perform to keep their positions or spot in the batting order. MLABS focuses on teaching the game and helping our players progress with the fundamentals of the game. With this, winning will take care of itself.
Final week before tryouts... Call us today if you would like more information or would like to attend an open practice to knock the rust off before tryouts.
All teams are starting to shape up. There are still a few spots on each team remaining... Contact us today for more information or to inquire about open practices...
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Powered by the revolutionary Sound Core3D quad-core sound and voice processor, this breakthrough USB audio enhancer delivers powerful gaming audio to your Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC or Mac. With hardware-accelerated THX TruStudio Pro and Dolby Digital decoding it transforms even basic stereo sound into exhilarating 3D surround audio on your headset or speakers. Hear your enemies before they hear you with the proprietary Scout Mode, which tunes your hearing to your advantage on the battlefield. Calibrate and save every aspect of your audio settings directly to the Recon3D unit for use on any platform with the exclusive Recon3DProfile system. The gaming audio revolution is here. Be part of it.
Pro-gamer grade 3D Gaming Audio and Communications Sound Blaster and Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel have once again teamed up to create the ultimate PC gaming audio card. Whether you're on a headset or desktop speakers you'll have a distinct tactical advantage over the competition with massively powerful THX TruStudio Pro audio technologies that deliver incredibly immersive surround sound with pin-point accurate audio placement. Go "headset-free" with exclusive CrystalVoice Voice Clarity technology and the included Sound Blaster advanced beamforming microphone for a new way to communicate with your team mates by allowing for advanced voice communication even while playing audio over speakers! Get PC audio choice of Champions, and hear the sound of victory. Get Sound Blaster.
- Powered by Sound Core3D - quad-core audio processor
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- Technical Specifications: 24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs : up to 96 kHz sample rate, 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources : up to 96 kHz sample rate to analog outputs, 16-bit to 24-bit recording sampling rates: 8,11.025,16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz
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I had this problem serving mp4 video files recorded with a Hauppage HD PVR. I nudged ffmpeg to the top of the transcode list, put mp4 into the force transcode field, saved the configuration and restarted the server. The PS3 then played the files fine.
Using PMS 1.60.0 on Mac Mini Mac OS X 10.8


text: Our modern marketplace for investment in the formation and growth of public enterprises is imperfect, but it still works. It is a mechanism to transfer the wealth of the public to the companies we formulate to produce things; they are a reflection of our country and our people as a whole. The market can go mildly wrong or it can go terribly wrong. When it is mildly wrong, it present buying opportunities to shrewd investors, when it goes terribly wrong, it can become a machine of economic injustice.


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CORPUS CHRISTI – The current crop of Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Tennis players held serve on Saturday afternoon, taking down the Islanders alumni in the TennisRecycle.com Alumni Match at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center.
In a first for the tennis program, TennisRecycle.com and owner Bert Devera provided the title sponsorship for the annual alumni match.
"Our team is extremely grateful to Bert Devera and TennisRecycle.com for sponsoring this event and making this such a special experience for our student-athletes," said Director of Tennis Steve Moore. "We also want to thank Marco & Co. Catering for their constant support and providing lunch to the alumni and staff today."
Despite a feisty effort on both the men's and women's side, the current players came out on top, with the men taking a 4-2 final and the women winning 6-0 against the former Islanders.
"It is amazing to see all these Islander legends back," said Moore. "They are still such incredible competitors and play at such a high level. These girls and guys were just so special and meant so much to this program. Their hard work and commitment to team got this program nationally recognized, and they will always have a very special place in the heart of our program."
Competing for the alumni team were Islander legends Jason Holland and Alex Johansson, the first two Islanders ever in any sport. Moore earned the commitments from both players while finishing the season out at Texas Tech in the spring 1998 after accepting the task of starting the Islanders Tennis program.
On the men's side, former Islanders Goncalo Figueiredo and Aurelien Tave won in doubles against Peter Nagy and Odon Barta by an 8-6 final. The other doubles match saw Andrew Maingot and Matt Westmoreland win 8-5 over Holland and Johansson. Each doubles match counted as one point, so the teams went to singles tied at 1-1.
There, Peter Nagy won at the No. 1 position, taking a 6-1, 6-2 final over Joey Farias, while Westmoreland avenged his loss in last year's Islanders Open with a 4-6, 7-5, 10-7 win over Tave at the No. 2 position.
Former Islanders player and current assistant coach Figueiredo, 31, won his singles match over Barta by a 6-2, 6-4 score, holding on late despite battling cramps in the second set of a 2.5 hour singles match that followed doubles. In the final men's singles matches, Pietro Jordao topped Johansson by a 7-6 (8-6), 7-5 final at No. 4, while Javier Pujol won 6-4, 6-4 over Holland, a former assistant coach and player for the Islanders.
On the women's side, it was a sweep by current players, but the alumni battled hard throughout the day.
In doubles, both matches came down to the very end, with Sandra Burges and Maider Martin winning 8-6 over Carlotta Santos and Erica Iriarte, while Leanne Mascall and Stefania Nicolae also took an 8-6 final over Alexandra Dyckman and Megan Harless.
