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The idea of doing something like SILO has been rattling around in my head for a while now. I'm so happy someone else got to it first. Can't wait to see it implemented: hopefully as part of an ISAPI plugin?
I would like to see a free tool which does all this stuff for me and ensures I don't have to worry about it. On top of that, it should provide the ability to 'fall back' to verbose execution mode with a querystring or cookie or something - so that amateur developers can gaze in awe at my incredible code (i.e. I can debug mixing up '>' lt and '<' gt again).
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One person was killed and three others were injured on Saturday when a vehicle crashed into a garage in Fond du Lac County.
It happened about 7:45 p.m. at a home on Rolling Drive in the town of Ashford.
According to authorities, a 17-year-old driver was trying to back a vehicle off of the property when he crashed into a garage.
Several people were inside the garage at the time.
One person died and three others were injured. The driver of the vehicle was not hurt.
The victim who died was identified as Robert Stahl, 59.
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#2. Politicians Keep Playing to the Extremes Because There Are No Answers for the Majority in the Middle
I'm not going to blow anyone's doors off by taking the controversial position that most politicians spend their careers spewing mindless rhetoric about the economy. We all know that. But these days, the rhetoric -- still mindless -- just seems more polarized and impotent than ever.
You know who's not complaining more about the economy in the last five years? The very poor. Why? Because from the start of time, the very poor have been getting screwed. This is nothing new to them. And what about the very rich? Well, no doubt they've suffered losses, but for the kind of rich I'm talking about, they've been affected by how much of an estate they will be leaving their great-grandchildren. The people who've noticed the biggest change in the last five years are those in between.
Politicians call that the "middle-class squeeze," and that's about all they have to say about it, because they have nothing to offer. Instead, they stress their policy at the extremes. Republicans push for tax breaks for the very rich, while Obama comes forth with a plan to increase the minimum wage for the very poor.
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"And cleaner streets for the homeless!"
A riot of the disenfranchised is brewing. More middle-class Democrats will soon not forgive Obama's minimum wage rhetoric just because he says the right things about gays and women's reproductive rights. An increasing number of middle-class Republicans will stop accepting that their party pushes tax breaks they're not rich enough to receive simply because the GOP is better friends with Jesus. People are getting fed up, and if there's a middle-class squeeze, it's because most of the hard-working Democratic and Republican voters are being shoved together in a desperate attempt to avoid the crap their parties are spewing at the extremes.
#1. Socialism Is Seeming Less Scary
I have a friend who listens to a lot of conservative talk radio, and consequently, he sometimes says very foolish things. He'd been hearing a lot about how America isn't America anymore because we're becoming a more socialist nation. Now, typically, when conservatives say that, it's meant to scare Americans into fearing the death of everything America stood for: freedom, capitalism, and the American dream. And typically, when they go down that road, the Obama leftist pinko rhetoric starts to fly, but that's not where my friend was going with this.
He sees people willingly embracing increasingly more socialist notions of government assistance -- even being OK with being taxed for it -- and his natural conclusion is that America is getting less selfish. That we are caring about our neighbors more than ever before. My friend, of course, is wrong. America will never be that. Most of the world is not like that either. That's why, when you hear stories of people in Denmark and such hiding Jews during the Holocaust, you just kind of stop and stare at that kind of person who is something beyond holy. It's something we almost have no frame of reference for.
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Much like the success of the band fun., it just makes no sense.
No, people are not getting better. People are getting more scared. People are realizing that the system is broken. Maybe it was always a lie, but it used to be a lot easier to shake your head at failures and say, That could never be me. That guy with no house and no money ... he must be lazy or stupid. He must have embezzled or abused drugs. There must be a reason he has nothing. But more and more today, we see people with two degrees and no money. We see people who undertook student loan debt, leveraging their future for jobs that simply don't exist to pay off that debt. We see white-collar professionals nickel and dimed into blue-collar existences. There are good people who've lost their homes and self-respect. The world has gotten so hard for so many that we know it can happen to us.
If Americans are less scared by the notions of bigger government and taxes providing safety nets against the abuses of capitalism, it's not because we care more about our neighbors. It's because we're scared for ourselves. These days, being taxed for social programs seems a lot more like purchasing an insurance policy for the day you draw the short straw in a rigged game. But that might look like human compassion, and I can see why my friend was confused. In any event, you'll know that the economy's actually getting better when everyday Americans start dumping on the poor again.
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EAST LIVERPOOL - With school shootings, and now stabbings, in the headlines, family members of students in the city school district brought their concerns about bullying to the board of education Monday night.
Speaking on behalf of his niece, who lives with him, Tom Lovett said she has been bullied for months, having had her head smashed into a bus window, been pushed and called names.
"Nothing has been done," Lovett told the board, saying he has spoken to Westgate Principal Carole Sutton, but now his phone calls go unreturned.
"My niece goes around school scared. (The bullying) is daily," he told board members.
Asked if he is his niece's legal guardian by board member Bob Estell, Lovett said he is not, prompting Estell to speculate that may be why he is not being contacted by school personnel.
With obvious emotion, Chrissy Jones spoke about her daughter, who she said tried to take her own life due to being bullied via Facebook.
Jones said that, while school officials have been working with her this year, her daughter wants to be home schooled and said, "Kids should not have to be scared to go to school. With kids being shot at school, that's the first thing that goes through (parents') minds: Worry for their kids."
Jones said the school needs to implement an anti-bullying campaign.
Parent Heather Potts said her son attends school at Westgate and, on April 9, was the victim of a beating by three boys in the gym while a fourth boy videoed the assault.
This, she said, was after she had called the school numerous times previously about bullying incidents, during which Sutton assured her she would take care of the problem.
"But, here I am today," Potts said, noting she is in the process of filing legal charges against the boys involved in her son's assault.
She said her son is an A-B student but that is changing due to the bullying and said, "I wish you could have seen the video and how horrible an act it was."
The "main culprit" in the alleged attack has bullied her son in the past, according to Potts who said she was advised her son could come to school early to avoid the other boys.
"My son shouldn't have to come in early. Two of those kids are in school today and were supposed to be suspended. My son swung back and got suspended one day. What are you supposed to do when you're attacked by three kids?" Potts asked.
Superintendent James Herring was asked prior to the meeting about the bullying issue and whether it is more prevalent in the city school district than elsewhere, and he said he doesn't believe it is.
"It's no worse here than any place else," Herring said, adding that the board has in place a policy to deal with such actions which includes certain steps that must be taken to aid in investigating them.
Part of that process includes completing forms pertaining to the event, parties involved and the like.
He estimated that 75 percent of the bullying issues he hears of in the district start on Facebook or through texting, and he said parents need to be aware of that, suggesting that, if their child is being bullied or bullying someone else via those mediums, they cancel their Facebook accounts and texting capabilities.
Verbal bullying is also difficult to prove, according to Herring, who said both parties often can get others to back them up, so it is hard to determine who is telling the truth.
Unfortunately, it is a "little easier to prove when we see fists flying," he admitted.
This year, Herring said he knows of just four documented bullying incidents in the district.
Apparently in preparation for last night's board meeting, Sutton sent an email to Herring and the board earlier in the day, outlining the procedures followed at Westgate when bullying accusations are made.
She said students are encouraged to be self-advocates, problem solvers and positive role models but, when a problem arises, they are encouraged to inform the closest adult, whether that be a teacher, custodian, aide, counselor or her.
The adult is then required to respond and "problem solve" with the student immediately, Sutton said, adding that students are then referred to the guidance counselor who "may" complete a problem solve between the students, notifying the teachers and parents. After this, students are asked if they want to make a formal report.
Students or teachers who report repeated student conflicts not resolved by the guidance counselor are referred to Sutton, who encourages initiation of a formal bullying investigation.
"As a parent and an administrator, I take bullying very seriously. The Westgate staff is diligent about investigating every known report," she said, also saying there have been four official bullying investigations completed and discipline meted out to offenders.
