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Salt Coppers Villa | Runaway Bay, Runaway Bay, Jamaica
"Terrible service"
Posted by: terry on May 24, 2013
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Enjoy our facilities: four lake-type swimming pools that are connected to each other and surround the main building, with childrens section. Mini-club for children.
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"Terrible service"
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terry on May 24, 2013 >
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Visited on: May, 2013 | Business | Family and Kids
296 people found this review helpful
We stayed at Grand Bahia May 16 to May 23 2013. This was our first time in Jamaica. After we checked in our room key didn't work, so we had to travel from the 7th floor via the elevator to the check in desk. They reset the key card and after several tries it opened the door.
On May 21 the door swipe card stopped working. We went to front desk and they reset our cards. The swipe still didn't work so we went back down to see the Checkout / Exchange desk attendent Annoy and his trainee Shevaynie Gaynor. (names may be spelled slightly different). They took our cards again and must have reset again. We ventured back to our room and still no luck. At this point we were told to wait outside our door for maintenance. We travelled back to the 7th floor of our building and waited for 1 hr for maintenance. No one showed, so we went back down to the front desk and informed the same people. More time passes and now I am getting pissed. Annoy disappeared for a few minutes, then said wait here and he wondered off. We went on an excursion early that morning and just wanted to get in our room to change, then go eat and relax in the sun. After standing in the lobby for another 20 mins and no update we are both really pissed off. At this point we have been waiting for hours to get in our room. An important looking guy dressed in a white shirt walks by and I stare him down as he asks if everything is ok. I explain my dilema to him. His name is Mr Fran and he is the Resident Manager. He gets on his phone and makes a calls. Then says to follow him. We go to our room and Annoy is trying to get into the room to no avail. Mr Fran speaks to him and he is back on the phone. Maintenance shows up and opens the door. Maintenance explains that he has to replace the lock system on door. Mr Fran explains this never should have happened and assured us that the hotel would make it up to us.
The next day we went to the Public Relations desk and spoke to 2 women working there to explain our half of a day wait to get in our room the day before. They wrote our room number 13712 on a piece of paper and beside it wrote fixed and that was it.
Later that day we spoke to our Sunquest T.A. Simone and explained our issue and she was going to look into it.
On May 23 after we checked out of the hotel and were waiting for our bus to the airport we decide to get an update from out Travel rep Simone. She said she looked into it and no one knew anything about it. I said that is odd because one of the names I gave you is at the front desk now. 20 mins later she gave us hotel staff shirts a 200 mil bottle of $3 rum (checked at airport) and small bag of coffee. cont. below in arrival
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Needless to say we weren't impressed with how anybody handled this. This hotel needs to clean house with the management. It was hit or miss with service in the restaurants. Like I have seen reading other reviews here. There is a trend of some shifts to provide no service and others are great. Strange how one day we would have nobody come to our table to ask us if we want coffee, water etc. and the next day new staff would give us terrific service.
On the no service days you would see staff talking in small groups, only to break away to provide service to hotel staff dining or if a Manager asked them. Unfortunately, not enough management presense to direct.
Terry and Nina
"Not accommodating for large groups"
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Becky on Jan 29, 2013 >
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Visited on: Jan, 2013 | Wedding | With Group
337 people found this review helpful
We were on different floors and different ends of the one wing.
We were golden. But that meant to much time in the golden room.We had no towels or robes in the room upon check in. They didn't like to stock our fridge with the four pops and two beers. No coffee a few mornings, once again had to go to the Golden Room. We had to fight every day in the Golden Room (always a line up)and wait until 5 pm to find out if we could eat with other family members. They said they would place under door.....never happened. You would think with 45 people we would be at a seating with someone else.
Liked to give us 9.30 pm meal times. Pool closed at 6:30. Entertainment was at 10. Made no sense.
They messed up the flowers for the wedding after a discussion they fixed this matter. Not enough chairs set out for the wedding.The D.J was booked for 2hrs and played for 1hr 10mins. I guess he started without us.(he was good) We ate and ran out of super without coffee or tea. Think they would have figured out how long meals took by now.
No food open when we left on the following Monday. Restaurant opens at 7am the same time the bus was there to pick us up to take us to the air port.
I think for 2 people to go may work out better.
Not alot to do unless you leave the resort.
The restaurant by the ocean was gross covered in flies and the food sat for long periods of time.
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"The best honeymoon !"
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sharon on Jun 16, 2012 >
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Visited on: Jun, 2012 | Party | With Spouse/Partner
380 people found this review helpful
The gran bahia is a wonderful hotel to stay at when visiting jamacia, the entire staff @ this hotel was very professional, friendliness, warm and welcomed us with open arms. the grounds food were clean,the food was awesome, and the entertainment staff were very entertaining. we would definetly recommend this hotel to stay in, your wont regret it @ all. this was our second visit and we are looking forward to planning and booking our next vacation @ the gran bahia with the family.
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we arrived on june 10,2012 the front desk and bell boy was great, friendly and helpful with our check in and escorting us to our room.
the room was clean and neat upon arrival, and the housekeeping kept the room clean as well as providing fresh bath towels.
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the bars were all great bartenders made the perfect drinks.
we loved the beach and pool the grounds were very clean.
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the activities on the resort were very nice the entertainment crew always had something for you to do and that was exciting.
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their are a few special thanks we would like to give the supervisor in the orchid restaurant mr wayne lewis, timoya, trainee christopher mcken, sabena, trainee nadine, the entire staff in the orchid restaurant who made the food breakfast, lunch and dinner so tasty and good.the grill near beach side gregory, marlene and the entire staff over there the food, drinks were superb. the pool bar supervisor leroy and all the bartenders who made the drinks to perfection. thanks to the entire entertainment crew that kept us busy, dancing smiling and enjoying the shows, and thanks to all the security that made sure we were safe. everyone @ gran bahia was wonderful and as they say when you return to jamacia a second time you are jamacian so we will be back home to jamacia soon.
"Do not go to this hotel!!!"
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Deandra on May 27, 2012 >
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Visited on: May, 2012 | Party | Family and Kids
392 people found this review helpful
Do not go to this hotel. Waste of time and money. Came here for a family party with many of us- more than 30 people. Horrible service!!!! The sheets were dirty upon arrival. The elevator shuts on you before you leave- you have to dash out so the elevator door does not hit you. The food bar outside by the beach had nasty food that had been sitting out for a while and flies were sitting on it. It's such a far walk there too! From the hotel there. One part that was good was the pool and the pool bar. Not very good liquor for the all inclusive- you have to pay for the "premium" liquors. Also- the disco. First of all, they shut off the lights around nine o clock. So you have to find your way around the dark to find the blasted disco. Took so long to get there- and it was a dissapointment!! Was not a good disco. Service was horrible. At night, about 30 of us were just hanging out in the lounge, not making any fuss, and they shut off the lights on all of us! So rude. Also, they shut off the lights at night where the stairs are- and that's such a danger hazard. It's easier to say what it right with this hotel than what is wrong, because there was soooooo many downsides to staying here. We are all Jamaican ourselves, and trust me, Jamaica has much better all-inclusive resorts to offer. Do not go here!!