The women's players competed in eight-game pro set matches for singles, with Martin taking an 8-5 win over Dyckman at the top position. Burges won 8-6 over Santos at No. 2, Nicolae picked up an 8-5 final over Iriarte and Mascall won 8-6 over Harless, another current assistant coach and former player competing for the group of alumni.
"We have some very young Islanders and I think these alumni were great role models for them," said Moore. "They really showed them a lot about competing at an elite level.
"I'm very proud of these young Islander teams, they are working very hard a really developing. They're making a lot of good choices with their work ethic and commitment to team."
Next up for the Islanders will be another exhibition, with the Blue/Green match that pits current players against one another coming next Saturday, Oct. 13 at the Thomas J. Henry Tennis Center.
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, like the team on Facebook (IslandersTennis), follow them on Twitter (@IslandersTennis) and visit www.GoIslanders.com.


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I just made this Bowie 'cover' of Bette Milder's 'Wind Beneath My Wings'.The lyrics:Did you ever know that you're my hero,and everything I would like to be?I can fly high than an eagle,for you are the wind beneath my wings. Note: I couldn't find a suitable "Higher", so I changed it to "High"Now, can anyone tell me which Bowie songs I took each word from? Every single word is from a different song (although one of them is arguably the same song as another... you'll understand if you find out which one it is).I think this is quite difficult, I'm not sure. The third line seems the easiest.Note: This is my first try at such a thing, go easy on me.
Bloody hell!! How long did that take you.....nice idea!I think we should make Bowie cover other unlikely songs too....iccyBe our MySpace buddies!!
You're having a laugh aren't you?
10 out of 10 for originality, but being perfectly blunt with you syndrome, to my ears it's an audible mess, sorry.As you say it's your first go, maybe better luck next time. London Bye Ta-Ta...
C'mon, sport, it's only a game!
Bit of fun there. It also raises what could be done with Bowie's speech (as opposed to singing). _________________________________________________________ADAM VS BOWIE MASH UP PROJECT - | - BOWIE DOWNUNDER
What, like, talking?Anyway, isn't anybody going to satisfy me and guess a few? At least guess where I got "Hero" from.
It's too annoying to listen to more than once. Sorry. "And generally speaking, I�m not a guy who is well-disposed towards mullets."-- D. F.
boy I thought mine was tricky!! this will take time.my site
Thanks for giving it a shot.


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Friday's letters: Folk wisdom
Published: Friday, May 3, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 7:24 p.m.
To the editor: Kudos to Dawn Kucera in her April 15 Ive Been Thinking column for her thoughtful use of folk wisdom to point out the cruel and un-Christian actions being taken by our state legislators and governor toward the poor and marginalized in our state. There appears to be a concerted effort by our lawmakers to remove whatever protections are now in place for the less fortunate among us.
She concludes with a reference to Jesus discussion of the least of these in Matthew 25. I invite all of you to read all of Matthew 25 to see how Jesus describes the plight of those who ignore the needs of the least of these. Of these, he says, they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life. (Matt. 25:46.)
Roy Harris
Too selective
To the editor: In a rebuttal to a recent letter that supported equal opportunity for marriage, a letter writer quoted some verses from Leviticus to show Biblical admonition against homosexuality.
I continue to be fascinated by the way people cherry-pick the verses they like. What about the surrounding passages in Leviticus, where God says adulterers must be put to death? He condoned slavery, and permitted men to sleep with their servants if the wife was barren.
Or in Romans 1:29-32, where St. Paul condemns a whole list of activities, such as gossip and slander, and says those doing them deserve to die? If you cite portions of the Bible, you need to accept all of it.
The definition of a Christian is one who follows the teaching of Christ. In Matthew 7:1, Jesus says, Do not judge, lest you be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use it, it will be measured to you.
Scott Lothrop
Chasing profits
To the editor: While many people are working to address climate change by reducing consumption and protecting biodiversity, ArborGen and other tree biotechnology companies hope to use the crisis to make a big profit.
In 2010, ArborGen won USDA permission to field-test a quarter-million genetically engineered (GE) eucalyptus trees across South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Why? ArborGen hopes to sell billions of its GE Franken-trees for huge bioenergy plantations across the U.S. South.
In Florida, eucalyptus trees are already a documented invasive species. The U.S. Forest Service estimates they would double water use compared with native forests. Because they are so invasive and also explosively flammable, Jim Hightower has called them living firecrackers. They have also been called flammable kudzu.
There are also industry plans for GE poplar and GE pine trees that could contaminate our native forests with dangerous engineered traits through cross-pollination.
The USDA has just stopped accepting public comments on this proposal by ArborGen to commercialize its potentially dangerous and destructive GE trees on its website. I am writing today because I believe these trees should be banned.
Thomas Llewellyn
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The only OFFICIAL Narnia cookbook! Explore over 60 illustrated recipes inspired by the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color ebook device, and in rich black-and-white on all other devices.
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Tuesday's letters: A price to pay
Published: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, October 29, 2012 at 5:22 p.m.
To the editor: As Election Day approaches, I offer the following words of wisdom from Dr. Thomas Sowell: It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals and medication ... somehow think we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it!
