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Peter Brumis knew something was very wrong after he dropped into the chute near the top of Echo Peak and felt his knee crunch as the joint gave out.
The 36-year-old South Tahoe resident admits he broke the very first rules of backcountry skiing when he headed out alone late in the day. The friends he'd called all said they were busy, but the snow was too good to resist.
Brumis started his descent just before 3:15 p.m. on Jan. 2. Other than a few snowboarders who'd dropped in before him and his dog, Cody, Brumis was alone. There was no one around to help him when he fell shortly after his first turn.
"It was the scariest experience of my life. I knew how late it was, that I was alone and that it was very cold. Once I did make my way down the mountain, I collected myself and realized my knee was trashed. It literally felt like I could tear an artery or do something worse to my leg," Brumis said.
Brumis, a skier with 14 years of backcountry experience, tried skiing on one ski to get to the bottom of the slope. But with his dog shaking and the temperature dropping quickly, he knew he didn't have time to waste.
So he called Search and Rescue on his cell phone at 3:30 p.m. Forty-five minutes later, he heard the throb of the helicopter overhead.
Brumis propped his ski in the snow with its florescent-pink base facing the sky to show his location. The helicopter circled back, but couldn't land on the snow for fear of starting an avalanche. Before turning away, the pilot came over the loudspeaker to tell Brumis that they'd be back.
It was almost 6 p.m. when the helicopter returned with a harness to hoist Brumis and his dog. Dangling from the helicopter as the machine took off, Brumis forced himself to keep his eyes open. He figured he'd never get another view like it again. Doctors later diagnosed Brumis with a torn MCL, ACl, meniscus and an impact fracture.
"Hopefully people can learn from my mistakes and a couple of things that I did right - swallow your pride and make the call. Most of all I'm grateful to those people who risked their lives to save mine," Brumis said.
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Most search-and-rescue missions don't involve experienced skiers like Brumis, El Dorado County Search and Rescue Snowmobile Team Leader Terry Carroll said. It's the novice outdoor enthusiasts who usually get in over their heads and need help getting out.
That's when they call El Dorado County's Search and Rescue Tahoe unit - a 30- to 35-person all-volunteer organization dedicated to preparing for and executing search-and-rescue missions in South Lake Tahoe and the wilderness areas nearby. A group capable of responding to diverse situations, they field specialty Nordic, snowmobile, technical rope rescue and swift water teams in addition to basic search-and-rescue crews.
Not only did Brumis have backcountry experience, he'd volunteered with search and rescue before.
"It equipped me with the ability to think quickly and assess my situation. And I realized I didn't have a lot of time to make decisions. The people who are still doing it commit a huge amount of their personal time to go out and help people who need it," he said.
Search-and-rescue volunteers are required to finish mandatory medical training, attend a majority of the meetings, and respond to at least 20 percent of the call-ins. The nonprofit received 93 service calls last year and 2013 is shaping up to be just as busy with six calls since Jan. 1.
"It could easily be a full-time job for someone. A full-time, unpaid job," Nordic and K-9 Team Leader Scott Longoria said.
Many of the missions Longoria has responded to over the five years he's volunteered for Search and Rescue have been dangerous for both the rescuers and the victims. Three years ago on New Year's Eve the group got a call about a missing snowboarder who'd ridden out of bounds.
Longoria and the rest of the team found the rider around midnight. Not prepared for the sub-freezing temperatures, the snowboarder suffered from severe hypothermia and had already started to strip layers. If rescuers hadn't found him when they did, Longoria doubts the rider would have survived the night.
"You see it all. I don't think anybody expects to get into trouble, so I don't think many people are prepared for something to go wrong," Longoria said.
When that worst-case situation does happen, an extra pair of gloves and socks and an extra base layer could save your life. But the backcountry essentials - shovel, beacon, probe - don't do much good unless you're also skiing with a partner.
As the number of people going into the backcountry increases, so to does the number of Search and Rescue call-ins. The days of needle-in-the-haystack searches are ending, Search and Rescue Lead Coordinator Greg Almos. Today, rescuers are part of streamlined teams that use GPS and technical skills to save people as quickly as possible.
"We need people to be trained and have that knowledge base. This isn't something you can just come in and do," Almos said.
The organization accepts applications year round and though Almos said there are command and organizational positions that don't require backcountry skills, Search and Rescue missions require more and more expertise.
Search and Rescue doesn't bill the people saved, but that's another thing that might change. Legislators in Wyoming proposed a bill that would allow sheriff's offices to charge people for search-and-rescue missions. Almos doesn't think El Dorado County taxpayers would have to pay for those services, but the non-county residents - about 90 percent of the calls - might face a hefty fee. Douglas County Sheriff's Office estimated that the search for the missing snowboarder found Thursday cost $40,000.
"We work in a unique environment. A high percentage of what we do is rescue-oriented. In the winter we get a lot of recreationists that get themselves into trouble because they don't have a plan," Almos said.
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watching it right now...so far very interesting..but I was a bit confused in the beginning...had to do a live search to find out that Windodws Presentation Fundation is abbreviated WPF
raptor3676 wrote:Well I've got a couple of questions about the main threads of WPF.
First of all, there are 2 trees running by separate threads: the UI thread and the Rendering Thread. The later thread, the rendering one, does it lives withing the program process or it does it within the desktop compositing process? which leads me to the second question.
If the rendering thread runs within WDM then, How all of these works on XP where there is no WDM whatsoever?
Please, rename the title. It took me a long time to realize that WPF stands for "Windows Presentation Foundation".
Think about those who are not acronym savvy.
Great video.
swright wrote:In my opinion a moderated /. style is alot nicer. For instance, you could moderate my posts as "Annoying".
A great video though a lot of what was said was familiar from the blogs already, for some more detail one can see the USPTO pub 20050140694, however I've yet to find what patents cover the video play^h^h^hrotection.
prencher wrote:So if the rendering tree is different, and as he said in the video, it doesn't ask the widget to render itself each time but merely asks for its surface (pre-rendered), how does the widget know when to re-render?
Can it mark itself dirty so the next rendering pass requests a re-render, or does it just render whenever a change occurs?
Well you don't have to handle invalidates so you would only need to render when your client area actually changes.
prencher wrote:So The latter seems unrealistic, as that'd either mean rendering in your working thread, or having some way of calling into the render thread, both of which seem inefficient to me.
He goes over what gets passed to the render thread in the video, and mentions that when the UI thread and render thread are in the same process shared memory is the mechanism these threads use for communication.
staceyw wrote:Another great video in the Deep series Charles.
