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The entrepreneurial spirit is going strong in the Detroit Lakes area, even as the economy's "return" takes a turtle's pace.
"This is something I've always wanted to do -- own my own business," said Melody Kruckenberg, who recently started her own Budget Blinds business in Detroit Lakes after 18 years working for a non-profit organization in Bismarck.
"I just got to a point where I was sick of working for a board of directors and knew it was time -- it was now or never."
Although she had worked her way up to executive director, Kruckenberg left good pay and security for a chance at something new in Detroit Lakes.
Realizing that getting another good job "at her age" wasn't in the cards, and knowing she had no real experience in other fields, she chose a franchise that was interesting to her.
"They train you, they're there for questions, and they have a business model for you to go by," Kruckenberg said.
In her Budget Blinds van, which she calls her office, Kruckenberg now does in-home consultations for window treatments.
She sets her own schedule and answers only to herself while beginning the next chapter of her life.
And while many may find her story inspiring, it's not necessarily unique.
According to Detroit Lakes Chamber of Commerce President Carrie Johnston, the number of people starting up their own businesses in this area is increasing.
"Especially in the service industry," said Johnston, "The plumbers, the electricians and lawn care have really increased in chamber membership over the past couple of years."
Johnston says in talking to a couple of the newer chamber members operating businesses in Detroit Lakes, many people just get too fed up with the corporations they work for.
Beth Pridday, who directs the Business and Entrepreneur Services (BES) program at M State, agrees.
She says a bad economy is exactly what is prompting people to take matters into their own hands.
"There's a sense of control there," said Pridday, "Sometimes when people work for a large corporation, they have so little control over what can happen, and so they turn to themselves -- they trust in their own talents and abilities."
Pridday also says in addition to those who are displaced by jobs, there are also those entrepreneurs who get a "side gig" to make ends meet.
"These days a lot of people need more income, whether it's for braces, family vacation or simply to pay the bills," Pridday said, "So they get a side hustle, and sometimes that side hustle grows to become something much bigger."
Pridday says M State's incubator program is helping budding entrepreneurs do just that.
The idea behind an incubator is to take brand new, small businesses and house them all in the same building -- each getting their own space.
M State has one incubator on its Detroit Lakes campus and one in Frazee, as well as plans to expand into Perham, Hawley and Barnesville.
In those incubators, new business owners receive classes and workshops, mentoring and the benefit of low overhead.
"They still pay market-rate rent, but they get a computer, furniture, free printing and faxing -- basically support services that help them get a leg up," said Pridday.
There are currently 16 small business owners between the Frazee and Detroit Lakes locations that are taking advantage of the incubators.
One of those tenants is Tim Woessner, who started Lakes Sew and Vac.
"I do sewing machine and vacuum repair and sales; I do some sewing for people, and I also have a sharpening service. So I do knives, scissors, chainsaw chains -- pretty much any type of sharpening," said Woessner, who started his business in the Frazee incubator April 1.
The 27-year old Detroit Lakes man says he already had the skills for his business, but the incubator is providing him with the tools to take the next step.
"They teach you about advertising and marketing ... just a whole bunch of material to help you get started."
After three years, incubator businesses are encouraged to begin making plans for their future by finding a new place.
Five years is the maximum time allowed in.
Pridday says incubators (like little chicks in an incubator just waiting to hatch) are a good way to nurture the local talent and small business potential.
For years, Linda Pagenkopf trained social workers for both private companies and for the state of Minnesota.
"But I always had that entrepreneurialism in me," Pegenkopf said, "I knew I wanted to open up my own practice, but had to wait for the right time."
The right time came when the state of Minnesota started making budget cuts in 2009, and although Pegenkopf's job wasn't cut then, the threat was enough to move her to action.
"I started my own part-time practice, called Life Choices Counseling in the incubator at M State in '09 while keeping my fulltime job," said Pegenkopf, "But in 2010, my department did not survive the budget cuts. It was perfect timing though, because my practice had grown enough for me to begin doing that full time."
Pegenkopf says had it not been for the inexpensive start up in the incubators, she probably couldn't have afforded to even get her door open.
The full time therapist says she's now doing well with her practice, and plans to move into her own office in Detroit Lakes sometime down the line.
Pridday says in addition to the incubator tenants, experts in the BES program continue to help more and more entrepreneurs who make a go of it all on their own as well.
"We've seen over 600 people come in here over the past two years with business ideas," said Pridday, who talks about the "amazing" things local people are doing from their basements, garages and sewing rooms.
"Let's face it, living in a small community, we're probably not going to attract too many large scale employers, so we really need to nurture our own people and retain and expand our own business and help them grow."

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The current demands for drilling in the oil exploration industry include environmentally clean solutions that are efficient and safe while seeking reservoirs, which are significantly harder to access.
The challenge to service companies then is the task of integrating new technologies with increased reliability at higher safety standards.
Industry wide, management is continually challenging the operations team to minimize downtime, improve the efficiency, and lower the costs of the drilling process. For example, the set-up of the surface equipment, which typically is a six to eight hour process with the cable layout taking 70% of that time, is always under scrutiny for productivity improvement review. In addition, cabling costs are one of top three recurring expenses for field districts as well as component failures, which require quick replacements to avoid costly delays.
These circumstances necessitate the engineering groups within the organization to support the operations team by designing smaller, lighter, safer, and more reliable products.
The designers have to do that while continuously improving functional performance-by providing higher bandwidth communication between the safe and hazardous areas.
One option to overcome these challenges would be to integrate intrinsically safe (IS) designs into these systems.
In the last few years, the complexity of the execution of drilling services has driven the technological evolution of electronic surface equipment. From dials, gauges, and actuators, service companies have evolved to the use of high accuracy sensors, data acquisition systems, and computers.
Displaying information that enables drillers to be more efficient and accurate, logging data for proof of service, and attaining real-time information for safer drilling have become standard practices.
The rig floor environment is hazardous (explosion-prone) and replete with harsh area applications, where the equipment often sees extreme temperatures, high shock, vibration, and EMI/RFI requirements. In addition to the environmental harshness, rig hands manage the equipment, and their main priority is on getting the job done. Given these conditions, the equipment also needs to tolerate rough handling.
The rig floor environment can have various ratings of hazardous areas, which typically stem from conditions like the distance from the well, weather conditions, and obstacles. These classifications in North America are Class I, Division 1 or 2 and in Europe, Africa, and Middle East as Zone 0, Zone 1, and Zone 2.
While the optimal control of the drilling process improves with the proximity to the well, it also mandates a mechanism to respond to a down-hole event to ensure the safety of the installation as well as the personnel.
Exploration drilling is occurring in all parts of the world from the extreme cold of the Alaskan slopes to the scorching heat of the Middle East. The environment is far from ideal, with minimal protection from the elements such as direct sunlight, rain, drilling mud, high shock, and vibration.
There is inconsistent power, potential radiation, and emissions from high-powered motors and generators or even radios.
The duration of time the surface equipment resides on site varies by the service, the rig type, and the location. In some rigs, the equipment stays for months and years and in others for a much shorter period of time, even measured in days.