I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money youve earned ... but not greed to want to take somebody elses money.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price ... for being wrong.
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone elses expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
Mitt Romney is not the answer; he is just an answer for this time. There is a price we are all going to pay for the economic hole we have dug. The window of time to fix things in an orderly fashion is closing. Choose wisely, my friends.
Jim Griffin
Local nonprofits
To the editor: Keep these facts in mind when donating to the following organizations. Information was taken from Forbes magazine, Guide Star and Snopes.com.
United Way: Brian Gallagher, annual pay $717,076, operating efficiency 89 percent.
Red Cross: Gail McGovern, annual pay $1,032,022, operating efficiency 92 percent.
UNICEF: Caryl M. Stern, annual pay $472,891, operating efficiency 91 percent.
Salvation Army: William Roberts, annual pay $126,920, operating efficiency 82 percent.
John J. Brandt
Straight talk
To the editor: Congratulations Lois Baumann, Sharon Mills, Elizabeth Balogh, Donald Reid, Sylvie Horvath and Judy Gower for telling it like it is:
I was worn out by Mitt Romneys snarky hyper-bullying and his chilling grimaces ... . (Sharon Mills.)
I respect the president for staying away from the zingers and remaining decent, dignified subtle and kind. (Sharon Mills.)
He can switch from one Mitt to the other. Wow. What a flip-flopping gymnast. (Lois Baumann.)
I saw a man speaking well but with a supercilious smile on his face, rude to the moderator, and wouldnt stop talking when his time was up. (Lois Baumann.)
Invariably, he goes off script and then shows his real thinking. Its not my job to worry about the 47 percent and I like Big Bird, but I will cut PBS funding. (Donald Reid.)
PBS is the biggest classroom in the country, and provides education services that reach the vast majority of Americans. (Donald Reid.)
But I would rather have a President (Barack) Obama who cares, thinks and has moved America forward despite obstructionism. (Sylvie Horvath.)
Overbearing interruptions and scripted sarcastic rhetoric are not what I value in the leader of my country. (Sylvie Horvath.)
The strength of moral and ethical truths will win on Nov. 6. (Judy Gower.)
Mark A. Young
Good Samaritans
To the editor: When I pulled into a parking lot recently, I saw an elderly woman sitting on the curb. I asked her if she was OK. She said, Im okay, but could you help me up? When she was up and safely in her car, she rolled down the window and asked: Are you a preacher? I told her I was not, and she looked a bit puzzled.
I came away from that situation wondering: Have we reached a point in our society where only preachers are expected to help people? This is not a rap on preachers as I am sure any minister would have done what I did. I am also sure there are many non-ministers who would have as well.
But the expectation in society seems to be all the Good Samaritans are gone, and only the ordained care. I earnestly hope I am wrong.
Ken Blackwell
East Flat Rock
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Expect to row upstream against strong currents if you defend government's role in protecting citizen's liberties. Critics flood Uncle Sam with complaints, saying the federal government robs citizens of their rights.
Suspicion infects our national DNA, polluting any notion of what good federal government achieves.
Commentator E. J. Dionne, in his book "Our Divided Political Heart," makes a convincing case that partisan battles over the role and responsibility of government erupt because our nation no longer agrees on what happened at its founding.
Those who distrust government regard the Revolutionary War as a chronicle of patriots who agreed with Thomas Paine's catchy motto: "The government is best which governs least." Their battle against King George III started as a tax revolt against encroaching government, we are told. Founders wanted to keep oppressive government off their backs, assert tea party advocates.
Dionne corrects this faulty reading of our nation's birth. Those fighting the Revolutionary War saw the emerging nation as "we the people" who "were able to see democratic government as a constructive force in our national life and to use it in creative ways."
Yes, minority voices after the Revolutionary War wanted to keep decision-making at the local level. Fisher Ames, an evangelical Massachusetts congressman, distrusted top-heavy government. Rotund Uncle Sam crushed citizens' liberties, warned Ames. If the federal government fattened up, he complained, all that remained would provide "the velocity of its (America's) fall." Dionne in his book says today's tea party thinkers, with their dire warnings against big government, Ames' successors. They "cast government as inherently oppressive, necessarily wasteful, and nearly always damaging to our nation's growth and prospect."
During the dark days of the Roman Empire, when Caesar oppressed vassals, the Apostle Paul voiced confidence in government. Wouldn't Fisher Ames and the tea party get apoplexy, reading about biblical support of government? "Pay all the authorities of God their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due" (Romans 13:7).
If the federal government shrinks, will personal liberties be preserved? U.S. history after the Revolutionary War corrects this mistaken conviction.
Before the 1787 Constitutional Convention, weak state governments made the U.S. financially vulnerable. They abhorred compromise. Working for their exclusive benefit, local dignitaries passed enormous tariffs on goods transported between states. After the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, the country plunged into an economic depression lasting eight years. In record numbers, small businesses declared bankruptcy. European nations backed off from lending to the United States.
John Adams warned that our gravest enemy wasn't big government. Rather, it was too little government, which deprived citizens of their rights. Individual liberties weren't protected.
