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Report From Eden: Celerons and Cybersmut on a Drive Down Under
Eden appears to be pretty much for sale, with real estate signs sprouting all over. Eden is a fishing village on the coast of New South Wales, Australia, right near the border with Victoria. It faces the Tasman Sea and has a very nice surfing beach stocked with very nice surfers, some of them clothed. I stopped through Eden this week on a drive from Sydney to Melbourne to give a speech. A slave to airline ticket restrictions, my required Saturday stay gave me plenty of time, so I decided to make the 700 mile drive and contemplate my life while dodging wombats and remembering to drive on the left side of the road.
It is sobering to admit that my life is as boring as it is, so 100 miles into the trip I abandoned self-examination in favor of thinking about computers. Australia is very Internet savvy, with 20 percent of homes now online. This level of service came in handy when I was failed by AT&T Worldnet, my normal on-the-road ISP. AT&T Worldnet was judged the best U.S. ISP by some computer magazine, but I have to tell you, those editors never tried leaving the country. Since my last overseas trip, AT&T Worldnet inconveniently dropped overseas access numbers from its Web site, forcing me to spend more than $50 on telephone calls to New Jersey to get a Melbourne access number that then DIDN'T WORK. Why do they call it "Worldnet?" Why did I even bother? For less than $30 I picked up a CD-ROM from Microplex, an Aussie ISP, giving me tons of software and 40 free hours online. I spent more time and money on hold with AT&T Worldnet than I did acquiring and installing the Microplex software.
It becomes quickly clear that Microplex does a lot of local Web caching and for good reason, because the cost of Internet backbone lines to the U.S. is very high. What I didn't realize before this trip is that the cost of these backbones is borne entirely by foreign ISPs even though the traffic goes in both directions. The rationale behind this network imperialism is that the foreigners want access to our dirty pictures rather than our wanting access to theirs. So, dammit, they have to pay. And while it is true that about 80 percent of the Internet traffic between Australia and the U.S. is them surfing us, the 20 percent that is us surfing them is free to U.S. users.
As in the U.S., Australians are very concerned with protecting their kids from cybersmut. This seems to me the most peculiar debate, no matter in which country it takes place. I can't decide if we are all just hypocrites or lazy. Here's how it works: Somebody gets upset, national debates ensue, and finally a group emerges arguing for what amounts to repealing the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. I appeared once on a radio show with conservative columnist Arianna Huffington and she called for just that. This lady is dangerous.
Here's the part that makes no sense at all. Beyond getting upset, beyond provoking a lot of impassioned sermons in churches across America, beyond burning broadcast hours on C-SPAN, beyond telling a lot of other people how to live their lives and what to do, WE PRETTY MUCH MAKE NO REAL EFFORT TO PROTECT OUR FAMILIES. While Arianna Huffington wants to turn off the Net to protect her little boys, I suggest she buy a copy of Surf Watch, Cyber Patrol, or Net Nanny. These packages that control access to cybersmut through a variety of techniques would go a long way toward fixing the problem without having to fix the Net, except NOBODY BUYS THEM.
Not one of these packages sells more than a thousand retail copies per month according to PC Data. I say, let he who is without sin buy the first CD-ROM.
A fair number of people thought I was crazy in last week's column about Intel. What I liked about their comments was not that I was so wrong in what I had said, but that I had missed a significant point in my call for a delay in Pentium III purchases and a closer look at the new AMD K6-3. In the nerd crowd right now, the top chip in terms of mind share comes from Intel, but it isn't the P-III. It's the lowly Celeron.
A few months ago, Intel introduced a new family of Celerons, its entry-level microprocessor. The old Celerons were dogs, essentially a Pentium II core without any memory cache. You could put L-2 cache on a Celeron motherboard, but it could be accessed only at the bus speed of, then, 66 MHz. The result was that a 300 MHz Celeron was effectively slower than a K6-2/233.
But the new Celerons are completely different. Intel probably should have changed the name, but doing so might have given too much of a tip-off to consumers. As it is, the new Celerons have the highest price/performance of any mainstream processor you can buy. What has changed is the new Celerons now have 128K of cache memory. This is less than the 512K that comes in the typical P-II or P-III, but tons more than the 0K that came in the first Celerons. The big news, though, is that this cache is on-chip and accessible not at the bus speed of (now) 100 MHz, or at half the main clock speed (150 MHz for a 300 MHz chip) like on the Pentium II, but at the full speed of the chip, which can be more than 300 MHz. This is the same way Intel built the old Pentium Pro chips and builds the new Xeon, its most powerful processor. Sure, the Xeon has either 512K or 1024K of on-chip cache, but with 128K of on-chip cache, the Celeron is still a screamer. It is like a baby Xeon.
Wait, there's more! Research in the hacker community shows these new Celerons are very easy to overclock. That is, if you raise the clock speed of the system, the chips runs at that faster speed with no problems. A survey at overclockers.com shows that 98 percent of Celeron chips have no problems at all running at main clock rates at least 50 percent higher than they are labeled for. I have a friend who has been running a Celeron 300A chip at 450 MHz for months with no problems at all.
Remember, this is an $80 chip.
The impact this information has on how you configure your next PC can be significant. If you overclock the Celeron instead of buying a P-II or P-III, you can either keep in your pocket the several hundred dollars saved, or you can spend the savings on making your system faster still. If it is a game machine, obviously buy a better video card. No matter what kind of machine, buy more memory. If it is a server, especially one running Linux, use part of the savings for a SCSI controller and disk and the rest for more main memory. SDRAM-100 seems to handle overclocking fine, too, so you probably won't have to bother with the new 133 MHz SDRAMs.
Does Intel want us to know this? Of course not. I can only conclude that the company made an error and these faster Celerons slipped through unnoticed. Instructions for overclocking are everywhere on the Net, but it is generally handled either through modifying the BIOS setup held in CMOS or by changing some jumpers. Either way, increased performance is only moments away.


