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I believe I owe a lot to the fact I was fortunate enough to have a parent in the military. It gave me a better understanding of the world we live in, and the folks inhabiting it. I have been told I'm not a "normal" male by a number of females in my life...I think they meant I don't fall into a lot of the normal male thought processes, or behavioral patterns. I'm shy and soft spoken until I know which way the wind blows, and can adjust to fit, when necessary. I'm not into sports too much, while I watch a game or race occasionally, not a "pastime".I don't "bond" well with other males, so no fearing the poker nites, or "out with the boys"
Some say I like to be the dominant partner, but I can take that or leave it...I'm more concerned about the happiness and well being of my partner, in most things in life. I have been called a teacher, confidant (I can keep a secret)and an "enabler" (someone who enjoys making situations possible for another), and someone "special" or a "catch" (by a number of females past and present.
This is not to say I am anywhere near perfect..I'm sure some see faults in my personality, and if pointed out to me, and deemed important, I will still attempt to rectify the situation. I stand by my friends and past partners now. When I was young and stupid I had cheated on my first wife...but to this day she and I are friends. I will do anything possible to aide and care for those that enter my "inner circle", and when I say, "I will be there for you", I will.
I think I have been unemployed for a total of 6 months since I was old enough to work at 14, but it took me a while to get ahold of my finances....so I'm not the millionaire I wanted to be. Early in life, and after a frugal upbringing, the phrase of "its only money" equaled live paycheck to paycheck....but thankfully I got over that, lol. Not rich, but not uncomfortable either. Own the house, a cpl vehicles,couple of bank accounts and an underfunded 401(k){Blaming the 3rd wives education for that one!}
That and maintaining a home and the relationships I have fostered over the years.....
Conversation...if its a topic that interests me.I can hold up my end of most conversational topics.
Helping others,
Being there...
and yes, sex...
Hangin at home puttering in the garage...
Missing the cuddling with a special person in my life.
too much...;)
(Oh, and the casual sex thing....well there has to be a connection of some sort)


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BEIJING – Throughout 2010, China was criticized by the United States Congress (and many others) for "manipulating" its currency in order to maintain an advantage for exports, and thus preserve its trade surplus. China's behavior, it was alleged, was the source of today's huge global imbalance.
China, however, refused to accept the blame and declined repeated US demands to undertake a large revaluation. The exchange rate of the renminbi against the US dollar rose only about 3% between June 2010 and the year's end. According to an analysis used by some American economists and politicians, the low rate of currency appreciation, combined with Chinese export growth of 31% in 2010 over 2009, should have increased China's trade surplus by a wide margin.
In fact, China's trade surplus decreased by 6.4% in 2010 compared to 2009. And that decline follows a 30% drop in China's trade surplus in 2008, owing to the global financial crisis and subsequent recession. Overall, China's trade surplus has decreased by 36% in absolute US dollar terms, and has dropped by more than half (53%) in proportion to GDP over the past two years. So the ratio of China's current-account surplus to GDP is down to 4.6%, significantly below the recent peak of 11.3%, reached in 2007.
These data demonstrate conclusively that the "exchange-rate centered" theory of the trade imbalance does not match reality. China's economy over the past two years has become much more balanced in its external trade relationships, despite there being no significant exchange-rate adjustments.

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With 2 lines and over 10 products, Brickadoo is suitable for all ages and the building blocks can be used again and again because the cement dissolves quickly in water. Playing with Brickadoo means no GAME OVER and batteries are NOT required. Brickadoo stimulates both your imagination and manual skills. Very cool for kids and grownups alike. Each building is sold separately.


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Now that the weather is FINALLY turning around, Fashionista's are ditching the parkas and riding boots for more springy ensembles. I know I'm not the only Fashionista out there that's excited. I spotted this Fashionista on one of the first nice days of the spring semester rocking a casual outfit fit for multiple occasions.
For a day spent wondering campus and walking in and out of classes and meetings, mimic this Fashionista's spot-on look. Start with a pair of light-wash jeans to get out of those dark tones you've been sporting all winter. Check out American Eagle Outfitters for tons of jean options. Then, find a flowy top. This Fashionista opted for white lace, great for many reasons. The white tunic top this Fashionista chose made it acceptable for a meeting with a professor or just hanging out with friends, enjoying the sunshine.
Keep the accessories simple and start with a comfortable flat. TOMS are a popular choice when walking all over Misericordia's hilly campus. To add a little more flair to your outfit, chose a flat with more 'pop' value. Then, add a few silver accents to help pull the whole thing together. This Fashionista chose a silver Fossil watch that did the trick.
Keep it simple for a warmer day on campus and stay comfortable, Fashionistas. This freshman knows the perfect way to stay stylish and cozy all semester long.
One Simple Change: Change this outfit up to make it appropriate for a more professional occasion. Swap the jeans for a circle skirt and tuck in the white lace top. Choosing a bright color, like this one from Urban Outfitters, would be a great springtime choice. Now you're ready for a casual date night to an outdoor restaurant!


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Alabama is famous for only three things: football, creative trailer maintenance, and "Tornado Alley". Alabamians use mobile homes (MH) for many purposes other than just for residence, such as extra school classrooms, places for construction workers to nap while at work, or one may simply knock out all the windows and abandon it in a wooded area for an excellent rattlesnake breeding area. I like to think that the violent weather helps with the artistic presentation of some of the following mobile homes. An entire industry has developed for the science of "tying down your trailer during a tornado". It is the advice of this webmaster that you place no trust in tie-down gadgets, but instead go to visit your neighbor with a real house before the storm gets to you! I lived in a third-hand 35 year old MH for six years. No photos exist of this magnificent masterpiece of residential art, I'm sad to say. Here are plenty more examples of traditional Alabama folk MH artistry. Enjoy!!
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
DTCC Site News!
