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Water Safety Tips
Yesterday my daughter finished her intensive lifeguard training, passed her tests and became a certified lifeguard. I am so proud of her, but it once again makes me concerned about water safety and childhood drowning. When I turned on the news this morning there was a report of a little girl who drowned in the DFW Metroplex. If you follow my column, you will notice I run this every spring. I urge other moms to read these tips on water safety and keep your children safe this summer.
This weekend is Memorial Day weekend – the "unofficial" start of summer. Chances are as the temperatures begin to climb, the kids will want to jump in the pool, pond, or lake to cool off. I don't want to scare you (well, a little) but here are the important statistics to know when it comes to kids and water:
- In 2004, of all children 1-4 years old who died, 26% died from drowning (CDC 2006). Fatal drowning remains the second-leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children ages 1 to 14 years (CDC 2005) —U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- It is estimated that for each drowning death, there are 1 to 4 nonfatal submersions serious enough to result in hospitalization. Children who still require cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at the time they arrive at the emergency department have a poor prognosis, with at least half of survivors suffering significant neurologic impairment.–American Academy of Pediatrics
- 19% of drowning deaths involving children occur in public pools with certified lifeguards present. —Drowning Prevention Foundation
- A swimming pool is 14 times more likely than a motor vehicle to be involved in the death of a child age 4 and under. —Orange County California Fire Authority
- An estimated 5,000 children ages 14 and under are hospitalized due to unintentional drowning-related incidents each year; 15 percent die in the hospital and as many as 20 percent suffer severe, permanent neurological disability. — National Safety Council
- Of all preschoolers who drown, 70 percent are in the care of one or both parents at the time of the drowning and 75 percent are missing from sight for five minutes or less. —Orange County, CA, Fire Authority
Water Safety Tips from our friends at the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF)
So, now that I have your attention, I'd like to give some water safety tipsSo I'll share (again) some water safety tips with you:
- Teach children water safety and swimming skills as early as possible.
- Always brief babysitters on water safety, emphasizing the need for constant supervision.
- Appoint a "designated watcher" to monitor children during social gatherings at or near pools.
- Equip doors and windows that exit to a pool area with alarms.
- Install a poolside phone, preferably a cordless model, with emergency numbers programmed into speed-dial.
- Post CPR instructions and learn the procedures.
- Keep rescue equipment poolside. Don't wait for the paramedics to arrive because you will lose valuable life-saving seconds. Four to six minutes without oxygen can cause permanent brain damage or death.
- Keep a first aid kit at poolside.
- Install four-sided isolation fencing, at least five feet high, equipped with self-closing and self-latching gates, that completely surrounds the pool and prevents direct access from the house and yard.
- Maintain constant visual contact with children in a pool or pool area. If a child is missing, check the pool first; seconds count in preventing death or disability.
- Don't use flotation devices as a substitute for supervision. Never allow a young child in a pool without an adult.
- Don't leave objects such as toys that might attract a child in the pool and pool area.
- Never prop the gate to a pool area open.
- Don't rely on swimming lessons, life preservers, or other equipment to make a child "water safe."
- Never assume someone else is watching a child in a pool area.
- Don't leave chairs or other items of furniture where a child could use them to climb into a fenced pool area.
- Don't think you'll hear a child who's in trouble in the water; child drowning is a silent death, with no splashing to alert anyone that the child is in trouble
Water Safety Tips from the Pool Safely "Simple Steps Save Lives" Program:
1. Staying close, being alert and watching children in and around the pool
- Never leave a child unattended in a pool or spa and always watch your child when he or she is in or near water
- Teach children basic water safety tips
- Keep children away from pool drains, pipes and other openings to avoid entrapments
- Have a telephone close by when you or your family is using a pool or spa
- If a child is missing, look for him or her in the pool or spa first
- Share safety instructions with family, friends and neighbors
2. Learning and practicing water safety skills
- Learn how to swim and teach your child how to swim
- Learn to perform CPR on children and adults, and update those skills regularly
- Understand the basics of life-saving so that you can assist in a pool emergency
3. Having appropriate equipment for your pool or spa
- Install a four-foot or taller fence around the pool and spa and use self-closing and self-latching gates; ask your neighbors to do the same at their pools.
- Install and use a lockable safety cover on your spa.
- If your house serves as a fourth side of a fence around a pool, install door alarms and always use them. For additional protection, install window guards on windows facing pools or spas.
- Install pool and gate alarms to alert you when children go near the water
- Ensure any pool and spa you use has compliant drain covers, and ask your pool service provider if you do not know
- Maintain pool and spa covers in good working order
- Consider using a surface wave or underwater alarm
Find more tips for pool & spa owners at poolsafely.gov.
Have a great and safe summer!
From one Mommy to Another,
Jenny Wilson
Jenny Wilson is a mother of three and the Sr. Editor/Marketing Director of eParisExtra.com. She teaches a Mommy & Me class at Central Presbyterian Day School, serves on the boards of the Paris Community Theatre as the Children's Theatre Coordinator , the Children's Advocacy Center as vice-president, the Parent Association Boards of Aikin Elementary and PJH, and is a member of the Paris ISD School Board of Trustees. Mrs. Wilson is a Sunday school teacher at Holy Cross Episcopal Church. She also is a certified yoga instructor and teaches yoga classes 3 days a week.


