text: Treasure Coast Essay She survived a shark attack By Paul Janensch • Aug 6, 2012 Two months ago, a woman from Germany was severely injured by a shark off Vero Beach. She survived. But it was a reminder to everyone on the Treasure Coast to exercise care when going into the ocean. It happened about 11 a.m. Our own farmers markets By Paul Janensch • Jul 30, 2012 Our routine on a Saturday morning is to go to the farmers market in Vero Beach on Ocean Drive across from Humiston Park. My wife Gail and I enjoy the experience. Apparently, a lot of other people across the U.S. Good year for sea turtles By Paul Janensch • Jul 23, 2012 It looks like this will be a good year for sea turtles on the Treasure Coast. The nesting season began on March 1st and continues until September 15th. As of July 1st, researchers counted more than 6100 nests on our beaches, compared with about 4800 last year. More than 60 percent of the nests were made by loggerheads, so named because of their large head. They are the most common sea turtle in Florida. The others were made by green turtles and leatherbacks. Only about one in 5,000 hatchlings makes it to adulthood. The problem is predators – crabs, birds, raccoons, coyotes, fish and, National Elephant Center coming along By Paul Janensch • Jul 16, 2012 The National Elephant Center in Indian River County is coming along. The Treasure Coast already is home to the Save the Chimps Sanctuary, west of Fort Pierce in St. Lucie County. If all goes according to plan, up to three dozen pachyderms will reside for a while or the rest of their lives on the 225-acre spread three miles north of Fellsmere. Researching mosquitoes By Paul Janensch • Jul 9, 2012 Mosquito season is upon us. No one is watching those pesky little critters more carefully than the scientists at the Florida Medical Entomological Laboratory along the Indian River Lagoon off Oslo Road about three miles south of Vero Beach. The lab is part of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. The property takes up 38 acres and is surrounded by 291 acres of wetlands, mangrove forests and scrubby pine woods –a good environment for learning about the natural world. The scientists are on the lookout for mosquitoes carrying West Nile or St. Honoring a Martin County school principal By Paul Janensch • Jul 2, 2012 Her name is Sigrid George. She moved from New York and began at Stuart Middle School as a teacher of English and Social Studies. That was in 1969. Recently Sigrid received a National PTA Life Achievement Award. It is richly deserved. Sigrid rose through the ranks at Stuart Middle School as curriculum coordinator and assistant principal. For the past 12 years she has been the principal. The Life Achievement Award is the highest honor bestowed by the National PTA. It goes to an individual who "daily lives out his or her commitment to children." In a ceremony at Stuart Middle School, Honoring good sports By Paul Janensch • Jun 25, 2012 What honor ranks up there with a state high-school athletic championship? Paul Janensch tells us in this Treasure Coast Essay. The Asian Giant Shrimp – a tasty invader By Paul Janensch • Jun 18, 2012 Here's a new unwelcome resident of the Treasure Coast. The Asian Tiger Prawn, otherwise known as the Asian Giant Shrimp – which sounds like a contradiction in terms. It joins a long list of invaders that includes the python, the wild hog and the lionfish. Two giant shrimp have been found in the Indian River Lagoon. One in Vero Beach in April, and one in Hobe Sound in September. Only two? Scientists with the University of Florida Sea Grant program at the Indian River Research and Education Center in Fort Pierce fear there could be many more. The giant shrimp grow and multiply quickly. Hurricane season is here By Paul Janensch • Jun 11, 2012 On June 1st, the hurricane season began on the Treasure Coast and elsewhere on the Atlantic seaboard. It lasts until the end of November. Are you ready? Weather forecasters are predicting 13 named tropical storms for the season. Five of them will be hurricanes with maximum sustained winds of 74 mph or above. This is about average. Of course, we don't know if any of them will hit the mainland. The National Hurricane Center is urging residents in hurricane-prone areas to "go tapeless." That means do not tape your windows. Celebrating World Oceans Day By Paul Janensch • Jun 4, 2012 Can you imagine the Treasure Coast without the ocean? There would be no coast, of course, and no treasure from a fleet of sunken Spanish galleons. There would be no miles of beaches, no surf, no sailfish, no loggerhead turtles. It would be like Florida's interior. No offense intended. That's why World Oceans Day should mean something to us. In 2008, the United Nations proclaimed each June 8th as World Oceans Day. This year, the theme is "Youth: the Next Wave for Change." Environmental centers along the Treasure Coast have special activities planned. On Friday, June 8th, you can vis Stopping by a science fair By Paul Janensch • May 8, 2012 A Treasure Coast Essay (2012-01-30) A bad year for manatees By Paul Janensch • May 8, 2012 Paul Janensch (2012-01-23) A threat is being posed by 10 more invasive animals and plants. By Paul Janensch • May 8, 2012 Paul Janensch (2012-01-16) A Treasure Coast church for the deaf By Paul Janensch • May 3, 2012 Paul Janensch (2012-01-09) TREASURE COAST (wqcs) - Intro: A church in our area reaches out to the deaf and hard of hearing, as Paul Janensch tells us in this Treasure Coast Essay. Stuart as the world's sailfish capital By Paul Janensch • May 3, 2012 Paul Janensch (2012-01-02) Pages« first ‹ previous … 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 next › last »


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"It's not too difficult to get that license, but in California you have to have 30 hours [of classes], and each year after that you have to have so many hours of continuing education."
"I thought the biggest challenge we had was prioritizing ... to try and pick and choose what we weren't going to do as much as what we were."
"It's not right. It's not the kids' fault. If they didn't want the kids, they should have given them up for adoption."

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I regularly use the Pontyclun to Cardiff Central route, train very unreliable, no ticket conducter if there is one he/she only interested in selling daily tickets and say that weekly tickets take too long and they have targets to work towards. I queued for 30 mins for a ticket to be issued by the most miserable and slow staff you could possibly imagine. Also I pay £6.40 for a return 11 minute journey which is digusting, trains overcrowded and late was evenings.
Arriva trains need to be monitored closely in regards to their poor service and poor customer service


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Yes, you can call this a catfight and not get dirty looks from your wife or girlfriend.
Well, not until they realize you're watching video from a Toronto, Ontario, restaurant in which several women celebrating Halloween begin brawling.
At least one of those women may (or may not) be dressed as a cat. Another catches a dinner plate in the face. Soon after, men start to fight.
The brawling happened about 3:30 a.m. in a popular Vietnamese restaurant. After it was uploaded, it has gone viral.
The 2:06 YouTube video had almost 585,000 views as of Saturday evening.
The shenanigans happened inside Pho Xe Lua on October 27, possibly over seating arrangements.
The woman hit in the face needed several stitches to repair a gash on her nose.
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One man is facing assault charges, while police comb through the video in an attempt to identify suspects, most of whom are wearing costumes.
"Everybody was pretty shocked, I thought that something was going to happen," one witness told Global Toronto.
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text: Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd@...> writes: > Try it. Just change the lisp to map it read-only and see what breaks. Heh. William Newan made the point that I would probably have made if I were less dopey. Of course there is writable stuff in there ... > cmucl debian package: > /usr/doc/cmucl/examples/Demos/register-lisp-as-executables.sh > /usr/doc/cmucl/examples/Demos/lisp-start > > Use the BINFMT_MISC stuff in the kernel... Good point. I'd forgotten about that approach Are there analogues for non-Linux platforms? > IMHO Lisp supports the "save because the compiler makes it safe" model > of Bouroughs mainframes: trust the compiler to never emit 'bad' code... > See comp.folklore.computers recently. It _should_, yes. But setting it up properly sounds like a major task, and given that security has never really been a goal for the cmucl project (see, for example, /tmp file race in run-program) I don't think I'd trust it against a determined attacker. Or even a novice hacker in its current state. The damage you can do just by TRACEing stuff is pretty extreme ... -dan -- http://ww.telent.net/cliki/ - CLiki: CL/Unix free software link farm


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It all began on a mundane weeknight.
