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The pace picked up in Frankfort following the 10 day veto period upon adjournment of the 2016 Regular General Assembly. On April 27, Governor Bevin issued several anxiously awaited veto statements on several pieces of legislation very important to Kentucky, including more than 30 items within the budget bill which will direct the Commonwealth's spending priorities over the next two years.
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Sometime in the very near future, the Blue Bridge that has carried motorists across the Salt River in Taylorsville for nearly eight decades will become just another memory.
Transportation officials announced recently that traffic could be crossing the new bridge, built adjacent to the Blue Bridge, in just a few days. Then crews will turn their attention to demolishing the old span.
I love baseball. The fundamentals of the game are simple. It's about catching, throwing, hitting and running. In fact, if you pick up a baseball, it's like your brain automatically knows that object is for throwing. Give a baseball to a one-year-old, and he or she will taste it of course, but then they will throw it.
The game is so easy, that those running our youth baseball leagues in America decided to introduce it to children at a very young age. Thus, in the 1950s, T-ball was born.
Kentucky Roll Call publisher and American hero Lowell Reese, who was exposed to Agent Orange decades ago while fighting communism as a battalion commander in the jungles of southeast Asia, made the ultimate sacrifice for his country when he boarded his final flight from earth last week.
Reese took the oath to defend this country and its Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic" seriously.
Rip Van Winkle, the character from an early 19th century story, fell asleep for 20 years and woke to a world far different than the one he left when he fell into a deep slumber.
He drifted off to dreamland before the American Revolution, and wiped the sleep from his eyes after the new nation had been formed. Needless to say, the sweeping changes that had taken place during his sleep caught him unprepared.
April 15th was the 60th and final legislative day of the 2016 General Assembly, and we were fortunate to take care of some much-needed business in Frankfort.
A new day is dawning in Kentucky. For the first time in many years, the winds of financial responsibility have begun to blow briskly through the marble halls of Frankfort. These welcome breezes are ushering in the promise of a fresh start for the Commonwealth.
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Here's Ryan McDonagh after last night's 3-0 loss to the Penguins (via Blueshirts United)…
"We're not happy with this one. It just wasn't typical Rangers hockey."
While it wasn't typical "Rangers hockey" compared to last season, it sure as hell typical of this season.
So just in case you forgot what "Rangers Hockey" means, I'll remind you:
It means outworking your opponent.
It means doing things the "right way."
It means a tenacious forecheck.
It means clutch scoring.
It means making your opponent fight for every inch of the ice.
It means sticking up for your teammate.
It means doing the little things.
It means playing for the greatest fans in the world.
It means digging down deep.
It means having enough "jam."
It means not being intimidated.
It means somehow, someway getting a body part in front of a shot from the point.
It means respecting the Rangers traditions and history.
It means being in top physical shape.
It means flying all over the ice.
It means playing like Ryan Callahan.
It means being as determined to win as Henrik Lundqvist.
It means ice bags after the game.
It means getting back on defense.
It means playing for 60 minutes.
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Former Southern California and Raiders quarterback Todd Marinovich is serving a 90-day jail term stemming from an arrest in Newport Beach, Calif., last month for possessing methamphetamine, officials said yesterday. Marinovich pleaded guilty last week to a felony count of possessing a controlled substance and two misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and the unauthorized possession of hypodermic needles, said Mark Macaulay, of the Orange County district attorney's office.
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TRENTON -- The Trenton Central High School student who caused a lockdown in November after allegedly planning to bring a sawed off shotgun into the school and shoot fellow students is being charged as an adult, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said today.
Juanya Weathers, 17, was allegedly planning to retaliate after a brawl in the school, but was thwarted by the driver of a cab he hired.
Weathers took a cab ride to a home in the North Ward and intended to return to the school on the 400 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. He asked to cab to wait for him outside the house to bring him back to the school. When he returned, the driver noticed he had a weapon in his possession.
As they were driving, the driver heard Weathers speaking to his girlfriend on the phone, the prosecutor's office said.
Weathers said "that he got jumped in the school cafeteria and he is now returning to the school to spray the ones that jumped him," the driver told authorities.
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View Broadcasted Powerpoint Presentations Over Windows Phone 7
Microsoft is without doubt the leader when it comes to enterprise productivity tools with Microsoft Office being the most popular application suite. Quite logically, Microsoft has tried to transform this success into their edge in their recent smartphone foray with Windows Phone 7.
As you may already know, the latest 2010 version of Microsoft Office lets users broadcast Powerpoint presentations. The presenter may set up their computer as the host and choose to broadcast their presentations. This will create a temporary session on the Microsoft server that is then available to be viewed on a shareable link on other computers in remote locations.
Apparently, this link is also viewable on Windows Phone 7 handsets with no set up required. Users clicking on the broadcast link are seamlessly taken to the Powerpoint show being broadcast – a great way to attend conference calls and meetings while you are away from the computer.
Document Sharing On Facebook – Coming Soon?
Facebook has been sending invites to the press calling them up for a media event on November 15. While not much is known about the event officially, speculations are doing the rounds that Facebook could be unveiling its new email product – an application that could take on the likes of Gmail and Hotmail and would comprehensively build up the direct messaging functionality of the current service.
