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Lions make flying start
London Lions got the new season under way with a firm and tidy performance to beat Sandridge Rovers 3-1 in the Herts Senior County League Premier Division.
Victory came courtesy of goals from Guy Morris, Adam Stolerman and debutant Daniel Levenfiche for last season's runners-up.
Defender Guy Morris registered Lions first goal of the brand new season as Tony Gold's men ensured a scoreline which reflected their superiority.
But they had to be patient and persistent to unlock a Sandridge rearguard which looked especially solid in a eventful first half.
This was the first league meeting between these two sides since Lions were defeated at Sandridge 2-0 last March.
Manager Gold has spoken of his desire to find some new heroes to match the likes of flamboyant Ben Lauffer, Lee Cash and Ben Lampert who was last season's player of the year, and by recruiting Daniel Stanton, Daniel Levenfiche, Danny Berg and Aron Barnes, he might just have managed it.
The Lions faithful will also be hoping Stolerman can repeat his 30-goal salvo from last season – after he notched his first and Lions second of the season.
Lions had the vast majority of possession, chances and set-pieces against a Sandridge side who from the kick-off, looked like they'd come for a point.
With the visitors defending stoutly with two banks of four, Lions still created some decent first-half chances, but found the Sandridge keeper in fine fettle.
The visiting keeper's best save denied the hard-working Cash, after six minutes, before defender Morris broke the deadlock. Lions, for whom Stanton shone in midfield, came close on 28 minutes but again was denied.
With the game closer then it should have been Lions needed to find that crucial second and who better then to produce the goods but that man Stolerman. Calm and composed he finished beautifully turning to his peers and standing in a stance very similar to that of ex-boxing champ Chris Eubank waiting for congratulations.
Lions lead was reduced 10 minutes from time when slack marking at a set piece allowed Sandridge a way back in.
With the home side unable to clear their lines Sandridge pounced to poke the ball home from close range.
Sandridge's only previous effort on target had been after 33 minutes, when they shot over from 20 yards.
So it was tough to concede seeing as Lions were in complete control, but credit Gold's men for sticking to their task.
Goal number three finally and deservedly came in the 89th minute, when substitute Levenfiche turned in his first goal for Lions after great work from man-of-the-match Cash.
As well as enjoying the victory, Lions fans in a 58 crowd (15 from Sandridge) also got a chance to see Danny Cole back from his holidays and he showed some class by signing autographs in the main stand for all his young fans.
Gold hailed the 3-1 win over Sandridge but the boss then added the victory will count for nothing if his side don't follow up with another three-point haul against Met Police back at Rowley Lane on Thursday.
Gold said: "I'm delighted with the winning start. It is always nice to win your first game of any season. We played good controlled football in the first half and had a real urgency about us. The second half wasn't as good but we tired physically and mentally and given we are still three weeks behind most teams in terms of individual fitness. Overall, there are plenty of positives to take from the game which gives us a decent platform to build from."
On Stolerman, Gold said: "He knows where the goal is and this season there is no reason why he can't match or better the exploits of last year.
"The best thing is he'll have some real competition this year with Cashy and Levenfiche capable of pushing him all the way due to a tremendous work ethic."
Lions: Matt Davis, Aron Barnes, Guy Morris, Adam Myeroff, Rob Glass, Ben Lampert (sub: Daniel Levenfiche), Danny Berg, Daniel Stanton (sub: Ben Graham), Lee Cash, Adam Stolerman (sub: Andy Glynne). Subs not used: Adam Lauffer, Daniel Castle


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Syracuse, N.Y. -- It's one of those fluke deals, I know. But it's kind of weird that a club which could finish 8-8, Arizona, will definitely make the NFL playoffs and that a club which could finish 11-5, New England, might not.
Crazier, too, is that Club B (the Patriots) mashed Club A (the Cardinals) on Sunday. This, as New England erected a 44-0 lead entering the fourth quarter in Foxboro.
That, though, is pro football where oddities have piled up like cord wood all season.
-- How can Atlanta (with Michael Vick in the hoosegow and with the team supposedly in turmoil) and Miami (which was 1-15 a year ago) each be so good, at 10-5, this time around?
-- How can Detroit (0-15) and Kansas City (2-13) and St. Louis (2-13) be so bad in a sport that bows at the altar of parity? A combined 4-41 in this day and age? Nearly impossible.
-- Weren't Cleveland (4-11) and Jacksonville (5-10) and Green Bay (5-9) supposed to be contenders? And weren't their quarterbacks all going to break out this year?
-- Weren't the New York Giants without Michael Strahan and other MIAs (12-3) going to fade and weren't the New York Jets with Brett Favre and other imports (9-6) going to soar?
-- And in a league where the home-field advantage has been deemed so vital at all times, how did nine road outfits break through his past week? And that's before the Packers take on the Bears tonight in Chicago.
Some of this is fairly unexplainable, sure. But with just one week remaining on the regular-season schedule, five of the 12 playoff berths are still up for grabs and 11 different squads can still make the tournament field - Baltimore, Denver, Miami, New England, New York Jets and San Diego in the AFC; and Chicago, Dallas, Minnesota, Philadelphia and Tampa Bay in the NFC.
Baseball? Basketball? Hockey? They'd give a toe or two to have a similar scenario going into the final day of their seasons.
Still, next week all eyes will be on Lambeau Field, where the Lions, an indoor bunch of bozos, will take to the tundra following a Christmas Week of unfocused practice, and attempt to avoid becoming the first 0-16 team in NFL history. A rubbernecker's delight, that.
And, absolutely, the NFL counts its blessings as it smiles.
-- Bud Poliquin
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simply it means you use your oponant as a spring and at the same time smashing them downwards
anyone remember this update??
you basically jump off an enemy and it springs you up
What? You say it doesn't have much strategic value?
No, no, no. That's hardly the case.
You can use it to perform Meteor Smashes! Incredible!
Ok I understand the jump part, but what the heck is a meteor smash???
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simply it means you use your oponant as a spring and at the same time smashing them downwards
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Ok there should be a few videos to where samus is doing it out of her suit, Its like a down B in the air, sort of acting like a comit,
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I have a triple treat of freebies for you today! I designed a bunch of little extras for our Old School engagement party.
Lolly bag labels
Remember going to parties as a kid and taking home your bag of goodies? We left out some bags, string and pens for guests to pack up their own little bag o' treats from the lolly table.
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Food flags
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Bishop, born in that city at the beginning of the fourth century; died there 1 November, according to the most accredited opinion, or according to the Roman Breviary , on 13 January, 368. Belonging to a noble and very probably pagan family, he was instructed in all the branches of profane learning, but, having also taken up the study of Holy Scripture and finding there the truth which he sought so ardently, he renounced idolatry and was baptized. Thenceforth his wide learning and his zeal for the Faith attracted such attention that he was chosen about 350 to govern the body of the faithful which the city had possessed since the third century. We know nothing of the bishops who governed this society in the beginning. Hilary is the first concerning whom we have authentic information, and this is due to the important part he played in opposing heresy. The Church was then greatly disturbed by internal discords, the authority of the popes not being so powerful in practice as either to prevent or to stop them. Arianism had made frightful ravages in various regions and threatened to invade Gaul, where it already had numerous partisans more or less secretly affiliated with it. Saturninus, Bishop of Arles, the most active of the latter, being exposed by Hilary, convened and presided over a council at Béziers in 356 with the intention of justifying himself, or rather of establishing his false doctrine. Here the Bishop of Poitiers courageously presented himself to defend orthodoxy, but the council, composed for the most part of Arians, refused to hear him, and being shortly afterwards denounced to the Emperor Constantius, the protector of Arianism, he was at his command transported to the distant coasts of Phrygia.
But persecution could not subdue the valiant champion. Instead of remaining inactive during his exile he gave himself up to study, completed certain of his works which he had begun, and wrote his treatise on the synods. In this work he analysed the professions of faith uttered by the Oriental bishops in the Councils of Ancyra, Antioch, and Sirmium, and while condemning them, since they were in substance Arian, he sought to show that sometimes the difference between the doctrines of certain heretics and orthodox beliefs was rather in the words than in the ideas, which led to his counselling the bishops of the West to be reserved in their condemnation. He was sharply reproached for his indulgence by certain ardent Catholics, the leader of whom was Lucifer, Bishop of Cagliari. However, in 359, the city of Seleucia witnessed the assembly in synod of a large number of Oriental bishops, nearly all of whom were either Anomoeans or Semi-Arians. Hilary, whom everyone wished to see and hear, so great was his reputation for learning and virtue, was invited to be present at this assembly. The governor of the province even furnished him with post horses for the journey. In presence of the Greek fathers he set forth the doctrines of the Gallic bishops, and easily proved that, contrary to the opinion current in the East, these latter were not Sabellians. Then he took part in the violent discussions which took place between the Semi-Arians, who inclined toward reconciliation with the Catholics, and the Anomoeans, who formed as it were the extreme left of Arianism.
After the council, which had no result beyond the wider separation of these brothers in enmity, he left for Constantinople, the stronghold of heresy, to continue his battle against error. But while the Semi-Arians, who were less numerous and less powerful, besought him to become the intermediary in a reconciliation between themselves and the bishops of the West, the Anomoeans, who had the immense advantage of being upheld by the emperor, besought the latter to send back to his own country this Gallic bishop, who, they said, sowed discord and troubled the Orient. Constantius acceded to their desire, and the exile was thus enabled to set out on his journey home. In 361 Hilary re-entered Poitiers in triumph and resumed possession of his see. He was welcomed with the liveliest joy by his flock and his brothers in the episcopate, and was visited by Martin, his former disciple and subsequently Bishop of Tours. The success he had achieved in his combat against error was rendered more brilliant shortly afterwards by the deposition of Saturninus, the Arian Bishop of Arles by whom he had been persecuted. However, as in Italy the memory still rankled of the efforts he had made to bring about a reconciliation between the nearly converted Semi-Arians and the Catholics, he went in 364 to the Bishop of Vercelli to endeavour to overcome the intolerance of the partisans of the Bishop Lucifer mentioned above. Almost immediately afterwards, that it might be seen that, if he was full of indulgence for those whom gentleness might finally win from error, he was intractable towards those who were obstinate in their adherence to it, he went to Milan, there to assail openly Auxentius, the bishop of that city, who was a firm defender of the Arian doctrines. But the Emperor Valentinian, who protected the heretic, ordered Hilary to depart immediately from Milan.
He then returned to his city of Poitiers, from which he was not again to absent himself and where he was to die. This learned and energetic bishop had fought against error with the pen as well as in words. The best edition of his numerous and remarkable writings is that published by Dom Constant under the title: "Sancti Hilarii, Pictavorum episcopi opera, ad manuscriptos codices gallicanos, romanos, belgicos, necnon ad veteres editiones castigata" (Paris, 1693). The Latin Church celebrates his feast on 14 January, and Pius IX raised him to the rank of Doctor of the Universal Church. The Church of Puy glories in the supposed possession of his relics, but according to one tradition his body was borne to the church of St-Denys near Paris, while according to another it was taken from the church of St-Hilaire at Poitiers and burned by the Protestants in 1572.
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MIDDLETOWN – The Monmouth County Police Academy graduated its largest class ever at Brookdale Community College on Thursday, with 127 recruits earning their badges and becoming law enforcement officers.
Many of the graduates, who were both police officers and Class II officers, will matriculate to departments in several counties, including Monmouth, Ocean, Middlesex, Mercer, Burlington and Atlantic.
"Having graduated from the Monmouth County Police Academy myself, I'm very proud of them all and I know what they're facing out there in today's environment," Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden said. "But I'm confident they received the professional training here to prevail in our communities and do a great job."
Darell Harris, class spokesman for the 39th Special Law Enforcement Officers Class II, said he was honored to be chosen to represent his class.
"It was a good feeling, a very nerve-wracking feeling, but once I started the speech it was soothing, it felt right," Harris said.
Harris is the chief of the Pinebrook Fire Company in Tinton Falls, and will work at the Belmar Police Department as a Class II officer while continuing his position as a dispatcher for the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office.
Oceanport resident Christopher Petrillo, who was the class leader for the 84th recruit class, was given the Merit Award and said he was surprised his classmates chose him. The class leader is responsible for any mistake the class makes and for communicating information to the other recruits.
Petrillo, who will join the Oceanport Police Department, served in the Army for six years, and was deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, Philippians and Indonesia. He is now a member of the National Guard.
Golden said he was proud of the recruits and is focused on growing the state-of-the-art police academy.
"This is the largest class we've had and that's a testament to [Police Academy] Director [David] Morris and his staff. We're going to continue to build the Monmouth County Police Academy to a regional academy," Golden said.
The recruits made up the 84th Basic Course for Police Officers class and 39th Special Law Enforcement Officers Class II.
Monmouth County Freeholder Director Thomas Arnone said the police academy is the best and the board is committed to continuing to make it even better.
"They're going to need the resources to make that happen and we're committed," Arnone said. "This is a great class, it just shows the future of what we have here in the county."
But the awards weren't the only excitement at the graduation.
At the end of the ceremony, graduate Cecil Mammah, Jr., of the Middlesex County Sheriff's Department, got on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend on stage in front of the entire arena. The crowd erupted in applause as she accepted and Mammah slipped the ring on her finger.


