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The sister of the man who escaped from the Greene County jail in late December was convicted last week of helping him while he was on the run from authorities.
Nearly 100 people participated in last month's Victory 5K Run/Walk near Waynesburg, raising a total of $3,720 to help two Greene County charities.
International interest in the American presidential race has focused its attention squarely on Greene County and the state of coal mining here. The question is, why?
Farm to Fork event Friday night was organized by Observer Publishing Company and a portion of the proceeds benefits Corner Cupboard Food Bank in Greene County
The Greene County Court has affirmed a decision by the Jefferson-Morgan Multi-Municipal Zoning Hearing Board denying a special exemption to a company that proposed building a water tanker filling station on Route 188 near Jefferson.
The chaplain at SCI-Fayette in the Mon Valley community of LaBelle is named by a professional organization as chaplain of the year.
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Ringgold School District, in partnership with Love First Inc. of Donora, will implement a weekend backpack food program for low-income students.
A teenager from the Charleroi area was charged Wednesday with dealing heroin under a federal criminal complaint.
The union representing professors at 14 Pennsylvania-owned universities will walk off the job next month if it doesn't reach a contract with the state's System of Higher Education.
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A pedestrian was reported injured after being struck by a pickup truck in South Franklin Township Sunday evening.
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The group of scientific publications that includes JAMA and the Archives specialty journals is undergoing a major evolution. In April 2012, we launched The JAMA Network, a new editorial/publishing system that closely interconnects JAMA and the 9 Archives Journals. In May, the new JAMA Network website was launched, and soon, The JAMA Network smartphone/tablet app will be available.
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In the days after the horrific tragedy in Newtown, Conn., I made it clear that I believe it is time for us to move from rhetoric to action to prevent future acts of senseless mass violence....
"I'm never going to give up my guns - that will not happen." Why is that? Let me suggest an answer: You do not own an AR-15 or similar weapon. If you did, you did, you would give it up. So, when one eliminates all rifles from the murder equation and is left with the other 96+% or so of guns that are used in murders, shouldn't those be the targets of a ban? The problem is, for you, that you likely own one of those guns. So, we are back to the essential issue of both irrationality (ban the weapons that are rarely used in killings)and do so but don't dare ban the ones I own. You didn't take a side. You took both sides.
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"My story was broadcast all over the world for people to see," she says. "They have followed every step of my recovery. "The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn't heard. Now I can help speak for those women."
Named Glamour's 2009 Woman of the Year, Rihanna, 21, will be honored in a special ceremony at New York's Carnegie Hall on Nov. 9. In addition to opening up about her difficult year, the singer – and fashionista – will also appear in a pictorial spread, wearing clothing by Balmain, Gucci and Jason Wu.
As for the massive scrutiny following the February 2009 attack, Rihanna says, "I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day."
And, she says, the past nine months have been a source of growth and strength. "I am stronger, wiser and more aware. You don't realize how much your decisions affect people you don't even know, like fans."
The singer has already released the power ballad "Russian Roulette" off her fourth album, Rated R, due in stores Nov. 23. "I've put everything I've wanted to say for the past eight months into my music," she says. "[It's] super fearless – which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place."
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In its 10 year history, Moodle has been confined to computer screens around the world; with countless fields, description areas and scrolling filling the screen. There have been attempts at mobilizing Moodle in the past, but as a user you either didn't have the time to use it or it simply wasn't worth using. With the proliferation and widespread availability of web-capable phones, however, mobile customers worldwide now have in hand a versatile portal into the web and to Moodle.
Over the last month or so, a Moodle Mobile community has exploded into existence and is making major headway releasing Moodle-focused web and native apps for web-enabled phones. There are two major initiatives:
Moodle4iPhone (http://iphone.moodle.com.au): is a web app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and Symbian phones and is based on wpTouch software by Brave New Code. The project was initiated by a trans-national team from Antwerp, Peru and beyond. It now has an official home with Pukunui Technology, an official Moodle Partner. The app, which is by far the most versatile, is installed to the Moodle site's theme itself, recognizes web traffic from mobiles and renders pages especially to fit on the screens that fit in your hand.
MoodleTouch (http://moodletouch.com): is a native app for iPhone and iPod Touch only. The project is proprietary and will provide one app in the Apple app store which works on all Moodle sites -- nothing needs to be installed to the Moodle site itself. It'll be a paid app, but schools/organizations will be able to commission their own customized apps to be submitted to the store (which might be freely available to mobile users connecting to the site). Note that mTouch was released 4/13/2010 for $2.99 in the App Store.
The apps, at least in terms of rendering Moodle for a phone, both deliver. Public availability of the apps will truly mean that Moodle has gone mobile. It's a huge step for Moodle in general, but it's a giant leap for mobile education at large.
Perhaps what is most exciting about these two projects is that they are retrofitting the large scale LMS with a simpler gateway to anytime/anywhere learning. What users will love about using Moodle on their phone is that the apps force a view of Moodle that is less cluttered and inherently simpler. There aren't any slow loading blocks, fancy graphics embedded in labels, or non-functioning media filters to frustrate students with slow connections. The clutter of Moodle activities and resources on a regular computer screen may not be available on the iPhone or Nexus One, but the basic pedagogical underpinning still is. That alone is a huge win for this new era in Moodling. Even in their first iteration, the apps provide a simpler UI to the software than a computer screen does today.
Since Moodle can now be seen through a simpler interface on a phone, why not pursue simpler interfaces for the computers in classrooms around the world? It'll take time and effort to rethink what's necessary for learning (mobile or not) in terms of features and general functionality -- but luckily, one of the largest beta tests is about to kick off.
Could the widespread embrace of mobile learning skew the development roadmap of the computer based software for modules, plug-ins and features that are more phone friendly?
Here's to hoping so.
More information about either project is available at their respective websites or the specific tag sections of http://www.MoodleMonthly.com:
- Moodle4iPhone: http://iphone.moodle.com.au/
- MoodleTouch: http://www.moodletouch.com
- Moodle4iPhone on MoodleMonthly.com
- MoodleTouch on MoodleMonthly.com
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Are those apps for iPays Free Software? (it should be evident I don't mean gratis, and I have no problem with people charging for giving out copies of software as long as it's Free Software)
If so, as Section 7.2 «makes it clear that any applications developed using Apple's SDK may only be publicly distributed through the App Store» so they could (and have already done so) apps because they are portable to other devices.
If not, it's a shame to promote them here on this site.
I can not understand what is your argument? The section you mentioned is to prevent IPhone apps to be distributed to jail broken devices for example from cydia repositories. There is nothing to be scared. And the word "publicly" changes the whole meaning of that section, I think.
At the core of mTouch we do not use Apple SDK, we just use Apple SDK to construct the UI of mTouch. So if we decide to port mTouch to Android phones or Windows Phone 7 Apple can not prevent us from doing this.
I know that we, mTouch, is mentioned in this site just because people care about mobile learning and believe that Moodle falling behind the trends. It is year 2010 and Mooble does not have any true support for mobiles, I think that would be shame not mentioning us here.
My best regards
the article is about mobile moodle. while some of the mobile apps may not be open source, the moodle project certainly is. not reporting on the entire ecosystem that surrounds the largest open source project in edu, i feel would be a greater shame.