Although the board took no action, board member Brian Allen said it seemed board policy and Sutton's plan of action are contradictory in regard to reporting bullying events, saying, "I think we have a failure to communicate that we need to sit down and work out."
Herring said the reporting form varies from building to building but once the data is received, fact finding takes place to determine what happened.


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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — With headliners like Pretty Lights, Bassnectar, Thievery Corporation and the Glitch Mob, SnowGlobe Music Festival — far away from the aimless wanderers on Casino Corridor — will undoubtedly be the place to be this New Year's Eve.
"We couldn't be more excited about how welcoming the town of South Lake Tahoe has been to this idea," said Chip Herter, spokesman for the event.
SnowGlobe will be held on Lake Tahoe Community College's soccer field Dec. 29-31. Joining the headliners, announced first exclusively through Lake Tahoe Action, will be more than 40 other acts. The music selection is meant to attract skiers and snowboarders.
"We wanted to create an environment that's the perfect marriage between music and mountain sports," Herter said.
The festival touts on its website that festivalgoers will be able to ski and snowboard during the day and rock out at night.
"Early Bird" tickets go on sale Nov. 4 for $99.95, followed by $124.95 "advanced" on Nov. 9 and $149.95 regularly priced tickets come winter.
SnowGlobe is a sister festival to the SnowBall event held last year in Avon, Colo. The city of South Lake Tahoe has been courting the idea of hosting a winter festival for some time, said spokeswoman Nancy Kerry, who went to see the festival in Colorado last year.
"This is part of the city's new initiative to attract big events," Kerry said.
SnowGlobe is branded as a winter-themed event and organizers are ensuring festivalgoers get a true winter experience. Though there will be some tented space, much of the festival will be outside, regardless of the weather.
Attendees are recommended to dress warm. A shuttle from the Stateline area will run back and forth between the LTCC site and Stateline throughout the festival.


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I strongly support the restoration of constitutional integrity and the rule of law. The election results show me that there are two Americas. The struggle for the identity of the American character is official. Because of my commitment to our Constitution and love for our country, I take this loss very personally.
We have lost a battle. We lost to a president whose objective remains "fundamentally transforming the United States of America." But, the conservative movement, the Tea Party movement, the faith movement, the right-to-life movement and others have only begun to fight. America must be brought back home to its founding heredity or we may not survive.
On Election Night, when I saw that President Obama was going to win a second term, my first reaction was disbelief. How on earth could people buy into unsustainable debt, more taxes, increased government regulations, layoffs, healthcare mandates, more welfare, more food stamps, ignorance, socialistic philosophies and more leftists on the Supreme Court?
Then I clearly saw that the majority of people supported socialistic redistribution. These are the takers, not the makers. These dependents have little or no interest in civic or personal responsibility, free enterprise, debt issues or our Constitution. The collective ignorance overwhelmed me and my feelings of disbelief and disappointment drifted to anger.
Obama's campaign consisted mostly of attack ads and personal insults. He never campaigned on his record of the last four years. But, considering how bad it was, who would? It appears to me that many special interest groups pulled together in a coalition based upon federal handouts and big government giveaways. My anger has not yet subsided, but I did go into what I consider further preparation mode for a depression-like next four years.
I am still motivated by my allegiance to the moral premises of America's liberty. I do, however, cause my wife some concern of my predictions of democratic socialism, more angry class warfare, significant unsustainable debt consequences, inflation and its severe consequences, a continued dismal domestic performance, more government dependency on the backs of us working people, Agenda 21 issues, more federal government involvement in our lives, a foreign policy that baffles me and weakens our military and our country, outright falsehoods from our White House, financial penalties of Obamacare implementation, discussions of secession and the list goes on.
We are led by a President who admits he actually believes in redistribution. We appear to be submitting to China, Russia and Islamofascists. I will always wonder how much voter fraud there actually was in Philadelphia or Ohio; but I do believe that Obama was re-elected by defrauding voters.
Urban centers overwhelmingly voted for Obama, but many of us in rural areas did not and agree with traditional American character and values. We may be labeled by the liberal mainstream media as extreme, but we are a genuine grass roots movement. Obama and liberals cannot blame Bush any longer. Unless we reverse the cultural, social and political trends in this great country, we are in deep trouble.
We need to return to responsibility over dependency. The so-called fiscal cliff is coming. It is a manmade disaster ready to explode. Perhaps it should be permitted to explode in order to send us back to reality and show the majority who voted for our president those realities.
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This isn't your advisor's LC-MS. It's faster, more specific, more sensitive, more reliable, more automatable. It's the go-to instrumentation of choice for bioanalysis and drug discovery. Yet, more sophisticated instrumentation brings with it more challenges, and leaves you to struggle with more difficult tasks, like how to use it for (top-down) proteomics; to mitigate—or at least measure—the effect of the matrix; to do both quantitative and qualitative on the same instrumentation; to get your runs even faster, or automate the process; or to figure out what that contaminant in your drug actually is.
The advent of mass spectrometry has allowed scientists to find miniscule quantities of a biological substance, even as liquid chromatography runs became abridged. "That's important if you're trying to look at compounds that are dosed at very low levels," such as inhalants that are designed not to have any systemic exposure, says Robert Plumb, senior manager in the pharmaceutical business operations division at Waters.
Yet compounds in urine, plasma, and other biological matrices once removed by long, elegant chromatography runs now compete with the analyte for the mass spectrometer's ionizing source—a phenomenon termed ion suppression. That can lead to irreproducible signal from the sample, and hence, a less robust assay, unless the matrix effect can be tamed and quantified.
To determine the matrix effect, which is required for assays in support of regulatory submissions for preclinical and clinical drug applications, scientists would typically have to reconfigure the plumbing of their mass spectrometer. Measurements would have to be taken of combinations of different samples—analyte (with or without an internal standard), a solvent blank, and the matrix itself—injected through the mass spectrometer both through the LC column as well as postcolumn, and retention times determined for each. This data is then combined through an algorithm in internal or external software to determine to what effect the matrix is suppressing or enhancing the signal of the analyte.
Waters has introduced new instrumentation—Xevo TQ and Xevo TQ-S—with IntelliStart technology, "which enables us to automatically mix different samples within the chromatography system without having to disconnect the system, make changes to the plumbing of the system, or reconfigure the system," Plumb explains. Software built into the system crunches the data, determines the matrix factor, and incorporates it into the instrument operations.
Of course, it's always best to minimize matrix effects in the first place. At the end of last year, Waters introduced the Ostro 96-well plate with a special membrane that extracts phospholipids—one of the principle causes of ion suppression—from plasma and serum. The company also offers the Acquity UPLC system, which can generate high-resolution chromatography and work at different pHs, says Plumb, "enabling you to modify the chromatographic separation to minimize the interference of any of the endogenous materials with your analyte of interest."
Joan Stevens avoids some of the difficulties seen with sub-2 µm columns in the ultra-high pressures of UPLC—in particular the increased tendency to plug with "dirty" samples—by running reversed-phase LC through Agilent Technologies' superficially porous Poroshell columns.
"It has mass transfer such that it acts very much like a sub-2 µm particle LC column, but it doesn't have the back pressure associated with it," she says. The efficient mass transfer equates with faster analysis time, allowing for more samples in a shorter amount of time—yet with "optimum resolution so you have selectivity between your peaks of interest."
Stevens, a sample-preparation applications scientist at Agilent, works on detection of multisuite medications by LC-MS/MS—a relatively new field. With nearly 100 million people of the United States' steadily-aging population reliant on a broad range of therapeutics, the demand on the clinics that manage those patients is huge and steadily increasing, she points out.
Urine is routinely tested to make sure patients are not abusing the substances they've been prescribed, as well as to make sure they're complying with their regimens. To meet that burden, the accredited laboratories that analyze these samples day to day require "less expensive, faster, more accurate and reproducible methods for monitoring the presence and concentration of pain-management medications."
