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Charleston police had one man in custody after gunshots were fired at a convenience store on Charleston's East End Saturday afternoon.
No victims were reported. One car in the Shop 'n' Go Food Mart store's parking lot was hit with a bullet, according to police.
Charleston Police Sgt. P.A. Perdue said two officers were across the street at the East End Bazaar when they heard what sounded like shots fired.
"Whenever they went over to check it out they found an individual that was walking away and said, 'I'm not hit, I'm not hit. He's got a gun and I'm not chasing him,'" Perdue said.
Several vendors at the Bazaar did not know if they heard a gunshot or a car backfire, they said.
It's the second weekend Charleston police had a presence at the Bazaar, vendors said.
Police did not immediately release the name of the man, who police said would be charged with wanton endangerment.
A store clerk, who did not want to provide his name, said he had just stepped outside for a chat and smoke break with a co-worker.
"I noticed that there was an altercation between a guy in the truck and one guy standing outside of the truck," the clerk said. "They guy ran around the truck and came back around. Then the guy in the truck took a shot at him."
He estimates he was about two feet away from gunfire.
"I'm pretty agitated. I'm ready to leave," he said.
He said he's worked at the store for about 20 years.
"I've seen a lot throughout the years," he said. "It has quieted down a lot up until today. I'm really kind of wondering if it has quieted down now."
People are still out there doing what they are not supposed to do, he said. He'd like to see the crime stop.
"There are people's lives in danger, he said. "When you have a wife and four children — and mine are practically babies — I'm not ready to leave them or my wife."
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Greetings dhamma friends,
Recently I have brought the contemplation of The Four Noble Truths into my meditation practice as well as throughout my day-to-day life. It seems like an easy thing to overlook, but the value of contemplating these four basic truths has brought a lot of clarity to my life lately, especially the stressful and difficult situations that inevitably arise in our lives.
I was wondering if anyone else would like to share their experiences and/or advice in bringing these teaching closer to the heart and making them a regular daily contemplation.
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Fairfax County Young Drivers Summit
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May 20, 2005
Fairfax County Young Drivers Summit
Will Be Held on Friday, June 3
On Friday, June 3, students, educators, parents, law enforcement representatives, traffic safety experts and county officials will converge on the Fairfax County Government Center to discuss ways to decrease the number of deaths for drivers under the age of 21. The participants of the Young Drivers Summit, sponsored by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, will brainstorm how to create safer drivers and safer roads.
In 2004, young drivers accounted for 24 percent of the county's vehicle crash deaths. Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly has listed 10 areas where swift action may make a difference, including transforming the school driver education programs, encouraging parental agreements before teens get their learner's permits and licenses, revoking school parking privileges for traffic violations in the community and increasing DWI checkpoints.
After hearing from keynote speakers and crash survivors, participants of the summit will join one of five groups to expand on these issues and develop new ideas. The groups are:
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- Schools and Prevention: Driving Education
- Parents and Community: Roles, Responsibilities and Involvement
- Enforcement and Suppression: Courts and Police
"Fairfax County has seen the numbers of young driving-related deaths gradually increase over the past couple of years," said Connolly. "This summit will give us the opportunity to hear from hundreds of county residents on what is being done right and what we can improve on. We want to hear from the young drivers themselves, in addition to driver education teachers, parents, police officers and other experts, on how to reverse this trend."
The summit, which will run from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, is open to members of the public and the media. However, because of space limitations, those interested in participating or covering the event are requested to register online by Friday, May 27. Visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/opa/summitreg.htm to register. For more information or reasonable ADA accommodations, please contact the Office of Public Affairs at 703-324-3187, TTY 711.


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When the Dhamma has done its purpose, as you say, that is nibbana. Discarding Dhamma rafts such as anatta happens then, not before.


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1 Ludwig Eichinger and Francisco Rivero (eds.), Dictyostelium discoideum Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology 983, DOI 10.1007/978-1-62703-302-2_1, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013 Chapter 1 The Amoebozoa Christina Schilde and Pauline Schaap Abstract The model organism Dictyostelium discoideum is a member of the Amoebozoa, one of the six major divisions of eukaryotes. Amoebozoa comprise a wide variety of amoeboid and fl agellate organisms with single cells measuring from 5 μ m to several meters across. They have adopted many different life styles and sexual behaviors and can live in all but the most extreme environments. This chapter provides an overview of Amoebozoan diversity and compares roads towards multicellularity within the Amoebozoa with inven- tions of multicellularity in other protist divisions. The chapter closes with a scenario for the evolution of Dictyostelid multicellularity from an Amoebozoan stress response. Key words Amoebozoa , Protista , Aggregative multicellularity , Encystation , Sporulation , Morphogenesis , Cyclic AMP signaling , Phylogeny The Dictyostelids have fascinated biologists for over 150 years with their ability to assemble up to a million amoebas into a tactile migrating organism, which, after seeking out a site for spore dis- persal, transforms into a well-balanced fruiting structure. The development of a range of molecular genetic and cell biological procedures for the species Dictyostelium discoideum over the past 30 years has established this species as an important model organ- ism for the study of fundamental cell biological and developmental processes ( 1 ) . More recently, the evolution of social behavior and the study of genes associated with human diseases and bacterial infections have been added to the repertoire of research questions that can be addressed in Dictyostelia ( 2 ) . With putative applications of research in mind,


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What: Neil LaBute's 10-episode series of interconnected stories that take place at a chic Los Angeles restaurant, with Tom Felton, Minka Kelly, Julian McMahon, David Boreanaz, Keke Palmer, Devon Gearhart, Billy Campbell, Kate Walsh, Cheyenne Jackson, Noah Silver and Ally Sheedy.
When: 9 p.m. Wednesdays for new episodes; past episodes available on Video on Demand.
Where: DirecTV.
Outside DirecTV's El Segundo headquarters, there are rows of giant satellite dishes. It's a hazy summer day in the coastal community and the building — once occupied by Hughes Aircraft on East Imperial Highway near the Los Angeles International Airport — is one of a number of dull-looking giant industrial boxes in the neighborhood.
Even as you walk inside, there are corridors of florescent lights and linoleum floors before you come to an area usually reserved for NFL updates. But on this particular day, there is a colorful set doubling as a trendy Hollywood area eatery named Ellipsis. It is for "Full Circle," a half-hour series of interconnected stories that take place at the chic (faux) Los Angeles restaurant on DirecTV's Audience Network that premieres at 9 p.m. Wednesday.
It was created by playwright, screenwriter and director Neil LaBute ("In the Company of Men," "Your Friends & Neighbors"), in his first foray into television, and inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's classic play "La Ronde," which involves a succession of interlocking conversations about life and love.
In Episode 1 of "Full Circle," an unhappily married woman, Bridgette (Minka Kelly), has a final dinner with her lover, Tim (Tom Felton), before he returns to England. In Episode 2, Bridgette discusses her marriage with her husband, Stanley (Julian McMahon), an entertainment lawyer. And so it goes around until the 10th and final episode when Tim returns — as do some of the other characters — for an explosive finale.
The day I'm there, Billy Campell and Kate Walsh are playing Trent and Trisha, a married couple celebrating their anniversary. When reminisces between the two turn sour, Trent becomes testy with the restaurant's pianist, Peter (Cheyenne Jackson), who has become oddly intrusive. LaBute, who wrote the entire series, loosely divides the episodes by appetizer, main course and dessert.
