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ATLANTA — It has become a cliche: It's the economy, stupid.
That was the Clinton campaign's mantra during its victorious 1992 operation. It is also the hope of every insurgent candidate in hard times, the reassurance for every incumbent when times are
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...before the recession hit. But to have any impact on the 9.6 percent unemployment rate, consumers need to spend more and the economy would need to rack up growth of 5 percent for a full year. "We're just muddling along," said Ken Mayland, president of ClearView...
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...2.1 percent. For the next year, Lee said that Singapore expects the GDP to grow at 3 to 5 percent. He said that the country's economy will likely expand more slowly than before, but the island-state must make up for this, firstly by growing the Gross National...
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The government unveiled financial stimulus packages to revive the economy hit by the global slowdown. Galen Clarke/The National
Stocks in the UAE hit a three-month high yesterday after a government minister predicted the economy would expand this year,
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...is projected for the second half of 2010, Teshome said. The national recession began in December 2007 and took hold of the Iowa economy last fall. The Iowa Business Council is made up of 20 corporate members, the states three public universities and Iowas...
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...interview with Yonhap News Agency, Justin Yifu Lin, World Bank chief economist and senior vice president, said the South Korean economy is forecasted to mark a decline of 3 to 3.5 percent this year, but it will likely make an upturn in 2010 and 2011 of a 2...
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People's Daily Online
...quarter is still declining _ perhaps at a pace of 1 percent to 3 percent _ but not nearly as much as it had been. The economy sank at a 6.3 percent rate in the final quarter of 2008 and at a 5.7 percent pace in the first quarter this year. It was the worst...
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...according to 46 percent of those surveyed. Men, those with higher incomes and more education are more likely to say the economy is getting better. Women are more inclined to say the economy is weakening. The national survey was conducted Friday through Tuesday...
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...to have a higher budget deficit. The economists said the government has been too hesitant in its efforts to stimulate the economy. Many of the measures in the government's massive stimulus program won't go into effect until the end of 2009 and the effects...
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...capacity utilization, very tight credit conditions and deteriorating profitability. Almost all eurozone members saw their economy contract. Germany, the largest economy in the euro zone, shrank by 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008. France and Italy...
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...address the other core elements of a new economic strategy to create a widely shared and sustainable prosperity in a global economy. It is time to think anew. This conference is designed to help begin that effort. Shared prosperity calls for a "revived social...
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...India. A brief description of two men and their companies, leaders in India, who are making their mark on the world economy. Global recession has devastated the global auto industry with pinching effects on the Indian auto industry. India is a strong and growing...
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...love for every surgery to guarantee that the patient is "cured". Bodies are more complex than that. So is the economy. The economy, like a body, is a moving, breathing, changing organism responding to stresses in the environment. Many factors determine whether...
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Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)
...between 2007 and 2008 appear sharper, economists said. "The change in GDP estimates for two years ago will not alter the economy's near-term outlook," said Sherman Chan, an economist with Moody's Economy.com. "The only effect is perhaps negative, as...
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France 24
...monopolies, have seen sharp declines. In July and August of 2008 I published three commentaries entitled, "The Chinese Economy Is Sliding Into Crisis" for Radio Free Asia. Many economists were skeptical, and friends questioned me, wondering if my cautionary...
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...and a healthy, vibrant economy. You cannot have a healthy economy if you ignore the needs of the poor. If the nutrients of an economy, otherwise known as goods and services (and money), are increasingly removed from general circulation and concentrated in...
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...2009 is a very successful year for the United Way, so we are more able to meet the human needs of the community. (With the tough economy) it's going to be a challenging year, but we're going to give it our best shot. I'm hopefully the community will provide...
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...to political existence or legitimacy. "However in the case of North Korea, if the regime opts for a move toward a market economy, it might be perceived as not only a shift in the economic model but also erosion of the legitimacy of the North Korean state itself,"...
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...Americans chose change. Their demand for new answers to old problems has created the very real opportunity to transform our economy and become energy independent by investing in clean energy. Right now, our nation faces an unprecedented economic crisis and...
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...a fire sale of the 85-year-old investment bank to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. And the credit crunch that paralyzed the world economy only got worse after Lehman Brothers, a 158-year-old company that helped finance America's railroads, became the biggest bankruptcy...
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...cutbacks that have struck other industries. Bar owners said part of the problem is changing lifestyles as a result of the tough economy. While shooting a game of pool with friends at a local bar has long been a social tradition, for some bars in Dane County...
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...will make the steel mills of the Soviet Union look the model of efficiency. The ruling Democrats have a choice: Rescue this economy to return it to market control. Or use this crisis to seize the commanding heights of the economy for the greater social good....
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...well in spite of the party's claims that the economy was on track. "The facts and figures paint a very bleak picture of an economy that is not on track." The Convention People's Party (CPP) in its manifesto dubbed: "New Dawn, New Vision," described the economy...
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...and still keep providing the opportunity that's out there for the people that actually want to produce. WASHINGTON (AP)—The economy jolted into reverse during the third quarter as consumers cut back on their spending by the biggest amount in 28 years, the...
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...$48 billion. The energy efficiency efforts of California began in the 1970s and have already shown a green economy is a good economy. By adopting new building codes and appliance standards, Californians saved $56 billion between 1972 and 2006 and saw 1.5 million...
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Speed, decisiveness paramount with possible approaches including even Gov't direct investment in worsening companies.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/business_finance/Economy_Cratering_Regulators_Outline_Steps_to_Quell_Crisis
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden clashed on the economy and Iraq during a lively but polite debate on Thursday, and focused most criticism on their rivals at the top of. Sarah Palin avoided to answer the questions and went back to her media training and many rehearsals.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Biden_Palin_clash_on_economy_at_debate
With the economic downturn, many job markets seem in peril. However, investment in energy efficiency and renewable-energy strategies could create 2 million jobs in two years, economists claim. Full Digg post: http://digg.com/environment/Green_Collar_Jobs_to_Fuel_Future_Economy
Duck Tales teaches us about Inflation and the EconomyFull Digg post: http://digg.com/business_finance/Duck_Tales_teaches_us_about_Inflation_and_the_Economy
The designers of the international economy sternly demand that the poor accept market discipline, but they ensure that they themselves are protected from its ravages, a useful arrangement that goes back to the origins of modern industrial capitalism, and played a large role in dividing the world into rich and poor societies.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/political_opinion/Noam_Chomsky_on_Latin_America_and_the_US_economy
Full Digg post: http://digg.com/business_finance/Bush_s_Economy
...Differences arise over solutions, and analysts say it can make more sense for campaigns to make general pitches on the economy than faith-based appeals. "This is daunting, complicated stuff even for sophisticated voters," said John Green, a political scientist...
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...on ranking the issues, Green found remarkably little movement among faith groups' presidential preferences. Even with a sour economy and a Republican in the White House, Obama was polling about the same as '04 nominee John Kerry among faith groups. More recent...
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...about 50 premium economy seats on new 777-300ERs to be delivered in 2010. Both premium -- with more leg room -- and standard economy may then be reconfigured to a 2-4-3 layout -- first seen on the 747 in 1970 -- to better accommodate couples and family groups....
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John McCain on 60 Minutes, 9/21/08.
Scott Pelley: In 1999, you were one of the senators who helped pass deregulation of Wall Street. Do you regret that now?