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September 28, 2012
The next program in Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve's Saturday at the Barn Program will feature frontier and living history demonstrations at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 6. The program will include a portrayal of the frontier and military lives by Lochry's Westmoreland Militia, the Independent Battalion of Westmoreland County Pennsylvania (IBWCP) and 18th Century homestead living and cooking demonstrations and period children's games portrayed by local reenactors. Attendees will have an opportunity to learn how the homesteaders of Western Pennsylvania banded together to protect the frontier during the American Revolution and the limited equipment the 18th Century frontiersmen carried. The Barn and Lochry's Blockhouse will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The program led by Lochry's Westmoreland Militia will begin at 10 a.m. on the Blockhouse lawn. The historic Lochry Blockhouse was discovered in 1999 by Floyd Eiseman through a conversation with a Saint Vincent College employee, Dennis Gilbert, who knew of the house because it had belonged to his Uncle Anthony Todaro in the 1930s. The discovery of the Blockhouse began a string of events that would eventually allow the Blockhouse to remain at its original site, adjacent to the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve and Saint Vincent College. The Blockhouse timbers were marked for reassembly; it was dismantled and put back together at the original site with as little alteration as possible. Recently added to the Blockhouse property is a Colonial Garden with both vegetables and ornamental plants that would have existed in the Pennsylvania frontier and would have been utilized for cooking or medicines. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Video screens proclaimed "Welcome Back, Sabres Fans" throughout First Niagara Center on Monday evening, as hockey-hungry fanatics streamed back to the arena for their first live glimpse of the team they were deprived of during the nearly four-month NHL lockout.
"It's great to see them," said lifelong fan Kevin Quinnan of South Buffalo, as he watched the players swoosh up and down the ice during the first period of an open scrimmage session. He got to the arena at 4:30 p.m., an hour before the scrimmage was scheduled to start.
"As soon as I walked in, I hit the store," he said, "and then I got a nice seat."
He was wearing a brand new Marcus Foligno jersey. In the bag he was carrying, there was a French Connection commemorative cap.
"Thirteen dollars with the discount," he said of the cap.
Everything in the Sabres store is half price from now through Saturday, the day before the team plays its first home game of the shortened season.
Quinnan was not so lucky with his seat. Returning from the washroom, he found that he couldn't get back into the section where he had been sitting.
"The guy told me it was filled up," he said.
Since admission was free and seats were not reserved, ushers began turning fans away from the most desirable sections, such as center ice on the 100 level, half an hour before the puck dropped for the start of scrimmage at 6.
There was unrestricted access to the premium seats on the 200 level, although the concession stands there were not open. The uppermost seats in the 300 level were closed.
The Sabres announced that 10,175 fans showed up for the scrimmage.
"I don't think they were expecting this many people," said an usher. "It's fantastic."
The intensity of fan enthusiasm surprised everyone. When availability opened Sunday for season ticket and mini-pack holders, the Sabres set a single-day sales record of 31,213. Team President Ted Black noted that the sales volume "blew us away."
A similar rush is expected today when single-ticket sales begin.
The Sabres announced Monday that four home games already are sold out – the opener Sunday against the Philadelphia Flyers, the Feb. 17 game with the Pittsburgh Penguins, the March 12 game against the New York Rangers and the March 30 contest with the Washington Capitals.
Only single seats remain in the 100 and 200 levels for the remaining 20 home games, the team added, and fewer than 18,000 seats are available in the 300 level for all of those 20 games combined.
Although Monday evening's exercise wasn't a real game, the players skated hard and scrapped intensely for the puck.
Special attention was directed at 18-year-old Mikhail Grigorenko, the Russian rookie sensation who showed a lot of energy and speed during his shifts on the ice.
A round of applause followed a spectacular save by star goalie Ryan Miller, and moments later, when a classic two-man attack sent the puck past reserve goalie Jhonas Enroth, it almost felt like the season was in full swing.
The crowd drifted away during the second period of the scrimmage, however. Many went to the Sabres store, where it was so packed with shoppers it was like Christmas week at the mall. Ryan Miller jerseys were sold out, except for some children's sizes. Same with Patrick Kaleta.
Lines 10-deep formed in front of the first-level concession stands, where discounts were also in force. Pizza slices were $3. Hot dogs were $2. Draft beers were $4. An exception was the Pile High Deli Sandwiches counter, where there were no discounts.
"It's not like a real game," said cashier Melissa Milligan. Counterman Tyrique Gibson, who said he spent the past four months watching ESPN for news about "the pointless lockout," added that he looks forward to being busy during the abbreviated 48-game season.
"And," he said, "I expect us to be in the playoffs."
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Although a small country, Lesotho boasts an assortment of fantastic attractions that tourists can visit and discover the history and heritage of both the Basotho people and the Mountain Kingdom.
1. Sehlabathebe National Park
The Sehlabathebe National Park in the south eastern region of Lesotho, although fairly inaccessible (a 4 wheel drive vehicle is required) is definitely well worth the effort. This was the first designated National park in Lesotho. This hidden gem is full of wonderful rock formations unique to this area, massive rock overhangs, small lakes, rock art, rock arches and a beautiful and unique ecosystem of plants, birds and animals.
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Note: U.S. origin salted hog casings that were sent to China for selection can be certified for export to Brazil.
- Lamb casings imported from New Zealand that have not undergone processing or repackaging in the U.S. Obtain FSIS Form 9060-18 (08/25/2011), Animal Casings Export Certificate for Countries Requiring Ante-mortem, Post-mortem, and Sound and Clean Statement.
Note: The exporter is responsible for ensuring that any certification issued by New Zealand that is required for entry into Brazil accompanies the shipment.
- Airline Meals. Obtain FSIS Form 9060-5. Type the following statement in the "Remarks" section:
"This product is intended for exclusive use for airline or ship meals."
Note: Certificates should never be stamped with the export stamp or embossed with a stamp.
Plants Eligible to Export
- Plant Approval
- Fresh/frozen red meat and further processed meat and further processed poultry products for export to Brazil must originate from a Brazilian approved facility. Applications for plant approval must be submitted using FSIS Form 9080-3 (PDF Only) to the FSIS Office of International Affairs, Export Programs Staff, at email@example.com, or Fax (202) 720-7990. Plant review by Brazilian (DIPOA) reviewers may be required for approval by Brazil. More information will be provided as it becomes available. The list of eligible plants for Brazil is updated periodically and is available in the FSIS Export Library.
- Casings are eligible from any federally inspected establishment.
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Jewelry artist Max Goodman will lead you through four fundamental techniques you can use to create a variety of unique accessories.
Max will show you how to string pearls, stones and beads as you master pearl knotting, as you learn about rhythm and flow in jewelry design. Discover wire wrapping as Max leads an up-close demonstration on how to link various elements using silver wire, then get into chain making — a seemingly intricate process that turns simple metal jump rings into exquisite strands. Finally, Max shares her tips and tricks for photo etching, an exciting technique used to transfer images to metal.
All of the projects in this course are designed for jewelers with a home studio, and include detailed information on tools and materials. Max's expert advice and encouragement will set you on the path to creating your own elegant jewelry.
Meet your teacher, Max Goodman, as she leads a discussion on the four different jewelry-making processes covered in the course as well as the materials needed for each process.
Learn the tools and materials you'll need in order to knot pearls successfully and how to use this technique on a variety of pieces.
Follow the process of knotting pearls into a bracelet or necklace, including tips on how to avoid mistakes and ways to make things easier on yourself.
Explore different clasps as Max demonstrates how to tie on a clasp and how to finish the piece so it will last.
Discover how to match your wire with your beads so that everything works together and learn several wire-wrapping techniques to create a wide assortment of pieces.
Learn how to size headpins, how to wrap them to various types of jewelry and how you can use headpins to add complexity within a relatively simple pattern.
Discover what makes briolettes unique, along with how to wrap them correctly and how to fit them to an earring or to a chain that will become either a bracelet or a necklace.
Master a simple chain-making technique as Max shows you some beautiful pieces that you can create using only pliers and some metal rings. You'll learn step by step the process for building a simple chain from scratch.
Build upon your chain making skills as Max demonstrates the more complex pattern of the Bird's Nest chain and shows you some ideas for adding elegance and custom elements to your pieces.
