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If the Washington County Fiscal Court had to "grade on a curve", then most likely they would give an "F" to a sharp curve on Route 429 known as "cowhole curve." A Christmas Day accident involving several Washington County High School students is just the latest accident to occur in the curve. The road is maintained by the state, but the county is hoping that something can be done soon before more accidents take place. The fiscal court discussed possible solutions at the meeting this past Friday.
A birthday celebration that may have gone a bit too far is being blamed for the destruction of property, as well as the theft of some items at Mordecai's Restaurant on Main Street in Springfield.
According to a report by Springfield Police Officer Charlie Osbourn, three people are charged after they allegedly drank heavily at Mordecai's while celebrating a birthday, then destroyed two brass light fixtures in the men's room of the restaurant, as well as taking several pictures and a plaque from the wall of the restaurant's lobby.
You wanted the best, and you've got the best.
The Springfield Sun was named the best newspaper in Kentucky for its size Friday night at the annual Kentucky Press Association awards ceremony in Lexington.
The competition was judged by the Tennessee Press Association, which awarded The Sun a total of 19 awards, including first place in five categories.
Among the awards won by the newspaper include first place honors for best spot news photo, best headline, best business/agribusiness story, best graphic and best sports picture essay.
Residents of Washington County and surrounding areas will have their chance to discuss the relationship between the community and St. Catharine College when SCC hosts a community forum at the Springfield Opera House today from 5-7 p.m. The Springfield forum is just one of three, including two recently held in Lebanon and Bardstown in an effort to draft SCC strategic plan for 2011 through 2015.
For more information on the community forum at the Springfield Opera House, contact Nora Hatton at (859) 336-5082 or email@example.com.
The Kentucky Department of Agriculture, the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service and Kentucky State University are teaming up to offer beekeeping schools throughout the state.
Whether you are a veteran beekeeper or a beginner eager to get started, these day-long educational workshops, held on Saturdays, offer sessions on everything from where to buy equipment to tips on harvesting your first batch of honey.
The cost of living isn't getting any cheaper, and that's why Washington County school bus drivers have asked for a raise.
The drivers, represented by a committee, made the request for a raise of 75 cents per hour at Tuesday's school board meeting.
The Kentucky Farm Business Management Program (KFBM) recently completed the 2008 Beef Enterprise Analysis. This study focused on two beef cattle enterprises, those in which calves are sold at weaning (calves sold) and those in which calves are retained for at least 45 days after weaning (calves backgrounded). There were 8 farms in the calves sold group and 10 in the calves backgrounded group. Although these results can not be extrapolated across all Kentucky beef operations, it is our belief that they accurately portray the beef operations on the KFBM program.
Calhoun: It's a girl!
Destiny Deshay Calhoun
William Maurice and Jessica Ann Calhoun of Lebanon announce the birth of their daughter on Dec. 12, 2009 at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon.
Destiny Deshay Calhoun weighed 4 pounds, 3.8 ounces.
Osborne: It's a boy!
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Rachel Fenwick and Daniel Osborne of Springfield announce the birth of their son on Dec. 9, 2009 at Spring View Hospital.
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Nobody said it would be easy. The Mid-South Conference is recognized as the best basketball in the nation – and the two varsity teams at St. Catharine College would not dispute that.
A slick highway is being blamed in a one-vehicle accident on Jimtown Road Tuesday morning. A 1999 Ford Contour, driven by Misty Morales, 23, of Jimtown Road, left the road and landed in a nearby yard. Morales and two passengers, Maximino Garcia, 34, of Lebanon, and Daniel Lopez, 17 months, of Jimtown Road, were transported to Spring View Hospital in Lebanon and treated for their injuries. Their conditions were unknown at press time.
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Kusala wrote:Hi there. According to the Pali Canon, the historical Buddha is said to have "Blue Eyes".
We can still find blue/green eyes amongst Northern Indians today.
Few samples:
If you accept the literal word of the 32 marks (and there is no indication to do so according to the Pali Canon), then the color is clearly not as light as the photos you have shown in your post.
His skin is the color of gold (Pali: suva n nava no; Lakkhana sutta)
A 'golden' color is closer to brown and could even be 'golden-brown.'
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In his book on satipatthana, Ven. Anaalayo devotes a fair bit of attention to external satipatthana,
recommending the interpretation that one should make inferences about others' mind states by observing their habitual comportment. He says this could help keep satipatthana from being too self-centered.
I find it a bit surprising. Interesting to make such guesses about the cittas at work in people around us, but sounds more like a distraction than a support for satipatthana. And as for encouraging extroversion as a balance for too much introversion, as he does, sounds a bit odd. (i guess he is using a stricter definition of extroverted, to mean turning towards others rather than the outgoing, talkative image of extrovrted we usually have.
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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of HORSEDREAMS, a new play written by and featuring award-winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Dael Orlandersmith. The third production of the company's 17th season, performances of HORSEDREAMS will begin Wednesday, November 9th at Rattlestick Theater (224 Waverly Place - off Seventh Avenue South, between Perry & West 11th Streets). The official opening night is set for Thursday, November 17th. The production is scheduled to run through December 11th. Gordon Edelstein directs.
With HORSEDREAMS, Dael Orlandersmith has written a heartbreaking play that explores the breakdown of the family unit as a result of addiction. After his wife, Desiree, dies of an accidental overdose, Loman faces the harsh reality of raising their son, Luka, alone.
"I am thrilled that Rattlestick is doing my play and doing work that takes chances," says Ms. Orlandersmith. "They breathe new life into theater."
Joining Ms. Orlandersmith are Roxanna Hope (Frost/Nixon, Boeing Boeing), Michael Laurence (Talk Radio, Desire Under the Elms), and Matthew Schechter (Mary Poppins, Elf).
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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is a multi-award-winning company which has produced over fifty world premieres in the past sixteen seasons and was the recipient of the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial OBIE Award for its work developing new and innovative work. Rattlestick's Advisory Board participates in The Emerging Playwrights Project, which matches a new playwright with an established artist for an experienced eye and creative support. Playwright and artist mentors have included Edward Albee, Jon Robin Baitz, Zoe Caldwell, Arthur Kopit, Craig Lucas, Joe Mantello, Terrence McNally and Marsha Norman. Previous plays include Two Boys in a Bed, Message to Michael, Carpool, Volunteer Man, A Trip to the Beach, Ascendancy, Stuck, Vick's Boy, The Messenger, Saved or Destroyed, Neil's Garden, My Special Friend, Faster, Bliss, St. Crispin's Day, Where We're Born, Five Flights, Boise, Finer Noble Gases, God Hates The Irish: The Ballad of Armless Johnny, Miss Julie, Acts of Mercy: passion-play, Cagelove, It Goes Without Saying, Dark Matters, Stay, American Sligo, Rag and Bone, War, Geometry of Fire, That Pretty Pretty; or The Rape Play, The Amish Project, Killers and Other Family, Post No Bills, Blind, Little Doc, underneathmybed, There Are No More Big Secrets, The Hallway Trilogy, Carson McCullers Talks About Love, the Off-Broadway GLAAD Award-nominated hit The Last Sunday in June, Craig Wright's The Pavilion (Drama Desk nominee - Outstanding Play of 2005), Lady (Drama Desk nominee - Outstanding Play of 2008), The Aliens by Annie Baker (2010 Obie Award winner for Best New American Play) and Jesse Eisenberg's Asuncion, which is currently playing at The Cherry Lane Theatre.
Dael Orlandersmith (Playwright/Mira) is the author of the Obie Award-winning Beauty's Daughter and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in drama, Yellowman for which she was also nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Best Actress and Best Play. Other works include Stoop Stories, Bones, The Gimmick, Monster, and Liar, Liar. She is the recipient of numerous awards including most recently, the William Inge award for her play HORSEDREAMS. She will be doing a solo play in 2012 called Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men, which is a co-production between Berkeley Rep and the Goodman.
