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Hi guys. The big day for fitting the taper throttle bodies is now fast approaching, and I have a few more questions. Firstly concerning the setting up and balancing of them. According to SBD you close all the throttles and set the throttle pot to 0.328V. I got SBD to build up the bodies for me and I think they may have already done this as the throttles look closed and the pot is tight. Next you adjust the throttle stop until you get a reading of 0.374V which I assume correspond to the idling speed. You are then supposed to start the engine and balance the butterflies. I have a vaccum gauge but am not sure exactly how to do this. Do you have to balance the buttteflies to 5 kg/h at a specific rpm or at idling speed. Also do you do the master body (i.e. the one with the throttle stop) first and the the others to match and do you use the throttle stop screw or the grub screw to adjust the master. Also on the SBD instructions it says "every time the throttles are adjusted the throttle pot needs adjusting to the correct voltage" What does this mean. does it mean adjust the throttle stop screw until the reading is 0.374, or move the pot itself to get this voltage once the bodies are balanced.
Second question concerns the lambda sensor. I originally thought my standard corsa lambda sensor would be no use with the MBE ECU as it says in the SBD Grp N instructions that the corsa sensor doesn't work. However when I spoke to SBD they said it would work (only at idle) if wired up correctly. Does anyone know what pins on the MBE loom go to what colours on the lambda sensor. There are 4 wires on each, but what goes to what. I can't see any colours on the MBE loom ( and I don't want to cut the loom to find out!), but the lambda multiplug is marked 1, 2, 3, 4 and has 4 bare terminals of the far end. Also does anyone know how to activate the lambda in easymap 5, as SBD said it came disabled to allow balancing.
Sorry for the long post guys, but I am sure the engine boffins with have plenty to get their teeth into here.


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Edupalooza activities make learning fun for kids
EAST LIVERPOOL – Just because an activity is educational doesn't mean it can't be fun.
That was the lesson learned Saturday at Edupalooza – Back to School Bash, the first of what promoters hope becomes an annual event to bring education to the forefront in the city.
Sponsored by Edutech Corridor, the Edupalooza held downtown offered children from kindergarten to college a variety of activities throughout the day incorporating fun, science, technology and safety lessons.
From the OH Wow! Children's Center for Science and Technology demonstrations on making solar s'mores and a dino-dig to balloon animals fashioned by Elise Smith for the East Liverpool High School Band, children and adults had ample opportunity for hands-on educational experiences.
In between were performances by Gary Barker as Brett Michaels, a martial arts demonstration by ATA Martial Arts of Calcutta, a demonstration by St. Clair Township Police Department K-9 team of Chris Davis and Axel, and displays of the city fire department's aerial truck, cruisers from the city police department and Ohio State Highway Patrol, Tri-County ambulances and tours of the Air Evac medical helicopter based at the county airport.
"Everything is supposed to be fun but educational," according to Pennie Zehnder, one of the founders of Edutech Corridor. "We want them to see that learning can be fun."
Booths from schools and agencies, vendors and others rounded out the day's activities with information, gifts, registration for services and more.
In addition, 112 book bags filled with school supplies were distributed to children who had previously been pre-selected through the Way Station but who had to present vouchers at the event to receive their bag and supplies.
With a $2,000 community grant from Walmart, Edutech was able to purchase the book bags and some supplies, with each of the Edutech members also contributing supplies to fill the bags, according to Zehnder.
The grant also provided funding to pay for OH Wow! to participate.
Every child who came to the event was also given a free raffle ticket toward school supplies.
Mayor Jim Swoger offered the welcome to open the event.
Edutech Corridor was the brainchild of local architect Scott Shepherd and Zehnder, the director of his firm, A&I Studios, and was founded in 2010 under the auspices of the East Liverpool Area Chamber of Commerce.
Shepherd said the idea was to open lines of communication between the educational entities that exist in the area in the hopes of spurring economic development.
"Education is the largest employer in East Liverpool," Shepherd pointed out, saying, "We are lucky" to have the Kent State University campus, Buckeye Online School for Success, Ohio Valley College of Technology in Calcutta and other educational entities in the area.
According to Shepherd, cities that have recovered from tough economic times did so because of strong educational bases such as exists in East Liverpool.
Zehnder noted, "Education is an industry and needs to be treated as such. East Liverpool is a central hub of education."
Since the inception of Edutech Corridor, members now work together to share educational opportunities, Zehnder said.
She said that, while this year's Edupalooza focused primarily on local educational entities, plans call for trying to include surrounding public school districts next year.
But with downtown streets teeming with young people eager to learn by doing on Saturday, Shepherd deemed Edutech Corridor's first Edupalooza a success.
"For the first year, I think we did really well. We wanted to do something for kids that was positive for the community," he said.

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One ticket matched the Mega Millions numbers on Feb. 19, winning a jackpot of $26 million.
The winning ticket was purchased in Maryland.
In Michigan, one lucky winner matched five numbers and won $250,000. That ticket was purchased at the Fox Island Party Store, 5131 N. Grand River Ave., in Lansing.
The Mega Millions numbers for Feb. 19: 01-15-19-30-56
The Mega Ball: 28
The Megaplier: 3
Tonight's Powerball jackpot jackpot is $70 million (Feb. 20).
According to the Mega Millions official website, 6 tickets matched 5 numbers, but not the Mega number.
In addition to Michigan, other tickets were purchased in Arizona, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio and Texas. The ticket holders will win $250,000 each.
Michigan Mega Millions winners on Feb. 19, according to Michigan Lottery officials:
• More than 17,000 Michigan players won at least $2.
• 40 tickets matched 4 of 5 numbers, but with no Mega ball ($150)
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Zambia experienced consistent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of about 6% for over a decade. Despite this strong economic growth, the Zambian economy is still characterised by relatively low participation of Zambian citizens in the ownership of strategic industries, as well as in value addition. Economic growth is sustainable when it is anchored on citizen participation.
Recognising the challenge in citizen participation levels, Government has had to put in place deliberate measures to avail and secure citizens participation in the domestic economy, particularly through entrepreneurship and value chains.
The Ministry of Commerce has advised the private sector to take advantage of the many investment opportunities in the Country. Ministry of Commerce, Permanent Secretary (PS) Siazongo Siakalenge says there are many investment opportunities for both local and international investors to explore.
Mr. Siakalenge said his Ministry has formulated and implemented policies that were promoting investment climate in the country as could be seen from the growing manufacturing sector.
The PS said this when he toured ZAMBEEF Plc plant in Chisamba.
The Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry is happy with the level of investments coming in the country especially in the manufacturing sector.
Speaking after a tour of Handy Mans Paradise lime plant and Nealcanth Cables in Ndola, Commerce Permanent secretary Siazongo Sikalenge expressed satisfaction at the investment that the country has seen especially in the manufacturing sector.
The Government of the Republic of Zambia through the Commercial, Trade and Industrial (CTI) Policy 2009 – 2014 and the Strategy Paper on Industrialization and Job Creation launched in 2013 has identified the Textile and Garment sub Sector as one of the priority sectors for Zambia's industrialization and economic development.The sub Sector is considered to be labour intensive with potential to greatly contribute to employment and wealth creation at all stages of its value chain.