The actors and veteran director David Petrarca ("Game of Thrones," "True Blood" and "Political Animals") are almost like interlopers, coming onto the set for a few days of shooting. The crew and the actors playing the restaurant employees have been there throughout. There is a three-camera setup, something like a sitcom, which allows for fairly continuous takes.
But this isn't a comedy. As the actors run through their takes under Petrarca's direction, the sharpness of LaBute's dialogue becomes more and more apparent. They are longer — more pointed — speeches than you would normally see on a television show, which are more akin to theater.
"I'm not sure I ever want to do dialogue this good again — it's pretty complex," jokes Campbell.
Campbell is a veteran of a number of TV series but describes this process as being like a play without rehearsal. Shooting nearly an episode a day requires the actors to be on their game right away.
"I'm used to not rehearsing in television, but the writing in television is hardly ever this good or dense," the actor adds.
Walsh, who played Dr. Addison Montgomery on "Grey's Anatomy" and was in "Private Practice" for some eight years, says her first day of the "Full Circle" set was "baptism by fire."
"It was intense and scary," she says.
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"Ultimately, this amazing collaboration starts with Neil's words," says Walsh, "which made me want to try this radical experiment."


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How to Cook & Brown Ground Beef
Cooking ground beef until it's browned and tender is the first step to many of our favorite comfort food recipes, from shepherd's pie to spicy chili. It's a pretty straightforward process, but just in case you'd like a refresher, here's how I do it.
Buy the best and freshest ground beef you can find. Bright pink meat isn't always an indicator of this since packages are often filled with carbon monoxide to keep the color stable. I really appreciate how Whole Foods posts signs for when their meat was ground and wish more stores did this. Otherwise, go by the freshness date on the package. Plan to use or freeze your ground beef within a few days for maximum flavor and freshness.
The trend with ground beef is also to go as lean as possible, but personally, I like a little fat in there. Without it, I find that the beef ends up rather dry and tasteless. I like an 85% lean/15% fat blend the best for most general cooking purposes. If only extra-lean meat is available, I'll sometimes add a little bacon fat to the pan to give it some help.
Apply this same cooking technique to any ground meat you use: turkey, chicken, pork, lamb, or any combination thereof. Cook the meat first, remove it from the pan, then cook your vegetables in the leftover fat from the meat for extra flavor. From a strict cooking standpoint, you don't have to remove the meat from the pan, but I find the vegetables cook better when they're less crowded and this also prevents the meat from drying out or becoming too crumbled.
How to Cook & Brown Ground Beef
What You Need
1 teaspoon vegetable oil or bacon fat (optional)
1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1/2 teaspoon of salt
Spices (optional)
Large skillet - cast iron, nonstick, or stainless steel
1. Film the Pan with Oil (Optional Step): Filming the pan with a little oil helps prevent the ground beef from sticking and scorching in the pan, especially if you are using a stainless steel skillet. Use a little extra fat if you're cooking a lean beef. It's fine to skip this step if you'd like to avoid the extra fat, but pay extra attention to the meat in the first few minutes of cooking to make sure it doesn't burn.
2. Add the Meat to a Hot Skillet: Warm the pan over medium to medium-high heat. Add the beef to the center of the pan.
3. Break the Meat into Large Pieces: Use a stiff spatula to break the ground meat into several pieces.
4. Break the Meat into Smaller Pieces and Brown: Continue breaking the ground meat into smaller and smaller pieces. Sprinkle with salt and any spices you are using. Stir the beef occasionally to make sure it's browning evenly.
5. Finish Browning: The beef has finished when it is evenly browned and shows no signs of pink. Break open a few of the larger crumbles to make sure that it has browned all the way through. Browned ground beef can be used immediately, refrigerated for up to a week, or frozen for three months.
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A much-depleted Keighley succumbed to the SSE Yorkshire Division One leaders.
In the first few minutes, Dinnington blitzed the Keighley line, attacking through forwards and backs, resulting in two tries - one for No 8 Will Marshall and the other for fly half Jonny West, who landed one of the conversions.
Keighley slowly put their game together, however, and camped in the opposition territory - but a breakout by Dinnington led to a try for scrum half Chris Reynolds.
Toward the end of the half, some fine play by the Keighley forwards gave plucky scrum half Ian Woodwiss the chance to dive through a mass of bodies to score, full back Olly Mitchell landing the difficult conversion and, a few minutes later, a penalty.
In the second half, Keighley struggled, although the forwards stuck to their task manfully, and on numerous occasions took play deep into opposition territory.
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In an egregious assault on good government, the North County Transit District board of directors voted Thursday to instruct employees to delete any emails 60 days or older "that do not relate to district business."
What makes it worse is that the board consists of elected officials, including San Diego County Supervisor Bill Horn, who should understand the importance of transparency and openness.
Under the new policy, passed unanimously, employees will be told to delete old emails, including preliminary drafts, notes and memorandums, if the individual employee believes they do not relate to district business.
NCTD spokeswoman Deborah Castillo told the U-T that the reason for the shift is that like other public agencies with similar policies, including Escondido (90 days) and the county of San Diego (60 days), NCTD is running out of storage space.
That's a flimsy excuse, for the NCTD as well as other agencies with similar "delete" policies. No emails should be deleted, period. And the employee who wrote or received an email is the last person who should be deciding whether it's relevant. Thanks to cloud computing, email storage is nowhere near the costly burden it once was. And what price can one really place on the public trust?


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Cafe del Soul, an organic restaurant in Southern Marin's Tamalpais Junction, says its mission is "to give every person who walks through our doors a sense of feeling better than they did before."
You wouldn't think customers would feel a whole lot better than they did before reading a sign that the owner has voluntarily put up near the cafe's front door, informing them that the restaurant is infested with German cockroaches.
"The owner decided, if I can't tell the truth to my customers, then why have a restaurant," said manager Sandro De Oliveira.
For their part, customers have been surprised that a restaurant would be so open about something so unappetizing.
"I was stunned because I've been a customer for a while and I know how much energy they put into putting out a good product and being ethical and doing the right thing," said patron Amelia Beamer.
Oddly enough, she has not been repulsed by the thought of roaches in a restaurant and plans to continue eating there.
"I'm a bit surprised about how un-fussed I am about it," she said. "Cafes have roaches, restaurants have problems. It's not like I haven't seen a bug in my own house."
In their campaign for full disclosure, the folks at Cafe del Soul went so far as to report themselves to the county environmental health services department.
"That hardly ever happens," said supervising health inspector Dave Smail. "We'll get an inspector over to see what's going on."
Cafe del Soul is closing for a day on Wednesday so its pest control company can do a "flush" treatment to try to stem the infestation, which first began in May.
Located at 247 Shoreline Highway, the cafe is one of eight tenants in a strip mall shopping center. Each tenant is responsible for its own pest control, and at least one other business has also reported a cockroach problem. Cafe del Soul fears that there are roaches in the walls throughout the entire complex, and the infestation won't be alleviated until the entire shopping center is treated.
They say they reported this to the building owner and property manager, Charlie Elqare, months ago, but he neglected to do anything, forcing them to inform their customers of the infestation, putting pressure on him to act.
"We keep fighting and informing him," De Oliveira said. "But he has closed his eyes and let it happen."