John McCain: No, I think the deregulation was probably helpful to the growth of our economy. Full Digg post: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_No_Regrets_on_Deregulation_Helpful_to_Economy
Digg it UP!Full Digg post: http://digg.com/politics/Political_Radar_Obama_Picks_Up_Phone_on_Economy
Obama slams McCain using his fundamentals statement out of context, while praising Paulson. Well guess what, Paulson says?
"I wouldn't bet against the long-term fundamentals of this country."
Uhm, Obama? What's your plan? Oh, that's right, you're voting "present" again...Full Digg post: http://digg.com/politics/Again_McCain_is_RIGHT_on_the_economy
Everyone loves a scapegoat, so figure out who yours is and compare the results to everyone else and find out who is getting the most fingers pointed at them.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/business_finance/Who_Killed_the_Economy_Interactive_Bracket_Style_Voting
The first rule of holes is this: If you're in one, stop digging. New government estimates released last week show that the federal government will be in a big hole in fiscal 2009: a $546 billion deficit. They also help show how we got into this hole -- and the answer may surprise you.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/business_finance/Rising_546_Billion_Deficit_Don_t_Blame_the_Economy
On the air...Full Digg post: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/New_Obama_ad_on_the_economy
Yesterday, after two of Wall Street's major banking institutions had just collapsed, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) declared that he "still" believes "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." As MSNBC's First Read notes today, yesterday was only the most recent occasion that McCain has called the economy's fundamentals "strong"Full Digg post: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_Said_Economy_is_Strong_At_Least_18_Times_in_2008
Full Digg post: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/New_Obama_Ad_The_Fundamentals_of_Our_Economy_Are_Strong
After a huge economic meltdown McCain parrots the same old bullshit. He said Monday in Florida that the economy is still fundamentally sound. Anyone with a brain would beg to differ. As you wake up and check your stock portfolios, or just wonder if you'll have cash in your bank accounts... who is the agent of economic change in this election?Full Digg post: http://digg.com/business_finance/McCain_Sounds_Just_Like_Bush_The_Economy_is_STILL_STRONG
Barack Obama on Monday mocked John McCain's promise to bring change to Washington, saying the Republican presidential nominee has marched loyally with President Bush and was out of touch with the economic distress of struggling Americans.Full Digg post: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Obama_Slams_McCain_Over_The_Economy
"My opponents may disagree, but those fundamentals of America are strong," McCain said at a campaign event in Orlando. "No one can match an American worker. Our workers sell more goods to more markets than any other on earth. Our workers have always been the strength of our economy, and they remain the strength of our economy today."Full Digg post: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_clarifies_economy_comments
Speaking in Florida this morning — the very day that two of Wall Street's major banking institutions collapsed — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) declared he "still" believes "the fundamentals of our economy are strong."Full Digg post: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/As_Wall_Street_Collapses_McCain_Declares_Economy_is_Strong
John McCain may want to refine his economic message a bit more during this potentially disastrous week for the financial sector. On the campaign trail in Florida, the Senator declared this morning that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," despite what he described as "tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street."Full Digg post: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/McCain_refrain_Fundamentals_Of_Our_Economy_are_Sound
The U.S. credit squeeze has brought on a "once-in-a-century" financial crisis that is likely to claim more big firms before it eases, former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan said. Greenspan told ABC's "This Week" that the situation "is in the process of outstripping anything I've seen, and it still is not resolved and it still has a way to go."Full Digg post: http://digg.com/business_finance/Greenspan_Economy_in_once_in_a_century_crisis
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan offered a woeful outlook of America's economic situation on Sunday, saying the crisis with the country's financial institutions was as dire as he had ever seen in his long career, and predicting that one or more of those institutions would likely collapse in the near future. Full Digg post: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Greenspan_This_Is_The_Worst_Economy_I_ve_Ever_Seen


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Abilene Paradox
When organizations blunder into the
, they take actions in contradiction to what they really want to do and therefore defeat the very purposes of what they try to accomplish. It is a symptom of the inability to manage agreement - not the inability to manage conflict. Groups that suffer from the
display a number of characteristics:
they agree individually in private about the nature of the situation or the problem facing the organization
they agree individually in private about the steps that need to be taken to cope with the problem
they fail to accurately communicate their desires and beliefs to one another
failing to communicate, as a group they make decisions that make them take actions counterproductive for their intent
as a result, they become frustrated
the cycle of disability to manage agreement will repeat itself if not dealt with accurately through communication
is described in
and other meditations on management
) by Jerry B. Harvey.
A sunny afternoon, a family playing cards on a terrace. One of them thinks they should move - not that he cares, on the contrary, but he thinks the others want to - so he proposes a trip to Abilene. No fun, hot, bad food. Back home one of them admits that he had preferred to stay home. Everybody would have liked that, only they did not admit to it when it was still time to enjoy the afternoon.
Could someone please bring back (or rewrite) the more-detailed version of the story that explains the name?
Here's a re-write of a sort:
It is 104 degrees and the sun is hammering Coleman, Texas with its merciless heat. Two couples sit on the porch of a house sipping lemonade and watch a fan with a bent blade pointlessly stirring the hot air to bring them no relief. The younger couple have invited her parents to visit, now it's so hot that playing dominoes no longer takes their minds from their discomfort. Breaking the rhythm of their misery, Dad coughs into the stoic, contemplative silence and suggests driving to Abilene to get lunch.
Like automata they drag themselves into the ancient pickup and drive the 53 scorched miles to Abilene without the benefit of the air-conditioning system that broke years ago. Lunch is not fun. The food is poor, the beer warm and the service is lifeless. So they return silent, exhausted by their excursion.
Back on the grumpy porch as afternoon heat gives way to sweltering, airless night they discover that nobody actually wanted to go to Abilene; everybody thought that everyone else did...
... and somewhere in the distance, a wild coyote calls ...
Applications to Voting
can sometimes produce that sort of result. E.g., your true preference order is Nader,Gore,Bush, but you think most other people will vote for for Gore or Bush, so you decide to vote for Gore on the grounds that a vote for Nader would be "wasted". --
To solve this problem,
should be used where everyone explicitly communicates their ordered list of preferences and resolution of the votes is done as follows: suppose you have N positions to be filled by candidates in a riding, then first-choice votes are assigned to the candidates until they acquire 1/N votes. Any spillover votes, which are unnecessary and would be wasted normally, fall back to their second choice and then their third choice and so on. If this does not resolve the election then the candidate with the least first-choice votes is eliminated and his votes fall to their second choice. Complications can be made to this voting scheme where instead of arbitrarily deciding which votes for a candidate are spillover votes, one looks at the second-choice on all the votes for that candidate and preserves this proportion in the assignment of used versus spillover votes.
Example, suppose a candidate is elected by 50 votes and Green received 100 votes, then we can either take out 50 votes from the 100 at random or we can look at all the second-choices on those 100 votes, notice that 70 second-choice votes were cast for Blue and 30 for Red and take out 35 2nd Blue votes and 15 2nd Red votes.