Learn the proper process for making chain maille, a form of jewelry derived from a style of medieval armor. You'll learn how to create a beautiful fabric-like appearance using metal rings.
Make your own jump rings from scratch as Max discusses why you would want to make your own, as opposed to buying machine-made jump rings.
Max introduces you to the exciting and versatile process of photo etching and its many applications for making jewelry. Create patterns to be etched into metal and review the safety precautions required for this process.
See how the etching process works on copper alloys, how to polish and fix your piece and how to ensure you have a successful piece when you're finished.
Max is a great teacher. The material is very well organized and logical and Max shows things clearly. This is my first Craftsy class, I'm just not one to take video courses, but this one has changed my mind! I've discovered that I love working with jump rings. Who knew?
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And that ear belonged to Jimmy Fallon.
In a queasy, brazen display of do-it-yourself chutzpah, the actor pierced the talk-show host's ear … right in front of a live audience on Friday's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
But it was Fallon's alternately petrified, amused and shrieking reaction that stole the show.
Here's how it all went down.
Ford – who sports a pierced ear of his own – stepped out onstage wearing a white doctor's lab coat, prompting Fallon to ask: "What's the worst that could happen to me? Could I get an infection?"
"Nah – you could bleed to death," deadpanned the characteristically droll actor, now starring in Ender's Game.
What followed was a sidesplitting play-by-play as Ford, 71, prepped Fallon, 39, for the procedure – and the talk-show host squirmed and squealed throughout.
"What a puss," Ford quipped at one point.
Afterward, Fallon proudly showed off the final result on his Instagram page, posting a photo of him wearing a red feather earring. (Ford himself donned a matching feather earring at the end of the segment.)
"Harrison Ford pierced my ear on our show tonight," Fallon captioned the snapshot, adding the hashtag: "#ThereWillBeBlood."
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Dental Hygiene
Dental hygienists are licensed oral health professionals who focus on preventing and treating oral diseases, both to protect teeth and gums, and also to protect patients total health. They are graduates of accredited dental hygiene education programs in colleges and universities, and must take written and clinical exams before they are allowed to practice. In addition to treating patients directly, dental hygienists also work as educators, researchers, and administrators.
Graduates who successfully pass the Dental Hygiene National Board examination and regional and/or state licensing exams are eligible to apply for licensure in states where they plan to practice.
The Tyler Junior College Department of Dental Hygiene is accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation under the following status: "approval without reporting requirements". The next site visit for the program is scheduled for 2016. See our related downloads for accreditation paperwork.
The Tyler Junior College (TJC) full-time curriculum in Dental Hygiene
- Leads to an Associate in Applied Science Degree in Dental Hygiene
- Begins in the summer session of each year.
- Enrollment is limited to accepted applicants.
- Holds full accreditation from the American Dental Association.
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a gay boxer
look at that fruit punch in the ring.
от Bang Johnson 21 април 2004
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Can you define these popular missing words?
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Marge: What happened to you?
Carol: I got fruit punched last night!
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When a man and a woman have shower sex while the woman is on her period. The period juice will mix with the shower water to make a small pool of liquid at the bottom of the shower. This is fruit punch.
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Celebrity Central / Top 25 Celebs
Jessica Biel
- 1990s
Biel's Big Break
By age 9, Biel is already a regular on the Boulder, Colo. musical theatre circuit and a seasoned model. After appearing in ad campaigns for the apparel firm Limited Too, she makes her television debut appearance in a Pringles commercial. In 1994, she enters the International Modeling and Talent Association competition in L.A. and wins a scholarship to an acting school, Young Actors Space, where she is discovered by her first manager Jeff Morrone.
- 1996
Pilot Season
After three years of spring trips to L.A. for what is known as "pilot season," the time of year when potential new shows are hiring actors, 14-year-old Biel earns a spot on the Aaron Spelling-produced drama 7th Heaven. She plays Mary Camden, the oldest daughter of a suburban minister's five children.
- 1997
Onto the Silver Screen
Biel's first feature film Ulee's Gold puts her toe-to-toe with screen legend Peter Fonda. The film centers on a widowed, reclusive beekeeper (Fonda) taking care of his two young granddaughters, played by Biel and Vanessa Zima. Despite the strong start, Biel auditions, but is not called back, for the role of Jane in American Beauty (a role that went to Thora Birch). Biel later blames the slight on her squeaky-clean image as a preacher's daughter on 7th Heaven.
- 2000
Gearing Up
Biel poses topless with her arms placed over her breasts in a cover spread for men's magazine Gear. She curses wildly in the interview and proclaims her desire to have a fistfight with her 7th Heaven character. She also mentions that to get a rise out of one of her female costars, she frequently grabs the costar's breasts and says, "Look at the size of these things." It is widely reported that Biel strategically sought a raunchy magazine to get released from the Christian-themed show.
Back to School
After her Gear shoot causes a stir with Aaron Spelling, Biel's role on 7th Heaven is scaled down. Between guest spots on the show, Biel appears in the Freddie Prinze Jr. comedy Summer Catch and the drama The Rules of Attraction. During this time, she studies for three semesters at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
- 2003
Chainsaw Ka-Ching
The remake of cult classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre brings in $28.1 million its opening weekend – the second-highest-grossing October release at that time. As Biel's first starring role, it proves she can headline a movie and bring home the popcorn.
- 2004
Raunchy Regrets
Four years after her controversial Gear photo spread, Biel asserts that she was taken advantage of and made a crucial mistake. "I wanted to please people, and I got in over my head," she tells the Boston Herald. "My family was humiliated and so upset. And my grandmother – my poor grandmother. I would love to take it back."
Action Woman
Biel stars in two action films, Blade: Trinity and Stealth, with the latter doing well at the box office. Biel works out six days every week for her role in Blade and continues training to portray her toned fighter pilot character in Stealth. "The machine that I used to shoot the ejection sequence made me sick everyday," she tells ABC News of her Stealth training. "This movie is a serious film, and I don't believe I was hired for my looks. But even this film has a scene with me in a bikini. That's how Hollywood works."
- 2005
In her first non-action movie role since Ulee's Gold, Biel has a small part opposite Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst in the Cameron Crowe film Elizabethtown. The film is panned at the Toronto Film Festival, but Biel is glad to have broken out of Stealth mode. "I was determined not to be Hollywood's new action chick," Biel tells the Orange County Register. "I have more to offer than that."
Esquire's Queen
Biel's celebrity status rises when Esquire magazine names her the Sexiest Woman Alive. "My brother teased me endlessly about that story," Biel recalls in an interview with the Allentown, Pa. newspaper The Morning Call. "He's 21, and when he read the article, he was just like, 'Eww. Whatever. You're not hot.' When I was reading about my 'luscious feet and toes,' I went, 'What? This is really embarrassing.' And, believe me, my friends gave me so much crap about that."
Photo Credits
BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): CLASSMATES YEARBOOK ARCHIVES; MPTV; JOHN BRAMLEY/ORION PICTURES; New Line Cinema/Everett; Diyah Pera/New Line/Wireimage; Paramount/Everett
- Name
- Jessica Biel
- Date of Birth
- March 03, 1982
- Birth Place
- Ely, Minn.
- Relationships
Justin Timberlake, husband (2007 to present)
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Hal Koerner can go back home to his running store in Ashland, Ore., with order restored. He�ll take the prestigious 2012 Hardrock 100 Endurance Run title with him.
Koerner, a 35-year-old ultrarunner with big wins to his credit, made a bold move climbing up the Camp Bird Road out of Ouray late Friday, propelling him to eventual victory in the annual Hardrock 100.
Wearing his trademark blue headband, the bearded Koerner crossed the finish line in downtown Silverton on Saturday morning and kissed the finish-line rock after 24 hours, 50 minutes and 10 seconds of running � the third fastest time in Hardrock history.
