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The first of four Northeast pipeline projects was placed in service earlier this month by Tennessee Gas Pipeline, (TGP) a subsidiary of El Paso Corporation. This action on TGP's 300 Line Project marks the completion of one of the largest natural gas infrastructure projects currently under way in the Northeast United States.
The upgrade provides access to both new and existing natural gas supplies and increases capacity on the TGP system by 350,000 dekatherms per day. All of the project capacity is contracted under a long-term firm transportation agreement with EQT Energy, LLC, based in Pittsburgh.
According to Wayne Conservation District (WCD) resource conservationist Len Grover, TGP officials met with WCD staff recently to discuss how the project has gone and determine what is needed to facilitate better management of the next TGP project—the Northeast Upgrade Project (NUP), which will involve various townships in both Wayne and Pike counties.
"We expected to have some problems and we did have some problems," said Grover. "But overall, they did a very responsible job."
"When you think of the length of that project and hitting every topographical feature in Wayne County, we've had smaller projects that have been more of a headache," added WCD manager Robert Mueller.
Both Grover and Mueller asserted that the 200-foot-wide right of way clearings should be reduced in scale and regarded as a thing of the past.
"We've discussed with them the actual need for scarifying that entire width, which we, as conservation districts, see to be very wasteful and unnecessary," said Grover. "We're trying to get them to get away from how business has been done for 50 years and look more sensitively at the need for that type of excavation. The three conservation districts in the Northeast region [Wayne, Pike and Susquehanna] have talked about it."
"And not just the width, but the length," added Mueller. "They opened up 17 miles of Wayne County all at one time. It kept compounding on them because of the weather conditions, and they couldn't get to final restoration for months. That's when we started to see issues."
The other projects—the Northeast Upgrade Project, the Northeast Supply Diversification Project and the MPP project—are expected to be placed in service in 2012 and 2013, subject to receipt of regulatory approvals (see sidebar for details).
El Paso Corporation owns North America's largest interstate natural gas pipeline system and is one of North America's largest independent oil and natural gas producers. For more information visit www.elpaso.com [1].
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Expansion Projects
Four separate pipeline infrastructure projects in the Northeast U.S. are expected to transport an additional 1.5 billion cubic feet per day of domestic natural gas. Each project is independent of the other and has different customers who have contracted for the natural gas the projects will transport.
1. 300 Line Project. This project has a long-term contract with EQT Energy LLC that will provide access to diversified natural gas supplies from the Gulf Coast, Appalachian, Rockies and Marcellus Shale supply areas. On November 1, TGP placed the 300 Line Project in service. Estimated project cost was about $0.7 billion.
2. Northeast Supply Diversification Project. The proposed Northeast Supply Diversification (NSD) project resulted from customer interest in TGP's other Northeast projects. Shipper agreements are in place with Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, Anadarko Energy Services Company and Seneca Resources Corporation. The project involves installation of approximately seven miles of 30-inch diameter pipeline looping in Bradford and Tioga counties, other facility modifications in Niagara and Erie counties, NY, and utilization of existing and third-party pipeline capacity. (Looping does not replace existing pipeline. Loops are installed adjacent to and connecting with existing pipelines to add incremental capacity.) Construction should begin in early 2012 with an anticipated in-service date of November 2012. Estimated cost is $73 million. Visit www.elpaso.com/nsdproject [2].
3. Northeast Upgrade Project. The proposed Northeast Upgrade Project (NEUP) is smaller than the 300 Line Project. Customers are Chesapeake Energy Marketing, Inc., and Statoil Natural Gas LLC. The project is an extension of TGP's existing presence in the Marcellus Shale play. It involves the construction of 37 miles of looping (five loops) and modification to four existing compressor stations. FERC decision on authorization is expected by February 19, 2012 with an anticipated in-service date of November 2013. Estimated project cost is $400 million. Visit www.elpaso.com/northeastupgrade [3].
4. MPP Project. The proposed MPP Project will provide approximately 240,000 dekatherms per day from the developing production region along TGP's existing 300 Line system to serve established markets, including markets in the Northeast. Customers are Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Southwestern Energy Co. The project includes installation of approximately 7.9 miles of 30-inch diameter steel pipe adjacent to, or near, an existing pipeline on TGP's 300 Line in Potter County. Also planned are modifications and upgrades at four existing compressor stations on TGP's 300 Line located in Mercer, Venango, McKean and Potter counties. Pending all appropriate approvals, construction should begin in summer 2013, with an anticipated in-service date of November 2013. Estimated project cost is under $100 million. Visit www.elpaso.com/mpp [4].


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Willie Nelson's braids are among the items going up for auction on Oct. 5 as part of a sale of memorabilia owned by singer Waylon Jennings, according to The Guardian. Nelson's hair is expected to bring in $50,000 to $60,000.
Nelson cut off his signature locks in 1983 and presented them to Jennings at a party thrown by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash in honor of Jennings' sobriety, reported The New York Times.
The hair is one of several notable items that will be for sale. Bidders can also try to snag Buddy Holly's motorcycle, a handwritten letter from John Lennon and Muhammad Ali's boxing gloves, among other things, according to Taste of Country.
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In keeping with its commitment to protect the lives of children and families, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is launching "CPSC 2.0," a comprehensive social networking initiative that will make lifesaving and other safety information more accessible to consumers. Utilizing a variety of technologies and social media sites, CPSC will rapidly expand its reach to millions of consumers.
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The Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys snapped this close-up view of the Aristarchus crater on Aug. 21, 2005. The crater is 26 miles (42 kilometers) in diameter and approximately 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) in depth, and sits at the southeastern edge of the Aristarchus Plateau. Aristarchus is one of the youngest and largest craters on the Moon. The crater formed between 100 and 900 million years ago.
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North Central College Life Trustee Judy Stevenson will be remembered for being a caring mother, a successful entrepreneur and business leader, a friend of the arts and a generous benefactor of North Central College and many other causes.