According to Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet, this new webmail product could come with additional integration with Microsoft's Office Web Apps. Office Web Apps, as you know, is the web form of Redmond's popular Office productivity suite and will let users access Word and Excel files directly over the browser apart from storing these files on the cloud rather than on the local hard drives. The ZDNet rumor notes that the new webmail client unveiled by Facebook could replicate the Office Web apps integration that is presently available on Hotmail.
Considering that people spend more time on Facebook than on Google (the search engine and other products), it makes terrific sense for Facebook to bring such productivity tools to the social network. But then, given the sophistication of the Gmail service, Facebook's new product could be more of a threat to Hotmail – Microsoft's email service – rather than to Google or Yahoo. What do you think?
Now Buy Microsoft Office 2011 For Mac – Software Officially Launches
We always knew this was coming and after Microsoft announced last week that an announcement was due on Tuesday, it was more or less confirmed that the new Microsoft Office 2011 productivity suite for Mac was releasing this week. Now it has.
The new Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac is now available for public consumption and brings with it, all the expected suite of applications like Word, Excel and Powerpoint. And perhaps in what should come as a huge relief, Microsoft has finally replaced Entourage with Outlook in the latest release.
A single license of the Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac software should cost Home and Student users between $109.99 and $149.99. On the other hand, for business users, this application should cost higher between $174.99 and $279.99.
Of course, the price is going to be cheaper if you are checking it out from third party retailers like Amazon.
New Microsoft Office 365 Beta Website Launches
Following what we had heard earlier, Microsoft has launched a new website for the cloud version of their popular Office productivity suite. Announcing the launch of the new beta version of the office365.com website, the company has said that the new service will provide the "best of everything we know about productivity, all in a single cloud service" and that this will let people "focus on their business, while we and our partners take care of the technology".
The announcement however did not make a note of the exact launch date of the new Office365 service but what we know is that the product will launch early next year in as many as 40 countries worldwide. As of now, users can sign up for beta testing the service besides clicking on the various links to learn more about what is on offer.
New Microsoft Office Announcements This Week
Microsoft has called the press up for a media event on Tuesday this week at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington. According to a statement from the company, the announcements scheduled for this week are likely to be about Microsoft Office. No further details are known yet.
That, however does not stop us from speculating. It has been widely known that the Microsoft Office 2011 edition for Mac computers is slated for release later this month on October 26. What that could mean is that Microsoft's announcements tomorrow will inevitably discuss this upcoming release. The company had announced last month that the software had already been shipped to Apple for being incorporated in the upcoming versions of Mac.
Besides that, there are also speculations that Microsoft could be announcing a mobile Microsoft Office suite geared to iOS devices. That remains a speculation however.
Microsoft Office 2011 For Mac Being Shipped To Apple
Microsoft has announced that the company has completed its final testing of the 2011 version of its Office for Mac software and that it is ready for RTM (Release to Manufacturing). This would mean that the software shall now start being shipped to customers and to Apple for installation in its production units.
The latest Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac brings a number of tweaks and though it will bring many more features that were hitherto available only on the Windows version, the experience is said to be more Mac-like. This includes the duplicating Apple's 'ribbon effect'.
The actual date of release is still under wraps though we heard not so long ago that the product is expected to officially start shipping from October 26. That is also in line with speculations from earlier this month over an October release.
Check out the "behind-the-scenes" video released by the Macintosh Business Unit.
Microsoft Office For Mac 2011 Edition To Ship From October 26?
Folks at 9to5Mac have got hold of a nice bit of information with respect to the launch of the new Microsoft Office 2011 package for Mac. According to details posted on Amazon, the new software should begin shipping from October 26th this year.
This is the first time a specific date for the new product has been available. Earlier this year, the company had officially announced the price of the Office for Mac 2011 edition and had indicated that the software will be available in October. The latest version of the software is expected to be much closer to the Windows version and is expected to reinstate support for Visual Basic applications that were dropped in the 2008 edition. Office 2011 for Mac is also expected to bring improved support for Exchange.
Amazon has put up all three editions, namely Student, Professional and Home up for sale on their website.
Price Of MS Office 2011 For Mac Announced
Microsoft had recently begun sending out beta invites for its latest Mac-compatible Office 2011 suite. Now, the Redmond based company has officially announced the prices for its Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac software. As expected, the cost of the different editions are a tad lower than the 2008 MSRP. Microsoft is obviously trying to price the software aggressively in order to make the application much more ubiquitous in the Mac segment where Apple's own software have ruled the roost so far.
So here are the prices of the various editions of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac
Single License
Student Edition :$119
Office for Mac Home & Business : $199
Academic Version : $99
Family License
Student Edition : $149
Office for Mac Home & Business : $279
The Student and Home editions will come with Word, Powerpoint, Excel along with Microsoft's instant messaging app for Mac OS X. With the business edition, users may also get hold of Outlook for Mac that will include email, calendar and contacts integration. The MS Outlook for Mac shall replace Entourage as the communication application. The academic version will only be available to those who are enrolled or employed at academic institutions.
The new Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac is expected to launch in October though customers who purchase the 2008 software starting today are eligible for a free upgrade later.
Microsoft Office 2011 For Mac To Be Closer To Windows Version
In an effort to improve cross-platform compatibility, Microsoft has revealed that its upcoming 2011 version of Microsoft Office for Mac productivity suite will offer greater feature parity with the Windows version.
