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Explainer: 12 of the world's wackiest weddings
Your wedding day is supposed to be your day — one of the most pivotal days in your lives.
If that's really true, then why not join the throngs of couples who are choosing to live out wild, fanciful or downright silly dreams in conjunction with their nuptials? Doing so could have a practical benefit: It could save you big bucks. In these recessionary times, many have been shunning lavish weddings and opting for unique ones instead.
Here are 12 recent examples of utterly wacky — and utterly memorable — weddings. Click "next" at the left to start your (strange) trip down the aisle.
Holy matrimony, Batman!
For those of you out there who always sensed that Batman and Wonder Woman would make a great couple: It's happened!
On July 31, Sharon Wetherell and Neil Vaughan of Devon, England, tied the knot while all dressed up as their favorite superheroes. As "Wonder Woman" theme music blared, Wetherell, 40, made a grand entrance at the ceremony wearing blue hot pants, a red corset, flashy boots and a tiara and veil that cost her about $160. The groom's face-obscuring Batman costume set him back about $290.
The couple's friends and family also got gussied up as superheroes. Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Robin, Poison Ivy, Lara Croft, the Joker, Bananaman and the Incredibles were all in attendance.
"Our wedding was absolutely amazing and it cost us less than some couples would spend on just the dress," Mrs. Vaughan said in the British newspaper The Daily Mail. "We were not allowed to see each other's costumes before the big day, but when I did see Neil he looked fantastic as Batman. ... It was such a great day."
No cold feet at T.J. Maxx wedding
Who doesn't get excited about the prospect of bagging a bargain? Bride Lisa Satayut decided to combine that feeling with her excitement over bagging her beau.
Explaining that T.J. Maxx is her "happy place," Satayut married Drew Ellis in July in the size 8 shoe aisle of a T.J. Maxx store in Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
The bride — a self-proclaimed "'Maxxinista" — wore a strapless white chiffon gown, with long black gloves and bright green gladiator-style sandals. A widened aisle, vine-covered arch and white chairs with red bows highlighted the traditional ceremony that included string music, display-dodging cameramen — and curious shoppers who stopped bargain hunting long enough to watch.
Related video: With this bargain, I thee wed at T.J. Maxx
Happy ogre after
Tracey and Vivian Williams, a happy couple from Wales, tied the knot in May by dressing up as two of their favorite movie characters: the green ogres Shrek and Princess Fiona. Tracey Williams, 33, told the British newspaper The Daily Mail that the themed wedding idea suited her and her new husband perfectly.
"Our friends always used to say we looked like the characters when we went on nights out," she said. "Even though Shrek and Fiona are both green ogres, we didn't take it offensively because we like them so much."
The couple actually saw a "Shrek" movie on their first date and have been loyal fans ever since. To get ready for the big day, the pair covered themselves in green body paint and affixed fake green ears to the tops of their heads. Tracey donned a bright red wig to complete the Princess Fiona look, and Vivian sported checked trousers.
The Williams' wedding guests got in on the fun, with the best man dressing up as Monsieur Hood, the bride's father going as Lord Farquaad, the bride's mother playing the Fairy Godmother and the maid of honor playing Snow White.
Related story: Pair dress as Shrek, Fiona for wedding
Kiss the bride – if you can find her
Kim Silver, 42, dressed in a silk gown made by camouflage specialists Mossy Oak, and her 61-year-old groom, Marvin Hunter, was dressed in camo shirt and pants at the June nuptials.
They said their vows atop a tree stand hunting platform. The bride and groom occasionally punctuated the ceremony by firing arrows at targets. Hunter said the couple had always joked about getting married on a tree stand. Silver said the pair hunt together so much that the camo wedding "just seemed like the right thing to do."
A viral dance sensation
Most couples wait until the reception before breaking out into the Funky Chicken on their wedding day, but Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson figured, why wait to unleash their unbridled joy?
The 28-year-olds floored their wedding guests by having their whole bridal party — including seven bridesmaids, five groomsmen and four ushers — boogie down the aisle in a choreographed dance more at home in a Broadway musical than in a somber church.
Groomsmen split into sides as Heinz did a somersault in front of the wowed crowd — and the gown-clad Peterson quickly followed, shaking her hips to Chris Brown's "Forever" while pumping her bridal bouquet into the air during the June 20, 2009, ceremony in St. Paul, Minn.
The wedding party rehearsed the dance for just 90 minutes.
Of course, some things are too good to keep to yourself. And when Kevin posted the wedding dance routine on YouTube, it quickly became a viral hit, with hundreds of thousands of people sharing in the couple's novel way of showing their matrimonial joy.
Related video: Wedding party boogies down the aisle
110 bridesmaids set world record
Some people think five or six bridesmaids are a lot. But how about 110? Jill Stapleton, an Ohio gymnastics teacher, set a world record in June when she invited all of her young students to be her bridesmaids at her wedding.
"We were actually going to go away for our wedding but this wedding day is more important to a lot of these little girls and boys back here that have made my dreams come true," Stapleton said. "This is our dream wedding."
Stapleton married Chad Greenhill, a Marshall University cheerleader. The previous record was 90 bridesmaids.
An aisle of light bulbs, grills
A Southern California couple wed in June in front of more than 100 guests at a Home Depot store where they work.
The wedding party for 56-year-old Carolyn Weatherly and Audwin Mosby, who's 55, marched down an aisle of light bulbs, grills and paint to the outdoor garden section.
A wedding arbor and stage had been built from the store's lumber and supplies.
The bride said the store in Lake Forest is like a second home and her colleagues are like family.
"I feel awesome," Mosby told the Orange County Register. "This is the best thing that has happened to me in a long, long time."
Sweet, sugary love
Voodoo Doughnut, a wildly popular indulgence with two locations in Portland, Ore., has an entire menu dedicated to wedding services. That menu includes a variety of matrimonial options, such as this "Legal Voodoo Wedding" package for $200: "Legal wedding ceremony, coffee & doughnuts for 24 people, 700-square-foot chapel, free parking & doughnut centerpiece."
The doughnut shops have married off more than 300 couples, sending hearts racing with both romance and sugar intake. Pictured here are Jared and Jerri Guinther enjoying their sweet nuptials.
Jaws of love
The bride wore a white wetsuit; the groom wore a black one. The experienced divers spoke their vows into radio headgear transmitted to a minister outside the tank while about 75 guests watched from behind glass. The 120,000-gallon tank at Atlantis Marine World in Riverhead, N.Y., includes sand tiger sharks, nurse sharks, moray eels and a massive Queensland grouper.
Both Pignataro and Curry said the concept of a shark tank wedding thrilled them. "We both love the ocean, we love the water ... and yes, the idea of an underwater wedding, not to mention one surrounded by sharks at an aquarium, is different and unique, but that is also exactly who we are," Pignataro told NBCNewYork.
'I do' in Aisle 2
Jack Frankel, 75, and 67-year-old Fina Nikolos met in May 2009 at the supermarket in Coral Springs, Fla. It had been raining when Frankel noticed a beautiful woman pass him. Nikolos offered to walk him to his car with an umbrella. He later thanked her by taking her out to lunch.
In January 2010, the two returned to the place where their love began for a small wedding ceremony in the store's cafe. About 40 people attended the ceremony as store employees and customers watched and smiled. The couple held each other close during the ceremony, shedding a few tears. They also exchanged emotional vows. Nikolos was too overcome to finish hers aloud.
According to the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, this was the first time customers wed in a Whole Foods Market in Florida, though employees have gotten married there.
Frankel told reporters that the most irresistible thing about his bride is her eyes. "She looks at me with those Spanish eyes and I melt," he said.
I now pronounce you bride and ghoul
Why don't more bridal magazines suggest this as the perfect theme for an October wedding?
In October 2009, Jack Holsinger, 61, and Connie Spitznagel, 44, dressed as pale-faced vampires for their Halloween-themed ceremony at a haunted house near Cleveland, Ohio. Holsinger arrived in a coffin inside a hearse, and the coffin was carried to the altar by six pallbearers. Minister Greg Kopp was dressed as Jason in the "Friday the 13th" movies. After the vows were exchanged, he ordered Holsinger not to kiss his new bride but instead to bite her on the neck.
The couple vowed to love each other and haunt and howl at the moon together. Like typical mortal couples, the groom said he just wanted his bride to be happy.
"This is her first wedding," Holsinger said. "She had a common-law marriage the first time around, so she never really got a wedding. It's what she wanted and it's about her. It's her time. Whatever she wanted."
Will you Mario me?
Proving that love is a game that two can play — a video game, that is — Bobbi VanZante and Elijah Slagter of Pella, Iowa, decided on a unique theme for their wedding: Super Mario Brothers. Slaget, the groom, will dress as Mario, of course, and VanZante will be costumed as the lovely Princess Peach.
The father of the bride will be dressed up as Bowser, even though he's the villain of the Mario universe. "It's kind of part of the game," VanZante explained to NBC's Megan Reuther. "Bowser and all his buddies steal Princess Peach." So who better to give the bride away to her groom?
VanZante's mother, Lori Mullen, was good-natured about the Mario madness, which included such details as making turtle shells out of bicycle helmets. "It fits both of them," she said. "It'll be a fun day and good remembrance."