Stevenson died Monday, June 28, 2010, after a long battle with emphysema and related illnesses. She was a fifth-generation Napervillian.
"No one has been a more loving and generous champion of this college over the past quarter century than Judy," North Central College President Harold Wilde said. "Since she joined North Central's Board of Trustees in 1982, her vision and philanthropy have been central to every advance we have made."
Stevenson's Downers Grove-based company, Magnetrol International, achieved international success as an industry leader in the production of devices that control and measure the level and flow of liquids or dry bulk products.
Stevenson, of Oak Brook, grew up in Naperville a block from North Central's campus and studied music at Pfeiffer Hall as a youth. After graduating from Naperville Community High School in 1956, she married and moved to California, where she worked during the day and sang with the Robert Shaw Chorale at night. A couple years later, she and her husband came back to Naperville, where Stevenson raised her two children, Laurie Swallow and Jeff Swallow.
She started at Magnetrol—then called Schaub Engineering—as a bookkeeper in 1964. She became executive vice president in 1971, president in 1975 and bought the firm in 1978.
Stevenson has been recognized and honored by numerous charities through the years for her philanthropy and community involvement. When North Central College presented her with an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 2009, music professor Jeordano "Pete" Martinez described Stevenson as a "philanthropist whose generosity of spirit has elevated her love for the fine arts into a permanent legacy at North Central College," adding that hundreds of students have benefited from scholarship programs that she established.
Martinez continued, "Our magnificent arts facilities, including Pfeiffer Hall, Wentz Concert Hall and Fine Arts Center, and of course, Meiley-Swallow Hall, are a reflection of your vision and unique spirit. We are honored by your leadership in philanthropy and your lasting commitment to North Central College, our students and our fine arts programs."
Stevenson's generosity helped fund the major renovation of Naperville's former Grace Evangelical Church at 31 S. Ellsworth St. into Meiley-Swallow Hall, which features a theatre, art gallery and classrooms.
Wilde said at the Meiley-Swallow Hall dedication in 2007, "When I asked if we could name this building in her honor—in gratitude for all she has done for the college—it was the family names of her parents and her son and daughter she suggested instead. So like Judy—it's not about her—but about roots and family and integrity and the highest of standards—about the future and the past—about inspiring young and old 'with a taste of God's grace.' Could there be any better personification of what this building represents?"
Stevenson also was instrumental in contributing toward the renovation of North Central's Pfeiffer Hall and Old Main buildings and construction of the Wentz Concert Hall and Fine Arts Center that was dedicated in 2008. In 1984 she established a North Central scholarship in the name of her father, Harold Meiley, and in 1992, she established the Dr. C. Frederick Toenniges Professorship in honor of a North Central music professor.
Magnetrol International employees established the Judy G. Stevenson Scholarship at North Central College, an annual financial scholarship that is awarded to female undergraduates often pursuing college degrees later in life.
Rick Spencer, North Central's vice president for institutional advancement, who has known Stevenson since he was a child, said, "She was an extraordinary person—loving, visionary, generous and shrewd. It was a privilege to know her. She was one of a kind."
Visitation will be held at Friedrich-Jones Funeral Home, 44 S. Mill St., Naperville, Thursday, July 1, from 3 to 8 p.m. A funeral service will be held at Community United Methodist Church, 20 N. Center St., Naperville, on Friday, July 2, at 11 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are appreciated to the Harold Emery Meiley Scholarship or the Judy G. Stevenson Scholarship at North Central College, 30 N. Brainard St., Naperville, IL 60540.


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Home List of Titles Bacterial community structures of phosphate-removing and non-phosphate- removing activated sludges from sequencing batch reactors
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- Bacterial community structures of phosphate-removing and non-phosphate- removing activated sludges from sequencing batch reactors
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- Bond, P. L.; Hugenholtz, P.; Keller, J.; Blackall, L. L.
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- The bacterial community structures of phosphate- and non-phosphate- removing activated sludges were compared. Sludge samples were obtained from two sequencing batch reactors (SBRs), and 16S rDNA clone libraries of the bacterial sludge populations were established. Community structures were determined by phylogenetic analyses of 97 and 92 partial clone sequences from SBR1 (phosphate-removing sludge) and SBR2 (non-phosphate-removing sludge), respectively. For both sludges, the predominant bacterial group with which clones were affiliated was the beta subclass of the proteobacteria. Other major groups represented were the alpha proteobacterial subclass, planctomycete group, and Flexibacter-Cytophaga-Bacteroides group. In addition, several clone groups unaffiliated with known bacterial assemblages were identified in the clone libraries. Acinetobacter spp., thought to be important in phosphate removal in activated sludge, were poorly represented by clone sequences in both libraries. Differences in community structure were observed between the phosphate-and non-phosphate-removing sludges; in particular, the Rhodocyclus group within the beta subclass was represented to a greater extent in the phosphate-removing community. Such differences may account for the differing phosphate-removing capabilities of the two activated sludge communities.
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- 16S rDNA; Acinetobacter; Activated sludge; Aibosome DNA; Bacteroides; Cytophaga; Flexibacteraceae; Fluid waste disposal; Phosphates; Proteobacteria; Rhodocyclus; Ribosomal DNA; Ribosomal RNA; Sewage; Water microbiology
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March 1, 2001: The Hubble telescope has snapped this remarkable view of a perfectly "edge-on" galaxy, NGC 4013. This new Hubble picture reveals with exquisite detail huge clouds of dust and gas extending along, as well as far above, the galaxy's main disk. NGC 4013 is a spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, lying some 55 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major. Viewed face-on, it would look like a nearly circular pinwheel, but NGC 4013 happens to be seen edge-on from our vantage point. Even at 55 million light-years, the galaxy is larger than Hubble's field of view, and the image shows only a little more than half of the object, albeit with unprecedented detail.