"Mobocracy," lamented Adams, reigned terror over the nation because citizens who distrusted government acted like vigilantes. Mobs took the law into their own hands. They closed city halls and barricaded courthouses when judges ruled against them. These "Regulators," as angry citizens dubbed themselves, threatened local anarchy if government didn't back them.
During the mid-1780s, the national army virtually disbanded. Some disgusted congressman walked away from their jobs. The loosely-drawn confederation of government, initially set up to guard states' rights, proved ineffective. Citizens lost rights.
With clarity and conviction, James Madison expressed the utter necessity for a new constitution. It set building blocks for an efficient, effective federal government.
Writing in the winter of 1787, Madison didn't blink at the miserable shape of the U.S. tottering on minimal government. "The present system," he declared, "neither has nor deserves advocates, and if some very strong props are not applied will quickly tumble to the ground."
"No money is paid," he groused, "into the public treasury. No respect is paid to federal authority. Not a single state complies with the requisitions, several pass over them in silence and some positively reject them. ... It is not possible that a government can last long under these circumstances."
We exercise choices in this 2012 presidential campaign. We can support government, as Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) believed in, which taxes to pay for a civilized society. Or, our nation will become less civilized as the few who distrust Uncle Sam rule the many, denying them personal liberties.
The Rev. Jack R. Van Ens is a Presbyterian minister who heads the nonprofit, tax-exempt Creative Growth (www.thelivinghistory.com), which enhances Christian worship through storytelling and dramatic presentations aimed to make God's history come alive. Van Ens' book, "How Jefferson Made the Best of Bad Messes," is available in local bookstores for $7.95.


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The Missouri Department of Transportation is limiting access to Highway 54 at the Key Largo Road intersection effectively immediately. Vehicles on Osage Beach Parkway will have no access to Highway 54 in either direction. The closest access to the highway will be the interchange at Route KK.
The immediate changes are due to a serious crash that occurred at the intersection around 10 a.m. on Saturday.
A Chevy Silverado pickup truck was T-boned at the intersection.
Robert L. Bullock, 78, of St. James, was exiting the Osage Beach Parkway and attempting to turn onto westbound Highway 54 when he drove into the path of a Ford Escape being driven by 17-year-old Scott J. Derr, of Springfield. Derr was traveling on eastbound Highway 54 when he struck the pickup truck.
According to information provided by the Osage Beach Police Department, both drivers required extrication.
The department described both drivers' injuries as "disabling".
Staff For Life helicopter was called in to transport the injured, but was called off. The drivers were transported to Lake Regional Health System by ambulance.
Due to the severity of the crash, Missouri State Highway Patrol's Reconstruction Team was called in to investigate the crash further.
Officials from several departments made the decision to shut down portions of the intersection immediately. The closest access to Highway 54 for drivers on Osage Beach Parkway will be the interchange at Route KK, about one mile east of the intersection. Drivers on Key Largo Road will still be able to make right and left-hand turns onto the highway.
Less than a week ago, the Missouri Department of Transportion held a public meeting about the intersection. The department conducted a one-day traffic study which showed that more than 1,300 vehicles from the Osage Beach Parkway were attempting to access the intersection. The intersection was designed for about 1,000 vehicles total, coming from both the Osage Beach Parkway side and the Key Largo Road side.
Since January 1, there had been five crashes at the intersection, excluding the one that occurred on Saturday, resulting in three serious injuries.
With those factors in mind, MoDOT officials said it was time to look at ways of making the intersection safer and was asking for public input at the meeting on Wednesday evening.
Shutting down access to Highway 54 from the Osage Beach Parkway side was one of three options presented at the meeting.
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Deer crashes peak in October, November and December, so the time has arrived to be extra cautious.
The deer herd population in Ohio is estimated at around 750,000. Just 20 years ago the number of deer in Ohio totaled about 150,000.
The counties in Ohio that have the highest number of deer crashes also rank high in the number of residents. The odds of striking a deer depend on the number of cars on the road.
Deer collisions for West Virginia drivers continue to rank near the top of the state-by-state list. State Farm Insurance last year estimated a West Virginia driver has a one in 53 chance of striking a deer during the year. The odds in Ohio were one in 131.
Insurance industry experts estimate a deer crash costs an average of about $3,100 in repairs.
Deer are beginning to get active with the approaching mating season and will be foraging for food for the winter months.
Drivers need to be alert for deer, especially at dawn and after sunset. These are the riskiest times for deer-vehicle collisions.
Drive with extreme caution when traveling through deer-crossing zones, in areas known to have a large deer population and in areas where roads divide agricultural fields from wooded areas.
Deer at this time of the year seldom run alone. Seeing one deer usually means there are others nearby. If a deer crosses the road in front of your vehicle, chances are another will try to follow
When driving at night, use high-beam headlights when there is no oncoming traffic. High beams will better illuminate the eyes of deer standing on or near the roadway.
If a deer is seen on or near the road, slow down and blow your horn with one long blast to try to scare the deer away.
Don't swerve your vehicle to avoid striking a deer.
