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Well done! I own a T3 and recognise that you have to be prepared to replace
digitizers. Having owned several palms, I have come to the conclusion that
dizitizers eventually degrade and have to be replaced(I don't know, but I
suspect it has something to do with degrading of the components in the
digitizer and very little to do with wear and tear). Once replaced, the Palm
is restored to a new machine. Batteries also need to be periodically
I found that , to remove the old digitizer, you needed a small sharp knife
(like a small Swiss Army Knife). You slid the blade in next to the metal
casing of the screen and cut round. This neatly lifted the digitizer off the
screen casing. The new digitizer would stick on, using the residual glue
which was left on the screen casing.
The only other two tips: backup the palm before you start and do everything
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A man robbed the Circle K on Buckhorn Drive. It happened just before 4:30 Tuesday morning.
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Police brought a K-9 out to help in the search for the robber, but they weren't able to track anyone down.
The clerk was the only person inside the store when the robbery happened, and he was not hurt. Police are hoping to get surveillance video from inside the store to help identify the suspect.

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Sometimes history takes a long time to be recorded, and in this case, we can go back fifty years.
During the Vietnam War, Doan Công Tinh, Chu Chi Thành, Hua Kiem and Mai Nam were working in the north; Don McCullin was covering the war in the South, with South Vietnamese and U.S. troops. All five took pictures of victims from the other side, each one photographed history, the history of a cruel conflict.
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im from png and i live and work in the uk on this special tourist/working visa. its valid for 24 months,however you are restricted to 12months of work.the visa is called a "Holiday Maker Visa", its obviously easier to obtain than other visas. there are few criterias such as
Age (i think u have to be under 35), you have to at least prove that you can support yourself while here in the Uk for the first month, you must show that you will eventually travel and visit the UK, not just work..etc.. i think there are some more criterias. I think its such a great opportunity for PNGeans. it took me a day to 2 days to get it.
great thing is you dont have to have a potential employer in order to obtain ths visa... to be honest i think everyone makes it look difficult, just save enough to get here, if u dont know anyone, stay at a youth hostel (very cheap), once ure here, go to websites such as gumtree.com or caterer.com and start looking, as a matter of fact start looking while ure in PNG. Take the risk, its fun, and you'll love it! hope this helps and encourages you .
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PS. by the way if you work hard, maybe your employer can even sponsor you after your ! yr of work!!
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Yountville is a wonderful, amazing foodie town that can be exceedingly expensive. However, if you stay at Petit Logis you can have your "cake and eat it too." Quite simply, it is smack in the middle of everything in the town. Park your car and never return until it is time to leave. It is literally between Bouchon and Hurley's with five rooms that have little patios that face a garden like area instead of the street. We stayed with another couple and sat outside our rooms one day enjoying wine, cheese and chocolate with complete privacy although we were about 15 steps away from the wandering crowds.
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LILBOURN - Charlotte Basham, 71, died Sept. 25, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.
Born Dec. 20, 1930, in New Madrid, daughter of the late Horrell Henderson and Willia D. Richardson Townsend, she was a member of the Lilbourn VFW Ladies Auxiliary and the United Methodist Church in New Madrid.
On Jan. 8, 1949, she married Frank "Buddy" Basham who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: one son, Bruce Basham of St. Ann; one daughter, Fran Blake of St. Louis; two brothers, H.H. "Buddy" Townsend and David Townsend of New Madrid; and seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
One sister preceded her in death.
Visitation is from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Richards Funeral Home in New Madrid, where services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday with the Rev. Lynn Quist, officiating.
Burial will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery.
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By webmink on Jan 16, 2007
Now here's an interesting difference in corporate styles. I remember when I left IBM in 2000, the (extensive) mentions of me on IBM's web pages were gradually edited away until today, six years later, there seems to be only one or two left that date from my pre-Sun days (doubtless they will also get expunged now). This one's interesting - my job title has been changed to Sun even though I was still at IBM on the date I gave the talk (7 months before I gave my notice in fact).
When we started blogs.sun.com, we had a long discussion about what we should do when employees left. The conclusion we all reached, supported strongly by Jonathan Schwartz who attended the meeting, was that they should simply be left in place, merely closed for further changes. Our view was that, if the blog text had been acceptable when it was published, there was no reason a change of employment status should vary that. Not to mention the desire by Tim to preserve URIs. Interestingly, one of Jonathan's motivations for this was also so that people could pick up where they left off when they rejoined Sun! Going one step further, Sun now has a blog aggregator for alumni.
So it's with some surprise that I see IBM's former Fellow, "Father of Websphere" Don Ferguson, is already in the process of being airbrushed out of history. His blog already redirects to the home page for IBM's dW bloggers (he's still listed as I type this) despite the cached version showing no signs of being any less defensible than it was a month ago. You can see an older version in WayBackMachine. It seems that, now he works for Microsoft, his views are retrospectively unacceptable. Or is there another explanation?
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By webmink on Dec 21, 2006
If you're a subscriber to my Daily Mink aggregator you may notice that stuff from my personal blog is not showing up. The reason is that I foolishly accepted Google's offer to "upgrade" to the new version of Blogger, which I use to maintain that blog. The change invovled associating my GMail account with my Blogger account, and the opening screen assured me that "nothing will change" in my blogs. Except, of course, they have dropped legacy RSS support, and even the cute workaround (a parameter on the feed URI) doesn't seem to work for blogs published via FTP.
Now, it wouldn't be so bad that they only had Atom support - after all, that's a modern and progressing standard - if it wasn't for the fact that the version of Planet Roller that I'm using believes there's an XML error in the feed. That makes it skip the Webmink feed altogether when building Daily Mink. I have no idea what the problem is right now - Dave is kindly building a fresh version of Planet Roller for me - but the effect is that my aggregator is missing entries. Apologies.
Update: With huge thanks to Dave Johnson, the Daily Mink is now working properly again using the new BlogApps.