This edge-on view reveals that galaxies are thin, pancake-shaped objects. Most of the dust clouds lie in the galaxy's plane, forming the dark band, about 500 light-years thick. This dark band appears to cut the galaxy in two from upper right to lower left. A similar effect can be seen in our own sky. If one views the Milky Way Galaxy by going well away from city lights, dust clouds in the disk of our own galaxy appear to split the glowing band of the Milky Way in two. The dark clouds stand out in the picture because they absorb the light of background stars. By studying the color and the amount of light absorbed by these distant clouds in NGC 4013, astronomers can estimate the amount of matter in them.
These dark clouds are believed to be where new stars are formed. Later, when the dust disperses, the young stars become visible as clusters of blue stars. NGC 4013 shows several examples of these stellar kindergartens near the center of the image, lying in front of the dark band along the galaxy's equator. The extremely bright star near the upper left corner, however, is a foreground star belonging to our Milky Way Galaxy.


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When I was a freshman in college, my American Government professor addressed everyone on the first day of class and said, "No one in this room will ever be president." He looked me right in the eye when he said it, so I immediately went to the library and started reading everything I could about presidents. My plan was to prove him wrong, become president and rub it right in his stupid face, because I had problems with authority figures telling me what I could and couldn't do and it just so happens that my particular strain of youthful rebellion manifested in furious trips to the library.
"I'm going to be better than FDR. That'll teach that stupid fucker."
I never stopped reading (or writing) about presidents, although I learned pretty early on that he was right: I would never be president. Not because I couldn't handle the work (I probably could), but because I wasn't fucking crazy. The most important lesson I learned in my book-filled and ill-advised quest to stick it to The Man was that the presidency is a job reserved for a special kind of crazy person, and it's our fault. Our current system is broken and dangerous, and it's driving away people who otherwise would make terrific presidents (people like me, probably). With election season upon us, I'd like to take this time to let us all know that we're doing things completely wrong.
3 It's a Killing Job
Of the first 35 presidents, 25 of them died prematurely.
I don't mean they died tragically young, like "Oh, it wasn't Pierce's time, he had so much more life in him." I'm saying that there's an average life expectancy for everyone at every time in human history, and that most presidents -- by a crushing majority -- died prematurely. Presidents, on average, come from high socioeconomic backgrounds, and every single one of them has access to the best doctors, facilities and medical treatments money can buy, even after they leave the White House. Presidents, as wealthy men with the best doctors and medicine available, should theoretically live well into the above-average territory of their life expectancy. Yet 70 percent of them fell below average. If a car factory or meat plant or hospital in this country had a similar stat, where 70 percent of the employees weren't reaching their life expectancy, it would be shut down.
The presidency is a killing job. I'm not the first person to call it that, and I won't be the last (assuming at least one of you talks about this column with a friend). Writer Dorothy James Roberts says it's "literally a killing job whose pressures continue to mount," and even John Steinbeck once said, "We give the president more work than a man can do, more responsibility than a man should take, more pressure than a man can bear," and that doesn't even take into account the amount of vicious verbal and written attacks in the media we expect them to be able to take. We need them to be superheroes who will either thanklessly save us or accept the collective blame of an entire country. We want them to be a Batman that we can yell at if gas is too expensive.
We do this because we want the people attracted to the presidency to be the kind of people who can handle the job; we make it the hardest job in the country because we want the best of the best, but the bottom line is that there will never be a person who can really "take" the presidency. Physically. Being the president just takes a toll. Here's Lincoln in 1860, right before his first term, looking focused and powerful and rugged and the closest to handsome he'd ever been:
And now here he is in 1865, looking like a weak and tired skeleton:
Really look at the amount of wrinkles that got added to Lincoln's face in just four years. Look at how sunken in his eyes are. Speaking of eyes, look at how alive they were in the 1860 picture versus how empty and tired they were in '65. And, sure, it can be argued that Lincoln's circumstances are special because he was presiding over (arguably) the most important war in American history, but the presidency is still taking a physical toll today. Here's George W. Bush in 2000:
And now here he is after just five years of presidenting:
That's not just standard aging. Did your parents go from dapper to haggard in four years? Mine didn't (they are both still, in fact, dope as shit, but that's because they're not presidents). Hell, you can watch President Obama's hair turn gray right in front of you, as it started graying for the first time after just one year in office, something he attributes to the impossible amount of weight his job places on him.
Why It Needs to Change
Because it's a very important position and we're slowly killing the people we want to hold it.
The presidency, a job described by the men who have held it as "demanding and unrelenting" (12- to 18-hour days are not just expected but almost entirely unavoidable) and "overwhelmingly lonely," is a killing job, and we made it that way by giving our presidents the amount of power and responsibility and blame that we give them. If you saw an opening for a job where 70 percent of the employees died, there's no way you'd take it. You'd have to be crazy to take that job.
2 Good or Bad, We're Mostly Electing Lunatics
I'm not the only person with access to statistics, so I'm not the only one who knows how dangerous this job is (people have, in fact, written excellent books on the subject). Presidential candidates themselves, in fact, must be acutely aware of how detrimental and dangerous the position is, but they're still just saying "Yep, sign me up!"
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Now, I don't want to say that all presidents are crazy, but only because that's the thesis of my upcoming book, and I don't want to spoil anything. I will say that even considering a run for office takes, above all other things, an ego that people like you and I will never understand. There are lots of tough jobs that people like you and I can look at and, even if we don't think we're capable of them, we can understand them on some level. You can probably guess what it's like to be a cop, or a doctor, or a lawyer, and figure out if you think you might be able to handle it.
But I sure as hell can't wrap my head around the presidency, because the president has a button in his office-house, and if he presses it, we send bombs to wherever he wants. I understand ambition and hard work and suit-wearing, but that's a level of personal power that I will never be able to intellectualize in any real way. I can't conceive of the pressures or the powers inherent to being the president, but some men think they can, and that, to me, is crazy.