Suppose there is only one position and everyone votes for A, B or C as a first choice and for D as a second choice. Then the above resolution scheme would eliminate D from the running entirely even though that is the most sensible choice. This problem is unsolvable and it is known to be impossible to create a voting process with all the qualities that are generally agreed upon to be good for a voting process to possess. This is known as
Preferential Voting is used in Australia and information on its use around the world can be gleaned from a web search for the term. --
The paradox of
applies all voting systems, including
(also called
To solve this problem the voters should exchange information on their priorities and then form voting blocks; equivalence classes of voters where sameness is "having the same priorities" (within some delta). Then the voting blocks' managements assign votes to members (voters) in each class so that the overall class' voting percentages (how many for A, for B, for C) model the priorities of voters in that voting block. --
Oftentimes, at least in a small group, this is completely illusory. This past summer, the group I was with then decided it was time for a reorg. Two different proposals were put forth, and we were asked to vote on them. I saw neither as being beneficial, because it seemed the group's primary problem was that most of the people hated supporting their software. I made and voted for a third choice. Of course, I was the only person who did vote for it (later, privately, several other people admitted that they'd have voted for it except for the
), and the only people who wanted the second plan were in the group I was in (reasoning - hey, this is a reorg to do almost exactly what we're doing now. Admittedly, the other team isn't anywhere close, but this would at best only bring them up to our speed.) I was then given the option to changing my vote to choice B, so that I could be united with the rest of my team in our loss.
Most of the people who were against it were against it because they were afraid they would be placed where they didn't want to be, in support, when the whole point was to get those of us who actually liked support to take over that work from them. I think this is another type of paradox, but I'm not sure about a name for it.
the same as AlternativeVoting
? They seem to be related to the
, if only distantly.
The problem seems to be that people don't vote for the candidate they most want overall, but for the candidate they most want in the set of candidates who they think are likely to win; this is the ancient problem of
Personally, I favour
. Here, voters simply tick the boxes of the candidates who they would accept, and the candidate with the most votes wins. This eliminates
and the
. A more refined version allows people to give each candidate a score (eg out of 10), and then gives victory to the candidate with the highest score.
does not eliminate
. For example, say you have two options, and the real preferences are that six people find the first option acceptable and five people find the second option acceptable. If two people who think both options are acceptable but prefer the second option vote only for the second, then the second option wins the vote (4 to 5). -- Martin Shobe
Applications to Other Ways of Group Decision Making
One algorithm I've seen for choosing a restaurant in a group goes: walk about until you find somewhere you all agree is good enough, then carry on looking until you find somewhere better (or you're all exhausted) pretending that you can always go back to the first place. I've seen it work, although I don't know why. It may be something to do with taking some of the heat out of the decision, or setting an initial benchmark. Of course, you have to be in a place with more than 1 place to eat...
A personal decision-making algorithm I use when faced with two alternatives is to choose one, then see how I feel about it. If I don't like it, I take the other alternative. It's only now I've seen this page I realize I may have been using my own personal way to avoid a sort of minor
. --
but I find it's better to use a coin or a die to represent the choice. I assign a value to each face of the coin (or to each number on the die) and then roll (or flip). If I don't like the answer, I roll again. In some instances however, this practice defeats itself when I just keep on rolling (then I've got to find another way to make my decision).
Yeah. When faced with a decision, flip a coin. Say it comes up heads. If you decide to go for "best of three", then obviously, you wanted tails. Choice made. Flipping a coin doesn't so much make the decision for you as make you think about the options more clearly.
moved from Group
Everyone's stupid about something. Me, I like to bite off more than I can chew and stay up too late at night. You - well, I know what you're stupid about, but I won't embarrass you by revealing it in public. The point is that, together, we're stupider than separately. If we can get enough stupes like us into a room, we'll become so idiotic we won't be able to dress and feed ourselves.
All development groups expand until they become idiotic. If you're in a pleasant, productive, functional group now, just wait around a little while.
Why is agreement and reaching it equated with the probability of success being higher?
In the small,
can be effective to surfacing ambivalence about a proposal. But
doesn't scale easily past small groups. --
We've been using the video - Abilene Paradox - in our company for year. You may enjoy sharing it with your colleagues. We just discovered the original video version is no longer available, but purchased the Abilene Paradox 2 from Trainer's Toolchest. -- Lorene Hanser www.trainerstoolchest.com or
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Week 3 Pick'em Winners: kstone won spread hitting 11 of 16. fitantitans won normal hitting 10 of 16. Week 4 Pick'em will be up by Wednesday evening.
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East Palestine July 4th activities announced
EAST PALESTINE Activities have been announced at East Palestine Park on July 4.
Breakfast will be served at 8 a.m. at the community center. Park Board activities start with the pet parade at 10 a.m., bike parade at 12:30 p.m., games for all ages at 2 p.m. and a basketball free throw contest at 5 p.m.
East Palestine Alumni and Friends will host its annual duck derby contest at 4 p.m. at the entrance of the park. A volleyball tournament kicks off at 4 p.m. To register a team call Zac Dunn at 330-853-4990 or Nate Sugar at 506-8122. Teams will consist of five players at $25 per team. Teams may also register beginning at 3:30 p.m. July 4.
Live music starts with Anthony Monteleone at 2:30 p.m., Ben Flint at 3:30 p.m., Sparo and Marlene Figley at 5 p.m., Passin' Thru at 6 p.m. and Chub Scouts at 8 p.m. Sounds by Lucian Clewell play throughout the day.
There will be concession stands in the park plus Savvy J's Snack concessions at the pool. Fireworks conclude the evening sponsored by the East Palestine Fire Department.
Benefit square dance planned at church
BEAVER TOWNSHIP - A benefit square dance will be held from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. July 5 at Paradise Church, 10020 New Buffalo Road.
Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Proceeds from the dance and basket raffle will be directed to the donor of the kidney to Neil Maxwell.
Gavin Ward Memorial Run/Walk is Aug. 8
HANOVERTON - The second annual Gavin Ward Memorial Run/Walk 5K night run kicks off at 7:15 p.m. Aug. 8 at United High School.
Registration will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Cost is $20 to all runners registered by July 30. Each runner registered by that time is also guaranteed a dry fit race shirt. Registration is $25 the night of the race.
All funds and proceeds benefit the Gavin D. Ward Memorial Scholarship at the high school. Ward, the late son of Mike and Denise Ward of Salem, died of an asthma attack after a football practice before entering the seventh grade. There will be a DJ, fruit, water and awards after the race and a raffle during and after the race.
Among the prizes are an overnight stay for two at the Spread Eagle, a Walmart $50 gift card, a $25 gift card from Giant Eagle.
Two-day garage sale will aid Camp Grief
SALEM - A charity garage sale to benefit Camp Good Grief in Rogers, a children's grief camp, will be held from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, in memory of Glenn Peison and Olivia Thompson.
The public is invited to the sale at the home of Dena Peison, 1097 Jones Drive. Monetary donations to Camp Good Grief, will be accepted by phone at 330-337-0940 or in person the days of the sale.
Pistol training offered in West Middlesex
WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa. - The Mercer County Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) will teach a basic pistol training and conceal carry course on Saturday and Sunday at Hidden Valley Sportsmen's Club in West Middlesex, Pa. The deadline for registration is June 25.
The course will follow National Rifle Association basic pistol training guidelines. A certificate will be given to individuals who complete the course.
The Trumbull, Mahoning, Columbiana, Ashtabula and Portage County (Ohio) sheriff's offices will accept the certification with CCW applications for Ohio residents living in those counties since the course meets the Ohio concealed carry requirements. All proceeds benefit the Mercer County CIRT.