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Community Service Information Page
Beginning with the graduating class of 2014, high school students in the Gilroy Unified
School District must complete a minimum of 80 hours of Community Service.
Community Service Requirement BP6746.1(a) revised and adopted August 12, 2010
Students must earn ten hours in at least two of the following categories:
- Senior Citizens
- Disabled Citizens
- The Environment
- Literacy
- Promoting Health and Wellness
- Promoting the Arts and Culture
- Young Children
- School Related
- The Homeless
- Animal Care
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To document community service hours, your student should:
- Download the timesheet below.
- Fill out the form completely
- Make sure the supervisor at the Community Service activity signs off on the hours
- Sign the time sheet
- Have the parent sign the time sheet
- Make a copy of the time sheet for his or her records
- Return the form to the Community Service Coordinator at the school
Your student will be receiving a GUSD Community Service pamphlet, a complete list of
requirements, and a time sheet for recording service hours. For more information, a
complete list of requirements and all necessary forms, please visit www.gusd.k12.ca.us
under students.
Gloria Hennessy (Coordinator)


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A talent show in Langley will help to feed the hungry
A couple of suave impresarios are "puttin' on the Ritz" for a talent show blitz.
Good Cheer staff member Damien Cortez and 9-year-old JaNoah Spratt, an avid community activist, have organized a talented lineup of more than 25 acts for a Good Cheer Food Bank fundraiser on Saturday, May 8.
"The Mother of All Talent Shows" will be an evening packed with a variety of show stoppers and laughs at the South Whidbey High School auditorium.
Competitors will be subject to the whims and fancies of a discerning panel of judges á la "America's Got Talent," including Jean Shaw, Mike McInerney, Lynn Willeford and Deana Duncan. The evening's host will be the Ryan Seacrest of South Whidbey, the ever-enthusiastic emcee Jim Freeman.
The five-minute acts vary from competition dance teams to local duos such as Sage Brush and Juniper, to classical music, fiddle and banjo music, a fire spinner and swordplay and karate demonstrations.
Local talent rushed to sign up for the show, but there was only so much room on the marquee.
"We had to turn away enough talent to book a second night," Cortez said.
"If this year goes well, and the high school will have us back, we are going to do two nights next year!"
Cortez said the idea for the talent show came out of JaNoah's enthusiasm for supporting the food bank. Having previously raised funds for the organization, JaNoah was chosen as tour guide for state Rep. Norma Smith when she visited the food bank, and the idea was sparked during their meeting. Cortez was the perfect partner for JaNoah, having studied theater.
"This event started out as kind of an exercise for JaNoah and myself," Cortez said.
"It has grown into one of the biggest things we've ever done. We didn't realize how much the community missed this until we started hearing a response from around town," he said, referring to the wildly popular South Whidbey annual talent show of yore.
Cortez said he is impressed with his young partner's commitment to feeding other people.
"I hope that we have a packed house," JaNoah said.
"I hope that we have to turn people away. I want to fill all 550 seats."
It's hard to get one's mind around a 9-year-old with such a large goal, but JaNoah said it was a no-brainer when he first heard about Good Cheer Food Bank at a Fourth of July party he attended a few years ago.
"One of the people there told me about all the hungry people on Whidbey Island and I knew I had to help," JaNoah said.
"He's so articulate and he's hard to say 'no' to," Cortez added. "That's how we got the community to sponsor such awesome raffle and contestant prizes."
Funds will be raised through ticket sales and a raffle during the event, for which JaNoah would like to sell at least 1,000 tickets.
Guests will be able to participate in a raffle for more than $4,000 in prizes at the end of the show.
Prizes include a light electric vehicle valued at $1,499, and hotel/spa package at the Inn at Langley and Spa Essencia valued at $650, a three-month membership at Island Athletic Club, a Half Link Bicycle Shop mountain bike valued at
$409, plus several more items. (A full list of prizes can be found online at www.goodcheerblog.com.)
Cortez said he loves his work because having the advantage of helping someone every day makes the day a little easier.
"It makes even the hardest days worth it," he said.
Doors open at 7 p.m. for seating, and the show begins at 7:30 p.m.
Admission is $10 and includes one raffle ticket for adults. Both admission and raffle tickets may be purchased in advance at any Good Cheer site and also at the door. Raffle tickets are $2 each,
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Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets. This is going to be a real horse race.
I'm not talking about the Belmont Stakes. That's next weekend. I'm talking about the Republican U.S. Senate primary election Tuesday. It's one of the most fascinating races in recent history, at least to those of us paying attention to it.
Unfortunately that group seems to consist of me, the four candidates and their immediate families. As for the rest of the media and the state's political establishment, most seem to be of the belief that the Senate race has already been won by the guy currently holding the office.
That would be Cory Booker, the former Newark mayor. Booker is considered unbeatable by the media — and by the state GOP leadership if this primary campaign has been any indication.
Normally, a Republican governor would be orchestrating the effort to win a U.S. Senate seat. But Chris Christie has had other things to worry about this year.
That means there is no establishment candidate among the four men competing for the nomination. At first it looked as if Brian D. Goldberg would fill that role. He's a businessman from West Orange whose moderate views would normally make him the mainstream pick in the race against three avowed conservatives. True to form, Goldberg spent the early part of the race picking up the endorsements of nine county organizations, three times as many as his leading competitor.
So that makes him sound like the establishment guy. One problem: He hasn't got any money. When I talked to Goldberg the other day, he said he didn't even have the funds to send out mailers. He's relying on phone calls and handshakes, he said.
When Goldberg posted some campaign videos on his home page (see below), some critics noted that he left off that "I paid for this message" tag line. But that may have been because no one paid for those messages. From the quality, it looks like someone just pointed an iPhone at Goldberg and let him talk.
As for those county endorsements, they may not mean much. The Senate race is at the top of the ticket, so Goldberg can't ride the coattails of popular local candidates. His name will get only slightly better billing than those of Rich Pezzullo, Murray Sabrin and Jeff Bell.
Of those three, only Bell has had any electoral success. In 1978, he had the distinction of ending the career of the last Republican ever elected to the U.S. Senate from New Jersey. That was Clifford Case, a liberal Republican who didn't even bother campaigning against the young conservative upstart. Big mistake. Turnout in these primaries is so low that anyone who can rev up the right-wing base has a good chance of ousting the party pick.
That would normally work in favor of Bell, an early Reagan Republican who lost that 1978 general election to Bill Bradley. But this year he's got to share that base with Pezzullo and Sabrin.
Pezzullo is a businessman from Freehold who appeals to cultural conservatives on issues such as family values and abortion. Sabrin is a finance professor from Bergen County who's been riding the resurgence of libertarian values in the party sparked by Ron and Rand Paul.
Who will break out of the pack? I have no idea. This could be the first four-way tie in history. But I know who will lose.
That would be all of those media types and opinion-makers who are constantly wailing about the evil effect of big money in politics. These characters claim they want to see campaigns based on ideas rather than sound bites.
Well, we just had one. You want to talk about ideas? Any one of these guys will talk your cellphone battery into submission. But it's like that old question about a tree falling in an empty forest. Without campaign cash, those ideas don't make a sound.
That's the real reason Booker's a shoo-in for re-election. Have you ever heard of the legal/lobbying firm of Sullivan & Cromwell? Neither have I. But as of last year members of the firm had given him a total of $77,100, more than all four of the GOP guys together are likely to end up collecting in contributions for this primary.
That didn't stop the senator from putting out a news release in April decrying a Supreme Court decision that he said "further concentrates power in the hands of the very wealthy and enhances their ability to dramatically influence elections."
Exactly. That's a depressing trend. And that's why the smart money won't be on whatever Republican ends up winning on Tuesday.
ALSO: Here's a press conference Pezzullo held Friday attacking the Obama administration's proposal to permit the charging of tolls on Interstate highways:


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Syracuse, N.Y. — Four Syracuse football seniors were named to the 2015 Senior Bowl watch list.
Left tackle Sean Hickey, running back Prince-Tyson Gulley, linebacker Dyshawn Davis and defensive end Rob Welsh are among the more than 350 players on the list.
The Senior Bowl is one of the most well-known postseason all-star games for NFL draft hopefuls. The game features 110 players divided up on North and South squads. A player not on the list can still be added during the season and be invited to the 2015 game, held Jan. 24 in Mobile, Ala.
Hickey is one of Syracuse's best draft prospects and recently got approved for an insurance policy through the NCAA for total disability or loss of draft value.
Davis is one of two returning starters at linebacker for Syracuse and is on the Butkus Award watch list, presented annually to the nation's top linebacker. He ranks eighth in school history with 31.5 tackles for loss heading into his final season.
Gulley is entering his first year as the starting running back, and Welsh is one of two returning defensive ends who will be tasked with anchoring a unit looking to replace Jay Bromley.
Syracuse opens its second season under Scott Shafer at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29 against Villanova in the Carrier Dome.
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COLUMBUS, Mississippi--The Columbus Air Force Base open house and air show will start early Sunday due to the threat of heavy rain showers later in the day.
Gates will open one earlier at 9 a.m. and flying is set to start at 10:30 a.m. The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds are scheduled to fly at noon. During Saturday's show they took to the air at 4 p.m.
A planned car show in conjunction with the air show is still on.
The National Weather Service forecast for Columbus is not optimistic. There is a 100% chance of rain with occasional thunderstorms all day Sunday.
Base officials estimate 45,000 people attended Saturday's show.
Check the Columbus AFB website for updates.


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JACKSON – A week's worth of extreme heat didn't deter competitors at the 43rd annual Rose Run Saturday at Jackson College, as top runners and walkers from the area packed the fields for the 5k run and walk and the 10k run at the storied event, part of the Orthopaedic Rehab Run/Walk Series.
Despite fears that temperatures for the race could be in the high 90s or higher, an overnight storm brought some relief from the heat, and more than 400 racers turned out for the event, exceeding the expectations of race director Ryan Miller.
In the 5k run, Lumen Christi graduate and Grand Valley State sophomore took top honors with a time of 15 minutes and 46 seconds, beating the field by nearly 30 seconds.
"I didn't really come in with any expectations; I'm in the middle of training for the upcoming cross country season, so I was focused on hitting the times I wanted and having a good run," Pageau said. "I was able to hit the pace I was looking for, and I'm happy with how it turned out."
David Jordon, 41, of Concord, ran a 17:17.8 to win the 5k male masters title, and Rick Hills, 58, ran a 20:59.4 to win the grand masters title.
Hanover-Horton graduate and University of Toledo runner Lindsay Burdette won her third-straight Run/Walk series event, taking the women's 5k title with a 17:56.6.
Christine Vincent, 49, won the 5k female masters title in a time of 20:02.0, and Sheri Bush, 53, won the grand masters title in a time of 23:46.6.
In the 10k run, Aaron Heath, 15, of Hanover was the top finisher, finishing in 37:28.8 to win the title. Paul Bapst Jr., 57, of Hanover won the male masters title in 39:02.3, and Jeffrey Heath of Hanover, 52, won the grand masters title in 42:34.0.
Jordan Clark, 28, won the 10k female overall title, using a strong final two miles to finish in 40:38.2.
"I was slow on the third and fourth mile, so I knew that I needed to pick it up in the final third to achieve my goal," Clark said. "It was tough out there in the heat, but I think it affected everyone equally, and we were able to battle through it."
Julie Bloomfield, 44, won the 10k female masters title in 43:57.3, and Tracy Spring, 50, won the grand masters title in 46:27.7.
David Swarts, 48, a Jackson native and a national-champion race walker, won the 5k walk title, finishing in 23:04.0.
"I like having the Rose Run on my schedule because it gives me a chance in-between national races to try new things and focus on improving my form and making adjustments," Swarts said. "It's not so much about the time as how I can use it to improve."
Charles Dawson, 61, was the 5k walk male masters winner in 35:37.0, and Curtis Fater, 57, was the grand masters winner in 37:32.9.
Robin Brigham, 57, won the 5k female race walk in 35:06, and Lynda Wooden, 52, finished in 35:41.9 to win the masters title.
Janet Fater, 51, won the 5k walk grand masters title for the women in 36:32.0.
Race director Ryan Miller said that the event's success was due to the determination of local competitors.
"I was nervous that the heat this week would keep runners away, but we had a strong turnout, nearly 500 people between all the events," Miller said. "They showed up despite the heat, and that dedication really helped make it another great event this year."