The job impacts more than just the president, by the way. The vicious attacks hurled at Andrew Jackson's fragile wife while he was campaigning likely killed her. Jackson kept his wife, Rachel, sheltered from the horrible insults that were being thrown around by his opponents in the media. One day, she stumbled across some newspapers and read all of the ruthless attacks, had an anxiety attack and, shortly thereafter, died. There is not a single person (including and especially Jackson) who doesn't believe that the attacks were directly responsible for Rachel's breakdown and eventual death. If you want to be president, you might kill your wife, is the horrible moral to that story.
Why It Needs to Change
Because it's a very important job that can only attract a very specific breed of lunatic.
The kind of man who decides to run for president is the kind of man who can see how big and impossible the job is, a man who knows it's a death sentence that is more than likely going to cut his life short, a man who knows there's a possibility that merely by running he could destroy his wife, and he still says, "Yes. I can do that."
Do you understand that man? I don't.


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Someone at yesterday's McHenry County Board meeting publicly said the word I've heard said privately for weeks when the Mental Health Board has been brought up – audit.
As I wrote in today's paper, the subject of auditing the Mental Health Board came up after Tuesday morning's County Board vote that in essence denied reappointment to embattled Mental Health Board President Lee Ellis. The Mental Health Board is annually audited as part of the annual audit of county government, but proponents are now seeking an independent outside look at the board's finances.
While I touched in print on the main points from yesterday's debate, which ended a six-week drama resulting in Ellis' ouster, there were other issues that I could not fit into my story.
• KOEHLER'S GRIEVANCES: Ken Koehler, R-Crystal Lake, had a total of four problems with the Mental Health Board nominees recommended by the Public Health and Human Services Committee. I fit the two main ones in my story:
1) The committee was not transparent when it came to narrowing down the 12 candidates.
2) Nominee Robert Routzahn has too much on his plate already.
The other two issues were:
3) Committee member John Hammerand got to vote on this despite being out of town for all 12 candidate interviews.
4) Ellis got enough votes during the whittling down process to have advanced farther than he did.
Hammerand, R-Wonder Lake, had been out of state Feb. 13 and 15 when the committee interviewed the candidates and made its first vote. But he got to vote last Wednesday when the committee was forced to do a revote out of concerns that Koehler had – and respected by new Chairwoman Tina Hill – with Open Meetings Act compliance (read more about that issue here).
Hammerand responded to Koehler's issue the same way he did before the committee last Wednesday – he had listened to all nine hours of candidate interviews and was more than confident in his ability to make an informed decision.
• EXAMINING THE TALLY: Koehler examined the sheets that the committee used to narrow down the 12 candidates, and said Ellis should not have been eliminated. Ellis made the first round, but not the second (my story on the vote can be found here).
As I blogged here, I FOIAd the FOIA submitted by Ellis for the tally sheets used by the six committee members who voted. Ellis got two votes in the first round and advanced to the second round.
Ellis was one of eight people who made the next round, and was competing with five others for two open four-year seats. This is because candidate Mary Donner was explicitly seeking the one-year unexpired term, and candidate Carrie Smith got so many votes in the first round that she automatically advanced to the final cut.
But it looks to me like Ellis was denied from that final vote fairly. The candidates who eventually won appointment from the second round – incumbent Connee Meschini, Heather Murgatroyd and Routzahn, got three or four votes, while Ellis only got two.
For the record, the official vote, and indeed the entire nine-hour interview process, took place in open session under the watchful eye of Assistant State's Attorney Jana Blake Dickson.
• EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SEARCH: It looks like it will not be until mid-May that the Mental Health Board votes to hire a permanent executive director.
County Board member Paula Yensen, D-Lake in the Hills, told fellow board members that the three new Mental Health Board appointees will first be seated and brought up to speed on how the board works before that process moves forward. Yensen holds the County Board's voting seat on the nine-member Mental Health Board.
Interim Director Todd Schroll, who is a candidate for the position, has been at the helm since former Executive Director Sandy Lewis left late last year for Virginia Commonwealth University.
Ellis had originally planned to call for a meeting to interview two finalists the evening of March 5 – the same day that he lost his seat. But he promptly dropped the plan after County Board members expressed concerns that the Mental Health Board was trying to rush the process and make a hire with the old board members.
The new members will be seated at the Mental Health Board's next meeting on March 26, according to a news release.
• BINDERS FULL OF INFORMATION: As I wrote today, at least one County Board member was not happy with the phone-book-size binder of information that the Mental Health Board delivered several weeks ago to all 24 members.
Ersel Schuster, R-Woodstock, called the information contained within confusing. She got talk of an audit rolling when she said the numbers contained in the documents, specifically in the 2011 Annual Report, would be a lot more trustworthy after being vetted by a set of outside eyes.
Having reviewed a copy myself, the binders contain the annual report, meeting minutes, Ellis' guest column to the Northwest Herald criticizing its coverage, Schroll's email to committee members questioning budget numbers cited by public health committee Chairwoman Donna Kurtz, frequently asked questions, and minutes of previous meetings.
One thing the binders do not contain are the 2012 end-of-year fund utilization reports I have cited in my stories, and Kurtz cited during the appointment process, that detail how much the Mental Health Board took in and spent.
• HOIST BY YOUR OWN PETARD? As I wrote in my story, the binders were just part of a behind-the-scenes campaign – what public health committee member Michael Walkup last week called a "very strong pushback" – to keep Ellis on the Mental Health Board.
I have heard off-the-record rumblings that an outside audit would possibly be the next step, but it was that binder that made Schuster publicly call for one, and Hill subsequently asked Yensen to communicate the board's possible intentions to the Mental Health Board.
• THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS, I THINK: Walkup, R-Crystal Lake, responded to Koehler's concerns over the public health committee's candidate selection process by quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
At least Walkup left out the second half of the famous quote: " ... adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Walkup has been on a literary kick as of late – at the Wednesday committee vote he cited Hamlet, "Methinks thou doth protest too much", regarding the aforementioned Mental Health Board pushback.