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Food was not so impressive at all. Bartenders were only friendly if prompted to be friendly. You have to ask them to put a smile on their faces.
Everything is so far apart to walk to. Pools were ik but were very shallow. Bar at the pools were nice.
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Horrible service!
"1st time, plan to go back."
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Al on Mar 27, 2012 >
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Visited on: Mar, 2012 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
396 people found this review helpful
Just got back from our first trip to Jamaica. Hotel gets our appreciation for moving us to a full ocean view room, "beautiful". Food and service were great, used local taxi service, for a day trip, had a great time. Michael's Taxi Service, very nice young man, highly recommended. Look up at hotel entrance or e-mail email@example.com, you won't regret it.
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Had a great time, planning to return someday.
"Gran Bahia Principe Runaway Bay"
Posted by: Liska
on Mar 24, 2012 >
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Visited on: Feb, 2012 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
403 people found this review helpful
Group of 4 traveling with Air Canada Vacations, Feb 11/12 to Feb 17/12
We went as a couple with another couple and all of us enjoyed our week immensely. The staff were hard workers, always busy but very friendly. Food was quite good, lots of choices during the day, a few less at night but still available. You must keep in mind you are in another country so some of the flavours may be different but experiment! No one got sick, we loved that you can drink their water.
Evenings around the hotel were pretty quiet once the sun went down but a short walk to the entertainment area and there was something to do. There were people from all over the world, but mainly Canada. Sad to say the only rude ones we encountered were from a certain area of Canada! Very clean, well lit, never felt unsafe.
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We arrived at Sangster International just after 8pm. We had no issues with customs and immigration and had our luggage and directions to our bus quickly. Just over an hour ride with a quick stop at a roadside establishment for those who wanted a beer or Jerk chicken. Check in was quick and efficient, received a complimentary drink and we weren't part of the Gold club. Our bellman took our bags to our room and our friends which was one floor above us. We did tip and he was most thankful.
We did miss the restaurant for dinner but we also got instructions at check in to the all night burger place. It was fairly busy and a little slow, but you are on vacation in Jamaica.
We also got all our dinner reservations at check in for the. ACV allowed 4 so we got to try all 4 a la cartes.
Our room was fairly new and wonderful. Beds were comfy, very clean everyday. Balcony overlooked the pool and ocean. Not unlike most resorts, you do need to ask for 2 cards at check in so you are able to have power to your room, even when out. There is a reader on the wall to put the card in which keeps the AC going. The first night our safe didn't work. We asked Philip at teh desk to reprogram the card which he did twice but no luck. Just kept our stuff in our friends safe for the night. Next day our ACV rep Kamisha took care of the issue immediately. (Very efficient ladies who are willing to help) Our tv worked fine, not that we spent much time watching tv. Lots of hot water at any time of the day, awesome views. Our maid introduced herself the next day and was always friendly and helpful. We gave her a few dollars the first day and received the same great service everyday so we tipped her nicely our last day. The rooms have big wooden doors, but you can still hear activity in the halls. no big deal - we weren't there to sleep all day anyway.
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Buffets were great, lots of choices for every pallet.
Mikado our favorite. 2 types of service - try to reserve the Tampanaki - your dinner is cooked on the grill in front of you, tons of food and a show.
Don Pablo - very good, small portions but we were full.
Garden - also very good, small portions but suffice
Dolce Vita - none of us were crazy about this one, food was not as great and service was mediocre.
First couple of days we were pool people til we went to the main part of the beach. It is a big resort so take some time to explore. Beach was amazing, soft sand, very clean, 2 bars and there was service is you were really lazy. Great area for novice snorkelers as well. Lots of things to see. Beach restaurant was at the east end of the beach with fantastic Jerk Chicken every afternoon. A must try! Beach crew were always cleaning up the area and emptying garbages, straightening chairs. Never had a problem finding beach chairs there.
The pool was very nice, clean and huge. Only issue was with people reserving chairs early in the morning but never being there. We actually saw towels placed out the night before. 2 pool bars so you never went thirsty. The one closest tot he main lobby was louder and busier as the activities seemed to go on there.
Grounds were beautiful, clean and well kept. Great for photos.
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
We did 2 excursions off the resort. First one was with Cool Runnings. Took about an hour bus ride to Ocho Rios, boarded a catamaran to Dunn's River Falls. Climbing the falls was a little scary but the system works and we did not see anyone get hurt. When they tell you to leave all unecessary gear on the boat they mean it - you will lose whatever is not attached to your body! The crew was amazing. Fun yet very professional and took great care of their passengers. We did this one on Valentines Day so they made it special!
2nd trip was about 15 minutes away in Discovery Bay. Small group called Bracco tours took us tubing in the Rio Beuno. Awesome trip, great guides and very fun and relaxing. Our ACV rep Clarise recommended them and we were so glad she did.
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We tipped quite a bit. Sometimes it was expected, others seemed grateful. Service was only moderately affected by tips. The workers were so very friendly and helpful. Lots of times they walked around singing. I like the fact it is an English speaking country. They do however speak their own language which sometimes felt a little awkward. You were never really sure if they were talking about you. You must keep in mind you are in Jamaica and they have their own time! Relax and go with it. They WILL get you to the airport in plenty of time!
"Beautiful Vacation...1st Time to Jamacia"
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COLLEEN on Mar 22, 2012 >
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Visited on: Mar, 2012 | Leisure | With Group
403 people found this review helpful
Well.6 of us stayed at the GRAN BAHIA .....we were on the 3 rd floor ...over looking the first part of the building which looked like a castle....loved our room with the canopy bed...the baloncy ....the bed...
meals were great...but most of all the staff was wonderful....especially at the front desk....loved the snorkling every day.....came home with so many good memories...especially the Dunn River Falls ....INCREDIBLE..............AIR CANADA VACATIONS STAFF were excellent........than you to all who made our vacation in jamacia wonderful..
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"Would Recommend this Resort to Anyone!!"
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Kelsey on Mar 14, 2012 >
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Visited on: Feb, 2012 | Leisure | With Group
410 people found this review helpful
I stayed at this resort with a group of 17 people ranging from age 17 to 55. Every single one of us was nothing but impressed! The food was a highlight for all - huge buffet with different items each day. The hotel staff were friendly and very accommodating. The rooms and the hotel in general were always clean.
There were 5 of us girls in our 20s and we found the resort great from a social aspect. It is a large resort so the disco and bars were always full! The area for nightly entertainment was also superior to what I've seen at other resorts (this was my sixth all inclusive holiday). Because the resort was so large, whenever we were sitting on a patio, it was full of people - the kind of atmosphere you might expect if going to a festival or park at home. Lots of people, lots going on all the time.