Elqare denies the accusation, accusing Cafe del Soul of "trying to pass the buck."
"I'm following up with my pest control company and the pest control company of each tenant," he said. "We have to treat all the affected areas and stay on top of it. It needs to be solved and that's what we're doing."
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AS THE LITTLE CESSNA drops its right wing and begins a slow turn east following the creekbed of the Dry Sandy, the Oregon Buttes loom before us like a blunt-faced whale surfacing from the sagebrush plains, barnacled with limber pine. In the passenger seat, conservationist Tom Bell tries to sort the snow-dusted trails, creeks and escarpments below us.
He is trying to pick out the Oregon Trail, one of several historic tracks across southwest Wyoming, where the mountains of the Continental Divide flatten out in a huge expanse of high, arid plain known as the Red Desert. Historic landmarks are only one of the unique features of the desert: Within an area of five million acres--bigger than the state of Connecticut--are huge traveling sand dunes, the largest migrating herd of pronghorns in North America, desert elk and the topographic wonder of the Great Divide Basin, a bowl from which no water escapes, east or west.
"Some people don't see the beauty, or the value," says Bell, who has spent a lifetime defending the Red Desert against those who would dig up its minerals, wipe out its wildlife or string power lines along the old wagon ruts. "But a vast inland desert at this high elevation is so unique."
There is no exact border to the Red Desert. At its heart is the Great Divide Basin, where the continent splits like a broken zipper just south of the Wind River Mountains and cups about 660,000 acres before coming back together south of Interstate 80 near Rawlins, Wyoming. Most descriptions of the Red Desert extend beyond the basin to include features such as the Killpecker Sand Dunes to the west and, to the south, Adobe Town, a wonderland of eroded sandstone pillars and cliffs near the Colorado border. What binds it all together is the unbroken openness, the lack of moisture and the lack of people.
DON'T FENCE ME IN: Splitting the Continental Divide and covering an area larger than the state of Connecticut, the Red Desert has few fences and no fixed boundaries. It includes a wealth of topographic features, including volcanic cones, wetlands and sagebrush steppes. These habitats shelter 350 species of wild creatures such as this badger, which is digging a new burrow after its old den was destroyed by a bulldozer preparing the site for oil drilling.
Our pilot is taking us up because he's never had an opportunity to explore the Red Desert. He couldn't have found a better guide than Bell, a World War II bombardier who grew up just north of the desert, on a ranch outside of Lander. Bell is best known as the founder of the Colorado-based conservation publication High Country News. But Bell is also a wildlife biologist, and he knows where to look for desert elk: on the southern flank of the Oregon Buttes; in the Honeycomb Buttes, a maze of colorfully banded sandstone; and in the dunes, where snow refrigerated in sand melts to form wildlife-friendly ponds. He can also differentiate each scar on the landscape--even the tracks of seismic tests for oil and natural gas from the 1940s. "They claimed they could just cover that up," says the feisty 78-year-old, who recently was named the National Wildlife Federation's Conservationist of the Year. "That's a crock."
People like our pilot stay away because this country is, for all its stark beauty, wind-blown and inhospitable, and far from a coffee shop or phone booth. Few would guess, glancing out the window as they drive north from Rock Springs to Yellowstone, that they were looking at an ecological niche of immense importance.
"Species are contracting into this area from all over," said Erik Molvar, a biologist with Biodiversity Associates, a Wyoming conservation group that has studied the Red Desert for potential wilderness designation. "Take the mountain plover, one of the rare shorebirds that shows up here--it used to be a plains species, and this was the edge of its habitat. Now it's core habitat." Plovers, sage grouse and other species are declining to the east as the Great Plains are fenced and cultivated for agriculture; to the west, energy development and exotic species have invaded and compromised their habitat. The Red Desert may be their last refuge.
Molvar likes to point out lesser known but rare Red Desert residents such as the burrowing owl, blowout penstemon and the pygmy rabbit. But the high desert is also loaded with "celebrity" species, such as the golden eagles and ferruginous hawks that soar off the cliffs of Oregon Buttes, Steamboat Mountain and Continental Peak. Or the elk, which once migrated from the Yellowstone area, but now live year-round in the desert and number in the thousands.
Then there is the 40,000-strong pronghorn herd--you'll see them grazing on the hills, almost invisible against the tawny earth and snow, or racing like a flurry of leaves in the wind. Southwest Wyoming is their stronghold, and they journey annually from the Red Desert west and north along the Green River corridor, up into the Gros Ventre Mountains near Jackson Hole. The route is increasingly littered with oil and gas drilling rigs, "ranchette" subdivisions, and the roads that connect them.
Wyoming's reputation as the nation's "energy breadbasket"--with large reserves of coal, uranium, oil and gas--hovers over the Red Desert. A coal-bed methane drilling boom is underway in the Powder River Basin around Gillette, and industry sources say the methane gas deposits in the Green River Basin adjacent to the Red Desert are even larger. As a result, the energy industry is now turning its attention to the area over which we fly.
Much of the Red Desert is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), but it is broken up by sections of state lands and a checkerboard pattern of private and public ownership along the Interstate 80 corridor, which follows the old Union Pacific rail line. While BLM is looking at proposed wilderness areas in parts of the Red Desert, it has allowed drilling and exploration in many areas since the 1970s. In a region that gets less than ten inches of rain annually, these disturbances to the soil aren't easily erased.
As the plane follows the Dry Sandy east, it dawns on Bell that this is not the Oregon Trail immediately below. It is the bed of a narrow-gauge railway that once ran between an iron ore mine and mill near South Pass and the Union Pacific rail line in Rock Springs. Which reminds me, in the backseat, of another ride I'd taken a decade ago, clinging to the roof of a little diesel engine rolling down those tracks. On one side of us some pronghorn perked and dodged off into the hills; on the other, six feral horses raced. In the cab beneath me, John Mioczynski was at the controls. He had been hired by a salvage company when the mine shut down to patrol the tracks looking for vandalism.
Mioczynski is a wildlife biologist currently studying bighorn sheep for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. He is one in a long line of desert rats who've fallen in love with a place which--with its hot dry summers and howling cold winters--shows no love for humans.
Mioczynski discovered it on a map: He was a college student in New York, looking for the most vacant place he could find to spend a summer. In 1967, he drove his jeep into the desert and lived on rabbits, sage grouse and wild plants while he learned the desert's flora and fauna. He found tipi rings, abandoned homesteads and parts of old wagons sticking up from quicksand. "I was all alone, and happy that way, but there were signs that people had been out here doing things," he says. "I began to see it was a pretty hospitable place. A hostile, beautiful, hospitable place."
Wandering around, he found an ancient awl made of yellow jasper, crocodile bones preserved in sediment and gastropod fossils. Fossils are everywhere in the exposed sandstones, telling the story of what was once a very different world. Some 50 million years ago, the Red Desert was part of a subtropical lake that covered much of southwestern Wyoming. The sands at the bottom of this lake, washed down from nearby mountains, today form the largest living dune system in the country, the Killpecker dunes.
BACK HOME: A desert elk pauses while grazing near the Killpecker dunes. The elk that originally roamed the Red Desert were nearly wiped out by the first half of the twentieth century. State wildlife officials relocated 86 elk to this area in the 1940s, and the herd now numbers in the thousands.