Reached for comment inside a Nintendo gaming system, the real Mario commented: "It's a-me, Mario!"
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Excessive speeder facing chargesSTAFF REPORT | November 05,2013BERLIN A Middlesex man who was allegedly clocked driving 110 mph on Interstate 89 late Sunday night is facing two criminal charges stemming from the incident.
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The Smiths Detection RadSeeker, an advanced radiation detector, arrived Friday at the Honolulu Emergency Services Department, just days after debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan was found near our shores.
The new machine detects not just levels of radiation but the type as well. If radiation levels are too high, the machine will begin to beep.
The machine cost about $15,000 and was funded by Department of Homeland Security grants.
Cortney Chambers with the Emergency Services Department said debris from Japan's tsunami will most likely not be carrying radiation from the nuclear disaster.
Emergency manager John Cummings III said, "We all feel collectively that there is very little chance that anything out there is radiated, due to the fact that the debris hit the water so soon, before issues with Fukushima reactors."
However, agencies want to be cautious, because more debris from the tsunami in Japan is expected to head our way.
Cummings said, "We are not going to come out one day and find a 10-foot wall of debris on the beach. What we are anticipating is a continual onset of debris that will be with us for a number of years."
Chambers said, "Once we determine the isotope, then we would let the other first responders, the Department of Health and the National Guard Civil Support Team, know that we determined the isotope and that would help them proceed forward."
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INGREDIENTS:Dressing: 3/4 cup red wine vinegar ¼ cup balsamic vinegar 5 large garlic cloves 2 large shallots, minced 4 Tbsp. fresh oregano, minced 1 tsp. salt ½ tsp. pepper 2 2/3 cups olive oilSalad: 2 small loaves olive or Italian bread, day old 2 cups fennel, fresh, julienne strips 2 medium red onions, julienne strips 30-36 yellow miniature tomatoes, quartered 16-20 red cherry tomatoes, quartered 2 large cucumbers, peeled, diced 1 large red pepper, diced 2 cups olives, whole, pitted 2 cups ...
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- Title
- Characterisation of high voltage pulser performance in radiofrequency plasmas
- Author(s)
- Collins, G. A.; Short, K. T.; Tendys, J.
- Abstract
- The performance of a high voltage pulser in plasma immersion ion implantation is strongly influenced by the plasma load into which it operates. There are a number of plasma parameters, such as ion density, potential distribution and ionisation rate, that affect the formation of the cathodic sheath around the workpiece. In turn, these place limitations on the range of voltage, ion current density and duty cycle that is possible to achieve with the pulser. In this paper, we present results of studies into the performance of a 50 kV, 8 A pulser in the ANSTO PI^3 facility (~0.4 m^3). The plasma is a low pressure radiofrequency discharge formed by 300 W of r.f. power at 13.56 MHz applied to a single-loop antenna immersed in a plasma with an ion density of approximately 10^9 cm^-3 and filling pressure of 0.5-5 x 10^-3 mbar. The plasma parameters can be altered by varying the r.f. power, the plasma potential, the gas mixture and the filling pressure. Optical emission spectroscopy has shown a large increase in emission from atomic species that are sputtered from the surface of the workpiece during the high voltage pulse. This emission decays very rapidly when the high voltage pulse is terminated.
- Publication type
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- Source
- Surface and Coatings Technology: incorporating the proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Plasma-Based Ion Implantation, Dresden, Germany, 15-18 September 1996 / W. Moller, R. Gunzel and E. Wieser (eds.), Vol. 93, no. 2-3 (Sept 1997), pp. 181-187
- Publication year
- 1997
- FOR Code(s)
- 0204 Condensed Matter Physics; 0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural); 0912 Materials Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Current density; Emission spectroscopy; High voltage pulser; High voltage pulsing; Ion implantation; Ionisation; Plasma density; Plasma immersion ion implantation; Plasma sheaths; Plasma sources; RF plasma; Radiofrequency plasmas; Sputtering
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- Elsevier
- 0257-8972
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The Filibuster
Every time I turn on the TV or check the news, all I hear is budget this
and spending that. And it seems like there's a race to see who can
slash the most and do it quickly. If MLB took the same approach, what
could be cut and what should be cut?
Skokie, IL
Oh, dude… Ramon… spending cuts in baseball?!? Well, it's your lucky friggin' day, my friend, 'cuz I've just been waiting — WANTING — to slash the baseball budget for eons — to shred it back to its more recognizable roots.
Here's but a shortlist of what could and SHOULD be cut from baseball, all together:Uniform Spending
You get one home uni and one road uni. One. Each. You rip it or get it dirty or stained, you deal with it, just like in little league. I don't care if ya gotta run a shoestring through your pants to keep 'em up, you do it. And none of this alternate jersey crap. White. Gray. That's it. Also, we're making them out of wool.
Beer Prices
It's bad enough I gotta pay $44 friggin' bucks to be assualted by the plebeian tongues of Chicago sCrUBS fan bleacher bums at Wrigley, but to pay $7.25 for a 16 oz can-o-crap (Bud Light)… someone oughta be caned for that sort of crime.
"God Bless America"
Um… if we HAVE to sing this during the seventh inning, then we HAVE to sing "Here Comes Santa Claus" too, 'cuz Santa Claus is MY favorite mythical creature, m'kay? Whether you believe in god or not, this song has no place in our grand game. To make me stand up to prove I'm a patriot is even more asinine. I love my country because my country says I don't have to conform to some crazy ideas thought up by a crackpot who has his own best interests in mind. Also, by mandating this song be sung, we are excluding our friendly neighbors to the north, who've never been the same since losing the Expos. Frankly, I've never been the same since losing the Expos… so let's find a non-religious song that exemplifies NORTH America's awesomeness… like, how about something by Rush?
Get that done, Ramon, and we get our game back.
I mean, seriously… have you seen Rush play live?
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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Thank goodness the cuts did not go into the Designated Hitter budget, or the Rays would possibly be 0-14. Even though the DH has not always bee kind to the Rays, except maybe Jose Canseco and Jonny Gomes, it is a necessity in today's American League landscape.
While you at it, $ 6.00 for a tube of stainless steel spun tubular mystery meat in a bun seems a bit high too. But I guess someone has to pay for those Rays team (cheerleaders)…I would slash them first even before the Carvel ice cream vendor in the stands.
So many slashes, so little time.
Beer prices will go lower, but then drinking out of a thimble doesn't fit baseball…Sigh.
Rays Renegade
Come to Toronto and you won't have to listen to God Bless America every game! Do they sing it in the seventh in every ballpark in the States? On the other hand, we have two national anthems before the game.
Cutting budgets would be great all arounds, especially in the salary department. Two uniforms would be great…there moms or wives could sew them up if they got a little tear in it, or something. When I was a kid it was COOL to have a worn out uniform, 'cause that meant you were playing hard.
Rush is in Michigan, at the Palace…TONIGHT…better hit the road, Jeff.
But Jeff, if we don't have a zillion variations of uniforms, then us clueless fans can't spend absurd amounts of money on replicas of jerseys that the real players only wear three times a year! Tragedy!
MLB should slash the research budget for extending instant replay right down to nothing, save money and do the world a favor in the process.
An inspired idea on the Rush, Jeff. Yes, I have seen them play live. Twice. Oh. My. Wow! Neal Peart is a god whose super powers are best appreciated live.
– Kristen
Pop for $5.00 is a misdemeanor. Aquafina (or Dasani) for the same amount is a felony! It's water, for f***'s sake! There's fountains for free around the ballpark…unless you're paranoid that you might someone else's cooties!
The worst crime of all – selling Stella at the ballpark. Why?
– Randy
RR — I need a lot thimbles.
Mark — That song especially is the bomb.
Jeremy — I'd rather have two anthems… at least they make sense.
Catherine — Don't fall for the trap!
Kristen — Surprisingly, I don't really mind the instant replay too much the way it is now… I'd even like them to expand it. (Long story)
Randy — I don't mind classy beers at the ballpark. In Oakland, you can get a Fat Tire… you have to take out a loan to buy it but you can get one.
I completely agree about the uniforms! The caps too. They don't need different ones for every holiday or special occasion. Stop the madness!
Jane — Madness is just what it is too!
Prince — Oh, man… speaking of madness, you are seriously warped when it comes to musical taste then (hate to say it). How can you possibly hate Rush? That's like hating little old ladies or apple pie. Dude, Rush is one of the greatest bands of all time…. on talent alone!
Anything but Rush. I legitimately *hate* Rush. I'd rather listen to Rush Limbaugh during the stretch than the band Rush.
This might surprise you, but here in JesusLand, we only have to endure that idiotic song and the peer-pressure patriotism on Sundays. Go figure. Of course, I never stand for it and usually have to empty my patriotic bladder by the mid-7th anyway.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size ½ of recipe
Calories 330
Total Fat 21 g
Saturated Fat 7 g
Sodium 397 mg
Total Carbohydrate 11 g
Dietary Fiber 2.5 g
Protein 24 g
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Top sirloin beef, cut into 1- to 2-inch cubes ½ pound
Reduced-sodium soy sauce 1 tablespoon
Olive oil 1 tablespoon
Rice wine vinegar 1 tablespoon
Black pepper ½ teaspoon
Bamboo skewers, soaked in water for at least 20 minutes 4
Green bell pepper, cut into 1- to 2-inch squares 1
Cherry tomatoes 8
Small white onion, cut into about 8-10 large chunks 1
- Combine beef, soy sauce, oil, vinegar, and pepper in a large resealable plastic bag. Marinate 30 minutes to overnight.
