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Development of Policies on Standards of Conduct
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WHEREAS, jails, local detention facilities, and correctional agencies have a responsibility to contribute to the public safety by ensuring secure and humane control of offenders committed to their custody; and
WHEREAS, the nature of custodial supervision requires that correctional staff adhere to professional standards of conduct which clearly define the use and exercise of authority and which emphatically reject all conduct exceeding those bounds; and
WHEREAS, any sexual harassment, activity, or abuse occurring between correctional staff and offenders is inappropriate and unacceptable conduct and a fundamental violation that shall not be tolerated by correctional administrators or the public; and
WHEREAS, correctional and jail administrators have a responsibility to provide leadership, to pursue legislation, and to develop policies and procedures to ensure correctional staff perform their duties within professionally accepted standards of conduct; now
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Sheriffs' Association strongly encourages each Office of Sheriff to vigorously enforce explicit policies prohibiting all forms of sexual harassment, activity, or abuse between jail and correctional employees and offenders. These policies and procedures should be in writing, clearly define unacceptable conduct, provide for fair and timely investigative and grievance processes, provide for criminal prosecution, and be widely communicated and emphasized to all staff through adequate training and other appropriate methods; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the National Sheriffs' Association supports enactments by state legislatures that establish criminal penalties for sexual harassment or abuse involving correctional staff and offenders, and further supports aggressive prosecution by the local District Attorney of correctional staff who violate these laws.
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RAIL passengers will have to catch buses tomorrow (Sunday) due to engineering work taking place.
Signalling and maintenance work is taking place between Weymouth and Wareham all day on Sunday, January 19.
Buses will replace all South West Trains' services between Weymouth and Wareham stations.
The bus will pick up at Upwey (Jestys Avenue), Dorchester, Moreton and Wool.
Passengers will be able to catch trains to Bournemouth, Southampton and London Waterloo at Wareham station.
The engineering work also affects passengers travelling towards Bristol. Buses will be laid on from Weymouth station to Dorchester West.
Passengers travelling up the Waterloo line later this month are also warned of engineering work on the weekend of January 25-26.
The line between Southampton Central and Brockenhurst will be closed all day on Saturday and closed beween Southampton Central and Bournemouth on the Sunday.
Buses will replace trains between these stations.

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Morrow hurt by homers, miscue in loss to Yanks
Starter allows two of three New York dingers; key error plates two
TORONTO -- It seems that every time the Blue Jays take a positive step forward this season they end up taking a couple of steps back.
The Blue Jays were coming off a solid performance against the White Sox, splitting the four-game series, and Jose Bautista made his return to the lineup, but things unraveled quickly after Brandon Morrow stepped on the mound for the first inning.
Morrow allowed two runs in the first and three in the third, and the Blue Jays were roughed up for the second time in three games, losing, 9-4, to the Yankees at Rogers Centre on Friday.
"It was a lot like in Kansas City, his first inning, it almost seemed like he wasn't getting loose," manager John Gibbons said after the game.
"I was just falling behind guys early in the counts during the first few innings," added Morrow, who's now had two starts this season in which he's allowed five earned runs.
Morrow was tagged for seven runs, with two unearned tallies coming on a strange play in the third inning that contributed to the Blue Jays' undoing.
With two men in scoring position and one away, Yankees shortstop Eduardo Nunez hit a fly ball to center fielder Colby Rasmus, who threw to the plate anticipating the runner on third to try to score on the sacrifice fly. The ball bounced in front of Toronto catcher J.P. Arencibia, then hit off of his chest protector and ricocheted into the Yankees dugout, scoring both runners and giving the Yankees a four-run lead.
"I tried to attack it, keep it in front of me, but with that happening it kind of ate me up even more," Arencibia said. "So I tried to block it, and it hit off of me and went into the dugout."
Rasmus was charged with the error, but after the game, Gibbons said the correct play for the Blue Jays catcher was to stay back and let the ball come to him. Arencibia admitted his mistake after the game but said he was trying to be aggressive to avoid the ball short-hopping him.
"That ball that hit off me, that kind of changes it right there, those two runs don't score," said Arencibia, who later clubbed his sixth home run of the season with a solo shot in the ninth. "That's a tough draw."
Before the miscue, the Blue Jays trailed, 3-1, and the game was still in reach. But when the ball went into the dugout, everything changed. What could've been an easy way out of a jam turned into a deflating 5-1 deficit.
"The ball that we throw away, it scores two runs and changes the complexion of the game," Gibbons said.
While Morrow and the defense struggled, Andy Pettitte was strong on the mound for New York. The veteran left-hander faced only one batter over the minimum since the second inning, before surrendering a two-run homer to Bautista in the sixth. He allowed three runs on six hits and a walk, while striking out five, in 7 1/3 innings to improve to 3-0 after missing a start due to back spasms.
"Guys like Pettitte, the great pitchers, they don't make enough mistakes that you can get back in it," Gibbons said. "Even at his age, it's pretty special what he's still doing, he doesn't make a whole lot of mistakes."
"Andy's remarkable," Yankees outfielder Vernon Wells said in his return to Rogers Centre. "I've had a chance to see him for a long time, and he's the same guy that he was 10, 12 years ago. It's fun to watch, and it's a pleasure to watch an individual that has been around this long and still continues to have success."
Wells, the ex-Blue Jay, was there to rub a little salt in the wound for his former club. With the Yankees up, 8-3, in the seventh, the 34-year-old hit a deep home run into the second deck in right field to extend the lead.
"This place has always played, if you hit it, it goes. It has always played true to that," Wells said.
Wells' homer was the second by a former Blue Jay, coming after Lyle Overbay cleared the fences in the sixth with a solo shot.
There was some encouraging news for Toronto. Bautista's homer onto the 200-level patio came after he missed the previous four games with back spasms. And Brett Lawrie finally got his first hits of the season in his fourth game, reaching on an infield single in the second -- breaking an 0-for-10 skid to begin the year -- and adding another single in the fifth.
But the offense is continuing to struggle, scoring only 19 runs since Jose Reyes was placed on the disabled list Saturday.
With the loss, Toronto fell three games below .500 -- not exactly the start the team was hoping for.
"It's a game of failures. Everybody wants to produce, confidence in this business can waver, so we have to fight through that," Gibbons said. "[But] you still have to play good, sound baseball until things get going. That's how you stay in the game and give yourself a chance to win. Tonight we didn't really do that."
Evan Peaslee is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Weekend gold and gem hunters will be allowed to operate in more national parks in Victoria after the state government gave the green light for eight areas to be opened up.
Five parts of the Alpine National Park, one area of the Lake Eildon National Park and two sections of the Lerderderg State Park will now be opened to recreational gold hunters who are often known as prospectors or fossickers.
The use of metal detectors and hand tools will be allowed, but the government has ruled out the use of more elaborate motorised devices sometimes used by prospectors.
A review of the environmental and cultural impact of the decision will occur after one year.
Environmentalists have criticised the push to open up national parks for prospecting, saying there have been instances where waterways have been damaged by being dammed and diverted to find minerals.
Phil Ingamells from the Victorian National Parks Association said national parks were there for nature, not for digging up.
''The government acknowledges that prospecting damages natural areas, so it is disappointing that the activity will be allowed in new areas in national parks,'' he said.
Prospectors and Miners Association of Victoria president, Rita Bentley, said she was disappointed with the access that had been granted. She said many of the sites were up four-wheel-drive tracks, hard to access especially by older members, and were not known gold areas.
''While we appreciate the extra access, the government had the chance to allow the responsible use of national and state parks and they haven't done that,'' she said.
Francine Gilbert, who regularly searches with a metal detector in gold regions, such as Bendigo and Ballarat, said the usual hunting grounds had been well covered and there was not much to find. She hoped to visit the newly opened areas.
The decision to open up new areas follows a Victorian Environmental Assessment Council investigation - commissioned by the government - of nine national and state parks to determine which would be most appropriate to allow prospectors access to.
While the council recommended the new areas adopted by the government on Tuesday, it warned in its final report there was clear evidence the practice could damage the natural values of national parks, especially rivers and creeks. It also said prospecting did not sit well with the purposes of national and states parks.