She had just played in her first ballgame of the season. Supper was over and she had settled in at the dining room table for a game of chess with her daddy. I was in another room entertaining a puppy and a boy when I heard the drama coming from the other room.
I was used to drama during their chess games.
He's teaching her how to play and she is highly competitive, and those two don't always go well together. She loves the complexity of the game, he loves to see how amazing her mind works.
But the process is not pretty to listen to.
So I tune them out.
But this was different. She was physically hurting and was now asking for an ice pack or medicine. Then I was beckoned to come and see what was wrong. The worry in my husband's tone was enough to draw me away from the puppy and the boy for a bit.
When I walked into the room, my daughter was holding an ice pack up to her chest, just over her heart. My husband thought something was really wrong with her because of how she was carrying on. She can be a bit of a drama queen, but we could both tell she was in pain.
I had a pretty good idea what was going on. I gave her a quick hug and told her that while her brother was getting his bath, she and I would have a chat.
I followed her into her room and glanced around. Her room is a hodgepodge of little girl and young lady. The stacks of chapter books and random pre-teen clothes lie in deep contrast next to the toys and stuffed animals that clutter her space. She is still very much a little girl, but that is all beginning to change.
My daughter has always been off the charts in size. She is a tall girl. She is eight-years-old and is almost as tall as I am. I recently purchased a pair of shoes for her in my size.
Like it or not, my "little girl" isn't very little anymore.
When I found out that I was going to be her mother nearly nine years ago, I began to mentally prepare for the relationship that I wanted to have with my daughter. I knew that I didn't want to be my daughter's "friend." I wanted to be her mother.
I knew that friends would come and go in her life, but I always wanted her to know that her father and I would be there for her. No matter what she did. No matter what she was going through.
I also knew that one day we would end up having "THE TALK" about sex and changes in her body.
But when I walked in to her girly pink room that night, it occurred to me that I didn't want to have a talk with her.
I wanted to have a conversation with her.
A conversation that would hopefully carry us through these next several years of changes and ups and downs.
A conversation that wouldn't end after that night.
That night we talked about growing pains and hit some of the high points of puberty. We giggled and made boob jokes. We put stuffed animals under our shirts and pretended we were bigger than we were.
We were silly.
And her growing pains eased up a bit once she realized what they were.
I want our conversations to be just like that night. Lighthearted. Fun. Easy.
I know that they won't all be that way. I know that there will be tears and frustration as time goes on. I also know that she won't learn everything from me. I'm okay with that, too. I just don't want the wall between us to be so high that she doesn't feel comfortable coming to me when she can.
And I'm really looking forward to getting to know the young woman who is all too quickly emerging from my little girl.
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"This is great for tailgating and fall gatherings or, maybe, as gifts. As the name implies it tastes just like "Apple Pie"."
Apple Pie Liqueur
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- 1⁄2 gallon apple juice (from bottle or concentrate)
- 1 gallon apple cider
- 1 (750 ml) bottle Everclear alcohol (75% or 151 proof)
- 6 cinnamon sticks
- 3 cups sugar
- 3 cups brown sugar
- Combine apple juice, cider, cinnamon sticks and sugar in a large pot and bring to a boil on the stove. Simmer 15-20 minutes until all the sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
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Where's the kids?
A summer time blog
Obnoxious John
A few weeks ago I had the good fortune to be able to join most of my immediate and extended family for a reunion back in Michigan. We talked, laughed, ate and told lies and had a very nice time. There were photographs of those no longer with us. Being immersed in family at the reunion (close to 100 people) dredges up thoughts of long ago.
The memory that occurs most frequently to me when going back home is what it was like as a kid in Detroit in the summer.
Not sure if it was coincidence or deliberate but we always seemed to live near an elementary school. These schools had HUGE, I'm not kidding, HUGE playground areas. There was room for several different groups of kids to partake of several different activities and we never got in one another's way.
In the summer in our neighborhoods the itinerary for this ten year old consisted of 1) breakfast, 2) playing baseball, softball, Five Hundred, pickle, burn out and step baseball. 3) lunch 4) baseball, softball, Five Hundred, well ,you get the idea I hope!
We were outside and active. We didn't have anyone watching us or calling on the cell phone to check on our well being. Disputes flared up quickly and were doused just as fast. It didn't take long to know who you did and didn't want to be on a team with.
In the evenings we chased fireflys, june bugs, dodged mosquitos and played kick the can. We hoped the streetlights would never come on and tried bargaining via the "just a minute' shouted to Mom when we heard her call for us to come in.
Today when I drive by a school in the summer or down streets of local neighborhoods, I'm struck by how neat and tidy everything is. Then I notice there are NO children playing baseball, or in keeping with the times, soccer at the local school yard or in the street or wherever.
There are no sunburns, skinned knees or grass stained pants from sliding into second. To paraphrase that TV ad from the 80's, "where's the kids?"
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Infographic: WTI and the North American Crude Oil Boom
Oct 28, 2013, 14:30 ET from CME Group
CHICAGO, Oct. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The current energy renaissance in North America is marked by significant improvements in the production and distribution of crude oil. Major investments in U.S. infrastructure and the increased production of domestic crude oil are pushing the U.S. closer to energy self-sufficiency—imports of foreign oil have decreased, while exports of refined products have increased.
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The long-term investment by rail companies is just one of many signs that the predictions of sustained crude oil growth in North America are likely to come true. Within the next few months, the Seaway pipeline looping will double capacity from 400,000 BPD to 800,000 BPD, and the southern leg of the Keystone pipeline is scheduled for completion, adding an additional 600kbd. This will mean an extra one million barrels per day flowing out of Cushing, Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico.
We continue to see a shrinking spread between West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and the North Sea Brent contract, and expect that with the continued growth in North American production, WTI will return to trading at a premium to Brent.
These and other factors are outlined in an infographic and Open Markets blog post looking at the U.S. oil boom.
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Willis dealing with first trip to DL
Willis dealing with first trip to DL
Not only has he never been on the disabled list since breaking into the big leagues in 2003, he hasn't missed a scheduled start. He'll miss at least a couple of those with the 15 days' absence.
But it's not just the missing starts that can be a test. It's working out while the team is preparing to play, or dealing with the slow progress when he is working out or taking the extra days to make sure he's all right when he does start feeling fine.
He isn't really in pain, but his knee is stiff.
"I don't like it. I don't like it at all," he said. "I don't like being hurt. Nobody does, but I've never been on the DL before, so it's all new to me. I got hurt two or three days ago, and I'm trying to get back on the field right now."
That isn't going to happen. Though there's no firm timetable, manager Jim Leyland reiterated head athletic Kevin Rand's belief that the team has to be cautious with Willis, because the hyperextended right knee is part of his plant leg. And that was clearly expressed to Willis.
Willis isn't naturally patient, but he has an appreciation of their standpoint.
"When you have an injury, especially a lower-half injury, you don't want to do something to try to overcompensate with your upper half," Willis said. "I think that's what the biggest concern is. They don't want me to put more strain on my arm, and then my arm blows out as opposed to my leg.
"You do the best you can, because you know that their best interest is exactly what your interest is. They want you to be on the field, and I understand. But I'm always used to playing if I feel like I can go out there."
This won't be much of anything he's used to experiencing. His only DL stint came at the tail end of the 2002 Minor League season, when he had a left shoulder strain, so he didn't have a season to try to get back to that fall.
For now, he's going to try to be a cheerleader in the dugout, but even that can be difficult for him. He'll join the club on the road later this week in Cleveland and Toronto, but when his teammates take the field, he'll have work to do.
"I'm almost like a kid at the playground," he said. "Everybody else is having fun. I want to shoot the ball, too."
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text: My husband and I just returned from our honeymoon in Sardinia italy. We stumbled across a few amazing local desserts which we would love to find here in Boston. One was called seadas: which was a sort of fried cheese drizzled with warm honey. (It sounds like an artery clogger but was absolutely delicious) The other dessert we were crazy about was Crema Catalana: warm creamy custard type dessert. Does anyone know where we could find either one of these locally??


