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LINCOLN Nebraskas courts helped children last year, but could further improve court access by breaking language barriers using technology, Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Heavican told the Legislature during his State of the Judiciary address.
During the first six months of the project, 80 percent completed probation successfully.
Another youth-focused initiative, Through the Eyes of the Child, got $1 million in grants to house former foster children as they transition to adulthood.
The judicial branch touches all Nebraskans, including the most vulnerable of our citizens, Heavican said, children, the elderly, the poor and the unfortunate victims of crime and abuse.
The Nebraska Supreme Court presented a two-year strategic plan that focuses on children and vulnerable adults, access to courts, community safety and the judicial branch's accountability to the public.
Sen. Brad Ashford of Omaha said goal one is children. This is the year of the child in the juvenile justice system, he said.
Ashford, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said hes proposing a bill next week that would change the system.
So all great stuff, he said. Im a big fan of the Chief Justice.
Heavican said his speech covered only a few of the good things happening in Nebraska.
Our court provides access to justice for all of our citizens, he said, but added later that court access could be improved.
Nebraskans need to be heard and lawyers, judges and jury need to understand the testimony and arguments of non-English speakers so that justice can be served.
The Language Access Plan, which is researching Nebraskas immigrant and refugee language needs, should be completed in 2013, he said. Spanish interpreters are available across the state and can call in to court hearings or use videoconferencing. Conferencing saved the state almost $100,000 in travel and mileage since 2010, he said.
When witnesses are as far away as the U.S. coasts, Sen. Steve Lathrop of Omaha said, a witness should be able to appear by electronic conferencing, with consent of the parties involved.
A county court judge was interested in making sure this common practice was placed into law, so Lathrop introduced Legislative Bill 103 this session.
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Every year Lathrop has been in the Legislature, he said the court has used more technology. Electronic filings speed up processing, and as an attorney, he can accesses court files from his office and that saves the courts money, he said.
Judges are facing a pinch and they have been very patient when we went through the recession. A challenge for the year will be adding new judges and he said Douglas County Court and the District Court probably each need one more judge, but they still need to be patient.
Lathrop said it was helpful to hear Heavican speak because theres a level of cooperation between the judiciary and the Legislature.
Heavican ended his speech saying the same thing.
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Ballistic Publishing continues to impress fans of digital artwork and collectors of digital art with their multiple lines of publications, including the Expose, d'artiste, Exotique, Essence, and Art of the Game series. Now, fans of the most amazing series of digital art books known to man can pick up Expose 8 and Expose 9.
Featuring over 20 categories of images - including everything from Portrait, Fantasy Femmes, and Robotic/Cyborg to Warriors & Conflict, Science Fiction, and Surreal - the Expose series of books includes a wide variety of artwork sure to please each and every digital art fan around. And these two latest additions to the series are no different. In fact, Expose 8 features over 390 images by over 280 artists from over 52 countries while Expose 9 showcases over 440 pieces of original digital artwork from over 325 artists from 60 countries, the most of any book in the Expose series.
Thanks to editor Daniel Wade and a talented and amazing advisory board and jury which includes the likes of Lorne Lanning, Phil Straub, Brom, Max Dennison, Stephen Martiniere and more, these two books are filled with - as the series' motto says some of the "finest digital digital art in the known universe."
Both Expose 8 and Expose 9 open with an introduction by the previously mentioned editor, Daniel Wade, as well as an introduction to the artwork categories and the advisory board and jury. Next, both books introduce the year's Grand Master title to one artist who "has had a major influence through their craft." Expose 8 awards the title of Grand Master to the well deserving H.R. Giger, no doubt a master of his craft whose influence has boiled over into a variety of pop culture while Expose 9 awards the title of Grand Master to Daniel Dociu, an amazing artist in the gaming industry and the current Chief Art Director for the 'Guild Wars' franchise. Both men deserve the title "Grand Master" as is evident by their artwork and influence within the industry.
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Chen Ziyi, CHINA
Each book opens into the different categories, again awarding specific pieces of artwork and their artists the title of "Master" or "Excellence." These pieces include the gorgeous portrait "Turandot" by the extremely talented Chen Ziyi of China (above) and the amazing video game artwork "Guild Wars 2: Charr Canon" by Kekai Kotaki from the USA (below).
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Other digital artwork well worth mentioning from a variety of genre in Expose 8 include...
Modern House
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Marcelo Eder, BRAZI
Brazil's Marcelo Eder and his "Modern House" (below), an angular creation that's both appealing to look at and seemingly practical to live in as well and "Big Blue," a fantasy piece awarded the "Master" title by the jury (below). Impressive in it's fantastical and surreal design, the creature at the center of the composition seems almost familiar and yet, so very unimaginable.
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Nu Wa
Yu Cheng Hong, TAIWAN
The "Excellence" title in the Fantasy Femmes category was awarded to the gorgeous "Nu Wa" by Taiwan's Yu Cheng Hong (above), a combination of seemingly celestrial forms which make up the beautiful woman at its center. The "Master" title in the Warriors & Conflict category was awarded to the amazing, super-detailed "Knights of Abomination," a photoshopped piece by Reynan Sanchez of The Philippines (below). Truly an impressive fantasy piece featuring a horde of battle-ready warriors, this piece stands out for its craftsmanship, composition, detail, and design.
Knights of Abomination
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Inspired by: Spawn
Jeffrey M. de Guzman, THE PHILIPPINES
Recipient of the "Excellence" title in the Warriors & Conflict category and another fantasy piece which will seem familiar to fans is the Spawn-inspired "Unleashed," a photoshopped piece by Jeffrey M. de Guzman of The Philippines. Reminiscent of Todd McFarlane's Dark Ages Spawn, this armor-clad warrior stands ready for war, flaming skulls in one hand and a sword of burnished steal in the other (above).