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LEBANON TWP. — Voorhees High girls lacrosse Head Coach Courtney Thibeault remembers the first time she saw Brittney VanVeldhuisen play. And it wasn't even lacrosse that she was playing.
"I saw her play basketball before I had her in lacrosse," said Thibeault, who is entering her third year on the job at Voorhees. "Just her speed and quickness really impressed me."
It's no surprise that that speed translated to the lacrosse field, where VanVeldhuisen scored 53 goals and collected a team-high 17 assists as a junior. The Virginia Tech-bound midfielder is primed for yet another impressive season.
"I definitely think this could be one of her best seasons," Thibeault said. "I think she's really come into her own as a player and athlete. She's now been in this program for four years. I really think she's definitely going to be one of our true leaders on the field."
Thibeault never saw VanVeldhuisen as a freshman, but her skills were apparent as a sophomore.
"My first year, she was a sophomore, and I just remember seeing her play and everything was just so quick and precise. She definitely had a presence," Thibeault said. "Of course her height, she definitely has her height, which adds to her presence."
Her athletic ability is a major asset, especially considering she's 5-foot-10. But Thibeault said her gifts run deeper than that. After all, having ability isn't much good if you don't know what to do with it.
"She's, of course, very athletic, she's tall and she's a really good presence on the field," said the coach. "She's very quick at what she does, and she definitely works. She's also a very smart player, too. She can kind of lead the defense and know where to place it and make the goalies move and everything. She's not only an athletic player, she's also a very smart player."
Surrounded by a bevy of talented teammates, including Katie Koller (48 goals, 13 assists) and Jenny Maher (53 goals, 14 assists), VanVeldhuisen knows how important it is for her to set up her teammates.
"She definitely sees the field," Thibeault said. "She plays center often, so she sees the field. Other teams of course know her number and are on the lookout for her. I think she knows that, so she's open to passing to the open player. She can read the defense very well and see the field. Not only is she a threat goal-wise, but she's willing to dish the ball and help her teammates out, too."
The Vikings are counting on VanVeldhuisen for a big senior season after she reached the career 100-goal milestone last spring and earned first-team All-Skyland Conference-Raritan Division honors. She signed an NCAA letter of intent with Virginia Tech in November. The Hokies, who were 8-8 last spring, are 4-4 so far this year.
But once VanVeldhuisen graduates, Thibeault thinks she'll be prepared for the rigors of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
"Brittney is the definition of a true athlete and she's definitely a coachable player," she said. "I think when she moves onto the next level, she'll learn everything the coaches tell her and just continue to keep improving."


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WESTLAKE, Ohio -- Hyland Software plans to hire so many employees -- 200 to be exact -- that the Westlake company is holding a job fair Thursday evening to find applicants.
For many this is a sign that Northeast Ohio's economy is improving. Last year, Hyland hired about 80 employees. It has 1,160 employees, of which about 850 are based in Westlake.
Other industries, including Northeast Ohio's core manufacturing sector, are also hiring, even if it isn't at the level of Hyland. For example, Steris and Lincoln Electric said they would hire.
"This is evidence that the recovery we have been hearing about is real," said Brad Whitehead, president, the Fund for Our Economic Future, a collaborative working on regional economic competitiveness. "Hopefully we have enough companies that are confident enough in their own growth that they are able to hire."
Hyland Software Career Expo
- Where: Hyland's headquarters, 28500 Clemens Road, Westlake
- When: 5-8 p.m.When: Thursday, March 24
- Where: Company's headquarters
- Event Details: Company has 200 job openings it needs to fill in 2011
- Register at: hyland.com/careerexpo
This doesn't mean everything is rosy. Though Ohio's unemployment rate in February had dropped nearly 1.5 percentage points from the year before; it was still a very high 9.2 percent. Several industries, including housing and construction, struggle to recover.
And even as some manufacturers are adding jobs, others continue to lay off.
"We are not falling off a cliff in the economy like we were last year," said George Zeller, a Cleveland economic research analyst, in an e-mail. But, "we still are extremely weak in our growth, with job destruction still evident in the weekly new unemployment claims and with manufacturing job losses continuing across Ohio in the latest figures for February Ohio employment."
Hyland has job openings in software development, software testing, technical support, solution consulting and sales. The company specializes in software solutions for several industries including healthcare, financial services and government.
Hyland often recruits at colleges and universities, but with so many positions to fill there was a need to hire experienced applicants as well.
"We wanted to make sure we could target those individuals around Cleveland who were interested in Hyland Software, but had never had a chance to talk to a member of our leadership team or never had a chance to find out about what type of position would be a perfect fit for them and allow them to grow and expand their career," said Sarah Justice, the recruiter coordinating the event.
Sarah Coakley, manager of employee programs and recruiting in human resources at Hyland, said the job fair may give people in other industries an opportunity to switch to the strong tech sector -- even those short on tech skills.
"As an organization we're made up of a group of overachievers and high performers," she said. "Oftentimes we have people who are that culture fit because we realize they have the ability to learn the technology, and the desire to work hard and to really apply themselves, and who are of this overachiever type personality, and lots of times this works in the organization even though they come in not knowing a lot about technology."
Added Justice: "I describe it as having the ability to network beyond your resume. If you are an individual who wants to get involved at a technology company, but your resume might be technology-light, this is your ability to come in and talk to that leadership team and really network and focus on your skills that might not be highlighted on a resume. You get a chance to network and show your skills face to face with the person who is making that hiring decision."