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Here's a summery, light take on the traditional Greek dish Youvetsi (lamb baked in a tomato sauce with orzo). I've taken some chicken thighs (the skin of which I removed to keep things light), seasoned them with a sprinkling of Sweet Smoked Paprika, salt and freshly ground pepper and simmered them with fresh bell pepper, onion, garlic and a juicy red tomato. A healthy dose of fresh parsley livens it all up and creamy orzocooked directly in the tomato sauce tops off this healthy dish. Try this and I promise you that in no time at all you'll have a delicious meal that you can easily enjoy al fresco on a warm summer night.
For a cold-weather version of Youvetsi, check out my recipe here.
Summer Youvetsi — Καλοκαιρινό Γιουβέτσι
Serves 4 to 6
4 to 6 chicken thighs, skins removed
Sweet smoked paprika
Salt and freshly ground pepper
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium onion, finely chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 large red/orange pepper, diced
1 large tomato, peeled and diced
Handful of parsley, finely chopped
1 cup orzo
2 1/2 cups water
Rinse chicken thighs under cold water and trim any excess fat. Pat dry with a paper towel, then season with a sprinkling of sweet smoked paprika, salt and pepper. Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat and brown chicken on both sides until golden. Once the chicken is browned, add the onion, garlic and bell pepper to the skillet and cook until softened, 7 to 8 minutes. Stir in the diced tomatoes and parsley, bring to a simmer (reduce heat slightly), cover skillet and cook for 10 to 15 minutes longer (add a bit of water as necessary to increase liquid in skillet).
Using a slotted spoon, remove chicken thighs to a plate along with a few tablespoons of the sauce. Add the orzo to the skillet along with the 2 1/2 cups of water. Bring to a simmer and cook until the orzo is cooked through. Once done, add the chicken back to the skillet and heat through. Serve with a sprinkling of chopped fresh parsley.
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tastes really good!!!
A delicious lookind dish! Orzo is so great and versatile.
Nice to read you again…
This looks so yum. Great job =)
Ooooh, this is gonna be mighty popular in our household! Love anything with chicken and orzo. Thank you for sharing.
First off, I'd like to say I'm glad you see you back in the blogosphere. Did you start Glyka bake shop? Secondly, I am shamed as a Greek to admit I don't think I've ever had youvetsi before. Maybe it's not an Asia minor Greek thing? Living in Greece for a year and going back and forth all the time I have never had a homemade youvetsi. I think it's prime time to make some!
Welcome back Maria! Nice to see another version of yiouvetsi. Love the lighter touch in this dish!
Nice to have you back! I Love, love LOVE Youvetsi!! And your version with the paprika sounds great!
It's been a long time since I last read one of your posts… I hope that you are doing well.
Since becoming vegetarian a few years ago, I've supplanted youvetsi with spanikorizo. I bet though that I could try this recipe minus the chicken. Maybe add some heirloom tomatoes…
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Hola Beauty! Long time no see! I just came to say hello (like the song says) and also enjoy your great cooking arts!!! Hope everything is ok with you and your family. Happy new year!
If I had orzo in my kitchen you bet that would be our lunch today
Hello everybody. Very nice blog. This recipe sounds delicious. I love this lighter version of it. I shall try it.
What a beautiful version for Giouvetsi. We recently published one with beef. The chicken version you made looks sooo delicious! Thank you for sharing!
Good to see this interesting version of güveç.


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A customer brought in a damaged connecting rod from a Hitachi "wheelbarrow" style air compressor. It had a badly gauled up big end ID, and there was a crack all the way though the wall of the big end. Looked like it was run with the dipper starved of oil (I'm betting from either being run with a low oil level, or an excessive "tilt" angle.)
A new connecting rod on one of these apparently costs a *lot* more than you'd probably guess, and since there was a "AL recycle" symbol cast into it, I decided might as well take a go at a repair.
I vee'ed out the outside of the crack with a carbide burr, and found it welded decently. I then reamed out the galled material from the ID of the big end, and built the material back up using 4043 filler; TIG welded using an Everlast Super200P. I did the build up first around the edges with my usual "focused arc" settings. Then I filled in the middle areas, trying a "balanced arc" / 50% balance / DCEN setting (which was kind of fun, because of the mellower noise it made and also how it "wetted" the surfaces out nicely beyond the actual molten puddle.)
After the welding operations were performed, I used a hand reamer to open up the big end to about .008" under final diameter, and honed it the rest of the way using a 240 & 400 grit flapper stick. This left a nice, smooth finish, cleaning up the visible honing chatter marks. Ended up with about .002" clearance.
I did get a little bit of porosity in the welding operations, probably from contaminants inside the material (maybe from not reaming the galled material completely out), however I think those little voids might actually prove to be helpful little oil reservoirs.


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Rusin arrives in Milwaukee, set for debut
"It's a dream come true -- I've dreamed about this as a little kid and it finally happened," said Rusin, who will be officially added to the roster on Tuesday.
The Cubs' fourth-round pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, Rusin was 8-8 with a 4.59 ERA in 24 starts at Triple-A Iowa, striking out 87 over 133 1/3 innings. He got off to a solid start, posting a 2.63 ERA in his first five games, but struggled in June. He's rebounded, and in his last three starts, Rusin has given up four earned runs over 18 2/3 innings.
"I just had to sit down and watch some video and figure some things out, and we did," he said.
His last outing was Wednesday against Tucson, and he threw six scoreless innings, giving up four hits in the win.
"It's no different than pitching in Triple-A," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "You still have to make your pitches."
Rusin, 25, will likely be backed up by several of his former Iowa teammates who have already been promoted to the big league team.
"You see people going in and out, and people moving up and down," he said. "It's all about timing, I think. When you get your chance, make the most of it, and that's what I'm going to try to do tomorrow."


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He's done it again! Mario Götze wears Nike sneakers with Bayern's Adidas tracksuit
Last week Mario Götze caused a rift between global sports manufacturers Nike and Adidas when Bayern Munich's new recruit wore a Nike t-shirt at his unveiling at the Allainz Arena.
Bayern, who have their kit made by Adidas, watched Götze meet the press in eye-catching Nike clobber (see above), and as a result the player was fined for his PR marketing ambush.
Fast forward to a week later, and Götze's only gone a done it again.
Appearing at another Bayern Munich promotional event, Götze was spotted wearing very red Nike sneakers together with his red Bayern Munich Adidas tracksuit.
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A woman faces a rape charge in a case where police said she set up a woman to be sexually assaulted while she cared for the accuser�s two children in another room.
The accuser�s youngest child was so small the 23-year-old woman had to carry the toddler into the apartment off Dallas-Cherryville Highway, police said.
Jeannette Valero Vazquez, 47, was booked into Gaston County Jail on Wednesday under a $500,000 bond on charges of first-degree kidnapping and first-degree rape. Gaston County Sheriff�s deputies placed a hold on her release pending an investigation into her immigration status.
Carlos Sanchez Romero, 33, faces identical charges, but police have not located him yet, said Dallas Police Detective L.L. Stoneburner.
The accuser thought she was going to Vazquez� home to look at pictures from Venezuela, the home country of Vazquez, Stoneburner said.
�She went over there believing she was going to a friend�s house,� Stoneburner said.
Once at the home, Vazquez told her accuser that the photographs were on a computer inside a bedroom, Stoneburner said. But when the woman went inside the bedroom Romero was waiting.
Romero locked the bedroom door and raped the woman as Vazquez watched the accuser�s two small children in another room, the detective said.
�It�s a very different kind of case,� Stoneburner said. �I wish any of these people would give us a statement as to why something like this would even happen.�
Vazquez has not given any statement to police. The accuser, who does not speak English, also could not explain why someone would do this to her.
The incident occurred June 20, but the woman did not talk to police until August. The delay in reporting the crime means no physical evidence of a rape exists, Stoneburner said.