The dunes stretch more than 50 miles west to east, from Boar's Tusk to Steamboat Mountain. Life on the dunes is mostly a night affair, when dune beetles, voles, shrews, white-footed mice and kangaroo rats are about, and the predators linked to them--bobcats, owls, golden eagles--follow. Snow collected on the lee side of dunes is covered and insulated by sand, banking ice for water throughout the year. The ponds here attract a surprising array of ducks and shorebirds, as well as desert elk.
These elk are not the same herd that was noted by hunters back in the nineteenth century. Settlement and hunting wiped out most of those animals by the 1940s, when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department transplanted 86 elk from the Jackson area to the vicinity of Boar's Tusk and the Killpecker dunes. Wildlife managers hoped the elk would migrate back and forth from the Jackson area, as they had historically, which would reduce the necessity for feeding them through the winter at the National Elk Refuge.
But the transplanted elk realized, like Mioczynski, that there was a lot of nourishment hidden beneath the desert's stern face, especially around Steamboat Mountain, and there they stay year-round. The elk population has grown far beyond the herd of 500 envisioned, and another herd of elk now comes down from the Wind River Mountains to winter along the Sweetwater River, on the north edge of the desert.
Leonard Hay, a banker and rancher from Rock Springs, was there when the elk were reintroduced, and like many locals involved in grazing and energy development in the Red Desert, he scoffs at conservationists' efforts to protect the area. "I enjoy drilling on my land," says the outspoken Hay, now in his 80s, "and those rig workers usually have a rifle in the pickup, which means less coyotes."
Hay spoke to me during a meeting held by BLM in Rock Springs last January. The meeting was one of several to consider management options for a 622,000-acre parcel of the Red Desert called the Jack Morrow Hills, which includes Steamboat Mountain, the Oregon Buttes, the sand dunes and the Honeycomb Buttes. Milder-mannered ranchers than Hay expressed fear that their grazing rights on public lands might be endangered, but many conservationists are willing to work with ranchers--their fears for the Red Desert focus more on the energy industry.
BLM's proposal to allow more oil and gas development in the Jack Morrow Hills--where 150 wells have been sunk in the past--has thrust the Red Desert and the local BLM office into a rather unfamiliar national spotlight (see box below). "We have no idea what the administration is going to do with Jack Morrow Hills, but public comment favors a conservation alternative," says Mac Blewer, an organizer for the Wyoming Outdoor Council. "It's a treasure and deserves the highest protection."
FREE RANGE? The Red Desert is home to the continent's largest herd of migrating pronghorns, which travels along the Green River corridor and depends on windblown sagebrush for sustenance during winter. But these and other grazers are finding their paths littered with more oil and gas drilling rigs and storage tanks (above, where a mule deer jumps a fence), as well as "ranchettes" and roads. The federal government is considering proposals to open even more of this vital wildlife habitat to energy exploration and development.
The effort to protect the Red Desert goes back more than a century. In 1898, sportsmen proposed a federal "winter game reserve" in the desert. In 1935, Wyoming Governor Leslie Miler proposed a Great Divide Basin National Park, citing the rich history of the area. Wyoming geologist Dave Love and Tom Bell each met with Interior Secretary Stewart Udall in the 1960s to lobby for protection at some level, whether it be a park, an antelope preserve or a national landmark.
Love acknowledges that there is not just oil and gas in the Red Desert, there are coal seams "50 feet thick, more than anyone knows." There are open-pit coal mines in the checkerboard of private lands between Rock Springs and Rawlins, and the remnants of an abandoned uranium mine and mill.
Add to that the damage left by over-grazing generations ago, and it's clear that this is not an area with a pristine past--a point which detractors are quick to make. But its vistas are still open, and its history goes much further back than mere centuries. As we fly north, Bell describes the Red Desert as "one of our very best wildlands, and one of our last," and points to places below where one might find dinosaur remains or ancient sharks' teeth.
That's the sort of thing John Mioczynski might have picked up during his early wanderings in the desert. He used to put the things he found in cigar boxes--shards of quartzite, bones, arrowheads, fossils. But one day he took his collection back out in the desert, to the areas where he'd found the artifacts, and left them there.
"After that, I'd pick up an antelope skull, walk with it for awhile, then put it down," says Mioczynski. "Everyone's out there taking things. You don't take things from a place that's sacred."
Wyoming writer Geoffrey O'Gara's most recent book is What You See in Clear Water (Alfred A. Knopf, 2000).
The National Wildlife Federation and a state affiliate, the Wyoming Wildlife Federation, have long been engaged in efforts to safeguard wild inhabitants of the Red Desert, such as the sage grouse. However, the recent rise in oil and gas prices has led to a frenzy of proposals to fully develop this area, jeopardizing critical habitats and migratory corridors. To conserve the wild character and wildlife of this special place, NWF is pursuing legal action against the federal government to stop the massive development of these ecologically spectacular public lands. The federal Bureau of Land Management, which oversees much of the land in the Red Desert, is currently seeking public comment on two draft land-use planning documents that together will determine the management priorities of these lands for the next 10 to 15 years. This gives citizens from across the country the opportunity to speak out in favor of protecting the Red Desert's natural wonders.
To find out how you can help protect this Wild Heart of the West, visit our Red Desert page.
Related Reading Although its speed is legendary, the pronghorn can't outrun changes to its habitat in the American West. To learn about the threats facing Sonoran Desert pronghorn, see "Homeless on the Range" (National Wildlife, Oct/Nov 1999).


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MINNEAPOLIS -- Reliever Anthony Swarzak threw without any issues on Friday and Saturday, and said he's been cleared to make his return after sustaining a sprained right ankle on Tuesday.
Swarzak, who suffered the injury on his last pitch against the Astros on Tuesday, said he ran around on Friday without any problems and tested it again in bullpen sessions on Friday and Saturday.
Swarzak also simulated coming off the mound to field a ground ball to make sure his ankle was fine, and he reported everything went well and that he won't need a trip to the 15-day disabled list.
"The ankle is doing good," Swarzak said before Saturday's game against the Royals. "Yesterday, I took a really good step forward and feel pretty good today. So no need for the DL. I ran around and threw and everything is OK."
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Almost a dozen SPIDER-MAN cast members invaded Times Square on this morning's GOOD MORNING AMERICA on ABC to talk about their efforts to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Check out their appearance below!
The show's star Reeve Carney spoke to GMA weatherman Sam Champion about his organization, Broadway Cares, which this year will be donating a large portion of their funding to hurricane relief efforts. In addition to collecting money for the cause at the theater each night, the 'Spider-Man' stars put together a 2013 calendar, which features one member of the cast each month.
SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is now in its 2nd smash year on Broadway, and has been seen by more than 1 million audience members from around the world. It features music and lyrics by 22-time Grammy® Award-winners Bono and The Edge, direction by Philip William McKinley (The Boy From Oz), and a book co-written by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger (Underneath The Lintel) and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Fantastic Four and Spider-Man comics, "Big Love"). Scenic Designer George Tsypin and Costume Designer Eiko Ishioka are winners of Outer Critics Circle Awards and were recently nominated for Tony® Awards for their work on Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark.