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Following HACSA
Harris Hall Main Floor
Commissioner Bill Fleenor presided with Commissioners Bill Dwyer, Rob Handy, Pete Sorenson and Faye Stewart present. County Administrator Jeff Spartz, County Counsel Liane Richardson and Recording Secretary Melissa Zimmer were also present.
Bill Klupenger, Eugene, said he is now on Medicare and pays $25.00 per month for supplemental Part B with no prescription drugs. He said health care in the community is fragmented and expensive. He believes in providing medical services to other human beings. He wanted a home base clinic that provides a card with all the health care information on it. He wanted to separate health care from insurance. He commented that insurance adds to the expense without benefit. He wanted the commissioners to do what they can do make this vision a reality and he is willing to help the Board do it.
Betty Shirley,
John Deleau, Springfield, talked about San Franciscoĺs health plan. He encouraged people to investigate the San Francisco Plan and come up with something that could be recommended for Lane County.
Marc Shapiro, Eugene, said he was a proponent of
single payer. He reported there were
60,000 uninsured citizens in Lane County last year and there are now 72,000
uninsured citizens in Lane County. He
noted the parallels between
Charlotte Maloney,
Cheryl Crumbly,
Dwyer stated that he is a single payer advocate. He announced the birth of his great-granddaughter.
Sorenson thought the idea they could do something with medical care (like San Francisco) was an optimistic thing. He thought they could look at the innovations that are in other communities for a medical home for people, minimizing the transaction costs of the health care system.
Stewart recommended contacting Val Hoyle as she works at
Handy acknowledged the passing of former Lane County Commissioner Chuck Ivey.
5. COMMISSIONERSĺ BUSINESS
a. RECOGNITION/Outstanding Lane County Citizen
a. Announcements
b. REPORT BACK/National Association of Counties (NACo) Prescription Drug Program.
Richardson said NACo has a prescription drug plan that they have had for a few years. She said if they sign up with NACo, they will provide the prescription drug card for the citizens. She said it could say Lane County and it would allow the citizens to go to 60,000 participating pharmacies, getting reduced costs for most prescription drugs. She said there is a 22 percent average discount off of the full price. She noted counties across the country have been joining. She said Lane County was asked to joint the NACo program. She discovered the United Way has a similar program with no cost. She asked if the Board wants to go forward with NACo or another prescription drug program, what they need to do.
Laidlaw stated that Lane County could publish an ad in its interest in sponsoring a prescription drug discount program for Lane County residents, outlining the main components and indicate they are considering the NACo program and that NACo offers administrative assistance to Lane County in managing the program and Lane County would be involved in a national market share. She said they can then ask companies who wish to compete to send in a letter of interest addressing some of the main issues: how many pharmacies participating, average discount price or any other fees they charge, ease of use to consumers and if they can make a decision to do a more formal process. She said if the Board decided Caremark was the appropriate plan to go with, then the Board could sign the contract through NACo and get the benefits they have gotten through the process. She said the second component is signing the contract with Caremark. She noted one issue is that it states any contract executed is a confidential document. She said they are asking Lane County to agree the entire contract is confidential. She said they have to give notice and opportunity to object before they make the document public. She said they have to explain to the public what type of services they are getting and not keep it in secrecy.
Dwyer thought the best bang for the buck was not the NACo card but going through the FQHC. He thought that was the direction they needed to go.
Rob Rockstroh, Health and Human Services, said not everyone can be a member of the Federally Qualified Health Center. He said Family Wise at United Way is a 20 percent or higher discount and the State of Oregon also has a plan. He said the problem with the FQHC is the size and the clients they can take. He said anyone can use a drug card but to get access to the 340 B program, they would have to be a member of the FQHC. He said they want the whole community to have access to primary care. He said if they want the Lane County logo, it would be good to have a card. He noted for Family Wise or other cards, it would be the same for individuals.
Sorenson thought the larger issue is whether the County
provides it as another option for the citizens.
He said without the program in existence in the County, people are
finding ways to get access. He asked
if this provides additional access. He
asked what the cost would be to
Laidlaw responded that there are no costs, but there would be costs with cards with the County logo on it. She spoke with Health and Human Services and with other counties. She said there are no hidden costs and there was ease of use.
Sorenson wanted to move ahead with the promotion of their own clinic and with this as well. He didnĺt see a drawback advantages and the ability to have bulk purchasing.
Fleenor asked if the Board wants to move forward, they should have a proposal to bring back a board order with the stipulation of the caveats with advertising and open records law.
Richardson said they didnĺt need an official board order, but if the Board wants to proceed with the advertisement and conversations with NACo as described by Laidlaw, they could have a motion.
MOTION: to move to proceed with the advertisement and conversations with NACo as described by Trina Laidlaw.
Dwyer MOVED, Stewart SECONDED.
Stewart said he would support a larger conversation of health care options to save employees costs.
Fleenor asked to bring this back and include a report to be put in the motion.
Dwyer amended the motion to have a report back on September 15. Stewart SECONDED.
a. Announcements
Stewart Bolinger, Performance Auditor, indicated that he
made a list of recommendation collection actions for Justice Courts.
He is working on clearing the list. He
said he is drafting a list of risk conditions and background on those conditions
so a new auditor will have his assessment on where they stand on the critical
issues to consider if they adopt a new Risk Assessment Plan with a new auditor.
He was offered an opportunity to be Auditor Director for Save the
Children in
8. EXECUTIVE SESSION as per ORS 192.660
There being no further business, Commissioner Fleenor recessed the meeting at 12:00 p.m.
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In which two cops and one former drug dealer shoot down our ideas about Springfield's drug economy
During the run-up to last November's election, we spent a good amount of time in the office tossing around theories about how marijuana decriminalization changed the business model of selling drugs. Said theories seemed attractive, wonkish, roguish, contrarian. But they more-or-less turned out to be wrong.
One theory Greg had, I think, went like this: while decriminalizing marijuana might make buying drugs less stressful for kids in Amherst and Northampton scared of getting arrested for possession, the increased demand would cause more competition -- and thus more violence -- among the Springfield drug dealers who actually have to sell the stuff. Sudhir Venkatesh, occasional Freakonomics blogger, author, and sociologist, ran a study in Chicago that found street violence negatively affected the price of illegal drugs -- the more violence on the street corner, the lower dealers had to set their prices. I decided to ask around and see if the trend played out in Springfield, and to what degree Question 2 affected the business of drug-dealing.
We waited a few months before contacting anyone about any side effects of Question 2. On Monday, Sgt. John Delaney, aide to Springfield PD Commissioner Fichet, said that while the majority of Springfield's drug arrests are out-of-town customers, police have seen no particular increase in out-of-town drug demand Springfield since the decriminalization. He also said the amount of drug-related violence hasn't increased since Question 2 was passed.
"Not at all. Zero," Delaney said.
There have been eight homicides this year, two more there were at this point last year, which isn't a huge deviation. At the beginning of 2009, police departments across Western Mass weren't exactly clear on the finer details of the new marijuana law. Neither were drug dealers.
"I think the public are more confused about this law than the patrolmen," Delaney said. He said Springfield police have since arrested many dealers who weren't aware that selling drugs can still land you in jail despite Massachusetts's new marijuana decriminalization laws.
"If they're caught in the middle of a sale, they go to jail under 94C," Delaney said. "It's never okay to sell drugs."
"It is a bit of a struggle for our law enforcement because the average person is not carrying an ounce of marijuana with them on the street all the time," said veteran officer Charlie Youmans, Community Police Advocate for the Springfield PD. "But a message still needs to be sent out other than a heavy-duty fine, other than just saying that it's okay just to be smoking a blunt while driving a car, and the best you can do is a $100 to a $300 fine? I still don't feel that's right. Because how many parents, young parents who are out here, are still smoking with their kids in the car? Tons."
While some dealers might not be completely clear on the decriminalization law, Youmans stressed that most younger criminals are smarter. Like anyone else, they have more technology at their disposal, more access to information, more knowledge of the law. Criminal justice courses, Youmans tells college students during presentations, are the new liberal arts. They're the courses students take when they're looking to fill up credit requirements but haven't decided on a major.
"A long time ago, it was just a hustler in the street," Youmans said. "So now, to know that I only need to carry this much, or, I may have more but I'm not gonna carry that much on me, I got a stash place, where I can keep refilling myself, but never too much."
Youmans said there wasn't any kind of increased trend in dealers carrying only an ounce or less. I asked Youmans if some dealers, nonetheless, were carrying just enough on them to avoid arrest. "Oh yeah, absolutely," he said.
"Those who have been convicted on prior cases on being locked up know that, now, if I recruit younger kids to be my runners, to be my carriers, juvy court is packed up," Youmans added. "A lot of little kids are getting that slap on the hand. [...] So that's a lot easier."
Currently, kids under 18 are required to take drug awareness classes if caught with an ounce or less of marijuana, the Republican reported. While the drug trade might have been more nuanced when Venkatesh ran his study in Chicago, Springfield's is less formal.
"I don't think [violence] would affect the price," Youmans said. "I think it's more of an intimidation factor. Because it's more control of the area, of what's being sold, and who's selling it. That's the difference. Where you have to look at the average person who's out there hustling, they're out there to make money. And anybody who interferes with that, you need to either run them away, or you need to get rid of them."
On Friday, I asked these questions to David Serrano, about whom I have a much longer article that'll be published later this summer. Serrano used to be a regional officer for the Latin Kings through the 80s and 90s. He left the gang when his younger brother, Ivan Pena, was stabbed and killed in 2000. Currently, Serrano is a member of the Board of Directors at the New North Citizens Council. When I interviewed him in April, he'd had much of his criminal record sealed. He currently works as a consultant who speaks to students in Springfield schools about the dangers of gang involvement. Much more detail on that soon. But, for now:
"I voted yes for that," Serrano said about Question 2 when I visited his home in Springfield on Friday. "Everybody wanna be a baller. Everybody wanna have money. The economy's kicking our ass right now, too, you know what I'm saying? [...] I voted yes for that because it's a waste of time to get locked up for some bulls--t."
I asked if he thought the laws would change the way drugs were sold.
"No. It'd be the same thing," he said. "It's the same thing all over. It's gonna be the same thing. It's probably tougher to get now sometimes, but it'd be the same thing. Everybody's getting busted, everybody's getting cracked down on everything -- they're cleaning up everybody."
I asked how street violence affected the price of the drugs, if at all. The short version: not much. In the North End, back through the 80s and the 90s, the Latin Kings controlled the drug trade from Sheldon St., where Serrano grew up, to Harrison Street. North of that was La Familia and Netas territory.
"When there was gang members, they always had the connect," Serrano said. "Everybody ran their own stuff, had their own connects, and did what they had to do."
Regarding any change in price in the wake of violence, he said:
"They didn't care. If you had one rock, and I had a bigger rock, who they gonna go after, me or you? That's how it was. When we used to sell drugs on Main St. and the blocks, everybody had respect for what neighborhood you belonged to. You was there, that's it. That was yours."
"Take the old Dwight Street Extension back in the day," Youmans said. "It was a heavy heroin and crack location. We had people who would come from Vermont, Feeding Hills, Agawam, they would come from all over these neighborhoods who would come day or night, wouldn't care. They knew what the dangers were. They knew about the shootings, the stabbings."
After a large apartment building on Dwight Street Extension was torn down, the area has changed; the problems aren't as abundant.
"I mean, locations move all the time," Youmans said. "It might have been the money spot, but to the average person on the street who got the need, they'll find it. It won't matter. From the kids in the colleges that come into these neighborhoods, to the people who live out in the suburbs, the people who live out in the City -- it's amazing how you don't know Springfield, but you know where to come get some drugs."