�I think she was afraid of them,� Stoneburner said of the delay in reporting the crime. �But in this particular case she had some people around her who convinced her that going to the police was the right thing to do.�
Romero threatened to kill his accuser�s children if she told, her mother told Gazette news partner WSOC.
When the woman went to police she only had the first names of the two suspects, and both of them had moved from the apartment where police believe the crime took place.
Vazquez now lives on Emma Lane in the Oak Grove Trailer Park. Police believe Romero remains in the area. Police said Romero and Vazquez may be related, but their relationship was unclear.
While Vazquez did not physically touch her accuser, she faces the same charges for a reason, Stoneburner said.
�It was a hand-in-hand crime,� Stoneburner said. �It was set up by the two of them.�
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Album Rating: 3.0First posted here: http://www.muzikdizcovery.com/2012/07/album-review-clonki-seize-smoke.html
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Album Rating: 3.0thx bbe
Obscured in the murky waters of Google's Russian-English translation, the lack of information about both the artist and Rainy Treehouse, the label, sets us off on uncertain ground
It's a novelty in the internet era to be left with no basis on which to view an album,
Clonki polishes any sharp edge from his melodies completely.
Notes don't change: they shift;
Not too unlike an old radio scrambling to tune-in as the notes lazily reach their right tones.
and as such the tracks develop into this loose, wave-like saunter.
Album Rating: 3.0Great.
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Album Rating: 3.0don't worry guys, the next one will be track by track
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Because of its focus on sending vanishing photos, Snapchat has become known in part as an app for 'sexting,' leading to concerns when when the service has become embroiled in privacy issues, as happened in May 2014.
Despite having reportedly received acquisition offers of $3 billion and $4 billion from Facebook and Google respectively, Snapchat remains an independent company. And in mid-2014 the company showed signs of wanting to branch out into other areas, introducing location-tagging in an update in June, followed by rumors of a mobile payment service weeks later.
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Ian Kennedy is headed to the Padres. Usually sellers, the Padres were actually buyers at the MLB trade deadline. The former Diamondbacks starter was dealt to the Friars for reliever Joe Thatcher, a minor league pitcher and a draft pick.
At just 3-8 on the season, Kennedy had been struggling in Arizona. His ERA is robust 5.23 in 21 starts. The 28-year old right-hander's best year was in 2011 when he won 21 games for the Diamondbacks.
Shortly after the trade the Padres took the field, looking for a three game sweep of the Reds. Eric Stults was on the hill for the Pads against Homer Bailey. Stults pitched well. Bailey was better. He pitched into the 9th inning allowing just one run to notch his 6th win of the season.
The Reds big blows were a Brandon Phillips solo homer in the second and a two-run double by Joey Votto in the 7th.
Cincinnati's 4-1 win snapped a five game skid. It also stopped the Padres four game winning streak. The Padres are off Thursday and begin a three game series with the Yankees Friday at Petco Park.


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CHESAPEAKE:U.S. SEC starts probe of Chesapeake CEO's well stakes
By Ernest Scheyder and Matt Daily
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an informal inquiry into Chesapeake Energy Corp's
That inquiry, being led by the SEC's office in Fort Worth, Texas, comes after Reuters reported about loans McClendon had obtained on those wells that raised concerns about a potential conflict of interest by the company's CEO.
Chesapeake said in a statement earlier on Thursday that its directors had never reviewed or approved McClendon's mortgages on stakes in those wells, reversing its assertions that its board of directors was "fully aware" of McClendon's financing transactions around the well ownership stakes.
"The Board of Directors did not review, approve or have knowledge of the specific transactions engaged in by Mr. McClendon or the terms of those transactions," the company said.
Reuters reported on April 18 that McClendon, who founded the company, had borrowed as much as $1.1 billion against his 2.5 percent interest in wells that he received under the company's "Founder Well Participation Program."
The loans, taken out over the past three years, were previously undisclosed to shareholders, analysts and academics said, raising concerns that McClendon's personal financial deals could compromise his fiduciary duty to Chesapeake.
The company also said on Thursday that it would end that program in 2015, when the shareholder approval of the program that started in 2005 expires.
An informal inquiry is the first step taken by the SEC before it launches any full investigation into potential wrongdoing by a company.
One major shareholder questioned whether the company's new statements had been prompted by the SEC probe.
"It seems somewhat coincidental that the board has acted this way today, and the SEC announces its inquiry. You wonder if they didn't have the news," said David Dreman, chairman of Dreman Value Management LLP, which owns about 1 million Chesapeake shares.
Board members contacted by Reuters either declined to comment or were not immediately available to respond.
Critics of the company have long complained the company's board acted a little more than a rubber stamp for McClendon, one of the energy industry's most visible leaders.
McClendon founded Chesapeake in 1989 and quickly built the company into one of the nation's fastest-growing producers of natural gas. It is now the second-largest U.S. natural gas producer behind Exxon Mobil Corp
Chesapeake said "the statement last week that 'the Board of Directors is fully aware of the existence of Mr. McClendon's financing transactions' was intended to convey the fact that the Board of Directors is generally aware" that McClendon had used the well ownership stakes as security for the loans.
One analyst said Chesapeake's new statement did not provide any reassurance that it was addressing the issues.
"How can this make me more comfortable?" said Phil Weiss, an analyst with Argus Research. "Either you're fully aware, or you're not. 'Fully' and 'generally' are two entirely different words."
But an investor said the move was a step in the right direction, and that it showed the company was listening to shareholders' complaints.
"It's basic due diligence that sadly wasn't being done before," said Jake Dollarhide, chief executive of Longbow Asset Management in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which owns Chesapeake shares. "It shows the free reign that McClendon had."
McClendon disclosed additional information about his ownership stakes in the wells, and the board is reviewing the CEO's financing arrangements.
The Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based company has been at the leading edge of the shale gas industry and holds vast acreage in the fields discovered in recent years that are expected to yield decades of fuel for the United States.
But the steep jump in natural gas output has sent prices for the fuel plummeting to their lowest level in decade, squeezing profits and pressuring share prices for Chesapeake and many of its peers.
Debt rating firm Fitch Ratings said on Thursday it had revised its outlook to "stable" from "positive" for Chesapeake, which has $13 billion in rated securities, largely because of the low natural gas prices.
Chesapeake shares were down 2.1 percent to $17.74 in early afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
(Reporting by Matthew Goldstein, Matt Daily and Ernest Scheyder in New York, Anna Driver in Oklahoma and Brian Grow in Washington. Editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid, Bernadette Baum and Tim Dobbyn)


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Grant Pylkas to Read "Lucky Lyle Ortiz" at Warroad Public Library Saturday, the 17th of November, 1pm to 4pm
Nov 12, 2012, 08:03 ET from Grant Pylkas
ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Warroad Public Library will put on its annual "Festival of Books" featuring William Kent Kruger, Ellen Hart and Carl Brookings with their Minnesota Crime Wave performance. They will kick things off at 1pm in this community that is home to Marvin Windows.
The invitation to read my newest novel "Lucky Lyle Ortiz" in the Warroad Library is a moment that is a once in life time opportunity. The invitation extended by Barbara Larson the "Lady of the Library" whose spirit is an undeniable force in this universe was gratefully accepted by me.
At 3pm, on the 17th of November Grant Pylkas will read the first chapter of his new novel "Lucky Lyle Ortiz" and will then take questions from the audience. He will stay over on the 18th to work with a group of children who we hope to encourage, support and cajole into becoming frequent readers. Barbara was insistent on using my teaching background as a spring board to exemplify the possibility that if we teach readers we may end up with some future authors.
You will want to hear the story of a fourteen year old ("Lucky Lyle Ortiz") who losses his only grandparent, whom Lucky thinks is his last living relative. Lucky then figures out a way to keep himself and his two sisters together in the face of insurmountable odds. You will not want to miss this on Saturday the 17th of November at 2:30pm.