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Prone to Bias: Towards a Theory of Individual Differences in Bias Manifestation
Oreg, Shaul and Bayazıt, Mahmut (2007) Prone to Bias: Towards a Theory of Individual Differences in Bias Manifestation. (Submitted)
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We adopt an individual-differences perspective and introduce a model that links types of biases and types of people. We propose that biases are created in the course of people's attempts to satisfy basic motivations, and that three such motivation categories underlie many of the biases discussed in the literature. Accordingly, our organizing framework integrates findings from previous research and classifies biases into: verification biases, simplification biases, and regulation biases. Individual differences in core self-evaluations, in approach/avoidance temperament, and in cognitive ability and style help explain how biases come about and why some people are more likely to exhibit particular biases.
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The mission of the Center On Aging is to promote and facilitate activities on aging in the areas of education, research and evaluation, and community service.
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One number – thousands of services. 2-1-1 is a statewide directory of over 5000 resources, including agency services and support groups. 2-1-1 is an easy-to-remember number that connects people who want to give help or get help with a full range of health and human services in their community.
AccessMaine.org AccessMaine.org contains a wide variety of resources and links to useful information for children, adults, and seniors with disabilities. Find information on community organizations, parent and family resources, transition planning, state-based services, health information, and national resources. There is also a dictionary of terms and a guide to using the internet.
Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) Offer older adult home-based care services, support for caregivers, senior information counselors, meals on wheels, adult day care, child care, plus many other services. Maine has five AAAs.
o Aroostook Area Agency on Aging - Serving Aroostook County.
o Eastern Area Agency on Aging - Serving Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington, and Hancock Counties.
o Spectrum Generations - Serving Somerset, Kennebec, Waldo, Knox, Lincoln, and Sagadahoc Counties.
o Seniors Plus - Serving Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford Counties.
o Southern Maine Area Agency on Aging - Serving York and Cumberland Counties.
o Aroostook Area Agency on Aging - Serving Aroostook County.
o Eastern Area Agency on Aging - Serving Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington, and Hancock Counties.
o Spectrum Generations - Serving Somerset, Kennebec, Waldo, Knox, Lincoln, and Sagadahoc Counties.
o Seniors Plus - Serving Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford Counties.
o Southern Maine Area Agency on Aging - Serving York and Cumberland Counties.
Dirigo Pines Dirigo Pines is a University of Maine affiliated, comprehensive Retirement Community in Orono, Maine, with one story cottages and an Inn that includes apartments and assisted living suites.
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Maine Alzheimer's Association Raises public awareness and serves as the statewide resource on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders by providing information, education, referral, and support services to families and professionals.
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Maine For ME Senior Directory The most comprehensive listing of Maine-based senior links as well as businesses, news, search, chat and more.
Maine Health Access Foundation The Maine Health Access Foundation (MeHAF), created in 2000, is the state's largest health care foundation. MeHAF promotes affordable and timely access to comprehensive, quality health care and seeks to improve the health of every Maine resident. In particular, MeHAF targets projects that serve the medically uninsured and underserved.
Maine Long Term Care Ombudsman Program A Swedish word, Ombudsman (pronounced om-budz-man) is a specially trained advocate who is given authority under federal and Maine law to investigate and resolve complaints made by, or on behalf of, long-term care consumers.
Maine State Housing Authority Oversees public housing, services to the homeless, and programs for home buyers. Offers data and reports on Maine housing.
Office of Elder ServicesServes older adults, their families and people with disabilities. Included on this page are links to information on the many programs the office is responsible for, policy information, and information of interest to service providers in the state.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Opened in the fall of 1997 as the first program for Maine people, 55 and older. Members devise the curriculum and enroll in non-credit classes taught by peers, primarily retired faculty from USM and other institutions. OLLI provides support for the Maine Lifelong Learning Network which includes senior college programs around the state of Maine offering education opportunities for Mainers over 55.
University of Maine Cooperative Extension The major educational outreach program of the University of Maine, with offices statewide. UMCE provides Maine people with research-based educational programs to help them live fuller, more productive lives. Offers two documents on aging-related issues in Maine: A Coalition for a Maine Aging Initiative Policy Report entitled Getting Old in Maine. The report identifies the issues affecting Maine's elders and the areas where policy action is needed. Also available: Situation Statement—Aging in Maine.
UNE Geriatric Education Center UNE Geriatric Education is a center that deals with geriatric and gerontology issues. Its focus is on healthy aging and how education, training, resources, and research can promote the healthy aging process.
Access America for Seniors U.S. government web site for older adults.
Alliance for Retired Americans National organization launched in January 2001 by a national coalition of AFL-CIO affiliated unions and community-based organizations.
Alzheimer's Association Chicago-based volunteer group providing caregiver resources, chapter locations, and treatment and research information.
Leading Age Leading Age represents 5,600 mission-driven, not-for-profit nursing homes, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living and senior housing facilities, and community service organizations.
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Nonprofit association dedicated to shaping and enriching the experience of aging for all its members and for all Americans.
American Society on Aging National network of professionals in the field of aging.
Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work, AGE-SW Provides leadership and assistance to social work educational programs and professionals in order to advocate for the integration of gerontological content in undergraduate and graduate social work education.
Association for Gerontology in Higher Education National membership organization devoted primarily to gerontological and geriatrics education.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) A federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CMS runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs - two national health care programs that benefit about 75 million Americans.
Road Scholar The nation's first and the world's largest educational and travel organization for adults 55 and over.
Family Caregiver Alliance This national organization provides resources to help those who care for disabled or frail elders. Includes information on managing Alzheimer's disease, tax issues, work and eldercare, an online support group, and much more.
Gerontological Society of America Established in 1945 to promote the scientific study of aging, to encourage exchanges among researchers and practitioners from various disciplines related to gerontology, and to foster the use of gerontological research in forming public policy.
Generations United The only national membership organization focused solely on promoting intergenerational strategies, programs, and public policies.
Medicare Rights Center Not-for-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that older adults and people with disabilities get good, affordable health care. Offers Medicare information for consumers and professionals.
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (NAAAA) The umbrella organization for the 655 area agencies on aging (AAAs) and more than 230 Title VI Native American aging programs in the U.S. Advocates on behalf of the local aging agencies to ensure that needed resources and support services are available to older Americans.
National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Practitioners (NAPGCM) Non-profit, professional organization of practitioners whose purpose is the development, advancement, and promotion of humane and dignified social, psychological, and health care for the elderly and their families through counseling, treatment, and the delivery of concrete services by qualified, certified providers.
National Association of Social Workers - Section on Aging A special membership section of the National Association of Social Workers that advocates for public policies that affect the well-being of older people, their families, and their communities; develops collaborations with consumers and organizations in the field of aging; encourages research to advance knowledge and enhance practice in aging increases awareness of issues on aging; and promotes education and training.
National Caucus and Center on Black Aged, Inc. National organization working to improve the quality of life for elderly African Americans and low income minorities.
National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care Provides information and leadership on federal and state regulatory and legislative policy development and models and strategies to improve care and life for residents of nursing homes and other long term care facilities.
National Council on Aging The nation's first association of organizations and professionals dedicated to promoting the dignity, self-determination, well being, and contributions of older persons.
National Hispanic Council on Aging National membership-based organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for Latino elderly, families, and communities through advocacy, capacity and institution building, development of educational materials, technical assistance, demonstration projects, policy analysis and research.
National Indian Council on Aging (NICOA) The nation's nonprofit advocate for the nation's (est.) 296,000 American Indian and Alaska Native elders. Strives to better the lives of the nation's indigenous seniors through advocacy, employment training, dissemination of information, and data support.
National Institute on Aging The Federal Government's principal agency for conducting and supporting biomedical, social, and behavioral research on the aging process and the diseases and special problems of older people.
Older Women's League The only national grassroots membership organization to focus solely on issues unique to women as they age, OWL strives to improve the status and quality of life of midlife and older women. OWL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that accomplishes its work through research, education, and advocacy activities conducted through a chapter network.
U.S. Administration on Aging Federal agency providing home and community-based services to millions of the nation's vulnerable and hard-to-reach older persons through the programs funded under the Older Americans Act.
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He was a 6-foot-7, 215-pound scoring and rebounding machine who accomplished more in two years of basketball at the College of Staten Island than most players do in four years.
Meet the redoubtable Rob Roesch, who will enter CSI's second Athletics Hall of Fame Class in November with a giant asterisk posted next to his name.
How in the life of Dr. James Naismith wasn't this guy inducted with the inaugural Class of 2012?
"That wasn't a disappointment to me," Roesch was quick to say. "When you consider the quality of the people in the first class, people like Evan Pickman and Ira Sweet. They really were the pioneers. You take a guy like Ira, who goes back to 1959 with the college.
"John Cali (the first men's basketball inductee) was a terrific player. Anytime you're a CUNY MVP a couple times, you're doing something right."
Then, after a short pause, the trademark Roesch humor emerged.
"Listen, they can't induct everybody that first year, right?" he asked. "Nobody would come to the dinners."
The 47-year-old Roesch, another two-time CUNY MVP, will be at the next dinner with wife Christine, who worked as CSI's sports information director when her future husband was a basketball star, and their children Lindsey (18), Andrew (16) and Jack (12).
Roesch scored 1,364 points and grabbed 850 rebounds in a prolific two-year career. He holds school records with 727 points in 1987-88 and 482 rebounds in 1988-89, and ranks second in the career rebounding category behind current head coach Tony Petosa.
He was a two-time winner of the Met Basketball Writers Association's Division III MVP trophy.
The Dolphins were crowned CUNY Tournament champs both seasons, and Roesch credits Howie Ruppert for implementing a full-court pressure system that helped lead to his eye-popping numbers.
"Howie started as head coach my first year and that was the best thing for my own basketball development. He told us we were going to press all 94 feet and defend all parts of the court," said Roesch. "He put me at the front of the press on the guy taking the ball out of bounds, and I capitalized with layups when we created turnovers.
"I was 6-foot-7 and in D3 basketball I had the advantage of being the tallest player out there most of the time."
What most folks might not know about Roesch is that the future attorney failed during his first crack at college and wasn't allowed to play basketball for two years while getting his academics in order.
"I went away to RPI in Troy, N.Y., and when I came home my parents wouldn't let me play basketball anymore because of what they felt was a combination of being away and immaturity," said Roech. "Basketball was taking too much time away from my studies so I was just a student."
The scenario made for an interesting interaction when Roesch bumped into Jay Zieris, another one of CSI's all-time greats on the basketball court, in the Sunnyside hallways.
"Jay (Zieris) came up to me one day and said, 'You're a student here? You're coming out for the team, right?' I said, 'Nope, my parents won't let me.' "
Time heals all wounds – and some college transcripts – and Roesch's maturing process led to the CUNYAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award, the CSI Presidential Scholarship Award and GTE Academic All-American honors – all following his senior season in 1988-89.
Roesch earned a degree in computer science/mathematics and graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1992. He currently is a business development executive for a legal technology company and resides in Red Bank, N.J.