1) Interesting to find out console updates are bitmaps (Is that right?). So every time you ouput to the console, GDI generates a new bitmap and invalidates the client area?
2) Would it be possible to use the same type of thing for console updates? So only the "delta" changes are sent back over the wire to the client console? Could that also be used to more easily produce "old school" console "block" UI like DOS Norton Commander, List, etc.? That would be sweet to be able to open just a remote console to a server and be able to run any console program such as Edit (et al) and have it look right at the client (i.e. light-weight terminal server session).
Great video! Let us see more on WPF and WCF!!
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This week's edition includes expansion of a digital newspaper archive, new and updated FamilySearch records, African immigration to Nova Scotia, classes, seminars and more.
ProQuest, considered the world's largest digital newspaper archive, is expanding its Historical Newspapers collection. It is accessible for free at most US public libraries.
The newest offerings are historic American Jewish and regional newspapers dating from 1841 and covering Boston, the Ohio Valley and New York City, offering primary resources for researchers.
The papers include The Jewish Advocate (the oldest continuously-circulating Jewish newspaper in the US, a Boston-based weekly) and The American Hebrew/Jewish Messenger (from 1857, covering events before and during the Civil War). Later this year, the Jewish Exponent (1887-1990, Philadelphia) will be added, as well as the Jerusalem Post (1932-1988).
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ProQuestHistorical Newspapers™ began with digital archives of a handful of major American newspapers and has grown to encompass more than 20 dailies from around the world. Collections such as Historical Black Newspapers™ and the growing number of regional papers enable researchers to conduct deep dives on specific topics and also to compare multiple perspectives of the same events. The archive is continually growing and now encompasses more than 30 million pages.
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Dr. Kathy Gruver, author of The Alternative Medicine Cabinet, will be among the guest speakers at the 23rd annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Seminar.
"Water: Beneath the Surface and Around the Globe" will kick off weekend activities and offer both the public and members of the municipal and bottled water industries the opportunity to engage various water experts. Scheduled from 1-5 p.m., the seminar, and Saturday's official tastings, are held at Berkeley Springs Inn Best Western Conference Center in Berkeley Springs.
The topics of the seminar are varied, and run the gamut from ways to clean up oil spills, to how Ernest Hemingway used water in his writing. One of the presenters is Michael Pracht, a junior at Paw Paw High School, whose water-based project has been presented nationally.
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Henry R. Hidell III, founder of Hidell International, will present "Water, Spirituality and Ernest Hemingway - the thread of the stream," in which he weaves together the physics of water, the need for connectedness and Hemingway's use of water in his novels and short stories.
Hidell will also be the Berkeley Springs Water Tasting's second Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, to be presented on Saturday night. In a telephone interview, Hidell said Hemingway used water a lot in his writings as a statement of his mental condition or to express his moods.
"When Hemingway was young, and his mother threw him out of the house for being a no-good, he went north to fly-fish," Hidell said. "He used water to express his state of mind."
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Dr. Kathy Gruver hosts a national TV show based on her first book, "The Alternative Medicine Cabinet." Gruver, who has a Ph.D. in natural health, will explore the history and effectiveness of water as a healing element with her presentation, "To Your Health: Water As Healing, Inside and Out."
Robert M. Beringer, vice president for water and wastewater at JMT Engineers in Sparks, Md., will focus on sustainability, historic abuses and life-saving advances with his presentation, "Brilliant Water - Are We Ready For the Future?"
Christopher Hogan, vice president of communications for the International Bottled Water Association, will outline some of the challenges facing the bottled water industry, the approaches IBWA is taking to meet them, and the importance of separating fact from fiction.
The two-day Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting hosts more than 100 waters from all over the world competing in several categories like bottled, municipal, sparkling and purified. All day Saturday, the public can taste and vote for the People's Choice award for best packaging design. The event is produced by Travel Berkeley Springs.
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According to Hardy, who next stars as the villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and in the historical crime drama Lawless this summer, Louis lives mostly with his mother, Rachael Speed, whom he dated on and off for several years.
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In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Maoni Stephens and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the CLR Garbage Collector. Maoni is the Principal developer for the GC on the CLR team.
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Channel9 - CLR 4 Garbage Collector - Inside Background GC
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This is my second favorite show next to The Walking Dead
maybe you can explain what GCLargeObjectHeapCompactionMode is next time.
I just want to say "Thank You" for every millisecond of this great show.
Just seen Andrew is speaking at TechEd Europe so looking forward to 'Hardcore Debugging' in Madrid!
@Matthew Flower: Not sure why I'm on the EMEA roster - I'm just talking at TechEd USA.
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I have two words I need you to write down. The first word is "drilldo." Please fold that up and put it in your wallet. The second word is "fucksaw." Highlight it in yellow. Place that in your wallet, also. Should it ever fall out of your wallet and be read by someone, wait for them to make eye contact and answer their unasked question with a sharp nod.
A drilldo is what you get when you put a dildo and a drill together. A fucksaw is what happens when you take something, let's say a saber saw, and jam a dildo on it. It needs to be said, however, that if you were to ever create a Frankenfuckmachine like this, you need to do it properly. When you build such a machine you must build it as an engineer, not as a desperate pervert. Desperate perverts have never contributed anything to the advancement of man, but engineers have. So put on your thinking cap and, this is a freebie from ol' Felix for you, remove the blade first. Don't keep the fully functional, flesh-rending blade of the reciprocating saw in place if you plan to mount a rubber shlong on it and insert it into someone else's orifice. The reason being that you can't put a power tool inside another human without Jesus himself shrieking and turning away in uncomfortable terror.
Despite the obviousness of my engineering advice, back in 2009 a couple in Maryland were all "fucksaw, yee-ha!" and decided to give it a try. Mr. Wizard just jammed the dildo right down over the blade and, surprising to no one but him and his dim-witted yet insufferably horny partner, the sex-o-matic panic machine malfunctioned insofar as the blade just chewed through that rubbery wang like a hyena through a wildebeest carcass and, predictably, went right on into the lady. Did you just make an uncomfortable face when you read that? Yeah. Imagine what her expression was like.
So she had to go to the hospital, because obviously, and we've all just learned a valuable lesson in how not to hump a cutting tool (the lesson is don't hump a cutting tool.)
#4. The Dildo Assailant
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An antihero is a protagonist who has no heroic qualities at all. He could easily be cast as a villain but, for our purposes, is the central character of the story. Maybe he's an outlaw. A corrupt politician. A Tarantino character. Or maybe he's a guy who wields a duct-tape wrapped dildo with impunity.