The festivities continue on Sunday, November 18th, 1pm to 4pm with a book sale, music, crafters, artists, young entrepreneurs and refreshments. Grant is excited to be the featured author that day at which time he will read a selection from "Lucky Lyle Ortiz" and meet with anyone interested in chatting. If the attendees of the book festival are anything like Barbara, the Librarian, it should prove to be most rewarding.
Barber Larson started the festival twenty years ago when she felt that their location, less than a mile from the Canadian border, inhibited the residents from browsing quality books. Barbara decided that by bringing great literature to her library and allowing her community members to wander though the thoughts and ideas of authors she would expand the horizons of those who participated.
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What does China's Big Fund to grow a national semiconductor industry and Powerball have in common?
Chinas Big Fund to grow a national semiconductor industry is like the Powerball. A lot of money is at stake so everybody wants to play, but no one knows how to win.
China's largest native foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), provides a good example of the issues. It licensed 65 and 45nm process technology to get to market quickly but lacked the rights to modify the processes to create value-added services. So, it co-developed 28nm technology with IBM, gaining flexibility but losing time-to-market.
SMIC's lead customer, Qualcomm, started using its 28nm polysilicon process last year. But the foundry won't start production of the higher value high-k metal gate version until late this year.
In June, it forged an ambitious deal to develop 14nm FinFET technology with three partners – Imec, Huawei and Qualcomm. But it is not expected to be ready until 2019, three or more years behind top chip makers such as TSMC in Taiwan.
"We realize it is much later compared to leading competitors, but it's a phase we have to go through -- part of the game is you have to chase Moore's law," said Sunny Hui, vice president of marketing at SMIC in an interview with EE Times at the recent Industry Strategy Symposium hosted by the SEMI trade group.
Meanwhile TSMC struck a deal in December to build a wholly owned fab making 16nm FinFET chips in China, undercutting one of SMIC's selling points as a local supplier to China's growing fabless design community.
SMIC's struggles suggest China should go big on a single venture with the heft to deliver leading edge technology in a more competitive time frame. But that's the wrong lesson, according to Hui, who advocates an approach sensitive to market dynamics.
"We welcome more players to build up the ecosystem because what we care about is whether the supply is created by demand," said Hui. "If SMIC can't come up quickly enough, there's no reason to feel bad about other players coming up…they will force us to work harder to accelerate our technology development," he said.
Indeed, China tried to dominate markets for solar panels and LEDs with products pushed to such low prices they killed profitability. State planners don't want to see a repeat of that pattern in semiconductors.
"We don't want see increased capacity go to any one company," said Hui.
Last year, SMIC got about $400 million from China's so-called Big Fund to foster growth of its chip industry. The money helped pay for breaking ground on B3, SMIC's third fab in Beijing, the facility where it plans to bring up its finFET process. This year it is ramping 28 and 40nm processes in B2.
Just how much money China plans to spend on building its semiconductor prowess remains to be seen. Analyst Handel Jones says he is aware of $30 billion that's been earmarked, others say as much as $100 billion in government and private funds are available.
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College football is approaching an age where redshirt draft-eligible sophomores are making the leap to the NFL, and four sophomores on this list aren't returning in 2014.
Here were the SEC's super sophomores in 2013, and nine of the 10 were offensive players:
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Above the rest
1. Johnny Manziel, QB, Texas A&M
Johnny Manziel may be the first pick in this year's NFL Draft, and he put up incredible numbers for two seasons in a row. Manziel led the SEC with a 172.89 passer rating, 4,114 passing yards and 37 passing touchdowns. All total, he combined for 4,873 yards and 46 TDs in 2013. What a player, and it will be fun watching his NFL career play out.
Related: How the big 4 recruiting services rank SEC teams
Bully running back
2. Jeremy Hill, RB, LSU
Jeremy Hill played like a boss in 2013, rushing for 1,401 yards and 16 TDs, trailing only Tre Mason in yards and TDs. Hill averaged 6.9 yards per carry and over 116 yards per game. He's a complete back who may be the first back off the board come draft day.
Heading to the NFL
3. Mike Evans, WR, Texas A&M
4. Greg Robinson, OT, Auburn
Mike Evans morphed from a big-time possession receiver as a freshman to a big-time game-breaking receiver as a sophomore. Evans caught 69 passes for 1,394 yards and 12 TDs, averaging 20.2 yards per reception. Evans was the only receiver in the country who recorded two 200-plus yard receiving games…Greg Robinson became one of the country's most dominant offensive linemen, and he could be a top-10 pick in this year's draft. Robinson anchored the country's most dominant running game, and he protected Nick Marshall's blindside. Robinson may have the most upside of any player on this list.
Big-time returners
5. Mike Davis, RB, South Carolina
6. Dorial Green-Beckham, WR, Missouri
7. Todd Gurley, RB, Georgia
For half of the season, Mike Davis came out of nowhere and stole the SEC's show. He's tough; he's physical, and his vision is second to none. Davis rushed for 1,183 yards and 11 TDs, averaging 5.8 yards per carry. He finished fourth in the SEC in rushing yards…Dorial Green-Beckham was making a case as the SEC's most improved player near the end of the season. He, like Mike Evans, looks more like a power forward, but he started to blow up about midway through the season. DGB caught a Mizzou-high 59 passes for 883 yards and tied the SEC-high 12 receiving TDs, and if he can stay on the field (and out of trouble), this young man is going to be great in 2014…Yes, Todd Gurley was injured for about four games total, but it's obvious to see just how talented and dominant he can be. After rushing for 1,385 yards last season, Gurley totaled 989 yards rushing and 16 total TDs. He'll enter as the SEC's most talented player in 2014, as well as a top-five player in college football.
A lone defender
8. Landon Collins, S, Alabama
Landon Collins went from backup safety to one of the best safeties in the country. Once Vinnie Sunseri went down with a season-ending knee injury, Collins tag-teamed with HaHa Clinton-Dix as the country's best tackling safety duo. He finished second on Alabama with 70 tackles, and he picked off two passes, including a pick-six against Tennessee. He also recorded two forced fumbles.
SEC West ballers
9. TJ Yeldon, RB, Alabama
10. Dak Prescott, QB, Mississippi State
TJ Yeldon is one of the best running backs in the country, and he could become the best if he corrects his fumbling issues. After rushing for 1,108 yards and 12 TDs in 2012, Yeldon made an encore with 1,235 yards and 14 TDs in 2013. He's the complete package…Dak Prescott made the list? Don't be surprised; this kid can play. Once Dan Mullen made the decision to make Prescott the starter, the offense started rolling. Prescott threw for 1,940 yards and 10 TDs, while rushing for 829 yards and 13 TDs. He combined for 2,769 yards and 23 TDs – not a bad sophomore season. He really only did his damage in eight games.
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The Pope is Bavarian, and Bavarians are known by their cities in a way that isn't seen in America apart from New Yorkers or Bostonians. But Pope Benedict XVI began his life as a man with no hometown — and he remains the same today.
So says Brennan Pursell in his book Benedict of Bavaria (published by the Register's sister, Circle Press). The Pope was born in Marktl Am Inn but he was never a "Marketer" like others born there.
Joseph Ratzinger's family moved from the tiny village when he was 2. They lived in several apartments in nearby Bavarian towns as necessitated by his father's job as a police constable.
Their lives took a dramatic turn for the worse with the rise of the Nazis. The family subscribed to an anti-Nazi publication and moved to a house in Traunstein to be safer during the war. It was to the house at Traunstein that Joseph Ratzinger returned when he deserted from the German army into which he had been conscripted. He has described vividly how sweet it was to return to his mother's meals at Traunstein after fleeing the army.
Ratzinger might have become a Traunsteiner; this is the place where the family spent more years than in any other one address. But when he became a priest, his vocation quickly took him out of town.
For a long time it seemed that Ratzinger would become a Regensburger.
In 1969, when Father Joseph began teaching at the university, his brother, Father Georg, was directing a famous Regensburg choir. His sister Maria was living in Regensburg as well. His parents visited the city three times a year. Today they are buried there. "Here, I am really at home," he is quoted saying in Pursell's book.