First and foremost, important announcing including both myself and Dogs That Chase Cars. All my golf writing from now on will be here and here alone. My past job and I have split ways, and I'm going to focus most of my attention on this page and making it better. We have a redesign coming, along with some other fun stuff in the near future and I'm hoping it all gets done before the 2010 PGA Tour season kicks off so it'll be all polished and ready drive.
That is the mini-version. The bigger version is the company I was working for had to make some tough decisions and one of them was not to keep around myself, which is understandable in such a struggling economy (And really, who wants to read me when you can get some Jay Mariotti in your life).
Leaving FanHouse was tough, because I feel the past year was a fun way to move the golf page along to compete with some of the other, bigger sites. Sadly, it never worked out the way I had planned, and it eventually was becoming more of a battle than it should have been (probably as much my fault as anyones).
Writing the way you want to write should be your main focus. That's it. Bill Simmons, who really is the crusader of this Internet sports storm, said something in an interview that I will never forget. He was asked about blogs, and where they're headed.
"If you're good, people are going to find you. You can twist it around every way you can and say 'What does this mean? Where's this going? Is this a movement?' But it comes down to 'Are you a good writer? Do you have good information? Do your readers trust you? Do you have an interesting spin on things that people haven't seen? Are you funny?' That's the stuff that's going to get you read. I don't think that's changed. That was the same case in 1980 as it is in 2009.," Simmons said. "Instead of constantly wondering 'What are we? What's our identity?' just go out and kick ass."
That'll be my goal from this point forward. Have some fun, try and kick some ass and hope you guys will be along for the ride. Anything you'd like to see changed, different, tweaked, implanted ... just let me know. And thanks for the continued support.
9 comments:
- Andrew said...
Looking forward to new and improved DTCC and the the re-dedicated and ever so creative BSB.
Lobster Dance...
- November 12, 2009 at 11:03 AM
- Matt said...
I have a confession... I rarely hopped over to Fanhouse to read your stuff. Probably more of a function of Mariotti's existence there than anything - I can't stand the guy.
Your stuff here has always been better - more free writing and free thinking. Its just more fun to read. Keep it up! I look forward to the new site and more posts!
- November 12, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- Hack said...
Good...I never went to that site anyway. Easier for me. I win.
Best of luck.
- November 12, 2009 at 4:23 PM
- Aaron Bennett said...
Excellent news. Fanhouse blows, and while i'm sure the paychecks were helpful, I bet your readers would rather have all of your content here.
- November 13, 2009 at 6:57 AM
- Roody said...
I've only been reading your blog for a few weeks now, but I've quickly become a fan. Looking forward to seeing the changes. As long as the witty content is the same, a pretty site is merely a bonus.
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I have tried that multiple times. There seems to be no obvious inport in my CD 3000 Bose which is the large unit -- only input ports are " double" ports that don't correspond to the cable that fits in the IPad. I used the same cable recently on vacation with a Bose unit and it worked just fine. So, I am wondering, are my units " too old? ( 5-8 years old) or is something else going on. My main concern is the connection to the larger unit. Maybe the settings need to be different? Thanks.
The only ports on my large Bose unit - CD 3000 are double ports unless you can tell where a single port for the headphone cable would be located. I am away from my large Bose unit - in another apartment- but will be there on Friday and can give you more info.
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Pretoria - Iraq's ambassador to South Africa, Hisham Al-Alawi, expressed concern yesterday that South Africa was not moving faster to buy crude oil from his country and to implement an agreement to work together to refine Iraqi crude oil and gas.
He warned that the opportunity might not last much longer as other countries were competing for Iraq's oil.
Al-Alawi was speaking at a press conference in Pretoria on Thursday to celebrate what he called Iraq's successful April 30 legislative elections – the third since dictator Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003 – and also the 20th anniversary of South Africa's democracy.
He said he had expected the parastatal oil company PetroSA to seize the momentum created by a successful fact-finding visit by South African energy companies and officials to Iraq last year.
He had expected by now it would submit a request to buy oil and also proposals for co-operation between the two countries in refining crude oil and exploiting Iraq gas, using South Africa's advanced technology, as agreed after the visit.
Al-Alawi said the quality of Iraq crude oil was especially suitable for South African oil refineries. South African officials said it was similar to that of neighbouring Iran. South Africa has been forced to stop buying Iran oil because of US sanctions.
However, the ambassador did note that the Strategic Fuel Fund had made a request to buy oil which Iraq would oblige.
Al-Alawi said Iraq and South Africa had also decided to work together in several other key fields including trade, investment, technical co-operation, tourism and higher education, including exchanges of students and were negotiating a binational commission to deepen relations.
Trade now averaged between R200 million and R500 million a year, which was well below the potential which he set at more than R10 billion a year, he said. He noted the trade ministers had met successfully in South Africa in 2012 to sign an agreement to boost trade and technical co-operation.
Al-Alawi insisted that the security situation in his country need not deter increased co-operation between the two countries, claiming that the media perceptions of Iraq were inaccurate. The South African energy delegation which visited Iraq last year had been favourably impressed, he said, noting that they had safely driven – rather than flying – from the southern city of Basra to the capital Baghdad.
He noted that the death toll of the sectarian violence had dropped from a high of 16 000 to 17 000 a year between 2005 and 2008 to about 3 000 a year between 2009 and 2012, according to UN figures.
But it had risen again to 7 818 last year because of a spillover from the fighting in neighbouring Syria, he said.
Al-Alawi said the Iraqi elections had been deemed "free, fair and very successful" by many local and international observers, including the European Union, with a turn-out of 63 percent of all eligible voters and 73 percent of those who had registered – "similar to South Africa's".
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shia Islamist coalition had won a plurality of 93 seats in the 328 seat Parliament which means it will have to create a coalition to form a government. If it succeeds, Maliki will start a third term as head of government. - Independent Foreign Service
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Madhubala - Ek Ishq Ek Junoon is going to see Sultan who somehow manages to kidnap Madhu (Drashti Dhami) very soon. He is going to fool Joshi (Police Officer) and also RK (Vivian Dsena) and manage to take away Madhu.