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Expose 9 also features an amazing assortment of digital artwork, including...
Guild Wars 2: Fire Elemental
Kekai Kotaki, USA
Guild Wars 2 © ArenaNet
An outrageous piece of Game Artwork - and well deserving of the "Master" title it was awarded here - is "Guild Wars 2: Fire Elemental" by American artist Kekai Kotaki. This piece shows just how stunning and impressive video game artwork can be when done by the best and most experienced of artists with the best of skill, imagination, and design (above).
Queen of the Kraken
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Steve Argyle, USA
Other impressive pieces of digital art include the "Master" award-winning Fantasy Femmes piece "Queen of the Kraken" by American artist Steve Argyle. Original in its subject matter, the impressive color work, design, shading, and setting make this a true masterful piece of fantasy artwork (above).
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Neil Maccormack, bearfootfilms, SWITZERLAND
Likewise, Neil Maccormack's "Hangar," worthy of the "Excellence" award in the Concept Art category, features an impressive science fiction theme; a massive, two-legged mech whose sheer scale and size make too incredible to believe (above).
Restricted Area
Maya, mental ray, ZBrush, Photoshop
Daniil Alikov, RUSSIA
Another couple of awesome pieces of digital artwork similar to Maccormack's "Hangar" is Russian artist Daniil Alikov's "Master" award winning piece in the Robotic/Cyborg category: "Restricted Area" (above). An amazing original piece featuring a multi-legged construction 'bot and crew member, this seemingly near future composition looks almost real...were it the year 2095. Add to that Carlos Núñez de Castro Torres' "Mecha concept: PDBx100" and mecha fans will Well deserving of the "Excellence" title, this
de Castro Torres brings to life a mecha that's one-part battle suit, one part robotic warrior, and all types of stunning (below).
Mecha concept: PDBx1000
Carlos Núñez de Castro Torres, SPAIN
While there's no where near enough space here to talk about each and every category much less all of the amazing digital artwork inside both Expose 8 and Expose 9, for those art fans looking to add to their bookshelf an impressive collection of digital artwork, there are few better books to have as a part of one's collection than these recent collections.
Both Expose 8 and Expose 9 can be purchased online at Ballistic Publishing or at other amazing book sellers.
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- special thanks to Daniel Wade and Rebecca Foreman for their help coordinating this and other past and forthcoming reviews of Ballistic Publishing's amazing books!


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Free "WiFi" at Glen Elder State Park provided by Cunnningham Telephone & Cable. Hot spots are located at the cabins, Kanza, Kaw & Cheyenne Showerhouses, and the Marina area. NEW locations throughout the park/campgrounds.
State regulation 115-8-9 requires all camping units upon completion of 14 consecutive days in a campground must move to a different CAMPGROUND, each person and all property of each person shall be absent from that campground for at least five days.
Hopewell Church basement is the Emergency Weather Shelter for the Glen Elder State Park area. The park has a storm siren in the Kanza campground that is activated by Mitchell County law enforcement.
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Quarterback Mike Protheroe, left, and the Clayton Valley Charter football team are headed to the North Coast Section Division II championship game. The top-seed Eagles will face No. 2 Rancho Cotate-Rohnert Park (12-0) at 7 p.m. on Nov. 30 at Diablo Valley College for the section title. The Eagles beat crosstown rival Concord on Nov. 23 for the second time this year for its 11th consecutive win of the season and a berth in the final. Clayton Valley pulled away after halftime of the semifinal game to win 49-22. Mike Protheroe and his older brother, Joe, accounted for six of Clayton Valley's seven touchdowns. Joe Protheroe continued his productive season at running back with 261 rushing yards.


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About the Book
"I dreamed of New York, I am going there."
On May 31, 1953, twenty-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at "the intellectual fashion magazine" Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Over the next twenty-six days, the bright, blond New England collegian lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended Balanchine ballets, watched a game at Yankee Stadium, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She typed rejection letters to writers from The New Yorker and ate an entire bowl of caviar at an advertising luncheon. She stalked Dylan Thomas and fought off an aggressive diamond-wielding delegate from the United Nations. She took hot baths, had her hair done, and discovered her signature drink (vodka, no ice). Young, beautiful, and on the cusp of an advantageous career, she was supposed to be having the time of her life.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with fellow guest editors whose memories infuse these pages, Elizabeth Winder reveals how these twenty-six days indelibly altered how Plath saw herself, her mother, her friendships, and her romantic relationships, and how this period shaped her emerging identity as a woman and as a writer. Pain, Parties, Work—the three words Plath used to describe that time—shows how Manhattan's alien atmosphere unleashed an anxiety that would stay with her for the rest of her all-too-short life.
Thoughtful and illuminating, this captivating portrait invites us to see Sylvia Plath before The Bell Jar, before she became an icon—a young woman with everything to live for.