It is actually better to hit the deer while maintaining full control of the vehicle than to try swerve out of the way. The Ohio State Highway Patrol notes more people are injured in wrecks because the driver tried to avoid the deer and ended up hitting another vehicle or going off the road into a ditch or a tree.
If you are involved in a deer crash, pull off to the side of the road and call the highway patrol or local police. Don't approach the deer if it is still in the road.
The mild winter last year probably means the deer population increased, and that is not good news for area drivers.


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History of US bombings, failed attempts
History of bombings in the US, including famous attempts that failed since the late 1800s
Published: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 11:45 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 11:45 a.m.
Here is a list of some of the worst bombings in the U.S. dating to the 1800s, including some famous attempts that failed:
— April 15, 2013: Two bombs explode in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 140.
— Jan. 17, 2011: A backpack bomb is placed along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., meant to kill and injure participants in a civil rights march, but is found and disabled before it can explode. White supremacist Kevin Harpham is convicted and sentenced to 32 years in federal prison.
— May 1, 2010: Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad leaves an explosives-laden SUV in New York's Times Square, hoping to detonate it on a busy night. Street vendors spot smoke coming from the vehicle and the bomb is disabled. Shahzad is arrested as he tries to leave the country and is sentenced to life in prison.
— Dec. 25, 2009: The so-called underwear bomber, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is subdued by passengers and crew after trying to blow up an airliner heading from Amsterdam to Detroit using explosives hidden in his undergarments. He's sentenced to life in prison.
— Sept. 11, 2001: Four commercial jets are hijacked by 19 al-Qaida militants and used as suicide bombs, bringing down the two towers of New York City's World Trade Center and crashing into the Pentagon. Nearly 3,000 people are killed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
— Jan 22, 1998: Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole. He's locked up in the federal Supermax prison in Colorado for killing three people and injuring 23 during a nationwide bombing spree between 1978 and 1995.
— Jan. 20, 1998: A bombing at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., kills one guard and injures a nurse. Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected in the case.
— July 27, 1996: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during the Summer Games, killing two people and injuring more than 100. Eric Robert Rudolph is arrested in 2003. He pleads guilty and is sentenced to life in prison.
— April 19, 1995: A car bomb parked outside the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City kills 168 people and injures more than 500. It is the deadliest U.S. bombing in 75 years. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are convicted. McVeigh is executed in 2001 and Nichols is sentenced to life in prison.
— Feb. 26, 1993: A bomb in a van explodes in the underground World Trade Center garage in New York City, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000. Five extremists are eventually convicted.
— Oct. 11, 1985: A bomb explodes at the Santa Ana, Calif. office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, killing a director at the organization and injuring several others. The case remains unsolved.
— Nov. 7, 1983: A bomb blows a hole in a wall outside the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington. No one is hurt. Two leftist radicals plead guilty.
— May 16, 1981: A bomb explodes in a men's bathroom at the Pan Am terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport, killing a man. A group calling itself the Puerto Rican Armed Resistance claims responsibility. No arrests are made.
— Dec. 29, 1975: A bomb hidden in a locker explodes at the TWA terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75. Palestinian, Puerto Rican and Croatian groups are suspected, but no arrests are made.
— Jan. 29, 1975: The U.S. State Department building in Washington, D.C., is bombed by the radical left group Weather Underground. No one is killed.
— Jan. 24, 1975: A bomb goes off at historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City, killing four people. It was one of 49 bombings attributed to the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN between 1974 and 1977 in New York.
— Aug. 6, 1974: A bomb goes off at Los Angeles International Airport, killing three people and injuring 36. Muharem Kurbegovic, a Yugoslavian national who became known as the "Alphabet Bomber," is convicted.
— Jan. 27, 1972: A bomb wrecks the New York City office of impresario Sol Hurok, who had been booking Soviet artists. One person is killed and nine are injured, Hurok among them. A caller claiming to represent Soviet Jews claims responsibility, but no arrests are made.
— March 1, 1971: The Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., is bombed by the radical left group Weather Underground. No one is killed.
— March 6, 1970: Three members of the Weather Underground accidentally blow themselves up in their townhouse in New York City's Greenwich Village while making bombs.
— Sept. 16, 1963: Four black girls are killed in a bombing at Birmingham, Ala.'s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Years later, juries convicted three Ku Klux Klansmen and one suspected accomplice died without ever having been charged. One of the four is still in prison and the others are dead.
— 1951-56: George Metesky, a former Consolidated Edison employee with a grudge against the company, sets off a series of blasts at New York landmarks, including Grand Central station and Radio City Music Hall. No one is killed. Known as The Mad Bomber, Metesky spends 16 years in a mental hospital.
— May 18, 1927: 45 people — 38 of them children — are killed when a school district treasurer, Andrew Kehoe, lines the Bath Consolidated School near Lansing, Mich., with hundreds of pounds of dynamite, and blows it up. Investigators say Kehoe, who also died in the blast, thought he would lose his farm because he couldn't pay property taxes used to build the school.
— Sept. 16, 1920: A bomb explodes in New York City's Wall Street area, killing 40 and injuring hundreds. Authorities conclude it was the work of "anarchists" and come up with a list of suspects, but all flee to Russia.