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Roosevelt High School officials said Monday they plan to appeal to the Portland Interscholastic League in hopes of clearing up an eligibility issue that resulted in the Roughriders' boys' basketball team having to forfeit 15 games for using two ineligible players.
A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday at the PIL district office, sources familiar with the situation confirmed.
School officials wrote in an email to parents that they "look forward to a prompt PIL ruling that will enable our team to compete ... with our full complement of players for the remainder of the season."
The Roughriders, who play Tuesday at Franklin, were 11-4 overall and 3-1 in the Class 5A PIL when the discrepancy came to light following last week's 59-54 victory over Wilson.
It appears Roosevelt officials are not hoping to get any of the wins reinstated, but the would like the ineligible players to get cleared to play as soon as possible.
With the forfeits, Roosevelt plummeted from No. 2 behind PIL-rival Jefferson in the OSAA's Class 5A power rankings to No. 34 with nine games remaining in the regular season.
The top eight teams in the power rankings earn automatic berths in the 16-team playoff field, while the teams ranked Nos. 9-24 will compete in play-in games to determine the other eight playoff berths.
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Mark Wahlberg does little but scowl throughout "Max Payne," and it's infectious.
The film opens with a black screen. "I don't believe in heaven," says Wahlberg, as Max, in a voiceover. "I believe in pain. I believe in fear. I believe in death."
Consider the tone set. The dour tone. The humorless tone. A joyless tone. A tone in which New York City is lambasted by erratic weather -- one day it's pouring rain, the next, it's a blizzard. We see sunlight only in Payne's flashback, to his bright yellow slice of heaven, populated by his beautiful wife and newborn baby. They're murdered, and his life fades to bleak, so to speak. We aren't allowed, it appears, to smile during this movie. It might ruin its atmosphere of blight.
Three years hence, Max is a desk jockey in the police department basement. He shuffles papers and furrows his brow by day. By night, he frowns and abuses his badge, trying to track down the evildoers who killed his family. He visits a party hosted by a sleazy snitch, and meets the hottest thing in the room, Natasha, played by Olga Kurylenko, practicing the smoldering pout that surely landed her the gig as the next Bond girl.
Rated: PG-13 for violence including intense shooting sequences, drug content, some sexuality, brief strong language
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges
Director: John Moore
Run time: 100 minutes
Max takes Natasha back to his apartment, and she promptly takes off her dress. But she won't answer any questions about the hot new drug -- it looks like Windex, in a little vial -- being ingested at the party, so he glowers and kicks her out of bed. The guy needs catharsis, but that kind of release would distract him from being a miserable sot, so he passes. Remember, he doesn't believe in heaven.
Anyway, Natasha ends up literally in pieces in a dark alley, which draws her Russian-mob sister, Mona (Mila Kunis), into the fray and provides a clue to the case of Max's dead family. What follows is a series of incidents of wildly varying consequence to the plot -- Max gets help from old friend, BB Hensley (Beau Bridges), and is the target of detective Jim Bravura (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, no relation to Beau), who considers him a suspect in Natasha's murder.
Hear critics James Sanford and John Serba talk about "Max Payne" in this week's podcast.
"Max Payne" is based on a shoot-'em-up video game, so action and mayhem are inevitable. Things explode and people are blown away in a semi-stylish manner, with semi-nifty post-"Matrix" slo-mo techniques and semi-natty post-"Sin City" splashes of color and semi-scary post-"Hellboy" shadowy bird-ghouls, the CGI hallucinations of those who drink the Windex.
But the eye candy can't make up for the one-dimensional characters performing seen-it-before stunts. The p.o.'d Mona becomes Max's partner in vigilantism, and the plot puts her in perfect places at perfect times with the perfect weapon in perfectly ridiculous footwear, at the expense of logic and coherence.
And there's no chemistry among the cast, because Max, being the story's catalyst, is a glaring, staring, brooding, sourpussed bore of an anti-hero. If he even occasionally had turned that frown upside-down, he might have lifted "Max Payne" out of dark and dreary dullsville.
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The LPDA Vs F12 Vs Steppir thread begs for some common sense. Each offers a compromise because most hams can't erect monobanders on separate towers for each band. So which compromise is better? Depends. (how's that for muddying the water?). I have 4 towers and a number of monobanders (plus 40 years of building contest stations), so I have points of direct reference. I have a F-12 EF340D, 3 element 40. It replaced a Cushcraft 402D that was destroyed when the antenna above it failed and came crashing down. 10' above the 40 is a Mosley Classic 33. The EF340D, with the alumi-weld linear loading, gave K6ZM years of flawless performance in an environment where there was no snow or ice. It has failed two of the last two winters at my QTH from wind and ice. I am replacing it with a C39XRN which has F12's newest (and much heavier duty) linear loading on the 40 meter elements. Common sense: The stack seemed like a good idea, but the CL33 never really performed because it is a high-Q trapped antenna too close to the 40m beam. The 40m beam was a killer but wouldn't stay up in our winters. The C39XRN appears to be the common-sense solution. Stay tuned. I have a PRO 57B on another tower that is used as a backup antenna and on 17 and 12M. Again, it is a very high Q trapped antenna and is detuned by nearby Vee beam and other wire antennas. While it is only slightly down in gain from an optimized 4 el 20 on another tower, it is not meeting my needs due to erratic SWR changes as I turn it around the wire antennas. I am replacing it with a Tennadyne T-12 LPDA. Common sense: While an LPDA is a compromise, it is a low Q antenna and my expectations are that it will compare favorably with the monobanders and not see the wire antennas. Stay tuned. I have a F 12 C31XR on yet another tower. It is hard to tell any difference between it and the 4 element 20 and 5 element 10 monobanders. It made it through the winter with flying colors and is my main antenna until the others are repaired. Common sense: The F-12 multi-monoband design is the least lossy compromise in conventional yagis. The radical element and boom taper schedules are largely responsible for their resilience in poor weather. As for the SteppIR. Don't have one and don't want one, only because I have been bit in the past buying serial #1. 30 years ago, the Kirk helically wound fiberglass beam seemed to be the solution to a short 40. Unfortunately, over time, they did not stand up in weather and UV. Common sense: SteppIR looks like a great solution, but cautious optimism needs to prevail until there is several years of survival history in many different operating environments. Common sense summary: Read, ask and evaluate your objectives. Try what you think is best. If it stayed up last winter it wasn't big enough. You can never be loud enough, that's why summers are made for fixing weather damage and changing antenna configurations. Enjoy the journey. Tom, K5RC Virginia City NV _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com for "Self Supporting Towers", "Wireless Weather Stations", and lot's more. Call Toll Free, 1-800-333-9041 with any questions and ask for Sherman, W2FLA. _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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Hi all, this is my first trip report (and my first trip since 2000).
Nov 26, 2005 - DL/Song 2056 LAS-MCO
Equip: 757-200 Seat: 2C (zone 1)
Depart gate: D41 - Arrive gate: 77
Sch. Depart: 10:50PM - Wheels up: 10:55PM
Sch. Arrive: 6:00AM - At gate: 5:55AM