- Preheat broiler to high heat (alternatively, a grill may be used). Thread skewers, alternating beef, bell pepper, tomatoes, and onion pieces.
- Broil skewers 5-7 minutes, or until desired degree of doneness is achieved.


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Jan. 17, 1947: The Portales Daily News: Well driller Gerald Wright was injured when his clothes were caught in the cable of the rig and before the machine could be stopped. All his clothes were torn off, and he was hanging by one foot. His condition remained uncertain pending determination of internal injuries.
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It's Snow Fun Waiting For Spring To Arrive
The worst winter in the history of the Philadelphia area is upon us here in the North East. After getting over 2 feet of snow over the weekend, major blizzard #2 of the month is bearing down upon us right now. Another foot or more is expected and a State of Emergency in Delaware is in effect. I took a few photos earlier in my backyard:
All that and it is still coming down. The good news is, schools have been closed all week so I have not had to go to work :O) The bad news is, we may never leave the house again if this keeps up. In my boredom, I decided to invite a few of the Phillies over to my house for some snow fun before they take off for Spring Training. Raul Ibanez went sledding and JA Happ tossed snowballs:
was into the sledding idea while Cole Hamels and Shane Victorino had a snowball fight:
Hard to believe in all this snow that Spring is around the corner. But still, truck day is tomorrow where the baseball supplies get sent down to Clearwater. Well, that is if the snow does not stop them. And on February 18th, pitchers and catchers will report; unless of course they prefer to keep playing in the snow here with me :O)
Spring Training starts in 8 days!!
Photos by Jenn
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Great pics of the winter wonderland in your backyard. I know the snow looks beautiful now, but I bet you can't wait until it melts! Glad you're safe and warm. This has been a crazy weather week for northeast fans.
Wowsers! Y'all DID get a ton, eh? We just got barely a foot but it's all been plowed off already…I'm sure yours can't melt soon enough. Let's all remember this in August when we're dying of heat stroke. LOL. Love the creative winter wonderland pics here, Jenn. As always, you impress.
I like your creativity a lot about the blizzard, something tells me that you can't wait for the snow to end. I heard that your area was hit with more than one foot of snow. Yikes. Hopefully you are enjoying your time while it snows on.
Matthew T.
And people in Boyertown, Pa wondered why I got in my car and drove out of sight back to Fl after a long Winter in the hills with white stuff still on the ground.
Seriously, I hope there is not any rolling brown/black out in your region that would make the weather more unbearable.
I got to tell you that region has gotten socked time after time this Winter and has gotten up off the canvas like Rocky in those 5 movies.
I applaud your stamina and want to let you know………..warmth and baseball is coming soon……..I promise.
Rays Renegade
Looking at those pictures want me to go out and play too! but I bet I would come back in so fast. i love how you put scarfs on the guys! we don't want them catching a cold. Love your creativitity. You should have added yourself in the pictures!
and T1.Employee# = T7.Employee#
haha, copy/pasted the wrog thing. I I am working at the same time.
Jenn, right about now I would really love to stow away in the equipment truck! I see we had the same idea yesterday of posting snow pictures (though mine don't have any players in them). At least it's sunny today!
Rants, Raves, and Random Thoughts
All this snow in Philly is making me wish I was going to Clearwater for Spring Training! At least I hear that Comcast SportsNet is showing some Phillies programs every Sunday night so I can be there in sprit. Go Phils!
All this snow in Philly is making me wish I was going to Clearwater for Spring Training! At least I hear that Comcast SportsNet is showing some Phillies programs every Sunday night so I can be there in sprit. Go Phils!
I love the pictures of the players playing in the snow. You nailed it!
Also, feel free to check out my pictures from the Padres Fan Fest!http://hyunyoung.mlblogs.com


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Our Voices Xposed (OVX): Youth Movement Takes on the Oscars
Health Department Supports Efforts To Expose Link Between Smoking and Movies
For Immediate Release: February 25, 2005
Moira Cook
Vermont Department of Health
Wally Malley
Office of the Attorney General
Mark Ray
Kelliher Samets Volk
Students across Vermont are talking about the high rate of cigarette smoking in PG-13 movies aimed at teens through a series of events that begins with the airing of the Oscars movie awards on Sunday, Feb. 27.
Members of Our Voices Xposed (OVX), a youth-led movement that is focused on exposing the truth about tobacco, will be holding a mock Oscars awards ceremony at the Milton Teen Center on the afternoon of Feb. 27, hours before the Oscars are broadcast nationwide from Hollywood.
More than 100 youth, dressed as their favorite actors and actresses, are expected to attend the Milton event. Similar OVX events protesting smoking in the movies will be held in March and April at Mount Mansfield Union High School, Middlebury Union High School and the Barre Teen Action Center.
"When I go to the movies, I always wonder if that many people really smoke cigarettes," said Justin Marquis, a 13-year-old member of OVX who lives in Milton. "What we've found out is that they don't, but Hollywood might as well be making ads for tobacco companies when so many people light up cigarettes on screen."
For all movies rated PG-13, 80 percent show someone smoking. Smoking in the movies more than doubled from 4.9 times per hour in the early 1980s to 10.9 times per hour in 2002, while smoking in the population declined over that same time period.
Hollywood movie producers and tobacco companies have a long history of working together:
- "We believe that most of the strong, positive images for cigarettes and smoking are created by cinema and television." (Philip Morris marketing plan, 1989)
- "For a monthly fee, Rogers and Cowan will arrange to obtain placement of RJR products, packages and advertising in films through smoking scenes in which actors are shown smoking … Film placement of RJR brands will create favorable imagery and presence as advertising restrictions intensify." (RJR International agreement with its PR firm, 1990)
- In the 1988 James Bond hit movie "License to Kill," Philip Morris paid $350,000 for actors to smoke "Lark" brand cigarettes.
- Sylvester Stallone was paid $500,000 in 1983 by Brown and Williamson to features its cigarettes in his movies.
- An estimated 390,000 youth nationwide start smoking each year because of smoking in the movies.
More facts about smoking in the movies can be found at the Our Voices Xposed Web site, www.ovx.org.
The activities of OVX around the state are supported by the Vermont Department of Health, which is kicking off its smoking-in-the-movies educational campaign in March and April. The Health Department is working with movie theaters around the state to show anti-smoking ads before the movies begin, as studies have shown this to be a good way to counter the image of smoking on the big screen.
Other tactics include television and radio ads, playing cards with facts about smoking and the movies, t-shirts and mock awards that show "Big Tobacco" with its own Hollywood Boulevard "Walk of Shame" star. An eight-minute video about the link between smoking and movies, as well as other educational materials, will be sent to school tobacco coordinators across Vermont. Educational outreach also is being done around the state by anti-tobacco community coalitions.
"Going to the movies should be a fun event, not an event luring teens into an addictive activity like smoking that annually kills an estimated 800 Vermonters and hundreds of thousands across the country," said Health Commissioner Paul Jarris, MD.
The campaign also is supported by the Office of the Attorney General in Vermont. Attorney General William Sorrell has been a leading advocate for states seeking damages from tobacco companies and he frequently speaks out about how smoking is romanticized and greatly exaggerated in the movies.


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The question is, how much do we sign that cheque for?
If Donnie plans on making a trade, he will have already decided the amount & been on the phone to make sure the money numbers match as fittingly as possible.
My suggestion was that we pay Lee $8-9m/year for 5 years (approx $42m total) & then trade both him and Harrington to Toronto for Chris Bosh.
The main point being that the salaries match almost to the dollar. Donnie is famous for being shrewd & direct & will no doubt have a number of alternatives for marketing almost every player on the roster. The thing is, now is the very best time to trade either N8, Harrington & or Lee.
The re-signing contracts of Nate & Lee are going to be very interesting to see unfold this off-season. Whether or not Harrington is traded is another topic of interest.
In fact, the vast majority of the team could well be playing in Bosnia next year for all we know. Everybody bar Curry, Jeffries, Chandler, Gallinari, Duhon & Q Rich are (imo) sporting big question marks above their heads.
Obviously, David Lee is the player to watch in the off-season.
Will Donnie pay him too much to get burned on D?
Will Lee accept a low(ish) pay packet?
Will he be traded for the greater good?
****ing beats me!!!!!!!!??????
Either way I'll remain a fan.


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Alisertib in Treating Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Sarcoma
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Recurrent Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Recurrent Leiomyosarcoma
Recurrent Liposarcoma
Recurrent Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor
Recurrent Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma
Stage III Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Stage IV Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Drug: Alisertib
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Phase II Study of MLN8237 in Advanced/Metastatic Sarcoma
- The confirmed response rate (CR/PR) [ Time Frame: Up to 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The overall response rate (CR + PR) will be estimated and a 90% confidence interval provided.
- Incidence of adverse events, assessed using National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4.0 [ Time Frame: Up to 4 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Adverse events will be summarized using summary statistics and frequency tables for each separate cohort. Analyses will be descriptive in nature.