The latest spoilers have shown that Sultan is hurt and is bleeding and has managed to take Madhu away. Sultan looks like he has taken a couple of bullets and he tries to shoot RK too, but Madhu however stands in front of him and dares him to shoot her instead. Though he does not shoot, stands with a gun in his hand.
The Janmashtami celebrations that started on Friday is still going on in the show Madhubala. The Sultan's character who was predicted to die on the episode is still alive this week too and has managed to kidnap Madhubala from RK and the police officer Joshi, who had his gun aimed at Sultan. But Joshi gets shot by Sultan.
Let's wait for today's episode to see how exactly Sultan manages to escape from under RK and Joshi.
Madhu Escapes The First Time
Madhu manages to escape the first time when Sultan takes her away. She somehow escapes from the car, but gets caught again right in front of RK and Joshi.
The Latest Spoliers Say
The latest spoilers say that Madhu confronts Sultan and dares him to shoot her instead of RK. Though Sultan has the gun to whole time he does not fire a shot.
Madhu was scared from the very beginning about the whole thing and RK manages to assure her that he would protect her from Sultan.


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July 23, 2011 by staff
Boy Sets Record For Most Fingers And Toes, Akshat mother, Amrita Saxena, was surprised by the revelation that was explained by a family friend who researched on the Internet. Saxena said: "He (family friend) read on the Internet about the baby born in China, with 31 fingers. Then he said that my son has broken the record of having 34 fingers. At first I was not convinced at all. It was hard to believe that my son has broken the record. But later, he, along with my husband and my younger sister, recorded data on the Internet. Then he asked me to submit some documents after his name was on the Guinness World Records. "
According to doctors caring for the Guinness record as a child has been diagnosed with the rare phenomenon of polydactyly. Parul Gupta Dr. commented on the abnormality
"The person who is diagnosed is polydactylic. It is because of certain defects in the bone development of the uterus. The reason behind this fault may be the formation of development defects or chromosomal abnormalities, which is due to maternal infection or drugs. "
Polydactyly can also be called as hyperdactyly is a congenital physical dog and cats are prone to as well.
Luckily for Akshat, polydactyly is completely reversible with the help of plastic surgery. Polydactyly, according to Dr. Gupta, you can even "heal normally, without an operation … when [it] is minimal."
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THE death of a Cwmcarn woman caused by a lethal mix of painkillers and alcohol was described as a "tragic accident" by a coroner.
Stephanie Mary Wallace, 47, was found collapsed in the kitchen of their home by her partner David Lloyd on Friday June 7 this year.
A coroner's investigation was told that two months before her death Mrs Wallace, a clerical officer with Aneurin Bevan Health Board, had complained of pains in her arms and chest.
She had sought help at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, but the cause of pain could not be identified. Instead she was prescribed the painkiller Tramadol.
But the pain continued and she was forced to take time off work.
On June 7, Mrs Wallace had spent the day in her garden with her sister, and had had a drink. By the time Mr Lloyd had returned home that evening, her sister had left and the couple had their regular Friday night Chinese takeaway.
At about 10pm, Mrs Wallace complained of feeling tired and thought she may have overdone it after spending the day in the garden, so she went to bed. Mr Lloyd stayed downstairs watching television and fell asleep.
About an hour and a half later, Mr Lloyd awoke and was going to bed when he heard the sound of running water in the kitchen. He went to investigate and found his partner lying on the kitchen floor.
Mr Lloyd called the emergency services and tried to revive her, with paramedics taking over when the ambulance arrived. But Mrs Wallace was pronounced dead.
A post mortem examination revealed that Mrs Wallace had died as a result of the combined toxic effects of the Tramadol and alcohol, which had depressed her central nervous system.
"It was a tragic accident. It just shows the dangers of combining strong prescribed drugs with having a drink," said Mr Bowen.
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ANTHONY LANCIA has joined the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis as assistant VP of local governmental affairs and permitting.
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LEN TOENJES, president of the Associated Contractors of St. Louis, received the Fellow Award from the St. Louis Society of Association Executives.
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CHRIS SCHREINER has been selected as the new Reed Elementary School principal.
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ANN MARIE MAYUGA launched AMM Communications LLC, a public relations firm specializing in professional service firms and small- and mid-cap financial service companies.
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"You Deserve Rape" Guy Takes a Trip to ASU
A University of Arizona student who's well-known on that campus for street preaching with a "You Deserve Rape" sign took his act to Tempe.
Dean Saxton, who calls himself "Brother Dean," enjoys telling women that they deserve rape, as you can see in the video below, taken at Arizona State University late last week:
Yes, it appears that he actually does believe what he's preaching, as the proud virgin has a thoroughly detailed blog chronicling his rants and rambles.
In addition to his rape beliefs, "Brother Dean" also has some rants against gays, kissing, and Santa Claus, among other things.
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Setentia: Darkness Transcend
Setentia's accomplished debut intertwines gut-felt ferocity with forward-thinking expressiveness.
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Gigan- Quasi-Hallucinogenic-Sonic-Landscapes
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Two Surrealist Masterpieces
16 June - 29 October 2017
René Magritte, (1898 -1967) and Paul Delvaux, (1897 - 1994) are the most celebrated of the Belgian Surrealists. This is a rare chance to see Delvaux's The Call of the Night painted in1938 and Magritte's Threatening Weather painted in 1929 and now on loan from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Brick Dinos
15 July – 17 September 2017
Step back in time with Brick Dinos! Enter the Jurassic Period and meet the dinosaurs, each one masterfully built in miniature using LEGO® bricks and using the latest knowledge about how they would have looked.