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"An illuminating biography . . . which floods clarifying light on a chapter of the poet's early life that Plath painted in jaundiced tones in The Bell Jar." — New York Times, Sunday Styles Feature
"The world of '50s NYC, in all its glamour, is irresistible reading." — Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings
"Will recalibrate your mind and heart. . . . We knew about Plath's ambition - and angst - but her penchant for flaming-red lipstick and princess heels was a bit of a surprise" — More magazine
"A pixilated gem of a book. . . . In prose as delightful and lively as the champagne Sylvia liked to sip at the St. Regis ball, Winder has made Pain, Parties, Work a prose poem of the senses, and a true account of The Bell Jar." — Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger, New York Times bestselling authors of Furious Love
"A lovingly detailed inventory, as Technicolor-vivid as a Douglas Sirk film, of the fashions and foods that filled Plath's summer. Winder convincingly shows that Plath should be recognized as much for her enjoyment of life and her enduring works as for her tragic death." — Publishers Weekly
"Winder poignantly captures a snapshot of a time that directly inspired one of Plath's most famous works. She also captures Plath as bright, vivacious . . . For fans, particularly devotees of The Bell Jar." — Library Journal
"Winder resuscitates a young woman who, while sick, is electrically alive to her first real adventure. . . . Captivating . . . [Winder] makes a compelling argument that in New York…Plath moved closer to finding the voice that would define her writing." — Slate
"Winder describes the aesthetics of the era beautifully. . . . Reading this book sparks feelings of impossible nostalgia for someone who didn't live through the fifties; in this way, it is an experience akin to watching Mad Men." — Bookslut
"The book offers a new perspective on Plath's life courtesy of Winder's exhaustive research." — Women's Wear Daily
"Winder has painstakingly sketched a fully fleshed out portrait of Plath's life during that hot, seminal summer, offering a glimpse into the raison d'etre behind Plath's revered 1963 roman a clef, The Bell Jar. . . . Winder goes into the dizzying, delightful detail." — USA Today
"[An] accessible, eye-opening new biography." — O Magazine
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Some of them, having been lost or abandoned, have found their way to a colony where they can survive amongst other felines. But the majority live out their lives as feral, or "wild", cats. Being either born in the wild and never having had human contact, or reverting to a wild state after having been abandoned; the great majority of feral cats cannot be tamed. Generally, attempts at taming or adoption of ferals prove to be fruitless. Our efforts can be realized one-hundred-fold if we do the greatest good for the greatest number of ferals by stopping the cycle of reproduction.
Communities can help these forgotten cats by providing them with food, water, shelter, and spaying/neutering services through the "Trap-Neuter-Return" full management program.
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Sincere apologies for missing your note from last month and only saw it when I was skimming for new postings today! Just as well that Nenad wrote to you. It must have arrived at the time that I was "running around like a mad lunatic" and completely missed it. I really appreciate you taking time to write me the note, which made me feel so welcome in your two countries. The Aussies will be playing the Preliminary Games in Osijek, then depending on results play for the President's Cup [to determine placing] in either Porec or Pula [which I also looked up in the map and saw that they are both coastal places]. I am keeping fingers crossed that the Team would manage to win a game or two. They are up against big handball nations whose players are highly skilled and paid professionals who have been playing together for years. We only put together our team after the national championships and put them in some sort of training camps. They don't have much resources and just run on passion for their sport and their country. They take time off work or studies and pay their way to represent their country.
I have only been to Rome for a two-day stopover so hoping to visit Italy properly one day. I'll let you know when this is happening. Maybe we could even meet up for a cappucinno. And of course, if ever you are visiting Australia it would be great to meet up with you.
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PENDLESIDE Hospice has announced the route of its Girls Night Out.
The event on Friday, July 11 replaces the Midnight Walk of previous years.
The event will feature all the fun of the Midnight Walk but with entertainment and licensed bar afterwards.
The fully marshalled 10k-route will start at 8pm at Burnley Football Club and will be on established well-lit footpaths.
Walkers will depart from Burnley Football Club, along Yorkshire Street, through Charter Walk and Market Square, up Curzon Street and Westgate to the Barracks Station and across the footbridge over the M65.
They will then go onto Ighten Road, Lakeland Way, Padiham Road, Middlesex Avenue, Sycamore Avenue, up Gannow Lane and under the underpass, back down Westgate, through town and back to Turf Moor.
The walk will take around 2 hours to complete.
On return to the club, walkers will receive a medal, certificate and goody bag, the bar will be open and there will be music and entertainment until midnight, and a pie and peas supper.
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Sir Francis Drake 18, Valley Christian 13: The 15th-seeded Pirates (6-5) used a stout run defense and big plays from their passing game to upset the second-seeded Vikings (8-3) at Chabot College in a Division IV first-round game.
Drake's Tyler Weeks completed only five of his 21 pass attempts, but all of his completions went for 20 yards or more, including a 25-yard touchdown pass to Eddie Calderon that opened the scoring in the first quarter. After a bad snap, Drake kicker Kevin Miles connected with Calderon for a two-point conversion, and the Pirates never trailed after that.
Valley Christian quarterback Vince Volpatti ended a long Vikings drive with a 2-yard touchdown run one second before halftime, but his ensuing two-point conversion run failed.
Drake took the second-half kickoff and drove 75 yards to score on a 3-yard run by Gavin Hallinan. A 27-yard field goal by Miles gave the Pirates an 18-6 lead with 6:54 remaining.
But the Vikings came storming back behind Volpatti. He completed 4 of his 6 passes on the next drive for 43 yards, including a 7-yard touchdown pass to Austin Simmons with 3:46 to go.
Valley Christian then recovered an onside kick, but three plays later Weeks intercepted a Volpatti pass on the Valley Christian 45. Drake got three first downs to run out the clock.
The Vikings' Howard Wikle, who rushed for 370 yards last week against Salesian, was limited to 51 yards on 24 carries by the Pirates.
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Valley Christian 0 6 0 7– 13
SFD — Calderon 25 pass from Weeks (Calderon pass from Miles)
VC — Volpatti 2 run (run failed)
SFD — G. Hallinan 3 run (Miles kick)
SFD — Miles 27 FG
VC — Simmons 7 pass from Volpatti (Marco kick)
Rushing: SFD — Ruzzier-Gaul 15-41, Weeks 4-33, G. Hallinan 6-31, D. Hallinan 4-6. Totals 29-111. VC — Volpatti 19-54, Wikle 24-51, O'Hare 1-6, Bamidele 3-4, Jung 1-(-1), Flynn 1-(-14). Totals 49-100. Passing: SFD – Weeks 5-21-0-143. VC – Volpatti 9-18-1-106. Receiving: SFD – Calderon 3-89, D. Hallinan 1-34, G. Hallinan 1-20. Totals 5-143. VC – Carter 4-72, Wikle 4-27, Simmons 1-7. Totals 9-106. Fumbles/lost: SFD – 2/1, VC – 5/1. Records: Valley Christian 8-3, Sir Francis Drake 6-5.