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Machine Translation (MT) is both an engineering technology and a measure of all things to do with languages and computers—whenever a new theory of language or linguistics is offered, an important criteria for its success is whether or not it will improve machine translation. This book presents a history of machine translation (MT) from the point of view of a major writer and innovator in the subject. It describes and contrasts a range of approaches to the challenges and problems of this remarkable technology by means of a combination of historic papers along with commentaries to update their significance, both at the time of their writing and now. This volume chronicles the evolution of conflicting approaches to MT towards a somewhat skeptical consensus on future progress. Also included is a discussion of the most recent developments in the field and prospects for the future, which have been much changed by the arrival of the World Wide Web.
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Table of Contents
- Foreword.
- History Page.
- Introduction.
- Part I: MT Past: Five Generations of MT.
- An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Machine Translation.
- It Works, but How Far Can It Go?: Evaluating the SYSTRAN MT System.
- Part II: MT Present: Where Am I Coming From: The Reversibility of Analysis and Generation in Natural Language Processing.
- What Are Interlinguas for MT: Natural Languages, Logics or Arbitrary Notations?
- Stone Soup and the French Room: The Statistical Approach to MT at IBM.
- The Revival of US Government MT Research in 1990.
- The Role of Linguistic Knowledge Resources in MT.
- The Automatic Acquisition of Lexicons for an MT System.
- Part III: MT Future: Senses and Texts.
- Sense Projection.
- Lexical Tuning.
- What Would Pragmatics
- based MT Be Like?
- Where Was MT at the End of the Century: What Works and What Doesn't?
- The Future of MT in the New Millennium.
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By JOSEPHINE McKEON,
Regarding Barbara Shelp's letter of Feb. 7. George Bush worked on his vacation while Obama did nothing but sun himself and, for three days, remained silent about the Christmas Day bomber.
What would she rather have, a president who works on emergencies while on vacation or one who prefers to swim like a fish while the country is under a terrorist threat?
As to Stephen Clinton's letter the same day, on Dec. 5, the Staten Island Tea Party led a contingent of 400 people as we joined the rally at the Federal Court building in Manhattan to protest the civilian trial of the 9/11 terrorists.
Does he think the cost of the terrorists' trials is money well spent and should replace the actual war on terrorism now being fought so some terrorists who declared war on America can have constitutional rights that should only be offered to Americans?
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Vestal, NY (WBNG Binghamton ) A $70 million Energy Project is at the top of Binghamton University's wish list. President Harvey Stenger visited Albany to present the University's New York 2020 with state leaders.
The Smart Energy Research and Development Facility is working off pre-existing sources like solar energy, solar power, battery power, and energy storage.
The new R&D Center would be the 4th building on the ITC Campus.
The funding for this initiative was set aside by Governor Andrew Cuomo last year.
Binghamton University is the 3rd of the SUNY schools to present it's proposal.
President Harvey Stenger says the odds are looking good.
"This is a move forward plan. The opportunity ahead of us are strong, I think our case is strong so there's no plan B for this one," says BU President, Harvey Stenger.
The building could bring more hands on research and experience for students, giving them the opportunity to create their own clean energy experiments.
"It's their generation that's going to have to solve these problems," says Wayne Jones with BU.
"If we want to educate these students to become productive members of our workforce we have to have a workforce that they can go into," says Jones.
The university estimates that this center could increase its research by $7 million a year.
If the proposal is accepted by the Governor, then the university will begin design plans immediately.
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It was 1967. August Rubrecht, 26, had just finished his course work for his graduate degree in Medieval English at the University of Florida. He was casting about for a thesis topic when Fred Cassidy, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, offered him a chance to become a field worker for a project, then in its infancy, to create a dictionary of dialects of American English.
"It seemed exciting," Rubrecht said. "I've always been interested in words, and this would get me out there looking for them in their natural habitat."
And so it came to pass that Rubrecht set out solo in a "word wagon" -- a Dodge van outfitted as a motor home -- with a hard-bound diary, a reel-to-reel tape recorder, a 250-page questionnaire of Cassidy's design, and a list of carefully-chosen destinations in Louisiana.
He was the lonely lexicographer, traversing the state of swamp bugs (crawfish), spasm bands (an impromptu musical group playing makeshift instruments, sometimes accompanied by dancers) and the trembling prairie (an area of wetlands with a large area of densely matted vegetation floating on the surface) in search of zin-zin (a handsome, and when nicely cooked, very juicy, duck that Audubon reported in abundance in New Orleans in winter), and vire-vire (the Creole term for the shore bird, the willet), named for its habit of circling the same spot.
Forty-five years later, all the aforementioned words have finally made it into print, with the release March 20 of Volume V, covering Sl-Z in the alphabet, of the 60,000-entry Dictionary of American Regional English. The 1,244-page volume picks up at "slab," a mostly Midwestern term for a road paved with concrete, and comes to rest with "zydeco," the now commonplace term for a style of Creole dance music featuring accordion, fiddle or banjo and washboard, and derived, one learns, from "zaricot," the Louisiana French word for green beans, which appeared, as the dictionary explains, in various metaphorical senses in Creole folk songs.
Rubrecht was one of 80 field workers who between 1965 and 1970 visited 1,002 representative communities across the United States, putting 1,600 questions each to 2,777 informants.
Listen to their voices
- Hear DARE informants from all over the United States read passages from a short story, "Arthur the Rat." The recordings are merged in one file, highlighting the contrasts in the voices.
And ever since, for the past 40 years, DARE editors, based in Madison and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, have pored over the field workers' labors, their reports, "word slips," tape recordings and questionnaires, creating an epic work that details regional variations in how Americans express themselves, and how the spelling, meaning and pronunciation of even words held in common twist and turn from place to place.
Rubrecht's itinerary included visits to Lake Providence, Ruston, Natchitoches, Grayson, Jonesville, Donaldsonville, Hammond, Grand Isle and New Orleans.
In each he was supposed to concentrate on having a single respondent fill out the questionnaire -- which would take a week -- but in New Orleans he had three, an Uptown white person, an African-American, and what DARE would define as a "yat" -- "one who speaks a distinctive working-class white vernacular of New Orleans," taken "from the characteristic greeting, 'Where y'at?'"
DARE's editors also mapped the word-finds, and the volume includes 682 little maps with dots placed geographically to indicate where that word was encountered in the field worker's questionnaire.
"I was the only Louisiana field worker," Rubrecht said. "I like to look at the maps. If I see a dot in Louisiana, I know that was from one of my questionnaires. That gives me a feeling of pride."
There are the four dots on the Louisiana map for "voodoo" (and one dot on the adjoining map for "vomit"), a couple of spots in northern Louisiana where he heard "where it doesn't snow," as a euphemism for hell, and eight citings of its synonym, "torment." There are four spottings of a children's game called "hide the switch," and three cites for "wagon wheel" as another word for a cartwheel.
There are idiomatic expressions that change in their usage from place to place. In many parts of the country, "take up" would most commonly be used to describe removing food from the stove in preparation for serving; or to mean, "begin," as in "take up school" or to refer to coming to the defense of something or someone. But in Louisiana, Rubrecht found it especially to refer to living together without being married -- the sort of union that might produce children who, DARE found in the Gulf States, were sometimes called "unlegal."
There are food items from "tombouille," a thickened stew, to "wop salad," an Italian salad that Rubrecht encountered on a menu in Natchitoches, and one of the ethnic slurs that finds its way into regional slang and its dictionary.
Of course, Louisiana's linguistic gumbo has been enriched with lots of French, both Cajun and Creole.
There is veiller, to pay a visit, from the French, to sit up, keep awake. There is vavite, French for "goes fast," which serves as playful euphemism for diarrhea. And there is wanga, Haitian Creole for a magical charm or spell used in the practice of voodoo, as in this police report from the July 20, 1851 Daily Picayune: "The Voudous also threw 'Wangas' or spells into the complainant's yard."
After completing his time with DARE in 1968, Rubrecht wrote his thesis on "regional phonological variations in Louisiana speech," and ended up spending his career as an English professor at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire.
Now retired, he said, "I know it's bad form to rest on one's laurels for 40 years like this, but I really do take pride in every little bit of information I contributed. The editors managed to put them together into something that is a really impressive piece of scholarship all of us can feel proud of."
Next, in 2013, DARE will produce a sixth volume of supplementary materials, and then put the whole show on-line.
However, there is one glaring omission in Volume V, and that is the absence altogether of any entry for "who dat," which was certainly a bit of regional slang before it came to define a football nation. Asked about it, Rubrecht has no ready answer. He recalls the old routine, "Who dat who say who dat when I say who dat?" But, apparently, for all his meticulous labors, for all his travels in Louisiana, and for all the doors he knocked on, no one ever said, "Who dat?"
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I'm not sure what you mean by "fat adapted" but if it is something that can be completely undone by a refeed after 28 days then it isn't something I believe exists.
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for those of you who check this post before you see my other. there is an ini file that comes with the x2 5035 bios that you put in the E: drive on your xbox. In it there is a fan speed option that when it load it will speed up your xbox fan
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Salina, N.Y. - The sounds of rumbling motors in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn along Electronics Parkway this morning signaled the arrival of the Syracuse Nationals.
Registration began at 8 a.m. By 9 a.m. several classic hot rods filled the lot. Car lovers can catch a glimpse of them tonight during the 2nd Annual Onondaga Lake Parkway Kick-Off Cruise. Dozens of the classic cars will parade along the parkway from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
The parkway will be closed to regular traffic during the car parade, which was organized by Tredz Car Club of CNY. Spectators can park at Onondaga Lake Park.
Videos: Classic cars arrive in town for this weekend's Syracuse Nationals car show, which officially starts tomorrow morning at the state fairground. (1:01)