We're heading back to Australia for this story, because all the great stories come from there. At 3 in the morning, a 38-year-old man wearing a black leather mask broke into a house. He carried with him a large, rubber dildo covered in duct tape. He beat the shit out of the 49-year-old lady who lived in the house with said dildo. As she escaped with her son, the masked Cock Slapper then stole the woman's dog and taped it to a tree.
I'm torn on how to present this story because the dog did die, and that's pretty cruel and sad, but I can't help but picture the story as a whole and it makes me laugh. It's a bad kind of laughter, like a kind of joke Jim Norton might tell and you feel a little dirty afterwards, but, still, you do laugh. So it's sad this guy killed a dog, but at the same time ... he broke in, beat a lady with a dildo, and then taped the dog to a tree. That really seems to be the whole of a crime. And it's believed to have been premeditated. What?
The victim (the lady, not the dog) suffered some facial bruising, so it's worth noting that, no, a dildo is not a particularly effective tool with which to bludgeon a victim into oblivion during the commission of a crime.
#3. The Butt Plug Jammer
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As a people, we love putting stuff in our asses. Don't you dare even think about writing a comment about how you don't like putting stuff in your ass. If we didn't love ass stuffing then the world would be immeasurably different than it is. Let's make a quick list of things we'd have to get used to in a world in which people didn't routinely invade their hind quarters.
- No one would giggle at the word anal.
- The children of butt plug manufacturers would go hungry.
- Gays would be remarkably bored.
- This entry would be going nowhere.
In China, ass stuffing is slowly but surely growing in popularity as China's attitudes towards sex begin to loosen up along with their bungholes. Unfortunately, and you'd think this wouldn't be an issue but here we are, as they become more open to the idea of using sex toys, no one's stopping to ponder the logistics of said sex toys. The result of which is dudes walking around Shanghai for five straight days with 9 inches of faux man-chub lodged in their Southern wilds.
In this case, doctors were quite surprised by the size of the beast and apparently turned him away after unsuccessfully trying to dislodge Moby Dick. So he went to a few other hospitals before finally going back to hospital No. 1, where they determined he had blocked his intestines. Well, no shit. Literally.
Doctors advised afterward that people using sex toys should exercise caution and maybe consider dredging their chum chutes with less traumatic objets d'art, which is a pretty solid recommendation and one you should take both to heart and to your ass.


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Welcome to the official site of Indiana State Senate District 40. First elected in 2012, State Senator Mark Stoops represents the district in the Indiana General Assembly. Senate District 40 encompasses the majority of Monroe County and includes the Indiana University-Bloomington campus.
Nov. 19, 2013: The 118th General Assembly convenes for Organization Day.
Jan. 6, 2014: The 2014 legislative session begins.
Jan. 10, 2014: Bill filing deadline for the 2014 session.
Mar. 14, 2014: Sine Die. The 2014 session ends.


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Muffler: E-5020 "Power Box" with extension and 90� adapters
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LOCKPORT – Filippo Inglima, the former Buffalo and Lewiston restaurant owner who is to be deported to Italy after pleading guilty to second-degree sexual abuse, sought Tuesday to be allowed to withdraw that plea.
His new attorney, Andrew C. LoTempio, argued that Inglima wasn't properly warned that his guilty plea would mean automatic deportation. LoTempio said Inglima doesn't read or write English.
The topic was brought up when Inglima, 46, of Wheatfield, pleaded guilty March 18. But LoTempio said his reading of the transcript indicates that it was mentioned at the end rather than up front, before the plea was entered.
Assistant District Attorney Robert A. Zucco said the deportation was no secret, having been discussed with Inglima and his former attorney, Mark D. Grossman, for more than a year. He produced a transcript of a bail hearing in U.S. District Court on Oct. 11 in which deportation was mentioned.
LoTempio said that record wouldn't be part of any appellate review in the sex case. Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas said more research is needed and put off Inglima's sentencing date from July 18 to Aug. 1.


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Frisco city council member recognized by congressman for service in Afghanistan
Frisco City Council member Tim Nelson was recognized during Tuesday's session of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, paid tribute to Nelson, who recently returned from a yearlong tour to Afghanistan with the U.S. Army Reserve. Nelson was elected to the city council in May 2011 but received his orders to deploy in September 2011.
Burgess' remarks can be found in the Congressional Record as well as in this YouTube video.
Click here to read my news story that ran Monday on Nelson's return to Frisco. He is a captain with the 980th Engineer Battalion.


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Folks in the Lowcountry know what it is to love a lighthouse. Think about the Morris Island Lighthouse and the $5 million worth of work that has been done to stabilize its foundation.
Folks in the United Kingdom would probably empathize. They aren't losing a beloved lighthouse, but they are losing something dear to their hearts — lighthouse foghorns.
The silencing of the mysterious-sounding warning that signaled ships about dangers in their paths for a century and a half is so poignant that a composer and some artists are memorializing it. The Foghorn Requiem will be performed in June.
According to The Guardian, the musicians will be on an armada of boats playing their ships' horns, as well as three brass bands on shore and, of course, the foghorn — this one at Souter Lighthouse.
It will be performed live only once on the North Sea coast, on June 22.
Artists Lise Augena and Joshua Portway and composer Orlando Gough hope to present a "final farewell to a sound, and to the people and way of life it represents." The last of the lighthouse foghorns are being decommissioned, with GPS and other technology taking their place.
The foghorn that will star in the requiem is known for its 120-decibel sound. Indeed, it was so loud that lighthouse staff received extra "noise money" for enduring it.
But coordinating it with ships and bands is no small feat. Computers will control the horns on some boats to compensate for the time delay in sound traveling as far as several miles.
Fortunately, the next chapter in the Morris Island Lighthouse's story isn't one of saying goodbye. It will be one of new life this spring when bids will be taken to restore the ironwork, the tower windows and the glass of the lighthouse lantern, as well as to refurbish and paint the works.
After that is done and preservation efforts are completed, perhaps a composer here will be inspired.
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ZAGREB, Croatia � Teenager Mikaela Shiffrin is living up to her billing as American skiing�s next big star.
Shiffrin, from Vail, earned her second World Cup title Friday by winning the slalom by a massive 1.19-second margin to regain the lead in the discipline standings.
The 17-year-old Shiffrin had the fastest time in both runs of the night slalom to finish in a combined 2 minutes, 1.73 seconds. She won her first career World Cup event last month in Are, Sweden.