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McCarthy, Harris, Dixon et al. Set For SWEENEY TODD At Barrington Stage 6/17-7/17
Celebrating Stephen Sondheim's 80th Birthday this year, Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Producing Director Richard M. Parison, Jr., presents the musical thriller, SWEENEY TODD: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Directed by Julianne Boyd, with musical direction by Darren Cohen, Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece begins previews on June 17; opens June 23 at 7:00pm; and runs through July 17.
With a book by Hugh Wheeler, based on an adaptation by Christopher Bond, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, is a chilling comedy of passion, revenge, and meat pies set to brilliant music of legendary composer Stephen Sondheim. On a mission of ruthless retribution barber Sweeney Todd schemes with lovesick shopkeeper Mrs. Lovett to avenge his family in the most demented fashion.
The cast of Sweeney Todd will be headed by Broadway veteran Jeff McCarthy (Urinetown, BSC's Follies and Mack and Mabel) as Sweeney Todd and Tony winner Harriet Harris (Thoroughly Modern Millie, TV's Desperate Housewives and Frasier; Roundabout's Present Laughter) as Mrs. Lovett, with Ed Dixon (Roundabout's Sunday in the Park With George, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Les Misérables) as Judge Turpin, Timothy Shew (Wonderful Town, Les Misérables) as Beadle Bamford, Branch Woodman (Roundabout's Bye, Bye, Birdie) as Pirelli, Christianne Tisdale (Beauty and the Beast, BSC's South Pacific) as the Beggar Woman, Shonn Wiley (Mud Donahue and Son, 42nd Street) as Anthony, Sarah Stevens as Johanna (Diplomacy) and Zachary Clause (NYMF 2009 Hurricane) as Tobias.
Members of the Ensemble include: Traci Bair, Paul Betz, Analisa Leaming, John Rapson, Jaime Rosenstein, Amanda Salvatore, Billy Shaw and Allan Snyder.
A 9-piece orchestra under the musical direction of Darren Cohen will accompany the 17-member company. The Barrington Stage production restores Judge Turpin's song "Johanna." The creative team includes Wilson Chin (scenic design), Jen Moeller (costume design), Phillip S. Rosenberg (lighting design), Ed Chapman (sound design) and Renee Lutz (stage manager).
Barrington Stage has presented the following works of Sondheim: A Little Night Music in 1997, Company in 2000, Follies in 2005, and West Side Story in 2007.
Hugh Wheeler (Book) won Tony Awards for Candide, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd. He is the author of the plays Big Fish, Little Fish; Look, We've Come Through; We Have Always Lived in the Castle; and additional material for Pacific Overtures. His screenplays include Travels With My Aunt, Something for Everyone, A Little Night Music and Nijinsky. He also wrote 30 mysteries under the pseudonyms Patrick Quentin and Q. Patrick. He wrote for such operas as Kurt Weill's Silverlake, Mozart's Impressario and the opera versions of Candide and Sweeney Todd.
Stephen Sondheim (Music and Lyrics) wrote the music and lyrics for Saturday Night, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, The Frogs, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park With George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion and Road Show as well as lyrics for West Side Story, Gypsy and Do I Hear a Waltz? and additional lyrics for Candide. Anthologies of his work include Side by Side by Sondheim, Marry Me a Little, You're Gonna Love Tomorrow, Putting It Together, and Sondheim on Sondheim. For films and television, he composed the scores of Stavisky and Reds and wrote songs for Dick Tracy and "Evening Primrose." He co-authored the film The Last of Sheila and the play Getting Away With Murder. He received the 2008 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement and, in March of 2010, the Henry Miller Theatre was re-named the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in his honor.
The original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd opened March 1, 1979 at the Uris (Gershwin) Theatre. Produced and directed by Harold Prince, the production starred Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Edmund Lyndeck, Sarah Rice, and Ken Jennings. Winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, the production ran 558 performances. Tim Burton directed the 2007 movie version which starred Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, and Sacha Baron Cohen. Sweeney has since entered the repertory at NY City Opera (with productions in 1984 and 2004), presented in concert by the NY Philharmonic in 2000, and revived twice on Broadway in 1989 at Circle in the Square with Bob Gunton and Beth Fowler, and in 2005 with Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone.
Performances of Sweeney Todd from June 17 through July 17 are Tuesday and Wednesday at 7pm, Thursday through Saturday at 8pm, Friday matinees at 2pm, and Sunday at 5pm at BSC Mainstage, 30 Union St., Pittsfield. Additional matinee performance on Wed., June 30 at 2pm. Opening Night: Wed., June 23 at 8pm. Tickets: $15-$58. Seniors: $35 all matinees. Pay What You Can Night for 35 year olds and younger: Wed., June 30 at 7pm. Barrington Stage is fully-accessible, including wheelchair accessibility and assisted listening devices at every performance. Accessible seating is available by reservation. For ticket information, call 413-236-8888, stop by the BSC Box Office at 30 Union Street , or visit www.barringtonstageco.org.
About Barrington Stage Company
Barrington Stage Company, a professional award-winning Equity theatre located in the heart of the Berkshires, in Pittsfield , MA , was co-founded in 1995 by Artistic Director Julianne Boyd. Barrington Stage's mission is three-fold: to present top-notch, compelling work; to develop new plays and musicals; and to find fresh, bold ways to bringing new audiences into the theatre-especially young people. Barrington Stage garnered national attention with William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's Tony Award-winning musical hit "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," which began as a workshop at Barrington Stage in February 2004, was produced in its world premiere to critical acclaim that summer, and later transferred to Broadway's Circle-in-the-Square Theatre where it played more than 1,000 performances. For more information, log on to www.barringtonstageco.org.