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WARE – Residents who attend the May 9 annual Town meeting will have a say on whether the Hampshire Council of Governments becomes the main provider of electricity for residences in the future.
The Hampshire Council of Governments, which has been selling electricity to several towns and school systems in the Pioneer Valley, is moving ahead this year with plans for selling to owners of residential property as well.
There will also be two articles facing voters at the May 9 Town Meeting which ask for exceptions to be made to the town rules against hiring police officers above the age limit of 32.
Both of these articles were originally submitted as petition articles, which require 10 valid signatures from registered voters in town to be put on the warrant for the Town Meeting.
One of the petitions was found to have the required number of valid signatures, but town officials examined the second petition and found only nine valid signatures of registered town voters.
Faced with this situation, the Board of Selectmen, which has the authority to place articles on the Town Meeting warrant, voted to place the article on the May 9 warrant.
It would allow for consideration of Scott Lawrence to become a Ware police officer despite being over the age limit.
Selectmen Chairman William R. Braman said that in addition to being approved at the Town Meeting, the issues dealing with these police officer applications would require acts of special state legislation, and the applicants would have to qualify for Civil Service lists of potential police officers.
A proposal to lower the number of registered voters needed to have a quorum at a Town Meeting was submitted through a petition for consideration at the May 9 Town Meeting, but the petition requirements call for addresses as well as names of those signing and the addresses were not listed.
The proposal would have lowered the quorum requirement from 100 voters to 75.
Braman said Selectmen John E. Carroll and John A. Desmond wanted to submit this article for consideration even though it did not qualify as a petition article, but the Board of Selectmen voted against doing so.
"We should be encouraging participation at a Town meeting, not rewarding a lack of participation," said Braman, who voted against submitting the article for lowering the quorum numbers.
Even though there have been occasions in recent years when Town Meeting sessions had to be rescheduled because of a lack of a quorum, Braman said it is better to keep the number at 100 and have the selectmen and other town officials do a better job of promoting the importance of the meetings.
The May 9 Town Meeting will also adopt a budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1 and vote on other typical yearly issues for the town government.
Ware residents will vote on Hampshire Council of Governments electricity program at town meeting
on April 18, 2011 at 7:32 PM, updated October 26, 2011 at 10:34 AM
WARE – Residents who attend the May 9 annual Town meeting will have a say on whether the Hampshire Council of Governments becomes the main provider of electricity for residences in the future.


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Ok. So I dont think I have ever started a new topic anywhere, thats so not me. I dont like starting new topics and such but I decided I would give it a shot. This topic though is more of a personal level (if you want I could add some non-personal tennis stuff too at the end).Ok so as some of you might know, I am 17, college freshman (Rutgers nj) and have been playing tennis for the past four years. I think I have come quite far from my freshman year at high school where I first picked up a racquet, thanks in large to my highschool team coach and my playing 4hours or so a day everyday over the three months of summer vacation every year in addition to whatever little I played for the team. (This sounds like stuff I should have posted in the "hi i am pawan" section) Allright so.. to continue on my life story: I tried to play in college but it was way too difficult to actually incorporate tennis into my studies - I commute 45mins each way and still intend to complete 3 majors and a minor in under four years - so its a slight toll on my body and eyes (I have really really weak eyes and tahts a totally another story .. but this part i am getting to the point almost). Also college team meets like at sunday nights from 8-9, so its not even worth driving nearly two hours for a one hour hit - I hit for like 4-6 hours on the weekends with my freind anyway. ok so thats the deal. I still play (even when it gets freezing) on weekends. Theres only one indoor court place nearby but they are 1) way too expensive and its not even like you can go there and hit whenever you want... you have to reserve like once a week times ( I guess that works fine but..) and its all taken up by other professional sorta reservations so basically you dont get to pick what time even. So (i am finally to the point here..) whats the next step for me to do? I want to play at some higher level to get better and to keep it interesting and want it somewhat convenient because afterall studies are still my priority, so I actually do have to spend some time focusing on classes too. Do you have any suggestions, advice anything at all? I want to play more and its also kinda hard to find people to hit with in winter. ok so that was it. my whle post. if you want to hear something interesting i thought of - in fact it has to do with one of the previous threads but thats pretty old i think. actually i wont. actually i will. its about hewitt. why exactly is hewitt a "fast court player" ? I mean if you think about it he has the game similar to Agassi and Nadal and such (right)? and they are clearly "slow court" players.. kinda. even though agassi won AO when it was faster and is known for hardcourts. how is it that hewitt plays better on grass and the USO hardcourts? thank you. long post wasnt it? i bet you are tired of reading it.
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RHP Dan Haren (2-3, 6.29) vs. RHP Kris Medlen (1-3, 3.26)
The Nationals rode another shutdown performance from Jordan Zimmermann to a 2-0 victory last night, setting up a shot at a split of the four-game set against Atlanta tonight. Dan Haren is coming off his best start and second win of the season, while Kris Medlen is coming off his worst, in which he allowed five runs on 10 hits and two walks in 5.1 innings of work.
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With his two-run shot in the fourth inning, Ian Desmond became the first player in Nationals (2005-present) history to homer in his first career start as a cleanup hitter. Going back further, Desmond is the first franchise player to homer in his first start in the cleanup spot since the Expos Greg Colbrunn, May 26, 1993 vs. St. Louis.
Jordan Zimmermann tossed 8.0 dominant, scoreless innings, surrendering just two hits. He walked none, struck out a season-high eight and ran his personal string of consecutive scoreless innings to 18.0 straight in the process. He has allowed just five baserunners (three hits, two walks) over that stretch.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, last night's tilt was the first nine-inning big league contest since 1997 (Toronto at Milwaukee, Game One of July 28 twin bill) in which neither team had a batter reach base (via hit, walk, HBP or error) from the fifth inning to the end of the game.