The urine sample is cleaned up off-line by solid-phase extraction using Agilent's Bond Elut Plexa™ PCX prior to injection into the LC. The amide-free cationic-exchange resin removes neutral and acidic compounds, yet has minimal binding sites for endogenous interferences, reducing the matrix effect by allowing concentration of basic analytes such as most pharmaceuticals and their metabolites.
Plexa beads are polymeric and can therefore, be dried, and use a very small bed mass—which "minimizes the amount of solvent that you need to use and also quickens the sample-prep portion of the cleanup from the urine sample," Stevens notes. "And the lovely part about this is that it can be automatable…when those samples come in they can actually be placed on an instrument and then be transferred right over to the LC-MS."
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Sangre de Cristo Mountains > Humboldt Peak > Climber's Log
Humboldt Peak Climber's Log
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|East ridge-winter ascent
Date Climbed: Mar 6, 2010
|Enjoyed a nice late winter day via the east ridge. Snow was somewhat consolidated on the south slopes, but brutally steep between about 10400' and 11000'. The snow on the ridge was very firm. Nice catwalk along the ridge with glorious winter views.
|Posted Mar 6, 2010 11:11 pm
Date Climbed: Oct 2, 1993
|A perfect day for climbing.
|Posted Jan 7, 2010 8:30 pm
|25th Birthday
Date Climbed: Sep 27, 2008
|My 25th 14er summit on my 25th birthday. http://www.14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.php?trip=5362&parmuser=JB99&cpgm=tripuser
|Posted Dec 9, 2009 6:24 pm
|Crowded but fun
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2008
|Fun hike but very popular summit. Great views of Crestone Peak on the way.
|Posted Nov 28, 2009 2:45 am
Date Climbed: Oct 5, 2009
|Standard route from South Colony Lakes. Temps in the 20's and wind gusts out of the SW up to 50-60mph. This was not much fun, although it was curiously fascinating to have the wind actually push me up as I climbed the final ridge. You can bet I stayed well-away from the north edge!
Spent a long time getting the Jeep to the end of the road - one week before its closure. I think I might rather have hiked!
|Posted Oct 15, 2009 12:03 am
Date Climbed: Oct 10, 2009
|Hiked Humboldt with 3 friends today. Started at the 4x4 TH at 8 am summited at 11:30 am, got back at 2 PM. Wanted to get a hike out of the TH before they closed it for good. The drive up the gnarly road was harder than the hike.
|Posted Oct 10, 2009 10:31 pm
|Cold Wind
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2009
|Did this one from the 4WD trailhead. Uneventful except for the brutally cold wind and bone shaking 4WD road.
|Posted Aug 3, 2009 3:35 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 13, 2007
|Climbed this with friend Larry, and Nancy. Nice summit ridge.
|Posted Jul 30, 2009 3:14 pm
|Sarah Simon
|From South Colony TH
Date Climbed: Jul 19, 2009
|Well, the tediousness of the 4x4 route nearly put me to sleep (5 miles an hour in 4 low...) but I enjoyed this hike. I was not feeling well for whatever reason and totally sucking wind starting with the climb to the saddle clear to the summit. But the weather held and we enjoyed the summit to ourselves and had pleasant weather for the outhike. Partners: Deb & Kevin.
|Posted Jul 20, 2009 10:08 am
|Liba Kopeckova
|South Colony Traihlead
|Still a lot of snow. Beautiful hike with my dog.
|Posted Jul 8, 2009 3:54 am
|From S Colony TH
Date Climbed: Jun 18, 2009
|Climbed 13,799 first from the 4X4 TH. 30-40 mph winds with lots of snow in the trees. A tree across the road on the way out resulted in a crushed middle finger but still a great trip.
|Posted Jun 21, 2009 9:04 am
|South Colony Road sucks
Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2007
|Drove in from Colorado Springs, leaving at 3 AM. Started on the trail from the top of the road at 6 AM. A strenuous climb from the saddle, awesome views of the Crestones.
|Posted Apr 27, 2009 12:57 am
|Standard route
|Summited a few years back. Fell in love with the Sangre de Cristos, Been back a few times, always something new to see.
|Posted Mar 27, 2009 8:23 pm
|East Ridge variation
Date Climbed: Feb 7, 2009
|Climbed with Jamie and Prakash, sort of a variation on the east ridge route. The road was so well packed out by snowmobiles that we stayed on it much farther and gained the east ridge closer to the SE gully.
|Posted Feb 9, 2009 10:22 am
|Standard route in summer & fall, East Ridge in winter
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2005
|7/16/05 - Afternoon hike of standard route from camp at South Colony Lakes after climbing Crestone Needle in the morning.
2/1/09 - Winter ascent of the east ridge from 2WD parking lot.
12/1/12 - Quick ascent of the standard route from camp after backpacking to South Colony Lakes. Summitted during a beautiful sunset.
|Posted Jan 7, 2009 11:02 am
|Bob Bolton
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2008
|Picked this one off with Edward Earl after backpacking into South Colony Lakes that morning. We got lucky because the thunder was faint and far enough away that we didn't feel too threatened. Great view of the Crestones!
|Posted Dec 16, 2008 12:41 am
|Alexander von Humboldt?
|the sangre de cristos are pretty sweet - still lots of snow in late april - I twisted my knee postholing through the woods on the way down - cody made it - checked out the sand dunes and a cool frozen waterfall before leaving the area
|Posted Oct 21, 2008 1:00 am
|Spontaneous to Westcliffe
Date Climbed: Sep 28, 2008
|What a great day. The afternoon did bring a small storm but we never had any issues with lightning, which made my day considering all the run-ins I have had with it here in Colorado in the past. Climbed with my friend Stephers (after she had just done a 26 mile marathon) and got my ass kicked. Guess I better start running more? Nice to just take off to the Sangre's for a couple days at the last minute!
|Posted Sep 30, 2008 9:46 pm
|6 PM Summit
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2008
|It's a rare event to be able to summit a 14er at 6 PM but when the conditions are perfect...why not? Met climbing partners Alan and Patrick at South Colony Lakes around 3:30 PM Saturday and was met with the question - what to do Humboldt? Conditions - both trail and weather - were perfect! We summited in 2 hours, spent 30 minutes on the summit, and then about 1.5 down for a hot dinner of dehydrated pasta. Great times!
|Posted Sep 7, 2008 10:27 pm
|Standard Route
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2008
|Climbed in the early evening after climbing Crestone Needle in the morning. Had absolutely beautiful weather without a cloud in the sky. Enjoyed the sunset and put on head lamps for the last bit of the trail to camp. Overall, a great weekend in the Sangre de Cristos.
|Posted Sep 7, 2008 5:12 pm


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The first day of the regional track meet is all about moving on - to Friday's finals in most events and to state in a few others.
Wednesday brought both types of success, especially for Calvert.
The Senecas had their girls 4x800 squad qualify for state and a combined six boys and girls entries advance out of the semifinals, while Carey's Dana Newell added a title in the high jump to highlight the Division III regional's first day at Frost-Kalnow Stadium.
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"We've got a lot of possibilities going," Calvert coach Stewart Behm said. "About how I thought it'd go today. I knew my long shot today was the girls 4x2 and the boys 4x8, and they still ran very well today. I'm not disappointed at all by any means. They worked hard.
"You can't single out one person, especially when you're talking about as many relays as we run, because you've got a team," he said. "Those kids have worked as a team and practiced their handoffs, so to single one kid out and say 'that's what did it,' 'that's what didn't do it' is unfair to the rest of that group."
But one Seneca did stand out.