Since drilling operations are extremely costly, the service companies want to perform their task quickly and efficiently, with a maximum return on the productive drilling time.
Therefore, having a technical solution that enables quick equipment setup capability, quick rig-up and rig-down can have a direct impact from a financial as well as an operational perspective as it relates to the surface equipment reliability, safety, and productivity.
There are multiple versions of exploration rigs that the surface equipment must operate on such as land rigs, submersible rigs, jack-ups, and drill ships, and within each one of these rig categories there are variations that are currently in use.
On some rigs, the equipment is laid out on different levels, up to 300 feet away from the rig floor, and in other cases, it is adjacent to operation. These variations require flexible mounting and communication options.
The system designers face the challenge of choosing the right methods for equipment design that meets the hazardous area regulations in addition to surviving the rig-floor environment.
Selections of these methods have technical and financial tradeoffs that have a bearing on product reliability, safety, and productivity.
Explosion proofing: This method utilizes specially designed enclosures. The enclosure contains an explosion, internally, without causing any hazardous impact to the environment outside the enclosure. This method affords flexibility in the design of electrical circuits for power, stored energy, component selection, and the like. This is the common practice in fixed installations, but in rig-floor applications, there are several disadvantages:
Purging: In this method, technicians pump fresh air into the enclosure before powering up takes place. This removes the hazardous gases, hence the ignition sources such as arcs, and sparks cannot cause an explosion.
After the power up, we maintain the system at a positive pressure as compared to the outside atmospheric pressure to prevent hazardous gases from entering the system.
Just like the explosion-proof method, this method allows a greater flexibility in the design of the internal components. The purging method also allows the use of standard connectors for I/O if using the IS barriers. The non-IS signals must be connect through cable glands.
The major disadvantages in the rig-floor applications are:
Intrinsically safe: These designs operate at low energy and prevent electrical devices from creating arcs, sparks, or generating heat (during normal or fault conditions) that could ignite the explosive gases (or substances) present in the environment.
The term for such a system is "intrinsically safe." In comparison with the explosion proof and purging methods, there are certain limitations in the IS designs related to high power and high speed requirements. Though the problems are technically challenging, the companies with expertise in IS design have been able to solve them.
The major advantages in the rig-floor applications are:
IS barriers are widely used to interface with sensors in hazardous areas. Barriers are available for common analog signals such as 0-5V, 4-20mA, or RS232/485 communication protocols.
There is a growing need in the rig-floor applications for the higher bandwidth communications (high accuracy sensors as well as Ethernet). However, these types of products were not available until now.
In addition to hazardous area certifications, systems should support the field operations by providing high reliability as well as an ease of installation, maintenance, and repair.
A system that has the capability of a quick rig-up and rig-down has many advantages. They are:
Connectors: The benefit of using connectors is to ensure a quick rig-up and rig-down system. There is another important reason one should not overlook when evaluating whether to use connectors-the absence of connectors leads to the use of cable glands.
However, to be able to wire the end of the cable via a gland, one has to open the system, usually while rigging-up or rigging-down the unit in the harsh environment. Once the system is open, it is common technicians do not close the systems properly.
This, in addition to exposing the electronic components to the environmental elements, reduces the reliability of the system. While, adding connectors does create an additional point of failure in the system as well as increasing the cost depending on the type of connector required, cost containment can be effected by designing a barrier in front of the connector to negate the requirement of expensive explosion proof connectors.
Cabling: Cabling has a major financial impact on the over all system. If the output into the hazardous area is not IS, the requirements on the cables are stringent requiring specialized jacketed (or armored) cables that meet explosion proof ratings.
This results in direct and indirect costs due to several reasons:
The service companies have made significant investments in cables and connectors over the years. Using the existing cables and connectors would be a major cost savings. The intrinsic safety concept makes this a feasible option.
Having a system that is lightweight and compact, easy to transport to the rig site and up to the rig floor, without requiring much real estate, that is at a premium in the rig, are some of the major factors in the rig-up and rig-down process. In some cases, this can be the difference between a one-person installation and one that needs multiple people.
The latest communication trend utilizes Ethernet protocols to communicate between the data acquisition box, the rig floor system, and the company's main office. In some cases, the data beams via satellite back to the corporate location, where centralized control rooms monitor the entire activities worldwide.
Ethernet TCP/IP has become a standard protocol that has sufficient bandwidth, hardware, and software support from manufacturers, and it is becoming easier to support at all service levels.
Up to this point, there were two feasible options to run Ethernet in hazardous area:
By successfully designing quick rig-up and rig down systems that integrate IS technology in the systems and eliminating the requirement for purge and explosion proof technologies, we see a more efficacious solution.
We see the use of IS technology as permitting flexibility in the product packaging and system architecture, which in turn improves serviceability, transportability, and the reduction in system cost.
IS technology is at the cutting edge of the design effort to address the continuous improvements in products and services that require increased-data bandwidth for real-time information and enhanced accuracy.
Parag Shah (email@example.com) has a B.S. and Masters degree in electrical engineering. He is vice president technology and solutions at Azonix-Dynalco (www.azonix.com). He has two patents related to Ethernet technology.
Unplanned downtime is the enemy in a manufacturing environment, but that is not the only opponent automation professionals face on a daily basis. Ensuring a safe manufacturing environment remains the top priority across the board.
Ensuring a safe environment remains a key element to any manufacturing site, and the InTech Market Study on safety shows automation professionals from all aspects of control disciplines-process, discrete, batch, hybrid and systems integration-find accidents happen and human error is usually the main culprit.
While a majority of respondents, 52%, said there were no accidents at their facility in the past year, 48% said there was some form of an accident at their plant.
In most cases, 80%, found human error was responsible for the accident, while 12% said management oversight was an issue, 6% said equipment was a problem, and 2% said there was a flaw in the process.
Safety is a mindset, and when asked what is driving their overall safety strategy, 50% of respondents said there was an increase in the culture, while 17% said standards are a driver, followed by government regulations at 11% and employee still level at 10%.
When asked if the facility had a safety instrumented system, 84% of respondents said yes, while 16% said no.
Sometimes safety instrumented systems have to be separate from the control systems, but the numbers were a bit closer than anticipated with 59% said their safety instrumented system was standalone, while 41% said it was not.
Does your safety system run in conjunction with your control system? Overwhelmingly, 74% said yes it does, while 26% said it does not.
Being aware of policies and procedures is key to any safety system; so when asked if their facility conducted regular safety meetings and/or training for its personnel, 93% said yes they did. While the actual percentage is small, 7% of respondents said they failed to hold safety training or meetings.
Systems age, and they need attention, so 56% of respondents said they have updated their safety instrumented system in the past year, while 19% said two years ago, 10% said three years ago, 4% said four years ago, 5% said five years ago, 4% said 6 to 10 years ago, and 3% said 11 years ago and above.
The top issue that necessitated the most recent update came down to age; 24% said that was the top cause, communications was the next issue at 17%, interconnectivity came in third at 13%, cost of upgrade vs. cost of future upgrades tied with other at 11%, continued viability of supplier came in at 9%, while product not supported by vendor came in at 8% and global concerns at 7%.