The world's most recognizable Super Hero leaps off the comic book pages and onto the Broadway stage in Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. Peter Parker's ordinary teenage life takes a turn for the extraordinary when he's bitten by a genetically altered spider and suddenly finds himself endowed with incredible superpowers. Parker quickly learns that with great power comes great responsibility as he tries to juggle the demands of high school and home life, while battling the Green Goblin and his band of super villains as they try to take down New York City and destroy everything Peter holds dear – including the beautiful girl-next-door, Mary Jane Watson. This high-flying groundbreaking and history-making production brings this story – inspired by more than fifty years of Marvel comic books – thrillingly to life!
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Calf managers often focus on addressing sanitation, nutrition and general calf management concerns. But, how much time is really spent addressing employee-related issues? Could communication or the lack thereof be at the root of calf management challenges?
Before assessing whether communication is a limiting factor on an operation, there are a few questions managers may want to consider, advises Christie (Stanley) Underwood, calf and heifer specialist with Purina Animal Nutrition LLC.
- Do employees understand what authority they have to make decisions?
- Is there a system in place to report issues as they arise?
- Is there an open line of communication between employees and managers?
- How is the line of communication between managers and employees maintained?
- Do employees feel comfortable conveying needs and misunderstandings to rectify a problem?
- Are employees told what their specific duties are, and are their roles defined or is it a learn-as-you-go position?
"If you answered no to any of these questions, communication could be an issue," notes Underwood. To improve communication, managers should ensure that they are putting the right people in the right place, stick to their protocols and acknowledge employees that are doing quality work.
Put the right people in the right place
"I recently read the book Good to Great by Jim Collins. One key insight that I learned from this book, is to get the right people on the bus, get the wrong people off the bus and put the right people in the right place within the bus," says Underwood. (Click the following link for more information on Good to Great http://bit.ly/CollinsGreat.)
Having the right person for the job strongly relates to calf operations. For instance, it is best that a patient, gentle person feed colostrum to newborns, whereas a fast-paced individual with an eye for detail would be a stronger fit for putting out bottles for calves. The latter must be sure to not let the milk/milk replacer get cold before the calf consumes it, but yet pays attention to calves that are not drinking. A strong calf manager must balance immediate needs and emergencies on an operation with the long-term goals. Assigning the right person for the job is one of these decisions that will affect the long-term success of an operation.
"When it comes to raising a healthy calf, one must never put off until tomorrow what needs to be done today," says Underwood.
Have a plan in place and stick to it
It is not uncommon for operations to accept deviation from the ideal procedure. This often happens as managers stray away from written protocols and the new standard gets passed from employee to employee. Underwood says that it is important that a protocol be a working document, so that when changes are made they are documented and thought through with management. A structured training process and re-evaluation of current practices can be an effective means to prevent future miscommunication. Involve employees in this process. Engaged employees are often more satisfied with their jobs and will most likely stay with the same employer for longer periods of time.
For instance many calf operations use nipples on bottles to feed calves (it is common to evaluate the opening of the nipple to make sure it is not too large so that the calf does not aspirate on fluid). Occasionally employees will carry a nipple or two in their pocket with the large opening so the fluid flows faster. This is neither sanitary and is certainly not adhering to protocol. But perhaps the employee in this scenario wasn't aware of the protocol for how calf nipples should be handled and why sanitation is important.
A little education can go a long way and could pay dividends later, with increased calf health. Sanitation, feed and water bucket management, heifer movement and vaccination are other common examples where not communicating the importance of protocol could lead to long-term profit losses. Managers should encourage their employees to ask questions; open communication regarding expectations as well as changes can ease some of the burden.
Acknowledge a job well done
Many well-managed calf operations and dairies strive to hold employees accountable for their duties and offer public recognition for a job well done. Offering incentives for quality work is another positive way to show employees that their work does not go unnoticed. Also, never underestimate the power of just thanking an employee or telling them that they did a good job. This is often more meaningful than other forms of recognition.


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Seattle Repertory Theatre Presents: "Inspecting Carol" a hilarious tale of a theatre company and its production of Charles Dicken's "AChristmas Carol"
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Spring is the time of year when the (normally homely) black cherry tree gets to dress up and strut it's stuff. Hard to believe isn't it– that these gangly trees with rough, scaley bark will be transformed into beautiful flowering flora (and perhaps one day into natural cherry furniture like the Cherry Moon Bed above).
But it's true. In a few short weeks they will be bursting with fragrant white and yellow blossoms which will give way to delicious black cherry fruit. These are the trees that provide a sustainable source of wood for over half of the furniture customers purchase from our store, Vermont Woods Studios.
Interested in learning more about cherry trees and natural cherry wood furniture for your home? We are the experts! Check out some of the many "cherry wood" articles we've written over the years and give us a call to let us know if you've got a question we've yet to answer. We'll jump right on it!
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Investigator: Police overlooked suspect in cold case murder
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) - It is not common for law enforcement officers to publicly question colleagues or raise concerns about investigations carried out by other agencies. But, one former sheriff's commander from Kings County believes Bakersfield police mishandled the kidnap-murder case of a 4-year-old child.
Jessica Martinez disappeared on May 10, 1990, while she was playing in front of her home at an apartment complex on the 5000 block of Belle Terrace. Her body was found in a field 11 days later.
Her killer has never been caught.
Mark Bingaman is a former Kings County sheriff's commander and was the lieutenant in charge of a 1995 murder case in Lemoore. Maria Piceo, 8, was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered. Her killer then drove south and dumped her body in Poso Creek in Kern County. Bingaman led a team of investigators that eventually cracked the case with the arrest and conviction of Navy Petty Officer Gene McCurdy, of Wasco. Bingaman recently wrote a book about the Piceo case, "Vanished In Broad Daylight.
Bingaman believes McCurdy also had a hand in the murder of Jessica, which happened five years earlier. He describes McCurdy as a monster.
"We felt that this man, Gene McCurdy, was a serial killer," said Bingaman. "There's no question in my mind he killed other girls," he said.
Bingaman said several red flags were raised about McCurdy's involvement with Jessica's death. During questioning, McCurdy was asked about the deaths of other children, specifically Jessica in 1990 and Deisy Herrera in 1987, both of Bakersfield. McCurdy fell out of his chair when both names were brought up, said the former commander.
"He crawls up in a fetal position, he wails like a baby, it is so bizarre," said Bingaman.
When questioned further about the two Bakersfield girls, Bingaman said McCurdy made to what amounts to a confession.
"He says, 'Well, if would've blocked out Maria, I might have blocked out other children,'" said the investigator.
During his investigation in the Piceo case, Bingaman said his team traveled extensively to places, such as Whidbey Island, Wash., to check Navy records and gather evidence against McCurdy.
Bingaman said he did not rely on "just calling" Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) to check the whereabouts of McCurdy. He wondered if Bakersfield police did the same thing.
And, he said, McCurdy had a habit of returning to Bakersfield at every opportunity to see his parents. Jessica was kidnapped on May 10. Mother's Day was three days away.
"He would of been here, he would have come home like a homing pigeon, because it was Mother's Day," said Bingaman.
The investigator said he and fellow officers personally came to deliver this information to Bakersfield police and urged officers to interview McCurdy.
"They treated us nice. As a law enforcement officer you know when you're getting the brush off. There was no contact ever since," said Bingaman.
The questions being raised by Bingaman have resonated with Nellie Martinez, Jessica's mother.
"What did they miss? What didn't they ask?" said Nellie Martinez.