Joe Grant, a native Canadian who lives and trains on Colorado�s Front Range, finished second in 25 hours, 6 minutes, 22 seconds � the fourth fastest Hardrock time ever.
Durango�s Dakota Jones, who ran among the leaders for nearly three-quarters of the race, came across in third place in 25:45 after struggling over the final 20 miles. Jones, at 21 the youngest runner in the field of 140, finished third one year after his runner-up result � in a time that would have won previous races.
Darcy Africa, a 37-year-old mother from Boulder, won the Hardrock women�s division, ending Diana Finkel�s unprecedented streak of four consecutive Hardrock victories.
Finkel from South Fork was on pace for her fifth consecutive victory through 85 miles. Leading the women�s field, Finkel experienced problems 15 miles from the finish and was forced to abandon the race at the Maggie�s aid station. Race officials later reported Finkel was recovering and feeling fine.
�This has to be one of the happiest moments of my racing career,� the men�s champion said after easing into a chair at the finish line � the first time Koerner was off his feet in more than 24 hours.
�I thought of myself as somewhat of a mountain runner in the past. But then I kind of lost it,� Koerner said. �So to come back and win this ... it�s incredible.
�I really wanted to come back home to Colorado and run well,� said Koerner, who grew up in Parker.
�Everybody stayed conservative early on, which I thought was good,� he said.
A group of up to seven runners ran together all the way to Telluride (28 miles) from the start.
�I had a number of guys to run with. Joe (Grant) and Dakota (Jones) ran really hard. They ran well,� he said.
�I had spent last week in Ouray,� Koerner said of his prerace training that included scouting runs on various sections of the 100-mile course around the San Juan Mountains.
�My plan was to run the Camp Bird Road really hard and then Bear Creek really hard. That�s where I thought I�d make a move on those guys,� he said of the familiar routes and hiking trails in the Ouray region.
�I got like 15 minutes (on the competition) by the top of that climb,� he said of the race�s decisive move when he pulled away from Grant and Jones.
The runners encountered their only substantial rain coming out of Telluride on Friday evening.
�The storm moved in. It actually was kind of nice because it cooled things off,� Koerner said. �But it got a little chilly up top (after climbing out of Telluride).�
In spite of the lead he built in the second half of the race, Koerner said he was worried about Jones and Grant over the final section in the predawn hour Saturday.
At one point, he could see their headlamps and flashlights getting closer.
�I was moving pretty slow. Above 12 (12,000 feet), I wasn�t breathing too well,� Koerner said. But the veteran trail runner, a two-time winner of the Western States 100 in California, held off Grant�s charge to take his first Hardrock victory in his second attempt.
The only other problems he encountered were the Great Pyrenees which were out on sheep patrol in Cunningham Gulch. The Pyrenean Mountain Dogs work herds in the area.
�When the dogs came up on us, they were not happy,� said Koerner, who said he had advance warning about the livestock dogs.
�We just yelled out at them to go away, but they gave us some pretty crazy body language for awhile,� said Koerner, who was accompanied into Silverton by his final pace runner, wife Carly.
�You can�t do this alone,� he said. �It takes a lot. My grandmother flew out from West Virginia. I had two crew people, and my parents were here. And they are out here all day, too. I think that�s a pretty neat thing about this.�
His team helped Koerner save face back at his Rogue Valley Runners store in Ashland.
�It�s kind of a standing joke,� Koerner said. �The winner of the 2012 Western States works at my shop in Ashland. He�s a friend of mine. He lives there. We run together,� Koerner said of another decorated ultrarunner, Tim Olson.
�I paced him at Western States when he won and set the course record. So the people (around Ashland) were saying I was just going to be known as a �pacer.� So this is a little redemption.�
His diet for the race, which actually covered 102.5 miles, was simple, he said.
�Just goo (gel), and I think I took two handfuls of Fritos,� said Koerner, who said altitude training before the race was critical to his success.
In addition to a week in Ouray, Koerner has been sleeping in an altitude tent to prepare for the Hardrock test, which took runners to the 14,000-foot summit of Handies Peak. Much of the course was above 10,000 feet.
�I think that was huge. There�s no way you can do this race without it (altitude acclimation),� he said.
The altitude factored into the women�s race, too. Both Africa and Finkel felt the effects.
�The altitude was challenging for me,� Africa said after winning in her third Hardrock attempt. She was second to Finkel the last two years. She finished 11th overall this year.
Africa overcame the altitude obstacles, then ran into an emotional hard rock near the finish Saturday.
�I was sad to see that Diana had to drop. That was hard,� Africa said.
�I felt for her. She�s been a champion here for a long time, and I have a lot of respect for her,� Africa said of Finkel, the only four-time women�s winner in Hardrock history.
�It has not set in yet ... it hasn�t set in,� Africa repeated in her postrace interview. �It didn�t even set in when I saw Diana (sitting at the Maggie aid station).�
Finkel will remain one Hardrock victory behind five-time men�s winner Karl Meltzer of Sandy, Utah, affectionately known as the King of the Hardrock.
Meltzer, 44, shuffled back to Silverton in seventh place Saturday despite struggling to complete the final 10 miles.
�Oh, I was going to finish. There was no doubt about that,� said Meltzer, sitting in the shade near the finish rock. He was forced out of the 2011 Hardrock and vowed to complete the loop in 2012.
Meltzer, who briefly led the race after the Ouray checkpoint, did just that in 28 hours and 44 minutes, his seventh Hardrock finish (all in the top 10 with five wins).
Grant said the course conditions made for fast times this year.
�The course is different with no snow,� the runner-up said. �The (stream crossings) were ankle deep, and last year they were waist deep, nearly chest deep.�
Running with a group to Telluride made the first miles pleasant, he said.
�They are all friends of mine. It�s a great course, and it�s great to share it with them,� Grant said.
�Then (Koerner) took off on Camp Bird. I thought he was going to blow up, but he didn�t,� said Grant, who finally pulled ahead of Jones as they came out of Maggie�s Gulch at the 85-mile mark.
�I felt pretty good until the Sherman aid station, Then, I kind of fell apart,� said Jones, a former Durango High School runner.
�I just couldn�t move that quick. My quads were shot. ... I did a lot of walking, more walking that I wanted to; it was tough,� he said.
Jones said running much of the course with Koerner and Grant added an element of camaraderie during the ordeal along with the people at the aid stations and scattered along the remote course.
�There were people (cheering) everywhere, people in surprising places,� Jones said. �At the top of a lot of the passes, there were people. There were people at the top of Handies, in the dark.�
Behind Koerner, Grant and Jones, Nick Pedatella of Boulder, 26, finished fourth (28:03:30).
Ted Mahon of Aspen, a ski mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest two years ago, passed 22 runners over the final 30 miles and finished fifth in his fifth Hardrock race wearing bib No. 5.
�I think that should put me at the front of the food line next year,� said Mahon, who was paced by two Aspen runners � Neal Beidelman and Chris Davenport � who also have summited Everest.
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Earlier this week, market research firm
Canalys reported that Google's Android OS is the top
player in the U.S. smartphone market. Canalys' research indicated
that Android OS commands 34 percent of the market, while RIM and
Apple trail behind at 32 percent and 21.7 percent respectively.
Better known NPD Group released
its own Q2 2010 numbers today and they closely mirror the Canalys
numbers (with the exception of it showing a steeper decline for RIM).
NPD indicates that Android OS, BlackBerry OS, and iOS have market
share numbers of 33 percent, 28 percent, and 22 percent respectively.
Google of course was the big winner,
but the report shows that RIM was the biggest loser -- the company
lost 9 points of market share during the quarter.
"For the second consecutive
quarter, Android handsets have shown strong but slowing sell-through
market share gains among U.S. consumers," said Ross Rubin,
executive director of industry analysis at NPD. "While the
Google-developed OS took market share from RIM, Apple's iOS saw a
small gain this quarter on the strength of the iPhone 4 launch."