In terms of maintaining their safety instrumented systems, a huge majority, 77%, said they took care of things internally, while 9% said their supplier maintained the system, 8% said a system integrator handled the chores, and 5% said other.
Consistency is a good thing, and 60% said their service and support for their safety system remains consistent, while 31% said it was improving and 9% said it was worsening.
With the cyber connection to safety systems, you have to ensure you are safe and secure. So, when asked if they felt their safety instrumented system was secure, 83% said yes, while 17% said no. Along those lines, when asked if they knew if outsiders ever breached their safety system, 8% said yes, while 92% said no.
Cyber is not the only area of security. When asked as to the physical, electronic, and cyber security layers, which of the following exist at your facility? Respondents said:
When it comes to physical security and safety and where respondents could give multiple answers, 41% said they use fences, 36% said they use guards, and 23% said they use barricades.
Regarding electronic security and safety, 33% of respondents said they employ access cards, 30% said they use video cameras, 25% said they use closed circuit television, and 12% said they used motion detection equipment.
When talking about cyber vulnerabilities to safety and process control systems, respondents' top choice for what their facility engages in was best practices, policies, procedures, and change management at 15%, followed by physically separated process control and enterprise networks with limited access points at 14%, physically separated process control and process safety systems with limited access points at 12%, regular risk and vulnerability assessments and disaster recovery at 11%, hierarchical architecture with cyber-security access restrictions at each network level and security hot fix and antivirus deployment strategy at 10%, high security model deployed on PCs and servers at 9%, and dedicated service team responsible for cyber security at 7%.
Gregory Hale is the editor of InTech magazine.
One of the top issues in the last few years, not to mention the coming five years, is Baby Boomers leaving the industry.
When it comes to safety, whether Boomers are there or not, it should not affect the strategies employed by manufacturers, according to an InTech Market Study on safety.
It looks as though when Boomers do decide to call it a day and leave the industry, safety strategy will not feel the affect, with 85% of respondents saying it would not, while 15% saying yes it would.
Intrinsic safety (IS) is a protection technique for the safe operation of electronic equipment in explosive atmospheres. The theory is to ensure the available electrical and thermal energy in the system is always low enough that ignition of the hazardous atmosphere cannot occur. Ensuring only low voltages enter the hazardous area and all electric supply and signal wires have Zener safety barriers is how this can happen.
Explosion-proof apparatus is an apparatus enclosed in a case capable of withstanding an explosion of a specified gas or vapor that may occur within it and of preventing the ignition of a specified gas or vapor surrounding the enclosure by sparks, flashes, or explosion of the gas or vapor within and that operates at such an external temperature that a surrounding flammable atmosphere will not be ignited thereby (NFPA 70).
Purging is the process of supplying an enclosure with a protective gas at a sufficient flow and positive pressure to reduce the concentration of any flammable gas or vapor initially present to an acceptable level (NFPA 496).
Pressurization is the process of supplying an enclosure with a protective gas with or without continuous flow at sufficient pressure to prevent the entrance of a flammable gas or vapor, a combustible dust, or an ignitable fiber.


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Former Eagan state Rep. Mike Obermueller has won the DFL endorsement to take on Republican Rep. John Kline in the state's 2nd Congressional District this fall.
Obermueller bested two other candidates for the endorsement after three rounds of balloting at Rosemount High School on Saturday. Dakota County Commissioner and former South St. Paul mayor Kathleen Gaylord and Northfield City Council member Patrick Ganey were also seeking the party's backing.
Obermueller led Ganey and Gaylord with 46 percent of the vote after the first ballot, according to liberal blog the MN Progressive Project. Gaylord dropped out from the race after the first round, throwing her support behind Ganey's bid for Congress. But Obermueller continued to gain votes each round of balloting, reaching 59 percent of the vote — just shy of the 60 percent threshold needed to win the endorsement — after the third ballot. Ganey conceded the race ahead of the fourth ballot, according to the Rosemount Patch.
"Mike has been a strong, progressive leader who has the experience and the message to win in November, and we will be working side by side with him to make sure he succeeds," DFL Party Chair Ken Martin said in a statement. "We have a clear path to victory in November, and we look forward to sending a strong leader to serve the Second District in Washington."
Obermueller served in the House from 2009 until 2010, losing to freshman GOP Rep. Doug Wardlow in the 2010 election. Obermueller will now take on Kline, a five-term incumbent congressman from Lakeville.


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Many beginning and even experienced researchers complain of the lack of records created prior to the 1850 census. They complain of the non-existent of birth records, the multiple men of the same name, and the families who were so poor that they never recorded land or probate records. Many of these same researchers have not discovered Kentucky tax lists or have never used anything but the transcribed lists. The original tax lists can often be the solution to many of their research problems.
Kentucky's tax records are some of the most complete in the nation for the pre-1850 time period. Records are available from the beginning of most counties. The oldest counties even have tax records before Kentucky became a state in 1792. Fayette, Jefferson, Lincoln, Logan, Madison, Mason, Mercer, Nelson, Shelby, Washington, and Woodford counties all have lists that pre-date or begin with 1792. There are a few counties where the earliest tax lists have not survived: Bell, Boyle, Magoffin, McCreary, and Greenup Counties. All of these except Greenup County were formed after 1850 from counties which have surviving pre-1850 tax lists making information available for the location if not the county. Greenup County is the only area of the state which lacks lists for more than a few sporadic years. Greenup County does not have surviving tax lists from 1804 through 1838.
Tax lists are the only record in Kentucky which contain annually created records on most of the population. The family may not have owned land and may have hidden from the census taker, but the tax collector usually found them. All men over 21 were required to pay the poll tax in Kentucky. This puts most adult men in the tax records even if they owned no property. Women who were widowed and owned property and underage men who owned property were also listed by name in the tax lists. The tax lists give a fairly complete picture of the adult male population and a glimpse of the widowed female land owners in a county.
Original tax lists were handwritten with columns for marking land description, what was taxed, and the amount of tax. The columns are often not labeled on every page. In addition, the specifics of these columns vary across time and may vary somewhat from county to county. The lists have individuals grouped by letter of the alphabet and a single year may have multiple groupings. All of these factors tend to make the novice avoid using tax lists. However, these same varying factors can yield information which can be found in no other record.
To make use of tax list before 1850, data on families and individuals must be extracted across time. The ancestor might avoid payment of taxes for a year or two, pay for a few years, and then successfully avoid payment again. For this reason, tax lists should be examined at least five years before the first apparent entry for an individual or family, then across time until no more entries can be found, and then for a least five years after the last tax payment. This gives a fairly complete picture of the family in a particular location.
Most tax lists have individuals grouped by letter of the alphabet according to the first letter of the surname. Early lists were prepared by district and can usually be used to show the general composition of a neighborhood. The legibility of the list depends greatly upon the handwriting and literacy of the tax commissioner, the condition of the original book at the time it was found and filmed, and the skill of the person filming the record. However, since each list was kept separately by year and each film contains multiple years, even if one year is illegible, other years will likely be clear.
