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MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – The financial dashboard is a useful tool that almost no one uses.
That seems to be the consensus among officials from Muskegon County's seven cities when asked about their dashboards. Area city officials said they like dashboards as a tool for promoting transparency, but they found some limitations in their usefulness.
Dashboards were one piece of Gov. Rick Snyder's requirements for Michigan cities to receive state revenue sharing that, before 2011, was guaranteed by law. Other requirements included working with other cities to combine or share services and getting city employees to pay more toward their health care and retirement funds.
Snyder said dashboards would make cities accountable to their taxpayers by providing easy-to-understand metrics to show how a community is progressing over time.
MLive and the Muskegon Chronicle took a look at the dashboards of Muskegon County's seven cities to find out how our communities were progressing on what they labeled as their most important statistics and whether local residents are taking advantage of the increased transparency.
Anthony Minghine, associate executive director for the Michigan Municipal League, helped cities develop their dashboards after Snyder's announcement. The organization helped put together a template of how a dashboard might look, but there's no penalty if cities choose different performance metrics or set up their dashboard in a different style, he said.
"The dashboard is more of a way to compare progress over time on issues the community believes are important," he said. "If someone does something completely different, they put a lot of effort into it."
Lots of municipalities were confused the first year, Minghine said, but that probably won't be the case this year. In addition to providing a dashboard and a citizen's guide to the city's long-term finances, each also had to develop a plan to consolidate services and arrange for government employees to pay more toward their health insurance and retirement benefits.
Minghine said he wasn't surprised that most cities saw small interest in their dashboards. Many people feel more trust for their local officials than they do for the state and federal governments, he said. Even if they don't, they can easily attend city council meetings to keep track of their officials.
Requiring dashboards for transparency "was probably killing a mouse with an elephant gun," he said. "Being accessible and available at the local level is something that they've always been."
Sara Wurfel, a spokeswoman for Snyder, said the dashboards are a tool that makes often complex budget issues understandable to people who aren't financial experts and allows people to compare their city's progress over time.
"The governor absolutely believes they're a critical tool," she said. "That it's easily accessible and understandable is absolutely critical. The more that we can share information, the better we all are."
Montague improved its per capita general fund expenditures, its fund balance, its debt burden per capita and the percentage its pension system is funded from 2009 to 2010. Numbers from 2011 were not available.
Violent crimes per thousand and traffic injuries and fatalities both increased slightly. Investment in infrastructure increased significantly, but so did the percentage of streets rated as having "poor" infrastructure.
The percentage of the budget spent on arts and recreation decreased, but acres of park land per thousand residents increased slightly.
City Manager John French said he likes to look at how Montague compares to other cities, but most dashboards don't include information like how much cities spend per employee, their millage rates or how their water and sewer rates compare, which he believes would be useful to taxpayers.
"I think the dashboard is the beginning of a good idea," he said. "I think it's good for the public to have a fairly consistent format."
French said very few people had looked at the dashboard and he hadn't gotten any questions from citizens who were concerned or confused. Some cities look at the dashboard as an opportunity for "self-promotion" by showcasing their more positive statistics, but Montague decided to do only what was needed to get state revenue sharing, he said.
Muskegon includes some data most other cities don't, such as a measure of lake clarity (trophic state index), percentage of registered voters who actually voted, the jobless rate, the number of residents with a job, the median income after taxes, the number of registered businesses, the fire protection rating used by insurance companies and the number of calls the fire department responded to.
Muskegon City Auditor Tim Paul said the city took a better-safe-than-sorry approach, including information about quality of life and the economy that most other cities didn't, even if the metrics weren't under its control.
"We thought our revenue sharing would be cut unfairly, so we took it very seriously," he said. "I think the state's wanting to see the cities are doing something in terms of transparency."
Muskegon Heights
Muskegon Heights used the dashboard template provided by the state, City Manager Natasha Henderson said.
The dashboard is available online and residents can pick up paper copies from City Hall, Henderson said, but she hasn't gotten any questions from people who curious about something they saw on it.
Dashboards give a general picture, Henderson said, but sometimes the statistics can be misleading. For example, numbers like per capita expenditures and park land per 1,000 people rise when the population falls, even if the city doesn't spend any more money or build any new parks, she said.
"It does give an overview as far as the budget," she said. "It would probably be good if the constituents asked questions about it."
The public safety categories may also unduly alarm residents, because they group incidents that cause major injuries or death together with those that cause little or no injury, she said.
Norton Shores
Norton Shores included some information other cities didn't related to its fire department's responses, because the city has a contract to cover Roosevelt Park and a mutual aid agreement with Fruitport Township and Muskegon Heights, Norton Shores Finance Director Mike Huston said.
Huston said no residents had asked about the dashboard, but the city fulfilled the state requirements.
Roosevelt Park
Roosevelt Park took a slightly different approach than the other cities, posting a breakdown of where its revenues came from and the categories of its expenses for the past five years.
City Manager Anthony Chandler said some people prefer more detailed budget information instead of the categories most other cities used and the dashboard met the requirements the state laid out.
"I think there's different ways governments would be able to approach that," he said.
The citizen's guide, a more detailed look at municipal liabilities all cities also are required to produce, contains some of the same information as the other cities' dashboards. The file was too large to load on the Roosevelt Park website, but a hard copy is available at City Hall, Chandler said.
However, citizens haven't chosen to read it.
"I don't recall that anyone ever has looked at it," he said.
Whitehall Treasurer Laurie Audo said she hadn't received any questions about the dashboard from residents.
The city's dashboard also shows the possible confusion arising from data entry errors. The dashboard reported 33.2 violent crimes per 1,000 people in 2010, but only two in 2011 – a 90 percent decrease, which seems unlikely to be true.
It's possible the person entering the numbers accidentally put in the number of crimes, not their rate per 1,000 people, or simply tapped the 3 key one time too many. Audo wasn't sure what happened, but said the number was almost certainly a mistake, since Whitehall didn't experience a spree of violent crimes in 2010.
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I've had an insatiable craving for chocolate chip cookies lately. I've bookmarked half a dozen recipes and am slowly working my way through them.
I was pretty excited when I came across an eggless recipe because I've never encountered an eggless chocolate chip cookie until now. Instead of using eggs, the recipe uses condensed milk as the binding agent. I'm already in love with condensed milk as is, so I was definitely all for trying this method out.
The recipe, courtesy of Nestle, turned out great. The cookies bake up just like regular chocolate chip cookies and pretty much taste like regular chocolate chip cookies. You don't miss the egg. They have a thick center, while the exterior is slightly crunchy, reminiscent of shortbread cookies, which is the only noticeable sign that there's no eggs in this recipe.
These were simple to make and tasted yummy. They are a little on the sweet side. It's perfect for those who have egg allergies too.
Condensed Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies
180g butter, softened
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup Sweetened Condensed Milk
1 1/2 cups self raising flour
1 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line cookie sheets with silpat mats or parchment paper.