Update 2: Dave provides details in a posting about proposed new features to the Planet tool.
Sunday Oct 01, 2006
Bray Comments
By webmink on Oct 01, 2006
Yep, it's finally happened. Tim Bray has turned on his hand-crafted comments system over on Ongoing, which I am sure will evolve at a steady pace (threaded comments, maybe?). Great move (I hope), Tim, congratulations.
Saturday Sep 30, 2006
Browsers of Power?
By webmink on Sep 30, 2006
Now here's interesting. I've just been reviewing my log files and for once I looked at the browser version list. No surprise to find that two-thirds of my visitors are using Mozilla browsers, but one entry caught my eye because I'd not seen it before. It said "NSA Power-Browser,gzip". I have spotted "gzip" as a browser before but nothing that said "NSA".
I've done the obvious and googled for obvious hits - nothing. Is someone playing a prank, or should I expect a special interview next time I pass through a US port of entry?
Thursday Aug 24, 2006
Ego Graph
By webmink on Aug 24, 2006
Is this the ultimate tool for the blogging egomaniac?
Posts that contain "Simon Phipps" per day for the last 30 days.
Get your own chart!
Saturday Jun 24, 2006
Gone but not forgotten
By webmink on Jun 24, 2006
It's hard to see colleagues move on for any reason, but one of the good things about Sun is that we often find people returning later - indeed, some of our key leadership right now are re-hires. Sun has always had a policy of not re-allocating employee serial numbers so that people can come back.
There's a radical new step emerging though. Sun alumni can now apply to have their blogs aggregated at the new community.sun.com aggregator page by filling out a form, staying part of Sun's extended family. I hope we'll see a broad spread of blogs syndicated there - there are so many people I want to stay in touch with, Geoff Arnold included. No reason why turning in your badge means I have to stop respecting your considered opinion (assuming I did before!).
Sunday Feb 26, 2006
Blog Family
By webmink on Feb 26, 2006
This is a periodic pointer to the blogs that I run. Apologies if this is all familiar (but I know I have some regulars who aren't aware of this...).
This blog, SunMink, is where I write on technology topics related to my job at Sun as Chief Open Source Officer. Things written here do not necessarily represent Sun's (or any other entity's) official position, and have not necessarily been checked by anyone else at Sun.
Over at WebMink I write on other topics of personal interest, especially music, photography, reading, politics and metaphysics.
At The Mink Dimension, I aggregate both of these blogs together with my Flickr photos, del.icio.us links and other stuff into a single, chronological stream.
All of the above have syndication feeds so you can subscribe to as little or as much as you wish in your syndication tool of choice.
Friday Feb 17, 2006
Comment Symmetry
By webmink on Feb 17, 2006
For the record, I do not believe that a blog has to have comments to be a "real blog", no matter what people say. The whole point of blogging is that one gets a space to say things the way they are, personally and in the same "voice" as anything said privately, in a place that has a unique and permanent URL so it can be referenced. The right way to comment on a blog at any length other than the passing comment is to write it on your own blog and link.
Having said that, there's a certain delicious symmetry (and rumour-related timeliness?) to seeing on the same day JBoss closing down comments on its blogs and Jonathan Schwartz opening his blog up for comments...
Friday Feb 03, 2006
Blogging breaks
By webmink on Feb 03, 2006
Note to conference organisers: Stephanie Booth has a great idea here:
The audience is in the real-time information business if you have lots of bloggers in the room, so if you don't want them to spend half the talk time uploading photos, chatting, and writing up blog posts. So, how about give us blogging breaks, and plan post-sized talks? Wouldn't that be neat?
Those people paying all their attention to their laptops during the talks are actually your friends...
Tuesday Jan 17, 2006
Start the stopwatch
By webmink on Jan 17, 2006
OK, start the clock - let's see how long it takes The Register to acknowledge and correct the egregious error they made in the article Software patents loom large again. In that article, the anonymous writer asserts that
The bill had been supported by the European pro-patent lobby, which included corporations such as Microsoft and Sun, who claimed that the directive would encourage investment in research and development in Europe.
What rubbish! Microsoft was indeed a prominent proponent of software patents. On the other hand, as was well documented, Sun and Red Hat were the core of a small but significant industry group lobbying around the position that the directive would be harmful because it threatened the freedom to create interoperable free/open source software. Anyone who had been paying the slightest attention to the issue, or did more than the most cursory research, would know this was the case.
[Click! Corrected at 2pm PST Jan 18. Thanks, Drew.]
Friday Dec 02, 2005
Back to BlogEd
By webmink on Dec 02, 2005
My colleague Henry Story has been quietly and faithfully labouring away to create a top-class blog editor for us all to use on blogs.sun.com and he's pretty close to paydirt now. He's waiting for the Atom 1.0 specification to be complete before he really declares victory, but as it stands BlogEd is a pretty cool tool anyway. I used it for a while back when there was just James Gosling working on it, and gave up because it wasn't flexible enough - it old allowed simple page builds pushed to a server with FTP back then.
Today, BlogEd offers support for the MetaWeblog API in its Roller, Blosjom and Moveable Type flavours, there's full WYSIWYG editing as well as raw HTML editing for HTML hackers like me, there's multi-blog support so I can look after several blogs (all mine get aggregated at The Mink Dimension), and best of all it's a Java application so it works everywhere I do. You can give it a try right now if you want as there is a WebStart variant - there's even a Mac OS X native version for smart people with Macs!
So I'm giving it a try again. It just happily downloaded my entire blogging history from blogs.sun.com, and I'm now trying a new entry to see what it looks like. Maybe I'll be able to edit offline at last, David!
Best part though is it is all open source, licensed under BSD. The configurability, the platform independence, the ability to launch from the web yet use offline, all suggest BlogEd could have a bright future as an embedded part of online tools. Give it a try, and maybe join in with its community.
Monday Nov 28, 2005
Rumours of my death...