Though no one has ever been arrested for Jessica's murder, one person remains a key suspect. Police have kept tabs on Christopher Lightsey, who is on death row for the unrelated murder of his neighbor, cancer patient William Compton. But police have not had enough evidence to charge Lightsey with Jessica's murder.
Police said they have followed up on every lead in the case. And there is a new development in this case that may lead to Jessica's killer. That part of the story will air on Thursday on Eyewitness News.


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Temperatures are forecast to reach the low 80s Sunday finally putting an end to a month of record cold and snowfall.
April snowstorms caused many records to fall, and brought extreme temperature swings from Colorado to Minnesota, according to a report from Accuweather.
The storm in the Plains April 20-23 appeared to be the caboose of the storm train -- with the weather pattern finally easing, Accuweather said.
"There are no more major cold outbreaks in the pipeline," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews said Tuesday.
However, cooler air may still be unleashed over the northern Plains at times into May, according to AccuWeather Forecaster Paul Pastelok, but the temperature swings that occur into May will be more typical of spring tha to the extremes that were prevalent in April.
Heavy snow melt brings the threat of major flooding along Red River of the northern U.S.
"You can only hold back reality for so long. The sudden return of reality [this weekend] means that the snow is going to disappear very fast," Andrews said.
Cold, snow in April
A total of 995 daily snowfall records were broken as of April 22, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
As a comparison, last year during the same timeframe, 195 snowfall records were broken.
According to NOAA, 91.9 percent of the Upper Midwest is still covered by snow whereas only 0.4 percent of the Upper Midwest was covered by snow a year ago.
Duluth, Minn., had a record daily snowfall of 8.2 inches Monday.
The old record of 7.8 inches was set in 1972.
Duluth has had the snowiest month ever with a total 51.0 inches. Previously, the snowiest month on record for Duluth was November 1991, when 50.1 inches fell.
A record month snowfall was set at Pierre, S.D., with 20.8 inches so far. The old record April snowfall was 17.5 inches in 1986.
Rapid City, S.D., received a total of 43.4 inches of snow so far in April -- more snow than the city typically receives during the entire season, which is 41.4 inches.
Snow and cold made it all the way down into Texas on Tuesday morning. In Childress, the high was 92 on Monday, but then temperatures plunged into the 30s overnight and snow arrived.
Bulletin Editor George Lauby contributed to this report.
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Welcome to Ride the City, a website that helps you find safer bike routes in cities. Like other mapping applications, Ride the City finds the shortest distance between two points, with a difference. First, Ride the City avoids roads that aren't meant for biking, like highways and busy arterial streets. Second, Ride the City tries to steer cyclists toward routes that maximize the use of bike lanes, bike paths, greenways, and other bike-friendly streets. For an illustrated walkthrough of the site, to explore its capabilities and to answer frequent questions, visit ridethecity.com/faq. Remember that Ride the City is in its beta testing phase. To help make it better, click the feedback link in the menu bar (on the main page) to send us your route suggestions and comments and it will make the site even better. Contact us at email@example.com.
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"There are men and women all over the world serving this country," said Montana Speicherweimer, co-founder of Hoosiers Helping Heroes. "If you are at a forward operating base, they don't have the PXs (post exchanges) like the big, established bases. If you are out on a mission and if you come back in and there's nothing in the PX, you just do without. That's where we come in."
And Komets Kare Package has become the major winter supplier for HHH over the past five years. Fans donate such things as toiletries, books, games, drink sleeves, hard candy, letters, videos and snacks that are included in care packages that are sent out once a month. More than 50 Christmas packages shipped two weeks ago.
Since November, 2006, Hoosiers Helping Heroes has sent more than 8,000 care packages to Indiana service members.
"We do our big Christmas packages, and we have to send them out three weeks prior so they get to the soldiers in time," Speicherweimer said. "After January, we don't have a lot of good (items) left. What we gather at Komets Kare Package takes us through until July when Midwest America does their big drive for the heroes. Without Midwest America, FedEx and Komets Kare, we can't do what we're doing. We can't make the mission happen. The mission is that every 30 days our heroes serving in hot zones all over the world get a care package."
More than 50 care packages were sent out Dec. 3, including a large donation of items from Frontier. Because of the work Hoosiers Helping Heroes has been doing, word has spread throughout the chaplains serving overseas, and the organization is now shipping many of them care packages as well.
Speicherweimer also collects drawings and letters from schools to include in the care packages, so those donations are also encouraged.
Should anyone like to donate items without going to a Komets game, they can drop them off at Federal Express, 3620 Independence Drive, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.
This year, fans can also donate old cellphones at the Illinois and Lima roads Preferred Auto locations.
"You can turn in cellphones. They get recycled and then turned into phone cards that they can send to the soldiers so they can call home," said Dan Duesler of Federal Express.
Once the care packages are completed, if there are any extra supplies, Speicherweimer donates them to local churches, food pantries and organizations helping homeless veterans.
"We think when the wars are all over that our mission ends, but it will continue because then we have all these soldiers coming home with all this head trauma, not able to get jobs and some are going to be homeless," she said. "We'll just transition to another way to help."
Speicherweimer and local service members will be at all three games to greet and talk with fans coming into Memorial Coliseum.
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By configuring as many as 30 devices at once, the Apple Configurator saves mobile administrators from having to recycle devices one at a time.
Early adopters of the utility reported some buggy inconsistencies, but with an Aug. 23 update and the iOS 6 upgrade, Apple and IT departments are hoping they have a reliable tool to manage the increasing number of Apple mobile devices in the enterprise.
After the free AirWatch app is installed on OS X 10.7.2 or later, a profile is prepared on the utility and is then transferred to the devices via USB.
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Admins will also use it to enroll devices in their mobile device management solution--the Apple Configurator is a roaming profile manager, but it's not an MDM.
Mobile device managers such as AirWatch provide ways to remotely manage devices. Specifically, AirWatch:
AirWatch also improves mobile security by adding advanced authentication, policies, and access control.
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A civic tradition that occurs like clockwork every four years in November also brings with it a ceremony, which is considered to be the official kickoff of an American presidency.
The inauguration of the president of the United States is a ceremony which occurs every four years in January to designate the incoming Commander in Chief as the leader of the free world. On Monday, Jan. 21, President Barack Obama will be sworn in again publicly in the 57th edition of the ceremonies in a long day filled with many patriotic events.
"Presidential inaugurations began with our first president, George Washington," said Towner. The U.S. Constitution provides very little guidelines except that the president must take an oath or make an affirmation before taking office. The oath, stated in the Constitution, is as follows: 'I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.'"
Although the ceremony takes place every four years in late January there is not, in fact, a hard set of guidelines for the actual inauguration.
"The Constitution does not lay out a swearing-in process," said Towner. "Typically, presidential inaugurations are usually grand, 10-day affairs, with luncheons, balls, parades, music and speeches."
The president is usually sworn in on January 20� and then the inauguration speech follows. The political elite are all invited, such as Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, military members and former presidents. All inaugurations have been held in Washington D.C., except for Washington's and Adam's. President Obama's ceremonial inauguration will be held on Jan. 21 rather than Jan. 20, since Jan. 20 falls on a Sunday this year. White House spokesman Jay Carney says Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath of office to Obama on Jan. 20, just before noon, the time the Constitution says his second term begins. Obama's family will attend along with a few reporters, and Obama isn't expected to make a speech that day.