Gordon Edelstein (Director) has directed over a hundred plays, musicals, and operas all across the U.S. as well as Europe. His acclaimed Long Wharf Theatre production of the Glass Menagerie played at the Roundabout Theatre Company and the Mark Taper Forum and was the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival. For the Roundabout he also directed the American Premiere of A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonaugh and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (with Roy Dotrice and Lindsay Crouse). Other NY work includes: Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad (Second Stage), the premiere of BFE by Julia Cho (Playwrights Horizons), The Day the Bronx Died by Michael Henry Brown, and many others. Upcoming projects include the Broadway production of Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca (Roundabout), starring RoseMary Harris, Jim Dale and Carla Gugino, and the world premiere of Sophie's Choice (Long Wharf Theatre). He is in his tenth season as Artistic Director of Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven, CT) where he has recently begun an association with Athol Fugard, directing the premieres of his most recent work: Coming Home, Have You Seen Us? (starring Sam Waterston), and The Train Driver. Before Long Wharf, he served for five years as Artistic Director of ACT in Seattle. He has directed regionally from Washington, DC's Arena Stage to Alaska's Perseverance Theatre, including such plays as Uncle Vanya (also adapted), Mourning Becomes Electra (also adapted), The Crucible (Wall Street Journal Best Regional Production of the Year), Death of a Salesman, A Doll's House (also adapted), The Front Page, A Moon for the Misbegotten, We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, Betrayal, Blithe Spirit, You Can't Take it With You, Hay Fever, and premieres of A Scent of the Roses (Julie Harris) and A New War by Gippe Hoppe. He recreated his production of The Day the Bronx Died with a British cast at London's Tricycle Theatre and he did the same for his production of The Crucible with a Romanian cast at The National Theatre in Romania. He directed both La Traviata and La Boheme for Connecticut Grand Opera and the world premiere of two operas: The Wild Goose Circus at Pennsylvania Opera Theatre and Black Water at the Opera America Festival.
Roxanna Hope (Desiree) Broadway: Frost/Nixon, Boeing Boeing (u/s), After the Fall, The Women; NY Theater: Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven, 1001, Arabian Night, Princess Turandot, Little Willy; Regional: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey-Les Liaison Dangereuses, Richard III, Julius Caesar, Pericles; American Conservatory Theater-Tartuffe, Indian Ink, Hecuba, Williamstown Theater Festival-Hecuba; Huntington Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and others. Film/TV: Puncture, No Reservations, "Blue Bloods," "Unforgettable," "The Good Wife," "Law and Order SV," "Law and Order," " Law and Order CI," "All My Children," and others.
Michael Laurence (Loman) Broadway: Talk Radio, Desire Under the Elms. Off-Broadway: Krapp, 39 (Soho Playhouse/NYC & Tristan Bates Theatre/London, Drama Desk Nomination), Opus (Primary Stages), Diary of a Teenage Girl (New Georges/ 3LD), Two Rooms (Platform Group), Hands In Wartime (LaMama), Levittown (Axis), Tooth of Crime and Book of Days (Signature). ?Regional: John Proctor in The Crucible (Hartford Stage/ Gordon Edelstein, dir.), Starbuck in The Rainmaker (Arena), Eric Bogosian's Humpty Dumpty (McCarter), The Pavilion (Westport), The Faculty Room (Humana), Three Days of Rain (Studio Arena), Things of Dry Hours (Portland Center Stage), Wintertime (Wilma), Tape (Stamford), Inventing Van Gogh (Seattle Rep), Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare Theater). TV: "Damages," "The Good Wife," "The Heart She Holler," "Third Watch," "Johnny Zero," "FX," "GhostStories," and "What's Not To Love?" for SHOWTIME. Film: One For the Money (upcoming), Man On A Ledge (upcoming), The Operator, Follow Me Outside, Room314, Escape Artists, Claire Dolan, Torte Blume, Love God, Particles of Truth. Training: NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing.
Matthew Schechter (Luka) Broadway: Mary Poppins (Michael Banks), Waiting for Godot (Boy), Elf (little boy, Michael standby). Television: "30 Rock," "Law and Order," "Important Things with Demetri Martin," "Z Rock" (recurring), "PBS Kids," "Sesame Street." Matthew has also performed in the Children's Chorus of the New York City Opera's productions of Tosca and Cavalleria Rusticana. His CDs include the first complete recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro, Ronan Tynan (for Smile Train) and Poetic License. Thanks to my teachers and Abrams Artists. Love to Mom and Dad.


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Bristol Zoo's Gorilla Island has a new (adorable!) occupant striding its shores. Little Kukena ventured out with mom Salome over the weekend and took his first steps in the big, big world. A 7-month-old Western Lowland gorilla, Kukena is part of an international conservation breeding program for this critically endangered species.
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I probably won't post much over here because I've been a Steelers fans since before the Colts moved to Indy, and I'll still be a Steelers fan after the Colts move out...
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Raiders release injured Woodson
Ex-Steelers star fails precamp physical
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
By Janie McCauley, The Associated Press
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The Oakland Raiders released safety Rod Woodson yesterday after the 11-time Pro Bowler failed a physical.
Woodson, 39, had a chronic left knee injury last season and had surgery in December. He was placed on injured reserve Nov. 26.
Woodson had said he'd like to return to the Raiders this season and doesn't want to end his career injured.
"Rod Woodson is one of the greatest defensive backs to ever play the game," Raiders coach Norv Turner said in a statement.
"He has been a leader on and off the field during his time with the Silver and Black. We appreciate Rod's contributions to the success of the Raiders."
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Woodson's knee was hurt four days before the team's first preseason game, but he tried to play through the pain. He had surgery Sept. 9 and missed the team's second game against Cincinnati.
The anterior cruciate ligament in Woodson's right knee was torn in 1995 and he missed most of the season with the Steelers, then came back to play in the Super Bowl.
Former coach Bill Callahan said Woodson had been compensating for his knee pain by straining other muscles in his lower body.
He played in Oakland's season opener Sept. 7 at Tennessee, then missed the following game. After his operation, he played 13 days later at Denver.
During the Raiders' Super Bowl season two years ago, Woodson made a momentum-changing 98-yard interception return for a touchdown in a 34-10 Monday night victory against the Denver Broncos that snapped Oakland's four-game losing streak.
A 17-year veteran who spent the past two seasons with Oakland, Woodson ranks third on the NFL's career list with 71 interceptions.
His 1,483 yards on interception returns are the most in league history.
He was the first player to make the Pro Bowl as a cornerback, kick-returner and safety during a career in which he also played for San Francisco and Baltimore. He was a member of the Ravens' Super Bowl-winning team.
Woodson was critical of his teammates during the Raiders' 4-12 debacle last season that proved to be the worst collapse by a team that had reached the Super Bowl the previous year.
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Securing the Modern Electric Grid from Physical and Cyber Attacks
Statement for the Record, July 21, 2009, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cyber Security, Science and Technology
By Joe Weiss, PE, CISM. Applied Control Solutions, LLC
I appreciate the opportunity to provide the following statement for the record. I have spent more than thirty-five years working in the commercial power industry, designing, developing, implementing and analyzing industrial instrumentation and control systems. I hold two patents on industrial control systems, and am a Fellow of the International Society of Automation. I have performed cyber security vulnerability assessments of power plants, substations, electric utility control centers and water systems . I am a member of many groups working to improve the reliability and availability of critical infrastructures and their control systems1.
On October 17, 2007, I testified to this Subcommittee on "Control Systems Cyber Security—The Need for Appropriate Regulations to Assure the Cyber Security of the Electric Grid"2.
On March 19, 2009, I testified to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on "Control Systems Cyber Security—The Current Status of Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructures"3.
I will provide an update on cyber security of the electric system, including adequacy of the NERC CIPs and my views on Smart Grid cyber security. I will also provide my recommendations for DOE, DHS and Congressional action to help secure the electric grid from cyber incidents.