That being said, the resort was not over packed or uncomfortable. During the week that we were there, the hotel was at its capacity. We were still able to get chairs together by the pool every day, and we never had to wait at the restaurants to eat. The hotel is laid out properly for the number of people it can accomodate. The staff were also extremely helpful to us when we were trying to sit together by the pool. They would go around and bring enough chairs to us so that everyone could sit together.
One tip we got before we went was to bring our own cups for the bar as the cups they give out are very small. A lot of our group did that, and it was a good idea so I would recommend that to others as well.
There were a few times that we wandered off the resort on our own and not as part of a tour. When leaving the grounds, the staff make you sign out and sign back in. For security purposes, this was very comforting.
Be prepared to have a great time at Gran Bahia Principe!
"Left a bad taste"
Posted by: drew
on Jan 8, 2012 >
1 contribution(s) Canada
Visited on: Jan, 2012 | Leisure | With friend
416 people found this review helpful
There is no way to call this a 5 star resort. The resort is so large, that they simply cannot maintain a quality establishment.
People who have given this resort a positive review, clearly have not been to resorts that have high standards and that are operated by common sense management. ( there were so many simple solutions to my issues)
If you are a light sleeper you are doomed! Doomed I tell you! The slamming of doors from the other rooms were constant! ( let alone the drunks shouting in the hallways at 3 in the morning, no consideration)
My TV. did not work ( I know, you are on vacation) I called 6 seven times, yup 6 ( over 5 days) and never got it fixed.
Reserving a spot early in the morning every day, should not be a stressful task. There must be some way to address this.
A few would sit in the lobby chairs, just hanging out, while people clearly were looking for a place to sit.
Also, walking on the walkways, I would see them not move over as others were coming their way. Couldnt believe that.
Barley passable, good luck! And the house wine is horrible, just horrible ( probably doing this so you will buy from their wine list)
Ocho rios
Going to the market was unbelievable. You are not even finished politely telling the lady working her shop, no thank you before the next lady is on you. Im not kidding, it was comical but after 5 minutes I couldnt take it any longer!!!
Cool, but literally a 4 minute ride
Dunns fall
Again cool, you think it cant be safe but truly was fine
They painted the railings in some areas, no "wet paint" signs and of course twice!
It appeared that that most of the employees do not like their jobs.
This place would never last a month in North America. It seems once they get you there and have your money, they dont care anymore.
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Jessica on Nov 28, 2011 >
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Visited on: Nov, 2011 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
434 people found this review helpful
My husband and I decided to travel to Jamaica to celebrate our anniversary. We chose Gran Bahia because it was beautiful. We had a wonderful experience. I was nervous after reading some reviews but I didn't have any issues. Staff was amazing especially Diana in guest relations. She made sure we had champagne for our anniversary and was very helpful with all of our questions. The food on the buffet was ok but what do you expect the Ala cart restaurants were delicious. We had an awesome vacation. I would recommend this resort to anyone I knew going to Jamaica. Also we had no problem getting chairs at the pool or the beach. We never put towels down before hand.
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Our room was beautiful we had an awesome view of the ocean and Jacuzzi tub. Our room was always cleaned very well. Our mini bar was restocked every day. Yes I tipped but there were days I didn't and my room still looked wonderful.
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The buffet was ok but the Ala cart restaurants were all very good. We didn't eat at the Italian restaurant because we only had 3 Ala cart meals but I am sure the food was good there as well.
The beach and pools were clean and very inviting. We never reserved chairs with our towels but we never had a problem finding one.
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The entertainment was ok but gets a little repetitive.


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Some important warning signs that can help indicate when a business may face trouble.
1. You Can't Afford to Pay Your Employees
One of the first signs of trouble is when a company is unable to make payroll. There is a definite problem if an employer cannot afford to pay employees on time, and this issue needs serious and immediate attention. An upset or angry staff member isn't good, but multiple upset and angry staff members can amount to a swift reputation-killer.
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If inventory is rising, it is a sign that a small business is not selling enough of its product in a timely fashion. Either the company is showing signs of weak sales or it is investing in more inventory than is actually needed to meet the demand for it.
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When a company's competitors are going out of business, let it serve as a warning that the market has shifted; such a shift could affect a remaining company's bottom line. While it may seem like a relief when a competitor closes its doors, it's a worthwhile task to find out exactly why they did so. Was it a matter of poor management or something more serious like customers no longer being able to afford certain items or services?
5. Your Expenditure-to-Income Ratio Rises
When a percentage of fixed expenditures are rising in relation to income, this could be a sign of trouble for a small business. For instance, if a company always paid 30% of its income towards rent and suddenly that percentage rises to 50% without the rent being increased, this is an indication of possible financial issues.
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If a company extends operating hours in order to maintain the same income that it previously made, this could translate into trouble for a small business. In many cases, this strategy fails. Keep in mind that this is very different from extending operating hours due to success!
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If a small business starts having problems receiving credit from vendors, this could be a sign of a weakening credit market or a sign that your vendors' credit worthiness has dropped. Either way, pay attention to details!
8. You Can't Collect
Small businesses that suddenly have problems collecting from accounts receivable could be experiencing financial complications. If people that owe money to a company are unable to pay their debts, it usually spells danger!
9. You Can't Pay
When a company has problems paying accounts payable on time, it almost always means that trouble lies ahead. Obvious problems like this will ultimately damage credibility and possibly prevent a company from operating properly.
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If a small business has to request extensions on taxes owed, this could either be a sign that it has misappropriated money that was previously factored into the budget for taxes or that the amount needed to cover taxes has not been earned. Regardless of the reason, tax extensions are immediate red flags that something is wrong.
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Keystone species
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What is causing the demise of understory plants of the southeast?
competition w/alien plants (kudzu, honeysuckle)
What are the primary causes of the extinction of native Hawaiian birds?
habitat loss, avian diseases, & introduced predators
What caused the extinction of the Carolina parakeet?
killed in large numbers b/c they were thought to be an agricultural pest
What caused the extinction of the passenger pigeon?
overharvest, loss of habitat, limits on social biology
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FOSTORIA - It didn't take long for Old Fort to establish itself against St. Wendelin. In fact within the first minute, St. Wendelin turned the ball over twice and the Stockaders capitalized on the errors by taking a 9-2 lead. The Stockaders continued to pile up the points, leading 22-7 after the first quarter and having a monster second period of 35 points to go into the half, ahead 57-12.
St. Wendelin came out hard in the second half, scoring 22 points in the third quarter alone but it wasn't nearly enough to contend with No. 7 Old Fort, who prevailed 103-51.
"We wanted to come out and first thing we wanted to do is establish our half-court defense; defensive intensity, make that our focus and I felt like we did that the first few minutes," Old Fort coach Eric Hoover said. "They had a hard time getting any good shots off and we controlled the boards and got easy wide open shots by pushing the ball down the floor."