Training will cover: pistol and ammunition knowledge, safe gun handling, shooting fundamentals, marksmanship and live fire drills.
About Mercer County CIRT: Established in 2005, the Mercer County Critical Incident Response Team is a multi-jurisdictional organization comprised of officers from eight police agencies.
These officers receive training above the normal police training to respond to high risk warrants, terrorist events, barricaded subjects, hostage rescue, hazardous material incidents, dignitary protection and large scale disasters.


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D. Clark (WIRO/Colby College), W. Skidmore (St. Andrews University, Scotland)
Eight different late type cataclysmic varaiable systems were studied to look for magnetic activity in the secondary stars. Late type CV systems consist of a white dwarf primary star and a fully convective secondary star with a short orbital period. From past observations it has been shown that fully convective stars show some amount of magnetic activity. Therefore, it is expected that these power spectra would indicate magnetic activity in a few of these systems. Combining light curves found on various amateur observing sites, longterm light curves for each star were compiled. Power spectra were made for each star to look for periods of changing flux that could indicate magnetic activity cycles. Magnetic activity cycles in the secondary star causes cyclic behaviour in the mass transfere rate, which in turn causes a cyclic behavior in the systems brightness.
Acknowledgements of funding: Colby College, WIRO
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On a hot July night, Roland Starr returns from fishing on Lake Conroe and straps his blue-and-white center console fishing boat onto a carrier at the dock.
Starr, a retired postal carrier from Houston, has been boating and fishing for more than 25 years. But Starr won't venture out onto Lake Conroe on weekends or holidays, when throngs of boats and jet skis fill the lake. Too many inexperienced – or reckless – boaters.
"Some of the young people – they may not be up on the rules," the 66-year-old said.
Starr is not alone in avoiding the crowds. Many longtime boaters say they prefer the quieter weekdays with less drinking and fewer crafts on the lake's greenish brown waters. Their trepidation underscores the sometimes dangerous nature of boating on the popular recreational lake north of Houston, where inexperience, inattention and alcohol can have dire consequences.
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Gold This Morning: Not With a Bang, But a Whimper --Jon 3 commentsModest overnight volume within a convictionless $7 trading range contradicts the seeming flocks of camouflaged messages cautioning gold commitments as we tack on new all-time highs. GSR continues easier at ~56.30 this morning and while this level is looked on as overly satyric (as in the devil made me do it) by some who drew a line-in-the-sand when it was in the upper 60s, rest assured it remains the same leading indicator that caused no such consternation when at higher levels it brought smug informed opinions of the pending deflation. Open interest on Wednesday's monumental volume only increased 11,000 contracts (1.7%) hardly the stuff of parabolic tops. Option vols continue to inch up and at-the-monies are now around 20 and still distant from the 30 levels that in the past put hard thinking in a correctable state. Today: Let's wander through Poets' Corner and remind ourselves that life does not imitate art as in the prosaic end-of-the-world and in fact exaggerated market moves always end with a bang...and we are not there yet...even if it's Friday do not be lulled by the lazy sideways move; you are reminded that after early weakness last Friday, we managed to tack on a $25 move.
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Sitting in my backyard the other day it came to me an idea about gold buying/investing. What sparked my thinking was a news report I heard on the radio I carry around with me to keep up on what's happening. The news report wasn't anything revealing, but just a general report about gold prices. Now I hear gold is up to $1600 an ounce. Okay. But here's what I thought. You know who the winner's are in this gold market? Those people who are selling the gold. No one else is going to make any money in this skyrocketing prices for gold. And the idea I had about gold was, it is going to go down eventually, and when it does people are going to dump as much of it as they can to take advantage of whatever they can get for it at that moment, as it continues to go down. As a sidenote, I've seen this for many, many years that when gold starts going up the economy is going down. When gold goes down the economy is going up. That may seem naive on this site with everyone being into investing, I'm probably out of my class on this one. But I want to make I guess what is obvious to people, but maybe some aren't wanting to look at like this. And that is the people who are selling the gold will also be the people who will be buying the gold back when the price starts falling. So dealers make money when gold goes up, because more and more people are buying it from him, and basically he can charge as much as the market will bear. But what makes the difference is he will get all this gold back which makes him more money just because of his holdings in gold, when people start dumping it as the price begins to fall. In one case he exchanges cash for gold, and in the other he exchanges cash in exchange for gold, but here's the catch in the dealers advantage, and that is he is having to pay out less and less money for gold people are selling as the price goes down. So he's loosing less and less money as the price goes down, and gaining more and more gold back in return for it.
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Five for Sunday: Patriots know how to keep chains moving
The Patriots at home: Tom Brady and company know their best weapon is their no-huddle offense at home. Whether they use it 40 times or 10 times it presents a problem for the Ravens.
Look for Brady when he moves the chains and converts a third down to run up to the line of scrimmage against the Ravens' third-down nickel defense, get into an exotic formation and run the ball on a quick count. The Patriots did it last week against the Texans and they should do it even more against the Ravens.
As for the running game, the Patriots only had 34 carries for 77 yards against the Ravens last time they played in Week 3. Since that game, New England has averaged 141 yards rushing. New England led the NFL in rushing touchdowns with 27 and is especially dangerous in the red zone.
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What the Falcons present to the 49ers: It's no secret the Falcons took a big risk moving up in the draft in 2011 to take wide receiver Julio Jones when they already had Roddy White. As general manager Thomas Dimitroff told me, "We had a vision for this football team."
The vision has come to fruition and now the only thing in the way of a Super Bowl appearance for the Falcons is a big day from the two big wide receivers and tight end Tony Gonzalez. The big three at home have been tough to beat with 131 receptions, 11 touchdowns and 94 first downs this season.
The Falcons won't go away even if they're behind in the fourth quarter. This year Matt Ryan was as battle-tested as any quarterback in the NFL. With the Falcons trailing this season, Ryan had 184 completions in 269 attempts for 2,208 yards, 11 touchdowns and five interceptions. Falcons wide receivers are excellent on boundaries with acrobatic catches and are simply bigger than the 49ers' corners and should win their fair share of jump balls.
What the 49ers present to the Falcons: After last weekend no team looks more dangerous than the 49ers. Is this the year a drop-back passer doesn't win the Super Bowl? Colin Kaepernick brings a dimension to the game that really hasn't been seen before.
In two games vs. Cam Newton, the Falcons gave up 202 rushing yards and two touchdowns to the Panthers QB. Last week Russell Wilson ran seven times for 60 yards and a score. Michael Vick ran for 42 yards in seven carries against the Falcons, which makes the prospects of containing Kaepernick bleak. But the Falcons' record in those games was 3-1, so the Niners better find other ways to move this offense besides their running QB.
For example, the Seahawks got great production from tight end Zack Miller (eight catches, 142 yards, TD) vs. Atlanta and now the 49ers need to wake the sleeping giant known as Vernon Davis. Atlanta wants to run the ball as much as possible but in their three loses this year they ran 45 times for 146 yards at 3.2 a carry. Niners linebackers Patrick Willis and Navarro Bowman plan to stuff the run just like the teams that beat Atlanta in the regular season. Sooner or later the Falcons will be a one-dimensional team that has to throw to win.