I emailed Walkup last week to politely remind him that the actual quote, from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2, is "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Its modern interpretation is that an individual's denials can become so vehement that people begin to suspect the opposite is true.
As long as I'm busting out Hamlet, being hoist with one's own petard comes from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4.
• HARBINGER? I blogged back in January that the McHenry County Department of Health has a lot to worry about Kurtz, R-Crystal Lake, in charge of the Public Health and Human Services Committee, which recommends appointments to the 12 seats on the Board of Health.
As I wrote, more than a few County Board members have confided in me over the years that they would like to see a management shakeup at the Department of Health. To make the chain of command clear, the County Board appoints to the health board, which hires and fires health department employees.
Within two months of Kurtz' appointment, the head of the Mental Health Board is out, and there is open talk of an outside audit.
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Country Roads lead to Indianapolis
It was hard to sleep last night. The anticipation was hard enough, but living it after was even harder.
I feel like I am dreaming. It is tough to even say it.
Andrew, my best friend who is a Yankee fan agrees. I've never experienced this before. Yeah the Penguins and Steelers have given me great memories over the years, games I will never forget. But there is just some sense of pride that I have with West Virginia that the Pens and Steelers have never given me.
I go to WVU. My family is born and bred in the Mountain State. There is that geneaology that only comes with your alma mater. And in a state that is always overlooked and put down, this means something. Something special.
It is safe to say that the Mountaineers and Pirates are all I care about sports wise. I've been to hundreds of Pirates games and West Virginia basketball and football games. I feel that you have to be there, live it live and in person to become a true fan of something. It is too expensive to go to many Steelers and Penguins games. I have been to a handful of them but the passion is lacking compared to that of the Mountaineers and Pirates.
I was made fun of last night by some of my friends for having tears in my eyes as the clock winded down and Kentucky fell to the Mountaineers by a score of 73-66. From the moment I was born I was swaddled in gold and blue blankets and a WV beanie hat. Let me just say I was a cute baby. But for the last 21 years WVU has always been the college team who failed to live up to expectations or were looked down upon for not yet being elite. We proved everyone wrong last night, the underdogs that we always are were victoriuous and finally mentioned among the nation's best. Who knows when this moment will happen again? You just got to take advantage of it now.
My Sunday morning has consisted of scavaging the internet looking for tickets to next Saturday's Final Four games in Indianapolis. I got some money to spend as I turned down an opportunity to go to Florida for the week for Spring Training. On Wednesday Andrew and I are going on a day trip to baseball hallowed ground, which I will post about later. For now I got basketball on the brain. Thank you Mountaineers-for a lifelong of memories climaxing on March 27, 2010 a day I will never forget.
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hahaha sounds like a cute baby indeed😉
glad that your team made it to the final 4! College Basketball is getting very intense indeed. A lot of my friends and teachers are very into it😀
best of luck to your team😀
Congrats to your team for making in to the final 4!! I wish your team for the very best and hopefully they can win the ultimate prize!
Good luck to WVU the rest of the way. I normally don't get into any of the March Madness, but I can relate to your excitement.
I'm totally on the WVU bandwagon… you're to blame for that! I can't stand Duke and Michigan St. and I have no connection to Butler, so go Mountaineers!
Wow! Congratulations on making it into the Final Four! And enjoy the ride. It's got to be incredibly exciting.
Congratulations and good luck! You definitely do have to seize the moment, that's true…
I have to say, WVU killed my bracket. But I am sure that is true of everybody's bracket. I was hoping that my Boilermakers would be able to get to the final four and take on your Mountaineers, but without Hummel we had no chance this year. Maybe next year. I'll be rooting for your guys on Saturday!
It's got to be WVU all the way now, I think your to blame for most everyone on these blogs who now is cheering for them, so I guess this week it's Go Mountaineers…
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- We use measurements of the HI content, stellar mass and star formation rates in ~190 massive galaxies with stellar masses greater than 10^10 Msun, obtained from the Galex Arecibo SDSS Survey (GASS) described in Paper I (Catinella et al. 2010) to explore the global scaling relations associated with the bin-averaged ratio of the star formation rate over the HI mass, which we call the HI-based star formation efficiency (SFE). Unlike the mean specific star formation rate, which decreases with stellar mass and stellar mass surface density, the star formation efficiency remains relatively constant across the sample with a value close to SFE = 10^-9.5 yr^-1 (or an equivalent gas consumption timescale of ~3 Gyr). Specifically, we find little variation in SFE with stellar mass, stellar mass surface density, NUV-r color and concentration. We interpret these results as an indication that external processes or feedback mechanisms that control the gas supply are important for regulating star formation in massive galaxies. An investigation into the detailed distribution of SFEs reveals that approximately 5% of the sample shows high efficiencies with SFE > 10^-9 yr^-1, and we suggest that this is very likely due to a deficiency of cold gas rather than an excess star formation rate. Conversely, we also find a similar fraction of galaxies that appear to be gas-rich for their given specific star-formation rate, although these galaxies show both a higher than average gas fraction and lower than average specific star formation rate. Both of these populations are plausible candidates for "transition" galaxies, showing potential for a change (either decrease or increase) in their specific star formation rate in the near future. We also find that 36+/-5% of the total HI mass density and 47+/-5% of the total SFR density is found in galaxies with stellar mass greater than 10^10 Msun.
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The ongoing gamer-controversy of the week is the outcry from PC Gamers over online play in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Rather than offer dedicated servers for the upcoming war-game, Infinity Ward is instead opting for a matchmaking setup powered by IWNET. This will give PC users an experience that's similar to console multiplayer, and basically do away with player-run servers. PC gamers, a notoriously picky bunch to be fair, have responded with many angry internet posts and an online petition signed by over 100,000 people.