�I skied solid. It went really smooth,� Shiffrin said. �I was just letting my skis (take) me to the bottom, and that is what I am looking for.�
Shiffrin was helped by mistakes from her closest challengers after the opening leg, Slovenia�s Tina Maze and Sweden�s Maria Pietilae-Holmner, who both failed to finish their final run.
Frida Hansdotter of Sweden was second, and Erin Mielzynski of Canada was 1.76 behind in third.
The rest of the field finished more than two seconds off Shiffrin�s winning time.
�Everything went really well (Friday),� Shiffrin said. �I said it in Are, and I say it again now: I have no idea how I feel. Maybe you should ask me again in a couple of years.�
Defending overall champion Lindsey Vonn, who returned to training Thursday after a monthlong break from the circuit, skipped the race. Slalom world champion Marlies Schild of Austria had been ruled out for three months after knee surgery in December.
Maze, who straddled a gate to end her run Friday, lost her lead in the slalom standings to Shiffrin but remained atop the overall World Cup standings.
Shiffrin has 336 points, followed by Veronika Velez Zuzulova of Slovakia with 312 and Maze with 310. The next slalom is another night event on Jan. 15 in Flachau, Austria.
�It�s definitely one of my goals to win the slalom title,� Shiffrin said. �And then the GS title, and sometime the overall. Right now, I am taking it day by day and race by race.�
Velez Zuzulova won the last two races in Semmering and Munich but finished only 24th after a mistake in her second run brought her to a standstill.
Shiffrin said she was back to full strength after fighting a persistent cold in December.
�I was a little bit sick, I think I have my energy back now,� she said.
Shiffrin�s teammate Resi Stiegler finished ninth for her best result since recovering from knee surgery following her crash at last year�s World Cup finals.
The course was in excellent condition despite rising temperatures in the last few days.
A men�s slalom on the same course is scheduled for Sunday. The women�s circuit travels to St. Anton, Austria, for speed races next week.
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LISBON-Unlike in the NFL and college football, the extra point is no mere formality for many high schools. It is not uncommon to see a handful missed each game,
Thus, when Lisbon quarterback Josh Liberati scored the game-tying touchdown midway through the fourth quarter of Thursday's season-opener against Leetonia suspense hung in the air as sophomore kicker Jannick Schmidt-a foreign exchange student from Germany-trotted onto the field for the point after. Each team had already missed one attempt, with Schmidt's third quarter try sliding wide right.
"I had every bit of confidence sending him out there," Lisbon coach Jim Tsilimos said. "On any kicking attempt this year he is our guy without hesitation."
This time, there was no doubt. Schmidt drilled the kick high and straight down the middle, giving the Blue Devils a 13-12 lead they would not relinquish.
"It was an awesome feeling to help the team," Schmidt said. "I knew that the kick gave us the lead. It was great watching the ball go through."
All in all, it was a fine debut for someone who was playing in his first ever football game and who only began learning the sport when he arrived in the country one month ago.
Schmidt is from Oldenburg, Germany-a city a little more than double the size of Youngstown-located in the northwest part of the country. He is in Lisbon this year as part of the Academic Year in America (AYA) foreign exchange program and is being housed by Tsilimos and his wife, Carol.
"My wife and I have been approached by the AYA for the past five or six years about housing a student because we've had a couple kids go through the system and now they are out of the house," Tsilimos said. "This is the first year we decided to do it, and we got lucky getting Jannick."
As part of the AYA program, host families can choose either a boy or a girl as well as pick a student based on their hobbies and interests. After a number of German girls have attended Lisbon in previous years, Tsilimos requested a boy interested learning American football.
"My wife and I love sports and now that our children are out of the house, we missed having kids involved in high school sports," Tsilimos said. "Before he came over, Jannick expressed an interest in trying football as well as some other new sports. We're lucky to have him."
Schmidt-who at 6-foot-7 is the tallest member of the team-played soccer for 12 years in Germany as well as basketball, where he served as a power forward and center. He has always been a big sports fan with, his favorite teams being the Miami Heat and the German soccer club Werder Bremen.
"I had never been to America before and I've been wanting to come as an exchange student for the past two years," Schmidt said. "I've played soccer and basketball but American football is not really a big deal in Germany. I've always wanted to try a new sport in America and football is obviously number one with Coach Tsilimos."
Schmidt had watched the Super Bowl a few times, but admittedly did not know many of the rules. After arriving on July 28, he joined the Blue Devils' conditioning drills the next day while Tsilimos began teaching him the game.
"We've gone a little bit at a time," Tsilimos said. "We've watched a lot of football together. He's been really excited to learn and has had a lot of questions. It's been a learning process for him as we'll has my wife and I."
Lisbon came into the year with no clear option at place-kicker. Due to his soccer experience, Schmidt seemed like a natural fit. After several booming kicks at the first fall practice, Tsilimos knew he had his man.
"He kicked the heck out of the ball," Tsilimos said. "Soccer players seem to be good at kicking the football, and his 6-7 frame allows him to get a lot of power behind the ball. He has made kicks in practice from 35 yards."
"I didn't know any of the technique on how to kick a football when I got here, and I actually hurt my knee the first day of practice and had to sit out a few days," Schmidt said. "The coaches have been great at showing me what to do. It's been fun learning how to play."
After a month of honing his technique, Schmidt was ready for the opening kickoff against Leetonia. After sending his first kick down the field, Schmidt watched as Leetonia returner Colton Gudat broke through the coverage. As fate would have it, he was the only one standing between Gudat and the end zone.
"All during practice we kept preaching to him that he had to stay back on kickoffs in case we had a breakdown," Tsilimos said. "And what do you know, on his first ever play he wrapped up and made a great tackle."
"That felt good," Schmidt said. "It was a nice way to start."
After football season is over, Schmidt said he plans to play basketball before running track in the spring. He said the camaraderie of the team and the school has been one of his favorite parts of attending Lisbon so far.
"My school in Germany did not have sports, so this has been new to me and it's a lot of fun," Schmidt said. "The team spirit here has been awesome, I've never experienced anything like it."
For Tsilimos, it's been a fun opportunity to once again have a teenager around the house.
"Oh, it's been a great experience," Tsilimos said. "You're always a little nervous going into something like this because you don't know what type of kid you're getting, but we've really enjoyed having Jannick. He's a great young man. Now if I go to Germany I have someone to visit."


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Friday, June 20, 2014
I drive a lot between here and Atlanta, sometimes twice in a month.