First of all, I believe it is any utility's obligation to maintain a high level of electric service reliability. For the most part, the utility industry takes this responsibility very seriously and focuses very strongly on electric system reliability. The grid has been designed to be resilient and accommodate failures (the N-1 criteria). The equipment in place (older legacy and new equipment) has demonstrated a high level of reliability. However, as the older equipment is replaced with new equipment such as for Smart Grid applications an interesting paradox occurs – as reliability increases from the installation of new equipment, the cyber vulnerability also increases.
First, I believe a major point of discontinuity has been the unsuccessful equating of the terms Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and cyber security.
CIP (or "functional security") is focused on the function of the electric grid being maintained regardless of the status of the computers. Cyber security, on the other hand, focuses on protecting the computers independent of whether electric reliability is being maintained. For the sake of semantics, I will use the term "cyber security," but my intention is that the operation of the computers is focused on "keeping the lights on," or what is becoming increasingly referred to as "functional security."
Secondly, cyber events can be either intentional attacks or unintentional incidents.
NIST defines a cyber incident as "An occurrence that actually or potentially jeopardizes the Confidentiality, Integrity or Availability (CIA) of an information system or the information the system processes, stores or transmits or that constitutes a violation or imminent threat of violation of security policies, security procedures or acceptable use policies. Incidents may be intentional or unintentional."4
Cyber incidents are also more than just malware or botnet attacks. Cyber incidents include all forms of impacts on electronic communications.
Man-made Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) has already impacted North American and European electric and water Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and ruptured a natural gas pipeline.
In industry control systems, the most probable cyber incident is unintentional. Moreover, in a stellar application of the "law of unintended consequences," I believe that "blindly" following the NERC CIPs5 will result in more unintentional cyber incidents.
Unintentional cyber incidents have already killed people, caused significant outages, and had large economic impacts. Additionally, if the incident can be caused unintentionally, the same type of incident, if intentional, could have even more damaging effect.
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What has been happening since I testified to this Subcommittee in October 2007? It is not a pretty picture, and the power industry clearly needs Congress's help.
Knowledge Base - Figure 1 characterizes the relationship of the different types of special technical skills needed for control system cyber security expertise, and the relative quantities of each at work in the industry today.
Most people now becoming involved with control system cyber security typically come from a mainstream business Information Technology (IT) security background and not a control system background. This trend is certainly being accelerated by the Smart Grid initiatives, where the apparent lines between IT and control systems are blurring. Many of the entities responsible for control system cyber security, industry, equipment suppliers and government personnel (e.g., DHS, NCSD and S&T, DOE, EPA, etc.) do not entirely appreciate the difficulties created by this trend.
This lack of appreciation has resulted in the repackaging of IT business security techniques for control systems rather than addressing the needs of field control system devices that often have no security or lack the capability to implement modern security mitigation technologies. This, in some cases, has resulted in making control systems less reliable without providing increased security. An example of the uninformed use of mainstream IT technologies is utilizing port scanners on Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) networks. This has the unintended consequence of shutting them down. This specific type of cyber incident has occurred more than once in both the nuclear power and conventional power portions of the industry, with negative consequences.
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My personal opinion is Mark is just trying to shift the attention away from Howard. While I agree the emails were just proof of how immature some people can be (and I almost cried, laughed, and then cried again when I ready the person who said he should be sent to Indiana) but the underlying theme raises a good point to me. Nothing has been done, and at the very least [I would like to think in Cubans shoes] I would have issues a statement saying what Josh Howard did was wrong but that we would work with him on way to better improve his image to the public.
(ADMIN, I am not sure if this is to political for Pacers Digest. If it is I apologize)
Thanks for the advice on Josh
Sep 18th 2008 10:53PM
I wanted to thank all of you who took the time to email me with your comments on how best to deal with Josh. They were so good, I thought I would share a few of them with everyone. Including the email addresses of those who were bold enough to use real email addresses.
Josh realizes his comments were wrong, he understands why people are upset. He knows he has made a mistake, has apologized and will work with us . Beyond that, its a private issue.
What about the people who gave me the following advice ?
Author : Barack Obama (IP: 126.96.36.199 , cache-mtc-ah04.proxy.aol.com)
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From: "Tyree, Pam"
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Date: 09/18/2008 11:18 AM
Subject: Howard
This ahole is just as anti American as you are Cuban! What a disgusting bunch.
rom: "Billy Leto"
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Date: 09/18/2008 09:20 AM
Subject: are you kidding me?
Tell Howard that him and Hussein Obama can go to another country and live if they don't want to support our symbol of freedom.–
From: Donald Joy
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Date: 09/18/2008 09:20 AM
Subject: Howard's(and the rest of them) anti-American, thuggish remarks/attitude
These black criminals that you people coddle and cultivate are the reason why I no longer watch/follow professional sports. Sickening.
From: "Riley Johnson"
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Date: 09/18/2008 09:14 AM
Subject: Ask Mark Cuban
Hey Mark, I've always loved the way you ran your team and respected a large amount of your opinions. Regardless, I have to stop supporting the Mavs. Why? Because I don't support POS, America-bashing people like Josh Howard. Tell that spoiled pansy that his lifestyle is only made possible by the marvelous experiment that is America, and to take his bs to Russia if he's going to talk down our national anthem. Until he's off the team, you guys are off the TV.
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Date: 09/17/2008 11:28 PM
Subject: josh howard
This the first time I have e mailed any one of this stature you have to be kidding me I have always admired you and I am a warriors fan Don Nelson or not. Fire that *** hole this is America send him to Iraq No wonder kids act the way they do this is there role model they have no clue what we have been through in our history and how we became this country we all have faults but this is not the 60`s if it was he would of been hanged. I suppose that he thinks all the fireman, police and innocent citizens in 911 should of died also only in America could this happen and thats the point he does not get.
From: Larry Smith
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Date: 09/17/2008 08:51 PM
Subject: Your boy
You need to get rid of your ****** howard before you go down with him!
From: "Manuel Rodriguez"
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Date: 09/17/2008 10:09 PM
Subject: Maverick Josh Howard
You better get that piece of work out of your team for talking and disrespecting the national anthem or you are going to pay the price for it….. What kind of org. allows a looser and an idiot play for them? You are so low you make me vomit!!!! If you allow a hate of America play for your team, you also Hate AMERICA. GET OUT OF HERE!!!!
Have a Blessed Day:
Manuel A. Rodriguez
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Dude: Worry less about why the financial world and more about that unpatriotic coon you have on your team.
Time: Wednesday September 17, 2008 at 10:07 pm
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Date: 09/18/2008 08:58 PM
Subject: Josh Howard
You need to fire that SOB immediately. However, given your political leaning and anti-US film producer credits, I doubt you have the nuts for it. Wouldn't be surprised if you encouraged him. Do the right thing…dump that dumb *******.
From: George Bannon
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Date: 09/18/2008 08:25 PM
Subject: MARK & TEAM NEED TO MOVE TEAM AND YOU TO MOSCOW RUSSIA OR CUBA OR CHINA ETC.ETC.
How dare you defend this Josh Howard piece of ****. After his disrespect, at the very least, you should have transferred his *** to the Euro league. He doesn't like America? Well screw him. I've been around the world, defending America. Hell, I haven't even had the opportunity to live in my own country since 1995. I can assure you many people, with IQ's higher than a shoe lace, would gladly trade places with this ingrate punk. As long as you protect him and make excuses for him you carry equal guilt. I would immediately have any person in my employ fired and have his security clearance yanked for expressing such an opinion. I could retire on 1/20th of this ******** salary, and all he does is play ball and trash the country which provides him the opportunity to make such a living. Send him to REALITY, where he should be; bagging groceries and/or in prison.