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90th Missile Wing has 1st female commander
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base has a female commander for the first time.
Col. Tracey L. Hayes formally took command of the wing and its 150 nuclear missiles in a ceremony Monday. Hayes previously served as vice wing commander of the 460th Space Wing at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colo.
The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports Hayes replaces Col. George Farfour, who temporarily took over command duties when Col. Chris "Boots" Coffelt stepped down at the end of May.
Hayes says she looks forward to upholding the reputation and excellence the missile wing has shown in the past.
The 90th Missile Wing has some 3,500 civilian and military personnel.


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You wake up. It's 4 a.m. and you need to leave for the airport soon to catch your flight to another continent.
This is life on the road for our international programs team.
In 2012, 24 international team members from our Kansas headquarters traveled a total of 918 days. That equates to more than two-and-a-half years of combined travel!
The team is dedicated to making sure the Hope for a Family program is serving CFCA sponsored friends and their families in the best possible way.
Sometimes, that means spending time away from their own families to visit those in the field.
We spoke with Rama John, CFCA international financial auditor, who traveled a total of 92 days in 2012!
Q. How do you tend to family needs when you travel for CFCA?
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If there is good communication, all things can be accomplished.
Q. How do you stay in touch with family when you are away for long periods?
A. Sometimes it is hard to plan too far in advance, so often we need to use our online resources.
Those resources include email and Skype, which has been a lifesaver for me to communicate with my family and with CFCA staff members around the world.
I'm very grateful for these tools. We also have wonderful staff support from our co-workers in Kansas so that these tools don't fail while we are traveling.
Q. What does your family think about the time you spend away from home?
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My family believes in what we are trying to do here at CFCA ó helping those in need to rise above the conditions they live in and the daily struggles they face to change their futures for themselves and their families.
I'm very grateful to be a part of that.
I hope that one day I might have the opportunity to take my son on a CFCA awareness trip so he can see what we see, experience what we experience and maybe it will change his life.
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Sonny Fortune Comes to The Blue Note, 1/22-23
Sonny Fortune is set to play the Blue Note, Tue. & Wed. Jan. 22 & 23, with sets at 8 and 10:30 PM. Featuring: Sonny Fortune, alto sax, Michael Cochrane, piano, David Williams, bass and Steve Johns, drums.
When critics speak of Sonny Fortune, names like Coltrane, Cannonball, Young, Bechet, Hawkins and Parker are mentioned. Quite a legacy - but well deserved - for Sonny Fortune embodies all of the finest qualities of those late, great musicians: hard work, dedication to his art, and exceptional music. Lucky for us, Sonny is still here and blowing hard.
The Philadelphia native (born 1939) has been on the jazz scene since his move to New York City in 1968. Over all these years he's performed and recorded with many of the most notable jazz artists; Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Frank Foster, Mongo Santamaria and Buddy Rich to name a few. He's been a leader of his own groups and has released over a dozen recordings including three for the legendary Blue Note label.
He's been featured on CBS TV's 48 Hours with Dan Rather; a featured soloist on the soundtrack for the Jack Nicholson film, The Crossing Guard, and was the subject of a CBS Sunday Morning feature with Billy Taylor. He headlined the first Chicago Playboy Jazz Festival and was the featured jazz performer at the Atlanta Montreaux International Music Festival.
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I have a problem with STM Read / TCP Read. I have multiple (e.g. 4) dataserver each providing up to 3 messages per second. Every dataserver has its connection using the same port 55555. The client application receiving these messages polls through these connections (e.g. every 50 ms). Under some conditions I see that the TCP Read function needs >2000 ms for returning, but its timeout is 50 ms. No error is raised when this happended. Is there anyone who can explain such behaviour.
I assume this subVI is running in parallel to a bunch of other code, therefore you can not really say that the TCP Read function itself is taking more than 2000 ms to return. In the time between the two Tick Count functions, another subVI may be taking control of the processor and increasing the amount of time measured. At the very least you should place the first Tick Count function right in front of the TCP Read node, rather than outside the Case structure.
You can also try placing these three functions (Tick Count/TCP Read/Tick Count) in a subVI and increasing the priority of the subVI to Time Critical to prevent the LV scheduler from switching to another VI during this sequence.
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I have just installed STM using stm_202_installer.zip on LabVIEW 2010 and carried out a mass compile.
There appears to be a vi missing.
#### Starting Mass Compile: 19 Jan 2011 09:38:22
Directory: "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2010\user.lib\STM"
Search failed to find "SUM Read Msg.vi" previously from "<userlib>:\STM\Examples\Distributed Clients\SUM Read Msg.vi"
### Bad VI: "Host Receive IP Address from Client.vi" Path="C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2010\user.lib\STM\Examples\Distributed Clients\Host SubVIs\Host Receive IP Address from Client.vi"
#### Finished Mass Compile: 19 Jan 2011 09:38:35
The "Host Receive IP Address from Client.vi" appears to be a stand alone sub vi that is not called by anything.
I have looked into the cab files of the installer and I have been unable to find "SUM Read Msg.vi" in either stm_202_installer.zip or stm_1.0.32.zip.
I am sure that it not important but that is not really the case. Reference Design installers should be complete.
Hi There,
I'm usng the STM and i must say it works great!
Currnetly i need a C++ program to send commands with data to a LV application, and also prefer to use STM way.
I have downloaded the VSC++ example, and this explains already a lot.
But (there is always a but ) the data in my LabVIEW application is organised in a cluster, typical cluster is attachted.
Creating a flatten/unflatten function in C++ for each of 25 commands will be a lot of work.
Is there a somewhat generic way to get a struct flattened (in the C++ code) so i can send it via STM to
the LabVIEW application and there unflatten it.