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In typical fashion, after scoring big in Tuesday's victory over the Brewers, the Phillies have now dropped the next two games, by scores of 3-1 and 6-1. Alright, this doesn't happen every time the Phillies have a big game, it only seems that way.
Anyway, I don't have much to say other than, we lost.
And since it's been a long day, and I'm not feeling very imaginative, this will be one of my shorter entries.
On the lighter side, for the second day in a row I was greeted in my morning paper by a photo that shows what a tough week it's been to be a ballplayer's crotch.
Yesterday it was this little gem:
"Nope, my cup is bigger than yours"
Some of you were feeling creative, and left some caption ideas in the comments. After polling a random group of one (me), the favorite entry came from Julia of Julia's Rants. Her caption appears above.
Today's sports section had this image of Chase Utley tagging Ryan Braun in a delicate spot:
"Hey Ryan, that's a crappy arabesque – get that leg higher!"
Again, let your imagination run wild, and leave your best creations in a comment. Make me laugh over my coffee tomorrow morning!
(Murphy/Molina photo: Bill Boyce/AP; Utley/Braun photo: Steven M. Falk/Philadelphia Inquirer
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Sue- There's something about "tough week to be a ballplayer's crotch" that is just so hilarious. It's time's like these where I wish I was more creative.
Thank you Sue! You have much funnier pictures in your paper in the morning then I do!
Okay – "Are you sure you have a 32″ inseam?"
or – "Dude – don't the Rockettes do front kicks?"
or "No, if you cover it up like this no one can see the stain"
Whooaaa! Great crotch shots! It's almost like you're purposely looking for them. LOL.
Emily – glad I could provide random hilarity for you.🙂
Julia – it's a good thing I wasn't actually drinking my coffee yet when I read your third one, I would have ended up spewing it all over my keyboard!
Jeff – oddly enough, two straight days in the newspaper, there they were. None today, though.😦
Um Sue here's one: "Hey Ryan that's a crappy arabesque. Get the leg higher" "That's what she said."
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The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 requires that the University consult with its employees on safety, health and welfare at work issues, and one means of safety consultation is through Safety Representatives.
Safety Representatives are staff who have been elected by their co-workers to represent them on health and safety matters. Safety consultation is their primary role and their rights are set out in Section 25 of the 2005 Safety, Health and Welfare at Work, Act. Within NUI Galway 8 Safety Representative areas have been identified and employees in each area elect a fellow employee to represent them on workplace safety issues.
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The two new historical sites are the Loma Sandia Indian Cemetery and the J.M. and Sarah Cunningham home, the first home built in Three Rivers.
The Loma Sandia Indian Cemetery also received the distinction of being one of the 10 historical sites to be funded by the Texas Historical Commission this year.
"It is a huge feather in our cap for the county and the Live Oak County Historical Commission because it is a big deal; it's the most complete Indian burial ground ever found," LOCHC chair Sue Denniston said. "It's (the commission) been pretty dormant the last few years, and it has been a few years since we got a new historical marker."
Unveiling ceremony dates for each historical marker will be announced as the marker steering committee finishes planning. Denniston said they would like to have a Cunningham family descendent speak at the unveiling and make it a big community event.
As for the commission's other project, www.liveoakchc.com, Denniston described it as being a work in progress. New historical information about Live Oak County is added to the website as things progress with the LOCHC.
"Kurt House said, 'If you don't have a memory, you don't have a person, and if you don't have a history, you don't have a place,'" Denniston said. "It is so true; so it is important that the commission honors these places that are important to the county and the cities and lets people know about them."
Denniston said the LOCHC was dormant for several years and was recently reactivated under Live Oak County Judge Jim Huff's auspices with Denniston as the appointed chairperson.
"We have only recently been (re)activated, so we are letting the county know we are here and letting the county know what we are doing," Denniston said.
The LOCHC's first meeting was in January and volunteers were called upon to fill chair and committee positions.
The commission reorganized, membership was revised, and the commission's goals were discussed during their second meeting of the year in May at the historic Buck West House in George West.
Sue Denniston, Roberta Dobie, Jim Warren, Mary Margaret Campbell, Leslie Walker, Grace Wilson, Richard Hudson, Sue Nance, John Ed Holland, Rena McWilliams and Janis Hudson were in attendance.
In the second meeting, Denniston presented positions currently functioning and those she hoped to fill. Volunteers or additional positions were listed, and the commission membership directory was brought up to date.
"As the year goes on, we are going to gain more and more momentum," Denniston said.
The revisions were submitted to Judge Huff to be voted on by the Commissioners Court. Once approved, chair positions will be announced.
Positions include a commission co-chair, secretary, historical marker chair, an education chair, publicity chair and web master. The formation of volunteer committees for cleanup/maintenance of historical markers, new marker unveiling ceremonies, fundraising and community education was also put on the table for discussion.
For more information about the LOCHC, contact Denniston at 361-343-2094.


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The Buckhannon City Council encouraged citizens Thursday to utilize the anonymous tip line after one citizen publicly reported witnessing questionable activities on Park Street. Mayor Kenneth Davidson and the council said the anonymous tip line is a private line used by the Buckhannon Police Department and the Upshur County Sheriff's Department.
They said that messages could be left for police anonymously. The line does not have caller identification and will not be traced back to the callers. The anonymity of the phone line is designed to encourage callers to report suspicious activity. The City Council encouraged citizens to utilize the anonymous tip line or to call the police when they suspect or witness any questionable activity.
Council members heard the concerns of Elissa Mills, who lives on Park Street. Mills said that recent events in her neighborhood recently have left residents feeling unsafe. She said that she and some neighbors witness illegal activity going on at the Buckhannon City Park nearby.
"We're having a serious problem at the city park after dark," Mills said. "It's not just what we think is a problem; we're seeing it. It's getting kind of scary down there."
Mills said that one night, she and some neighbors actually feared that they were going to get shot. She said there have been attempted break-ins at some of the houses there. She said these activities are new to the Park Street area, where she and her neighbors always got along with one another and felt safe. But it seems that things are different now.