Old Fort didn't miss a beat in the first half, sinking every one of its seven foul shots and shooting a solid 21 for 38 from the field, including an 8-for-12 showing from beyond the arc.
Cole Davidson accumulated 19 points by halftime, more than the entire St. Wendelin team.
It wasn't until the second half when Old Fort's defense started to get sluggish and allowed a few uncontested layups.
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Old Fort 103, St. Wendelin 51
Old Fort (16-1, 7-0): Hunter Perry 9-1-22; Cole Davidson 6-5-21; Marc Salas 5-0-12; Matt Hill 5-0-10; Dalton Perry 4-1-10; A.J. Phillimore 3-4-10; Maison Steyer 1-7-9; Jon Lotycz 3-0-6; Brad Bannister 1-0-2; Chris Anstead 0-1-1; Jordan Bryon 0-0-0; Adam Alexander 0-0-0. Totals: 37-19-103.
St. Wendelin (5-9, 1-6): Nick Schumaker 5-2-12; Gabe Walters 4-2-10; Nick Root 3-0-7; Terrance Root 3-0-7; Zach Miller 2-0-5; Donovan Scudder 1-2-4; Dalton Murray 1-0-2; Jacob Fretz 1-0-2; Brady Rutter 1-0-2; Nash Baker 0-0-0; Peter Campbell 0-0-0; Cole Frankart 0-0-0; Brad Buhrow 0-0-0. Totals: 21-6-51.
Old Fort22351729 - 103
St. Wendelin752217 - 51
Field goals: Old Fort 37-76; St. Wendelin 21-48.
3-point goals: Old Fort 10-20 (Davidson 4, H. Perry 3, Salas 2, D. Perry); St. Wendelin 3-13 (Root, Bello, Miller).
Foul shots: Old Fort 19-24; St. Wendelin 6-10.
Rebounds: Old Fort 37 (H. Perry 9, Phillimore 7); St. Wendelin 23 (Walters 8, Miller 7).
Turnovers: Old Fort 12; St. Wendelin 28.
"We let them make a big run in the second half, the whole second half. They just continued to get layup after layup. Once you lose focus you can't automatically flip it on and get it back," Hoover said. "
However for Hoover, the faulty defense is something he will work to change.
"We gotta continue to get better on defense and mostly our mentality. We can't take possessions off because we get a lead. It has to be an every time thing," Hoover said.
The Stockaders (16-1, 7-0 Midland Athletic League) may have slowed down in the second half, but one player who did not was Hunter Perry.
"We got some stops in the first half and scored off of it. The second half we got a little lazy," Perry said. "I just wanted to go out like coach told me to go out and treat it like it's a new quarter, a new half."
Perry did exactly that, rekindling the Old Fort fire late in the third quarter with two short jumpers to put up his team up 74-34. The Stockaders went on to outscore the Mohawks (5-9, 1-6) 29-17 in the final period.
Perry ended with a game-high 22 points and nine rebounds. That also included seven assists and two steals. This marks Perry's fourth game in a row scoring more than 20 points.
"It feels like I'm starting to be a leader and I want to, that's my goal and I hope I keep stepping up and making big plays," Perry said.
For St. Wendelin coach Jim Rutter, the loss reflects on how much work his team puts in during practice.
"They weren't ready to play. It's basically the way we practiced during the week. One of the things that becomes difficult is learning to practice hard when you don't feel good, or you don't want to be there or your girlfriend broke up with you or your homework is due," Rutter said. "You can't come to a game against a good team like Old Fort and decide you're going to flip the switch all of the sudden when you didn't practice hard."
It also didn't help that St. Wendelin committed 28 turnovers, whereas Old Fort only had 12. Old Fort also out-rebounded the Mohawks 37-23.
Davidson backed Perry with 21 points while Marc Salas chipped in 12.
"I haven't had a good game in a while so it felt good to finally come out and get one," Salas said.
Matt Hill, A.J. Phillimore and Hunter Perry's older brother Dalton Perry each tossed in 10.
The win keeps Old Fort undefeated in league play; the only such team left, now that previously league unbeaten New Riegel lost to Fremont St. Joe 59-54 Friday.
However, Hoover still notes that there is still a lot of regular season play left. Maybe finding out the Stockaders are now the only undefeated team in the MAL will give his boys enough motivation to get things done.
That and continuing to be state ranked.
"We got a long way to go," Hoover said.


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The Journal of South Texas English Studies is now welcoming submissions for its Summer 2013 issue, themed "The Writer's Experience." Submission deadline: May 27 2012.
Readers often think of writers as special creatures who possess magical knowledge or are influenced by mystical muses hidden and inaccessible to everyone else. However, when asked to discuss the experience of writing, authors often respond with figurative comparisons: writing is like building a house, pulling teeth, pounding a wall, riding a wild horse, conducting an exorcism, throwing a lump of clay on a potter's wheel, performing surgery on yourself without anesthesia. Good writing doesn't just magically appear on paper. There is no secret. But there is a process.
Sandra Cisneros writes an introduction to The House on Mango Street: 25th Anniversary Edition titled "A House of My Own." What Cisneros describes in this brief memoir is the woman she was at the beginning of her career, a woman who does her writing at the kitchen table because it's the only room in the house with a heater. The woman that Cisneros writes about is "trying to live like a writer…making things up as she goes." Echoing Virginia Woolf, Cisneros writes about "the room where she can be quiet and still and listen to the voices inside herself." Cisneros asks about this woman, the woman she sees in photographs "Is she really a writer or is she only pretending to be a writer?" As Cisneros succinctly portrays, the writer's experience, a perpetual work-in-progress, is filled with insecurities, passions, and beauty.
The editors of JOSTES are looking for scholarly articles between 5,000 and 8,000 words concerned with "the writer's experience" as it relates to English Studies as a whole. We hope to explore this theme within the fields of literary criticism, composition, rhetoric, linguistics, and pedagogy. For this issue of JOSTES, we are also interested in scholarship that provides insight into the life of the author and/or literature on the life of the author. Topics for consideration in this issue include but are not limited to:
How does one live like a writer? Who can be classified as a writer? And most importantly, can we define the writer's experience, which is often as tangible as it is elusive? What can literary works, from the past and today, reveal about the writer's experience and the writing process? To what extent may composition instructors systematize the writing process? How can educators nurture and develop their students' identity as writers? What linguistic choices do writers make when portraying regional, ethnic, socioeconomic, or gendered characterizations in fiction, and are those choices conscious ones or more instinctive? We believe this theme promises to elicit fascinating responses from our contributors.
We also would be interested scholarly articles that connect our theme of the writer's experience to the enduring appeal of Jane Austen and/or the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice.