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EU-27 greenhouse gas emission trends and projections to 2020
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Malta and Estonia did not report 2015 and 2020 projections. Portugal did not report 2015 projections. These projections were gap-filled by applying to 2010 emission a growth factor equivalent to the average growth observed for the other Member States that reported projections.
For references, please go to www.eea.europa.eu/soer or scan the QR code.
This briefing is part of the EEA's report The European Environment - State and Outlook 2015. The EEA is an official agency of the EU, tasked with providing information on Europe's environment.
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FORT DODGE - Hitting the softball hard and far wasn't an issue for the No. 14-ranked (Class 4A) Webster City softball team Friday morning at the Rogers Sports Complex.
The Lynx just couldn't stop No. 2-ranked (2A) North Union from doing the same and more of it.
The two teams combined to blast seven home runs in a wild 9-5 North Union victory that ended after six innings because of the established time limit during the first round at the Fort Dodge Invite.
WCHS (14-5) - which moved into the 4A rankings for the first time this season late last week - rebounded to blank Atlantic, 2-0, on the back side of the bracket later on Friday.
The Lynx were back on the field Saturday morning and were tied with Sioux City Heelan, 3-3 in the third inning, when the game and the rest of the tournament was washed out by the rain.
Senior Kaitlyn Biere hit two more dingers - both solo shots - against North Union, upping her already single-season record total to nine. She leads 4A in long balls and sits second in the state behind her club softball teammate Kendyl Lindaman of Ankeny, who has 11.
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Friday at Fort Dodge
North Union121 410-9 13 0
Webster City100 103-5 8 2
Allie Ingalls and Cheyanne Boland. Mikaleh McCoy and Maddie Anderson. W-Ingalls. L-McCoy. 2B-NU: Ingalls, C. Boland, Autumn Boland, Jasmine Clausen. HR-WC: Kaitlyn Biere (2), M. Anderson; NU: Ingalls, Dena Looft (2), Sarah Rolling. RBI-WC: M. Anderson (3), Biere (2); NU: Looft (3), Ingalls (2), Rolling, Collete Haag.
Friday at Fort Dodge
Atlantic000 000 0-0 3 1
Webster City100 001 x-2 7 1
Tori Bruck and Brooke Newell. Kaitlyn Biere and Maddie Anderson. W-Biere. L-Bruck. 2B-WC: Mikaleh McCoy. 3B-WC: Kaylee Schnathorst. RBI-WC: Molly Gilbert.
Maddie Anderson also drove the ball out of the park for her second home run of the season. She drove in three runs in the loss.
"We did a good job of making contact with the ball (against North Union)," WCHS head coach Jess Howard said after her team clubbed eight hits. "Once we figured out (pitcher Allie Ingalls') routine we were able to put the ball in play quite a bit. That's a game that we needed to go the full seven innings because we were hitting it hard."
Biere went 3-for-3; Erin Anderson roped two singles, Mikaleh McCoy and Molly Gilbert both had one.
North Union (15-1) cranked four home runs off McCoy, a sophomore who allowed 13 hits in the loss. Dena Looft left the yard twice; Ingalls and Sarah Rolling once each.
Howard kept Biere, a four-time all-state hurler, out of the circle in anticipation of a potential battle with No. 6 (5A) Ankeny in the second round.
"If we win (against North Union) we'd be up against Ankeny and we wanted Biere pitching that game," she said. "We thought we had a better chance going that way with the pitching."
Biere took the ball and dominated Atlantic (11-10). She surrendered just three hits and struck out eight.
WCHS scored single runs in the first and sixth innings to collect the win.
"We had runners on, but once we got them in scoring position we weren't able to execute as well," Howard said. "We had a lot of balls that were hit hard to the outfield."
Kaylee Schnathorst laced a triple and McCoy doubled in the contest. Biere, Gilbert, Allie Flaws, Abbey Fuhs and Tiffany Constable all added singles.
Gilbert drove in one run.
WCHS will now begin preparations for its most important week of the season. The North Central Conference leader will face its four biggest adversaries in a five-day span, starting this evening against fourth-ranked (2A) Fort Dodge St. Edmond back at the Rogers Sports Complex.
The Lynx will be on the road against No. 9 (3A) Iowa Falls-Alden on Tuesday and at home against Humboldt on Wednesday and Algona Bishop Garrigan on Friday.
St. Edmond and Garrigan both sit just one game back in the loss column in the league standings. Iowa Falls-Alden resides in fourth plate, Humboldt in fifth.
"It's just one game at a time this week," Howard said. "Every game in the conference is a must win if you want to win a conference title, so we'll just start with (tonight)."


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If you travel to Hokkaidō by train, the first major city you'll come to after emerging from the Seikan Tunnel is HAKODATE (函館), 260km southwest of Sapporo. This attractive port was one of the first to open to foreign traders following the Japan–US amity treaty of 1854. Over the next few years, ten countries including Britain, Russia and the US established consulates in Hakodate, with both foreigners and rich Japanese building fancy wooden homes and elaborate churches on the steep hillsides. Many of these late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings have been preserved, particularly in the Motomachi area, which is Hakodate's highlight.
Among the city's other draws are the lively fish and fresh produce market Asa-ichi; an outstanding exhibition on Ainu culture at the Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples; and the night view from the top of Hakodate-yama. The Ōnuma Quasi National Park, a beautiful lakeland and mountain area with good hiking trails, is an easy day-trip. Try and time your visit for the Hakodate Port Festival (Aug 1–5), when 20,000 people parade through town performing the "squid dance", an entertaining jig where hands are flapped and clapped in time to rhythmic drumming.
Lording it over Hakodate is the 334m Hakodate-yama (函館山). On a clear day the view from the summit is spectacular, but best of all is the night-time panorama, when the twinkling lights of the port and the boats fishing for squid just off the coast create a magical scene – though be prepared to share it with hordes of tourists. The energetic can climb to the summit along various trails (May–Oct), but most people opt for the cable car (函館山ロープウェイ), a seven-minute uphill walk from the Jūjigai tram stop. There's also a direct bus from Hakodate Station. The serpentine road up the mountain is closed to private vehicles between 5pm and 10pm.


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Wars In Iraq, Afghanistan Have Created Disasters
March 24, 2013
Americans have forgotten about the Iraq war, which began 10 years ago this week, and the Afghan war, the longest in American history, but the U.S....
the only "HEROS" in "THAT" war were our brave troops......from a "dem."
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have a great Easter Sunday.....
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LBJ went from 16,000 troops to 500,000 and Nixon pulled us out. so only a Dem can think Johnson was the hero in that war.
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No problem.
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"I never had sex with that woman" is reserved for Bill Clinton. Read your own material.
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that's your problem......
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gio you evidently prefer Clinton's view that even though Hussein had wmd's he didn't care? And I bet you believed "I never had sex with that woman".
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where'de that mushroom cloud disappear to Connie?? Oh there it is--right above that yellow cake and unused Weapons of Mass Distortion.....or is it Deception? What disasters?
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Arguing with a liberal on this subject is as useless as the Paris peace talks were.
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then by definition, the illegal tricky dick wiretaps make both gw and dick crooks, but we all knew that already .......
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Do you not understand the meaning of "illegal?" "Illegal" is why Nixon was a crook, why he left before his certain impeachment--it has nothing to do with ones political affiliation.....what don't you get?
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When was "crook" put in reserve for Nixon gio? When he was elected, or when he was nominated? Was is one of the leftovers from LBJ or mabe Kennedy? Who decides these things? Since you are all excited about LBJ's tapes being out, why aren't you caling him names now? Cant see past your prejudice, that's why.
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I could have sworn that the label "crook" in reference to a sitting president was reserved for and well deserved by a mr. Nixon, unless someone cares to re write history for us.
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howard please name the 11 or more countries that are currently gassing &/or grossly mistreating their people...
in the meantime i'll keep my shoes on.
it's funny you leftwing crusaders are all for making the world a better place for everybody until that involves somebody, anybody, dying.
wait til i tell the polar bears & whales you're ignoring their plights. they're gonna be mad!
if GWB had said "we're gonna go over there to free an oppressed people from what is obviously a despotic ruler" you megalomaniacs woulda been all for it.
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For the last time....that's a Johnson lie,perpetuated by his party. There was no forthcoming treaty, the North would not quit under any circumstances until they won. Everything they said was typical communist rhetoric and stalling to buildup and play the American public and media.. Like their leader said when told they lost every battle..."that's irrelevant" Like Hillary said.
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And they still mean nothing today. All you libs do is complain about the past and rave about your anti hero. I really don't care what the politics of Vietnam were, what Johnson claims on his "secret illegal" recordings. Servicemen and women were treated like dirt by all of them and by many civilians at the time. Praise Johnson all you want and condemn Nixon all you want. Both were crooks and liars. Much like our president today.
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Last time: Johnson had the war over. Treaty ready to sign. Nixon intervened by promising more after he got elected. So Johnson treaty fell through, and Nixon could not offer more so war went on another 6 years. Had Johnson treaty gone through Nixon would have lost election. Johnson knew this through illegal wire taps. So, Johnson had stopped the war and it should have been stopped until Nixon did what he did to become elected. Pay attention to the news fellas - you might learn something. These illegal wire taps are now available for you to listen to. Please do.
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Your questionwas haven't we seen the tapes,(and why don't we believe them your way)
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I am not surprised, but still disappointed that we can read the same transcripts and see something different. That is it in a nutshell. Left-right, and never the twain shall meet.
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Howard don't yu recall McNamara's apology for being part of carrying out the war in the way it played? LBJ micro-managed from DC. It was a big bad Texan's way of being remembered...beat the commies no matter what. The domino theory. He lost it, and now his party blames it on Nixon. Nixon had enough wrongs of his own without adding Johnson's. Prior to 1965 you could buy your way through a VC checkpoint for 500 piastres.
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OK, loneriderrr1 and 50s4ever, just say It must be true is right - because there are tapes out now that prove it. Ignore the facts - don't answer my questions - that just proves to me that I am wasting my time so I am glad you know it all and are satisfied with each other.
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well rider----Johnson said it, so it just has to be true. Like Tonkin. Not posible at all he wanted his legacy to no be getting us mired in Vietnam, but actually winning. Bombing the Hanoi/Haiphong area was good. Halting the materiel on the Ho Chi Minh trail was great. Smashing the Cambodia cache and safe have was daring and a real treat for men used to being held back.
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loneriderrr1, that is what I said in that post. The only other thing I said was Iraq was doing nothing - we just invaded because, well, just because. How is any of that wrong?
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loneriderrr1, "and Nixon, well who really knows what he did." OMG - You need short sentences also. Johnson tapes revealed last week. Johnson negotiated the wars end just before the 1968 election. Nixon stopped this. Because if war ended he loses election. Nixon promised better treaty to keep war going. Johnson could not reveal because phone taps proving this were illegal. (that last sentence might be too long) Nixon, for his own advantage caused the war to last 6 more years. He defaulted on his promise of a better treaty. The illegal tapes came out last week. Do you understand this?
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check the title.........
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Two people are in police custody after an armed home invasion robbery in Allentown.
It happened around 11:40 p.m. Thursday at a home on South Sixth Street in Allentown.
Jeremy Hutchinson, 24, and 20-year-old Nikolas Davis were arrested after police say they barged into the home and held 22-year-old Brian McCain and 31-year-old Kristeen Valazquez at bay with a gun while they robbed the house.
No injuries were reported.
Police say they're searching for a third suspect.