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|Columbus Academy 24, Seneca East 19, Colonel Crawford 16, Wheelersburg 13, Huntington 11, Grandview Heights 8, Wynford 8, Norwalk St. Paul 6, Riverdale 6, Millersport 6, New London 5, Belpre 5, Northmor 5, Liberty Union 5, Ashland Crestview 4, Fairbanks 4, Berne Union 3, South Central 3, Pleasant 2, Dawson-Bryant 2, Mount Gilead 1
|Pole vault — 1. Logan Chaney (Hunt) 14-8*; 2. Zach Gregg (SE) 14-0; 3. Adam Reinhorn (Millersport) 13-0; 4. Cory Depinet (SE) 13-0
|Discus — 1. Clay Jury (CC) 178-4; 2. Kyle Heinlen (Wyn) 159-4; 3. Ben Hahler (SE) 152-1; 4. Ross Pyles (Wheels) 142-10
|Long jump — 1. John Lint (CA) 20-9 1/2; 2. Zach Jenkins (Wheels) 20-3 1/2; 3. Michael Griffin (NSP) 20-2 1/4; 4. Dakota Hoffman (Bel) 19-10 1/4
|4 x 400 — 1. Columbus Academy 8:11.82; 2. Grandview Heights 8:18.91; 3. Colonel Crawford 8:21.85; 4. New London 8:24.54
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|Columbus Grove 31, Liberty-Benton 21, Elmwood 13, Margaretta 12, Liberty Center 10, Pettisville 8, Patrick Henry 8, Tinora 6, Vanlue 6, Hilltop 5 1/2, Leipsic 5, Edgerton 5, Old Fort 4 1/2, Waynesfield-Goshen 4, Sandusky St. Mary 4, Toledo Christian 4, Hicksville 3, Fremont St. Joe 2, Arcadia 2, Ada 1, Bluffton 1
|Pole vault — 1. Collin Grothaus (CG) 15-0; 2. Dylan Cornwell (L-B) 12-10; 3. Trent Balduff (MAR) 12-10; 4. Adam Alexander (OF) 12-6.
|Discus — 1. Dakota Vogt (CG) 162-9; 2. Marcus Myers (PH) 159-11; 3. Zach Garber (V) 154-0; Jacob Adams (EDG) 151-1.
|Long jump — 1. Chase Cook (L-B) 21-9 ¾; 2. Aaron Arnold (ELM) 21-4 ½; 3. Austin Moore (MAR) 21-3 ¾; 4. Derek Steffan (L) 21-0
|4x800 — 1. Liberty Center (Henry Elling, Joe Seedorf, Jason Hadley, Cameron Weeks) 8:15.07; 2. Pettisville (Jeremy Mann, Timothy Iott, Kyle Lantz,Dominique Frey.)
Olivia Smith anchored the 4x800 to both third (9:56.55) and a state berth, and anchored the 4x400 to second in its heat (4:11.44), giving the Senecas an automatic spot in Friday's finals with the third-best overall time.
In each race, the junior started the final leg trailing runners. Each time, she moved the Senecas up.
The 4x800 might have been her best performance.
She got the baton in the No. 5 spot, one away from a state berth and several meters behind.
It didn't matter, as the defending state champion in the 800 reeled in two runners - beating them by 4 and 8 seconds, respectively - to help Calvert end as one of only three teams to break the 10-minute mark.
"For the majority of this year, we haven't really had anyone in front of us in the 4x8 when I get the baton, so having people in front of me gave me that extra push," Smith said. "And I just wanted to do what I could for my team - get us down to state - and I tried my best, just like the other three girls."
The 4x400 was similar.
Smith was the third anchor to get the baton, but motored past Van Buren's Kristen Tropf and was gaining ground on Archbold's Jensyn Garrow before the latter crossed the finish line 4 seconds ahead of her.
Behm said the same situation could present itself in Friday's finals, and he's fine with that, especially since the junior and the other relay runners - Morgan Smith, Danielle Kontak and Marisa Horn filled out both the 4x800 and 4x400 - will have fresh legs.
"She's never had to run the 400 in the 4x4 yet. She's never been challenged. We've always gotten the baton with her in the lead and she just ran to win it," he said. "Now that we're starting to see some competition where she's going to have to chase people down, which is what she loves to do, I think the times are really going to drop.
"We'll have a lot fresher legs for that 4x4, and I think time's going to come down even further and I think Olivia's going to get the baton a little bit closer [to other runners] on the anchor leg, and we've all seen what she can do when she's behind," he said. "She likes to chase people."
That will come after an afternoon of watching other Calvert entries compete.
Morgan Smith advanced to the finals in the 400 (1:01.43), while Olivia Smith will also run the 800, which had no prelims.
For Calvert's boys, Shane Boehler advanced to the finals of the 100 (11.29) and 200 (22.53), and anchored the 4x200 (1:30.9) and 4x100 (43.48) to the fastest times in the prelims.
Austin Ball, Tyler Long and Ren Boehler joined him on both relays.
Meanwhile, Newell cleared 5-3 to capture the high jump title and her third trip to the state meet, which begins next Friday at Ohio State University.
The senior also competed in the shot at past regionals, but this year decided to concentrate on the high jump. It paid off.
"I'd like to go in more events, but it's nice to just have the one event and focus on that," she said. "The last few years at regional, I've had high jump and shot put. This year it's been really nice; one thing and you're done."
Joining her as a three-time state qualifier is Seneca East's Ashton Daniel, who finished third in the shot (40-10 3/4).
"I thought my chances were pretty good, but it only takes one [good throw], so you never know what's going to happen," the senior said.
"Finally coming together, I think," she said. "Stuck at 39 [feet] for a while, but hit the 41 mark last week (personal-best 41-3 1/4) and consistently 39 and 40 today."
Old Fort's Adam Alexander rounded out the first day's qualifiers, outlasting Hilltop's Will McKinney in a vault-off for the fourth and final state berth.
Both cleared 12-6 before bowing out of the competition, and they had to go head to head later to determine who moved on to state.
The honor went to Alexander after he cleared 12-4 in the extra session.
"It was nerve-racking, for sure. It was definitely nerve-racking," Alexander said. I was just trying to keep my adrenalin up because I had to wait a while, and without adrenalin I usually can't vault that well because I'm so small.
"It's just really exciting. I've worked for so long just to get my technique down, and now it finally paid off," he said. "I just had so many people cheering for me and picking me up. It was just a great time."
Lakota's Cariss Reese and Mohawk's 4x400 girls team were the only other area entries to move on from the semifinals. Reese will run in finals of the 300 hurdles (46.71), while Lynsey Trusty, Kayla Risner, Aubrie Flood and Ali Konkle will join Calvert in the girls 4x400 (4:18.85).
Several other local athletes will compete in finals that were already scheduled for Friday.
The girls entries include Old Fort's Kayla Garza in the girls 1,600; Risner, Seneca East's Kirsten Camp and Hopewell-Loudon's Kailey Coleman in the 800; Mohawk's Julia Daniel, Seneca East's Anna Willman and New Riegel's Abby Cassidy in the 3,200; Daniel in the discus; Old Fort's Molly Cleveland and Carey's Monique Altvater in the long jump; and Reese, Lakota's Makayla Kiser and H-L's Logan Frank in the pole vault.
The boys entries include Old Fort's Marcus Meyers in the boys 1,600; Calvert's Jared Thompson and Carey's Ben Kromer in the 800; Calvert's Austin Schultz in the 3,200; Carey high jumper Tommy Arredondo; and shot putters Jacob Goble and Jacob Moran of Carey and Lakota's Kevin Crowe.


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Celebrity Central / Top 25 Celebs
Gwyneth Paltrow
- 1974
Terrible 2's at the Theater
While watching her mother, Blythe Danner, perform at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, 2-year-old Paltrow is thrust onstage and surprises everyone by reciting her mother's lines. "She could barely talk," Danner later tells Time, "yet she knew the whole speech better than I did. We should have known then, I guess."
- 1991
A Different Path
Without much experience, 18-year-old Paltrow appears alongside her mother in Picnic at the Williamstown Theater Festival. Her father, television director Bruce Paltrow, is sufficiently impressed with his daughter's performance to encourage her to abandon university studies for acting. Previously, her parents said she should stay in school.