Its a 600-mile drive round trip and takes almost five hours each way. I take the five hours alone in the car and think.
I think about book ideas, I think about life, where Im at in it and where I want to be.
I use the five hours to flush the cerebral pipes so to speak.
During this most recent trip back from Atlanta I worried about my car, because that is what I am often prone to do. Im worried about getting stranded on the road between there and here, and this trip I was particularly worried about radiator leaks.
I pick a problem and obsess over it.
Im not content with the status quo of the dashboard temperature gauge so I stare at it while driving 70 mph and imagine that the needle is creeping up the gauge toward HOT.
While Im obsessing over the hotness of my car, Im also lamenting my lot in life. I spend my life trying to dodge the proverbial bullet.
While driving, and worrying about the state of my car, and about my lot in life or the lack thereof, I passed a disabled car alongside the road.
The car was a lot like mine.
A minivan, same make and model, just a different color.
On this van the right front tire was flat and the rear window had been knocked out.
A thought hit me, my first road epiphany of the morning: I dont have it so bad after all. Somebody out there is worse off than I am.
My car was at least running and I wasnt stranded alongside the road in Lula, Ga.
The best part about Lula, Ga., is the sign that says you are leaving Lula, Ga.
As I continued on my homeward journey over the camelback humps of the North Georgia foothills, I passed three churches.
The denomination of these churches are not relevant to my tale, just that each had one of those message signs posted in their front lawn near the roadway for passing motorists to read and reflect upon.
The first sign said simply, Be thankful.
I dont believe in coincidences and random chances when I saw, Be thankful, because I did have a lot to be thankful for this morning.
I counted my blessings and smiled at each one.
Uplifted I pressed onward.
As I passed the second church, the sign out front said, Be faithful.
If nothing else I remain faithful to my heart and I smiled at this, knowing if I remained faithful, everything would turn out just fine in the end.
The third church sign said simply, Fill your heart with love, and I thought, lately, my heart has been full of love.
This is when I began to realize something very special was happening during my drive home. If indeed there exists a higher power, it was definitely sending me a message this day and I would do well to listen.
As my drive continued, I passed a billboard on the Interstate that said, (it was a tequila sign), Be inspired, and I thought, I am inspired every day.
When I passed through Columbia I saw a sign for gym memberships that said, Every day offers a new second chance. Start building your future today.
Seeing all these my heart swelled with joyous emotion. I am truly a lucky man, I thought.
Like Jimmy Stewart at the end of Its a Wonderful Life.
Then there came the last sign... flashing neon red...
It said, Ladies shoot free on Wednesdays.
Yep... inside every silver lining floats a gray cloud...
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Since revealing for the first time that she was abused mentally and physically as a child, Julianne Hough is now opening up about the toll it took on her as a 10-year-old dance student away from home.
"I've been through certain things that have sucked the life out of me ... and just the light about me was gone," the former Dancing with the Stars pro tells Entertainment Tonight in a new interview. "I was just a dark person."
While twirling around the ballroom and winning mirror-ball trophies, fans wouldn't have guessed that Hough, now 24, was hiding a secret. "A lot of people got to know me through Dancing with the Stars and don't really know about my past before that, which I don't talk about much," she says.
That included her time at the prestigious Italia Conti Academy of Arts in London, where she told Cosmo recently, "I was a tormented little kid who had to put on this sexy façade because that was my job and my life."
But now Hough is looking forward rather than looking back. "I had to leave that situation and kind of come into my own again and I did," she tells ET.
With a blossoming movie career that includes the upcoming film Safe Haven, based on the book by Nicholas Sparks, Hough is able to reflect on difficult experiences and use them for her role as Katie Feldman, who is keeping a secret of her own.
"Being Katie, I relate a lot to her," Hough says. "The fact that she had been in one situation that just sucked the life out of her, and it was a bad situation, and she needed to change and move on and kind of find her own again. And through that you find love and everything."
The full interview with Hough airs Thursday night.
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Angel Castro's days teeter between determination and desperation. She is 28, impoverished, scarred from a chaotic childhood and adolescence, raising two young children alone.
She lives in a subsidized apartment in Englewood, scrambles to arrange child care that she can afford, and races to catch the bus to a part-time job that paid her $452 for one recent month.
To know the circumstances of Castro's life is to understand something of the odds against her. Still, as she attends to her dark-haired, bright-eyed Aaron, 3, and Alexis, 17 months, she speaks with a voice that musters hope.
"I try to be the best mom I can," she says. "I want to give my kids a chance at a healthy lifestyle. I want them to go to school, get good grades, be able to go to college and have a good future."
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In analyzing the widening gaps between minority groups and whites in Colorado on key measures of social progress, there are harsh realities behind the numbers. One is that among homes with children living in poverty, 68 percent are headed by just one parent, typically the mother.
Single parenthood is a bigger indicator of poverty than race, according to six decades of U.S. Census Bureau data analyzed by I-News Network. Combined as it often is with curtailed educational and employment opportunities, the rise of the single-parent family is a major factor in the widening disparities between blacks, Latinos and white state residents since the decades surrounding the civil rights movement.
The I-News analysis covered family income, poverty rates, high school and college graduation and homeownership as reported by the Census Bureau from 1960 to 2010. Health data and justice reports also were examined.
While the rate of single parenthood has increased among all races, its surge has been particularly dramatic among blacks. In Colorado, more than 50 percent of black households with young children are headed by a single parent, compared to 25 percent of white households. Among Latino households in the state with young children, 35 percent are headed by a single parent, according to the I-News analysis.
Those figures dovetail with the growing trend of births to single women. Nationally, 29 percent of white babies are born to unwed mothers, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while 53 percent of Latino babies and 73 percent of black babies are born to single mothers.
"When you talk with some of the older experienced folks of the civil rights movement, the one thing that we continue to come back to is the challenged family structure — African-Americans and Latinos — in the sense that back in the '60s the family structure was much more solid," said Denver Mayor Michael Hancock. "There were more men in the house. There were less single women trying to raise children on their own.
"The family structure has disintegrated in a sense. That challenge is real."
While many single parents raise thriving, productive children, the growing trend of fatherless homes has enormous implications for future generations. Children raised in female-headed homes in Colorado are four times more likely to live in poverty than those from married-couple homes, according to the I-News analysis. Other studies show they are less likely to go to college or even graduate high school.
Some link the absence of fathers in the home, in part, to the rising number of black and Latino men in prisons, often for drug crimes.