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The Mozilla Foundation, the creators of the open-source Firefox browser, has predicted that by the end of 2005, it will have 10% of the browser market. It doesn't take rocket science to realize that's a swing at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT ) , given the near ubiquity of its Windows operating system and its Internet Explorer browser.
Sure, there are other browser choices out there, such as Opera, Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX ) Netscape, and Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL ) Safari. However, none of these have received quite the publicity that Mozilla has over the course of nearly a year of Microsoft's high-profile insecurities.
ZD Net UK reported that, tracking visitors to its own sites, there's been a noticeable increase in Mozilla users. Last February, 9% of its visitors used Mozilla to access the site, increasing to 19% in October. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Internet Explorer use dropped from 88% to 79% over the same period.
For a little bit more anecdotal evidence, anyone who plays around with Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG ) Blogger and surveys its traffic using a site meter has probably noticed some increase in visitors who utilize Mozilla (as well as the Linux operating system). Even seeing a small slice of site traffic that happens by a blog could be an eye-opening experience in terms of the types of browsers and operating systems that are being used by surfers around the globe.
For now, SpreadFirefox.com claimed that Firefox reached the 5 millionth download marker on Oct. 16, with its latest download count at a little more than 6 million. (SpreadFirefox.com appears to be the open-source answer to a guerrilla marketing campaign.)
The close ties between Microsoft's Windows operating system and its Explorer browser have caused security issues that continue even now, creating opportunities for rivals. However, despite the interesting rumors, news reports have it that Google is still publicly insisting that there is no "Gbrowser" bubbling away in its labs. (On the one hand, a Gbrowser might put a damper on any other contenders, but imagine what Google and Mozilla might do if they teamed up.)
Although increasing defection from Internet Explorer isn't a reason for Microsoft shareholders to panic, it does represent a slow slippage in users' trust. Meanwhile, as the hacker community's favorite foe, Microsoft has got its work cut out for it as far as making users feel secure again -- and eventually, that could be a threat to the top line.
Do you think that more and more people will switch to a browser other than Internet Explorer? Or is this all much ado about nothing? Let other Fools know how you feel on the Microsoft discussion board.
Alyce Lomax does not own shares of any of the companies mentioned.


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text: voters Center for Michigan creates citizen's agenda for 2014 elections By Stateside Staff • May 6, 2014 Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio Listen Listening... / 10:54 There are plenty of issues on the minds of Michigan voters as we look to the November elections: education, college, poverty, how to spend public dollars, our economy, our quality of life. The Center for Michigan has been listening to what voters are saying. The result is Michigan Speaks: The Citizen's Agenda for the 2014 election. It's being released today. Here to tell us what the voters are thinking about and hoping for is Phil Power, founder of the Center for Michigan. Listen to the full interview above. Unmarried women voters may be crucial in the upcoming fall elections By Stateside Staff • Apr 8, 2014 Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio Listen Listening... / 4:28 As Michigan's August 5 primary and November election draw closer, there are some very tight races shaping up. The Cook Political Report says four congressional Republicans are in tight races. Representatives Dan Benishek in the 1st, Tim Walberg in the 7th, Justin Amash in the 3rd and Kerry Bentivolio on the 11th districts are in very competitive races. Add to that the race to fill Democrat Carl Levin's Senate seat and the race for governor. All of these, according to Cook, are among the most competitive races in the country. So who are the voters who could most influence the outcome of these races, depending upon whether they stay home or go to the polls? For the answer we turned to Page Gardner, president of the non-profit and nonpartisan Voter Participation Center. She joined us today. Listen to the full interview above. Want to vote early in Michigan? What's your excuse? By Keith Oppenheim • Oct 2, 2012 suttonhoo.blogspot.com The presidential election is still a month away, but in many states, early voting is already underway. Today, Ohio opened the polls to early voters. It's one of 34 states that have some kind of early voting system. Michigan, however, is not one of those states. Last week, I went to my local city hall. I was feeling good. It was my daughter's 18th birthday. I helped her register to vote - civic pride for a dad. After that, my mood darkened. Legal voters refused ballots By Lester Graham • Aug 7, 2012 nopsa.hiit.fi UPDATE: Reports of voters being turned away because they declined to check a box asking them to verify U.S. citizenship have been coming in from several areas of the state. Michigan Radio first became aware of the situation when talking to Michigan Campaign Finance Network's Rich Robinson who said he was refused a ballot because he would not check the box. He refused because it is not legally required. Other media sources picked up on the story. (see Free Press) Other political groups received calls from voters complaining they had been refused the right to vote after declining to check the citizenship box. Chad Livengood with the Detroit News reported: Michigan sued over late absentee ballots for primary By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jul 31, 2012 Ruth Johnson for Secretary of State The federal government is suing the state of Michigan over the failure of some local governments to get absentee ballots delivered in a timely way to members of the armed forces, reports the Associated Press. The U.S. Justice Department asked a Grand Rapids federal judge today to order some local governments to count absentee ballots received after the Aug. 7 primary election. Michigan Dems will have 2 chances to support Obama By Kyle Norris • Feb 4, 2012 The Michigan Democratic Party is changing course and allowing Democrats to vote in the Feb. 28 presidential primary and also participate in the May caucus. The change was announced Saturday. Party Chairman Mark Brewer says there's no need to have President Barack Obama's name on the primary ballot, but the secretary of state insists it must be there under Michigan law. It's Election Day By Zoe Clark • Nov 2, 2010 It's Election Day. Voters in Michigan are set to choose many new candidates for top offices. Voters are set to choose a new governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and attorney general. Voters will also choose two state Supreme Court nominees. All of Michigan's fifteen U.S. Congressional seats are also up for election, as well as seats for the state Senate and House.