Preston Muslim Girls' High School Exhibitiion
Stairway Exhibition
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Preston Muslim Girls' High School pupils and staff have embraced their talent and created 'timeless' pieces of art. This collection encompasses an array of visual treats based on the themes of nature, identity and Islamic art.
Lubaina Himid
February - April 2018
We are delighted to be showing a large scale exhibition of the work of Turner Prize nominee 2017 and Preston-based artist Professor Lubaina Himid MBE. The Harris has had a long relationship with Lubaina, showing her work on a number of occasions including most recently Moments that Matter (2012).
If you can't wait to see Lubaina's work on show at the Harris, drop in to our fine art galleries where you can see Hannibal's Sister (above, 1989) from our permanent collection. You can read an article from The Guardian about Lubaina here.
Look out for more information about this exhibition coming soon.
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Discover Preston display
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The Harris is full of stuff – crammed to the rafters with historical treasures, paintings and pots, costume and curiosities. None of it belongs to us – it belongs to you – and we want you to tell us what you think!
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From 13 August 2016
Lose yourself in this unique painting of Preston on the cusp of change – a picturesque harvest scene in the foreground contrasts with the rapidly growing industrial town across the river.
Thanks to a public donations campaign led by the Friends of the Harris, this landscape by John Jenkinson has been expertly conserved at Lancashire Conservation Studios and we are once again able to display it at its best. Look out for dramatic tall chimneys, windmills, traditional hay stooks, and features still recognisable in Preston today.
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On display for the first time, following essential conservation, is this Preston Corporation Lamplighters' Banner. Carried in the 1902 Preston Guild, it shows an elaborately painted gas lamp in the centre. Preston was the first provincial town to be lit by gas and 2016 marks the 200th anniversary of this milestone in the city's history.
Style and Substance: Fashion, Society, Change 1880-1930s
From the elaborate dresses of the 1880s to chunky knits in the 1930s, we explore how British style, for men and women, evolved during a time of major social, political and cultural change.
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Dance First, Think Later Contemporary Art Programme
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By Dustin Hurst | Watchdog.org
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – Bob Allpress, a farmer from the tiny Nebraska border town of Naper, isn't dead set against the Keystone XL Pipeline, though he wishes the company behind the project, TransCanada, would take it someplace else.
"We're not 100 percent against the pipeline," Allpress said. "If only it were sensibly located."
Allpress is just one property owner affected by the pipeline, a 36-inch oil conduit slated to run from eastern Alberta, Canada, to southern Texas oil refineries. He lives on more than 900 acres, ground he splits between crops – usually corn – and cows.
The pipeline, as it snakes through the ground, will also come within about 150 yards of his home. It will also come too close, he says, to a well that provides drinking water for his family and a few neighbors.
TransCanada wants to stick the pipeline right down the middle of his land, cutting the cropland and the pasture in half. The company, if it ever wins federal approval for the project, will take forever a 50-feet wide swath of land from Allpress, and an additional 60 feet span during construction to accommodate cranes, truck and digging equipment.
Once the company finishes pipeline construction, Allpress will be able to use the land again, but TransCanada reserves the right to access the pipeline in emergency circumstances.
For the inconvenience, TransCanada will pay Allpress, like others along the path, a set amount for the temporary and permanent easements, plus another sum for crop losses. The company has also offered to rent pasture land on behalf of ranchers with displaced livestock.
As the Keystone debate, more than four years old, chugs along, the nation fixates on a classic battle of Washington, D.C., powers: Republicans vs. Democrats and environmentalists vs. business.
Yet, in the Cornhusker state, the controversial project divides even deeper, splitting many residents and interested parties who would self-identify as Republicans or conservative. Many of these farmers, typically supportive of a pro-business growth agenda, seem to have one message for TransCanada: not in my backyard – or my farm, either.
"It's the location," Allpress says of reason for opposition to the project. He would eagerly back the project if it were routed differently – a further distance from his home and water source.
The division comes because of Nebraska Code 57-1101, the section of state law that gives TransCanada a huge stick to use during its negotiations with property owners: Eminent domain authority.
"They have eminent domain hanging over our heads," Allpress muttered. "They'll get us one way or the other."
The company isn't afraid to flash the authority, as it revealed in a July 2012 letter to a Central City, Neb., landowner.
"While we hope to acquire this property through negotiation, if we are unable to do so, we will be forced to invoke the power of eminent domain and will initiate condemnation proceedings against this property promptly after the expiration of this one month period," a TransCanada senior land coordinator wrote.
TransCanada did not return an email request for comment on the story.
The situation has many affected Cornhuskers wondering: Why does a private company have state-granted power to take my land?
The answer: pufferbellies.
Christopher Burch, a constitutional lawyer for the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law in Ohio, says a natural evolution occurred in the last century that allow for pipeline companies to use eminent domain. "It's all derived from railroads," he explained.
Here's Burch's explanation of the progression: In the early 1900s, railroads, holders – and often abusers – of eminent domain authority, hauled oil across the countryside. Businesses, seeing pipelines as a safer and ultimately cheaper alternative, lobbied governments to extend the same privileges to pipelines.
Intelligent minds disagree about the rightfulness of delegating that power to pipeline companies, though.
Maurice Thompson, a constitutional lawyer and executive director for 1851, believes the pipeline companies shouldn't have power to condemn land for their own use. The reason? The public doesn't use the pipeline, a classical argument of eminent domain.
"The use of property has to be by the government," he explained. "The Constitution requires public use, not public benefit.
Scholars on the subject generally agree that justification for eminent domain use has broadened widely in the past century, sliding from public use to public purpose to public benefit. Public use, for example, means taking land for roads and bridges. Public benefit, in the vastly expanded understanding, might mean condemning a less valuable property in favor a development that will create jobs or greater tax revenue.
Thompson wonders if the Keystone, which makes no stops in the Nebraska, even directly benefits the state under the widened scope of eminent domain powers. "Does it service anybody in the state, much less everybody?" Thompson asked.