By webmink on Nov 28, 2005
Flattery abounds, it seems - I am flattered by David Berlind's concern for my health and sanity (and have forwarded it to my manager to act on as I head out to the Java User Group in Stockholm for tonight's meeting...). And I completely agree with him about Jim Grisanzio as an excellent commentator. But I have to say that one of the reasons I feel at liberty to leave my blog untouched for 20 days while I go to speak in Japan and Brazil (and, I admit, take it easy over Thanksgiving) is the fact that I've already multiplied the workers at the harvest by the very creation (with many others) of blogs.sun.com and by its uptake by 3,000 or so Sun employees.
Having said that, one of the things I've not quite come to terms with is how to keep up a stream of worthwhile blogging while I am engaged in confidential activity. I find my thought processes consumed by it and my ability to keep hints of it out of my serious writing very hard. Consequently, I tend to stick to del.icio.us postings and personal comment over on Webmink during such periods. I'm back now, though, and I have plenty to say on both open source governance and on open document format standards...
Tuesday Oct 11, 2005
Sun Podcaster Gets Published
By webmink on Oct 11, 2005
Thoughts and pointers on digital freedoms and technology markets. With a few photos too.


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I can, but I won't
Category: People
Photo and caption by Jennifer Blakeley
I can, but I won't, I could, but why would I? I'm honest and genuine - I'm simple and pure. I'm innocent and fresh, I will - be me.
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Obama on the Debt Limit: Then and Now
In 2006, Sen. Barack Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling to allow the U.S. to borrow more money, saying Washington was saddling future generations with its out-of-control spending. Now, his administration is implying that those who say the same are irresponsible.
Asked on Wednesday about the seeming contradiction, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that in 2006, the outcome of the vote to raise the legal borrowing authority was not in doubt, and therefore the "full faith and credit" of the U.S. and its ability to repay its loans was not in question.
When reminded that the Senate vote to raise the debt ceiling was a close 52-48, with Mr. Obama voting no, Mr. Gibbs said, "Well, we've had closer." The vote was completely along party lines, with Republicans all voting yes and Democrats voting no.
"The president (then a senator) used it to make a point about needing to get serious about fiscal discipline," Mr. Gibbs said Wednesday. Many Republicans would say that's the point they are trying to make now.
The then-vs.-now shift in perspective is emblematic of the larger debate over spending in Washington.
When Republicans were in charge, they borrowed money to cut taxes, add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare and prosecute two wars, moves most Democrats opposed and spending that, in their view, was unworthy of additional borrowing. The same is now true for the Democratic spending on the economic stimulus plan and health care expansion (though the cost of the health care bill was more than offset by tax increases and spending cuts elsewhere).
In 2006, Mr. Obama struck a high moral tone in opposing legislation to raise the debt ceiling. "Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that `the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better," he said on the Senate floor.
Many Republicans now argue much the same and say that they will demand spending cuts before agreeing to raise the debt ceiling. Many Republicans newly elected to Congress promised in their campaigns to cut spending and shrink the debt and several suggested they would oppose increasing the U.S.'s ability to borrow more.
Over the weekend, Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, lashed out at those who would consider blocking an increase in the debt limit.
"This is not a game. You know, the debt ceiling is not something to toy with," he said on ABC's "This Week." "If we hit the debt ceiling, that's essentially defaulting on our obligations which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy would be catastrophic."
The U.S. currently has $13.7 trillion of debt outstanding, just shy of the $14.3 trillion limit Congress set in February. Barring big cuts in federal spending, tax increases or improvements in the economy, the government is expected to hit the ceiling by May, and administration officials have already said it will have to be raised by then.


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Thursday afternoon at a press conference, "the New Black Panther Party for
Self-Defense" circulated a "wanted dead or alive" poster for George
Zimmerman for shooting to death a Florida teenager four weeks ago.
Witness: Martin attacked Zimmerman
ORLANDO - A witness we haven't heard from before paints a much
different picture than we've seen so far of what happened the night
17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed. The night of that shooting, police say there was a witness who saw it all.
Our sister station, FOX 35 in Orlando, has spoken to that witness.
What Sanford Police investigators have in the folder, they put together on the killing of Trayvon Martin few know about.
The file now sits in the hands of the state attorney. Now that file is just weeks away from being opened to a grand jury.
It shows more now about why police believed that night that George Zimmerman shouldn't have gone to jail.
Zimmerman called 911 and told dispatchers he was following a teen. The dispatcher told Zimmerman not to.
And from that moment to the shooting, details are few.
But one man's testimony could be key for the police.
"The guy on the bottom who had a red sweater on was yelling to me: 'help,
help…and I told him to stop and I was calling 911," he said. Trayvon Martin was in a hoodie; Zimmerman was in red.
The witness only wanted to be identified as "John," and didn't not want to be shown on camera.
His statements to police were instrumental, because police backed up
Zimmerman's claims, saying those screams on the 911 call are those of
Zimmerman. "When I got upstairs and looked down, the guy who was
on top beating up the other guy, was the one laying in the grass, and I
believe he was dead at that point," John said. Zimmerman says the
shooting was self defense. According to information released on the
Sanford city website, Zimmerman said he was going back to his SUV when
he was attacked by the teen. Sanford police say Zimmerman was
bloody in his face and head, and the back of his shirt was wet and had
grass stains, indicating a struggle took place before the shooting.
Barack Obama weighed into the controversial killing of a black teenager in
Florida in very personal terms on Friday, comparing the boy to a son he doesn't
have and calling for American "soul searching" over how the incident occurred.
"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," Obama said in his first comments about the
shooting, inserting a racial element in the case.
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Definition of old-timer in English:
1A very experienced or long-serving person: old-timers could reminisce about the days before fax machines
More example sentences
- Telling this story has reminded me of an old bloke that used to work on our shift, a proper old-timer, years of experience and the stories to go with it.