Furthermore, the journal accepts poetry and creative prose submissions that address a writer's experience with epiphany, the Muses, first drafts, or any other possibility within the theme. Although all creative submissions will be considered, preference will be given to those related to the theme of this issue. We also accept reviews up to 500 words of scholarly, non-fiction, fiction, and poetry books. Preference will be given to book reviews of works that are related to the current issue's theme, but we will consider other book reviews as well. See below for submission guidelines.
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CLAYTON —The arrests of five men here in separate cases in the past week reportedly netted illegal and prescription drugs, and even the proceeds of a few burglaries.
Jason Hill, 22, of Franklinville, was arrested Aug. 3 when police said they found two bags of heroin and 19 prescription pills, among other items, in his possession.
An employee of Nick's Pizza on North Delsea Drive flagged down Ptl. Jim Mayo to report that Hill appeared to be under the influence of an unknown substance.
Mayo found the man - who was "noticeably under the influence," police said - sitting in the driver's seat of a Ford Explorer.
Police reported finding the heroin, along with 17 Clonazepam pills and two Alprazolam pills.
Clonazepam is prescribed to control certain types of seizures and panic attacks. Alprazolam is taken to treat anxiety and panic disorders.
Police also reported finding 72 small red plastic bags they say are used to package drugs.
Hill was charged with possession of heroin, possession of prescription drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to deliver a controlled dangerous substance to law enforcement, driving under the influence, operation of a motor vehicle while in possession of narcotics and driving while suspended.
He was committed to the Gloucester County Jail in default of $25,000 bail.
Detective Sgt. Robert Martines assisted in the investigation.
In the other case, one of four men arrested on Aug. 8 allegedly had items taken in burglaries that occurred in Glassboro and Washington Township.
Roberto Rodriguez, 19, of Bridgeton, was arrested along with three Clayton men following a motor vehicle stop by Ptl. Ben Grasso on East Center Street.
Like the other three, Rodriguez was charged with possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana, failure to deliver a controlled dangerous substance to law enforcement, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of prescription drugs.
But he was also charged with possession of stolen property and receiving stolen property. Police here said the items he possessed led them to a previous burglary on Swarthmore Road in Glassboro and one in Washington Township.
The Times was unable to immediately contact police in those two municipalities to clarify whether Rodriguez faces charges there.
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Eastern North America Rift Basins
The Eastern North America Rift Basins are a series of sediment-filled aborted rifts created by large-scale continental extension. Their positions closely mirror the eastern coast of North America.
Approximately 220 million years ago, during the late Triassic Period, the supercontinent Pangaea began to break apart. The focus of the rifting began somewhere between where present-day eastern North America and north-western Africa were joined.
As in all rifting environments, grabens formed. Many of these grabens were created, but for some of them extension stopped before full rifting occurred. Where only partial rifting occurred, basins formed, analogous to the present-day Basin and Range Province in western United States. By definition, a basin is any area that collects sediments. These "aborted rifts" (rifts that are tectonically inactive and no longer collecting sediments) extend from North Carolina to Newfoundland.
Along certain basins, rifting was not partial. Where full rifting occurred, the Atlantic Ocean was created. It is important to note that along these rifts, magmatic activity never stopped, as shown by the ongoing eruption of lava along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The basins are characterized by west-to northwest-dipping strata in the southern rifts (North Carolina to New York) while the northern ones (Connecticut to Nova Scotia) tend to dip northward. Many of the grabens have prominent signs of igneous activity, with diabase intrusions and basalt flows being quite common. Of these, only the Palisades Sill in the Newark Basin shows a layer with an enrichment in one mineral typically not found throughout the rest of the intrusion (in this case, the mineral is olivine).
List of rift basins in Eastern North America[edit]
The following is a list of the rift basins, listed from south to north (as in this article's opening image).
- Wadesboro Basin
- Sanford Basin
- Durham Basin
- Davie County Basin
- Dan River and Danville Basins
- Scottsburg
- Basins north of Scottsburg
- Farmville Basin
- Richmond Basin
- Taylorsville Basin
- Scottsville Basin
- Barboursville Basin
- Culpeper Basin
- Gettysburg Basin
- Newark Basin
- Pomperaug Basin
- Hartford Basin
- Deerfield Basin
- Fundy Basin
- Chedabucto Basin
See also[edit]
- Letourneau, P. M., Olsen, P. E., The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America. Volume 1. 2003
- Puffer, J. H., Ragland, P. C., Eastern North America Mesozoic Magmatism, Special Paper - Geological Society of America, vol.268. 1992


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Special June 25 election to fill selectman Goodrich seat
Deadline to take out nomination papers is May 7
A special election to fill the selectman's seat left vacant by the recent passing of
Frederick Goodrich will be held Tuesday, June 25, the same day as the state election
for U.S. Senator. The term is for two years, finishing out Goodrich's term.
Persons interested in running for selectman have until 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7,
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Ohio State: Coolest Marching Band Ever
Ohio State Marching Band Performs Hollywood Blockbuster
Source: Lacey Donohue, Gawker.com
Hush all you sports haters and instead click and watch one of the best halftime performances ever by a college marching band. During halftime at Saturday?s Ohio State / Penn State football game, Ohio State?s marching band took the field and performed an ode to the music of Hollywood blockbuster films.
Ohio state is officially the best marching band in the country #ridiculous— Dee Murrell (@_XIXXI) October 28, 2013


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The Early History of Seismometry (to 1900)
James Dewey and Perry Byerly
Seismoscopes in Eighteenth Century Europe
We find Europeans writing on earthquake-detecting instruments from the early eighteenth century. In 1703, J. de la Haute Feuille proposed filling a bowl to the brim with mercury, so that an earthquake would cause some of the mercury to spill out (de la Haute Feuille, 1703; Favaro, 1884). In order to determine the direction of the shock, the mercury spilling out in each of the eight principal directions of the compass was to be collected in cavities or other containers. In an earthquake, de la Haute Feuille assumed, the ground would be inclined, and the direction in which the mercury spilled would be away from the origin, "where the ground began to be raised" (Favaro, 1884, p. 95). It is interesting that this earliest of European instruments was expected to respond to tilting of the Earth's surface rather than to horizontal displacements. An indication of the distance of the epicenter and the size of the disturbance could be had from the amount of mercury which had sloshed out.
An important function of de la Haute Feuille's instrument was to provide data from which future earthquakes might be predicted. His proposed method of earthquake prediction was to use his instrument to record the small shocks which he supposed must precede a large earthquake. Each day, an observer would note the amount of mercury spilled out of the bowl, if any had been spilled. If a large amount of mercury spilled out, a large earthquake would probably be imminent. With a large body of observations, patterns might be detected which would enable the prediction of future earthquakes. De la Haute Feuille seemed to believe that earthquakes were caused by the explosion of sulphurous matter and various salts within the Earth. Davison (1927) has indicated that this idea was widespread in de la Haute Feuille's time.