The new version shall offer improved support for Exchange and Visual Basic Applications. You may recall that support for VBA was dropped in the 2008 version of Mac Office.
The new tool also brings co-authoring tools to the platform. In a press release, Microsoft has said,
"The new co-authoring tools in Office 2011 give you and your teammates the ability to work on a file from Word, PowerPoint or Excel [via the Office Web App version only] from different locations, brainstorm ideas, and stay on the same page regardless of time, geography or platform. Co-authoring improves the processes of working together, removing the pain and frustration of multiple versions, lost edits, or even trying to set a time for the group to meet. With this new feature you can keep track of your team with the Presence Everywhere feature that gives real-time status updates on who is working on the document directly in the application."
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From the 'Completely Unsurprising' file comes the news that the Patriots have released linebacker Adalius Thomas.
Thomas was signed as a free agent coming out of Baltimore prior to the 2007 season, and his performance in Foxborough never reached the level of his Raven days. His 2006 season in Baltimore saw totals of 11 sacks and 64 tackles. The year before, 9 and 68. With stats like that, you can understand why we were hailing Thomas as and "All-World" linebacker upon his arrival in New England. Those days are long gone.
Thomas totaled just 50 tackles and 8 sacks in the 2008 and 2009 seasons combined.
In fact, Thomas' most significant contribution to the Patriots during the 2009 season may have been the unintentional humor he provided after showing up late for practice on the morning of a major snowstorm:
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I struggle with December every year. I don't know about you, but for me December is a down time. No – I'm not saying I'm not busy with Christmas preparation; gift giving, card-sending, decorating, spiritual examination and the like. I'm VERY busy with these things, as are you. There are certain expectations and traditions that I will forever hold dear, even though sometimes I get weary of all those tasks.
What I'm referring to is December down time when it comes to blogging.
I read many, many blogs everyday, filled with holiday inspiration and continuing creativity, and I think, "good for them – creating up a storm", but with December comes a bit of burnout for me, creatively.
Oh sure, I still create – there are cards to make and mail, special gift tags for Christmas presents and the never ending gift card holders, but there is a certain amount of freedom that comes from creating without feeling the need to post everything I make. So, I just don't! I've let go of this need to post everything I create during December.
Part of my December burn out probably stems from the fact that I lost my dear mother during a December long ago. While I simply LOVE Christmas and the memories and feelings that come with this glorious season, the holidays hold a sad shadow of loss that follows me everywhere. I know it's coming and I expect and accept it. It's just the way it is for me, and I suspect that anyone who has lost a loved one close to the holidays share the same small feelings of loss and sadness even among the joy that the holidays bring.
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Real match up for top tier:
Doffy will wind up his head in place with his strings and destroy Kuros.
Luffy releases Law so it's Law vs. the admiral blind geezer
Luffy vs. Mingo
and Zoro vs. Pica
Now when our favorite "Saboteur" has "Sabotaged the ring" after watching fight "DragON" long enough, he's going to make "burgers out of Burgess".
So Lucy vs. Burgess!
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Actually i seriously question Fujitora joining the fight on Doffy's side. His number one priority is keeping the people safe, NOT protecting Doffy. Up till this point, protecting Doffy was the best way to protect the people since Law's rebellion was threat to the people. But now things are different... With Sugar's curse undone, the people will be screaming for Doflamingo's head, and Fushitora will quickly find that Doffy has committed some heinous crimes to the world government (marines, government officials and foreign rulers being amongst the enslaved toys). At this point, where should Fushitora point his blade if he wants to "protect the people"? Fushitora, who HATES the schikibukai system, basically has every single excuse he could ever want to take down Doflamingo
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Y'know.... as strange as this may sound, I'm not actually expecting Fujitora to take any immediate action against Doflamingo. While I do agree that this turn of events gives him every reason to crackdown on the warlord, I think he's going to take his time and gain a better picture of events on the island before he deals out justice. Maybe it's just me, but if there's one thing I've noticed about our blind friend it's that, contrary to his blindness, he has fairly keen observation. Recall that he was careful not to reveal his identity to Luffy's group when they first met at the bar, and that he made sure to confirm that Law was indeed allied with the Straw-Hats before attacking him at Green Bit (not to mention that he was willing to let Caesar go as long as he was partnered with Dofla). Those examples seem to indicate that he's a man who takes his time to gain a full understanding of a situation before he acts. That's why I don't think he'll go after Dofla right away, but probably gain more information from around the island first (chiefly from victims of the toy curse). And from there..... he can make his final decision on whether who's the "black" or "white" between Doflamingo and the Straw-Hats.....
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He needs to reclaim his strongest gladiator title from Diamante
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Doflamingo's Devil Fruit a Logia type?
I've been thinking about it, unless Eiichiro has decided to take a different route with how One Piece plays out (Luffy sending the main boss flying) Would Doflamingo let his guard down to such an extent that a skilled swordsman, with one leg, was able to cut off his head? If Trafalgar wasn't even able to do anything to him, why was Kyros able to defeat him so easily? It's just an idea I had that's all.
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that would be anti-climatic for dressrosa arc as a whole
I still believe that either CP-0 or Fujitora is the one who is gonna finish Dofla,
of course, after he gets beaten by Luffy
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In real life diamond and only diamond-tipped tools can cut a diamond.