Flacco and Rice vs. New England: The Ravens in the Joe Flacco/Ray Rice era are 2-3 against the Patriots and it is pretty clear why they win and why they lose to the bad boys from Foxboro. In Flacco's two wins over the Patriots, he was not sacked in 49 pass attempts. In his three loses he was sacked eight times. Can the Patriots apply a pass rush?
As for Rice, it's much of the same when it comes to looking at the wins and losses. Rice was involved in the same two wins as Flacco, rushing 42 times for 260 yards and three touchdowns. In the three loses he rushed 60 times for 258 yards and zero touchdowns. Rice needs to score and Flacco needs to avoid sacks or the Patriots will win again.
Things to remember this weekend:
• The Ravens are the only team Tom Brady has thrown more interceptions than touchdowns against in his career.
• Since Jim Caldwell took over the Ravens' offense, Baltimore has had eight more rushing plays per game, while averaging 2.5 more points and 88 more yards.
• Flacco is 7-4 in playoff games with one interception in the wins and seven picks in the losses.
• The last time the Ravens played the Patriots, Torrey Smith caught six passes for 127 yards and two touchdowns. Aqib Talib was not on the Patriots then but he is now and should reduce Smith's production this time around.
• John Harbaugh is one of three coaches to reach the postseason in each of his first five seasons. The other two were Chuck Knox and Bill Cowher. Neither coach won a Super Bowl in those five seasons.
• If Brady throws for 227 yards and five touchdowns he will have the most postseason yards and TD passes in NFL history.
• The 49ers haven't won a road playoff game since January 1989 and are 2-9 overall in road playoff games. Kaepernick was two years old and Aldon Smith was eight months old the last time the Niners won a road playoff game.


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Police say suspect was last seen in a black Trailblazer
Hudson police have asked for help to find the man who robbed a convenience store at knifepoint. A clerk at Rogers Variety on River Road told police that the armed man came into the store late Tuesday night, demanding money.
The clerk described the robber as a white man his late twenties, wearing a gray hoodie and blue jeans. Police say the suspect drove off in a black Chevrolet Trailblazer that may have a New Hampshire license plate including the numbers 326. The clerk said the man drove south toward Tyngsborough, Mass.
The clerk was not hurt. Police say there is surveillance video of the holdup, but they have not released it publicly.
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Malone University Center for Theology and Ministry addresses anti-intellectualism on January 16.
January 10, 2014 | Release # 6809
The Malone University Center for Theology and Ministry will present "Evangelical Christians and the Challenge of Anti-Intellectualism" on Thursday, January 16 at 6:30 p.m. in the Brehme Centennial Center, located on the campus at 2600 Cleveland Avenue N.W. in Canton, Ohio. The program is free and open to the public.
Malone University assistant professor of biblical studies, T. C. Ham, Ph.D., will offer a presentation on the dangers and challenges of the anti-intellectualism which is common among evangelical Christians. Discussion will follow. Dr. Ham describes the issue as follows:
"We often hear that the Bible is simple enough for a child to understand, but complex enough to interest scholars. Why is it then that my eleven-year-old son—who easily navigates the Chronicles of Narnia—has so much trouble with the Book of Matthew? The answer to this question may explain the condition of so many small group Bible studies in the churches today. It may also shed light on why people untrained in biblical or theological scholarship often presume to know what's best for biblical and theological education."
He continues, "Moreover, the very heart of what it means to be a Christian may be subtly but profoundly shaped by the prevailing winds of anti-intellectualism in the Church. Ironically, Christian higher education and even biblical and theological scholarship are not free of the influences of anti-intellectualism."
Dr. Ham's recent scholarly work includes "Anti-Intellectualism and Its Impact on the Academy and Biblical Studies," a paper presented at the Thelma Fordham Pruett Conference on the Academy and Religious Faith, at the University of Dayton (2013).
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Author Affiliations: Department of Surgery, International University of Health and Welfare Mita Hospital (Drs Kubota, Kuroda, Origuchi, and Mafune), and Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery (Dr Kaminishi) and Gastroenterology (Drs Isayama, Kawabe, and Omata), Tokyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
The outcome of the stomach-partitioning gastrojejunostomy (SPGJ) procedure is superior to that of stenting procedures.
Data from patients who underwent an SPGJ were collected retrospectively from hospital medical records (body weight, hemoglobin and albumin levels, assessment of food intake, duration of hospitalization, complications, and survival rates), and we compared the results with those obtained from patients treated with stenting.
Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Gastroenterology, Tokyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
A series of 16 consecutive patients with gastroduodenal outlet obstruction who underwent an SPGJ and 9 patients who were treated with stenting between January 5, 1998, and August 18, 2004.
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Mann-Whitney, Fisher exact, and generalized Wilcoxon tests were used for statistical analyses.
There were no differences between the 2 groups concerning background data, physiological status, or laboratory data. The starting point of food intake by patients treated with stenting was significantly earlier (at 4.2 days in the stent group vs at 6.0 days in the SPGJ group, P < .004). The numbers of patients taking a regular meal at 2 weeks after treatment were 12 of 16 patients in the SPGJ group and 1 of 9 patients in the stent group (P < .001). There was no significant difference between the 2 groups regarding the duration of hospitalization. The complication rates were significantly different between the 2 groups (P = .48). The median survival was 7.3 months in the SPGJ group and 2.8 months in the stent group (P = .008), and the mean 6-month survival rates were 81% (13 of 16) and 33% (3 of 9), respectively (P < .04).
Stomach-partitioning gastrojejunostomy achieved improved quality of life and a better prognosis compared with stenting procedures, and it is the treatment of choice for gastroduodenal outlet obstruction.
For patients with gastroduodenal outlet obstruction (GOO) due to unresectable advanced malignant disease in the upper gastrointestinal tract, several treatments are available (ie, bypass surgery, enteral stenting, jejunostomy, or intravenous hyperalimentation). The intestinal tract–nutrition method (bypass operation, stenting, and jejunostomy) seems to be superior to intravenous hyperalimentation in terms of (1) the activation of intestinal tract immunity, (2) the use of oral antineoplastic medication, and (3) safe and simple home management. Given the quality of life (QOL) issue in the setting of terminal illness, the bypass operation and stent placement method, if possible to perform, is desirable compared with jejunostomy because patients may be relieved of the discomfort of a nasogastric tube for decompression, and satisfactory oral ingestion may be obtained.
The most common bypass operation, conventional gastrojejunostomy (CGJ) from the proximal part of the stomach to the proximal part of the jejunum, is not fully effective in this situation because of the retention of food or bleeding from the tumor. In the method comprising stomach transection and a Billroth II procedure, visualization of the tumor is impossible, and the distal stump sometimes ruptures because of bleeding from the tumor. In another type of bypass operation, a procedure that includes transection of the stomach and anastomoses on both sides of the stomach to the upper jejunum is reportedly used to prevent liquid storage on the cancer side.1 However, the adaptation of this method is limited because the procedure is intricate.