De La Haute Feuille clearly understood that instruments would make an important contribution to seismology. He emphasized the need for large numbers of instrumental observations in order to learn about earthquakes. Nevertheless, there is no evidence that his seismoscope was ever built. De la Haute Feuille's suggestion seems to have had little influence on the development of seismometers. A closely similar instrument was built in 1784 by A. Cavalli, probably without knowledge of de la Haute Feuille's writing (Baratta, 1895, p. 8).
The honor of being the first European to record the use of a mechanical device as an aid to the study of earthquakes goes to Nicholas Cirillo (1747). Cirillo employed simple pendulums in an investigation of a series of earthquakes in Naples in 1731. He observed the amplitude of pendulum oscillations at the locations where the shaking was most severe, and also at locations somewhat removed from the zone of severest shaking. He found the amplitude to decrease with the inverse square of the distance, a result he anticipated from "the common laws in other sorts of motions" (Cirillo, 1747, p. 682).
In 1751, Andrea Bina proposed suspending a common pendulum, with a pointer attached to its lower end, above a tray of fine sand (Bina, 1751). The relative motion of the pendulum bob and the Earth was to be traced in the sand by the pointer. Bina seems to have built his instrument, but we do not know if an earthquake was ever recorded with the device. Bina's instrument was intended to tell the observer the character of the ground motion. The nature of the record traced in the sand would reveal whether the earthquake motion was "regular or swaying ..., tremulous or irregular..." (Bina, 1751, p.46).
The construction of instruments in eighteenth-century Italy frequently coincided with periods of unusually high local seismic activity. The Calabrian earthquakes of 1783 were responsible for the greatest surge of interest. Davison (1936) lists six "principal" earthquakes in this series of shocks. Loss of life and property was enormous. The earthquakes were the subject of several detailed investigations, including a study by the first appointed "Earthquake Commission" (Davison, 1927, p. 29). The use of mechanical devices to verify the occurrence of earthquakes seems to have been natural to people living in areas affected by these shocks. Salfi (1787, p. 46) reported that the general populace used liquid-filled bowls and delicately-balanced objects as seismoscopes.
The shocks also spurred the invention of more elaborate instruments. The most complete treatment of these instruments is given by Baratta (1895), who reproduces important sections of the original papers. Lacking some of the original papers, we have relied heavily on Baratta's study and the portions of the originals reproduced therein.
D. Domemico Salsano, a clock-maker and mechanic of Naples, invented a "geo-sismometro" in February, 1783 (Salsano, 1783). It was operating shortly after the first large Calabrian earthquake. It was a common pendulum, eight and a half "parisian" feet long. The pendulum mass was equipped with a brush, which was to record the motion of the mass with slow-drying ink on an ivory slab.
Reports of the observations made by Salsano (Salsano, 1783; Torcia, 1784) suggest that his pendulum may have responded to some of the earthquakes in Calabria, about two hundred miles away. The nature of the recorded observations suggests that many motions of the pendulum were not due to earthquakes, as might be expected for a pendulum in an unsheltered location. Nevertheless, sometimes the pendulum motions were roughly contemporaneous with earthquakes in Calabria. We are not told how exactly the pendulum motion and the earthquakes coincided in time. It is clear also from the description of observations that most, it not all, of these observations were made by watching the pendulum, rather than by examing records written by the pendulum. The pendulum was arranged to ring a bell when its oscillations were large enough. This it did on several occasions.
Salsano's seismoscope received relatively little mention in the large studies of the Calabrian earthquakes. Baratta notes that some who did refer to the machine treated it with scorn. One writer, F. Salfi, pointed out that the instrument was nothing more than an ordinary pendulum, and criticized those who would "push to the foot of the throne" the merits of its inventor (Salfi, 1787, p. 46). Salfi's statement, however, hints that Salsano's instrument was well known in its time, in spite of the lack of printed recognition. Later, during the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 in America, Daniel Drake of Cincinnatti reported the used of an "instrument constructed on the principle of that used in Naples, at the time of the memorable Calabrian earthquake" which reportedly "marked the direction of undulation from south-southwest to north-northeast" (Fuller, 1912, p.27). Baratta (1895) also mentions a common pendulum constructed by Zupo, which wrote in sand. Perhaps this was the Neapolitan instrument to which Drake referred.
In the years immediately following the Calabrian earthquakes, two other seismic instruments were described which should be mentioned here. A. Cavalli, in 1784, reinvented de la Haute Feuille's mercury-filled-bowl seismoscope (Cavalli, 1785). In addition, he designed a modification of this instrument which would give the time of an earthquake, to the nearest minute. This was to be accomplished by the use of platforms rotating beneath two mercury-filled bowls. As the platforms rotated, cavities corresponding respectively to the hour of the day and the minute of the hour would pass beneath the notches in the sides of the bowls. When mercury overflowed from the bowls through the notches, it would be conveyed into the two cavities corresponding to the hour and minute of the day. The observations reported by Cavalli suggest that the time-telling part of his seismoscope was never built (Cavalli, 1785). This instrument, if it was constructed, was the first designed to tell the time of an earthquake.
The Duca della Torre, A. Filomarino, invented a common pendulum "sismografo", similar to Salsano's, but with the addition of a time-telling device. The first known description of this instrument is from 1796 (della Torre, 1796), although Salsano (1783) mentioned an instrument similar to his own, which he had not seen, invented contemporaneously by Duca della Torre. A record was to be written by a pencil attached to the pendulum and pressed gently with a spring against a piece of paper. On the pendulum mass was to be put a hair, which would arrest the balance wheel of a clock. When the mass moved, the hair would be withdrawn and the clock would start.
Several written records were observed with this instrument. The records consisted of a pencil-line or two for each earthquake. They must have contained little more information about earthquake motion than could have been obtained from "natural seismograms", such as scratches left by a heavy object moving on a smooth surface. Nevertheless, the Duca della Torre is the first to describe a record obtained with an instrument constructed as a seismometer. The observations given by him, as reproduced by Baratta (1895, p. 31) do not suggest that the timing device was functioning.
From the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 183-227. February, 1969.


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You should be able to cluster any two Solaris machines as long as they can
support 2 seperate Ethernet ports (Like the on-board port and a QFE card).
You would also need a SCSI connection to some dual-host disk system. In
Veritas' class environment they use a knock-off, NOT a SUN D1000, but I
think you will have to get a Diff SCSI board because I think that all disk
arrays that are dual-hosted are diff, NOT single-ended.
Just playing around with a config in my head, but I think you could do something
like this on a shoestring budget:
-2 Netra T1 AC200 servers each with a Diff SCSI card connected
-1 D1000 with 4 disks (That's a standard minimum config, but you could replace
any dual-host scsi system here)
The Netra is a 1-cpu rack-mount box that has 2 on-board LAN drops, 1 SE SCSI
port and 1 open PCI slot. Since you probably can't use the SE SCSI, you
put the Diff SCSI card into the open PCI slot. Since this config doesn't
have the strongly recommended 3 NIC ports, what you could do for the LLT/GAB
heartbeat is use 1 port for a private LLT/GAB connection, 1 for your public
LAN drop, then configure GAB/LLT to run over the private and public lans,
with a disk-heartbeat on the shared array. That should be enough to keep
the cluster out of jeapordy.