So it's not as fictional as you think.
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Y'know, I was always curious about Mihawk's attack not cutting Jozu. I recall that when the chapter originally came out, I had thought that Mihawk was holding back as well, but..... what if the marines' words about that attack being the "world's strongest slash" rung true? I think it would actually say a LOT about Mihawk (and make things a bit more interesting, IMO) if he were truly incapable of slashing through diamond. It would also be further proof that Zoro doesn't necessarily need to best his greatest rival in combat to surpass him.....
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Can a girl have it all?
"It all" being, of course, the love of an attractive gentleman, enduring female companionship, an amaranthine romance with Manhattan and, yes, a closetful of designer shoes. Such was Carrie Bradshaw's quest through 94 episodes of HBO's "Sex and the City," and now it continues on the big screen.


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After the takeover of the Bank of the Brandywine Valley by the state, a bank spokesman chided state regulators for acting too quickly, saying that there was just one big problem loan at issue.
Brandywine executives, the spokesman said, were attempting to work out the loan by seizing assets of the delinquent borrower.
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State regulators, however, say the bank's problems were much more widespread.
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Secrets from Victoria's Supermodels
One can never be too rich or too thin. Just ask the models and fashionistas who turned out to fete the new Mercedes Maybach at Gustavino's in New York. Victoria's Secret supermodel Heidi Klum, 28, eyed the sleek new car while dining on a salad and giant shrimp. "It's amazing and very expensive," she told PEOPLE. "Maybe someone will buy it for me?" To keep her own figure slim enough for lingerie shoots, the model and former vegeterian eats moderately. "I don't even look at desserts," she said. "I don't really like sweets. I'm very lucky. I think the trick is that you have to be tough with yourself and say no to the potato chips. It's just a matter of being really controlled and saying no to those things." Klum also employs a personal trainer to put her through an hour-long workout, three times a week." It's basically one hour of everything," she explained to PEOPLE. "It's all different things packed in one hour without any breaks." Model and lingerie designer Kimora Lee Simmons (wife of hip-hop magnate Russell Simmons), who is pregnant with a child due in the fall, told PEOPLE that her favorite meals include Cobb salad and crab dip. The 5'11" Simmons never exercises. "Walking is working out to me," she explained. "Walking up and down the stairs and regular mobility is working out to me." Ah, the wonder of genetics.


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Forbes annual study conducted on the world's most valuable brands places Apple at the top. This is the third year in a row Apple tops the list, with a valuation at $104.3 billion. This figure is 20% higher despite some of the public feeling Apple hasn't released anything compelling to the market recently. With 33.8 million iPhones sold in the last quarter though, maybe they don't need to just yet.
It's impressive Apple's valuation is up 20% even though it's stock has dropped 45% since it's previous high in September of 2012 and it spends less advertising dollars cumulatively. I'm no expert but if you look at the last 10 years below apple has always come back stronger after a sharp decline.


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Google Analytics is about to get a whole lot more visual, thanks to the launch of a new feature, Flow Visualizations. It is a dynamic way to view and experience your Google Analytics data. It utilizes the lens of a Sankey diagram, a specific type of flow diagram. Flow Visualizations allow sites to drill into user behavior based on location, browser, user type and many other variables.
Google Analytics Blog: Introducing Flow Visualization: visualizing visitor flow.


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Wayne County Public Schools transportation employee Brandon Briggs checks over one of the county buses at the bus garage. His job is route maintenance. County school officials say they are having a difficult time keeping experienced mechanics on staff, leading to problems with maintaining the system's more than 200 buses.
For the second year in a row, the state's school bus inspection turned up safety concerns for buses in the Wayne County Public Schools fleet, which local officials are attributing in part to the economic downturn causing a high...
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Instructor: Paula Atwood, EMBA, LISW-S, LICDC. Paula V. Atwood is the Vice President, Staffing and Special Projects at Beech Brook of Northeast Ohio. In this position, Ms. Atwood is responsible for the Employer of Choice Initiative, Staff Recruitment and Human Resources. She is also serving as the Clinical Director for AOD services. She oversees and supervises AOD program staff and screening, assessment, and treatment services. She also ensures compliance with ODADAS rules and regulations, ADAMHS Board contract requirements, applicable Joint Commission Standards and the financial outcomes.
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1) More good news for Oregon Health & Science University and a mob of developers, whose schemes for the North Macadam district hinge on a "sky tram" between Pill Hill and the Willamette River. Now a Swiss-American firm has won a design competition for the aerial tram, moving the whole concept one step closer to reality.
2) Boozehounds are toasting the efforts of legislators, the governor and the liquor industry to break the Oregon Liquor Control Commission's stranglehold on the spirits biz. A hangover from the end of Prohibition, the OLCC has regulated the state's flow of hooch for 70 years, overseeing the sale and distribution of a record-breaking $140 million worth of the hard stuff last year. N' thas'a lotta shosh....
3) City Commissioner Erik Sten doused the flames of patriotic fury that threatened to engulf the Portland Fire Bureau Deputy Chief Gary Warrington, who ordered firefighters to remove U.S. flags from their engines for fear of antagonizing anti-war protesters. Narrowly averting a PR disaster, Sten hurriedly restored Ol' Glory to the fleet.