- 1992
Mom and Me
In her first television role, Paltrow appears in the NBC miniseries Cruel Doubt alongside her mother. Her more considerable acting background notwithstanding, Danner tells PEOPLE, "She got the part first, and I guess they thought I looked right as her mother.'' The following year, Paltrow takes a small part in the psychological drama Flesh and Bone, but her performance makes her a young actress to watch. The National Society of Film Critics nominates her for Best Supporting Actress for the role.
- 1994
That Girl
Paltrow begins dating Se7en costar Brad Pitt, PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive, catapulting Paltrow into the headlines. "Our first date was at an Italian restaurant in L.A., and no one gave us a glance," Paltrow tells You magazine. "Now it's a case of 'Who's that girl?'" In April, while in St. Barts, a paparazzo captures the couple sunbathing nude, which leads to an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit that Pitt wins.
- 1996
All You Need is Love
After a year together, Pitt gushes as he accepts the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in 12 Monkeys, calling Paltrow "the love o' my life, my angel." Equally smitten, Paltrow tells London's You magazine, "I am properly in love for the first time in my life, and I do not care if my former boyfriends read this." That August, PEOPLE names Paltrow one of the Hottest 30 Stars Under 30 and one of the 25 Most Intriguing, calling her "the face that launched a thousand magazine covers."
I Do, I Don't
After starring as a matchmaker in Jane Austen's Emma, Paltrow, 25, accepts Pitt's proposal to marry while in Mendoza, Argentina. But the engagement is short-lived. Just seven months later, on June 16, 1997, Pitt's publicist announces the couple has broken up.
- 1997
Paltrow goes alone to a deserted island in the Caribbean for three days and writes of her adventure for Marie Claire. The actress brings rice, a Swiss Army knife, matches, fish hooks and a hammock. She walks around mostly nude during the day and writes about her seclusion: "I have learned that I am stronger than I thought. I am braver than I thought."
Paltrow & Affleck
Paltrow is seen with actor Ben Affleck. The two keep it friendly at first, but two months later are very obviously a romantic item. While at a press junket promoting her film Sliding Doors, the pair kiss for nearly three minutes. The following year though they break up, but are seen together again for a short time in 2000.
- 1999
A Teary Thank You
After being named on of PEOPLE's 50 Most Beautiful, Paltrow wins an Oscar for her performance as Lady Viola in Shakespeare in Love. In a pink satin Ralph Lauren gown, Paltrow sobs as she accepts the award and thanks her parents: "I would not have been able to play this role, had I not understood love of a tremendous magnitude, and for that I thank my family."
Opposite Matt & Jude
Playing Jude Law's girlfriend in the intelligent thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley (also starring Matt Damon), Paltrow easily tackles the tricky emotional role of loving a man who treats her badly.
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BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Ron Galella/WireImage; NBC/Everett; DAVE ALLOCCA/DMIPHOTO; Evan Agostini/Getty; Kevin Mazur; REX USA
- Name
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Date of Birth
- September 27, 1972
- Birth Place
- Los Angeles, Calif.
- Relationships
Chris Martin, husband (2002 to 2014; separated)
Ben Affleck, ex-boyfriend (1997 to 1999)
Brad Pitt, ex-boyfriend (1995 to 1997, engaged)
- Children
Apple Blythe Alison Martin, daughter (5/14/2004)
Moses Martin, son (4/8/2006)


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Connie J. Adams, lauded as one of Maui's premier artists, is being remembered as a watercolor master who was bold and brave enough to try new things, yet compassionate and gentle in her work and in instructing adults and children.
"One thing that made Connie stand out from other artists here on Maui is that she was unafraid to keep her artwork fresh and new," wrote friend and art quilter Kathleen Kastles of Waiehu. "A skilled watercolorist, she did not hesitate to go in new directions, to try new techniques, to master new materials. She kept experimenting and growing as an artist. You could look at one of her new paintings and not recognize it as hers - she had taken her work in a different direction to keep it as original as she was."
Adams died in a car crash on New Year's Day. And she left others in the Maui art community saddened.
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Connie J. Adams
This watercolor painting titled "Yapese Cross" was a much-discussed work of the late Connie J. Adams, said her husband, Marc Scott. Her skill with this painting made her a member of the American Watercolor Society.
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Caroline Killhour, executive director of Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center in Makawao, said: "Connie was a huge part of the Hui's story, having worked as one of our core teaching artists for 11 years, regularly exhibiting her beautiful paintings in our community exhibitions and supporting the Hui as an arts advocate. We are deeply saddened to learn of her passing and remain forever thankful to her for her great contributions to Maui arts and culture."
Adams, 61, of Haiku, also known as Constance Scott, was a signature member of both the national and Hawaii watercolor societies as well as a member of the Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center. The award-winning artist has had her watercolor art displayed all over the world.
The New Year's Day crash that claimed her life happened as she and her husband, Marc Scott, 64, collided with a truck at the intersection of Kahului Beach Road and Wahine Pio Avenue, police said.
The collision occurred when the Toyota Camry the couple was riding in attempted to turn left onto Wahine Pio Avenue from Kahului Beach Road, police said. The Camry collided with the truck traveling in the opposite direction. Adams had been riding in the passenger seat while Scott was driving, police said.
Scott said he and his wife had been headed to an event at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
A celebration of life will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Jan. 20 at the Hui. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that people consider a donation in memory of Connie to the National Endowment for the Arts at nea.gov or the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at aspca.org.
"I feel her loss every day," Scott said.
He said he suffered minor injuries in the crash.
Through tears, Scott said the greatest gift Adams gave him was the chance to see the world as she did - through an artist's eyes.
"I think it's a great gift to see the world in that light," he said.
Scott said Adams, his wife of 25 years, was a very positive person and "had a knack of keeping conversations light."
"She could put people at ease when that was important. She could intellectually stimulate them when it was important. She had a lot of qualities many don't have," he said.
The couple met while she was a nurse and he was a respiratory therapist at a San Francisco Bay Area hospital in the 1980s. Adams worked the night shift while attending the California College of Art in Oakland, where she earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts in printmaking with distinction in 1984.
Scott said Adams came from a family of artists. They knew how tough it could be to make a living as an artist, so they "gently" pushed Adams to a service career, he said.
"But she was an artist at heart," Scott said, adding that Adams was a compassionate nurse.
The two married in 1986, and moved to Saipan in 1991, for a job Scott landed.
Adams was pleased because, as Scott said, at that time he was interested in living in the tropics. She took up her art and teaching in Saipan.
Later, the two moved to Baltimore, where Adams earned a Master of Fine Arts in painting while attending the master's program at Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Scott said the two still wanted to live the island life, so they moved to Maui in 2001. They came to Maui from Baltimore the first day airports opened after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
On Maui, Adams had taught at the Hui and Seabury Hall and was also an instructor at University of Hawaii Maui College.
Kastles, who does watercolor paintings on her quilts, said Adams had a way of making her students feel comfortable with watercolor, which is a "notoriously difficult medium" because it can get "muddied very fast," and it's hard to control something so watery.
"It takes a lifetime to master, and Connie was a master. She demystified it," she said.
Kastles said Adams taught her grandson watercolor at Seabury Hall years earlier.
"She opened him up, when they were all tight and they had to have things done a certain way," she said.
Kastles recalled that at the Hui, Adams hung the portraits that her students had painted on the wall and critiqued them in front of the class.
"Somehow she was so graceful and gentle and patient and encouraging," Kastles said.
She added that Adams had a way to critique her students' work and help them make changes while also making them feel special.
Adams had her own artwork displayed and sold at various galleries around the island and on Oahu.
She currently has her artwork featured at the Viewpoints Gallery in Makawao.
Friend and artist Jim Bauer, who was at the gallery last week, called her work "beautiful, just like her."
"She was very friendly and willing to help everyone," he said.
He added that many of her paintings featured flowers and plants.
On her website, Adams said: "Botany is my muse. It provides me with enough variation of shape, form, color and line to explore until my last days."