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Every day we are bombarded with advertisements in every form and format telling us that our lives will be improved if we buy a particular product because it will save us money, reduce our work effort, save us energy, or benefit the environment. We are justifiably skeptical because we know from experience that if something sounds too good to be true, usually it is. Light-emitting diode (LED) lighting is one of the exceptions. LEDs benefits are so powerful that they seem too good to be true; however, they actually do save us money, reduce our work effort, save us energy and benefit our environment.
Light-emitting diode (LED) lighting is a type of solid-state lighting that uses a semiconductor to convert electricity to light. LED lighting products are beginning to appear in a wide variety of home, business, and industrial products such as holiday lighting, replacement bulbs for incandescent lamps, street lighting, outdoor area lighting and indoor ambient lighting.
It is truly wonderful when something comes along that speeds access to science. Such is the case with CrossRef's linking network for scholarly literature. Anyone that has ever done a literature search prior to 2000 is completely blown away today when they encounter the time saved and the quality of CrossRef's linking service. I vividly recall my own literature review for my PhD dissertation almost 40 years ago and I want to share my story.
For many long and miserable days and nights for a solid month I practically lived at the University of Maryland's Engineering and Physical Sciences Library plowing through a massive set of numerous volumes of citation indices looking up keywords related to my dissertation. My topic Secondary deflections and lateral stability of beams was based on my research at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
Star gazing seems especially good on a clear autumn night. From our back deck our amateur eyes scan the sky and its wonder. We first notice Venus, our closest planetary neighbor. A beautiful harvest moon rises over the hill, lighting up jet streams that crisscross the stars and planets. We see Orion, the bowl and handle of the Big Dipper, the Square of Pegasus, the vast Milky Way and we are fortunate to see an occasional falling star. We are in awe of the beauty of our night sky but it's what we can't see that is truly amazing.
Spectacular explosions, which can't be detected with the human eye, light up the gamma-ray sky about once a day. These explosions, called gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), are from distant galaxies hundreds of millions of light years away from earth and are thought to be triggered by supernovae or exploding stars. They release more energy than our sun will put out in a lifetime.
In honor of the 60th Anniversary of the local Tennessee Valley Chapter (TVC) of the Special Libraries Association (SLA), International SLA President Deborah Hunt recently visited Tennessee. SLA is the global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners, which has the mission of promoting and strengthening its members through learning, advocacy, and networking initiatives. September 13th Ms. Hunt made several stops at local information institutions, touring facilities and visiting with staff about issues facing libraries, information and knowledge managers.
During the 1700's, the Reverend Thomas Bayes was a nonconformist minister at the Mount Sion Chapel in Tunbridge Wells, UK, about 40 miles southeast of central London. Having studied both theology and logic at the University of Edinburgh, he was also a mathematician and developed a strong interest in probability late in life. He was known to have published only one book on theology and one book on mathematics in his lifetime. A third manuscript he never published about the probability of cause made him famous. After his death, a good friend Richard Price recognized the importance of the paper and, after extensive editing, submitted it for publication. More than 20 years later, the great French mathematician, Pierre-Simon Laplace devised the formula for Bayes' probability of causes and acknowledged Bayes as the discoverer of what we now know as Bayesian inference.