1) Oregon's low-income transplant hopefuls--and that's most of 'em--face a grim prognosis thanks to recent Medicaid cuts in prescription coverage. Transplants don't work without costly drugs that prevent recipients from rejecting the second-hand organs. Because poor patients can no longer pay for those drugs, local hospitals are taking them off the transplant waiting list--so be kind to your liver.
2) The state Public Utility Commission turned down a Utility Reform Project request to investigate whether PGE ratepayers should receive a refund for tax payments collected but apparently never paid to the government. The PUC, under whose authority PGE collected the money, says it lacks the authority to determine whether the money was properly handled.
3) The dynamic, vibrant suburb south of Beaverton--yes, we're talking about Tigard--burst its bubble when the organizer of the Tigard Festival of Balloons grounded the $80,000, three-day Rose Festival event to a lack of financial backing. Last year's sponsor, KGW, did not renew its contract.


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Paesanis Spectacular Finish Leads to Connecticut Open Crown
John Paesanis improbable eagle three on his 54th and final hole propelled him to his first Connecticut Open title. Paesani was fortunate to be playing in the 36-hole finale at the Golf Club of Avon as tournament officials originally ruled that his opening round 74 didnt make the cut. Officials raised the cut line to 74, so Paesani was given a second life that he pounced upon.
The golf pro from Norwich Golf Course fired a solid 69 in his first round, then followed with a course-record 64. His latter round included a Tom Watson-like chip-in on the final hole from over 45 feet. The ball rolled down a sloped green with a six-foot break and dropped into the cup. Paesanis 64 was also highlighted by a sensational five-birdie 31 on the back nine.
Paesani earned $5,500 for his one-shot victory over Florida Southern University sensation Steve Sokol, who plays out of the Country Club of Waterbury.
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Largely as the result of the enthusiastic endorsement of Northrup1 of New York in a series of papers on the subject, published between 1904 and 1906, the cold-air treatment of pneumonia has been more or less completely adopted by most pediatricians and by many practitioners. No very satisfactory explanation for the supposedly beneficial results of this method of treatment was advanced, however, in the beginning.
Howland and Hoobler,2 writing in 1912, stated that it was apparent that children seriously ill with pneumonia might have a blood pressure somewhat below what might be expected at their age, and that the symptoms of the death of children from pneumonia were those of vasomotor failure. They found that the effect of cold, fresh air in patients with active pneumonia was always to produce a rise in blood pressure. Removal to a warm (65 F.) room produced a fall in blood pressure.
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Sometimes you think you've heard it all, but that's never really the case.
As long as there are agents representing professional athletes, there will always be room for absurd comments. You'd think they would be content raking in money off another person's skills, but some of them can't keep their mouths shut.
Jerome Stanley, the agent representing Browns third-year receiver Syndric Steptoe, reportedly didn't like the way coach Eric Mangini conducted a practice last Saturday. It was a practice that resulted in the end of the season for Steptoe, who tore a labrum on a diving attempt to catch a pass.
Stanley was told that the practice was supposed to be not much more than a walk-through in preparation for a scrimmage the next day. Instead, Mangini conducted a normal session, which meant receivers had to run routes against defensive backs and then try to catch the ball.
The last time I checked, that's what football practices are all about. Unfortunately, injuries occasionally happen during practice. They could be the result of a full-contact hit, or, as is usually the case, they're the result of a simple wrong turn of an ankle.
Mangini said the practice was conducted exactly as intended. He pointed out that Steptoe's injury wasn't due to the physical contact of an aggressive-paced practice.
Stanley has undoubtedly read about how physical Mangini's practices are compared to the laid-back approach of former coach Romeo Crennel. In Stanley's thinking, that's the reason his client is done for the season.
Last year there were complaints about Crennel's style. How could players go into the first preseason game without having faced full contact in practice? When several players suffered injuries against the New York Giants in the second preseason game - including Derek Anderson, Joshua Cribbs and Jamal Lewis - the blame went straight to Crennel's practice style.
Mangini is now being criticized in some corners for going the opposite direction. Which is it? Too easy or too tough? Vince Lombardi has to be rolling over in his grave.
Injuries are often the result of a freak occurrence. Tim Couch suffered an injury to a finger on his throwing hand when it slammed into the helmet of a blitzing linebacker in a 2000 practice. Braylon Edwards missed much of training camp last year after Donte Stallworth cut open a foot by accidentally stepping on it while running "after" a practice. Why Edwards wasn't wearing shoes isn't known.
If Stanley wants to point fingers in the right direction, why not single out the quarterback that threw the pass. If the ball had reached Steptoe while he was in stride, he wouldn't have stretched out his body and he'd be practicing today. Those darn quarterbacks can't do anything right.
Stanley needs to stay behind a desk and make phone calls and close deals and do all the things that agents do. When he does venture outside, maybe he can take in a Browns' practice. Seriously, Jerome, Mangini isn't re-enacting the Bataan Death March every day.
The fact is that Steptoe was an odd man out in the hunt for roster spots among receivers. The Browns used two second-round picks on Brian Robiskie and Mohamed Massaquoi, and they signed dependable veterans Mike Furrey and David Patten. Add in Edwards, and you have what will probably be the receiving corps to start the season.
The injury allows Steptoe to stay for the season on injured-reserve and receive his pay, unless an injury settlement is reached. If he hadn't been injured, he probably would have been waived without receiving a penny of his 2009 salary.