* Melissa Tanji can be reached at email@example.com.


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Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would one day be writing the sentence I had a good time at Mule Day. Yet it is true.
The trip to Washington, Ga., for this annual event held on the second Saturday in October was well worth the drive. The weather last Saturday was perfect , sunny and cool and Calloway Plantation, a 56-acre historic restoration project boasting buildings that encompass nearly 200 years of rural life, offered a spectacular setting for the event.
I have to admit, as well, that the mules themselves were quite fetching. When my party arrived around 10 in the morning, we were just in time for one of a number of beauty contests for this noble hybrid of a male donkey and a female horse. The competition in question was for working pairs, a reminder that these animals had once served a major role in plantation life by pulling heavy loads.
As we learned from the public commentator that morning, the mule is making a comeback in the American South; they are popular once again as draft animals this time pulling wagons on seasonal hayrides and not propelling a plow. We also learned from the judge of this particular contest that he had never seen finer specimens than those paraded before the spectators on that day their legs were straight and their heads large.
Although some in the crowd were rooting for a pair named Laverne and Shirley out of some misguided loyalty to vintage television, I suspect my metaphorical bet was on Kit and Kate. Sure enough, they won, not only that contest but also the grand prize awarded later that hour.
Up from the pasture where the judging takes place each year is a complex of more than a dozen historical structures, and that is where we headed next. The first in vintage is a log cabin dating from 1785 when the site was only about five miles from Indian territory Cherokee lands, to be precise. This particular single-room structure was moved from another location in Wilkes County to replace the original Calloway cabin of the same period; the white wash on its interior walls is said to be original.
Right next door, preservationists have located what is today called the Grey House. Built by Job Calloway around 1790 out of his astute acknowledgment that the one-room cabin provided inadequate shelter for his progeny that eventually numbered nine, this Federal plain-style farmhouse boasts a two-over-two floor plan with a parlor and dining area below and two bedrooms above. When the county airport was built in the 1960s, the building was moved across the road to its current site, not far from the splendid mansion into which the family moved in 1869.
Called the Brick House because its walls are composed of two layers of George red-clay brick, this third and final Calloway residence reflects the high water mark of the familys fortunes when they possessed a cotton plantation of approximately 3,000 acres. At first blush, one might wonder where they acquired the funds to finish the mansion in 1869, just four years after the devastating collapse of the Confederate economy; but the Calloways had made an astute overseas financial arrangement. Their English cotton broker put the money from the sale of their crop in the bank in England so they were able to draw upon those funds at the end of the war.
The house that Aristides Calloway, Jobs great-grandson, built from the sale of his cotton, boasts a Greek Revival portico, typical of the period, with six hollow Doric columns. The 10 rooms, including a detached kitchen, are now furnished with period pieces, some of which were owned by the Calloway family, including two Buhl tables whose top surface is covered in tortoiseshell heated so that it could be molded like leather.
During Mule Day, all of the buildings in the complex the three houses that represent the upward trajectory of the Calloway family fortune and many other historic structures, such as an 1891 schoolhouse and a 1930 general store are populated by interpreters in period costume. The log cabin, for example, is customarily surrounded by Revolutionary War re-enactors; the Brick House usually has a cadre of Confederate soldiers in attendance.
Tours of the all of the structures are available year-round, Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information on Calloway Plantation, located about five miles west of Washington, Ga., on Highway 78, call (706) 678-7060 or visit www.historyofwilkes.org.
A recipient of the prestigious Carolina Trustee Professorship in 2008, Dr. Tom Mack holds the G.L. Toole Chair at USC Aiken. His new book ìHidden History of Aiken County has just been published by The History Press (Charleston, SC and London, UK).


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on November 29, 2012 - 3:42 PM
A family of six lost everything this morning in a fire that destroyed their Town of Lockport home.
No one was home at 10 a.m. when the blaze broke out, Niagara County sheriff's deputies said.
Firefighters were called to extinguish the blaze at 161 Mallard Drive by a neighbor, who reported that the manufactured trailer home was engulfed by flames.
The Rapids Volunteer Fire Co. responded, and were assisted by the South Lockport, Terry's Corners, Wolcottsville and Clarence Center fire companies.
The trailer and its contents were listed as a total loss.
The American Red Cross assisted the family – a father, mother and four school-aged children – with temporary housing and clothing. Donations to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund can be made to 1-800-REDCROSS or by visiting www.redcross.org.


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i heard tiff is dating brad now, she says he is the most amazing guy she has ever met!!
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-"Hey you wanna hook up?"
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by brad_Z April 16, 2006
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"Ouch bollocks!, i just sat down funny and mashed my potatoes"
автор: Dan D 29 июня 2005
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Meaning a man and a woman that are white and are exchanging their liquids until it looks like mashed potatoes.
Sally made mash potatoes last night with Jim.
автор: sillywilly1313 18 июня 2014
Mashed potato means to masturbate.
He's mash potatoing in his room!
What the fuck, did you mash potato yourself?
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автор: Dina7282837282837jh 11 ноября 2007
to say good bye or see you at a later period in the day (when you leave,depart from a place, dwelling or any other area which you frequent with your friends, brothers, sisters, gang, crew, or homies) n.b. can be shortened to mash or used with any other kind of potato e.g. jacket/boiled/baked/roast/sweet potatoes
safe kids, i've got to go, mash potata - see ya lata
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Read New BlackBerry CEO John Chen's Letter To Employees
BlackBerry new chief executive John Chen made waves today when he announced that the company would begin outsourcing its hardware business to Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn. This move will reduce a good chunk of BlackBerry's inventory risk going forward, but Mr. Chen still has a long way to go to turn BlackBerry into a profitable company.
Today in BlackBerry's hometown of Waterloo, Ontario, Mr. Chen made the rounds to speak with employees, customers and the media.
In a letter to employees Friday, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Chen acknowledges the depth of the company's challenges. "In plain terms, we are acknowledging that we have inventory that is losing value by the day – devices that aren't selling and warehoused components to produce even more in-market devices," Mr. Chen wrote.
Mr. Chen said he will soon be bringing on a new head of devices for the company, and he urges employees to rest up during the holidays.
Read the full text of the letter below.
At today's Global Town Hall, I talked a bit about the state of BlackBerry and the changes we're making to address pressing challenges.
A Tough Quarter
The overall earnings numbers this quarter are not good. BlackBerry will take a primarily non-cash, pre-tax charge against inventory and supply commitments of approximately $1.6 billion. In plain terms, we are acknowledging that we have inventory that is losing value by the day – devices that aren't selling and warehoused components to produce even more in-market devices. This contributed significantly to a loss of $4.4 billion in this quarter.
Focusing Our Hardware Talent
This inventory write down points to a pressing challenge: how to profit from BlackBerry hardware, while reducing the risk of too much – or too little – inventory. To do this, we must focus our business on what we do well while leveraging the capabilities of our partners.
This is why today we announced we have established a five-year partnership with Foxconn, the world's largest manufacturer of electronic products and components. They know how to manage supply chains and they have remarkable capabilities to get new products to market quickly.
With this partnership, BlackBerry will focus its resources to serve customers who value advanced security. In other words, we will continue to focus on what we do best – iconic design, world-class security, software development and enterprise mobility management.
With Foxconn's scale and efficiency, BlackBerry can also compete more effectively in other markets. The initial focus of the Foxconn partnership will be a smartphone for Indonesia and other fast-growing markets in early 2014.
We are working on recruiting a head of our Devices business and I look forward to introducing him to you soon. I am confident that he will continue to focus our teams on areas where BlackBerry can deliver maximum value to our customers.
Capitalizing on Opportunities
It's important to remember our operating units continue to have significant strengths and opportunities:
- BlackBerry remains a leader in secure enterprise mobile device management, with a global enterprise customer base exceeding 80,000. We continue to work to shift this base to BlackBerry 10. BES 10 commercial and test server installs have increased to over 30,000, up from 25,000 in September 2013.