- Gorman cares about oral history and urges other unions to get out and contact their old-timers before their experiences are lost forever.
- Wall Street's old-timers knew from hard experience that, despite the hype, the market could not escape the law of gravity.
1.1North American An old person: hopeful youngsters clashed with old-timers
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- Evading the police - prominent amongst their number are the requisite hotheaded, ambitious youngster and world-weary old-timer - the assassin hides out in a rooms-by-the-quarter-hour hotel.
- The stories have been told and retold where old-timers gather together to reminisce about others days.
- A very few of the old-timers are still around to reminiscence those days.
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Hoop House Installed on Lamoni Campus
Sustainability Office Excited to Announce Installation of Graceland's Very Own Hoop House Garden | August 16, 2013
Graceland University's Sustainability Office is excited to announce the installation of a hoop house on the northeast corner of campus (right by the bike trail). Hoop houses, most commonly referred to as high tunnels, are covered, passive solar-heated structures, designed to extend the growing season and intensify production of crops. They provide a protected environment which helps produce higher quality produce and higher yields. Graceland's own hoop house project was made possible by a donation from alumni Steve Upson and the Noble Foundation for which he works. Other noteworthy contributors:
- GU Agricultural Business Club & GU Sustainable Lamoni Organization
- Max Pitt
- Del Ranney
- Ron Mickelson
- Royce Dively
- E.B. Sherman
- Sodexo
- GU Facility Services
- Local volunteers and GU faculty
The location of the 20x80, Quonset-shaped structure was carefully chosen to ensure that the vegetables in the hoop house garden will grow under ideal conditions by receiving optimum sun exposure and enough ventilation from the open-air flow. The site was first leveled by Ron Mickelson to prevent flooding and to provide good surface drainage. Then, holes were augured to a depth of 36 inches into the ground to set the footings to support the hoop house. Finally, with the help of a crew of volunteers, including Mr. Upson himself, the structure was installed at the end of May 2013.
To avoid gardening directly into dense clay soil, eight raised beds will be built into the hoop house garden. They will be filled with amended native soil and compost to provide the plants with oxygen and other nutrients for optimal growth. The hoop house will also have an integrated irrigation system, consisting of drip lines that will provide the necessary water. Vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and beans will be grown in the garden.
Hoop houses require close monitoring, especially for climate control. Extremely high temperature levels can be harmful for the crops, but this can be easily avoided by opening the sides of the hoop house throughout the day. Other required tasks to maintain a well-managed and thriving hoop house include pruning, trellising, pest control, etc. A properly managed hoop house operation will create a variety of hands-on work opportunities for Graceland students and any volunteers willing to help.
Future plans for the hoop house include providing fresh produce to our campus dining facilities and hopefully to the local community, while also offering an educational opportunity for the students of Graceland. The hoop house was highlighted as part of larger programs during this summer's SPECtacular camp, and will be again during Homecoming 2013 in the fall.
To find out more about sustainability at GU, please email our Sustainability Coordinator, Jennifer Abraham-White, at email@example.com or visit our Sustainability website.


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"It's good for the community, and it's good for city finances," Herring said. "I've always said that it's a perfect fit to have Mexican soccer in San Diego. There are so many people here of Hispanic origin who follow the Mexican national team."
Normally, international soccer matches would be played at Qualcomm Stadium. But it is booked for the annual monster truck night on Jan. 22, and the piles of dirt couldn't be removed in time for a soccer game four days later. It was either Petco or take the game to The Home Depot Center in Carson, which has about 15,000 fewer seats.
San Diego was a regular destination for Mexican soccer over the past decade until the completion of the new stadium in Carson last year. The Carson facility is run by Major League Soccer investors who also own the rights to the Mexican national team's appearances in the United States; the result was that both West Coast stops by El Tri in 2004 were in Carson.
The last time Mexico played here was a 1-1 tie against Paraguay at Qualcommon on March 26, 2003. That game drew 32,641, which is slightly less than the average for the 15 Mexican games in San Diego since 1993. Petco's capacity for baseball is 42,681, but it is uncertain how many of those seats would be used for soccer.
Regardless, it's expected to be a hot ticket.
Mexico hasn't played here in nearly two years. Sweden ranks among the best opponents El Tri has faced in San Diego. The match would be the final tuneup before the final round of World Cup qualifying begins in February, meaning Mexican coach Ricardo Lavolpe almost certainly will bring his full team.
And, of course, there's the novelty of watching something other than baseball in Petco Park.
When Petco was built partially with taxpayer money, one of the selling points was that it could host concerts and other sporting events. The city's deal with the Padres gives it 70 percent of revenues on events held in the baseball offseason, and a 30-70 split during the season.
The city's take from Mexico-Sweden could "reach six figures," according to Erik Judson, the Padres' executive vice president of external affairs who oversees nonbaseball events at Petco.
"We have an obligation as managers of the ballpark to market the ballpark for events outside of baseball," Judson said. "We've had some corporate events already. This is our first major event we'll have there, and we hope this is the first of many events that will really utilize Petco as a public venue and make money for the city."
Sweden's stop in San Diego is part of a two-match winter tour that was supposed to conclude with a Jan. 29 match against the United States. But there were reports yesterday that Sweden might play South Korea instead.
The Swedes have pleasant memories of San Diego, having used USD as their training base for the 1994 World Cup. They went on to reach the semifinals before losing to eventual champion Brazil.


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The Franklin County DUI Task Force in cooperation with the Pennsylvania State Police conducted roving patrols from 10 p.m. April 26 to 3 a.m. April 27.
Ninety-nine vehicles were stopped for various violations and one person was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. Twenty citations, eight faulty equipment cards and 85 warnings were issued.