Tommy Lee Frederick
Systems Technician - Warrior Training Center, U.S. Forces Korea
Unit 15596 Camp Casey, Korea APO AP 96224-5596
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From: "stephen rogers"
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Date: 09/17/2008 09:34 PM
Subject: Ask Mark Cuban
Mr. Cuban,
Just saw your ****** Josh Howard disresepct the national anthem because he is black. According to the news you say he is a really great guy. Of course he is because he makes you lots of money you greedy *******.
You would rather sell out your own country that my dead father fought for in WW II than than lose a buck by firing this black *******.
You are nothing more than a ****** slave owner milking him for all his black *** can get you.
There's lots of black dick on that team, get busy. White power is coming back because of race traitors like you.
Know what you get when you cross a ****** and a white ****** lover ? a WHIGGER. THAT IS YOU !!!!
Mark WHIGGER Cuban. A White storm is brewing Mr. Cuban, you and those ******s like you better evacuate.
From: Jeffrey Miller
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Date: 09/17/2008 08:14 PM
Subject: Ask Mark Cuban
You need to get rid of NIGGARS like Josh Howard.
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Website:why on earth would you keep the piece of embarrassing ghetto trash named Josh Howard?
I will no longer cheer for the mavs.
Go Spurs!
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"I don't even celebrate that ****. I'm black."
You & Howard…two peas in a pod.
Don't think we've forgotten about that Brian De Palma anti-military propaganda film, "Redacted", that you produced, Cuban
Ya might tell Howard the next time you talk to him, that if not for America, he'd probably be be throwing spears in Africa someplace instead of free-throws.
Semper Fi,
M.E. Heffernan
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I will not watch the mavericks play again,as long as Josh Howard plays ….. Thats it for me ….. What this animal said about the American flag has turned my stomach..
Hope this finds you well.
I am anxiously awaiting word on your
move on the Cubs-if you buy them-keep
Trammel in the dugout-he is why they are
where they are now (coaching-wise that is).
Now, on the Josh Howard thing-the whole National
Anthem thing is bothersome. Put the ruler across
his knuckles-and remind him that that National Anthem
is the reason he is so ridiculously over paid, even though
he probably went to maybe 2% of his classes at Wake-and
probably can't balance his own checkbook!
Would like to talk films with you soon. Daniel J. Heffner (my producing
partner) and I have 3 wonderful scripts, and my financing won't be ready
for another 45 days. Need a partner-all 5M budgets or less-and the
scripts are good enough to garner Oscar winning actors. Further to that,
Dan already has Maple distributing one of them-so we are squared away
and I need to get started on 2 of them asap.
All the best,
Matthew Pletcher
Chairman/CEO Baby Galigo Studios
Sales Coach Chuck Bauer
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I WILL NOT attend any Mavericks games as long as that criminal Josh Howard is
part of the team. Send him to Indiana to be with his fellow criminals. The youtube
video really exposes him for what he is.
Chuck Bauer
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Date: 09/19/2008 08:58 AM
Subject: Ask Mark Cuban
So here's a question or two for you, Mr. Cuban, in regards to this quote from one of your players:
"'The Star Spangled Banner' is going on right now. I don't even celebrate that (expletive). I'm black." - Josh Howard
1) What does being black have to do with Honoring the playing of the national anthem? He wasn't a slave, and he has EVERYTHING this country is about to thank for his freedom *AND* his wealth, which you and the other idiots running sports teams pay him (and other idiot athletes).
2) Are you going to do the RIGHT thing and punish him monetarily for this? Or are you going to sit there on your hands and be a pansy about it?
From: Donald Joy
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Date: 09/19/2008 09:43 AM
Subject: Re: Get over yourself
My fellow patriots and I aren't the ones who made it about race: "I ain't about that 'National Anthem' ****, I'm black…mumble mumble something something Obama mumble Obama, etc., etc.)Howard, and Jeremiah Wright, and Ludacris(and white leftist scum like you and "Father" Michael Pflager), Jay-Z, Kanye West, Tupac Shakur, Malik Zulu Shabazz, Louis Farrakhan, Malcolm X, B. Hussein Obama with his refusing to place his hand over his heart during the Anthem and refusing to wear a flag lapel pin until he was backed into a corner over it, all the while saying things like "typical white people" and "white foilks' greed runs a world in need"(if a white politician said the equivalent, he'd be utterly ruined by now, and you know it; it has happened over and over again in our P.C., double-standard dystopia), et. al.,–you people are the ones who make it about color instead of focusing on character.
I judge a person by the content of their character. So many of those multi-millionaire black athletes, and millions upon millions of blacks in the United States, absolutely, sullenly, spitefully, violently REFUSE to develop their character and act like civilized citizens of the country that was the first society on the planet to undergo a nation-rending civil war(600,000 white men dead, untold more wounded to free the slaves) and a reckoning of self-examination in order to bring about the end of slavery and the Jim Crow era in this hemisphere(even as it was, and still IS being practiced in Africa and elsewhere in the world!). Blacks Muslim pirates operating out of the Barbary Coast captured and enslaved hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of whites in the late 1770's-early 1800's, yet blacks act as if America was/is the only oppressor in the history of the world, rather than the very hand that delivered them from the culture of conquest, from their own cousins on the Ivory Coast, which sold them to slavers in the first place.
After generations of anti-white attacks and rampaging riots and a rape/murder rate 7 times that of whites, after decades of robberies and thuggery and drug dealing, with a black-on-white crime rate that is so egregiously multiplied over the negligible white-on-black rate, blacks owe reparations to whites far more than any that whites owe blacks.
You're obviously a Mike Nifong.
I know and know of many blacks that are indeed patriotic and intelligent and kind people, but my experiences with and observations of far, far too many others–MOST young black men and women in urban areas, in fact–mandate that I talk straight about a glaring and absolutely unacceptable situation that white liberals like you have helped bring about and exacerbate with your failed, train-wreck socialistic programs that destroy families and promote promiscuity, irresponsibility, fatherlessness, and dependence on government largesse and the race-grievance industry.
I'm fed up with white liberals like you who refuse to acknowledge the abject depravity and pathological, willful failure of black culture, and instead enable and perpetuate it as you excuse and defend it, all the while attacking honest whites who dare protest as you call us "racists." Go ahead, call me a racist, I don't care; as long as the majority of a given race refuses to attend school and drink the water of education to which they've been led–on MY excessive and wasted tax dollars–and instead bite the hand that feeds them as they stab the teachers and rape and steal and deal drugs and glorify murder as a rite of adolescent passage in homage to their rap music heroes, harassing and accusing their studious peers of "acting white"–as long as the plurality and bulk of that pathetic race ACTS inferior, I will certainly be justified in considering them inferior. Remove the absurdly high correlation(can it be done? I really do wonder, as no black society anywhere on Earth has anything resembling an advanced character) between skin color and abject criminality, between melanin and anti-American hostility, and I will consider them worthy citizens of MY country, that I love, that I fought for and continue to fight for.
Otherwise, shove your anti-white hatred up your ***, and shove your animalistic "African-American" ANTI-American "athletes" up your *** while you're at it. Osama bin Laden is really tall, too; I bet he could've slam-dunked JUST like those disrespectful America-hating black criminals if he'd been chased after by scouts and coddled and given a bunch of bling back in the day, too!
…and I didn't even resort to using the word that they hurl at each other and everyone else more often than they use the word "the."
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Subject: Re: Get over yourself
Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com
Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 10:51 AM
Josh Howard is an ungrateful dumbass. He smokes pot every day, play basketball in front of millions of people and gets paid millions of dollars and then has the BALLS to effectively say "screw the US, I'm black. I've been oppressed and, oh, by the way…vote for Obama". If you don't see the disconnect in that statement then you're a moron as well. If he's so frickin miserable, then he should move back to his native Africa and live in a mud hut with Obama's half brother for a year or so on a dollar a month. Then we'll see how he really feels about this rotten oppressive country where he's being so unfairly held back from reaching his full potential as a miserable black man.
Screw the Mavericks. They're perennial losers like Howard…and Cuban cultivated the losers by overindulging the prima donnas.