In general, Kentucky taxed real and personal property. Males over 21 also paid a poll tax which was like a head tax and really had little to do with voting. The real property that was taxed was usually land. The personal property might include slaves, cattle, horses, wagons, etc. The pre-statehood tax lists which have survived may separate real and personal property tax payment into two lists. Post-statehood tax lists combine the poll tax, real property, and personal property tax payment into one list.
The variations in the columns within tax lists across time reflect changes in the tax law. Knowledge of some of these changes is critical to understanding and using tax lists. Some of these changes in the tax law and how they might aid research are discussed below. However, a complete study of the tax law will reveal even more detail which may aid in research.
The first Kentucky tax law in 1792 assessed land, slaves, horses and mules, cattle, coaches and carriages, billiard tables, retail stores, and all free white males about 21. All of these taxable categories can be used to identify individuals, particularly those with common names, across time. These become even more useful realizing that the tax commissioners were assigned to canvass their districts; they went from house to house. Men of the same surname taxed on the same day would most certainly have been living in the same neighborhood. Those adjacent in the list were often relatives. Examining and comparing individuals in particular neighborhoods is a good way to distinguish multiple men of the same name within a county.
By the end of 1793, the tax law changed again ordering the reporting of land holdings in other counties. Acreage, watercourse, and county was listed for each tract of land owned by the tax payer. The quality of the land was also noted. The reporting of land owned in other counties can often point to previous residences for the tax payer. The reporting of the acreage per tract points to deeds which should be examined. Land is often the key to following and proving relationships and tax lists can point to deed and probate records.
Researchers always need to be aware of all of the men of the same name in a county at a particular time. Men with the same name can often be distinguished by their property and their neighbors. For example, a marriage register might not reveal the parentage of the John Jones who married Sintha Smith in 1803. However, establishing that there were three men named John Jones being taxed in two different districts of the county in that year immediately signals the researcher to begin organizing data on each man. Establishing which man of the three married Sintha Smith would require a study of all three men.
A study of tax lists across time would reveal which of the three men named John Jones owned land. The land could be identified by location and tract. The acquisition and disposal of the land can be tracked for each man. With this knowledge, deeds and land grants can be checked. Deeds may reveal the wife's name. This may now have helped pinpoint which John Jones married Sintha Smith. John Jones' relationship to the other Jones men in the neighborhood can then be studied.
Relationships are often suggested by tax lists and can then be studied through other records. Men in the same neighborhood of the same surname were often related. What Jones men were adjacent to John Jones when he first paid taxes? Were the taxes paid on the same day? Were the adjacent Jones families of similar economic status; did they both own slaves, horse, and cattle? Were the men well established, poor, or just establishing their own households? Do tracts of land seem to be taxed first under one man's name of the surname and then another? Leads from the tax list often provide clues to the study of other records.
By 1810, the tax law changed again. Tax commissioners were selected from the bounds of each militia company. Some counties identified the name of the captain of the militia company. Tax payers were required to travel to militia muster sites to file their taxes in either April or June. The researcher's use of the tax list must adjust to information resulting from the new law. Militia companies can still be used to identify individuals living in the same general area. However, since the tax collector no longer canvassed the neighborhoods, adjacent names in the tax list no longer imply that individuals lived in adjacent households.
With the passage of another ten years, education became part of the tax collector's duty. In December, 1821, law makers required tax collectors to record the number of children in each household. This column can be used to help match individuals in the tax lists and census records. Care should be taken to note the actual age range for the school age column across time.
Not all of the tax laws have been listed here and the requirement listed from the beginning of tax collection until 1840 were only partially legislated. Columns in the tax lists varied somewhat from county list to county list and from year to year within a county. All lists and fields were handwritten. Consistency was not a requirement. Additional information might be recorded at the beginning or end of the tax list for a particular year. Care must be taken to gather all the information which the tax lists contain.
With all of this information, the novice researcher may be tempted to only record the names from the tax lists by year. Researchers who have tried to save time summarizing information or leaving out some of the men of the same surname in a particular year have probably had to return to the same list multiple times. Researchers should be thorough in examining each year of the tax list. They should begin at least five years before the person of interest was believed to be in the county. If the person being researched was already paying taxes, then earlier years should be examined. The researcher should not forget to look in the parent county when the person being studied paid taxes in the first tax list of a county. Every person of the surname of interest should be recorded. Every district for a particular year should be examined. If individuals of the surname of interest lived in more than one district, but some of them owned no land, then the land descriptions of other families in the district should be recorded to identify locations. This process of thoroughly examining the tax list year by year should continue until at least five years after the individual of interest disappears from the tax list before 1850.
All of this work can be the key to finding answers that are not obvious anywhere else. The diligent researcher may be rewarded with information about one or several of the following:
• The tax list will suggest when a man first paid taxes in a county, often with a specific date. By using the information in the lists, the researcher may be able to determine whether he moved into the county or had been living there and had turned 21.
• Tax lists show a man above 21 on a particular date. Tracking men across time in conjunction with early census records can narrow birth years for men who were born and died before 1850.
• Tax lists show when a man disappeared from a county. If his land was listed under a female or another man, perhaps he died. Probate and court records could be searched for the settlement of his estate. Was a new county created which included his land or did he move? If he simply disappeared, deeds can be searched within a specific time frame for the sale of his land.
• The listing of all tracts of land with acreage, watercourse, and county before 1840 helps identify the land owned by a family. It can pinpoint where the family lived and give clues to locating deeds and grants. If the land is located in other counties, it may suggest an earlier county where the family lived.
• Linking men to their land, lack of land, and ownership of slaves, cattle, horses, etc. helps to distinguish men of the same name through their property and economic status.
• Tracking a man across time through tax lists, may show the various given names that a man used.
• The widow or heirs of man can often be identified as they pay taxes on his land when he dies. His death date can be narrowed if he left no will.
Kentucky tax lists have been microfilmed by the Kentucky Historical Society and by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Each film contains multiple years for the early tax lists. These film are available for many counties in large libraries. The Kentucky Historical Society, the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, and the LDS Family History Library have fairly complete microfilm collections. Film can be rented through local LDS Family History Centers and purchased through the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.
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Kate Middleton's Face Found on Jelly Bean
Britain is a buzz about the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in a couple of weeks.
Why does it not surprise me that someone has found Kate's image on a jellybean!
Wesley Hosie, from Britain, and his girlfriend found a jelly bean that looks like Kate Middleton. To tell you the truth, it does look like her!
They plan to sell it on eBay for 500 pounds, which is about $815. Let the bidding begin! Have you ever found the image of a famous person in food?


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British Apache helicopters have carried out their first strikes during operations in Libya, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
Sky's defence correspondent Niall Paterson is on board HMS Ocean, where the aircraft were launched from, in the Mediterranean.
He said that two targets were hit near the town of Brega and also an armoured vehicle at a checkpoint.
A variety of weapons were used, including hellfire missiles.
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LONG BEACH >> A former city employee, a longtime resident whose family name is a local fixture, a county government budget wonk and a high school teacher are vying for the 5th Council District seat, one of the most competitive races in this spring's election.