At one time, inaugurations were held in March then the date was changed to January with the passing of the 20th Amendment in 1933.
When it comes to a process for the outgoing presidency Towner says there is little that actually happens.
"The Constitution makes no mention of a process or ceremony," she said. "The process is done with little ceremony and the newly sworn-in president accompanies the outgoing president to their mode of transportation immediately following the swearing-in ceremony. It is important to note that this is indeed a peaceful transfer of power. Many other countries do not experience this when a new administration or individual is elected."
In inaugurals past there have been some memorable moments. Towner said there have been some mistakes made in ceremonies.
"The more memorable swearing in ceremonies usually involve a gaffe or mistake," she said. "The oath is often misquoted by the Chief Justice or the president-elect repeats the quote incorrectly. During FDR's third inauguration, a court clerk holding the Bible accidentally dropped it during the ceremony. I would say that President Obama's first inauguration was rather memorable, as Chief Justice Roberts misstated the oath. It was quite the scandal at the time, as some pundits felt that President Obama was not officially sworn in to office. The Chief Justice later re-administered the oath the next day."
It's not only the swearing-in ceremony both the president and vice president participate in. A laundry list of various events are scheduled throughout the day in coordination with the ceremony.
"There are numerous events planned by the Congressional Inaugural Committee," the Oakland University professor said. "There is a morning worship service, a procession to the Capitol with both the outgoing president and president-elect, a swearing-in ceremony for the VP, a swearing-in ceremony for the president-elect, a short pause as the outgoing president departs, an inaugural speech, a parade and finally numerous balls that evening."
Matt House, the spokesman for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, shared specific details on the theme of this year's ceremony.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has chosen 'Faith in America's Future' as the theme of this year's inauguration to commemorate the 150th anniversary of placing the Statue of Freedom on top of the Capitol Dome. The project was started in the 1850s but the Civil War threatened to stop construction of the dome in its tracks. Both Abraham Lincoln and Congress came together and completed the project on behalf of the American people, even in the midst of the war.
House said that the ceremony provides the perfect opportunity for members of all political parties to join together.
"The 57th Inaugural Ceremonies will give a chance for members of both parties and all three branches of government to come together and celebrate our American democracy," House stated. "By looking back and seeing what we've overcome as a nation, we find faith in our American future."
Since 1901, the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies has been responsible for the planning and execution of the swearing-in ceremonies. In addition, the committee is also responsible for the luncheon following the inauguration at the U.S. Capitol.
With all the various events that take place during the inauguration, many wonder where all the funding for the ceremonies come from. Towner stressed that the inauguration is funded by private committees and not tax dollars.
"It is important to note that the inauguration is not funded by taxpayer dollars," she said. "The Inaugural Committees raise money from private donors to hold inaugural events. Of course, these expenses do not cover police and other security."
Recent economic decisions regarding the fiscal cliff passing both the Senate and House of Representatives leave many wondering what the turnout will be for this year's inauguration. The Oakland University professor feels crowds may be low for the upcoming inauguration compared to 2009.
"Recent public opinion polls show that the American people are disgruntled with Congress and are unhappy with President Obama at the moment," Towner said. "I fear attendance might be a bit low. Overall, there seems to be less excitement about President Obama's second inauguration."
Towner shared overall enthusiasm for the upcoming ceremony and for a select group of students who will have the opportunity to visit the nation's capitol on Jan. 21.
"I am excited that we have a presidential inauguration this month," said Towner. "The Oakland University Student Congress is sponsoring a trip for students to attend the inauguration and I have heard all of the tickets have been purchased."
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U.S. Rep. Levin holds inauguration-themed contest for high schoolers�
U.S. Rep. Sander Levin is seeking the submissions of high school students in the 9th Congressional District to enter an inauguration-themed contest. Students in Levin's district are asked to submit a two-to-three minute video speech addressing the nation.
Submissions for the contest must be received by Friday, Jan. 25 and will be judged by a panel of local residents. Students are asked to upload their videos to Levin's website.
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GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - A school bus driver in Prince George's County has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for producing child pornography.
Scott Smallwood was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. He's been in custody since his arrest two years ago.
Prosecutors say the 29-year-old Smallwood admitted using his cell phone to produce videos of him engaging in sexual contact with a young boy, or engaging in sexual contact in front of the child. Authorities say Smallwood also admitted offering the child candy in exchange for sexual activity during sleepovers.
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Another dominant second half leading to another win as we are now at 6-0!!!!!!!!!
Second best start in franchise history!
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Another dominant second half leading to another win as we are now at 6-0!!!!!!!!!
Second best start in franchise history!
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Wow! Tonight really taught me a lesson. I was scared this was a trap game, and I was really down during the first half. I was sure the streak was over. They proved to me they are even more poised than last year, and have the confidence they can turn up the D and over-power anybody. Poor start, great finish.
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PG willed us to a victory with his third quarter performance. That is what great leaders do
Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel
George Hill, 14 points, 4 boards, 2 assists in 20 minutes? Thank you, more please.
PG forced the issue offensively, especially early, but you can't be upset about 9 free throw attempts.
Also, Dwayne Casey gave up way too easily.
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These are the types of games you need to always win if you want a high playoff seed.
Tomorrow will be tough the Nets had to play tonight on the road so they won't be any more rested.
Keep the streak going. Roy was really good tonight. PG had a monster 3rd quarter but an awful 1st half on both ends. His D on Gay became better in the second half along the help he was getting from Roy in some instances. I think Hill looked pretty well on his return and another game where we got major contribution from Watson. Scola wasn't bad at all either.
I would say we played pretty poorly and still won. Thats a good sign. Hopefully play better tomorrow though.
and their game just went into OT!!
Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel
Man that 1st half was brutal, even when only down by 2 at the half; I felt like we were getting worked.
Gay was hitting some crazy shots, but PG was letting him get too much separation by trying to go over the screen every time. PG gets caught on those high screens alot. Rudy Gay has alot of length and athleticism too so PG's is negated and he just isn't able to recover from those screens like he can with other players.
Hansbrough had a moment in the 2nd qtr I believe where get got the ball under the basket and got about 3 tries and missed them all. I said to my wife "that looks familiar!"
Great to be 6-0 but we need to bring more intensity and focus to the game tomorrow or we will get that 1st loss. Can't afford to have a pitiful 1st half against Brooklyn and think that we can just will ourselves back into it.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
And they're still playing overtime in DC
We looked horrible tonight, we have looked horrible a few times early in the year.
When we get things clicking, I can't wait to see what we are capable of.
OT ended and they lost.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
Are the Raptors tanking? They had it to, what, 10? Less? With 2 minutes to go. And they emptied the bench...
We didn't look good tonight and still won.
That's the sign of a good team.
Stop quoting people I have on ignore!
It's so nice to have a b/u PF that can hit a mid-range jumpshot and find his team mates for asts. It seems Scola has hit more jumpshots and dished out more asts in 6 games than Tyler did all last season.
The pacers seem to have another gear.... Another Gear that rivals Miami. I love it, we are absolutely insane in the 3rd Qtr.. That is defense is like a anaconda grip.
Good win. The start of the 2nd quarter was huge. We closed the gap and killed their will after a rough first. I'm glad Stephenson is okay even though it was obviously a cramp or a bruise.