Mills said she has reported these fears to law enforcement and has recorded some license plates of the vehicles that were driven by those she suspects of causing the "serious problem."
"We are actually sitting, watching transactions take place," Mills said. "We need some help down there."
Mills said she has called police, and that police have responded to the scene. She said the problems haven't stopped. Mills said she is willing to install security cameras, or whatever it takes, to help abate the issues she alleges are occurring in her neighborhood. She said she is willing to help however she can to put a stop to it.
Although she never used the term drugs to describe the transactions she said she has witnessed, Councilman Ron Pugh referred to the problem as a drug problem and said that Mills' neighborhood is not unique in having this problem. He said that it is a problem in every neighborhood in Buckhannon. Pugh encourages citizens to report questionable activity to the police, even as it is happening. If police arrive to a scene too late, nothing can be done. If officers are notified of an event as it is taking place, they have an opportunity to witness it occur.
City Recorder Rich Clemens left a telephone number for the anonymous tip line. To leave an anonymous tip for the police, call 304-473-1001.


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What is a point count?
The point count is a field method to study avian population trends or response to treatment. Consider it among other methods to carefully match your sampling and field methods to your goals.
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To compare bird counts at different times (e.g. trends) or sites, you want to compare apples to apples. A point count produces these apples as a field method by fixing duration and area; the observer stands a t a fixed point and records everything they hear and see within the constraints. Standardization of method controls for other variables so that a different count reflects an actual difference in the number of birds present. We know different observers and other conditions lead to variable detection rates, however, and observer training is among the most vital elements to successful point count programs. Even so, can we control for everything but different numbers, e.g. if we compare counts with the same observer, time of day, duration, and weather conditions? No - read why under "adjusted point counts".
Adjusted point counts
Even with the same observer etc., there is not an obvious relationship between the presence of a bird at the count site and its likelihood of being detected. Many of the newer methods such as distance or double-observer techniques seek to overcome this by providing a way to estimate the number of birds missed. These methods are called adjusted point counts, because they attempt to adjust for variable detectability and provide an actual estimate of bird numbers rather than an index of abundance. If the adjusted point count actually produces good estimates of the number present rather than an index, then comparing numbers from different counts is more reasonable. The sources below will introduce you to the basic techniques and the adjusted point count methods.
Protocols: Literature on Point Count Methods
Viewing the references list below, and in turn the literature they cite, will provide the reader with a solid background in understanding protocols currently used by many point count monitoring programs. If you are still planning your study, consulting with a statistician or biometrician now on these topics will greatly increase the chance of your study design matching your objectives.


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Do you feel you have a respect issue in the garage and do you need respect in the garage to be successful?
"Can't answer the first part for you -- you would have to ask everybody else. As far as needing respect in the garage area -- certainly. It makes your day a little bit easier. Makes your job a little bit easier. I've been able to have good conversations and talk to people outside the race car or at driver intros or stuff like that. Whether it's the case that they're not being true to my face -- I don't know, I can't read that. I'm not in people's minds. If you're mad at me, you'll have to tell me."
Do you understand why Richard Childress was mad last week?
"Me giving a congratulatory bump to Joey Coulter is what tipped him (Richard Childress) over the edge there. I don't recall anytime -- face-to-face conversation where Richard did tell me that, 'If you touch another one of my cars I'm going to come find you.' I don't know if it was ever said in the media, but it was never relayed to me."
Have you received any secret fines in the last seven days?
How should NASCAR handle penalties if someone is threatening a lawsuit?
"I don't know. That's not to my discretion to be honest with you. It's further to NASCAR to depose. That's a great question for the, but for myself, I need an instance of what you're explaining. Besides all the information you've just given me and the question you've asked, I can't really comment further."
Did you know how much damage there was on Joey Coulter's truck at Kansas?
"No, I didn't feel like I hit him all that hard. I just thought I rubbed him a little bit. Typically when you rub a guy, you don't see much damage from it. The trucks are so different too. I forgot about how the left-front fender on a truck -- the nose is so much wider than the tire is so it kind of sticks out a little further so maybe there was more damage than I thought I would have caused. That's entirely my fault -- I'm the one that instigated it there or initiated it. As far as him having to fly out body hangers and all that stuff -- if it's something they didn't feel that they could hammer and dolly out, sorry it came to that."
Did the media interpret malicious intent toward Joey Coulter?
"There can be an easy way to interpret things sometimes and it seems like maybe I might be on the wrong end of interpretation a lot of those times. There was no malicious intent to be involved in hurting or damaging a RCR (Richard Childress Racing) vehicle."
Was anything said to you by Richard Childress prior to last week's incident?
"No. We were in that NASCAR hauler from Darlington after the race and he (Richard Childress) never said a word in there."
How are M&M's handling the recent situations?
"M&M's is handling things the best that they can handle it and going through things day by day. There's a lot of support there. We just had a NASCAR day at Hackettstown, New Jersey yesterday and people were awesome. They had a lot of great questions about racing, about the sponsorship, about the partnership that we have and how things have really been working well for them over the past few seasons and how we can continue to grow the brand. They're doing everything they can in their power to make sure that we continue to carry on the presence of M&M's in NASCAR and with Kyle Busch."
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A man faces aggravated assault charges after allegedly entering a Casper fast-food restaurant with a pistol in hand.
On December 2nd, police responded to a weapons offense call on at Pancho's Mexican Restaurant on Casper's west side.
According to police documents, Joseph Sterkel was bothering three females inside the restaurant and was asked by several witnesses to leave. Sterkel and another suspect then allegedly reappeared outside a truck wearing camouflage vests and holding pistols.
Police say Sterkel then entered the restaurant with a pistol.
Sterkel was not arrested on the evening of the ponchos incident.