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Chicken Nicoise Salad Recipe
This salad makes it easy to eat what's good for you. It's versatile, so you can use asparagus in place of green beans and salmon instead of tuna, or add garden tomatoes.—Nick Monfre, Oak Ridge, New Jersey
- 1 cup cut fresh green beans
- 2 cups torn mixed salad greens
- 1 can (5 ounces) light tuna in water, drained and flaked
- 2 tablespoons sliced ripe olives, drained
- 1 teaspoon capers, rinsed and drained
- 1 small red onion, halved and thinly sliced
- 1 medium sweet red pepper, julienned
- 1 package (6 ounces) ready-to-use Southwest-style grilled chicken breast strips
- 2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- Dash pepper
- 1. In a large saucepan, bring 8 cups water to a boil. Add green beans; cook, uncovered, 2-3 minutes or just until crisp-tender. Remove beans and immediately drop into ice water. Drain and pat dry.
- 2. Meanwhile, place salad greens on a platter. In a small bowl, mix tuna, olives and capers; spoon in center of platter. Arrange green beans, onion, red pepper, chicken and eggs around tuna.
- 3. In a small bowl, whisk dressing ingredients; drizzle over salad. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving: 289 calories, 18g fat (3g saturated fat), 142mg cholesterol, 562mg sodium, 9g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 3g fiber), 24g protein .
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Wine Pairings
Light-Bodied White Wine
Enjoy this recipe with a light-bodied white wine such as Sauvignon Blanc or Pinot Grigio.
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News about Planet, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
REFERENCE MATERIAL ABOUT PLANETSThe original Greek word meant, simply, "wanderer," referring to points of light that moved across the nighttime background of fixed stars. The word has evolved since then, since, the original Greek definition taken literally would include more than 100,000 bodies orbiting the Sun.
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union, in demoting Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet, adopted this definition: A "planet" is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.
Pluto does not satisfy condition (c) of the definition.
Astronomers have also discovered more than 200 planets orbiting other stars.
The maximum mass of a planet is generally considered to be about 13 times that of Jupiter. Objects larger than that reach temperatures hot enough for some fusion reactions to begin and are called brown dwarfs.
However, some astronomers distinguish stars from planets not by mass by how they formed. Planetary systems form in a two-step process. First, a cloud of gas collapses under gravity into one, two and sometimes three stars. Then, a disk of leftover gas and dust coalesces into planets.
Some astronomers now think that the initial star-forming gas collapse can result in planet-size objects and it may be possible for the leftover dust and gas can coalesce into a brown dwarf-size planet. Since astronomers cannot go back in time to see exactly how something formed, Gibor Basri, a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, invented the word, "planemo," a shortening of "planetary mass object" (and pronounced PLAN-uh-moh), to describe any object with a mass less than 13 Jupiter masses regardless of how it formed.
Articles About Planets
One Star Over, a Planet That Might Be Another Earth
Scientists have detected a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest neighbor to our solar system. It might someday be possible to reach.
More on Planets and: Planets , Space and Astronomy , Earth , Nature (Journal)
When the Planets Align, Delhi Drowns in a Chorus of 'I Do'
A certain astrological configuration is considered auspicious by many Indians, and in the capital it means something very specific: a wedding apocalypse.
More on Planets and: India , New Delhi (India) , Weddings and Engagements , Planets
Astronomers Discover New Likely Dwarf Planet, the Latest of Many
The object was seen in the Kuiper belt, a ring of icy debris beyond Neptune. Dozens of similar bodies may also meet the definition of a dwarf planet.
More on Planets and: Planets , Solar System , Pluto (Dwarf Planet) , Eris (Dwarf Planet) , International Astronomical Union , Brown, Michael E , Space and Astronomy , Neptune (Planet)
A Planet Where Sunsets Are 3 Times as Nice
Astronomers have discovered HD 131399Ab, a gas giant in a system with three stars some 320 light years away.
More on Planets and: Stars and Galaxies Space and Astronomy , European Southern Observatory , Planets , Planets , Space and Astronomy , European Southern Observatory , Stars and Galaxies
Now Orbiting Jupiter, NASA's Juno Spacecraft Is Poised for 'Tantalizing' Data
A brief lull after Juno's arrival at Jupiter gave scientists time to catch their breath before the spacecraft begins to peer deep inside the planet.
More on Planets and: Jupiter (Planet) , Juno (Spacecraft) , National Aeronautics and Space Administration , Planets , Solar System , Space and Astronomy
What Poison Ivy Has Against Us
Most people know, and fear, the distinctive three-leaf pattern in the wild. Do other animals have to avoid it, too?
More on Planets and: Poison Ivy , Flowers and Plants , Allergies , Planets , Skin
Kepler Finds 1,284 New Planets
Astronomers say the planets orbit stars in a patch of sky on the Cygnus-Lyra border where the NASA spacecraft has been cataloging them.
More on Planets and: Planets , Kepler Space Telescope , National Aeronautics and Space Administration , Space and Astronomy , Telescopes and Observatories , Stars and Galaxies
SpaceX Says It Plans to Send a Probe to Mars
Elon Musk's company said it would dispatch its Dragon vessel to the planet, possibly as early as 2018, with a long-term goal of establishing colonies.
Here's Hoping Earth Imagery Isn't Too Routine to Inspire
Has the power of imagery of Earth from space faded since the days of "Earthrise"?
More on Planets and: Chang, Kenneth , Kelly, Scott J , Sagan, Carl , Tyson, Neil DeGrasse , Russia , National Aeronautics and Space Administration , Apollo Project , Cassini (Spacecraft) , Earth , Education (K-12) , Geography , International Space Station , Photography , Planets , Space and Astronomy
A Valentine's Date Idea for Astronomy-Loving Early Birds
It's still possible to take advantage of the narrowing window of opportunity to see five planets align.
More on Planets and: Space and Astronomy , Planets , Video Recordings, Downloads and Streaming
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Unlike many, my wife and I typically don't watch much of the talent shows on TV. But, when we do, it is usually when someone comes out of nowhere to turn heads and whose story inspires us.
13-year old Rion Page has done just that.