And one more thing, checking out the cheerleaders during the National Anthem IS American. Homely women always complain about us doing it.
From: "McCubbin, Peter \(Exchange\)"
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Date: 09/19/2008 10:25 AM
Subject: Give Josh the Kabosh
Hi Mark: I look forward to showing your team (with Josh ?) the same disrespect he showed our country's flag. You guys are a disgrace. J Peter McCubbin NBA fan
To those of you who have read this far, I have added several emails since this was originally posted. In addition, I have gotten a reply from Jeff kellen of the email below, that i thought should be posted. This is the thread, so they are in reverse order
"Jeff Kellen"
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Date: 09/18/2008 04:22 PM
Subject: Ask Mark Cuban
Hi Mark,Did you know Josh Howard was an America hater when you signed him or was
it a surprise?"I don't spend my money on this NBA ****, I am white."
- Jeff
From: "Jeff Kellen"
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To: "Mark Cuban"
Date: 09/19/2008 10:46 AM
Subject: RE: Follow up
Sure, that is fine as I am so damn mad at myself right now and cannot
stand the thought of people thinking I am some sort of bigot or racist.
My kids love KG and I was happy to see him get a ring finally. He is a
hero in our house.
I feel like an idiot.
- Jeff
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From: Mark Cuban [mailto:email@example.com]
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 10:39 AM
To: Jeff Kellen
Subject: Re: Follow up
thx for the reply jeff. since i posted the last email, would you like
for me to post this as well ?
HDNet, The reason HDTV was invented ! www.hd.net
—–Original Message—–
From: "Jeff Kellen"
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:23:49 -0500
Subject: Follow up
> Hello Mark,
> I had sent you a email comment yesterday and wanted to follow up tell
> you that it was a turn on the words that Josh Howard used previously
> and the email was a sarcastic attempt to voice my objection. In
> reality, I am actually a long time NBA fan and take my kids to a
> couple NBA games each year and was happy to see KG finally get a ring.
> My comments were ill advised and reflected a momentary lapse of
> I do not allow racist talk in my house or around my children but my
> comments came off that way and I am truly embarrassed by them. They
> were meant to be sarcastic but they came off as racist in a way that I
> honestly did not intend for them to.
> Apologies,
> - Jeff
> P.S. I hope you guys do better in the playoffs next year.


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Here's the scenario: You're a college basketball player and your team is down by one. You've got a trip to the NCAA men's basketball tournament on the line, but the clock shows less than three seconds. After your teammate passes you the ball, you dribble twice, pump-fake the defender, and throw up a jumpshot that could win the game.
Now, do you shoot the ball straight at the rim or aim for the backboard? According to researchers at North Carolina State, you better try to bank it in.
After analyzing computer-generated 3-D simulations of more than 1 million basketball shots, a team led by NC State's Larry Silverberg determined that, while it does vary, there are large, identifiable areas on the court where a bank shot can be up to 20 percent more successful than attempting a direct swish.
The findings, published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, make several assumptions about the ball shooter, in order to keep the the results determined by the 3-D sims consistent. One was that the ball be released at a height of either six, seven, or eight feet off the floor — a fairly typical height, if perhaps a little conservative.
Also, a regulation men's basketball with a 29.5-inch circumference and 22-ounce weight was used in the sim. (Women's basketball uses a ball that's an inch smaller and two ounces lighter.) Finally, the ball rotated out of the shooter's hands with a backspin of 3 Hz (three revolutions per second).
What they uncovered (shown here) was that areas on the wing — between the free-throw area (most of that inner rectangle) and the outermost three-point line — contained pockets (shown in the bottom-most graphic) where a bank shot was much more likely to go in than with a direct shot.
Up top, you can see the area that had the success rate for bank shots. It makes sense that the percentage drops so low on the outer area since you have such little surface area of the backboard to utilize.
Below that, you see the hot spots for converting direct shots.
Finally, at the bottom, you can see the areas (denoted in red) that had the highest increase in success rate with bank shots over direct shots. Indeed, these areas are usually off to the side of the straight-away area, where you're more likely to get a good angle at the backboard.
The NC State team also discovered that when they plotted the simulated shooter' aim points, the resulting data created a V that could be used as a training device for teaching players where the most successful bank shots are aimed. The dots that comprise the bottom-most part of the V represent shots taken closer to the free-throw line. Dots higher up on the V were from shots taken farther out on the wing.
But perhaps an even greater finding was that there existed, 3.326 inches behind the backboard, a vertical axis line that could be used to aid shooters in knowing where to aim their bank shots.
It's actually quite simple: Envision the V (as shown here) on an actual backboard. Then visualize a vertical bar that sits 3.326 inches behind the backboard. Wherever you see the two cross, that's where you aim for a high-percentage bank shot.
The problem is, teaching players to shoot high-percentage bank shots — because science tells us they have a better chance of going on — runs counter to the basic fundamentals of hoopdom. We see the rim, we want to shoot the ball at the rim. Shooting nothing but bank shots goes against human instinct, but it can be taught.
With enough reps — hopefully not 10,000 hours worth — you could train your eye to launch the ball at some arbitrary point away from the rim. Provided that your release point, ball rotation and body momentum remain constant, aim point can certainly be adjusted, especially if science convinces us our chances of scoring will go up.
Oh, and the above scenario actually happened to Princeton's Doug Davis on Saturday. He won the Ivy League Championship for his team by hitting a last-second jump shot from the right wing. And did he bank it in? Nope, he swished it through, nothing but net.
So while science may have all this data on its side, maybe these Princeton kids know something we don't.
Photo: Flickr/rrrrred, CC; Diagrams: Larry Silverberg, North Carolina State
Citation: Silverberg, Larry M.; Tran, Chau M.; and Adams, Taylor M. (2011) "Optimal Targets for the Bank Shot in Men's Basketball," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1, Article 3. DOI: 10.2202/1559-0410.1299Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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The search is back on for a new Ilkley town crier following the retirement of long-serving figure Chris Richards.
Mr Richards stood down in December after a decade in the role, reading the Yorkshire Day declaration and many other public duties.
Ilkley Parish Council has previously advertised the role, but only one candidate came forward. It hopes a renewed call will kindle interest locally and from further afield.
It was suggested Ilkley may be able to share the services of a town crier from another area, although there could be a clash of engagement dates, such as Yorkshire Day, August 1.
Contact the parish council clerk's office on (01943) 436212 or e-mail ilkleypc@bradford.
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One of the oldest battle fronts in Monterey County is about to become the newest weapon for environmentalists opposing development of open space on Fort Ord.
Attorneys for Keep Fort Ord Wild said Friday they plan to demand the Monterey County Water Resources Agency place a moratorium on any new water hook-ups on Fort Ord until the public is given a clear picture of the limited resources available.
Water allotments on the former Army base have been the source of controversy in recent months, but there has been little discussion about how much water actually exists in the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin's deep, 900-foot aquifer.
Not much, according to two studies uncovered by the group's attorneys, Michael Stamp and Molly Erickson. And what is there likely fell from the skies 20,000 years ago or more.
A 2002 study by the U.S. Geological Survey and another commissioned by the Marina Coast Water District in 2003 found that the basin's 900-foot aquifer receives only minimal recharge from the upper aquifers and may be a finite resource. The studies also suggest continued pumping from the "minimal" volume in the deep basin may worsen seawater intrusion in the aquifers above it.
The Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control District's recycled water project was developed at great cost to Salinas Valley farmers to combat saltwater intrusion. Marina Coast Water District is planning to deliver the recycled water farmers don't use in the winter to augment supplies at Fort Ord.
But if pumping for potable water exacerbates the seawater intrusion, farmers could need all the water produced by their expensive project, leaving desalination as Fort Ord's only hope.
The USGS conducted carbon testing on water pulled from the deep aquifer for its 2002 study. The results "suggest that the deep aquifer system in the Marina area was not recharged under current climatic conditions."