In 2010, about one in every 20 black men were incarcerated in Colorado state prisons compared to one out of every 50 Latino men and one of every 150 white men, according to an I-News analysis of government figures.
The state's black and Latino incarceration rates are higher than the national averages, where disparities also exist, according to an analysis of Bureau of Justice reports. Nationally, one of every 33 black men and one of every 83 Latino men was behind bars in 2010. Colorado's rate for white men was equivalent to the national figure, one in 150.
"The combination of the war on crack and mandatory sentencing saw a huge sweep of black males into prison and further degeneration of the black family," said Theo Wilson, a district director for BarberShop Talk, a mentorship organization for men.
The Rev. Leon Kelly, who has worked with thousands of Denver's at-risk inner city kids, believes intergenerational abandonment lies at the heart of the single-parenthood phenomenon.
"When you have some of these heads of household who are women, sometimes they feel like, 'This is the norm. This is what I was raised with,' " Kelly said. "They're so used to people coming in and out of their life. With their kids, their babies, it's something that nobody can take away. Their kids are going to be there."
Kelly said 80 percent of the youths he counsels live in female-headed households.
"A lot of them never had men on a consistent basis in the home to show them what they should be doing as far as being the head of the household," Kelly said. "A lot of them join gangs because at least they're able to find a sense of identity, a sense of acceptance. Now he's not just a fatherless child."
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Both conservatives and liberals cite the impact of welfare programs on families as a major factor in the growing divide between the races, though for different reasons. Some said cutbacks in government support disproportionately hurt minorities, while others said the system encourages dependence on government and keeps minorities and the poor from improving their future.
Former United States Sen. Hank Brown said the welfare system rewards behavior that leads to poverty.
But former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb said welfare reform that passed under President Bill Clinton catapulted "a lot of people who were receiving government assistance off into a kind of a never-never land, which also then increased the number of disadvantaged that previously had been receiving assistance."
This Gordian knot can be untangled, according to Isabel V. Sawhill and Ron Haskins, senior fellows at the Brookings Institution, the Washington, D.C., think tank. Their 2009 book called "Creating an Opportunity Society" advocates increased educational opportunities for children from pre-school on, encouraging and supporting work among adults and reducing the number of out-of-wedlock births while increasing the number of children raised by their married parents.
In an interview with I-News, Sawhill said the huge increase in single parenthood factors into the disparities between the races, particularly between blacks and whites.
"It's one of the reasons why that gap has not narrowed, especially since the 1970s," she said.
Sawhill and Haskins also have used Census data and simple modeling to simulate what would happen to poverty rates under different assumptions about work, marriage, education and family size among the poor. They found that the poverty rate could be reduced by about 70 percent if the poor completed high school, married, had no more than two children and worked full-time.
Sawhill told I-News that inequities will only end through a combination of personal responsibility and good government policy, including assistance for those who work. "We think it isn't one or the other," she said. "It's both."
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For now, Angel Castro's days revolve around trying to figure out how to feed and clothe Aaron and Alexis. She threw a small party a few months ago for Alexis's first birthday and was relieved when she got gifts of diapers and wipes rather than toys.
She used to count herself lucky to have a neighbor who watched her children for $20 a week so that she could work. But Castro had to give up her position after her sitter got a better-paying job.
Castro is frustrated by the endless rules and paperwork of a welfare system she believes is "built to set you up for failure." She said she has only four hours per day of government-supported child care, which means she can't work full-time.
She sometimes thinks the only solution is to put Aaron and Alexis in foster care and hope for a better fate for them than she experienced.
"I've had a whole chaotic life, feeling hurt and angry with my whole situation," Castro said. "I don't want my kids feeling like I felt growing up."
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We've got a problem in the community, and every indicator that you can attribute to fatherless or broken homes, every negative thing — high dropout rates, incarceration, premature death related to violence — all those things, there's a connection with kids being born to fractured families.
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- Jason Sanderbeck, 34, of 50 state Route 14, North Benton, was charged with theft and released on his own recognizance after police were called to Tractor Supply, 2366 E. State St., at 11:08 a.m. Wednesday for a male who allegedly stole wood pellets and left in a vehicle. Perry Township Police saw the vehicle and stopped it on state Route 14 and the driver allegedly told the officer he had taken the pellets. The manager of the store said a customer saw the male loading a shopping cart outside and place the items in a vehicle. The man had a receipt for three bags of pellets, but police found six bags of pellets in the vehicle.
- A woman from West Wilson Street reported at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday that another parent was operating her vehicle in a careless manner at the school on Buckeye Avenue in the morning and nearly struck her daughter. The other driver also drove her vehicle into the bus-only area to drop off her child. The other driver will be contacted.
- Police responded to Home Depot for a 911 hangup call at 3:39 a.m. Wednesday, but employees said there was no problem. The phones were being worked on. Police had been called there at 9:53 p.m. Tuesday for the same problem.
- Loud music was reported at 12:22 a.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of East Fourth Street. No loud music was heard, but officers spoke to a tenant and told her to keep the noise down.
- Police responded to the 400 block of South Broadway Avenue late Tuesday for a report of an ambulance needed after a man took too much of his medication. Fire department first responders and EMT Ambulance also responded and the man was taken to Salem Community Hospital.
- A woman in the 1800 block of Oak Street reported at 8:42 p.m. Tuesday that she believed someone was possibly inside her residence. An officer checked inside, but no one was found.
- A domestic was reported at 8:01 p.m. Tuesday in the 400 block of East Perry Street where a man said his wife locked him out of the residence. An officer made contact with the wife and she denied locking the door. Both said it was a verbal domestic only. He said he was going to leave to allow the situation to calm down.
- Police were called at 7:24 p.m. Tuesday to the 400 block of West Pershing Street for a reported prowler. An officer made contact with a person who provided court documents naming her as receiver of the property.
- A caller at 4:21 p.m. Tuesday reported an unattended child in a red vehicle in the 900 block of West State Street. Officers checked the business, but were unable to locate the vehicle.
- A neighbor dispute was reported at 4:09 p.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of East Fourth Street where a woman said the apartment she lives in shares a common area in the basement and she believed other tenants were using her washer/dryer. Officers spoke with other tenants and they believed she was using their utilities. Both sides said they were being harassed by the other. Officers told both sides to cease contact and only use their own property. They were told to contact their landlord for issues regarding the shared basement.
- A woman in the 1100 block of Cleveland Street reported at 3:50 p.m. Tuesday that known juveniles were harassing her son over a personal matter. An officer spoke with the other juveniles and all were told to stay away from each other.