Even though the Motorola
Droid is practically an old man compared to the latest Android
devices that have been released, it was the Android hardware sales
leader for Q2. It was followed by the HTC
Droid Incredible, HTC
EVO 4G, HTC Hero, and HTC Droid Eris.
The onslaught of fresh Android is still
ongoing as the Motorola
Droid X was recently launched and the followup to the original
Motorola Droid, the Droid
2, will launch in the coming weeks. And there's also the rumored
dual-core HTC Glacier that will reportedly be landing
on T-Mobile's wireless network.
In other smartphone news, NPD also
reported that when it comes to units sold, Verizon is still the clear
leader with 33 percent of the market. AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile
trail behind at 25 percent, 12 percent, and 11 percent respectively.
quote: 1. Gmail – Believe it or not, while the overall experience might not be better, my Gmail consistently arrives in Nokia Messaging on my Nokia N97 a good 5-7 seconds faster than it does on the HTC Eris. - application and/or settings, not OS
quote: 2. Multitasking – both platforms multitask easily, and while Android does a better job of intelligently managing those applications for you, the actual experience is much better on Symbian. - Pure opinion, and he's 1/2 in the camp for android (BY the way Palms web OS blows them both away.)
quote: 3. Twitter – I'm a power user of Twitter, and actively manage 3 different accounts. Thus, finding a suitable Twitter app on various platforms is quite a challenge. On Android, I was using Twidroid - Again, personal opinion, and app related, not OS
quote: 4. Last.FM – Android has a native Last.FM app, straight from the company, so you'd think it'd be way better than Mobbler, which is independently developed by a 3rd party Again, personal opinion, and app related, not OS
quote: 5. Waze – Waze is actually much better on Symbian, again for a few reasons. Again, personal opinion, and app related, not OS
quote: 6. Music – the sound quality on my Nokia N97 is much better than my HTC Eris - hardware, and app, not OS
quote: In a phone OS, most people want to see ease of one handed use, an intuitive UI, and things that work and work with ease. Symban lacks


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Newly completed research summaries available from Leopold Center
AMES, Iowa—Summaries of three recently completed research projects are now available from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. The projects were funded by the Center's long-running Competitive Grants Program. The reports summarize how each project was conducted and what was learned.
The three research projects are:


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Omarosa Manigault Dating Titus O'Neil
The Celebrity Apprentice contestant seems to have found love again, nearly one year after the death of her fiancé, Oscar nominee Michael Clark Duncan.
Manigault, 39, began dating WWE star Titus O'Neil, 36, after the two were introduced by their mutual friend Jawn Murray at the WWE Superstars of Hope Party in Beverly Hills in August, a source tells PEOPLE exclusively.
"She's been really apprehensive about dating since Michael died," the source said of Manigault, who kept vigil by Duncan's hospital bed for 50 days after his July 2012 heart attack and still has pictures of him on her Twitter page. "But everyone who loves her has been encouraging her to step out and try it again. So far, things seem to be going good. They seem really happy together."
The bi-coastal couple – O'Neil lives in Tampa and she's in Los Angeles – make their long-distance relationship work by video-chatting often. O'Neil has also flown Manigault to visit him when he's performing in WWE shows across the country.
On Aug. 19, Manigault Instagrammed a photo of O'Neil during a match. "Watching Monday Night WWE Raw with my nephew and we are cheering for WWE superstar, my tag team partner @TitusONeilWWE #BlessedLife" she said.
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Rich Skrosky Named Head Football Coach at Elon
Rich Skrosky, who has spent the last three seasons as Ball State's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, has been named the head football coach at Elon.
"It is with mixed emotions I am leaving Ball State to take the head coaching position at Elon," Skrosky says. "It is an opportunity at this point in my career I could not pass up. Head coaching positions do not come along very often, and when this one did, I felt I had to pursue it.
"I cannot thank the offensive staff and players enough for all they have done over the last three seasons. They epitomize what college athletics is all about. It was a group of people who share a common cause and come to work every day to fulfill that responsibility. This has been the most gratifying three seasons of my professional career. It is because of these people I have the opportunity at Elon. I will be forever indebted. I would like to thank Coach Pete Lembo for all the support he has given me over these past three seasons as well as our time at Elon.
"I would also like to thank Ball State for all the support and giving us this opportunity, and a thank you to all the Ball State community and families of the players that have shown an unbelievable amount of friendship and support to my wife, Suzanne, and myself in our time in Muncie."
Skrosky has helped the Cardinals to a 25-12 record over the past three years and back-to-back bowl appearances after the 2012 and 2013 seasons. The architect of Ball State's record-setting offense, Skrosky helped the team to a 10-2 record in 2013 after a 9-4 mark and a trip to the Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg in 2012. The Cardinals will compete in the GoDaddy Bowl Jan. 5, 2014.
"This is an exciting day for both the Ball State and Elon football programs," Lembo says. "Rich has been a major contributor to our success over the last eight years at both institutions. We are very happy he is getting the opportunity to go back to a special community and become a head coach. We will miss Rich, but he will remain an integral member of our football family."
Having just completed his 30th year as a football coach, Skrosky coordinated a passing offense that ranked ninth in the nation with 333.3 yards per game this season. He tutored quarterback Keith Wenning and wide receiver Willie Snead, who were semifinalists for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award and the Fred Biletnikoff Award, respectively, in 2013. Wenning led the Mid-American Conference and ranked fifth nationally in both passing yards (3,933) and passing touchdowns (34) during the 2013 regular season. Snead led the MAC and ranked fourth in the country in receiving yards (1,429) and receiving touchdowns (14) – both Ball State single-season school records.
Wenning holds the Ball State career records for completions, attempts, passing yards and passing touchdowns. Under Skrosky's tutelage, the Ball State quarterback posted the top three single-season completions totals in school history along with three of the top five marks for single-season passing yardage and passing touchdowns.
Skrosky engineered a 2013 offense that was the first in Ball State history to feature two 1,000-yard receivers (Snead and Jordan Williams) and the first to boast three receivers with at least eight touchdown catches (Snead, Williams and Jamill Smith). The Cardinals have also featured a potent rushing attack under Skrosky with Jahwan Edwards running for 38 touchdowns in just three seasons to set the school's career record. Edwards rushed for 1,410 yards in 2012, marking the third best single-season total in Ball State history.
Skrosky coached the offensive line under Ball State head coach Pete Lembo at Elon from 2006-08 and was promoted to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the 2009 and 2010 seasons. Elon led the Southern Conference and ranked sixth in the country with 291.5 passing yards per game in 2009 plus ranked in the top 20 nationally in pass efficiency and total offense.
Skrosky, who is married to Suzanne Quentz, served as the head coach at his alma mater, Ramapo, in 1992 after serving as the school's offensive coordinator in 1990 and 1991. He also served as acting head coach at Columbia and Monmouth during his career.


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a sexual position, the meaning of which is having sexual relations in the backseat of a car.There are many variations such as the yellow webby, or doing it on a school bus, the black webby or doing it in a limo, and the red webby doing it on a firetruck. The blue webby, or on a snowmobile There is also the hot crossed webby which is a threesome in a backseat
whats that sound? Oh two people are webbying in that car.
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Very charming, outgoing personality. Tough to figure out at first, however worth the effort in the long run.(usually a person)
by Katerina October 14, 2003
You find a Webby on the internet and he slowly worms his way into your heart until you couldn't imagine life without him.
OOOOoooh yay, I found a Webby
by caroline June 11, 2004
A slang term meaning "website".