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Political Advocacy Tracker is a roundup of what Christian activist organizations have been talking about the past week.
It's Not About Liberty
New York City officials approved the building of the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" last week, but some religious liberty advocates continue to decry the decision.
Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), said one could be against the center while still maintaining that the group should have the freedom to have a mosque in lower Manhattan.
Speaking on Public Radio International's To the Point, Land said, "We have consistently defended religious freedom, separation of church and state. And we believe that Muslims certainly have the right to build mosques, to have places of worship that are convenient to them in their communities … I certainly defend the right of Muslims to have mosques and places of worship in lower Manhattan but not, not at Ground Zero."
BreakPoint's Chuck Colson co-wrote the Manhattan Declaration, a document that places religious liberty next to life and marriage as leading issues of Christian conscience. But he was "distressed—aghast, in fact—over the controversy about building a mosque at ground zero." For Colson, the issue was not a question of religious liberty.
"The construction of the mosque at ground zero is not about tolerance. And it isn't about religious liberty. This is about prudence: the good sense to do what is right," said Colson. "If [Muslims]—and Mayor Bloomberg—don't have the prudence to respect the sensibilities of others, then Congress ought to step in. With the upcoming elections, I'm sure your congressman will be all ears to your concerns."
Family Research Council's (FRC) Ken Blackwell disagreed with those who "see the building of a mosque within sight of the place where 3,000 Americans were murdered on 9/11 as a test of American tolerance and openness." He said President Obama should "take a strong stance against any mosque at Ground Zero" and "stand up for Americans this time!"
Faith in Public Life announced that 40 Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders signed a statement saying they were "deeply troubled by the xenophobia and religious bigotry that has characterized some of the opposition to a proposed Islamic center and mosque near where the World Trade Center towers once stood." Evangelicals (with the exception of New York Faith and Justice executive director Lisa Sharon Harper*) were noticeably absent from the list of signers. Jim Wallis and Joel Hunter did not sign the statement, but each wrote in support of the center on the Washington Post On Faith blog.
Correction (8/16): An earlier version of this article had erroneously said that Lisa Sharon Harper had not signed the Faith in Public Life document. She did sign it, and sent this further clarification: "Tobin Grant got it wrong when he said my signature was 'noticeably absent from the list' of signers to the Faith in Public Life statement in support of the Cordoba House. I gladly signed the statement and my name is the fifth name on the list. As an African American I know something about red-lining. As an American I have a deep value for religious freedom. As a Christian a pillar of my faith is forgiveness and a core value is hospitality. The Muslim world did not commit the atrocity of 9/11. An extremist terrorist organization did that. The Cordoba House was conceived as a community center where all are welcome—a symbol of reconciliation and embrace. Fear is no excuse for confused language and blurred lines. Truth is truth. Jesus said 'I am the way and the truth and the life.' To silence truth, is to silence Jesus himself. Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh would do well to remember that." We apologize for the error.


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Disability and Society, vol. 23, 2008, p. 171-185
Despite a strong commitment to disability rights in Chinese legislation since 1990, independent living policy as actually experienced by disabled people does not deliver social inclusion. The research reported in this article shows that responsibility for delivering independent living rests primarily with disabled people themselves and their families. Only when they have no family does the government provide support in the form of institutional care. Very little personal assistance or community-based housing are available. However, disabled people are benefiting from other social policy initiatives, such as the minimum income allowance and homeless shelters.
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Health and Social Care in the Community, vol. 16, 2008, p. 188-196
The results of this review of service user involvement in the UK and its implications for South Korea show that the consumerist approach adopted within UK community care policy is inappropriate for the South Korean disability service. This is because there is a significant shortage of services in Korea which renders user choice meaningless. Moreover most services, which are delivered by voluntary agencies, are provider-centred rather than user-centred. In the South Korean situation, priority needs to be given to expanding public provision, not on developing voluntary or private providers. However, some elements of the UK system could inform the development of user involvement in Korea, notably the right to assessment within a care management structure, the setting of quality of care standards, and the establishment of inspection processes and a complaints procedure.


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Rep. Lou Barletta and Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday were on the same page, agreeing on the opinion that the Obama Administration is not telling Americans the full story behind the growing crisis involving unaccompanied minors at the U.S. border.
Barletta, a Republican who represents the 11th Congressional District, was in Texas on Thursday. He questioned Perry during the first of two witness panels at a special field hearing of the House Homeland Security hearing near the U.S. border with Mexico.
Earlier in the day, Barletta and other members of Congress toured a facility housing the minors at a nearby border patrol station. Barletta, who is concerned the minors will be relocated to communities across the country without first being properly processed, asked Perry what he knew regarding the health risks and background checks on the children, and on the adults being hired by the federal government to escort them to relocation sites.
"Do we know if they're predators, do we know anything about them?" Barletta asked of the adults. "If they're gang members? Anything about their background?"
In recent months, border authorities have scrambled to deal with a growing humanitarian crisis involving as many as 65,000 unaccompanied minors that have arrived at the U.S. border in Texas. The federal government is looking to relocate the minors to communities across the country.
Plans to consider Hazleton, Barletta's hometown as a possible relocation site, have been scrapped, the organization working with the federal government to relocate them reported this week.
Perry, also a Republican, suggested he was not surprised by the negative public reaction in Hazleton and other communities because he does not believe the federal government is being honest about how thoroughly authorities are examining the incoming minors.
"I think these are all very legitimate and appropriate questions for people in the other 49 states as well," Perry said. "I don't think our government is being forthright, being transparent in the process that's going on. I think we've seen the reaction in Georgia, in California, in Pennsylvania, and I think you're going to see that in a lot of places from across the country."
An outspoken critic of Obama's immigration policy, Barletta, who visited the intake center Thursday at the McAllen, Texas Border Patrol Station, said the problem started in Washington and ended up on the border, Hazleton and other communities.
"I saw the human side today," Barletta said. "These three beautiful little girls with their grandmother, who risked their lives to come here. I saw that and it broke my heart. But there's also the realist in me who also saw others who could be here not for good reasons. And that's what I'm concerned about, because there will be innocent Americans every time who pay the price."
Barletta spoke about his experience with illegal immigration as mayor of Hazleton.
"What always stops me, when someone wants to talk about immigration reform, I always go to the background checks. How do we find information?" Barletta asked. "And if we don't do the due diligence to make sure that we are not allowing people into this country who will harm Americans, which I believe is our first priority of government, which is to protect the American people, then we're not doing our job."
"That's where it stops for me," Barletta said. "And I'm not convinced that we know enough about the children that are here. I do believe that most are here because there's somebody in the country here already illegally, which is caused by not enforcing our immigration laws. We've created another crisis now with the children."


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MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio – A man was punched in the face and robbed Aug. 9 after a heated argument over a woman, Mayfield Heights police said.
Bryant Peguero, 22, met the victim and the victim's girlfriend at Scoreboards Sport Bar in Northfield that night, according to police reports.
Peguero flirted with the woman, angering the victim, police said. He left and Peguero followed him to his home in the 1500 block of Hawthorne Drive.
Peguero jumped out of a silver car and yelled, "You're in a world of hurt," police said. He hit the victim, threw him to the ground and stole a bicycle and iPad.
Peguero is wanted on charges of felony robbery in connection with the incident. Anyone with information about his location can call Mayfield Heights police at 440.442.2323.