So it was a dark, cold night in Las Vegas. The flight departed form the D concourse, after I had toured it of course. The D concourse had recently opened its northeast wing. I walked around the three wings that existed (the northwest wing should be built in another few years). So after a lot of sitting after I had walked around, the flight started boarding about 25 minutes before departure. I was in zone 1 so I got to board in the first group. We boarded the 752 from door 2 and I proceeded to turn left and head towards the front of the aircraft. My co-worker (we were on our way to a conference in MCO) was in 2B, and we sat and waited while the rest of the plane boarded. They booted up the IFE system, and low and behold, I see TUX! The in flight entertainment system runs Linux! I of course mention this to my co-worker and talk about how neat it is that a part of this plane is running linux. A friend of mine sitting a few rows back yells out my name and asks if I've given everyone a lecture on how the IFE runs linux. I reply in the affirmative. See someone else's flickr photostream here for the system booting.
It turned out that no one sat in 2A, so he moved over after they had closed the door and we started to push back. It was exciting, this was the first time I had been on a plane in five years. So the plane starts to taxi, and we end up about 3rd or 4th in line for take off, 5 minutes ellapse and we're ready to go. Takeoff was uneventful, just a regular takeoff as far as I could tell.
The in flight service was very limited since it was a redeye flight - the dasani bottled water tasted like tap water - eeeewwww. We started at 31,000', up to 33,000' then finally topped out at 35,000'. The highlight of the flight was watching Samuari Champloo from 33,000 ft. I only got about 30 minutes of sleep, I wish I had got more. After Samuari Champloo and The Boondocks (on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network), I just turned on the map and tried to go to sleep.
It got bumpy over NM, then again as we passed over a front somewhere in Alabama or Miss. It was a smooth ride into MCO, landing on runway 35L (I think, it was dark and I was tired).
They deplaned through door 1, so since I had stowed my backpack under the seat in front of me, I was able to grab it and scurry off the plane first (everyone else was still collecting their things). Never been first off a plane before.
It was, overall, a smooth ride. The seats seemed narrow (more narrow than regular coach seats I would sit in later this week on a 767), but I guess overall it wasn't too bad of a flight.
Dec 1, 2005
DL Flight 655 MCO-ATL
Equip: 767-300 Seat: 15A (zone 7)
Depart gate: 75 - Arrive gate: B29
Sch. Depart: 2:25PM - Wheels up: 3:15PM
Sch. Arrive: 3:53PM - At gate: 4:40PM
So I get to MCO after my conference early again (via Disney's Magical Express). I had checked my bags at the hotel, but the woman working the airline checkin desk only printed up my boarding pass for my ATL-LAS leg, and not the MCO-ATL leg. So once I got to MCO I had to go over to the DL desk, and I saw the huge line for having to check in with paper tickets. I didn't want to wait in line so I went over to the customer service line and told the guy we had checked in at the hotel, but we were only issued one of our two boarding passes, he was quick to get our names and IDs and printed me and my co-worker our missing boarding pass. Good job DL! Excellent customer service! Instead of having to wait in line for 30 minutes I got my boarding pass in 2 minutes.
So we head through security without problems and we make our way to airside 4 to depart from gate 75. We grab a bit to eat at the burger king and wait for boarding to commense.
This is the one thing I hated about zone boarding. It seems people just hover in front of where the line is for scanning the ticket to let you on the jetway. So while they're boarding zones 1-3 say, everyone else is just huddled around the area, so if you're standing in the back you might think you're in line to get processed, but you're really not. You have to weave your way through the crowd to get to the front, and no one really cares to move out of the way. It'd be nice if DL told people to stay the hell out of the way until their zone is called!
So we get on the plane and the captian calls out that the latch to close one of the cockpit windows is broke and they have mx up here to fix it. Its supposed to take 15 minutes, and ends up taking close to 45 before they get it fixed and the captain clears the necessary paperwork to be on the way. We end up being 5th in line for takeoff at 35L, making us even later. Its an unventful flight to ATL, it was my first time in a 767. I got caught off guard, all of a sudden during climb, the engines spool down and I wonder what is going on. It wasn't right after takeoff, maybe we had got to 10,000' and we were changing our climb profile or something. But it did feel weird to have the engines spool down to almost idle, and eventually come back and we start climbing again. On our way into ATL, we get put in a holding pattern and we end up making one loop (comprising about 7-8 mintues) before we get cleared to land on 27L.
The weather isnt that nice in ATL - cloudy skies and a bit windy. The pilot brings the a/c down to just under the cloud ceiling for approach. While I felt it was a little rough in the front of the A/C, a friend of mine in the very last row (47) said it was like a roller coaster back there (yes, I know the back of a plane is more bumpy than the front). Apparently some of the F/As almost lost their lunches.
We get into ATL and everyone is worried about the fact we're late and many people might end up missing their connections. The F/A is smart enough to remind people that if they are not connecting, or wont be connecting within the next hour, to please stay seated while others with connections deplane.
I get off the plane and its 4:45, and my next flight it scheduled to leave at 5:21. Not exactly cutting it close, but I took no chances and me and my friend quickly walk to the next gate. I checked one of the boards on the way and it still says that the flight is on time so we keep walking...
Dec 1, 2005
DL Flight 417 ATL-LAS
Equip: 767-400 Seat: 12A (zone 4)
Depart gate: A12 - Arrive gate: D38
Sch. Depart: 5:21PM - Wheels up: 6:00PM
Sch. Arrive: 6:47PM - At gate: 7:05PM
So we get to the gate and low and behold, this flight is delayed too, while they change a battery pack. Its pushed back to 5:45PM. So I grab a bite to eat from the Pizza hut further down the A concourse, and hit the rest room before I get back to the gate and realize they're boarding already. I scarf down the pizza and by that time they're boarding zone 5 (and I'm in zone 4, so I can board).
Once again, all these mindless sheep standing in the way, I have to push my way through the crowd to get to the gate agent who is letting people on the plane. Down the jetway I go, and I show my boarding pass to the F/A who is directing people to their seats. I'm one of the luck few who gets to go left (since they were boarding through door 2 again), and found my seat 12A.
So we push back and we taxi to the runway, when, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a short and stubby twin engine aircraft! With a little tug driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be The Spirit of Delta!
Yes, I saw the Spirit of Delta in ATL - at around 6PM Thursday Dec 1 2005. I tried to grab my camera out of my backpack stowed under the seat in front of me, but by the time I had got it and turned it on it was out of sight.
The flight was uneventful, the F/As had problems showing the safety video - some of the LCDs in the coach cabin were turning off, and they had to reboot the IFE system twice in flight to get it working again - I figured it was something to do with the new battery pack.
I was disappointed I couldn't find the DL channel that is ATC - I swear a few months ago reading that DL's channel 9 on their IFE is ATC, but it didn't seem to work for me.
So we're flying and its uneventful. The sunset was beautiful. The shades of deep purple and black fading through all the colors of the spectrum to the red on the horizon.
We get to LAS after the long flight, and we desend into the city, I can pick out all the geographic features - Hoover dam (form the Lake Mead side), Boulder City, US 93/95 Jct, Henderson, etc and we eventually land on 25L. I think we landed long - I could see the lights for the N/S runways not too far away from the A/C. We taxi to the D concourse and deplane through door 2. As I get off the jetway I see the airport and remember how nice it is to be home.