This is the payment for watching the bickering, feuding, selfish Pacers of not too long ago. Or the bad basketball preached by Jim O'Brien. The empty seats... the catcalls... the boos for our own team...
This version of the Pacers look like they are on the verge of something special... and all of that makes it even sweeter.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
It doesn't look like Garnett and Pierce are fitting in yet with the Nets. Pierce only got 5 shots tonight in 27 minutes, I never thought I'd see him take that few.
There's only 1 ball basketball. I don't understand how that team functions. They have played well at times, but they just don't scare me. I think they have the names but the names are just too old at this point...and getting older.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
The team looked completely disinterested and out of sorts most of the game and still won. I think they were looking forward to Brooklyn and we will see a more focused team.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
I think putting Pierce, Williams and Johnson on the same team is like putting Melo and Iverson on the same team. Too many volume shooters just won't work together. Williams needs to change his game if this team has a chance of working and he could. Pierce can't really have a positive impact unless he gets his shots. So far it's dysfunctional and I like it.
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
This defense is scary good. If Danny comes back with good movement they're gonna get even scarier just upgrading OJ to Danny.
Absolutely suffocating defense.
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RepairPal has identified the most common problems with the 2004 Chrysler 300M based on complaints from actual vehicle owners. We'll tell you what the problem is and what it'll take to fix it.
A damaged cam position sensor (or its wires and connector) can cause intermittent stalling, stumbles, or hard starting.
A dirty throttle body may cause low engine idle speed or frequent stalling, as oily residue blocks air flow in the throttle when the throttle is closed. Throttle body cleaning may be necessary to correct this condition. Our technicians caution against spraying cleaner directly onto the throttle body as this may damage the throttle position sensor (TPS).
Some vehicles may develop a musty odor coming from the HVAC system, Dodge has issued a cleaner/disinfectant and a coating for the evaporator designed to inhibit bacterial growth.
The window glass lift plates tend to bend or break and cause the window glass to tilt and bind in the door. The lift plates can be replaced separately from the window regulator. In more severe cases, however, a new window regulator may also require replacement.
On vehicles equipped with side airbags, placing articles under the seat can damage wiring. Loose, damaged, or dirty connectors under the seat are frequent causes for intermittent airbag lamp illumination.
There was a recall on the brake master cylinder in order to fix a problem that causes the brakes to drag when the brake pedal is not pressed. If the brakes drag, they will fade, causing overheating and increased stopping distance. The master cylinder is replaced under the recall.
Before refilling the coolant, make sure the air bleed valve is open. Follow the proper fill procedure—it will prevent problems with overheating, low heat output from the heater, and possible coolant bottle failure.
Worn sway bar bushings or sway bar end links may cause a rattling or clunking noise from the front suspension during low-speed driving. Though not always the root cause, front struts are often replaced for this condition.
If the ignition key does not turn and/or cannot be removed, a new lock cylinder may be needed. A worn key can also cause similar problems.
Poor output from the heater and/or engine overheating can be caused by air left in the cooling system after the cooling system has been serviced. Our technicians tell us the proper coolant fill procedure should be used to prevent this problem from occurring.
A ticking sound (lasting only two to three seconds) may be heard when starting a cold engine. Worn swivel pads on the exhaust rocker arms are commonly the cause. Worn swivel pads will require replacement.
The AC drive belt tensioner bracket can crack and cause the belt to make noise or jump off the pulleys. The AC system may stop working as well. A cracked bracket could damage the cylinder head; it should be replaced.
An under-tensioned alternator drive belt may cause a growling noise in the engine area at low speeds (usually when accelerating from a stop). This is often mistaken for catalytic converter failure.
Door weatherstrips mounted on the body tend to shrink with age, leaving gaps that can create wind noise or allow water to leak into the car. Our technicians suggest the door weatherstrips should be replaced to correct these issues.
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It's easy to forget that one of the greatest discoveries of modern science began with a field trip. An inquisitive undergraduate at Cambridge University with a fascination for the natural world was given an opportunity to leave the classroom and set sail. This voyage from England to the shores of South America resulted in the theory of natural selection and catapulted the amateur naturalist, Charles Darwin, into the history books.
We can all recall participating in field trips of our own during our school years. Those bumpy rides at the back of museum-bound yellow buses may have helped us identify with Darwin's bouts with seasickness, but our destination was most likely some place across town and not the exotic Galapagos. New technology, however, is helping resurrect the adventuresome spirit of Darwin, offering children access to learning opportunities not just around the block but around the globe.
We recently had the good fortune to see this new kind of learning in action at the San Carlos Charter Learning Center (SCCLC). Vidyo's platform for education provided 22 California middle-schoolers the opportunity to spend an afternoon at a museum in Denver, 1,289 miles from their Bay Area classroom. The students participated in a virtual class on the circulatory system, and in the true spirit of scientific inquiry, they each got the chance to virtually dissect a sheep's heart.
"The students and I formed a relationship with the science educator in Denver, and at a point, the monitor disappeared and it was as if he was in our classroom as one of us."
"Seeing a heart on an iPad made learning accessible and interactive in a new way the students had never experienced before," explained Ben Sibrack, a science and language teacher at SCCLC. "The students and I formed a relationship with the science educator in Denver, and at a point, the monitor disappeared and it was as if he was in our classroom as one of us."
Virtual field trips can bring course material to life in ways not possible with traditional, less interactive learning. "We got to have our lesson in a whole new way. I thought it was really cool, different and fun," explained one young student. Another 6th grader surprised us by revealing, "I liked the virtual trip better than a real field trip because I can focus better in the classroom."
Only a few short years ago, video conferencing was reserved for the Fortune 500 and universities with deep pockets. Today, however, HD-quality, multi-person conferences can take place over ordinary broadband networks and off-the-shelf computers already installed in most classrooms. To help schools make video conferencing an affordable reality, Vidyo is announcing that our education products are now eligible for discounts through E-Rate, a federally funded program that provides assistance for schools and libraries to purchase telecommunications and Internet access.
Museums, zoos, research institutes and theaters are embracing virtual fieldtrips via video conferencing as a way to expand their educational mission and reach a wider array of learners. A classroom today can travel to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, LA to learn about the attack on Pearl Harbor, visit The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center to take a virtual walk through forest canopies, or learn how to prepare a space shuttle for lift-off at NASA's America's Spaceport: John F. Kennedy Space Center. We hope that E-Rate and virtual field trips will help to democratize education by making world-class learning resources available to all learners.
"There's so much potential with what we can do with HD, multiparty video conferencing over the Internet. It gives us the opportunity to really break down barriers and change how we educate, in a way that was never thought possible a few years ago," explained Mr. Sibrack. "With the kind of video conferencing that Vidyo delivers, we're able to easily set up collaborative educational communities between schools within the Bay Area. For that matter, we'll now be able to set up collaborative communities across the U.S. and internationally as well. These possibilities are amazing."
I came to the United States to study and be part of the computer revolution. Today, our schools are challenged to provide the level of educational exposure required to keep our students competitive with the world. I believe one of the issues is that schools don't have access to experts locally but, ironically, the United States has the largest resources of such experts in country – making it a distribution problem. Vidyo conferencing and communications solves this problem by bringing the experts closer to students and by making educational content available virtually from everywhere.
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