Page is nearly blind in one eye and has limited use of her hands. During her audition on FOX's X-FACTOR, she managed to blow away the judges. Since then, her performance has gone viral, and she has captured the hearts of those around the world.
If you haven't seen it, below is a clip of her performance.
Rion managed to quickly grab the world's attention. Not only over her great voice, and spunky hair. It was because at some point in her life, she made a choice. A choice to excell in her strength, her God-given gift, rather than fret over her deficiencies. In addtion, she refuses to let the world give her a free pass, or have pity on her.
I am drawn to stories like Rion's because my wife and I can relate. As little people, we too made the deliberate choice to not focus on our deficiencies. Instead, we focus on our strengths. We simply want to live, and excell in life, just as everyone else does.
Just as in the case of Rion, or my wife and I, everyone faces a deficiency to overcome. Whether it is physical, mental, or emotional, there's something in each one of us that we are fighting. Those are unimportant. What is important is the choice we make in response to our deficiences.
It really is that simple.
Make the choice Rion, my wife, and I did. Look beyond your deficiences, and discover your talents, and puruse that with relentless passion and enthusiasm.


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Coroner: Woman drowned after jumping from span
Body found on Deer Island
Gulf Coast authorities said the body of an Ocean Springs woman who authorities believe jumped from the Biloxi-Ocean Springs Bridge has been found on Deer Island.
Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove said the body of Quiqin Li, 33, was found about 1 p.m. Monday after being spotted by a fisherman. Biloxi police and the Department of Marine Resources Marine Patrol division recovered the body.
Hargrove ruled the cause of death as drowning. He said Li was identified through photographs, jewelry and clothing.
The woman reportedly jumped from the bridge on March 25. Her purse was found in the water under the bridge on just after she disappeared. Police had withheld her name, saying it wasn't clear if the woman was Li or if someone had taken Li's purse.
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Hey everyone! It's Brooke Wanbaugh from Costa Mesa High School. It's my Senior year and time seems to be flying by. Last Friday night was one of the biggest football games of the year, Homecoming. Hope you enjoy this play by play of a Costa Mesa High School cheerleader on gameday!
Starting the Week
This year we started homecoming week off with a spirit hunt. We hid 10 mini original works of art around our city and posted clues on our website. This really got the student body into our homecoming theme with this search for the "Golden Tickets."Football and Cheer Bonding
The night before the big game cheer and football get together for a team dinner hosted by our parents. This gives us time to relax before the game and spend some time together just being friends. Of course the night before homecoming the cheerleaders disappeared and snuck into their locker room to decorate and surprise them with good luck posters.Early Mornings
It all begins before the crack of dawn at 4 A.M., when all the cheerleaders arrive to fully decorate the school, make the football players goodie bags, and finish last minute preparations on the run through. The early morning ends with a breakfast and the tradition of the seniors hanging a huge sign on the roof of the library overlooking the main quad. All the students, faculty and staff love coming to school in the morning to see all the hard work cheer puts into increasing school spirit.Next step, the Pep Rally
The Pep Rallies at CMHS are one of the most exciting parts of homecoming for our cheerleaders. We stunt in front of our classes as they walk in and throw goodies out at the crowd. Throughout the Rally we participate in our school's traditional cheers such as the 8 Clap and "We are, C-M!" Generally, halfway through the rally is our time to shine. We perform a dance that is always sure to get the crowd pumped up. To conclude the rally we gather in the middle of the gym with our athletes and A.S.B. to sing our Alma Mater.To the Stadium!
For the Homecoming game our cheerleaders arrive close to three hours before the start of the game to ensure all the pre-game activities are fully carried out. First, the squad takes turns getting their hair done and having their traditional flower halos tightly fastened to their heads while the rest of the squad covers the stadium in signs, balloons, and streamers. Next, we warm up all of our individual stunts as well as our pyramids to ensure their perfection come game time. Finally we set up our cheer boxes, raise our poms, and its kick-off time!Game Time
This year we played Godinez High School, and the first half of the game was an exciting one for us Mustangs leaving the score at 45-0. Every time our team scores we run to the end zone with our fan the Mesa Maniacs and do a pyramid while we wait for the kick to go through the uprights. After that we race back to with our tradition "We are CM" cheer, and get back on our boxes to perform one of our 4 band dances. Throughout the game we pump our crowd up with crowd encouraging cheers as well as catchy chants. One of my favorite parts of the game is when the Alumni cheerleaders join us on the track for a Photo op and a few cheers.
During halftime, our squad goes over to meet the opposing team's cheerleaders and give them treats according to our homecoming theme "Willy Wonka; A World of Pure Imagination." After that, the halftime show kicks off and each class performs a skit according to the theme. Finally, halftime concludes with the crowning of our Homecoming Queen!
This Homecoming was one sure to be remembered with an ending score of 59-7. After high-fiving the other teams players we line up in front of the stands with our football team and join them in singing our Fight Song. It's nice to have my last Homecoming game end on not just a good note but a great one, and I know my fellow seniors feel the same way. And that wraps up the 2011 Homecoming game for Costa Mesa High School. As always, GO MUSTANGS!
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What are the boxes used for? Does J.V. cheer with you at the game? What other traditions do the Seniors pass down??
We stand on our boxes in between doing cheers, JV cheers at our homecoming game and the game against our rival school, another tradition of the seniors is to decorate the boys football room the night before the game!
Darleen J
Great article Brooke. Hard to believe you're a senior! I appreciate all cheer does for our school and I know our players do too!


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Offaly footballers withdraw services
Updated: Thursday, 14 Jun 2007 17:04
The Offaly senior football panel have withdrawn their services ahead of the upcoming season following the sensational resignation of manager Gerry Fahy.
In a show of solidarity with Fahy, the players released a statement this afternoon which read: "Regrettably we feel we have been left with no choice but to withdraw our services for the forth coming season."
"The callous treatment and lack of support for the outgoing management, previous managements and players by Offaly county board for the last number of years has unfortunately brought us to this decision."