The TV I wanted at Best Buy was not available in the store, so I purchased it on their webby.
by wxflurry February 17, 2014
website/Web site/web site/or, site
Today, I visited the webby of One Direction as well as the webby of The Wanted and found that both bands are boy bands/boybands from the United Kingdom!
by Jesus Chameleon July 16, 2012
A horrible umpire for baseball who has a strike zone six feet high and three feet wide. He will signal safe and call out, while yelling "Fair Ball!" He is almost always drunk before games, and, "Just wants to get out of here." He is hated by almost every player he has every umpired for.
"Dude did you see that call last night?"
No, I was too busy doing homework.
"Yeah, it was crazy. The ump totally blew it."
Sounds a lot like Webby.
"Nah, no one's that bad.
No, I was too busy doing homework.
"Yeah, it was crazy. The ump totally blew it."
Sounds a lot like Webby.
"Nah, no one's that bad.
by falcons52 May 01, 2010
Adjective - Describes the amount of web development involved in creating an online application
This course selector app is really webby.
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on December 22, 2012 - 10:06 PM
Dec. 11
A house in the 1000 block of Fairfield Avenue in Niagara Falls was broken into, and copper pipe and furniture were stolen.
The owner's brother told police that the house is currently unoccupied, but his brother stays there when he is in town.
A window on a rear door was smashed to gain entry, and walls damaged to strip an unknown amount of copper pipe from a second floor bathroom. A water meter and a dining room table and four chairs were reported stolen. Other personal items in the house were not stolen, police said.
• A Grand Island contractor told Niagara Falls police that tools were stolen from a job site in the 2200 block of Grand Avenue sometime over the weekend.
The contractor told police that he left the tools at the house late last week, and when he returned Tuesday he found that a framing gun, two screw guns and a saw were gone. Total loss $1,125.
The homeowner told police that a man who worked with them and another man asked to be let in to retrieve some tools for another job. The victim said the man had worked for him one day and could be considered a suspect.
Dec. 12
Police from Niagara Falls and the U.S. Border Patrol were joined by Lewiston K-9 units to probe a reported burglary in progress at the closed Fallside Hotel in the 400 block of Buffalo Avenue.
Security at the hotel called for help at 3:30 p.m. when they saw a suspicious man inside the closed hotel who ducked down when they looked through the window.
Police set up a perimeter, but the man was not found after a two-hour search. During the search, police did find copper pipes rolled in a blanket inside a room and said boards that had been used to secure the main entrance were ripped off to gain entry.
• A contractor working on a vacant house in the 1800 block of Ontario Avenue in Niagara Falls reported that copper and an air conditioning unit had been stolen.
The contractor said someone removed a window from the west side of the house and took $800 worth of copper from the basement and bathroom. An air conditioning unit, valued at $1,000, was taken from the rear of the house.
The theft happened sometime in June or July, according to the contractor, who reported the damage Wednesday. Total damage was listed at $5,000. No explanation was given for why the contractor knew the thefts occurred last summer or why they were just being reported now.
• A Niagara Falls 18-year-old was granted youthful offender status, but also was sentenced to two years in jail, for his role in a Town of Niagara burglary and a drug possession case.
The 13th Street resident joined Joseph M. DiLaura III, 19, of Lindbergh Avenue, in backing up a vehicle to a Grauer Road home Jan. 10 and carrying out more than $30,000 worth of property. DiLaura is serving five years in state prison for that and a July 2011 house burglary on Stephenson Avenue in the Falls.
The 18-year-old pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree burglary and fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. The latter charge was for selling cocaine in North Tonawanda June 20.
Dec. 13
Steven J. Hummel, 20, of Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, pleaded not guilty in State Supreme Court to a four-count indictment accusing him of selling prescription painkillers.
Hummel is charged with two counts each of fourth-degree criminal sale and fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance. He allegedly sold buprenorphine March 16 and 20 in North Tonawanda.
In another North Tonawanda painkiller case, Daniel P. Schwartz, 32, of Main Street, City of Tonawanda, admitted to seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance for illegally having hydrocodone in North Tonawanda Feb. 24. Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas scheduled sentencing for March 21.
• A Buffalo man failed to show up for sentencing in Niagara County Court last year has been recommended for the state's "shock incarceration" prison program.
If Michael A. Frears, 19, of Barton Street, doesn't succeed in the six-month boot camp program, he'll serve one to three years in a regular cell, Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas said.
After he gets out, he will have to pay $1,105 in restitution for the all terrain vehicle he stole.
Frears pleaded guilty in January 2011 to a reduced charge of attempted third-degree burglary. He was one of three Buffalo teens who stole four ATVs in Wheatfield June 22, 2010. However, Frears skipped out on his April 2011 sentencing date and eluded police until July of this year.
Dec. 14
Area police investigated a pair of identity theft complaints, including one in which an elderly city man's credit card was used several times after being lost.
The LaSalle-area resident told police he lost the card at a Military Road restaurant on Dec. 4, and later learned that it had been fraudulently used on several occasions at area stores. The account has since been canceled.
A Lockport resident reported a similar incident, with the only exception being that she was still in possession of her debit card. The Royal Parkway North resident learned that someone in Brooklyn had made nearly $400 in purchases on her account, before her bank closed the account due to suspicious activity.
She told investigators she did not know how anyone could have gotten hold of her personal information.
Dec. 15
A 23-year-old Olcott man told police he was attacked after being invited to a Grace Avenue home.
The victim told sheriff's deputies that a woman invited him to the home but that when he arrived around 2:30 a.m., a man confronted him as he exited his vehicle. He was punched repeatedly in the face and thrown into some nearby bushes. The victim then drove off and to a nearby emergency room, where he was treated for multiple injuries.
Deputies said they have applied for an arrest warrant for the assailant.
• A 19-year-old Medina resident was pulled over for a lane violation and ended up being arrested for driving under the influence of drugs, sheriff's deputies said.
Shane E. Kruger of Brenner Place was pulled over just before 7 p.m. on Shimer Drive in Lockport, according to reports, and later failed several field sobriety tests. Kruger reportedly told deputies that he had smoked pot within two hours of driving.
He was charged with failure to keep right and two other traffic violations, in addition to the impaired count.
Dec. 16
A Niagara Falls woman went to retrieve her coat after church, only to find that it had been stolen, police said.
The 77th Street woman was about to leave a Main Street church at 11:30 a.m. when she discovered that her $100 coat was missing from a back room. A fellow parishioner told of seeing a woman – not believed to be a member of the church – going through the room during the church service.
Police said that another woman's Bible bag had been gone through and moved, possibly by someone believing it to be a purse.
• Niagara Falls police arrested a man after he reportedly assaulted a 17-year-old inside a Niagara Falls Boulevard motel.
John E. Welch Jr., 52, who listed an address inside the Pelican Motel, was charged with second-degree menacing at 3 a.m.
The victim, also a resident of the motel, told police that Welch came to his room yelling and demanding money, and jumped on him after being told he had none. The victim was put into a headlock and threatened with a knife before the incident was broken up by others in the area, police said.


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on February 23, 2013 - 11:51 PM
The Elma Town Board has named two residents to the Moratorium Committee, along with several from the town's various auxiliary boards, to review and update the town's building codes in relation to multiple dwellings over two units. The committee is headed by Councilman James Malczewski, who will also serve as president.
Representing the Town Board along with Malczewski will be Councilman Tracy Petrocy.
The board received six letters and resumes from residents expressing interest in serving on the committee.
Longtime residents Joshua Blair and Jeff Breidenstein, who both have real estate experience, were added to the committee.
Planning Board President Tom Reid and Michael Cirocco, Zoning Board of Appeals President Robert Schafer, Ray Boy of the Conservation Board and Town Attorney Phyllis Todoro and Building Inspector Joseph Colern will also serve on the committee. Diane Rohl will serve as secretary of the committee and Councilman Michael Nolan will serve as an alternate for the town. Drew Reilly of Wendel Duchsherer will advise.