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LAKEWOOD - It's surging through Lexington, Ky., and Auburn Hills, Mich.; it's made its way from Kansas City, Mo., all the way out to San Jose, Calif. Symptoms are even being felt in Austin, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; and - Lakewood, N.Y?
Yes, "March Madness" is coursing through the veins of just about everyone in the country at the moment - from east coast to west - and not even our little spot in the Southern Tier is safe.
Though, on Saturday at least, the madness here was not for the NCAA College Basketball Tournament, but for one of a different sort: The fifth annual 3-on-3 March Madness Youth Basketball Tournament at the Lakewood Family YMCA.
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Zack Panebianco of Jamestown, left, was just one of more than 700 players who participated in the fifth annual 3-on-3 March Madness Youth Basketball Tournament at the Lakewood Family YMCA on Saturday. See picture page on Page C-8 and see additional photos at cu.post-journal.com.
P-J photo by Scott Reagle
And judging by the sea of colored jerseys and the general difficulty in finding space to move throughout the gym without bumping someone, this latest edition seems to have been every bit as successful as previous ones.
"It's been packed all day," Lakewood Family YMCA branch manager and event coordinator Tom Anderson said. "You've just never seen anything like this."
With more than 700 boys and girls of all ages competing on 15 different courts - simultaneously - for the better part of 12 hours, and countless more friends and family encircling those courts to hoop, holler and cheer, one's inclined to agree with Anderson that the tournament, which was put together by the aforementioned Lakewood Family YMCA and also the New York State Moose Association, is certainly a one-of-a-kind event.
"I would say that this is the biggest indoor (basketball) tournament in the state, maybe the east," Anderson continued. "Who else can do this? No one has this facility, and I've looked online (for tournaments of similar, or greater, size) and there is nothing like this one."
While the tournament in itself may be unique, the reason it draws so many participants is simple.
"It's fun," said Dylan Granger, a South Dayton resident and Pine Valley jayvee basketball player, "and we just like to play basketball."
That's why Jamestown residents Josue Gomez and Lauren Madden play; it's likely why Chautauqua Lake Lady Thunderbirds' point guard Courtney Hewes, or Jamestown's Zack Panebianco, could be seen hustling after loose balls and shooting jumpers on Saturday afternoon as well. And it's certainly why players and families made the trip all the way from places like Syracuse, Warren and Wellsville.
All in all, the event has improved with each new edition.
"The first year, I remember, it was a week before the tournament and we had about 15 teams signed up," Anderson said. "And I thought, this is going to be a disaster. But in the last few days we made it up to 57 teams, and from there it's been 100 teams, 150, 190..."
Not only are the numbers growing, but so too is the talent level of the players involved.
"There's great competition," Anderson said. "The kids are really getting a lot better. I remember two, maybe three years ago our third- and fourth-graders could hardly play. It's been amazing to see how much more skilled they've become.''
Volunteer referee Pat Anderson, who is the Jamestown Community College boys soccer coach, was also impressed by the skill of those competing.
"Overall it's actually pretty high-quality basketball," he said. "It's been very competitive, and there's a real intensity during the games. You get near the finals, and the teams want to win this thing because it means a lot to them."
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Let's get CRAZY, RunOregon! This post is kicking off an erratic series of profiles of Marathon Maniacs and Half Fanatics among our ranks. Keep an eye out to meet more people from these two Northwest-grown running clubs.
You may remember our previous interview of Steve Walters, a Marathon Maniac who accomplished the Titanium Level ... 52 marathon in 365 days. (He did it in 50 weeks.)
And you may remember Karen Wang's recap of her Quadzilla Experience from December 2011.
Well, Steve - always one to think of his fellow runner - took a look at this 4th of July holiday weekend and said, "Let's put a Quadzilla there!" He did it two years ago, too. Along with the Flat Half and Full, which Foot Traffic puts on, Walters put on three races on three days - a half and a full each day.
"The races I direct are almost all based on the crazy idea of running doubles, triples and quads," says Walters. "It's been a long standing tradition in the Maniacs to squeeze multiple races in one weekend. A double is two marathons in one weekend, and triple is three marathons in three days and a Quadzilla is four marathons in four days. I like these types of events because it's a great way to gather Maniacs and Fanatics over multiple days. It produces friends and bonds that go way beyond just that event."
So if you're trained up for half or full marathons and looking for a new challenge, you have a few weeks to summon your crazy and get ready for Firecracker Quadzilla 2013. Here's the line-up:
Thursday, July 4: Flat Half and Full - Online registration is closed ... but there's one last chance to register:
"At our Sellwood group run/walk on June 26th at 6pm, we will be hosting a special Foot Traffic Flat prep run/walk and we'll be releasing 5 entries for the 5K, 5 entries for the 10K, 10 entries for the full, and 10 entries for the half! These will be first come first-served and it is cash only. Email firstname.lastname@example.com for more info on this!"
Friday, July 5: Summerlake Loop Marathon and Half Marathon in Tigard - The half marathon is $50 and the full is $55
Saturday, July 6: Freedom Marathon and Half Marathon in Gresham's City Park - The half marathon is $50 and the full is $55
Sunday, July 7: Stars and Stripes Marathon and Half Marathon in Beaverton's Greenway Park - The half marathon is $50 and the full is $55
So what kind of person puts on three marathons and half marathons in three days?
One called "Marathon Freak" by some, but known to most as Steve Walters.
Walters, who is Maniac #338 and also holds #21 for the Half Fanatics, qualified for the Manics even before he heard of the club, when he ran two marathons in just 9 days. Those were the June 25, 2005 Pacific Crest and the July 4, 2005 Foot Traffic Flat. Walters became an official Maniac on August 3, 2006.
Joining the Half Fanatics just about a week after the club was founded, Walters earned his "Moons" (Fanatics are rated in Moons while the Maniacs are rated in Stars). His Half Marathon feat was running three marathons in less than 90 days, with the Cascade Half on January 15, 2006, the Champoeg 30k on March 4, 2006, and the March Mudness Half on March 25, 2006. (this was within 69 days for Walters.)
Walters, despite what you might think based on his running and putting-on-races-schedule, works full time in Beaverton for Seterus, a mortgage loan processing company. He's a numbers guy - a "claims reconciliation analyst" - which, you may have guessed, makes him organized!
If you're thinking about joining either the Marathon Maniacs or Half Fanatics, you don't need to run the Quadzilla to do so.
The "easiest" (ha!) way to become a Maniac is to run 2 marathons in 16 days; and for the Fanatics, it's 2 half marathons in 16 days.
Walters suggests the club to anyone who enjoys running half or full marathons. When he learned about the club at the Mt. Hood PCT 50/50 in July 2006, Walters quickly realized he'd already qualified. "I first ran as a Maniac at the Crater Lake Marathon in August 2006. I quickly developed relationships with Maniacs there and enjoyed the camaraderie," Walters remembers. "What the Maniacs and Fanatics do best is bringing like minded runners together and encourage each other before, during and after races."
The Maniacs and Fanatics are extremely supportive to other runners. "The biggest thing I have learned is that anything is possible and what you think you can't do, you probably can. Since the early days of the Maniacs, the group as a whole is showing that anything is possible. The slogan of the Maniacs is "You Can Do It!"
How do you run so many marathons and half marathons?
Walters says he just listens to his body, and takes care when preparing and recovering from races. "Even though I push the envelope on what I think I can do, I'm willing to back off if I need to."
He's made more changes than just adding on the mileage ... he's been getting faster lately! But he isn't really sure what caused it. "I'm kind of clueless," he admit when I asked him about his recent speedy finishers. He admits he has lost 30 pounds in the last nine months, mainly be eating healthier foods and more reasonable portions.


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Pointed serrations slice anything hard outside and soft inside. Drop-forged, hardened stainless steel. Cherry wood handle. Handmade in Solingen, Germany. (
Rather than the push-through chop straight edged blades excel at, the notched teeth of a serrated knife allows you to slice with a gentle sawing motion. Serrated blades are best for trickier textures, like anything hard on the outside but soft on the inside — crusty breads, bagels, and tough skinned but juicy tomatoes. A serrated knife works well for delicate cherry pies, the complex layers of a toasted turkey sandwich, or the rigid texture of a cured meat.
Windmuehlenmesser knives are formed by drop-forging, a process in which enormous hammers slam down on very, very hot stainless steel bricks, compressing them into hard, dense knife blanks. It is a forceful and ancient practice — most industrially produced knives are stamped out of sheets of metal like a cookie cutter — but a knife that comes out of these grand, ground-shaking machines is far from flimsy.
Made with a hardened stainless steel alloy, the Windmuehlenmesser knife is rust resistant with good, sharp teeth. At 182 mm (7.16 inches), the relatively short blade sacrifices being able to saw through a watermelon for better maneuverability with more manageably scaled foods.
Serrated knives are excellent for slicing, and can be a solid stand-in when your straight-edged knife feels dull, but they don't work as well for chopping and mincing when full contact between the edge and the chopping board is key.
Always hand wash knives, and particularly serrated knives. Avoid putting them in the dishwasher. Exposure to harsh detergents, clanking around against other dishes, and sitting wet in the machine all contribute to degrading the knife's edge. Time in the dishwasher will also bleach and dry out the handle.
Serrated blades keep their edge longer than straight edge knives, in part because the teeth keep the inside curve of the scalloped edge from ever hitting the cutting board. However, they require specialized tools and skills to sharpen. Unless you know your way around the edge, it is best to send these in to a reputable professional when they begin to dull, which, depending on use, can take a couple of years.
Windmuehlenmesser uses native German cherry wood that has a beautiful grain and doesn't get slippery in your hand when wet. Using a cloth, apply a bit of quick-absorbing edible oil to the dry knife handle every once in a while to seal the pores in the wood and to keep it nourished.
Stainless steel knives don't need immediate care or maintenance to keep the blade shiny and rust-free. But if you leave your knife in salt, water, or acids long enough it will stain or rust. With normal use, you shouldn't have to think about it.
In Europe, the evolution of the kitchen knife was closely intertwined with sword-making, and Solingen has been synonymous with blades for centuries. To preserve the integrity of this tradition, in 1930, the city issued a decree that commanded any blade that associated with the Solingen name meet high standards for materials and sharpness. Windmuehlenmesser is only one of five companies allowed to associate with the city's pedigree.
The company was founded in 1872, by young up-start Robert Herder. Descended from a line of steel tempering workers in Bergische Land, Herder decided to venture beyond tempering into the craft of knife-making, and moved to famed Solingen. Four generations later, his family still runs the company, and their knives are still made as they were over 100 years ago. The company's sweet and simple motto: "Good knives are made by hand"
Each knife is ring tested for sharpness and finish before leaving the factory.
After drop-forging forms the blanks, the steel is tempered: a heating and cooling process that hardens the metal. This is a critical step, because a harder metal can take a thinner and sharper edge, and Windmuehlenmesser's grinders work to enhance the capacity for sharpness of their metals. The cherry wood handle is riveted to the blade extension, then blue-glazed for a smoother surface. Blue-glazing is a finishing technique carried out almost solely by Windmuehlenmesser's master grinder, Wilfried Fehrekampf.
All Windmuehlenmesser's knives are handmade by skilled master craftsmen, journeymen and apprentices. Wooden handles are hand-milled on-site, and scrap wood chips are given to paper and particleboard manufacturers for reprocessing.
The industry is not waste-free, but Windmuehlenmesser works to keep the amount of waste in their production process as low as possible. Steel scraps left over after the blades have been cut are sent back to the steelworks to be reused. Their grinding shop works in a closed water cycle with nitrate-free coolants for grinding. Fine steel chips in the grinding water and abrasives from the grinding stones are filtered out by an on-site filter, and the water is returned to the cycle.
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Um I have steam version but I do know how to make a mod shortcut if u would like.
To many good mods die I hope this one comes out this year.
Thats the hole point of the mod is mechs; and mechs in supreme commander Im in.
Hey Carnius do you plan to add more content soon I like to see a TS warfactory for nod and gdi and some more ts structures to make it more cool just a suggestion.
Serapthim there very very werid looking so ya but burnie are you gonna add more mechs I know you obviusly played mechwarrior because all the tech is very mechwarrior looking um you gonna add the masakari and the kodiak and the blood asp there really badass looking mechs including the Annhilation.
Goddamn you added even more graphics to the game nice job and that looks even looks more realistic than Supreme Commander 2!
You have a leaked version of tiberian dawn or are you talking about a different mod?
That would be nice for him to do that:).
I really like everything I see in the mod; the effects and gameplay graphics are very realistic; Only a few glitches the AI when I land on a beach head and open the landing craft doors they dont leave the boat. PS: the real video is very badass.
LOL well basicly everyone needs air support right or aircover well the Russians have more air than the Allies and can easily defeat them with there badass submarines and aircraft the Allies and Russians need a air attack ability air versus air that way Allied helicopters can attack air and Russian Migs can attack air but the Allies helicopter is very tough and carries lots of amo to balance the game the migs they just fly quick shoot missiles and hall *** back to Airbase lol.
Nice man.
I agree they need to put navy in the next update because I looked at earlier images there was navy which makes the game like red alert in battlefield 1942 way but not 100% but you know what I mean get on navy or a subermarine dive that would be very cool.
Lol idc but let me explain what I really mean ok well first person mode I kinda have a hard time to seeing and it makes things very hard to move around to its just very odd thats one of the reasons why there should be a third person option *OR* make a third person server that will be good that way people dont ******* hate each other in game over nothing.
If u have steam vresion right click on the game in the library and click properties then hit set launch options and put -ui then launch the game and click game browser and then click mods and then off u go.
That sucks man.
Ya seriously like F10 said a couple pages back release it this year or what the hell is going to happen and Golan if you guys did stop working on the project release what u have finished.
LOL your a ******* not me I typed correctly like most people do ******* and I double checked my paragrapth I made and I don't need my ******* punctuation its just a comment ******* PS: how about u know people use u instead of *you* most of the time when i type to them; ITS CALLED LEARNING ******* SIMPLE TYPING WAYS!!!
Hell ya I tried it at one time im redownloading it now its really badass it makes THE RED ALERT more realistic u can attack air now.
Dude u got a lot of badass models like it alot and it looks like u added alot of new grapthics to!
Thats pretty ******* good
Always nice to see someone happy!
Its the same **** with tiberian sun rising there **** is finished to.
I like everything I see in this mod the grapthics and everything is like red alert 1 in real life thats how realistic this is great job!
I dont see any problems with my english *******.
Burnie I checked your profile out of curiousity and dude did u seriously do this all by your self or did u get help?
Lets hope so dude and also I hope im wrong honistly but from what ive seen it really looks like there keeping this mod private after all these years if im right then I hope they change there mind one day.
can anyone help me on how to use the mod fixer so i can play mods on TDF version thanks because its really stupid i drop the file that i want to patch and it does nothing any ideas?