Or is there a better way in implementing it,
Ben Engelen
03-22-2011 02:47 AM - edited 03-22-2011 02:47 AM
As long as you have no variable sized arrays and strings in there and make sure to surround the definition of the structure definitions with
#pragma pack(1)
typedef {
} your_structure1;
#pragma pack()
the structure layout will match exactly LabVIEWs flatten format and you can simply do a memcpy(). With strings and arrays you won't get around writing a real, recursive flatten function.
This question may be for another forum as it may be associated with TCP instead of just STM, but hopefully somebody here can point me in the right direction.
I use STM to communicate between multiple EXE files on the same computer using localhost addressing. Each EXE has a different port number to either write to (client) or listen to (server) that is defined in the EXE INI file. Some are 1 to 1 server/client connections, some are many to 1 server/client connection (but no more that 4 clients to any one server). An example file is below:
DebugServerEnabled = False
DebugServerWaitOnLaunch = False
HideRootWindow = True
server.app.propertiesEnabled = True
server.ole.enabled = True
server.tcp.serviceName = "My Computer/VI Server"
server.vi.propertiesEnabled = True
useTaskBar = False
WebServer.TcpAccess = "c+*"
WebServer.ViAccess = "+*"
AutoMeasure = "TRUE"
AutoMeasureDelay(ms) = "50"
Close Ref = "FALSE"
EventHandler_Timeout_ms = "1"
Exit Program = "TRUE"
Frame Channels (1:4) = "1:4"
HideFrontPanel = "TRUE"
Init = "FALSE"
Listen_To_Port = "35402"
Queue_Timeout_ms = "1"
Reset = "FALSE"
State = "CHARGE"
STM_Read_PortListen_Timeout_ms = "1"
Tab Control = "Setup"
Value_IN = "0.000000"
VISA Resource Name = "TCPIP0::169.254.67.71::inst0::INSTR"
WatchdogTimeout = "30000"
ConsecutiveErrorsAllowed = "999"
net address = "localhost"
The EXEs run in "clusters" of 14 executables to accomplish their combined composite function. Everything works fine and connections are made and maintained with not issues when the first 3 sets of clusters of EXEs are running (42 EXEs). I have a total of 5 clusters on the system (70 EXEs). However, when I attempt to run a 4th cluster set of EXEs, the programs in the fourth set INITIALLY connect and start running (I can see data being collected/moved across TCP connections), but within a few seconds the connections get terminated by Error 66 which shuts everything down. I do not have code to attempt reconnects as I doubt trying to reconnect will help in this situation as it appears to be some type of TCP connections or stackup limit that I don't have visibility to or understand. Also, I can start up different cluster sets out of the 5 in different order and they all work fine together as long as no more than 3 of the 5 clusters are running at the same time.
I am running Windows 7 64-bit on a quad-core dual processor Xeon PC with 12Gigs of RAM, so I do not see the HW resource limit being reached while monitoring system resources. Are there specific LabVIEW INI settings for TCP control I am not updating correctly to avoid possible collisions or limits here?
The error you are getting doesn't indicate a resource conflict, there is a limit to the number of TCP sockets, but if you reach that limit it will return error 61 on the TCP Create Listener. Also, it's rare to reach this limit on Windows systems as I think it's 64k sockets for most implementations. A couple of suggestions:
1. You can use netstat (from a command prompt) to check on the status of your connections. With so many connections, it's definitely not impossible that you are running out of sockets if you are leaving them in TIME_WAIT, but I doubt this is the case.
2. Double check that error 66 is the only error you recieve.
3. My best guess as to what is happening is that you are getting a timeout somewhere as you increase the number of connections and then closing the timed out connection because ot the error. Ensure that you do not close connections on a timeout anywhere in your code (you should generally retry on timeout to avoid orphaning sockets and leaving them in TIME_WAIT).
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Thank you for the suggestions. Some of the things I have done relate somewhat to your suggestions. Specifically:
1. I have used netstat before and also a utility called TCPView to monitor connections. Connections get established fine, but then drop off in LabVIEW but not in TCPView right away. I'm thinking LabVIEW believes that a connection is lost, but is actually just "not available" according to the OS...still looking into this.
2. Error 66 is for sure what is shutting down my program (specifically, the multi-client server), which then in turn shuts down every other EXE in the cluster. I get other errors after this, but are related to the lack of a connection first initiated by the Error 66.
3. I've conferred with other software engineers here at my company who use TCP and agree that a timeout is very likely as the root cause. However, all my "TCP Read" code retries many times after each timeout error to insure a packet is not lost if in can be captured in the allotted time (within 50ms). If the expected packet is not retreived by then, it "gives up" and moves on to the next process. This brings up a good point about my STM driver that reads/writes TCP packets. The way it works is this:
a. I have a "TCP Write" (using STM) send a packet along with a unique ID number (8 digit random number) from a client to server and visa versa (it works same both ways).
b. I have a "TCP Read" on the other end that is constantly running looking for incoming messaged that takes the packet, processes it, and sends a response packet back with the same ID number (usually an "ACK" with data).
c. The original sender goes to "TCP Read" and reads the incoming packet. If it has the wrong ID number, the program throws it out and tries again and again until it gets the correct ID'ed packet OR times out after ~50ms.
Now...if the "TCP Read" times out or gets it's data, the system then starts sending another "TCP Write" request for the next communication. If there was a timeout before this, the next "TCP Read" will most likely get two messages back...the one that was late (and is now ignored) and the one that has the correct ID.
Is there a better way to send/receive TCP messages using STM?
Also, even though a have a monster system with 8 cores, I am now benchmarking the system with Performance Monitor and seeing the system processor ping at 100% just before the "crash". I am now adjusting loop times and, per suggestion from other engineers, adding a relatively long 25ms delay before using "TCP Write" function to try and slow down traffic and see if this helps (though I am not sure this is going to help).