After running the plates on the Sterkel's vehicle, police issued a search warrant. Police say a following search uncovered over 20 firearms and a bulletproof vest inside Sterkel's residence. Police also say they found an AK-47 assault rifle that Sterkel allegedly smuggled into the US after returning from active duty in the military.
Sterkel faces three counts of aggravated assault.
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POPLARVILLE - The Pearl River Singers and The Voices presented their 2013 spring concert on Tuesday, April 2, at Malone Chapel on the Poplarville campus.
Mallory Cumberland of Picayune solos on "In Your Eyes" during The Voices spring concert April 2 at Malone Chapel. The Voices are, from left, Malorie Townsend of Petal, Ethan Martin of Pisgah, Allen Holifield of Laurel, Mariah LeBlanc of Purvis, Frank Henry of Poplarville, Claire Loper of Lumberton, Jonathan Morris of Brooklyn, Rachel Pierce of Columbia, Rhett Unbehagen of Carriere, Danielle Rogers of Petal and Carl DeFrance of Vicksburg.
The PRCC Singers close the concert with Somewhere.
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POPLARVILLE - Auditions are being held this month by the Pearl River Community College Department of Fine Arts and Communications for several groups for the 2013-14 academic year. They include:


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The truce is strained when Israeli forces fire on a protest by Palestinians seeking access to fertile land close to the Gaza border. NBC's Ayman Moyheldin reports
CAIRO — It was no Black Friday in Gaza, where the cease-fire was in effect for a second day.
There was some bloodshed — Israeli soldiers fired on Palestinian farmers who wandered into the prohibited 'buffer zone' near the border check on their farmland — but otherwise the first phase of the truce has worked.
Now the difficult part begins: Turning a halt in hostilities into a better future for Palestinians and Israelis.
In the near term, that will mean hard negotiations mediated by Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
Israel insists on a stoppage of weapons smuggling through Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
Hamas demands the lifting of the 6-year-old blockade of Gaza which some say has turned the strip into an "open prison".
Both sides this week agreed in principle to these concessions, but left the details for later. That could take a while, but what's different now is the presence of Morsi — backed by the United States — in the process.
A Palestinian farmer was killed and ten more were injured trying to reach farmland along the Israeli-Gaza border. The Israeli military is prohibiting farmers from reaching their land in the Palestinian side of the border, putting strain an already tense cease-fire agreement. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
Although facing widespread criticism at home, where he is accused of a constitutional power grab, Morsi is a formidable mediator having been endorsed as a key regional player by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Egyptian protesters, police clash as Morsi defends wide new powers
He's the leader of an Arab state with influence over radical Palestinian groups like Hamas, seems determined to be a U.S. ally and seeks a civil, if more formal, relationship with Israel.
So, rather than locking horns, separating, and reloading to fight another day, Israel and Hamas will at least have someone they respect to complain to.
The hope is that, over time, negotiations and not rocket fire or airstrikes will become the new habit of "discourse" between enemies. That could be a pipe dream unless Morsi, the Mediator, becomes Morsi, the Enforcer, as well. Will he crack down on the smuggling? Destroy the tunnels? Or will he side with his "ideological cousins" inside Hamas?
Fresh from winning praise for brokering the Gaza cease-fire, Mohammed Morsi sets Egyptian politics ablaze by granting himself sweeping new powers. NBC's Jim Maceda reports.
It's too soon to say. For now, few on either side of the Gaza border doubt that this truce will be short lived. As Gazans celebrated the end of their immediate suffering, a poll showed that 70 percent of Israelis disagree with the truce. After generations of bloodshed and crisis, mistrust is deeply entrenched.
It is significant that Obama seems to believe that Morsi can be the "missing link" that moves that moribund peace process forward. On Wednesday, when he thanked the Egyptian president for his "commitment to regional security" following the announcement of the cease-fire, Obama added that he and Morsi agreed to work towards a "more durable solution" to the situation in Gaza.
Morsi may be just the partner with leverage over the Palestinians that Obama needs to try his hand at Middle East peace-making himself.
But first, Morsi will have to prove he can enforce a cease-fire as deftly as he brokered one.
More world stories from NBC News:
- ANALYSIS: What Gaza crisis taught Israel about Iran
- Egyptian protesters, police clash as Morsi defends wide new powers
- The ghosts of Muranow: A journalist's mission to illuminate Poland's haunted past
- Israeli forces kill Gaza man despite cease-fire
- Amid the ruins, Gazans say pity the living, not the dead
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Daniel A. BouchardApril 25,2013
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WILLIAMSTOWN Daniel A. Bouchard, 84, of Flint Road, passed away Monday, April 15, 2013, at the Woodridge Nursing Home in Berlin.
Born in Lampton, Quebec, on May 25, 1929, he was the son of the late Felix and Eugina (Roy) Bouchard.
Daniel attended schools in Canada and later was employed as a lumberjack. He moved to Bridgeport, Conn., where he was employed as a carpenter. His last employment was as a supervisor for a commercial building company.
In 1971, he married Florence Rouleau in Milford, Conn., where they resided until his retirement in June of 2000, when the couple moved to Williamstown.
Among his interests were hunting, fishing, gardening and he especially enjoyed playing cards.
Survivors include two daughters, JoAnn Pratt, of Williamstown, and Donna DeCarmine and her life partner, Tim Poor, also of Williamstown. Also surviving are three granddaughters, Elizabeth DeCarmine, of Barre, Amy DeCarmine, and Ashley Cullen, and one grandson, Gary Cullen, all of Williamstown; five great-grandchildren, Brent Cullen, Ethan Bernier, Jude Bragg, Rayder Bragg and Zoey DeCarmine. He is also survived by his sisters, nieces and nephews, of Canada.
A funeral service will be held Monday, April 29, 2013, at 11 a.m. at the Pruneau-Polli Funeral Home in Barre. Family and friends may call at the funeral home on Monday from 10 a.m. until the time of the service. Extra parking is available in the St. Monica parking lot.
Burial will take place in the family lot in Lampton, Quebec.
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