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This week, The Saginaw News took a rare look inside the Bancroft and Eddy Place buildings, the first since their sale to private investors earlier this month.
Among the lost architectural details inside the Bancroft is the lobby's 30-foot ceiling, said Luann Stockfleth, project manager for the Bancroft and Eddy Place renovations. Bancroft Projects Saginaw, the organization which owns the buildings, intends to restore many of the historical elements earlier renovations removed.
"Just wait," she said during the tour. "It'll look just like it did in the 1920s and 30s."
The modifications took place during the 1980s, prior to the building's conversion into low income public housing in 1982. During that time, the balcony that used to overlook the lobby was closed in to provide a lobby area on the second floor outside of the ballroom and an added activities room.
The ballroom remains largely the same as it did in the 1950s and 1960s when it was a popular destination for high school prom and other formal dinners. The main improvements that will be made to the space include replacing the current gymaniusm-style doors with french doors and repainting and restoring the chandeliers.
In the hallways, the handrails, carpet and white walls were reminiscent of a 1990s nursing home. Residential units sported off-white carpet with matching refridgerator and stove and linoleum, a stark contrast to the hardwood floors and stainless steel appliances Stockfleth said residents will enjoy when they move in.
Back on the first floor, 1,800 square feet of commercial space will be redone available for retail, restuarants and offices. Currently, the area has burnt orange-brown carpet and the same off-white colored walls as the rest of the building.
While the changes made by its previous owners did little to capitalize on the building's history, their investments in the building's infrastructure helped make the ongoing renovations happen, Stockfleth added.
"This allows us to focus mostly on cosmetics," Stockfleth said, noting that $8 (million) to $9 million was invested in bringing the plumbing and electrical systems up to date prior to its conversion to public housing.
Without that investment, she added, it would have simply been too expensive to take on the project.
While final plans have yet to be finalized, developers have been in ongoing talks with architects. One of the challenges, said project investor Mark Badnor, is that the State Historic Preservation Office limits the type of architectural changes can be made to historic buildings if the project receives grant money through the office.
Stockfleth also said the Eddy Place apartments with 30 units would be the "easier" project to complete, and would be finished first. The Bancroft apartments, with 120 units, will take longer.
The residential units of Eddy Place are similar to those in the Bancroft, Stockfleth noted.
The lobby of Eddy Place is less than half the size of that in the Bancroft, though it shares the same color patterns and flooring.
The first residential tenants are expected to move in this summer, she added, noting that she has already received "several" calls from potential renters.


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Consumer Reports — we have dared speak the name here before. It's a magazine devoted to mitigating our most base and crude materialism, using only information as its weapon.
Anyway, this week the group unleashed its heinous plot to suck the life from the teen driving experience, camouflaged in an article headlined "Five best used cars for teens."
We're all friends here. We know how this should go. You trot out on your 16th birthday to write the permit test, do a bit of driving school to accelerate the process, hit the road test and by the time 17 rolls around you've got big hours racked up on Mom's grocery-getter.
A couple of summer jobs and an Auto Trader and you're ready for that first car. You really want it to be a 2009 or 2010 Chevrolet Malibu?
Of course not.
Not that it is not a good car. Far from it, in fact. CR doesn't recommend lemons. They're big on truth, that lot. And here it is, in their own words: "Not exciting, but a good, solid car at an attractive price."
Not exciting? That's exactly what we don't want for our first car. We lust for the excitement a full-blooded, American muscle car can impart. Can't I have a Mustang, Dad? That classic Charger up the street with the bald tires?
Where's the adventure? My dad told me stories about replacing a broken leaf spring with a fencepost, just to be able to make it home. How can we expect our kids to build those kinds of life experiences driving a Sonata? That's the second car on the list.
Look, a Sonata is not a young person's car. I should know, I've had a couple. So's my dad. (That wasn't the car that needed the wooden suspension assist.) "The highway ride is quite relaxed," says Consumer Reports, "and most noises are suppressed."
How will they know it's running? A teen's car needs to growl and belch, with the occasional sound of metal grinding upon itself screeching from some hidden place, maybe under the back seat. Teen drivers run on adrenalin and Red Bull. Is it even safe to lull them to premature complacency with "adequate performance" and "impressive fuel economy"?
And no SUVs or trucks, the party-poopers say. Prone to roll over, they say. Difficult to handle, they say.
There are a million cars in the naked city, and you can roll any one of them at any time. Jack up that Jeep, Junior. We're going flinging mud.
(For the full list, visit news.consumerreports.org.)
Ken Simmons, The Telegram's new media editor, breathes exhaust and exhales clean, fresh air. Twitter @Ken_Simmons_NL/
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The Washington-St. Tammany Electric Cooperative restored power Friday to more than 100 customers in the Cross Gates subdivision who were without service for more than four hours.
The outage occurred about 3:30 p.m. or 3:45 p.m., said Mike Stafford, operations manager for the Washington-St. Tammany Electric Cooperative. Power was restored shortly after 8 p.m., he said.
"There was a fault on our underground primary line," Stafford said.
Locating a damaged area beneath the earth takes more time than finding damaged sections on above-ground power lines, he said.
The subdivision is off Military Road east of Gause Boulevard.
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Hollywood career continues to skyrocket and he's just been cast not one, but two new features.
The first film he'll be working on is "Hercules" with director Brett Ratner for MGM. That production should start in October. Hercules will be based on the Steve Moore graphic novel. Here's a description:
When the Thracian King summons the Greek hero and his six battle-worn companions to mold the Thracian army into a bloodthirsty, ruthless killing machine, the Son of Zeus rushes to answer the call of war and gold. But within the nation of Thrace lies an epic tale of war, murder, deception, and sacrifice that shows Hercules how far from grace he's fallen- and what he must accomplish for redemption.
Johnson Will also star in "Ciudad," an action thriller to be directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. The movie is about a black market mercenary (Johnson) who is hired by a Brazilian drug lord to go and rescue his daughter.
You'll see Johnson next in "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" this summer.
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I would spread it on cheddar bacon muffin/scones. I saw an almond flour recipe floating around!
Oh and my favorite butter delivery device these days is steak. A nice dollop on top of a hot rare steak. Mmmmmmmm!
I would cook asparagus in it.
I would cook mushrooms in it.
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Susie Lawton, of Pennellville, won a 1939 Ford Roaster during the ninth annual DuPont Hot Hues Syracuse Nationals' giveaway at the New York State Fairgrounds in Geddes.
"This is wonderful," Lawton said. "I'm speechless and that doesn't happen often."
The Ford Roaster is worth $35,000, not including the free labor provided by Tucci Hot Rods in Marcy and Warner's Auto Body in Marcellus.
Syracuse Nationals ended Sunday with 6,790 participating cars, according to Bob McLean, director of public relations for the show. He said that number is down 50 cars compared to last year.