One last question...does using the TIMEOUT function in TCP API in LabVIEW take up a lot of the CPU?
It sounds like you are doing a good job of discarding the errors on the read side, how are you handling the timeout on the TCP Write side?
That's a reasonable way of sending TCP data, if you are already including packet numbers, some developers prefer to just use UDP and implement their own acknowledgement.
The timeout on the TCP functions waits for an interrupt, with normal settings it should not poll and affect the processor (especially on Windows). You can of course check this easily by watching the task manager while running a TCP read.
Ryan King
I had not thought about timeouts on the TCP Write side of the equation. I did not even know for sure that a variable was available for that in STM. I checked my code and I see a cluster labeled (Options) with a boolean and a numeric for the TCP Write timeout (1000 default). I do not change this so suspect it is 1 second by default. What is the boolean in the cluster for? It does not appear to be used at all. Do you have a recommendation for handling TCP Write timeouts?
Since my last post, I have gone down and back a couple of rabbit holes but ultimately discovered the problem is that I'm starving the processors during EXE initializations and while doing file writes to the HD (up to 54 data files can be written to by the system at any given time). I've added a buffer to the data write portion of the code so that it will only write to the hard drive every X thousand characters (string) and that has significantly improved performance. I can almost run all of my test banks (4 banks for 4 test heads and 1 bank of two test heads), but still am pushing the 8 cores over 95% at times during EXE startups.
Looking at three options now to reduce CPU usage: 1) Add time delays to not allow multiple test heads to start up at same time within the same bank, 2) Stagger startups between banks with some type of supervisory control program (the test banks currently run completely independently of each other), 3) Look into optimizing code to lessen processor requirement at startup (remove local variables?). The third option is a last resort in that I don't know how to manage a LabVIEW executable to minimize CPU usage at startup directly, only indirectly with code optimizations. We are using LabVIEW 2009 SP1 and I have read that LabVIEW 2010 has improvements that make EXE builds run more efficiently. Do you think this would be a good application for that?


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Delicate metal decorations all around the box. Has original sticker stamped on it. Says. Hotel Berlin with Room number on it. Little rippled on lid, but otherwise great condition. My pride and joy :-)
This item was given to me because I fell in love with the look of it, the age of it. . But just just think about the the lady and the hat. It's Like Gulliver's Travels. How many. Stage coaches has this been on? What ships,
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The A's picked up the options on left-hander Brett Anderson and center fielder Coco Crisp while deciding against keeping catcher Kurt Suzuki and outfielder Chris Young, the club announced Friday.
Suzuki and Young are now free agents.
Anderson's option is for $8 million and Crisp's is for $7.5 million.
Anderson, whose injuries forced him into the bullpen in 2013, is one of six starting pitchers on the A's roster, along with Jarrod Parker, A.J. Griffin, Tommy Milone, Dan Straily and Sonny Gray. The team also is looking at bringing back Bartolo Colon, who is a free agent. Anderson and Milone are the only left-handers in the group.
If the A's decided to trade one of their starters, Anderson is perhaps the most likely to be dealt. His name has been linked in trade talks with Toronto.
Crisp might get the contract extension he has been hoping to receive. The 33-year-old became a 20-homer, 20-steals man for the first time in his career in 2013.
Yankees: Shortstop Derek Jeter, 39, agreed to a $12 million, one-year deal that replaces a $9.5 million player option.
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Red Sox: Boston picked up the $13 million option on left-hander Jon Lester.
Mets: Left-hander Johan Santana is a free agent after New York declined a $25 million option.
Indians: Right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez became a free agent after declining an $8 million option.
Pirates: Left-hander Wandy Rodriguez exercised his $13 million player option.
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No way can Upshaw play NT. Not even close. He's a pass rush specialist all the way.
I think the pick will end up being Worthy or Konz.
Could definitely see us trading down as well.
I am down to take Cordy Glenn. I wanted Fleener but I worry less about weapons and more about the inability to throw from your back. A good QB makes weapons more so than the other way around. Take Cordy and plug him in at RT from day one.
I change my mind... if we can't get Fleener I want us to get janoris jenkins... we need a huge talent upgrade at corner and I just realized he's actually a top 10 talent in this draft... on the board cuz character issues.. ill take my chances to have a big time corner.
That's a very true and good statement. Peyton made practice squad goons look like reputable receiving options all the time. Weapons are easier to immediately "see" an impact with. You don't usually notice the D-Line and O-Line unless they are painfully bad so it's a less sexy option. I guess when it comes down to it, I won't be disappointed in either direction the Colts decide to go.
I don't think we will go after a center after signing Satele.
We need to think offensive line first imo and Cordy Glenn could make our line really good.
Fleener could fall to the 3rd round.
Courtney Upshaw would be a great pickup too. Plays defensive end in 4-3 and outside lb in 3-4.
Cordy Glenn should be the pick if the Rams don't get him. Not often you'll get a chance to get a talent on the O line, like him, in the 2nd round. If they get him, the offensive line is set for the future. That would be huge for Luck.
I dont see any scenario where Fleener falls to the 3rd round. Im a little surprised he fell this far.
Hes the best TE in the draft. No way he makes it all the way through another round.
Stop quoting people I have on ignore!
Btw, Vontaze Burfict can probably be had in the fifth round or so. Indianapolis needs to get this guy. I've watched him for two years. He has major major talent.
Hes good, but hes an idiot. Nice fit for Cincy though, hes their kind of player.
Stop quoting people I have on ignore!
Pass he is off his rocker that dude
Some concerns emerged about Fleener as the draft approached:
He could definitely continue to fall.
At first, I liked the idea of getting Fleener, but the more I considered, the Colts have a lot bigger needs than tight end. Hell, we could draft the other Stanford tight end next year. #34 is so important, that I think we need to get someone in a key position in the trenches, o-line or d-line. Would still like to see us grab a WR in the 3rd though.