— Oct. 1, 1910: The Los Angeles Times building is dynamited during a labor dispute, killing 20 people. Two leaders of the ironworkers union plead guilty.
— May 4, 1886: A bomb blast during a labor rally at Chicago's Haymarket Square kills 11 people, including seven police officers, and injures more than 100. Eight "anarchists" are tried for inciting riot. Four are hanged, one commits suicide and three win pardons after seven years in prison.
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Family members of missing Nelson County teen Alexis Murphy teamed up with the family of Morgan Harrington this weekend.
They want to remind people of young women who've gone missing over the past few years.
The campaign is called "Help Save the Next Girl," and its beginnings date back four years ago after the disappearance and death of Morgan Harrington.
She was attending a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena when she disappeared in October 2009. Months later, her body was found.
Her killer, still not caught.
"Our children are not disposable goods," says Gil Harrington, mother of Morgan Harrington. "Four years out, I'm still fighting. I want answers. I want to know who killed Morgan Harrington and threw her out in the field."
Now Harrington wants to help the family of missing teenager Alexis Murphy.
"These young people deserve to be found and families reunited, some way," says Harrington.
The 17-year-old high school senior was last seen on August 3 at a Lovingston gas station. Authorities have arrested Randy Taylor in connection with her disappearance. Taylor is charged with abduction and awaits his preliminary hearing, set for January.
"I hear a lot of people saying they are paying attention to their surroundings," says Laura Murphy, mother of Alexis. "Not even the kids, but the older people too, this has really made the community look at things different."
Harrington joined the Murphy family at Chandler's Bakery in Albemarle Square to highlight missing persons' cases throughout Central Virginia.
Orange County woman Samantha Clark was last seen in 2010 and 19-year-old Charlottesville resident Dashad "Sage" Smith went missing in November of last year.
"I know what the families are feeling and it's overwhelming," says Harrington. "We are trying to band together and help support one another through this hard time as well as bring attention to the problem and bring attention to the community."
With the efforts of the "Help Save the Next Girl" campaign, Gil Harrington hopes to find the other missing teens that have disappeared along Route 29 in the past four years and help bring support to Alexis Murphy's family as they continue to search for their daughter.
"Help Save the Next Girl" started in Central Virginia and has become a national nonprofit to promote media presence for missing people.


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AUSTIN (February 11, 2013)—The Austin City Council votes this week on a proposal to create a veterans-affairs commission to help ex-military personnel better deal with life out of the service.
The city council is scheduled to vote Thursday to create the commission.
The project would include volunteers.
Details on costs weren't immediately outlined.
The Austin American-Statesman reported that panel members would help track issues facing the area's estimated 40,000 veterans and be city government advocates for vets.
Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell, who's a retired Navy pilot, backs the proposal.
The city in 2007 created a veterans ombudsman office.
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A third grade student describes hearing police officers on the roof of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut searching for a gunman Friday.
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich threw out the word "deregulation" in regard to public schools in a speech last week, and local school officials said they feel both concern and uncertainty about the governor's potential plans.
Kasich made the comments to the Ohio Newspaper Association in Columbus last Thursday. He said in general, he feels that giving local districts and their respective communities more control over instruction will help improve the quality of education.
Local school officials and legislators differ in opinion about what direction Kasich should take or whether the concept of deregulation is a positive movement.
"Anytime I can get more control over my district, I would welcome that," said Bruce Kidder, superintendent for Frontier Local Schools. "I think that's a very positive step forward in realizing that the problem needs to be solved as close to the students as possible."
Gov. Kasich's press secretary Rob Nichols said that the deregulation discussion was only a talking point as something the governor was thinking about for the future, and not anything tied to any policy or plan.
Though it was kept vague, education experts say deregulation could mean anything from removing regulations on class sizes to loosening teaching certifications to allow members of the business community to play a role in curriculum.
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Ohio Rep. Debbie Phillips, D-Albany, said she finds it ironic that Kasich made the comments when he has pushed for teacher evaluations and has been in favor of legislation that cuts public school funding, and is curious as to what his recent comments will turn into.
"Class size, where there's a documented impact, I think a lot of those standards are helpful to students to be successful," Phillips said. "If what he's looking at is removing operating standards while cutting funds, that doesn't sound good."
Washington Elementary School Principal Scott Kratche is striving to decrease class sizes. Kratche said if possible, he would love to have all classes below 20 students.
"To compare a class of 20 with no teacher aide, that's a huge benefit to those kids then a class over 30 with no aide," he said. "It puts a hardship on the large class size."
Ohio Andy Thompson, R-Marietta, said he is in favor of certain deregulation procedures, and does not feel that small class sizes automatically make for a better learning experience.
"Class size factors vary based on teachers," he said. "Arbitrarily setting a number creates problems elsewhere. You have to give flexibility to local districts."
Currently, Ohio has an official regulation that requires there to be one teacher for every 20 students, but the state has loosened requirements to allow districts to make exceptions as a result of budget cuts.
"If you're talking about a high level of highly motivated high school students that's one thing," Phillips said. "But if you're talking about at-risk students in second or third grade that face the prospect of being held back, the prospect of having bigger class sizes is concerning."