2. Using an electric mixer stand mixer, cream butter and sugar together until creamy; beat in condensed milk.
3. Add flour on low speed and mix until combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
4. Take large chunk of dough, shape into a ball, about 1 1/2 inch in diameter. Place on cookie sheet and slightly flatten. Repeat with remaining dough, spacing about 2 inches apart.
5. Bake for about 15 minutes until golden.
Slightly Adapted From Nestle
40 Responses to "Eggless Condensed Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies"
I've just bought a can of condensed milk… I think I now know how I want to use it!
Love this recipe. It's actually perfect for having the cookie dough by itself too, don't you think?
I'm a big fan of cookies, and these one look great.
Where can you buy caster sugar? Or can I just grind up regular sugar to make it superfine?
I've luckily never had coworkers with allergies, but if an egg allergy comes up it'll be good to have this recipe on hand!
5 ingredients?! That's awesome! I made some chocolate covered cookie dough balls that had condensed milk but it never occurred to me to try to actually bake them. I wonder if the recipe was the same. I'm off to find out!
Thank you for this recipe. My four year old son has a severe egg allergy so I am constantly searching for egg-free cake and cookie recipes that we can do together and which don't use weird or expensive ingredients. If you have any other egg-free recipes, we would really appreciate them. Many thanks.
Should I use salted or unsalted butter?
This is really amazing!! I love the result its really yummy as well
Recipe sounds good. Am going to try this tonight for my eggless family – stay tuned for reviews. I'm just wondering how can we adjust the recipe to make a slightly gooey consistency? Thanks for your blog!
Thank you for sharing, I will have to try this.
@ Danile, who's son has an egg allergy. Hi, My son is also allergic to eggs and I have tried some awesome recipes from the vegan chef Chloe and every single one I tried was awesome. Check her recipes here: http://chefchloe.com/
Take care!
Roughly, how many cookies will b made out of this recipe?
Hi, i do not have sel rising flour in my pantry, can I use all purpose flour instead?
I am so excited to try this recipe! My four year old daughter has an egg allergy and the two other recipes I have tried for chocolate chip cookies were an utter disappointment.
This may seem like a dumb question, but can you give me a traditional measurement (i.e., tablespoons or cups) for 180 grams of butter? Many thanks!
I googled the amount and used 3/4 cup of butter. They are delicious, and my daughter was over the moon for her first "real" chocolate chip cookies.
Thank you so much for this great recipe! It will be one of my new go-to treats for her. Yum!
Awesome cookies Kirbie.My daughters(who cannot tolerate the smell/taste of eggs) just loved them. Gonna try with whole wheat flour. Super easy recipe sooo glad i found it.
Wow! What a great recipe! My two sister-in-laws are allegeric to eggs and I really struggle to find egg free baking recipes. They were so yummy and tasted just like normal cookies! Also if I wanted to make them into chocolate cookies would you recommend adding coco powder or melted chocolate and if so how much? Thank you
Recipe looks great and I have no eggs in the house. Can I replace granulated sugar with light brown sugar?
These were delicious, I had no eggs and needed a quick afternoon tea for guests, the recipe doubled perfectly and I wasn't worried about the kids stealing some of the dough as there was no raw egg. The will definitely be my choc chip cookie recipe fron now on
Oh BTW you should be proud you cookie recipe has made it to "Down Under" in Adelaide, South Australia and they ate just as Delicious here too


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June 13, 2012
Computer Science Senior Honored with Chancellor's Award for Research in Network Security
Christopher Badger recognized for research on a secure peer-to-peer network that works by randomizing connections
(Santa Barbara, Calif. -) Christopher Badger, a senior in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara, has been honored with the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for his work on iTrust, a new peer-to-peer (P2P) networking system that allows individuals from anywhere in the world to distribute and search for information, even in the presence of restrictive entities or malicious attacks.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are systems of individual computers that share information with each other, instead of connecting through a large server – such as those that host most websites found on the Internet. In recent years, P2P networking has grown to user bases in the hundreds of millions. Though P2P networks have been criticized for enabling the illegal trade of copyrighted content, significant legitimate uses include many licensed online media players and the VoIP application Skype, which currently has more than 650 million users worldwide.
"I termed the system "declustering" because it randomizes how the peers in a network connect to each other, instead of clustering in what's called a neighborhood," explains Badger. "The result is a robust network that is a lot harder to attack because the connections are random." Badger was encouraged by his faculty advisors Louise Moser and P. Michael Melliar-Smith to submit his work on iTrust to WEBIST, the International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. Badger's paper was accepted as a full length presentation at WEBIST, held in April 2012 in Portugal.
iTrust was conceived to combat security threats, but also to address potential Internet censorship associated with centralized search engines. It aims to provide reliable information retrieval that cannot easily be censored or disabled by an entity, such as governments that seek to restrict search engine access. PhD students working with Badger in the Moser and Melliar-Smith lab have already built prototypes of iTrust for home computers and mobile devices.
iTrust's declustering algorithm goes even further by reducing the "expectation of cooperation" between peers. This means node connections are short-lived and rely less on the information provided by their peers, so therefore less predictable by security threats.
"When you lower the expectation of cooperation, maybe the network's peak performance isn't as good," said Badger. "But in the event of an attack, you have what's called a "graceful degredation" instead of a full meltdown. When things start to fail, the network can still function for longer while someone addresses the breach."
Badger is one of only two undergraduates to receive the Chancellor's Research Award upon graduation this June. Professor Melliar-Smith commented that "Chris's intellectual development as a researcher has been exceptional. His work is quite different from that of typical undergraduate students, and is fully comparable to the work of our doctoral students." The iTrust project is funded in part by the National Science Foundation
Participation in research has given him a boost in his post-graduation career. Badger attended a career fair hosted by UCSB Career Services and was offered a position with Santa Barbara-based Green Hills Software, a technology company that specializes in embedded software.
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A Kent Island High School student confessed to setting a fire inside a bathroom, state fire investigators said Thursday.
Authorities charged the 16-year-old student with first- and second-degree arson, reckless endangerment, malicious destruction of property, disturbing the peace and disrupting school activities. He was released to his mother.
Fire investigators said almost 25 firefighters were called to the high school shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday and were able to get the fire under control within five minutes. Sprinklers contained the fire and limited damages to about $5,000, fire investigators said.
Investigators said the boy confessed to igniting paper towels inside the bathroom, which prompted the evacuation of the entire school.