My current prediction however is that we'll trade down to the mid-2nd and pick up an extra 3rd rounder or 4th and 5th or something. A lot of holes to fill.
i wouldnt mind if we traded down from 34 there's still some quality players left.
No way you trade from 34. There are atleast 4 potential pro bowlers just sitting there.
Unless someone agreed to give you some stupid haul, you keep #34. The players still available are just too good.
I'm with you on the "at least" part...I'd argue that there are like a dozen guys left that could easily make a pro bowl...which is why I'd consider trading down. If there's a guy Grigson/Pagano's in love with, by all means take him. But if you can get still get a quality player ten picks later, why not grab some extra picks in the process?
I cooled on Fleener as I realized this isn't Peyton's Colts. We are going to run much more, and Fleener can't block. He fit the old Colts, but we aren't those guys anymore.
Hmmm.... Good point... Now im begining to question my whole strategy..
I wanted Fleener cuz he's supposed to be the next Gronk/Graham type TE.. But he may not be and blocking may be more important now than it used to be.
I won't be crazy disappointed if we get Fleener, I just don't think TE is the first hole we need to fill in the Luck era. Get the kid some pass protection or get a piece to help our switch to a 3-4 D.
ITs a catch-22. You can have great pass protection and limited options to throw to then you will hold on to the ball too long and the pass protection will break down no matter how good it is.
Luck really does need both and a TE is good way for a young Qb to get the ball out of his hands quickly so he doesn't get hit very often.
I watched QB Camp when Luck was on it and i took it that he likes to play with a FB.. A FB who goes out is a lot like a TE.. It's a safety blanket. Not sure if the Colts will start using FB's more or not, but it sure seems like they will, as they started to do so more towards the end of the year. (Even tho that wasn't Pagano)
I'm starting to ease myself into a better position on who we take.. Last night I wanted Fleener and only Fleener.. Right now I would be pretty happy with any of about 5 picks.. CB, LB/DT, WR, TE, OL
Why? The whole league has moved to being a passing league with only minimal running..... But it would be just like the Colts to do every thing differently than every other team......
Any scout that just considers Fleener a jump ball TD player is an idiot IMO. Gessh one scout compared him to Todd Heap of all people.He's a straight-line, build-up player. All these reports about him being an athlete and this and that, they're assuming that because he ran fast. He's really just a red-zone, jump-ball player."
He may be a bad blocker but you can coach guys up still. ITs not like he is a finished product at 22.


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Blogs are interesting tools of business and business communications. There are a lot of useful things you can do with a blog. Interestingly, they're lacking in the one benefit most touted – customer communication. Only the blogger can open the conversation, the reader can only respond.
That's poor communication.
Readers are without doubt the most valuable part of a blog. Without the reader, the blog is nothing more than a stream of conscious pouring into an empty room. The blogger and reader need each other, otherwise his dialogue and exchange of ideas never takes place.
The reader is the one that really makes the blog.
How ironic then that it is only the reader that can't start a conversation. Only the blogger can open a topic for discussion. The blogger decides what and when something will be discussed. That isn't the nature of communication, that's not how we'd communicate were we together at a party, conference, or business gathering.
Sure, a reader can always send the author an email or contact them in other ways to initiate a post or topic for discussion, but that's not the issue. The issue is how do you make it an integrated process? For example, anyone in your neighborhood can stop at your house and say hello, but how do you make them feel welcome to do so and part of your home?
On my own blog, I started a feature called Your Turn to Speak. The concept and process is simple, a reader submits a post for publishing on my blog by filling-out a short form. The reader can now start the conversation and the rest of us can follow. While the reader could always send me an email or call me to open a topic, no one ever did so until I invited them and gave a process. It's a new feature and too early to tell if it increases conversation. There may be a better, simpler, and more intuitive way to integrate the reader…we'll see.
Do you believe blogs are lacking in providing two-way communication? If so, how would you better integrate the reader? What are some creative ways you can think of to better integrate the reader into the blogging experience?


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WOMEN FIGHTING -- A caller in the 200 block of East Perkins Street reported at 12:49 a.m. Thursday that two women were in a physical fight and didn't have weapons. Police arrested a 36-year-old Ukiah woman for being drunk in public.
MORE WOMEN FIGHTING -- A caller in the 100 block of Pomeroy Avenue reported at 2:27 a.m. Thursday that women were in a physical fight. No further information was available, and police didn't find the women.
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CAR KEYED -- A caller in the 200 block of North State Street reported at 11:34 a.m. that his/her car was keyed at about 9:45 p.m. last night. The damage was minimal and no information was available about the suspect.
PATIENT ATTACKED IN PHONE BOOTH -- A caller in the 600 block of South Orchard Avenue reported at 11:44 a.m. Thursday that a patient in the emergency room was attacked in a phone both near Super 8 the night before and gave information about the suspect. Police arrested a 54-year-old Ukiah man on suspicion of domestic battery.
HOME BROKEN INTO -- A caller in the 900 block of Waugh Lane reported at 2:02 p.m. Thursday that s/he had just returned home and found the house had been broken into. Police took a report.
NEIGHBORS BEING LOUD -- A caller in the 400 block of Ford Street reported at 3:52 p.m. Thursday that neighbors two or three houses east of the caller were drinking and being loud.
KIDS DOING CARTWHEELS IN STREET -- A caller at Airport Park Boulevard and Talmage Road reported at 4:11 p.m. Thursday that three teenaged boys in black and white clothing were in the roadway doing cartwheels and getting in drivers' way, and that the caller had to swerve to avoid hitting them. Police saw no violations.
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PURSE, COMPUTER TAKEN -- A caller in the 500 block of South Lincoln Street reported at 5:10 p.m. Thursday the theft of a purse and computer. The caller suspected a case worker who visited earlier in the week took them. Police took a report.
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