Bill Blake, an attorney with Baylor Evnen Law Firm in Lincoln, Neb., says because the line transports oil, a product always in demand, it clears the public-benefit threshold. He also notes that Keystone will generate millions in new revenue for local taxing entities, including school districts who, he says, are "thrilled to receive it."
Nebraska itself has taken a stand on taking land for economic development purposes. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Kelo vs. New London case that taking land from one party to give it to another group promising greater economic benefits from the land served as a legitimate and legal function of eminent domain.
In a rush to fight back, Nebraska lawmakers passed in 2006 LB924, which essentially banned eminent domain takings for economic development purposes. Lawmakers conveniently carved an exemption for oil and gas pipelines.
The economic benefits argument serves as a powerful persuader in the divisive Keystone rumble. That line of thinking attracted a powerful ally from a somewhat unlikely source: a free market think tank that also professes to treasure property rights.
The clash between the property rights and economic development is readily apparent at the Platte Institute, an Omaha-based free market think tank. Throughout the battle over the pipeline, Platte's stood as an ardent backer. The institute even published in September 2011 a comprehensive report to drum up support for the project.
Yet, less than a year later, Platte released another post extolling economic freedom and "the fundamental right of every human to control his or her own labor and property."
What gives? Jim Vokal, the institute's executive director, told Watchdog.org that, in this case, the project's economic benefits trump property rights. "We support it because it brings significant economic benefit to the state," he explained. According to Platte's own numbers, Keystone will bring 7,500 jobs and millions in new tax revenue.
"The economic advantages outweigh any concerns Platte has over eminent domain," he continued, adding that state law gives homeowners a fair process for garnering just compensation from the takers.
Thompson ardently disagrees, arguing that giving a private company eminent domain authority leaves landowners at a distinct disadvantage and harms their economic interests.
"It's the ultimate in corporate welfare," argues Thompson, who's well-versed in pipelines and eminent domain. He successfully fought back against Enterprise Liquid Pipeline, a Texas-venture, when it wanted to use eminent domain authority to push a pipeline through the Buckeye State.
Thompson strongly believes that pipelines shouldn't have eminent domain authority because it hurts landowners in negotiations, thereby helping corporate bottom lines. "The threat of eminent domain … gives corporations tremendous leverage to lower the amount they pay," he said.
His evidence? Thompson said that once Enterprise realized it couldn't simply take land, it increased the easement payment offer to one of his clients by nearly $100,000.
To borrow and tweak slightly a Notorious B.I.G lyric, "Mo' money, mo' pipeline."
"Everybody has a price and if they don't, you go around them," he said. If landowners and pipeline companies can't amicably agree on a price, he said, the route should move elsewhere.
"If you pay enough money, you'll always find someone willing to let you cross their field," Thompson said.
Lawyers involved directly in Keystone talks agree the process needs some reform, though they can't agree on what route to take.
Brian Jorde of Domina Law in Omaha has been actively involved in easement negotiations with TransCanada. He boisterously supports eminent domain reform for the state because he, like Thompson, says landowners received the short end of the stick.
"TransCanada gets a forever easement for a one-time payment," he complained, though he didn't say whether lawmakers should eye stealing eminent domain authority away from pipelines. Instead, he said, easement terms should come on a temporary basis, forcing TransCanada to pay landowners in regular intervals.
Blake scoffs at the idea that money alone could buy a pipeline's successful passage.
"What are you going to do if you have one holdout?" he queries. "What if that holdout asks for $100 million?"
Blake, who represents a number of property owners negotiating with TransCanada, holds his own reform ideas, but nothing to restrict condemnation use by private pipeline firms. Instead, he wants more disclosure by companies during negotiations and a regulation preventing businesses from beginning condemnation proceedings until after obtaining all required permits.
Still, he admits that eminent domain prevents Nebraska landowners from cashing in on Keystone. When asked if TransCanada hears proposals about regular easement payments, "it goes nowhere," he responds, blaming eminent domain for keeping that compensation plan out of discussions.
The Lincoln lawyer also points out that if the project's cost balloons, so will the price of oil running through the line. That, he says, is tantamount to a tax. "We all pay for it somewhere else," Blake notes.
Thompson is more of a purist on that issue. He doesn't care if oil companies have to move oil through a more expensive alternative, usually rail service. "It's more economically efficient to ship it through a pipeline," he offers. "Is that a public use, to improve profit?"
Allpress confirms Thompson's line of thinking, with one caveat.
"That'd be fair to us," Allpress said of regular payments from TransCanada to property owners. "They're making billions of dollars off this and they're paying us a pittance."
Combine a re-routed line steering clear of his home and well and regular payments from TransCanada, and Allpress says the energy giant wouldn't see any objections from him.
"Something like that would be fair."
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The NFL Draft begins Thursday night in Chicago, with a handful of Oregon products hoping to hear their names called. Before the selections begin, here's a breakdown of the former Ducks who could become pros during the weekend. Byron Marshall, Oregon Position: Wide Receiver Height: 5-9 Weight: 201 pounds 2015 stats: 9 catches, 121 yards, 2 touchdowns. Missed all but four games due... Full story »
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Marshall, who missed the final nine games of the 2015 season with a leg injury, says he feels healthy again. Full story »
Marshall isn't scheduled to participate in on-field drills due to his recovery from a leg injury suffered in September, but will hope to gain favor with teams during interviews. Full story »
Marshall played in four games as a senior before suffering a season-ending injury in September. He compiled 1,000-yard seasons as both a rusher and receiver while at Oregon — but how will that translate? Full story »
DeForest Buckner is expected to be a first-round draft pick. Full story »
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Marshall is hoping to play running back or receiver in the NFL. Full story »
The UO seniors each have the opportunity to return next fall if they so choose, but Marshall told the school website he will not. Full story »
Marshall would join another deep Oregon receiving corps should he return in 2016. Full story »
Ducks special teams rebounding after allowing 'best play I've ever seen' against Utah: Oregon Ducks rundownDucks special teams rebounding after allowing 'best play I've ever seen' against Utah: Oregon Ducks rundownTom Osborne's special teams unit still has this silver lining -- it hasn't allowed a kickoff return for a touchdown since 2006. Full story »
Marshall will reportedly miss the rest of the season with an injury. Full story »
The Oregon receiver is the only active player in the NCAA with seasons of 1,000 rushing and 1,000 receiving yards. Full story »
Marshall has nine catches for 121 yards and two touchdowns this season. Last year, in his first year as a wide receiver, Marshall led the Ducks with 74 catches and 1,003 yards. Full story »
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Gary Thuerk was the world's first e-mail spammer. He wrote the first ever spam email which was sent out on May 3, 1978 to a network of government and university computers.