Even considering the uncertainty of such testing, it continues, "the results indicate that these groundwaters were probably recharged thousands of years before present."
A study conducted the next year by Water Resources & Information Management Engineering (WRIME) Inc. concluded that recharge to the basin from rainfall is "minimal" and that "the volume of groundwater that can be removed from storage is not large."
All potable water for Fort Ord development is expected to come from the deep aquifer.
Marina Coast engineer Andrew Sterbenz disputed the contention the aquifer is not being recharged. He said monitoring wells have shown a constant level in the aquifer despite ongoing pumping, indicating water is being replaced.
But Justin Kulongoski, a USGS research hydrologist who has studied water quality in the basin, said the conclusion is not necessarily accurate. Constant pressure in the aquifer could be maintaining the levels while the volume is shrinking south of the monitoring well, he said.
Howard Franklin, senior hydrologist with the Monterey County Water Resources Agency, said he agrees with Kulongoski. After more than a decade of studying the basin, however, he believes there is some recharge in the 900-foot aquifer from the 180- and 400-foot aquifers above, though it may take centuries to trickle down.
While the volume of water that can be pumped from the deep basin is unknown, Franklin said, neither he nor his agency believes pumping there will affect seawater intrusion in the upper aquifers.
District General Manager David Chardavoyne and Assistant General Manager Rob Johnson were not available for comment Friday.
Michael Salerno, spokesman for Keep Fort Ord Wild, said the apparent agreement that the volume of water in the basin is limited raises questions about development on Fort Ord. If allocations are approved and developers move forward on projects like Monterey Downs in Seaside, what happens to projects that have already been approved but are stalled on Fort Ord's abandoned urban footprint?
"How long will the blight sit there with no water allocation?" he asked. "It raises the question of whether the highest and best use is to expand the (Fort Ord) National Monument" and keep the land permanently in open space.
At a minimum, said Erickson, his attorney, the public needs to be educated about the limited nature of the resource before any more decisions are made about divvying it up.
Erickson said it was only through "extensive and diligent research" that she found the two reports, which appear to be the only that have studied the geology of the deep basin.
Web searches revealed only references to the WRIME report. Erickson said she got it from Marina Coast Water District only after a delayed response to a public records request.
"It appears to have been hidden from the public," she said.
"We're asking for a moratorium until the information regarding the deep aquifer has been fully disclosed and people understand how much supply there is, how long it will be before it will run out and what will happen then," she said. "There is a perception that Fort Ord has (unlimited) water. We see from these studies that perception is dead wrong."
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Laguna Niguel City Hall became a Hanukkah Wonderland on Sunday as the city and the Chabad Jewish Center of Laguna Niguel presented a menorah-lighting ceremony with live entertainment, snacks, crafts, dancing and a menorah-building contest on the second evening of Hanukkah.
Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean revolt of the second century B.C.
Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, marked by lights on a menorah, a type of candelabrum.


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Palo Alto voters could be asked in November to hike the city's hotel tax from 12 to 15 percent to help fund a slew of infrastructure projects.
The city council is slated to discuss the proposal Monday. The deadline to place a measure on the fall ballot is Aug. 8.
A 3 percent increase in the tax would bring in an additional $2.7 million annually. Those funds would be used to replace obsolete fire stations, rehabilitate parks and improve roadways for bicycle use, according to a city staff report.
But the city's No. 1 project, a new public safety building, would not receive a single cent — at least not at first.
An infrastructure project funding plan the council is also scheduled to consider calls for the building to be funded through a combination of existing resources and anticipated revenues from new hotels.
Including revenue from new hotels, a 15 percent hotel tax would bring in an additional $5.7 million per year, according to the report.
The city could borrow up to $79.8 million against future revenues from the increase through a funding mechanism known as certificates of participation, or COPS, according to the report.
The existing public safety building at 275 Forest Ave. has long topped the city's list of key infrastructure projects. Of particular concern is its vulnerability to a major earthquake.
Pending approval of the hotel tax increase, the city could break ground on a new building by July 2016, according to the report.
The hike was vetted and recommended by the council's Infrastructure Committee, after polling indicated 79 percent support among 600 likely voters. Other funding measures, including a sales tax, fared less favorably.
For example, just 62 percent of likely voters said they would support a general obligation bond for a new public safety building. Such a funding measure would need a two-thirds majority to pass.
Palo Alto would have one of the highest hotel taxes in the state if voters approve the 3 percent increase. San Francisco and Oakland currently charge 14 percent, according to the report.
The current 12 percent hotel tax accounts for 11.5 percent of Palo Alto's total general fund revenue.
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Curiosities: Volume 1.1
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Seeking refuge in knowledge, Tandemodus researches, writes and designs on topics that stem from observation of everyday occurrences. Project 23.5 is the first that originated as a simple documentation idea and grew into much more. Our studio, located on Chicago's South Side, has a breathtaking view of the city and its surrounding neighborhoods, and is ideal for observing nature in an urban environment. As autumn approached, we decided to document the foliage as it turned colors. We captured 60 photos over two months, at the same time of day and from the same position—visual evidence of the changing seasons, the passing of time and the wonder of nature.
The platform for Curiosities allows us the opportunity to take an idea and challenge it to be something more. What began as a visual collection of seasonal changes in nature uncovered a story far more elaborate and compelling than we could have ever imagined—a testament to the design process we work through for every project, big or small.
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NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Police have arrested and charged four people who allegedly stole air conditioner parts from the alley behind the Nova Southeastern University campus in North Miami Beach.
Police said they received a tip from someone who claimed to have seen the thieves stealing the parts around 3:30 a.m. on Dec. 27. Officers approached the area where the four were observed running from the scene.
Three of the suspects had fled the area into the residential neighborhood nearby. Police said the fourth suspect jumped into a getaway car and fled the scene.
With the help of K-9 dogs, police said they were able to catch the three suspects at the rear of a house located at 17901 NE 169th Street. The fourth suspect was also apprehended a short distance away after fleeing the scene.
Police arrested Henry Box, 29 of Miami Shores, Manaelle Box, 32 of Miami Shores, Ashely Norris, 19 of Miami Shores and Roberson Cadet, 18, whose address is unknown. They were arrested and charged with Burglary and Resisting Arrest without Violence.
Detectives believe the group has also committed other crimes involving air conditioning thefts, based on the evidence found at the scene.
Police said they recovered two vehicles that had numerous parts from other air conditioning systems not taken from NSU.
The investigation continues.
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Fairfax County Joins Cool Capital Challenge
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March 31, 2008
Fairfax County Joins Cool Capital Challenge
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, at its regular meeting today, approved a resolution pledging to implement greenhouse gas emission reduction actions as part of the National Capitol Region's Cool Capital Challenge.
"By endorsing this action," said Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly, "we further strengthen the county's and region's commitment to fight global warming. Throughout the years, Fairfax County's leadership in environmental activities and educational outreach has sparked interest in and served as a model for members of our community, and beyond, to take action at home and at work to reduce greenhouse gases."
Fairfax County's pledge includes implementing the following CO2 greenhouse gas emission reduction actions, which represent a few of the many county operations that contribute to reducing county and regional greenhouse gas emissions. Combined, these actions alone represent a reduction of more than 1 million tons of CO2 per year.
- Wind energy (average annual purchase of 8.2 million kwh).
- Tree canopy, tree planting and turf management initiatives.
- 1,260 county employees teleworking an average of one day per week.
- Alternative-fueled vehicle purchase (12 Ford Escape hybrids).
- Providence RECenter lighting upgrades (58,400 kwh energy savings per year).
- Landfill gas to energy, 4.4 million cubic feet/day.
- Waste to energy, 1.05 million tons processed/year.
- Transfer station operations, 2.4 million miles avoided/year.
- Recycling, 498,000 tons/year.
- Connector bus operations, 9.6 million riders per year.