In that case, he could have signed with another team, assuming the coach didn't make him practice too hard.


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Acadia Parish arrests made in Rayne, Church Point
Agents with the Acadia Parish Narcotics Strike Force report the following recent arrests:
Vernon Pickney, 43, Rayne, arrested and charged with introducing contraband into a penal institution and simple escape. Bond set at $10,000.
Agents assisted Iota PD and the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Patrol Division following a complaint. LaShona Spencer, 26, Iota, was charged with simple possession of marijuana, public intimidation of an officer and resisting arrest. Bond was set at $4,000.
Agents assisted Church Point PD with the following arrests:
Rickey Thibodeaux, 48, Church Point was charged with littering, possession of oxycodone, possession of soma, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond was set at $11,000.
Justin Savoy, 24, Church point, was arrested and charged with disturbing the peace, possession of lorcet and possession of alprazolam. Bond was set at $10,000.
Clarence Robinson, 32, Church Point, arrested and charged with open container and possession of marijuana (second offence). Bond was set at $2,550.
Christopher Malbrough, 25, Church Point, arrested and charged with reckless operation, open container, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. Bond was set at $2300.
Courtney Jolivette, 22, Church Point was issued a citation for speeding and simple possession of marijuana.
Joseph Carrier, 19, Church Point was arrested on an outstanding bench warrant. He was also charged with possession of crack cocaine and careless operation. Bond was set at $20,000. Also arrested during the traffic stop was Brigette Latiolais, 18, also of Church Point. Ms. Latiolais is also charged with possession of crack cocaine. Bond set at $20,000.
Bruce Citizen, 19, Church Point, was arrested following a traffic stop by Church Point PD. Mr. Citizen was charged with improper lights and possession of crack cocaine.
The following were issued citations for simple possession of marijuana:
Justin Senegal, 22, Rayne
The Acadia Parish Narcotic Strike Force is funded in part through a grant from the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement.


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Check out our Noby Noby Boy 1UP Spotlight hub page for a week of exclusive coverage.
We follow-up on that last point at the end of this interview, but if you're curious about his Katamari follow-up Noby Noby Boy and the thought process behind it, read on.
1UP: If Katamari could be simply described as "rolling," as noted in your GDC 2005 speech, what's the simple description for Noby Noby Boy? How do you define the idea for this game?
Keita Takahashi: At this stage, it's too early for me to sum up this game in one word. I don't yet have it fully solidified inside my head. I've made it a point not to allow myself to be constrained by fixed ideas while making it. That's probably not as clear an answer as you were hoping for, but that's all I can say right now. With a little more time, I think I'll be able to bring it together and put it into words.
1UP: What was your reaction during Tokyo Game Show when the 2D trailer went out and many players thought that the game had become 2D?
KT: I was surprised everyone had actually remembered the game. I was happy to learn there were people anticipating it.
1UP: Why did you choose the title "Noby Noby Boy?"
KT: "Noby Noby" = "nobinobi," an everyday Japanese word, commonly seen in newspapers or on TV. According to the dictionary, it means, "relaxed, free, and without worry," "open-minded and free," "calm and without pretense." I chose the title both because it's something lacking in this day and age, and also because it sounded good as a game title. The reason we kept it "Noby Noby" even outside Japan was because I thought it would be fun if people started using the word overseas the same way it's used in Japanese.
1UP: In the past, you've talked about wanting to design playgrounds in real life. Do you view the stages in Noby Noby Boy as playgrounds?
KT: Ah, hmm, yes, I do think to myself while making it, "I bet it'd be fun if a town like this existed in real life."
1UP: The stage we saw was a city that the player moves around in and interacts with. Will any of the later stages feature specific objectives, activities, or minigames for players to participate in?
KT: I suspect the sort of things like that that everyone's expecting aren't going to be in this game. I'm sorry.
1UP: What do you think is the main reason players will want to keep playing after the novelty of the character/controls wears off?
KT: It's the perfect break after winding down from a game of Killzone 2 and before starting up God of War 3.
1UP: Will any Namco characters from games other than Mappy [and the Prince from Katamari] appear in the game?
KT: It seems reasonably likely.
1UP: Apart from the functionality of showing whether players are connected online, is there any particular reason you chose to have a parrot sit in the corner of the screen?
KT: Because it's cute.
1UP: We heard that Namco expects players to take roughly 1-2 weeks before GIRL reaches the moon. How long do you estimate it will take players to unlock everything there is to see?
KT: It depends on the number of players and how determined they are, but...I hope I get to see the ending before I die.
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That guy is awesomePosted: Dec 18, 2008 12:00AM PST by Eski514
His character really comes through in the interview. Right at the end, he displays that his world-view has changed in the past 2 years (since the quote he made in 2006). Such a forward thinking mind no doubt has the creativity to take on this project.
Re: Shadow , 12/17/2008Posted: Dec 18, 2008 12:00AM PST by Moschetto
"This kind of quirky Japanese niche gaming is fading away because most gamere here in the states are too close minded"
That must be why FPS games sell so well in Japan, right? Because they're a lot more open-minded over there.