Kinda hard to ball-park costs, especially internationally, but if I were
to impliment something like that in the US, I could probably do it for $22,000
in hardware ($7,000 each for Netra and SCSI cards, $8,000 for D1000, that
may be high) and the VCS license, around $7,500/per server, for a total cost
of around $37,000. That's about half of what I spend to put in a standard
VCS cluster here, with 2 220R servers connected by fibre to an EMC Storage
Area Network. Not bad really, if you have to watch your budget.
Phill Coppock
Enterprise Architecure and Solutions Design
Hartford Life
"Rahul Parasnis"
>We have a inhouse application based on C , which listens on socket and creates
>a flat file.
>It doesn't require , more than 200 MB Space . Is is currently running on
>Ultra 5 Model 333
>( Solaris 2.6 ) .
>We want to build a veritas Cluster Server , so we went to Veritas Japan
>and vendor CTC in Japan.
>In order to build VCS , they suggested us to Buy 2X D1000 ( With One D1000
>also it is possible )
>and Ultra 60 or E220R . anything below D1000 you can not build VCS configuration.
>(D1000 is hardware from SUN ), anybody knows shared disks hardware from
>other Manufacturer which is
>compatible with Veritas. ( Foundation Suite )
>On the Official Website of veritas it is mentioned that it is possible with
>Ultra 5 .
>But we can not connect D1000 to Ultra 5 .( CTC Said )
>So my question is, what can we connect to Ultra 5 ? In order to build a
>Server ?
>Frankly speaking, we do not need any fancy hardware like Differential SCSI
>with D1000
>we just need a common disk which we can connect to 2 Hosts , I don't mind
>if it is Single Ended .
>Plus CTC recommends us to buy Isolation Box which neccessary for maintenance.
>Fujitsu only sells VCS but does not Support .
>If we go for 2XD1000 and 2C E220R plus VCS, total cost is too much.
>Hence we are looking for some other option.
>Any help , pointers on this subject is appreciated .
>- Rahul Parasnis


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Think of it as Oliver Stone's Amite-ville horror. In the small Louisiana backwater of Amite (pop. 4,800), where the only motel is a truck stop off I-55, every action taken by Hollywood's favorite conspiracy theorist during the filming of Natural Born Killers may soon stand trial.
On July 22, a long-simmering civil lawsuit involving a reputed copycat killing — allegedly inspired by Stone's ultraviolent 1994 media satire — edged closer to a courtroom showdown set to star the director and Time Warner (the parent company of EW and Warner Bros., NBK's distributor). Lawyers for Stone and Time Warner have agreed to let the director be deposed this fall as part of a lawsuit filed on behalf of a convenience-store clerk paralyzed in a holdup linked to the $50 million-grossing movie.
Both Hollywood and First Amendment activists are nervously monitoring this civil action, since it promises to transfer the battle over movie violence from the op-ed pages into the courtroom, where any decision could set a landmark precedent. Says CNN legal analyst Greta Van Susteren (who is technically a Time Warner employee), "There's a climate of wanting to teach Hollywood a lesson on violence…the courts are one place that's happening."
The violent facts of the lawsuit are indisputable. In March 1995, Sarah Edmondson, an Oklahoma teen, and her boyfriend, Benjamin Darras, both 18, went on a cross-state crime spree during which she shot and paralyzed store clerk Patsy Byers, during a robbery in Ponchatoula, La., and he killed cotton gin manager William Savage of Hernando, Miss. Before embarking on their rampage, Edmondson and Darras had dropped acid and watched Stone's film about a couple (played by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis) who find fame on a brutally depicted murder spree.
Edmondson, serving 35 years for the robbery and shooting of Byers (who died of cancer in 1997), has given conflicting statements about the film's role in the crime. To police, she said, "It was as if [Darras] was fantasizing from the movie…." She told Vanity Fair in 1996: "It is not as great as I would like to make it be…. I wish I could point the finger at Hollywood completely."
But at least one well-known person has found Natural Born Killers guilty of inspiring the crime. Author John Grisham, a friend of Savage's, was enraged at the senseless killing (Darras pleaded guilty to murder and is now serving a life sentence) and lashed out at Stone's movie in the spring 1996 issue of The Oxford American, a bimonthly journal that he co-owns.
"Think of a movie as a product, something created and brought to market, not too dissimilar from…Ford Pintos," Grisham argued. "If something goes wrong with the product, whether by design or defect, and injury ensues, its makers are held responsible." (Grisham didn't respond to a request for an interview.)
While Grisham raised the issue of creative malpractice, Amite attorney Joe Simpson, 74, who'd been retained by Patsy Byers in '95, added a "product liability" claim to his lawsuit, which already alleged that Stone and Time Warner through NBK had incited Edmondson and Darras to commit the Byers crime. At first, the case was a nonstarter; it was dismissed in January 1997 on the grounds that the defendants were protected by the First Amendment's free speech guarantee.


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After the state treasurer's office finishes the preliminary review, the governor can then appoint a review team for a more in-depth look at the city's books "if a finding of probable financial stress" is made.
Flint Mayor Dayne Walling announced today that the state will begin a preliminary financial review in Flint on Monday.
"It can end in a variety of ways," said Terry Stanton, spokesman for the state treasurer's office. "It doesn't mean an emergency manager would be appointed."
The review team would then report its findings to the governor, who has several options, including granting a consent agreement between the state and city officials on a plan to resolve any severe financial problems.
Under a consent agreement, a local government official would be given expanded powers. The law says the local government also would not be subject to "collective bargaining requirements" after 30 days for expired contracts.
The city's four public safety contracts are currently expired. Existing contracts would not be affected.
The governor could also start the process toward a state takeover of the city's finances — which would turn the operation of the city over to an emergency financial manager.
But Stanton said the law is intended to prevent communities from falling under a state takeover.
"(The law was revised) in order to provide local units better opportunities to address issues early on and so that the state could step in sooner," he said.


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It's been a little while since we've seen anything from Magellan, but in late October, the company revealed its latest in-car GPS, the Magellan Maestro 4370. A step-up model from the Magellan Maestro 4250, the portable navigation device (PND) offers a new user interface with a feature called OneTouch that gives you quick one-click access to your preferred destinations. It's real time-saver for navigating to frequently visited locations or finding favorite businesses in new territory since you don't have to go through various menus. The Maestro 4370 also delivers with accurate directions and advanced navigation features, such as text-to-speech functionality, integrated Bluetooth, and lane guidance. While there are a couple of performance issues, the Maestro 4370 provided accurate directions and is a good PND for those looking for a higher-end system. The Magellan Maestro 4370 is available now for $399.99.