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Utility Permits
Permits are required by city ordinance to allow the installation, repair, removal or relocation of a utility which projects onto, under or over any City of Minneapolis public property or right of way. In order to obtain a permit a number of Public Works offices need to review and approve a permit application before a permit can be issued. The repair, removal or relocation of the utility will be at the sole cost of the utility owner.
Lane Use/Obstruction Permits:
Obstruction permits are required when any portion of a city street, parking lane or sidewalk is obstructed for the purpose of construction, demolition, utility repair, etc.
Registration and approval is done online at Lane Use Application. The City requires 24 hour notice if parking meters need to be hooded, or 48 hours if streets must be posted for "No Parking."
A permit is required to park vehicles in the obstructed area. Lane use fees may apply if a travel or parking lane is closed. Meter hooding fees apply if parking meters need to be hooded for the project.
Right-of-Way Excavation Permit:
A Right-of-Way Excavation Permit is required by anyone seeking to excavate in the right-of-way.
Right-of-Way User Registration:
A Right-of-Way User Registration Application must be completed by anyone having equipment or facilities located in the right-of-way or by any contractor seeking to perform any work in the right-of-way. Registration must be renewed annually.
Sanitary Sewer Connection Permit (New Sewer Tap permit):
A Sewer permit is required if connecting to the sewer system. If a new sewer connection is from the main sewer line a new sewer permit is required. If a new connection to the sewer uses an existing sewer connection to the sewer main, then a sewer extension permit is required. These permits are issued by the Utility Connections Office.
Storm Sewer Connection Permit:
A Storm Sewer permit is required if connecting to the storm sewer system. If a new storm sewer connection is from the main sewer line a new storm sewer permit is required. If a new connection to the storm sewer uses an existing storm sewer connection to the storm sewer main, then a storm sewer extension permit is required. These permits are issued by the Utility Connections Office. Permit requests will be forwarded, by the Utility Connections Office, to the Public Works Surface Water & Sewers Division, which must approve the plan prior to permit issuance.
Street Restoration:
All street removal and restoration will be done to the specifications of the Public Works Department. Use of a fee schedule for Restoration Cost will be paid at the time a permit is approved. In the event that Public Works Department must excavate a larger area then originally permitted, permittee will be billed for change in size. Repair of the excavated street will be done in a manner which restores the maximum future utilization of the street.
Utility Repair Permit:
Utility Repair Permits are issued to licensed contractors for making repairs or alterations to city water and sewer lines. Repair permits may also be issued for new water connections, if the new installation includes adding a future use line. Other examples of utility repair permits are for extending water, sewer, or storm sewer lines, manhole repairs, or extensions of lines from the water or sewer mains.
Fee Schedule:
Once your application has been reviewed, each permitting office will inform the Utility Connections Office of the applicable fee which should be collected. The Utility Connections Office will inform you of this amount and will collect the necessary fees prior to the issuance of any permits
Additional Information is available if needed. If you are uncertain about the information we are requesting, please contact the Utility Connections Office. (612) 673-2451 FAX (612)673-3446
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PHILADELPHIA - The Penn men's and women's fencing teams face a big test this weekend as they both travel to the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional held at Lafayette's Kamine Gymnasium on Saturday beginning at 8 a.m. A total of 11 men's teams and 13 women's teams will be at the event, and the Quakers will be trying to advance the maximum number of 12 fencers (six men and six women) to the NCAA Fencing Combined Men's and Women's Championship, held March 21-24 in San Antonio.
Besides the Penn teams - ranked No. 8 in the nation on the men's side and No. 10 in the women's poll - three other ranked teams will be competing in each event. The men's competition will feature No. 1 Penn State, No. 5 Princeton and No. 9 Duke, while the women's competition will see the Quakers matching up with No. 2 Princeton, No. 6 Penn State and No. 9 Temple at various points.
The men will bring 12 fencers to the event with four in each weapon group, while the women have 10 making the trip,one in sabre, four in foil and five in epee. Due to the postponement of the Ivy League Round-Robins in February, Penn will be forced to deal with a reduced strength factor for each of its fencers across the board. Princeton is in a similar situation. Though the Round-Robins were held last week, it was past the point of consideration in regards to this Regional. With only the individual winner of the six separate competitions guaranteed advancement to the NCAA Fencing Championships, it will put pressure on the Quakers to finish as high in each weapon as they can, in hopes of procuring multiple at-large selections against competitors who may have a better strength factor on the season.
The men's sabre squad is led by junior Michael Mills and senior captain Evan Prochniak. Mills has produced a team-best .878 winning percentage on the season (36-5), while Prochniak, a three-time All-American, is 34-13 this year. Sean Turner and Eliot Tusk round out the group, both in search of a first-time trip to the Fencing Championships. The women's team sends Krystyna Golden (18-31) to the strips.
While sabre is the biggest strength of the men's team, it's the foil team that leads the women's squad. Luona Wang was NCAA runner-up last season as a freshman and hopes to make the first step in a return trip on Saturday. Sarah Parmacek led the entire women's team with 48 wins this season, while Wendy Zhao and Rachel Chin round out a strong and balanced group. Men's foil is extremely young, with three of the four competing at the meet for the first time. Only Jason Chang, a sophomore, will have competed at this event before. Still, the talent is there, with Adam Elkassas (a team-high 38 wins in 2012-13), Chang (30-21 on the season), Ira Schlosberg (27-15) and Leland Bernstein (19-11) making the trip north to the Lehigh Valley.
The men's epee team returns a pair of NCAA qualifiers in Clifford Fishler and Rene Gannon-O'Gara. Gannon-O'Gara came on strong at the end of last season and became an honorable mention All-American. Freshman Ayyub Ibrahim led the team with a .690 winning percentage (29-13) during the season, while Joseph Isaac was also among this group of four with more than 20 wins in 2012-13. Two-time NCAA qualifier Amrit Bhinder will look to make it three in a row in her senior season with the women's epee team. She won nearly 70 percent of her bouts this season and will be joined by juniors Lisa Dawes and Gabby Foor, plus freshmen Srey Beaulac and Sara Jones.


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Temporary Superintendent License still available at request of local governing body for candidate with master's degree who meets Local Education Agency (LEA) needs. Temporary license is valid for duration of employment contract with school board. (511 IAC 15-6-37)
An applicant may be granted a Temporary Superintendent license if a governing body submits a written request to the Office of Educator Effectiveness and Licensing for the license on behalf of the applicant. The written request must include:
- The requested content area is "superintendent";
- Documentation on the applicant's applicable knowledge or experience; and
- Official transcripts verifying at least a Master's degree or higher from an institution of higher learning.
The Temporary Superintendent license is only valid for as long as the license holder has an employment contract with the school board to be superintendent. It may not be transferred to another school corporation.
The holder of a Temporary Superintendent license may convert to full Superintendent license after three years if, in each of those three years, the license holder receives an evaluation rating of effective or highly effective and the license holder passes the CORE content assessment for district level administration. (511 IAC 15-6-37)
School Corporations interested in applying for a Temporary Superintendent License should contact Risa Regnier at email@example.com.


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Grilliput Compact Grill
$7.99 - $19.99 Grab your Titanium Spork and Swedish Firesteel and let's go have a barbeque - ThinkGeek style! If you enjoy traveling through natural surroundings, appreciate efficient design, love cooking out and have an eye for detail, the Grilliput is going to become your new trusty companion. This innovative grill is ideal for outdoor types and people on the move. The Grilliput can be reduced to a handy size for easy transport (less than a foot long) and will ensure a really great barbecue. There is also a Compact Firebowl available as a practical accessory - perfect for containing your fire source. This fire dish can also be used to transport your charcoal. The Grilliput has a built-in cleaning groove for soiled grill bars and is completely dishwasher safe. Stainless steel construction and an ample barbecue area of 9" x 10.2" (23 x 26 cm). This barbeque is so compact it can be stowed just about anywhere. Even setting it up is fun.


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For those of you who missed attending the TGMC Bridge Webinar Series on How to prepare a Software Requirement Specification(SRS), held on 1st December, 2012, we have the entire session captured for you to play it back!Share and tag your peers who would not to take advantage of this topic which had been the most enquired topic by the students community.

Stay tuned on facebook.com/thegreatmindchallenge page as we announce the other webinars lined up in the TGMC Bridge Webinar Series soon!


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Nat Connacher is a painter, photographer and designer creating visual expressions of what he sees and feels around him. Nat is president and creative director of Connacher Design where he combines his different artistic interests to develop visual dialogues between his clients and their audiences. His areas of expertise are corporate identity, branding and visual information design for print and the Internet. Nat holds a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Yale University and a Bachelor of Design in Communication Design from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. A native of Canada, Nat resides in Stamford, CT with his family.
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DCMME Fall Operations Conference
Focused on manufacturing and operations issues, this is an event you will not want to miss! Annually drawing over 100 industry, faculty, and students to discuss pertinent topics.Read about the 2016 Fall Conference
Student Summer Internship Poster Competition
This is the hallmark student event held in conjunction with the annual Fall Operations Conference which helps kick off the fall recruiting season. This lively event involves a "speed dating" format with students sharing their summer work experience with rotating groups of industry attendees who serve as competition judges.Read more about the 2016 competition
GSCMI Spring Conference
Centered on global supply chain management issues, this event will broaden your knowledge & deepen your understanding of current issues around the globe.Read about the Spring 2017 Conference
GSCMI Spring Case Competitions
The MBA Case competition is a key student activity held within the annual spring global supply chain management conference. Free and open to every MBA program around the globe, teams of 4 students compete for the prestige and monetary awards associated with this annual competition which has grown in popularity each year.Read about the 2017 Case Competition