In total, 600 unwilling people received his email, which was publicizing open houses in Los Angeles and San Mateo. The reaction from the net community to the email was fiercely negative, but Thuerk's spam did generate some sales. In fact, Thuerk estimates it led to $12 million in sales.
Since then, spam emails have grown in numbers, with 90% of all e-mails sent today considered as spam. Estimates suggest that as many as 200 billion spam messages are sent daily, and it's all thanks to Gary Thuerk.
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THE NAKED CORPORATION How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business
How the Age of Transparency
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Over the past decade, the forces favoring corporate openness have been gaining ground. Greater public access to information, aided by new communications technologies, is beginning to change companies' relationships with employees, partners, shareholders, and customers. To many executives, the prospect of ever greater candor is terrifying. But not to worry, say authors Don Tapscott and David Ticoll: For those who embrace it, transparency can be a source of competitive advantage.
In The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business, Tapscott and Ticoll suggest that stakeholders' demands for information give companies a new way to differentiate themselves -- as honest, responsive, and sensitive to specific issues, such as the environment or work conditions. This is a fresh and compelling thesis, backed up by some persuasive evidence. But the authors tend to exaggerate just how much things have changed. Moreover, their book is marred by jargon and phrases that seem exceedingly ill-timed, such as "the new business integrity."
Tapscott and Ticoll, whose previous book was Digital Capital, provide numerous examples of the rewards candor can bring. At insurer Progressive Corp., callers asking for price quotes are given several -- one from Progressive and others from rivals. The authors report that they sometimes take the Progressive deal even when the price is higher. Outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia Inc. prospered after explaining why it was forsaking cheap cotton grown with pesticides for the organic variety.
However, Tapscott and Ticoll turn a blind eye to some recent developments that contradict their thesis. These include the opposition within Silicon Valley to expensing stock options, a move aimed at increasing clarity about these perks' impact on earnings. And the authors downplay such basics as the fact that openness in pricing would prevent a supplier from negotiating different deals with different customers.
Properly deployed, candor can give companies a leg up. But if the past three years of restatements and accounting scandals have taught us anything, it's that secrecy has its own seductive charms. No one should expect the tight-lipped titans of Corporate America to bare all anytime soon.
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Pears in Orange Sauce Recipe
This is one of my favorite easy desserts to serve to guests. There is hardly any prep involved, and everyone enjoys it after a big meal.—Audrey Friberg, Fridley, Minnesota
- 1 can (15-1/4 ounces) pear halves
- 1/4 cup thawed orange juice concentrate
- 1 cinnamon stick (1 inch)
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 4 Pirouette cookies or cookies of your choice
- 1. Drain pears, reserving liquid; set pears aside. Place liquid in a small saucepan; add the orange juice concentrate, cinnamon stick and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Add pears; cook, uncovered, for 2 minutes or until heated through.
- 2. Discard cinnamon stick. Spoon pears into dessert dishes; drizzle with sauce. Dollop with cream cheese and sprinkle with cinnamon. Serve with cookies. Yield: 4 servings.
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It's been announced that Google Street View is coming to the UK!
The first cities in the UK to be included as part of Google Street View will be London, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh — Google cars equipped will the special cameras for this task have been out and about in these areas in the past few months, so it's expected that the images captured will be implemented in Google Street View for the UK by Spring 2009.
UPDATE: Google Street View is now live in the UK and features images of 25 cities – a full list of the cities featured are contained on that page too.
UPDATE 2: It's only taken around a year, but now Google Street View covers most of the UK – try looking up your local area, chances are you'll be able to look around it now!
In case you haven't heard of Google Street View before, it is basically an addition to Google's already impressive mapping services which form their online Google Maps website, Google Maps mobile software, their Google Earth desktop software application and Google Earth iPhone App. This added feature of Street View means that as well as seeing a location in map form and from a satellite view, you can now 'go down to street level' and navigate around using a 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic interface that allows you to travel virtually around an area.
This is great way of exploring an area online that you plan on visiting soon (or perhaps talking a friend through a journey and giving them directions) – that way you will be able to make sense of the area when you're there and spot recognisable landmarks etc.
Or better still using, while using your mobile phone to look at Google Maps for Mobile, you can use Google Street View while you're actually there making it so much easier to find your way around an unfamiliar city.
Obviously there's going to be a lot of people who's had their photograph taken without their permission and then being shown on the Internet, so to ensure concerns over privacy are respected, Google will be obscuring the faces of anyone who will be featured on Google Street View UK. However, that has proved to be not enough re-assurance for some people in the UK who have actually stopped the Google car from entering their village of Broughton.
For more information and the chance to take a look at some interesting (and some weird) images that Google Street View has captured so far in its ground-level images from around the world, take a look at these pages:
- Zath's Top 7 Strange Google Street View Sights in the UK
- Mashable's Top 15 Google Streetview Sightings
- The Times 10 Bizarre Sights in Google Street View
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PLANO, TEXAS -- Straight off the plane from Arkansas, Mike Huckabee went on a media blitz stressing his conservative credentials and also took a shot at Democrat Barack Obama.