We introduced a new type of gastrojejunostomy, called stomach-partitioning gastrojejunostomy (SPGJ), which embodies a modification of the palliative method of Schantz et al.2 In this procedure, the stomach is partially partitioned between the proximal and distal parts, and the proximal part of the stomach is anastomosed to the proximal part of the jejunum (Figure 1). This procedure allows for unobstructed eating and for serial endoscopic observation of the tumor; it reduces bleeding from the tumor and allows for drainage when bleeding occurs (Figure 2). A previous study3 demonstrated that SPGJ in 8 patients achieved improved QOL and a better prognosis compared with CGJ in 13 patients and that it is the preferred bypass procedure for GOO. The rates of taking a regular meal at 2 weeks after operation were 80% in the SPGJ group and 31% in the CGJ group. The mean 1-year survival rates were 42.9% for the SPGJ group and 7.7% for the CGJ group. The mean survival times were 13.4 months in the SPGJ group and 5.8 months in the CGJ group. Since 2004 this procedure has been introduced in some institutes around the world.4,5
Stomach-partitioning gastrojejunostomy.
A, Lesser curvature lumen and anastomosis. B, Tumor observed through the lumen.
We performed more SPGJ procedures after that year. The aims of the present study were to evaluate the outcome of the SPGJ procedure and to compare it with the performance of stenting procedures conducted during the same period. Study variables were food intake status and the perioperative and postoperative course.
Between January 5, 1998, and August 18, 2004, a series of 16 consecutive patients with GOO caused by incurable malignant disease underwent an SPGJ at the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Tokyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. The analysis was based on body weight, pretreatment and posttreatment hemoglobin and albumin levels, starting point and assessment of food intake, duration of hospitalization, complications, and survival rates. The assessment of food intake was classified as no meal, half-solid meal, or regular meal. Data from these patients were collected retrospectively from hospital medical records.
The SPGJ procedure was performed as follows: the upper third of the stomach was partitioned from the greater side to a point located 2 cm from the lesser curvature. The lesser curvature lumen was left at about 1 finger's width. The partitioned proximal part of the stomach was anastomosed to the proximal part of the jejunum. A retrocolic anastomosis was usually performed.
During the same period, 9 patients were treated with gastroduodenal stenting at the Department of Gastroenterology, Tokyo University Hospital. The stents used (Ultraflex and Microvasive; Boston Scientific Corporation, Natick, Massachusetts) had a fully open diameter of 23 mm and a length of 70 mm and were commercially available for the esophagus. We evaluated outcomes among these 9 patients treated with stenting. Informed consent was obtained from all patients before surgery or treatment.
The background data, physiological status, laboratory data, starting point of food intake, and duration of hospitalization were compared by means of Mann-Whitney tests. Assessment of food intake and complications were compared by means of Fisher exact tests. Survival rates were calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method and were compared using generalized Wilcoxon tests. P < .05 was considered statistically significant.
The characteristics of the study groups are summarized in Table 1. The median age and male-female sex ratios were similar between the 2 groups. In terms of primary disease, gastric cancers had the highest prevalence in both groups. Other primary neoplasms in the SPGJ group included malignant lymphoma, rectal cancer, and renal cancer, while the types of malignancies in the stent group included pancreatic and ovarian cancers. The spread of the primary tumor was similar between the groups, with adjacent structure invasions, liver metastases, peritoneal disseminations, and other distant organ metastases (lung and brain).
There were no major differences in physiological status (body weight change) or laboratory data (hemoglobin and albumin levels) between the 2 groups. The details are given in Table 2.
The starting points of food intake were at 6.0 days in the SPGJ group and 4.2 days in the stent group; hence, food intake was significantly earlier in patients treated with stenting (P < .001) (Table 3). The numbers of patients taking a regular meal at 2 weeks after treatment were 12 of 16 patients in the SPGJ group and 1 of 9 patients in the stent group (P = .008).
There was no significant difference between the 2 groups regarding the duration of hospitalization (P = .48) (Table 4). In 2 patients in the SPGJ group and in 1 patient in the stent group, tumor growth occurred at the anastomotic site and through the stent, resulting in obstruction. In the stent group, one patient had massive tumor hemorrhage, and another patient experienced intestinal perforation by a migrating stent; both patients died of these complications. There was a significant difference in complication rates between the 2 study groups (P = .14).
The median survival was 7.3 months in the SPGJ group and 2.8 months in the stent group, but the difference was not statistically significant (Figure 3). The mean 6-month survival rates for the SPGJ group and for the stent group were 81% (13 of 16) and 33% (3 of 9), respectively (P = .04).
There was no significant difference between the survival curves in the stomach-partitioning gastrojejunostomy (SPGJ) group and the stent group (P = .14), but the mean 6-month survival rate was significantly higher in the SPGJ group (81% [13 of 16]) than in the stent group (33% [3 of 9]) (P = .04).
Conventional gastrojejunostomy, the most common bypass, is not fully effective in this setting because of impaired gastric motility or risk of bleeding from the tumor. In 1925, Devine1 introduced antral exclusion gastrojejunostomy for GOO, but the procedure was too intricate. In 1946, Kajitani6 introduced a transverse resection in the greater curvature of the stomach and gastrojejunostomy technique by first maintaining a tunnel in the lesser curvature of the stomach.
The SPGJ procedure effects simple gastrojejunostomy by application of a single linear cutter.3 In that study and in the present study, the superiority of the SPGJ method is demonstrated compared with CGJ or stenting procedures in terms of simple manipulation, less postoperative morbidity, improved QOL, and better prognosis. In addition, an SPGJ allows for observation of the tumor through postoperative endoscopy.
During the past decade, the expandable stents developed for enteral use have shown favorable results equal to or better than those of the CGJ operation.7,8 In fact, the stenting procedure has enabled earlier food intake and seems useful for patients who need alimentation as soon as possible because of poor health and limited life expectancy.
Most patients in the SPGJ group had taken a regular meal by 2 weeks after the operation, which may lead to better QOL. In the stent group, critical complications such as bleeding and perforation were observed in our study and in others.9- 11 In the SPGJ group, reobstruction caused by a neoplasm was observed in only 2 cases. Better QOL and lower morbidity might contribute to an improved general condition and prognosis.
In the past few years, good results have been obtained by laparoscopic gastrojejunostomy for palliation of GOO.12,13 It provides safe and efficient relief from symptoms of GOO, minimal suppression of immune function, and the same benefits of minimally invasive surgery associated with other laparoscopic procedures. Laparoscopic SPGJ surgery, if possible to perform, may be less invasive and more useful for patients with GOO and should be studied in the future.
At present, SPGJ has achieved improved QOL (intake of solid food and fewer complications) and a better prognosis compared with other bypass operations or stenting procedures. It is the treatment of choice for GOO.
Correspondence: Keisuke Kubota, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, International University of Health and Welfare Mita Hospital, Mita 1-4-3, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8329, Japan (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: March 4, 2006.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Kubota, Kuroda, Origuchi, Kaminishi, Isayama, Kawabe, Omata, and Mafune. Acquisition of data: Kubota, Kaminishi, Isayama, Kawabe, Omata, and Mafune. Analysis and interpretation of data: Kubota, Kuroda, Origuchi, Kaminishi, Isayama, Kawabe, Omata, and Mafune. Drafting of the manuscript: Kubota, Kuroda, Origuchi, Kaminishi, Isayama, Kawabe, Omata, and Mafune. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Kubota, Kuroda, Origuchi, Kaminishi, Isayama, Kawabe, Omata, and Mafune. Statistical analysis: Kubota, Kuroda, Origuchi, Kaminishi, Isayama, Kawabe, Omata, and Mafune. Obtained funding: Kaminishi. Administrative, technical, and material support: Kubota, Kuroda, Kaminishi, Isayama, and Mafune. Study supervision: Origuchi, Kaminishi, Kawabe, Omata, and Mafune.