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text: "I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself, 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."Where does criticism play a part? Where does critical spirit play a part? Are the two related? First step: how can you analyze alternatives unless you are able to apply a critical spirit to each of them, and criticize the hell out of each one so that the cons will surface ? So of course the critical spirit is part of the first step. Following a chosen alternative, at each point you should be able to say: what the hell am I doing here ? if needed. Or "Dijkstra would not have like this", to put it more mildly. So this gives you the awareness and the feedback that will prevent you from going down the wrong path too far. You see, Dijkstra was trying to teach students self criticism, because he would stand just as a proxy for the doubled self that takes the critical position. In the end game step, the post factum analysis, CriticalSpirit facilitates learning from one's own mistakes. Over all there's an extra quality that CriticalSpirit brings to the process: it prevents people from being unskilled and unaware of it". http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html I still fail to see what part criticism plays in analysis. As best I can tell, the idea that criticism is necessary for analysis or learning is being presented as an axiom. That is, an axiom is an idea that is assumed to be true and is an "atomic" level truth, not derived from lower level truths. An axiom can neither be explained nor discussed, it can merely be accepted as true, and it is very rare for one to decompose an axiom into a derivation based on lower level axioms. Axioms are necessary and provide the foundation for one's knowledge. I may not believe an axiom to be true, but I also must accept that the truth of an axiom cannot be explained. I can accept that others may view the necessity of criticism as an axiom, though it is not one of the axioms I have chosen. It has been an interesting discussion, but, I feel, at this point we must simply agree to disagree. --WayneMack That criticism is necessary in analysis is an almost self-evident conclusion, but you can hardly take it as an axiom. I notice first that you fail to provide a convincing alternative model. Take it first as an obvious observation (not an axiom) that people make many mistakes. Now take it as a second observation that one of the most difficult part in the creative process is identifying one's own mistakes. CriticalSpirit gives the ability to easily and precisely identify errors inspite of the natural inclination of people to gloss over one's own mistakes. It works in the individual creative and learning process, it also works in collective settings. What are the major objections to it ? If the belief the "criticism is necessary in analysis" is not an axiom, from whence is it derived?


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The 60x100 pixel display measuring 30x20 mm (about 1.5 inches ) with 4 gray levels and a level of backlight. The screen resolution allows a detailed view of the performance charts during the race. E 'can be personalized by means of contrast and intensity using default waypoint icons. E 'can be programmed routes (max 50) waypoint using up to 8 characters (max 100). Garmin Forerunner 205 is able to find waypoints near but not in proximity, will automatically record the route and provides information on the share with GPS altimeter.
SiRF STAR III antenna allows its use in difficult situations (forests, roads with tall buildings) with a placement of 10 feet, the acquisition of the paper is in 1 second to 45 seconds in hot and cold. The GPS functions are compass, altimeter, according to the direct route, mark important positions, automatic route.
The internal memory can be forfeited up to 2 years of training. Through port USB (2.0) can not be connected to PC for bidirectional transfer of waypoints and training data using the Garmin supplied Trainig Center, the software is compatible with online services for analysis and sharing training. The external power supply is via USB, the internal battery is lithium ion, rechargeable finger table in the kit and 10 hours with typical usage.
Garmin Forerunner 205 has a body of water resistant resin, shock resistant, water-resistance is in accordance with IEC 529 IPX7 (immersion in 1 meter up to 30 minutes) and operates in temperatures from -20 ° C to 60 ° C. The dimensions are 53.3 x17, 8x68, 6 mm. and the weight is 77 grams.
It is a product dedicated to those who will follow a rigorous training schedule and projected even to the players, in addition to the features already present in other GPS receivers wrist. Garmin Forerunner 205 through port allows USB connection to PC built for the comparison between their performances and those of other network users. The clean design and rational way this tool further.


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New dad Eric Mabius says the cast, many of whom have recently had or are expecting babies, all share advice about parenthood. They especially look to Vanessa Williams, who is like a den mother to the cast, for guidance.
"She has kids of many different ages," says Mabius, who stepped out with his wife for the DKNYMen fragrance launch at the penthouse of the Rivington Hotel on Wednesday. "It's nice to look up to a person who can balance family and career."
Mabius's wife, interior designer Ivy Sherman says Williams always "wants to talk babies. She has great advice about being organic," adds Sherman. "She has friends with different cool baby-related companies, one an organic baby [products] company called Green Baby."
The couple have also swapped recommendations for doctors. "We have a rock star OBGYN that we've shared with Ana [Ortiz]," says Mabius of his costar who is expecting her first child in July.
Chill BabyMabius and Sherman, who have a 2 ½-year-old son and a 2 ½-month-old son, say they have been lucky that their littlest one is relaxed.
"He's extremely heavy," says Sherman of newborn Rylan Jaxson. "He was born 10 lbs., 3 oz.. He's a dream baby. He's very chill. He just likes to sleep and eat."
Mabius also gives a shout-out to recent mother of twins Rebecca Romijn. "She had almost 13 pounds of baby," he said. "That's pretty amazing. We've seen photos. And for feeding, [I hear] she's doing the double football hold," he said – then demonstrated tucking two imaginary babies one under each arm.


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Distrib nabs thriller 'Path' from Film Factory
MADRID — Wild Bunch Germany has picked up all German-speaking territories rights to Daniel Bruhl starrer, Spanish action-adventure movie "Winning Streak," helmed by Eduard Cortes ("Nobody's Life").
The Munich-based distrib has also acquired Miguel Angel Toledo's psychological thriller "The Path," co-penned by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo ("28 Weeks Later," "Intruders").
Both titles, which made their market debuts at May's Cannes mart, have been licensed by Vicente Canales' new sales outfit, Film Factory Ent.
Based on a true story, "Winning Streak" turns on the Pelayos, a Spanish family that discovered a way to legally win at roulette, making hundreds of millions of dollars at casinos around the world.
Produced by Barcelona-based companies Alea Docs & Films and Bausan Films, the feature also stars Lluis Homar ("Broken Embraces"), Eduard Fernandez ("Biutiful") and Miguel Angel Silvestre ("Verbo").
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"The Path" is Toledo's directorial debut. It is co-produced by Valencia's The Green Star Films, Canary Island's Totem Prods and Gerardo Herrero's Tornasol Films.
Thriller, now in post, turns on a couple whose marriage is on the rocks, and who decide to spend Christmas night with their son in an isolated cabin in the mountains.
"Wild Bunch has been attracted by those movies' originality and, as many Spanish films today, their high production values," said Canales.
Launched December, Film Factory is attending the Madrid de Cine-Spanish Film Screenings, where it will show buyers Daniel Sanchez Arevalo's comedy "Cousinhood" and Jorge Sanchez-Cabezudo's critically acclaimed and ground-breaking pay TV skein "Crematorium."


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Those who think they're following New Mexico's governor on Twitter might want to check again.
Gov. Susana Martinez's office said the @Martinez4Prez Twitter handle is not run by Martinez's office.
That hasn't stopped it from garnering more than 30,000 followers, however.
The movement, as whoever is running the account is calling themselves, is raising awareness for future Martinez campaigns.
"Our mission is to raise awareness of New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, a solid conservative who can beat Hillary in 2016. Join the movement," states the account's biography on Twitter.