The beautiful old European town is culturally rich and has a longstanding academic reputation. It is odd for American audiences to associate the name only with the Pope's remarks about Islam. The city is like Oxford or Cambridge. For those who know the city, its identity is too deep and expansive to be simply used as shorthand for one speech, however consequential that speech was.
Benedict of Bavaria describes the rhythm of life Joseph Ratzinger kept at Regensburg. Bed at 10 pm., up at 6 a.m. to say morning Mass, regular visits from family.
The Pope kept up a similar schedule as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome, where he lived in an apartment near the Vatican. In Vatican City he keeps up the same sort of schedule today.
And so Benedict's hometown might be Rome, where, as the Holy Father, he is expected to live until he dies.
There, as his brother describes in his exclusive interview with the Register this week , the Holy Father keeps the same kind of schedule as Pope that he has through much of his life.
Msgr. Georg Ratzinger shared a few reminiscences with the Register on the eve of the Pope's visit to America. He also answered many questions about what it's like to visit Pope Benedict XVI now.
"Usually we celebrate Mass together in the morning," he said. "After the Mass there is silent thanksgiving. And then he reads the breviary to me; because of my eye problems, I cannot read the breviary anymore."
The two have breakfast together, then must go their separate ways to meet again for lunch and a short walk. Later they meet for afternoon Rosary, dinner and to watch the news.
Msgr. Ratzinger says not much was changed between them now that his brother is Pope. "My brother was already 78 years old when he was elected Pope. Our personal relationship had already lasted 78 years by then," he said. "So, fundamentally, nothing changes with regard to that."
But as comfortable and at home as Pope Benedict is in Rome, that's not his hometown either. The papal coat or arms features a symbol indicating that Benedict is conscious that he is a visitor in Rome, still.
The bear wearing the backpack is a visual reference to the story of a Bavarian saint who ordered a bear to carry his load to Rome. In his 1997 autobiography, Cardinal Ratzinger wrote: "I have carried my pack to Rome and wander for some time now through the streets of the Eternal City. When release will come I cannot know. What I do know is that I am God's pack animal, and, as such, close to him."
That might give the best indication where the Pope's hometown is; it is much like Christ's.
Jesus' hometown was the subject of some discussion in the Gospel. When the first disciples come to inquire about him, they don't ask "Who are you?" but "Where do you live?" His reply: "Come and see." Of course, he was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth after a sojourn to Egypt. But to describe where he lives to other disciples, he says: "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head."
As Jesus pointed out to Peter in John 21:18, popes in particular share Christ's way of life with no hometown: "Amen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to dress yourself and go where you wanted; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go."
That's not to say that the Holy Father is unhappy. The sunny smile on his face when he visits people is enough to dispel that notion.
What it means is that the Pope is neither a Marketer, Traunsteiner, Regensburger nor a Roman. He's the Pope. He's always at home among those who call him Holy Father and will ultimately never be at home until he stands where he tells us Pope John Paul II went: in the Father's house.


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Back in the beginning of May my husband and I took a little trip to Disney World that I dubbed our "Empty Nest Trip".
I didn't go out of my way to hunt down the machines that pressed pennies but I knew I wanted a few to possibly make a project or two out of. You know, just a little memento. Whenever I happened upon a machine I'd dig out quarters and a penny to smash.
So while we were waiting for our table at a restaurant one night my husband suddenly walked away. (We'd been waiting a long time and I was ignoring him while I checked email on my phone. I figured that he just got bored and wondered off to see what there was to see. After all there is no wi-fi in the parks so I was kind of going through some withdrawal!)
Then he came back a couple of minutes later and asked for four quarters and two pennies. I handed them over and he went away again leaving me to check my email in solitude.
Sheesh. Some peoples' children.
He returned quickly with the Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse smashed pennies above. Awww! Cool.
I quickly forgave him for interrupting my email checking, facebook, twitter fix as I admired my new little smashed pennies. 🙂
I also wrote Tools to Punch Holes In Metal yesterday – two tools that make punching holes in metal easy.
I love this little two hole punch for jewelry making. It's become my favorite toy this week.
It literally took about 5 minutes to make this fun pair of earrings.
- 2 smashed pennies
- 6 small beads
- 6 headpins
- 2 earring wires
- 2 jump rings
Turn the penny over to the back and make a small dot with a Sharpie Marker on the top center of the penny.
Use the dot to place the hole punch into the right position and then turn the knob to punch the hole.
If there is any Sharpie Marker remaining on the back of the penny you can wipe it off with a bit of alcohol.
Next, attach the earring wire to the penny with a jump ring.
Add the 6 beads to the 6 head pins and create a simple loop on each one.
Attach three beads to each earring on the jump ring and close the loops.
You could also punch a hole in the bottom center of the penny and add more beads to the bottom.
I'm thinking that this is a super adorable way to create a memento from the amusement parks you visit this summer. Don't YOU?
Oh, and here is a tip that I read on one of the WDW boards I scoured for tips before we went. Take an empty M&M's mini container and stack coins in it – 2 quarters and a penny, 2 quarters and a penny etc. so that when you find a penny smashing machine you've got the change you need at hand. Pretty clever, huh?


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Tim Holtz is interviewed here on Illustrating Stories.
You can read an interview with Elsie Flannigan here on Pink of Perfection. Also, Elsie and her sister, Emma Chapman, were featured on the Scribble Project blog. You can see some of Elsie's sketches here.
Jenny Doh, of Stampington & Company, is interviewed on Diva Craft Lounge this week.
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Dakota Johnson has revealed that she burst into tears when she was offered the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey.
The actress told Entertainment Weekly: "They said, 'You got the offer' and I couldn't speak."
Johnson continued: "I was just so relieved. I was crying and crying. Water was literally squirting out of my eyes because I had been so stressed out. And there's this giant Doberman Pinscher laying on the bed next to me and he just slowly fell asleep.
"It was so special and [this dog] didn't give a **** about me and what I was going through."
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A budding music producer from Sudbury has released a song to raise money for those affected by the Syrian conflict.
All proceeds raised by Joe Lambert, 24, will be donated to a campaign by Save The Children.
Joe is currently studying music technology and production at Derby University, but originally comes from Laundry Gardens, Sudbury.
He wrote and produced the song, called War, which features himself and two others rappers protesting against the impact of war.
"I just wanted to raise awareness," said Joe. "Issues like this are still occurring and are often neglected in the media."
Joe hopes to work as a producer and currently has and internship at a record studio.
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John is a registered professional biologist in British Columbia, Canada. His knowledge, understanding and love for our coastal landscape and its natural systems are deeply rooted as he grew up exploring the beaches, forests and rivers of Vancouver Island. His work as a professional fisheries and wildlife biologist in British Columbia over the past 30 years has provided the opportunity for John to live and work in many remote and pristine wilderness areas of British Columbia and Alaska. It is a pleasure for John to share his connection with and understanding of our coastal landscapes and particularly to help raise into awareness some of the more subtle features of this magnificent coastline's beauty.
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I needed to redraw and reshoot reference since the first guy wasn't available. So, making a huge sacrifice I decided I'd be the cover model for this. This guy is much more type A than I, he has more hard miles on his face, and hopefully he comes off as sleazier too. I imagine he's probably a better conversationalist, knows his mixed drinks, and is familiar with blackjack dealers at all the fancy casinos. The trick with this was to make sure he didn't look like a flasher. Me, I'm happy to draw my little pictures, skateboard with my daughter, throw baseballs at my son, and try to make my wife laugh.
Midway through finishing this piece someone who is smarter than I realized that I was trampling all over proper flag etiquette by hanging it in the reverse of what you see here. That is, with the star field on the right as you view it. Well, it's okay to show a guy selling the flag like it's a fake Rolex or a ten dollar bag of "Oregano", but we certainly weren't going to go down the rabbit hole of improper flag hangery. Really though, I appreciate it when I learn little things (NOT THAT FLAG ETIQUETTE IS A LITTLE THING) during the course of a job. After I finish writing this I'm going to spot check my neighbors to make sure they're in compliance. If not, I'll report them to Sean Hannity.