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THE CHEAT SHEET—What you need to know about Tulane's opponent this week
Opponent: North Texas
ULM record: 2-2, 0-0 in Conference USA
Biggest win this season: Sept. 14's 34-27 win against Ball State
When: 2:35 p.m. Saturday
Where: Mercedes-Benz Superdome (72,000)|New Orleans, LA
Records: Tulane 3-2, 1-0 in Conference USA; UNT 2-2, 0-0 in C-USA
TV: Fox College Sports
Radio: WMTI FM 106.1 "The Ticket"
Worst loss: The 27-21 loss to Ohio.
UNT's Biggest threat: For the second straight week, Tulane faces a veteran quarterback who has had great success. North Texas passer Derek Thompson has passed for 1,020 yards in four games – the highest total through four games at the school since 2007. Thompson directed a scoring drive against No. 9 Georgia Sept. 21 to help the Mean Green tie the score at 21 in the third quarter. "He's a great player," co-defensive coordinator Jon Sumrall said. "He doesn't throw a lot of interceptions, doesn't take a lot of sacks, the offensive line helps protect him. This offensive play is extremely balanced." Thompson isn't afraid of a hole. The Mean Green got down 20-3 to Ball State, but his 31-of-47 for 274-yard afternoon helped rally the team. He even threw in a 26-yard touchdown run—which won the game-- late in the fourth quarter.
Biggest weakness: Without questions, it's pass defense. North Texas is ranked last in Conference USA in the category, allowing an average of 314.2 passing yards a game. Some of that has to do with opponents' strengths, but the Mean Green has plenty of room for improvement in the secondary.
How Tulane can take advantage: This is an ideal moment for Tulane quarterback Nick Montana to put on a show for the homecoming crowd. His 65-yard passing night at ULM was disguised by a valiant running game that churned up 253 rushing yards last week. "We've kind of been on a little bit of a roller-coaster so we have to get consistent in getting both of them firing at the same time and I think that will help a lot," Montana said. Depending on coverages, Montana could get at least a mid-range passing game going. Last week ULM hung back and kept receivers Ryan Grant, Justyn Shackleford, and Xavier Rush in front of the back line. "I think there was bracketing (Ryan Grant) -- they were kid of playing back, not letting us run those deep routes or anything so we had to try to get the under-routes," Shackleford said.
Further reading:
Here's what the Denton Record-Chronicle wrote about North Texas this week.
Walk-on kicker Zach Paul comes through big in North Texas' season:
North Texas likes the parity in Conference USA's West Division
North Texas is only 2-13 on the road under Coach Dan McCarney
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Kobe can never be like Mike
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The more I watch Kobe Bryant rip through the NBA playoffs, the more drawn I become to the idea that he has become a little bit better basketball player than Michael Jordan. If you use your eyes, and you're not wearing Jordan-colored sunglasses, you can see it. But no matter how good Kobe becomes, no matter how many MVP's and championships he finishes with, he'll never achieve the same level of public idolatry that Jordan did. There's no way.
I've been reading excerpts from the late, great, David Halberstam's classic book, "Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made." I don't remember much of Mike's heyday with the Bulls, because I was too young; I remember a little bit of the tail end of his career, but even then I wasn't really into basketball. However, I realize and understand that he transended the game and became a cultural icon. Better than anyone else probably could have, Halberstam puts it into words.
Jordan wasn't just famous; he wan't just famous for a basketball player; he wasn't just famous in some places. Jordan was known everywhere. He remains amongst the recognizble faces in the world, but during the 90's he may have been the most recognizable. What American was more famous than Michael Jordan? As Halberstam points out, Jordan's notoriety was greater "in many distant parts of the globe than the President of the United States or any movie or rock star." Jordan was royalty, and no celebrity was more beloved. Women swooned over him, and men and young boys alike wanted to be just like him.
This was for many reasons. First and foremost, obviously, Jordan was given a unique gift, the gift to play basketball in a way that made him seem inhuman, God-like. There was no restraint on his athletic ability, his game was remarkably skilled and well-rounded, and he could do whatever he wanted on a basketball court at any time. If you irked him, you got 40. If you pissed him off, you got 50. That's man-amongst-men cliche, only Jordan was a guard, 6-6 and slender, not a behemoth like Shaq or Wilt. Halberstam best describes Jordan's athletic talent when he describes him as a "genetic fluke."
But perhaps just as important to the Jordan mystique was the way he represented himself off the court. Jordan was handsome . He was well-spoken and articulate. He was immaculately dressed, stylish suits before and after games, and clean-cut. Spotless. He was charming and charismatic, and mostly non-controversial, because he knew how to use that charm and charisma with the media. You can't control all of these attributes, but you can control some of them, and Jordan realized that a person in his position, a global icon, should carry himself with a certain dignity and grace. This was all part of Jordan's gift. He quietly accepted his position, and embraced it, while still maintaining his nonpartisan position. ("Republican's wear sneakers, too," he once said, the anti-Ali, if you follow me.)
Kobe is just as good-looking and eloquent, and he cleans up just as nicely. And as I said, we've reached the point where he's probably become a better pure basketball player, his handle more malleable, his range and offensive repertoire more deep. But nobody sees Kobe in the same way they seem MJ; Lakers fans like myself always stood behind Kobe, right and wrong and perceived wrong, but off the court I don't see him as having any kind of aura.
On the court, he is a master craftsman, even more so than Michael, but outside of that realm he is, in a sense, just an average guy. He's not cool. Every guy doesn't want to be like him. Women aren't crazy about him. Kids love him unfailingly, but that's becuase they are so innocent.
Michael and his image-makers were able to convince adults that he was perfect, that he could do no wrong; Kobe the person is as imperfect and human as they come. Unlike Michael, he seems just like the rest of us. Actually, because of his high-profile and the frequency with which his mistakes and misgivings become open to the public, he seems even more flawed. If Kobe has mystique, it's of a different kind: he's complicated, he's confusing, nobody understands him and nobody ever will. He's more interesting than mystifying.
People make fun of Kobe. He gave himself the nickname of Mamba, but when bloggers call him that, they're doing it to mock him. Nobody made fun of Michael. Nobody mocked Michael. Everybody loved him too much to do that. Jordan was held in awe.
And still is. And always will be. Kobe, on the other hand, never will be, at least not blindly. And that's why he will never match, let alone surpass, Jordan in the eyes of the public. People will be drinking the MJ Kool-Aid until the end of time, so many years from now, even though Kobe was better, it will never really seem like he was.


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CHICOPEE - Center Street will be closed for much of the day today as workers continue to clean up after Friday morning's fiery fuel truck crash.
The accident, which spilled over 10,000 gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel, took the life of truck driver Aaron J. Staelens, 43, of Richmond, N.H.
Meanwhile, a 27-year-old Chicopee woman, seriously injured when she drove into a Dumpster at the crash scene yesterday, was listed in fair condition this morning at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, a hospital spokesman said.
Chicopee Police Lt. Richard M. Nunes identified the woman as Maura Appleby.
Police said the Dumpster had been left on the shoulder of Center Street as part of the cleanup of the Friday tanker crash.
Nunes said Appleby's accident, which occurred about 4:30 a.m., remains under investigation. It is not yet known whether she had been wearing a seat belt, he said.
Staelens died 10 hours after his tanker hit a guardrail and sign post when another driver crossed in front of him on I-91 north Friday morning. The impact ignited the tanker and the trailer separated from the tractor and rolled down an embankment, landing 100 feet off Center Street.
Chicopee police closed that section of Center Street for further cleanup at 7 a.m. and said it will remain closed until 3 p.m.
State police filed paperwork in Chicopee District Court yesterday to summon Victor Aponte, 35, of Holyoke, to face charges of negligent motor vehicle homicide, operating to endanger and failure to stay within marked lanes in connection with the Friday accident. No date has been set for a court hearing on the matter.
Aponte was driving a 1995 Subaru Impreza when he was entering I-91 from Interstate 391. State police said Aponte lost control of the car and went across the roadway, striking another car that was traveling in front of Staelens. Staelens then struck the Subaru and went off the roadway. Another car also struck the Subaru. A passenger in the Subaru sustained minor injuries.
Fuel spilled onto the highway, into and into surrounding soil and the nearby Connecticut River.
The state Department of Environmental Protection is overseeing the cleanup. Spokeswoman Eva V. Tor said the tanker company, P.S. Marston Associates Inc. of North Hampton, N.H., is paying for the cleanup and has hired Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc., of Norwell, to do the job. Marston Associates is the owner of Abenaqui Carriers, the company Staelens worked for.