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I dropped by my former stomping (er, teaching) grounds last week to say hi to my many friends at Centennial College's School of Communication, Media and Design. And while chatting with the Dean, Nate Horowitz, about my role here at Adobe, he suggested I call on Debbie Gordon, the Director of the KidsMediaCentre at Centennial College. Debbie and I had a great chat about digital readiness in public schools and she shared with me the KMC's new blog, just hot off the digital press last week.
The kidsmediacentre is an industry and creative content think tank at Centennial College's Centre for Creative Communications. Working alongside Centennial's Children's Entertainment Program, they research kids' relationships with 21st century media and connect their students with industry partners to help incubate and produce the next generation of children's entertainment and media. Their hope is to engage kids in assessing the worth and contribution of a media product or idea: what works for kids and what constitutes a good idea and value proposition for the industry. One of the kidsmediacentre's main goals is to help bridge that gap.
Based on what I read on their site, it's working.
The kids aren't just listening and learning; they're involved in the conversation. You'll see some of their contributions on the KMC site, in a section called the Kid's Panel. Broken into three age categories, 4-8, 9-15 and 16-19, these kids test out a review a wide variety of media and technology, from games to music, books to eBook readers, iPhone Apps to software reviews on products like Adobe Photoshop. And the reviews are remarkably on point, honest and act as a window into how kids see certain aspects of the world. I found the Kids Panel blog posts refreshing.
For example, the review on Photoshop (Bella checks out Photoshop) examines some pretty savvy points about self image and our culture – from a 15 year old!
In the 4-8 category, 6 year old Salmah checks out the book, The Missing Piece, which was read to her class by her teacher (Gosh, I still remember those days…), and summarizes that "… it is good to keep going. When you keep going, you can learn more things."
There are reviews of music and politics, among other things, in the 16 – 19 category. 16 year old Ian gives a very knowledgeable review of the Miles Davis album, On Green Dolphin Street.
I was impressed by the insight provided by these young people. And I think you will be, too. These are not kids who are just blindly using technology; they're engaged, aware and see technology for what it is – a tool to help extend creativity or productivity or personal growth, not a replacement for the passion that makes those things possible in each of us.


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Mike Royko, the Voice of the Working Class, Dies at 64
Mike Royko, the increasingly cantankerous voice for this city's little guys and working stiffs, whose newspaper column seemed as much a part of Chicago as the wind, died today at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was 64.
Mr. Royko had collapsed in his home in suburban Winnetka on April 22 and underwent surgery last week for an aneurysm.
For nearly 30 years, every young journalist who ever set foot in a Chicago newsroom wanted to be like Mr. Royko. He had a tough skin and a generous heart, and his column won almost as many awards -- including a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 -- as a Windy City election has dead voters.
One morning, he might be blasting a bumbling politician, the next, ''the rich, smoke-belching industrial fat cats'' who he said were threatening to turn Chicago's magnificent lake front into a wasteland with pollution, overdevelopment and greed.
In his column of Sept. 23, 1981, Mr. Royko sought to explain President Ronald Reagan's policies of ''hacking away'' at Federal programs for the poor ''while spending more and more on the military.''
''Contrary to popular belief,'' Mr. Royko wrote, ''it's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.''
''Reagan's approach,'' he wrote, ''will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.''
He took on such people and subjects five days a week, decade after decade for paper after paper. When he reluctantly cut back to writing four columns a week in 1992, he saw it as a sign of weakness.
''He always doubted himself, but that's what drove him,'' said James Warren, a friend and colleague at The Chicago Tribune, where Mr. Royko wrote his column, syndicated in about 800 papers across the nation, since 1984.
Mr. Royko loved politicians; they made such easy targets, and one helped make him nationally famous: Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley was the subject of Mr. Royko's best-selling book ''Boss,'' published in 1971.
Even some of his targets say he was fair.
''He was an equal opportunity shot taker,'' said the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Mr. Royko dubbed Mr. Jackson ''Jesse Jetstream'' because he thought Mr. Jackson moved from crisis to crisis too quickly.
Mr. Jackson recalled one column, written in 1972 when Mr. Jackson was campaigning on the West Coast on behalf of Senator George McGovern's bid for the White House. He was preaching that every vote counted. But on election eve, rather than take a red-eye flight back to Chicago and cast his ballot, Mr. Jackson decided to stay out West.
''It was contradictory to what I had been saying,'' Mr. Jackson recalled, with a chuckle. ''Somehow Royko found out about it, and opened up with both barrels. I didn't like it, but I haven't missed a vote since.''
A recurring character in Mr. Royko's columns was an alter ego named Slats Grobnik. Slats took the working-class perspective in conversation with the columnist about the issue at hand, from how to age gracefully to sending volunteer troops to foreign hot spots (said Slats: ''See, what made the draft so wonderful was that when it was run on the legit -- until the Vietnam War -- it gave everybody the same opportunity.
''To get killed.'').
Directing traffic downtown today, Officer Percy Johnson, 33, described Mr. Royko as ''an icon of Chicago, just like Michael Jordan and Al Capone.''
''Chicago and everyone else is going to miss him,'' the police officer said. ''Mike Royko was for the working man.''
At the Billy Goat Tavern downtown, long associated with Mr. Royko, the owner, Sam Sianis, was distraught today in recalling the columnist. ''All these years people would come in from all over the world and ask where Royko sits.''


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Universal game row in the making
Over the last year, a number of regional groups on Facebook for arcade collecting have been gaining steam and are a becoming a great source for finding games, parts and making new connections. Occasionally monitoring Facebook over the last two months has led me to add three Universal arcade games to my collection.
Added an Italian Import to my collection
I should probably stop hanging out on Facebook – I keep coming across uncommon arcade games that I want to add to my collection. This time it was an Italian import manufactured by a company named Olympia. Any guesses?
New Addition: Strato-Flite Pinball
Indianapolis is not known to be a hotbed for pinball, in my 8 years of casual arcade collecting, I have only owned a handful of pinball machines. However, a couple of weeks ago I got an opportunity to pick up a machine just outside of Bloomington, IN.
Is this mysterious mark the Glak Associates logo?
To date, four fully illustrated white bootleg arcade games have surfaced – Ladybug, Mr. Do!, Jungle Prowl and a Train themed game (Working guess D-Rail). When I picked up my Mr. Do! in 2009 I noticed a tiny logo on both sides of the cabinet that looked like an Eye nestled inside of a letter G. Finally, we now have a theory on the company that goes with that logo.
The little known history of Eagle Conversions Inc.
Lately I've been doing a fair amount of research on those little arcade companies in the 80's, and how they managed to do business. It was in that process that I got exposure to a company by the name of Eagle Conversions Inc. I was surprised that some simple searches in the common places turn up little to nothing about them. One mention of Eagle Conversions on a set of The Glob instructions and a little bit of research led me to find a possible connection to Magic Electronics.
What is this Train / Locomotive Bootleg game?
I've already spent way too much of time my holiday time off doing arcade research. One area of research – Trying to identify the game of another white, illustrated artwork bootleg cabinet. This makes 4 distinct cabinets I've seen – check it out.