- OS [ Time Frame: The time between registration and death, assessed up to 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The distribution will be estimated by the methods of Kaplan and Meier. The estimates of survival at specific time points will be calculated (eg, median, 6 month survival).
- PFS [ Time Frame: The time between registration to disease progression or death, assessed up to 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The distribution will be estimated by the methods of Kaplan and Meier. The estimates of PFS at specific time points will be calculated (eg, median, 1 year PFS).
- Biopsy protein levels [ Time Frame: Baseline ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]For tumor biopsies, pre- and post-treatment protein levels will be compared by Wilcoxon signed-rank test (for paired samples). The association of response or clinical benefit with the presence or absence of markers of pathway inhibition in patient tumors will be tested using Fisher's exact test.
- Biopsy protein levels [ Time Frame: Up to 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]For tumor biopsies, pre- and post-treatment protein levels will be compared by Wilcoxon signed-rank test (for paired samples). The association of response or clinical benefit with the presence or absence of markers of pathway inhibition in patient tumors will be tested using Fisher's exact test.
- Changes in FLT-PET uptake [ Time Frame: Baseline to 1 week ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Changes in FLT-PET uptake at baseline versus after one week of treatment will be compared by Wilcoxon Rank Sum test between responders and non-responders defined by RECIST criteria. Fisher's exact test will be used to assess the association between dichotomous change in FLT-PET uptake change and RECIST response status.
|Study Start Date:
|August 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Treatment (alisertib)
Patients receive alisertib PO BID on days 1-7. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: Alisertib
Given PO
Other Names:Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studies
Detailed Description:
I. To determine the response rate (complete response [CR] + partial response [PR]) assessed for patients within each cohort: liposarcoma (cohort 1); leiomyosarcoma (non-uterine) (cohort 2); undifferentiated sarcoma (including pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma, formerly known as malignant fibrous histiocytoma, and myxofibrosarcoma) (cohort 3); malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (cohort 4); and other sarcomas (cohort 5).
I. To estimate the progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) for patients treated with MLN8237 (alisertib) in each cohort.
II. To assess the adverse events associated with patients treated with MLN8237 in each cohort.
I. To correlate potential clinical benefit with markers of aurora kinase inhibition in pre- and post-treatment tumor biopsies.
II. To correlate clinical outcome with change in fluorine F 18 fluorothymidine (FLT)-positron emission tomography (PET) uptake at baseline versus after one week of treatment (ie, week 2 of cycle 1).
Patients receive alisertib orally (PO) twice daily (BID) on days 1-7. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 6 months for 18 months.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Patients must have histologically or cytologically confirmed sarcoma that is metastatic and/or locally advanced or locally recurrent and unresectable; confirmation of pathologic diagnosis will be performed at the registering site; patients will been rolled on one of five cohorts of the study:
- Cohort 1: liposarcoma
- Cohort 2: leiomyosarcoma (non-uterine)
- Cohort 3: undifferentiated sarcoma (including malignant fibrous histiocytoma and myxofibrosarcoma)
- Cohort 4: malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
- Cohort 5: other sarcomas
- Patients must have measurable disease per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors(RECIST) 1.1; note: defined as at least one lesion that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest diameter to be recorded for non-nodal lesions and short axis for nodal lesions) as >= 2 cm with conventional techniques or as >= 1 cm with spiral computed tomography (CT) scan, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or calipers by clinical exam
- Any number of prior therapies is permitted; note: the last dose of systemic therapy (including tyrosine kinase inhibitors) must have been given >= 4 weeks prior to initiation of study therapy; patients receiving BCNU or mitomycin C must have received their last dose of such therapy at least 6 weeks prior to initiation of therapy
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) =< 2
- Leukocytes >= 3,000/mcL
- Absolute neutrophil count >= 1,500/mcL
- Platelet count >= 100,000/mcL
- Total bilirubin =< 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal
- Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) (aspartate aminotransferase [AST]) and serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (alanine aminotransferase [AST]) < 3 x institutional upper limit of normal if no liver metastases or < 5 x institutional upper limit of normal if liver metastases present
- Creatinine =< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) OR creatinine clearance >= 60 mL/min/1.73m^2 for patients with creatinine levels above institutional normal
- Women of childbearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation; should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately; men treated or enrolled on this protocol must also agree to use adequate contraception prior to the study, for the duration of study participation, and 4 months after completion of MLN8237 administration
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document
- According to current guidelines, patients must be able to take oral medication and to maintain a fast as required for approximately one hour before and two hours after MLN8237 administration
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 4 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier; patients who have had radiation therapy to more than 25% of the bone marrow; whole pelvic radiation is considered to be over 25%
- Patients who are receiving any other investigational agents
- Patients with known brain metastases
- History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to MLN8237 including, but not limited to, established allergic reaction to benzodiazepines
- Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II-IV heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
- Pregnant women; note: women of child-bearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 7 days prior to registration; breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with MLN8237
- Leiomyosarcoma of the uterus
- Patients known to be human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive on antiretroviral therapy
- Prior allogeneic bone marrow or organ transplantation
- Known history of uncontrolled sleep apnea syndrome and other conditions that could result in excessive daytime sleepiness such as severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, requirement for supplemental oxygen, or any conditions that could result in excessive toxicity associated with the benzodiazepine-like effects of MLN8237
- Requirement for constant administration of proton pump inhibitor, histamine-2 (H2) antagonist, or pancreatic enzymes; note: intermittent uses of antacids or H2 antagonists are allowed
- Inability to swallow oral medication or to maintain a required fast for approximately one hour before and two hours after MLN8237 administration or any condition that would modify small bowel absorption of oral medications, including malabsorption or resection of pancreas or upper bowel
- Treatment with clinically significant enzyme inducers, such as the enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs phenytoin, carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, primidone or phenobarbital, or rifampin, rifabutin, rifapentine, or St. John's wort within 14 days prior to the first dose of MLN8237 and during the study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01653028
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|Principal Investigator:
|Mark Dickson
|Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01653028 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|July 26, 2012
|Last Updated:
|February 2, 2016
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Nerve Sheath Neoplasms
Histiocytoma, Malignant Fibrous
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Muscle Tissue
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms
Nervous System Neoplasms
Nervous System Diseases
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Neuroendocrine Tumors
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms, Fibrous Tissue
Neoplasms, Connective Tissue
Neoplasms, Adipose Tissue
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WEST MIFFLIN, PA (August 30, 2006)—The Allegheny County Airport Authority plans to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Allegheny County Airport by hosting a spectacular two-day Air Fair. The Air Fair will be held on Saturday and Sunday, September 9-10, 2006 at the Allegheny County Airport in West Mifflin, PA and is free and open to the public.
The two-day event will feature an impressive array of military and vintage aircraft. It is expected to attract thousands of families and aviation enthusiasts. The historical aircraft on display will include:
C-47 - Few aircraft are as well known or were so widely used for so long as the C-47 or "Gooney Bird" as it was affectionately nicknamed. The aircraft was adapted from the DC-3 commercial airliner which appeared in 1936. The first C-47s were ordered in 1940 and by the end of WW II, 9,348 had been procured for AAF use. They carried personnel and cargo, and in a combat role, towed troop-carrying gliders and dropped paratroops into enemy territory.
Junkers Ju 52 was a transport aircraft and bomber that saw both civilian and military service during the 1930s and 1940s.
P-51 Mustang was a long-range fighter aircraft that became one of World War II's most successful and recognizable aircrafts.
SBD Divebomber was the U.S. Navy's main dive bomber from mid-1940 until late 1943.
F4 Corsair was one of the fastest and most powerful aircraft of World War II and appeared as a regular in the television show, `Black Sheep Squadron.'
Stearman is one of the most easily recognized aircraft. Its simple construction, rugged dependability and nimble handling made the Stearman much loved by those who flew and trained on it. The Stearman Kaydet, as it was officially named, was the only American aircraft used during World War II that was completely standardized for both Army and Navy. Since World War II, the Stearman has had a long and full career as a trainer, crop duster and air show performer.
C-54 is a four-engine transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. One of the great transports in Air Force history, the C-54 played an important role in the Berlin Airlift and the Korean War.
L-21 Piper cubs, generically nicknamed "Grasshoppers," were used extensively in World War II for reconnaissance, transporting supplies and medical evacuation.
Stinson L-5 Sentinel The L-5 was one of many U.S. general aviation aircraft pressed into military service for liaison and observation work during World War II.
C-130 operates throughout the U.S. Air Force, fulfilling a wide range of operational missions in both peace and war situations.
STAT MedEvac helicopters provide air medical transport to patients with critical illness or injuries.
Fly-Over: KC135 Stratotanker provides aerial refueling support to Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps aircraft as well as aircraft of allied nations.
Floatplane has slender pontoons mounted under the fuselage. Two floats are common, but many float planes of World War II had a single float under the main fuselage and two small floats on the wings.
For more information on this important community event, please visit www.flypittsburgh.com/75thAnn.jsp.


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In the bustling lobby of a Downtown high-rise at lunch hour, the man in black didn't fit.
Roncoa Foster was told when she started at Miami-Jacobs Career College that she was expected to dress professionally.