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Green Bay's most recent game proved that Thompson must at least be a mild participant when the NFL's March Madness strikes in 15 days.
The score read 23-20. The reason read 134-28. The New York Giants were in the Packers' zone-blocking playbook from start-to-finish and Mike McCarthy had no other option in the running game – unlike the G-Men. Brandon Jacobs opened the wound and Ahmad Bradshaw poured salt into it. Each back rushed for more than 60 yards, while the former had a touchdown and the latter had a 48-yard score called back.
Meanwhile, Ryan Grant ran into a heap of bodies on each of his 13 carries.
A two-man attack allowed the Giants to control the ball as if they were a basketball team in the pre-shot clock era. Playing keep-away, Jacobs and Bradshaw combined for 37 carries and New York dominated the time of possession, 40:01 to 22:34. Sans Giants miscues, the NFC Championship could have been a three-touchdown game, instead of a three-point game because of Jacobs (6-4, 264) and Bradshaw (5-9, 198).
Grant is undoubtedly the answer to Green Bay's once-sad running game. But he needs a running mate. And since Rudy Giuliani refused to autograph a Packers hat along his campaign trail, Thompson must look elsewhere.
One possible answer can be found within the division. Although his name has flirted with first-round flop status, soon-to-be unrestricted free agent T.J. Duckett could be the final piece to a championship puzzle in Titletown. A relatively-cheap, two-year, $7 million-type of contract is worth a shot at obtaining an offensive dimension every contender has and every pretender craves: A two-headed monster. If Thompson prefers the younger variety, then a second- or third-round draft pick would be worth the investment.
Either way, a power, complementary running back must become a staple to the Packers' second-ranked offense next season.
Last season sure looked like year of the quarterback for the season's first 19 weeks. Ten quarterbacks threw for at least 26 touchdowns and seven threw for more than 4,000 yards. The playoffs alone consisted of six MVP signal-callers. But in the end, as our granddads promised, a strong rush offense and run defense prevailed. Thompson shouldn't fight the cliché and continue building a passing team. There are three years worth of Super Bowl blueprints as warnings. Jerome Bettis and Willie Parker combined for 136 yards and a touchdown to beat Seattle two years ago. Dominic Rhodes and Joseph Addai went for 190 and one against Chicago's fifth-ranked rush defense. And then Jacobs and Bradshaw did the unthinkable, knocking off the most prolific single-season passer, receiver, and team the league has ever seen.
Duckett isn't Jacobs, but he's also not DeShawn Wynn.
After six seasons, three different teams and the persistent inability to secure a starting gig, Duckett would most likely embrace a specialized role on a title contender. Duckett's best season came in 2003 when he ran for 779 yards and 11 touchdowns – as the third rung on Atlanta's "D.V.D." backfield. He wanted more, left the Falcons, flamed out in Washington and got stuck in the Lions' backfield mess behind Kevin Jones and Tatum Bell for most of 2007. Still, albeit quietly, Duckett enjoyed an unnoticed, late-season resurgence with 252 yards on 51 carries (5.0 avg.) in his final six games, including 102 yards and a TD against Kansas City's 13th ranked rush defense.
Duckett has been a disappointment to those that envisioned him as a modern-day Earl Campbell. He hasn't stayed healthy and his two-star speed is only a slight step above Najeh Davenport. But through six up-and-down seasons as a No. 2 back, Duckett was bred to be what Green Bay needs next season.
After instilling the mechanical zone-blocking scheme in Denver and turning Terrell Davis into a 2,000-yard MVP, offensive line coach Alex Gibbs took his genius (and controversial) system to Atlanta in 2004. With Warrick Dunn as the subject of the system (1106 yards, 9 touchdowns), Michael Vick as a constant threat (902-3) and Duckett as the bulldozer (509-8), the Falcons went from 5-11 in '03 to 11-5 and one game away from the Super Bowl. Duckett's role was diminished in this transition, but he was more effective. Atlanta's passing game dipped to a Pop Warner-level, defenses knew Atlanta was going to run, they did, and it still worked.
What happens when you blend a tailor-made ZBS back (Grant) with an abnormally large change-of-pace back (Duckett) and instead of Vick throwing passes to Peerless Price and Brian Finneran, Brett Favre is throwing passes to Donald Driver and Greg Jennings?
Duckett could anchor a new smash-mouth play set for the Packers – something to turn when the ZBS is derailed, or simply needs a rest. Simple off-tackle and up-the-gut dives were almost nonexistent last year, outside of an inverted wishbone package. Adding a needed weapon to an already-loaded offense could take Green Bay's offense to an inconceivable level.
Duckett's career is at a crossroads. A 10-carry-a-game role in the Packers' backfield is probably the best offer he'll receive.
But the Packers need Duckett more than he needs them. Drafting a younger, 245-plus-pound running back seems more logical, but this year's loaded RB draft class lacks such specimens.
The ultra-patient Thompson will be tempted to let Wynn grow into the "big back" role. Before a season-ending shoulder injury, the 232-pound Wynn was somewhat effective with four touchdowns on 50 carries, averaging 4.1 a clip.
But it is wishful thinking to expect Wynn to fulfill the automatic, three yards and a cloud of dust back Green Bay needs to complement the home-run hitting Grant. Wynn runs as if he's 30 pounds lighter than he is. The "lazy" stigma that dogged him at Florida sporadically resurfaced during the summer and into the season when he regularly took himself off the field. Wynn is an enigma, 25 percent boom, 75 percent bust sophomore, who lacks the bruising presence the Packers' offense thirsts for.
So what if Duckett will never be a full-time starter? He isn't elusive. He lacks open field speed (see: two runs over 50 yards in six years). So what?
Green Bay has that, in Grant.
In a span of 11 days, McCarthy saw what happens when the scheme is at its best … and at its worst. At Seattle, against a finesse defense, lanes opened up and mediocre guards Daryn Colledge and Jason Spitz washed down linebackers. But against an attacking defense, like New York, defenders beat guards to the spot and collapsed the line of scrimmage, giving Grant no chance. The Packers lack a runner who can deviate from the zone-blocking scheme and create manageable third down situations. The Packers' final two offensive drives in the fourth quarter of the NFC Championship ended with third-and-10, and third-and-15 short passes of submission.
The ZBS is rhythm-based, and for nine of 12 games Grant was dominant. He had 11 runs of 20 yards or more, compiling the most rushing yards this side of LaDainian Tomlinson in the final 10 games. Unfortunately, one of those three bad games came when it mattered most. Adding a power package to the running game would have avoided the "We have no choice but to pass" attitude that dominated the Giants loss.
The Packers' backfield is light-years ahead of where it was last year at this time. The hard work is done. Grant enters next season as the Packers unquestioned thoroughbred.
Now the team needs a heavier horse to make a good running game great.
Tyler Dunne is a regular contributor to PackerReport.com and Packer Report magazine. E-mail him at email@example.com.