- A suspicious person was reported at 2:42 p.m. Tuesday going door to door asking for money in the 1000 block of North Union Avenue. He was found and told about the complaint. He claimed he was asked to rake leaves for $40.
- Police were called to the 200 block of Benton Road at 6:29 p.m. Tuesday for two suspicious vehicles. Police looked in the area and everything checked out okay.
- A Struthers woman reported at 5:03 p.m. Tuesday that someone slashed her tires while she was working and her car was parked at Fresh Mark on South Lincoln Avenue.
-Police responded to the 1200 block of Beechwood Road for a report at 4:06 p.m. Tuesday of an open door. Police checked the interior of the residence and found no evidence of forced entry, noting the door was possibly opened by the wind.
- Police were called at 1:48 p.m. Tuesday for a domestic dispute in the 300 block of West Pine Lake Road. Both parties said the dispute was verbal.
- James McVay, 29, whose last known address was Trinity Church Road, Lisbon, was charged with driving under suspension, fictitious plates and no seatbelt after a traffic stop at 12:12 p.m. Tuesday on Cunningham Road at state Route 344.
- Police were called to check on an open door to a residence in the 900 block of Georgetown Road at 10:53 a.m. Tuesday. The door was secured after officers checked the interior.
- A Public Library employee requested police assistance at 4:18 p.m. Tuesday for a handicapped parking dispute. It was reported a car was in the handicap parking spot but did not have the proper placard. The placard was found placed on the dashboard.
- A Taco Bell employee reported at 4:14 p.m. Tuesday a customer was in the store's bathroom for about 30 minutes and was not responding after repeated attempts to knock on the door, which was locked. Police also knocked on the door, and after no response was received, forced entry into the bathroom which was found empty. The force did not cause any damage to the lock or door frame.
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The romanticism of farmers and cowboys has been portrayed in movies and on television for decades. The strong jaw lines, those rugged looks, wholesome smile, yet a sweet spot in their hearts for their animals, draws people to those closest to the earth and its creatures. However, there is a disconnect. Consumers love the farmer, but are unsure of the practice of "farming." As farmers, we farm; that is what we do. But, to the consumer, they have challenges in merging the two and loving the ''farming'' that the farmer represents.
As producers, we need to share the "farming" with our consumer friends. And, "friends" is what they need to be. We need them to purchase our products, and they need us to grow and provide nutrition to their families. This needs to be a positive relationship, but not a forced dependence, where one is deemed more important to the other. "I farm. You eat." While it may be true, it can take on a very arrogant tone. We need to remember when we share information about agriculture and our farms; we are not sharing information with unintelligent and simple-minded people. We are talking to people–people who care about their family, just like you–so talk with them, not at them.
No one wants to be talked down to. But, peak someone's curiosity and they will ask questions, and that is when they are most receptive to learning new information. Closed-minded individuals are not willing to listen to any information that is in opposition to their mind-set. Your time is best invested with the "movable middle," those that are willing to listen to your viewpoint and alter their opinion if your message resonates with them. Tell them about your dairy and how you care about your cows and calves. This will allow them to see you as a person first and a dairy producer second.
These are a few of the message and conversations that have been discussed at the Ag Chat Foundation 2.0 conference in Nashville, Tenn., yesterday. The conference concludes this morning. Research was shared with the group on how consumers react to the scientific and technical jargon we have a tendency to spew. Much higher consumer feedback was given when farmers talked in common terms that relate to people and their emotions, rather than the raw facts.
So, the next time you share information with a consumer, envision them as a friend and share your story. And, at the conclusion of the conversation, your message will be well-received and a new friendship may be forged.
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LISBON - A start-up company founded by former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon is showing an interest in the southern part of Columbiana County.
McClendon parted ways with the natural gas giant earlier this year and founded American Energy Partners and two other companies.
East Liverpool attorney David Tobin said he has recently negotiated oil and gas leases for Great River Energy, a new oil and gas development company formed through a partnership between American Energy and Texas firm Orange Energy Consultants.
Tobin works out of the Charles Payne law offices in East Liverpool and provided a copy of an email sent to him in August by Scott Beckman, attorney and managing partner of Orange Energy.
Beckman said in the correspondence that American Energy and Great River Energy "are working together in the southern Utica shale play and intend to acquire acreage and drilling wells in the very near future."
The email was in response to Tobin's inquiry about Great River's financial backing, so he could provide "comfort" to his Columbiana County clients about its ability to fund signing bonuses.
Tobin said in the email his clients were "excited about the opportunity to lease with Great River."
The company is based in Fort Worth, Texas, but now has an office in North Canton.
The Huffington Post reported in late August American Energy had raised $1 billion in capital and purchased more than 72,000 acres in five Ohio counties.
The company began running advertisements in the Morning Journal months ago seeking oil and gas leases in Jefferson, Harrison, Guernsey, Noble, Belmont and Monroe counties.
It is reportedly focusing on those counties and portions of Columbiana and Carroll counties in the Utica shale play not already claimed by Chesapeake.
Tobin said a "number of lawyers" in the southern part of the county are negotiating leases with McClendon-associated companies.
The businessman parted ways with Chesapeake after shareholders in 2012 criticized the way he was running the company, claiming he was focusing more on feathering his own nest than shareholder dividends and company profits.
On Monday, it was announced McClendon has started yet another company, called American Energy Utica, that will also focus on the Southern Utica shale.
CNBC reported the company will be buying and developing land in the shale area that is rich in natural gas and natural gas liquids, and it will be closing on the purchase of 80,000 acres in three separate transactions. The company reportedly hopes to start the production process soon and have 12 rigs operating in two to three years.
Articles did not provide any mention of a connection with American Energy Partners.
Meanwhile, Tobin said the majority of leasing activity he has seen recently in the southern part of the county is for Great River.
"Chesapeake still has an office here and are doing a little bit of leasing here and there for a property in a unit or something, but right now Great River seems to be the only one doing a lot of leasing here," he said.
Tobin said companies are mostly focusing on Madison, Washington, Yellow Creek and St. Clair townships.
Youngstown attorney Alan Wenger, who also negotiates leases for county residents, said Chesapeake secured the most leases early on during the "craze" three years ago.
He serves as chair of the oil and gas law practice group for Harrington Hoppe and Mitchell. The firm has offices in Youngstown, Warren and Salem.
He said "everything changed with Chesapeake" within the last month to a year, and the company is now concentrating on the southern part of the county.