But this guy was disheveled. His hair was frizzy. He wore a black sweat shirt and black pants and carried a Kroger grocery bag.
Foster didn't recognize him, and he looked out of place yesterday afternoon in the sea of suits and students typically inhabiting the lobby of the Continental Centre at 150 E. Gay St. — strange enough that Foster admitted making snarky comments about his appearance to a friend.
She watched him approach the security guard.
"She pointed him toward the Miami-Jacobs admissions office," said Foster, 23.
Minutes later, at 12:40 p.m., the daily routine of Foster, her fellow students and hundreds of Downtown workers was turned horribly on its head.
In a flash of violence, four men were stabbed, three seriously, before police shot the knife-wielding man whom they were still trying to identify. Police this morning still had not released the identities of the injured men or the suspect.
Late last night, two of the men who were critically injured were identified by The Dispatch as Donte' Dunnagan, 36, a financial-aid assistant at Miami-Jacobs, and Jeffrey Maloon, 53, an assistant attorney general.
Both were at Grant Medical Center last night. A third man also was there, taken in critical condition, but his identity wasn't available. The fourth victim, whose name also wasn't released, was taken to Mount Carmel West for treatment of what were described as minor injuries.
The man who was shot by police was at the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University, also in critical condition.
Sgt. Rich Weiner, a Police Division spokesman, said a motive remains unknown to the homicide detectives tasked with piecing together the mayhem that triggered a rush of calls to 911.
One caller, who identified herself as the school's director of education, identified the suspect by name and said he was a student in his 30s. But police said they could not corroborate the name and had not established any connection between him and Miami-Jacobs.
Witnesses described the suspect as zombielike, saying he had a blank expression on his face and walked with no rush.
"He moved as if he didn't care," said one witness, who lives in Cincinnati but was here for training at AT&T. "He didn't care if he was going to kill or if he would be killed."
"He was just turning around, basically like, 'Who's next?' " Foster said.
Miami-Jacobs is a private school that offers career training in several areas, including court reporting, criminal justice, cosmetology and health-related careers. The school will be closed today.
Danielle Green, a 19-year-old student, was in the library. She braced the door and watched the initial attack in the office through glass.
The suspect stabbed a man who was on his back on the floor when a very big man, she said, rushed to help. That man fought with the attacker, who then turned on him. According to police accounts, it's possible that the larger man took one knife off the suspect, only to be stabbed by another knife that the man was carrying.
Friends said last night that it was Donte' Dunnagan who fought with the knife-wielding suspect. Not surprising, they say, because Dunnagan, at 6 feet tall and more than 250 pounds, is a part-time professional wrestler.
Dunnagan's girlfriend, Therese Buckhardt, 21, of Logan, was standing vigil at his bedside last night after he had come out of surgery at Grant.
He suffered knife wounds to his face, shoulder, arm, finger and abdomen, with the thrust into his abdomen hitting his diaphragm, she said. He was in critical but stable condition but had not yet been able to talk.
"He was just protecting the lives of people he loves," said Buckhardt, who met her boyfriend at a wrestling show in Nelsonville about 18 months ago. "He would have done that for anybody; he has a big heart."
In addition to working in the financial aid office at Miami-Jacobs, Dunnagan is attending medical-billing classes there, she said. Dunnagan, of the South Side, wrestles under the name " ' Dangerous' Damien Kass" in regional matches.
"It doesn't surprise me at all if he was a hero," said Ric Connely of Cincinnati, who wrestled Dunnagan in 2002 and now owns the World Wrestling Coalition.
"If anyone was threatened, he would immediately rise to the occasion. He's a passionate man, a boisterous, very loud gentleman, and I mean that in the most affectionate way possible. He's very big and very full of life," Connely said.
Weiner said the suspect was disarmed of one of his knives in the offices but had two more with him.
A second victim has been identified as Jeffrey Maloon, of Dublin, who is assigned to the attorney general's Court of Claims section. He graduated from Capital University Law School in Columbus and has been licensed to practice law since 1983. The attorney general has offices in the building where the attack occurred.
Maloon was in critical condition last night at Grant. His family and friends couldn't be reached.
As the suspect fled the building yesterday afternoon, he ran right into arriving police officers.
Witnesses said that one officer shot him repeatedly when he refused to drop the two knives he carried and lunged at her. She injured her knee but not seriously.
"From what we're hearing from witnesses, she acted very heroically," Weiner said.
A second officer fired a Taser, though it was unclear exactly when or whether it had any effect.
Dean Mullikin, 49, of Xenia, was loading his truck on Gay Street when dozens of panicked people burst out of the doors and ran in all directions.
"They were screaming and yelling, 'Get out of here!' "Mullikin said.
Amid the confusion, Mullikin saw two of the stabbing victims stagger from the building. Both of the men, one in business attire and the other wearing a T-shirt, were covered with blood.
Mullikin then looked west on Gay Street and saw the suspect confronting police.
The officer shot the suspect, and his knees buckled as he nearly went down. Then he straightened up, still holding the knife. The officer then shot the suspect again. He fell and stayed down as other officers handcuffed him, Mullikin said.
Jason Jackson, 31, works at the Gordon's Gourmet restaurant, where about 25 people were having lunch when he heard a scream and everyone stood up.
He said a security guard ordered everyone out, and pandemonium erupted. He ran but circled back and saw the knife-wielding man outside.
"He was lunging at the officer," Jackson said. He heard five shots.
"It was a beautiful day," he said. "I came to work just thinking I was going to be at work."
He bounced nervously from foot to foot.
"I can't stand still."
Reporters Charlie Boss, Alan Johnson, Dean Narciso, Jennifer Smith Richards, Susan Stonick and Jim Woods contributed to this story.


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Support for Dealing with Challenges
Most challenges to library materials and services come from well-meaning individuals, often parents, who find something offensive or objectionable in their local school library. Although such challenges can be difficult and stressful, library staff can rely on their library's selection and review policies to respond to the complaint. In these cases, essential preparations the library has taken before the challenge will greatly increase the likelihood of retaining the materials or protecting library services.
Sometimes, however, challenges are more organized and demand a specific and strategic response. In these circumstances the library will benefit greatly from being prepared and should follow its review policy and procedures exactly. The links at left provide further information and resources to help you respond to challenges in your community as effectively as possible.
- Conducting a Challenge Hearing
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Living conditions and volunteer lifestyles in Kenya
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|As a Peace Corps Volunteers, you will have to adapt to conditions that may be dramatically different than you have ever experienced and modify lifestyle practices that you now take for granted. Even the most basic practices— talking, eating, using the bathroom, and sleeping — may take significantly different forms in the context of the host country. If you successfully adapt and integrate, you will in return be rewarded with a deep understanding of a new culture, the establishment of new and potentially lifelong relationships, and a profound sense of humanity.
| See also:
Living Conditions and Volunteer Lifestyles by Country
Pre-Departure Checklist
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- 1 Communications
- 2 Housing and Site Location
- 3 Living Allowance and Money Management
- 4 Food and Diet
- 5 Transportation
- 6 Geography and Climate
- 7 Social Activities
- 8 Professionalism, Dress, and Behavior
- 9 Rewards and Frustrations
- 10 Personal Safety
Few countries in the world offer the level of mail service we take for granted in the United States. Mail takes a minimum of two weeks to arrive in Kenya. Some mail may simply not arrive (fortunately this is not a frequent occurrence, but it does happen). Some letters may arrive with clipped edges because a postal worker tried to see if any money was inside (again, this is rare, but it does happen). We do not want to sound discouraging, but when thousands of miles from families and friends, communication becomes a very sensitive issue. We would prefer you be forewarned of the reality of mail service in the developing world. Advise your family and friends to number their letters and to include "Airmail" and "Par Avion" on their envelopes.
The length of time it takes for mail to reach Volunteers is as varied as their sites. Airmail from the United States to major cities in Kenya will take about two weeks. More remote post offices receive mail less frequently, and sometimes a local courier is employed to ferry mail from isolated villages to trading centers. The Peace Corps uses the Telkom Kenya network to send mail to Volunteers throughout Kenya. Although mail is sent regularly from the Peace Corps office, the timing of its receipt depends on the location of the Volunteer's site.
We strongly encourage you to write to your family regularly (perhaps weekly or biweekly) and to number your letters.
Family members will typically become worried when they do not hear from you, so please advise your parents, friends, and relatives that mail is sporadic and that they should not worry if they do not receive your letters regularly.
Peace Corps Volunteers are allowed duty-free entry of packages for their first 90 days in Kenya. After the 90-day grace period, the customs office may begin assessing duty charges, which must be paid before a package is released. Customs duties are based on the types of items as well as their value. Electronics may be assessed a particularly high duty rate. Packages normally take about three months to reach Kenya from the United States if sent via surface mail. Volunteers are requested to follow the mailing procedures described in the Peace Corps/Kenya Volunteer Handbook.
Your address during training will be:
Your Name/PCT
PO Box 30518
Nairobi, Kenya
It is your responsibility to forward the postal address at your site to the Peace Corps office in Nairobi so mail can be routed directly to you. Mail sent via international channels will take 10 to 21 days to arrive at your site. Remember that it is important to keep regular contact with relatives and friends, not just for them but also for you. Write often so that no one has cause to worry, which a lapse in letters for any period of time has been known to create.