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Four South Whidbey teens recently tried their hands at faux governance.
Jake Baesler, Josef Jackson, Jaiden Jones and Gavin Imes represented a city, a county and two state districts at the Evergreen Boys State gathering last month. The leadership conference teaches youths how the federal republic works in the United States of America.
At the 2013 meeting, the four South Whidbey High School students participated in simulated government with more than 200 other teenage boys from across the state.
The young politicians are elected to various positions of government at the conference. Jones was voted to the Birch City Council; Baesler to the Puget County Council; and Jackson and Imes were voted to be state representatives. Imes was also nominated as his political party's convention chair.
Operated by American Legion at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, the leadership camp is open to any high school boy who completed 11th grade and has at least one semester of high school remaining. Student nominees are expected to demonstrate outstanding leadership, character, scholarship and loyalty and service to their school.
Each participant at the meeting is eligible to receive four college credits and scholarships. South Whidbey's participants had their tuition, room and board and transportation covered by American Legion Post 141 and Sons of American Legion Squadron 141.
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Test cricket is real challenge for Narine: Saqlain Mushtaq
Submitted by Rajiv Dhoot on Thu, 11/08/2012 - 14:19
Karachi, Nov 8 : Former Pakistani off spinner Saqlain Mushtaq, who revolutionised the art of off spin and made the doosra a household term, feels that Sunil Narine has been very impressive in the shorter formats and has a bright future ahead of him.
The West Indies plays their first match of the tour of Bangladesh against a BCB XI on November 8 at Savar. The tour comprises two Test matches, 5 ODIs and a solitary T20.
Speaking of the threat that young off spinner Narine poses to the Bangladeshi batsmen in the upcoming series, Saqlain said that Test cricket is where Narine will be thoroughly tested and the longer format is where greatness should be measured.
He said: "I've seen Narine from time to time on television. He's an exciting talent. He was given the award for the emerging player of the year at this years ICC awards and he comes to Bangladesh on the back of a very good World T20 tournament in Sri Lanka recently. So he's in good form and full of confidence.
"We'll be analysing his variations ahead of the series and I'll be advising the batsmen on what to look for. I feel that Narine's main strength is his control, but the Bangladesh team are very good players of spin and will be looking to unsettle him.
"The young man (Narine) has impressed me greatly in the shorter formats of cricket, but he has to remember that taking wickets in Test cricket will be the real challenge for him and a bowler''s greatness is measured by his performances in the five day format."
The West Indies play their first match of the tour of Bangladesh against a BCB XI on 8th November at Savar. The tour comprises two Test matches, 5 one day internationals and a solitary T20I, Pakpassion. net reports.
Saqlain since his playing days has had a number of coaching spells around the world, including the centre of excellence in Australia and as the spin bowling coach for New Zealand Cricket.
More recently Saqlain signed an initial four-month deal as the spin bowling coach with the Bangladesh Cricket Board and has been working with cricketers in Bangladesh of all ages and levels of experience. (ANI)
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If Anaheim's bid for an NFL franchise proves successful, one thing is certain: the team will fare badly. Clipper badly. For whatever reason, Anaheim and football go together about as well as cookies and ass. It doesn't matter if we're talking professional, college or high school, Anaheim is where football dreams meet ignominious ends, or, worse, Georgia Frontiere. A few low highlights:
Of the four football leagues created during the past 60 years that set out to topple the NFL—the All-American Football Conference, the American Football League, the World Football League and the United States Football League—the WFLeague (founded by two Newport Beach lawyers) was by far the worst, folding after just one and a half seasons. The league's local affiliate, the Southern California Sun, played in Anaheim Stadium and is best remembered for its magenta-and-orange uniforms, mankind's first attempt at Lasik eye surgery.
Believe it or not, Tom Umberg, there was a time when Anaheim was happy its Anaheim Stadium tenant went by the moniker of "Los Angeles." That would've been when the Los Angeles Rams left the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1980 for Anaheim Stadium and became . . . the Los Angeles Rams. Anaheim officials never really cared for the team, especially after the Rams became better known in the '90s for watermelon-wearing fans, happy-footed quarterback Jim "Chris" Everett and looney-toon owner Georgia Frontiere. The Lambs left for St. Louis in 1995 and went on to win Super Bowl XXXIV. In accepting the championship trophy, Frontiere told the world that the victory "proves to me that we did the right thing in going to St. Louis." Funny: Anaheim officials still think the same thing.
Since my senior year—1997—when the Colonists shared the Orange League title with the Valencia Tigers, Anaheim High has gone 10-70, the worst record in Orange County prep football in that time. A shame, really, since Anaheim was OC's first great football dynasty, a Southern California powerhouse until the 1970s when Mexicans like me started to brown up the school.
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What is it about idiot Seattle pro-team owners with Orange County dreams? First, local bloated businessman George Argyros bought the Mariners in the '80s and treated the franchise so poorly that he was ranked as one of the worst sports owners ever—yes, right up there with Donald Sterling. Then, in the spring of 1996, Seahawks owner Ken Behring ordered his players to head south and conduct spring practice in what is now Anaheim's Oxford Academy. Behring sang the praises of Anaheim, vowing to move here, going so far to attend a "Welcome Ken Behring" party at the Pacific Club—where he promptly thanked everyone and announced the Seahawks were staying put in Seattle.
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Dordt College News
Dordt Discovery Days
June 26, 2006
Dordt Discovery Days academic camp brought 190 junior high students to the campus June 26-30.
This year's sixth, seventh and eighth grade participants represent 17 states, from both coasts and many states between. The week-long camp is offered annually, with most classes taught by Dordt College professors or alumni, and participants invited to stay in college housing.
Discovery Day participants explore interests ranging from music to computer programming, art to science, theater to sports. This year's camp offered 25 courses, including Real Engineering; Ooey-Gooey Science; Rockets and Rollercoasters; CSI: Sioux Center; DC Recording Studio; Theater Classic; Gamemaker.com; stained glass art; war and soldiering; computer programming; and many other classes in music, theater, art and sports.
This year, Dordt Discovery Days participants came from Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kansas, North Carolina, Montana, Colorado, California, Washington, Maine and Virginia.
Sixth through eighth graders interested in attending next year's Discovery Days should call coordinator Dianne DeWit at 712-722-6029 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for a brochure.
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Indian Film/TV actress
Popular name Shama Sikander
Birth name Shama Gesawat
Birth date August 4, 1981
Birth place Makrana, Rajasthan
Occupation Actress
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Hair color Black
Eye color Black
Shama Sikander is an Indian Film/TV actress. She is known mainly for playing the role of Pooja Mehta in the popular Sony TV drama Ye Meri Life Hai.
Her father is Sikander Ali Gesawat, and mother is Gulshan Sikander Ali Gesawat. Shama has two brothers, Rizwan and Khalid, and one sister named Salma. She is known by the nickname Shams among her friends. She currently resides in Oakland Park, which is situated in Oshiwara, a neighborhood in the suburb of Andheri in Mumbai.
In 1991, she came to Mumbai to try her luck in Bollywood. Shama received fame as Pooja Mehta in the hit television serial Ye Meri Life Hai.she did a movie named coincidence ki talash.


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- More than a week after a fire devastated a small strip mall in Grasmere, business owners and employees are picking up the pieces so that cash registers can ring again soon.
Amid the fading smell of burned wood and piles of rubble, Spare Pair Vision Center owner Dr. Andrew Bienstock trudged forward, honoring customers' orders placed before the fire gutted his shop.
"Our main goal was to make sure all of our customers were able to pick up their glasses," Dr. Bienstock said. "We have disruptions going forward-- we can't do exams, we can't do anything -- but at least we made sure everybody going back is taken care of."
One grateful customer of six years picked up his glasses from a small folding table set up outside the front of the store.
"I think it's great that they're still able to do it — serving people the best they can," said Robert Wagner of Oakwood.
Although insurance should cover the majority of damage, Dr. Bienstock cannot perform any new eye examinations or take any new orders for specs until possibly next week when he hopes he can return to business as usual.
"Part of the problem is that we're kind of handicapped by -- we have to get temporary electric," Dr. Bienstock said. "We have no electric still."
The property owner, Matt Ligotti, said nine stores are essentially out of business until they can get electricity.
Ligotti said there has been a "stall" with Con Edison.
"Forty-eight hours ago they said they would get temporary electricity back," Ligotti said.
But today after speaking with Con Edison, Ligotti said he was told it could take up to six months before anyone gets their power back -- a delay that could put all of the stores out of business permanently, he said.
But Mark Irving, Con Edison director of public affairs on Staten Island, put the onus on the property owner.
"The meter room was burned and the meter room has to be repaired," Irving said. "We will re-energize them once the meter room is repaired."
Con Edison's responsibility "ends at the property line," Irving explained, and once the needed repairs are made by the property owner, the electric company could send power to the meters after the new equipment is inspected.
The Shoe Repair shop next to Spare Pair was moving its merchandise to an adjacent vacant storefront temporarily, as its regular location was heavily damaged.
At least 10 heavy-duty motors in the shop's shoe repair and knife-sharpening equipment could be damaged from water, but the owner will not know for sure until they have electricity to attempt turning on the equipment, said a store employee who wished to remain anonymous.
"They have to change the beams in the roof," the employee gave as the reason for the temporary move. "The first thing they (the fire department) did was break the window and showcase."
Despite the massive damage to the storefront, the employee estimated that about a quarter of the merchandise sustained damage.
Some of the other businesses shut down by the blaze are Dunkin' Donuts, Domino's Pizza, Nails R Us, Hair Express and Emiliani Beauty Supply.
There is no evidence that a recent fire that damaged a strip mall in Grasmere started in a Con Edison transformer, according to the utility. A report in the Advance Saturday erroneously referred to the fire as having originated in a transformer.