With a sleek lacquered black chassis and vibrant display, the Magellan Maestro 4370 is certainly an eye-catching device. The clean, streamlined design will make a nice addition to any car interior. It's also fairly compact at 4.6 inches wide by 3.2 inches high by 0.7 inch deep and weighs 7.3 ounces, and unlike many GPS devices, it comes with a protective case so you can pack for a trip without fear of scratching the screen or outer shell and then use it in a rental car.
The real attraction of the Maestro 4370 is the 4.3-inch touch screen. With a 480-by-800-pixel resolution, maps, text, and images look amazingly sharp and smooth. You can adjust the backlighting, but you don't get the option to choose from various map colors, aside from the standard, day, night, or automatic modes. The onscreen keyboard is fairly spacious and in QWERTY format, so we found entering addresses pretty easy. However, we found that the system is a bit sluggish so sometimes we had to retap icons and back out of menus, or the map screen often brought up a rotating clock or "Please wait" message.
The user interface has been slightly revamped since the Maestro 4200 series. Of course, the main difference is the new OneTouch menu. Basically, the feature lets you preselect your favorite businesses (restaurants, banks, gas stations, and so forth) and addresses and presents them on a single page where you can just tap on the appropriate icon to navigate to the destination from your current location. There's no need to go through several menus or manually enter addresses since they're all in one place. Unfortunately, unlike we originally thought, you can't assign OneTouch functions to multimedia or Bluetooth, though Magellan plans to add this capability to future OneTouch devices.
The OneTouch screen can be accessed by touching the tab in the upper right-hand corner of the screen; you can also hide it by tapping the tab again. The process of assigning OneTouch keys is easy if you're simply entering an address, but if you want to add a certain point of interest (POI) or save searches, it gets a bit more involved. For example, you have to go to the POI database, select a category or subcategory/specific business, save, and then select a OneTouch button. It's not particularly complicated but we recommend checking out the user's guide to get the hang of the process. Overall, we found the feature to be useful. Having all our favorite locations in an easily accessible pull-down menu was convenient and a quite a time-saver.
On the right side, you will find an FM antenna input, a mini USB port, and a SD/MMC card expansion slot for side loading multimedia. There's a power button on top, while the speaker is located on the back.
The Magellan Maestro 4370 comes packaged with a car charger, an AC adapter, a USB cable, a protective pouch, a vehicle mount (windshield and dash), and reference material. The car mount requires a bit of assembly, but it's really easy. More importantly, it did a good job of securely holding the unit in place during our test drives.
In addition to the new OneTouch interface, the Magellan Maestro 4370 offers plenty of other navigation features. The GPS comes preloaded with maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico and 6 million points of interest. The trip planning process is like most other PNDs; you can enter a specific address, choose a previously entered destination, select a location from your address book or a POI, and more. Of course, you can also choose any favorite that you've saved on the OneTouch menu.
You can customize the way the system creates routes. From the Settings menu, you have the option to choose which road types you want to use on your journey (highways, toll roads, carpool, etc.) and whether you want calculations by fastest time, shortest distance, simplest route, or the most economical. Traffic can also be factored into route creation, since the included car charger has an integrated RDS/TMC receiver. The real-time traffic updates are supplied by Navteq Traffic and displays the color-coded road conditions on the map and lists any traffic incidents along your route. If you're already on the road and encounter traffic, the Maestro 4370 can provide an alternate route if you so choose via the SmartDetour Feature. With the purchase of the GPS, you get a three-month complimentary subscription to the traffic service; afterwards, you'll have to pay $39.99 per year. The Maestro 4370 offers routing options for the car, taxi, bus, emergency vehicle, bicycle, and for the first time, pedestrian mode.
Other navigation functions include automatic route recalculation, a detour function, and multidestination trips. The POI database contains all the major categories (accommodation, airport, gas stations, and restaurants) and more specialized interests, such as wineries and race tracks. You can search for restaurants by cuisine type, but in addition, Magellan includes separate listings for popular chain establishments like Dunkin' Donuts, Outback Steakhouse, and Jamba Juice.
While the Navigon 7200T offers Zagat ratings and reviews, the Maestro 4370 has AAA. In addition to the branded POI, the Maestro 4370 carries on the tradition of the Maestro 4250 and continues to offer TourBook listings for AAA Diamond-rated lodging and restaurants, complete with information such as hotel amenities, restaurant description, and hours of operation, admission prices for certain attractions, and so forth. AAA members get a bit more benefit out of this feature since you can view listings for establishments that offer discounts to AAA members, and AAA-approved auto repair facilities. In addition, in case of an emergency, the unit will display the AAA member toll-free help number and your exact location, so you can give the operator all your information.


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COLUMBUS - When it comes to the need for farmers to obtain a commercial driver's license to haul farm products or inputs, no news is good news, according to the Agricultural & Resource Law Program at Ohio State University.
"There haven't been any changes," said Peggy Kirk Hall, director of the Ag Law Program. "There were rumors there would be some additional federal changes to the CDL provisions, but the U.S. Department of Transportation announced there would be no changes, and provided some additional advice to clarify what was happening."
The Ag Law Program is a research, outreach and education center supported by Ohio State University Extension.
Hall said the no-change message is important because there was significant confusion in the agricultural community over potential changes to regulations governing the CDL.
"With CDL, we basically need to look at Ohio law, because federal law delegates that authority to the states," she said. "Each state is permitted to exempt agriculture, and Ohio has chosen to do so. In Ohio law, it is called the Farm Truck Exemption."
That provision exempts the CDL requirement for a farmer controlling or operating a farm truck, with two specific restrictions. First, the truck must be hauling farm products either from the farm or to the farm.
In other words, Hall said, the farmer operating the truck needs to be taking a farm's output to market, or hauling inputs and equipment back to the farm. Also, the exemption specifies a distance limitation of 150 miles, beyond which a CDL is necessary.
"The other issue to consider is if you cross state lines," Hall said. "If that is the case, you will need a CDL because each state has its own specific restrictions, and because at that point you will be engaging in interstate commerce."
Hall said the issue of crossing state lines while otherwise complying with Ohio's farm truck exemption is a potential area for involvement by farmers in the policy process.
"States are allowed to grant each other reciprocity, so states like Indiana or Kentucky could honor Ohio's CDL exemption, but that hasn't happened at this point," she said. "This may be an area for the agricultural community to be involved in the policy discussion."
Hall said given the statement from the USDOT, she does not expect any further changes to either federal or state regulations governing farmers and the CDL.
There is, however, one area of Ohio law in which she saw an opportunity for additional clarity.
"There is something of a gray area," she said. "The language in the exemption applies to 'a farmer,' but we don't have a definition of who is a farmer. Does the language cover children, spouses or employees? And what if we farm as an incorporated entity, say an LLC, then who is the 'farmer' under that definition? It's not necessarily a problem, but it is an area where we could use some additional clarity in the law."