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TOMS RIVER -- The director of the Jersey City Office of Emergency Management is scheduled to speak in Toms River tomorrow at the first of several hearings on Hurricane Sandy being held by the state Senate.
Greg Kierce said he was contacted by state Sen. Sandra Bolden Cunningham and asked to attend the hearing of the Budget & Appropriations Committee at 11 a.m. in the Toms River Municipal Complex.
Testimony will also be given by mayors and officials from Bergen and Ocean counties on the storm response, ongoing cleanup efforts, and the immediate needs of the hardest hit communities.
Kierce said he was likely chosen to attend because Jersey City is one of the state's two largest cities. Later tomorrow, he will provide an update on recovery efforts at the Jersey City City Council caucus meeting.
During the storm and its aftermath, Kierce was in charge of the city OEM office on Summit Avenue where representatives of numerous city and state organizations coordinated the storm response and recovery efforts.
Some 6,000 Jersey City housing units were damaged by the superstorm, and so far the cleanup has included the removal of 6,000 tons of debris in the city, Kierce said last week.
Kierce said he hopes that by conveying to the Senate the extent of the damage, the city will be in line to receive a significant amount of state aid.
Others invited to speak at the hearing include State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes and Lt. Col. Jerome Hatfield, deputy superintendent of the state Office of Emergency Management.
The mayors of Toms River, Brick, Moonachie, Belmar and Union Beach are also on the list, as well as Ocean County Administrator Carl Block and Monmouth County Tax Administrator Matthew Clark.


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Life is not always easy for a defending state football champion.
At halftime, the scoreboard at Landis Field was showing Central Dauphin, the 2011 champs, trailing in the 2012 District 3-AAAA first round 13-10 to McCaskey.
But the Rams looked more the part of a championship team in the second half, and posted a 37-20 victory over the Red Tornado.
Central Dauphin (9-2) will host Manheim Twp. in the district quarterfinals next Friday.
After three lead changes in the game, the Rams took the lead for good with 4:16 left in the third quarter when Drew Scales had a 68-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.
VIDEO: Drew Scales talks about Central Dauphin regrouping for the second half in a must-win game
"The first kickoff return, I saw the wedge but a guy scraped the way I was going," Scales said. "So I knew if I got the ball to me again I could do something with it, and our kickoff return team just blocked it up."
The relative shortness of the touchdown return was due to two penalties against McCaskey (4-7), a personal foul after a Tornado score and an offsides on the first kickoff attempt.
McCaskey finished with 9 penalties for 80 yards.
"That's the kind of season it has been," Tornado head coach Rob Monzon said.
Central Dauphin started to put the game away in the fourth quarter, with Scales scoring his fourth touchdown of the game and McCaskey committing another key penalty.
The Rams drove 72 yards in 13 plays, taking 5:54 off of the clock to reach the end zone on a Scales 5-yard sweep to the left. That put District 3's No. 2 seed up 30-20 with 9:18 left.
Six plays before the touchdown, McCaskey's defense jumped offsides to turn a Central Dauphin 3rd-and-3 from the Tornado 41-yard line into a first down.
PHOTO GALLERY: Images from Central Dauphin's 37-20 win over McCaskey
Scales rushed for 132 yards on 20 carries.
"He's risen to the occasion when we've needed it," Central Dauphin head coach Glen MacNamee said.
Malyk Harris' 13-yard touchdown run with 1:35 left ended the scoring.
After a scoreless first quarter, the teams exchanged scores on the four straight possessions.
Scales scored on a 2-yard touchdown run 58 seconds into the game for a 7-0 Ram lead.
McCaskey quarterback Diante Cherry ran a near-perfect keep on an option and turned it into a 57-yard touchdown run with 8:48 left in the half.
The extra point was missed, so when Casey Hartzell connected on a 32-yard field goal, the Rams led 10-6 with 3:52 left before intermission. Scales had an apparent touchdown on that possession as well, but it was called back on a holding penalty.
McCaskey drove 63 yards in nine plays to reach the end zone on a 2-yard plunge by Avery Wilson with 19 seconds left.
Down 13-10 at the break, Central Dauphin scored on its first possession of the second half with Scales reaching the end zone with an 11-yard run. That made it 17-13 with 8:29 on the third-period clock.
McCaskey took its last lead when it answered with an 18-yard touchdown pass from Cherry to Swinton, making it 20-17 with 4:28 to go in the third.
Swinton finished with five catches for 131 yards. He caught screen passes of 51 and 36 yards.
Cherry was 16-for-23 for 315 yards, one touchdown and one interception.
"[The team] knew in some aspects we were outmatched," Monzon said. "We're not that big in the trenches. ... But they did what had to do to give Aaron and Diante the ball in space."
Central Dauphin quarterback Brandon LaVia was 6-for-10 for 51 yards and on interception.
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Bayonne went 3-1 in pool play to secure the No. 2 seed with their only loss coming to the Long Island-based team, 4-3.
Following a spectacular game-saving catch in right field by Bayonne's John Mernar with the bases loaded in the third inning, Bayonne went into the fourth trailing 3-2. The offense erupted for eight runs to take a commanding 10-3 lead. Bayonne added four more tallies in the fifth to complete the mercy rule victory.
Raymond Ortiz had three hits and four RBI, as Jimmy Kemp had two hits and drove in a pair of runs, including a solo home run. Lance Caposello and Brian Baranok had two hits each with Ryan McNamara, Christopher Cerbone, and Julian Ongay contributing RBI. Jacob Vodrazka and Carlos Castillo also had big weekends to help bring home the championship.
Bayonne 7, Howell Fury 4
With the score tied 2-2 in the fifth inning of the semifinals, Bayonne exploded for five runs and earned trip to the championship game. Julian Ongay, McNamara, Cerbone, Ortiz, and Kemp strung together consecutive RBI hits, as Vodrazka and Castillo each finished with 2 hits.
Bayonne 9, Long Island Force 0
Lance Caposello pitched all five innings in the mercy rule shortened game, allowing five hits. C.J. Cerbone and Jacob Vodrazka had RBI hits.
Bayonne 8, Delaware Warriors 1
Carlos Castillo pitched a complete game four hitter, allowing only one walk and one run. Castillo also had two hits, including an RBI triple. McNamara, Ortiz, Kemp, Caposello, and Mernar all picked up hits.
Ronkonkoma Cardinals 4, Bayonne 3
C.J. Cerbone had two hits, while McNamara, Ortiz and Castillo had the other hits for Bayonne in the one-run loss.
Bayonne 6, Howell Fury 3
Brian Baranok and McNamara combined on the pitching, as Ortiz and Kemp each has two hits. Baranok and Mernar also contributed singles for Bayonne.


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GRAND RAPIDS -- Democrats on the Kent County Board again are demanding more disclosure of potential health threats such as "Legionnaire's Disease," which killed a patient at Saint Mary's Health Care in July.
The five commissioners failed last month to convince board Chairman Roger Morgan to form a committee to study a policy specifying under which circumstances such outbreaks would be publicly reported.
The Democrats sent a letter to Morgan, R-Rockford, last week urging fuller disclosure and knocking down concerns Morgan cited in denying their earlier request.
"The argument that less information to the public is better just doesn't hold water," said Commissioner Brandon Dillon, D-Grand Rapids. "It works both ways. Information can be put out there in such a way so that you educate people and avoid some of the very things we're apparently worried about."
Dillon said a recent mail survey of 5,000 households in his district, which is evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, showed about 85 percent said the Health Department should be more proactive in disclosing public health threats.
When Morgan rejected their request last month, he said disclosing every health threat that arises could dilute the value of alerts and possibly create unnecessary fears. He also said it's nearly impossible to draft a policy covering every possible situation.
"My position is the same as it's been all along." Morgan said. "The statute puts the authority for doing that with officials at the health department, and that's where it lies."
The issue arises from the death of Scott Miller, 37, of Barry County, in July from Legionella pneumonia while being treated for leukemia at Saint Mary's Lacks Cancer Center. The bacteria entered Miller's lungs from the mist of a hospital shower, Saint Mary's officials have said.
County officials expressed concern with a lack of information given to the public. Last week, they noted that no new press releases had been added to the Health Department's Web site since August, though health officials have since posted three releases.
Carol Hennessy, D-Grand Rapids, said the national trend in health alerts is toward more public disclosure. She noted recent incidents where the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alerted the public to contaminated dog food and ground beef even before implications of doing so were fully understood.
"What's wrong with informing people so they can educate themselves?" Hennessy asked.
Kathy Raevskey, administrative health officer for the county, disputed any national trend toward disclosure and defended the Health Department's handling of the case. She said the Saint Mary's Legionella case dealt with only a specific individual whose immune system had been depressed because of leukemia and chemotherapy treatments.
T.J. Bucholz, director of communications for the Michigan Department of Public Health, said he has seen "a trend anecdotally for organizations to disclose, though our efforts to do that are limited by confidentiality issues," he said.