The April 8 primary ballot includes Carl Kemp, who started the government affairs divisions at City Hall and the Port of Long Beach and now owns a public relations consultancy; businessman Joe Luyben; Los Angeles County budget manager Stacy Mungo, and Millikan High School teacher Tom Sutfin.
One of them will succeed termed-out Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske, a frequent rebel against the assertive leadership of Mayor Bob Foster, who does not have a vote but often guides the direction of discussions from his chair in the center of the council dais.
The style suits the 5th, situated on the suburban eastern edge of Long Beach, where the political dealings and desires of City Hall can rankle residents.
For Kemp, an uncle of Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, that means his city career can be a source of strength or an albatross his opponents try to use against him.
It has certainly given Kemp, 41, the most institutional support in the race. The Long Beach police and firefighters associations have endorsed Kemp, and so have current and past city officials, such as Councilman Al Austin, Councilman Steve Neal, former state Sen. Betty Karnette, former City Manager Jerry Miller, former City Attorney Robert Shannon and former Police Chief Anthony Batts.
Kemp credits his opponents for their enthusiasm and energy, but said, "Ultimately, on our resumes, the experience portion is what wins the day. I think I have the broader vision."
That vision includes raising the number of police officers to 1,000, restoring fire engines and boosting the city's economic development arm.
To pay for it, Kemp is in favor of dipping into oil revenue that, in his opinion, has been budgeted too low at today's assumption of $70 per barrel, a level officials say guards against price fluctuations.
Long Beach has always been able to rely on the money, except for a short period last decade, Kemp argued.
"It's not one-time funding if you get it every year," he said.
Several media publications have written about Kemp's lobbying efforts for the Long Beach Collective Association, which retained his services as the city deliberated on and eventually banned medical marijuana collectives in 2012.
He no longer works on behalf of the organization, but said he personally supports the prescription use of the drug since it helped his mother, a two-time brain surgery survivor.
Kemp also claimed that the LBCA complied with the city's laws, and its members shut down after the ban was enacted.
The ultimate answer to the topic, Kemp argued, is basic democracy.
"It's time to ask the city's voters what they think," Kemp said.
Of the four candidates. Kemp has raised the most money, with $54,895 reported as of Dec. 31 according to the City Clerk's Office.
Luyben, 55, falls back on a different type of currency. He's lived in the district for a half century, and his last name resonates with thousands of families who have used the Luyben Family Dilday-Mottell Mortuary, founded by his father, John, in 1966. For the past 23 years, Luyben has been CEO of JDL Packaging Systems, a distributor of paper packaging and janitorial products.
He easily counts off his local laurels: Mark Twain Elementary School, Bancroft Junior High School and Lakewood High School, class of 1977. And if that wasn't enough, to seal his East Long Beach cachet, Luyben offered something more homespun in a recent interview.
"I walked around Pan American Park when I was 4 years old with my shirt off," Luyben said.
These days, most candidates for Long Beach office hammer away at either the importance of public safety or job creation, but Luyben takes a slightly different tack, preferring instead to push most strongly for more resources to improve streets and sidewalks.
"There's always going to be money for fire and police," Luyben said.
Though he does support more public safety funding — calling for reactivating the fire truck at Station 18 — Luyben wants to look at all of the tax dollars flowing into the district and realign expenditures to better serve resident needs.
What he doesn't think residents need, though, is the new Civic Center that is being planned.
"Stop the crazy spending and take care of infrastructure," said Luyben.
The youngest candidate in the race, 32-year-old Stacy Mungo, brings her own big-name endorsements. Early on, she captured the support of the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, and she's also backed by Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe and Councilman Gary DeLong.
Records show that Mungo collected the second-most campaign cash by the end of the year, with $45,182 raised.
How has the Long Beach native, who has lived in the 5th district since 2008, done it all with little political experience?
Mungo, who deals primarily with workforce development and senior services in her county job, said she did a lot of footwork talking to businesses in Long Beach and adjacent cities to understand the issues, and has worked with Knabe on the board of the YMCA. She also served as the president of the El Dorado Park Estates Neighborhood Association from 2010 to 2013.
"I have relationships from the good we've already done in the communities," Mungo said.
Her top priority is growing businesses, and in lieu of immediately restarting the Long Beach economic development office, one of her goals, Mungo pledged to commit her office's resources to support businesses considering locating in the 5th.
"We need to make sure people have an understanding of how long the different processes should take and ensure the expectations on the delivery of permits are clear," Mungo said.
Mungo, whose other priorities include "safe and clean" neighborhoods, a combining of public safety and infrastructure issues, is a supporter of the city's reserved approach to the use of one-time funds such as oil.
She's open, however, to raising the current $70 per barrel price assumption for the resource, but not too much.
"We need to be fiscally conservative so our children and our children's children aren't burdened with the decisions we make," Mungo said.
Thomas Sutfin, the last candidate to enter the race, described himself as the only one who doesn't have any "angles" to play.
Sutfin, 46, has been a Millikan High School Teacher for 20 years and is a certified pilot instructor. His platform includes a focus on public safety, and he also supports using more oil money for infrastructure.
"It's nice to have flexible monies," Sutfin said, "but we need to take care of the needs we have."
Developing a workforce to capture modern, high-tech jobs in part by forging stronger bonds between schools and businesses is also important, according to Sutfin.
A friend urged Sutfin to run, he said, after he complained about how city officials handle tax dollars.
"I'm just a guy who's stepped out and decided to run," Sutfin said. "I'm not a lobbyist."
It was a reference to Kemp, who was registered with the city as a lobbyist until January.
Luyben has also used the dig, additionally calling Kemp a "carpetbagger" who moved to the district less than a year ago.
Kemp, who did move to the district last year but has lived in Long Beach since his college days, parried the barbs by saying the 5th District is full of "well-educated, highly-involved" voters.
"I don't think that ultimately they are as interested in petty politics as they are in someone with a plan," Kemp said.
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Jurassic Park III lacks bite
By BBC News Online's Darren Waters
Just when you thought it was safe to return to an island infested with man-eating dinosaurs along comes the third part of the lucrative Jurassic Park series.
After two movies with Steven Spielberg at the helm, Joe Johnston sits in the director's chair and it is to his credit that the three films feel alike in tone and in texture.
This time around he is joined by Tea Leoni and William H Macy who play parents searching for their son who has gone missing on the island.
Laura Dern, who also starred in the original, makes the briefest of cameos and was probably laughing all the way to the bank with her screen time of about five minutes.
Star value
The moral and ethical subplots that bubbled away in the background of the first two adventures are dispensed with in Jurassic III and the film is a straightforward chase thriller.
It is man versus beast and the minor characters quickly become dino fodder in the race for thrills and chills while the star value of Neill, Macy and Leoni ensure they won't be too troubled by gnashing jaws.
The search for the lost boy helps the concerned parents re-unite after a messy divorce, while Sam Neill continues his role as the child-phobic scientist.
Johnston keeps the pace up with a series of eventful set pieces, punctuated by some misplaced attempts at humour.