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Lucy( my dog) & I were the cooks for Saturday of our work weekend.
The gang was clearing trails & I don't do chainsaws.
Two 8 lb butts cooked old style .
Mustard base , homemade rub, cooked indirect temps ranged from 225-275F
Charcoal to get started & oak chunks every couple hours for the cook!
Low on wood chunks ,had to split my own
No meat thermometer , panned @ 7 hours & took off @ 10 hrs.
Smoked beans , two cans bushes baked , two cans pork & beans , large red onion
Bell pepper, some BBQ rub, two pieces smoked pork neck bones.
Before serving added a big ladle of the dripping from the butt
Few pics.
Butts on
Splitting wood
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Early next year the first "USDA verified tender" beef products are due to hit grocery store meat cases. That event will provide much satisfaction for Michael Dikeman, a retired Kansas State University professor who devoted much of his career to research on beef-carcass quality and tenderness.
Although beef tenderness has been a focus of many researchers over the past decade, the ground-breaking project on tenderness was launched when Dikeman and Cornell University animal scientist John Pollack were awarded a grant from the Cattlemen's Beef Board to study carcass quality and meat tenderness on 14 different breeds of cattle. That three-year project resulted in the first expected progeny
Prior to that project, Dikeman spent the first 16 years of his career working on the Germ Plasm Evaluation and Utilization research projects at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, Neb.
"I coordinated the carcass and meat evaluation portion of that extensive project," Dikeman says. "We characterized 38 different biological types of cattle for performance, carcass quality and meat traits on 8,500 progeny."
Additionally, Dikeman conducted research on production/management systems for bulls, single-calf heifers and different biological types of steers; muscle protease differences in Bos indicus and Bos taurus cattle; ultrasound cooking and computer-modeled cooking of beef; animal stress effects on meat quality; vascular infusion of cattle at slaughter; effects of beta agonists on beef quality; and genetics of beef tenderness.
While Dikeman's research provided a significant impact on production practices and the beef products consumers buy today, it represents only part of his contribution to the industry. As a teacher and mentor to many students at Kansas State, Dikeman's influence on beef production and marketing will last for years.
Indeed, Dikeman taught 13 different courses to more than 9,000 undergraduate and dozens of graduate students before retiring earlier this year after 42 years at Kansas State. He also filled several important roles beyond the classroom, including coach of the university's Meat Judging Team, and advisor to Block & Bridle and Ag Student Council. He won two K-State research scholar awards and nine college, regional and national teaching awards, including a U.S. Department of Agriculture National Association of State Universitiesand Land-Grant Colleges award.
Dikeman's contributions to the beef industry and his roles as researcher, advisor and teacher were recently recognized with his selection to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame, which will culminate in a ceremony and dinner in Chicago on Nov. 3. In a statement about the award, the Meat Industry Hall of Fame noted that Dikeman's research spanned the entire farm-to-fork spectrum in beef production — from genetics to cooking and processing.
His many awards include the American Society of Animal Science Fellow Award (2013), a lifetime achievement award presented to animal scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the industry. Dikeman earned a bachelor's degree in animal sciences and industry at K-State and a master's degree at Michigan State University. Hethen returned to K-State to earn a PhD in 1970.
Dikeman served as president of the American Meat Science Association (AMSA), chairman of the AMSA Reciprocal Meat Conference, and president of the Federation of American Societies of Food Animal Sciences. He authored or coauthored more than 425 refereed journal articles, abstracts, and bulletin articles, wrote two book chapters, developed videos, and co-edited the Meat Science Encyclopedia.
Dikeman and his wife Earline live near Manhattan, Kan., and raise Simmental cattle.


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(Sure will be nice when someone fixes the current picture issue, Hope you all check back when they do to catch the other half).
Temp at 107 and complete with thunder and lightning, today I realized my chance to try out that new charcoal. (See here if you missed the post).
Pizzas are on the menu this weekend. I was going to otherwise add hickory smoke to the cook, but opted to rather check out the natural hardwood flavoring of the briquettes.
One of the toppings for the pizzas was to include sliced jalapeno peppers. I just want to show you my favorite variety
I should also mention that my plan was for pan pizzas. So I prepped my iron pans (Lodge), with a coat of olive oil and sprinkled with cornmeal I just luv a little bit of cornmeal on the crust.
One of the beauties of cast iron pans is that they hold their heat a very long time, so you can keep your pizza hot as the devil. And to add to your convenience you can cut the pizza right in the pan and serve directly from that, right at table. So as not to ruin the table, all one needs are trivets like these, one for each person's personal pan.
Okay, let's make these pan pizzas now. I made my dough with all purpose flour for this occasion to satisfy my brother's preference. See the little dark bits in the dough?-- I like to incorporate a little bit of oregano into it. Oh my!-- What a positive difference and effect that has on pizza dough, for me at least.
Now for the downside of cast iron pans. Since CI is so slow to cool down, it is also so slow to heat up. So I wind up having to prebake the dough before I sauce and top it. Not so with my GraniteWare pan which heats up instantly, and I can top that right away and put on grill. GraniteWare is my own preference to a stone. I am hoping to post an example of that asap. Here is the risen, prebaked dough.
And here is one of the pan pizzas topped and cooked. The other is just like it. I topped these pizzas with moozarella, pepperoni, ground chuck, black olives, and the Trappey jalapenos.
I know you want to see the bottom crust, so here's a couple looks at that.
... And of course the cross sectional view. See what a rise I got out of this? This was a supremely delicious pizza. It had a cracker crisp crunchy crust with a soft, French bready layer a top. The jalapenos really do help bring out all the flavors in all their wonderful intensity. Anyway, two down, one to go-- next one on the GraniteWare, with 100% whole wheat flour and different toppings.