Once at your site, you will receive a notification slip in your post box when you receive a package. Respond promptly with your ID in hand. The sooner you pick up the package, the less storage fees will be. You will be responsible for paying any customs, storage, and handling charges before your package is released to you.
Trainees and Volunteers are responsible for mailing personal letters and packages. Airmail letters and stamps are available at local post offices.
Most large cities and provincial capitals have domestic long-distance service; regional centers and some large cities also provide overseas telephone service. In some locations, the service is fast and efficient; in others, it may take several hours to get calls through.
Cellular telephones and service are widely avaialbe in Kenya. Peace Corps does not require Volunteers to purchase a phone, but most Volunteers choose to buy a phone and service once they reach their sites and have a clear idea of the network coverage in the area.
Domestic long-distance calls: Volunteers are responsible for all toll charges on calls. But you may call the Peace Corps/ Nairobi office collect or reverse charges. The Peace Corps provides 500 Kenyan shillings per month (telecommunications allowance) to cover official and emergency phone calls.
Overseas calls: The Peace Corps occasionally authorizes a Volunteer to call home because of a family emergency. When you receive such notification from the Peace Corps, you may pay for toll charges and bring the receipt to the Peace Corps office for reimbursement. Personal overseas calls will not be authorized by the Peace Corps office, and Volunteers must use locally available public phones for all personal calls.
Computer, Internet, and E-mail Access
Because Internet use appears to be primarily for personal reasons, you are expected to use your living and telecommunications allowances to cover your Internet costs.
Designated computers in the resource center at the Nairobi office do have Internet access. You are welcome to use these, though priority is given to Volunteers who are getting ready to finish their service, to assist them with graduate school and job applications. Volunteers are prohibited from using staff computers in all offices. Internet access is available at post offices and cybercafes in towns and cities.
Housing and Site Location
As a Volunteer, you will most likely have to live in a rural community and not have access to indoor plumbing or electricity. Expect to use hurricane lamps and candles for lighting and to cook using charcoal, wood, or a single-burner kerosene stove. Peace Corps/Kenya, for both philosophical and budget considerations, requires host ministries to provide all Volunteers with housing. The standard and condition of Volunteer housing vary widely, from mud houses with thatched roofs to very modern cement houses with running water and electricity. The type of house you have will depend on your project, the area of the country in which you are posted, and the types of houses available in the community. You may also be required to share housing with other staff or to live in a room behind a shop at a market center. In short, you can expect to have, at the very least, a room to call your own. The decision as to whether housing standards are "acceptable" lies with the associate Peace Corps director and medical staff. When it comes to your housing, you should not lose sight of the guiding goal of the Peace Corps. Maintain your focus on service to the people of Kenya and not on the level of your accommodations.
Because Peace Corps Volunteers are often posted in poor rural areas to work with ministries with little or no money for housing, the Peace Corps sets minimum housing standards:
- There must be at least a private, lockable room if housing is shared with other people.
- The room should have windows.
- The roof should not leak.
- There should be a cement floor and a place for a Volunteer to take a bucket bath or shower.
- There should be a latrine that is private or semiprivate (not used by all schoolchildren at a school but perhaps shared by other staff members).
- The Volunteer will be expected to use the same water source as the community.
Your site assignment is made during pre-service training, in collaboration with the training staff. The assignment is based on their assessment and recommendation regarding community needs and your skill levels in the technical, cross-cultural, and language areas. You will be interviewed prior to an actual placement decision so that additional personal preferences can be considered in making the site assignment. Site placements are made using the following criteria (in priority order):
- Medical considerations
- Government of Kenya needs
- Site requirements (community needs) matched with demonstrated technical, cross-cultural, and language skills
- Peace Corps/Kenya needs
- Personal preference of the trainee
The final decisions on site placement are made by your associate Peace Corps director. If you choose not to go to the site assigned to you, you will be given the opportunity to terminate your service with the Peace Corps. Refusal to go to your assigned site will result in administrative separation from Peace Corps/Kenya.
Living Allowance and Money Management
Each Volunteer receives a monthly allowance sufficient to cover basic costs. The allowance enables you to live adequately according to the Peace Corps' philosophy of a modest lifestyle. It is based on the local cost of living and is paid in local currency. Your living allowance is intended to cover food, housing, clothing, transportation from home to work site, utilities, household supplies, recreation and entertainment, incidental personal expenses, communications, and reading material.
Food and Diet
In most parts of Kenya, there is a wide choice of foods, ranging from fresh fruits and vegetables to meats. With a little creativity, you can enjoy a varied diet. Fruits and vegetables are seasonal, which means that some items may not be available at all times. Vegetarian Volunteers will have little difficulty in continuing their diets after becoming familiar with local food items and their preparation.
All Volunteers will be expected to travel in Kenya using local transportation (i.e., foot, public buses, or matatu van). This includes getting from your training center to your site both during and at the end of pre-service training.
Volunteers may not own or operate motorized vehicles, but they are allowed to rent vehicles during approved vacation periods. Trainees and Volunteers are not allowed to drive any vehicle during training or at their sites.
Volunteers are provided 18-speed, all-terrain bicycles by the Peace Corps. This bicycle is to be used with your extension work, in conjunction with the use of public transport. They are also provided with a helmet, which they must use whenever they ride a bike.
Geography and Climate
Kenya is located in East Africa and covers 582,650 square kilometers. It is approximately the size of Nevada and shares borders with Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. The climate varies from tropical along the coast to arid in the interior, and the topography varies from low plains to central highlands (with an altitude of 3,000 to 10,000 feet) to mountain ridges (e.g., 17,040 feet on Mount Kenya). From the mountains flow Kenya's four major rivers—Tana, Athi, Tarkwel, and Uaso-Nyiro. The spectacular Rift Valley, a result of geological faulting, stretches all the way to Zimbabwe. Lake Victoria, in the Nyanza province, is the second-largest freshwater lake in the world.
Kenya has four seasons: January–March (warm, sunny, and dry), March–June (long rains), June–September (cool, cloudy, and dry), and October–December (short rains). Despite being on the equator, Kenya enjoys a temperate climate, with temperatures ranging from 55 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit and 70 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit depending on location. Kenya's diversity of flora and fauna attracts visitors from all over the world, supporting the tourism industry.
Social Activities
The most common form of entertainment in rural communities is socializing with friends and family. Volunteers will take part in the various festivities, parties, and storytelling sessions within their communities. Many Volunteers bring or buy a shortwave radio to listen to international broadcasts (e.g., BBC and Voice of America). Satellite radio recievers and service can be bought in Nairobi.
Professionalism, Dress, and Behavior
Kenyans regard dress and appearance as an outward sign of the respect one holds for another individual. Neatness in appearance is much more important than being "stylish." You are expected to dress appropriately (long skirts for women and slacks for men) in training, while traveling, and on the job. It takes only one inappropriately dressed Volunteer for a Kenyan host agency to arrive at a generally negative conclusion about the Peace Corps. This jeopardizes the credibility of the Volunteer and the entire program. Kenyan neighbors, counterparts, and supervisors may draw unfavorable impressions of a Volunteer's appearance, and the Volunteer may never be aware that such impressions have been made. In such cases, Volunteers will never know how their work and credibility have been compromised. In addition, Volunteer dress should respect the cultural and religious norms of his or her community.
Volunteers should always wear clean and neat clothes. Buttoned shirts for men and blouses and skirts or dresses for women are appropriate wear during business hours. T-shirts are appropriate only for casual, nonbusiness activities. Tank tops, see-through blouses, or extremely low-cut blouses are not appropriate attire.
Men should not wear dirty or worn-out jeans. Jeans should not be worn during business hours unless the conditions of the job assignment or training activity allow it, and never when visiting government offices or the training center. In most cases, jeans are not acceptable attire for the Peace Corps office. However, should they be unavoidable (for instance, following travel), neat jeans are acceptable in the Peace Corps office and on "dress down" days at the training center. The Kenyan Ministry of Education has determined that jeans are not appropriate attire for classroom teachers.
Women may not wear casual slacks or jeans during business hours unless the conditions of the training activity or job assignment require it, and never when visiting government offices or the training center. Dresses and skirts to or below the knees are appropriate attire for women. Shorts may be worn only at home, when exercising (if appropriate), or when doing work where Kenyan counterparts are also wearing shorts. As mentioned above, only in specific circumstances are jeans, casual slacks, or shorts considered acceptable attire for women in the Peace Corps office or the training center.
Aside from the condition and type of clothing you wear, there are other standards of dress and appearance that need to be remembered. Female Volunteers should wear appropriate undergarments, including bras and slips. Your hair should be clean and combed. For men, beards should be neatly trimmed. Men should never wear a hat indoors, unless custom in the area allows it. Wearing a hat in government, Peace Corps, or similar offices is not allowed, and sunglasses should be removed when indoors. Finally, smoking is prohibited in all Peace Corps and training center offices and in Peace Corps vehicles.
These restrictions have been formalized only in response to specific instances of inappropriate dress and behavior by Volunteers. Because it is difficult to know automatically what is appropriate when entering a new culture, we present this list not to offend, but to inform. In general, the above guidance is meant to convey to Volunteers the point that adherence to professional standards is appropriate at all times and in all places.