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At least 14 people died when a boat carrying some 70 undocumented migrants capsized in the Mediterranean after setting off from Morocco bound for Spain, authorities said Thursday.
Seventeen people were pulled from the water alive off the coast of Alhucemas, Morocco, Spain's Maritime Rescue service said, adding that some of the survivors were in need of "urgent medical assistance."
Maritime Rescue took the survivors to Alhucemas.
One of the survivors said 71 people were aboard the flimsy craft when it left Morocco, Spanish officials told Efe.
Authorities from both countries began searching for the boat on Wednesday after a tip from someone who feared for the safety of a family member aboard the craft.
The boat was located by a Maritime Rescue surveillance plane, which lowered a raft to pick up some of those in the water and summoned vessels from both Spain and Morocco to aid in rescue and recovery efforts.
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Mellen Posts 2nd MAC Qualifying Mark @ Hoosier Hills
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - - The Ball State indoor track & field team saved the fireworks for late Friday night with two impressive performances in some of the final events ran on the opening day of the 2013 Hoosier Hills Invitational hosted by Indiana.
Senior MaryKate Mellen qualified for her second event at the 2013 Mid-American Conference Indoor Championships (Feb. 22-23) by placing second in the 3,000m run with a career-fast time of 9:54.44. Last weekend, Mellen qualified for the mile run by posting a career-best clocking of 4:54.40 at the Meyo Invitational hosted by Notre Dame.
Freshman Zenée Gadson would follow by winning the event title in the triple jump with a tri-leap of 11.13m/36-6.25. The triple jump and 3000m run were scheduled for 9 p.m. and 9:35 p.m. starts, respectively.
Overall, the Cardinals tallied 11 top 10 efforts and 11 career-best performances Friday at the Hoosier Hills Invitational which is schedule to conclude tomorrow. However, Friday was BSU's lone day at the meet as they have no one scheduled to compete in any of tomorrow's events.
The Ball State indoor track & field team will compete in its final tune up before the 2013 Mid-American Conference Championships next Friday (Feb. 15), when it hosts the Ball State Quadrangular which also features six-time defending champion Western Michigan, Miami and Northern Illinois. Action is set to get underway at 5 p.m. at the Ball State Field Sports Building.
Ball State's Individual Performances At The Hoosier Hills Invitational
400m Dash
5th Hannah Lange - 58.12*
9th Christa Hammond - 1:00.14*
18th Jordan McMillan - 1:02.03*
600m Run
7th Katie Behrendt - 1:41.25*
11th Becca Kropf - 1:42.24*
800m Run
8th Danielle Dahl - 2:19.97*
15th Caitlynn Edon - 2:22.73*
3000m Run
2nd MaryKate Mellen - 9:54.44*
4th Courtney Edon - 10:02.01*
9th Katelyn DeVries - 10:23.48*
Triple Jump
1st Zenée Gadson - 11.13m/36-6.25
7th Alyssa Hurlburt - 10.47m/34-4.25
Pole Vault
9th Hannah Ciasto-Poor - 3.50m/11-5.75* (ties career-best mark)
High Jump
5th Haley Austin - 1.67m/5-5.75
Shot Put
14th Michaela Hull - 12.30m/40-4.25
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Deseret First Credit Union and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a relationship that extends more than half a century. And to think it all started in a small office on the fourth floor of the Church Administration Building.
Today's Deseret First was known in 1955 as the LDS Church Office Credit Union. Here's how it began:
-On July 5, 1955, the First Presidency of the Church approved a proposal that a credit union be organized for Church office employees. An organizational meeting was held later that month in which officers of the credit union were elected. One of them was Gordon B. Hinckley. The LDS Church Office Credit Union had 71 members with $697 in savings and $200 in loans in the first month's operation. By the end of 1955, those numbers had grown to 196 members and $8,265 in savings and $9,028 in loans. The credit union was on its way.
-In 1974, the credit union changed its name to LDS Church Employees Credit Union. Other big changes occurred in the 1980s when membership eligibility was extended to all members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the credit union became known as Deseret First Credit Union.
-Today, Deseret First is a full-service financial institution with $420 million in assets serving 53,000 members and employees of the Church and its affiliated businesses throughout the world.
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Kampala (Alshahid) – Hundreds of Somali community yesterday flocked to Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb, for registration.
The registration, being conducted by the Somali community association in Uganda and security agencies, will ensure that all Somali nationals residing in Uganda get new identity cards.
"The number of Somalis who have responded to the call for registration is overwhelming. We have been busy since morning," Roble Abdulayi, the community vice-chairperson, said.
The nationals are each required to present two passport photos, indicate their jobs, the number of dependants they have, their area of residence and landlords details.
The registration comes at a time when al Shabaab insurgents in Somalia issued threats to attack Kampala and Bujumbura, Burundi, in revenge for rocket attacks that killed at least 30 people in Mogadishu on Thursday.
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NEW ORLEANS -- As crews searched Sunday for a worker still missing after an oil platform explosion and fire, doctors said one of four men burned in the blaze is improving and is now in fair condition.
Two remained in critical condition and one in serious condition, doctors said.
The company that owned the platform that caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico vowed Sunday to keep searching for a second worker still missing after a body was found in about 30 feet of water near one leg of the platform.
At Baton Rouge General Medical Center's burn unit, Wilberto Ilagan, 50, of the Philippines, told Dr. Jeffrey Littleton that he wanted to send a message, according to a news release Sunday.
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According to the Advocate, Littleton told a news conference Sunday that the other men's names are being withheld because their conditions are more serious.
The Philippine Embassy in Washington has said all the workers are from the Philippines.
The remains of the unidentified person were found Saturday night by divers hired by Houston-based Black Elk Energy, Coast Guard spokesman Carlos Vega said. He said the Coast Guard, which has suspended its own search, would turn over the body to local authorities.
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Note: For models 1994 on, Peugeot specify increased service intervals of 9,000, 18,000, 36,000 and 72,000 miles (15,000, 30,000, 60,000 and 72,000 km). However, we still recommend cam belt renewal at 36,000 (58,000km).
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Shopping list:
1. Oil Filter
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5. Power Steering Pump Belt* (if worn)
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Renew oil filter
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Check front brake pads for wear and renew if necessary
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Every 12,000 Miles (18,000 km) or annually
In addition to the items in the 6,000 mile service:
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5. Fuel filter
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Walker, who was suspended earlier in the year as well, averaged 20 minutes and 4.2 points per game this season as he moved into a larger role with the Demon Deacons.
Coach Jeff Bzdelik confirmed the news of Walker's suspension with Dan Collins of the Winston-Salem Journal here.