Malczewski, owner of Modern Building Development Inc., was prompted to recommend the committee after a review of the code books showed that multiple building codes had not been updated since 1996 and no permit fees were on the books relating to any multiple buildings larger than two-family buildings.
The board set the moratorium at the request of Malczewski at the Jan. 9 work session, two days after local developer Bryan Young had attempted to apply for a permit for 14 four-unit apartment buildings on an 80-acre site, previously Camp Centerland on Bullis Road. The moratorium went into effect immediately as an emergency bridge measure, and a public hearing was held later.


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on January 24, 2013 - 5:40 PM
NIAGARA FALLS – The owner of a house on C Street that has been vacant for more than two months reported a theft of more than $2,000 worth copper pipe and wiring.
The owner told police Wednesday that he had not been in the house for the past week. He said in that time someone had entered the house and took all the copper pipe out of the walls and also ripped an unknown amount of copper electric wiring out of the walls, causing an additional $1,000 worth of damage to the drywall.


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Jefferson County looks ahead
Envision 2035 forming plan for the future
January 31, 2013
CHARLES TOWN — Using their lunch break to work on the future of the county, members of Jefferson County's comprehensive plan steering committee gathered to study the role of parks and recreational......
Obviously, socialism and how we can spend someone else's money is what Jefferson County continues to envision through 2035...
I envision government sticking to it essential core functions and letting people keep their money for what they deem best.
But that doesn't buy someone else their pool complex on my dime, so I guess my family loses again... Pathetic.
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You apparently know more about Glenn Beck than I do. Your point?
How is that fascism?
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Squirm is getting "news" from John Stewart LOL.
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Another 30$ k taxpayer wasted on a buried plan
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Well, that part was easy.
Two days after receiving Altoona's Act 47 financial recovery plan from consultant Stevens & Lee, City Manager Joe Weakland has created a balanced draft budget for next year.
Ultimately, this is what Act 47 is about: making ends meet.
In the short term, based on the draft 2013 budget, the plan will achieve that objective, provided City Council approves a version of the recovery plan next month that includes a hike in earned income tax.
That hike, 0.25 percentage points for residents and 0.15 percentage points for non-residents for the first year, will provide an additional $2.1 million for next year.
That by itself will more than wipe out the $515,000 projected overall deficit predicted for next year in the recovery plan's Appendix 2, creating a surplus, which Weakland plans to put into a contingency fund.
The plan recommends the city maintain a fund balance surplus of 5 percent of the budget each year.
The recovery plan projections on page 308 of the PDF version of the plan show that this year is ending with better results than initially expected.
Officials last year talked of an operational deficit for 2012 that the city's fund balance could only just cover.
According to the recovery plan chart, however, the city's 2012 budget, while predicting an operational deficit of $1.6 million, initially projected enough of a beginning fund balance to leave $1 million at the end.
As 2012 nears its conclusion, the operational deficit will be even less - $1.3 million. The projected ending fund balance will be more - $1.6 million.
In addition to the additional earned income tax revenue enabled by Act 47, Weakland's new draft budget will include an increase of 10 percent for fee and license charges and other revenues provided by plan-suggested "initiatives."
It will not include a 4 percent reduction of expenses other than personnel and utility costs, as recommended in the plan.
"Can't do it," Weakland said.
Management has been going over the budget to reduce the reducible items for years, Weakland said.
Mayor Bill Schirf, who has been holding office hours at City Hall for anyone who wants to discuss the plan, was pleased at Weakland's draft budget proposal.
"This is the way we should be doing business," he said. "I think there will be a balanced budget for the next four years."


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FREMONT - Chet Swartzmiller and Robert Kniss each finished in the top 10 of the St. Joe Central Catholic Invitational, pushing the Chieftains to a first-place finish Tuesday.
The Chieftains finished with 65 points, edging Otsego on a tiebreaker. Carey finished third with 69 points, while Calvert (127) took sixth and St. Wendelin (229) ended eighth.
Swartzmiller ran seventh in 17:52.68, while Kniss finished right behind him in 17:59.42.
Carey's Michael Patton came in fifth (17:51.59). Right behind him was St. Wendelin's Jordan Nye, who finished in 17:51.83. Carey's Brayden Leist finished 10th.
Calvert's top finisher was Austin Schultz, who took 12th (18:09.71).
Lake's Tyler Rickman won in 16:40.33.
Chieftains turn back SW girls
FREMONT - Hopewell-Loudon held off St. Wendelin 84-93 Tuesday for the girls title at the Fremont St. Joe Central Catholic Invitational.
Erin Reinhart-Anez's fourth (21:32.98) led the Chieftains to the crown, with Shelby Raudebaugh adding a sixth (21:51.66).
Kailey Coleman added a 23rd (22:53.05) and Leah Reinhart (23:13.59) and Haley Schreiner (23:17.54) ran 25th and 26th. Katelyn Brickner (40th, 24:39.3) and Morgan Brant (42nd, 24:53.89) rounded out the title team.
Jocelyn Reinhart's second (21:15.61) and Victoria Volpe's third (21:27.1) for St. Wendelin led all local efforts.
Sara Goddard added an 11th (21:58.22) for the runner-up Mohawks, Karin Goddard clocked in 28th (23:26.6), Sammie Digby ended 55th (26:05.7) and Kyra Weber finished 61st (27:10.89).
Calvert nipped Carey 104-105 for third, and New Riegel came in fifth (135).
Morgan Smith claimed seventh (21:54.61) for Calvert and Sydney Berlekamp ended 18th (22:29.64).
Carey got a 10th from Jaclyn Troiano (21:57.32) and a 14th from Sarah Walter (22:17.35).
New Riegel's Ashley Mathias (21:54.85) and Abby Cassidy (21:56.23) ran eighth and ninth.
Miller leads Rams to seventh
CRESTLINE - Upper Sandusky's Garrett Miller claimed second at the Crestline Invitational, and the Rams finished seventh at the meet overall.
Miller ran in 17:22, trailing only Cardington Lincoln's Jacob Long, who won in 16:39.77. The Rams' Dominic Solis also had a strong day, taking seventh (17:50.8).
Colonel Crawford won the meet with 50 points, while Buckeye Central finished 14th out of 15 teams.
Buckeye Central's top runner was Sam Robertson, who took 75th (21:15.2).
Upper Sandusky's girls ended fifth in their meet with 130 points. Buckeye Central did not field a full team.
Katlin Rowe (23:14.86) and Kirsten Gardner (23:22.93) ran 17th and 18th for Upper Sandusky.
Buckeye Central got a 31st from Lizabeth Figueroa (24:19.86) and a 42nd from Laura Metzger (25:08.31).


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|Using Light to Control How X Rays Interact with Matter
Schemes that use one light pulse to manipulate interactions of another with matter are well developed in the visible-light regime where an optical control pulse influences how an optical probe pulse interacts with a medium. This approach has opened new research directions in fields like quantum computing and nonlinear optics, while also spawning entirely new research areas, such as electromagnetically induced transparency and slow light. However, it has been unclear whether similar optical control schemes could be used to modify how x rays interact with matter. In a dramatic breakthrough demonstration at the ALS, a Berkeley Lab–Argonne National Laboratory group has now used powerful visible-light lasers to render a nominally opaque material transparent to x rays. While x-ray transparency will have immediate applications at x-ray light sources, the important result is that the findings lay a foundation for a broader spectrum of applications.
The underlying control mechanism is the light-induced creation of coherence between eigenstates of electrons in a material. This means that, for a two-state system, light forces electrons to exist in both states simultaneously rather than in one state or the other. This light–matter system can have fundamentally different properties from the matter system in isolation, properties that can be controlled by varying the properties of the optical control beam. Problems arise, however, when the probe pulse lies in the x-ray regime because x rays interact most strongly with the tightly bound (core) electrons in a material, leaving behind a "core hole" that is rapidly filled by more weakly bound electrons, thereby disrupting the optically imposed coherence and destroying the control.