As always, thanks to Tim Luddy for the great gig.
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Judge Jackson Changed Microsoft Big Time
Judge thomas penfield jackson's ruling that Microsoft cannot force OEMs to buy Internet Explorer as a condition of their Windows license raises more questions than it answers. But the questions, at first blush, seem either unanswerable or unimportant from a pure force-of-impact standpoint.
While the media can't have enough of this story, the ruling will hardly be felt by anybody except the main players, spinmeisters, and some programmers and marketers at Microsoft. Let's walk through it:
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Saving the Hives
Gendy Alimurung's cover story about the Backwards Beekeepers, a local group devoted to raising (and saving) beehives organically, had readers, well, buzzing ("Bee Fever," June 14).
David Osborne of Los Feliz writes, "Great to see the 'Bee Fever' article. We had a recent infestation, which included having some lost souls finding their way into our bedroom. Try sleeping as bees dive-bomb you! (Did you know they also drop honey and wax as they do it?) We called the Backwards Beekeepers, and Walker and Kirk took away two garbage bins of bees from our house — and seemed to have fun making holes in the stucco to make sure we were clear. It was an experience, I can tell you.
"Everyone seems to have a bee story, and the worst we heard was from the contractor who fixed the stucco, whose Rottweiler had been stung to death by a swarm. Not nice. The best thing was the honey Walker gave us from the bees in our house. Hopefully it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience!"
Lidia writes, "Thank you for a great article. I hope that backwards beekeeping will become the norm!"
"This is cool," vegandawg23 agrees. "More people need to do this and cut out the scumbag middlemen. A beekeepers 'rescue' in Orange County wanted to put their hives on my yard to harvest my nectar from my flowers and only give me 3 percent of the honey and sell the rest to dim bulbs for $10 a pound. I'm learning all I can on my own and will harvest my own honey soon enough."
Chain Restaurant Blues
Besha Rodell's review of Outback Steakhouse drew national attention last week, but some readers didn't like Rodell's salty take ("Baby Got Outback"). Guppie_612 incredulously quotes Rodell: "Asking someone for 'shrimp on the barbie' was maybe one of the hardest things I've ever done?" He adds, "Wow, I envy your life!"
Pence.Mike says, "Congratulations, Besha Rodell, for writing a stupid, obvious restaurant critique that panders to the tastes of your core audience. Good journalism."
Louispfreely writes, "Olive Garden is not real Italian food. P.F. Chang's is not real Chinese food. El Torito is not real Mexican food. Congratulations on writing a story that pretty much everyone could write. Do you think you're special because you're Australian?"
But Olivertwisted defends the idea. "It can be constructive to eat at places like Outback just to inform yourself of how much better the good restaurants really are. It puts life into perspective."
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Another upset at Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 4 (UPI) -- Funny Cide grabbed the lead heading into the long stretch run and held off every challenge Saturday to win the Kentucky Derby.
It was yet another upset at the Derby as heavy favorite Empire Maker was unable to take advantage of a perfect situation at the top of the stretch. Empire Maker stalled in a bid to overtake Funny Cide and finished second, 1 3/4 lengths back. Peace Rules was third.
Sent off at odds of 12-1, the bargain-basement colt not only beat a field of regally bred rivals but also became the first New York-bred ever to win America's most famous horse race. In addition, Funny Cide was the first gelding to win since Clyde Van Dusen did so in 1929.
With Jose Santos up, Funny Cide ran the 1 ¼ mile in a good time of 2:01.19 -- the 10th fastest Derby ever.
Funny Cide paid $27.60, $12.40 and $8.20; Empire Maker $5.80 and $4.40; and Peace Rules $6. The $2 exacta paid $97 and the $2 trifecta paid $664.80.
Funny Cide started from post position No. 6 and quickly established a stalking position as Brancusi and Peace Rules led the field into the first turn. Santos edged the colt up and challenged the leaders on the turn.
Brancusi gave it up -- he finished last -- and Funny Cide was in front and outside of Peace Rules with a quarter mile to go.
While Funny Cide was taking the lead, jockey Jerry Bailey asked Empire Maker, the Florida Derby and Wood Memorial winner, for his best run and he ranged up on Funny Cide's outside flank as they ran down the stretch. But he said at that point he knew he wasn't going to have enough horse.
"He just didn't respond with the same authority as he did in his earlier races," Bailey said.
Santos, however, said he knew at the three-eighths pole that his horse was going to win.
The outcome continued a long streak of struggles for Kentucky Derby favorites. Only once since 1979 has the favorite won the race, that being Fusaichi Pegasus in 2000.
Stars survive Ducks
DALLAS, May 4 (UPI) -- Rookie Niko Kapanen scored twice Saturday as the Dallas Stars staved off elimination by handing the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim a 4-1 setback.
Ottawa, meanwhile, moved in front of its series with a 5-2 decision over Vancouver.
Dallas chased goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere and dealt the Ducks their first lopsided loss of the playoffs.
Rob DiMaio and Stu Barnes had the other goals for the Stars, who climbed within three games to two in the Western Conference semifinal series. Anaheim will have another chance to wrap it up at home on Monday.
Through their first eight playoff games, no one was able to get a two-goal lead on the Ducks as Giguere compiled a remarkable .960 save percentage and 1.27 goals-against average. But he watched the final period from the bench as top-seeded Dallas built a 3-0 lead.
DiMaio opened the scoring 9:20 into the first period, scoring his first playoff goal in 25 games since the 1999 Eastern Conference quarterfinals.
Stu Barnes made it 2-0 exactly five minutes later and Kapanen added a shorthanded goal with 1:50 to go in the second period.
Paul Kariya spoiled Marty Turco's shutout bid 4:02 into the third, but Kapanen beat backup Martin Gerber on a breakaway 11 minutes later to cap the scoring.
In Ottawa, Roman Cechmanek surrendered four goals before he was pulled midway through the second period as the Ottawa Senators moved within one win of their first trip to the Eastern Conference finals.
Radek Bonk had a power-play goal and an assist and Marian Hossa set up a pair of power-play tallies for the Senators, who grabbed a three games to two lead in the conference semifinal series and can end it Monday in Philadelphia.
Cechmanek cannot handle prosperity, falling to 1-8 lifetime following a playoff win. He was coming off his second shutout of the series but stopped just 12 of 16 shots and was replaced by Robert Esche.
The Flyers scored first for the fifth time in as many games, stunning the Corel Centre crowd on Claude Lapointe's goal 21 seconds into the game. But it was all Ottawa thereafter.
Alabama fires Mike Price
TUSCALOOSA, Ala., May 4 (UPI) -- The University of Alabama announced Saturday the school had dismissed football Coach Mike Price.
His tenure with the Crimson Tide ended without him having worked a single game. Price was unable to defuse the controversy surrounding his off-the-field behavior, which included a visit to a topless bar and unusual charges to a hotel bill.
University President Robert Witt announced his decision after a meeting with the school's Board of Trustees and after a public forum, during which which Alabama players asked that their coach be retained.
"This is a sad day for a good man, a sad day for some wonderful football players," Witt said. "It is a sad day for us."
Price pleaded his case with Witt, but Alabama instead will begin the search for its third coach in four years.
"I asked president Witt for a second chance and he declined," Price said. "Whatever happened to a second chance in life? You don't have to go far to ask my players about second chances. I wanted to make something positive about this negative."
Price came under intense scrutiny from alumni and university officials after he allegedly spent time at a topless club in Pensacola, Fla. on April 16 while in town for a pro-am charity golf tournament.
Various reports claim Price was present and that the next morning a woman in Price's hotel room ordered more than $1,000 in food and drinks and charged it to his bill. Those reports alleged the woman ordered one of every item on the menu and asked that it be placed in boxes so she could take them with her.