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Lecture by Professor Elizabeth Grosz: Bacon, Deleuze and Imperceptible Forces
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In conjunction with the soon to be opened Bacon exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, the Power Institute is delighted to present a lecture on two great cultural figures, by a preeminent feminist thinker - the brilliant scholar, Elizabeth Grosz. This talk will focus on the complex relation between Francis Bacon and Giles Deleuze, who wrote one of the most perceptive and sympathetic books on Bacon's painting, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. As Professor Grosz explains, Deleuze did not really write Bacon so much as with him on a question that intrigued both of them - the possibilities we might unearth for perceiving or understanding forces that are normally imperceptible, forces of magnetism, gravity, causality and chance, forces of aging and disintegration.
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Diversity – A step on the way to inclusion
Diversity in terms of different cultures and colors of the skin seems quite normal to our everyday lives – one should have supposed. Thus it is all the more surprising that people of color apparently still feel shut out in their workplaces according to the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, quoting the survey 'Vaulting the Color Bar: How Sponsorship Levers Multicultural Professionals into Leadership'. A considerable amount of participants of the survey stated that they have to hide their true themselves.
Apart from the fact that an esteeming interaction between and with people of all cultures and nationalities should be a matter of course in our global world, especially companies, human resources as well as diversity managers should listen attentively.
This discovery is a clear sign that diversity itself can not be the goal but moreover is one step on the way to inclusion. Thus it is not only important to ensure a variety of different people regarding all imaginable aspects in the workplace – this could honestly even undermine the business case and strategic benefits which are attributed to the idea of a diverse workforce. More important is to ensure inclusion! Only if the employees respect and value each other with all the differences, the potential of diversity can be leveraged.
Due to this circumstance it is particularly important for global companies like Henkel, to pursue a holistic approach of diversity and inclusion which supports an equitable and healthy company culture where all employees and their contributions are valued.


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Dave Clow and his executive staff probably could teach a seminar in crisis management at any business college in America.
The lesson plans would be their own personal experience.
Clow and the staff at Harding Energy Inc. in Norton Shores were stunned by a destructive -- but not catastrophic -- fire Aug. 7 in the company's lower level test laboratory. A battery pack being charged caught fire and burned the lab beyond recognition.
Luckily, no one was injured in the overnight fire that was detected by the Norton Shores Fire Department and was nearly out when firefighters arrived. Clow said there was no damage beyond the lower level and no hazardous materials or gasses were involved.
However, smoke damage drove the company from its offices and production facility in what was the former General Telephone building at 509 E. Ellis across from the Muskegon County Airport. Harding shares the building with Western Michigan Christian High School, which was not affected by the battery company fire.
Harding provides rechargeable battery packs for equipment manufacturers of medical device, test equipment, bar-code readers and printers along with flashlights for police and fire personnel. It was able to return to the Ellis Road facility in March, seven months after the fire.
After his staff responded to adversity with new innovations, Clow said, "we are a stronger company today than before the fire."
When it first began operations in 1994 and through its first decade, Harding provided nickel-metal hydride rechargeable batteries for cameras and audio devices. But in the past half-dozen years, the company has moved into niche equipment markets.
The company employs 38 with an expected 10 additional staffers to be hired in the coming three years, company officials said.
The total damage to the building, equipment and inventory was $1.4 million, of which Clow said insurance covered $1.15 million. The most devastating loss was the $400,000 in inventory, half of what the company was planning to ship to customers. It also lost about 30 research and development projects in the test lab that eliminated those opportunities for new business, the company president said.
"We did lose orders, but not any customers and we kept all of our employees," Clow said. "Our biggest loss was the momentum we had on those 30 projects in the testing area."
In the early morning hours of Aug. 8, Clow was left standing in front of his company's facility contemplating the next move. He and the privately held company owners had already decided to temporarily move operations to a vacant building in Coopersville. Crew members were starting to move undamaged equipment as Clow counted his company's blessings that August morning.
"The biggest blessing in all of this is how other businesses in West Michigan have responded with offers of help," Clow said. "That is why this is such a great community."
With the luck of having immediately available space in Coopersville, Harding was able to move its production operations, development department and administration to the temporary facility within in days. Within three weeks, Harding was back in full production and beginning to seek out new battery-pack opportunities.
Prior to the fire, Harding had been looking at better space-use designs for its growing operations. The fire and the partial insurance settlement gave Harding the opportunity to redesign its current space, allowing the company to continue in its current facility with a rebuilt test lab and production area.
"We will be staying in the area, Norton Shores, if not somewhere else in Muskegon County," Clow said of company growth plans that may necessitate a second facility in the coming years. "Our employees are so important to our business. They don't want to move and even Coopersville was a big drive."
Harding is known for its Quest-brand of battery and charger products. The original West Michigan investors pursued new rechargeable battery technology with nickel-metal hydride and quickly adapted to production facilities in China for the basic batteries because of lower costs. The company became a development, design, marketing and sales operation.
As it pushed its batteries and chargers for the new digital camera boom in the late 1990s, retail outlets such as Minolta camera stores and global giant Wal-Mart were key distributors. However, when Wal-Mart canceled its orders, Clow said it was time to get out of the highly competitive consumer market.
At the time, Harding was 90 percent in the consumer retail market with 100 percent nickel-metal hydride products. Sales were a little over $2 million.
By 2004, with a new emphasis on electronic equipment manufacturers, the company's sales doubled as it began to offer new battery chemistry like alkaline, lithium ion and lithium polymer. It became involved in integrating the batteries for use in, for example, a medical heart monitor by designing and building electronic board, components and chargers.
Harding does not release its customer list for competitive reasons and at the request of those customers. However, among the 200 customers are well-known Fortune 500 companies, Clow said.
Forty-two of the customers generate 90 percent of the company's business, with the largest customer only having 18 percent of total sales, he said.
Sales continued to grow to a peak in 2006 at more than $7 million, with a slight sales decrease in 2007 due to the fire. This year, sales are projected at $8 million and are projected to reach above $10 million by 2010.
The 30 lost product development projects in the test lab last August have given way to 42 new projects; if only half of them resulted in contracts, they could double the company's business, Clow said.
A new area of development are battery packs for compact, LED flashlights that are lightweight but powerful. Harding also makes the battery chargers for the units.
After operations were restarted in Coopersville, the decision was made to renovate the fire-damaged facility into a more efficient production facility. Harding used Oppenhuizen Architects and Westwind Construction to complete the work.
A new shipping dock was added to the southside of the building, walls were removed in the lower level to open up the space and a new test lab and wire harness assembly room was added.
Harding received plenty of help. West Michigan Tag and Label loaned a label-making machine to help cover for the battery company's lost label machine, Kohley Ecowater loaned a truck for the move to Coopersville and even Star 108 radio station provided lunch for workers during the initial transition to the temporary facility. Clow said Comerica Bank and Grand Haven Bank worked with the company during its crisis to keep operations going.
Besides improving operational efficiency, the newly designed production space also focused on safety, Clow said. The facility has a self-contained heating and ventilation system, alarms and sprinklers and a fire-suppression system designed with the help of the U.S. Navy.