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PENNSDALE?— Final approval of the traffic analysis for the proposed development of a Longhorn Steakhouse was given by the planning commission and the township supervisors at Wednesday night's meeting....
Why don't you say what township this is in the article? We were supposed to have this restaurant by the end of summer. What took so long? No wonder we have so much trouble getting busineses to locate here. They are put through all this trouble. Don't you think other malls have restaurants? How do they handle the traffic issue. Is the township reaching out to other restaurants and businesses trying to get them to locate here? Probably not. They don't seem to want to business to locate here.
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Why does it have to be at the Mall? All of that wasted acreage. That mall should have been built along the waterfront in Williamsport. There are a lot of people, including myself, that never go to the mall. Anything they sell, I can find cheaper closer to home or on-line. Imagine having to drive to the middle of nowhere to eat a steak.
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Do some research Snydbob as to why the mall isn't located in Williamsport and you'll find in the 70's it was denied access and wasn't wanted
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Why the mall? Why not!?!? There are already so many restaurants in Williamsport. Just what Williamsport does not need is another one. At the mall there are not many options for customers to eat outside of the mall. For those of us who provide for our families by working at the mall we would love to have "new customers" in our middle of nowhere mall to help our businesses make money. Williamsport is not the only thing in Lycoming County.
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The antagonist on the animated Hanna-Barbera series, The Smurfs. All he wanted to do was eat the blue guys and turn them into gold, but alas, he never could.
He lived in a rackety hovel that had seen better days with his orange cat Azrael and his nephew/apprentice Scruple. Despite being the villian, he was one of the most hilarious characters on the show.
Also reffered to as "Garglesmell" by Hogatha.
He lived in a rackety hovel that had seen better days with his orange cat Azrael and his nephew/apprentice Scruple. Despite being the villian, he was one of the most hilarious characters on the show.
Also reffered to as "Garglesmell" by Hogatha.
Gargamel scared the shit out of Vanity Smurf.
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a judeah-imperialist-capitalist wizard who lives in a hobble with his orange cat and skruple his apprentice and hunts down those commie bastard smurfs and trys to boil them into gold or eat them but the smurfs always outsmart him
smurfs - after them skruple
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A crotchety old wizard who lives in a ramshackled stone building in the woods with a cat and occasionally a little boy who is always trying to hunt down and eat little blue creatures called smurfs because he's too lazy to walk to town and go to the deli for a pastrami on rye.
Gargamel hungry. Need smurfs...
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Highly unattractive human being. We're talking 5 star ugly here. Rides the bus a.k.a. The Gargamel Express. Natural habitat = Walmart.
Sena: Some greasy haired, pajama pants wearing freak on the bus asked me out on a date to Walmart! Can you believe that? Joey: Gargamel... er what?
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One who indulges in a long night of hard drink, I mean Martin Luther King Jr. Status, and then pursues one of the lady folk in an intimate manner usually characterized by much grabbing of her body parts and gibberish being spoken. The night for this person usually ends with him in the Penn State shower room horse playing with the young boys.
Sean was straight gargameling last night which is why he's now donating 10,000 dollars to the 2nd mile charity.
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A guy who tucks his male genitalia between his legs to see how he'd look if he was a woman.
Silence of the Lamb's "Buffalo Bill" is a gargamel for stuffing the boys between his legs and admires himself.
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JOHNSTOWN - Glendale Vikings football coach Matt Irvine might have to send out an extra Christmas card this year - to the Portage Mustangs.
Glendale went into the weekend needing either a loss by Northern Cambria or Homer Center Friday, and a win over Ferndale Saturday, to earn a spot in the playoffs. Portage gave the Vikings a present by defeating Homer Center, 20-14.
That put Glendale in charge of its own destiny.
The Vikings took full advantage, scoring 20 points in the first quarter, and adding 28 more in the third frame, in route to a 48-0 win for a trip to the playoffs.
Glendale will now play at Bellwood-Antis next weekend in the first round of the District 6 Class A playoffs.
"We knew what we had to do to get into the playoffs, and we did it," said Irvine. "The attitude of the kids was 'let's win and play one more.' None of these guys were ready for it to be over with yet, and I think they showed it."
Glendale got off to a rough start. Ferndale did a short kickoff that the Yellow Jackets came up with after a scramble.
However, Damon?Braniff played more than well enough to help Glendale get on the scoreboard. He scored on runs of 34 and 22 yards in less than a four-minute span for a 12-0 lead.
An interception by Matt Bantly gave Glendale's offense another short field. Glendale responded with an eight-play drive to add to the lead.
Gary Witherow lofted a touchdown pass to Shea O'Donnell on fourth-and-10 from the 28, as O'Donnell caught the pass behind two Ferndale defenders. Braniff ran in the two point conversion for a 20-0 lead, which was what the score was at halftime.
The Vikings scored four times in the third quarter. Braniff had a 100-yard interception return for a score and a 2-yard run. Sam Witherow scored on a 76-yard run and Troxell returned a fumble 10 yards for another score.
"With Bellwood there is a little familiarity," said Irvine. "We played them last week. We'll watch our tape, see what we messed up on, and give it all we got."
Glendale 20 0 28 0 - 48
Ferndale 0 0 0 0 - 0
First quarter
G-Braniff 34 run (kick failed), 9:31.
G-Braniff 22 run (pass failed), 6:11.
G-O'Donnell 28 pass from Witherow (Braniff run), 1:03.
Third quarter
G-Braniff 100 interception return (Matchock kick), 7:40.
G-Braniff 2 run (Matchock kick), 5:25.
G-Witherow 76 run (Matchock kick), 2:20.
G-Troxell 10 fumble return (Matchock kick), :51.
RUSHING: Glendale - Braniff 10-86, Witherow 7-69, Twigg 5-26, Bantly 1-15, Hommer 2-9, ODonnell 1-5, Kimberly 2-4, Hewitt 1-(-3). Ferndale - Palmer 10-72, Eisenhuth 13-34, Mason 6-14, Kinsey 1-(-2), Sajatovich 5-(-25).
PASSING: Glendale - Witherow 4-6-0-93, Hommer 0-1-0-0. Ferndale - Eisenhuth 10-21-4-113.
RECEIVING: Glendale - Twigg 2-50, O'Donnell 1-28, Brraniff 1-15. Ferndale - Sajatovich 7-88, Mason 2-23, Palmer 2-2.
INTERCEPTIONS: Glendale - Braniff 2, Bantley, Rojas. Ferndale - None.
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Rushes-yards 29-211 40-23
Pass (comp.-att.-int.) 4-7-0 10-21-4
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WHEATFIELD – A bill that passed both houses of the State Legislature in the closing days of the session would require the New York Power Authority to audit the host communities that have benefited richly from the 2007 relicensing of the Niagara Power Project.
The Niagara Power Coalition, comprising the seven front-line governmental entities, didn't carry out a request last year from State Sen. George D. Maziarz for an audit of how the cash and electricity they receive each year is being used.
So Maziarz, R-Newfane, introduced a bill to have NYPA do the work, or hire someone to do so, by June 1, 2014.
If Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signs the bill, the seven members of the Power Coalition would be required to "cooperate fully with the audit required herein, to provide documents or other exhibits in a timely manner and to make witnesses readily available who are capable of providing information about the use of the authority's assets."
"I knew it was coming," said Niagara County Legislature Chairman William L. Ross, C-Wheatfield. "This audit bill is acceptable to me. I'm glad they're not funding it on the backs on the Niagara Power Coalition members, who have their own audits."
Maziarz attended a coalition meeting in April 2012 and asked for an audit of the use of the $5 million in cash payments and 25 megawatts of electricity the members receive each year.
That's on top of the $3 million a year earmarked for Niagara River Greenway projects.
The host communities have been criticized for using the Greenway money for projects scattered around Niagara County instead of along the Niagara River. A bill that would have canceled the previous agreements allowing wider use of Greenway money, sponsored by Assemblyman Sean Ryan and Sen. Mark Grisanti, both of Buffalo, did not pass the Legislature.