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Deputies Looking For 'Pee-Wee' Football Trash Talker After He Allegedly Spit On Coach's FaceQueen Anne's County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a 38-year-old Crofton man for allegedly spitting on a pee-wee football coaches face at a game in Centreville.
Cocaine Trafficker Sentenced To 8 YearsA Queen Anne's County man convicted of selling cocaine has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison.
It's Academic: January 31, 2015Teams from Queen Anne's County, Baltimore City College and Milford Mill compete.
Queen Anne's County Drug Trafficker Gets 9 Years In PrisonU.S. District Judge James Bredar sentenced 33-year-old Warren Gibson of Stevensville, to nine years in prison for conspiring to distribute narcotics.
Bank Robbery Suspect Wearing Wig & Sunglasses Wanted On Kent IslandThe Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office is searching for a bank robber.
Body Found In Queen Anne's County Believed To Be Missing ManInvestigators believe they have found the body of a missing Queen Anne's County man.
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It's Academic: Feb. 8, 2014Teams from North County, Queen Anne's County and Urbana compete.
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56 Pounds Of Marijuana Seized After Traffic StopMaryland State Police have arrested a man after troopers say they found 56 pounds of marijuana in a car during a traffic stop in Queen Anne's County.
Military 'Practice' Bomb Lands In Bar Parking LotA freak accident in the skies over Maryland's Eastern Shore. A military plane drops a "practice" bomb into a Queen Anne's County parking lot, narrowly missing cars and people.


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The Maple Grove Red Dragons used stout defense and 228 yards and two touchdowns from running back Oliver Simpson to blank International-Prep, 31-0, in a Section 6 Class D quarterfinal football game Friday night.
The Red Dragons (8-0), the top-ranked team in the state, held the Presidents (0-8) to 16 yards of total offense and led, 24-0, by intermission.
''We came out and did things very well,'' Maple Grove coach Curt Fischer said, ''and we came out healthy and that's a good thing in a game like this.''
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Maple Grove's Jonah Tanner (32) and Jeff Tampe (25) bring down I-Prep's Xavier Grant in Friday's Section 6 Class D quarterfinal football game. See additional photos at cu.post-journal.com.
P-J photo by Scott Reagle
Simpson scored a pair of touchdowns on runs of 44 and 34 yards, Erik Olson booted a 25-yard field goal and quarterback Aaron Germain connected on TD passes of 14 and 11 yards to Derek Johnson and Dalton Bolles.
Fischer raved about Simpson's first TD, which came on their first possession.
''He broke what had to be seven tackles, spun off a guy and ran for the touchdown,'' he said. ''It was an unbelievable night for Oliver.''
The same adjective could be used for Maple Grove's defense, which was led by its front four of Jon Scroxton, Matt Golombek, Jake Swan and Lee Wascher. Scroxton finished with seven tackles, including five for loss.
''They really occupied (I-Prep's) linemen,'' Fischer said.
That allowed linebacker Bolles (nine tackles), and safeties Jonah Tanner (eight tackles) and Jason Seiberg (seven tackles) to make plays.
The Red Dragons will be back in action next Friday when they entertain Portville, a 39-28 winner over Chautauqua Lake.
''They're just a very well-coached team,'' Fischer said. ''They took us to the fourth quarter (earlier in the season). We were only leading, 7-0, going and we ended up putting two (TDs) in. They're a very good football team and they're fundamentally sound. We definitely have to play some great football.''
I-Prep0 0 0 0 - 0
Maple Grove10 14 7 0 - 31
MG-Smposon 44 run (Olson kick)
MG-Olson 25 FG
MG-Johnson 14 pass from Germain (Olson kick)
MG-Bolles 11 pass from Germain (Olson kick)
MG-Simpson 34 pass (Olson kick)
RANDOLPH - The first quarter scoring rundown for Randolph might have set a school record.
Randolph put up 34 points in the opening 12 minutes and the Cardinals rolled to a 44-14 win over Cattaraugus-Little Valley for their fifth straight win and a 6-2 record.
The Cardinals now play Silver Creek on Friday in the semifinals at 7 p.m.
Chris Dowiasz started off the first quarter with an 8-yard run and Micah Kehoe converted for a 7-0 lead.
Nate Beaver was on the receiving end of a 45-yard pass from Mitchell Maycock and then Chris Doubek went over from the 27 as the margin went to 20-0.
The scoring continued as Dowiasz cracked over from the 1 and Lucas Brown snared a 4yard pass from Maycock. Kehoe connected on 4-of-5 placements.
Jared Pitchford concluded the first half scoring with a 56-yard touchdown ramble and Kehoe again converted for a 41-0 halftime.
Cattaraugus-Little Valley got on the scoreboard in the third stanza when Gil Keenan went over from the 1 and Tyler Hanft caught a conversion pass from Sam Agnew.
The only points that Randolph scored in the second half came on a 36-field goal by Kehoe in the fourth quarter.
Then, Justin Forster rambled 90 yards to score with the kickoff for C-LV.
Pitchford wound up with 98 yards on eight carries and Doubek 65 on eight attempts in the win.
Cattaraugus-Little Valley 0 0 8 6 - 14
Randolph 34 7 0 3 - 44
Ran - Dowiasz 8 run (Kehoe kick).
Ran - Beaver 43 pass from Maycock (kick failed).
Ran -Doubek 27 run (Kehoe kick).
Ran - Dowiasz 1 run (Kehoe kick).
Ran - Brown 4 pass from Maycock (Kehoe kick).
Ran - Pitchford 56 run (Kehoe kick).
C-LV - Keenan 1 run (Hanft pass from Agnew).
Ran - Kehoe 36 field goal.
C-LV - Forster 90 kickoff return (pass failed).
MAYVILLE - Zack Wood ran for 185 yards in only 14 carries and scored five times, and Brent Marcellin tossed three touchdowns passes as Portville (5-3) eliminated Chautauqua Lake (4-4), 39-28.
Wood scored on runs of 70 and 80 yards, caught a 33-yard touchdown pass and a 2-yard TD aerial from Marcellin and ran back an interception from 54 yards.
Ryan Miller of Chautauqua Lake began the game with an 85-yard score on a kickoff return and did all he could to keep his team in contention.
Miller wound up with 31 carries for 224 yards and scored twice more on runs of 25 and 9 yards.
Marcellin had 130 yards passing for Portville.
Meanwhile, sophomore linebacker Chandler Baker, back after missing several games with a broken arm, made 12 tackles and senior linebacker Andrew Pezzulo 11 for the Thunderbirds.
Portville 6 20 6 7 - 39
Chautauqua Lake 8 6 6 8 - 28
Cha - Miller 85 kickoff return (Hulton pass from Mayer).
Por - Wood 2 pass from Marcellin (run failed).
Por - VanCurrin 95 pass from Marcellin (kick failed).
Por - Wood 80 run (Wood run).
Cha - Miller 9 run (run failed).
Por - Wood 33 pass from Marcellin (run failed).
Por - Wood 70 run (run failed).
Cha - Miller 25 run (run failed).
Por - Wood 54 run (kick good).
Cha Carpenter 72 pass from Mayer (Mayer run).
SALAMANCA - Salamanca turned the ball over six times, Cleveland Hill's Brandon Thomas rushed for 122 yards on 22 carries and the visiting Golden Eagles (6-1) eliminated Salamanca, 28-21, from the Class C playoffs.
Thomas scored on runs of 6, 5 and 1 yards, while teammate Jonathan Thomas added a 1-yard score during Cleveland Hill's 22-point game-clinching third quarter.
Salamanca made a valiant comeback attempt in the fourth quarter when Tanner John first hit Damien Taylor (who had earlier, on the first play of the second half, returned an 85-yard kickoff for a touchdown) for a 29-yard touchdown and then John later scored from the 8. The Warriors even recovered an onsides kick with 1:30 remaining, but they were unable to reach the end zone.
John finished with 152 yards passing.
Cleveland Hill0 6 22 0 - 28
Salamanca0 7 7 14 - 21
Cle - BThomas 6 run (pass failed).
Sal - Damien Taylor 85 kickoff return (Harrington kick).
Cle - BThomas 5 run (Watkins pass from Radlich).
Cle - BThomas 1 run (pass failed).
Cle - JThomas 1 run (Radlich run).
Sal - Taylor 29 pass from John (Harrington kick).
Sal - John 8 run (Harrington kick).
ALLEGANY - Allegany-Limestone certainly had its chances, but in the end, the Fredonia Hillbillies caught most of the breaks in rallying past the Gators, 7-6.
"We did catch some breaks," Fredonia coach Bob Ball said with a sigh of relief. "You have to have some luck go your way in the playoffs. They are a great team. If we play them 10 times, we win five and lose five. To be able to come on the road and win two of two is pretty good. I think we are evenly matched. We are equal all the way around."
Trailing 6-0 late in the fourth quarter and the Fredonia offense unable to generate any offense, it finally got things going on its final drive. With little more than four minutes to play, the Hillbillies embarked on a 13-play, 84-yard drive capped off by a Zach Buckley 1-yard touchdown plunge with 1:14 remaining.
On the drive, Fredonia converted two third-down chances and a fourth-and-2 from the Gators' 9 yard line with 1:58 remaining.
After Buckley's score, Trent Thompson hit the crucial extra point for the 7-6 advantage.
The Gators' final drive started at their own 9 yard line. The passing of quarterback Kyle Stover to receiver Todd Mason was effective as the duo helped march the home team down the field, highlighted by a 29-yard strike to set up first down from the 11 yard line. After a pass interference call and an incomplete pass, the Gators tried for a 23-yard field goal with 2.3 seconds left. The ball was bobbled by the holder and recovered by Fredonia as the clock struck zero.
The Gators got on the board midway through the second quarter as Trevin Barber finished off a nine-play, 28-yard drive with a 2-yard run. A failed extra point left the score 6-0.
ELLICOTTVILLE - Sophomore Phalla Musall averaged an amazing 23 yards per carry in Ellicottville's one-sided win over Panama in the Class DD semifinals.
Musall ran just 10 times, but gained 223 yards and scored three times as the Eagles (6-2) topped Panama (2-6), 42-8, in the semifinals.
The win sets up another battle with Clymer (7-1) for the title in Ralph Wilson Stadium on Oct. 25. Clymer beat Ellicottville in overtime in the first meeting.
Panama kept the ball almost the entire first quarter and was stopped deep in Ellicottville territory early in the second stanza. Musall then went 90 yards to paydirt and Ellicottville never trailed.
Musall hit paydirt from 55 yards and 4 yards while Cam Wilson, Callan Watt and Jake Stoll scored the other touchdowns for the Eagles.
Robbie Benson tallied on a 30-yard run and Sawyer Eggleston passed to Alec Blose for two points for Panama's lone score.
Tackle Jesse Pollock made 11 tackles and linebacker Dylan Paprocki 10 tackles for the Eagles.
Panama 0 0 0 8 - 8
Ellicottville 0 20 22 0 - 42
Ell - Musall 90 run (C. Wilson run).
Ell -Musall 4 run (run failed).
Ell - Wilson 20 run (run failed).
Ell - Musall 55 run (Storm Wilson pass from C. Wilson).
Ell - Watt 40 interception (kick failed).
Ell - Stoll 4 run (Lorenzo Smith run).
Pan - Benson 30 run (Blose pass from Eggleston).
FRANKLINVILLE - Franklinville, behind the rushing of Jamie Greiner, evened its record at 4-4 and earned a place in the Class DD Chuck Funke Memorial Classic Consolation Bowl against Pine Valley on Thursday at Southwestern.
Greiner ran for 153 yards on 21 carries and scored on a 41-yard run as Franklinville defeated Nichols (6-2), 29-20.
Nose tackle Trent Bigman made eight tackles in the win.
Nichols 0 6 6 8 - 20
Franklinville 0 10 13 6 - 29
Nic - Gilneski 30 pass from Ryan (run failed).
Fra - Kopp 60 run (Greiner run).
Fra - Safety punt snapped out of end zone.
Fra - C. Bigman 31 pass from Kopp (Kopp kick).
Fra - C. Bigman 39 pass from Eric Michaelis (Kopp kick).
Nic - Noonan 85 kickoff (run failed).
Fra - Greiner 41 run (kick failed).
Nic - Noonan 6 run (Noonan pass from Ryan).