When given the opportunity to distinguish himself from his opponents in the Democratic field, Huckabee offered some harsh words for Obama. Huckabee said Obama would "drop the guns and run away from Iraq," while he wouldn't. Huckabee said Obama would raise taxes and he wouldn't.
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DEALING WITH HUNG COUPLING FACILITY CONNECTIONS ----------------------------------------------- When a DB2 member abnormally terminates, its connections to the coupling facility structures are put into a FAILING state by cross-system extended services for z/OS (XES). The FAILING DB2 member remains in this state until all surviving members of the group have responded to the XES Disconnected/Failed Connection (DiscFailConn) event for each structure. XES sends this event to each surviving member of the group so that the necessary recovery actions can be taken in response to the failed member. After all surviving members of the group perform the necessary recovery actions and provide a response to XES for the DiscFailConn event for a given CF structure, XES changes the failed DB2 member's connection status for that CF structure from FAILING to FAILED PERSISTENT. The DB2 member can reconnect to the CF structure on restart when the member's status is FAILED PERSISTENT. When you restart the DB2 member immediately following a connection failure, it can attempt to reconnect to a CF structure while its connection is still in a FAILING state. If this occurs, XES denies the reconnect request with a 0C27 reason code. DB2 responds to this by entering a connection retry loop until the connection succeeds or until it reaches the maximum retry count. IXL013I IXLCONN REQUEST FOR STRUCTURE DSNxxxx_LOCK1 FAILED. JOBNAME: xxxxIRLM ASID: 0055 CONNECTOR NAME: DXRDBPG$$xxxx002 IXLCONN RETURN CODE: 0000000C, REASON CODE: 02010C27 is message you will see when system was started before the old structure was completely cleaned up. For the SCA, the maximum retry count is 200 times with a 3 second interval between each attempt. For the GBPs, the maximum retry count is 5 times with a 10 second interval between each attempt. When joining the datasharing group, IRLM will connect with current established name protocols which allow it to reusea failed persistent connection. Because recovery for the failed connection may NOT be complete, it may get an 0C27 return code on the CONNECT. IRLM will tolerate the 0C27 return code on the first CONNECT attempt only. It will change the connection name slightly and try again to CONNECT. Since the join to XCF was already successfully done, IRLM will not disconnect from XCF when it changes the name. As a result, the XCF group name will no longer match the lock structure group name. If the second attempt to join the group also gets an 0C27 return code from XES, IRLM will stop the group initialization process and DENY the DBMS identify. **IMPORTANT NOTE** If IRLM connects to the structure as a result of RSN0C27, there will be a FAILED PERSISTANT CONNECTION for this member with the ORIGINAL CONNECTION ID. Failed persistent connections will be deleted by a new IRLM joining the group if there are no RLE associated with the connection and it is no longer needed. Users should ** NOT ** be deleting these FAILED PERSISTANT connections. msgIXL030I CONNECTOR STATISTICS msgIXL031I CONNECTOR CLEANUP ... FOR CONNECTOR n HAS COMPLETED Can be seen on either an IRLM joining or leaving the group. You may notice a message similar to the following message, which indicates a failed connection attempt: IXL013I IXLCONN REQUEST FOR STRUCTURE DB2GR0W_SCA FAILED. JOBNAME: DB2VMSTR ASID: 05E1 CONNECTION NAME: DB2_DB2V IXLCONN RETURN CODE: 0000000C, REASON CODE: 02010C27 The preceding message might be displayed multiple times while DB2 is in a connection retry loop. This is normal. In rare cases, one or more of the surviving members of a group will encounter difficulties in providing the DiscFailConn response to XES for a given CF structure. XES issues a message similar to the following message for each DB2 member that it does not receive a response from within two minutes: IXL041I CONNECTOR NAME:DB2_DB2M, JOBNAME:DB2MMSTR, ASID:0086 HAS NOT RESPONDED TO THE DISCONNECTED/FAILED CONNECTION EVENT FOR SUBJECT CONNECTION: DB2_DB2V. DISCONNECT/FAILURE PROCESS FOR STRUCTURE DB2GR0W_SCA CANNOT CONTINUE. MONITORING FOR RESPONSE STARTED: 08/08/2002 23:50:23. DIAG: 0000 0000 00000000 In extreme cases, the maximum number of connection retries will be reached. If encountered for the SCA, this prevents the failed member from restarting and DB2 issues a message similar to the following message: DSN7506A -DB2V DSN7LSTK CONNECTION TO THE SCA STRUCTURE DB2GR0W_SCA FAILED. MVS IXLCONN RETURN CODE = 0000000C, MVS IXLCONN REASON CODE = 02010C27. IRLM will try over and over again to connect and these msgs will be seen - DXR133I xxxx002 TIMEOUT DURING GLOBAL INITIALIZATION WAITING FOR aaaa Eventually IRLM will get DXR122E xxxx013 ABEND UNDER IRLM TCB/SRB IN MODULE DXRRL732 ABEND CODE=U2025 ( U2025 ) Operator actions for dealing with hung CF connections ------------------------------------------------------- Preform the following actions to recover from hung CF structure connections. 1. Save a dump of all DB2 and IRLM members along with SDATA=(COUPLE,XESDATA) so IBM Software Support can determine what is causing the hung connections. See message II10850 for more information. 2. Attempt a rebuild of the lock structure. Sometimes the SCA rebuild process is suspended on an IRLM lock requst, and there's a chance that a rebuild of the lock structure can shake loose a stalled lock request and clear the condition that is causing the DiscFailConn response to hang. If the Rebuild of the lock structure works, XES issues a message similar to the following message for each group member as it provides the required DiscFailConn response: IXL043I CONNECTION NAME: DB2_DB2M, JOBNAME: DB2MMSTR, ASID: 0086 HAS PROVIDED THE REQUIRED RESPONSE. THE REQUIRED RESPONSE FOR THE DISCONNECTED/FAILED CONNECTION EVENT FOR SUBJECT CONNECTION DB2_DB2V, STRUCTURE DB2GR0W_SCA IS NO LONGER EXPECTED If the Rebuild does not work, proceed to step 3. 3. Issue the D XCF,STR,STRNM=<strnmae>,CONNM=<conname> command for the structure/connector that is in the FAILING state. Alternatively, issue the D XCF,STR,STRNM= <strname>,CONNM=ALL command. If this command identifies the unresponsive members, skip to Step 6. If it does not identify the unresponsive members, proceed to Step 4. 