The lithium battery test racks where the fire began have been redesigned so that if a fire begins it would quickly melt a plastic sheets holding sand above the test tray. Sand will immediately put out flames on lithium, a highly flammable material, Clow said.
"We are a stronger, safer member of the community today," Clow said reflecting back on the past months.
We are a stronger company today than before the fire."


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The King County Department of Development and Environmental Services (DDES) announced recently that citizens now can file Code Enforcement complaints on-line, via the DDES web page at www.metrokc.gov/ddes. From this main page, simply click on the Code Enforcement Complaints button. Citizens can then access the emergency phone number for weekend and off-hour code enforcement emergencies, as well as on-line complaint forms. For information, call (206) 296-6682


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BULLS ISLAND — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell hiked Boneyard Beach —the eroded northern end of this island where dead trees poke out of the sand — and called it a great example of climate change and erosion at work.
"It changes your perspective on man's relationship with nature," she said Wednesday. "We should be paying attention to what we're seeing on the ground. We should be listening to the science. ... We need to adapt to the changes and understand what we can do to mitigate them."
Jewell said she would like every school child to see this picturesque spot in the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge because it illustrates how nature changes and how futile it is to try to fight that. "It's clear that Mother Nature wins every time," she said.
The hike capped a full day for Jewell, who paid her first visit to South Carolina since becoming the nation's 51st Secretary of the Interior in April.
She began with an early morning flight over the refuge's 22 miles of coastline, then met with about 50 representatives of businesses, nonprofits and government agencies to talk about conservation, and ended with a tour of this pristine barrier island reachable only by boat.
And she carried many messages, from the reality of climate change to importance of public-private collaboration to promote conservation, particularly of longleaf pine, to the urgency that Congress end the sequester and support the nation's Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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Jewell did not need to step foot on an eroded beach to understand how rising sea levels and erosion have affected the state. As she inspected the coastline from the air, she said she saw a lot of beach homes and other buildings vulnerable in the next storm.
"You've already seen a one-foot increase in sea level rise in this community over the last 100 years," she said. "A lot of development is vulnerable. I did encourage the community to think about that and to make sure you're working alongside developers to develop in a smart way that takes into account the risks of sea level rise."
She noted swamps and wetlands are very useful in protecting communities from storms and talked briefly about how federally underwritten flood insurance has made coastal development more economically viable.
"It's not my area of expertise but there is work going on right now with FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) to look at flood insurance," she said, adding one bill would require the agency to look at the risk and price policies accordingly.
"What was a 100-year flood is now a more frequent occurrence, and that has to be taken into account by communities as they develop."
Seeking public, private help
After her airplane tour, Jewell spent more than an hour at the Sewee Visitors Center listening to a variety of people involved in government and conservation, from Conway to Darien, Ga.
She said she came to this part of the state because of its track record of collaboration — between government and business on all levels — to promote conservation.
With gridlock in Washington and future federal funding of conservation in doubt, Jewell said such collaboration will continue to be important — and that the federal government must do its share, specifically by funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
That fund is seen as key to helping the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service purchase or get easements on 4,000 acres of longleaf pine habitat in four national wildlife refuges from Waccamaw River to Cape Romain to St. Marks, Fla.
The longleaf pine ecosystem once covered more than 90 million acres in the South but has shrunk to only 4.4 million acres today. A new public-private initiative aims to increase that figure to 8 million by 2022.
While Jewell and others voiced support for the fund, she also emphasized the damage done to her agency through this year's sequestration legislation.
She noted Cape Romain has lost eight of the 13 employees it once had, and it's just a microcosm of what she has seen elsewhere. Some refuges have lost all their maintenance staff but none of their biologists, while others have lost their biologists but not their maintenance staff.
"We're in the forever business. We're in the business of protecting these assets forever and taking care of what makes this America beautiful," she said. "And yet we're trying to fund that on a very short-term continuing resolution basis on the budget and with sequestration on top, it's just really untenable. As a business person, you would never run a business this way."
"There are some in Congress who would like us not to be good at anything we do," she added, "who would like to see us go away."
Getting an earful
About 50 conservationists, from business executives to members of the Gullah Geechie Heritage Corridor Commission, had a chance to express their concerns to Jewell during an hour-long meeting.
Grace Gasper, director of the Sewee Association, a nonprofit that provides environmental education, said her organization began in 1997 working with fewer than 100 students a year. It currently reaches about 13,000 students a year, but the refuge's budget cuts have hurt her nonprofit's work.
"They need more help from us," she said of Cape Romain's employees. "We have a tough task ahead."
Jewell said nonprofit friends of the park should provide "the margin of excellence, not the margin of survival."
Some concerns were much more specific, such as sweetgrass basketmaker Vera Manigault's concern that basketmakers don't have access to pine needles. Jewell said her staff would forward the concern to the U.S. Forest Service, which is under a different department.
Sarah Dawsey, manager of the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, talked with Jewell about how the project to deepen Charleston Harbor could benefit Bulls Island, if the State Ports Authority provides money to build dikes there as part of its mitigation plan.
While Jewell did not discuss in detail the state's heavily Republican congressional contingent, some staff members from U.S. Sen. Tim Scott and U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford stopped by briefly. And she encouraged those who care about conservation to speak up.
"We do live in a democracy. It responds to local input," she said. "Make sure your voices are heard."
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Teacher's Unbelievable Grade On Ridiculous Paper (Can This Be Real?!)Monica Bielanko
Earlier this month I wrote an article about how concerned I am to send my children to public school when it seems so mired in an outdated curriculum with too much of a focus on busywork and memorization.
So you can imagine my distress when I saw a story that popped up on themetapicture.com under the heading, Some Teachers Don't Even Care Anymore along with this photo:
At first glance it seems horrifying, right? Confirms every single fear I have about public school. But I'm glad I kept reading. The most popular comment after the post on themetapicture.com is one from Machele Kindle who, according to the Facebook profile she posted under, is a professor at Bridgemont Community and Technical College. Kindle hits the nail on the head. The comment is so on the money I'm going to repost it here in its entirety even though it's a bit long.
It seems most people are assuming the teaching is lazy and uncaring. In reality, it is much more likely that the teacher *doesn't have time* to read every word. Let's say that the average class size is 20 and the teacher teaches 5 sections of Literature a day. That's 100 students, of which, each has turned in a midterm.
It took me about 3 minutes to read this, deciphering the hand writing (which is often a challenge). The answer is actually not too bad as far as grammar and punctuation, so little to correct there. It, at first, addresses the topic in an appropriate way. Thus, it seems a reasonable assumption that 3 minutes is the minimum time required to read and grade a decent answer. Keep in mind that it takes longer for a poorly written question.