"This is a heart breaking decision for the panel as we are and always have been 100% committed to Offaly football."
Offaly GAA suffered an extraordinary night last night, when the county board lost both their senior hurling and senior football managers.
County football manager, Gerry Fahy and hurling manager, Mike McNamara quit their posts because of a perceived lack of support for them.
Football boss Fahy and his selectors, Matt Connor and Mark Plunkett resigned following a lack of faith shown in them by county board delegates.
Fahy and his backroom team were only returned on a 27-26 vote last week and felt that they could not continue with such a split board behind them.
Hurling manager, Mike McNamara also quit, citing a lack of support as the main reason for his decision.
McNamara met with club delegates last night and then took questions from them during a two hour session. However following that meeting McNamara felt he did not have enough support and announced he would not be staying for next season.
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How did your battery compartment break?
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Tue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ET
On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!
Highlights on the agenda:
ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.
The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.
Late Monday night, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to the head of ABCNEWS:
Dear Mr. Westin:
As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC's astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform "town hall" at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC's web news "will all feature special programming on the president's health care agenda." This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president's health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.
Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party's views to those of the President's to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party's opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.
In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.
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WebMD News from Kaiser Health News
Health Care Spending Forecast To Increase Modestly
By Mary Agnes Carey
Wed, Sep 3 2014
National health spending will increase modestly over the next decade, propelled in part by the gradual rebound of the U.S. economy and the growing ranks of Americans who became insured under the health law, government actuaries projected Wednesday.
But those growth rates are not as high as what the country saw for the two decades before the Great Recession crippled the U.S. economy at the end of 2007, according to the report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of the Actuary and published in the journal Health Affairs.
The actuaries estimate that health spending grew just 3.6 percent in 2013, the fifth year of historically low rates of spending growth. But it will accelerate to 5.6 percent in 2014. They also forecast that the average growth rate for 2015-2023 would be 6 percent. That is up just slightly from last year.
The findings also suggest that health care will outpace growth in the gross domestic product over the next decade. Health care's share of GDP, which has remained fairly stable since 2009, will rise from 17 percent in 2012 to more than 19 percent in 2023.
While some health care analysts and Obama administration officials have said the Affordable Care Act is reducing costs, CMS actuaries are no longer measuring the effects of the law on health care spending.
"We are no longer quantifying the impacts of the Affordable Care Act on national health spending," Andrea M. Sisko, the lead author on the study, told reporters at a briefing on the findings. "Now that the Affordable Care Act has been in place for well over four years, it is becoming increasingly difficult to accurately estimate … what the world would look like in the absence" of the law.
Sisko also said it is too soon to estimate the impact of the health law's delivery system changes on the nation's health care system.
Paul Ginsburg, a public policy professor at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California, said the report illustrates that "the recession and the very slow recovery from the recession are important determinants of health spending trends …. There's a been a lot of debate over the past year or two about how much of the slowdown we've experienced has been from the business or the economic cycle and how much is due to real changes in health care. My sense is it's both. This very steep recession and this very slow recovery from it, especially when you look at the very low growth in wages, is something that has definitely depressed health care spending. The implication of higher deductibles, of greater cost sharing, that's important as well."


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Delaware Township auditors are in Pike County Court asking for the township to pay for an attorney who will investigate the township's pension fund.
The township does not mind the investigation, Delaware Supervisor Chairman Tom Ryan says, but the fee for the attorney auditors picked is not in line with local attorneys.
It is an unfair burden to taxpayers, Ryan said.
Auditors want the township to pay an attorney $250 an hour, Delaware Auditor Dennis Lee said.
He would not disclose the name of the attorney.
Township Solicitor Tom Farley is paid $150 an hour, Lee said.
"I'll take my chances with the court appointing an attorney and setting the fee," Ryan said.
A hearing has been continued until April 22 over the matter of funding the attorney.
"We have done some research and need someone to look over our work," Lee said.
He would not go into further detail about why auditors are scrutinizing the pension fund because of the pending investigation.
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Miss Tess' brand of American roots music bears no resemblance to the plaid-wearing, banjo-playing Avett Brothers'. Rather, the label refers to a style of early jazz, blues, country and rock, more suited to a smoky lounge than a county fair.
The songstress, who keeps to her sassy stage name, and her band, The Talkbacks — drummer Matt Meyer, bassist Larry Cook and guitarist Thomas Bryan Eaton — are making their way across the United States from their homes in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Alaska in their van, lovingly referred to as "The Arctic Faux." The foursome will play at 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, at Johnny B's Rockin' Diner, 120 E. Sixth St., Medford.
After graduating with a degree in graphic design, Tess began taking road trips to visit friends and see the country. These trips eventually evolved into more organized "tours," and playing for fun turned into two semesters at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
An early configuration of The Talkbacks, called the Bon Ton Parade, featured a horn player and played primarily jazz, sometimes with a New Orleans vibe. Over time, other genres crept into the mix. Last year, Tess renamed the band as a way of acknowledging its new, eclectic soundscape. However, the band still pays homage to '40s and '50s music.
The band has won awards for jazz act of the year, folk act of the year and roots act of the year, Tess says.
"They never know what to do with us," she jokes.
"Sweet Talk," released last October for Signature Sounds, is a testament to The Talkbacks' vintage mix tied together by Tess' bewitching and adaptable vocals and the rhythm of her 1930s archtop guitar.
Of the CD's 11 songs, Tess wrote 10, including the slow country ballad "Save Me St. Peter," the bouncing memoir "Everybody's Darling" and the foot-tapping rocker "People Come Here for Gold." The album also features a Talkbacks take of The Ink Spots' "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire."
The Boston Globe wrote, " 'Sweet Talk' is an unabashed reminder that there's nothing wrong with casting a wide net."
Cover to the show at Johnny B's is $5. Local rockabilly band Step It Up and Go also will play that evening. Call 541-773-7900.