Similar disruptive events occur for visible probe pulses, but the key difference for x-ray interactions is that the disruptive events occur about a thousand times more rapidly than for visible-light interactions. While the problems associated with a short coherence time can be mitigated by using very intense optical control pulses, the high intensity creates a different set of scientific problems. New technical problems also arise. For example, ultrashort optical pulses are needed to achieve high intensity and the x-ray pulse duration should be matched to the optical pulse duration, thereby requiring femtosecond x-ray pulses.
To address this issue, the Berkeley Lab–Argonne team collaborated on a series of experiments at ALS Beamline 6.0.2, which offers femtosecond-duration x-ray pulses and is one of only a handful of places worldwide where the experiment could be done. In the experiment, an intense femtosecond optical pulse co-propagated with a femtosecond x-ray (~900-eV) pulse through a neon-filled gas cell. Without the optical pulse, x rays were heavily attenuated by the neon gas, but with it, the x-ray transmission increased dramatically (by about a factor of three). The transparent window created by the light pulse lasted just 70 fs, short enough to be used to characterize x rays on ultrashort time scales. For example, the research team used this window to measure the duration of a femtosecond x-ray pulse, a heretofore difficult challenge. This capability should help to further develop ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy.
Future research will focus on using similarly transparent windows to shape x-ray pulses on a femtosecond time scale, a capability that opens the door to new areas of x-ray research such as quantum control of chemical reactions, a discipline now well developed in the visible regime, where shaped pulses are used to control the evolution of chemical reactions. It also lays a foundation for investigating a broader spectrum of ways to use light to control how x rays interact with matter. One interesting possibility is using light to enhance cross sections for nonlinear x-ray scattering. Developing nonlinear spectroscopy in the x-ray regime is currently hampered by weak cross sections for nonlinear x-ray scattering.
Research conducted by T.E. Glover, M.P. Hertlein, and B. Rude (ALS); J. van Tilborg and A. Belkacem (Berkeley Lab); S. Southworth, E.P. Kanter, B. Krässig, H. Varma, and L. Young (Argonne National Laboratory); T.K. Allison (Berkeley Lab and University of California, Berkeley); and R. Santra (Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago).
Research funding: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Operation of the ALS is supported by BES.
Publication about this research: T.E. Glover, M.P. Hertlein, S.H. Southworth, T.K. Allison, J. van Tilborg, E.P. Kanter, B. Krässig, H.R. Varma, B. Rude, R. Santra, A. Belkacem, and L. Young, "Controlling x-rays with light," Nature Physics 6, 69 (2009).


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A fire on Second Avenue forced one family out of its home early Friday, although for 10-month old Kaidynce Morales, it was just another night.
"She's pretty good," said Kaidynce's mother, Kristina Rogers, 26, of 909 Second Ave., where city firefighters responded at 4:42 a.m. to find flames running along the outside wall of the home.
"She was sleeping the whole time," Rogers said.
Rogers, along with her boyfriend, Victor Morales, 31, their infant daughter and the family dog escaped the home safely after a smoke alarm woke Rogers, she said.
"It was smoky but I couldn't see any fire," Rogers said.
She walked outside and a neighbor told her her house was on fire, she said.
Flames were poking out the eaves and an outside wall when firefighters arrived from Station 3 on Crawford Avenue, Altoona Fire Department Deputy Chief Mike Tofano said.
"The fire just ran the walls, basically all the way up," Tofano said.
The fire started in a first-floor wall and was caused by electrical wiring, Tofano said. A preliminary estimate of the damage to the home is $10,000, Tofano said.
Chief Tim Hileman said it took about a half hour to put out the fire. No one was injured, although one neighbor was taken to the hospital for treatment for an unknown medical condition not related to the fire, Hileman said.
Firefighters were called back to the home Friday afternoon after the building's owner and an insurance adjuster noticed smoke. A piece of smoldering insulation had fallen down between the walls and wasn't picked up by thermal imaging equipment Friday morning as firefighters inspected the house after putting the fire out.
The downside to the thermal imaging is the equipment only picks up temperatures through about the equivalent of a sheet of drywall, Hileman said.
In older homes, such as the one on Second Avenue, that have had extensive remodeling, there are often crawl spaces and gaps where burning debris can fall several floors and smolder without being detected, he said. Apart from ripping out walls, firefighters have to rely on their equipment, as well as noses and eyes, when going over a house after a fire.
Hileman said flare-ups happen from time to time despite the best efforts of firefighters and it took less than 10 minutes to put out and that firefighters stayed on scene for another hour Friday afternoon just in case.
Tofano said the house's close proximity to Station 3 meant firefighters were on scene within a minute of the 911 call.
Rogers said the family is staying temporarily with her brother and hadn't had a chance to return to the house to inspect the damage to their personal belongings. The couple does not have renter's insurance, Rogers said.
The home will be liveable once repairs are made. Tofano said. But for now, the family is looking for a new home, Rogers said.
The owner of the building, James Ganey, could not be reached for comment Friday.
Mirror Staff Writer Greg Bock is at 946-7458.


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David Mezera, president and co-founder, Donet
Donet has been providing Internet services—connectivity, hosting, and data center support — for more than 16 years. We've had a website from the very beginning, but we knew it was time for a major upgrade. Our company had been evolving over the past few years, and we needed our website to capture our shift in focus and better represent our service.
When we met with Atomic, they put us at ease right away. We're heavily into technology, and the folks at Atomic get it. We can talk with them about Ajax or jQuery or Unix email clients, and we're all on the same page, speaking the same language.
"Atomic helped us brand our services and create a site that reflects our core value: technical elegance."
I met Atomic through the Dayton Tooling and Manufacturing Association, and I really liked their style. They were on their game in terms of understanding the digital world, and I felt that they had the maturity to really understand what I needed as a business owner.
The first thing that Atomic did was help us develop a set of icons to represent our five lines of service. We wanted to stop throwing technical details at our customers, which was confusing and unnecessary. Instead, we wanted to simplify the way we present our services and make them more accessible to our customers. Atomic helped us brand our services by creating the Express, Connect, VIP, Fusion Web, and Ready! icons.
Next, Atomic created a new site using those icons as a core element of the design. They stripped away all the clutter from our previous site and gave the new site a clean, streamlined feel. They also built a structure that's extremely easy to navigate. That reflects one of our core values as a company: providing graceful, technically elegant solutions for our clients.
We've got a lot of good feedback on the site. In particular, customers really like the new video tutorials. If someone wants to install WordPress or phpMyAdmin, for example, I can point them to a video on our site that shows exactly how to do it.
We're very happy with what Atomic has done. I've already referred quite a few other companies to them. And we're already working on some follow-up projects to the website.
All in all, I'm looking forward to a long and prosperous relationship with Atomic.


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Phoenix Communications established in 2009 with a view
to creating a new voice in modern publishing in Indonesia.
Founded by Alistair G. Speirs and Barbara Janthy Nihardjo, Phoenix is a well-established company with a long history of marketing, advertising and publishing backgrounds.
Alistair G. Speirs, founder of Phoenix Communications was the driving force behind the Indo Multi Media group for 20 years.
He started the free-to-hand publication business in Indonesia with Jakarta KINI, and Hello Bali, developed Garuda In-flight Magazine into a major national publication and JalanJalan as Indonesia's preferred travel magazine.
He led the team who created 'Enjoy Jakarta' brand for Jakarta and 'Bali is my Life' for Bali, and rebranded Hilton to Sultan in Indonesia, Santika Hotels, Hotel Kristal and The British International school.


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