Financial Disclosure: None reported.
Additional Contributions: Keiichiro Ohta, MD, PhD, provided expert advice about the history of bypass surgery.
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The two were married at the Four Seasons Resort the Biltmore Santa Barbara in front of 170 guests. Mowry walked down the aisle to a live performance by R&B singer Kenny Lattimore, who sang "For You."
"You can tell they're really in love," says wedding planner Robyn Goldberg of the newlyweds. "[Hardrict] wanted the wedding to be her dream come true."
Mowry, 29, who starred with twin sister Tamera on the WB series Sister, Sister and is now on the CW comedy The Game, wore a couture wedding gown by Kevan Hall. Tamera, who wore an aubergine gown by Tadashi, served as maid of honor.
The 30-minute outdoor ceremony was followed by a Midsummer Night Dream-style reception in the hotel's ballroom. Florist Jennifer Katz of Fiori Design created tall iron centerpieces covered in moss and decorated with flowers in different shades of pink. The wedding cake was a four-tiered vanilla and red velvet cake by Cake Divas. Guests danced to the tunes of DJ Michael Hayes.
Mowry and Hardrict, 28, were engaged on Christmas Day, 2006.
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LOCKPORT – An Olcott Street man who rejected a plea offer that would have included a five-year prison sentence now faces anywhere from seven to 15 years after being convicted today of burglarizing a Town of Lockport home.
A Niagara County Court jury took less than an hour to find Dennis M. Schultz, 21, guilty of second-degree burglary, fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, fourth-degree grand larceny and possession of burglary tools.
County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, who presided over the three-day trial, set sentencing for Dec. 5.
Deputy District Attorney Doreen M. Hoffmann, who prosecuted the case with Assistant District Attorney Laura T. Bittner, said Schultz, a repeat violent felon, must be sentenced to at least seven years in prison and could serve as long as 15 years. Michael D'Amico was the defense attorney.
A sheriff's deputy saw Schultz, wearing a dark face mask and carrying a backpack, walking down Chestnut Ridge Road in Lockport about 5:30 a.m. March 14. The backpack contained a man's wallet, a woman's purse, an iPad, an iPod and an iPhone, all of which turned out to have been stolen from a home on Ridgewood Drive.


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Imagine having a basketball team making its strongest showing in years only to lose its playing floor a few weeks before March Madness.
Or how about a baseball team only being able to use the batting cage in the weeks leading up to the post-season?
If you can comprehend a team dealing with those hypothetical scenarios, then you have a notion of what the Anderson County High School tennis teams are dealing with as regional tournament play begins on May 16.
Anderson County junior Steven Watts showed why the Bearcats have been expecting big things from him on Saturday.
The right-hander fired a no-hitter in the Bearcats' 1-0 win over Bardstown in the Nall Wooden Bat Classic, held at LaRue County.
It is believed that Watts' gem is Anderson's first no-hitter since Eric McDonald threw one in the 2005 season.
Lane Marquardt, shown in action in last year's state tournament for the Anderson County 11-year-old All-Stars, fired a perfect game for the Reds in Anderson County Little League action last Monday. Marquardt not only did not allow any Dodger to reach base, he struck out all 18 hitters.
It was a big weekend for Anderson County's Turpin family during the Mid-South Conference baseball and softball tournaments.
Jeremy Turpin, a sophomore infielder, collected three hits, walked twice and drove in two runs as St. Catharine upset top-seeded Campbellsville 9-3 on Friday night. He had another hit in an 8-7 win over the University of the Cumberlands, but was 0-for-3 with a walk as St. Catharine fell to Shawnee State, 8-4 in the winner's bracket final Sunday.
Anderson County track had hoped for a big day in the Boyle County Invitational last Friday. Instead the results were mixed.
The Anderson boys' team had a strong showing. "We had some great performances out there on Friday," said Anderson coach Robert Meacham. "I was very impressed with David Drummer. He set a new personal record with a new height of 10-00 in the pole vault, good enough for fourth place in a good field of vaulters and a full foot over is previous PR.
Call it youth if you want, but Anderson County softball coach called the Lady Bearcats' play unacceptable after losses to Lexington Catholic and Henry Clay in a double-header played at Lexington Catholic Friday night.
The three-team affair was put together quickly after rains had washed out a large number of games for all three teams.
Anderson, now 7-13 on the year, has dropped six straight games.
The Lady Bearcats blew a 6-1 lead as they fell to Catholic 7-6 in the first game of the evening.
Anderson County High School senior Jo Jo White signed an NAIA national letter-of-intent to play golf with Georgetown College during a ceremony at the school last Thursday.
White joins Anderson classmates Marcus Lake and Jacob Flora, both of whom signed with the Tigers earlier in the year. The trio had made a pact to attend the same school to play golf collegiately, if at all possible.
The Anderson County 9-and-under All-Stars were crowned champions of the Bardstown Invitational Tournament on Sunday. Team members are, front row, from left: Bailey Turner, Dylan Stephens, Tyler Rice, Reese Reynolds and Karter Luttrell. Middle row: Chase Smith, Zachery Labhart, Jaggar Gillis, Brendan Klink, Sam Harrod and Colton Cornish. Back row: Coaches Jake Turner and Bubba Rice. Absent when photo was made were coaches Brian Klink and scorekeeper Mike Smith.
The Anderson County Middle School baseball team scored come-from-behind victories over Marion County, 7-6, and Oldham County, then whipped St. Dominic last week to run their record to 18-2. Although they took an an early 2 - 0 lead over Marion, the Mustangs found themselves trailing 6 - 3 headed into their last at-bat in the bottom of the fifth inning. Catcher Brice Stockton singled, second baseman Josh Brown walked, and third baseman Christopher Sea's single brought in one run.
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The senior all-star team's results included six first place titles, three national champion titles, one international champion title and one second place international title.
The junior all-star team's standings included five first place titles, two national champion titles, and two second place international titles.
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Richard Burton and Liz Taylor cruised down JF Kennedy Avenue in a white convertible and, as my Turkish guide Mehmet tells it, once tipped a hotel porter with a crisp new $50 note. It does not get much more glamorous than that on the dusty, divided island of Cyprus.
Now the avenue is a jungle, an overgrown main thoroughfare into Varosha, the seaside resort that was abandoned in panic by its Greek Cypriot residents as the Turkish army battled its way on to the Mediterranean island in 1974.
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Leave It to Beaver Goof Ball Frank Bank Became a Bond Market Whiz—and An Unstoppable Love Machine?
But more about that in a moment. First, a few words about investing. Bank, who says he learned to handicap horses as a kid and read The Wall Street Journal during breaks on the Beaver set, became a stock-and-bond broker in 1972 by teaching himself "everything there was to know about tax-free bonds." Within three years of getting started, he says, he was earning $300,000 a year at an L.A.-based company. Even the Beaver, Jerry Mathers, and Barbara Billingsley, who played the show's matriarch, June Cleaver, put their trust in the Bank. "Frank is certainly brighter than Lumpy Rutherford, and a very good stockbroker," says long-time client Billingsley.