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Dear Santa,
I don't ask for a lot. OK, well, maybe I do — but you know I'm kidding when I wish for eternal youth and for Breaking Bad to continue forever and ever. And I'm not big on gifts. I have enough ugly holiday sweaters, coasters and picture frames to last for at least 10 re-giftings. But in terms of the food scene in New York City, there are a few things I'd love to get. If you could get around to it sooner rather than later, that'd be just swell …
♦ A Cronut, just to try it and see what all of the hysteria is about. Then I would like to never hear the word "Cronut" again.
♦ An end to ridiculous reservation policies like that of Sushi Nakazawa — you know, that New York Times four-star sushi bar that's impossible to get into? Upon actually scoring a seat, you pay a non-refundable $50 (per person) deposit. There are no refunds even when you cancel with, say, a week's notice … even though those seats could be filled within seconds. Good sushi (I'm told); bad karma.
♦ For OpenTable.com to offer reservations besides 5:30pm for popular restaurants such as ABC Kitchen. It hurts that they even think that I'd consider dining at the time my parents do.
♦ A better non-flash camera for dish posts. Please get on whoever's running Apple these days. Ed note: Please!
♦ A moratorium on the opening of Italian restaurants. We have enough, Marone!
♦ More interesting ethnic restaurants like Khe-Yo and Somtum Der. Free idea for anyone who'll take it: Antarctican cuisine.
♦ Chefs who cook … in a kitchen … without a camera in front of them.
Thanks, Santa! Have a great holiday! Newyork.com loves you,
P.S. The black and white cookies are for you to share with the reindeer.
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Art businesses hosting camps in Bristol
BRISTOL, Va. - Your child can leave his or her mark on the Bristol Arts!
Camps are underway focusing on 15 downtown arts and entertainment activities.
Believe in Bristol Associate Director Brad White said they're hosted by local arts-related businesses.
"They get to do all sorts of things from going down to Kiln Time and working with ceramics and pottery to painting canvases. Today we took them to Cumberland Park, and they got to paint mock posters for Rhythm and Roots", said White.
Another camp gets underway on July 21st.
Children ages 8 to 12 can still sign up by clicking here. The cost is $250 dollars per child.