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HOUSTON - A fourth child has died after a home day care caught fire.
A house in the 2800 block of Crestpark at Waypark caught fire shortly after 1:40 p.m. Thursday. The house also serves as a day care facility called Jackie's Child Care, officials said.
Units arriving at the scene found two injured children outside the home and five more trapped inside. Firefighters rescued those inside and took all seven children to several Houston hospitals. All of the victims ranged in age from 18 months to 3 years old.
Three of the children, including Elizabeth Kojah, of Cypress; Kendyll Stradford, of Katy, both 20 months old; and Shomari Dickerson, 3, died Thursday after being taken to a hospital.
A fourth child died at a hospital on Saturday. That child?s identity has not been released.
Neighbors have said the owner, Jessica Tata, 22, was not at the home at the time of the fire.
Several neighbors said they saw Tata pull up to the home with grocery bags, and then realize the house was on fire. Witnesses said she yelled for help and neighbors tried to rescue the children, but the smoke was too heavy.
Of the surviving children, two were taken to Shriners Hospital for Children in Galveston. They were listed in critical but stable condition with burns on less than one-third of their bodies. One child was in good condition at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.
Fire Department sources told KPRC Local 2 that the blaze appeared to have started in the kitchen. Investigators said the house sustained little fire damage.
Jackie's Child Care has been inspected twice over the past three years by the Texas Department of Family Protective Services.
Two violations were found last year -- the facility was missing required carbon monoxide detectors and fire extinguishers. Both violations were corrected the next day, according to records.
The facility was licensed for a capacity of 12 children, from infants to prekindergarten.
The Houston Police Department Homicide Division has joined the HFD arson squad in the investigation. Police said they need to be involved in case charges are filed in the future.
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First I want to thank you all for your help. Last year I bought a gas grill in June and then watched BBQ Bootcamp in July and wanted a charcoal grill. Then I couldn't decide on a Weber kettle grill or a Horizontal smoker. After reading all the past post's I decided on the 22.5 Weber kettle grill and I [u]Love it!!![/u] My question is do any of you have any great potato receipies. I've done the smoked ones. Just wondering what you guys do.
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Last Thurs. I made the 40 mile trip north to Fairway Market to purchase a USDA "Prime" Rib Roast for Saturday family function. Fairway had advertised "Prime" Grade Rib Steaks or Roasts for $8.99lb and I ended up purchasing a nice four bone roast, weighing 10lbs and costing $90. just to see if "Prime" grade made a difference. I'm glad my wife doesn't access this site, cause she wouldn't be too happy about the cost.
I only make Rib Roast two or three times a year for Christmas and Easter Day family dinners or on a special occasion and only when it coincides with the Shoprite Supermarket sale price of $4.99 or $5.99lb for USDA "Choice", which has always been satisfactory. Fact is I prefer brisket over rib roast, since brisket is more versatile with less waste and cheaper.
On Saturday I prepped the roast by applying a light coating of gravy master, then sprinkling it with some kosher salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder. Placed the roast on the gas grill over low heat and after 2 1/2 hours removed it and let it sit. The Roast was juicy and tender, and a decent one time experience, but not outstanding enough to sway me from the cheaper "Choice" grade roasts I have always bought.
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Many films have been shot in Arizona because of its movie-making friendly weather. Arizona also has a wide range of geographical zones that allow for such extreme differences, such as Old Tucson for Westerns to the Imperial Sand Dunes near Yuma for such films as "Star Wars" and "Jarhead," as well as Route 66 in the North for movies such as "Roadhouse 66" and "Natural Born Killers."
In fact, a snowstorm prevented Flagstaff from becoming the center of the motion picture industry in 1911. Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Laskey had decided to relocate their New York-based motion picture company to an area with access to more bright, sunny landscapes for outdoor filming.
When their train arrived in Flagstaff, the sky was a deep blue. The movie moguls were surrounded by the majestic pines, and the snow capped San Francisco Peaks made an awe-inspiring backdrop. Unfortunately, two days after their arrival a storm brought high winds, icy rain and snow that soon turned the town into a winter wonderland, unsuitable for film making.
Regardless, Arizona has had its fair share of limelight. Below is a list of the films shot in Arizona from 1927-1949 with many more to come.
- Wings 1927 Tucson
- The Painted Desert 1931 Tuba City
- Lost Horizon 1933 Tucson
- The Garden of Allah 1936 Yuma
- Gunga Din 1939 Yuma
- Stagecoach 1939 Mesa
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- The Grapes of Wrath 1940 Topock
- The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Grand Canyon
- The Westerner 1940 Tucson
- Casablanca 1942 Flagstaff
- Flying Tigers 1942 Flagstaff
- Road to Morocco 1942 Yuma
- The Outlaw 1943 Yuma
- The Uninvited 1944 Phoenix
- Along Came Jones 1945 Nogales
- Leave Her to Heaven 1945 Prescott, Sedona
- The Bells of St. Mary's 1945 Tucson
- Duel in the Sun 1946 Tucson, Yuma
- Song of the South 1946 Phoenix
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- Blood on the Moon 1948 Sedona
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Välkommen till Stockholm, Sverige, mitt hemland. Låt oss gå checka in. We're in Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden. We're going to start the morning by exploring Gamla Stan, the old part of town. Gamla Stan is where Stockholm was founded in 1252, and in the 18th and 19th century it was considered a bit of a slum where no one really wanted to be. But today, it's one of the most popular and beautiful tourist attractions in Stockholm. It's really cute here as well. Let's go and have a look around.
During the Europe Train Challenge, we've gone to so many old towns, but Gamla Stan here in Stockholm is still my favorite. It's so cute, it's so cozy, and it's so quiet. I love it. It's also kind of weird because it's about 10 o'clock in the morning, and there are not many people about at all. It's a Monday morning, there's no tourists, the shops aren't open, it's kind of strange. It's kinda strange. Jag är svensk. Jag en viking. Jag är svensk. Pretty cool, huh? Apparently this is the narrowest street in Stockholm. Pretty long too. We're having a quick break before checking out the changing of the guard at 12 o'clock, so we bought a few traditional Swedish snacks. Yeah. We bought some kanelbullar. Swedish cinnamon buns, and—you can have that one—and also knäckebröd, Swedish sort of crispbread with honey in it.
Chill Out & Relax In Budva Montenegro
We've arrived in Budva, a cute little beach town here in Montenegro. We're going to be staying here in the Old Town, so we're going to check into the hostel and then we'll go and explore the city tomorrow. Good morning from Budva. We're up nice and early before it gets too warm. We're going to start the day by exploring the Old Town behind us. We're going to walk through the many alleyways, see a few of the churches there, grab a coffee and check out the boutique shops. There's a lot of history in this Old Town which seems really interesting. Now after that maybe we'll go and explore one of the 17 beaches they have here in Budva.
This town is actually 2,500 years old, so it's really old and really beautiful. I think one of the churches is just around the corner, so let's go and have a look. It's so peaceful here. It's a really cool feeling here, sitting on one of these city walls. I mean this was built 2,500 years ago, and thinking about all the people who have been coming here, sitting down just like me, overlooking the ocean, it's a pretty cool feeling. Walking around the Old Town here and just realizing it's been here for over 2,000 years here like you said, the stonework, the alleyways, there's so much history here, and it's just so well preserved. Not only the architecture here that is well preserved, but also the traditions as well. I mean we're sitting here in a stage where people have been performing for a long, long time, and every year they have this theater festival where people come to watch these dramas on the same place where they've always been held, and that's why Budva is called the Theater City. We've spent the morning walking around the Old Town. It's been really cool to see, beautiful.
We've been asking the locals if they have any local dishes, snacks or something like that, and it doesn't seem they have that many. But we did find something. What's it called? This is a pooja. It's like a cornbread muffin. And it's not really typical for Montenegro alone, but more for the whole Balkans it seems very popular. It's nice. So we're going to grab a coffee, finish this, and then head to the beach. One of the things that Budva is most famous for are its 17 different beaches. This is one of them. It's right outside the Old Town. Let's go and test the water. That was refreshing. Great way to finish the day here in Budva, and tomorrow we're off to Serbia.
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Prince Charles and Premier Greg Selinger opened Sara Riel's Place Bernadette Poirier in St. Boniface today, marking supportive housing for people with mental-health issues.
"I can't tell you how much I appreciate the enormous amount of effort that so many people have put into this project," the Prince said at a reception of about 120 people.
"It's a wonderful example of so many people working together for such an imaginative and valuable project. I do hope it makes it makes an enormous difference to people's lives in this part of Winnipeg."
The 28-unit Place Bernadette on Kenny Street is operated by Sara Riel, a non-profit organization established by the Grey Nuns. It cost $8.9 million to build.
Sister Jean Ell said it was a pleasure to have the Prince mark the opening.
"We need double, triple this," she said of more affordable housing for less fortunate Manitobans. "It's disrespectful to clients to put them in a garbage dump type of place."
On her own at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet this afternoon, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, chatted with dancers and front desk staff, asking them how long they'd been with the RWB. She also took in a pas de deux performed by two young dancers, checked out some tutus and accepted a watercolour sketch by artist Shannon Lovelace.
More than a dozen developmentally challenged people also demonstrated a series of dance dance moves for the Duchess, using wheelchairs and walkers.
"How long have you been coming?" Camilla asked one gentleman in a motorized wheelchair. "Do you find it helps you?"
Prior to her visit to the RWB, Prince Charles and Camilla toured a small gallery of artwork, books and other materials connected to Winnie The Bear today during their whirlwind tour of Winnipeg.
The couple arrived at the Pavilion at Assiniboine Park to loud cheers from about 150 well-wishers.
Inside, the royal couple learned about the bear's connection to Winnipeg. The bear is named after Winnipeg, who inspired the Winnie The Pooh stories.
They also looked at an oil painting of the bear staring into a honey pot from the 1930 by Ernest Shepard and a photo of the original bear.
They looked at drawings by illustrator Ernest Shepard
"They're so familiar," Charles said to Camilla.
They also met with five children and some adults who were reading stories. Camilla knelt down and talked to one child.
Outside, sisters Meagan and Jillian Gillis presented the Duchess of Cornwall with a bouquet of sweet peas, carnations and roses.
"She said thank you for the flowers," Jillian, 8, said.
"We'll remember this the rest of our lives," Meagan, 12, said.
Prince Charles also chatted briefly with veteran Peter Corcoran, who served in the Parachute Regiment, of which he said Prince Charles is the supreme commander.
"He said, 'I see you're keeping yourself pretty fit,'" Corcoran, 73, said.
The smell of wood chips and a docile and cooperative polar bear greeted Prince Charles as he arrived at Assiniboine Park Zoo.
His Royal Highness got up close to Hudson the polar bear, feeding him capelin, a type of fish, through a fence with the use of tongs.
The feeding was part of a positive reinforcement training exercise in which zookeepers coax the bears to put their paws on the fence so they can examine them.
The exercise went without a hitch as Hudson did as expected and received his reward. Just to make sure the bear co-operated zoo staff had withheld part of Hudson's meal earlier. He was to receive the rest of his feeding after the prince departed.
Charles asked questions about Hudson, including whether he is fully grown. The bear seemed to take the royal attention in stride, unfazed by either His Royal Highness or the gaggle of reporters and photographers following him.
While touring the soon-to-be opened Journey to Churchill Exhibit, Prince Charles also met the Grade 4 class from Angus McKay School and received a painting of an owl from aboriginal painter and sculptor Allan Chapman, whose artwork is on display at the Seal Gallery at the zoo.
Several dozen people lined the entrance to the bear enclosure waiting for a glimpse of the prince. They were rewarded with a close-up view. Charles made a joke about ruining their phones and cameras as he strolled by.
"It was very cool," said Breanna Millhouse, a Grade 12 student from Nelson McIntyre Collegiate who attended with members of her school.
Earlier, Prince Charles told a group of school children and dignitaries this morning Manitoba has changed a lot since his last visit in 1996.
"But what has not most assuredly changes is the vitality of the province," he said, in his first speech of the day.
Dozens of elementary school kids were on hand to greet the couple at Red River College's Stevenson Hangar, waving flags and hooting for the television cameras.
Charles and Camilla walked through the hanger, checking out the small aircraft, as Manitoba's senior federal minister Shelly glover and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson trailed behind, their hands clasped demurely.
The Stevenson Hangar is where Red River students train to work in the aerospace industry. Normally the hangar is even more jammed with half-deconstructed helicopters and airplanes, but staff, who joked they were on hand in case the power went out, said the place had been tidied up for the royal visit.
Jobs and the Economy Minister Theresa Oswald had a brief chat with the prince as he made his way through the handshake line.
"Jobs and the economy? You must also care a lot about all these children and what they're going to do in the future," Charles said to Oswald.
"They are splendid, every one, and so excited to see you."
Oswald said she met the Queen years ago and wasn't expecting to be starstruck, but said the Queen was like a rock star. This time, Oswald said she knew what to expect.
"My heart was pounding," she said.
Charles spoke briefly about the need to fill the skills gap and said the issue is one he's been working on, but that it is like "pushing water up a hill." Technical training programs such as Red River College's fit the bill.
He also praised the "wonderful, patient, energetic teachers" on hand to corral the kids.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who announced two donations to charities close to the Prince's heart, welcomed the royals to Winnipeg.
"The day we all threw paper airplanes with their royal highnesses is one we won't soon forget," said Harper.
The royals also got a gift for Prince George, a baby-sized flight jacket. That sparked a collective "awww" from the crowd of kids.