Peace Corps Volunteers are expected to maintain high standards of behavior. Any behavior that could jeopardize the reputation of the Volunteer or the Peace Corps could be grounds for administrative separation. All Volunteers are reminded that they are subject to the laws of Kenya and have no immunity from them. The Peace Corps will assist Volunteers in criminal proceedings, but if the proceedings necessitate professional legal counsel, Peace Corps/Kenya must obtain prior approval from the general counsel's office in Washington. Any costs arising from such counsel are usually the responsibility of the Volunteer. Peace Corps/Kenya cannot pay fines but can arrange for fines to be paid from the Volunteer's readjustment allowance.
The matter of trainee or Volunteer sexual behavior is, of course, a highly personal one. However, because of other social implications of inappropriate behavior, it is important that Peace Corps standards be clear. Sexual mores in Kenya are very conservative and strict, and you are expected to respect them. Public displays of affection such as kissing, hand holding, or hugging, are not generally socially acceptable. Further information will be provided during your pre-service training on appropriate and inappropriate sexual behavior.
If the country director determines that willful disregard of cultural standards is jeopardizing your credibility as a trainee or Volunteer or that of the entire program, you may be administratively separated from Peace Corps service.
Rewards and Frustrations
Before accepting this assignment, you should give ample thought to some of the potential obstacles that you will face. Until your adjustment to Kenya is complete, you will undoubtedly feel out of place speaking a new language and observing and trying to practice customs that seem strange to you. In addition, no matter what your ethnic, religious, or racial background is, you may stick out as someone from outside the Kenyan culture. However, many situations can indeed be overcome with a sense of humor and an ability to be open to new experiences. Your work situation may also present many difficulties and frustrations.
Most of your work will be to educate, motivate, and organize community groups. These are slow and challenging tasks. Co-workers, severely underpaid and burdened with extended family commitments, will have a much different outlook on life from your own, and rainy and agricultural seasons will delay many project activities. You must be able to work in an unstructured assignment and approach all of the above situations with flexibility, supreme patience, resourcefulness, and a sense of humor. Your commitment to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer will be tested throughout your service by any number of everyday events.
Peace Corps service is not for everyone. More than a mere job, it requires greater dedication and commitment to serve than do most other work environments. It is for confident, self-starting, and concerned individuals who are interested in assisting in other countries and increasing human understanding across cultural barriers. The key to satisfying work as a Peace Corps Volunteer is the ability to establish successful human relations at all levels. This requires patience, sensitivity, and a positive professional attitude. If you have the personal qualities needed to accept the challenge described above and can demonstrate them for a two-year service in Kenya, you will have a rewarding, enriching, and lasting experience, while at the same time making a much-needed contribution to Kenya's development.
Often you will find yourself in situations that require an ability to motivate yourself and your colleagues, and take action with little guidance from supervisors. You may work for months without seeing any visible impact and without receiving feedback on your work. You must possess the self-confidence, patience, and vision to continue working toward long-term goals without seeing immediate results. Judging by the experience of former Volunteers, the benefits are well worth the difficult times, and most Volunteers leave feeling that they have gained much more than they sacrificed during their service.
Even with the many economic, social, political, and environmental challenges facing Kenya today, there is an atmosphere of excitement and hope. The changes occurring are some of the most important in the country's modern history. To join the people of Kenya in this effort, and to be part of this historically pivotal and defining moment, will be both fascinating and satisfying to any Volunteer willing to work hard, be tolerant of ambiguity, and give generously of his or her time.
Personal Safety
Information about the Peace Corps' approach to safety is outlined in the Health Care and Safety chapter, but it is an important issue and cannot be overemphasized. As stated in the Volunteer Handbook, becoming a Peace Corps Volunteer entails certain safety risks. Living and traveling in an unfamiliar environment (oftentimes alone), having a limited understanding of local language and culture, and being perceived as well-off are some of the factors that can put a Volunteer at risk. Many Volunteers experience varying degrees of unwanted attention and harassment. Petty thefts and burglaries are not uncommon, and incidents of physical and sexual assault do occur, although many Volunteers complete their two years of service without personal security incidents. The Peace Corps has established procedures and policies designed to help you reduce your risks and enhance your safety and security. These procedures and policies, in addition to safety training, will be provided once you arrive in Kenya. At the same time, you are expected to take responsibility for your safety and well-being.


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Brookings on e-Government, Public-Sector AdvancesDespite the great promise of technological advancement, public sector innovation has tended to be small-scale and gradual. From Brookings Institution, August 25, 2008
MetroFi Antennas Could Cost $60,000 to RemoveEstimates for removal are around $90,000; subtracting out a $30,000 bond for removal that was part of the MetroFi contract would still mean that Portland's taxpayers could pay up to $60,000 to get those antennas taken down.From DSL Reports, August 13, 2008
Clearwire CEO: Open WiMAX Networks and High SpeedsAT&T recently told the FCC that it didn't fundamentally oppose the merger of Xohm and Clearwire, but it did argue that the companies failed to include some of the frequencies they control in their merger application.From Ars Technica, August 13, 2008
If I Ran AT&T... I'd Buy SkypeFrom my new perch atop a multi-billion dollar corporation, my first order of business is to address the inescapable reality that the traditional landline telephone business is headed towards extinction.From AppRising, August 13, 2008
Arezzo, Italy, Partnering with FON on Muni Wi-FiThe city of Arezzo will soon host one of the first Italian municipal WiFi networks, thanks to an agreement with FON and the involvement of its citizens, who will share their Internet connections and contribute to the roll out of the network.From Martin Navasky, August 13, 2008
Tennesssee First State to Benefit from SafeLink Wireless ProgramThrough this much-needed service to struggling families, the SafeLink Wireless service will provide Tennessee's eligible low-income households a free cell phone, unlimited mobile access to emergency services (911), and over an hour of air time each month for up to one year. From Mobile Tech News, August 13, 2008
Canada Not Sure How to Spend Wireless WindfallThe auction provided 282 licences to 15 companies, mostly for airwaves used for advanced wireless services such as high-speed video and Internet, cellphones and other hand-held devices.From Canada.com, August 13, 2008
Verizon Unveils Integrated Emergency Response SystemVerizon Business is offering an IP-based platform designed to integrate emergency-response radio systems, along with voice and data services, into a common network.From ComputerWorld, August 13, 2008
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I put 3 ccs in delts, any of the three, quads, gluts, tris, pecs, and I wouldn't hesitate to try up to 5cc in my lats.
im currently running 600mg prop / week and 300npp a weeks . im just having trouble rotating injection sites, i currently pin mon / wed / sat so thats 3 shots a week at 3cc each . i shoot delts, quads, and glutes. my question is can i put 3cc in my delt and quads ? the most ive ever put in either of those muscles is 2cc ? if not how else can i get in all the shots i need ?
having abs because you are skinny is like a women having tits because she's fat
I put 3 ccs in delts, any of the three, quads, gluts, tris, pecs, and I wouldn't hesitate to try up to 5cc in my lats.
having abs because you are skinny is like a women having tits because she's fat
I have no problem pinning 3cc in delts or quads, however anymore that 1cc in my glutes tends cripple me for days.
I put six ccs in a glute once, half tren ace. My whole body was pins and needles, I could taste it. Coughed for twenty minutes.
I only pin my glutes now. I just rotate. I do mon wed fri.
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Yikes thats some serious amounts to inject in one site. Also depends if your just starting a new compound after a break or just a new ester will make the site sore. Seems like the spots get used to it after a while. I pin glutes and quads delts only when there is no other option.
I'll never do quads again (maybe lol). Was in the hospital for a week in December to have surgery for an abscess in my quad that developed after an injection. My wife went through my stash while I was in the hospital and through out everything except my trt test lol. I can laugh about it now but was pissed at the time, she through out var, winny, tren, almost a grand worth of aas.
You can learn to cook. Its not that hard. Thats how Ive earning my living the past 20 years.lol
I always rotate glutes and delts. Whenever i train biceps however ill oil em up lol. I feel like I get a greater mind/muscle connection and improved fullness. At first they hurt like a bitch but after a while they just got used to being jabbed. Im not a huge believer in site enhancement other than synthol of course but i feel as tho it has made a difference
Enanthate would have been sooooo much easier.
I hate pining! Tried tricep last week never again hit a nerve pulled back a lil and pinned anyways was red for 3 days went away. I start tren ace this week so im super happy to be pining eod lol gona stick to delts and glutes and maybe try front delts again
If you hate pinning your in the wrong game Bro. Not saying I enjoy it, but its like everything else we do in this lifestyle. Once we commit that's it like it or not. Also its been my experience that tren A is better if pinned daily. Less sides more stable blood levels. Just my 2 cents.


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On Sunday, Madison police revealed the identities of the officers involved in the Friday shooting that killed Paul Heenan, 30, of Madison.
Police said Officer Stephen Heimsness was the officer who was "directly involved in the incident." Heimsness has been on the Madison police force for 15 years. Officer Stacy Troumbly provided emergency life-saving measures on Heenan after he was shot. Troumbly joined the MPD in 2011.