The board's action followed adoption by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) of a resolution endorsing participation in the Cool Capital Challenge by COG and its member governments. The Cool Capital Challenge was started in early 2007 by volunteers from government, business, faith communities and community organizations in the metropolitan Washington region. It is structured like a capital campaign, but with contributions of carbon savings instead of cash. Further information on the campaign is available at www.coolcapitalchallenge.org.
Fairfax County is one of the founding members of the national Cool Counties initiative, which was launched in July 2007 in partnership with the Sierra Club, to reduce local government emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Since 2003, the board has implemented close to $7 million worth of projects and programs to address air quality and global climate change. Further information on the Cool Counties initiative is at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/living/environment/coolcounties.
The Board of Supervisors' environmental agenda, "Environmental Excellence for Fairfax County – A 20-Year Vision," adopted in 2004, identifies six areas of focus for environmental protection. The 2004 plan and the board's Environmental Improvement Program were recognized by the National Association of Counties with an Achievement Award in 2006. The environmental agenda and the Environmental Improvement Program for fiscal year 2009 are available at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/living/environment/eip.
For more news and information, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news
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When Jane Proctor opened the door to the Canadian Produce Marketing Association office in 1985 to begin a job as a temporary receptionist, she didn't expect to still be opening figurative doors for the industry in 2013.
Proctor, 52, began her career with the CPMA 18 years ago as a part-time receptionist during the summer, thinking the post would be temporary. Middle school children had made her doubt using her teaching degree, but Proctor had no produce background. However, she found attraction to the industry was contagious.
"You can't work with (former CPMA president) Danny Dempster and Stephen Whitney and not develop a passion for the industry," she said.
Not long after joining CPMA, Proctor became administrative assistant to the national director of promotions for the Fresh for Flavour Foundation. In 1994, when the CPMA took over the Reach for It campaign, Proctor weaved Fresh for Flavour into CPMA's mandate.
Proctor also has had posts with CPMA as marketing coordinator, information technology manager, director of industry technology and standardization, and lead staff for CPMA on the Produce Traceability Initiative.
"Jane has touched every aspect of the organization," CPMA president Ron Lemaire said. "Her growth and development over those years has truly made her an industry leader, and not only on the domestic level but also the global level."
With her ascension at CPMA, Proctor has also helped carved a path forward for women entering the produce industry, Lemaire said.
Proctor has worked tirelessly to standardize processes that help make the industry more efficient, said Gary Fleming, vice president of strategic services for RedLine Solutions Inc., Santa Clara, Calif.
Her efforts extend beyond Canada and made a big difference in the efficiencies marketers have gained, Fleming said.
Proctor, now vice president for policy and issue management for the Canadian Produce Marketing Association and The Packer's 2013 Canadian Produce Woman of the Year, said her work at CPMA began in marketing and extended to promotion, and then to regulatory affairs and technology.
That progression took a big learning curve, Proctor said, and she is still learning every day.
With the regulatory outlook changing in the U.S. and Canada, Proctor said she enjoys creating forums for people to come together and communicate.
Industry and government officials also require opportunities to exchange information, she said.
"We believe we have been very successful in creating platform for government agencies to speak to each other," she said.
Too often, those agencies — even within the same government — fail to communicate.
Proctor said she believes cooperation between North American trade associations is at its peak and will continue to evolve.


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Pharmacokinetics of Citalopram in Patients With Short Bowel Syndrome
This study has been withdrawn prior to enrollment.
University of Nebraska
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Ashish Sharma, MD, University of Nebraska
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First received: April 2, 2009
Last updated: May 19, 2014
Last verified: May 2014
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This prospective study will determine the pharmacokinetic parameters of citalopram in 12 adult patients with short bowel syndrome. While data on the prevalence of depression in patients with short bowel syndrome is sparse, the investigators' experience is that these patients have a high incidence of depression and should benefit from a psychopharmacological intervention.
|Short Bowel Syndrome
|Drug: Citalopram
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
|Official Title:
|Study to Determine Steady-state Level of Citalopram Pharmacokinetic Parameters in Patients With Short Bowel Syndrome
Resource links provided by NLM:
Drug Information available for: Citalopram hydrobromide Citalopram Escitalopram oxalateU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Ashish Sharma, MD, University of Nebraska:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Measure plasma concentration of citalopram [ Time Frame: Seven days ]
|Study Start Date:
|May 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|April 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Intervention Details:
Drug: Citalopram
Citalopram pharmacokinetics will be studies in subjects with short bowel syndrome.
Citalopram 20mg orally will be given to the subjects and on the seventh day blood will be drawn at hours 0,1,2,3,4,6,8,12,16 and 24 hours post-dose.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|19 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects must be between the ages 19-65 years.
- Subjects must have less than 200cm of functional small intestine.
- Subjects must be at least one month post bowel resection.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects less than 19 years or more than 65 years of age.
- Pregnant or breastfeeding women.
- Known hypersensitivity to citalopram or other SSRIs.
- Diagnosis of depression using MINI (Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview).
- Ongoing antidepressant therapy.
- Evidence of cirrhosis (Child-Pugh stages B or C) or evidence of significant liver impairment defined as liver enzymes elevations greater that 2.5 times the upper limit of normal.
- Suicidal ideation.
- Bipolar disorder.
- Mania.
- Known history of seizures.
- Evidence of hyponatremia.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00876226
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|University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska 68198-8470
|Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68198-8470
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|Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68198-8470
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|Responsible Party:
|Ashish Sharma, MD, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00876226 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 2, 2009
|Last Updated:
|May 19, 2014
Keywords provided by Ashish Sharma, MD, University of Nebraska:
Short Bowel Syndrome
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Short Bowel Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
Malabsorption Syndromes
Intestinal Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Postoperative Complications
Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors
Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Neurotransmitter Agents
Serotonin Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation
Antidepressive Agents
Psychotropic Drugs
Antiparkinson Agents
Anti-Dyskinesia Agents
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Muscarinic Antagonists
Cholinergic Antagonists
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GIRLS cricket in Somerset is very much a growing area of interest and everybody involved at the Somerset Cricket Board is delighted with the rising number of schools offering girls cricket, writes Richard Walsh.
This is evident in the growing number of secondary schools participating in this year's girls indoor cricket competition.
Much of this success is down to the Chance to Shine campaign that is regenerating cricket in state schools.
Caroline Atkins, the recently appointed Somerset Women and Girls head coach, said: "This year we have had around 40 school teams enter across 12 local tournaments to decide winners for the next stage. Four years ago, there were so few entries that schools would go straight in to the County Finals.
"It's brilliant that Chance to Shine is providing more girls the opportunity to play cricket in schools, and the Lady Taverners 8-a-side Indoor Girls Cricket Competition is a good measure of that success.
"I hope when we replicate the competition in the summer term that even more schools take part."
Women and Girls cricket is certainly a growing sport in terms of participation as well as the growing media interest.
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Betty Goes Vegan Review Part 3 – Girlfriend's Mock Chicken Salad
This recipe from Betty Goes Vegan was easy and SO delicious. I loved the bright lemon flavor, and I don't think I would have thought to use lemon juice in a mock chicken salad. It's so good! I used to not be a fan of celery in pretty much anything, but it was great in [...]Read more


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NORTH Wilts men complete their 2012-13 Wessex League campaign when they face Nailsea this Sunday.
After winning their first two central region league matches and topping the table, Wilts have lost the last three games and slipped down to fourth spot and out of contention to really claim a wild card play-offs spot.
In their last Wessex match a fortnight ago, Wilts lost to leaders Bristol 85-75.
The team chosen to play Nailsea only shows one change, on the home rink skipped by Justin Davis where John Buckland comes in for Alan Stell at number two.
Rink 1: Steve Snook, John Buckland, Roger Button & Justin Davis. Rink 2: Richard Jennings, Dave Williams, Mal Curtis & Wayne Snook.
Rink 1: Clive Swift, Kevin Holmes, Trevor Cooke & Billy McCay. Rink 2: Derek Clark, Bob Hayes, Geoff Smith and Max Clark.