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Markus Naslund said today after practice that he'd like to see lines with a little more chemistry, and he might get to see how that works as soon as tomorrow night in Dallas. Naslund worked on a line with Scott Gomez and Aaron Voros in today's practice.
That makes the rest: Nigel Dawes, Lauri Korpikoski and Ryan Callahan; Blair Betts, Colton Orr and Fredrik Sjostrom; and Chris Drury, Brandon Dubinsky and Nikolai Zherdev.
"We played a number of games with the lines exactly as they'd been, I don't know 6, 7, maybe in a row," Renney said. "We went into Boston did a few changes there and gave them a heck of a run for their money. I thought we were dominant against Atlanta. So, at the end of the day you put combinations of people together that you think are going to work and there's no question chemistry or continuity or synergy is important. At the same time if the game plan is something everyone understands and gets their head around, it shouldn't matter a whole lot who you're playing with. But you try to capitalize on what each guy can bring to the line."
The other piece of news out of the day has to do with the flu. Goalie Henrik Ludqvist and defenseman Paul Mara missed practice with the flu. Coach Tom Renney said he expected Lundqvist to play, but might pull a player from Hartford to make the trip to Dallas in place of Mara. Dmitri Kalinin will not make the trip.
Steve Valiquette said he was ready should he be needed, despite his own cold.
"My life is, I'm ready to go," Valiquette said with a laugh.
Petr Prucha is a healthy scratch again.
And our own Journal News columnists Rick Carpiniello (aka Carp) and Sam Borden will take on the issue of Barry Bonds and steroids (gotta love the Daily News backpage tease to the story "Urine Trouble") on the Faceoff Blog.
AFTERNOON UPDATE: The Rangers just recalled D Corey Potter from Hartford. You'd have to guess he'd be a scratch tomorrow unless Mara doesn't make the trip.