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INDIANAPOLIS – Bill O'Brien may be Penn State's new head football coach, but until the New England Patriots' Super Bowl run concludes his mind will be fully in Indianapolis.
"This is a week about the Patriots and really not about Penn State right now," O'Brien said. "I'm trying to do the best I can to put together, with the staff, a great game plan."
O'Brien was hired to succeed Joe Paterno at Penn State and has been forced to leave the Patriots a few times to tend to business, including last week when he returned to campus for Paterno's funeral.
He said that coach Bill Belichick has had no problems with him taking a day off here and there to take care of business and that the rest of the New England staff has stepped up to fill his void when he's gone.
At Penn State, O'Brien believes he's assembled one of the best coaching staffs in the country and has leaned on those guys to keep things moving until he can take over.
"It's really about the people at both ends. Bill (Belichick) has really helped here as far as the offensive staff and some administrative people that have helped me in New England when I haven't been here," O'Brien said. "I think I've put together one of the best staffs in the country at Penn State, and they've hit the ground running up there."
The addition of Josh McDaniels, who is serving as an offensive assistant until O'Brien leaves, has helped alleviate some of the burden O'Brien has faced in carrying two jobs.
"We have a very, very good working relationship. We're very lucky," O'Brien said. "Bill is very lucky, the Patriots are lucky to have him back and I'm lucky to have him for these last three weeks. He's done a great job of just giving us some throughts on what he sees, especially defensively, but also with our own team."
O'Brien plans to return to Penn State the Monday after the Super Bowl.
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A Flood Advisory was posted late Friday afternoon for Hunterdon, Warren, Morris, Somerset and Sussex counties in New Jersey as well as parts of Bucks, Berks, Lehigh, Montgomery and Northampton in Pennsylvania.
At 4:44 p.m., a line of moderate to heavy rainfall was moving into the area and producing rainfall rates of 1 inch or more in an hour, the National Weather Service said. Excessive runoff from this activity will cause flooding of highways, streets and underpasses as well as other drainage areas and low-lying spots.
"Do not drive your vehicle into areas where the water covers the roadway," NWS warned. "The water depth may be too great to allow your car to cross safely."
Driving into flood waters could cost you your life, or at the very least, .thousands of dollars of vehicle damage. Nearly half of all flash flood fatalities are auto-related, NWS noted.


text: The last time we heard new material from Jai Paul it was the instant classic 'BTSTU' which went on to be one of the year's best tracks as well as a beat for Drake and then finally done justice to as a beat for Pusha T (in response to Drake). Unlike most other producers that hit it big with a track on the internet, after 'BTSTU' made him huge, Jai Paul remained very quiet with no new material for almost an entire year. That all changed today when Jai Paul dropped the demo for his track 'Jasmine'. Considering how much hype was built around 'BTSTU' and how Jai Paul made us all wait for such a long time to hear this, it goes without saying that 'Jasmine' has a lot to live up to. While this is only a demo for the track, Jai Paul pulls of something as memorable yet completely different than what we've heard from him before. 'Jasmine' employs some auto-tuned vocals and guitar lines that sound straight off Daft Punk's Discovery and succeeds at making one of the most sensual songs I've heard in a long time. The emotion and vibe coming from Jai Paul's vocal delivery hits the same sort of pop gold as Thriller era Michael Jackson. Hopefully it won't be 11 more months until we hear more material.


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As one of more than 200 councils of Girls on the Run (GOTR) International, GOTR of Allen County is a is a 501(c)3 nonprofit serving 8- to 11-year-old girls in Northeast Indiana. Our mission is to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum that creatively integrates running. GOTR of Northeast Indiana hosts twice-weekly team meetings in 10 regional locations. At the end of each 10-week session, each girl is paired with an adult "running buddy." Together, the girls and buddies participate in a celebratory 5k to culminate the season – giving each girl a tangible sense of achievement and a belief that she CAN.
The Girls on the Run of Northeast Indiana 5K is not just a 5K run/walk, but a HUGE CELEBRATION of what we can achieve when we decide on a goal and put in the work required to achieve it. This event honors the 3rd through 5th grade spring 2016 Girls on the Run participants, who have trained for 10 weeks to complete their first 5K. EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE--You don't need to be a Girls on the Run participant to run!
We'll have a "happy hair" station, a D.J., music, a "Mascot Dash," a poster-making station, and some surprises to help you keep your eye on the prize! Tutus are welcome! Guys are, too! 100% of the proceeds from this race benefit Girls on the Run of Northeast Indiana. This year and last year we were able to give FREE running shoes because some of our girls were running in flats that they were to school
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Syracuse, NY -- A call from a witness to a burglary Monday in a neighborhood near Lincoln Park led to the arrest of two Syracuse men, Syracuse police records state.
Just before 10:30 a.m., the caller gave 911 the descriptions of two men he saw carrying a large, flat-screen television out of an upstairs apartment in the 200 block of Pattison Street, records state. One man wore a black baseball cap, the caller said.
Officers went to the scene and spread out through the neighborhood. They found the TV, a 50-inch, 3-D, high definition model, behind a house in the 100 block of Pattison Street.
In the 400 block of Elm Street, a man with a black baseball cap was spotted, records state. He threw off the cap and took off into the back yards.
Police set up a perimeter around the area and officers saw a man run out of a back yard and onto Oak Place, according to records.
Police took Antonio D. Vallejo, 17, of 800 Pond St., into custody in front of 105 Oak Place. In his possession were an I-Pod, a Nintendo DS and jewelry belonging to the homeowner, records state. The witness to the burglary also identified Vallejo as the man in the black baseball cap, records state.
"The neighbors were extremely helpful to us," Sgt. Tom Connellan said today.
Neighbors along the man's route were able to give police his direction and kept police updated, Connellan said.
"They were able to zero us in on Vallejo," Connellan said.
After Vallejo was in custody, police discovered something unusual, Connellan said. It was
Vallejo's second trip to that house that day, Connellan said.
"He had gone earlier and burglarized the apartment," Connellan said.
He had taken the results from that first burglary and tried to pawn some of it, Connellan said. Then Vallejo went to an accomplice to ask for help.
"He told him there was a nice, big TV and he needed help to carry it," Connellan said.
Police were able to develop information that Vallejo recruited Tomes Jimenez III, 18, of 124 Jasper St., for the job, Connellan said. Detectives found Jimenez and he admitted his involvement in the theft of the TV, Connellan said.
Vallejo and Jimenez were charged with burglary and grand larceny, both felonies. Vallejo also was charged with criminal mischief, a misdemeanor.
Police were able to recover the majority of things taken in the two burglaries, Connellan said.


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Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.
What: Shares of Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA ) have fallen by as much as 12% today to all-time lows on continued fears of a slowdown in social gaming, sparked by bearish analyst comments.
So what: Cowen & Co. analyst Doug Creutz says that daily average unique users have fallen by 4.8 million -- to 54.2 million -- over the past month, indicating that Facebook's (Nasdaq: FB ) desktop platform is past its prime. He believes that the platform has hit a "negative inflection point" as gamers migrate toward mobile platforms.
Now what: On the other hand, Zynga is aggressively trying to move into mobile gaming, but for now still relies on Facebook for the vast majority of sales. Just as mobile is a weak spot for Facebook, it's also one for Zynga. Creutz notes that this is the second, consecutive, significant, sequential drop in daily users, which doesn't bode well for its future prospects. That figure above represents an 8.2% plunge in daily users.
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We're starting to really like these crazy dream sequences Tommy has.
Last night he's on a job and all of a sudden, when a tourist is about to snap a picture of Tommy, The Lou, Franco, Sean, Black Shawn and Mike a bomb explodes. The entire street is covered in 9/11-like dust and the firefighters are caught in the middle of a series of suitcase bomb explosions that ends with a group of men standing around with open, ticking bombs and Tommy's daughter Katie screaming for his help.
He wakes up petrified in the bombed-like apartment he's sharing with The Lou and immediately goes to Janet's house to confront her on why he can't see her. It's there that he meets Michael J. Fox, aka Dwight, again, who demands he takes him out for a drink. But he decides he's going to drive, and drink a few beers while he's at it. Tommy is so dumbfounded by the whole scene he doesn't even crack wise.
At the bar Dwight, has a bunch of whiskey shots and blurts out that Katie is in a boarding school upstate. When Dwight wheels himself off to the bathroom, Tommy trades his "uppers" for "downers" and he's knocked unconsious. We see this as the beginning of the end of Fox's five-episode stint because as Tommy lectures Janet about his faults, he makes it clear that his daughter Katie isn't going to live in the same house as a junkie.
We also see that Jimmy's appearance on the BBC news footage of 9/11 is no ghost because The Lou sees him and so does Sheila. The moment is actually pivitol for her because she finally comes to grips with Damien's decision to join the FDNY. She even goes as far as having Mike show him the ropes when he's a probie, something Tommy has no tolerance for.
The show, named "Sheila," wasn't as Sheila-centric as anticipated, but you couldn't help but getting great insight to her pain when she's being interviewed by the French journalist writing a 9/11 book.
On a sour note, Sean finds out he's got cancer because of his rescue efforts at Ground Zero.