"They have changed their focus almost completely on Columbiana County and transferred a lot of northern Columbiana County leaseholds to Hilcorp Energy," he said.
The company transferred more than 1,000 of its leases to Hilcorp earlier this year and Hilcorp established an office in the city of Columbiana to have a more hands-on role in the area.
A phone call to Hilcorp was referred to spokesman Justin Furnace Friday, and a message left with him was not returned this week.
With the drop-off in leasing to the north, Wenger said landowners who have property needed by a company to complete a unit have some leverage to negotiate a decent lease agreement.
"It is much slower than it was a year ago, and the leasing activity for new leases is generally confined to situations where drilling companies are trying to form units and they are following through with their requirements under ODNR (Ohio Department of Natural Resources) regulations to try and negotiate leases with unleased properties," he said.
He isn't aware of any standard going rates for leases at this time and believes companies will "try to go as cheap as they can go" right now, with the exception of land in Belmont, Harrison and surrounding counties, he said.
He added companies are now "picking and choosing" the properties that make sense to what they are developing and that while offers are not reaping as much as they were for some landowners three years ago an increase in natural gas prices could be favorable.
"Some of these areas may become very attractive again," he said.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported natural gas prices decreased at all trading locations Sept. 18-25. The prices fell between 5 and 9 percent.
That leasing has slowed some is evident by the lack of some municipalities receiving favorable offers over the last year or two.
East Palestine is on the market for a lease but has not received a favorable offer yet, although BP Oil was interested last year, before the village opted to negotiate through Salem-based Buckeye Mineral Development over Village Solicitor Shirley Smith, who had already met with BP representatives.
Tobin said BP was one of the "big" companies that came through the county offering leases and secured several in Yellow Creek, Madison and Washington townships. As of January they are no longer leasing in Columbiana County, he said.
Wenger is currently representing the city of Columbiana in negotiations for its municipal land. City Manager Lance Willard said there have been lease offers, but they have not signed with anyone yet.
He and Wenger did not wish to disclose any other details of those negotiations.
Lisbon is also still looking to sell its municipal land for exploration and had a lease offer at one point, but the company backed out. Village Solicitor Virginia Barborak has recommended waiting until prices go back up.
Salineville only recently leased 17 acres in Woodland Cemetery along state Route 644 for roughly $3,000 per acre -down from the $5,000 per acre being offered to landowners two to three years ago.


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President Barack Obama yesterday signed into law the bipartisan FDA bill that sailed through both chambers of Congress last month—a measure that includes a fifth five-year authorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA V), and provisions that expand the categories of drugs for which the agency will allow faster reviews and decisions.
"The FDA reforms help create a more predictable, safe, and effective regulatory process that encourages the immense investment to get a concept from discovery to commercialization, giving patients access to high-quality products in a timely fashion," Joe Panetta, president and CEO of the San Diego regional life sciences group BIOCOM, said in a statement.
The FDA Safety and Innovation Act (S.3187) includes PDUFA V among a set of user-fee measures that for the first time will include collection of fees for biologic and generic drugs. PDUFA V is projected to fund 2,599 full-time equivalent (FTE) staffers, whose duties will include helping FDA carry out its commitment under the law to review and act on 90% of standard applications within 10–12 months from the date of filing and on 90% of priority submissions within six to eight months from date of filing. In return, the start of the agency's first review cycle clock was pushed back to after its 60-day administrative filing review period.
In addition, PDUFA V creates a new mid-cycle meeting to which FDA will call an applicant, generally within two weeks after the agency holds its own internal mid-cycle review meeting on an application. FDA hammered out PDUFA V during a year of talks with the biopharma industry's two largest groups, Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
For the federal fiscal year starting on Oct. 1, FDA expects to collect $720 million in prescription drug user fees, as well as $299 million in generic drug user fees designed to support 450 FTEs, and $20 million in biologic drug user fees to support 72 FTEs. Through the authorization period (FY 2013–FY 2017), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) expects FDA to collect about $6.4 billion in total user fees projected from the bill, of which $4.068 billion will be prescription drug fees. The generic user fee is expected to generate $1.575 billion, compared with $128 million for the new biosimilar fee.
The FDA bill reauthorizes two pediatric drug measures set to expire this year, the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act and the Pediatric Research Equity Act. Both suggest designating as "breakthrough" therapies drugs that alone or in tandem with other drugs treat a serious or life-threatening disease where preliminary clinical evidence indicates that the drug provides "substantial improvement over existing therapies on one or more clinically significant endpoints such as substantial treatment effects observed early in clinical development."
The bill adds rare diseases as among topics that must be considered in a future fast-track guidance that is required to be drafted 18 months after enactment; and adds five or more years of data exclusivity to the end of patent terms for "qualified infectious disease products," under a section designed to speed up development of new antibiotic drugs.
Also, the bill changes FDA's inspection policy. The agency will regularly inspect domestic or overseas manufacturing plants based on risk-to-patient safety, a change from the current policy requiring mandatory inspections of domestic plants every two years.
The House and Senate avoided a potential stalemate by removing a provision requiring the tracking and tracing of every individual container of medicine. Track-and-trace had been part of the Senate version of the bill, but was opposed by biopharma giants and was not included in the House version.
"While enactment of S. 3187 marks an important moment for innovators across industry, research and clinical care settings, its most important beneficiaries are the patients and families that will be helped by the next generation of affordable medical products this bill will help to foster," US Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.
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To send email from another user's account, notifying the world that this person has broken computer security policy by walking away from their computer and left it unlocked.
"Erin must have gotten sheeped! I just got an email from her saying she loved sheep and wanted to find some sailors to share them with!!"
"I'm a little teapot and I love SHEEP!"
"I'm a little teapot and I love SHEEP!"
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Usually used in the game World Of Warcraft when a player or mob becomes afflicted by the Mage spell "Polymorph" turning the player into a grass eating, white, fluffy, cuddly sheep.
"Ok ok which mage didnt keep that Wolf sheeped!?"
"Man mages just keep that imba shamen sheeped the whole time!"
"Man mages just keep that imba shamen sheeped the whole time!"
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A take on the phrase "Pulling the wool over his/her eyes", meaning that you might as well have a whole sheep because you are lying or bluffing so much.
"You've totaly sheeped your mum, she'll never find out."
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The experience of doing something, and then having a large group of people (the sheep) copy you.
Bob: I started spinning my pen, and next week, the whole damn class was doing it!
Brian: Dude, you were sheeped!
Brian: Dude, you were sheeped!
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