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S. R. Cortes, J. R. King (Clemson University)
A photometric investigation of three blue stars of low iron abundance was conducted during the summer of 2003; the goal was to determine if a periodic variation in brightness exists. The observations were taken with the SARA 0.9m telescope during three nights at the end of June for the stars CS22890-069 and CS22872-062, and data taken during one night in the beginning of July for the star CS22884-065. This project was made possible by the National Science Foundation with grant AST0097616, the Curry Foundation, and the Shodor Foundation.
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I-Day At The US Naval Academy (PHOTOS)
Each year, the Unites States Naval Academy welcomes approximately 1200 young men and women to Plebe Summer where they are inducted as Midshipmen at the USNA. These pictures are from their morning "check-in" on June 28, 2012. All images are ©2012, Kevin X. Carroll. To order high-resolution copies, please contact Kevin Carroll by email.
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Getting Started with WinARM for Qualcomm BREW
Setting Linker Options
Linker options are a little tricker because you need to use a linker script that Ward's helpfully crafted to ensure the proper ordering of all the object files in the project to create an ELF file that's palatable to the BREWelf2mod converter. His web page has an excellent discussion of what's necessary and why; the upshot is that the BREWelf2mod converter is very picky about the input ELF file, and if things aren't just right, it gets hopelessly confused and creates multi-megabyte module files that aren't likely to be executable anyway. Consequently, your linker command should look like this:
winarmbinarm-elf-ld.exe --script armelf.brew --emit-relocs --no-warn-mismatch -L winARMlibgccarm-elf4.1.1 -lgcc -o "file.elf" AEEAppGen.o file.o
The first argument tells the linker to pull in the linker script, about which I'll say more in a moment. The second option is required, and tells the linker to output code relocation information; BREWelf2mod uses this information when creating the MOD file. The third is optional but a good idea, especially if you end up mixing ARM and Thumb code, and tells the linker not to warn about the different architectures being linked. Finally comes a list of what to link; the .L and .l options bring in the GCC library containing the application bootstrap glue, while the actual files being linked in this case are AEEAppGen.o and file.o to make the output file file.elf.
In the make file with this article and most Qualcomm make files, check out the LINK_OBJS and LINK_CMD variables to configure the linker options.
Converting the ELF to a MOD
Converting the ELF file to a dynamic module is the purview of BREWelf2mod, and I've been successful doing this with two different versions of BREWelf2mod: the one included in the Microsoft Visual Studio Addins ZIP file I mentioned previously in this article, and the BREWelf2mod provided by Qualcomm dated 15 March 2004, a 52,248 byte executable.
In this article, I've shown you how to configure WinARM to compile C files for Qualcomm BREW in ARM architecture mode. With this knowledge and the resources at the end of this article, you should be able to modify your make file to build C++ files for ARM, or either C or C++ files for Thumb as well with just a few changes. There are many reasons you might choose WinARM, including compiler costs, the ability to debug using GDB on BREW 3.1.4 and later handsets, and the tool chain's support for function pointer tables and global and static variables (recently also supported by Qualcomm with the ARM compiler via a newer BREWelf2mod utility). Regardless of your reasons, though, its good to know there's another tool on the bench for building BREW applications.
Related Resources
- HOWTO Compile BREW applets with WinARM 4.1.0: http://brew.wardco.com/index.html
- WinARM: http://gandalf.arubi.uni-kl.de/avr_projects/arm_projects/#winarm
About the Author
Ray Rischpater is the chief architect at Rocket Mobile, Inc., specializing in the design and development of messaging and information access applications for today's wireless devices. Ray Rischpater is the author of several books on software Development including eBay Application Development and Software Development for the QUALCOMM BREW Platform, both available from Apress, and is an active Amateur Radio operator. Contact Ray at email@example.com.
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BOSTON – They're supposed to be a faceless group of nobodies, one that has yet to form an identity, according to Doc Rivers.
But on Wednesday night when the Boston Celtics (48-18) starters came out stagnant, that group of bench players showed what they are capable of by picking up the 'Big Three' and carrying them to a position where they were able to prevail over the Indiana Pacers (29-39), 92-80, at TD Garden.
"You could see the first unit were almost pressing to start the game," Rivers said. "I thought the second unit came in and got our energy up."
With guard Delonte West back from a right ankle sprain suffered Feb. 27, it was the first time that Rivers was able to get his entire second unit on the floor after remaking his bench over the previous month with the additions of hybrid forward Jeff Green, guard Carlos Arroyo and forwards Sasha Pavlovic and Troy Murphy.
And if Wednesday's game was any indication of what the future holds, Green better demand that his picture is largest when the new-look 'Bench Mob' get their promo posters made up.
He scored 17 points in the first half on 5 of 8 shooting, and at most times appeared to be the most talented player on the court.
With Boston down 23-19 when Davis hit a free throw with 8:21 remaining, the forward took over. Over the next 4:16, he scored 12-consecutive points for the Celtics on five foul shots, a 3-pointer and a pair of layups to go up 31-29.
"He's giving us energy off the bench, we're going to him," forward Paul Pierce said. "It takes a lot of pressure off the first unit when you have a guy like coming in and immediately contributing like a starter."
Green then went to the bench, clearing the way for the starters to get the glory after Ray Allen hit a pair of threes, and Pierce added another to push the advantage to 42-31.
Green finished with 19 of the bench's 34 points.
"Just trying to create for the team and spark up a little run," Green said. "I think the second unit collectively came in and gave a big spark."
West, who was playing in just his ninth game after missing time due to a suspension, a broken right (non-shooting) wrist and then with the ankle, played 16 minutes and scored two points. Davis added nine points and nine rebounds, while the recently struggling Rajon Rondo was held scoreless with eight assists.
The starters were largely absent most of the first half. After tying the score 6-6, the Celtics headliners scored just three points on 1 of 7 shooting over a span of 4:28 to go down 17-9 when the reserves finally started to be cycled in.
The starters righted the ship in the second half, especially Pierce, who finished with 20 points, but the emergence of the bench was an important development after Boston dropped three of its previous four games.
They are hoping this will serve as the first building block towards them becoming a cohesive unit as they make their playoff push.
"How well we played and how well we finished the second half was good for us to just get a good feel and get a feel for each other, we're still trying to find that," Davis said. "That was good for our team."


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Things to do on Wednesday, May 23, 2012.
1. See the spectacle
The latest show from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, "Dragons," features contests between four teams, acrobats and trapeze artists, and a chance to see the mythical creatures.
DETAILS: 7:30 p.m. today through May 28 at Giant Center, 550 Hersheypark Drive, Hershey. Cost: $80 for VIP; $40, $25. www.ringling.com; www.giantcenter.net; 717-534-3911.
2. Get back in the habit
The musical "Nunsense" offers tart quips with a clerical slant, and features tap and ballet dancing, an audience quiz and comic surprises.
DETAILS: Today through July 8 (performances held select Tuesday-Sunday) at Allenberry Resort Inn and Playhouse, 1559 Boiling Springs Road, Monroe Twp. Cost: Dinner and show: $63 evenings; $59 matinees/Sunday brunch. Show only: $38. www.allenberry.com, 800-430-5468.
3. Take a new look at faith
Jim McConkey, author of "To the Far Side of Planet Earth: A Peace Corps Memoir," presents a lecture and discussion on "The Mythological and Psychological Roots of Belief Systems."
DETAILS: 7-8:30 p.m. at Unitarian Church of Harrisburg, Clover Lane Campus, 1280 Clover Lane, Swatara Twp. Free. www.harrisburguu.org, 717-564-4761.


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A puzzle for almost 20 years has been the cause of the pulsational instability for the hot post-planetary nebula pre-white dwarfs. It was known right after the discovery of these variable stars that the cyclical ionization of carbon and oxygen can make the stars pulsate by the normal kappa mechanism. However, the presence of helium observed on the surface of these stars poisons this mechanism by diluting the opacity ``bump" of C and O. The problem has been to get pulsationally unstable models with significant helium in the layers just below the surface where the pulsations are driven. Now it appears that an additional opacity ``bump" in the temperature-opacity plane, due to the K-shell ionization of the small amount of iron in the stellar mixture unaffected by stellar evolution, might give sufficient driving when added to that from the C and O ionizations. Some small ion levitation abundance enhancement from the solar value may be needed though. The latest extensive theoretical interpretations by Bradley and Dziembowski (1996) show low order nonradial g-modes with small motions in deep pulsation damping layers do not suffer much from the helium poison, but the observed longer periods for the hottest stars in this GW Vir (often called PG1159-035) class remained unexplained. The new Los Alamos opacities for the observed abundances, 0.6 solar mass models for GW Vir itself at 140,000 K, and the pulsational analysis for the observed periods around the observed 516 seconds will be presented.
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Dear Angels,
"I have been seeing a man named Tony for the past three months. He is very sweet to me but I have no idea what the heck is going to happen. We have spent a lot of time together but I am just not sure if we are on the same path even though we do seem very compatible. He was here last night while I was on the teleseminar with you." Susie, Gainesville, FL
Dear Susie,
In looking at your cards, I understand why I didn't have a sense that you're having fun in this relationship. It looks as if you feel like you"should" be having fun, but I'm not sure you are. What I do see is that you tend to worry about whatever is up for you and it uproots you. You manage but there is no personal sense of security while you're floating above your body. Better to be rooted. How can Tony get comfortable with you when you are mostly "not available" even if you think you are.
Tony is at an interesting place himself. He is right in the middle of a big change-over mentally. A breakthrough place where he may decide to stop coasting and instead ask for what he really wants. He feels the need to take control of his life, maybe a new job? and he wants to do it in a way that brings him better balance. Is it possible that he feels your desire to make something happen, one way or the other?
He sees you as someone who would love to be married with your own family, even if you haven't said so. However, he sees you also as stretched thin emotionally. Wanting to move forward, wanting to take a chance on life but so afraid that you will make your life worse. Although he is attracted to you, even loves you, I think there is a fear that you are emotionally insecure. He is sensing that you are not trusting life to support you.
I have the feeling that he would like to continue in this relationship but it would help if you were able to work on your personal insecurities. It's possible he is similar to you and that is holding him back. Either way, he seems to be at a standstill even though he appears to love you.
Have you ever thought of being direct and asking him what he is looking for in a relationship? Is he interested in being married? Would he ever want kids? I've noticed that women who were abused as children are often afraid to speak up for their own needs. See if that applies to you.