At 3 minutes each for 100 students, that's 300 minutes minimum *for one question of a multi-page midterm*. That's 5 hours for this question alone. I see at least two other pages, looking at the top right of the picture. If the other two pages are essay questions, you're now looking at 15 hours, minimum, of grading for this mid-term. So, yeah, if he or she missed this paragraph (if it were real), it seems excusable to me the the teacher missed the bottom portion of an answer that began well.
Perhaps a parent reading the test might have caught it? I doubt a parent read it. If they did, who would be the culprit, the overworked teacher who missed it or the student who faked the answer? When it was my parents, who sometimes *did* spot check my work, reading my essay, *I* would be the one in trouble, not the teacher, for trying to pull a fast one.
Unless you're a teacher, or the family of a teacher, you don't have a clue what a teacher actually does or goes through in order to do their job. Stop assuming they're lazy when most are really just overwhelmed and start making the student take some responsibility for their education.
What do you think? Is this a parental fail, as Kindle suggests? Is the grade the teacher gave the student and the fact that it reveals he or she never even read the paper appalling? Or should Machele Kindle's comment get an A+?
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missing screw for ruger blackhawk, help
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> missing screw for ruger blackhawk, help
David (L-MN)
July 19, 2009, 04:27 PM
somehow, i have no idea, a tiny screw under the trigger guard of my 44 mag ruger super blackhawk has disappeared. i need a new one and i have no idea where to start, where should i look?
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July 19, 2009, 04:52 PM
Well, the Ruger Parts Department would be the most logical place to start.
Or Brownell's.
Old Fuff
July 19, 2009, 04:52 PM
Try www.brownells.com
They are in Iowa so it should arrive fast. ;)
David (L-MN)
July 19, 2009, 05:10 PM
i thought here would be the most logical, and i was right, thanks guys.
David (L-MN)
July 19, 2009, 05:13 PM
if ya guys kno what screw im specifically talking about, whats its like "scientific" name?
David (L-MN)
July 19, 2009, 05:15 PM
nvm that ^^^
July 19, 2009, 05:21 PM
Call Ruger. They're probably send you one in a couple of days for free.
July 19, 2009, 05:25 PM
Call Ruger. They're probably send you one in a couple of days for free.
That's been my experience with Ruger, more than once. S&W is similar.
July 19, 2009, 10:22 PM
Before calling I would go to www.Ruger.com, and download an owners manual, and then you will have the part number of the screw. I always try Ruger first. They are not in business making a living selling parts.
July 20, 2009, 02:05 AM
Virginian has the right approach. Download the PDF of the manual which contains exploded views of the revolver. Then you'll know what to ask for when you call Ruger. Their support is great by the way. If you have an old 3 screw model tell them you've had the safety update otherwise they won't talk to you and they won't send you a thing.
For future prevention of such mishaps, know that the old blackhawks and super blackhawks will rattle themselves apart of you let them. After every range session take a screwdriver to all the screws you can see and snug them. This will save you much grief in the long run.
Good luck!
David (L-MN)
July 20, 2009, 02:14 PM
crap. i wish i would have waited to see what you guys would say before ordering one and paying for it. thanks anyways guys
July 20, 2009, 03:06 PM
For future reference (this was a cheap lesson), always contact the maker first.
I have only used third-party suppliers for guns that are well out of production, and I have not been happy with the results.
For example, if you have an old Mossberg and Mossberg has no parts for it, contact Havlin Sales. They have parts that actually fit. Forget about the usual parts suppliers.
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The U.K.'s ArtBelow, a non-profit that installs contemporary art in the London Underground, has tapped 14 artists — including Damien Hirst, Joana Vasconcelos (above), Yinka Shonibare (below), Jake & Dinos Chapman, D*Face (at bottom), and more — to created customized Stormtrooper helmets for a charity auction. The Stormtrooper, infantryman of the evil Empire in the "Star Wars" film series, is recognizable by its distinctive all-white helmet, which all the artists transformed for the upcoming auction.
The "Star Wars"-inspired works were the idea of Ben Moore, a co-founder of ArtBelow and lifelong fan of the seminal sci-fi franchise, who curated the exhibition of transformed helmets.
"We all grew up with Star Wars and Stormtroopers," Moore told the Independent. "They're kind of like an iconic object. It wasn't too hard to persuade the artists to do this. As soon as an artist sees this object, the creative mind is activated and overwhelmed with possibilities."
The helmets are on view at the Saatchi Gallery from October 9-13 in the exhibition "Art Wars." Come February 2014 they will be auctioned at Christie's to raise money for the Missing People Charity and Moore's quest to find his brother Tom, who disappeared a decade ago. In addition to the very personal aspect of the project, Moore sees it as a political gesture, too.
"What I wanted to do was liberate these cloned troopers by giving them independence through colour and artistic identity," he told the Independent. "A Stormtrooper is a mechanised, obedient, machine-like soldier that's under control. I wanted to free them from their uniformity."
— Benjamin Sutton
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LAWRENCE, MI -- A motorcyclist driving without insurance or registration seen by officers speeding through the Village of Lawrence Wednesday faces multiple charges after he led police on a high-speed chase that reached triple digit speeds, authorities said.
A 48-year-old Decatur man was arrested Wednesday around 3:44 p.m. after he lost control of his 1984 Honda motorcycle in a grassy field off Territorial Road near 68th Street following the pursuit by police, according to a news release from the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office.
He has been lodged at the Van Buren County Jail.
The suspect was first seen speeding by a deputy near the intersection of East Saint Joseph Street and Blackman Street who noticed the vehicle had no registration, according to the release.
The suspect then turned onto Red Arrow Highway at a high rate of speed and was pursued by Van Buren County Sheriff's deputy, police said.
"During the pursuit speeds exceeded 100 mph multiple times," the release said. "The driver made it to the area of Territorial Road near 68th Street where he turned off into a grassy field. The driver could not maintain control of the motorcycle due to the loss of traction and fell to the ground."
The suspect again attempted to flee again before his motorcycle stalled out and he was taken into custody, according to the release.
The suspect faces charges of fleeing and eluding, driving on a suspended license, driving an unregistered vehicle and driving without insurance.
Van Buren County Sheriff Deputies were assisted by Michigan State Police troopers during the pursuit.
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CBNNews.com - HAIFA, Israel - Alert civilians helped avert a major terror attack Saturday evening at a busy mall in the Israeli port city of Haifa.
When shoppers heard a small explosion in one of the mall's parking lots, they notified security, who notified police after finding a car rigged with 100 kilograms (more than 220 pounds) of explosives, packed in its trunk, meant to be detonated simultaneously.
The three-story mall, with its multiple movie theatres and some 100 shops, was packed with the usual Saturday night crowd of families with teenagers and younger children.
After evacuating the mall, police sappers spent hours detonating the massive payload, which was strategically placed to set cars in the parking lot on fire and collapse the building.
"Had the car bomb exploded, the majority of the cars in the parking lot would have gone up in flames. The gas in them could have exploded. This would have been a major terror attack," a police source said.