Thank you.Posted: Dec 17, 2008 12:00AM PST by shadow_logic
The kind of game the US needs to see more of. This kind of quirky Japanese niche gaming is fading away because most gamere here in the states are too close minded. I hope this is just the start of a solid line of similar titles.
pricePosted: Dec 16, 2008 12:00AM PST by blackrevenger
Yup,only thing I need to know is the price,because I really want to play. When its Girl has gotten all across the solar system, you guys should do an interview of the person that contributed the most.I really like that aspect of the game.I can't hardly wait.
Looks promising...Posted: Dec 16, 2008 12:00AM PST by Joyboyelectric
I'm really glad this is coming out as a PSN game. There's something charming about these pickup and play bite-sized games I just can't get enough of.
@DigoPosted: Dec 15, 2008 12:00AM PST by marioman50
Ahhhh, SHUT UP!
weirdPosted: Dec 14, 2008 12:00AM PST by blackrevenger
Thats the same thought i had the first time i heard abot katamari,and now its one of my favorite games ever. Im sure ill have fun with this,also the solar system community unlocking thingie is awesome i really like that concept of the world working together to make gains in the game.
<3 the Quirkiness of it AllPosted: Dec 14, 2008 12:00AM PST by neoREgen
The only I dislike about the creator of this game is his opinion of the Wii.
I find it odd that he criticizes it for being underpowered... even though his games don't seem to require the use of the extremely powerful systems anyway. It seems like Takahashi and the Wii would go hand in hand.
Anyway, enough with my dismay on his games not coming to Wii.
I will buy anything this man makes, as long as he keeps up the unique brilliance of it all. Katamari Damashi is in my top 5.
Really interestingPosted: Dec 14, 2008 12:00AM PST by kid_atomic
This is the kind of game I wish was multi-platform. The ambitiousness of this game surpasses everything all the AAA guns blazing blood flying games bring to the table. Can't wait to hear more about this. I feel this is the kind of game that needs to be able to have a bigger audience than just PS. This is the kind of game that the Wii was supposed to release. The graphical output is silly and beyond simplistic but has its charm. Though I don't quite get how having the first people who play it be able to expand everything for everyone is fun but I guess I'll have to wait and see the implementation and design philosophy behind it later this week.
Looks grrrrr-reat!Posted: Dec 14, 2008 12:00AM PST by drofxo1
Great article Mr. Leone - two thoughts:
1. No need to justify why you're covering a game. Is there any legitimate reason you shouldn't?
2. Is there only one GIRL for all PSN users? Or will there be different worlds? Just curious, since maybe it wouldn't be as fun for new players to jump in if GIRL is already super long? And, further, does that mean we'll keep getting new content as GIRL grows? An interesting way to deliver DLC methinks....
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"Overall it was another very good team performance", said Stetson head coach T. Logan Fleck. "I was impressed with our defense keeping a blank sheet and our offense for scoring some unselfish goals."
The Hatters put the pressure on early with a tally in the 13th minute. Mendoza picked up a rebound in the box following a free kick. It was the second game-winning goal of the season for the sophomore who led the team and the conference in that category last season with three.
After coming out of the halftime break up 1-0 Stetson scored three more goals between 66:32 and 88:37. The first two of the second half were scored on headers and set up by crossing passes by Mendoza. Ryan Asare-Bediako (Tampa, Fla.) hit in the 67th minute and Caleb Matthews in the 84th minute. It was the first career goal for the sophomore from Ponte Vedra, Florida.
Defender and fellow Ponte Vedra resident Ryan Corning anchored the defensive effort in front of Schnabl.
"It was good to get the shutout, our third in a row", said Corning. "As a team we have been building more and more each game. Hopefully we can keep it going through the A-Sun season."
Schnabl faced 14 shots by the Bisons yet just two were on goal and resulted in saves.
"Andreas is playing incredible", added Corning. "He made a great save today and has been a great leader for us so far this year."
Mendoza finished off the scoring in the 89th minute after picking up a cross by Fredrik Brustad (Oslo, Norway) and chipping it into the back of the net.
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The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to give the Zivotofsky case yet another day in court — to hear the case — is already prompting the type of response you'd expect. I've been following this case and writing about it for years, and it never fails to prompt the same response. Usually for the wrong reasons, as this isn't really a battle over the status and fate of Jerusalem, Israel's capital, but rather a fight between congressional and executive authority. That is why the courts have been struggling with it, and that is why the Supreme Court is going to discuss it.
If you're not familiar with the case, the story, in a nutshell, is as follows: an American child was born in Jerusalem. The United States — its State Department — insists that Jerusalem doesn't mean "Israel," so the passport cannot say "Israel." Congress passed a law that recognizes the right of an American born in Jerusalem to have "Israel" on his or her passport. The administration, first the Bush administration and now the Obama administration, contends that Congress has no right to make such decisions, as foreign policy is directed by the administrative branch.
So, yes, Jerusalem is the city in question. And, no, the court doesn't need to decide the status of Jerusalem, it needs to decide who has the right to determine the type of passports that American citizens get. When a federal court made a decision last year, declining the Zivotofsky request, I wrote that this "was simply an administrative battle over who wields authority, and in this battle — and this battle alone — the U.S. administration defeated the U.S. Congress. It should also be noted that this was just a temporary victory. The case is headed back to the Supreme Court for further deliberation."