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Just some random thoughts while digging out my Pinto from an early-January snowstorm:
Parkland and Central Catholic looked to be joined in lockstep during the preseason in terms of who was going to be the major power in the Lehigh Valley Conference.
But the Vikings seemed to have distanced themselves not only from the Trojans but from the rest of the LVC pack as well. Central Catholic is the only undefeated team in the region and has beaten all eight of its opponents by at least 13 points.
Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman is off to a quick start, averaging nearly 24 points per game with center Jean Lee Baez averaging just over 12.
The surprise team in the region so far? I'd have to go with Whitehall.
The Zephyrs (6-2) upset Parkland right before the holidays then came back a week later to knock off North Hunterdon 51-47 in the championship game of their own holiday tournament, a game they trailed by eight points with just over two minutes to go.
The loss to Whitehall, meanwhile, is Parkland's only defeat in a 5-1 start.
Freedom, behind coach Joe Stellato, who often looks like he just walked out of a GQ advertisement, would also have to fall into the surprise category. The Patriots, despite losing three key starters, are 4-2 and knocked off crosstown rival Liberty on Dec. 20.
The one loss to Freedom, incidentally, is the Hurricanes' only defeat in their impressive 6-1 start. The key for coach Chad Landis' program is how soon it gets K.J. Williams, an 18-point per game scorer, back from an ankle injury. Williams has missed Liberty's last three games.
Pen Argyl has been a pleasant surprise in the Colonial League under first-year coach Kyle Hutnik. The Green Knights, who haven't had a winning season since 2004-05, are off to a 4-4 start.
Key players so far have been guards Chris Muller and Devon LaBarre, both averaging in the 12-points per game range, and forward Derek Nied, who's finally healthy after battling a shoulder injury last season.
Over in the Skyland Conference, Warren Hills has raised a few eyebrows with its 3-1 start. The Blue Streaks are guard-driven behind senior veteran Darrien Pinkman, a four-year starter, and sophomore Johnny Bamford. Pinkman, who must stay healthy for coach Stan Kubbishun's team to be successful, averages 14 points per game with Bamford averaging 13.
Disappointments so far? Notre Dame, which was the preseason pick to win the Colonial League, is off to a so-so 4-3 start but it's early and the Crusaders have the capability to go off on a long winning streak.
Coach Pat Boyle said his club had depth issues and so far, he's been somewhat clairvoyant; Notre Dame has had issues with its depth behind its dynamic duo of 6-8 center Vincent Eze and forward Tannor Reed, both averaging around 18 points per game.


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Energy efficiency of eBay's new data center in Phoenix, Arizona, called Project Mercury, has been confirmed by The Green Grid, making official the company's claims about efficiency of a number of cutting-edge design approaches and technologies it used.
The Green Grid has released a case study detailing the design of the facility and showing how the company used the organization's Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric and the Data Center Maturity Model (DCMM) to guide the design process.
Read more about eBay's Project Mercury in our exclusive, featured in the upcoming issue of DatacenterDynamics FOCUS magazine
Brad Brech, an IBM representative on The Green Grid's board, said Project Mercury was designed to optimize performance and energy use for eBay's specific workload profile. At the same time the project met the five-year horizons defined by the DCMM.
"This facility is an example of what is possible by establishing and relying on industry best practices for achieving maximum energy efficiency and low environmental impact in data centers," Brech said.
eBay's reported initial efficiency results very much better than the industry average. Project Mercury's site average PUE was 1.35 during one week in January. The site's best-case PUE was 1.26.
The data center has three data center modules on the roof: two HP pods and one Dell module. eBay reported the Dell module's partial PUE of 1.018. The measurement was taken during the same time period as site PUE.
On one of 2011's hottest days in August 2011, the 20-rack container showed a PUE of 1.046. That was when outside temperature was 115F.
According to The Green Grid, the data center owes its efficiency primarily to its high server density and a hot-water cooling system, which drastically reduces the time it's required to run mechanical chillers.
eBay commissioned IT hardware optimized for its workloads from its suppliers. This also maximized efficiency of the way data center resources, such as space, power and cooling, were used to meet eBay's specific workload requirements.


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Green's St. Louis directory :
Insurance Company
Capital, $100,000, With Privilege of Increasing It To $500,000.
Office--Corner of Pine and Main streets,
St. Louis, Mo.
F. L.Ridgely, , Secretary . Geo.Collier, , President .
GeorgeCollier, , JohnSimonds, , John B.Sarpy, ,
HenryVon Phul, , James M.White, , EdwardBredell, .
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[missing figure]This Company insures upon every description of Marine Risks by sea or river, including all inland insurance by lakes,
railroads, canals, &c., and upon every and all insurable interests against loss or damage by Fire; and upon the hulls of steam
boats, against the dangers of the rivers or of fire.
From the known punctuality with which losses have been adjusted and paid, the Directors confidently ask a portion of the
public patronage.
The Company now offer inducements to the assured, by returning on all Marine Premiums, at the time the risk is taken, one-
tenth of one percent., loss or no loss; and on Fire Premiums, one-tenth on all risks expiring without loss.
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The Vancouver City Council will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 on the city's proposed 2013-14 budget.
One key issue: the expiration over the next two years of federal grants that are funding 13 fire and five police positions, according to a news release. The council has asked city manager Eric Holmes to figure out how to retain those positions without cutting other city services, according to the release.
For those unable to attend the public hearing, it will be broadcast live at cvtv.org and cable channel 23 and will be replayed online at cvtv.org.
Comments on the proposed budget may be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.
-- The Oregonian


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Professional Experience
Research Interests
UMCP/NIST Co-Laboratory for NanoParticle Based Manufacturing and Metrology
Probing Nanomaterials in Energy, Health and the Environment
Our research is multidisciplinary and the publications with PDF files can be found at www.enme.umd.edu/~mrz -click on publications link.
The focus of our research is two fold:
a. Developing analytic tools (Nanolytics) to study nanoparticles and nanowires.
b. Developing using aerosol methods new materials with application to energy and nanomedicine.
Our focus is on aerosol based methods for which we have developed new mass-spectrometric and ion-mobility methods to probe the behavior and function of nanoparticles and nanowires. A typical question for example might be, can we determine in solution what the surface coating is on a nanoparticle, and how is it oriented ? These questions are relevant to material contaminants in the environment, the use of nanoparticles in medicine, and the manufacturing of nanomaterials in industry.
Recently we have developed electrospray atmospheric ion mobility spectrometry to measure the orientation of SAM's on nanoparticles and their binding energy as a function of particle size. This work has been extended to determine the orientation of DNA binding on Au NP's which have relevance to medicinal chemistry. We have also used these methods to study the reaction kinetics of solar driven chemistry to generate hydrogen from water, in which we obtain the detailed behavior of how nanoparticles react as a function of particle size. We have applied these methods very recently to probe the interaction of proteins, in particular antibody binding to nanoparticles, and there aggregation behavior in solution. We have a strong collaboration with atmospheric sciences in which we make and characterize environmental aerosols relevant to global climate change. In particular we are now trying to understand how coated soot particles might enhance absorption of sunlight and lead to enhanced global warming.
Over the past year we developed a new T-Jump Time-of-Flight mass spectrometer to measure ultrafast condensed state reactions at higher temperatures with a resolution of 100 μs. Here we are able to see how nanoparticles of metal react with metal oxide to liberate energy.
Finally our group has been active in materials synthesis using aerosol routes. Our current activities involve developing a new class of porous nanoparticles in which we are collaborating with pharmacologists to apply them to targeted cancer therapies. We are beginning a new project on composite nanowire based architectures to generate hydrogen from solar electrochemical reactions.
Electrospray mobilty spectrometer and spectrum of bare vs DNA coated Au


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Verizon's new deal with New Jersey regulators to skip rolling out high-speed broadband Internet service isn't the first time that a regulated communications utility was allowed to dial back its promises to Garden State consumers.
Remember the 1980s, when cable TV providers told town councils about all the hyper-local programming and public access facilities they'd get, if only the town awarded its franchise to Company A over Company B? Now that Comcast is a regional monopoly, local cable content has all but vanished. Comcast in Carneys Point is almost identical to Comcast in, say, Chicago.
However, this latest deal between Verizon and the state Board of Public Utilities is about more than how many high-school football games you can see. Localities where Verizon won't upgrade its land lines run the risk of being left in the dust in the business and academic worlds.
Rural Cumberland and Salem counties are especially affected, since their aging telephone land lines don't carry any high-speed Internet. And, to think, this deal settles a BPU finding two years ago that Verizon indeed had not fulfilled its 1993 promise to blanket the state with high-speed by 2010. Verizon claims that its commitment to broadband has been overstated.
Under the settlement, Verizon can substitute 4G wireless service for the fiber-optic (FiOS) lines or Internet-upgraded copper lines that it hasn't installed yet.
Hopewell Township Committeeman Greg Facemyer isn't pleased. His community is one of many in South Jersey that had peppered Verizon and the BPU with complaints. The 4G service, claims Facemyer, is still slower and of lower capacity than land-line broadband.
"Why should we get left behind?" he asks.
It's understandable that phone companies nationwide don't want to spend more coin to build wire-based services that they think will be dinosaurs. Yet, Verizon's near abandonment of FiOS expansion has left New Jersey with too many "have nots," even in posh suburbs.
Many New Jerseyans can get fast Internet from their cable providers. But the settlement is a travesty for those places beyond the reach of cable systems. Lawmakers should review this deal, and ensure that all of the state's households can get at least one form of high-speed.