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BOLTON'S faithful England fans were put through the wringer again as Luis Suarez struck twice to leave England facing a tough task to qualify for the World Cup's knock-out round.
The Bolton News watched England take on Uruguay in a crucial match alongside hordes of expectant supporters in the Elephant and Castle pub in the town centre.
There was a carnival atmosphere in the pub before kick-off, with scores of red and white-clad fans packing into the venue, singing and enjoying a nerve-calming pint or two.
And the mood was one of optimism, with most fans thinking the England team could build on a promising display in their opening defeat to Italy.
The mood was tense in the opening stages, with little to separate the two teams on the pitch.
Wayne Rooney twice went close, leaving most in the pub with their hands on their heads.
The lively atmosphere was silenced, however, when Liverpool striker Suarez headed in for Uruguay, five minutes before half-time.
But the pub's roof was almost lifted off when, with 15 minutes left, Glen Johnson's pass found Rooney in the box, who tapped in.
Cue wild celebrations from the Bolton faithful.
The elation, of course, was not to last long, as Suarez won it for Uruguay with five minutes remaining.
Fan Kyle Oakes, aged 23, summed up the mood: "The support, as ever, was fantastic, but we are what we are.
"People always over-hype England's chances, but tonight was the best team Hodgson could have picked and we came up short.
"Every team we play just seems to be able to get the better of us."


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You can forgive the Manitoba Jockey Club for feeling a wee bit shocked and awed at the events of the last few days.
A proposal to have the Red River Exhibition take over Assiniboia Downs -- the facility owned and operated by the MJC -- came up rather suddenly on Jan. 30. The neighbouring RRE wants to take over the track with a promise that thoroughbred racing will continue. However, there was no formal discussion with the MJC before the story went public.
That's is not to say the whole proposal came out of thin air.
The MJC is caught between two large and inescapable problems: the declining economic viability of horse racing and the immediate prospect the province will cut financial support it has provided to keep the industry afloat.
In Manitoba, the MJC and the horse-racing industry receive $10 million in government subsidies and tax rebates. This includes $6.5 million from VLTs at the track, a rebate of taxes charged on winnings, supplements for race purses and direct subsidies to breeders. Without this support, horse racing in Manitoba would have died a long time ago.
The hard truth is that horse racing all over North America is fighting for its life. The total "handle" -- gambling parlance for the total amount of money wagered on horses -- has declined in Canada between seven and nine per cent annually. In New York state, the handle is now about 20 per cent of what it was in 1974. Although horse racing's premier events -- the Triple Crown races and the Breeders' Cup -- show strong growth, overall attendance is steadily evaporating.
Why such a decline? Online poker, Sport Select and destination casinos have overtaken horse racing as a preferred gaming option. Horse racing has also been ravaged by scandal, particularly rampant equine drug abuse.
As interest in horse racing wanes, so too has the will of government to support it. Many provinces have already eliminated support for horse racing. In Manitoba, the province is facing a significant budget deficit and, it has been learned through this story, was about to cut in half its support for horse racing.
Notwithstanding the manner in which the Red River Exhibition unleashed the news, the fellows at the MJC should have seen some trouble brewing. The fact the RRE did discuss this with the province but not with the MJC speaks volumes about what is undoubtedly a strained relationship between the two groups, and shows the MJC has lost whatever political leverage it once had.
Of course, horse racing as an industry has hit above its political weight for some years now. Successive provincial governments have poured increasing amounts of subsidies and rebates into the industry, despite the fact it has been in steady decline. That is not to say the MJC has not done some good; it's not hard to find people who think Assiniboia Downs is much better off now than it was in its previous lives. That having been said, there was a growing frustration by the province with the MJC's refusal to seek and develop new business to make the track busier and more profitable. In addition, harness racing had tried for years to get back into the Downs with no success.
The MJC appears for all intents and purposes to have been stuck in a rut with no plan for how to survive in the event the government cut support. There may have been long-term plans -- the MJC has suggested as much -- but it did not appear there was anything in place to soften the blow of a $5-million cut in support when the province tables a budget in a few weeks. On the other hand, the RRE is full speed ahead with an ambitious expansion plan to establish a year-round agricultural exhibition and convention centre.
That has given the RRE the look of an entity with a future.
The next step is unclear. As owner of the Downs, the MJC is under no obligation to transfer the facility to the RRE. However, as a non-profit, its options are limited. It's not clear the MJC could simply sell the land, and although it could borrow on the value of their asset, without a dynamic new business plan, it's hard to see that being a good idea. The MJC may not like the way it's been treated, but declining economic prospects and reduced government support make this very nearly a snooker. A $5-million cut in support will likely mean bankruptcy for the MJC at some point this year.
Some in the horse-racing community may not like the manner in which the news was delivered, but metaphorically speaking, this is a narrative they should understand well.
In the race to save horse racing, the province was essentially presented with two options. After handicapping both, it has gone all in and wagered on the Red River Exhibition, in large part because it's not clear the Manitoba Jockey Club will even make it to the gate.
Like all forms of gambling, there is no such thing as a sure thing. If you're a fan of the sport of kings, all you can do now is hope the province has found a true winner.


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Most everyone knows Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is an economic engine for the state, but the actual numbers are nothing short of staggering.
One of the 10 busiest airports in the nation for U.S. passenger traffic, Sky Harbor had a $33 billion economic impact in Arizona in 2007, supporting 305,136 jobs through the Phoenix Airport System with a payroll of $11.9 billion. This includes airline employees, food service, security and air traffic control personnel. Currently, more than 33,500 people are employed at Sky Harbor with a payroll of $1.7 billion.
Directors of three Valley airports provided an enlightening perspective of aviation issues relating to economic growth and environmental quality at Valley Forward's recent luncheon. Expert panelists included: Danny Murphy, aviation director for Phoenix Sky Harbor; Lynn Kusy, executive director of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport; and Gary Mascaro, aviation director of Scottsdale Airport.
According to the Arizona Airports Association, more than 470,000 Arizona jobs are related directly or indirectly to aviation with an annual payroll of $14.7 billion. The aviation industry facilitates further economic development by bringing visitors and newcomers to the state and provides vital links for transportation services that add value to the region.
Over the past few years, our local airports have made tremendous strides in becoming more environmentally sustainable. For example, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport's terminal expansions are energy-efficient and can support solar panels installations. Scottsdale Airport reuses materials for pavement projects and installs LED systems for airfield lighting replacements. Additionally, there are plans underway for a new airport operations center, which will be built in accordance with the city of Scottsdale's green building standards. Phoenix Sky Harbor also has incorporated a number of green initiatives including reducing energy use through greener construction and energy-efficient buildings, using alternative fuels and finding ways to cut back on overall waste.
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