The good news, then, is that the saga is finally coming to its legal ending. The potential consequences can be of some significance — Seth Lipsky, in a piece in Haaretz, believes they can be "huge" at "a time when we have an administration that wants to retreat overseas and a Congress that doesn't." Namely, if the court decides Congress can make foreign policy decisions, it doesn't have to end with the Zivotofsky passport and doesn't have to end with Jerusalem. I have my doubts: Even if the court decides to grant Zivotofsky his request, I believe it will be very careful not to make a sweeping decision that is going to make the American foreign policy mechanism even more chaotic than it is today. And if, and when, the court decides to give Congress more say on foreign policy, the result doesn't have to be the type of result Lipsky expects — it can also prompt Congress to restrain itself more than it has in the past, when it could act without much regard to consequences, knowing that now the administration can no longer ignore its directives.
Sam Kleiner writes in The New Republic, "Whatever one thinks of the peace process, it ultimately is the constitutional job of the president to decide when and how to recognize foreign powers, and it is not a job that Congress should get into with one-off pieces of legislation." That is one way of summarizing the view of those opposing the Zivotofsky request. Yet, if Kleiner makes it sound obvious, the Supreme Court seems to disagree — had it agreed that this was so obvious, it wouldn't have taken the case. In an editorial in the New York Sun you can get some sense of the other viewpoint (also written, I presume, by Lipsky): "It is also about how much say the people of America are going to have in the conduct of their own foreign policy. Is it going to be left to a permanent bureaucracy of civil servants who are clearly hostile to the express wishes of the elected legislature?"
David Adler of Boise State University recently wrote an opinion piece supporting a similar position: "The circuit court's indulgence of dicta — judicial commentary unrelated to the issue at hand — has transformed a narrow, clerk-like, ministerial presidential duty to receive ambassadors and foreign ministers into a towering structure of discretionary power to conduct American foreign policy. Dicta piled upon dicta. This is judicial error running riot, and the Supreme Court should correct it."
It is worth noting that at the moment Israel might wish for a decision that puts more power in the hands of the "public" — that is, in the hands of Congress. But such a decision can be a double-edged sword if the public mood shifts. It can also be a double-edged sword if the legal determination of a faraway court results in Israel having to deal with a crisis in Jerusalem that it did not invite. And it can be a double-edged sword if such legal determination prompts the administration to quickly compensate the Palestinians for it with an insertion of new language or new policy regarding Jerusalem.
Ultimately, as I wrote a year ago following the lower-court decision, it is both true and better that "the question of Jerusalem's status will not be determined in the courts, nor in the corridors of the U.S. State Department. The decision will be made in the exact same way that all other momentous decisions are made: through determination and guile or, in brief, through politics."
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A Lycoming County jury heard the rape trial of a 30-year-old Loyalsock Township man on Wednesday. Deliberations begin today.
Sherman Keller was arrested on Feb. 7, 2012, for allegedly raping a 19-year-old woman at his home on Feb. 4, 2012.
Keller and the woman talked online on Facebook and other websites for several months before they met for the first time when he picked her up at her Sunbury-area home the evening of Feb. 4. The two returned to Keller's home, and he drove her back home in the early morning hours.
Both parties agree on that much - from there the stories diverge.
The woman testified that she fell asleep on Keller's couch while watching a movie and awoke to find him removing her clothing.
She said that she yelled "no" five times, then Keller held her down, raped her and inserted his fingers into her vagina while his mother was on the computer in another room about 20 feet away.
Keller testified that five minutes after the two arrived at his home, they went upstairs to his bedroom and had consensual sex in several positions. After his mother returned home from work around midnight, they again went upstairs and had sex before he took her home around 4 a.m.
"We were texting before we met that night," Keller said. "We said she was gonna come over and we were gonna mess around."
On cross-examination, Assistant District Attorney Melissa Kalaus asked Keller if there was an explicit agreement to have sex between the two.
"She asked what did I want to do with her and I said 'everything,' " Keller said. " 'Everything' pretty much implies sex."
Dr. Perry Doan, who performed the sexual assault analysis on the woman at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville on Feb. 5 , testified he found no visible signs of trauma on the woman. Doan said that visible injuries occur in less than 25 percent of sexual assault cases and he has seen such injuries "only once" in his career.
"The tissue involved there is designed to undergo trauma, it's designed to deliver a child," Doan said. "It's not unusual that area could undergo trauma and not show it."
Keller's mother testified that she came home and found her son and the woman on the couch.
"They were watching some kind of action movie and I don't like that stuff," she said. "They had the TV blasting."
Keller's mother said she never heard anything from the two people when they were on the couch and corroborated her son's story that the two were in his bedroom before leaving the house.
Defense attorney Michael Rudinski argued the state had not met the burden of proof in his closing argument.
"They talked sexually for months - he always brought up sex," Rudinski said. "She gave a story to her mom and the ball got rolling and she couldn't stop it."
Kalaus asked the jury to focus on the alleged crime, rather than surrounding circumstances.
"Once a woman says 'no,' everything before and everything after is irrelevant," Kalaus said. "It's inconceivable to think that after five minutes of being in his house she would go up and have sex with him four different ways."
Keller is being tried on charges of rape, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse and aggressive indecent assault.
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Hundreds of organizations, including The Queen's Medical Center and Kamehameha Schools, enjoy the deeply discounted tax rate.
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