"There is no doubt that a good deal of planning went into this," Northern Police chief Commander Shimon Koren told Israel Radio.
Haifa police, who have been placed on a heightened state of alert, secured a court order banning media publication of the investigation.
"I promise the people of Israel that the police and the Shin Bet (General Security Agency) will reach the perpetrators," Koren said.
Later, a Palestinian terror group, calling itself "Free Galilee," claimed responsibility for the attack.
At Sunday's Cabinet meeting, outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said it was "a miracle" that the attack failed and praised the response of alert civilians.
"As far as Israel is concerned, this was a terrorist attack in every sense," Olmert said. "Only the vigilance of citizens and the quick response by police and security forces prevented it," he said.
On Sunday morning, the mall reopened for business.
Sources: The Jerusalem Post, YNet news
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Scott's voter purge has all the trappings of racism
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Florida Governor Rick Scott is at it again — bound and determined to save us from those hordes of "ineligible voters" that continue to break down the doors at every voting precinct. You know the kind — men and women foaming at the mouth, wildly waving their choices for their favorite candidates in their hands. Scott is so convinced that Florida's voting rolls have allowed "outlaw voters" to impact our elections that he's started a second push to clean things up. Of course, this time he wants to assure us that this has nothing to do with removing minorities from the rolls. He wants us to forget what happened last year in the midst of a tight presidential election when minority voters were vital to President Barack Obama's reelection hopes. Similarly, he hopes we'll forget that among those unlawfully purged were World War II veterans.
Scott has decided to initiate a "project integrity" roadshow, sending one of his minions to Orlando and Fort Lauderdale to answer questions from election officials, and we assume the public, about this new effort to protect our voting rolls from non-citizens.
Critics raise concerns that naturalized citizens, mostly Hispanics, but also Blacks and Asian Americans, will be targeted. And there could be a cost associated with "proving" that one is a naturalized citizen and therefore eligible to vote — to the tune of $680 for an original copy of a naturalization certificate.
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The public is invited to tour the new Geisinger Careworks Walk-in Clinic Williamsport from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Williamsport T.J. Maxx Plaza on the Golden Strip, 1824 E. Third St.
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Last fall, Geisinger Health System announced it would open between 20 and 25 walk-in medical clinics within the next two years and throughout the state, creating more than 100 new jobs. The growing popularity of Careworks clinics amongst consumers can be attributed to their convenience and affordability, stated Careworks CEO Ken Berndt.
"Careworks Clinics do not require an appointment, are conveniently located, involve only a short wait time, are open evenings and weekends and most of all, they are affordable," Berndt said. "We bill insurance, and patients only pay their primary care co-pay."
Patients generally visit Careworks facilities for basic health services related to colds, sore throats, minor cuts, wounds and general immunizations. Careworks also treats other minor health problems such as allergies, asthma, infections, sprains, insect bites and minor burns.
Perhaps the most important aspect of Careworks, Berndt added, is that they help relieve chronic overcrowding in hospital emergency rooms.
"ED overutilization is a serious concern - one that places a major financial burden on patients, health insurers, health care providers, communities and even our entire economy," Berndt said. "Consumers seeking to avoid long waits in emergency rooms and the high costs associated with them have told us they are grateful for our services."
The new 2,000 square-foot Williamsport walk-in clinic opened May 3 and is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. No appointments are needed. The facility features a reception area, two exam rooms, X-ray and lab space.
The first 100 people in attendance at the June 1 open house will receive a free gift. The event also will feature children's activities, a live radio remote by KISS-FM 102.7 (WKSB), refreshments and more. Everyone may register to win a free iPad.
Run to benefit spinal cord research
A 5K/10K run walk, Strides for Spinal Cord Injury Research, will be held at 9 a.m. June 8 at Indian Park in Montoursville.
Participants who register before Saturday will receive a discount. On the day of the event, people may register at 8 a.m.
All participants will receive a goody bag containing a 5K event T-shirt, coupons/gift certificates to local businesses and other small items, while supplies last. Numerous giveaway drawings will be held after the event. Each participant will be given a 50/50 ticket and that will used for picking the winners of the items being given away.
All money raised will be donated to the Reeve-Irvine Research Center and Research For a Cure. The center is named after Christopher Reeve and his family and its goal is to cure paralysis after a spinal cord injury.
The money raised via the 5K will go directly to spinal cord injury research and human trials. Research has shown dramatic improvements in animal studies. The hope and goal is to fund ongoing trials on humans.
City resident Jay Harner said he is organizing the event because he had an injury that left him a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the chest down.
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Evangelical Hospice plans flea market fundraiser
LEWISBURG - Evangelical Hospice will hold its annual flea market from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 5 and 7 a.m. to noon June 6 at the Faith Lutheran Church on Route 45, just west of here.
Items will be sold at $7 per bag (bag provided). Hot dogs, drinks and snacks will be available.
Donations only may be dropped off from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 4 at Faith Lutheran Church. No large furniture, encyclopedias, magazines or broken items will be accepted.
All proceeds go to direct patient care provided by Evangelical Hospice.
For more information, call 522-2550.
Comprehensive blood screening offered
Community Health Education at Evangelical Community Hospital will hold a comprehensive blood screen from 7 to 10 a.m. June 12 at Elmcroft of Loyalsock in Montoursville.
To make an appointment, call 768-3200.
A comprehensive blood screening can provide important details about your health, sometimes before symptoms of a condition surface, giving you and your physicians the power to plan ahead. The $30 fee includes a lipid panel (HDL, LDL, total cholesterol and triglycerides), complete blood count and CMP (blood sugar, electrolytes, calcium, protein, liver enzymes, etc.).
Appointments are required by calling Community Health and Wellness at 768-3200.
Cold, sore legs? Attend this screening
LEWISBURG - Community Health Education at Evangelical Community Hospital will hold a free screening program for people who are concerned they may be at risk for peripheral vascular disease.
Common symptoms are aching, tiredness or cramping in the legs, numbness, tingling or coldness, or foot sores that don't heal.
The Healthy Legs for Living program, formerly Legs for Life, will be held from 8:30 to 11 a.m. June 19 at the Community Health and Wellness Center.
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A female employee at the Gateway-Longview campus in Williamsville was attacked by two clients Sunday night, the organization said in statements released to the media.
The clients, who are residents of the campus, "physically harmed the employee," a statement read.
The employee, who was not identified, was treated at a local hospital for contusions and bruises and later released, Amherst Police Capt. Scott Chamberlin said Monday. The worker was "resting comfortably at home," Gateway-Longview officials said.
"We are working with law enforcement officials to ensure that appropriate legal action will be taken," the organization said.
The two clients – girls aged 13 and 15 – were both arrested on felony assault charges, Chamberlin said.
Gateway-Longview provides residential care to teens and young adults who need 24-hour treatment and support, including children removed from their families by a judge because of behavioral or emotional issues.
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