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They're in the hype phase today, and retailers should proceed with caution.
Yes, it's hype time for a new technology. Suddenly you can't get around talk of location-based services. But very few retailers are using it, and what appear to be major players have yet to launch or are in beta with a handful of clients.
The concept in retail goes like this: A shopper downloads an app to her smartphone. The app integrates with the GPS built into the phone. As the shopper walks into a store, she opens the app, it senses through GPS that she has arrived, she checks in through a couple swipes of the smartphone, and she then earns rewards points and perhaps is sent a promotion or a discount.
Location technology also can be used for advertising. For example, Facebook this week launched Places, which enables members to check in at locations; checking in posts a message to the member's status bar and pinpoints them on a map so friends can keep up with each other or even meet when they discover they're close to one another. Facebook will sell ads to retailers and other businesses that will appear when a member is nearby one of the advertiser's stores.
Something in the back of my head says proceed with caution. I can't quite pinpoint why. Perhaps it is the overhyped promise of social media begging for a payoff. There's no doubt mobile technology overall will play a huge role in the future of Internet retailing. By the end of next year half of all mobile phones in use will be smartphones, which are driving mobile web use to new heights and enabling rich experiences in retail that consumers are using (15% of all mobile phone owners have made a purchase on their device, according to one recent study, and merchants like Amazon.com and eBay have sold hundreds of millions of dollars in merchandise through their mobile sites and apps).
So smartphone sales are soaring, and smartphone owners are attached to their devices 24/7 and use them voraciously. App downloads are soaring, and people love apps. And consumers want app experiences that are meaningful, otherwise they relegate the app to a screen distant from the home screen, or just delete it. Location apps seem like they will provide meaningful experiences. Will they be meaningful enough to make consumers pause every time they go into a store to see if that merchant is participating in that location app, and then check in? That remains to be seen.
The concept of location-based services holds promise. But it has a lot of growing up to do before anyone can say it's a slam-dunk.
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Virgin Australia has added added more US routes to its roster with today's debut of codesharing with Virgin America.
The VX tie-up covers flights from Los Angeles to Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Lauderdale, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle and Washington DC.
Virgin Australia already codeshares flights into Los Angeles (and onwards to a dozen other US cities) with Delta Air Lines, on top of its own services from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to LAX.
The airline estimates that around 60% of its passengers to the US fly from LAX on to other destinations.
"Virgin Australia guests will connect seamlessly from Los Angeles to important cities such as Chicago, Washington and Boston and will continue to enjoy frequent flyer recognition throughout the journey" says Merren McArthur, Virgin Australia's Group Executive of Alliances, Network and Yield.
Earlier this year, Virgin Australia joined Virgin America and Virgin Atlantic with full 'earn and burn' rights across their respective frequent flyer programs.
Travellers on Virgin America will be keen to sample the airline's inflight Internet service, which costs US$5 for flights under 90 minutes, US$10 for 1.5 hours to 3 hours and US$15 if you'll be travelling for more than 3 hours.
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Short Pump SPCA idea gains traction
WRIC 8 is reporting that more than 1,100 people have now signed the SPCA's petition to bring an animal adoption center into Short Pump Town Center.
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As the former Senior Weatherman at the BBC Weather Centre, Bill was born in Dittisham, near Dartmouth in Devon. He retired from the Met Office in January 2000 after leading the team of Broadcast Meteorologists since 1983. He first became interested in meteorology whilst at school in Crediton and joined the Meteorological Office at Exeter in January 1957 on leaving Bristol College of Science and Technology. Later that year he was sent to Christmas Island to observe the immediate meteorological effects of the H-bomb tests. From 1961 to 1963 he was based in Germany as an observer with the RAF and between 1968 and 1970 worked as a lecturer at the Met Office's training college. His broadcasting career began in 1972 when he transferred to the London Weather Centre to become part of the team forecasting for BBC Radio.
He moved to television forecasting in 1975. In 1980 promotion took him back to Bracknell where he worked in public relations and then, in May 1983, returned to take charge of BBC Television's forecasting team, on the retirement of Jack Scott. October 1990 saw the publication of his book "The Weather Story", and he presented the BBC programme "The Weather Show", which provided an insight into the mysteries of forecasting and offered a glimpse behind the scenes at the kind of things that can go wrong. Since his retirement, he has been a Director of Weather Index Ltd. He has now formed his own company The Weather People Ltd. He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife. He has a son and daughter. His hobbies include bowling, cricket and gardening. He was awarded the O.B.E in the 1995 New Year's Honours for services to broadcast meteorology.
John originally trained as a professional photographer, joining the BBC in 1966 where, as a film editor he worked on a variety of programmes including 'Some Mothers do 'ave em". He joined the BBC Presentation Department as an Assistant Producer with a wide range of duties including network directing, producing trailers, and directing the weather. In 1975 he directed Bill Giles's first broadcast. Through the 70's and into the 80's John had many responsibilities including network director, studio director, promotions producer, the editorial planning of daytime transmissions, implementing a computer scheduling system, and directing events for Eurovision. Also during this time he became more involved with weather and was responsible for the introduction of electronic weather graphics in 1985. He was responsible for leading the project for the BBC Weather Centre, which opened in September 1991.
Five years later he opened the second phase of the Centre in September 1996. John was the Editor for BBC Weather Broadcasts, responsible for running the BBC Weather Centre, with a team of 25 broadcast meteorologists producing over 120 broadcast every 24 hours. He was Editor of the successful Weather Show series, directing and filming many of the episodes himself. He is Honorary Secretary of the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology and has been responsible for many training workshops on behalf of the World Meteorological Organisation.
Since retiring from the BBC in September 2001, he set up The Weather People with Bill Giles. His hobbies include the arts, in particular the theatre, not only as an amateur thespian, but also directing plays and musicals. John is a Fellow and former Vice President of the Royal Meteorological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. UK.