Both officers are on administrative leave, which is standard protocol.
Heimsness is treasurer of the police officers' union, and his biography lists him as a third-shift patrol officer in the central district, an assignment that has twice before put him in the center of controversy.
WISC-TV3 News records reveal that In 2001, Heimsness shot out the tires of a car driving recklessly in a campus area parking ramp.
The Dane County DA decided not to file charges against Heimsness, but Madison.com records indicate that he was suspended 15 days without pay for using excessive force.
Then in 2006, Heimsness's alleged actions led the department to ultimately pay out $27,000 to settle a different case.
Isthmus.com reported that Heimsness bashed a man's head into the floor at a downtown bar as Heimsness tried to arrest the man.
The City Controller's office said Heimsness used excessive force, but the DA's office again did not file charges.
Now the latest case, in which police say Heimsness was directly involved in the shooting death of 30-year-old Paul Heenan.
Heenan was a musician and friends say he was a non-violent person and that he had stumbled into the wrong home early Friday morning on South Baldwin St.
The homeowners called 911, after which the male homeowner apparently recognized Heenan and began walking him home.
Officer Heimsness pulled up and saw what he viewed as the two men struggling. Police then say Heenan confronted Heimsness physically and apparently that's when Heimsness shot.
Questions that have yet to be answered by Madison Police included whether Heenan was armed, how exactly he confronted Heimsness, and how many shots Heimsness fired.
It was on Saturday afternoon that Heenan's body was identified. The Dane County Medical Examiner's office confirmed that Heenan's death was the "result of firearm-related trauma," and that "additional testing in this case is currently underway."
There was no toxicology information included in the coroner's Saturday report.
Heenan was affiliated with the local band, Hometown Sweetharts. Late Saturday night, the band issued a statement to WISC-TV.
"We are absolutely destroyed by this huge tragedy. Paulie was a dear friend to us. He was a sweet, caring and talented guy that would go out of his way to help everyone he knew. His wide range of talents were an indispensable part of many of the musical projects we've been involved in over the past 10 years. He was nothing but positive and supportive of us. We are left with a giant hole in his absence. We will miss Paulie forever," wrote Scott Beardsley, Chris Boeger, and Nate Palan, members of Hometown Sweethearts.
Meanwhile, Heenan's roommates are also breaking their silence on the incident.
Nate and Amelia Royko Maurer moved in with Heenan on South Baldwin Street about a week ago. Amelia and her daughter had dinner with "Paulie," grabbed dessert, and played Uno with him, then wished him farewell as he went out to scope out bands.
The Royko Maurers said Heenan moved in with the family in hopes of building a studio in the house and pursuing music in Madison. They described him as kind and supportive, and noticed a maternal instinct that he had when it came to caring for others.
"We're really sad," Amelia explained. "We have to tell our six-year-old that her best buddy is gone."
Early Friday morning, Nate woke up to loud fighting noises outside.
"I heard somebody shout in a really loud gruff voice, 'Get down! Get down!' And then immediately after that I heard gun shots," Nate said.


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Portales junior Vicki Huber goes up for a shot in the paint during Friday's District 4-3A girls championship game against Ruidoso at Portales. (Freedom Newspapers: Karl Terry)
By Karl Terry: PNT managing editor
PORTALES — The Portales Lady Rams rode a potent first-quarter offensive attack to a 69-48 victory over Ruidoso and wrapped up the District 4-3A championship Friday at Ram gym.
The win assures the defending state champion Lady Rams (16-9) of hosting a home game next week in the first round of the state tournament. Their opponent will be determined Sunday during a seeding meeting.
Portales coach Brenda Gomez was pleased with the offensive effort and the well-rounded contribution from the bench. What she didn't like were the number of turnovers and fouls.
"We were making turnovers we normally wouldn't make, probably because we haven't played in a week," Gomez said.
Every Lady Ram on the roster got into the scoring Friday in one of the better offensive attacks the team has had.
"Everybody who went into the game contributed," Gomez said. "That's very unusual in a district championship to have that."
Lady Ram senior Sabrina Villanueva paced the Portales attack early as she connected with back-to-back 3-pointers midway through the first period. She hit a third a little later in the period and fellow senior Kaycee Quick got a put-back bucket to put the Lady Rams up 16-5. Portales stretched its lead to 39-23 at the half.
With Ruidoso (16-11) experiencing foul trouble in the third quarter, the Lady Rams stretched the margin to 20.
"I feel pretty pumped that we won," Villanueva said. "This is my first year on varsity and to be able to light it up like that is great."
Senior Amanda Terry said after meeting Ruidoso so many times during the year it was good to complete the sweep of three games. More important was the chance to play one more home game.
"It's real important," Terry said of playing at home next week. "After a good game like that you hope you get one more at home."
Villanueva, Bethany Self and Briana Hernandez tied for scoring honors on the night with 11 points apiece.
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Montpelier Police Log: Dead dog is found in streetJanuary 22,2013
The following is a sampling of incidents as initially reported to Montpelier police.
Jan. 14
A burglary, reported around 6:15 a.m., occurred at Subway.
A dead dog was found on River Street.
Money was found on the ground near 132 Main St.
Jan. 15
A young man in a blue jacket was considered suspicious.
A person in a group stole wine from Golden Meadows food market.
A loud gathering, considered a house party, was reported around 11:20 p.m. in Noble Hall at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Jan. 17
A door at the high school was propped open around 12:50 a.m. with no one around.
Jan. 18
A man was lurking around after he entered a yoga studio.
A victim was hit and bitten at a River Street apartment.
Jan. 19
A black four-door car was parked blocking a Barre Street residences driveway.
Jan. 20
Two men egged a vehicle in a Hackamore Road driveway and left in a silver car.
A man who was previously removed from a Cumberland Farms store on Berlin Street was causing another problem.
Some patrons of the Coffee Corner on Main Street did not pay the full amount of their bill.
A man was inside a womans Main Street apartment when she returned.
Montpelier police also issued multiple citations, including the following:
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General Electric (GE) has promoted North Central College alumnus Munesh Makhija to managing director of its India Technology Center and named him chief technology officer (CTO) of GE India.
Makhija will be based at the John F. Welch Technology Center in Bangalore, where he will oversee GE's India technology team of more than 5,000 engineers and scientists. The facility is GE's first and largest integrated multidisciplinary research and development center.
"In his new role, Makhija will build on this foundation and drive growth by enhancing technical capability and increasing new product development," Mark Little, senior vice president and CTO of GE, said in a news release.
Makhija joined GE in 2003 as engineering director for GE Healthcare. He has served as vice president of Global Research at GE Healthcare and previously was CTO for GE Healthcare in India.
"At the GE India Technology Center we have the brightest minds at work pushing the limits of science and technology to solve some of the world's toughest problems in energy, healthcare, transportation, aviation, consumer and industrial domains," Makhija said in the release. "My focus will be both on locally relevant innovation and delivering advanced technology to solve global challenges."
Prior to joining GE Makhija worked in the telecommunications industry for 10 years and held several positions in technology and research leadership, software engineering, new product development, program management and product marketing.
Makhija earned his master's degree in business administration (MBA) from North Central College in 2000. He also holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering.
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Kauai County Mayor Bernard P. Carvalho, Jr. has vetoed Bill 2491, Relating to Pesticides and Genetically Modified Organisms, which was passed by the County Council on Oct. 16.
"I have always said I agree with the intent of this bill to provide for pesticide use disclosure, create meaningful buffer zones and conduct a study on the health and environmental issues relating to pesticide use on Kaua'i," said Carvalho. "However, I believe strongly that this bill is legally flawed. That being the case, I had no choice but to veto."
Carvalho has released the opinion on 2491 drafted by the Office of the County Attorney, which was delivered to him on Oct. 24.
"Since receiving the opinion I've spent hours and hours understanding the points raised and questioning our attorneys on the legal issues," Carvalho said. "While I believe a veto is necessary, we can and will find legal means to address these important health and safety issues."
In his veto message, the mayor urges the council to move forward quickly on funding the joint fact finding study group, which is the first step toward conducting an environmental public health impact study. The study could be recommended via a resolution that is slated for next week's council agenda.
Carvalho also describes actions being taken by the governor and the State Department of Agriculture to address buffer zones and pesticide use notification.
"I truly believe in my heart that Kaua'i can accomplish anything through cooperation, collaboration, and by working together in the spirit of aloha," said Carvalho. "This does not invalidate the hard work that has gone into the crafting of 2491. We are moving forward and we will continue to move forward with or without the bill."
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Pesticide Warning
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As Americans focus on beautiful lawns for summer... Italian researchers are sounding the alarm about some common pesticides.
Analysis of more than 100 different international studies suggests pesticides, like the common bug and weed killers used by millions, are associated with a higher risk of developing the nervous system disorder, Parkinson's disease.
Researchers drilled down, looking at the proximity of exposure...such as whether participants lived in the country or suburbs, their occupations and even whether they drank well water.
According to the data, exposure to bug or weed killers... and solvents... increased the risk of developing Parkinson's disease by 33 to 80 percent!
While this research didn't focus on whether the substances were inhaled or absorbed through the skin...it did suggest that the risk increases as the length of exposure to these chemicals increases.
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