Price apologized for his behavior but claimed he never was given a chance to state his case before the Board of Trustees.
Davis gets rare win
TORONTO, May 4 (UPI) -- Claimed off waivers Wednesday, Doug Davis went six innings for his first win in exactly a year Saturday, a 7-1 decision for Toronto over Anaheim.
Vernon Wells paced the Blue Jays' attack with his second grand slam of the season.
Davis (1-0) scattered eight hits, walked one and struck out one in his first win since May 3, 2002, when as a member of the Texas Rangers he gave up two runs in 5 2/3 innings at Cleveland.
The 27-year-old lefthander lost three straight decisions after that win and was optioned to Class AAA Oklahoma, where he pitched until suffering a season-ending shoulder injury in July.
Davis began this season in the minors and started last Saturday for the Rangers against the New York Yankees, when he left without a decision after allowing four runs and four hits in three innings.
Texas, which entered Saturday second-to-last in the American League with a 5.64 ERA, designated Davis for assignment on Monday. Toronto, which entered Saturday with a 5.80 ERA, won its third straight game.
Other American League results: Texas 6, Cleveland 5; Tampa Bay 8, Detroit 6 in 10 innings; Oakland 5, New York 3; Boston 9, Minnesota 1; Baltimore 6, Kansas City 1; Seattle 12, Chicago 2.
Cardinals win sixth straight
ST. LOUIS, May 4 (UPI) -- Garrett Stephenson pitched eight innings and Albert Pujols hit a two-run homer Saturday, leading St. Louis past Montreal, 3-1.
It was the Cardinals' sixth straight victory.
Stephenson (2-2) scattered eight hits, struck out five and walked three for his first victory since his season-opening start on April 3 against Milwaukee.
Kiko Calero worked around a hit and a walk in the ninth inning for his first major league save.
Pujols hit his sixth home run of the season in the third inning to help St. Louis win six games in a row for the first time since an eight-game winning streak last Sept. 3-11.
In addition, Tony La Russa notched his 620th win as manager of the Cardinals, tying Billy Southworth for third place on the team's all-time victory list.
Claudio Vargas (0-1) took the loss in his second major league start. Vargas gave up three runs and six hits with three strikeouts and no walks in six innings.
Other National League results: Colorado 6, Chicago 4; San Francisco 9, Cincinnati 6; Houston 5, Florida 2; Milwaukee 3, New York 2.
Report: Duncan to be named MVP
SAN ANTONIO, May 4 (UPI) -- The San Antonio Express-News reported Saturday that Tim Duncan had won the balloting for the NBA's Most Valuable Player award.
That would make him the first back-to-back winner of the honor since Michael Jordan in 1991 and 1992.
The 7-foot Duncan averaged 23.3 points and recorded career highs with 12.9 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 2.9 blocks per game in leading the San Antonio Spurs to a league-best 60-22 record. He had 58 double-doubles and shot 51 percent from the field.
The league plans to make the official announcement Sunday.
Kevin Garnett of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Tracy McGrady of the Orlando Magic and Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers were among the other leading candidates for the award.
Last year, a media panel of writers and broadcasters selected Duncan over New Jersey Nets point guard Jason Kidd.
A repeat selection would put Duncan in select company. Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Moses Malone are the only players to win the MVP award in consecutive seasons.
Nemechek captures rain-shortened race
RICHMOND, Va., May 4 (UPI) -- Joe Nemechek survived a NASCAR-record 15 cautions Saturday night to win the rain-shortened Pontiac Excitement 400.
With seven laps remaining, the race was red-flagged for rain with Nemechek leading. He was followed by Bobby Labonte, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Robby Gordon as Chevrolet Monte Carlos swept the top four positions.
Mark Martin, Kevin Harvick and Matt Kenseth were next as the sellout crowd began fleeing for cover.
Ten minutes later, Nemechek was declared the winner, giving him his third career victory and first since November 2001 at Rockingham, N.C.
Kenseth remains in front in the Winston Cup standings, but his lead was trimmed to 20 points by Earnhardt, who recorded his sixth top-five finish in 11 races this season.
The circuit takes a break next week, returning on May 17 for NASCAR's All-Star event, The Winston at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte.
Nadeau in critical condition
RICHMOND, Va., May 4 (UPI) -- NASCAR Winston Cup veteran Jerry Nadeau remained in critical condition Saturday, one day after a crash at Richmond International Raceway.
Nadeau was suffering from head, lung and rib injuries.
Nadeau was injured during practice for the Pontiac Excitement 400 and was taken to the Medical College of Virginia. He was been moved to a private room, but remained in intensive care.
Nadeau was hurt when the back end of his Pontiac Grand Prix got loose and spun, hitting the wall with the driver's side of the vehicle between turns 1 and 2.
That was the area of the 3/4-mile speedway where water seeped and caused flooding Thursday, forcing a four-hour delay in qualifying for a Busch series race.
Nadeau, 32, had to be cut out of the car and needed breathing assistance before he was taken by helicopter to the hospital.
Nadeau's wife, Jada, was flown from South Carolina after attending her grandfather's funeral and arrived at the hospital shortly before midnight.
Nadeau is in his sixth full season on the Winston Cup circuit. His only victory in 177 career starts came in the final race of 2000 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Verplank keeps lead by three shots
NEW ORLEANS, May 4 (UPI) -- Scott Verplank shot a 5-under-par 67 Saturday to maintain a three-stroke lead after three rounds of the HP Classic.
A day after establishing the 36-hole tournament record, Verplank eclipsed the 54-hole mark at 21-under 195 -- a total that is just five shots off the 72-hole standard, established in 1988 when the Lakewood Country Club hosted the event.
A bogey at the par-4 16th hole sliced a shot off the lead for Verplank, who is seeking his fifth career PGA Tour win and first since the 2001 Canadian Open.
Bob Estes shot his third straight 66 to climb into second place at 18-under 198. That was one stroke better than Kirk Triplett and Brian Gay, who double-bogeyed the final hole.
Venus Williams reaches final at J&S Cup
WARSAW, Poland, May 4 (UPI) -- Venus Williams, at far from her best, still advanced to her third final of the season Saturday at the J&S Cup.
The top-seeded American got past Denisa Chladkova of the Czech Republic, 6-3 7-6 (7-5), in 96 minutes and will face Amelie Mauresmo in Sunday's championship match.
Mauresmo, the second seed from France, posted a 7-5, 6-2 victory over No. 4 Jelena Dokic of Yugoslavia in the second semifinal.
With the match starting in warm sunshine, Williams lost her opening serve but immediately broke back. With Chladkova battling for every point, Williams managed to hang on and take the set.
Chladkova, who at 24 has never won a WTA tour title, did not get discouraged. She pushed Williams even harder.
With dark clouds overhead and a strong wind suddenly blowing, Chladkova broke Williams' serve to grab a 3-1 lead in the second set but allowed the American to climb into a tiebreaker, where her experience came to the fore.
World Cup could expand to 36 countries
ZURICH, Switzerland, May 4 (UPI) -- Soccer's world governing body announced Saturday it will seek to expand the World Cup field to 36 teams in 2006.
A final decision will be made June 28 at an executive committee meeting in Paris.
The tentative decision to add four teams was made during a seven-hour meeting in Zurich.
In principle, 36 teams is acceptable, but organizers and confederation presidents have to find an adequate calendar that will respond to the expanded field and the time frame in which it is possible to conduct a World Cup, FIFA president Joseph "Sepp" Blatter said.
FIFA did not discuss where the additional teams would come from, Blatter said. But he added that South America, which lost a half-place in the Cup to CONCACAF, the confederation that includes the United States, would get back what it lost.
South America feels it lost an automatic qualifying slot because the World Cup is currently held by Brazil. Beginning in 2006, World Cup holders no longer receive an automatic berth.
World Cup 2006 will be held in Germany, where organizers have indicated they would have no problem with an expanded field.