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The DEEP2 Redshift Survey, a three-year project to obtain spectra of > 50,000 galaxies at z>0.7 with the new DEIMOS spectrograph at the Keck Observatory, is more than one-third complete. We now have sufficient data to assess the effects of our color-based redshift preselection and to predict the general characteristics of the final DEEP2 dataset. In this talk, I will summarize the nature of the survey sample and describe the principal selection effects to be aware of. This talk will provide some basic background information for other DEEP2 talks.
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Place your palms on the seat of a chair, folding at your thigh creases and grounding your heels into the floor slightly behind your hips.
Once you've found this placement, lengthen as much as possible through your arms, spine and legs by pressing down firmly through your hands and feet and pulling backward through your hips. Notice the opening you are feeling through your shoulders and the top third of your spine.
Hold the pose for five full breaths. Then, gently release out of it by coming to a standing position and closing your eyes for a few moments.
You already feel better, don't you? This pose is guaranteed to release tension from your shoulders and neck. It will slowly, but surely, perfect your physical posture and mental outlook.


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Have you noticed a surge of interest in the May 20 primary election in Washington County?
We have. And we're sharing links to some of the most current, relevant content on the three Washington County Commission races that will be decided next month.
First up, join us at noon today for a live chat with District 4 candidates Bob Terry and Elizabeth Furse.
If you missed it, view a recap of last
week's chat with county board chairman candidates Allen Amabisca and Andy Duyck.
Plan ahead for the last in a series, an April 30 chat featuring District 2 candidates Greg Malinowski and Bob Zahrowski.
Duyck, the incumbent board chair, sat down for a detailed Q&A with reporter Simina Mistreanu to explain how the land-use "grand bargain" governing urban and rural reserves came to be.
Malinowski, the District 2 incumbent, wrote a guest opinion calling on changes in the county code to require sidewalks and bikeways, paid for by private and public parties.
His challenger, Zahrowski, hasn't responded yet to our invitation to submit a response.
Furse's role in extending westside
light rail to central Hillsboro is the subject of debate as she takes on incumbent Terry in District 4.
Lila Ashenbrenner, a retired Hillsboro police chief, contends that the late Shirley Huffman, a former mayor of Hillsboro, was chiefly responsible.
Peter Welte of Beaverton counters that Furse, as a member of Congress, joined with Huffman and U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield to extend MAX service to the county seat.
Read more letters to the editor concerning all six candidates at the MyOregon blog.
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Wednesday, my kids stayed home from school sick. They both convinced me in the morning that their stomachs hurt. By noon, they were up, playing on the computers, and looking healthy. I decided to find a good documentary for us all to watch together. I figured, at the very least, they could learn something while they lounged around the house in their pajamas, feigning illness.
I browsed different documentaries and discovered one called, "Earthlings." The description read, "This multi-award winning documentary by Nation Earth is a must see for anyone who cares about animals or wishes to make the world a better place." It is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix and includes a soundtrack by Moby.
How can you argue with wanting to make the world a better place? I decided to play the trailer first. It begins by showing animals caged in crowded horrible conditions. Then, it goes on to reveal the most heinous treatment of animals I had ever seen. I cannot even recap it here for fear that it would gross all of you out and ruin your entire day. Daphne went running out of the room and said, "I will never watch that!" I agreed and shouted out to her, "Don't worry, I don't want to watch that either!" Then, I looked over at Jack who stood next to me in complete silence. "Are you okay? We won't watch that," I assured him. All he could manage to say was, "why would anyone treat animals that way?"
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You have to understand Jack's love for animals. As a young child, he insisted on wrapping his arms around any dog he met to give them a big hug. Dogs weren't always open to this sort of affection. He was bitten by a couple of dogs and I worried every time a new dog came near him. He still kept doing it because he loved them this much.
It's not just dogs either. Jack literally wants every pet he sees. Right now we have the two dogs, a parrot, and a bearded dragon. We have had hermit crabs, fish, parakeets, and a ferret (to name a few).
Jack sits in front of the television for hours watching Animal Planet. He has watched every bearded dragon video in existence on You Tube. Last month, he had to have a "Big Cats" t-shirt. The proceeds of these shirts contribute to saving the big cats in Africa. He performed several tasks to earn enough money to get one.
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Sneaky Vegetable Lasagna
Serves: 12
Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 leeks
1 zucchini
3 carrots
1 large head of broccoli
1 yellow squash
1/2 onion
1 green pepper
2 stalks celery
1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes
4 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon garlic salt
1 12 oz can stewed tomatoes
1/2 cup red wine
2 tablespoons oregano
3 cups low fat ricotta cheese
1 cup shredded low fat mozzarella cheese
1 cup Parmesan cheese
1 package no boil lasagna noodles
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Chop all of the vegetables into large chunks. Heat olive oil in a large skillet. Saut the vegetables for about 15 minutes. Add the stewed tomatoes and the sun dried tomatoes and the seasonings. Heat for another 10 minutes. Transfer to a blender a bit at a time. Blend and pour into a bowl. Once it is all blended, return to the skillet. Add wine and oregano. Heat through, about 10 minutes. In a casserole dish, layer the lasagna with sauce, noodles, and the three cheeses. Repeat until you get to the top of the casserole dish. Bake for one hour.
In spite of all of this, Jack loves to eat meat. Whatever I make for dinner, Jack picks the meat out of it and eats only that. He rarely eats anything other than meat. He has had several favorites over the years: chicken strips (not nuggets!), cheeseburgers, and hot dogs. I always have these items on hand in the freezer so that he will eat something.
Imagine my surprise when Jack looked away from the horrifying documentary trailer and said, "I am never eating meat again!" He wasn't just standing there in shock. He was putting it all together in his mind. Animals are killed so he can eat meat. I swear, this was not my intention when I showed him this trailer. I had no idea what I was getting into. Immediately, I told him that I could buy only meat that was raised humanely. I had already researched this. I told him about several farms I know that would deliver this meat to our door. He shook his head and said, "No, mom, I am a vegetarian." I knew that look in his eyes. He meant it.
That evening I started making dinner and tried to think of something vegetarian that Jack would like. Jack doesn't eat rice or potatoes. He does not like most fruits or vegetables. I began to worry. What would he eat? I imagined Jack's life of eating only sugary cereal and white bread with Nutella. He wouldn't grow properly and would probably become diabetic. Panic set in. I called Jack into the kitchen and asked him what he thought he would be eating now that he is a vegetarian. He answered, "cheese pizza and fries," like I was an idiot for asking. Uhhh, I don't think so!
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That weekend, we went to my mom's for a visit. She reminded me of the lasagna she made for my daughter Ella, another vegetarian who doesn't like vegetables, while she was out visiting last summer. My mom, a genius, sauted tons of vegetables and then blended them into the sauce. She layered the lasagna as usual with noodles, sauce and cheeses. We made this for Jack. He loved it and never even knew he was eating so many vegetables. Now, I just have to come up with many more of these clever sneaky ideas. I believe I have my work cut out for me. Bring it on!


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AlphaBELCH is a book app. The story was written by Stephen White and he describes AlphaBELCH as an "A to Z book about animals who burp." My kids at home and at work love this app. Why? Because it is about burping, of course. What child doesn't think it is hysterical to talk, or in this case read, about burping.
The book is a delightful, rhyming story that takes us through each letter of the alphabet, showing us animals who burp. The illustrations are colorful and humorous. Each page allows you to press one button to hear the story narration and another button to hear the funny animal burp sounds.
The last two pages of the book talk about children and parents, reminding us that we burp, too, but we must remember to say excuse me.
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|Price; colorful, humorous illustrations; engaging for children; target social skills in a fun and funny way.
|Potential to encourage your kids to burb and laugh.
What to target with this App: Identification of uppercase letters; sound symbol relationships; rhyming; animal vocabulary; wh questions; social skills including manners, polite forms & humor.
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Gary L. Richardson
Gary L. Richardson of Escondido, Calif., passed away Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, at the age of 72.
He was born March 31, 1940, in Tiffin, to the late Norwood H. and Cozetta I. Richardson. Gary was raised in Tiffin, but spent most of his life residing in southern California where he proudly worked many years for San Diego Gas & Electric as a lineman and electrician. He was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers since 1965 beginning with Local No. 309, Collinsville, Ill., and continued his membership with Local No. 569, San Diego (since 1972).
His passion for sailing, motorcycles and traveling provided many adventures throughout his lifetime, which he enjoyed with family and friends.
Gary is survived by his son, Bradford Richardson; two daughters, Babette (Rick) Heileson and Robbin Miranda; his sister, Sue Ann Whaley; and three grandchildren.
Continuing Gary's love for travel and adventure, his ashes will be flown out to sea in Florida and spread over the Gulf Stream so he can continue to sail the seas he so dearly loved.