Right note
The centrepiece sequence with pterodactyls is carried off with aplomb and is the only original piece of action added to the previous two films.
It is intended for a young audience and it just about strikes the right note with the right quota of stomping dinosaurs and chase sequences.
The film is short at 87 minutes but it is at this point that children's attention spans begin to wander - exactly one hour after everyone else's interest wavered.
It is better than The Lost World which Spielberg seemed to have made in a tired stupor following Schindler's List but it does not match the wonder and awe inspired by the first sighting of computer generated dinosaurs in the original.
After three outings, many deaths, and many, many special effects surely it is beyond the talents of any scriptwriter to convince anyone to return to Jurassic Park again.
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The first major bushfires of the season
Adam harvey live from Winmalee in the Blue Mountains discusses the fire threat.
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LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: But first tonight, just days into spring and with memories still fresh of last year's angry summer, the bushfire season has begun early - and with a vengeance.
Throughout the day and into this evening 40 separate fires have been burning out of control on the western outskirts of Sydney.
At least one house is lost, seven fire fighters are injured with burns and smoke inhalation and emergency warnings remain in place. Our reporter Adam Harvey is at Winmalee in the Blue Mountains and joins us now. Adam, what's going on?
ADAM HARVEY, REPORTER: Leigh, I'm at a roadblock just up with the road where where the fire crossed the road and impacted on a few houses and a fire crew in a truck were caught by the fire and that's where a number of fire fighters were injured. Now, this is the most serious of the four major fires that hit Sydney this afternoon. There were three others in north-western Sydney that have just been downgraded as a cooler change came through. The temperatures have dropped from a very high 32 degrees to the low 20s at the moment. And the wind has shifted as well and that's helping fire fighters. We were taken a bit further down the road to look at what's going on, and it's fire fighters standing outside houses with their trucks ready in case the fire comes back and impacts them.
LEIGH SALES: Adam, how many residents have been evacuated and where are they?
ADAM HARVEY: Well, up here in Winmalee we've got several dozen residents who are here just waiting to get back to their home because the worst has passed here in Winmalee. There's another town called Yellow Rock a bit further down the mountains which there are more serious concerns about. People have been moved to Faulconbridge Primary School where there is an evacuation centre. People are moving there at the moment. They don't have to go there. They can wait here and go through and indeed they're letting some people through on foot. But in western Sydney there's still lots of people who can't get home.
LEIGH SALES: Adam, what's the extent of the damage that we know of so far?
ADAM HARVEY: We know that two houses have been destroyed. One of those houses has possibly only been partially damaged. I was speaking to some of the residents here and they were trying to work out which side of the road the house that was damaged was on because they don't know if their house is safe. One woman was very concerned. She just wants to get back down the road and see what's going on. Other than that, we're talking about a lot of sheds and a lot of fences but we're going to have to wait really until the morning, until people get back home to see what kind of damage there is.
LEIGH SALES: Is there any word yet as to what started these fires today?
ADAM HARVEY: Well, Leigh, it was a very hot and windy day and that means that there were no controlled burns going on. Now three of those fires, the ones in western Sydney, were in a very compact area in the north-western Sydney area of Windsor area near roads and that's led to certain suspicions. Now the Rural Fire Service are going to be investigating all the fires, of course, as they always do. They're not saying whether they have any suspicions about those fires. This one they're saying it was probably a different cause. Not as suspicious about this one as the ones in north-western Sydney.
LEIGH SALES: Adam Harvey, thank you very much and we'll bring you an update on the fires later in the program.


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Hey all, I'm trying to become more active in the forums. Here is some older stuff from my very first year in college way back when. It was great when I first did it and now I can't really stand to look at it. I redid some stuff and tomorrow I'm going to get stuff from my life drawing class uploaded. Most of it SUCKS for various reason, but my life drawing teacher seemed to like all the stuff I thought was complete crap, and she didnt like anything I thought was good. Either way, here's some stuff to get this thread started.
Number 1 is called Cosmic Shadow - I've toyed with the way this guy looks so many times, its disgusting. He's one of two characters in my head whom I change the look of daily. Sort of like batman action figures - theres everything from "Daytime picnic" batman to "Evil trumping cave dwelling batman with karate chop action and plasma bolt firing rifle"
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Number 2 is a robot whom I used to like. I can see where I screwed up on him and I'm going to redo him probably tomorrow.
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A COURT has heard further lurid allegations about a disgraced former Hampshire MP.
Jurors have been told how a journalist investigated claims that ex-Cabinet minister MP Chris Huhne had had "liaisons with men".
And they have heard how the same journalist was also pursuing a story about claims that the shamed Eastleigh MP had infected his ex-wife Vicky Pryce with pubic lice.
The allegations were aired during the trial of barrister and part-time judge Constance Briscoe, charged with trying to pervert the course of justice in connection with the investigation into Huhne's, pictured below, speeding points scandal.
Briscoe, who denies the charges, told police she had been approached by Mail on Sunday journalist David Dillon about the claims, Southwark Crown Court heard.
But she denied ever speaking to Mr Dillon about Huhne passing speeding points to his now ex-wife Pryce, below, the court heard.
The court has heard that Briscoe allegedly lied to police in two witness statements she made to officers investigating the points-swapping, then later altered a statement to hide her alleged dishonesty.
She is also accused of deliberately showing an expert the wrong copy of the altered statement so his report would say the alteration was a printer error.
Jurors have heard that Briscoe, below, denied speaking to journalists about the speeding points in her statement, but emails later emerged showing that she had been communicating with the Mail on Sunday.
But after her arrest on October 6, 2012, the barrister told officers that she had always admitted speaking to Mr Dillon, but that they had not spoken about the points.
In a police interview, she said: "One of the stories that Mr Dillon was interested in was he had discovered somehow that Vicky Pryce had called off her engagement, or whatever it was, to Chris and it had been called off when she was engaged with him because Chris Huhne had said to Vicky that he had had liaisons, whatever you want to call it, with men.
"I knewnothing about this because this was a story that the Mail, that Dillon, was pursuing."
But Briscoe said she knew nothing about the claims.
She said the other story Mr Dillon was pursuing was claims that Huhne had infected his wife with pubic lice.
She said the "explanation" Mr Dillon had given was that Huhne "had contracted the crabs from the clean sheets in whatever hotel he was in" while he was a European MEP.
In her interview Briscoe told officers that again, she knew nothing about the story.
Briscoe was originally due to be a prosecution witness in the case against Pryce and Huhne.
But jurors have heard that once it was discovered that she had apparently lied about her contact with journalists, it was decided she was not a reliable witness.
The court has heard that she helped economist Pryce to reveal information about the points-swapping scandal to newspapers after she and Huhne separated in 2010.
The scandal was to lead to Huhne's resignation and subsequent prosecution. He pleaded guilty in February last year, while Pryce was convicted after a trial.
Both have now served jail sentences.


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Plus, how fast paced will the combat be? Seems like they are going the GW2 route with your skills based on weapons and that got boring pretty fast. I don't mind only having 8 hotkeys but they better make them exciting and not just a button mashing contest.