Warren Local Schools Superintendent Kyle Newton said he feels any speech about deregulation to improve public schools could be a mask for covering up more funding cuts.
"When you talk about deregulating education, that scares me, because it sounds like you're trying to disrupt our schools while hiding behind 'power to the people,'" he said.
Kasich's idea of allowing the business community to have more power in the education process is hailed as a positive way to broaden the scope of instruction as well as an example of the governor's preference toward charter schools, which are run in a fashion more similar to private schools.
Kratche said the idea of letting business and community members step in to provide supplemental education can enrich learning, as an accountant could come in and teach to an accounting class. But teachers, he said, still need to do the teaching.
"There are specific credentials that teachers have that not everyone sees the benefit of, but they are there," Kratche said, who has previously worked as a physical education teacher as well.
Kidder said that the idea would help give control to those who are closest to the schools.
"That doesn't mean I wouldn't hire the best candidate for the job, but it would be a nice option that would give us more control over what we do," he said.
Thompson said giving the business community more of a role in schools can have benefits.
"There have been some positive examples in western Ohio where businesses come in to help for local expenses in schools," he said. "I think the business approach helps. They can be great partners for internships, too."
Phillips urged local school officials not to be quick to pick sides until more has come out about any plans the governor may have.
"I would encourage educators to look at the details before getting on the bandwagon," she said. "Hang tight, and wait to see how it will affect our schools."


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Eissler is the latest Texas education leader to go
Now, here's a real dilemma for Texas: The Legislature will be without its top education leaders when the next session begins in 2013.
Florence Shapiro will have retired from the Senate, where she long chaired the Senate Education Committee. And Rob Eissler will no longer be in the House, where he had led the House Public Education Committee the last few sessions.
The Eissler news is the latest part of the fallout. The Houston-area Republican lost his seat in a GOP primary race yesterday.
While I didn't always agree with Eissler, he was smart and cared about students. Along with Shapiro, he also possessed plenty of institutional knowledge.
So, when the next session starts, there will be a knowledge and leadership vacuum on K-12 issues. And this will happen just when legislators will likely have to consider a new way of funding schools.
By January, there also will be a change at the Texas Education Agency. Robert Scott no longer will be in charge.
Change happens, but it also comes with risks. When it comes to education policy next session, there could be a steep learning curve.


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STOCKTON - The nonprofit group Keep America Beautiful aims to promote neighborhood beautification and the planting of native species through its first National Planting Day, to be celebrated across the country Sept. 8.
The Stockton-based Friends of Taft Botanical Gardens will take part in the initiative through "Keep Stockton Growing," to be held from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the gardens behind Taft Montessori Learning Academy, 419 Downing Ave. The event will feature the planting of native trees and flowers, as well as resources on nutrition and agriculture. For information, call (209) 933-7258, or email email@example.com.
In the meantime, get ready to plant with picks from some local retailers.
Shirt: Roll up your sleeves in garden-green plaid, as in this Bay Street shirt sold through Hollister California (locations in Stockton and Modesto, or online at hollisterco.com).
Necklace: A botanical necklace such as this one - with brass leaves on a thin copper chain - isn't too fussy for a day of planting. Available at Lino Bella (locations in Stockton and Modesto, or online at shop.linobella.com).
Hat: Keep the sun off your face and neck with a wide-brimmed straw hat. This one, with an ikat-print lining, is sold through Chico's (locations in Stockton and Modesto, or online at chicos.com).
Bandanna: A classic cotton bandanna is a practical accessory. Keep one on hand to wipe the dust off your fingers or the sweat off your forehead. Sold at stores including REI (location in Stockton, or online at rei.com).
Belt: An elastic belt, in autumn colors, makes a subtle garden reference with its flower appliqu�. Available at Loft (location in Stockton or online at loft.com).
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San Jose City Clerk Dennis Hawkins announced Tuesday he will resign after 18 years with the city and nearly two years as clerk to take a job with Santa Clara County.
Hawkins, whose last day as city clerk will be Dec. 15, will start his new job Dec. 17 as administrative services manager for the County of Santa Clara Office of the County Counsel.
"It was just something that piqued my interest," Hawkins, 57, said after Tuesday's Council meeting.
Hawkins has served as city clerk since January 1, 2011, replacing Lee Price under whom he had worked as assistant city clerk. Hawkins began his career with the city's parks and recreation department, where his wife was a superintendent before retiring in 2010 after 34 years. Before joining the city, Hawkins, who earned a degree in finance at San Jose State, had worked in the banking and insurance industries.
Hawkins, son of a veteran newspaperman and the father of two, also has served since 1994 as a board trustee in the Oak Grove School District in south San Jose, where he is finishing his fourth year as board president.
As city clerk, Hawkins was among a handful of city executives directly appointed by the City Council, and came into the job during a rough patch in which city leaders have cut pay and benefits and laid off staff to help close perennial deficits.
But Hawkins said that as a school board member, he could relate to the difficult decisions the Council had to make given San Jose's financial straits.