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Despite its name, which means "new castle on the Danube", the delightful little town of NEUBURG AN DER DONAU, 21km west of Ingolstadt, is scarcely new, though it was only after the foundation of the principality of Pfalz-Neuburg in 1505 that it really gained any importance. The "official" quarter on a bluff high above the river has a dolls' house prettiness, with stately seventeenth-and eighteenth-century gabled houses lining the main street, Amalienstrasse, and the principal civic buildings – including the late Renaissance Hofkirche – grouped around a handsome central square, Karlsplatz. The town is utterly dominated by its impressive Renaissance Schloss, which is the main reason for a visit. If you're in Neuburg in the spring be sure to try the locally grown Schrobenhausen asparagus, which is considered a great delicacy.
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Neuburg's magnificent Renaissance Schloss was constructed from 1530 onwards for Pfalzgraf (Count Palatine) Ottheinrich, the principality's first ruler; the splendid arcaded courtyard is decorated with elaborate sgraffito, while the chapel was the first purpose-built Protestant church in Germany and has beautiful frescoes by Hans Bocksberger dating from 1543. Highlights of the Schloss's interior include the Rittersaal or Knights' Hall in the north wing, with its mighty columns and wooden ceiling. A Baroque east wing was added in 1665 to 1670, complete with two round towers that dominate the river and town. The Schloss's west wing contains the Bayerische Staatsgalerie Flämische Barockmalerei, with a hundred and twenty works of Flemish art by masters including Rubens, Van Dyck and Bruegel.


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Robert Redford plays a 70-year-old former radical who lives under a false identity with his 9-year-old daughter (OK, stepdaughter, but the math is still weird). When one of his old fellow travelers (Susan Sarandon, of course) turns herself in, he leaves the kid in the care of his brother (Chris Cooper) and embarks on a cross-country quest one step ahead of the law. He's pursued by a determined FBI agent (Terrence Howard) and a crusading young reporter (Shia LaBeouf, given the unenviable task of playing a reporter opposite Redford).
What transpires is less a reckoning for old sins than a tour of crow-eyed monuments to character acting. Nick Nolte (nearly mute at this point), Julie Christie, Sam Elliott, and Richard Jenkins all portray aging radicals, so that the wall of photos at the FBI field office looks like it belongs in the bedroom of a teenager with a 1970s fetish. Not to be outdone, Brendan Gleeson and Stanley Tucci pop by to chew a little scenery as well. You keep expecting Jane Fonda to show up, but no such luck.
Whatever the movie has to say about the use of violence to oppose an unjust system, or the way priorities change as we age, has been said before. As far as the company Redford keeps, I liked it better when he hung out with Paul Newman and Sydney Pollack, but those days are long gone.
(121 min., R, Regal Fox Tower) Grade: C
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PackersNews.com reports that Green Bay's new defensive coordinator, Jim Bates, the former defensive coordinator and interim head coach of the Miami Dolphins, is a fan of the Lions.
Bates grew up as a Detroit Lions fan in Michigan, where he learned a great deal of respect for the Packers. Now, hes thrilled to be part of the team and to help revive a dormant defense.


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To the Editor;
I gave it a season and I officially hate Syracuse University being in the ACC. As a SU fan that was raised on the 1987 season and a hatred of anything Georgetown, I knew and expected that my transition would be rocky. However, much to my amazement, I wasn't in tears during the regular season.
I didn't cry when there was no Georgetown to hate or Seton Hall to chastise. Instead, I found myself caught up in the specter of firsts, such as Duke at the Dome, North Carolina and a trip to Tobacco road. Sure, the Clemson game I went to felt strange. Sure, games at Wake Forest and Maryland seemed odd, as well as Dome visits by the likes of Georgia Tech and N.C. State. But in the end, I enjoyed the first Orange romp through the supposed ACC gauntlet. Dare I even say, "awesome, baby!"
And most certainly I admit a 25-0 start helped with this transition. Sorry to say that it ended at the hands of an old Big East rival now struggling in the ACC, but I guess it was somewhat poetic if not painful.
It wasn't until the Big East championship had been played did I realize I had actually still not even begun to deal with my grief of this end of a Basketball League era. I concede that now several days removed, I appreciate the justice of a Providence championship win for, if nothing else, it honors the primary architect of the league I grew up with and loved. Dave Gavitt had to be smiling down at that moment even if he had cringed at times during the season of what remained of the league he helped start and endure. What remains of the old Big East is still worthy of print and certainly watching. Although now that the first new Big East championship is in the books and the first Selection Sunday that Syracuse has gone into the tournament as part of the ACC has passed, I find myself as sad and regretful as ever.
I now harbor a fear and I am having trouble accepting the truth that I may likely never embrace my team's new home and that the past years of my Syracuse fandom will always be my favorite. And certainly not even the all mighty Duke can or will ever change it. The beloved Big East I knew is forever gone.
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A former teacher in the Reading School District has been arrested and charged for allegedly sexually abusing one of her students.
Jessica Saienni surrendered Friday morning to authorities in Reading. The Berks County district attorney's office first launched its investigation after being tipped off by Children and Youth Services.
Saienni, 30, remained stone-faced and didn't utter a word when she left the Berks County Courthouse with her attorney.
In the summer of 2012, Saienni had a sexual relationship with her 14-year-old student, according to investigators.
"This student did not make any passes on his own. The aggressor here was the defendant," said District Attorney John Adams.
Saienni was the boy's seventh grade science teacher at Southwest Middle School in Reading.
"The teacher clearly befriended this student, bought this student a birthday cake after the school year and had the student in to help her clean her room," said Adams.
The district attorney said their relationship turned sexual between June and August 2012.
The initial contact between the boy and Saienni occurred in her vehicle on the parking lot of the Body Zone Sports and Wellness Complex in Spring Twp., Berks Co., according to investigators.
The relationship, according to court documents, then proceeded to involve Saienni driving the boy to her home in Bethlehem numerous times and engaging in sexual conduct.
"For somebody that's a teacher, that's really outrageous," said Katrina Pachilis, a parent in Reading.
"I am certain that this teacher knew what she was doing was wrong," said Adams.
The boy also told investigators that Saienni sent him nude photographs of herself to his cell phone and instructed him not to tell anyone about their relationship.
Saienni is the estranged wife of the son of Bethlehem police Chief Mark DiLuzio. DiLuzio told 69 News on Friday they were stunned and never saw any warning signs.
DiLuzio said his son, Bethlehem police Ofc. Michael DiLuzio, and Saienni have been separated for awhile. DiLuzio reportedly filed for divorce the same day a search warrant was executed on his home.
Saienni now lives in Landenberg, Chester Co. She was arraigned late Friday morning by a judge in the Berks County Courthouse on numerous charges, including statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and institutional sexual assault. She was released on $50,000 unsecured bail.
Saienni has resigned from her teaching position, according to Pierre Cooper, a member of the Reading School Board. Her formal arraignment will take place in a few weeks.


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You've been to a party before and had a rad time. But a fashion party is a totally singular experience—there are no cone birthday hats, no cookies to decorate with icing and, most unfortunately, no balloon animals. Maybe you've crashed one before, but now, some PR intern definitely thinks you deserve to be there and that is a whole different (balloon) animal. You're taking a polar bear plunge into a room of underage Amazon beauties and guys who work in social media for some 60-year-old tractor shirt brand and the kind of people who get quoted and name-checked in this article.
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Summary - Complete Revision Based on Enforcement Review Team Recommendations
On June 30, 1995, the Commission published a complete revision of its Enforcement Policy based on the recommendations of a high-level review team tasked with evaluating the agency's enforcement program and Enforcement Policy (see NUREG-1525). The revisions were intended to produce an enforcement program with clearer regulatory focus and more predictability. Among other changes, this revision eliminated encouraging improvement of licensee performance as a stated purpose of the enforcement program, introduced a simplified process (with graphic representation) for assessing civil penalties and eliminated the enforcement process for and the existence of Severity Level V violations. In making the latter change, the Commission recognized the existence of minor violations, but took the position that these violations should not normally be documented to better focus the inspection and enforcement process on safety.