Starting out with a huge world to explore and hardly any major cities is a great idea. The explorer in me will make me buy this game and give it a try. If the make it a single player game where groups don't have to be formed then I won't be staying long.
I am sick of games where every character is a God and everything is handed to you without putting in any work. Make it take months to get your epic weapon. What do you expect though when we live in a world where everybody gets a trophy just for showing up.
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Everyone's favourite reluctant traveller is back in the departure lounge. But this time Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are sending Karl Pilkington around the world with a list of the ultimate things to do before you die.
Armed with this definitive bucket list, Karl will be dispatched to far flung corners of the world to swim with dolphins, travel Route 66 and stay on a private desert island, in an attempt to prove whether these so called 'things to do before you die' really are what they're cracked up to be.
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I will find out what sensor replaced. Dealership Said turn key 3 X fast which would give us what was wrong. The check engine flashes 10 times. Called them back they Said they had never heard of that many times Dont have Cash for diagnoses so could u please help me on what the 10 flashes mean.
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TORONTO - It isnt polite to stare but when it comes to Maria Sharapova, sometimes you just cant help yourself.
Its isnt just the look. Its the power. Its the pacing. Its the precision. Its the noise. And its what you cant always see the heart that never stops fighting.
This is all part of the package, part of the still growing arsenal of the what still might be the worlds most popular female athlete.
I love you Maria, someone yelled from the stands at the Rexall Centre, at the end of her 6-1, 7-5 win over qualifier Bojana Jovanovski. The words echoing what many in the stands clearly felt.
You dont have to yell, said Sharapova, in mid interview sentence, smiling. Im right here.
Indeed she was right here. Right to the end. Many of the Sharapovas were on display for one night of great, dramatic, erratic and windy tennis.
There was Sharapova the dominant, Sharapova the battler, Sharapova the veteran, Sharapova the eventual victor.
This has been a Rogers Cup tournament that has seen the No. 1 seed, Caroline Wozniacki, bow out, and the No. 2 seed, Kim Clijsters, pull out, and one by one the advertisments on the wall seem to be coming apart. But not Sharapova, who could have been beaten Wednesday night.
She romped in 24 minutes to win the opening set against Jovanovski on a wintry summer night at York University, only to scrap, battle, lose serve, lose serve again, lose her pace and her momentum, only to come back and do the Sharapova thing: Forget the legs, the blonde hair. All that seems external and obvious: Inside this sculpted tennis player is a fighter who just wont give up.
And for Toronto, this is great news, even on a night when the foolishness of combining mens and womens tournaments seemed paramount. In Toronto, Sharapova fought tooth and nail to take out Jovanovski, who was so wobbly off the start she barely won a point in the first set and stilll deserved to win the second set. At the same time, Rafael Nadal was playing in Montreal and having a similar kind of difficulty with someone named Ivan Dodig.
A tennis fan could watch one or the other but not both.
And how this is growing the game is beyond me.
The good news in Toronto is that its starting to look as though Sharapova and Serena Williams are on a collision course and headed up for a possible semifinal matchup. Really, you cant ask for much more than that.
They are still, Wozniacki and Clijsters aside, the draws here, never mind Sharapovas fifth-seed position and the fact Williams isnt seeded at all. And its not out of the realm of possibility that Sharapova can meet Petra Kvitova, who she lost to in the Wimbledon final, and if youve got a repeat of Wimbledon here, that cant be all bad.
But the crowd would prefer to see Sharapova advance all the way to Sunday.
In a way she has grown up playing this tournament. She won Wimbledon as a kid of 17 and dazzled Toronto at just about the same time. She is no kid anymore a woman of 24 all grown with a large diamond ring on her left hand indicating just how much she has grown up. She doesnt giggle like she used to, seems more serious, and the command of her game seems all the more mature.
Like so many tennis players, she has been great and dominant and then injured and having to find a way to fight back. Her ability to battle on the court is well documented. But now its clear, she has made it through the same kind of fight off the court, bringing her injured shoulder back to the kind of powerful form that was on display on a blustery Wednesday night, where a first set without drama turned into a nail-biting second set.
All of it played under the least opportune of conditions, with a 22 km wind howling at York U, which may have accounted for the six consecutive service games lost in the second set. Sharapova fought back defeating Jovanovski and the wind to advance.
The nights work should have been easy but instead she survived. The fact she did tells more about Sharapova than any photograph can.


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Not that they were going anywhere this season, but the Padres lost two of their most productive players at the trading deadline Sunday.
Mike Adams appeared in 33 of the Padres first 46 wins with 23 holds.
Ryan Ludwick had a hand in 25.3 percent of all the runs scored by the Padres this season. By comparison, Adrian Gonzalez accounted for 23.6 percent of all the runs the Padres scored last season.
Adams was traded to the Texas Rangers Sunday for Double-A pitching prospects Joe Wieland and Robbie Erlin. Ludwick was traded to Pittsburgh for a player to be named later or cash considerations.
Adams was 3-1 with a 1.13 ERA with the Padres this season in 48 innings covering 48 appearances. Opposing hitters were batting .155 against Adams, who had 49 strikeouts against nine walks. He also recorded his first major league save.
Ludwick was hitting .238. But he also had 11 homers and 64 RBI and scored 42 runs.
Both Wieland and Erlin were playing for the Rangers' Double-A Frisco affiliate in the Texas League. They will transfer to the roster of the San Antonio Missions. Frisco, coincidentally, was playing in San Antonio Sunday.
The Padres had targeted starting pitchers Wieland and Erlin in their negotiations with the Rangers. The right-handed Erlin, 20, is 8-4 with a 3.34 ERA and 123 strikeouts against 12 walks in 20 games this season between Single-A and Double-A. He was the Rangers' third-round selection in the 2009 draft.
Wieland, 21, is 10-3 with a 1.80 ERA this season between Single-A and Double-A. He has 132 strikeouts against 15 walks over 21 games. He was the Rangers fourth-round pick in 2008.
The Daily Five (Notes, Stats and Numbers)
--RHP Aaron Harang suffered his first loss since May 2 Saturday night. He had won five straight decisions. Harang's ERA in two starts against the Rockies is 11.70. His ERA against the rest of the league this season is 2.97.
--With Chase Headley's 10th steal of the season Saturday night, the Padres have six players with 10 or more steals this season – Cameron Maybin 24, Jason Bartlett 21, Will Venable 19, Orlando Hudson 14, Chris Denorfia and Headley 10. The Padres lead the major leagues with 117 steals. The last time the Padres had six players with 10 or more steals in the same season was 1987 when they had seven led by Tony Gwynn's 56.
--1B Jesus Guzman is hitting .481 at Petco Park (13-for-27 with four homers and 10 RBI) and .381 (16-for-42 with two homers and seven RBI) against left-handed pitchers.
--INF Alberto Gonzalez tied his career high with three RBI Saturday night. Gonzalez has 24 RBI in 173 at-bats.
--LHP Joe Thatcher walked one and struck out two in a scoreless inning Saturday night for Triple-A Tucson. He has a 1.59 ERA in six relief appearances for the T-Padres.