Maziarz said last week the Greenway money isn't the primary focus of the audit he wants.
"Whether they're spending it the best way, that's project-driven, that's up to them," Maziarz said. "But where are the power and the cash going? That's what we're going to find out."
Each year, the Power Authority sends $850,000 each to the City of Niagara Falls and the Town of Lewiston; $725,000 to the Lewiston-Porter School District; $675,000 to the Niagara Falls School District; $650,000 each to the county and the Town of Niagara; and $600,000 to the Niagara Wheatfield School District.
"I don't want to insinuate that any money has been misspent," Maziarz said.
The audit he wants will list every transaction made with NYPA's payments and power allocations and will determine whether any jobs were created or what other benefit was "provided to the community as a whole."
Ross predicted that the audit "will justify what we've been doing. It'll bring out the positive effect on these communities."
Ross said the Power Coalition declined last year's audit request of the use of Power Authority payments as unnecessary.
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Dungeon Crawl Classics 54: Forges of the Mountain King
Forges of the Mountain King is another one of Goodman Games entry points for 4e. By the adventures end, players should be third level. There are brief notes on scaling the adventure down for smaller groups or up for groups with higher level players or more players than the standard. Written by the prolific Harley Stroh, Forges cover comes from Eric Lofgren and the interior art is handled by Doug Kovacs.
The adventure does take notice of 4es flare for using numerous skill checks in working with the environment. For example, that cover piece of an ogre battling two adventurers is something that happens in the adventure proper. And like in the adventure proper, there is a chance of being knocked down and out. There are numerous tests to jump over various pits and failing bridges. There are skill checks aplenty for perception and trap finding.
Like some of the other Dungeon Crawl Classics for 4e, it suffers a little in the edition switch over. Mostly this is not making the maps large enough to handle the encounters as rewritten and some of the monsters may need to be scaled depending on how well your party has put itself together. I believe that this thread, Goodman Games • View topic - Forges of the Mountain King: errata needed? , covers most of those issues. In addition, giving the adventure a read through or three wouldnt hurt either. The maps is a multi-optioned thing and doesnt force the players down one particular chute. They have a few options in how they move through the dungeon.
And thats important to note. While Sellswords was a micro dungeon and took place in a limited environment, Forges is a full out dungeon. There are multiple races working under one faction, that of the Mountain King. There are orcs, goblins, gnolls, and undead. There are cults of evil dwarves alongside mad spellcasting dwarves, each with their own agenda. Add to this the various traps in the tombs that the players may discover and youve got an adventure that a party without a rogue, and without a lot of tactical sense may be doomed by.
The nice thing about the dwarves though, is that the author didnt go for the easy fix. He didnt make them some variant off shot race of dwarves. Rather these are just a group of dwarves who follow evil paths. Some of them with a cult that might even appeal to warrior types that may not at first appear to be evil. Things like this make the game more than just pointing out the generic evil target.
One of the hallmarks of the DCC line are the handouts. This book doesnt skip with three different ones. Like the other first forays into 4e, this book includes something a little special in the form of Fat Dragon 3-D counters. Four full pages of counters that you assemble and pop onto the table when needed. Note that not only are most of these good for this adventure, but several are general enough that you should be able to use them with multiple adventurers. In addition to the models themselves, there are instructions. This makes it easier to put together the pillars and barrels while getting an idea of what the treasure chests and dungeon door will look like before you cut them out.
While not labeled, the models are pretty self-obvious if you read the book. For example, the dwarf with the weird beard and wings? Area 1-24, the statue depicts a fierce dwarf with a beard of writhing tentacles and a pair of leathern bat wings. Yeah, Im pretty sure that is going there. For safety sake though, I made copies and printed extras because Ive got the clumsy finger disease.
While its not mechanically perfect and needs a good read through or three, I find the same true of WoTC first offering so Im willing to give Goodman slack in that future efforts will be better in the mechanical and mapping side and the future awesomeness, like that of the handouts and solid price, 40 pages with full color models for $14.99, will remain intact.
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Day 2 at the Cheyenne Mountain Tournament in Colorado Springs, the Durango High School volleyball team drew some good cards, but couldn�t put together the right hand.
The Demons lost to Valor Christian in three sets (25-15. 25-16, 25-14), then to Windsor in four (28-26, 25-16, 15-25, 25-14).
�They�re both very good, so it was just a matter of who showed up to play (Saturday),� DHS senior hitter McKenna Franzen said in a phone interview with The Durango Herald. �It just wasn�t in the cards for us (Saturday).�
Against Valor Christian, Franzen said the Demons struggled with receiving serves, so �we weren�t able to use our super-quick offense like we usually like to.�
In that match, Franzen led with 11 kills, and Hannah Quick added five.
On defense, Kennedy Clark had seven digs, followed by Franzen�s six.
�Our defense was really great (Saturday),� Franzen said.
She said the match against Valor Christian was just good volleyball that the Demons ended up on the wrong side of.
In that match, Franzen again led with 13 kills, Jessie Brammer had 12 and Bella Bernazzani 10.
�Natalie Bulen did a really good job of spreading the net,� Franzen said of the Demons� setter.
Clark led in digs with 23, followed by 19 from Gaby Razma.
Day 1 at the Cheyenne Mountain Tournament in Colorado Springs, the Durango High School volleyball team beat a difficult Mesa Ridge team in five, then lost to the defending Class 5A state champion, Chaparral in three.
But it was a good three.
�We knew that was going to be a tough match,� DHS assistant coach Erika Sansoni said. �The girls played well.�
On second thought, better than well: �That�s the best we�ve played all year.�
Chaparral defeated DHS 25-17, 25-15, 26-24.
�All around, the girls played really well,� Sansoni said. �Our outside hitters did a good job of putting the ball down.
�The back row played really well; not much hit the floor.
�The middles did a good job of closing the block and directing the ball where we wanted it to go on our D,� Sansoni said.
Franzen led the Demons with 22 kills and 16 digs in their 25-22, 25-20, 15-25, 26-24 win over Mesa Ridge, and she again led the team with 14 kills and 12 digs against Chaparral.
DHS will play Valor Christian and a team to be determined in its second match Saturday and third and fourth matches of the Demons� regular-season ending tournament in Colorado Springs.


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Being laid up in a hospital for any reason is no fun.
But even if you don't enjoy it -- your taste buds might.
St. Charles Medical Centers in Redmond and Bend are taking part in a growing international effort to make hospital food more healthy, fresh and local.
Hospital chefs say they can't get enough of one local woman's produce.
"Her tomatoes were the best I've had in a couple years," St. Charles Executive Chef David Tankersley said Thursday. "They were sweet, full of acid, full of sugar, had a nice balance and were full of juice."
Sarahlee Lawrence of Terrebonne said her organic produce is also full of something else.
"They're full of nutrients, and they're full of love," Lawrence said. "They're amazing vegetables for people. They're totally healing, I believe."
St. Charles Director of Hospitality Mark Petersen thinks produce from Rainshadow Organics even has the ability to help speed up the healing process for patients.
During recovery from surgery or illness, it's important for people to eat as much as possible.
"The more flavorful food is, the more likely they are to eat it," Petersen said.
The short distance from farm to table -- or in this case, hospital -- means produce stays in the soil until it's perfectly ripened.
Buying local also helps the hospital "go green."
"It reduces the carbon footprint," Petersen said. "It reduces the emissions that are involved in the transportation of the produce from Portland and other areas."
Right now, Lawrence's produce grows in a 2-acre plot near Terrebonne, but by next summer, her farm will grow to 25 acres in a nearby wheat field.
Lawrence said her farm's rapid growth is a dream come true.
But really, it's all been about timing.
"People are ready to eat organic, ready to eat local," Lawrence said. "They're ready to work with farmers and know their farmer -- that's amazing."