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Get yourself into the holiday spirit by listening to your favorite Christmas music (don't tell anyone, but I've been listening to the "Glee" Christmas CD) or by taking part in one of the events in my Top 5.
5. Ice skating at Rosa Parks Circle. Nothing says the holidays like skating at Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand Rapids. Skating officially begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday with a tree-lighting ceremony in front of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, 101 Monroe Center NW. The ceremony will be followed by free horse-drawn carriage rides. Regular hours are noon-10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 6-9:30 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays and noon-9:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Cost is $1 per person; free skate rentals. More info: 456-3378, grand-rapids.mi.us.
4. Christmas for the Animals. John Ball Zoo, 1300 W. Fulton St., will close on Monday for the winter, but this weekend you can spend time with the animals. Festivities begin with a Santa Breakfast (8:30 a.m. Saturday; $15 for adults, $12 for children, reservations required), followed by Christmas for the Animals (10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday; $3.50 for adults, $3 for children). Guests are encouraged to bring gifts for the animals. Call 336-4301, or go to johnballzoosociety.org for a list of gift ideas.
3. Holiday Artists' Market. The 22nd annual Holiday Artists' Market at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts returns with a wide variety of jewelry, paintings, dolls and more, featuring 62 of the area's top artists. About 2,000 people are expected to attend and buy the unique gifts. Hours are 5-9 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at UICA, 41 Sheldon Blvd. SE. Call 454-7000, or go to uica.org for more information.
2. "Hark-Up Christmas Vacation." One of the area's best Christmas shows from a vocal standpoint and from an overall quality perspective is "Hark-Up." And this year, the contemporary Christmas music celebration is going with a "Christmas Vacation" theme. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday in the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Arts and Worship at Grand Rapids Christian High School, 2300 Plymouth Ave. SE. Tickets are $9-$25, 800-965-9324 or harkup.com.
1. "The Nutcracker." The Grand Rapids Ballet Company — Michigan's only professional ballet company — presents its annual holiday classic, "The Nutcracker." The tale of young Clara and the magical gift that comes to life is one of those must-see shows during the Christmas season. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 5:30 p.m. Sunday (as well as Dec. 10-12) in DeVos Performance Hall, 303 Monroe Ave. NW. Tickets are $20-$53, 800-745-3000 or grballet.com.
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The greatest speech by an American leader on Israel. This is what America needs in the White House. Seriously, this is greatness. What a breath of fresh air and righteousness in Obama's current climate of hatred and jihad-enabling.


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Utica, NY - Oneida County officials will hold a public forum Thursday for residents to comment on the Oneida Indian Nation's application to put land into trust.
The forum will begin at 6 p.m. in the legislative chambers on the 10th floor of the county office building, 800 Park Ave., Utica. It will run until the last person who wishes to speak has done so.
Each speaker will be limited to five minutes. A transcript of the forum will be sent to the federal Department of Interior, which will make the final determination on trust land sometime after March 24.
The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs last month recommended that 13,086 acres be put into federally owned, tax-free trust land.


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Austin Powers star Elizabeth Hurley was looking fashionable as ever as she stepped out of her front door in London and headed to an appointment. The actress donned an fall-appropriate jacket in black with a fur hood, paired with an all-black ensemble of top, skinnies, boots and handle bag. She topped off the look with large sunnies.
Since stepping on the scene in the famous safety pin dress by Versace on Hugh Grant's arm in the '90's, this is one fashionista whose flame has never faded. Even on a day off, Liz always looks sleek and put-together. Are you into her newly highlighted tresses? The slightly summery hue seems a great match for early fall weather.
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Most folks heading out to find ice, beer and bread following Hurricane Isaac were on a mission to fill their own bellies, but Amy and John Robertson braved the downed branches and unpredictable bands of bad weather to help out their evacuation hosts.
"She asked for Mint Milano's and a big juicy cheese burger," Amy Robertson said, adding that the new mother also requested two dips, Better Cheddar and Popeye dip.
For some the trip to Langenstein's and other stores on Thursday has resulted in disappointment: No ice. (If you know of a story with ice Tweet it out with the hash tag #nolaice)
Early on Thursday afternoon, Zachary Schuler, who works at Langenstein's, said they had run out of ice, but were expecting another shipment. He knows important ice is to folks: "When we got our last order of ice people were trying to buy it on the side walk before we even got it into the store,"
What else is selling out? Bread, coke and beer, Schuler said.
A quick look in carts at Langenstiein's, the Rouses on Baronne and Robert's Fresh Market on South Carrollton and Claiborne reveals most folks are buying comfort foods, chips, dips, salsa, beer, wine and prepared plates of fried food from the delis.
Want to know what's open?
Here's where to find ice, water and gas. Tweet along using the hash tags #nolaice, #nolafood, #nolagas
Hungry? Let someone else do the cooking! Here's where you can grab some grub during Isaac cleanup. For more follow Susan Langenhennig on Twitter @slangenhennig.
The Rouses on Baronne never lost power and managers predicted they would stay open tonight until midnight. Inside it was nice and cool, with folks sitting at tables in the coffee bar, chatting on cell phones and cooling down.
Among those prowling the aisles was John Ferdinand, who was gathering provisions for his family.
"We knew we would be without power, so we checked into the Drury Inn on Poydras," he said. "As a Katrina survivor, we're used to long lines. This is nothing compared to that. But there are about 20 or 30 people in each line, so I just got a few little things and checked out through customer services."
Ferdinand, who lives in Tall Timbers, said he knows that his home survived the storm, but says they'll stay in place until power is restored, especially since he has his son and his son's friends with him.
"We have power, so they have TV. We hooked the Xbox up to the TV and they're happy," he said.
Like Rouses, the Robert Fresh Market on South Claiborne was going strong.
"We're a fully functioning grocery story," said Adonis Avery, manager. The store had run out of ice on Thursday afternoon, but Avery was expecting more - definitely by Friday morning.
For some, like Jada Hampton, who was with her son Bryce, 6, finding an open story meant taking just a short walk from home.
"I thought about doing burgers, so I bought some ground turkey,' Hampton said. "Usually I try to eat organic, but at this point anything will do. They're out of bread, so we'll just have the burgers. I'm going to boil eggs because those keep pretty well."
Asked how her family weathered the storm, she said fine, except for having no power.
"Bryce loves electricity so he can play all of his video games, but he has a hand-held video game that he can play with, so he's happy."


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BEAZLEY-LeGROW — John, Heather, and big brother Noah thank God for the safe arrival of a precious baby girl. Lauren Nadine was born on May 21, 2010, weighing 8 lbs 14 oz. Lauren is welcomed by grandparents Irene Hudson LeGrow, Melvin LeGrow and Judy Beazley. Watching over Lauren from Heaven is Poppy William Beazley. A special thanks to Daddy and Nanny LeGrow for all their love, support and care during labour and delivery.
BOLT-CURTIS– Rhonda Bolt-Curtis and Corey Curtis are thrilled to announce the arrival of their precious miracle, a baby girl, Sierra Anna Curtis, on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 2:10 p.m., weighing 7 lbs. 4.5 ozs. Sierra is welcomed by her grandparents Jerome and Madonna Bolt and Ern and Vera Curtis as well as many other family and friends. A heartfelt special thanks to 5NB, NICU and the neonatal team specialists especially Dr. Dowden for exceptional work. Thanks also to all our friends, neighbours, co-workers and family for your kindness and warm wishes. Mommie would also like to thank Daddy for all his amazing love and support.
BROTHEN– David and Jenny (Thomson) are thrilled to announce the early arrival of their daughter, Iris Katherine, on March 3, 2010, weighing 4 lbs. 1 oz. Welcoming Iris are first time grandparents Doug and Sandra Thomson (St. John's), Teresa and Todd Finlayson (Sundre, AB) and Keith Brothen (Edmonton, AB). Also welcoming our little girl are Aunts Chrissy and Janice; uncles: Michael, Derek and Brian. A special thank you to the staff of the case room and 5NB of the HSC as well as the Janeway's NICU.
COMERFORD– Michael and Lynn (Taylor) proudly announce the arrival of Claire Abigail, born August 6, 2010 weighing 7lbs 4 oz. Welcoming Claire are first time grandparents Margaret and Richard Comerford (St. John's) and Lorraine and Claude Taylor (South River), uncle Robert Comerford and aunts Catherine and Heather Comerford and Krista Taylor and a wide circle of family and friends.
PARROTT– Francis, Karen (nee Benson) and big brother, Adam, are thrilled to announce the arrival of ETHAN FRANCIS on July 10, 2010 at the HSC, weighing 7 lbs. 4 ozs. Welcoming Ethan are proud grandparents, Ruth Benson of St. John's and Frank Parrott of Carbonear, as well as great-grandmother, Angela Parrott of Mitchell's Brook. Watching over Ethan from heaven are Poppy Wilfred Benson and Nanny Louise Parrott. Ethan is also welcomed by many other relatives and friends. Special thanks to Dr. Kravitz, Dr. Crane, Dr. Murthy and Dr. Galway for their excellent pre-natal care, as well as to Sue and Bev in the Maternal Fetal Assessment Unit. Thanks are also extended to Dr. Kum and Dr. Caines for Ethan's safe delivery, as well as to the staff of the case room and 5NB, especially case room nurse, Tracy. Thanks to Nanny Benson, Aunt Cathy and Uncle Ken and Paul and Bonnie Osmond for helping to care for Adam while Mommy was in the hospital. Finally, Mommy and Ethan would like to thank Daddy and Adam for all your love and support.
SIMPSON– Shannon, Toby and big sister Sarah happily announce the birth of Edward Joseph Lewis Simpson on 1 August at the Health Sciences Centre, St. John's. He weighed 8 lb 15 1/4 oz at birth. Edward is the second great-grandchild of Doris Young of Masonic Park (formerly Grand Falls), and the second grandchild of Bernard and Linda Lewis of Chapel's Cove (formerly Holyrood). Edward is looking forward to meeting his English grandparents, Fred and Mary Simpson of Felixstowe, Suffolk, along with aunts and uncle there. Shannon and Toby would especially like to thank Drs. Whitty and Cook for their excellent prenatal care, Nurses Rose Thrain, Paula Furey of 5NB and caseroom nurses Katie and Margaret Ann for their common sense and patience during labour and delivery.