Final Group Fixtures - Sunday February 24: Christie Miller v Purnell; Clarrie Dunbar v Weston St Andrews; Nailsea v North Wilts.
To be re-arranged: Nailsea v Purnell.
SUE Cooke and Alex Jacobs are North Wilts ladies sole representatives at this year's Ladies National Indoor Championship finals at both Melton and District and Nottingham IBC.
Winners of the national pairs crown in March 2010 Cooke and Jacobs have reached the latter stages in this season's championship.
They qualified with a comfortable 16-7 victory over Thornbury's mother and daughter pairing of Cynthia and Rachel Winter-Alsop in the Area 30 national pairs championship final.
Previously they had enjoyed 25-11, 28-15 and 23-9 victories over duos from Thornbury and Clarrie Dunbar (two) on the way to the area pairs final.
In the last 32 at Melton & District next Thursday, February 28 (5.30pm) they have been drawn against Jean Eslick and Doreen Cook (Dartford Stone Lodge IBC, Kent).
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Many of the defensive ends in this year's draft are raw, but they have shown potential to be explosive pass rushers. Look at how quickly Jason Pierre-Paul developed for the New York Giants. A few defensive ends in this draft have that kind of promise.
Here's a ranking of the top prospects.
1. Ezekial "Ziggy" Ansah, BYU. His skills are raw, but his upside his tremendous. A native of Ghana, Ansah didn't play football until he arrived at BYU. Three years later, he's a probable first-round pick. That shows you how fast he is developing. He should be a top 10 pick and could go to the Lions at No. 5.
— Optimum Scouting: How big a risk is Ansah? | Saturday Down South: Risers/fallers
2. Bjoern Werner, Florida State. A native of Germany, Werner started as a true freshman and just keeps getting better. Not just a pass rusher, but solid against the run as well. A productive player —23½ sacks in 41 college games. Look for Werner to be selected in the mid-to-late first round.
3. Margus Hunt, SMU. His stock has risen following a superb Combine. Hunt is 6-8, 277)pounds and had 38 bench press reps and ran 4.6 in the 40-yard dash. He has all the tools physically. He probably will go in the second round but could sneak into the first.
— 2013 NFL Draft: First round, April 25; Rounds 2-3, April 26; final rounds, April 27
4. Cornellius "Tank" Carradine, Florida State. He would be higher on draft boards if not coming off an ACL injury in November. Scouts are very impressed with his tape. He had 11 sacks in 11 games before his injury. He could become an elite NFL pass-rusher and is another likely second-rounder with a shot at being taken late in the first round.
5. Dantone Jones, UCLA. Jones made plenty of plays in the opposing team's backfield against the run. An enthusiastic player who brings emotion and versatility to line up in different spots. Coaches like his effort on tape. It's not out of the question for him to be a top-20 pick, but he'll likely go in the second round.
— Mock draft: Latest selections from SN partner Optimum Scouting
6. Damontre Moore, Texas A&M. He has taken much abuse after doing 12 reps in the bench press at the Combine, the lowest of any defensive end. However, his body of work in college was impressive. Look for him to go in Round 2.
7. Alex Okafor. Texas. A powerful pass rusher, Okafor isn't the quickest guy, but strong enough to overpower offensive lineman. Some scouts worry about his lack of explosiveness and don't think he is a first-round pick. But if there is a run on defensive ends before him, Okafor could go on Thursday night. He projects as a second-round pick.
8. Sam Montgomery, LSU. He admitted at the Combine that he coasted sometimes against lesser opponents. That isn't exactly what scouts want to hear, but they also like the way Montgomery performed against top competition. Might be too risky for first round, but too tempting to get out of second round.
— Other positions: QB | WR | RB | TE | T | G | DT
9. William Gholston, Michigan State. Don't penalize him for being the cousin of New York Jets first-round draft bust Vernon Gholston. This Gholston is a better player. He measured 6-6, 281 pounds at the Combine, and he has the frame to add weight and strength without losing quickness. This Gholston projects as a third-round pick and should stick in the NFL.
10. Joe Kruger, Utah. His brother, Paul Kruger, received big money from the Browns in free agency. Kruger led Utah with six sacks last season, he'll be the next family member to play on Sundays. Expect him to be selected in the fourth round.


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Dutch rewrite record board at Wartburg
WAVERLY—The Central College men's and women's track and field squads concluded their weekend at the Wartburg Select Saturday with a trio of new school records. Eric Larson (sophomore, Waverly, Waverly-Shell Rock HS) broke his own school mark in the heptathlon while Felicia Coleman (senior, Houston, Texas, J. Frank Dobie HS) reset her records in the 60-meter and 200-meter dash.
Coleman cruises to two victories—Coleman continued her revision of the Dutch record books Saturday en route to a pair of individual wins. She began the day by lowering the 60-meter dash mark set in December from 7.85 seconds to 7.79. Her encore was a blistering 25.23-second 200-meter dash performance, more than a half-second faster than her previous best of 25.75.
"Felicia is running as well as she ever has," said Dunham. "She has gotten better every time that she steps out on the track. That is a testament to her hard work and Coach Fuller has done a great job of getting her ready to compete."
The 200 meters is not contested at the NCAA Division III championships, but her 60-meter mark is currently tied for the ninth fastest time in the nation.
Other notable performances include a runner-up finish for Mel McDermott (senior, Britt, West Hancock HS) in the 3,000 meters (10:43.37) and third-place finishes for Elin Phipps (freshman, Boone) in the 800 meters (2:21.45) and Jess Fevold (senior, Webster City) in the weight throw (15.01).
Larson puts up strong NCAA mark—Larson completed the final three events of the heptathlon Saturday to finish second with a score of 4,882 points. That mark was more than 100 points ahead of his previous best of 4,749 which earned him an all-America plaque at the 2012 NCAA indoor meet. He is currently ranked third in Division III.
"It's always exciting to see someone put up a strong qualifying mark like Eric did," said Dunham. "He's not guaranteed to get into the national meet, but we feel good about where he is at."
Elsewhere, Eli Horton (sophomore, Runnells, Southeast Polk HS) won the Mile (4:19.12) with teammate Drew Jackson (sophomore, Johnston) close behind in third (4:20.63), while Cole Decker (freshman, Des Moines, West Des Moines Dowling HS) easily took the 3,000-meters (8:45.15). The 4×200 relay of Mitch Wagoner (junior, Iowa Falls, Iowa Falls-Alden HS), Logan Danko (senior, Centerville), Philip Heisterkamp (senior, Jefferson, Jefferson-Scranton HS), and Mason Zimmerman (sophomore, Urbandale) was second (1:31.2) while the 4×400 relay of Spencer Hammack (freshman, Ottumwa), Tyler Westphal (senior, Le Mars), Drake Hickok (freshman, Cedar Rapids, Washington HS), and Austin Roberts (freshman, Bloomfield, Davis County HS) was third (3:26.04).
"The team is right about where I expect them to be at this point in the season," said Dunham. "The important thing is that they competed hard today. We'll look to carry that over into the next few weeks.
The Dutch will send a small contingent of athletes to the Iowa State Classic Friday, while the full squad will compete at the Grinnell College Darren Young Classic Saturday.
We're looking forward to what we can do next week at Grinnell," said Dunham. "But our emphasis is always on the championship part of the season."Print this ad for $10 off your next oil change


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KAZAKHSTAN – The latest Russian Soyuz spacecraft is blasting towards the International Space Station.
The rocket carrying three crewmembers, including a U.S. astronaut, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this morning amid frigid temperatures.
One NASA spokesman says conditions were similar to the North Pole.
The trio are expected to arrive at the ISS on Friday where they will join another U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts.
They are expected to stay for the next five months, completing several spacewalks and working on experiments in the laboratory.
Since the U.S. shut down its space shuttle program, the Soyuz rocket is the only spacecraft capable of sending humans into orbit.


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