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MARQUETTE - The Ore to Shore starts Saturday and a great deal of prep work went into getting ready for the race, including preparing the trails.
The longest race in the the Ore to Shore is the Hard Rock, which is 48 miles long. Some of the race does take participants on roads, but the majority of the race is done on trails that wind through the woods, said Scott Tuma, Ore to Shore race director.
"It take three full days to mark the trails and weeks of preparation to mow the grass and remove any logs or fallen trees," Tuma said.
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The trails for the Ore to Shore races are groomed and marked with signs and caution tape ahead of time for its participants. (Journal photo by Adelle Whitefoot)
Ore to Shore race director Scott Tuma, left, Tony Mattioli, center, and Nic Tuma, right, prepare this week to go out on the trail to mark the course for the races on Country Road in Negaunee. (Journal photo by Adelle Whitefoot)
Tuma said he himself marks the trails with signs and caution tape with two other people. The trail marking is done on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday before the race.
They use many different signs to mark miles remaining in the race and where to go. They also use over three miles of caution tape to mark the trails as well as hazards to look out for.
"We spend about 10 hours on Wednesday marking trails, eight hours on Thursday and eight hours on Friday," Tuma said. "We also have people go out and remove all of the signs and tape on Saturday after the race and that takes about eight hours as well."
On top of marking all of the trails, they all have to be groomed for the race as well. This means mowing the grass, sometimes removing trees or logs, moving sand, repairing holes or removing rocks, Tuma said, but nothing major.
"Over the last 12 years we've had plenty of times where we have bulldozers and front end loaders coming in to open up a spot that had a lot of standing water or to take down a rocky burr that was too hard for people to get over," Tuma said. "But I would never call any of those major (problems). You fix it as you find them."
According to Tuma, his main course preparation person has been out on the trails for months already.
"He knows the course, he's seen the course and he knows what needs to be fixed on the course, so we can address those areas very quickly," Tuma said.
There are about nine people total that help with the course preparation between grooming it and marking it, Tuma said.
"The hardest part (with preparation) is that it's just so long," Tuma said. "We start all the way out in West Ishpeming and go all the way down to the lake in Marquette. There's lots of miles to cover."
The Ore to Shore will start Saturday morning in Negaunee and Marquette. Registration and packet pick up is today from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Lakeview Arena in Marquette. For more information on the Ore to Shore, visit the website oretoshore.com or call the event hotline toll-free at 866-370-7223.
"The course is in great shape because we've been getting just enough rain to keep the dust down," Tuma said. "It impacts the trails real well and the bikes will be able to roll real well. So it should be in really great shape."
Adelle Whitefoot can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 243.


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Global Pharmacy Role of India is under Threat by the EU Pact
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- Written by Pranav Sinha
India's global pharmacy role could be threatened by the European Union pact as intellectual property protection could close down the world generic drug supply. Activists have taken out a global campaign to call the European Union on its drug policies. India's pharmaceutical companies may find it hard to survive under a campaign limiting the generics. This will affect millions of needy patients in the world. The efforts by the European Union and India to strengthen trade are threatening India's ability to deliver life saving medicines to the poor of the world.
Health industry workers and activists are worried that India may succumb to the European Union demands for strict intellectual property protections and investor guarantees which will affect the world's generic drug supply.
For HIV alone, India makes more than eighty per cent of the world's medicines. Indian drug makers are worried about a provision in the agreement on investor lawsuits which will make it easier for international pharmaceutical companies to sue the Indian government, drug manufacturers and distributors. This would dramatically limit Indian production of many life saving drugs or cause prices to rise to such levels that may not be afforded by many people.
The European Union has changed its strategy and has now focused on enforcement by trying to create an intellectual property rights rule that will intimidate generic manufacturers and influence access and availability of drugs. The European Union has, however, informed that it has suggested a clause in the free trade pact to make sure that nothing in the proposed agreement would limit the freedom to produce and export life saving medicines.