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A Letter - "While exploring King's College, we found this old letter under a trap door in a closet on the fourth floor of the main building…" Read the letter and you'll wish you knew how this story ended. (HT:Phil Johnson)
In the Footsteps of Luther - Here's an interesting idea: commemorating Luther's walk from Germany to Rome by following in his footsteps.
Knockoff Tennis Shoes - This is an interesting article about the knockoff tennis shoe industry. Kind of niche, I know, but still interesting.
One Thing Needful? - Another good article by Carl Trueman in which he asks what is most fundamental to evangelicals today.
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MATTAWAN – The play was set up for Mattawan's girls basketball team to try and tie the game against St. Joseph on Friday night.
The play just didn't happen. The Bears' Erika Priebe tipped away an inbounds pass for Mattawan's Allie Havers and the clock ran out before the Wildcats could get a shot off. St. Joseph prevailed, 44-41, in a Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference West Division battle for first place.
Mattawan (5-5 overall, 4-1 SMAC West) was down by nine points early in the fourth quarter, but came back to within three points with 1:20 left in the game. The problem was the Wildcats had just three team fouls so they couldn't put St. Joseph at the free throw line and hope the Bears would miss a shot.
Havers led Mattawan with 21 points and Amanda Mohney added nine. For the Bears (9-1, 5-0), it was Christina Valentine with 18 points and Lauren Brower with 11.


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LeAnn Rimes' cozy Christmas in Costa MesaDecember 20th, 2013, 12:20 pm by GEORGE A. PAUL, FOR THE REGISTER
LeAnn Rimes took a relaxed approach to her Pacific Symphony Pops debut Thursday night at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.
Dressed somewhat casually, the country/pop singer urged the audience to imagine the show was in her living room and make their presence known; a shouted song request was considered, but unrealistic in this format. She was chatty as usual on stage and it didn't take long for her high heels to come off, either.
In recent years, Rimes, 31, has garnered more attention for highly publicized personal exploits than professional ones. That's a shame, because the Mississippi-born star is making some of the strongest music of her two-decade career.
Stellar latest album Spitfire is a perfect example. Rimes co-wrote more than half the selections with such prominent tunesmiths as John Shanks, Dan Wilson, Gary Burr and David Baerwald and refers to the lyrics as "the most transparent I've ever been." Frequently boasting an attitude akin to Miranda Lambert's, she was joined in the studio by an A-list roster of musicians: Alison Krauss and Dan Tyminski of Union Station, Rob Thomas, Jeff Beck, Waddy Wachtel and Steve Jordan.Read the rest of this entry »


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Point Pleasant Beach's boardwalk bars are very popular, but the fun will have to end at midnight starting in July. The borough council approved an ordinance Tuesday night that requires the bars -- which include Jenkinson's Boardwalk and Martell's Tiki Bar -- to close at midnight rather than 2 a.m. There had been a proposal to allow the bars to remain open until 2 a.m. by paying a fee, but a vote on it was postponed until June. The ordinance is in response to residents complaining of rowdy behavior in the vicinity.
NJ.com users are discussing the ordinance and its affect on Point Pleasant Beach.
NJ.com user imstillh8inithere writes:
I don't even drink, yet I will no longer patronize a town that enforces such silly rules because neighbors are shocked bars that have been there for decades make noise. Use common sense PPB. Others shore towns are thanking you right now for the revenue.
NJ.com user takebackusa11 writes:
Good decision by the town to close them early. however, it's a very poor decision to allow them the option to pay to stay open. I'm guessing Jenks and Tiki will pay just about anything to stay open until 2. Even with the extra money there aren't enough cops to police the 600 plus people coming out these bars late night.
NJ.com user TrafficCircle writes:
All you need is a few visible cops in key spots and everyone will return home like choir boys. Arrest a few for drunk and disorderly and the word will spread like wild fire!
This is a vacation area, residents knew that when they bought there!
This sounds like a good compromise.
How do you think the ordinance could affect summers at Point Pleasant Beach? Respond to these and other comments by jumping directly to the comments section of the article.


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U.S. Sen. Edward Markey said Tuesday that he would oppose the resolution passed by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee authorizing the use of force in Syria.
The resolution would give President Barack Obama, a Democrat, authority to use limited military force, although not ground troops, in responding to the Syrian military's reported use of chemical weapons against its civilian population.
"I cannot support the resolution that passed the Foreign Relations Committee to use force in Syria because it is too broad, the effects of a strike are too unpredictable, and because I believe we must give diplomatic measures that could avoid military action a chance to work," Markey said in a statement.
Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and member of the committee, voted "present" when the resolution came up in the committee last week, where it passed 10-7. Markey said at the time that he needed to further review all the classified information, and he was concerned about language in the resolution that could expand the scope of U.S. military involvement in Syria beyond what is needed to deter Syrian President Bashar Assad from using chemical weapons. Republicans criticized Markey for lacking courage in refusing to take a stance.
Since then, additional members of Congress have come out against the use of force. According to a Washington Post count, 36 senators are against or leaning against military action and 25 support it. In the House, 250 representatives are against military action and only 26 support it. A large number of Republicans and many liberal Democrats oppose military intervention, and the divide is not along party lines.
Diplomatic efforts appeared to make some progress Tuesday. The Associated Press reported that Assad's government accepted a plan, proposed by Russia, to turn over its chemical weapons stockpile to international control. The AP reported that Obama is now supporting a plan for UN Security Council talks aimed at securing Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles. A bipartisan group of senators is working on crafting a resolution calling on the UN to remove Syria's chemical weapons – and giving Obama the authority to use military force if that does not happen.
Markey said he agrees with the administration's intention of deterring and degrading the Assad government's chemical weapons capability. He does not dispute the administration's evidence indicating that Assad used chemical weapons. "However, I am concerned about the unintended consequences of the strikes and the potential for triggering an even greater conflagration that could be beyond our ability to predict or control," Markey said.
Markey said he disagrees with an amendment to the resolution that expands it from an authorization for a surgical strike to endorsing regime change. He said he is worried that the use of force could draw American troops into the Syrian civil war.
Finally, he noted the latest developments, in which the Syrians, Russians, United Nations, and the international community are negotiating. "We should take advantage of this new diplomatic opportunity before we consider military action," Markey said.
Markey said any resolution considered by Congress should include language that anticipates that force would not be used if Assad puts all of Syria's chemical weapons under international control.
Markey, a liberal Democrat, was elected to the U.S. Senate in June, after more than three decades in the U.S. House. He was a strong critic of President George W. Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, although he did vote to authorize that war in 2002.
Most of the Democrats vying to replace Markey in the U.S. House said Monday that they would also oppose the use of force in Syria.


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Fairview Hospital will offer a free, community education program titled "Take Care of the Skin You're In! Keeping Your Skin and Feet Healthy" at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 19, in the Conference Room at Fairview Hospital.
The program will be presented by Tammy Flynn, community educator, and Karen Carson, RN, both from the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine.
The program will include information on disorders that can prevent the body's ability to heal as well as specific topics including the effect of diabetes on healing, causes of skin infection and prevention tips.
The program will also include information on other disorders of the veins and arteries that can prevent the body's ability to heal.
The program is free to the public. Pre-register by calling (413) 854-9609 or emailing email@example.com.


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Who couldn't use a little more cash each month! Refinancing your home mortgage might be the solution.
Given today's economy, interest rates on home loans are relatively low. It may make sense for you to refinance your existing home loan. Or, it might not! Like most financial decisions, you need to think about the costs and benefits.
Why do people take the time to refinance home loans? You might be asking yourself, "The loan I have now is working fine ... why should I change it?"
Refinancing a home loan can help people who have different goals. Refinancing can allow people to:
To decide if refinancing a loan makes financial sense for you, you need to start by asking yourself these questions:
For example, let's assume refinancing a home loan costs $3,000. In this example, the homeowner will have a mortgage payment of $50 less per month after refinancing. Then we know ($3,000 divided by $50) that it will take 60 months (or 5 years) for the savings to pay for the refinancing costs.
You can use a mortgage calculator, like the one at Bankrate.com, to help you calculate whether or not refinancing your home makes sense to you.
For more information about refinancing a home loan, visit the U of I Extension website, Opening Doors to Housing Success.
And, if you do decide that it makes sense to refinance your home mortgage loan, what should you do with that extra cash? Why, invest it for your retirement! What else would I recommend?! For ideas about how to effectively save for retirement, visit the Plan Well, Retire Well website.
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