"I respect the Council," Hawkins said. "I understand the pressures and issues they have to deal with."
Hawkins, whose city salary was $140,777, said his county pay would be comparable.
But he acknowledged the clerk job was difficult. Hawkins drew criticism in June when he told backers of a proposed measure that would guarantee a slice of the city budget for libraries that they would need to collect more signatures than he had initially told them because the rules are different for charter amendments.
He also noted that in addition to the Council's weekly meetings, he also has to attend numerous committee and commission meetings, including several at night.
"Physically, it's a real challenging job," Hawkins said.
Mayor Chuck Reed was out of town on city business Tuesday, but his office said the mayor and Council will appoint an acting city clerk while a search is conducted for Hawkins' replacement.
Contact John Woolfolk at 408-975-9346. Follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/johnwoolfolk1.


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Jon Stewart's Coming Film 'Rosewater' Gets U.S. Distribution
Open Road Films said it acquired the U.S. distribution rights for "Rosewater," a feature film written and directed by "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.
The film is based on "Then They Came for Me: A Family Story of Love, Captivity and Survival," a memoir by BBC journalist Maziar Bahari, who was born in Tehran, Iran, and arrested, in that country in 2009 while covering a presidential election.
The film, which marks Stewart's debut as a screenwriter and director, follows Bahari as he returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Moussavi, a main challenger to then-incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He was arrested while covering protests related to the elections and was held for 118 days, during which, according to the memoir, he was interrogated and tortured by a man who known as Rosewater.
Iranian officials released Bahari in October of 2009. Stewart was among the figures in U.S. media whose feature stories helped direct attention to Bahari's case. Stewart covered the story nightly and Bahari appeared on the "The Daily Show" to talk about his experiences following his release from prison.
OddLot Entertainment financed the film, which stars Gael Garcia Bernal and is scheduled for release in the fall. A spokeswoman for Open Road said the film will be shown to international buyers during the Cannes Film Festival, which begins this week.


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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- As Richard Roundtree makes preparations to take office the first of the year, Sheriff Strength prepares to close the book on a 36 year career.
We caught up with the outgoing sheriff to see what he has in store these last few days.
"We're not promised tomorrow, so I want to see what the other side has to hold," he tells News 12's Laura Warren.
Only a week and a half left until Sheriff Ronnie Strength begins his retirement, and he says, he has big plans, "Go down to my farm, spend some time on my tractor, get some stuff cleaned up, get in the woods and cut some trees back that have fallen, so I'll have plenty to do."
Richard Roundtree took the oath of office this morning, but December 31st will be Sheriff Strength's last day on the job. But, even in these last few days, it's still business as normal.
"It's been absolutely no different from day one. The same things are happening, I'm seeing the same folks," he says.
With such big changes coming to the sheriff's office, we asked if he expected any resistance.
"Change happens all the time. It's difficult for some folks to accept change, but a lot of times it's for the best."
One change does have him a little disappointed, though. The new sheriff bumped Colonel Powell, Sheriff Strength's second in command, back to a captain's role.
He says, "I was upset about it because he's been here 35 years, he's done a great job, but that's his prerogative now, and he is the new sheriff or will be the new sheriff and he makes those calls."
As for the new sheriff in town, Strength does have some advice.
"The most important thing to remember, is to treat everybody fairly," he also says to make sure not to put yourself on a pedestal, and to take care of your people.
And, he also has some more personal advice, saying, "One big mistake I made in my career was putting this job first and my family second, and that's wrong and nobody should do that."
We asked the sheriff what he plans to do on the last day of his 36 year career?
He says, "I thought I would come to work without a tie on. That will surprise everyone!"
Sheriff Strength says even though his tie will be off, he plans to work down to the last minute on December 31st.


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The levee failures in New Orleans have put the spotlight on disaster plans across America. And that includes one for Thurmond Dam. News 12 is on your side to explain the response in the event of a complete dam failure.
Allison Carr has lived near Evans to Locks Road for twenty years and has seen threats of flooding come and go.
"Back in the early 90's, we didn't have a problem here at all. Nobody around here flooded, so I'm not that concerned," Carr said.
But what would happen if a doomsday scenario played out, an earthquake or terrorist attack destroying the Thurmond Dam? It's something Columbia County has actually planned for. Some of the flooding could stretch to Wood Creek, miles away from the dam. And at Westlake Country Club, officials say the waters would likely rise slowly, taking five to seven hours to reach the tops of houses.
"I have a friend who's dad insisted she put extra clothes in her car in case it should happen she needs to get away really quickly," Carr said.
The "Dam Failure and Flooding" plan even includes sample press releases…one example, "A portion of J. Strom Thurmond Dam is in imminent danger of failure…residents in low-lying areas everywhere along the Savannah River should immediately move to higher ground."
But Carr's not too concerned.
"I think it's utterly ridiculous that people have lived in this town 50 years and now all of a sudden they're like oh my gosh the dam's gonna break," Carr said.
But there is some relief that a plan's in place for that possibility.
Click here to view Columbia County's complete Dam Disaster Plan written back in 2001. It includes a street-by-street breakdown of which streets might be affected by a dam failure.