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A work well done is of real pleasure, not only for the client but also for the company or persons who have done the job. Business appreciation letter is one such where a client shows his gratitude for a job well done.
Here is a sample business appreciation letter:
Davis Marshall
Room #69,
Church Road,
Rainbow Inc.,
Arthur Road,
St. Petersburg
18th June, 2010
Ref: Appreciation of work done
Dear Sir,
I am writing this letter in a token of appreciation for the renovation work carried out at my home by your team of architects. Your people have done a commendable job and have given my wife and I total satisfaction.
It was an extremely difficult task of renovating a century old house. Your people have successfully done what was desired by me. They have modernized the house but have still maintained its century old grandeur. Your painters have done an excellent job in bringing out the flavor and charm that was lost in the coating of dust and soot of ages. Your decorators, too, have successfully captured the whole essence of décor and have managed to keep the old charm alive and intact.
So, I thank you and your team for all the hard work that they have put in. They had to put up with my demands and tolerate my tantrums. I would like to convey my appreciation to all of you.
Thanking you,
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Pittsfield woman has been sentenced to three years in jail for stealing $200,000 from the credit union where she worked.
Janine Shepard was sentenced Wednesday in Berkshire Superior Court after pleading guilty to charges of larceny over $250 and making false entries into corporate books.
Prosecutors say the 48-year-old Shepard stole the money between Jan. 1, 2010 and Feb. 18, 2012 while she was head teller at a Greylock Federal Credit Union branch.
Credit union officials tell The Berkshire Eagle (http://bit.ly/14L08Fu ) that Shepard falsified documents at Greylock while she taking money from available cash, then lied to another employee who was responsible for checking her work.


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Nicknames are everywhere in basketball.
They pop up in every discussion of the NBA's all-time greats. They're used everywhere from the hardwood to the blacktop, under the glare of the brightest lights or the faint glow of a distant streetlight.
Broadcasters keep them in their back pocket. Fans recycle them in the public forum or change them even as they see fit.
So it seems fitting, even if a bit foreign, that they'll reportedly pop up on the backs of NBA jerseys in the 2013-14 season.
Team sources told Bleacher Report's Ethan Skolnick that the league has discussed replacing last names with nicknames on one of the Miami Heat's alternative jerseys this season. The Associated Press has learned that the Brooklyn Nets are also a candidate for this experiment, with both teams donning the official customized threads "in at least one of their four matchups this season."
Sounds a bit crazy, right? Sort of like having NBA jerseys with sleeves on them. The Golden State Warriors broke the ice on that trend last season, and HoopsWorld.com's Steve Kyler has reported that 20 teams will rock sleeved jerseys at least once this year.
If the league finds marketing gold in this nickname plan, it's only a matter of time before the idea catches fire.
So that got us thinking, which nickname jerseys would we like to see the most in 2013-14? With so many larger-than-life stars enjoying larger-than-life monikers, there's no shortage of fantastic options.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State officials aren't blind to the fact that the often-awkward news conference on March 8 that announced the NCAA violations committed by football coach Jim Tressel didn't go as they had hoped.
In an interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday, Athletic Director Gene Smith said the news conference was supposed to include an apology from Tressel for the violations he committed by not informing his bosses about an email that told him of potential NCAA violations committed by his players, a fact he kept quiet for nine months. But the apology only came in later public appearances, after Smith spoke to Tressel about the need to apologize, as laid out as part of the punishment Ohio State suggested to the NCAA.
Smith told the AP there were a number of things he wished he had done differently.
OSU president Gordon Gee last week told the The Lantern, Ohio State's student newspaper, that he regretted joking at that news conference, when asked about whether Tressel would be fired, "I hope he doesn't fire me."
"I sometimes need to extricate my foot from my mouth," Gee told The Lantern, explaining his penchant for joking about himself. "I admit that. But I have been that way for 30 years."
Tressel was suspended for five games at the start of the 2011 season and fined $250,000 for his violations, though the NCAA continues to investigate and could add to those penalties. Smith told the AP that Ohio State's own cost for investigating the violations is expected to exceed $250,000.
The NCAA's ruling could come as early as this summer if Ohio State agrees with the findings and sanctions, or it could be carried over into 2012 if Ohio State disagrees and contests the penalties.


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Military personnel and Bladen and Sampson county sheriff's deputies are searching for a Marine who apparently fell from an aircraft.
Officials say the Marine fell from an Osprey aircraft during a training mission around 7 p.m. Monday near White Lake. It was not immediately clear how the Marine fell from the aircraft, which can take off like a helicopter and fly like an airplane.
The Marine's name has not been released. The aircraft was based a Marine Corps Air Station New River.
Spokesmen for the Marines and the Bladen County sheriff's office did not immediately return messages Tuesday morning.


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What's on the ballot? Local school elections and several local proposals.
Also, Voters in Grand Rapids, East Grand Rapids, Grandville, Walker, Wyoming and Kentwood are being asked to increase The Rapid bus system's current five-year 1.12 mill tax levy by 0.35 mills to a total of 1.47 mills for seven years. That increase would cost the owner of a $150,000 home an extra $26.25 a year.
The transit millage will pay for extending service later into the evening on most routes, expanding some routes, decreasing wait times between buses, and operating the Silver Line high-speed bus line on Division Avenue.
In Ottawa County, residents will vote on a request a five-year, 0.4-mill renewal for the Macatawa Area Express. And officials in Grand Haven Township are seeking a five-year, 0.95-mill transportation renewal.
There are also a number of school elections. Of note:
Eight candidates are vying for two, four-year seats on the Grand Rapids Board of Education.
The candidates are: Incumbent Catherine Mueller, Monica Randles, Christine Jurrians, Walter Brame, Raynard Ross, David Clark, Christopher Sain Jr. and Terry Lee Zylstra Sr.
The Grand Rapids Community College ballot has four candidates seeking two open seats on the board of trustees. Incumbents Michael Stearns and Janice Maggini are not seeking re-election. Candidates are former Lowell and Grand Rapids Superintendent Bert Bleke, businessman Frank Murin, retired professor Fred Sebulske and retired professor Richard Stewart.
-- Voters in the Hudsonville and West Ottawa school districts will decide on bond request of $82 million and $25.9 million, respectively, while Wyoming and Cedar Springs district residents weigh in on a sinking fund millage.
How do I find my polling location, check the status of my absentee ballot, or view a sample ballot? Visit www.michigan.gov/vote or call or visit the website of your local clerk's office.
When are polls open? 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
What should I bring? Photo identification. Voters who show up without it will not be turned away as long as they sign a form swearing they do not have it.
What shouldn't I bring? Michigan law bans visual recording devices, including cell phones that take photo and video (unless you are a credentialed member of the media). Also banned is the wearing or displaying of campaign-related images or slogans. Violators will be asked to cover up or remove such items.
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The University Research Corridor is announcing today at the Mackinac Policy Conference that it will pursue two joint projects designed to make technological advances in electricity and fuel technology.
The announcement comes as the state's top three research universities - the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University - are releasing a report stating that the URC received $79.5 million in alternative energy research grants last year.
U-M President Mary Sue Coleman today will join MSU President Lou Anna Simon and new Wayne State University President Jay Noren to discuss the universities' alternative energy initiatives in a noon press conference at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.
The two joint projects the universities announced in a news release that they would pursue as the result of a URC grant competition are:
-A joint initiative to "develop far more efficient low-cost thermoelectric materials with industrial applications," which could improve power generation and lessen the carbon footprint of heating and cooling systems.
--A project to develop technology that would substantially lower the carbon footprint of ethanol production plants. The initiative is a project between U-M, MSU and Lansing-based Technova Corp. to "develop revolutionary nano-biocarriers to rapidly and efficiently produce cheaper, more plentiful ethanol from switchgrass or corn stover."
It is unclear how much the universities will spend on the two projects.
Some 27 percent of the URC's energy-related research is dedicated to developing fuel technology; 8.9 percent goes toward nuclear energy research; 8.5 percent toward sustainability technology; and 8.2 percent on solar and thermoelectric research.
The universities also are developing technology in the arena of lithium-ion batteries, hydro energy, wind energy and fuel cells, among others.
Coleman, in a video interview with Michigan Business Review, said the climate to develop alternative energy and bring it to market will only improve as gas prices escalate. And Michigan is well-positioned to attract the research behind those efforts, she added.
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