Long before launching his current career, Bank maintains, he was already engaging in some very un-Lumpy-like activity. In his recent, cowritten autobiography Call Me Lumpy—with refreshing candor, he says that he hasn't yet read it all—there's a chapter in which Bank claims that, during the Lumpy years, he lived a life of wine, women and song—with maybe not so much emphasis on the wine and song. "A thousand women," says Bank. He attributes some of his popularity to his modest screen success, but he chalks up the rest to an era of newfound sexual freedom, the pill and no HIV. Of course he was one of the few guys his age who had money, a car and his own apartment. "It's the 1960s, the sexual revolution is starting to come into full bloom, and I'm right in the middle of it," Bank says in the book. His former costars, who know that Bank likes to tell a good tale, are a little surprised by his assertions. "I never pictured Frank as being Don Juan," says Ken Osmond, better known as Beaver's ultraweasel, Eddie Haskell. "But I never went on a date with him." Neither did Billingsley. "I didn't know he was going around having sex like that," she says. "I thought they were all innocent boys."
Eventually, Bank says, after the series got canceled in 1963, the rambling got tiresome. His wanton days waning, he was set to star as comicbook teen Archie Andrews in a series that same year. But the show's sponsor took one look at the pilot and said, "That's not Archie, that's Lumpy." Bank says he swore off Hollywood there and then: "I didn't want to be like George Reeves, who could only be Superman."
Finished, he thought, as an actor, Bank, with his brother Doug, next turned his attention to the family business, a successful meat market owned by his parents, Leonard and Sylvia. His personal life slowed down too. Bank married his high school sweetheart and had two daughters, Julie, now 27, and Kelly, 22. "I wanted normalcy," says Bank. "I wanted that Cleaver existence." That lasted 15 years, until Bank met his current wife, Rebecca, who had two daughters of her own, in 1981. "We met at a party and fell in love," says Rebecca. The two, who share a passion for tournament poker, divorced their respective spouses and immediately married. But Rebecca says that if she had met Bank in his wilder days, "I would never have dated him."
Distanced from Lumpy for years, Bank returned to television in 1983 in a Beaver Cleaver reunion movie, which spawned a four-year series. These days, as senior vice president of a brokerage firm in Calabasas, Calif., Bank lives in the San Fernando Valley and continues the gin game he and Rebecca started 15 years ago. (He's up by more than a million points.) Every so often, he admits, he thinks about trying an acting comeback. "I had my 15 minutes of fame 40 years ago," he says. "But Beaver was a half-hour show. So I'm ready for another 15 minutes."
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The Mazda Tribute was jointly developed with the Ford Maverick, and shares the same two petrol engines: a 2.0-litre or 3.0-litre V6 with a standard automatic gearbox. Uniquely for a car of this age, there are two- and four-wheel-drive versions of the 2.0-litre car.
Despite the car's off-road image, it's more at home on the road, although it's not that great there. Despite good steering and a decent ride, there's too much body roll.
The Tribute's cabin borrows much from the Maverick's, which is good and bad news. Good because it's all well laid out and easy to use; bad because it's terribly bland and unappealing.
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Shigeru Miyamoto described the game's transition from 'Cube to Wii as "an interesting experiment". It seems that following the success of Twilight Princess's bi-polar development, the Nintendo luminary is keen to remake existing GameCube titles, adding full Wiimote support.
"The machine is based on GC," said Miyamoto. "We'll be upgrading the development tools, but GameCube code can be used for the most part as is. In that sense, I believe that it would be good to remake GameCube games for Wii, and that some titles would become better with the change to the Wii remote controller."
Best of all, Miyamoto envisages any such remakes will retail at a much lower price to their 'Cube originals, and may even help bring third party support to the system. "Even now," continued Miyamoto, "[GameCube titles] are sold at used shops, so we don't feel we could sell them for full price. However, development costs have been taken care of, so we could probably sell them at a more accessible price. If we make it so that such GC to Wii remakes can be produced quickly, it's possible that many titles will also be released from third parties."
The first such "Wiimake," as these GameCube to Wii remakes are already being referred to, is, of course, Twilight Princess, which is scheduled to launch with the Wii later this year. Miyamoto justified Nintendo's decision to use the game's additional development time to concentrate on additional content, rather than adding visual bells and whistles to the Wii version. "At one point," he explained, "even members of our staff said 'the Wii is more powerful than the GC, so we'd like to polish the graphics.' However, Zelda players don't look forward to this polish, they look forward to an enjoyable game."
Miyamoto did admit that this may not be the case for all titles. Games that demand strong visuals will have to be made accordingly, he said.
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August 21, 2006 - Nintendo has made some major changes to the control scheme for the Wii version of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Speaking to Japan's monthly Nintendo Dream publication, producer Shigeru Miyamoto revealed that the game will now allow players to swing the controller for sword slashes.
At E3, players used the B button to swing Link's sword, with Nintendo explaining at the time that players would likely get tired having to actually swing the controller. "Upon actually playing it, it's more interesting this way," said Miyamoto to Nintendo Dream about the new control scheme.
Going along with this change, Nintendo has made modifications to the game's bow and arrow controls. In the E3 version, players aimed with the Wiimote, then actually shot out arrows using the D-pad. With the B button now free, Nintendo has moved the action to the B button. Miyamoto felt that that shooting the arrow with the D-pad was too difficult, and the B button allows for quicker and easier shooting.
It's unclear if the game will require the new control scheme or if players will be able to chose between different methods of control.
Nintendo Dream closed off by asking Miyamoto to name the version of Zelda he personally prefers. The master game maker said that he'd play the Wii version, but added that both versions will be fun.
"I can't talk about it yet, but this Zelda has a lot to it," said Miyamoto. "What you played at E3 was just the tip of the nail." Regarding Nintendo's statement at E3 that Twilight Princess would be the best Zelda in history, he said, "Yes. It's coming along quite nicely."
With Twilight Princess due out at launch, GameCube and Wii owners will get to fully explore the potentially greatest Zelda game ever in just a few months. Stay tuned for more!


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The debate over President Barack Obama's recent Department of Justice picks continued, Monday, as a law group claimed the confirmation process involving the nominees was being "rushed" to avoid opposition.
A full page ad by The Judicial Confirmation Network ran in Monday's "Roll Call," a popular Capitol Hill newspaper. The ad criticized Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy for shortening the confirmation process on such "crucial" nominations.
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"All three of these extreme nominees have lengthy liberal paper trails," said JCN chief counsel Wendy Long. "Senator Leahy is trying to short-circuit the process by ramming these nominations through without enough time for Senators to examine the records of the nominees, much less ask relevant questions."
Conservatives voiced concern last week about the judicial picks, especially over David Ogden, who was nominated to the No.2 spot in the Justice Department.
Opponents say Ogden worked on several controversial cases as a lawyer, including a Playboy law suit to remove filtering software in libraries put in place to keep children from accessing adult content. He has also fought in favor of gay rights and abortion.
Other concern is over Dawn Johnsen, who's said to be linked to an abortion rights group, and Thomas Perrelli, who fought to have Terry Schiavo's feeding tube removed.
Ogden appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, but has not been confirmed yet. Senators have until Feb. 12 to issues letters of concern about him.
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