4. Attempt a structure Rebuild for the affected structure, if you have not already done this. 5. If the Rebuild hangs, issue the D XCF,STR,STRNM=<strname> command to identify the unresponsive connector. This will identify the members that are unresponsive to the Rebuild. These members are probably the same members that are unresponsive to the DiscFailConn event. 6. Cancel/recycle the unresponsive members. The STOP DB2 command might not work because internal DB2 processes are hung, so issue MODIFY irlmproc,ABEND command to bring down IRLM, or cancel IRLM and DB2 MSTR. As each member terminates, ensure that XES issues message IXL043I to indicate that it no longer expects a DiscFailConn response from that member. When all members that owe responses have been stopped, all connections to the SCA connections go away. 7. Issue the D XCF,STR,STRNM=<sca>,CONNM=ALL command to verify the status of the connections to SCA. 8. Restart all DB2 members with FAILED PERSISTENT connections. As each member successfully reconnects to the SCA, XES issues message IXL014I. If a problem still exists, proceed to Step 9. 9. Take down/restart the systems on which the unresponsive members are running. If restarting the system does not fix the unresponsive members, proceed to Step 10. 10. Cancel/recycle all connections to CF structures. If a problem still exists, proceed to Step 11. 11. Take down/restart all systems. Refer to z/OS Recovery and Reconfiguration Guide for more inform Other references: - MVS apar OW46531 closing text give additional info on proper Handling of 'FAILING' CF structure connections. - MVS doc apar OW29300.
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Substance Abuse and Chronic Pain Management Curriculum
Acknowledging the dominant role that both addiction and chronic pain play in the practice of medicine in the modern era, our ambulatory curriculum features a number of venues for exposing residents to the depth and breadth of these increasingly complex content areas. As of July, 2014, the Yale Primary Care Outpatient Center now features a weekly multidisciplinary Addiction Recovery Clinic, staffed by two board-certified Addiction Medicine internists, a behavioral psychologist, and an addiction medicine fellow. All interns and PGY2s spend four consecutive half-days in this clinic each year, learning about the behavioral and pharmacologic treatment of patients suffering from addictions to opioids, cocaine, alcohol, and other substances. Over the course of three years, residents undergo intensive training in the Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) model.1 Many residents also complete the online training to become a licensed Suboxone (buprenorphine) prescriber. Through the Ambulatory Friday curriculum, residents benefit from didactic lectures from some of the preeminent experts in the field of addiction medicine, while also benefiting from experiential learning with visits to nearby methadone treatment centers, 12-step self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, and conversations with "guests in recovery." Finally, they have the opportunity to spend elective and/or ambulatory time rotating at one of several Yale-affiliated addiction treatment centers or chronic pain management centers.
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Daily arrests, police and fire report July 31
Police Report
The Bemidji Police Department responded to the following calls:
Theft 10:46 p.m. Tuesday, 2400 block of Paul Bunyan Drive Northwest. Someone drove away without paying for gas.
1:43 p.m. Tuesday, 400 block of Bemidji Avenue North. Gas was reportedly stolen using a business account.
9:41 a.m. Tuesday, 500 block of Sixth Street Northwest. Prescription pills were reportedly stolen.
Sheriff's Report The Beltrami County Sheriff's Office responded to the following calls:
Agency assist
5:13 p.m. Tuesday, 2000 block of Paul Bunyan Drive Northwest. Sheriff's deputies assisted the Bemidji Police Department in a vehicle chase for a woman who had a felony warrant. The four occupants of the car were eventually arrested by the Red Lake Police Department and will be charged in Beltrami County for theft and fleeing a police officer.
Accident 1
:58 p.m. Tuesday, Pleasant Valley Road Northwest in Puposky. A one-vehicle rollover accident resulted in minor injuries.
Fire Report
The Bemidji Fire Department responded to the following calls:
1:58 p.m. Tuesday, intersection of Pleasant Valley Road Northwest and Polaris Road Northwest. Firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident.
8:27 am. Wednesday, intersection of Grange Road Northwest and Nature Road Northwest. Firefighters assisted police at the scene of a fatality.
Daily Arrests
The following person was arrested Wednesday. The charges listed here do not necessarily reflect the nature of the counts that may be levied against them by the Beltrami County Attorney's Office.
Laurie Marie Tejohn, 31
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The following people were arrested Tuesday:
Killian Kase McKenna, 20
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Eugene Howard Olsen, 21
COMMITMENT - Traffic - DWI - Driving while impaired crime
Ryan Devin Ravensborg, 20
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Hold for another agency-Assault with a Dangerous Weapon
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Hold for another agency-Assault Resulting in Serious Boldily Injury
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Delores Danielle Rodriguez, 22
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Hillsborough closes three schools over swine flu
TAMPA -- There will be no school this week for students at Liberty and Wilson middle schools and Freedom High School.
All three were closed after Hillsborough County school and health department officials found two probable cases of swine flu at Wilson and Freedom. Liberty Middle was closed because it shares a cafeteria with the latter school.
They were among six suspected cases in the Tampa Bay area -- five in Hillsborough and one in Pinellas County. Nine others have been found in other Florida counties.
At a press conference today, superintendent MaryEllen Elia said the district would thoroughly clean the buildings according to federal guidelines, check schools for other potential cases, and reach out to families with known risk factors.
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