Minor League Report
Triple-A Tucson (50-57): Salt Lake 12, Padres 5 -- Salt Lake scored all 12 runs in the fifth inning. Starting RHP Matt Buschmann (4-4, 8.26 ERA) allowed eight runs on 12 hits and didn't retire a hitter in the fifth. RHP Will Inman allowed four runs (three earned) on four hits in one inning. 2B Jarrett Hoffpauir (.318) went 3-for-4 with two doubles. SS Everth Cabrera was 2-for-4. 3B Steve Tolleson (.284) went 1-for-3 with a double and three RBI.
Double-A San Antonio (70-35, 21-14): Missions 11, Frisco 5 -- One day after being no-hit. San Antonio busted out for 15 hits. Every starter but catcher Rocky Gale had at least one hit. 1B Sawyer Carroll (.273) went 4-for-5 with an RBI. 2B Dean Anna (.310) went 2-for-5 with two RBI. SS Andy Parrino (.333) was 2-for-5 with two runs scored, 3B Anthony Contreras was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and LF Jaff Decker was 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI. 3B Jedd Gyorko (.250) went 1-for-5, knocking in two runs. Starting LHP Rob Musgrave (7-2) got the win, giving up three runs on six hits in six innings. He walked two and struck out four.
High Single-A Lake Elsinore (53-52, 21-14): Rancho Cucamonga 4, STORM 3 (10 innings) -- DH Tommy Medica (.235) went 2-for-4. 2B Jonathan Galvez (.302) went 1-for-4 with an RBI, his 66th. SS Jeudy Valdez homered. Starting RHP Jerry Sullivan (6.02 ERA) pitched six innings, giving up two runs on nine hits. RHP Jason Ray (2-1, 1.35 ERA) allowed one run on two hits over two innings with one strikeout.
Low Single-A Fort Wayne (49-54, 19-15): TIN CAPS 10, Great Lakes 7 -- C Cole Tyrell (.193) went 1-for-4 with four RBI, including a three-run homer. Three other players had two hits, the most productive being LF Luis Domoromo (.301), who went 2-for-3, scored two runs, knocked in one and walked twice. LF Rymer Liriano (.320) was 2-for-4 and 3B Chris Bisson was 2-for-2 with a walk and a run scored. Starting RHP Dennis O'Grady allowed six runs on seven hits in 3 2/3 innings. RHP Chris Franklin (2.84 ERA) was the most effective of four relievers, pitching 1 2/3 innings of shutout ball. RHP Kevin Quackenbush earned his third save.
Short Season-A Eugene (27-16, 3-2): Spokane 4, EMERALDS 3 -- University of San Diego product 1B Zach Kometani (.282) went 3-for-4 with two RBI. Starting RHP Juan Herrera (2-2, 3.16 ERA) took the loss, allowing three runs on three hits and three walks in 3 2/3 innings.
Arizona Rookie Padres (13-18): Padres 4, Dodgers 3 -- 20-year-old Venezuelan CF Alberth Martinez (.359) went 3-for-4 with two homers and three RBI. RF Yoan Alcantara (.333) was 2-for-4. RHP Marion Claveria (1-4, 6.58 ERA) got the win, pitching five innings, allowing two runs on four hits. He struck out four and walked three.


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Rising demand and a sales uptick have analysts believing that the magnetic components market may be headed for stabilizing prices, restored profits, and tighter inventories the remainder of the year.
Magnetic components revenue will grow from $13.8 billion in 2002 to $14.3 billion this year, as inventory depletion and strengthening demand combine to firm prices, according to a recent report by iSuppli Corp., El Segundo, Calif. This is good news for magnetic component suppliers, which according to iSuppli watched unit sales grow 6% the first half of 2003, only to be offset by price erosion of 3% each quarter.
"The passives market was dampened the first half of 2003 as SARS joined the uncertainties around world economies, equipment demand, unit price declines, and the Middle East political and military unknowns," said iSuppli analyst Shawn Wood, in the report. "As a result, revenue growth the first half of 2003 over the second half of 2002 was exactly nothing."
Price reductions should slow, said Wood, adding that stronger demand for PCs and mobile handsets could cause shortages of some magnetic parts toward year's end. Inventories for magnetic and other passive parts have been lowering, falling below 77 days in the second quarter compared with 98 days in the first quarter, according to iSuppli. Lead times, however, have not yet lengthened, remaining at seven weeks through the first six months.
Although business is beginning to pick up, North American and European magnetic component suppliers face a stiff challenge from low-cost rivals in China and other Asian countries, iSuppli said. In response to the challenge, they are producing smaller, leading-edge, 0201 case-size parts, whose share of inductor and coil revenue has risen from 4% to 8% over the past year.
Consolidation in this sector also continues. In March, Bel Fuse Inc., Jersey City, N.J., purchased Insilco Technologies, a Dublin, Ohio, magnetic components and interconnect supplier.
The acquisition has enabled Bel to offer a greater variety of products that integrate magnetic and interconnect functions, according to a company spokesman, and has helped offset the price degradation occurring with its commodity parts.
Board-mounted magnetic components, which are expected to account for $3.7 billion of the $14.3 billion in global revenue, will continue to benefit from growth in the consumer electronics, appliances, and automotive markets, according to iSuppli. Consumer electronics, which accounts for more than a quarter of global revenue in this segment, will benefit from increasing unit sales of DVD players and recorders, with the latter projected to grow from 2.75 million in 2003 to 40 million in 2007.
Industrial electronics, 18% of board-mounted magnetic components revenue, has been hampered by soft capital expenditures, iSuppli noted. Still, growth in medical, security, and military electronics is expected to increase this sector's revenue slightly over 2002.


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Kevin Bieksa will participate in a charity game called Bieksa's Buddies against the UBC Thunderbirds men's hockey team on October 17th.
"We understand that there are many people impacted by the NHL lockout and we know charities such as Canuck Place Children's Hospice, Canucks Family Education Centre, and Canucks Autism Network need funds to continue operating their progras," said Bieksa. "These organizations do great work for our community. It is important for my buddies and I to lend a hand and with the help of the UBC Thunderbirds we have the perfect opportunity to do so." His 'buddies' will include Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Dan Hamhuis, Manny Malhotra, Max Lapierre, Cory Schneider and Willie Mitchell among others.


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I'm glad to share with you The Widget Art Gallery's web-app for IPhone and IPad.
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About the "WAG":
The "WAG" is nano virtual gallery-room developed for IPhone, IPod
Touch and I Pad. Every month, directly on your mobile, The "WAG" hosts
a solo digital art exhibition related to the dynamic site-specific
contest. For IPhone and IPod touch, just copying this url
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IPad but pasting this other URL:
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About the exhibition ongoing now inside the WAG:
"Happening Soon".
waiting is action itself: it's a movement aiming to something that is
going to happen. Bluring the line beteewn the artist and the viewer, I
create a paradox: while the waiting has an ending, here, thanks to the
loop, it becomes endless. Roberta Lisca works as a conceptualizer, robertalisca.com
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